LITTLE ROCK — Contest seeks Delta business start ups
Two entrepreneurs with the best business plans will win $25,000 and $15,000 in the Helena Start-Up Challenge, a competition sponsored by the Delta Bridge Project.
As a stipulation of the competition, both winners will agree to use the prize money to convert their ideas into start up businesses in Helena-West Helena. The deadline to enter is March 31.
Applicants are not required to be residents of Helena-West Helena.
The Delta Bridge Project is a community-led revitalization effort focused on improving the quality of life in Phillips County.
For more information about the challenge or to apply, visit HelenaStartupChallenge.com.
Questions about the competition may be sent to Dustin Choate at dustin. choate@southernpartners.
org or call (870) 816-1117.
More information about the Delta Bridge Project is available from Kimberly Clement at kimberly.
clement@southernpartners. org or call (870) 816-1121.
- David Smith
2 on panel to aid
rice, water, fowl
Two Arkansans will be on a stewardship board created by the USA Rice Federation and Ducks Unlimited to address rice production, waterfowl and water conservation projects and programs and policies that are beneficial to both organizations.
Jeff Rutledge of Newport will represent USA Rice and Brandon Bauman of Stuttgart will represent Ducks Unlimited.
The partnership will work to bring about longterm improvements to three of the nation’s natural and economic resources: waterfowl, working rice lands and water.
“Rice fields and waterfowl mutually benefit each other, and water is the essential underlying resource for both waterfowl and rice fields,” USA Rice Chairman Mark Denman said in a prepared statement.
- David Smith
U.S. rebound lifts state index 3.13
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, climbed 3.13 to 260.88 Tuesday.
“Stocks rebounded strongly after Monday’s slide, driven by technology issues as investors responded to improving corporate earnings and steady economic news reports in the U.S. and abroad,” said Bob Williams, senior vice president and managing director of Delta Trust Investments Inc. in Little Rock.
Volume for the index was 27.7 million shares, compared with average daily volume of 23.7 million shares.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
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