Create West Virginia

There will be an organizational meeting for the West Virginia Made Association on Friday evening, Sept 10, 2010 at Lakeview Resort, Morgantown from 6:30-7:30 following the first day of the WV Made Trade Show. All interested persons are invited to attend. (Lakeview Resort is located a few miles east of Morgantown off Exit 10, I-79)

Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical plan once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our children are going to do things that will stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon, beauty.

Think big.

- Daniel Burnham, 19th Century Architect who planned the Chicago World’s Fair

Many folks have been to a lot of conferences...and well, we aren't always eager to go to another one! Sitting in boring seminars, eating bad food, listening to panel speakers without much to say...who needs more of that?

Wheeling, WV: The fourth annual Create West Virginia conference is coming to the Friendly City October 17-19, 2010. This statewide celebration of creative community building is designed to spark new economic growth in West Virginia.

You know how people have some relatives that you dont' really know that well, even though they don't live that far away? For whatever reason, you just never hung out with them much growing up.

Then one day, you actually take some time to get to know them. Maybe you hung out at a family reunion, or they took the initiative and reached out to invite you over. And they turn out to be really cool and you hit if off quite nicely.

BERKELEY SPRINGS, WV ---- After five hours of presentation, discussions and outlining issues and recommendations, an assembled group of 55 individuals engaged in various aspects of the arts and representing all three counties of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia established a list of priorities for arts in the region.

This year's West Virginia Day conversation topic from Jason Keeling and his A Better West Virginia blog is "Networking for a Better West Virginia."

Networking is defined as "the cultivation of productive relationships." Communities seeking to renew themselves to thrive in the new economy must embrace networking as a core skill.

The Arts Council of Kanawha Valley will have a launch party on Wednesday, June 2, to inaugurate its newly formed organization whose purpose is to enhance the Kanawha Valley’s quality of life through the arts.  Artists of all stripes, friends and interested parties are invited to attend this event that will run from 6-8 pm in the Clay Center Grand Lobby.

In 1969 Walter Cronkite announced to the nation in his evening news broadcast that the Environmental Protection Agency declared Chattanooga had the nation’s worst air quality. A few years later, the New York Times published an article noting that Chattanooga was the only major city in the South not experiencing growth.