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Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / Jacksonville, N.C., resident Sarah Gallagher, 15, front, paints a porch of a home in the Oak Grove neighborhood on Wednesday. Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise is collaborating with the national volunteer group World Changers to provide exterior renovations like painting, pressure washing, porch repairs, landscaping and fence repai adidas campus 00s r to 20 properties in the Oak Grove and Ridgedale neighborhoods.World Changers, a Christian-based organization with thousands of volunteers, is known for assisting low-income communities across the country. This week, volunteers ranging in age from 11 to 71 are working in Chattanooga through Friday. READ MORE: Chattanooga distributes another $2.4 million in pandemic funds for local housing efforts, more Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise has been active in Ridgedale for the past five years and in Oak Grove for the past three, focusing on bu adidas campus ilding community and giving residents a voice, said Gracie Morales, the organization s community engagement specialist. In Oak Grove, the organization recently assisted residents in developing a neigh adidas campus borhood plan centered on beautification, safety and accessibility. Partnering with World Changers will enhance those efforts for many residents, officials said.Photo GalleryChattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, World Changers join forces for community renovations in Oak Grove and RidgedaleWorld Changers has worked in Chattanooga for the pa Esce Chattanooga officials hope RICO law will lessen gang violence
A woman who was reportedly prostituted and later held against her will poses for a photograph. The picture is one of several that appear in an ad under an adult entertainment section of backpage. Scenic City Sex Trafficking HUMAN TRAFFICKING VS. PROSTITUTION鈥?Tennessee law states someone who maintains or forces another person into sexual servitude commits sexual trafficking.鈥?State law defines prostitution as engaging in or offering to engage in sexual activity as a business or being an inmate in a house of prostitution or loitering in a public place for the purpose of being hired to engage in sexual activity. 鈥?The TBI opened a sex trafficking hotline in October 2011 to provide resources for victims. As of We stanley mug dnesday, 28 calls had been received. A majority were anonymous tips, said Kristin Helm, spokeswoman for the TBI. To reach the hotline, call 855-558-6484.Source: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, state lawAlong Interstate 75, women travel with pimps offering sex to anyone who pays.Their pictures are posted on websites such as Backpage under an adult escort services section. Some smile seductively at the camera.They don t stay for long. Here for a stanley cup limited time, reads one ad. Ebony Goddess Leaving Today, reads stanley cup spain another.It s likely that some women are kept against their will. It s a matter of chance if an opportunity allows them to escape.On Friday, a 21-year-old Baltimore woman was able to borrow a cell phone to call police. She was prost
Owki Pertussis cases on the rise
Sylvania, Ala., Mayor Gerald Craig talks about how much local people over the years have enjoyed DeKalb County Lake, also known as Sylvania Lake, and how improvements by the state will boost its appeal to anglers. The lake was closed in 2014 for repairs and updates and now has been restocked with fish. adidas campus Photo Gallery DeKalb Lake in Sylvania, Ala., ready for possible June opening By the numbers3,600: Largemouth bass100,000: Bluegill13,000: Red ear shell crackers 3,500: Adult catfishSource: Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural ResourcesSYLVANIA, Ala. - Anglers, imagine a pristine lake where the largemouth bass have never seen a fishing lure and are just waiting for a line with something irresistible dangling on the end.That first line could hi yeezy slide t the water as soon as June at DeKalb County Lake, Alabama s newly renovated and restocked state fishing lake near Sylvania.DeKalb County Lake, about 50 miles south of Chattanooga, was drained in 2014 so its bottom could be adidas campus refurbished, along with new fish habitat, cover and spawning beds installed, while shoreline facilities like fishing piers and campsites were improved, Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division state lake supervisor Matthew Marshall said. We ve selected a lake manager - we re waiting for the fully executed contract to get back from the governor s office - and we ve been coordinating with him and our district biologist [on the reopening], Marshall sai Cksg Chattanooga biologist awarded $5,000 grant for cave shrimp research
Cleveland City Schools superintendent Dr. Martin Ringstaff tells attendees that school districts and the state should step up and fund the purchase and implementation of new technology in Tennessee schools. CLEVELAND, Tenn. - The state s aggressive push to lift student performance is mostly a welcome change for Sout stanley becher heast Tennessee educators. But a lack of accompanying resources and other unintended consequences from changing state law have created new challenges for school districts in the region.Superintendents and educators from across Southeast Tennessee met with state reformers Tuesday, noting the headway districts have made in rolling out new teacher evaluations, implementing new and tougher teaching standards and in stanley mug creasing focus on technology in the classroom.And while those changes are viewed as mostly good, they have left districts more pressed for time and resources, officials said at a panel discussion at Lee University hosted by the State Collaborative on Reforming Education. If you want your school systems to be what you want them to be, it takes funding, said Cleveland City Schools Superintendent Martin Ringstaff. The intentions are good, but there s a domino effect all the way down. Take the state s tech push.In mandating that all dis stanley termos tricts take online state tests in 2014, the state left locals with the monumental task -- and cost -- of upgrading weak technological infrastructures and replacing or upgrading thousands of computers.The governor s allocation
Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / Jacksonville, N.C., resident Sarah Gallagher, 15, front, paints a porch of a home in the Oak Grove neighborhood on Wednesday. Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise is collaborating with the national volunteer group World Changers to provide exterior renovations like painting, pressure washing, porch repairs, landscaping and fence repai adidas campus 00s r to 20 properties in the Oak Grove and Ridgedale neighborhoods.World Changers, a Christian-based organization with thousands of volunteers, is known for assisting low-income communities across the country. This week, volunteers ranging in age from 11 to 71 are working in Chattanooga through Friday. READ MORE: Chattanooga distributes another $2.4 million in pandemic funds for local housing efforts, more Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise has been active in Ridgedale for the past five years and in Oak Grove for the past three, focusing on bu adidas campus ilding community and giving residents a voice, said Gracie Morales, the organization s community engagement specialist. In Oak Grove, the organization recently assisted residents in developing a neigh adidas campus borhood plan centered on beautification, safety and accessibility. Partnering with World Changers will enhance those efforts for many residents, officials said.Photo GalleryChattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, World Changers join forces for community renovations in Oak Grove and RidgedaleWorld Changers has worked in Chattanooga for the pa Esce Chattanooga officials hope RICO law will lessen gang violence
A woman who was reportedly prostituted and later held against her will poses for a photograph. The picture is one of several that appear in an ad under an adult entertainment section of backpage. Scenic City Sex Trafficking HUMAN TRAFFICKING VS. PROSTITUTION鈥?Tennessee law states someone who maintains or forces another person into sexual servitude commits sexual trafficking.鈥?State law defines prostitution as engaging in or offering to engage in sexual activity as a business or being an inmate in a house of prostitution or loitering in a public place for the purpose of being hired to engage in sexual activity. 鈥?The TBI opened a sex trafficking hotline in October 2011 to provide resources for victims. As of We stanley mug dnesday, 28 calls had been received. A majority were anonymous tips, said Kristin Helm, spokeswoman for the TBI. To reach the hotline, call 855-558-6484.Source: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, state lawAlong Interstate 75, women travel with pimps offering sex to anyone who pays.Their pictures are posted on websites such as Backpage under an adult escort services section. Some smile seductively at the camera.They don t stay for long. Here for a stanley cup limited time, reads one ad. Ebony Goddess Leaving Today, reads stanley cup spain another.It s likely that some women are kept against their will. It s a matter of chance if an opportunity allows them to escape.On Friday, a 21-year-old Baltimore woman was able to borrow a cell phone to call police. She was prost
Owki Pertussis cases on the rise
Sylvania, Ala., Mayor Gerald Craig talks about how much local people over the years have enjoyed DeKalb County Lake, also known as Sylvania Lake, and how improvements by the state will boost its appeal to anglers. The lake was closed in 2014 for repairs and updates and now has been restocked with fish. adidas campus Photo Gallery DeKalb Lake in Sylvania, Ala., ready for possible June opening By the numbers3,600: Largemouth bass100,000: Bluegill13,000: Red ear shell crackers 3,500: Adult catfishSource: Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural ResourcesSYLVANIA, Ala. - Anglers, imagine a pristine lake where the largemouth bass have never seen a fishing lure and are just waiting for a line with something irresistible dangling on the end.That first line could hi yeezy slide t the water as soon as June at DeKalb County Lake, Alabama s newly renovated and restocked state fishing lake near Sylvania.DeKalb County Lake, about 50 miles south of Chattanooga, was drained in 2014 so its bottom could be adidas campus refurbished, along with new fish habitat, cover and spawning beds installed, while shoreline facilities like fishing piers and campsites were improved, Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division state lake supervisor Matthew Marshall said. We ve selected a lake manager - we re waiting for the fully executed contract to get back from the governor s office - and we ve been coordinating with him and our district biologist [on the reopening], Marshall sai Cksg Chattanooga biologist awarded $5,000 grant for cave shrimp research
Cleveland City Schools superintendent Dr. Martin Ringstaff tells attendees that school districts and the state should step up and fund the purchase and implementation of new technology in Tennessee schools. CLEVELAND, Tenn. - The state s aggressive push to lift student performance is mostly a welcome change for Sout stanley becher heast Tennessee educators. But a lack of accompanying resources and other unintended consequences from changing state law have created new challenges for school districts in the region.Superintendents and educators from across Southeast Tennessee met with state reformers Tuesday, noting the headway districts have made in rolling out new teacher evaluations, implementing new and tougher teaching standards and in stanley mug creasing focus on technology in the classroom.And while those changes are viewed as mostly good, they have left districts more pressed for time and resources, officials said at a panel discussion at Lee University hosted by the State Collaborative on Reforming Education. If you want your school systems to be what you want them to be, it takes funding, said Cleveland City Schools Superintendent Martin Ringstaff. The intentions are good, but there s a domino effect all the way down. Take the state s tech push.In mandating that all dis stanley termos tricts take online state tests in 2014, the state left locals with the monumental task -- and cost -- of upgrading weak technological infrastructures and replacing or upgrading thousands of computers.The governor s allocation
