Johnson City Parks & Recreation: Carver Recreation To Honor Veterans With Dinner, Awards Ceremony

Johnson City TN

18 May, 2022

3:04 PM

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Press release from Johnson City Parks & Recreation: May 17, 2022 Carver Recreation Center, 322 W. Watauga Ave., will recognize all veterans for their military service at the Thomas S. Wade Veterans Program at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 24. The event, named for former prisoner of war and longtime Carver community member Thomas S. Wade, will honor Devon Scott, Sidney Adams, Otis Nick Smith, Billy "Boo" Williams, Emanuel Lewis, and Buck Johnson with special awards. Guest speaker Allen Jackson, historian for the Veterans Memorial Foundation, will introduce the honorees. In addition to the awards, the program will include dinner and a ceremony to recognize fallen veterans. Crown Cutz Academy will provide free haircuts to veterans in the Carver Community Room between 4-5:30 p.m. For more information, please call 423-461-8830. This press release was produced by Johnson City Parks & Recreation. The views expressed here are the author's own.