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4/3/21
The Valley Children’s Advocacy Center will host the first ever Save Jane Event to raise awareness for Child abuse in the area.
The event in partnership with Staunton, Augusta county, and Waynesboro the event will take place on April 24
th at the Gypsy Hill Park Bandstand.
For six consecutive hours, volunteers from around Staunton, Augusta County, and Waynesboro will read the names and ages of over 3,000 children who were reported as abused in the area in 2020.
Because these children are minors and their identities must be protected, “Jane Doe” and “John Doe” will be used in place of their names.
The Downtown Dolls, a Fredericksburg-area social club committed to charity and volunteerism, decided last spring to raise money for a youngster fighting pediatric cancer. They did it by taking pies to the face.
Members of the Downtown Dolls occasionally adopt the âpinup lifestyleâ by wearing the hair, make-up, clothing and high heels of starlets from the 1940s and 1950s. They even adopt special personas and go by names like Cherry Sundae, Kitty Coco and Dani Divine.
To raise money for their cause, they asked people to donate money for every pie that was smashed into a memberâs face. They quickly met their $400 goal and zoomed past $1,000.