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Saturday, March 12, 2022
The Greeneville Sun Benchmarks Edition
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Zak Holt, fitness director at Workout Anytime in Greeneville, holds trophies the location won in 2021 as new franchise of the year and for leadership and perseverance in personal training.
Individuals, Businesses, Organizations Earn Professional Honors Business and professional honor and recognition came to local individuals and business enterprises in 2021.
FOOD CITY VOLUNTEERISM Employees at three local Food City stores were recognized in 2021 for outstanding volunteerism among associates through the Food City Claude P. Varney Volunteer Recognition Program. Cardiela Vickery, Shaun Lister and Zach Dyer were honored by the Virginia-based grocery chain. Steven C. Smith, Food City’s president and chief executive officer, led years ago in creation of Food City’s Claude P. Varney Volunteer Recognition Program, in memory of the company’s former president and board vice-chairPHOTO SPECIAL TO THE SUN Greene County was well represented at the 24th Annual Pinnacle Awards in 2021. Pictured from left are Greene County Partnership President and CEO Jeff man. Vickery works at the Food Taylor, former GCP General Manager Joni Parker, Main Street: Greeneville Executive Director Jann Mirkov, and Town of Greeneville City Administrator Todd City at 905 Snapps Ferry Road, Lister at the 509 The Northeast TennesSun reporters Cicely Babb, Asheville Highway store, Eugenia Estes and Ken see Tourism Association and Dyer at the 2755 E. honored the organizations at Little, Director of Online Andrew Johnson Highway the MeadowView Conference Operations Brian Cutshall, location. Resort and Convention Cen- and Scott Jenkins, editor. Store winners move on ter hosted by Visit Kingsport. Jenkins also won second to compete at the district place for editorial writing. The Greene County Partlevel. Twelve district winFormer assistant sports nership won three awards, editor Tate Russell won secners are recognized with an and Main Street Greeneville award and a $250 contribuclaimed one. ond- and third-place awards The Greene County Partfor sports photography. tion to their chosen charity. The Sun also won third Two divisional winners nership won awards for Best place for coronavirus news are then chosen and honNew Event for Wings and coverage, a special category Wheels on the GreenE; Best ored with a plaque and a added for the 2020 contest. Marketing Campaign for $750 charity contribution. Contributing to the entry the Greeneville Mural Trail; One overall winner is sewere Estes, Babb, Little and and Best Brochure or Guide lected to receive the Claude Cameron Judd, the paper’s for its Discover Greeneville P. Varney Humanitarian assistant editor and columbrochure. Award and to have a $1,250 Main Street Greeneville charity contribution made nist. won the award for Best Rack on the winner’s behalf. The Sun won 22 advertisCard for the card advertising ing and circulation awards the annual Lyrics on the in the 2021 Ideas Contest, BLACKBURN, CHILDERS third most in the state among PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE SUN Lawn concert series. AND STEGALL The General Morgan Inn & Conference Center was named one of the best meeting sites in A total of 71 entries were newspapers with similar the South in 2021 for the second consecutive year. submitted from around circulations. JOHNSON CITY — the region in categories At The Greenville Sun, Blackburn, Childers, and those ads and promotions Readers’ Choice Award from for marketing, advertising, Blvd., in the Greeneville Steagall, CPAs (BCS), which experts, the release said. were created and facilitated national event planning mag- events, virtual, attractions, Commons, opened in May has an office in Greeneville, 2020. was recognized by Forbes azine ConventionSouth. The individual achievement, and by the following current WORKOUT ANYTIME King said Workout in a listing of America’s General Morgan Inn was one supporting business awards. and former Sun staffers: A panel of judges associated Taunya Blazer, Sandi Anytime has close to best tax and accounting of 30 winners in Tennessee. Despite opening during with the Southeast Tourism Blalock, Brian Cutshall, 200 locations across the firms for 2021. The hotel also won the the COVID-19 pandemic, Society chose the top entry in Rebecca Garay-Leon, Tanya Forbes and Statista magazine’s award in 2020 Greeneville’s Workout Any- country, including some each category. Hensley, Melanie Hilliard, identified the top 250 firms time gym location saw such much bigger locations than and received an honorable Shirley Jones, Dale Long, Greeneville’s. for tax and top 200 for mention in 2019. success that it was named Della Lowe, Wendy Peay, “Greeneville isn’t a very accounting, and BCS was Throughout the year, best new franchise of the THE GREENEVILLE SUN Kelly Pickering, Jayme Presslarge town, and this isn’t named among the 172 firms year at a company-wide meeting professionals one of the big monster on both lists, according to a conference last summer. nominate sites they believe ley, Tammy Waldroup, Hala The Greeneville Sun in gyms like in big cities, but news release. provide exceptional service That success, which Watson and Artie Wehenkel. 2021 won eight Tennessee we’ve had nothing but The firm, which was also for group events. The nomiowner Mike King said far The Sun placed first in Press Association statewide listed in the Forbes ranking surpassed his expectations, positive feedback from the seven award categories: nated sites – nearly 4,000 in awards recognizing excelcommunity,” he said. for 2020, was one of five in also made the Greeneville Best Black & White Ad; 2021 – are compiled onto an lence in print and online Tennessee and six in North location the first to bring Best Carrier Contest Idea; online ballot where meeting journalism, advertising and Carolina ranked in the 2021 in $1 million in revenue in Best Newspapers in Educaprofessionals and fans vote circulation. GENERAL MORGAN INN for the “Best of the Best.” listing, the release said. a year, according to a press In the Tennessee State tion Promotion; Best NIE BCS has offices in Johnrelease issued at the time, Press Contest sponsored by Sponsorship Recruitment; For the second year in a and the franchise also won the University of Tennessee Best Reader Contest; Best son City, Greeneville and row, Greeneville’s historic TOURISM AWARDS awards for its personal and the Tennessee Press Internet Subscription ProKingsport, Tennessee and General Morgan Inn & Contraining program and social ference Center was named Association, The Sun won Boone, North Carolina. motion; and Best Marketing The Greene County top honors in the digital Firms were chosen based media engagement. Materials. one of the “Best Meeting Partnership and Main The Greeneville locaon recommendation from The Sun placed second in Sites in the South.” Street Greeneville were both presentation category. Contributing to the winCPAs, clients, attorneys eight categories and third in honored at the 24th Annual The boutique hotel at 111 tion of Workout Anytime, and other financial industry located at 1327 Tusculum Pinnacle Awards on June 3. N. Main St. won the 2021 ning entry were Greeneville seven categories.
