Live The Life
The first article of Axel Scheibe, a German Travel Writer hosted last September was published this weekend in the travel section of the regional daily newspaper “Mittelbadische Zeitung” (circulation: 49.445). The ad value of the article is over 10.000 US-Dollar.
Check out what’s coming up at the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge for May and June!
CLICK HERE to see their Summer Events Flyer.
Check out some of the exciting press coverage VB has recently received!
Todd Bertka and Will Smith recently received recognition for completing the first City of VB Innovation Academy. As part of their course work, Todd and Will attended the Annual TLG, Transforming Local Government Conference in Tulsa last month. And received their certificates from City Manager Hansen last week.
CLICK HERE to check out these great opportunities for a weekend outdoors at False Cape State Park!
Team VIC,
The CVB is partnering with the Virginia Arts Festival and is now selling tickets for the following concerts:
Cost – $21.00 (includes $1 service fee) No credit card sales. Prefer cash; however, will accept check with phone number on check.
Attached is a copy of the front and back of the ticket. For reference, the band name and GA number are highlighted in yellow.
The VIC has a total of 100 tickets for each concert. There are two bags (50 tickets per bag) in the front drawer. One bag marked Friday (Blue cover sheet) & one marked Saturday (White cover sheet.)
Each ticket has a unique GA number. Please record the person’s name, method of payment (Cash or Check#,) Staff Initials and Date Sold next to the GA number on the sheet provided.
The Front Desk person (right counter/non-POS station) will be in charge of selling tickets. The morning Front Desk person will need to get tickets out of the safe and the afternoon Front Desk person at the end of the day (5p) will place bags in the safe. If extra tickets are needed please contact Scott or Maria.
Here is a link to event site: https://vafest.org/fringe-festival/
Virginia Arts Festival brings Fringe Fest to Virginia Beach on May 12th and 13th! This two-day evening concert series features live music from up-and-coming bluegrass and jazz bands, food trucks, craft beers and more.
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Location – Fringe concerts take place in a large tent in ViBe Park—the lot on Cypress Ave between the Virginia Beach Library and Wareing’s Gym plaza.
Thank you all for your help in promoting this event.
The staff at VBCC has worked wonders yet again. The Event, Business and Operations staff just finished a long weekend of US Finals Cheerleading one our most taxing events. A special shout out is in order for the following VBCC supervisors and their teams who coordinated all the details throughout the weekend: Avery Burgess, her event managers and front of house staff; Brenda Felton, Jackie Owens and the entire housekeeping and set up team who worked around the clock; Bill Bradshaw and his grounds team, and Jill Sabourin, Wilonda Spratley and their ticket sellers. They did some serious heavy lifting this weekend and into the overnight Monday morning to prepare for the day’s events.
A call was put in late last week for reinforcements to help clean up the exhibit halls. These great team members stepped away from their desks to share in the work load:
James Caralivanos traded in his sales computer for a 6,000 pound fork lift while Bryan had 6,000 steps before 8:00 a.m.
The smiling faces of Darcy Potter, Diane Harrison and Rubylee Gardner were all busy with brooms and dust pans bright and early while Kimberlee Dobbins broke down cardboard boxes and salvaged soda bottles from the trash.
Even though Jill Sabourin and Wilonda Spratley worked the weekend, they came out early with push-brooms in hand.
Max Long worked the weekend too, but this new guy, in true form brought donuts and coffee after working to clean up bleachers.
Enough can’t be said about this photo’s importance. Under Larry Mitchell’s able leadership, maintenance must go on. While others were helping in the cleanup effort, maintenance and administrative staff were doing what they do every day to make VBCC work well and look good. Jeff Leonard started his day on a project to cover part of a vegetative bed with brick pavers. Take a look at his handiwork the next time you enter the ballroom. After pulling a few all night shifts, Larry was back in house Monday morning helping the admin crew move racks of tables and chairs with the forklift. He was also overseeing a three day project to replace VBCC’s elevator cables and a painting contract for the overhead steel in front of the ballroom.
One of the wonderful things about team VBCC is that they willingly come to each other’s assistance when needed. I’ll take that any day.
– Courtney
Susan Riley, Jill Sabourin and Karen Ovalle attended the annual 2017 Williamsburg Fraud Conference
Some of the presentations at the conference were:
“Prevention & Detection of Fraud in Small Business” – discussed the Fraud Triangle in detail, the importance of Perception of Detection and the effect of management’s tone at the top of the organization – which are relevant topics for all businesses
“Conflict Management Strategies for Improved Communication” addressed the need to check all sides of the issue before assuming you know the answer and also the importance of listening to hear and not listening to speak (How True is that?)
“Ethical Behavior – It’s a Matter of Choice” – went into detail on how certain things could be legal and permissible but not necessarily ethical
“Fraud, Money Laundering and More” – discussed the need to think like a Fraudster in setting up internal controls
And a fascinating presentation on how words in emails, journal entries and other supporting documents can be analyzed for risk assessment or possible fraud. Usually Auditors and Accounting folks only look at the numbers. Looking at text is something relatively new in this field.
This is a great local conference for our folks on the front line of the accounting process to attend since we are the ones to recommend and come up with new or revised internal controls.
The MarComm team recently hosted the Simpleview team for “boots on the ground” look at our destination. From riding beach cruisers the entire length of the boardwalk (and back, of course!) to taking an oyster farm tour, this immersion experience served to give our new website vendor a closer look our coastal city. Special thanks to the VBCC team members who assisted in providing the VBCC bus and a driver; the tour went smoothly thanks to the amazing transportation experience. The Simpleview team left very impressed and much more familiar with look and feel of Virginia Beach.
Many witnessed or smelled the excitement at VBCC about a month ago when a motor failed and belts smoldered. The result was a building filled with the smell of burning rubber. On Wednesday, we removed the old motor and replaced it with a new one. The motor is estimated to weigh in at 1,000 pounds and required an 80 ton crane to lift it. The size of the crane was dictated by the weight and distance from the building.
