On Sunday morning I drove to Athens, home of Ohio University, for a visit with my friend June Holley. The Appalachian Center for Economic Networks had long been involved in a spectrum of interesting projects: welfare to work training, kids' computer consultants, value-added food production, and business incubation. The theory and visions seemed to come from June, and they were put into practice by Amy Borgstrom who had left ACEnet in the summer of 2000, near the end of the MIRA round that included Ohio. June gave me a tour of the community kitchen where small producers, bakers, and other cooks could rent the facilities to produce short runs of pasta, bread, sauce, pickles, candy, and other value-added items that were sold in the store front and in other markets. They also had a business incubator and had just opened a community technology center with 16 networked computers that could be used on a drop-in basis. Some of the computers were purchased with MIRA funds, but June can quickly whip out a grant request and knows how to persuade individuals to part with funds for projects they favor. The center was named after a retired faculty member who had been aiding ACEnet.