United Way of Southwest Virginia Impact Awards 2018

United Way of SWVA President and CEO,  Travis W. Staton, speaks about the newly implemented ALICE Finanical Stability program during the 2018 Impact Awards held on Thursday at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center.  Awards were given out to individuals and organizations that contributed to the success of the programs offered by the United Way of Southwest Virginia.

Photos Earl Neikirk/Bristol Herald Courier/HeraldCourier.com

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Bagging for a cause

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Virginia High School princpal Ronnie Collins loads up a grocery cart at the Food City on Euclid Ave. on Tuesday during the United Way Celebrity Bagging.

United Way is proud to team with Food City to host the fifth annual Celebrity Bagging Event in support of their annual fundraising campaign. The event includes Food City locations in Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol, Jonesborough, Gray and Blountville, TN and Bristol, Abingdon, Damascus and Lebanon, VA and will take place on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.



Local celebrities from throughout the region have volunteered their time and talents to bag groceries at the participating Food City locations. Shoppers who wish to do so can make a contribution to the United Way at the checkouts, via collection containers; or they can elect to have their contribution conveniently added to their grocery total. All donations will benefit area United Way Campaigns. The United Way allocates resources to member agencies that address the most pressing human service needs.

United Way and YWCA there to help

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Susan Davenport and her husband Waylon are shown with children Braden,1,left, and Logan, 2.5,. They were helped by the YWCA with daycare as part of the United Way of Bristol.