Thursday, October 19th

From the Tennova Healthcare Cleveland News Desk, here is your news for Thursday, October 19th, on Mix 104-1 and Talk 101-3 The Buzz.

From the Cleveland Daily Banner…

The program has been established for Friday evening’s City of Cleveland 175th Anniversary Celebration event, and tickets are going fast for the community concert following the sit-down dinner.

The celebratory meal is scheduled for 6 p.m. in Lee University’s Arts and Communications Building on North Ocoee in downtown Cleveland, with Lee University President Dr. Paul Conn to be the keynote speaker.

Conn and his father, the late Dr. Charles W. Conn, both spent a number of their adult years leading the university, one of the largest private institutions of higher learning in the state.

The guest speaker has personally guided Lee University’s phenomenal growth since the mid-1990s.

The sit-down, invitation-only dinner, will be followed by a musical concert just across the street in Pangle Hall — the old First Baptist sanctuary.

Friday’s musical concert is free to the general public, but you must have a ticket. They should be picked up as soon as possible, since the seating capacity in Pangle Hall is only about 800. Tickets are available at the city municipal building, The Cleveland Daily Banner, Bank of Cleveland’s main office, and at the Cleveland/Bradley County Chamber of Commerce.

Friday night’s festivities are only the first step in the city’s acknowledgement of its 175th birthday, which was actually reached in February.

The committee has also scheduled a communitywide ice cream social for the public from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 5. This celebration will be at Cleveland Greenway and Pavilion, near Raider Drive.

From the Chattanoogan…

The Chattanooga Airport is embarking on the third and final phase of its solar farm, which when completed will allow the Airport to “go off the grid.”

John Naylor, Airport vice president, said the project will provide all the power needed in order to run the airport.

He said EPB will assist with installation of a power storage unit and a micro-grid controller to make the change-over possible.

Mr. Naylor said this will be a demonstration project for other electrical utilities and airports around the country to study.

He said Chattanooga will be the first airport in the country to develop its own power system.

The Cleveland Daily Banner reports…

The Michigan Avenue School PTO, along with the school’s faculty and staff, is bringing back its old-fashioned fall festival.

For years, the MAS fall festival was a highlight of the school social calendar. However, when a tornado hit the school April 27, 2011, it destroyed the roof of the gym, as well as the fall festival games. The games had been housed under the gym in a storage area.  

The festival will be Friday, Oct. 27 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the Michigan Avenue Elementary School campus.  

Family drop-off zones will be set up off of Benton Pike and Michigan Avenue School Road. Free parking will be available at Michigan Avenue Baptist Church and the Whirlpool parking lot off Michigan Avenue Road. A free shuttle service will be provided by the Boys and Girls Club.

The festival will include all the typical carnival-type games, fair hair, face painting, inflatable zone, boxing ring, cake walk, fortune teller, cookie decorating, disco room, haunted classroom, BINGO for Books, pumpkin games, tractor rides, Star Wars characters, Princess Belle, and a MASH Tent.  

The event will take place rain or shine.  Organizers are hoping for a beautiful fall day and have set up the event to take place in several places on campus: inside, in front of the school and around the track behind the school.

This has been your local and state news. You can get news anytime by visiting our website, mymix1041.com, powered by Pioneer Credit. From the Tennova Healthcare Cleveland News Desk, this is Jeremy Gault reporting.