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Abingdon Ruritan Club

Fellowship – Goodwill – Community Service

WELCOME to Abingdon Ruritan Club’s website. Throughout our web site, you will see some of the things our club is planning and some of the things we have already done. You may click on the various tabs to get more information about specific things such as facility rentals, seafood festivals, scholarships, community service committees, etc. We hope you will visit this site often to see what we have done and what we are doing to serve our community.

Banquet Room Rental

Banquet Rental

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Seafood Festival

festival Grounds

Festival Grounds Rental

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Seafood Festival
May 20, 2026

Our Seafood Festivals are held twice yearly on the third Wednesday of May and on the third Wednesday of October.   Festival hours are from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m.  Gates open at 2:00 p.m. but no food or beverages is served until after the playing of our national anthem at 3:00. (Ruritans love citizenship and patriotism!) Location of the festivals is on our Festival Grounds behind our club building at 8784 Guinea Road, Bena, Virginia

Banquet Room Rental

Have a wedding or reception to plan? Company function to prepare for?

Our banquet room can accommodate large groups,  up to 466 for meetings or 350 for dances.

Banquet Room Rental

Festival Grounds Rental

Come hold your family reunion, company party or special event on our festival grounds.  For more information about renting the festival grounds, please contact the club office at 804-642-9021.

Latest News and Events

Antonio Donald
President
David Bowles
Vice President
Dianne Woolley
Secretary
Ann Dugas
Treasurer

What is a Ruritan?

Ruritan’s purpose is to create a better understanding among people and through volunteer community service, make America’s communities better places in which to live and work. The slogan of Ruritan is “Fellowship, Goodwill and Community Service.” Club membership represents a cross-section of the community in which the club serves, and is not restrictive with regard to occupation, social position, or any other specific criteria.

Ruritan National has nearly 25,000 members throughout the United States, that work to improve more than 900 local communities. Since the organization’s beginning in 1928, Ruritan Clubs have served America with Fellowship, Goodwill, and Community Service. Ruritan is a civic service organization made up of local clubs in urban areas, small towns and rural communities.

ABOUT RURITAN

Ruritan National Vision Statement:
To Create Thriving Communities Across America.

RURITAN NATIONAL PLEDGE

Ruritans pledge to support
Urban and
Rural communities
In
Times of stress
And
Need through Fellowship, Goodwill, and Community Service.


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