Meet Your Neighbors: Mills and Shannon Dentistry

Dr. Michele M. Mills and Dr. Travis M. Shannon spread cheer through Salem and Roanoke one smile at a time!  From their family dental practice, to baseball fields, to local parks, you can find them and their family taking care of the community and enjoying all the Roanoke Valley area has to offer. The married…

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Roaming Roanoke: Duck Donuts

This edition of Roaming Roanoke is keeping the food theme we started last week! This week we got donuts at Duck Donuts! I have had Duck Donuts before but had never gone to the restaurant and selected them and purchased them myself until now. Let me tell you, I should have been visiting Duck Donuts…

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Roaming Roanoke: Scratch Biscuit Company

For this edition of Roaming Roanoke we turned to food! We visited Scratch Biscuit Company! Last Friday, my five-year-old daughter randomly asked for biscuits in the middle of the evening. We didn’t have any in the house. Cue my mom guilt for not being able to just walk into the kitchen and make some from…

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Meet Your Neighbor: Noel Anderson, Anderson Music Therapy

Meet Your Neighbor… Noel Anderson! When Noel Anderson MMT, MT-BC, moved to Roanoke in 2011, it didn’t take long for her to notice the challenge families had in getting services for their children with special needs. So she created Anderson Music Therapy to fill that need and be a resource in helping families find the…

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Meet Your Neighbor: Misty Lenk, Lenk Orthodontics

Dr. Misty Lenk loves smiles! She loves giving smiles to others and creating smiles on her patients! Dr. Lenk is an orthodontist and operator of Lenk Orthodontics in Daleville. She is also a wife, mother, basketball coach, volunteer, and whatever else is needed to support her family, patients, and community. Dr. Lenk grew up in…

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Meet Your Neighbor: Ellen Cleveland, LFA Consignment

Roanoke native Ellen Cleveland loves to serve her hometown community and families as well as create events! She successfully merges the two into the LFA Kids Consignment sale in Roanoke.  For more than fifteen years, the LFA Kids consignment events have helped families sell and buy baby and children’s items! The sales are held twice…

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Roaming Roanoke: Salem Museum

This week for Roaming Roanoke, we mixed fun and education. We roamed to the Salem Museum! I featured the Salem Museum’s online video series last month. This time we visited the actual museum building! Part of the Salem Museum’s holiday exhibit includes a model train. It is set-up through the end of January. My 6-year-old…

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Roaming Roanoke: Kids Square

Happy New Year! We are starting 2021 with a visit to a popular spot – Kids Square! Now that it is January, there are not a lot of events. Add in the global pandemic and it can be hard to find indoor activities for families right now. However, several places are open with health and…

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Roaming Roanoke: Holiday Events

Happy New Year! While the holidays have come and gone and 2021 is underway, Roaming Roanoke is going to take one last look at some holiday events in the region. Two of my holiday favorites are The Nutcracker ballet and looking at Christmas lights! We are so lucky that Blue Ridge PBS made both of…

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Roaming Roanoke: Dickens of a Christmas

It’s officially the holiday season and there are SO MANY events and sights to see happening all around the Roanoke Valley! This week’s blogging destination is downtown Roanoke for Dickens of a Christmas! Dickens of a Christmas has been a staple of the Christmas season in Roanoke for 37 years! This year’s event underwent some…

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