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- Help cultivate peace, harmony, creativity. Plan events, speak in public, prepare PSAs, other possibilities. (73524/73465) - Answer transferred phone calls at home from 7 to 9 p.m. to help connect people to emergency shelters. (69307) - Help transmit emergency messages between military service members and their families. (47121) - Drivers needed to deliver meals to homebound seniors. Mileage reimbursement, use own vehicle. (47808) youths and adults These positions are open to volunteers of all ages. - Christmas Forest volunteers - light carpentry, assist designers, sell raffle tickets, other possibilities. (47689) - Assist patients in an Alzheimer's care facility with activities including exercises, games, storytelling, as well as visual and sensory exercises. (59662) - Help the library raise money for special programs by setting up and tearing down displays for weekend book sales held monthly.
Officials not changing minds about zoning change
County officials had no intention of changing their minds regarding a zoning change they altered two months ago, though recent lawsuits forced a new hearing on the matter Tuesday. In a joint hearing, the Culpeper County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors met to re-adopt an amendment to the county code that prohibits residential uses in industrial areas. An earlier grandfather provision - no longer in effect - allowed mixed uses. In November, at the commission's recommendation, the board adopted the change - an action it repeated Tuesday night. Some residents in the affected areas do not agree with the provision elimination. Two property owners have filed suit against the county, stating it adopted the zoning change improperly and violated their rights.
Writer's Group co-founder spends retirement penning crime mysteries
Once upon a time, an investment broker turned furniture salesman waited until the day he retired to start living happily ever after. Not that Stan Leeds wasn't happy in his two careers, but Leeds is a writer at heart, and writers must write. .
Closing arguments begin in Atrium nursing home trial
After more than four weeks of testimony, prosecution and defense attorneys today will make closing arguments in the trial of former nursing home administrator Martha F. Bell and the home she once ran. Defense attorneys rested their cases yesterday after three days of testimony and presentations. Jurors will begin deliberating after hearing closing arguments and instructions from Common Pleas Judge David R. Cashman. Mrs. Bell, 60, of West Mifflin, and the defunct Ronald Reagan Atrium I Nursing, Research and Rehabilitation Center are charged with neglect of a care-dependant person and other offenses in the death of Atrium resident Mabel Taylor. Mrs. Taylor, 88, who had Alzheimer's disease, died Oct. 26, 2001, after she was trapped overnight in a locked courtyard at the nursing home in Robinson.
Kirkland's 4Q same-store sales decline
Home furnishings retailer Kirkland's Inc. on Thursday said its fourth-quarter same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, declined 6.1 percent. Net sales for the 14-week period ending Feb. 3 rose 6.8 percent to $163.9 million, from $153.4 million in the prior-year period. Full-year same-store sales fell 6.6 percent, while net sales grew 6.8 percent to $443.3 million from $415.1 million. The company is scheduled issue fourth-quarter results before the market opens on March 16. .
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