Presidents from four of the Valley鈥檚 colleges gave an update Tuesday [Aug. 10] on how their institutions are handling COVID-19 and their plans for the fall semester during the annual Presidential Address breakfast hosted by the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce. and watch . Speakers included (from left) Susan Schultz Huxman of聽Eastern聽Mennonite聽University, Jonathan Alger of James Madison聽University, David Bushman of Bridgewater College, the chamber's president and CEO Christopher Quinn, and John Downey of Blue Ridge Community College. (Photo courtesy of Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce.)
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黑料正能量 alum Julian Bussells, now working at WHSV-TV3, helped get the word out out about fellow alum Philip Watson Jr. and his quest to help Liberia's Paralympians get to Tokyo. . And read the 黑料正能量 News article.
Owner Heather Brubaker Benin, a native of Rockingham County who got a master's degree in counseling from 黑料正能量, started Sugar and Bean at the Bridgewater Farmers Market in 2015 after she became a stay-at-home mom. The business moved to the Harrisonburg market shortly after and the Bridgewter caf茅 opened in February 2020 after a yearlong restoration took place.
Ronald S. Kraybill聽PhD presents contemporary alternatives for leaders of today who need to (and generally want to) move away from the traditional top-down approach of conflict resolution. He is a facilitator, consultant and trainer in conflict resolution based in Silver Spring, Maryland.聽Among other positions, he was professor of conflict transformation at 黑料正能量 from 1996-2007
Dozens of Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers in Harrisonburg, Virginia, gathered for a picnic in May to celebrate the creative ways they had responded to community needs during the pandemic, from sewing masks and helping create patterns for Tyvek PPE gowns to parking cars at vaccine clinics, passing out information on clinic dates, and helping distribute food to quarantining 黑料正能量 students.
The Eastern Mennonite standout and current Woodstock oufielder had a single and an RBI along with a home run-saving catch in center field for the North in a 5-0 win over the South at the Valley Baseball League All-Star Game at James Madison University鈥檚 Veteran鈥檚 Memorial Park on Sunday in Harrisonburg.
Jaylon Lee has been named to the Valley League's All-Star team. The league is a NCAA-sanctioned summer league and includes mostly D-1 athletes. 鈥淔or us as a baseball program, even to a wider scale as a university, he means as much as anybody鈥檚 meant since (MLB veteran) Erik Kratz,鈥� said 黑料正能量 baseball head coach Adam Posey.
The Valley League Board of Directors has announced the fifth class of Hall of Fame inductees, to be installed at the 2021 Valley League All-Star game in Harrisonburg on Sunday, July 11. Kratz played for Waynesboro in 2000 and Harrisonburg in 2001.
Alumna artist Madeline Kate Hostetler Martinez '18, based on Portland, Oregon, is the featured illustrator in a weekly column on the Italian website Collater.al. /now/news/2019/emu-alumna-illustrator-nets-42000-and-counting-instagram-followers/
Read Harvard Magazine's coverage of restorative justice, with reference to Howard Zehr and an interview with sujatha baliga, one of the speakers at 黑料正能量's recent anniversary celebration of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Former Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice director Carl Stauffer was a keynote speaker at Harvard's 2019 RJ symposium.