Dr. Lonnie H. Blizzard This is Me

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1. 1. The Kinston Free Press

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   Published on: 3/1/2005   Last Visited: 3/25/2005

   Lonnie Blizzard reads over files Thursday in his office at the Global Transpark Education and Training Center. Blizzard is the new interim director of the GTP center.
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   Blizzard to lead GTP Education Center
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   For Lonnie Blizzard, taking over as interim director of the Global TransPark's education and training center is a real homecoming.
   
   "I really enjoy getting behind the director's desk once again," Blizzard said. "I find real pleasure in serving the public."
   
   A former Lenoir County Community College president, interim executive director of the Global TransPark and first director of the Global TransPark Education and Training Center, Blizzard began his new job on March 14. He replaces David Edwards, who resigned to become director of technology for the Lenoir County School System.
   
   As interim director, Blizzard will oversee operations at the center that provides the physical facilities and technological equipment needed by new and expanding businesses to train employees. The part-time interim position pays $58 an hour, and Blizzard says it will be determined after June 30 whether he will continue to serve as the center's director.
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   "We are very fortunate that Dr. Blizzard accepted the interim position.
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   "I have known Dr. Blizzard since July 1998, and he has always been supportive of the overall goals and objectives of the TransPark at large," the executive director said. "The center is a central element of both management and marketing of the TransPark."
   
   Blizzard was instrumental in the center's early development. Before his retirement as president of LCC in 1998, he served on a committee of business, industry, education and government leaders that came up with ideas for what the center should include.
   
   In 2000, when the center officially opened, Blizzard became director and oversaw both construction and the technological up-fitting of the facility. He stayed in that position until 2001, when he took over the job of GTP interim executive director. He held that post for almost two years.
   
   When asked recently by Waddell to lead the center again, Blizzard said he just couldn't refuse the offer.
   
   "With all that I put into that center for 10 years, I don't want to see anything but good management there," he said. "I hope to continue the center's success, and help enhance the opportunities for businesses and industries to provide the training to their employees that will upgrade and update
   
   Blizzard said that he likes to refer to the education and training center as the "crown jewel of the GTP Authority." The center's importance in providing facilities and equipment for employee training, he noted, can't be overemphasized.
   
   "It is the crown jewel not just because of my personal involvement," he said. "It's the crown jewel because of what kind of training can be provided there.
   
   "I hope to continue the success the center has had in the past," the director added. "I hope to help enhance opportunities for business and industry to provide training that will upgrade and update worker skills."
   
   Blizzard said that currently a significant number of organizations are using the training center on a daily and weekly basis. He emphasized that the GTP Authority is also now working on several projects that will benefit the economic condition of the region.

2. 2. Global TransPark Education and Training Center

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   Published on: 7/22/2004   Last Visited: 12/13/2006

   Lonnie Blizzard GTP lblizzard@ncgtp.com

3. 3. Kinston.com

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   Published on: 1/1/2003   Last Visited: 1/2/2003

   Lonnie Blizzard, the GTP Education and Training Center director, held the temporary job until his June retirement.