Mary Baldwin College event schedule: Feb. 15-March 3
Paths: New Work by Kathy and Jim Muehlemann. On display until March 2. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hunt Gallery, located on the first floor of the Lyda B. Hunt Dining Hall, 218 Hunt Drive, Staunton. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 540-887-7196. To read press release, please visit www.mbc.edu/news/r_detail.php?id=2739. Continue reading “Mary Baldwin College event schedule: Feb. 15-March 3” »
Lead gift builds strong foundation
SAW Habitat for Humanity announced today the largest gift given and 100 percent participation from the organization’s Board of Directors for the “What Will You Build” campaign that started today.
The challenge gift – just over $100,000 – was given by Tom Montgomery, chairman of the board of SAW Habitat for Humanity and CEO of Old Colony Construction, and sets a standard in giving to provide resources to rehabilitate homes, restore communities, and build a 25-home community. Continue reading “Lead gift builds strong foundation” »
Staunton Senior Center News
Rhythm & blues Black History Program presented at SSC: Did you know that it wasn’t jazz, it wasn’t blues, and it wasn’t gospel that was the most popular form of music among African-American people in in the 1950s?
You guessed it! It was rhythm and blues! Continue reading “Staunton Senior Center News” »
MBC/CAPSAW partnership saves area tax filers $10,000 in two weeks
Local residents can receive valuable help at tax time this spring from CAPSAW’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. Free tax preparation is available every Tuesday evening at Stuarts Draft High School and Thursday nights through tax season at the Booker T. Washington Center on Johnson Street.
VITA programs provide IRS-certified volunteer tax preparers who work one-on-one with families and individuals to help file their tax returns and ensure that they receive the tax credits for which they qualify. Over a dozen Mary Baldwin College students and several community volunteers are certified to provide services and have helped to file approximately 50 returns in the first two weeks of the program. Continue reading “MBC/CAPSAW partnership saves area tax filers $10,000 in two weeks” »
Sunspots February Five-Buck Food Drive: Bring cans, get $5 gift card
February is Food Drive Month at Sunspots Studios in Downtown Staunton.
Bring in two cans of food for Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and you’ll receive a $5 Sunspots Gift Card. Sunspots offers many handmade items for under $25. And you can watch live glass blowing daily until 4 p.m. Continue reading “Sunspots February Five-Buck Food Drive: Bring cans, get $5 gift card” »
Staunton Augusta Art Center: Exhibit news
If you want to see some excellent, sophisticated art, don’t miss the current exhibit at the Staunton Augusta Art Center, which ends this Sunday, Feb. 19, 1-4 p.m.
We have been very proud to host this exhibit, Divergent Visions: The Graduate Art Faculty of James Madison University, which includes drawings, paintings, photographs, and some very interesting installations by especially well-trained, talented artists who also teach in higher education. Continue reading “Staunton Augusta Art Center: Exhibit news” »
Warm up with second annual Winter Wine Festival in Downtown Staunton
More and more people are choosing Virginia wines. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell recently announced that Virginia ranks as the country’s fifth-largest producer of wine grapes. It also ranks fifth in the number of wineries.
If you’d like to spend the weekend trying out some of the region’s wines – all in one convenient location – get your tickets now for the second annual Winter Wine Festival. Continue reading “Warm up with second annual Winter Wine Festival in Downtown Staunton” »
Mary Baldwin College Events: Feb. 15-27
Paths: New Work by Kathy and Jim Muehlemann. On display until March 2. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hunt Gallery, located on the first floor of the Lyda B. Hunt Dining Hall, 218 Hunt Drive, Staunton. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 540-887-7196. To read press release, please visit http://www.mbc.edu/news/r_detail.php?id=2739. Continue reading “Mary Baldwin College Events: Feb. 15-27” »
March art classes open at Staunton Augusta Art Center
Staunton Augusta Art Center and Mary Baldwin College art students present Saturdays-in-March art classes for ages 6-10, 10:30-Noon in the R. R. Smith Center, 20 S. New Street.
Pre-registration required at least one week in advance of each class by calling the Art Center, 885-2028. Register now for one class or all four! Fee includes all materials: $15 non-members/$13 members. Continue reading “March art classes open at Staunton Augusta Art Center” »
$100K matching gift creates an opportunity to build a Habitat dream development
Raymond Reed, a long-time resident of Waynesboro, project manager and supporter of Staunton–Augusta-Waynesboro Habitat for Humanity, passed away last March. But his dream to create housing for working poor families didn’t because he and his wife, Peggy Reed, share the same vision.
At a recent volunteer dinner Peggy Reed was recognized for her work stepping up to continue her husband’s service on Habitat’s Board of Directors. Their gift of $100,000 earmarked for Waynesboro projects was announced today as a matching gift opportunity for the 2012 Habitat campaign, “What Will You Build?” Continue reading “$100K matching gift creates an opportunity to build a Habitat dream development” »
Three Guys with Notes to headline fundraising event
Three Guys with Notes, a musical outreach program based in Staunton, was recently selected to be one of 100 stories featured in a year-long national media project called Bus 52. The five-person multi-national Bus 52 team is traversing the country in a converted school bus collecting and sharing inspirational tales from “America’s roots of community, innovation and improvement.”
Staunton was one of the first stops on the 48-state trek. The group filmed Three Guys with Notes conducting their unique interactive program at the Staunton Senior Center in mid-January. Also on hand was a second grade class from a local school. A video, photos and an article about the Three Guys with Notes Outreach program is featured on the Bus 52 website and social networks. Continue reading “Three Guys with Notes to headline fundraising event” »
SWAG Reading Series kicks off 2012 schedule
The SWAG Writers (Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Blue Ridge Writers Club) Reading Series kicks off 2012 with a duo from Lexington, a fiction writer and a poet who happen to be husband and wife.
Of Chris Gavaler’s novel in stories, School for Tricksters, Kate Buford says, “From the painful reality of the Carlisle Indian School, Chris Gavaler has created a unique and compelling work of fiction … a nuanced and provocative story that evokes central issues of identity.” Of Lesley Wheeler’s poetry collection Heterotopia, Pulitzer Prize-winner Claudia Emerson says, “This work fuses lyrical invention with the ‘blitzed, hungry, smoke-thin world of memory’—the poems richly drawn intermixtures of narrative and place.” Continue reading “SWAG Reading Series kicks off 2012 schedule” »
