Tag Archives: Les Helmuth

Goes around, comes around: EMU & Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community

May 2, 2014 – 2:29 pm

In the first decades of the 20th century, simultaneous efforts arose with the Virginia Mennonite Conference to establish institutions that might sit like bookends at either end of our lives: a school and home for the elderly. The first bit came together relatively quickly, with the school we now know as EMU admitting its first ...More

New Bridges – Meeting the needs of the residents from foreign lands

May 2, 2014 – 3:05 pm

Consider a few statistics: In 1990, just 2.4% of Harrisonburg’s population was foreign born. That figure rose substantially over the following decade to 9.2%, and now sits, per the latest Census Bureau estimate, at 14.1%. Or, to put that in more real-to-life terms, there are now more than 7,000 immigrants living in Harrisonburg – plus ...More