| Returning board member Ed Prior
welcomes new appointees Sherrell Marginet and George Rehnquist. All
are from Gibson County. Rehnquist was co-chair of the original
regional strategic planning group in 2000-2001. |
USI President H. Ray Hoops
welcomes attendees to the banquet/annual meeting. At the head table are
executive director Judy Weatherholt, speaker C. Robert Sawyer of the Chicago
office of the Economic Development Administration, board vice president Phil
Young, and outgoing board president Jonathan Weinzapfel. |
Some of the crowd at the meeting
listen to Sawyer's talk on the importance of regionalism for economic
development. |