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Paul Woodward, center, Central City Heating and Air owner, is honored as Volunteer of the Year for 2012-13 at Tennessee Technology Center at Harriman.

Center Director Danice Turpin, left, and industrial maintenance instructor Ed Reed make the presentation.

Reed nominated Woodward for the honor, commending him for the many donations of training materials he has provided for the class and for going into the industrial maintenance classroom to assist the students in the understanding of HVAC units.

“If is wasn’t for this place, I’d starve to death.  My cook (wife) is a registered nurse and works eight hours on, and eight hours off,” Greg Buckner told me on this “Out To Lunch” adventure at Countryside Café.

Greg is broker with Darrell Murray Auction & Realty Co. in Athens, and also a farmer. He lives about a mile north of Countryside Café, up Hwy. 58.  Today he was having a hamburger steak dinner with a baked potato.

Stephanie Dolsen, laboratory manager of Knoxville’s American Esoteric Laboratories, has been appointed to the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Board.

In her board position as a laboratory supervisor representative, Dolsen will be responsible for protecting the health of Tennessee residents through regulation of the health-care workforce, enforcement of practice laws and ensuring adequate levels of professional competence and standards of practice.

Her board term is effective immediately and runs through Dec. 31, 2015.

Tech 20/20, a regional not-for-profit organization in Oak Ridge, is planning to form a council for additive manufacturing.

The council will focus on bringing together companies throughout the value chain of additive manufacturing.

Those include equipment manufacturers, materials suppliers and parts manufacturers to address opportunities in a number of industries, including aerospace, vehicles, defense and biomedical.