Virginia Vacation BulletinsVIRGINIA ANNOUNCES 'PARK THE CAR GETAWAYS' TO SAVE GAS MONEY ON SUMMER VACATIONThe Virginia Tourism Corporation issued the following news release: The Virginia Tourism Corporation today announced "Park the Car Getaways" for gas price-conscious travelers seeking sensational summer vacation values. Adventure seekers with a passion for filling a shopping bag or an empty stomach Marketer of Vacation, Cruise Packages Cuts 150 Jobs in Virginia Beach, Va.By Michael Davis, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 10--In the latest local aftershock of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Boston-area marketer of vacation and cruise packages has slashed nearly half of the jobs at its Virginia Beach reservation call center Virginia-Based Vacation Store to Merge with Florida Leisure Travel Firm.(Originated from The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.)VIRGINIA BEACH, VaMay 7--The Vacation Store, a mass-market travel agency, has merged with another leisure travel marketer, Fort Lauderdale-based 1-800-TAKE-OFF. The union creates one of the nation's largest retailers of vacation packages. The new company will continue to trade as The Vacation Store Jerome Aumente writes: "After sampling the Virginia mountains for nearly two decades with a vacation house, Mary [Aumente's wife] and I decided to become full-time mountaineers and built a retirement home on Long Mountain, surrounded by the Blue Ridge and Massanutten mountains and the Shenandoah Valley down below. (1968).(Brief Article)Jerome Aumente writes: After sampling the Virginia mountains for nearly two decades with a vacation house, Mary [Aumente's wife] and I decided to become full-time mountaineers and built a retirement home on Long Mountain, surrounded by the Blue Ridge and Massanutten mountains and the Shenandoah A SUMMER TRADITION VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM HAS BEEN UPDATED, BUT THE LESSONS ARE THE SAME.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)Byline: JO-ANN CLEGG, STAFF WRITER REMEMBER VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL? Warm Kool-Aid? Stick-puppet Noahs directing traffic on the ark? Moses parting a flannel board Red Sea? The excitement of learning that the Bible was inhabited by people of the human persuasion? These days the stick puppets may have |

