Elkton Holds Dual National Day of Prayer Services
Elkton observed the National Day of Prayer with two gatherings on May 1. A noon service in the town council chambers featured Pastors Anne Ross David Vaughan Dan Hughes Dan Bassett and Robin Hicks with Mayor Roy Davis leading the crowd. An evening event in Ace Hardware Dean Home Center parking lot included additional prayers for families schools and the U S Armed Forces.
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Dan Bassett
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Chief Charlie's Kids Fish Day draws crowd in Grottoes
The 20th annual event in Mountain View Park honored Charles Lawhorne and Jess Sager. Mayor Berton Austin and officials spoke at the noon dedication of the Sager named boat landing on the South River. Youth fishing divided by age groups, with Kyler Crawford, 11, catching a rainbow trout over 17 inches.
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Connie Richardson
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
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Kyler Crawford
Mountain View Park
Wyatt Woods
McGaheysville
Ted Hayes
Shenandoah River Road Homes to Get Town Water
Four houses on Shenandoah River Road will gain town water as a new line nears completion, allowing residents to abandon private wells. The wells had long held benzene toluene ethyl benzene and xylene, with TCE migrating from a Genie disposal pit into soil and groundwater, contaminating a town well and private wells on the road. The Phillips company has shut the contaminated town well and replaced it.
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Contamination History at Genie Plant Barking Up TCE
SEU cL discusses long standing TCE pollution at 611 Williams Ave owned by PENAC, leaking from dry-well disposal pits over decades. Phillips Electronics North American Corp began soil and groundwater testing after 1986 hazardous waste rules, revealing near saturation in the Genie facility source area and lesser contamination nearby, with Genie Manufacturing later involved.
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Williams Ave
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PENAC
Love Canal
State Department of Environmental Quality
Graham Simmerman
Phillips
Genie Manufacturing Inc
Genie
Swing Dance at Spotswood High for Relay for Life Fundraiser
A 7 to 9 p m swing dance at Spotswood High School benefits the school Relay for Life team Blazing Trails for a Cure. SHS jazz band provides music under biology teacher Bob Failes leadership with tickets 5 in advance 7 at door. Proceeds support the American Cancer Society.
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Shenandoah alumni reunion marks 75th anniversary banquet
Shenandoah High School Alumni Association celebrated its 75th anniversary banquet in the town elementary school gymnasium with over 150 attendees. Special honors went to classes 1944 1954 and 1964 plus tributes to Mayo McHenry and Buddy Judd. Franklin Good gave the invocation and Charles Shuler opened the event with a welcoming note.
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Shenandoah High School Alumni Association
Virginia
Page County High School
Shenandoah High School
Maxine Merica
Anna Lee Huffman
Mayo McHenry
Robert
Elkton Spring Festival Returns to Blue Ridge Park
The Junior Order of United American Mechanics Elkton Spring Festival unfolds Wednesday to Saturday May 14 17 at Blue Ridge Park. Rides open 6 30 p m nightly with live music and plentiful food. A flea market a yard sale and a dozen rides including a ferris wheel are planned with food booths opening at 4 p m daily and earlier Saturday. Proceeds support community programs such as Elkton Little League and park maintenance.
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Blue Ridge Council No. 149
Elkton
Blue Ridge Park
Doug Shifflett
Junior Order
Ing Elkton Little League
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