TCS ANNOUNCES NEW PR & CREATIVE SERVICES DIRECTOR

The St. George-based agency, Tenney Clemons and Saarelainen (TCS) Advertising & Public Relations announces the hiring of local writer, producer and communications specialist Melynda Thorpe Burt.

Founder of Melynda Creative, Thorpe Burt has been working in St. George serving the public relations and marketing needs of local businesses and organizations since 2009. Prior to moving to St. George, she worked as creative services director at Utah Valley University and served as a communications adjunct faculty and internship coordinator from 2002-2009.

Thorpe Burt serves on the DOCUTAH International Film Festival organizing committee and Heart Walk Foundation Gala Committee. Formerly, she has served on the UVU Rebranding Image Committee, Utah Ballet Board of Directors, and the Springville Museum of Art Board of Directors.

“This is where the boss’s quote goes about we’re excited and what she brings to the table kind of thing …”

Last September, Thorpe Burt traveled to south Peru to write and film a documentary about the plight of the indigenous Q’ero Tribes of the Andes Mountains. Found on the brink of starvation in 2003, Thorpe Burt’s work chronicles the phenomenal tale of how southern Utah’s Tim and Penelope Eicher of Dammeron Valley have spent a decade working to help the Q’ero build trout farms, greenhouses and schoolhouses and to become self-sustaining in their beloved high mountain homeland.   

Thorpe Burt is recipient of several national communications awards including Paragon Award for Best Feature Article in Nation by the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations at Chicago, Ill., Excellence in Alumni Magazine Publications by NCMPR at Costa Mesa, Calif., and

Excellence in Creative Marketing Materials by CASE (Council for the Advancement of Secondary Education) at Costa Mesa, Calif. After graduating from Brigham Young University, she began her career at Fleishman-Hillard International Public Relations Agency in New York City and has traveled the internationally writing and publishing for magazines and news organizations. 

TCS Advertising and Public Relations is a full-service marketing company located in St. George, Utah. With a team of professionals with vast marketing backgrounds and expertise, TCS aims to help the local business community grow by applying effective and efficient advertising and integrated brand, identity and promotion techniques.