{"id":823540,"date":"2019-10-09T10:32:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=823540"},"modified":"2019-10-10T10:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T15:32:01","slug":"tyler-area-chamber-hands-out-annual-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=823540","title":{"rendered":"Winners React to Tyler Area Chamber Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/10\/Chamber-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-823541\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The winners of Tyler&#8217;s top awards express their surprise and appreciation at Tuesday&#8217;s annual meeting of the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce.   Longtime civic leader Bob Garrett was honored as Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s outstanding citizen with the T.B. Butler Award.  He told the attendees, &#8220;So many of you&#8230;you live authentic lives.  And that that has inspired me, for whatever I&#8217;ve done&#8230;I&#8217;ve done it because I wanted to be like you.&#8221;  Among other things, Garrett leads Fair Oil Company and the Fair Foundation. He serves as board chair of Southside Bank.<!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Shaver Harrison received the W.C. Windsor Award as the community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top citizen under age 40.  She told the crowd, &#8220;My passion for volunteerism and community and everything really extends deep in my family, especially from my grandmother.&#8221; Harrison\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extensive volunteer resume includes service with the Texas Rose Festival, the Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 s Advocacy Center, and Meals on Wheels.<\/p>\n<p>Other honorees:<\/p>\n<p>Large Business of the Year: Mewbourne Oil Company<\/p>\n<p>Small Business of the Year: Cooperative Teachers Credit Union<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer of the Year: Gates Brelsford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The winners of Tyler&#8217;s top awards express their surprise and appreciation at Tuesday&#8217;s annual meeting of the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce. Longtime civic leader Bob Garrett was honored as Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s outstanding citizen with the T.B. Butler Award. He told the attendees, &#8220;So many of you&#8230;you live authentic lives. And that that has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=823540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winners React to Tyler Area Chamber Awards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":823541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 09:44:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823833,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823540\/revisions\/823833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/823541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}