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Christine Straub consistently serves as a team player and mentor as a registered nurse in labor and delivery services at Bedford Memorial Hospital.

Not only that, her co-workers say, but she also goes beyond the call of duty to benefit patients and other employees.

That's why they nominated Straub, and she received the hospital's annual Healthcare with a Human Touch Award. She's one of 11 Carilion Clinic nurses who received the award. After peers nominated the nurses, a systemwide committee selected the winners.

Bedford Memorial is jointly owned through a partnership between Carilion Clinic and Centra Health. The other 10 nurses work in Carilion facilities in Roanoke.

The nurses honored at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital are: Brenda Rechtman, a nurse in electrophysiology; Robert Stone, an oncology nurse; Rose Little, a pulmonary care unit nurse; Carolyn Milzman, a PCU nurse; Johanna Lambert, a nurse in labor and delivery; Ann Hutchens, a coronary care unit nurse; Bobby Putman, an endoscopy nurse; and Jennifer Martin, a nurse with Patient Care Managers.

Kevin Kissner, a nurse with Life-Guard 10, Carilion Patient Transportation Services; and Karen King, a licensed practical nurse at Urgent Care at Carilion Roanoke Community also received the award.

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April Blaha of Roanoke and Katherine Smith of Copper Hill have been selected as delegates to the 2008 Youth Leadership Forum for the Virginia Board for People with Disabilities.

Twenty-five rising high school juniors and seniors with disabilities are attending the forum at Christopher Newport University Monday through July 18.

The delegates will participate in activities to help build self-confidence and leadership skills and to become more involved in their schools and communities. They'll also receive guidance in setting career and higher education goals.

They will hear from Virginia's first lady, Anne Holton, and stage a mock committee meeting of legislators and their staffs.

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Unveiled at Franklin County's Independence Festival last week was a 9-foot-long banner that was signed by hundreds of people in attendance. It will be shipped to a National Guard unit in Iraq that includes Debra Weir, who is taking leave from her job as the county's tourism and special events director.