Arnold Community Council announces annual dinner Oct. 22

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  • By Raquel March
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ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, TENN. --  The Arnold Community Council, a community support group for Arnold Engineering Development Complex, will host its annual dinner Oct. 22 at the Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center.

The guest speaker is Randy Boyd, Tennessee Economic and Community Development commissioner.

Boyd became commissioner of the TNECD in January 2015. The department is responsible for recruiting business and industry to the state as well as Tennessee's overall economic growth. He serves on several corporate boards including the Radio Systems Corporation, a company that produces over 4,600 pet products; the EDP Bio Tech, a bio-science company conducting cancer and DNA research; and Boyd Sports LLC, owner of the Tennessee Smokies Baseball team.

The annual dinner is the ACC's only fundraiser and the money raised is used to support and promote AEDC.

Each year the community council sponsors and collects donations for the Veterans Picnic; makes a donation to the AEDC Children's Christmas Party, provides gifts for the Complex's annual military award winners; donates to Honor Flight and sponsors receptions for visiting dignitaries.

The group also travels to Washington, D.C., each year to promote AEDC. About 20-25 ACC members schedule appointments with the Tennessee Congressional delegation and key test and evaluation and ground testing officials at the Pentagon to discuss issues facing AEDC.

Members of the council each pay for their trip expenses out-of-pocket.

If you are interested in attending the ACC's annual event, table sponsorships are $700 for gold and $350 for silver; individual seats are $75 per person. Companies and organizations who sponsor at the gold level will receive 10 seats at the event at a reserved table with the sponsor name; 10 ACC individual memberships for one year and recognition in the program, the dinner slide show and on the ACC website. 

Silver sponsors will receive five reserved seats at the dinner, five ACC memberships for one year and recognition in the program, dinner slide show and on the ACC web site.

Individual attendees will get one seat in the general seating area along with a membership to ACC for one year.

All members are invited to ACC meetings held each month and other special events throughout the year.

To sponsor a table or individual seats at the ACC's annual dinner, email 2015dinner@arnoldcommunitycouncil.com or call Jim Jolliffe, (931) 545-9135; Harry Brittain, (931) 247-5417; or Claude Morse, (931) 247-5151.
The social begins at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 p.m. and the official program at 7 p.m.

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