Dozens of Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers in Harrisonburg, Virginia, gathered for a picnic in May to celebrate the creative ways they had responded to community needs during the pandemic, from sewing masks and helping create patterns for Tyvek PPE gowns to parking cars at vaccine clinics, passing out information on clinic dates, and helping distribute food to quarantining EMU students.
... read more about MDS in Shenandoah Valley celebrates creativity of volunteers during pandemic from Canadian Mennonite
The Eastern Mennonite standout and current Woodstock oufielder had a single and an RBI along with a home run-saving catch in center field for the North in a 5-0 win over the South at the Valley Baseball League All-Star Game at James Madison University’s Veteran’s Memorial Park on Sunday in Harrisonburg.
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Jaylon Lee has been named to the Valley League's All-Star team. The league is a NCAA-sanctioned summer league and includes mostly D-1 athletes. “For us as a baseball program, even to a wider scale as a university, he means as much as anybody’s meant since (MLB veteran) Erik Kratz,” said EMU baseball head coach Adam Posey.
... read more about EMU star Lee among Valley League’s best from WHSV TV-3
Hannah Chappell-Dick was most recently a graduate assistant cross country and track & field coach at the University of Florida, where she earned her MBA. She was also a volunteer assistant coach at Georgia Tech from 2018-19, and an interim coach at EMU. She was a five-time NCAA DIII All-American and three-time Regional Athlete of the Year for Eastern Mennonite University.
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