A William Fleming High School and Hollins University graduate, April Marcell Drummond left Roanoke for the Hampton Roads region to pursue a career writing, directing and producting movies.
It was meant to be: Two Roanoke teachers getting married
Their marriage date is set for November
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Miss Vest and Mr. Quest (Roanoke City Public Schools)
ROANOKE, Va. – Everyone loves a good love story, and Roanoke City Public Schools has one that’ll put a smile on your face.
RCPS brought to Facebook to announce that Megan Vest, a teacher a Woodrow Wilson Middle School, and Zachary Quest, a teacher at William Fleming High School are getting married.
The two love birds met while teaching and believe that it was meant to be.
“If it weren’t for RCPS, we wouldn’t have even met. And now we love both getting to serve our community. Our hearts are here!” said Vest.
HEATHER ROUSSEAU photos, The Roanoke Times
Verletta White, superintendent of Roanoke City Public Schools,
answers questions during a news conference Monday announcing a
three-part âEquity in Action Program.â A display board shows the
plan to build a new technical education center on the campus of
William Fleming High School, purchase The Roanoke Times building in
downtown Roanoke and move the school divisionâs administrative
offices there, and repurpose the current school central office
space into the Booker T. Washington Center for Community
Empowerment & Education.
HEATHER ROUSSEAU, The Roanoke Times
Kathy Duncan, principal of the Roanoke Technical Education
Center (ROTEC) and also career and technical education director for
Roanoke City Public Schools announced a major project Monday to include establishment of a career and technical education center on the campus of William Fleming High School.
In addition, school officials said they plan to buy The Roanoke Times building downtown to use as a new central office. The current central administration offices will become the Booker T. Washington Center for Community Empowerment & Education, a newly released written plan says.
Setting up the three new facilities will cost an estimated $15 million, officials said.
The new technical training center responds to a concern that students would benefit from greater access to quality technical training, which goes by the acronym CTE in school circles. Right now, the city school system operates a tech ed center only at Patrick Henry High School.
The shooting of Daunte Wright in Minnesota. The killing of a 13-year-old boy in Chicago. The pepper-spraying of an Army lieutenant in Virginia.
There is still much work to be done. That was the message Friday evening of activists who gathered around the Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Roanoke.
âWe witness almost every day an act of injustice against our brothers and sisters,â said Roanoke NAACP President Brenda Hale. âWe are done dying.
âToday, we ask to stop the profiling,â she said, her voice rising to a crescendo as people nodded and exclaimed, âThatâs right!â
In a press conference joined by Sen. John Edwards, D-Roanoke, and Del. Sam Rasoul, D-Roanoke, advocates spoke of police reform, of the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and of the need for people of all creeds to push for change.