Rural Business Summit

This year’s annual Prescott-Russell Rural Business Summit will take place in Alfred, at the Alfred College campus, April 22 and 23. The two-day event continues the annual partnership between local community and business leaders and regional development agencies, to promote Prescott-Russell and its communities as locales for business investment ventures; to aid local businesses showcase themselves, their products and services; and to provide workshop sessions for participants with a variety of business leaders and experts in communications, marketing, entrepreunership, and other areas, who can offer advice to help local and regional businesses and communities develop themselves. This year’s event features Guy Laflamme as keynote speaker. Laflamme heads the Ottawa 2017 Bureau, a not-for-profit group responsible for planning and production of the Canada 150 celebration in the city of Ottawa. – Gregg Chamberlain