This inspiring 5th grader from Oklahoma is headed to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC later this month. No matter that Richelle Zampella studies her words using braille, this student believes anything is possible through hard work.
Art exhibit is sponsored by Commonwealth Eye Care Associates. Artwork will be displayed from August 2 through 16. If you are interested in participating, go to the Commonwealth Eye Care Associates website and apply online. You’ll find rules and contact information there.
A program from the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving
What: Caregiving Education Sessions
Where: Circle Center, 4900 W. Marshall Street Richmond, VA 23230
When: 5 Tuesday evenings 5:30-7:45pm, April 24 - May 22
Who: Family, professional, and volunteer caregivers of older adults
Cost: $50.00, including 5 light dinners
Class Facilitators: Kate Barrett, LCSW and Ethel Gordon, RN
For details contact Christine Jensen, PhD at (757) 220-4751 or at cjensen@excellenceinaging.org
Register early. Space is limited
I was discharged from the Navy, November of 1947 and lived with my parents at home. In July of 1948 my Dad and I were listening to a Phillies ball game. The announcer excitedly told of how Richie Ashburn, their center fielder, climbed the wall to rob the batter of at least a double. My Dad stood and said, “That’s it. We’re getting a T.V.!”
Off we went and purchased a state of the art, Motorola, seven inch screen with a cabinet. Dad was happy to finally watch his beloved Phillies and Mom enjoyed the limited programming as well.
My wife and I went shopping for a new T.V. What a difference between then and now. From black and white to brilliant color, from seven inch to fifty inches and more, from two dimensional to three D, and from a boxy cabinet and tube to flat screen. WOW!
We’ve looked and looked then suddenly my wife exclaimed, “That’s it, the one for us”. We now have a 55inch high def, 3D beauty that fills the room, and no cabinet. What a difference a generation makes.
Hi. I’m Freddy. I’ve recently moved to the zebra plant in the Studio Lobby of Virginia Voice. I have to be very quiet because I’m in between three recording studios and the main “live” studio. This is a very busy and exciting place to be! Did you know that on my very first day, a Monday, more than a dozen volunteers came in to read? Wow! On that day some volunteers read the Times-Dispatch “live,” others recorded a program about health issues, and Smithsonian magazine, and more Times-Dispatch, and a program called “Fifty Plus” and more Times-Dispatch, and book reviews, and still more Times-Dispatch. Did you know that if you have a Virginia Voice radio you have four chances to listen to the obituaries from the Times-Dispatch each day during the week? 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m., and 1:30 a.m.! Of course you can listen to the obituaries online at any time.
I’ll let you know later what the rest of the week is like. Right now I want to listen to “The Nature of Things.” Maybe the reader will talk about my family and friends.
Note to self: Next time we decide to climb a mountain, bring a change of underwear.
I have been recording books for The Virginia Voice for twelve years…and I have loved every minute! In that time, I have often been asked, “How do you choose what books you will record?”
According to KT, my daughter’s fair-weather, couch potato, Min-Pin mix, this IS a blizzard to be feared. She had to be dragged outside, in her bright yellow raincoat, to attend to her morning business. Well, we might have snow on the road eventually, but at 7:00 a.m. it’s only sparse and beautiful. Unless you’re a daffodil. My pre-snow preparations? I cut a bunch of daffodils for the dining room table yesterday, but not all of them because, frankly, I didn’t have a lot of faith in the weather prediction. And I didn’t buy milk. Or bread. I figured I can open a packet of powdered milk if I need to, which I will, even without snow, because we have barely enough for one bowl of cereal.
It’s a beautiful snow and I hope it doesn’t become serious. More than enough serious weather has been happening, with tragic results, elsewhere. Watching our gentle snow keeps the contrast right up front.
I’ll be getting ready for work, watching how cars go down the street and hoping the “ending by noon” prediction is correct. I’m glad I’m not in charge of school buses. We won’t see KT for awhile. She’s on the sofa, buried in a tightly wrapped cave of blue fleece blanket.
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