Posted on November 8th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
The annual Pilot Pumpers fundraiser for the United Way last month raised a record $63,478. Here’s the deal: during the three-day promotion at all area Pilot convenience stores, Pilot donates to United Way five cents for every gallon of gas sold and 10 percent of all in-store sales. To drum up interest in the event [...]
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Posted on August 1st, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Election years always provide the best material for the good folks from the Society of Professional Journalists who are writing and producing the annual Front Page Follies shows. The shows, performed largely by local journalists and PR people, are designed to raise money for journalism scholarships. The strategy: Serve cocktails and dinner. Have an auction. [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Tom Mattingly, a former city of Knoxville employee before joining the UT Sports Information Office for 18 years (1987 to 2005), has for the past four years written a Sunday column and daily blog for the News Sentinel. Both are called “The Vol Historian” — and, naturally, that’s what Mattingly also has come to be [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
If you are like me, you will find the fact that Bill Landry of WBIR’s “Heartland Series,” has written a book based on “Heartland” stories is very good news indeed. Titled, “Appalachian Tales and Heartland Adventures,” it contains, Landry said, “100 stories and 300 pages.” It is due out in September — in plenty of [...]
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Posted on April 20th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Using just Facebook and phone calls, WBIR-TV’s news anchor Robin Wilhoit and promotions director Julie Morris coordinated a fun-filled station reunion party last Saturday at Barley’s in the Old City. More than 100 folks — most with ties to our city’s leading news station — showed up for the low-key bash. It was such an [...]
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Posted on March 10th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
To celebrate the great time we are having in our new offices in the historic Miller’s Department Store building at 445 S. Gay Street, we made “coming back to Miller’s” the theme of our annual mid-winter client party this year.
The invitation had historic photos from Miller’s in its heyday. And we chose the time setting [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
• “He said all the right things.”
• “He seems like a good guy. And he’s from UT!”
• “He doesn’t seem like a loose cannon!”
Those were some of the comments heard in the crowd of nearly 300 business people gathered at the Knoxville Convention Center Monday to welcome the new University of Tennessee president, Joe DiPietro.
The [...]
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Posted on December 31st, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
I took a reporter to Regas a while back and was flabbergasted when he said he’d never been there before. I don’t think I could have had a reporting or a business career if it had not been for Regas Restaurant. I’m only exaggerating a little.
In the 1980s, when I was a reporter for the [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
Today is the last day for us in the glass tower that has been our home for the past 15 years. It’s moving day and we are taking our toys and moving from First Tennessee Plaza, the tallest building in downtown, to the Miller’s Building, about four blocks north on Gay Street.
I will explain the reasons [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
Some of us (including me!) shook President Obama’s hand.
We cried when national treasure, poet Maya Angelou, recited a poem about slavery and black history with rapper Common.
We were astounded to see the media crush around Congressman Charles Rangel, who sat at a table next to us at lunch the day before a House ethics committee announced 13 charges against him.
We [...]
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