Friends News & Updates
Check out our Letter to the Editor in Loudoun Times Mirror
https://www.loudountimes.com/opinion/weeks-in-opposition-of-proposed-at-t-short-hills-tower/article_1b09dc08-0068-11ec-a578-dbe944d0a5f1.html
2021 Awards
From Loudoun Valley High School, our Jane Pratt & Jed Shilling Blue Ridge Mountain Award winner is a young woman, Arya Tadepalli, whose resume is stunning: in addition to stellar performance as a student and as an athlete, Arya has been an active volunteer in […]
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2020 Award
Matthew Soiland of Purcellville, who will attend Virginia Tech College of Engineering and was awarded $1,500 for his exceptional essay, noted that, “Being the honored recipient of the 2020 Jane Pratt & Jed Shilling Blue Ridge Mountains Educational Scholarship will be instrumental in helping me […]
Trees Can Help Heal Our Planet
Except for the highest peaks, mountains appear naked without their blanket of trees. And trees play an especially crucial environmental role. In my teens trees were a great solace to me before I learned to find it within myself. I was living at my family’s […]
Check out this personal story from our Board member, Carole Napolitano
Love (of our property) in the Time of Corona(virus) by Carole Napolitano In recent conversations friends and I have remarked on the good fortune we have, during this time of coronavirus isolation, to live in homes that allow us to shelter-in-place safely and to cultivate […]