The Martinsburg-Berkeley County Convention and Visitor Bureau (CVB) is a not-for-profit membership organization that works to develop our communities through travel and tourism. This week Laura Gassler will tell us more about this organization and what it is doing. Last Week John Antonik, director of New Media for WVU sports, spoke to us mainly about the football...
It can’t be easy being director of New Media for WVU sports. There are six different websites as well as social media such as Twitter and Facebook that you have to coordinate. There are 17 different sports you have to publicize. Add to that the fact that WVU is in the Big 12 with no...
A choir (also known as chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus. The former term is very often applied to groups affiliated with...
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This week we will have one of my favorite programs—member biographies. Over the years I have tried to speculate on these biographies and have failed miserably in predicting them. But that hasn’t stopped me in the past and I see no reason to let it stop me now. In a new tradition, we will have one...
The good news is that we are meeting at the Purple Iris and will have desserts! And there really isn’t any bad news. We will be having one of our quarterly club assemblies. A club assembly, as defined by Rotary International, is a meeting of the officers, directors, and committee chairmen of a club to coordinate...
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Several members of our club were Girl Scouts, and some of them remain quite active in scouting. Among those who are very active are Berniece Collis, Joanne Wadsworth, and Layne Diehl, who was recently recognized for her endeavors at the meeting in Washington, DC. Girl Scouting in the United States of America began on March 12,...
This week we will have Robin and Michael Schaeffer speak to us about their project, BE-Hive. BE-Hive, A Family Inspiration Place, Inc. helps children with their parents discover, embrace and implement their natural instinct to follow the best principles to improve their lives while inspiring those around them. BE-Hive is a fun-filled inspirational activity center where...
When I was a teenager I became an avid reader of science fiction. Heinlein, Clarke, Bradbury, I read them all. But probably my favorite was Isaac Asimov, who wrote I, Robot and subsequent books that centered around robots and the three laws of robotics. The world has not gotten to the time of robotics yet, but...