Buckingham County Future Farmers of America (FFA) leadership members participated in the FFA Leadership Camp held at Graves Mountain Lodge in Syria on July 10-14.

Amanda Bryan, Dylan Price and April Sage enjoyed a weeklong camp focused on leadership, personal growth and career success. These members took home valuable skills in public speaking, teamwork and leadership that will help them be a successful member and officer of the FFA chapter.

Throughout the week, these students got to interact with FFA members from around the state along with the past and current Virginia FFA State Officers. Not only did the camp include leadership workshops and group events, they completed various community service projects in Madison County and enjoyed an evening at the Madison County Fair. Also, at the Camp Awards Banquet, Bryan was recognized as the Advanced II Outstanding Member.

Buckingham County Girl Scouts are accepting kindergarten through eighth-grade girls and adult volunteers to join the scouting journey. At girl scouts, girls are always counting down to the next adventure they will go on together. Maybe it’s artistic, maybe it’s an experiment or maybe it’s getting outside or helping the community. Girl scouts always make a bunch of new friends and have a ton of new experiences that show how exciting the world is and how awesome each girl scout is over and over again.

Girl scouts build girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. For more information, contact Deidre Kellner, membership manager, via email at dkellner@gsvs.org, call (434) 382-8013 or visit www.gsvsc.org.

Cedar Baptist Church, located at 3932 Bell Road Dillwyn, would like to invite everyone to homecoming Sunday beginning with Sunday school at 10 a.m., worship service at 11 a.m. with lunch served immediately following worship service. A song service will be held at 1:30 p.m. featuring the Oak Hill Quartet. The Rev. Jerry Gray from Iva, South Carolina, will conduct the revival services Monday through Friday. The services will begin each night at 7 p.m. with special music, including Second Time Around on Monday; Smokey Wilson on Tuesday; to be determined on Wednesday; Barry Snoddy on Thursday and Chris Lewis on Friday.

Holiday Lake Education Center is offering an oil painting workshop, for ages 15 and up, Aug. 23 from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Judy Moore-Gist, Alexander Certified Instructor and Certified Ross Instructor, strives to give people of all ages the opportunity to experience both the magic and joy of painting. Both, William “Bill” Alexander and Bob Ross, PBS TV hosts, have inspired thousands of first-time painters by demonstrating the “wet-on-wet” technique and motivated people of all ages to pick up a brush and put their dreams on canvas. Judy will do the same — come take a class and see for yourself. At the end of just one session, participants will be amazed at the beautiful painting that has been created in just a few hours.

Cost is $75 and price includes all instructor fees, materials and lunch. Deadline for registration is Aug. 11. For more information contact Kelsey Brown at (434) 248-5444 or kelsey87@vt.edu.

Sherri Wise is the columnist for the Buckingham Bulletin. Her email address is wise.buckingham@gmail.com or phone at (434) 983-1393.