A budding Charlottesville nonprofit got a $10,000 boost Monday from the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation’s Youth Service Award Committee. Monday marked the 22nd time the CACF has given out the Youth Service Award grant. International Neighbors, a refugee assistance organization founded in November by Kari Miller, an English as a second language teacher at Jackson-Via […]
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Film students hone their skills and help a local nonprofit
Two teenage boys stood in a shaded yard in Crozet, messing with the settings on a digital camera while their actor leaned patiently against a tree a few yards away. Another four boys, about the same age, stood quietly in the background, some taking notes, others just waiting. Turning from the camera, Zach Beck, a […]
Carrie Taylor, Western Albemarle High School
Carrie Taylor, Physics Teacher, Western Albemarle High School Where were you born (and raised, if different)? I was born in Orange Park, Florida. My father was in the Navy so I moved around a lot as a youth, but I call northern Virginia home. When and why did you move to the Charlottesville/Albemarle area? I […]