Barge Design Solutions Donates $6,500 to Knoxville Organizations

Barge Design Solutions Inc., Community Fund awarded over $29,000 this spring to various organizations local to the company’s regional offices. $6,500 of this grant money was awarded to two Knoxville organizations: Laurel JustLead and Legacy Parks Foundation.

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New ENR ranking places The Christman Company in Top 100 contractors nationally

The Engineering News-Record (ENR), a news outlet known as the authority for tracking the construction industry, has placed The Christman Company (Christman) at #93 on its 2019 “ENR 400” list of the top 400 contractors nationally

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Blount Partnership Newsletter – June 10, 2019

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Ann “Nan” LaVecchia has been named Director of the Aviation Program at Cornerstone of Recovery

Ann “Nan” LaVecchia has been named Director of the Aviation Program at Cornerstone of Recovery, a nationally respected drug and alcohol treatment center and a highly regarded provider of addiction and alcoholism.

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InfoSystems Names Leadership of Marketing, Services, and Information Security

— InfoSystems, an information technology company celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, has named Josh Davis as Vice President of Marketing and William [Fred] Cobb as Vice President of Services and Chief Information Security Officer.

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First Horizon Foundation Releases Inaugural Annual Report

— First Horizon Foundation, which operates as Capital Bank Foundation and First Tennessee Foundation, today released its inaugural annual report, highlighting its impact in 2018.

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Blount Partnership Newsletter – June 3, 2019

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The Christman Company to build Southwestern Community College health sciences building

The Christman Company has been awarded a $17.6 million contract to build Southwestern Community College’s (SCC) new 55,000-square-foot health sciences building in Sylva, North Carolina.

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Blount Partnership Newsletter – May 27, 2019

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Park Tourism Generates $953 million in Visitor Spending

A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 11,421,203 visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2018 spent $953 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 13,737 jobs in the local area. National park tourism is a significant driver in the national economy, with every dollar invested by American taxpayers in the National Park Service returning $10 to the economy.

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