The first Elderhostel to be held in the Greenbrier Valley has been planned and is sold out for the week of July 13-18 at Greenbrier Community College Center.
With a theme of "Greenbrier Valley Adventure," the Elderhostel has been planned through an advisory committee through the Center for Workforce and Business development at GCCC.
"We now need to have volunteers for the area to help us as guides, information advisers, and so many other areas to assist the 46 participants in our first try," says Terri Baker, program coordinator for the Elderhostel and director of the Center for Workforce and Business Development at GCCC.
The program tentative scheduled touches nearly every area of the Greenbrier Valley and into the Beckley area. Programs and tours on the history of Lewisburg, the history of The Greenbrier, Civil War, Beckley Exhibition Mine, Tamarack, The Greenbrier Bunker, Organ Cave and the Wolf Creek Winery are just a sampling of what is planned for the participants, Baker adds.
To volunteer to assist with the program, telephone Baker at her office in Jefferson Office Park at 647-6570 or visit her office located between South Jefferson and South Court streets in Lewisburg. Baker also notes that another Elderhostel is planned for this fall at GCCC and we are beginning to accept reservations and ideas for that program.
"We have been lucky to have several members of our advisory committee who have been on Elderhostels and we are always open to suggestions on what we should feature," Baker concluded.
Inquires can be made by writing Baker, Center for Workforce and Business Development, Greenbrier Community College Center, 101 Church Street, Lewisburg, 24901.
May 28, 2003
Submitted by Mike Williams