SWAG Writers presents Blue Ridge Anthology 2013
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The SWAG Writers (Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writers Club) Reading Series continues with a reading by contributors to The Blue Ridge Anthology 2013.
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Kickoff events for Campaign for 1,000 announced
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced this week the schedule of kickoff events across the Commonwealth for the “Virginia Adopts: Campaign for 1,000.” The campaign is an initiative to match 1,000 children currently in foster care with adoptive families. The governor launched the statewide campaign on May 17 from the steps of the Governor’s Mansion during Virginia’s Foster Care Month. The governor also announced today a social media campaign, “100 days, 100 kids,” which will feature the story of a Virginian foster child awaiting adoption each day for 100 days.
Information technology programs at National College receive an upgrade
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Students in Central Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley seeking a fast track to a career in information technology will have more options at National College in Charlottesville and Harrisonburg (www.national-college.edu) this fall, thanks to the introduction of new programs and a thorough re-design of existing program curricula. New programs include career training in network administration and software development & engineering.
McDonnell congratulates Virginia’s Finest
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today congratulated the Virginia Chutney Company and Feast! for top awards they received last night at the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade’s (NASFT) 2013 sofi™ Awards Ceremony.
UVa. swimming and diving coach Mark Bernardino announces retirement
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Virginia athletics director Craig Littlepage announced Monday (July 1) that Mark Bernardino will retire as the Cavaliers’ head swimming and diving coach effective today.
SWAG Writers Presents: The Blue Ridge Anthology 2013
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The SWAG Writers (Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writers Club) Reading Series continues with a reading by contributors to The Blue Ridge Anthology 2013.
Fingerstyle guitarist/composer Michael DeLalla at WTA’s Gateway
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Called “one of the best acoustic guitarists in the world” by Matt Fink in The All Music Guide, Michael DeLalla will bring his delicious brew of solo guitar compositions and arrangements of traditional tunes gathered from around the world to WTA’s Gateway on Friday, June 28.
UVa.’s Kenny Towns selected for College Home Run Derby
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Virginia sophomore infielder Kenny Towns (Burke, Va.) has been selected to participate in the 2013 TD Ameritrade College Home Run Derby in Omaha, Neb.
JRW Announces Long as the Winner of the Best Unpublished Novel Contest
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James River Writers announced Laura Long of Charlottesville, for What Will Burn, as the first place winner of the JRW and Richmond Magazine 2013 Best Unpublished Novel Contest. Phyllis Haislip of Williamsburg, for The Viscount’s Daughter, and Derek Kannemeyer of Richmond, for The Memory Addicts, have been selected as finalists.
Chris Graham: Much ado about nothing important
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I’m beginning to think I’ve been wrong all these years in thinking that people who aren’t into sports have it all wrong. My reasoning has been that following a sports team closely, using the collective we in reference to its exploits and failings, being light as a feather happy when it wins, falling into a deep, existential funk when it falls short, is healthy because doing so makes one become part of something bigger than one’s own self. More and more these days, I’m starting to think that it’s all just a big waste of time and energy better spent, well, doing anything else, really.
