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Tea-21 Funding Sought For Colonial King's Highway

       Historic Kenmore & George Washington's Ferry Farm, under the leadership of Vernon Edenfield, Executive Director, is applying for TEA-21 funding to landscape the median on the Route 3 corridor, a part of the colonial King's Highway in front of Ferry Farm.  The association hopes to secure the funds in 1999, the year that marks the 200th anniversary of George Washington's death.

       Additional TEA-21 funds, if granted, will be used to control and buy out advertising along Route 3 between the Chatham Bridge and the Blue-Gray Parkway.  Scenic Virginia supports and applauds Kenmore for taking this bold move toward Highway Beautification in the Fredericksburg Area.


Scenic Virginia Welcomes New Virginia Beach Chapter

       In her role as president of Scenic Virginia, Hylah Boyd was the guest speaker at the January "green breakfast" in Virginia Beach, attracting the largest turnout in months.  During the question and answer period she was asked whether local chapters of Scenic Virginia were appropriate.  Her enthusiastic response was all that was needed to get the ball rolling.  Pat Bridges and Les Fenlon, who represent Virginia Beach on the board of Scenic Virginia, volunteered to organize a local chapter.  It will offer membership to interested individuals from all of the communities in the region, not just Virginia Beach, and will be named the Virginia Beach Chapter of Scenic Virginia.  The organizational meeting will be held on February 13th among the cypress trees and Spanish moss of First Landing/Seashore State Park in the heart of Virginia Beach.  Scenic Virginia is proud to have Virginia Beach on board.


Fluvanna County Lights The Way

       Scenic Virginia has received the official recognition of the Economic Development Committee of Fluvanna County.  The Committee voted to join at the sponsor level, and has included Scenic Virginia on its agenda at two meetings.  Also in the County, the planning group for the Fluvanna Heritage Conference has viewed A Tale of Two Counties—Clarke and Stafford at its planning meeting and the slide presentation will be available for viewing at the March conference.  "Scenic Virginia as an educational organization is very helpful as we plan our future here in this rural county," says Fluvanna resident Julia Borden Burke.  "I am proud to be part of this organization."


Virginia Beach Project is "First Ever" in the U.S.

       According to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Plants and Gardens news Summer Issue, 1998 a 500-Year municipal forest project of the Virginia Urban Forest Council (VUFC) is a first ever of its kind in the United States.  Patterned after England's Woodland Trust, which was established in 1972 to save forests from encroaching urbanization, a 100-acre tract in the city of Virginia Beach will be managed and protected "essentially forever."  The project insures that all development decisions will be made for the greater good of the forest.  This far-sighted measure will afford residents of Virginia Beach and visitors to the area the opportunity to see the forest grow to full maturity over the course of many generations.  Scenic Virginia salutes the city of Virginia Beach and the VUFC for setting an example for the nation.


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