It may feel like the dead of winter, but it’s also time to begin thinking ahead to spring fashions.

“I think people are probably looking for a good excuse to think spring,” said Crystal Graham of Augusta Free Press, which is presenting the 2012 Spring Fashion Debut on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the WTA’s Gateway, 329 W. Main St., Downtown Waynesboro.

The 2012 Spring Fashion Debut will preview new spring lines from more than 15 vendors for companies including Cookie Lee Jewelry, Dove Chocolate, Vault Denim, Jockey, Kelly’s Kids, Perfectly Posh, Stella and Dot, thirty one and more.

The Spring Fashion Debut, sponsored exclusively by Realtor Kathleen Kellett, will be part of a busy Saturday in Downtown Waynesboro, which will also play host on Feb. 11 to a Love Is In The Air promotion including a Chocolate Walk being put on by downtown merchants.

The iconic L-O-V-E- artwork – 16 feet long and more than six feet high – used by the Virginia Tourism Corp. to promote its Virginia Is For Lovers marketing campaign will be set up downtown for the event as well.

“We’re hoping people will come out for the Spring Fashion Debut, of course, but while they’re here we’d also hope that they take a minute to see what else Downtown Waynesboro has to offer. There’s a lot going on downtown these days, and we think our Fashion Debut and the Love Is In The Air promotion can serve to showcase what we have here,” Graham said.

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Free admission. All those who attend will have the opportunity to win a free Kindle Fire courtesy of Realtor Kathleen Kellett. With any purchase, attendees will also have the opportunity to win $500 in fashion accessories.

The event is being held Feb. 11 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Gateway, 329 W. Main St., in Downtown Waynesboro.

For more information on the Spring Fashion Debut event, visit www.waynesborofashion.com.

Augusta Free Press produced the TV commercial spot for the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce 2012 Business Showcase.

The spot will air on WHSV-TV3 and Comcast. The 2012 Business Showcase is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 9, from 1-5 p.m. at the Best Western Waynesboro Inn & Suites Conference Center.

AFP worked with Chamber staff to develop the script for the commercial, including text for the voiceover.

AFP has the capability in-house to produce a variety of video content, including TV and web commercials, video testimonials and event-highlight videos.

To learn more about how AFP can help you develop a marketing message and bring it to life in video, contact Crystal Graham today at 540.949.6574 or freepress@ntelos.net.

Rockingham Memorial Hospital is a 238-bed community hospital providing the best in healthcare services since 1912. RMH serves a seven-county area with a population of close to 200,000, admitting more than 15,500 inpatients and delivering close to 1,750 babies per year.

More information on RMH is available online at www.RMHOnline.com.

AugustaFreePress.com is an independent news organization providing coverage of local, state, national and international issues with a Greater Augusta-area focus. The website draws more than 100,000 unique visitors and 1 million page views monthly. The parent company of AugustaFreePress.com, Augusta Free Press LLC, provides clients with marketing and PR solutions including web design, magazine/brochure, TV/radio, social media and overall marketing campaign design and implementation.

For more information on advertising, marketing and web solutions from Augusta Free Press, contact Crystal Graham at freepress2@ntelos.net.

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All the best!

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Best Regards,
Jay Crawford
Director of Membership and Communications
Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce
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“Our focus in this anniversary year is the same as it has been for us from day one – building on our success both for ourselves and for our growing list of corporate partners,” said Chris Graham, the president of Augusta Free Press LLC, founded in 2002.

The growth in corporate partners was the big news of 2011 for AFP, which completed more than 75 website projects for its partners, including a family of websites for the Valley Program for Aging Services and its nine local senior centers, and new websites for Mathers Construction, Barren Ridge Vineyards, Fishburne Military School, Alpha Vision Films, the Virginia Awards for Country Music and The Gateway Theatre.

AFP was also instrumental in the biggest entertainment news story in the Valley in 2011 – the first-ever live pay-per-view wrestling event to be broadcast from Augusta Expo in Fishersville, Awesome Wrestling Entertainment’s Night of the Legends. AFP built the company’s website at AwesomeWrestlingEntertainment.com and built a social-media presence for the AWE brand on Facebook that now boasts more than 125,000 fans. AFP was also in charge of the development of video content and local and national marketing for the televised pay-per-view event, which played to a sellout crowd of nearly 3,000 in the Expo Hall on the night of Oct. 15.

All of this was achieved as AFP’s flagship online publication, AugustaFreePress.com, grew to new heights in 2011. The news website now reaches more than 100,000 unique visitors a month and records more than a million page views monthly. Meanwhile, AFP’s top print publication, The New Dominion Magazine, made news in 2011 in winning three Virginia Press Association awards for editorial excellence.

“The awards are nice, to be sure,” said Crystal Graham, the vice president of sales, marketing and design at AFP. “But the most important thing to us is seeing our partners succeed. Your bottom line is our bottom line.”

Augusta Free Press LLC provides clients with marketing and PR solutions including web design, magazine/brochure, TV/radio, social media and overall marketing campaign design and implementation.

To find out more about how you can put AFP to work for your company, go to our website, www.AFPBusiness.com, or email Crystal Graham at freepress@ntelos.net.

Augusta Health is an independent, nonprofit community hospital with a mission to promote the health and well-being of our community through access to excellent care. In 2011, Augusta Health is the only hospital in Virginia to be recognized as a 100 Top Hospital by Thomson Reuters, receive both the Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety Awards from HealthGrades, and be named a finalist for the Foster G. McGaw Prize from the American Hospital Association for community service.

For more information about Augusta Health, its programs or its services, go online to www.AugustaHealth.com.

AugustaFreePress.com is an independent news organization providing coverage of local, state, national and international issues with a Greater Augusta-area focus. The website draws more than 100,000 unique visitors and 1 million page views monthly. The parent company of AugustaFreePress.com, Augusta Free Press LLC, provides clients with marketing and PR solutions including web design, magazine/brochure, TV/radio, social media and overall marketing campaign design and implementation.

For more information on advertising, marketing and web solutions from Augusta Free Press, contact Crystal Graham at freepress@ntelos.net.

AFP built a new online store for FMS at www.FishburneTimesConnect.org – a news portal for Fishburne designed and maintained by Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham.

The store features an easy-to-use shopping cart feature linked to PayPal.

AFP has built a similiar online store forBarren Ridge Vineyards and has one in the works for the Waynesboro Generals Valley League baseball team.

To find out how Augusta Free Press can build an online store for your business, contact Crystal Graham at freepress@ntelos.net.

The seminar – Building the Machine – will be offered from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Virginia Regional Transit/CATS building, 51 Ivy Ridge Lane, Fishersville.

The $25 fee for the seminar includes a boxed lunch that will be provided for participants.

Graham is the co-founder of Augusta Free Press LLC, which was founded in 2002 and publishes the daily news website AugustaFreePress.com, which draws more than 110,000 unique visitors and 1 million page views per month. The company’s print magazine, The New Dominion Magazine, has won five Virginia Press Association magazine awards.

AFP serves as the marketing arm for the Los Angeles, Calif.,-based Awesome Wrestling Entertainment, and was responsible for that company’s social-media campaign that built a base of more than 125,000 Facebook fans for the AWE product.

Augusta Free Press also serves as the marketing agency for the Waynesboro YMCA, where AFP’s efforts include the design and maintenance of the Y website, WaynesboroYMCA.com, and writing, design and publishing of the Y Magazine, a three-times-a-year publication distributed to Y members that is also made available at more than 50 locations in the Greater Augusta area.

To RSVP for the seminar, contact Linda Gail Johnson at ljohnson@augustahealth.com.