Valley Program for Aging Services (VPAS) will host its second Confident Caregiver Conference for family caregivers on Sept. 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Bridgewater Church of the Brethren.
Dr. James Bradford, former superintendent of schools in Buena Vista, was sworn in as the new president of the Rockbridge Retired Teachers Association this summer by Clyde Keen, treasurer. He will serve a two-year term.
Participating in next month’s Rockbridge Regional Fair will be these winners of the 2022 Miss Rockbridge Fair Pageant, which was held Aug. 13 at the Natural Bridge Hotel and Conference Center. Pictured are (from left) Tiny Miss Rhaena Lynne Forbes, Miss Sofia Fleming holding Infant Miss Milana Jaymes Pietsch, People’s Choice winner Emma Rose Ramsey, Pre-Teen Miss Maci Raye Lee, Little Miss Adah Williams, and (in front) Wee Miss Audrina Jay Goff.
AMONG THE SCENES at the Rockbridge Community Festival were (clockwise from right) Jason Burke performing; discussion at the Natural Bridge Garden Club booth; Andrew Hart caning a chair seat; activity at the Balloons Over Rockbridge booth; meeting and greeting at the Rockbridge Area Republicans booth; discussion at the Rockbridge/Lexington Democrats booth; and the Virginia Department of Forestry representatives manning their booth.
CornerStone Bank, the only locally owned and managed bank in the Lexington/Buena Vista/Rockbridge County market, announced that on Aug. 18, its board of directors approved a 60 cents per share, one-time dividend to all shareholders of record as of Oct. 31, 2022, payable Dec. 9, 2022.
