Winners

Co-Hosts Allyson Hinson Dickey, Executive Director of the Perry County Chamber of Commerce, and Will Nunley, along with the Chamber Board of Directors, Presenting Sponsor The Rogers Group and Premiere Sponsors Bank of Perry County, Buffalo River Review, and Town of Linden, would like to thank everyone for attending.

Mrs. Jessie Ruth Tiller volunteers her time tremendously, whether its working on the Historical Society’s quarterly newsletter, doing genealogy, playing the piano for First Christian Church, keeping a check on all the family cemeteries in the county, and making sure that the Cedar Grove Iron Furnace gets the attention it requires.

Blake Ayers worked for Perry County Government for 5 years. He was a very dependable young man. Not only did Blake work for the Perry County Highway Department, he held two other jobs to support his small family. He mowed on his time off, and also ran a small excavating business called “Bent Cedar Farms.”

Forrest White is a 35 year old employee of Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative.

The Perry County Collaborative /Community Engagement program sponsored by Save The Children is a strengths-based approach that leverages local knowledge and resources to address a community’s unique challenges to learning.

B&H was established in 1977 and is Perry County’s oldest operating restaurant. Locally owned and operated at the time of nomination by the Garrison family, you’ll always see a smiling face you know!

Alison Trull believes she was nominated by her peers for the Educator of the Year award because of the years she has spent teaching, coaching, and serving the children of our great county.

Katie Adell Perkinson is the daughter of Michael and Ellen Perkinson. She was 2nd in her class last year with a 3.967 GPA.

Carter Counterman is the son of Chris and Andrea Counterman and is a Senior at PCHS. His golf career started eight years ago in Linden Middle School. What began as a part time hobby, led to a year-round sport.

“My name is Angela Rhodes Williams, but to most of Perry County I’m known as Ms. Angie. I grew up in Perry County and graduated salutatorian of my class from Perry County High School.

Mayor Ward has worked with the Town of Linden for the past 23 years, starting out as a meter reader in 2000. He has also served as Chairman of 911 since 2017. As Mayor, he has worked to improve Linden’s parks and expand public utilities into unserved areas of the county.

Chamber of Commerce Community Excellence Awards

Presented by Sheriff Nick Weems, at the Perry County Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards dinner on January 26, at the Baptist Campgrounds auditorium.

Chamber of Commerce Community Excellence Awards

Chamber of Commerce Community Excellence Awards

Chamber of Commerce Community Excellence Awards

The Governor’s Volunteer Stars Awards is an annual event held to honor the efforts of outstanding volunteers from across Tennessee. Since 2008, Volunteer Tennessee, the Governor’s State Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service, has hosted this event with the goal of having a youth and an adult volunteer from all 95 counties in the state represented.