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Pierre GervoisAttracting Chinese tourists: A good way to develop local business in restaurants,hotels, and transportation. http://www.amazon.com/Hospitality-Industries-Affluent-Tourists-ebook/dp/B008L98Q3U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345512599&sr=8-1&keywords=How+U.S.+Retail%2C+Travel+and+Hospitality+Industries+Can+Attract+Affluent+Chinese+Touristsabout 2 months ago
Franklin Joseph Cortez WallbrownThe Appalachian Regional Commission's Appalachian Teaching Project is an amazing program that allows Appalachian students to make a difference in their communities. I can't wait for next year!about 10 months ago
Jonathan PhillipsI had a valuable and very reward experience presenting at The Appalachian Regional Commission's Teaching Project representing SSU. The conference is a great way to bring universities together across Appalachia to share innovative ideas and real-world ways to interact and integrate with and have an impact in their communities. This is one way to take positive and important steps toward the future for the peoples and communities of Appalachia.11 · about 10 months ago
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- The town of Water Valley in Appalachian Mississippi is named one of America's “best little food towns” by Food&Wine magazine. "This sleepy town outside Oxford has recently seen an upswell of young creative types and entrepreneurs. Thanks to low storefront rents, they’ve opened art galleries, restaurants and the town’s hub—an old-fashioned grocery store selling locally ground grits, fresh ice cream and grass-fed beef."
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Marshall University’s Appalachian Diabetes Control and Translation Project will be able to continue serving people thanks to a grant of just over $250,000 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). The project's goal is to affect the prevalence of type 2, adult on-set diabetes.- Senator Jay Rockefeller and ARC Federal Co-Chairman Earl F. Gohl join together in this commentary to draw greater public attention to the diabetes epidemic in the Appalachian state of West Virginia. "If current trends continue, one in three children in our state will develop diabetes within his or her lifetime...We can and must step up our efforts to fight this challenge head on."
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SURVEY: ARC is completing a survey of 2001–2010 student & teacher participants in the ARC/Oak Ridge Summer Math&Science Institute to evaluate the program's influence on education and career choices. All institute participants are encouraged to take the survey asap, which can be completed online (at link below). For more info, contact ARC education manager Jeff Schwartz at jschwartz@arc.gov.- ARC Federal Co-Chairman Earl F. Gohl leads volunteer ARC staffers in the public service project in Triana, Alabama cited below. From Left to right: ARC Economist Julie Marshall, Gohl, Policy Analyst David Hughes, and Program Operations Director Mollly Theobold.
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Volunteers from the ARC family converged on Flamingo Park in Triana, Alabama this week in a public service project to clear trails, repair park tables and benches, and restore campfire sites. Link has video of the work undertaken.
http://www.waaytv.com/news/local/story/Volunteers-help-tidy-up-Flamingo-Park/VPXi9LhsO0qOg5z7FdYIbA.cspx- ARC Federal Co-Chairman Earl F. Gohl has announced financial and technical support for the creation of five new angel investment funds in Appalachia to boost the capital available for business development & job creation. Speaking at Ohio St...ate University South Centers last Thursday, Gohl stated that this was "an opportunity for folks who have ‘made it’ to capitalize on the opportunity to invest in their own communities, in their own region, and to ultimately help their own children and grandchildren as well as others.”See More
- On September 27, University of Cincinnati Clermont College will receive $250,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission to help train 100 workers in advanced manufacturing skills. See link for full story on how manufacturing in Ohio is recovering.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120927/BIZ/309270040/Area-factories-power-recovery - Congratulations to Reverend Sally Allocca of the city of Birmingham in Appalachian Alabama for being named a
"Champion of Change" by the White House. As the founder of Promoting Empowerment and Enrichment Resources, she was recognized for her commitment to strengthen food security in the U.S. The Champions of Change program is a part of President Barack Obama’s Winning the Future initiative. - The Appalachian Health Summit to be held on September 28th in Athens, Ohio will promote healthy living throughout the Appalachian region. "We all know we have to eat better, exercise more," says Tom Kostorhyz, president of the board of Live Healthy Appalachia which is hosting the summit. "But how do we make those changes and how do we sustain them over a longer period of time." Summit will help show how this can be done.
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