Congratulations to Daniel Hawk with Consumer Credit Union, who was the top salesperson in the Partnership's 2012 Membership Campaign.  Daniel recruited 16 new members with total investments of $4,166.  Second place in the campaign went to Dale Long with The Greeneville Sun, who brought in eight new members for a total of $2,227, and in third place was Gwen Lilley of Century 21 Legacy with eight new members and $2,168.  Approximately $12,000 was raised in the campaign.  Sincere thanks to all the teams and team members who assisted the Partnership with this project!

More than 200 people attended the 24th Annual Farm-City Banquet on November 8 at the Clyde Austin 4-H Center.  Lanny Love was presented the J. W. Massengill Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award and Ronnie Metcalfe was presented the Robert C. Austin Distinguished Service to the Community Award.  Many thanks to the following sponsors for making this event possible:  Title Sponsor Andrew Johnson Bank, George Mays, C&C Millwright Maintenance Company, Consumer Credit Union, Farm Credit Mid-America, Greene County Farm Bureau, Greene County Soil Conservation District, Greene County Veterinary Medical Center, Greeneville Federal Bank, Greeneville Light & Power System, John Deere Power Products and Unity Urology.

The Partnership congratulates Chairman of the Board Chuck Whitfield for receiving the Tennessee Hospital Association's 2012 Distinguished Service Award on November 2.  This award, which is the highest leadership award presented by the association, recognizes leadership and service by an individual throughout his or her career. 

The Partnership's sincere sympathy goes out to the family of Steve Hendrickson, who passed away unexpectedly Monday, November 12.  Steve served on the Partnership's first Board of Directors, concluding his terms by capably filling the position of chairman of the board in 1999.

The Economic Development Department's database website, GreeneCountyProspector.com, has a new look!  Over the past few weeks GIS Planning, which built the site, has been migrating all data over to a newer, more user-friendly platform.  The new platform went live November 6 and is proving to be much more efficient regarding report generation and property searches than the old system.  This site, which is used by the Economic Development Department to produce property profiles and demographics for prospect proposals, can also be used by the community to generate demographic, labor force and consumer expenditure reports for Greeneville, Baileyton, Mosheim, Tusculum and Greene County.  For questions regarding the new platform, contact Ashley Shelton at 638-4111 or email econdev@greenecop.com.

Tourism now has a Twitter account.  Follow www.twitter.com/tourismlady66 to get up-to-date tweets on what's going on in Greeneville and Greene County.

Looking for a really nice 12-foot decorated Christmas tree?  Don't miss the Niswonger Performing Arts Center's Festival of Trees now going on at NPAC.  The event will feature trees, wreaths and other items available at silent auction, ending Wednesday, November 21, at noon.  All proceeds from the event will be divided between the local Food Bank and NPAC.  For more information, call the NPAC Box Office, 423-638-1679 from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday or visit GreenevilleNPAC.com.