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WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
SERVICE ANNIVERSARIES
Rotary Onlinehttps://thomasvillerotary.org
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| President | Teri White |
| President-Elect | Andre Marria |
| Immediate Past President | Jeff Zoller |
| Vice President | Carol Jones |
| Secretary | Angela Williamson |
| Treasurer | Rick Piper |
| Program Director | Lauren Radford |
| Fellowship Director | Angela Williamson |
Have You Registered?
Fireside Chat
Tommorow -Tuesday, February 20th - Fireside Chat @ 900 Clyde Griffin Road, Thomasville, GA 31757
5:45pm Refreshments, 6:30pm Dinner, 7:15pm Program
You can click on the link below and register for the fireside chat or please let me at twhite@hurstboiler.com so that we can plan refreshments and dinner for everyone attending.
https://thomasvillerotary.org/event/reserve/2591
People in Action in Thomasville
Upcoming Events & Projects
Monday, February 26th, 6:00 pm - Trivia Bee for Literacy, sponsored by Thomas county CLCP
We have two teams competing...see Lauren Radford if you would like to participate.
Saturday, March 10th, Pool Tournament - Rotary versus Kiwanis
Saturday, March 24th, District Assembly in Columbus, GA - We encourage all Board Members for the current and the upcoming year to attend. We invite any member that would like to attend to please join us. We meet at the Belk parking lot a little before 6:00 am (TBA), we drive over to Columbus, stopping half way for a coffee break, a full Breakfast will be served, assembly takes place and we adjourn and travel home. Group decides on lunch? Please contact Andre', Rick or Teri so that they can register you for the event? (Club pays the registration fee)
This Week's Program
Lindy Savelle, President of the Georgia Citrus Association
Lindy Savelle is a native Georgia Mitchell Countian. She grew up in Sale City and currently resides in Mitchell & Thomas Counties.
Lindy retired in 2015 from a federal law enforcement career spanning 30 years. She began her career in 1985 as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and ultimately worked for two other agencies, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). Lindy was assigned to stateside offices from Albuquerque, NM to Washington, DC and Buffalo, NY to Pensacola, FL. During the last 7 years of her career, Lindy specialized in corruption cases. She worked overseas in Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, Turkey, Dubai and Afghanistan, spending the bulk of her time serving as the Regional Director of Investigations/Special Agent in Charge of Investigations over the International Contract Corruption Task Force in Southwest Asia.
Prior to her retirement, Lindy and her husband, Perry, decided they would ultimately return to their roots in Mitchell and Thomas counties, where they own two small farms. Part of their plan was to bring their farms back to life, so to speak, and give back to their communities through the development of alternative niche, yet sustainable agricultural commodities. After researching everything from pomegranates to persimmons and lychee to crawfish, they decided citrus was the best fit for them and a commodity that would stimulate growth in Georgia’s agricultural economy.
Lindy and her husband have a commercial citrus grove in Thomas County and a test plot in Mitchell County of Satsuma oranges, seedless tangerines, lemons, grapefruit, navels, mandarins, blood oranges, thornless limes and kumquats. In addition, Lindy is a managing partner in Georgia’s first citrus-only greenhouse/indoor nursery, where they are propagating citrus trees for sale to commercial growers and homeowners. Their nursery is under contract with the University of Georgia to grow the university’s first patented seedless, cold hardy citrus varieties released publicly in November of 2016, as well as UGA’s “Cowboy” perennial peanut ground cover. This spring, Lindy and her family will be opening “Georgia Grown Citrus, LLC”, a Thomas County citrus hub located on Jonina Farm in Ochlocknee.
Lindy received her Bachelor of Business Administration from Valdosta State University, her Masters of Business Administration from the University of West Florida and her Masters of Public Policy from Georgetown University.
Lindy serves as the President of the Georgia Citrus Association. She is also a current participant of the University of Georgia’s Advancing Georgia Leaders in Agriculture program for the 2017-2019 year group. One thing on her bucket list is to write a book chronicling a South Georgia native’s law enforcements adventures around the world back to her agricultural roots and citrus ventures in Georgia. Lindy is married to Perry Savelle and is the proud mother of two sons, William and Colby Billings.
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Mike Grundman, Georgia Department of Economic Development
Guest Speaker - Mike Grundman