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After the big Thanksgiving banquet with family is over this year, carve out some time for shopping with small businesses. Small Business Saturday was created to raise awareness of the importance of small businesses and bring more customers through their doors. Since it was launched in 2010, the event falls on the first Saturday after…
West Virginia Northern Community College (WVNCC) will host a Google Small Business Workshop focused on growing business online. The workshop will be held on Friday, December 7, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on their Wheeling Campus in the B&O Building. The workshop will include three sessions and are free and open to the…
Sam didn’t expect to make $40,000+ a year by Christmas 2018, but she does. The first day she entered the Step Up for Women Manufacturing Pre-Apprenticeship Program in June of 2017, she was quiet and unsure of herself. She was working less than forty hours per week helping people with disabilities and had a newborn…
The Kanawha City Goodwill will host a new twist on an old fashion holiday tradition with their Artificial Christmas Tree Lot and this year, the store will feature a DIY: Ugly Sweater Fest. For five dollars customers can select a sweater, long or short sleeve shirt and bedazzle it with an array of fun, festive…
Marshall University’s A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series will celebrate the recently published creative work and creative work-in-progress from Marshall faculty members at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in the Shawkey Room of the Memorial Student Center. The event will feature readings by Dr. Victor Fet, Dr. Laura Michele Diener, Nicole Lawrence, Daniel O’Malley, Dr. Joel Peckham, Dr. Rachael Peckham, and Dr. Forrest Roth. “These talented faculty writers will be presenting…
Frost Brown Todd (FBT) selected an impressive group of students currently using their personal experiences to improve their community as the 2018 class of Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship winners. The yearly scholarship aims to support deserving students who represent underserved populations. For more information, visit FBT’s Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship. “We received a remarkable number…