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Virginia Beach, VA Senior News

• Salvation Army appeals for help filling pantry shelves (Bristol Herald Courier)

  Faced with the ever present demand for emergency food assistance, The Salvation Army is asking the community for help and is partnering with the Feinstein Foundation to match donations to fight hunger in East Tennessee.

• Homes decline at a steeper rate (The Virginia Gazette)

  JAMES CITY — The neighborhoods with the steepest value decline differ from last year, according to data released this week by the Real Estate Assessments Division (see box).

• Dog bites Axton woman (Martinsville Bulletin)

  An elderly woman received medical treatment after being bitten by a dog while walking on Hobson Road on Monday evening.

• Fatal Chesterfield fire believed to be accidental (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

  A fire that killed a 2-year-old Chesterfield County boy Monday was accidental, fire officials say, but investigators still are working to determine the cause. Firefighters pulled the child from his parents’ bedroom, where the fire began, after the boy’s mother was turned back by the intensity of the blaze. The mother, who suffered severe burns trying to reach her son, was in another part of the ...

• OLBH Meals on Wheels to take part in national campaign (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)

  ASHLAND -- Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital's Meal on Wheels program is participating in the national 2010 March For Meals campaign, a national effort to raise awareness of senior hunger and encourage action on the part of the local community.