
DCCU sees loan growth in third quarter
DuPont Community Credit Union continued to maintain the availability of credit by once again growing total loans outstanding for the third quarter of 2012.

DuPont Community Credit Union continued to maintain the availability of credit by once again growing total loans outstanding for the third quarter of 2012.

“Real power – the power to save, transform, change – rests not in political parties, presidents, or protests, but in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.” This was just one of the many banners on the Facebook page of Election Day Communion (EDC), a movement which has been grabbing the attention of individuals, congregations, schools, and groups across the United States since August of this year.

The Virginia Department of Transportation Park and Ride lot located at exit 94 off of Interstate 64 in the Waynesboro area will be closed for maintenance work.

The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge is now accepting applications for the John W. Greene Memorial Scholarship through Nov. 16.

Augusta Health’s Community Services Committee, established by the Augusta Health Board of Directors to support health initiatives and support partner health-improvement organizations in the community, has awarded $109,254 in single year grants to 14 local organizations. The awards were presented at the September 28 meeting of the Community Health Forum.

September marked the ninth annual National Preparedness Month, a concentrated awareness and disaster preparation campaign sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission (CSPDC) used the month to showcase the Valley’s regional disaster preparedness and mitigation program, Shenandoah Valley Project Impact (SVPI).

The Waynesboro Family Y Swim Team started the 2012/13 season off with an open water competition at Smith Mountain Lake on Sept 29 and 30.

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling will speak at the monthly SWAC Breakfast on Saturady, Oct. 13, at 8:30 a.m. at Golden Corral in Waynesboro.

Learn English and Reading Now Inc. (LEARN) is holding a training for tutors on Saturday, Oct. 20, and Saturday, Oct. 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Waynesboro, 565 Pine Avenue, Waynesboro (at the corner of Pine and 14th Street).

Hundreds of children in the Central Shenandoah Valley will receive their first distribution of take-home meals and snacks this month through the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank’s BackPack Program thanks in part to several local donors who have stepped up to fund the program this school year.
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