Two front page stories in today’s Knoxville News Sentinel make me eager to see similar press releases from Oak Ridge:
1 – The full schedule for the “Sundown” concert series was announced. Oak Ridge will be having another “Secret City Sounds” free summer concert series on Friday evenings in Bissell Park (in the performing arts pavilion behind the Oak Ridge Civic Center), and I hope there will soon be a complete schedule for it. According to a Facebook page, the first concert will be May 7th (7:30pm – 11:30pm), by “The Breakfast Club”, an ’80s tribute band.
Last summer’s series was organized kind of at the 11th hour, so it wasn’t possible to announce the schedule in advance, but I’m hoping for a lot more advance info this year. I think attendance would have been higher with better coordinated publicity. I heard from a number of residents who said they would have liked to have had a schedule to pin onto the fridge. More than the Secret City Festival, the Secret City Sounds series seems to induce some of my ORNL colleagues who don’t live here to come into Oak Ridge for a good time.
2 – There’s also an article about “Safe Routes to School” activities at a Knoxville elementary school. Oak Ridge was also awarded a “Safe Routes” grant for improvements and programs at and near Robertsville Middle School, and I’m hoping that we’ll soon be seeing news about progress in implementing the program.
