
SAW CDSME Steering Committee Meets
The Chronic Disease Self-Management Steering Committee for the SAW Region met on Nov. 20 at Augusta Regional Free Clinic.

The Chronic Disease Self-Management Steering Committee for the SAW Region met on Nov. 20 at Augusta Regional Free Clinic.

Augusta Free Press has produced a video commercial for the Stayin’ Country Concert Tour. Rawhide Productions, based in Augusta County, is now accepting bookings for the Stayin’ Country Concert Tour featuring country music superstars Darryl Worley, Aaron Tippin, John Anderson, Collin Raye, Chad Brock, and introducing Morgan Frazier.

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory that is in effect in the overnight hours Monday into Tuesday through Tuesday afternoon for Waynesboro, Staunton, Augusta County and the Shenandoah Valley.

Vector Industries in Waynesboro has named Amy Sorgen its employee of the month for the month of November 2013.

CAPSAW is releasing its annual funding application for human service agencies providing anti-poverty programs to residents of Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County. Services must be provided from July 2014 through June 2015. Applications are due by 5pm on Jan. 31, 2014. Proposed funding amounts will be announced in March 2014.

WTA’s Gateway mounts it first murder mystery dinner theatre on Nov. 22-23. Directed by Boomie Pedersen, artistic director of the Earl Hamner Jr. Theatre, Capricious Caper at the Club Ritz is an interactive theatre production. The audience is as much a participant as a viewer in the merriment and mayhem.

A lot has changed since the last time I had coffee with Creigh Deeds at the Starbucks just off the interstate in Waynesboro in December 2008. At that point, Deeds was running a distant third in a three-way race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, a race that he would eventually win.

Anna Leavitt, Coordinator of the Community Action Partnership of Staunton, Augusta and Waynesboro (CAPSAW) announced an expansion of their free tax preparation services. This expansion was made possible by a grant from the Virginia Community Action Partnership’s Virginia Cash Campaign.

Mathers Construction is in the spirit of giving and has joined the Valley Businesses Give Back effort to raise money and gather donated food for the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. In 2012, the collaborative collected 23,465 pounds of food and more than $4,000 for the Food Bank.

I was a first-year in college on a trip back home with one of my new roommates’ families. His mom cooked dinner, and it was an eye-opening experience. As I told my mom afterward, famously, “Mom, it’s no fair. Rich people even have bigger chicken.”
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