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    Bedford City Police, with help from other area law enforcement agencies, held its eighth annual Cop Camp last week.

    The camp brought 110 children together to learn how police do their work. It featured physical activities along with chances to see what a police officer carries in the trunk of his car. There was also a visit from a rescue helicopter, a simulated vehicle extraction and a police dog demonstration.

    General John Douglass, the Democrats’ candidate for the 5th Congressional District seat, stopped in Bedford last week to hold a panel discussion, one of a number that he’s holding around the district.

    On Thursday July 26, Youth of Virginia Speak Out About Traffic Safety, held its 2011-2012 awards banquet at Lynchburg College.

    It proved to be a coronation for the work local groups and individuals had put into that effort.
    The YOVASO Program is made up of over 100 middle and high schools from across Virginia. Of the 19 traffic safety awards handed out at the banquet, seven were given to Bedford County.
    Those included:

    Bedford Memorial’s volunteer chaplains hold a lunch meeting every month with a featured speaker. This month’s meeting, coming less than a week after the 4th of July featured a patriotic motif, and the group felt that its featured speaker was a perfect fit.

    Evelyn Kowalchuk, now 92, was a flight nurse during World War II. She was one of a group of young nurses who cared for severely wounded soldiers who were being evacuated from the beaches of Normandy in the days following D-Day.