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The U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Rural Development (RD) office in Virginia<\/a> recognized the Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission (A-NPDC) in March in Melfa, Va. for the completion of a high quality regional economic development plan for the Eastern Shore.<\/p>\n \u201cThe agency is very proud of the hard work and dedication that the Eastern Shore region committed to completing high quality economic development plans,\u201d said Janice Stroud-Bickes, Virginia Acting State Director USDA Rural Development. \u201cWe look forward to continuing support to the region as it fulfills its identified goals.\u201d<\/p>\n The Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission received an award of outstanding achievement for the November 2016 completion of the Stronger Economies Together (SET)<\/a> regional economic development plan Tuesday at Eastern Shore Community College. Executive Director Elaine Meil, Director of Planning Curtis Smith and Eastern Shore Community College President Dr. Linda K. Thomas-Glover accepted the award on behalf of the commission during the Accomack-Northampton Economic Development Committee\u2019s public meeting.<\/p>\n Aerospace and Defense; Agribusiness and Food Processing; Arts, Entertainment, Recreation, & Visitor Industries; and Foundational & Entrepreneurship Development are the four industries that members of the region identified as cluster goals to further economic development.<\/p>\n Since completion of the plan, the Eastern Shore has leveraged $5.7 million of RD and other funding consisting of almost $20,000 in rural business programs, $151,700 for community facilities programs, nearly $20,000 in rural utilities programs, and $5.5 million to support rural housing. Read more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Rural Development (RD) office in Virginia recognized the Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission (A-NPDC) in March in Melfa, Va. for the completion of a high quality regional economic development plan for the Eastern Shore. \u201cThe agency is very proud of the hard work and dedication that the Eastern Shore region committed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,12,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-npdc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-npdc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-npdc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-npdc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-npdc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/a-npdc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4492,"href":"https:\/\/a-npdc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-npdc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-npdc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-npdc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}