OUTLET: WVEC
VIRGINIA BEACH – Shoppers across the country are being told to be vigilant. This after a Somali terrorist group with ties to Al Qaeda released new video, threatening to attack western shopping malls.
The same group took responsibility for an attack at a mall in Kenya, back in 2013. More than 60 people were killed.
“I think it’s really sad, just like scary in general,” Virginia Beach resident Rebekah Reed said. (more…)
SOURCE: WTKR
Virginia Beach, Va. – These seniors are flying high in Virginia Beach!
Several active Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay residents are among the first to “skydive” in the new wind tunnel at iFLY Virginia Beach.
Westminster-Canterbury’s alliance with iFLY Virginia Beach is part of the retirement community’s “Wellness for Life” initiative.
iFLY Virginia Beach is an indoor skydiving experience that creates true free fall conditions, just like skydiving, without having to jump out of an airplane.
It’s sobering to see a document with the words “Last Will and Testament” and my full legal name beneath them.
As the mother of two 20-something children, I know I need one, but I can’t help but imagine myself as a murder victim in an Agatha Christie mystery. (Make that “True Detective” episode for anyone not in my age cohort.)
Since I cover health issues, I paid close attention to the advance medical directive I signed as part of the package. (more…)
The Access College Foundation already has done more to help Hampton Roads kids go to college than any organization.
It’s about to do even more.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid sounds benign enough, but it’s the kind of daunting paperwork only a well-trained and patient tax accountant could love. (more…)
OUTLET: Mashable
November 19, 2014
At long last, a restroom you might actually consider “resting” in.
Cintas, a company that specializes in restrooms, opened its polls for the 13th edition of America’s Best Restroom. On Wednesday, Cintas awarded the restroom located inside the lush, Philadelphia-based Longwood Gardens, the top prize. (more…)
OUTLET: Inside Business
November 14, 2014
Michael J. Link, a Newport News dentist, was recently elected president of the 3,500-member Virginia Dental Association. Link is a dentist at the family practice his late father started 60 years ago, where he is joined by his brother-in-law, George Jacobs. Link earned his dental degree in 1985 from MCV School of Dentistry.
This is not Link’s first term as president. He served in 2001-2002. An active member in the Virginia Dental Association for nearly two decades, he started as a delegate. He served as the commonwealth’s liaison to the American Association of Dental Examiners and an examiner for the Southern Regional Testing Agency for dentistry. (more…)
OUTLET: EMS World
November 4, 2014
Stephanie and Amir Louka met while volunteering with Virginia Beach EMS, the largest volunteer-based EMS system in the country, in 2010.
Stephanie is a life member (EMT-Enhanced) of the Virginia Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad, and Amir volunteers with the Kempsville Volunteer Rescue Squad as an EMT-B. Both were planning to begin classes at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, VA, that fall. (more…)
OUTLET: Yahoo! Finance Canada
For many, the barometer of a classy restroom is a free gum-and-mints spread (it’s free right?), unless of course you’ve freshened up in the Shaw Club Hotel and Spa, recently crowned Canada’s Best Restroom.
With its high-tech clear-to-cloudy glass doors, infinity sink and oh-so-sophisticated décor, the Niagara-On-the-Lake establishment earned the top honours from voters via business services company Cintas Canada’s Best Restroom Contest. (more…)
CHESAPEAKE
About 100 people waited on the lawn with signs Saturday.
“Here they come!” someone shouted.
The crowd went silent as a white limo pulled up.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Evans and his wife, Nicole, stepped out and slowly took in the scene. They pushed their kids toward their house where changes awaited them. (more…)
OUTLET: WAVY
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Students at Tidewater Park Elementary School received new jeans, just in time for the new school year.’
Employees of Wall, Einhorn & Chernitzer, P.C. accounting firm facilitated the jeans drive through a partnership with the United Way of South Hampton Roads. The company is celebrating its 25th anniversary and selected 25 non-profit groups to assist in honor of that silver milestone.
They donated more than 100 pairs of jeans to Tidewater Park students on Tuesday and will also donate jeans to students at another inner city school, P.B. Young Elementary, later this week.
http://wavy.com/2014/08/26/norfolk-cpa-firm-donates-jeans-to-inner-city-students/
