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** MEDIA ADVISORY **

Leaders of the Interstate 85 Corridor initiative will be available to talk to media at 12:30 p.m., prior to the Feb. 2 workshop being held from 1 p.m.-5:30 p.m. at Auburn University at Montgomery's Library Tower, West Room on the 10th floor. Media are also invited to attend the workshop.

David Wilson, vice president for Outreach at Auburn University, and Les Porter, vice president for business and fiscal affairs at Tuskegee University, co-chairs of the I-85 executive committee, will be available for comment. P>The OTF Group, consultants for the initiative, will have available: Michael Fairbanks, chairman; Andrew Smith, project leader; and Mike Randall. Randall Kempner, president of Prosperity Strategies and executive director of the Council on Competitiveness Center for Regional Innovation, will also be available.

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CONTACT: 334/844-5700.