Chris Graham | Common ground

Chris Graham

Waynesboro does have a vision, to hear Frank Lucente tell it. “Speaking only for myself as a council member and a citizen of Waynesboro, I have always felt there was a plan, and have always consistently worked toward it: ensure that the city provides the services of government in the most effective and efficient way…

Children’s Hour to feature Swami

Chris Graham

The Origami Swami Megan Hicks will be the featured attraction at the Wayne Theatre Alliance Children’s Hour on Friday. Hicks, a former National Storyteller of the Year, presents a program melding paper folding and storytelling through the art of origami. The show is set for 6 p.m. at the Blue Ridge Christian Fellowship building at…

You can be a star

Chris Graham

The Wayne Theatre Alliance thinks you can be a star. Its “I’m a Star Contest” is returning as a monthly online game. Go to www.waynetheatre.org to play the movie trivia game. The way it works – you are given a line of dialogue from a movie and have to identify the movie star who said…

Better than he found it

Chris Graham

I didn’t know Louie Hausrath all that well. Actually, on second thought … I first knew his daughter, Beth, back when I was in the second grade at Crimora Elementary School. “I taught you how to write,” the woman whom I still feel compelled to think of and refer to as Miss Hausrath tells me…

‘River City Radio Hour’ returns Friday night

Chris Graham

The debut of the Remember November Quartet and the third installment of local author Matthew Warner’s How the Martians Stole Christmas will highlight the November installment of “The River City Radio Hour” set for Friday night. The 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. performances are offered free of charge at Blue Ridge Christian Fellowship at 329…