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Day 105: Sunday on Signal-Saturday and Sunday November 12-13

Jeff — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:29:34 +0000

Sunday on Signal….starts on Saturday November 12 and is a long-standing tradition on Signal Mountain.

Sunday on Signal celebrates 29 years of holiday excitement and celebration!

In the past 29 years, this event has grown into a community celebration. Some of the activities with this tradition are a holiday open house by local businesses, community participation with entertainment and partnering with a local non-profit organization. This year, these traditions continues on bigger and better.

Signal Mountain, TN retailers are busy preparing for "Sunday on Signal"

On November 12 & 13, the local businesses will open their doors and invite the community to shop and browse early this holiday season. Each store will be decked out in holiday decor and merchandise. Offers of sales and special promotions will be given all around. While visiting with old friends, you may sample refreshments and register for door prizes. There are many opportunities to win.

Each store will be offering a door prize to some lucky visitor. Register in every store to win! In addition, the MBA will also be drawing for a winner of a $100 gift card. To register for this gift card, have your brochure marked in four of the five business areas and leave at your last stop. The holiday open houses hosted by the merchants and all the door prize opportunities will make this a fun day for all.

Music will be heard in various locations during this festival. Local choirs, musicians and others will be serenading, the visitors during Sunday on Signal. This will certainly add to the holiday atmosphere during Sunday on Signal…starts on Saturday.

Relax at the MACC sponsored Jazz Brunch during this year's Sunday on Signal

This year, the MBA has partnered with the MACC Foundation. The MACC

Foundation will be hosting a champagne and jazz brunch at 1404 James Blvd on Saturday and Sunday from 10-2. Cost is $20. A great way to support the MACC Foundation. The community is invited for brunch!

The Mountain Business Association invites everyone to participate on November 12 & 13 to kickoff the holiday season. Visit SignalMBA.comfor more information or call 886-1869 for details.

Visit these Signal Mountain shopping locations for your chance to win!

– Patrice & Jeff Wishmyer – Full Time Realtors® with Keller Williams Realty here in Chattanooga are the real estate experts for anyone considering relocation to our “Scenic City”. We are passionate about this wonderful town!

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Day 103: “Beauty and The Beast” at The Signal Mountain Playhouse on Signal Mountain

Jeff — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:42:22 +0000

The wonderful outdoor theater, the Signal Mountain Playhouse, will present Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” on July 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, and 30

Wonderful casting and set design make this an enjoyable evening on Signal!

at the Playhouse amphitheater off Rolling Way, just to the side of the Police and Fire Departments on the main Mountain highway. Curtain is at 8 p.m. and the box office opens at 6 p.m. for those who wish to buy tickets and place lawn chairs early.

Tickets are $5.00 for children and $15.00 for adults and are sold only at the door. Concessions and rest rooms are available on Playhouse grounds. In addition, the Playhouse is handicapped friendly: If you are handicapped, get your driver to turn left onto Rolling Way, remove the orange cones so you can drive through, replace the cones, and then turn left onto Stan Crewe Way into the Playhouse grounds and park at the designated Handicapped parking spaces.

A handicapped accessible restroom is on the grounds. For more information, go to smph.org or call 423-886-5243.

– Jeff & Patrice Wishmyer – Full Time Realtors® with Keller Williams Realty here in Chattanooga are the real estate experts for anyone considering relocation to our “Scenic City”. We are passionate about this wonderful town!

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Day 104: Where Can You Have This Much Fun For $1 in Chattanooga, TN

Jeff — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 02:42:52 +0000

Coolidge Park Carousel…Kids Take the Parents and Grandparents!

Coolidge Park Carousel-What a classic 10 minutes of fun!

After a day that included visting a great grandmother, running Rock City and enjoying a late lunch, what a great end to the day with Luke, Roz and Patrice! Wonder across the Walnut Street Bridge to Coolidge Park.

Roz and her dad enjoying the calipso and carousel ride. After the fun on the carousel we wandered over to the Delta Queen to show Roz and Luke this piece of maritime history in Chattanooga.

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What will Chattanooga look like if…

Jeff — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:33:37 +0000

“wouldn’t be out of the question to someday build the whole global Golf/Jetta/Tiguan/Scirocco compact family under the same roof as the North American Passat”

Just the Facts:

VW’s Chattanooga factory may build the next-generation North American Golf alongside the Passat.
The factory is poised to expand its capacity.
The entire VW global compact family for the U.S., including the next Audi A3, could be built in Chattanooga.

NICE, France — Volkswagen is mulling over production plans for its new plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Inside Line has learned some of the ideas it’s considering.

A Volkswagen source wishing to remain unnamed told IL that an important part of the automaker’s ambitious plan (to sell 800,000 VW brand cars in the U.S. by 2018) is the pending decision as to whether or not the next-generation 2013 Golf hatchback should be built in Chattanooga alongside the new Passat. Chattanooga plant chief executive Frank Fischer has been quoted as saying that at current full capacity of 250,000, this total volume could be made up of three distinct production lines.

Volkswagen North America President and CEO Jonathan Browning has made it clear that VW here must do much more with both the Golf and modular architecture-sharing Tiguan small SUV. When IL pursued the issue further, we were told that it wouldn’t be out of the question to someday build the whole global Golf/Jetta/Tiguan/Scirocco compact family under the same roof as the North American Passat, a car designed for sale also in Canada, Mexico, South Korea and the Middle East.

By association, our contact confirmed the possibilities of the next Audi A3 and Q5 being built in Chattanooga as well, as they share that flexible global architecture.

Inside Line says: Frankly, such a move would be long overdue. Let’s just hope it’s not too little too late for VW’s ambitious North American goals. — Matt Davis, Correspondent

reprinted from InsideLine.com

More Tidbits – Reports show Volkswagen is considering producing it’s entire line of compact family cars at it’s Chattanooga plant including the next Audi A3 and Q5 SUV. Recent auto industry trade publications have also reported Porsche, one of Volkswagen’s premium brands, is considering producing vehicles in the United States, naming the Chattanooga plant as a possible production facility.

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Chattanooga, TN named one of the Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2011

Jeff — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:23:56 +0000

More good news ’bout Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Many may remember when Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News announced to the world that the US government cited Chattanooga as the city with America’s dirtiest air, the product of decades of economic growth as home to foundries and other heavy manufacturers.

In response, the City Council joined with local companies and physicians to create a pollution control board that led to $10m in private-sector air-quality investments. When heavy manufacturing declined in the 70s and 80s, the same spirit of partnership and the support of local foundations led to a decade of transformative downtown revitalization projects.

During the recent years the business, academic and governmental leadership has pressed forward on multiple fronts. The city-owned electric utility built a fiber network that will collect billions of data points and provide real-time management that will significantly boost the grid’s reliability and performance. It will also extend ultra-high-speed broadband to 170,000 homes and businesses…click here for entire story!

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Day 102: Pink…A Party, A Passion, A Purpose-Chattanooga, TN

Jeff — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:46:40 +0000

Pink, Saturday January 22, 2011, Doors open at 6:30 p.m. at the Chattanooga Convention Center

Pink! is a celebration of life for breast cancer patients and survivors. It benefits the Memorial Foundation and the MaryEllen Locher Breast Centers at Memorial Hospital.

Pink! attendees will dance all night to live music by Party on the Moon (played Eli Manning’s wedding in Cabo, Obama’s inaugural and Donald Trump’s new years eve party at Mar-a-Lago!) and have the chance to bid on premium items in a silent auction.

$200 Regular tickets include cocktails, dinner and entertainment. Regular tables of 8 are $1600
$350 Patron tickets include all of the above, as well as an exclusive pre-party invite, valet/reserved parking, premium seating, and table-side bar service the night of the event. Patron tables of 8 are $2800

Tickets to this premiere event are available online or by calling (423) 495-PINK (7465).

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Day 101: HullaBowloo-Chattanooga Area Food Bank Fundraiser

Jeff — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:57:40 +0000

HullaBowloo

January 15, 2011, 7:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

HullaBowloo is the signature fundraising event for the Chattanooga Area Food Bank.

HullaBowloo will be a night for tasty food, wonderful music and dancing, unique performances and a chance to be a part of a great cause, filling the bowls of Chattanooga’s hungry.

The evening’s menu will be provided by: Covenant College Chef Cameron Mitchell, Greenlife Chef Charlie Loomis, Baylor School Chef Gary Klein, University of the South Chef Rick Wright and GPS Chef Tom Goetz.

Saturday, Janaury 15, the Chattanooga Area Food Bank will be transformed into a festive, urban scene, alive with street dancers, an outdoor cafe, roving muscians, a local “watering hole”, a park and even a community garden. As you roam through the streets of the city, learn more about the many programs supported by the Chattanooga Area Food Bank while being “BOWLED” over by all the wonderful food and entertainment offered at every turn.

The evening will come to an end with dancing to the “ BOWLdacious” music of “The Male Men”. So how do you “HullaBowloo”?

For more information on a most memoraBOWL evening or to buy tickets, visit http://www.hullabowloo.com or contact Jen Ferking at (423) 622-1800 or jferking@chattfoodbank.org

Location: 2009 Curtain Pole Rd. Chattanooga, TN 37406 Map

Click here for more details

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Day 100: A Christmas Story at The Theatre Centre-Chattanooga, TN

Jeff — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:20:37 +0000

2 Shows Remain! A Christmas Story at The Chattanooga Theatre Centre, this Wednesday and Thursday December 22 & 23 @ 7-9 p.m.

Adapted for the stage by Philip Grecian, based on the original novel and screenplay by Jean Shepherd. A Christmas Story Is A Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas… A Holiday comedy for the entire Family.

Ralphie has to convince his parents, and teachers that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940′s. He even pleads his case before Santa Claus, all with the same response, “You’ll shoot your eye out.” All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here. A Christmas Story Is A Co-Production for CTC’s Youth Theatre and MainStage seasons.

For more information call: 423-267-8538

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Day 99: Home For The Holidays-Chattanooga, TN

Jeff — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:15:31 +0000

Home for the Holidays-At the Tivoli Theatre, December 18, 2010, 8:00 p.m.

Concert Sponsored by First Tennessee Foundation   Jingle all the way to the Tivoli Theatre for this annual CSO favorite. Each year the CSO, along with many special guests, brings a spirit of Yuletide fun to downtown that even Scrooge wouldn’t want to miss. Guest conducted by Maestro Donald Pippen and featuring Voices of Lee and the Metropolitan Bells.

20-year-old Hannah Dishman of Bristol, Va. This young singer, who is attending her freshman year at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, will be singing as guest soloist

For a night of fun plan to attend Home for the Holidays. To book tickets click here.

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Day 98: Mellow Mushroom-Chattanooga, TN

Jeff — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:10:21 +0000

Great Pizza, Location, Fun and Beer Selection! Mellow Mushroom

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