Business Digest.Byline: The Register-Guard CITY/REGION Event to offer help on training grants The Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. Workforce Investment Board Workforce Investment Boards (or "WIBs") are regional entities created to implement the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 in the United States, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. has $2 million available for grants to help Oregon employers upgrade the skills of their workers. To brief grant applicants, the Lane Workforce Partnership is sponsoring a "bidders conference" on Thursday Thursday: see week. from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. It will be held at the Downtown Athletic Club The Downtown Athletic Club was an athletic club in a 35-story building located at 19 West Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It was founded in 1926. By 1927, it had purchased this site next to the Hudson River to construct its own building. at 999 Willamette St. in Eugene. Businesses, industry associations, unions in partnerships with businesses and others are invited to submit grant proposals. The grants will be distributed in amounts of $150,000 or less. For more information, call the Lane Workforce Partnership at 682-3800 or e-mail info@laneworkforce.org. Centennial to pay quarterly dividend PORTLAND - Centennial Bancorp on Tuesday announced that it will pay common stockholders on Nov. 1 a four-cents-a-share dividend. The Portland-based holding company of Centennial Bank said stockholders of record on Oct. 15 will receive the dividend, the sixth consecutive quarterly payout pay·out n. 1. The act or an instance of paying out. 2. A percentage of corporate earnings that is paid as dividends to shareholders. since last year. Centennial has announced it will be acquired by Portland-based Umpqua Holdings Corp. in a stock and cash deal that is expected to close on Nov. 15. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion