2024 FRIEND OF THE YEAR AWARD

DREW KITTS RECEIVES SEVIERVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Drew Kitts claimed the Friend of the Year Award at this year’s Sevierville Chamber of Commerce Membership Breakfast presented by Allegra Print & Imaging. Kitts, Director of Marketing for Preferred Pharmacy,...

CNB Welcomes New Chief Operations Officer

Citizens National Bank (CNB) has announced the addition of Jeff Frederick as Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer. "We are pleased to have Jeff join the CNB Team as its Chief Operations Officer. He exemplifies the core values of our organization, which...

These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things: Start 2024 With a Great Crime Book and Join Alcatraz East Book Club

In a poll by online research group YouGov, half of Americans say they enjoy reading true crime content. Alcatraz East Crime Museum invites anyone who wants to dive into the topic to their monthly Crime Museum Book Club, held online in a Facebook group. The book club...
Life is Voluntary: Dream Big

Life is Voluntary: Dream Big

By Henry Piarrot “It doesn’t matter if you fail little or fail big, they are both failure! So go all out and fail big, because who ever heard of someone wanting to succeed in a little way!” – American Action Adventure Author Chris Keys Clifford Robert Popkey was born...

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Life is Voluntary: Don’t Be Afraid

Life is Voluntary: Don’t Be Afraid

  By Henry Piarrot “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” – Henry Ford As a young boy living in the Lakeview area of New Orleans, there was always something to do. However, a sport was never on my single Mother’s list of safe activities....

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Life is Voluntary: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

Life is Voluntary: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

By Henry Piarrot Leadership is basically One’s gift, talent or simple ability to get others to willingly follow. Notice the key word in the last sentence is “willingly.” True leaders understand that we cannot make anyone do anything they do not want to do. Those that...

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Life is Voluntary – Aimless Mike

Life is Voluntary – Aimless Mike

By Henry Piarrot “They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.” – Ernest Hemmingway Amy Michelle Abell was born in...

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Life is Voluntary: Never Work a Day in Your Life

Life is Voluntary: Never Work a Day in Your Life

By Henry Piarrot “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain On...

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Life is Voluntary: Small People

Life is Voluntary: Small People

By Henry Piarrot “People are often unreasonable and self-centered… Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives… Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you… Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous…...

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