Dozens of Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers in Harrisonburg, Virginia, gathered for a picnic in May to celebrate the creative ways they had responded to community needs during the pandemic, from sewing masks and helping create patterns for Tyvek PPE gowns to parking cars at vaccine clinics, passing out information on clinic dates, and helping distribute food to quarantining 91短视频 students.
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The Eastern Mennonite standout and current Woodstock oufielder had a single and an RBI along with a home run-saving catch in center field for the North in a 5-0 win over the South at the Valley Baseball League All-Star Game at James Madison University鈥檚 Veteran鈥檚 Memorial Park on Sunday in Harrisonburg.
Jaylon Lee has been named to the Valley League's All-Star team. The league is a NCAA-sanctioned summer league and includes mostly D-1 athletes. 鈥淔or us as a baseball program, even to a wider scale as a university, he means as much as anybody鈥檚 meant since (MLB veteran) Erik Kratz,鈥� said 91短视频 baseball head coach Adam Posey.
The Valley League Board of Directors has announced the fifth class of Hall of Fame inductees, to be installed at the 2021 Valley League All-Star game in Harrisonburg on Sunday, July 11. Kratz played for Waynesboro in 2000 and Harrisonburg in 2001.
Alumna artist Madeline Kate Hostetler Martinez '18, based on Portland, Oregon, is the featured illustrator in a weekly column on the Italian website Collater.al. /now/news/2019/emu-alumna-illustrator-nets-42000-and-counting-instagram-followers/
Read Harvard Magazine's coverage of restorative justice, with reference to Howard Zehr and an interview with sujatha baliga, one of the speakers at 91短视频's recent anniversary celebration of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Former Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice director Carl Stauffer was a keynote speaker at Harvard's 2019 RJ symposium.
Hannah Chappell-Dick was most recently a graduate assistant cross country and track & field coach at the University of Florida, where she earned her MBA. She was also a volunteer assistant coach at Georgia Tech from 2018-19, and an interim coach at 91短视频. She was a five-time NCAA DIII All-American and three-time Regional Athlete of the Year for 91短视频.
Morgan Smith MA '21 (organizational leadership), former graduate assistant with the 91短视频 Royals softball team, is the new softball coach at Richard Bland College of William & Mary.
Magpie owner and entrepreneur Kirsten Moore plans to lease the building across Gay Street from her diner and repurpose it into a retail market called Liberty Street Mercantile on the ground floor with a multi-use event space on the second. Read more about this 91短视频 alumna's plans.
Aaron Troyer, the new chair of the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association, steps into the leadership role with a love of farming and an impressive resume of education and experience in the agriculture industry. Read more, including a Q & A.