Saturday, Sept. 10
The Street Reunion will be held at 1 p.m. behind the Roan Mountain Post Office. All family members are invited to attend and bring a covered dish. For more information call (423) 896-7040.
Deliverance Church of God, Hampton, will have a yard sale/bake sale from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. Breakfast will be served.
The Young at Heart Sunday School Class at Valley Forge Freewill Baptist Church will have a huge yard sale/bake sale from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Fellowship Hall located past the church on Riverview Road. There will be household items, clothes for men, women and children, toys and fried apple pies. Crafts will also be available.
The Huffine, Scott, Slagle, France, Francis and Price Reunion will be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Boones Creek Christian Church, 305 Christian Church Road, Gray. Those attending are asked to please bring food, family, friends and memorabilia. For more information, contact Elaine Scott Cantrell at (423) 257-2264.
Sunday, Sept. 11
The M.M. and Mary Gouge Morton Reunion will be at Little Doe Freewill Baptist Church. A covered dish lunch will be served at 1 p.m.
The Oscar Smith/Pierce Family Reunion will be held at 1 p.m. at the home of Jack and Edna Smith, 108 Carver Crabtree Road, Hampton. If any questions, call Jack Smith at 957-6595.
Monday, Sept. 12
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) will meet at First Baptist Church, 212 East F St., Elizabethton. Weigh-in begins at 5:30-6:30 p.m. with the meeting starting at 6:45 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings. For more information, call Joan Jarrett at 268-2100 or 914-1954 or Peggy Nave at 957-1114 or go to our website at www.tops.org (800-932-8677).
Tuesday, Sept. 13
The Carter County/Elizabethton Retired Teachers will meet at 2 p.m. at Memorial Presbyterian Church. Chris Hitechew will present the program. All retired teachers are welcome.
The Johnson City United Auto Workers Retirees will hold their monthly meeting at 10 a.m. at the Pipefitters Union Hall, 655 Watauga Road, Watauga. All UAW retirees are invited to attend, bring their spouses or friends and join the group for fellowship and coffee. For local information, call 727-7393, 772-4777 or 743-8778.
The Watauga Association of Genealogists will meet at the Johnson City Public Library, 100 West Millard St., at 6:30 p.m. The speaker is Dr. Margaret Hougland, a WAGS member and retired faculty member of the ETSU Quillen College of Medicine. Dr. Hougland will speak on Genealogy Tools: Timelines and Research Logs. For additional information, please contact Betty Jane Hylton, bjhylton@comcast.net, or visit the organization’s website at http://www.wagsnetn.org/.
Tetrick Funeral Home, Silver Angels Home Care Specialists and Hathaway-Percy Funeral & Cremation Services are sponsoring a monthly Widow/Widower’s Dutch Treat Lunch Get Together on the second Tuesday of each month. The next lunch and get together will be held at 11:30 a.m. at Sugar Love Bakery & Cafe, located in the Bonnie Kate Building. Provide for your lunch and your dessert will be a treat. If you have lost a spouse, please join us because we would like for the pathway to healing be a little easier for you. To make a reservation, please call Terry Cole at Hathaway-Percy Funeral & Cremation Services at 423-543-5544.
Friday, Sept. 16
The Elizabethton Senior Center will host a breakfast buffet from 7 to 10 a.m. at the Center, 428 E. G St. Tickets are $7 and carryouts will be available. The menu will include all-you-can eat biscuits and gravy, sausage, ham, scrambled eggs, pancakes, juice and coffee. Entertainment will include ETSU Bluegrass and the Roan Mountain Mountaineers. All proceeds go to support the senior center.
Saturday, Sept. 17
The Happy Valley High School Class of 1970 will have its annual get-together at 6 p.m., rain or shine, at the home of Ray Loveless. Those attending are asked to bring finger foods, drinks and a lawn chair. Directions: Turn onto Mary Patton Road (new Gap Creek Road) and go four miles and turn right onto Loveless Road. Ray’s home is the last house on the left. Picnic shelter is behind his house.
The Mountain Empire Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) will meet at 11:30 a.m. at the General Morgan Inn in Greeneville. The speaker will be Allen Jackson, Retired AF and Historian, who will talk about a local Greeneville veteran who gave his life in WWII. A meal will be served and the cost is $27 per person. For information and reservations, the later due by Thursday, Sept. 15, call LCDR Tom Shafer at (423) 426-1416.
Rocky Top Gun Permit School will offer a handgun carry permit school at 135 Keenburg Road, Elizabethton, starting at 8 a.m. Ken Potter, a veteran law enforcement officer, is the instructor for the class. Cost of the class is $55. You will need to bring your weapon and 50 rounds of ammo. Potter says for those who haven’t yet purchased a gun, loaner guns are available. You may call Ken at (423) 341-1709, (423) 543-6048 or email him at kpotter641@yahoo.com.
The D.D. Twisting Department of North American Rayon Corporation will have a reunion from 2 until 5 p.m. at Cedar Grove Baptist Church, 353 Cedar Grove Road, Johnson City, off Milligan Highway. For information, contact Paul Jones at 542-8940, Linda Osborne at 283-8854 or Burless Campbell at 213-1974.
Monday, Sept. 19
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) will meet at First Baptist Church, 212 East F St., Elizabethton. Weigh-in begins at 5:30-6:30 p.m. with the meeting starting at 6:45 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings. For more information, call Joan Jarrett at 268-2100 or 914-1954 or Peggy Nave at 957-1114 or go to our website at www.tops.org (800-932-8677).
English as a Second Language (ESL) will begin classes from 6:15-8:30 p.m. at Memorial Presbyterian Church, 100 East F St., Elizabethton. Registration will be on Monday, Sept. 12, from 6 to 8 p.m. This will be the fifth year that Memorial has offered English classes to those in our area who would like to learn to speak and write English. There is an excellent staff of teachers who have been with the program since its beginning and strive to serve their students well by teaching a better understanding of English. For more information please contact Memorial Presbyterian Church by calling 423-543-2711 or emailing memorialchurchtn@embarqmail.com
Alzheimers Tennessee Caregiver Support Group will meet at noon at Sycamore Springs Senior Living Center at 1504 W. Elk Ave. for caregivers of friends or relatives suffering from Alzheimers or another form of dementia. Attending the support group can help people to feel less isolated and to make connections with others facing similar challenges. For more information, contact Regional Director Tracey Kendall at 423-330-4532.
Monday, Sept. 26
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) will meet at First Baptist Church, 212 East F St., Elizabethton. Weigh-in begins at 5:30-6:30 p.m. with the meeting starting at 6:45 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings. For more information, call Joan Jarrett at 268-2100 or 914-1954 or Peggy Nave at 957-1114 or go to our website at www.tops.org (800-932-8677).
Monday, Oct. 17
Alzheimers Tennessee Caregiver Support Group will meet at noon at Sycamore Springs Senior Living Center at 1504 W. Elk Ave. for caregivers of friends or relatives suffering from Alzheimers or another form of dementia. Attending the support group can help people to feel less isolated and to make connections with others facing similar challenges. For more information, contact Regional Director Tracey Kendall at 423-330-4532.