THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, November 27, 1995 TAG: 9511250106
SECTION: BUSINESS WEEKLY PAGE: 05 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Talk Of The Town
LENGTH: Short : 44 lines
Tidewater Community College has launched the Model Regional Training Alliance. It offers technical training and basic general education for employees of area manufacturers.
The program includes an Internet connection. TCC will quickly notify employers of training programs. Then the employers e-mail back to comment or sign up.
TCC plans a kickoff luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Friday at the Virginia Beach campus to discuss the program with employers. For reservations, call Penny Pagona at 427-7311.
Pagona said companies can easily participate in the program by assigning someone to monitor the Internet and notify TCC of their training needs.
Trade winds: Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim's mid-November jaunt to Japan included more than his urban renewal talk. He delivered a speech (excerpted elsewhere in these pages) at a conference attended by about 1,000 municipal officials from Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, the United States and other nations.
Later he called on a wholesale supply company in Kitakyushu, Japan, urging it to locate an operation in Tidewater. After the mayor returned home, Norfolk economic director Robert Smithwick and city officials went on to China, calling on two marine and technical companies in Shanghai and Beijing.
Go-go, oh no: Deborah A. Wright said she has sold Deb's Dollhouse, a go-go bar in Newport News, to former spouse Bruce ``R.B.'' Wright. ``The pie has been cut so much that it just wasn't worth it,'' she said.
Back when they were Mr. and Mrs. in the early '80s, the Wrights counted only four go-gos on the Peninsula, and they owned two of them.
After receiving one of them, the Village Forum, in a divorce settlement, she renamed it Deb's, but now faces almost a dozen competitors. ``I just got burned out,'' she said. by CNB