Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville open thread for Saturday, March 14th. 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.
For our next meet up on April 25-26 we will be returning 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! Please sign up by dropping me a kosmail.
This is an open invitation for all Kossacks to unite in a beautiful and relaxed setting as Spring arrives to the Roanoke Valley and wakens the dogwood and apple blossoms.
Please see 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
540-985-5900
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.
We will start our day with lunch on the top of a mountain at Mill Mountain Park and then go to the hotel in the afternoon.
Here is a Roanoke map from Mapquest
This is a Blueridge Outdoors look at Roanoke
This is the state of Virgina's official reference to Roanoke.
The more you read about the history and the vibrant nature of Roanoke, the more you'll want to visit with us on April 25th!
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 is personal. 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 was born.
The second reason is that it offers us the opportunity to meet more Kossacks and other progressives from around the region including Virginia and parts of North Carolina to the north and east of us.
We would love to have members of the Virgina Daily Kos community join us as well as other regional activists and bloggers like the folks that contribute to and read the Blue Virginia blog.
We are also super happy that the Roanoke Chapter of Drinking Liberally is promoting the event. I posted on their blog today offering a warm welcome and Gordon20014 will be attending their next meeting to invite guests and talk about the meet up.
Details Please Kosmail me, randallt, if you would like to attend.
Let's get local, grow our network, build this community and help win elections.
We are excited to add DK luminary Maybees To our growing list of attendees!
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
TexDem
VeloVixen
Vetwife
NEW!
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