South Knoxville Alliance

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• UT Dept of Audiology & Speech Pathology: Child Hearing Services Holiday Event
  Velvet Buehler
  This is an annual Holiday Event for children who are deaf or hard of hearing to "play" and "perform" and to "hang-out" with friends who have the same diagnosis. The event includes dinner, performances by the children, singing, and the children each visit Santa and receive a present. The parents talk to one another and the children play.
• Soul. Full Nutritional Reads.org 1st cookbook
  Willa Essie
  As a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit, our mission statement is to create, publish and distribute cookbooks, pamphlets, brochures & other educationally nutritional resources (free of charge), to those that frequent food pantries. Our purpose is to place special importance on nutritional literacy concerning the necessity to lower an individual's everyday intake of both sugar and sodium, the inherent substances attributed to diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. SFS Nutritional Reads.org advocates for the need for nutritional literacy for those most at risk & that includes those who struggle with of food insecurity.
• Vestal Community Organization: Vestal Gateway Park
  Eric Johnson
  This project is an extension of the continuing efforts off the Vestal Community Organization to improve the park facilities in Vestal. The Vestal Gateway Park was conceived and has been developed with a gateway for the Vestal Greenway, a pavilion to accommodate and encourage community activities, and a wildflower meadow to encourage investment in Downtown Vestal.
• South Knoxville Elementary: SKE Scientists on the Playground
  Dr. Tanna Nicely
  SKE Scientists on the Playground brings science to the outdoors. The project will repurpose an existing covering to provide storage for science materials, a presentation table, and creative seating for students to engage in three dimensional scientific phenomena.