Silverback Distillery Opens and Starts Building

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School Board
Approves New
Fitness Center
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Crozet Elementary School participated in International Walk to School Day October 8, as it has
for the past three years. The occasion builds a sense of community, draws attention to the need
for safe routes to school and encourages early morning exercise for kids. Almost every child at
the school (330 or so) walked or biked to school, either from home or from the Crozet Baptist
Church drop-off point. Principal Gwedette Crummie acted as the crossing guard, wearing her
traditional Crozet Eagle hat.
Does Crozet Need a Community
Development Corporation?
Developer Frank Stoner, who currently controls by contract (but does
not yet own) the former Barnes
Lumber property in downtown Crozet,
proposed to the Crozet Community
Advisory Council in August that
Crozet should form a Community
Development Corporation to help
attract new businesses to the town.
Stoner and White Hall District
Supervisor Ann Mallek jointly hostd a
meeting at the Field School October 2
to introduce Crozetians to what a
CDC is. Their joint sponsorship of
the meeting was noticed by local citizens. Mallek will presumably be voting at some date on Stoner’s plan for
developing the lumberyard and she
appeared to be showing her support
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The Albemarle County School
Board approved a design for a $2.2
million multi-purpose fitness and
physical education center for Henley
Middle School at its October 9 meeting. Construction will begin in early
2015 and is expected to finish by winter of the 2015-16 school year. BCWH
Architects, which has offices in both
Charlottesville and Richmond, is the
project’s designer.
The space will better accommodate
Henley’s growing student body, which
is projected to reach 900 students (up
from 823 now) in the next four to
five years. Currently, four classes at a
time take P.E., and on bad-weather
days, 140 children might be at the
gym at once.
Henley
Principal
Patrick
McLaughlin notes that the children
“often end up sitting and waiting
their turn. We need more space to
have a P.E. program where the kids
can participate a lot.”
The new 7,400-square-foot fitness
center will mean more participation
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Silverback Distillery Opens and
Starts Building More Space
Silverback Distillery opened on Rt.
151 in Afton just before Labor Day
and has already outgrown its space.
New buildings for tasting rooms and
spirit storage are underway. The distillery offers 80-proof vodka named
Beringel, 80-proof gin called Strange
Monkey and 90-proof grain spirits
called Blackback White. Some of the
grain spirits are now beginning the
aging process to become bourbon.
“We’re on Rt. 151 and there were
no distilleries here,” said Denver
Riggleman, who owns the distillery
with his wife Christine, who is CEO
and manages daily operations. “We
got the idea in Scotland. It’s mostly
my wife’s idea. Shout out to her. We
thought we could do it all craft and
make it work. We went to the Isle of
Skye and the Ben Nevis distillery. It
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Crozet Elementary’s Rain Garden Takes Learning Outdoors
By Rebecca Schmitz
A group of nearly 100 students gathered September 30
for a ribbon-cutting ceremony
to celebrate Crozet Elementary’s
new Rain Garden Habitat.
Carol Heiser, a representative of
the Virginia Department of
Game and Inland Fisheries
(VDGIF), who advised and
consulted extensively on the
project, presented Principal
Gwedette Crummie with a certificate acknowledging the rain
garden’s status as a Certified
Schoolyard Habitat, saying,
“You have created a beautiful
habitat, and I am really proud.”
After remarks from Crummie,
Heiser, and second grade
teacher Barbara Huneycutt,
those attending the ceremony
were treated to a scavenger hunt
and tour of the garden. The
chilly weather and gray skies did
not dampen the children’s spirits or diminish their pride in
this vibrant outdoor classroom,
which they spent three years
planning and building.
This patch of land, which was
originally an overgrown biofill
in the back of the school near
the playground, has developed
into a lush, lively habitat for a
variety of native Virginia plants
and animals. The garden is dotted with bird feeders, walking
paths, benches, and even a sundial. A weather station, also
funded as part of the project,
perches on a nearby shed. No
matter the time of year, plants
are always blooming. Butterflies,
toads, birds, caterpillars, and
squirrels are just some of the
animals that make their home
here. Teachers of grades K-5 will
use the garden to enhance their
studies of plants and animals.
The idea for the garden was
sparked by Ms. Crummie.
“When I became principal of
Crozet, I noticed our students’
love for nature, wildlife, and science. At that time, there was a
challenge by the James River
Green Building Council to
encourage schools in Central
Virginia to develop a project or
program to increase environmental stewardship, strengthen
community outreach, encourage creativity and complement
curriculum development. It
sounded like the perfect fit for
Crozet.” She decided to challenge the second graders, whose
science curriculum was heavily
Crozet Elementary Principal Gwedette Crummie accepts a certificate recognizing
the rain garden as a Certified Schoolyard Habitat from Carol Heiser of the Virginia
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. From left to right: Carol Heiser,
Gwedette Crummie, and second grade teachers Adele LaFontaine, Gay Baker, and
Barbara Huneycutt.
focused on plants and animals,
to lead the way.
Guided by second grade
teachers Mara Kuznar, Gay
Baker, and Huneycutt, the students began brainstorming.
Local architect Rob Winstead
met with the children and discussed different ways they could
use the school’s land. While the
students originally wanted a
pond as a habitat for frogs and
toads, they eventually decided
on a self-sustaining rain garden
habitat that would be home to
plants as well as animals. As part
of their research, the second
grade teachers visited the gardens at Monticello, which gave
them “a peek at what the garden
could be,” Huneycutt said. The
teachers applied for and won a
$2,590 grant from The Edgar
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The next year’s crop of second-graders, who are now in
third grade, were challenged by
VDGIF to plant only native
Virginia plants. With guidance
from both Carol Heiser of the
VDGIF and Dorothy Tompkins
of Piedmont Master Gardeners,
the students researched plants
that would grow in the garden’s
environment and voted on their
favorites. Huneycutt noted that
“It was nice to foster their
research skills from the beginning of the year.” They began
removing plants that would not
thrive in the new garden, and
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to
Huneycutt,
“weeded and weeded and
weeded!”
The VDGIF donated 60
plants, and Piedmont Master
Gardeners contributed plants as
well. Parents and teachers volunteered to help, and the kids
and adults spent a full week
planting. “Digging the holes
was pretty hard,” said thirdgrader Haden James. “But I
liked picking out the plants and
putting in the new ones. It was
cool watching the plants grow!”
The students used journals
throughout the year to document their progress. They visited the garden and drew illustrations of plants, labeled them,
and took notes on what they
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The garden continued to take
shape. This year’s second graders
created a walking path using
stepping stones made from recyclable materials and decorated
the stone with colorful painted
handprints. The fifth grade
class of 2014 donated a bench,
also made with recyclable materials.
Cornell’s Lab of
Ornithology gave the school
binocular sets, a bird feeder,
bird seeds, lesson plans, and
home activities for students. A
weather station atop a nearby
shed connects to the Internet
and tracks humidity and temperature.
The students’ pride in their
work is evident. Huneycutt said
students in this year’s class of
third graders “will often point
to a plant and say, ‘This one is
mine.’” During recess, students
often wander through the garden rather than play on the
playground. This year’s second
grade class will continue to
maintain the garden now that it
is completed. The teachers are
also doing a book study on science journals in order to extend
the use of the journals in different ways.
Heiser was quick to point out
the real value of the garden to
the school. “The key is that they
linked this garden to educational objectives,” she said. “It’s
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Distillery
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was the feel of them. They made
things there, and we wanted to
do that in Virginia.”
Riggleman said initial annual
production should be around
300,000 bottles, but he expects
to raise it soon to nearly
700,000 bottles and to reach
1.2 million bottles yearly within
five years. They are about to fill
75 white oak barrels with bourbon that will age for periods of
three, five, seven and 10 years.
“We want to have 1,000 barrels
aging in the next two years,”
said Riggleman. Silverback aims
to meet the standard achieved
by Maker’s Mark. “And we want
our vodka to beat Gray Goose.
Our gin has been compared to
Hendricks.” A distiller for rum
and absinthe is also contemplated.
Christine, joined by Blake
Rhodes, who is in charge of distilling, went to distillery school
in Washington State, which has
many distilleries in operation.
Opening a distillery in
Virginia is not easy, Riggleman
said. “Catoctin Creek distillery
in Crozet
in Purcellville was an inspiration to us. They helped us.
“The regulatory process is
onerous. We opened 16 months
after we incorporated. This is a
$2 million facility. This is no
joke. The gin is made through
continuous distillation in a
24-foot-tall column that was
custom-made for us.” The distillery also has a geothermal system for production chilling.
“We’re green,” said Riggleman.
The distillery’s name comes
from an occasion when
Riggleman’s daughters, who had
learned about Silverback gorillas, called him a Silverback
gorilla when he got angry at
them. “I went gray early,” said
Riggleman. “We named the distillery after that nickname
stuck. ‘Gentle but formidable’ is
the idea about a Silverback.”
Beringel is the scientific name
for a Silverback gorilla,
Riggleman
said.
Strange
Monkey, the name for the gin,
refers to the mandrill monkey
and a Blackback is a young
Silverback whose coat has not
yet turned white.
The distillery offers tasting
flights; state rules allow up to an
ounce and a half per person per
Denver Riggleman
day. It uses an ID system that
scans drivers’ licenses to track
customers’ drinks. Straight
liquor is offered or any of nine
mixed drinks.
“There are certain rules you
have to meet to do tastings,”
said Riggleman, who sold a
defense technology consulting
business he owned before starting the distillery. In two
months, tasting customers have
carried 800 bottles out the door
with them, he said, and tastings
are consuming 30 bottles a day.
The distillery has had three surprise inspections by state ABC
officers since it opened August
28.
Silverback liquors are stocked
in 100 ABC stores across the
state (including Crozet) and
Riggleman expects to be stocked
in all 300 stores by next year.
Virginia’s liquor sales total $2
billion a year.
Bottles of
Silverback vodka and gin go for
$29.95 and a flask of Blackback
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Silverback Gin Distiller
sells for $14.95
“A lot of people want to be
craft and sell in their area. But
we want to be national. Our
liquor is so-o-o smooth. We’re
going for it.” He predicted that
Rt. 151 will soon see more distilleries along it, and he believes
Virginia will soon have as many
as 20. The Rockfish Valley area
has water with the ideal hardness for distilling, he said.
The distillery is federally
licensed and can sell anywhere
in the U.S. It’s only in Virginia
Silverback products
for now, but Maryland and
North Carolina are next, as well
as Missouri, New Hampshire
and Colorado, three states
where alcohol is less taxed and
new distilleries have better economics for getting their liquors
in the market.
“It’s a volume game,”
explained Riggleman. “You have
to sell a lot to make it. We are
not a small distillery. We tried
to grow slowly, but it’s been
explosive. We’re riding a
Silverback without a helmet!”
The available parking for
50-60 cars is being expanded.
Hours are Mondays through
Thursdays from 12:30 to 6
p.m., Fridays from 12:30 to 7
p.m., Saturdays from 11:30
a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sundays
from 1 to 6 p.m. The distillery
is closed on Tuesdays.
“I hope area people will
come, said Riggleman. “Now
we have regular weekly customers. We’re the first real distillery
where you can taste and have
fun. This road will be full of distilleries in 10 years. We wanted
to be first.”
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When Shoes
For earlier generations, everyday life depended mightily on
the talents of those who plied
the blacksmith trade. In the age
which preceded and overlapped
with the advent of the gasoline
engine, it was the blacksmith
and wheelwright who forged,
tempered and sharpened the
everyday hand tools, shod the
hooves of the working beasts,
and built the wagons and conveyances that served the populations.
Antique maps and local road
signage give a nod to some of
those early tradesmen: Bishop’s
Shop, Bowen’s Shop, Critzer’s
Shop, Davis Shop, Link Evans
Lane, Nicksville, Rogers Shop.
Some blacksmiths were born
into the business and learned
their way around the shop at a
very young age. In western
Albemarle County, the 1880
census enumerated William
Day, age 48, as a blacksmith,
and his 12-year-old son William
as a “striker” in the shop.
Twenty-three year old William
Woodson was already sharing
full responsibilities with his
father Benjamin in the elder’s
establishment.
In the Brown’s Cove region,
men in the Batten, Blakey and
Randolph families were working at the forge. Lemuel Shifflett
(1884–1962) had been black-
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Tires Were Made
from
Iron
A rural traveler on a horse with a makeshift saddle had stopped by this blacksmith establishment at Doylesville. Several
bystanders looked on while the blacksmith, with his tool box at his side and a young assistant holding the reins, made a repair
to an iron shoe. [Photo courtesy of Rodney Rich]
smithing near Brown’s Cove
before he bought a plot of land
and built his house and a blacksmith shop near the store at
Mountfair. Woodie Keyton
recalled, “Lem could do most
anything in a shop. He shoed
horses, sharpened knives, picks
and things like that.”
On the west side of the village of White Hall, in an area
traditionally
known
as
Piedmont, the Rev. Charles W.
Skelton (1873-1945) answered
calls for blacksmithing at his
roadside shop in the corner of
Edgar O. Woodson Sr. (1890–1964) represented the third generation of Woodson
family blacksmiths and wheelwrights who worked from that family’s shop at
Greenwood. [Photo courtesy of E.O. Woodson Jr.]
his yard. He and his wife Sally
Ann also rented out apartments
in their two-story house. On
Sundays, he preached at area
churches,
including
the
Brethren congregation that met
at Valley Bethel Church in
Sugar Hollow.
On the other side of the little
village, James Slaughter set up a
shop and became known to all
in the area. Decades later
William Slaughter was still servicing customers at that stand
beside the White Hall School.
Blacksmiths once were as
ubiquitous as country merchants and elementary schoolmarms. Each locality and crossroads seemed to have one—or a
few. At Free Union, originally
called Nicksville for a local
blacksmith, there were R.G.
Ferguson and James Harris.
Around Earlysville in the early
1880s were John Austin, Park
Evans, Theodore Herndon, and
W.N. Rogers.
On the corner in Boonesville,
Minceberry Walton had made a
reputation for good work. Just
up the road toward Gentry’s
Church, Ira Davis was keeping
his forge hot. A.J. Burton and
W.N. Riggles were the smiths of
note at Batesville near Miller
School.
Hiram Chapman Wyant
(1879-1973) came to Albemarle
County from Rockingham in
1910. His son Emory said,
“When our family moved into
Sugar Hollow, Dad ran the
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James G. Klise (1879–1958) was among several blacksmiths who served the village
of Crozet during its formative years. Shop locations included Railroad Avenue
and Carter Street. Klise’s business letterhead featured a machine that assisted the
wheelwright in installing an iron tire onto a wooden wheel. [Image courtesy of
Crozet Print Shop]
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Steve Early
—continued from page 9
blacksmith shop there for years
and did blacksmithing for people all through there, and that’s
the way we learned to know a
lot of them.
“He used an old slave quarters there as a blacksmith shop.
The stave mill sat on our place
for five years. They had two
horses and about eight or ten
mules and he did a good little
bit of work for them. And other
people hauled a lot of timber
and bark out of the mountain,
you know. He would shoe their
horses, build wagons, wagon
wheels, the spokes and the tenons and all that. He was real
good at tempering things. Dad
was the only one to have a
blacksmith shop up there
during that time.
“Years back, what they called
the old tilt hammer sat in the
corner of the [Sugar] Ridge
Road. It was a type of old blacksmith shop run by Tom Barnes.
But that was before my time.”
Tom Barnes certainly was
working the forge before
Emory’s “time,” having been
born in 1820 and running
Sugar Hollow’s tilt-hammer in
the 1870s. He was one of many
African Americans working in
the field of blacksmithing.
Race placed no limits on
those desiring to enter the
blacksmith trade. One was as
likely to encounter African
Americans as whites working
hot metal on an anvil. Indeed,
when the need arose for such
services, it was the proximity to
a skilled shop that was a deciding factor, and not the color of
the man swinging the hammer.
Nathaniel L. “Link” Evans (1850-1932) rests outside his blacksmith shop near Earlysville. The inside and outside of his shop had
been weather-sealed with colorful posters from the traveling Sparks Circus. [Photo courtesy of the Early-Shelton Collection]
The physical nature of the work
separated the wannabe apprentices from the workers hardy
enough to endure the rigors.
Rubber tires and mass-manufactured farm equipment, coupled with the affordability and
ease of operation of gasoline-powered tractors, gradually
retired the workhorses to
greener pastures. Calls for traditional blacksmiths were reduced
to such a level that it wasn’t possible to make a living solely with
a forge, anvil and hammer.
In the early 1950s at
Meriwether Lewis School near
Ivy, agriculture teacher E.H.
Puckett still was using the
school’s basement shop to
instruct students such as John
Fisk on the basic skills of blacksmithing. For most students in
his class, the skills and disciplines learned there would be
carried over to other mechanical
trades.
For, as Greenwood’s E.O.
Woodson Sr. had explained to a
1950s newspaper reporter,
For a century, Woodson’s blacksmith shop was located at the corner of Greenwood
Road (Rt. 691) and Greenwood Station Road (Rt. 690), across the road from the
post office and the former Country Store. [Image courtesy of E.O. Woodson Jr.]
“There didn’t seem to be much
future for blacksmiths; the automobile, tractor, combine and
other
power-driven
farm
machinery were here to stay.”
Woodson, a third generation
blacksmith and the last in his
family to work full-time at it,
once had shoed up to 1,200
horses annually. By the time of
that interview, his workload was
half that number and steadily
dropping.
Today, the ones who have
become proficient at the trade of
the blacksmith and wheelwright
of old carry forward a tradition
of service to others and an enviable work ethic that future generations will do well to mirror.
This stone chimney, hidden nearby the Moorman’s River in lower Sugar Hollow,
is believed to have been part of the home of Tom Barnes. Barnes, born in 1820,
operated the old tilt hammer blacksmith works that was in operation there by the
mid-1870s. [Photo by Phil James]
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Sixth Annual Spirit Walk
Victoria Dougherty played tering along the way historical
Mary Sullivan, an Irish woman
figures such as Claudius Crozet,
whose husband was working on Lady Astor, Paul Goodloe
the Crozet tunnel in the 1850s, McIntire, Crozet Gators Boys,
in The Field School’s sixth
Confederate soldiers and others.
annual Spirit Walk Oct. 17 and
The tour ended at the Field
18, a tour of Crozet history in School where hot apple cider,
which school parents and local
donuts, baked goods, and the
citizen impersonated people
Field School’s homemade apple
from Crozet’s past.
butter were available.
The Spirit Walk began at the
“We at the Field School take
Field School, where guests were
great pride in being a part of the
greeted by a ghostly guide who
Crozet community and are passhared tales of old Crozet on the
sionate about preserving and
short bus ride to The Square.
celebrating our community’s
From there they walked back history,” said Todd Barnett,
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CDC
—continued from page 1
for Stoner’s plan, which was
rejected by the Albemarle
Planning Commission in July.
“This is not a standard CCAC
meeting,” observed CCAC chair
Meg Holden. “Ann Mallek and
Frank Stoner spearheaded this.”
About 45 attended the meeting,
including several CCAC members.
Stoner arranged for a former
business associate of his, Nate
Cunningham, who has experience with a CDC in Pittsburgh,
East Liberty Development, Inc.,
to make the presentation.
“I have a unique perspective,”
said Cunningham. “I’ve worked
on the non-profit and on the
profit side of a community
development corporation in a
distressed neighborhood.” He
no longer works for ELDI.
Pittsburgh’s East Liberty
neighborhood, a section of
downtown Pittsburgh, has
about 8,000 residents. At the
birth of the 20th century it was
bustling and prosperous, indeed
it was the wealthiest neighborhood
in
the
country,
Cunningham said.
But its grandeur decayed in
the post-World War II suburbanization of America and in
the 1960s one million square
feet of buildings in East Liberty
were flattened in the name of
urban renewal.
“Your community should not
be the implementers of the
vision,” Cunningham said. “The
community is the supervisor of
the vision. They are the stewards
of the master plan.”
Cunningham said realizing a
vision requires planning, advocacy, facilitation and investment. “You have to have a plan
that’s marketable,” he said.
Essentially, one has to understand what population densities
are necessary attract certain
types of development.
Mallek offered that one thing
a CDC could accomplish is
“cross-testing
the
[Crozet
Master] plan against the market. We order steps in the plan
to get them done.”
The essential purpose of a
CDC is to secure grant funds
from government agencies, such
as affordable housing grants,
and then loan that money to
private developers, Cunningham
explained. He called a CDC “a
conduit” and referred to developers as “trusted partners.”
CDCs are typically associated
with blighted urban areas where
private investors are not
attracted.
What CDCs in greater
Pittsburgh did to get started,
Cunningham said, was attract
grants, often multi-year grants,
from a private foundation in the
city to give money for two positions in the corporation and for
those persons to hire consultants who in turn pursue federal
grants. “Don’t staff up,” he
advised.
Cunningham said that when
ELDI has tried to accomplish
projects on its own, “it has
ended up being nearly existential for us.” After 30 years on
the scene, the ELDI built up “a
reputation and authority based
on
performance,”
said
Cunningham. But there are
failed
CDCs
“all
over
Pittsburgh,” he acknowledged.
“Having a CDC is having a
group that is always there to
ensure the community’s vision
is being carried out,” said
Cunningham.
CCAC members looked at
each other as if to say, “Isn’t that
our job?”
“A CDC gives a developer
somebody to operate with to
represent the community,”
Cunningham said.
The 15-member CCAC, a
cross-section of Crozet citizens
appointed by the county
Supervisors, has historically
served in that role, too, as
Stoner knows from his appearances before the council.
“My best advice is go to an
expert and figure out if you have
the population you need.”
CCAC member Leslie Byrnes
asked if CDCs are ever created
for rural areas.
“This investment strategy is
applicable irrespective of the
goals of the community,”
Cunningham answered.
“Our area is not a good comparison to Pittsburgh,” observed
Richard Pleasants, who is considering trackside locations in
Ivy and Crozet for a new wind
turbine part factory. “It’s overkill for a community like this. It
didn’t attract me. Private investment will come to Crozet.”
CCAC
member
Kim
Connelly asked for advice on
how to attract start-up grants to
create a CDC.
“This may seem sideways,”
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NOVEMBER 2014
them on to private
developers.”
“I don’t want to
see another organization,” said Loach.
“We have the [new]
library
today
because of plans we
made in 1993 and
we stuck to.” He
suggested
that
because a CDC
Nate Cunningham could have money
to give out, it would
have
more
leverage in impleanswered Cunningham, “Start
mentation outcomes than the
with the priority that has the
CCAC’s judgments would.
most passion in the community.
“What I see is interesting,”
That’s what will attract state and
said
Mallek. “We haven’t had
federal grants.”
the knowledge of where to go.
“Is there something that says
“There is grant-receiving ability
what the key steps are?” folat the county,” she agreed.
lowed up CCAC chair Meg
“I don’t in any way want to
Holden.
supercede the community,” said
“There’s so much capital in
Cunningham. “Not supercede,
real estate that it’s easy to get a
but strengthen. Get a financial
slice for the community,” he
stake in what’s happening.” He
said. “Political campaign contrisuggested that Crozet hire conbutions can make things hapsultants who would do local
pen. CDCs accelerate the sucmarket testing.
cess of private developers.”
“How do you get the plan
“We have a vision and a plan.
you can implement?” asked
It’s won national awards,” said
Stoner.
Tom Loach, the planning com“There has to be a level of
missioner for White Hall
trust,”
said Cunningham. “The
District. “Population-wise we
only way to have trust is to
are near build-out with what we
share the same vision. If you
have already approved. Would a
don’t share a vision, don’t partCDC overshadow the CCAC in
ner.
leading growth? A CDC exists
“The best way to get collaboto attract growth. It’s a cannon
ration [from a private develto kill a fly.”
oper] is to be in the financial
“You have a lot of the elepartnership,”
Cunningham
ments
already,”
agreed
said. “This tool has been sucCunningham. “A CDC is a way
cessful for us.”
to launder grant money. CDC
“We don’t need more growth
staff members focus full time on
in
Crozet,” said Russell Gough.
how to implement the plan.”
“The feds have the money
“Can the county go after
and we have to get it,” rejoined
these grants?” asked Connelly.
Cunningham.
County economic develop“It comes with strings,”
ment facilitator Susan Stimart
Gough replied.
was in the audience and said,
“Oh, yeah!” said Cunningham.
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NOVEMBER 2014
Batesville Market Pumps Life Back into Historic Village
David Struminger, his wife
Stacey and his brother Alex have
bought the Page’s Store building
in Batesville and opened
Batesville Market to serve the
village in a traditional country
store style, reviving a sorely
missed gathering place for area
residents.
Struminger, who owns a
house in Batesville he retreats to
on weekends from his family’s
business in Richmond, said,
“We always hoped that someone would take the ball and run
with it [after Plank Road
Exchange closed 16 months
ago], but no one would.”
So they picked up the challenge themselves. “When was
closed, we missed it,” he said.
“We want it to be all about
the community,” explained
Struminger. “This is about taking the store back to its original
roots. Respecting the building is
important to us. We don’t need
it as our sole source of income.”
They launched on Batesville Day
last month to help the people
who were making apple butter.
“Just seeing the smiles on
people’s faces as they come in
and hearing people connect as
neighbors is what it’s all about,”
said Struminger. “And being
able to get milk and eggs here
can save people 45 minutes of
driving.”
The Market will host musical
performances
every
other
Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.
(musicians have been booked
through January) and he hopes
Batesvillians will use the
store for things like book
club meetings. A photography exhibit is displayed
on one wall above a wide
ledge with bar seating.
Since they now own
the building, which dates
to 1880, they have
addressed drainage prob-
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installed a new generator so that
the store can’t be forced to close.
They put a very long table they
call a “community table” in the
center of the main room.
They have printed T-shirts
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front and they’ve made an oval
car sticker that reads “BVL.”
“We try to buy all the local we
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Ponytail Drive Raises Hair
Donations for Cancer Victims
David A. Maybee, DDS
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$775,000,000
is the annual
consumer spending on
toothbrushes.
From left, Elissa Simpson, Isabel Freisitzer, Scout Colomes, Lydia Garner, Maeve
Winter and Greta Bollmeier
More than 30 people donated
hair to provide wigs for cancer
sufferers at an event held at
Western Albemarle High School
Oct. 5. To be useful for wigs,
each person had to sacrifice at
least eight inches of hair. Some
donors had been growing their
hair out for this purpose.
Western
students
Cara
O’Connor and Clare Paxton
organized the ponytail drive to
be part of the Pantene Beautiful
Lengths campaign, which is
sponsored in partnership with
the American Cancer Society.
Two local cancer sufferers
told the hair donors how much
wigs had helped them to feel
normal while undergoing cancer treatments that caused their
hair to fall out.
Western’s Scholastic Bowl Team
Ranked Second in Nation
Western Albemarle High
School’s scholastic bowl team,
the reigning state champion, is
ranked second in the nation as
this year’s competition begins.
Western won all 20 of its regular season competitions last year
and at the state tournament
earned the highest score of any
team in any classification.
More than 5,000 high
schools across the country compete in the high school quiz
bowl, which tests students’
knowledge of academic subjects.
In May, Western finished second in the nation in the
Partnership
for
Academic
Competition
Excellence’s
national scholastic championship in Reston, winning 16 of
19 matches. Senior Eric Xu was
the tournament’s high scorer
with 2,770 points, finishing
more than 500 points ahead of
the next highest scorer. Xu also
notched the second highest
National Quiz Tournament single-game score of all time.
“In addition to the academic
side of this, quiz bowl competitions teach students other lifelong skills that contribute to
their personal and professional
growth,” said team coach Eric
Strzepek, a Henley Middle
School
history
teacher.
“Students learn the importance
of research, of working in teams,
of performing well under pressure, and of course, hard work.”
The top-ranked quiz bowl
team in the country is the
Liberal Arts & Science Academy
in Austin, Texas, which
Newsweek recently cited as the
eighth best high school in the
country. One other Virginia
school is ranked in the top ten,
Maggie Walker in Richmond,
in ninth place. Albemarle High
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Missett; Patrick Andrews; Sam
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Muhannah Hossain.
Western began its state title
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City High School, squaring off
in separate rounds against teams
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upcoming events
NOVEMBER 8
Second Saturdays
Artist Reception
Art on the Trax (the gallery at
Creative Framing & The Art
Box in Crozet) will host “Maine
and Other States of Mind” by
Tim Michel during the month
of November, with a Second
Saturday Artist Reception on
November 8, from 4 to 6 p.m.
The Art Box’s famous ice cream
sundaes topped with fruit from
local orchards will be served.
NOVEMBER 9
Warrior Healing
Campaign Kick-off
The
Warrior
Healing
Campaign is a Charlottesville
charitable foundation that tries
to connect veterans returning
from the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan with resources
available to them in Central
Virginia. The group will host a
kick-off event at King Family
Vineyards in Crozet Nov. 9,
beginning at 5:30 p.m., in a
fundraising campaign to help
the Richmond Fisher House, a
21-unit facility that provides
free lodging to families of veterans who are being treated at the
McGuire Veterans Administration
Medical Center in Richmond.
One hundred percent of money
raised will go to the Richmond
Fisher House.
Virginia’s
Secretary
of
Veterans and Defense Affairs,
Secretary John C. Harvey, Jr.,
will be the keynote speaker.
APimento Catering will serve
an assortment of appetizers and
tend an open bar. Tickets are
$30 per person and are non-refundable. Space is limited.
For more information, visit
the Campaign’s website: www.
warriorhealingcampaign.org.
NOVEMBER 15
Yard Sale Benefit
for St. Jude
The 5th annual St. Jude
Rummage Sale and Silent Auction
will be held November 15 at
Misty Mountain Campground.
All proceeds go to St. Jude
Children’s Hospital. There will
be a silent auction, bake sale
and much more. Hours are
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Misty
Mountain Campground is on
Rt. 250 just west of Interstate
64’s Crozet exit.
NOVEMBER 15
Rockfish Nights
Rockfish Nights, the Rockfish
Valley Community Center’s
annual fundraising gala, will be
held November 15 from 5:30 to
10:30 p.m. at the center.
The evening will feature
Gypsy jazz by Le HotClub (featuring Rick Olivarez), dinner by
The Invisible Chef and a carnival of festivities, including a
silent auction, Tarot readings by
Elizabeth Ferrall, a Wheel of
Fortune and the Pot of Gold
Challenge.
Tickets are $45 for RVCC
members
and
$50
for
non-members.
NOVEMBER 16
Crozet Community
Orchestra Concert
The Crozet Community
Orchestra will perform a free
public concert November 16 at
6 p.m. at Crozet Baptist Church
on St. George Avenue. Program
highlights include Vaughn
Williams’s English Folk Suite
arranged for orchestra and several movements from the Opera
Carmen by Georges Bizet, with
local guest harpist Virginia
Schweninger.
October marked the first
anniversary of the formation of
the CCO, which performed its
first concert in December 2013.
The
Crozet
Community
Orchestra Chamber Players
(CCOCP), a performance
ensemble, will soon be available
for non-profit fundraisers or
private events. More information is available upon request.
The CCO has openings for
string players and a bassoonist
and is also seeking an assistant
percussionist. If you are interested in playing, volunteering,
or making a donation, please
contact Denise Murray at [email protected]. The mailing
address
for
the
Crozet
Community Orchestra is P. O.
Box 762, Crozet, VA 22932.
The CCO is now an IRS designated 501(c)(3) tax-exempt
organization.
NOVEMBER 18, 19, 20
Supervisor Ann
Mallek Town
Hall Meetings
White
Hall
District
Supervisor Ann Mallek will host
three town hall meetings in
November to discuss the county’s Five-Year Plan process and
to receive constituent feedback.
The Five-Year Plan is a financial planning process that brings
together the three major components of the County budget—schools, general government, and capital improvement—to balance anticipated
revenues and expenditures for
the next five years. The plan creates a framework for annual
budget development.
All citizens are encouraged to
attend these meetings.
Tuesday, November 18, 7 – 9
p.m., at Henley Middle School
in Crozet (hosted jointly with
Samuel
Miller
District
Supervisor Liz Palmer)
Thursday, November 20, 7 –
9 p.m., at Broadus Wood
Elementary
School
in
Earlysville, (hosted jointly with
Rio District Supervisor Brad
Sheffield)
Saturday, November 22, 10
a.m. – 12 p.m., at White Hall
Community Center
NOVEMBER 23
Schola Cantorum
Concert
Schola
Cantorum
of
Waynesboro will present “Sing a
Mighty Song,” a program featuring music by Honeggar,
Finzi, Hanson, Gawthrop,
Whitacre and others, under the
direction of Jesse Hopkins,
Sunday, Nov. 23 at 3 p.m. at
First Baptist Church, 310 S.
Wayne Avenue in Waynesboro.
The concert is free.
DECEMBER 6
United Methodist
Women Bazaar
The Crozet United Methodist
Women of CUMC will have
their annual Christmas bazaar
on Saturday, December 6, in
the church social hall from 8
a.m. to 12 p.m. There will be
homemade baked goods, white
elephant treasures, a breakfast
café and 15 vendors with a wide
variety of items.
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The Market at amFOG Specializes
in Local Organic Foods
DENTISTRY FOR KIDS, YOUNG ADULTS & CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
John and Tracey Hill
amFOG market on Rt. 151
in Afton has reopened under
the management of John and
Tracey Hill with an impressive
assortment of locally raised
organic foods.
“We have organic meats and
no-spray vegetables and lowspray fruit,” said John Hill.
“Everything’s from our own
community in Nelson and
Albemarle. We want to support
local farmers and we want to
help people get healthy food.
This stuff is beyond organic,”
said Hill, gesturing at a case
containing pork, chicken and
beef, “because it’s raised to
higher standards than organic
standards.
“We had struggled to find
good food in one place. We
don’t want sprays on our produce. It’s turned into so much
more. For this food, you’d have
to go to the farmer. Some of our
farmers have greenhouses so we
hope to have their produce
through the winter.” A chalkboard near the register named
16 local farms whose products
were available that day in the
store.
“We want to promote these
farmers. They don’t resort to
chemical practices in order to
keep yields up. We want people
to know who they are and who
we are buying from. For them,
the farmers need markets where
the prices support them rather
than being forced into wholesale and discounted prices that
undercut them,” said Hill.
“Our customers get excited
when they see what we have.
They say, ‘We so need this, what
you’re doing here.’”
Hill said he will have
Virginia-grown Christmas trees
available on the day after
Thanksgiving.
Both Hills are working at
other jobs, too, and they have
three kids. They hope the market will one day be their only
job.
The market’s hours are
Wednesdays through Fridays
from noon to 6 p.m., Saturdays
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
Sundays from noon to 5 p.m.
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8:45 and 11:15 a.m.
NOVEMBER 9 • 10:30 A.M.
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one heart — many voices
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Western Albemarle Third Quarter Real Estate Report
Housing Sales in Crozet Suggest Stabilizing Market
By David Farrell
Ferrall@
crozetgazette.
com
A year ago a
national debt ceiling debate loomed,
and 30-year mortgage rates were
about 4.375. The Crozet
Streetscape construction was
still being planned, and Crozet
area properties were selling
briskly at increasing prices.
And today? For now there are
no national borrowing issues,
though our national debt continues to grow seemingly
unchecked to alarming new
proportions. Mortgage interest
rates are at their lowest point of
the year, near 2011 levels and
far off the predicted 5 percent
level many analysts thought we
would see by year’s end (In fact,
current stock market gyrations
and slowing growth worldwide
seem to indicate that interest
rates will stay low for the foreseeable future). Street construction in downtown Crozet is
thankfully over, and properties
continue to sell well in Crozet,
though at leveling volumes and
prices.
A total of 77 residential properties sold in the third quarter
in Crozet, up three transactions
from the same period last year.
Three were for over $1 million
(and those are excluded from
the statistics reported here).
There were two land sales in the
quarter, both down Craigs Store
Road below Batesville.
According to the recent Nest
Realty third-quarter market
report, in the Charlottesville
market overall there were 7 percent fewer transactions in the
quarter (see attached five-yearsales chart provided courtesy of
Nest Realty), though 7 percent
more contracts written, which
bodes well for the coming quarter(s). The median sales price
was up 8 percent to $290,000,
but inventory was up 11 percent. In Crozet we had 4 percent more sales in the quarter,
and the median price rose 3.5
percent to $381,000. The number of inventory units is down,
but compared to the number of
sales, the actual months of
annual inventory ticked up to
9.57 months at quarter’s end.
There were only two short/foreclosure sales in the quarter,
compared to four at the same
time last year, a downward trend
that hopefully will continue. So
while Crozet continues to buck
the trend on number of sales in
the area, we see inventory building, which is consistent across
the Charlottesville market.
Digging into the numbers in
Crozet, we find that 60 detached
properties sold during the quarter. A quarter of these were for
properties of an acre or more, a
slightly higher amount than the
20 percent pretty consistently
experienced in previous quarters
for these properties, which are
typically in outlying areas.
Thirteen sales were for new construction, with six sold in Old
Trail, four in Wickham Pond,
and three in Foothills. With the
addition of Grayrock North and
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Haden Place, these are the current new construction neighborhoods for detached housing.
The average price per square
foot for detached houses was up
5 percent to $158; the average
price was up 8 percent to
$436,000. Properties sold at an
average of 98.25 percent of list
price. This figure varies in accuracy because many new houses
sell for more than the initial
asking price due to buyer
upgrades, which skews the average upwards. At quarter’s end,
there were 9.7 months of inventory of single family houses,
down slightly from the last
quarter and the same time as
last year, but still far off the
industry average of 5-6 months
for a balanced market.
The third quarter saw a large,
41 percent drop-off in sales of
townhouses. This is due in part
to lack of selection (only Old
Trail and Haden Place offer new
townhouses), but also to shifting demand. Of the 13 total
sales, five of them were for new
homes, four in Old Trail and
one in Haden Place. The re-sales
were mainly in Old Trail, but a
few sales occurred in the
Highlands, Parkside Village,
and Clover Lawn. The average
price per square foot for these
units
remained
mostly
unchanged at $148 per sq/ft.
The average price remained
essentially unchanged at around
$279,000.
Last year at this time, Crozet
house sales totaled 207 for the
year. Through the first three
quarters this year, there have
been a total of 178 sales, a 14
percent decline. As the fourth
quarter is not typically a busy
sales period, it seems likely that
total sales for the year will be
under last year’s 256 total. If
that is what happens, we’ll see
the first year-to-year decline
since 2008.
But at the end of September,
85 properties were under contingent and pending contract; if
most of these close, and some
additional sales come in, we still
could top 2013’s figure.
Where we go from here
remains to be seen. If inventory
continues to build and sellers
are trying to achieve unreasonable (compared to similar sold
properties) pricing, sales may
continue to slow down. But
with mortgage rates sticking
closer to 4 than 5 percent, more
buyers may decide now is the
time to buy.
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Tabor Presbyterian Church (USA)
Worship Service
Sundays • 10:30 a.m.
FOLLOWED BY FELLOWSHIP
Rev. Dr. Jewell-Ann Parton, Pastor
Traditional in worship, Prgressive in outreach, Inclusive of All
by John Andersen
Take on a Challenge;
It Can Transform You
Fifteen years ago, I was getting ready to embark on my first
true endurance activity, “24
Hours of Canaan”—a 24-hour
mountain bike relay race taking
place at Canaan Valley Resort in
the mountains of West Virginia.
I had been putting in hours and
hours of training in the mountains outside of Blacksburg,
where I was living at the time,
and physically felt in good
shape. Mentally however, I
really wasn’t sure how things
were going to go, as this was so
much more than I had ever
done before in one day. Doubt
was creeping in, but the excitement of a challenge and adventure kept me moving forward to
race day.
While expressing this doubt
and excitement to a friend of
mine at the time, he told me a
story that has since stuck with
me. He told me that in ancient
Japan, the Samurai warriors of
the time were required to complete an arduous test of their
physical and mental strength
once a year. Each year, these
warriors would set out on their
own, on a long trek to Mount
Fuji, and then up to its summit.
Their journey was not only difficult physically, but through
their trials and sufferings it
proved to be just as difficult
mentally as well. These “trials
of the mountain” made the
Samurai truly great warriors.
He told me there was a Japanese
name for this test that translated: “to climb an impossible
mountain once a year.”
I have since completely forgotten the Japanese word and
have to admit that these things
were being discussed in a bar,
and the whole story may very
well be a fabrication! But still,
it’s a powerful story, isn’t it?
Once a year, going on a journey
that is so physical and mentally
demanding that you will be a
changed person at its completion! Trial of the Mountain.
Fifteen years later, I remember this story as I get ready to
run my goal trail race of the
year. The training for and completion of this race is not unlike
the Samurai’s challenge. I
started my trek five months ago
as I started ramping up mileage
and figuring out a training routine that will weave into the
tight family schedule. I had to
persevere through travels, illnesses, work and family commitments. I walked the fine line
of injury, not enough sleep, and
too much stress. But I held
toward that goal and was able to
come out of the woods.
Completing the race itself is
akin to the Samurai climbing to
the summit. It’s going to be difficult, and I might fail to finish
or meet my time goals that I’ve
worked so hard for. I won’t
know what it’s like at the summit unless I get there. I’ve got
to trust my training and have
confidence that I can do this.
After all the training and hard
work, sometimes it’s our mind
that keeps us from the summit.
This leads me to consider,
why the heck do we do this stuff
anyway? Why step out of our
perfectly nice and easy comfort
zone? Running races and doing
challenges won’t pay any bills
for 99 percent of us, so why are
more and more Americans running marathons and half-marathons every single year?
My theory is that there is a
basic human emotional need
—I’m not sure there is a name
for this either —but a need to
feel challenged, physically and
mentally. 2000 years ago, everyone was challenged physically
and mentally regularly to simply
stay alive. Food, water, shelter,
basic health were the basic
needs. Survival was certainly
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An Outreach of Tabor Presbyterian Church
Upcoming Events
Nourishing the Mamas Workshop
Sunday, November 2 • 1:00 - 4:00
$35, childcare provided
Come join Ursula Goadhouse, have fun, and be nourished in this experiential
workshop. Connect with other mothers, learn tools for relief from stress,
frustration, and burnout. Relax in a guided healing heart meditation. Drink tea,
eat chocolate. For more info or to register, contact Ursula at
434-964-9565 or [email protected]
Aging in Your Own Home!
Saturday, November 15 • 10:30 - 3:00
Free! Lunch and snacks provided. A free workshop to promote safe homes and
healthy lives for Crozet seniors, their families, and caregivers. Local speakers will
discuss how to make your home safe, how to enhance your physical and mental
health, and how to best manage your finances and legal affairs. To register, contact
Bill or Helen Wanner, 434-806-1013 or email [email protected]
Crozet Community Orchestra Concert
Sunday, November 16 • 6:30
Held at Crozet Baptist Church, 5804 St. George Avenue
Crozet Community Thanksgiving Service
Sunday, November 23 • 7:00
An ecumenical service, including performances by the
Crozet Combined Choirs, Crozet Community Handbell Choir, and more.
Held at Crozet United Methodist Church, 1156 Crozet Avenue.
Crozet Community Handbell Holiday Concert
Wednesday, December 10 • 7:00
Christmas is the season for handbells! Come hear Christmas music and more!
Refreshment will be served following the concert.
Tools for Thriving During the Holidays,
Not Just Surviving
Thursday, December 11 • 7:00
Take an Eden Energy Medicine break: Easy-to-learn, fun, energy tools for
managing holiday stress, challenging people, and overindulgences. Have a joyful
experience with people of all ages during this workshop! $15 fee. To register,
contact Octavia Alice, EEM Clinical Practitioner/Teacher, 434-996-3199.
R.A.D. Self Defense Training for Women
Saturday & Sunday, December 13 & 14 • 2:00-6:30
$50, or sliding-scale scholarships available. Be prepared for anything. Learn to
defend yourself and be safe. To register for this class, please email Michele at
[email protected] and mention December 12 RAD Class in your email.
The Crozet Combined Choirs
Christmas Presentation
Sunday, December 14 • 3:00
The Crozet Combined Choirs will be performing a Cantata and the Crozet
Community Handbell Choir will be performing some seasonal favorites.
Grief Support Series
Thursdays, January 15 - February 12 • 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
In conjunction with Legacy Hospice. This group is open to anyone who has
experienced the death of a loved one, or is supporting someone who has lost a loved
one, and wishes to enhance healing and find meaning as they move through their
loss. See Crozetcares.com for more details, or call the Tabor office, 434-823-4255.
For more information visit
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Tabor Presbyterian Church
5804 Tabor Street • Crozet
www.taborpc.org • 434-823-4255
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NOVEMBER 2014
U.S. Joiner Employees Walk
for Breast Cancer Awareness
U.S. Joiner employees held
their first "Walk for the Cause"
October 23 as part of Breast
Cancer Awareness month.
Dressed in pink T-shirts, they
left the Crozet Commons
Building on Three Notch’d
Road, walked through down-
town on the new sidewalks to
the Crozet Park, where they had
a very nice picnic lunch and
then walked back to work. They
raised $500 and donated it to
the Virginia Breast Cancer
Foundation.
Eight Screen Movie Theater in Nearby
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Second Annual St. Nicholas
Orthodox Church Golf Outing
The second annual St.
Nicholas Golf Outing was held
September 28 at Old Trail Golf
Course in Crozet. Event proceeds fund the charitable ministries of St. Nicholas Orthodox
Church in Greenwood, and the
parish has since forwarded a
donation of $1,100 to Love In
the Name of Christ (Love
INC.). Many local businesses
and sponsors made donations.
Come for
the Charm
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Longest Drive, the team from
Clyde E. Smith Inc., garnered
first place honors.
The outing featured a
$10,000 hole-in-one contest
sponsored by the Rockingham
Insurance Group, but no one
got to claim it. Following the
golf, there was a fellowship meal
at Restorations Restaurant at
the Old Trail Clubhouse.
Model Homes Open
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NOVEMBER 2014
Thanksgiving Eve Dinner
The
problem
with
Thanksgiving is that while
you’re racing around on
Wednesday evening trying to
get ready, and you’ve probably
worked all day, and you’re hoping you haven’t forgotten anything, your family is looking at
you and saying, “What’s for
dinner?”
Right. What’s for dinner on
the night before Thanksgiving?
My go-to recipe follows. I
learned about this rather late in
life, while attending my Aunt
Lillian’s funeral in Chicago. The
widower, my Uncle Alfonso,
was joined by my father Joe, my
Uncle Tony and my Uncle
Chuck. After returning from
the funeral home they were all
in the kitchen cooking lentils
and pasta. I said, “Dad only
makes lentil soup—-where did
this lentils and pasta come
from?” The three uncles looked
a little shocked and told me that
my grandmother Rose made it
all the time. That day while the
Zito men were cooking, Uncle
Tony was assigned to prepare
the pasta and he was dutifully
breaking long pieces of spaghetti into shorter pieces
because “we couldn’t afford to
buy dittalini and so if she
needed smaller pasta, mom
always just broke the spaghetti
up before she cooked it.”
I can afford orzo, so that’s
what I’m using here. Suit yourself!
My son Mark called ‘The
Cooking Hotline” (that would
be me) a few months ago and
said “Really—is this all there is
to it? It is so delicious, it can’t
be this simple and have this few
ingredients.”
But it is that simple. And
aren’t we all thankful?
Lentils and Pasta
Serves six pre-Thanksgiving family members
2 cups lentils
Enough water to cover about an inch over the lentils
1 large onion cubed
2 large carrots cubed
1 T salt
Separate pan of six cups salted water
1 cup orzo
Olive oil
Romano cheese
Combine the lentils, onion, carrots and salt and boil
gently until the lentils and carrots are tender, about 40
minutes.
While it is cooking, in a separate pan, boil six cups of
salted water. Add the orzo and cook for 15 – 20 minutes.
Drain the orzo, return to the same pan and drizzle some
olive oil on top to keep it from sticking. Don’t add it to the
lentils or it will absorb all the water and you end up with a
sticky mess.
To serve, put about half a cup of orzo into each individual person’s bowl, and ladle a scoop of the lentils (should be
soupy). Each person can then add a drizzle of olive oil and
some grated Romano at the table.
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Bringing the best of two beautiful
worlds together.
Saturday, Nov. 8 • 7 p.m.
ERIKA RASKIN
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Saturday, Nov. 15 • 6 - 8 p.m.
YOUNG ADULT MOVIE
& BOOK CLUB NIGHT
Read the book, then watch the movie.
Discussion follows. Bring a blanket & a
pillow & wear your PJs! Reserve a space
and receive 10% off the book!
The Fault in Our Stars or Divergent.
Vote on it!
Young Adult readers of all ages welcome
Sunday, Nov. 30 • 6:30 p.m.
KIDS’ JAMMY PARTY
with Emily Gary & Tom Proutt
Put on your jammies and come listen to
Emily and Tom play and sing songs from
their new book and CD, Goodnight Songs,
with songs by Margaret Wise Brown
November 29 is
Small Business Saturday!
Please support our local businesses!
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When
I
adopted
my
first dog Kaya,
you could tell
she hadn’t spent
much
time
indoors.
She
was about 9
months old and a nervous
wreck. She had no idea what
couches were and would never
consider getting up on a bed. It
was as if she was on her best
behavior, hoping not to be sent
back to the shelter.
Fast forward 10 years and the
daily routine before leaving the
house had become stacking up
all the cushions on the couch so
we didn’t come home to find
the old girl sleeping soundly on
the couch and leaving one of
her classic drool marks.
It all started one fateful day
when I literally had to pick up
this young dog against her will
and lay her on the couch next to
me as I watched some TV.
Granted, I was a student and
bachelor at the time, and the
only sentimental thing about
that couch was that I picked it
out at the Goodwill all by
myself. I just really wanted a
couch buddy at the time.
But soon, despite the initial
anxiety of being where only
humans are supposed to sit,
Kaya began to get the hang of
it. Fast-forward 10 years:
“Honey, did you put the plastic
down on the couch before you
left? Did you put the gates up?”
Don’t get any bad visuals of
my house. It is of course spotless with two dogs, a cat and an
8-year-old boy. Not a single dog
hair out of place, couches in
pristine condition, stair banisters all smooth and unchewed
on, carpets free from stains.
Those without pets are perhaps now saying to each other,
“See, we’re never getting a dog!”
But the pet owners are saying,
“Don’t forget about chewed up
table legs, vomit in the back seat
of the car, and destroyed door
jambs!”
It’s amazing what we will put
up with to be with these hairy,
drooly, dirty, chewing, scratching, vomiting creatures we call
pets. We love them to death, yet
are constantly having to redefine our standards of “clean,”
“new,” and “hypoallergenic.”
Dogs and cats are sure to leave a
permanent mark on your heart,
but may leave an even larger
one on your home. But they’re
worth it. We don’t know why. It
doesn’t make logical sense when
we try to explain to our nonpet-owner friends, and there are
times when we question it ourselves. But they’re worth it.
For many of us with mature
pets who are well set in their
ways, we’re probably stuck just
trying to remember to put the
cushions up on the couch and
close the bedroom door. We
know we can never let our guard
down but we have perhaps lowered our standards a little.
But for those of us with puppies or newly adopted dogs, it
really is important to try and
prevent bad habits early. Even if
you are reading this in your
bachelor pad on a 30-year-old
vinyl couch, don’t let that puppy
up there! Consider a time eight
years from now when your
spouse will blame you squarely
for your dog leaving drool spots
the size of dinner plates on a
new couch. Thinking of letting
that cute puppy sleep in the
bed? Consider the future when
your spouse is tired and not
sleeping well and there isn’t
enough room in the bed for the
three of you. I’ll bet the one
who gets kicked out only has
two legs.
It is rewarding to spoil our
pets for some reason. I suppose
it’s as simple as their loving us
makes us feel better about ourselves. But try and remember to
think about some of the decisions you make with these
young pets and how they could
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NOVEMBER 2014
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La Joya Restaurant Coming
to Old Trail Village
Eva Alvarez of La Joya Restaurant
Eva Alvarez, who began La
Joya Restaurant on Fifth Street
in Charlottesville five years ago,
will open a Crozet location in
the space formerly occupied by
Anna’s Restaurant in Old Trail
Village. Alvarez said she expects
to open there in mid-November.
“We want to come because
we think a lot of people want
another Mexican restaurant in
Crozet,” she said. Her son Erik,
who also has a painting business, will manage the restaurant’s early hours and she will
come out from Charlottesville
to handle the later hours while
another son, Isael, will take over
the Charlottesville location.
Alvarez said the fare will be
typical Mexican with some
Salvadoran dishes, too. She said
customers’ favorite dishes at the
original restaurant include
nachos texanos, tacos al pastor
and carnitas.
Partitions will be added at
the new location as well as a bar
and TVs. It will have 30 tables
and 120 seats.
Hours will be 10:30 a.m. to
9:30 p.m. on weekdays, 10:30
a.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Fridays
and Saturdays, and from 10:30
a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sundays.
SPCA Offers Free
Spaying of Feral Cats
The
CharlottesvilleAlbemarle SPCA offers free
spay/neuter services for community/barn (feral) cats living
in Albemarle County and the
City of Charlottesville.
Free services include: the
spay or neuter surgery (kittens
must be at least two months old
and weigh two pounds to be eligible for surgery); FVRCP and
Rabies vaccines (kittens must be
at least three months old to
receive Rabies vaccinations);
post-op
pain medications; and
ear tipping
of the cat’s left
ear to indicate
sterilization.
Other medical treatments
may be available for a small fee.
If your community cat is in
need of additional services,
please inquire at the SPCA front
desk when you drop the cat off
for surgery. Please withhold
food from cats the night and
morning before surgery.
Community/barn cats can be
dropped off for surgery at the
SPCA Monday-Friday from
8:15 a.m. to noon. No appointment is needed if you’re bringing fewer than five cats on any
given day. All feral cats must
arrive in a cage. For large colonies of cats or if you require free
trapping assistance, call the
community cat manager at
(434) 466-3065 to make reservations.
Crozet Office:
(Above Mountainside Grille)
375 Four Leaf Lane Suite 201-4
Charlottesville, VA 22903
434-823-4793
[email protected]
Waynesboro Office:
(Across from Zeus Theater)
201 Osage Lane Suite 4
Waynesboro, VA 22980
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NOVEMBER 2014
BY DR. ROBERT C. REISER
[email protected]
The Real Killers
“Hey,
Dr.
Reiser, are you
prepared to take
care of an Ebola
patient?” the ER
charge
nurse
asked me recently.
Old Trail Village, 1005 Heathercroft Circle, Suite 400,
Crozet, VA 22932
The CCC in
Crozet is going
to close at the
Old Trail location
on October 31.
(434) 823-7896
Visit our other clinics in Waynesboro:
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URGENT CARE
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but he did not read it.
Next, when nurse Nina
Pham came down with Ebola,
the head of the Centers for
Disease Control, Dr. Thomas
Frieden, asserted that she had
made an error in adhering to
Uh oh. the hospital protocol for caring
I scanned the computer for Ebola patients. In fact, the
tracking board in the ER, look- issue was the hospital protocol,
ing at the complaints of the which was inadequate, conpatients waiting to be seen. stantly changing
Back pain- denies travelling and not welloutside of country or exposure drilled. Dr.
to person from or who has trav- Frieden later
eled outside of US who has a p o l o g i z e d
been ill.
after hearing
Leg pain- denies travelling from many
outside of country or exposure nurses nationto person from or who has trav- wide, includeled outside of US who has ing this remarkbeen ill.
able statement put
Penile discharge- denies out by the nurses at the Texas
travelling outside of country or hospital where Thomas Duncan
exposure to person from or who had died: “In the end, the
has traveled outside of US who nurses strongly feel unsuphas been ill.
ported, unprepared, lied to, and
Hmmm. We seem to have deserted to handle the situation
added a few questions to the on their own.” usual triage complaint since
And yet when nurse Amber
Ebola has come to the U.S. Vinson took to a plane, Dr.
That’s good. But I did not see Frieden was quick to put his
anyone listed who appeared to foot in his mouth again, saying,
be at any risk of Ebola.
“She was in a group of individ“Well, Dr. Reiser, do you feel uals known to have exposure to
prepared to take care of an Ebola. She should not have
Ebola patient?”
traveled on a commercial airA small group of nurses had line.” Later that same day it was
subtly gathered within earshot revealed that the CDC had
to hear my answer. Since cleared her to fly when she
Thomas Eric Duncan fell ill in called in to report a low-grade
Texas from Ebola, nurses have fever.
taken the brunt of the blame for
In contrast, Kent Brantly, the
allowing Ebola to gain a foot- doctor who had contracted Ebola
hold in the U.S. First it was caring for patients in Africa,
alleged that although a nurse was widely hailed as a hero.
had taken Duncan’s travel hisSo I had the background to
tory from Africa, she had not hazard an answer. Nurses
alerted the doctors caring for nationwide were mad as hell.
him on his first ER visit when “Well, Christine, I have not
he was mistakenly sent home. received any training, if that is
This was simply not true. The what you are asking.”
doctor caring for Mr. Duncan
I could see the nurses’ satishad the information recorded in faction with my answer, sharing
the electronic medical record, and confirming their feelings of
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being unprepared. I probably
should have stopped there.
“But I do know that as a doctor, if something goes wrong, I
should blame the nurses.”
The hot, incredulous looks I
got lasted only a moment before
everyone dissolved into laughter. Crisis averted. I had not
wanted to leave the discussion
on the previous negative note.
Since then, U.Va. hospital has
offered training in the current
CDC protocols for caring for a
potential Ebola patient. Time
will tell how it is going to
go. The training includes
instruction in donning and
doffing head-to-toe personal
protective equipment (PPE).
The PPE donning and doffing is
always watched by a second clinician who is vigilant for any
breaks in the barrier protection
protocol—any body areas not
covered or contaminated with
body fluids.
As I write this I am actually
on a double self-monitoring
regimen myself. In the
past two weeks I have
been exposed to a
patient with active
pulmonary tuberculosis and a
patient
with
potential MERS,
the Middle Eastern
Respiratory Syndrome, which
carries a mortality rate of 30
percent.
Tuberculosis is an old
acquaintance for me, having
been treated successfully for TB
in the distant past and exposed
multiple times since then.
Familiarity breeds equanimity I
suppose. But to put TB in perspective with Ebola, worldwide
9 million people will get TB
this year and 1.5 million will
die. So far 5,000 people have
died of Ebola. Where is the outrage, the fear about TB?
MERS is a flu-like illness
with cough, fever and severe
respiratory distress, first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012. In
the two years since then, seven
hundred cases have been diagnosed, almost all of them in and
around the Arabian peninsula,
and almost all of them with
some direct connection to Saudi
Arabia. There have only been
two cases in the US, both of
them in health care workers
returning from patient care
duties in Saudi Arabia. They
both did fine.
NOVEMBER 2014
MERS is caused by a newly
discovered virus in the coronavirus family. Like Ebola, it is a
zoonosis, a disease that jumps
from animals to humans. Like
Ebola, the animal vector is likely
bats, specifically Egyptian tomb
bats. Can you think of anything
spookier than an Egyptian tomb
bat? From there, human-to-human spread is possible, like Ebola.
We were notified by a local
primary care doctor that our
patient was inbound with a
fever and shortness of breath
after a flight home from the
Mideast. We consulted our hospital epidemiologist and huddled with staff to put together a
plan. Despite the unfamiliarity
of the disease and the rather
fearsome mortality, there was
no hesitation on the part of the
staff to step up and care for the
patient.
As we were gowning up, I
noticed how careful and meticulous each team member was
being in the application of their
personal protective equipment.
It was clear the Ebola training
was carrying over to current
clinical practice.
As we donned our PPE, a
small knot of ER staff gathered
around us. As befits a senior clinician I rather casually donned
my gown and mask. After all, I
was an old hand at this. Unlike
most of our staff, I had not yet
had my PPE training.
A tech stepped up to me and
solemnly handed me eye protection and motioned for me to
put it on. That was new. I felt
someone tugging at my neckline from behind, snugging up
and straightening out my gown
on my shoulders. It was a clerk
from registration. A nurse
checked my waist tie and redid
it to her satisfaction. I felt like a
toddler being dressed up to go
out and play in the snow. Once
fully gowned, we inspected each
other for any lapses in barrier
protection. Good to go. We had
each other’s back.
I realized then that we all
were prepared to take care of an
Ebola patient, the way the ER is
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Yes, Eat Local, And Eat
Seasonal, Too
[ by elena day • [email protected] \
A
number
of
articles
found
their
way across my
“desk” (computer) this past
month
that
were troubling food for thought.
I read about the pig poop
from the hog operations in eastern North Carolina. The Tarheel
State, well known for fine barbeque, boasts a population of
8.9 million hogs and 9.8 million people. North Carolina is
the second largest pork producer in the U.S.
Since the 1980’s, hog farming has evolved into huge agribusiness operations providing
cheaper meat for a pork-hungry
U.S. and, more recently, Asia.
(Note that the Chinese bought
Smithfield in 2013.) Hogs
spend their lifetimes in metal-roofed barns chomping on
who knows what kind of indus-
trially-dictated feed and laced
with which weight-enhancing
chemicals and antibiotics. The
concentrated waste of thousands of hogs is washed into
lagoons. Lagoon water is then
sprayed on farm fields.
Contamination
of
water
resources is difficult to avoid.
Another article reported that
between the 1960’s and 2000’s
Americans became 24 pounds
heavier and one inch taller. An
average man currently weighs
194 lbs and an average woman
weighs 165 lbs. One third of
our children and teenagers are
overweight. Five reasons were
listed for the general population’s over-weightedness.
Antibiotics are routinely
given to livestock to produce
rapid weight gain. Antibiotic
residues in meat and milk do
the same to people. Other
weight-increasing drugs that
might figure into population
obesity are Ractopamine (marketed as Paylean for pigs,
Optaflexx for cattle and Topmax
for turkeys) and hormones used
by cattle growers such as oestradiol-17 and zeranol, among
numerous others. The hormones are banned in European
countries.
Pesticides and endocrine disrupters such as BPA and
Triclosan (found in Colgate
toothpaste and some dishwashing detergents, of all things),
artificial sweeteners or sugar
substitutes, and government
and industry advertising roundout the “five reasons” we are
bigger than ever.
Researchers claim that sugar
substitutes slow metabolism,
but even worse, they train people to crave sweets.
Government groups like the
USDA warn people about highfat, obesity-linked foods. The
USDA, however, created a
group called Dairy Management
which, with 162 employees,
helped Pizza Hut, Taco Bell,
Domino’s and the other usual
suspects “cheesify” their menu
options in order to increase
milk sales. Although Dairy
Management is mostly funded
by dairy farmers, it received
$5.3 million from USDA in
one year to promote an overseas
dairy campaign. It is noteworthy that the yearly budget of
USDA’s Center for Nutrition
Policy and Promotion that heralds better diets for all is $6.5
million.
I am a proponent of eating
locally, but probably more, of
eating seasonally. For example, I
feel that asparagus as a menu
option year round is not appropriate (and neither is the availability of heavily-pesticided
California
strawberries).
Asparagus is grown year round
in Peru’s arid, and thereby irrigated, coastal strip. Peru supplies most of our fresh asparagus, other than that harvested
in season from April, in the
eastern United States, to July in
our Midwest. California produces the bulk of U.S. grown
asparagus with a season that
extends from late February to
early June and a secondary season in September/October.
Peru has a skewed income
distribution translating into
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Crozet Dog Becomes Literacy Specialist
Crozet has its own certified
therapy dog. Lucy went from
being a stray on the roads to a
helper in a reading program at
the Crozet Library coordinated
by Rhonda Johnson.
Lucy is a serene Black
Labrador mix with a soft, shiny
coat. She and her owner, Crozet
resident Ellen Braun, work
together twice a month with
local kids in the Crozet Library.
Lucy is focused on kids learning how to read, Braun said.
She loves kids and likes to listen.
Many therapy dog and handler pairs visit settings like hospitals and nursing homes, where
patients or residents might miss
their own pets and get a sense of
comfort and love from the visits. Well-established research
shows that therapy dogs help
the healing process, said Braun.
Interactions with therapy dogs
lower stress, lower anxiety levels
and may increase levels of hormones associated with healing.
There’s medicine in a little
unconditional love.
This same unconditional love
helps kids develop their reading
skills. Lucy listens as youngsters
read to her; she does not judge
or correct. The reading sessions
at the Crozet Library are usually
one-on-one and range from 15
to 30 minutes for kids 6 to 12
years old. Braun stays close by
and helps Lucy focus. Lucy cuddles with some of the kids, leans
on others and sits calmly next to
some, listening. When things
work best, each kid tells a favorite story to Lucy, as if he or she
is the teacher and Lucy is the
student, which helps build the
child’s confidence.
To get Lucy ready to start
training as a therapy dog, Braun
worked with her on basic obedience training. Lucy had been a
stray and was adopted through
Greater Richmond Lab Rescue
at one year of age. Partly because
of her background, it took
steady work over a year to build
trust and ensure that Lucy could
be handled in unpredictable circumstances. To get certified as a
therapy team, Braun and Lucy
completed an obedience test
and a series of observed nursing
home visits with an experienced
dog trainer who volunteers as a
tester/ observer for Therapy
Dogs, Inc.
Therapy Dogs, Inc., is one of
a number of organizations that
certify therapy dogs to make
sure the dogs are fit, healthy,
up-to-date on vaccinations and
able to function well in clinical
settings. It is a non-profit with
national reach and over 12,000
dog and handler teams.
The Charlottesville Albemarle
SPCA gives important support
to area therapy dog teams
through a program, led by
Kaicee Robertson, that helps
match volunteer therapy dog
teams with local organizations
for service.
Therapy dogs are different
than service dogs. Service dogs
are bred for specialized roles
such as support dogs for people
with visual or hearing impairments. Service dogs undergo
years of training. Therapy dogs
are usually family pets trained
by their owners. They spend
most of their time as family
pets. Many are mixed-breed
Lucy
dogs from shelters or rescue
organizations. Braun said Lucy
is like other Crozet dogs; she
naps on the couch, madly loves
the sport of tennis ball, and
swims at Mint Springs.
Sign-up information for
reading sessions with Lucy is
available at the Crozet Library
front desk, or by calling the
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With an Emphasis on the Latter
by Clover Carroll | [email protected]
If
you’ve
ever had the
pleasure of seeing the 1955
Broadway
musical Damn
Yankees, you
may remember Lola singing
about her exploits in “Whatever
Lola Wants” and “A Little
Brains, a Little Talent,” lyrics by
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross.
Lola, an alluring witch played
by Gwen Verdon in the film version, entraps men into signing
their souls over to the devil (Ray
Walston) by seducing them.
(The show is considered a modern retelling of the Faust legend
in the context of baseball.) In
the latter song, she explains her
methodology: “It’s no great art,”
she croons to her latest victim,
Joe (Tab Hunter), “gettin’ the
heart of a man on a silver platter: a little brains…. a little talent—with the emphasis on the
latter!” This former/latter construction is further celebrated
later in the song, with “There’s
no trick gettin’ some hick who is
cool just a little warmer! A little
talent… a little brains—with
the emphasis on the former!”
The formality of this word pair
contrasts with the sultry, vampish style of the song, adding to
the humorous effect.
Sadly, the words “former”
and “latter” are rarely heard in
our conversation or media these
days—probably because people
have forgotten what they mean
or how to use them. Grammar
Girl (www.quickanddirtytips.
com) even recommends avoiding them altogether, because
they confuse the reader. I hope I
can persuade you not to listen
to her! The meaning of this
sometimes confusing word pair
is really very simple. They are
almost always used to distinguish between two choices.
“Latter” means “last one” and
“former” means “first one.” So
in Lola’s case, the second mentioned of her two skills is talent
(and by talent, Lola of course
means sex appeal). Former, as a
counterbalance to latter, means
the first mentioned of the
two—once
again,
talent.
Knowing how to use former
and latter can come in very
handy, and add elegance to your
writing, when you are comparing, choosing, or explaining the
relationship
between
two
things. Of course, “former” also
has its more commonly used
meaning of past or previous (as
in “former governor Mark
Warner” or “she is a mere
shadow of her former self ”).
For example, I plan to cook
two pies for Thanksgiving this
year: pecan and cherry.
Everyone likes the former, but
the latter is my personal favorite. The “former” refers to the
first item mentioned, namely
pecan pie, whereas the “latter”
refers to the second item mentioned, that is, the cherry pie.
Most cooks these days choose
store-bought pie crusts over
homemade, but I still prefer the
latter (i.e., homemade). On
Thanksgiving Day, we will
gather around the fire, whether
it be a gas or wood-burning fireplace. It is hard to choose
between these two; the former is
easier, but the latter more picturesque. In the interests of
concision, the “is” in the second
clause can be considered
implied, and is therefore
dropped. Between erring and
forgiving, the former is human;
the latter, divine. Faith, hope,
and charity are virtues, but few
possess them—particularly the
latter (OED).
This word pair can be especially useful to replace a pronoun whose reference would be
unclear by itself. If I were to say,
“when
I
discussed
our
Thanksgiving menu with Lucy
and Martha, she felt that two
pies would be enough,” you
would not know which “she” I
meant—Lucy
or
Martha.
However, this confusion would
be avoided if I said instead,
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discussing
our
Thanksgiving menu with Lucy
and Martha, the latter felt that
two pies would be enough.”
Now we know that it was
Martha, not Lucy, who was
miserly in her pie planning.
Of course, these two words
may also be used independent
of each other. Both have their
origin in Old and Middle
English; “former” is derived
from foremost, while “latter” is
closely related to later. Latter is
an old-fashioned word that is
fading from use, but was once
more widely used to refer to any
subsequent item or second part.
The “latter born” referred to the
second child. “Latter days” is
often used to refer to the end of
life or even the end of time,
leading up to judgment day.
“For I know that my redeemer
liveth, and that he shall stand at
the latter day upon the earth”
(Job 19:25, King James Bible).
James Joyce even plays with the
potential for confusion in
Ulysses: “The former returned
to the latter a sum of money
advanced by the latter to the
former.”
There are many instances of
this word in this month’s outstanding Crozet Library Book
Club selection, The Woman in
White, published in 1869 by
Wilkie Collins. “During the latter part of their journey they
were alone in the carriage” and
“Miss Halcombe went at once
to the offices of Messrs. Gilmore
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7 Paints dilettantishly
11 Clock radio abbreviations
14 Maine national park
15 Salt Lake state
16 Garfield or Snoopy
17 Many thanks in Kyoto
19 Ingested
20 Radiation amt.
21Furnace
23 Fish to filet
26 Many thanks in Berlin
29 Gaits before gallops
31 Mama _____
32 Road rubber in England
33 Remove from pawn
35 DNA changed foods with
label issues
38 Many thanks in Provence
43 Hammer or sickle
44 Jewish religious leaders
46 Medieval guitar kin
50 Shout of approval for matador
52 Say grace
53 Many thanks in Kenya
57 Shah home, once
58 Anglican parish priest
59 Rocky projection
61 Chicken coup?
62 Many thanks in Milan
68 Surrendered at Appomattox
69 Base opposite
70 Voices
71 Fmr. French flier
72 “_____ got a ticket to ride”
73 Lace or grommet
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2 Green intro
3 Pork with eggs or cheese
4 Measures distance driven
5 He doesn’t let truth get in
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47 Employments
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56 Dispute
60 King to Guinevere
privately?
63 Assume the
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64 NFL scores
65 Ending for schnit,
tea, or ha?
66 Enrage
67 Superlative ending
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4 Orange or apple ____
5 Strawberry Pop ____
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Eat Seasonal
—continued from page 26
plenty of low-wage workers.
Crystal Valley Foods controls 90
percent of Peruvian asparagus
production. It is a Florida-based
company founded in 1994 to
supply specialty vegetables in all
seasons
from
Peru
and
Guatemala, and now Mexico.
Its other products include
French fillet beans, snow peas
and sugar snaps, blackberries,
baby vegetables, heirloom tomatoes and colored bell peppers.
There are plenty of vegetables
in the autumnal season with
which we could reacquaint ourselves. Our diet would benefit.
The vegetables would likely be
fresher and at peak nutritionally. Less fossil fuel would be
expended to transport asparagus
and other “specialty” vegetables
by air from South and Central
America.
Local agriculture is rising to
the challenge. Maybe it helps to
have a drought in California. A
green grocer quipped to me
recently that you can’t get any
good organic lettuce out of
California
these
days.
Remember, the coastal plain of
the Carolinas once supplied our
Eastern cities with their salad
greens and cole crops into
autumn and then again early in
the spring.
Collards, kale, mustard
greens, and even turnips are
making a comeback. The
smaller Japanese salad turnips
are crunchy and appealing.
Radishes, which seemed to have
suffered a 15-year hiatus, are
once again included in green
salads. Nowadays green salads
comprise not only lettuce, but
arugula, mache, orache, mizuna,
and a host of Asian greens, all
cool season crops. I find that
cabbages, broccoli and cauliflower grow well into early
December here in Charlottesville.
Of course, there has never been
a problem with cabbage storage.
Other vegetables and fruits
that store well include apples
and pears, numerous varieties of
winter squash (not just butternut), potatoes and sweet potatoes. Of these vegetables, sweet
potatoes are my favorite. This
year we had a bumper crop,
with some sweet potatoes as
large as a baby’s head.
It is believed sweet potatoes,
Ipomoea batatas, originated
somewhere between Mexico’s
Yucatan Peninsula and the
mouth of the Orinoco River in
Venezuela. They may have been
domesticated as early as 5000
years ago. Ipomoea is the genus
of morning glories and the
sweet potato flower resembles a
morning glory.
Polynesians
traveling to and from South
America likely spread the tuber
to Hawaii and other Polynesian
Islands and New Zealand from
coastal Peru/Ecuador. Sweet
potatoes were introduced into
China in the late 16th century
from the Philippines and into
Japan in the early 18th century.
There was a northerly expansion
into the southeastern U.S. as
well. Until the mid 20th century they were a staple in U.S.
diets, especially in the Southeast.
As we became more affluent,
sweet potatoes were overlooked.
Today we know full well their
versatility. They can be roasted,
pureed, baked, grilled, and
added to soups and stews. They
are rich in vitamins B6. D, C,
potassium, beta carotene and
other carotenoids and magnesium, the so called “relaxation
and anti-stress mineral.” They
grow easily even in poor soils
from cuttings.
In Asia and Africa, the greens
are also consumed. Obviously,
if raised for the greens, the
tubers will not develop as well
or at all. I recently came upon a
two-acre garden dedicated to
growing Asian vegetables in
suburban Falls Church. Most
of the garden was taken up with
sweet potatoes grown for the
greens rather than the tubers.
Note that sweet potatoes are
distinct from yams,
genus
Discorea, native to Africa and
Asia.
The sweet potato is North
Carolina’s state vegetable. So
not only is our neighbor famed
for barbeque, but it also grows
the greatest tonnage of sweet
potatoes in the U.S.
Sweet potatoes can be more
than once a year as traditional
Thanksgiving fare. (often laced
with miniature marshmallows—Ugh!).
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Join the Club?
One advantage of gardening is that it can
be
practiced
solo. No need
to find a tennis
partner or that
fourth player
for bridge. In fact, I suspect
that many gardeners appreciate
the solitude. It’s just you, the
plants, the soil, birds chirping,
the breeze, sunshine, etc. But
there are occasions that we gardeners do want to get together
with our own kind, even if it’s
not while we’re actively engaged
in our pastime. So, where do
we turn? There are many horticultural organizations out there,
although their structure and
mission often differ. But with a
little research or trial and error,
you should be able to find one
that suits your needs.
Starting at the local level,
there’s the community garden
club. These typically focus on
gardening in a development or
neighborhood. For example,
let’s say the residents of
Horticultural Heights are proud
of their community and want to
keep it looking nice. They get
together and share gardening
expertise and plants, perhaps
visit public gardens or host
speakers. (Depending on their
resources, they may have to
depend on pro bono speakers,
however.)
Often they may
undertake the beautification of
a little plot around the sign at
the community’s entrance. And
despite all good intentions,
here’s where they can potentially
run into trouble.
As anyone who has gardened
for a while has learned, maintenance is a key issue for any garden. This can include such a
seemingly simple commodity as
water. Would this garden plot
have water? If not, how it
would it be provided? And then
there is the matter of weeds. If
somebody doesn’t keep after
them, your garden will go to
rack and ruin. Not a good
statement about either your
club or your community. And
even such a seemingly simple
organization as a garden club is
not always easy to hold together.
After considerable initial interest a few years ago, the Crozet
Garden Club could now be
considered semi-dormant, or at
least in a holding pattern.
Some clubs may focus more
on the educational, historical
and social aspects of gardening.
For instance, the Garden Club
of Virginia devotes much of its
resources to restoration and
preservation of the Commonwealth’s many historic gardens,
primarily by organizing Historic
Garden Week. Since 1929 the
club has raised $14.5 million
dollars to restore more than 50
historic properties. There are
47 local clubs throughout
Virginia,
with
three
in
Charlottesville and Albemarle
County.
Not really a club, the Master
Gardener program is run by the
Extension Service of Virginia
Tech; there are similar programs
in most states. As of 2012 there
were approximately 150 volunteers in the local Piedmont
Master Gardeners group. In
that year they gave nearly 8,000
hours of service to the community. For those either new to
gardening or perhaps new to the
area, the Master Gardener
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No Consideration Given to
Bats in Crozet Tunnel
As someone
who
enjoys hiking
and history, I
understand
people’s desire
to open up
the Crozet Tunnel. What I don’t
understand is the lack of consideration for the bats within
this structure, given that many
of the folks pushing for the
opening believe themselves to
be environmentalists.
The animals making use of
the tunnel should be considered
stakeholders as development
continues. With education,
people can understand that they
are sharing the tunnel and why
it is so important to do this.
The reason the fate of these
bats should be of especial concern is because they are under
serious assault by White-nose
Syndrome (WNS), a fungal disease (probably caused by
Geomyces destructans) that has
killed almost 7 million bats in
North America since 2006.
The once-common Little
Brown bat (Myotis lucifugus),
which has been found in the
Crozet Tunnel, has been the
hardest hit of all the species
affected. In some areas, only
about 10 percent of pre-WNS
populations of this bat remain.
Tri-colored (Perimyotis subflavus) and Big Brown (Eptesicus
fuscus) bats have also been documented using the tunnel during
the winter months to hibernate,
and they, too, have been affected
by this disease.
Many years ago, when I first
heard talk of opening the Crozet
Tunnel, I wrote to a Nelson
County Supervisor with my
concerns about the fate of the
bats. His reply was essentially
that there were plenty of bats
and so we didn’t need to worry
about the ones in the tunnel.
I’m sure the Supervisor didn’t
realize that he was echoing the
remarks of a Select Committee
of the Senate of the Ohio State
Legislature in 1857 after a bill
to protect the Passenger Pigeon
(Ectopistes migratorious) was
brought before them.
The committee’s report stated
that “The Passenger Pigeon
needs
no
protection.
Wonderfully prolific, having the
vast forests of the North as its
breeding grounds, traveling
hundreds of miles in search of
food, it is here today and elsewhere tomorrow, and no ordinary destruction can lessen
them, or be missed from the
myriads that are yearly produced.”
At one time the most abundant bird in North America
(numbering in the billions) and
perhaps the entire world, the
last Passenger Pigeon died in
captivity on September 1,
1914—barely more than a
half-century after the committee’s report. Over-hunting and
habitat destruction led to the
bird’s extinction.
Should this matter to
humans? Yes, it should, because
every organism fulfills a function in the environment. And
every time a species disappears
independent of evolution, a
hole appears in the interconnected web of life—in the
pigeon’s case, a hole the size of
half of our continent (the bird’s
geographical distribution).
If such a plentiful species as
the Passenger Pigeon could be
wiped out by a lack of human
concern, then our bats could
certainly follow suit. And bats,
too, comprise an important part
of the ecological web of life that
people depend upon for their
own existence.
Bats are the primary predators of numerous kinds of
insects, which, if overpopulated,
could decrease the quantity of
crops and timber available for
human use. Bats also help to
The author discovered this Tri-colored Bat roosting under the eaves one spring
day on the west wall of her home. Its name comes from the three gradations of
color of each hair on its back: dark brown at the base and tip and yellowish brown
in the middle. (Photo credit: Marlene A. Condon)
limit the numbers of mosquitoes, which often annoy people
as well as sometimes infect them
with diseases.
A decrease in the numbers of
bats will therefore increase the
usage of pesticides—a sure sign
that man has messed up the
proper functioning of his environment—which can be just as
harmful to humans as well as
other non-targeted organisms.
And because birds of prey
and snakes feed upon bats, they
could decline in lockstep with
the decrease in bat populations,
bringing about yet more dysfunction of the environment.
We are just two months
beyond the centennial of the
passing of “Martha”, the named
Passenger Pigeon that was the
very last individual of her kind.
She died at the Cincinnati Zoo,
having spent her last days in a
drab cage bereft of the companionship of another Passenger
Pigeon—a cruel ending for a
naturally gregarious species.
According
to
the
Smithsonian,
“Her
wings
drooped and she trembled.
Keepers had to rope off her cage
to prevent visitors from throwing sand to make her move. She
died in the early afternoon of
September 1, 1914. Her body
was packed in ice and shipped
to the Smithsonian Institution,
where she was skinned and
mounted.”
This account brings me to
tears. I cry, literally, not only for
the individual creatures that
have endured the loneliness of
being the last of their kind, as
Martha was, but also for me,
and those like me, who mourn
the loss of the Eden that was,
once upon a time, planet Earth.
It’ll always remain a mystery
to me why humans deliberately
diminish the beauty of their
surroundings.
I am making a plea for peo-
ple to demonstrate the intelligence that has often been sorely
lacking in the history of this
country. I’d like to think I live
in an area where people are not
only smart enough to share the
Crozet Tunnel with bats, but
also kind-hearted enough to do
so.
We can now understand how
environmental
dysfunction
occurs when species are deliberately wiped out or allowed to
disappear under a false sense
of
unending
abundance.
Interpretive signs outside the
east and west openings of the
tunnel could explain the usefulness of bats and ask folks to
keep their voices low while
inside to minimize disturbance
of these animals.
And under the present circumstances of disease-ravaged
populations, the tunnel should
be closed during the hibernation months of November
through March. Bats cannot
afford to be awakened from
their deep sleep because it
depletes their limited amount of
fat reserves that they need to
survive until spring.
Yes, this is a slight inconvenience, but it will help all of us
to avoid the various negative
consequences delineated previously that will result from
uncharitably insisting upon
using the tunnel year-around.
I hope folks will speak out
against the current short-sighted
and self-serving plans for this
historic structure.
NOTE: Martha is on view at
the Smithsonian through October
2015 in an exhibition called,
“Once There Were Billions.”
Specimens of three other extinct
avian species— the Great Auk,
Carolina Parakeet, and Heath
Hen—accompany her, all representative of human self-centeredness in the land of “plenty.”
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The Halloween snow threats
started back in 2012 with
Hurricane Sandy. Usually, hurricanes are not known for their
snow but Sandy’s strong circulation dragged arctic air down
and mixed it with tropical moisture, dumping two feet of snow
in the mountains of West
Virginia. On October 28th and
29th, we had winds up to
50mph in Crozet and snow
dusted the town. Seven inches
stuck on the ground at
Wintergreen and did not melt
for a week.
Last year, snow fell in Crozet
in a sloppy mix near sunset on
October 24th. It didn’t amount
to anything, but was still notable because of the early date.
Halloween night reversed the
trend and was warm and pleasant.
This year, a cold front came
through Halloween day and the
weather wasn’t too bad. But
Mother Nature had plenty of
tricks for November 1st in the
Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
Snow fell in Georgia and coated
the ground in much of South
Carolina.
The Smoky
Mountains of Tennessee and
Norrth Carolina had up to 22”
of snow. Sugar Mountain, NC,
opened for skiing. That’s crazy,
not to mention historic.
The snow missed Crozet. We
just had a horrendously windy
and cold weekend. Snow did
fall along the Blue Ridge but
didn’t amount to much.
Three years in a row of very
early snow is odd, but weather
is always crazy somewhere. This
stuff just randomly happens and
doesn’t mean much. The craziest early snow around here is
still the “flash freeze” of October
9 and 10, 1979. A beautiful 76
degree day suddenly turned
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Conditions were rainy and
chilly on the morning of Oct.
10 when 147 runners took off
for the Crozet Trails Crew 5K
race, starting from Crozet Park
and risking slick footing on an
out-and-back
course
to
Lickinghole Basin in eastern
Crozet.
Racers sang Happy Birthday
to CTC president Jessica
Mauzy, also presenting her with
a bouquet and a tiara, before the
starting gun sent them sprinting
away. A heavy shower began
almost immediately after the
start. The muddy course had
been painted the night before.
Tyler Stutzman returned first
among men in a time of
17:52.2, just 3 seconds shy of
the course record, still held by
Steve Rosinski. Robyn Browne
was the first finisher among
women at 23:14. They will have
a bridge on a Crozet trail named
for them.
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Finishing second, third and
fourth among men were Nicolas
Dipirro, Mike Fox and John
Ratcliff. Second among women
was Nicola Ratcliff.
Registrations were up by 30
runners over last year. Crozet
Running handled timing and
race management. Western
football players served as course
stewards.
Runners were high-spirited
after race and, as bib numbers
were drawn from a bag, they
claimed 60 prizes donated by
area businesses that back CTC’s
volunteer efforts to build
Crozet’s community trail network.
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Friday Night
Football Wrap-Up
Western’s varsity football
team had a busy October with
five games on the schedule,
including all three local rivals,
Albemarle, Monticello and
Charlottesville.
The
Warriors
hosted
Albemarle for their Jefferson
District home opener, entering
the game undefeated. Junior
quarterback Sam Hearn capped
off the opening drive with a
6-yard touchdown run, followed by a 2-yard scoring run
to give Western an early 8-0
lead. The Patriots would then
put together a scoring drive of
their own, going 62 yards in 15
plays to kick a field goal and
make the score 8-3. But Western
would answered quickly. In just
three plays the Warriors put the
ball in the end zone. The
Patriots scored on the next possession and Western led 15-9 at
the half.
The pace of the game slowed
in the second half, but Western
managed to keep control behind
the strong running of Oliver
Herndon and stingy defense.
Each team scored one touchdown in the half and the
Warriors came away with a
23-17 win. Herndon (20 carries, 157 yards rushing, 2 TDs)
was the key player of the game.
Next the Warriors traveled to
Louisa. The Lions took advantage of Western turnovers and
scored touchdowns on their first
five possessions to take a commanding 32-6 halftime lead.
Hearn found wide receiver
Michael Vale for a 38-yard pass
play to the Louisa 1 yard line,
before punching it into the end
zone for a touchdown run.
Louisa countered with a 67-yard
touchdown drive and never
look back. Turnovers plagued
the Warriors in the second half
and the Lions rolled to a 56-26
win, giving Western their first
loss of the season. Louisa
amassed 377 yards of total
offense, all on the ground. They
only attempted one pass the
entire game.
On the 17th the Warriors
came back home to take on
archrival Monticello. Having
won only one of the five previous meetings between the two
teams, Western was poised for a
big win in front of the
Homecoming crowd. It was an
exciting, back and forth first
half with two lead changes and
six turnovers. Monticello scored
a touchdown with just over 50
seconds left in the second quarter to tie the game 20-20 at the
half.
In the third quarter, Western
seized the momentum. The
Warrior defense forced a three
and out on the Mustangs initial
possession, setting the tone. The
Warrior offense went on a
60-yard touchdown drive to
reclaim the lead 27-20. The
defense (led by tackle Osiris
Crutchfield) then gave the ball
back to the offense. Once again
the Warrior offense scored on a
43-yard drive. Holland Corbett
was good on a 34-yard field goal
attempt, giving Western a 30-20
lead. Monticello answered with
a field goal cutting the Warrior
lead back to 7 points.
Following the Monticello
field goal, Travis Daly returned
the kickoff 89 yards down the
right sideline, breaking tackles
and making defenders miss.
Herndon scored on a 7-yard
run and Corbett’s extra point
kick was good. Warriors 37,
Mustangs 23. After stopping
Monticello on fourth down for
the second time in a row, the
Warrior offense took over.
Herndon scored on the first
play again and extended
Western’s lead to three touchdowns, 44-23. Monticello
scored two late TDs, but it
wasn’t enough. The Warriors
won, 44-37.
Herndon finished the game
with 179 yards rushing and 2
TDs on 16 carries. Hearn added
Sam Hearn snagged three interceptions against Charlottesville. Photo: Ben Hewitt
145 total yards on 9 for 18 passing. As a unit, the defense was
good enough to win, and they
had a huge impact on the tempo
of the game in the second half.
On the 24th, the Warriors
hosted the Charlottesville Black
Knights for their final home
game. Western was too much
for Charlottesville on both sides
of the ball and won 28-7. The
Warriors took a 14-0 lead into
the half on touchdown runs by
Herndon and Hearn. The
defense was stellar, allowing
only 50 yards of offense and
two first downs in the half.
Crutchfield blocked a field goal
attempt by CHS late in the first
quarter.
CHS scored on the opening
drive of the second half but that
was it. Hearn, playing at defensive back, ended Charlottesville’s
last three drives with interceptions.
Next the Warriors traveled to
Powhatan to take on the Indians
with a chance to nab a first place
tie in the Jefferson District. The
undefeated Indians are led by
running back Logan Allen and
he almost single-handedly beat
the Warriors. Allen finished the
game with 5 touchdowns and
350 yards from scrimmage as
Powhatan routed the Warriors
53-16 on Halloween night.
With exceptional speed and
quickness, Allen scored on runs
of 47, 44, 43 and 36 yards and
also scored on a 25-yard reception. He had 303 yards rushing
on 28 carries and 47 yards
receiving on two catches.
It was the second loss of the
month for Western, giving the
Warriors a 7-2 mark overall, 4-2
in the district. Western will
travel to Fluvanna this Friday
(Nov. 7) for their final regular
season game. With a win the
Warriors would be 8-2 and
most likely be at home for a first
round playoff game in the 3A
West Region Playoffs.
A number of first year starters
and young players have stepped
up this season. For the month,
Hearn ran for 303 yards, 6 TDs
and passed for 601 yards and 4
TDs. Wide receiver Vale had 8
catches for 133 yards. Henry
Kreinenbaum had 5 catches for
109 yards and 1 TD while battling a shoulder injury.
Freshmen Derek Domecq had 9
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Families Since 1967
Robert S. Anderson &
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Crozet, VA 22932
Garden
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are required to provide at least
50 hours of volunteer service.
In subsequent years, they must
put in at least 20 hours of service annually and take eight
hours of continuing education.
The takeaway: a good way to
learn about gardening, as well as
a means to meet like-minded
individuals.
Some organizations don’t
involve meetings or face-to-face
interaction but are still worth
looking into. The American
Horticultural Society is based in
Alexandria and makes a laudable effort to represent a broad
spectrum of horticultural interests. Membership in the AHS is
open to all for a modest fee and
will bring you the American
Gardener magazine, as well as
another significant benefit: free
admission and/or discounts at
many of the country’s public
gardens. In most years my AHS
membership has paid for itself
with complimentary visits to
gardens.
The AHS website is also a
useful guide to other horticultural societies, clubs and organizations. What’s the difference
among these? Societies are often
devoted to a certain group of
plants—palms, for example—
or a particular area of horticulture, such as rock gardening.
The Latter
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and Kyrle, to consult with the
latter gentleman.” Collins even
makes regular use of “latterly,”
as an approximate synonym for
“lately,” “[the nurse] was to
mention… that Anne Catharick
had been inquiring latterly
about the distance from London
to Hampshire.” Today this word
would probably be considered
obsolete.
When we think of the many
blessings for which we are
thankful, family and friends
often come first to mind. While
the former traditionally refers
only to blood relatives, the lat-
Clubs, as we’ve seen, tend to be
based more on geography.
Other organizations are not
strictly horticultural in nature,
but provide information on
plants that can be useful to gardeners, for example the Virginia
Native Plant Society. They can
also steer you away from invasive plants that could jump
from your garden and take over
natural areas.
Membership in botanical
gardens such as Lewis Ginter in
Richmond are also worthwhile.
You can visit the gardens as
often as you like and never
worry about paying the admission fee. You’ll also receive a
newsletter, as well as discounts
at classes and in the gift shop.
I have belonged to several
horticultural organizations over
the past couple of decades and
received some benefit from all.
But in all candor, I am somewhat concerned for their future.
Membership in the North
American Rock Garden Society
has declined by half over the
past fifteen years, for example.
Are we in the 21st century really
too busy to garden? Or just too
busy to attend an actual club
meeting, preferring interaction
via social media? Do we really
like gardening and getting
together with fellow gardeners,
or do we just prefer to “Like”
some garden on Facebook?
Virtual gardening? Please.
Work with real plants, and
interact with real gardeners.
ter can often become so close as
to be considered family also. In
giving thanks for the bounty
and beauty of nature, we realize
that the former feeds the body
while the latter feeds the soul.
These usages are not only elegant, they are practical and add
clarity to our writing. I am
thankful for words, and for
grace and elegance in writing;
the more you know of the former, the more you will display
of the latter. This Thanksgiving,
I hope your feast includes the
former, the latter, and everything in between. May your
bountiful table be surrounded
by the love of family and
friends—with an emphasis on
the latter!
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Henley Gym
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and less observation, and will
have room for up to 200 students.
McLaughlin said the new
space will reflect a “modern-day
P.E. program,” and will look
like what students might see at a
commercial gym such as ACAC.
Roger Richardson, a principal
at BCWH Architects, said, “The
project goes beyond just additional space to support physical
education activities. It will support other curricula by promoting and developing health management skills.”
The new space will be divided
into four areas. There will be a
large multi-purpose room,
slightly smaller than Henley’s
current gym. An attached fitness center will house equipment such as weights and treadmills, and provide room for
jumping rope, stretching, and
other activities. It will have a
retractable glass wall that provides a connection to the outdoors and opens onto a courtyard, where students can rotate
to various fitness “stations” and
other outdoor activities. A hallway between the courtyard and
Gazette Vet
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make your life more complicated when they grow older.
Since Kaya, our two newer
dogs have been raised under the
influence of the mistakes we
made with our older dog. No
couch. No bed. Sleep in the
crate. Unfortunately, these two
Football
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catches for 157 yards and 2
TD’s. Wide receiver Scott
Grover had 6 catches for 109
yards and 1 TD and second-year
starter Herndon had 542 yards
rushing, 76 yards receiving and
8 TDs in October.
Defensively the Warriors are
led by Crutchfield, who has 55
tackles (42 solo), 6 tackles for
loss, 2.5 sacks and a blocked
field goal on the season.
Crutchfield has created havoc at
NOVEMBER 2014
the interior of the school will
have writable glass walls on one
side and a writable projection
wall on the other, providing an
area that will “solve our problem of space for P.E., and also
give a learning space to the rest
of the school,” said McLaughlin.
The hallway will also provide a
project/breakout area for use by
the entire school.
Although the fitness center
will have room for weights and
equipment, Richardson said
that “It’s not about pumping
iron—it’s educating students
about what they need to do to
be healthy throughout their
lives.” The designers also incorporated an area into the fitness
room where digital capture
technology will be used as a
teaching tool. Richardson said
that “Digital motion capture
and review will allow students
to not only work on their skills
and maintain physical fitness,
but to understand the science of
physical fitness and body movement.” The motion capture
technology will allow students
to better understand how they
can improve their skills, much
as a golfer would watch a videotape of his or her swing to
recognize how it can be
improved.
somehow were born with the
knowledge that couches and
beds are for dogs to sleep on
and that if you’re going to
vomit, you should really try to
make sure you walk over to the
nice wool rug first. We have a
new set of “home challenges”
with our current pack, but in
the end, we are blessed to be
able to have them in our home
and enrich our lives.
the line of scrimmage. Michael
Mullin is second on the team in
tackles with 41 (31 solo) and 7
tackles for loss. Matthew Mullin
is third with 30 tackles (19 solo)
and 1.5 tackles for loss. Logan
Sprouse has added 30 tackles
and Herndon is fifth on the
team in tackles with 29.
If they can figure out a way
to slow down teams with a
potent running game, they
could advance in the playoffs.
This team has exceeded expectations. Now the question is, can
they take it a step further?
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COMMUNITY EVENTS:
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Blue Grass. Nov. 9, 7 p.m.
Veteran’s
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American Legion Riders,
American Legion Post 74,
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on any of the above events.
CHRISTMAS
BAZAAR
Crozet United Methodist
Women of CUMC will have
their
Annual
Christmas
Bazaar on Saturday, December
6, in the church social hall 8
a.m. - 12 p.m. Come for good
food and Christmas shopping.
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not a “right,” and it was definitely not guaranteed.
This constant challenge kept us sharp, and kept
our physical and emotional parts in balance.
Today, look at our country. According to the
CDC’s tally of anthropomorphic data from 20072010, the average 30- to 39-year-old male in this
country has a body mass index of 29, one point
shy of obesity. Yes, we are incredibly fortunate to
have a mostly unquestionable food supply, basic
health care for everyone, and ample shelter. We
quite literally never have to walk more than about
100 yards at a time, and our bodies show where
this leads us.
But what about our mental and spiritual health?
Are we strong upstairs? Can we handle big problems? Are we ready for major challenges in our
lives? The stresses in life today are very different
from those 2,000 years ago, but are they are just as
real. Taking on your own “Trial of the Mountain”
will make you stronger physically and mentally.
There is a lot of power in that.
I challenge everyone reading this to tackle a
yearly physical challenge. For some this may be a
marathon, triathlon, or half marathon. For others
this may be a 5k or the Women’s Four Miler. For
others it may be losing 50 pounds, or walking one
mile without pain or fatigue. Here is a guide to
help you select the right type of challenge:
It would not be possible for you to do it today.
It will require you to work hard physically to
be able to accomplish this goal.
This challenge should take you several months
if not longer to prepare for. It must take significant commitment.
You will have to rearrange your schedule and
change your life a bit to prepare for this challenge.
It is realistic. Not easy, but realistic.
I don’t care if my friend’s “Trial of the
Mountain” story was true or not, because it was
powerful and meaningful. We have great capacity
to grow ourselves mentally and emotionally if we
are willing to take risks, make mistakes, and overcome obstacles.
“I dare you to train for a marathon and not have
it change your life.” —Susan Sidoriak
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Our residents enjoy numerous services and amenities, including
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