Rex and Kris Robison are the Fulton County Chamber of Commerce’s 2023 Community Service Award winners.
The award is meant to recognize extraordinary community service, either through work or community volunteerism and philanthropy, over a sustained period of time. Given annually, there have now been 57 winners, nine of them couples.
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