MOUNDSVILLE – The Marshall County Chamber of Commerce Well being and Enterprise Expo continues Saturday, March 2 from 10 a.m. to five p.m. on the Moundsville Middle.
The occasion options cubicles arrange by dozens of companies, contractors, organizations, healthcare suppliers and extra on the middle, which is situated inside the previous Moundsville Penitentiary.
There isn’t any price to enter. Discounted meals are bought on website. Distributors are available to inform individuals about their choices, and plenty of of them hand out trinkets, souvenirs, well being screenings, and extra.
A sales space arrange by town of Moundsville even options video games like basketball and treats like popcorn.
Scott Reager, govt director of the Marshall County Chamber of Commerce, stated that is the 19th 12 months of the expo.
“It is a pattern of the companies and providers in Marshall County,” Reager stated. “We even have completely different characters, Spider-Man and Disney characters. “We may have items and door prizes.”
Throughout Friday's ribbon-cutting ceremony, Marshall County Fee Chairman Mike Ferro stated the fee helps small companies within the county. He famous that final 12 months the fee allotted about $1 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act cash to assist county companies affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Eligible companies might obtain as much as $20,000 in grant cash, he stated.
Nurse Melissa Burkett, a Girls of Impression nominee representing WVU Medication, was named ribbon cutter for the ceremony. She stated that for the previous month she and others have been selling girls's well being, stroke consciousness, AED use and extra. They’ve additionally been elevating cash for the American Coronary heart Affiliation.