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Newspaper
The Valley Banner
Location
Elkton, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 2010
Page
2
A member of Congress Bob Goodlatte’s staff will hold community office hours on Thursday October 7 from 1130 to 1230 at the Elkton Area Community Center. Staff will meet residents to hear views or discuss federal government problems. Call 2022255431 for details.
A benefit cruise in to support East Rockingham High School PTSA will run 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday October 30 in the ERHS football field parking lot. Entry is 15 for adults and 10 for students with all vehicles welcome. Music food door prizes and awards such as Principal's Choice PTSA's Choice and Sponsor's Choice. Sponsored by Forish Family Auto Sales contact Susie at 298-7766.
The Page County High School Class of 1975 will hold its 35th reunion Saturday Oct. 16 at the Stanley Fire Department. The cost is $15 per person. For details call Debbie Morris Hensley 298-1100 Jenny Comer Meadows 298-9647 or Barb Purdham Comer 652-8041.
The Roy Dale Smith III Memorial Scholarship Motorcycle Ride is moved to Sunday October 17. It starts at McGaheysville Volunteer Fire Department with registration at 9 a.m. The ride begins at 10 a.m. A meal, door prizes, and a 50 50 drawing follow the event. Entry is 15 dollars with 5 dollars for each additional rider. Call 820-1910 for details.
Elkton Recreation Department opens registration for girls volleyball grades 5 through 10 at the Elkton Area Community Center. Fee is 25 dollars with play starting November 2. For more information call 298-8730.
Elkton hosts its annual Halloween HooDoo on Friday October 29 sponsored by the EDRC as the town's only sanctioned trick-or-treat. Businesses hand out treats 5 30 to 7 pm and forms to stay open are available via Nancy's Party Things. Costume judging at 7 pm at the Elkton Area Community Center with 13 categories and Country Photo portraits for a 3 donation starting 6 30 pm.
Elkton Lodge No 74 and Ashlar Lodge No 125 presented Community Builders Awards to Lawrence Gentry of Elkton and Vincent Comer of Shenandoah at a Sept 25 Ladies Night Banquet. Gentry aids Lions Club glasses program and serves Elkton United Methodist Church. Comer contributed as a longtime teacher coach and referee for Page County youth and is active at Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Shenandoah.
A series of obituaries from Elkton and nearby areas notes the deaths of Lois W Wandless Gaynor 94, Norman D Eppard Jr 62, Granville T Lam Jr 54, Norman Elwood Hammer 81, James Carroll Comer, Charlotte Coffman 95, Dorothy Rebecca Smith Dove 79, and other local residents. Services were held or announced, with survivors listed and donations requested to churches, the Alzheimer’s Association, or local funerals homes. The notices reference Bath and Rockingham counties, Elkton, Keezletown, Broadway, and Shenandoah with connections to local churches and civic groups.
Bonnie Gardner Shifflett 81 of Penn Laird died Sept 29 2010 at UVMC. She born Aug 24 1929 in Penn Laird, worked at DuPlan, then Blue Ridge TV and Radio 35 years, wrote a weekly column A Secret Dream for The Valley Banner nearly 33 years. Graveside services Oct 2 at Eastlawn Memorial Gardens. Memorials to Elkton Rescue Squad. Also included are notices for Linda H Snyder 70 who died Sept 22 2010 in Spring Hill Florida and Jean L Dean 81 who died Sept 28 2010 in Clarksville Tennessee with service details and memorial notes.
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