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Len's Recent Tour of the "National Renewable Energy Laboratory", Golden, Colorado; July 2008...
http://www.nrel.gov/
http://www.nrel.gov/learning/re_wind.html
http://www.nrel.gov/learning/
with Media Relations mentor, Ivilina Thornton...
At the Entrance to the Facility; Golden, Colorado
"Committee Chair; Environmental Education and Outreach;
Renewable Energy Division; State of Arkansas; U.S. Department of Energy..."
Len Pipkin to Attend / Present at the Following Health-Care Consortium...
359 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington D.C. 20510
Phone (202) 224-4843 Fax (202) 228-1371
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Lincoln to Host Small Business Healthcare Roundtable in Jonesboro
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 25, 2008
Contact: Katie Laning (202)224-4843
Washington – Tuesday, July 1, 2008, U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln will host a “Small Business Healthcare Roundtable” in Jonesboro. The roundtable discussion will feature small business owners and self-employed individuals who will discuss the challenges they face in providing healthcare for themselves and their employees...
U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln’s “Small Business Healthcare Roundtable”
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Jonesboro Roundtable
10:00 AM
Arkansas State University
Dean B. Ellis Library
Conference Room, 8th Floor
108 Cooley Drive
State University, Arkansas
http://lincoln.senate.gov/index.cfm
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2795/text
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Recent Media Mentions: Jonesboro Sun / talkbusiness.net; Article by Karin Hill
Dry cleaner: Business becoming eco-friendly
http://www.jonesborosun.com/archived_story.php?ID=33640
http://www.talkbusiness.net/Weblogs/WeblogItemDetail.aspx?WebLogItemID=c6ffafe0-15aa-472a-929b-c65bad2834cc&WeblogID=2c1ca2ae-06e6-4883-9e3a-554f31d9db55
We were so honored to award yet another college scholarship to such an outstanding / very deserving academic recipient at this year's PIA AR conference - Ms. Anna Minor of Searcy - via the "RANDY HENRY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP" program.
Congratulations, my dear...
June, 2008 - Branson, MO
Ahh... The first, heady aroma of visionary, 21st century thought wafting through the Arkansan air; please join me in attending the inaugural, charter gathering of our state's "Wind Working" group meeting - June 26th, 2008 - U of A / Division of Agriculture / Little Rock...
http://www.arkansasrenewableenergy.org/wind/awwg_mtg_062608.html
http://www.arkansasrenewableenergy.org/index.htm
http://arkansasedc.com/business_development/energy/files/PDF/AEO_overview.pdf
All at Massanelli's send their sincerest and most heartfelt condolences to our friends', colleagues' and mentors'- David and Diane Caldwell / their family members- over the recent loss of beloved granddaughter- Molly Kate Duncan- to pediatric cancer...
http://www.stategazette.com/story/1431675.html
Born: Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Passed Away: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Services Were Held At: Johnson-Williams Funeral Home, Newbern, TN
The family requests that any memorials be directed to: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38015-1942...
Jenny, I am still in absolute awe of the wisdom, soulfulness, depth of maturity, inner-beauty, poise and aplomb with which you comported yourself throughout the duration of Molly's illness; I will be in Nashville, this July 18th - 20th, volunteering and walking on your behalf through The Compassionate Friends Network...
Take Care!
http://www.compassionatefriends.org/
http://www.compassionatefriends.org/2008_National_Conference/2008_Conference_Intro.htm
http://www.compassionatefriends.org/2008_National_Conference/Walk_Event.htm
Our 2008 Restoration Newsletter / Flyer...
http://www.massanelliscleaners.com/view/75
Massanelli's to begin underwriting, supporting KASU / Public Radio
http://www.kasu.org/index.php
My Cherubic Lasses - Spring, 2008
Olivia (L), Posey (R)... are Maroon 5 fanatics; luckily for the entire clan, M5 will be co-headlining an '08 tour, this summer, with the Counting Crows. Look for me at the shows throughout the mid-south; I'll be the proud papa, front row- with a daughter on each shoulder- - waiving these bears around wildly!
http://www.maroon5.com/
http://www.countingcrows.com/
We are so very blessed to reside, simultaneously, within a literal and metaphorical
garden of many delights to be enjoyed by both the lay and scientific minded among
us. At Massanelli's, cutting edge industry technology is that most elegant of
bridges between the two worlds... Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. The idea, here, being a call to consciousness combining spirituality and ecological sanity; the time being now...
*** Recent Awards Ceremony ***
http://www.jonesborosun.com/archivedstory.php?ID=32670&Search=pipkin
"Earth / Arbor Day" article by Karin Hill: Jonesboro Sun
As Browning said of the Emperor Justinian's digest of ancient Roman Laws, the poets there:
"Made precise,
what simply sparkled in mankind's eyes before,
twitched in their brow or quivered on their lips,
waited the speech they called but would not come."
This writer, orator, teacher, advocate, naturalist, chef, renaissance woman- - elevates and invigorates; lifts horizons; softens hardened hearts; lightens gloom- - helping many to see the essentials of life more clearly... Eternal Thanks, Karen
Regional "Earth Day / Arbor Day" scheduled for Saturday, April 19th, 2008...
http://www.k8-8k.com/
Massanelli's Cleaners and Laundry to Attend 2008 Chamber's Business Expo!
http://www.jonesborochamber.com/view/580
April 10th, 2008: The East Arkansas Planning and Development District / Arkansas Urban Forestry Council
To Host Jonesboro Workshop...
http://www.eapdd.com/index_flash.htm
http://www.arkansastrees.org/index.html
http://www.localendar.com/public/aufc
Forbes Special Report
Best Places For Business and Careers
#46 Jonesboro AR
http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/19/best-business-cities-biz-bestplaces08-cx_kb_0319places_land.html
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/5/bestplaces08_Jonesboro-AR_6153.html
Sleep Challenged? Me, Too...
Follow the Link Below
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/site/c.huIXKjM0IxF/b.2417141/k.C60C/Welcome.htm
Add your voice to thousands calling for a Farm Bill that rewards, rather than rejects farmers, ranchers and forest landowers, when they offer to share the costs of a healthy environment.
http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=118
http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1555
Massanelli's Cleaners and Laundry Initiates "Employee Wellness" Program / Contest
http://www.milliondollarbody.com/
Fantastic news for my fellow honorably-discharged Marines, Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen...
Small Business Aid for Veterans / Atlmire (D-PA)
Congress is getting closer to passing legislation that would help
veterans and reservists who own small businesses. The bill would
create a $50,000 no-collateral, small-business loan for reservists
and vets. In addition, it would add four new veteran-business
outreach centers and create an interagency federal task force on
small-business issues. The compromise bill passed the Senate in
mid-December before passing the House recently with modest changes.
Now, the bill heads back to the Senate. The chief sponsor of the
House version of the bill, Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA) said the
programs in place are helpful, but he believes "more can still be done."
http://www.jasonaltmire.com/default.asp
Massanelli's to enter 2008 Dell Computer / ICSB innovative, small business technology challange!
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/shared/bizportal/sbaward/en/index?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
Congrats, not only to my home-town, Memphis, TN, but the general mid-south region as well; wonderful
opportunities currently exist for those entrepreneurs up to facing the daunting, small business challange...
http://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/164656.html
Future of the Downtown Forum and the Foundation of Arts:
Great Article on / Video of Amanda Drennon - Associate Executive Director
http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=7191253
www.jonesborofoa.com.
Hell Hath Frozen Over; Details Below...
Len Pipkin Registered to Run the 2008 Little Rock Marathon!!!
http://www.littlerockmarathon.com/index.cfm
http://www.littlerockmarathon.com/EventsRaceInfo/Marathon.cfm
The Pipkin Sisters Have "Officially" Started School in Arkansas:
http://www.ridgefieldchristian.org/
Next Stop - Brown University / Providence, Rhode Island...
Ivy League Bound!!!
http://www.brown.edu/
Brown’s Mission
The mission of Brown University is to serve the community, the nation, and the world by discovering, communicating, and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry, and by educating and preparing students to discharge the offices of life with usefulness and reputation. We do this through a partnership of students and teachers in a unified community known as a university-college.
http://www.visitrhodeisland.com/
Olivia (pre-k3); Posey (pre-k4)...
Why Brown?
Brown students value the University’s open curriculum and the freedom they have to shape their own academic program.
By crafting your own curriculum with the guidance and assistance of your advisors and teachers, you will be challenged to define liberal education for yourself. You will be encouraged to explore widely across the disciplines. In doing so you will learn the powers and limits of different ways of knowing.
Brown students and faculty are typically innovative, creative, and intellectually restless, never satisfied with the conventional way of doing things, always eager to cross boundaries and to experiment with new approaches to solving problems.
Belonging to such a community is a stimulating experience that will help you learn and grow. Instead of trying to inculcate a single, common tradition of values and beliefs, Brown’s curriculum encourages the exploration of different ways of thinking, judging, and imagining. The goal of such a curriculum is to create cosmopolitan citizens who revel in and are eager to contribute to a world of multiplicity and change.
One of the most important goals of a liberal education at Brown is to develop active learners who take responsibility for their own education. You will have extraordinary independence here and an array of intellectual and creative opportunities. Deans, faculty, and the many groups of peer advisors stand ready to help you make wise choices and find your way. To be an individual, you will find, requires a community, because we all have the power to help and enrich each other.
Brown values diversity — our differences enable us to learn from one another and to open up possibilities for creativity and discovery that would be missing in a homogeneous world.
Brown Medical School and Graduate School attract physicians, researchers, teachers, students, and significant research programs and funding. Brown, the third largest employer in the Providence area, also helps to develop new businesses, and research opportunities, through its partnerships statewide.
Brown welcomes you to a very special city and state. Providence is a “Renaissance” city of arts and cross-culturalism. It is the capital of Rhode Island, which was the first of the thirteen colonies to declare independence. Rhode Island has historically fostered a strong spirit of independence among its citizenry – the majestic State House is topped with a statue of “the Independent Man.” Brown is proud to claim four of the state’s top office-holders as alumni. Governor Donald Carcieri ’65, Attorney General Patrick Lynch ’87, Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83, and Senator Lincoln Chaffee ’75.
Brown works closely with leaders of Providence’s public education system and human service agencies to leverage the resources of the University’s centers and programs in support of our city residents.
Brown actively promotes public service opportunities at colleges across the country, and is a founding member of a consortium of private colleges and hospitals that works on behalf of Providence children.
“What the student wants is a monk’s cell, well lit and heated, with a corner from which they can look at the stars.”
— Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
Life on the Brown campus leads to lifelong friendships. Brown will provide the room — nicer than the monk’s cell Le Corbusier envisioned — the light, and the heat. How you look at the stars is up to you...
Len Pipkin to Discuss Small Business Financing Options / Personal Anecdotes
DATE: Thursday, October 11 / TIME: 9 a.m. – Noon
PLACE: East Arkansas Planning & Development District Meeting Room
2905 King Street / Jonesboro, AR
REGISTRATION: $30 per person
This seminar will explain how and where to get financing for prospective
and existing businesses. Credit requirements, places to go for funding
and the Small Business Administration’s loan guaranty program will be
presented...
TO REGISTER:
Call 870-972-3517
Fax 870-972-3678
On-line www.deltaced.astate.edu/asbdc.htm
Discount Registration for ASU Faculty, Staff, and Students.
Newsletter Excerpt / September - 2007: "Massanelli's Carbon Footprint"
http://www.massanelliscleaners.com/view/60
Massanelli's Cleaners and Laundry is pleased to be sponsoring the
"Randy Henry Memorial Scholarship"
at this years (PIAA) Professional Insurance
Agents of Arkansas Conference in Fayetteville, AR- July 25th through the 27th (Booth #32).
Please join us at the appointed time- luncheon/dinner- for the
presentation of the $1,000.00 check to the very deserving academic
recipient; your attendance and support will be greatly appreciated...
http://www.piaar.com/convention.htm
http://www.piaar.com/scholarship.htm
Len and Sandie extend their sincerest congratulations to friend and colleague:
Mr. Brett Overman - one of Arkansas', 2007, "Top 40 under 40" executives!
http://arkansasbusiness.com/people_ab_40U.asp?id=632
http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/
Congratulations to Professor Christy Valentine!
ASU's new Director of Development - January, 2007
http://asunews.astate.edu/DevelopmentDir07.htm
Massanelli's Cleaners and Laundry
Celebrates 33 Years as a Chamber of Commerce Member - November, 2006
http://www.jonesborochamber.com/files/pdfs/november%2006.pdf
Massanelli's CPA, Linda Harvey, "Make-A-Wish Foundation" Star
Jonesboro Sun - August, 2006
https://www.jonesborosun.com/archived_story.php?ID=23123
http://www.jonescpa.com/index.htm
Jonesboro Sun - March, 2006
"A Perfect Match That Was Meant To Be"
Entrepreneur Magazine: "Top Cities for Growth 2006"
Jonesboro Ranked # 13
http://www.entrepreneur.com/bestcities/region/small.html
Massanelli’s Supports ASU Alumni
10% Discount on Services as of January, 2006
http://www.astatealumni.org/view.php/id/93
Massanelli’s to Change Owners - December, 2005
http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?s=4215620
"Quick Thinking Averts Disaster" says Jonesboro Fire Department
Kait8 - May, 2003
http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?s=1281080
Massanelli's 1964 Open House after February, 1963 Fire
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