Click:Next Board Meeting schedule is on Friday, March 15, at the Shoney's Restaurant in St. Albans (same location as our first meeting).
Hopefully you will all be able to attend. The room will be re-arranged to allow ample room to "eat and meet."
The first board of directors meeting will be Friday, February 15 at the Cabell County Career Technology Center at 11:00 am. These meetings are open to all members so, even if you are not a board member, feel free to attend if you are available. Along with the conference committee report, we discuss topics such as membership, student activities, financial issues, regional conference planning, etc.
The second conference planning meeting will be Friday, March 15 at the Family Enrichment Center in Charleston, at 11:00 am. We're off to a great start, so please plan to be there if possible. If you have not had a chance in the past to take an active role in the planning of our conference, try to attend this meeting and see if there is something you would like to get involved in.
Kathy Winter, WVAEA, Inc. President
Hello everyone, Well the results are in and the consensus is that our first planning meeting for the 2002 conference will be on January 11, 2002 in the Charleston area. (I promise I didn't even vote!) I did schedule the Shoney's Restaurant in St. Albans, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm. They have a room separate from the main dining area that will be a great place for us to meet. It is on Rt. 60 near the KMart. If you need directions, call or email me. I hope you or a representative from your organization can be present so we can be assured the 2002 conference continues to grow and be a success.
Kathy Winter, WVAEA, Inc. President
BOLT received a $1,000 ( one thousand dollars ) grant from the West Virginia Dept. of Education. The grant was given at an award ceremony, at the conclusion of the Adult Education and Literacy Conference, held at Pipestem State Park, WV on the 16th of November, 2001. The grant was presented by Mr. Bill Wilcox, Executive Director of Adult Education, WV Dept. of Education.
Also, Mr. BIll Wilcox presented WVAEA, Inc. an award and a beautiful trophy from the West Virginia Department of Education in recognition for WVAEA's contribution to adult education.
Virginia Davis and Debbie O'Brian would like to thank everyone that came to the picnic. There were lots of food and fun.
Inette Smith and students from Summers County worked hard handing out brochures to the fair crowd from 1:00 - 6:00 p.m. BOLT would lke to thank Shalom Tazewell, Summers County teacher, and to the WV Laubach Literacy for sharing their booth with BOLT two years in a row.
Inette Smith would like to thank everyone that came to the picnic, to all that brought food and drinks to share, and games to play. We had a great turn-out.
This is to inform everybody that the BOLT GED chat room on paltalk is up and
running. Here is how to get into the chat room:
Go to http://www.paltalk.com/
Download beta
version 3.5 (in the right button hand corner)
Add to your list Evelyn_WV (to get into the chat
room).
Evelyn will have it up every Thursday evening from 7PM til 9PM. Come and enjoy talking to your friends about BOLT and GED courses.
BOLT received a grant for $1,000 (one thousand dollars) from the Governor's Council on Literacy, July of 2001. The grant was for matching funds for BOLT's scholarship program for fall semester of 2001.
BOLT received a $100 ( one hundred dollars ) mini-grant from Laubach International to help pay for the cost of sending representative(s) to the VALUE Conference held July 19-21, 2001.