The Lovingston Volunteer Fire Department will host the Celebrating Our Heroes parade to celebrate first responders and the July 4 holiday at 5:30 p.m. July 2 in Lovingston.
No street parking from 4:30 - 8 pm. Handicap parking will be announced. Public parking can be found at the courthouse.
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Stephanie Boyles Griffin and Molly Armus
Although Virginia has successfully outlawed other blood sports such as dogfighting and cockfighting, predator killing contests are still legal in the commonwealth.
Hundreds of bobcats, foxes and coyotes might fall victim at a single contest, in which participants gun down animals in competition for cash and prizes. The Humane Society of the United States recently went undercover at two such contests in Virginia and documented the grim goings-on.
At the Kanawha Valley Predator Calling Championship in Dugspur in January, piles of bloody coyotes and foxes were packed into crates attached to trucks bearing stickers and license plates reading âCoyote Hearse,â âYote H8Râ and âCoyote Taxi.â
Faith, family and friends.
It was those three pillars that helped carry Lovingston Volunteer Fire Department Chief Danny Johnson through numerous surgeries, repeated stays in the hospital and months of physical therapy.
âThe blessings that my family, friends and people that Iâve never met they prayed for me, donated â thatâs what got me here,â Johnson said.
When Johnson suffered severe injuries following a late-May motorcycle accident that nearly cost him his left leg and heavily restricted his mobility, it wasnât a matter of if he would walk again, but when.
A modified walker capable of supporting his left arm which had been fused at a 90 degree angle sat beside the fire chief as he recalled the past roughly nine months and the journey that led to him again being able to sit at his desk at his Lovingston business the Blue Dog.
Fire destroys Nelson County volunteer firefighter’s home
It took nearly 12 hours to get the blaze under control
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NELSON COUNTY, Va. – What was a three-story house on Ponton Lane is now a pile of debris.
For 17-year-old Travis Burley, a firefighter with the Lovingston Volunteer Fire Department, it wasn’t an ordinary call He was responding to his own home.
“It was pretty much over and done with by the time we got there. There was nothing to it. We couldn’t do anything for it,” said Burley.
Fire officials said the call came in around 6 p.m. Saturday and it took nearly 12 hours to get the fire under control.
Crews find person dead inside Nelson County home while responding to fire
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A person was found dead inside of a home in Nelson County as crews were responding to a fire at the house, according to the Lovingston Volunteer Fire Department.
Authorities said the fire happened in the 100 block of Farrar Lane in Arrington around 9:15 p.m. Sunday.
When crews first arrived, they said they saw heavy smoke and fire throughout the entire house.
Once crews were able to get the fire on the exterior of the house under control, they said they were able to go inside to continue to extinguish the fire and look for anyone that may have been inside. Due to a collapsed roof and compromised floors, authorities said the search was put on hold until crews could safely search the house.