Monroe County Health Council

11/10/2025

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We are opening our doors for Thanksgiving dinner from 5-8pm. All are welcome!

11/10/2025

✨🎄Join us for the Tellico Plains Candlelight Walk
— a beloved holiday tradition in Historic Downtown Tellico Plains!

Enjoy an evening filled with live music, a live nativity, local shopping, the Cookie Caper, Santa, The Grinch, and wagon rides through our festive town streets.

🗓️Saturday, December 6, 2025
🕯️4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
📍Historic Downtown Tellico Plains

Bring your family, friends, and Christmas spirit — and join the joy of Christmas in Tellico Plains!🎅🏼🤶🏻🍪

11/10/2025

🌍💙 World Diabetes Day is this Friday, November 14. 💙🌍 Wear blue to show your support of those living with diabetes!! 💙

World Diabetes Day (WDD) is the world’s largest diabetes awareness campaign, reaching over 1 billion people across 160+ countries.

This important day is observed every year on November 14, marking the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin with Charles Best in 1922 — a discovery that changed millions of lives.

Created in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), WDD became an official United Nations Day in 2006 (UN Resolution 61/225).

Let’s wear blue, raise awareness, support prevention, and promote access to care for everyone living with diabetes. 💪💙

World Diabetes Day (WDD) is the world’s largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of over 1 billion people in over 160 countries.

11/10/2025

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🧡 CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS, ORGANIZATIONS & DONATIONS! 🧡

This Thanksgiving, Right To Your Door Delivery is making sure no senior, disabled neighbor, or struggling family goes without a hot holiday meal.

We’re organizing a Thanksgiving Community Meal Train — cooking, preparing, and personally delivering meals right to homes across Monroe, Loudon, and McMinn Counties on Wednesday, November 24th and 25th starting at 9am for cooking, prepping and packaging meals. November 26th starting at 9am for deliveries.

WE NEED SUB STATIONS

We need to find a sub station in all 3 counties Monroe, McMinn, and Loudon counties.
We need a large kitchen with plenty of table space, ovens, stoves, refrigerated area to store cooked food. This station will be for cooking, prepping, packaging, storing, and delivery pick up.

🍴 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:
• Cook or prepare meals
• Pack & organize trays
• Deliver meals to homes

🧡 DONATIONS NEEDED:
• Turkey or ham, dressing, gravy, potatoes, corn, green beans, roll, and dessert
• Bottled water, tea, or lemonade
• Store-bought or homemade desserts
• Plastic silverware, enclosed trays, gas cards, or monetary donations

Cash app $righttoyourdoor
Venmo
We need 12-14 lb turkeys (50 of them)
We need fully cooked hams 8 to 10lbs (35 of them)

We’re partnering with Fresh Start of Fresh Start Monroe County and Good Shepards Center but we’re also calling on other local partners and organizations across Monroe, Loudon, and McMinn Counties to join us!

I’ve reached out to several local news and radio stations, along with the police departments and fire departments, to help spread awareness. Many of our seniors and neighbors aren’t on social media — but they watch the news and read the paper — and this helps us reach those who truly need us most.

Please help us by sharing this post with your neighbors, churches, ministries, food distribution centers, and local government officials. Together, we can make sure no one is forgotten this holiday season. 💛

📞 To volunteer or donate:
Kristy Whiteside – Owner, Right To Your Door Delivery
423-252-7225

💛 Where Community Meets Kindness

11/09/2025

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Mark your calendars!

11/08/2025

We are excited to invite everyone to our 2nd Annual Breakfast with the Grinch. You don't want to miss it.

11/05/2025

🚨 SHORT NOTICE — POSTERS DUE MONDAY! 🚨

Hey middle schoolers (Grades 6–8)! Don’t miss your chance to enter the No V**e November Poster Contest! 🎨
Show off your creativity while spreading awareness about the dangers of va**ng.

🗓 Deadline: Monday, November 10

🏆 Prizes: The top 3 posters from each county will WIN A DRONE! 🚁
Those winning posters will also move on to the regional competition for even bigger prizes!

✅ Handmade posters only (no digital art)
✅ Include your name, grade, and school on the back
✅ Use facts, stats, and your original ideas

Learn more & get full rules here 👉 monroepwc.org/contest

Let’s see what Monroe County can do — get creative and take a stand against va**ng! 💪💨

11/05/2025

11/05/2025

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11/05/2025

💜 You’re in for a treat if you participate in a Monroe STOPe healing art session!! Reach out to 423-519-1232 for more info!

We are excited to announce our monthly itinerary for our thearaputic healing sessions! This is Not your traditional support group. At Monroe STOPe, we want to equip you with coping skills, social skills, and a community to help you along your healing journey.

Some sessions will be open to the public while others are closed to include clients-only. PM or call for more info if you are interested in participating.

11/01/2025

Love them and their heart to serve our community, and their delicious pizza! 🍕❤️

11/01/2025