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Mark your calendars for next year’s event – Jan. 27 & 28, 2020 Veterans and veteran supporters were on a mission when they visited the Knoxville Convention Center on February 12th – to improve their lives through a new career or networking opportunities with the help of the annual Tennessee Veteran Business Association Business Expo and Veteran Job Fair. “This year’s Keynote Dinner, Business Expo and Veteran Job Fair was such a great success that Read more…

Bayley at Kemmerer Village With a potential impact of changing 3.5 million lives, LexLin’s Gypsy Gift program is making a difference in equine therapy centers across the United States. One of those equine therapy centers that has benefited from Gypsy Gift is Kemmerer Village in Illinois. Kemmerer Village has received eight LexLin Gypsy Vanner horses through Gypsy Gift: Snow Raven in 2015; Oreo and Mop Legs in 2017; and Bayley, Bambi, Clover and Crimson in Read more…

Businessman and donor Eric W. Barton, left, with Jeffrey L. Pappas, director of the School of Music The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, School of Music has received a $3.14 million gift from Eric W. Barton of Maryville, Tennessee, a former Marine who went on to start several businesses serving the US Armed Forces in the Middle East. “I met Eric in our Introduction Knoxville class,” said Jeffrey L. Pappas, director of the School of Music. Read more…

58 Gypsy Vanners Gifted in 2018 LexLin Gypsy Ranch is pleased to announce its largest donation to date, donating 58 Gypsy Vanner horses through its philanthropic program Gypsy Gift in 2018. In 2017, LexLin donated 20 horses. LexLin previously donated 10 Gypsy Gift horses each year. “The Gypsy Vanner displays the perfect disposition for therapy purposes. These horses are the support that the grieving widow, hurting veteran and disabled child need to dramatically change their Read more…

Charitable Contributions Assist Needy, Homeless in East Tennessee Communities Villa Collina estate owner Dr. Eric W. Barton donated items valued at $113,333 in spring 2018 to East Tennessee nonprofit organizations in an effort to help less fortunate residents of Blount and Knox counties. Barton donated countless household items, including furniture, appliances, lighting, office supplies, decorations and more to Blount County Habitat for Humanity and Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM), which in turn sold the merchandise Read more…