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LISTEN: Town Talk/Riverside Center for the Performing Arts
CEO and Producing Artistic Director Patrick A’Hearn previews upcoming shows (They’re Playing Our Song, Wizard of Oz and Love Letters). We discuss the benefits of Riverside going non-profit.  riversidedt.com
Downtown Greens announces they’ve fully paid off 56 acres
The property is next to Braehead Farm, along Belman Road and Tyler Street in Fredericksburg.
LISTEN: Town Talk/Leashes of Valor
Karen Meadows and Lisa Berry are two of the service dog trainers with Spotsylvania-based Leashes of Valor. We talk about how they train the dogs, how they prepare the veterans to life with a service dog, and how one leash does save two lives. leashesofvalor.org
Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank distribution schedule this week
The Food Bank has a free app: FREDFOODVA, You are not required to show any paperwork or identification to receive food. Participants may be asked a series of intake questions such as Household Information, Income, & Locality
Community Connections Expo is this Tuesday
Event organizers say this is a first for the region. They hope it becomes an annual event.
LISTEN: Drunk driving a major concern this weekend
The head of the Washington Regional Alcohol Program says St. Patrick’s Day rivals New Year’s for drunk driving incidents. Kurt Erickson extra police will be out. For some, the Sober Ride program is an option.
The Moss Clinic exists to provide care to those who can’t afford it. What happens if it can’t afford to provide care?Â
The prognosis for the clinic, which serves exclusively low-income patients, appears grim.
Friends of the Rappahannock bring film festival to Fredericksburg
Spend an evening watching films meant to inform and inspire.
WATCH: Community Connections preview
The Expo seeks to connect those in need with free community resources in the Fredericksburg area. It’s March 19 at the Fredericksburg Convention Center.
CASA finds a novel way to guide teens into adulthood
Organization’s manual outlines basic steps toward independence that many adults take for granted.
PHOTOS: Before there can be an RAAI Plant Sale…there need to be plants
Rappahannock Adult Activities is getting ready for their big plant sale this spring. The planting has begun at 750 Kings Highway. The Garden Party is in April. Easter Lily orders are being taken too. Check out their Facebook page for info.
WATCH: Planting the RAAI seeds/March 2024
The tomatoes so many of us buy each year at the Rappahannock Adult Activites Spring Plant Sale have started to grow at 750 Kings Highway in Stafford. We watached as Alexis Fox led RAAI’s Horticulture Therapy Program one morning last week.
Stage is set for summer camp at Riverside
Musical theater camp benefits area youth, boost confidence of young performers.
PHOTOS: Another untold story shared. This one in Brandy Station
Civil War Trails tells of another small town, big story from the war. A sign has been installed at Shiloh Church on Stevensburg Road in Brandy Station of nurse Cornelia Hancock.
WATCH: Civil War Trails installs a sign in Culpeper remembering Cornelia Hancock
She was a volunteer nurse stationed at the Brandy Station field hospital and is one of the rare women who lived and worked near the front lines during the war. Hancock experimented with hops and yeast for medicinal purposes.
Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank distribution this week
The Food Bank has a free app, FREDFOODVA
LISTEN: Worried about doing your taxes? Rappahannock United Way Prosper Tax Services may help
You may be eligible if your household income was $80,000 or less in 2023. We talk to Janel Donohue of Rappahannock United Way.
PHOTOS: SAWs-Virginia continues to build ramps for the disabled around the region
SAWs was in Dahlgren on Saturday
Coldest Night of the Year asks walkers to ‘look closer’ at homelessness
This year’s event raised more than $164,000 to combat hurt, hunger and homelessness in the Fredericksburg area.
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