City-Sponsored Volleyball Clinics Begin August 6

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (August 1, 2019) – The City of Oak Ridge Recreation and Parks Department is partnering with certified instructor David Bowman to provide volleyball clinics for local students. The program begins Tuesday, August 6, but students may join at any time.
The volleyball clinics will be held in the Oak Ridge Civic Center’s Shep Lauter Gymnasium on Tuesdays from 4 p.m. until 5 p.m.
Participants must be Oak Ridge residents who are 10-17 years old. The clinic will focus on fundamental skills ahead of the City’s winter league or next year’s middle school try-outs.

Two 8-week sessions are available, the first running from August to September and the other scheduled October through December. A 16-week session (August-December) is also available.

Registration can be completed at the Civic Center front desk or online at http://bit.ly/OR-Class-Registration. The cost for eight weeks of instruction is $80. Participants may also sign up for the 16-week session (both 8-week sessions) for a discounted cost of $120.

Questions about the program can be directed to the Recreation and Parks Department by calling (865) 425-3450.

An exciting art collection is on display for the remainder of the month of August at the Oak Ridge Public Library, featuring black and white drawings and color paintings by artist Sharon McFadden.

Originally from Middle Tennessee, McFadden has lived in eight different states and over 25 cities, but the Oak Ridge area is now her home.

In 2007, Ms. McFadden began to create drawings using black ink on white paper, which she named ALABIS Art, an acronym for “A Little Abstract Black Ink Silhouettes.” She began pencil sketching for several months and then decided to teach herself to draw black and white silhouettes.

Ms. McFadden explains that she enjoys the challenge of portraying beauty, fragility and strength with the crisp contrast between black and white. Whether observing or envisioning everyday objects as silhouettes or basic black and white renderings, the process has helped her gain a new perspective on life and its pure simplicity.

A few years ago, she decided to experiment with painting color images and now often adds gold, silver or red ink to her drawings.

Ms. McFadden displays and sells her art at local craft festivals and the Oak Ridge Winter Farmer’s Market. Her current adventure is creating black and white note cards.

Everyone is invited to the Oak Ridge Public Library this month to view the wonderful black and white drawings on display.