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This month, nine local teams of architects, engineers, construction companies and other organizations will construct massive holiday-themed art sculptures made of canned food items – all to help fight hunger in the region.

The Board of Commissioners for Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation (KCDC) voted today at its October meeting to appoint Brad Peters as vice president of redevelopment and legal services.

The SUBWAY® Race Against Cancer is set for Sunday, Nov. 8, at World’s Fair Park. The East Tennessee area SUBWAY® franchise owners announced their partnership with Thompson Cancer Survival Center and Covenant Health in February as the new title sponsor of the annual Race Against Cancer.

SMG, the country’s leading entertainment and venue management company and manager of the Knoxville Convention Center, is pleased to provide the City of Knoxville with management services for the Civic Auditorium and Coliseum and Chilhowee Park & Exposition Center in an interim capacity.

Asbury Place continuing care retirement communities recently added Sheri Collins to the sales and marketing team for its Kingsport campus.

Cherokee Distributing Company has added Dogfish Head brews to its portfolio of products and will deliver the well-known “beach beer” to stores, bars and restaurants across East Tennessee.

Theotis Robinson Jr., one of the first students to desegregate the University of Tennessee – and who would later become a UT vice president – received the prestigious Whitney M. Young Jr. Lifetime Achievement award at the Knoxville Area Urban League’s Equal Opportunity Awards Gala on Oct. 22 at the Knoxville Convention Center.

The Tennessee Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects recently presented Hedstrom Design with three honor awards.

Though the Northwest Middle School Boys & Girls Club is only two months old, its rapid growth has shown the evident need for programming at the community school. Approximately 85 students attend the club every day with a total enrollment of 225.

M&M Productions USA has hired Allyson Witt to manage operations in Chattanooga and build the event production business in the surrounding area.