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		<title>The Activist Politician</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I belong to Generation X, which I think can be more accurately described as the Community Service Generation. We don’t sit on the sidelines. We have volunteered in record numbers and pioneered nonprofit organizations, using entrepreneurial savvy to solve our communities’ seemingly intractable problems. We took our talents directly into the schools and prisons.
But for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martinsvillemedia.com/2010/03/10/the-activist-politician/</link>
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		<title>Perriello Cosponsors Bill to Cut Pay for Members of Congress by Five Percent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC—Congressman Tom Perriello is backing a bipartisan bill to make Members of Congress show a personal commitment to cutting federal spending. He is a cosponsor of H.R. 4720, the Taking Responsibility for Congressional Pay Act, which will cut pay for all Senators and Representatives by five percent starting January 1, 2011. If the bill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martinsvillemedia.com/2010/03/10/perriello-cosponsors-bill-to-cut-pay-for-members-of-congress-by-five-percent/</link>
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		<title>Council to ask for more grant money for methane project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[City Council will be applying for grant money to use toward the methane collection project at the old landfill on Clearview Drive.  The Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy is committing $1 million to the project and the City plans to ask the Virginia Tobacco Commission for another $300,000.
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		<link>http://martinsvillemedia.com/2010/03/10/council-to-ask-for-more-grant-money-for-methane-project/</link>
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		<title>American of Martinsville fire ruled accidental</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Henry County Public Safety has ruled a fire Tuesday at American of Martinsville an accident.
Fire and safety responded at 11:34 a.m. Tuesday to the Redd Level plant off Rives Road. The fire originated in the finishing department and was contained there.  Sprinklers were activated.
No estimate of the damage has been made and no one was injured.
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		<title>Christobel Turner Via</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christobel Turner Via, 86, of Martinsville died on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County. She was born on August 15, 1923 in Henry County to Emmett Turner and Ada Jamerson Turner.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband: Thomas Guy Via, and sisters: Effie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martinsvillemedia.com/2010/03/10/christobel-turner-via/</link>
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		<title>Joan Hylton Melchoir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joan Hylton Melchoir, 73, of San Antonio Texas, formerly of Martinsville, died March 1, 2010 at the Veterans Hospital in San Antonio. The memorial service was held March 5, 2010 at Jehovah Witness, Kingdom Hall, San Antonio, Texas. Local arrangements were by Hairston Funeral Home.
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		<link>http://martinsvillemedia.com/2010/03/10/joan-hylton-melchoir/</link>
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		<title>Donnie Ray Ferguson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Donnie Ray Ferguson, 62, died Sunday, March 7, 2010 at the Martinsville Hospital. The family will receive friends from 7-9pm Thursday, March 11, 2009 in the South Chapel of Bassett Funeral Service and at other times at the home of Donnie and Judy Robertson, 3260 County Line Road, Bassett (Sanville community). The funeral will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martinsvillemedia.com/2010/03/10/donnie-ray-ferguson/</link>
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		<title>Louise Turner West</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Louise Turner West, 82, died Monday, March 8, 2010 at the Martinsville Hospital. The family will receive friends from 1-2pm Wednesday, March 10, 2010 in the South Chapel of Bassett Funeral Service with the funeral service to follow at 2pm with Rev. Joe Hamilton officiating. Burial will follow in the Roselawn Burial Park. Bassett Funeral [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martinsvillemedia.com/2010/03/10/louise-turner-west/</link>
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		<title>Oleas Goin Rodgers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oleas Goin Rodgers, 78, of 198 Wickersham Drive, Ridgeway, died Monday, March 8, 2010 at North Carolina Baptist Hospital. She was born in Stokes County, NC on November 20, 1931, to Grover Lee and Mary Beasley Goin.
She had been employed by DuPont, but in later years was a homemaker.
She was a member of First Baptist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martinsvillemedia.com/2010/03/10/oleas-goin-rodgers/</link>
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		<title>Marilyn &#8220;Angel&#8221; Newton Cobb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marilyn &#8220;Angel&#8221; Newton Cobb, 69, of Raleigh, NC died Saturday, March 6, 2010 at Hock Family Pavilion, Durham, NC. She was born on June 19, 1940 in Harlem, New York to Sylvia Banfield Senior of Raleigh, NC and the late Marvin Newton.
Ms. Cobb was of the Baptist faith. She was a CNA and had formerly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martinsvillemedia.com/2010/03/10/marilyn-angel-newton-cobb/</link>
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