Elkton Field Day celebrates color and crowds
Elkton Field Day drew solid crowds at Blue Ridge Park Tuesday through Saturday. Inners Shows offered new rides including Expo Wheel. Evening live music and food booths sold 3 500 pieces of chicken. The event featured pageants a cruise in a flea market and Saturday games. The Grand Parade showcased fire apparatus and twirlers. Field Day began in 1908 and this year was run by the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
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Inners
Order of
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Ted Hayes
Planners reject rezoning at Quail Run
The Elkton Planning Commission, 4-2, rejected the request by Benny King to rezone 1.8 acres of the Quail Run development to allow a joint B-2 zoning parcel with Edwards Carrington’s Seven Development. The crackdown blocks potential expansion adjacent to the Food Lion Shopping Plaza, leaving the two neighboring B-2 lots unchanged.
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Quail Run
Elkton
King’s
Food Lion
Randolph
Dorothy Shifflett
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Planning Commission
Dan Talbot
Cole McGregor
Goldie Helsley
Margaretta Dean Isom
Madelyn Dixon
Cathy Morrison
Jason Blose
Carrington
King
Rooster Drives Off Hawk at Funkhouser Farm
At Island Ford Road the Funkhousers rushed from the house when a hawk struck the back door. Their Rhode Island Red rooster Junior defended the flock, circling the area and alerting hens hidden under a plow. Katie Funkhouser plans to show the bird at Rockingham County Fair this week.
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Island Ford Road
Junior
Katelyn
Katie
Rhode Island
Rockingham County
Rachel
Jennifer Jones wins Elkton Blue Sox Painter Award
Jennifer Monger Jones received the Richard Painter Award for service to the Elkton Blue Sox of the Rockingham County Baseball League just before a July 22 game. She helped run the concession stand for two years and served on the Blue Sox board for four, while her family supports the team.
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Jennifer Monger Jones
Richard Painter
Elkton Blue Sox
Rockingham County
Jones
Blue Sox
Painter
Spotswood High School
Twe
Raritan Field
Stonewall Memorial Park
Jeff
Jacob
Andrew
Nancy
Ted Hayes
Cruz In draws 24 show cars to Shenandoah event
Shenandoah Heritage Center hosts a Friday Cruz In on First Street attracting 24 cars from 1920s to 1980s restorations and upgrades. Organized by Dave Hinkle with Nancy Karnes Alice Pence and Jessica Karnes, sponsored by Wayne May Inc, and DJ Bruce Monger provides music. A 50 50 drawing and food support local groups with a September 13 follow up planned.
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Cruz- In
Shenandoah
Shenandoah Heritage Center
Dave Hinkle
Nancy Karnes
Alice Pence
Jessica Karnes
Wayne May Inc
Elkton
Bruce Monger
Happy 64 Years For Nelson Winegard and Lois Tenie
Nelson Winegard and Lois Tenie celebrate their 64th wedding anniversary after marrying in 1939 during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. He recalls predicting it would be their first and last marriage as they mark decades together. See Winegards, page 4.
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Nelson “Buggs” Winegard
Lois “Tenie
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nelson
Lois
Lois ‘Tenie’ Winegard
Nelson ‘Buggs’ Winegard
Buggs Winegard
Elkton
Ted Hayes
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Laurie Hensley
Jeff Hensley
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Cruz-In
Ronnie Rinaca
Rinaca
Elkton Horse Show
Buggs’ Winegard
Comcast.net
Gerald L. Eppard Sr
Virginia L. Good
Stanley Raymond C. Harris
Grottoes
James A. King Jr
Ronald D. Lacy
Port Republic
Gina A. Lamb
Carl O. Shifflett Jr
Waycross
Hazel Smith
Celia F. Velasquez
Sterling
Casey Billhimer
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