Vignette http://blogs.roanoke.com/vignette Mon, 20 May 2013 21:04:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Fans ride steam locomotive at the Virginia Museum of Transportation http://blogs.roanoke.com/vignette/2013/05/fans-ride-steam-locomotive-at-the-virginia-museum-of-transportation/ http://blogs.roanoke.com/vignette/2013/05/fans-ride-steam-locomotive-at-the-virginia-museum-of-transportation/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 21:04:12 +0000 Stephanie Klein-Davis http://blogs.roanoke.com/vignette/?p=4519 The Virginia Museum of Transportation provided fans with the opportunity to ride the Vulcan 0-4-0T steam locomotive number 17 with the New Hope Valley Railway group on Sunday along a downtown track from the museum on Norfolk Avenue.

The Virginia Museum of Transportation provided fans with the opportunity to ride the Vulcan 0-4-0T steam locomotive number 17 with the New Hope Valley Railway group on Sunday along a downtown track from the museum on Norfolk Avenue. Photo by Stephanie Klein-Davis/The Roanoke Times

]]> http://blogs.roanoke.com/vignette/2013/05/fans-ride-steam-locomotive-at-the-virginia-museum-of-transportation/feed/ 0 0 Tug for Tots Raises Money for CHIP http://blogs.roanoke.com/vignette/2013/05/tug-for-tots-raises-money-for-chip/ http://blogs.roanoke.com/vignette/2013/05/tug-for-tots-raises-money-for-chip/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 21:38:00 +0000 Stephanie Klein-Davis http://blogs.roanoke.com/vignette/?p=4508 Officer Chris Collins, 25, at the front of the rope helps the Western Virginia Regional Jail team beat the eight year champion, the Roanoke City Sheriff's Department, on Friday at the CHIP fundraiser, "Tug for Tots," at Salem High School. The jail team reigns now. See more photos from this event in the Virginia section on Saturday, May 18.

Officer Chris Collins, 25, (at the front of the rope) helps the Western Virginia Regional Jail team beat the eight-year champion, the Roanoke City Sheriff’s Department, on Friday to win the finals at the CHIP fundraiser “Tug for Tots” at Salem High School. STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | The Roanoke Times

See more of my photos from this event in the Virginia section of The Roanoke Times Saturday.    -Stephanie Klein-Davis

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Rinko Mitsunaga prepares to dig her ball out of a sand trap during the first day of the Scott Robertson Memorial golf tournament at Roanoke Country Club. Photo by Rebecca Barnett/The Roanoke Times

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A morning mist lifts off a pond along Yellow Mountain Road at Tuesday morning morning in southwest Roanoke County. STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | The Roanoke times

                                                  

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Frost-covered onion plants in a Hale-YMCA Community garden plot in Blacksburg Tuesday. In the background are cheese cloth-covered crops, protected from the frost. Photo by Matt Gentry/The Roanoke Times

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