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FluvannaReview.com July 21 – 27, 2011 | Free July 21 – 27, 2011 • Volume 31, Issue 29 T h i s w e e k i n r e v i e w. . . Fluvanna REVIEW page 14 www.fluvannareview.com Publisher/Editor: Carlos Santos [email protected] Advertising Manager: Evelyn Inskeep [email protected] Accounts Manager: Diane Eliason [email protected] Advertising Designer: Lisa Hurdle [email protected] Web Administrator/Designer: Kathy Zeek [email protected] Designer: Marilyn Ellinger Staff Writers: Page Gifford, Jennifer Zajac, Duncan Nixon, O.T. Holen, Joe Ronan, Kristin Sancken, Ruthann Carr and Tammy Purcell Photographers: David Stemple, O.T. Holen Mailing Address: P.O. Box 59, Palmyra, VA 22963 Address: 2987 Lake Monticello Road Phone: (434) 591-1000 Fax: (434) 589-1704 Member of the Virginia Press Association page 16 Wedded bliss Baja bound cover New York’s T-Rex Quote of the week: “So, I was able to attend and mostly because of the wonderful students on the football team. The boys went in shifts, some took me up the steps to school in the mornings and others in the afternoon.” – Eileen Vaught, page 14 page 21 page 22 Scottsville summers Rack ‘em General: Fluvanna Review is published weekly by Valley Publishing Corp. Founded in 1979, it’s the only paper that covers Fluvanna exclusively. One copy is free. Additional copies are $1 each payable in advance to the publisher. Snapping turtles are found throughout Virginia including in Lake Monticello. Experts say turtles are a natural part of the environment and not dangerous. Designed by Lisa Hurdle and Kathy Zeek. page 18 Subscriptions: Copies will be mailed for the subscription price of $135 per year or $70 per 6 months. Please mail a check and a note with your name and address to: Subscriptions Dept., P.O. Box 59, Palmyra, VA 22963. page 23 West Point Fluco Deadline: Advertising due Wednesday 5 p.m. for the following week. 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Playing with fire Republicans are playing with fire with their obstinate position on revenue enhancements. When families find they do not have enough income to cover their essential expenses, they find ways to produce more income. This may include getting a second job, having other family members go to work, or starting a home business. The same logic should apply to the federal government. We need more revenue so we raise the price of government. We cannot cut our way to a balanced budget and if tax cuts actually created jobs unemployment today would be closer to 4% then 9%. By even threatening not to raise the debt limit unless their demands are met, Republicans risk calamitous reverberations throughout the world. The United States is viewed as the grown-up, the leader of the free world that can be counted on to show maturity and wisdom. This “my way or the highway” attitude toward “negotiations” demonstrated by house Republicans, including Robert Hurt, puts not only our fragile economic recovery at risk but also our global reputation as well. There are plenty of ways to raise revenue as well as reduce costs. A short list would include hiring more IRS officials to collect unpaid taxes, reducing the Defense Department by the 10% that is already wasted, removing the tax break for carried interest that allows multi millionaires to pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, Eliminating agricultural subsidies, eliminating duplication in federal bureaucracies, assess an import tax on countries guilty of unfair trade practices like currency manipulation, getting rid of useless and even counter-productive tax breaks such as investment tax credits, accelerated depreciation, and deductions for home mortgage interest and, finally, requiring every individual and business that files with the IRS to pay at least some alternative minimum tax. It is ridiculous that nearly half of American workers and a large percentage of highly profitable large corporations can get off without paying any taxes at all. The approval level for Congress today is about 19%. Ordinary citizens are astonished by the childish behavior of our elected officials. When the Republicans chose to play chicken with the economy in 1994 they paid dearly at the polls. The same will happen again if they continue to try to drive our economy to the brink. Richard Bucci Palmyra A heartfelt thanks This is a heartfelt thank you note to all my friends at Lake Monticello and Fluvanna County. I can’t tell you how much your cards, notes, phone calls and people dropping by Martha Jefferson Hospital and the Colonnades meant to me during my recent serious encounter with “a rare bacterial infection” that settled by and in my heart area. I am so happy to be able to tell you that due to the skilled doctors at Martha Jefferson Hospital – I won the battle. Hopefully, soon I will have my energy back to start shopping again.. Besides good friends in the Lake and Fluvanna area community, I have several people who were with me every minute of this ordeal. I thank my husband Nat, my son Steve, my sister Marcia, my close and reliable friend Mona. But the person who really was my uplifting and encouraging “angel” is my daughter Caren. I am so proud of the caring, responsible woman that she is. She was there with me every step of the way. I thank the churches and the people within those churches, throughout the county, that had me in their prayers. .I am still so overwhelmed by the out-pouring of support and love that I have received from the community. We do indeed live in a very special place. I am very thankful and honored to call you my friends. Myrna Alperin Palmyra You Can Afford the Convenience of Clean & Healthy Air with a Central Vacuum System. 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Across from Albemarle High School On a July 14 story about a lost dog named Bella being reunited with her owners: “Bella’s” Owners have been found, a happy reunion will take place shortly. We enjoyed her company. Thank you all in the Lake Monticello community! – Lynn Stayton-Eurell On a July 14 letter to the editor about cutting arts in Fluvanna schools: Anne, My wife and I completely agree with you. Education is not about just the three “R”s. Our schools should also provide enrichment in the form of arts, music, and language. When was this change discussed with the public? Other options should be explored so that our children do not spend our money to learn typing. I suggest that every student be given a typing test so that only those deficient in typing be given additional instruction and not at the expense of those who will benefit from the arts, music and language. SOLs test to the MINIMUM standard. It appears that we are punishing many for the benefit of the few. I realize that not everyone has access to a computer at home, but I would bet that most do. Why not have a student study guide for kids to work on typing at home, and then periodically reassess their proficiency? That would place the burden of education where it belongs - at home - and send the correct signal to students and parents. It appears that our school prefers a nation of typists. I find it ironic that the school board lists the chorus and the elementary play as events they are proud of in their budget report, but chooses not to support them. – Wallfifa 259 Hydraulic Ridge Rd, Suite 103 296-2378 David Kendall “The Best Care for Your Best Friends” Since 1992 Fork Union Animal Clinic Sam Babbitt, DVM • DeNae Babbitt, DVM Kendra Philman, DVM • Ashley Rethemeyer, DVM We offer a wide range of veterinary services to keep your companions feeling their best! 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July 21, 2011 | Fluvanna Review | 5 Fluvanna news briefs Burhoe takes over FUMA Admiral Burhoe locked his office door and headed home at about 6:45 p.m., his first day, a very full day, finally completed. In his hand he carried a very large satchel, no doubt containing materials he intended to spend his evening reviewing before he begins his second day bright and early on Tuesday morning. Hopefully he will also manage to get a little rest. – Contributed article Animal cruelty case delayed Rear Admiral J. Scott Burhoe with cadets. Rear Admiral J. Scott Burhoe arrived on the campus of Fork Union Military Academy early on Monday morning (July 18) for his first day serving as president, and he hit the ground running. Literally. In keeping with his normal practice, Admiral Burhoe was up and running at 6 a.m. traveling all over the Academy’s campus as he put in five of the twenty-plus miles he runs each week. After his run, he arrived at the office in his crisp U. S. Coast Guard blues and barely slowed down. His first day’s schedule was filled with individual one-on-one meetings with various department heads, but even on his very first day, he found himself handling the types of crises that will routinely interrupt his schedule in the days ahead: A cadet violating the Honor Code? Form the tribunal. A young man with a medical emergency? Contact the parents. Television news crews here to report on his arrival? Give them an interview and tour of the campus. Admiral Burhoe even found time to walk about the campus, engaging summer school students in conversation and seeking to learn more about his new school from their perspective. “I knew I was going to be going from fire to fire,” said Admiral Burhoe about his first day’s experience. He is well used to dealing with the typical daily issues of a boarding school, having run one of the nation’s leading service academies for the past four years. Admiral Burhoe was the head of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy from 2007 to 2011. The ongoing case of the Bremo Bluff woman who was convicted of failing to provide adequate care to her dogs and animal cruelty has been postponed until August 11. Jennifer Brooks appeared before Judge John G. Berry in Fluvanna County Circuit Court on Thursday (July 14) with her attorney David L. Heilberg of Charlottesville for a probation violation hearing. Heilberg announced that Commonwealth Attorney Jeffrey Haislip had agreed to adjourn the hearing until August to allow time for a psychological evaluation of Brooks. The evaluation was required as part of the original sentencing but had not yet been carried out. In agreeing to the adjournment, Judge Berry directed Brooks to participate in the evaluation at the offices of psychologist Dr. Jeffry Fracher on July 19. The results of the evaluation will used to determine the disposition of the probation violation charges. Judge Berry cautioned Brooks that the April 29 court order is still in place and she is obligated to abide by its terms which include no contact with the SPCA or current caretakers of the dogs that were the subject of the criminal cases. Judge Berry admonished Brooks to “deal with all issues related to this case through your attorney.” After the August 11 hearing a determination will be made by Judge Berry regarding the future course of the case. In another matter, a 27-year-old Palmyra man was convicted of felony driving while intoxicated and sentenced to 90 days in jail and a mandatory fine of $1,000. Tommy Lee Holland through his attorney Stephen C. Harris agreed that the commonwealth had sufficient evidence to convict him of the felony charge. Commonwealth’s Attorney Jeffrey Haislip summarized the evidence which included the defendant’s presence in an overturned vehicle when a deputy sheriff came to the scene. His blood alcohol concentration was .19 or more than twice the legal limit. Holland will be on supervised probation for two years and he must abstain from alcohol. He will be required to undergo a substance abuse evaluation and must cooperate with any treatment that is deemed necessary after the evaluation. Holland’s driving privileges have been suspended indefinitely. – Joe Ronan Bella and owners re-united A lost dog – a long-haired dachshund – has been reunited with her owners. Her name is Bella. “Bella’s owners have been found, Bella a happy reunion will take place shortly. We enjoyed her company,” Lynn Stayton-Eurell of Lake Monticello wrote on the Fluvanna Review Facebook page on Friday (July 15). She had posted a photo of the dog and a message seeking the lost dog’s owners on Thursday. “Thank you all in the Lake Monticello community!,” she wrote after the happy ending. – Carlos Santos One person dead at logging business One person died Wednesday (July 13) after a heavy equipment accident at Tapscott Brothers Logging on Rolling Road South in Fluvanna County, according to a press release from the Fluvanna County Sheriff’s Office. The person was identified as Stephen Earl Moore, 56, of Troy. Fluvanna County Sheriff’s deputies and members of Fluvanna County fire and rescue as well as Scottsville Fire and Rescue responded the scene of the accident. They found a seriously injured person and immediately began life support measures. “The individual was unable to be resuscitated and was declared dead on the scene. At this time the individual’s identity is not going to be released,” according to Lt. Aaron C. 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Snapping turtles bite right? Well they do, but at least in the water they’re fairly harmless, happy to swim away as you swim or wade by. Snapping turtles have an undeserved reputation of being mean, experts said. But that doesn’t mean they’re not scary to look at. Nance Stamper took eight photos of a good-sized snapping turtle swimming in their cove at Lake Monticello. “I would say that his body is about 20” long and his head about 6” round. Also, he stuck out his neck once and it was really long,” Stamper wrote in an email to the Fluvanna Review. “Anyway, he was eating a humongous dead carp. (I read that they go after dead fish.) We removed the carp and have not seen the turtle since, but...This all happened in Polk Cove. I am looking forward to reading the article and hope that it will spark some interest in trying to trap and remove these scary turtles.” Mike Harrison, the former treasurer for the Lake Monticello Homeowners’ Association, said he’s seen a snapping turtle bite through a broom handle. “They bigger they are, the bigger the bite,” he said. 8 | Fluvanna Review | July 21, 2011 He said one snapping turtle spotted in the Lake might be 16 inches across – hardly a Loch Ness monster, but still fairly large. “I’ve seen other big ones in the Lake.” Eric Oliphant saw a good-sized snapping turtle crawling around on the parking lot at the Crofton shopping center. Its shell was up to onefoot across. “It was kind of strange seeing it, but it was right after a rainy period and there were a lot of puddles. I kept my distance. I know what they’re capable of.” Kathy Zeek saw one plodding across the road near Tufton Lake. She estimated its shell was 18 inches across. In response to an inquiry from the Fluvanna Review, Peggy Alexander wrote in an email that : “There is no way of knowing how many snapping turtles are in the Lake. They are very common in ponds and lakes and are just another part of the wildlife in our ecosystem.” That’s a good answer. Snapping turtles are found in just about every nook and cranny in Virginia. Where there’s even a hope of water, you can find a snapping turtle. “They’re just a part of the normal environment,” said J.D. Kleopfter, the state herpetologist with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. “It’s old folklore that kid’s have had their toes bitten by a snapping turtle. I’ve never, ever heard of that happening.” See Turtles, page 10 Snapping turtle facts Common name: Eastern snapping turtle Scientific name: Chelydra serpentina serpentina Genus: Chelydra is derived from the Greek word chelydra which means “tortoise.” Species and subspecies: serpentina is derived from the Latin word serpentis meaning “snake,” referring to the long tail of the turtle. Average length: 8 - 14”, weight 10 - 35 lbs. Virginia record length: 18 1/3”, weight 51 lbs. Age: Can live for over 100 years. Habitat: Found in every part of Virginia Food: Snapping turtles prefer dead, but not rotting, fish. They will also eat crayfish, toads, frogs, fish, aquatic insects, terrestrial insects, muskrats, aquatic plants, and algae. Adults and juveniles have been observed gulping algae and duckweed on the water’s surface. Adult snappers have few predators; humans are the primary ones. 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Those that grow to 16 or 17 inches wide (in shell) probably weigh 40 pounds and are considered huge. The Virginia record Eastern Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina serpentine) was caught at Ft. Pickett near Richmond in August 2008 by a commercial snapping turtle fisherman. The turtle weighed in at 51 lbs. (23.13 kg) with a straight-line carapace length of 18 1/3 in. (46.5 cm). The previous Virginia record was 35 lbs. (16.0 kg) with a straight-line carapace length of 16.3 in. (41.5 cm), according to the Virginia Herpetological Society website. The long-lived turtles are doing well in J.D. Kleopfer of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Virginia, despite pollution and, strangely, beholds the shell of a Virginia record Eastern snapping turtle. This cause of civilization. specimen was caught at Ft. Pickett south of Richmond in “They’re doing absolutely great,’’ Korey August 2008 by a commercial snapping turtle fisherman. The turtle Steele said of the snapping turtle population weighed 51 lbs. with a straight-line carapace length of 18 1/3”. in Virginia. He is the president of the Virginia The previous Virginia record was 35 lbs. with a straight-line carapace length of 16.3”. Photo courtesy the Virginia Herpetological Society. Herpetological Society, part of whose mission is to advance knowledge about reptiles and amphibians. “Every time a McDonald’s humans are likely to encounter them – than in the water, goes up, you have a storm water retention where they can easily glide away and escape. Steele said pond built.” That storm water pond is all a snapping turtle snapping turtles tend to lay eggs at the end of May. needs to thrive. Snapping turtles are hunted commercially, though not “They’re good at colonizing new areas,’’ said Steele. “I’ve to a great extent. Commercial snapping turtle fishermen found them a half-mile from the nearest pond. The turtle must obtain a state license to hunt them and usually do finds a little mud puddle and camps out, eats the tadpoles so when the market demand is high. The fishermen use and some birds then packs up and moves on. They’re built set poles – a simple line, hook and bait arrangement – or like tanks. They’re really tough.” net the turtles. A North Carolina business purchases the Steele prefers to think of snapping turtles as protective turtle for processing. The product generally ends up going rather than mean. “Everyone automatically thinks they’re to Asia where the demand is high for turtle meat as food mean. What they can be is extremely defensive.” But those and medicine. snapping turtles that prove defensive are usually adult feOther than the occasional hunter, snapping turtles are males looking for a place to lay eggs, he said. at the top of the food chain and have few enemies. So if The female only leaves the water to look for a suitable you see a snapping turtle – in water or on land – admire spot where she can dig into the earth and deposit her it from a distance. It’s been around a long time and is just eggs. The turtles are likely wary on land simply because trying to live its natural life. they instinctively know they are more vulnerable, Steele “They’re pretty amazing animals,” said Kleopfter. said. That makes them more aggressive on land – where Open House • Sunday, July 24 • 1-4 p.m. 5 Axle Tree Road Lake Monticello MLS# 475077 • $168,700 Everyay! Thursd Beautiful, 1,591 sq. ft. cedar-sided 3 bedroom, 2 bath home has a screened-in deck, fenced backyard, storage shed and is on a nice level lot. 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Due to the various ways data is compiled for statistical analysis, this document will not reflect the specific data for every call for service. 12 | Fluvanna Review | July 21, 2011 Fluvanna schools news Assistant superintendent named The Fluvanna County School Board has hired Chuck Winkler to fill the assistant superintendent for administrative services and personnel position. Winkler will replace Maurice Carter who resigned to work full time at his Buckingham County church. Winkler is a graduate of Fairmont State College in West Virginia where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education. He also holds a Master of Education degree in administration and supervision from the University of Virginia. Winkler has over 23 years of experience in education. He has served as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal at the elementary and middle school levels. He also has experience as a director of elementary instruction. Winkler’s experience includes overseeing school building projects, planning for transition, spearheading teacher evaluation initiatives, developing school and division level budgets, and coordinating school improvement. “I am deeply honored to be given this opportunity to join such a dedicated team of educators. Fluvanna is a wonderful community, I look forward to working with our staff and students,” said Winkler. – Source: Fluvanna schools press release. Schools to self-insure to save money In the 2010-2011 school year Fluvanna County Public Schools paid $5.5 million in health insurance premiums. When the school board found out that health insurance provider Southern Health was going to raise premiums 19% in the coming year while they faced a constraining budget, they decided to look elsewhere and sent out a request for proposal to self-insure. Nine insurance companies responded to the request. Sam Rosenthal, insurance consultant to the county, recommended they go with a plan proposed by a Virginia-based company, Gateway Health Alliance, which will give school employees the same coverage they had before, but only cost the school district less than 1% more in cost than last year. Both County Administrator Jay Scudder and director of Human Resources for the county, Barbra Wall-McGee, approved of switching to Gateway after discussing it with Rosenthal. The most important thing to school board members, before approving it in a unanimous vote, was that there wouldn’t be a noticeable difference in coverage. “I want to make sure we have seamless coverage for our employees,” said school board chair Barbara Gibbons at the school board’s regular meeting on Wednesday (July 13). Rosenthal assured the board that there would neither be a gap in coverage nor a difference in benefits with Gateway Health Alliance versus Southern Health. – Kristin Sancken Policy on student-athlete concussions to tighten At Wednesday’s school board meeting (July 13), the board decided to pursue making all parents and guardians of student athletes attend an educational seminar on concussions, instead of having parents sign a waiver saying they’ve read a hand out on concussions. This is in addition to publishing a new policy on student-athlete concussions that appoints a concussion management team within the school, trains school personnel and volunteers on concussion symptoms, and formally outlines the protocol for allowing a student-athlete to return to play after suffering a concussion. “This is a policy for the health and well being of our kids,” said school board chair Barbara Gibbons. “We need to make sure they’re caring for the child’s health and not just so they can get back in the game. People don’t think it’s as serious as it is.” The policy defines a concussion as “a brain injury that is characterized by an onset of impairment of cognitive and/or physical functioning, and is caused by a blow to the head, face, or neck, or a blow to the body that cause a sudden jarring of the head (i.e. a helmet to the head, being knocked to the ground). A concussion can occur with or without the loss of consciousness, and proper management is essential to the immediate safety and long-term future of the injured individual.” Although a signed waiver saying the parents had read the concussion policy would protect the school from litigation, the school board doesn’t think it’s enough to protect students themselves. “I think this is important because many of the symptoms occur after the child goes home,” said school board member Brian Phillips. “Parents need to be readily aware what those symptoms are.” – Kristin Sancken. Schools introduce six new employees Fluvanna County Public Schools Superintendent Gena Keller introduced six new hires to the school board Wednesday evening (July 13). After Fluvanna Middle School Principal Kathi Driver resigned for family reasons in the spring after serving 10 years, Frank Leech was hired to be the new Fluvanna Middle School Principal. He has 30 years of experience in education. “Philosophically, I want Fluvanna Middle School to be a place where teachers love to come and work and students love to come and learn,” said Leech of his goals as principal. Margaret Crawford will be the new director of elementary instruction, replacing Allen Cook who announced his retirement in April. Crawford also comes to Fluvanna with 30 years of experience and stated “curriculum and instruction is my passion.” Replacing Jerome Hill, Jessica Cannon is the new supervisor of transportation. Cannon comes to Fluvanna from Albemarle County, where she worked 19 years at the 9-1-1 center in addition to driving a school bus as a single parent. Jason Lee will replace High School Assistant Principal Jeffrey Scales, who recently left Fluvanna County Schools for a position in Cumberland County. Lee has 10 years of experience in education and is “looking forward to being an adopted part of this community.” When Keller first wrote a job description for the new position of director of testing and accountability several months ago, school board chair Barbara Gibbons read it and replied, “How are you going to find someone to do all of that?” Lucky for the school district, James “Jamie” Mathieson will be that person. He said he was drawn to Fluvanna by Keller’s child-focused approach to education. Finally, Clint Estes was introduced as the new assistant principal at Fluvanna County Middle School. He said Mozell Booker, county supervisor and friend of his who frequently “bragged” about Fluvanna to him, drew him here. “My head is spinning,” said Estes. “I learn something new every day.” – Kristin Sancken Help the Rotary help second graders Contributed By Cliff Altschull The Rose Deborah Altschull Endowment For Youth has launched its 4th Annual “Bright Start For Kids” program and wants your help. The program provides back-to-school necessities for less fortunate second graders in Fluvanna County. The endowment was started on April 2, 2008 and has shown a steady growth pattern from day one. By the end of June 2011 we had received donations amounting to more than $48,000 from more than 250 different donors. This has always been a “working endowment” meaning that we have sponsored projects beginning in the first year of its inception through today more than exceeding the federal requirement of a 5% distribution of assets each year for a 501c3 charity. With school beginning on August 9 the endowment board is working in close coordination with the Fluvanna County school administration to ensure that “Bright Start For Kids” backpacks are ready for distribution the first day of school. This year we will be supplying 60 backpacks stuffed with all the required school supplies. Anyone that would like to sponsor a child heading back to school is invited to make a contribution. The cost to sponsor a child is $50 and of course no donation is too big or too small. The endowment is a part of and managed by the Rotary Foundation of Fluvanna County. Therefore contributions should be written to “The Rotary Foundation of Fluvanna County Virginia” with a note in the memo section of the check to direct the donation to “The Rose Deborah Altschull Endowment For Youth”. The mailing address is: Rotary Club of Fluvanna County, c/o Bernie Crown. 25 Amethyst Road, Palmyra, Virginia 22963. All donations are 100% tax deductible. 15 named to Tech dean’s list The following students enrolled at Virginia Tech were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2011 semester. To qualify for the dean’s list, students must attempt at least 12 credit hours graded on the A-F option and earn a 3.4 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) during the semester. Robert R. Adams of Palmyra, a sophomore majoring in general engineering in the College of Engineering; Amanda K. Blevins of Palmyra, a senior majoring in interdisciplinary studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences; Sarah J. Bomberger of Palmyra, a sophomore majoring in psychology in the College of Science; John T. Bradley of Palmyra, a junior majoring in apparel, housing and resource management in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences; Joseph A. Edwards of Palmyra, a senior majoring in biological sciences in the College of Science; Jason T. Focht of Palmyra, a senior majoring in horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Chelsea M. Gunter of Palmyra, a junior majoring in communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences; Abigail A. Harris of Palmyra, a junior majoring in communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences; Christopher M. Labriola of Palmyra a senior majoring in marketing management in the Pamplin College of Business; Jon-Eric Lord of Palmyra, a sophomore majoring in psychology in the College of Science; Kaitlyn N. McIver of Palmyra, a sophomore majoring in biological sciences in the College of Science; Sarah M. Ryan of Palmyra, a sophomore majoring in psychology in the College of Science; Jacob B. Putnam of Scottsville, a senior majoring in engineering science and mechanics in the College of Engineering; Katherine E. Christensen of Troy, a freshman majoring in biological sciences in the College of Science; Justin C. 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Lowell and Eileen Vaught – who have two children, seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren with another on the way – reflected recently on what brought them together and on the blessings that have kept them together all these years. In this day and age when we seem to be less tolerant, more impatient and forgetful of respecting one another, the Vaughts remind us of what society has been missing all these years. They grew up in a time when America was prosperous, when the nuclear family, as we once knew it, was intact and happy but on the fringes of change – civil rights and teenage rebellion were looming in the distant future. One can see it in the photos of the happy couple, the perky and petite Eileen and the tall, virile Lowell. But looking at those photos, no one could see the braces on her legs and few were taken of her in a wheelchair. Eileen was 14 when she met 15year-old Lowell in 1954. Both attended rival schools and she joked that when she would attend the football Eileen and Lowell in1954. 14 | Fluvanna Review | July 21, 2011 games, playing in the band, she would openly root for Warwick. Before the Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted, Eileen talked about what it was like for her to attend school in those days growing up in Newport News. “Back then I would probably not have attended high school because of my disability,” said Eileen, “but my mother took on the school system and insisted I attend. She refused to home school me which is what they suggested. So, I was able to attend and mostly because of the wonderful students on the football team. The boys went in shifts, some took me up the steps to school in the mornings and others in the afternoon. They were wonderful.” Eileen is one of those rare people that looks back on her life and her childhood, not with bitterness or regret but with praise for those who helped and supported her. Among them was an athlete, who was a fullback on the football team and also ran track and was a wrestler. He was tall and lean. “I looked like Fonzie long before there was a Fonzie. It was all about me,” he said. That was until he met Eileen, who changed his perspective in a gentle way. “She was the most positive person I ever met and of all the girls I had known.” Lowell admits he didn’t date much. “One reason was that most of the girls I dated would Lowell and Eileen Vaught today. Photo by Page H. Gifford. complain and whine, but not Eileen, she enjoyed life. Besides she was the prettiest.” He looked warmly at her as she grinned. “Her personality was different than what I had been used to. She was always deeply concerned with other people.” “At first, I thought he was conceited and he was flunking out of school,” Eileen said while Lowell nodded in agreement. “At one point I invited him on a church hayride and I told him then to get a haircut.” Eileen confessed she looked deeper into Lowell as the person and beyond the muscles and felt a spiritual connection that has been their rock ever since. “I saw something in him that was different.” During their dating years, the one obstacle they faced was their parents. “My parents didn’t approve of him,” said Eileen. “Mine didn’t want me to date a handicapped girl.” To get Lowell to break up with her daughter, Eileen’s mother invented a honey-do list for Lowell. “She had me doing everything imaginable, hoping I would leave the relationship, she even had me paint the insides of the closets. Now who does Eileen and Lowell in 1957. that?”But that did not He is in his FUMA cadet uniform. deter Lowell, who walked thirteen miles, sometimes hitch-hiking to Newport News to see Eileen. “He did the same thing when I attended college in North Carolina, he would hitch-hike to see me.” Lowell then attended Fork Union Military Academy for his last two years of schooling. He confesses it was the best thing that ever happened to him. He brought his grades up and graduated. He was the fourth generation of FUMA graduates in his family. In 1958, they eloped. Together, they forged a marriage and raised a family. He attended seminary school and became a pastor in a church in Louisiana, moving back to Virginia in 1986 to become a chaplain for FUMA. Eileen got a job as a guidance counselor with the Fluvanna County Schools, a position she held for years. She has since retired and teaches music. Watching Eileen’s self-sacrifice in caring for their son and daughter while in a wheelchair and helping him while he attended college, never went unnoticed by Lowell. It was music and their faith that keeps their relationship strong. Lowell, an introvert, liked his solitude and Eileen respected that but they have taken art lessons and painted together. He taught himself guitar and plays the piano. “I grew up in a bluegrass family but I love classical,” he said. “We enjoy each other’s company but also know when we need time alone. We don’t have to be together all the time.” “Wordless communication,” said Lowell. “That’s what binds us together,” added Eileen. 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The port town attracts cruise ship tourists for its beauty and colorful shops as well as missionaries for its abject poverty. IMPACT, a missionary organization, helped the church identify the family in need. “Love God, Love Others, Serve the World” The week-long missionary trip marks the largest group Lake Christian Church has assembled since its inception more than 11 years ago. A LCC missionary trip went to Ensenada in 2005 and another group went to assist the rebuilding of New Orleans in 2007. Such volunteer efforts are part of the church’s mission statement: “Love God, Love Others, Serve the World.” Through yard sales, bake sales, a well-attended dinner catered by La Cuccina Classica, and a “nail sale,” more than $11,000 was raised to fund the mission – $3,000 less than needed to cover expenses. “The main thing is sharing the gospel to the family that God has for us and the community. The house is a side benefit,” said LCC missionary spokeswoman Melissa Taylor. 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Our plan was with the dinosaur mirthfully joked at the wedding, “Wow, to squeeze in our two favorite muFossil Halls (housyou must really love him!”) Luckily, afseums into one day: morning at the ter five years of living in Queens and Metropolitan Museum of Art and the ing the famous working in Manhattan, we “escaped” afternoon at the American Museum of Rexie and other The American Museum of Natural History’s famous T-Rex. and moved out of state. It would be 15 Natural History. dinosaur skeletons), years before we would venture back to I’ve travelled to 38 different counthe Hall of Metephilanthropic, don’t bother to pay the New York City again. tries and seen art museums in many of orites, (featuring an immense, 34-ton full admission price ($25 per adult, $17 Fast forward to this summer. After them, but I am steadfast in my belief iron meteorite fragment from Greenper senior, and $12 for students; kids making plans to take a cruise from New that the “Met” is the best art museum land), the Hall of Marine Life (home of ages 12 and under are free with a payYork to Bermuda, we decided to arrive in the world. With mummies, worldthe huge, dangling blue whale from the ing adult). That’s just a suggested doa few days early to show our kids the famous paintings, sculptures, and over movie), and the Hall of Minerals. nation, and few New Yorkers pay the city. For the first time in 15 years, we two million works of art, the Met is a full amount. We felt comfortable payAfter two museums, we were running were ready to enter the Big Apple. must-see. It’s one of those few art muing $20 for the four of us, and the girl out of steam, so we took a cab to 55th I’d heard from other former New seums massive at the ticket booth Street to eat at my husband’s former Yorkers that the experience of stepenough to house didn’t even blink. I’ve travelled to 38 different “first date” restaurant, La Bonne Soupe ping back into what they call “The entire rooms or We could have countries and seen art mu- easily stayed un- (more on that in my next article). We City” could be a real shock to the sysbuilding facades off a delicious French meal by tem--that it was like flipping on a light plucked directly seums in many of them, but til closing, but the walked cramming in a few more sights: the faswitch after sitting in the dark for a from their original kids were eager I am steadfast in my belief çade of Rockefeller Center; a quick pop long while. So I was prepared for the locations, such as to move on to the that the “Met” is the best art into St. Patrick’s Cathedral; and then a cultural shock. a 16th century panext museum, so 15-minute jaunt down to Grand Central What I wasn’t prepared for was the tio from a Spanish museum in the world. we grabbed lunch Station, which my son insisted seeing. almost instinctual ease with which I castle. at the museum’s I couldn’t figure out why until we merged back into the urban jungle: the My husband and American Wing got there and he gleefully pointed out ability to brush off the heat, smells, I could have spent hours just gazing at Café (which has very reasonable, gour“Look! The clock Merlin got his head and simple crush of humanity without the European paintings, the spectacumet sandwich fare) before grabbing a a second thought; the automatic way I lar American Wing, which boasts Tifstuck in!” “What on earth are you talkcab and heading across Central Park to avoided making eye contact on the subfany windows and entire rooms from ing about?” I said. “The scene in Madathe American Museum of Natural Hisway; the alacrity with which I reverted long-gone New York mansions, and the gascar where the animals run through tory. back to “mindless subway” mode, deextensive Greek and Roman art. Grand Central and the giraffe gets his One of the largest museums in the scending into my own little mental But our kids’ favorite areas were the head stuck in the clock,” he patiently world, the AMNH boasts over 32 milbubble to the point where I’d look up collection of medieval armor, swords, explained. lion specimens, of which only a fracand suddenly realize I’d reached my and firearms; the mummies (of course); Exhausted, our feet throbbing from tion are on display. The AMNH got a destination on autopilot. the Temple of Dendur, a 15th century all the walking, we hopped a train back boost in recent years when it was the My husband and I quickly agreed BC temple brought over piece by piece to Queens where my brother-in-law inspiration for the museum in the Ben how relieved we were that this homefrom Egypt); and the Studiolo, an ItalStiller movie Night at the Museum. My provided us with a much-needed shot sweet-home wasn’t ours anymore. Still, ian Renaissance room made entirely of kids spent equal time making comin the arm before we fell in bed: Italian we were eager to introduce our kids to elaborate wood inlay using a trompe ments ranging from “That’s not the way ices from the famous Corona Ice King. the unique things we had missed about l’oeil (French for “fool the eye”) techit looked in the movie!” to “Where’s Next article: 48 Hours in New York, New York—namely, the museums and nique to give it a 3-D effect. Rexie?” (the bone-chasing T-Rex from Day Two the food. But what could we really If you’re only staying a few hours, the movie). As we waited our turn to cram in just 48 hours before our ship and unless you’re feeling particularly Out of Fluvanna – a travel column 48 hours in New York: Day one 18 | Fluvanna Review | July 21, 2011 Central Virginia gardening Fluvanna Farmers Market at Pleasant Grove By Sunny Lenz By Phyllis Montellese Late bloomers Ageratum: a perennial which blooms late. From September to December our gardens finish with a dazzling display, especially if you have cut, pruned, pinched and generally stalled the production of seed heads. Cut back mums, asters, and phlox, on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Early in the season, cut the outside stems in half on golden rod, coneflowers, black eyed susans, and Russian sage to help them stand up and produce a later bloom. After some perennials bloom, they begin to form new growth at the center as well as at the stem ends. Cut off the long stems with spent flowers on May Knight salvia, cat mint, and cranesbill geraniums so the base growth is strong. This prevents the long stem from ending up on the ground under the weight of leggy new growth. Almost everything can be cut to produce a branched stem which will bloom far into fall. In her book “The Well-Tended Perennial Garden’ Tracy DiSabato-Aust lists perennials which respond well to this cut back and which do not. Cimicifuga (snakeroot or bugbane) will not form new flower stems and neither will filipendula (queen of the prairie). But in general, cutting and pinching perennials and deadheading annuals will ensure a bright garden long after Labor day. It also helps to choose perennials which will bloom late; ‘Autumn Joy’ sedum ‘Clara Curtis’ and Ryan’s yellow mums, perennial ageratum (eupatorium coelestinum), blue mist (caryopteris), monkshood (aconite Carmichaelii), Japanese anemones, and turtlehead (chelone). Cannas are beacons of late color as well as fall blooming bulbs, colcicum and sternbergia. Don’t forget groundcovers such as ceratostigma and climbers like autumn clematis. Bittersweet and Virginia creeper are lovely in fall but invasive. Michaelmas daisies, Raydon’s aster and bigleaf aster are the last to bloom. Interplant with late blooming annuals like coleus and pineapple sage and keep the flowers that form pinched off until September. Blue Daze (evolvulus), angelonia, fan flower (scaevola), and Diamond Frost euphorbia will sail into fall along with wave petunias and begonias. Some make a comeback as cooler weather sets in; snapdragons, african daisies (osteopermum), and violas. Use torenia and cuphea as well as the standard marigolds, zinnias, and impatiens. Try something new and prune one or two stems differently. Gardening is experimental. We treat some perennials as annual here in zone 7. Though they will die in cold weather, they will reseed; lantana, portulaca, and calendula will start up in June and be blooming and spreading seeds in late September and early October. Against a backdrop of dogwood, sumac, witch hazel, and fothergilla the garden will blaze past the first frost. Add winterberry holly, pyrocantha, nandina, as well as burning bush (which is invasive) and the last color will go on and on. Eventually, as winter finally closes in, perennials will go to seed at last and birds will entertain with a flash of color as they feed on your garden seeds through out the dormant season. Sunny Lenz is a professional gardener and landscape painter working in and around central Virginia. Farmers market needs you! July 12 was another scorcher. But our vendors are made of tough stuff and were there, hoping to sell the fruits of their labor. Those shoppers who braved the heat were rewarded with a wide selection of products. The tomatoes like the heat and are getting redder and tastier each week. The stacks of produce are bigger as each vendor reaps more of their spring harvests to bring. Shoppers tell your friends and neighbors that we are here. As a community there needs to be more shoppers to sustain this as a growing and viable market. Those with our own farms spend the morning picking, cleaning, and preparing what has grown. Then at the park, unloading and arranging our table to best show our pride in our work. In the evening we hope to load much less to unload at our homes. It is a hard job but each vendor sits with a smile ready to share and a story to tell. And on these hot days – come say hi to Lynn and her homemade cold tea/lemon or limeade to quench your thirst. To get an email reminder of what is at the market just let me know and I will add you to our list: phyllis@ pratleyfarm.com The Fluvanna Farmers Market is open Tuesdays, April through October from 2 p.m.-6 p.m. at Pleasant Grove on Rt. 53, approximately two miles east of Rt. 15. 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The “Scottsville Enterprise” reports there was a “musical comedy given by Prof. Clifford, the blind musician, which was highly entertaining” late in June. Thomas Ellison Bruce wrote to his sweetheart, Mary Browne, in August, 1915, “there are more lawn parties and ‘affairs’ going on around through the country than you can ‘shake a stick at’ and something scheduled for most every night.” Summer in Scottsville always brought fun. Early in the twentieth century, the men about town were wearing wool jackets, pants, neckties and caps or bowlers, and the women, 90 degrees or not, were in long skirts and tight-fitted waists, with broad-brimmed hats trimmed with feathers or ribbons. We have glimpses of this front porch-andhand cranked ice cream time not only from William Burgess photographs, but from the Bruce-Browne “Letters of Courtship,” edited by Rebecca Jane Bruce in 1986; and earlier accounts of summer entertainments in Scottsville from the “Algoma Log Book,” 18901893, edited in 2003 by Mrs. Frederic W. Scott; Fannie Patteson’s 1934 “Childhood Days in Scottsville, 18601870”; “With Love from Mother,” Susan Hill Dunn’s c. 1934 memoir of nineteenth century Scottsville; and John C. Hill’s “Recollections of Scottsville, 1870-1886.” (All are available in the Local History Corner of the Scottsville Library.) Desperately poor Our earliest information reaches back to the aftermath of the Civil War when, as Susan Hill Dunn says, Scottsville and all Southerners “were desperately poor, and proud of our poverty.” “In spite of hard times life had its fun and excitement. We had other ways of forgetting the humiliation of our defeat. Parties and get-togethers were many—in small houses and in big. We danced, we flirted, we joked and generally made light of our poverty. Father [James Christian Hill] was the leading spirit in organizing horse races that everyone attended even though there was no money to bet.” Dunn says that “one summer when school closed, the Ellis family invited Susie and Annie Powers, Bessie, Sue Davis and me to go visit them. It was a beautiful time….It was the only place I ever knew where people lived with no visible means of support, yet lived the easiest and pleasantest life imaginable. I have known as many as twenty five persons to be there for supper, just neighbors dropping in and staying on. We played games, Auction bridge, we danced, we flirted, we went horseback riding, and best of all we were young! 20 | Fluvanna Review | July 21, 2011 On this warm August afternoon in 1911, William Burgess photographed a large party of Scottsville-area citizens departing on a week-long camping trip. The camping outing was arranged by Samuel R. Gault, the town’s postmaster and president of Gault Camp No. One. The campers traveled by the town’s school wagon, autos, and train to reach their eventual campsite on Paradise Hill near Schuyler. Upon arrival, they settled into canvas tents set up by an advance party and enjoyed their first meal in Ella Woody’s cook tent. During the daytime, swimming, fishing, Kodak parties, hunting, target shooting, baseball, and hammocks with books and magazines kept the campers amused. At night they sang songs in the moonlight, accompanied by guitar and harps. Photo courtesy of The Scottsvile Museum. No one had any duties to do. It was an enchanted summer.” Susan’s brother, John Hill, tells us “the old swimming hole was in the James, and about opposite the foot of Driver’s Hill [the laundromat at Route 6 is there now], where the culvert emptied the waters of the creek into the river. There was a big rock about midway the river on which we would rest when swimming across….Generally it was a foot or more under water, and hard to find. And if you missed it, that meant a swim all the way across with no breathing spell. This hole, by the way, was usually the starting point for a foray on George Nicholas’s watermelon patch.” Hill writes that “in 1879 or 1880, a regatta was held on the James River at Maiden’s Adventure, not far above Richmond, and that was the occasion of my first ride but one on the packetboat. A large delegation from Scottsville, including our entire family, went down for the fun. After the races, we went up on the bluff above the river for a picnic, and to watch a shooting match….” Watermelon feast “Up the river, a mile or so,” Hill continues, describing Scottsville, “there is, or was, quite a sizable island, fairly level and covered with trees. When I was just a youngster it was almost a community habit to hold a watermelon feast on that island at least once a year. It was always a night affair, and on the full of the moon. Billy Beal, Henry Harris, Willie Wade, Ben Jones, and the older men of the town sponsored the affair. They would hire a flatboat from Ferryman Napier…load it with melons and the young folks of the town, and pole the boat up to the island. Some of the elderly ones went along, too, to act as chaperons, for my mother went once, at least, which accounts for my being there. And what an affair it was! I imagine more than one match was consummated on these outings. Returning home, we just drifted down with the current, singing, laughing, and contentedly happy.” Fannie Patteson remembers all the women in Scottsville wearing thick green veils in summer to shield their skin, recalls a party she attended before the war at a “beautiful farm four miles up the river….A big crowd went in a flat boat up the canal. Core Lewis was much frightened when we went through the lock.” The Algoma log book listing guests and activities at the summer home of General Logan across the James from Howardsville is a first-hand account of genteel life in the 1890s: “a ‘parasol brigade’ marched on the grounds of the estate to celebrate July 4; “there was a little dancing in the evening and then followed the fireworks!” Men and women went horseback riding or fishing, and played a lot of tennis. (One evening, when men were not present at supper, “Mary & Julia luxuriated in tennis costumes. Danced a little.” The family sang, played parlor games, set up tables for whist. Ouija was very popular. Charity tea The Algoma girls ran a charity tea— the mechanics of it are unexplained— and were happy to raise 65 cents. A decade later, in 1914, according to a newspaper account reproduced in Richard Nicholas’s “Early History of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Scottsville,” the local UDC raised funds for the marker at Scottsville’s Confederate cemetery by “selling at auction to the highest bidder beautifully decorated lunch boxes filled with the most luxurious dainties, each box containing the name of the lady with whom the purchaser must share his lunch. The chance business did not always allow things to match up as desired by the participants, but worked well to amuse the assembly. In many instances some fellow could be seen casting an angry eye at another who was enjoying supper with his girl. A very delightful and charming evening was spent….” Moore’s Hall was the scene of many Scottsville entertainments before Victory Hall was erected. Hannah Moore was considered “the entertainment entrepreneur of Scottsville” at the turn of the century, according to Bob Spencer, and her building across Mink Creek, at the end of Jefferson Road, beside where Doug’s Maytag is now, was “the only place in town large enough to stage any type of entertainment. The building is long-gone, but the legend is well-known,” Bob says. July 13, 1899, there was a minstrel show there featuring the Scottsville String Band, a vocal solo, skits, a “Philosophical Dissertation,” and refreshments. Tickets were on sale at Beal Brothers for 15 to 35 cents. Even earlier, John Hill writes enthusiastically about Scottsville’s Brannigan’s Minstrels, who set up a stage with “wings, footlights, and other accessories” in the old factory building on Valley Street. He found the band good, though “in those far-off days we did not have any of the fancy instru- ments common today. The tap dancing…was exceptional. For amateurs, Brannigan’s Minstrels put on a good show, at least, everybody thought so at the time.” Museum exhibit The Scottsville Museum is currently exhibiting a photograph of the c. 1900 “Powers, Osborne, and Blair Musical Group,” seven young women with autoharp, guitars, and one fiddle, and a young man on banjo. The accompanying description notes that “Homegrown music concerts were much enjoyed [and] did much to boost the town morale…in the face of challenging economic times and a decline in population.” Plays and tableaux vivants were also popular entertainments. The Scottsville High School offered a class play yearly, often at Victory Hall; June, 1924 saw Russell Moon, Ruby Fenwick, and other seniors in “Nothing but the Truth.” John Hill recalls, in the 1880s, the best tableau was “Bluebeard’s Wives, a gruesome scene showing the heads of seven (or nine) wives. The girls stood behind a large white canvas screen. Gobs of red ink, simulating blood, ran down from each head, making a gory picture. Strange to say, the only heads I remember are those of Annie Farrar and Fannie Patteson. Then there was the tableau, “Rock of Ages,” showing Ada Nicholas clinging to the cross, her black hair streaming down below the waist-line….I always did think she was about the sweetest thing the Lord ever created….” Susan Hill Dunn recalls the “ambitious entertainments, scenes from Shakespeare, from Rip van Winkle, from art and poetry” staged by principal of the school, Mr. McDonald, when she was ten. “May Davis was Marie Stuart and the second tableau showed her body on one side of the executioner’s block and her head on the other, an easy arrangement by using two people, but very thrilling, we thought.” Baseball entertained Scottsville in the summer for years. There was a field in what is now Dorrier Park, behind the old post office building; the high school team played there, as well as the older men. Hill called the town team, “The Greenhorns, the finest amateur club in the State.” Bob Spencer says the field In the early 1900’s, Miss Hannah Moore’s Hall hosted frequent plays and musical performances, which were an important part of Scottsville social life and great fun. Sam Gault dressed up as ‘Old King Cole’ for an entertainment at Miss Hannah Moore’s Hall on Valley Street. Miss Hannah converted an old brick factory building near her house into a theater where home-grown plays were a rich source of entertainment in Scottsville. For over a decade, Miss Hannah’s Hall was a focus for the town’s social life. Photo courtesy of The Scottsvile Museum. and grandstand, with the first rows protected from foul balls by chicken wire, lasted into the late ‘40s at least. Thomas Ellison Bruce often attended games, and wrote in detail of them to his fiancée, in Palmyra; like many fans he enjoyed the good season of 1913 but not the losing record the next year. Picnics often entertained groups in Scottsville. In July, 1914, Bruce writes of one with “an immense crowd and My! What we had to eat.” Bruce points out to Mary what she’s missing: “Everything is real lively up here, something going on most every night. A goodly number of visiting summer girls are in the community.” Pauline Parr received a letter from a friend in May, 1925 (now archived in the Omohundro box in Special Collections at the University of Virginia) urging her to come to a “supper in the grove,” bringing her squire, Ashby, and promising “we’ll have good old strawberry ice cream, sandwiches, ice tea and cake.” Cars changed everything By the early 1920s, cars and better roads changed summer entertainment for the older young people of Scottsville. Pauline and Ashby took a drive one evening on “the new concrete road to Carter’s Bridge.” But prayer meet- ings and other church activities were still important places for the young to gather, and movies, visiting friends, knitting, and dances are mentioned in a journal included in the Omohundro collection. A special Scottsville entertainment was “going to the train.” John Phillip Randolph writes about it in “Of Town and the River”—“in the summertime anyway, a pretty good representation [of people] gathering at the depot to meet the evening Accommodation No. 11 from Richmond, listening to the Londeree brothers singing in harmony. In his oral history interview, 1987, Dr. Paul McFarland says “Well, the mail was the big thing, you know. Oh, heavens, yes, that was the social event of the day.” People walked with the postal clerk carrying the mail to the post office, on Main Street at the corner of Valley, waited while the mail was sorted. “And everybody’d go to their boxes, get to the window and get their mail….And in ten or fifteen minutes most of the lights were cut, everybody gone, and the town was dead.” Perhaps, however, some young people lingered on the porch swing, courting. Susan Dunn tells of meeting her future husband around 1890 when he came on a business errand to her father one June day, “all of us talking and fanning on the porch. We all started dropping things and the poor young man was so polite and agile in picking them up….We liked the same books, we had the same tastes, we wondered at the same mysteries….To understand us you would have to reconstruct your world. Scottsville was almost primitive in simplicity of life. What did we do? First came books and long conversations about all the things thoughtful young people always have wondered and dreamed about….We drifted through another enchanted summer [before marrying]. How lovely to store up memories for days to come.” Remembering summer when “best of all we were young.” This summer Lang Mason is preparing a new production for Victory Hall Theater to continue the long line of Scottsville theatricals: Tennessee Williams’ “Suddenly Last Summer.” It will be shown September 2-11, on weekends. Come see it and add to your own Scottsville memories. [Thank you, Bob Spencer, for always being willing to help with local history; and Lang Mason, for your energy in continuing the town’s theatrical traditions. 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Gifford Correspondent It was fifteen years ago up in Long Island, N.Y. when Edwin Baker was driving along and a truck ran a red light, hitting him broadside, pushing his car across two lanes and into a pole. Though his passengers had some injuries but Baker took the brunt of the crash with broken bones and a severe head injury which kept him comatose for two months. Baker says his wife Julianne, related all the events that happened while he was in a coma. At one point, his legs had turned almost black and the doctor had considered amputation but the next day the circulation was back and the legs looked normal. “The doctor told Julianne that once I came out of the coma I would have to open my eyes, recognize those around me and retain information,” said Baker. “I then went to rehab and had to learn basic functions of daily living all over again, walking, talking, caring for myself. I was in a fog for five years.” Looking at Baker, one may notice a slight and occasional slurring of the speech but one would never realize what he had been through, particularly when he takes aim at a ball on his pool table. “Julianne went everywhere with me, she was always there. Then one day, four and half years after the accident, while living in a condo up in Schenectady, New York, I went out by myself and walked across the parking lot to the recreation hall without even thinking about it. I looked back over my shoulder and noticed Juli- Intergenerational Cues’ Edwin Baker, Shawn Quarles, Danny Crevenston, Ernie Thompston, LeRoy Quarles and William (John) Lynch at a tournament on June 11. anne watching me. Once inside, I saw they had a pool table and began hitting some balls.” His venturing across a condo parking lot was the real beginning of his recovery and reawakened a childhood love of pool. Edwin Baker practicing for Vegas. 22 | Fluvanna Review | July 21, 2011 After his recovery, he eventually moved to Reston, Virginia, where he went on the prowl for places to play pool. He then joined a straight pool league while taking some lessons again to sharpen his skills. “I had been playing pool since I was seven. Everyone in my family played. But in those days, it was who you knew who could teach you. No one wanted to teach the tricks and techniques. They would rather die before telling me anything. I was pretty much self-taught,” he said. He has since taught an eleven year old boy and an 80 year old woman at the Betty Queen Intergenerational Center in Louisa, where he and his team, the Intergenerational Cues meet and play. The leagues are part of the APA [American Poolplayers Association]. Pool is no longer played in dark, dingy back alley bars such as those portrayed in the 1961 film The Hustler with Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. It is much different today than Baker’s introduction when he was a youth. People of all ages play, including teens and women who can easily learn skills and techniques, proper pool etiquette and the rules of the game. Baker described the techniques of pool and complex pecking-order to reach the national tournament in Las Vegas. He plays straight pool, known originally as pocket billiards, a common sport of championship competition until faster playing games came along like Nine-Ball and to a lesser extent Eight-Ball, which is what Baker’s team plays. His team consists of six members, including himself. The team is made up of a variety of ages from the thirties to the oldest seasoned amateur, who Baker shares his admiration for: 83-year-old LeRoy Quarles. They are an Eight Ball Team, who has won other titles including the Open 8 Ball Vegas Cup Championships. But Baker is working on his technique and is looking forward to going to Vegas and bringing a cup home in the nationals. West Point cadet First class cadet (Senior) Daniel Tucker. Fluvanna resident Daniel Tucker is attending West Point. He answered a few questions about his life and his West Point experience.: Lacrosse supporters have raised almost $14,000 so far Fundraising efforts to establish lacrosse teams to compete in the Jefferson District for the spring 2012 season at Fluvanna County High School have been successful with almost $14,000 raised so far. The goal is $20,000. “I’m 100 percent confident we’re going to do this,” said Brian Wilberger, a member of the US Lacrosse board and a Lake Monticello resident and one of those who is spearheading the fundraising effort. A golf tournament held Saturday at the Rivanna Resort and Golf Club raised $10,000 alone, said Wilberger. The money will be used to starts boys and girls junior and varsity lacrosse teams. The money will pay for equipment and uniforms and other needs. Fluvanna schools will pay stipends to coaches and referees. Wilberger said in an email to the Fluvanna Review that “in order for these teams to become a reality, the majority of the costs involved for startup must be privately funded. There has been a lot of support not just from Fluvanna but also from the greater Charlottesville/Albemarle area with many businesses large and small making contributions.” “The Charlottesville Chapter of US Lacrosse has fully supporting this effort,” Wilberger said. “Parents and even other former lacrosse players from the Charlottesville area have also been working concessions and events at the University of Virginia in order to raise the necessary funds. For direct tax deductible contributions: please contact Brian Wilberger with US Lacrosse at [email protected]. – Carlos Santos Where did you go to school? I went to Fluvanna County High School and then played football at Fork Union for Coach John Schuman. Graduated in 2007 from Fluvanna County High School. Favorite memories growing up? Playing sports with my Fluvanna teammates. I played: football, basketball, and track and field. Going to Old Farm Day at Pleasant Grove and fishing on the James was a lot of fun. Oh and watching the Hokies beat up on the Hoos. What do youI miss about home? Seeing my friends and the hospitality of strangers. Everyone in the South is extremely friendly and I miss waving at people as I drive and receiving a smile in return. I miss spending time with my friends such as going fishing and watching sporting events. Tell us about your plans at West Point? I’m a First class cadet (Senior) at the United States Military Academy West Point. Majoring in Portuguese with a nuclear engineering sequence (kind of like a minor). I play tight head prop for the West Point Rugby team ranked 8th in the country following the 2010-2011 season we beat Navy 34-27. I’m going to be commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army upon graduation. Want to branch Infantry and join the 101st Airborne division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. I didn’t go study for a semester abroad because I’m dedicated to my team but I would like to try and become a foreign area officer and work at an embassy hopefully in the future. A golf tournament held Saturday (July 16) at the Rivanna Resort and Golf Club raised $10,000 to help establish lacrosse teams at Fluvanna County High School. Photos contributed by Doug Hotz. IT’s Time to book the Summer Trim July 21, 2011 | Fluvanna Review | 23 FAST readies for the championships Contributed by Kayla Corredera-Wells and Diana Bowen As they ready for the championships that are closing in on the swimming world, the Fluvanna Aquatics Sports Team (FAST) Makos were excited for another chance to swim and improve in this week’s unscored meet against the Farmington Country Club (FCC) Frogs. Unfortunately, the Makos never made it onto the deck Wednesday night. Storms in the area prevented the meet for the first time this season. In a last minute change of plans, Farmington graciously offered to host the FAST Makos the following night at their own, larger, 8-lane facility. Despite the late start, Thursday was exceptional, and both teams turned out for a night full of exciting swims. In the second individual medley (IM) race of the night, Farmington’s Mary Buetow (10) out touched FAST’s Gabby Tosi (10) and Alexa Owen (9) to place first, second, and third; the three girls clocked in as the league’s top three fastest recorded times for the event this season. Tosi and Owen dropped over 7 seconds combined to each post a best time. In the 7 – 8 Girls 25m freestyle, FAST continued to see large time improvements with Molli White, Talon Solga, and Norah Wells, dropping 3.57, 3.31, 1.93 seconds respec- tively. Four other FAST swimmers (Abby Harlow, Sheridan Smith, Jaya DeBruhl, Rachel Scopelliti) dropped time in the event as well. Twelveyear-old Jamie Fletcher dropped over a second in the short free to score another first place finish for the Makos. The 7 – 8 Girls continued to show improvements in all events. Six FAST swimmers improved in the 25m butterfly. Abby Harlow, Alexa John Hudock, Arianna Tosi, Emiily Smeds, Lily Hopkins, and Skyler Solga all swam personal bests for the Makos. However, the two biggest time drops of the night go to 9 year-old Angelo Garono and 11-year old twins Aaron and Aidan Johnson. Garono dropped 8.22 seconds, swimming a new personal best of 53.78 in his 50m butterfly. Aaron Johnson bested his previous 50m backstroke time by 8.48 seconds. And Aidan Johnson showed the largest improvement of the night, dropping an impressive 18.47 seconds in the breaststroke. After another night of time drops and incredible races, FAST swimmers, parents, and coaches eagerly anticipated the Wednesday (July 20) meet against the Fairview Seahorses. Can this underdog team pull together and take it all? As we’ve seen over the past few years, with faith, goggles, and a little FAST magic, anything is possible. FAST relay team of Chelsea Tomko, Gina Tosi, Riley Scalzo and Hannah Corbin came in 1st in the 15-18 year old girls freestyle relay. Photo by margiestricklandphotography.com. Sharks lose to Tornadoes Contributed article The Lake Monticello Swim Team Sharks fell to the Glenmore Country Club Tornadoes at home last Wednesday with a disappointing final score of 387-373. The meet seemed destined not to happen, due to countless thunder and lightning delays, but the competition did finally begin, almost two hours behind schedule. The Sharks again swam many winning races, but fell short when their strongest event, the Breaststroke, didn’t take place due to time constraints. (The backstroke event also didn’t take place due to the storm delays) First place finishers for the evening were Tori Carter-Johnston, Fefe Nardone, Noah Amato, Brandon Taylor, Reyanne Altieri, Brandon Payne, Lucas Reynard, JP Elliott, Riley Phillips, James Barnett, Yvonne Smith, Carly Csapo, Morgan Milburn, Lydia Reynard, Zach Olmstead, Sierra Durham and Morgan Reynard. Second place finishers were Ethan Graves, Harper Campbell, Ian Milburn, Morgan Reynard, Addison Patchett, Olivia Bullock, Alana Carter-Johnston, Mariah Dulaney, Morgan Milburn, Morgan Maupin, Lydia Reynard, Seth Genson and Lucas Reynard. 24 | Fluvanna Review | July 21, 2011 The Jefferson Swim League Swim League Championship meet is less than two weeks away, so teams in all three divisions start looking beyond their own division to see how they rank against all other JSL swimmers. There are close to 3,000 swimmers in the JSL, and even as a smaller Division III team, the Sharks rank very well within the League as a whole. JSL Top 25 (best times) swimmers from the Sharks team are Tori Carter- Johnston, JP Elliott, Yvonne Smith, Sierra Durham, Ian Milburn, Brandon Taylor, Noah Amato, Andrew Long and Morgan Milburn. JSL Top Ten Swimmers for the Sharks are Riley Phillips, James Barnett, Sito Arroyo, Lucas Reynard, Carly Csapo, Morgan Reynard, Lindsay Price and Morgan Maupin. Twelve-year-old Fefe Nardone is currently ranked Top Five for 11-12 year-old girls in five out of the six JSL individual events, ranking either first or second for four of these events. The JSL teams have the entire week of July 25th to train, and the championship meet will take place on July 29 and 30 at the University of Virginia Aquatics and Fitness center on Alderman Road in Charlottesville. Head Coach Brooke Reynard cheers his swimmers on. Photo courtesy of J. Altieri Photography. American Legion baseball squad falls to Albemarle By Duncan Nixon Correspondent The Fluvanna American Legion Post 2003 baseball team did not post many wins this season, but Coach Rodney Carter described the season as a “building year.” On Thursday (July 7), the Post 2003 squad hosted Albemarle Post 74 at the Fluvanna County high school baseball field. The Albemarle team was “the best team in the league” according to Coach Carter. They demonstrated their strength in this game with a devastating offensive performance that included five home runs, four over the fence and one inside the park. The final score was a lopsided 21-6. Albemarle opened the game with a four run first inning, but Fluvanna bounced back with two in the bottom of the first. Leadoff batter, center fielder Brock Harris walked, Sam Turner, who played first base and pitched in relief in this game, doubled to put runners on second and third. Fluvanna scored its first run on a ground out by right fielder Chase Stanley. Turner then scored on a single by shortstop Chase Brookman. In the top of the second, Albemarle plated four more runs to take an 8-2 lead. Fluvanna, however, came right back and scored four runs of their own, to make it 8-6, after two innings. Josh Barringer, who like Turner, starred for the Flying Flucos high school baseball team, opened the second for Fluvanna with a double. After two outs, centerfielder Brock Harris got on with an infield single. Second baseman Josh Seay followed with a two run double down the left field line. Turner then ripped a long home run over the fence in right center field. Stanley followed with a double, but an impressive two out rally was then ended by a strike out. Albemarle scored five more in the top of the third to take a commanding 13-6 lead. Unfortunately, the Fluvanna offense sputtered from that point on. Fluvanna failed to score again, and a double by Charlie Carter and singles by Nick Algieri and Turner were the only hits Fluvanna could muster, for the rest of the game. Albemarle posted a big eight run inning in the top of the fifth, but the runs were all superfluous. Albemarle’s offensive stars were Danny Morris with two home runs and four RBI and Eli Haden with four hits, including a home run and five RBI. Charlie Carter was Fluvanna’s defensive standout in this game with two excellent catches in left field. He also threw two scoreless innings in relief. Coach Carter points out that although this year’s team did not man- A Fluvanna batter stands at the ready. Photo by Duncan Nixon. age to score many wins, a number of its losses were in close one run contests. Carter expects to have most of his players back next year, and he hopes to be able to add some quality players to the roster. He notes that the American Legion Post 2003 draws from Louisa and Buckingham counties, as well as Fluvanna so he hopes to add players next year from these two areas. Carter noted that the team is very appreciative of the support it receives from the local American Legion Post. In particular, he pointed out the fact that Post 2003 personnel have manned the scoreboard controls for every home game this season. July 21, 2011 | Fluvanna Review | 25 Convert the area below your deck nto clean dry living space. Service Directory >> Advertising prices start at $20 per ad ¥ Creates a beautiful & dry outdoor space ¥ Professional installation ¥Attrative vinyl Construction ¥All weather protection RAIN RUINING YOUR OUTDOOR PLANS? NEED A HAND? DrySnap is made of vinyl ceiling panels that collect and drains water away from your new dry space. Maintenance free ceiling that covers the unsightly underside of your deck, turning it into a clean, bright, dry outdoor space. 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Seamless Gutter Specialist Albert Shif flett’s Electrical Company Mon-Fri: 7:00 am-5:00 pm Sat: 8:00 am-1:00 pm - Sun:Closed C obb Construction, Inc. 3535 Carys Creek Rd. Fork Union, VA 23055 Custom Home Builder Cecil L. Cobb 434-842-3953 Mobile: 434-962-4626 434-589-2877 July 21, 2011 | Fluvanna Review | 27 Spotlight on Fluvanna’s churches Fork Union Presbyterian Church Address: 4464 James Madison Highway, Fork Union Pastor’s name: Moderator Rev. Dale Brown, Lay Leader Joe Allmond Membership: 30 Hours of services: 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month, 10 a.m. Additional activities: Choir, Sunday school, fellowship meals, prayer groups, Bible studies, supporting missionaries and charities. History: Although Presbyterians have long played a prominent role in the historical development of Fork Union and, indeed, of Fluvanna County, there is today only one organized group in the county – those attending Fork Union Presbyterian Church. Fork Union Presbyterian is one of the locations of the Christ Presbyterian Parish, which considers themselves one congregation with three locations – the other two being Arvon Presbyterian in Arvonia and Trinity Presbyterian in New Canton. The first mention of PresbyteLay leader, Joe Allmond rians in Fork Union history dates to 1824 when they were the owners of one-fourth of the Brick Meeting House and using its sanctuary one Sunday each month, sharing the building with three other Protestant denominations. In 1909, Samuel Seay donated land for a Presbyterian Church building site, and the new church was completed in 1911. In 1958 the Sunday School Building was completed. The fund for this construction had been started in 1957 by a gift from Dr. T. Bolling Gay. The Fellowship Hall, which joined the Sanctuary portion of the building with the originally detached Sunday school building, was dedicated in 1995. – Compiled by Kristin Sancken. Illustration by Lisa Hurdle, from a photo by Carlos Santos. Grace and Glory sets groundbreaking Contributed article Grace and Glory Lutheran Church is planning a groundbreaking ceremony at 5 p.m. on Sunday (August 7) for its new 7,100 square-foot worship facility, to be built on Rt. 53, just west of the intersection with Rt. 15. The Rev. James F. Mauney, bishop of the Virginia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), will preside at the special outdoor event, which also will include participation by local and regional government officials, visiting clergy, parishioners, friends of the congregation and those in the community. The Rev. Kenneth W. Albright, who has served as pastor of Grace and Glory for the past five years, will lead a special worship service at the 10-acre site, which will then be followed by a picnic on the church grounds. The new $1.4 million worship facility to be erected on the site was designed by Hughes Associates Architects of Roanoke and will be constructed by Nielsen Builders Inc. of Harrisonburg. The building will house a sanctuary able to seat up to 180 parishioners, and will include three classrooms, a nursery, a conference room, and administrative offices. Grace and Glory, the only Lutheran church in Fluvanna County, held its first service on February 11, 2001 at the original Armstrong Fitness Center, at that time located near Lake Monticello. In all, 53 individuals attended the initial service. Since then, attendance and membership has mushroomed, and currently the congregation has more than 180 members. In recent years, the congregation has been worshipping at the Fluvanna County Middle School on U.S. 15 near Carysbrook, with education classes for adults and youth offered at 9:15 a.m. and general worship at 10:15 a.m. The groundbreaking ceremony will honor a number of clergy who have led the congregation in the past, in particular the Rev. William Stewart of Earlysville, a Lutheran minister who played a major role in developing and organizing the church 10 years ago. Also to be honored will be parishioners who passed away in recent years, all of whom played major roles in furthering the congregation’s mission or were active in the development of plans for the new facility. These include Dr. Pam Brothers, Carol Benske, Dick Haas, Herb Meyer, Ann Milstead, Stephanie Nelson and Lew Post. There will be four ceremonial groundbreakers – Frits Geurtsen, congregational president; Walter Lindenmann, chairman of the Church Building Steering Committee; Joe Shaver, chairman of the congregation’s Capital Appeal campaign; and Sue Pickett, one of the early founders of the Grace & Glory congregation. However, all members of the community and parishioners are invited to join in the groundbreaking, by bringing their own shovels to the site. Funding for the new structure comes from generous contributions from parishioners, those in the community and other congregations, a gift from the Virginia Synod of ELCA and a loan from the national ELCA’s Mission Investment Fund. Come TRY a FREE Class w w w . w a z a t r a i n i n g c e n t e r. c o m For information call: 434-589-1304 Zion Crossroads Area in the Starlite Industrial Park 31C Conestoga Way, Troy, VA. (Off Rt.15, South of Rt. 250) •Lil’ Dragons Karate-ages 3-7 •Youth and Adult Karate •Women’s Karate Fitness •Martial Arts Weapons •Home School Karate Fitness 28 | Fluvanna Review | July 21, 2011 •Submission Wrestling/Jiu Jitsu •Private Lessons •MMA Conditioning •Open Mat/Floor Times •Personal Training Fluvanna happenings Zion Food Ministry The Zion Network Angel Food Ministry at Crossroads Community Church helps anyone in the community reduce their food expenses. Angel Food is a month-to-month program which will enables people to save approximately 50% on items purchased; no long-term commitment is required. CCC will take orders July 22 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. for pick up July 30 from 7:30 – 8 a.m. at 5578 Richmond Road. Call 434-5896689 before coming by to place orders. Orders may also be placed online at www.ccc4mission.org. Rob Bell to speak Del. Rob Bell will speak to the Fluvanna Tea Party at their monthly meeting on July 25 at the Historic Palmyra Courthouse. Rob will discuss Virginia legislative happenings and take questions. The meeting will also address the impact of the new five-district plan recently approved by the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors. There will be a “Meet and Greet” session beginning at 6 p.m. The meeting starts at 6:30. Basketball tournament PRIDE Inc. will be sponsoring a 3on-3 basketball tournament on July 23 from 1 to 8 p.m. at the Fluvanna County High School. The purpose is to provide a healthy, safe and fun activity for the community. Divisions include men’s 18 and older; men’s 13 to 17-year-olds; women’s 18 and older; women’s 13 to 17-year-olds; and co-ed teams. Team registration is $24; Admission is $2. Contact Tiffany Thomas, 842-3155 or Adrian Cary, 842-3095. Eating gluten free A “GF tasting” group will be held at the Palmyra Country Store on Thursday, July 28 at 6:30 p.m. Bring a dish to share and invite a gluten intolerant friend. Features include barbeque on a bun, apple pie, strawberry shortcake and a door prize drawing. Call Cindy to reserve your seat 434-589-5008. John Francis in concert Nashville singer/songwriter John Francis will perform a concert on Friday, July 29 at 7 p.m. in the Fork Union Baptist Church sanctuary. Francis’ expenses for the show have been covered by local donors including Camp Friendship, the Fork Union Village Restaurant, Akarion Realty, iLearn Virginia, and the Details Company. All funds raised at the show will go directly to the Fork Union Fire Department and Rescue Squad. Wesley’s homecoming The Fluvanna Historical Society’s Old Farm Day event will be held Saturday, October 1 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Pleasant Grove on Rt. 53. Admission is $5 and children 12 and under are admitted free with a paying adult. The deadline for space reservations for artists, businesses, crafters, churches and community groups is September 1. Space is limited. For a space reservation form, visit www.oldfarmday.org or call 434-589-9405 and leave a name and address for forms to be mailed. Carroll Morse 434-589-4106 P.O. Box 8, Rt. 603 Kents Store, VA 23084 Crafters needed Zion United Methodist Church will host its third Annual Harvest Bazaar on Saturday October 22 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1674 Zion Road in Troy Tables for crafters/vendors are $25. Contact the church office 434-589-1665 or email at zionumcoffice@embarqmail. com or contact Kim Fawcett 434-5910848 by September 1. IBM is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Several IBMers at Lake Monticello are planning a dinner. Current and former IBM employees and spouses are invited to join in the celebration. Call Denny Avers at 589-7977 for information. Free movie night Beaver Dam Baptist Church hosts a free Friday family movie night at 7 p.m. All are invited. Popcorn is free and refreshments are available. 1794 Richmond Road in Troy. 4 Miles West of Zion Cross Roads on Rt. 250 at Rt. 600. www.beaverdambbaptist.org. Send your Fluvanna happenings to [email protected] Registration is now open for the Fluvanna Leadership Development Program (FDLP), class number nine. The program’s mission is to inform, educate and prepare citizens to play a part in how the county lives, works and plays. The program meets one or two times each month between September and March for presentations by county government and community service leaders. It covers a wide range of subjects, including the county government and finances, the budgetary process, the education of county children, economic development and planning, county relations with the state, health, human and community needs, county history and volunteer opportunities. The class will also divide into teams, with each selecting a class project intended to meet county needs or enhance community life. The program is sponsored by the Ruritans, the chamber of commerce, the county supervisors and the extension service. An application can be obtained on the program website: fluvannaleadership.org. Registration closes on August 19. Additional details can be found on the website. Home & Marine Old Farm Day Attention - IBMers Fluvanna County Leadership Development Program CountrySide Upholstery Wesley’s Chapel United Methodist Church will celebrate Homecoming on Sunday, August 7. Worship Service will be at 11 a.m. with the Rev. David Black delivering the message. A covered dish lunch will immediately follow the service. Contact Mandy at 286-4145. Two Sales This Weekend! Saturday, July 23, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, July 24,1-4 p.m. 50% Off! Monday Bargains! 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 75% Off! 16 Blackwood Lane, Lake Monticello, Palmyra VA. 22963 Directions: 64E to right at Keswick Exit 129 for 6 mi.; right on Rt. 600; right on Rt. 618 to left to Main Gate; right on Jefferson for 4 mi. to left on Briarwood; left on Blackwood; hse. on left. Take newspaper ad for entry at gate. A great sale with lovely furniture including a vintage pine armoire and quality furniture in every room of the house, patio set, hammock, tools, collectibles & more! Beverly Smith 434-960-4865 1863 Wayside Place, Charlottesville, VA, 22903 Directions: Directions: From Preston Ave. (toward Barracks Rd,), left on Rugby to the first street past the Unitarian Church on the right. House on right. Another houseful of furniture! Lots of golf balls, golf clubs, sofas, pool table, kitchen items, dining room suite, recliners, lamps, lovely rugs, tools, collectibles & more! 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Call Peggy at 434-962-2762. CERTIFIED INTERIOR DECORATOR, Dianna Campagna. Need home decorating & remodeling ideas? Dianna can help you create a space to enjoy on any budget. 15 years of experience. Call Blue Ridge Building Supply & Home Center at 434-589-2877. DOG SITTING in our home. Taking a trip? The family dog can’t go? Leave your pet with us. We will care for it like it is our own. Call Christy at 434-589-6356. 3 0 wo r ds o r l ess OUR WEBSITE with free photo: 1. On FluvannaReview.com click on “Classifieds” 2. Click on “Post an Ad - $10” 3. Login or click on “Register” 4. Select a category 5. Write your ad and upload photo 6. Pay with your credit card via Pay Pal. GRAVITY’S EDGE: Computer repair, networking, training, data recovery. Free pick-up and drop-off (subject to location). Complete PC Care Optimization Package $99.95. Call 434-589-6600. MT GILEAD BAPTIST PRESCHOOL: Now registering for the upcoming school year! Two, three or four day classes for children age 3-5 years old. Call 804-457-2938 or visit: www.teacherpage.com/mtgilead. ONLINE CLASSES: iLearnVirginia offers middle and high school level courses, including all core subjects, Honors and AP classes. In-person tutoring and support. We serve homeschool, private and public school students. Lake residents, certified teachers. Call 434-962-2839, and visit us at www.ilearnvirginia.com. PAINTER/CLEANING: Small paint jobs: bathrooms, kitchens, etc. Residential house cleaning as well. Excellent references. Free estimates. Ask for Dawn 434-409-4338. SANDS PC: Come to SandS PC Service Center for all your technological needs and questions. Veteran owned and operated. WE beat all advertised competitors prices. 25% Active duty or retired military discount during the month of July. Open Saturday from 10am-1pm. www.sandspc.com 434589-1272 [email protected]. 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Property transfers Property transfer deeds are provided by the Fluvanna County Circuit Court. 06/02/11 •LSFS Cavalier Investments, LLC to Virginia C-Stores Investors, 15150 Preston Road, Ste 210, Dallas,, TX 75248; Warranty Deed, $368,164. •Deutsche Bank National Trust to Noble, David Johathan & Heather; 1322 Hayden Martin Road; Lot 2, Newsome Ridge; $179,900. 06/03/11 •Faulknier, Brian L. & Jenny R. to Taylor, Jospeh R. & Danielle N.; 116 South Boston Road, 11.533 Acres; $350,000. •Chambers, Mark E. to Williams, Willie C. & Amy N.; 5293 Shores Road; 12.24 Acres, $70,000. •Glasser and Glasser,, PLC, Sub. to Virginia Housing Development, 601 South Belvidere Street, Richmond, VA 232206500; Lot 309, Phase 9–Knollwood, Lake Monticello; $115,000 Deed to foreclose. 30 | Fluvanna Review | July 21, 2011 06/08/11 •Secretary of Housing and Urban Dev. to Bismarck, LLC; 420 Neff Avenue, Suite 220, Harrisonburg, VA 22801; Fork Union Mag. Dist.; 2.5 Acres, $28,000. 06/09/11 •Dominion Land & Development Co. to Lang, Frederick M. & Susan J.; 414 Park Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902; Cunningham Dist.; Lot 51, Sect. III, Fox Hollow, $125,400. •Southern Property, LLC to NVR, Inc.; 172 S. Pantops Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22911; Lots 11 & 12 Sycamore Square Villas Phase II; $83,000. •Wyllie, Peta Jean to Reed, John G. & Julie H.; 1681 Union Mills Road, Troy, VA 22974; 2.33 Acres, Lot 5 and 2.75 Acres; $237,000. 06/10/11 •Carver, Michael D. & Linda C. to Powell, Luke G.; 3940 Antioch Road, Scottsville, VA 24590; 2.043 Acres, Lot 15 Antioch Estates, $140,000. OR pHONE: Contact Diane @ 434-207-0221 e-mail: Contact Diane at [email protected] FAX: 434-589-1704, attention Diane Payment: In advance. We accept: Visa, Master Card, Discover, checks and cash. YELLOW DOG TRAVEL: Cruises, Disney, Universal Studios, family vacations, hotels, rental cars. Lake resident. Personal service. Call Karen at 434-591-6630. www. yellowdogtravel.net. For sale For Sale DRIVEWAY STONE: 9-ton Slate Crush Run $150, Stone $200 (Average). Includes delivery and spread. Call 434-420-2002. INDIAN WAR 45-70 RIFLE: Springfield Model 1886 breech loading and in fine collector quality condition. Inspector marks deeply stamped in stock. RE-ENACTORS CIVIL WAR FROCK COAT AND VEST with Sgt Stripes, Large size. Call 434-5910884. MASSANUTTEN TIMESHARE: 15K. Maintenance fees for 2011 already paid. 434-962-2839. MASSANUTTEN TIMESHARE: Very nice unit in Shenandoah Villas with hot tub. $500 down 13 payments of $150. Mtn fee for 2011 already paid. Call 434-981-7540. MODULAR HOMES: Why pay more? We will beat any modular pricing! Deal direct with the owner. Phone 434-392-2211 or web www.haleyshomesinc.com. NORDICTRACK TREADMILL: COMMERCIAL 1500 treadmill, used only 7 or 8 times and is just like new. I do have treadmill manual, and I also believe it folds up. $375.00. Call 434-591-0884. RIDING MOWER: Troy Built 17.5 HP riding mower in running condition. New battery. $400. Call 434-589-2963. STEEL ARCH BUILDINGS: Spring Overstocks on Sale. Huge savings now! FREE SHIPPING! Sizes include 20x30, 30x40, others. Call for availability and more discounts. 866-352-0716. WORKOUT EQUIPMENT: Tony Little’s Gazelle Supra (sells for $200) and Body By Jake Total Workout, all books and Instruction videos included. Like new condition. $50 each OBO. Call 434-981-7540. If you see news happening, contact us 434-207-0224 or [email protected] or go to fluvannareview.com and click contact For daily news alerts, “LIKE” us on Facebook For Rent For rent OFFICES FOR RENT starting at $200 in Crofton Plaza. Call Jo Ann Sears, First Virginia Homes, for information at 434-9605121. RENTERS: Don’t rent when you can own! Large inventory, great values, tax benefits! Good credit, and a buyer’s agent, can make this a reality. Jay Hurdle, Associate Broker, RE/MAX Assured Properties, 434906-3100. Toll Free 866-548-7353, [email protected] Lost & Found Lost & Found EYEGLASSES FOUND: A pair of prescription eyeglasses were found on the levee after the Scottsville fireworks on July 9th. Please email [email protected] with a description to claim. Wanted Wanted FSPCA SPONSORS NEEDED for our “Pet of the Week” ad in the Fluvanna Review. Your name and/or business name will be printed in the ad as sponsor. Call Diane at the Fluvanna Review, 434-591-1000, Ext 21. MATTRESS SET WANTED: Want full size mattress and box springs in excellent condition. Please call 434-962-8339. WATERFRONT LOT OR smallish WATERFRONT HOME on basement. I have clients looking for a weekend home or lot on a deep water cove. If you own this property and want to sell, please contact Jay Hurdle, RE/MAX Assured Properties, 434-9063100. Cash buyers! Yard Sales Yard Sale I HAVE TOO MUCH STUFF SALE: Saturday 7/23 and Sunday 7/24 from 8:30am3pm. 21 Tanglewood Road, Lake Monticello. In main gate, turn R, first L onto Tanglewood. Books, computer stuff, chairs, tables, swing chairs, and more! Companion Aide JABA Home Support Services The Companion Aide provides physical and social services to clients in their homes under the supervision of the Case Mgt Supervisor. Duties include basic housekeeping, shopping, laundry, transportation (clients’s car), meal preparation, and assistance with dressing/grooming. Must be observant, responsible, dependable, and use good judgment. Must also be team focused, courteous, and cooperative. Previous experience with elderly or handicapped persons is preferred. Requires the physical capacity necessary to assist clients, valid driver’s license, satisfactory references and police background check, and a negative TB test at hire. To apply, please send resume to [email protected] or mail or visit 674 Hillsdale Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901. EOE. VIRGINIA: IN THE GENERAL DISTRICT COURT OF FLUVANNA COUNTY IN REF: FRANCINE ANDERSON AND SEIZURE OF DOG NOTICE RE SEIZED DOG Notice is hereby given to Francine Anderson, formerly of 63 Tanner Lane, Palmyra, VA 22963, that on July 26, 2011 at 1:00 p.m., the undersigned will appear in the Fluvanna County General District, 72 Main Street, Palmyra, VA 22963, for a determination that Francine Anderson did abandon a white and brown dog of mixed Pit Bull breed and did fail to provide adequate care, food and water for said dog; and that its seizure by the Fluvanna County Animal Control Officer on July 15, 2011 was valid; and for such other relief as is appropriate under §3.2-6569 of the Code of Virginia. s/Dustin M. Elliott, Animal Control Officer Fluvanna County, Virginia Fluvanna County The Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors has submitted its Ordinance to Amend and Reenact the Fluvanna County Code in Chapter 2, Article 2, Sections 2-2-3, 2-2-4, and 2-2-6 Concerning Reapportionment of Election Districts to the Department of Justice for preclearance by the Attorney General. The ordinance is available for review at the Fluvanna County Public Library and the Office of the County Administrator. The public is invited to send comments for consideration of the Attorney General to: Chief, Voting Section, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, P.O. Box 66128, Washington, D.C. 20035-6128. William P. Scudder, County Administrator PUBLIC HEARING FLUVANNA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Notice is hereby given in accordance with Virginia Code Section 15.2-1800.B (1950, as amended) that the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, August 3, 2011, beginning at 7:00 pm in the Circuit Court Room, Fluvanna Courts Building, Palmyra, Virginia, at which time citizens of the County will be given an opportunity to appear before, and be heard by, the Board of Supervisors on the subject of the following proposed lease of real property: Water Tower Lease Agreement between the Board of Supervisors of Fluvanna County, Virginia and USCOC of Virginia RSA #3, Inc. for the lease of certain Land Space, Tower Space on the existing Fork Union Sanitary District water tower, and Rights of Way, for the location and operation of radio communications equipment, antennas and appurtenances at 2984 James Madison Highway, Bremo Bluff, Virginia 23022, shown on the Tax Map of the County of Fluvanna as Tax Map Parcel 51-A-78. The lease has an initial term of five (5) years and shall be automatically extended for four (4) additional five (5) year terms unless terminated by the lessee in accordance with the terms of the lease. The lease provides that the lessee will construct a new platform and corral on the water tower, in addition to the existing platform and corral, and contains other terms and provisions as more fully set forth in the lease. Copies of the proposed lease are available for review upon request at the Fluvanna County Public Library and in the office of the Fluvanna County Administrator during regular business hours. The public is invited to attend the public hearing. Anyone needing special assistance or accommodation due to a disability in order to attend the public hearing should contact the County Administrator’s office, at 434-591-1910, prior to August 3, 2011. Authorized by Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors PUBLIC HEARING FLUVANNA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Notice is hereby given in accordance with Virginia Code Section 15.2-1800.B (1950, as amended) that the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, August 3, 2011, beginning at 7:00pm in the Circuit Court Room, Fluvanna Courts Building, Palmyra, Virginia, at which time citizens of the County will be given an opportunity to appear before, and be heard by, the Board of Supervisors on the subject of the following proposed lease of real property: Water Tower Lease Agreement between the Board of Supervisors of Fluvanna County, Virginia and Cellco Partnership, d/b/a Verizon Wireless for the lease of certain Land Space, Tower Space on the existing Fork Union Sanitary District water tower, and Rights of Way, for the location and operation of radio communications equipment, antennas and appurtenances at 2984 James Madison Highway, Bremo Bluff, Virginia 23022, shown on the Tax Map of the County of Fluvanna as Tax Map Parcel 51-A-78. The lease has an initial term of five (5) years and shall be automatically extended for four (4) additional five (5) year terms unless terminated by the lessee in accordance with the terms of the lease. The lease contains other terms and provisions as more fully set forth in the lease. Copies of the proposed lease are available for review upon request at the Fluvanna County Public Library and in the office of the Fluvanna County Administrator during regular business hours. The public is invited to attend the public hearing. Anyone needing special assistance or accommodation due to a disability in order to attend the public hearing should contact the County Administrator’s office, at 434-591-1910, prior to August 3, 2011. Authorized by Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors July 21, 2011 | Fluvanna Review | 31 Century 21 Agents ® Smarter. Bolder. Faster. 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