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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns and letters: [email protected] It was definitive music to my ears… I was sitting in the front row at the first Sunday of the month EvenSong service at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg, reveling in the inspiring program of seasonal music, readings and prayers. The Eastern Mennonite University…
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Seminary student releases CD with Christian message Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz EMU news: www.emu.edu Along with writing papers and reading books, first-year Eastern Mennonite Seminary student Jessica Crawford has been busy producing a recording. Her first solo CD, “Shine,” is a mix of acoustic rock and folk with a Christian message. “Just before entering…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns and letters: [email protected] Sheri Hartzler is a human dynamo who gets many things done in a fairly low-key, unassuming manner – at her workplace at Third Way Media in Harrisonburg, handling bookings for Ted & Company Theaterworks or orchestrating the Patchwork Pantry food program. Patchwork Pantry, located…
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Story by Jim Bishop EMU news: www.emu.edu The atmosphere was electric, and the audience got caught up in the enthusiasm exuded by the 24 Eastern Mennonite University students who shared highlights of their fall semester cross-cultural seminar in South Africa in a university chapel program Wednesday, Dec. 8. The group, led by Harlan de…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Going green isn’t about making a climate scientist in England or a bunch of bureaucrats in Copenhagen happy. It’s about the bottom line in places like the Town of Grottoes, where the new home for Wellness Concepts, a long-term care pharmacy, is being built with green-building principles foremost…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The only thing Kat Carr was missing – “a bullhorn.” “Otherwise, yeah, I’d say it was kind of like the TV show,” said Carr, one of 25 Waynesboro Home Depot store employees that spent most of their days on Tuesday volunteering their time on the Rebuilding Together project at…
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Staff Report EMU news: www.emu.edu Some 36 needy area children should have a brighter Christmas, thanks to efforts of a group of Eastern Mennonite University students. The EMU campus community responded to an annual appeal from the department of applied social sciences to purchase gifts with $985 in contributions. Around 15 students, all social…
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Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Photographers worldwide will donate their time, skills and equipment on Saturday, Dec.12, to give back to their community through the debut Help-Portrait event. Help-Portrait was formed by celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart as he contemplated using his skills and expertise to give back to those who may not have the…
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Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Virginia Business magazine has named local legal aid attorney John Whitfield to its 2009 list of Virginia’s “Legal Elite.” Whitfield, a resident of Staunton, is the executive director of Blue Ridge Legal Services, the nonprofit legal aid society serving the Shenandoah Valley and Roanoke Valley.
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Send Snow Day in the Valley photos and weather-related cancellations to [email protected]. Update: 3 p.m. The Waynesboro Christmas Parade scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight has been canceled. No makeup date has been announced. A city official cited the worsening weather conditions and safety concerns as key to the decision.
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