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Newspaper
The Valley Banner
Location
Elkton, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 2013
Page
1
Elkton Town Council approved a 5-1 vote at a Sept. 16 meeting requesting the resignation of Town Manager Kevin Fauber. The council suspended the regular meeting and held a closed session with Town Attorney Nathan Miller to discuss Fauber’s tenure.
During a combined monthly work session and quarterly retreat at Merck Co s Cooley House the Elkton Town Council discussed keeping on schedule with a five year sewer pipe and plant upgrade plan adopted in 2011 under state guidance. Terry Inboden of Inboden Environmental Services, operator of the town s sewer treatment plant since last year, spoke on the ongoing implementation issues.
Elkton's Gateway Plan committee met last week to discuss Old Spotswood Trail and Sout Stuart Avenue. The group includes Elkton Area Community Center Director Allison Morris and local officials, with Mike Hott of James Madison University Edith J Carrier Arboretum proposing plantings as an independent consultant.
Don and Patti Meadows, Elkton pastors of Faith Alive Fellowship, attended a three hour Liberty University event in Lynchburg titled Pastors for Virginia. Vision America organized the gathering led by Rick Scarborough with speaker Rick Santorum addressing the Bible’s role in political participation.
Grottoes hosts one of its largest Harvest Festivals along Sixth Street. Dozens of vendor booths line the road as crowds endure a cool, cloudy day with occasional rain. Christa Hall, a town employee attending her seventh festival with son Ty, notes growth. Local booths offer handmade pendants, flags, throws, linens, jewelry, and emblems in glass cases. Food stalls and civic groups operate amid participation from Future Farmers of America and Spotswood High School clarinet players.
East Rockingham High School Future Farmers of America members excelled at the county fair with cats of multiple livestock categories. Students raised fed and groomed animals for 6 to 10 months before sale and earned numerous placing honors including grand and reserve titles across hog steer goat sheep and heifer divisions. Pictured are Matt Smith Andrew Miller Jacob R Shifflett Abby Phillips Meghan Nicholson Gabbrial Conley Jessica Harmon Haley Morris. Not pictured are Taylor Shifflett Lexie Holloway Josh Holloway Grace Monger Allison Ruhlman Melissa Ruhlman. Photo courtesy Pam Conley.
Pauline Butcher a nationally accredited master flower show judge spoke to the Blue Ridge Garden Club at the Church of Salsburg social hall last week. She showed numerous arrangements using driftwood corn cob gourds and dried grasses with a half hour of explanations and live reassemblies.
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