THIS & THAT

THIS & THAT

Thomas Lloyd and Bryan Huffman came to the Daffodil Show at Buchanan Hall for a successful trip to sign copies of their book Bunny Mellon Style.

Photo by Leonard Shapiro

Former Washington Redskin quarterback Joe Theismann served as the master of ceremonies for a gala dinner at the Stone Tower Winery in Leesburg recently that capped the two-day “Virginia Vine” event benefitting the V Foundation. The seventh annual program, including a cocktail reception at the Middleburg Barn, raised more than $900,000 for cancer research. It brings area donors together with the region’s top cancer researchers to learn about the latest breakthroughs, The V Foundation was founded in 1993 by legendary college basketball coach Jimmy Valvano, shortly before he died from adenocarcinoma.

Photo by Sarah Bullard Aaron Locke, an eighth grader at Auburn Middle School, received the Howard Grove Memorial Herdsman Award at the Local 4-H and Future Farmers of America members at the 63rd annual Fauquier County Show & Sale. More than $110,000 of prize livestock was sold.

Middleburg area native Erica Gudino has been awarded a $3,000 scholarship from the Virginia Library Association Scholarship Committee to continue her studies in library science. Erica, 22, is a graduate of Claude Thompson Elementary, Mar-shall Middle School, Fauquier High School and Roanoke College and has served as a mentor at Middleburg’s “A Place to Be.” She and other scholarship winners will be honored at the annual awards and scholarship banquet at the VLA Conference in Norfolk in October. She currently works as a library assistant at the Wil-liam R. and Norma B. Harvey Library’s Peabody Special Collections at Hampton University.

Photo by Sarah Bullard Ryann Bradshaw is graduating from Kettle Run this year after participating in Fauquier County Show & Sale since age nine. She took top honors as Supreme Beef and Supreme Lamb Showman, as well as Reserve Grand Champion Steer.