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Valentines for Vets campaign receives overwhelming response
Bedford County libraries deliver 500 cards to veterans
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Bedford County libraries received an overwhelming response for this year’s “Valentines for Vets” campaign.
They collected more than 500 valentines. That was enough for them to donate to both the Salem VA Medical Center and Virginia Veterans Care Center.
Cassandra Baldwin, youth services coordinator for Bedford County libraries, thinks so many people participated because of the pandemic.
“A lot of people are probably stuck inside. They’re limited to travel, but also everybody feels the love this year. So, I feel like they want to spread the love around and that’s just very touching,” said Baldwin. We’re told Bedford libraries usually collect about 200 cards each year. They’ve hosted the “Valentines for Vets” campaign for more than a decade.
The word âapocalypticâ actually appeared in a Jan. 1, 2020, headline in this newspaper. It was used to modify the noun âwildfires,â which were scorching millions of acres a world away.
The dayâs paper brought news of far-away catastrophes. As Australia burned, thousands were swept up in floods in Indonesia and dozens of zoo animals perished in a Berlin fire.
Locally, the news was rather ho-hum. Roanoke County planned a broadband survey to figure out which areas were unserved or underserved.
Turns out, weâd all discover soon enough how critical broadband is to education, health care, commerce, and even just to see family and friends.