On Thursday April 29, 2010, 7:00 pm – Author of acclaimed best sellers, The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses,  Jeanette Walls will be signing and discussing her books at a special event sponsored by Germanna Community College,  benefiting The Culpeper Literacy Council.
Walls, is a local writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com. Her book,  The Glass Castle,  a memoir of her family’s repeated relocations during her childhood, published in 2005 sold over 1.5 million copies by the end of 2007.  It had been translated into …

Finding that right gift for that special someone gets  harder and harder each year.   Not everyone drinks or likes coffee .. but for those that do… I can help you!  Fresh coffee is one thing, but unique labels and packaging is another. I’ve been making gift boxes  available for the last few holiday seasons.   I package 3 bags of your choice in cool cardboard gift boxes. I use green boxes for the organic selection and blue for the others.
In the past you didn’t  have much choice but to …

The  Labor Day 5k for Fair Trade Certified Awareness was held Monday Sept 7th at the Culpeper Rec Club.  I would have to say it was a great success even if 30 some participants showed up. We opened with a moment of silence as we remembered  the  two  young athletes that passed away  recently, leaving a big void in Culpeper and surrounding counties. .   Both were soccer players, Alana Hester (CCHS)  and Preston Herton (Mary Washington player) .
If they didn’t know what  “Fair Trade”  was before,  5k participants  left …