Business

Former Roane County attorney Joel Pearman will be the guest speaker for the Jan. 9 meeting of The East Tennessee Chapter of the National Contract Management Association.

Pearman, a principal in Acquisition Strategies of Tennessee, will disucss contractor purchasing system review during the meeting, which begins at 11:30 a.m. in Oak Ridge Double Tree Hotel.

Lunch for members is $15, non-members pay $20.

Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP to Vicki Dyer at 865-483-9332 by 10 a.m. Jan 8.

The Roane County Chamber of Commerce board of directors recently unanimously voted to add the county's top two educators, Chris Whaley and Gary Aytes, to its board.

Whaley is the new president of Roane State Community College.

Aytes was appoin-
ted director of Roane County Schools earlier this year.

“The education of our future workforce is key to the success of our business sector in Roane County,” Chamber President Leslie Henderson said.

The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development is warning the estimated 30,000 unemployment claimants who are receiving federally extended unemployment insurance that they are facing the abrupt end of those benefits when the program expires on Jan. 2.

In 2008, Congress created the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program — commonly known as EUC08 — to provide unemployment benefits to workers who had exhausted the first 26 weeks of state benefits (maximum).

A one-of-a-kind waste incinerator, which began operations at the East Tennessee Technology Park more than 20 years ago, has been safely shut down.

When the Toxic Substances Control Act Incinerator began operations in 1990 on the former K-25 Site, the intent was to run it for five years to prove the technology worked.

It was the only incinerator in the nation permitted to burn certain hazardous and radioactive wastes.