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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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Neil Gordon January 5, 2022 No Comments
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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Neil Gordon January 5, 2022 No Comments
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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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Dr. Simon Medcalfe, AU Economics Professor January 5, 2022 No Comments
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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Josh Heath January 5, 2022 No Comments
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Naming Yourself

  Don MacNeil is the former Marketing Director of Windsor Jewelers and long-time on-air radio professional.   Is it just me, or… Naming Yourself It always amuses me that when someone or something changes its mind we’re all supposed to salute and go along with it, but in truth a lot of us don’t. This especially applies to when companies rename themselves, and recently we’ve been hit with a couple of major examples. Mark Zuckerberg wants to win the race to a so-called metaverse, so now he’s asking us to

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Don MacNeil January 4, 2022 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Real Talk Real Estate: New Home Communities

Are you looking for a “new” new home in 2022? Buyers love to buy new homes and I completely understand the lure. When you buy a new home, you start fresh with a home warranty from your builder and manufacturers warranties on all the home appliances and major components. Traditionally the only things not covered are cosmetic issues. New home communities in the CSRA offer open house style viewing usually on Saturday and Sunday so you can go check out different communities, floor plans and builders while you are in

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Shawna Woodward, Re/Max Reinvented Evans January 4, 2022 No Comments
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Real Talk Real Estate: Investing

Paul Myers, founder of Myers House Buyers is one of the pre-eminent experts in Real Estate Investing (REI). His innovative system is helping sellers, realtors, investors and his company plan for huge growth in 2022. Take notes. Professor Myers is in session to teach you the ABC’s of REI!

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Neil Gordon January 4, 2022 No Comments
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Home Depot changes longtime military discount plan

    Home Depot has several CSRA locations, and was looking for a way to get more support from retirees at Fort Gordon and other bases in Georgia and elsewhere. Mike Petchenik reports that the Atlanta based DIY retailer is extending its military discount.  

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Mike Petchenik January 4, 2022 No Comments
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Local gym to launch new Columbia County location in January

Editor’s Note: As 2022 begins, ABD wanted to provide an update on a story we brought you in June about Endurance Fitness. A CSRA fitness center is very close to opening a second location in Evans just in time for people to begin pursuing their New Year’s resolutions. Cliff and Amanda Jennings – owners of Endurance Fitness – currently operate a gym at 125 Merovan Drive in North Augusta. The Evans location is at 4099 Riverwatch Parkway near the Old Evans Road intersection (see photo above). In the previous story,

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Josh Heath January 3, 2022 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Faith Friday Year-In-Review: Looking Back to Look Forward

Editor’s Note: We did not publish on Friday and rather than wait until Friday January 7th, ABD is sharing Monique Williams’ Year-In-Review on this first weekday of 2022. Those who embrace biblical principles as a way of life know God is the same yesterday, today and forever.  They also know Him to occasionally “do a new thing” (Isaiah 43:19). In fact, there are over a dozen Bible verses about new things. Launching Faith Friday was a new venture for me. In the wake of a challenging time in my professional

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Monique Williams January 3, 2022 No Comments
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