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Jackson County Chamber names award winners, small business grants [The Sun Herald]
[October 30, 2014]

Jackson County Chamber names award winners, small business grants [The Sun Herald]


(Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oct. 30--PASCAGOULA -- The Jackson County Chamber announced the winners of key awards and small business grants at its 71st Annual Membership Meeting on Thursday to introduce a new chairman, A. Kelly Sessoms III.



Ambassador of the Year is volunteer Renee Pettis, business manager with Compton Engineering Inc. of Pascagoula, for donating time to help with public relations and membership for the chamber. And winner of the Jolly P. McCarty Award of Excellence in Leadership was Trudi Dixon, 35-year employee and business development specialist in the Policy, Government and Public Affairs department of the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery.

Dixon lead more than 100 volunteers in Small Business Walks, where the chamber canvases businesses to determine their needs, and has worked with the Jackson County Industrial Trade Show for more than a decade.


Outgoing Chairman Alan Sudduth pointed out that during his tenure, the chamber had a record 133 new members and a Leadership Jackson County class of 42, the largest ever.

Sudduth introduced Sessoms at the Thursday banquet at the Hilton Garden Inn, calling Sessoms a "servant leader." Sessoms told the crowd of about 350, "As we work to rise above the effects of the Great Recession, there has never been a better time to belong to the Chamber of Commerce and showcase your business." Sessoms is an attorney with Phelps Dunbar and is attorney for the Pascagoula School District. He also serves on the board of directors for the United Way of Jackson and George Counties and is a past president of the Pascagoula Kiwanis Club.

Winners of the chamber's 2014 small business grants at $2,500 each are: Gwen's Catering and Take-Out Restaurant, Audiowave Inc., Scranton's Restaurant & Catering, Goodgames Inc. and Pugh's Florist.

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