Invitations for Visions Conference

We are rapidly approaching our conference date, and plans are very much underway to provide a forum for community participation in efforts to build assets and community to reduce poverty. For that to happen, we need participation from a wide variety of people. I am counting on those members of the committee who agreed to invite participants to get in touch with them and encourage them to join us in this effort. The official name is Visions Conference: Building Community Assets to Reduce Poverty. The conference will run from 8:00 am to about 4:15 pm on Wednesday, June 10, 2009, and will be held at the Northumberland Community Center on Browns Store Road. It includes continental breakfast and lunch. The confirmation letters should go out next week to those who have agreed to be a part of this conference, so let me know if you'll be there or if any of your invited guests will be joining us. The Visions Committee should have gotten an email (or two!) from me on this subject.

I have reviewed the very extensive study reported by the Northern Neck Housing Study Group in March of this year. The amount of information gathered and analyzed was amazing. This conference is an opportunity to address the issues it raised and to get people involved on a number of levels, from business, education, government, social services and many more. I hope all the people who have ideas about this will be able to join us at the conference.