Minutes from 9/16/09 Rotary Meeting
President Ginny Barr opened the September 16, 2009 meeting, and called on
Maria Hargrove for the invocation. Lyman Whitehead did health and
happiness and happy dollars.
Announcements were made about upcoming meetings at Alodias' Italian
Restaurant, and the Air Ambulance facility behind BiLo. Board meeting
will be Friday at Panera Bread.
Carey Hite was recognized for his work establishing a new web page for our
club. Web address: www.irmorotary.com
Jim Wellman informed those members working at the Okra Strut when they
needed to be at their post on Friday September 25th.
The speaker for the day was Mike Briggs the CEO of SC Central Alliance.
This agency is composed of 12 counties around the midlands along with the
City of Columbia. This alliance does market research, site development,
and economic impact analysis for industry and since 1994 has seen 7.5 billion
dollars invested in this area with the creation of 47,000 jobs. For 2009,
102 million dollars has been invested with 863 new jobs created.
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