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  • Fall festival excitement

    This week welcomes two of the area’s key festivals as the fall season bursts into its full colors this year.

        Bedford’s signature festival, CenterFest, will be held Saturday, Sept. 29, but will get an early start this year with a new event, Friday’s CenterFest Gala. Meanwhile the Smith Mountain Lake Wine Festival also will draw thousands to the event held just across the Lake in Franklin County at LakeWatch Plantation in Moneta.

    Centerfest Gala is Friday

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  • We made the top 10!

    Bedford has been named a Top 10 Small Town by Livability.com, a national Web site that highlights more than 500 of America’s best places to live and visit.

        The fictional TV town of Mayberry still represents the ideal small town – a close-knit community with low crime, a slower pace and wholesome fun. For the Livability.com Top 10 Small Towns list, editors set out to uncover the Mayberrys of 2012 – places where life can still be simple, quiet and complete, but with more places for residents to gather other than the local barber shop.

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  • New venue for Freedom Fund Banquet

        The NAACP’s Bedford Branch will hold its annual Freedom Fund Banquet, slated for Oct. 20 at 6 p.m., at a new venue.

        This year it will be held at The Bedford Columns, located on East Main Street in Bedford, across the street from the Bedford Pregnancy Center in the former Runk and Pratt building.
        The change in venue came after Gaynelle Creasy attended an event there and was impressed with the facility. Creasy is chairman of the banquet committee, charged with organizing the event.

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  • Passionate about Bedford

        Elizabeth Berry-Mosley was known as a person who did the jobs that nobody else wanted to do.

        “We were on two boards together,” said Sergei Troubetzkoy, the Bedford area’s director of tourism. “Whatever she did, she never really sought credit for it. She would be the first one on the committee to volunteer for something no one else wanted to do.”
        Berry-Mosley died Wednesday, Aug. 29.

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  • Chaplain urges group at 9/11 prayer breakfast to help repair the faith of others

        Tuesday marked the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Bedford Christian Fellowship sponsored a prayer breakfast to mark the event.

        Chaplain Matthew Stevens, a Navy chaplain at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, was the keynote speaker. Stevens said that his wife has a very personal experience from Sept. 11, 2001. She was working in the Washington D. C. area at the time.
        “She saw the plane [that hit the Pentagon] come in,” he said.

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  • Passing on the command

        The men of Bedford’s National Guard company, Company A, gathered at the National D-Day Memorial Saturday morning for a change of command ceremony.

        The heart of the ceremony consisted of outgoing company commander Captain Miguel Lickliter accepting the company guidon from the company first sergeant, handing it to the battalion commander who, in turn, passed it to the 1st Lieutenant Sidney Leslie, who then returned it to the company 1st sergeant.

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  • Heroes Run marks 9/11 pain, subsequent sacrifices

        On Saturday, one of the few tangible examples of supporting our troops took place.  

        A large number of folks gathered at the Aid Station, in Forest.  They did so to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and to honor those that have sacrificed in the name of eradicating terror.
        They did it by running.
        They did it by walking.
        They did it by cheering.

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  • Putney recovering well

        Delegate Lacey Putney is on track to a complete recovery after a series of radiation treatments for cancerous cells on his vocal chords.

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  • Community calendar and events (week of Sept. 5, 2012)

    Sign-ups and notices

     

    Managing volunteers

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  • Morning crash claims Moneta man

    An early Friday morning crash claimed the life of a Moneta man and injured a pair of brothers from Bedford.

    According to State Police, Daniel William Klosen, 68, of Moneta was northbound on Va. 122 when his 1995 Plymouth Voyager van crossed the center line near the point where the highway passes the former Campers Paradise. His van hit a southbound 1997 Ford F-150 head on.

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