Westlake Honored for Service
Submitted by Todd Hash on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 3:00pm.
Carol Westlake, the Coalition’s Executive Director, will be a recipient of the Tennessee Alliance for Progress (TAP) Long Haul Award. The Long Haul Awards Celebration will take place on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 7 pm at St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Nashville.
Tickets are $40 for one, $75 for two people. Reservations can be easily made ONLINE or you can mail a check to TAP, PO Box 60338, Nashville, TN 37206 (earmark it to Long Haul). The Celebration will feature food and award-winning California wine provided by LeVin Cellars, a silent auction, music by folk/bluegrass diva Kathy Chiavola and a keynote speech by renown author/activist/speaker Tim Wise.
2010 TAP Lifetime Achievement Long Haul Awardees
Don Beisswenger, peace activist
Gordon Bonnyman, Tennessee Justice Center
Jeannine Honicker, environmental activist
Bonnie Spear, Blakemore Children's Center
2010 TAP Long Haul Awardees
Katherine Esquivel, Justice for Our Neighbors
Sizwe Herring, EarthMatters Tennessee
Ralph Hutchison, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA)
Chris Sanders, Tennessee Equality Project
Carol Westlake, Tennessee Disability Coalition
Jennifer Willard, Community School of the Arts of Knoxville
2010 TAP Young Leader Awardees
Shavaun Evans, Manna/Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee
Elias Feghali, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
Allison Glass, Mid-South Peace and Justice Center
and a special TAP Youngest Leader Award to Cyrus Shick, Tennessee Young Democrats
For more information, go to www.taptn.org. TAP is a think/act tank with a mission to create healthy families and communities in Tennessee. TAP believes in true political and economic democracy, that people should participate in decisions that affect their lives.
