Four outstanding Roanoke students have been named 2009-10 Virginia’s Future Leaders Scholarship winners by Cox Communications and the Virginia Cable Telecommunications Association (VCTA). Recipients and the college or university they will attend include:
* Kathryn Norbo, University of Virginia
* Craig Tripp, Virginia Tech
* Tim [...]
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With the February 18 application deadline fast approaching, Wal-Mart is encouraging high school students to submit applications for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF)/Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. High School Scholarship. Links to the HSF/Wal-Mart scholarship application, along with additional educational resources and information, can be found on Wal-Mart’s Web site, AhorraMasViveMejor.com.
The HSF/Wal-Mart high school scholarship program is [...]
Scottrade, a leading branch-supported online investment firm, is doubling the number of local User Summits it hosts in 2009. The investment broker expects more than 15,000 investors to attend workshops in 24 cities across the country next year to learn how to effectively use Scottrade’s trading platforms.
“We saw an overwhelming response in 2008 from attendees [...]
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF announced that Joel Madden, UNICEF Ambassador, and Nicole Richie will host UNICEF’s 2008 Beverly Hills Snowflake Lighting ceremony on Saturday, November 22 at the intersection of Rodeo Drive and Wilshire Boulevard. The ceremony highlights the City of Beverly Hills’ “Light the Night” annual holiday event where the UNICEF Snowflake and [...]
Six new screenwriters have been selected as winners in the 23rd Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Each writer or writing team will receive a prestigious $30,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills on [...]
Online Trading Academy will celebrate the opening of their first Wisconsin campus later this month in Milwaukee. Grand Opening events include Free Power Trading Workshops on November 15th, 16th and 17th hosted by John O’Donnell, Online Trading Academy’s Chief Knowledge Officer. The new campus is located at N96 W17035 Division Road, Suite E, Germantown, WI [...]
To help kick off this year’s holiday season, on November 15, Bloom supermarkets will sponsor an attempt to break the Guinness World Record™ for most couples kissing simultaneously at Furman University’s Paladin Stadium in Greenville, S.C. The Bloom attempt, dubbed “Kissletoe 2008,” will be the featured halftime event during the Paladins’ final home football game, [...]
Review
I go back to [Jane Eyre] so often and it was one of the first books that made me think, ‘This is me, in some deep way.’ (Suzanne Vega)
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A new edition of one of Penguin’s top ten Classics—the novel that has been “teaching true strength of character for generations”
(The Guardian)
A novel of intense power and [...]