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Tech bookstore Couple brings taste of Brazil to Blacksburg celebrates 45 BY JESSICA GROVES | lifestyles staff writer
years of business MIKE DEMSKO news staff writer
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Francisco “Kiko” Azevedo cooks his secret brazilian recipe for community members at the Blacksburg Farmer’s Market.
Motivated by his love of soccer and his passion for food, Brazil native Francisco Azevedo plans to open a Brazilian restaurant in 2014. He hopes to connect people in the community through his food.
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hen Francisco “Kiko” Azevedo and his wife, Isabella Osorio Da Fonseca, decided to cook for the Blacksburg Farmer’s Market, they didn’t know how customers would react. Like the couple themselves, authentic Brazilian food is relatively new to Blacksburg’s dining scene. “We were not expecting too many people in the beginning, because nobody knows us,” Azevedo said. Azevedo and Fonseca came from Brazil to Blacksburg in 2007. Although their transition to a new area was challenging, they immediately began building relationships with neighbors and friends in Virginia Tech’s international community. In 2009, Azevedo, along with eight other Brazilians, created International Soccer Friends, a group that has expanded to include more than 300 soccer players in the New
River Valley. And whenever the group gets together, food is present. “The grill for us in Brazil is the way we get together,” Fonseca said. “We started to bring this idea to share with friends in soccer.” In Brazil, barbecue grill-outs called “churrascos” are common, even at small get-togethers. Azevedo and Fonseca brought the churrasco tradition to Blacksburg by organizing potluck dinners with neighbors and friends. “I remember the first birthday party (we had for) our son, we invited all the kids and their parents — and the next day, people were calling me, asking what he put on the meat,” Fonseca said. Azevedo, affectionately known as “Kiko” to friends and family, said that he has been cooking since he was young. After college, he worked in his uncle’s “churrascaria,” or Brazilian
steakhouse, and the dream of opening a restaurant slowly took root in his mind. “People used to ask, ‘Why don’t you open a restaurant?’” Azevedo said. “I used to joke that it’s going to be my retirement plan. Now I’m more confident, and things are getting close.” Azevedo’s passion for soccer influenced his plans to create Gaucho Brazilian Steak. Now that their plans are becoming a reality, Azevedo and Fonseca have found food, in addition to soccer, is helping them fulfill their original purpose: bonding with the community and building relationships. “When we saw everybody liking and enjoying the food, we thought, ‘Why not?’” Isabella said. “It’s his passion to go to the kitchen and to start to experiment.”
Generations of Hokies have been shopping at the University Bookstore. Now, the bookstore is giving back to its customers with a celebration of its 45th birthday with special activities and a sale. Over its 45-year history, the University Bookstore has undergone changes in its structure, name and location, but its mission statement to “furnish books, school supplies and other services for the use and benefit of students, faculty, staff and alumni” has remained the same. It’s that mission statement that has kept Assistant Director of the bookstore and Virginia Tech alumni, Steve Glosh, working with the bookstore for the last 33 years. “Not a lot of people get the opportunity to come back and work for their alma matter” Glosh said, “and there’s not many university bookstores that can say everything they do in their operation goes back to help the students at the university”.
The University Bookstore is an independently operated, non-profit enterprise of Virginia Tech Services Inc. It pays its own employees and covers its own operating costs. Once operating costs are covered, the majority of its profits are used for things like scholarships and facility improvements. This reinvestment back into campus coincides with a resounding theme of service to the students of Virginia Tech. Glosh used the Student Government Association’s “Effect” shirts as an example. “After their first year doing it, they came to us and asked what we could do for them, and from that point forward, a partnership started to grow between us and the SGA to sell thousands of shirts,” said Glosh “I think it gets better every year.” On Thursday, Oct. 17, the bookstore will invite students to celebrate its 45 years of operation with free food, drinks, raffles and T-shirts on the drillfield from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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Jason Mraz to host acoustic performance ABBEY WILLIAMS lifestyles staff writer
In hopes of continuing the trend of outstanding acts performing at Burruss Hall this year the Virginia Tech Union is sponsoring, “A Rare Acoustic Evening: Jason Mraz and Very Special Guests, Raining Jane” this Wednesday, Oct. 16. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the two-hour show will begin at 7:30. Tickets, which are $25 for students, $35 for Virginia Tech faculty and $45 for the general public, will be available for purchase upon arrival. DezaRae Beers, a senior communication major and VTU’s director of concerts,
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has been the lead force behind bringing Mraz to Tech. “I surveyed the student body and he was a popular choice,” Beers said. “Plus he’s from Virginia and he’s won Grammys, so I think it’s important for southwest Virginia to be exposed to artists that have done really well, especially if they’re also from Virginia.” Grammy-winning singer/ songwriter Jason Mraz originally comes from the small town of Mechanicsville, Va. but first gained musical recognition in 2000 at a San Diego coffee shop.
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Jason Mraz performs tonight with special guests Raining June.
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Starting this year, the building adjacent to Lavery Hall has a more meaningful identifier — Kelly Hall. The building, which houses the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science headquarters, is named after the Kellys, a married couple who are long-time supporters of Virginia Tech. Hugh Kelly earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1937 and his master’s degree in the same field the following year. He went on to have a successful engineering career, working with several different companies including AT&T and NASA. Hugh died in 1989, but his wife Ethel continued
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Find out how much money the Kelly’s contributed to the Critical Technology and Applied Science headquarters.
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to support the College of Engineering after his death. “The Kellys were benefactors and they left a major bequest to the university,” Associate Vice President of University Relations Larry Hincker said. “Mr. Kelly was an experienced and high profile NASA executive and scientist, and then he passed away and his wife wanted to commemorate his memory.” According to the initial press release announcing the naming of Kelly Hall, Ethel Kelly’s estate provided $5 million to assist in the cost of the building, and $6 million total. A portion of that money is going to the Hugh and Ethel Kelly Lecture Series that will be held in Kelly Hall. see BUILDING / page two
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