As a service to our Bright Future Partners and the community we like to send out quarterly updates and economic development highlights.

 

First we would like to welcome Garmong Construction, Hannum Wagle & Cline Engineering and VeraSun Energy. We are glad to have these great companies join our MCED Bright Future initiative. VeraSun is the new owner of the ethanol plant and Garmong, Hannum, Wagle & Cline is a design/build firm working throughout the Midwest, and other parts of the world, on development projects.

 

For Bright Future participants who are interested in locating skilled employees, our HoosierEmployer.com website continues to grow and attract more resumes. Please contact MCED if you would like to learn more about how to take advantage of this unique site. We have just put up a billboard on I-65, south of Brownsburg, so it’s a good time to get a look at some fresh resumes.

 

MCED was honored By the Indiana Association for Adult and Continuing Education with a Business and Industry Partnership award for our work in education and training. Thanks to the Lafayette Adult Resource Academy and the Crawfordsville Adult Resource Academy for their collaboration on this effort.

 

As part of our continuing workforce development initiatives we are excited to announce that we will be partnering with Purdue University this fall to offer leadership courses in our SkillsNet training room. Please see the press release below.

 

Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, The Commerce Park and the Nucor Road Industrial Corridor were also featured in Indiana Business Magazine this month.You will find the article attached to this EXTRA, but if you can get the magazine you will find three other community ads from Nucor and the City of Crawfordsville.

 

Purdue to offer leadership course in Crawfordsville

Purdue’s College of Technology at Lafayette will offer a class on leadership this fall in Crawfordsville that is open to anyone in the community.

 

Michele Summers, assistant director of the College of Technology at Lafayette, said the course, “Organizational Leadership and Supervision (OLS) 284 - Leadership Principles,” is an in-depth study of a sequence of leader actions and how they influence employees to achieve desired results. She said the course fulfills OLS degree requirements and is especially relevant for those working in business and industry.

 

The course will be taught on two different days and times to accommodate the needs of shift workers in the Crawfordsville community:

* 4-8 p.m. each Tuesday from Oct. 23 through Dec. 11 or

* 8 a.m. to noon each Saturday from Oct. 27 through Dec. 15.

 

Both classes will meet at the Montgomery County Economic Development’s Skills Net Room in the Weliver Building, 1823-29 E. Elmore St. in Crawfordsville.

 

Registration deadline is Oct. 16.

 

“A number of employers in Crawfordsville have agreed to reimburse employees who take these courses,” Summers said. In addition, financial aid is available, and some students may qualify for assistance through the Purdue Span Plan Adult Student Services Program.

 

For information about the course or to register, contact the College of Technology at Lafayette at (765) 496-6886 or techlafayette@purdue.edu.

Writer: Kim Medaris, (765) 494-6998, kmedaris@purdue.edu

Source: Michele Summers, (765) 496-6886, msummers@purdue.edu

 

Purdue News Service, (765) 494-2096, purduenews@purdue.edu

 

Hope you will find this new leadership a valuable asset to you business.

 

Thank you,

 

MCED

Bill Henderson, Executive Director

Amber Kelly, Business Office Administrator

309 North Green Street

Crawfordsville, IN 47933

P: 765-362-6851

F: 765-362-6900

Website: www.MCEDinc.com

Employers: www.HoosierEmployer.com