January 5, 2022

Consumer Stories

CSRA Businessman donates $500,000 to help future generations

Editor’s Note: This morning a check for a half million dollars will be presented to the Community Foundation of the CSRA at a ceremony, to begin an endowment to fight childhood illnesses. Jeff Annis spent decades growing his Augusta pest control company and hopes to spend decades more giving back to the community, on behalf of customers and employees that built Advanced Services for Pest Control into a powerhouse company. Annis has spent more than 40 years in the industry since beginning in the family business, and in 2021 sold

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Consumer Stories

Local bank donates $800,000+ to worthy causes

Bank of America is going to continue its mission and flow of money in 2022 to support economic mobility and broader community vitality in Augusta and Aiken. In 2021, Bank of America donated $814,000 to 21 local non-profits. “We engage with the community to support and drive social progress like racial equality,” said Ora Parish, Bank of America President, Augusta/Aiken. As an example, B of A contributed $125,000 in 2021, and many services to the Greater Augusta Black Chamber of Commerce, which includes all minority business owners and women as

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B2B Stories

Simon Says: Big difference between CSRA counties in economic growth

As 2022 begins, we now know how hard COVID-19 hit the local economy in 2020, such as the speed with which official government data on real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is released. For the Augusta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), real GDP fell by 1.4% in 2020. However, the effect of COVID-19 was not uniform across all the counties in the MSA as shown in the table below. Burke County actually saw real GDP grow by 5.6% while Richmond County saw the biggest decline at 2.7%. County % change real GDP

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B2B Stories

Program supports military families and local businesses

After growing up in a military family and retiring as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Army, Brian Burns wanted to find a way to give back to soldiers and their families. Burns – Managing Partner of FMI Defense, LLC – launched the Tee 4 Troops program in 2013. The program, which has raised over $1 million to support military families, allows golfers to play for free by waiving greens fees at five Army and Air Force golf courses throughout the U.S., including Gordon Lakes Golf Club at Fort Gordon,

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CSRA Businessman donates $500,000 to help future generations

Local bank donates $800,000+ to worthy causes

Simon Says: Big difference between CSRA counties in economic growth

Program supports military families and local businesses

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