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  • Out to Lunch: Mary and good food are back at Harriman Steak and Diner

    By Bethel Poston
    I get tips on places to go “Out to Lunch” from several people. One of them, Eddie’s Body Shop owner Rodney Harback, told me about Donna’s Diner 18 months ago. I wrote about the diner, a restaurant across from Jerry Duncan Ford in Harriman.

    “You need to eat at the new Harriman Steak and Diner,” Rodney told me a couple of weeks ago when I picked up my car at his Harriman shop. “The food is great. It’s at the former Donna’s location, with a new name and new owners.”

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  • Under construction

    It may be a while before Roane Medical occupies its new home, but some folks are hard at work to see that the Midtown move is right on schedule.

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  • Holiday lighting offered at Gala auction

    The 2011 Roane Alliance Gala on Nov. 4 marks the event’s 10th year  and has some of its more unique auction items ever.

    This year’s Cabaret theme is expected to add to the fun.

    Pam May, The Alliance’s tourism and marketing manager, calls the  registered, breeding-quality female English Bulldog, “appropriately named Roxy, one of the more adorable auction items we have ever had.”

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  • MATCH gets national kudos for Ridgeview

    The Modified Assertive Community Treatment for Co-Occurring Homeless program Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital and Center Inc. is one of 11 nationwide winners of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s 2011 Service to Service Award.

    Ridgeview, a provider of mental health and substance abuse services for Roane County and four other East Tennessee counties, represented the only Southeastern state awarded this distinction and was the sole winner nationwide in the Co-Occurring category.

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  • ORNL tank to go out

     URS | CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) is in the midst of offsite shipments of soils excavated from around an underground waste tank at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

    This removal action is being performed under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act and will eliminate a known source of contaminants being released to the groundwater.

    The action includes excavation of Tank W-1A and 355 cubic yards of soil and associated secondary waste. The soils are being packaged in lead-lined boxes and shipped off site for disposal.

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  • Volunteer Energy’s helping hand

    Volunteer Energy Cooperative’s VECustomers Share board member Alton Lingerfelt presented a $1,000 grant check to L.K. “Butch” Barding of the South Roane Volunteer Fire Department. VECustomers Share is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization covering VEC’s 17-county service area, including Roane County’s South of the River area.

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  • OUT to LUNCH by Bethel Poston: Cookie Jar adventure a resounding success

     

    One morning as we left the Roane State Fitness Center, Jim and Mae Grasham told me I needed to write an “Out to Lunch” article on the Cookie Jar Café.

    “We went last week with two other couples, and the food was really good,” Jim said. “Be sure to save room for the homemade coconut cream pie.”

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  • Alliance Gala to have Cabaret theme


    Come taste the wine, come hear the band ... right this way, your table's waiting ...

    The lyrics of the hit song from the musical “Cabaret” are an apt invitation to the 2011 annual Roane Alliance Gala on Nov 4.

    The Alliance Gala, one of the county’s premier social events, includes a gourmét meal, a wine reception, music, entertainment, live and silent auctions.

    This year’s Gala has a Cabaret theme.

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  • Roane State grant to help industry grow

    Roane State Community College has received a $1.64 million grant that will fund several initiatives designed to promote the growth of the composites industry in East Tennessee.

    The college was awarded the grant as part of President Obama’s $37 million Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, a multi-agency competition to support the advancement of 20 high-growth, regional industry clusters.

    “The college is very excited to receive this grant,” Roane State President Gary Goff said.

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  • Nurse of the Year

     

    Kingston’s Tracey Keathley, a registered nurse in the heart catheterization lab at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, has been named Nurse of the Year by the Oak Ridge Chapter of Mended Hearts.

    Mended Hearts Inc. is a nationwide support organization for people with heart disease and their families.

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