Haleyville Area Chamber of Commerce Presents
2009 Engaged Leaders for Better Communities
Registration for participants is now being accepted.
Schedule
All classes will be from 9 a.m. until 12 noon
At the Alabama Power Building in Haleyville unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Welcome, Program Overview, Individual and Team Development
Grady Batchelor & Nicole Cook
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Community Awareness & Assessment in Regards to Local Government
And Community Planning
Mayor Ken Sunseri
Nathan Willingham – North Alabama Council of Local Governments
Community Planning
ADECA is offering free grant writing seminars
HAMILTON – The Governor’s Rural Action Committee and the Hamilton Career Center will be is sponsoring a free grant writing seminar, “A Toolbox to Successful Grants”. The workshop will be presented by the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs.
In Franklin County, the seminar is scheduled for Monday, March 16th, and will be held at Northwest-Shoals Community College in Phil Campbell in the Student Activities Center (Building 305).
In Winston County, the seminar is scheduled for Thursday, March 26th, and will be held at the Double Springs Municipal Building (formerly the National Guard Armory).
PRESS RELEASE
Date: April 22, 2009
Time: 11:30 a.m. (approximately 2 hours)
Location: NACOLG Offices on Northwest Shoals Campus, Muscle Shoals, AL
Agenda
- Welcome
- State of the Workforce Presentation by Nisa Miranda, Director University Center for Economic Development and Tonya Lee, Department Industrial Relations – Labor Market Information
- The Alabama Career Center System by Susan Norman, Associate Director of Field Services, GOWD
- The Alabama Community College System by Amy Brabham, Associate Director Business & Community Services, GOWD
- (Front – L to R) Commissoner Ron Sparks, State of Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries; Amy Hiller, Principal of Meek Elementary; Dr. Joe Morten, Alabama State Superintendent of Educaton (Back) Larry Lee, Director of the Center for Rural Alabama.
After months of intensive study and more than 300 interviews, the Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries’ Center for Rural Alabama will release their report, Lessons Learned from Rural Schools, at a banquet on May 6.
The report takes an in-depth look at 10 high-performing rural elementary schools in Alabama. At least 65 percent of all students at each school receive free and reduced lunches.
LYNN – Winston County’s mega industrial park site received a major boost this past week to go with the already ongoing development of two lots, when U.S. Congressman Robert Aderholt announced $95,000 to be used specifically for road infrastructure at the park site.
“We had put a request in for infrastructure, road and sewer and water,” noted county commission chairman Roger Hayes. He said county officials presented the request to federal officials in Washington, D.C. at least two years ago, with the application made in the spring 2008.
