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Page 6 Siletz News Programs Siletz Business Information Center (SBIC) news LISA BROWN SBIC Business Counselor ** For more information contact the SBIC office. We have forms to apply for “You and Your Business Idea” workshop inclusion in this program. Please note id you know that credit unions are a prime that the DBE program is not solely The Siletz Business Information Center (SBIC) will resource for low-interest loans? Credit be presenting a workshop titled "You and Your unions provide customers with a very limited to women, it also applies to the Business Idea," from 6-9 P.M., Monday and Tuesday, following categories: invaluable resource, for networking as well as June 15 & 16, at the Siletz Community Tribal Center ♦ Disadvantaged Business Enter loan services. For example, U-Lane-O Credit prise (DBE) - This program is on Government Hill, in Siletz. Union, located in the Eugene-Springfield area, regulated by Federal eligibility Cost for the seminar is $10 which will pay for offers membership to family members of their course materials, one individual business counseling requirements and applies to ethnic current members. This means if you have a minority (male or female) and woman- session, and an analysis of responses to an brother, sister or parent who is a member, you owned businesses who wish to seek entrepreneurial style and success questionnaire. are eligible to apply for membership. If you Scholarships are available upon request. contracting opportunities with: think you are eligible, or know someone who Audrey Campbell, Oregon Operations Coordina Department of Transportation, transit might be eligible, have them contact U-Lane-O tor for the Oregon Native American Business and authorities, or airport authorities at 1-800-365-1111 to inquire about the within the State of Oregon. Entrepreneurial Network (ONABEN), will be the application process. presenter. ♦ M inority Business Enterprise The Internet provides a wealth of The two-part class focuses on understanding the (MBE) - This program is regulated by information, and Internet access is available to requirements for business success. Participants will State eligibility requirements and SBIC clients. Please call-to arrange a time to learn the benefits and obligations of business applies to ethnic minority (male or search the Internet. Some examples of ownership and examine personal goals. female) owned businesses who wish to information are listed below. This class lays a foundation for a class called seek contracting opportunities with: American Engine Rebuilders Association "Starting a Successful Business," which will be city, county; state, and private industry (AERA) has a website, http://www.aera.org. offered later in the year. within the State of Oregon. Updates or technical information is available. ♦ Woman Business Enterprise For more information, or to reserve a spot at the For example: "Oil Consumption on 1984-93 (WBE) - This program is regulated by workshop, contact Lisa Brown, SBIC business Honda 1.5L Engines." A detailed technical State eligibility requirements and counselor, at 1-800-922-1399, ext. 255, or dial direct at reference about cylinder-head removal process, 541-444-8255. applies to woman-owned businesses which proves to be beneficial to counter who wish to seek contracting excessive oil loss, and problems with cold starts opportunities with: city, county, state, of the engine. State of Oregon. and private industry within the State of Oregon. This website also has a classified section, Please contact the SBIC, if you have questions ♦ Emerging Small Business (ESB) - This race listing parts, tools; employment, and business about the program and the services we provide. and gender neutral program is regulated by opportunities for machinists and mechanics. Also, feel free to make suggestions or State eligibility requirements and applies to all Examples; "Brake Lathe: Van Norman 204, 3 corrections, for newsletter articles; Information small businesses located within Oregon who are mandrels with tooling, excellent condition and education are the primary keys to our seeking contacting opportunities with: city, $3,000.00." "Valve Grinder: Sioux, good success, and success is the goal of the SBIC. county, state, and private industry within the condition $800.00." Business for sale: Complete Diesel & Automotive Machine Shop. The "Online Women's Business Center"is a free, interactive, web site for beginning and established women business owners. Log onto il l ia m ow ner r their web site, at http://www.onlinewbc.org. The following is an example of the data available: March 21,1925 - Siletz, Oregon Senate Action on the Disadvantaged Busi May 2,1998 - Portland, Oregon ness Enterprise Program. On Friday, March 6, William "Bill" Towner, Jr., was a member of the Confederated the Senate voted 58 to 37 not to dismantle the Tribes of Siletz Indians, Tutootnie, from the Rogue River. Bill served Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) in the US Army from 1943-1946, serving in WWII in the 807 MP Co. program as part of the Intermodal Surface in the British West Indies. From the mid-1940s to the early 1950s, Bill Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1997. worked as a logger in Sieltz, Molalla, Dallas, and Tillamook. Bill left The Senate has not yet completed work on the the Siletz Reservation in 1938, at tire age of 13. Although he traveled biU. to many places, he always called Siletz "home." The DBE program was created as part of the Bill served as. a Siletz Tribal Council Member; a Tribal Judge; he Surface Transportation Act of 1982 (PL 97-424) in was a delegate for STOWW; served on the Pow-Wow Committee for order to increase the share of qualified "socially 15 years; Hunting and Fishing Committee; Election Board; and was a Bingo Commissioner. In more and economically disadvantaged" firms in recent years, Bill was involved in the Interagency Policy Council for American Indians Veterans; the transportation construction industries by American Veteran's Council in Portland and Vancouver; and was involved with Northwest Indian establishing a minimum goal o f 10% for DBEs. Veterans Assn. Bill also volunteered at the VA hospitals in Portland Vancouver. Qualified women business enterprises were Bill Towner lived in Vancouver, Washington, for the past thirty years wtih his family. He and his included in this program in 1987 (PL 100-17). wife, Dianna, have been married for thirty years. They have two daughters: Michelle and Stacey of During fiscal year '96, Women Business Vancouver. Bill also had four other children from a previous marriage: Larry, Barbara, Roberta, and Enterprises (WBEs), within the DBE program, Janet, who reside in Salem, Oregon. Grandchildren include: Zachary Towqner-Fordyce, Amber received almost 7% of the $14 billion on Towner, William Dakota Towner, Ed Goodell, and Kelli Cunningham, as well as numerous contracts awarded in federal highway dollars to grandchileren from his previous marriage. "Mr. Bill" will be remembered by many and greatly states for transportation and infrastructure missed. projects.** D W T , J .
