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she will know them as friends.
“I just don’t think the crowd is going to be so big anymore, in this day and age,” she said. “An auction like this used to bring in 400 or 500 people, but I just don’t think that’ll happen now. We’re just not known anymore.”
Not known?
Flash and Bernice Pearson have been totally immersed in Fauquier County since their births here some few years ago. If you don’t know them, if they don’t know you, this much is clear. You are a newcomer, and you haven’t gotten out much into the community.
“We always tried to do a minimum of 25 charity auctions a year, especially if it was for education, for homeless shelters, women’s shelters, churches, firehouses,” she said. “[Former county Zoning Administrator] Carolyn Bowen tried to add up how much we had raised for charity one time years ago, and she stopped at something over $2 million, and that was a few7 years ago”
Not known anymore?
Then that means that the hordes of children she shepherded through the 4-H Young Dominion Club over the years and the huge herds of children he helped with FFA and 4-H cattle club projects have all moved away.
Not known anymore has no place in what will take place come Saturday.
“The house and 47-plus acres are going to be offered, but, obviously, we are not
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