Chamber Banquet 2003
The 2003 annual membership banquet was held Thursday, Oct. 23, at Erin City Hall, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Attendees were greeted by wonderful fall decorations, both on the exterior and the interior of the building. Area organizations had displays in the foyer to boast all that is good in Tennessee Ridge, Erin, and Houston County. Among the displays were Workforce Essentials, Erin Rotary Club, Highland Rim Economic Corporation, Erin Police Department, Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency, Houston County Lions Club, Houston County Health Council, Houston County Public Library and Friends of the Library, and the University of Tennessee’s local Agricultural Extension Service. There was even a display showing how Houston County High School received the 2002 School of the Year Award for excellence in architectural design.
All in all, it was a great night, and Houston County shown like a bright star anyway.
THE STORYAND THE PHOTOS
The class met at Erin City hall where Russ James hosted a presentation by area government officials It started with a excellent presentation from County Mayor George Clark and was followed by Linda Bratchi Erin City recorder who was standing in for Mayor Largent who unable to attend and ended with a presentation on where the Metro government committee was at and some of the pluses and minuses of the program By John Law who is chairman of that committee. There was to be a presentation by the Mayor of Tennessee Ridge who declined. The next step was a tour of the Jail facility and a first for me a trip to our water treament plant and then lunch. A busy Morning I must say. After lunch the class went to the old jail and the rock quarry to make decisions on their class project. The cost of transforming the jail into a Museum was more than the class wished to tackle. Its appears we will try to turn the rock quarry into a park and from my opinion long overdue. As usual I took a few