[StBernard] LANDRIEU TO HOST ALEXANDRIA SMALL BUSINESS OUTREACH

[Westley Annis]

Landrieu to Host Alexandria 
Small Business Outreach 
Conference
Event will provide assistance and counseling
for area small business owners.
 
WASHINGTON - United States Senate Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship Chair Mary Landrieu, D-La., will host a Small Business
Outreach Conference in Alexandria, La., on Monday, August 10, 2009.  The
event is intended to assist small business owners looking to use federal and
state small business assistance programs. The Committee will work with the
Small Business Administration (SBA) and Louisiana Economic Development (LED)
to provide brief overviews of SBA lending programs, federal contracting
opportunities, LED's Small and Emerging Business Development Program and
other programs to help small businesses maintain and grow their businesses
in this tough economic climate.
Officials from the SBA, LED and Louisiana Small Business Development Centers
will join Sen. Landrieu's staff, which includes Staff Director and Chief
Legal Counsel Donald Cravins, Jr., a former State Senator from Louisiana, to
discuss top concerns for entrepreneurs. The Committee held several similar
outreach conferences in Lafayette, Lake Charles, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and
New Orleans and plans to hold additional outreach conferences in other parts
of the state in the coming months. 
 "Small business owners and entrepreneurs are looking to Washington for
answers on how to remain viable as we push forward in this troubled
economy," Sen. Landrieu said. "It is important for us to be there to guide
businesses in Louisiana and throughout the country because our economic
future depends on their success.   Similar outreach conferences in other
parts of the state have been very well-attended and I hope the people of the
Alexandria area will take advantage of having easy access to these
organizations."
The details for the Alexandria Small Business Outreach Conference are as
follows: 
Monday, August 10, 2009
Registration at 8:00 am. CDT; Program runs from 9:00 am. - 12:00 p.m.
The Learning Center for Rapides Parish
England Airpark
1410 Neel Kearby Boulevard
Alexandria, La.  71303
 
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