Leadership Roanoke Valley Event

I recently had the privilege of attending the Leadership Roanoke Valley (LRV), Economic Development Group event at Greenfield Education & Training Center, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.

LRV, a program under the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce, was founded in 1983. The group is dedicated to raising community awareness and applying leadership skills to help organizations thrive in the Roanoke Valley. The group seeks to understand the infrastructure that makes our region work and the ways in which they can improve it.

Pictured above is speaker, Jim Barney, founder of Click & Pledge. See more photos of the event.

Oakey's Funeral Home

President Sammy Oakey, fifth generation in the family business. Read Sammy's Blog here.


Writing this Work Space story for Valley Business Front Magazine allowed me to go places most people don't get to — or even think to, for that matter. For me, touring behind the scenes of a funeral home was fascinating. I hope you enjoy the story on page 34 of this month's issue. Visit Oakey's Funeral Service & Crematory's website.

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Novozymes Biologicals Inc.

Check out my latest Work Space story in Valley Business Front Magazine, by following this link and turning to page 34 in the Development Front section. I truly enjoyed touring these facilities and meeting so many wonderful scientists.

Twitter is all a buzz after the #RRWC

My experience at the Roanoke Regional Writers Conference was inspiring, energetic, and moving. Moving because it made me want to move my pencil. Move my life forward. Move stories and lives, like those around me.

It was in Janet Jaquith's class, The Personal Essay, that I thought: I LOVE being an artist. How lucky are we, to be among one another? To learn from one another?

And although Janet's class was about radio, and I am not a radio journalist, it spoke to me in so many ways. I love radio. I've always found it to be this fantastically raw form of media. Media at its finest. I just don't think I truly understood why I loved radio until Janet's class. It was as if I discovered it all over again; through the personal essay.

Roanoke Regional Writers Conference

Tonight I am going to the Roanoke Regional Writers Conference at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.

The event is hosted by Dan Smith of Valley Business Front Magazine and it features workshops from several area writers and editors. It takes place tonight and tomorrow. See the schedule. You can still register (pay $50 at the door) or contact Dan Smith at editrdan@msn.com

For more information visit:http://www.hollins.edu/news-events/writers/writers.htm

I hope to see you there!

Monica

Happy Christmas!

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