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Wednesday, Oct. 4
7 p.m. - Informational Zoom session on being a Rockbridge Area Master Gardener, get all your questions answered about what is involved in the training; to receive the link to this free event, register at www.ramga. org; training starts this fall.
Thursday, Oct. 5
Day - Virginia Dressage Association Fall Show/USDF Region 1 Finals, free admission, Virginia Horse Center, continues through Sunday.
Friday, Oct. 6
Day – Tee it Up Fore the Tatas, a fundraising golf tournament for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Lexington Golf & Country Club; for more information, call (540) 463-3542.
5 to 7 p.m. – First Friday reception featuring a retrospective of the poetry and jewelry of Maureen Worth , Artists in Cahoots.
5 to 7 p.m. – Reception for the PleinAir exhibitors, Nelson Gallery, Lexington.
Saturday, Oct. 7
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. - American Red Cross Blood Drive, sponsored by Natural Bridge Ruritan Club, at the Natural Bridge Volunteer Fire Department; to register, visit https://www.redcross. org/give-blood.htmlwww. redcross.org.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. – McCormick Fall Mill Day, hosted by the Virginia Tech Shenandoah ValleyAgricultural Research and Extension Center, McCormick Farm.
11 a.m. – 2 p.m. – Fall Fest, featuring games, a firetruck, music and food, St. John’s United Methodist Church, 351 E. 21st St., Buena Vista.
Noon to 6 p.m. – Second annual Monacan Indian Nation Cultural Heritage Day, Glen Maury Park.
Monday, Oct. 9
7:30 p.m. – Lisa Peterson’s adaptation of “The Odyssey,” Keller Theater
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Lenfest Center.
Tuesday, Oct. 10 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Rockbridge Area Heath Center mobile dental clinic, old Goshen Public Library.
5 to 7 p.m. – Reception, Main Street Lexington’s 10th anniversary, hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served, Gin Hotel ballroom at 30 S. Main St.; the reception is free and open to the public, and no RSVP is required.
Wednesday, Oct. 11
Public Library.
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Rockbridge Area Heath Center mobile dental clinic , old Goshen Thursday, Oct. 12 5:30 p.m. – Talk, Molly Guptill Manning to lecture about George C. Marshall’s revitalization of unit based troop journalists in World War II, a book signing and reception will follow the lecture, Marshall Foundation building.
Saturday, Oct. 14
Day - House Mountain Horse Show (hunter/jumper), free admission, Virginia Horse Center, continues through Sunday.
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Mountain Day festival, downtown Buena Vista.
3-4:30 p.m. – Spectacle 2023: AWild Notion, a 90-minute show featuring original songs composed by Boxerwood campers and performed by the Rockbridge Youth Chorale alongside Boxerwood puppeteers and Halestone dancers, in the Boxerwood field; tickets are on sale now and are available at boxerwood. org/spectacle; performance repeats Sunday from 3 to 4:30 as well.
Sunday, Oct. 15
3 p.m. – Performance by one of the last members of the black Lexington band, the Rhythm Makers, with a band of his own, at Lylburn Downing Middle School; a benefit for the Jacqueline Pleasants Scholarship Fund.
Wednesday, Oct. 18
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Vaccine clinic, both flu and COVID shots available, presented by the Rockbridge Baths Community Organization in partnership with the Rockbridge Area Health Center, register by calling (540) 4648700, ext. 7110, by Friday, Oct. 13, no walk-ins allowed, Rockbridge Baths Fire Department.
Tuesday, Oct. 17
6:30 p.m. – Meeting, Rockbridge Camera Club, Piovano Room, Rockbridge Regional Library.
Saturday, Oct. 21
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Fall Festival at Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church, with apple butter, Brunswick stew, yard sale items and music.
Saturday, Oct. 28 4 to 6 p.m. – National Honor
Society Halloween Fair, featuring trick-or-treating, haunted hallway and games, for children ages 1 through 12, all proceeds will benefit the Rockbridge Christmas Basket program, RCHS; admission is $5, game tickets are $5 for 10 tickets.
Saturday, Nov. 4
8 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Chessie Trail Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K, 5K and 26.2 Relay, sponsored by Friends Of The Chessie Trail with all proceeds to be used for trail improvements; walkers welcome in 5K, 10K and half races; for more information and to register, go to www. runthechessie.org.
11 a.m. to 7 p.m. – Church dinner, Collierstown Presbyterian Church.
Saturday, Nov. 11
10 a.m. - Veterans Day Ceremony to honor all who have served or who are serving in all branches of the military, hosted by the Lexington Woman’s Club in the sanctuary of Lexington Presbyterian Church, Main Street.
