Continuing on the Action Project

This past weekend I went to Valdese again to visit with the tourism director and laid out the ground work for what I would be doing next. We decided on the sites to include on the community walk and what to say about each. After that I went to the different historic sites around town and took as many photographs as possible to include on the website. It was a lot of fun to go and see all of the sites again. It has been many years since I had visited a few of them and it reminded why I was doing this project. I read an article the other day in the Morganton News Herald about how the population of Burke County has dropped nearly 1% just in the last 9 months due to people moving away to find work elsewhere. Barbara (the tourism director) is quite worried that many of these people were from Valdese in particularly because of this she is on the front lines trying to get alcohol voted in this election. This would be a great way for the growth of business opportunity in town. We both agree that with this project hopefully it will open the eyes of new visitors, people looking to move to town, or the greatest scenario would be a business. Maybe they will see how historically quaint the town is and decide this is the place to set up shop, I know it's a long shot.