I guess we are the last generation to see, or even remember anything like these? Whatever happened? Political correctness (or "re-education") happened, lack of God's name happened, lack of personal responsibility happened, lack of personal integrity and honesty happened, lack of respect and loyalty to our country happened, lack of being an American happened.
I'm proud to be an American!
The three-day event will be held Thursday, April 29, Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1 in the town of Parksley. Also taking place will be the 76th convention of the Delmarva Ladies’ Auxiliary.
It is the 12th time Parksley has hosted the firemen’s convention — the most of any Delmarva town, said Wayne Marshall, a Parksley volunteer and the company’s fire convention committee publicity chair. It was held last year in Lewes, Del.
The popular event ends with a 2 p.m. parade on May 1 from Metompkin Elementary School on Bennett Street and turning on Dunne Avenue, ending at the fire hall. Almost 50 trophies will be presented to appearing companies in various categories. The public is invited to watch the parade procession.
The public also is invited to an April 30 memorial service for volunteer firefighters from all over Delmarva who have died in the past year. It will be held at 9 a.m. at Grace United Methodist Church.
The event begins at 6 p.m. on April 29 with a reception at the Parksley fire hall featuring food and beverages. Friday the convention opens at 9 a.m. and meetings throughout the day feature a Past President’s Luncheon.
April 30 events begin with a 6 p.m. social hour and continue with a 7 p.m. banquet.
Association officers will be installed for 2010-11. In addition, inductions for the Firefighters’ Hall of Fame and Ladies Auxiliary Hall of Honor will be made.
Parksley volunteer firefighter Ricky Taylor is the outgoing association president — Parksley has had seven past presidents of the association. The association has 92 member companies in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
The company gets to host the convention during a special year — 2010 is the 75th anniversary of the Parksley Volunteer Fire Co.
If you have any information related to these crimes please call the Accomack County Sheriff's Office.
Just wanted to let everyone know that Kristen Shockely is now at home with her family. Her mother has expressed her many, many thanks for everything that was done to keep Christine's face and name out into the communities.
Kristen may not realise this yet but she's lucky! There have been alot of mothers that have gone off (for whatever reason) and have never returned home. NEVER! EVER! Some of those mothers are murdered. Some of those mothers are drugged and put onto the street.
For whatever reasons Kristen left home on April 6th I hope she gets a good dose of reality and understands real quickly that mothers don't leave their children for any reason! They don't go off not thinking about the people left behind who lie awake at night not knowing. It's just natural for those waiting at home to worry that something horrible has happened. Mothers just don't up and leave, for any amount of time with no regard for the child left behind who may be missing its mother. There can NEVER be and are NO excuses.
Let's hope and pray that Kristen will get the help she needs and that she learns how to be a responsible adult and mother. Let's hope and pray that she learns that she truly is better than the scumbag that has abused her. There is NO future with a person like that and certainly NO future with the people that verbally abuse a person for trying to protect ones self from a menace in society. These kinds of people aren't even any good for their ownselves.
This just breaks my heart. How can a young woman with the red hair and freckled face that reminds one so much of the adorable Pippi Longstocking be in such turmoil?
Here's hoping that Kristen and her precious child with the help of family and friends will begin a new life that is filled with happiness and good decision making.
These holes are not only amazing, but some are really terrifying!
The sheer scale of these holes reminds you of just how tiny we are.
Until the police dept. decides what they are going to do, if anything, please keep your eyes and ears open and keep this family in your prayers. 
The Delmarva Discovery Center has announced plans for a four session beginner Acrylic Class instructed by local artist, Jenny Somers.
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) - Bret Michaels, former singer for Poison and current "Celebrity Apprentice" contestant, fought to stay in the boardroom Sunday night, but the episode was taped months ago. In real life, Michaels is fighting to get out of the hospital.
Doctors found a massive bleed at the base of his brain stem after he complained of a sudden, excrutiating headache Thursday.
Chesapeake Neurosurgeon Charles Levy is not privy to Michaels medical records, but says that his condition sounds like an aneurysm.
"A large percentage of people who have aneurysm hemorrhage do not make it to the hospital," said Levy.
According to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation , six million Americans have unruptured brain aneurysms, but only a small percentage will bleed.
Eight out of every 100,000 people with aneurysms will rupture each year. Four out of seven who recover from the event will have disabilities. Forty percent of people who have a rupture will die.
Michaels staff posted Internet updates, stating he has slurred speech and blurred vision.
"If he's awake, and still with the slurred speech, most likely a lot of that will probably recover quite well," said Levy.
This is the latest in a series medical problems for the singer. Aside from being a lifelong diabetic, ten days earlier Michaels had an emergency appendectomy.
He was also injured at last year's Tony awards when a moving piece of stage hit him.
Levy warns any sudden severe headache should be checked out right away. He says people who smoke and have high blood pressure are at greatest risk, but anyone can have one.
Host and Executive Producer of the "Celebrity Apprentice," Donald Trump, told TMZ Monday the prognosis is not great, but said Michaels is an amazing competitor and that could save his life.
Posted on Michaels' website's News and Information:
"As of now Bret remains in ICU under 24 hour surveillance. Further testing this week will help locate the source of the bleeding."
More updates may be available from Michaels' website, BretMichaels.com
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WAVY) - Williamsburg police are looking for a William and Mary student who was last seen by a friend on Saturday at around 9:30 p.m.
Police are looking for 21-year-old Ian Kramer Smith-Christmas. Police say Smith-Christmas was last seen in the 800 blk. of Westgate Circle on Saturday.
Smith-Christmas can be seen in the photo to the left of this story. He's described as a 6-feet tall white male, 150 pounds, with green eyes and blond hair.
Police say he may be driving a silver Ford Taurus with VA tags: YPC-9783.
Police don't suspect foul play at this time, however, they're asking anyone with information on Smith-Christmas' whereabouts to call Investigator Rice at 259-7207 or 220-2331.
The owner of Lillian Vernon, the catalog and Internet retailer that has called the city home for 22 years, plans to shutter its headquarters off International Parkway, citing a drop in sales.
Current USA Inc., a stationery and gifts company based in Colorado Springs, Colo., bought Lillian Vernon two years ago and employs about 200 warehouse and call center employees in Hampton Roads. It plans to wind down the Beach operation and terminate all positions there by August 2011.
The closure is "due to current and projected levels of business," the company wrote in a news release.
The Lillian Vernon brand name will remain. Current USA, a division of Taylor Corp., had shifted call centers for some of its other brands to Virginia Beach and will move all operations to other Taylor locations.
"Current USA Inc. is committed to growing the Lillian Vernon brand in the marketplace and serving its customers," the release read.
Two Lillian Vernon workers leaving the call center Friday evening said they had heard nothing about the closing. The man and woman, who declined to give their names, said the company had made no announcements to the staff.
Sue Hesse, Current USA's director of human resources, provided the news release but declined to give other information. The release quoted Colleen Willhite, Taylor's executive vice president, who was unavailable for comment Friday evening.
"This was a difficult decision for us as we realize the contributions of the Lillian Vernon employees to the organization and the commitment of the organization to the community for the past 22 years," Willhite said in the release.
Virginia Beach Mayor Will Sessoms said he had no knowledge of Lillian Vernon's closure.
"I knew it had been declining over the years," he said of employment at the headquarters.
Sessoms said he would need to speak with the city's economic development officials to assess the impact of the shutdown and how to market the 900,000-square-foot facility.
"You hate to see any jobs lost, period," he said. "Lillian Vernon, over the years, has really been a major part of growth in the city."
Lillian Hochberg founded the company at her kitchen table in Mount Vernon, N.Y., in 1951, selling a personalized handbag and belt through a magazine ad. She named the company for herself and her hometown, changing her own name to match it, and took it public in 1987.
A year later, Lillian Vernon bought 61 acres in Virginia Beach to build its distribution center and spent nearly $37 million on an expansion to double its size in 1995. The retailer, which specializes in low-cost personalized gifts and home goods, held warehouse clearance sales that attracted diehard crowds through at least 2002.
Employment at its Virginia Beach center reached almost 800 year-round and swelled to as many as 5,000 in the fall for the holiday shopping season.
The founder remained Lillian Vernon's chief executive and chairman until July 2003, when she sold it for $60.5 million to a private equity fund managed by Ripplewood Holdings LLC in New York. That owner sold the company almost three years later to Sun Capital Partners Inc., an investment firm based in Boca Raton, Fla., for a reported $12 million, though terms weren't disclosed.
In 2006, Lillian Vernon moved its corporate headquarters from New York to Virginia Beach. It had annual revenue of $175 million that year and mailed 80 million catalogs. But the company hadn't posted a profit since 2000.
Under Sun Capital, Lillian Vernon sold its distribution center and leased it back. It shed hundreds of jobs. Sales faltered as the recession set in.
Lillian Vernon filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors in February 2008. It stopped mailing catalogs and paying vendors, and halted deliveries of new merchandise.
Current USA acquired the company in a bankruptcy auction in April that year and paid a base price of $15.8 million before adjusting for inventory. Parent company Taylor Corp., a privately held firm based in North Mankato, Minn., owns more than 100 companies and has annual sales of $1.7 billion, according to Hoover's, the business information service.
Tim Arland, Current USA's president, took the helm of Lillian Vernon and said he would make it smaller and more profitable. At that time, he projected that the company would distribute 30 percent fewer catalogs as it rebuilt its business.
A reward is being offered for Johnny, a boxer owned by Exmore Police Chief Steve Elliott, who was killed last week in a car crash. Johnny was riding with Elliott and has not been seen since. He was last seen in the Pungoteague area on April 14. People with information can call the Northampton County Sheriff's Office at 757-678-0458.
ACCOMAC -- Nearly 350 School Board, Social Services and county employees have had their wages garnished for back taxes this year.
Accomack County Treasurer Dana Bundick said 82 county and Department of Social Services employees who were delinquent in real estate or personal property taxes had their wages garnished.
So far $18,000 has been collected.
And 258 school employees had their wages garnished, with $85,000 collected to date.
"Some people, we took all but a few dollars of their paycheck, which got their attention," Bundick said.
Vice Chairman Donald Hart Jr., praised the efforts, saying, "If you collect a check from the taxpayers of this county" the worker needs to pay taxes.
"If you have elected officials, zap them, too," he said, adding of the number of public employees owing back taxes, "That's 300-some employees -- that's embarrassing."
The Treasurer's office also placed 900 Department of Motor Vehicle stops on delinquent taxpayers since January.
The office this year was given funding for an additional employee to help collect back taxes, according to an agreement Bundick made with the county.
The stops prevent delinquent taxpayers from renewing their vehicle registration until personal property taxes are paid. Of the stops placed, 62 accounts have been collected, amounting to more than $38,000.
Additionally, Bundick reported that she referred 76 parcels since January to tax attorney Jim Elliott for collection of delinquent real estate taxes, with 28 accounts collected so far this year, amounting to more than $127,000.
Five tax sales have been held this year, with another planned in May.
The same night Bundick gave her report, the Board of Supervisors also voted unanimously for a zoning amendment that requires evidence of payment of delinquent taxes on properties from owners applying for items including special exceptions, special use permits, variances, rezoning, building permits and erosion and sediment control permits.
