Stitch by stitch, Sue Bennett of Wytheville is doing what she can to make life a little better for wounded soldiers.
And she hopes you’ll join her.
“It makes you feel so good that you actually help someone,” Bennett said.

All the Speedwell traffic cops celebrated when Valentine’s Day ended.  Bo Peep Testerman, director of right turns, blamed the Valentine’s Day traffic jam on Greg Sayers.  Cars, trucks and horse carts waited in line to get to Sayers’ Store.  He was running a special on a particular Valentine.

As is customarily the case during the harshness of the cold winter months, as of lately, I have been battling more than my share of sinus infections and colds.  Whenever I am sick, I cannot help but think of my late great-great-aunt Hazel.  Hazel fretted incessantly every time anyone in the family was the slightest bit under the weather.  If you sneezed once, she would fill you full of Benadryl.  If your stomach was the slightest bit upset, she would force you to take Pepto Bismol, as my mother will tell you.  She didn’t exclude herself from the equation either.

Hello from Capitol Hill in Richmond!

This week was crossover, which always comes at the half-way point of General Assembly Session.  Crossover, which this year fell on Tuesday, February 12, is the day in which all House bills must be communicated to the Senate and all Senate bills to the House.  This meant a lot of work on the House floor.  The Session convened on Monday at ten a.m., and we did not finish debate and floor votes until just before eight p.m.

With full military honors at 2 p.m. Tuesday, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Chad Allen Barrett will be buried in the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery.
Though his interment is taking place hundreds of miles from Southwest Virginia, the region will share in his family’s grief.

I work in a building filled with stained glass windows. I suppose stained glass is archaic in a culture that worships in corrugated metal and with Plexiglas pulpits, but I am a little archaic at times. My children suggest it is all the time.

My great-uncle, in whose house my family now lives, once sent around a Christmas card 40-some years ago, in which he attributed his longevity and health to climbing the hills around his home. “My health comes from a twice-a-day view,” he said. 

The human mind is a pretty good escape hatch, if escape is desired. In a prison cell, we can imagine blue sky and stars. In a church pew, we can envision the ocean surf glittering with sunshine.

Blue Ridge Florist and Gifts, Inc. has actually been established for many years, but under different ownership and at another location.

Una Nueva Viva En Cristo is a relatively new endeavor of the Brethren Church.