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What are the assets that have enhanced Rappahannock in 1979? What has 'made the community more satisfying, a more gracious place in which to live?
Consider that four-year-old ► lad enthusiastically helping his daddy pick up apples so that sales and money can be realized to cover the $250 Ruritan gift made to the Little League baseball teams.
Or the teen-age' young lady, under her mother’s instruction, mastering the art of quantity cooking and the niceties of serving the club which provided one of her peers with a $100 scholarship for further education.
Include the old guy with arthritic knees or whose hardening arteries cause him to wince as he stands, painting a second hand hospital bed, in concern for one less fortunate who can ill afford either a new or rented bed.
Good business accounting would place such items in the debit column but to a community minded club they are pluses, identified as Ruritan profits.
In fact, in the widsom of William Shakespeare, “The quality of mercy is not .train'd...It is twice blessed, t blesseth him that gives and ' lim that takes.” So that four-year-old who pent a day in the country earning an easy lesson in
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