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by Denman Zirkle
Change is necessary for the survival of organizations. Change rejuvenates as it provides the juices for new directions and new challenges. Organizations that adapt to change survive; those that do not have a limited life.
So it is with the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation as we enter our thirteenth year. When our National Historic [...]
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Imagine what it would feel like to have two slips of paper worth $1 million each. One Virginia woman no longer has to imagine. She knows first-hand. “I’m in shock!” said Virginia Fike of Berryville.
When Ms. Fike stopped at Olde Stone Truck Stop on Martinsburg Pike in Clear Brook a few weeks ago, she had [...]
Blue Ridge Hospice’s Volunteer Recognition on April 12 paid tribute to the 823 volunteers who give generously of their time and talents to support this not-for-profit hospice organization, which is now celebrating its 30th year. Held at Millwood Station in Winchester, the annual recognition included among its speakers Blue Ridge Hospice co-founder, board member, and [...]
By Charles Couch – Capital News Service
RICHMOND – The General Assembly last week upheld all six of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s vetoed bills, including one that would have increased fines on Virginia residents with out-of-state license plates.
The assembly reconvened for a one-day session to consider the governor’s vetoes and recommendations regarding legislation passed during the 2012 [...]
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There are standards of learning used to test student comprehension in subjects like reading, writing and arithmetic. But there are other subject areas – like citizenship, compassion and community support – that carry similar importance, but can’t always be measured through standardized testing. The students of D. G. Cooley Elementary in Berryville, Virginia may have [...]
Dear Clarke Daily News Editors,
This National Volunteer Week, April 15-21, the American Red Cross is celebrating our own dedicated volunteers, the people who make the Red Cross run. Red Cross volunteers are doers. Red Cross volunteers are people in action.
Our chapter has nearly 250 volunteers from all walks of life. They come together with one [...]
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Help With Housing, Inc. has been selected to receive a grant of $8,000 from the Shenandoah Community Foundation, Woodstock, VA. The grant will be used to assist low-income homeowners in Shenandoah County with emergency home repairs and accessibility modifications. HWH has assisted low-income residents in the Northern Shenandoah Valley for 24 years and is located [...]
Researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Institute and Harvard University have found that greater consumption of sugar-sweetened and low-calorie sodas is associated with a higher risk of stroke. Conversely, consumption of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee was associated with a lower risk.
The study – recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition – is the first [...]
In 1884, the second USGS Director John Wesley Powell briefed Congress on the need for a national mapping program, stating, “The map once constructed should be enduring…”
In keeping with that spirit, The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has publicly released more than 161,000 digitally scanned historical maps spanning in excess of 130 years and covering the [...]
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell announced today the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population is booming, fueled by an extraordinary explosion in juvenile crab abundance.
The results of the 2012 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey determined the total population of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay has reached 764 million, due to four years of a bay-wide stock [...]
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