OAK RIDGE town council Aug. 3 / MEETING HIGHLIGHTS

as reported by CHRIS

BURRITT

OAK RIDGE – Mayor Ann Schneider called the monthly meeting to order, with Mayor Pro Tem Jim Kinneman and council members George McClellan, Martha Pittman and Spencer Sullivan present.

Longtime Oak Ridge resident and volunteer Claudia Whitaker offered the invocation, which was followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

Agenda

 5  0 to approve the meeting agenda, as well as minutes of a June 21 special called meeting and the June 29 open and closed session meeting minutes.

Announcement

Town Hall art. Schneider thanked Oak Ridge painter Roy Nydorf for loaning the town “Topping Tobacco,” his 1987 oil-on-canvas painting of two farmers, one being Oak Ridge’s Jack Blaylock, working in Blaylock’s tobacco field on N.C. 150.

The picture hangs behind the desk in the Town Hall’s front entrance. Also, framed photographs of Oak Ridge’s “Treasure Trees” taken by Erin Kye are displayed in the nearby conference room.

Public Safety

Oak Ridge Fire Department. Chief