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		<title>ECONOMIC UPDATE: JULY 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data provided by Strategic Insight Group
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Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and Ed Bass, developer of Sundance Square, announced ESPN chose Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth as its production headquarters for Super Bowl XLV. This entails more than 80 hours of live ESPN national and local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TCU Dedicates Heritage Trails Marker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marker placed on Tarrant Co. Courthouse grounds near TCU’s 1910 location
In the late 1870s, Fort Worth’s Hell’s Half Acre had too much rowdy action going on downtown for a Christian school. So the Fort Worth Board of Trade (now the Fort Worth Chamber) teamed with a landowner and Christian churches to bring the school that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Council aims for “Impact”</title>
		<link>http://www.fortworthchamber.com/letter/?p=2107</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Chamber members may be asking “Who moved my cheese?” when looking for their Small Business professional and personal development programs.  But as the best-selling book of that title declares, “movement in a new direction helps you find new cheese.”
The Chamber’s Minding Your Business and Lunch &#38; Learn programs for small businesses have been combined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local freshman at UT credits AVID for ‘the hand I needed’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Areli Casiano counts many blessings this first week of her freshman year at the University of Texas in Austin.
High on her list is the college preparatory program, Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), in which she excelled at South Hills High School for three years, recently graduating in the top 10 percent of her class. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-world future shaping studies</title>
		<link>http://www.fortworthchamber.com/letter/?p=2082</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This school year’s opening bell rang in a new era at the Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD).
Beginning now and by the fall of 2011, Gold Seal Programs of Choice will be changing students’ focus from just getting a high school diploma to graduating with certified strengths for post-secondary career paths. Those paths may lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be a Super Bowl Volunteer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee is still accepting volunteers!
The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee will recruit and train volunteers to welcome hundreds of thousands of visitors to North Texas to enjoy the Super Bowl experience. Volunteers will staff numerous activities and venues throughout the region, including the area’s airports, major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dateline: Fort Worth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data provided by Strategic Insight Group
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The Brenham-based dairy and ice cream maker [Blue Bell] recently bought 2,288 acres at 9351 Harmon Road, near Interstate 35W and US 287, where it plans a 12,000 square-foot distribution center, its first expansion in Fort Worth since 1981.
Star-Telegram, June 28, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newcomer and Economic Guides will have new digital presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen in last month’s Chamberletter that the Fort Worth Chamber has enthusiastically endorsed Journal Communications as the new publisher for our 2011 Newcomer and Economic Development Guides.
We are thrilled to announce that companion websites will also feature fresh, new expanded content, video, photo galleries and more.
“The Chamber conducted an extensive RFP process, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growth-minded fence company wins their second Small Business of the Year Award</title>
		<link>http://www.fortworthchamber.com/letter/?p=1948</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Eric Schrader and Gil Laserna sought a name in 1997 for their new fence company, they took their clue from the busy buzz of honey bees’ teamwork and human word-of-mouth news about something exceptional.
The result: Buzz Fence Services, now known as Buzz Custom Fence, a small business that has followed future-focused strategic planning, research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign trade plans developing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bilateral trade partnership between Fort Worth, Germany’s Free State of Lower Saxony and its capital, Hannover, is taking shape in moves that may pay off within a year.
“Our goal is to have Fort Worth companies doing business with Germany by 2011,” said David Berzina, the Chamber’s executive vice president of Economic Development. “Germany is [...]]]></description>
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