Business

Summer will soon be here - time for family trips and long weekends. But when it comes to investing, you don't necessarily want to take a summer vacation. So, instead of taking a "time out" from investing until the fall, keep your eyes open for good investments now – and during the rest of the year, as well.

Natural disasters seem to be occurring with increasing

As you go through each day, you probably come into contact with

Soon, it will be June

The last thing that many unemployed people want to deal with is

disaster assistance: Small businesses are eligible to apply for low interest disaster loans to offset economic losses because of reduced revenue to farmers and ranchers caused by excessive rain and wheat stripe rust in 10 California counties. Small businesses may apply for economic losses that are attributable to the following incident dates: San Benito County from April 1-May31, 2003. The deadline to apply is June 23, 2004. For more information, call 800-488-5323, write to SBA at P.O. Box 13795, Sacramento, Calif., 95853-4795. The hearing impaired can call 916-566-7388.

In a few weeks, the school year will be coming to an end.

Business workshop: The Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce will offer a One Page Business Plan workshop from 8-9:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 11. The event will feature a 90-minute presentation from small business expert Bob Kramer, President of Visionary Strategic Consulting. Cost is free for members, $15 for all others. Call 831-424-7611 to reserve a spot or for more information.