RTNOCKY OP EWS PUBLISHED BY THE ROCKY TOP CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FREE JULY 2018 FREE Now’s The Time To Sign Up Tennessee's For Big Clinch River Clean-up Tax-Free Weekend: Registration is open now for everyone who wants to help with the sixth annual Mark your Calendars Big Clinch River Cleanup on Saturday, July 21st. It starts at 8am with breakfast at the scenic Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Highway, Norris. The for July 27th-29th clean-up will wrap up about 2pm. Tennessee's annual tax-free weekend is set for Friday, Everyone who enjoys the river, from anglers to kayakers to wildlife watchers, is July 27th, through Sunday, July 29th. invited to help remove litter from the Clinch and its banks. The community wide clean-up is an expansion of annual pickups run for many years by members of the Clinch River Chapter, Trout Unlimited, which hosts the event. Last year, 103 You won't have to pay the state's 7 percent sales tax when volunteers gathered 75 tires and nearly 2,200 pounds of trash from the river. purchasing certain items from Tennessee retailers beginning at 12:01 a.m. July 27th until 11:59 p.m. July 29th. Volunteers work in a variety of ways: * Above the water line, workers walk along riverside roads and through parking What will be tax free? areas, gathering trash. Clothing that costs $100 or less per item; School and art supplies that cost $100 or less per item; * Volunteers wearing waders patrol for litter in shallow water. Computers and tablets that cost $1,500 or less. There is no limit to how many items can be purchased as long * In kayaks and canoes, volunteers work to clean shorelines and shallow water where there is no public access by road. as no single item exceeds the cost-per-item guidelines. * In powerboats and driftboats, volunteers haul tires and other items from the What about online purchases? depths. Items purchased online or from a catalog will be tax-exempt as Support for all the teams is supplied by volunteering emergency medical people, long as: ham radio operators, tire disposal professionals and workers with trucks who The items meet the pricing guidelines; collect and dispose of filled trash bags. The purchase is made and paid for during the tax-free weekend; The first 100 volunteers to register will qualify for a free full breakfast at the picturesque museum (expenses of the meal are supported by a grant from the The purchase is made from a Tennessee retailer and ships to Tennessee Valley Authority). To sign up, please visit http://crctu.org and click on a Tennessee address. Big Cleanup Registration. For more information, contact Rusty Hallett at [email protected] or (859) 227-1227‬, or Dave Easter at Prepare for crowds! [email protected] or (859) 608-7090‬. The event will be held rain or shine (in case of severe weather, the breakfast will be held but volunteers will stay on While crowds aren't nearly as bad as Black Friday crowds, the shore). sales tax holiday draws in a more-than-double the normal crowd. Clinch River Chapter TU works to preserve and protect the Clinch River tailwater and its watershed through conservation projects and through education of children and adults in aquatic natural resources. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month in the parish hall at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Norris, except when outdoor activities are scheduled. Rock Out with Summer Reading this year atRocky Top Public library! The theme this year is LIBRARIES ROCK! Summer reading is from June 1st through July 27th. Every Friday at 1:00 p.m. there will be guest, speakers, weekly prizes and more! Summer Reading is for children and adults, d!rop by the library and get registered July 6th - Let’s Play the Recorder July 13th - Sleepy-Eyed John’s Music & Clogging July 20th - Libraries Rock with Guitars July 27th - Libraries Rock with Prizes ROCKY TOP NEWS JULY 2018 PAGE 2 SEND US YOUR NEWS The Rocky Top News is published by volunteers who are not always able to gather all of the news happenings in Rocky Top. Therefore, we are asking for your help. If you are at an event, please take a picture and email Below are our currently scheduled 2018 Networking it to the Rocky Top News at [email protected] with the details ChamberCoffee’s. We will update this Networkinglist as more are scheduled. All of the event. Also, if you are involved in an organization or group that is planning an event in Rocky Top, please email or call the Rocky Top News coffee’s are from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. unless noted otherwise. with the details. There is no event too big or too small to let us know about. This is a great opportunity for Chamber members to network AREA EVENTS IN AND AROUND with other Chamber members. Everyone is welcome. If you are interested in joining the chamber, please feel free to attend any ROCKY TOP COMMUNITY these events. For more information about the Rocky Top July 4 Annual Norris Day July 4th Celebration July 4 Clinton Fireworks and 4th of July Event Chamber of Commerce, visit www.rockytoptnchamber.com July 4 Rocky Top July 4th Celebration and Car Show Thursday, July 19th - Powell-Clinch Utility District in Rocky Top July 4 Independence Day Concert & Firework Show in Oak Ridge (Joint Coffee with Anderson County Chamber & Campbell County Chamber) July 28 Christmas in July in Historic Dowtown Clinton August 17-18 Pro Rock Racing Race 2 Riches at Windrock Park August 29-September 3 Appalachian Toyota Roundup at Windrock Park Thursday, August 14th - City Hall in Rocky Top September 14-15 Days of the Pioneer Antique Show at the Museum of Appalachia September 25-29 WENTWindrock Event at Windrock Park Thursday, September 20th - Ray Varner Ford in Clinton September 29-30 Southeast Triple Crown Enduro and Windrock Bike Park October 5 Pickin In the Park at Norris Dam State Park (Joint Coffee with Anderson County Chamber) October 12-13 Clinch River Fall Antique Festival in Clinton WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Vacation Bible Schools 07/9-13 (6:30pm-9pm) Norris First Baptist Church Habitat for Humanity of 07/14 (11am-4pm) New Beginning Baptist Church in Rocky Top Anderson County 07/22-26 (Sun. 6pm-8pm, Mon.-Thurs. 7pm-9pm) Clinton Church of Christ 07/22-27 (6pm- 8:30pm) Rocky Top Church of God 07/23-27 (7pm-9pm) West Side Missionary Baptist Church in Rocky Top CITY OF ROCKY TOP 07/23-27 (6:30pm-8:30pm) Deep Springs Baptist Church in Heiskell MEETING SCHEDULE City Court 2nd Wednesday of the Month at 8:00 a.m. ELECTION DAY INFORMATION Downtown Growth Committee 2nd Thursday of the Month at 6:00 p.m. Planning Commission 3rd Tuesday of the Month at 5:30 p.m. First day of early voting is Friday, July 13th, the last day to request an Absentee Ballot is Thursday, July 26th and the last day of early City Council Meeting 3rd Thursday of the Month at 6:00 p.m. voting is Saturday, July 28th. Election Day is Thursday, August 2nd. Polling Hours: Federal, State, County and Municipal Elections – ROCKY TOP Polls are open from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Special Elections – Polls are open from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. TENNESSEE Rocky Top C Tennessee HA MB ER OF E COMMERC Gary Cooper Insurance 801 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd. Clinton, TN 37716 865-457-0637 www.garycooperinsurance.com ROCKY TOP NEWS JULY 2018 PAGE 3 1st Annual Everyone is Welcome at Anderson County XC Camp FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 210 Pearl Street Rocky Top 865-426-6103 Pastor Douglas Clem This camp provides runners with an opportunity to learn how to If God Seems far away, guess who moved. have fun while learning to identify themselves as "runners". The camp will be July 9-14th from 9am-11am at Songbird Trail. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. We will meet in the parking lot closest to the Dam. We will also have a 1-mile and 2-mile race Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 14th at 9am for the campers to participate in. The camp is for children entering grades 3rd-8th. Sunday Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. The camp is free of cost but we will be selling shirts for $10. Wednesday Evening Service 6:30 p.m. We will be taking up money for shirts on Monday and Tuesday & your child will be receiving their shirt on the last day of camp! Easy to find but Hard to Forget ROCKY TOP NEWS JULY 2018 PAGE 4 Family Drug Treatment Court State: Business Growth Opening in Anderson County Continues in Tennessee The number of new businesses grew more than 10 percent during ASAP of Anderson partners with Anderson County Juvenile the first quarter of 2018 compared to the same time last year, Court, School Systems, and multiple funders to open first Family Drug Treatment Court in the county according to a new report released by the Secretary of State’s Anderson County, TN, July 2018 – The effects of substance office. misuse are far reaching and cause stress on individuals, families and the entire community. This is especially true when There were 11,480 new entity filings in the first quarter of 2018, adolescents are involved. There has been a lack of treatment representing a 10.7 percent increase compared to the same time support for adolescents entering the judicial system with the year before.