Bryan Elijah Smith,
Winner of Shen Valley Acoustic Roots Festival ’09, will be playing away at Blue Mountain Brewery between 7-10 pm. He’s a 23 year old singer/songwriter from Dayton, VA playing modern folk/roots/americana/blues music. Seriously, don’t miss him. He’s really good!
www.bryanelijahsmith.com
Event Date: Friday 4th of December 2009 07:01 PM
Location/Address: 9519 Critzers Shop Rd. (Rt. 151)
Contact Telephone Please call 540-456-8020 for more information
Brewery. Steal the Glass every first Thursday of every month, all day long. Buy a brew and get the Blue Mountain logo pint glass it comes in. Blue Reserve & Lights Out Holiday Ale are on tap now.
Event Date: Thursday 3rd of December 2009 11:30 AM
Location/Address: 9519 Critzers Shop Rd. (Rt. 151)
Contact Telephone Please call 540-456-8020 for more information
Nellysford/Schuyler
Nelson County, Virginia
Back in our September 2009 issue (#54 – page 25) we told you about The Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary near Schuyler, Virginia. Since then local photographer and bird enthusiast, Ann Strober has been working on a 2010 calendar with some of her best work included in the calendar. She’s already sold out of the initial printing a few times. We bought ours just this past weekend! You’ve seen many of Ann’s great photos in our daily weather and many more archived in our online weather photo galleries here and here. Ann’s calendar does include some of her favorite bird shots, but there are plenty of other breathtaking scenes as well.
The sanctuary was established in 2004 and is considered a wildlife rehabilitation sanctuary providing care for orphaned and injured wildlife from anywhere in Virginia.
If you are interested in getting one of the calendars to help benefit The Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary, the cost is $20. You can contact Ann via email by clicking here Or by calling: 434.361.1891
Lovingston
Nelson County, Virginia
The annual Lovingston Christmas parade will be held this weekend. This year’s Nelson County Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade is scheduled for Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM.
The 2009 parade theme is “A Beary Special Christmas.”
There will be street vendors with food and beverages.
Ribbons will be awarded in the following categories:
Best Theme Float
Most Entertaining Float
Best Formation Marching Unit
Most Entertaining Marching Unit
Best of Show Horse & Rider
Best of Show Classic Antique Vehicle (1980 and older)
Best of Show Modified Antique Vehicle (1980 and older)
Best of Show Fire Unit
Best of Show Rescue Unit
Judges Choice Award
If you would like to participate in the parade, please contact Sherri Brooks at 263-8178 or email: smb9k@aol.com Parade applications made be downloaded by clicking here.
Much more information over at parade’s official website by clicking here.
Wintergreen Resort
Nelson County, Virginia
Temps are in the 70’s down below this Sunday and nearing 60° on the mountain at Wintergreen Resort, but cold weather is starting to settle in over Central Virginia with much colder temperatures on the way after the first week in December. Techs at the resort tried out a little snow making this past Thanksgiving Holiday over on Eagle’s Swoop Not a lot to see just yet, but things are gearing up!
Plans are underway to begin serious snow making in the coming days as the temperatures cool with some slopes proposed to open December 12th according to information posted on the resort’s site.
Be looking for more updates and when the time is right, you can always get the latest slope conditions at the resort by clicking here where we have a link to the slope conditions.
Nelson County, Virginia
As the holidays begins, so do the events across Nelson. With Thanksgiving Day behind, the upcoming weekend if chocked full of thinngs to do right here in Nelson! Just scroll down to the Datebook Events Section, like the one shown in the picture, on our homepage of NelsonCountyLife.com and check out all of the things to do.
Want to submit and event yourself to show up in our datebook? Just click here to enter your event automatically, you can even upload an image to go with your event or announcement!
Have a great rest of the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend!
Afton
Nelson County, Virginia
For the second year in a row, The Rockfish Valley Community Center will again be selling Christmas Trees over the next few weeks. On location sales kick off starting Saturday – November 28th @ 9AM.
You can contact the center by dialing 434.361.0100 or email them to reserve a tree early: trees@rockfishcc.org
Nelson County, Virginia
People in Nelson and other nearby parts of Central Virginia got a pre-Thanksgiving surprise Wednesday evening as a 2.7 magnitude minor earthquake shook parts of Southern and Eastern Nelson County and points to the south in Amherst and Appomattox.
The US Geological Survey shows the quake hitting at 5:24 PM eastern time with the center approximately 7 miles north of Appomattox.
“I felt it and I live in Gladstone..at the Nelson-Appomattox line!,” Heather Gowen wrote to us via our Nelson Mag Facebook page shortly after it happened. Jennifer Campbell Thomas also wrote to us on FB saying, “I’m in Arrington and we felt/heard it. It was loud and the whole house felt like it was vibrating.”
The Nelson Sheriff’s Department received lots of calls from people all over SE Nelson County reporting something similar to an explosion.
As of late Wednesday night, no damage or injuries had been reported.
No turkeys were harmed either! Whew!
Nelson/Amherst County, Virginia
Update 8PM : USGS Data here giving center of quake, etc.
Thanks to ABC-13 WSET in Lynchburg for this info. Their story reads:
A small earth quake has been reported in Nelson and Amherst Counties. Our newsroom phone has been ringing off the hook with people saying they felt earth shook and heard a loud boom around 5:30 p.m. Virginia Tech seismological observatory confirmed that it was a small, possibly,
2.52.7 magnitude earthquake. We will bring you more details as they become available.
Many phone calls were received and we here at NCL have had numerous posts to our Facebook page reporting the minor quake.
More updates as we know.
RVCC’s 3rd, annual Holiday Market will be held on Sat., Dec. 5 from 9 am to 2 pm. The market features local, artisan cheeses, eggs, beef, chicken & pork, plus seasonal veggies and fresh baked goods. There will be fine art and crafts, fresh & dried holiday wreaths & trees with live music all day. Additionally there is a pancake breakfast and lunch available for purchase. Free admission
Event Date: Saturday 5th of December 2009 09:00 AM
Location/Address: 190 Rockfish School Lane
Contact Telephone Please call 434-361-0100 for more information
