About Bedford City County, VA

Looking for a fun family activity this summer? When was the last time you watched a movie outdoors? Hollywood in the Hills in Bedford, Virginia is a free outdoor movie program that is in its fourth season. Held on Saturdays throughout the summer at the Bedford Elementary School, the gates open at 7:00 pm. Movies are shown on the atletic field at dusk (7:30pm). In case of rain or windy conditions, the movies will be held in the Bedford Elementary gym. To get a great spot, come early. You can enjoy the sunset over the D-Day Memorial located on the hill above the school. Movies scheduled are:

July 19 -- Surf's Up
August 16 -- Happy Feet
September 20 -- We Are Marshall

Bedford Elementary School is located just off of Rte 460, follow signs for the D-Day Memorial

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Debbie Malone, Realtor (R) RE/MAX 1st Olympic 20395 Timberlake Rd Lynchburg, VA 24502

(434) 546-0369 malone1981@aol.com

Bedford County is one of the fastest growing in Virginia. The Bedford Memorial Hospital is located in the city of Bedford, Virginia. Built in 1955, the hospital offers many of the same services found in larger, metropolitan hospitals. The hospital employs 325 people and serves about 1,600 patients annually. It specializes in women's health, OB services, outpatient surgery, geriatrics and 24-hour emergency services.

Bedford Memorial Hospital is located about 20 miles west of Lynchburg. Centra Health owns 50 percent of Bedford Memorial Hospital under an arrangement with Carilion Health System in Roanoke. The hospital operates 50 inpatient beds and 111 long-term care beds. Also on the Bedford Memorial campus is an adult day care facility wth a capacity to care for 41 adults.

The Emergency Department was awarded the prestigious Press Ganey 2005 Compass Award for outstanding performance improvement. Click on the links for more information on the hospital history or a complete list of the Bedford Memorial Hospital Staff .
For more information, contact:

Bedford Memorial Hospital
1613 Oakwood St.
P.O. Box 688, Bedford, Virginia 24523,
540-586-2441

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Debbie Malone, Realtor RE/MAX 1st Olympic 20395 Timberlake Rd Lynchburg, VA 24502

This year marks the 75^th Anniversary of Historic Garden Week in Virginia. Over two hundred homes across Virginia will be opened to the public during this week. I've been attending this event in Lynchburg since I moved to Virginia in 1987 and it's the highlight of my spring!

Sponsored by The Lynchburg Garden Club and Hillside Garden Club, several local homes and gardens are opened to the public and it's a delight to walk through perfectly manicured gardens and beautifully decorated homes. This year, Garden Day in Lynchburg is Tuesday, April 22, 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. The following homes will be on the tour:

4411 BOONSBORO ROAD

1628 LINDEN AVENUE

1013 HARRODS COURT

1450 TRENTS FERRY ROAD

1340 WAKEFIELD ROAD

In addition, the following will be opened at no additional charge: Point of Honor and Sweet Briar House. Also open, Sandusky, The Anne Spencer Garden, Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, The Old City Cemetery, Miller Clayton Gardens.

BOX LUNCHES: Will be available again this year at Oakwood Country Club from 11am-2pm for $10 pre-paid. Advance reservations are required by calling Oakwood (434) 384-8181 ext. 101

TICKETS: Advance tickets $20, day-of-tour tickets $25, single-site admission $8. Full ticket for minors 6-12 years old $10 and $4 for single-site admission. Children 5 and under admitted free of charge. Tickets are available at the Visitors' Information Center, 216 Church St., the pharmacy at Krogers on Boonsboro Road, The Silver Thistle at Boonsboro Shopping Center and The Columns in Forest. The day of the tour, tickets will be available at Headquarters and each home. Advance tickets may be ordered with a credit card at an additional charge by accessing http://www.vagardenweek.org/.

There will be no bus service this year. For more information on ticket sales, parking, etc, contact:

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The Lynchburg Chamber Visitor's Information Center
216 Church St.
Lynchburg, VA 24504
(434) 847-1811

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Debbie Malone, Realtor RE/MAX 1st Olympic 20395 Timberlake Rd Lynchburg, VA 24502

(434)546-0369 malone1981@aol.com

January Monthly Market Update

Sales Period: January 2008

Property Type Area Liv Area Units Sold Average List Price Average Sold Price DOM

Single family Lynchburg 1951 50 166,924 161,796 89

Campbell County 1723 26 159,811 152,275 108

Bedford County 2271 36 283,409 272,219 116

Amherst County 1998 21 178,390 173,635 95

Appomattox County 1463 5 154,120 144,500 256

A total of 138 properties sold the month of January 2008. That is down a little from January 2007 when 147 properties sold. And it has taken longer for homes to sell the month of January than in previous months. Once the spring gets here there is a much better opportunity for the activity to increase.

"I have deposited in the county of Bedford Virginia, about four miles from Buford, in an excavation or vault six feet below the surface of the ground, the following articles belonging jointly to the parties whose names are given in number three herewith. The first deposit consisted of ten hundred and fourteen pounds of gold and thirty eight hundred and twelve pounds of silver deposited."

Virginia's best-know lost fortune is said to consist of thousands of pounds of gold and silver and a fortune in jewels. Some say it's a hoax, but hundreds of hopeful treasure hunters would like to believe otherwise.

In 1817, a party of 30 Virginians led by Thomas Jefferson Beale left to try their luck mining in Colorado. They struck a rich vein of gold and silver in the south-central part of the state, which they worked for a year and a half before the accumulating wealth started to make some of them uncomfortable. Beale and eight others went back to Virginia to bury two truckloads of nuggets while the others stayed and mined.

The party arrived at Goose Creek in Bedford County in November 1818, following a fain trail through a gap in the Blue Ridge foothills near the Peaks of Otter. Snow covered their tracks as they dug a square pit six feet deep, lined it with flat stones and filled it with iron cooking pots filled with treasure. The last concealing spadeful fell in December, and within two months they had rejoined their comrades.

After two more years of mining, Beale led another trip back to the same spot, and a second load joined the first. This time he decided to leave a message for his partners in Colorado in case something happened to his group on the return. Three numerical ciphers detailing the location of the hoard, the contents of the vault, the name of the party were put in a strongbox and given to Lynchburg innkeeper Robert Morris, with instructions to open it if no one returned in 10 years.

Beale and his crew left once more for Colorado, and Morris never saw any of them again. Two months later, he received a letter saying the keys to the code were in the mail, and then nothing. As the years passed, Morris gradually forgot about the strongbox, until he happened upon it decades later while searching for a harness in a shed. After trying for years to decipher the codes, morris showed them to a friend, who managed to break the one describing the vault using a key based on the Declaration of Independence. The other two were made public Click Herebut remain a mystery despite the efforts of decoding experts and computer codebreakers.