Blount County Animal Rescue Effort (Blount CARE) is proud to annouce the 4th Annual Santa Paws/Winter Wonder Paws Event. Blount CARE's vice president, professional photographer Shannon Parker, will again be taking pictures of people and their pets with Santa at Smoky Mountain Feeds, 317 Gill Street, Alcoa, TN. Link...

There is a $5.00 per animal/person sitting fee, which will go to the nonproffit organization, Blount CARE, to help with their work to educate people to the proper care of all animals and to the importance of spaying and neutering their pets. Photo Sheets will be avaiable for order from Shannon's website: White Dog Studio Link...

December’s meeting will be our Christmas Party for the Blount County Civil War Roundtable (BCCWRT). It will start at 6:00 pm on Thursday 12/13 at The Blount County Historical Museum. This is located at the former Blount County Health Department building, near the Blount County Justice Center on E. Lamar Alexander Parkway. We can study the museum’s exhibits, which includes, “The Civil War Comes to Blount County”. The meeting will have members in period dress, exhibits, discussions & period themed snacks.

This year's party is just for fun. Larry Burns will be our DJ so come and dance or just visit with friends. Our Democrat Commissioners (Wendy Pitts-Reeves, David Ballard, Jr., and Dr. Bob Proffit) should be there as well as Judge Mike Meares and our local party officials.

This will be a casual affair, not a sit down dinner. Please bring a finger food to share. Also feel free to bring a new unwrapped toy as we will once again be collecting for Toys for Tots.

This is not a fundraiser but we do need to pay for the facility and DJ. The Cost is $15/person or $25/couple at the door. A cash bar is available.

The party begins at 6 PM at the American Legion Post 13 at 244 Waters Road. If you need directions please call Marge Fugate at 983-2486.

This year's party is just for fun. Larry Burns will be our DJ so come and dance or just visit with friends. Our Democrat Commissioners (Wendy Pitts-Reeves, David Ballard, Jr., and Dr. Bob Proffit) should be there as well as Judge Mike Meares and our local party officials.

This will be a casual affair, not a sit down dinner. Please bring a finger food to share. Also feel free to bring a new unwrapped toy as we will once again be collecting for Toys for Tots.

This is not a fundraiser but we do need to pay for the facility and DJ. The Cost is $15/person or $25/couple at the door. A cash bar is available.

The party begins at 6 PM at the American Legion Post 13 at 244 Waters Road. If you need directions please call Marge Fugate at 983-2486.

It is the holidays and Medic says they are short of blood. They usually become short this time of year.
I gave yesterday (Dec 17) when I stumbled into the bloodmobile here in Maryville.

Here is the link to the Bloodmobile schedule:
http://medicblood.com/img/schedule.pdf
It appears they update it every few weeks.

Forrest (Holiday Giving, the gift of life) Erickson