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ELIZABETHTON â Volunteers from two East Tennessee churches helped make a Friends of the Park Community Service Day a success for the Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Department.
The volunteers came from Grace Baptist Church of Elizabethton and a church youth group from the First Baptist Church of Gatlinburg. The two groups completed projects at Elizabethton City Hall and the Covered Bridge Park.
This latest round of service projects focused on First Baptist of Gatlinburg working on the landscaping of City Hall, while Grace Baptist worked on painting the fencing of the Covered Bridge Park and planting bushes at the Covered Bridge Stage.
ELIZABETHTON â Seth Whitehead, 14, is working on a project that is not only important in his own life, but also should have an impact on the community.
It is a project he is undertaking as a key part of his effort to become an Eagle Scout. Even more important, his project is designed to help a community remember four young men who died while working to defend the town of Hampton from a forest fire on Jenkins Mountain on Feb. 27, 1954.
Whitehead said the four who were killed include 15-year-old Robert Simerly, a volunteer with the Hampton/Valley Forge Volunteer Fire Department, and three employees of the Tennessee Division of Forestry: Herman Carden, Kenneth Pierce, and Jerry Woods. All three were 19 years old. Somehow, most people in the community have no knowledge of the tragedy, and Whitehead wants to change that by leading an effort to raise funds to purchase a memorial for the four young men.
ELIZABETHTON â An investigation by the Tennesseeâs Comptrollerâs Office has resulted in the indictment of Joyce Grace Parsons, the former administrative assistant for Carter Countyâs Head Start program.
According to the Comptrollerâs Office, investigators determined that Parsons used Head Start credit cards to make at least $8,657 in unauthorized purchases, including clothing, groceries, cosmetics, household goods and personal hygiene products. The Comptrollerâs Office said Parsons admitted that she made the purchases and told investigators that she signed other employeeâs names to her receipts to conceal her activities.
Head Start officials first identified and reported the questionable activity to the comptrollerâs office. Parsons was suspended without pay on Jan. 22, 2020 and her employment was terminated on April 13, 2020.
TSSAA Inducts Class Of 2020 Into Hall Of Fame
Locals Turner Jackson, Carolyn Jackson Among Those Honored Monday, July 19, 2021
Members of the 2020 Class of inductees to the TSSAA Hall of Fame pose for their class photo. - photo by Contributed TSSAA
The inductees of the 2020 TSSAA Hall of Fame were originally set to be inducted at the annual luncheon in April of 2020. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that ceremony was postponed not one, not two, but three times. The nine inductees were officially recognized for the contributions to high school athletics at the induction ceremony that finally took place on Saturday, July 17, 2021 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in Murfreesboro.