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Duluth, Minn., Nonprofit Airport Shuttle Helps Workers Develop Business Skills.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2003
By Jane Brissett, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 8-- Loretta McGowan had a good news-bad news day not long ago.
The bad news: She lost her job. The good news: She was hired as a van driver for Alpha and Omega Transportation.
"I got fired and hired all in one day," she said.
Her good fortune to land another job right away came because she knew the right person and he had faith in her. The Rev. Arthur Foy III, pastor at St. Mark's AME Church in Duluth, was in the process of setting up an airport shuttle service and had ac...uired a 15-passenger van with a $12,500 gift from RBC Dain Rauscher.
Foy, who earned a master's of business administration in 1997 at Concordia University...
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