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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Divorce reform, restrictions on abortion and continued funding for abstinence-only sex education. The Family Foundation of Virginia and the Valley Family Forum have a healthy appetite – but whether they can fill their plate in the 2008 Virginia General Assembly remains to be seen given the changes in the composition…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So there’s this study out there that seems to indicate that women think – well, if you ask them, they know – that they have to work harder at their jobs than men. Now, being a man who thinks himself that he has to work pretty hard, and over the…
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Story by Jim Bishop By popular demand, Eastern Mennonite University will offer its online course on “Basics of Parish Nursing” again the second semester in 2008. The course is running the fall semester through EMU’s Adult Degree Completion Program, which is sponsoring the course.
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Item by Jim Bishop “Blue Like Jazz/Live,” a solo theatrical multimedia performance based on celebrated author Donald Miller’s book, will be presented 7 p.m. Friday in Lehman Auditorium at Eastern Mennonite University.
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Items by Jim Bishop Children’s choir releases 11th CD The splendor of brass, pipe organ and 150 children’s voices combine as the Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir (SVCC) of Harrisonburg, Va., heralds its 16th season with the release of its 11th recording, “Christmas Joy.” This is the second collaborative effort that includes members of the Washington…
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Story by Jim Bishop Elwood E. Yoder of Harrisonburg can’t quite believe what he had in his hands – a rare book printed in 1539 in Strasbourg, Germany. Not only that, but the thick tome was printed on the very press that is featured in Yoder’s novel, Margaret’s Print Shop, published in 2005 by Herald…
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz Shortly after the events of September 11, 2001, Dan Seifert joined the National Guard. The former Air Force technician didn’t expect that this move would create a theological crisis, but at age 42, he was a different person.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Senate Republicans appear to be safe in the Central Shenandoah Valley – but that isn’t to say that 24th District incumbent Emmett Hanger and 26th District incumbent Mark Obenshain haven’t had some hard work to do this fall.
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Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall By Chris Graham and Patrick Hite The following is an excerpt from Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, a book on the history of University of Virginia basketball at University Hall, which closed in 2006. The book was published in 2006…
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Story by Chris Graham David Mullins was ready to take a step up. “Through my career, I have felt that every step of the way was leading me to the position at some point of leading a company, leading a public-television station, and at WVPT, the opportunity was there,” said Mullins, who was named last…
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