Chattanooga Deanery calendar

Registration for a variety of summer camps being offered at Notre Dame High School is open. Brochures can be obtained at Chattanooga-area parishes or by downloading one online at www.myndhs.com. Programs are available for rising kindergarten through ninth-grade students. For details, contact the school at 423-624-4618 or e-mail summercamps@myndhs.com. Catholic …

Parish notes: Cumberland Mountain Deanery

Blessed Sacrament, Harriman The Knights of Columbus held a blanket drive to benefit patients at the Kingston Dialysis Clinic during May. St. Francis of Assisi, Fairfield Glade Anniversaries: Bob and Genie Gruber (61), Vern and Jean Bollish (61), Don and Bernie Gundy (60), Dan and Mina Napierala (58), Curtis and …

Cumberland Mountain Deanery calendar

Knights of Columbus Council 8152’s annual charity golf tournament will take place at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, at Bear Trace at Cumberland Mountain golf course. The format will be a four-person scramble. The entry donation of $75 includes green and cart fees, one mulligan, and entrance to the awards …

Parish notes: Five Rivers Deanery

Holy Trinity, Jefferson City The parish collected food for Kingswood School, a group home for displaced children between the ages of 5 and 18, during the weekend of May 4-5. The Life Outreach Center thanked Holy Trinity Parish for its donations of more than $41,000 to help fund efforts to …

Parish notes: Smoky Mountain Deanery

Blessed John XXIII, Knoxville Sixteen young people were confirmed at Blessed John XXIII Catholic Center on May 5. First communicants: Isabel Brown, Luke Cheadle, Olivia Enkema, John Mancini, Keanan Resendes, Kerry Willard Holy Ghost, Knoxville Diocesan seminarian Ray Powell, a Theology III student at Sacred Heart School of Theology in …

Smoky Mountain Deanery calendar

A Seekers of Silence Contemplative Saturday Morning will be held June 22 at Blessed John XXIII Catholic Center in Knoxville. This meeting will be a book-sharing session. Coffee and tea will be served at 8:30 a.m.; the workshop will run from 9 a.m. to noon. Bring a bag lunch. RSVP to …

Knoxville Catholic names new girls basketball coach

Knoxville Catholic High School has named Alex Bowers as head basketball coach for the Lady Irish. Coach Bowers joins KCHS from Maryville College, where he was an assistant coach for the men’s team. He was involved in many areas of coaching with Maryville, including strength and conditioning, recruiting, game preparation …

KCHS freshman posts perfect score on Latin Exam

Freshman James Maze recently became the first Knoxville Catholic High School student to score a perfect score on the 2013 National Latin Exam. Of the 140,000 students from all over the world who took the test, less than 1 percent scored a perfect score. James’s Latin teacher is Jenny Fields.

St. Mary students learn true meaning of beauty

When it comes to fashion for the girls at St. Mary School in Oak Ridge, the trend is “modest is hottest.” Challenge, a virtue and apostolate-based program for girls at St. Mary, met two times a month leading up to a fashion show held May 11 at Oak Ridge Country …

St. Jude celebrates Scout Sunday

St. Jude Parish in Chattanooga recently celebrated Scout Sunday. Eleven Scouts received either their Light of Christ or Parvuli Dei award. They were Joey Bertani, Spencer Bourn, Dreiten Dautrich III, Max Flasch, Jake Foster, Tyler Foster, Griffin Lee, Samson Lee, Zachary Varga, Pierre Westhoff, and Ryan Zeik. George LeCrone Sr., …

Parvuli Dei awards presented during cathedral celebration

Sacred Heart Cathedral recently held a Scout Sunday celebration in which five Parvuli Dei awards were presented. Cathedral rector Father David Boettner and George LeCrone Sr., chairman of the Diocesan Catholic Committee on Scouting, made the presentations to Alan Patrick Arvidson, D. Jon Montpelier, Matthew Sellers, Patrick Shaffer, and David …

Notre Dame basketball player Stedmon Ford commits to Lee University

Basketball player Stedmon Ford of Notre Dame High School has committed to Lee University. “Stedmon was a four-year varsity basketball player at Notre Dame High School,” said NDHS head coach J.P. Nerbun. “He was a human highlight reel, scoring over 1,500 points in his ND career and doing what many …