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The Montvale School Preservation Foundation seeks to renovate the old how high school for use as a community hub for events and services.

As she promised, Freda Cathcart - one of the vocal opponents of the proposed coffee shop at Fishburn Park that was not approved by Roanoke City Council - has submitted an alternative proposal for the old caretaker's cottage. Cathcart and Roni Sutton propose to leverage a no-interest loan for $100,000 combined with volunteer efforts to

The proposal was submitted by Freeda Cathcart and Roni Sutton to the Roanoke City manager and the Roanoke City Council to renovate and maintain the house in Fishburn Park on June 1.

Roni Sutton and her husband, Richie, raised three sons into adulthood. But their offspring arent the only people who call them "mom" and "dad." A dozen other young men and women spread around Earth also address the couple using those terms. Thats because the Suttons spent years hosting foreign-exchange students in their Montvale home. More recently, Roni Sutton has levered that experience into a job as "chapter leader" with a nonprofit called Foreign Links Around the Globe, or FLAG. Since 1989,...