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EDCM Annual Seminar
January 22 - 23, 2008
Agenda

January 22

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11:30 a.m.   Registration
Noon   Lunch/Welcome
               Will Armitage, EDCM President
     
1:00 p.m.   "Why Not Maine?"
        Presentation Courtesy of Cianbro Media
               Peter Vigue
             Chairman, President & CEO
             The Cianbro Companies
             Pittsfield, Maine
     
2:00 p.m.   "Open Source Economic Development"
              Edward Morrison
             Economic Policy Advisor
             Perdue Center for Regional Development
             West Lafayette, Indiana
     
    Moderator - Richard Kelso
     
3:15 p.m.   Break
     
3:30 p.m.   "Looking at Maine's Energy Future"
    "Rural Development Telecommunications Program Update"
             Kurt Adams, Chair, Maine PUC
             Tim Vrable, Deputy Director of Energy
                       Programs Division, Maine PUC
             Michael Aube, State Director, USDA, Rural Development in Maine
             Valerie Flanders, Assistant to the State Director, Rural Development in Maine
     
  Moderator - Robert Thompson, Executive Director
        Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments
     
5:30 p.m.   Reception
       Sponsored by Credere Associates, LLC
    South Portland, Maine
     
6:15 p.m.   Dinner
       Special Award to John Fitzsimmons
   President, Maine Community College Systems
     
7:15 p.m.   "Border Issues and Missed Opportunities"
              Ian Munro
             Director of Research
             The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies
             Halifax, Nova Scotia
     
      Introduction - John Moore, Senior Vice President
  Community Development Lending, Bangor Savings Bank
     
8:00 p.m.   Adjourn