Dr. Biden and Secretary Solis to visit Roane State Community College Thursday, Feb 23
On Wednesday, February 22, 2012, Dr. Jill Biden and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will kick off a three-day "Community College to Career" bus tour to highlight the unique role community colleges play in developing a flexible, highly-skilled 21st-century workforce to meet emerging regional business needs.
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Traffic into Great Smoky Mountains National Park in January 2012 was up by 23.8% over January 2011. Total entries into Great Smoky Mountains National Park in January 2012 were 265,787 compared with only 214,609 during January 2011.
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Principal Quartet will perform at the next Chamber Classics concert on Sunday, April 1 at 2:30 PM at the Bijou Theatre. Music for this concert will include Alvarez' Metro Chabacano, Mozart's String Quartet No. 16 in E-flat, K. 428 and Chausson's Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet in D Major, Op. 21.
Several writers will share their poems, stories and essays published in "A Tapestry of Voices: an East Tennessee Anthology" at Pellissippi State Community College's Magnolia Campus, 1610 E. Magnolia Ave., Knoxville, from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 29.
15th annual Sevier County Job Fair, Sevier County, City of Gatlinburg, City of Pigeon Forge & City of Sevierville. Wednesday, March 14, 2012. 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Pigeon Forge, TN.
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Pulitzer prize-winning conservation biologist E.O. Wilson to speak at Gatlinburg conference
A unique conference in Gatlinburg will bring together experts and volunteers from around the world to hear a world renowned naturalist and author who spent a year studying at the University of Tennessee in the 1950s. Pulitzer prize-winning conservation biologist E. O. Wilson will speak at Discover Life in America's Annual Conference at the Glenstone Lodge March 22-24.
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Discover the Dinosaurs at the Knoxville Convention Center
Over 60 dinosaurs will be taking over the Knoxville Convention Center from February 24 to February 26. An interactive family attraction featuring more than 60 museum-quality and animatronic dinosaur replicas will fill the convention center's 120,000 square-foot exhibit hall.
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 Black Pearl Sings! taking the stage at Clarence Brown Theatre
Frank Higgins' Black Pearl Sings!, one of the top ten most-produced plays in America for 2009-2010, is taking the mainstage at Clarence Brown Theatre February 23 - March 11. African-American folk songs and spirituals will fill the hall during the production which follows the Depression-era journey of two extraordinary women, each of whom is dependent on the other to gain acceptance in society.
The play is partially based on John Lomax's famous discovery of Huddie (Lead Belly) Ledbetter in a Louisiana prison farm, and on the documentary "The Language You Cry In" which traces a Georgia slave song to one still sung by the women of Sierra Leone, Africa.
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Help Knoxville prosper during Knoxville Restaurant Week, February 26 to March 2, 2012
Help Knoxville prosper by taking part in the second annual Knoxville Restaurant Week. How does your participation help? By dining in one of Knoxville's participating restaurants, it helps those restaurants economically during the slower times of the year.
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