Gov. LePage to speak at March 15 business breakfast

WATERVILLE — Last Chance: Gov. Paul LePage’s Final Push will be the topic of the next business breakfast scheduled from 7:15 to 9 a.m. Thursday, March 15, in the Spann Student Commons Summit Room on Thomas College’s campus, 180 West River Road. The March 8 breakfast has been scheduled because of the impending storm.

LePage will review his ultimate legislative agenda for his concluding session at the event hosted by the college and Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce.

Thomas College’s Harold Alfond Institute for Business Innovation, working with the Central Maine Growth Council, is sponsoring a new effort to showcase budding entrepreneurs in the region at the Business Breakfast Series. Fifteen minutes prior to the start of the breakfast speakers, the featured Entrepreneurial Spotlight speaker will be asked to highlight his or her product or service. This month will feature LaCasse Bats of Skowhegan. Jesse LaCasse, owner, will share his story and will give away four baseball bats.

Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce holds monthly informative presentations on a variety of educational business topics at the college’s Spann Student Commons.

The cost of the business breakfast is $18 for members, or $25 at the door and for nonmembers. Breakfast is included with the reservation. To register, email [email protected] or call 873-3315.

The sponsors for the business breakfast are AT&T; People’s United Bank; Cross Employee Benefits; Nicholson, Michaud & Company; O’Donnell, Lee, McCowan & Phillips LLC; print media sponsor Morning Sentinel, a division of Maine Today Media Inc. and radio sponsor MIX107.9. Additional sponsors are: Are You Ready To Party??, Central Maine Motors Auto Group, Joseph’s Fireside Steak House and Sheridan Construction.