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In the News: City to participate in ‘silent killer’ awareness

Photo by Alison James, Franklin County Times

Originally published in the Franklin County Times. 

“What is that for?”

That’s what Mary Ann Clement wants every person to ask when they see teal ribbons adorning city hall next month. She wants a chance to answer the question – the chance to tell people about a silent killer.

Clement shared her story with the Russellville City Council Monday story, a story of fighting ovarian cancer. She said she thought she was the picture of health and couldn’t even wrap her head around her cancer diagnosis when she was first diagnosed two years ago.

Mayor Launches RCS Engineering Team Rocket at 4th of July Celebration

The Mayor got to launch the RCS Engineering Team Rocket last night at the Jam on Sloss Lake 4th of July Celebration! Special thanks to the RCS Engineering Rocket Team Members for your participation in yesterday’s event in the City of Russellville!

Mayor Proclaims June 19, 2015 as RCS Engineering Rocket Team Day

Mayor Proclaims June 19, 2015 as RCS Engineering Rocket Team Day in the City of Russellville!

In the News: RCS championship teams honored at reception

Originally published in the Franklin Free Press. 

American Pharoah may have earned horse racing’s elusive Triple Crown, but three Russellville High School teams already won a Triple Crown of their own long before the speedy horse easily captured Saturday’s Belmont Stakes.

Community members, school administrators and local elected officials hosted a reception Sunday afternoon for Russellville’s national championship rocket team and its state champion baseball and boys’ golf teams at the A.W. Todd Centre.

Retiring Russellville City Schools superintendent Rex Mayfield congratulated the students but also took time to express his appreciation to the community for its part in the teams’ successes.

In the News: Shelby visits IHP in Russellville

Originally published in the Franklin Free Press. 

Every year, United States Senator Richard Shelby takes a job and industry tour around Alabama. This past weekend, Shelby came to north Alabama and visited Innovative Hearth Products (IHP) in Russellville.

IHP, which was formed in 2013 from a merger of two other companies, manufactures fireplaces, fireplace inserts, free-standing stoves, gas log sets and venting products for retail and residential sale. Since the merger, the company has grown to have operations in Auburn, WA, Union City, TN, Santa Ana, CA, Nashville, TN and Russellville.

IHP employs 784 people and wants to expand. The Russellville plant alone runs two shifts, and the building expanded about a year ago to house more employees and equipment.

In the News: Bentley joins in on SEHomes grand opening

Originally published in the Franklin County Times. 

Governor Robert Bentley made a stop in Russellville this past Friday at the grand opening of Southern Energy Homes’ new manufacturing facility where the end product of investment and planning for economic growth came to fruition.

General Manager for SEHomes, David Brewer, said the new 176,000 sq. ft. facility will produce 1,500 homes annually and add 50-70 new jobs to the already 270 at the plant.

The cutting-edge operation for SEHomes, a subsidiary of Clayton Homes, is located on 27 acres in Russellville’s Industrial Park #2.

In the News: Clayton Homes opens facility employing 270 in Russellville, expects to add 50-70 new jobs

Originally published by Al.com.

Nearly 72 hours after the Shoals learned it will lose 200 jobs following the closure of izzy+ in Florence, another company says it has created 270 positions at a new home building facility in Russellville.

A spokeswoman said Southern Energy Homes (SEHomes), a subsidiary of Clayton Homes, moved out of one of its home building facilities in Double Springs and has expanded at a new location in Russellville, which opened earlier this month with 270 employees. An estimated 50 to 70 new jobs will be added at the site on Highway 44.

In the News: Innovative Hearth heats up Russellville economy

In the News: Paving project completed in industrial park

Originally published in the Franklin County Times. 

Paving was well under way last week at the Russellville Industrial Park #1 for roads that service several key industries in the Russellville area.

Thanks to a grant from the Industrial Access Road and Bridge Fund, Clark Drive and Sibley Drive were part of a rehabilitating, reconstructing and resurfacing project that will make the roads better for the heavy volume of traffic that travels these two roads daily on their way to several local businesses.

According to Russellville Mayor David Grissom, this grant project was one of the first ones approved by the new city administration.

In the News: Company expanding operations locally

Originally published in the Franklin County Times. 

Since 2010 when the city of Russellville’s first speculative building was completed in the Russellville Industrial Park, the mantra of the Russellville Industrial Development Board and the Franklin County Development Authority (FCDA) has been, “If you build it, they will come,” and local officials are glad to announce that an existing Franklin County company will be using the spec building to expand its operations in Russellville.

Ron Franklin, glass mat operations manager for Saint-Gobain ADFORS, has announced that Saint-Gobain ADFORS’s Russellville glass mat facility has entered into a partnership with Scannell Properties to expand customer service operations in Russellville through the use of the newly purchased Russellville Spec Building #1 on Sibley Drive.