April 2015 Features

  • St. Mary's Among Top 5% in US for Patient Safety

    April 30, 2015

    St. Mary’s Health Care System announced today that it has achieved Healthgrades’ Patient Safety Excellence Award for the fifth year in a row and is named among the nation’s top 5 percent of hospitals for patient safety for the third year in a row.

  • Veterans Career and Resource Expo Set for May 14th in Athens

    April 29, 2015

    The Georgia Department of Labor and the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Ladies Auxiliary will co-sponsor a career and resource expo Thursday, May 14, in Athens. The expo will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 noon at the VFW Post No. 2872, 835 Sunset Drive.

  • Tickle Your Funny Bone: 20 Desk Toys for the Office

    April 29, 2015

  • Lisa Rawls: Chamber Seeks to Empower Athens' Small Businesses

    April 28, 2015

    Access to proven, successful resources can be empowering for any business, but at the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce, they are taking it to heart, especially for our area’s small businesses, says Lisa Rawls, principal of Evergreen CFO, a board member of the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce and who chairs the Chamber’s Small Business Committee.

  • Incredibly Simple Steps for a More Creative Workplace

    April 24, 2015

    Which one would you pick: A job that inspires you to dream up some new idea every single day then work and build on them? Or one that needs you to do the same mindless, repetitive task day in and day out? That’s a no brainer. The first one, of course.

  • AGL Resources Moves the Natural Gas Industry and the Economy Forward

    April 23, 2015

    Hank Linginfelter, Executive Vice President, Distribution Operations, articulates with ease the activities of AGL Resources, headquartered in Atlanta since 1856. “Every year we’re running pipes to new areas of the state. We want to serve customers reliably and safely. We want to keep costs low,” he says.

  • Governor Signs Opportunity School District, Education Reform Into Law

    April 22, 2015

    Gov. Nathan Deal signed legislation that would implement an Opportunity School District to turn around failing schools. This law provides the framework for how the OSD would work should voters approve a constitutional amendment in 2016.

  • Athens Twilight Rides this Weekend

    April 21, 2015

    80 fast-paced laps around the downtown city streets of Athens, Georgia – the 35th Athens Twilight Criterium takes place April 24-25, 2015.

  • NORAMCO recognized as Athens-Clarke County’s 2015 Manufacturer of the Year

    April 20, 2015

    Athens-Clarke County’s annual Industry Appreciation Dinner was held last week to celebrate the contributions that local manufacturers make to the Athens community. The event was attended by over 100 guests, including local, State and national elected officials, community leaders and the captains of industry throughout Athens.

  • UGA Grady College Announces Departmental Restructure Changes

    April 17, 2015

    The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has been restructured to create a single, digital-first journalism department and to have one department solely focused on entertainment and media studies, a rapidly growing sector of the media industry.

  • St. Mary’s Receives Chest Pain Center Accreditation

    April 16, 2015

    St. Mary’s Health Care System has received full accreditation as a chest pain center with PCI – the technical term for emergency balloon angioplasty and stent implantation – from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care.

  • Athen's Carrier Transicold Celebrates Two Anniversaries

    April 15, 2015

    Carrier Transicold is celebrating a double anniversary this year: 75 years of Carrier road transport refrigeration innovation and the 45th anniversary of the Carrier Transicold business. Carrier Transicold helps improve global transport and shipping of temperature controlled cargoes with a complete line of equipment for refrigerated trucks, trailers and containers, and is a part of UTC Building & Industrial Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp.

  • Q&A With GDEcD Director of Global Commerce Annie Baxter

    April 14, 2015

    In the first of a monthly series with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, Director of Global Commerce for Logistics, Energy, Agribusiness & Food Annie Baxter discusses important transportation projects, innovations in logistics, and the economic development climate in Georgia.

  • Are Your Employees Getting Enough Sleep? (And if Not, Why Do You Care?)

    April 13, 2015

    It’s no secret to any harried entrepreneur that getting too little sleep has plenty of ill effects. But did you ever stop to think about the effect lack of sleep might be having on your employees. And, by extension, how that could be affecting your business?

  • Georgia Lt. Gov. Cagle to Present UGA Public Service & Outreach Keynote Address

    April 10, 2015

    Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle will present the 2015 keynote address following the 24th annual University of Georgia Public Service and Outreach Awards presentations on April 13th.

  • 2015 Georgia Chamber Red Carpet Tour Begins Today

    April 08, 2015

    The 2015 Georgia Chamber of Commerce Red Carpet Tour kicks off today and runs through Saturday, April 11th. Twenty-four business leaders who are planning to locate or expand from throughout the nation and the world are participating in this year’s tour, which will visit the Governor’s Mansion, the College Football Hall of Fame and the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta and the Masters golf tournament in Augusta.

  • UGA Provost Expands Slate of Leadership Development Programs

    April 07, 2015

    In addition to providing faculty with an immersive, yearlong fellowship through the SEC Academic Leadership Development Program, Provost Pamela Whitten has launched three new programs to support existing leaders and broaden the pipeline of potential leaders.

  • Don’t Miss the Opportunity to Perform Employee Reviews

    April 06, 2015

    There are compliance elements to annual employee reviews, but they’re at the end of this article. That’s not to minimize their importance; however, they are more “checklist” things. So first, we’ll discuss the more complicated, and often ignored, employee review.

  • Marquee Broadcasting to Purchase WUGA-TV

    April 03, 2015

    Marquee Broadcasting Inc. of Brookeville, Maryland, has entered into an agreement to acquire WUGA-TV from the University of Georgia for $2.5 million. Marquee Broadcasting is owned by Brian and Patricia Lane. The company also owns WMDT-TV, the ABC/CW/Me-TV affiliate in Salisbury, Maryland.

  • Javy Lopez to Headline Golf Tourney for St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital

    April 02, 2015

    Former Atlanta Braves catcher Javy Lopez will be the special honoree at the 2015 Bucky Dent Legends on the Links golf tournament to be held on Monday, Oct. 5, at the beautiful Reynolds Plantation National course. The tournament will again benefit St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital.

  • Profile: Richard Raby, Asset Management for Creative Financial Group

    April 01, 2015

    Richard Raby, portfolio manager with Creative Financial Group, came to the company in 2000 looking for a position offering more face-to-face interaction with his clients. “I was working with E*TRADE when I heard of the opportunity at Creative,” he says. “I was looking for something less transaction-based and more relationship driven, and I found exactly that.” Richard enjoys the opportunity to see the tangible results of his work.