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SMALL BUSINESS Knoxville businesses among best in US Free! U.S. Chamber of Commerce includes ve Knoxville companies in its annual list of Please outstanding small businesses. P2 take one. Chase Malone April 3 – 9, 2015 Vol. 41 | Issue 14 KNOXVILLE EDITION www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville The power of information. LedgerDAVIDSON • WILLIAMSON • SUMNER • CHEATHAM • RUTHERFORD WILSON ROBERTSON • MAURY • DICKSON • MONTGOMERY • KNOX • ANDERSON •BLOUNT •SEVIER | FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 VolsVols areare Dobbs’Dobbs’ teamteam now,now, andand that’sthat’s justjust howhow hehe wantswants itit Junior happily embraces role of ‘CEO quarterback’ Story by Dave Link begins on page 3 Andrew Bruckse | Tennessee Athletics/UTsports.com Starting quarterback Josh Dobbs, 4-1 as a starter last year and the MVP of the TaxSlayer Bowl win against Iowa, will likely be the key to Vols 2015 success. More inside: Newsmakers ..........................................13 Find Public Notices News Briefs ..............................................4 Crossword...............................................16 inside & online: Guerrilla Marketing ...............................5 Community Calendar ..........................16 www.TNLedger.com Public Notices ........................7-12, 17–25 Behind the Wheel .................................28 Page 2 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville APRIL 3 – 9, 2015 Chase Malone | The Ledger Tomato Head restaurant in Market Square. Knoxville Chamber celebrates best of best By Roger Harris | Correspondent forthright. more info s it has been for the last several years, Knoxville is well represented “A board member may say, I know this https://www.uschamber.com/2015- company or this business owner is a friend on the 2015 list of U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Blue blue-ribbon-award-winners of mine and they will recuse themselves Ribbon Award winners. A http://www.knoxvillechamber.com/ from the discussion of that company. Five Knoxville companies – e Tomato Head, Management Solutions LLC, ve-local-businesses-win-us-chambers- “ ere can be a fair amount of debate Design Innovation Architects Inc., Visionary Solutions LLC and AMS Corp. – blue-ribbon-award over which company is the best nominee, are among 100 companies nationwide selected for this year’s awards. Only one but what I have been most surprised other Tennessee company made the list. need to make sure they are picking the top about is our board understands it’s not a quality companies in our community. It’s popularity contest. e Blue Ribbon awards are part of the U.S. Chamber’s DREAM BIG Small “You don’t see board members Business of the Year Award program, which celebrates the role of small business not a popularity contest. “Each of the Pinnacle Award categories lobbying for a buddy. On a practical in the national economy. Seven regional nalists will be selected from the 100 has a committee, and there is often quite level we make it easier for the board to Blue Ribbon winners and one will be named small business of the year. a bit of debate in the committee meetings review applications by making everything All 100 companies will be honored June 9 at the national about which companies are the best. We available electronically. And we have great chamber’s annual Small Business Summit in Washington, D.C. consider a variety of criteria. We look at attendance at award committee meetings. Board members take it seriously.’’ Over the years, the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce has been their strategic direction and how well they What does the Knoxville one of the most successful local business advocates in nominating are meeting the goals set by their plan, how do they maintain employee morale, Q: Chamber does to encourage Blue Ribbon winners. Since 2010, 26 Blue Ribbon winners have how involved are they in the community development of small businesses and BUSINESS help them grow. PROFILES been Knoxville companies. and what level of community service are page 6 “ e Knoxville Chamber has been a strong supporter of they engaged in and much more. “ e di erentiator for any the DREAM BIG Awards program for several years and has “So we take that process and turn it A: business is education. We try consistently nominated quality small businesses that exemplify the spirt of over to the Blue Ribbon nomination to do a really good job of making our innovation and entrepreneurship,” a statement from the U.S. Chamber reads. process. By the time a company has been members know what they need to know selected for Blue Ribbon nomination, it’s to build their business. “ e Knoxville Chamber nominated a number of candidates this year, but it’s a company that’s been vetted pretty well. really the businesses that distinguish themselves from the competition.” “Often small business owners are How do you ensure the board’s too busy ghting res just to keep their Encouraging development of small business is one the Knoxville Chamber’s Q: award committees pick the business going to learn the things they primary missions. best companies each year and aren’t need to learn. ey aren’t aware of Mark Fields, the Knoxville Chamber’s senior vice president of development, in uenced by personal friendships or the latest human relations trends, the discusses the Chamber’s role in small business development and how Knoxville business relationships? millennial trends, or what they can do to companies are nominated for the Blue Ribbon award: “We are very serious about improve employee morale. A: giving these awards to the “ e best business owners are informed Why has the Knoxville Pinnacle Award winners. [ e Pinnacle business owners. ey understand their Q: business community been so Business awards are the local chamber’s best companies and not just the most popular companies. Our board members market, how to get their product to the successful in the Blue Ribbon program annual program to recognize the top marketplace in the most e cient and and how does the Knoxville Chamber companies in the Knoxville region.] understand this, and the business community has come to consider the convenient way. ey know how to determine the companies it nominates? “And the biggest thing about the make sure their employees are happy Pinnacle Awards is the involvement of our awards as truly representing business “First, the Blue Ribbon and productive. What we do is give our A: board. We emphasize to them that they excellence. What you have is a selection nominees must have been system where people are being very CHAMBER >> PAGE 4 APRIL 3 – 9, 2015 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville Page 3 Ultrasound bill the exception Anti-abortion legislation Dobbs’ success nds little resistance no surprise to Buoyed by passage of “It’s not safer to the unborn child,” Hill former coach Amendment 1 last fall, responded. legislation restricting Clemmons points out 91.5 percent abortions is starting to of abortions performed in Tennessee Joshua Dobbs enters his junior roll – with relative ease take place in the rst trimester, calling season as Tennessee’s undisputed No. – through the General Hill’s legislation “misdirected” because it 1 quarterback and team leader, the View Assembly. consistently uses the term “unborn child” player most responsible for the Vols’ from the Hill Rep. Susan Lynn, rather than “non-viable fetus.” relevance again in SEC football. By SAM R-Mt. Juliet, and Hill, however, contends the bill’s Link Perhaps Dobbs will guide the Vols STOCKARD Rep. Matthew Hill, language re ects medical advancements on UT to an SEC East Division title, or even a R-Jonesborough, began “to identify the unborn child as just that, league championship. Maybe we will Ledger By DAVE LINK the push recently with measures backed an unborn child.” see Dobbs in the NFL one day, or by Gov. Bill Haslam, House Speaker Beth Licensing and inspection designing a spacecraft for NASA. Harwell, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and the Rep. Lynn’s legislation would The power of None of it would surprise Dobbs’ former head coach at Republican ranks. eir bills couldn’t require facilities performing more information. Alpharetta (Ga.) High School, Jason Dukes, now in his even draw enough resistance to require a than 50 abortions a year to be licensed second year as head coach at Smiths Station (Ala.) High. roll-call vote. Published weekly by “I’ve actually known Joshua since he was in seventh as ambulatory surgery centers by the Westview Newspaper, LLC Amendment 1’s passage in Tennessee Department of Health. grade, and it’s not usual to nd a young man that is as November 2014 removed gives the “ is is really keeping our promise 223 Rosa L. Parks Ave. mature as he is,” Dukes says. “Now, don’t get me wrong. Legislature authority to enact, amend Suite 205 He’s a regular kid. He’s a regular human being, but he is for Amendment 1 to our Tennessee Nashville, TN 37203 or repeal abortion laws, not limited to Constitution,” Lynn says. (615) 254-5522 so mature when it comes to being about his business. circumstances dealing with pregnancy Previous court rulings held such FAX: (615) 254-5525 “When I say about his business, I say about his business from rape or incest or when the mother’s licensing and inspections infringed on Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m on the eld, about his business in the classroom. ere’s life is endangered. a person’s right to seek an abortion, she so many layers to that kid. Not many people know he’s “I think the speaker and the lieutenant says. Publisher a concert pianist, as well, and he’s a heck of a saxophone governor have it right, that the focus they Eric Barnes player, too. Clemmons also challenges Lynn on her General Manager have on three issues around abortion bill, saying there are two such facilities & Executive Editor “ ere’s a lot of layers to that kid.