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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 132
Recognizing the Entrepreneurial Education Region of Virginia
with appropriate postings of the entrances to the region along
Interstate Routes 77 and 81, and U.S. Routes 52, 58, 100, and 221
by the relevant localities comprising the region. Report.
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, March 10, 2004
Agreed to by the Senate, March 9, 2004
WHEREAS, in order to create a new platform from which
to internally and externally market the region to those who wish
to invest, create employment, and take advantage of the region's
entrepreneurial spirit and institutions of education, the community,
economic, and educational organizations of the Counties of Carroll,
Bland, Grayson, Smyth, and Wythe and the City of Galax have collaborated
to create the Crossroads Institute and the Entrepreneurial Education
Region of Virginia; and WHEREAS, entrepreneurial education is recognized
as a valid form of economic development, capturing the energy, imagination,
and passion of the citizens of the Entrepreneurial Region of Virginia;
and
WHEREAS, the Crossroads Institute, a rural entrepreneurial education
initiative located in Galax and serving Virginia with more than 60,000
square feet of space, is dedicated to entrepreneurial education and
business development; and
WHEREAS, 80 percent of new jobs being created are in the area of
small business and entrepreneurship; and
WHEREAS, the noteworthy efforts of the aforementioned localities
and the visionary leadership of the citizens of the region to achieve
regional cooperation and the promotion of community, economic, and
educational development that facilitated the creation of the Entrepreneurial
Education Region of Virginia are lauded; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the
Entrepreneurial Education Region of Virginia be recognized with appropriate
postings of the entrances to the region along Interstate Routes 77
and 81, and U.S. Routes 52, 58, 100, and 221 by the relevant localities
comprising the region; and, be it
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the relevant localities comprising the region,
with the approval of the Virginia Department of Transportation, may
post and maintain signs bearing the legend "Entering Virginia's
Entrepreneurial Region" at the entrances to the Entrepreneurial
Education Region along Interstate Routes 77 and 81, and U.S. Routes
52, 58, 100, and 221 to signify and recognize the Virginia Entrepreneurial
Education Region.
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