Page 10 - Southern Exposure - August '21

Page 10, Southern Exposure

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Stephann Cotton Passes The Torch To Laurie Andrews

Andrews Appointed President Of Leading Real Estate Marketing Agency

Cotton & Company today announced the promotion in graphic design, website development, digital marketing, development, recruited and trained a team of marketing
of Laurie Andrews to president of Cotton & Company, as media placement, and lead generation. specialists, and has contributed directly to the company’s
Founder Stephann Cotton transitions to chief executive Stephann Cotton, chief executive officer, said, “I have full growth and progressed as a well-respected leader in the
officer. She will have the primary responsibility to lead the confidence that Laurie will continue to lead our team in this community development industry. Andrews represented the
luxury real estate marketing firm, a national leader in the ever-changing digital environment. Her long-term dedication company overseas when the company worked with Poland’s
development industry, having managed more than 1,700 to the company and her in-depth industry expertise has set largest developer to Americanize their marketing approach.
communities. us apart from our competitors,” citing Andrews’ hands-on Additionally, Andrews provides sales management services,
Andrews joined the firm in 1988 and has played an knowledge base and leadership skills. “There’s no doubt that comprehensive pro forma development, and strategic
instrumental role in the company’s growth. Over the past under her guidance, our team will continue to successfully marketing direction for clients throughout the United States
10 years, Andrews has been a principal of the company execute at the highest level, taking full advantage of today’s and the Caribbean.
and has served as chief marketing officer. She managed the new technologies.” Cotton will continue at Cotton & “It is an honor to officially take the helm of the company
implementation of marketing programs generating more than Company as CEO remaining actively engaged in the strategic as we continue to evolve in new emerging markets,” Andrews
$3 billion in residential real estate sales. She will continue to plan development for the agency’s luxury clientele. said. “I’m excited to continue our culture of commitment to
oversee the company’s staff of more than 30 employees in Over the course of her career, Andrews helped evolve our clients which has been paramount to Cotton & Company’s
the Stuart, Fla., headquarters, including real estate specialists the company’s capabilities in digital marketing and web success.”

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Friends Of Jupiter Beach Is Grateful

To Joan Ross For Nearly 20 Years Of Service!

If you have volunteered like I was being welcomed into her home,” said Mark
at a Friends of Jupiter Beach Holbert, current board member. Mark has always been
(FJB) monthly cleanup in awe of the amount of thought and care Joan used in
in the past 15 years, then preparing her baked goods for the volunteers every month.
you’ve had the pleasure So much so that he helped her compile some of her favorite
of enjoying Joan Ross’s recipes into a cookbook so that she would always be a
baked goods. A longtime part of our community. A Taste of the Friends of Jupiter
leader and loyal supporter Beach is available on Amazon for those who will miss
of Friends of Jupiter Beach, Joan’s baking. Funds raised from the sale of this book go
Joan is hanging up her to help support the mission of keeping Jupiter’s beaches
whisk to enjoy retirement – clean and dog friendly.
a second time. But FJB has “Friends of Jupiter Beach is grateful not only for Joan’s
much more to thank Joan baking, but also her leadership and guidance over the last
for than her baking. The dog 19 years,” says Karen Gray, FJB’s executive director. “She
lover joined FJB in 2002 will be missed but we wish her a relaxing retirement with
and ascended to the board her family and her pups. She’s earned it.”
of directors in 2003. Joan
steered the organization as
board president from 2004
through 2012. She also served as ticketing chair for FJB’s
Food and Wine Festival from 2010 to 2014.
Joan started baking for the beach cleanups in 2005. Mother Nature’s Pantry
Local attorney Geoff Jones, board president from 2012
to 2015, still serves on the board and had this to say
about Joan’s service. “I do not know anyone who worked Serving The Community For 40 Years
harder for FJB than Joan Ross. I sometimes think my
job with the monthly cleanups is burdensome; loading
tables, equipment and cleanup supplies into the car and Everything you need for a healthier lifestyle
transporting them to and from the monthly cleanup, all
of which gets done in one morning. Joan’s preparation H Sandwiches & Wraps
for the monthly breakfasts started days and sometimes H Homemade Soups
weeks before the cleanups. She planned the menus,
bought the ingredients, did all the baking, packed it all H Garden Fresh Salads
up, refrigerated it, transported it all, and then set up to
feed typically 100 to 200 people. Then she would go back H Smoothies
and do it all over again, all because of her love for baking
and her commitment to FJB.” H Healthy Shakes
Joan baked for every monthly cleanup until March 2020 H Energy Drinks - Juices
when the pandemic put a temporary end to gatherings.
With an average of eleven cleanups per year over a 15-year
period, she baked for 165 beach cleanups which equates We carry a complete line of Solgar,
to 25,000 breakfasts for hungry volunteers.
“Joan’s baking for the cleanups always made me feel
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