On Tuesday, I look forward to attending the Bayer Crop Science Anniversary exhibit, celebrating 150 years of innovation and to tour their state of the art greenhouse and laboratories. I am looking forward to an exciting week, starting with my trip to Asheville for the Community Colleges of Appalachia Conference for work.   I will […]

I had a last minute swim lesson pop up for Rayan but I was there in spirit.   I will be there next year and would like to help the Komen Foundation more.

Looking forward to running the Race for the Cure!    I love running these races for this great cause and and am so proud of the work the Komen foundation is doing to get rid of this terrible disease.

What a great way to start off this conference than to see Kate Cooley, Ed Burgard, and Felicia Dozier, all Morrisville small businesses and entrepreneurs! I enjoyed a great conference on entrepreneurship at IBM, and was again impressed with Secretary Decker’s vision for how we can provide ,more support for small business and entrepreneurship. She […]

My Council office hours were combined with meeting with the Hotties companies on Wednesday and then some more constituents on Thursday. Retirement community:   I had an  interesting meeting with Allan Michaels from CV Builders, who is interested in developing a Retirement community in Morrisville.   Ketan Shah, a local business leader and other Indian […]

I am looking forward to attending the Forum on Entrepreneurship and look forward to coming back with more ideas on how we can foster more start up growth in the region, and also, what we can do to help grow our programs in Morrisville.

I attended the Historic Christian Church Plaque Dedication, along with Mayor Holcombe, Mayor Pro Tem Johnson, and Counci lmembers Diehl and Broadwell, along with Tony Chiotakis, Tim Gauss, Shannon Campbell, and Jerry Allen. We are proud to have this landmark dedicated as a Historic Landmark and grateful to previous Councils, who had the vision to […]

This morning, I attended the TBJ Power Breakfast, featuring NC Secretary Commerce Sharon Decker.   Secretary Decker discussed her perspective on economic development, and laid out the plans for the new public private partnership for the Commerce Department, which will be focused more on assisting local companies, along with continuing efforts to recruit new business to […]

On Wed am, I attended a Cary Chamber Economic Development meeting, to listen to the team from SCORE, and Wake Tech, discuss how they are providing mentoring services to small businesses. I shared my ideas on how we need to provide better access for entrepreneurs to mentors, and that there is very significant momentum in Morrisville […]