The Fayette

County Chamber of Commerce presented its Small Business

of the Year Award to Dot Kite State Farm Insurance

Agency.

She is a

native of Columbus, Ga. and started a small State Farm

agency in the Pine Mountain area in 1982. After serving

as a district manager for State Farm in the Atlanta area,

she then took over an agency in Hapeville and moved it to

Fayetteville in 1992.

She is a

member of the Metro Kiwanis of Fayetteville, serves as a

Partner in Education with East Fayette Elementary School,

serves on the Fayette County Development Authority, is a

charter member of Main Street and the Fayette Community

Hospital Auxiliary, and served as chairman of the chamber

Board of Directors in 1998.

Kite also

is an alumna of the chamber leadership class.

The Small

Business of the Year Award was first given in 1981 and

the recipient must own, operate or manage a business or

profession. He or she must have demonstrated an unselfish

support of the community and participated in a variety of

community projects.

Among the

gifts the award winner received was a one-year membership

at Gold's Gym of Fayette County, a massage or facial from

Ici Paris, a gift certificate from China Caf�, a page ad

from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, a $50 savings bond

from Regions Bank and a free class from the Small

Business Development Center at Clayton College &

State University.