Business

If you think the job market has gone to the dogs, you’ve never been more correct.

Paid with belly rubs and the occasional scrap of people food, several four-legged pooches have become local celebrities through their daily work at businesses in downtown Shelbyville.

Eli Cooper Garrett, a shirt-wearing, 5-month-old handheld Yorkshire Terrier owned by Bobby and Amye Garrett of To Be Continued, quickly has won the hearts of many.

Five months after receiving a letter from General Motors informing them that their dealership was being closed, Bob Hook Chevrolet now has learned that it will be able to stay in business.

"Obviously, we're just ecstatic that we're being reinstated," said David Hook, general manager of the GM dealership on Taylorsville Road in Shelbyville.

 Turner joins with AAA

Turner Insurance Agency of Shelbyville has been appointed an independent agent for AAA.

“For more than a century, AAA has been a leader in automotive safety and travel services,” agency owner Kurt Turner said in announcing the connection. “But they’re also a leader in auto and home insurance.”

Any of the more than 800 visitors to the Chamber of Commerce’s Community Showcase, entitled, “Grow with Shelby County,” would agree that event was even bigger and better than last year.

The exhibits and booths spilled out of the Shelby County High School gym into the school’s foyer and even into the parking lot, where a Farm Safety demonstration was put on by Judy White, who has a dairy farm in Southville, and Jessica Woods, a 4-H horse leader who brought one of her horses to the event.