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Adams Recognized as Rotary Senior Citizen of the Year
As the end
of the year approaches, the Lewisburg Rotary Club turns
its focus to recognizing individuals in the community
who have made a positive impact through their service,
their leadership and as a shining example to others.
Each year,
the Lewisburg Rotary Club recognizes its Volunteer of
the Year, Outstanding Senior Citizen of the Year and the
Expert in the Field.
This year,
business and community leader Jack Adams was recognized
and honored by the Lewisburg Rotary Club as its
Outstanding Senior Citizen of the Year at the Oct. 10
meeting.
Adams was
born in Rutherford County where he left to join the
occupation forces in Japan following the end of World
War II in service to his country. He arrived in Marshall
County in 1960 and opened the Adams and Davis Grocery
Store, later renamed Dixie Foods. The business was very
successful and gave job opportunities to many young
people in the community. Adams would later open up other
stores including one in Pulaski.
Adams also
served his community as the Marshall County Chamber of
Commerce President for two terms in 1963 and 1964. Adams
was instrumental in getting the Chamber back on solid
financial ground by establishing the dues system and by
changing the monthly business meetings to only two
business meetings per year – a practice that is still in
place today. Adams president as well for the Lewisburg
Lions Club and continues to teach Sunday School at East
Commerce Baptist Church where he is member along with
his wife Bonnie.
His other
service includes being a member of the Tennessee Ten, a
group of business and community leaders from across the
state who travel around the country learning more about
how to attract and maintain industry and business in
Tennessee.
For these
reasons and more, it is appropriate that the Lewisburg
Rotary Club honors Jack Adams as its 2007 Outstanding
Senior Citizen of the Year.
Jobe
Recognized as Rotary Volunteer of the Year
As the end
of the year approaches, the Lewisburg Rotary Club turns
its focus to recognizing individuals in the community
who have made a positive impact through their service,
their leadership and as a shining example to others.
Each year,
the Lewisburg Rotary Club recognizes its Volunteer of
the Year, Outstanding Senior Citizen of the Year and the
Expert in the Field.
This year,
local entrepreneur Loval Jobe was recognized and honored
by the Lewisburg Rotary Club as its Volunteer of the
Year at the Oct. 10 meeting.
Jobe was
born and raised in Lewisburg and graduated from MCHS in
1971. He went on to attend MTSU where he was the place
kicker for the Blue Raider Football Team. After a brief
stint in Nashville, Jobe returned to Lewisburg and
opened a janitorial business, Duraclean. He would later
take ownership of Domino’s Pizza in Lewisburg and has
since opened another Domino’s Pizza in Chapel Hill. His
entrepreneurial spirit is second only to his volunteer
spirit and his willingness to help others, especially
the young people in the community. He has worked with
the Fellowship of Christian Athletes program but his new
love is Central Park.
Jobe began
working on a community center located inside the former
Connelly Middle School. It began as God’s Grounds coffee
house where local churches hosted bands, held events,
taught bible school classes and operated youth athletic
leagues. Today, the community center is called Central
Park and is home to many of those same events and more.
There are basketball leagues, a boxing club and various
activities, classes and events for the people of the
community.
Currently,
Central Park is building a Second Floor Skaters park at
Central Park for the young people to have a place to
skateboard. Jobe recognized the popularity of the sport
and has always been able to supplement the activities of
the youth to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, fellowship
and the difference between right and wrong to young
people.
Among his other volunteer endeavors, Jobe has been a
volunteer at NHC for seven years singing and speaking
with the people there. And he is in the process of
completing and publishing a children’s book that will
hit the shelves soon. The book was inspired by his
daughter Megan, 21, who is a senior at the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville. His son Stephen, 18, is a freshman
at UT-Knoxville.
“I just want
to say that I am very proud of all that my father has
done,” Megan said. “He has worked harder than most, even
I, will ever know on getting Central Park started. I
hope that he is met with great support and encouragement
for all that he has done and plans to do.”
For these
reasons and more, it is appropriate that the Lewisburg
Rotary Club honors Loval Jobe as its 2007 Volunteer of
the Year.
Fagan
Recognized as Rotary Expert in the Field
As the end
of the year approaches, the Lewisburg Rotary Club turns
its focus to recognizing individuals in the community
who have made a positive impact through their service,
their leadership and as a shining example to others.
Each year,
the Lewisburg Rotary Club recognizes its Volunteer of
the Year, Senior Citizen of the Year and the Expert in
the Field.
This year,
Marshall County Court Clerk Daphne Fagan was recognized
and honored by the Lewisburg Rotary Club as its Expert
in the Field at the Oct. 3 meeting.
Fagan served
in the office of the Marshall County Court Clerk since
1989 before winning election to her first term as
Marshall County Court Clerk in 1998. Currently serving
her third term, Fagan has run unopposed in the past two
elections as a testament to her outstanding work as
County Court Clerk. Fagan oversees a myriad of
responsibilities from renewal of vehicle tags to all
sorts of licensing – marriage, business, hunting and
fishing. Other duties of the County Clerk Office include
Beer Tax/Permits, Boat Registrations, Vehicle Titles,
Passports, Notary Public Applications and more. One area
of promotion by Fagan and her office is Organ Donor
Awareness – the subject of the Lewisburg Rotary Club’s
focus for its yearly project currently underway.
Information on Organ and Tissue Donation is available
and you can even give to the Organ Donor Awareness Fund
through Fagan’s office.
In addition
to her daily duties, Fagan serves as Record
Keeper/Secretary for the Marshall County Commission.
Fagan also
serves her community as a Board Member for Wee Care
Center and through her church, Westvue Church of Christ,
where she attends with husband, Randy, and her two
children, Jennifer, a student at UT-Martin, and Dakota,
a student at Lewisburg Middle School.
Next year,
Fagan will be named one of the youngest persons to Chair
the County Clerk Association.
These are
just a few of the reasons Fagan was nominated and
elected by the Lewisburg Rotary Club as its Expert in
the Field.
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