His Christmas " WRVA Salvation Army Shoe Fund " provided thousands of shoes annually for needy children, and although Aaroe died of cancer in 1993, the program he headed has continued.

Established in 1925, and one of Virginia's older and more powerful AM radio stations, from its base of operations near the Virginia State Capitol, for much of its history, WRVA billed itself as the " Voice of Virginia.

WRVA was especially well known for its 24 hour broadcasts on a clear channel frequency with 50, 000 watts of signal strength, intended to reach rural areas.

In the early 1990s, WRVA turned over its traffic reporting functions to Metro Traffic but in 2002 began doing its own reports again when the Clear Channel Richmond formed its " Total Traffic " division with local personality Scott Stevens in charge.

On November 8, 2006, it was mentioned in a Style Weekly article that WRVA had laid off several staff members and was in the process of completely restructuring its Newsroom environment.

Jefferson Standard-owned WBT-AM and Larus-owned WRVA both covered much of the eastern half of North America at night.

Although three-letter call signs were still available when the station was started, " WRVA " was chosen since RVA was short for Richmond, VA. WRVA AM 1140 kHz was launched at 9: 00 p. m. on November 2, 1925.

In 1961, the " western " transmitter, as it came to be affectionately known by the WRVA staff, was replaced with a RCA BTA-50H Ampliphase after serving for more than 30 years but was kept as a back-up transmitter.

Not only did Total Traffic do reports for WRVA, it also does reports for the other stations in the Clear Channel Richmond Group, and just recently started feeding traffic reports to other cities outside Richmond as well.

Alden Peterson Aaroe ( May 5, 1918 – July 7, 1993 ) was a popular longtime broadcast journalist and announcer for WRVA, a radio station in Richmond, Virginia.

Aaroe worked for more than 40 years at WRVA, an AM radio station known as the " 50, 000 watt Voice of Virginia ".

In 1925, WRVA radio, owned by Larus and Brother tobacco company, went on the air, broadcasting from a studio located in a corner of their House of Edgeworth warehouse, with a tower mounted on the roof of the building.

His funeral was held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, located across the street from the site of the former WRVA studio where Aaroe first served.

After listening to WRVA from an early age, he pursued his interest in radio by earning his commercial operator's license at age 17.

The early WRVA facilities were a small studio in a corner of a warehouse on Richmond's Tobacco Row and a tower mounted on the roof of the building.

After simulcasting with WRVA during the early years of FM radio, in the 1970s, WRVA-FM became WRVQ, and was one of Richmond's first FM stations to switch to a top-40 rock music format.

By 1930, WRVA was on-the-air 7 days a week, 24 hours daily, with broadcasting power increased to 50, 000 watts.

In 1974, the WRVA traffic helicopter lost a tail rotor at a low altitude and crashed into a house on West 31st street in South Richmond, killing WRVA reporter Howard Bloom, the pilot, and a small child eating dinner with his family.

Since WXEX was already affiliated with NBC, WRVA was left with struggling ABC.

The Shoe Fund, now called the WRVA / Salvation Army Alden Aaroe Shoe Fund, still provides approximately 2, 500 children with new shoes each year.

It is a cul-de-sac with a small park adjacent to the former WRVA studios and it overlooks Shockoe Bottom and the Virginia State Capitol on Capitol Hill.

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The group has more than 23, 000 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

The bill currently has 225 co-sponsors.

The Minsk Group is currently co-chaired by Russia, France, and the United States and has representation from Turkey, the U. S., several European nations, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

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In fact, no attempt to show a relationship with Ainu to any other language has gained wide acceptance, and Ainu is currently considered to be a language isolate.

An extant copy of this work, currently manuscript Cotton Vitellus E xii, has been identified as a copy owned by Ealdred.

The stadium currently has a capacity of 17, 023.

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The city and state parliament is the House of Representatives ( Abgeordnetenhaus ), which currently has 141 seats.

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

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BSI Group currently has over 27, 000 active standards.

The theory asserts that all currently living organisms on Earth share a common genetic heritage with each being the descendant from a single original species, though the suggestion of substantial horizontal gene transfer during early evolution has led to questions about monophyly of life.

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Cameroon has a dispute with Equatorial Guinea over the exclusive maritime economic zone, which is currently before the ICJ.

Since 1991, Croatia's death rate has continuously exceeded its birth rate ; the natural growth rate of the population is currently negative.

The Croatian parliament has passed a law that no bus should be older than 12 years-however, this decision is currently frozen because of the high cost for bus operators.

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