Trenton Miller was right at Home on Saturday morning as the young man stood inside the house that his Community built and continues to build.

Today was the 18th Annual Fund raising Auction at the Island Creek Mennonite Church and School. The room was filled to the brim with people who were doing whatever needed to be done for the betterment of the Day.

Trenton attended the School for the duration of his education and has spent his entire life in and around the property. After our initial conversation we took a tour of the Church and the School.

The two hours was enlightening from beginning to end because it included everything that I feel we need more of, inclusion sitting at the lead. Everyone who desired to participate was given the opportunity to do so and it was all done through the path of Volunteering! See pillar #2 of the 3 that hold our beliefs at OneofUs.Care…

The Mennonite community has been conducting business in this manner from the beginning and getting to witness it all was special, to say the least.

The number of people involved in the process from start to finish was well into the hundreds and everything just seemed to have a flow to it. The fact that there was that level of focus to the event is a testimonial of the level of dedication.

Vickey Ritchie ends every session of Carroll County Special Olympics Basketball with the group getting together, forming a circle and saying ONE TEAM. That sure looked that way this morning and WHAT A TEAM it appeared to be.

Miss Bunn and the Ferrum VB Panthers take care of business in the Noon session…. will play again at 4pm. – scoreboard shows incorrectly, Ferrum VB fell 3-1

Also – EMU VB, Union Soccer ⚽️ and Bluefield Soccer ⚽️ still to come…

The Rams 🐏 had a tough go of it down in Columbia, South Carolina but will get right back at it next week.

2:30 – Union University about to take the Pitch in Tennessee !

Eastern Mennonite just closed out their first of two up in Pennsylvania!

It’s over now in Tennessee – Ashlyn Newman clocked 14 minutes of action 🎬 as Union University falls 4-1 to Carson Newman.

EMU just finished up with a 5 set thriller, falling just short at the end (15-9).

Look closely to see the stat line for Madison Stockner…

5:52 – Computer 🖥 showing Ferrum VB still playing host Roanoke, dropped set 1, 25-18

It’s gone Final up in Salem

That concludes our Where are they now coverage for Saturday !

Photos from a Proud Bunn !

Every Saturday, especially when its comes to the Fall, always seems to be overflowing with opportunities to surround myself with quality people.

Last night 🌙, for the second straight week, Duke played their Football 🏈🏈🏈 game on Friday night. This meant that Saturday was wide open to opportunities to recharge the batteries a bit. Choices were everywhere and the first story of the day listed most of the options.

My World 🌎 has more than a few people in it named Travis and I knew that two of them would be getting together down at Cavalier Park.

The young Lady 👩 sitting on the bucket (Baseball / Softball thing) is the Daughter of Mr & Mrs Travis Leath as Emma is the pitching coach on her Dad’s staff. Big Sis is on the staff as well.

The young Lady on the mound is the Daughter of Mr & Mrs. Travis Osborne.

Virginia Surge Softball is their travel team and they combine their efforts to try and teach our Youth the game of Softball. Their were plenty of folks in attendance, watching 👀 their daughters or granddaughters play the game that continues to grow in popularity and the weather was great as well.

I will be the first to admit that trying hard to get folks to appreciate one another and embrace 🙏 kindness ❤ 24/7 takes its toll on a person. God puts people like Travis Osborne in your life so you can charge the Soul when the batteries are low.

Noon Kickoff for the ” Game of the Year” in Ann Arbor, could have stayed home and watched it or for that matter went to The Big House to watch in live (Would have been rooting for Texas). But the reality is neither of those two options would have made me a Better Person afterwards.

Sometimes people are searching for Miracles and signs of inspiration but don’t stop to embrace the people that are already in their lives.

One of the teams visiting was from Dodson, North Carolina and that is realivent because soon it will be time to start making trips down there to watch Miss Emma pitch for Surrey Community College.

During the four years of residing in Carroll County it has been a struggle to get people to read about Positive things if it doesn’t directly effect them. I realize that I have backed away from what I actually hold near and dear to my Heart ❤, what the purpose of my writing ✍ is – not to gain popularity or fame, but to pursue the Greater Good.

Couldn’t tell you who won, who lost and who made the Big Play today. But I can tell you that Travis & Travis (TNT) and their friends spent their day doing for others and I feel blessed 🙌 to have shared in the moment 🙏

Shawn Montgomery just sent in the Cross Country race results to let me get to it.

   It’s a hectic Saturday here in the land of Cavaliers as there is activity on a number of fronts. There is also a decent amount of celebration taking place after the Varsity 🏈🏈🏈 team held on last night to defeat Grayson County over in Independence, 22-18.

https://thescore.com/s/28260697

  Varsity Volleyball 🏐 should play matches 2,3 and 4 of their season down at Patrick Henry – Glade Springs. The annual event will be getting undweway momentarily.

   Cross Country races 🏁 will also be getting underway (10 am) up at Green Hill Park and we will have all of the results from the meet later today.

  We have College Volleyball 🏐 and College Soccer ⚽️ taking place at four different venues as well so there will be plenty to keep an eye 👁on today !

Eastern Mennonite University (Miss Stockner) VB will be playing 2 matches up in Pennsylvania today.

KK Newman and her Rams 🐏 will be playing Soccer ⚽️ down in South Carolina.

Ashlyn Newman and the Bulldogs will be playing Soccer ⚽️ over in Tennessee

Miss Bunn and the Panthers will be playing Volleyball 🏐 up at Roanoke College…

Current Cavaliers and former Cavaliers are in action 🎬 all over the place today ! Hopefully they all have a Great Day !

Ryan Largen is someone that I would want to have Coach my grandchildren and that’s the Highest compliment I can pay the young man. Coach is just getting started and it was a treat for me to get to take in his first game as Head Coach of our Middle School Football 🏈🏈🏈 team last night 🌙.

Everything about the evening was filled to the brim with Community Pride, as I tried to capture last night during the live blog. The crowd, the energy and the atmosphere at Tommy Thompson Field was terrific 👏.

Naturally, the outcome wasn’t the result that Cavalier fans were hoping for but in my World that’s a side note to the story. Bad Luck to have the opponent be the Radford Bobcats but don’t let that dampen the enthusiasm for the journey that Coach Largen and his staff is going to lead you on.

Borrowing from our QB’s Family 👪 because it sums up the message. The team is in great hands and there was plenty of people there to support the effort of a team which includes a number of Kiddos spending their first game with shoulder pads on.

While I don’t know how many times that I will get to witness the team play on Game Day, please know that I’m proud to know Ryan Largen and I believe that he has your Children and your best interest in his Heart ❤.