ELIZABETHTON — Carter County Drug Prevention and the Elizabethton/Carter County Public Library will hold a Unity Celebration on Jan. 31 from 2-5 p.m. in honor of Black History Month.
ELIZABETHTONâ The ElizAlliance recently announced the winner of its April Poetry Contest, which was held in honor of National Poetry Month.
The winner is Amanda Baxter, 31, a resident of Elizabethton and the mother of three daughters, aged 11, 5, and 4. She is a native of Oklahoma, but has been a resident of Tennessee for the past 13 years, where she is raising her girls, who were all born in Tennessee.
Baxter had some pretty stiff competition. Shanasha Acuna, president of ElizAlliance said there were 21 submissions to the poetrycontest.
The judges were Jilian Reece of Carter County Drug Prevention, Mary Ann Owen and Harley Williams, both of the Elizabethton/Carter County Public Library.
ELIZABETHTON â Several agencies in Elizabethton and Carter County are joining together to offer an opportunity to join with millions of others around the globe in celebrating Earth Day and Global Youth Service Day this month.
Carter County Drug Prevention, the Elizabethton/Carter County Public Library, Main Street Elizabethton, Keep Carter County Beautiful and Red Legacy Recovery are joining forces to host a book discussion and litter clean-up in downtown Elizabethton.
âWe encourage community members of all ages to come share in a roundtable discussion of the book âNo One is too Small to Make a Differenceâ by Greta Thunbergââ said Carter County Drug Prevention Executive Director Jilian Reece.