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CJ • L L Template 1 - Left Sidebar 2/19/2010 Page 3 of 4 C 1 • Education & Workforce Training • Attraction & Marketing • Retention • Entrepreneurship & Innovation CCCC Breaks Ground on Siler City Campus The new facility will enable the college to do a major expansion of its programs in workforce and a dult education for residents of Siler City and western Chatham County. It will also provide workforce traini for current and future businesses that locale in the Business Campus. The Center will house classrooms, offices, a student center, computer and class labs, vocationaVindustrial training shops, and other services. Dianne Reid, president of Chatham Count Economic Development Corporation also addressed the importance of the workforce training that will take place at the Center. She told the gathering that Site Selection Magazine has chosen North Carolina as the No. 1 place in the United States for business growth for eight of the past nine years. She gave major credit for this to the state's community college system and its workforce development programs. "Having Central Carolina Community College here to train workers to fill jobs we attract is incredibly huge," she said. "There could not be a more important thing we could offer to prospective businesses." Read more... Economic Development and the Defense Industry In October, the EDC became a member of the All- American Defense Busines A ssociation , a regional group of businesses with interests in military contracting, government affairs and supporting the region's military installations. The AADBA provides information for Department of Defense contractors to enhance contracting capabilities, connects defense contractors and businesses with resources to improve business potential, and offers networking opportunities to increase business contacts and build relationships.