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W&L Students Prepare To Make Their Pick For The Republican Presidential Nominee

Friday, Feb. 9

Biologist Giving Bird Club’s Next Program Monday

Wednesday, Feb. 7

Paisley Griffin is presenting an art show entitled “Icons of Beauty” – in praise of this area’s natural beauty - at Nelson Gallery this month. In her new show she has selected some of our most prominent, most distinctive subjects like House Mountain, the Cowpasture River and Hays Creek, and labeled them “icons of beauty.” Griffin studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design and with Gene Davis at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington, D.C. She had a successful career as a designer and editor in printing and publishing in the Washington area and moved to Lexington in the early 1990s.

Interactive Exhibit Opens In Staniar

Chamber Music Society To Perform His Music Monday

Deborah Potter McCormick, 463-7652

Students of the Washington and Lee University Piano Program will present their annual winter concert, “The Seasons: Sounds of Nature,” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 11, in the Wilson Concert Hall. The program will highlight piano pieces inspired by nature in various global and historical contexts. Performances will include crowd favorites by Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin, as well as gems by Barber, Berlin, Schumann, Rossini and Dahl. The recital will also feature piano faculty members Patrick Summers, William McCorkle and Akiko Konishi performing works by Brubeck and Piazzolla. A reception will follow. Recital information can be found at https:// my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center/piano-program-recital-the-seasons-sounds-of-nature and will be streamed online at go.wlu.edu/livestream.

Carolyn Bradley, 258-2720

Super Bowl Party, Valentine’s Dinner At Life Chapel

If you’re a strummer, a fiddler, a singer, or even a hummer looking for a song, there’s a group of similar souls ready to welcome you at Maury River Senior Services.

Volunteers Needed For Program

Brad Whorley received the Firefighter of the Year award at the South River Volunteer Fire/Rescue awards dinner on Jan. 29.

Our region is entering a time of year ideal for improving our pastures by frost-seeding clover. This is a long-established practice but after 2023’s very dry late summer and fall, many of our pastures have been grazed very closely and could use some help recovering in 2024. February is the ideal time to broadcast clover seed and realize an improvement in pasture yield and quality.

Washington and Lee University’s Evans Hall was packed with people sampling a wide variety of delicious soups at the annual Souper Bowl this past Sunday. AT RIGHT, CHEFS catering served up a warm and comforting steak and ale chowder. BELOW LEFT, Pure Eats provided two different vegetable soup options – one with meat and one without. BELOW RIGHT, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity dished out a hot and steamy Mexican style soup. BOTTOM LEFT, W&L Dining Services cooked up four soups for the day, including potato leek, butternut squash bisque, roasted red pepper with crab bisque and pozole. BOTTOM RIGHT, the group Meatpuzzle provided music for the afternoon crowd. All proceeds go towards the W&L’s Campus Kitchen Backpack Program, a partnership between CKWL and local schools. (Joann Ware photos)

The February meeting of the Sounder Community Circle will take place one week later than usual: Monday, Feb. 19, 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the Grace Episcopal Church parish hall in Lexington.

In his poem, “My Heart’s in the Highlands,” Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote, “Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands forever I love.”

Registration is open for Virginia Military Institute’s 34th annual Environment Virginia Symposium, to be held April 9-11 in Marshall Hall.

THE TOWN OF GLASGOW (Town) is seeking proposals from qualified professional engineering firms (Firm) to provide comprehensive engineering services related to lead service line inventory program management. It is anticipated that one firm will be selected to provide services requested using the competitive negotiation procedure for professional services, as outlined in the Virginia Procurement Act. The work will generally include, but shall not be limited to, lead inventory mapping, lead service line replacement plan development, school and daycare sampling, permitting, design, construction administration, funding procurement assistance, etc. Proposals received from interested Firms will be evaluated for their professional qualifications, experience, and competence necessary for the completion of the requested services. Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (small or minority and/or women owned firms) are encouraged to submit proposals. Interested firms can obtain the full request for proposal (RFP) by contacting Jeff Rankin @ jrankinglasgowvirginia. org.

A missing local man was found safe at his home over the weekend.