Todd Ash, VBA President, left; John Sherholtz; and Bright Side Publishers Cathy and Allan Lipsett.
The Vinings Business Association named The Bright Side as the 2013 Business of the Year.
Other finalists included, Delmar Gardens, PrintWave, Social Vinings Restaurant and the Courtyard by Marriott Atlanta Vinings Hotel.
Cathy and Allan Lipsett are beginning their 10th year publishing The Bright Side, a monthly good-news publication of the Smyrna-Vinings area.
“As I look around the room, I realize that we know almost every one of you. All of you are part of the Bright Side, whether you are an advertiser, or fill the news pages with your activities,” said Publisher Cathy Lipsett. “You make the Bright Side what it is, a local newspaper serving this community.”
The winners were presented with a trophy designed by Lillie Glassblowers.
“This is a great honor, and we are glad to be here covering the Vinings community and the Vinings Business Association,” said Allan Lipsett.
Previous winners were Akers Mill Chick-fil-A, 2006; SOHO restaurant, 2009; Courtyard Atlanta Vinings hotel, 2010; Vinings Jubilee, 2011; and Vinings Historic Preservation Society, 2012.
A sell-out crowd of 90 packed the room to hear Atlanta Braves President John Sherholtz, speaking on the team’s move to Cobb in 2017.
“We realized it was not going to work for us at Turner Field,” Sherholtz said, despite efforts to work with Atlanta city leadership. The Braves will move to Cobb because of the “visionary foresight of the people in Cobb who make it a booming, growing, dynamic county.”
“We will set a new standard for major league stadiums,” Sherholtz said. Team officials are talking with designers and architects now about the stadium plans as well as a mixed use development of retail shops, restaurants and entertainment that will allow fans to get ot the stadium early, spreading out the traffic pattern.
From the January 2014 issue of The Bright Side, Cobb County Georgia’s Newspaper covering Smyrna, Vinings, Mableton and Austell, GA.
