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The Rockbridge Area Recreation Organization’s monthly board meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 5, at 6 p.m., at Lexington City Hall, second-floor meeting room.

Evelyn Ayers, 463-2727

Making up the RC girls tennis team are (front row, from left) Addison Wright, Keely Newman, Jordan Osborne, Campbell Bond, (middle row) head coach Andrew Bellairs, Sierra Bowles, Corinna Allen, Annalise Berry, Sahasra Kandregula, Ethnie DeSpain, (back row) Sydney Remington, Kaylee Hagenbugh, Katherine Lotts, Julia Newhall, Sara Topasna, Eleanor Goodhart, Sophia Fafatas and Ava Crocker. Not pictured is Mille Glick.

What’s the best diner in Virginia? According to Google users, it’s The Pink Cadillac just north of Natural Bridge.

In support of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals month in April, Edward Jones financial adviser Christy Harris and her office will be collecting pet supplies the entire month.

The Community Table is inviting everyone to a free meal at the Rockbridge Baths firehouse on Wednesday, April 5, from 6 to 7 p.m.

On the first Friday of April, the members of Artists in Cahoots will continue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the gallery by featuring paintings and scarves by former Artists in Cahoots member Georgianna Brush.

Saturday, May 20 ‒ 49 Winchester; Matt Koziol, opener – sold out.

Karmen Vest of Lexington was named to the president’s list at Coastal Carolina University for the fall 2022 semester. - Catarina Casey of Lexington made the College of Charleston’s fall dean’s list. - Noah Sullivan of Lexington has been named to the Plymouth State University dean’s list for the fall semester. - Maire Hart of Lexington made the fall dean’s list at Benedictine College.

Carolyn Bradley, 258-2720

Parry McCluer High School Drama will present “Sister Act Jr.” this Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1, at 7 p.m. at Gillis Theater in Virginia Military Institute’s Marshall Hall.

Kevin Quashie, professor of English at Brown University, will give the annual Shannon- Clark Lecture in English at Washington and Lee University on March 30 at 6 p.m. in Northen Auditorium in the Leyburn Library.

4-H Summer Camp registration will begin Wednesday, April 26, and is open to all youth ages 9-13.

The South River Fire Department auxiliary members this week are making half-pound Easter eggs – peanut butter, orange, maple and coconut – as a fundraiser for the department. The price is $7, and area residents can call (540) 460-1531 to order the eggs. The deadline is April 6. Pictured are (from left) Kathy Jennings, Bonnie Wilmer, Vickie Chambers, Rita Huffman and Suzanne Crowder. (Mary Woodson photo)

Spring Vineyard Meeting

Artist Arvid Christiansen explains his paintings of musicians who participated in the Wednesday morning music jam sessions in various locations in Lexington from the early 1980s until last year. The paintings are on display at Sweet Treats Bakery. Christiansen, 88, has been attending the jam sessions for the past six years, taking photos of the musicians and then painting from the photographs. He’s done 79 paintings of the musicians, and Sweet Treats employee Adrian Gonsalves chose 42 of them to hang at the bakery. A retired New Jersey chemical company executive who also taught chemistry at Virginia Military Institute, Christiansen taught himself how to paint and has been painting since he was 9 years old. (Claudia Schwab photo)

Deborah Potter McCormick, 463-7652

Karyn Gardner, (540) 228-2176, (540) 655-3646 Our condolences are extended to the Reynolds family as we remember Florence Reynolds and to the Markland family upon the tragic loss of Stormie Markland. Our prayers go out to you all.

Esther Pennington, 291-2629

Ginger is a beautiful English coonhound approximately 4 years old. She is spayed and vaccinated and heartwormtested negative. She is a companion dog, not a hunting dog. Visit her at the Rockbridge SPCA.

Carolyn Terrell, (540) 649-3828/[email protected] Happy birthday wishes are being sent to Atlee Waymack, Joe Campbell, Doug Gunsalus, LuAnn Smith, Brooke Terrell Landes, Ruth Cox, Bill Bragg and Linda Kislek. Better health prayers for Mike Clark (son of Mary Clark), Becky Hite, Terry Groah, Tommy Groah, Amy Fields, Jim Simmons, Hallie Waymack and Tyler Clem. Sympathy is extended to the family and friends of Loreen Fauber, Thomas Whitten and Mike Chittum.