Tonight and Friday, the Impact Center will be hosting its "Kingdom Summit - Strategies to Impact Your City" featuring Dr. Myles Monroe. A Leadership Summit will be held tonight at 6:30 p.m. and, on Friday, a Business Owner Luncheon will be held at 11:30 a.m. The Impact Center is in Eastgate Center on Brainerd Road. For admission cost and registration, call 423-386-5648.

On behalf of Capt. Randy Dunn, the Chattanooga Police Interactive Committee will host a crime prevention meeting tonight at 6 p.m. at the District Connection Community Resource Center, located at 5896 Brainerd Road in Brainerd Village. The meeting will be an open community discussion regarding crime in the city’s targeted areas and opportunities to collaborative neighborhoods solutions. Please plan to attend or send someone as a representative from your neighborhood.

The Department of Neighborhood Services would like to remind you that today at 4 p.m. is the deadline to turn in your application for the World Changers Home Repair Program. To qualify, you must a homeowner and live in the Chattanooga city limits, be at least 62 years of age or be a disabled homeowner of any age. Social Security documentation of disabled status must be provided. For more information, contact Vanessa Jackson at 423-425-3741.

On Monday night, the North Brainerd Neighborhood Association's monthly meeting was a night of learning and sharing knowledge from EPB’s fiber optics service, the importance of the placement of fire alarms in the home to pending local elections.

The North Brainerd Neighborhood Association will meet Monday at 6 p.m. in the library at Dalewood Middle School.

The Chattanooga Hamilton County branch of the NAACP is looking for talented black high school students in the Chattanooga Hamilton County area to participate the NAACP's ACT-SO competition on April 24. The deadline to enter is March 27.

Deadline to apply for the City of Chattanooga and World Changers Home Repair Program is March 4 at 4 p.m.

Every year, the Unity Group sponsors several events to promote Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy of nonviolent social change. Dr. Bob Zellner will deliver the keynote address at the Unity Group's 40th memorial service honoring the birthday of Dr. King. The program is at 5 p.m. Monday at the Tivoli Theatre, following a memorial parade from Olivet Baptist Church to the theater.

The Unity Group 40th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration will be held on Jan. 18 at the Tivoli Theatre at 5 p.m.

The Chattanooga Hamilton County Chapter of the NAACP will host its Annual Jubilee Day Celebration on Friday. The celebration will begin at 11 a.m. and will be held at Pilgrim Rock Baptist Church, located at 1726 Church Road. Pastor Willie Paul from New Horizon Baptist Church will be the guest speaker.

A Community Kitchen Charity Drive collecting gloves, socks, coats, blankets and canned goods will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 5896 Brainerd Road in Brainerd Village.

Apologies to all. I’ve been sick, and I’ll have a submission next week.

Happy Thanksgiving! If you plan to travel the interstates, call 511 or visit www.tn511.com for information about road and travel conditions, incidents, and construction on state highways from the Tennessee Department of Transportation. Callers can ask for specific roadways or regions, and the system will provide information about traffic incidents, closures and other important roadway conditions. The alternate toll-free number is 1-877-244-0065.

The Citizen/Police Interactive Committee will meet at 6 p.m. today at Shepard Recreation Center.

The Brainerd community would like to extend our condolences to the family of Patricia Whatley-Bryan and to her co-workers.