House Resolution 5 - Introduced

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                                    H.R. ________ S.R. ________


  1  1                HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2        BY  REICHERT, COHOON, JACOBY, and STRUYK
  1  3 A Resolution to recognize the Iowa Small Business
  1  4    Development Centers and honor 2008 award winners
  1  5    Sally Nichols and John Lohman.
  1  6    WHEREAS, since 1981, the Iowa Small Business
  1  7 Development Centers have provided expert and
  1  8 confidential business counseling services and training
  1  9 workshops to entrepreneurs in all 99 Iowa counties;
  1 10 and
  1 11    WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development
  1 12 Centers provide a wide variety of services to foster
  1 13 the growth of Iowa business, including one=to=one
  1 14 professional business counseling; learning
  1 15 opportunities == workshops, courses and classes,
  1 16 internet=based learning, telephone and e=based
  1 17 contact, and print and electronic materials; resource
  1 18 connections == financing sources, state and federal
  1 19 programs, associations, databases, local and regional
  1 20 programs, host institutions, and communities; and
  1 21 specialty programs and assistance == business
  1 22 succession, market research, strategic planning,
  1 23 MyEntreNet, introduction to international business,
  1 24 and community building; and
  1 25    WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development
  1 26 Centers have announced the 2008 award winners for its
  1 27 two special entrepreneur of the year awards; and
  1 28    WHEREAS, Sally Nichols is the 2008 Deb Dalziel
  1 29 Woman Entrepreneur Achievement Award winner, an award
  1 30 which honors an Iowa woman entrepreneur who has
  2  1 significantly changed or improved her life and the
  2  2 lives of others; and
  2  3    WHEREAS, John Lohman has been selected to receive
  2  4 the Neal Smith Entrepreneur of the Year Award, an
  2  5 award named in honor of the long=serving Iowa
  2  6 congressman, given to an Iowa entrepreneur who has
  2  7 been in business a minimum of three years and has been
  2  8 significantly assisted by an Iowa Small Business
  2  9 Development Center; NOW THEREFORE,
  2 10    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
  2 11 That the House of Representatives honors award winners
  2 12 Sally Nichols and John Lohman and congratulates them
  2 13 on their success, and recognizes and expresses its
  2 14 thanks to the Iowa Small Business Development Centers
  2 15 for their ongoing work in making Iowa a better place
  2 16 to live and work.
  2 17 LSB 1932HH 83
  2 18 jr/rj/24