Business Awards

Cathy Burgess Interiors has been awarded the Cornelius A. Hubbach design award for design of the lobby of the United Bank building, located at 2509 Sir Barton Way in Hamburg Place. The award was presented by the American Society of Interior Design. Brittany Taylor, an interior designer with the firm of Cathy Burgess Interiors, has passed the National Council for Interior Design Qualification Examinations and has earned the NCIDQ certificate.

Bluegrass Tomorrow will present its 2009 Bluegrass Tomorrow Vision Awards at the 20th Anniversary Vision Awards/InnoVision Breakfast on Friday. Each year, Bluegrass Tomorrow recognizes individuals and organizations for their innovative and visionary leadership. This year the awards are a direct result of the Bluegrass InnoVision 2018 process. Pearse Lyons, Alltech, will receive the Josephine Abercrombie Vision Award, the highest honor Bluegrass Tomorrow bestows. The Knight Foundation will receive the Bluegrass Legacy Vision Award. Other Vision Award recipients include: Alan Stein, founder of the Lexington Legends; Nancy Cox, of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture and U.K. Equine Initiative program; long-time Urban League President P.G. Peeples; Michael Johnathon, Woodsongs; Town Branch Trail; St. Joseph Hospital Jessamine County R.J. Corman Ambulatory Care Facility; Centre College Pearl Hall (LEED Certified Gold Building); Patrick Brannon Memorial Dog Park, Paris; and the Black Males Working Academy at First Baptist Church Bracktown. The event is open to the public for a donation of $35.

Pikeville businessman Charlie Pinson, president and owner of Charlie Pinson Insurance, and his staff have received the 2009 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award for being the region's top for-profit small business from Eastern Kentucky University's College of Business and Technology, Kentucky Highlands Investment Corp. and The Center for Rural Development. The Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards program was established in 2001 to honor excellence in entrepreneurs who demonstrate exceptional achievements in a 55-county region of Southern and Eastern Kentucky.

The Sarpy County (Nebraska) Chamber of Commerce has named the Omaha Royals as the 2009 Business of the Year and Royals president Alan Stein has been honored as the county's 2009 Business Leader of the Year.

Dustin Wygant, assistant professor of psychology at Eastern Kentucky University, has been selected as the 2010 John E. Exner Scholar by the Society for Personality Assessment. The award honors the memory of John E. Exner, a pioneer in personality assessment, by supporting the research of a young personality assessor. The Exner Scholar receives an honorarium to help defray research costs. Wygant, who is a licensed psychologist in Kentucky and Ohio, joined the EKU faculty in August.

Compiled by Dorothea Wingo