Help me pick the All-ACC women’s team
Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham
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I have a vote on who gets named to the All-ACC teams.
Wanna help me fill out my ballots?
We have to do the women’s ballots first. That one’s due Sunday night at 9.
I have to tell you up front – I’m leaning toward having three in-state kids on my first team there, Brittany Cook from Virginia Tech (17.9 points per game) and Monica Wright from UVa. (17.4 ppg), the #1 and #2 leading scorers in the league, respectively, and Maryland point guard (and Harrisonburg native) Kristi Toliver, who’s third in the conference in scoring (17.3 ppg) and tops in assists (7.7 assists per game). Read more
Tuna embraces, satirizes small-town South
Story by Chris Graham
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Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie want to welcome you to Tuna, Texas, the third smallest town in the Lone Star State.
What the fictional Tuna lacks in size, it needs to be said, it more than makes up for in its characters. You learn that from Thurston and Arles, disc jockeys for the town radio station, OKKK, right off.
Bringing them to life in the upcoming production of Greater Tuna being put on by the Wayne Theatre Alliance and the Waynesboro Players are local actors Duane Hahn and Bob Wright, who will have the fun of presenting 20 of Tuna’s more interesting characters to life at Fairfax Hall Friday night and Saturday night. Read more
The little movie theater that could
Story by Chris Graham
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This is the first year probably ever that I’ve even seen one of the movies nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, much less three of them.
For that I can thank Adam Greenbaum.
I first met Adam a few years ago when he had this wild idea to buy a decaying old movie theater in Downtown Staunton and fix it up with the notion in mind of showing the kinds of films that don’t make it to the mall or the cineplex.
It only cost him a few hundred thousand dollars and a few years of his time, but the feel-good part of this story is that he’s surprised everybody not named Adam Greenbaum by making Visulite Cinemas work.
“It always struck me early on – when the whole Visulite idea was an embryo. I was living in New York, and I had friends all over the country, and I would say, You have to see this movie, you have to see that movie. And I was always disheartened when people would say, I hadn’t even heard of that movie, it’s not even playing here. And not only in small towns, but in small- and medium-sized cities,” Greenbaum said in an interview for today’s “Augusta Free Press Show.” Read more
A different kind of ministry
Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz
Many people prefer to avoid hospitals and nursing homes, but many Eastern Mennonite Seminary graduates have chosen these places to do ministry.
About a dozen recent EMS graduates are pursuing chaplaincy roles as their ministry field, partially due to the Clinical Pastoral Education program at EMS. CPE gives students opportunity to explore ministry in a hospital or retirement community. Because of this, many choose to continue their ministry as chaplains after seminary. Read more
Assembly session winding down
General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline
With just over two weeks to go, we are beginning to see which bills are going to succeed this session, and which are going to fall just short. Out of more than 3,000 bills that are introduced, only about 30 percent of them are enacted into law. That means a lot of bills are left on the cutting-room floor at the end of the day.
The number of bills being killed is especially high this year, since the House and Senate are being led by different parties for the first time in decades. Democrats in the Senate are killing bills passed by the Republican House, and vice versa. Most of the time our differences are based on policy rather than politics – the two chambers just have different ideas of how Virginia should be governed. Read more
Headlining Carnegie Hall – the Waynesboro High School Concert Choir
Story by Chris Graham
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Jeff Ryman got the buzz.
Carnegie Hall was on the line. Could he take the call?
He knew what it had to be about. And he knew it was going to be amazing news.
“I was alone in the choral suite, nobody around. And I sort of felt like I needed to go out and find somebody to tell. So I did actually go up to the office and found the principal. Because it’s such fantastic news – it’s like winning the lottery and not being able to tell anybody,” said Ryman, the choral director at Waynesboro High School, who was the first to get the news that the WHS Concert Choir had been selected to take part in a spring residency at Carnegie Hall that would culminate in a public performance at the world-renowned New York City venue on April 21. Read more
Obsess much over sports?
Posted February 27, 2008
Story by Chris Graham
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Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring a discussion of sports in American society with Eastern Mennonite University athletics director Dave King. Show Length: 25:53.
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It’d be like hearing a movie director decrying the influence of Hollywoood, or somebody named Anheuser or Busch railing against the consumption of alcohol.
But give Eastern Mennonite University athletics director Dave King credit for saying something that desperately needs to be said.
“Sports isn’t for everybody, but for the majority of people, they play at some point in their life, whether it’s as a child in their backyard or whatever. And there are just so many life lessons that can be learned. And I realized how much I had gained through that experience. And when I left high school, I committed myself to work in the industry of athletics because I knew that there were other kids for whom athletics would be the avenue through which this growth took place,” said King, who has been at EMU since 2005 after serving as a teacher, coach athletics director and middle-school principal in Pennsylvania for 25 years prior to that. Read more
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