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A Labor of Love

    If you enjoy Smith Mountain Lake, then you should thank Dr. Jeffrey Fong.

    Smith Mountain Lake exists because Smith Mountain Dam holds back the Roanoke River at a gap in Smith Mountain. Dr. Fong is the engineer who designed the dam.

Double-header mania

 

In baseball, you never know.

Take Big Island Post 217's doubleheader with Danville Post 325.

The bottom line is that the teams split the pair of seven-stanza sessions.

But, the two games couldn't have been more different.

In the first contest, Danville took a 4-3 nail biter.  In the nightcap, the Islanders prevailed, 18-11.  The only nail biting going on in that one came from the guy keeping the scoreboard, afraid he was going to run out of numbers.

Photo of the week: I miss mama!
Bedford Memorial now part of Centra

    Bedford Memorial Hospital held a picnic on its front lawn, July 1, to formally mark its first day as part of Centra’s hospital system.

    “This is the day the Lord has made,” said Laura Carey, one of the hospital’s volunteer chaplains and the first speaker.
    Carey was born in the old John Russell Hospital, which Bedford Memorial replaced.
    “They were getting ready to tear it down and I had to be born,” she commented.

Horse and Hound Wine Festival is Saturday

    Johnson’s Orchards will present its annual Horse and Hound Wine Festival, Saturday.

    The Festival is kid-friendly and dog-friendly eventwith a Kiddie Koral and a dog play area. People visiting the Festival are invited to bring both their children and their dogs.

JF, LHS to get new principals

back in August, Liberty and Jefferson Forest high schools will have new principals.    Current LHS Principal Tim Overstreet and JF Principal Tony Francis are moving to the Bedford County Public School system’s central office staff, the result of action taken during the school board’s meeting last Thursday.

VDOT digs up U.S. 460

    A long-awaited Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) project, designed to improve safety on the section of U.S. 460, on the west end of Bedford, is underway.

    “It’s basically to improve sight distance,” said Jason Bond, a VDOT spokesman.

Rescuers, men they helped, meet again

    Dallas Neel just happened to be in the area when the call for a possible drowning in a pond off Krantz’s Corner Road was dispatched at 3:37 p.m. on May 16.

    “God put me at the right spot that day,” stated Neel, a conservation police officer with the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. “I was just glad I was in the right spot.”

Charges certified

    Michael Wayne Jenkins, charged with felony hit and run and felony assault and battery on an EMS worker, waived a preliminary hearing when he appeared in Bedford County General District Court, Monday. Judge Harold Black certified the charges to the August grand jury.
    Jenkins is charged with hitting a bicyclist on Va. 122, near Va. 24 on March 21 and then leaving the scene of the accident. Sean McQuaid, the bicyclist, died from his injuries the next day.

Accolades continue

    “The accolades that have come to me are greater than they should have been,” commented former Delegate Lacey Putney a few weeks after receiving an honorary doctorate from Liberty University.
    This year marked the first General Assembly session that Putney was not a part of in more than half a century. First elected in 1961, Putney never lost an election in his life. He retired last year after announcing that he would not seek reelection.