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services..or just put your ideas out there, whether they're for trips,
events, swap meets, or the best way to capitalize on your skills and talents...Meet
or make a friend with a personals' ad. Explore the classifieds of our community.
We highly encourage barter and apprenticeships.
Got something to give away or for sale? or maybe something you need? You don't have to pay for or join anything to place your ad here
Example
of recent classified ad on FCIV: Skateboard
Ramp It was Posted
in "Free" Category on: 10/19/2007 Reply
to: Chris B. at ------@swva.net Text
of ad: Exterior plywood skateboard ramp.
Very large made in three sections that can come apart. Materials
cost $1000 two years ago. You transport or dismantle for free.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence:
wealth without work
pleasure without conscience
knowledge without character
commerce without morality
science without humanity
worship without sacrifice
politics without principle
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Do you have a gripe you want to share
with our community? Do you want to know what bugs or bemuses others?
Got an opinion about something happening in the world around you? Sound
off and send your opinion to "Floyd
Watchman" Click
here
"Will our Chamber of Commerce or Merchants Associations please realize
the need to preserve and prevent from developing-over the rural
character
of Floyd County is the only way to encourage tourism interest &
income to Floyd?"..
....There's More>>
"Floyd
Watchman"
If You
Love
Children,
Love the Ones That Are Already Here, Too. Please Become Adoptive or
Foster
Parents.
ADOPTIVE
FAMILY
SUPPORT GROUP:
You May contact DePaul Family Services, Christiansburg, to learn of
their scheduled Informational discussions about formation of new
support groups for adoptive families.
It's my opinion and in my experience, if you are seeking to improve your fitness level or lose weight, so much of that can be done with a much smaller investment in just a few items to create your own home gym that suits your specific physical needs. Also consider daily walking of ten minutes or more, practicing yoga and stretching (stretching properly is most important before and after exercising), get a friend or your spouse or kid involved to have a nearby work-out buddy, drink lots of your own good Floyd County water and stop stuffing your face with junk foods and just plain get off your butt more often. Use a push mower sometimes instead of that riding mower. Most people do not utilize fitness center memberships beyond a limited degree and end up wasting their money. Do it at home! Above all and first of all, make certain you are healthy enough to undertake any new fitness related activity. Check with your doctor first!!
- Michelle Hussong We don't have any connection to or with the following, these links are offered as examples of what you can find to help yourself on the web; Here are a few links to help you Do It At Home!: Home Fitness Fitness Home-Workout **********************
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use the free
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State Corporation Commission Schedules
Public Feedback on APCO Increases
A very important public hearing for consumers of Appalachian Power Corps. electricity has been scheduled for Tuesday, June 30 by the State Corporation Commission on Appalachian Power's two pending requests to raise rates to their customers.
State Senator Roscoe E. Reynolds has announced he intends to be present and to oppose the request for rate increases. He is asking that those who wish to join him in this effort, please make the trip to Richmond.
The public hearing will begin at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on June 30 in the State Corporation Commission's second floor courtroom, located in the Tyler Building at 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia.
Written comments(snail-mailed) must be submitted by June 23, 2009.
Correspondence should be sent to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, Document Control Center, P. 0. Box 2118,
Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118.
Reference should be made in the correspondence to case number PUE-2009-00038.
Comments may be made electronically at the State Corporation Commission's Web site: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.
Click on the PUBLIC COMMENTS/NOTICES link, then click on the SUBMIT COMMENTS button FOR CASE NUMBER PUE-2009-00038.
A notice might pop up, if so, click okay. Then fill out the form provided and add your comments and click on the submit button.
"I have heard from many who are opposed to these rate increases,", the Senator commented. "I ask them to voice their opposition by letter to the Commission by written comment or by electronic means if the person is not able to attend the hearing on June 30, 2009 in Richmond."
You may call Reynolds at (276) 638-2315 or email district20@sov.state.va.us.
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BRIEFS
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FCIV Bulletin
Board/Events Calendar
for local & regional: events / music /
performances / theatre / art & galleries / shows & exhibits
EVENTS
NOTICES
INFO
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out the
FCIV Events Calendar for music events/theatre/art shows/museum
exhibits
Apple Ridge Farm Astronomy Club
Apple Ridge Farm Copper Hill Read more on the FCIV Events calendar under "On-Going"
Here is a link to the Apple Ridge site observatory information
Read more on the Events Calendar under "On-Going".
Virginia Tech Football Schedule - 2009
August 30th - East Carolina - at Charlotte - Noon
September 6th - Furman - 1:30 p.m.
September 13th - Georgia Tech 3:30 p.m.
September 20th - at North Carolina - TBA
September 27th - at Nebraska - TBA
October 4th - Western Kentucky - TBA
October 11th - OFF
October 18th - at Boston College - TBA
October 25th - at Florida State - TBA
November 1st - OFF
November 6th - Maryland - 7:30 p.m.
November 13th - at Miami - 7:30 p.m.
November 22nd - Duke - TBA
November 29th - Virginia - TBA
"Life should not be a
journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty
and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly
used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "WOW! What a ride!"
O.Winston Link Museum
Phone: (540) 982-5465
Email: programs@linkmuseum.org, For more information visit www.linkmuseum.org.
Check out
current and upcoming music events in our area at FCIV's MUSIC
EVENTS CALENDAR
Floyd County Fair/Harvest Festival seeks more spacious, possibly a more permanent fairgrounds location. Each September when our County hosts the Floyd Harvest Festival and County Fair, a dilemma also takes place. The fair and festival grows with more exhibits and entertainment and heritage arts & crafts and fun events, more visitors come each year, but many events and exhibits and entertainment venues must be turned away due to both limitations and restrictions placed by the Floyd/Floyd County Parks & Rec Dept. on the use of their grounds. There are limitations also due to the limited space provided at the current location at the Recreation Field alongside Webbs Mill Road. So the call goes out to our fellow Floyd citizenry: anyone owning a "fair"ly sizable property fronting a main road near or close to town and who would consider permitting the regular use of it or even donating the land or a portion of their land to our county's yearly event, please contact Dawn Barnes, Chair. (floydharvestfestival@yahoo.com) The community organization that comprises the Floyd Harvest Festival & County Fair membership consists of county residents, members of local businesses and educators.
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Save our Dark Skies Limit dusk to dawn lighting in the countryside
If you use a dusk to dawn light
or are planning on installing one,
please consider using a deflector on it so the light only shines
on your home;
Or
install an 'on/off' switch so you can turn it on when needed
and off when not;
Or
connect it to a motion detector to go on only when
something passes by it.
Please don't leave these lights on all night long
and destroy our dark skies over our countryside
or bother neighbors who don't care for intrusive all night-bright light.
Please visit: http://www.darkskies.org/
*********** Volunteers needed to assist local seniors with small chores,
like moving boxed items.
Please contact Tiffany at the
New River Valley Agency on Aging
540-980-7720
The U.S. Constitution: Have you ever actually read it?
Visit FCIV's "Homesteading 101" section for info offering self-efficient living on the "rural".
Floyd County In View is open to the possibility of providing space on this site for voluntary local or regional personal reviews and observations, whether about a music event, a car show, a parade or an art exhibit, as long as it is interesting.
If interested, please email us at Reviewer Report with "arts' reviewer" in the subject line and tell us about your interest and some background about yourself.
The ability to write clearly and honestly are the major prerequisites.
The Floyd
County
Humane Society
Please be compassionate to the homeless and helpless
pets in Floyd
County. One way, is by supporting the Floyd County Humane
Society- 745-7207.
Please spay and neuter your pets
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Life is too short... So kiss slowly...
Laugh insanely.. Love truly and forgive quickly
Floyd County School closing information number:
(540) 745-9495
Got stuff too good
to throw in the trash? Got stuff you'd like to
see others get some good use out of? Got services or talents
or abilties you'd like to swap or
barter or trade for goods or other services? Use the Floyd County In
View and the Floyd County Va.'s Free Classified Ads And recycle your
worthwhile stuff for free
For anyone in Floyd County wanting to participate in keeping your
worthwhile but unwanted items from ending up in the landfill, please
consider joining (for free, no strings attached) the Floyd County
Sharecycle group. This is a Floyd based online interactive group
through Yahoo that allows you to post items you'd like to see reused
and recycled.
You will also be able to see what others are offering that may be of
use to you or ask for something specific you would like to find. Sharecycle originated in Floyd County and those involved in it are all local residents.
This group is not connected in any way with the freecycle organization
that is under fire for numerous acts of alleged bad karma.
FLOYD COUNTY SHARECYCLE
click on Floyd County Sharecycle logo
Note:
"Sharecycle" originated in
Floyd, Virginia
Participate in Reuse-Recycling
Starting one in your community? Contact us and we'll add your link here. Here are some of our regional Sharecycle Groups: (click on respective logo to join there)
New River Valley Sharecycle
Franklin County Sharecycle
MONROE COUNTY WVA. SHARECYCLE
FLOYD COUNTY SHARECYCLE
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There is also a former freecycle group in Floyd now functioning under a
different name offering online recycling connections as well.
FCIV does not support this group as it is a satellite of a centralize organization located in another state.
This is the same way freecycle began. And only one of its three "moderators" lives in Floyd.
FCIV encourages our neighbors and residents of Floyd County to honor and support truly local growers, artisans, businesses and organizations that are firmly rooted here in our home county.
If you would like to get involved within our own community and "share
the wealth" of worthwhile but unneeded goods and items, please look
into Floyd Sharecycle.
This is a free Floyd County service with other Floyd County residents.
But even if you decide not to join any online group, please recycle your items that can be used by others.
Floyd County In View Asks: any orchardists, farmers or would be farmers who are looking to relocate or are looking for new agricultural land to organically grow fruit, produce and grains, please consider Floyd County.
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If we Americans are distressed
at what's happening to our quality of life by virtue of America's
dependence on foreign oil, if we don't preserve farms, farm lands and farming
families, just wait to see what our life is like when America has to
depend on foreign food
Grow Local - Buy Local - Eat Local: Foods
Support
your area orchards, gardeners, growers, farmers, farm markets and CSA's
in your own community by asking for and buying locally grown organic
produce
"Dear Friend, Theory
Is All Grey And The Golden Tree Of Life Is Green." - Goethe
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