Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rappahannock Community College offered welding training classes for adults at their Westmoreland Workforce Training Center in both the day and evening. These classes were full and supplied a trained welding workforce to various industries around the Northern Neck, Middle Peninsula and Fredericksburg areas.
Month: February 2021
Direct From Bay (and Field) to Your Table
Photo above: Shuck You Covid oyster give away. Cappahosic Oysters. Photo By: Stephanie Heinatz (Consociate Media)
The Middle Peninsula Launches BayDirect, App to Connect Farm and Seafood Harvesters with Customers
The COVID-19 pandemic virtually shut down the seafood and agriculture market for many in Virginia’s Middle Peninsula region. A region dependent on selling products to restaurant markets, there was supply, but little demand.
The Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority partnered with the Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission, Consociate Media, and Marker Nine to create an app for Android and Apple, expected to launch in February 2021, to connect seafood and agriculture producers on the Middle Peninsula with people who want to purchase their harvest.
Continue readingGO Virginia Region 6 2020 In Review
A Look Back at 2020
GO Virginia Region 6 funded 11 projects in 2020, sending $4,044,258 into the community. Projects ranged from COVID-19 relief, to a better understanding of the workforce needs of the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula, to laying the foundation of an innovation ecosystem that will create a new, long-term, high-paying economic industry cluster.