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16th Annual North Branch Golf Classic : April 30, 2009

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When: Thursday, April 30th 2009, 1 PM Shotgun Start

Where: Stoney Creek Golf Course at Wintergreen Resort, Rt. 151 in Nellysford. http://www.wintergreenresort.com/golf/Stoney_Creek.aspx – (Rated #34 best resort course in U.S. by Golf Digest )

Important Details:
There will be a shotgun start at 1 PM.
Registration and putting contest will begin at 11:30 AM.
Captain’s Choice
Prizes
Post-tournament gathering at Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton

Sponsorships available: We will place a sign with your business name on one golf hole and the business name will appear in the program. We are also looking for a Hole-in-One Prize sponsor. The sponsor would pay for prize insurance (usually around $200 – $300), based on prize offered.

Ready to Sign-up?
Go directly to our website, there you can download registration forms.
http://north-branch-school.org/golf.html

You can access the registration forms directly:
http://north-branch-school.org/Golf_2009_Registration.pdf
You can also register online:
http://www.eylc.com/golf/reg.htm

Find our event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=50320011038

Register by phone:
Brian Dickert, 540-456-4534

Event Date: Thursday 30th of April 2009 11:30 AM

Location/Address: Stoney Creek Golf Course

Contact Telephone Please call 540-456-4534 for more information

Nelson Artist, Bill Hess, Featured on NBC-29

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Screen grab courtesy of www.nbc29.com : Bill Hess of Afton in an interview with NBC-29
Screen grab courtesy of www.nbc29.com : Bill Hess of Afton in an interview with NBC-29

Afton
Nelson County, Virginia
Back in March of 2006 we featured local Nelson artist, Bill Hess, on the cover of Nelson County Life Magazine. Bill is a very neat guy who takes old glass bottles, crushes them, then melts them back into molten glass to make all kinds of new designs. Others are taking notice of what Bill’s been doing from his studio here in Afton.

Bill in our 2006 story taking molten glass from his kiln.
Bill in our 2006 story taking molten glass from his kiln.

This past week NBC-29 in Chatlottesville featured Bill in an on air story. You watch it by following this link:
http://www.nbc29.com/global/video/popup/pop_playerLaunch.asp?clipId1=3545900&at1=News+%2D+Special+Coverage&vt1=v&h1=Man+Turns+Recycled+Glass+into+Treasure&d1=97100&redirUrl=www.nbc29.com&activePane=info&LaunchPageAdTag=homepage&clipFormat=flv

Bill and is entire family are very neat people!

Congrats on the very nice story Bill!

The Wedding Singer : Continues This Weekend At NCHS : March 14th & 15th

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Photos By Tom Dennis : © NCL Magazine 2009 : The Wedding Singer performances continue this weekend at Nelson County High School in Lovingston, Virginia : Click on any photo to enlarge.
Photos By Tom Dennis : © NCL Magazine 2009 : The Wedding Singer performances continue this weekend at Nelson County High School in Lovingston, Virginia : Click on any photo to enlarge.

Lovingston
Nelson County, Virginia
The Wedding Singer kicked off Friday night at Nelson County High in Lovingston with tons of folks turning out to see the ever popular performance. Thanks to Tom Dennis of www.dennisphotographyonline.com for sharing some of his photos with us.

Another evening performance will be held tonight at 7:30PM, with an afternoon performance Sunday at 2PM.
Another evening performance will be held tonight at 7:30PM, with an afternoon performance Sunday at 2PM.

The production takes you back to 1985 with rock-star wannabe Robbie Hart as New Jersey’s favorite wedding singer. Robbie is the life of the party—until his own fiancée,Linda, leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding he plays as disastrous as his own. Then we meet Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. Only trouble is Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and unless Robbie can pull off the performance of the decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever. This new release gives us a new score that pays loving homage to the pop songs of the 1980s, and takes us back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer just might be the coolest guy in the room.

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Martins Store Substation BPL Update : 3.13.09

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Nelson County, Virginia

The latest BPL email blast update from IBEC as of Friday evening 3.13.09.

From: “IBEC Customer Service”
Date: March 13, 2009 5:27:02 PM EDT
To: “info”
Subject: Martins Store Broadband over Powerline Update March 13, 2009

Martins Store Substation BPL Update

March 13, 2009

This week the crews returned and we were able to continue troubleshooting deployment issues and deploy some new BPL backbone. The BPL equipment has also been helpful in identifying loose or broken electrical equipment such as insulators and crossarm supports.

We have made significant progress in clearing up some noise issues that were preventing some customers from coming online in all regions of the deployment. We have almost completed the installation at Afton 3 and are currently focusing on finishing up the installations at Woodsmill 2 and 3 and Afton 2. IBEC was able to bring online over 50 BRUs and over 30 CAUs this week.

The major issue we are currently facing is dealing with more electrical noise than expected. This noise affects the BPL signal and makes it difficult to get good connections between the units. This issue is correctable, but requires more time and resources to repair as the noise signatures are identified and then located to match the noise pattern with the actual source of the noise in the power grid. We are also adjusting our network design in some areas to gain more consistent throughput and to bring you a more reliable network. We would like to reiterate that these processes normally occur during the initial deployment and typically happen as each unit is originally hung. However, due to the issues Verizon had with activating our data circuits, we were forced to hang the equipment blindly and come back afterwards to mitigate these issues.

IBEC has dispatched additional field support for the next three weeks to help any customers who are having issues connecting the modems in their homes to the network.

If you are contacted by IBEC by telephone, please get back in touch with us, so that we can activate your modem and ensure that you have an optimized configuration. at 888-IBEC-BPL or 888-423-2275. We have had many good reports from people whose service has been activated in the past few weeks and hope that others will send their comments to service@ibec.net.

Thanks again for your patience,
IBEC Customer Service

Unsettled Weekend Weather For Nelson

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Photos By Paul Purpura, Mountain Photographer : ©2009 NCL Magazine : Snow crystals on the pines at Wintergreen.
Photos By Paul Purpura, Mountain Photographer : ©2009 NCL Magazine : Snow crystals on the pines at Wintergreen.

Wintergreen Mountain
Nelson County, Virginia
Friday 3.13.2009
Around 2-3 inches of snow fell Friday morning in the mountains of Nelson County. Virginia, with 1-2 inches in the valley. Our Paul Purpura grabbed some really pretty tight shots of the snow there. Most of the snow in the valley had melted by noon. Over the next few days unsettled weather will be the drill for Nelson County. Several disturbances will affect our weather with chances for showers through Monday afternoon. Though some precipitation over the weekend may mmix from time to time with snow, sleet or light freezing rain, the majority of any frozen precipitation will be confined to the higher elevations above 2000 feet.

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By Tuesday of next week condition improve with temperatures warming back to the low and mid 60’s for valley highs.

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Check our the detailed forecast on the front page of Nelson County Life and the audio cast in Tommy’s Weather by clicking here or using the mini player to your right!

Blue Ridge Writers at VA Festival of the Book

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The Virginia Festival of the Book, held each year in Charlottesville, brings writers and readers together for a five-day celebration of the literary arts. This year the celebration begins March 18 and runs through March 22. A vast array of free events featuring authors and publishers from around the world are scheduled and can be found at www.vabook.org. Sharing the spotlight will be local authors from the Blue Ridge Writers Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club.

On Thursday, March 19 at 10 AM in the Central Jefferson-Madison Regional Library on 201 E. Market St. in Charlottesville, the Blue Ridge Writers will discuss and launch their newly published anthology (Blue Ridge Anthology 2009, ISBN 9780979020599) at a Festival program entitled, “Blue Ridge Anthology: Celebrating Central Virginia Writers.” This program will feature authors Jack Trammell, Deborah Prum, Sharon Leiter, Coy Barefoot, Rick Britton and Gary Kessler discussing the anthology project and their writing experiences. Then, on Saturday, March 21 from 9 AM to 4 PM in the Charlottesville Omni, the Blue Ridge Writers will host a “Meet & Mingle” event in the Montpelier Room to showcase their published works and introduce visitors to one of Virginia’s oldest writing clubs – the Virginia Writers Club, founded in 1918 by James Branch Cabell.

The Blue Ridge Writers Chapter VWC serves aspiring and seasoned writers in the city of Charlottesville and counties of Albemarle, Augusta, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Madison, Nelson and Orange. Their events can be found at www.blueridgewriters.org. For more information, contact: Jack Trammell, President (540) 894-9034; jtrammel@rmc.edu.

Event Date: Thursday 19th of March 2009 10:00 AM

Location/Address: Central JMR Library/201 E. Market St., Charlottesville

Contact Telephone Please call 540-894-9034 for more information

Carleigh Nesbit @ Blue Mountain Brewery : March 22, 2009

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Come see Carleigh Nesbit with Carl Anderson at Blue Mountain, Sunday March 22nd 2:30-5 pm. Americana/Folk/Country
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Event Date: Sunday 22nd of March 2009 02:38 PM

Location/Address: 9519 Critzers Shop Rd. Rt. 151

Contact Telephone Please call 540-456-8020 for more information

Authorities on Lookout For Gunman Who Robbed Credit Union in Crozet, VA : 3.13.09

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Crozet
Albemarle County, VA
Local and state police are now on the lookout for a lone gunman who held up The UVa Community Credit Union in Crozet, VA at the Clover Lawn location. Around noon today the gunman entered the credit union and demanded money. He left walking and is described as a male wearing a light color olive jacket with dark hair.

NBC-29 Out of Charlottesville is following the details.

Hobojac @ Blue Mountain

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Catch John & Jacob tonight from 7-9.

Event Date: Friday 13th of March 2009 07:00 PM

Location/Address: 9519 Critzers Shop Rd. Rt. 151

Contact Telephone Please call 540-456-8020 for more information

Blue Mountain St. Patty’s Day! : March 17, 2009

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Yes! We will be open this Tuesday, so come by the brewery for our Irish specials of bangers ‘n’ mash, locally raised lamb stew and specials on Blue Mountain brews!

Event Date: Tuesday 17th of March 2009 12:00 PM

Location/Address: 9519 Critzers Shop Rd.

Contact Telephone Please call 540-456-8020 for more information

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