Friday, February 19, 2010
High school club collects for food bank
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The Northside High School Key Club, partnering with Panera Bread, collected 28 boxes of canned food for the Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank.
During the schoolwide competition each first-period class competed for a week. The two top classes collected 78 cans each. Those students were treated to breakfast at Panera.
Each box contained 25 to 30 cans of food.
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The Roanoke-area office of Farm Credit & Country Mortgages collected 142 toys for Roanoke Valley children during the 2009 holiday season.
The Farm Credit system, a network of lending institutions in 96 counties in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, provides financial and lending services to rural America. Systemwide, customers and employees donated more than 2,800 toys in December.
The office is at 38 Murray Farm Road in Botetourt County.
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The late Beth Brown was fascinated by outer space growing up in Roanoke.
William Fleming High School valedictorian, Howard University honor graduate and the first black woman to obtain a doctorate in astronomy from the University of Michigan, Brown is still being honored by peers, her employer and her church.
The daughter of Frances and Robert Brown was assistant director for science communications and higher education at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
The flight center dedicated its 2009 Women in Astronomy and Space Science Conference in Brown's memory. During the October conference at the University of Maryland branch campus in Adelphia, Frances Brown received a portrait of her astrophysicist daughter, who died in 2008 at age 39.
In addition to the conference dedication, scholarships in Brown's name were awarded during the National Society of Black Physicists conference in Nashville, Tenn.
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Junior Achievement of Southwest Virginia will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its annual bowl-a-thon fundraiser at AMF Hilltop Lanes, 5918 Williamson Road in Roanoke on Feb. 20, 21, 27 and 28.
A $10-per-bowler registration covers shoe rental and three games of bowling. Bowlers also are asked to raise $30 each to participate. Contact Jennifer at (540) 989-6392 or bowlathon@ja.roacoxmail.com.
