Morning Round-up: Chamber “Reality Check” and Heart Walk Campaign

Today, the Chattanooga Area Chamber will host a “Reality Check” program with 9th grade students at CSAS.
The “Reality Check” teaches students about budgeting. It emphasizes the connection between education and income as students consider how to allocate a set budget to provide for their hypothetical families.
Reality Check is one of the Chamber’s six School to Work programs.
That’s happening today from 9-11:30AM.
Today, Mayors Andy Berke and Jim Coppinger will join 2016 Heart Walk Chairman Terry Hart, and others for the National Walking Day Mayoral Proclamation Ceremony.
The event will kick-off the 2016 Heart Walk Campaign.
It will be CHI Memorial Glenwood at 3:15PM.
National Walking Day is part of the American Heart Association’s My Heart My Life initiative.

In Tennessee, those opposed to a bill that would allow counselors to refuse to treat patients on the basis of “sincerely held religious beliefs” say the measure casts such a wide net that therapists could virtually turn anyone away.
Counselors said on Tuesday the bill would allow therapists to turn away all manner of vulnerable people who need help. They also said the bill was discriminatory.
The American Counseling Association has called the bill an unprecedented attack on its profession.
The Senate has already passed the bill. The House is scheduled to take up the measure today.