Warsaw News

Bert Carlson and Jennifer Kirkland will give a concert at RCC's Warsaw Campus on July 1. On Wednesday, July 1, the Friends of the Rappahannock Community College Library Center will sponsor a free concert of jazz and classic American songs by vocalist and keyboard player Jennifer Kirkland and guitarist Bert Carlson.

The marriage of Miss Melissa Vaughn Ball, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gary Ball of Bruington, Va., to Mr.

Jean Harper didn't lay down her writing pen or pack up her computer keyboard without a fight.

And a quick note to clarify one thing: I'm not retiring. Several people got in touch this week after my Thursday column looking back at 30 years' worth of columns.

Rebecca Hagelin is a public speaker on the family and culture and the author of the new best seller, 30 Ways in 30 Days to Save Your Family.

It's time someone stands up for the young men of this country.

Despite the negative images of males that the pop culture shoves down our throats, the hearts and souls of America's boys are begging for positive direction. They naturally delight in "guy" stuff like rugged camping and "cowboys" when they are young because they truly want to be protectors - to be the good guys. Anyone who has ever been around a five-year-old boy knows that he desires to be a super-hero who saves damsels, children and the elderly from evil. But as guys age they are constantly pounded by images of lazy or sexually predatory images instead of courageous, genteel protectors - and some grow confused. Radical feminism doesn't help - many teen boys even wonder if they are supposed to be polite anymore. Too many have opened the door for what they thought was a young lady, for instance, only to be screamed at by a suddenly vicious and angry female. Why would they want to take that risk again?

Turn on the television for 30 minutes and show me how boys and men are portrayed - you can watch just about any station at any hour and the image will be the same. When sit-coms and commercials contain family groups or interactions between the genders, the man is usually stupid, lazy, and doltish.

If our media culture showed positive male images and if we actually put effort back into teaching boys that real men are also gentlemen, we would get more of the behavior our society needs to survive. What the nation really needs are more Boy Scouts. And I mean that literally.

As a mother of two Eagle Scouts (now ages 20 and 21), I can personally testify about the tremendous positive impact that Scouting continues to have on their lives.

Full Story at:

http://townhall.com/columnists/RebeccaHagelin/2009/04/21/boy_scouts

1st Annual Rivers District Scout-O-Rama Crossover Camp-O-Ree, May 1st, 2nd, & 3rd, 2009 To be held on the Rappahannock Community College Campus, Warsaw, Virginia.

OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC 10 AM – 4 PM, SATURDAY MAY 2ND 2009.

The 1st Annual Rivers District Scout-O-Rama Crossover Camporee will be held on the grounds of Rappahannock Community College – Warsaw, VA, on May 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

The Rivers District is comprised of Essex, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond, and Westmoreland Counties.

This year a group of scouts have planned the event and are looking forward to showing the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula “What Scouts Do” in a scout show. The District is looking forward to this event to be successful and make it a yearly District event for every Pack, Troop and Crew in the Rivers District.

We hope you will help us make this event one to remember.

Scouts, their families, friends of scouting, and the general public can enjoy a fun-filled day of exhibits, competitions, skits, and displays. The 2009 Crossover Camporee will feature a day long demonstration of scouting skills and activities along with additional outside agencies also setting up display booths. Packs, Troops, Teams, and Crews from the Rivers District and from other districts will set up displays and activity booths for the general public and other scouts to view and take part in during the day on Saturday May 2nd:

At 10 AM the encampment will hold an Opening Ceremony, followed immediately by Activities and Demonstrations open to Scouters and the General Public.

At 4 PM the Activity and Demonstration areas close to the General Public.

The Scouter’s evening will conclude with Dinner, the Crossover Ceremony and a Campfire with Order of the Arrow Tap-Out Ceremony.

Saturday evening will feature the annual Crossover Feast, a WEBELOS Crossover Ceremony and a campfire with Order of the Arrow Call-Out Ceremony.

The Virginia Electronic Commerce Technology Center and Verizon will present a short course on e-commerce, "Effective eBay," Tuesday, 9 a.m.-noon at Rappahannock Community College, Warsaw Campus, The Annex, room ...

In doing my genealogy research I noticed that I was just building a tree of names.

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative reports no outages as of 11:15 a.m. in its four-county service territory.

To qualify for the dean's list, students must achieve at least a 3.6 grade point average and must have completed at least 12 credit hours of course work during the semester.

A Richmond County grand jury yesterday indicted a Westmoreland County man on charges of killing his cousin on their way home from a party in July.

A Fredericksburg oil company and a Culpeper grocery distributor donated $500 of food yesterday to help a Northern Neck church feed the needy.

The Rappatomac Writers Critique Group will meet Dec. 18, 2-4 p.m. in Warsaw at Rappahannock Community College in the board room.

Rappahannock Community College held an all-day Technology Summit in the Workforce Development Center on RCC's Warsaw Campus.