{"id":2932,"date":"2023-03-31T14:56:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T18:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2023-07-01T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T16:01:18","slug":"2023-coa-kim-loehr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/2023-coa-kim-loehr\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 COA: Kim Loehr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Published on March 31, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Meet Kim Loehr: VPC\u2019s 2023 Communicator of Achievement<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Bonnie Atwood<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t remember exactly the first time I met Kim. We were both members of Virginia Press Women (now Virginia Professional Communicators) and we spoke to each other briefly at meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do remember this: We went out to dinner at Mekong Restaurant, a popular Vietnamese eatery in Richmond. Kim knew all about \u201cpho,\u201d which was new to me. I kept visualizing the word as \u201cfaux.\u201d I was impressed by her worldliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that was just one thing that impressed me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim was so kind and so interesting. We talked for hours. We both survived serious health problems, ex-husbands and complicated families. We both loved working at our craft and reading Nancy Drew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim\u2019s story is fascinating. She had done many things. What interested me the most was her work in her family lightning protection business. Who in the world does lightning protection? Kim does. Her career has given her business experience. We are both Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business (<em>SWaM<\/em>) certified. Through Loehr Lightning Protection Co., she\u2019s also gained writing and marketing experience, public relations initiative and oceans of creativity, with some politics thrown in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She understands social media. I don\u2019t know a Twitter from a TikTok. 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