The Santa Fe Small Business Development Center and the city of Santa Fe Economic Development Department will hold a workshop Wednesday, July 8, addressing the services available from the Small Business Administration to current and prospective business owners.

Provisions of the act offering beneficial terms on SBA financing will be discussed.

A variety of economic-development and lending organizations will be on hand.

The workshop will be 10 a.m.-noon in Jemez Room 1 at Santa Fe Community College. Seating is limited.

To register, contact Julianne Gutierrez-Ortiz at 428-1343 or via e-mail at julianne.gutierrezor@sfccnm.edu.


Jane Terry Financial Associates Inc. is holding a workshop regarding long-term care and estate planning.

Workshop attendees will learn what Medicare covers, items to look for in a good long-term care policy, and how to incorporate long-term care protection into their financial plan.

Attendees can chose between two dates, July 6 or 7, at 6 p.m. The workshop will be held at Jane Terry Financial Associates, Inc., 130 Camino Escondido. Space is limited; for more information or to make a reservation, call 984-8232.


Displaying a perennial optimism that is perhaps characteristically American, four in 10 U.S. workers who recently have been laid off themselves, or are a significant other to someone who has, now believe getting the ax was a blessing in disguise.

According to a just-released survey, commissioned by SnagAJob.com and conducted by IPSOS Public Affairs, among the roughly 14 percent of Americans who say they or their spouse/significant other has been laid off since December 2007, a total of
39 percent said that the layoffs have been a blessing in disguise. Meanwhile, an additional 26 percent of those who do not yet see it as a blessing expect that the layoff will eventually become one.

Of those who were let go from their jobs since the start of the recession, almost one in three (27 percent) said they have since found another job that is better.

For many of those laid off (21 percent), their dismissal was the impetus for going back to school. And 16 percent said that they are now pursuing a career they have always wished for, which may include starting their own business.


Eldorado Hotel & Spa has named Karen Butler director of sales and marketing. Butler, who has 26 years of hospitality experience, will be responsible for achieving revenue goals, developing hotel-wide sales and marketing strategies for the leisure and group segments, and customer satisfaction.

Butler previously was director of sales & marketing at Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza for two years.