ELIZABETHTON — A community effort to provide assistance to the working poor and poverty stricken could receive a major boost during Thursday night’s meeting of the Elizabethton City Council.
ELIZABETHTON â Several committees of the Carter County Commission held meetings on Tuesday evening, hearing from numerous citizens and groups, but one of the groups that had not been heard from previously was the Northeast Tennessee Chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby.
Norma Morrison, a retired professor from Milligan University, spoke for the group and addressed the Health and Welfare Committee. The group asked for the Commission to pass a Carter County resolution on reducing pollution or endorsing House Bill 2307, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. She also asked the commissioners to encourage First District Rep. Diana Harshbarger to join the new Republican climate caucus.
ELIZABETHTON â A new organization is being set up in Carter County and Elizabethton to provide a one-stop resource center to meet the needs of the homeless population in the region.
The Carter Compassion Center received confirmation from the Internal Revenue Service last week that its 501 ( c ) 3 designation had been approved.
It was the latest step forward for a group that formed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic but which has still managed to maintain momentum in meeting its mission of ministering to the homeless.
It got its start a couple of years ago with an aim of the Health and Welfare Committee of the Carter County Commission to establish a joint task force of city and county groups to deal with the local homeless problem.