Tom Pike hasn’t found his success through chicken sandwiches and spelling-challenged cows alone.
The winner of the Craven Community College Fabric Award for Business Leadership and owner of the Twin Rivers Mall’s Chick-Fil-A franchise says thata healthy dose of caring about his team and the community is where he finds his real satisfaction.
Pike has been a Chick-Fil-A man for more than 40 years. In his college days he sold fruit at a roadside fruit stand where one of his regular customers was a man named Truett Cathy.
Cathy, in case you are unaware, built the Chick-fil-A empire and ran it until his death in 2014.
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Sometimes, timing really is everything.
Carol Mattocks, the winner of this year’s Community Fabric Award for Individual leadership, learned just how true that warmed-over axiom is in 2018, when she worked as the founding chair of the Filling Station, the nonprofit outreach in Pollocksville that serves the needs of disadvantaged citizens across Jones County.
The Filling Station opened just two weeks before Hurricane Florence roared through the area, flooding much of Pollocksville, Trenton and other areas of the county. As one of the only local relief organizations functioning, it played a key role in feeding and clothing residents in the days immediately following the storm.
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