PEORIA MAGAZINE August 2022

B U S I N E S S N E W S

IN BRIEF

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

CLIMBING THE LADDER The City of Peoria has promoted Brandon Blayney to director of the Emergency Communications Center. ELECTIONS AND SELECTIONS Joining the Peoria Historical So ciety Board of Trustees recent ly were Libby Tronnes , a historian, as sistant professor and head of the Special Collections Center at Bradley University, and Matt Jolliff , a resource industries pricing manager at Caterpillar. MOVIN’ ON Lincoln Office, LLC has relocated its corporate headquarters toKeller Station at 6035 Knoxville Ave. in Peoria. “This move to Keller Station will position LincolnOffice closer to other businesses and allow us to build an updated showroomwith current trends in office workspace,” said Lincoln Office CEO Bob Domnick. “It allows us to practice the hybrid work that we are teaching other businesses about.” START ‘ER UP Morton-based CashRent has launched GroundOS , a landmanagement platform that helps real estate professionals and farm managers create simpler land transaction, more efficiently manage their businesses, promote listings, run online auctions and generally compete in a digital era. To learn more about GroundOS and receive a demo of the platform in use, visit GroundOS.com.

HIRES AND RETIRES Kelli Evans has joined the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria as the senior director of development. She previously served as director of development for the Caterpillar College of Engineering & Technology at Bradley University. Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc. has hired Scott Whitson as a senior consulting actuary. Kelvin Herrera-Hassan has been named executive director of the Office of Inclusive Excellence at Bradley University . Bradley University named Shelley Hawkins department chair and director of nursing.

Two Peoria Public School student teams from Woodruff Career and Professional Center Culinary Arts placed second and third in the nation at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in June. The restaurant management team of James Johnson, Connor Lemont, Lashawna McMurtry and Trinity Morris placed third in the Entrepreneurship competition for their restaurant concept Stuffed. Markeisha Watkins and Kristina Jones won second place for their Community Action program in which they arranged for pre-school children from the Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity Headstart program to visit the Culinary Arts kitchen for cooking lessons. AND THE PRIZE GOES TO… Peoria County has awarded a $64,000 grant to the Center for Prevention of Abuse to fund critical services and raise awareness of the organization’s Long-TermCare Ombudsman program. The Rotary Club of Peoria has awarded a grant of $26,201 to fund Neighborhood House’s Outdoor Learning Space . This green space will include benches, picnic tables, reading nooks, and outdoor game tables.

Pete Ayler Lee Scott U.S. Cellular has named Pete Ayler store manager of the Peoria store at 8809 N. Allen Road and Lee Scott as store manager of the Peoria store at 3517 N. University Street. In these new roles, Ayler and Scott will be responsible for leading their respective teams of wireless technology experts to help customers select the devices, plans and consumer electronics to best meet their needs.

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