Give A Kid A Chance
2025 Event will be held at the Rhea County Fair Grounds, 334 Eagle Lane, Evensville, TN 37332.
This is a "drive thru" event.
If you would like to serve on this committee contact us at rheauwoffice@gmail.com
Here's What You Need To Do for Free School Supplies
- Attend school in Rhea County.
- Sign-up by July 14 at any locations listed as a registration site OR print and drop off your registration form to any locations listed.
- Provide Doctor's Proof of your up-to-date EPSDT (well-child exam). Exam must have been within the past 12 months.
Registration Drop-Off Locations
Attention Parents!
For your child to be eligible for free school supplies, you must pre-register your child and provide documentation from the doctor or health dept. that your child has had an up-to-date EPSDT (Well Child Exam). Then come to the Annual Give-A-Kid-A-Chance Day July 24, 2025.
When: Thursday, July 24th, 9am - 11am
Where: Rhea County Fair Grounds, 334 Eagle Lane, Evensville, TN 37332.
This is a drive thru event.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: July 13 for GAKAC KIT.
For questions please call the Untied Way office.
423-775-5633
Fish The Chick
Check back next year for our 15th Annual Fish the Chick tournament!
If you are interested in becoming a Fish the Chick sponsor, please contact our office at 423-775-5633. See our previous event sponsors listed below.
To date, this program has benefited single women and mothers with needs not addressed by other local agencies, allowing them to reach stability in their own lives and their children's. We have provided over $80,000 in support to date.
Along with the non-profit community, County and City Government, Chamber of Commerce, and local businesses have played a significant role in making Dayton "The New Bass Fishing Capitol in the South!"
History
Through the 2012 County Assessment members of the Rhea community expressed a need for additional programs that were designed to assist women and mothers with children. The United Way Board of Directors created a special GRANT designated to meet those needs.
Concurrently, a handful of women leaders came up with the idea to host a bass tournament calling it Fish the Chick and needed a partner to help get it off the ground. Jenny Nevans, a BASS sponsored lady bass angler and Christine Ralph Executive Director of UW talked, and a partnership was formed with proceeds going to support the GRANT with additional funds. The first committee included Jenny Brooks Nevans, Dr. Lori Reid, Stacey Swafford, Stacey Gates, Kathy Griffin, Sarah Jane Locke and Kim Cranfield.
For consecutive years since its inception the event has grown each year. In 2020, we added an online auction to raise additional funds for this important need. The bottom line, more women and especially our children have received services that better their everyday life. All money stays in our community doing the work its citizens said we needed.
Lake Chickamauga
Lake Chickamauga is a man-made reservoir on the Tennessee River, created by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). It was formed when the Chickamauga Dam was built, with construction beginning in 1936 and the project completed in 1940.
The lake is named after the Chickamauga Cherokee, a group that split from the main Cherokee Nation in the 1700s and lived near North Chickamauga Creek, which flows into the Tennessee River near the dam site.
Chickamauga Lake stretches about 59 miles from Chickamauga Dam upriver to Watts Bar Dam and covers roughly 36,200 acres with around 780-810 miles of shoreline.
2025 SPONSORS
Contact us at 423-775-5633 to join these wonderful local businesses in supporting a very important cause!
PLATINUM CORPORATE SPONSOR
La-Z-Boy
CORPORATE SPONSORS
- Jenny Nevans, BWS Properties
- Howard Brooks
FTC EVENT SPONSORS
- Real Deal Tackle
- Platinum Salon - Stephanie Snyder
BUSINESS SPONSORS
- Troutman Property Solutions
- Edward Jones/Karen Boyd
- Southeast Bank
- Nokian Tyres
- Suburban
- Rip-Rap Fishing
- Bass Quest Fishing
- Monkey Town Brewery
- Eagle Exxon
- First Avenue Pizza
- The Corner Spot
- Dayton Storage
- Lorenzen Farms
- Noah Build DeArk
- Harbor Freight
- Regions Bank
- We Care
- Dayton Drug and Wellness
- 101.1 The Eagle, John Rodriguez
- Robinson Manufacturing
- First Bank
- Fish Dayton
- RC3
- Keener Marketing
- Zombie Ice Cream
- Bryan College Fishing
- Jenny Troutman, Realtor
- Nick's Lakeside Grill
- Liquor Warehouse
Friends of United Way
- Ron Hirt
- Lucy Crider
- Suzanne Huffman
- Kay Wilkey
- Kathy Anderson
- Adam McRorie
- Renee Milner
- Karmelle McClellan
- Bruce Spradling
- Darlene Beilfuss
- Ted & Ashley Engel
Community Thanksgiving
Join us this Thanksgiving as our community comes together to share warmth, kindness, and a hearty meal with neighbors in need. This Thanksgiving meal is open to individuals and families who could use a helping hand during the holiday season. Come enjoy good food, friendly faces, and the spirit of togetherness as we give thanks by giving back. Everyone is welcome.
