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Joining sports teams in the ‘Burg (Page 2)

Chances for community service (Page 8)

New places to shop and eat in town (Page 4)

Landing jobs on or off campus (Page 11)

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Let’s get physical Harrisonburg Parks & Rec offers intramural sports Heading back to college can be exciting, but sometimes it’s even better to leave the campus bubble in favor of becoming a part of the community.

Other than joining area gyms and attending local arts events, students can make friends with the

locals through recreational sports leagues.

Harrisonburg City Parks and Recreation offers kickball in the fall, dodgeball in the winter and men’s and mixed softball in the summer.

The leagues currently see sever-

al teams with college students, but athletic program supervisor Erik Dart wouldn’t mind seeing more.

“They’re city residents just the same as anyone else is,” he said.

“They’re more than welcome to participate.”

Out of the roughly 16 teams for

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softball and kickball and eight teams for dodgeball, Dart always sees a couple James Madison University teams, either alumni or current students.

Kickball sees the most, with teams like Dukes Doing Damage.

Although students can find

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intramural sports through their campuses’ recreation centers, city recreation leagues offer another option.

Campus leagues fill quickly and sometimes don’t fit into students’ schedules.

“Everyone likes to get out and do some sort of recreational sports as a release from schoolwork or day-today jobs,” Dart said. “Rec leagues are a way to possibly relax in a competitive nature.”

With the mixture of college students and “townies,” some conflict is bound to happen, but Dart attributes it more to the competitive nature of the game.

“Sometimes there’s a little clash, which is usually more of a background clash because someone has a bad perception of JMU,” Dart said.

“That comes into play, but it’s never really that big of an issue. It’s all

CAMPUS COMMUNITY GUIDE in the competitive nature and once they get competitive, things come out that they don’t mean to say.”

Each league fills up quickly, but dodgeball fills the fastest with only room for eight teams, so Dart suggests forming a team and signing up as early as possible.

“Registration fills up in no more than 10 minutes,” Dart said. “We would expand it, but we’re limited on space because we use the same facility to do youth boys basketball, so we only have Monday evenings to do four games.”

Individuals can be fit onto teams when there’s room, but Dart suggest signing up as a team.

For more information about recreation leagues, visit harrisonburgva.gov/parks-recreation or call 4339168.

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ABOVE: Mike Herr of Harrisonburg pitches for the Wed Wing Woosters kickball team, which competes in the Harrisonburg Kickball League as they play at Purcell Park. LEFT: Justin Stoneburner of Broadway scores a run for the Uniballers as they play a team at Purcell Park.

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Since you’ve been gone New restaurants, stores and services open in Harrisonburg over the summer Story by VIC BRADSHAW f you’re returning to campus, of the Forbes Center for the Performing you’ll find Harrisonburg hasn’t Arts. changed too much since you deUp the street a bit in the Ice House parted in the spring. complex, you’ll find a cuisine new to But the city and Rockingham Coun- Harrisonburg and perhaps to your ty didn’t come to a standstill. Dozens hometown. Hotiman Ridwan and partof new businesses opened while you ner Mark Mitchell have opened BoBowere away, including some that Ko Cafe, and Indonesian fusion could wind up being favorrestaurant, in a 535-squareites soon. foot space behind Pure The opening of the Eats.

Brickhouse Tavern, Ridwan, who grew which was slated to up in West Java, de Indonesian restaurant be before school was scribes his native cuiout, was delayed for sine as Vietnamese American restaurant months by numerous and Thai food, with Delivery service issues. However, the spices from Southeast space at 1007 S. Main Asia providing the fla Boutiques St. finally reopened as vors. The menu includes the family-owned eatery’s traditional Indonesian third location, along with dishes and fusion offerings. their spots in Williamsburg and You’ll even find macarons, a Newport News.

French cookie, on the dessert menu; You’ll find burgers, wings and plenty Ridwan said he fell in love with them of craft beer in addition to pizza on the and learned to make them through trial menu at Brickhouse, situated just south and error.

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Downtown also has a new spot for those with a sweet tooth.

Dream Cones, which features ice cream made in Winchester by Garber’s Ice Cream Co., opened in July at 30 S. Main St. The small freezer has room for eight flavors, but most will be rotated weekly to provide ample variety for customers. Smoothies, frappes and other frozen treats are served there, too, but you can escape for as little as $2 with a single-dip cone.

Meanwhile, James Madison University alumna Elizabeth Easter has one of the newest and most creative food businesses in town. Opened just before school ended at the Rock’N Wolfe Food Truck Park, Crazy ’Cakes menu is based on pancakes and potato cakes.

Under the tent they erect twice a day (street front in the daytime, behind the building in the evening to serve hungry Wolfe Street Brewing Co. customers), Easter and others cook up breakfast, savory (The Midnight Spaghetti, for example) and dessert (S’mores pancake) dishes.

If you don’t want to leave your dorm room — or want it brought to you on the Quad — you now have new options.

GiddyUp! Courier, a bicycle food-delivery service, opened just after the 201516 school year ended. The initial concept was to deliver food from some popular downtown eateries to craft brewery taprooms downtown, but entrepreneurial owner Nick Waite took the idea a step further and extended the delivery zone to include most of the JMU and Eastern Mennonite University campuses.

Accessible at giddyupcourier.com or via the Grubhub or EatStreet websites, it currently delivers for Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint, Billy Jack’s Wing and Draft Shack, La Morena and the Little Grill Collective. The food is delivered in large, pastel-colored backpacks designed to hold temperatures.

But the new businesses students might like aren’t all about the eats.

Irina Dovganetskiy was having trouble finding a downtown storefront for withSimplicity, her homemade beauty product business, so she towed one in.

The Russian native purchased a 31-foot Airstream trailer, modified it, leased three street-front spaces in the parking lot north of Jack Brown’s, and has parked her store-on-wheels there and opened for business.

Following Dovganetskiy’s lead, Kasey Fuller is bringing her mobile women’s boutique The Gypsy Catwalk to the same parking lot Thursdays, Fridays

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Independents weren’t the only businesses launched over summer break.

Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market opened in the Stone Port shopping center under development on Port Republic Road, just east of Wendy’s and Bojangles. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it’s a traditional grocery store owned and operated by the mega-retailer.

The Wal-Mart tie has one advantage, though. Customers can order items from walmart.com and have them shipped to the grocery store for pickup at no additional cost.

International apparel retailer Forever 21 also opened a 3,000-square-foot pop-up store in the Valley Mall in June. The store, a test of the Harrisonburg market for a potential permanent location, will be open until January and

features mostly women’s fashion items.

More new stores should be in business soon, too.

Taj of India — brought to you by the owners of Taste of India on University Boulevard — and Shirley’s Gourmet Popcorn are being prepared on South Main Street downtown, and the construction project at the former Shoney’s site at the corner of East Market Street and Burgess Road is for a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop.

By the time you leave next spring, international clothing retailer H&M might have opened in the Valley Mall.

And though it’s not a done deal, progress continues to be made toward an Olive Garden restaurant opening beside the Krispy Kreme.

The Best Western Harrisonburg Inn at the site will close Aug. 31 and be demolished shortly thereafter to make way for the chair Italian eatery or some other store.

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The area boasts almost 100 nonprofit organizations which aim to better the community in numerous fields, be it disaster relief, child care, education, environmental initiatives or arts and culture.

Which means there are more than enough opportunities for college students to jump head first into the volunteer game.

Some volunteer opportunities, like those at the Collins Center, are semester-based and help with office tasks and fundraisers, according to volunteer coordinator Jackie Hieber.

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“With New Creation specifically, volunteering here helps open our eyes to exploitation, not just sex trafficking,” Andrew-Dorman said. “It’s a really important thing for college students to be part of that conversation.”

Those who want to be a little more hands-on can volunteer for the city’s parks and recreation department or a nonprofit such as Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Harrisonburg City Parks and Recreation asks for college volunteers every year to help coach their youth sports leagues.

In the fall, football and assistant football coaches teach everything from flag to tackle, and girls and boys basketball begins in the early winters, according to athletic program supervisor Erik Dart.

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“We just held a youth triathlon, and we struggled to find volunteers to fill in as course marshals,” he said. “Thankfully, [James Madison University] women’s soccer came through with over 20 volunteers on the course, and that was huge.”

Those who wish to volunteer need not be on sports teams, just have played before.

If a volunteer played basketball in high school, they could be matched with middle school players. Or if they played in middle school, they could be paired up with peewee basketball.

“It’s based on what they prefer,” Dart said. “If they’re not comfortable coaching middle school, but like first and second graders, we will match them up with what they want. You don’t have to be a

professional by any means.”

Volunteers simply contact Dart at erik.dart@harrisonburgva.gov and have to pass a background check.

Big Brothers Big Sisters relies heavily on college volunteers with about 350 collegiate Bigs matched to Littles.

Once a week, Bigs will take their Littles on small adventures throughout the community such as going to the movies, attending a sporting event or visiting the library.

For volunteers low on cash, the organization encourages low cost to no cost activities, but can also provide tickets and free entry to events through community partnerships.

The organization asks for a longer commitment of at least three

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semesters, but Bigs are connected with a local youth and their family, which can be an eye-opening experience, according to Barge.

“They get to know a family who might be different than their own family, and it opens up their eyes to a broader perspective of the world,” she said. “We have an incredibly diverse population, so many students will open up to that.”

As with any volunteer opportunity, the volunteer’s time affects more than their own life.

“It’s an enriching experience to do fun activities in the community while getting to know each other, and they know it makes a significant impact in the child’s life,” Barge said. “Having that one-on-one relationship with an adult affects the child academi-

cally and socially. They stay away from risky behavior if they have a positive adult role model.”

In Andrew-Dorman’s experience, she enjoys working with college volunteers as much as the volunteers enjoy helping out.

“Having the college kids volunteer is a breath of fresh air because they’re coming from different places and backgrounds,” she said. “It’s a win-win situation, and we love having them. They always really enjoyed the work they did here when they volunteer.”

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You’ve just arrived on cam- derly care, lawn care, etc.,” Weavpus. You purchased all you need er-Shifflett said. for your new dorm, bought new While downtown Harrisonburg clothes for the fall, double-checked offers dozens of local restaurants to make sure you have enough and shops ripe for student hires, a groceries and probably spent too short drive away, on the other side much celebrating the new semes- of Interstate 81 sits the city’s comter with friends. mercial retail hub, with retail By this time, you’ve and restaurant chains on probably realized every corner, including you’re going to need Wal-Mart, Target, Our top employers are a job to fund all of Kroger, Martin’s, your typical retails and this. You will, afPanera and Chili’s. restaurant positions. ter all, need lots There’s also Valley and lots of coffee, Mall, the biggest Amber Weaver-Shifflett, Red Bulls and pizshopping center James Madison za. Luckily for you, around.

University college campuses and “When you go in the Harrisonburg area there, you can see that offer students plenty of emthere’s likely to be a lot of stuployment opportunities. dents, a lot of JMU students, but there’s also students from Mary Off-campus jobs Baldwin, EMU and Bridgewater According to Amber Weav- College,” said Mary Morsch, direcer-Shifflett, student employment tor of Career and Academic Planmanager at James Madison Uni- ning at JMU. versity, about 60 percent of the Morsch said Massanutten ReJMU student population is ei- sort is another big off-campus ther seeking a part-time position employer of college students, who off-campus or already has an can find an array of jobs from ski off-campus job. instructors, lifeguards at the wa“Our top employers are your terpark, servers, retail associates, typical retails and restaurant po- front desk clerks and housekeepsitions, however lots of local fami- ers. lies take advantage of our free adMorsch recommends students vertising and post personal needs with a full course load to work no positions, such as child care, el- more than 10-15 hours per week,

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Randy Jorrin (center), a waiter at BoBoKo Indonesian Cafe, takes the order of Chris Rooker (left) and Brant Suter, who both work downtown, at the new restaurant in the Ice House in July. JMU students can view job opportunities through the university’s Student Employment website.

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especially for freshman and sophomores.

“If you look at their credit hours, a course load of 15 credits, plus the amount of time outside of class they should be devoting to make those credits work, that ends up being like a full-time job” Morsch said. “The getting used to being in college and handling that workload and handling time management is something that many students have to figure out as they start college because it’s so different from high school.”

JMU’s Recruit-A-Duke service helps students find part-time jobs, internships and post-graduate full-time positions.

Students can view current job postings both on and off campus through the Student Employment website.

On-campus opportunities The university offers numerous on-campus jobs to students through either federal work study or wage positions that are funded through the university’s budget, Morsch said.

The Career and Academic Planning Department hires several students as media experts to help with “our web presence, social media and to help us with publicity and promotion.”

The positions are the same regardless of how they’re funded.

Students have many options if they prefer to stay on campus to work, in addition to the food restaurants on the grounds of JMU. “There are hundreds of students who work in the University Recreation Center, there are huge groups of students who work in resident life as RA’s … there’s many academic depart-

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Krishona Tolliver, a bartender at Brickhouse Tavern, serves up lunch to customers. According to Amber Weaver-Shifflett, JMU’s student employment manager, about 60 percent of the student population is either looking for or has an off-campus job.

ments that hire students to help staff their front office to answer questions and help do administrative tasks,” Morsch said. “There’s a lot of different jobs available on campus.”

Resume, interview tips For some students, it could be their first job.

Or it could be a job related to the career field they wish to pursue. JMU’s Career and Aca-

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“We have resume writing workshops, we’ve got great information on our website. We have a resume program coming up called Resume Prep in just a couple of weeks,” she said. “We have a dozen employers that are coming to review student resumes so they’re getting an

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employer point of view.”

The feedback can help students strengthen their resume and stand out to potential employers.

The university also offers programs for students to practice interviewing. A new online program called Interview Stream allows students to practice answering questions on a webcam, which records their response and plays it back to them. The user can chose from several hundred different interview questions, with the option to pick questions geared toward a specific industry.

“Then, you get a chance to watch your interview and see how it went. You can share your interview with a professor, or with a family member or somebody who’s a mentor,” Morsch

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said. “There’s a distractor count vice for college students lookso you can determine how many ing for employment is to start networking right times you say ‘uhm’ away. and ‘you know.’ It’s Most jobs are “Sometimes stua really cool way filled through dents focus their for students to get networking, so attention on puta lot of practice in a learning how to ting their resume no-risk way.” find out what kinds out on Monster or Employers come of organizations Snagajob.com. If to the university are out there, do students put their throughout the year we have an alum resume some place to hold mock interthat works there. electronically and views with students … Networking is then wait for someand give both poscrucial, you have to thing to happen, itive and construcbe comfortable in that’s not usually tive feedback. social networking going to be very Morsch said environments. productive,” she about 200 students said. “Most jobs participated in this Amber Weaver-Shifflett, James Madison University are filled through program last year. networking, so Networking learning how to find out what Morsch’s biggest piece of ad- kinds of organizations are out

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there, do we have an alum that works there. … Networking is crucial, you have to be comfortable in social networking environments.”

The university offers networking events for students and community employers called Handshakes and Hellos. These programs typically start up a few weeks after the fall term begins.

JMU will host a Part-Time Student Employment Job Fair on Sept. 6 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Festival Conference & Student Center Ballroom. The university has a Career Fair scheduled for Sept. 26 and 27 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the same location.

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