By Anna L. Mallory anna.mallory@roanoke.com 381-8627 D-i-i-ing! "What's making that sound?" kindergartner Trevor Young timidly asked his new teacher Wednesday morning at Auburn Elementary School. "That's the school bell. It means school has started!" his teacher, Anna Young, responded gleefully.

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By Donna Alvis-Banks donna.banks@roanoke.com 381-1661 BLACKSBURG -- Amy Forsyth-Stephens' annual operating budget was $32,500 when she became executive director of the Mental Health Association of the New River Valley back in 1993. Now that budget has grown to about $800,000.

By Donna Alvis-Banks, The Roanoke Times, Va. Mar. 29--DONNA BANKS The Roanoke Times Bob Hendrickson (left) and Patrick Halpern attend the going-away party for Amy Forsyth-Stephens (middle), who recently was named chief development officer of American Health Initiative.

By Lindsay Key, The Roanoke Times, Va. Nov. 27--CHRISTIANSBURG -- Imagine this: Spot is barking at 2 a.m., so his owner lets him out to relieve himself. But Spot darts across the yard and in front of a pair of headlights.