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Middleburg Greens Show
“Choices of Christmas,” the Middleburg Garden Club’s annual Greens Show is scheduled for Friday, December 7 and Saturday, December 8. The show will be held at the Emmanual Episcopal Church parish house. For more information call Mrs. C. Fred Kohler at 703-6876316.
Microcomputer Workshop To Be Held
A microcomputer workshop will be held at Virginia Tech December 17 through December 19. Most of the workshop will be actually using computers. There will be a registration fee of $10 per person. For more information call the Extension office at 675-3619.
Willow Grove Plantation Open
Willow Grove Plantation will be open to the public now through December 24 in order to raise funds for the Rappahannock Rapidan Community Services Center.
A special “Plantation Christmas” tour allows visitors to view festive Christmas decorations and to learn the history of the beautiful ante-bellum estate. A craft room is open and contains crafts made by local Virginia residents. Some of the items on sale include: hand painted pottery, ceramics, stuffed animals, wooden items, toys, dolls, wreaths, ornaments and knick-knacks. The clients of the Rappahannock Raidan Community Servies Center participated in making some of the crafts on sale.
The “Plantation Christmas” tours mark the first time in 216 years Willow Grove has been officially open to the public. The house has always been privately owned. Ms. Rose Marie Vernon purchased it and has restored a great deal of the manor house, its dependencies as well as the trees and formal gardens.
Proceeds from the $2 admission fee and from craft sales are being donated to the Community Services Center, which provides services for the aging, mental retardation development, mental health and substance abuse. >
The plantation will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day through Christmas and is open until 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday evenings. Willow Grove Plantation is located on Route 15 two miles north of Orange.
“People That Love Center” Open
“People That Love Center” under the direction of Sally Dunphy is open each Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Center is located in the ok! • school building on Mt. Salem Avenue, Route 626 off Route 211 in Washington.
The program is designed to offer food, clothing, ftirnitilre or other emergency assistance to those in need. For further information phone 987-8505.
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