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Volume 4, Issue 14 · Mid July, 2009
Warren
County Report
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juries and is expected to make a
full recovery. The dog was seized
pending the outcome in court.
The Warren County Sheriff ’s
Office was assisted by the Clarke
County Sheriff ’s Office and the
Virginia State Police.
House of Fabrics
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Linden Rotary president Stephanie Fretwell (left)
presents the Rotarian of the Year award to Debbie
Grove
Attacking pitbull shot
On July 6, 2009 at approximately 11:30 p.m., the Warren
County Sheriff ’s Office received a
call of a possibly suicidal subject
at 224 Yarnell Court, Front Royal
Virginia. Upon arrival deputies
were not able to approach the
house due to a large pitbull in the
yard. While assessing the situation, a subject later identified as
Michael Robert Watson, 31 year
of age, of 224 Yarnell Court, came
out of the house. The deputies
announced their presence and
advised Watson to contain the
dog so they could speak to him.
Watson commanded the dog to
his side and had the dog sit. As
the deputies approached to speak
with Mr. Watson he turned to go
into the house. At that time Mr.
Watson commanded the dog to
attack. The pitbull immediately
left his side and aggressively went
after Deputy Mumaw. Deputy
Mumaw was forced to shoot the
pitbull before it came to a stop.
Michael Robert Watson was arrested for felony attempt to maliciously cause bodily injury and
Felony obstructing a law enforcement officer by threat or force.
Watson was released the following day on a $15,000 secured
bond.
The deputies or the suspect
were not injured during the incident. The pitbull, identified
as Scooter, was taken to the
emergency vet in Winchester by
Warren County Animal Control
where he was treated for his in-
Cross represents county fire &
rescue in Richmond
Warren County Department of
Fire and Rescue had the privilege
of sending one of our junior officers to a highly selective training program held in Richmond in
mid June. The training was held
at the University of Richmond
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Captain Raymond Cross was
selected to attend from this De-
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RT. 277
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52nd Annual Fair
Ticket available if not sold out
General Admission $25.00
Reserved (if available) $35.00
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Sunday evening, Aug. 2, 7:00 p.m.
To Fairfax Çity
Adults $3.00; ages 7-12 $1.00; ages 6 & under Free
RT. 50
Saturday, Aug. 1, 9:00 a.m.
Mid July, 2009 • Warren County Report • Page Directions/Fair Map
Admission Rates
2009
WCFA
Warren County
Schedule of Events
Sponsored by Liberty Tax Service
6pm-10pm
6pm
6:30 pm
6:30 pm
Admission: Adults $10.00, Ages 7-12 $5.00,
Ages 6 & Under-Free
Gate Opens/Tradeshow Opens (Wonder Building)
8am-10am
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2009
7pm & 8pm
7pm
7pm
BINGO Hosted by The Kiwanis Club (Bingo Pavillion)
4-H Market Hog, Breeding Swine and
Swine Showmanship Shows
Children’s Puppet Show
WDW WRESTLING w/feature event "Midget" Championship
THE VIRGINIA GIANT &
THE HUSH POWER MONSTER TRUCK
(Last Armband Sold @ 9pm)
Midway: "Ride For One Price" $18
Sponsored by Wachovia
Admission: "Family Night" Adults $5.00, Ages 12 & Under-Free
6pm-10pm
6pm
6:30 pm
7pm
Midway
4-H Market Lamb, Breeding Sheep &
Sheep Showmanship Shows
DEMOLITION DERBY Presented by Stoney Rober ts
7pm-9pm
FIVE OF A KIND BLUEGRASS
4pm
4pm
6pm-10pm
Ages 6 & Under-Free
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2009
Show included with gate admission.
Bring your chairs. Sponsored by Sprint
THE FABULOUS HUBCAPS
7pm&9pm
Midway
ATV Dir t Drag Racing
Supreme Champion 4-H Livestock
Showmanship Contest
6pm-10pm
6pm
6pm
6:30 pm
4pm
Ages 6 & Under-Free
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2009
7am
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2009
8am-12pm
8am-12pm
All 4-H Livestock Project Animals
Removed from Fairgrounds
All Rabbit & Poultry Exhibits
Mandatory Barn Cleanup for all
4-H Livestock Program Exhibitors
All Home Economics Exhibits
Removed from Wonder Building
9am-2pm
Schedule of Events
6:30pm
7pm
99.3
Sponsored by All-Star Check Cashing
Show included with gate admission. Bring your chairs.
Sponsored by Liberty Tax Service
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Map
MORNINGS 6-10AM
Winchester
Admission Rates
Saturday, Aug. 1, 9:00 a.m.
RT. 50
Adults $3.00; ages 7-12 $1.00; ages 6 & under Free
To Fairfax Çity
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Stephens City
Sponsored by Jack Evans Chevrolet Cadillac
6pm
6:30 pm
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2009
BINGO Hosted by The Kiwanis Club
(Bingo Pavillion)
4-H Market Goat, Breeding Goat, Dairy Goat and
Goat Showmanship Shows
DEMOLITION DERBY
Presented by Stoney Rober ts
(Crashing Full Sized Pick-ups)
SAMMY KERSHAW
Ages 6 & Under-Free
4-H Livestock Buyers Registration,
Breakfast and Awards Program
Buyers Breakfast
4-H Livestock Auction
Admission: Adults $10.00, Ages 7-12 $5.00
Ages 6 & Under-Free
ITTPA Tractor Pull (Back Field)
Tradeshow Opens (Wonder Building)
Sponsored by Shenandoah Valley Electric Company
6pm
8:30pm
SUNDAY, AUG. 2, 2009
7pm
Sponsored by Arctic Air
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2009
Ages 6 & Under-Free
Fairest of the Fair Pageant
Tiny, Little Miss & Preteen Pageants
Home Economics Exhibits Accepted
8am-9am
10am-12pm
GATES OPEN
AT NOON
2pm
4pm
Rabbit & Poultry Exhibits judged
MISS WARREN COUNTY FAIR SCHOLARSHIP
PAGEANT, JR. MISS & MS. PAGEANTS
Midway
Greased Pig Contest
10am
6pm
11am-3pm
4pm
Midway
Greased Pig Contest
5pm-7pm
6pm-10pm
DAVID ALLAN COE BAND
5th Annual Warren County 4-H & Open Horse Show
4-H Livestock Project Animals
Received in the Barn
Rabbits and Poultry Exhibits Received
Rabbits & Poultry Exhibits Received
4-H Livestock Project Exhibitors
& Family Members Off Premises
Kiwanis Bingo
SAMMY KERSHAW
8pm
THE OAK RIDGE BOYS
6pm
6pm
6-10pm
6pm-10pm
6pm
6:30 pm
10am
10am-4pm
2pm
4pm
6pm-10pm
6pm
6:30 pm
8am
8am-2pm
4-H Market Beef, Breeding Beef,
Beef Showmanship Shows, Dairy Cattle &
Dairy Cattle Showmanship Shows
Sponsored by Jack Evans Chevrolet Cadillac
8:30pm
6:30 pm
Ages 6 & Under-Free
Weigh-In all 4-H Livestock Project Animals
Wonder Building Closed for Judging
Grading of all 4-H Livestock Project Animals
1pm-3pm
11am-3pm
1pm-4pm
4pm
DAVID ALLAN COE BAND
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2009
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2009
SPECIAL CONCERT - Not part of the Fair
RESERVED SEATING: $35
GENERAL ADMISSION: $25
No coolers or alcoholic beverages from outside
allowed. Beer sold only at this event.
7am
2009 Warren County Fair Sponsored by
Ages 6 & Under-Free
4-H Livestock Buyers Registration,
Breakfast and Awards Program
8am-9am
Buyers Breakfast
10am-12pm
4-H Livestock Auction
GATES OPEN
Admission: Adults $10.00, Ages 7-12 $5.00
AT NOON
Ages 6 & Under-Free
2pm
ITTPA Tractor Pull (Back Field)
4pm
Tradeshow Opens (Wonder Building)
8am-10am
5pm
8pm
4-H Market Beef, Breeding Beef,
Beef Showmanship Shows, Dairy Cattle &
Dairy Cattle Showmanship Shows
Show included with gate admission.
Bring your chairs. Sponsored by Sprint
7pm
Sponsored by Arctic Air
THE FABULOUS HUBCAPS
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2009
8am-12pm
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2009
Ages 6 & Under-Free
6pm
6pm
6-10pm
7pm&9pm
Ages 6 & Under-Free
Weigh-In all 4-H Livestock Project Animals
Wonder Building Closed for Judging
Grading of all 4-H Livestock Project Animals
Ages 6 & Under-Free
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2009
4pm
Midway
Supreme Champion 4-H Livestock
Showmanship Contest
8am-12pm
7pm & 8pm
7pm
7pm
6pm-10pm
6pm
6pm
6:30 pm
10am
10am-4pm
2pm
4pm
4pm
All 4-H Livestock Project Animals
All Rabbit & Poultry Exhibits
Mandatory Barn Cleanup for all
4-H Livestock Program Exhibitors
All Home Economics Exhibits
Removed from Wonder Building
9am-2pm
SPECIAL CONCERT - Not part of the Fair
RESERVED SEATING: $35
GENERAL ADMISSION: $25
No coolers or alcoholic beverages from outside
allowed. Beer sold only at this event.
4-H Market Hog, Breeding Swine and
Swine Showmanship Shows
Children’s Puppet Show
WDW WRESTLING w/feature event "Midget" Championship
THE VIRGINIA GIANT &
THE HUSH POWER MONSTER TRUCK
Rabbit & Poultry Exhibits judged
MISS WARREN COUNTY FAIR SCHOLARSHIP
PAGEANT, JR. MISS & MS. PAGEANTS
Ages 6 & Under-Free
5pm-7pm
6pm-10pm
EVERY NIGHT OF THE FAIR
Midway
4-H Market Lamb, Breeding Sheep &
Sheep Showmanship Shows
DEMOLITION DERBY Presented by Stoney Rober ts
6pm-10pm
4pm
7pm
Sponsored by All-Star Check Cashing
THE OAK RIDGE BOYS
7pm
7pm
5pm
6pm
The Galaxy Globe of Death
Mechanical Bull • Kiwanis Bingo
FIVE OF A KIND BLUEGRASS
1pm-3pm
11am-3pm
1pm-4pm
4pm
Admission: "Family Night" Adults $5.00, Ages 12 & Under-Free
6:30pm
•Schedule subject to change
5th Annual Warren County 4-H & Open Horse Show
4-H Livestock Project Animals
Received in the Barn
Rabbits and Poultry Exhibits Received
Rabbits & Poultry Exhibits Received
4-H Livestock Project Exhibitors
& Family Members Off Premises
Kiwanis Bingo
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2009
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2009
4pm
6pm
6:30 pm
SUNDAY, AUG. 2, 2009
8am
8am-2pm
7pm-9pm
10am
6pm
11am-3pm
BINGO Hosted by The Kiwanis Club
(Bingo Pavillion)
4-H Market Goat, Breeding Goat, Dairy Goat and
Goat Showmanship Shows
DEMOLITION DERBY
Presented by Stoney Rober ts
(Crashing Full Sized Pick-ups)
Ages 6 & Under-Free
Fairest of the Fair Pageant
Tiny, Little Miss & Preteen Pageants
7pm
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RT. 522
I-81
FRONT ROYAL
#6
Exit
Ticket available if not sold out
General Admission $25.00
Reserved (if available) $35.00
All must pay except babies in arms.
Monday, Aug. 3, 4:00 p.m.
FAIRGROUNDS
Strasburg
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Sunday evening, Aug. 2, 7:00 p.m.
$10.00; ages 7-12 $5.00; ages 6 & under Free
Tuesday, Aug. 4, 4:00 p.m.
To Manassas & D.C.
FAMILY NIGHT $5.00; children under 12 Free
when accompanied by a paying adult
Wednesday, Aug. 5, 4:00 p.m.
I-66
Thursday, Aug. 6, 4:00 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 7, 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 8, 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Gates Open at noon. Admission: Adults $10.00;
ages 7-12 $5.00; ages 6 & under Free
EVERY NIGHT OF THE FAIR
The Galaxy Globe of Death
Mechanical Bull • Kiwanis Bingo
2009 ATV &
TRACTOR
PULLS
Warren County
•Schedule subject to change
FAIR
August 5:
6 pm
WCFA
2009
ATV Dirt
Drag Racing
52nd Annual
Fair
August 7:
6 pm
ATV Dirt
Drag Racing
August 8:
2 pm
Tractor
Pulls
Weekly Fair Passes
$25.00 Adults; $15 Children
Midway •
Monday-Saturday
Midway opens 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
“Ride for One Price” $18.00 each August 3, 4, 5
(last armband sold at 9:00 p.m. Ride until 10:00 p.m.)
*Schedule subject to change
Contact Us
Warren County Fair Association
P.O. Box 1555
Front Royal, VA 22630-3701
540-635-5827 • Fax 540-635-3701
[email protected]
Warren Co. Fair
Pageants
August 3-8, 2009
522 N. and Fairgrounds Road, Front Royal, VA
540-635-5827
www.warrencountyfair.com
Member:
“Virginia Association
of Fairs, Inc.” &
“International Association of
Fairs and Expositions”
Entertainment
Wed., Aug 4
8:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m. Fairest of the Fair
6:00 p.m. Tiny, Little Miss & Preteen
Mon., August 3
7:00 p.m. Miss Warren County Fair Scholarship 2008 Queen Chelsea York
Pageant, Jr. Miss & Ms. Pageants
*Schedule subject to change
Fri., Aug 7
6:00 p.m.
David Allan
Coe Band
Sat., August 1
INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF FAIRS
& EXPOSITIONS
ATV Dirt Drag
Racing
Sponsored by
Arctic Air
Thurs., Aug 6
7:00 & 9:00 p.m.
5 of a
Kind
Bluegrass
Sat., Aug 9
2:00 p.m.
Interstate
Truck &
Tractor Pull
Sat., August 8
8:30 p.m.
Sammy
Kershaw
Sun., August 2
SPECIAL CONCERT! NOT PART OF THE FAIR!
7:00 p.m.
The Oak Ridge Boys
Tues., Aug 4
7:00 p.m.
WDW
Wrestling
featuring
“Midget
Championship”
Mon., Aug 3 & Thurs., Aug 6
Stoney Roberts Demolition Derby
Sponsored by
Jack Evans Chevrolet & Cadillac
7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Liberty Tax Services (Monday)
and All-Star Checking (Thursday)
Fri., Aug 7
7:00 & 9:00 p.m.
The
Fabulous
Hubcaps
Sponsored by Sprint
Every Night of the Fair
Hansen’s Spectacular Circus Thrill Show
Galaxy Globe of Death with Galaxy Girl and more!
Also Kiwanis Bingo and Mechanical Bull!
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“Raymond has been an employee of this Department since
July 2002 and was promoted to
Captain, assigned to Station 1,
in February 2008. We are particularly proud to have Raymond
chosen as one of only forty to attend this school this year,” Mabie
said.
Cross was one of 40 officers,
38 from Virginia and two from
Charleston, invited to the program designed to foster safety for
emergency responders. This third
annual program coincided with
Springfield
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National Fire/EMS Safety, Health
and Survival Week. The program
development was initially funded
by the National Fallen Firefighters’ Foundation.
Student honored for excellence
in German
Kira Dalrymple, daughter of
Mr. & Mrs. Vince Dalrymple of
Columbia, has recently been honored for being among the top 90th
percentile of over 23,000 students
who took the National German
Examination administered by the
American Association of Teachers of German in 2009. Founded
in 1926, the AATG is the only national organization representing
German teachers at all levels of
instruction. The AATG is dedicated to the advancement and
improvement of the teaching of
language, literature and culture
of the German-speaking countries.
Awards for outstanding stu-
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Kira is a rising senior at Randolph-Macon Academy in Front
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State Police target Interstates
95 & 81 for operation Air,
Land & Speed enforcement
For the third time in eight
months, Operation Air, Land and
Speed will focus on Interstate 95
and Interstate 81 for continued
traffic safety enforcement. With
the summer driving season underway, the safety initiative allows for an increased number
of troopers to patrol the northsouth interstate corridors to enhance enforcement and encourage responsible driving behavior
on the highways. The latest Operation Air, Land and Speed project will begin Friday, July 10, and
conclude Saturday, July 11, 2009.
“Unfortunately, last weekend
during the July 4th holiday, alcohol and a lack of seat belt usage were common factors in the
nine traffic crashes that claimed
10 lives,” says Colonel W. Steven
Flaherty, Virginia State Police
Superintendent. “Hopefully our
increased patrols and visible enforcement during this Operation
Air, Land and Speed campaign
will serve as continuing deterrents to irresponsible and potentially deadly driving behaviors.”
The most recent Operation Air,
Land and Speed project on I-81
and I-95 was in May 2009. The enforcement effort produced a total
of 6,853 arrests and summonses.
The following is the breakdown
for each highway corridor:
On I-81, troopers stopped
2,138 speeders and 234 reckless
drivers. They also took six drunk
drivers off the interstate and
made 12 felony arrests. Total violations and arrests on I-81 during
the Sunday, May 17, and Monday,
May 18, 2009, enforcement blitz
were 3,725.
On I-95, troopers stopped 1,386
speeders and 345 reckless drivers.
They also took three drunk drivers off the interstate and made
11 felony arrests. Total violations
and arrests on I-95 were 3,128 for
the May Operation Air, Land and
Speed initiative.
There were zero traffic fatalities
on either interstate during the
operation.
This is the eleventh time since
2006 that Operation Air, Land
and Speed has focused on the I81 and I-95 interstate corridors.
A total of 19 operations have been
conducted on Virginia interstates
statewide since the campaign’s
inception in 2006 and have yielded 97,897 total summonses and
arrests.
With additional troopers on the
roads for this traffic safety campaign, state police reminds motorists to comply with Virginia’s
“Move Over” law. This state law
requires drivers to change to
another travel lane or, when not
able to, to cautiously pass emergency personnel stopped on the
side of the road.
The comprehensive enforcement project utilizes troopers,
supervisors, motorcycle units
and motor carrier troopers.
State police operational duties
on other interstates, primary and
secondary roads are not affected
during the operation. Funding for
the enforcement initiative is pro-
Blood Drive
Tuesday, July 28th
Riverton United Methodist Church
2pm-7pm
Beth Medved Waller, Inc
540-671-6145 • [email protected]
My phone is ringing off the hook with buyers & showings of my
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Attention WCHS Class of 1994!!
Mark your calendars for our 15 year Reunion
August 22, 2009 6pm-11pm
The Apple House Banquet Room • Tickets $25
For Details Call Beth Medved Waller, ‘94 Class President at
540-671-6145 or Jennifer (Runion) Berry, Reunion Chair at
540-622-4096
Mid July, 2009 • Warren County Report • Page To advertise in Warren County Report:
Warren County seeking
housing for skatepark
contractors
Warren County is actively seeking housing for contractors that
will be working on the construc-
tion of the Warren County Skatepark. While site preparation for
the park is already underway, the
County is asking for assistance
from the community to provide
a rental house or donate housing
from July until December of this
year. The construction crew will
consist of approximately eight
adults and as a public entity a do-
nation to the County can be used
as a tax write-off for the donor.
The Warren County Skatepark
is a 15,000 sqaure foot outdoor
facility that will be located adjacent to the Skyline Soccerplex
off Kerfoot Avenue. The park is
being funded by a combination of
grants including money awarded
from the Front Royal Rotary and
the Virginia Outdoor Fund, private donations, and funding from
Warren County.
The facility
should be open for operation by
the end of this year. For more
information on the park, please
visit www.warrencountyskatepark.com.
Brandy Rosser, Grants and Special Projects Coordinator, continues to work on securing donations for the Warren County
Skatepark. Anyone wishing to
get involved in fundraising, to
provide in-kind donations, or to
donate to the project can con-
tact Brandy at (540) 636-4600 or
grantscoord@warrencountyva.
net.
For questions or additional information on the project, contact
Douglas P. Stanley, County Administrator, at (540) 636-4600 or
Daniel P. Lenz, Director of Parks
and Recreation, at (540) 6357750.
Millions from Recovery
Act to Upgrade & Expand
Community Health Centers
To Serve More Patients in
Virginia
First Lady Michelle Obama
announced the release of
$13,523,859 in grants to community health centers in Virginia.
The grants will help address immediate and pressing health center facility and equipment needs
Clock
Repair
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Restoration
of Grandfather, Wall,
and Mantle Clocks
Highest standards maintained,
all work guaranteed.
Pickup and delivery available.
I make housecalls!
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Clockmaker
Linden, Va.
(540) 671-3749
[email protected]
WARREN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION’S
Beauty Pageants
522 NORTH TO FAIRGROUNDS ROAD, FRONT ROYAL
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 - 10:00 AM
�
Queen Chelsea York
Fairest of the Fair: Boys and Girls ages Newborn, 1 yr., 2 yrs., 3 yrs. & 4 yrs.
Contestant must be a resident and live within a 50-mile radius of Warren County, Va.
�
PAGEANT SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 - 6:00 PM
� Little Miss: Ages 8 yrs. - 10 yrs.
Tiny Miss: Ages 5 yrs. - 7 yrs.
� Preteen Miss: Ages 11 yrs. - 12 yrs.
All must be a resident of Warren County and be able to show proof
MONDAY, AUGUST 3 - 7:00 PM
Miss Warren County Fair $1,000 Scholarship Pageant: Ages 16-22
� Junior Miss Warren County Fair : Ages 13-15
� Ms/Mrs Warren County Fair : Ages 23 yrs and older
All must be a resident of Warren County and be able to show proof
All registration fees $35.00 • Registration deadline July 25th
Barbara Ballentine, Chairman; Bonnie Lewis, Co-Chairman; & Carlton Wilt, Assistant
Applications on line or at the fair office. Office hours 10-4 Monday-Sunday * 540-635-5827
For more information go to www.warrencountyfair.com and download an application and rules
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vided through federal highway
safety monies.
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or Dan McDermott at [email protected]
540-636-1014
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and increase access to health
care for millions in Virginia. The
money was made available by the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and comes as more
Americans join the ranks of the
uninsured due to the economic downturn and skyrocketing
health costs.
“Community Health Centers
provide care to the Americans
who need it most and their work
has never been more important,”
said Obama. “These grants will
help centers in Virginia serve
more Americans who simply
can’t afford insurance coverage
anymore.”
The Recovery Act Capital Improvement Program (CIP) grants
will support the construction, repair and renovation of over 1,500
health center sites nationwide.
More than 650 centers will use
the funds to purchase new equipment or health information technology (HIT) systems, and nearly
400 health centers will adopt
and expand the use of electronic
health records.
To see a list of Recovery Act
CIP grantees in Virginia, go to
http://tinyurl.com/nl6xmm
Health centers deliver preventive and primary care services at
more than 7,500 service delivery
sites around the country to patients regardless of their ability
to pay; charges for services are
set according to income. Health
centers serve more than 17 million patients, about 40 percent of
whom have no health insurance.
Community Health Centers are
the responsibility of the Department of Health and Human Ser-
Lawyers serving
injured persons
involved in:
• Automobile accidents
• Tractor-trailer
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• Wrongful death cases
• Workers’
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losses
for Services grants to provide
care to more than 2 million additional patients over the next two
years, including approximately 1
million uninsured people.
WZRV-FM and WFTR-AM are
again recognized by the VAB
Royal Broadcasting Inc., which
owns WZRV-FM and WFTRAM, earned two more ‘best of ’
awards at the 72nd annual Virginia Association of Broadcasters Awards Banquet in Virginia
Beach.
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honors for Outstanding Newscast
in small market for its News at
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time since 2002 that WFTR-AM
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in its class a for long-form local
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WZRV-FM also scored a runner-up award, for Best Public Affairs Program in medium market
for The Valley Today, a thirtyminute live and local community
service program that airs weekdays at 12:30pm, immediately
following the News at Noon.
Since 2002, WFTR-AM and
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or runner-up awards at the annual V.A.B. Convention and Awards
Banquet. Awards are presented
to outstanding broadcast radio
and television stations each year
in a variety of categories, including news, sports, commercial
production, series, promotions
and community service.
Andrew Shearer, president of
Royal Broadcasting stated. “Vir-
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WZRV and our entire staff to be
recognized once again as providing a great product to the Northern Shenandoah Valley.”
WFTR-AM recently celebrated
its 60th Anniversary. The station broadcasts with 1,000 watts
of power at 1450 kilocycles.
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2008 Water Quality Report
The Town of Front Royal Department of Environmental Services proudly announces that the
2008 Annual Water Quality Report (aka Consumer Confidence
Report) was mailed on June 29,
2009 to customers of the Town’s
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water supplies, and we are proud
to report that our system did not
violate contaminant levels or water quality standards throughout
the entire year of 2008.
This report provides our customers with an overview of how
tap water reaches your home or
business, testing results for your
water, and important information
concerning your drinking water.
If you would like a copy of this report, it is available at Town Hall
(16 North Royal Avenue), the
Front Royal Business Center (15
North Royal Avenue), the Front
Royal Business Center (414 East
Main Street), and the Department of Environmental Services
Office (800 Crosby Road).
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For several years, RandolphMacon Academy and Air Force
Association Northern Shenandoah Valley Chapter 435 have
collaborated on several projects
benefitting both our students and
local communities. On February
1, 2007, the AFA and the R-MA
Interact-Community
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campaign to support American
soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, principally through
the website AnySoldier.com.
The inspiration for this project
came from the AFA leaders, who
suggested R-MA students send
some get well/thank you type
cards to local injured veteran,
SSG Arthur “Bunky” Woods.
Woods was still receiving treatment for very serious injuries
and the greater community was
reaching out to support him and
his family in many ways. Since
then, R-MA has expanded on the
project, sending literally thousands of letters, cards and care
packages to American servicemen listed on the AnySoldier.
com website, as well as to R-MA
alumni and family members of
R-MA faculty, staff and students.
This program has earned R-MA,
the AFA and Interact-Community Service Program Director and
AFA Member Stephanie Portillo
a great deal of recognition and a
visit from two of R-MA’s “penpals.”
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to Woods, who is unfortunately
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paralyzed from the shoulders
down. Recently the organization “Homes For Our Troops”
(homesforourtroops.org/woods)
announced that they would be
building Woods a home in Warren County that would be handicap-accessible and equipped to
cater to his personal needs. It
was that first newspaper article
that inspired Portillo to have a
fundraiser in order to directly
contribute to the building of his
home.
“Every year we have a Snack
Sale during Summer School that
the students and adults patronize
for refreshments between classes,” she said. “All of our profits
will usually go to a specific cause
or a number of causes, some on
and some off campus. [This year,]
our goal is to raise at least $500
and to continue our support [of
Woods] in other ways throughout
the school year until he is able to
move into his new home! We are
also hoping that our fundraiser
will inspire other local schools,
businesses, organizations and
citizens to find ways of helping
out as well since we assume that
he will not only need the home
but furniture, linens and other
supplies.”
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The following local students
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2008-09 school year. President’s
List students have earned a 4.0 or
above; Dean’s List and Principal’s
List students have earned between a 3.3 and 3.99.
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Michael Brooks, ninth grade
Cara-Elizabeth Brown, tenth
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Victoria Daniels, eleventh grade
Korinne Grove, eleventh grade
James Marion, tenth grade
Mary Sadler, eleventh grade
Michael Shenfish, twelfth grade
Carla Williams, tenth grade
Karen Wines, tenth grade
Principal’s List
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Tanner Blankenship, eighth
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James Christoph, sixth grade
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Area Rep. Frank Wolf says that
the annual appropriations bill that
funds the Justice Department will
continue to pay for the two antigang task forces operating across
the northern part of the state.
Wolf said that the FY 2010
Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill approved by the
House on June 18 sets aside $3
million for the Northern Virginia
Regional Gang Task Force and $1
million for the Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Drug Task
Force. Wolf, the top Republican
on the committee, was instrumental in the creation the task
forces and specifically requested
the continued funding. The Senate has yet to take up its version
of the annual spending bill.
“The task forces operating in
our region have become a model
for others around the country,”
Wolf said. “The three-pronged
strategy of suppression, education and prevention is proving to
be successful, but now is not the
time to let up on the gas.
“The coordination between local, state and federal law enforcement officials has been unprecedented as has the coordination
between localities,” Wolf continued. “We must continue to press
the issue. No one should live in
fear of gangs.”
The Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force is made
up of law enforcement officials
from Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince
William and Arlington counties,
the cities of Alexandria, Manassas and Manassas Park and the
towns of Leesburg and Herndon. The task force operating in
the Valley is made up of law enforcement officials from Clarke,
Frederick, Paige, Shenandoah
and Warren counties and the city
of Winchester. The State Police,
FBI, ATF, DEA and U.S. Marshals
Service are involved in both task
forces.
10 deaths, 15,800 violations
cited by state police
The July 4 holiday weekend
proved a busy one for Virginia
State Police statewide. Of the 562
traffic crashes that state police
responded to during the three-
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The nine fatal crashes occurred
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counties of Accomack, Buchanan, Buckingham, Chesterfield,
Henrico, Montgomery, Prince
George and Rockingham. The fatal crash in Norfolk claimed two
lives. Five of the nine crashes occurred on Friday, July 3, 2009.
Of the eight individuals killed in
the seven crashes involving passenger vehicles, seven of those
killed were not wearing safety
belts. The Henrico County fatality involved a bicycle. The Chesterfield County fatality involved
a motorcycle, in which the rider
was wearing a helmet.
Alcohol was a factor in four of
the fatal crashes. The 2009 Independence Day statistical counting
period began at 12:01 a.m. Friday,
July 3, 2009, and concluded at
midnight Sunday, July 5, 2009.
“We had hoped to continue
the declining trend in traffic fatalities during this past holiday
weekend,” said Colonel W. Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police
Superintendent. “Unfortunately,
a lack of seat belts and alcohol
were common factors in the nine
traffic crashes investigated statewide. Now that we are well into
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the summer travel season, motorists must make safe and sober
choices when behind the wheel.”
In addition to responding and
investigating more than 500
traffic crashes statewide, Virginia State Police also cited 7,390
speeders and 2,140 reckless drivers. Placed under arrest by state
police were 129 drunken drivers.
State police also cited 675 safety
belt violations and 274 child safety seat violations.
During the holiday weekend,
75 percent of Virginia State Police’s uniformed workforce was
working and participating in the
annual Operation C.A.R.E., an
acronym for the Combined Accident Reduction Effort. The state-
sponsored, national program
emphasizes safe driving through
the reduction of traffic injuries
and fatalities, occupant restraint
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Maybe there’s a silver lining here … with employees reporting business upswings at not only the golf
course, but also both the Holiday Inn Express and Houlihan’s, which weren’t yet built when Tiger snuck
into town, who knows? Hey Tiger, want to buy a beautiful, tournament-quality course … Man have I got a
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Business as usual at Blue Ridge Shadows golf course
Bank creditor takeover as part of bankruptcy proceedings low impact thus far
The sun was out, the carts a-plenty, and the swings genrally less than perfect on the gently rolling fairways
and greens at the Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Course in the weeks following a chapter 11 bankruptcy foreclosure.
By Roger Bianchini
Warren County Report
Officials and employees of the
Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Course
in northern Warren County report that the recent Chapter 11
bankruptcy foreclosure by the
business’s chief creditor, Summit
Community Bank of Moorefield,
West Virginia, has had no immediate impact on operations.
“It is business as usual out here
– everyone who is employed is
still employed, business is picking up and everyone who plays
here loves this course,” Pro Shop
manager Robert King told us on
July 8.
Blue Ridge Shadows LLC and
its hotel and conference center
arm, both filed for the bankruptcy
court protection on Dec. 1, 2008.
The Houlihan’s Restaurant that
also anchors the adjacent Holiday Inn Express food and beverage and catering business was not
included in the filing.
When BRS filed for Chapter 11
protection late last year, Summit
initially filed to block the company from utilizing cash assets,
claiming a debt - $17.5 million
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believed to be unaffected by the
recent foreclosure process.
BRS Golf Course Manager Mike
Arnsbauch and Summit Bank officials could not be reached for
comment on details of the foreclosure or long-term plans for
the facility prior to publication.
However, staff verified that things
appeared normal at the 18-hole,
PGA-length course following last
month’s foreclosure ruling.
Maybe there’s even a silver lining here.
The BRS course, designed to
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after opening in 2007 by Tiger
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“It’s really great – until they did this and finished the street it was really bad when it rained. If it was a hard
rain, the water would come down the street and across the backyard. One time I had 10 inches of water in
the basement. I don’t get any now …” – Duncan Avenue resident Ethel Ritter
Cherrydale
Town celebrates completion of Cherrydale improvements
Mayor, council and staff refocus on Shenandoah Avenue and Royal Village
TV 3 Winchester’s Chanel Caraway interviews Duncan Avenue resident Ethel Ritter about the improvements the Cherrydale Project have brought to the
neighborhood during June 30 dedication ceremony.
From left, Town Public Works Director Terry Seal, Shae Parker, a suddenly shorter
Town Manager Michael Graham, Tom Conkey, Mayor Eugene Tewalt, Vice Mayor
Bret Hrbek and Tom Sayre provide graphic evidence of what was accomplished
behind them at a cost of $1.89 million over the past 2-1/2 years.
By Roger Bianchini
In the early evening hours of
June 30, Town of Front Royal
officials gathered to bring an official close to the $1.89-million
Cherrydale Project. That project
over the course of the past two-
plus years brought long sought
and discussed fixes to the road,
curb and gutter system and water
main improvements to a Cherrydale area. Some long-time residents must have despaired these
fixes would ever be realized. Despite the lag time, Duncan Avenue resident Ethel Ritter said she
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and neighbors have been thrilled
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“It’s really great – until they did
this and finished the street it was
really bad when it rained. If it
was a hard rain, the water would
come down the street and across
the backyard. One time I had 10
inches of water in the basement.
I don’t get any now – the water
goes down the street and not into
the yard. They all love it, they all
love the street now,” Ritter said of
her neighbors.
With Ritter’s tales of past flooding menacing her and neighbors
properties from the lack of curb,
gutter, it was perhaps appropriate
that Front Royal Mayor Eugene
Tewalt looked to a Biblical reference to celebrate completion of
the work.
“There is a Bible verse that states
that the end is better than the
beginning – in the case of the
Cherrydale Neighborhood Revitalization Project this is a true
statement,” Tewalt told a small
crowd of residents, media and
town personnel. The mayor lauded the patience of area residents
as the time devoted to the project
increased as new problems were
discovered as work commenced.
‘The project started 2-1/2 years
ago with a water line replacement
for Cherrydale Avenue, which
was required only before curb,
gutter and paving could begin.
One of the unforeseen areas discovered was the condition of the
other water lines running down
Duncan Avenue and River Drive.
With council’s support it was decided to do the right thing and
appropriated the necessary funds
to replace these water lines as
well as to save the taxpayers unnecessary expense later by having
to dig up newly paved streets to
patch water lines.”
With a nod to Mrs. Ritter, representing her Duncan Avenue
neighborhood, Tewalt acknowledged that street and surrounding area’s past flooding problems,
and their apparent successful
resolution following an unusually
wet spring.
“We feel we have succeeded in
the correction of that problem
because after one of the wettest
seasons for many years, we have
not had any complaints. Even
though it took longer than we expected, I think the final product
was worth the wait.” Tewalt concluded by pointing to similar upcoming revitalizations earmarked
for Shenandoah Avenue and Royal Village, the latter scheduled for
completion in 2010.
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In the mid-1990s, I was scheduled to see Zelko Kopanja, a brave Bosnian Serb journalist who had participated in one of my investigative reporting workshops in the United States and who owned a newspaper
in Banja Luka … Just days before our meeting, he started his car; it was rigged with explosives, and he lost
both of his legs.
Journalism
Journalists in jeopardy – life & death on the edge
A profession’s responsibility to its own whose lives are on the line
Jerry Aumente addresses journalists during a workshop at a seminar primarily attended by Kosovo Serbs
near Pristina in Kosovo in the fall of 2008.
By Jerome Aumente
(This article includes the second section of the “Quill, Society
of Professional Journalists” article by Jerome Aumente, the first
section of which was reprinted in
the “Late May” edition of Warren
County Report. That first section
focused on the professional history of Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the
Iraqi TV reporter now imprisoned for throwing his shoes at US
President George W. Bush during
a December 2008 press conference in Iraq. Aumente, who met
al-Zeidi at a journalism seminar a
month prior to the shoe-throwing
incident, theorizes that al-Zeidi
was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder in the wake
of both al-Zeidi’s kidnapping by
al-Qaeda and a subsequent detention by US troops during his
coverage of the US occupation
of his native country for a Saudi
television station. This section
focuses on other experiences Aumente has had with international
journalists living in the life and
death firing line and ways the international journalistic community can help those reporters who
risk all to report the truth of the
world around them.)
In seeking to preface part two
of his article focusing on the
physical and emotional threats to
modern journalists working the
world’s toughest beats, we asked
Jerry Aumente how he became
enmeshed in this root issue and
what he hopes can be accom-
plished to address it.
“I can think back to covering
the civil rights movement when I
was working at daily journals in
the 1960s and 70s, covering the
civil disturbances in Detroit and
other cities. Journalists were always facing dangers in situations
like that – it wasn’t focused on us
but sometimes you’d be caught in
the middle of it. But I didn’t see
anything as dramatic as journalists losing their lives or going
to jail until I started working in
Europe in 1989, in Poland right
after the Solidarity elections.
There I met a lot of journalists,
who had been in jail, who had
been threatened, who had their
lives literally on the line. I think
really good journalism probably
unfortunately demands it – there
are many times when you’re at issue. There had been any number
of journalists who had worked for
the underground in opposition to
communism and they paid for
that, they paid with time in jail,
with their families disrupted. In
some cases they were threatened
or killed.
“In Bosnia, for instance, I was
with a very good journalist who
was an anchor on national TV.
And we were visiting up in one
of the towns that was hostile to
her reporting. And I remember
walking around near a park and
she had to disguise herself so she
wouldn’t be threatened.
“Now unfortunately in the 1990s
and up through the present we’re
seeing a lot more of this. The war
in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan
have made it much more dangerous for journalists of any country,
but certainly the journalists who
are native to a country at war
… I note in the article, that this
year and last year Iraq had more
journalists killed than any other
country in the world, literally –
31 last year and 11 this past year.
And what I try to point out … is
I’m concerned about the issues of
stress, not only the issues of being physically harmed or killed,
but the mental stress that goes
on … There are any number of
instances where I have met with
journalist who have asked for my
help because they were physically
threatened, sometimes they were
actually beaten up or there families were threatened. So this got
me thinking about the whole idea
that we ought to be doing more.
“So what I’m trying to do is support this with the attention of
universities and journalism organizations, and people in general on the idea that maybe we
ought to doing some kind of
special programs. We have exchange programs where journal-
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ists come and visit in the United
States or are trained overseas.
Maybe there ought to be another
fund developed, a residency fund
for journalists who find their
lives in danger. And this needs a
lot of flexibility. You’ve got to be
able to turn on a dime. I mean a
journalist gets a phone call saying ‘tomorrow I’m going to beat
your family or kill you,’ they need
to move very quickly. So it would
be good to have some kind of
fund that is established to be able
to give them emergency support
and aid.
“And it’s interesting since the
story came out in Quill, and now
in the Warren Report (WCR is
proud to be the second news
source in which any portion of
Aumente’s article was published),
I’ve had several phone calls or
e-mails from people saying ‘you
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who were in danger … And the same thing’s … happening in Iraq and … Afghanistan – we’re gong to need
some special attention for those people who put their lives on the line so that we have better information
and better news.”
to something that is happening
that we should be thinking about.’
And the follow up is I’ve had publications from Rutgers University
and Columbia journalism alumni
publications that said they want
to carry some material about this
… so it’s generating a lot of discussion within the field – now
the question is how do we do it?
“And there are groups out there
that do this, the Committee to
Protect Journalists is a very good
organization we’ve worked with,
and they are quite good in being able to help journalists. But
I think the effort need to be expanded and I think as we come to
the end of the Iraqi War next year
in terms of American involve-
ment with troops on the ground,
and as we see the turn over time in
Afghanistan, we’re gong to have a
lot of journalist and lot of people
who worked for journalists …
support staff for American and
European news organizations,
they have staff – translators, reporters who go into the field in
some cases when the American
reporters find it too dangerous to
go out into the streets, the only
ones who can go out and do it are
the Iraqi journalists.
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going to happen, it’s already happening in Iraq and it will happen
in Afghanistan, where we’re gong
to need some special attention for
those people who put their lives
on the line so that we have better
information and better news.”
Here we pick up the remaining
section of Jerry Aumente’s “Quill”
article:
Over the years, I have done numerous workshops in the republics of the former Yugoslavia; in
Serbia, I assisted the owner of a
fledgling, independent radio station in Nis who opposed Slobodan Milosevic. While the owner
was traveling, his station was
seized by the government, and he
could not return home. Through
the Committee to Protect Journalists, the broadcaster and his
family received safe haven in the
U.S., the loan of temporary housing from a prominent journalist
in Washington, and later a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University. After the fall of Milosevic,
the station owner returned safely
to Serbia, and the station was
back on the air.
We conducted many programs
Journalism
in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the
mid-1990s, I was scheduled to
see Zelko Kopanja, a brave Bosnian Serb journalist who had participated in one of my investigative reporting workshops in the
United States and who owned
a newspaper in Banja Luka and
broadcasting facilities. Just days
before our meeting, he started
his car; it was rigged with explosives, and he lost both of his legs.
Working with the Committee
to Protect Journalists, we found
support for new prosthetics and
rehabilitation. He resumed his
work and won an international
award from CPJ for his brave reporting of human rights abuses
and corruption. Unflinchingly,
he urged young journalists not to
shy away from tough investigative reporting.
There are many stories others
could tell. Here are some action
steps journalism trainers and media foundations might consider
to assist journalists in physical or
psychological danger because of
their work:
1) Know how to stay in touch
with your workshop participants
by having them fill out contact
sheets with name, affiliation,
Valley Connector
Regional Shuttle
Commuter Bus Service
Weekday service to: Dulles Airport; Vienna Metro;
Ballston Metro; Rosslyn Metro; Pentagon; Washington DC
phone numbers and e-mail and
home addresses. Often such information is incomplete unless
you gather it yourself. Share your
address with them. Encourage
them to write you if they ever
need assistance.
2) Compile a list of agencies
to help them in an emergency,
such as the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International
Center for Journalists, U.N. agencies dealing with refugees, Human Rights Watch or the Society
of Professional Journalists. Press
and public affairs officers at U.S.
embassies and counterparts from
other foreign embassies might
also provide guidance.
3) Publicize cases of journalists in peril and their outcomes
through publications such as
American Journalism Review,
Columbia Journalism Review or
Nieman Reports. Use existing
blogs and Web sites or start new
ones to publicize cases of those in
need.
4) Check with journalism fellowship pro-grams such as the
Nieman program at Harvard; the
Knight Fellowships at Stanford,
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There are any number of instances where I have met with journalist who have asked for my help because
they were physically threatened, sometimes they were actually beaten up or their families were threatened.
So this got me thinking about the whole idea that we ought to be [helping].
Aumente with the Serb
journalists during a certificate granting program at
the end of the workshop
on covering economic issues. Aumente points out
the woman with blonde
hair and a white jacket
is Karen Posner-Mullen,
the Counselor for Public
Affairs at the American
Embassy, the State Department sponsor of the
workshop. Vice President Joseph Biden recently visited Kosovo to
support its new status
as a country independent
from Serbia in the former
Yugoslavia.
Columbia and the University of visa programs for endangered
Michigan for possible slots for journalists and their families.
qualified international journalists 9) Be frank in describing the
needing emergency assistance
where an expedited fellowship
might be possible.
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programs to compile data on international journalists in need,
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and assist them with mentoring,
contacts, employment leads or financial assistance.
7) News organizations employing indigenous media staff in war
zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan are helping but should do
more to campaign for visas and
special refugee status for those
employees endangered if left behind.
8) Foundations that support
journalism initiatives ought to
consider new funding to assist
journalists and their families who
confront real dangers in pursuing
their work. The Obama administration through the public diplomacy, education and cultural exchange programs of the U.S. State
Department might help foreign
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limits of what can be done. Do
not over-promise, but lay out the
potential and limitations. Encourage the international journalists to set up their own organizations to provide assistance to
colleagues.
(Jerome Aumente is distinguished emeritus professor and
special counselor to the dean,
Rutgers University’s School of
Communication,
Information
and Library Studies (SCILS).
He was founding director of the
Journalism
Journalism Resources Institute
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Department of Journalism and
Media Studies at SCILS. He has
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“I encouraged them to talk to the town, especially since they have an electrical utility department.” – Warren County Administrator
Doug Stanley on sending SolAVerde representatives to the Town of Front Royal about six months ago “You’re not the fairy godmother.” – EDA board member Frank O’Reilly to SolAVerde principal Willie Lauterbach … Lauterbach replied that if not part of a fairy
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EDA authorizes movement toward solar power project
Money, land and public-private partnership dynamics key fast-paced discussion
SolAVerde principal Willie Lauterbach explains his game plan to add cheap solar energy to the town’s power grid within a year during June 30 EDA meeting.
A week later Mayor Tewalt and Town Manager Michael Graham were in NYC to
hear the private sector discuss a $211-million investment to bring solar power
and production here.
By Roger Bianchini
Front Royal and Warren
County’s stranger-than-fiction
rush toward a landmark place
in U.S. large scale, solar powered energy production continued through late June and early
July. That movement began with
a specially called meeting of the
Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority
on June 30; included meetings
with private-sector land (July 1)
and warehouse (July 6) owners;
and culminated with Front Royal
Mayor Eugene Tewalt and Town
Manager J. Michael Graham’s
attendance at a project finance
meeting in New York City on July
7.
Ahh, where to begin?
Well, as I put finger to keyboard
on July 7, the mayor and town
manager had yet to return from
the Big Apple and several phone
calls had yet to be returned – so
back to June 30.
EDA briefed
Just two weeks after princi-
pals of one of the private sector
companies seeking access to an
existing municipal power plant
Del. Clifford L. “Clay” Athey, Jr.
18th District House of Delegates
Serving Fauquier, Frederick, and Warren County
presented their case to the owner-operators of just such a plant,
the Town of Front Royal, those
principals were back to bring
their proposal to the community’s chief economic development
entity.
As he had at a June 15 town
council work session, SolAVerde
principal Willie Lauterbach outlined what he envisions as a fasttrack move to add solar power
to Front Royal’s Electric Department grid, almost doubling its
existing 42 megawatt output capacity by 70 megawatts solely
through a truly clean, sustainable
energy source – the sun. As he
told council two weeks earlier,
Lauterbach said his private sector
partners were seeking a municipal partner with existing power
plant access and a total of about
150 acres of land upon which to
construct a solar panel field.
Favored sites include the Happy Creek Industrial Park and the
Royal Phoenix Business Park,
with totals of 150 and 160 acres
of land respectively. However,
EDA Executive Director Jennifer McDonald points out only
23 acres of the planned 160-acre
Royal Phoenix site have yet to be
released by Superfund cleanup
supervisor the Environmental
Protection Agency. The next
available land there is not anticipated to be cleared for at least a
year. That leaves the Happy Creek
Park’s 160 acres of industrially zoned land as a frontrunner.
However, both town officials and
SolAVerde partner Greg Horton,
also of local company Arctic Air,
has confirmed that multiple sites
are an option.
So who is involved in promoting the realization of such a big
dream as cheap and clean energy
independence in Front Royal and
Warren County?
“We’re a local company with
offices in Front Royal, New York
and London,” Lauterbach said,
eliciting at least one chuckle from
press row, in response to a question about exactly who he and his
company are.
As with council 15 days earlier,
Lauterbach was met with some
skepticism.
Why do this?
Why Front Royal?
What about the town’s 50-year
contract with AMP-Ohio based
on coal-fired power plants? –
Were among the questions asked.
Others involved long-term financing and the potential of a
rapidly changing political environment drying up federal funding and tax credit sources.
Fairy tale?
“You’re not the fairy godmother,” EDA board member Frank
O’Reilly observed, asking Lauterbach what the town would have
to pay to realize the dream of
energy self sufficiency, and how
he hoped to realize a return on
an investment estimated at $211
million.
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known to be considerably higher
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“The biggest advantage for them is we will be their biggest customer; we’re stable, we’re
not going anywhere. – They love that!” – Town Manager Michael Graham on proposed
public-private partnership to add solar power to the town’s power grid
polluting energy sources, and
asked how and by whom those
costs would be absorbed in the
long run?
Displaying the same humor he
had with council, Lauterbach replied that if not part of a fairy tale,
it had seemed almost like “Divine
intervention” when his initial
proposal to Warren County to
install solar panels on individual
buildings blossomed into something bigger.
James Eastham asked Lauterbach
if the county would share in the
seeming coming windfall. Lauterbach replied he believed the project would create an alignment of
town and county interests. With
the county involved, through the
EDA or independently, it appears
the SolAVerde-led project has the
potential of also applying its private sector developmental credits to county projects. During the
EDA meeting Carter commented
on the potential benefit of being
able to outfit public schools alone
with solar energy systems.
“Warren County is excited
about the potential that the SolAVerde project presents to Front
Royal-Warren County,” Stanley
later told us. “We are very interested in moving our community towards reducing its environmental footprint and saving
Solar Project
One day after the EDA meeting SolAVerde representative Greg Horton gathered with local officials including EDA board member James Eastham, Front Royal
VIce Mayor Bret Hrbek, the EDA board’s Billy Biggs
and Chair Patty Wines and EDA Executive DIrector
Jennifer McDonald to illustrate that what is being discussed involves electricity, land and a public private
partnership. In the background of photo outside the
EDA office lies the 23 acres of available Royal Phoneix property and across that land the Old Virginia
plant being looked at as a possible solar equipment
manufacturing site.
taxpayer dollars. The Board of
Supervisors has authorized us to
move forward with the concept.
At this point, it looks like a winwin proposal for all of us.”
How’s it going to work?
As to specifics, Lauterbach described federal incentives now
offered to encourage a national
movement toward sustainable
and non-polluting energy sources such as solar, wind and hydro.
Those incentives, including REC’s
(Renewable Energy Credits), are
primarily available at the frontend to stimulate the development
of new technologies and the jobs
that will support that industry,
Lauterbach explained on June
30.
“We want to get started by October – I don’t think those funding
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sources will be gone by October,”
Lauterbach replied to questions
about potentially swinging political priorities. Asked about a
time frame, Lauterbach said he
believed a solar field could be in
place within a year. To achieve
that Lauterbach hopes to have
the details in place allowing the
project to move forward by October. That accomplished, Lauterbach told us he would like to
begin Construction of an approximately 150-acre solar field
by December, with completion
achieved six months later.
Unconvinced, O’Reilly asked
why not Florida, South Carolina
or some other more southerly
and reputedly sunnier U.S. state?
“Why is that an issue?” Lauterbach replied tersely. “It’s something you want to do or not do …
if the town can save $15 million
next year I don’t think anyone
here would object – if so I’m going to jump up from this table!”
SolAVerde and its private-sector partners will profit from a
long-term relationship with the
town in the development and
distribution of solar power and
products, Lauterbach continued.
He described the planned publicprivate partnership on solar energy production with the Town
of Front Royal in more traditional
business terms.
“You have to look at it like a
single-tenant building – it has to
be a long-term contract,” Lauterbach told the EDA. He said that
while there would be no up-front
financing from the town, the
town would be purchasing its solar power from SolAVerde under
that long-term contract arrangement. – “And eventually we will
be a manufacturer and installer
of these systems.”
“The biggest advantage for them
is we will be their biggest customer; we’re stable, we’re not going anywhere. – They love that!”
Graham explained of town staff ’s
perspective on the potential public-private energy partnership.
“The town’s position is simple, me
and Willie will negotiate the price
of the energy purchase [from SolAVerde to the town].
The devilish detail from the
town’s side will be that negotiated
purchase price being significantly
cheaper than could be achieved
from any other power source,
allowing the town the option of
keeping what it wants to use and
reselling any excess purchased
into other grids at a profit.
AMP-Ohio
Graham explained that the
short-term commitment to the
primarily coal-fired AMP-Ohio
power system might allow the
town to only realize a 20 to 30percent solar power purchase
from SolAVerde over the first
two years, but that over time
that percentage could increase.
Among its options, Graham said
the town could sell its invested
“We’re a local company with offices in Front Royal, New York and London,” Lauterbach
said, eliciting at least one chuckle from press row, in response to a question about exactly
who he and his company are.
share of the AMP-Ohio project
after two years; conceivably sell
solar power into the AMP-Ohio
grid and remain a partner; as well
as use what it wants and sell the
excess solar power it acquires
into the regional power grid at a
profit.
Graham also noted the town’s
initial investment in AMP-Ohio
power was only anticipated to
provide about 33 percent of the
town’s future power needs. And
as he explained to council two
weeks earlier, Graham told the
EDA the town would never totally leave a regional power grid
in order to cover back up or auxiliary energy needs.
“Details will have to be worked
out before we sign anything, Graham told the EDA, echoing his
and town Energy Director Joe
Waltz’s “the devil is in the detail”
comment to council.
Lucky or good?
“Sometimes I’m asked ‘would
you rather be lucky or good,’ ”
Graham said as he explained
Lauterbach arrival at his municipal doorstep about six months
ago with a burgeoning solar panel idea that was morphing into
something else. “I said ‘lucky.’ The
timing is just perfect for what we
want to go into,” Graham said of
an idea that went from solar panels on buildings, to the production of solar powered municipal
energy for both local consumption and regional distribution.
Graham later explained to this
reporter that questioned by Lauterbach during those first meetings about his energy goals for
the town, the town manager had
described a desire to move Front
Royal toward energy self sufficiency.
Six months later Lauterbach
has assembled a network of private industry partners seeking to
make the town’s goal of energy
self-sufficiency a reality. Lauterbach told the EDA he had assembled $211 million in financing
to achieve that goal, along with
a plan to make a private sector
profit to boot.
New York City on my mind
At a July 6 work session, Graham informed the Front Royal
Town Council that he and an
elected official had been invited
to attend a meeting of partners
in the solar power project in New
York City the following day at 1
p.m. Graham explained the town
officials were not invited to participate, but rather sit in on the
meeting of investors and “just
listen and ascertain if this seems
real or not real.”
“I’ll go if you think it’s appropriate,” Mayor Tewalt told council. The five councilmen present,
Sayre was absent, agreed the
mayor and town manager’s attendance would be beneficial.
“Alright, it looks like an early
morning then, Gene,” Graham
told the mayor.
Graham said he and the mayor
would do the DC-NYC roundtrip
by train at an approximate cost
of $200 apiece. After returning
Graham said the total roundtrip cost for both was $542. With
the potential of a $211-million
investment in the town’s power
grid, not to mention BIG dreams
of a future of clean, sustainable
and virtual energy independence
at stake, it doesn’t seem like a bad
use of taxpayer money.
On July 8, Mayor Tewalt said
he and Graham sat in without
comment on a meeting of nine finance and engineering personnel
associated with the private sector
involvement.
“Everything looks like it is on
a go process with a $200-million-plus project,” Tewalt said of
what he heard. The mayor said
that what Lauterbach has told local officials here about the projects’ dynamics and financing appeared to be “pretty much factual
– it does look like a win-win for
everyone at this point,” Tewalt
said.
Tewalt also reported he was
aware that SolAVerde officials
had already met with the owner
of an existing facility that could
serve as a manufacturing plant
for solar panels and related products. Lauterbach has described
SolAVerde’s eventual manufacture, distribution and installation
of solar products as a key component of the private sector’s longrange plans. Tewalt identified
that potential manufacturing site
as the Old Virginia Plant off Kendrick Lane. Coincidentally, Old
Virginia is adjacent to the only
23 acres of the planned 160-acre
Royal Phoenix Business Park thus
far released for use by the EPA.
Contacted about that meeting,
Old Virginia owner and EDA
board member William “Billy”
Biggs verified a July 6 meeting
with SolAVerde officials. However, Biggs said that as of July
8 there was nothing yet substantive to report on a sale or
lease arrangement with SolAVerde on the Old Virginia site.
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Bunky Woods fundraiser
Editor:
This is Kaylee Richardson with
Creative Coatings Inc. We are
hosting a Fundraiser for “Homes
For Our Troops” the function will
be called “Bikers for Bunky” and
it will be held on July 25th, 2009.
The event will help fund SSG
Woods specialized house. This
will be an all day event at our facility (Creative Coating Inc.). We
plan on having a bike show, poker run, live music, silent auction,
food and games! This is all going
donated for Mr. Bunky Woods,
who is a dear friend of mine. We
believe that there will be around
200 or more people involved. I
know he will love it! I’m going to
paste his story in this email, because his words of his story are
better than mine...
“On August 26, 2006 I was
shot in the neck by a sniper in
Baghdad. This left me paralyzed
from the shoulders down. I spent
seven months in the hospital, it
was hell. But the love and support of my friends and fam-
ily got me through all the hard
times. Now I am at home going
to therapy twice a week and trying to get some movement going
again. It’s been a long road, but
it has all been worth it. No matter what you feel about the war.
Just remember, there is a reason
why we have not had a terrorist
attack in seven years. America
is the greatest nation on earth,
but remember this. United We
Stand, Divided We Fall. Pray for
our troops and for the leaders of
our country. I looked and behold
a Pale-horse, Death rides on his
shoulders and Hell follows close
behind..” My friends and family are #1 Thank you for all your
support. Its been a long road but
my friends traveled it with me. I
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get as many bikers as possible!!
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Laurel Montessori School
Editor:
We are very grateful for the
community’s support of Mountain Laurel Montessori School
during the recent Earth Day Every Day School Challenge sponsored by Walmart. Thanks to all
who voted for us and then passed
the word on to others. Corvallis High School in Corvallis, OR
won the grand prize - a $20,000
grant that they have chosen to
use to purchase solar panels for
their school.
All of the schools chosen to
compete were worthy of the
prize, and we are honored for the
national recognition of our Farm
School and our on-going environmental education and community
service activities involving all our
students from preschool through
9th grade.
Our video, as well as the other finalists entries, can still be viewed
at
http://www.earthdayeverydaychallenge.com. Thanks again
for your support and good wishes!
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Mountain Laurel Montessori
School
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Children
Editor:
Imagine if you could no longer
care for your children and that
they had to leave your home and
be separated from one another.
You would want your kids to
be in a safe home, close to school
and friends, with plenty of support as they adjust to a new family. But for nearly 7,000 children in
Virginia’s foster care system who
have been separated from their
families, these things have never
been guaranteed.
Virginia recently launched the
Virginia Children’s Services System Transformation to make the
kind of future that all parents
want for their children a bit more
certain for every child. First Lady
Anne Holton’s For Keeps initiative started Virginia’s child welfare practices on the right road,
and in December 2007 we began
an intensive change in the way we
provide effective help for at-risk
children and their families.
Alex and Jacob (not their real
names), for example, entered foster care in 2006 as infants when
both parents were incarcerated.
Two years later, the parents were
due to be released and everyone
was nervous. “When my kids left
me, they were babies and I knew
how to do babies,” the mother
said. “Now they are toddlers and
I don’t know how to be their parent anymore.”
The local department of social
services worked out a program
of intensive in-home services
and visits for this family, helping to establish routine and parenting direction. Much-needed
services were available around
the clock. Alex and Jacob went
home last Christmas and everyone is doing well with follow-up
care. Individualized plans such as
Alex and Jacob’s are an important
measure for avoiding more emotionally and financially expensive
interventions down the road. Virginia is better equipped and more
committed to providing this assistance than we have ever been
- and families are staying united
because of it.
The Transformation works to
assure wherever possible that
children are moved into permanent family arrangements; that
more kids are placed with relatives and foster parents; and that
community-based services are in
place to help keep families together. Thirteen pilot localities across
the state, including Richmond,
Henrico and Chesterfield, were
among the first to work toward
these goals. A variety of strategies and national best practices
are already impacting children
and families across Virginia.
These include statewide staff
training based on a common set
of values; recruiting, developing
and supporting families for children like Alex and Jacob; managing by data on the actual families,
not by anecdote; giving stronger
voices to the children and families themselves; and developing a
community-based continuum of
care for each child.
Maria (not her real name) came
to us as a 15-year-old mother
with a new
baby and no means of support.
She spoke only Spanish, and we
had no available Spanish-speaking foster families. It appeared
that she would have to be placed
in a group home away from her
community. Unfortunately, a
nurturing family environment often does not come along with the
higher price tag of such residential care. Instead, a local social
worker recalled a middle school
Spanish teacher, living with her
mom, who had completed training to become a midwife and was
open to being a foster mother.
After much hard work and many
phone calls the social worker secured an apartment, furniture,
food and other necessities while
this new family established itself.
This kind of detailed approach
is proving effective. Richmond’s
Department of Social Services
has reduced the number of young
people in residential facilities and
group homes by 37 percent. Total foster care numbers across
the Commonwealth are down 8
percent over the last year. Henrico has lowered the number of
young people in residential and
group homes by 45 percent, while
Chesterfield’s total is down an astonishing 58 percent. The Transformation is growing statewide,
with more localities improving
outcomes for children and families.
Large system reform requires
strong public and private partnerships, time and commitment.
Yes, we are still at the beginning
stages and there are challenges to
overcome. But, through sustained
leadership, innovative strategies
and continued partnerships, we
can ensure that all Virginia children will be safe and have a life
with a family that cares for them
and be on the road to success as
an adult.
Raymond R. Ratke
Special Advisor to VA Secretary
of Health and Human Resources
for Children’s Services
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The case for health care reform for Virginia
By Kathleen Sebelius
United States Secretary of Health
and Human Services
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what works about health care
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costs are hurting families, forcing
businesses to cut or drop health
benefits, and straining state budgets. Millions are paying more
for less. Families and businesses
in Virginia deserve better.
Virginians can’t afford the status quo.
• Roughly 4.8 million people in
Virginia get health insurance on
the job 1, where family premiums
average $13,302, about the annual earning of a full-time minimum wage job. 2
• Since 2000 alone, average family premiums have increased by
99 percent in Virginia. 3
• Household budgets are strained
by high costs: 21 percent of
middle-income Virginia families
spend more than 10 percent of
their income on health care. 4
• High costs block access to care:
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report not visiting a doctor due
to high costs. 5
• Virginia businesses and families
shoulder a hidden health tax of
roughly $1,000 per year on premiums as a direct result of subsidizing the costs of the uninsured.
6
Affordable health coverage is
increasingly out of reach in
Virginia.
• 14 percent of people in Virginia
are uninsured, and 70 percent of
them are in families with at least
one full-time worker. 7
• The percent of Virginians with
employer coverage is declining:
from 68 to 62 percent between
2000 and 2007. 8
• While small businesses make
up 71 percent of Virginia businesses,9 only 48 percent of them
offered health coverage benefits
in 2006. 10
• Choice of health insurance is
limited in Virginia. WellPoint
Inc. (BCBS) alone constitutes 50
percent of the health insurance
market share in Virginia, with the
top two insurance providers accounting for 61 percent. 11
• Choice is even more limited for
people with pre-existing conditions. In Virginia, premiums can
vary based on demographic factors and health status, and coverage can exclude pre-existing
conditions or even be denied
completely.
Virginians need higher quality,
greater value, and more preventative care.
• The overall quality of care in
Virginia is rated as “Average.” 12
• Preventative measures that
could keep Virginians healthier
and out of the hospital are deficient, leading to problems across
the age spectrum:
15 percent of children in Virginia are obese. 13
19 percent of women over the
age of 50 in Virginia have not received a mammogram in the past
two years.
30 percent of men over the age
of 50 in Virginia have never had a
colorectal cancer screening.
75 percent of adults over the age
of 65 in Virginia have received a
flu vaccine in the past year. 14
The need for reform in Virginia
and across the country is clear.
Virginia families simply can’t afford the status quo and deserve
better. President Obama is committed to working with Congress
to pass health reform this year
that reduces costs for families,
businesses and government; protects people’s choice of doctors,
hospitals and health plans; and
assures affordable, quality health
care for all Americans.
BUDGET SELF STORAGE
1 U.S. Census Bureau, Current
Population Survey. HIA-4 Health
Insurance Coverage Status and
Type of Coverage by State--All
Persons: 1999 to 2007, 2007.
2 Center for Financing, Access
and Cost Trends, AHRQ, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
- Insurance Component, 2006,
Table X.D.
Projected 2009 premiums based
on Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, “National
Health Expenditure Data,” available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
nationalhealthexpenddata/.
Table II.D.1.
Center for Financing, Access and
Cost Trends, AHRQ, Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey - Insurance Component, 2006, Table
X.D.
Projected 2009 premiums based
on Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, “National
Health Expenditure Data,” available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
nationalhealthexpenddata/.
and Cost Trends, Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality,
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006.
5 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 2007.
6 Furnas, B., Harbage, P. (2009).
“The Cost Shift from the Uninsured.” Center for American
Progress.
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“As they did at the Alamo, let us do here and in every town across America; let us draw a
line in the sand and declare with every ounce of our being … no more! The madness stops
here and now!” – local Freedom Rally organizer Tim Ratigan
Protest
‘Freedom Day’ protest rallies anti-tax conservatives
‘Tea Party’ kicks off Independence Day on Commerce Avenue
Freedom Day Tea Party demonstrators solicit honks
from passing motorists.
Front Royal resident Westy Bachelor joins July 4 “Tea Party” with granddaughter
Francey, 11.
By Lorie Showalter
With the exuberance and the atmosphere of an old fashioned tent
revival service, the Front Royal
‘Freedom Day Rally’ gathered at
the Warren County Government
Center Saturday, July 4th to celebrate Independence Day. Citing
a quote from Abraham Lincoln’s
Gettysburg Address, speakers
reminded supporters that our
government is, and should continue to be, a “government of the
people, by the people, and for the
people.”
Local demonstration organizer
Timothy Ratigan declared that
for more than 230 years ‘We the
People’ have chosen the direction
of our nation and ‘In the same
spirit of our founding fathers we
are here on this Independence
Day to once again declare our Independence!’ ”
The assembled crowd wasn’t
subtle in displaying its political perspective and exactly what
federal taxes are most offensive,
displaying signs and banners declaring, ‘Don’t Tread on Me’, ‘Cut
Taxes Not Deals’, ‘Nobama’, and ‘I
Resist Socialism’ stickers.
Local activists on Saturday
were joined across the nation
with similar efforts in towns all
across America alerting the nation to six months of perceived
Democratic Administration impotence to reverse a skyrocketing
national debt, economic turmoil,
rising unemployment, not to
mention an Obama Administration initiative towards socialized
healthcare promoted as a means
of providing more affordable
medical insurance coverage to all
Americans.
Ratigan drew cheers when he
attacked “Out of control spending at the hands of our Federal
Government!” and asserted that
“… Our elected officials [must]
understand that they work for
the people and that ultimately,
we the people, hold their political
careers in our hands.”
As for the healthcare battle, the
43-year-old Ratigan humorously
exclaimed, “If the current administration has its way I’ll soon have
an expiration date stamped on
my forehead, ‘Subject expected
to expire on or about 2040’.”
Ratigan utilized climbing unemployment figures to put a
new spin on immigration issues
– “Here’s a good one, you know
how citizens from Mexico have
always come here for employment? Well, Mexico has an un-
employment rate of 4.6% [compared to the United States 10%
rate] maybe we should head down
there for jobs!” he said.
However, Ratigan changed
gears on southern border crossings as he referenced Texas, and
some friends from Tennessee’s
19th Century armed militia stand
against Mexican sovereignty
north of the Rio Grande River.
– “As they did at the Alamo, let us
do here and in every town across
America; let us draw a line in
the sand and declare with every
ounce of our being … no more!
The madness stops here and now!
We must protect and defend this
Republic! We must defend the
Constitution and continue the
work of our founding fathers!”
Ratigan exclaimed to the cheers
of supporters.
Featured speaker Allen Louderback furthered Ratigan’s sentiments with his own ardent pleas
as the crowd shouted the 1976
movie “Network’s” cry of “We’re
mad as hell and we’re not going
to take it anymore!”
If silent on the issue for the first
eight years of this decade, on July
4, 2009, those gathered loudly extolled the Tenth Amendment notion that the federal government
is limited only to the powers spe-
Freedom Day demonstrators rally at Warren County
Government Center on July 4.
cifically granted to it in the U.S.
Constitution.
“I was very happy with the turn
out,” Ratigan said following the
rally. “The response we got in
my opinion is just a sampling of
how a large percentage of us feel
about the increase in spending
that is going on in our Federal
Government. It’s a good thing to
see more and more of us walking
into the light and realizing that it
is time to get involved.”
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I learned that according to local custom men were buried as close to the altar as possible and women were
farther away. There was virtually no instance of family plots or of husbands and wives buried together. Unlike two years ago, this time we started to find the remains of children. It was sad to see the tiny remains
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Going down to ‘the Big Dig’ – in Italy
Local man helps explore Catholic church archeological site
At work on the dig with Tory in the digging position,
Chris is in the background, Katarina, an Italian Archaeologist is in the foreground.
WCR International Assignment
By Victor ‘Tory’ Failmezger
For the second time in three
years I have been on an official
archaeological dig near Montalcino, Italy (my favorite wine
area). Since 1999 I have been a
sometimes lecturer at the University of Siena and so was invited to
work alongside students from all
over Europe. Like before, I flew
to Rome and after several days
made my way to the little Tuscan town of San Giovanni d’Asso.
Accommodations were in a former elementary school, six to a
room, with showers downstairs.
Food was prepared by two village
ladies who volunteered to cook
for the 30 of us each evening.
The three-week experience
started on an early June Monday
morning with a briefing and update on the project. Built on the
remains of a second century Roman villa, our objective was to
learn as much as possible about
a sixth century, Catholic church
which existed in various forms
through the eleventh century. As
can be expected, many modifications were made to the church
during the six centuries of use and
the church may have once held a
bishop’s chair, in other words a
place where a bishop would periodically visit to perform some of
The Outline of the Church San Giovanni di Pava
the prescribed sacraments.
The church, named San Pietro
in Pava, was mentioned in documents from the eight century,
and was 100 feet long with two
side aisles. During the 2006 excavation session a treasure of 26
gold and silver coins was discovered. These coins were probably
an emergency fund and hidden
at the time of the founding of the
church. What is really neat about
this treasure is that it dates from
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the sixth century, the period of
the Goths in Italy. As an ancient
coin collector for more than forty
years I can say that these coins
are among the rarest from the
post-Roman world.
The other grandfather on the
site, an English archaeologist
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of the church - with two small
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order to know the entire history, you have to systemically remove everything until you
get to undisturbed soil.
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full day to get as much of the skeleton exposed without disturbing
the position. At that point the
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Gold coin from the treasure of Pava
Some of the students after hours, Flavio (Brazil),
Christine (Romania), Paolo (Italy) and Ken (Japan)
walls of the site and the various
periods when they were constructed. Chris showed me how
to identify areas where the roof
had collapsed and to find layers
of ash which indicated a major
fire which took place 1200 years
ago. My biggest discovery was
correctly identifying the east wall
of the church, something that had
eluded the others working on the
site. As they say, a fresh pair of
eyes.
Archaeology is often described
as the controlled destruction of a
site. This is because in order to
know the entire history, you have
to systemically remove everything until you get to undisturbed
soil. The church was surrounded
by a cemetery and that means
that all of the graves must be excavated to better understand how
the church functioned during
its long history. Two years ago I
worked on six skeletons this time
on five (although one consisted of
only a pair of feet). To date over
750 graves have been removed
and transferred to the University
of Pisa for study. It is not often
that we get a chance to study
the health and diet of an ancient
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The Big Dig
photographed, six geographic
positioning points (GPS) taken
and five elevation readings made.
When this was accomplished the
skeleton were removed. This took
another full day and bones were
placed in as many as fifteen different bags. One for each foot,
hand, left arm, etc. This year the
first skeleton I did was a large
man with his feet and lower legs
missing. He was carefully placed
inside a church wall sometime
during the 10th century and since
this was a place of honor he may
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she discovered some small bird
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We are learning much from
these remains, how old the people were (not many over fifty);
general health (good); teeth
(grown down from stone ground
floor); and, how hard they worked
(hard). I even got pretty good at
telling the difference between
male and female skeletons (jaw
bones, pelvises, etc.). This cemetery has provided about three
centuries of important informa-
Blue Ridge
Educational Center
321 S. Royal Avenue, Front Royal
is offering week long
Summer Camps
tion about the human condition
in this part of world and the excavation has revealed the two outer
aisles of the church.
It was not all work in the 90
degree Tuscan sun and there
was some advanced wine drinking. Unlike last time most of the
students were Italian and I got to
brush up on my language skills.
In addition to my new Romanian
friend there were students from
Brazil and Japan, so it was a nice
international group. This time I
was joined by my wife, Patricia
Front Royal
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August 3-7: Ages 12 and up
August 10-14: Ages 8-11
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Daily and ½ day rates &
Financial aid available
Join us for craft Projects,
Science Experiments & fun games
Activities include;
Building a solar oven,
Plaster mask making,
Print making,
Team building games,
And much more.
Front Royal Golf Club brings back the 4-hour round of golf. It’s a fun and excellent test of golf you’re sure to enjoy.
Conveniently located just off I-66 at Exit 6, on Country Club Road in the beautiful and historic Shenandoah Valley.
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New Weekday Afternoon Golf Rate
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The Front Royal Golf Club is expanding its services to the community with access to the Shenandoah River with
their boat ramp. We would like to invite you and your family to one FREE launch to discover boating, waterskiing,
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For registration or more information contact
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for the last week at the site. I’m
not sure she enjoyed it as much
as I did, but being a former Navy
Nurse her knowledge of human
bones was very helpful. I also
was the site “on call” numismatist
(coin guy) and gave an ancient
coin lecture to the students using
some of the bronze coins found
at the site.
I must give a special thanks to
the Warrenton Coin Club and
the nice people of Front Royal
and Warren County who attended a special Tuscan Wine
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tasting in April at Vino e Formaggio. Because of them, I was able
to present the Pava Foundation
http://www.fondazionepava.org
a check for 450 Euros ($600.00)
to go for expenses at the excavation. I intend to do other fund
raising events for Pava and please
contact me if you would like me
to give a talk about this dig to
any interested group in return
for a tax-free donation to the site.
Just stop by Vino E Formaggio on
Main Street, Front Royal.
(Tory Failmezger is a retired U.S.
Naval officer and consultant. He
is currently a member of the Warren County Planning Commission
and with his family owns several
Main Street business properties
and operates Architectural Old
House Parts and the Vino e Formaggio gourmet wine and cheese
shop.)
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west side of route 522/340 in the master planned
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“We even have the software where if someone can provide us a photograph of what they’re existing bathroom-shower consists of, we can, through a computer program we have, actually take the tile they would
pick out and insert that into the picture to give them a pretty good idea what it’s going to look like.”
Skyline Floor & Tile celebrates Riverton Commons location
Ooh, can we stand on this floor? – It’s too pretty to scuff up with these old Vans
Skyline Floor & Tile owner Sean Carrigan, middle right, is aided in ribbon cutting
by Front Royal Mayor Eugene Tewalt and Warren County Vice Chairman Glenn
White, among others including staff, the morning of July 1.
By Roger Bianchini
On July 1, Front Royal, Warren
County and Chamber of Commerce officials gathered for a ribbon cutting Grand Opening at
Skyline Floor & Tile’s showroom
in the Riverton Commons Shopping Center. Actually owner Sean
Carrigan and staff explained that
as often is the case with these
things, it was more of Grand Reopening since the shop moved
from its original Linden location
to the northside shopping center
in October of 2008.
Mid-morning photo op done
and ribbon cut by Carrigan, Front
Royal Mayor Eugene Tewalt and
Warren County Board of Supervisors Vice-Chairman Glenn
White, we retreated inside to the
coffee and donuts and were instantly struck by our surround-
By Samantha Weaver
• It was expatriate British novelist
Lawrence Durrell who made the following observation: “There are only
three things to be done with a woman: You can love her, suffer for her or
turn her into literature.”
• Have you ever known anyone who
engaged in verbolatry? In this era of
reality TV and instant everything, it’s
not likely. “Verbolatry” is the worship
of words.
• Every year, GMAC conducts its Na-
Mayor Eugene Tewalt and Board of Supervisors Vice
Chairman Glenn White wonder why they have been
“sent to the shower” following an apparently successful ribbon cutting event - don’t worry about it,
guys.
ings.
As we gaped, General Manager
Joe Graves explained, “We install
all types of flooring, including vinyl, carpet, tile, hardwood, laminate. We specialize in custom tile
– we do showers, bathrooms …
things that would require a little
more intricacy. We have three
sales people, ladies who are all
tional Drivers Test, administered by
telephone to drivers in all 50 states.
Respondents are asked questions
pulled from official driver license exams across the country. This year’s
results are in, and they’re not encour-aging. More than a quarter of those
surveyed -- 28.1 percent -- c10 347i3
very experienced with design
in tile and other types of floors,”
General Manager Joe Graves said
as we marveled at the mix of materials and designs on the floor
upon which were standing.
“Especially when you get into
tile it helps to have a designer.
You can have different deco pieces, assets that would enhance the
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The Big Dig
of a four year old.
Going down to ‘the Big Dig’ – in Italy
Local man helps explore Catholic church archeological site
At work on the dig with Tory in the digging position,
Chris is in the background, Katarina, an Italian Archaeologist is in the foreground.
WCR International Assignment
By Victor ‘Tory’ Failmezger
For the second time in three
years I have been on an official
archaeological dig near Montalcino, Italy (my favorite wine
area). Since 1999 I have been a
sometimes lecturer at the University of Siena and so was invited to
work alongside students from all
over Europe. Like before, I flew
to Rome and after several days
made my way to the little Tuscan town of San Giovanni d’Asso.
Accommodations were in a former elementary school, six to a
room, with showers downstairs.
Food was prepared by two village
ladies who volunteered to cook
for the 30 of us each evening.
The three-week experience
started on an early June Monday
morning with a briefing and update on the project. Built on the
remains of a second century Roman villa, our objective was to
learn as much as possible about
a sixth century, Catholic church
which existed in various forms
through the eleventh century. As
can be expected, many modifications were made to the church
during the six centuries of use and
the church may have once held a
bishop’s chair, in other words a
place where a bishop would periodically visit to perform some of
The Outline of the Church San Giovanni di Pava
the prescribed sacraments.
The church, named San Pietro
in Pava, was mentioned in documents from the eight century,
and was 100 feet long with two
side aisles. During the 2006 excavation session a treasure of 26
gold and silver coins was discovered. These coins were probably
an emergency fund and hidden
at the time of the founding of the
church. What is really neat about
this treasure is that it dates from
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the sixth century, the period of
the Goths in Italy. As an ancient
coin collector for more than forty
years I can say that these coins
are among the rarest from the
post-Roman world.
The other grandfather on the
site, an English archaeologist
name Chris, and I started work
by sweeping the central nave
of the church - with two small
whiskbrooms! It took the whole
first week, but I gained a better appreciation for the complex
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The Big Dig
full day to get as much of the skeleton exposed without disturbing
the position. At that point the
skeleton was assigned a number,
Mountain Mystic
Trading Company
Gold coin from the treasure of Pava
Some of the students after hours, Flavio (Brazil),
Christine (Romania), Paolo (Italy) and Ken (Japan)
walls of the site and the various
periods when they were constructed. Chris showed me how
to identify areas where the roof
had collapsed and to find layers
of ash which indicated a major
fire which took place 1200 years
ago. My biggest discovery was
correctly identifying the east wall
of the church, something that had
eluded the others working on the
site. As they say, a fresh pair of
eyes.
Archaeology is often described
as the controlled destruction of a
site. This is because in order to
know the entire history, you have
to systemically remove everything until you get to undisturbed
soil. The church was surrounded
by a cemetery and that means
that all of the graves must be excavated to better understand how
the church functioned during
its long history. Two years ago I
worked on six skeletons this time
on five (although one consisted of
only a pair of feet). To date over
750 graves have been removed
and transferred to the University
of Pisa for study. It is not often
that we get a chance to study
the health and diet of an ancient
people and so this is very impor-
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tant. I learned that according to
local custom men were buried as
close to the altar as possible and
women were farther away. There
was virtually no instance of family plots or of husbands and wives
buried together. Unlike two years
ago, this time we started to find
the remains of children. It was
sad to see the tiny remains of a
four year old.
Because of the hard clay soil and
having to be so careful, it took a
Our Mystique Has Grown!
Offering a wide variety of sterling silver and gemstone jewelry,
chimes, rock and mineral specimens, books, cards, journals, relaxing and meditative music, tapestries, candles, incense, fragrance
and essentials oils, stickers, antique jade carvings, and so many
more one of a kind items!
215 South Street • Front Royal • 635-6318
Open everyday from 10-6, except Sunday from 12-5 and closed on Wednesdays
We beat the big-box
retail prices every day!
322 N. Royal Ave • Front Royal, VA 22630
(540) 635-8020 • fax: (540) 635-7312
www.newlookkitchenandbath.com
We also offer: Tile Work,
Hardwood Flooring,
Basements, Outdoor
Kitchens, Frameless Shower
Glass Doors
0% interest
0 payments
for 6 months on purchases
thru our Home Design
Plus credit program
Let us turn any
area of your
home into a
work of art!
Save Gas Shop Local!
* OPEN on Saturdays Too!!
Visit our Brand New Showroom at
203 E Main St.
Royal Oak Computers
635-7064
www.royaloakcomputers.com
We do commercial work as well!
The Big Dig
photographed, six geographic
positioning points (GPS) taken
and five elevation readings made.
When this was accomplished the
skeleton were removed. This took
another full day and bones were
placed in as many as fifteen different bags. One for each foot,
hand, left arm, etc. This year the
first skeleton I did was a large
man with his feet and lower legs
missing. He was carefully placed
inside a church wall sometime
during the 10th century and since
this was a place of honor he may
have been the local priest. Helping me remove the skeleton was
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a Romanian archeologist PhD
student named Christine and
she discovered some small bird
bones in the stomach area, probably from the man’s last meal.
We are learning much from
these remains, how old the people were (not many over fifty);
general health (good); teeth
(grown down from stone ground
floor); and, how hard they worked
(hard). I even got pretty good at
telling the difference between
male and female skeletons (jaw
bones, pelvises, etc.). This cemetery has provided about three
centuries of important informa-
Blue Ridge
Educational Center
321 S. Royal Avenue, Front Royal
is offering week long
Summer Camps
tion about the human condition
in this part of world and the excavation has revealed the two outer
aisles of the church.
It was not all work in the 90
degree Tuscan sun and there
was some advanced wine drinking. Unlike last time most of the
students were Italian and I got to
brush up on my language skills.
In addition to my new Romanian
friend there were students from
Brazil and Japan, so it was a nice
international group. This time I
was joined by my wife, Patricia
Front Royal
Golf Club
Come play the
best 9 hole course
in the Valley!
One of Virginia’s oldest continuously
operating golf courses is still one of the
best golf values in all of the Shenandoah
Valley. Front Royal Golf Club is under the
operation, direction, and management of
the County of Warren.
August 3-7: Ages 12 and up
August 10-14: Ages 8-11
9 am - 3 pm
$120.00 per Week
Daily and ½ day rates &
Financial aid available
Join us for craft Projects,
Science Experiments & fun games
Activities include;
Building a solar oven,
Plaster mask making,
Print making,
Team building games,
And much more.
Front Royal Golf Club brings back the 4-hour round of golf. It’s a fun and excellent test of golf you’re sure to enjoy.
Conveniently located just off I-66 at Exit 6, on Country Club Road in the beautiful and historic Shenandoah Valley.
Warren County Residents Discount
Warren County residents receive a 10% discount on greens and cart fees. Bring your driver’s license or
other proof of residency for discount.
New Weekday Afternoon Golf Rate
$20.00/18 holes include cart & green fees, Monday through Thursday after 3:00pm.
Deep Water Boating Access
The Front Royal Golf Club is expanding its services to the community with access to the Shenandoah River with
their boat ramp. We would like to invite you and your family to one FREE launch to discover boating, waterskiing,
fishing, swimming and all other water sports available on the beautiful Shenandoah. Deep water runs about a mile
downstream as the river widens along the way.
C
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of a four year old.
After a long day on the water, your lunch break or just heading home, stop by the club house for a meal and a
beverage of your choice. Check out the fee structure and join today.
For registration or more information contact
540-631-9503
For more information call (540) 636-9061 or
visit us at www.warrencountyva.net
for the last week at the site. I’m
not sure she enjoyed it as much
as I did, but being a former Navy
Nurse her knowledge of human
bones was very helpful. I also
was the site “on call” numismatist
(coin guy) and gave an ancient
coin lecture to the students using
some of the bronze coins found
at the site.
I must give a special thanks to
the Warrenton Coin Club and
the nice people of Front Royal
and Warren County who attended a special Tuscan Wine
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tasting in April at Vino e Formaggio. Because of them, I was able
to present the Pava Foundation
http://www.fondazionepava.org
a check for 450 Euros ($600.00)
to go for expenses at the excavation. I intend to do other fund
raising events for Pava and please
contact me if you would like me
to give a talk about this dig to
any interested group in return
for a tax-free donation to the site.
Just stop by Vino E Formaggio on
Main Street, Front Royal.
(Tory Failmezger is a retired U.S.
Naval officer and consultant. He
is currently a member of the Warren County Planning Commission
and with his family owns several
Main Street business properties
and operates Architectural Old
House Parts and the Vino e Formaggio gourmet wine and cheese
shop.)
The last small (.84 acre) lot available fronting the
west side of route 522/340 in the master planned
commercial district of North Warren County, 1/4
mile north of Country Club Rd. and the shopping
centers anchored by Wal-Mart, Target, and Lowes.
Town water already on site. Build now or rent out
the 3BR, 1BA house and develop later. Listed at
$650K, this property’s value continues to rise.
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Riverton Commons
“We even have the software where if someone can provide us a photograph of what they’re existing bathroom-shower consists of, we can, through a computer program we have, actually take the tile they would
pick out and insert that into the picture to give them a pretty good idea what it’s going to look like.”
Skyline Floor & Tile celebrates Riverton Commons location
Ooh, can we stand on this floor? – It’s too pretty to scuff up with these old Vans
Skyline Floor & Tile owner Sean Carrigan, middle right, is aided in ribbon cutting
by Front Royal Mayor Eugene Tewalt and Warren County Vice Chairman Glenn
White, among others including staff, the morning of July 1.
By Roger Bianchini
On July 1, Front Royal, Warren
County and Chamber of Commerce officials gathered for a ribbon cutting Grand Opening at
Skyline Floor & Tile’s showroom
in the Riverton Commons Shopping Center. Actually owner Sean
Carrigan and staff explained that
as often is the case with these
things, it was more of Grand Reopening since the shop moved
from its original Linden location
to the northside shopping center
in October of 2008.
Mid-morning photo op done
and ribbon cut by Carrigan, Front
Royal Mayor Eugene Tewalt and
Warren County Board of Supervisors Vice-Chairman Glenn
White, we retreated inside to the
coffee and donuts and were instantly struck by our surround-
By Samantha Weaver
• It was expatriate British novelist
Lawrence Durrell who made the following observation: “There are only
three things to be done with a woman: You can love her, suffer for her or
turn her into literature.”
• Have you ever known anyone who
engaged in verbolatry? In this era of
reality TV and instant everything, it’s
not likely. “Verbolatry” is the worship
of words.
• Every year, GMAC conducts its Na-
Mayor Eugene Tewalt and Board of Supervisors Vice
Chairman Glenn White wonder why they have been
“sent to the shower” following an apparently successful ribbon cutting event - don’t worry about it,
guys.
ings.
As we gaped, General Manager
Joe Graves explained, “We install
all types of flooring, including vinyl, carpet, tile, hardwood, laminate. We specialize in custom tile
– we do showers, bathrooms …
things that would require a little
more intricacy. We have three
sales people, ladies who are all
tional Drivers Test, administered by
telephone to drivers in all 50 states.
Respondents are asked questions
pulled from official driver license exams across the country. This year’s
results are in, and they’re not encour-aging. More than a quarter of those
surveyed -- 28.1 percent -- c10 347i3
very experienced with design
in tile and other types of floors,”
General Manager Joe Graves said
as we marveled at the mix of materials and designs on the floor
upon which were standing.
“Especially when you get into
tile it helps to have a designer.
You can have different deco pieces, assets that would enhance the
Diversions
Diversions
Main Street ‘Streetscape’ compliments of Terri Nicholson
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Gourmet Delights
20% OFF any Framing
Order in July
204 Main
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635-8610
Jeans Jewelers Inc. Olde Town Ice Cream
Fine Jewelry & Clocks
6 Chester
407 Main
Across from gazebo
622-6166
Open 11:30 - 8 Every Day
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jeansjewelers.com
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“Beef dogs and BBQ”
High St
P
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Royal Oak
Computers
Systems • Software • Service
203 Main • 635-7064
royaloakcomputers.com
Around Your Kitchen
Open till 8 on Fri & Sat
126 Main
635-5971
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4
Warren Rifles
Confederate Museum
Driver’s Choice
8
9
96 Chester
Open daily 9-4, Sun. 12-4
636-6982
Training Center
Classroom, Behind-the-Wheel,
Driver Improvment Classes
13 540-692-0420
214 E. Jackson
622-6900
Springfield
Computers
Helen’s Arts &
Antiques Mall
221 Main
Sun 12-5 • Tue-Thurs 11-5
Fri & Sat 11-6
aroundyourkitchen.com
510 N Royal Ave.
14
622-8055
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oldecharm.com
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635-2133
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Kibler
Furniture Co.
2
119 Chester • 622-2060
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Nicolle’s Jewelry Heaven Sent Shoppe
Plaques, Trophies, Signs
Designs
& more
1
Vistor ’s Center
13
E Jackson St
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Unique & One of a Kind
Fine & Custom Jewelry
214 Main •6 22-2647
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Bell Boyd
Yama Fuji
Japanese Restaurant
5
241 Chester
631-3454, 631-3455
125 S Royal
10
635-2153
JEChevy.com
Lucky Star Lounge
Live Music Nightly
15
205 Main
635-5297
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