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To improve its director’s access to retail and grower members, the Southeast Produce Council is relocating its offices from the Tampa, Fla., area to northern Georgia.
Terry Vorhees, the council’s executive director, said the organization decided to relocate to East Ellijay, Ga., to better geographically serve its members.
In late May, the council transported its office from Riverview, Fla., to East Ellijay, 87 miles north of Atlanta. In early June, it was finishing moving into its office along the major highway that continues north of Interstate 575 east of Dalton, Ga., and not far from Chattanooga, Tenn.
“It will help us in being able to be more centrally located to the states that make up the council,” Vorhees said. “I can make personal calls on our retail and grower-shipper members pretty much anywhere in Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Alabama.”
The addition of a full-time administrative assistant should also free more of Vorhees’ time to make company calls, he said. The council is promoting its part-time assistant, Angela Clark, to full-time status. Clark is planning to relocate to the new office in mid-July.
Vorhees owns a cabin in the region and said the timing of the move worked well because the organization was able to secure leased office space for less than the cost of its Florida office.
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