Over 10 mayors and community leaders from Western North Carolina met this week to discuss how to expand the outdoor industry in their towns. The outdoor industry accounts for $14 billion dollars in spending in Western North Carolina. Mountain BizWorks wants to make that number even larger. It just received an almost $2 million dollar grant , the Appalachian Regional Commission, a federal-state partnership that operates in 13 states . That money includes $940,000 from the fund and $787,000 in