NEWPORT-Tickets are still available for Thursday's annual Celebrate Our Successes banquet on Thursday, March 11, at Carson-Springs Baptist Conference Center.

The banquet, sponsored by the Cocke County Education Foundation, honors an alumnus of the Cocke County school system who has achieved exceptional success in his/her given field.

Net proceeds from the banquet go into the Foundation's Scholarship Endowment Fund. Tickets are $30 apiece and are available at the Cocke County EDC office, First Baptist Church, and Cocke County Materials Center.

This year's honoree is Dr. Nathan Ford, retired Newport optometrist, who began his educational journey in a one-room log school, Timber Ridge, in Del Rio.