CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – The Clarksville Branch NAACP #5582 announces the availability of tickets for the 62nd Annual Freedom Fund Banquet.

Tickets are available on a first come, first served basis. If you are planning to attend this event, please contact 3VP Bridget Childs at (931) 933 0147, 2VP Loretta Morris at (904) 504 8916, or Branch President Jimmie M. Garland at (931) 216 6745.

The guest speaker for this year’s banquet is The Honorable State Representative Brenda Gilmore, District, of Nashville, Tennessee.

The event will be held on October 27, 2017 at the Austin Peay State University Morgan University Center Ballroom, 601 College Street at 7 p.m.

Deadline for ticket sales is October 15, 2017.

Recipients of this year’s Jerry G. Jerkins Community Service Award will be Attorney Charles W. Bone, Esq. the founder and chairman of Bone McAllester Norton PLLC of Nashville, Tennessee and Pastor Jimmy Terry, Pastor Tabernacle Baptist Church Market Street, Clarksville. Additional information concerning the award recipients will be forthcoming.

Organization desiring to reserve table can do so by purchasing a table at the cost of $600 per table or $55 per ticket.

Patrons who purchase tickets individually will not be guaranteed that all attendees will be able to sit together.