Rules and regulations: A manual detailing policies and procedures for anyone looking to open a business or hold an event downtown is now available at downtownbatonrouge.org/. To find the guide, click “play” on the left side of the homepage, then “Event Procedures & Guidelines.”
Company honored two years in a row: For the second consecutive year, Baton Rouge-based TraceSecurity is a finalist in two categories for the American Business Awards, considered by some as the business world’s version of the Oscars. The company, a provider of on-demand security compliance management solutions, is a finalist for Best Overall Company, and its CEO and President Pete Stewart is up for Best Executive: Computer Software. This is the third year in a row Stewart was nominated for the best executive award. The winners will be announced June 22 during a ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York. The winners will be selected from more than 2,600 entries.
Sad task: Doug Alvey, a staffer at IEM, is part of a five-member international search group searching for an award-winning poet who is missing on a small Japanese island. Craig Arnold was on the island of Kuchino-erabu doing research for a book when he went missing in late April. According to Poets & Writers, there are signs that Arnold suffered a leg injury, then fell from a cliff and died shortly afterward. Alvey was selected for the 1st Special Response Group mission because of his two decades of search and rescue experience. Alvey left for the island Friday.
