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  • Community comes together to help

    Thanks to a routine medical examination, Noah Okuley’s Hodgkins Lymphoma was diagnosed early.

        The 13-year-old was diagnosed with Stage II Hodgkins on Sept. 6 and is undergoing chemotherapy sessions at the University of Virginia. He goes up once a week with a break every two weeks.
        “The prognosis is good,” said Teri Apel, his mother.
        “The prognosis for Hodgkins Lymphoma is very good,” she added.
        Okuley has other things working in his favor.

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  • LHS student killed in crash

        Several hundred Liberty High School students and staff showed up at school Monday dressed in camouflage in tribute to a student from the school who was killed in a single vehicle crash early Sunday morning.
        The Virginia State Police are continuing their investigation into the crash that occurred around 12:15 a.m. on U.S. 460 just east of Route 898 in the Montvale area.

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  • Thaxton man carries on old country tradition

        Donald Phillips, of Thaxton, keeps an old country tradition alive. He plants two rows of broom corn in his garden and makes old-fashioned brooms from it.

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  • Reed steps down

        Robin Reed’s tenure as Foundation president lasted just over two years.

        On Friday, Sept. 28, the Board of Directors of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation accepted Reed’s resignation. Reed, who joined the Foundation in June 2010, stated that he would be pursuing other opportunities.

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  • 31st Centerfest draws big crowd

        Thousands filled the streets of Centertown Bedford Saturday as the 31st annual Centerfest provided something for everyone to enjoy.

        By mid-day, the streets were jam packed with festival goers taking in the crafts, foods, art, rides and numerous booths set up throughout Centertown streets.
        “We’ve had very good comments,” stated Sue Montgomery, executive director of Bedford Main Street, Inc., about the festival.

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  • Beware of those donation cans

        We’ve all seen those cans at checkout counters at various businesses and most of us probably never stop to wonder about whether they are legitimate.

        Vickie Overstreet certainly hadn’t wondered about this until last fall. That changed when she walked into a local business and saw a container collecting money for her son’s burial expenses.

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  • Bedford Domestic Violence Services plans fundraisers, events this month

        October is nationally recognized as Domestic Violence Awareness Month and this is why Bedford Domestic Violence Services uses this month for both major fundraising and awareness efforts.

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  • Gathering at Sedalia provides chance to learn new skills

        Sedalia Center will host some new events this year. Actually, one is new and one is semi-new.

        The new event is called Gathering.
        According to Doris McCabe, the Center’s director, this is a skills sharing event and one she hopes will bring more young people to the Sedalia Center. The title comes from its goal to gather as much sustainable systems information together in one place as they can.
        Gathering will take place on Saturday, Oct. 6.

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  • County holds first Agriculture Economic Development Forum

        More than 60 county farmers and agriculture supporters attended the Bedford Agriculture Economic Development Advisory Board’s (AEDAB) first public forum on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, from 2:30 - 4 p.m. at the Bedford Welcome Center.

        Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Matt Lohr attended the event and spoke to attendees about the challenges and opportunities in agriculture, a $55 billion industry that produces more than 357,000 jobs statewide annually.

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  • D-Day Memorial remembers the missing

        The National D-Day Memorial marked POW/MIA Awareness Day Friday.

        According to statistics from the Defense Prisoner of War Personnel Office, there are still 73,000 men missing in action from World War II, 7,500 from Korea and 1,600 from Vietnam. There are 126 men who never came back from Cold War era missions and remain unaccounted for. Six are missing in action from Iraq and other conflicts.

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