VDOT must study ISLE2040

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Smithfield timeS
Serving iSle of Wight and Surry CountieS SinCe 1920
Volume 96 Number 1
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
EDUCATION
Smithfield, Va. 23431
Rt. 460
Seven to be interviewed for superintendent’s position.
— See page 10
50 cents
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“
If a new U.S. 460 section is
built, it will disrupt homes,
farms and churches.
They’re using me as a scapegoat.
”
— County resident Frank Allen
Commenting on Tyler’s Beach, p. 1
— See page 11
VDOT must study ISLE2040
IBy Diana McFarland
News editor
State law requires that major
changes or amendments to a locality’s comprehensive plan undergo
a review by VDOT.
The review is mandatory and
required before a locality tries to
pass anything, said VDOT spokewoman Laurie Simmons.
The Isle of Wight County
Board of Supervisors was heading toward passing its ISLE2040
plan without taking that step.
If it had passed before that
review, the county could have lost
IW failed to submit plan initially for traffic review
some state road funding, she said.
The omission wasn’t noted
until The Smithfield Times asked
VDOT on April 10 if Isle of Wight
had submitted its comprehensive
plan amendments as part of
ISLE2040.
Because of that omission, it
may now be many months before
ISLE2040 completes the VDOT
review process.
Isle of Wight was in VDOT’s
database as having to submit the
comprehensive plan amendments
in early 2015 but had not done so
as of April 10, Simmons said.
The Isle of Wight Planning
Commission recommended approval of the compprehensive
plan amendments in January that
would set ISLE2040 in motion.
The Planning Commission then
recommended approval of the
corresponding ordinances for
ISLE2040 in February.
The Isle of Wight Board of
Supervisors held a public hearing
on ISLE2040 at its March 19 meeting, — and was poised to take a
vote — but tabled the amendments
for 60 days due to questions and
concerns by the supervisors as
well as residents, who packed the
meeting room armed with picket
signs.
Under ISLE2040, the Newport
Development Service District
would be expanded to accommodate an additional 27,000 residents
that Isle of Wight staffers said is
projected to come to the county
no matter what is done. Much of
the changes involved increasing
the residential density of the DSD.
The Smithfield Times also
asked Isle of Wight County on
April 10 about the need to submit
its comprehensive plan changes
to VDOT.
After The Smithfield Times’
• See ISLE, p. 7
Murder
charge
brought
Jean Smith’s
boyfriend held
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
A convicted fraudster has been
charged in the execution-style
killing of 25-year-old Jean Marie
Smith, whose body was dumped
in a wooded area off Courthouse
Highway.
Eric Brandon Saub, 29, has
been charged with murder, use of
a firearm in the commission of a
felony and possession of a firearm
by a convicted felon.
Hunters found Smith’s body
around 8 a.m. April 17 in a wooded area near Hatcher’s Lane,
a private road off Courthouse
Highway.
Smith, of 15 Crescent Lane
in Hampton, died from a single
gunshot wound to the back of the
head, said Isle of Wight County
Sheriff Mark Marshall.
Smith had served in the Navy
until 2011.
Saub is being held without
bond at Hampton City Jail on
unrelated fraud and identity theft
charges.
Staff photo by Diana McFarland
Tensions over Tyler’s Beach began when the county staff recommended monthly slip fees for workboats moored there.
A Tyler’s Beach imbroglio
By Diana McFarland
it appeared that black people at
Tyler’s Beach were being treated
RUSHMERE — Some water- differently than white people for
men are claiming racism for similar situations.
recent troubles at Tyler’s Beach
The county wants to put a
while county officials say it’s “prison guard” at Tyler’s Beach
more of a problem with an indi- because it’s a minority commuvidual.
nity,” he said at a recent Board of
Rushmere resident Eric Jones Supervisors meeting.
recently complained to the Isle of
“This thing is turning into a
• See CHARGED, p. 8 Wight Board of Supervisors that racial overtone,” Jones said.
News editor
Last year, Isle of Wight County
proposed hiring a part-time park
ranger to enforce polices at Tyler’s Beach, as well as changing
the slip fees for boats moored
there from yearly to monthly to
help pay for improvements.
Jones said that’s when the
tension started.
Isle of Wight County spokesman Don Robertson said those
proposals were tabled until the
harbor is dredged, which is scheduled for completion this fall,
according to the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers.
Repeated efforts to reach Hardy District Supervisor Rudolph
Jefferson — who was vehemently
opposed to hiring a park ranger
• See TYLER’S, p. 8
Do you know these folks?
Camera, found in marsh, contained numerous personal photos
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
A curious forensic investigator has launched a
nationwide search for the
owners of a camera dug out
of the mud in Jones Creek.
A mud-caked camera bag
containing a Canon EOS T2i
sat among the Isle of Wight
Sheriff ’s Office evidence,
destined for a dusty life on
a shelf.
It ended up there as a
“found item,” having been
recovered from Jones Creek
by workers two weeks ago,
said Investigator Bert Nurney.
The camera was a lost
cause, but its SD card was
still intact.
Nurney had a thought:
This couple is believed
and photo owners.
Despite being waterlogged
and muddy, could the camera’s memory card still
work? And would the memories it holds help him reunite the lost photos with
its owner?
“You don’t know what
saltwater would do to something of that nature,” he
said.
tained more lenses and
another SD card, but nothing else.
He then popped the
SD card into a computer,
opened the photo file and
found 931 pictures dating
back to 2013.
The pictures feature the
travels of a middle-aged
couple.
In one, they appear to
lean in at a restaurant table,
to be the likely camera and in another they pose
in front a sweeping ocean
view.
So Nurney gathered his
Nurney thinks the coutools and got to work.
ple, judging by their pic“I took a screwdriver and tures, had even been to
a hammer, and pried open Greece and on a cruise.
the SD card slot, pulled the
None of the pictures
SD card out with needle appeared to be taken in the
nose pliers because it was United States.
just caked with mud, and
“It could be anybody.
cleaned the contacts,” said There’s no telling where it
Nurney.
• See FOUND, p. 8
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Page 2 – The Smithfield Times – Wed., Apr. 29, 2015
Our Forum
Route 460 &
state’s quandary
It’s hard to know what will happen next with
respect to U.S. 460, and just about as hard to know
what to wish for.
The old highway was built in the 1930s and 1940s,
connecting Petersburg and Suffolk, and during
World War II it became the western approach to
Military Highway, built to quickly move military
personnel and equipment into and out of the Norfolk Naval Station, a key staging area.
All this was before the days of “limited access.”
If a road abutted your property, you could use
it, and over the years, entrepreneurs found 460’s
shoulders an ideal place to construct everything
from restaurants to service stations. Windsor,
Zuni, Ivor, Wakefield, Waverly and Disputanta all
prospered between the Norfolk and Western (now
Norfolk Southern) Railroad and the parallel Rt. 460.
Eventually, the highway that pumped life into
the local economy began to suffer from the congestion it helped create, and 15 years ago the Virginia
Transportation Act declared 460 a high priority
corridor between Interstate 295 in Petersburg and
Rt. 58 in Suffolk — a road that needed improvement.
An improved 460 was seen as necessary to
relieve congestion in the little communities but,
more important to state planners, an improved
road was seen as an important escape route for
Hampton Roads residents in the event of a hurricane or other disaster. It was also seen as a future
economic engine, providing tractor trailer trucks
with a quick route from the port of Hampton
Roads, which is supposed to grow exponentially
now that the Panama Canal has been widened.
The designation of 460 as a high priority road
led to exhaustive studies, which in turn led to more
questions, which in turn led to additional study.
The desire to find a workable means of improving the highway led former Governor Bob
McDonnell to cut a deal with private developers
to construct a $1.3 billion highway from Suffolk to
Petersburg. The state would fork over $900 million
in tax dollars and motorists would, over time, pay
the remaining $400 million in tolls.
It was one of two major McDonnell public-private deals. The other was the Elizabeth River
Crossing package that South Hampton Roads is
now underwriting with increasingly high tolls.
The McDonnell plan for 460 has been criticized
by Hampton Roads transportation experts who
say it will do little to alleviate congestion in the
region. In 2014, with a new administration in the
governor’s mansion, the project was halted, and
two weeks ago, the contract was cancelled.
Hampton Roads critics are, unfortunately, pretty
much on target when they question the benefit of
a new 460. Traffic on 460 peaks in Suffolk at something over 50,000 vehicles a day, but that’s in an area
that has already been improved to accommodate
the flow.
In Isle of Wight, by contrast, the peak on 460 is in
Windsor, where 18,000 vehicles a day were counted
in 2013. To put that in perspective, that same traffic
count study placed the daily vehicle count at Benn’s
Church at 24,000 and at Bartlett, 28,000.
In a world where roads were still a state priority,
it is likely that U.S. 460 would have been improved.
Decades ago, Virginia was such a state, and U.S. 460
was widened and bypasses built west of Petersburg
through country where traffic counts are generally
lower than along our stretch of the highway.
But that was then, this is now. The Virginia
General Assembly no longer considers highway
construction or even maintenance a top state priority, and a majority of legislators seem to believe
that turning projects over to private developers
is the appropriate — and preferred — future of
transportation.
In that climate, don’t look for Virginia to do anything significant about 460 in the foreseeable future
because it is very probably not going to happen.
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Reader Forum
Proud to
live here
Editor, Smithfield Times
Thanks to Valerie
Butler, the Isle of Wight
chapter of the NAACP,
and The Smithfield Times
for sponsoring last week’s
discussion of race relations in our community.
Thanks also to the excellent panel and moderator.
This was one of the most
enlightened public meetings I have ever attended
in this county, and it was
particularly important to
me, as I grew up in this
area during the time of
legalized racism known as
segregation, when such a
meeting would have been
outlawed.
As much as we might
wish racism were dead,
the truth is that it is still
with us. Barack Obama’s
election to the presidency
and his reelection showed
how far the majority of
the electorate had come,
but the shameful surge
of racism following his
election has also shown
how far backwards too
many Americans, including many members of
Congress, still are.
If we are ever to remove
the cancer of racism from
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our society and bring
about healing, more proactive discussions like the
one held here last week
must take place across the
country. I hope there will
be more in our community. As Rev. Harrison
so eloquently suggested,
we must embrace our
differences. Racism uses
differences to cultivate
hate and fear. By embracing differences, we create
opportunities to grow and
learn from each other
and become better human
beings. This meeting made
me proud that I live here.
Mary Batten Bland
Smithfield
Applauds
race discussion
I would like to applaud
the Isle of Wight NAACP,
The Smithfield Times and
the town of Smithfield for
sponsoring the visionary,
appropriate and insightful
public discussion on race
relations last week. Race
relations is a topic that
tends to be difficult to discuss in a meaningful manner, but one that deserves
high priority considering
the tensions and unsavory
activities going on around
the country.
The blue ribbon biracial panel was skillfully
selected by the sponsors
and masterfully facilitated
by the Honorable Rodham
Delk. A number of sensitive and personal experiences were highlighted
that, perhaps left to oneon-one discussions, would
not have occurred, or
would have been a “bridge
too far.” The panel’s
overarching objective was
to focus on situations that
potentially foster strained
race relations and to seek
answers to help moderate these situations. The
primary takeaways were:
Respect for and communications with others.
This high level discussion on race relations
was a tangible example
of positive leadership as
opposed to the despicable
behavior of about a year
ago when a member of
the School Board and one
of the Board of Supervisors exchanged, with
impunity, emails containing distasteful jokes and
derogatory images of the
First Lady of the United
States. When this type of
behavior unfortunately
surfaces, people of good
will from all races should
take a stand.
Again, I sincerely
thank the sponsors and
participants for providing
this wholesome discussion. It was a seminal
activity in the county’s
history and I am hopeful
that these types of discussions will continue, and
will engage the participation of more young people
in Isle of Wight County.
Lee Winslett
Smithfield
• See LETTERS, p. 3
Two encouraging local events
Two events
ty seeking to imn he
took place last
prove life for its
residents and, esweek that I find
extraordinarily
pecially, for future
encouraging for
generations.
the future of our
Bridging the Gap
county.
First, the panel
discussion: This
The first was a
panel discussion
eve n t , c o - s p o n By John Edwards
by c o m m u n i t y
sored by the Isle
leaders on the sensitive issue of of Wight chapter of the NAACP
race relations. The second was the and The Smithfield Times, had the
Chamber of Commerce’s Student full blessing and support of the
Leadership Institute graduation town of Smithfield, which made
program.
The Smithfield Center available
Collectively, these two events for the discussion.
are clear evidence of a communiThat discussion, titled “Bridg-
I T
SHORT
ROWS
ing the Gap,” grew out of a conversation between the NAACP’s
talented new president, Valerie
Butler, and the newspaper about
ways that we might cooperate to
engage the community in a meaningful dialogue about race.
Panelists included the county
sheriff, the town’s chief of police,
two ministers, a top county school
official, a county student and a
Norfolk State University professor
of political science — a pretty impressive lineup. And moderating
the evening was retired Circuit
• See ROWS, p. 3
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The Smithfield Times – Wed., Apr. 29, 2015 – Page 3
‘Real video’ holds all of us accountable
By Gene Policinski
“Seeing is believing,” or so
the saying goes.
We certainly can “see” more
than ever in this era of 24/7
news, omnipresent street surveillance, police “body cams”
and cell phone video — and
that fits nicely into the First
Amendment’s role in providing for both press and citizen
“watchdogs on government.”
Technology now makes us all
possible “witnesses” to close-up
and often shocking video images of inebriated and staggering
motorists stopped by police,
dramatic high-speed pursuits
through traffic, cringe-inducing accident clips, and officers
in confrontations marked by
injury or deadly force.
In earlier times, it was rare
for most of us to experience any
of that except through news media interviews, eyewitness accounts or through news reports
taken from carefully worded official documents or courtroom
testimony — most with far less
drama and emotion.
Legal battles swirl from time
to time around the extent to
which citizens or journalists
can photograph or take video
of uniformed or undercover
police in public confrontations
or violent episodes. Court decisions generally favor the public
— but sometimes that means a
long wait or an expensive legal
battle during which news value
evaporates.
But new issues involving
freedom of information, privacy, media ethics and fair
trial concerns are popping up
as quickly as the latest video
clip challenging police actions.
And while there’s no obligation
under the First Amendment on
what we can say or write once
we “see,” the flood of video imagery creates some questions
for us and our fellow citizens
as well.
The Associated Press reports
that legislators in at least 15
states are considering ways to
exempt from open record laws
the video recordings of police
encounters with citizens, or to
limit what can be made public.
Officials say the proposed laws
are needed to protect the privacy of people being videotaped
and to ensure fair trials — while
others fear such moves are just
attempts to place the brakes on
a new and effective way to hold
police accountable.
The impact of citizen video
may never have been more immediate or effective than one
showing North Charleston, S.C.,
police officer Michael Slager
shooting an unarmed AfricanAmerican man who appeared
to be moving away from Slager.
The officer was charged with
murdering Walter Scott after
a video of the April incident,
taken by a passerby on his cell
phone, disputed a written police report about the shooting,
which followed a traffic stop and
a struggle in a park.
As a nation, we had the opportunity to see portions of that
video, repeatedly, on all major
networks. The New York Times
posted on its web site about two
weeks ago what appears to be
a longer, 4:09-minuteversion
that the newspaper said was
provided by an attorney for
Scott’s family.
The graphic nature of the
shooting, the effect of repeated
national showings and even the
placement of the video higher
or lower in the news story’s text
and nature of the information
that accompanied the clip, all
raised concerns among legal
and First Amendment experts.
Clearly, posting a video is not
just a simple matter of presenting a bit of news for us to “see.”
The Scott clip was just one
of an amazing range of videos
since last summer that have
sparked protests and public
outrage. In just the last few
days, we’ve seen a deputy U.S.
Marshal appear to seize and
shatter a phone being used by a
woman taping police action; an
Air Force veteran, videotaped
by her daughter, attempting to
wrest control of an American
flag from demonstrators in
Georgia and then scuffling with
police; and multiple video clips
from a Baltimore incident in
which a man appears to have
been fatally injured just before
or as he was being transported
in a police van.
So far, the most controversial videos seem to raise issues
around the morality and legality of the incidents involved
rather than simply accuracy
of what the videos show. But
inevitably, those issues will —
and should — come up, as in
the flag protest where some say
publicity more than patriotism
motivated the videotaping and
the veteran, who has posed nude
in Playboy and for an animal
rights poster draped in a U.S.
flag.
We should expect from both
news media and from citizens
who post directly to the Web
the kinds of context and explanation around dramatic videos
that we’ve come to demand from
journalists and others who publish polls, provide politicians
with a public platform, and
present detailed investigative
reports.
We need to know the motives
and mission of those who take
and those who post the videos.
And at times, we should seek
the kind of intensive scrutiny
and skepticism about particularly impactful videos that
might — at the furthest extent
— approach the level of dissection and examination of a written article by an expert team
that led Rolling Stone magazine
to retract a highly-controversial
report about a gang rape at a
university.
Questions are being raised
about a supposed ISIS video
purporting to show mass executions in Libya, and many
Western news organizations
regularly refuse to show videos that have more to do with
recruiting new terrorists than
documenting atrocities.
Granted, there’s no requirement in the First Amendment’s
protection for free speech or a
free press that what we see online or in the news will be fair
or accurate or even complete.
But there’s also no First
Amendment prohibition
against holding to those standards.
Gene Policinski is chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and senior vice president of
the Institute’s First Amendment
Center. He can be reached at [email protected].
Letters
• Continued from p. 2
Scrap the
ISLE plan
The development of
the rationale for ISLE2040
proposal is perplexing.
At the April 13 Board of
Supervisors meeting, the
Hampton Roads Planning
District Commission’s
chief economist’s remarks
shed light on the process.
Our control number was
27,000 new residents by
2040.
This was earlier in
2013. His report was made
to the Hampton Roads
entities in Sept. 2013, after
each local government
provided the data as they
specifically forecasted it.
IoW county’s administration submitted a
breakdown of three
areas — Northern, Smithfield and southwest of
there. The numbers were
16,000 more for North-
ern, to 27,527; Smithfield
2,818 more, to total 12,020.
The rest of Isle of Wight,
identified as South & West
was expected to grow by
8,868, to total 23,523. That’s
a total “potential” increase
of 27,802, by 2040.
Interestingly, the chief
economist said these are
projections only, even
going so far as to say “the
numbers lie,” as I remember. Why, only God knows,
because man can only
guess?
In late 2014, ISLE2040
is given birth and 20,000
all of a sudden becomes
the increase in Carrollton
(Newport DSD), a part of
the Northern designation.
Huh?
How and why was that
change suddenly made?
Someone at Isle of Wight
County submitted the
original 2013 numbers
to HRPDC. Was it same
person who made this
switcherooo a year later ?
At who’s direction? Is this
a case of making numbers
fit the ISLE2040 outcome?
Why negate the South
& West area containing
Windsor, Rt. 460 development and Isle of Wight’s
industrial park.
All the elements are
critical to Isle of Wight’s
revenue development
going forward.
The bottom line: Disingenuousness is apparent
in that at no time do I
remember hearing all the
facts presented, to include
Weldon-Cooper Center at
UVA’s numbers that cannot just totally be disregarded in developing this
proposal. I recommend
the Board of Supervisors
scrap the current proposal
and send it back to the
drawing board. Angels
fear to tread where fools
would jump in.
Herb De Groft
Smithfield
and fears.
When the evening ended,
many of those attending
asked that the discussion
continue, that future programs be planned to deal
more specifically with local issues of concern. Ms.
Butler and the paper have
agreed that, in some form,
that discussion will indeed
continue. It was not a bad
night’s work.
Student leaders
The second event, coming the night after the panel
discussion, was the annual
graduation of the Chamber
of Commerce’s Student
Leadership Institute. Sixteen high school juniors
from local public and private schools were enrolled
in the institute and formed
four teams, each of which
chose, designed and demonstrated a project aimed at
improving life and learning
for students.
It says a lot about our
society that two of the four
teams chose bullying as the
issue they wanted to tackle.
These young people live in a
social media world that can
be creative or destructive
and clearly two of the in-
stitute’s teams identified a
lot of destructive behavior
in their young world. The
two teams developed creative ways that they hope
to counter the trend.
Another team developed
a mentoring program to
help students who, for a
variety of reasons, may be
struggling academically.
Their sensitive approach
showed a desire to embrace
these fellow students in a
caring and creative way.
And the fourth team
went to what it considers
the heart of many problems
— hunger. Some students
and their families, they
concluded, are simply not
getting the food they need
to be productive.
The four teams exhibited
a sensitivity and caring
approach that, were it to be
embraced community-wide,
could not but help shape a
brighter future for many
young people.
And does that tie back
to the discussion of race?
In many, many instances,
indeed it does.
In all, it was a very positive week.
Generous
community
Rows
Court Judge Rodham T.
Delk.
The panel discussion
resolved no issues. It was
not intended to. What it
did do was open eyes. Close
to 150 people (a good mix
of black and white county residents) attended the
event and heard — some of
them possibly for the first
time — the frustrations that
black residents often feel
in a society still struggling
with racial identity and
inclusion.
And, from white panelists, they heard of the
sincere effort that local law
enforcement officials and
educators are making to
prevent racial confrontation. No one wants a Ferguson, North Charleston
or Baltimore incident here,
though no one can guarantee that it won’t happen.
The panel discussion
was the first time since the
days of school integration
that Isle of Wight community leaders and residents
have been encouraged to
sit down and talk about
their deepest frustrations
Not only is Smithfield
a great place to live; it
is a wonderful place for
giving back to our community. On behalf of the
Trinity United Methodist
Church Golf Committee, I
would like to thank all the
generous contributors to
our 4th annual charity golf
tournament.
With the generous support from all our business
and community hole sponsors, gift contributors and
the many volunteers, our
golf tourney set another
record year for contributions. All this wonderful
financial support has
provided over $9,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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,,,,,,,,,,,,200 for advancing
our mission of supporting
the Christian Outreach
Program and other Christian causes here locally.
Church appreciates your
investment in our mission
and your compassion
towards helping others in
our community.
For more information
on how these wonderful
donations are helping
to make a difference at
Church, we invite you to
visit our Web site at www.
mytrinity.org.
Thanks to all of you
again for your wonderful
contributions and participating in our fourth
annual charity golf
tournament at Cypress
Creek. We hope you will
again join us next year in
supporting TUMC in this
wonderful and fun event.
Your generosity here in
Smithfield, Virginia is so
appreciated.
Ted Bright
Smithfield
Comments
on ISLE2040
On behalf of citizens
who recently signed a
petition calling for responsible growth planning between 2014 and
2040, I encourage all Isle
of Wight inhabitants to
participate on Monday
May 11, at The Smithfield
Center 6-9 p.m. Apparently,
the Board of Supervisors
will participate and the
meeting will be facilitated
by an expert planner, Dr.
Mike Chandler.
Specifically, I request
that the county:
• Display and use correct facts.
• Use correct Hampton
Roads Transportation
Planning Organization
and Hampton Roads Planning District Commission
numbers for 2040 population growth for Development Service Districts.
•Population Growth
number for Newport DSD
can be calculated from
HRTPO/HRPDC report to
be about 12,000 between
2014 & 2040. Current capacity of Land Use Map 4-9 for
Newport DSD is 4,800 residential units (from the Isle
2040 Power Point slide).
• A 12,000 population
change/2.5 people per
residential unit = 4,800
residential units.
• No additional land
capacity needs to be added
to the Newport DSD.
• Discuss correct
growth numbers for Windsor and Camptown DSDs.
• Do not expand the
Newport DSD. The numbers don’t support any
expansion.
• Do not amend the
Comprehensive Plan (including Land Use Plans)
and Zoning Ordinance
without serious dialogue
between citizens and expert, trustworthy planners
to decide which changes
should be made.
• Discuss and reconcile
current and desired use
types (including densities,
setbacks, height restrictions, lot sizes, parking
spaces, pervious etc.) in
the Comprehensive Plan
text and maps, on land use
maps (especially Map 4-9),
on Master Plans, on zoning
Map and in the Zoning
Ordinance.
Is there an Official
Map?
Why are condominiums
a failing housing type in
Isle of Wight?
• Discuss the impact
of a 25-year population
growth (2040) on all areas
of Isle of Wight: Windsor
DSD? Camptown DSD?
• Discuss Open Space;
uses around St. Luke’s
Church property; view
sheds, etc.
Citizen participation
can significantly influence
quality of life.
Betsy Egan
Smithfield
Citizen
of the year
The Smithfield Ruritan
and the Smithfield Rotary
Clubs would like to thank
the citizens of Smithfield
for their response regarding the “Citizen of the
Year” for 2014. After careful review, the clubs selected Emma Jean Brady.
There were several worthy
candidates but Ms. Brady
was undoubtedly the most
deserved at this time. The
selection was announced
and Ms. Brady was pleasantly surprised at the joint
meeting of the Smithfield
Ruritan and Rotary Clubs
held at the Smithfield Station on April 14. Smithfield
is a wonderful place to live
because of giving people
like Ms. Brady.
This award is given
out each year. During this
ensuing year, please keep
in mind your family and
friends who contribute
their time and energy to
the town of Smithfield.
When the clubs call for
nominations for “Citizen
of the Year” for 2016 next
year, you will be able to
nominate a very worthy
individual.
Mike Swecker
Committee Chairman
Smithfield Ruritan Club
Smithfield Rotary Club
Lots of
complaints
Here is a short list of
things that should never
have happened.
1. The United States,
which imports uranium,
“approving the sale” for
one of five uranium mines
in our country to a Russian controlled company.
What about National
Security?
2. A presidential
foundation forgetting to
declare over $30 million
in donations from those
involved in the sale and
purchase of a U.S. uranium mine. ($5 in = $1 to
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The Smithfield Times – Wed., Apr. 29, 2015
Historic Southside
master NaturaList
It’s March, so the James, Pagan and Nansemond rivers
and Chuckatuck and Lawne’s Creeks are filled with Blue
Catfish. That’s either a good thing or a bad thing depending on your point of view. They’re easy to catch, but slimy.
They’re ugly, but people love to eat them. They’re taking
over our waters, but people love to catch them.
A little history: Blue cats were introduced to the James
and Rappahannock rivers in the mid-1970s, coming from
mid-American rivers, including the Ohio. The purpose
was to introduce a sport-fish industry. The state officials
responsible for the decision didn’t realize how successful
it would be. The fish are now in every Chesapeake Bay tributary by the millions. The abundance of fish has grown
like wildfire — to the point where the NOAA Chesapeake
Bay office now has an Invasive Catfish Task Force. From
Richmond to Newport News, all creeks and tributaries
are crammed with them — especially Lawne’s Creek,
according to biofishers.
The problem is that they eat our native species, including shad, herring, eels and crabs. They grow to over 100
pounds, so they take a lot of feeding. And one needs to
take care about eating them.
Catching them is not hard. Bait a hook of any size,
shape or description with baitfish, squid, stinkbaits, chicken livers, cheese, hot dogs, bacon ... they’ll bite it. You can
fish with trotlines, jug floats, from shore, or by boat. The
really big ones are up around Hopewell, where a sizable
sport fishery with guides has developed. Fish are regularly
taken in the 30 - 60 pound class. The state record is 102 lbs.
Only one fish longer than 32 inches may be kept per day,
but otherwise there’s no limit. Fishing is best at night.
Because so many fish are being taken, companies like
Profish, Ltd. in the DC area are selling 300,000 pounds a
year. They have a public fund based on a percentage of
their catch — “Charity Off the Hook” — that contributes
thousands of dollars a year to charity. The Wide Net
Project is a non-profit that sells to food pantries and community service programs at below-cost prices.
One caveat: The Virginia Dept. of Health recommends
that fish longer than 32” should not be eaten at all, and that
catfish of any size for dinner more than twice a month is
a bad idea. The problem is that blue catfish store PCBs.
The fish seem to stay in our area rivers and creeks till
May, when croaker and spot arrive. You have a brief time
remaining to fill your freezer, if you wish.
So here’s the situation:
On the plus side, they make fishermen happy, they
are easily caught, and they are highly edible in limited
quantities.
On the negative side, they threaten native species, they
may take over totally, they’re slimy, ugly and carry PCBs.
Maybe next time, Virginia’s DGIF will think long and
hard about introducing a non-native species.
What’s a fisherman to do? It’s a blue catfish conundrum.
By Biff and Susan Andrews
Master Natualists
Tween 12 & 20
Why do Older Guys Go for Younger
Girls?
By Dr. Robert Wallace
Creators syndicate
Dr. Wallace,
I don’t want to give all the details, but my best friend
and I are attractive young ladies and we enjoy our
spare time sunbathing and spending time at the Gulf
of Mexico. Almost every time we are at the shore we
get hit upon by older guys. It’s flattering, but all we ever
do is talk with them. We never give out our names or
telephone numbers.
We have been wondering why older guys seem fascinated with younger girls. We are both 16 and we look
our age. Some of these guys who hawk us are in their
late twenties or even older.
— Friends, Naples, Fla.
Friends,
Most older guys who “hawk” younger girls often find
it difficult to compete with their peers for females their
own age. That drives them to the younger girls, where
the competition is less challenging. This gives the guys
more confidence and many younger girls are flattered
by the attention given them by older guys.
You and your friend would be wise to completely
ignore older guys who you know are on the prowl.
Dr. Wallace,
Three years ago I was a member of the National Honor Society and maintained excellent grades. I dropped
out of school at the end of my junior year because I was
pregnant and I decided to have the baby. I’m glad that I
did so because I love her so very much.
I’d like to finish my education, but I’d like to start in
college without returning to high school because I’m
now 20 years old. My parents will provide the funds for
college tuition. Is it legally possible for someone who
has not completed high school to attend a four-year
college? At this time I’m not interested in getting an
equivalency GED high school diploma or attending a
community college.
— Nameless, Tulsa, Okla.
Nameless,
A student who hasn’t earned a high school diploma
can be admitted to any college or university if the
admissions department feels the student is capable of
earning a degree. It’s up to the individual schools, not
the legal system.
You should visit your high school and meet with your
counselor to arrange for your transcripts to be sent to the
colleges and universities you are interested in attending.
Dr. Robert Wallace welcomes questions from readers.
Although he is unable to reply to all of them individually, he will answer as many as possible in this column.
E-mail him at [email protected]. To find out more
about Dr. Robert Wallace and read features by other
Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the
Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Windsor Castle eagles
Karen Barlow of Smithfield got a shot of an eagle with its eaglet in its nest recently at Windsor
Castle Park. Send in your favorite photo of Isle of Wight or Surry counties for possible publication
in The Smithfield Times to [email protected].
To help the environment,
grow native Va. plants
RICHMOND — Virginia homeowners can help
protect the environment
and the Chesapeake Bay by
planting Virginia-grown
plants this spring.
T h e Vi r g i n i a G re e n
Industry Council has
launched a project called
Grow Some VA! to encourage homeowners to reduce
storm water runoff from
their yards into local waterways by growing Virginia-grown plants. The plants
also will beautify properties
and help create habitat for
insects and wildlife.
“Bottom line, it helps
the Chesapeake Bay,” said
Letters
charity)
3. Not providing the additional security requested
by the ambassador to Libya, after other countries
pulled their ambassadors,
after an increase terror
alert. No one is to blame?
4. Not sending an
armed response when the
Benghazi Consulate in
Libya was under attack.
We had forces in the Mediterranean and Europe that
were capable of targeting
surrounding building/
streets within two hours,
with boots on the ground
soon after. An attack that
lasted over 12 hours, leaving four Americans dead.
No green light was given,
and no one is responsible.
The Secretary of State
says “what difference does
it make.”
5. Removing Cuba
and Iran from the United
States “Terrorist List.”
Both countries receive
weapons and support from
Russia. Are Russians stationed in both countries,
President Putin probably
says no, but he also said
there were no Russian
troops in Ukraine.
6. Removing all combat forces after “Victory
in Iraq,” which allowed
Iraq to be overrun by
terrorists. Apparently, we
learned nothing after the
Vietnam Withdrawal Fiasco. Who did they blame?
The former administration. Wonder if they have
a bridge for sale?
Earle Southard
Smithfield
Make Your Next
Yard Sale a Success
Call 357-3288
and ask for a
Smithfield timeS
Classified
Rick Baker, Grow Some VA!
manager.
“The bay is a valuable
economic resource, recreational refuge and habitat
for a wide range of marine
life. Grow Some VA! provides ideas for planting and
sources of Virginia-grown
plants to help stimulate
positive change.”
Virginia residents can do
their part by planting native
species, which they can
find in independent retail
garden centers across the
state. The VGIC is focusing
on Virginia-grown plants
because they are acclimated to the state’s growing
conditions and grow well in
Virginia soil, and because
buying them helps support
local economies, Baker said.
Grow Some VA! will be
highlighted at independent retail garden centers
this spring. Displays will
encourage gardeners to
“get busy and plant something.” There are almost
40 businesses advertising
the program and offering
resources to participants.
VGIC members include
arborists, Christmas tree
growers, educators, florists,
gardeners, horticulturists,
landscapers and landscape
designers and suppliers,
lawn care professionals,
retail and wholesale nurseries, and public gardens. The
organization’s guidelines
for improving the state’s
environment include high
environmental standards
for horticultural businesses
and products; use of best
management practices for
controlling water runoff;
and the planting of Virginia-grown plants for habitat
restoration.
For more information
about Grow Some VA!, visit
growsomeva.com or the
VGIC’s Facebook page at
facebook.com/VirginiaGreenIndustry.
SUMMER
CAMPS
SMITHFIELD SOCCER CLUB
2015 Tryouts
at a higher level of competition and commitment whether in the
Advance or Select Program.
WHEN:
U9-U12 May 18 & 20
U13-U14 May 19 & 21
U15 Boys May 19
U16 Boys May 16
U15 - U18 Girls May 16
U17- U18 Boys May 21
Acceptance Night: Wednesday, June 3 U9-13 and
Thursday, June 4 U14-U18 6-7:30 Location TBD
Weekend trials start at 2pm. Weekday trials start at 6pm
WHERE: Nike
Park
HOW: Advanced Registration Requested!!
Register online at:
www.smithfieldsoccerclub.org
For more information call:
(757) 876-7817
SUMMER!
with Isle of Wight County Parks & Recreation
Summer Blast Summer Program
Carrollton & Windsor Elementary
Monday-Thursday-June 22-Aug13
1st-6th grade
Summer Blast Extended
Nike Park
Fridays June 26-Aug 14
1st-6th grade
Old McDonald’s Farm
Nike Park
July 20-23
Ages 3-5
Challenger Soccer Camp
Nike Park
British Soccer July 13-17, Aug 17-21
TetraBrazil Soccer Aug 3-7
For more information call TODAY!
757-357-2291
Southside
Ballet Studio, LLC
Barbie Ballerina˝
(Ages 3 - 6)
Summer Dance Camps!
July 6 - 10, 2015
9am - 12 Noon (Monday - Friday)
Summer Classes from:
July 6-August 16
S c h oo l of Pe r for m i n g
Classes by age and ability - from age 2-3 up to adult.
Ballet, Pointe, Tap, Jazz/Pom Pom, Tumble, Contemporary, HipHop, Turns/
Leaps, Polynesian, Creative Movements, Teacher Certification Class
Dance Day Camp: Offered every Thursday through the six week session.
Enjoy lessons in all subjects, games, crafts, and fun!!! Students should bring
a bag lunch.
Ballet Boot Camp: July 15th and August 5th - 9am - 1pm
Musical Theatre Camp: Taught through TADA: Learn acting, singing,
and dancing - Performance at the end of the summer.
Ask About Our National Award Winning
Competitive Dynamic Movements Dance Team!
Our instructors are from the Kirov Ballet, Miss Virginia Pageant,
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dance programs for college as well as winning many awards!
Join the Dynamic Movements Family Today!
Each day we will explore the world of dance with our Barbie dolls!
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REGISTER NOW at the studio by submitting your
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June 23 & 24, 4:30 - 7pm
For More Information Please Contact
Meredith Parks: [email protected]
Spaces are limited! Please reserve yours today! Sibling discount available.
Cristin Emrick
Photography
Dancing Through the Decades˝
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Each day we will journey through the decades!
Ballet, Lyrical, Jazz & Musical Theatre!
July 13 - 17, 2015
9am - 4pm (Monday - Thursday)
9am - 11:30am (Friday)
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obituaries
Obituaries are posted as received, complete with
visitation and funeral dates/times at:
www.smithfieldtimes.com
Ann Fulgham Gale
Ann Fulgham Gale, 87,
passed away peacefully at
home with loved ones near
her side. She was preceded
in death by her husband,
Jack M. Gale Jr. and a sister,
Virginia Holland of Windsor.
Born in Carrollton, Ann
attended Longwood College where she received
her teaching degree. She
returned to Smithfield and
taught business at Smithfield High School before settling into her 32-year career
as an elementary school
teacher. Ann taught at Isle
of Wight Academy, Hardy
Elementary and Carrsville
Elementary.
While she was active,
Ann enjoyed boating, fishing and was an avid sun
worshiper. But most of all,
spending time with her
family was her top priority.
She leaves behind to
cherish her memory three
children, Susan Gale Lutins
(Neil), Jack M. Gale III (Diana) and Catherine Gale
Minga (Mark); four grandchildren, Jonathan Gale
(Lisa), Daniel Gale (Amanda), Kyle Minga (Erin),
and Courtney Minga; one
great-grandchild, Roxie
Ann Minga; and her sister,
Margaret Allen Thomas.
Her life would not have been
as enriched without the
care of Dr. Alan Goldberg
and Dr. Glen Ross.
The family is grateful
that their mother was loved
by so many kind and compassionate neighbors and
friends, especially these last
years while mourning the
death of her beloved Jack.
Church anniversaries
Shiloh Baptist
Shiloh Baptist Church
will celebrate its annual
Choir Day May 2, 4 p.m. The
theme is “Enjoying Jesus
Through Songs And Praises.” Guests include Barbara
Green, Bro. Samuel Butler
Jr., Golden Keys, Sandy
Mount, Gilfield Baptist,
Kings Men of Tidewater,
Marvel Harper, Fresh Wind,
Bro. Tony Greene and Combined Voices of Zion.
Mt. Tabor C.O.G.I.C.
Mt. Tabor Usher Board’s
pre-anniversary service is
May 3, 3 p.m. with guests
Larry Russell Willis
SMALL BUSINESS
& INDIVIDUAL TAXATION
T. Craig Stallings, CPA
210 Main St., Smithfield, VA 23430
(757) 365-0200 phone
G1-091912
(757) 365-0111 fax
[email protected]
These Local Churches welcome you and
your family to weekly services
Good Shepherd Catholic Church
Central Hill Baptist Church
at Antioch Church. Jerry
was an avid fisherman who
liked to teach others his
fishing tips. He also enjoyed
being outdoors and riding motorcycles, especially
with his son, other family
and friends.
Jerry is now at rest, enjoying his eternal life with
his Lord and Savior. His
family is comforted by his
awesome testimony of faith
and his desire for everyone
to love one another. Jerry
did not look at death as a
time to say goodbye, but
rather, in his simple words,
“I’ll see you later.”
His funeral was held
April 27 at Antioch Church
with the Rev. Lindsay Poteat, the Rev. Mark Habecker, and Associate Pastor
Chris Cherry officiating.
The burial was in the Antioch Church cemetery.
It was Jerry’s wish for
donations to be made to Antioch Church Missions, P. O.
Box 36, Windsor, VA 23487 in
lieu of flowers. Condolences may be registered online
at www.parrfuneralhome.
com.
Frederick Godwin Sr.
James D. Kopotic
Specializing in
• See CHURCH, p. 7
Paul J. Garris Jr.
WINDSOR — Paul “Jerry” Jordan Garris Jr., 67,
born Nov. 18, 1947 to the late
Paul Jordan Garris Sr. and
Martha Savage Foster, lived
an abundant, faithful life
until he was called home to
Also the family thanks, in be with his heavenly Father,
her final months, the com- April 24, 2015.
Jerry is survived by Jupassionate care of Personal
Touch Hospice, a truly won- dith “Judy” Simpson Garris, his devoted wife of 46
derful organization.
A graveside service will years. He was blessed with
be held Thursday, April 30, a son and a daughter-in-law,
1 p.m. in Historic St. Luke’s Paul Jordan III and Sherry
Cemetery with the Rev. Garris, who brought joy to
Derrick Pringle officiating. him by having four wonderFriends and family are ful grandchildren, Kaylee,
invited for a time of fellow- Noah, Alivia and Jenna.
ship with the family from He is also survived by a
2-4 p.m. at the Smithfield sister and brother-in-law,
Jeanette and Hersey Pierce;
Station.
Memorial contributions brother Tom Foster and
can be made to Isle of Wight his wife, Jean; and brother
Volunteer Rescue Squad, Charles Foster and his wife,
PO Box 97, Smithfield, VA Mary Catherine. He was
23431-0097 or to Smithfield also blessed with several
Volunteer Fire Department, brothers-in-law and their
PO Box 117, Smithfield, VA wives, Bobby and Sandra
Simpson, Donnie and Sha23431-0117.
Service arrangements ron Simpson and the late
are in the care of Colo- Jimmy Simpson and his
nial Funeral Home, Smith- wife Becky. Jerry is also
field, Carrollton, Isle of survived by many nieces
Wight and the surrounding and nephews.
For many years, Jerry
communities. Family and
worked
hard to provide for
friends are encouraged to
share condolences and re- his family and was able to
membrances at colonialfu- retire after 43 years at Newneralhomesmithfield.com. port News Shipbuilding,
where he was an assistant
clerk and earned his status
as a master shipbuilder.
Jerry was known by his
grandchildren as PeepPop,
Larry Russell Willis, 72, several trips to Philmont to the children at Antioch
passed away on Monday, Scout Ranch in Cimmaron, Church as the Candy Man,
April 20. He was preceded N.M. He also attended many and to those at Tidewater
in death by his parents, National Scout Jamborees Motorcycles as the Onion
Russell A. and Ruth Burner and one World Jamboree.
Man; but, above all, he will
In addition to his scout- always be known as a child
Willis; brother, William E.
Willis, and sister, Carolyn ing activities, he was an of the King. He was a dedWillis Hawkins Costner.
active member of Windsor icated usher and member
Larry was born June 26, Congregational Christian of the Missions Committee
1942 in Harriman, Tenn. He Church, a life member of
grew up in Chase City and the Windsor Volunteer Fire
Hertford, N.C. and had re- Department, Windsor Rurisided in Windsor since 1966. tan Club, Purdie Masonic
Frederick “Fred” WarBest known for his love of Lodge #170 and the Sons of
ren Godwin Sr., 77, unexscouting, Larry had been Confederate Veterans.
Larry is survived by his pectedly passed away Tuesscoutmaster of Boy Scout
Troop 41 for 47 years. While wife of nearly 54 years, day, April 21, 2015 in Sentara
in scouting, he received Mary Lee Ward Willis; Norfolk General Hospital
many awards including the daughters, Cynthia “San- with his family by his side.
Council Award of Merit, dy” Craig (David) of Ches- Fred, also known as “Fat
Silver Beaver, Order of the apeake and Laurie Lee Rabbit” was an avid collecArrow Founders Award, Willman (Chuck) of Suf- tor of old crocks. He loved
God and Service Award, folk; six grandchildren, attending estate/antique
National Ruritan Scout Andrew Powell, Jacob sales every chance he could.
Leader Service Award, Craig (Megan), Joe Pow- Fred’s green thumb also
the Daniel Carter Beard ell (Leigh Anne), Logan showed in his yard work
Masonic Scouter Award Wright (Lexi), Emily Craig where he loved to spend
and the National Hall of and Hannah Willman, and his time.
Fred was preceded in
Leadership Award for the two great-granddaughters,
death
by his parents, James
Colonial Virginia Council Abigail and Emma Powell.
on the 100th anniversary of
Funeral services were D. Godwin Sr. and Allie
Boy Scouting. On his 40th held April 23 at Windsor Burch Godwin of Cofield,
anniversary as scoutmaster, Congregational Christian N.C.; his brothers and their
scouts and leaders of Troop Church in Windsor with wives, J. Dudley Godwin
41 renamed their meeting the Rev. John Falk, Pastor and wife, Dorothy, and Ivan
place “The Larry Willis Chuck Willman, and the R. Godwin and wife, Shirley.
Scout House.” One of his Rev. Basil Ballard offici- He leaves to cherish his
memory his loving wife
proudest accomplishments ating.
as scoutmaster was seeing
In lieu of flowers, memo- of 50 years, Kaye Turner
50 scouts ear n the rank rial donations may be made Godwin; son, Frederick
of Eagle, with his grand- to Boy Scout Troop 41, C/O “Rick” Warren Godwin Jr.;
sons being four of them. Bob Hall, 24212 John Henry daughter, Sherri Godwin
He enjoyed traveling with St., Windsor, VA 23487 to be Thompson and husband,
the scouts and had partic- used toward scouts attend- Ricky; grandson and apple
ipated in programs in all ing summer camp. Condo- of his eye, Zachary Cole
but one of the BSA High lences may be registered at Thompson; sisters, Edna
Godwin Groening and husAdventure Bases, including RWBakerFH.com.
band, Bill ,and Betty Godwin Levesque and husband,
Roland.
A celebration of Fred’s
K N OX V I L L E T E N N. Thursday, April 30.
life
was held April 24 in
— James David Kopotic,
The family will receive Smithfield Baptist Church
59, passed away on Friday,
friends at the church from with the Rev. Dr. Donald
April 24, 2015, after a two5 -7 p.m. on Thursday, pre- Rhoton and the Rev. O. H.
year battle with pancreatic
ceding the service.
Burton officiating. Burial
cancer. He was a resident
of Knoxville, Tenn.
Jim is survived by his
wife, Barbara Lane Kopotic,
formerly of Smithfield; his
mother-in-law, Jean Horne
Duncan; and his sister-inlaw and her husband, Susan
and David Maltby.
He is also survived by
his daughters, Lauren
(Dustin) and Kristen; his
step-daughters, Lauren and
Erin (Grant); his mother,
Betty Whaley; brothers,
John and Michael; sister,
Kim, and numerous nieces
and nephews.
STALLINGS &
ASSOCIATES, P.C.
Mt. Nebo Church and Dr.
Baltimore.
Greater Dimensions
Greater Dimensions
Ministries will have a community tag sale from 8 a.m.
to noon Saturday, May 2, at
1589 Bridge Road, Suffolk.
Items for sale include clothing, baby items, electronics
and more. For additional
information, call 371-5901
or 303-8740.
Solomon’s Temple
Solomon’s Temple will
celebrate Women’s Day
300 Smithfield Blvd., Smithfield
Sat. Vigil Mass 5pm; Sun, Mass 9am
Weekday Mass: Tues & Thu at noon,
Wed at 6:30pm Fri at 9am,
Phone: 365-0579 Fax: 757-365-4749
Pastor: Fr. Oscar . Paraiso
email: [email protected]
www.cgsparish.org
10270 Central Hill Rd, Windsor 357-2225
Rev. Roger Johnson, Pastor
Parsonage 757-539-7759
Sun School 10am, Sun Worship 11am
Wed Bible Study & Prayer Meeting 7pm
1/16
Healing Waters Worship Center Hope Presbyterian Church
12/15
12172 Smith’s Neck Rd, Carrollton, VA
356-1515; www.hwwcnow.com
Pastor William M. McCart, Senior Pastor
Sunday am Worship 9 & 11am w kid’s church
Wednesday worship 7pm & Bible study
with Girsl Club & Royal Rangers
Nursery available for all services
12/15
A Reformed PCA Church
259 James Street
Luter YMCA
Worship: 9:30 am
www.hopepca.com
Pastor George Boomer, 771-2243
Mill Swamp Baptist Church
Sandy Mount Baptist Church
2/15
6329 Mill Swamp Rd, Ivor, VA; 357-2575 16091 Scott’s Factory Rd, Smithfield
Church School - 9:00-9:45am
Sunday: Sun. Sch. 9:30am, Worship 10:45am,
Prayer & Praise - 10-10:15 am
5:50-7:30 p.m. AWANA for children and WORD OF Worship Service 10:15 am
LIFE for teens, bible studies for adults 5:30-7:30.
Bible Study - 2nd & 4th Wed. @7pm
Wednesday 6:00-7:30 p.m. “THE LOFT” children’s Office Hours - 2-5 pm
program, bible studies.
12/15
12/15 Rev. Dr.Bobby L. Taylor Pastor
Calvary Baptist Church
Joy Church
15155Turner Drive, Smithfield,VA 23430
Pastor Dan E. Gray Phone: 357-5718
“A Church Home for Your Family”
Sunday: 8:30 am; 11 am; 6:30 pm
Sunday School: 10:00 am
Wednesday Bible Study, Prayer Mtg. &
Children’s Ministry @ 7 pm
2/16
For Worship Service Hours
see web address: www.smithfieldjoy.com
Rev. Dr. Bryan Brooks - Senior Pastor
Offers Professional Pastoral Counseling
Adding Joy in a complicated world.
Main Office: 320 Grace St., Smithfield, VA
1/16
757-542-3070
Trinity United Methodist Church
Smithfield Baptist Church
100 Wainwright Dr., Smithfield, 357-2536
Sun. Sch. 9:40am/Worship 8:30am & 11am
Wed, 5:15 Cherub Choir, 5:30 Dinner,
6:30 Bible Studies & Missions,
7:30 Adult Choir, 7:30 Children’s Choir
Dr. Donald R. Rhoton, Pastor
[email protected]
1/16
201 Cedar St.,
Sunday School 9:30
Worship 8:30 & 11am,
9:30am Rivers of Life
357-3659
12/15
Benn’s United Methodist Church Christ Episcopal Church
111 S. Church St., Corner Church & Main
Sunday Services 8:30 and 11:00am
Sunday School 9:45am
9AM - Contemporary Service
10AM - Christian Education
11AM - Traditional Service
Rev. Derek Pringle, Rector
Rev. O.H. Burton, Jr., Ph. 357-3373
Bennsumc@yahoo,com
1/16
6/15
Bethany Presbyterian Church
Woodland United Methodist Church
20051 Orbit Rd. Windsor, VA 23487
Traditional Worship Service 9:30AM
Sunday School 10:45AM
Rev. Mandy Newman
(757) 357-7499
5358 Zuni Circle, Zuni, Va. 23898
Sunday School 9:30am
Worship 10:30am
Rev. Dr. Steven Frazier, Pastor
5/15
www.bethanyzuni.org
8/15
Be At Home Community of Believers
15042 Carrollton Blvd , Ste K
Carrollton, Virginia 23314
Sunday Worship Celebration: 10:15 am
Wednesday Word Revelation: 7:00 pm
3rd Friday: Family & Youth Night: 7–9:00pm
4th Sunday: Family and Friends Day:
Pastor Ricky B. Wamble
757-603-1790 [email protected]
Oakland Christian United Church of Christ
9/15
(757) 255-4353 Rev. Greg Ryan,M.Div.,M.A.
([email protected])
Services: Sunday at 8:45am and 11am
Sunday School (all ages) 10am
www.Oaklanducc.com
8/15
Smithfield Assembly of God Church Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
followed in St. Luke’s Memorial Park.
Memorial contributions can be made to the
Isle of Wight Volunteer
Rescue Squad, PO Box 97,
Smithfield, VA 23431-0097,
to Benn’s United Methodist Church, 14571 Benn’s
Church Blvd., Smithfield,
VA 23430 or to Smithfield
Baptist Church, 100 Wainwright Drive., Smithfield,
VA 23430.
Service arrangements
are in the care of Colonial Funeral Home, Carrollton, Smithfield, Isle of
Wight and the surrounding
communities. Family and
friends are encouraged to
share condolences and remembrances at colonialfu-
1800 South Church Street, Smithfield 357-5539
Sunday Sch. 9:45am
Worship Service 11:00
amWednesday Evening (including Children’s
Services) 7:00pm
12/15
Donald E. Watkins, Pastor
Sunday Sacrament Service -- 11AM
Sunday School -- 12:15PM
Young Men & Women -- Wednesday 7PM
Bishop Paul Stoecker -- 757-621-8091
Carrollton Holiness Church
10/15
16144 Carrollton Blvd, Carrollton, VA 23314 Phone: 757-238-8866
Sunday School 10:10 am; Worship Service/Children’s Church 11:00 am; 6:30 pm
Food Box Dist by appointment Mon-Wed 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Free Hot Meals 2nd Monday, Red Oaks Mobile Home Park 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Free Hot Meals 4th Monday, Jersey Park Appartments. 2:30 - 4:30 pm
3/16
Words of Encouragment
“As we continue to walk by faith
and act by faith, we embark on a
Christian journey in a manner that
will be pleasing in the eyes of Our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
May you continue to be blessed
and filled with the Holy Spirit.”
St. Luke’s Memorial Park Cemetery
Spring Cleanup
Brought to you by:
Rev. Dr. Bobby L. Taylor,
Pastor Sandy Mount
Mount Baptist Church
will take place on friday, may 1st
A funeral will be held at
Central United Methodist
Church in Knoxville on
G1-061913
Call 757-357-3288
to obtain info on how to
include your church and/or
pastor in the Have Faith and
Words of Encouragement sections
ISLE
ISLE2040
Timeline
Fall 2014 — ISLE2040 revealed to the public.
Early 2015 — VDOT puts Isle of Wight in
its database to submit its comprehensive plan
amendments as part of ISLE2040.
Jan. 27 — The Isle of Wight Planning Commission recommends approval of the comprehensive plan amendments.
Feb. 24 — The Isle of Wight Planning Commission recommends approval of corresponding ordinances for ISLE2040.
March 19 — The Board of Supervisors held
a public hearing on the comp plan changes and
ordinances as part of ISLE2040. A vote was
tabled until further public input was received.
April 10 — The Smithfield Times asked
VDOT if Isle of Wight had submitted its comp
plan changes in accordance with 15.2-2222.1 of
the Code of Virginia. VDOT responded the same
day that the county had not submitted the plans
although expected in early 2015. The Smithfield
Times also asked Isle of Wight Countyif it had
submitted the plans to VDOT.
April 11 — VDOT called Isle of Wight and
told the staff that it must submit the comp plan
changes.
April 20 — Isle of Wight County responded
to The Smithfield Times stating VDOT said
it wasn’t necessary but then changed its
mind.
April 21 — Isle of Wight hand delivered
the comp plan changes to VDOT.
Church
• Continued from . 6
on Sunday, May 10, 9 a.m.
Guest Minister Cynthia
Simmons will deliver the
service. On Sunday, May
17, 9 a.m., the church will
celebrate Ministry Day.
Elder Andre Williams, from
District Heights, Md., will
lead the service.
First Gravel Baptist
First Gravel Baptist
Church will hold its Women’s Day Celebration Sun-
day, May 3, 10:50 a.m. The
special guest is the Rev. Pamela McLaughlin, of Mount
Olivet Baptist Church in
Petersburg.
Pentecostal Holiness
Pentecostal Holiness
Church of God, 304 East
St., Smithfield will celebrate Women’s Day Sunday,
May 3, at 3 p.m. Minister
Vera Moody, of Angel View
Baptist Church in New Kent
County, will be the guest
speaker.
inquiry, VDOT called Isle
of Wight April 11 and told
the county that it needed
to submit the comp plan
changes, Simmons said.
“We were expecting it,”
Simmons said, adding that
the county thought it didn’t
need to submit the plan because it was changes to the
land use map.
Isle of Wight spokesman
Don Robertson responded
to The Smithfield Times on
April 20, stating that the
county was initially told
that it wasn’t necessary to
send the comp plan changes, but that VDOT had since
changed its mind and stated
it is now necessary.
At issue is Route 17,
which runs through the
Newport DSD, and is considered a corridor of major
significance in VTrans,
Simmons said.
That said, the comp plan
changes as part of ISLE2040
would have to be consistent
with VTrans, VDOT’s sixyear improvement plan and
the Commonwealth Transportation Board’s location
of routes, Simmons said.
Isle of Wight County
hand-delivered the comp
plan changes to VDOT on
April 21, Simmons said.
Once VDOT obtains the
documents, it has up to
90 days to comment and
return the plans to Isle of
Wight County. Isle of Wight
must then create its final
locality plan and resubmit
it to VDOT for review, as
well as notify the CTB of
any inconsistencies, Simmons said.
Isle of Wight is hosting
a public meeting May 11,
6-9 p.m. at The Smithfield
Center to allow residents
an opportunity to comment
further on ISLE2040.
ISLE2040
ISLE2040, which stands
for “Inventive Solutions for
a Livable Environment,”
was unveiled last fall as
a way for Isle of Wight
County to accommodate the
27,000 people that the Hampton Roads Planning District
Commission predicts are
coming here — no matter
what the county does —
over the next 25 years. It is
also seen by county staff as
a way to corral the growing
population in one area of
the county while retaining
the agricultural and bucolic
nature of the rest of Isle
of Wight. ISLE2040 was
also touted as a solution
Bridge replacement
The Virginia Department of Transportation
(VDOT) wants to aler t
drivers in Isle of Wight
County to possible traffic
impacts associated with
replacement of the Route
602 (Longview Drive) bridge
at Pagan Creek. The bridge
will close to traffic on May
4, 2015, and will remain
closed during the 6-month
construction project.
Crews will be replacing
the existing bridge using
18” pre-stressed concrete
slab spans. The new bridge
will be 28 feet wide and 31
feet long, and the work will
include improvements to
the roadway and railings.
Traffic will be detoured
during construction, but access will remain for proper-
ty owners who live nearby.
Detour signs will be posted
along the roadside for drivers to follow.
•From the north heading
south:
Take Route 644 (Bowling
Green Road), and turn left
onto Route 654 (Carroll
Bridge Road). Once you
get to Route 600 (Woodland
Drive), tur n left, which
takes you back to Route 602
(Longview Drive).
•From the south heading
north:
Take Route 600 (Woodland Drive) and make a
right at Route 654 (Carroll
Bridge Road). Once you get
to Route 644 (Bowling Green
Road), make a right, which
takes you back to Route 602
(Longview Drive).
to the burgeoning cost of
the Norfolk water deal by
adding more paying water
customers, and as a way
to entice more retail and
commercial growth.
Examples of the end result of ISLE 2040 presented
by county staff include
Peninsula Town Center,
Harborview and City Center in Newport News.
Comments
Residents will have
a chance to comment
further on the ISLE
2040 plan at a work session Monday, May 11,
6-9 p.m. at The Smithfield Center.
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Ladies Auxiliary
Pancake Breakfast
May 2nd 7am-11am
At Smithfield Fire Department
1804 South Church Street Smithfield, VA 23430
• Pancakes • Sausage
• Apples • Coffee
• Orange Juice
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All proceeds will go to help support the
Smithfield Volunteer Fire Department and the community.
Please contact Jennifer if you have any questions:
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Cell:
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Have You Heard:
“ Advice is what we ask for when we
already know the answer but
wish we didn’t.”
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Tyler’s
last year — were unsuccessful.
Sheriff Mark Marshall said
the tensions seemed to have
more to do with an individual, Frank “Frankie” Allen,
who is white, than being
racial in origin.
Allen’s name did come
up when Jones spoke to the
supervisors, and later, in an
interview, although Jones
insisted it wasn’t about the
man.
Jones complained that
the county allowed Allen to
live in its shed, and that he
had even cut a hole in it to
escape detection when the
beach was patrolled.
Allen denied cutting a
hole in the shed and was
told by the county that he
had several days to vacate
it.
“They’re using me as a
scapegoat,” said Allen of
the black watermen.
Allen also said the tensions started to rise after
the county proposed hiring
a park ranger and setting
new fees.
A quick inspection of
the county-owned shed revealed that a hole had been
cut in the back, but it has
since been closed. The shed
is now empty and has a “No
Trespassing” sign tacked
on it.
Allen also denied living
at Tyler’s Beach, but a report from the Isle of Wight
General District Court
lists him as homeless and
then living variously in
Surry, Smithfield and Carrollton in the complaints
and charged with multiple
counts of public swearing
and intoxication and drink-
ing alcohol in public since
2005. All of the fines and
fees related to those charges
remain unpaid.
The only recourse the
courts have is suspending
a person’s driver’s license
when they don’t pay their
fines on low-level misdemeanors, said Isle of Wight
General District Court
Clerk Keith Daniel.
Allen was encountered
w a l k i n g a l o n g T y l e r ’s
Beach Road recently, stating
he was on his way to a job.
The conflict between the
black watermen and Allen
came to a head Thursday
when another waterman,
Cornelius Drew, said he was
attacked by Allen’s dog.
Drew said the dog ripped
his pants leg, but he was
able to push him away before it broke his skin. Drew
said it was the second time
the dog had attacked him.
The water men called
Animal Control, which told
Allen he had 10 days to get
the dog its rabies shots.
The watermen were angry that the county didn’t
take the dog and put it in
quarantine. To them, it was
a case of a white person
receiving differential treatment, Jones said.
Marshall said it’s customary procedure to give
dog owners 10 days to get a
rabies shot if the skin is not
broken. However, if the second attack can be verified,
the dog will be seized and
quarantined.
That same day, Allen
received his ninth public swearing/intoxication/
drinking in public charge.
With that, Marshall went
to County Attorney Mark
Popovich and Isle of Wight
County Parks and Recre-
ation and asked that the
county ban Allen from Tyler’s Beach.
“It’s a persistent, recurring problem,” Marshall
said.
The county agreed and
the ban was issued April 24.
Allen was given one hour to
leave, Marshall said.
Marshall said that deputies will continue to patrol
Tyler’s Beach and if Allen
is found there, he will be
arrested for trespassing — a
class one misdemeanor that
carries a jail sentence of up
to one year.
Jones is glad Allen is off
the beach, but he still has
issues with black people
seemingly treated differently by the county than white
people.
He also believes Allen
was being used as a “snitch”
for the county after Isle of
Wight proposed the new
fees and other changes.
Marshall said the idea
of Allen being a snitch for
the Sheriff ’s Office or the
county was “completely
ridiculous.”
Tyler’s Beach boat harbor dates back to the 1960s
and is considered a “critical harbor of refuge,” or
a place for boaters to seek
safety and avoid hazardous
conditions on the James
River. The harbor is used
by commercial watermen
as well as recreational boaters.
Recently, county officials
have dubbed Tyler’s Beach
a “liability” due to various
behaviors, such as people
living on their boats, disorderly conduct and more.
Those incidents led county
officials to propose changes
last year, such as adding a
park ranger.
mine Saub’s motive and the
couple’s reason for visiting
Florida.
Marshall said the case
remains a “very active investigation,” with Saub’s
criminal history playing a
role in unraveling the details of the crime.
“Because of the level of
his extensive fraudulent
enterprises, and there were
many, there are a number
of different theories,” said
Marshall.
Marshall also does notknow the extent of Smith’s
knowledge of Saub’s criminal background and fraudulent activity.
In 2007, a Deschutes
County, Oregon. judge sentenced Saub to three years
in prison for stealing more
than $50,000 worth of TVs,
computers and computer
software from Best Buy,
according to a news report
in The Bulletin in Bend,
Oregon.
Saub, a 21-year-old Best
Buy employee at the time,
filled out a purchase order
for a phony company, loaded the items into a U-Haul
truck and delivered them
to his own home.
Saub had also admitted
to using fake checks to buy
several ATVs, make car
payments and get cash withdrawals, and said he did so
to feel better about getting
rejected by the U.S. military,
according to The Bulletin.
Saub’s defense attorney
Thomas Hill had said Saub
suffered from mental health
issues, and a doctor had
testified he might suffer
from “delusional disorder, self-mutilation, severe
suicidal depression and ‘a
loss of personal identity’,”
In December 2012, Saub,
then 26, was charged with
eight counts of first-degree
theft and nine counts of
identity theft, after he reportedly created fake paychecks for businesses and
had people cash them in exchange for cigarettes, methamphetamine and cash,
The outcome of those
charges was not available
by press time.
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Charged
On April 20, Saub was
arrested on one count of
identity theft, three counts
of credit card forgery and
three counts of using a false
statement to obtain credit.
Saub was a tenant of
Mary Hawalka, Smith’s
80-year-old grandmother,
who resides at 15 Patriot
Crescent.
He allegedly used Hawalka’s information to obtain
bank accounts and credit
cards in her name.
In the days leading up
to Smith’s death, Saub and
Smith had visited Florida.
They returned April 15,
the same day Marshall believes Saub killed Smith off
Hatcher’s Lane.
Marshall said deputies
are still working to deter-
Found
came from,” he said.
So far, no one from the
Smithfield area has identified the couple.
On Friday, the Sheriff ’s
Office posted a notice its
Facebook page and by Monday morning, it had more
than 44,000 views.
Some commenters sug-
gested one of the aforementioned pictures appears to
show Shirley Heights Lookout in Antigua, suggesting
the couple could have taken
a cruise or owned a personal yacht.
“I’d just like to find the
owners and give the card
back to them,” he said.
Anyone with information can call the Sheriff ’s
Office at 365-2151.
Conservation deadline
The 2014 Farm Bill requires producers to file
a Highly Erodible Land
Conservation and Wetland
Conservation Certification
form (AD-1026) with their
local USDA service center
by June 1, 2015 in order to
become or remain eligible
for crop insurance premium support.
Most farmers already
have a certification form
on file since it’s required
for participation in most
USDA programs such as
marketing assistance loans,
farm storage facility loans
and disaster assistance.
However farmers, such as
specialty crop growers who
receive federal crop insurance premium support, but
may not participate in other
USDA programs, also must
now file a certification form
to maintain their crop insurance premium support.
Producers should visit
their local USDA service
center and talk with their
crop insurance agent before
the June 1 deadline to ask
questions, get additional
information or learn more
about conservation compliance procedures.
Producers who file their
form by the deadline will be
eligible for federal crop insurance premium support
during the 2016 reinsurance
year, which begins July, 1,
2015.
USDA will publish a rule
outlining the linkage of
conservation compliance
with federal crop insurance
premium support. Go to
http://go.usa.gov/3Wy5J
to view a copy of the rule.
The Highly Erodible
Land Conservation and
Wetland Conservation Certification form is available
at local USDA service center or online at www.fsa.
usda.gov/AD1026form.
Accepted by
governor’s
art school
Lauren Leazer, 14, of
Smithfield has been accepted by Governor’s School for
the Arts in Norfolk. Leazer
will have the opportunity to
train in the areas of ballet,
modern, jazz, dance composition, character, pointe,
Pilates and partnering.
Leazer studies dance at
Southside Ballet Studio in
Smithfield under the direction of Meredith S. Parks.
www.pdc.edu/getstarted
Panel discusses local race relations
By Diana McFarland
News editor
The Rev. Dr. James Harrison said he was late to
the race relations panel
last week because he was
looking for a hoodie to wear
to the meeting.
Harrison, who emphasized that he is a black man,
said he wanted to make a
point about the trappings
and stereotypes that people
respond to — and that create
barriers to understanding
between the races. Hoodies
have become an article of
clothing often associated
with crime. Hoodies also became linked with the black
teenager, Trayvon Martin,
who was killed by a white
George Zimmerman, who
in turn was then acquitted
of a murder charge.
Unfortunately Harrison’s son didn’t have a plain
hoodie — just hoodies with
college names printed on
them. So he stuck with a
suit and tie.
Harrison was one of
seven panelists on hand to
discuss the state of race
relations in Isle of Wight
County. The event was
hosted by the Isle of Wight
Chapter of the NAACP, The
Smithfield Times and the
town of Smithfield.
Other panelists includ-
ed Smithfield High School
student and School Board
liaison Donaghvan Brown,
Isle of Wight County Sheriff
Mark Marshall, the Rev. Alexander Bracey III of First
Gravel Hill Baptist Church,
Harrison of Main Street
Baptist Church, Smithfield
Police Chief Steve Bowman,
Norfolk State political science professor Dr. Carol
Pretlow and Dr. Phil Jepson, executive director of
human resources of Isle of
Wight County Schools.
Marshall and Bowman
talked about law enforcement and its prominence
in the news these days with
the repeated shootings and
deaths of unarmed black
men at the hands of police
officers.
Marshall said that although his agency works
hard to set high standards,
he realizes local officers
often get painted with the
same brush as those in
departments that don’t.
Marshall and Bowman said
the solution begins with
hiring the right people and
concentrating on improving interactions between
officers and residents one
encounter at a time.
“If we don’t have the
trust, if we don’t have the
engagement … we are dead
in the water,” Marshall said.
Bowman agreed. Once
the respect is gone, “we’re
lost,” he said.
Bowman said his force
demographically mirrors
the community it serves.
Pretlow said police have
stopped her after crossing
the street in Norfolk and
it was a worrisome experience due to images of police
officers that she’s seen.
Whether people like it
or not, there’s an aspect of
bias, she said.
Bracey said that if racial
issues in the community
are not dealt with at the
beginning then it becomes
a problem and “obviously,
it blows up.”
Jepson said good race
relations begin with young
children being taught to
be respectful and to treat
everyone the right way. He
said the school system was
the most integrated system he could think of, and
he was encouraged by his
grandchildren not referring
to people by color but by
their names.
“That’s saying we have
some hope,” he said.
Harrison wondered if
race relations have improved since the civil rights
movement of the 1960s. He
pointed out the time President Barack Obama was
called a “liar” by a member
of Congress on national
television while discussing
health care reform.
“That would have never happened with a white
president … I’ve never seen
such disrespect,” he said.
Harrison also said
Southeast Virginia remains
more segregated than the
western part of the state,
where he used to live. Out
there, there were fewer
blacks, which resulted more
integration, he said.
Brown said good race
relations begin with good
parenting. He was taught
to say “yes ma’am and yes
sir’ and that goes a long
way when interacting with
the public.
Brown got a laugh when
he advised parents to “ask
for help” if they don’t know
all the answers to parenting.
L a Wa n d a B r ow n ,
Brown’s mother and a member of the audience, said
building a rapport is a key
to better results.
“Let’s get out together
and build rapport,” she
said.
Harrison said opportunities begin when people
can acknowledge each other’s color because there’s
nothing you can do about it
anyway. There’s a problem
when people try to view the
world without color.
“There is color,” he said.
“Acknowledge differences and celebrate them with
each other.”
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Smithfield Sprint
Staff photo by Abby Proch
Stone Dyson, 18, of Richmond, foregoes putting his feet into his pedal
straps to get a strong start to the biking leg of the Smithfield Sprint
April 18. Dyson finished first in the triathlon with a time of 46 minutes
34 seconds. Nicole Hennessey, 26, of Newport News, was the first
female finisher with a time of 53:52, and the top-placing Smithfield
resident, Arthur Mathisen, 44, finished in third place with a time of
48:55.
Hampton Roads cargo
handling surges
NORFOLK (AP) — The
Port of Virginia has rebounded from February
storms that reduced container volume, setting a single-month record in March.
The port moved 229,410
containers, a 16 percent
increase from March 2014.
Some of the increase was
due to postponing the entry
of nearly 7,000 containers
from February to March,
the Virginia Port Authority
told media outlets.
Container volume had
fallen by 1 percent in February after two storms shut
down the port’s operations
for nearly four days.
March’s record volume
wasn’t all good news, however.
“That amount of volume, some of which was
carried over from February,
presented a challenge to
our team at every phase
of the operation,” John
Reinhart, executive director
and CEO of the authority,
said in a statement to media
outlets. “It was most acute
at Virginia International
Gateway (V16), where our
operational consistency
was overtaken by sheer
TEU volume. Our delivery
of service at the VIG gate
for the first three weeks of
March was unacceptable.”
Truck container volume
increased in March by 11.3
percent, from 194,433 containers in March 2014 to
216,469. The port’s rail container business increased
by 16.7 percent, from 37,972
in March 2014 to 44.274.
“We understand the
hardship this period put on
our motor carriers and customers and we are grateful
for their patience through
what has been a very difficult period,” Reinhart said.
Chestnut returns
ORANGE (AP) — An
American chestnut seedling
that potentially is resistant
to blight will be planted at
Montpelier.
The ceremonial planting
will be held Friday behind
the visitor center at President James Madison’s estate in Orange.
The planting will honor Tom Dierauf, retired
director of research at the
Virginia Department of
Forestry.
The Virginia chapter
of the American Chestnut
Foundation says Dierauf
is a leading woodlands expert who spent much of his
career working to develop
a chestnut tree that’s resistant to disease.
The foundation is leading an effort to restore the
American chestnut to the
nation’s eastern forests. A
blight wiped out most of
the trees in the early 20 th
century.
Last year, a dozen potentially blight-resistant
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School Board has selected seven superintendent
candidates and will interview them in closed session
through May 6.
The School Board is looking to replace outgoing
Superintendent Dr. Katrise
Perera, who will resign
June 30 to relocate closer
to family.
The School Board received 34 full applications,
and of those, 25 were from
men and nine came from
women.
The applicants reside in
various localities, with 16
being from Virginia and 18
from out of state.
Five of those out-of-state
applicants hail from North
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Washington, D.C.
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Carolina, Massachusetts,
Michigan, New York, West
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In its job posting, the
School Board explicitly
stated it wanted someone
familiar with and committed to living in Isle of Wight
County.
The Board did not disclose whether any of those
who applied are already Isle
of Wight County Schools
employees, though it did
share that information in
the 2011 search.
“We have released as
much infor mation as
deemed appropriate in an
effort to be as informative
and transparent about the
superintendent search as
possible, while also ensuring the integrity of the
selection process as well
as respecting the privacy of
all applicants,” said schools
spokeswoman Kenita Bowers.
According to the job post,
the Board also prefers someone with an earned doctorate; experience working as
a superintendent, assistant
superintendent or central
office administrator; and
teaching experience — preferably in Virginia.
The applicants’ professional experiences vary,
with seven being current
or former superintendents
and 10 are assistant, associate or deputy superintendents.
Twelve are central office
administrators, two are
principal/building level
administrators and the remaining three identified
themselves as having other
professional titles.
Four years a go, the
School Board entered a
superintendent search to
replace retiring superintendent Dr. Michael McPherson.
During that search, in
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was ultimately hired, the
School Board received 29
applications, with the overwhelming majority of applicants coming from Virginia
residents.
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though she applied from
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three finalists made it to the
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The Smithfield Times
Second Front
April 29, 2015
Community
calendar
Timeline
for a
highway
Wednesday, April 29
HISTORICAL SOCIETY—The Isle of
Wight County Historical Society will
host a membership meeting and
program, “Searching for Powhatan
at Werowocomoco,” on Wednesday,
April 29, 6:30 p.m. at Benns United
Methodist Church. Randolph
Turner is the guest speaker. For
information, call 357-2173 or email
[email protected].
FOOD TASTING—The Isle of Wight
Chamber of Commerce is hosting
“Flavors,” a scholarship fundraiser,
on Wednesday, April 29, 6 p.m. at
The Smithfield Center. Tickets are
$25 per person, with proceeds
benefitting scholarships awarded
by the Isle of Wight Community
Foundation. For information, call
357-3502.
Thursday, April 30
PRODUCERS—The Smithfield Little
Theatre’s presentation of “The
Producers,” a musical comedy
directed by Peter Natale, opens
Thursday, April 30 and runs
through Sunday, May 17. Shows are
Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.,
Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.;
and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Purchase
tickets at www.smithfieldlittletheatre.
org or by calling 357-7338.
Friday, May 1
CRUZ-IN—The Colonial Corvette Club
and the Williamsburg British Car
Club are featured at the Lions Club
Cruz-In on Friday, May 1, 6 – 9 p.m.,
at Sentara St. Luke’s Medical Center.
People showing cars will be charged
$2 donations. There is no charge for
spectators.
YARD SALE—A yard sale to benefit
the golden retriever rescue is being
held Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, 8
a.m. to 2 p.m. at 49 Nelson Maine in
Carrollton. Proceeds benefit the SEVA
GRREAT, which provides medical
treatment for abandoned golden
retrievers.
Saturday, May 2
YARD SALE—Carisbrooke is holding a
community yard sale Saturday, May
2, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. to benefit the
Carisbrooke Pool Fund. Items will be
available at homes throughout the
community off Route 17, one mile
south of the James River Bridge. Call
238-2115 for information about pool
membership.
ART,FLORAL SHOW—The Historic
Wakefield Foundation’s 28th annual
Flower and Art Show will run from
Saturday, May 2 to Friday, May 15.
Each of the artworks exhibited
will be accompanied by a floral
arrangement. The opening reception
gala will be from 7-9 p.m. May 2 and
will feature heavy hors-d’oeuvres and
musical entertainment. Admission is
$10 at the door. The exhibit will be
open from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday,
May 3.
FUND DRIVE—The Isle of Wight
Volunteer Rescue Squad Auxiliary
will hold its annual Bucket Fund
Drive Saturday, May 2, 9:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. at the entrance to Farm
Fresh, Smithfield. The auxiliary will
collect donations at the same site on
Saturday, May 9 and Saturday, May
16. Donations may also be mailed
to IOWVRS Auxiliary, P. O. Box 209,
Smithfield, VA 23431. Info: 3574612.
HORSE TRAINING—Gwaltney
Frontier Farm, a non-profit breed
conservation corporation, will
host the “Introduction to Natural
Horsemanship” program beginning
Saturday, May 2, 1 – 3 p.m. and
running for the next three Saturday
afternoons at Mill Swamp Indian
Horses outside of Smithfield.
Participants will learn how to gently
tame and train horses. There will
be opportunities for direct handson work with horses but no riding.
The horses used in the program are
historic colonial Spanish horses that
are on the brink of extinction. The
cost is $35 per person and sessions
are limited to 20 people. Info:
[email protected].
BREAKFAST—The Smithfield
Volunteer Fire Department Ladies
Auxiliary is hosting a pancake
breakfast Saturday, May 2, 7 – 11
• See CALENDAR p. 12
Page 11
1930 - 1950
Route 460 was built between
Petersburg and Suffolk to parallel the Norfolk and Western
(later Norfolk Southern) railroad.
1990s
Route 460 was part of a
national study to create a new
roadway corridor in West Virginia and Virginia.
Windsor farmer Billy Gwaltney overlooks one of the swamps on his property that may be
affected by Route 460.
More than 10 years and counting
Uncertainty persists
for Route 460
By Diana McFarland
News editor
WINDSOR — A decade ago,
residents of the Mill Swamp
neighborhood in Zuni faced the
possible loss of their homes due
to the realignment of Route 460.
Today it’s the residents of Deer
Path Trail, among others, facing
the same potential fate — this
time for another alignment of the
same highway. However, despite
the time that has passed, a decision whether or not to build the
road has not been finalized, and
may not for at least another year.
“It’s affected the people of our
region for many years, since early
2000, and it’s still ongoing,” said
Windsor Mayor Rita Richardson.
“It breaks our hearts that our
citizens and residents have had to
go though this,” she said.
Last week, workers with several state and federal agencies
walked through fields, forests,
wetlands and swamps in Windsor
measuring and marking with
pink plastic ribbon the preferred
alternative for Route 460. The
proposed bypass is expected to
run north of Windsor and the
existing Route 460, impacting
farms as well as homes and other
buildings, including Maranatha
Southern Baptist Church.
Bob and Beverly Parsons, who
own Windsor Pharmacy but also
live along Deer Path Trail, came
home last week to find pink tape
in their backyard. Bob said he
didn’t even know what it was until
told by a neighbor.
The pink tape signified the potential route of the bypass around
Windsor.
Already the uncertainty about
the road is taking a toll, Bob said.
Not knowing what’s going to
happen is difficult, he added.
Buddy Pierce is a member
of Maranatha Southern Baptist
Church, also located on Deer Path
Trail. The church has been active
since 1975.
With the church building seemingly in the cross-hairs of the
proposed Route 460 bypass around
Windsor, church members are
already looking for another piece
of land.
It’s not easy to buy land, Pierce
said.
“I’m just hoping it doesn’t
come,” he said.
Uncertainty about the Route
460 project persists despite being
in the works since about 2000.
Plans for an entirely new 55mile limited access road from
Petersburg to Suffolk running
south of the existing Route 460
were cancelled last year due to
Town circulating petition
By Diana McFarland
News editor
WINDSOR — At the urging
of residents, Windsor Mayor
Rita Richardson has crafted a
petition opposing the proposed
northern bypass for Route 460.
The petition is being circulated around town and is available
at the town office for residents
to sign, Richardson said.
Once completed, the petition will be sent to a variety of
concerned groups, government
agencies and elected officials,
Richardson said.
“It’s going to get distributed
as widely as we think will help
us.”
The petition lists several
objections to the preferred alternative— as it is called by VDOT
— including potential adverse
effects of a long bridge across
Lake Prince, which provides
drinking water to neighboring
localities.
The preferred alternative
calls for a northern four-lane
bypass around the town of
Windsor, beginning at the Isle
high wetlands impacts. Soon after,
it was revealed the state continued to pursue the project despite
failing to obtain the necessary
permits from the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers. Those changes
eventually led to the selection
of the preferred alternative. The
newest route runs 17 miles from
the Route 58/460 interchange in
Suffolk to west of Zuni — but
progress was again recently
slowed due to VDOT cancelling
its contract with the contractor,
of Wight-Suffolk line and reconnecting again west of the town.
The improvements stretch for
17 miles from the Route 58/460
interchange in Suffolk to just
west of Zuni. A bridge will be
built in Zuni at the Blackwater
River to alleviate long-standing
flooding problems in the area.
The preferred alternative
is expected to provide a more
efficient hurricane evacuation
route, increase safety by separating local and regional traffic,
as well as increasing capacity
for truck traffic from the Port
of Virginia.
Windsor officials oppose the
alternative because of its impact on businesses, residences
and farms, as well as runoff
concerns and the Chesapeake
Bay. Isle of Wight County is
working with state officials to
obtain access to its intermodal
park, which it built, in part, to
coincide with growth at the Port
of Virginia.
Expansion of the port was
• See PETITON, p. 17
U.S. 460 Mobility Partners, as it
tries to recoup some of the $250
million that’s already been spent
on the project without a shovel of
dirt yet to be turned.
All of this is nothing new for
farmer Billy Gwaltney, who 10
years ago had land also in the path
of the original alignment of Route
460 that was once slated to run on
the southern side of the existing
highway.
Now the proposed road is ex-
• See UNCERTAINTY, p. 16
2000
The Virginia Transportation Act designated Route 460
as a “high priority corridor”
between I-295 in Petersburg
and the Route 58 bypass in
Suffolk.
2001
The Isle of Wight Board of
Supervisors passed a resolution asking the General Assembly to establish a commission to pursue funding for the
construction of improvements
to Route 460 between Suffolk
and I-295.
The General Assembly passes House Joint Resolution 684
to establish the Route 460 communications committee.
2003
VDOT initiates an environmental impact statement
and the General Assembly
passed legislation requiring a
public-private solicitation for
highway improvements.
2004
Several alternative routes
were presented for the new
Route 460.
2005
VDOT proposed five alternatives for the new Route 460.
The Isle of Wight Board
of Supervisors supported the
souther n option for Route
460 and opposed the northern
route.
The U.S. Army Corps of engineers recommended CBA-2
that created bypasses around
each major town, including
Windsor.
The Commonwealth Transportation Board approved CBA1, the southern alignment.
Isle of Wight requested a
shift in the southern option
away from the Mill Creek
neighborhood after residents
pointed out that their homes
would likely be condemned to
build the road.
2006
A conflict heated up between property owners possibly affected by the proposed
southern alignment through
Isle of Wight County.
2007
Mill Creek residents were
spared and the alignment was
changed. Due to lack of funding, the project was removed
from the Hampton Roads transportation plan.
2008
VDOT completed its location study.
2009
VDOT postponed the Route
460 project indefinitely due to
funding shortages.
Then Governor-elect Bob
McDonnell announced that
Route 460 remained a priority.
Members of Maranatha Southern Baptist Church are looking
for land after learning their building may be in the path of
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Cost is $5 for adults,$3 for
children.
DAY CENTER—Providential
Credit Care Management is
hosting a prayer breakfast
Saturday, May 2, at Mount
Nebo Baptist Church for a day
center to serve the homeless
in Isle of Wight County.
Registration is at 8 a.m. and
breakfast will be served at
9:15 a.m. The cost is $15 and
all proceeds go to establishing
the day center.
WINDSOR GYM—A fundraiser
to support the Windsor
Community Recreation Center
will be held Saturday, May 2,
4 – 7 p.m. featuring Nixon’s
barbecue and fried chicken.
Pick up dinners at the Windsor
Christian Church or bring a
chair and eat dinner while
enjoying the Billy Mitchell
Golden Oldies Band. Tickets
are $9 and can be purchased
at the Windsor town hall.
FORT HUGER—Enjoy a walking
tour of the Civil War-era Fort
Huger Saturday, May 2, 10
a.m. The park is located at
15080 Talcott Terrace.
YARD SALE—The American
Legion Auxiliary spring yard
and bake sale is Saturday,
May 2, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the
American Legion Post, 818
South Church St., Smithfield.
Call Elizabeth Shepherd
at 357-9683 or 870-5443
to make arrangements for
dropping off or picking up any
donations.
BATTLE—Learn about the
Battle of Smithfield Sunday,
May 2, 2 p.m. starting at the
Isle of Wight County Museum.
The Battle of Smithfield was
a relatively small skirmish
during the American Civil War,
from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1, 1864.
Suggested donation is $2 per
adult.
MOTHER’S DAY—Main Street
Baptist Church is hosting
a pre-Mother’s Day gospel
dinner musical Saturday,
May 2, 5 p.m. at the Williams
Mission Center at 517 Main
St., Smithfield. Jackie Scott is
the featured artist along with
Forte Jazz, Decatur Croker and
comedian Steven Alexander.
Suggested donation is $35 for
adults and $25 for children
under age 13. No tickets will
be given out on the day of the
event. Info: 357-2604 or email
mainstreetch.aol.com.
Sentara St. Luke’s Medical
Center. Del. Rick Morris and
Isle of Wight Interim Economic
Development Director Amy
Ring are the guest speakers.
Info: 613-6183 or 357-5352.
Tuesday, May 5
CINCO DE MAYO—The Rising
Hope Youth Relay for Life Team
is celebrating Cinco de Mayo
with a fundraiser: make-yourown tacos for $2 and nachos,
$6. Tuesday, May 5, 5 – 7:30
p.m. at the Gatling Pointe
Yacht Club. Beverages and
baked items will also be for
sale. All proceeds go to the
American Cancer Society. Info:
357-0693.
Wednesday, May 6
RELAY FOR LIFE—The Isle of
Wight/Surry Relay for Life
leadership team meeting is
Wednesday, May 6, 6:30 p.m.
at Benn’s United Methodist
Church. For information, call
810-5207, email IOWSRFL@
gmail.com, or go to www.
RelayForLife.org/IWSVA.
Saturday, May 9
VENDOR SALE—The Dendron
Fire Department Auxiliary
is hosting a vendor fair and
silent auction Saturday, May 9,
2 – 5 p.m. All proceeds benefit
the Dendron Volunteer Fire
Department.
SPAGHETTI—Boy Scout Troop
7 is hosting a spaghetti
fundraiser at Trinity United
Methodist Church, Saturday,
May 9, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Menu includes spaghetti
with or without meat sauce,
salad, garlic bread, drink and
dessert for $7. Tickets can be
purchased advance from troop
members or at the door. Carryout available.
FISH FUNDRAISER—VFW
Post 8545, 223 Washington
St., Smithfield, is having
a breakfast fundraiser of
salted, fried spot fish on
Saturday, May 9, 7-10 a.m.
Breakfast includes scrambled
eggs, bacon, sausage,
sausage gravy, grits, biscuits,
cornbread, mixed fruit and
omelets to order. Cost is $8.
Monday, May 11
SURRY SPEAKER—Author
Connie Lapallo will be the
guest speaker at the Surry
County Historical Society
and Museum’s meeting on
Monday, May 11, 7 p.m., at
the Surry Recreation Center.
Lapallo, who is a descendent
of two women who arrived at
Jamestown in the 1600s, will
speak on “The Women’s Story
of Jamestown.”
FISH FRY—The Carrollton
Ruritan Club is hosting its
annual fish fry Saturday, May
2, noon to 6 p.m. Tickets for
adults are $7 in advance,
$8 on the day of the event.
Children’s tickets are $4.
Tickets can be purchased from
club members.
RELAY FOR LIFE—The next
Relay rally meeting is at
Benn’s UMC Monday, May 11,
6:30 p.m. Accounting opens at
6 p.m. and the meeting begins
at 6:30 p.m. Info: 810-5207 or
email [email protected],
or visit www.RelayForLife.org/
IWSVA.
Monday, May 4
Tuesday, May 12
TRIAD—The 16th annual
TRIAD Conference for Isle
of Wight Seniors is Monday,
May 4, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at
The Smithfield Center. Doors
open at 8 a.m. A $5 donation
per person is requested.
Continental breakfast and
lunch will be served. Tickets
available at Home Sweet
Home Care, 246 Main St.,
Smithfield, 356-0342, and
Windsor Hardware, 5 Joyner
Ave. in Windsor, 242-6123.
CITIZENS—The Carrollton
Civic League and the Isle of
Wight Citizens’ Association
meets Monday, May 4, 7 p.m.
in the conference room at
RECEPTION—A reception for
alumni and friends of Paul D.
Camp Community College will
be held on Tuesday, May 12,
6-7:30 p.m. at the Regional
Workforce Development
Center, 100 N. College Drive,
Franklin. Registration is
required by visiting www.pdc.
edu/alumni. Info: lcarter@pdc.
edu or 569-6082.
Wednesday, May 13
PIG PICKING—The 39th annual
Windsor Ruritan Club pig
picking festival is Wednesday,
May 13, 3 – 6 p.m. at Foster’s
Pond, four miles south of
• See CALENDAR, p. 13
Smithfield
ANIMAL FRIENDS—The
Virginia Living Museum
celebrates Children’s Book
week with a program on
animals Wednesday, May 6,
6 p.m. Free.
STAR WARS—Stop by the
library Monday, May 4 to
pick up a Star Wars crafts
and projects.
ARMED FORCES—The
Smithfield Library celebrates
Armed Forces Day May 16
with sno-cones, popcorn,
crafts and more. Free.
STORY TIME—Story time is
on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.
for ages 3-5. Story time for
ages 2-3 is Wednesdays at
10:30 a.m.
KNIT—Knit at Night is
the second and fourth
Wednesday of the month at
6:30 p.m.
SPECIAL NEEDS— The
Smithfield Library is now
offering sensory story times
the third Saturday of each
month for children on the
Autism spectrum, have
ADHD, or are otherwise
differently-abled.
COMPUTER CLASSES—
Free computer classes for
adults on Tuesdays from
noon to 1 p.m. and on
Thursdays from 5:30-6:30
p.m. at the computer lab at
Paul D. Camp Community
College, Smithfield branch.
Registration required. Stop
by the desk or call 3572264.
MEDICARE—Medicare
benefits counseling and
information session
Thursday, May 7, 1 – 3
p.m. Free, no registration
required. To make an
appointment, call 449-8706
or 328-4217.
ART—Art work by Smithfield
High School students is
currently on display at the
library.
QUILTERS—Experienced
quilters are invited to bring
their own projects to work
on in a group on the fourth
Wednesday of each month
from noon to 5 p.m.
WOMEN IN HISTORY—The
Smithfield Library hosts
“Virginia Women in History,”
an exhibition from the
Library of Virginia.
Carrollton
DRESS UP—Celebrate
Children’s Book Week by
dressing as a favorite book
character Monday, May 4,
10:45 a.m. to noon. For
children from birth to age 5.
Crafts, prizes.
TEA PARTY—Celebrate
Mother’s Day with a
Mommy and Me tea party,
Saturday, May 2, 11 a.m.
Refreshments, crafts for
age birth to 10. Registration
required.
BOOK CLUB—The book club
meets Wednesday, May 13,
3 p.m, to discuss “I know
why the caged bird sings,”
by Maya Angelou. Light
refreshments provided.
TUTORING—Free GED
Tutoring on Tuesday nights,
5 - 7 p.m. The Pruden Center
provides tutoring on math
and writing for adults who
are preparing for the GED
test. Info: 925-5651.
STORY TIME—Story time is
on Mondays at 10 a.m. for
ages 2 and 3 and Thursdays
for ages 3 through 5. After
the story times on Monday,
May 4 and Thursday, May 7,
the program will be finished
until June.
COMPUTERS—Computer
tutoring sessions are one
hour, one-on-one session
for beginners. Sessions
held on the first and third
library
Carrollton Public Library
14362 New Towne Haven
Phone: 238-2641
Claremont Public Library
Phone: 866-8627
Smithfield Public Library
255 James Street
Phone: 357-2264
Surry Public Library
11640 Rolfe Highway
Phone: 294-3949
Windsor Public Library
18 Duke Street
Phone: 242-3046
On the internet:
www.blackwaterlib.org
Wednesday afternoons
by appointment only.
Registration required.
KNIT, CROCHET—Knitting
and crocheting class meets
Wednesdays from 6-8 p.m.
Beginners welcome but
more experienced knitters
are needed. Bring a pair
of needles (suggested size
8) and yarn. Registration
required.
STRETCH AND TONE — This
fitness class for ages 50 and
up meets Fridays at 10 a.m.
Registration is not required,
but it is first-come, firstserved.
VOLUNTEERS—The Friends
of the Carrollton Library
will hold a book sale from
Thursday, May 14-Saturday,
May 16. The hours are 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. on Thursday and
Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturday.
SEED SWAP—Bring in seeds
to share for use in the
garden.
SCIENCE—Science Saturday’s
“Time and Measurement”
is Saturday, May 2, 11
a.m. Open to ages 6-11.
Registration required. Call
238-2641 or visit the front
desk.
ART EXHIBIT—Local artist
John Faunce will exhibit
his work in the Carrollton
Library’s art gallery from May
1 - May 29.
Windsor
WIN BOOKS—“Book It” to
the library during National
Library Week and enter to
win a tote bag of books when
you check out.
MEDICARE—Medicare
benefits counseling and
information session April
28, 10 a.m. – noon. Free,
no registration required. To
make an appointment, call
449-8706 or 328-4217.
BOOK CLUB—The book club
meets the third Tuesday
of every month at 7 p.m.
Registration not required.
STORY TIME—Story time for
ages 2 through 5 will be
at 10:45 a.m. Tuesdays.
Registration is not required.
COMPUTER INSTRUCTION—
Free one-on-one computer
instruction on Wednesday
mornings. Registration is
required. Call 242-3046 or
email [email protected].
FRIENDS—Friends of the
Library meets at 5 p.m. the
second Monday of each
month. Everyone is welcome.
Surry
KIDS —BRL Kids, first
Wednesday of the month,
Ages 6-11, 4 – 5 p.m.
BOOK CLUB—Book club, first
Thursday of the month, 1 – 2
p.m., “To Kill A Mockingbird.”
STORY TIME—Story time,
every Monday at 10 a.m.,
Ages 3-5.
KNIT—Knit and stitch, every
Tuesday, 1 – 2 p.m.
TEENS—Teen graffiti night,
April 28, Ages 13-17, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Governmental meetings
•Dendron Town Council,
Monday, May 4, 7:30 p.m.,
town municipal building,
2855 Rolfe Highway. 267-2508.
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Digging homeschool day
Connor Dix, 8, looks the part as he searches for artifacts at a mock
archaeological dig at the Isle of Wight County Museum. Dix, his
brothers and sisters, and several other families visited the county’s
museum and historical sites April 17 as part of the county’s annual
Homeschool Day.
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Windsor on Route 610.
Donation is $25. For tickets or
information, call 377-3201.
Upcoming
OLDEN DAYS—The Smithfield
Olden Days Festival is June
26-27 on Main Street in
downtown Smithfield. Those
wanting to participate in the
car show or as a volunteer or
vendor contact terry.rhinier@
iwus.net.
SUMMER BLAST—The Isle of
Wight Parks and Recreation
Summer Blast program will be
held at Carrollton and Windsor
elementary schools, Monday –
Thursday, June 22 – Aug. 13,
7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for rising first
through sixth graders. Early
registration is through May
22, $10 per child plus weekly
fee. Regular registration runs
through May 26 until filled,
$20 per child plus weekly fee.
Weekly fee is $60 per child.
Summer Blast is also offering
a Fun Friday program from
June 26 – Aug. 14 for $25
per child. For Summer Blast
participants only. Registration
fee and first session attending
fee are due at time of
registration. Info: 357-2291.
New office
The Vincent Insurance Agency recently held
an open house at its new offices located at
15423 Carrollton Blvd. in Carrollton. Pictured
are State Farm Agent Sherry Vincent, Kathy
Flythe, Deanna Cutchins, Shearl Adkins and
Annmarie Wilson.
Clean the Bay day
VIRGINIA BEACH —
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) and its local
partners across Virginia
are now recruiting volunteers for the 27th Clean
the Bay Day, CBF’s annual
shoreline cleanup, scheduled this year for Saturday,
June 6, 9 a.m. to noon.
Cleanup sites are avail-
able throughout Hampton
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visit cbf.org/clean, send an
email to [email protected], or
call 1-800/SAVEBAY. Early
registration is advised.
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Isle of Wight seeking victims
Four more potential
victims have stepped forward in connection with
a woman charged with
writing bad checks.
Amanda Porter-Eley,
24, was arrested April 3
on four felony counts of
forging and uttering.
Since her arrest, the
Riverside on schedule
Riverside is on schedule to open in the fall with its new “household”
nursing home model in Smithfield. The $7 million renovation adds a
north and south wing to the existing Magnolia Manor facility. The new
facility will include 34 private rooms for long- and short-term care, as
well as 12 additional assisted living units — or “households,” along with
the existing memory unit. Riverside is hosting Vonda Hollingsworth,
healthcare administrator of Pennybyrn at Maryfield in North Carolina
Wednesday, May 6, to discuss the new household model at the facility
for all residents, family and staff. Sessions are from 1 – 2 p.m. for the
steering team in the Greenleafe Room, 2:30 – 3 p.m. for Magnolia Manor
and The Garden at Magnolia Hall and 3 – 3:30 p.m. at the convalescent
center dining room.
Bank touts financial literacy
In celebration of Financial Literacy Month, The
Bank of Southside Virginia
(BSV) announced that its
school-based financial education program, “My Money, My Future,” is making a
positive impact on students’
understanding of financial
topics.
Data collected from more
than 550 students who completed the program during
the 2013-14 school year revealed that students’ understanding of credit scores
increased by an average 31
percent after interacting
with the curriculum.
“My Money, My Future”
is a web-based interactive
course designed to empower young people with the
essential skills needed to
make sound financial decisions.
BSV has partnered with
leading education technology company EverFi to
bring this no-cost interactive program to Smithfield
High School.
“More and more evidence suggests that rigorous financial education
delivered early in a young
person’s development leads
to positive financial behav-
iors later in life,” said Amy
Everett, with BSV. “By providing high school students
with the knowledge and
skills they need to make
smart financial decisions,
we are investing in the
future economic well-being
of the communities we
serve.”
The web-based program
uses the latest in new media
technology — simulations,
gaming and adaptive-path-
ing — to bring complex
financial concepts to life for
today’s digital generation.
The high school course
offers over six hours of
programming with 10 units
in a variety of financial topics including credit scores,
insurance, credit cards,
student loans, mortgages,
taxes, stocks, savings, 401k’s
and other critical concepts
that map to national financial literacy standards.
AT&T makes upgrades
As part of its continuing
network investment and
ongoing 4G LTE rollout,
AT&T1 has upgraded five
additional mobile Internet
cell sites in Surry, Isle of
Wight and Sussex counties
to expand AT&T 4G LTE
coverage for area residents
and businesses. In Surry,
two upgraded cell sites will
provide enhanced coverage
for residents and businesses
near the intersections of
Rolfe Hwy and Colonial
Trail E and Colonial Trail
E and College Drive.
In Isle of Wight, two
upgraded cell sites will
provide enhanced coverage
for residents and businesses
near the intersections of
Berry Hill Road and Old
Stage Highway.
In Sussex, one upgraded
cell tower will provide enhanced coverage near the
intersection of Route 301
and Sussex Drive.
AT&T launched its ultra-fast 4G LTE network in
Isle of Wight in February
2013. The new cell sites are
one part of AT&T’s ongoing efforts to expand 4G
LTE coverage and to drive
investment and innovation
to deliver advanced mobile
Inter net experience for
customers.
Sheriff ’s Office has received
four calls from other potential victims — one each in
Isle of Wight and Sussex
counties and the cities of
Suffolk and Hampton.
The Hampton victim
did not lose any money or
property, but only wanted to
inform the Sheriff ’s Office
of the incident, according to
the Isle of Wight Sheriff ’s
Office.
Suffolk and Sussex will
conduct their own investigations into the matter.
Anyone who believes
they may have been a victim of a crime involving
the suspect are asked to
call the Isle of Wight Sheriff ’s Office at 357-2191.
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County of Isle of Wight 2nd half 2014-2015 Real Estate and 1st half 2015 Personal
Property tax bill due June 5, 2015 were be mailed April 21, 2015. If you own Real
Estate and/or Personal Property and did not receive a tax bill, please contact our
office immediately to determine if you owe any tax. State law requires that real
estate taxes and personal property not paid by June 5, 2015 will incur penalty and
interest. Failure to receive a tax bill does not relieve penalty and interest. A
postmark of June 5, 2015 is required to avoid penalty and interest.
The license fee will be due on the 1st installment. A license fee of eighteen dollars
(18.00) for each license year, as hereinafter provided for, is hereby imposed on each
and every motorcycle, motor scooter, motorbike or other motor vehicle of like
design or similar thereto to which this article is applicable, and a license fee of
thirty-three dollars (33.00) for each license year, as hereinafter provided for, is
hereby imposed on each and every other kind and type of motor vehicle to which
this article is applicable. A license fee of ten dollars (10.00) for each license year, as
hereinafter provided for, is hereby imposed on the following: each National Guard
license plate with “NG” and each farm truck license plate with an “F”. Vehicles with
“Farm Use” license plates are not subject to a license fee. You may refer to the
Municode for further information.
For your convenience we offer several payment options. Our office accepts cash,
check, money order, or credit cards. Residents may opt to pay online by using your
current bill, customer number, and home computer by logging onto www.co.isle-of-wight.va.us. We accept MasterCard, Visa, Discover, or American
Express. A 2.4% convenience fee will be added to your charge. You can also charge
by telephone by calling 1-866-616-5727 and following the instructions.
Our office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday. If you come by
after business hours you may place your payment in the silver drop box, labeled
Treasurer’s Office, located on the walk-way beside the Administrative Building,
17090 Monument Circle. Any payments received after 5:00 p.m. June 5, 2015, will
be considered delinquent. For questions or more information, call the Treasurer’s
Office at 365-6228.
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Lady Packers 1st in district
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
Two major wins last
we e k h ave c a t a p u l t e d
Smithfield softball team to
first place in the district.
The Lady Packers are
also tied for first in Conference 19.
The Lady Packers beat
two Bay Rivers opponents
last week to rise to a 10-1
record.
On Friday, the Pack shut
out Tabb, 7-0. Days earlier,
they defeated a competitive,
9-1 Warhill team, 3-1.
Warhill dropped to two
losses for the season, both
of them delivered by Smithfield.
Smithfield started early
against Tabb, racking up
three runs in their first at
bat.
Morgan Riddle, Ashley
Newman and Libby Darden
made it 3-0.
They tacked on another
run in the bottom of the
second when Hannah Rogers singled to bring Kim
Cratsley home.
In the fifth, they added
two more thanks to a single
fly ball to center field by
Mallory Jaax.
They scored their final
run in the sixth on a triple
by Rogers.
Meredith Throckmorton
batted a thousand with her
three at bats and contributed one run.
Libby Darden was 2 for 4
with two runs.
Ashley Newman was 2
for 4 with 1 run.
Hannah Rogers batted 2
for 3 with three RBIs.
Mallory Jaax was 3 for 4
with two RBIs.
Sydney Gay’s accuracy
proved yet again to be a
deciding factor, doling out
11 strikeouts.
Against Warhill, Gay
couldn’t be stopped.
She threw 19 strikeouts
and allowed just three hits.
Bats were mostly silent
on both sides until the bottom of the third inning
when Smithfield scored its
first two runs.
Newman singled to
right field to bring Riddle
to third. A single by Darden
brought home both Riddle
and Newman.
Warhill returned with
its first run in the top of
the fourth but would not get
another.
Smithfield added one last
run in the sixth off a triple
by Throckmorton, which
narrowly missed the fence.
Alexis Elledge scored to
bring the final score to 3-1.
Warhill’s Keely Rochard
allowed only five hits by
Smithfield batters.
Darden had two of those,
paired with two RBIs.
Throckmorton was 1 for
2 with one RBI.
SHS boys win one, lose one
Smithfield went one up
and one down last week to
bring their record to 6-5 so
far this spring.
Smithfield deftly defeated Tabb April 24, 11-2, but
fell by a similarly wide margin to Warhill on April 22.
Smithfield’s first run
over Tabb came in the bottom of the first when Gus
Zengel was hit by a pitch
with the bases loaded.
Brice Nicholas came
home to put the Packers
up 1-0.
Tabb gained the lead in
the top of the third, scoring their only two runs of
the day.
Smithfield answered on
their next at bat, scoring
four runs on an RBI double by JR Polak, a two-run
home run by Nick Baham
and a wild pitch.
Smithfield piled on two
more runs in the bottom of
the fourth.
An error scored Keanu
Carr to start the scoring
in the inning. That was followed up by Baham’s single,
bringing home Nicholas.
Smithfield increased its
lead further with three runs
in the sixth.
In batting, Baham racked
up three RBIs on two hits
for Smithfield.
On the mound, Jack
Darden allowed two runs,
struck out four batters,
walked three and gave up
four hits.
Days earlier, Smithfield
had their role reversed
when they fell hard to Warhill, 18-5.
Smithfield lost despite Polak’s performance
on the mound and at the
plate.
Polak batted 2 for 2 when
he doubled in the fourth and
seventh innings.
At pitcher, Polak allowed
no earned runs, walked one
and struck out three.
Garris Weaver took the
loss. He walked five, struck
out two and allowed four
runs in 2 1/3 innings.
The bottom of the second
saw Smithfield take an early
lead with Ryan scoring on a
wild pitch, starting Smithfield off at 1-0.
The marginal lead only
lasted until Warhill went
up for good in the third,
scoring four runs.
After earning two runs
in the bottom of the fourth,
Smithfield faced just a 7-4
deficit.
A two-run double by Polak fueled a comeback that
eventually fizzled.
Warhill went on to add
six runs in the top of the
fifth and 5 more runs in the
top of the seventh to put the
game away for good.
T h e Pa cke r s h o s t e d
Jamestown Tuesday afternoon.
Soccer girls rebound from loss
The Smithfield Lady
Packers soccer team rebounded from a loss to
Grafton early last week to
earn their sixth win of the
season over New Kent.
The Packers won with a
8-0 shutout and now sit at a
6-2 record.
Savannah Cook, Erin
Lee and Mikala Dean scored
two goals apiece.
Maddie Bauman and
Rebekah O’Brien had one
each. O’Brien notched her
first goal of the season.
Cook, Lee and Dean
contributed assists, and
defense was led by Sydney Zari, Lindsey Walker,
Kenzie Kohrs, Jess Bruner
and Sarah Hancock, who
allowed no shots on goal.
The Packers totaled 20
shots on goal.
Two days earlier, the
Packers suffered their second defeat of the season
against Grafton despite a
hat trick by Dean.
Dean scored her three
goals in about 60 minutes
of game time.
Smithfield opened the
scoring in the first two minutes with a goal by Dean
with Cook on the assist.
Grafton tied it up on
a set piece that was not
cleared out of the box and
bounced to a Grafton player
for an easy tap-in. The score
evened out, 2-2, at halftime,
but Grafton surged ahead in
the second half and walked
away with a 5-3 win.
SHS boys tennis
Smithfield defeated Bruton Monday, 8-1.
The wide-margin win
over Bruton moves them to
a 7-3 record.
In singles, Joseph Holloway (SHS) d. J. Sadler
6-2,6-4; Antony Jones (SHS)
d. D. Shannon 6-1,6-1; Mark
Ogle (SHS) d. D. Fiaz 6-2,60; Liam Baylor (SHS) d. W.
Houghland 6-1,6-2; Noah
Espenshade (SHS) d. J. Host
6-0,6-0; and Patrick Davis
(SHS) d. J. Morrow 6-2,6-2.
In doubles, Barlow/Ogle
(SHS) d. Shannon/Fiaz
9-7, Sadler/Houghland d.
Jones/Justin Powell (SHS)
8-3, and Espenshade/Baylor
(SHS) d. Host/Morrow 8-2.
Smithfield easily swept
the New Kent Trojans last
week, beating them 9-0
April 23.
In singles, Holloway
(SHS) d. T. Edmonds 6-0,6-0;
Jones (SHS) d. H. Green 6-0,
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Uncertainty
pected to cut through his
farmland north of Windsor
and would be within sight
of his home on Deer Path Trail.
“It’s ridiculous,” said
Gwaltney.
“We deserve to be treated
better than this,” he said
of the bumpy road that has
characterized Route 460
over the past 10 years — and
continues to do so.
Pete Greene lives in the
Mill Creek neighborhood
on the south side of the
existing Route 460.
Ten years ago he and his
neighbors saw the tell-tale
pink tape go up in their
yards as VDOT planned to
bulldoze 25 homes in his
neighborhood to build the
new Route 460 from Petersburg to Suffolk.
Like Gwaltney, Greene
and his neighbors traveled
to Richmond in an effort to
spare their neighborhood.
For a couple of years, their
lives were on hold as they
waited on a decision to
shift the road away from
their neighborhood, Greene
said. Their request ended
up pitting the Mill Creek
residents against a group
of local farmers and landowners as the Isle of Wight
County Board of Supervisors retreated from the fray.
Eventually the road was
shifted away from their
neighborhood and Greene
was able to breath a sigh of
relief. After that decision,
however, the project suffered through funding gaps
that seemed to drag it out
even longer.
“With nothing concrete,
you couldn’t even plan your
life from that point on,” he
said.
Now Greene is watching
those along the proposed
northern bypass begin living with the uncertainty
that he and his neighbors
felt for a couple of years.
“VDOT drags their feet
so long,” Greene said.
Virginia Transportation
Secretary Aubrey Layne
said that while the state is
trying to get back some of
the millions it has spent on
the project so far, construction of the road continues to
remain uncertain. The new
alternative must also pass
through the scoring process
enacted last year by the
General Assembly through
House Bill 2 — adding another layer of doubt about
the future of the project.
Richardson is grateful
for the pause, however, because she believes it will
give VDOT more time to
look at other options.
Her main contention is
that the new 17-mile road,
by stopping just west of
Zuni, doesn’t meet two of
the original reasons for the
road — a safe hurricane
evacuation route and providing an alternative to a
highly congested I-64 on the
Peninsula.
It still floods west of
Zuni, said Richardson, who
has led the town in circulating a petition against
the norther n bypass of
Windsor.
The Isle of Wight Board
of Supervisors has received
some criticism for passing
a resolution in February
supporting the preferred
alternative.
Chairman Rex Alphin
said it was a difficult decision but the county was led
to believe it was a “done
deal” by VDOT. The county
has a stake in the project
due to the proximity of its
intermodal park and the
need for tractor-trailer access to the park.
Now Alphin has mixed
emotions.
With the state ter minating the contract with
the contractor, U.S. Mobility Partners, it pushes the
whole project even further
down the road, Alphin said.
With that, it puts a whole
new group of people “in
limbo,” he said.
Yet when new roads are
put in, there are winners
and losers, and those who
lose their property are the
losers, he said.
Timeline
2010
The state received bids
on the Route 460 projects
from three contractors.
March that it was considering five other alternatives
to Route 460, including a
no-build option.
2011
VDOT announced in October that construction on
the new tolled Route 460
would begin in 2012.
The Hampton Roads
Transportation Accountability Commission was
created to manage road
funding in the region.
The Hampton Roads
Partnership asked the state
to consider building Patriot’s Crossing before building a new Route 460.
In June, the state Inspector General’s Office joined
VDOT to launch an internal
investigation into the Route
460 realignment project.
2012
In September, VDOT anThe CTB approved fund- nounced five possible aligning of $1.3 billion for the ments, including a no-build
new Route 460, with con- option.
struction to begin in 2013.
Patriot’s Crossing was
U.S. 460 Mobility Part- one of several large regionners was awarded a con- al transportation initiatives
tract through the state’s selected as candidate projpublic-private partnership ects by HRTAC, as well as
program.
the widening of I-64 on the
Peninsula.
2013
Environmentalists call
2015
for the state to halt the
VDOT announced that
Route 460 project because of the preferred Route 460 alexcessive wetlands impacts. ternative is a 17-mile hybrid
It was also revealed that and includes a bypass north
VDOT signed the contract of Windsor, with road imwith U.S. 460 Mobility Part- provements to extend from
ners before receiving the Suffolk to Zuni.
necessary permits.
The Board of Supervi2014
sors in February passed a
The Virginia Depart- resolution supporting the
ment of Environmental preferred alignment.
Quality announced it would
prepare a new supplemenT h e C o m m o n we a l t h
tal environmental impact Transportation Board in
statement.
February approved the preferred alignment to Route
VDOT decided to sus- 460, which includes a fourpend the project in January lane bypass north of Winduntil the wetlands issues sor.
are resolved.
The town of Windsor
The Isle of Wight Board passed a resolution in
of Supervisors passed a March against the preferred
resolution supporting the alignment.
project.
VDOT voided its conThe General Assembly tract with U.S. 460 Mobility
passed House Bill 2, which Partners and will enter into
sets up a prioritization pro- negotiations to get as much
cess for projects funded by of the taxpayer money back
the Commonwealth Trans- as possible.
portation Board.
VDOT also plans to continue seeking the necessary
VDOT announced in permits.
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The Smithfield Times-Wed., April 29, 2015 - Page 17
Concern over swamps in Windsor area and Route 460
By Diana McFarland
News editor
WINDSOR — Far mer
Billy Gwaltney drove his
ATV down a former logging
path and came to a stop at a
a lengthy expanse of water
filled with large cypress
trees. An egret waded in the
water nearby.
Pink tape tied to tree
branches fluttered in the
wind along the edge of the
swamp.
“This is your road,” said
Gwaltney, who was told the
proposed Route 460 was to
be bridged over the widest
part of the swamp.
Are swamps not consid-
ered wetlands? Gwaltney
asked of two swamps in
particular that contain very
old cypress trees, but were
marked as part of the road
last week by state and federal workers in connection
with the proposed Route 460
project.
The 17-mile proposed
alignment starts at the
Route 58/460 interchange in
Suffolk and runs just west
of Zuni, with a northern
bypass of Windsor.
The previous alignment,
which entailed building an
entirely new highway south
of the existing Route 460
from Petersburg to Suffolk
SHS girls tennis
Smithfield Lady Packers wiped out Bruton
Monday afternoon, 8-1.
The Packers’ record
rises to 8-1.
In singles, Kayla Ervin (SHS) defeated Pratt
6-3, 6-0; Felicia Tucker (SHS) defeated Wojcieszak 6-0, 6-0; Ashlyn
Mangum (SHS) defeated
Morris 6-2, 6-2; Troutman defeated Brooke
Burnette (SHS) 6-3, 6-2;
Marissa Mahek (SHS)
defeated Cross 7-5, 7-5;
and Alexis Manson (SHS)
defeated Bieri 6-0, 6-0.
In doubles, Ervin/
Tucker defeated Wojcieszak 8-1, Mangum/
Ja’Heaven Ford defeated
Pratt/Troutman 8-5, and
Burnette/Sherwood defeated Cross/Bieri 8-5.
Smithfield defeated
New Kent April 23, 8-1.
In singles, Mor ris
defeated Ervin (SHS)
6-1, 6-0; Tucker (SHS) defeated Gaertner 6-0, 6-2;
Mangum (SHS) defeated
Carlson 6-0, 6-0; Kate-
lyn Yates (SHS) defeated Gray 6-1, 6-0; Mahek
(SHS) defeated Palermo
6-1, 6-0; and Bur nette
(SHS) defeated Jadooram
6-2, 6-1.
In doubles, Ervin/
Tucker defeated Morris/
Palermo 8-5, Mangum/
Ford defeated Gaertner/
Gray 8-2, and Burnette/
Manson defeated Jadooram/Sanchez 8-3.
On April 21, the Lady
Packers traveled to Grafton and beat the Lady
Clippers, 5-4.
I n s i n g l e s, Z h a n g
defeated Ervin 6-3, 7-5;
Tucker defeated Dixon
2-6, 6-4, 10-3; Mangum
defeated DeShayes 6-2,
6-3; Oguso defeated Yates
6-7(5), 6-3, 12-10; Mahek
defeated Nelson 6-3, 6-3;
and Cao defeated Alexis
Manson 6-0, 6-0.
In doubles, Ervin/
Tucker defeated Zhang/
Dixon 8-3, Mangum/
Yates (SHS) defeated DeShayes/Oguso 8-2, and
Nelson/Cao defeated Mahek/Burnette 8-6.
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was cancelled due to excessive wetlands impacts.
Swamps are considered
wetlands because they have
water most of the calendar
year, said U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers spokesman
Gerald Rogers.
Swamps are a whole
classification of wetlands
called palustrian forested
wetlands, he said.
While Rogers could not
comment on the proposed
Route 460 being bridged
over swamps, he did say
that those decisions would
be part of the permitting
process.
The state must obtain
the necessary permits from
the U.S. Ar my Corps of
Engineers, whose stated
purpose is the regulation of
wetlands, before proceeding
with the project.
The supplemental environmental impact statement must still be finalized,
Rogers said.
“This was like a wish
list,” he said of the preferred alternative.
On the other hand, the
17-mile route with the
northern bypass of Windsor may be considered the
least damaging, he said.
The proposed northern
bypass of Windsor was es-
Petition
the necessary permits from
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Route 460 project must again undergo the
state procurement process,
as well as meet the criteria
outlined in House Bill 2,
which scores projects in
Hampton Roads mainly on
relieving congestion.
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one of the reasons for improving Route 460, which
was originally expected to
be a 55-mile high-speed limited access toll road from Petersburg to Suffolk. Those
plans were abandoned due
to high wetlands impacts.
Later it was revealed that
the state had spent about
$250 $300 million before
even beginning construction. VDOT returned to the
drawing board and came
up with five alternative,
including a no-build option. After numerous public
timated to impact 19 acres
of wetlands as opposed to 58
acres for a southern bypass,
according to the Corps of
Engineers.
The original 55-mile
route was expected to impact more than 600 acres of
wetlands.
In addition to requiring
hearings, VDOT announced
it would pursue a hybrid
alternative, which includes
the northern bypass.
While approved by the
Commonwealth Transportation Board in February,
the preferred alternative
must still be permitted by
the U.S. Ar my Corps of
Engineers.
Richardson would like to
have town officials sit down
with VDOT and work out a
better design for Windsor.
“There are better solutions than this that weren’t
even looked at,” she said.
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Tennis
6-0; Ogle (SHS) d. J. Squares
6-0, 6-0; Baylor (SHS) d. B.
Newberry 6-2,6-0; Espenshade (SHS) d. B. Homan
6-0, 6-0; and Davis (SHS) d.
W. Buchman 6-0, 6-0.
In doubles, Barlow/Ogle
(SHS) d. Edmunds/Green
8-0, Jones/Powell (SHS) d.
Squares/Newberry 8-1, and
Espenshade/Baylor (SHS)
d. Homan/Adkins 8-0.
On April 21, Grafton defeated Smithfield, 5-4.
In singles, Holloway d. Z.
Tal 1-6,6-1,10-7T; N. Diskin d.
Jones 6-2,2-6,10-5T; K. Peng
d. Ogle 6-2,4-6,11-9T; D. Kang
d. Baylor 6-0,6-0; S. Brush d.
Barlow 6-0,6-1; and L. Tang
d. Davis 6-3,6-3.
In doubles, Holloway/
Baylor d. Tal/Wright 8-5,
Jones/Ogle d. Peng/Brush
8-6, and Davis/Espenshade
d. Cho/Naser 8-2.
The Packers host Lafayette today at 4 p.m.
Loving
thoughts
Andrew S. Parsons
June 20, 1927 - April 29, 2009
We thought of you with love today,
but that is nothing new.
We thought about you yesterday.
And days before that too.
We think of you in silence.
We often speak your name.
Now all we have is memories.
And your picture in a frame.
Your memory is our keepsake.
With which we’ll never part.
God has you in his keeping.
We have you in our heart.
We Love you,
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Furniture,
Magruder Rd. Smithfield.
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Camo
Pants,
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Tires, etc.
MULTI-FAMILY Yard Sale.
Sat. May 2, 211 Azalea Dr.
Rain Date: May 3rd 9-2
Smithfield. Items for kids,
men, household and more.
COMMUNITY YARD SALE
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May 2
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The Smithfield Times – Wed., April 29, 2015 - Page 19
LEGALS
VIRGINIA: IN THE
CIRCUIT COURT
FOR THE COUNTY
OF ISLE OF WIGHT
FRANK
AMENDOLA,
Plaintiff
v.
ARTHUR L. ROBERTS, et al.
Defendants.
CA SE
NO.
CL14000628-00
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
The Plaintiff filed
suit to quiet title to
the following real estate and to partition
and sell the following
real estate:
Parcel ID’s of the
Property:
04A-04-001
04A-04-002
04A-04-003
Brief Description:
14535 Tylers Beach
Road, Smithf ield,
VA 23430
made defendants as
“Unknown Heirs of
Frank P. Roberts,”
“Unknown Heirs of
James H. Roberts,”
“Unknown Heirs of
Den ise Hubba rd ,”
“Unknown Heirs of
Herman E. Roberts,”
“Un k now n Hei rs
of Doward Caine”
and/or “Parties Unknown.”
It is ORDERED that
this Order be published at least once
a week for four successive weeks in the
Smithfield Times, a
newspaper of general
circulation in Isle
of Wight, Virginia,
and that the parties
named herein appear
at 9:00am June 10,
2015, in the Isle of
Wight Circuit Court
Clerk’s Office and
do what may be necessary to protect their
respective interests.
ENTERED this 9th
Day of April, 2015
T EST: Sha ron N.
Jones, Clerk
By Laura E. Smith,
DC
above address and
briefly described as:
LOT NUMBERED
FIFTEEN (15), AS
SHOWN ON THAT
C E RTA I N PL AT
ENTITLED, ‘’LOT
15, PLAT SHOWI NG PROPE RT Y
OF W I LLI A M B.
BL AC K & R AYMOND SEABORNE,
N E W P O RT D I S T R ICT, ISLE OF
WIGHT COUNTY,
VA’’ MADE BY EDWARD J. KELLER,
L A N D SU RV EYOR , DAT ED AUGUST 17, 1993, A
COPY OF WHICH
IS ATTACHED TO
A DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 423,
PAGE 434 A N D
M A DE A PA RT
H ER EOF FOR A
MORE ACCUARE
AND PARTICULAR
DESCRIPTION OF
SAID LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND.. Tax
ID: 31A-06-015.
TERMS OF SALE:
A LL CASH. A
bidder’s deposit of
$10,000.00 or 10% of
the sale price, whichever is lower, will
be required in cash,
certified or cashier’s
check. Settlement
within fifteen (15)
days of sale, otherwise Tr ustee may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms to be
announced at sale.
This is a communication from a debt collector. This notice is
an attempt to collect
on a debt and any information obtained
will be used for that
purpose.
Loan Type: Conv/
FHLMC (Trustee #
559147)
Substitute Trustee:
ALG Trustee, LLC,
C/O Atlantic Law
G roup, LLC PO
Box 2548, Leesburg,
VA 20177, (703) 7777101, website: http://
www.atlanticlawgrp.
com
FEI # 1074.02442
04/29/2015,
05/06/2015
An affidavit having
Jason E. Messersmith
been filed that the
( VSB No. 77075)
Plaintiff used due
Patten,
Wo rdiligence to locate
nom, Hat ten, DiJames Douglas Rob- a m o n s t e i n , L . C .
erts, the unknown
1 2 35 0 J e f f e r s o n
heirs devisees and
Avenue, Suite 300
successors in interest
New por t News,
of Frank P. Roberts, V A
2 36 0 2
the unknown heirs
Telephone:
devisees and suc- (757)223-4500
cessors in interest
Facsimile:
of James H. Roberts, (757)249-1627
the unknown heirs
jmessersmith@
devisees and suc- pwhd.com
cessors in interest of
Counsel
for
Denise Hubbard, the
the
Plaintiff
unknown heirs devises and successors
in interest of Herman
L15-47
E. Roberts, and the
4-22/4t
unknown heirs devi- ————
sees and successors
in interest of Doward
TRUSTEE’S SALE
Caine but without ef- OF
fect; that the last post
16317 Scotts Factory
office addresses of
Road
James Douglas RobS m it h f ield , VA
erts, the unknown
23430
heirs, devisees and
In execution of a
successors in interest
Deed of Tr ust in
of Frank P. Roberts, the or iginal pr in- L15-49
the unknown heirs
c i p a l a m o u n t of
4-29/2t
devisees and suc- $114,000.00, dated ————
cessors in interest April 18, 2007, reof James H. Roberts, corded among the
TRUSTEE’S SALE
the unknown heirs
land records of the
OF
devisees and suc- Circuit Court for Isle
103 Gregory Drive
cessors in interest
of Wight County on
C a r r ol l t o n , VA
of Denise Hubbard, April 26, 2007, as
23314
the unknown heirs
Instrument Number
In execution of a
devisees and suc- 070002857, at Page
Deed of Tr ust in
cessors in interest of 115, the undersigned
the or iginal pr inHerman E. Roberts, appointed Substitute
c i p a l a m o u n t of
and the un k nown
Tr ustee will offer
$228,843.00, dated
heirs devisees and
for sale at public
May 15, 2013, resuccessors in interest
auction, at the main
corded among the
of Doward Caine are
entrance of the courtland records of the
unknown; and that
house for the Circuit
Circuit Court for Isle
there may be other
Court of Isle of Wight
of Wight County on
persons having an
County, 17000 Jo- June 17, 2013, as
interest in the prop- siah Parker Circle, Instrument Number
erty whose names
Isle of Wight, VA on
130003351, the unand addresses are
May 21, 2015 at 5:00
dersigned appointed
unknown, and those
PM, the property de- Substitute Trustee
claiming through the
scribed in said deed
will offer for sale
aforementioned par- of trust, located at the
at public auction, at
ties, all such persons
A D N ET WOR K
CLASSIFIEDS April
26, 2015
This is our 2367th
series of ads to be published in the Virginia
Statewide Classified.
You may classify them
with your regular ads
or r un them under
an AD NETWOR K
LOGO. The originating newspaper gives
the advertiser a tearsheet if requested.
Please remind your
bookkeeping department however, about
the program and these
ads are not to be billed
to anyone. All ads are
screened by the newspaper selling them and
then screened by VPS.
A N TIQU ES A N D
COLLECTIBLES
DC BIG FLEA MAY
2 -3. A n A m a z i ng
Treasure Hunt! Met-
ro DC’s Largest Antique Event! Dulles
Expo-Chantilly, VA.
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BIG A N T IQU ES
SHOW a nd SA LE ,
May 8-9, 56th Shenandoah Antiques Expo,
Aug ust a Expola nd ,
Fishersville, VA (I-64,
Exit 91). 300+dealers, five buildings and
outside. Fri. 9-6, Sat.
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EDUCATION / HELP
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amendment of the
the main entrance of
will be used for that
purpose.
Smithfield Comprethe courthouse for
L o a n Ty p e : VA
hensive Plan adopted
the Circuit Court of
August 4, 2009, and
Isle of Wight County, (Trustee # 559221)
Substitute Trustee:
as amended, by the
17000 Josiah Parker
Circle, Isle of Wight, ALG Trustee, LLC, adoption of a revised
C/O Atlantic Law
Growth Area map.
VA on May 21, 2015
Copies of
at 5:00 PM, the prop- G roup, LLC PO
Box 2548, Leesburg, t he cu r rent Comerty described in said
VA 20177, (703) 777- prehensive Plan for
deed of trust, located
7101, website: http://
Smithfield, Virginia,
at the above address
www.atlanticlawgrp.
and all amendments
and briefly described
com
thereto, along with
as: Lot 51, as shown
FEI # 1074.02441
copies of the proon that certain plat
posed map amende n t i t l e d , ‘’ S E C - 04/29/2015,
05/06/2015
ment of the ComTION II, CANNON
prehensive Plan for
ACRES,’’ made by
Smithfield, Virginia,
Dawson & Phillips, L15-50
4-29/2t
are on file and may
P.C., dated January
be examined in the
17, 1984, a copy of ————
office of the Departwhich plat is recordment of Planning,
ed in the Clerk’s OfNOTICE OF PUB- Engineering, & Pubfice of the Circuit
LIC HEARING
lic Works, 310 InstiCourt of Isle of Wight
PLANNING COM- tute Street, SmithCounty, Virginia, in
field, Virginia.
Plat Book 12, page 54, MISSION OF THE
TOWN OF SMITHA ny perto which reference
FIELD
son desiring to be
is here made for a
AMENDMENT TO
heard in favor of, in
more complete and
COMPREHENopposition to, or to
accurate description
SIVE PLAN
express his or her
of the land herein
views with respect to
conveyed.. Tax ID:
Notice is
the aforesaid amend34G-02-051.
hereby given pur- ment may appear and
TERMS OF SALE:
suant to Sections
be heard.
A LL CASH. A
bidder’s deposit of 15.2-220 4 of t he
Code of Virginia,
$11,000.00 or 10% of
the sale price, which- (1950), as amended,
that the Plan ning
TOWN
ever is lower, will
OF SMITHFIELD
be required in cash, Commission of the
Town of Smithfield,
certified or cashier’s
Virginia will hold
check. Settlement
a public hearing at
within fifteen (15)
By: Lesdays of sale, other- the reg ular meeting of the Planning
ley G. King, Clerk
wise Tr ustee may
forfeit deposit. Ad- Commission in the
council chambers in
Publish: April 29
ditional terms to be
announced at sale. The Smithfield Cen- and May 6, 2015
This is a communica- ter, 220 N. Church
L15-51
tion from a debt col- Street, meeting room
A, Smithfield, Vir- 4-29/2t
lector. This notice is
ginia, on Tuesday, ————
an attempt to collect
on a debt and any in- May 12, 2015 at 6:30
p.m. to consider an
formation obtained
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PUBLIC NOTICE
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Isle of Wight
hereby provides notice of intent to consider the following
ordinances and resolutions for adoption at a Special
Meeting to be held on May 1, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. in the
Robert C. Claud, Sr. Board Room on the second floor of
the Old County Administration Building located at 17140
Monument Circle, Isle of Wight County, Virginia 23397:
• An Ordinance approving the County Budget and
Appropriating funds for expenditures contemplated
during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015 and ending
June 30, 2016, and regulating the payment of money out
of the County Treasury.
• An Ordinance to Impose Tax Rates for Isle of Wight
County, Virginia for Fiscal Year July 1, 2015
Through June 30, 2016 at the following rates:
CountyWide Real Estate Tax Rate
$ .85 per $100
Machinery and Tools
$ .70 per $100
Boats, Watercraft and Aircraft
$1.00 per $100
Tangible Personal Property
$4.50 per $100
Watercraft (Vessels and Ships 5 Tons or More)
$ .32 per $100
Utility Companies and Suppliers
½ of 1% of gross receipts
• An Ordinance to Amend and Reenact Chapter 10,
Licenses, Article II. License Tax Schedule, Sections
10-15, 10-20, 10-26, 10-27, and 10-32 of the Isle of
Wight County Code.
• An Ordinance to Amend and Reenact Section 15-5.2 –
Transient Occupancy Tax of the
Isle of Wight County Code.
• Resolution to Approve the Position Classification and
Compensation Plan and Employee Health Insurance Plan
Offerings for Fiscal Year 2015-2016.
• Resolution – Member Contributions by Salary Reduction for Counties, Cities, Towns, and Other Political
Subdivisions (In Accordance with Chapter 822 of the
2012 Acts of Assembly (SB497))
• Resolution – Employer Contribution Rates for Counties,
Cities, Towns, School Divisions and Other Political
Subdivisions (In Accordance with the 2014 Appropriation
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• Copies of the full text of the proposed ordinances are
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