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G TRI.cOUNTY SOUTHWESTERN ICKIGAN
T
Whirlpool Foundation
p b . its ann re-
port for the year ending De­
cember 31, 1979 and,
rding to a legal notice
.) ed in . daily paper,
Ie to public
for r . e at the Whirl-.
pool Administration Cen­
ter.
In the health care
category, the South e tern
ichigan Health Care A
sociation, $25,000.
The Urban Gate ay
(TUG) that runs the Benton
Hubor RIF(Reading I Fun­
damental) program has been
promi S3,500 if TUG
can come up with a match­
ing amount, according to
adalyn Higgens, Foundat­
io Secretary.
9,000; Safety Council of
S.. ' ichigan, S 10,000;
Planned Parenthood, S20,
000; Sarett ature Center,
$10,(J()(r, St. Jo -Lincoln
Senior Center, 65,000; the
. Cities Art Council,
$1,000; Twin Citie ym­
phony S7,500 and the
Y .. CA. Ami Program,
Whirlpool Foundation S 1,250.
contribute to educational The Foundation.
d cbaritab organizatio contributed $86,900 to the
both locally and . naDy. Blossomland United Way
Some of local II and S2,800 to the YMCA of
cip. ts d the amounts Bentoo Harbor-St. Joe.
recemd· (Ie: Berrien Some of the national
County C cil of Clmrch- organization rec:emn
_ __'I.-'-._"� S3,500; Canamer G funds ere Tuskegee Col-
S7,500; Cathedr 001 of , $4,000; United egro
Arts, S5,000; Four-H, Colle Fund, 31,000;
5,500; the Humane So- AACP SI,OOO; and the a-
ciety, 5 000; Junior- chi- tional Urban League,
evement, S5,500; , S2,500.
The Foundation,
formed in 1951 lists ts
of S4,109,323.
Trustees of the Foun­
dation are Robert Willemin,
PI . ent; B. ADen BaiBif,
Vice-Pre . ent; Charles D.
Putnam; George ardebery;
illiam aylor, Treasurer;
and . �igin .
of th to 315; the four mill
additional reque was p­
pro d 896 to 401; and
the library requ for
o mills eel through
·tIl 1,052 to 342 mar­
gin.
oper- According to Jobn
1,042 Lottridle, City
1,561 out· of 6,600 reg­
. ered- voten 0 ed up
at the polls.
ayor Joel P te
claimed the p repre-
ted an affirmation of
. administration.
20 CENTS
group from the are
too Whirlpool company
pi to Minne polis recent-
ly to tour the City Venture
project there. ccompany­
ing (,(:auley ere: Ro r
Curry, Twin Citie Chamber
of Commerce; ary De oe,
pre 'dent of AACP; Hazel
Cochran, OIC Director; P ul
Ho land, ichigan Depart­
ment of Corrections; and
former Berrien County
p ann r and an official from
o ere both uni­
dentified.
A profit-oriented cor­
poration that make its
money off of fee charged
for revitalizing depre d
as in Benton Harbor
Tue y making presenta­
tion to certain group and
ssing the city' problem
and potentials ..
City Ventur , a profit
corporation ere ted by Con­
trol D ta of St. Paul, inne­
sota, trie total, compre-
h n . approach to urb
, i repre Rag
Brown, told a group of
Benton Harbor busine
men, T s?ay evening at WILL VISIT TOLEDO
The Captain' Tab . The
group as invited by Ron cCauley told ,th
Schultz of Boom che the group at the Tuesday night
engineering fmn that' pro- meeting, that if any ,of
vide engineering rvice �em. WIshed to 0 ,th
for the city, included Jame him m early J�e to VIe
Rolling, East Side Furni- the, Toledo CIty Venll:lf
ture; J ohn and Dorothy project, h� could provide
n: k JADE' T .L_, transportation.
IJ�C ey, , om atnau cC ul
of BIMA dvertising; Bob th ' . aan y fSPth S C�tn-
C Hank d u IC Y 0 e ny
arr, Dave an �r., Venture project ying,
Tottenberg of Commercial "I'm totally for it."
Deselo �t Corp.; ercy Brown provided e
Carr, Fashions for All �- inkling of the co of City
sons; and Randy apoli, Venture hen he told to
of orstrom, �ox arket- Tuesday night meeting that
lng, Grand Rapids, for planning a "strategy"
HAS 11IREE P OJEcrs fo Toledo, it co t that
city S200,000. The city
paid for S175,000 of
that and the local busi­
ne community picked up
S25,000.
To date, City Venture
has launced project in
inne lis - St. Paul,
To do, Ohio and Phila­
delphia.
According to Brown;
City Venture can offer
a cro section of skills
because it is compo d of
a cro ction from 12
corporations other than
Control Data, ell as
2 church organizations.
Brown listed the three
key offerin of City Ven­
ture: anagement sldlls;
technological kno -ho ;
and the ability to package
public and private invest­
ments with continuity in
planning.
o TRAC RECORD
"If you're looking for
track record," he'd,
"City Venture doe 't have
one, b t its inv tors do."
Benton Harbor City
anager Paul cCauley and
CHARGE FE
The m ement fee
charged by City Venture
for implementing their plans
in Toledo will co the city
another S300,000 annually.
Toledo will a UDAG
grant to finance that co
In Minneapolis, Brown
id, the city had floated
a bond to pay the City
Venture f .
cCaul y red th
busi people that th
funds ere available locally
in the busin conununity
as en u public money.
"There's the EDA revolving
fund," he ·d, "whicll I
unde d wiD be S3 mil­
lion ith the rust $750,000
earmarked for the city. I
ant to u that to ge
nature of . goiJig."
Brown told the group
that "once e gr on
contract ith city, e
d elop an impl mentation
rategy plan. e're in busi­
ne to implement." He rel -
ted it t e four to '
months to identify where
to put a "Busine and
Technology Center"
where new or existing bu '.
ne can locate. Tb Cen­
ter is the center of the
City Venture concept.
In t Bu . e and
Technology Center, new
busin s locate and re-
ceive range of pport
rvice from City Ven­
ture and Control Data.
According to Brown, the
Center provide mail room,
boo eeping, computer,
legal, 10 ding dock, pur­
chasing rvice.
I CUB TE, OVE OUT
"Our goal ' to incu­
b te them (De busine )
and move them out," be
noted.
City ,Venture al pl g
into existing education
and vocational training pr0-
grams, according to Brown.
He noted that the tradi­
tional methods of OIC fo
example, are identified and
joined up with to "help it
impact." City Venture doe
this with "Plato", compu­
ter b d educational Sf
tedt provided by Control
Data. City Venture
does counseling in the
of pre-employment training.
cCauley emphasized
that one of the industri he
hoped to d veloped
would be re urce reco ery.
He noted that the p t
could produce chill d er
and earn for e to
Whirlpool, the UDAG hotel
and th propo d office
complex.
City Venture cho s
job inten· busin to
develop and "incubate" c­
oording to Brown.
. Where in other citie ,
City Venture h concentra­
ted on a certain area, in
Benton Harbor, Brown said
the entire city . under
