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We are currently seeking nominations for the 14th Annual Valley Legacy Awards. In 2005, The Valley Legacy Awards were created to honor those who are devoted to improving the Mahoning Valley. Since then, the VLAs have honored more than 300 exceptional people and organizations with 60 receiving the VLA. The Awards recognize three categories of legacies:…
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Sign up for your two-day AAA Driving Course with Shepherd of the Valley! Call to register today! Date: June 26 & 28 | July 17 & 19 | August 14 & 16 (Both days must be attended for the preferred session) Time: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Cost: $10 for AAA members; $15 for non-members…
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Residents and staff enjoyed celebrating Nursing Home Week with carnivals, elephant ears and life-size CandyLand games!
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Observations from the Chaplain’s Perspective Rev. Donald P. Barnes, Chaplain Consider the following story taken from a bulletin of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association: “My car won’t start when I buy pistachio” The manager of a Texas automobile dealership thought the woman who confronted him with this bizarre statement must be crazy. It seems that on…
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Observations From the Chaplain’s Perspective Rev. Donald P. Barnes, Chaplain This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118: 24 “Don’t forget the sunscreen! Is there room for my guitar? Grab the cards and the dominoes!” Vacation. For many years, the Barnes’ Family have made…
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The U.S. Flag Code states, “The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.” Bring your torn or worn out flag to Shepherd of the Valley throughout the month of May for a proper retirement. Drop…
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Gentle Touches by Brian Doyle Spent all day and deep into the evening Saturday at a wedding studying the ways and means and manners by which people gently touch each other, and so communicate this and that and the other thing; to wit, how fathers gently affectionately lay their hands on the thin eager elegant…
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Then Jesus said, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.” He said this because there were so many people coming and going that Jesus and his apostles didn’t even have time to eat. Mark 6: 31 Six weeks and my gnarly toes will be wiggling in the warm sand…
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Met an interesting lady a while back. Spotted her at a function from across the room. Appeared fragile, diminutive. She was sitting buy herself along the wall – a solitary figure in a sea of people. Asked a gentleman to my left if he knew who she was. “Oh yeah,” he said. “That’s Elsie. One…
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Saw a rock the other day. Not just any rock, mind you. This “guy” was huge. Met this gargantuan monolith for the first time while on my daily rounds in Columbiana County. I was cresting a hill when I spotted it – a beautiful granite boulder, thirty feet high and twenty feet across – standing…
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