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Spring athletics get underway at William Fleming & Faith Christian
On Wednesday, March 5th, The Warriors (22-2) met Grace Christian School of Sanford, NC (24-12) in their first game. The Warriors fell behind 16-20 at halftime, but in the third quarter they held Grace to 3 points and were able to establish a five point lead. Faith had 19 steals for the game and Rachel Nymeyer scored a game high 19 points to lead the Warriors. Rachel Sherman locked down Lydia Kruse, the leading scorer (18 points) for Grace, in the second half. They then pulled away for a 49-33 victory over Grace Christian. Final: Faith Christian School 49, Grace Christian School (Sanford, NC) 33 On Thursday, March 6th, The Warriors (23-2) met Olathe Christian School of Olathe, KS (30-2) in
Final: Olathe Christian School (Olathe, KS) 53, Faith Christian School 27 On Friday, March 7th, The Warriors (23-3) met Harvester Christian Academy of Douglasville, GA (23-1) in their third game for third place. The Warriors led 10-7 in the first quarter, but were pressured into 15 turnovers in the first half. The Warriors shot very poorly but played hard and never quit throughout the game. It was evident that Faith had lost their
Little Foxes at Star City, den of vipers southern family-style of capitalism.” The play is set in the year 1900, with distant echoes of the Civil War and pre-war plantation life still on people’s minds. The Star City production featured a few southern accents that were hard to decipher at times and some mismatched characters that are supposed to be married but seem too different in age perhaps. That however is part of the charm of very-off-off Broadway theater. The Little Foxes, once made into a movie starring Bette Davis, had a plot that had to be followed closely at times (a short synopsis in the playbill would have helped some of us with thicker heads) but in general for $10 or less (seniors, students are $6) another side of the theater experience in Roanoke can be experienced in the capable hands of Semones - a Hollins-educated playwright and Roanoke native – and Ferguson, a Kentuckian who likes to tell the story that it took them 41 years to get a flat tire fixed in New York City so they could work their way back to Roanoke. Local high school students figured in The Little Foxes, with Patrick Henry sophomore Amy Freidman portraying one of the main characters in a play where the women characters get stronger as the plot moves along. Freidman also played piano on stage and is classically trained. “We got lucky,” says Ferguson, who was going to use taped piano music until Freidman auditioned and won the part of Alexandra Giddens. William Fleming junior Sarah Furrow handled many of the technical
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Coach Pat Wolfe reported that The Warriors “were excited about finishing in fourth place considering that Faith was a Division III team competing at a higher Division II level. It was a great experience and the team gives God all the glory for the victories and defeats.” The team was extremely proud of receiving the Team Sportsmanship award which was selected by all the other competing teams.
Local Kroger grocery stores are partnering with United Way of Roanoke Valley to distribute free FamilyWize discount cards that offer immediate discounts on prescription drugs at participating pharmacies. People without health insurance or prescription drug coverage can use the FamilyWize cards, which will be distributed by United Way of Roanoke Valley, partner agencies and other community organizations. Those covered by Medicare, Medicare or private insurance plans are not eligible. Kroger Mid-Atlantic pharmacist Tia Daniels estimated the savings at about 20% for customers that use the FamilyWize discount card. “We’re very pleased with the results [so far],” said Daniels, speaking at a Wednesday news conference,
held next to the Tanglewood Kroger pharmacy. United Way board chairman Barry Henderson said community feedback indicated that the “cost of health care and prescriptions [are one] of the greatest concerns.” Local United Way president Frank Rogan said the objective was simple: for those without health insurance or medicine coverage, “to help reduce the cost of prescription medications.” United Way has distributed 17,000 FamilyWize cards nationally said Rogan. “Our goal right now is to let the community know the card is available.” In Roanoke City, CVS, K-Mart, Friendship Pharmacy, Blue Ridge Apothecary and Lipes Pharmacy will make the free FamilyWize discount cards available.
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chores backstage and works on productions at her school as well. Fellow Fleming student Dylan Amick portrayed Cal the servant in The Little Foxes. Ferguson said some performances were near sellouts. Next up is Almost Home from April 25-May 18, written by Karon Sue Semones and based in part on Huntington Place, a historic home in Roanoke. “I wrote Almost Home after 9/11,”’ says Semones, who was running a theater then in the area with Ferguson. “Four of our tenants worked in the [Twin] Towers and each had an explanation of why they didn’t go that day,” says Semones, who calls Almost Home a farce. She felt the world could use some laughter after September 11. “It’s about a Southern grandmother who leaves her two spoiled granddaughters her mansion. They are forced to live as Southern Belles for two week in order to inherit the homespun estate. Each discovers who they are and where they want to be. Add in a ghost or two and host of various mayhem including a Mafia hit man, and you’ve got an evening of pure fun.” When she lived in New York, Semones and her dog inadvertently wound up on FBI surveillance tapes while they were tracking mobsters in the neighborhood – and she once got flowers from a member of the Gambino crime family. Sounds like the makings of yet another production at Star City Playhouse. By Gene Marrano gmarrano@cox.net
Final: Harvester Christian Academy (Douglasville, GA) 56, Faith Christian School 43
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legs by the second half. At the end of the third quarter, the Warriors were down by only four points but were again not able to mount a run in the second half. The game was close until the last few minutes of the game when Faith had to begin fouling to stop the clock. Harvester pulled away by hitting 9 of 12 free throws in the fourth quarter. Christina Nymeyer scored a game high 21 points for Faith, and Christina Sams led Harvester with 16 points. Faith finished in fourth place.
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their second game. The Warriors were pressured into 17 turnovers in the first half and never mounted their signature run in the second half. Coach Pat Wolfe reported that, “Olathe was by far the best team that Faith has ever competed against.” Olathe had three Division I college level prospects in their starting line-up. Two of the three boasts 36 inch vertical leaps. Leah Cotton led Olathe with 31 points while Rachel Sherman led Faith with 8 points. Olathe went on to win the Girls Division II championship game on Friday.
Marlow Ferguson and wife Karon Sue Semones have performed quite a makeover at 2914 Williamson Road, turning the back of an old warehouse into a classy little venue for live theater. The Star City Playhouse, which appears to hold perhaps 75 at best, features a high ceiling and steel beams painted black. Ferguson, who also takes tickets, says he and his wife did most of the work. On stage most recently at Star City was The Little Foxes, written by Lillian Hellman. Before the curtain went up one Sunday Ferguson called Hellman, who was born in 1906 and died in 1984 “probably the best female playwright ever.” He directed Foxes at Star City, and put out the cookies and coffee for patrons. (from e-notes.com) “Lillian Hellman’s cynical play of family greed and revenge, The Little Foxes, is her most popular piece of drama, and it is the one most frequently revived. It was acclaimed an instant hit after a hugely successful opening night in 1939, even though drama and literary critics then, as now, disagreed over whether the melodramatic story of the greed-driven Hubbard family succeeds either as a morality play or as a satire. Certainly moral dissembling lies at the heart of the play: the Hubbard siblings steal, deceive, and plot against each other in their efforts to invest in one of the first cotton mills to industrialize the New South, a plan that stands to win them millions of dollars…the play voices Marxist disapproval of the Hubbard form
These two schools had phenomenal spring sport seasons highlighted by Faith Christian girl’s basketball team winning state and placing 4th at nationals and then William Fleming’s boy’s basketball team having fans at the edge of their seats trying to win back to back state championships with 18 wins in AAA this year. Now it’s time for spring sports and the athletic directors Mr. Elliott (WF) and Mr. Lawrence (FCS) won’t see much of a break heading into Spring. Fleming starts it all up on Tuesday March 11th with Baseball, Softball, and Tennis (boys and girls) with bouts against Bassett at home for the softball and girls tennis teams. The baseball and boys tennis teams will be traveling to Bassett High school for their games. The boy’s soccer team will battle it out with Magna Vista on Friday March 14th on their home field. The boys and girls track and field teams headed up by division II football prospects Marcus Haggins and Amondre Johnson for the boy’s team and Kayla Lewis (the shot put pro) on the girls squad will take on Pulaski County April 2nd. Due to extensive construction taking place at William Fleming the team does not have a track and will not have a home meet this season. Faith Christian will field boys and girls’ teams in both soccer and tennis. The soccer teams will start things off for FCS with the girls match at home against New Covenant School March 25th at 5 p.m. on their new soccer field. The boys will have their first home game on April 4th taking on Timberlake Christian School out of Lynchburg at 5:30 p.m. Faith Christian athletics operates in the Virginia Association of Christian Athletics (VACA) and is in the Southern division with seven other teams who will compete with for the conference championship. The boy’s soccer team has just moved to a spring sport from a fall sport to accommodate other conference commitments. The Warriors and Colonels are ready to compete and showcase their skills as these 11 teams all strive for excellence.
The Faith Christian Warriors Girls’ Varsity Basketball team competed well in their first National Basketball Tournament.
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