Business-related workshops being offered

Numerous business-related workshops are being offered this week onWest Virginia State College's Institute campus.

A desktop publishing workshop will be offered from 9 a.m. to 4p.m. Tuesday. The workshop will teach attendees how to use MicrosoftPublisher 2002 to create newsletters, flyers, brochures,advertisements and banners. Cost is $55. The workshop will be in Room219 of the Cole Complex.

An ACT math review program will be offered from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.starting Wednesday and continuing during the same times on May 11, 18and 25. Cost is $35. An ACT reading comprehension and sciencereasoning review will be offered from 9 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. onSaturday and continuing during the same times on May 14 and 21. Costis $35. The programs will be in Room 112 of the Cole Complex.

A workshop that will teach attendees how to use PowerPoint tocreate charts, graphs, handouts and slides will be offered from 9a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday in Room 219 of the Cole Complex. Cost is $55.

Creating Web sites using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX software willbe offered from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Room 219 ofthe Cole Complex. Cost is $85.

For more information or to register, call Amy French at 766-5113or e-mail her at afrench2@wvsctc.edu.

The workshops are sponsored by the West Virginia State Communityand Technical College.

Small business startup

workshop set for Thursday

A small business startup workshop will be offered from 9:30 a.m.to 3 p.m. Thursday at the Putnam County Chamber of Commerce's officeon State Route 34, Winfield.

Bob Henrich, a business development specialist with the SmallBusiness Development Center, will present information on going intobusiness in West Virginia. The center is a unit of the West VirginiaDevelopment Office.

The $10 fee includes materials but does not include lunch. A lunchbreak will be provided. For more information or to register call thechamber at 757-6510.

"First Friday Breakfast"

scheduled this week

Brenda Nichols Harper, vice president and general counsel of theWest Virginia Chamber of Commerce, will be the guest speaker at the"First Friday Breakfast" at 8 a.m. Friday at Wellington's of ScarletOaks.

Harper will provide a wrap-up of the 2005 state Legislativesession.

Cost of the breakfast is $10 and is payable at the door. Forreservations call the Putnam County Chamber of Commerce at 757-6510or e-mail the chamber at chamber@putnamcounty.org.

The Putnam County Chamber of Commerce and the Putnam CountyCommission are First Friday Breakfast sponsors.