Touring Luray
Kevin Hall, our communications director, is traveling with Governor Warner today through Luray and Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the first stops on our "Hometown Days" tour. He took some pictures and sent us this report from the trip:
Governor Warner visited the Town of Luray in Page County today. He is traveling in the upper Shenandoah Valley as part of his "Hometown Days," visiting friends and community leaders and revisiting programs he launched while he was Governor.
Business leaders detailed their remarkable Main Street revitalization effort, including a very popular greenway project -- a jogging, hiking and biking trail alongside a creek.
At the nearby Lord Fairfax Community College's Page County facility, President John "Ski" Sygielski introduced Governor Warner as a true friend of public education. While serving as Governor, Mark Warner initiated the single largest investment ever made in our public schools. He also launched a series of academic and workforce development reforms that have made our community college system the "workhorse" of higher ed.
Community and business leaders attended a sold-out lunch gathering at the beautifully restored Mimslyn Inn on Luray's Main Street. Extra tables were brought in to accommodate the overflow crowd.
Stay tuned for more updates (and pictures) from the "Hometown Days" tour. Governor Warner will visit the JMU College Democrats this afternoon before going to Harrisonburg tonight and tomorrow.