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  • Local businesses learn how to protect themselves from fake documents

        Business Watch, a program of the Bedford City Police Department, gave local business people a chance to learn about fake documents last month.

        Ron Morris, a retired Secret Service agent was on hand to talk to them. Morris served as a forensic document examiner while employed by the Secret Service and, in retirement, runs a consulting business providing the same service.

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  • Getting ready for Christmas

        There will be plenty of opportunities to celebrate the Christmas holidays over the next several weeks as communities come together in a variety of activities.

        From parades, to firing up the Christmas lights; visits with Santa to church plays and cantatas, area groups and organizations are hard at work to provide the best in Christmas festivities.
        There are also plenty of opportunities to help others.
        And, of course, to shop.
        Local events include:

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  • SRHS students killed in separate incidents

        The Staunton River High School community is mourning the loss of three students who died in separate accidents this past week.

        On Sunday, a single-vehicle crash occurred around 9:15 p.m. on Va. 24 near Meadors Spur Road.  Ashley Brooke Barton, 17, of Moneta, a student at Staunton River, died in the accident.

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  • School holds vigil for students killed in crash

        They embraced, they hugged, they cried.

        And they raised their hands in unity.
        This has been a week for Staunton River High School, and the entire community, to come together.
        Several hundred students gathered around the flagpole at Staunton River High School Friday morning to remember two of their classmates who died in an accident Wednesday.

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  • Beware of those high heels

        Dr. David Cox, a foot surgeon at Bedford Memorial Hospital, had some bad news for women who love high heels.

        Dr. Cox spoke at a Women’s Health Tea sponsored by the hospital. He told them that high heel shoes, as well as ill-fitting shoes, are bad for a woman’s feet. They’re bad enough that for a woman’s feet that they may even end up in need of his services.

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  • D-Day Memorial honors veterans

        The National D-Day Memorial held its annual observance of Veterans Day on Monday at 11 a.m. with 500 people attending.

        The event was held on Nov. 12 because Veterans Day fell on a Sunday this year. Originally called Armistice Day, to celebrate the armistice that ended World War I on Nov. 11, 1918, it was later expanded as a day to remember all living veterans. Unlike Memorial Day, the people Veterans Day honors are still alive.

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  • NAACP banquet draws record crowd

        A record turnout for the Freedom Fund Banquet, held each year by the Bedford Branch of the NAACP, filled the Bedford Columns Event Center to its full capacity Saturday night. The banquet is held each year to raise money for scholarships and the Bedford Branch’s community activities.

        Dr. Tracy Richardson was the keynote speaker. Dr. Richardson, a Goode native and Jefferson Forest High School graduate, became principal of E. C. Glass High School this year.

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  • Mother doesn't want son's death to be in vain

        The mother of an 18-year-old Williamsburg teen who drowned at Smith Mountain Lake Sept. 8 continues to mourn  the loss of her son while disputing some of the claims in the report about her son’s death.

        Ultimately, she hopes the story of her son’s death might help save someone else’s life in the future.

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  • Dinner draws record crowd

        About 220 people showed up for this month’s Farm Bureau annual dinner meeting. This is the largest crowd ever, according to Bill Nance, who heads the local organization.

        “Every year it gets a few more,” he said.

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  • Family has been farming here for more than 250 years

        Barry Turpin teaches U. S. history at E. C. Glass High School, in Lynchburg, but he also spends time with big black cows. In fact Turpin & Arthur Angus Farms, a beef cattle partnership, is his retirement business.

        He grew up on a farm and his family has been farming in Bedford County for a quarter of a millennium. His earliest ancestor to arrive in this area, Colonel Richard Calloway, was the first European farmer in Bedford County in the 1740s.

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