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Passenger boardings at the Chattanooga Airport rose nearly 15 percent last year over 2021. The boardings by 432,312 passengers last year are 21.9 percent below the all-time annual mark before the pandemic - more than half a million boardings in 2019 - but the trajectory for air traffic to return to that level is sharp and clear.

Building back air traffic to pre-pandemic at Chattanooga Airport. TEDxChattanooga: Pete Thornton on “Building A Dream Machine.” These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

And now, another voice from the recent TEDxChattanooga. The latest series of talks by community speakers - independently organized under the TED program’s global initiative of “ideas worth spreading” - took place in November at Common House in downtown Chattanooga. Here’s Pete Thornton on “Building a Dream Machine.”

“Rising Rock” is a class for storytellers here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Billy Weeks is the professor of the class in UTC’s Department of Communication. For this semester, Madison Van Horn is Rising Rock’s editor. Seth Carpenter and Haley Bayer are assistant editors.

In the business of logistics, a freight broker is the communications link who ensures freight moves smoothly between carriers and shippers, arriving safely - and on time. Starting in January, UTC’s Center for Professional Education will partner with logistics firms to offer a Freight Broker Professional Program.

For Main Street and Southside Chattanooga, the first Saturday in December spells MainX24. This year’s 24-hour festival of community events begins this Saturday at 7 AM. Monica Kinsey is coordinator of MainX24.

Rosario Moore is from Mexico - and just a few years ago, she made her home here in Chattanooga. Now a teacher at St. Peter’s Episcopal School, Rosario is the author and illustrator of “The Wholks” - a series of bilingual books, in English and Spanish, for children.

Here in Chattanooga, how the Hunter Museum of American Art connects the arts and health for the community benefits people from all walks of life - including artists and health care professionals. Our guests: Dr. Mukta Panda, Adera Causey and Chyela Rowe.

The week after Thanksgiving, Mark Making presents “Unmasking: Now We Speak” in downtown Chattanooga. The art exhibit with performances of poetic monologues takes place at ArtsBuild on Thursday, December 1st starting at 5 PM.

Creative Exchange is a new outlet for artists and creatives here in Chattanooga. Its first event is Sunday at PanCake Bakery on 801 Dodds Avenue, from 7 PM to 9 PM. Karla Felicia Scaife is with Creative Exchange.