The City of Huntington needs your help to convince Google to come to our fair town to install some of the worlds fastest internet connections to all of our homes at an affordable price! This is an amazing opportunity for both economic and technological development for the region and we won’t see another opportunity like it – please help!

Even when the weather is cold and miserable Huntington finds a way to be beautiful.

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If you’ve walked downtown town at all over the past two weeks you may have noticed various works of art on display in many of the storefronts – particularly on 3rd and 4th ave and 9th street. All of this art has been setup as part of the ArtGawk – a great initiative to beautify our downtown and to showcase some of the great artists in the area. The work was coordinated by the same folks who put together gallery 842 – a free art gallery at 842 4th ave.

Kiva is a micro-lending web site. Micro-lending, to those who aren’t familiar with the concept, is a way to provide financing to people who can’t get financing through traditional financial systems.

On June 27^th, the Cabell County Art and Music Project, a Create Huntington project team, is hosting a community exhibition of the arts to be held at The Galleria (the old Huntington Arcade) on 4th Avenue. This event will begin at 6 PM and last until 11PM. Ceal’s Sandwich Shop will be cooking up good food at a reasonable price for this event, thanks to its proprietor, Greg Carico. Wayne and Chris hope to work in conjunction with other art gallery projects coming out of Create Huntington.

The Drifters, songsmiths of such classics as “Under the Boardwalk” and “Save the Last Dance For Me” are in concert tonight, June 2, 2009, in front of the Keith-Albee theater starting at 6pm. They will be doing two sets during the night ending at 10pm. The concert is free so bring a chair and get comfortable along fourth ave and come join in the Celebrate Huntington Concert Series!

“There is a wonderful quote from Dr. Vannevar Bush (the first to build such a machine at M.I.T.), ‘Experience is necessary, of course, in order to use the device effectively. This is actually one of the most attractive aspects of the machine; one acquires an entirely new appreciation of the innate nature of a differential equation as that experience is gained,’ ” Lawrence said

The Huntington Art Collective, a group in affiliation with Create Huntington, will be holding an inaugural art exhibition and reception to celebrate the grand opening of Gallery 842, a community art project spawned from the weekly Chat ‘N Chew sessions.

The exhibition, juried and curated by local artists Seth Cyfers and John Farley, and organized by a volunteer group of like-minded, progressive citizens, will feature a wide variety of artwork from across the Tri-state area.

The 2009 Create West Virginia conference will be in town Sunday through Tuesday, Oct. 18-20. Much of the conference will take place at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena, although some activities are planned at locations throughout downtown.

While many of us were enjoying a beautiful spring weekend, the Community Gardeners of Huntington were following their passion and doing their part to make Huntington better. While we were benefiting from the parks and green spaces that our forefathers created, they were busy all weekend creating new spaces that our children and grandchildren will enjoy.