Lake Country Visitor & Newcomer Guide 2009 - (Page 56) “For many years, we have greeted visitors on their way to other destinations. Now, with so much to offer, we are their destination.” –Halifax (NC) CVB Executive Director Lori Medlin 56 56 altor. He became president of South Hill’s Rotary Club. Zincone now helps schedule events at the town’s library and serves as a leader of the South Hill Revitalization Committee, a volunteer group that aims to re-invent the town. “I just like living here,” says Zincone, a semi-retired manager for Virginia Power and a native of Henrico County, near Richmond. “This reminds me of the area where I grew up in Lakeside – a suburb of Richmond.” Many people are moving from Northern states to the Lake Country, “wanting to get out of the rush, living in the larger cities,” says Linda Williams, the executive director of the Lake Country Chamber of Commerce in Clarksville. “They want a much slower pace.” Just as often, says Clarksville retired teacher Jackie Lilly, the people who grew up around Clarksville move away to attend college but then decide to come home after a few years and restore their roots in the Lake Country. DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENTS From Littleton and Roanoke Rapids to Clarksville and South Hill, leaders are sprucing up their downtown districts to increase foot traffic for small businesses and to lure tourists, Kellett says. “All of the towns have their own niche,” Kellett says, “and it all kind of works together.” In North Carolina, Roanoke Rapids provides the eastern gateway to the Lake Country region with a mixture of shops and conveniences. At Chase City, a small town in Virginia, look for fresh sidewalks, new street lamps and restorations of historic buildings plus the recent addition of a Southern Virginia ⁄ Northern North Carolina’s Lake Country
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