LINC Letter Sep Oct Nov 2024

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LINC Letter

Cindy Minnick — Continued from page 1

She was instrumental in establishing a Free Fridge at the library this year. She’s been vital to the Fall Harvest Festival and the Tomato Festival. She’s famous for her fried green tomatoes, her indefati gable energy, and her cheery disposiition. All that good work has gotten her some recogni tion, including the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery County–Blacksburg’s Teilmann Youth Services Award and the Eastmont Community Foundation Volunteer of the Year Award. She and her team even won the Virginia Association of Counties Achievement Award for the Montgomery–Floyd Regional Library and Montgomery County. She was the parade marshal at this year’s Fourth of July parade. That’s still not enough thanks for Cindy, who served this community so well from the first day she drove a bus-sized bookmobile until the last day she managed Meadowbroook Public Library. Thanks, Cindy. Enjoy your retirement.

Listen Up!

by Tim Thornton

September & October Music Beans & Banjos has evolved into a once-a-year event, but you can still hear some of the musicians who played at Beans & Banjos at some other venues. Here are some upcoming shows: • New River Bound will play a the Beaver Dam Farm Sunflower Festival in Buchanan on Sunday, September 15 from 10 a.m. to noon. • Tim Thornton will be playing during Americana Afternoons at the Floyd Country Store at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 28. • The Indian Run String Band will be playing for the Harvest Party Square Dance at Rising Silo in Blacks burg that evening from 6 to 9 p.m.. • Mike Gangloff and Kaily Schenker with Liam Grant, Devon Flaherty, and Grayson McGuire are playing at the Newport Community Center in Giles County at 7 p.m. on Friday, October 4. • The Lovely Mountaineers will play during the Fall Harvest Festival at Meadowbrook on Saturday, Octo ber 5. • Mike Gangloff, Kaily Schenker, and Matt Peyton will be appearing with violinist and violist Jack Bird of Nashville at Rising Silo in Blacksburg from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, October 19. If you, your church, your band, your cousin’s band, or any other group with some connection to East Mont is hosting or playing any kind of music the public is invited to hear, let us know at lincstories@gmail.com. If anyone in East Mont is hosting such music, let us know that too. We’ll include that information in our emailed LINC updates.