We warmly welcome all of our PWR members and those who are interested in leartning more.  Please complete the interest form.  It will automatically be submitted to the membership chair who will bring it to the PWR Board (which meets monthly).  The turn around may take up to a month depending on when you submit it.  Just be patient.  Someone wil ...

By Karen DeBord and Jodee Jeans The Incredible, edible egg. That’s the slogan used by the poultry council to market eggs in the early 80’s when Karen was an Extension Agent. And having held a chicken and candled eggs then, it was only recently that Karen acquired her own chickens. So without a program at the last minute, Jodee and Karen decided to ...

My name is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. //  and I am the Mortgage Specialist for Virginia Mountain Mortgage located inside of the Bank of Botetourt at Lakewatch Plantation at Smith Mountain Lake.  I have heard many of the same questions over and over from customers concerned about th ...

Before we built and opened our Bed & Breakfast business, we read “B & B for Dummies.” The main thing we both remember is that running a Bed & Breakfast will not make you a fortune, but it will afford you to live where you want to live.  I wanted to move back to the beautiful mountains of Virginia.  Jack wanted to live at an airport; so when we disc ...

When I joined PWR, I was a new business owner and fairly new to the Moneta/Smith Mountain Lake area. My husband, Jack and I had lived in the area two years, but most of that time was spent building our business…I mean really building it. We own Bedford Landings Bed & Breakfast and we literally built the house! We joined the Chamber of Commerce and ...