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Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
\nWestern Carolina University’s UC Grand Room in the A.K. Hinds University Center
\n8:15am until 2:30 pm.<\/p>\n
8:15 am<\/em> – Registration This town hall seeks to foster tangible steps that will make significant and lasting contributions to the well-being of the people affected by addiction in the Western North Carolina Region. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":567,"featured_media":9466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[322,403,373,400,346],"class_list":["post-8314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-center-for-the-study-of-free-enterprise","tag-jim-davis","tag-kelli-r-brown","tag-shelley-moore-capito","tag-town-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9271,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions\/9271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n8:30 am<\/em> – Welcome & Introductions:\u00a0WCU Chancellor Kelli R. Brown<\/a>\u00a0and Center for the Study of Free Enterprise<\/a> Director Ed Lopez
\n8:45-9:30 am<\/em> – Opening Keynote: Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)<\/a>
\n9:45-10:45 am<\/em> – Panel Discussion 1: Holly Jones, Community Partnerships and Outreach Coordinator at NC Department of Justice,\u00a0Al Kopak (Criminology & Criminal Justice), WCU alumnus Kevin Rumley, Veterans Treatment Coordinator<\/a>, Moderator:\u00a0Lilly Knoepp<\/a> from Blue Ridge Public Radio
\n11:00-12:00 pm<\/em> – Panel Discussion 2: WCU faculty experts Beth Young (Social Work),\u00a0 April Messer (Nursing), Audrey Redford (Economics)<\/a>, Moderator: Cory Vaillancourt<\/a> from Smoky Mountain News
\n12:15-1:00 pm<\/em> – Closing Keynote: Senator Jim Davis (R-NC)<\/a>
\n1:00 pm<\/em> – Breakout Working Groups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"