WOW ! This was a night of celebration! Great music (Steve Hines) Wonderful Chamagne and wine (WV Friends of the Cultural Center) Great Food! Great Company.
Everyone was there Several hundred people including most notiably ,Mrs. Gayle Manchin, Secretary of Education and Arts Kay Goodwin, Mr. Bill Blenko, Ms Delorse Hogan, Mr. Walter Blenko and his wife Joy, Dr. Zabioz and his wife Rocelle. The WV Legislature was in session until after 9pm, the legistors were not able to attend. I understand several plan to go by today.
Mrs. Manchin said wonderful things about BLENKO Glass she praised Richard's work in promoting all West Virginia Glass, she spoke about the work ethic at the plant and she mention my little 'Blenko Project' (thank you).
Mrs. Kay Goodwin briefly spoke about her love of Blenko, and the involvement of Blenko in the Arts and West Virginia, she then presented Richard Blenko with an award for his contribution to the Arts ( I'll do a post about this later in the week.
You hear it here often - - "Richard Blenko is the 'face and voice' of Blenko, he works so very hard, he travels over 150 days each year doing lectures and promoting WV Glass. " The man is like the energizer bunny - he just keep working and working, all the while making it look very enjoyable and keeping us entertained with his stories of glass making and the arts and West Virginia. The people who love and collect Blenko can never say enough kind and good things about Richard. He doesn't like to be recognized, but he deserves to be recognized for his devotion and extremely hard work. Richard is an ambassador for the State of West Virginia, wherever he travels he makes dynamic presentations and promotes not only WV Glass but our beautiful State also.
I will post photos that were taken by Jerrod Edwards a Capital High School honor student, Jerrod was kind enough to spend the evening taking notes and photos for the blog.
Jerrod tells me he has over 50 good photos so....come back tomorrow for even more photos all next week.
HJH
2 comments:
HILLARY KIND WORD INDEED ARE DUE RICK BLENKO.
HE IS A DEAR FRIEND AND A GREAT ASSET TO WEST VIRGINIA.
YOUR POLITICAL STANDS DEMOCRATIC IS OBVIOUS
YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE MANCHINS
ENDLESS PRAISE
DON'T BE SO OBVIOUSLY POLITICAL.
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