Boy Scouts using Halloween to collect for Food Bank
There’s a different sort of trick or treating going on this Halloween! The Boy Scouts in the Valley and Charlottesville will be “Scouting for Food” this Saturday. Scouts will drop by homes, collect food left by residents at their doorsteps and bring the donations to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
“Scouting for Food” begins early morning and ends late afternoon. Scouts will be dropping off food at our truck at Martin’s in Harrisonburg, in addition to our main Food Bank locations in Verona and Charlottesville. Read more
No Jamboree in Rockbridge
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine released the following statement Tuesday on the Boy Scouts of America withdrawing the proposed Goshen site in Rockbridge County from consideration for the National Scouting Center and 2013 National Scout Jamboree: Read more
David Reynolds | Baked brains
It was a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, Minn. Ditto for Rockbridgeland, Va. Except here the summer sun was hotter than up north. It may have baked a few brains. How else can you explain our local happenings? We all know that when you spend too much time in the noon day sun the mind can play some strange tricks. With the summer winds blowing in and the college kids having blown out, we end up with too much time on our hands. And just like our kids we create mischief. Here are a few of the mischievous things we have recently created: Read more
David Reynolds | It’s over
Posted by afp on August 7, 2009 · 1 Comment
That once both feared and loved army of Boy Scouts will not be coming to East Virginia every four years. No, the National Boys Scouts Jamboree will be heading west to the other Virginia. They will still be using Interstate 64, but there will be no stopping in Rockbridge County. And there will be no need to fix up the Goshen train station. Thurmond, W.Va., has one, 150 miles up the line. Read more
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