Lookout Valley Presbyterian Church is tending to a community vegetable garden in order to donate vegetables to community members.

Ballet Tennessee has its Dance Alive and Dance Elite 2009 teams set to perform July 13-24, culminating July 24 at 6 p.m. with a free performance at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Fine Arts Center.

Lookout Valley Presbyterian Church is tending to a community vegetable garden in order to donate vegetables to community members.

Lookout Valley artist Helen Jones says the current economic climate has forced her to subtly shift her professional artistic perspective — a change that she says has allowed her to concentrate more on creative processes.

Umbra Essence Candles in St. Elmo will host Beeswax Taper Rolling workshops each Saturday of the summer in conjunction with World Music Summer Days.

Area 61 began as a storefront for three area woodworkers who needed a place to show their work, or maybe that’s just what the U.S. government wants you to think.

Lookout Valley Neighborhood Association will host the 5th annual Red, White and Bluegrass Festival July 2 from 7 to 9 p.m. at John A. Patten Recreation Center.

Bill Akers, 39, brings a compassionate perspective to his new pastorate at Wauhatchie United Methodist Church.

Photographer Laura Helen Winn said she fell in love with photography when she picked up a 35 mm camera three years ago.

Ernie Taylor gets strange looks when he tells people at Chickamauga Lake or on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains he is vice president of the Chattanooga Ski Club.

Chattanooga Nature Center added two more red wolves to the Wildlife Wanderland this spring and officials there should learn in July if the total of five could soon be increasing.

Lookout Mountain residents have a new restaurant in town after last week’s grand opening of Guthrie’s on Scenic Highway next to the town common area.

Friends Donivan Brown and Phillip Allen are turning their athletic ambitions to be able to slam dunk by July 1 into a philanthropic endeavor to raise funds for Christian-based community development program Hope for the Inner City.

The Rev. Rodney Bowes is teaching healthy eating habits to his St. Elmo Seventh-day Adventist Church congregation.

Sisters Mary Catherine Schimpf and Julie Drexler are giving children a behind-the-scenes lesson of musical theater performance with their two-week Musical Theatre Camp, held twice each summer at Chattanooga Christian School. This summer’s second session is June 29 through July 10.