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As Memorial Day approaches, families are getting ready for the season’s first splash in the pool or day at the lake. Without supervision, however, swimming can be a dangerous activity for children. Priority Ambulance urges families to recognize the signs of drowning and always watch children during water activities and sports.

Young-Williams Animal Center is celebrating Memorial Day and the start of the summer vacation season with an adoption special.

The City of Loudon is proud to announce Priority Ambulance as the city’s exclusive emergency and nonemergency ambulance service provider. The one-year agreement empowers Priority Ambulance to respond to emergency 9-1-1 calls and to provide nonemergency medical transportation to and from all residences, assisted living facilities, nursing homes and medical facilities within the city limits.

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will perform a FREE, family-friendly concert at the Theatre in the Park in Marvyille, Tenn. this Thursday, May 22 at 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by Clayton Homes and Aubrey’s Restaurants, this concert is free and open to the public; no tickets are required.

Today, Stroupe led a group of Webb School student tutors to the Caswell Avenue club for the annual year-end party with Boys & Girls Club kids in the gym at the old facility. In that gym where Stroupe learned many life lessons, Merrill Lynch’s Dugan McLaughlin, co-chair of the “Our Kids, Our Future” campaign told the young people that when the gym is rebuilt as part of a new building, the floor will be named for Stroupe.

An estimated 16,000 people are expected to attend the 2014 Destination Imagination Global Finals competition to be held at the University of Tennessee and the Knoxville Convention Center May 21-24.

This weekend, Pilot Flying J is sponsoring the Revolution3 Triathlons in Knoxville. The festivities start Friday, May 16, with a one-mile Glow Run and continue with family adventure and kids’ triathlon races Saturday, May 17. On Sunday, the weekend will culminate with the 32- and 70.3-mile triathlons.

Home Federal Bank named Robert Ellis a 2014 Hometown Hero and presented a check for $2,500 in his name to Light Mission Pentecostal Church at a ceremony at the Home Federal Bank downtown Knoxville headquarters on Friday, May 16.

The physicians at Gastrointestinal Associates are marking Celiac Awareness Month by taking the opportunity to remind patients that self-diagnosis of celiac disease, an autoimmune digestive disease, is not only ill-advised but can also be dangerous.

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concludes its Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Series and the final performance of the 78th Season with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 this Thursday & Friday. Maestro Lucas Richman conducts the Orchestra, joined by guest pianist Spencer Myer. The concert will take place on Thursday, May 15 and Friday, May 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Tennessee Theatre.