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Christmas at Augusta Stone

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Start your Christmas season off right by supporting the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank at this 16th annual benefit concert with three musical groups with guest performers, candlelight and luminaries at historic Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church on Rt. 11 in Fort Defiance, midway between Harrisonburg and Staunton. Through donations, the Food Bank serves 120,000 people each month (16% more than last year) through 250 partner agencies. All proceeds from the concert go to the Food Bank.

Smart Beginnings gets $75K education grant

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Smart Beginnings Shenandoah Valley, a local school-readiness initiative that works to improve the quality of early childhood care and learning in the cities of Harrisonburg, Staunton and Waynesboro, as well as in Augusta, Page, Rockingham and Shenandoah counties, has received a grant of $75,000 from the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (VECF), a public-private partnership headquartered in Richmond, Va.

China cross-cultural takes students out of comfort zones

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The 14-hour flight from Washington, D.C., to Beijing was the first time Josh Martin had ever flown. It was also the first time he’d been out of the country, and pretty much the first time he had ever really traveled at all, except for the away games that occasionally took him out of state during his four years as an infielder for the baseball team at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU).

Succumbing to EMU’s magnetism, once, twice, thrice

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If Joelle Hackney had had her way when she was 18, she would have started college 2,400 miles from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), at Humboldt State in Arcata, California. But by the summer after her 2001 graduation from Stuart’s Draft High School in Augusta County, Va., Humboldt’s steep tuition and other logistical considerations forced her to put that dream on hold.

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