Archive for June, 2011

CAER Close to Completion

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No ribbons have been cut and no official grand opening has been held yet, but the Center for Advanced Engineering and Research (CAER) in Bedford County, which Region 2000 officials hope will become the hub of nuclear and engineering designs and wireless technologies, will soon be ready to open its doors. “It’s practically finished,” Bob [...]

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Tourism and Technology: These Days the Two are Intertwined

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Lynchburg tourism? Yep, there’s an app for that. There’s also a QR code, and potential visitors from all over the country are scanning them to find out more about what the Lynchburg area has to offer them. The Lynchburg Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau (LRCVB or “discover lynchburg”) is using the newest technology to attract [...]

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Virginia Technical Institute: Teaching Trades to the New Era Vocational-Technical Workers

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Ken Bond didn’t want to let a good opportunity pass him by. The 45-year-old Lynch Station resident, who does odd jobs to make ends meet, decided to go back to school to learn the Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning trade, commonly called HVAC. Bond had some experience in the refrigeration business, but no official certification. [...]

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Local Garden Centers’ Business in Full Bloom

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Just a few miles down from Lowe’s, off of Waterlick Road in Forest, lies Gary’s Garden Center, a local garden shop run by Gary Garner and his son, Nelson. Many of the region’s small garden shops, such as Gary’s, have remained successful amidst various big box competitors by focusing on adding a personal touch in [...]

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Cut It Down or Pay Up: Overgrown Grass Violations Still a Nuisance in the City

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It was a “nothing fancy” kind of operation in 1996. Back then, Carroll Baker cruised around Lynchburg in an old ambulance with a couple of inmates, knocking down the city’s greenest perennial eyesore—overgrown grass. That’s defined as 12 or more inches, if you want to violate code in these parts. “We’ve come a long way,” [...]

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Publisher’s Letter, June 2011

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We have all been there. A coworker of ours is under our skin. It may involve a project, a poorly worded email, or a too-loud, open door phone conversation in their office that faces ours. Whatever the case, trying to decide what to do about it—if anything at all—often comes down to our natural personality [...]

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Service Above Self: The Lynchburg Rotary Club

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Being president of the Lynchburg Rotary Club was not necessarily a life-long dream of Gail Morrison. The current “noon club” president says she first attended a meeting as a parent of a high school student who was being awarded, and soon fell in love with the club. Now a member since 1994, Morrison has seen [...]

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Movers & Shakers, June 2011

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HIRED Harvey Design Land Architects is pleased to announce the hiring of Hu Di as a Landscape Design Intern. Di is from Hangzhou, China. He graduated from Michigan State University with an Honor B.S. degree in Crop and Soil Science (Turfgrass Management), and is currently in his last year in the Master’s program of Landscape [...]

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A Dozen Hot Marketing Ideas for Summer

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With summer just around the corner, business can slow down as people go on vacation and begin to wind down. Here are a dozen hot summer marketing ideas to help fight the business drought! Host a cook-out: Invite your clients or best customers to a cook-out. It doesn’t have to be costly and doesn’t require [...]

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Protecting Yourself from Fraud

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Unfortunately, I am sometimes called upon to deal with the legal fallout after someone has become a victim of fraud. These days, fraud usually involves either identity theft or some type of Internet scam because the scammer can strike from a distance, reducing the chance of being caught. Once a client becomes a victim of [...]

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