| 115th Year, 13th Issue | Thursday, November 6, 2003 | Sparta, North Carolina |
AngelouEconomics will present its final recommendations — five-year economic recovery strategies — for Alleghany and seven other counties next week.
Angelou's presentation for Alleghany is scheduled for Nov. 13 at 8:30 a.m. in the community conference room at Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation just south of Sparta, according to a spokeswoman for Annese Public Relations.
That event is open to the public.
The unveiling of the five-year plans represents the culmination of Angelou's nine-month project in northwestern North Carolina. Last year the Northwest North Carolina Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy committee (CEDS) — a group of leaders from Alleghany, Ashe, Davie, Forsyth, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and Yadkin counties — hired Angelou, an economic consultant firm based in Austin, Texas, to study the region and form the five-year plans, for each county individually as well as for the region as a whole.
CEDS also hired Annese, a Winston-Salem based company, to help promote the project.
The study is being funded through a $400,000 grant package awarded to CEDS, $320,000 from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration and the other $80,000 through the N.C. Community Development Block Grant program. Angelou listed its contract cost at $280,000.
The presentation for the eight-county region overall is slated for Nov.
14, from 10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., at the Benton Convention Center in
Winston-Salem. Speakers at that event will include David Sampson, U.S.
assistant secretary of commerce for economic development, and U.S. Rep.
Richard Burr. The eight-county region roughly corresponds to the Fifth
District, which Burr represents in Congress, and it was he who helped
secure the funding for the study.
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