Aviation View | April 2021

37 AVIATION VIEW APRIL 2021 before the pandemic, race traffic and military traffic were our two biggest users. We also have about 19 single-engine planes, 5 multi- engine and 2 jets that call this place home.” The military has played a role in Anniston since 1917, when the federal government purchased 18,952 acres adjoining Anniston for the development of Camp McClellan. Renamed Fort McClellan in 1929, it was used as an Army training centre until being closed in 1999. The Anniston Ordnance Depot, Anniston’s largest employer in the 1980s, continues to be the Army maintenance facility for most of its tracked vehicles. “We have five employees at the airport and an FBO, Anniston Aviation, who handle the day- to-day operations,” Arnett explains, “They have the military fuel contract and also manage the fuel farm. There is a pilots lounge and they have internet there. They also have hangar and ramp space available. We have an airport orthopaedic & joint center rmccares-orthopeadics.org • 256-422-0777 400 East Tenth Street • Anniston, Alabama 36207 A new approach to your joint health “ I really felt like my team was invested in my recovery. They helped get me back on my feet faster.” REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (REDCC) CALHOUN AND CLEBURNE COUNTIES The REDCC is a collective group of individuals that represent various entities that have daily roles and responsibilities in implementing various phases of economic development in Calhoun and Cleburne Counties. Though the group recognizes economic influence and connections beyond these boundaries, it primarily addresses plans, programs and projects that each participant has a connection too or can lend support to another. The REDCC started as a very small group but quickly realized the value and dynamic contributions that broader collaboration can have on regional economic development. The group's participants provides updates on activities they are involved in and often it is realized that another participant can provide support or some level of assistance to another project.This group meets monthly and is furthermore a sounding board of broader ideas, innovation and creativity. Each participant represents its entity in confidentiality, competence and trust in knowing his or her fellow participants are there to provide leadership, support and idea exchange to benefit the area it supports. Regional economic development coordination, the approach for all to practice. The REDCC consists of the following participants and their affiliations: Jennifer Green ,Chair - Jacksonville State University Don Hopper -Calhoun County Economic Development Council Julie Moss -McClellan Development Authority Reilly Johnson -Anniston Main Street Alberta Grant -City of Jacksonville Steven Hildebrant -Alabama Power Lori Corley -East Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission Frank Humber -East Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission Lisa Morales -East AlabamaWorks Tanya Maloney -Cleburne County Economic Development Hunter Gentry -City of Oxford Heather Brothers New -Etowah County Chamber Toby Bennington -City of Anniston Linda Hearn -Calhoun Chamber ANNI STON REGIONAL A I RPORT