About Town

St. Luke's Lutheran Church will be having its Children's Consignment sale on Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Luke's Intermediate School (entrance in rear of building). Children's clothing, toys, books, furniture and maternity clothing. Donations for the Culpeper Community Food Closet will be accepted during the sale. Call 825-8358.

Belated birthday wishes to Amanda Nicole Butler who celebrated her 15th birthday on May 8, Steve Keys and Billy Jarrells  on May 10 and Calvert Hitt on May 12.

Happy Birthday to Harlean Smoot, Whitney Smoot and Pauline Steele on May 18 and Frederick Carranza on May 19.

A Salem Pickin' Party will be held at the Salem Fire/Rescue Hall on Route 522 North from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, May 18.  Featured performers will be the Country Troubadours, Burr Hill Gospel Bluegrass, Homemade Jam and the Hazel River Trio. 825-9112

Culpeper County Parks and Rec is hosting a community yard sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Floyd T. Binns Middle School on Saturday.  This promises to be a good one.

Come out and support Laurel and Billy Shaffer at the carwash on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Tractor Supply in Culpeper (588 Culpeper Town Square).  These local students from Amissville will be traveling overseas with Student Ambassadors with People to People delegations this summer.  Call 937-3196.

Richardsville VFD & Rescue will serve a Mother's Day Breakfast today from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.  $6/person. 423-1319.
Tickets for the Germanna Community College "Monte 'Carlo" event to be held Saturday may be purchased at Shear Artistry.

You might want to check out the Old Town Warrenton Spring Festival Saturday. The Southeast Tourism Society named the festival one of the "Top 20 Events in the Southeastern United States" three years in a row.  Call 347-4414 or go to .

Brightwood Ruritan Club, off U.S. 29 at Route 607, will be having a fried chicken dinner from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. The cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Call 948-4026.

 Be sure to get your tickets for CulpeperFest 2007 to be held Thursday, June 7 from 4 to 8:30 p.m. at the Germanna Center for Advanced Technology. Tickets must be purchased by June 3.  No tickets will be sold at the gate.  Call 825-8628

We encourage our readers to send our contributions for "About Town." E-mail Margaret Butler at or call her at 825-0771, ext. 116. You may also bring it by our office at 122 W. Spencer St.

We're looking for nominations for our "Local Hero" feature. If you know of someone who works behind the scenes to help make Culpeper a better place, we'd like to know about it. E-mail Katie Dolac at .