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RMH Healthcare is partnering with the United Way of Harrisonburg-Rockingham County to collect unused diapers and baby wipes to assist low-income families meet everyday needs. RMH is enlisting the community to help “fill the nursery” with supplies to help local families with basic needs, said Sabrina Shiflett, director, RMH Family Birthplace. RMH will accept community…
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Dr. H.B. Cavalcanti, a professor of sociology at James Madison University, has written a book about the United Church of Christ from the perspective of one of the smallest associations within the 1.2 million-member denomination. The United Church of Christ in the Shenandoah Valley: Liberal Church, Traditional Congregations, which was published in September, studies UCC…
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Some 591 new students – freshmen and transfer – at Bridgewater College will fan out into the Rockingham and Augusta County areas Oct. 21, to perform a day of service-learning for area non-profit and charitable agencies. The “Into the Streets” program is part of the college’s service-learning requirement, and marks the sixth year that Bridgewater…
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Truman H. Brunk, 79, a former campus pastor at Eastern Mennonite University died Friday, Oct. 8, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg. Brunk was born May 19, 1931 in Washington, D.C., the son of the late Truman and Ruth Smith Brunk. He grew up in the Denbigh community of Newport News, Va. Brunk joined the EMU…
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A nurse practitioner and a high school basketball coach were cited Saturday during Homecoming and family weekend at Eastern Mennonite University for their work in exemplifying the highest ideals of their alma mater. Dwight A. Gingerich, a 1981 EMU graduate from Kalona, Iowa, received the “alumnus of the year” award for 2010. The award is…
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Much-needed rain in the Shenandoah Valley gave way to brilliant fall weather, contributing to the “enthusiastic spirit” that prevailed at the 44th annual Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale held Friday evening and Saturday, Oct. 1-2, at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds. This year’s sale raised approximately $284,914 for the worldwide relief and service program of Mennonite Central…
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Junior Mike Perry connected on a 28-yard field goal with three seconds remaining after Delaware used a 14-play drive in almost seven minutes to lift the visitors past James Madison 13-10 in a Colonial Athletic Association football clash on Saturday afternoon at Bridgeforth Stadium/Zane Showker Field. UD, ranked fifth nationally in both major polls, improved…
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Junior Mike Perry connected on a 28-yard field goal with three seconds remaining after Delaware used a 14-play drive in almost seven minutes to lift the visitors past James Madison 13-10 in a Colonial Athletic Association football clash on Saturday afternoon at Bridgeforth Stadium/Zane Showker Field. UD, ranked fifth nationally in both major polls, improved…
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Virginia has come full circle since Jodi Raskind’s college years. Raskind, the director of a microloan program in the U.S. Small Business Administration, started college at Dabney S. Lancaster Community College in Clifton Forge. This was before interstates and highway bypasses made it easy to get to Clifton Forge from Northern Virginia. “My father once…
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The last time before today that there was a significant rain event in Waynesboro, 200 gallons of diesel fuel ended up in the South River in the vicinity of the Invista plant on DuPont Boulevard. How the diesel fuel made its way into the river on July 29 is still a mystery. “At this time,…
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