Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville open thread for Saturday, January 31st. We try to get together every weekend to share with everyone what we're all up to in Western North Carolina and beyond. We hope this group serves to invigorate us locally and regionally here on Daily Kos, building on the sense of community that's grown through our online engagement. DKos Asheville can give us all a better sense of connection, a better understanding of who we stand with, work with, and share with. We hope this community can help leverage our orange passion for progressive politics to elect more and better Democrats.
We are coming off a well received seventh meet up on January 17th that featured DKos Asheville co-hosting a bloggers conference. For our next meet up we will be doing something completely different, going back to the theme of our first meet up on 4/20/2013: Meeting, spending time focusing on community and networking and less time with an agenda driven schedule. And this time we will be taking the meet up on the road to Roanoke Virginia in April! Please join us below for details and sign up today.
Gordon20024 - randallt posed a question to me while suggesting the next DKos Asheville meet-up be a road trip four hours north to my home to assist my efforts here - What can 20 Kossacks do? I gave the question considerable thought and came up with What can 200 Kossacks do?
This is an open invitation for all Morning Open Tread (MOTlies) and CUA (former newbies) to unite in a beautiful and relaxed setting as Spring arrives to this broad valley and wakens the dogwood and apple blossoms.
Thankful for the friendship and generosity of his support for DKos Asheville meet ups over the last two years, we felt we needed to give back and spend time in Gordon20024's beloved city of Roanoke VA. He told us that for us to come and spread some DKos Asheville love would be the best "Thank you" ever. So after some scheduling and early planning, a spring meet up is born. Please see some early details below and let me know if you would like to attend.
What A DKos Asheville meet up in Roanoke, Virginia.
When Saturday and Sunday, April 25-26, 2015. 1:00 pm Saturday till 1:00 pm Sunday.
Where Hotel Roanoke, Conference Center, 110 Shenandoah Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia, 24016-2025, USA
TEL: +1-540-985-5900
Accommodations Built in 1882, the Tudor-style Hotel Roanoke is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a member of the International Association of Conference Centers. Welcome attendees to your conference or meeting in our 63,000 sq. ft. conference center, featuring a grand ballroom and flexible meeting spaces. Our experienced staff will assist you with planning and arranging catering services at our hotel in Roanoke, VA.
Why After seven successful and engaging meet ups, DKos Asheville's core members decided to take our next gathering on the road. The first reason was that our chef and benefactor for all our meet ups has been Gordon20024 and we wanted say thanks by traveling to be with him instead of having him drive to be with us. We asked and he was thrilled and so the idea was born. Another reason is that it offers us the opportunity to meet more Kossacks from around the region including Virginia and parts of North Carolina to the north and east of us.
Grow our network, grow our community, help win elections.
Details Please Kosmail me, randallt, if you would like to attend.
Let's get local, build this community and help win elections.
RSVPs:
1. gordon20024
2. davehouck
3. randallt
4. Joieau
5. LamontCranston
6. Steerler Grrl
7. Steeler Guy
8. Otteray Scribe
9. DawnN
10. emmasnacker
MAYBEES:
Joy of Fishes
Gordon20024. ------ I'd like for us to be able to kick back and relax in an environment I feel so at home in. I suggest a lunch Saturday over looking the broad Roanoke Valley at a picnic area atop Mill Mountain catered by http://www.chipotle.com/...
Folks have expressed interests in the local architecture and transportation history of the region. A couple hours need be devoted to O Winston Link Museum and restoration of the most beautiful steam locomotive ever built, the J class 611 due to debut late Spring/early Summer.
That's all for now. We would love to turn this into a regional meet up if any of you Virginia folks want to meet some of us Nocackalackie folks. Have a great weekend.