Tourism Tradeshow to show off what region has to offer

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The first Staunton Tourism Tradeshow is set for Monday, April 25 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel in Downtown Staunton. More than 25 exhibitors – including our sister magazine, New Dominion Tourist – will be on hand to showcase what the Valley has to offer locals and tourists alike. Find…

Let’s get ready to … Pickleball!

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In this corner, we have Jeff Fife, Waynesboro YMCA executive director. And in this corner, we have John Spears, YMCA youth sports director. It’s Pickleball, gentlemen, so we expect a clean fight. Fife and Spears will play an exhibition pickleball match on Tuesday, April 26th at 6 p.m. to showcase the new sport for Y members. The…

Sanford D. Horn: The unfair and unbalanced media

Letters

While Congressman Jim Moran’s assault on the military and its veterans went viral Friday, April 8, one day following a town hall meeting held in Alexandria at Hammond Middle School, nary a word appeared in The Washington Post. Moran treated Wayne Tunick, a disabled 27-year veteran rudely following an important question regarding military pay in…

Donation to Ride With Pride

Hillary Williams from Cold Stone Creamery in Harrisonburg presents a $1,000 check to Debbie Winters, director of Ride With Pride. Ride With Pride is Augusta County’s therapeutic horseback riding program for youth and adults with physical, mental, and emotional challenges. Stone Cold Creamery created a video with RWP to celebrate the new eight-layer cake. For…

Spears honored as Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year

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John Spears thought his job at the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce annual dinner was to help Waynesboro YMCA executive director Jeff Fife sell tickets to this Friday’s Y Spring Gala. He was in for a surprise. “I’m going to get somebody. I can tell you that,” said Spears, the youth-sports director at the…

New website features Y Childcare

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Waynesboro YMCA Childcare is now online with its own dedicated website – with the help of Augusta Free Press LLC. “The childcare staff and I are so excited about the childcare website. This is our opportunity to show the community the hands on learning and fun that take place at the Y,” said Waynesboro Y…

Lottery to assist in Amber Alerts

Chris Graham

The Virginia Lottery and Virginia State Police announced a new partnership today aimed at increasing the chances of Virginia law enforcement locating a missing and endangered child during a Virginia Amber Alert. The new concept is a result of a suggestion submitted by a citizen to Gov. Bob McDonnell by e-mail. “When the Virginia State…

A letter is better

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Think about your mailbox. When was the last time you received a letter? Magazines, bills, business promotions, and newsletters do not count, just a genuine personal letter from a friend, sister, brother, cousin, old classmate, or neighbor. Been a while? How about the last time you sent one yourself? We live in an age of…