Community Calendar

Do you need help with your Thanksgiving meal this year?
We want to bless our community! 🧡
On Saturday, November 22, we’ll be giving away bags of food to the first 1,000 families. Each bag has everything you need for a full Thanksgiving meal that feeds five or more people.
No registration is needed — this event is completely FREE!
NEW THIS YEAR: Each bag includes a $15 Food City meat voucher so you can choose the meat that best fits your meal!
Plus, we’ll be giving away twenty $500 Food City Food & Fuel Vouchers!
(Must be present and stay for the entire service to be eligible.)
📍 Location: Boys & Girls Club – 967 Irwin Street, Knoxville
Doors open: 9:00 AM
Service: 10:00–10:30 AM
Food and vouchers will be distributed after the service
Each bag contains:
-15.00 Food City meat voucher
-Stuffing
-Corn
-Mashed Potatoes
-Green Beans
-Corn Muffin Mix
-Cranberry Sauce
-Yellow Cake Mix
-Chocolate Frosting
For more information, visit gracebc.org/feedingthe5000, email outreach@gracebc.org or contact 865-691-8886

Consistently rated the best local scavenger hunt since 2016!

Puzzling Adventures are a cross between a scavenger hunt, an adventure race, and an informative self-guided walking tour. Each adventure consists of a series of locations that you are guided to where you are required to answer a question or solve a puzzle to receive your next instruction. Compete as a group, individually or create multiple teams and race each other. Almost all of our adventures are designed to be wheelchair and stroller friendly and all are carefully crafted to be entertaining and informative with something to appeal to all ages. Complete the adventure as quickly as possible to win first place or take your time and enjoy the journey. Price is per team, not per person. Groups can be any size, but small groups are recommended for the best experience.

Enter the code EVENTPASS on the payment page for a $10 discount!

Most locations are available daylight hours every day.

Learn all about how this Smoky Mountain staple was grown, harvested, and preserved with these live demonstrations. Great Smoky Mountains National Park ranger-led program. Cable Mill Historic Area at Cades Cove, Tenn. Free. Info: nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/calendar.htm or 865-436-1200.

Consistently rated the best local scavenger hunt since 2016!

Puzzling Adventures are a cross between a scavenger hunt, an adventure race, and an informative self-guided walking tour. Each adventure consists of a series of locations that you are guided to where you are required to answer a question or solve a puzzle to receive your next instruction. Compete as a group, individually or create multiple teams and race each other. Almost all of our adventures are designed to be wheelchair and stroller friendly and all are carefully crafted to be entertaining and informative with something to appeal to all ages. Complete the adventure as quickly as possible to win first place or take your time and enjoy the journey. Price is per team, not per person. Groups can be any size, but small groups are recommended for the best experience.

Enter the code EVENTPASS on the payment page for a $10 discount!

Most locations are available daylight hours every day.

Learn all about how this Smoky Mountain staple was grown, harvested, and preserved with these live demonstrations. Great Smoky Mountains National Park ranger-led program. Cable Mill Historic Area at Cades Cove, Tenn. Free. Info: nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/calendar.htm or 865-436-1200.

Enjoy a delicious, free Thanksgiving meal! Drive-thru between 4:00 and 6:00 pm, while supplies last, at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, South at 2500 Maryville Pike.

New Food Pantry now available to neighborhood and surrounding areas twice a month. Every 2nd Thursday of each month we will be giving away non-perishable goods and personal care items. On the 4th Thursday of each month we will be serving a hot meal.

Learn to spot and identify raptors and participate in some evening "owl-ology" in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Smokies Life Branch Out event. Cades Cove Orientation Shelter, Townsend, Tenn. Cost: For Park Keepers, $45; To join and attend, $85 (Park Keeper basic membership $40 + event registration $45). Info – SmokiesLife.org/branch-out-events/ or email: membership@smokieslife.org.

Discover plant life, wildlife and tracks on a guided, 7.1-mile, medium-impact hike along the Finley Cane, Bote Mountain, and Lead Cove trails. Smokies Life Branch Out event. Townsend Wye, Middle Prong Little River Parking A, Townsend, Tenn. Cost: For Park Keepers, $45; To join and attend, $85 (Park Keeper basic membership $40 + event registration $45). Info – SmokiesLife.org/branch-out-events/ or email: membership@smokieslife.org.

A multi-passionate creative and savvy business owner, Chris will share his remarkable story, from building a painting career to founding and successfully exiting a brand agency.

But this is far from the typical highlight reel that glosses over the stress, strain, struggles, and painful parts, making success seem all but inevitable.

Chris will share the real story behind those adventures: the big wins, the bigger mistakes, the gut punches, and why “making it” is a moving target (at best).