Gov. Beverly Perdue will address the upcoming 2010 Opportunity Chatham Annual Meeting on May 14 at 7:30 a.m. at the Barn at Fearrington Village. Perdue will highlight the state’s economic-recovery efforts and small-business assistance to spur local job creation.
Keynote speaker Ted Abernathy, executive director of the Southern Growth Policies Board, will talk about “The Road to Recovery: How Communities in the South are Positioning Themselves for Success in the Future,†and the county Economic Development Corporation will announce a major new campaign called “Opportunity Chatham: A Five-Year Economic Growth and Prosperity Initiative,†designed to create more than 3,650 new jobs through 2014.
Tickets are $25 per person and $250 for a table of eight, with pre-registration before May 6, and are available online at chathamedc.org/opportunity-chatham or by mailing a check to Chatham County EDC, P.O. Box 1627, Pittsboro, NC, 27312.