Today's Features

She may be 87, but Victorian Square Assisted Living resident Hesta Bailey hasn't yet hung up her teaching hat.

Instead, she's putting her long-honed expertise to work by teaching reading skills to a couple of eager resident students.

It gives Bailey a chance to share a love of reading that started in childhood.

"lt gives me moral assessment, enjoyment and information," she recently told Victorian Square Activity Director Barbara Satterfield.

The Knoxville Writers Guild is continuing its series of workshops designed to give information to and provide hands-on assistance for writers interested in self-publishing.

The next workshop  is May 18 and will consist of two different sessions.

The first, beginning at 11 a.m., will be a general overview of self-publishing. This portion will cost $20.

The eighth annual Master Gardeners of Roane County plant sale on May 4 was postponed due to rain.

The sale has been rescheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 18 at Ladd Landing in Kingston.

This is a public opportunity to obtain plants, knowledge and information from trained volunteers through the Tennessee Master Gardener Program of Roane County and the University of Tennessee Extension.

The beautiful iris blooming in our gardens with elegance is worthy of the goddess for whom it was named.

Tennessee’s state flower was one of the more popular of spring flowers in gardens of medieval Europe, and it is still one we greet with joy in our own spring gardens.

Some of us refer to these flowers as flags or, if we are French, fleur de lys.