Paris, Tenn.–Landmarks across the state –including the Eiffel Tower in Paris — will be lit up in red Wednesday, April 27th, as part of the observance of National Drug Endangered Children (DEC) Awareness Day in Tennessee.
The event, sponsored by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation/ Tennessee Dangerous Drugs Task Force, and TN Alliance for Drug Endangered Children, will include a reading by Representative Mary Littleton of the DEC Awareness Day Resolution. A lighting ceremony of the Tennessee State Capitol building and the Korean War Memorial Bridge in red will follow.
Other locations across the state will be lit up in red in observance of DEC Awareness Day Wednesday night, including:
*Eiffel Tower – Paris, TN
*Ferris Wheel/ The Island – Pigeon Forge, TN
*Sevier County Courthouse – Sevierville, TN
*Skybridge – Gatlinburg, TN
*TN Aquarium – Chattanooga, TN
If you would like to arrange an interview with a member of the TN Alliance for Drug Endangered Children, please email us at TBI.Media@tn.gov so we can facilitate that. You can also follow DEC-related events across the state via Twitter: #TNDECAwarenessDAY2022. Information about the National and TN Alliance for Drug Endangered Children is available below.
Photo by Shannon McFarlin.