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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The founder and president of Vision America will keynote the sixth annual Shenandoah Valley Salute to the Family sponsored by the Valley Family Forum. Dr. Rick Scarborough, a nationally known pastor and speaker and author of Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement, will speak at the event, which…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Sixth District Democratic Party Committee chair David Layman has died. Layman died of an apparent heart attack that he suffered at a committee meeting in Lexington Tuesday night. Layman’s passing was first reported on hburgnews.com this morning. “David was one of the hard-working and unsung people behind the scenes who…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was coming up on spring, and you could sense the vitality in the air. And then, suddenly, you could hear it. At 10:30 p.m. the night of March 14, 1908, a loud noise thundered through the streets of Harrisonburg. It was enough to get dozens of people to pick…
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Column by Jim Bishop Jenny Hummel of Weyers Cave, our daughter, won’t forget the time and place when she was told for certain – son Jacob, our grandson, has autism. She and husband Dallas knew for some time that “something was wrong” with their youngest son. He had difficulty responding to voices, seldom maintained eye…
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Column by Jim Bishop I’m thinking a lot these days about my dad, J. Vernon Bishop of Doylestown, Pa.: * Maybe it’s because we just marked the 10th anniversary of his death. On Feb. 26, 1998, at 8:45 a.m., Dad took a series of quick, deep breaths and departed this life peacefully at home with…
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Story by Jim Bishop Herbert G. (Herb) Weaver Jr. sees his artwork as “an exclamation against boredom.” “I create art because I’m addicted to the process – the unexplainable surge of inspiration, the development of an idea, the construction process and intimacy with the material and finally the presentation,” the former Harrisonburg resident says. Weaver,…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I have a vote on who gets named to the All-ACC teams. Wanna help me fill out my ballots? We have to do the women’s ballots first. That one’s due Sunday night at 9. I have to tell you up front – I’m leaning toward…
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz Many people prefer to avoid hospitals and nursing homes, but many Eastern Mennonite Seminary graduates have chosen these places to do ministry. About a dozen recent EMS graduates are pursuing chaplaincy roles as their ministry field, partially due to the Clinical Pastoral Education program at EMS. CPE gives students opportunity…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Jeff Ryman got the buzz. Carnegie Hall was on the line. Could he take the call? He knew what it had to be about. And he knew it was going to be amazing news. “I was alone in the choral suite, nobody around. And I sort of felt like I…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] Ever call a wrong number and then have somebody call you right back and give you hell? “You just called my phone number. What the #$%^ did you want?” And you want to say – “I was trying to call my wife/sister/best friend/chiropractor/somebody else important, but, you…
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