Breaking News - Announcements

Mar 8, 2010
Below please find a very important announcement and request from Eddie Mannis, Chairman of Honor Air and President/Owner of Prestige Cleaners.  Mr. Mannis continually goes above and beyond to help our Veterans and our service men and women!  Let’s thank him and show him our support by voting for his company.  Please read his message below for further details and information on how you can help him win an awesome award!
 
Regards,
 
Patrice Collins
Economic Development Assistant
Admin Support for ETMAC
Knoxville Chamber
 
 
 
To Our Customers,
         On Monday of this past week, we were notified that Prestige Cleaners has been selected by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as a 2010 "Blue Ribbon Small Business Award" Winner and has been nominated for the U.S. Chamber's "Community Excellence Award". This nomination is a huge honor for our company and great recognition for Knoxville, Tennessee.
       We need your help and we only have seven days to cast votes.  The deadline is Friday, March 12 at 5:00 pm.   Would you please consider visiting the link below and vote Prestige Cleaners in Knoxville to be the recipient of this award?  We would also ask that you forward this email to anyone that could help us.   It will only take a few seconds and your time would be greatly appreciated.  If you have any question please feel free to email me at eddielistens@prestigecleanersinc.net or call me on my cell at 865-389-7701. 
 
Again, thank you for your help! The link is below and will take you directly to the voting page:
 
CLICK HERE
 
 
Sincerely,
 
Eddie Mannis
President - Prestige Cleaners, Inc.
 
 

11 FEB 2010
RED CROSS Announces - Coping With Deployments course:
The Coping With Deployments course was developed by the American Red Cross specifically to address the stresses and strains that deployments place on the families of service members. The Red Cross worked closely with subject-matter experts from all service branches—along with National Guard and Reserve components—to complement what is offered in their courses.  CLICK HERE FOR THE FLYER
 

January 28, 2010

Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV

The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) offers cutting-edge training in entrepreneurship and small business management to post-9/11 military veterans disabled as a result of their service. The EBV opens the door to entrepreneurship and small business ownership to veterans by developing competencies in accounting, human resources, marketing, advertising, financing, small business law, government contracts, and business planning.
The EBV program is offered through a national partnership of exceptional universities: the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Florida State University’s College of Business, Mays Business School at Texas A&M, the University of Connecticut School of Business, and the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. Each of these world-class business schools will offer the EBV program on their campuses in 2010.
Eligibility
Applications are accepted from veterans who meet the following criteria: 1) a ‘service-connected disability’ as designated by the Veterans Administration or Department of Defense, 2) military service after September 2001, and 3) a passion for entrepreneurship.
Cost & Logistics
This program is entirely without cost to the veteran, including travel, lodging, meals, and all program costs.
Application Procedures
Successful candidates for admission will demonstrate a strong interest in entrepreneurship, high motivation for owning and managing a business, and a high likelihood of successful completion of this intense training program. For specific application requirements, visit whitman.syr.edu/ebv or apply online.

 
Contact Information
Ellie O'Neill
EBV Program Coordinator
Whitman School of Management
721 University Avenue, Suite 415
Syracuse, NY 13244-2450
Phone: 315-443-6007
E-mail: ebvinfo@syr.edu
 
The EBV partners with the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Veterans Business Development to help grow the program nationwide and maximize the availability, applicability, and usability of small business programs for veterans, service disabled veterans, reserve component members, and their dependents or survivors.
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January 21, 2010
BIPARTISAN MEMBERS LAUNCH INVISIBLE WOUNDS CAUCUS

From the Offices of Representatives
Harry Teague (D-NM), Michael McMahon (D-NY)
   Tom Rooney (R-FL) and Phil Roe (R-TN)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 
Thursday, January 21, 2010

CONTACT: 
Sara Schreiber (Teague) – 202-225-2365
Lauren Amendolara (McMahon) - 202-215-9605
Jeff Ostermayer (Rooney) – 202-579-7259
Amanda Little (Roe) - 202-225-6356


Aims to Raise Awareness About Veteran and Service Member Mental Health Issues

Washington, DC – Today, Representatives Teague (NM-02), Roe (TN-01), McMahon (NY-13), and Rooney (FL-16) announced the founding of the Congressional Invisible Wounds Caucus.  The mission of the caucus is to promote awareness of and solutions for the mental health challenges facing our service members and veterans. 

In a letter encouraging other members to join the caucus the Representatives wrote:

“There can be no question that PTSD and other serious unseen wounds of war, and our collective inability to identify and treat mental illness in our troops and veterans, has become a pressing national issue worthy of our attention.

As a nation, we are not doing enough to identify mental illness in and provide adequate mental health care for our returning service members.  The price of our neglect is paid by our returned service members and those close to them in the form of depression, lower quality of life, economic insecurity, substance abuse, and suicide.  The history of neglecting the mental health concerns of service members is as long as our history of military conflict, but changes in combat and conflict now mean that greater and greater percentages of our men and women in uniform are afflicted with wounds that are unseen.  The time has come to confront mental health issues in our returning service members and veterans head on.”

The caucus will explore responses to rising incidents of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), depression, substance abuse, and suicide among veterans and active duty military.  Congressional Quarterly recently reported that more American military personnel took their own lives in 2009 than were killed in either the Afghanistan or Iraq wars.  In 2009, 259 men and women lost their lives serving their country in Afghanistan, and 76 were killed serving their country in Iraq, but no fewer than 349 service members committed suicide. 

According to a RAND Corporation study from last year, nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan report symptoms of PTSD or major depression.  Additionally, 19 percent of returning service members report that they experienced a possible TBI while deployed.
 

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