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    Little Town Players (LTP)  normally runs a theater day camp each summer. This year, according to Karen C. Hopkins, they aren’t able to do it, so they are assisting the Bedford Police Department with Cop Camp. The theater group made a donation of $500 to help the effort.

    Denny Huff, who joined the Bedford Community Health Foundation as its new executive director on April 8, has spent the last 20 years — the entire time since graduating from college — working for non-profit organizations.

    Huff has a bachelor’s degree in history and he originally intended to teach history and political science. However, the first opportunity that opened up for him after graduation was with a non-profit organization. He took it, loved it and made non-profit organizations his career.

A North Carolina woman made what could have been a fatal mistake last week.

    According to Lt. Todd Foreman, of the Bedford City Police, Sergeant Robert Monk headed out on a report of an SUV driving the wrong way  on    U. S. 460 last Tuesday, May 7.

    The Bedford Branch of the NAACP is sponsoring a new spring event, which members hope to hold every year.

    It’s their First Freedom Fund Fellowship and will take place in Centertown Bedford’s Farmers’ Market, located on Washington Street on Saturday, May 18 from 2-6 p.m.
    “We plan to have Gospel groups and a variety of different types of music,” said Ronnie Miller, the Bedford Branch’s president.