Belington’s Fall Festival Theme, “Celebrating Our Successes” highlights the positive change that the community has achieved over the last ten years with food, music, events, and a parade down Main Street. The Belington Revitalization Committee and Belington On-Trac, with the help of many community partners, highlighted the projects and redevelopment efforts that have taken place in the downtown. They also used this time to share information about where the town is going in the future.
Golden Rule Building during redevelopment along Main Street in Belington, WV.
Terri Kittle, Chief Financial Officer for Freedom Bank and Treasurer for the Belington Revitalization Committee, helped to plan the annual event with the theme “Celebrating our Successes”. Terri stated, “I want the event to show the community what has been accomplished, and where we are going in the future.” The Belington Revitalization Committee, the City of Belington, the Barbour County Development Authority, and Woodlands Development Group have worked together to develop a community walking trail along the river, started the rehabilitation of The Golden Rule building, a prominent downtown building. They have added new playground equipment to the City Park, added new workout stations to the walking trail, and an outdoor stage space for entertainment and events. Each step in this journey has brought more opportunities for everyone in the community and more reasons to love where we live.
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Exercise station along the Belington walking trail.
The stage at the Town Square in downtown Belington.
Sidewalk chalk artwork was done during the 2019 Fall Festival.
A young visitor to the Fall Festival with her friend Diego the iguana.
Katie Wolpert volunteers to help children create sidewalk art at the Fall Festival.
With the help of many community volunteers the ”Celebrate Our Successes” events brought the community together for low cost or free activities. Visitors could shop for gifts at the craft sale, enjoy a hometown parade or rest under a tent to watch local musicians play. Children could add to sidewalk chalk drawings, laugh and play in bouncy houses, eat cotton candy and hot dogs. Everyone enjoyed a fun and successful event with large turnouts.
Bouncy houses ready for children in downtown Belington.
After the two days of celebrations, the people of Belington are now more aware of the work that groups like Belington On-Trac, The Belington Revitalization Committee, Woodlands Development Group, The Barbour County Development Authority other non-profits are doing in the area and how we are all working together to make Belington a better place.
West Virginia Mountain Mama 
That is such a cool theme. It’s so good to see people who have worked hard, look back and celebrate their accomplishments. I love the Golden Rule building.
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Thanks Dan, My attempt to correct the email issue with my site is still not working correctly. I did get my Domain address updated and I did make sure I deleted my private blog… not that I had time for two anyway. I guess I will reach out for some help now!! I hate to miss all of my WordPress notifications and “likes”. I have to get this fixed!
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I can’t point you to a specific spot, but I would check all the places in the settings. Also, have you updated your Gravatar? I would also take a look at the Reader settings.
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Yes, I have looked into the settings the reason I can’t change it by myself is that I had two blogs and each one had its own email address and now I want to only have one blog and update my email address to the most current one. For some reason, that is a no-no and I will have to get help tonight.
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That should be easier. I’ve had as many as five blogs active in WordPress (mine, work, groups) and they’re all under the same email.
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