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    Last year more than 500 people packed the Liberty High School auditorium to watch the  United States Air Force’s Rhythm In Blue Jazz Ensemble concert. The group was scheduled for a return visit this Saturday, but that concert has been scrapped.
    And you can blame sequestration.

    A heart health brunch, sponsored by Bedford Memorial Hospital, began on a light note with a performance by Elvis Presley, locally know as Taylor Rodriguez.

    Rodriguez, who is 15, isn’t old enough to even remember the 20th century at all, let alone Elvis. Nevertheless, his Elvis impersonation is so good that he’s headed for Graceland to perform this summer during the annual commemoration of Presley’s death.

    Bedford, a black Labrador Retriever puppy selected for training in 2010 by the NEADS organization and sponsored by the GFWC Bedford Woman’s Club, has graduated after two years.

Jamey Singleton, a meteorologist with WSET Channel 13, was injured in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday morning in Moneta.
According to Virginia State Police, Singleton, who is 34 and resides in Rocky Mount, was traveling north on Va. 122 in a 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse when he crossed the center line and hit a Schwan's delivery truck head-on. He was airlifted to Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Leo George Jr., 56, of Moneta, the delivery truck's driver, and Joshua Ross, 34, a passenger in the truck, were taken to Roanoke Memorial by ambulance. All three men were wearing seatbelts.