Nooga Night Rotary Club

08/21/2026

The Nooga Night Rotary Club is entering its third season of planting trees in Chattanooga! To date we've planted over 170 trees in the city.

We provide and plant up to two trees per address for adopters who agree to care for the trees by watering, mulching, and weeding them. We will provide adopters with instructions and knowledge on how to do all of that to ensure each tree thrives!

If you are interested in becoming a tree adopter please feel free to reach out here, attend one of our meetings, or copy/paste the link below!

Questionnaire Link: bit.ly/42fVti0

08/20/2026

Join us for our next meeting! We will take this time to network, discuss the Rotary Tree Towns Project, and explore other service opportunities.

📅August 25th
🕑6:00PM
📍White Duck Taco

We'd love to hear your ideas! 🌳

08/10/2026

Join us tomorrow at White Duck Taco in welcoming our speaker, Emily Holden, with Voices for a Safer Tennessee. Emily brings perspective combining public-health expertise with compassion and lived experience to champion meaningful, lasting change that helps ensure safer communities for all.

Voices for a Safer Tennessee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition of 30,000+ Tennesseans from all 95 counties. We are dedicated to advancing responsible, data-driven firearm safety policies and programs that strengthen public safety while upholding and respecting our Second Amendment rights. We engage in thoughtful, fact-based conversations focused on what works for Tennessee — by Tennesseans, for Tennesseans.

08/05/2026

We're so grateful for our member and leader of Rotary Tree Towns, Kurt Martig, and the passion he brings to growing Chattanooga's urban tree canopy!

Last Thursday, Kurt gave a wonder presentation at the Canopy Connections event, alongside speakers from the , , Tennessee Bureau of Conservation, and the City of Chattanooga's City Forester. He shared the story of how our club's first Rotary tree planting began with just 12 trees, limited by how many Kurt could fit in his pickup truck! 🌳

Since then, the project has grown tremendously through generous grants and community partnerships 😄 In no short part to Kurt's leadership, vision, and commitment to making a lasting difference...one tree at a time!

We are now looking for tree adopters for the 2026-2027 planting season. If you or someone you know is interested in receiving a tree (and a team of enthusiastic Rotarians to help you plant it), please have them reach out to us at [email protected]

07/31/2026

We were so happy to be a part of the CNE backpack drive! 5 Rotary clubs collaborated to provide 145 backpacks with school supplies to Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise Oak Grove Backpack Bash at Eastside Elementary School.

Community give-backs like these are why our members continue to show up and are proud to be Rotarians 💙

A spirit of collaboration and community service was on full display on Saturday, as five Chattanooga-area Rotary clubs joined together for the first time to...

07/13/2026

Join us tomorrow in welcoming our speaker Megan Ledbetter with ! We will be meeting 30 minutes early at 5:30pm to assemble back-to-school backpacks and supplies for East Side Elementary School.

Speaker Bio:

Megan Ledbetter is an artist and educator based in Red Bank, Tennessee, whose lens-based work explores community and belonging through visual storytelling.

Her current photographic project, The Field, is part of a larger collaborative initiative to recognize a derelict municipal cemetery for the poor and dispossessed in operation from 1890-1912. Through generous support from the Current Art Fund (2023-2024), Tennessee Arts Commission (2025-2026), High Work (2026) and South Arts (2026) her work combines visual imagery, historical research, and community engagement to shine a light on the complex overlapping histories at this abandoned burial ground.

She earned her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2011), a BFA from East Tennessee State University (2008), and a BA from Auburn University (2002). She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2013), was awarded a Resident Artist Fellowship from Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2014), attended Stove Works Artist Residency (2025) and Light Work Artist Residency (2026).

06/23/2026

Hi friends 👋 We have some calendar updates to share!

Today (June 23rd) we will NOT be meeting at White Duck Taco. Instead, we will meet at Ronald McDonald House at 6pm to tour their facility and explore how we can contribute to their cause in the future. Please text AnnE Rosenberry @ (423) 430-7683 if you have any questions or are running late.

Our meeting on July 28th at White Duck Taco has been cancelled. We will instead meet July 25 for our backpack presentation with CNE- (new location is 1603 S Lyerly St at the playground at Eastside Elementary under the new pavilion- set up begins at 9:15 am and the event runs from 10am to 1pm)

Looking forward to seeing you all at our fun summer events!

06/01/2026

We have some great speakers, visitors, and tours to look forward to this summer ☀️Make sure to add these to your calendar! 📆

05/26/2026

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend! We will be having our regular scheduled meeting today at White Duck Taco and are excited to welcome our guest speaker, Laura Marsh!!

Laura Marsh has spent over 15 years immersed in birds and conservation. Her journey has taken her from tropical field research, to founding an ethical ecotourism company, and even giving a TEDx talk. She is now the Director of Development with the Chattanooga Audubon Society, and has the privilege of protecting over 500+ acres in Hamilton County, including Maclellan Island downtown.

05/19/2026

Thank you so much for showing up for our toys & tacos drive!! Thanks to you, Children’s Advocacy Center received a boatload of stuffed animals and snacks for the kids they serve 💙

We loved spending the evening with old and new friends. We hope to see you next week at our regular scheduled meeting!