Sheraton Hotel, 500 Canal Street, New Orleans Ÿ Keynote Speaker: Stephen Moret, Secretary of Economic Development
Obama and GulfCoast
Here is a petition from an organization urging President-elect Obama to focus upon the GulfCoast once he takes office:
Please take 1 minute, right now, to sign a petition to the Obama Transition Team congratulating President-elect Obama on his victory and reminding him of his commitment to make Gulf Coast recovery a priority.
We want to send President-elect Obama 100,000 petitions urging him to take action on Gulf Coast recovery in his first 100 days in office. So after you sign the petition, please forward it to your friends, family and community.
Join us at this special General Membership Meeting for a Thanksgiving Open House where you will be able to tour the facility, meet the staff, and learn more about Project Lazarus. Food and drinks will be provided afterwards for this membership mixer.
When:
Wednesday, November 19
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Where:
Project Lazarus
2824 Dauphine Street, House 709
Parking available on the Lazarus Campus; enter at 2800 Royal St. and House 709 is to the immediate right. Click here for a map.
Hilton Garden Inn® the award-winning mid-priced brand, today announced the opening of the 142-room Hilton Garden Inn® Shreveport in Shreveport, La. The opening represents the latest addition to the brand’s growing portfolio of more than 400 Hilton Garden Inn locations across North America and Europe.
The Hilton Garden Inn Shreveport is operated by Akshar 6, LLC, under a license agreement with a subsidiary of Hilton Hotels Corporation.
Stennis Space Station
Years of hard work, funding from the state of Mississippi and NASA, and donations from patrons across the country will begin to show visible results on Thursday, November 20, 2008, at 10:30 a.m., when the highly-anticipated, state-of-the-art, $38 million INFINITY® at NASA Stennis Space Center breaks ground with a celebratory event hosted by the non-profit, INFINITY Science Center, Inc. The INFINITY® ScienceCenter project has attained an important milestone. The $28 million, 72,000 square foot building is underway with the award of a $4.8 million infrastructure development contract. This event will serve as the official ceremony marking the beginning of construction of this important asset for inspiring the next generation of scientists
and engineers, building science literacy among the public and serving as a stimulus for economic development in Mississippi and Louisiana.
WHO: Senator Thad Cochran – United States Senator for Mississippi
Fred Haise – Apollo 13 astronaut and INFINITY Science Center Inc. Director
