Phoenix Project aims to reestablish local victim services
Front Royal Warren County United Way exceeded its 135000 dollar goal by finishing with 136499 dollars in 2013. The group sets an April 1 deadline to reestablish hotline and counseling services for domestic violence and sexual assault victims in Warren County under the Phoenix Project. Laurel Center will provide counseling via an outreach employee traveling to Warren County.
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Front Royal
Warren County United Way
United Way
Lee Smith Osina
Harmony Place
Warren County
Phoenix Project
Osina
Laurel Center
Winchester
Rivermont and Fortsmouth Fire Firms May Merge
Warren County officials pursue combining Rivermont and Fortsmouth Volunteer Fire and Rescue into a single new building within years. Rivermont, four miles south of Front Royal, has about 20 active members and a 60 plus year old station needing upgrades. Fortsmouth, six miles west, has about four active members. The plan envisions a county owned site at the Rivermont corner.
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Front Royal County
Rivermont Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company
Fortsmouth Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company
Rivermont Volunteer Fire Department
Warren County Fire and Rescue
Richard Mabie
Rivermont
Fortsmouth
Front Royal
Mabie
Board of Supervisors
Tweens Learn Art of Fly Fishing in After School Program
At Warren County Middle School a new program named First Cast teaches fly fishing to youths. Volunteers from Trout Unlimited Izaak Walton League and other groups meet each Tuesday after school to guide students in tying flies and learning stream etiquette.
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Trace Noel
Trout Unlimited
First Cast
Warren County Middle School
Izaak Walton League
Area students pack 1 000 meals for Stop Hunger Now in Winchester
In a Feb 22 event at James Wood Middle School, 150 plus volunteers packed 35 000 meals for hungry children in developing countries. Interact clubs and six area Rotary clubs raised over 8 000 dollars to buy rice vegetables and protein from Stop Hunger Now. Local food drive Feed Our Neighbors ran at Walmart stores from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. supporting nearby residents.
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Wabe
Warren County Middle School
James Wood Middle School
Winchester
Isaac Weintz
Clarke County High School
Front Royal
Linden
Frederick County
Clarke County
Stop Hunger Now
Spencer Merricks
Lynchburg
Merricks
Rotary Clubs
Walmart
Front Royal WWII veteran leaves $1.4 million to LFCC
Charles Ross, a Front Royal resident and World War II veteran, willed a $1.4 million estate to Lord Fairfax Community College. The gift funds annual scholarships and a tuition and books fellowship for one student yearly, marking LFCC as a major beneficiary and prompting reflections on the donor’s quiet philanthropy. Ross died in 2013 at age 90, predeceased by his wife Thelma and son Jeffery, with no known immediate family.
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Charles Ross
Front Royal
Lord Fairfax Community College
LFOC
Leslie Kelley
LFCC
Ross
Kelley
Thelma
Jeffery
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Star Traylor
the Sentinel
Smith Osina
Smith
Rotary
Melissa Boughton
Byrd Newspapers
Front Royal Man
Larry R. Collins
Rappahannock
James Leon
Jackie” Frye
Lori Ann Santmyers
Ada Mae Grimsley
Flint Hill
Charles Michael
Charlie” van Hecke
Imogene Dove Cook
John M. Tennett
Mary B. Baumgardner
Mechanicsville
William L. Simpson
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