Buzz On Biz

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Kevin Wade, the CEO of Intellisystems stops by the radio version of the BUZZ to talk to Bill and John about the latest “tech news”.  This week, along with talking about the resurgence of Netflix, Kevin reminds everyone about his next “Lunch & Learn” seminar, scheduled for February, 1st.

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Sue Pellerin, from Legal Shield stops by the radio version of the BUZZ to talk to Bill and John about her company’s unique way of making legal representation more affordable.

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WRDW 1630AM 12-2PM OR STREAMING LIVE AT WWW.WRDWAM.COM

12:20pm – - Business consultant, Larry Rudwick, will join us today over the phone to chat about tuneup tips for you and your business.  For more info, please visit his website at: www.businesstune-ups.com/index.html

12:45pm – - Shelley Craft from Men’s Refinery Barber Spa on Georgia Avenue in North Augusta joins us to talk about the Men’s Grooming Experience.   For more info, please visit: www.mensrefineryspa.com

1:20pm – - Dr. Emily Williams, Chair of the Conference on the Black Experience and Dean of the School of Arts and Science for Paine College, will join us in the studio to chat about the 2012 Conference on the Black Experience, featuring keynote speaker, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall.

1:30pm – - David Jones from the Gerald Jones Dealer Group shares with us what is new on the lot on Washington Road and his “Deal of the Day”

1:45pm – - Many of our listeners have senior citizen parents or are seniors themselves. Kathleen Ernce from the Senior Citizens Council stops in each week to warn folks of scams, share volunteer opportunities, and discuss business opportunities. For more info, please log on to www.seniorcitizenscouncil.org

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Courtesy: Paine College

The 2012 Conference on the Black Experience will explore and celebrate contributions to the amalgam of history in the Americas, in particular North America, made by women of African Ancestry. Conference participants will examine the critical roles played by Africana women and how these roles have shaped [and continue to shape] the characteristic spirit of American culture.

Paine College’s first Conference on the Black Experience was held in February 1981. The project was conceptualized and coordinated by former professors Dr. Leslie J. Pollard, and E. Fuller Callaway. The conference isdesigned to examine the historic and cultural experiences of Black people throughout the Diaspora and the resultant actions and reactions. The conference will be held on the campus of historic Paine College from February 6-9, 2012.

About Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall will be the keynote speaker for the Conference on the Black Experience. Guy-Sheftall was recently named the president of the National Women’s Studies Association, a professional organization that is “dedicated to leading the field of women’s studies, as well as its teaching, learning, research, and service wherever they be found.” Guy-Sheftall is the founding director of the Spelman College Women’s Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies. She has published a number of texts within African American and Women’s Studies which have been noted as seminal works by other scholars, including the first anthology on Black women’s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (Doubleday, 1980), which she coedited with Roseann P. Bell and Bettye Parker Smith; her dissertation, Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920 (Carlson, 1991); Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought (New Press, 1995); and an anthology she co-edited with Rudolph Byrd entitled Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Indiana University Press, 2001). Her most recent publication is a book coauthored with Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities (Random House, 2003). In 1983 she became founding co-editor of Sage: A Scholarly Journal of Black Women, devoted exclusively to the experiences of women of African descent.

Conference Panel Sessions will feature independent scholars, professors, graduate and undergraduate students in a variety of topical areas of women’s contributions in North America across discipline areas.

For additional information and schedules, contact the School of Arts and Sciences at 706-821- 8326 or visit the website and click on Conference on the Black Experience at www.paine.edu/cobe

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Starting this Saturday, January 28th  from 9:00 AM to 11 AM, there is a new business networking session that will be held at the Dunkin Donuts on Whiskey Road in Aiken, SC.  This is a FREE network session for business owners, employers, and entrepreneurs to get together and learn about each others businesses, and get referrals from each other as well.  The first meeting will be presented by Sue Pellerin, Independent Associate for LegalShield.  Donuts and refreshments will be provided for everyone.

For more information about the meetings, please contact Sue at 803-640-7491 or email her at s.pellerin1429@gmail.com

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Courtesy: Aiken Regional Medical Centers

Aiken Regional Medical Centers’ Aurora Pavilion Behavioral Health Services will hold an open house/ribbon cutting on Thursday, February 2 at 5pm for their facility expansion.

The expansion will house a new 10,000 square foot wing to accommodate 12 new beds.  With this expansion four senior beds and eight child and adolescent beds will be available.  Aurora Pavilion, a 47-bed acute care center, has had to turn away patients in the past due to space, however with the new expansion, the accommodations for our community will soon be met.

We invite everyone to attend the open house/ribbon cutting and tour the beautiful new wing.

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WRDW 1630AM 12-2PM OR STREAMING LIVE AT WWW.WRDWAM.COM

12:20pm – - Sue Pellerin, Independent Associate for LegalShield will join us over the phone to chat about how LegalShield can help businesses in the CSRA by providing them with employee-paid, group-rate voluntary legal service benefits to help satisfy some workforce issues.  For more info, please visit: www.ihelppeople.info

12:45pm – - Kevin Wade of IntelliSystems stops by each week to discuss your office and your data needs. Intellisystems is a Microsoft provider, and does Networking, Monitoring, and Voice and Data services for clients…along with telephone systems. For more information, log on to www.intellisystems.com

1:20pm – - Pritesh Bhakta from “706 Foods” will join us over the phone to chat about his new food delivery service he has opened in the Augusta area.  706 Foods delivers lunch and dinner to Augusta, Evans, Martinez and parts of North Augusta.  For more  info or to order, please visit their website at www.706foods.com

1:30pm - – Don Dyches from Gerald Jones Mazda/Mitsubishi joins us for their car “Deal Of The Day”.

1:45pm – - Brian Tucker of the North Augusta Chamber of Commerce joins us for “Chamber Chat”,  a weekly look at networking events, workshops, seminars and activities to get involved with as a business leader. Brian also updates us on area business and state lobbying efforts. For more information log on to www.northaugustachamber.org

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Land is being cleared on the South Carolina side of the river. The Wilco truck stop is coming to exit 11 on I-20 in Graniteville.

WilcoHess owns and operates approximately 360 Wilco To Go travel plazas, fuel stops, truck stops and convenience stores throughout Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia gladly accepts the 24-7 Fuel Card. Many locations house quick serve restaurants such as Arby’s, Dairy Queen, Wendy’s along with supplies and services that accepts the 24-7 Fuel Card

The quality truck stops, fuel stops, and service centers are a result of hard work and smart business decisions. The joint venture company was formed in 2001 by partners A.T. Williams Oil Company and Hess Corporation (formerly Amerada Hess), a leading independent oil company along the East Coast. The 24-7 Fuel Card knows quality and good service and is why WilcoHess is a partner of ours. WilcoHess has grown through acquisitions; the 2004 purchase of 50 locations in North Carolina from former Service Distributors followed in 2005 by the acquisition of 100 Trade Mart convenience stores in eastern North Carolina from Trade Oil Co. The 24-7 Fuel Card is proud to be accepted at WilcoHess’ truck stops, fuel stops, and travel center.

All of the 360+ WilcoHess fuel stops, travel centers, and truck stops offer first class convenience and value to their patrons and that made more convenient with the 24-7 Fuel Card. WilcoHess offers a dynamite coffee program, monthly specials on all your favorite soft drinks, and other comforts and needs a professional driver may have.

The 24-7 Fuel Card is your access to everything to keep you going on the road and off to your next destination. WilcoHess tuck stops, travel centers, and fuel stops plus the 24-7 Fuel Card meets your needs and provides comfort.

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March 3, 2012
8:00am – 2:00pm

Swap – Trade – Buy – Sell – Demo – Donate

Bring anything golf related.

Clubs, Bags, Balls, Repair Equipment, Books, Memorabilia, Specialty Items, Golf Carts, Club Making, Push/Pull Carts, Training Aids
Novelty and Gifts

NO COST TO SET UP / NO COST TO LOOK

Spend your time looking for that special golf item!

Some one has what you need, you have something that they need!

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After more than half-a-decade of trying to save a diseased live oak in front of The Willcox, hotel management has teamed with local landscaper Todd Stilp and his company Enviroscape to remove the dying tree and replace it with a full-grown, healthy tree.

Stilp and his team began preliminary work investigating the roots of the current tree Tuesday and hope to remove it Thursday. The new tree may be put in place next Wednesday or Thursday, although there are many variables in such a complicated process, Stilp said.

His company is working with Quality Tree Service of Aiken, Shady Grove Nursery of Orangeburg, which is supplying the new tree, RSC Equipment Rental of Aiken and Conmac, Inc., of Aiken, whose owner, Sean Power, is a master mason.

Willcox General Manager Tina McCarthy said the hotel has worked to save the tree for nearly a decade, going back to its previous ownership.

Geoff Ellis, co-owner of The Willcox with his wife Shannon, said Tuesday, “We have met a dozen times since we bought the hotel two years ago to find a way to save this tree, but it continues to decline. A large limb has fallen since we’ve been here. Limbs are dying at such a rate that it’s become dangerous. Then Todd came to us with a viable plan to replace the tree with one just as big and we believe that was the responsible thing to do.”

Stilp estimates that the tree is about 40 years old and was probably damaged in an ice storm decades ago that allowed disease to enter. Disease from a tree like that could spread to nearby trees, he said.

“This is a big job, but we just did one with Shady Grove at a horse ranch in Aiken County earlier this month,” Stilp said. “Of course, there’s a big difference between planting a large tree in a field and doing so with a tree that will be surrounded by concrete, asphalt and brick work between a hotel and a city street. The root ball on the new tree is 94 inches across. That is a big tree to plant. But, it is an interesting challenge and we have the team to do it.”

The South Carolina Hospitality Association announced in Columbia on Tuesday that The Willcox is the recipient of the 2012 Good Earthkeeping award as part of its annual Star of the Hospitality Industry program. That award sprang from designation of The Willcox last February as the highest rated hotel and restaurant combination in the state for its environmental policies by the South Carolina Green Hospitality Alliance, a group sponsored by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and the hospitality association.

“Sustainability and good earth environmental policies are very important to us,” said Ellis, describing the deliberations that went into replacing the tree. Our live oaks are so beautiful and have become symbols of Southern charm for The Willcox. They cool the building in summer and block the wind in winter. They also take up an immense amount of carbon dioxide every day. We did not take this step lightly and we are so pleased that Todd came to us with this option to replace what had become a dying and dangerous part of our property.”

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