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your most cherished hand-knit keepsakes.” In other music news…attendees at the third concert of the Grace Church Concert Series in The Plains recently had the privilege to listen to Grammy Award nominated harpsichordist Jory Vinikour. He performed mostly 18th century works by Bach, Scarlatti and Rameau, but also modern American music for harpsichord, Recitative and Toccata Percossa by Mel Powell. Over in Purcellville, the first St. Andrew Presbyterian Church and the Neighborhood Learning Center fundraiser dinner, dance and silent auction on Saturday, February 8, raised $12,000 for the church youth mission trip this summer to Kentucky Appalachia and much needed playground upgrades. n
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Sloane Coles and WEC l’Ami Noir won the $20,000 Adequan® Seven-Year-Old Young Jumper Classic during the winter show circuit in Wellington. She will return to homebase in Middleburg soon. Shown here with ringmaster Gustavo Murica and Laura Fetterman of Champion Equine Insurance.
Jory Vinikour recently performed at the Grace Church Concert Series on a harpsichord made by Thomas and Barbara Wolf’s in Wolf Instrument’s workshop in The Plains. It is the same instrument Vinikour played in his Grammy-nominated recording av Rameau’s keyboard works, a double-manual French harpsichord after Nicholas Dumont, 1707.
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reconstructing homes while at the same time promoting a volunteer culture in the city. Middleburg Academy Caroline Greer’s recently submitted a collection of poems to the Scholastic Writing Awards Competition, and those have been recognized on the national level with a Silver Medal. She was also recently designated a National Merit Scholarship Finalist. Best wishes are in order to Don Owen, who recently retired after five highly successful years as the executive director of the Land Trust of Virginia. Owen joined LTV in 2008 and led the organization through a significant area of growth. John Magistro, with LTV since 2010, has been named acting executive director. From The Plains, we have the exciting news that Unicorn Editions, Ltd. founder Anna Carner Blangiforti has announced the launch of her newest brand, Unicorn Baby, a unique line of high-quality laundry products for the care of infant and children’s knitwear and clothing. “These products are great for diapers, bibs, receiving blankets, as well as
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a woman rides straight over timber on a wet day as you did and wins - they go to town.” And a big shout out to The Natania Polo Club from Warrenton, they recently won Sheila Johnson presents the trophy for the 2014 USPA Open National recent Valspar Championship on the Interscholastic Championship PGA Tour to Australian John Senden. title held at the Empire Polo The tournament was contested on the Club in Indio, CA. This is the difficult Copperhead course at Johnson’s Warrenton-based polo club’s Innisbrook resort in Florida. Photo by second Open National InterJoseph Garnett, Jr. scholastic Championship win in a row. The four Natania Polo Club teammates, Calvin Milligan a junior at , Sofia Bignoli a freshman at Kettle Run, Kamran Pirasteh a senior at Mountain Vista Governors school and Liberty high school and Wyatt burg, here’s to the winners of this year’s Winter Harlow a senior at Robinson in Tournament at the Middleburg Tennis Club-Fairfax. They defeated the Toronto Polo Club Women’s Champions: Stewart Herbert and with a score of 17-13 in the final. Melina Gable; Men’s Champions: Gary Pulino and Sid Silver. Middleburg attorney Edward Brian MacMahon, Jr., has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America. The induction ceremony took place recently before an audience of approximately 465 persons at the 2014 Spring Meeting of the College at the La Quinta Resort & Club in California. And a tip of the hat is also in order for Norris Beavers our former postmaster in Middleburg. He was recently honored by the Town of Purcellville and the Purcellville Business Association as the Volunteer of the Year for 30 years of dedication to youth sports in Purcellville. Erica Picking and Maryalice Matheson-Thomas Kudos to Margot Ferster, an Upperville native and an alumnus of Middleburg’s Hill More horse news…Erica Picking on Seline and School and Foxcroft. She recently was named Rebuilding Together New Orleans Member of Maryalice Matheson-Thomas on Elara won the Year for 2013 for her work in helping to the Orange County Hounds Optimum Time put that hurricane-ravaged Louisiana city back Over Fences race on March 29 at the Locust together. Now studying for a master’s degree in Hill race course. preservation studies at Tulane University, Fer Horses are not the only sport in Middlester has spent the last two years building and
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