Friday, July 10, 2009
Food bank sponsors peanut butter drive
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Despite a salmonella scare in the peanut butter industry, peanut butter is still popular.
In fact, peanut butter is one of the most requested items at the Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank. But it also is one of the least donated items.
Old and young like peanut butter, and that's why the food bank is sponsoring its second annual Peanut Butter from Heaven Drive throughout July.
The first drive last year yielded more than 3,500 pounds of peanut butter from Roanoke-area churches, individuals and organizations.
Peanut butter also is an affordable substitute for expensive meats and is a stick-to-your-ribs food item, according to food bank officials.
Donations also can be dropped off at Kroger stores. For more information, call Kitty Tabor, food procurement manager, at 342-3011 ext. 19
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The Verizon Foundation has given $45,000 to the Virginia College Fund to train faculty at five VCF schools in developing online courses based on classroom courses. The online courses will be available in the fall at Ferrum College, Averett University, Bluefield College, Eastern Mennonite University and Virginia Intermont College, all private, liberal arts colleges that are accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Christine Stinson, chief information officer and dean of learning management at Ferrum, developed the training that will be taught through the Ferrum College Learning Management System. The two-part program will consist of an online course followed by an intensive, weeklong workshop at Ferrum.
"We need to offer focused training and faculty development to enable our motivated faculty to develop online courses based on the classroom-based courses they already teach. This will be accomplished by showing them how teaching and learning happens in an exclusively online environment and training them in what new learning is possible," Stinson said in a news release.
"Although many students are capable and ready for learning in classes that are taught exclusively online, many faculty are not yet trained or comfortable teaching exclusively online classes."
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The Rotary Club of Roanoke-Downtown recently awarded proceeds from its annual fundraising auction to 14 Roanoke-area nonprofit organizations that work with youth programs.
The club raised more than $14,000 during its 11th annual auction in April and divided it among the American Red Cross, Apple Ridge Farms, Community Youth Program, Family Service, Greenvale School, Helping Hands, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Saint Francis Service Dogs, Suzuki Instruction Program, The Jason Project, West End Center, YMCA of the Roanoke Valley and YWCA of the Roanoke Valley.
