<h2>Donaldsonville Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourist Information Center</h2> Our goal is to provide a well-organized "starting point" for acquiring information to conduct <strong>business</strong> in the <strong>Donaldsonville area</strong>. The <strong>Donaldsonville Area Chamber of Commerce</strong> is committed to providing information regarding starting and maintaining <strong>businesses</strong>. <strong>Education</strong> is the key to staying on top of the business world. The Donaldsonville Area Chamber of Commerce hopes that the information contained in this section will help you and your business prosper. Economic <strong>Incentives</strong> Contact the Chamber for a listing of many of the tax incentives available to businesses in the Donaldsonville area through the Department of <strong>Economic Development</strong> and other state agencies. View our publication: <a href="http://donaldsonvillecoc.org/?src=cv">The Chamber Voice</a> online.
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Welcome to the Donaldsonville Area Chamber of Commerce online. Donaldsonville boasts of a rich and colorful heritage which is steeped in history. The one time state capitol is the heart of Ascension Parish. We are renowned for our cuisine, wonderful architecture, and known as the birthplace of jazz! Just driving through our town you can experience the true gateway to Cajun and Plantation Country illuminated by numerous mansions which proudly stand along the Mississippi River. We believe that meeting our warm and friendly people will leave your spirit truly uplifted. Please browse through our website, as well as the our member listing. We hope you will come to visit. Donaldsonville is like our gumbo--we have a little bit of everything.

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This image provided by NOAA taken at 11:40 p.m. EDT Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008 shows Tropical Storm Fay churning it's way over Florida. Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without much fanfare, but stubbornly hung around like an unwelcome houseguest, maintaining strength and threatening — once again — to become a hurricane. At 11 p.m. EDT, the center of the storm was about 30 miles south-southwest of Melbourne and forecasters expected it to head north-northeast at about 5 mph overnight. (AP Photo/NOAA)

Tropical Storm Fay hugs Florida's Atlantic coast (AP)

AP - Tropical Storm Fay meandered north along the Florida Atlantic coast Wednesday but did not immediately head out over the ocean, lessening the chances it will gain strength and become a hurricane.


U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Polish President Lech Kaczynski shake hands after a meeting in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. Rice came to Warsaw to sign a deal with Poland that will see a U.S. missile defense base built in northern Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Rice signs missile defense deal with Poland (AP)

AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.


Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks at a town hall meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina August 19, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)

Obama, VP choice to campaign together Saturday (AP)

AP - Barack Obama and his newly named running mate will campaign together Saturday at the place where the Democratic presidential hopeful formally launched his White House bid.


A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is reflected in bullet-ridden window in central Gori, Georgia Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008.  A small column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles left the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Tuesday, the first sign of a Russian pullback of troops from Georgia after a cease-fire intended to end fighting that reignited Cold War tensions. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Food aid sent in to suffering Georgian area (AP)

AP - A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint Wednesday, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of fulfilling their president's promise of a pullback within two days.


US winner pitcher Monica Abbott (left) celebrates with rightfielder Kelly Kretschman during their semifinal softball game against Japan at Fengtai stadium during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. A dominant United States ensured their place in the last Olympic softball final ahead of the sport being dumped from the Games by beating Japan 4-1.(AFP/Omar Torres)

US beats Japan 4-1 to make Olympic softball final (AP)

AP - Crystl Bustos hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning as the U.S. Olympic softball team beat Japan 4-1 in extra innings and will play for its fourth straight gold medal.


School bus driver Jamille Aine is photographed on July 17, 2008 in Greenwich, Conn.  Aine's employer doesn't offer paid sick days, so if he can't shake the bug, he may not be able to pay his bills. Some 46 million U.S. workers lack paid sick days and lawmakers in 12 states — including California, Connecticut, Minnesota and West Virginia — have proposed legislation in the past year that would require businesses to provide them. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)

States push laws to require paid sick days (AP)

AP - For school bus driver Jamille Aine, a cold is more than an inconvenience. His employer does not offer paid sick days, so if he can't shake the bug, he may not be able to pay his bills.


Richard Watters checks the market on his computer in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Watters, an African Australian citizen, donated $1,000 to the campaign of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. Watters entered a fake U.S. passport number, a random jumble of numbers and letters, so the site would take his money. He said he also checked a box stating that he was an American living overseas, 'because I could see it wasn't going anywhere if I didn't do that.' (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Campaigns take foreign cash, seek details later (AP)

AP - Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has consistently followed the government's instructions for keeping prohibited foreign money out of their presidential campaigns, and some of that banned money has slipped into Obama's campaign.


In this Monday, May 9, 2005 file photo, LeRoi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band performs with the band at New York's Roseland Ballroom. Moore is recovering from an ATV accident on his Virginia farm. According to the band's Web site, Moore was taken to the University of Virginia Health System for treatment after the Monday, June 30, 2008 wreck in Charlottesville. A publicist for the Dave Matthews Band said on Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008 that sax player LeRoi Moore died Tuesday, of injuries suffered in the June accident, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. Moore was 46.  (AP Photo/Michael Kim, File)

Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore dies (AP)

AP - LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46.


Gorilla mother Gana carries her dead baby at the zoo in Muenster, western Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. The baby died on Aug. 16, but can only be recovered from the enclosure once the mourning mother leaves the corpse behind, zoo spokesperson Ilona Zuehlke said. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Mourning gorilla holds on to body of her baby (AP)

AP - A gorilla at a zoo in the German city of Muenster is refusing to let go of her dead baby's body several days after it died of unknown causes.


Tampa Bay Rays' Jason Bartlett, center, and Akinori Iwamura, right, of Japan, celebrate with teammate Eric Hinske, left, after the two scored on Willy Aybar's single during the eighth inning a baseball game Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008, in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Rays won 4-2. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Tampa Bay wins matchup of AL's best records (AP)

AP - The Tampa Bay Rays have been on top of the AL East for the last month. Now, they are on top of the whole league. Willy Aybar's two-run single broke an eighth-inning tie and the Rays beat the Los Angeles Angels 4-2 on Tuesday night to claim the AL's best record (77-48), which matches the Chicago Cubs for the best in the majors.


Cindy McCain, left, applauds as her husband, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. is introduced at the Annual Veterans of Foreign War Convention, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008, in Orlando, Fla.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

McCain takes lead over Obama: poll (Reuters)

Reuters - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.


Russian servicemen prepare to move in the direction of Tskhinvali from the Georgian city of Gori, August 19, 2008. (Denis Sinyakov/Reuters)

Russian trucks trickle out of Georgia (Reuters)

Reuters - Russian military trucks crossed from Georgia back into Russia on Wednesday but there was no sign of the large-scale, rapid pullout demanded by the West.


Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski shake hands after signing a missile shield deal in Warsaw August 20, 2008. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)

Poland and U.S. in shield deal irking Moscow (Reuters)

Reuters - The United States and Poland signed a deal on Wednesday to station elements of a U.S. missile defense shield on Polish soil, a move certain to aggravate Russia-Western tensions over Moscow's intervention in Georgia.


Thi Ngoc Truc Tran (blue) of Vietnam fights Buttree Puedpong of Thailand during the women's -49kg taekwando competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, August 20, 2008. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)

New sports debut as world tunes in (Reuters)

Reuters - Digital media and dazzling sport have won unprecedented ratings, Olympics bosses said on Wednesday as they debuted two events aimed at the young and adventurous.


Paramilitary policemen stand guard near Tiananmen Square in Beijing August 12, 2008. (Nir Elias/Reuters)

Five Americans held as China steps up scrutiny (Reuters)

Reuters - Five American blogger-activists and a foreign artist have been detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan protests in the home stretch of the Olympics, rights groups said on Wednesday.


A U.S Customs Officer checks the identification papers of a driver entering the U.S. from Canada at the Detroit-Windsor tunnel in Detroit, January 31, 2008. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)

U.S. tracking citizens' border crossings: report (Reuters)

Reuters - The U.S. government has been using its border checkpoints to collect information on citizens that will be stored for 15 years, raising concern among privacy advocates, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.


The sign outside a Wachovia Bank branch in Denver is pictured July 22, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

LandCap JV to buy Wachovia loans: report (Reuters)

Reuters - A joint venture created by LandCap Partners is buying $40 million of troubled land and construction loans from Wachovia Corp The Wall Street Journal said.


Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf leaves the presidential house after his resignation in Islamabad August 18, 2008. (Mian Khursheed/Reuters)

Pakistan coalition may-split post-Musharraf: analysts (Reuters)

Reuters - Deadlock between Pakistan's coalition partners over the restoration of deposed judges has raised questions about the survival of the government that forced President Pervez Musharraf's resignation.


Poland and the United States have signed a deal to deploy part of a US missile shield on Polish territory in the face of deep Russian anger.(AFP Graphic/Anibal Maiz)

US, Poland sign missile shield deal (AFP)

AFP - Poland and the United States on Wednesday signed a deal to deploy part of a US missile shield on Polish territory in the face of deep Russian anger.


A French soldier wounded in clashes with Taliban insurgents in Kabul, arrives at Orly airport on the outskirts of Paris. President Nicolas Sarkozy has told French soldiers mourning 10 comrades killed by the Taliban that their work in Afghanistan was essential for the "freedom of the world" and must continue.(AFP/Bertrand Guay)

Sarkozy tells French troops in Afghanistan to keep fighting (AFP)

AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday told French soldiers mourning 10 comrades killed by the Taliban that their work in Afghanistan was essential for the "freedom of the world" and must continue.



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