After about a year of making healthy treats for our three Boxers, Lucy, Layla, and Liam, our 10 year old son asked if he could start a dog treat business. After much discussion between his dad and I, and a few hours researching online, we decided if Zeb had the gumption to ask, he should have the opportunity to try. So, Zeb's Barky Bites was born.

Certainly, it has taken help from Mom and Dad, but Zeb is involved in every facet – from baking, to packaging, to choosing logos and business cards, to selling and guiding HIS vision for this business. Zeb's main philosophy in his line of treats is providing simple, wholesome, preservative free treats to his customers. As Zeb is fond saying, "If there are ingredients we can't pronounce, I don't want them in our dog treats!"

After about a year of making healthy treats for our three Boxers, Lucy, Layla, and Liam, our 10 year old son asked if he could start a dog treat business.  After much discussion between his dad and I, and a few hours researching online, we decided if Zeb had the gumption to ask, he should have the opportunity to try.  So, Zeb’s Barky Bites was born.

Certainly, it has taken help from Mom and Dad, but Zeb is involved in every facet – from baking, to packaging, to choosing logos and business cards, to selling and guiding HIS vision for this business. Zeb’s main philosophy in his line of treats is providing simple, wholesome, preservative free treats to his customers.  As Zeb is fond saying, “If there are ingredients we can’t pronounce, I don’t want them in our dog treats!”

Zeb Helmick and his Barky Bites Treats

3WM Software is dedicated to creating technology to help people communicate.

Their patent pending technology can help you to understand what people around you are saying, whether you are traveling to a foreign country for leisure or business, or you're a person with a disability, which affects your hearing.

Using their online web services extend business and other organization can easily add live captioning to any presentation.

Using their app, you'll can able to type out a message in your own language and have it played aloud in a foreign one. Alternatively, you can also play the message in your own language.

3WM Software is dedicated to creating technology to help people communicate.

Their patent pending technology can help you to understand what people around you are saying, whether you are traveling to a foreign country for leisure or business, or you’re a person with a disability, which affects your hearing.

Using their online web services extend business and other organization can easily add live captioning to any presentation.

Using their app, you’ll can able to type out a message in your own language and have it played aloud in a foreign one. Alternatively, you can also play the message in your own language.

Stephen Woerner, Co-founder and CEO of 3WM Software

Born in true West Virginia tradition with the highest dedication to quality and craftsmanship, Parkersburg Brewing Co. develops, promotes, and delivers full flavored and unique specialty beers to suit every occasion. They are committed to promoting small business and giving back to their communities. By providing the best taproom experience in the tri-state region, they aim to bring business minded people and decision makers alike together to make a positive impact within this great states borders and beyond.

Enjoy Parkersburg handcrafted beer brewed in the mountains of West Virginia.

Born in true West Virginia tradition with the highest dedication to quality and craftsmanship, Parkersburg Brewing Co. develops, promotes, and delivers full flavored and unique specialty beers to suit every occasion. They are committed to promoting small business and giving back to their communities. By providing the best taproom experience in the tri-state region, they aim to bring business minded people and decision makers alike together to make a positive impact within this great states borders and beyond.

Enjoy Parkersburg handcrafted beer brewed in the mountains of West Virginia.

Coalfield Development operates as a family of five social enterprises. A social enterprise is a business that combines the compassion of the nonprofit sector with the efficiency of the for-profit sector.

The organization exists because in 2009 volunteers started to address concerns about housing in Wayne, WV. It was quickly realized that traditional charity was not nearly enough to address the deep, generational challenges they face. After intense community engagement, Coalfield Development pioneered a relationship-based, holistic approach to on-the-job training. Unemployed and underemployed people were hired to construct green affordable housing. Trainees worked the 33-6-3 model each week: 33 hours of paid labor, 6 hours of higher education class time, and 3 hours of life-skills mentorship.

Today, they have grown into a family of social enterprises working throughout the region as a leader in the building of a new economy during the wake of the coal industry's rapid decline.

Coalfield Development have created more than 40 on-the-job training positions, more than 200 professional certification opportunities, redeveloped more than 150,000 square feet of dilapidated property, and successfully launched five new businesses in real estate development, construction, wood working, agriculture and artisan trades – industries based on local assets and having real viability in the Appalachian region.