Floyd’s Senior Resource Fair
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 15, 2025 –
Floyd Senior Day, a resource fair highlighting resources and services available to the Floyd Community, was held at the Floyd Town Hall Community Room on Saturday 10 – 2pm. The event featured approximately 20 information tables and was hosted by FACT (Floyd Adult Conversation Team), a group initiated by Floyd’s Virginia Cooperative Extension to address some of the needs that seniors have in the county, to answer questions and make connections.
“We invited people who might be interested to meet and see where it would go from there,” said Dawn Barnes, the Extension’s Family Consumer Sciences Agent for Floyd and Montgomery Counties. She said the FACT group consists of representatives from churches, other agencies and individuals.
Barnes noted that the mission of the Cooperative Extension is education that meets the needs of the community. Three program areas of the Extension are Family and Consumer Sciences, Agriculture and Natural Resources, and 4-H Youth Development.
“We do food safety, surf safe, canning workshops and financial planning,” Barnes said. Other recent Extension presentations and workshops have included backyard poultry processing, diabetes prevention and tree grafting.
Attendees filtered through the fair throughout the day, engaging in conversation and picking up brochures and free promotional items from tables, which included information on health care, legal services, community safety, wellness, senior living options and more. Door prizes were part of the day’s events. Soup, sandwiches and cookies were available as refreshments.
Photos: 1. Floyd Virginia Cooperative’s Extension agent Dawn Barnes (center) calls out door prize numbers. 2. About twenty tables highlighting resources filled the Town Hall Community Room. 3. An Attendee shares her contact at the Be Well Now VA information table. Located at the Floyd EcoVillage, Be Well Now is a wellness clinic that provides psychotherapy, professional development workshops and restorative retreats. 4. Warm Hearth Village in Blacksburg had two information tables, one for home health and home care services and one highlighting their senior living options. 5. A tri-fold display board at the fair listed Floyd’s Department of Social Services programs. 6. Attendee checks in with Barnes and receives an event tote.
May 18th, 2025 10:49 pm
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