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HubFest VII in Heritage Park Spring is finally arriving, and with it the classic American outdoor festival. HubFest delivers on all fronts with a flag ceremony, pony rides, and an apple pie contest, just to name a few. Heritage Park in East Brainerd is expecting up to 4,000 people this year, and for good reason. Kids and families can pay a visit to the petting zoo and or take in the retro fashion show by Collective Clothing. And there’s a Mother’s Day marketplace for any forgetful folks out there to find something perfect (if lastminute) for Mom. Boy Scout Troop 69 will be serving hamburgers, hotdogs, and all the fixins throughout the festival. The Dismembered Tennesseeans will be headlining the shindig, with the River City Red Hots Brass Band and the Scenic City Dance Studio, in addition to several other local acts. Elevenyear-old Nicholas Hickman will be dazzling the crowd with his rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner.” While you’re listening, you can head to any of the several ac-
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tivities, including a mobile gaming van, bocce ball lessons, face painting, arts and crafts, and jewelry making. HubFest will be held at Heritage Park, 1428 Jenkins Road, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, 2013. Admission is free. For more information, visit the Facebook page at facebook.com/ ChattanoogaEAC or facebook. com/pages/Hubfest-at-HeritagePark. —Katey Alegre
CSA in the usa
Sign up now for fresh veg all summer In case you didn’t know, “CSA” stands for “Community Supported Agriculture,” and now is the time for all good local foodniks to come to the aid of their local farms by subscribing to a CSA from your favorite farmer. Each week, you’ll get a box of fruits and vegetables fresh off the land— you’ll have no problem getting your “Five A Day” with a CSA. The easiest way to pick the farm you’d like to support is to visit Gaining Ground’s website at growchattanooga.org and check out their CSA sign-up page. Thirty area farms are listed,
along with a description of produce items raised and farming methods used on each, plus a little inside information. Other groovy local food events are also listed by Gaining Ground and it’s our guess they’ll be announcing another free localfoods cookbook for the summer, so stay hungry, my friends. —Janis Hashe
recycle your phone
Phone In Health Help for Others Take a look in your junk drawer. A few old cell phones hanging out in there? Practice spring cleaning and random acts of kindness by donating them (with free shipping) to Medic Mobile. A recent post from The Daily Good profiled Medic Mobile, a nonprofit organization “seeking to advance rural healthcare networks in the developing world by implementing sustainable, appropriate technologies with mobile phones.” The donated phones help patients and community health workers connect to clinics for emergency care, medicine, maternal care, and infectious disease support. The project is called “Hope Phones.” According to Mobile Medic
themselves, they will take any phone, working or not, and they don’t need chargers or accessories. “Our recycling partner erases all data through a certified and secure process,” their site states. Your phones will not be sent directly to people in the field. Instead, the phones are refurbished for sale or recycled safely. Hope Phones receives the value of each recycled phone to purchase new mobile technology for the field. A tax deduction is available for larger donations, so if your company is cleaning mobile house, let them know about this project. Says the site: “If Hope Phones can recycle just 1 percent of disposed phones each year, we can outfit 1 million health workers, improving the lives of 50 million people.” Not bad for spring clean-
ing—and lasts longer. Print a free shipping label at hopephones.org/donate —J. H.
gigtank
Gimme the GIG Beginning May 13, GIGTANK will again give entrepreneurs and specialists a chance to reinvent the future, from gaming systems to mobile security. GIGTANK 2013 is made up of eight teams and 15 specialists operating on the Smart Grid. Watch the Co-Lab blog, Facebook page and Twitter for events open to entrepreneurs and the public this summer. —K.A.
Chattanooga’s Best
Mother’s Day Brunch
Porter’s Steakhouse Sunday, May 12, 11am - 2pm Live Entertainment
Free Valet Parking
Have your server validate your parking receipt before you leave
Make reservations now! Call 423.643.1240 or online at porterssteakhouse.com
PORTER’S STEAKHOUSE
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At the corner of MLK & Broad Street Downtown
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