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 Friday, February 3, 2012
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The Franklin News-Post
P. O. Box 250
310 Main Street, SW
Rocky Mount, Virginia 24151
540-483-5113
Fax: 540-483-8013

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SML Home Tour selects charities
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Eight area charities were selected recently by a lottery drawing to be recipients of funding from the 2012 Smith Mountain Lake Charity Home Tour that will be held Oct. 5-7.

Charities selected by the lottery drawing were Bedford Hospice House, Bedford Pregnancy Center, CASA of Central Virginia, Helping Hands of Franklin County, Lake Christian Ministries, Smith Mountain Lake Good Neighbors, Southern Virginia Child Advocacy Center and STEP Inc.

This was the second year a lottery has been used to select the participating charities from those who submitted qualified applications.

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SML Author Speaks to Tea Party

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Bradford Archer, a Smith Mountain Lake resident and author of a new book "The American Manifesto," was the guest speaker at the Bedford-Franklin Area Tea Party meeting on Feb. 2 at the Franklin County Library. Archer's book is the first of a three-part series on the hazards of losing national focus on our founding principles.

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Winter Lecture Series
Shroeder to present costumed interpretation from Civil War period

Patrick Shroeder, historian at Appomattox Court House National Park, will present a costumed interpretation from the Civil War at Smith Mountain Lake State Park on Sunday, Feb. 5.

The presentation, part of the 10th annual Winter Lecture Series presented by Friends of the Park, will be from 3 to 4 p.m. at the Discovery Center at the park.

Shroeder will bring to life Cpl. James Cook of Western Pennsylvania in a performance suitable for all ages. Two other lectures in the series are scheduled in March and April.

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Rotary member to travel with team in India to fight polio
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Pidge Morgan, a member of the Smith Mountain Lake Rotary Club, will travel to India on Feb. 13 as part of a 35-member team to help immunize children against polio.

Polio is a crippling disease that still paralyzes and sometimes kills children in various parts of the world.

The 35-member team is composed of members of Rotary, a worldwide humanitarian organization that has polio eradication as its main philanthropic goal.

The team will join other volunteers and health workers to administer drops of oral polio vaccine during an immunization campaign that will target millions of children under age 5.

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What's Coming Up on Land and Lake
Smith Mountain Lake Community Calendar

SATURDAY, FEB. 4

Park Ranger Betsy Haynes will present "Beyond the Slave Cabin Door: Creating a Sense of Place" at Booker T. Washington National Monument at 2 p.m. For more information, call 540-721-2094.

The R.E.A.D to a dog program will be at the Westlake Library from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. For more information, call the library (540) 483-3098 (ext. 3).

SUNDAY, FEB. 5

A costumed presentation from the Civil War will be at the Discovery Center at Smith Mountain Lake State Park from 3 to 4 p.m. Ticket charge includes parking. For more information, call 297-6066.

The Friends of Smith Mountain Lake State Park will present their second program of the Winter Lecture Series at Smith Mountain Lake State Park. Patrick Shroeder will be a special guest at the Discovery Center from 3 to 4 p.m. For more information, call 540-297-6066.

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