Community Festival Day Set For Sept. 27

  • Wednesday, September 17, 2014

East Chattanooga Improvement Inc. and the city of Chattanooga Department of Youth and Family Development invite all residents in the East Chattanooga and surrounding neighborhoods, such as Avondale, Bushtown, Churchville, East Chattanooga, Glenwood, Lincoln Park, Riverside Drive, and Battery Heights to the Community Festival Day.

The event will be held on Saturday, Sept. 27, at Carver Youth and Development Center, 600 N Orchard Knob Ave.  The festival will start at noon. and wrap-up at 7 p.m. 

The Community Festival Day is collaboration among the neighborhood, associations, and the City of Chattanooga Department of Youth and Family Development.  This will be an opportunity for all residents and their families to meet, fellowship, have fun, and make new friends.  The Community Festival will have vendors that can take blood pressure, and provide other medical screenings.  Informational and educational vendors will be onsite. Vendors will also be onsite for food, drinks, popcorn, etc.  There will also be family games, inflatable, board games, and Power 94 WJTT’s Nori Nori as MC.  Some of the performers are Eastgate’s Senior Steppers, Echoes of Heaven, Brainerd High’s Voices of Fire, Howard’s Show Choir, Catherine Boaz, G3, and Brother Charles McGraw, among others.   

If you would like to be a vendor for profit, the booth price is $25.  There is no cost to attend the Community Festival.  For more information, call James Moreland at 364-1697 or Dana Kinamore at 693-1135.

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