MONDAY: Obama Cabinet Member to visit Ste. Genevieve, Mo., as part of Main Street Road Tour

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Maria Contreras-Sweet, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration will visit Ste. Genevieve, Mo., on July 4^th to kick-off the first day of her five-day Delta Region Main Street Road Tour which will take her to five states and 11 cities.  She will finish up in New Orleans on Friday, July 8.

While in Ste. Genevieve she will receive a walking tour of the city followed up by remarks on the importance of entrepreneurship on Main Street America at the city Independence Day celebration.  She will then have lunch with the Chamber of Commerce Director, city officials and business representatives.  Contreras-Sweet will finish the day with a tour of the proposed Ste. Genevieve National Park site and the impact of such a park on area small businesses and community development.

WHAT: SBA Administrator visit to Ste. Genevieve, Mo.  

WHEN: July 4, 2016 (10 a.m. – 1 p.m.)

WHERE: Welcome Center (66 S. Main St.), Ste. Genevieve, Mo.

10- 11:45 a.m.

• Walking Tour of Ste. Genevieve with City Director of Tourism and Economic Development and meet with many small businesses along the route.

Town Square, Ste. Genevieve, Mo.

Noon

• Remarks at Ste. Genevieve's Independence Day Celebration.

MEDIA RSVP: June Teasley, [email protected], (816) 206-0409 Monday, July 4 by 9 a.m.

About the U.S. Small Business Administration
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