Riverside Drive Wendy’s Re-Opens at Last
March 21, 2011
Clarksville, TN – “It’s been a long ten months,” according to Wendy’s of Clarksville Mike O’Malley speaking about the re-opening of the Riverside Drive Wendy’s location. The store was stripped of everything that wasn’t nailed down just before the rising flood waters deluged the store with 4′ of water in May 2010.
After the flood some tough choices had to be made, including the making the decision to totally rebuild, or not.
A young man ordering a Frosty is the first customer at the newly re-opened Wendy's Restaurant
2011 tax year time to think about giving to APSU
March 1, 2011
Clarksville, TN – The start of a new tax year is the time to think about planned giving and the number of other ways to support Austin Peay State University financially.
Christine Booth, director of major gifts at APSU, said planned giving is becoming a preferred path for individuals who wish to remember the University in their estate plans.
“Planned giving is a big thing today,” she said. [Read more]
Clarksville’s newest Wendy’s Restaurant sets the standard
July 13, 2010
Riverside Drive Location re-opening date still undetermined
Exit 1 has been undergoing a serious boom in recent years. It started with the addition of Great Escape Theatre at the Intersection of Trenton Road and Tiny Town Road, since then new businesses have been attracted to the area. The newest being on June 30th, 2010 with the opening of the Clarksville area’s seventh Wendy’s Restaurant located at 1824 Tiny Town Road.
The designers of the restaurant planned a return to the casual elegance that Dave Thomas intended for the franchise when he opened the original Wendy’s in Columbus Ohio back in 1969. Their newest restaurant features warm earth tones, a carpeted dining room, tiled floors, and textured two toned walls, frosted glass partitions, tin roofed ceilings in the restrooms, and the Dave Thomas memorial wall. There is a nice comfortable atmosphere which you can feel right away when you step into the dining room.
The first customers enter the dining room
Sam Lashlee and Jeff Davis wins 16th APSU Governors Bass Tournament
May 26, 2010
Sam Lashlee and Jeff Davis won the 16th Governors Bass Tournament, Sunday, at Paris Landing State Park.
PARIS LANDING—The team of Sam Lashlee and Jeff Davis literally cast aside the rest of the field as they captured the first-place prize of $4,000 in the 16th annual Governors Bass Tournament, Sunday.
Lashlee, of Camden, and Davis, of Waverly, came away with a catch of 29.12 pounds to easily outdistance Scott Mansfield, who hauled in 22.42 to take second place and $1,500.
APSU alumnus Charles Hand receives 2010 Regents Award of Excellence in Philanthropy
May 15, 2010
Charles Hand was presented the 2010 Regents Award of Excellence in Philanthropy during Austin Peay State University’s annual Tower Club Dinner, held Friday, April 30. Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) Chancellor Charles Manning presented Hand the award.
APSU President Tim Hall, who nominated Hand for the award, said, “Hand’s financial support of the university expands over a long period of time. His lifetime giving is almost one million dollars and includes significant support of APSU athletics, with a special emphasis on our baseball program since the baseball park is named in his father’s memory, Raymond C. Hand. Austin Peay’s Beatrice Hand Village, a relatively new housing complex, is named in memory of his mother.” [Read more]
