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Floyd Virginia Magazine Under New Management!

For the first five years of Floyd Virginia, Luis Garcia was its Graphic Designer. Luis then became Publisher in 2013, at which time he brought on John Brill as Graphic Designer. It’s been five more years, and history is repeating itself as John Brill makes the transition from Graphic Designer to Publisher of Floyd Virginia Magazine.

John earned an Associate Degree in Communication Design from Virginia Western Community College in 2003 and has been a Freelance Graphic Designer since 2009. The list of regional publications he’s been the designer for include American Classifieds, Motorcade Magazine, Dealer’s Lot, Virginia Auto Guide, the Salem Times Register, Newcastle Record, The Vinton Messenger, Radford News Journal, The News Messenger, Virginia Brew Hub, and Floyd Magazine since 2013. Outside of the job, John is an avid history buff.

As he steps to the helm of Floyd Virginia Magazine, John’s goal will be to provide the same quality magazine that the people of Floyd have come to know and love. He also looks forward to building it to greater heights; being a louder trumpet in the celebration of the people and businesses of Floyd.

Partnering with John will be Vickie Holt. Vickie’s main duties with the magazine will be as writer, editor, proof-reader, and photographer. Vickie has been an internationally published writer since 1993. The highlights of her career include being writer for WaRP Graphics for their popular comic series, ElfQuest. From 4

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2012 – 2014, she had a television show concept under consideration with a major network. She’s caught the attention of a group who converted her media-based novel to radio-play format, and most recently, she was sought out and invited by UCNews of India to be a contributing entertainment news writer. In addition to Floyd Virginia Magazine, Vickie has also been an occasional contributor to Colors VA Magazine. She’s the main writer for Brew Hub Magazine (formerly Virginia Brew Hub), and is founder and sole content creator for Vickie’s Bollywood Beat: A website dedicated to introducing Americans to Indian cinema.

As a photographer, Vickie’s work has won international awards. From 2008 – 2011, she spearheaded a movement to provide better photography for animal shelters, resulting in more animals being adopted. Her techniques were emulated by many area shelters and were also celebrated by a special event at the Roanoke Library. She was called upon by the Roanoke and Salem Big Book Yellow Pages for five years running to provide their cover images.

It will be Vickie’s mission to work with Floyd contributors to provide quality, dynamic articles for the publication. John and Vickie have worked as a team on many projects over the years and are looking forward to working together in making Floyd Virginia Magazine the best it’s ever been!

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All Things Floyd

Under New Management!...........................................................4 The Maggie Gallery…What’s Really in the Name .....................8 Weeks Automotive Coming Home to Floyd!.............................10 Beyond the Jamboree Just a Typical Week at the Floyd Country Store!................12 The Floyd County Chamber of Commerce Hosts the Fourth Annual Rubber Duck Race................................14 Green Label Organic Welcomes ‘Moon Bound Girl’ to Their Family......................................16 Floyd Visitor Center Offers Support to Visitors and Residents......................................18 Points of Interest ......................................................................20 Cycle Floyd, Coming Summer 2018.........................................22 Floyd County Major Events 2018.............................................22 Floyd’s Newest Hometown Pharmacy, ‘The Pharm House, Opens in June!...................................24 A Gallery That’s Simply the Best..............................................26 A One-Of-A-Kind Conference Center ......................................28 Anahata Education Center.......................................................32 With the Help of the Community, Fchs is a Helper and a Voice for Area Animals ..............................34 Bethesda House of Mercy – Transforming Lives......................36

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The Maggie Gallery…what’s really in the name

By Ron Campbell

The Maggie Gallery was born, to use a metaphor, on May 5th, 2018. The journey was quick. The dominos fell into place one by one, with all events evenly spaced…just as a string of dominos would have to be placed in order to be successful…and we opened our doors.

It all started, unbeknownst to me, seventy years ago. I was born in a house located in the middle of a tobacco field in Cullen, Virginia. I don’t remember any actual town in Cullen, but I do remember the train stop where you could actually get on the train and go somewhere else.

At this age, I had no idea where somewhere else was, but now I know it was destined to be Floyd.

I remember the general store that my Uncle ran in Darlington Heights, Virginia, where you went to buy shotgun shells for hunting and penny candy. As a kid, I had to endure the slow motion conversations of the farmers that sat around the pot belly stove. The penny candy and a coke in a small bottle helped to pass the time and get me through it. The weather was always a big topic…or maybe the new bull that the Metcalf boys bought.

I was one of seven children, born into a family where Mom and Dad did their best to provide for us. Not always employed, my Dad struggled with the weight of having to feed all of us. All our needs rested squarely on his shoulders, as well as Mom’s. Sometimes a drink or two got him to the next day, the next weekend, the next paycheck, or a night in jail. Recently finding that he was part Cherokee may explain his bravery, as well as his need to never back down from a confrontation after having those refreshments.

Mom worked steady as a nurse; contributing to the effort, many times in concert with Dad, and many times alone. She had more common sense than anyone I knew. She could get an oil furnace going in the middle of a cold night

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with a piece of newspaper after it failed to light.

She could make a great soup with a couple of tomatoes and a potato or two; enough to feed seven. But all in all, my brothers and sisters made it to adulthood not knowing we were poor. We had so many siblings to play with, so many forts to build, so many trees to climb.

As a kid, I sat in my room drawing the angles I saw: where the walls met the ceiling.

Where the half-opened door created a more challenging angle. And where the dresser stuck out right in the middle of this simple geometric scene. I learned from my perch that parallel lines got closer together as they moved farther away. I noticed shadows that made one wall look separate at the point where it met the other. I saw that the ninety-degree angles where one wall met the other weren’t really ninety degrees…at least from where I sat. These were my first art lessons.

With these concepts in mind, I eventually moved on to Plane Geometry in high school.

I found Geometry interesting and fairly easy.

It was certainly very useful in creating the scenes of old barns and landscapes that we find today around our quaint little mountain town of Floyd.

In 2001, after having consumed almost ten years of big city life in Atlanta, Georgia, my wife, Lenny, and I made our way back to Virginia.

We didn’t know exactly where we were going to land, so our goal was to find some farm land between my birthplace of Cullen, Virginia and Lenny’s alma mater, Virginia Tech. The dart, so to speak, landed in the zip code known as Check. We found our forty-acre paradise, named it “Dreamcatcher Meadows Farm”, and began to build. We camped in the fields of Dreamcatcher to build the barn, so the horses could be brought from Alpharetta, Georgia.

The barn was finished enough, with a small, eight-by-eight insulated room in the loft. This little room allowed us to spend more time on the undeveloped land as we planned the details and discussed the efforts it would take to build the house. A log house!

The loft room in the barn was cozy; big enough for a queen size air mattress on a platform. During the cold days and nights, we slept under several blankets with our ‘Little Buddy’ propane heater keeping us warm until about three-a.m. Then it was time to reload, light it again, and wait for the morning sunrise, which was always remarkable.

Should you happen to be a native of Floyd, you know the seasons bring so many different surprises. In no particular order, the flies move in, the lady bugs, moths, wasps, and so on. We slept under a mosquito net in the loft to keep the lady bugs from raining on us. We could hear them bouncing off the net and onto the floor.

Usually too tired to care, we slept good in this little room that would soon be beside the stacks of hay for the horses, and later, my wife’s office, complete with wi-fi. Yes, a barn with wi-fi in the middle of nowhere, thanks to the wonderful people of Citizens Telephone.

As Lenny telecommunicated to her office in Norfolk, sometimes pulling her computer on a sled from the house to the barn, we found that the cold temperatures of Floyd were hard to keep up with. Lenny never complained. But when I found a six-foot snake skin outside her loft office door, I figured it was time to move her to the house. I never told her why she got promoted. It is amazing what you can endure when you and your spouse are both focused on building that long-awaited log home.

We finally got that log home built, kind of, and moved in on Thanksgiving Day, 2005.

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What a beautiful view we had, and still have.

We can see all the way to Draper Mountain near Pulaski. Many of the walls of our home were not finished when we moved in. We didn’t have floors, just the subfloors, but we did have the required sink, toilet, smoke alarms, and safety features that allowed us to occupy.

Going in all directions, we managed to have a garden, can some vegetables, grow some great tasting corn, and share much of it with the wild life. It’s amazing to me how the deer know just when the bean plants are high enough to mow to the ground, or how the raccoons and bears know when the corn is ready to pick. I love our furry neighbors!

So back to the creation of “The Maggie Gallery”. After we’d settled in a bit on Dreamcatcher, I started drawing again. The Jacksonville Center for the Arts, now known as the Floyd Center for the Arts, offered a course in selling art online. I signed up and took the course. I ran into a very nice lady who encouraged me to show my work at the Jacksonville Center. Marie Daniels helped me enter a few shows, where I built my confidence.

Later, I joined the Floyd Artist Association (FAA) in Floyd as a co-op member. Several years with the FAA taught me how to sell art and learn the basics of running an art gallery.

I met a lot of nice customers while at the FAA. Many of them still follow my art, for which I am grateful. But policy changes at the FAA in late 2017 prompted me to leave and pursue art at my log cabin studio on the Dreamcatcher Meadows Farm in Check.

Then reality set in. What was I going to do with these forty-five pieces of expertly framed art? And why would I even think about drawing anything else if there was no outlet to sell it? It would be nice to have a gallery, but how could this even be possible? These thoughts would not leave my head.

One day, I spotted this old house on the corner of Oxford and North Locust Street in downtown Floyd. I asked a friend if he knew who owned it. He told me it belonged to Bob Gardner, Senior. Through Joy Gardner, wife of the younger Bob Gardner, I arranged a meeting with Bob Senior and son. The conversation went like this.

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“I was wondering what you think about turning this old home into an Art Gallery. I only need nice floors, clean walls, and lighting, and I’ll supply the lighting.” Yeah right! Little did I know, it would not be so simple. But Bobby Senior liked the idea. I told them I would like to open around April 15, which at the time was almost doable.

We agreed to go with this plan. Three weeks later than the planned opening date, and with quite a few challenges along the way, The Maggie Gallery was opened. Nothing other than the generosity of the Gardners and the hard work of a lot of professionals and non-professionals made this happen. The goal set by the Gardners was to make this structure better than it had ever been before. They truly succeeded. The floors were rebuilt in three rooms. The main living room floors as well as the upstairs floors were all refinished. The heating system was upgraded, and air conditioning was added. The walls were insulated. The entire house was rewired. The ADA compliant bathroom was built. Full view storm doors were ordered to allow the light to enter the rooms.

Rooms that needed it were finished with wall board and painted. The old patio was replaced with a new one, connecting to a walkway that leads to a more than adequate parking lot.

What a project to tackle. The restored Dalton home, a home more than 130 years old, became the vision that we now call “The Maggie”. Now approaching my 71st birthday, I have plenty to do to get me to my 100th…which Lenny says I have to reach.

In my mind, The Maggie would be a place where artists could display and sell their art in an environment that was not only beautiful, but also steeped in history. A gift shop would offer an additional space where the talents of these artists could be presented to the public.

It would offer tourists an opportunity to take home that gift that would always remind them of their visit to Floyd.

We currently have eleven artists with talents in oils, acrylics, pastels, watercolors, pen and ink, jewelry, pottery, and furniture.

After interning with Floyd Custom Framing, I learned the art of framing, and with my mentor in Roanoke, Jean Jordan of Jordan’s

Custom Framing, I made the frame shop a large part of this new business. I found this effort to be a little design, a little engineering, and a little manufacturing. Along with the customers’ vision, we preserve beautiful art behind glass, or just wrapped in a frame, ready to be hung on the customer’s wall.

So what is the story behind the name Maggie?

Well Maggie is the granddaughter of my sister.

Years ago, my sister Kay and her husband Buddy built a tree house for Maggie, as well as her brother Jacob, and the rest of the cousins.

The problem was, from an old country boy’s perspective – having built a good number of tree houses in his younger days, many of which consisted of a plank nailed to a tree limb – this tree house was built on a post just a few feet off the ground. It was close to a tree, and certainly under the tree, but was it a tree house? I had my doubts, opinionated as I am. Ron – that would be me – jacked up Maggie’s tree house, on paper of course, and put a ninety-foot tree under it.

Now that’s a tree house I thought.

I called it Maggie’s Tree House and it was a hit among the customers. This artwork led to Noah’s Tree house, Morning Town Tree House, Truett’s Tree House, and most recently, the Tree of Heart Tree House. And now you ask, what about Maggie? Well she is now a beautiful teenager, a graceful dancer, and an all-around great kid. And Jacob, her brother, is now a cadet at Virginia Tech. Time flies! I asked Maggie’s mom and dad if we could name our gallery after her, and they said yes. They even provided a picture of Maggie’s actual profile, which has become the cameo that symbolizes what is now “The Maggie Gallery”.

So now you know how a kid, born in the middle of a tobacco field in Cullen, Virginia, can come to open a business called “The Maggie”.

Please visit us and see the wonderful art of some talented artists. Check out the gift shop, and bring those precious art pieces that you may want framed. Oh, and one more thing… please be a part of our history as we grow.

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Weeks Automotive Coming Home to Floyd!

We are sure that many have noticed a lot going on in the former T & E Small Engine garage, located behind the Moose Lodge on Floyd Hwy South. Weeks Automotive have moved their business into this location after seeking opportunities over the last several years to move back to the Floyd area. Due to foreseen family obligations in Floyd, the process of searching and obtaining properties was taken last year with a serious, in depth approach. In the end, Donnie and Candace Weeks signed the papers on the property at 436 Floyd Hwy S in March of this year. They took it over April 1, 2018 to begin their new business venture here in Floyd.

The husband and wife team have operated a business in Montgomery County for the last seven years. After being notified that the property they were leasing was due to be sold at auction, and with family obligations escalating in Floyd, it all fell magically into place. They believed it was meant to be. So far, they’ve had nothing short of incredible experiences. From Jeffrey at the post office, to Heather at the PSA. From Sheriff Craig and his deputies, to Derek and Virginia at Thomas & Wall, to Tuff at Nichols Bros. From Tommy at Bell’s Towing, to Darlene, Joyce, Jennifer, and Pamela Jo at Slaughter’s Supermarket, and finally to Chelseah, Penny, Samantha, and Matt at Citizens.

The list goes on and on of locals who have not only welcomed them with open arms, but who also went above and beyond to help them; treating the Weeks

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as if they’ve known them all their lives. This was a refreshing change of pace for Donnie and Candace. Floyd truly lived up to its reputation of kindness, hospitality and magic. Candace says they wouldn’t change it in the slightest bit.

Weeks Automotive, LLC focuses on a classic tire and lube service center structure and is an AutoPlus Professional Service Center.

The business offers new wheels and tires, oil changes, tire repair, tire rotations, brakes and rotor services, wiper blades, and batteries. In late 2018, they will also be a Virginia Safety Inspection station. They offer 24hr towing services, as well. Along with their normal operating hours – Monday through Friday 8am-5pm – Donnie and Candace have decided to open the shop for half a day on Saturdays (9am-1pm). This will be for all the locals who work long days during the week and find it difficult getting out to take care of the countless things humans must tackle whenever “they get the chance to”.

The husband and wife team will be joined

by Candace’s father, who will also help in the day to day operations of the business. Candace

offers thanks to her mother for the lend!

Together, they are the epitome of the term “family business”.

Candace is a former Department of Motor Vehicles Senior employee and Donnie is a former Engineering Inspector for the Town of Christiansburg. They have two sons, Derek (18) and Caleb (19), and both are set to join the NAVY to become Corpsmans (combat medics) by the end of the Summer of 2018. Both work locally in Floyd, as well. Donnie is originally from Willis and Candace is originally from Check. Donnie purchased his first tow truck in 1998 and started towing here in Floyd County before moving out of the area in the early 2000’s. When they are not at the shop logging in 12+hr days or out towing in one of their tow trucks, Candace enjoys playing around with photography or working toward obtaining her Real Estate license. When Donnie’s not working on cars or towing, he’s usually found on a tractor, mowing or clearing land. Or, most times, he’s out helping someone. The only way they can sit quietly for any amount of time is if they are out exploring on an all-day ride on their Goldwing, or enjoying the calmness of the Blue Ridge Parkway in their CJ7.

Candace would like to say to all our readers, “we are so happy to be here!

We love the area, and the people and we hope you will come by to see us – even if it’s just to say hello. Thank you all for the opportunity to be here, and live here, and share such a stellar place. We are so proud to be able to tell people we live in Floyd!”

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Beyond the Jamboree - Just a Typical Week at the Floyd Country Store!

When people travel through Southwest Virginia, they are often told: “Head to Floyd on a Friday night for the Jamboree at the Country Store!” The Friday Night Jamboree is in a league of its own when it comes to attractions. There isn’t anything else like it. Not even in other areas of the Appalachian Mountains can you find a similar celebration of deep-rooted music and dance traditions.

Originally, the Friday Night Jamboree developed as a way for locals to come together, socialize, and dance to the mountain music they have loved and known for generations. Though the Jamboree gets underway on Friday nights, the locals arrive in the afternoon with dance shoes in hand. They spend the time catching up and lending a hand with the set-up for the evening. Musicians begin finding their spots along the street to play in jam circles of Old Time or Bluegrass. On warm summer evenings, they can fill all of South Locust Street.

Ice cream cones float along in the hands of both children and adults as the smell of popcorn wafts out the front door of the Floyd Country Store. At 6:30pm, the Jamboree officially starts inside with a prayer and a gospel music set by one of the scheduled music groups. As soon as the next group settles on the stage, the dancers make ready. They look forward to quick fiddle tunes, interspersed with the slower two-steps and waltzes for couples. Locals are often seen bringing newcomers onto the dance floor to show them the steps; both parties grinning from ear to ear. The Jamboree is a unique opportunity for the locals and visiting tourists, who may not otherwise meet, to interact and have a great time.

When it isn’t hosting Floyd’s biggest weekly party, however, daily business at the Floyd Country Store is exactly what you’d expect from its name. Plus, it’s an amazing, Southern café! One of the priorities of co-owner, Heather Krantz, is to offer a full menu featuring a mix 12 www.Facebook.com/FloydMagazine

of healthy options and pure southern comfort food that never comes from a can. “It’s really important to me that we make everything from scratch,” says Krantz. “People are here for an original, authentic experience and the food shouldn’t be any different. We try and use local and regional ingredients as much as possible and want everyone to feel like they are at home around the dinner table connecting over a home cooked meal.”

House favorites at the cafe include classics like the Pinto Bean Platter, served with fresh skilletbaked cornbread and collard greens. Folks also love the sandwiches, served on locally-baked sourdough bread. For those seeking healthier options, the Pickled Beet Salad is very popular.

Options for every diet and preference exist at the Floyd Country Store Cafe.

But there is more to this country store than meets the eye. Even during the less lively hours, it remains a center of musical activity.

On many afternoons, it hosts lunch meetings for local community groups, as well as friends who are just meeting to catch up over lunch, or coffee and a fresh-baked pastry. Musicians can often be seen walking through with instrument cases in hand. They’ve been taking lessons at the Handmade Music School: a non-profit organization that offers lessons, workshops, classes, camps, and other events dedicated to handing down the music and dance traditions known to the area. The music school is located on the premises; ensuring that these skills persist, and are cherished by new generations.

Private lessons are offered for Old Time and Bluegrass instruments all throughout the week, all year long. Workshops and classes in music, dance, and even sound engineering take place throughout the Fall, Winter, and Spring. Classes can be one hour, all day, or even all weekend. For more information about the Handmade Music School, visit online at www. handmademusicschool.com.

On Friday mornings, a circle of toddlers and young children can be found lighting up the back of the Store with music on noisemakers and drums; singing and dancing with their caregivers. This is Kari Kovick’s Heart of the Child Music Education Program, which aims to introduce kids to music at an early age. In the eighteen years Kari has been running the program, and as the kids in Kari’s classes have grown older, it has become clear that they’ve kept musical expression as an important part of their lives.

Weekend afternoons at the Floyd Country Store are always filled with music. Saturdays are Americana Afternoons; featuring up-andcoming artists, both local and just passing through. Patrons at the store can sit and listen while they eat lunch, or enjoy the live music while perusing the shelves for local crafts, CDs, books, apparel, toys, kitchen goods, and provisions. The music lasts from noon until 3:00pm, with three different music groups performing. When the afternoon music is through, chairs and tables are moved aside in preparation for Saturday night’s event. Saturday nights are unlike the Friday Jamboree. The entertainment varies between intimate, seated concerts and lively dances.

The Floyd Country Store is also home to the Floyd Radio Show, which airs each year from September through May. It’s an oldtimey variety show with different musical acts, skits, jokes and stories; all broadcast live to an international audience. Although the room seats less than two hundred, the acts that come through the Country Store are world-renowned.

From Bluegrass phenomenon, Hot Rize, to Folk sensation, Gillian Welch. With so much music almost every day, and with world-class acts coming through regularly, The Floyd Country Store is not a concert venue to be overlooked.

When Saturday evening’s event is finished, the area in front of the stage is set into a circle of

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chairs in preparation for Sunday. Sunday brings yet another afternoon of music, but this session features local community talent. From 1:30 to 3:30, Old Time musicians fill the circle, playing tunes from their repertoire and learning new ones from each other; exemplifying the spirit of community music. Locals come and sit around the circle, jumping into the center for a dance when the mood strikes. At 3:30, Bluegrass musicians take the circle, swapping songs and instrumental solos while serenading nearby listeners.

At 6:00pm, the musicians filter out. The Store wraps up a full week of food, music, and community in the little town of Floyd, Virginia…only to start a new week the following morning! The Floyd Country Store is open seven days a week: 10:00am - 5:00pm, Monday through Thursday, with later hours on weekends and for special events. For more information about the Floyd Country Store, and for schedules of musical events, visit online at www.floydcountrystore.com.

Summer 2018 Calendar of Special Events:

June 2, 7:30pm - Old Time Dance with Twin Creeks String Band June 9, 7:30pm - Mountains of Music Homecoming: Jimmy “Duck”

Holmes / Phil Wiggins & Blues House Party June 16, 7:30pm - Amanda Cook & Kristy Cox Live June 23, 7:30pm - High Fidelity with Gina & Jason Dilg June 30, 7:30pm - Old Time Dance with Whitetop Mountain Band July 27, 7:30pm - Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers

Every Weekend:

Friday from 6:30-10:30pm: Friday Night Jamboree Saturday from noon-3:00pm: Americana Afternoons Saturday night events: Concerts, Dances, etc.

(check website for schedule) Sunday from 1:30-6:00pm: Old Time & Bluegrass Music Jams

Town of Floyd Presents: Floyd Small Town Summer

This is a free event featuring concerts, movies and family activities, all summer long! The event is held every other Thursday evening at 6:00pm, from June 7 through August 30 in Warren G. Lineberry Park.

June 7: Amythyst Kiah - Music Road Company - Movie: Wonder June 21: Wayne Henderson & Helen White - Jeff Little Trio

- Movie: Dispicable Me 3 July 5: Five Mile Mountain Road - Darrell Scott Bluegrass Band July 19: FloydFest Soundcheck: South Hill Banks - Los Chupacabras August 2: End of Summer Celebration: Kari Kovick and Her Big Kid Band

- Floyd Community Theater Guild - Movie: Coco August 16: T Sisters - Vivian Leva & the Onlies

- Movie: Star Wars – The Last Jedi August 30: Honky Tonk Dance Party: Kelley & The Cowboys - J.P. Harris For more information about the Small Town Summer series, visit online at www.floydsmalltownsummer.com.

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The Floyd County Chamber of Commerce Hosts the Fourth Annual Rubber Duck Race On Saturday, August 26, hundreds of rubber ducks will float down the Little River for a fourth time during the Fourth Annual Floyd Rubber Duck Race! This popular event is part of a fundraiser for the Floyd County Chamber of Commerce, held at On the Water in Floyd.

To enter the race, tickets for a numbered duck can be purchased for $5 each. The top prize for the duck that crosses the finish line first is $300!

Second place receives $200, and third place receives $100. But don’t worry if your duck isn’t the fastest! The last duck to cross the line receives the “Running on Floyd Time” booby prize.

Duck tickets will be available beginning July 1st, and can be purchased through the Floyd Chamber of Commerce Website at www.floydchamber.org.

Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Floyd Visitor Center/Chamber at 109 East Main Street, or at the event site before 1:00 pm on the day of the event.

The duck drop will take place over the Little River at 1:30pm from the bridge at the intersection of Slusher Store and Thunderstruck Road. The race course is a little under a half mile long, ending near Thunderstruck and Sowers Road.

Mindful of environmental concerns, Chamber Board Member, Joy Gardner, assures everyone, “no Duck will be left behind. Volunteers working with On the Water in Floyd will retrieve the ducks after they cross the finish line. They will also be cleaning up any ducks that get snagged along the river bank.” On the Water in Floyd is one of the event’s presenting sponsors.

After collaborating on set-up and support, this year’s Rubber Duck Race will share the date and site again with the Little River Cleanup Day in Floyd. The Cleanup Day is just one of several cleanup events held all over the New River Valley in an effort called ‘ReNew the New’; focusing on removing large debris from the New River and other waterways contributing to the New River Watershed.

The cleanup event is 8:00am till noon, with the Duck Race event immediately following.

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12:00pm to welcome the river cleanup volunteers as they return. “We want to continue to have a family-friendly lunchtime event along the river,” commented Gardner. “On the Water’s site is a great, accessible venue for watching the race and then enjoying a good meal with some great summertime-themed music and fun activities with family and friends and we are delighted we can offer that to the river cleanup volunteers as well.”

Though this is the fourth annual Duck Race, last year was the first time the Chamber collaborated with the county’s Little River Cleanup day. Last year, fifty-six volunteers joined On The Water In Floyd staff, the Town of Floyd, and Floyd County employees to clean 9.91 miles of water and 3.5 miles of land. As a result of their hard work, they collected 340 pounds of trash, 86 car tires, one tractor tire, five truck tires, and one truck wheel that weighed a hundred pounds!

Those interested in volunteering for the River Cleanup this year are encouraged to check the county’s website at www.floydcova.org starting in July to register. Once registration opens, it can be done online. Interested parties can also register in person at the Floyd Visitor Center, or at the County Administration Office. For more information, call 745-9300. No boat or experience are required. Volunteers are needed to work both in and alongside the river.

In addition to the Rubber Duck Race, the Chamber also presents an annual Halloweenthemed event at Chantilly Farm. The Floyd Chamber Spooktacular Gala will be held this year on Thursday, October 25th, from 5:00pm to 8:00pm-ish. This free-admission event provides guests with the opportunity to come in costume, and to enjoy free appetizers and wine tastings.

Visitors will also be able to watch a Mystic Witches of Floyd performance, enter a drawing for a large gift basket, and learn about Chamber Member businesses while dancing to spooky music. For more information about the Chamber and its events, visit FloydChamber.org, call 745-4407, or email info@floydchamber.org.

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Photo courtesy of Tom Schaefer

Photo courtesy of County of Floyd

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Green Label Organic Welcomes ‘Moon Bound Girl’ to Their Family Based here in Floyd County, Green Label Organic is a family-owned business that features graphically driven, fun to wear apparel with a point of view. For nearly fourteen years, Green Label has been providing national retailers with their top of the line quality organic cotton T’s and tops.

You can find Green Label products in outdoor sports shops, natural products retailers, and green gift shops.

From field to shelf, Green Label takes pride their commitment to a green, organic, and sustainable supply chain.

Green Label Organic clothing is produced in America. Every garment is made from 100% organic GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certified, ring-spun cotton. Each shirt is produced using low impact dyes, which are better for both you and the environment! The shirts are never printed with plastics or harsh chemicals. Each shirt is individually garment dyed, producing a soft earthy hue in a wide range of colors.

For 2018, Green Label Organic is proud and excited to welcome to their family the books and art of well-known Nashville artist and illustrator, Leigh Anne Agee!

After seeing Leigh Anne’s work at a music and arts festival, Green Label became instant fans. They were especially enamored with her “Moon

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Bound Girl” books and art. Leigh Anne created her “Moon Bound Girl” characters and books to send a message of inspiration to girls and young women, everywhere. The message is to dream big and to know that if you try your best and follow your passion, you can achieve anything!

You can check out “Moon Bound Girl” items, as well as all the super-soft clothing, at the Green Label Organic Outlet, located at 210 W. Oxford Street in Floyd, just a few minutes’ walk from the stoplight. The outlet not only offers Green Label Organics’ products, but also other organic, made in the USA brands. They also carry a selection of artisan made gifts, soaps and lotions.

For the full line of Green Label Organics apparel, visit them online at http://greenlabelorganic.com.

Story by Rain and George Lipson. They design, merchandise and own Green Label Organic: Sustainable Threads, based in Floyd, their Made in USA clothing can be found at better outdoor and organic clothing retailers nationally and at the Outlet Store on Oxford St. Green Label Organic • facebook.com/GreenLabelOrganic 540-745-6162 • www.greenlabel.com • PO Box 457, Floyd, VA 24091

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Floyd Visitor Center Offers Support to Visitors and Residents Born out of a partnership between the Floyd Chamber of Commerce and the Tourism Office, the Visitor Center’s purpose is to provide information not only to Floyd County visitors, but also to Floyd County residents seeking information about local services, news, activities, and events. The Visitor Center also supports Floyd businesses and organizations by promoting their events and services. It also provides businesses with information about available resources. In July, it will have been four years since the Floyd Visitor Center began. In that time, they have assisted over 15,000 Floyd County visitors and residents.

The Center is staffed by participants in a paid, federal job training program for older Americans. They not only answer the phone, respond to emails, and assist walk ins; they also do daily reviews of local business websites, social media, and printed promotional materials; seeking information with which to update the Tourism website, as well as the many handouts produced by the Center. Information available in the handouts includes which businesses are open on which days, seasonal lists such as local snow removal and firewood resources, hiking trail information, and driving directions to major attractions. The Center also manages an inventory of rack cards, business cards, and other informational publications.

The Visitor Center is part of a triad of resources for visitors; the other two being the Floyd County Visitor Guide and the Floyd County Tourism website. From this partnership, 76,000 visitor guides were produced by the Chamber for a comprehensive distribution across the county, the state of Virginia, and adjacent states. Many of the county’s 18 www.Facebook.com/FloydMagazine

artisans also take the guides to distribute at shows across the Mid Atlantic region when they attend as vendors.

The Tourism Office maintains a tourism website at www.VisitFloydVA.com. This is the most trafficked visitor information website for Floyd, and it provides the most comprehensive online listing of lodging, dining, retail, attractions, events, and activities in Floyd County. The website also has a calendar of events that is searchable for months in advance, to better assist people in planning their visits to Floyd.

The 109 E Main Street location is open and provides support seven days a week.

They can be found next to Blue Ridge Café and directly across the street from the Floyd County Courthouse. They can also be reached by calling 540-745-4407 or emailing info@ VisitFloydVA.com.

To reach the Floyd County Tourism Director, Pat Sharkey, email tourismdirector@ floydcova.org or call 540-239-8509. Visit www.floydchamber.org for more information about Chamber events, Chamber members, and memberships. The Chamber’s email is info@floydchamber.org and the phone number is 745-4407.

All Floyd businesses, organizations, and individuals offering services and events are strongly encouraged to provide their rack cards, business cards, and other promotional materials to the Visitor Center so staff can provide better support through off-site promotions of local businesses. Funding for the Visitor Center is provided by the Chamber of Commerce, the Tourism Office, the Town of Floyd, Blue Ridge Land and Auction, and the County of Floyd.

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Points of Interest Bent Mountain Bistro

Floyd County, Virginia AmRhein’s Wine Cellars

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Copper Hill Bent Mountain Lodge Bed & Breakfast

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The Outpost On the Water in Floyd

Carthage

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Alum Ridge

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Indian Valley

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G.J. Ingram & Son

Wills Ridge Supply Pine Tavern

Mickey G’s Buffalo Mountain Brewing Company

Rey’s Restaurant

Schoolhouse Fabics

Bell Little Dress Gallery Shop Slaughter’s Supermarket Floyd Country Store

Floyd Yoga Jam

Willis Village Mart

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Great Oaks Country Club

Red Rooster Coffee Floyd Visitor Center Hotel Floyd

Dogtown Roadhouse Floyd Center for the Arts

Wildwood Farms General Store C.W. Harman & Son

Phoenix Hardwoods

June Bug Center

Ridge Blue ay Parkw

Willis Tuggles Gap Restaurant & Motel

Buffalo Mountain Getaway Cottage

Union 799

Chateau Morrisette Winery

8 Floyd Fest Grounds

Woolwine

Woodbury Inn

58 Meadows of Dan

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Mickey G’s Bistro

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(540) 745-2208

Dogtown Roadhouse

www.dogtownroadhouse.com (540) 745-6836

Blue Ridge Restaurant www.floydblueridge.com

(540) 745-2147

Pine Tavern Restaurant www.thepinetavern.com

(540) 745-4482

Floyd Country Store

www.floydcountrystore.com

(540) 745-4563

Black Water Loft

www.floydbooksandcoffee.com (540) 745-5638

Chateau Morrisette

www.thedogs.com

(540) 593-2865

D J’s Drive-In

www.djsdrivein.com

(540) 745-3663

Tuggles Gap Restaurant www.tugglesgap.biz

(540) 745-3402

AmRheinís Wine Cellars www.amrheins.com

(540) 929-4632

Blacksnake Meadery

www.blacksnakemead.com

(540) 834-6172

Foggy Ridge Cider

www.foggyridgecider.com

(276) 398-2337

Villa Appalaccia Winery www.villaappalaccia.com

(540) 358-0357

Woodberry Inn

www.woodberryinn.com

(540) 593-2567

Hotel Floyd

www.hotelfloyd.com

(540) 745-6080

Oak Haven Lodge

www.oakhavenlodge.com

(540) 745-5716

Floyd Canoe Outpost

www.onthewaterinfloyd.com (540) 838-1877

Car Show

www.chasingsscars.com

(540) 789-7898

Community Market

www.sustainfloyd.org

(540) 745-7333

Amateur Raido

www.floydamateurradiosociety.org (540) 745-7742

Artisan Trail

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(540) 745-7333

Artist Association

www.floydartists.com

(540) 695-0003

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Floyd Jewelry Specializing in custom jewelry and jewelry repair.

Floyd Humane Society www.floydhumanesociety.org (540) 745-7207 Jacksonville Art Center www.jacksonvillecenter.org

(540) 745-2784

Old Church Gallery

www.oldchurchgallery.com

(540) 745-2979

Tour de Floyd

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(540) 745-2800

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Floyd County Major Events 2018 Cycle Floyd, Coming Summer 2018 Cycle Floyd is a new bicycling initiative for Floyd County.

It rolls out Summer 2018, and is the first outdoor recreation project by the Floyd Tourism Office. $16,000 in Virginia Tourism Corporation grant funds have been awarded to Floyd County for infrastructure, and for marketing components that will support biking in the town and county. Floyd Tourism has partnered locally with the Town of Floyd, Chantilly Farm, Floyd Fitness, Riverstone Farm, and Hotel Floyd to supply over $11,000 in matching marketing funds for the project, as well.

The project includes a Cycle Floyd brochure in print and online; identifying paved and gravel roads in the county. It also suggests bicycling routes of different lengths, challenge and terrain. The project will also include bike racks and self-service bike repair stations in the town and county. Bicyclists will also see cycle signage on main routes from the town of Floyd to the Blue Ridge Parkway. There will be support of already existing cycling events in Floyd, such as Tour de Floyd in May, and Tour de Dirt in the Fall. The project will also sponsor the state’s ‘Bike Virginia’ 6-day cycling event coming to the New River Valley, June 23-28. For more information about this event, visit the website at Bikevirginia.org.

And finally, there will be a Cycle Floyd Facebook Group to network and to keep up to date about cycling activities. Our print Cycle Floyd Bicycle Guide is ready! For copies, stop by the Floyd Visitor Center at 109 East Main Street, Floyd VA 24091.

Bike racks and self-service bike repair stations are being designed and sites identified this summer. They will be produced and installed by the Floyd High School welding department. For more Information, visit the Floyd Tourism website at VisitFloydVA.com or tourismdirector@floydcova.org.

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There are so many wonderful events for such a rural community as Floyd County! Here is a schedule for just some of the major events for Summer and early Fall, 2018. For a more comprehensive list, and for more information about the events below, visit the website at VisitFloydVA.com Floyd Artisan Trail Tour

June 8, 9 & 10, 2018 • Floyd Center for the Arts Crooked Road Mountains of Music Homecoming

June 8-16 2018 • Across SWVA and in Floyd County

With events happening all nine days.

Major music event in Floyd, June 9 Classical Music in the Mountains – “Barber, Mozart, Vivaldi”

June 10, 2018 • Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival Chantilly Farms Gospel Jubilee

June 16, 2018 • ChantillyFarm.com Floyd Fandango • June 22-24, 2018 • FloydFest site Floyd House & Garden Tour

June 30, 2018 • Floyd Center for the Arts Replenish Festival • July 13-15, 2018 Floyd Energy Fest • July 14, 2018 • Chantillyfarm.com Healthy Floyd 5-K Run/Walk

Sat July 14, 2018 • Chantilly Farm Black Dog Summer Music Festival

July 14, 2018 • Chateau Morrisette Winery Floyd Auto Fair & Vintage Swap

July 20-22 2018 • Chantilly Farm FloydFest • July 25-29, 2018 • www.floydfest.com 3rd Annual Floyd Chamber Rubber Duck Race & River Clean Up

Saturday, August 25 2018 Black Dog Beach Music Festival

August 11, 2018 • Chateau Morrisette Winery Cirque Du Floyd • August 17-18, 2018 • Chantilly Farm Miss Floyd County Pageant • Aug 25, 2018 • Chantilly Farm Floyd Yoga Jam • Aug 31, Sept 1-2, 2018 • floydyogajam.net Floyd Livestock & County Fair

September 8, 2018 • floydvafair.com / Chantilly Farm Trial by Fire: Tribute to Journey Concert

September 15 • Chantilly Farm Wine Beer & Brats Oktoberfest Celebration

Sept 29, 2018 • Chateau Morrisette Winery Floyd County Arts & Crafts Festival

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Floyd’s Newest Hometown Pharmacy, The Pharm House, Opens in June!

Located at 311 East Main Street in Floyd, The Pharm House will offer prescription service, along with sterile and non-sterile compounding for special needs.

When the doors open in June, visitors can also purchase overthe-counter medications and other retail items in the newest addition to Main Street!

The woman behind The Pharm House is Portia Thompson, RPh. Floyd County has always been a place that Portia has called home.

It’s where generations of her family, as well as her husband’s family, have lived. Portia attended Check Elementary when she was a child, then graduated from Floyd County High School in 2001. In 2003, she married her high school sweetheart, Jason.

Over the years, Portia and Jason were blessed with three beautiful girls: Faith Leigh, Sydney Lyn, and AnnaBella Starr Thompson.

Portia’s love for pharmacy started shortly after high school when she began working as a Pharmacy Technician at Floyd Pharmacy. After some time there, she worked for Brad and Lisa Houck at Valley Apothecary Pharmacy in Salem, Virginia. The Houck’s mentored Portia in the Pharmaceutical industry; giving her the extra confidence she needed to return to school. While continuing her work at Valley Apothecary, Portia began studies as a full-time student at Jefferson College of Health Sciences.

In 2009, after years of hard work, Portia received her Bachelors Degree in Biomedical Sciences. This diploma was the key that opened the door to her acceptance into pharmacy school.

In 2010, Portia accepted a position

at Feik School of Pharmacy, at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas.

In July of 2010, the Thompson family moved to San Antonio to begin what they thought would be a four-year journey. Portia proudly graduated from University of the Incarnate Word in 2014 with a Doctorate in Pharmacy. But it was shortly before the graduation that the Thompsons decided to buy a house in Canyon Lake, Texas.

They had always intended to move back to Floyd, but Texas had grown on them. They lived there for an additional three years.

In May 2017, however, the Thompsons returned to Floyd to visit family and attend the high school graduation. During this fateful week, the front page of the Floyd Press featured a headline about the purchase of Floyd Pharmacy by CVS. Portia knew how important Floyd Pharmacy was to the community, and she instantly felt the desire to compete.

She has always known she wanted to have her own pharmacy. The timing was perfect.

Since that day, Portia and Jason have worked hard to make that dream come true in their own hometown. They are both very grateful for the opportunity, and hope to meet all the needs and expectations of their community.

They would like to offer a special thank you to their family, Jack Wall and Kamala Bauers, for their support.

For more information about The Pharm House and its opening date, visit the website at thepharmhouserx.com. You can also find them on Facebook and Twitter.

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Cabin Rental Step back 100 years and enjoy the Mountains as they were when things were uncomplicated.

You can stay in an original wormy chestnut log cabin home and enjoy the comforts of modern convenience in a beautiful mountain setting. The cabin has been beautifully restored and is fully furnished with a full kitchen, two bedrooms and a bath. Relax by the fire at night and settle in comfortably.

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A Gallery that’s Simply the Best Local Woodworkers Ed Barnes, Brad Warstler, Michael Costello, and Benjie Osborne, with pottery by Ellen Shankin

Located at 203 South Locust Street in Floyd, Troika Contemporary Crafts is a gallery filled with whimsy and drama, featuring brilliantly executed crafts in wood, ceramic, metal, silk, linen, and more. You may even see an upcycled set of shears turned into a bird’s beak.

That’s why it’s been holding down the corner of The Station, across from The Country Store in Floyd, Virginia for nearly ten years. Longtime customers remind folks at Troika that it is not just a stop, but a destination for them, their families, and friends. A go-to place for their visitors from around the county, around the States, and around the world.

Newcomers wander down from the Blue Ridge Parkway all year long; surprised to

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discover so much artistry collected in this one place in the center of downtown Floyd.

The gallery’s owners are accomplished craftspeople in their own rights. Silvie

Granatelli is a potter who works with porcelain to craft tableware that makes everything look, and taste, better. Susan Icove creates whimsical lighting from anything and everything. Gibby Waitzkin is a photographer and paper-maker who grows the botanicals she uses for ever-more-clever sculptures.

Troika’s hallmark is an always-changing collection of the highest quality local and regional crafts. It’s committed to promoting the artists and crafters, not only at the gallery, but also through the website at www. troikacrafts.com. You can also find them on Facebook, Instagram and even TripAdvisor!

And if you’re just a little old fashioned, you can also give them a call at 540-745-8764.

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Whatever your choice of social media, you’ll want to follow the gallery so you can keep up with its schedule of four shows a year. These events feature new artists; giving them an opportunity to talk with people about their work, its process, and evolution.

Guests have the chance to see and touch the work, and ask all the questions it inspires: Where do you find the parts for those wild lamps? What is “wood cloisonne” exactly? Why decorate the bottom of your mugs?

Whether you’re stopping in for the first time, or gift shopping, or just in to see what’s new, you’ll always find managers in the gallery who are helpful and knowledgeable about the work. The owners have created a space where the shopkeepers are prepared to help visitors have an experience-to-remember. One they’ll want to have again, and to tell their friends about. So even if you’re only stopping by for a suggestion of where to stay or where to eat, the folks at Troika are happy to help. And they’ve learned that once you stop by, you’ll make a habit of coming back, again and again.

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A One-Of-A-Kind Conference Center If you have ever planned an event, you probably understand how stressful the process can be, even when everything turns out perfectly. From searching out venues to finalizing a headcount, there are vendors to locate, checklists to create, emails to make, and lots of people to satisfy.

To help you through the research process, the Floyd Event Center has condensed the twenty-five reasons you should host your next event at their facilities into a top four.

First and foremost, it’s a one-of-a-kind Conference Center, located two miles from the heart of Floyd; twenty-one miles from Christiansburg, and fortytwo miles from Roanoke.

It’s located in the heart of the New River Valley, and like most of the venues in Floyd, the place is beautiful.

What sets the Floyd Event Center apart from the rest, however, is the charm of a timber-framed facility combined with state of the art technology.

As you walk through the facility you will be greeted with the smell of fresh cut timber. Each room offers local artwork, as well as a newness that makes you feel as though you are the first group to step foot on site. From the pavilion and Amphitheatre overlooking the pond, you can see the solar systems; giving the impression there may be more to this facility than once thought. Guests are often surprised when they see the suspended projector, electric screen, professional light and sound board, side ports for computer access, and 28 www.Facebook.com/FloydMagazine

facility-wide wifi. In addition to the meeting areas, the Floyd Event Center has one of the only Health Department Certified community kitchens in Floyd. The kitchen is available to be rented hourly or daily by restaurants, caterers, or home chefs with the proper documentation, and has everything needed to make a spectacular meal or retail food product.

The second reason you’ll want to make the Floyd Event Center your next destination is the onsite Organic Farm. The Floyd EcoVillage Farm is made up of three-anda-half cultivated acres of mixed vegetables, flowers, and small fruits. It is the mission of the Event Center to grow healthy nutritiondense food.

For the folks at the Event Center, that means no synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides! Instead, they practice soil balancing and soil re-mineralization. By adopting the use of cover crops, inoculating the soil with beneficial microbes and composting, they create a healthy ecosystem.

Items can be purchased at the farm, at the Farmers Market in downtown Floyd on Saturday morning, or from local CSA, Good Food Good People.

The third reason to visit the Floyd Event Center is the flexible accommodations. There are three lodging options available, including three wilderness cabins, seven rooms in the Bermed Lodge, and ten tent campsites at our Creekside Campground. The wilderness cabins are open year-round, Spring/Summer 2018

and sleep four to seven people each. They come complete with stocked kitchen (food not included), private bath, air conditioning and heat, wifi, and a seating area on the porch. The cabins are located at the trailhead and offer fireflies, birds, and deer in lieu of televisions and cable. The Bermed Lodge is set up like a hotel and built into the side of the mountain.

It offers an array of rooms including one suite, two rooms with kitchens, a couple with bunk beds, and a communal sitting area, with wifi throughout. All the lodging is off-grid and offers low impact features. The Floyd EcoVillage wants to show that off-grid living doesn’t have to keep you from all the luxuries folks have come to expect from traditional lodging.

And last but not least, the Floyd Event Center comes complete with the Floyd community! The community of Floyd Virginia is second to none. It’s home to amazing artists, musicians, chefs, florists, and more. The Floyd Event Center has an onsite Event Coordinator who will work closely with the community to make sure that all our guests have everything they need for a successful event, no matter how big or small.

For team-building retreats, or for anyone looking to explore Floyd, the Floyd Event Center has a list of activities and natural sites that will bring you back to Floyd time and time again. For larger groups requiring lodging of more than fifty-five, organizers can work with the event coordinator to locate additional rooms within minutes of the Event Center.

Never been to the Floyd Event Center and EcoVillage?

Check them out and enjoy a one-of-a-kind experience.

Call 540-745-4434 ext 2 to set up an overnight stay, or to book a free site visit. Or, send an email to floydeventcenter@gmail.com.

Want to do a little more research before booking your event or visit? Visit the website at Floydeventcenter.com or visit them on Facebook at https://www.facebook. com/floydeventcenter.

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Hotel Floyd The Hotel Floyd is an ideal place for meetings, conferences, family gatherings, you name it.

Amenities include: projector and pull-down screen; 60 inch HD television; full sound system; video conferencing capability; podium with microphone. The Buffalo Mountain room is perfect for everything from buttoned-up business meetings to wedding receptions.

We’ve hosted everything from scrap-bookers to legal depositions.

Hotel Floyd can assist in making your event the perfect one, whatever the requirements. Just give us a call and let us know.

We look forward to fully serving you.

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Floyd Artists Association Supporting The Best of Regional Art, Jewelry and Pottery with over 17 Members and monthly Guest Artists.

203 S. Locust St., downtown Floyd

540-745-7367 www.floydartists.com

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Anahata Education Center Anahata is a hidden jewel nestled in the heart of Floyd, Virginia. Encompassed by rolling hills, pine forests, sunny meadows, and the sparkling Little River, Anahata offers events, guest stays, retreats, and workshops. It’s also the perfect venue for weddings, reunions, and more! Come create some magic in Anahata’s emerald green world!

They have several guest accommodations, including a unique octagonal tree house modeled after Thomas Jefferson’s first home. They also have an apartment, individual rooms, a cozy studio apartment that’s perfect for couples, and a rustic riverside cabin. Their majestic timber frame celebration space is also available for groups of up to twenty. And finally, the riverside camping area can accommodate gatherings of up to fifty.

The folks at Anahata conduct intimate to large weddings at their pristine riverside gazebo, with optional tents and stage.

You can also have your special day in the soaring timber frame great room. Weekend wedding packages include a riverside ceremony with up to eighty guests, and indoor accommodations for twelve to twenty guests!

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reconnect with self and nature and take those next inner steps to a more fulfilling life. Anahata offers healing modalities including massage therapy, Reiki, sound healing, and Ayurvedic consultations. Life coaching, couples deepenings, and custom well-being retreats are tailored to your specific needs.

The Education Center also offers transformational events throughout the year: yoga classes, workshops, celebrations, concerts, retreats for men, women, couples, and more!

Anahata’s motto is to live from the heart, and to create a more beautiful world. They also strive to live in harmony with nature. Their organic gardens, orchards, herb gardens, sustainable building projects, and edible landscaping reflect this philosophy; providing a learning ground for many guests and interns.

Guests enjoy riverside and forest trails, swimming, kayaking, a spiral labyrinth, yoga pavilion, fire circles, hot tubs, hammocks, and more. They can request to have an eco-vacation by helping around the farm or assisting with a permaculture project or two.

To learn more, visit the website at AnahataEducationCenter. com.

You can also email Anahata.edu@gmail.com.

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Bethesda “House of Mercy” Floyd, Va

Wilt thou be made whole?

~John 5:6

Good old Southern Hymns Specializing in the love of God

through Jesus Christ right here in downtown Floyd !!

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Pastor Eddie & Debbie Gallimore 540-230-9090 208 Howard Street turn on Howard Street across from Hardee’s

Sunday School 10 AM Sunday Worship 11 AM Sun & Wed Evening Worship 7 PM

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With the Help of the Community, Fchs is a Helper and a Voice for Area Animals Since 1998, it has been the mission of the Floyd Humane Society to promote responsible pet ownership and to promote pet adoption as a better alternative to buying pet store purebreds. They also raise awareness of local problems associated with dogs and cats, whether they are pets or feral. They identify and help to implement solutions for local animal problems.

The Humane Society promotes spaying and neutering, and discourages the unnecessary breeding of companion animals. They are a voice for all animals in Floyd County, and for the people who care about them.

In 2017, the Society found ‘forever’ homes for 169 cats and dogs! They also reduced companion animal overpopulation through the spay/neuter program; giving assistance for more than four hundred spays and neuters, including over two hundred feral cats. They have reduced the number of dogs at the County pound from a high in 2005 of 1,035 with a euthanasia rate of 57% , to 168 with 5.9% euthanized in 2017. These numbers are among the lowest in Virginia. Last year thirtyeight dogs were taken in from the County Dog Pound and therefore not euthanized.

The Society’s sponsorship of two community rabies clinics allowed 196 dogs and cats to be vaccinated, thereby preventing the spread of a deadly disease. Through a partnership with ‘Plenty!’ Food Bank, over six tons of pet food was donated to assist needy families in keeping their pets. That is double the amount from 2015.

2017 was indeed an amazing year of hard work and blessed results, but good work is often done by the hands of many. The Floyd Humane Society would like to express its deep thanks and appreciation to the citizens of Floyd County for their support. They would also like to extend an extra special thank you to their 2017 – 2018 sponsors: • Platinum: Jonathon Rogers, P.C. • Gold: Firefall Farm Creations, Sally and Walter Rugaber • Silver: Foggy Ridge Cider, Floyd Jewelry, BauerWall Family Foundation, Diane Allison, Michael Maslaney and Carol Agee, Wills Ridge Supply, and Anonymous • Bronze: Floyd Fitness, Gardner Funeral Home, and Tom Schaefer Sincere gratitude for Continuous Support: Bell Gallery and The Bread Basket The Humane Society is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization; relying on donations to meet their $45,000 budget, each year. This amount is used to pay for spay/neuter and rabies vaccinations of feral cats, give added monetary assistance towards low-cost spay/neuter of pets, dog and cat foster programs, emergency assistance, and pet food given to those families in need. These programs often involve medicines, medical supplies, and lots of food so please consider donating securely online at www.DonateToFCHS.org or www.floydhumanesociety.org.

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awaiting adoption. And as always, you can simply donate much needed food, litter, and auction items.

In addition to donations, the Human Society also has lots of other ways to help. They welcome volunteers to staff events, walk the dogs, and feed the cats. They need volunteers to drive pets to be spayed or neutered, or to other rescue groups for adoption. There’s also lots of project work!

Additionally, there is always a need for caring folks to provide short-term and long-term foster homes for dogs, cats, and kittens. For more information about volunteering or becoming a foster, email the Floyd Humane Society at info@ floydhumanesociety.org.

To supplement donations, the Humane Society also raises money by participating in craft shows with a fabulous array of handknit scarves, tie-dyed T-shirts, handmade dog treats, and catnip bags for sale. Their biggest fundraiser, however, is the Paws Cause Dinner & Auction.

This year, the event will be held on Saturday, September 8, at the Ecovillage in Floyd.

The remaining 2018 calendar of events for the Floyd Humane Society includes: • Friday evenings at the Floyd Artisan Market - The Station Pavilion • July 14, Aug 11, Sept 29: Black Dog Festivals at Chateau Morrisette • Sept 8: Paws Cause Dinner & Auction at Floyd Ecovillage • Sept 23: Chateau Morrisette – Pet Adoption & Craft Show • Sept 29 & 30: Floyd Arts & Craft Show – Floyd High School • Oct Weekends: Sinkland Farms Pumpkin Festival, Riner • Dec 1 & 2: Winterfest Arts & Craft Show – Floyd Center for the Arts Help prevent unwanted litters! The Floyd Humane Society offers a $50 certificate towards spay/neuter to anyone adopting a dog directly from the Floyd County Dog Pound. Along with the Mountain View Spay/Neuter Clinic in Christiansburg, the Society also offers low cost spay/neuter and free animal transport. Discounts may be available.

• Feline Spay: $65 • Canine Spay: $80

• Feline Neuter: $60 • Canine Neuter: $75

For adoptable cats and dogs, visit the Floyd Humane Society online at www.floydhumanesociety.org. For more information or answers to questions, or to make a spay/neuter appointment, call (540)745-7207 or email: info@floydhumanesociety.org.

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Bethesda House of Mercy – Transforming Lives – Pastor Ed Gallimore and his wife, Debbie, were part of another church for thirty years. Six years ago, however, God told him to begin a ministry in Floyd. Pastor Eddie admits he had never gotten excited about starting a new church. He’d always felt that existing churches needed help, and that’s where he would always need to go. However, he and Debbie returned to their hometown of Floyd and began converting the former Baptist conference property at 209 Howard Street into the Bethesda House of Mercy.

Many people in Floyd didn’t have a home church then. There were some families that hadn’t had a home church in two generations.

Once destined for the new ministry, however, Pastor Gallimore started going out into the community. He not only wanted to reach out to those families, but also to troubled youths. He still visits jails and detention homes; always providing a path for those who need it most. “It’s a gift of God to love people from all walks of life,” says Pastor Gallimore, and he has made certain that the Bethesda House of Mercy is a place that not only helps, but welcomes those troubled people who have fallen on the bad or sad of life. It’s a place where they can come in and get saved. “God blessed us with an atmosphere of love,” says Pastor Gallimore about the church. “When you come into the church, you feel you are in a safe place.”

Always open and welcoming to the entire community, the Bethesda House of Mercy encourages community revivals that have brought even different churches together. Rev. J.B. and Shirley Shelton say they have been going to the House of Mercy in Floyd since the day it opened. “Pastor Ed and Debbie Gallimore are some of the greatest Ministers we have ever set under,” says Rev. J.B. “They will help you in any way they can.” The Reverend describes Pastor Ed as a soul winner who will go to the ends of the world to help you.

“Theirs is a sweet spirit in the services and you can feel the love they have for you. If you are looking for a great church come on to the House of Mercy.”

Attendee, Cheryl Walters agrees. “I thank my pastor and his wife, first for their love for Christ and second for their love for His people, all people.”

The Gallimores’ daughter, Amanda, however, is perhaps the best person to speak. Not only is she part of the family of the church, but she has the unique point of view as someone who has known the Pastor all her life. “Our family of five has been attending Bethesda House of Mercy since 2012. We are very thankful to have a sincere and caring church in our community that we can attend, support, and grow through. Each of us are involved in activities with the church throughout the year, including planning special events, assisting in childrens’ church, cleaning the property, helping with yard work, and more. We are forever grateful for Pastor Eddie and his wife, Debbie. They give whole-heartedly in many ways on a daily basis, to the church and its congregation.”

Sunday School at the Bethesda House of Mercy is on Sunday morning at 10:00, with Worship following at 11:00. Sunday and Wednesday evening Worship is at 7:00pm. For more information about the church, or to speak with Pastor Gallimore and Debbie, call 540-230-9090.

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Church member, Ricky Cox, and his son Lucas designed and constructed the wooden cross that hangs in front of the church. We were blessed with his dedication and participation during the years before his passing, in 2016.

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS Anahata Education Center............................................. 21 Autoville Auto Repair.................................................... 38 Bent Mountain Lodge Bed and Breakfast ..................... 13 Bethesda - House of Mercy............................................ 33 Blue Ridge Folklife Festival.......................................... 40 Blue Ridge Yurts............................................................ 31 Buffalo Mountain Getaway ........................................... 31 C.W. Harman & Son...................................................... 25 Chateau Morrisette Winery.............................................. 7 Chestnut Springs Retreat................................................ 25 Citizens ......................................................................... 15 Country Road Realty - Tim Telling................................ 17 Creek Fest...................................................................... 37 Farm Credit of the Virginias.......................................... 19 Floyd Artists Association............................................... 31 Floyd Fest........................................................................ 5 Floyd Jewelry................................................................. 21 G.J. Ingram & Son......................................................... 35 Green Label Organic........................................................ 2 Hotel Floyd........................................................... 11 & 30 Kesler Contracting & Property Management................ 29 The Maggie Gallery....................................................... 29

Mickey G’s.............................................................. 6 & 21 Nationwide - Dirk Davis................................................ 33 New River Valley Hearing............................................. 15 Phillips Real Estate.......................................................... 3 Pheonix Hardwoods................................................ 6 & 13 Rorrer Well Drilling................................................ 3 & 33 The Schroeder Law Firm, PC........................................ 38 SETEC........................................................................... 17 Slaughters’ Supermarket................................................ 27 Spencers Body Shop...................................................... 11 Sticks & Stones Construction........................................ 17 Streamline Timberframe................................................ 23 Tee’s Tax Resolution...................................................... 27 Thomas & Wall Real Estate........................................... 39 Troika Contemporary Crafts............................................ 7 United Country Real Estate - Ed Gallimore.................. 13 Upon the Earth Services................................................. 13 Weeks Automotive........................................................... 6 Wildwood Farms General Store.............................. 6 & 25 Willis Village Mart........................................................... 7 Wills Ridge Supply........................................................ 17 The Woodshed................................................................ 25

Autoville Auto Repair Chris Newman - Owner

• State Inspection Certified • Check Engine Light Diagnostics • AC Repair • Tires • Tune Ups • Oil & Lube • Brakes • Shocks & Struts Factory • Major & Minor Repairs Trained • Fuel Injector Cleaning Master • Vehicle Lockout Service Technicians Over 28 Years Experience

540-745-4224 Service On All Makes & Models Foreign & Domestic 610 E Main St Floyd, VA 24091 (Beside Floyd Jewelry)

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