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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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