Retirement Reception for Mayor

The Brownsville Haywood County Chamber of Commerce and First South Bank hosted a Retirement Reception for outgoing Mayor Webb Banks and Vice-Mayor Joe Taylor Tuesday, June 29, 2010, at the First South Community Room. More than 100 well-wishers stopped by to greet the gentlemen and wish them all the best. Both will officially leave office on July 13.

Here are some random pictures from the reception:

STEP needs Haywood County Mentors

It seems there are many things that need to happen to get us ready for an industry in our new megasite. While the general public can't do anything to help the infrastructure issues that will have to be dealt with, we can help in other areas.

First and foremost we must present a positive attitude about ourselves, our community and our future. Second we must help create a more educated workforce so that when an industry is ready to come here, our residents will have a chance at the new jobs that will be created.

Enter the STEP program. Simply put, with the help of local mentors, students will be better prepared to enter college and receive the level of education they will need to compete for the high tech jobs of the future.

Here's more about STEP:

http://www.allaboutbrownsville.net/newsandevents/NewsEvents/10stepinitiative.htm
http://www.swtdd.org/redi/step.php

Nothing to Do?

Okay, someone remind me again. Who said there was nothing to do in Haywood County?

http://www.allaboutbrownsville.net/calendar/2010/june10.html

New Website Launch

Dynametal Technologies, a leader in powder metallurgy products, located at 400 North Dupree Ave., Brownsville, Tenn., launched a brand new customer–focused, interactive website on June 1, 2010.
Please log on @ http://www.dynametal.com/ to view the website and to stay current with Dynametal News and Events.

Matherne Wins Mayor Race

Congratulations to our new Mayor-Elect Jo Matherne; and to Carolyn Flagg who is re-elected to the Ward 2 Alderman seat and Thomas Averyheart who has been elected to the Ward 4 Alderman seat.

Lots of very qualified candidates running and it was a good race. All the candidates should be commended for their interest and energy in wanting to help make Brownsville a better place.

I can see all of them working together now to make the things they talked about during the campaign happen.

These are the unofficial numbers as I know them (none have been certified as yet):

Mayoral Race

1. Jo Matherne - 888
2. Anne Banks - 652
3. John Ashworth - 585
4. Larry Fitts - 90
5. James Peace - 54
6. Mike Dew - 26

Alderman - Ward 2

1. Carolyn Flagg - 301
2. Cedric Bunch - 50

Alderman Ward 4

1. Thomas Averyheart - 227
2. J.P. Moses - 193

WTDHC publishes first e-newsletter

Check out the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center's First E-Newsletter.

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs027/1103454893098/archive/1103475250399.html

Free Concert June 19 - Southern Gospel meets Country Spiritual

Ya'll Come!

Sorry it took so long

WOW! I can't believe it's been almost 6 months since my last blog entry. Someone should have sent an ugly e-mail wanting to know what was going on. And then I would have had to admit that my job as Director of the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center has been taking up a lot of my time. I've also been busy learning about marketing with social media like facebook, twitter and foursquare. At any rate, I hope you will forgive me for my absence here.