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Established in 1950, The Williams Home is a nonprofit retirement community that serves more than 35 women aged 55 and above. Located in Lynchburg, Va., the agency s facility features private rooms, guest accommodations and an on-site beauty salon. It offers transportation, nutritional food, medication management and 24-hour skilled nursing care services. The Williams Home also organizes various cultural, social and recreational activities. The agency provides personal laundry, weekly housekeeping and linen services. In addition, it operates an Assisted Living facility that occupies more than 6,000 square feet of space. The facility features a reception area, nurses' station and treatment room.

Lynchburg Sheltered Industries, also know as LSI, is a private, nonprofit organization. Located in Lynchburg, Va., the organization offers various subcontracting, assembly and corrugated packaging services. Its corrugated division manufactures a range of products, such as slotted cartons, specialty liners, file storage boxes, trays, partitions, pads and dividers. The company also offers several training programs. Additionally, the company organizes various official events and fun parties. Its Web site features contact details and provides links to other related resources. Lynchburg Sheltered Industries is approved by the Commission on Accreditation of Facilities.

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts opened in 1971 and operated for five years in the Charlottesville area, first at Wavertree Farm and then at the Prospect Hill estate. Begun by writers Elizabeth Coles Langhorne and Nancy Hale, it counted among its original board members the novelist Peter Taylor and the former director of the MacDowell Colony, George Kendall. In the summers of 1976 and 1977, the VCCA held limited sessions on the campus of Sweet Briar College, a vibrant liberal arts women's college founded in 1901. In the fall of 1977, Sweet Briar agreed to lease the buildings and the adjacent grounds of Mt. San Angelo to the VCCA. The original 25-year lease has now been extended to an automatically renewing 15-year lease. As the only artist community in the nation directly associated with an institution of higher learning, the VCCA benefits tremendously from this unique relationship. The College generously allows Fellows to use many of its facilities and services, including the libraries, computer labs, pool, exercise rooms and walking trails. Fellows may also attend campus events such as lectures, plays and concerts. In return, VCCA Fellows periodically visit with students on campus, giving lectures or informal talks, and faculty members bring students to Mt. San Angelo for studio tours. The two institutions also formally collaborate on several mutually beneficial programs that bring writers, visual artists and composers to the VCCA and Sweet Briar and also offer opportunities to faculty and students. Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 154 San Angelo Drive, VA 24521 Amherst P. 434-946-7236 vcca@vcca.com