Community Briefs

Friday, January 1, 1904

TODAY

* Virginia College Open House: Virginia College School of Business and Health, 721 Eastgate Loop Road, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free event for current and prospective students and their families. Visitors are encouraged to bring a new, unwrapped toy for donation to Toys for Tots or nonperishable foods for donation to local food banks.

SUNDAY

* Concert: Oxford Graduate School, corner of Dayco Drive and Old Graysville Road, Dayton, Tenn., 3 p.m., free. Inaugural concert by Dr. William R. Boyd Sr. 423-775-6596.

MONDAY

* Catoosa County Historical Society: Old Stone Church, Highway 41, Ringgold, Ga., 7 p.m., visitors welcome. The Rev. Aaron Jones will give a "chalk talk," spoken message illustrated by colored chalk picture, accompanied by appropriate background music.

* Civil War Lecture: Chattanooga Public Library, 1001 Broad St., 2 p.m., free. Local anthropologist and author Raymond Evans speaks "The Battle of Orchard Knob" and "Gen. John T. Wilder and Modern Chattanooga." 757-5314.