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MC gets pet disaster trailer
Madison County Emergency Services no longer serves just human residents of the county. Its newly arrived disaster pet trailer will help protect the county’s cats and dogs too. Madison Emergency Management Services was awarded a 100 percent grant to cover the $20,000 mobile pet trailer that can be used to create a shelter for “companion animals,” dog, cats, rabbits, and similar animals, or provide emergency supplies, according to Director of Emergency Management Services Carl Pumphrey.
Ambulance delivers ice cream
What could be more delicious than ice cream for a good cause? The family-run Emergency Sugar Response ice cream truck delivers ice cream to residents of Madison County often while collecting money for the Madison County Library or fund-raising for different groups.
Fall Tea set for Sept. 29
The Madison County Historical Society Fall Tea will begin at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29. A generous luncheon tea will be served at the Kemper Residence at 412 N. Main St. in downtown Madison, home of former Virginia governor and Confederate Gettysburg hero James Lawson Kemper
Hebron Valley fun run slated
Calling all runners, walkers and cancer survivors. The Madison Women’s Four Miler Training Program invites you to participate in the first annual Madison County-community-wide four mile fun run on Sunday, Aug. 28, based at Hebron Lutheran Church.
Weapons of ant destruction
I hate ants! Ants are very sneaky and come in after just a smidgeon (that’s a real word) of food ants prefer is spilled. Some of the midget ants seem to be invisible until that happens and then they appear, as magicians say, “ala kazam” or something foreign like that.
Sweet corn a MC garden essential
Sweet corn is among the most essential of summer garden crops in my Brigthwood garden. However, it requires considerable space and so cannot be successfully grown in a small garden. To assure adequate pollination, a planting should consist of at least four rows, and preferably more. Seedlings should be thinned to 12 inches apart in rows spaced 30-36 inches apart. I plan on a block of six 20-foot long rows, with the first planting about May 15.
Madison Area Community Calendar
The deadline for submitting Madison Area Community Calendar items is 4:30 p.m. Monday for that week’s paper. (The deadline will be earlier, 4:30 p.m. Friday, for the weeks prior to Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day.) Items may be faxed to (540) 948-3045 or sent via e-mail to news@madison-news.com. Please include a contact person’s name and phone number. Items are subject to editing and appear on a space-available basis, with the priority going to events that will occur sooner.
WM Park birds may have to fly south early
Summer is almost over. The local birds start flying south at the end of the month. They will probably leave early this time, since the rest area in their favorite trees that graced the War Memorial Park is gone.
MC's Dugan Beantown bound
On Sunday, Aug. 15, at Mount Zion United Methodist Church on Zion Church Road in Oak Park, there will be a special event of music, food and a silent auction to help Jodi Dugan with the costs of attending the Boston Fellows program. The cost for admission to this event is free. There will be several groups and singers performing. The funds raised will come from both the silent auction and a free will offering.
Madison Area Community Calendar
The deadline for submitting Madison Area Community Calendar items is 4:30 p.m. Monday for that week’s paper. (The deadline will be earlier, 4:30 p.m. Friday, for the weeks prior to Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day.) Items may be faxed to (540) 948-3045 or sent via e-mail to news@madison-news.com. Please include a contact person’s name and phone number. Items are subject to editing and appear on a space-available basis, with the priority going to events that will occur sooner.
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