FAIRMONT —
The Greenbrier’s Jim Justice knows firsthand the importance of hard work in business.
Justice will be the guest speaker for the Marion County Chamber of Commerce’s 59th annual dinner meeting tonight in the Falcon Center on the campus of Fairmont State University and Pierpont Community & Technical College.
Justice, owner and chairman of The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs and owner and CEO of James C. Justice Companies Inc., said he and the chamber had been talking back and forth about him visiting Marion County. Their schedules finally worked out for this event.
“I’m just tickled to death to come,” he said. “I have a lot of friends in the northern part of the state. It will be nice to come.”
Local News
August 8, 2012
Jim Justice: Hard work family tradition
The Greenbrier owner to be guest speaker tonight at chamber dinner
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