Archive for July, 2010

State Report Shows Encouraging Signs for Lynchburg Region

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Encouraging signs are emerging in regards to the employment growth in Region 2000. In June, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s Fifth District report showed that while the state’s employment growth came in at minus .05 percent for the most recently tracked month of April, the Lynchburg region showed a positive growth of 0.7 percent. [...]

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Leader of the Month: Moyanne Harding

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Name: Moyanne Harding Job Title: Owner of Moyanne’s Interior Designs Age: 45 Hometown: Kansas City, KS Tell us about the history of Moyanne’s. How did you get started with interior design? How long have you been in business?  I have always been artistic, and used to rearrange furniture even as a child and had fabulous [...]

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Valley Energy Consultants-A Fresh Look at Saving Commercial Energy Costs

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Energy efficiency has been a hot topic for quite some time. Typing it into Google garners over 31 million hits, and from the steps of state legislatures to newsstands, saving money and “going green” with energy is a top priority for Americans. One company at the forefront of energy efficient technology is Valley Energy Consultants [...]

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Green Printing: Taking the Print Out of Our Carbon Footprint

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It goes without saying that the burgeoning success of online media has cast a substantial shadow over the print world. You can read The New Yorker, Vogue or Rachel Ray magazine online, from the comfort of your home, and without paying the $5 newsstand fee to look at mostly ad space. Locally and nationally, many [...]

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Parking Downtown: What’s the Solution to a “Growing” Dilemma?

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Newton’s law of motion states: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” That familiar phrase aptly applies to Lynchburg’s revitalized downtown. In this case, the equal and opposite reaction to all the growth downtown is experiencing is a parking problem. In an effort to generate turnover and alleviate traffic congestion, the city [...]

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Serving Up the Good Stuff: How to Eat Healthy and Be Happy in the Golden Years

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One of my favorite people is my 91-year-old grandma, Mildred. She’s very fiery, friendly and smart, and starts her mornings with a crossword puzzle, a cup of coffee and some sort of delicious pastry. Her favorites include blueberry muffins, Krispy Kreme donuts and coffeecake. “I’m 90 years old,” she said the night she ate a [...]

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CAER and Lynchburg City Schools Team Up for the Future of Technology

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“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.” -Albert Einstein One of [...]

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Exempt vs. Non-Exempt: Sharpening the Blurred Line

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You’ve just hired a new employee. You’ve gone through all of the interviewing and decision-making that goes along with the careful choice of who to add as a new member to your team. While the hard work is seemingly done, that might not be the case if you are just starting out in the world [...]

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Lynchburg True Value Hardware and Just Ask Rental: Putting The Right Tools In People’s Hands

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There’s a place that you can go where not only will everybody learn your name, but they’re glad you came—even if you are looking for a snow shovel in the summer, or a fan in the winter. You can count on a warm welcome and a staff member eager to help you look for that [...]

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BecoBall: The Newest Game in Town

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BecoBall may not be a term you’re familiar with yet but that will soon change if Nate Hagerty has anything to do with it. As the game’s inventor, his vision is that, in the future, people will not only know the term, but will also know how to play the game. Growing up in Central [...]

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