Clean Valley Concert Success: AmRhein Wine Cellars, May 9th

cleanvalleypostpic.jpg On Friday night, May 9th, at AmRhein Wine Cellars (Thanks, Russ!), the First Annual Concert for a Clean Valley was a resounding success. With less than a month between conception and reality, the Concert, a benefit for the educational programs at the Clean Valley Council, attracted over 50 environmentally-conscious attendees. The effort was enhanced, no doubt, by the willingness of Virginia’s 6th District Congressional hopeful Sam Rasoul (D) and the Star City’s youngest Council member-elect Court Rosen (D) to support the event and to speak a few words to the audience about their respective visions of the importance of environmental issues in the November election and in the day-to-day work of Roanoke’s City Council. On Monday or Tuesday of this week, we will know how much money we raised for the Clean Valley Council through the combined efforts of the following friends and sponsors of this event.

For a video of Sam Rasoul’s remarks, click HERE.

For a video of Court Rosen’s remarks, click HERE.

For a video of Clean Valley Council’s Ann Masters, our guest of honor, click HERE.

The Star City Harbinger is grateful to Beth and Wendy at myscoper.com. Beth and Wendy were crucial in the effort to promote this event and designed a beautiful web-based advertisement which linked the thousands of visitors to myscoper.com to the Harbinger’s information page regarding the event.

We are also deeply indebted to Joanne and Steve Villars of Blacksnake Meadery. Joanne helped coordinate the event, worked tirelessly to promote the cause, and, together with Steve who was one of our bartenders for the evening, donated cases of their fantastic mead and bee brew to make the event a success.

A huge thanks is due Mike Mitchell and his compilation band, Floyd County, for providing the music and audio equipment for the event at a significantly reduced cost and for donating copies of his CD for door prizes.

We owe a round of thanks and well-wishes to our other sponsors:

Dr. Rita Bishop, RCPS Superintendent

The Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Virginia

Eco-Brokers and all-around fun couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dandridge of Roanoke, VA

Da Boyz Jay Foster and Dick Willis of SOFTSOLUTIONS of Roanoke, VA

The Blue Ridge Wine Trail for their donation of two $30 tickets to the wine trail for door prizes.

CLICK ON THE THUMBNAILS BELOW FOR PICTURES OF THE EVENT:

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Clean Valley Concert Success: AmRhein Wine Cellars, May 9th

On Friday night, May 9th, at AmRhein Wine Cellars (Thanks, Russ!), the First Annual Concert for a Clean Valley was a resounding success. With less than a month between conception and reality, the Concert, a benefit for the educational programs at the Clean Valley Council, attracted over 50 environmentally-conscious attendees. The effort was enhanced, no doubt, by the willingness of Virginia’s 6th District Congressional hopeful Sam Rasoul (D) and the Star City’s youngest Council member-elect Court Rosen (D) to support the event and to speak a few words to the audience about their respective visions of the importance of environmental issues in the November election and in the day-to-day work of Roanoke’s City Council.

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Clean Valley Concert Success: AmRhein Wine Cellars, May 9th

On Friday night, May 9th, at AmRhein Wine Cellars (Thanks, Russ!), the First Annual Concert for a Clean Valley was a resounding success. With less than a month between conception and reality, the Concert, a benefit for the educational programs at the Clean Valley Council, attracted over 50 environmentally-conscious attendees. The effort was enhanced, no doubt, by the willingness of Virginia’s 6th District Congressional hopeful Sam Rasoul (D) and the Star City’s youngest Council member-elect Court Rosen (D) to support the event and to speak a few words to the audience about their respective visions of the importance of environmental issues in the November election and in the day-to-day work of Roanoke’s City Council.

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