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Kim Joralemon, SNAP Educator with the Virginia Cooperative Extension Office, met with 19 East Rockingham Senior Center members and two volunteers on June 17, to discuss “Ways to Sneak More Fruits and Vegetables into Your Diet.”
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The Harrisonburg Community Health Center (HCHC) applied for and was approved for 47 slots by the Virginia Department of Health to assist low income women gain access to free breast and cervical cancer screening services, case management and follow-up. This program is called Every Women’s Life (EWL)
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced today that 24 Virginia cities and counties will soon be able to provide school resource officers in schools where none are currently assigned, thanks to grants just approved by the Criminal Justice Services Board.
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I have always maintained that the poor in Northern Virginia are worse off than others living in less affluent parts of the state because the cost of living is higher in this region. The difference can be seen most clearly in the cost of housing; and there have been many notable efforts on the part of local governments to increase the stock of workforce, affordable housing. The traffic coming into Northern Virginia from the west and south is made up largely of people who cannot afford housing in the area.
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Ben Krusen took to Twitter to express his frustration at trimesters. “I wish I was in Virginia with @wborogenerals for our exhibition game tonight instead of still in school.. #12moredays,” mused Krusen, a pitcher in his second season with the Waynesboro Generals, the night of the Generals’ exhibition game with the Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks on May 29.
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On Friday June 14, four young men – Alden Hough, Andrew Lynch, Andrew Schmidt, and Anderson Vollmer – were honored by the Boy Scouts of America, Troop 86, for attaining the rank of Eagle Scout.
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The Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center Foundation will host its second annual Bubbles & Bowling fundraiser on Friday, June 21, 2013, from 7:30-10 p.m. at Staunton Bowling Lanes, 831 Greenville Ave., Staunton. This event will raise funds to support job training and medical treatment for Virginians with disabilities at the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center.
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The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT transportation district during the coming weeks.
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Acute external otitis or otitis externa – more commonly called swimmer’s ear – is an infection that affects the outer ear canal, the section outside your eardrum. It was given the name “swimmer’s ear” because it is routinely caused by water remaining in the outer ear following swimming, which creates a moist environment that encourages bacterial growth.
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The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision today that invalidated patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. The decision came in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation on behalf of researchers, genetic counselors, patients, breast cancer and women’s health groups, and medical professional associations representing 150,000 geneticists, pathologists, and laboratory professionals.
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