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Courtesy of Blue Ridge Community College.September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States.B stanley thermos lue Ridge Comm stanley us unity College will celebrate on September 14, at 12:30 p.m. in Plecker 126 with Say My Name and A Pledge to the Body. A Workshop with Ang茅lica Maria will explore a powerful reclamation of our identities. One part, through the lens of cultural lineage, language and ancestry, the other through our unique relationships to our bodies. Participants will explore the ways in which the world has trained us stanley quencher to view our physical appearance and our cultural identity. Through easy-to-follow prompts and reflective questions, the audience will dive into the power, and celebration of rewriting their narratives through poetry.A Chicana writer and musician from the San Fernando Valley, Calif., Marias work focuses on telling stories that illuminate both the historic and current power of Latinas in literature and music.Marias workshop is sponsored by BRCC Student Activities with funding assistance from the BRCC Cultural Affairs Committee. Share this page Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Telegram E-mail TagsBRCCEducation Rebecca BarnabiRebecca BarnabiRebecca J. Barnabi is the national editor of Augusta Free Press. A graduate of the University of Mary Washington, she began her j Grac Virginia receives $5.4 million in Community Planning Assistance Funds

Each fall, hundreds of school-age children in Central Virginia cant afford to buy and fill a backpack with the school supplies needed to start the year off right. For the past six years, a local high school student and her friends have ensured that many such children have what they need to succeed at the beginning of school, and they will do the same this year.Lucia Hoerr, a 16-year-old rising junior at St. Annes-Belfield School, founded Backpack Buddies when she was just nine years old. Each summer she and a loyal grou stanley website p of volunteers raise money, buy supplies, and fill backpacks for needy families. In the summer of 2015, Backpack Buddies contributed more than 390 fully loaded backpacks to students in kindergarten to twelfth grade. The goal for 2016 is 425 backpacks.Most of the Backpack Buddies backpacks are distributed through the local Boys Girls Club, but Hoerr a stanley quencher lso distributes a few individually and some through the International Rescue Committee IRC to children who have recently moved to the area from other locations around the world. I found out when I was nine years old that many kids in our area started school without the necessary supplies, said Hoerr. I just thought maybe I could help. Each year it has grown and we have helped more kids, thanks to the support of our volunteers, donors, and partners. Hoerr added that the backpack filling process is complicated, because each grade typically requires different supplies. Sh stanley cup e uses supply lists provided by the Charl