Unit Of The Year 2011

Ethan Long and Cody Gilbert – Golf Course

This year, the Employee Recognition Board reviewed and approved six worthy nominations for Unit of the Quarter recognition, with one recommendation standing out as particularly worthy of praise.

One day this Summer, Golf Course Employees Ethan Long and Cody Gilbert were tending to bunkers after a morning storm at the Gatlinburg Golf Course when they noted a suspicious man walking behind the fifth green. Ethan and Cody greeted him as they do other morning walkers who frequent the course, then noted the man walking toward the eleventh tee and later conspicuously trying to stay out of sight.

Upon returning to the maintenance shed a short while later, a Pigeon Forge Police Officer pulled up, looking for a suspect. Ethan took the officer to the eleventh tee, and a short while later he and Cody communicated their observations to members of the tactical force team, which tracked the man with their dogs and took him into custody.

In recognition of their dutiful awareness on the job and willingness to aid law enforcement, Ethan Long and Cody Gilbert of the Golf Course are deserving and hereby recognized as the 2011 Unit of the Year.