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elude crafters of all descriptions, food for all tastes, pony rides, live music at a number of locations around the town, and booths set up by local civic organizations.
Among the groups represented will be the Lions Club, selling chilled watermelon, the Rappahannock Loan Closet, which will offer homebaked goods, canned goods and chances on several prizes to be raffled.
The Trinity Episcopal Church will also set up its ever-popular tents on the lawn, featuring hand-dipped ice cream, and the “Resurrection Section,” a treasure trove of preowned but salvagable goods.
At the county library on Gay St., the annual book sale will be bigger and better than ever, according to Librarian Diane Green. There will be a large selection of romances, children’s books, book sets and magazines for sale a bargain basement prices.
From noon until 2 p.m. Carolyn Reeder, a local author, will autograph copies of her latest book, Shades of Gray. Beginning at 3 p.m., books will be sold by the bag, with paper shopping bags costing $2 and plastic bags for $1 each. The proceeds from all sales will benefit the library.
At 1 p.m., the University of Virginia Medical Center’s medical evacuation helicopter, Pegasus, is scheduled to land on the field in front of Avon Hall. This is the first visit to Rappahannock County for the “new knd improved” Pegasus helicopter, Chief Roach said. The hospital just recently put the larger helicopter in service, enabling them to provide even better service to surrounding areas.
One wrinkle added this year is designated parking for visitors to town. “We want people to refrain from parking in town,” said Fourth of July committee member Brad Fisher. In previous years cars parked hap-hazardly along the town’s narrow streets have made
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