Wednesday's agenda began with a fabulous tour of a museum in Larne. The building was originally a Carnegie Library that was later converted to a museum. The historic items outlining the history of Larne were amazing.
We spent the rest of the morning with Liam Kelly, who gave us additional history of Larne. Those who know Liam know what type of walking encyclopedia he is. Not only is he on every possible committee in and around Larne, but he also knows his history!
For lunch we had a meeting with LEDCOM, which is an economic development company in the area. They shared their approach that has made them successful. They've built a number of units in industrial parks, but instead of building big spec buildings, they've separated the space into smaller units. For the most part these are not retail shops but rather small industrial. We also visited FG Wilson, which is a subsidiary of Caterpillar. This is an amazing, huge operation. We finished our time with David Gillespie with LEDCOM by meeting with the technical director over a company that could possibly expand its business into Clover in the future. By the way, Allison almost drove David to drink by her driving!
Wednesday night we had a marvelous time with Fred Andrews, Liam Kelly, and their lovely wives. We had dinner with them at the Halfway House, which is owned and operated by a former boxing champion. Mayor Burris took him down in 5. (kidding of course)
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