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SALISBURY, MD--The Maryland Small Business Development Center recently held its annual fall retreat in Ocean City at the new conference center at the Holiday Inn Oceanfront.  In attendance were all SBDC counselors and staff as well as several guest speakers and trainers. The three-day training event included topics such as alternative funding, marketing, effective communications, partnering for small business success, retail training, time management and strategic consulting.

Katie Henderson, training director of the SBDC Eastern Region located at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, was awarded the State's Commitment Award for Recognition of her Commitment to Quality in Training for the Fiscal Year 2001. To learn more about the Maryland SBDC please call 800-999-7232 or visit its Web site at www.salisbury.edu/community/sbdc.

Retreat guest speakers included Jim Waters, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Paula Klepper, Mid-Atlantic Business Finance; Tara Clifford, Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development; Ken Oliver, Development Credit Fund; Michael McIntyre, Department of Business and Economic Development; Christian Conroy, Pennsylvania SBDC; Lee Ann Shull and Dr. Memo Diriker, ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½; Alan Kutz, vice president of the College of Southern Maryland; Charlotte Scott, The Crabplace.com; and Jim Mathias, mayor of Ocean City.