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Todd Christensen, left, Executive Director, Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation and Lu Ellsworth, center, Chariman Friends of Southwest Virginia are all smiles as Earl Gohl, Federal co-chair, Appalachian Regional Commission presents a $10,000 check on Tuesday at Heartwood in Abingdon, Virginia. With the help of a $10,000 planning grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission, Southwest Virginia is set to launch the third phase of its regional economic development effort — developing recreational and small-business assets.
Earl Gohl, ARC federal co-chair, spoke of the project as helping to create an “ecosystem” that works for development of the region’s creative economy.
“We are very pleased with the work that’s been done here,” Gohl said. “This is one more investment that ARC is making in the project in SouthwestVirginia.”
The planning grant awarded Tuesday was for Friends of SouthwestVirginia, the financial armof the Southwest Virginia Cultural HeritageFoundation, whichoversees Heartwood, a regional artisan center and tourism gateway.
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