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The flag flying at the Adult Day Care Center, next to Bedford Memorial Hospital, was a community effort.

    The base was built two years ago by John Naples and Josh Harrison, two masonry students at Bedford Science and Technology Center (BSTC). This was part of their classwork. Neil Rommel, the school’s masonry teacher, is always looking for real-world projects for his students. The projects have to be close enough to the school that students can get to them and still have time to do meaningful work during the alloted class time.

Keith Alan of ESPN Outdoors calls Kevin VanDam the King Kong of bass fishing.

    Others call him the Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan of the sport.

    He’s all that — and a lot more.

    Now the four-time Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year can add Blue Ridge Brawl champion to his growing list of accomplishments and the $100,000 champion’s prize to his bank account.

At 10:02 a.m. Tuesday, Bedford County 911 dispatchers received a call reporting that a tree had fallen on a man and he was trapped under the tree.

    The Moneta Rescue Squad and sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the scene at 9395 Moneta Rd. After arriving on the scene, squad members notified dispatchers that the victim was deceased.

    The victim,Harold Kenneth Jones, 62, was cutting down the tree on his property when the accident occurred. A friend of the victim, who was helping, witnessed the accident and called 911.

Kevin VanDam may not like sight fishing, but he's proving once again why he's the best bass fishing has to offer: He'll do whatever it takes to stay at the top. And this week, sight fishing has been the ticket to the top of the leader board.

VanDam, a four-time Angler of the Year champion, maintained the third day lead in the Advance Auto Parts Blue Ridge Brawl at Smith Mountain Lake, weighing in a five-fish limit of 15 pounds, 6 ounces for a 47 pound, 15 ounce three-day total and more than a 3-pound lead over Elite rookie Matt Herren (44-7) of Trussville, Ala.