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Learn English and Reading Now Inc. (LEARN) is holding a training for tutors on Saturday, Oct. 20, and Saturday, Oct. 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Waynesboro, 565 Pine Avenue, Waynesboro (at the corner of Pine and 14th Street).
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A sociology professor at Bridgewater College has published the first comprehensive book that examines the thirst for culture and knowledge in the African nation of Zambia. Mwizenge S. Tembo was born in Chipata and grew up near Nkhanga Village in Lundazi, which is in the Eastern Province of Zambia in Southern Africa. He has taught at Bridgewater for more than two decades and spent three years researching and writing Satisfying Zambian Hunger for Culture, which contains a foreword by Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first president.
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Casey Clabough, author of memoir The Warrior’s Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route, a book about his travels through the Shenandoah Valley, will be the speaker at the opening event of the 2012-13 “Writers Read Dinner and Author” series on Thursday, Sept. 20.
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The new superintendent at Fishburne Military School is a familiar face in the FMS community. Gary R. Morrison, a 1981 graduate of Fishburne who also served on the faculty and later as the director of admissions, was named to the top administrative position at the school at a meeting of the Fishburne-Hudgins Educational Foundation Board of Trustees.
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The Staunton Augusta Art Center announces a new series of classes for students in grades K-12. Creatively taught classes will include basic art skills for the youngest students to engineering a quality portfolio for high school students preparing for application to the finest art colleges.
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When Laila Stones sent a letter to the Commonwealth of Virginia requesting a copy of her birth certificate, the response was jarring: “They say I don’t exist,” she recounts under oath
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Increasing opportunities for adults in our community through increased literary skills, a number of organizations are providing over $15,000 in funding support to LEARN (Learn English and Reading Now, Inc.), while several new members of the nonprofit’s Board of Directors and a new program coordinator have been announced
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What is it about an old building that so enraptures us? Providing only a snapshot view of distant lives and moments, it leaves us to fill in the gaps between crumbling walls and peeling paint
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Learn English and Reading Now Inc. (LEARN) is holding training for tutors on Monday, July 23, and Wednesday, July 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Staunton-Augusta Adult Learning Center in Fishersville
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Two of Richmond’s favorite comedians will take to WTA’s Gateway on June 23 at 8 p.m. Jim Zarling, host of the Gateway’s comedy nights has enticed Ray Bullock and J. Walter Braman to join him for an evening of entertainment at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro
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