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• DeKalb martial artist earns martial arts award (shawlocal.com) — Lynchburg will host the 2026 G.O.A.T. Honors Martial Arts Awards ceremony on July 25, where DeKalb martial artist and retired Army lieutenant colonel Brendan Wilson will receive a lifetime achievement honor. The award recognizes his decades of leadership, competition success, and teaching across martial arts, military service, writing, and education, bringing a high-profile gathering of martial artists to the city next summer.
• As rural maternity care shrinks, a nonprofit highlights midwives' role in Southwest Virginia (cardinalnews.org) — A new education campaign on midwifery in Southwest Virginia is spotlighting historic figures like Margaret Jones of Lynchburg, a formerly enslaved woman who became a respected regional midwife. As rural maternity units close and long drives to hospitals become common, advocates say expanding midwife services and insurance coverage could help fill dangerous care gaps for families across the state.
• Retired ABC13 anchor Noreen Turyn inducted into Silver Circle honor society (wset.com) — Longtime WSET ABC 13 anchor Noreen Turyn, who spent more than 36 years reporting and anchoring from Lynchburg, is being inducted into the prestigious Silver Circle honor society of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Her career of investigative work and community-focused storytelling in Central Virginia is being celebrated alongside other notable broadcasters at a ceremony in Maryland.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why do some birds fly south for the winter?" — Because it's too far to walk..! (Thank you Theresia F. for sending it in!)
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