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As regular soccer season winds down JRHS girl’s soccer team continued the march toward Pioneer District Champions. Mike Coleman provided the photos. Congratulations to the JRHS team!
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Hannah Nelms and Layne Williams
Dylan Snead and Brenna Eubank
Sabrina Hayth Nelms shares these photos from the spring fling at CAMS held last Friday.
“Yana Conrad is the first James River swimmer to make a college swimming commitment,” noted coach Kit Williams. The senior will attend Virginia Military Institute next year. Conrad will be on the Virginia Military Institute women’s swim team. On May 15, surrounded by her parents Sherry and Stan, sisters Alena and Anastasia and coaches and team members. She signed her commitment to swim on the next level.
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) has awarded Together For Troutville, Inc. (T4T) working in partnership with the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club a $1382.80 grant to construct a designated community kiosk on the Appalachian Trail in Troutville.
The kiosk consists of a three paneled wooden structure with a roof and is located on the Appalachian Trail between Route 11 and the bridge at Buffalo Creek in Troutville. Together for Troutville, Inc. has partnered with the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, the Town of Troutville, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Boy Scout Troop 137 and scout Shawn DiRocco and local volunteers. Project Director Catherine Herlocker with T4T is leading the development of the project. Shawn DiRocco, a boy scout with Troop 137 in Troutville is leading the building portion of the kiosk. Shawn is using this as his Eagle Scout Service Project. The kiosk is being developed in two phases. Phase I is the structure design and construction and phase II is the content development and visual panel installation.
As of May 11 phase I is complete. Shawn DiRocco and his team of volunteers worked diligently over several weeks to ensure the kiosk was in place prior to the 2nd Annual Troutville Trail Days event weekend which takes place on June 7-9 of this year. T4T anticipates Phase II to be completed by the end of 2013 and is currently seeking additional sources to fund the remainder of this project.
“Our community serves as a gateway to the Trail and the kiosk will welcome hikers and orient them to services that we offer here,” said Catherine Herlocker, Project Director for T4T. “It is a great opportunity to raise awareness for the Trail as a community resource and to inspire people to explore the AT for recreation and to reconnect with nature.”
“The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is excited to provide this grant program to help steward and protect the Appalachian Trail and to provide information to the public about this iconic footpath,” stated Mark Wenger, Executive Director/CEO of the ATC.
This year, the ATC is awarding more than $23,800 to Appalachian Trail (A.T.) clubs and their partners in local communities through this program. These grants, provided by the ATC with generous support from L.L.Bean Inc., help fund necessary projects along the Appalachian Trail, such as trail, shelter, and bridge construction, recruiting and training new volunteers, purchasing tools and safety gear, developing educational materials, and community outreach.
The ATC was founded in 1925 by volunteers and federal officials working to build a continuous footpath along the Appalachian Mountains. The A.T. is a unit of the National Park System, stretching from Georgia to Maine, at approximately 2,180 miles in length. It is the longest hiking-only footpath in the world. Volunteers typically donate more than 220,000 hours of their time doing trail-related work each year and about 2 to 3 million visitors walk a portion of the A.T. each year. The ATC has awarded more than half a million dollars in grants to the ATC’s affiliated Trail clubs and their volunteers through the L.L.Bean Grants to A.T. Clubs program since 1982.
The ATC works with 31 Trail maintaining clubs by providing resources, training, and volunteers to help maintain the Trail. The clubs are responsible for trail maintenance, monitoring protected land around the Trail, providing information to Trail users and the public, and participating in regional partnership committee meetings. Grants from this program may make the difference in a club’s ability to perform the vital work that makes the A.T. such a great recreational resource. Grant recipients are expected to match grants with labor, money, or in-kind contributions.
About Together for Troutville, Inc.
Together for Troutville, Inc. is chartable, non-profit, 501(C)(3) organization that was incorporated in November 2010. T4T exists to support the Town of Troutville in implementing their strategic plan by fostering community spirit, organizing signature recreation events, raising needed capital, and completing the plan initiatives. Together for Troutville is comprised of an all-volunteer staff who give freely of their time and talents to improve our community. For more information please visit www.togetherfortroutville.com.
Contact:
Sybille Nelson – President
Together for Troutville, Inc.
Tel. 540.992.6724
Email: sybillenelson@aol.com
Web: www.togetherfortroutville.com
About the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club
The Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club is a recreational hiking association of volunteers who preserve and improve the Appalachian Trail as the nation’s premier, continuous, long-distance footpath. Founded in 1932, the Club is celebrating over 80 years of service and adventure on the Appalachian Trail.
Contact: Mike Vaughn – President Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Tel. 540.992.1350
Email: mikeva999@yahoo.com
Web: www.ratc.org
About the Appalachian Trail Conservancy The Appalachian Trail Conservancy mission is to preserve and manage the Appalachian Trail – ensuring that its vast natural beauty and priceless cultural heritage can be shared and enjoyed today, tomorrow, and for centuries to come. For more information please visit www.appalachiantrail.org.
Contact: Javier Folgar Appalachian Trail Conservancy Tel. 304.535.2200 x117 Fax. 304.535.2667 Email: jfolgar@appalachiantrail.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/ATHike
–Submitted by Catherine Herlocker, photo 1 and two and three photos by Cathy Benson, The Botetourt View
On May 15, 2013 in the Lord Botetourt library, Kennedi Van Ravenstein committed to play soccer at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, TN. Van Ravenstein thanked her family, coaches and teammates. Even her brother Aaron said he was proud of her! Van Ravenstein has been a strong soccer player as well as a a basketball player for the Cavaliers over the past four years.
Natural Resources is the class where the study of Forestry is best exemplified on the high school level. At James River High School the students have been in the dual enrollment course all year learning about forestry, wood production, forest management, topography, GPS, logging and much more. They also have taken local lumber from a saw mill project and some donated wood from Home Depot that had been in a stack, and are making Adirondack chairs. It is the last hurrah for Ag teacher Richard Furman who is retiring after 34 years in teaching. Seems a fitting end to his career to have students build easy chairs. Every two years, a Furman class has made Adirondack chairs through out his career.
The young men– an all male class– and all are seniors except for three juniors. The students use the same basic pattern, but each designed the chair to fit his build or for perhaps some one lucky to get such a nice gift!
Only two students are finished completely Philip Broughman, a junior and Josh Neeley a senior. The two chairs are on display in the front office. Neeley made his from a combination of walnut, cherry, hickory while Broughman made his chair from pine and red cedar. Others in the class included: Chris Sowers, Dylan Bryan, Cameron Bell, Sam Stein, Eddie Schulz, Bayard Stevens, Hunter McCoy, Garrett Vaught, Court Clark, Harley Hodges, Daniel Martiniez, Trey Bruffey, Ryan Riley, Matt Middlecamp and Joshua Mallory.
The combination of chairs, the gritty feel of wood dust in the air and the hum of a sander completed the scene. Each hopes to take home a finished chair. Sowers, said, “I like doing it. I plan to paint mine maroon and then stress the paint by hand sanding the wood.” Others like Bryan who is six foot two said, ” I made mine to fit a tall man and will stain it honey gold when through.”
Cameron Bell who used cedar said, ” Don’t want cats sitting on it when I finish.” So he was uncertain as to where his chair would sit.
Court Clark was busy finding the right measurements off the screws for the chair back. ” I plan to round off the top.” he said and only has a few more structural parts before he sands and stains his chair.
Furman sat in Mallory’s chair and the class surrounded him. The chair exemplified what a technical education class as well as a college class can do for the average high school student. All plan to pursue some kind of college in the next few years from mechanics to engineering, to sports and fitness and maybe even some natural resources.
James River baseball defeated Parry McCluer 13-0 on Wednesday to force a three-way tie for first place in the Pioneer District.
Garrett Dorton allowed just one hit, and Daniel Richmond marked his first varsity start by slugging a two-run homer.
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Adam Beck. Photo courtesy of Miranda Beck
Miranda Beck shares this photo of Adam Beck, who shot a hole-in-one at Hanging Rock. It was made around 5 p.m. Mother’s Day on Hole 12, 160 yards, with a 7 iron. Witnesses were Miranda Beck, Michael Moon and Alexandra Moon.
More Botetourt nursing grads at DSLCC.
BOTETOURT NURSING GRADUATES — Four of 37 nursing graduates honored during the annual Pinning Ceremony held on the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Clifton Forge campus were, from left: Patrick Olson of Daleville; Frances Carillo-Kuenzer of Eagle Rock; Diane Ware of Fincastle; and Mary Bryant of Eagle Rock. Each also received an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Nursing during the 46th annual commencement exercises at DSLCC May 10.
Corey Ware of Buchanan graduated from Emory & Henry College on May 4.
– Submitted by Emory & Henry College
