WIRT-CALHOUN DEVELOPMENT GROUP MEETS - Strategic Plan Reviewed, Development Director To Be Hired

(12/18/2001)

L to R - Luke Peters, MOVRC; Dan McDonald, President of LKADC and Bryan Sims, Wirt County Board Member A strategic plan for the Little Kanawha Development Corporation was reviewed at the meeting of the Wirt-Calhoun economic development group last night in Grantsville. Luke Peters of the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Council discussed the two-county plan with attending members. Mark Whitley, a member of the selection committee for the position of group's new Economic Development Director, discussed the criteria for hiring the position. Whitley is Executive Director of the Roane County Economic Development Authority. L to R - Mark Whitley, Executive Director of Roane EDA; Diane Ludwig, Treasurer LKADC; Keith Wilson, Wirt Economic Development Authority; Alvin Engelke, Wirt County Board Member and Dick Ullum, Calhoun County Board Member Eight applications have been received, according to Dan McDonald, President of the two-county development group. The candidate field will be narrowed and interviews will be conducted sometime in January. Attending, President Dan McDonald, Grantsville; Diane Ludwig, Treasurer of the LKADC; Keith Wilson, Wirt County Development Authority; Alvin Engelke, Wirt County board member; Dick Ullum, Calhoun County board member; Luke Peters, MOVRC; Bob Weaver, President Calhoun Commission and Bryan Sims, Wirt County board member.

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