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New Albany Main Street Association and Union County  Development Association are hosting their third annual joint membership meeting.
Phil Hardwick will be this year’s keynote speaker for the Annual Meeting of New Albany Main Street Association and Union County Development Association on Tuesday, March 9, at the Magnolia Civic Center.
Phil Hardwick is Coordinator of Capacity Development at the John C. Stennis Institute of Government, Mississippi State University, where he works with communities regarding strategic planning and leadership development. Prior to joining the Stennis Institute in August of 2003 he was Vice President of Community and Economic Development at Mississippi Valley Gas Company.
He is the Immediate Past-President of the Mississippi Association of Partners in Education, and is a Past President of the Mississippi Main Street Association, the Mississippi Economic Development Council and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the USA International Ballet Competition.
He received his undergraduate degree from Belhaven College and his MBA from Millsaps College. He is also a graduate of the Senior Executives in State and Local Government executive program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. During his military service he was Security Team Leader for Army One, the Presidential helicopter.
In his spare time he is a prolific writer. His award-winning column on real estate and economic development appears bi-weekly in the Mississippi Business Journal, and in his spare time he writes mystery novels. Number 4 in his Mississippi Mysteries series was set in New Albany.
A reception in the Magnolia Room with heavy hors d’oeuvres will be at 5:30 p.m.
The program will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Ciné Theatre.
All members and invited guests of the New Albany Main Street Association and Union County Development Association are invited to this event.
If you are interested in becoming a member of these organizations please contact Vickie Duke, New Albany Main Street Manager at 662-534-3438 and Joanne Lesley, Executive Assistant for Union County Development Association at 662-534-4354. |
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