District Governor International President
Gary Benmark John Kenny
Springfield, TN Grangemouth, Scotland
Today, Jeff Agee, President and Chief Executive Officer of First Citizens National Bank here in Union City is guest speaker. Jeff will be speaking mainly to our special guests, the recipients of the Verhine Scholarships for this year. As in years past, these students represent young adults who have graduated from Union City High School and completed at least one year of advanced education in a college or university.
Jeff received his Associate Degree in business Administration from Dyersburg State Community College and a Bachelor of Science Degree from University of Tennessee at Martin. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and FINRA Financial and Operations Principal. He graduated form BAI’s University of Wisconsin banking School and ABA’s University of Georgetown Banking School. He is also a graduate of Dyersburg/Dyer County Leadership and West Star Leadership programs.
While at Dyersburg State he played on the Baseball Team, being named Most Valuable Player in 1981. He was Dyersburg State’s Alumni of the Year in 2000, he was named a Kiwanis George Hixson Fellow in 2001, and awarded First Citizens Leadership of the Year Award in 2008. Among a long list of community and banking activities, he also spends a lot of his spare time coaching youth baseball.
Next week, The Union City Daily Messenger’s Local Soothsayer , Gridiron Guru, Mike (Hutch) Hutchens , will visit Rotary, bringing with him a collection of both entertaining and humorous tales of his experiences covering local high school, collegiate and professional athletics.
Mike recently completed his 27th year of covering local, regional and national level athletes and teams as sports editor of The Messenger. He is currently the president of the Tennessee Sports Writers Association and he is the only person to serve in that capacity twice in the organizations history.
During his tenure at The Messenger he has presided over a department that has won over 165 awards statewide in writing, design and photography com;petitions. He has won more than 100 of those awards personally. H has spoken to numerous teams, groups and civic organizations in both motivational and entertainment roles during the past decade and has been a co-host of WENK’s popular "Countdown to Kickoff" program for the past 20 years.
Last week, Past President and local Veterinarian, Dr. Leland Davis had as guests, this years benefactors of the coveted "Trip of a Lifetime", sponsored by Union City Rotary for the second year now. These students are to be members of the Senior Class of the 3 local High Schools, Union City High School, South Fulton High School and Obion County Central High School when school begins this Fall. The selections this year consist of Chase Bowling, Trey Maddox, Lakevius Turner, Jacob Cleaver, Alton Alexander, Jasmine Davis, Megan Hickman, Kassadie Mullinis and Cameryn Fishel. The group will leave Union City in a few days, traveling to several foreign countries, representing Union City Rotary, joining other groups who are doing the same. Also present last week, was Joanna Wisener, she and her husband Clark will accompany the students as chaperones.
Also on last weeks program we had a brother team visiting from a local business known as Final Flight Outfitters, an Outdoor Sportsman"s Paradise, which sells anything and everything a hunter would ever need. Jon Ed, Kelley and Tripp Powers co-owners of the business, presented a slide presentation showing the phases of the business since it’s beginning in 1998. It began by developing relationships with manufacturers of hunting products while on duck calling competitions all over the country. Kelley and his Brothers traveled together on these trips and began selling products for various companies who would sponsor the competitions. In 1999 they decided to move their inventory into the old Midway Grocery Building, so as to be able to sort their products better, after a re-modeling job it became a seasonal sporting goods store. A few months later they opened the business up on a permanent basis, then deciding to go mail-order and publishing their own catalog, then web-site, the business has grown to the major facility it is today.
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