Neighborhood notes: Shenandoah

Edinburg

Class of '59

Attending the reunion of the Edinburg High School class of 1959 on Sept. 19 at Sal's Italian Restaurant in Edinburg were, left to right, first row: Nancy Golladay Varney, Fred Evans, Phyllis Polk Benedict and Dorothy Pritt Williams. Second row: Clayton Stout, Kathleen Mumaw Hoffman, Janet Jones Wagniere, Alden Reedy and Janice Miller. Third row: Nancy Baker, Roger Bowers, John Whetzel, Wilson Eastep, Jerry Clem and Wilbur Dellinger. Not pictured are teachers Virginia Long and Donald Link.

Quicksburg

School news

Hannah Cheng was named an AP scholar with distinction and Victoria Phillips an AP scholar.

Both are 2009 graduates of Stonewall Jackson High School.

New Market

Garden club news

Ginger Randell discussed making a flower garden and Ethel Garber gave fall gardening tips at the Sept. 21 meeting of the New Market Garden Club at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.

The fall Shenandoah District meeting will be held Oct. 8 in Staunton.

Receiving blue ribbons were Ingrid Flowers for an artistic arrangement and five blue ribbons for horticulture; Dot Johnson, five; and Virginia Thompson for an African violet and three for horticulture.

Fort Valley

Library news

The Fort Valley Library has acquired the following adult books:

"Homer & Langley," Doctorow; "The Spire," Patterson; "The Green Belt Movement," Maathai; "The Lost Art of Gratitude," Smith; "Noctumes," Ishiguro; "What Color is Your Parachute? 2010," Bolles; "Arguing with Idiots," Beck; "Burn," Howard; "Finger Lickin Fifteen," Evanovich; "The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners," Rice; "Rhino Ranch," McMurtry; "New Tricks," Rosenfelt; "The National Parks," Duncan and Burns; "Day after Night," Diamant; "The Winds of Dune," Herbert and Anderson; "Homeschool Your Child for Free," Zielinski; "The Battle for America 2008," Balz and Johnson; "Wisdom of the Last Farmer," Masumoto; "Strawberry Hill," Hoberman; "Whiskers, Wit and Wisdom," Anderson; "Old Dogs are the Best," Weingarten; "The House at Sugar Beach," Cooper; "The Sisters of Sinai," Soskice; "Guinness World Records 2010"; "The Best of America's Test Kitchen"; "Dying for Revenge," Dickey; "True Compass," Kenedy; "Where Men Win Glory," Krakauer; "A Case of Exploding Mangos," Hanif; "Sweet Love," Strohmeyer; "Gods in Alabama," Jackson; "Between Georgia," Jackson; and "Vanishing Act," Michaels.