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2010-08-31

The Chamber and City still have a few of the DVD’s of the Fourth of July parade. They are $15.00 per DVD.

The Community promotional Sequatchie/Dunlap magazine is nearing completion and is scheduled to be delivered in late fall. We have a full color copy of the cover page available for viewing at the Chamber office. Feel free to come by the Chamber office to see the cover between the hours of 9:00 A. M. and 3:30 P. M., Monday through Friday.

The Leadership Class for 2010-2011 is now forming and more than one half of the allotted number has been filled and anyone in the area that is in business or individuals that are interest being in the class contact the Chamber office at 949-7608.

The annual Shelby Rhinehart golf tournament was held at Fall Creek Falls State Park was held on August 21st The winning team with a score of 17 under par was composed of David Layne, Clint Walters,Jr., Jim Kall and myself. All of the team members are from Sequatchie County and have played at the Mt. Airy Golf Course that is now officially closed.

This past Friday night the Sequatchie County high School ‘Indians’ visited Finley Stadium in Chattanooga and played Chattanooga Central in the first game of the season for both teams. The score was 21-17 in favor of Central. The next game will be away at Grundy County High School at 7:00 P. M. CST.

County Executive Michael Hudson reported some information to us. One thing is he is in contact with Erlanger everyday helping with the feasibility study to try to get them to take over the North Valley Plaza. Another is the energy grant has been approved to replace units at the Court House and Library. He also mentioned that the budget passed at the last commission meeting with no tax increase.

City Mayor Dwain Land stated that this coming Thursday he felt that the City’s budget would also pass without a tax increase.

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2010-08-18

Blood Assurance will be in the area for another community blood drive. It will be held at Citizens Tri-County Bank August 19th from 9am-2pm.

The Girl scouts have opened a new center located across from Sassie’s Consignment store. The ribbon cutting was held Friday August 6th at 1:30 P. M. and open house followed from 5:00 to 7:00 P. M. We are happy to have this organization working in our community working with young girls.

A flyer “A Tribute to our Veterans” is available at the Veterans office and Chamber office. This brochure includes information about the new park and there is ways to purchase bricks for individual veterans, corporate bricks, citizens bricks and signature bricks.

A special area has been set aside for pedestal plaques that will be placed along the sidewalk of the park and are divided into bronze, silver and gold.

Veterans Memorial Park is in Phase II and will progress as weather permits. Questions may be directed to Park Headquarters Tommy Hickey 240-7767, Board of Education office 949-3617 or Chamber of Commerce 949-7608.

I will be attending the TCCE annual meeting in Memphis, Tennessee on August 18th and 19th.

On Tuesday August 3rd I attended a meeting at the University of Chattanooga hosted by Hamilton County, Chattanooga City and Southeast Industrial Development Association. This meeting was held in order to gather information for Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant. The data collected will be applied to a grant application that will serve as a planning vehicle for improvement in Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia. We in Sequatchie County are fortunate to be part of this new development initiative that will seek part of the $100 million in federal funds that are available to new sustainable communities. We have pledged our chamber office to development of this grant in hopes that we can be part of an improved economic situation.

The festival committee continues to function and approximately 28 attended the last meeting. The next work session will be held August 16th in the City Training center. Anyone interested in joining in this new adventure are welcome to attend the meeting.

Congratulations to all those that were successful in winning their respective races that was held on August 5th. A special thank you is in order for David Boston of David’s Computer for posting the results of the election on our new web site that is found under the heading of Government. David did this from his hospital room in Chattanooga after being admitted earlier in the day for medical test. He has shown his dedication to the community while faced with his own adversity. We hope you will join us in wishing him a speedy recovery.

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2010-08-04

The local Girl Scouts will be moving to a new location on August 6th and there will be an open house from 5 til 7 P. M. Refreshments will be served.

The U. S. 127 highway yard sale officially begins August 5 and ends on August 8. However, at the writing of this article there are already several vendors set up.

The local Exxon Oil distributorship that has been owned and operated by the Johnson family for 93 years has been sold to Deloy Brown Company of Crossville, Tennessee.

According to Rodney Brown the new CEO, the Sequatchie County location will remain in name as Johnson Petroleum and all existing employees will be retained. The Brown family operates an Exxon distributorship in Cumberland County/Crossville and has for over 60 years.

Mr. Baxter “Bax” Johnson was the first owner of Johnson Petroleum begun as an oil distributor. His son Ralph Johnson took over the business as an Esso distributor. Jan Johnson grandson of Bax took over from his father and in his first year Esso became known as Exxon a brand name that remains until this day. Jan left his teaching and coaching position in order to run the family business due to his father’s health and remained as CEO for 38 years. Jan said “ it is time to retire” and pass the business on to others and the Brown family was interested and purchased the business. He said he wanted to express his appreciation to the people of Sequatchie County and surrounding area that has given support to Johnson Oil Company thru the years. Great customers and employees have let us have a successful business and to be able to give back to the community. He stated he wanted to especially thank Anthony and Morgan Smith, faithful and loyal employees for so long.

We welcome the new owners and are happy that they will continue to operate this business that has been in our county for the past 93 years.

We are sadden by the news of one of the Education icons of Sequatchie County and Matriarch of the Johnson family has passed. Mrs. Georgia Bell Johnson mother, grandmother, great grandmother and fondly remembered educator has died at the age of 95 years.

Veterans Memorial Park is in Phase II and will progress as weather permits. Questions may be directed to Park Headquarters Tommy Hickey 240-7767, Board of Education office 949-3617 or Chamber of Commerce 949-7608.

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2010-07-21

The Sequatchie County Memorial Park now has a new headquarters in the old Bum Cooley gas station near Win Bob Drive-In Restaurant and across from Rite Aide.

The committee now has memorial bricks for sale and on display for viewing at a cost of $50.00. Also, available are shirts or caps for a donation of $15.00 or more. All proceeds will be used for completion of the project. The site is being compacted by rains over times and in the near future forms will be constructed and concrete footings will be poured. Several questions have been asked concerning who will be remembered at this site. All veterans living or deceased will have a place on the memorial wall. Any veteran that can provide the government form DD214 or a family member of a deceased vet can provide papers of discharge to the committee for review. There is now an established address for the Sequatchie County Memorial Park and the address is 858 Cordell Drive, Dunlap, TN. 37327 Any questions or donations may be directed to chairman Tommy Hickey at 949-4823 or the Chamber of Commerce at 949-7608.

The festival committee met July 12th and 18 members were present. Co-Chair Ron Follett presided at the meeting. The main emphasis was to establish a committee structure that would allow each committee the autonomy to do their work and be included in the project with over sight by the steering committee. There is still much to do and places for as many individuals to participate in this evolving project.

There is an edited version DVD of the 4th of July parade available at Chamber of Commerce and City Hall that is 1 ½ hour long. The price for the DVD is $15.00. This video is an HD that was collected from three camera locations that were operating during the parade.

The web site for the new Sequatchie County-Dunlap Chamber of Commerce and City of Dunlap is now published to the web and maybe seen at www.sequatchie.com. This site will remain under construction and improvements for a few weeks.

Get Fit located at 1042 Main Street, is now an approved SilverSneakers location for qualified Medicare recipients to improve their strength, mobility and health paid for by their health care provider. Call Get Fit at 949-7690 for details.

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2010-07-13

There is an edited version DVD of the 4th of July parade available at Chamber of Commerce and City Hall that is 1 ½ hour long. This video is an HD that was collected from three camera locations that were operating during the parade.

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2010-07-06

Gary Smith has just flown the big plane over Dunlap signifying that it is time to begin the parade. What a great feeling it gives to everyone to see this happen and it makes it special since it is one of our own.

The bid was awarded to Video Ideas Productions for the new Chamber/City web site.

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June 16, 2010

The Chattanooga State office of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center has installed the computer station in the office provided by the Sequatchie County-Dunlap Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Kevin Maxfield, director of the Chattanooga Center has established a day and time he will be available to assist individuals on the 4th Thursday of each month from 9:00 A. M. until Noon CST any questions can be answered at 423-756-8668 ext. 102 or call the chamber office at 949-7608. The purpose of the online center is to provide internet accessible small business seminars and online counseling as part of an ongoing effort to provide easier access to TSBDC services.

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