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Mar 2, 2017

Emily Bender: the year-round flower lady

Emily Bender is Blacksburg’s flower lady. Yellow yarrow, rose dahlias, purple coxcombs, pink gladioluses – her bouquets and wreaths bring color to people’s lives at their highest and lowest times.Although she no longer sells flowers as a business, Bender makes and gives away nearly a hundred flower arrangements a year, friends say. Subscription Required An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this article in its entirety. Choose an online service. 1PIZZA17: 7-Day Delivery + Digital Access $50.05 for 91 days $99.84 for 182 days $185.64 for 364 days Sign up today and get a 2017 Pizza Card ($80 Value) with your new subscri... (Roanoke Times ... - Roanoke Times)

Mar 2, 2017

Warm weather favors blooming flowers, trees, shrubs and bugs

Triad and foothills to the mid 30s to high 40s in the mountain counties, said Jake Ruckman, a weather service meteorologist in Blacksburg, Va.“We aren’t usually this warm in February,” Ruckman said.Taking advantage of the warm weather are blooming plants such as cherry trees, flowering apricots, tulip magnolias and star magnolias as well as winter honeysuckle bush, witch hazels, daffodils and Lenten roses, said Hayden Shuping, the greenhouse manager at Reynolda Gardens in Winston-Salem.“All of the things that are blooming right now can handle a little frost,” Shuping said. “In nature, you have to take it as it comes. The climate, from the week to week, is always different.”Leslie Peck, a horticulturist with the Forsyth County Cooperative Extension Service, said people with flowering plants and shrubs should stay aware of the high and low temperatures in February and March.“Most of the stuff that is flowing is taking their cues from the warm weather,” Peck said.Gardeners should add water to their blooming plants to insulate their roots if the temperatures drop below freezing, she said. Friday’s forecast calls for a low temperature of 29 degrees.The warm weather also could bring some unwanted guests to the Triad — mosquitoes, said Louis Jackai, an entomologist and the chairman of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Design at N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro.Mosquitoes breed around sources of water such as rivers and streams, Jackai said.However, mosquitoes and other biting insects likely will remain dormant during these final days of winter, he said.“Once it starts getting warm, they (mosquitoes) will be active,” Jackai said. “They could get their butts frozen if the temperatures drops below freezing at night.”Low temperatures at night in the low to high 30s or cooler likely will minimize activity among the mosquitoes and other insects, he said.“When it’s real good and cold, no self-respecting mosquito would be out,” Jackai said.#ndn-video-player-3.ndn_embedded .ndn_floatContainer { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }... (Winston-Salem Journal)

Dec 22, 2016

Winners announced in Town of Blacksburg Holiday Parade

Organizers have released a list of the winning entries in Blacksburg’s 2016 Holiday Parade: General Float 1st — Glade Road Growers 2nd — New River Valley Chapter, Virginia Master Naturalists 3rd — Heartstrings Pet Lodging & Spa Youth Float 1st — Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office 2nd — Lil Leapers LLC 3rd — Cub Scout Pack 152 Non-Float 1st — New River Bicycle Association 2nd — Crystal Boyle 3rd — NRV Jeep Club Honorable Mention Winter Frost Farms Ride-A-Rescue Blacksburg Chinese School American Heritage Girls Submitted by Teresa Davis ... (Roanoke Times)

Aug 15, 2016

Blacksburg church's flower garden funds good causes

BLACKSBURG — Behind St. Mary’s Catholic Church where the land slopes toward distant Toms Creek and Brush Mountain rears up to fill half the horizon, flowers are blooming. Beds of zinnias, sunflowers, Shasta daisies, gladiolus, cosmos and other blossoms create lines of riotous color over almost half an acre. Though as pretty as a confetti-strewn carpet, this garden does not host weddings, teas or parties. It is a working garden, a plot where church volunteers raise flowers to sell. Subscription Required An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this article in its entirety. Login Choose an online service. 1 Digital only Take the RTD on the go for just $1.99 a week. With your digital-only subscription you'll receive unlimited access to Richmond.com, our mobile website, mobile app and our replica e-edition. Get started now for $1.99 per week for 26 weeks ($8.62 monthly,) then $3.99 per week for 26 weeks ($17.28 monthly,)... (Richmond.com)

Feb 3, 2016

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Peter J. Chittick

Bachelor´s of Science, Military Engineering and his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1957. He and his family moved to Blacksburg, Virginia in 1978, where he attended the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He was honorably discharged as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1980 after 23 years of service to the United States that included two tours in Vietnam and tours of duty in Germany, Guatemala, and Panama. He rejoined the workforce in 1982 at EDS, SAIC and BDM, this time from a new home base in Middleburg, Virginia, where he continued to serve his country as a civilian. After failing to retire yet again, he returned to his local-delivery roots in service to the family-owned Middleburg Floral Gallery. He finally moved once more to Fredericksburg, VA in 2015. Peter was a Mason, a member of the Lion´s Club, the American Legion, a longtime supporter of the Ronald McDonald House, and made weekly deliveries for Seven Loaves Food Bank in Middleburg.He is survived by his wife of 51 years, the former Geraldine Hunt of Poughkeepsie, New York, and their four children; Shaun Chittick of Chesapeake, VA, Loreen Chittick Hitch of Glen Allen, VA, Jeri Lee Thomas of Reston, VA, Linda Beck of South Orange, NJ; and by 7 “damn smart” grandchildren, and two brothers, Richard T. “Ted” and David Allen Chittick.Family and friends are invited to a memorial service on Friday, January 15 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm at Royston Funeral Home, 106 East Washington Street, Middleburg, Virginia and a reception and Celebration of Life, immediately following, from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Emmanuel Episcopal Reception Hall, directly across East Washington Street from the Funeral Home. An inurnment at Arlington National Cemetery will be held in 2016.In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation in Peter´s name to the Ronald McDonald House, https://donate.rmhc.org.Remembrances and online guest book: http://www.roystonfh. com/obituaries/Peter... (Gainesville Times - Northern VA News)

Feb 3, 2016

Peter Jay Chittick

Bachelor’s of Science, Military Engineering and his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1957. He and his family moved to Blacksburg, Virginia in 1978, where he attended the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He was honorably discharged as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1980 after 23 years of service to the United States that included two tours in Vietnam and tours of duty in Germany, Guatemala, and Panama. He rejoined the workforce in 1982 at EDS, SAIC and BDM, this time from a new home base in Middleburg, Virginia, where he continued to serve his country as a civilian. After failing to retire yet again, he returned to his local-delivery roots in service to the family-owned Middleburg Floral Gallery. He finally moved once more to Fredericksburg, VA in 2015. Peter was a Mason, a member of the Lion’s Club, the American Legion, a longtime supporter of the Ronald McDonald House, and made weekly deliveries for Seven Loaves Food Bank in Middleburg. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, the former Geraldine Hunt of Poughkeepsie, New York, and their four children; Shaun Chittick of Chesapeake, VA, Loreen Chittick Hitch of Glen Allen, VA, Jeri Lee Thomas of Reston, VA, Linda Beck of South Orange, NJ; and by 7 “damn smart’ grandchildren, and two brothers, Richard T. “Ted” and David Allen Chittick. Family and friends are invited to a memorial service on Friday, January 15 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm at Royston Funeral Home, 106 East Washington Street, Middleburg, Virginia and a reception and Celebration of Life, immediately following, from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Emmanuel Episcopal Reception Hall, directly across East Washington Street from the Funeral Home. An inurnment at Arlington National Cemetery will be held in 2016. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation in Peter’s name to the Ronald McDonald House at... (Middleburg Eccentric)