Press
Release Date: May 14,
2008
2008 Alabama
Small Business Person of The Year is Named
Lynn
Carter, Owner, Southeast Cherokee Construction, Inc. Wetumpka, AL.
Lynn Carter, Owner, Southeast Cherokee
Construction, Inc. Wetumpka, AL
Lynn
Carter, Owner, Southeast Cherokee Construction, Inc. Wetumpka, Alabama
and ASBDC State Director, William Campbell
Lynn Carter, Southeast Cherokee, William Campbell, ASBDC
State Director, Teresa Wilson, SBA and Raymond Hembree, Acting District
Director, SBA
Lynn Carter, Southeast Cherokee, William
Campbell, ASBDC State Director, Sandra Lucas, Center Director, Troy
University SBDC and Raymond Hembree, Acting District Director, SBA
Lynn
Carter, Owner, Southeast Cherokee Construction, Inc. Wetumpka, AL,
Raymond Hembree, Acting District Director, SBA and Teresa Wilson, SBA
WETUMPKA - Lynn Carter, Owner,
Southeast Cherokee Construction, Inc., in Wetumpka, AL is the 2008
Alabama Small Business Person of the Year.
The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the business community
as well as in community service.
The company has also been the
recipient of the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business
Development program, been designated a Hub Zone firm and received Small
Disadvantaged Business certification.
Southeast Cherokee Construction
Horizontal Division has built several Department of Transportation
highway projects as both a Prime and a Subcontractor, golf courses,
runway expansions, wastewater treatment facilities, solid waste
landfills, subdivisions and numerous commercial building developments
for private sector clients.
As business has boomed for the
company, so has the company's work force, from 12 employees initially to
73 today.
Mrs. Carter maintains that "the success of the company is the result of
persistence, countless hours of travel, and my faith that 'I can do all
things through Christ who strengthens me'."
Mrs. Carter was nominated by the
Troy State Small Business
Development Center, Troy, AL. The Troy SBDC operates under the Alabama
Small Business Development Consortium (ASBDC). The ASBDC is a
non-profit organization dedicated to the betterment of the entrepreneur
in the state of Alabama.
ASBDC state director, William
Campbell, states “Mrs. Carter is a shining example of today’s
entrepreneur. I am glad we were able to nominate her for this award.”
Campbell continued “I am thankful we receive the funding to assist
people like Mrs. Carter. Without the support of Senator Richard Shelby
and his support of the Alabama Small Business Development Consortium and
the Small Business Development Centers located at eleven universities
through out the state people like Mrs. Carter would go unaided.”
The Alabama Small Business
Development Consortium looks forward to the continued growth of
Southeast Cherokee Construction, Inc.
Lauren Young
Director of
Public Relations
Alabama Small Business Development Consortium
Phone: 205-307.6510 ext. 7
Fax: 205-307.6511
Email: lryoung@uab.edu
