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C-VILLE Weekly

9/22/09 at 12:00 AM

Judging the Miss Gay Charlottesville contest at Club 216
August 12, 2008
Photo by Jason Lappa

Choir from Free Union’s Faith Mission Fellowship singing on The Corner
August 10, 1994
Photo by Lou Baron

Foxfield Races
December 30, 2008
Photo by Aaron Farrington

Jak ‘n’ Jil’s John Clark at work
December 14, 2004
Photo by Jim Hall

Venable Elementary students meet C.C. the tarantula at Barnes & Noble
June 8, 2004
Photo by Chris Smith

Homeless men eat lunch at the soup kitchen in Christ Episcopal Church
December 1, 1998
Photo by Jen Fariello

Mendy St. Ours gets rigged into costume for Live Arts’ production of Angels in America
June 1, 2004
Photo by Jim Hall

Polyface’s Joel Salatin on the farm
April 28, 2009
Photo by Ashley Twiggs

The Downtown Mall from above
February 14, 1995
Photo by Larry Swank

Omega Psi Phi step group performing at Westhaven Day
August 14, 2007
Photo by Kelly Kollar

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