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Conference to Focus on West Virginia Flood Recovery Efforts
By: Associated Press
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Update 2:00 p.m.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia Gov.-elect Jim Justice has told a conference focused on long-term recovery from last summer’s devastating flooding that he plans to restore hope and opportunities in the state.
Justice was the keynote speaker Friday at an economic conference that drew speakers from government, business, higher education and nonprofit groups.
Justice, who will be inaugurated on Monday, offered no specific plans to move the state past the floods. He told several dozen people at Marshall University that “it’s time to drag ourselves out of this mess.”
The June floods killed 23 people and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes, businesses, roads and bridges.
The group West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster co-hosted the conference.
A similar conference is scheduled at West Virginia University this spring.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia Gov.-elect Jim Justice is the scheduled keynote speaker at a conference that will address the long-term response to last summer’s devastating flooding in the state.
The conference is set for Friday at Marshall University in Huntington.
The June floods killed 24 people and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes, businesses, roads and bridges.
Marshall says there will be four panels of speakers from government, business, higher education and nonprofit groups.
The group West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster is co-hosting the conference.
Also expected to attend are Tom Wooten, who wrote a book on the rebuilding of New Orleans neighborhoods following Hurricane Katrina; and Steve Eddy, the former city manager of Moore, Oklahoma, where a 2013 tornado killed 24 people.
A similar conference is scheduled at West Virginia University this spring.