{"id":19785,"date":"2022-02-21T09:43:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/?p=19785"},"modified":"2025-01-30T11:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:17:04","slug":"tennessee-riverline-2021awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/tennessee-riverline-2021awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee RiverLine Recognizes Leadership, Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"19794\" style=\"max-width: 640px\" class=\"alignleft none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-19794\" src=\"http:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/002.jpeg\" alt=\"two people posing with a plaque\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/002.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/002-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tnriverline.org\/\">Tennessee RiverLine<\/a> announces recipients of its 2021 awards that recognize communities, individuals and organizations who best exemplify a commitment to the Tennessee RiverLine\u2019s transformation vision and embody its guiding principles each year.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s awards showcase partners who made substantial contributions to the success of the inaugural year of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tnriverline.org\/rivertowns\">Tennessee RiverTowns Program<\/a>. Their individual and collective efforts in 2021 established a foundation for the program as a framework for collaboration to fulfill the vision for North America\u2019s next great regional trail system and the economic development, public health, resource stewardship and equitable access benefits it promises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tennessee RiverLine is powered by partnerships. It stands as a testament that we can achieve something together that none of us could accomplish alone,\u201d said Brad Collett, director of the Tennessee RiverLine and associate professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. \u201cEach year we are inspired by the many and innovative ways that our partners put these ideas into practice in their communities and across the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>The 2021 Tennessee RiverLine awards include<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Community Partner of the Year: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitflorenceal.com\/\">The Shoals, AL<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Individual Partner of the Year: Clay Guerry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tva.com\/\">TVA<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Organizational Partner of the Year: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keeptnriverbeautiful.org\/\">Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Excellence in River Stewardship: Decatur, AL<\/li>\n<li>Excellence in River Animation: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paducah.travel\/\">Paducah<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/mccrackencountyky.gov\/\">McCracken County, KY<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tnriverline.org\/new\/2021awards\">Read more details about these award winners<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Extra Mile Awards:<br \/>\nJC Johnsonius, Benton County, TN<br \/>\nChris Gunter, Bridgeport, AL<br \/>\nBlair Travis, Calvert City, KY<br \/>\nLindsay Ross, Clifton, TN<br \/>\nDanielle Gibson, Decatur, AL<br \/>\nKaty Norton, Guntersville, AL<br \/>\nLauren Whaley, Hardin County, TN<br \/>\nJennifer Moore, Huntsville, AL<br \/>\nTim Hester, Knoxville, TN<br \/>\nRachel Harrell, Loudon County, TN<br \/>\nJeff Canter, Paducah, KY<br \/>\nBonnie Angus, Roane County, TN<br \/>\nWalker Henley, South Pittsburg, TN<br \/>\nDon Bailey, Stewart County, TN<br \/>\nTommy Barnes, The Shoals, AL<\/p>\n<figure id=\"19793\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\" class=\"alignleft none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-19793\" src=\"http:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/001-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"people getting ready to get in kayaks\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/001-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/001-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/001-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/001-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/001.jpg 1792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAll of our partners made meaningful and essential contributions to the Tennessee RiverLine initiative over the last year,\u201d continues Collett. \u201cWe\u2019re moved by the effort and initiative these recipients have shown that will further inspire the Tennessee RiverLine journey we all share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Award recipients are nominated by members of the Tennessee RiverLine staff, the Tennessee RiverLine Partnership and local leadership team members in each Tennessee RiverTowns community. Additional details about each award can be found at tnriverline.org\/news\/2021awards.<\/p>\n<p>The awards were announced during the 5th annual Tennessee RiverLine Summit, which was held virtually January 25- 26, 2022. All award recipients have received custom plaques commemorating their achievements. The plaques were designed and fabricated by University of Tennessee, Knoxville, students at the �ֲ���ý\u2019s Fab Lab.<\/p>\n<h4>About the Tennessee RiverLine<\/h4>\n<p>The Tennessee RiverLine is North America\u2019s next great regional trail system, a historic multi-generational initiative that offers economic development, public health, equitable access and environmental stewardship benefits to 2.4 million people in diverse Tennessee River communities in four states. The Tennessee RiverLine is led by the University of Tennessee School of Landscape Architecture, which is a partnership of the UT �ֲ���ý and the Herbert College of Agriculture, and principal partners, <a href=\"https:\/\/utk.edu\/\">UT Knoxville<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tva.com\/\">Tennessee Valley Authority<\/a>, in collaboration with the Tennessee RiverLine Partnership, a diverse consortium of organizations committed to realizing the vision for the Tennessee RiverLine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee RiverLine announces recipients of its 2021 awards that recognize communities, individuals and organizations who best exemplify a commitment to the Tennessee RiverLine\u2019s transformation vision and embody its guiding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":19794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"passster_activate_protection":null,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,250,32,21,4,228,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collett-b","category-land-grant-mission","category-landscape-architecture","category-news","category-school-of-landscape-architecture","category-tennessee-riverline","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - 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