Paris, Tenn.–Today’s the day for the Paris BPU Community Cookout in downtown Paris. The annual event includes free sack lunches with grilled hot dogs, chips, cookie and drink, corn hole games set up, Kids’ Activity Bags available with games, coloring books and more and more freebies for everyone. The event is held until 1 p.m. in the BPU employees’ parking lot. They’re also collecting canned goods for the Community Canned Goods Drive, along with Community Bank & Trust. In photo, Nikki Beard of BPU hands out the sack lunches while other BPU employees grill hot dogs in the background. (Shannon McFarlin photo).