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• West Knox Senior Center, 239 Jamestowne Blvd., is gearing up for the holidays with its Angel Tree.
Offered by the Office on Aging, items collected go to seniors who are served through the Office on Aging, Senior Center coordinator Darrell Gooding said.
“We always have a drop-off box here at the Senior Center, and I’ve heard the Office on Aging say so many times that the people of this center go above and beyond what’s required,” he added. “We’ll have a list of items that we can make available to individuals, and they can go out and purchase items on that list, bring them in and drop them off.”
• Frank Galbraith, a highly respected former Knox County Schools teacher, returns with his “A Day of Infamy” presentation. His annual look at the national and international events leading up to, and including, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, happens this year beginning at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 4, in Farragut Community Center, 239 Jamestowne Blvd No. 201.
“I’ve been presenting this program every year for about 20 years,” Galbraith said. “It is a slide program that shows the history of our country from the end of WWI through all the developments of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.
“It shows how Hitler and the Nazis came into power, how the militant Japanese forces spread in the Far East and how Mussolini and his fascists took over Italy,” he added. “Then it shows just how the Japanese came to destroy the American naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and our reactions to this ambush attack.”
• Town of Farragut again is gearing up for its annual Celebrate the Season event, presented by its Arts and Beautification Committee. The free event will take place from 4:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 5, in Farragut Community Center, 239 Jamestowne Blvd., with the same favorite activities as last year.
Attendees can park at the Community Center, the Senior Center or in Faith Lutheran Church’s parking lot next door if there is overflow parking.
• A Farragut Christmas light music show, choreographed to music, will run from 6 to 11 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, and from 6 to 10 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, now through Tuesday, Dec. 31, at Farragut Golf and Games, 164 West End Ave.