Showcase Magazine June 2022

Uncle Al

NO SKILL IS WASTED. EVERYTHING HAS A PURPOSE. www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 1

2 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

| www.showcasemagazine.com

www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 3

CONTENTS

Showcase Magazine

JUNE 2022

Showcase Magazine

@showcaseDVA

showcasemagazineva @ info@showcasemagazine.com

ALSO INSIDE

FEATURES

Editor’s Letter

Paws for a Cause

6

19

Speaking of UFOs

Games

in Curacao…

Crossword & Wordsearch

14

18

Confessions of a 30 Something

Uncle Al

No skill is wasted.

Everything has a purpose.

8

The Flighty Friend

The Livin’ is Easy

Meet Daisy

Day Trips and Weekend Getaways 21

16

Uncle Al

No skill is wasted.

Everything has a purpose.

4 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

PG.

| www.showcasemagazine.com

8

PG.

16

COME CHECK OUT THE NEW FACILITY AND PLAY FOR FREE! We've doubled the size of our gaming floor, added 350 new games and remodeled our High Limit Gaming Area.

PAM WON $ 6,420

WILLIAM WON $ 62,120

MICHELLE WON $ 6,121

20 IN FREE PLAY

$

NEW MEMBERS ONLY. BRING THIS COUPON TO ROSIE’S IN VINTON AND SIGN-UP TO REDEEM. Valid now-July 20, 2022 in Vinton and for new members only.

1135 VINYARD RD, VINTON, VA 24179 Must be 18 or older. Problem Gaming? Call Virginia’s Help Line at 1-888-532-3500.

www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 5

EDITOR’S LETTER

The Livin’ is Easy That’s a line I borrowed from “Summertime” originally composed by George Gershwin.

Summertime is a popular season, and so is the song. It’s a jazz standard with over a thousand official releases. My favorite is Ella Fitzgerald’s version with Louis Armstrong.

showcase JUNE 2022

CEO Andrew Scott Brooks scott@showcasemagazine.com EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Paul Seiple | paul@showcasemagazine.com

But let’s talk about summer.

I have a complicated relationship with summer. Journalist Russell Baker summed it up best when he said, “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”

Mostly, I dislike summer. I’m not a fan of the heat. More specifically, the humidity that tags along. Southern humidity can be downright disrespectful. One of my worst memories is associated with summer. I like to call it, “The day I almost died.” Looking back, that’s pretty dramatic, but I was five. I was at the beach with my family enjoying the ocean when a tsunami of a wave formed. Again, being dramatic. But this was a Shaq-sized wave after we had grown accustomed to Muggsy Bogues-sized waves.

My dad saw it first. He swiped me up and put me on his shoulders. It hit before I had a chance to reflect on my five years of life. It knocked my dad off balance. I crashed into the water. The wave’s forced tossed me underneath the water like an off-balance washing machine.

Dramatic once again. I was five.

I recovered, but it took a while for me to get back in the water. Flash forward about thirteen years, and some of my best summer memories are from senior week at Myrtle Beach with my friends. It was sun, fun, and freedom. I haven’t seen many of these friends in years, but, hey, we will always have the Magic Attic, right?

So, yeah, it’s complicated with summer and me.

Two things I like about the season are hot dogs and ice cream. This month’s cover feature introduces readers to “Uncle Al.” Allen Plumber uses his entrepreneurial spirit to provide good eats and summer memories with his hot dog and ice cream carts.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER Kim Demont | demontdesign@verizon.net FINANCE MANAGER Cindy Astin | cindy@showcasemagazine.com ADVERTISING Lee Vogler | Director of Sales and Marketing lee@showcasemagazine.com | 434.548.5335 CUSTOMER SERVICE Subscribe to Home Delivery for $24 per year 753 Main Street #3, Danville, VA 24541 Phone 434.709.7349 info@showcasemagazine.com www.showcasemagazine.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Paulette Dean | Sam Jackson | Brandie Kendrick Barry Koplen | Lee Vogler CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Brandie Kendrick | Barry Koplen Laura Mae Photography | Lee Vogler COVER Allen Plumber Photo by Laura Mae Photography

Summertime is also good for taking day trips. Lee gives us a rundown of his favorite places to go on a family day trip.

Some of the best day trips involve getting out in nature. Exploring state parks and mountains are ideal getaways for a day. It’s no coincidence the first Saturday in June is National Trails Day. There is an abundance of great trails within a few hours’ driving distance.

So, take a day trip and make some memories.

As for me, I suppose I’ll give summer another chance. But please be gentle with the humidity.

Or I’m checking that “It’s Complicated” box again.

Enjoy the issue

6 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

| www.showcasemagazine.com

Scan with your smart phone for

EXCLUSIVE ONLINE CONTENT at showcasemagazine.com

www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 7

FEATURE UNCLE AL

Uncle Al

No skill is wasted.

Everything has a purpose.

BY DAVIN WILSON PHOTOS BY LAURA MAE PHOTOGRAPHY

E

ntrepreneurs are expected to hustle and do a bit of everything. When one runs a food cart, however, it brings a whole new meaning to the word “hustle.”

Allen “Uncle Al” Plumber doesn’t have a wide variety on his menu. What he offers, though, is an experience that hits the spot, wherever he may be.

Plumber runs Uncle Al’s Ice Cream and Uncle Al’s Street Hot Dogs in Danville. Uncle Al’s Ice Cream began two years ago, and upon popular request, Plumber expanded to add hot dogs earlier this year. Uncle Al’s Ice Cream typically runs seasonally from March to November, “depending on how the weather is,” he said. “Sometimes, I may do a few events in December. With hot dogs, I plan to be year round.”

The cart began on a tricycle with a large freezer attached to the front, which could hold up to 500 pieces of ice cream. With his free-standing hot dog cart, Plumber can hold 500-600 hot dogs and sausages of various types.

“Most days, I start my day off on my hot dog cart,” he said, “typically, with 3-4 cases of hot dogs,” or about 320 he added.

Not to worry, though. Uncle Al’s loyal customers can get both—lunch and dessert. Al uses his Ford F-150 to carry both carts.

At lunch time, Uncle Al can be found in the river district, usually at the corner of Main and Craghead streets in downtown Danville.

“My ice cream cart is on wheels, so I’m able to move around,” when selling frozen wares, he said. However, “You can’t really move the hot dog cart around like the ice cream cart can.”

8 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

| www.showcasemagazine.com

Plumber got the idea for Uncle Al’s Ice Cream when he started giving it out to kids at True Holiness-Apostolic Church on Southampton Avenue after service. That’s also where his business got its name. Kids started calling him Uncle Al, so “it seemed to fit when the time came to start a business, to call it Uncle Al’s,” he said.

After a couple of years as the River District’s resident Ice Cream Man, Uncle Al’s clientele asked for more.

“I was out riding about, and a guy actually approached me and said, ‘We need some hot dogs now.’” Plumber knew this was the sound of opportunity knocking.

“When you become an entrepreneur, you kind of listen to the public.”

One advantage Plumber had that many businesses didn’t have was a certain degree of immunity to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The good thing, because the ice cream is outside, the pandemic didn’t hurt me too bad,” he said. “Any events that were outside, I was able to participate, so that alone was good for me. When everything else was going bad, ice cream was still kind of thriving.”

And thrive he does. So much so, in fact, that people regularly ask him to continue to add to what’s already in his loaded cart.

“They come up wanting burgers, but I’m a hot dog cart,” he explains. “That’s not to say that I’m never going to expand, but for this season, hot dogs are working.”

“It’s a lot to keep up,” he adds.

Before taking on his latest challenge, Plumber was a member of the Danville Fire Department for eight years.

While he did that, he felt called to a career in counseling, so he pursued a degree in psychology and Christian Continued to Page 12

www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 9

Hi! I ’ m Laura,

Your local family photographer!

Providing joy-filled, timeless images.

NOW BOOKING FALL SESSIONS! 10 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

| www.showcasemagazine.com

FIND ME HERE

www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 11

FEATURE UNCLE AL

Continued from Page 8

counseling from Liberty University.

Plumber, a man who feels called to help others, also worked on staff at Danville-Pittsylvania County Community Services before his entrepreneurial spirit took hold.

“Initially, I was going to counsel. But Uncle Al’s Ice Cream got birthed, and then Uncle Al’s Street Hot Dogs got birthed, and they sort of got swapped.”

Much like the ice cream business, Plumber believes certain things in life are seasonal. Therefore, the dream of counseling didn’t go away just because he has a successful business.

“I’ve always been fascinated with the mind and helping people,” said Plumber, who is also a certified life coach.

“I still desire to be a counselor, it’s just not number one right now.”

12 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

| www.showcasemagazine.com

Either way, Plumber always feels called to help, even if it’s helping keep people fed. “In everything I do, I find myself in the field of servitude and helping people,” he said.

That’s why regardless of whether it may seem like Plumber’s various enterprises differ from one another, he believes everything he does is something he is called to do.

“I’m a faith-based person,” he explains. “I’m a firm believer of when you know who you are and what you were created for, you don’t go searching for things outside of who you’re supposed to be. That doesn’t mean you don’t try new things, but when you work the gifts God has given you, then you prosper.”

Uncle Al’s is already getting booked for the summer, Plumber said. He will head to the food truck rodeo on June 4, a children’s festival on June 18, and possibly

at the July 4 festivities at Carrington Pavilion in Danville. Plumber takes bookings where he dresses up as superheroes (with ice cream in tow, of course) at birthday parties. He also does a lot with the River District Association.

Plumber can effectively sum up his career, whether it’s being a firefighter, counselor, working with disabled adults or selling ice cream and hot dogs. His philosophy is simple: “No skill is wasted. Everything has a purpose,” he said.

And right now, his purpose involves delivering smiles in the form of hot dogs and ice cream, whether the time for that is long or short.

“Things have seasons and times,” he said. “You have to stay close to God to stay in the right season in your life. For that reason, the ice cream and the hot dogs, I feel like I’m in the right season. When it’s time for that season to change, God will let me know.”

DISCOVER

Halifax County, Virginia What makes your heart race?

Photo Credit: HyperFEST

gohalifaxva.com 1180 Bill Tuck Highway, South Boston, VA 24592 | 434.572.2543

www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 13

FEATURE SPEAKING OF UFOS IN CURACAO…

Speaking of UFOs in Curacao…

BY BARRY KOPLEN PHOTOS BY BARRY KOPLEN

L

eaving Curacao was difficult but necessary. I had work to do at home, books to write, pictures to take, stories to tell. Having packed, all that was left to do was to say goodbye to Chevy, the housekeeper, with a little gift and to climb in the taxi/van for my ride to the airport.

When Chevy heard the van pull up next to the locked gate, she called me to ask whether that was my ride. Our goodbye was swift. Chevy was cleaning my room as I entered the van. Almost immediately, I asked the man sitting in the front passenger’s seat whether he was also leaving Curacao. “No,” he answered, “just riding with my friend.”

Hearing that made me think of the day before when I’d ridden shotgun with Eddy, a local who had ridden with

14 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

| www.showcasemagazine.com

me as a guide to the features of Curacao. I mentioned that to the man in the front seat as I praised Eddy’s know-how. “My name’s Eddy, too,” he told me.

Minutes later, the second Eddy talked about the patent that had yielded him a small fortune. Although it allowed him to leave the U. S. to reside in Curacao, he admitted that “a few million doesn’t last long.”

“Do you still get residuals?” I asked.

He said he didn’t; he’d sold his interest in the product he’d created. It was something most of us know well.

Eddy number two had designed the sections of walls used as sound barriers on the sides of highways that border residential areas. He admitted that it was mostly a lucky idea, something unexpected.

Hearing that, I told him about the most unexpected thing that had happened to me. “I wrote a book about it,” I told him.

It was Eddy’s turn to be curious. In answer to his question about what I’d experienced, I told him about my book, the one about having had a very close encounter with a flying saucer, the book that the UFO Museum in Roswell bought for their gift shop.

Immediately, Eddy was excited. “I saw one too,” he told me. His UFO sighting occurred while he was in his swimming pool at his home on one of the east coast islands of northern Florida. I listened as he described what he saw; I didn’t ask questions. Nor did I interrupt him because of one thing he did that no one else I’d spoken to had done.

As he was describing the flying saucers he had seen, he made a motion with his hand to describe the way the crafts departed. He depicted a motion that looked like a check mark resting on its side, a zigzag motion.

When he finished, I told him why I believed him.

“Eddy,” I said, “the saucer that the four of us saw left in the very same way, a zigzag pattern.” No one else I’d talked to had mentioned that kind of unusual flight pattern.

Hearing that seemed to please Eddy so much that he told me he would send some pictures to me, pictures he had never shown anyone else.

They had been taken on that same night he had seen the saucers come and go.

That one thing allowed me to say that I believed Eddy’s story.

BECAUSE BUILDING A BETTER WORLD STARTS WITH LITERACY.

Ruby B. Archie Public Library 511 Paaon Street · readdanvilleva.org OPEN SIX DAYS A WEEK Featuring over 64,000 tles including new releases, best sellers, graphic novels, old favorites, DVDs, books on CD, and more!

Services include children and adult programming, genealogy and newspaper databases, reference services, prinnng, copying, fax, notary, and more!

Home delivery coming soon.

Call 434-799-5195 to see if you qualify.

MON - THUR 10 AM to 7 PM | FRIDAYS 10 AM to 5 PM SATURDAYS 10 AM to 2 PM www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 15

FEATURE THE FLIGHTY FRIEND

The Flighty Friend

BY BRANDIE KENDRICK PHOTO BY BRANDIE KENDRICK

I

am a flighty friend. I never really intended for this to be my title or role in the grand scheme of adult friendships. It’s just become a part of reality.

Before children, I was the ride-or-die friend who would show up on your doorstep ready to party, pray, or completely clean out your closet. (Different people, different coping mechanisms). I used to be the 100 percent-committed friend. The one you called during the chaos for help. However, I realized within the last year; I am no longer that person. I can no longer drop everything and run to the needs of my friends in the same way. In fact, I am not sure I really know how to be a good friend. It hit me just the other day that no one ever taught me the right way to make and keep friends as a child, much less as a grown woman with a career, side passions, and raising two small humans. I guess that is why I have very few close friends now. Who knew I would be sitting here in my mid-thirties trying to figure out how to make friends? Heck, trying to figure out if I even want to make new friends.

In my defense, I’ve been with my husband since I graduated from high school. We got married in our very early 20s and had children by our mid-twenties. My 20s were a whirlwind of learning to be a wife, navigating marriage, and then motherhood. I had very little time to commit to friendships in my 20s, but I was all in when I did. Now, my “all in” looks a little different. I am all in, but only if it is after working hours and I have a babysitter. I am all in, if it is after bedtime but only for a few hours... cause this mama has to sleep. Sometimes I am all in, but only if it is through FaceTime because I have a sleeping child in my arms. So, I admit to being the flighty friend. The one that will not RSVP to your

16 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

| www.showcasemagazine.com

child’s birthday party because I do not know how overstimulated my child will be or how my anxiety meter will move that day. In my heart, I really do love you.

I can truthfully say I have very few genuine friendships outside of the family. Those few friends love me despite my flightiness. They understand my lack of presence isn’t intentional, instead; it is for survival. These are the friends who will drop everything and show up at the ER when my child needs stitches. The ones who would take my children at the drop of a second if I needed to call them. The ones who may live across the country, but they mail me books, pray for me, and talk to me daily through video chat. The ones who were at my mother’s house the day she died before I even had the chance to call. The ones who love my children, not judge them for their differences. The ones who know I would be there in a split second if they really needed me. The ones who get that my anxiety makes me crash at 8 PM some nights, so I am really not ignoring their texts. I am just exhausted.

The ones who understand the past year of my life has been nothing short of hell at times. While I am flighty, and I don’t commit to things as I used to—I am learning.

I am working on becoming my best self. I am working on being better for those around me. And I am also forever grateful and indebted to my friends, who will always extend grace and love me, anyway.

So, if you are a mom in your mid-thirties looking for a semi-committed flighty friend who will pray for you every day but only see you once every three months on a “girls’ night” out—I am your girl.

Let’s be friends.

www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 17

EXTRA GAMES

Games

Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Drift 5 Rodeo animal 10 Turquoise 14 Water (Sp.) 15 Difficultness 16 Kiss 17 Burial chamber 18 Artery 19 Ascend 20 Handle 22 What babies grow 24 Time period 25 Association (abbr.)

27 Freethinker 29 Raccoon-like animal 32 Encumbered 35 Nil 38 Little bit 39 Niche 40 First woman 41 Gets smaller 43 Spider’s net 44 Prompt 46 Less than two 47 Green Gables dweller 48 “Remember the __” 49 Idiot

51 Turns orange, as in metal 54 Syrup tree 57 Boat 59 60 min. slots 62 Dales 64 Simmer 66 Solidarity 68 Institution (abbr.)

69 Track 70 Indian money 71 Decorative needle case 72 Adjoin 73 Gushes out 74 Worker DOWN 1W 2 Ancient Greek marketplace 3 Vapor 4 Hot sauce 5 Women’s undergarment 6 Rampage 7 Giant 8 Written down

9 10 11 12 13 21 23 26

Large wooden box Abridged (abbr.)

Pacify (2 wds.)

Soviet Union At sea Also Slopes Female cartoon character 28 Pouch 30 Sticky black substance 31 Jerk 33 Poetic “evening” 34 Northeast by east 35 Greek character 36 Malicious 37 Commenting 39 BB Player Abdul Jabar 41 Squelch 42 North northwest 45 Flightless bird 47 Petitioned 50 Scrap 52 What a singing group does 53 Sunrise

55 Musical “slow” 56 Result 57 Qualified

58 Street 60 Aged 61 Soup

63 Uproar 65 Downwind 67 Yea

Word Search ACCIDENT

DEFENSIVE

COMMUNITY

DISTRACTED

HEALTH

SAFETY

CRASH

FALL

INJURIES

TRAINING

DANGER

18 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

| www.showcasemagazine.com

FIRST AID

MOTOR VEHICLE

WORKPLACE

Answers on Page 22

PAWS FOR A CAUSE

Paws for a Cause WRITTEN BY PAULETTE DEAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DANVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY

Our father was an honorable, tough Army sergeant with a marshmallow heart. All of what I learned about kindness to animals I learned from my parents, and Daddy played a major role in that.

MEET DAISY This beagle mix is as sweet as sweet can be!

Daddy was stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas, for three years and one night brought home, of all things, a horned toad that one of his soldiers had picked up when they were on maneuvers.

Daddy checked to make sure where the animal should be released back into the wild and followed instructions.

When we lived in California in what was to be his last duty station before retiring from the Army, we went to a pet store to buy hamster supplies. One day I was left at home to watch the supper that was cooking and when my parents and sister came home, I was asked to go get the last bag of groceries from the backseat. Instead, I saw the cutest dachshund/beagle mix with huge ears and eyes. Daddy said the dog could stay inside until he was older, but then he would need to stay mostly outside. And he added that absolutely Walter (we voted as a family to name him that) would never be allowed to sleep in the bed with any of us. Walter lived 13 years and spent every single night sleeping with either my parents or with me. Walter stayed outside—for brief bathroom breaks or long walks.

The rest of the time, he was inside.

About a year before I left home, I bought a parakeet and named him G.P. Daddy kept looking at G.P. in the cage that we moved in front of the sliding glass doors during the day so he could look out the window. One day, he said, “I can’t take seeing him in this cage

all the time.” After that, he ensured that G.P. had lots of time to fly around the house, even after he destroyed my mother’s beloved collection of African violets that are, thankfully, not toxic to birds.

Daddy never knew that I caught him talking to a wild baby bird that had fallen into the basement window well.

Daddy put a broom into the window well and said, “Come on, buddy, I’m

trying to help you. Come on, little buddy, let me get you out of there.” It took some time, but the bird finally was rescued and baby and mama flew away.

After thirty years of working at the shelter, I can testify with no doubt at all about this—the world needs honorable men with marshmallow hearts! That has been the need since the beginning and will always remain so. .

DANVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 19

KNEE PA I N ?

Sports Injuries Cartilage Restoration Ligament Reconstruction Outpatient Joint Replacement Partial & Total Knee Replacements

200 W. Wendover Avenue • Greensboro, NC 223 W. Ward St. • Suite B • Asheboro, NC 336.333.6443 • www.SMJRortho.com

STEVE LUCEY, M.D. 20 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

| www.showcasemagazine.com

CONFESSIONS OF A 30 SOMETHING

Confessions of a 30 Something Day Trips and Weekend Getaways

BY LEE VOGLER PHOTO BY LEE VOGLER

fans in our house, but we have gone out to the South Boston Speedway over the years and always had a good time.

There are a lot of fun things to do in Halifax County, so we usually make a day trip out of it.

Summer’s here, and the time is right for dancing in the street. While Martha and the Vandellas may be right, summer is also the time for day trips and weekend getaways. I’ve covered the topic extensively over the years in this column, so I won’t belabor the point, but I did want to list some things I’m looking forward to over the next several months.

Danville Otterbots games: All of us at Showcase are big Otterbots fans, but they’re especially popular in the Vogler household. We have season tickets, so you will find us at nearly every home game. I hope to see our readers there, as well. For our readers outside of Danville, what better day trip than an evening at the ballpark? Or if you want to make it an overnight trip, go see our friends at The Bee Boutique Hotel in downtown Danville.

NC Zoo in Asheboro: Our family got a year membership for Christmas last year, so it’s a fairly regular visit for us already, but now that summer is here, all the exhibits are open. We always have a good time visiting the animals.

Patrick County: A little over 10 years ago, I was working on a political campaign in Patrick County for a few months in the fall. I couldn’t have asked for a more gorgeous drive each day.

Ever since, we try to get out that way at least a handful of times a year, especially in the fall when the leaves change.

Our Annual Topsail Island Trip: We’ve been going to Topsail Beach as a family for several years and it’s always a highlight of the summer. This year, our house has a dock of its own in the back, so I’ll be doing more crabbing than usual. Wish me luck!

What are you looking forward to this summer? Whether it’s pool time, lake time or just quiet time to yourself, I hope each of you finds your own adventure that makes you feel like dancing in the street.

South Boston Speedway: Admittedly, we’re not huge racing

SPONSOR A STUD

Proceeds to benefit:

Is your church, civic or friend's group looking for a mission/project to help others in need?

We have the answer....participate in our Stud-a-Thon fundraiser.

Join with your group and pay a donation of $100.00 and create a blessing for the Fountain family, who will be living in the first house in our Habitat Village North housing community.

This first house is slated to begin soon and we are looking for your help to offer support to the family by putting your blessings, favorite quote/Bible verse or just paint with pretty colors on the framing studs. This is a great project for children that are too young to volunteer on the construction of the houses.

2805 Riverside Drive, Suite J, Danville, VA 24540 (434) 793-3630 www.danvillehabitat.org

www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 21

Once home to the city’s iconic Danville Register Bee newspaper building – reimagined for today’s traveler.

FEATURES & AMENITIES: Free high-speed WiFi | Mini-fridge and Microwave Keurig Coffee Maker | Premium Bath Amenities Iron and Ironing Board | Pet-friendly | Fitness Center Rooftop Deck (seasonal) | Free Parking Large Apartment Style Suites Available

420 Patton Street | Danville, Virginia 24541

T: 434-234-9440 www.danvillebeehotel.com

Games Solutions Continued from Page 18

Crossword Puzzle

22 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

| www.showcasemagazine.com

Word Search

INTIMATE MOMENTS,

BIG EXPERIENCES, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.

Find yourself here

© Photo by Roger Gupta

Big-time festivals, picnics at a covered bridge, soaring vistas on the Blue Ridge Parkway, artisan studios, local wineries, bed and breakfasts, camping, hiking, mountain biking, and fishing are just some of the attractions awaiting you. From the rugged outdoors to 5-Star luxury, there is so much to discover here. www.visitpatrickcounty.org Visit the Patrick County Visitors Center at 126 N. Main St, Stuart, VA www.showcasemagazine.com

| JUNE 2022 | SHOWCASE Magazine 23

24 SHOWCASE Magazine |

JUNE 2022

| www.showcasemagazine.com