At the spring conference of the Virginia Economic Developers Association (VEDA), the winner of the association’s 2014 Community Economic Development Awards (CEDA) in the over-100,000 population category was the Middle Peninsula-Northern Neck region. The award recognized the area’s Watermen Tourism Training Program — a project that combined community development, business retention and expansion, and community involvement.
This program was developed by Rappahannock Community College’sWorkforce and Community Developmentoffice in collaboration with Chesapeake Environmental Communication; it offers guidance for watermen who wish to supplement their incomes by developing tourism-based businesses.