Covenant Health offers holiday safety tips, plus advice on preventing weight gain and coping with depression. Read more at Covenant Health Insert FSR Holiday Survival Guide Dec 18
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Holiday survival tips
Remembering the Fountain City Fire Department: 1941-63
“A privately operated fire department is to begin serving residents of Fountain City, Smithwood, Inskip and Halls Cross Roads May 15.” (Knoxville News Sentinel, April 13, 1941)
Interest in a Fountain …
HABIT vols bring good cheer
Learn about opportunities to volunteer at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, and meet some of the special pets and people who volunteer through HABIT. Covenant Health 0094-1059 HABIT Vols Dec …
Memories of Cas Walker fill hair salon
Bennie Wallen Jean may be the only woman in town who gets her hair done in the former office where she used to work. She’s certainly the only woman who …
Parkwest completes Dogwood Tower
Parkwest Medical Center has introduced its new Dogwood Tower which will officially open in December. The $100 million expansion and renovation project includes a new patient care tower, additional operating …
Health Department survey reveals stresses of adolescents
The Knox County Health Department has released the latest Knox County Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which is designed to track behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of …
Spreading Christmas greetings in simpler times ~ Concord 1950
It is early 1950s and the reliable Southern locomotive rolls past houses, farms and fields on its steel path toward Concord, Tennessee. As the mighty engine reaches the depot, it …
Adventures growing up in Fountain City, mostly true
Like Popeye, I was born as a very young child. My earliest years were spent in the hinterland of Knox County, a brisk 10-minute walk from the Union County line. …