(Yes, I put Christiansburg first, but only because almost everyone else alphabetizes the two which means Christiansburg usually comes in last. I wish there were some way to put them both in at the same time.)
The League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, VA invites you to attend a panel discussion on re-visioning of Christiansburg and Blackburg Downtown areas:
The League of Women Voters of Montgomery County invites you to our Forum about revitalizing the downtowns of Blacksburg and Christiansburg, The Downtowns Re-Visioned, Monday, March 30, at 7 PM in the Town Council Chambers of Blacksburg’s Town Hall.
In planning this program, we decided that we wanted to invite expert panelists who have no connection to the governments of either Town, or with anyone with a vested interest in either of the downtowns.
Our panelists are:
• Angela Hamilton, the Executive Director of Lynch’s Landing, a successful Main Street Program in downtown and river front Lynchburg which won the Great American Main Street Award in 2006.
• Chuck Houska (our nephew) who is now a commercial broker with the Meridian Realty Group in Winston Salem, has had considerable experience finding new uses for commercial real estate. Also, Chuck is a former Town Councilman of Clemmons, NC and a former member of the Clemmons Zoning Board of Adjustment and the Clemmons Appearance Commission.
• James Littlefield is a professor of Marketing at Virginia Tech.
• Jack Steelman, also now with the Meridian Realty Group, was Downtown Development Director for Winston-Salem for 15 years. He is the recipient of the International Downtown Association Economic Development Award and is Past President of the North Carolina Downtown Development Association.
We encourage anyone interested in either of the two downtowns to attend the forum. The forum will be video-taped for replay on WTOB and it will be available on the website created by Carol Lindstrom for government information:
www.historiccambria.com . We are sending special invitations to each member of the two Town Councils and Planning Commissions.
Although called the League of Women Voters, this organization changed its bylaws to include men in 1974. To find out a little bit about the LWV’s you can check out some of these sites:
The National History of the League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters of the United States
The League of Women Voters of Virginia
The League of Women Voters of Montgomery County Virginia
This will be a great opportunity to find out about some of the ways in which these two downtown areas can be enriched. Who knows, maybe you are the one person who comes up with the perfect idea for either or both downtowns? Maybe it is simply that you will ask a question that generates ideas. You will not know if you do not show!!!
Hope to see you there.
By Carol Lindstrom On March 28 at 11:57 AM
