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Volume 4, Issue 18 · Mid September, 2009
Warren
County Report
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Airport
Don’t miss the AIRSHOW Saturday, Sept. 12
from 7am to 7pm at Warren County Airport.
Coast Guard dogs take to the air,
newshound stays earthbound
On July 9, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew and personnel involved in dog training at the U.S. Customs Center in Harmony Hollow utilized Front
Royal-Warren County Airport to familiarize their dogs with one Coast Guard mode of transportation. Pictured here, one dogs leaves the Coast Guard
chopper with his handler (1-2) as another team boards for departure (3-4) and a short flight over the Shenandoah Valley (5-6). Dog handlers utilized
down time on the ground to do a little earthbound training as a team member photographs the session (7) … Luda the newshound questions Coast
Guard personnel on potential openings (8). Luda, want to go for a ride? Luda backed of his recruitment initiative when he found out the Coast Guard
dog training courses run between 13 and 15 weeks – and that the ride was off the ground. Lu is definitely infantry material – he doesn’t even like to
jump very high off the ground. (Don’t miss the AIRSHOW Saturday, Sept. 12 from 7am to 7pm at Warren County Airport!)
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Mid September, 2009 • Warren County Report • Page Don’t miss the AIRSHOW Saturday, Sept. 12
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Public safety
FRPD joins ‘National Night Out’ law enforcement party
In the oh-so-recent past – early August to be
vaguely precise – the Front Royal Police Department hosted National Night Out in the Gazebo
area off East Main Street.
National Night Out is a crime prevention initiative celebrated across the nation. The theme this
year is “Give Neighborhood Crime and Drugs a
Going Away Party.” Neighborhoods throughout
the Town of Front Royal were invited to join forces
with thousands of communities nationwide for the
National Night Out crime and drug prevention
event. National Project Coordinator Matt Peskin said,
“This is a night for America to stand together to
promote awareness, safety and neighborhood
unity. National Night Out showcases the vital importance of police-community partnerships and
citizen involvement in our fight to build a safe nation.” Supporting participants for National Night Out
included: Downtown Front Royal, Royal Plaza
Merchants Association, Economic Development
Authority, Front Royal/Warren County Visitors
Center, Warren County Coalition, The Warren
Sentinel, TLC Settlements, LLC, RAC Security,
Monitor Systems, Inc. Electronic Security, Liberty
Tax Service.
There was a good turnout in Front Royal with
about 30 vendors peddling home safety and selfdefense devices, among snacks and other amenities. The highlight of the evening, at least for one
haggled reporter, was Janice Hart’s “bust” for carrying a bag of marijuana by a drug enforcement
pooch. (I know Janice, it was a set up).
If you would like to learn more about National
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Vendors with a theme were out on on policesponsored National Nite Out Aug. 4 at Front
Royal’s Village Commons. From “Strike Back”
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Virginia Hale Drive, which was pared down
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to an unpatrolled lane and a half for two-way
traffic due to unmonitored curbside parking.
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Public safety
2009 smoke alarm door-to-door campaign a success
212 homes visited by fire and rescue personnel
The Warren County Department of Fire and Rescue Services conducted it’s 2009 Smoke
Alarm door-to-door campaign
recently. Targeted neighborhoods throughout Front Royal/
Warren County were visited on
Saturday, July 18th by 25 volunteer and career fire and rescue
personnel.
Valuable fire and life safety education was provided
to home occupants, existing
smoke alarms were checked
and new alarms or replacement
batteries were installed.
In all, 212 homes were visited
by fire and rescue personnel:
• 172 new smoke alarms were
installed
• 302 existing alarms were tested and checked
• 32 outdated smoke alarms
were replaced with new ones
• 72 new batteries were installed to replace dead or missing ones
The smoke alarms were provided through the state Get
Alarmed, Virginia! grant. The
grant targeted homes of residents with children under 5
and adults 65 and older. This
successful program is sponsored by the Virginia Department of Fire Programs (VDFP)
and the Virginia Department
of Health (VDH) and funded
by the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Proud Partners of the event
were Lowes of Front Royal, KMart, Papa Johns Pizza, Melting Pot Pizza, Wings-to-GO
and Handy-mart of Front Royal.
It’s not to late, if you feel you
can benefit from this free and
valuable service, please contact the Warren County Department of Fire and Rescue
Services Lieutenant Gerry R.
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or visit our web site at www.
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Crew from Station 10 with smoke alarms provided
through a state grant
Station 1 crew members Derek Mabie and Zach Shelton install a detector in a Front Royal home
FF/EMT Joey Jock installs a detector in one of the
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Town planning
“The rural, farmland heritage of Front Royal is important to the community
and the region. Significant areas of prime agricultural soils should be protected and retained for agriculture where feasible by clustered development.”
– Town Comp Plan for property in question
Town planners scrutinize Vazzana rezoning proffers
Conlon - time for town to get off the fence on future of east side land
By Roger Bianchini
Warren County Report
With a nod to “Billy” Shakespeare, “To develop or not to develop, that is the question.”
Alright, actually it’s a little more
complicated than that – to develop the town’s east side around
Happy Creek Road “by right” and
smaller with nothing, or little in
return, or allow rezonings that
will facilitate larger, more clustered buildouts accompanied
by cash and land proffers to accommodate the infrastructure
improvements such development
will require.
“The rub” for opponents of
such rezoning, as Shakespeare
might say, is that by allowing only
by-right, one-acre development
with no cash proffers to improve
an already failing road system,
ultimately the entire financial
burden for those already needed
road improvements will fall solely
upon the town and its taxpayers.
On Aug. 25 at the first of two,
perhaps three work sessions
scheduled prior to its Sept. 16
meeting (see related story), the
Front Royal Planning Commission set down to analyze, scrutinize, and perhaps reach a viable
compromise on a residential rezoning request by Front Royal
Limited Partnership (FRLP).
Commission Chairman David
Gushee scheduled the work sessions following a sometime contentious Aug. 19 Public Hearing
on FRLP’s request to rezone 149
acres cattycornered between
Happy Creek Road on the south
and Shenandoah Shores Road
and the Happy Creek Industrial
“Tech” Park to the east. The re-
quest would rezone the property
from Residential Estate (RE), allowing one home per acre, to R1A, allowing two or more units per
acre. As now presented the rezoning request would allow for a
maximum buildout of 320 units,
cited as 2.2 units per acre, on the
property, which now supports up
to 99 units by right.
During the Aug. 19 planning
commission public hearing, FRLP
President David Vazzana summarized the town’s choice as a byright option offering little to the
town, about $1.4 million in water
and sewer hook-up fees for a 75
to 99-unit buildout of what he
and his development team contend would be an ill-conceived
plot of one-acre homes with little
else to define “a community”;
versus a rezoning option allowing
as many as 221 additional homes
in exchange for $7 million to $9
million in cash proffers, as well as
land for parks, recreational fields
and courts, a community center
and trails surrounding what Vazzana describes as a more self-sustaining and livable community.
At question prior to a Sept. 16
vote recommending approval
or denial of the application, is
whether the offered proffers are
enough to cover the additional
service impacts and road improvements required to accommodate the families occupying as
many as 320 homes in the area,
as well as whether the towns’ recently (2008) amended Comprehensive Development Plan for
the area is being adhered to.
As she had at the Aug. 19 Public
Hearing, outgoing commission
member Therese Brown took the
point in critiquing the proposal
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In foreground, Front Royal Limited Partnership principal David Vazzana reviews notes as Planning Commissioner Therese Brown expresses a generally negative perception of his residential rezoning proposal
as Chairman David Gushee and others listen.
and its proffer package. She called
the rezoning proposal to facilitate
more clustered development with
surrounding community amenities “potentially very good.” However, she countered that all that
was on the table thus far was “just
an idea in somebody’s head now
– we have nothing in writing. It’s
exciting but,” Brown concluded
of the proposal. Brown added
that she felt the proposal flew in
the face of the town’s amended
Comp Plan for the area.
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Mid September, 2009 • Warren County Report • Page “[It’s] just an idea in somebody’s head now – we have nothing in writing. It’s exciting but
…” – Town Planning Commissioner Therese Brown
What does the town want?
As quoted in the town’s own
summary of its new development
policy for the area, it is seeking
“housing and neighborhoods”
utilizing the area’s “natural environment and unique features”
with “open space and parks” adequate “transportation and infrastructure, public services and
economic development.”
In the town planning department’s own words on development of the pastureland north
of Happy Creek Road, adopted
in January 2008 during the tenure of Planning Director Nimet
Soliman, “The rural, farmland
heritage of Front Royal is important to the community and the
region. Significant areas of prime
agricultural soils should be protected and retained for agriculture where feasible by clustered
development.”
Responding directly to Brown’s
assertion his plan conflicted with
those words, at the end of the
work session Vazzana reiterated
his earlier public hearing contention that his proposal’s only
conflict with that plan is the increased density tied to the rezoning request. At the Aug. 19 public
hearing Vazzana observed that his
property had been zoned for four
units per acre prior to the town’s
downzoning of it as a reaction to
the 2004/05 planning “charrette”
study forecasting planned development of as many as 3,000 new
homes on both sides of Happy
Creek Road on both town and
county land in the future.
At the time of that downzoning during the administration of
Mayor James Eastham and the
previous council, it was asserted
that without the downzoning the
town would have no means to
seek proffers to mitigate service
and road impacts on the scale of
future development the charrette
forecast the town was facing in
the area.
“I strongly recommend the
town get off the fence,” Town
Planning Director Andrew Conlon said after nearly 2-1/2 hours
of largely critical comments and
questions about adding proffers,
many of which were not allowed
by state or even the town’s own
codes. Referencing perhaps decades of back and forth from one
town administration to the next
on plans for the area, Conlon offered the almost Shakespearean
observation, “It is death to do it
this way.”
Conlon said that if the town’s
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needed road improvements, per-
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Town planning
haps de-annexation was the answer – “And say we will not provide water and sewer” for future
development, he added.
Conlon noted that the 1970’s
town annexation of county land
in the Happy Creek area had
been allowed by the courts with
the understanding it was targeted
for future development within a
town context. Conlon said that
upholding a town annexation for
the exclusive purpose of environmental protection and preservation of rural character was probably not supportable by Virginia
codes.
Road fixes now!
Earlier Conlon summarized
the negotiation and the history
that has led the town and the
landowner to this point. – “What
we’re all groping for is immediate road relief,” Conlon said of
what seems to be the pivotal issue of the proposal. Conlon said
he would love to attach development of an east-west connector road between Shenandoah
Shores Road and Commerce Avenue in town to the project, but
noted such a road was “beyond
the scope of this proposal.”
That is because while Vazzana has applied with the court
to allow a realignment of Mary’s
Shady Lane to connect both
existing residences, about 200
properties in the county to an
intersection with Shenandoah
Shores Road, the bulk of any E-W
connector between Shenandoah
Shores Road and Commerce Avenue in town lies either off the
149-acre site in question. And as
Conlon pointed out, by state law
municipalities cannot require offsite improvements by developers.
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Tom Robinett observed.
Conlon also said the town was
seeking to have cash proffers and
related road improvements kick
in from construction of the first
unit, rather than after 125 units,
as initially proposed by the developer.
Cash proffer variables
Among the issues that appeared
unresolved at the conclusion of
the Aug. 25 session were whether
an annual phased-in buildout,
cited at 50 units per year by the
developer, was necessary or too
high; whether approximately 41/2 acres initially proffered for
a fire and rescue station could
be maintained or had to be sacrificed to a potential town road
right of way through the development; and whether the per-unit
cash proffer of $18,000 would
cover both town and county service impacts.
During the work session, Conlon said he was looking for a
per-unit proffer in the $20,000
range. Questioned later, Conlon
explained that of the on the table
per unit proffer, $10,500 was to
mitigate town service impacts,
and $7,500 was to cover county
service impacts.
The county’s residential service
impact model developed several
years ago calls for service impact
contributions of $21,946 per residential unit. County Administrator, and planning director at
the time the impact model was
developed, Doug Stanley points
out the county impact model is
strictly for county service impacts, and does not cover town
services. However, Stanley also
observed that road proffers were
not included in the county’s perunit impact model. So, cash for
road improvements, as well as
land and other proffers could
bring the per-unit number down,
Stanley said.
Mixed-use development?
Brown asked whether a mixeduse development plan for the
area should be a requirement for
rezoning proposals seeking larger
buildouts.
Picking up the baton of mixeduse development, Planning Commissioner Sandra Charles asked
if a 7-Eleven service area could
be sought as a proffer to serve the
“It is death to do it this way.” – William Shakespeare, err Town Planning Director Andrew
Conlon on constantly changing municipal perspectives on growth
development.
To Charles’ specific query,
Conlon replied that such a service area was not allowed by the
town’s own R1-A zoning. Conlon
commented, “You can’t get there
from here. Any applicant can only
work with what we give them …
and if we haven’t given them the
tools to get there, shame on us.”
Take a breath
After two hours and forty-five
minutes of planning commission critique, Front Royal Limited Partnership attorney Joseph
Silek Jr. asked if his client could
develop a detailed response to be
presented at the Sept. 1 work session. After nearly three hours in
the trenches, Commission Chairman Gushee granted the applicant that week to respond (see
related story next pg).
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As Happy Creek area residents in background discuss
what they are hearing, Town Planning Director Andrew Conlon says it’s time for the town to establish a
consistent and coherent vision of future growth that
is not subject to the winds of political change. - “It’s
death to do it this way,” Conlon said of constantly
shifting town planning directives.
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Mid September, 2009 • Warren County Report • Page “This is the first step in developing that northeast corridor. As subsequent [development proposals] come
up you can seek additional proffers [to accommodate road infrastructure]. One single project can’t fix all
the problems the town and county have allowed to develop in that area.” – FRLP attorney Joe Silek Jr.
Town planning
Planners, Happy Creek developer, move toward compromise
Cash, land and road proffers negotiated, along with design and code revisions
By Roger Bianchini
There seemed to be a general
feeling of positive movement toward meaningful compromise
following the second of what
will now be three town planning
commission work sessions prior
to a Sept. 16 vote on a residential
rezoning proposal for 149 acres
of town land off Happy Creek
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“I think this is a classic example of a constructive negotiation
process,” Front Royal Planning
Gushee said following a Sept. 1
work session presentation by the
development team and president
of Front Royal Limited Partnership (FRLP).
“The commission members and
planning staff have asked a lot of
very good and very tough questions that have required us to
take a really hard look at several
areas where they believe the application needs to be improved,”
FRLP principal David Vazzana
said later. “It’s been a difficult few
weeks on our side but I think that
speaks to the diligence and aptitude of both staff and the planning commission. They have left
no rock unturned.”
And it may be a good thing that
no rocks are left unturned as this
proposal moves forward. For as
was commented during the Sept.
1 work session, the planning
commission recommendation on
this rezoning request has impli-
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“But the reason they haven’t proffered these plans is they understand that when they apply, the plan must
fit the existing town subdivision ordinances. They are hoping that our review will revise the subdivision ordinances so that it will allow some of these design concepts.” – Town Planning Director Andrew Conlon
Town planning
cations for the town’s perspective
and stance on all future development in the Happy Creek, Leach’s
Run and North East Planning
Districts surrounding Happy
Creek Road.
On Sept. 1, Vazzana and members of his development team
responded to issues raised at the
first post public hearing work
session on Aug. 25. Chief among
resultant changes to his proffer
package were:
• an increase in per-unit cash
contributions, from $18,000 to a
minimum of $20,062 or a maximum of $23,155 were certain
community design methods allowed, and perhaps more if current water tap fees are locked in;
• reduced buildout phasing from
50 to 36 units per year;
• off-site road infrastructure improvements beginning at earlier
stages of development – 25, 50
and 75 units versus the earlier
125 unit figure before any improvements kicked in;
• right-of-way and construction
proffers dedicated to a much
sought after East-West Parkway
running through and beyond
the 149-acre development from
Shenandoah Shores Road to
Commerce Avenue.
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work session, new “Green Infrastructure” design initiatives being supported by the Environmental Protection Agency since
2007 would be illegal by current
town subdivision ordinances.
That is the reason, both Duggan
and Vazzana explained, the town
planners don’t yet have a detailed
project design for the larger, clustered development the requested
rezoning would allow. – “Not
wise for the client,” Duggan commented of submitting a currently
illegal plan. Duggan explained the
“Green Infrastructure” concept is
viewed by the EPA as a means of
protecting watersheds and management of storm water runoffs.
Town Planning Director Andrew Conlon reminded the commission that they and his department are currently engaged in a
review of town codes related to
subdivision building and standards, including the town’s controversial slope ordinance.
And while some fear the slope
ordinance review could lead to
changes gutting the environmental protections it was designed to
preserve, Vazzana forecast the
loss of as many as 30 units of the
projected 320-unit maximum
buildout the rezoning would allow due exclusively to “Green Infrastructure” design components
protecting natural features like
Landscape architect and former town planner Joe
Duggan gets “artsy” as he explains Environmental
Protection Agency endorsed “Green Infrastructure”
design concepts. According to the Front Royal Limited Partnership design consultant, existing “Green”
planning theory suggests clustered, higher density
development on smaller lots as a means of preserving area and regional watersheds and land.
slopes through more clustered
development.
The rezoning request for the
149-acre parcel would increase
a by-right buildout from a maximum of 99 units on one-acre lots,
to a maximum of 320 units on
minimum 7,000 square-foot lots.
The proposal cites an average of
2.2 units per acre, though Vazzana pointed out the minimum
lot size could accommodate the
higher per acre buildout recommended by the new “Green Infrastructure” watershed protection
design standards.
“I think this is exciting and a
new way [to approach development] … but we can’t deal with it
here unless he’s going to proffer
it,” Planning Commissioner Sandra Charles said. “What I’m hear-
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“These ideas about “greening” how we develop have been sitting there in the Comprehensive Plan for years.
Maybe … the right project [just hasn’t] come along yet that lends itself to working together with the town
to implement some of these great concepts.” – FRLP President David Vazzana
ing is that Mr. Vazzana want to
build houses; Mr. Vazzana likes
these houses [and community
design] … but we don’t have any
way to assure that it’s done.”
“My first reaction, like Mrs.
Charles, is that [these concepts]
might be nice but there is no guarantee that’s what we get,” Conlon
said in response to Charles re-
marks and a query from Planning
Gushee. “But the reason they
haven’t proffered these plans is
they understand that when they
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apply, the plan must fit the existing town subdivision ordinances.
They are hoping that our review
will revise the subdivision ordinances so that it will allow some
of these design concepts.”
With so much in new and
evolving design standards related
to environmental and watershed
protections that fly in the face of
the town’s existing codes as part
of the revised proffer package, it
was little wonder the commission
consensus was for one more work
session prior to the Sept. 16 vote
on the rezoning request.
At the work session’s conclusion, Vazzana promised to have
a final draft proffer package submitted by Sept. 4. The commission scheduled its last work session on the rezoning for Sept. 9.
Vazzana asked to be allowed a
final meeting with Town Planning Director Conlon between
Sept. 4 and Sept. 9, to make sure
there were no glaring oversights
in what the developer hopes will
be the final and acceptable proffer offer.
Asked later about that final
proffer package and the design
concepts he eventually wants included in the project, even though
they are currently illegal by town
codes, Vazzana gave a nod to his
development team, particularly
Duggan.
“I feel very blessed to be working with Mr. Duggan on this project. He is very knowledgeable of
these emerging environmental
development techniques. Some
of this stuff is really on the leading edge in terms of “Green Infrastructure,” which is something
the EPA is really trying to push as
well. We are hoping to have the
opportunity to put our minds
together with the planning commission’s in the future to see if we
can incorporate some of these
water management and green infrastructure approaches into any
future development. We think
this is really exciting stuff and we
think a lot of these ideas about
“greening” how we develop have
been sitting there in the Comprehensive Plan for years. Maybe we
just have not had the right project
come along yet that lends itself to
working together with the town
to implement some of these great
concepts.”
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Planning Commissioner Deborah Langfitt asked Conlon if
there was a per-unit cash proffer
standard. Fellow Commissioner
Bruce Drummond and Conlon
both replied that there was a
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great variation from jurisdiction
to jurisdiction and that no one
standard fit all locales and situations.
Conlon said the closest comparable municipal situation to
Front Royal’s he had found in the
commonwealth was Culpeper,
which reviewed its proffer model
annually and based it upon town
and county impacts. Currently
Culpeper seeks a $20,000 cash
proffer per unit, Conlon said.
Conlon went on to review the
existing zoning and by-right
buildout for the area around Happy Creek Road, crossing into the
three planning districts reviewed
for the 2008 Comp Plan update.
Conlon said there was a developable 843-acre “land bay” in
town, with past studies showing
as much as another 1,000 acres of
nearby developable county land.
On the town side, 519 acres of
its undeveloped land are zoned
either Residential Estate (1 unit
per acre) or R-1 (4 units per acre).
That acreage and zoning could
accommodate development of
506 homes by right, Conlon said.
However, he forecast a 35 percent
deduction from that total due to
landscaping variables.
Conlon’s point appeared to
be that road infrastructure improvements will be needed to an
already stressed system in both
the town and county whether the
town elects to rezone or not.
During his presentation Vazzana told the town officials while
his development could not be
expected to fund the entire area
road improvement, he believed
the road funding proffer package
his team had developed would
make a significant contribution
to those needed improvements
for the Shenandoah Shores intersection, a Leach’s Run Park-
way access, the development’s
entrance road, and the planned
East-West connector road between Shenandoah Shores Road
and Commerce Avenue.
“This is the first step in developing that northeast corridor,”
FRLP attorney Joe Silek Jr. told
the town planners. “As subsequent [development proposals]
come up you can seek additional
proffers [to accommodate road
infrastructure]. One single project can’t fix all the problems the
town and county have allowed to
develop in that area.
Town, county proffer split
Vazzana’s old $18,000 per-unit
cash proffer was proposed to be
split $10,500 to the town and
$7,500 to the county. Presented
with the new $20,000 to $23,000
proposal, Charles asked if some
of that per-unit cash proffer had
to be earmarked to the county.
Conlon replied that while there
was no legal obligation on such
cross-municipality
contributions, there was a defacto “moral
obligation” to see both affected
municipalities were compensated for service impacts from
development on the other’s land.
– “Eventually the situation will
be reversed and the town will be
seeking proffers from the county,”
Conlon observed.
The town and county have entered into a reciprocal agreement
on accepting proffers for each
other in such development situations.
As for specifics on the new
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By Lorie Showalter
Warren Count Report
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The instructors for their August
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“Classes have been a big hit,
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The addition of one shopping center’s ownership into the existing corridor legal fray
would add a new wrinkle to the litigation, which both sides are portraying to some degree
as a matter of economic survival.
Town
Town discusses possible Riverton Commons litigation
Is push about to come to shove in corridor meals tax fee dispute?
the meals tax fee component of Town officials and staff have water-sewer bill used by town
town water-sewer bills.
pointed out the town has fac- officials to illustrate their antici The lawsuit contends the meals tored in an anticipated $700,000 pated revenue from the fee at the
tax component of the so-called to $800,000 of corridor fee rev- time litigation was pending last
corridor fees are illegal and not enue into its existing budget and year showed that $12,330 of a
analogous to the other fees paid would be hard pressed to find a monthly $13,169 water-sewer bill
as part of commercial utility bills source of revenue to replace that came solely from the meals tax
because it is a “pass on” fee, ac- produced by the corridor fee’s fee.
tually paid by customers of the now huge meals tax component, Town officials also point out
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a premonition) as he pointed to northside corridor
shopping center plans in this file photo from earlier
and friendlier times in the corridor development process.
By Roger Bianchini
to some degree as a matter of
economic survival.
On Aug. 27 the Front Royal
Town Council held a closed session with the town attorney
to discuss “probable litigation
between the Town and Riverton Commons, LLC, (Edens &
Avant).”
The town is already involved in
litigation involving several restaurant clients of both Riverton
Commons and the Crooked Run
Commercial Center across Route
340/522. Those clients, Cracker
Barrel and Applebee’s in Riverton Commons, and TGIFriday’s
in the Crooked Run Center, are
suing the town over the inclusion
of a meals tax-based utility fee as
part of their contracts to acquire
town water and sewer service.
Asked for information on the
grounds of a possible lawsuit involving the owners of Riverton
Commons, town officials patiently reminded one pushy local
reporter that closed session were
closed for a reason – in this case
likely not to jeopardize a potential negotiating or legal strategy.
But certainly the addition of
one shopping center’s ownership
into the existing corridor legal
fray would add a new wrinkle to
the evolving corridor dispute,
which both sides are portraying
What’s at stake
Earlier this year representatives
of the Riverton Commons ownership told the town they have been
put in the position of extending
a degree of financial support to
some of their commercial tenants
on rent payments, pointedly suggesting that situation was largely
due to the financial strain of the
meals tax fee on restaurant businesses.
The trio of national chain restaurants involved in the lawsuit,
along with a larger number of
smaller corridor eateries eagerly watching from the sidelines,
are claiming an undue financial
hardship from what is essentially
an 8-percent local meals tax they
are forced to pay, four percent
to the county as a tax, and four
percent to the town as a fee. The
complaint filed by Richmond attorney William “Sandy” Rowe in
Warren County Circuit Court in
January on behalf of Applebee’s,
Cracker Barrel and TGIFriday’s
cites monthly utility bill increases of 500 percent to 650 percent
– $1,000 to $7,300 for Applebee’s;
$2,000 to $15,000 for Cracker
Barrel; and $2,500 to $12,000 for
TGIFriday’s, attributed solely to
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Earlier this year representatives of Riverton Commons told the town they have been put in the position
of extending a degree of financial support to some of their commercial tenants, pointedly suggesting that
situation was largely due to the financial strain of the meals tax fee.
Applebee’s, foreground, and Cracker Barrel are two of the “Big 3” players in litigation against the Town of Front Royal over a meals tax
fee attached to town water and sewer bill in the northside commercial corridor. While not part of the lawsuit, smaller corridor restaurant
owners who have called the meals tax fee economically debilitating, are eager observers of the slow-moving legal process expected
to come to a first court hearing in November. Are corridor restaurants crying wolf or could the fees put them out of business? - That is
the question!!!
town for the provision of water
and sewer service, which clearly
stated the meals tax component
as part of the corridor fees they
were responsible for. Town officials have also stated the opinion
the plaintiffs in the current litigation are trying to simply trying
to gain economic advantage during what is a general economic
downturn.
Changing landscape?
Contacted on Sept. 1, Riverton
Commons attorney Clifford L.
“Clay” Athey said only that his
Riverton Commons client continues to work with the town on a
mutually beneficial resolution to
the situation. He added that his
initial concerns, expressed over
the past 16 months, have not
changed.
Those concerns may have first
been publicly expressed in May
2008. In a letter to County Administrator Doug Stanley, Athey
sought county help to stem a rising dispute between four Riverton Commons tenants, Cracker
Barrel, Applebee’s, Starbucks and
Chic-Fil-A over the meals tax
fees. Chic-Fil-A eventually cancelled plans to build at the shopping center, as did McDonald’s at
the Crooked Run Center.
“The letter pretty much speaks
for itself – my clients want to act
in the role of a mediator in this
dispute,” Athey then said of his
May 16, 2008 letter to the county
administrator. Athey added that
town officials were aware he did
not think they would be successful in defending the meals tax
fee were it challenged in court.
– “But again, my clients want an
amicable settlement, they hope
to work in cooperation with the
town, county and anybody else
to resolve this without litigation,”
Athey said over a year ago.
At the time the board of supervi-
sors declined to become involved
as a mediator or in any other role
despite its interest as a co-signer
of the corridor agreement with a
mutual interest in successful economic development, and consequent tax revenue generated by
corridor businesses.
As the situation deteriorated
into litigation filed by the two corridor shopping centers’ three biggest corporate restaurant clients,
Athey pointed to one potential
downside of litigation. Were the
town to prevail legally, he said a
likely consequence would be the
eventual closing of most, if not all
the corridor restaurants. The restaurants would eventually be replaced with retail stores with no
meals tax component associated
to their businesses.
“I think you see that scenario
developing already,” Athey said
as Chic-Fil-A and McDonald’s
bailed out of plans to locate in
either Riverton Commons or the
Crooked Run Center. – “What’s
accomplished?” Athey asked of
a potential town legal victory on
principal that ultimately costs it
the very thing it was seeking to
preserve – the additional revenue tied to the meals tax corridor
fees.
As Athey was making these
points as the spring 2008 sparring over the fees escalated toward court, then Councilman
Stan Brooks was critical of Athey,
who was on the town council
when the corridor agreement
was crafted in the late 1990’s.
“He certainly knows Quarles
and Bullets have been paying that
[meals tax fee] as long as they’ve
been out there,” then Councilman Brooks said of Athey’s assertion the town was now on shaky
legal footing regarding the meals
tax component of the fees.
“The corridor agreement says
the town ‘may’ charge those rates,”
Athey countered. “It doesn’t say
they ‘must.’ It was set up as negotiable and can be changed to fit
changing circumstances.”
Riverton Commons officials
and their restaurant tenants, as
well as those across the street in
the Crooked Run Center believe
the bottom-line realities of the
restaurant business in a radically
altered economic climate have
created that changing circumstance that would behoove the
town to reconsider a hard-line
legal and economic stance on a
10-year-old agreement that may
be about ready to blow up in
someone’s face.
Background
Inclusion of the corridor fees as
part of a town utility service contract was part of the 1999 Corridor Agreement reached between
the Town of Front Royal and
Warren County to avoid a contentious annexation battle, while
facilitating the extension of cen-
tral town water and sewer service into the county’s northside
industrial corridor. The extension of those town utility services
was seen as crucial to economic
development of the corridor. The
utility extension was partially facilitated by the fact the town had
extended central and water and
sewer to DuPont when the corridor’s first major industry located
on the county’s northside some
15 years earlier.
The corridor agreement, lauded
as a first of its kind in Virginia at
the time, allows the town to recoup potentially lost tax revenue
had it either annexed the 522 industrial-commercial corridor, or
refused to extend utility service
into the county and competed
to attract what business clients it
had the land to accommodate.
At the time the corridor agreement was ratified by a threejudge state judicial panel after its
January 1999 signing, the county
did not have a meals tax. In 2002
the county instituted its own 4percent meals tax, which it has
largely earmarked to help pay
long-term bond issues on capital
improvements, primarily for the
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‘No Child Left Behind’ mechanism creating tool of preference, not achievement
Child Left Behind” Act to measure student achievement. Fail
any one category in two consecutive years and a school is branded
“choice” – assumedly not worthy
of mandating student attendance
at.
Drescher points out that any
parent of a child at a “choice”
school may seek to take advantage of the “choice” designation.
So families of students seeking to
move their children to another
school do not have to come from
the category the school failed
to meet the AYP standard in;
nor are parents limited to what
school within the district they
may switch to.
And therein is a seeming
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Heller novel by the same name)
dilemma the federal government
has created in an attempt to enforce greater accountability and
realize universal student achievement within the nation’s public
schools.
As Drescher pointed out in our
initial story last issue, as the AYP
criteria moves toward 90 and
eventually 100-percent student
passing rates in every category
there is likely to be no school in
this system or elsewhere in the
commonwealth, and possibly the
nation that will not eventually
become a “choice” school.
“The benchmark scores have
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Great
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Public Schools Assistant Superintendant for Instruction Greg Drescher may wish it was still summer vacation and he was out fishing for a companion for his
office wall mounted beauty, rather than fishing for answers to the dilemma of federal circular logic behind
No Child Left Behind Act, Annual Yearly Progress criteria.
By Roger Bianchini
As the fall, 2009 public school
session began on Aug. 26, 15
families impacting 20 students
had notified the Warren County
Public School Administration
they wanted to take advantage
of the designation of E. Wilson
Morrison Elementary School as
a Title One “choice” school and
move their children into another
school. According to WCPS Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Greg Drescher, most of
the choice students being pulled
from EWM are headed to the
division’s smallest school, A.S.
Rhodes on Strasburg Road.
Perhaps ironically, Drescher
reports that none of the parents
requesting their children be removed from Morrison were
basing that request upon dissatisfaction with the education
their children have received at
the school. Rather, Drescher says
reasons stated by parents range
from a closer proximity to their
homes, proximity to babysitters,
proximity to their route to work
when dropping children off in the
morning, and even to a child’s request to go to the same school as
some of their friends.
As reported in our last issue,
the option to move students out
of EWM came as a result of the
school failing to meet a required
No Child Left Behind Act, Annual
Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmark
(80 percent passing) in “English
Performance for Economically
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years in a row. That grouping is
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“I’d love for every parent to be able to send their children to the school that is most convenient
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populations within suggested guidelines.” – WCPS Asst. Superintendent Greg Drescher
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says. “We’ll get there, we will
have, if not 100 percent, a higher
percentage of students that will
be passing. It’s just unfortunate
that the sanction in place for
not keeping up with those rising
standards is choice.
“What we’ve seen is that parents aren’t expressing dissatisfaction with the school, they’re
taking this as an opportunity to
send their child to the school
they’d rather go to – for location,
for babysitting, whatever it might
be. The struggle will be down the
road – what do we do when A.S.
Rhodes gets full? As far as [the
federal government], it’s not a
consideration – they tell us ‘make
it work,’ ”Drescher says of potential impacts of overcrowding as a
result of choice. “Certainly it is a
consideration for us figuring out
how to make it work.”
The system’s smallest school,
A.S. Rhodes has been particularly
hard hit by nearby residential development, Drescher says. Hence
the fact more families in that area
of the county must send their
children to a school that may not
be most convenient location-wise
for them.
“I’d love for every parent to be
able to send their children to the
school that is most convenient
for them. But creating school districts is the only means we have
to control class sizes and student
populations within suggested
guidelines [to achieve maximum
student achievement],” Drescher
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While Morrison is the county’s
first public school to fall into the
choice category, state statistics
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Title I funding tied to No Child
Left Behind are now failing some
AYP benchmarks and either are,
or are teetering on the brink of
becoming choice schools.
As annual AYP benchmarks
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80-percent student passing ratio
to 100-percent over the next five
years, public school administrators across the state have raised
alarm bells that an assumedly
well-intentioned, federal program
is descending into a dysfunctional
system of unattainable standards
and ill-advised methods of dealing with failures to meet those
standards.
County Public School Administrator Pamela McInnis has stated that rather than allow parents
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sense to provide supplemental
educational services within those
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jail time and charge fines.
The National Insurance Crime
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with only 59% of those stolen cars
recovered. The good news is that
the frequency has been dropping
and there are things you can do
to reduce the risk of your vehicle
being stolen; the most obvious of
which is to lock your car doors
and take your keys with you.
Another very helpful deterrent
to car thieves is Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) etching.
VIN etching is the permanent engraving of a vehicles federally registered VIN onto its windshield
and windows. It not only makes
it nearly impossible for thieves to
profit from selling windows and
windshields, but also makes it
more difficult for thieves to find
a way to dispose of the vehicle
once it’s been stolen. As a result,
VIN etching is recommended by
police and insurance agencies to
protect against auto theft.
According to Front Royal Police Crime Prevention Specialist
Janice Hart, who researched the
cost, “Northern Virginia car dealers charge $500 (for etching) and
I had one person tell me $695 to
etch cars, but the Virginia State
Police with your tax dollars at
work will do it for free!”
“We want to encourage the
community to come out to this
free event on Saturday, September 26th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
the Front Royal Fire Department
Company One on Commerce Avenue,” continued Hart. This event
is an effort and partnership between the FRPD and the Virginia
State Police and is open to all Virginia residents.
The program in Front Royal is
in its second year after a successful turnout last September when
Hart partnered with Special
Agent C.J. Fisher with the Virginia State Police HEAT program.
HEAT is an aggressive law enforcement program called Help
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In 2008, 117 cars were etched
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the form is then run through a
computer for verification purposes. “We’re just verifying that
the person is the owner of the
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Creating the labels is a time-consuming process and pre-registration is encouraged for those bringing motorcycles.
Crime
said Hart. The average wait time
is an hour or less. Each glass portion of the car is etched including
sunroofs.
“It just requires a little patience,
it’s a popular event. Last year we
had people get one car etched, go
home and come back with their
second vehicle. They knew the
process and brought along something to read,” continued Hart.
This year the event is stressing
motorcycle VIN etching, as well.
The cycles are not harmed in any
way and the owners actually do
the etching themselves. The process is a bit different from automobile etching however since
this etching comes in the form of
data matrix squares, company la-
bels and VIN cutouts. For motorcycles, ATV’s, boats and trailers a
data matrix square or tape is created which holds the seventeendigit VIN number scrambled
inside the matrix. A scanner can
then read the data, which is similar to a bar code reader.
The motorcycle owner is given
five labels to place on any part
of the cycle. The labels can be
placed anywhere from the front
forks or gas tank to the underside
of the seats. Creating the labels
is a time-consuming process and
pre-registration is encouraged for
those bringing motorcycles. You
can e-mail Janice Hart to obtain
a registration form so that the
labels will be prepared and ready
when the motorcyclists arrive at
the fire department for the Sept.
26 VIN etching.
E-mail Janice at [email protected] or go to the dispatch
office on 24 West Main Street in
Front Royal, request a “HEAT
VIN Etching and Labeling Program (Information/consent and
Release Form).” Janice encourages those coming in person to
complete the form there and
leave it with dispatch to be given
to her. She will then report to the
state police and have the labels
cut and ready so cyclists won’t
have to wait in line an hour. (This
cannot be done for automobiles
since the etching is done directly
on the glass.)
Cars and trucks are usually stolen for one of two reasons - resale
value or individual parts. Before
selling a stolen vehicle a thief
would have to replace the VINetched glass, a time consuming
and expensive task.
Thefts drive up the cost of automobile insurance and generate
an innumerable amount of social
cost associated with crime. The
FRPD and the Virginia State Police are offering free-of- charge
a safe and economical deterrent to auto theft this month.
VIN etched windows help the
police detect and identify stolen
vehicles and a number of insurance agencies offer a discount
off the comprehensive portion of
your insurance and in some cases
waive an insurance deductible if
your vehicle is protected by VIN
etching. (Contact your insurance
company as this varies from insurance company and policy.)
For questions and information
contact Janice Hart at 540-6352111 or e-mail her at [email protected]
You can also visit www.
heatreward.com for more information on auto theft protection
and rewards for reporting the
theft of vehicles or vehicle parts.
Special thanks to sponsors of the
event go to Jack Evans Chevrolet
125 South Royal Avenue and Skyline Insurance Agency 445 South
Street in Front Royal.
Nancy Rose
Financial Advisor
342 Venus Branch Road
540-636-0720
At an Aug. 17 council work session, Town Attorney Tom Robinett said he had prepared a
draft ordinance that would impose criminal sanctions of up to $500 in fines for violations
should council decide to move to prohibit such activities on town right of ways.
Town
Town follows the county into twice-a-year taxes
Public hearing on roadside fundraising solicitation scheduled
By Roger Bianchini
On Aug. 24 the Front Royal
Town Council followed up several items discussed at the previous week’s work session. In a
move requiring no public hearing, the council decided to follow
the county into mandated twicea-year billing and payment of
real estate and personal property
taxes. Also authorized was an advertisement for a public hearing
to determine the fate of roadside
solicitation of civic, student and
other fundraising activities on
town right of ways – that public
hearing is scheduled for council’s
Sept. 28 meeting.
Council also declined to advertise a public hearing on an ordinance that would have aligned
town codes with past rentals of
large, 40-yard dumpsters to private citizens or businesses engaged in temporary site work.
Those rentals had been made at a
price of $300 per week. However
noting several factors, including
the payment of county tipping
fees on the waste deposited into
those dumpsters, the relatively
minimal use of the service (six
last year), and Vice Mayor Bret
Hrbek’s contention that it was
an undue municipal competition
with the private sector, council’s
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4-1 vote denying authorization
of a public hearing appeared to
move the town public works department toward eliminating the
service entirely. Only Tom Sayre
voted to authorize a public hearing on the matter.
Twice a year tax billing
Hrbek seemed to speak for
council when he said despite creating additional staff work and
costs, it made sense to align the
town’s tax billing and payment
system with the county’s. The
county made the change on July
21 at the urging of County Commissioner of the Revenue John
Smedley, who has long championed the idea as a boon to both
citizens and the municipality despite added costs and work. The
advantage to citizens comes from
splitting their primary tax payments in two. Apparently over the
years, both Smedley and County
Treasurer Wanda Bryant pointed
out, few citizens have caught on to
the fact they could split their tax
payments into voluntary installments prior to the previous end
of the year November billing and
December payment schedule. On
the municipal side, the “windfall”
Vice Mayor Bret Hrbek and Mayor Eugene Tewalt
seem to be on the same page concerning how to regulate roadside, civic fundraising activities - establish
informal guidlines that if not met to assure public
safety and comfort, may require legislative action.
A public hearing on the matter is scheduled for Sept.
28.
created by banking and drawing
interest on the first year’s June
payment of half of those previously annual taxes is viewed as
a huge benefit that, among other
things can help cover additional
staff and material costs.
Town staff estimated the town
could realize a $9 million windfall
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Royal Little League All Star team of which he was
a part, Sam Cooksey ventured to Williamsport,
Pa., for Little League championship week 2009.
Cooksey descended on the proceedings like a
Greek bearing gifts for the Little League Museum,
including the photo at right, showing the Vancouver, British Columbia team arriving at Williamsport
by plane for their first round matchup with Front
Royal’s All Stars in the first international game
in Little League World Series history. We’ll have
more on Cooksey’s 2009 Williamsport experience
in a future issue.
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However, council seemed open to Mayor Eugene Tewalt’s preferred course of action, informal discussion
with organizers … to institute informal guidelines on location and behavior standards to assure safety, as
well as public comfort they are not being “shaken down” by pushy fundraisers.
Town
the change. Tom Conkey was
absent due to a scheduled vacation council was informed at the
meeting’s outset.
‘Car Wash here’ – maybe not
Council decided to move forward with a public hearing in an
attempt to get citizen feedback on
an initiative to prohibit roadside
or median solicitation of fundraising activities. At the previous
week’s work session Hrbek noted
a citizen had expressed concern
over an “aggressive” solicitation
of donations for some group
while stopped at a traffic signal in
town.
That discussion led to observations by several councilmen
about teenagers playing around
on the Commerce Avenue median strip while advertising recent
car wash fundraisers near the
intersection of Commerce and
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East Main Street. The potential
of an accidental push or fall into
oncoming traffic by kids engaged
in such activities on town property seemed to propel the issue
toward potential legislative intervention.
On Sept. 29 this reporter witnessed a troubling example of
the potential hazards associated with such events. As nearby
adults paid no attention whatsoever, what appeared to be 9 and
10-year-old, bathing suit clad
children walked back and forth
on the sidewalk into the North
Royal Avenue driveway entrance
to the Sixth Street 7-Eleven waving signs advertising a car wash at
the adjacent Papa John’s lot. Traffic on North Royal slowed as several vehicles attempting to enter
the 7-Eleven lot were forced to
come to a halt to avoid running
the children down.
At an Aug. 17 council work
session, Town Attorney Tom
Robinett said he had prepared a
draft ordinance that would impose criminal sanctions of up to
$500 in fines for violations should
council decide to move to prohibit such activities on town right of
ways. However, council seemed
open to Mayor Eugene Tewalt’s
preferred course of action, informal discussion with organizers of
such activities in an attempt to
institute informal guidelines on
location and behavior standards
to assure safety to kids promoting such events, as well as public
comfort they are not being “shaken down” by pushy fundraisers.
FART Bus franchise …
… Oops, went dyslexic again
– on Aug. 24 council also unanimously approved the second
reading re-establishing and extending a contract with the Virginia Regional Transit to operate
the town passenger bus service,
or FRAT Bus, which I believe
stands for Front Royal Area Transit or some such, service. The an-
nual cost to the town is $35,277
for Fiscal Year, 2010.
In the wake of earlier work session discussion, the major questions remaining are will the town
stick with the dyslexic-dangerous
acronym (we certainly hope so),
and will the town allow local advertising on the sides of buses.
During a work session discussion
with a Virginia Regional Transit
representative earlier this summer, it was explained to council
that revenue from such ads on
buses went directly to the VRT to
support its service to municipalities. Hrbek stated that it was his
understanding council had previously prohibited such advertising
under the misperception the revenue went to federal entities tied
to the state service.
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be hunted or otherwise enjoyed.
A YouTube video clip of the
VDGIF board discussion and
vote is available at HuntingLife.
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MISSOULA,
Mont.—Kentucky’s elk herd runneth over,
and Virginia has decided to welcome the overflow and build a
sustainable, huntable population
of its own.
In August, the governing board
of the Virginia Department of
Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) voted unanimously to end
unmanaged harvest of elk by
state deer hunters. For years,
any Virginian with a deer permit
could shoot an elk wandering
across the state line from Kentucky. That practice is expected
to officially end this fall.
Additionally, the VDGIF board
also moved toward an official elk
reintroduction and management
plan for southwestern Virginia.
“Kudos to conservation leaders in Virginia. Restoring a native
game species to management levels is one of the highest achievements in conservation, and it’s
great to see Virginia aspiring to
that goal for elk,” said David Allen, RMEF president and CEO.
He added, “The Elk Foundation is extremely proud of the
role we played in restoring elk
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lot of money, technical assistance
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our volunteers, we helped relocate over 1,500 elk to Kentucky
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Research shows that Kentucky
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neighboring states with varying
degrees of hospitality. Virginians
originally wanted to keep elk out
but now the culture appears to be
changing, said Allen.
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north entrance to town.” – County Administrator Doug Stanley
It’s official – North Fork Bridge is done!
Official dedication, ribbon cutting announced for Sept. 28
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By Roger Bianchini
Virginia Department of Transportation Luray Residency representative Jeff Lineberry announced official completion of
work on the North Fork Bridge
to the Warren County Board of
Supervisors on Sept. 1. Indications VDOT had signed off on
that completion with Forrestville,
Maryland contractor Flippo Construction Company came within
recent weeks as the long awaited
return to a 35 mph speed limit
across the bridge was realized.
VDOT and local officials will
hold an official ribbon-cutting
dedication of the entirely new,
five-lane structure, with bike
lanes and sidewalks on Sept. 28.
The event is slated to be held in
the park near the Riverton boat
landing at the base of the bridge,
where the October 2005 groundbreaking was also held – so no
traffic backups, or perhaps unfortunately, opportunities to put
a drive-by scare into a public official or two during the photo op.
Lineberry also told county officials that some issues with the
initial new Duck Street traffic
light timing causing backups had
been addressed, and that traffic
now appeared to moving at an
optimum flow through the area.
The project, which was com-
pleted in two stages, cost $19. 5
million. The new bridge replaces
the 66-year-old, three-lane span
that opened to traffic in 1941.
Phase one of the construction
saw three lanes rise next to the
old bridge, which continued to
be used as the first new section
rose next to it. The new section
opened in late summer 2007 at
which point the old bridge was
closed for demolition. The most
spectacular moment of the nearly
four-year project came on Feb. 3,
2008, when the old bridge was
demolished with explosives and
brought straight down without
damaging the new section adjacent to it.
In fact that event, which I witnessed and photographed from
above on Guard Hill Road, was almost as spectacular as my driving
onto the suddenly open five-lane
structure about a month ago.
onto Guard Hill Road on the
north, as well as the smaller left
accesses across from Duck Street
near the Riverton 7-Eleven on
the bridge’s southside. There may
be additional markings indicating those left turns at the bridge’s
ends added, Lineberry said. The
current marking, solid line to
right, divided line to left in both
directions, is typical of two-way
center turn lanes, Lineberry observed.
So don’t be confused, folks.
– You ARE NOT supposed to be
making left turns in the middle of
the bridge … but you knew that,
didn’t you?
The additional lane could also
come in handy were there to be
accidents on the bridge causing
the closing of lanes normal traffic lanes. Lineberry also said one
bonus of the fifth lane could be to
accommodate the type of traffic
pattern changes that might come
at some future time were a new
South Fork Bridge approved and
the necessary funding realized to
see that project move forward.
County officials have noted
such funding is being sought for
engineering studies necessary to
move a new South Fork Bridge
project forward. County Administrator Doug Stanley said the
South Fork Bridge replacement
remains a high transportation
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infrastructure priority from the
county’s perspective.
Long time coming
Following the VDOT announcement at the Sept. 1 supervisors meeting we cornered the
county administrator for comment on completion of the project.
“I have been working with
VDOT since 1997-98 on this. It is
exciting to see it come to fruition.
I think you can see already that
it should eliminate tie-ups at the
north entrance to town,” Stanley
said.
Ahh, 35 mph again getting in or
out of the town’s north side – now
if we could only figure a reason
out to have a ribbon cutting on
John Marshall Highway and get
the speed limit back to where it
belongs there, we’d be in business
– hey, maybe a commitment to
begin Leach’s Run Parkway and
take at least half the school bus
traffic off John Marshall would be
a good excuse … Mike, hey Mike
– could you see what you could
do for me on that???
Skyline High traffic pattern
Also, during Warren County
Public Schools Superintendent
Pamela McInnis’s report on the
first week of the fall 2009 semester, changes to traffic patterns
at Skyline High School were acknowledged. Those changes have
created one-way traffic for school
buses and other vehicles out from
the school at its access street to
Criser Road. Due to that change,
the electronic gate to the school’s
north access has been closed
during the day, creating potential
issues if it needs to be opened.
– “It’s not very fast,” McInnis
observed of the lack of speed
at which the high-tech security
gate moves. McInnis indicated
the changed access road patterns
around Skyline High were initiated by a request from the town
government.
McInnis said the opening week
went smoothly but that accurate
student population numbers for
the various schools were slow
in coming due to late arrivals
perhaps impacted by pre-Labor
Day family schedules. Accurate
figures should be realized after
the Labor Day weekend, McInnis
said.
More DSS scrutiny
During the public comments
portion of the meeting, longtime Warren County Department of Social Services critic
William “Bill” Pierceall lodged
new Freedom of Information Act
violation allegations against the
social services department. The
new complaint chiefly involved
the DSS board’s adjournment to
an Aug. 20 closed session during
which the performance and contract of DSS Director Ron King
was apparently discussed. Pierceall cited a lack of what he said
was FOIA required detail about
the subject of the closed session.
The motion read at the meeting
simply cited “personnel matters”
without precise elaboration.
As a result of the performance
review, King apparently received
a contract extension from the
board.
King and DSS Board Chairman
Prudence Mathews have been
the focal point of lengthy, about
three years, of criticism from
Pierceall and several allies with
various issues with the county
social services department about
King’s administration of the department and personnel management, past decisions on specific
cases involving family disputes
over adult care services and compliance with FOIA requirements.
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a employment arbitration board
and normally scheduled state
management reviews, the most
serious findings have been generally minor administrative matters
referenced back to the DSS board
and director for correction.
During the Sept. 1 board meeting, County Administrator Doug
Stanley informed the supervisors
that the independent third-party
review of the county social services department by consultant
Springsted Inc. had been completed. The findings are scheduled for review at a Sept. 29 work
session at 7 p.m. at the WCGC.
Malicious wounding
felony.
Mr. Rudden was arrested on
Tuesday, September 1 and was
not released due to a presumption against bond. His bond hearing was held on Wednesday, September 2 in the Warren County
Juvenile and Domestic Relations
Court, where Judge Napier set a
$25,000 secured bond. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for
Thursday, September 17 at 11:30
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Front Royal Police Chief Richard H. Furr has announced the arrest in a Malicious Wounding of a
juvenile that occurred on August
26th, 2009 in the Peyton Street
area of Front Royal. The victim
in this case is a juvenile whose
name was not released due to
his age. The victim juvenile was
struck in the face with an object
and fists by the suspect. After investigation of the case by Detective C. Hirsch, a felony warrant
was obtained charging Eric John
Rudden, 24 years of age, 335 Autumn Hills Lane, Front Royal for
Malicious Bodily Injury, a class 3
Valley Connector Celebrates
Try Transit Week and Car Free
Day
Join the Virginia Department
of Rail and Public Transportation
(DRPT) and transportation partners from across the Commonwealth in celebrating the second
annual, statewide Try Transit
Week from September 21-25,
2009!
Last year during Try Transit
Week, Valley Connector in a coordinated effort with the Valley
Commuter Assistance Program
(VCAP) expanded service to include weekday routes from the
Winchester and Berryville area.
Over the past year, the Valley
Connector has added two additional routes and now offers
four weekday bus routes from
the Northern Shenandoah Valley,
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including Winchester, Berryville,
Woodstock and Front Royal Virginia to Northern Virginia and
Washington DC.
This year during Try Transit Week, all passengers using
the Valley Connector during try
transit week will be able to enter
to win a fee months pass on the
Valley Connector each time they
board the bus. When you go online to www.trytransitweek.com
and pledge to try a form of transit during the week of September
21-25, 2009, you will be entered
for a chance to win a year’s free
pass to the transit service of your
choice!
Additionally, the Valley Connector will offer a free ride to all
passengers on Car Free Day, September 22, 2009. Car Free Day is
an international event celebrated
every September 22nd in which
people are encouraged to get
around without their car - highlighting transit, bicycling, walking and all alternative modes of
transportation. When you go online to www.carfreemetrodc.com
and pledge to try a form of transit
on September 22, 2009, you will
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Bowling Green Country Club - north & South Courses
Lunch on north Course - courtesy of Outback
Lunch on South Course - courtesy of Olive Garden
Friday, September 11, 2009
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12:00 PM ...................................................Check-In and Refreshments
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be entered for a chance to win
some great prizes.
Using the Valley Connector is
a great way to get to work, visit
the Nations Capital, or connect
to the regional transportation
network including: Greyhound,
Amtrak, Dulles Airport, Reagan
Airport and BWI Airport.
So, whether you are a transit
expert or a first-timer, come join
the Valley Connector and pledge
to try transit and save time and
money.
• For more information on Valley
Connector, visit www.valleyconnector.com
• For more information on VCAP,
visit www.vcapride.virginia.gov
• For more information on Car
Free Day, visit www.carfreemetrodc.com
• For more information on Try
Transit Week, visit www.trytransitweek.com
• For more information on DRPT,
visit www.drpt.virginia.gov
St. Luke Community Clinic
announces annual fund raiser
The clinic has served low-income, uninsured individuals in
the local community since 1996.
Said Debbie Llewellyn, chairperson of this year’s fund raising
committee. “We fear that our
clinic will be needed now more
than ever due to the changing
economy, loss of jobs, and loss of
health insurance.”
St. Luke is seeking sponsors for
the event – platinum level $2,500;
gold, $1,500, silver, $1,000, and
bronze, $500
Admission to the gala evening,
which includes dinner, a band
(Earth Mamma and the Cosmic
Groove) and auctions is $50.00.
“Advance payments and reservations are encouraged, make
checks payable to St. Luke Community Clinic and earmarked
“Saints at the Ranch.: They
should be mailed to the clinic at
316 N. Royal Avenue, Front Royal, VA 22630.
Donations for the auctions also
will be received by Joan Richardson (call 636-4325 ext. 221) who
will make arrangements to pick
them up.
St. Luke Community Clinic
pledges to use donated funds
wisely. Free clinics in Virginia
spent $17.9 million annually in
recent years and for every $1
spend, the clinics provided access
worth up to $5.30 in health services for their patients. St. Luke
Community Clinic’s budget this
year is $247,500. Demand for
services by its seven-person staff
has risen by 20%. The increase is
attributed to the recession.
Dr. Tom Rhyne, one of the clinic’s founders is president of the
Board of Directors this year.
Book sale
The United Methodist Women
of the Front Royal United Methodist Church is sponsoring a used
BOOK SALE in the Fellowship
Hall at Royal Avenue and Main
Street, Front Royal on Friday,
September 11th from 9:00 AM
to 8:00 PM, Saturday, September 12th from 9:00 AM to 2:00
PM and Sunday, September 13th
from 12 Noon to 2:00 PM. Donations of used books will be gratefully accepted on Wednesday,
September 9th and Thursday,
September 10th in the Fellow-
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Warren County Real Estate
Sales are Up 38%--Beth
Medved Waller Still Leading in
Residential Sales
Warren County homeowners have a lot to be thankful for
according to recent data from
the Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc (MRIS).
Though August’s statistics won’t
be available until mid September, the summer selling season
has marked a dramatic improvement from the past few summer’s
decline. An August 2009 trend
indicator from MRIS showed an
increase in total sold volume of
38% from last summer. “Warren County sales volume was up
2.5 million from last summer
and 35% more homes were sold
in our county compared to the
same time last year,” noted Rita
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Rutledge, Managing Broker of
Weichert, Realtors in Front Royal. “Now that doesn’t mean that
property values have increased,
but it indicates that more homes
are selling, which is a key to the
recovery. As the foreclosures are
sold and inventory of homes decreases, we’ll see the market finally start to stabilize. Everyone
knows that foreclosures are the
Farm Is No Place
to Abandon Pets
DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Twice
this year already, I’ve had dogs left
on the doorstep of my farmhouse,
including a new litter of puppies.
People must assume that my few
acres are perfect to let these dogs
roam free, when in fact this is a
working farm with little extra time
for taking care of other people’s
pets. Sadly, I’ve had to take most of
these dogs to the local shelter. Can
you remind readers that pets are
not simply problems that can be
dumped when the going gets tough?
— Shirley in Putney, Vt.
DEAR SHIRLEY: Pet abandonment, especially of dogs, has become
much more common in these difficult
economic times. But that doesn’t
excuse the act.
Abandoned pets are exposed to all
sorts of dangers from both nature and
man. Dogs are not wolves — they do
not thrive in the wild. Dogs have
developed a symbiotic relationship
with humans, meaning they rely on us
for food and care. They’re also devoted pack animals, so when they are left
by the side of the road — essentially
kicked out of their pack — the psychological damage is devastating. An
abandoned dog, even if lucky enough
to be adopted by someone else, is never the same dog that was left behind.
If you’re going through tough times
economically and caring for your pet
is straining your finances, don’t go it
alone. Tell someone you’re having
trouble — a family member, your
pet’s veterinarian, a friend. Contact
the local Humane Society (or your
shelter) and ask for advice. There are
low-cost pet care resources available
in most communities.
If the dog’s behavior is a problem,
pick up “Don’t Dump the Dog: Outrageous Stories and Simple Solutions to
Your Worst Dog Behavior Problems”
by Randy Grim (Sky Horse Publishing), who founded a rescue center for
stray dogs. Don’t just give up on your
companion.
Send your tips, questions and comments to Paw’s Corner, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475,
Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or e-mail
them to [email protected].
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Despite the huge numbers of
foreclosures locally, there’s one
agent who has remained on top
without getting involved in bankowned listings. Beth Waller, of
Weichert Realtors, has remained
the top producing Realtor in Warren County for residential owner
resales, according to MRIS. “It’s
hard to list homes of sellers who
have to compete with a market
inundated with foreclosure deals,
but I have been lucky to maintain
my sales numbers without having
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Gypsy moth surveys
Warren County is currently
conducting summer/fall gypsy
moth defoliation surveys and egg
mass counts to predict spring
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residence. The victim was transported to the Warren Memorial
Hospital with minor injuries and
was later released.
Deputies searched the area but
were unable to locate the sus-
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2009 at approximately 5:30 p.m.
a breaking and entering occurred
at 100 block of Remount View
Road, Lake Front Royal Subdivision, Warren County. The victim
arrived at the residence and found
the residence to be in disarray.
As the victim was attempting to
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suspects then fled the residence
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dark hair, thick eye brows, chubby face and was last seen wearing a blue shirt with light colored
script, worn camouflage shorts,
worn sneakers, and black fingerless gloves
Anyone having information regarding this crime is encouraged
to contact Investigator Ray Fogle
at the Warren County Sheriff ’s
Office at (540) 635-7100.
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As the summer driving season nears an end, Virginia State
Police is reminding motorists to
continue to make safe driving
choices when they get behind the
wheel to travel or to visit family
and friends during Labor Day.
The Commonwealth experienced
a significant decline in traffic fatalities during the 2008 Labor
Day holiday. Seven individuals died in seven traffic crashes,
which was Virginia’s lowest Labor Day fatality count since 2001.
This year, the four-day statistical
counting period begins Friday,
Sept. 4, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. until
midnight Monday, Sept. 7, 2009.
“While Virginia continues to
experience a drop in traffic crashes this year as we did last year, all
drivers must remain vigilant in
their efforts to make safety a priority on the road,” said Colonel
W. Steven Flaherty, Virginia State
Police Superintendent. “Motor-
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On Wednesday, Virginia State
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annual Checkpoint Strikeforce
campaign. The five-month, statewide initiative combines enforcement and education efforts to
raise public awareness of drunk
driving. Labor Day is historically
one of the deadliest drunk driving holiday weekends of the year.
In addition, beginning this
Friday, State Police will join law
enforcement around the country
for Operation C.A.R.E. (Combined Accident Reduction Effort)
during the Labor Day weekend.
The state-sponsored, national
program is designed to reduce
crashes, fatalities and injuries
caused by speeding, impaired
driving and failure to use occupant restraints, particularly dur-
ing the national holidays.
The Virginia State Police’s participation in Operation C.A.R.E.
during the 2008 Labor Day holiday resulted in 8,492 speeders
and 2,407 reckless drivers being
stopped; 137 drunk drivers being arrested; and 896 safety belt
violators and 271 child safety seat
violations being cited. Of the 7
traffic fatalities, 6 were individuals not wearing safety belts. Including the fatalities, troopers
investigated a total of 626 traffic
crashes during the 2008 four-day
holiday statistical counting pe-
riod.
As additional troopers work
along the highways during the
Labor Day weekend, motorists
are reminded to comply with
Virginia’s “Move Over” law. The
state law requires motorists to
move over when approaching an
emergency vehicle stopped in the
shoulder of a roadway. If unable
to move over, then drivers are
required to use caution and slow
down while passing the emergency vehicle.
Statewide Labor Day weekend
traffic crash fatalities for the last
5 years are as follows:
2004: 17
2005: 10
2006: 13
2007: 22
2008: 7
Webb & Warner Announce
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Virginia ‘s Public Housing
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nearly $112 million to the Virginia Housing Development Authority to finance construction and
improvements to public housing.
The funding is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009.
“This $112 million investment
U.S. Senators Jim Webb and
Mark R. Warner today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released
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TV-3 Winchester reporter Ryan O’Connor, 23, was arrested Monday morning August 31st and charged with
numerous counts of child pornography.
He faces four counts of child pornography, one count
of taking indecent liberties with a child and one count of
using a computer related to those crimes.
TV-3 News Director Denise Chandler reported his
charges on the air Monday saying, “This has been a difficult day for the TV-3 Winchester family. We’re in the business of bringing information to your community - tonight
we bring you news that is hard for us to report.”
O’Connor is currently being held without bond in the
Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center 141 Fort
Collier Road, Winchester with a hearing scheduled for
Tuesday September 1st in the Winchester General District Court.
Gray Television Regional Vice President Tracey Jones
reports that O’Connor has been terminated from his position with TV-3.
According to a cached version of TV-3’s website,
O’Connor joined TV-3 only a few months after graduating from the University of Connecticut with a degree in
journalism. His role at the station was his first professional
television job. Ryan had spent the previous five years
working at WINY radio in Putnam, CT.
The bio, which has since been removed, says O’Connor
was also heavily involved with the UCONN television station (UCTV) where he both anchored and reported. It was
with UCTV that he covered a car accident that took the life
of a university freshman. He stayed with the story through
the sentencing of the driver one year and one day after
the accident.
“Although this is Ryan’s first on-air job, this is not the
first professional television station he has worked in. He
interned at WFSB TV-3 in Rocky Hill, CT. Ryan is no
stranger to rural life growing up in an area of Connecticut
coined “The Quiet Corner”. He is excited to experience
Winchester, the Shenandoah Valley and all it has to offer.
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new people and studying up on history, a pasttime that
will thrive in this historic location.”
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construct Virginia’s public housing facilities while also creating
and saving jobs throughout the
Commonwealth,” said Senator
Webb.
“These funds will help to create
and improve affordable housing
options for families in need and
provide jobs for home builders
across Virginia,” Senator Warner
said.
On March 26th, Senators Webb
and Warner announced $51 million in grants to 29 local Redevelopment and Housing Authorities
throughout Virginia to address
much-needed
improvements
to public housing units, create
jobs and reduce energy costs.
The press release can be found
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Have you been looking for that special piece of land to build
your full time, weekend or vacation home? If so, Mountain
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Fall is a great time to look at property.
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A message from Pastor Hillman:
Thank you for allowing me the
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Church. I would like to personally
invite you to be a part of this exciting
new church.
We believe that the Bible is the Word
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you build a strong, successful family.
Freedom Baptist Church is a friendly
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I am excited about the opportunity to
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college preparatory high school,
serving the families of Northern
Virginia,” said Head of School
Elizabeth “Libbi” Murray . “It is
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The news
following the success in our recent lawsuit which validated our
right to move to an independent,
non-sectarian school, as the new
name better describes our desire
to serve all segments and faiths in
our diverse community.”
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Dame, a Catholic religious order.
Over the years it has shifted to
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they also believed a new name
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“Middleburg Academy describes where we are and what we
do, and is totally in harmony with
our vision of what the school will
become. We considered and discussed a lot of other names, but
none seemed as good a fit. Now
our job is to build the school as
an asset recognized, valued and
‘owned’ by the community it
serves.” said Board Chair Mark
Rossi.
Murray pointed out that “You
cannot change a school’s name
overnight; legal documents need
to be revised, signage and stationery replaced, uniforms altered.
The list goes on.” But she urged
the students not to worry: “Our
colors will remain blue and gold,
and our mascot will still be a dragon. As we change in some ways
more appropriate to our vision
for the future, it is important to
retain the best of the traditions of
the past, not just colors and symbols, but academic excellence,
which will retain a religion education component; the climate of
ethics, respect for others, service
and love that has characterized
our school for so many years.”
The school has a 100% college
admission rate. Recent graduates have been accepted to some
of the nation’s best colleges and
universities including Yale, Notre
Dame, and the Naval Academy
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three days of golf competition
this Labor Day Weekend.”
Tee times will be between 11
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event is scheduled to be nationally-ranked by the National Junior
Golf Scoreboard (NJGS). The
event will be covered at www.dcmetrojuniorgolf.com for all three
days.
Bowling Green Country Club
will host this inaugural three-day,
54-hole event of the CAGT. Saturday and Monday are scheduled
for play on the South Course with
Sunday on the North Course of
Bowling Green. Tee times will
be between 11 am and 12:30 pm
each day. The awards ceremony
will occur right after players finish, anticipated to be about 5 pm
on Monday.
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various courses in Maryland and
Northern Virginia during weekends in a split Fall and Spring
season. Interested parties can go
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WCP&RD will sponsor a bus trip
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New Plane Soars Into R-MA’s
Fleet
Josh Norris ’10 soloed as a
sophomore and earned his private pilot certification as a junior.
He thought that he would have to
continue his flight training outside of Randolph-Macon Academy this year, as the Academy
did not have a plane on which
he could train for his instrument
rating (IFR).
That changed when RandolphMacon Academy received enough
donations from the recent capital campaign to purchase a 2001
Cessna 172 SP. The four-seat
plane was used for flight training
at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, and includes a GPS, a
two-axis autopilot that controls
pitch and roll, and leather seats.
“The Academy really needed
this airplane. It’s going to benefit
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our students, because it’s more of
an advanced trainer,” said Flight
Director Laura Abraham. For
example, she explained, students
can work on their instrument
training on this plane, including
learning to do instrument approaches to the runway using the
GPS.
So it turns out Josh can continue his flight lessons at R-MA
after all, and he will be only the
first of many R-MA students who
will benefit from the Academy’s
newest plane.
Karen McManus Named
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The following Annual Award
winners were announced at the
faculty and staff banquet held at
the Holiday Inn on August 25,
2009.
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at the Capital Area Golf Tour’s
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Brian Jones, manager at Bowling Green said, “Bowling Green
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) It
might not be wise to pursue goals
involving others, unless you can stop
impulsively rejecting new ideas.
Either open your mind or wait until
next week, when this “ornery” mood
passes.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) It’s a
good time for the Bovine to be creative
and practical for yourself and your
surroundings. Shop wisely, not impulsively, and keep your Bull’s eye
focused on quality, not quantity.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You
should feel more confident about moving ahead with plans that had to be
delayed by an unexpected turn of
events. Also, family matters might
need more time than first anticipated.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Be
considerate of others as you move into
a new area in your professional life.
Take time to meet people and discuss
mutual goals. The more you get to
know each other, the better.
LEO (July 23 to August 22) Creating
a fuss could get your ideas noticed
quickly. But it would be best to present
your case, and then wait for a reaction
to follow in due course, rather than try
to force it to happen.
VIRGO (August 23 to September
22) Unkept promises might cause
plans to go awry this week. You can
either grumble about people “letting
you down” or find a way to make the
best of it and move on. The choice is
yours.
LIBRA (September 23 to October
22) Putting off making a commitment
early in the week could be a good
move. Best to act when you know
you’re making an informed decision.
Expect more facts to emerge by the
week’s end.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A recent act of kindness on
your part could take on special meaning this week. Also, look for signs of
upcoming changes in both your personal and professional relationships.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to
December 21) Many of the tougher
communication barriers between you
and others in the workplace or at home
could begin breaking down this week.
Expect some surprises to emerge.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to
January 19) Your “tough love” attitude
toward someone you care for could be
misunderstood. Try to be less judgmental and show more consideration
in the way you relate to that person.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) An unexpected workplace
challenge could be daunting. But take
what you know (and you know more
than you realize) and apply it to the
problem, and you should see positive
results.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20)
Recent relationship changes for both
single and paired Pisces continue to
influence much of your week. Keep
your focus on developing the positive
aspects as you move along.
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others to follow suit. You would be an
excellent philosopher and teacher.
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Cats and neighbors
When small town dreams turn bad in River City
Alley ‘cats’ dispute leads to firearms charges against transplanted D.C. attorney
By Roger Bianchini
The idyllic move west to the
more relaxed rural setting of
Front Royal hasn’t exactly gone as
planned for one New England native and Washington D.C. attorney. In 1990, during a long-distant journalistic incarnation for
this reporter in River City, I did
a feature on Patricia Callahan’s
purchase and renovation of a Victorian townhouse at 222 South
Royal Avenue in downtown Front
Royal. As a long-time member of
the Neighborhood Association of
the Back Bay in her native New
England, Callahan was excited
about her plan to develop her
building into a showcase business
rental property.
Since, on occasion things have
headed a little south from her
dream of participating in a historical resurgence of downtown
Front Royal.
Several years ago Callahan had
one go round with the town over
the sewer bill at her property due
to what she said was a grossly
upward miscalculation. She contended the town utility’s method
of calculating the sewer bill from
the amount of water run at a
building was inaccurate in her
case due to her continued pumping of water through a backyard
fountain for eventual garden use.
Callahan reports former Mayor
James Eastham and current Town
Manager Michael Graham were
very helpful in working toward a
resolution of those issues. Sometime later after a backyard run-in
with an aggressive, apparently
stray and possibly rabid alley cat,
Callahan unsuccessfully sought a
local ordinance change to require
the leashing of cats.
Now, apparently as the culmination of an ongoing dispute, not
with aggressive alley cats, but
rather some alley-roaming neighbors, one of whom rents a garage
behind her property, the sixtyfour-year-old Callahan has been
charged with six misdemeanor
counts of brandishing a firearm.
Callahan asserts the charges are
scurrilous and said she does not
even own a gun.
According to warrants issued by
FRPD Office J.A. Tanner at 10:44
p.m. the evening of Aug. 21, Callahan is accused of walking past
a group of six people gathered
in the vicinity of the garage into
the parking lot behind J’s Gourmet while holding a black handgun. According to statements
from the six complainants, after
reaching J’s parking lot, Callahan
turned “and pointed the weapon
at the garage.”
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In his warrant, Tanner wrote
that arriving to investigate the
complaint of “a female pointing a
gun at several subjects” he made
contact with the alleged victims
and received statements from
all describing the same scenario.
According to the warrant, that
group of complainants includes
William Moore, Dustin Horn,
William Moore III, Charles Talbott, Sherry Moore and Asa David Pitkin.
However, Callahan told us she
had wandered into the alley behind her property and into the
J’s Gourmet parking lot with an
open cell phone, herself awaiting the arrival of the town police.
Callahan explained she had called
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police that evening to lodge a
complaint about the activities at
the garage. Callahan believes the
garage is being used as a business
location for work on automobiles.
The area in the town Historic
District, she also asserts, is not
zoned to allow such activities.
Around 9 p.m. the evening of
Friday, Aug. 21, a frantic Callahan called this reporter, who
was not home, and spoke with
a housemate. Callahan said she
was urgently seeking the reporter
to cover what she believed had
turned into an unfounded attempt by the Front Royal Police
to arrest her based upon what she
described as totally false accusations by the garage tenant and his
friends. As she later told us, rather than carrying a handgun in
the alley, she had only taken her
cell phone to observe the garagehanging alley cats, err neighbors
as she awaited the police arrival.
Questioned later about the arrest, FRPD Chief Richard Furr
and Lt. Clint Keller confirmed
they were aware of a “history”
between at least some of the
complainants and Callahan due
to a series of complaints Callahan
had filed about activities in and
around the garage area behind
her property. Furr confirmed that
no weapon was found by police
at Callahan’s South Royal property, but noted that his officers
were not able to search the entire
building, which Callahan said
she did not have access to due
to business tenant leases in the
building.
Furr also noted that state codes
do not require that an actual
gun be used to bring brandishing charges, but only that complainants believe they have been
threatened with a weapon. The
time the complaint was initially
called in was several hours earlier, around 8:30 p.m. the evening
Callahan was arrested, Keller
said. Asked if perhaps additional
investigation might have been
warranted to establish the validity of the complaint prior to an
arrest, Furr and Keller indicated
that the circumstance pretty
much mandated an arrest with
six eyewitness accounts describing the pointing of a weapon in
their direction.
Now it will be up to the court
system to hash out whether the
complaint was valid, or as Callahan contends, the result of a
neighborhood vendetta by some
“alley cats” of a different breed.
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Fri Sep 4, 2009
Forecast for 22630 (83° | 54°)
2pm - 7pm Vino E Formaggio Wine
Tasting. 124 E. Main Street
Sat Sep 5, 2009
Forecast for 22630 (85° | 58°)
8am - 1pm Farmers Market. Enjoy
the Farmers Market today. Located
near the Caboose behind the Visitors
Center.
8am - 4pm Warren County Fair Flea
Market
9am - 8pm BOOK SALE: Sept. 11th,
12th & 13th. The United Methodist
Women of the Front Royal United
Methodist Church is sponsoring a
used BOOK SALE in the Fellowship
Hall at Royal Avenue and Main Street
on Friday, Sept. 11th from 9am to 8pm,
Saturday, from 9am to 2pm and Sunday
from Noon to 2pm. Donations of used
books will be gratefully accepted on
Wednesday, Sept. 9th and Thursday,
Sept. 10th in the Fellowship Hall. All
are welcome! 635-2935.
12pm - 7pm Main Street Melodies.
Enjoy the sounds of DJ Mike at the
Town’s Gazebo area located at Main
& Chester Streets. Featuring music of
70 years of school reunions.
2pm - 3pm Samuels Public Library.
Knitting Club meets today. For ages
9 and up. Please register (540) 6353153
5:30pm NRA Annual Banquet. Come
enjoy good food, great prizes, and a
lot of fun at a Friends of NRA dinner
at the Front Royal Fire Hall. You will
enjoy a delicious dinner, special prizes
and a live auction for commemorative
firearms
and
other
exciting
merchandise. Proceeds will be used
to promote youth development in
shooting sports, firearms education
and training, and conservation efforts
all across Virginia. Friends of NRA
are a 501(C) 3 organization. So don’t
miss this special Friends of NRA event
September 5th at 5:30 PM. Tickets
Timing Belts and Torque Converters
By Kevin S. Engle
“Mr. Engle?”
“Yeah, what’s up?” I said as the name
of the garage appeared on the caller ID.
“Is my car ready to go?”
“Not quite. It will pass inspection, but
we found some things you might want to
consider having done.”
I hate these conversations. Phone
calls from the garage fall into two categories. Either my car is fine and ready
to go, or my car will be fine, after I pay
a gazillion dollars to fix things I never
even knew it had.
Clearly, this call was headed toward
the latter category, the one that was
about to cost me a lot of money.
I’m not much of a car guy. My interest
in and knowledge of vehicles and internal combustion engines goes as far as
putting gas in the tank and paying my
yearly AAA dues.
What I heard next sounded something like this.
“Blah, blah, blah, 7.4 million dollars.
Do you play the lottery?” he asked and
then laughed.
I didn’t care for his humor. I swallowed hard and begin thinking of my
soon-to-be non-existent checking account balance.
He continued, talking of the importance of torque converters, solenoids
and crankshaft flywheels, all things that
made me think of Star Wars, Episode 3.
“Oh yeah, and the timing belt is starting
to show some cracks too. That could go
at any time.”
Finally, something I understood. “And
that’s why my clock has been running
slow right?”
“Huh?” he replied, as if I’d just said
something incredibly stupid.
When you don’t know much about
vehicles, you have to trust the person
telling you what’s wrong with yours.
I’m not the most trusting person in the
world, especially when someone is trying to persuade me to give them money.
“So would you like us to take care of
these things?”
Now I repeated his line. “Huh?” My
head was swimming in a sea of solenoids and crankshafts.
“Do you want us to do the work?”
“Not today. I have to check my lottery
numbers first.”
Now he was the one who wasn’t
laughing.
“Ok,” he said in that tone that’s supposed to make you feel foolish for not
doing what he suggested, “but I wouldn’t
wait too long.”
A few days later, I overheard a group
of female coworkers talking about car
troubles.
“He said I need a new timing belt.”
Being the helpful person I am, I had to
chime in.
“I’ll bet you’re having problems with
your car’s clock aren’t you?”
“Huh,” she said as she looked at me
and wrinkled up her face in confusion,
as if I’d just said something incredibly
stupid.
“Ah, nothing.”
She obviously wasn’t interested in
expanding her limited knowledge of vehicles.
I tried.
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Please e-mail brief calendar notices in this format to: layout@
warrencountyreport.com
need to be purchased by August 31th.
To buy tickets or for more information
call 635-4369.
Sun Sep 6, 2009
Forecast for 22630 (81° | 58°)
Market
Mon Sep 7, 2009
LABOR DAY: The Town of Front Royal
Business Offices will be CLOSED
today. Trash/Recycling for this day
has been rescheduled to Wednesday,
September 9, 2009. There will be
NO YARD WASTE PICKUP on
Wednesday, September 9.
Tue Sep 8, 2009
TradeFest Tue Sep 8, 2009 - Thu Sep
10, 2009 at Holiday Inn & Suites
12:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesday 95.3 FM
Wed Sep 9, 2009
10am - 11am Samuels Public Library.
Today is Toddler Story Time. Theme:
Snakes
11am - 12pm Samuels Public Library.
Today is Preschool Story Time.
Theme: Snakes
11am - 6pm Tradefest 2009 at Holiday
Inn Hotel & Suites.
Thu Sep 10, 2009
3:30pm - 5:30pm Folk Dancing. Every
Thursday afternoon the Olde Europe
Folk Dance Troupe performs at the
Gazebo Area located on Main Street.
Dances include German, Irish, Danish,
Swedish, Norwegian, French, English,
Finnish & Icelandic.
4pm - 8pm Farmers Market. Enjoy
Center.
6pm - 7pm Informational Fair. Samuels
Public Library. YOUTH ACTIVITIES
GROUPS INFORMATIONAL FAIR!
Learn about clubs and activities for
children in our community. Sponsored
by “Friends of Samuels Library”
Fri Sep 11, 2009
Patriot Day
12pm - 7pm Main Street Melodies.
Music is played at the Main Street
Gazebo by Mike McLean as “Main
Street Remembers.”
7pm - 9pm Bluegrass Pickin’ Party.
Browntown Community Center in
Browntown, Virginia. Always the
second Friday of the month enjoy
all levels of musicians - acoustic
instruments only - playing gospel and
old time bluegrass music. Food/drink
is available for purchase. All proceeds
benefit the Browtown Community
Center.
Sat Sep 12, 2009
7am - 7pm Aviation Day. Front Royal/
Warren County Airport. Enjoy a full day
of fun-filled exciting activities including
“The Flying Circus” and Hot Air Balloon
launches at 7:30am and 6:00pm. All
being held at the Front Royal-Warren
County Airport. $5 admisson/person
WarrenCountyAirEvent.com
8am - 1pm Farmers Market. Enjoy
Center.
Market
10:30am - 11:30am Samuels Public
Library. BOOKS AND BARKS. Relax
and read to the Books and Barks
therapy dogs. Please register @
(540)635-3153.
5pm - ? We are having a Community
Dinner to Honor Todd Brown who is
relocating to Hawaii. Wear something
Hawaiian and come have some fun
as we say “Aloha to Todd.” Bring a
covered dish, lawn chairs or blankets!
Meat, beverage & paper products will
be provided. For more info, please
contact, Stephanie Crawford at 540635-5091 or Tab Swain at 540-3057363.
5pm - 11pm Dancin’ Downtown. Come
and dance in the streets at Main/
Chester Streets tonight! “Souled Out”
will be performing. There will be food/
drink on sale. Alcohol is available with
proper ID. Sponsored by Downtown
Front Royal, Inc.
6pm - 8pm Concert. Royal Plaza
Shopping Center. Enjoy a FREE
Summer Concert in the Royal Plaza
Shopping Center tonight! Glass Onion
(oldies, Beatles) will entertain you.
Bring your own blankets/chairs. No
alcohol or pets allowed.
Sun Sep 13, 2009
Market
Mon Sep 14, 2009
7pm - 8pm Town Council Meeting at
the Government Center
Tue Sep 15, 2009
12:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesday 95.3 FM
Wed Sep 16, 2009
7pm - 8pm Planning Commission
Meeting at the Government Center
Thu Sep 17, 2009
3:30pm - 5:30pm Folk Dancing. Every
Thursday afternoon the Olde Europe
Folk Dance Troupe performs at the
Gazebo Area located on Main Street.
Dances include German, Irish, Danish,
Swedish, Norwegian, French, English,
Finnish & Icelandic.
4pm - 8pm Farmers Market. Enjoy
Center.
5pm - 8pm Art Walk. You are invited to
spend the eveing with businesses on
Main Street. Artists will demonstrate
their craft and the band “Vintage
Country” will entertain you at the
Gazebo located at Chester/Main
Streets. This event is sponsored by
the Blue Ridge Arts Council.
Fri Sep 18, 2009
7pm - 10pm Bluegrass Pickin’ Party.
Front Royal Volunteer Fire Department,
221 Commerce Ave. All level of talents
welcome; acoustic instruments only.
Food for sale to benefit the Front
Royal Volunteer Fire Department
7pm - 8pm Gazebo Gatherin’
- Tonight enjoy the music of the
“Moonlighters” playing traditional
American Music: Swing, Jazz, Blues
and Oldies in the Gazebo located at
Main/Chester Streets. Sponsored by
the Blue Ridge Arts Council. FREE
Admission. www.blueridgearts.org
Sat Sep 19, 2009
9am Historic Marshall’s 250th Birthday
Celebration of Fauquier County and
Marshall Community Center’s 20th
Anniversary. Parade starts- 10am,
Brig. Gen. Lewis Marshall Helm of
Black Horse Cavalry Defend Our
Beloved Country 11:30am– lecture
& exhibits by The Mosby Players 1:
pm- walking tour of historic Marshall
1pm-Tree Identification on Main St
by VA Native Plant Society-1:30pmDocumentary on Emmanuel Episcopal
Church by Tom Davenport- live musicband Skip Glascock-Cobbler Mountain
Grass 12pm- petting zoo-Civil War
Encampment, arts and crafts fair,
historic craft demonstrations, antique
tractors, children’s games, a Proper
Tea at the Marshall United Methodist
Church, and much more!Main Street
Marshall, VA. 540-364-1688
Email your calendar events to
[email protected]
Front Royal-Warren County Chamber of Commerce
PLEASE JOIN US FOR TRADEFEST
2009
Tradefest 2009 will be held on September 8 & 9 at Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites.
The VIP Preview is Tuesday, September
8th from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (all Chamber members are invited) and Wednesday, September 9th will be open to the
public from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Businesses
participating to date are: Aire Serv of Bull
Run, BB & T, Best Exterminating Services, Inc., B-K Office Supply, Inc., Blue
Ridge Shadows, Commonwealth One
Federal Credit Union, Computer Medical Center, Culligan, Economic Development Authority, Embarq, Front Royal
Federal Credit Union, Front Royal Police
Dept. VIPS, Front Royal-Warren County
Airport, Greater Atlantic Bank, Health
Source Chiropractic & Progressive Rehab, Heaven Sent Shoppe’s Americana
Signs, Holiday Inn & Suites, Houlihans,
Idea Garden, Mid Atlantic Farm Credit,
Northern Virginia Daily, Play N Trade,
Protel/AT & T Authorized Dealer, Rappahannock National Bank, Sprint, Syntax
Communications, Inc., T Tech Systems,
The River 95.3 FM, Royal Oak Computers, Warren Sentinel, Your Community Phonebook, Downtown Front Royal,
Samuels Public Library, Amerisist, The
Willows At Meadow Branch, TML Copiers A Xerox Company, TV3 Winchester,
United Bank, Virginia Farm Bureau, Warren County Dept. Fire & Rescue, Warren
County Public Schools, Warren Memorial Hospital, Weichert Realtors, Weichert
Realtors – Melanie Hamel/Blue Ridge
Housing. For More information contact
Pam at 635-3185 or priffle@frontroyal-
chamber.com.
MEMBER NEWS
more information or tickets.
an appointment.
VALLEY SMOKIN BBQ FESTIVAL
Downtown Front Royal is proud to present Dancin Downtown on Saturday,
September 12th, 6 – 10:30 p.m featuring
Souled Out. Admission is $5 per person
– children 6 and under free. For more
information, please visit www.downtownfrontroyal.org.
Blue Ridge Opportunities will be hosting
the First Annual Renaissance Dinner on
Saturday, September 26th at 7:00pm at
Calvary Episcopal Church. Experience
an evening of feasting on a five course
meal; singing with the choir; frolicking
with jesters; and toasting with wine and
ale. All proceeds benefit Blue Ridge Opportunities, a 501-3c organization, serving adults with disabilities. Ticket Price:
$45.00 per person. For more information
please contact Kathleen Pantano at 540636-4960.
Blue Ridge Hospice is pleased to announce Jack L. Wright, MD has joined the
staff of its not-for-profit, locally based organization, which serves an eight-county
area of the Shenandoah Valley, Piedmont
Region, and the City of Winchester. At
Blue Ridge Hospice, Dr. Wright conducts
home visits to patients enrolled in the
Blue Ridge Hospice program in its Winchester, Kernstown, and Clarke County
service areas. For additional information
on Blue Ridge Hospice, its services and
programs, visit blueridgehospice.org or
call 540-536-5210.
The Valley Smokin BBQ Festival sponsored by Edward Jones Investments will
be held October 2 & 3, 2009 at Warren
County Fairgrounds. On October 2nd a
kickoff party featuring live entertainment
by Souled Out along with a variety of Anheuser-Busch beer and great food. Admission is $10 per adult and children 12
and under free. Saturday, October 3rd
the Valley Smokin’ BBQ Festival competition, sanctioned by the Kansas City
Barbeque Society and certified a State
Championship begins. There will be live
entertainment, children’s area (including
face painting, moon bounces, clowns,
balloon animals, video games and much
more) , craft vendors, a wide variety of
Virginia Microbrew and Anheuser-Busch
beer, and great food. Admission is $10
per adult, kids 12 and under free. Sponsorship opportunities are available in
amounts between $200 - $400. Current
sponsors include: Edward Jones Investments, The Apple House, Jim Kenney Insurance, B.J. Sager, Liberty Tax Service,
Harry Heard, DDS, State Farm – Billy
Powers, Dominion Health & Fitness, Best
Exterminating and T Tech Systems. This
event promises to bring teams from all
over the country to compete for the title of
best BBQ! Volunteers are needed! For
information on sponsoring, competing,
or being a crafter at the event – contact
Pam Riffle at priffle@frontroyalchamber.
com or 635-3185.
Warren Memorial Hospital
welcomes
Khalid Ahmed, M.D.
Internal Medicine Physician
Shenandoah Medical Associates
625 Virginia Avenue, Front Royal, VA
Dr. Ahmed is a graduate of the Internal Medicine
Residency Program at Mount Sinai School of
Medicine/Englewood Program and is joining the
practice of Dr. Subedi and Dr. Fredericksen.
Call 635-7991 to schedule an appointment
Blue Ridge Housing Network is hosting
a free VHDA Homeownership Education
Class on Saturday, September 12, 2009
between 10:00am – 3:00pm at Timbrook
Public Safety, 231 E. Piccadilly St, Winchester, VA 22601. This program is
designed to take the mystery out of the
home buying process and help first-time
homebuyers prepare to make the important choices related to homeownership.
We will go over Personal Finances, Credit
Reports, Role of the Lender, Working with
your Real Estate Agent, Home Inspections and Closing you Mortgage Loan.
For Reservation call (540) 622-2711.
The Front Royal/Warren County Airport
will present Aviation Day on September
12 from 7AM - 7PM at the airport. (Rain
date will be 9/13) Gates will open at 7AM
with the Hot Air Balloon launch between
7:30-8:30AM. There will be a full day of
fun filled and exciting activities including
The Flying Circus. The day will end with a
second Balloon launch between 6-7 PM.
Volunteers are needed to help with various activities throughout the day. Please
contact Janice @ 540 636-6378. Vendors
are being accepted. Each vendor space
size is 12x12. For vendor application call
Barbara @ 540 635-9692 or Glenn @
540 631-9447 or on our web site www.
warrencountyairevent.com.
The Front Royal Oratorio Society, George
T. Amos, Music Director, Judy B. Connelly, Accompanist, will begin rehearsals
for its 2009-2010 Fall/Winter seasons on
Monday, Sept. 14th ’09, 7:30 P.M. Prospective new members, all voice parts,
are very welcome. Come and join singers from a six-county area. Rehearsals
are Monday evenings at the Fulton Fine
Arts Center, Randolph-Macon Academy,
Front Royal. For more information call
(540) 622-6974 or (540) 667-0867 or visit
the website at www.frontroyaloratoriosociety.org.
The Humane Society of Warren County
will be holding its 1st Annual “RIDE FOR
PET’S SAKE” this will be a weekend
trail ride held September 18-20th and
will include breakfast Saturday morning,
A beautiful ride through some of West
Virginia’s prettiest territory, a pig roast
Saturday night, live bluegrass bands both
nights, and cowboy church on Sunday
morning with Steve Foster and Amazing
Grace, his mule. This will be an awesome
weekend! There will be saddles and other
items to raffle off. Cost for the weekend,
including rough camping, is 50.00 per
person.Please call Jane at 635-4734 for
The Mimslyn Inn of Luray is Celebrating
Oktoberfest! Enjoy an Outdoor Festival
Tradition and Family Fall Event Sunday,
September 27th. Traditional German
Food & Desserts, Beer and Wine Gardens, German Music and Dancers, Arts
and Craft Vendors, and Children’s Activities- Moon Bounce, Pony Rides, Petting
Zoo. Admission: $5 for Adults, Under 12
Free. Activities Begin at 12 noon and at
1pm- “Tapping of the Beer Opening Ceremony”. Overnight Lodging Packages
Begin at $119. For more information www.mimslyninn.com.
The Front Royal Women’s Rescource
Center is offering the following activities.
Mark your calendars now, and more information will follow as we get closer to
each event. Friday, September 25 (5:008:00 PM) – Atsuko’s Famous Japanese
Cooking Class - The class is limited to
ten people and is almost full already! The
cost is $25. Call the office to reserve your
spot. Tuesday, September 29 (7:30-9:00
AM) – Women’s Celebration Breakfast,
at the Holiday Inn and Suites; breakfast
provided by Houlihan’s. Come join us for
our September breakfast! We are trying
a new location this year, and would love
to see your smiling face there. Our guest
speaker will be Tracy Fitzsimmons, President of Shenandoah University. The cost
will be $15 per person. Please RSVP via
phone or email to the office.
The Willows At Meadow Branch, 1881
Harvest Drive in Winchester, offers Alzheimer’s Support Group meetings every
third Wednesday of the month from 2
p.m. to 3 p.m. at The Willows. For more
information, please call (540) 667-3000
or visit www.thewillowsatmeadowbranch.
com.
Nicholls Construction, Inc. introduces
their New Model Home now open in Front
Royal at 8036 Winchester Road. They
can build your dream home on your site
or theirs! Don’t miss out on the First Time
Home Buyers $8,000 Credit!! Call 6366142 or visit their model home today!
Race to GED will hold their 2009-10
Adult Education/GED Classes in Warren
County on Tuesdays and Thursdays at
10-am-12:30pm and 6:00-8:30pm, call
for more information 540-667-9744 or
800-435-5945.
The Shenandoah National Park Association announces the publication of an exciting new hiking guide for Shenandoah
National Park: Scavenger Hike Adventures. Written by hikers and innovators
Kat and John LaFevre, the guide is a
jump-start to intriguing adventures along
park trails for people of all ages. The
book is published by the Shenandoah
National Park Association (SNPA), the
cooperating association of Shenandoah
National Park. You will find this guide and
many other books, maps, and guides at
the SNPA bookstore at the visitor centers
and at ARAMARK gift stores. Or to order
from SNPA directly, call 540-999-3582, or
visit the SNPA website: www.snpbooks.
org. You can also order by mail from
SNPA: 3655 U.S. Hwy. 211 East, Luray,
VA 22835.
WELCOME OUR NEW MEMBERS
East To West Automotive
Mark Jenkins
413 G-H South Street
540-636-9079
[email protected]
www.easttowest.org
Bobbie Jo Coppage
263 Dorn Road
540-635-8098
[email protected]
TOWN COUNCIL
Monday, September 14th, 7 p.m.
Monday, September 28th, 7 p.m.
COUNTY SUPERVISORS
Tuesday, September 15th, 7 p.m.
Pam’s European Skin Care, “Where
beautiful skin is always in, and your complexion is my profession,” is offering a
Back 2 School/End of Summer sale of
$10 off any facial. Call 683-1675 to make
www.frontroyalchamber.com
Kids page
Sponsor the Kids Page! Call Alison Duvall
540-551-2072 • [email protected]
Sponsor the Kids Page!
Call Dan McDermott
540-636-1014 • [email protected]
Diversions
Is your business advertising in Warren
County’s most popular newspaper?
If not, you are probably spending too
much to reach fewer people.
540-683-9197
or
540-551-2072
Diversions
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Gifts&Framing
Now carrying John Paul Strain
artwork, Va baskets & gifts
204 Main
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635-8610
Valley Finds
Gently priced Interiors & Collectibles
We have moved across the Street
217 E Main Street
www.valleyfinds.com
11 703-303-3502
Kidd
119 Chester • 622-2060
2
oldecharm.com
Eleventy-Seven
Toy Shop
Come Downtown & take a look around
7
529 Main
635-1361
Pomeroys
Small Engine Repair
525 Main
635-4208
12
High St
Royal Oak
Computers
Systems • Software • Service
203 Main • 635-7064
royaloakcomputers.com
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Around Your Kitchen
Open till 8 on Fri & Sat
126 Main
635-5971
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Nicolle’s Jewelry Heaven Sent Shoppe
Americana Signs
Designs
Plaques, Trophies, Signs
Unique & One of a Kind
Fine & Custom Jewelry
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622-2455
Kibler Furniture Driver’s Choice
206 Main
8 635-2133
Training Center
Classroom, Behind-the-Wheel,
Driver Improvment Classes
9
214 E. Jackson
622-6900
Middle of Main Bldg
E. Jackson St.
540-551-2072
540-683-9197
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DK Pottery
+ Crafts
Künstler Available
119 Chester
635-2818
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635-2153
JEChevy.com
Lucky Star Lounge
Live Music Nightly
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635-5297
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