Here’s a round-up of news briefs from around Southwest and Southside. Send yours for possible inclusion to news@cardinalnews.org
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Scott to headline music event in Bristol
Four-time GRAMMY Award nominee, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott and renowned Delta blues artist John Long are scheduled to perform on WBCM Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time live variety show at 7 p.m. EST, Dec. 8, in the performance theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.
Darrell Scott is a four-time GRAMMY nominee and has been awarded Songwriter of the Year by three different agencies; in 2001 by the National Songwriters Association and the NSAI, and by ASCAP in 2002. Many stars of country music have recorded his songs, including Garth Brooks, Brad Baisley, Kathy Mattea, The Chicks (formerly The Dixie Chicks), Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
Farm and Fun Time is recorded before a live audience and syndicated for television on Blue Ridge PBS, East Tennessee PBS, and PBS North Carolina. Tickets to the show are $40 and may be purchased by visiting the Events page at BirthplaceOfCountryMusic.org.
Farm and Fun Time may also be accessed in its entirety live through WBCM Radio Bristol’s Facebook page, on the air at 100.1 FM in the Bristol area, online at ListenRadioBristol.org or via the station’s free mobile app.
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Tech council aims to form local chapter of Blacks in Technology
The Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council is looking to form a local chapter of Blacks in Technology.
Blacks in Technology is a national “tech-focused community and media organization that is dedicated to increasing representation and participation of Black people in the technology industry.”
The council says it is “actively looking for volunteers and leaders to help build our local chapter.” RBTC will be the first sponsor for this chapter. To register your interest, please fill out this form and then contact Verge Vice President Lisa Garcia at lisa.garcia@rbtc.tech.
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Grandin Christmas Parade will be Saturday
The annual Grandin Village Christmas Parade will be Saturday, November 19, 2022. The parade begins at 11 a.m. at Shirley Avenue after mobilizing at Christ Lutheran Church. The parade proceeds down Grandin Road to Memorial Avenue. The Patrick Henry High School Marching Band will march just ahead of Santa Claus who brings up the rear seated high upon a fire truck. A box for “Letters to Santa” will be available at Fire Station #7 on Memorial Avenue until Christmas Eve.
New this year: Following the parade an after party will take place behind Cardinal Bicycle located at 1324 Winborne Avenue. Free hot cider and cookies will be available as well as food and drink for purchase inside Cardinal. Trophies will be awarded to entrants in best and most creative float categories as well as largest group.
The Grandin Theatre will show “Charlie Brown Christmas” in their main theater at 12 noon and is free to the public.
Church, scout and other neighborhood groups can participate by registering on line at historicgrandinvillage.com
Attendees are encouraged to follow CDC and VDH guidelines in effect at the time of the parade. For further information contact Donald Wilson at 540.520.3208 or register your group at www.historicgrandinvillage.com
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New River foundation awards $208,000 in grants
The Community Foundation of the New River Valley (CFNRV) awarded a total of $208,366.99 through its Responsive Grants program to 71 nonprofits serving the New River Valley. This total represents the most the CFNRV has ever given out during its competitive grants process. Since 2002, the foundation has awarded nearly $7 million in grants.
These grants are for operating support, which allows organizations maximum flexibility in how they use the funds. The applications came from organizations that support localities across the New River Valley with missions that focus on a variety of areas: animals, arts and culture, community and civic affairs, education, environment, health and wellness, poverty, and support, parenting, and care.
At a lunch reception on Wednesday, November 16, the CFNRV recognized each of the 71 grantees. Hosted at the Wytheville Department of Museums, 65 guests attended the event. The event was sponsored by Atlantic Union Bank, First Bank and Trust Company, HHHunt, and National Bank of Blacksburg.
A full list of this year’s grantees can be found below. The Responsive Grant application will open again in summer 2023. More information on the application process can be found at cfnrv.org/grants or by contacting the CFNRV team at cfnrv@cfnrv.org or 540-381-8999.
- Adaire Theatre: $4,000 total from the Loving Care Fund, Litschert Family Fund, & the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Beans & Rice: $4,000 from the Ann & H.W. Huff, Jr. Family Fund
- Blacksburg Museum & Cultural Foundation: $1,000 total from the Gerus Blieszner Fund, 4-17 Fund, & the Community Services Fund
- Bland Ministry Center: $2,000 total from the Wythe County United Legacy Fund & the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia: $4,000 total from the Young Women’s Life
Experiences Fund, the Janice Woodard Endowment, & the Piscura Family Fund - Brain Injury Services of Southwest Virginia: $3,170 total from the Wythe County United Legacy Fund, the Hazelton Family Fund, & the Jacobs Family Fund
- Brock Hughes Free Clinic: $4,000 total from the Ghia Borg Memorial Health Care Fund & the Wythe County United Legacy Fund
- Calfee Community & Cultural Center: $4,000 from the Ann & H.W. Huff, Jr. Family Fund
- Cayambis Institute for Latin American Studies in Music: $500 total from the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund & public contributions
- CHIP of the NRV, New River Community Action (NRCA): $2,000 total from the Endowment for Giles County, Gerus Blieszner Fund, & the Nelle Oakey Ryan Gardner Fund
- DePaul Community Resources: $2,000 from the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Emergency Assistance Program (NRCA): $2,000 total from the Endowment for Giles County, Endowment for Floyd County, & the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Engagement Center for Creative Aging at Virginia Tech (formally VT Adult Day Services): $3,100 total from the Bell Family Fund & the Jacobs Family Fund
- Family Resource Center: $3,500 from the Wythe County United Legacy Fund
- Feeding Southwest Virginia: $2,000 from the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley: $2,000 total from the Rosina & Dean Carter Fund for the Visual Arts & the Sarah Lee Alderson Memorial Fund
- Floyd Community Center for the Arts: $1,000 from the Endowment for Floyd County
- Floyd County Humane Society: $4,000 total from the Beverly A. & Homer T. Hurst Family Fund
- Free Clinic of Pulaski County: $4,000 from the Ann & H.W. Huff, Jr. Family Fund
- Giles Animal Rescue: $4,000 from the Endowment for Giles County
- Giles County Christian Service Mission: $4,000 from the Endowment for Giles County
- Giles County Shelter: $4,000 from the Endowment for Giles County
- Giles Health & Family Center: $4,000 from the Endowment for Giles County
- Habitat for Humanity of the New River Valley: $4,000 total from the Ann & H.W. Huff, Jr. Family Fund & the Warren Lloyd Holtzman Merit Grant Fund
- Head Start (NRCA): $4,000 total from the Luba Fabyrcky Memorial Endowment, the Janice Woodard Endowment, & the Endowment for Giles County
- Helping Overcome Poverty’s Existence (HOPE): $3,750 total from the Robert & Emily Stuart Grassroots Leadership Fund & the Wythe County United Legacy Fund
- Inmate Family Assistance of the NRV: $1,000 from the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- InStill Mindfulness SWVA: $2,000 total from the Blue Roads Educational Fund & the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Iris Brammer Public Library: $4,000 total from the Lydia Roeske Wright Memorial Fund, the Endowment for Giles County, & the Hazelton Family Fund
- Literacy Volunteers of America – New River Valley: $4,000 total from the Shuler Family Reading Fund, Dan & Beverly Fleming Family Fund, Fund For Equity & Compassion, & the Piscura Family Fund
- Live Work Eat Grow: $2,380 total from the Piscura Family Fund, the Gerus Blieszner Fund, Ghia Borg Memorial Fund, & the MANISTAL Fund
- Millwald Theatre: $2,000 from the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Montgomery County Christmas Store: $2,000 total from the Talbot Family Fund & Litschert Family Fund
- Montgomery Museum of Art & History: $2,600 total from the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund & public contributions
- Mountain Community Action Program: $3,000 from the Wythe County United Legacy Fund
- Mountain View Humane: $4,000 total from the Paws & Claws Fund, Beatrice S. Kalka Fund, the Highlands Fund, & the Nelle Oakey Ryan Gardner Fund
- New River Conservancy: $4,000 total from the Piscura Family Fund, the Susan Garrison Memorial Fund, & public contributions
- New River Family Shelter: $2,000 total from the Diana, Princess of Wales Fund, the Gerus Blieszner Fund, & the Nelle Oakey Ryan Gardner Fund
- New River Valley Agency on Aging: $4,000 from the Ann & H.W. Huff, Jr. Family Fund
- New River Valley Community Services: $2,000 total from the Matthew Allen Special Memorial Fund & the Highlands Fund
- New River Valley Disability Resource Center: $2,000 total from the Endowment for Giles County & the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- New River Valley Home: $2,100 total from the Hazelton Family Fund, Ghia Borg Memorial Fund, & public contributions
- New River Valley Senior Services: $4,000 total from the Worthington-Dolloff Cancer Treatment Fund
- New River Valley Youth Cycling Alliance: $1,000 total from the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- NRV CARES: $2,000 total from the Parenting Skills Fund & Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- One-on-One Literacy Program of Wythe & Grayson Counties: $3,000 total from the Wythe County United Legacy Fund
- Plenty!: $4,000 total from the Endowment for Floyd County & Litschert Family Fund
- Pulaski Community Youth Center: $4,000 from the Ann & H.W. Huff, Jr. Family Fund
- Radford-Fairlawn Daily Bread: $4,000 from the Ann & H.W. Huff, Jr. Family Fund
- Roanoke Wildlife Rescue: $2,000 from the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Rural Retreat Depot Foundation: $2,000 from the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Rx Drug Access Partnership: $4,000 from the Ghia Borg Memorial Health Care Fund
- Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary: $2,000 total from the Susan Garrison Memorial Fund & the Litschert Family Fund
- Springhouse Community School: $4,000 total from the Mary E. Sanders Family Fund & Sarah Lee Alderson Memorial Fund
- St Michael’s Micah’s Backpack Program: $4,000 total from the Children’s Shelter Home Endowment Fund & the Loving Care Fund
- The June Bug Center: $4,000 total from the JJ Fund, Kathy & Bill Sanders Family Fund, & The Children’s Shelter Home Endowment Fund
- The Mayapple School: $4,000 total from the Loving Care Fund, the Piscura Family Fund, the Gerus Blieszner Fund, the Nelle Oakey Ryan Gardner Fund, & the Wellness Fund
- To Our House (NRCA): $4,000 total from the David & Lillian Francis Charitable Fund & the Piscura Family Fund
- Town of Wytheville Department of Museums: $1,000 from the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Valley Interfaith Child Care Center: $4,000 from the Luba Fabyrcky Memorial Endowment
- Virginia Cooperative Extension – Pulaski: $2,086 total from the Ann & H.W. Huff, Jr. Family Fund & public contributions
- Virginia Hunters Who Care: $4,000 total from the Ann & H.W. Huff, Jr. Family Fund, Miller Family Fund, & The Community Services Fund
- Warm Hearth Foundation: $2,000 from the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Wilderness Road Regional Museum: $2,480.99 total from the Piscura Family Fund, the Nicholson Family Fund, the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund, & public contributions
- Women’s Resource Center of the New River Valley: $2,700 total from the Hawk’s Ridge Fund & the Endowment for Giles County
- Wonder Universe, A Children’s Museum: $4,000 from the Loving Care Fund
- Wythe County Breast Cancer Coalition: $1,000 total from the Wythe County United Legacy Fund
- Wythe County Public Schools Foundation for Excellence: $2,000 total from the Wythe County United Legacy Fund & Ghia Borg Memorial Fund
- Wytheville Training School Cultural Center: $4,000 total from the Wythe County United Legacy Fund & the Stoop Family Fund
- Virginia CARES (NRCA): $2,000 total from the Endowment for Giles County & the Litschert Family Fund
- YMCA at Virginia Tech: $2,000 total from the Cottingham Stuart Fund & the Ghia Borg Memorial Fund