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Community Action Plan for Rainelle, West Virginia June 2017 Local Foods, Local Places Technical Assistance Workshop Technical Assistance Program Local Foods, Local Places Community Action Plan for Rainelle, West Virginia June 2017 Local Foods, Local Places Technical Assistance Workshop For more information about Local Foods, Local Places visit: https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/local-foods-local-places Contact Information: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Project Contact: Stephanie Bertaina Office of Sustainable Communities U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (MC 1807T) Washington, DC 20460 Tel: 202-566-0157 Email: [email protected] Rainelle, West Virginia Contact: Peggy Crowder Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation (GVEDC) 804 Industrial Park, Suite 5 Maxwelton, WV 24957 Tel: 304-497-4300 Email: [email protected] Community Action Plan – Rainelle, West Virginia 2 Local Foods, Local Places Technical Assistance Workshop Community Story Rainelle is small city of about 1,500 people in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Totaling just over one square mile, its western city limit is the border between Greenbrier and Fayette counties. The Meadow River flows through the city in a westerly direction on its way to joining the Gauley River. As a former sawmill town Rainelle’s experience is similar to many central Appalachian communities. The Meadow River Lumber Company, which operated in Rainelle from 1906 to 1975, was once the largest hardwood sawmill in the world. The business was sold to the Georgia-Pacific Corporation in 1970, and the mill was torn down in 1975. The Figure 1 – Gateway to Rainelle. Image Credit: Renaissance Planning loss of the mill catalyzed an economic downturn leading to increased unemployment—and a concurrent decrease in population—as community members relocated to other areas with more employment opportunities. Since 1980, the town has lost an average of nearly 200 residents per decade and presently has a 12 percent unemployment rate, with 29.3 percent of the population living below the poverty level.1 With a median age of 46.2 and an outmigration of young people, the town’s aging population is older than the U.S. average (37.6)2. For the full community data profile see Appendix A. Agriculture is a primary economic driver in Greenbrier County, as well as the surrounding counties of Pocahontas and Monroe, collectively referred to as the Greenbrier Valley. Greenbrier County is a leader in West Virginia in agricultural production with 819 farms, and it is ranked first in the state for cattle and calf sales and third in turkey sales.3 Most of the produce and livestock farming, however, is in eastern Greenbrier County. Western Greenbrier County, including Rainelle, has limited tillable land available for produce production. Fewer than one percent of residents in Rainelle earn their income primarily from farming. On top of this, food insecurity in Greenbrier County is high (15.1 percent overall and 22.3 percent among children).4 Rainelle is challenged by increasingly prevalent public health issues and drug use. Rainelle’s 36.1 percent adult obesity rate and 15.3 percent diabetes rate place a great burden on the resources of families and the community.5 A lack of access to fresh produce in the community creates challenges for meeting residents’ nutritional needs, especially for children.6 1 U.S. Census Bureau, 2011-2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF 2 From Rainelle’s Letter of Interest, submitted 2015 and U.S. Census Bureau, 2011-2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. 3 USDA/NASS, 2012 Census of Agriculture, Web Maps http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resources/Ag_Census_Web_Maps/ 4 Feeding America Map the Meal Gap, http://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2013/overall 5 Healthy Food Access Portal Mapping Tool, http://www.healthyfoodaccess.org/get-started/research-your- community 6 USDA/NASS, 2012 Census of Agriculture, Full Report, https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_2_County_Level Community Action Plan – Rainelle, West Virginia 3 Local Foods, Local Places Technical Assistance Workshop In 2015, the Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation (GVEDC) requested assistance through the Local Foods, Local Places program to develop an action plan for promoting local food systems, and a LOCAL FOODS, LOCAL PLACES healthy, walkable, economically vibrant community. STEERING COMMITTEE The GVEDC is a regional economic development group supported by the state of West Virginia to assist MEMBERS communities in Pocahontas, Greenbrier, and Monroe Counties. The goals of the Local Foods, Local Places Peggy Crowder, Greenbrier Valley Economic program are to create: Development Corporation (GVEDC) . More economic opportunities for local farmers Heather Hanna, GVEDC and businesses; . Better access to healthy, local food, especially Jonathon Dierdorff, United Methodist Church among disadvantaged groups; and Lori Alderson, City of Rainelle . Revitalized downtowns, main streets, and Mary Surbaugh, Rainelle Agricultural Learning neighborhoods. Center The Local Foods, Local Places program is supported by Andy Pendleton, Mayor – City of Rainelle the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Tammy Jordan, Fruits of Labor U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the Centers for Woody Hanna, Greenbrier County Commission Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Appalachian John Tuggle Regional Commission (ARC), and the Delta Regional Authority (DRA). These agencies worked with the John Yates, Greenbrier Dairy community to develop this action plan. Candace McDaniel On June 23, 2016, just five days before Rainelle’s Local Cassandra Hughart, WV Region 4 PDC Foods, Local Places workshop was scheduled to begin, Cody Addison, West Virginia Food and Farm Rainelle was caught at the epicenter of the most Coalition catastrophic flooding West Virginia has experienced in recent history. At least four Rainelle residents lost Marti Neustadt, Value Chain Cluster (VC2) their lives and scores of homes and businesses were Initiative damaged or destroyed. EPA and other program Matthew Ford, Greater Greenbrier Long Term partners worked to support Rainelle as best as Recovery Committee Recovery Coordinator/ possible throughout their response and early recovery Core Environmental period, but it was not initially clear if the Local Foods, Ron Fleshman, City of Rainelle Councilman Local Places effort would survive the disaster. Sally Hurst, Greenbrier Health Alliance The project team stayed in touch with Rainelle’s Spencer Moss, West Virginia Food and Farm Steering Committee through the summer and fall of Coalition 2016 and tracked the progress of the city as residents worked to recover from the flood. In the winter, the Trudy Covington Rainelle Steering Committee decided to reschedule Figure 2 – LFLP Steering Committee in Rainelle, West Virginia the workshop for the spring of 2017, but the effort needed a revamped steering committee and a new set of goals. Community Action Plan – Rainelle, West Virginia 4 Local Foods, Local Places Technical Assistance Workshop A variety of community partners came together in Rainelle to form the new Local Foods, Local Places Steering Committee in preparation for the technical assistance (see Figure 2). As goals, the Steering Committee named: • Growing the local food economy and market. • Making Rainelle a community of health and healing as primary goals. • Activating and transforming downtown Rainelle. • Creating economic and recreation drivers to help diversify the regional economy. The remainder of this report and appendices document the engagement process, the workshop activities, and most importantly, the action plan and next steps for achieving the community’s goals. Over the course of planning calls and discussions during the workshop, the community’s goals evolved from those in the initial request for technical assistance to the four above, reflecting the holistic, collaborative approach to community development already underway in Rainelle, West Virginia. Engagement The technical assistance engagement process for Local Foods, Local Places has three phases, illustrated in Figure 3 below. The assessment phase consists of three preparation conference calls with the Steering Committee to establish the workshop goals, agenda, logistics, and stakeholder invitation lists.7 The convening phase includes the effort’s capstone event—a two-day workshop in the community. The next steps phase includes three follow-up conference calls as well as process reporting and documentation. Convene •Coordination •Action Plan •Research •Follow up coordination •Mapping •Community tour •Mobilize resources •Case Studies •Affirm community vision •Discuss participation •Establish goals •Assess issues/opportunities •Identify actions to achieve Assess community goals Next Steps Figure 3 - Local Foods, Local Places Technical Assistance Process Diagram The community workshop was held on April 6 and 7, 2017, and included lunch with the Steering Committee members and regional, state, and federal partners; a tour of the community; an evening community meeting at the Rainelle Methodist Church in downtown Rainelle (Day 1); and an action- 7 Because of the flooding disaster in the summer of 2016, additional check-in and planning calls were conducted with Rainelle to determine the usefulness of the technical assistance in the wake of the disaster and to re-assess goals and logistics once a decision to move ahead
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