STICKS TO STATES: The Kettle Run and Fauquier boys lacrosse teams made states. Page 16
May 29, 2019
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VFW Post 9835 looking for a permanent home Warrenton Visitor Center would meet ‘98 percent’ of post’s needs By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer
TIMES STAFF PHOTO/JAMES IVANCIC Eric Bradley of Hume, right, stopped by the VFW Post 9835 table outside the Giant grocery store in Warrenton on May 24. Jeff Dombroff, post commander, left, and others from the post were selling poppies for a fundraising drive prior to Memorial Day.
Project asks residents to ‘Listen: The Community Speaks’
Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9835 would like a place to call home. Post meetings are currently held in the Warrenton-Fauquier Visitor Center at 33 Calhoun St. in Warrenton. The space provided by the town, which costs the post $35 in monthly rent, is fine, but post members want their own headquarters. “To my knowledge, we’ve never had a permanent home,” said Jeff Dombroff, current post command-
er, who served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. Having one “would give post members a sense of belonging.” He said they could have meetings and it would be a place for members to socialize at other times, and perhaps provide space to rent out for other functions. Rental money could fund the post’s work in the community and be used to assist veterans. “It would be a home for us to do various things for the community … in our own brick-and-mortar building. Something that could be our own place,” said John Frederick, a Vietnam War veteran from Warrenton and a member of the post. Post 9835 is hoping a building would be donated or sold for a small sum.
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Congrats Class of 2019!
By Robin Earl
Times Staff Writer
“Listen: The Community Speaks,” an oral history project conducted by the Afro-American Historical Association, will wrap up at the end of June. The PATH Foundation awarded a grant in 2018 to the AAHA so it could capture the memories of African-American residents who were raised in Fauquier County’s black neighborhoods 50 or more years ago. It all started with a roundtable discussion in April 2018 at Mount Nebo Baptist Church in Morgantown. Twenty participants with Fauquier County roots gathered to compare notes on their impressions of the Free State area near Marshall when they were growing up. Angela
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TIMES STAFF PHOTO/ROBIN EARL Fauquier County’s three high schools graduated more than 900 students this year. Above, Kettle Run High School students celebrated their graduation Friday, May 24. See photos from Fauquier, Kettle Run and Liberty on page 4.
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