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| Van Horn Mayor Okey Lucas (L), City Administrator Fran Malafronte, and Texas Department of Rural Affairs representative Tom Entsminger at Monday ceremonial check presentation. |
- The Texas Department of Rural Affairs (TDRA) presented Mayor Okey Lucas and City Adminstrator Fran Malafronte with an oversized, ceremonial check in the amont of $325,401 Monday afternoon.
The check recognized the community for securing a grant from the agency’s Texas Community Development Block Grant program. The check was presented by Tom Entsminger of TDRA.
“We are very pleased to award this grant to Van Horn,” said Charles Stone, executive director of TDRA. “Community development projects such as this help Texans in rural communities improve their quality of life significantly.”
The town will utilize these funds to drill a new water well at the Van Horn Industrial Park, near the airport, and get it on line with existing water coming into town.
The agency also awarded grants to Dell City, El Paso County and Vinton in this cycle. “Texas CDBG is a competitive grant program, and the town of Van Horn is to be commended for their hard work and diligence in pursuing this grat,” said Mark Wyatt, director of TDRA’s community development division.
Art Attack
Art Attack is an energetic and enterprising celebration of art in our region. Recognizing the importance of art as it nourishes our region with culture, business and economic impulse. Art Attack recognizes the need to support these entrepreneurs by merging art and business development. The SBA El Paso office will be participating with local lenders and a national SBA lender who specializes in doing loans for artist.
Art Attack is a business networking event focused on the business of art and includes the Big Bend Small Business Development Center of Sul Ross State University and the Texas Department of Agriculture “Go Texan” program that may benefit artist promotional efforts. All forms of small business are invited too.
WHEN: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
TIME: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Van Horn Convention Center (Lunch Provided by Van Horn EDC) Van Horn, Texas.
WHO: For information call Adrian Madrigal SBA El Paso at 915.834.4600
Please take notice!
The Van Horn Advocate will not publish an issue on Thursday, August 5, 2010.
We’ll be combining that issue with next week’s July 29th issue.
The reason for skipping the August 5th issue is so that we may take a few days off to catch our breath before the start-up of school activities.
We hope you will understand and we will get back on our weekly publication schedule with the August 12th issue.