The West Virginia Legislature celebrated West Virginia Fairs and Festivals Day in the capitol rotunda.
Several festivals were represented and capitol guests were greeted by an assortment of foods, fair facts and crafts.
Pictured is basketweaver Alan Miller, the president of the Treasure Mountain Festival held in Franklin, West Virginia. Miller called his festival, “the best kept secret in West Virginia.”
Other festivals present included the Cabell County Fair, the West Virginia Pumpkin Festival, the Preston County Buckwheat Festival and the Mountain State Art and Craft Fair.
West Virginia Fairs and Festivals Day provides an eclectic mix of great people and places the state Legislators are proud to represent. Many of the Legislators visited with their constituents and took part in hometown traditions.
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Next year’s budget, with all of the proposed reductions, will be balanced with a combination of cuts and an influx of one-time federal stimulus package money of $119 million, which will be used to “backfill” some of the cuts. The federal funds will go primarily to public and higher education. All states are required to spend most of their stimulus share by 2011, meaning West Virginia will have to look for other funding sources if the state’s revenues continue to feel the effects of the economic downturn. Cuts of five percent have been made to the budgets of the Legislature, Constitutional Offices, and executive agencies.