CEDRR announces annual award winners - Mountaintimes

The Chamber & Economic Development of the Rutland Region (CEDRR) held its yearly gathering Nov. 14 astatine the recently opened Hub CoWorks successful Downtown Rutland. During the nationalist meeting, 4 assemblage members were honored with awards for innovator of the year, concern person of the year, assemblage person of the year, and unpaid of the year.

Jeff DeJarnette, the laminitis of Tacitly LLC, a virtual world startup focusing connected the healthcare industry, was selected arsenic innovator of the year. Lyle Jepson, enforcement manager of CEDRR said, “I met our Innovator of the Year arsenic helium helped motorboat The MINT Makerspace. Jeff ’s vigor and intelligence quality airy up a room. This grant is successful designation of his enactment starring the Rutland Region toward a much innovative, originative and inspired future.” DeJarnette’s virtual world laboratory is based retired of The Hub CoWorks successful Downtown Rutland.

By Olivia Lyons, courtesy CEDRR
Executive Director of CEDRR Lyle Jepson (left) smiles with outgoing CEDRR committee president John Casella II aft receiving an grant for his enactment and Chrispin White, CEDRR subordinate services/events manager, astatine the yearly gathering Nov. 14.

The concern person of the year award was fixed to the squad astatine Dream Maker Bakers successful Killington. Owner Megan Wagner accepted connected behalf of the team. Dream Maker Bakers achieved this grant owed to their com- mitment to the community, specifically during the Whoopie Pie Festival. When presented with the challenge of creating Vermont’s largest whoopie pie, Wagner enactment unneurotic a team, researched the largest whoopie pastry recorded, recovered an oven ample enough, prototyped and built a peculiar baking pan, and past delivered the time of the event. “Megan and her squad are deserving of this grant due to the fact that of their inspiring leadership, teamwork, and absorption connected lawsuit satisfaction, arsenic good arsenic the instauration of the largest Whoopie Pie ever made successful the authorities of Vermont astatine 542-pounds,”said Jepson.

John Casella II, co-president of Casella Construction Inc. successful Pittsford was awarded assemblage person of the year. Casella is the contiguous past president of CEDRR’s committee of directors and a existent committee member. He was a driving unit arsenic Rutland Economic Development Corporation (REDC) and the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce (RRCC) merged to make CEDRR successful 2020 and continues to supply committedness for the Rutland Region. Jepson said, “John’s tireless committedness to the communities helium serves and his exemplary enactment successful creating what CEDRR has go is wherefore helium earned this award.”

Rick Gile was named unpaid of the twelvemonth aft spending hundreds of hours helping signifier and make The Hub CoWorks and StartUp Rutland. Over the years, Gile has fondly dubbed the Rutland Region,“The Land of Oz,” and the metropolis of Rutland, “The Emerald City.” Jepson said.

“Because of Rick’s commitment to supporting entrepreneurs and his inspiring imaginativeness for the maturation of the Rutland Region, particularly ‘The Emerald city’ that is astatine its heart, the unpaid of the year,” helium added.