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February 2009
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Somerset County Commissioner Jim Marker welcomes attendees to the Government Contracting Workshop. |
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Workshop attendees listen to Gayle Nuppnau from the PA Department of General Services. |
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Becky Styles, President of Lockheed Martin Aeroparts, leads a panel discussion with Greg Good of Augustine Die & Mold and Jonna Contacos-Sawyer of HR Consultants. |
EVENT QUEUE
HEADLINES
Alliance
Mid-Atlantic. Small business procurement fair to meet buyers and contracting officers from major military bases, the surrounding states, and large companies to discuss business opportunities.
March 4. Atlantic City, NJ. Click here.
Displaced Workers Community Outreach Services Event. An
informational gathering for individuals who have been affected by layoffs and downsizing. March 6. Pennsylvania Highlands
Community College. Read the Johnstown Tribune Democrat story here. More info here. Free event.
Entrepreneurial
Fair. Student Business Plan Competition for Mount Aloysius College and Saint
Francis University. April 8. Registration here. Call Kim Asonevich at MAC at 814.886.6530 for more info.
Best Employment Practices Seminar.
April 21. Frank J. Pasquerilla Conference Center. Info here.
19th
Annual Showcase for Commerce. The largest business and industry show and premier defense contracting exhibit in the region.
May 28 -29. Johnstown, PA. Info here.
Pennsylvania Downtown Center Annual Conference. Educational
sessions pertaining to downtown and neighborhood revitalization. June 7 thru 10. Johnstown, PA. Info here.
The World Comes to Windber. The World Health Organization held its annual
Winter School February 23 through February 25 at the WindberPlace Education Center on the campus of Windber Medical Center. The purpose of the summit was to
explore strategies to improve health promotion and disease prevention around the world. This is the first time the event has been
held in the U.S. News coverage included:
WHO Meeting Helps Spotlight Health-Promotion Network (Johnstown Tribune Democrat 2/26/09)
Windber Hosts World Health Organization’s Winter School ‘09 (Somerset Daily American 2/23/09)
World Health Experts Gathering in Windber (Johnstown Tribune Democrat 2/23/09)
Medical Conference (wearecentralpa.com 2/23/09)
For kudos in another area, Windber Area High School was recognized for the second year in a row as one of the top high schools in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Info here.
Boy
Scouts Play Hardball. Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball, was the
keynote speaker at the annual Harry E. Mangle Memorial Dinner on February 19. Ed Sheehan Jr., president and chief
executive officer of Concurrent Technologies
Corporation was honored by the Scouts as the Distinguished Citizen for 2009. Read the complete story in the Johnstown
Tribune-Democrat here.
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Chris Matthews speaks to a crowd of 375 at the annual Harry E. Mangle Memorial Dinner. (Photo courtesy of the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat.) |
2020 Regional Vision is a talent attraction effort for the Greater Johnstown
region. The first phase of this project - a survey - is complete. The second phase kicked off on February 9 with over 100
individuals chatting in face to face brainstorming
sessions about the region's challenges and opportunities within seven indices: vitality, earning, learning, after hours, around town, social capital
and cost of lifestyle. The information from the survey and brainstorming will be compiled and analyzed to create a strategic plan for our region’s efforts to
attract and retain young professionals and entrepreneurs.
PIPELINE
Pitt-Johnstown
is seeking nominations for its 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award. Contact the Pitt-Johnstown Office of Institutional Advancement at (814) 269-2080.
Deadline for nominations is Friday, February 27. Nominations can also be made by visiting here.
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You can still participate and provide input! Click here to share your thoughts about why young professionals might choose to reside in the Greater Johnstown region, what they value most about their lifestyle, and what makes, or will make, this region a great place to live for the next generation. This project is funded by the support of Johnstown Area Regional Industries, the Cambria County Alliance for Business and Industry, Greater Johnstown Regional Partnership, Community Foundation for the Alleghenies, Greater Johnstown/Cambria County Chamber of Commerce, and the Richland Township Supervisors.
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Case You Missed It News Stories:
Nigerian Officials Tour Local Bioscience Facility (Johnstown Tribune Democrat 2/4/09) Company Moves Office to Richland (Johnstown Tribune Democrat 1/29/09) Displaced Workers Offered Free Tuition (Our Town 1/16/09) Navy Awards $10M in Contracts to CTC (Johnstown Tribune Democrat 1/6/09) |
SPOTLIGHT
Greater Johnstown Career and Technology Center instituted a 2+2+2 Biotechnology
Program that provides high school students with college credits through dual enrollments, job shadowing, internships and research
projects.
In 2006, the GJCTC program partnered with Lampire Biological Laboratories in Everett, PA, to work on research projects involving cell counts and cell viability. The results of these findings were presented by the students at Career and Technical Education Week.
In 2008, GJCTC's program was selected to receive the Education Workforce Leadership Award for their commitment to biotechnology education. More information about the program is here.
PIXELS
EDGES
Recovery.gov is a
new website that lets you, the taxpayer, understand where the money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going.
The
Pittsburgh Promise. The Pittsburgh Promise is a visionary scholarship program to help students graduating from the Pittsburgh Public
Schools to pursue further education after high school, and to enhance the growth, stability, and economic development of the Pittsburgh Region.
Info here.
Related: Lexington First.
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