daily304 - Episode 10.02.2023

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Today is Monday, Oct. 2

Get ready for FestivFALL returning to Charleston this month…WV’s new Advanced Air Mobility industry aims to transform the skies…and learn more about the stream restoration that took place recently at Kanawha State Forest…on today’s daily304.

#1 – From GAZETTE-MAIL – Got plans for fall? You do now!

FestivFALL, Charleston’s annual fall arts and music festival, takes place Oct. 13-22. The event sees the return of favorites like the Harvest Art Fair, the Carriage Leaf Trail Walk and Glow in the Park at Slack Plaza. There’s also a Grateful Dead tribute, a country music festival, and a showing of the classic film, “Ghostbusters.”

In addition, the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences also has released its fall lineup of Sound Check performances. The series runs from early October through mid-December.

Learn more about these events and performances at www.festivallcharleston.com and www.theclaycenter.org.

Read more:

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/arts_and_entertainment/in-short-festivfall-returns-sound-checks-lineup-announced/article_fa3ce78d-1cb6-5db9-94d9-9524b6695328.html

#2 – From VERTX PARTNERS –  The future of transportation is coming to Appalachia! 

Advanced Air Mobility is the next generation of aviation systems and services aiming to provide safe, efficient, and sustainable transportation solutions using technologically advanced aircraft. 

Vertx Partners President Sean Frisbee and VP of Operations Mary Cook discuss AAM’s growing impact on the world and how West Virginia is poised to capitalize on and accelerate this progress. 

Watch the video and find out how Vertx Partners is bringing Appalachian innovators and businesses together to transform the skies.

Watch the video:

https://vertxpartners.org/advanced-air-mobility/

#3 – From WV STATE PARKS – Work was completed earlier this year on the removal of the Davis Creek Dam at Kanawha State Forest. The dam’s removal was designed to increase fishing opportunities at the forest and allow the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources to begin stocking trout.

It marked the end of an era for the dam, which was completed in 1940 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The resulting impoundment created a swimming hole -- named Ellison Pond -- that was promoted as the first public, natural swimming pool in the Greater Kanawha Valley. 

Eventually the swimming pool was converted to a fishing hole. But throughout the years, it became too costly to dredge the pond of sediment to keep the pond habitable for aquatic life. Thus began the lengthy and careful stream restoration project to remove the Ellison Pond Impoundment. 

Learn more about the process on West Virginia State Parks’ website. 

Read more:

https://wvstateparks.com/the-decommissioning-of-davis-creek-dam/

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That’s all for now. Take care. Be safe. Get outside and enjoy all the opportunity West Virginia has to offer.