Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce issues inagural GrowCo Excellence In Entrepreneurship Award
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce honored an outstanding Clarksville-Montgomery County entrepreneur on April 10th with the inaugural GrowCo Excellence In Entrepreneurship Award.
The award is in place to recognize a Chamber member business that has excelled in entrepreneurship.
The City Forum receives the inaugural Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce GrowCo Excellence In Entrepreneurship Award.
Austin Peay State University College of Business and BBB host free Google workshop for small businesses
Clarksville, TN – Small businesses are invited to learn how to maximize their web presence and leverage video storytelling during the free Expand Your Brand Workshop, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Friday, June 8th, in the Austin Peay State University Kimbrough Building.
Workshop topics include Make Your Website Work for You and Sharing Your Story Through Video.
Google trainer and speaker Dave Delaney.
Fort Defiance Civil War Park and Interpretive Center April events
Presentations offer free look into Clarksville’s history
Clarksville, TN – A community favorite, Fort Defiance Civil War Park and Interpretive Center, 120 Duncan Street, offers a variety of events.
Festivities are free of charge and diverse, offering something for visitors of all ages looking to have a great time at one of Clarksville’s most treasured historic sites.
Indian Artifact Show at the Fort Defiance Civil War Park and Interpretive Center on Saturday, April 14th.
Clarksville’s Commercial Installation Awarded Incumbent Worker Training Grant
Clarksville, TN – Commercial Installation LLC, located in Clarksville, TN was awarded $9,605.00 for an Incumbent Worker Training grant (IWT). Commercial Installation provides craftsmanship quality installation of architectural openings for all types of buildings all over the Mid-South.
Founded in 1999 by Richard Eskildson (Commercial Installation President), we have built our business from the ground up on the foundation of integrity and quality work.
(Back Row: L to R) Ed Meyer, CI; Jared Arnold, CI; Maury Morneault, CI; Adrian Wietzema, CI; Michael Jackson, AJC. (Rront Row: L to R) Jamaal Bradley, Workforce Essentials; John Shelton, CI; Richard Eskildson, CI; Lori Eskildson, CI; Daniel Bolin, CI; and Dustin Warmath, CI.
Austin Peay State University endows scholarship honoring late communication professor John Moseley
Clarksville, TN – In 2014, Austin Peay State University established the John W. Moseley Media Room in the Dunn Center, but nearly three years later, a related scholarship honoring the late professor had not been endowed.
“I found out we were short about $500.00,” Dr. Mike Gotcher, former chair of the Austin Peay State University Department of Communication, said. “I made a donation, and I contacted Bikers Who Care, who also helped out, and we got it endowed.”
APSU late professor John Moseley
Clarksville’s Kenwood High School JROTC Team to Compete in National Academic Bowl Championship in Washington, D.C.
Clarksville, TN – After advancing through two phases of online competition, the Kenwood High School JROTC Academic Team composed of Justin Bair, Orlando Moore, Alexis Jordan, and Phoenix Sims will compete in person at the Championship event in Washington, DC.
The 2018 U.S. Army JROTC Academic Bowl Championship will be held on the campus of The Catholic University of America, June 22nd-26th, 2018.
Kenwood High School JROTC Academic Team (L to R) Justin Bair, Orlando Moore, Alexis Jordan, and Phoenix Sims.
Clarksville’s Multi-Color Corporation Awarded $20,000 for Incumbent Worker Training Grant
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville, Tennessee Multi-Color Corporation printing facility was awarded $20,000 for an Incumbent Worker Training grant (IWT). Multi-Color Corporation corporate offices are located in Batavia, Ohio and operates 87 printing facilities worldwide.
The Clarksville, TN Multi-Color plant is a wide-web rotogravure printer, producing die cut, pressure sensitive labels and square cut, white paper and metalized paper labels for the beverage and food industry. In Clarksville since 1981, their primary customers are Anheuser-Busch Inbev and Bush Bros.
(Front: L to R) Francisco Vasquez, AJC; MCC employees Bettina Perkins, Brenna Corbin, Kim Dillard, Amaya Garcia-Bland, Annette Jensen, and Melissa Oliver. (Back: L to R) Jamaal Bradley, Workforce Essentials; MCC employees Chris Taylor, Jerry Ferrell, Rhonda Batson, Steve Emery, Paul Wofford, Steve Fuqua, and Michael Jackson, AJC.
Nominate Clarksville Parks for Disney’s “Meet Me at the Park” Earth Month campaign
Winning city will get $20,000 to improve a local park
Clarksville, TN – For the fourth year in a row, the National Recreation and Park Association is collaborating with The Walt Disney Company to help pay for a local park improvement project through the national “Meet Me at the Park” Earth Month campaign.
Local parks make Clarksville a better place to live and are essential to our city’s health and well being.
APSU physics student named Deborah Gulledge “Scientist of the Week” at national lab
Clarksville, TN – The night sky is darker, the stars brighter, in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee. The rural town sits about an hour south of Nashville, where the heavens are dimmed by excessive light pollution, and as a girl, Deborah Gulledge became curious about the brilliant stars above her home.
“I was always interested in astronomy,” she said recently.
APSU student Deborah Gulledge
Hilltop Supermarket’s Easter Egg Hunt delivers big for the local community
Clarksville, TN – Hilltop Supermarket hosted its 23rd annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 31st, 2018 with food, face painting, inflatables, games, and one of the biggest egg hunts in town.
“This has been going on since I was a little kid,” Cody Jackson said. “We put out somewhere between 10,000 and 11,000 eggs this year. But, it may be even more than 11,000, we lost count.”
Jackson says it takes a while to put that many eggs out, but they’re all gone in a matter of minutes.
Hilltop Market hosted its annual Easter Egg Hunt, this year with more than 10,000 eggs placed on the lawn.
