2005 State Star

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TRACEY JETTE, BOZEMAN, NAMED SBDC 'MONTANA STATE STAR' 2005Award

Helena, MT - Montana Small Business Development Center State Director Ann Desch announced that Tracey Jette has been named the

2005 State Star of the State of Montana. The award was presented at the Silver Anniversary Conference of the

Association of Small Business Development Centers in Baltimore, Maryland.

"I am pleased to make this announcement, and to recognize Tracey for extraordinary contributions to the work of the Bozeman SBDC and small business in Montana," said Desch.

Jette is the Center Director at the Bozeman Small Business Development Center. She was chosen her Montana SBDC peers for being an exemplary performer, making a significant contribution to the Montana SBDC program, and showing a strong commitment to small business in Bozeman.

"It is an honor to accept this award," said Jette, "and to have the opportunity to help so many people achieve the dream of starting and succeeding in their own business."

America's Small Business Development Center Network is a partnership uniting private enterprise, government, higher education and local nonprofit economic development organizations. It is the Small Business Administration's largest partnership program, providing management and technical assistance to help Americans start, run and grow their own businesses. With approximately 1,000 centers across the nation, the SBDC network assists approximately 725,000 small businesses every year in face-to-face counseling and training, in addition to assisting hundreds of thousands more small businesses through fax-on-demand and e-mail.