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THE SMITHFIELD TIMES
SERVING ISLE OF WIGHT AND SURRY COUNTIES SINCE 1920
Volume 94 Number 16
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
THIS WEEK’S SAVINGS
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Smithfield, Va. 23431
50 cents
WINE AND BREW
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“
Balmy weather contributed to a
successful second annual
Wine and Brew Fest Saturday.
I’m surprised there’s no attention
being paid to that.
”
— Carrsville Supervisor Rex Alphin
On the county’s debt burden, p. 1
— See page 11
$4,089: What each of us owes
Isle of Wight indebtedness grew 175% in a decade
By Diana McFarland
News editor
The amount of debt carried by
Isle of Wight shot up 175 percent
in the last decade, according to
the county’s financial advisors.
At the same time, the county
may have violated its own financial policy when it comes to the
maximum amount of debt it
planned to burden taxpayers
with.
At the end of fiscal 2012 (last
June 30) the county had committed itself to $4,089 debt for every
county resident, according to the
Virginia Comparative Report of
Local Government Revenues and
Expenditures. The average per
capita debt for Virginia counties
at that time was $2,757. The
county’s per capita debt ranks
8th among Virginia counties.
While the debt was piling up,
the county’s policy had been not
to exceed $2,300 per person.
“We have exceeded that and
I’m surprised there’s no attention
being paid to that,” said
Carrsville Supervisor Rex
Alphin, who has spoken out repeatedly about the county’s rising amount of debt.
If it’s true, then the county has
been in violation for quite awhile.
The issue hasn’t been raised and
it’s not known if it’s a concern
yet,” said Isle of Wight County
spokesman Don Robertson, adding that the policy isn’t clear
what the time frame for the per
Graph shows the growth of per capita debt in Isle of Wight (the red line) and the growth of capita amount is for.
the average per capital debt in counties across Virginia during the same 10-year period.
As of this year, Isle of Wight
In 2005, Isle of Wight debt
retirement was 2 percent of
the local revenue collected.
This year, it will be 14
percent, based on the
preliminary budget.
has about $145 million in outstanding debt and plans to borrow another $8.7 million in 2015,
according to its financial advisors.
As the Board of Supervisors
begins working on the fiscal 2014
operating budget, it must budget
for debt service payments of $7.4
million — or nearly 14 percent of
the local revenues — before it can
begin to talk about expenses.
That amount may also violate
a long-standing county policy
• See DEBT, p. 7
Some tax hike coming — maybe
mixed on how much of a tax increase may be necessary.
The issue came up at the end
None of the five members of
the Isle of Wight Board of Super- of the Board’s first work session
visors will accept the 10-cent real Monday on the proposed fiscal
estate tax hike proposed by 2014 operating budget.
The current tax rate is 65 cents
county staff to balance the fiscal
per $100 in assessed value — and
2014 budget.
However, reactions were is one of the lowest in the region.
By Diana McFarland
News editor
Smithfield Supervisor Al
Casteen wants to take a hard look
at revenues and expenditures before dealing with a tax rate increase.
“If we have to raise it at all,
raise it as little as possible,” he
said, adding that he’s disappointed that the Isle of Wight
School Board ignored the Supervisors’ request for a 5 percent reduction in the budget.
The School Board recently approved its fiscal 2014 budget that
called for 18 percent more from
the county than last year.
Carrsville Supervisor Rex
Alphin acknowledged that the
county remains in a financial
hole from last year, but the
thought of raising taxes 10 cents,
plus adding a proposed $72
stormwater fee, is “distasteful to
me.”
That’s a 20 percent hike in the
• See TAXES,, p. 8
Historic homes are on tour
Smithfield,
St. Luke’s
featured
By Diana McFarland
News editor
If you’ve ever wanted a
closer look at some of
Smithfield’s most historic
and stately homes, this Saturday is the time to do it.
Smithfield has joined
with more than 40 other localities to celebrate
Virginia’s Historic Garden
Week with “Simply Souther n” — a look at six
Hamtown homes and gardens.
The tour includes the
Sinclair-Hines and the
Mallory Todd House —
home of Smithfield’s first
ham maker.
The Sinclair-Hines House will be among the homes open Saturday.
The tour begins at 10
a.m., Saturday, April 20.
Smithfield’s “Simply
Southern” also includes a
chance for residents to
lear n about improving
their own yards and gardens.
Lisa Ziegler of The
WHEN THE POWER
GOES OUT...
Relax,
you planned for it.
Gardener’s Workshop in
Newport News will speak
on the benefits of going organic at Historic St. Luke’s
Church.
A well-known speaker
and author, Ziegler will offer a talk at 11 a.m. at the
church, followed by a book
and seed sale from 11:30
a.m. to 2 p.m. The church is
also offering boxwoods for
sale all day.
Other activities that day
include an orchid sale and
presentations,
the
• See TOUR, p. 7
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FORUM
-- Murray Gurfein
U.S. district judge, 1971
(These weekly quotes compiled by The Freedom Forum)
Page 2 - Wed., April 17, 2013
Our Forum
Fees are today’s
favored revenue
Here a fee, there a fee …
In this anti-tax age, elected officials are always
looking for political cover as they try to match
public revenue with public expenses. The answer,
all too often, is to tack on a “fee” for this or that
expense. Some are legitimate “user” fees. Others
are simply efforts to find that cover.
Two fees have been proposed during Isle of
Wight’s current budget cycle. One falls clearly in
the political cover category. The other is more
faithful to the “user” concept. One should die without a whimper. The other needs more careful consideration.
First, there is the “Student Protection Fee” proposed by the Isle of Wight Citizens Association
and the Carrollton Civic League. This so-called fee
amounts to a one-cent increase in the real estate
tax, levied on all real estate in the county, with the
proceeds to be used to place School Resource Officers (SROs) in every county school.
School protection is a public service, as is the
operation of a school. And if county residents
want deputies permanently assigned to each
school, then the county can fund that assignment
with taxes, just as it pays for teachers and principals.
The idea of a “fee” that’s paid by every landowner, rather than a simple tax increase of the
same magnitude, is ludicrous. It falls squarely in
the “political cover” column.
The second fee being proposed is a stormwater
utility fee. It lands more closely into the “user”
category.
Virginia has mandated that localities must administer stormwater runoff as a local function.
That means all permits, inspections and accounting for stormwater runoff will have to be managed
by counties and cities. Many localities are already
engaged in the work. Isle of Wight is preparing to
do so.
County staff has recommended a fee in this instance to try to match the program’s cost with land
uses that contribute to runoff into streams and
rivers. Using a single-family home as a unit of
measurement, the staff has calculated that, on
average, each home in the county has 2,050 square
feet of impervious area (roofs, driveways, etc.)
That number is considered an “Equivalent Residential Unit” by which everything else in the
county is measured. The square footage of a shopping center, for example, would equal many ERUs
and the fee paid would be that many times as great.
The county would set a fee per ERU — somewhere between $35 and $75 a year — and it would
be tacked onto real estate tax bills, depending on
the number of ERUs in that property.
By using a fee in this instance, county staff
members say owners of farm or woodland would
not be charged for open space, which does not contribute appreciably to stormwater runoff. That’s
true.
It is also true, though, that all land contributes
to runoff to some degree, and the fee now envisioned, if converted to a real estate tax increase,
would not be that onerous on farm and woodland.
Here’s why. An acre of cropland is valued for tax
purposes at $650 and woodland at $480. A two-cent
tax increase, which would generate the money
now being considered for stormwater management, would add 10-13 cents an acre or about $60
for a 500-acre farm. The cost for a $400,000 home
and lot would be about $80.
A downside to the utility fee is that county real
estate taxes are deductible from state and federal
income taxes. Thus, depending on a family’s income, an $80 additional tax might cost only about
two thirds of that amount. A fee, on the other
hand, is not deductible and thus costs 100 percent
of what is charged by the county.
Another item: Fees compound the work required to collect taxes. In addition to calculating
and charging the fees, they have to be collected.
And that can be more problematic than real estate taxes.
And finally, everyone needs to keep in mind that
the stormwater management program, once in
place, will grow. The fee — or its share of the
county’s real estate tax — will grow with it. Choose
your poison.
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Remember bare
telephone wires and
the glass insulators
to which they were
tied? They were still
around, but
disappearing rapidly
in the 1970’s when
this photograph was
shot on Hwy. 10 south
of Smithfield. The
lineman was removing
the wires and cross
ties on which they
were strung. Some
years later, the poles
disappeared as well
when lines were run
underground.
Reader Forum
What don’t they
understand?
and has no sense of
reality. To have fought for
a level budget versus last
year’s,
Editor, Smithfield Times
I might have underI have listened to the
stood, but this budget
rhetoric for months
request is ridiculous. She
concerning the Isle of
is attempting to play
Wight County School
politics with the county’s
budget. I have also
money.
listened to the Isle of
C. In the past several
Wight Board of Superviyears, I have read and
sors, which is finding it
listened to Herb’s various
difficult to fund the
comments: this article
Having read “Our
School Budget, not
really takes the cake and
forum,” Kara Hearn “This
because they don’t want to
the ice cream. Lecturing
is leadership?” and our
but because the County is
the supervisors on their
Editor, Smithfield Times beloved School Board
not only broke and is
responsibilities by a
First, it was red light
member Herb DeGroft’s
having a serious problem
school board member who
cameras. Now, it’s drones. “Budget is reasonable,” I
paying the bills left from
wants everything without
Next,
there
will
be
have a few comments to
the overspending of the
any constraints is like the
cameras in our backyards. make:
last Board.
little kid with the ball that
A. We elected the
To Mrs. Perera and the Sooner or later, one of
says if he cannot have it
those anti-government
current supervisors to
School Board I have a
his way, he take his ball
types will be relaxing in a hold down the spending
simple question. “What
and go home. Well, Herb,
part of ‘we don’t have any lawn chair and try to take and no tax increases. To
is it time for you to go
a nap without a permit
date they are doing a good
money’ don’t you underhome?
(camping out).
job of rebuilding the
stand?” Even the broke
D. I am not trying to
Eventually, there will
county financial soundFederal Government is
make the case for the
be cameras in our houses. ness that the previous
going through a “sequessupervisors’ position. I do
This reminds me of a
board destroyed.
tration.” Are you waiting
agree with the majority of
B. The superintendent
for sequestration to set in scene in Congo where
them. I really don’t think
Herkermer Homolka
should read carefully
here in Isle of Wight
we should have a real
interpreted those hieroKara Hearn’s letter in this
County? We have cities
estate tax increase. We
glyphics which read, “We
week’s Smithfield Times.
going bankrupt all over
need to share what we
Apparently she and the
the Country. Be damned if are watching you.”
have and each of us suffer
Jim P. McAdaragh entire school board seem
I want it to happen in Isle
a little.
Ivor to have forgotten A. above.
of Wight County.
Ray Baxter
I assume the letter by
Now take a flat budget
Windsor
Kara is factually correct.
and be glad that it was not
This being the case, the
cut by 5 percent.
superintendent appears to
Franklin E Hall
• See LETTERS, p. 3
be reaching for the sky
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No sense
of reality?
Historic Garden Week in Virginia
“No occupation is so delightful to me as the
culture of the
earth, and no culture comparable
to that of the garden.”
Thomas
Jefferson
IN
NT
THE
HE
in
gardens
Smithfield.
Statewide, the
event that each
year draws national attention, is
sponsored by the
Garden Clubs of
Virginia. Each of
Edwards
them tries to have
its own tour and this year, the
Nansemond River Garden Club chose
Smithfield as the stage for its event.
The one-day tour takes place this
Saturday.
Smithfield has many civic and social opportunities, but a local affili-
SHORT
SHORT
ROWS
By John
Polish the silver, Smithfield.
Company’s coming.
One of Virginia’s longest running spring events, Historic Garden Week — now in its 80th year
— includes a tour of homes and
ated Garden Club is not one of
them. That’s OK. The members of
the Nansemond River Garden
Club include many local people,
and the club doesn’t neglect
Smithfield, as it is proving with
this tour.
Featured on the Smithfield
Tour are six of the town’s most
notable homes and accompanying
gardens: The Berryman Mansion,
the Sinclair-Hines House, the Old
Library, the Wentworth-Barrett
House, Mansion on Main and the
Todd House.
• See ROWS, p. 3
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Letters
• Continued from p. 2
Doesn’t
believe Tech
Regarding your article
in the April 10 issue of the
Smithfield Times: State
asks Va. Supreme Court to
reverse negligence finding
(in the death of two
students who were slain
in the April 2007 massacre
on the Virginia Tech
campus).
When our son started
classes in the fall of 2006,
Virginia Tech canceled
classes due to a murder at
Montgomery Regional
Hospital and subsequent
shooting and murder on
the Huckleberry Trail.
Both locations were off
campus, the hospital
miles from campus. The
murderer was loose and
could have been on
campus, so I assume “in
the name of safety,”
classes were canceled and
students were warned to
be vigilant.
Fast forward eight
months to the next
murder ON CAMPUS; in a
dormitory for God’s sake!
Why wasn’t the same
cancellation/closure/
warning issued to students and teachers that
was issued when death
had occurred miles away
from campus at the
hospital? I will never
believe there were not
ulterior motives any more
than I will ever believe
Penn State acted appropriately in the handling of
the child abuse issues.
Rows
Many of these houses
have been on house tours
before, but it’s been decades since some of them
were opened to the public.
And during those years,
several have been extensively restored.
The Todd House, for example, was owned by a series of history lovers who
tried unsuccessfully to save
the house from which
Mallory Todd launched
what would become the
world famous Smithfield
Ham. Local businessman
Vincent Carollo succeeded
where others had failed
and the house has now
been restored to its early
grandeur.
The Sinclair House was
home to swashbuckling
Captain John Sinclair,
whose efforts to outfit a privateer in the early days of
the Republic brought the
wrath of the Federal government down on the town
and created a legend that
has survived the two centuries since.
The Wentworth-Barrett
House was another that
time had threatened until
the Barrett family rescued
it from an almost certain
demise.
Mansion on Main was
built by prominent lawyer
and historian Richard S.
Thomas. Like a number of
the town’s Victorian
houses, it was built on the
site of a much earlier
house, which was tor n
down to make way for it.
The house is today a bed
and breakfast.
The Berryman Mansion
is a Colonial Revival house
with Victorian influences.
It overlooks the Pagan
River, with an English garden, informal landscaping
and an eye-popping Victorian gazebo.
The Old Library was
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The Smithfield Times - Wed., April 17, 2013 - Page 3
Christian religion.” So
Sandy Schlaudecker Sabbath was made for
wrote George Washington.
Blacksburg man, and not man for the
Denise Haynes
Sabbath (Mark 2:27).” So
Smithfield
then, what does matter?
The answer is simple:
Love. Love is the supreme
commandment. “There is
Editor, Smithfield Times none other commandment
A letter in last week’s
greater (Mark 12:31).” “By
paper cited the Bible’s
this shall all men know
This spring, cicadas
prohibition on homosexu- that ye are my disciples, if
ality and stated that “the
will emerge along the East
ye have love one to
Coast after 17 years
time is urgent that we
another (John 13:35).”
honor His word.” One
underground. These
We’re free to follow or
friendly bugs are causing
quote was from Leviticus, ignore this wise council
which contains many
a lot of buzz — and not
as we please. But we have
just because of the drumother interesting laws as
no right to try to stop
well. Chapters 1-6 lay out
like “love song” that male
others from expressing
cicadas make to attract
the rules for animal
their love as they see fit.
sacrifice. Chapter 7 tells
Stephen Warren females.
Cicadas are a boon to
us not to eat fat or blood.
Waverly
Chapter 11 gives a long
the local ecosystem.
list of animals that can
Cicada nymphs construct
and can’t be eaten.
chimney-like tunnels as
Further along, we learn
they emerge, naturally
that piercings and tattoos
aerating the soil even
are forbidden (19:28); No
better than earthworms
Editor, Smithfield Times do. The tunnels remain,
bald heads allowed (21:5);
Regarding last week’s
Must live seven days in a
allowing more water to
letter entitled “The Bible
reach trees’ roots.
booth (23:42); Blasphemand Gays,” I would like to
ers are to be stoned to
Female cicadas dig tiny
death (24:14). The list goes remind the letter writer
trenches in young tree
that this country is home
on and on.
branches and lay their
to many religions and not eggs inside. This natural
Is it “urgent that we
all of them refer to the
honor” all these laws? Or
form of pruning results in
Christian Bible. What
is urgency reserved for
trees producing more
may be expressed in the
the laws that suit our
fruit, blossoms, or acorns
fancy, while we ignore the Christian Bible may not
the next year.
be the same sentiments
Homeowners who are
rest? If the latter is the
expressed in other
concerned can protect
case then, as the letter
said, “the Lord has a word religious texts, so we
young hardwood trees or
cannot make laws based
in the scripture on His
fruit trees that are less
on one book alone. This is than five feet tall by
position regarding” this.
why there is a separation
The word is hypocrisy.
wrapping branches with
of church and state. In
(See Matthew, chapters 7
pond netting or spunpolyaddition, many people do
and 23.)
olefin.
not believe in a God at all.
Cherry picking aside,
Adult cicadas consume
Jesus made clear, over and If someone is doing
liquid from trees, so they
over again, that law is not something ‘morally’
are no threat to vegetable
wrong, that must be for
what ultimately matters
and flower gardens. After
them and their ‘god’ to
in life. He openly mocked
a month, cicadas die and
work out. It is not our job
the Sabbath, and when
their bodies become a
to morally judge them.
questioned said, “The
nitrogen- and potassiumAs far as wishing death rich fertilizer. We can
on someone that merely
protect our animal
chooses to love another
companions from eating
person, I have no words. I
cicadas by keeping cats
would rather save that
indoors and taking dogs
energy for someone that
for leashed walks —
built in 1892 and has under- has callously murdered
which we should always
gone several renovations. people in cold blood.
do anyway for their safety.
The house includes a lovely
“The government of
Jodi Minion
garden and extensive land- the United States is not, in
Wildlife Biologist
scaping.
any sense, founded on the
PETA
Historic St. Luke’s
Church is also included in
the tour, but no ticket is
needed. Historic St. Luke’s
Restoration will host a program on organic garden in
the church at 11 a.m. Saturday.
St. Luke’s is a good example of why Historic Garden Week is an asset to Virginia. The proceeds from
each year’s tour go toward
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Tickets for Saturday’s
tour can be purchased at
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and at the St. Luke’s gift
shop. Tickets for the tour
are $35 for adults and $17
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Flowering baskets
will adorn some
lamp posts
By Abby Proch
Staff writers
Hanging flower baskets
will soon adorn some Main
Street lamp posts thanks to
an effort by Smithfield
2020.
Smithfield Town Council approved the group’s
flower basket pilot program recently.
Two or three posts will
be outfitted with a flower
basket or rack.
One will be placed between The Christmas Store
and the Smithfield Inn, another will go in front of the
visitors center and another
will likely be added near
113 N. Church St., pending
Dominion Power approval.
Smithfield 2020 representative Mark Hall said
these locations have been
selected for the trial run,
but if things go well, they
could expand the program
to more lampposts along
the street.
Lori
Welch
of
Gardenscapes
of
Smithfield will install the
plants, Hall said, but the
town’s obligation would be
to install the fixtures.
There would be no other
financial obligations to the
town, he said.
Hall hopes the flowers
will compliment the private gardens around town
and build upon to beautification achieved for the
“America in Bloom” contest.
“We want it to look
Busch Gardens-great,” Hall
said.
The pilot program will
last a year, and the Town
Council will have the decision to whether to expand
the program thereafter.
To cover future costs
and maintenance, Hall suggested the town seek sponsors or share the expenses
with a partner and ask volunteers to water the plants.
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LIFESTYLES
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Western Tidewater
MASTER GARDENER
An old-time favorite that graces many gardens
throughout our area is the lovely lilac. Often not appreciated due to its brief bloom period, the lilac has become
a varied species that offers a visual treat with an endless choice of colors.
The Chinese lilac, Syringa xchinensis, has leaves half
the size of S. vulgaris with looser flowers. This shrub, a
hybrid discovered in France, is without the range of colors of the common lilac and matures to about 10 feet tall
and eight feet wide. This plant makes a great screen if
planted in quantity.
The little leaf lilac, S. pubescens subsp. microphylla
‘Superba,’ is a late bloomer and grows wider than tall.
The flowers are a vivid red-violet, fading to pale pink. Its
fragrance is powerful and fortunately not bothered by
mildew as are some varieties. Late in August, a re-bloom
often brings a surprise and is appreciated by grateful butterflies.
A popular small leaf lilac is the dwarf Korean lilac,
“showing off ” with tiny dark green leaves and topping
out at five feet, which can be kept at three feet with proper
pruning. A profusion of small mauve-purple trusses
emitting a vibrant fragrance. The foliage turns to russet
hues and makes a remarkable addition to the fall garden. For a flower border this lilac works well with lavender-colored iris, usually blooming at the same time.
A June bloomer is S. pubescens subsp. patula ‘Miss
Kim’ and grows to a graceful 6 feet with healthy foliage
that turns coppery bronze in autumn. Miss Kim is the
last lilac to bloom, it’s purple buds open to pale blue flowers. For at least two weeks a heady fragrance can be enjoyed and will be missed after the bloom finale.
Many lilac lovers recall our grandmothers’ lovely gardens sprinkled with colorful lilacs, which are now
thought of a the “common lilac.” Colors ranging from
white to pink, wine red and pale to the deepest purples.
They love a sunny spot and flourish through the years
with very little attention. They are part of our heritage,
so please, grow both the old fashioned lilac for it’s outstanding blooms and the novel species for their value as
handsome shrubs in the garden.
Deadhead to improve the looks of your shrubs, though
they will bloom again next year regardless. Lilac flowers on old wood forming flower buds during the summer.
Prune right after flowers fade and before new buds form.
Older large shrubs can be pruned hard in winter when
they are dormant. This will eliminate crowding and help
prevent mildew. Do not remove more than one-third of
the plant in one year. Remove the top branches, then saw
off the main stems one to two feet above the ground. Feed
and mulch well in spring. Thin the re-growth in the following winter leaving two or three shoots per stump.
Gwen Holt
The Smithfield Times - Wed., April 17, 2013
Surry schools in state
‘Showcase’ directory
SURRY — Surry County
schools were recently featured in the Virginia
School Board Association’s
annual “Showcase for Success” directory.
The directory highlights
successful K-12 programs
in Virginia’s public
schools.
Surry County has two
programs featured in the
VSBA Showcases for Success: the Response to Intervention (RTI) support program and a technology app
challenge project titled,
“Staying Fresh.”
Surry’s Response to Intervention program is a
multi-tiered, safety-net approach to addressing needs
of all students, from gifted
students through those
who are struggling. It is a
data-infor med program
that works as a cooperative
effort with individuals who
have specific knowledge of
a student’s needs, such as
parents, teachers, administrators, school nurses or
social workers. This knowledge, along with data generated from benchmark exams, grades and previous
SOL results, is used as a
guide for intervention activities.
These interventions are
centered on the student,
and will allow the student
to gain skills that are necessary to expand their educational experience, enrich
their personal interests or
simply remediate areas in
which they need to
strengthen their knowledge.
The “Staying Fresh”
project was developed by
Surry County High School
Technology Student Association (TSA) members enrolled in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
(STEM) classes. The
project was recently named
Best in State by the Verizon
Foundation App Challenge.
Technology students from
Surry designed a mobile
phone program, or “app,”
Dominion volunteer
that offers meal suggestions or recipes for leftover
ingredients. The objective
of the app is to reduce the
amount of food that is
thrown away by consumers. “Staying Fresh” was
selected as the top winner
out of 475 submissions
from the Commonwealth.
The full VSBA Showcases for Success directory
is available at www.vsba.
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Meals tax revenue is promising
same period last fiscal year at Green Mountain coming
(before the tax rate in- into town to eat lunch,”
An uptick in local meals crease).
Stallings said.
tax revenue has some govGreen Mountain opened
Windsor is on pace to
ernment officials thinking collect significantly more its doors in May 2012.
the local economy may be than the $206,461 it brought
Countywide, growth is
on the right track.
following
a similar path.
in during the 2011-12 fiscal
In Windsor, meals tax year.
In 2012, Isle of Wight colrevenues have risen 5 perlected $330,790 in meals tax
Town
Manager revenue — a 4.3 percent incent over last year. The rate
of increase takes into con- Michaels Stallings contrib- crease over the prior year,
sideration the 25 percent utes the increase, in part, to said Commissioner of Revtax increase the town im- the one-cent tax increase enue Gerald Gwaltney.
(the town collects 5 cents on
posed in July 2012.
In 2011, the county colFrom July 2012 through every dollar) but also to bet- lected $317,019.
the end of February 2013, ter business.
The county tracks its
Windsor collected $204,784
“I have to assume that revenue on a calendar year,
in meals tax compared with some of the increase is due unlike the towns, which fol$155,859 collected in the to people who are working low the fiscal year. The
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
county’s food and beverage
tax is 4 cents on every dollar.
“I believe the economy
in general is getting better
which results in stronger
consumer confidence,”
Gwaltney said.
The
town
of
Smithfield’s tune is slightly
less optimistic.
Smithfield has collected
$866,889 to date for fiscal
year 2013.
During the same period
in fiscal year 2012, the town
collected $729,980. While
that sounds like a large in-
crease, it actually represents a modest decline in
sales because the tax rate
increased from 4 to 5 cents
between those two periods.
Adjusting for the tax increase, 2013 is down about
1 percent from the year
prior — about $9,000.
Some restaurants that
pay on a quarterly basis
also posted their first quarter payments of fiscal year
2013 at the 5 cent, not the 6
cent, tax rate, said Minga.
The town implemented
the one-cent tax hike to
help generate about
$190,000 more in funding
for Phase II of the Pinewood Heights project.
The increase now gives
two cents on every dollar to
the project.
The
closing
of
McDonald’s from December to the end of March had
some people wondering if
meals tax revenues would
see a drop.
“[W]e do not appear to
have suffered from the closing of McDonalds,” said
Minga. “The numbers suggest that other establishments in the town have
picked up the difference.”
No community garden at Castle Park
Funds may be used
for other projects
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
A lack of funding stalled
the community garden
project slated for Windsor
Castle Park.
The garden was to be
paid for with town funds,
contributions from the
Windsor Castle Park Foundation Board and an Obici
Healthcare Foundation
grant
secured
by
Smithfield On the Move.
According to a town report, $7,000 of the $25,000
Obici grant was set for the
community garden. None
of that has been spent, said
Smithfield on the Move organizer and community
garden consultant Gina
Ippolito.
The town had also
agreed to contribute $10,000
to the project, which included consultant pay, adding water access to the site
and providing use of town
equipment. Town Manager
Peter Stephenson did not
say whether the town will
use the money for another
project.
The Windsor Castle
Park Foundation Board
was expected to contribute
$5,000.
The park foundation
board decided to defer the
project so it can focus on
other priorities, including
the proposed natural playground, according to
Stephenson.
The garden would have
included 20 plots, with five
dedicated to civic or community organizations, and
been built by volunteer labor.
Some Windsor Castle
Park Foundation Board
members were skeptical of
the need for a garden because Smithfield lies in a
rural county where many
residents have their own
gardens or have ready access to fresh produce.
The community garden
project elicited interest
from seven people, according to a town report.
The idea for a community garden had no takers
in 2011, but was resurrected by Smithfield on the
Move last summer.
Because the garden
plans have been tabled,
Obici grant funds must be
A concept drawing for the community garden that had been envisioned at Windsor Castle Park.
redirected to another
Obici-approved health program, such as the healthy
restaurant program.
If the funds are not reallocated, the money must
be returned.
Ippolito said the group
will go “back to the drawing board” in deciding
No power
rate hike
RICHMOND (AP) — Dominion Virginia Power
says it’s not asking state
regulators to increase its
base rates for its customers
for at least two years.
Neighbours honored
At a recent meeting of Purdie Lodge #170
A.F. and A.M. in Windsor, Worship Marion C.
Neighbours (center) was awarded his 50-year
veterans emblem and certificate. Brother
Neighbours served as worshipful master of
the Lodge in 1967. Right Worshipful Harry
Hartman, left, and District Deputy Grand
Master of the 31st Masonic District and
Worshipful Russell Dundow, right, worshipful
master, made the presentation.
The Richmond-based
electric utility proposed
holding the rate as part of
a filing with the State Corporation Commission
Dominion may still seek
increases for the cost of
fuel, constructing new
plants or environmental
compliance.
Regulators must rule on
Dominion’s filing by the
end of November. Dominion is the state’s largest
electric company with
about 2.3 million customers.
what project to fund.
The grant also included
paying $10,000 for a consultant to plan the garden as
well as the restaurant
health programs and the
food stamps program at the
Farmers Market.
According
to
a
Smithfield on the Move
plan of action, 170 of the
consultant’s 400 hours,
worth $4,250, were to be
spent on the garden.
Stephenson said he expects town council to make
an informal decision sometime by the end of this
month.
The grant expires on
Oct. 31.
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Windsor. More than 70
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turns navigating
around three barrels
for the fastest times.
Diamonds in the Rough
sold concessions to
benefit its equine
rescue efforts. The
next events are June
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Pastor Appreciation Day at Brown’s
Brown’s AME
Pastor Appreciation
Day is Sunday, April 21, 2
p.m. Guest speaker is Rev.
Melvin Lyttle.
Mt. Zion
Prayer Breakfast is
April 20, 9 a.m.– noon, 113
Hill Street Smithfield
Union Lodge Building #18.
Speaker: Sister Marsha C.
Brown, Wakefield Christian Outreach Center. Experience a Day of Great
Praise is April 28, 2 p.m.
Praise, worship, praise
dancing, miming, choirs,
solos and ministry of com-
edy.
Campbell’s Chapel
Annual Women’s Day is
Sunday, April 21, 11 a.m.
Guest speaker Rev. Lucy
Robertson of First Gravel
Hill Baptist Church,
Rushmere. Theme: Christian Women Transforming
into God’s Purpose. Family
and Friends Day is Sunday,
April 21, 2 p.m. Guests are
Rev. James Rich and Rising
Star Baptist Church,
Smithfield.
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OBITUARIES
Obituaries are posted as received, complete with
visitation and funeral dates/times at:
www.smithfieldtimes.com
Ralph W. Oliver Jr.
Ralph Warren Oliver Jr.,
loving husband, father,
grandfather, brother, friend
and more was born on Feb.
2, 1944 and passed away on
April 14, 2013. He was a
third generation farmer in
Isle of Wight County, an
avid hunter, founder of
Oliver Hunt Club, and dependable truck driver. He
passed quietly at home surrounded by his immediate
loved ones.
Ralph is survived by his
loyal wife of 46 years,
Marilyn B. Oliver; three
children, daughter, Kim
Johnston (Steve), daughter,
Michelle Jones (Ronnie);
and son, Warren Oliver
(Ashley); seven grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; three sisters, Martha
Lou, Linda, and Judy; a
“second” son, J.V. Oliver;
and a host of other family
and friends.
A celebration of life service will be held Wednesday, April 17, 2 p.m. at
Whiteheads Grove Baptist
Church with the Rev.
Tommy Reynolds and the
Junious A. Wilkerson Rev. Terry Morrison offici(Peanie), 77, died March 30, ating. In lieu of flowers,
2013. He was the husband donations may be made to
of Gracie Wilkerson. Home Relay for Life of Isle of
going services were held Wight / Surry, Friends of
April 4, 1 p.m. at Smithfield Pat Team, c/o Pam Jordan,
Baptist
Church
in 18214 Far mview Lane,
Smithfield. Funeral ar- Windsor, VA 23487. Condorangements were by J.T. lences may be registered
Fisher Funeral Services, online at www.parrfuneral
Chesapeake, Va.
home.com.
Junious
Wilkerson
show is broadcast every
Saturday,
noon,
on
tytvonline.org. Be part of
the live studio audience for
the taping of the show Saturday, April 20, 10 a.m. Teen
Zone and Spades Tournament is Friday, April 19.
Morning worship service is every Sunday, 8:45
a.m. Family and Friends
Day is every third Sunday.
Info:
242-4151
or
www.gatministries.com.
First Gravel Hill
First Gravel Hill Baptist
Church presents “100
Women in Hats” on Saturday April 27, 5 p.m. Theme:
Maximizing the Mission of
Jesus
Christ.
Guest
speaker is Pamela Williams- Castellanos. For info,
call Yvette Grandson at 7457121.
Sweet Haven
Sweet Haven Holy
Church of God’s Annual
Men’s Prayer Breakfast is
Saturday, April 20, 8:30 a.m.
Elder Larry Gray, pastor of
Mt. Lebanon COGIC in Suffolk is the guest speaker.
Annual Men’s Mday is Sunday, April 21, 3 p.m. Elder
Stacey Porter, pastor of
Living Waters Tabernacle
in Hampton is the guest
speaker.
Union Bethel AME
Women’s Day Program
is Sunday, April 21, 11a.m.
with Rev. Queen Esther
Snell, associate minister of
Bethel AME Church in
Hampton.
Little Zion
Little Zion will have a
special Wednesday night
worship service tonight at
7 p.m. Guests are Pastor
Howard
Heard
and
Emmanuel Baptist Church
in Newport News. Info: 3574830.
Main Street Baptist
Annual Women’s Day
Celebration is Saturday,
April 27, 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
served at 9 a.m. $5 donation. Theme: Women’s
Health with Dr. Kimberly
Smith-Griffin,
Elder
Brenda McMillian, R.N.
and Seneca Bock, CEO,
Community
Capacity
Builders with Pre-Diabetes
Screening
Initiatives.
Speaker for Sunday services, April 28, 8 a.m. and
11 a.m. is Rev. Anne Hill of
St. Mark Episcopal Church
in Suffolk.
Frank E. Hunter
Frank Everett Hunter
passed away on March 27.
He was preceded in death
by his parents Harry M.
and Selma T. Hunter, nine
brothers and sisters
(Maxine, Nelson, Ruble,
Earl,
Bur nett,
Sam,
McCauley, Harry and
Selma) daughter Debbie,
and stepson Gary.
He is survived by his
wife Wilma, daughters
Juanita, Bobbi, Grace, and
Jackie, seven grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and sister Anne
Winall of Hampton. He is
also survived by three stepsons, David, Larry, and
Dennis and their families.
Frank retired after
spending 20 years in the
U.S. Air Force and was a
Korean War veteran. He
was born and raised in the
Mill Swamp area of Isle of
Wight County. For many
years, he and Wilma divided their time between
Orlando, Fla. and Lake
City, Tenn. A memorial service was held April 6 at
First Baptist Church in
Taft, Florida. Arrangements were provided by
Dove Funeral Home in Orlando.
Joseph F.
DeRose
Joseph F. DeRose, 36,
died suddenly on April 12,
2013. Services will be held
at Strano & Feeley Family
Funeral
Home,
635
Churchmans Road, Newark, Del., Sat., April 20, 10
a.m. Directions can be obtained
at
www.Stranofeeley.com.
These Local Churches welcome you and
your family to weekly services.
Central Hill Baptist Church
10270 Central Hill Rd, Windsor 357-2225
Rev. Roger Johnson, Pastor
Parsonage 757-539-7759
Sun School 10am, Sun Worship 11am
Wed Bible Study & Prayer Meeting 7pm
12/13
Good Shepherd Catholic Church
300 Smithfield Blvd., P.O. Box 840, Smithfield
Mass 9am Sun, Weekday Mass:
Tues & Thu at noon, Wed at 6:30pm
Fri at 9am, Sat 5pm
Phone: 365-0579 Fax: 757-365-4749
Pastor: Fr. Oscar P. Paraiso
www.goodshepherd-smithfield.org 12/13
Healing Waters Worship Center Hope Presbyterian Church
12172 Smith’s Neck Rd, Carrollton, VA
356-1515; hwwcnow.org
Pastor William M. McCarty, Senior Pastor
Sunday am Worship 11:00 w kid’s church
Wednesday worship 7pm & Bible study
with Girls Club & Royal Rangers
255 James Street
Meeting at Smithfield Luter YMCA
Worship: 9:30 am
Sunday School” 11:00 am
www.hopepca.com
Pastor George Boomer, 771-2243
Mill Swamp Baptist Church
Riverview United Methodist
12/13
6/13
6329 Mill Swamp Rd, Ivor, VA; 357-2575 10696 Smiths Neck Rd Rescue
“A church That is Alive is Worth the Drive!” Tuesday
Sunday: Sun. Sch. 9:30am Worship 10:45am covered dish dinner/bible study 6:30pm
Teens 5:45pm, Sun Bible Study 6:00pm Worship & Childrens Church 11am
Worship 7:00pm, Ad/Chld Choir 6:30pm
Wed AWANA 6:15, Bible Study/Tn 7pm Leon Basham, Minister 357-0738
Rev. James “Jim” Jones, Pastor 12/13 email: c.basham@charter,net
12/13
Saints of Runneymede Holiness Church Sandy Mount Baptist Church
7711 White Marsh Rd, Elberon, VA
Intercessory Prayer Sunday: 8:30 - 9:30 am
Sun. School 10am;
Morning Worship 11:30am
Wed Noon Day PrayerPrayer & Bible Study 7pm
Andrew L. Cypress - Pastor
12/13
Smithfield Baptist Church
100 Wainwright Dr., Smithfield, 357-2536
Sun.Sch.9:40am/Worship 8:30am & 11am
Wed, 5:15 Cherub Choir, 5:30 Dinner,
6:30 Bible Studies & Missions,
7:30 Adult Choir, 7:30 Children’s Choir
Dr. Donald R. Rhoton, Pastor
[email protected]
12/13
16091 Scott’s Factory Rd, Smithfield
Church School - 9:00-9:45am
Worship Service - 10am
Bible Study - 1st & 3rd Wednesday
2nd & 4th Tuesday @ 7pm
Rev. Dr. Bobby L. Taylor, Pastor
12/13
Southside Vineyard Community Church
“Real, Reaching & Ready”
14353 Benns Church Blvd., Smithfield, VA
Services Sunday @ 10:00 am
Nursery, Children, Youth Ministries
Casual with a Real Life Message
www.southsidevineyard.com
Pastor Bill Eley, (757) 357-SVCC (7822)
6/13
Trinity United Methodist Church Benn’s United Methodist Church
201 Cedar St.,
Smithfield, VA 23430-1303
Sunday School 9:30
Worship 8:30 & 11am,
9:30am Rivers of Life
Rev. Jeff Cannon
357-3659
12/13
Smithfield Christian Church
18420 Battery Park Rd.
Smithfield, VA 23430 Ph: 357-6644
Sunday Sch. 10am Worship 11am
Wed., Study 7:00pm
Jack Perry, Minister
www.smithfieldchristian.org
14571 Benns Church Blvd., Smithfield
Sunday Services 8:30 and 11:00am
Sunday School 9:45am
also offering preschool M-TH
Rev. O.H. Burton, Jr., Ph. 357-3373
Bennsumc@yahoo,com
12/13
Christ Episcopal Church
111 S. Church St., Corner Church & Main
Smithfield • 357-2826
8am Early Service
10am Community Service
9am Education
www.christchurchsmithfield.org
12/13
Smithfield Assembly of God Church Uzzell United Methodist Church
1800 South Church Street, Smithfield 357-5539
Sunday Sch. 9:45am
Worship Service 11:00am
Wednesday Evening (including
Children's Services) 7:00pm
Donald E. Watkins, Pastor
15363 Uzzell Church Rd, Smithfield VA
Sunday School 10:00am
Sunday Worship Service 11:00am
Becky Gwaltney, Pastor 810-9397
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that the amount of debt
service not exceed 10 percent of the general government revenues.
Robertson said the
policy isn’t specific as to
what “general government
revenue” means — whether
it’s just local revenue or
includes state and federal
monies. However, it’s unlikely that the county
would use state and federal
funds to pay down local
debt, Robertson said.
Robertson said that the
county’s financial advisors,
Davenport and Company
LLC, have advised the
Board of Supervisors that
it needs to amend or tweak
its financial policies.
Relief isn’t expected
anytime soon. Debt service
payments are expected to
peak at about $16.4 million
in 2016 (more than double
this year’s) and remain
above $9 million each fiscal
year through 2018.
For the peak year, the
Board is looking at ways to
spread that out, Robertson
said.
To understand the impact on budgets, consider
that in 2005 the county’s total debt retirement was
$849,999, or 2 percent of the
local tax dollars collected.
In this year’s preliminary
budget, debt retirement is
set at $7.4 million, or 14 percent of total revenue. It can
dramatically affect governmental operations.
“That is money taken
away from schools, public
safety and other services,”
Alphin said.
Alphin acknowledged
that taking out bonds did
result in tangible items,
such as buildings and the
IW’s debt policy
The following is an excerpt of Isle of Wight
County’s fiscal policies:
• As of this date, the County defines and establishes the following debt affordability targets. Such
targets may be reviewed, changed or expanded from
time to time.
a. The County’s tax-supported debt service will
not exceed 10 percent of general governmental revenues. Tax-supported debt service shall include any
debt service on general obligation bonds which are
not self-supporting from a user fee revenue stream
(i.e. water and sewer fee). A self-supporting revenue
stream is defined as a revenue stream that provides
coverage of all debt service obligations without general fund support. Any long term financing lease
obligations which may be subject to annual appropriation by the County will also be included in calculations of tax-supported debt service.
b. The County’s tax-supported debt will not exceed
5 percent of the assessed value of taxable real property in the County.
c. The County’s tax-supported debt per capita will
not exceed $2,300.
Tour
Smithfield Far mers
Market and local artists
demonstrating plein air
painting.
This is Smithfield’s
third time as part of the
garden tour. The last time
the town participated was
in the late 1980s and before
that, it was in the late 1950s,
said local organizer Steffie
Broadwater.
This was the third year
that Smithfield considered
participating in Historic
Garden Week, but organizers were waiting for the
South Church Street beautification project to be completed, said Broadwater.
The houses on the tour
were chosen to complement a theme or an area of
town, and this year it was
the historic district, she
said.
Vincent and Josephine
Carollo are the current
owners of the Mallory
Todd house located on
Wharf Hill, the for mer
commercial center of the
town. The Carrollos recently finished a five-year
renovation and just moved
in last week.
In
addition
to
replastering and refinishing the house’s original
walls and floors, the
Carollos added a garage
and a reproduction of the
original service kitchen.
Behind the house is the
former summer kitchen,
which includes a rare “beehive” fireplace and has
been faithfully restored.
The former merchant
shop, which is located on
the bottom floor, has also
been restored to include the
original paneling. Those on
the tour will get a look at
the merchant shop, as well
as the first floor and the
original part of the house
built by cabinetmaker
Nicholas Parker in 1753.
“The house has been
through a lot since 1753 and
we are really excited that
we’ve gotten it back and
didn’t sacrifice anything to
the
original
home,”
Vincent said.
Capt. Mallory Todd
came to Smithfield in the
1760s from Bermuda and
was thought to begin sell-
inter modal park. Other
reasons for incurring debt,
such as the $146 million, 40year Norfolk water deal,
are less visible.
Just this year, the
county capital improvement plan included $3.7
million to cover expenses
directly and indirectly connected to the Norfolk water
deal.
Since it was signed in
2009, the Norfolk water deal
has cost the county $10 million, according to the
county’s financial advisors.
“The bills are coming
due now and it’s an additional strain on an already
lean budget. It’s been the
elephant in the room,”
Alphin said.
As for the water deal,
the county has to borrow
money every year to pay for
it, Alphin said.
“That’s a 40-year deal we
can do nothing about,” he
said, adding that the Board
has directed the county attorney to take another look
at the contract that was
signed in 2009.
The water deal was
struck when times were
good, and the previous
Board believed it would
bring in industry and business to the intermodal
park, Alphin said.
“Then
everything
crashed and we’re still paying the bills.”
Debt spending began to
accelerate in 2009, when the
total debt amount jumped
from $67 million the year
before to $135 million two
years later, in 2011.
In 2002, 69 percent of the
county’s debt was for
schools. By 2011, it was split
between 38 percent for the
general fund, 21 percent for
utilities and nearly 41 percent for schools.
No clean-up Saturday
Town clean-up day for downtown Smithfield was
moved from this Saturday to May 11. The affected area
includes all areas north and west of Cypress Creek
and the Pagan River (including River Oaks, Pinewood
Heights, Goose Hill Creek, Jericho Estates, Cypress
Creek, Riverview, Lakeside, Downtown areas, Jersey
Park, West Main Street, etc.).
The day was moved to accommodate the Virginia
Historic Garden Week tour of Smithfield, called “Simply Southern” and which features homes in the historic district.
The other two town clean-up days will proceed as
scheduled.
Residents are asked to have all items to be picked
up at the street no later than 6:30 a.m. For more information, contact Sonja Eubank, Office Manager, Department of Planning, Engineering and Public Works
at 365-4272 or [email protected].
ing hams as early as 1779.
Sonny and Sharon
Hines have lived in the
Sinclair-Hines house for
more than 40 years — much
longer than Capt. John
Sinclair, who built the
house before the Revolutionary War in 1758. During
the Revolution, Sinclair
operated as a privateer in
running the British blockade, harassing the enemy’s
ships and providing supplies to the colonists.
Local legend has it that
the house included a tunnel
that ran from the basement
to the former warehouse
area on Smithfield’s wharf.
Sharon Hines said they’ve
never found any evidence
of a tunnel, but residents
of Smithfield that attended
kindergarten in the house
as a child remember a
“cave,” she said. Sharon
speculated that perhaps the
tunnel was used for safety,
so the former owners could
go from the house to the
wharf without being detected.
On display during the
tour will be a few artifacts
the Hines’ found during a
recent renovation, including a cannon ball and a
hand drill.
In 2000, the Hines’ built
a carriage house on the site
of another house that was
built on the property
around 1900. It may be that
the former owners wanted
a more modern house than
the 18th century mansion,
Sharon said.
Other houses featured
on the tour include the
Berryman Mansion, the
Old
Library,
the
Wentworth-Barrett house
and Mansion on Main Bed
and Breakfast.
Virginia’s Historic Garden Week is now in its 80th
year.
The beginning of Historic Garden Week dates to
1927, when a flower show
organized by the Garden
Club of Virginia raised
$7,000 to save some of the
trees planted by Thomas
Jefferson on the lawn at
Monticello.
Tours are from 10 a.m.
until 5 p.m. Tickets are $35
on the day of the tour and
$15 for single-site admission. Tickets for children 612 are $17; age 5 and under
are free. Tickets may be
purchased on the tour day
at any of the listed private
homes and paid with cash
or check, payable to NRGC.
Advance tickets are $30 per
person for full ticket only.
Tickets are available online
at VAGardenWeek.org or at
the following locations: in
Smithfield at Smithfield &
Isle of Wight Convention
and Visitor Bureau; in Suffolk at A. Dodson’s, and in
Portsmouth at Bowman’s
Garden Center and Way
Back Yonder Antiques.
Limited street parking
is available in Historic
Smithfield. Designated
parking will be at Windsor
Castle Park. Green directional signs will be posted.
It is a 0.3-mile walk from
parking to South Church
Street where tour begins.
Limited shuttle service will
be available.
For more information
contact Judy Winslow, Director
of
Tourism,
Smithfield & Isle of Wight
CVB at 357-5182.
Some of the projects
funded with debt since 2002
include the Smithfield Fire
Station ($5 million), the
Young-Laine Courthouse
($17 million), Smithfield
Middle School ($26 million), Windsor Middle
School ($24 million), the
county courthouse complex ($9 million) and the
Norfolk water deal ($10 million so far).
Robertson said county
staff works to keep the
Board engaged in finding
ways to refinance the debt
or find other ways to save
money.
There is a strategy to
paying debt down, he said.
To Alphin, a debt payment is mostly unyielding.
The problem with debt
is that unlike a budget, cuts
can’t be made like they can
to departments, Alphin
said.
“There are no alternatives. It has to be paid.”
No votes here
Most counties have to get voter approval in a referendum before they can incur general tax debt. In
Isle of Wight, that’s not the case. Here, the Isle of
Wight Board of Supervisors can issue bond debt with
only a public hearing.
The ability to do that was obtained in 1985 through
a voter referendum on a portion of the constitution
that allows counties the same powers as cities when
it comes to issuing debt. At the time, it was seen as a
strategy to avoid annexation by the city of Franklin.
Only four out of 95 counties in the state have exercised that option. The remaining 91 counties still
must go to the taxpayers for approval before issuing
new debt.
To undo it would require an amendment to the
state constitution. The issue was raised in 2009 after
the Board of Supervisors signed the $146 million Norfolk water deal without public input.
In 1985, the city of Franklin was threatening to
annex a portion of land owned by Union Camp, and
later International Paper. At the time, cities annexed
land with tax revenue potential.
Currently, there is a moratorium on annexation
until 2018.
Lawyers told the county at the time that obtaining the ability to issue bonds for services as quickly
as cities would further strengthen its position
against annexation.
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new computer firewall
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
Isle of Wight County
schools recently secured a
new firewall to maintain
network security for both
the schools and county offices.
A firewall stops unauthorized Inter net users
from gaining access to private networks and filters
any messages entering or
leaving the network, allowing some and blocking
those that do not meet specific security criteria. They
protect from hackers, viruses and worms.
In
November,
the
schools spent $49,739 to purchase a Palo Alto Networks
Firewall PA-2050, which replaces a 15-year-old firewall
and will serve the schools
and county offices.
“Taking both from software-driven firewalls to a
new hardware firewall was
the first step towards a
more secure digital environment for our student
information,” said school
spokesperson Kenita Bowers.
The schools’ firewall
was 15 years old.
“The firewall not only
provides the school division and the county the
ability to control content
such as websites, applications and apps that can all
be streamlined, shaped and
blocked, but also allows for
a shared resource that will
improve security and reliability for both entities,”
said Bowers.
However, Bowers declined to answer any more
questions about the
firewalls, having been cautioned by the schools’ IT
Director Eric Cooprider
and the county’s IT Director Jason Gray.
Bowers had been asked
several questions including why hardware firewalls
are preferable to software
firewalls, what the new system can do that the old one
could not and whether
browsing history or download activity is monitored
or reviewed.
“The more details that
are shared about which
sites can be blocked, how
content is controlled, the
reasoning behind the hard-
Call from Richmond
smelled like a scam
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
Judy Avery got a call
from a Richmond area
number saying she had
been named in a restraining order and had to pay
debts to settle her case.
Avery, 68, believes the
company was trying to
scam her, said daughter
Cindy Outten.
The number, (804) 4418343, traces back to Prime
Asset Locators in Richmond.
Prime Asset Locators is
not a licensed business in
Virginia, according to Virginia State Corporation
Commission.
Outten said the callers
from Prime Asset Locators
hounded her mother, calling her multiple times.
“At first, it caught her
off guard,” Outten said.
The callers had Avery’s
name and address and
asked her for the last four
digits of her social security
number. That’s when she
became leery and refused.
“She was smart enough
not to given them her social
security number,” she said.
Outten said the company also used legal terms
and intimidation to pressure her mother into paying off an alleged debt.
Avery’s refusal angered
the caller, who subsequently hung up, said
Outten.
In total, the company
called Avery three times
and left two messages.
called the number and
talked to a customer service representative after
navigating a series of
prompts.
The messaging system
identifies the company as
Prime Asset Locators and
asks callers to select one of
the following menu options: “restrained bank account or seized asset,”
“pending legal matter” or
“settle matter in lieu of
court action.”
The representative refused to give any information on the company and
abruptly ended the call.
According
to
CallerCenter.com, a free
online consumer complaints board where frustrated residents warn others of attempted scams, recorded the first complaint
against Prime Asset on
March 20, with more than
57 complaints rolling in as
of April 16.
Outten reported the
calls to the Isle of Wight
Sheriff ’s Office.
Lt. Patrick Valdez with
the Smithfield Police Department said scammers
largely target the elderly.
“Those scams are not
uncommon at all,” said
Valdez, adding that his department receives a few reports each month.
About two months ago,
the department received a
report from a couple who
received a call telling them
they had won a prize and
the presenters were en
route to couple’s house and
wanted to make sure they
were home, said Valdez.
Spooked by the prospect
of stranger coming to their
home, the couple called the
police.
The scammer eventually called back and said he
had been stuck in customs
at the airport and needed
$1,300 to get through.
That’s when they knew
it was a scam, Valdez said.
Valdez cautioned that if
a caller — or an email —
says you won a prize and
you have never entered a
lottery, the call is likely a
scam.
The only real solution is
to tell everyone you know
about the attempted scam,
said Valdez, “because that’s
the only way to really stop
these things.”
ware firewall, etc. could
give potential hackers
more infor mation than
they need to know,” said
Bowers. “The purpose of
the new firewall is to protect users and the infrastructure so they don’t
want too much information
out there.”
Students have been denied access to some
websites and applications,
but the schools would not
indicate how.
In February, two high
school students gave conflicting accounts of what
they can and can’t access at
Windsor and Smithfield
high schools.
The students also said
that teachers and administrators regularly pull students aside to check their
iPads.
According
to
the
firewall
company’s
website, it has the ability to
“block viruses, spyware,
and vulnerability exploits,
limit unauthorized transfer of files and sensitive
data … and control nonwork related web surfing,”
among other specifications.
The schools encountered problems with hacking back in January, when
the Windsor High School
website was allegedly
hacked by a top Indonesian
hacker called “hmei7.”
The site is still listed as
“under construction.”
Taxes
real estate tax, he said.
Windsor Supervisor Dee
Dee Darden said that in
hindsight, it probably
wasn’t a good idea to attempt to balance the current year’s budget with
one-time fixes, such as trying to sell county property.
So far, none of the properties have sold.
Darden would be willing
to entertain a three-to-fourcent increase, but not 10cents.
Newport Supervisor
Buzz Bailey doesn’t favor
any tax increase.
“I’m a no tax person,” he
said, adding that now is not
the time to burden residents with more taxes.
“We’re asking the public
to suck it up and pay for our
mistakes, the previous
Board’s mistakes,” he said,
pointing to the purchase of
the Stoup property, among
other actions.
Chairman JoAnn Hall
also cannot advocate a 10
cent tax increase.
Somewhere between
zero and 10 cents, she said.
Hall said she was getting
multiple emails from
school advocates asking the
Board to fully fund the
School Board’s request.
“It’s not going to happen. They have no idea
what is going on here,” she
said.
Hall said the 10-cent tax
increase is due to deficits in
revenues this year — not
new expenditures.
The School Board is asking for $32 million in local
funding. The proposed bud-
Budget
forum
The Isle of Wight
C i t i z e n ’ s
Association
is
hosting a town
meeting between
the Isle of Wight
County Board of
Super visors and
School
Board
Monday, April 22 at
6:30 p.m. in The
Smithfield Center.
The issue is the
fiscal 2014 school
budget. For more
information call
357-5352.
get calls for $22 million. If
fully funded, the school’s
request would add an additional 12 cents to the 10-cent
tax hike proposed to cover
the county’s operating budget.
Darden said that many
of the presentations made
by the schools to parents
and residents have been
“one-sided.”
The schools and the
county need to let parents
know what really going on
with the school budget,
Darden said.
Hall told county staff to
go back and take another
look at the budget for additional cuts.
The Board of Supervisors meets again Monday,
April 22, 10 a.m. for a budget work session. The session will include a discussion of the school budget as
well as a presentation from
Davenport, the county’s financial advisors. The meeting is held at the Isle of
Wight Courthouse complex.
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Community
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Smithfield’s Wine and Brew Fest o u t !
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
P
erfect spring weather arrived just in time for the
Wednesday, April 17
Wine and Brew Fest at Windsor
Castle Park on Saturday.
SPAY/NEUTER DAY—The Surry
The second annual event
Snip Clinic at Bacon’s Castle
hosted
2,500 beer and wine lovers
Baptist Church is Wednesday, April
from Hampton Roads and be17, offering low-cost spay/neuter
yond.
surgeries. Info: 294-3859 or 371“It was outstanding. I’ve got9236. Walk-up service for vaccines
and flea treatment, 10-11a.m. Info: ten quite a few emails today, and
622-7382, option three for vaccine there have been quite a few
rules and prices.
postings on Facebook,” said festival chairman Gina Ippolito.
SHAD PLANKING—The Wakefield
This year featured a few exRuritan Club Shad Planking is April
pansions,
including more con17, 2-6:30 p.m., rain or shine, at
cert stages, an expanded beer garthe Wakefield Sportsmen’s Club,
den, twice as many chalets and 18
12205 Brittles Mill Road in
more tables (over last year’s 30).
Wakefield. Tickets at the Virginia
Diner, by calling 1-800-935-4004 or
The biggest surprise was that
online at www.shadplanking.com.
they sold out nine days before the
event, said Ippolito. And about
SBA WORKSHOP—Hampton
half of those tickets were sold to
Roads Small Business
people beyond Suffolk and Isle of
Development Center presents
Wight, she said.
“Writing an Effective Business
Festival organizers have yet to
Plan” workshop, Wednesday, April
17, 9 a.m. – noon, Isle of Wight
County Courthouse complex. $20/
person pre-registered, and $25 at
the door. Info: www.hrsbdc.org or
865-3128.
tally the proceeds that will go to
their beneficiaries—Christian
Outreach Program, Wester n
Tidewater Free Clinic, Windsor
Castle Park Foundation and
Smithfield Rotary—but expect
those numbers by the end of
week.
Those funds will be donated to
the organizations on April 24.
Wine aficionados Wendy
Walters, Darlene Field and Patty
Clements of Portsmouth hung
out on the hillside over looking
the water and the main stage, listening to the tunes of Main Street
and sipping Virginia wines.
This was the ladies’ second
year at the fest and all have plans
to attend next year.
Up in the beer garden, friends
and Canon coworkers Sharon
Miecznikowski, Gail Wainio and
Toni Hilliard had a little vino and
a little brew. The trio sampled
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Pour it on!
ACRYLICS CLASS—Introduction to
acrylics with instructor Priscilla
Barbour is Wednesday, April 17 and
24, 1–4 p.m. for teens and adults.
Easy and relaxed class for
beginners to intermediates. Lots of
individual instruction. $55
members/ $75 non-members.
Materials: $35 new students/ $10
returning students. Call 357-7707
to register.
Thursday, April 18
PARENT INFO NIGHT—An event for
parents of incoming kindergarten
students at Isle of Wight
elementary schools is Thursday,
April 18, 6:30 p.m.
PRE-SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE—
Ebenezer Christian Academy preschool open house is Thursday,
April 18, 6-8 p.m. Info: 238-2359
or [email protected]
JAZZ CONCERT—“Jazz in Our
Schools!” is Thursday, April 18, 7
p.m. in the Smithfield High School
auditorium. Several Isle of Wight
County schools will perform with
jazz musicians Richard G.
Thomasson, Matt Smith and Dave
Kreiselman as part of Jazz
Appreciation Month (JAM). Jazzrelated artwork also on display.
ALZHEIMER’S MTG — An
Alzheimer’s support group meeting
is Thursday, April 28, 7 p.m. at
Curves in Carrollton. Info: 3570732.
Staff Photos by Abby Proch
Festival goers sample some reds at the Horton Vineyards tent.
Friday, April 19
HOMESCHOOL DAY—On April 19,
10 a.m. – 4 p.m., IW Historic
Resources Division will host a day
for homeschoolers at its historic
sites. Info: 357-0115 or
www.historicisleofwight.com.
GOLF TOURNEY—Trinity United
Methodist Church 2nd annual golf
tournament is April 19, 1 p.m. at
Cypress Creek Golf Club. Captains
choice format. $300/team, $75/
single player. Proceeds benefit Isle
of Wight County Missions and
H.E.L.P. organization. Awards dinner
at 5:30 p.m. Sponsorships
available. Call 615-5401.
Wendy Walters, Darlene Field and Patty Clements, of
Portsmouth drink only wine at the festival each year.
CRUZ-IN—The Smithfield Lions
Cruz-In features Blues Brother
performance and Tidewater
Corvette Club, Friday, April 19, 6-9
p.m., Charlie Daniels Performance,
20128 IWIP Road.
BLUEGRASS—Carrollton Volunteer
Fire Department monthly
“Firehouse Bluegrass” music
benefit concert is Friday, April 19,
7:30 p.m., $5 admission. Featured
entertainment: Ted Jones and the
Tarheel. Hot dogs and soft drinks
available. Bring a chair. Info: 6136183.
Phillip Billups, Ryan Johnson, Diana Vasco and Jason Ramos
enjoyed the wine and atmosphere.
DRIVER SAFETY—An AARP Driver
Safety Course is April 26-27, 9
a.m.-1 p.m. at Chapel Grove
U.C.C., 4366 W. Blackwater Rd.,
Windsor. Register by April 19. To
register, call Regena Joyner at 2426381. $12 AARP members/ $14
non-AARP members.
Smithfield Ruritan President Julia Hopkins pours for
Bold Rock Hard Cider.
Saturday, April 20
GARDEN WEEK—Bacon’s Castle
and 17th century historic garden
will be open every day of the week,
beginning April 20 debuting new
research on the historic garden.
General admission.
WALKING TOUR—A free, hour-long
walking tour of Fort Huger led by
local historian Albert Burckard is
April 20, 10 a.m. Reservations not
“Castaways” from Smithfield, left to right: Stephie Broadwater,
Tina Reid, Katherine Dvorak, Kristin Nunes, Laura Lee Hinkle,
• See CALENDAR p. 12 Debbie Szalwinski and Elise Schroer.
Rosemont’s Lake Country Sunset variety was up next.
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Nike-Ajax missile site and is
one of the Cold War’s few
surviving Army Air-Defense
Posts. Located at 13036
Nike Park Road in Carrolton.
Info: 357-0115.
1760s CRICKET—1760s
cricket match will be played
at Bacon’s Castle April 20,
10 a.m.-4 p.m. General
admission. Info: 357-5976.
GRANT WORKSHOP—
Community Harvest Outreach
will host a 501(c)3 and grant
writing workshop Saturday,
April 20. Grant writing
workshop at 9 a.m. 501(c)3
workshop at 11 a.m.
Workshops are at 5 Roberts
Ave., Windsor. Info: 5565403.
CRAFT FAIR—The Woman’s
Club of Windsor spring craft
fair is Saturday, April 20, 10
a.m.-4 p.m., Windsor
Community House.
YARD SALE—The Smithfield
Ruritan Club and the
Smithfield High School Band
Boosters’ yard sale is April
20, 8 a.m.-noon at the
former Little’s Supermarket
at 518 Main Street.
Donations accepted
Wednesday-Friday, 7-8 p.m.
All proceeds benefit the
Smithfield Band Boosters.
For donation pick up call
754-6995.
Sunday, April 21
PLAQUE DEDICATION—
Chippokes Plantation State
Park is honoring the
Stewarts’ gift of Chippokes
to the Commonwealth of
Virginia with a plaque
dedication ceremony,
Sunday, April 21, 2 p.m. on
the Jones-Stewart Mansion
Lawn. Tea and light
refreshments will follow.
Tuesday, April 23
DRIVER SAFETY—An AARP
driver safety program is April
23-24, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at
Chapel Grove United Church
of Christ in Windsor. For
drivers age 50 and older.
Register and pay by April 19.
$12/AARP members and
$14/non-members. Info:
242-6381.
Wednesday, April 24
MEDICARE INFO—
Informational and assistance
events to assist Medicare
beneficiaries to navigate
Medicare and Medicare Part
D are April 24, 11 a.m.12:30 p.m., Windsor Library
and April 25, 11:30 a.m.2:30 p.m., Carrollton Public
Library.Info: 449-8706 or
328-4217.
Thursday, April 25
VA TECH DINNER—The
Virginia Tech Orange and
Maroon Tour Dinner is
Thursday, April 25, 6 p.m.,
Smithfield Center. Tickets at
Farmers Service and
Smithfield Station. Info: 3573260.
ARTFUL THURSDAYS—
Students will cut pieces of
felt and assemble them to
make pretty long-stemmed
felt flowers on April 25,
3:30-5 p.m. at the Rawls
Museum. Ages 6-10. $10
members/$15 nonmembers. Snacks and
materials included. Register
at 653-0754.
WINE & PAINT—Wine &
Paint! with artist Sarah Hair
is Thursday, April 25, 6-9
p.m. at the Arts Center @
319. Everything is provided,
no materials or experience
necessary. Bring friends and
favorite beverage. Everyone
goes home with their
finished painting. $45/
member (additional fee for
non-members). Includes all
materials. Over 21 please.
Call 357-7707 to register.
Friday, April 26
GOLF TOURNY—
International Cooperating
Ministries Open is Friday,
April 26 at Cypress Creek
Golf Club, check-in starts at
MOTHER-DAUGHTER TEA—
A mother-daughter tea will be 8:30 a.m., shotgun start at
10:30 a.m. Entry fee $125.
held Sunday, April 28, 1-3
Info: 1-800-824-6730 or
p.m. at Benn’s United
[email protected].
Methodist Church. $25/
couple. Lunch, drink and one
Saturday, April 27
corsage. Crafts supplied.
$5/additional child and
SPECIAL OLYMPICS—
corsage. Pictures $5. RSVP
Athletes from Surry Franklin,
by April 21 to Michele at
[email protected]. Hosted Windsor and Smithfield
schools will participate in
by Girl Scout troop #776.
the Virginia Special Olympic
track and field day on April
Monday, April 22
27, 9 a.m.-noon at Surry
County High School. Rain
SEIGE OF SUFFOLK—Civil
date is May 4. Free. Info:
War Historian J. Michael
Clara R. Jones, 357-3229 or
Moore will lecture on the
647-9705.
Siege of Suffolk, Monday,
April 22, 7 p.m., Isle of
NC CHICK-A-QUE—A North
Wight Museum. Lecture is
Carolina Chick-a-que is
free. Groups of 10 or more,
contact the museum prior to Saturday, April 27, 11a.m.-3
the event. Info: 356-1223 or p.m. at Benn’s United
www.historicisleofwight.com. Methodist Church, 14571
Benn’s Church Blvd. $7.
Benefits the church’s
IW CITIZENS ASSOC—The
KNITTING—Ongoing
knitting and crocheting
group meets the second
Tuesday and fourth
Wednesday each month.
GENEALOGY—Saturday,
April 20, 9:30 a.m. –
12:45 p.m., Mary Beth
Dalton of Jigsaw Genealogy
will be delving into
computer searches with
the program “Genealogy
Websites You’ll Want to
Bookmark.” Reservations
required: 357-2264.
BOOKMARK CONTEST—
Teen bookmark design
contest (grades 7-12).
Winning design will be
used as the official
Smithfield bookmark for
the teen summer reading
program. Download entry
form at blackwaterlib.org
(Smithfield). Entries due
by April 25. Info: 3572264.
LIBRARY FRIENDS—
Friends of the Smithfield
Library meet on Monday,
April 22, 7-8 p.m.
ART EXHIBIT/SALE—“Art
in Black & White” exhibit
and sale is ongoing at the
Smithfield Library until July
1. It includes 23 works by
eight local artists in
mediums including infrared
photography, stained glass
and Japanese sumi-e.
Proceeds benefit the library
and the Arts Center.
Carrollton
KNITTING—Knitting for
beginners is every
Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Registration required. Info:
238-2641.
TUTORING—One-hour
computer tutoring offered
the 1st and 3rd Tuesday or
Wednesday afternoons. By
appointment. Info: 2382641.
LEGOS—The library is
seeking donations of
LEGOS for a summer LEGO
club.
RAIN BARREL—The Rain
Barrel Workshop is
Tuesday, April 23, 6-8 p.m.
Workshop. Taught by the
Western Tidewater Master
Gardeners and Isle of
Wight County. Learn about
water conservation and
make your own rain barrel
to take home that day.
Must take barrel home.
building fund. Eat-in or
takeout. Info: 357-3373.
PANCAKE BRKFST—
Smithfield Fire Department
Ladies Auxiliary Pancake
Breakfast is April 27, 7 a.m.11 a.m. at Smithfield Fire
Department, 1804 S. Church
St. Pancakes, sausage,
apples, coffee and OJ. Adults
$5/children $3. Tickets at
the door or in advance from
the fire department or an
Auxiliary member. All
proceeds support the
Smithfield Volunteer Fire
Department and community.
FLEA MARKET—The
Woman’s Club of Smithfield’s
annual flea market is
Saturday, April 27, 8 a.m.-1
p.m. at Trinity United
Methodist Church in
Smithfield.
SHAKESPEARE SHOW—
“Shakespeare on the Pagan”
featuring a musical
adaptation of “Midsummer
Night’s Dream” by the
Smithfield High School
Shakespeare Club, band,
chorus and theatre arts
class is April 27, 6 p.m. at
Windsor Castle Park. Free.
Bring a chair or blanket.
CHESS TOURNY—Westside
Elementary School spring
chess festival is Saturday,
April 27, 9:30 a.m. Advance
Carrollton Public Library
14362 New Towne Haven
Phone: 238-2641
Claremont Public Library
Phone: 866-8627
Smithfield Public Library
255 James Street
Phone: 357-2264, 357-4856
Surry Public Library
11640 Rolfe Highway
Phone: 294-3949
Windsor Public Library
18 Duke Street
Phone: 242-3046
On the Internet:
www.blackwaterlib.org
Cost: $35 (checks payable
to Isle of Wight County).
Info and registration: 3571962 or 238-2641.
FINANCE FOR TEENS—
Basic Finance for Tweens
and Teens: Financial
Football, Tuesday, April 23,
5:30-6:30 p.m. and April
24, 5:30 p.m. with Kitty
Simon, Langley Federal
Credit Union. Come play a
football game and learn
about financial literacy the
first night, credit cards and
account types the second.
Registration required.
HOMEBUYER CLASS—
Basic homebuyers class,
Tuesday, May 7, 6-7 p.m.
Learn the ins and outs of
what it takes to buy a
home from a veteran of the
field.
BOOK CLUB—The
Carrollton Book Club will
discuss “Breaking Night: A
Memoir of Forgiveness,
Survival, and My Journey
from Homeless to Harvard”
by Liz Murray on
Wednesday, May 8, 2-3
p.m.
TEA PARTY—Mommy &
Me Tea Party is Saturday,
May 11, 11 a.m. Drink tea,
dress up fancy, make a
Mother’s Day craft, have
fun and make new friends.
School age program.
Registration required.
Space limited.
Julie Hopkins, Smithfield Ruritan Club
president, presented the club’s 2012 Ruritan of
the Year award recently to Larry Odom. This
annual award is presented to the club member
who accumulates the most points from Sept. 1
through Aug. 31 in four categories: attendance,
club activities, growth and development and
other special activities.
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LIBRARY FRIENDS—
Friends of the Library
meets on 2nd Mondays, 6
p.m. New members
welcome. Membership is
free.
STORYTIME—Ages 2-5,
Tuesdays, 10:45 a.m.
registration is $7/player on
Thursday, April 25 at
www.vschess.org On-site
registration is $14 on
Saturday, April 27, 7:45-9
a.m. $20/player for quad
tourney. Info:
[email protected] or
279-0601.
SURRY REUNION—Members
of the Surry High School
class of 1979 will meet at
Frog Legs in Surry, Saturday,
April 27, 5 p.m., to plan the
35th reunion.
SPRING FLY-IN—The Old
Dominion Squadron spring
fly-in is Saturday, April 27, 8
a.m.-1 p.m. at Franklin
Municipal Airport. Free
admission to static aircraft
displays. Pancake breakfast,
8-10:30 a.m. and hot dog
lunch, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the
Squadron’s hangar for a
donation of $6/person/
meal. Weather permitting.
CHICKEN SALAD—Relay For
Life team Counting On A
Cure is selling homemade
chicken salad on Saturday,
April 27. $6/pint, by preorder only. Call Joanne
Carroll at 357-2617 or Joey
Mitchell at 544-3021 or any
other team member to order.
BIKE RIDE—6th annual
• See CALENDAR, p. 14
Governmental meetings
•Isle of Wight Board of
Supervisors, 5 p.m.,
Thursday, April 28, 2nd
floor, county courthouse,
17100 Monument Circle,
357-3191
•Surry County Planning
Commission, Monday,
April 22, 7 p.m., General
District Court Room at the
Ruritan of the year
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YARD SALE—The Possum
Hollow Ruritan community
yard sale is Saturday, April
20, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. at the
corner of Benns Church
Boulevard and Oliver Drive.
Spaces available. Info: 2550284.
Isle of Wight Citizens
Association will sponsor a
town meeting about the
school budge on Monday,
April 22, 6:30 p.m. in The
Smithfield Center. The Isle of
Wight County Board of
Supervisors, School Board,
school officials and the
public are invited. Info: 3575352.
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•Isle of Wight Planning
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Wednesday, April 23, 2nd
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17100 Monument Circle,
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Enjoy a bit of Nature’s Acre
The Smithfield Times-Wed., April 17, 2013 - Page 13
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
Come in, have a cup of
coffee and get comfortable.
That’s what Lynn
Sheckler hopes folks will
do when they stop by her
new organic and greenminded shop, Nature’s
Acre.
Nature’s Acre is located
at 14216 Benn’s Church
Blvd., next to The Oaks Veterinary Clinic.
Step inside, and you’ll
find rooms and niches
filled with antiques, local
artwork and photography,
handmade soaps, handblended teas, accessories
made of alpaca fiber and
other locally made items
for sale.
Sheckler, who owns Sun
Dog Herb Farm in Surry,
opened the shop in early
March.
She was inspired to do
so by the property’s owners
Dr. Ryland and Mary Ann
Edwards, also owners of
The Oaks.
Her original plan included an open-air farmers
market in the backyard,
but Chesapeake Bay Act
regulations and zoning red
tape stopped her short.
She revamped her business plan a bit, this time
outfitting the yard with
several raised plant beds
made of recycled pallets.
Once her seedlings can
handle the outdoors, she’ll
transfer her organic herbs,
heirloom vegetables and
flowers to the beds.
“I come out here, I dig it
up, I pot it, and you take it
with you,” said Sheckler of
the straight-from-the-soil
shopping method. She also
sells free range, farm fresh
eggs.
Sheckler traded in a career in the medical field
and her nine-to-five routine
for her green business venture.
“It’s really just come out
Staff Photo by Abby Proch
Homemade soaps are just one of the offerings at
Nature’s Acre in Smithfield.
of my love of digging in the
dirt,” she said.
It’s therapeutic for her,
and her only regret is that
she committed to it later in
life.
“But better late than
never, right?”
Andie Hellyer, one of
Nature’s Acre’s artisans,
has shared a similar dream
of opening an eclectic shop
of handmade crafts.
She contributes hand
sewn cloth dolls and aprons
to the store’s inventory.
Hellyer rifled through
piles of sewing patterns
one afternoon, sipping a
cup of coffee as she went.
And
that’s
what
Sheckler wants — for
people to feel comfortable,
like they’re at home.
Come by Nature’s Acre
Thursday through Sunday,
10 a.m.-5 p.m. (and Wednesdays starting in May).
Fest
beers from across Virginia
and danced as to classic
rock and country tunes by
Summitt Brothers and
Friends.
Though some fest-goers
sampled the spectrum of
wine and brew, many stuck
to one or the other.
Visiting from Norfolk
and Virginia Beach, friends
Tucker Denham, Fred
Swartche and Floyd
Houser stuck to Virginia
brews as they hung out at
in their shaded beer garden
chalet.
Next to the guys’ spot
was Laura Lee Hinkle and
friends’ “Castaway” chalet,
outfitted with netting, life
jackets and other beachy
décor.
Hinkle’s tent earned second in the chalet decorating contest, which was won
by the OK Corral chalet,
decorated by Billy and
Mary Ellen Cook and
friends who also donned
head-to-toe cowboy and
cowgirl duds.
Debbie Szalwinski, who
moved from Smithfield to
Seattle last year, penciled
the wine fest into her
schedule as soon as she got
back to town.
“I love it. It’s awesome. I
can’t believe I’m in
Smithfield,” Szalwinski
said.
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Hope, Ham, History,
Hospitality and HeARTS Bicycle Ride for Relay is
Saturday, April 27. Three
rides (12, 35 and 50 miles)
through Smithfield, Isle of
Wight and Surry. Rides begin
and end at Smithfield
Center. Rain or shine.
Benefits the American
Cancer Society. Sign up:
https://www.bikereg.com/
Net/18937 or email
[email protected].
FISH FRY—Brew Thru Fish
Fry sponsored by the Isle of
Wight County Fair Committee
is Saturday, April 27, noon-6
p.m. in front of Hardy’s
Florist, 34 E. Windsor Blvd.
Includes fish, coleslaw and
cheesy potatoes. Free
delivery for 10 or more
tickets within15-mile radius
of Hardy’s Florist. Info: 3777811.
Sunday, April 28
HAM LECTURE—Museum
Curator Tracey Neikirk will
host a talk on the history of
Smithfield ham on Sunday,
April 28, 2:30 p.m., Isle of
Wight County Museum. The
event is free, and
reservations are not
required. Info: 356-1223 or
visit
www.historicisleofwight.com.
KIDS PAINT— Kids Paint! is
Sunday, April 28, 2-4 p.m. at
the Arts Center @ 319.
Learn about color theory and
how to “see” like an artist,
express visually, and control
materials. Everyone goes
home with a finished
painting. Price includes all
materials. Register at 3577707. $35/member
(additional fee for nonmembers).
BINGO—Bingo for a Cure
Relay for Life event is
Sunday, April 28, 2-5 p.m. at
the American Legion, 818 S.
Church St. $10 adults/$5
under 16 yrs. 10 games.
Refreshments for sale.
Sponsored by Striders 4 A
Cure.
Tuesday, April 30
COMPOSTING—
“Composting 101: Learn to
let it rot!” workshop teaches
the basics of composting
Tuesday, April 30, 6-8 p.m. at
Windsor Hardware. Preregistration required. Firstcome, first-served. Limit of
20 participants. Cost: $15.
Info: 356-1962 or
[email protected].
BURGETT SCHOLARSHIP—
Applications for the Ian
Burgett Memorial
Scholarship can be found at
www.IanBurgett.org. The
postmark deadline for
receipt of the application is
April 30.
Wednesday, May 1
FISH FRY—A Fish Fry will be
held at The Smithfield
Center on May 15, 10
a.m. Bingo and prizes.
$5. Contact Susan Story at
925-1449 before May
1. Sponsored by The Isle of
Wight County Commission on
Aging and the
Senior Services of Southeast
Virginia.
FARM BUREAU
SCHOLARSHIP—$500 Isle
of Wight Farm Bureau
Scholarship to a high school
senior in agriculture, forestry,
natural resources
conservation, environmental
studies or veterinary
science. Application must be
completed and returned to
the Isle of Wight County
Farm Bureau, 79 E. Windsor
Blvd. by May 1. Info: 2426730.
Upcoming
SENIOR GAMES— Isle of
Wight County Parks and
Recreation is looking for
adults 50 and older
interested in participating in
team sports at the Virginia
Senior Games held in
Newport News, May 15-18.
Info: Kelly Harcum at 3560851 or
[email protected].
PDCCC REG—Registration
for the 2013 summer
semester at Paul D. Camp
Community College
continues until May 17.
Classes begin May 20. Info:
visit www.pdc.edu, or call the
Franklin Campus, 569-6700;
the Hobbs Suffolk Campus,
925-6300; or PDCCC at
Smithfield, 925-6340.
TRIAD—Seniors Surviving
Scams: Knowledge is Power,
Monday, May 6, 9 a.m. – 2
p.m. The TRIAD conference
is open to Isle of Wight
citizens age 55 and older.
Attendees receive
information on how to
protect themselves from
fraud, scams, and identify
theft as well as learning
steps to ensure safety at
home and on the highway.
Admission is free,
registration on a first-come,
first-served basis. Info: 3574500 or 357-9122.
ENTREPRENEUR—Nominate
a County Business For
Entrepreneur of the Year
2013. Isle of Wight County
Economic Development is
accepting nominations and
the winner will be announced
at the Board of Supervisors
meeting on June 20. To
nominate, complete a
nomination form
(www.insidetheisle.com) and
return it to Economic
Development at
[email protected] no later
than Friday, May 10.
SOFTBALL SIGN-UP—
Bennett’s Creek women’s
softball league sign-ups have
begun for women 18 years
old and up. Sign up on-line
at www.bcwsl.com.
MUSICAL—Smithfield Little
Theatre presents “Oliver!”
the musical from May 2-26,
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8
p.m. and Sundays at 2:30
p.m. Tickets are $15. Call
the box office at 357-7338
to reserve your tickets. Info:
www.smithfieldlittletheatre.org.
SPAY/NEUTER CLINIC—
PETA’s low-cost spay/neuter
services will be offered every
third Thursday at Tractor
Supply Company, Smithfield.
Call 622-7382, ext. 3, or
297-6550 to schedule
surgery. Vaccinations are
available for sterilized
animals, 10 – 11 am. Info:
PETA.org/SpayNeuter.
SELF-DEFENSE COURSE—
Paul D. Camp Community
College is sponsoring
women’s self-defense
courses taught by Master
Barrett Crook. Courses held
in Conference Hall B at the
Regional Workforce
Development Center, 100 N.
College Dr., Franklin, on
Tuesdays, May 14 to 28,
7:15-8:15 p.m. $45.
Register by emailing Eric
Shaffer, [email protected].
HOST FAMILIES—Local
families needed to host
Japanese exchange
students, ages 12-16, July
22-Aug. 18 as part of an
exchange program
sponsored by 4-H. Program
open to families with
children close in age to the
Japanese participants.
Families without children in
the age range will be
considered as hosts for
adult chaperones from
Japan. Info:
[email protected], 540659-2697, 571-216-5459 or
www.4-h.ext.vt.edu/
programs/citizenship
ARTS AFTERNOON—Tickets
are on sale now for the Isle
of Wight Arts League
fundraiser “An Afternoon in
the Country to Celebrate the
Arts - Downton Abbey Style”
on Saturday, May 18, 3-6
p.m. at .Cherry Grove
Plantation Food, music, art
and entertainment. Prize for
best Downton Abbey
character costume. Tickets
are $35 in advance only at
the Arts Center @ 319 or by
calling 357-7707.
RELAY PAGEANT—The Relay
For Life Pageant is Saturday,
May 25, 5 p.m. at isle of
Wight Academy. Ages 4-21.
Entry free $50. Call Donna
Cowger at 775-0250 or visit
www.relayforlife.org/IWSVA
for application. Deadline May 17.
Behavioral Health
The Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce hosted
a ribbon cutting April 9 for Family Behavioral
Health & Healing in Carrollton, an in-home
counseling agency for children age 5 to 18 with
behavioral challenges. Pictured left to right:
Pastor Rylander of New Mount Olive Baptist
Church, Lois Rylander, DeAndre WimleySwittenberg, Rufus Swittenberg II, DeStanye
Swittenberg, C.E.O. Leasa Swittenberg,
Newport District Supervisor Buzz Baily, Kristi
Sutphin, Isle of Wight Economic Development
and Margo Holliday.
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SPORTS
April 17, 2013
Page 15
Gay pitches a no-hitter, Lady Packers 7-0
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
A flawless pitching performance and a late-game
error
ear ned
the
Smithfield Lady Packers
two wins last week.
On April 11, Smithfield
headed into extra innings
to edged New Kent, 1-0, and
upped their record to 7-0.
Despite the contest being the lowest scoring of
the season, Smithfield has
managed to rack up 48
points in their first seven
games.
And they’ve allowed just
four runs for their opponents.
Much of that comes by
way of Gay, who, in the
New Kent game, managed
16 strikeouts.
That day, Smithfield
looked to take an early lead.
In the third inning and
with no outs, Packers Allie
Nowak and Elizabeth Williams sacrificed bunted to
Named Rookie of the week
Christopher Newport
University
freshman
Alexis Pope was named the
USA South Conference
Rookie Player of the Week.
Pope plays first and
third base for the CNU Captains softball team.
Pope was also named to
the USA South Softball AllConference First Team.
Pope batted 7-for-17
(.412) with seven RBIs,
three runs scored, two
doubles, two home runs
and two walks against USA
South teams in her debut
season.
The Captains ran their
regular season record to 2811, 18-3 in their conference,
and won the conference
tournament this past weekend.
Pope also made the AllTour nament Team for
third base in the conference tournament.
The Captains continue
to the regional competition
May 9-13.
Pope is the daughter of
Tommy and Nancy Pope of
Alexis Pope as a senior
Smithfield.
at Smithfield High
She is a 2012 graduate of
School.
Smithfield High School.
SHS tennis scores
Boys
Smithfield suffered a
shutout loss to Jamestown
April 10, who defeated the
Packers 9-0.
In singles, Sam Ross d.
Antony Jones (SHS) 6-0, 61; Brad Mahaffey d. Mark
Ogle (SHS) 6-0, 6-1; Nathan
Campbell d. Connor Boyle
(SHS) 6-1, 6-0; Raj Ronvelia
d. Gabe Gangemi (SHS) 6-0,
6-0; Craig Donvito d. Logan
Brich (SHS)6-0, 6-0 and
Sean Hubbard d. Josh
Vieitez (SHS) 7-5, 6-4.
In doubles, Ross/Mike
Jones d. Jones/Ogle (SHS)
8-0; Fabian Schleigner/Derrick Neilson d. Boyle/
Gangemi (SHS) 8-0 and
got the lone win by a score
of 9-7.
The Packers are currently 6-1 overall and 1-1 in
the Bay Rivers District.
In singles, L. Walter d.
Kayla Ervin (SHS) 6-0, 6-0;
A. Walter d. Felicia Tucker
6-0, 6-0; E. Wallace d. Kiera
Ervin (SHS) 6-0, 6-1; K.
Sharp d. Ashlyn Mangum
(SHS) 6-4, 6-0; K. Hunt d.
Girls
Michelle Jones (SHS) 6-2, 6The Smithfield High 1 and S. Reso d. Katelyn
Lady Packers suffered Yates (SHS) 6-0, 6-0.
their first loss of the season
In doubles, Walter/
at the hands of the Walter d. Ervin/Ervin 8-1;
Jamestown Lady Eagles. Wallace/Sharp d. Tucker/
The Packers fell 8-1.
Mangum 8-1 and Jones/
No. 3 doubles Michelle Yates (SHS) d. Hunt/Lilley
Jones and Katelyn Yates 9-7.
Rohan Kohli/Mahaffey d.
Brich/ James Taylor (SHS)
8-0.
In exhibition, Donvito d.
Patrick Davis (SHS) 8-0,
Ronvelia d. Liam Barlow 80, Nathan Campbell d.
James Taylor (SHS) 8-0 and
Donvito d. Liam Barlow
(SHS) 8-2.
get runner Mallory Jaax to
third.
But it wasn’t meant to
be, as a subsequent
strikeout by Gay and two
fly outs by Ashley Newman
and Kim Cratsley dashed
those hopes.
In the top of the fourth,
New Kent tried to take the
upper hand when Kristen
Saunders made it to third
with two outs.
Gay made quick work of
New Kent’s Madison
Beasley, striking her out
and holding the Trojans to
0.
The back and forth play,
still with no score, continued into extra innings.
In the bottom of the
ninth, Bobbie Dee Kennedy
ripped one to left field
where fielder Emily Silver
misjudged her throw to
third.
Kennedy headed home
on the error and gave
Smithfield its seventh win
of the season.
Earlier last week Gay
threw her first no-hitter of
the season, and Smithfield
routed Warhill, 12-0.
The mercy rule went
into affect in the fifth inning as Smithfield battered
the Lions from the get-go.
The Packers quickly
went up 3-0 in the first off
doubles
by
Ashley
Newman and Brooke Small
and a single by Katie Potter.
Newman batted 3-for-3
with 2 runs and 5 RBIs, and
Small went 2-for-3 with 2
RBIs.
The Packers played
Tabb Tuesday night. Results were not available by
press time.
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Pig Feast
Saturday, April 20th on the campus of Isle of Wight Academy
17111 Courthouse Highway, Isle of Wight, Virginia 23397
School Phone: (757) 357-3866 • Time: 2-6 p.m.
Cost: Adults-$25 • Children (ages 6-17) $10 • Children (ages 5 and under) Free
Tickets available at the IWA Office, Farmers Bank,
Smithfield True Value, and Commonwealth Gin
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Boutique finds, bargains at ‘Piggie
To Sell or Buy, look to the Classifieds
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By Abby Proch
Staff writer
This Little Piggie came
to town and brought with it
stylish and affordable kids
clothes.
The
newly-opened
children’s boutique features gently used brand
name kids clothes, unique
accessories and handmade
boutique items.
The shop is owned by
friends and business partners Trish Magner and Sarah Williams, who has two
kids of her own, son
Hudson, 5, and daughter
Grey, 3.
This Little Piggie carries clothing — new, used
and with tags — in sizes
newborn to 6T.
They’ve got everything
from onesies to swimsuits,
and more, from popular designers like the Gap,
Gymboree and Hartstrings.
Their boutique items
include tutus, birthday
shirts and onesie stickers.
The stickers, sold in
packs, are popular among
parents who capture their
child’s month-to-month
growth on camera.
Other fun finds include
Squeak Me shoes that encourage babies to get up
and go, stylish silicone
teething necklaces that
moms aren’t afraid to let
babies chew on, and
wooden teething rings that
throw back to a simpler
era.
Their goal: to offer items
not found at Walmart and
Target, but to carry items
that some moms travel to
Williamsburg and Virginia
Beach for.
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1801 South Church Street, Smithfield, VA 23430
www.bealeandcurran.com
Staff Photo by Abby Proch
This Little Piggie sales associate Jessica Findlay, owners Sarah Williams and
Trish Magner. The store is located at 113B N. Church St. in the Firehouse
1939 shops in Smithfield.
This Little Piggie also
buys back clothing. And
anything they don’t buy,
they offer to donate to local
charities.
The pair’s idea for the
shop started years ago, but
the decision to locate in the
Firehouse 1939 shops happened “very quickly,” said
Magner.
“We either had to run
with it or not,” she said.
And run, they did.
After placing a call to
building owner Mark Hall
at the end of February, the
two realized they had just
four weeks to paint, plan
and get everything in stock.
The two, with the help
of Hall, William’s husband
and Magner’s fiancé, got noon to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10
the place looking shabby a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday,
chic in no time.
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The something old,
something new approach to
kid’s clothing is reflected in
the shop’s décor.
Keeping with the industrial feel, Magner and Williams installed clothing
racks made of pipes and
had their “boys” build
shelving units finished
with a white and grass
green crackle paint.
The green pops throughout, contrasting with the
white shelving, the brick
ceiling and delicate chandeliers.
This Little Piggie is
open Thursday and Friday,
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BUSINESS
BRIEFS
• Home Sweet Home
Care is collecting scarves,
hats and wigs for the annual Scarf Up and Wiggle
campaign. Drop off items
now through Mother’s Day,
Monday through Friday, at
Home Sweet Home Care,
346 Main St.
•Smithfield Fast Lube
will unveil “the world’s
largest bottle of automotive oil,” Saturday, April 27,
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 18477
Canteberry Lane. The
event is an attempt to make
it into the Real Guinness
Book of World Records.
•The FTSE Group, an
award-winning global index company, has again
named Smithfield Foods
Inc. to its FTSE4Good Index Series for companies
demonstrating globally recognized corporate responsibility standards. To
qualify for the FTSE4Good
Index Series, eligible companies must meet globally
recognized corporate responsibility standards, including stringent environmental, social and governance criteria and are
therefore positioned to
capitalize on the benefits of
responsible business practices.
Photo by Jessica M. Travis
Celebrating stars
LP Jackson Middle School student Darius
Savage, as Langston Hughes, recited a poem
recently as part of the Black History Month
program “Stars of the Harlem Renaissance.”
Other well-known Harlem luminaries portrayed
included DeAndre’ Moore as Duke Ellington,
Vincent Robinson as W.E.B. DuBois and Braila
Pierce as Zora Neal Hurston.
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The Smithfield Times-Wed., April 17, 2013 - Page 17
Va. parks celebrate Earth Day
April 22 marks the 43rd
celebration of Earth Day,
the grassroots environmental awareness event celebrated in 175 countries. To
mark the occasion, Virginia State Parks will offer
prog ramming
and
volunteerism events and
introduce a new recycling
program in all state parks
during “Earth Week,”
April 16-22. The 35 awardwinning Virginia State
Parks are managed by the
Virginia Department of
Conservation and Recreation.
Scheduled activities include self-guided and
ranger-led programs as
well as volunteer opportunities such as trail and
shoreline cleanups.
The new statewide recycling program was developed when Dominion Virginia Power awarded a
$25,000 grant to Keep Virginia Beautiful for 250 rolling recycling bins and educational signs in Virginia
State Parks. Keep Virginia
Beautiful also provided
portable cigarette-butt ashtrays and larger disposal
units to help with cigarette
litter, which is unsightly,
costly to clean up, and
harmful to waterways and
wildlife.
The program was introduced in three state parks
last fall, in conjunction
with Virginia Green,
Virginia’s program to encourage green practices
throughout its tourism industry. Units will be in
place statewide for Earth
Week.
“Our partnerships demonstrate the power of businesses, nonprofits and government working together
to make a difference,” said
DCR State Parks Director
Joe Elton. “We are committed to bringing a recycling
message to our more than
8 million annual visitors
who already appreciate
nature’s bounty in our
parks and other public
lands. Quite frankly, a
visitor’s experienced is significantly enhanced without trash and cigarette
butts marring the beauty
of the outdoors.”
concerning green attractions, green lodging and
green meeting facilities,
visit www.virginia.org/
green.
Examples of state park
Earth Week events and volunteer opportunities include:
Caledon in King George
County, Hungry Mother
near Marion, Leesylvania
in Prince William County
and Smith Mountain Lake
in Bedford County, will
sponsor trash-to-treasure
programs, demonstrating
that one person’s trash
could be another person’s
treasure or useful item.
Mason Neck State
Park’s Eagle Festival is a
great celebration of
America’s success protecting the national symbol;
the festival will be held
April 20 at the park, located
in Fairfax County.
Natural Tunnel State
Park near Duffield will
sponsor the 10 th Annual
Earth Day Rummage Sale
Round-Up, April 19.
Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park
in Big Stone Gap is hosting
a plant sale and workshops,
April 20.
Volunteers at Staunton
River Battlefield State Park
in Halifax and Charlotte
counties will create a monarch butterfly habitat and
plant a new flower bed at
Sky Meadows State Park in
Faquier County on April
20.
Pocahontas in Chester-
RICHMOND (AP) — The
Richmond area and beyond
soon will be buzzing with a
sound heard only once every 17 years.
Around mid-May, millions of 17-year cicadas will
crawl out of the ground
and mate. The females then
will lay eggs and both
adults will die shortly after
mating. In the summer, the
eggs will hatch and their
offspring will burrow into
the ground to begin the
next cycle.
“We have no idea how
they know how much time
has passed,” Gene Kritsky,
a cicada expert at the College of Mount St. Joseph in
Cincinnati, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
He said it will be
Richmond’s day in the sun
for cicadas.
“To me it’s like having a
David Attenborough special in your backyard,”
Kritsky said, “if you are
lucky enough to have them
emerging in your yard.”
During their short time
of the surface, the insects
do a lot of good, he said.
Their holes aerate the soil,
and they return nutrients
to the soil when they die.
They also provide food for
birds and other animals.
The big noise is made by
the males, who are trying to
attract mates. The females
flick their wings.
Each female makes
punctures at the ends of
tree twigs and lays 400 to
600 eggs. This can harm
small trees but it is like a
pruning for larger trees,
Kritsky said.
“Next year, they’ll come
back with a better growth,”
he said.
He recommends that
people get married when
the cicadas appear.
“Think about it. The
only time you will have the
same environmental conditions of your wedding day
will be on your 17th anniversary, your 34th anniversary
and your 51st anniversary,”
Kritsky said.
When buying or selling, try...
field County, Sailor’s Creek
near Farmville and Wilderness Road in Lee County
host tree-planting events.
on these and others programs, visit: http://
1.usa.gov/Zqrazo,
or
search the events section of
the Virginia State Parks
w e b s i t e
www.virginiastateparks.gov.
The Smithfield Times Classified
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about Virginia State Parks
activities and amenities or
to make reservations in one
of the more than 1,800
campsites or 300 climatecontrolled cabins, call the
Virginia State Parks Reservation Center at 800-933PARK
or
visit
www.virginiastateparks.gov.
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Community Clean Up Days scheduled for all areas north and west of Cypress
Creek and the Pagan River (including River Oaks, Pinewood Heights, Goose Hill
Creek, Jericho Estates, Cypress Creek, Riverview, Lakeside, Downtown areas,
Jersey Park, West Main Street, etc.) has been postponed until Saturday, May 11,
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AUCTIONS
ABSOLUTE AUCTION
TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE Danville, Virginia
– Cyber Park. April 24,
2013 at 12:00 noon on site
500 Stinson Drive, Danville, Virginia.15,663 sf
warehouse/ofces. Tax Assessed Value: $1,081,700.
Walker Commercial Services, Inc. VAAF #549
(540) 344-6160 http://
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REAL ESTATE AUCTION – May 4, Noon.
Claytor Lake, Pulaski
County. Elegant wellmaintained 4,523+/- sq.
ft. home with Mediterranean-inspired oor plan is
designed for entertaining.
The 0.87+/- ac. lot offers
a winter view of Claytor Lake inlet & deeded
space for keeping a boat.
Property has an assessed
value of $520,100 and
WILL BE SOLD FOR
HIGHEST BID OVER
$190,500. Previews: Sun.,
Apr. 21 & Sat., Apr. 27, 2
– 4 PM. Sale held on site:
6544 Owens Rd., Radford,
VA 24141. 5% buyer’s
premium. Jonna McGraw
(VA #2434), Woltz & Associates, Inc, Brokers &
Auctioneers, Roanoke,
VA, 800-551-3588. Visit
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REAL ESTATE AUCTION. Rockbridge County. May 3, 5:00 PM. 50+/private acres of historic
Balcony Downs Plantation
located less than 10 mi.
from I-81 & within 15 mi.
of Lexington & the Virginia
Horse Center. Improvements include a 4,630+/sq. ft. brick manor house
(circa 1822), two cottages,
6-stall barn, portions of a
brick dairy barn (circa 1890
-1910), swimming pool
and spring-fed pond. Tax
assessed value: $866,500.
Minimum Bid: $524,000.
5% buyer’s premium. Visit
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contact Jonna McGraw
for additional information.
Woltz & Associates, Inc.,
Brokers & Auctioneers
(VA# 321), Roanoke, VA.
800-551-3588
ABSOLUTE AUCTION
Trustee Foreclosure. Saturday, May 4 at 12 noon�440
+/- acres Bath County, Virginia.10,000 feet bordering
National Forest�Walker
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EBIDLOCAL.com AUCTION ONLINE: Virginia
Treasury Unclaimed Property Preview: TUESDAY
4/23, 9am-5pm. Diamonds,
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4/27/13 @ 10:30 AM. 12772
HIGHLANDS PKWY.,
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AUCTIONS (2) – Metalworking Machinery,
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23, 10 AM – Selling for
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– Bid April 16 thru April
24, Bids Close Beginning @ 1 PM, April 24
– Selling for J. W. Taylor
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normally Monday 5p.m.
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sion during the Public Carney, Planning and
Legal Notices Hearing to be held in Zoning Administrator
PUBLIC NOTICE
the Robert C. Claud,
Sr. Board Room at the
Isle of Wight County
Courthouse Complex,
Isle of Wight, Virginia,
on Tuesday, April 23,
2013 beginning at 6:00
p.m.
The County of Isle of
Wight is in compliance
with the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990.
If you will require an accommodation or sign
language interpreter
to participate in the
meeting, reasonable
accommodations can
be made upon request.
Please make requests to
the Clerk of the Board
of Supervisors at least
ve (5) days in advance
of the meeting at (757)
365-6204.
ISLE OF WIGHT
COUNTY PLANNING
COMMISSION
By:
Melinda J.
Goodwyn, Secretary
Notice is hereby given
pursuant to Sections
15.2-2204 and 15.22285 of the Code of
Virginia, (1950, as
amended), that the Isle
of Wight County Planning Commission will
hold a Public Hearing
on Tuesday, April 23,
2013 to consider for
recommendation to the
Board of Supervisors
the following:
An Ordinance to Amend
and Reenact the Isle of
Wight County Code,
Appendix B, Zoning,
Article VIII, Section
8-1003 (Landscaping
and Screening Requirements and Design
Guidelines) to amend
language referring to the
Development Review
Committee, and Section
8-1005 (Landscaping
Zones) to reduce requirements of the park- L13-57
ing, foundation, and 4-10/2t
screening zones.
————
The application of
Breeden Investment
Properties, Inc., applicant and Eagle Harbor,
L.L.C., owner, for a
change in zoning classication from Conditional General Commercial
(C-GC) to Conditional
Planned Development
Residential (C-PD-R)
of approximately 15.80
acres of land located on
the west side of Carrollton Boulevard (Route
17) and to amend the
conditions dated November 18, 1998, in
the Newport Election
District. The request is
to allow for multi-family residential development on approximately
15.80 acres of land and
to amend conditions
of the 1998 rezoning
approval to increase
the aggregate total of
residential units to allow
for the development of
Tract 8 for up to 208
multi-family units and
to modify the Schedule of Phased Highway
Road Improvements.
Copies of said applications and the Isle of
Wight County Zoning
Ordinance are on le
in the Department of
Planning and Zoning at
the Isle of Wight County
Courthouse Complex,
Isle of Wight, Virginia,
and are available for
public examination.
Any person desiring to
be heard in favor of,
in opposition to, or to
express his or her views
with respect to said applications may appear
before and be heard by
said Planning Commis-
at (757)242-4288 between the hours of 9:00
a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
LAND DEVELOPMENTTEXTAMENDMENTS TO AMEND
PENDING TOWN OF
WINDSOR LAND
DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE- The following amendments
are proposed to amend
the pending Land Development Ordinance
by deletion and addition
in various sections, to
prohibit the outdoor
storage of appliances,
furniture and construction materials; and in
residential districts the
following prohibitions
and clarications; prohibits the parking of
commercial vehicles
exceeding 1.5 tons in
residential districts;
prohibits and claries
the parking of cars and
vehicles in front of
residences except in
driveways or parking
areas; and; in a separate
section; permits the
parking of such vehicles
NOTICE OF
PUBLIC HEARING and non-commercial
utility trailers in the side
Notice is hereby given and rear setback areas.
pursuant to Section
15.2-2204 of the Code The language of the
of Virginia, 1950 as Land Development
amended that the Plan- Text amendments to
ning Commission of the the proposed Land
Town of Windsor will Development Ordihold public hearings on nance are available
Wednesday April 24, for public scrutiny in
2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the Town of Windsor
the Town Hall Council Town Hall, Monday
Chamber on the matters through Friday, or by
and requests described contacting Mr. Dennis
Carney, Planning and
as follows:
Zoning Administrator
LAND DEVELOP- at (757)242-4288 beMENT ORDINANCE tween the hours of 9:00
T E X T A M E N D - a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
MENTS- Amend by
deletion and addition Any person wishing to
the Town of Windsor be heard in favor of or
Land Development in opposition to or to
Ordinance in various express his or her views
sections to clarify the on the aforementioned
prohibitions on outdoor Land Development
storage of appliances, Ordinance text amendfurniture and construc- ments, or the Proposed
tion materials; and in Land Development Orresidential districts the dinance Text Amendfollowing prohibitions ment may appear before
and clarications; pro- and be heard by the
hibit the parking of Planning Commission
commercial vehicles of the Town of Windsor
exceeding 1.5 tons; at the above stated time
claries and prohibits and place.
the parking of cars and
vehicles in front of resi- A copy of the applicadences except in drive- tion is on le in the
ways or parking areas; Town offices of the
and; permits the parking Town of Windsor, Virof such vehicles and ginia located at 8 East
non-commercial utility Windsor Boulevard,
trailers in the side and Windsor, Virginia
rear setback areas.
Dennis W. Carney
T h e Z o n i n g Te x t
amendments are avail- Planning and Zoning
able for public scrutiny Administrator
in the Town of Windsor L13-58
Town Hall, Monday 4-10/2t
through Friday, or by ————
contacting Mr. Dennis
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BMW
325 CI
Coupe, Excellent Conditon, 90K miles
757-615-5401
$11,750
04 Jeep
Liberty
4WD, V-6, Automatic, full-power, leather,
sunroof, new inspection
757-685-2889
$8,100.00
04 Dodge
Ram
1500 Green HEMI GTX, excellent condition, many extras,
under 45K miles, title in hand
757-365-0701
$12,500
98 Lincoln
Town Car
86 Chevy
El Camino
Extra clean, many features, 114,000 miles. Garage kept
a beautiful car, below blue book value.
136K Miles, Trophy Winner, Excellent Condition
757-357-5816
$4,300
757-397-4152
$9,750
98 Honda
Goldwing
Candy Apple Red, 38,000 miles, just inspected
Aspencade
757-357-9022
$6,000
91 Volvo 240
Needs one part for inspection. Runs & looks good.
757-556-2117
$550 Firm
01 Ford Ranger
Extended cab, good condition, running rough AT/AC
09 Yamaha
Majesty 400
Touring Scooter, low mileage, ecellent condition
85 MPH Highway, Automatic, 400cc engine
757-556-2117
$1650 OBO
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- The Smithfield Times

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