NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Feb. 22, 2008

For more information contact:
Rachel Girt
Manager, Marketing and Public Relations
Wyoming Business Council
Office: 307.777.2851 Cell: 307.631.4681
E-Mail: rachel.girt@wybusiness.org

WBC employees Steve Achter and Terry Koerwitz to retire

CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Business Council today announced the retirement of Steve Achter and Terry Koerwitz.

“We are very grateful to Steve and Terry for their many years of service to the state and to their community development efforts on behalf of the Wyoming Business Council,” said Bob Jensen, CEO of the Wyoming Business Council.

Steve Achter, who retires in March, has served as the director of the Investment Ready Communities Division since the creation of the Wyoming Business Council in 1998. During his tenure, the division has increased services available to Wyoming communities; developed two new programs - the Business Ready Communities Grant and Loan Program and the Community Facilities Grant and Loan Program; and invested over $136 million into community development in every county in Wyoming. Since 1979, he has served with every economic development predecessor state agency of the Wyoming Business Council.

Terry Koerwitz, who retires in March, has served as the Community Development Program Manger for the Community Development Block Grant Program at the Wyoming Business Council since 1998. During her tenure at the Business Council, this grant program has invested over $6 million into 32 Wyoming communities, helping them develop public infrastructure, increase access for the disabled and improve community facilities. She has worked in community development for the State of Wyoming for 32 years and every economic development predecessor state agency of the Wyoming Business Council.

The people Steve Achter and Terry Koerwitz have worked with over the years are invited to send stories and well wished to them through the Wyoming Business Council’s public blog at www.wyospace.com

The mission of the Wyoming Business Council is to facilitate the economic growth of Wyoming. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.wyomingbusiness.org.
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