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Projects
BRIDGING THE GAP
Projects NEW VOLUNTEERS AND NEW
IDEAS ALWAYS WELCOME!!! Call any of the contact people below to learn how YOU can get
involved in these or any other project you think would make Big Stone Gap
a better place to live, work or visit. BEAUTIFICATION
PROJECT Contact:
E-mail: smithtori@naxs.net Phone: 523-4634
E-mail: mjeffrey@adelphia.net Phone: 523-1418
e-mail: davidandheather8@verizon.net Phone: 523-4592 Four season decorating contests to promote visible momentum and civic pride. Fall contest is “FALL in Love with Big Stone Gap”. The winter contest will build from Adriana Trigiani”s new book Coming Home to Big Stone Gap. Next steps are to plant memorial trees along downtown streets and to initiate downtown façade improvements. Contact:
E:mail: davidandheather8@verizon.net Phone: 523-4592 Will continue to have work
days to clean up the river and add attractive,
educational features to the COMMUNITY FLAG PROJECT Contact:
E-mail: jrshort@bellatlantic.net Phone: 523-4962 E-mail: ntoney@uscky.com Phone: 523-253 Design a flag to sell and have everyone in Big Stone Gap flying the flag. Contest is being promoted through the Post and is open to anyone who lives, works and goes to school in Big Stone Gap. There will be a youth, adult and a grand prize winner. APPLE BUTTER GANG PROJECT Contact:
A youth community service project. The youth must do five hours of community service to be a member. JEROME STREET DISTRICT
PROJECT Contact:
e-mail: barbpolly@aol.com Phone: 523-2987 Restore homes, build an arts center and make the area around the Trail of the Lonesome Pine Drama an Historic District. SENIOR SERVICES PROJECT Contact:
Phone: 523-2319 Conducting a feasibility study of types of Assisted or Senior Living facilities that would best fit in Big Stone Gap’s senior residents. The group has been touring facilities and looking at other successful centers. GATHERING IN THE GAP MUSIC FESTIVAL
PROJECT Contact:
e-mail: Phone: 523-1322 This will be a yearly festival set around the
GOSPEL SINGING CONVENTION
PROJECT Contact:
Phone: 523-5064 ext 13 The singing convention will be 90 years old in 2009 and this group would like to get the convention back to a record number crowd and music groups by 2009. RECREATION AT BIG CHERRY DAM
PROJECT Contact:
Strategic plan by the town and an advisory group for the logging and conservation of the area for future recreation uses.
TOURISM STRATEGIC PLAN
PROJECT Contact:
Design and implement a strategic plan for the tourism groups of Big Stone Gap. COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER
PROJECT Contact:
Phone: Currently designing a feasibility study to see what Big Stone Gap can support and how to fund it. CHRISTMAS PARADE FLOAT and FESTIVAL OF TREES
PROJECTS Contact:
Phone: 523-1418 For publicity and visibility, Bridging the Gap volunteers will: -Design and work on a float for this year’s Christmas Parade. -Submit entry in the Museum’s Festival of Trees. Bridging the Gap Initiative is compared to The
Little Train that Could. “I
think I can; I think I can…build a better community”. COMMUNITY CHEST PROJECT Contact:
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