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Posted By HR Partnership on July 2, 2009
Cox 11 takes you on a behind the scenes look at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach (Pungo area, 1341 Princess Anne Road). Featured are rare World War II and Korean War planes including Russian and German aircraft. Aviation art is also exhibited.
As a unique museum feature, most of the planes actually fly and you can touch them as much as you want. Open 7 days per week.
See the video…
Click to read more...Posted By HR Partnership on July 1, 2009
Patricia Bartosch is a fund developer for the Southeastern Virginia Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Her blog, Hampton Roads Dossier (Get Out! Give Back!), encourages community support of local non-profits and charities, combined with a spattering of irreverent social commentary.
Click to read more...Posted By HR Partnership on June 30, 2009
The economic power of the arts is one of America’s best kept secrets.
They are not like a Fortune 500 company that you need to lure to set up business in your area. They are not a big sports team that demands huge tax breaks — and probably a new stadium or arena — to come to town. The arts, since well before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, have been part of our social fabric and economy.
Posted By HR Partnership on June 29, 2009
Governor Tim Kaine is participating in the Mid-Atlantic Governors’ Agreement on Ocean Conservation, a partnership among the Governors of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia to protect the ocean waters of the Mid-Atlantic. The new regional partnership will protect and improve the health of ocean and coastal resources through improved coordination and minimized jurisdictional barriers, ensuring the resources contribute to our economic vitality and high quality of life well into the future.
Posted By HR Partnership on June 29, 2009
Thanks to Hampton Roads’ SmartRegion.org affiliation with PBS NewsHour via Patchwork Nation, we frequently receive requests for feedback/opinions on national/international news to try to figure out what is causing a trend in the data.
Here is our first request for information. Please add a comment directly to this post and/or send an email to NewsHour to add your responses:
Any help would be appreciated.
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Anna Shoup, Local/National Editor, Online NewsHour, AShoup@newshour.org
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Posted By HR Partnership on June 26, 2009
2,646. That is the number of petition signatures that Virginians for High Speed Rail has collected to support Virginia’s application for high-speed rail (see complete text of petition below). VHSR is doing a massive push to exceed 3,000 signatures before Virginia’s preliminary application has to be turned into the Federal Railroad Administration on July 10th.
If you have not already done so, you’re urged to sign the VHSR petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/VHSR2007/petition.html
Click to read more...Posted By HR Partnership on June 26, 2009
by Maj Gen Kamiya, Commander of the Joint Warfighting Center, USJFCOM
19 June 2009 presentation to the Hampton Roads Partnership’s Board of Directors on Leading Transformation with Modeling & Simulation, an important industry in Hampton Roads.
M&S is helping to make Irregular Warfare a core competency, enhancing joint command and control, improving global force management, accelerating efforts toward a “whole government” approach (i.e. interagency participation), building and improving partnership capacity and improving training and education. Industry and academia can help with these processes.
Click to read more...Posted By HR Partnership on June 25, 2009
It used to be that cities with jobs attracted and kept their workforce. That might have worked for your dad, but it’s not going to work for your kids. Today, young up-and-comers pick their cities – those with the amenities and “vibe” they value – and then look for jobs. (Sometimes to their parents’ chagrin.)
Next Generation Consulting (NGC) has surveyed the places that 20-40 year olds choose to call home since 1998 – and talked with 39,000 of them about why they live and work where they do. Turns out that the Next Cities™ (the places they love) have seven things in common. They all have great scores in these areas: Vitality, Earning, Learning, Social Capital, Cost of Living, After Hours, and Around Town (analyzing 45 measures in all). In Hampton Roads, Hampton, Virginia Beach and Norfolk made the short list.
Click to read more...Posted By HR Partnership on June 25, 2009
At every meeting of the Hampton Roads Partnership Board of Directors, we take time to highlight “Acts of Regional Cooperation.” At the June 19, 2009 meeting, Mayor Molly Ward introduced us to Dr. Michael Canty, Manager of the Neighborhood Office for the City of Hampton.
Dr. Canty was the founding Director of Innovations for Schools, Youth, Neighborhoods and Communities (In-SYNC) Partnerships, a nationally acclaimed partnership between The Hampton Neighborhood Office and Hampton City Schools aimed at simultaneously improving schools and neighborhoods.
Dr. Canty shared a video on the “FIRST Robotics” competition and the students of the New Horizons Regional Education Centers (NHREC) which serves the six school divisions on the Peninsula in Hampton Roads (City of Hampton included). Dr. Canty’s enthusiasm for the New Horizons’ students and program was infectious. NHREC focuses on kids “on the margin” and refocuses them on science, technology, engineering and math.
And, FIRST is all about kids taking ownership of tasks and working as teams. Kids that were on the fringe with no direction change their life’s course and become enthused with learning; these are our future engineers.
Click to read more...Posted By HR Partnership on June 24, 2009
Ron Dennis, President and COO of Farm Fresh Supermarkets headquartered in Virginia Beach, was awarded the 2009 Downtowner of the Year by the Downtown Norfolk Council.
Enjoy the film shared at the annual event held on June 3rd:
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