Business

Merchants Association honors Shipman Award winner

Jeff Thompson and Michael Thompson pose with their mother, Sallie Thompson, who received the Clifton J. Shipman Community Service Award.

By Bill Moss, Published: May 7, 2019

Sallie Mauldin Thompson, ice cream queen, matriarch of one of the area’s most renowned business families and one of the only people who will smile if someone calls her Piggy, was honored Monday night as this year’s Clifton J. Shipman Community Service Award recipient, the highest recognition bestowed by the Hendersonville Business and Merchants Association.