The Roanoker - November/December 2014 - 22

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THE GIST
Top 10 ways To cHange up youR
Holidays in Roanoke THis yeaR

Look your best
for the
Holidays!

10

At the Drumstick Dash, show up in running
shoes from the first Thanksgiving - tall
bucket-top boots with heels like rocks.

9
At the Stagg Bowl in Salem (our Super
Bowl), walk around like an idiot asking
about "discount double check" and why
Aaron Rogers isn't starting.

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8

Grow a full 1850s-style beard, board a
Christmas carriage downtown and start
lecturing passersby in your best Dickens
accent about the best of times, the worst
of times.

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22 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2014

Ronald, left, with Roanoke Mayor Noel Taylor at
the McDonald House dedication.

Ronald's House TuRns 30
The Ronald McDonald House of Southwest Virginia is winding down its 30th
Anniversary year with three holiday programs, including the annual Holiday Card
(for sale at rmhc-swva.org), Lights of Love
Tree Lighting (Dec. 7), and Cookies with
Santa (Dec. 14).
RMHC Southwest Virginia was the 16th
house built in the country to provide a
home-away-from-home for critically ill
children. The Roanoke Hospital Association
and the Junior League of the Roanoke Valley partnered with McDonald's owners and
operators of Southwest Virginia to build the
18-bedroom, Tudor-style building located
at 2224 S. Jefferson Street, three blocks
from Carilion Clinic Children's Hospital
The 24/7/365 home has 18 bedrooms,
two large dining rooms, commercial kitchen, living room, playroom, family room,
library, and laundry facilities.
The Ronald McDonald House uses all volunteers to cook dinners each night and staff
the Family Room. It costs $90 per day to provide meals and lodging for guests and there
is no charge for guests to stay at the house.
Over the 30 years the facility has served over
25,000 families.

7
Start a roasted chestnut throwing contest
from the Star overlook to pretend you can
hit somebody down at Carilion.

6

Take your ice skates to the Duck Pond in
Salem and camp out there till the water
freezes.

5
Do the same with with your cross-country
skis up on Mill Mountain, waiting to ski
down the utility-line cut.

4
At the Thanksgiving table, join hands as if
in prayer and then call a play for grandma
to go deep.

3
When throwing the football after T-day
dinner, call yourself for delay of game
while waiting for grandma to get out of
the kitchen and go deep.

2
For the Chinese gift exchange, get Chinese
fire crackers, Chinese checkers and some of
those Chinese finger-pull things.

And the number-one
way to change up your Roanoke holidays
this year: Take a trip to, say, Floyd.
The

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