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Crime Wave Hits Charlottesville! – Virginia Festival of the Book starts next week
As I have mentioned before, I really look forward to the Book Festival every year. My favorite event is the annual Book Fair at the Omni. In previous years I have found the perfect books for my young friends at Jackson-Via Elementary School as I wandered through the exhibits during breaks between the Crime Wave…
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Events / U.Va. Institute on Aging – How to talk to loved ones about legal, financial, and medical plans for aging parents and spouses
Our always popular Festival of the Book is almost here! Read below about a session that will be very interesting to many of us -if not for our parents, then for ourselves. See you there! Virginia Morris, a nationally recognized authority on eldercare and author of How to Care for Aging Parents, will lead a…
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Charlottesville/Albemarle Volunteer Opportunities
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Volunteers for the Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale: April 3 – 11, 2010. The money made at the sale helps support ALL of the library programs — kids, teens and adults. For more information contact the Friends of the Library at 977.8467 or info@jmrlfriends.org Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle (LVCA) Volunteers…
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Charlottesville City Schools – Now is the time to get involved!
This morning I read with interest the article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about the hard choices that the Charlottesville School Board must make in these challenging times of dwindling revenues. As a volunteer at Jackson-Via Elementary School, I noticed especially the quote below. If you decide to spend some volunteer time in the schools,…
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Bringing High-Speed Broadband to Charlottesville — Here’s How YOU Can Help
Winning this competition would be a tremendous boost for our community! I have already sent in my nomination, and I hope you will too. Bringing High-Speed Broadband to Charlottesville — Here’s How YOU Can Help Charlottesville, Albemarle County and UVa are working together to bring high-speed Google fiber optic internet service to our community —…
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Geezer crusade? – Well, anyway, JABA leads the way!
Whatever you want to call it, JABA is doing a wonderful job of planning for the future. I am especially appreciative of steps to expand opportunities for intergenerational initiatives in public facilities, e.g., JABA FISH at Jackson-Via. From Charlottesville, VA: JABA, an Area Agency on Aging, Advances a Better Future for All Ages In his…
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