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CHAMBER WELCOME
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We hope you enjoy learning more about our wonderful
and unique community in this edition of Ridges.
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CHAMBER WELCOME Welcome to Life in Oak Ridge, Tennessee We hope you enjoy learning more about our wonderful and unique community in this edition of Ridges. This letter from Mark Harvey, an
HERE AND NOW Calendar of Events October 2–5 Secret City Film Festival www.secretcityfilmfestival.com October 4 Secret City Head Race Hosted
HERE AND NOW Coloring the College: Annual Street Painting Festival By Rebecca D. Williams W hether it's abstract art, fan
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AROUND TOWN The Green Miles: Hike ’Em All and Win a Prize By Laura Wilcoxen Completion of the Secret City Trekker program is an ideal fitness goal, reg
Terry Mullins and Oak Ridge Tool-Engineering: A Family Affair By Katherine Fortune “Oak Ridge provides a highly educated and technical base of personnel to select a solid workfo
NATIONAL SECURITY A Sacred Trust Oak Ridge’s leading role in national security is evolving to meet 21st-century challenges. O ak R
DOE in Oak Ridge Most of Oak Ridge's national and homeland security efforts fall under the large umbrella of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which owns more than half the land in Oak Ridg
NATIONAL SECURITY Programs at Y-12 include manufacturing and reworking nuclear weapon components; dismantling nuclear weapon components returned from the national arsenal; serving as the na
ay o d G h w n o h h n w 300 a y Mo aw n o f stic ct rs t
HEALTH NOTES MMC Welcomes New Cardiologist By Staff Writer M ilan Sheth, D.O., an interventional cardiologist,
Oak Ridge GASTROENTEROLOGY ASSOCIATES PHYSICIANS PLAZA 988 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Ste. 200 Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Office Hours: Monday-Friday: 8 a.m. to 5
INNOVATION Conscience Oak Ridge leads the way in technology and practices friendly to people and the environment. By Mary McGlasson & Laura Wilcoxen I n the ever-expanding “green” sector of
Aldis W ith its newest innovation, GridSmart, Aldis Inc. is developing a “smart” traffic signal technology geared
INNOVATION It’s a Wi-Fi World E mbracing the needs of 21st-century business people and tourists, Oak Ridge is engaging in a cityw
OAK RIDGE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF OAK RIDGE STAFF City Manager: Jim O’Connor Deputy City Manager: Steve Jenkins City Attorney: Ken Krushenski City Clerk: Jackie Bernard
THOM MASON Mason saw this as the kind of opportunity that comes along only once. It was impossible for him to turn it down. 22 RIDGES | Fall '08
THOM MASON An Oak Ridge Convert Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Thom Mason, has found the perfect place for career and family. By Margaret Pennycook T hom Mason first
THOM MASON Neutron Source in 2001. In October 2006, following the com
small-town life near Halifax, where she had spent time growing up. She realized she wanted her children to have the same opportunities. “It was time to get out of the city,” she says simply.
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WE THE PEOPLE Get to» Know Officer Shannah Newman By Wanda Ensor Grooms S hannah Newman joined ORPD in 1997 as a patrol officer and became the city's first crime preventi
A Real Mover and Shaker By Judy L. DiGregorio a goal of a lifetime of physical activity and good health S hirley Holt-Hale is a physical education teacher at Linden
COMMON / UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE Provided by Kris Light Provided by Kris Light Ringing in Hope and Peace Judy L. DiGregorio T hanks to a suggestion from Oak Ridgers Shigeko Uppuluri
COMMON / UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE Saving a Great Story By Margaret Pennycook B ill Wilcox arrived in Oak Ridge in October 1943, 20 years old and fresh out of Washingt
COMMON / UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE 25,000 construction workers buil biggest single-purpose building in the world. t K-25, at the time the William J. Wilco
SMALL TALK International Neighbors Oak Ridge Students Visit Japan By Rebecca Williams O n July 2008, the halls of Knoxville's McGhee Tyson
Peyton Palmer: “I woke up knowing I had to go to school. I wasn't very excited. But when I got there, it was so cool. I went to [host student] Kotomi's classroom — everybody stared at me. I m
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