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Gus R. Douglass Land-Grant Institute

January 2010

Growing youth, growing gardens, growing education

Groups of youth from Huntington gather regularly at the Barnett Center’s Community Learning Garden. It’s here that they learn about gardening and have formed a group called the Junior Master Gardener Huntington Urban Gardeners.

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Twitter as a traffic driver - ways to get retweeted and drive traffic to your site

Retweeting a post has huge traffic-driving power on the Web. So, writing compelling Twitter headlines is an important factor in ensuring that your message is retweeted. “With one click, any of your readers can spread your post to hundreds or thousands of their followers,” Dan Zarrella, author of “The Social Media Marketing Book,” writes for Copyblogger.

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Kanawha County One of 41 Sites Selected for National Program Fighting Obesity

KEYS 4 HealthyKids has been awarded a $360,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to improve opportunities for physical activity and access to affordable, healthy foods for children and families in Kanawha County. Based on a rigorous selection process that drew more than 500 proposals from across the country, Kanawha County is one of 41 sites selected for the RWJF Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities initiative.

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