The perils of being the party host
The Office on Youth is promoting “Parents Who Host, Lose the Most, Don’t be a Party to Teenage Drinking,” to educate parents about the local hosting laws with regards to providing alcohol to teens at parties in their homes.
With prom and graduations just around the corner this is the perfect time to get this message out.
More details: www.drugfreeactionalliance.org/parents-who-host.
SMAC wins numerous events at Regionals
The Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club competed in the Virginia Swimming Regional Championships in Roanoke, Virginia February 24-26. The meet was open to all swimmers in the Blue Ridge Region in Virginia. The meet is open to any swimmer 18 and under who has met the qualifying time for a specific event.
SMAC girls placed 6th and the boys placed 5th and in the combined scores they finished 5th. Virginia Swimming has data on the Regional Meet starting in 2004 and this is the highest placement for SMAC and by far the most points they have ever scored. SMAC’s previous high score was around 1,000 points and the team scored 1,738 this year. Congratulations to all of the swimmers who qualified for and participated in the meet. Read more
Warner reads Seuss … with a message
For Mark Warner, it risked being a Michael Dukakis moment.
“This is politician rule #1: You’re never supposed to wear a hat,” Sen. Warner, D-Va., said after being handed a Dr. Seuss hat that otherwise seemed sensible given what he was about to do.
And you thought banging the gavel to open and close sessions of the United States Senate was tough. Try getting a dozen preschoolers just up from their afternoon nap to sit still for 10 minutes to listen to Green Eggs and Ham.
“I, like probably most adults, grew up with Dr. Seuss. I grew up as a kid with him. I read Dr. Seuss stories to my kids when they were growing up. And so the chance to come to the Y and pick out a Dr. Seuss book – my two favorites were Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham – is big for me,” said Warner, who read to preschoolers at the Waynesboro YMCA on Friday. Read more
Sen. Warner visits Y to learn about solar project
Of course it would rain. U.S. Sen. Mark Warner was in Waynesboro on Friday to get a firsthand look at the $100,000 thermal-solar project being installed at the Waynesboro YMCA, and the rain was coming down in sheets.
So instead of climbing on the roof to see the panels that will cover approximately 1,600 square feet of roof above the Y’s indoor swimming pool, Warner was dry inside the facility going over the details of the project with YMCA executive director Jeff Fife and Andy Bindea and Shawn Cooke of Sigora Solar, the project partner taking the lead on the installation. Read more
Sen. Warner to tour Waynesboro Y on Friday
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner will visit the Waynesboro YMCA on Friday, March 2, to get a tour of the $100,000 thermal-solar installation project at the Y and be briefed on the details of the project by officials from the Y and project partner Sigora Solar.
The project is the largest thermal-solar installation in the state of Virginia. The panels being installed will save the YMCA more than $13,000 a year in energy costs.
After the tour of the solar project, Warner will participate in Read Across America Day by reading selections from the works of Dr. Seuss to children in the Y’s preschool program.
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