Tickets are available for the Golden Triangle Economic Development Council’s 2015 Annual Dinner scheduled for 6 p.m. on April 16, 2015, at the Southern Arkansas University Reynolds Center Grand Hall.
Dinner tickets are $25 per person, and are available through April 14. They may be purchased at the GTEDC Office at Community Services Suite 102-F in the Reynolds Center. They can also be purchased through any local Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Office in Camden, El Dorado and Magnolia.
At the annual dinner, the GTEDC membership is updated on goals and issues the organization will be working on in the coming year. New board members are also elected.
Lieutenant Governor Tim Griffin will be the guest speaker for the event, and he will address community development, education and skilled workforce issues. He was elected on November 4, 2014, and is focused on working with Governor Asa Hutchinson and the General Assembly to help move Arkansas forward.
From 2011-2015, Griffin served as the 24th representative of Arkansas’s Second Congressional District. In the 112th Congress, he served as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on the Judiciary. For the 113th Congress, he was a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means while also serving as a Deputy Whip for the Majority.
Griffin is serving in his 18th year with the U.S. Army Reserve, was deployed to Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He also served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs for President George W. Bush.
Griffin grew up in Magnolia, a fifth generation Arkansan and the youngest son of a minister and teacher. He graduated from Magnolia High School, Hendrix College in Conway and Tulane Law School in New Orleans. His wife Elizabeth is from Camden, and they currently live in Little Rock with their two children, Mary Katherine, 6, and John, 4. They are members of Immanuel Baptist Church of Little Rock.
