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Thursday, March 19, 2009
•
Kilmarnock, Virginia
•
Ninety-second Year
•
Number 23
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Two Sections
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Increase in crime and
current economic crisis
prompts sheriff’s request
for more funds next year
by Audrey Thomasson
L A N C A S T E R — S h e r i ff
Ronnie Crockett last week
called on the board of supervisors to increase funding for the
county’s law enforcement and
jails.
The request was part of
a planning session for the
county’s fiscal year 2009-10
budget, with departments
and organizations appearing
before county officials with
their funding requests.
According to a 2007-08 audit
report released in January, law
enforcement was one of five
departments that overspent
their budget, causing officials
to dip into the county reserve
account to cover $852,000 in
overages. The report showed
law enforcement overages of
$430,954 accounted for over
half of the total.
Sheriff Crockett explained
that increased crime and economic conditions pushed up
department expenses, including higher prices on fuel for
police vehicles and food for
prisoners. Some 35 inmates are
housed in a jail built to accommodate 26, he said. Increased
crime also used up the services
of two new deputies who were
hired last year to extend the
hours of police coverage in the
county.
“We had to use them to support the additional workload,”
during the existing hours of
service, he said. “I don’t have
enough money. If you can tell
(continued on page A15)
Unemployment continues
to climb throughout the area
by Reid Pierce Armstrong
WARSAW—Northumberland and Lancaster counties
posted some of the highest
unemployment rates in the
region last month, according
to the Virginia Employment
Commission.
Northumberland tallied a
12.6 percent unemployment
rate while Lancaster finished
the month with a 13.2 percent
rate.
Both
figures
represent
approximately a 5 percent
climb in unemployment over
both December 2008 and January 2008.
Both counties have a labor
force of about 5,800 people.
The unemployment figures
mean there are more than
1,500 people out of work in the
lower Northern Neck.
Last month’s statewide
unemployment average was
6.4 percent. All employment
sectors lost jobs in the December-to-January period, according to VEC chief economist
William Mezger.
“Despite a January Virginia
unadjusted jobless rate that
was the highest since June
1992, the state continues to
fare better than the January
2009 U.S. jobless rate of 8.5
percent,” Mezger said.
While
some
seasonal
decreases are normal in January and February, Mezger
theorized that the current
unemployment trend is more
of a reflection on the economy
nationwide.
“The unemployment rate
is likely to remain high
for much of first quarter
2009, slacken slightly in the
spring, then be high again
for the summer as students
and graduates enter the labor
force,” he said.
“Unemployment is usually
highest after the recession
because it takes time for workers to be rehired. Also, it will
take several months for the
stimulus packages to take hold
and work,” Mezger said.
Among Virginia’s 134 individual jurisdictions in January
2009, Arlington County, at 3.7
percent, had the lowest unemployment rate and was the only
one with a jobless rate below
4.0 percent. Williamsburg, at
19.5 percent unemployment,
had the highest January jobless rate.
Twenty-four other state
jurisdictions had double-digit
unemployment, most of them
in the Southside region along
the North Carolina border.
Members and guests attending the Northumberland Association for Progressive Stewardship annual meeting take time to socialize.
Legislators discuss current
Chesapeake Bay initiatives
HEATHSVILLE—Area
legislators addressed the
annual meeting of the Northumberland
Association
for Progressive Stewardship
(NAPS) last Saturday, discussing proposed laws that
could better protect the environment.
NAPS is a community
organization that brings
together farmers, watermen,
businesses, educators, and
concerned citizens to help
protect and enhance the qual-
ity of life in Northumberland
County.
One of the organization’s
key issues is improving the
environmental quality of
the Chesapeake Bay. For its
annual meeting, the group
invited three regional representatives to discuss their
recent efforts to improve the
health of the bay.
“NAPS should be tremendously complimented that
they had all three of these
legislators show up,” said
Del. Al Pollard. “It’s a testa-
ment to the work this organization is doing.”
Sen. Richard Stuart, Rep.
Rob Wittman and Del. Pollard took turns addressing
the crowd of about 50 members and guests.
Fertilizer experts
Sen. Stuart spoke first and
focused on a bill passed by
the General Assembly in
2008 that would restrict use
of fertilizers by those who
work with them for a living.
“People think that the
Waterfowl show is this weekend
T
he Rappahannock River Waterfowl
Show will celebrate its 30th anniversary
Saturday and Sunday at the White Stone
firehouse.
Ninety-six artists and carvers from Vermont
to Florida will participate with original paintings, decorative and gunning carvings, bronze
sculptures, photography and antique carvings.
The Southeast Tourism Society has selected
the show as one of its Top 20 Events in the
South for March. Qualities the society looks
for are the setting, an appeal to a wide audience, the event’s uniqueness, and the quality of
the presentation.
The 2009 Artist of the Year is Ned Ewell of
Prints of this painting by Ned Ewell will be given away each Cockeysville, Md. For the show, he has creday during the 30th Rappahannock River Waterfowl Show ated a painting of a marsh scene like many in
the White Stone area with a great blue heron.
at the White Stone Firehouse.
Inside
n Festival concert:
n Fixer up:
Community endorses
rehabilitation project;
supervisors request more
details...........................A16
n Sans signs:
Irvington Council decides
not to erect new welcome
signs.............................A16
n Call to order:
Planning commissions
for Northumberland and
Lancaster counties to meet
tonight, March 19.........A16
State
semifinals: A11
Business.........B8-9
Calendar.........A2-3
Dr. Richard Baylor receives
Churches........B2-5
Jack B. McConnell
Classified....B11-14
Excellence in Volunteerism
Directory...........B15
Award from the American
Medical Association......B10 Notices............B14
Obituaries.......B3-4
Opinion...........A4-5
Police..................B1
Schools..........B6-7
Sports.........A11-14
Upcoming...A2-3,6-9
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n Doctor honors:
Ned Ewell,
Artist of the Year
School board forwards proposed
$15.4 million budget to supervisors
by Audrey Thomasson
KILMARNOCK—Superintendent Susan Sciabbarrasi
said on Tuesday that Lancaster’s school system stands to
gain approximately $588,000
from the federal government’s
American Recovery Act.
She said the money is specified for two programs at the
schools: $250,000 for Title 1
programs aimed at economic
Lancaster school bands
to present spring concert
tonight, March 19...........A7
Color prints will be given away daily.
Ewell exhibited at the first show in 1980.
This is his 24th year as an exhibitor. He also
was Artist of the Year in 1997.
His interest in wildlife began as a child in
Maryland. His watercolor paintings reflect
his love of his home state whether they are
of marsh scenes on the Eastern Shore, a cold
hunting scene, upland game birds, or a boat on
the Chesapeake Bay, said publicity chair Pat
Bruce.
“The settings and the wildfowl tell a story
that only an artist who truly appreciates nature
and the outdoors can convey to the viewer,”
said Bruce.
Ewell exhibits at major art shows in the MidAtlantic area. His work has appeared on the
at-risk children and $338,000
for special education programs
which could be applied at both
local and regional levels.
Additionally, Sciabbarrasi
indicated the state’s education contribution from the
recovery plan is tentatively
set at $229,000 for Lancaster
schools, although state officials are still working out the
final figures.
Neither the federal or state
money is intended for recurring
programs or teacher salaries
because they are not renewable,
she said.
“We are hoping the funds
will continue, but there is no
guarantee,” she said.
Speaking to the school
board at Tuesday morning’s
budget work session, Sciabbarrasi said she wants to put
most of the state money back
into areas that received heavy
cuts in the proposed budget,
such as materials and supplies,
including replacing old textbooks.
Meanwhile,
the
board
approved the proposed 2009-10
school budget of $15.4 million.
It will now go before the board
of supervisors for a public hearing and final approval.
Northumberland school board expected
to adopt proposed budget on March 25
LOTTSBURG—The Northumberland school board
postponed its approval of the
proposed 2009-10 budget
Monday amid debate on several key decisions, including
combining school bus routes,
shortening the school year,
cutting teaching positions and
giving teachers raises.
While superintendent Clint
Stables has already received
several letters of opposition
regarding the school bus
proposal, with numerous
signatures on each letter, the
board is still seriously con-
sidering the proposal.
Combining routes could cut
time off many children’s rides
to school, Stables said. He said
some students currently ride
the bus an hour and 40 minutes
in each direction.
The combined route also
would allow the board to
reduce by attrition several bus
drivers, save on gas, and reduce
wear and tear on the buses.
“I’d have to run the numbers,
but we could save as much as
$100,000 with the combined
routes,” Stables estimated.
The board could also reduce
a proposed expenditure of
$174,000 to replace two aging
buses.
“I like this idea better than
anything else as far as saving
money,” said school board
member Susan Smith.
Regarding a shorter school
year, teachers and administrators expressed some resonating concern over the concept,
while at least one parent said
she favored the idea.
Under the proposed plan, the
school year would conclude
before Memorial Day, eliminating the final two weeks of
school following the completion of the standardized tests.
Those two weeks are traditionally spent taking field trips and
enjoying less academic pursuits.
Stables anticipates saving
some $80,000 the first year
under the proposed schedule
and an additional $200,000 the
second year.
“We’ve got to make some
sacrifices,” said vice chairman
Myrtle Phillips. “Everybody’s
got to come together and work
with us to do this.”
Stables said the weeks following Memorial Day, when
teachers are still on contract,
Upcoming
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March
19 Thursday
Al-ANON meets at 8 p.m. at
Palmer Hall in Kilmarnock.
No-Name Needlers will
gather at 1 p.m. at The Art
of Coffee in Montross. 4930873.
The Heathsville Forge
Blacksmith Guild meets
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at
Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s
Tavern. 580-3377.
The Rappatomac Writers
Critique Group will meet
at 2 p.m. at Rappahannock
Community College in
Warsaw.
Bill Gurley will be featured
during dinner at The Tavern
Restaurant in Heathsville.
Acoustic Night at Cruisers
Sports Bar in Gloucester.
693-6246.
Duplicate Bridge will be
played at 1 p.m. at the
Woman’s Club of White
Stone. $3. 435-6207.
The Planning Commission
for Lancaster County
will meet at 7 p.m. at the
courthouse in Lancaster.
The Planning Commission
for Northumberland County
courthouse in Heathsville.
The Lancaster Community
Library Board will meet
at 5 p.m. at the library in
Kilmarnock.
The Northern Neck/Middle
Peninsula Chapter of
the Virginia Aeronautical
Historical Society will meet
at noon at the Pilot House
Restaurant in Topping.
Visitors welcome.
AA meets at 8 p.m. at De
Sales Hall and Kilmarnock
United Methodist Church.
The Northern Neck
Chapter of the Virginia
Native Plant Society will
meet at noon at Wicomico
Parish Church in Wicomico
Church. Bring a brown bag
lunch. Beverages and light
refreshments available.
Visitors welcome. Forester
Rich Steensma and forest
technician Mike Aherron
will present an illustrated
talk, “Chilton Woods: Past,
Present and Future.”
A Grief Support Group
meets at 2 p.m. at
Henderson United Methodist
Church near Callao.
The Winter Warmer Series
topic at Belle Isle State
Park will be “Conservation
Measures in Northern
Neck Grain Production,”
by Matt Lewis, a Virginia
Cooperative Extension
agent in Northumberland
and Lancaster counties. The
discussion will begin at 1
p.m. at the Visitor Center. $2
parking fee.
A Vintage Clothing And Hat
Display will be featured at
the Mary Ball Washington
Museum in Lancaster. Host
Roberto Frontera-Suau
will meet with visitors and
answer questions. Museum
hours will be 10 a.m. to
6 p.m. The display will
continue through March 21.
The Lancaster High And
Middle School Bands will
present a Festival Concert at
the Lancaster Middle School
Theater. Doors open at 6:30
p.m. The concert will begin
at 7 p.m.
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Friday
Bingo will be played at the
new firehouse in Lively at 7
p.m.
Celebrate Recovery will
meet from 7 to 9 p.m. at the
White Stone Church of the
Nazarene Family Life Center
at 57 Whisk Drive. 43598886.
AA meets at noon at Trinity
Church in Lancaster and at
8 p.m. at Calvary Baptist
Church in Kilmarnock.
Mr. Entertainment-Glen
Abbott is featured from 5
to 9 p.m. at Kentucky Fried
Chicken on Route 17 in
Gloucester near the old WalMart shopping center.
Used Music will be featured
at Damon & Company in
Gloucester. 693-7218.
21
Saturday
Tavern. 580-3377.
22
Sunday
The Steptoe Brass will
present a free concert at
St. Andrews Presbyterian
Church in Kilmarnock at 2
p.m.
Mr. Entertainment-Glen
Abbott, will be featured at
Kentucky Fried Chicken in
Kilmarnock from 5 to 8 p.m.
AA meets at 7:30 p.m.
at White Stone United
Methdodist Church.
The 30th Annual
Rappahannock River
Waterfowl Show will be
open to the public from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. at the White
Stone firehouse. $8; ages 11
and younger free.
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Tutors with Tails to meet
The next Tutors with Tails will be Saturday, March 21, at 10
a.m. at Lancaster Community Library in Kilmarnock. To register, call 435-1729. Above, from left, Moriah Clarke reads
to Macy the Sheltie and Macy’s owner, Joanne Davis.
21
Saturday
Farmhouse Concerts
presents Steve Smith and
Chris Sanders at 7:30
p.m. at Mary Beane’s
in Miskimon. For
reservations, email
Farmhouse_Concerts@
hotmail.com. Reservations
must be confirmed due to
limited seating. $15.
Jeff Little and his band
will bring the sound of Blue
Ridge Mountain music to
the St. Clare Walker Middle
School stage in Locust Hill
at 7:30 p.m. The concert
benefits the Middlesex
County Museum. Tickets
are $10 for adults and $5 for
students.
Fidgety Brown Band will
be featured at Coles Point
Tavern at 9 p.m.
An Oldies Show will be
featured at 8 p.m. at Donk’s
Theater in Mathews. $12
adults; $2 kids. 725-2766.
donkstheater.com.
AA meets at 8 p.m. at
Irvington United Methodist
Church.
The 30th Annual
Rappahannock River
Waterfowl Show will be
open to the public from 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. at the White
Stone firehouse. $8; ages 11
and younger free.
The Mary Ball Washington
Museum And Library will
host Roberto Frontera-Suau
presenting “Fabulous Hats!
The hat through the ages
as an expression of female
empowerment,” a lecture
and tea from 3 to 5 p.m. at
Trinity Episcopal Church in
Lancaster. $8 in advance,
$10 at the door, space
permitting. For reservations,
call 462-7280.
A CPR And First Aid Class
will be offered by the River
Counties Chapter of the
American Red Cross at 8:30
a.m. Book in advance. For
fee information, call 4357669.
Northern Neck Master
Gardeners will present
“Grow Local, Buy Local, Eat
Local-Food for Thought”
from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at
the White Stone Church of
the Nazarene at 57 Whisk
Driver near White Stone. To
register, call 580-5694, or
visit nnmg.org.
Tutors With Tails will meet
at 10 a.m. at Lancaster
Community Library in
Kilmarnock.
The 52nd Annual You
And I Donation Dinner
will be served at Bethel
Donations accepted.
21
Saturday
The Chesapeake Bay
Dowsers will meet at 10
a.m. at Net Cruisers Cafe
at 8872 Mary Ball Road in
Lancaster. Bill Bonnell will
present an introduction to
dowsing. 462-0220.
The Genealogical Society
of the Northern Neck of
Virginia will meet at 10
a.m. at Grace House at
Grace Episcopal Church in
Kilmarnock. A social period
will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Corn Beef And Cabbage
will be served by Wicomico
and Mila United Methodist
churches from 5 to 7 p.m. at
Wicomico UMC. $10 adults,
$5 ages 4 to 10. Takeout
available. 580-7744.
The Northern Neck
Computer Users’
Group will meet at 9:30
a.m. at Rappahannock
Westminster-Canterbury
near Irvington. The group
will judge the annual
photography competition.
580-8666.
The Come Stitch With
Me Group will meet at the
Transportation building at
the Tavern in Heathsville at
10 a.m. All stitchers, lacers,
knitters are welcome. 5802539.
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Sunday
The Widowed Persons
Service for Lancaster and
Northumberland counties
holds its lunch brunch at
Great Fortune immediately
following church services.
Breakfast will be served
by Animal Lovers of
Northumberland from 7 to
11 a.m. at American Legion
Post 117 in Reedville.
Tickets are $10 for adults
and $5 for children.
Proceeds benefit the
Northumberland County
Animal Shelter.
Monday
Historyland Community
Workshop meets at
Lancaster Woman’s Club
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Brown bag lunch. New
members who will share
crafting skills welcome.
The Historical Society for
Lancaster County will meet
at 7 p.m. at the G.C. Dawson
administrative office in
Kilmarnock. 435-6232.
The Northumberland
Homemakers will meet at
11 a.m. at St. Stephen’s
Episcopal Church in
Heathsville. 580-8613.
Duplicate Bridge will be
played at 1 p.m. at the
Woman’s Club of White
Stone. $3. 435-6207.
Kilmarnock Town Council
town office at 514 North
Main Street n Kilmarnock.
Bridge/Game Day will be
held at the Northumberland
Woman’s Club in Lottsburg.
Free bridge lessons and
practice play from 10 to 11
a.m. Luncheon and full table
play of bridge or games
follows at 11:30 a.m. $7.
529-7029.
Northumberland Public
Library will offer free
assistance for using
the internet to file for
unemployment benefits
and job hunting from 9 to
11 a.m. Reservations are
preferred, but walk-ins may
be served. 580-5051.
“Armchair Adventures
With Henri Rousseau,” will
be presented by Jennifer
Foley, a Paul Mellon
collection educator from
the Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts, at 1 p.m. at the
Rappahannock Art League
monthly forum at the Studio
Gallery in Kilmarnock.
The Lancaster Democrats
Bank of Lancaster northside
branch in Kilmarnock.
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The Kilmarnock & District
Pipe Band rehearses at 7:15
p.m. at Campbell Memorial
Presbyterian Church in
Weems. 462-7125.
Kilmarnock United Methodist
Church.
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804-693-2481
DIXIE DELI: Family owned and
operated (forever!) Serving lunch 5
days a week, Mon-Fri., 10:30-3:00,
Subs, soup, our famous potato &
chicken salad and sandwiches,
50 Irvington Rd., Kilmarnock
435-6745.
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Sunday Champagne Brunch!
Call for reservations. Five course
Italian dinner March 27th & 28th
See website for details: www.
kilmarnockinn.com 34 E. Church
St. Downtown Kilmarnock 804435-0034
LEE’S RESTAURANT: Hometown
cooking and atmosphere in a
popular downtown Kilmarnock
tradition. Full menu, fresh local
seafood in season, homemade pies
made daily, Beer & Wine on premises. (B,L,D) Main St. Kilmarnock,
435-1255
SAL’S PIZZA:Pizza, Subs, Burgers, Dinners, Beer & Wine. Large
parties welcome. Dine in; carry
out. 456 N. Main St., Kilmarnock.
435-6770, 435-1384.
SANDPIPER RESTAURANT: Est.
1982. Casual relaxed dining with
friendly service. Featuring nightly
specials, charbroiled steaks and
fresh seafood dishes. Full menu. (D)
Route 3, White Stone. 435-6176.
SEVEN: a sinful martini bar with
incredible food. Elegant atmosphere and outstanding service.
Open for dinner Thur.-Sat., 5 p.m.
Check out our website for weekly
dining specials. www.WhiteStone
EventCenter.com Located inside
the plush White Stone Event Center. 606 Chesapeake Dr., White
Stone, 435-2300.
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TARTAN GOLF CLUB
Open daily 11-3; Closed Tuesday.
Daily Specials. Homemade Soups,
Salads, Seafood and Sandwiches.
Call 438-6009
TH E STEAM BOAT RESTAURANT: Enjoy casual dining while
overlooking the beautiful Piankatank River Golf Club. We offer a
traditional lunch menu, gourmet
and traditional evening menus and
Sunday Brunch selections. Open
Tues.-Sat., 11:00 am - 2:30 pm,
Thurs., Fri. & Sat. evenings 5:30
pm - 9:00 pm, and Sunday Brunch
10:30 am - 2:00 pm. Banquets,
functions and group outings also
available. Call 776-6589 (Reservations suggested). Located off Rt. 33
at 629, Hartfield, Va.
SWANK’S ON MAIN
MAIN: Continental
dining experience located downtown at 36 N. Main Street. Enjoy
dishes with a southern flair in a
warm and inviting atmosphere
with full bar and an extensive wine
list. Tu-Th. Dinner 5-9, F-Sat. Dinner 5-10; Daily early bird Special
Tu-Th. 5-6.
TH E TAVERN RESTAU R ANT:
Exceptional comfort food in
lovingly restored Rice’s Hotel/
Hughlett’s Tavern, Heathsville.
Homemade breads, soups, desserts, & more. Local seafood &
produce featured. Lunch & Dinner, Wed-Sat. 580-7900.
TOWN BISTRO
BISTRO: Casual upscale
dining in an intimate setting. Featuring a Seasonal Menu of locally
inspired dishes. Open Kitchen. Full
Bar. Dinner Only. Chef owned
and operated. 62 Irvington Road,
Kilmarnock. 435-0070.
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seafood in an inviting riverfront
atmosphere. Thurs. 4-8pm, Friday
5-10pm, Sat. 12pm-10pm, Sun.
11am-5pm. 1947 Rocky Neck
Road, Mollusk,VA. Near Lively.
462-7400.
WILLABY’S: Comfortable casual
atmosphere. Featuring daily chef’s
specials, gourmet burgers & delectable desserts. Eat in or carry out
available. Monday-Saturday 11-3.
Items available for take home until
4:00. White Stone. (L) 435-0044.
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This Friday, March 20, 2009
Upper Lancaster’s New Firehouse.
North of Lively on Rt. 3.
“State of the art” equipment
Doors open at 5:45 pm and games start at 7 pm
To benefit the Upper Lancaster Vol. Fire Department
Area Events
■ Women’s history
Auditions for “Deathtrap,” a
mystery thriller by Ira Levin,
will be held at The Playhouse
in White Stone at 7 p.m. April
13 and 14.
Lancaster Players director John Baumhardt needs
five actors: two males and a
female in their 50s and 60s, a
female in her 40s and a male
in his 20s. No previous experience, appointment or audition preparation is necessary.
Visit lancasterplayers.org for
the roles and story line, or call
Baumhardt at 436-9027.
■ Relay for Life
The 2009 American Cancer
Society Lancaster/Northumberland Relay For Life event will
be held June 20 at Lancaster
Middle School in Kilmarnock.
To register a team, visit relayforlife.org/Lancasterva, or call
the American Cancer Society
at 1-800-240-4227.
Lisa Clegg will serve as the
2009 American Cancer Society Lancaster/Northumberland
Relay For Life chairman this
year. She can be reached at
435-4116.
■ Spring show
The Northern Neck Shrine
Club will hold its annual oyster
roast at 6 p.m. March 31 at the
Lake Cowart Oyster House in
Lottsburg. The “all-you-caneat” menu includes roasted
oysters, fried oysters and hot
dogs.
Tickets are $25 per person.
Tickets are available from any
Northern Neck Shriner and also
will be available at the door.
One free drink with ticket.
■ Gurley featured
NetCruisers Cafe will host
an Open Mic and Featured
Musician Event on March 28.
The Cafe will open at 5:30
p.m. Open Mic starts at 6:30
p.m. and Bill Gurley starts
playing at 8 p.m. The cover
charge is $5.
This community event,
hosted by NetCruisers Café, is
the eighth in an on-going series
Mercy Creek releases CD
for local musicians to be heard
Mercy Creek (above) of Weems recently launched “Another in a relaxing community setPlace To Start.” The new disk marks number five for Cheryl ting. Seating is limited to 45.
Nystrom and Jim Ball. Recorded in Bloomington, Ind., with
Paul MKS Mahern at White Arc Studios, it strikes an acous- ■ Gigantic sale
Grace Episcopal Church is
tic chord with 10 new Mercy Creek songs. In addition to the
familiar guitar, drum and vocals, the sounds include mando- now accepting items for the
lin, banjo, tribal percussion, jug, jaw harp and udo. The disk 21st annual giant yard sale
is available at Mercy Creek performances, C&D’s Records in May 2 at the Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock and mercycreek.com. Upcoming shows locally YMCA Boys Camp.
Volunteers will be at the
include Cafe Mojo’s in Urbanna on May 9, Cafe Mojo’s on
July 4, and Music By the River at Belle Isle State Park on July Boys Camp the last Saturday
in March, and each Saturday
11. (Photo by Amy White)
in April, from 9 a.m. to noon
to receive items. To arrange
■ Lecture and tea
■ Stitchers to meet
pickup of items, call 453-4485
The Mary Ball Washington
Knitters, quilters, crochet- or 436-0165.
Museum and Library will host ers, lacers and needlers are
Roberto Frontera-Suau present- invited to the “Come Stitch ■ Genealogical society
ing “Fabulous Hats! The hat With Me” meeting from
The Genealogical Society of
through the ages as an expres- 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, the Northern Neck of Virginia
sion of female empowerment,” March 21, and other third will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday,
a lecture and tea March 21 from Satudays in the transporta- March 21, at Grace House at
3 to 5 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal tion building at the Tavern in Grace Episcopal Church in
Church in Lancaster.
Heathsville.
Kilmarnock. A social period
Afternoon tea and refreshMembership is open and at 9:30 a.m. will precede the
ments will be served and no dues, officers or programs meeting.
attendees are encouraged to are planned. The Stitchers
The program will be prewear hats. Tickets are $8 in will meet through November sented by Donald M. Robey of
advance or $10 at the door, during Farmers’ Market hours Reedville, who recently pubspace permitting. For reserva- at the Tavern. Members of the lished a study of the George
tions, call 462-7280, or mail a Tavern Quilt Guild host the Washington Memorial in Alexcheck to MBW, P.O. Box 97, group. Call Marion Booth at andria, The Lodge of WashingLancaster, VA 22503.
580-2539.
ton and Its Past Masters.
A Spring Luncheon and Fashion Show will be held at Indian
Creek Yacht and Country Club
near Kilmarnock at 11:30 a.m.
April 14. Fashions are provided
by Wildest Dreams and Dandelion. The “Woman of the Year
Presentation” will be awarded.
Proceeds will help fund the
Northumberland
Woman’s
Club high school student schol- ■ Donation dinner
arship award. Please call Susan
On March 21, Bethel United
at 580-7444 for ticket sales.
Methodist Church on Route
201 near Lively will host the
■ Farmhouse Concert
52nd “You and I Donation
Farmhouse Concerts presents Dinner.” The menu will include
Steve Smith and Chris Sand- fried oysters, country ham,
ers, Saturday, March 21, at 7:30 baked ham, green beans, butter
p.m. at Mary Beane’s in Miski- beans, corn pudding, potato
mon. Smith returns with his salad, cole slaw, lasagna, macamandolin and brings Chris with roni and cheese, pie and ice
her exquisite vocals.
cream. Donations are accepted.
For reservations, email Farm- It’s “All you can eat, for all you
house_Concerts@hotmail.com. can give.”
Reservations must be confirmed
due to limited seating. Dona- ■ Introduction to dowsing
tions are made at the door, $15
The Chesapeake Bay Dowsper person. Dessert and coffee ers will meet Saturday, March
are provided at intermission.
21, at 10 a.m. at Net Cruisers
Cafe, 8872 Mary Ball Road
■ Portraits
in Lancaster. Bill Bonnell
“Heads and Tales,” a rotat- will present an introduction to
ing portrait exhibit, continues dowsing with instructions for
through April at the Virginia basic pendulum dowsing, how
Historical Society at 428 North to make and program penduBoulevard in Richmond. For lums and how to use dowsing
directions, hours and admission to answer questions. New meminformation, call 358-4901, or bers and visitors are welcome.
visit vahistorical.org.
Call Bonnell at 462-0220.
Upcoming
■ Basket Bingo
A Longaberger Basket
Bingo game will be held at the
FVW Post Home on Washington Avenue in Warsaw March
29. Doors will open at 2 p.m.
with games at 3 p.m.
Advance tickets are $12
and may be purchased at
Northern Neck State Bank
branches at Tappahannock,
Warsaw and Montross, or
$15 at the door. Committee
members may be contacted
at 493-8375. Proceeds will
benefit auxiliary community
service projects.
■ Truck raffle
A 2009 Chevrolet Silverado is the grand prize for
the 74th annual Kilmarnock
Firemen’s Festival July 30
through August 8 at the carnival grounds on Waverly
Avenue
in
Kilmarnock.
Raffle tickets are $10 each.
Tickets are available from
any KVFD member.
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24 Tuesday 25 Wednesday 26
Blacksmith Guild meets from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Rice’s Hotel/
Hughlett’s Tavern. 580-3377.
Duplicate Bridge will be played
at 1 p.m. at Rappahannock
Westminster-Canterbury. 4353441.
The Virginia Marine Resources
Commission will meet at 9:30
a.m. at VMRC Headquarters
at 26000 Washington Avenue
in Newport News. Habitat
issues are addressed during the
morning session and fisheries
items will be heard at noon.
Tidewater Resource
Conservation And
Development Council will
meet at 7 p.m. at the RC&D
office at 772 Richmond Road in
Tappahannock. 443-1118.
AA meets at 7 p.m. and at 8
p.m. at Palmer Hall.
The Chesapeake Bay Garden
Club will meet at 1:15 p.m. at
Kilmarnock Baptist Church.
Books Alive will feature
John H. Frye at 7 p.m. at the
Northumberland County Library
in Heathsville. He will review The
Scoundrel and the Spy.
The Kiwanis Club meets
at 7:30 a.m. at St. Andrews
Presbyterian Church in
Kilmarnock.
The Rotary Club for
Kilmarnock, Irvington and
White Stone meets at 12:30
p.m. at Rappahannock
Westminster-Canterbury.
Al-Anon meets at noon at
AA meets at 8 p.m. at Trinity
Church.
The Northern Neck Bay
Tones meets at 2 p.m. at
St. Andrews Presbyterian
Church in Kilmarnock. 4532633.
The Lancaster County
Lions Club will meet at 6:30
p.m. at Rose’s Crab House
in Kilmarnock.
Fine Swiss Cheese will
be featured at Damon &
Company in Gloucester.
693-7218.
Crafters for Haven Sake
will meet from 10 a.m. to
noon at NetCruisers Cafe in
Lancaster. 529-5775.
LPS musical is set
The Lancaster Primary
School Drama Club and
Chorus will perform “Go
Fish!” March 26 at 7 p.m. in
Theater.
The undersea musical is
about a tiger shark who wants
to be friends with all the animals of the ocean. The produc-
tion includes a seven-legged
octopus, a zebra fish with spots,
a blow fish with allergies and
other quirky sea animals.
Tickets are $5 for adults
and $2 for children and students. Tickets can be bought
in advance at LPS or at the
door the night of the performance. Call 435-3196.
■ 50-50 raffle
Thursday
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2009 10 a.m.-12 Noon
Complimentary Working Lunch to Follow
AT THE NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY
COMMUNITY CENTER
676 Brown’s Store Rd, Heathsville, Virginia 22473
The Northern Neck Housing Study Group, a committee
of “Visions – Building Community Assets” invites all
Northern Neck citizens and anyone interested in housing
in the Northern Neck to a presentation of the final report
of the Northern Neck Housing Study. Attendees will
participate in a final discussion of the housing study
and network with others interested in improving Low/
Moderate Housing, Workforce Housing and Elderly
Housing in the Northern Neck. A complimentary
working lunch is included in the program and will follow
the consultant’s report.
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Lancaster Band Boosters
members are selling tickets for
a 50-50 raffle. Tickets cost $5
each. Up to 2,000 tickets will
be sold. Tickets can be purchased at The Oaks Restaurant,
Connemara, the River Market,
Basic Accounting, Radio
Shack, and from Band Booster
members.
The drawing will be held at
the Spring Dinner Concert May
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■ Animal breakfast
Animal Lovers of Northumberland and American Legion
Post 117 will host a breakfast
from 7 to 11 a.m. March 22 to
fund a sterile room at the Northumberland County Animal
Shelter. A sterile room will
allow the shelter to dispense
shots to the animals, promoting
greater health and increasing
chances for adoption.
The breakfast will be held at
the American Legion in Reedville. Tickets are $10 for adults
and $5 for children. Tickets are
on sale at the shelter and from
legion members. Donations are
welcome.
■ Corn beef and cabbage
AA meets at 8 p.m. at De
Sales Hall and Kilmarnock
Acoustic Night at Cruisers
Sports Bar in Gloucester.
693-6246.
A Grief Support Group
meets at 2 p.m. at
Henderson United Methodist
Church near Callao.
No-Name Needlers will
gather at 1 p.m. at The Art
of Coffee in Montross. 4930873.
Tavern. 580-3377.
The Board of Supervisors
for Lancaster County will
meet at 7 p.m.
Bill Gurley will be featured
during dinner at The Tavern
Restaurant in Heathsville.
Tom Rohacek will be
featured on guitar and vocals
at CoCoMo’s in Deltaville
from 6 to 8 p.m. Games
begin at 4 p.m. 776-8822.
An Alzheimer’s Association
Support Group will
meet at 10:30 a.m. at
Rappahannock WestminsterCanterbury near Irvington
and at 1:30 p.m. at Port
Town Village Apartments,
at 111 Port Town Lane in
Urbanna.
The Lancaster County
Lions Club meets at 6:30
p.m. at Rose’s Crab House
in Kilmarnock.
(Submit calendar items to
Robert Mason Jr., editor.)
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PUBLIC MEETING
THE NORTHERN NECK HOUSING STUDY
FINAL REPORT PRESENTATION
■ Oyster roast
To mark Women’s History Month, Stratford Hall on
March 21 will welcome distinguished scholar Joan Cashin to
speak on Varina Howell Davis,
wife of Confederate president
Jefferson Davis.
Associate professor of history at Ohio State University,
Dr. Cashin will draw from her
acclaimed biography First Lady
of the Confederacy: Varina
Davis’s Civil War. The free lecture will begin at 2 p.m.
■ Theater auditions
Rappahannock Record • Kilmarnock, VA • March 19, 2009 •
Wicomico and Mila United
Methodist churches will
serve corn beef and cabbage
dinners March 21 from 5 to
7 p.m. at Wicomico UMC at
Routes 200 and 609.
Meals also will include
potatoes, carrots, bread, tea
or coffee and dessert. The fee
is $10 for adults and $5 for
children ages 4 to 10. Takeout will be available. Call
580-7744 or 580-9723.
■ African Americans
“The African American
Image in Virginia” will continue through December 30 at
the Virginia Historical Society
in Richmond. For directions,
hours and admission information, call 358-4901, or visit
vahistorical.org.
Covering almost four centuries of African American
history and culture in Virginia
through pictorial representation in art, this exhibition
explores various mediums to
show how images of blacks
have changed throughout the
Commonwealth’s history.
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Opinion
Fiction or
Fact
Excerpts
by Henry Lane Hull
A
s I noted last week, this column begins great old antebellum home in Heathsville. Jane
the 26th year of “Excerpts.” Often folks and her husband, Bill, a retired army colonel,
from Bob’s Almanac
comment on the number of “R.I.P.” moved to the Northern Neck in the early ‘80s,
items I write, sometimes asking what the ini- and became so identified with local history and
by Robert Mason Jr.
tials represent. In Latin they are ‘Requiescat in causes that they seemed to have been here forPace,” which means “Rest in Peace.” They are ever.
Thanks to the Rappahannot researched pieces, but rather reflect certain
Jane had a gift for drama, being able to convey
nock Foundation for the Arts
qualities that individuals have manifested, ones deeper meanings, particularly of the past, than
for bringing Robin Williams
and Their Fine Group back to which I like to document as having been part of perhaps anyone I ever knew. She spent over 20
their “personae.”
years as a docent at Stratford Hall, fully cosKilmarnock.
This week two such people have been much tumed in the colonial outfits, speaking the verTheir concert Saturday
night in the Lancaster Middle on my mind. One is Meredith McKenney, a biage of that time, and guiding visitors through
gentleman who exhibited vast abilities over the with unforgettable elegance. No one who even
School Theater marked the
course of his long life. He spent most of his casually passed through the majestic seat of the
fifth installment in the “On
career in the automobile business here in Kil- Lee Family could think ever again of Stratford
Stage” 2008-09 series, The
marnock. When he retired from that, he spent Hall in terms other than those expressed by
Best of the Best: Celebrating
more time carrying the mail on one of the rural Jane.
15 Years.
routes.
When Northumberland Preservation began
There is one more show to
Meredith achieved many successes, being its activities to save elements of the county’s
go in the series. The Virginia
widely recognized as a person who enjoyed past, Jane and Bill were in the vanguard of
Symphony Orchestra under
getting things done. One could go on and on those who understood the dynamism of tradimusical director JoAnn Falletta will return Sunday, March describing his good deeds, but the capstone of tion, and worked to share that knowledge with
his life for most of us will rest with the exqui- others. When Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern
29.
site care he gave his wife, Margaret, during her made a narrow escape from the wrecking ball,
Falletta will give a preown period of decline.
Jane began donning new costumes so that she
concert lecture at 1:30 p.m.
Each day the public hallmark of his level of could interpret its past with the same lively
The concert will begin at 2:30
devotion came when he took her to Lee’s Res- animation that had characterized her Stratford
p.m. For ticket information,
taurant for supper. To say they were regular Hall forays.
call 435-0292.
diners would be a redundant truism. Parked
Jane captured a flamboyance of life rarely
Meanwhile, the sound of
good old-time music from the on Main Street, their license plate documented matched in any single person. She wore wonthat they had been married since 1940. As Mar- derful antique bracelets and kept her hair in a
hills of Virginia and North
Carolina echo throughout my garet’s abilities declined, Meredith continually 19th-century-style bun. Her presence in a room
demonstrated that no effort on his part to care was uplifting and exhilarating to all who were
head.
for her was too great.
there. When she finished speaking, whether in
Offering a mix of country
Last week their long saga of love and mutual one of her public performances, or in a simple
favorites, bluegrass standards,
support ended with Meredith, the caregiver, one-on-one conversation, the listeners craved
familiar hymns and old-time
passing on to his richly merited reward in the more. She was a truly captivating storyteller,
melodies, Robin and Linda
home they built many years ago. He died at his worthy of the likes of Robert Louis StevenWilliams, Jimmy Gaudreau
post, doing his duty, carrying out the vows he son, Charles Dickens, Sir P. G. Wodehouse, or
and Jim Watson entertained
made three score and nine years ago. As long another of her name, Jane Austen.
the crowd with my roots
as he had breath in him, he was determined to
In recent years due to health concerns, Jane
music.
see that Margaret wanted for nothing.
made a slow exit from the local scene. She
Their program showcased
Our family had a unique relationship with could no longer serve as a docent, nor give the
Robin and Linda’s new CD,
Meredith in that of the six decades he spent in ringing lessons on the realities of the past, nor
Buena Vista.
the automotive field, the station wagon he sold move in the graceful manner with which her
The song selection on the
us in 1974 wound up having the most single- friends so identified her. Her majestic handCD and for the show offered
owner mileage of any vehicle he ever sold. I writing continued, her personal interests did
a mix of traditional and conrecall him telling my father that Pontiac had not wane, and in all things, she remained subtemporary themes.
introduced a new cast aluminum engine that lime.
They not only sang songs
Although Jane and Bill could have chosen
made popular by legends like year and he thought we would like it. We did,
Hank Williams and the Carter and drove it 287,000 miles. Meredith always to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery,
was good to his word.
fortuitously, they chose the old churchyard in
Family, they performed a
William Meredith McKenney, September 25, Heathsville where her resting place completes
tribute to them, “Maybelle’s
her adoption of the Northern Neck as her
Guitar and Monroe’s Mando- 1916 –March 7, 2009. R. I. P.
home, and the Neck’s adoption of her as one
lin.”
*****
“I’m Invisible Man,”
The other passing of particular note was that of its own.
Jane Surface Henson, January 27, 1930 –
inspired by the homeless,
of Jane Henson, who spent the last quarter of
March
10, 2009. R. I. P.
was sort of a wake up call
her life as the chatelaine of “Sunnyside,” the
for “When A Thread Gets
Caught,” about another Wall
Street Angel falling.
You can’t get caught up in
the past, said Robin. We lean
on it a lot, but we need to
diovascular diseases, diabetes, Record reported last week,
look ahead too.
Eat more grains
and cancers (esp. breast, colon, unemployment in NorthumberFrom Watson’s new CD,
From David Hughes MD,
prostate).
land and Lancaster counties has
This World Would Be All
Reedville
Around the world, almost increased sharply in the past
Sunshine (Dreams of Home
A question was posed at the 5 billion people live on plant- two months. More and more
Sweet Home), they sang
March 14 meeting of the Nor- based nutrition. The incidences people are finding themselves
“Calling the Prodigal.”
thumberland Association for of these diseases in those societ- without health insurance.
From the 1800s, they perProgressive Stewardship regard- ies are measured in single digit
Fifteen years ago, the Northformed “I’ll Remember You
ing the agricultural, specifically
Love in My Prayers,” by Wil- animal waste, contribution to the numbers, most less than 5%. ern Neck Medical Association
In other words, the majority of knew well that helping the
liam Shakespeare Hays.
deteriorating water quality of the
Speaking to my heart, they Chesapeake Bay: “What can we these diseases are nutritionally uninsured was fundamental to
preventable.
creating a stronger community.
threw in a few love songs,
as individuals do?”
Therefore, the resolution to At that time, the only option
“Tied Down, Home Free”
These pollutants are by-prodand a cover of Lefty Frizzell’s ucts of the production of the the problem of what to do with for the working poor without
“That’s The Way Love Goes,” major protein sources for the the animal waste that is destroy- health insurance was to go to
ing the bay is not, “What to do the emergency room and pay
Mandolins, banjo, guitars,
standard diet in the developed with it?” but, “Just stop produc- full price for treatment out-ofharmonicas and vocal harmo- world. ing it.” We as individuals need to pocket.
nies ruled the night.
Our society is afflicted by stop eating this unhealthy diet. This option was crippling
high blood pressure (90% of This change goes a long way to and ineffective and the NorthGOT NEWS?
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Electric monopolies 101: HB2506, Part I
I am always cautious of legislative vanity. The purpose of
public service is not to get laws passed, but to represent the
people who elected you. However, representing people involves
getting laws passed.
That having been said, House Bill 2506, which I patron and
which passed during this past General Assembly session, was
a major piece of legislation that will hopefully change the way
investor-owned utilities look at their business.
In order to understand the bill, one must first understand utilities and monopolies, and the markets in which they operate.
Monopolies, such as Dominion Power (the Northern Neck
Electric Co-op, being customer-owned is treated differently), do
not operate in the free market.This is because, unlike shopping
at the local grocery store, one cannot shop elsewhere for a better
price on electricity.
Instead, electrical utilities take a trade off.They agree to have
their rates set by the State Corporation Commission (SCC) in
order to ensure continual business, but are expected to serve
everyone in their service area.The SCC then guarantees that
utility bills add up to a “rate of return” for money spent on capital costs for electrical generation to meet the demand of all the
utility’s customers. Capital costs must be approved by the SCC
and the rate of return (determined by the SCC) is usually about
10 percent annually.
To recap, utilities have to service all customers, which might
not be as profitable, but they are guaranteed a return for that
service.
Thus, as a utility’s customer base grows, the utility must
generate more electricity. If the utility builds a new $2 billion
coal plant (approved by the SCC), the SCC provides about 10
percent return on the capital investment. Maintenance of the
lines, fuel and other such expenses are directly passed along to
the consumer.
Under this structure, an electric utility makes money in
Virginia by building more power plants. Obviously, the more
expensive the power plant that is built (nuclear being the most
expensive), the more the utility stands to make. Because need
for new capacity must be demonstrated to the SCC before a
new plant can be built, there is no rational reason for a utility to
encourage less consumption.
Realizing these perverse economic incentives is not groundbreaking in and of itself. Indeed, there were several bills put
forth this session to address the problem, each approaching
the problem in different ways. Some wanted a more regulatory
approach. Some want a carrot and stick approach: giving an
incentive to reach energy efficiency goals and then using a stick
if those goals are not met.
My goal was to write as clean and simple a bill as possible
while still addressing the policy. My experience in the legislature has taught me that the less complicated the bill, the fewer
unintended consequences.
And fewer unintended consequences means a bill is more
likely to pass and more likely to have the intended result.
Next week, I’ll describe HB2506, what it did and some of the
painfully tedious negotiating that was involved in its passage.
However, something simple to explain and writing a law
simply are two entirely different things.
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Clinic reports
surge in visits
From Jean Nelson,
executive director, Northern
Neck Free Health Clinic
The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation has designated the
week of March 22 to 28 as
Cover the Uninsured Week.
As
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A new facility
From Mac Smith,
Grade 6, Northumberland
Middle School Moving from the old school
to the new school is going to
be awesome. We’re going to
have a new middle and high
school facility and it’s going
to be great! At first it will be
hard to move to the new school
because I know the old school
so well, but I’ll get used to it
quickly. Here are some differing things about the two
schools.
The old school I know like
the back of my hand. There’s
some problems with the building though. It’s dirty, moldy,
and there is graffiti on the
bathroom walls. Also, the
lockers are in the classrooms
instead of the hallway for the
6th graders and we have to
walk outside to change from
class to class.
The new school I’ve never
been in before, but I know
some of its features. It’s clean
and sanitary, the lockers are
brand new and in the hallways,
the classes are linked inside
the building, every class has
their own computer stations
and new 50” high definition
LCD television. Also, the new
school is two stories. The sixth
and seventh grades are on the
second floor, and every one
else is on the first floor – that
will be different!
Though they are different,
they have things in common
also. Both have wireless internet access points, they are both
on the same street, and they
both have the same teachers,
students, classes, principal,
vice principal, and the same
name.
Both of these schools are
special. The old school has
educated many successful
people and the new school
will continue to do the same.
The old one has had its years
of glory and it is now time for
a new building. I will miss the
old school and keep safe the
memories of my time there.
I will also welcome the new
memories to come in our long
awaited and beautiful new
school. I am lucky to have it.
Facts are facts
From Jack Chamberlain,
Lancaster
Regarding a February 12
letter, “Get the facts,” the
facts are: Rush Limbaugh
bellowed on his own radio
show that he needed only four
words for President Obama –
“I hope he fails!”
Limbaugh’s
subsequent
back peddling explaination on
Hannity’s show, that he really
meant he hopes only that the
president’s policies fail, was
spun after the public’s irate
outrage over Limbaugh’s
original blather on his own
radio show.
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Letters to
the Editor
Changes
From James and Catherine
Thorsen, White Stone
It has been a little over a
month since Barack Obama
assumed the Presidency of the
U.S. and occupied the Oval
office. Here are some of the
“changes” he promised and the
majority of the people voted
for:
“The greatest wealth destruction by a President.” Jim
Cramer on NBC.
Rick Santelli on NBC called
for a Boston Tea Party to protest Obama’s plans to spend
trillions of dollars of borrowed
money—sending Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton to China
to make sure they keep buying
our debt.
In order to secure the funds
needed she gave up the issue of
human rights and the persecution of Christians and forced
abortions inflicted by the Chinese on their own people.
We have been sold to China
and have granted them an
option to exercise eminent
domain within the USA as collateral. The U.S. State Department has denied this, but of
course they have a lot to hide.
Wyatt Andrews of CBS Evening News reported on her trip
and how China manipulates its
currency to make Americanmade goods more expensive to
buy, thus creating more unemployment for our nation.
On January 27, Obama,
by one of his first Executive
Orders, approved the expenditure of $20.3 million to allow
Palestinian Muslims with ties
to Hamas to resettle in the U.S.
Hundreds of thousands are
expected. They support suicide
bombings and other forms of
violence in Israel. What will
they do here? The EO also provides free housing and food
allowances.
George Bush left office with
a low 30 percent approval rating
and Obama has a 60 percent
approval rating. Is this insane
or what?
Shedding light
From Frank Mann,
Lancaster
On the front page last week
there was a headline which
read, “Local Projects Make
Commonwealth’s Wish List for
Stimulus Funds.”
A lengthy story described
some of the 50 projects, many
of them job-creating, needed
by Lancaster and Northumberland counties. For example,
Lancaster county requested $7
million for constructing the
new Judicial Center. The town
of Kilmarnock had a long list
of infrastructure improvement
projects while Northumberland
County had 17 requests totaling
$32 million.
It is significant to note that the
Stimulus Bill, financing these
projects, was not supported by
Rep. Rob Wittman. He joined
fellow Republicans in unanimously voting “no” to the bill,
claiming concern over the rising
national debt.
Yet the rising debt didn’t
seem to bother them when
President George Bush ran up
a $3 trillion debt while he was
in office. Part of that debt was
from Bush’s $1.6 trillion tax
cut to the wealthy that was supposed to stimulate the economy.
It helped us become a nation of
the very few, very rich while
doing nothing for the very
many, very poor.
Another issue Republicans are
complaining about is Obama’s
reversal of Bush’s decision that
cut off federal funding of stem
cell research. House minority
leader Boehner bemoaned the
destruction of “innocent life.”
Virginia’s Eric Cantor tried to
make an issue of Obama’s turning his attention away from the
economy with this decision. In
truth, stem cell research is an
economic issue because it is a
classic case of innovation.
With potential applications
like Type 1 Diabetes, Parkinsons, Multiple Sclerosis
and spinal chord injuries, this
research can conceivably open
up exciting and innovative new
therapeutic approaches that
could bring historic changes to
medicine. If one can’t see the
human value and economic
potential in this, they have to be
deliberately shutting their eyes.
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Congressional Report
by Rep. Robert Wittman
Last week was full of great
developments for the First
District and the Chesapeake
Bay. I am excited to report that
I have been appointed as one
of two members of the House
of Representatives to serve on
the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission.
I have authored legislation
to bring transparency and
accountability to funding the
cleanup for the Chesapeake
Bay. On March 12, the House
unanimously agreed to add my
legislation to the Water Quality Investment Act of 2009,
which then passed the House
with bipartisan support 317 to
100.
I am honored to have been
chosen by the Speaker of the
House to serve on the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission which is important to
waterfowl and outdoorsmen.
The commission was created
and authorized to consider and
approve any areas of land and/
or water recommended by the
Secretary of the Interior for
purchase or rental by the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, and
to fix the prices for such. The
commission also considers the
establishment of new wildlife
refuges.
I have attended my first
commission meeting and will
continue to serve alongside
the Secretaries of the Interior
Ken Salazar and Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Senators
Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and
Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.).
Rep. Dingell is the longestserving member of the House
and he has been very gracious
in bringing me up to speed
with the work of the commission. Since the commission’s
establishment, some 4 million
acres have been acquired by
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service by fee purchase,
easement, or lease with dollars from the Migratory Bird
Conservation Fund, including areas in the Chesapeake
Bay Watershed which provide
vital habitats for waterfowl.
Preserving such habitats not
only benefits birds but also
contributes to improving water
quality and restoring the health
of the bay.
I offered an amendment to
the Water Quality Investment
Act of 2009 which requires
the Office of Management and
Budget director to report to
Congress on an interagency
budget for Chesapeake Bay
restoration activities. The
amendment also requires the
Environmental Protection
Agency to develop a Chesapeake Bay restoration management plan. This amendment
is very similar to my already
introduced Chesapeake Bay
Accountability Act which
leads an effort to fundamentally alter the management of
bay restoration activities. The
amendment received unanimous support and praise from
both sides of the aisle during
the March 12 debate. It was
later passed along with the
overall bill with over 70 percent of the House’s support.
To date, the complexity of
a variety of efforts among
federal, state, and local
governments has resulted in
a muddled effort. My legislation, using tools which have
been successfully implemented
in the Great Lakes and the
Florida Everglades, will bring
clarity to those efforts. The
Chesapeake Bay restoration is
at a tipping point and without
a renewed commitment that
increases the cleanup effort
by a great deal we will not see
any improved water quality in
our future. This, however, is
just the first step in an ongoing
process to restore the health
and viability of our bay.
We will continue to work
in Washington on the next
steps for the bay, which will
include restoring fisheries and
waterfowl habitats for future
generations. I look forward
to continue working on your
behalf to lead the efforts that
are vital to the health and viability of our natural resources.
Yesteryear in Lancaster
overhauling.
Capt. B. L. Willing, Jno. R. Davis and Irving
Messick are in Norfolk this week, having gone
The Recent Snow Storm
The storm that swept this county on the night down on steamer Daisy.
Earl White, who had charge of the packing
of March 3rd, extending into the morning of the
room
of E. W. Long & Co.’s oyster house the
4th, was one of the most destructive for many
years, if indeed it had any parallel in the history past season, left for his home at Nanticoke,
of March blizzards. In the Northern Neck espe- Md., Tuesday.
cially the destruction of property in the shape
Millenbeck
of telegraph and telephone lines was of course
W. H. Warren had the misfortune to get his
unprecedented, as no such conditions have
gasoline engine blown up last week. Lucky no
ever before existed. The damage, while very
one was hurt.
great, is as yet impossible of estimation. Wires
Mr. Overton, of Richmond, was here last
were broken down in all directions between all week on business.
stations in this part of the country, and poles
Miss E. G. Owens was the guest of Mrs. W.
snapt (snapped) off by the great weight of sleet. H. Warren from Friday until Sunday of last
Between Baltimore and Philadelphia there is
week.
hardly a mile of telegraph or telephone wire
Bernard Hazzard, of Iberis, and Harry Davis,
standing. Great poles with a hundred lines of
of Merry Point, boarded the steamer here on
wire on them were wrenched off and the wires Tuesday of this week for Baltimore where they
look like tangled wire. The damage to forests in expect to secure employment.
the Northern Neck by the breakage of parts or
Mrs. E. T. Schools and Mrs. Geo. E. (Emlaw)
whole of trees is estimated at many thousands
Lewis were visiting in Middlesex this week.
of dollars. At this writing, nearly two weeks
Teacher’s Association
later, many of the telephone lines are still out
A very interesting of the Lancaster Teachers’
of commission, and telegraph lines are only
Association (the third one of the current sesslowly being reconstructed.
sion) was held Friday at Ottoman. The meeting
Entertainment at Whealton (Morattico) was held in the Baptist Church (Corrottoman),
The Morattico Brass Band, of Whealton,
and Hon. John Curlett, president of the associaVa., will give an entertainment in Rock’s Hall,
tion presided.
Whealton, on March 24. Admission 25 cents,
The pupils of the Ottoman High School,
children 15 cents. The entertainment will
under the skillful leadership of Miss Lillian
consist of a farce, entitled “The Nigger Night
Dunaway, one of the teachers of this school,
School,” a musical program and a Burlesque,
enlivened the proceedings with popular songs.
entitled “The Rehearsal.” The latter was comProf. Frank P. Brent, principal of the Lanposed and arranged especially for the entertain- caster High School, read a paper on the general
ment, and portrays in a very realistic manner
improvement of the schools. C. I. Shackelford,
the trouble of a Dutch “Professor” in his
one of the trustees of the Ottoman School, and
attempt to teach a young Band. Refreshments
an intelligent and successful trucker, read a
will be served.
fine paper on the teaching of agriculture in the
public schools. Dr. Steuart, the local physiIrvington
cian, gave a valuable and instructive lecture on
Capt. A. B. Hudgins, of steamer Commohygiene in the home and in school.
dore Maury, spent last week with his family at
(Transcribed by Stephen A. Redd, volunteer
Cricket Hill.
of the Mary Ball Washington Museum and
Capt. A. J. Hamilton is in Baltimore with
Library)
steamers Squires and Philip, of the B &S, for
(Reprints from the March 19, 1909, issue of
the Virginia Citizen)
This Side of 60
by Marie Snider
See what you love
and love what you see
Every day, I wake up to a lifeaffirming calendar page. Every
day is special. But some calendar days are more special than
others. One of the extra special
ones was last Saturday’s.
“I see what I love and love
what I see. I bless my eyes with
love.”
As a result of that saying, I
saw life in a completely different way.
At the time, I was sitting at
my eight-foot desk which my
son made to fit perfectly under
our kitchen picture window. I
have a wonderful office in the
back of the house, but it has
no picture window and I was
always out of the flow. So I
moved.
Next, I looked at the computer desk he built with plenty
of space for books, software,
paper, envelopes, small pieces
of art, and room for my printer
and scanner.
Then I looked at the other
side of the office where my husband, who designed our house,
had planned floor to ceiling
cupboards and book shelves for
a mini office, which now is my
main office.
How lucky can you be to
have a husband, who designed
a house in 1970 that is still very
contemporary, and a son who
can do anything with wood!
Then I looked out the window
at our wooded lot, I could only
see half of one house a city
block away. I couldn’t even see
my daughter’s silo house which
backs up to our lot.
The deciduous trees are still
bare, but some are clothed with
ivy and some have low-lying
branches. And the evergreens
are green as ever.
From the Japanese yew
that frames my window to the
neighbor’s tree a block away, I
appreciate every tree that grows
in Kansas.
Of course, I loved the trees
of my childhood in upstate
New York – the towering oaks,
beautiful blue spruces, majestic pines and sugar maples of
the “big woods.”
But if I sit at my desk and
look out into our Kansas backyard expecting to see those
same trees, I will always be
disappointed.
Instead, I must let go of my
childhood ideas of what makes
a beautiful tree. Then, when
I look with fresh eyes out the
window of my office I can
really see and love the beauty.
Thus, I “love what I see.”
The same principle applies
to all of life – you see what you
love and love what you see.
If I sit at my desk and think
about all the difficulties of life,
how the economy affects us and
the gloomy wintry weather, I
see only the dark side of life.
On the other hand, I can
choose to ignore the weather
and rejoice that the first yellow
crocuses are heralding spring
and be grateful that we still
have money to buy organic
produce and go out for Sunday
dinner.
In his book You’ll See It
When You Believe It, Wayne
Dyer says when good things
happen to you, which he calls
synchronicities, just enjoy them
and recognize them as “part of
the mysterious perfection of
our existence.”
There’s so much to see when
you open your eyes with love!
Copyright 2009 Marie Snider
Democrats to meet Monday
The Lancaster Democrats
will meet at 7 p.m. Monday,
March 23, at the Bank of Lancaster northside branch in Kilmarnock. A half-hour before
the meeting, beverages and
snacks will be served.
The main items on the
agenda will be discussions on
upcoming state elections and
plans for another multi-county
gathering of Democrats in May
featuring a chili cook-off. Lt.
Gov. candidate Jody Wagner’s
representative, Tyree Davenport, will provide an update of
her campaign.
Anyone interested in participating in local Democratic
activities and sharing political
opinions is invited to attend, or
contact committee chairman
Donna Thompson at 436-0605,
or lancovadems.org.
A5
A Doctor Speaks
by George Moore, MD
You don’t need
to peel your apple
Did you realize that when
you remove the peel or skin
from fruits and vegetables,
you lose a lot of nutrition? The
peel is really a concentrated
source of fiber, vitamins,
minerals and potentially beneficial phytochemicals.
In produce, the skins or
peels are often the most colorful part due to pigments,
which are also healthful.
Vegetable peels or skins are
particularly good sources of
insoluble fiber, which helps
prevent constipation. Some
peels, notably apple, are rich
in pectin, a soluble fiber that
helps lower blood cholesterol
and control blood sugar.
Apple peels also seem to
have an anti-cancer effect.
Lab research has found that
whole apples have a much
greater effect on cancer cells
than peeled ones, probably
because of antioxidants in
the skin.
Ounce for ounce, potato
skin has far more fiber, iron,
potassium and B vitamins
than the white flesh. It is also
rich in antioxidants. The only
reason to avoid the skin is
if the potato has a greenish
tinge.
You really don’t need to
wash fruits and vegetables
in soap or detergent—plain
water is fine. It will remove
nearly all dirt, as well as
bacteria and some pesticide
residues, if any, on the surface. The wax on cucumbers,
apples, tomatoes and eggplants is harmless.
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"IRTHS
Nathaniel Carter Barnes
Brian and Ginny Barnes of
Wicomico Church announce
the birth of their son, Nathaniel
Carter Barnes, December 30,
2008, at 9:37 p.m. at Memorial
Regional Hospital in Hanover.
He weighed 6 pounds, 14
ounces and was 20.25 inches
long.
His grandparents are Bob
and Helen Pitman of Kilmarnock, the late Karen Barnes,
formerly of Ormond by the
Sea, Fla., and Howard Barnes
of Suffolk.
His great-grandparents are
Melvin Pitman of Kilmarnock
and the late Virginia Carter
Pitman, Mr. and Mrs. Wade
Beery of Orlando, Fla., the
late Samuel Barnes, formerly
of Suffolk, and Mrs. Novella
Barnes of Smithfield.
Lacie Elizabeth Self
Kilmarnock Post Office
to conduct Passport Fair
Beginning June 1, 2009, all
U.S. citizens will be required
to present a passport to enter
or re-enter the United States by
any means of travel - air, land
or sea. This includes travel from
ALL foreign countries, including Canada, Mexico, Bermuda,
South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
As a convenience to postal
customers, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will host Passport
Fairs and accept passport applications at select sites Saturday,
March 28. A Passport Fair will
be held at the Kilmarnock Post
Office at 239 North Main Street
from 8 a.m. to noon.
A Passport Fair provides an
easy, convenient way for everyone to apply for a passport book
or passport card, according to
U.S. Postal Service district
communications coordinator
Cathy Boule’.
To apply, folks will need:
• Proof of U.S. citizenship.
Provide a previous U.S. Passport, certified U.S. birth certificate, consular Report of Birth
Abroad or Certification of
Birth, or Certificate of Natural-
with check, cash, or debit card
(to purchase a money order)
and $25 payable to the USPS
by cash, check, money order,
credit card or debit card.
Passport cards facilitate
entry by land and sea ports;
they are not valid for international air travel. Passport card
fees for normal processing
(approximately three to five
weeks weeks) or applicants
ages 16 and older include $20
payable to the U.S. Department of State with check,
cash, or debit card (to purchase a money order) and $25
payable to the USPS by cash,
check, money order, credit
card or debit card. For applicants ages 15 and younger,
the fees are $10 payable to
the U.S. Department of State
credit card or debit card.
The U.S. Deptartment of
State will provide expedited
service for a $60 fee, paid with
cash, check or debit card (to
purchase a money order).
Author to review his second Civil War novel
John H. Frye will review
his book, The Scoundrel and
the Spy, at the Books Alive
program at 7 p.m. Tuesday,
March 24, at the Northumberland County Public Library in
Heathsville.
A discussion, book signing,
and refreshments will follow
the presentation.
The story is set during the
siege of Richmond in 1862.
Based on his research of the
period, Frye’s book presents
three different perspectives
of three southerners who deal
with internal conflicts as well
as the war. Parts of the story
are based on real characters
and real events, although the
three main characters are
entirely fictional.
“The story does not have a
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Self of
Reedville announce the birth of
their daughter, Lacie Elizabeth
Self, born January 17, 2009, at
Sentara Regional Hospital in
Williamsburg. She weighed 7
pounds, 7 ounces and was 20
inches long.
Her grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Ward of Poquoson
and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Self
of Reedville.
To help landowners take
She was welcomed home by
her brother, Troy, and sisters, action in their own backyards
against invasive plants, a workKatelyn and Brooke.
shop will be held from 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 25,
at Beale Memorial Church in
Tappahannock.
Invasive plants in the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula
include tree of heaven, Phragmites, Multiflora rose, Johnsongrass, kudzu, Canada thistle,
Chinese privet, Japanese honeyThe great room in the suckle, autumn olive, Japanese
castle of King Maximillian stiltgrass, Japanese knotweed
of Maxwell-By-The-Sea is and mile-a-minute.
The morning will feature preon The Playhouse stage in
White Stone awaiting paint- sentations from professionals on
ing by the Northern Neck the threats that invasive plants
Homeschoolers and their pose to wildlife and humans,
basic identification of a few
parents.
They also will erect a bed common species in this area,
to hold 20 mattresses for the some recommended treatment
“real princess test” and paint methods and safety pointers.
The afternoon includes a
smaller castle and palace sets
for princesses in “The Prin- demonstration of control techniques. Be sure to wear proteccess and the Pea.” The actors playing knights tive clothing (long pants, long
are rehearsing slaying fire- sleeves, shoes) if attending the
breathing dragons, gigantic demonstration.
Presenters include repregargoyles and beastly hippogriffs. The servants are sentatives from U.S. Fish and
practicing with feather dust- Wildife Service, Extension Serers and an ancient broom vice, and Virginia Departments
of Conservation and Recreation
made of cinnamon sticks.
The princesses also are Conservation and Agricultural
rehearsing and trying on and Consumer Services.
Pre-registration is required.
tiaras and gowns fashioned
on those of the Middle Ages. The $5 fee includes supplies,
Costumes are being sewn for materials and lunch.
To register, call Tidewater
Zingons and members of the
royal court. Props people are RC&D Council at 443-1118;
searching for bags of gold, or download a registration bromaps, scrolls, swords, and chure at tidewaterrcd.org, or
fws.gov/northeast/rappahanfairy wands.
The children rehearse with nock.
director Rebecca Nunn four
afternoons a week and will
begin rehearsing the music
recorded on CDs by music
director
Mei-Li
Beane.
Songs include “I Could
Have Danced All Night,”
Vintage clothing dealer and
“Love Potion Number 9,”
“I’m Gonna Wash That Man textiles expert Roberto FronRight Outta My Hair,” “2001 tera-Suau will display a variA Space Odyssey,” “I Feel ety of vintage clothing, hats
Pretty,” “When You Wish and accessories at the Mary
Upon a Star,” “Poison Ivy,” Ball Washington Museum and
and “Someday My Prince Library.
He also will offer advice on
Will Come.”
Accompanist Beth Conley caring for fabrics, answer queswill soon join rehearsals as tions about heirloom textiles,
will coordinator of light- and provide unofficial estiing and sound effects Bob mates of value.
Special museum hours are
Walker.
Performances will be at 7 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday,
p.m. April 15, 16 and 17 and March 19, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
at 2 p.m. April 18. Tickets Friday, March 20, and 10 a.m.
are $5 for adults and $3 for to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 21.
children. For reservations, Admission is $2 per person.
Tickets also are available
call 435-0803, or email either
meilibeane@yahoo.com or for the “Fabulous Hats” lecture and tea Saturday, March
1jwright@wildblue.net.
21, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Trinity
Invasive plant
workshop set
Homeschoolers’
annual
production
opens April 15
ization or Citizenship.
• Proof of Identity. Provide
a Certificate of Naturalization
or Citizenship, current valid
driver’s license, a government
ID, or a Military ID.
All applicants must appear in
person, regardless of age. For
minors under 16 years of age,
both parents or legal guardians
must also appear or provide
notarized statement of consent
and present evidence of identity. Cameras will be available to take required passport
photos for a $15 fee, payable
to the USPS by cash, check,
money order, credit card or
debit card.
Passport book fees for
normal processing (approximately three to five weeks)
for applicants ages 16 and
older include $75 payable to
credit card or debit card. For
applicants ages 15 and younger,
the fees are $60 payable to
John H. Frye
typical happy ending, in which
the characters resolve their
conflicts and reap their just
rewards,” Frye said. “Rather,
they must learn to resolve conflicting loyalties and remain
true to themselves. The story
also emphasizes the injustice
that results from an overzealous defense of one’s country,
as well as the important role of
women during this time.”
Frye considers himself
more novelist than historian,
although he has great interest in the political and social
changes of the Civil War
period. His first historical
novel, The Seventh Trumpet,
which is also set during the
Civil War, was published in
2001.
Frye took up writing after a
law career. He lives in Frederick, Md., and has a home in
Reedville.
Frye is working on a third
novel, Underwood, Underwood, which is set along the
Ohio River during the turmoil
leading up to the Civil War.
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John Nicholas Sterrett
and Rebecca Elise Hall
Jennifer Priscilla Askew and
Russell von Lehn Buxton III
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The parents of John Nicholas
Sterrett and Rebecca Elise Hall
announce their engagement. Miss Hall is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hall of
Estill Springs, Tenn., and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Elsbernd of Reston.
She is the grandaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hall of Estill
Springs, Tenn., and Mrs. Betty
Howard of Knoxville, Tenn.
Mr. Sterrett is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Sterrett of Reedville.
He is the grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Wendell Haynie of Reedville, and Mrs. Clyde Sterrett of
Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Hall graduated from The
College of William and Mary
and received a master’s from
George Mason University. She is
employed as a school psychologist in Loudoun County.
The prospective groom graduated from The College of William
and Mary and is employed by
Berlin Ramos & Company, P.A.
in Rockville, Md.
An August 2009 wedding is
planned.
Russell von Lehn Buxton III is
to be married to Jennifer Priscilla
Askew.
Mr. Buxton is the son of Russell von Lehn Buxton Jr. of Kilmarnock and Britony Buxton of
Charlottesville. He is a senior
technical analyst at VisionAIR in
Castle Hayne, N.C.
Dr. Askew is the daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Paul Martin of
Asheville, N.C., and Mr. and Mrs.
Eddy Askew of Hendersonville,
N.C. Dr. She is the manager of
outpatient pharmacy services at
New Hanover Regional Medical
Center in Wilmington, N.C.
A May 15, 2010, wedding in
Wilmington is planned.
Vintage clothing expert
to give talk this weekend
An antique woman’s hat from
the museum’s collection.
Episcopal Church in Lancaster.
Attendees are encouraged to
wear hats. Admission is $10 at
the door. For reservations, call
462-7280.
Mini Choc. Poodles
CKC registered
1-male, 3-females
$350.00
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Just Gardens tour set for May 15-16
Just Gardens will feature four
gardens and a certified wildlife
habitat in Lancaster County
May 15 and 16.
In its ninth year, the tour
is regarded as one of the best
garden tours in coastal Virginia,
according to spokeswoman C.J.
Carter. The tour is designed to
educate and encourage gardeners to consider plants they might
grow in their own gardens.
The tour benefits The Haven
Shelter and Services.
Previous Just Garden tours
raised over $83,000 which went
directly toward the construction
of a new shelter which opened
in October 2007.
The tour includes four diverse
gardens. The Boat House
Garden, owned by Kathy and
Mike Morchower, is on a low
point of land on Carter’s Creek.
The site, which takes punishing
wind and waves during summer
storms, is good for moistureloving plants such as hardy
hibiscus, cannas and daylilies,
said Carter. Their bold colors
include magenta, orange and
chartreuse combined in bright
punches. They provide a backdrop for a collection of yard art.
The garden includes a koi pond,
a water lily pond, vine covered
pergolas, and several seating
areas.
Riverhouse at the end of a
cul-de-sac in Clifton Landing
is the home and garden of Alex
Kilmon. A classic Antebellumstyle house takes center stage in
this English-style garden, said
Carter. The upper reaches of
Indian Creek frame the river side
of the property where stately
oak trees provide shade in the
heat of summer. Formal urns
and Chippendale-style benches
cater to a sense of order. The
gardens, planted primarily in
pink, white and lavender showcase a mix of perennials and
annuals.
The Lay garden is a plant
collector’s dream, Carter said.
Featured on HGTV and in
Perennials magazine, this iconic
garden occupies five acres on
sloping land on the Corrotoman
River. The garden has evolved
over 30 years. It is a series of
terraced beds divided by winding grassy paths. Mature red
and white oaks provide a dappled canopy above the owner’s
collections of Asiatic magnolias, rare holly cultivars, Japanese maples, and a potpourri
of shade tolerant perennials
and annuals. The garden has so
many different cultivars it is like
walking through the best garden
catalogue available, Carter said.
Bali Hai, owned by Donna
and Buddy Beason, is nestled
on the headwaters of the Western Branch of the Corrotoman
River. This garden is full of
local garden art, passed-along
plants and gifts from friends
and family, said Carter. Astilbe,
heuchera, iris, azaleas, ferns,
hosta and ground covers are its
mainstays on the river side of
the house. A specially prepared
mesh-lined bed contains Asiatic,
Oriental and Orienpet lilies.
At the front of the house, a
spectacular 160-foot-long water
feature with koi ponds and multiple waterfalls frames a center
island. Rough cut stone walls
and paved paths form a back
drop. Various types of mondo
grass and ajuga prevent erosion.
Hills Quarter is home to a
suburban wildlife habitat featuring three-year-old gardens
under continuing development.
This certified habitat for birds,
butterflies and bees is tended by
its owner, Paula Boundy. The
garden with its naturalistic setting emphasizes native plants
for wildlife, said Carter. The
flowering native plants include
four species each of asclepias,
coreopsis, cornus, ilex, phlox,
rudbeckia, viburnums, and four
species of grasses and ferns.
A member of the Kilmarnock
Garden Club, Boundy enters
many of her horticulture specimens in garden club exhibits
and maintains documentation
on at least 170 species identified
or planted on the property.
Reedville houses to anchor
Historic Garden Week tour
It is always a surprise to
docents at the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum how many of
their visitors have never before
explored
Northumberland
County to the farthest end of
Route 360.
“The graceful parade of
Victorian homes on either
side of Main Street comes as
a complete surprise to those
who were expecting a few fishing piers and the shrieks of
seagulls,” said Historic Garden
Week (HGW) spokeswoman
Susan Lindsey.
This year’s HGW tour, April
22 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
invites visitors to enter the
world of Reedville’s founders,
the sea captains who brought
prosperity and turn-of-the-century elegance to the community, said Lindsey. The homes
open to the public have a range
of styles and subsequent history. Some still stand much
as their original owners left
them. Others display evolving
structures wrought by many
families.
Two of the most recognizable homes of Reedville are
The Gables and The Morris
House. At the end of Main
Street, they sit across from each
other, linked by family ties, but
sharply defined by their opposing styles.
Capt. Fisher built his mansion, The Gables, of specially
manufactured brick infused
with steel flecks to give a distinctive texture and made to
wrap around the curves of the
The Gables
outer walls. The interior reflects
the skills of his shipwrights,
who produced the magnificent carved woodwork. The
five-story structure is capped
by a steeply angled slate roof,
aligned to the points of the
compass and supported by the
mast of Fisher’s schooner, the
John D. Adams, Lindsey said.
The Morris House, home of
Capt. Albert Morris, brother-inlaw and partner of Capt. Fisher,
The Morris House
has the exuberant Queen Anne
architecture. Rich in decorative
elements, with spindle-worked
details, delicately turned porch
supports and scalloped shingles, the exterior is a delight,
Lindsey said.
The deep wrap-around porch
invites passersby to pause and
enjoy the building. Over the
years, it has been the setting for
many memorable social events
and also has undergone several renovations to fulfill varying functions, once divided
into apartments, for a while a
popular bed-and-breakfast, and
today, again a private home
with an interior of vintage furniture, Lindsey said.
Three other distinctive homes
and the Reedville Fishermen’s
Museum will be on the tour.
Tickets are available at VAGardenweek.org, or at The Box in
White Stone, The Pedestal in
Kilmarnock, Wildest Dreams
in Burgess, Material Girl Quilt
Shop in Reedville, the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum
and Colonial Collectibles in
Warsaw. There also will be an
art show and sale, featuring
local artists and artisans, at the
HGW Information Center at
Festival Halle in Reedville.
Master gardeners and owners
will be present both tour days
to answer questions. “Our soil
is not the same as soil in central Virginia and our weather
conditions are unlike anywhere
else,” said master gardener
Anne Olsen, a tour organizer.
“We try to point out what can
really grow well here. There are
many plants who love living in
the Northern Neck. We’ll point
them out during the tour,” she
said.
Tickets are $12 in advance.
Send a self-addressed stamped
envelope with a check made
payable to The Haven to: Just
Gardens, P.O. Box 429, Irvington, VA 22480. Tickets also
may be purchased after March
25 at the The Dandelion on
Irvington Road in Irvington,
Greenpoint Nursery on Route
3 in Lively, The Pedestal on
Main Street in Kilmarnock,
Wildest Dreams on Route 200
in Burgess, Wilton Cottage and
Garden on Gen. Puller Highway
in Hartfield and Northern Neck
Home & Garden on Richmond
Road in Warsaw.
Tickets also may be purchased on the days of the tour
at any garden and are $15.
The tour is from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. both days. This is a
rain or shine event. Comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
Lancaster band
program
to give free
Festival Concert
On Thursday, March 19, the
300-strong Lancaster High
and Middle School bands will
present a Festival Concert at
Theater.
“You are invited to hear all
five bands from the school
band program present an
evening of music,” said band
director Robbie Spiers. “The
concert is free and open to the
public.”
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
and the concert will begin
at 7 p.m. with the Lancaster
Middle School bands. The
Concert Band will perform
under the direction of Kenny
Flester, followed by the Symphonic Band led by director
Glen Burtner.
The program will continue
with directors Flester and
Spiers conducting the Lancaster High School Freshmen
Band, the LHS Concert Band
and the LHS Symphonic Band.
“The bands have been preparing for this important
concert, and are all at their
peak performance level,” said
Spiers. “The public will be
amazed at the level of music
these bands perform.”
that allows one to obtain
information from the unconscious mind using tools such
as pendulums, Y-rods, L-rods
and even forked sticks. The
technique has been utilized
for thousands of years in
every culture.
For centuries, ancient Chinese healers used dowsing
rods to help promote beneficial energies and remove negative energies, a method that
eventually became known as
Feng Shui. In 17th century
France, stonemason Jacques
Aymar Vernay used his dowsing talents to successfully
track criminals.
“I Do”
When the Germans blew
up the wells during World
War II, General George
Patton used dowsing to find
fresh water for his advancing
troops in the desert terrain of
North Africa. In the Vietnam
War, U.S. Marine engineers
used dowsing to protect their
troops by locating hidden tunnels and ammunition, booby
traps and enemy food caches.
In modern times, dowsing
has been used to locate water
for wells, buried treasure,
archaeological artifacts and
for healing.
For more information, call
Bonnell at 462-0220.
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Meetings are open to the
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Jeff Little concert to feature
old-time country, rockabilly
Jeff Little will be in concert
this Saturday, March 21, at
7:30 p.m. at St. Clare Walker
Middle School on Route 33 at
Locust Hill.
Little (vocals, piano, harmonica) will be taking the stage
with Steve Lewis (guitar and
banjo) and Josh Scott (bass).
Come hear a range of tunes
from “Orange Blossom Special” to “Whole Lot of Shakin’
Goin’ On” in a performance by
a unique combination of talented and versatile musicians.
Little has a “wondrously
quick and articulate piano
style. He is tricky and playful,
yet always intelligent and richly
melodic,” says The Boston
Globe.
Little’s music is steeped in
the tradition of his native Blue
Ridge, yet he also is a virtuosic
and eclectic innovator. Little’s
involvement with fiddle tunes,
old-time country, and rockabilly dates to his growing up in
Boone, N.C., where his father
owned a music shop. The shop
was a regular gathering place
for musicians who would just
stop by to pick a few tunes.
Beginning around the age
of 6, Little would regularly
sit in with many of the musicians from the region, including the musician who set the
national standard for picking
fiddle tunes on the guitar—
Doc Watson. These influences
helped shape Little’s approach
Jeff Little
to the piano, but there is also
an echo of more contemporary
mountain tradition in his performances.
Little has taken his traditional roots on tour around
the world with performances
in Sri Lanka, Oman, France
and Tanzania. Other performances include The Smithsonian Institution Folklife
Festival, National Public
Radio, Folk Masters, and The
National Council for Traditional Arts.
Steve Lewis of Todd, N.C.,
is one of the most respected
acoustic musicians in the country. He is well known for his flat
picking on guitar and his mastery of the five-string banjo. He
has won many championships
for his guitar and banjo playing.
Some of the prestigious events
include the Walnut Valley
Nationals, Merlefest, the Galax
Old Time Fiddlers Convention,
Renofest and the Wayne Henderson Guitar Competition.
WPLN-FM in Nashville
says, “Steve Lewis plays some
mouth-watering fine arrangements, putting his on unmistakable spin on each track.”
From Fleetwood, N.C., Josh
Scott is considered by many a
master of the upright bass. He
has performed and recorded
with many bluegrass and
acoustic groups.
Releases from Jeff Little
include “Live From The Barns
Of Wolf Trap” recorded by
Radio Smithsonian, “Piano
Man From The Blue Ridge,”
and the self-titled “Jeff Little.”
This musical event is planned
and carried out entirely by
volunteers. All profits go to
the Middlesex County Public
Library, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization.
Tickets are available now
at the Urbanna and Deltaville
Library, Cyndy’s Bynn, River
Birch Gifts, The Medicine
Shoppe, Nauti Nell’s, Coffman’s, Twice Told Tales (Kilmarnock and Gloucester) and
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the night of the performance.
Tickets are $10 for adults and
$5 for children.
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Virginia Symphony to perform
March 29 concert in Kilmarnock
The Rappahannock Foundation for the Arts (RFA) will
present the Virginia Symphony
Orchestra (VSO) March 29.
Ticket holders are invited
to attend a pre-concert lecture
by VSO music director JoAnn
Falletta at 1:30 p.m., followed
by the “On Stage” performance
at 2:30 p.m. Both will be held
at the Lancaster Middle School
Theater in Kilmarnock.
Recognized as one of the
nation’s leading regional symphony orchestras, the VSO has
enriched the cultural life of the
Hampton Roads community
for more than eight decades,
said RFA vice president for
publicity and marketing Julia
Geier.
Recent achievements under
the baton of music director
JoAnn Falletta include five
compact discs for national
release, a performance of
“Peter and the Wolf ” aired on
National Public Radio, and
performances at the Kennedy
Center and Carnegie Hall, said
Geier. The VSO annually performs more than 140 classical,
pops, family, educational and
outreach concerts, including
orchestral support of the Virginia Opera, Virginia Arts Festival, and Virginia Ballet.
Acclaimed by The New York
Times as “one of the finest
conductors of her generation,”
Falletta also is music director
of the Buffalo Philharmonic
Orchestra (BPO) and artistic
advisor to the Honolulu Symphony. She received a bachelor’s from the Mannes School
of Music in New York, and a
master’s and doctorate from
The Juilliard School.
Falletta has received many
of the most prestigious con-
Director JoAnne Falletta
ducting awards, including the
Seaver National Endowment
for the Arts Conductors Award,
the Stokowski Competition,
and the Toscanini, Ditson
and Bruno Walter Awards for
conducting, continued Geier.
She has introduced some 400
works by American composers,
including more than 80 world
premieres, and has received
eight consecutive awards from
ASCAP for creative programming, the American Symphony Orchestra League’s
John S. Edwards Award, and
the ASCAP/ASOL award for
Adventurous
Programming
with the BPO. Falletta’s growing discography, which will soon include
over 40 titles, consists of
recordings with the London
Symphony, the BPO, the VSO,
the English Chamber Orchestra,
the New Zealand Symphony,
the Long Beach Symphony, the
Czech National Symphony and
the Women’s Philharmonic,
said Geier.
In addition to her upcoming
releases with the BPO and the
VSO, Falletta’s current projects include world premiere
recordings of the orchestral
music of Kenneth Fuchs with
the London Symphony, and
Romeo Cascarino with the
Philadelphia
Philharmonic,
both to be released on the
Naxos label, and a recording of
the music of Paul Schoenfield
with the Prague Philharmonia,
said Geier. Together with English horn
soloist Thomas Stacy and the
London Symphony, Falletta
received a 2006 Grammy nomination for “Eventide,” a concerto for English horn, harp,
percussion, and string orchestra
by Kenneth Fuchs, from the CD
“An American Place,” (Naxos
American Classics). Her 2004
recording of Griffes Orchestral
Music, on the Naxos label with
the BPO, was selected as an
Editor’s Choice Recording by
Gramophone, Geier said.
The VSO program, sponsored by Dunton, Simmons
and Dunton, is the final presentation of the RFA’s 2008-09 On
Stage series.
The RFA thanks its season
sponsors, the Bank of Lancaster and Bay Trust, its program sponsors, Chesapeake
Investment Group, Spotts Fain,
PC, River Counties Community Foundation, Ann Meekins
Realtor, Wachovia Securities,
and its friends, donors and
subscribers, for making the
On Stage series possible, said
Geier. The RFA will begin
its 2009-10 “On Stage” series
October 17 with a performance
by The Paragon Ragtime
Orchestra. All shows will be
held at the Lancaster Middle
School Theater. Brochures listing the 2009-10 season will be
mailed soon. Information can
also be found at rappahannockfoundation.org.
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The Steptoe Brass to present concert
On Sunday, March 22, The
Steptoe Brass will present its
debut concert at St. Andrews
Presbyterian Church in Kilmarnock. The concert will begin at
2 p.m.
The ensemble of five brass
musicians will perform music
for brass quintet covering many
different styles, said Jim Kulpa.
This performance constitutes
the first public exhibition of the
local group.
The Steptoe Brass formed
in 2008 when local brass players expressed a desire to perform brass chamber music.
The musicians are residents of
the Northern Neck and Middle
Peninsula.
The concert will showcase music by Dukas, Shos-
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Michelle Lybarger and Bruce Burgess.
takovich, Grainger, Sousa,
Waller, Cheetham, Calvert,
and Rodriguez. The brass will
play standards as “Suite from
the Montegerian Hills” and
“Scherzo” and audience favorites like “Ain’t Misbehavin’”
and “Danny Boy.”
The concert is free; donations
to the church are welcomed.
Friendship Baptist to host annual dinner
New Friendship Baptist
Church in Burgess will host
its annual Ham and Oyster
Dinner April 4 from 5 to 7
p.m. The menu will include
Smithfield ham, fried oysters,
green beans, spiced apples,
parsley potatoes, rolls, iced
tea, coffee, lemonade, and
home-baked desserts. Carryouts will be available.
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Community support needed Auction activities to include
for the Lewis B. Puller Center Northern Neck Stimulus Raffle
The Arc of the Virginia Peninsula recently announced a
transformation in services for
individuals with developmental disabilities from the Middle
Peninsula and Northern Neck.
The Lewis B. Puller Center
has moved to 6632 Main Street
in Gloucester so The Arc can
expand programs and provide
meaningful work and quality
services for up to 100 individuals with disabilities from the
10 counties in this rural service area, said The Arc president and chief executive officer
Kasia Grzelkowski.
The Puller Center meets
a critical need in the Middle
Peninsula and Northern Neck
by providing employment services for individuals with disabilities, said Grzelkowski. While other local agencies provide day support and
residential programs for adults
with disabilities, the Lewis B.
Puller Center offers the only
work center in the 10-county
area, she explained. The Puller
Center also offers programs
and opportunities that foster
personal growth and development, including services for
those with significant disabilities who are unable to work.
The Arc needs the entire
community to support people
with disabilities and their
families by making a monetary
donation or pledge to the Puller
Center Capital Campaign, said
Grzelkowski. The goal of the
capital campaign is to support
the purchase of the new building and allow The Arc to devote
future resources to sustaining
quality services for people with
disabilities in this rural area. “We need to raise an additional $350,000 to meet
our campaign goal,” said
Grzelkowski. “We encourage
the community to invest in and
take ownership of the Puller
Center and help us ensure individuals with disabilities receive
quality services for decades to
come.” Several businesses and individuals have already contributed generously to the capital
campaign. Chesapeake Bank
and Ferguson Enterprises both
pledged $50,000 to The Arc’s
efforts to improve services for
people with disabilities on the
Middle Peninsula and Northern
Neck. Other significant pledges
were made by Bobby Hatten,
The Lewis B. Puller Center
Endowment Fund of The
Mathews Community Foundation, the William F. and Catherine K. Owens Foundation,
the TowneBank Foundation,
and the members of the Capital
Campaign Steering Commit-
tee – Corky Hogge, Ken Houtz,
Catesby Jones
and
David Meeker. “We are finding that adults
with disabilities who were
not previously receiving services have begun attending the
Puller Center as a result of our
new, more suitable facility,”
Grzelkowski said. “Additional
space in the new building is
also allowing us to take on
larger work projects and provide a wider variety of jobs for
the individuals we serve.”
To contribute to the capital campaign for the Lewis B.
Puller Center, individuals can
mail or deliver their donation
to 6632 Main Street, Gloucester, VA 23601. For additional
giving options, or to receive
e-mail updates on the Puller
Center Capital Campaign, contact Sarah Sager at 757-8966462, or ssager@arcvap.org. Chesapeake Academy’s annual
silent and live dinner auction
May 2 in Irvington will feature a
“Stimulus Package” raffle.
Mirroring the federal government’s attempt to put funds back
into the economy, Chesapeake
Academy’s Northern Neck Stimulus Package raffle will feature
gift certificates and services from
local businesses, according to
Julie Zimmerman.
With a total value of $1,500
and a theme of “food, fuel, and
frolic,” the raffle’s Grand Prize
includes a $500 Tri-Star Supermarket gift certificate, $500 B.P.
gasoline gift certificate, and a
variety of gift cards and tickets to
enrich the pallet and soul at area
restaurants and cultural events,
said Zimmerman.
Northern Neck Stimulus Package raffle tickets are $10 each.
Anyone purchasing 10 tickets
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gets an additional ticket free, she
said.
Tickets can be purchased at
Specials in Kilmarnock, the
Sandpiper Restaurant in White
Stone, Khakis in Irvington, River
Birch Nursery in Locust Hill, or
by calling the school at 804-4385575.
The academy thanks those
generous merchants for donating
certificates for goods and services
to the raffle, said Zimmerman.
The winning raffle ticket will
be drawn at the annual auction,
she added. Participants need not
be present to win.
Proceeds from the auctions,
raffle and related activities, benefit academic programming and
financial scholarships.
To donate a service, or an
item to the auction, contact
Catherine Emry at 438-5575 by
March 31.
Chase presents
the art of Ikebana
Audrey Brainard spoke on monarch butterflies.
Brainard presents
butterfly program
Audrey Brainard’s March 12
presentation on monarch butterflies at the Rappahonnock
Garden Club made it feel like
spring, said spokeswoman Judy
Ripley.
Brainard traveled to Michoacan, Mexico, to a 13,000-foot
elevation and witnessed enormous numbers of monarchs
hanging from the trees. Their
annual winter pilgrimage is
followed by mating and then
they migrate back up north.
Brainard urged the growing
of milkweed, the food and egglaying host for the butterflies.
She has been involved in tagging monarchs to gain information about their life span and
habits.
Hostesses Jo Creighton,
Susan Edmonds, Nan Liner,
Deborah Anderson and Claudia
Holmes treated attendees to a
St. Patrick’s Day green-themed
luncheon.
New members Sheila Zuker
and Deborah Brooks and
Plant
free
trees
Grant applications are due
In 2000, the Garden Club of
the Northern Neck (GCNN)
established a grant program
available to citizens and organizations in the Northern Neck.
The grant program was instituted to aid projects which
promote one or more of the
following categories: beautification, conservation, preservation, education or horticulture.
Awarded annually, the grant
is made possible by a fundraiser which members plan,
organize and participate in
every two years.
In 2008, the GCNN awarded
three grants in support of educational endeavors by local
organizations. A fourth grant
was given in support of Teachers on the Bay.
The Westmoreland County
Museum received an award to
create a Colonial Garden to
teach gardening techniques and
uses of the herbs and vegetables
grown in the 17th century.
The Practical Assessment
Exploration System and its
students of Northumberland
High School was given a grant
to be used toward a greenhouse
and career education project to
teach growing techniques and
business applications of plant
production and sales.
The Westmoreland County
4-H Club received a grant for
its “A is for Amaryllis” project.
A local teacher was selected
to receive the Teachers on the
Bay scholarship which has
been awarded annually by the
GCNN for many years.
Interested individuals and
non-profit
organizations
should call Lois Spencer at 472
Clements, two blue; Sandra
Ehlert, blue, two red; VanWickler, seven blue; Sylvia,
three blue; Yinger, three blue
and Best in Show for Helleborus; Diane Cichowicz, two
blue, two red; Elston, three
blue, red; Medlin, blue, two
red; Lien Groenwald, blue,
red; and Maryalyce Johnsen,
two blue.
The next meeting will be
March 24 at Festival Halle
at noon. The theme of the
meeting will be Incredible Edibles. Cynthia Brown
from Green Springs Horticultural Gardens/Alexandria
will speak on techniques of
blending edible plants into
the landscape and flower gardens.
Volunteers appreciated
Lancaster Library volunteers were recently invited to a
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White Stone. From left are Rose Marie Smallwood, Helen
Sutphen, Shiela Stepko and Gloria Wallace.
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The free trees are part of
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“White flowering dogwoods will add year-round
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“Dogwoods have showy
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six visitors were welcomed;
41attended.
Awards were presented for
the winter’s end design.
Class I, traditional line
design: Mary Loftus, blue;
Aleta Hoffman, blue.
Class II, designer’s choice:
Marty Wilson, Victorian, blue;
Marty Wilson, line mass, blue;
Nan Liner, creative line design,
red; Anne Skerrett, topiary,
red.
Horticulture awards: Virginia Brown, 8; Aleta, 8; Ann
Hopkins,12; Mary Jacobs, 12;
Liner, 19; Jan Litsinger, 15;
Loftus, 10; Ripley, 18; Jeanne
Rosenwald, 34; Carol Shear,
20; Anne Skerrett, 8; Mary
Ellen Swarts, 15; Cathie Ward,
12; Wilson, 20.
The club meets at White
Stone
United
Methodist
Church at noon on the second
Thursday of the month, March
through December. Visitors are
welcome. To join, call Glenda
Decker at 435-1498.
The
Chesapeake
Bay
Garden Club met February
24 at Festival Halle in Reedville.
The theme of the meeting
was Design in the Oriental
Style, reported Jan Boyd.
Rappahannock Garden Club
member Genny Chase demonstrated the art of Ikebana
and reviewed the mechanics,
form, and simplicity of this
type of floral design, said
Boyd.
Chase has earned teachers’
certificates in the schools of
Ikebana, a Japanese flower
design. Three of her arrangements were raffled to members in attendance, said
Boyd.
The floral design theme
for the month was Gulliver’s
Travels to Lilliput and Small
Wonders. These are miniature and small designs.
Floral exhibit awards in
advanced class 1 were presented to Wonda Allain, blue;
Barbara Yinger, blue; Patsy
Sylvia, red; Charlotte Spears,
red; and Rebecca Elston,
blue. Class 2 awards were
presented to Allain, blue and
Best in Show; Sylvia, red;
and Lorraine VanWickler,
red.
intermediate class 1 were
presented to Carol Medlin,
yellow; and Liz Campbell,
red. Class 2 awards were
presented to Campbell, red;
Dody Douglas, red; and Joan
Clements, blue.
novice class 1 were presented
to Sue Haugan, red; and
Jacque Armentrout, yellow.
Class 2 awards were presented to Armentrout, red.
Horticulture awards were
presented to Allain, blue, red,
two white; Elaine Price, red;
Re-Opens for Season
March 20th
5:00 pm
Cruising in Panama
Charles and Alexa McGrath of Irvington enjoy a dinner in
Holland America’s Pinnacle dining room during a recent
cruise of the Panama Canal. The cruise included a transit of
the Isthmus of Panama on the narrow gauge Panama Railway.
Weekends only until Memorial Day
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Sports
Rappahannock Record, Kilmarnock, Va. • March 19, 2009 • A11
LHS girls edged out of
championship berth, 54-52
by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi
The Lady Devils walked
off the court at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Siegel
Center last Friday morning
with their heads held high, and
tears in their eyes.
A few, like Jasmine Moody,
broke down and started to cry
before Lancaster and George
Mason traded handshakes.
Some, like Andrea White, just
looked stunned.
The Mustangs had just edged
the Lady Devils, 54-52, in the
Group A, Division 2 semifinal
to keep Lancaster from making
a return trip to the state championship game.
George Mason went on to
beat defending state champion
Floyd County, 53-46, in the
Group A final Saturday.
“You prepare to be the best
you can be,” said LHS coach
Joanne Webb-Fary. “And if you
play a team like that that close,
even though you have to lose,
you know you’ve played your
best. That’s all you can do. You
know you’re one of the best
teams in the state, and that’s
what I told the girls.”
A Group A team in AAA territory, George Mason (24-6)
came into the state semifinal
with four wins over Group
AAA schools. The Mustangs
also brought twin towers —
6’0” forward Kim Kenny and
5’10” guard Nicole Mitchell
— the likes of which Lancaster
had not seen.
“They had big girls, taller
than we’ve ever seen,” said
Webb-Fary, “and they played
a man-to-man defense that we
don’t usually see. But we’re
still as good as any team in
the state. It was an even game,
back and forth. They just beat
us in the end.”
Lancaster took a while to
warm up at the Seigel Center
Friday morning, falling behind
9-2 in the first three minutes.
But Andrea White, who paced
all players with 23 points, then
had back-to-back steals. One
she dished off to Ashley Ransome and one she took in herself to pull Lancaster within
three, 9-6.
The Devils trailed by two,
15-13, at the end of the first
period and Jasmine Moody’s
stick-back a minute into the
second quarter tied the game
at 17-17. Lancaster took its
first lead on a shot by White
with 5:42 to play in the first
half then got some impressive
defensive play from its aunt
and cousin combo, Tyesha
Harvey and White. Harvey
blocked a George Mason shot
then White stole the inbounds
pass. Harvey was fouled at the
other end and hit both ends of
a 1-and-1 to give Lancaster a
19-15 lead.
The Devils held the Mustangs scoreless for five minutes
in the second quarter and held
a seven-point lead before GM
went on a 10-2 run.
Coach Joanne Webb-Fary yells to her players to get
back on defense during the state semifinal. (Photo by
Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi)
Season at a glance
with coach Webb-Fary
The Lady Devils went 20-5 and won the Northern Neck District and Region A, Division
2 tournament championships before losing in the state semifinals. From left, members of
Lancaster’s team include (first row) Kimberly Crockett, Aul Enksaikhan and Jasmine Moody;
(second row) Katisha Crippen, Darnisha Jones, Chiffon Beane and Tiara Scott; (third row)
coach Joanne Webb-Fary, Takeia Jones, Ashley Ransome, assistant coach Megan Netherton,
Samantha Cain, Shanice Yerby, Holly Eppihimer and Tyesha Harvey.
“We had played great
defense until the end of the first
half,” said LHS coach Joanne
Webb-Fary. “Then they had a
couple of fast breaks we didn’t
defend.”
Lancaster trailed by two at
the half then again wiped out an
eight point second-half deficit
to take its second lead midway
through the fourth quarter.
Mustang Chantal Thomas
made all six of her free throws
in the final two minutes to help
her team pull away.
An intentional foul call late
in the fourth sent Thomas to
the line to make one then gave
the Mustangs the ball back.
George Mason held a fivepoint lead with 18 seconds to
play when Ashley Ransome
made a short jumper to pull the
Devils within three, 52-49.
Thomas again hit two at the
line to reopen the Mustangs’
lead to five with 3.4 seconds
to play and White hit a running
three-pointer at the buzzer for
the final score.
“They brung it every quarter,” said LHS junior forward
Ashley Ransome. “They had
the intensity. After every time
out, every time they got back
on the court, they were fired up.
Even when they were losing,
they still played like they were
winning.”
Lancaster and George Mason
( continued on page A12)
by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi
Joanne Webb-Fary is becoming a regular fixture at the
Seigel Center in Richmond around state tournament time.
The Lancaster High girls basketball coach last week
made her third appearance in three years in the Group A,
Division 2 playoffs. Her Lady Red Devils lost in the quarterfinals two years ago, then followed up that performance
with a trip to the state championship game in 2008, when
they finished as the Group A runner-up to Floyd County.
This year, George Mason kept Lancaster from making a
title run, eliminating the Lady Devils, 54-52, in last Friday’s
semifinals.
The Mustangs went on to win the state championship.
“We’re as good as any team in the state,” contends WebbFary, an LHS alumna who is in her third year as the varsity
head coach.
She is a former LHS basketball player, runner and jumper
and is a three-sport coach who also leads the school’s cross
country and track and field teams.
She and the Lady Devils capped a 20-5 record this year
as the Northern Neck District regular season and tournament champions, the Region A, Division 2 champions and
state semifinalists.
Webb-Fary will lose six seniors from this year’s team,
including two starters. Takeia Jones is the team’s calm, cool
and collected guard and Tyesha Harvey is an athletic center/
forward. The absence of those two will leave big holes in
next year’s starting lineup.
“They’ve all been together for so long and we’ll miss
them so much,” Webb-Fary said. “But we have a good
group coming back and a good group coming up from the
JV team and the middle school team.”
So Webb-Fary plans to replace talent with talent and
hopes to find herself back on the bench at next year’s state
show.
Lancaster’s Kimberly Crockett prays during the final seconds of last Friday’s state semifinal.
Takeia Jones of Lancaster attempts to steal the ball from
George Mason’s Chatal Thomas.
THE 2008-09 LADY RED DEVILS
Tyesha Harvey of Lancaster
brings the ball down court.
She scored eight points
against George Mason.
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Tyesha Harvey
Holly Eppihimer
Samantha Cain
Jasmine Moody
Chiffon Beane
Darnisha Jones
Ashley Ransome
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Darnisha Jones (24) of Lancaster and George Mason’s Bria Platenburg attempt to keep the
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Lancaster’s Andrea White hit a three-pointer at the buzzer
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t LHS girls . . . .
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were about as evenly matched scored nine points. Senior
as two teams could be. The forward
Tyesha
Harvey
stat sheet told the tale.
had eight points and eight
The teams each made 21 boards.
field goals. However Lan“Although we didn’t make
caster attempted 16 more it as far as we did last year,”
shots.
said senior guard Kimberly
“Our shots just didn’t Crockett, “We played our
fall,” said Webb-Fary, whose best. Ending the season like
team had 16 more offensive that is still a good memory to
rebounds than Mason.
have.”
The Mustangs got all their George Mason...15 13 15 11 — 54
scoring from their starters Lancaster............13 12 15 12 — 52
Mason — Bria Platenburg
with Nicole Mitchell scoring George
8, Lauren Kane 8, Chantal Thomas
14 and Kenny and Thomas 12, Kim Kenny 12, Nicole Mitchell
putting up 12 each.
14. Three-point goals: Mitchell 2.
White had the big game for Lancaster — Andrea White 23,
Jones 9, Tyesha Harvey 8,
Lancaster with 23 points, 13 Takeia
Darnisha Jones 2, Ashley Ransome
rebounds, six steals and five 4, Jasmine Moody 6. Three-point
assists.
goals: White, T. Jones.
Senior guard Takeia Jones
Lady Red Devils 2008-2009 Season (20-5)
Lancaster
Opponent
41
Mathews
45
49
James Monroe
65
53
Louisa
31
57
Middlesex 45
43
Mathews
41
48
West Point
54
64
Mathews
47
65
Middlesex
55
65
W&L
43
83
Essex
30
54
Middlesex 53
48
Rappahannock
31
66
Northumberland
43
84
Essex
37
72
W&L
45
72
Rappahannock
28
58
Northumberland
61
56
Northumberland
45
Northern Neck District Tournament
Final
58
Northumberland
Semifinal
Rappahannock
25
Region A, Division 2 Tournament
Finals
66
Northumberland
35
58
Semifinals
Middlesex
39
77
Quarterfinals
Sussex
47
60
51
Group A, Division 2 Tournament
53
52
Quarterfinals
Randolph-Henry
30
Semifinals
George Mason
54
Scoreboard
Varsity boys basketball
State Group A
tournament
Division 2 final
Radford 77, Dan River 69
Division 1 final
Colonial Beach 77,
Eastern Montgomery 75
Varsity girls basketball
State Group A
tournament
Division 2 final
George Mason 53,
Floyd County 46
Division 2 semifinals
George Mason 54,
Lancaster 52
Varsity Baseball Mathews 3,
Lancaster 2
JV Baseball
Mathews 11,
Lancaster
1
Varsity Softball Mathews def. Lancaster
Upcoming Games
Varsity baseball
March 20:
Colonial Beach at Lancaster
(7 p.m.)
March 24:
Lancaster at Mathews (5 p.m.)
Varsity softball
March 20:
Colonial Beach at Lancaster
(5 p.m.)
March 24:
Lancaster at Mathews (5 p.m.)
JV baseball/softball
March 20:
Middlesex at Colonial Beach
( baseball only 5 p.m.)
March 24:
Mathews at Lancaster
JV/Varsity soccer
(JV 5:30 p.m., varsity 7 p.m.)
March 23:
Lancaster at Mathews
Track
(4 p.m.)
March 25:
W&L and Mathews at
Lancaster
Drifters win
Group A,
Division 1
championship
A first-ever state championship for Colonial Beach hung in
the air as Brad Wooten of Eastern Montgomery fired off a final
second three-point attempt. The
shot was wide and the Drifters
held on for a 77-75 win in the
state Group A, Division 1 boys
championship last Friday night
at the Stuart C. Siegel Center in
Richmond.
The Tidewater District’s Drifters (27-3) had trailed by 12 points
in the second quarter and by six
at the half to the Montgomery
County team.
T.T. Carey sparked the Colonial Beach comeback, scoring 21
of his game-high 37 points in the
second half. He sank the go-ahead
goal with 19 seconds left.
Carey had hit a three-pointer
in the third quarter to cap a 15-0
run that put the Drifters in front
42-33.
However,
the
Mustangs
wouldn’t quit. They kept answering Colonial Beach’s shots with
three-pointers, hitting six in the
third quarter. In fact, Eastern
Montgomery broke the state tournament three-pointer record with
13 for the game.
Dylan Farinet of Colonial
Beach scored 18 points and had
16 rebounds. Carey’s doubledouble paced the Pointers. Along
with his 37 points, he also had 19
boards.
Colonial Beach, a small school
in Westmoreland County, won the
state title in just its second season
competing in the Virginia High
School League after playing an
independent schedule. The Drifters have competed as part of the
Tidewater District, but will join
the Northern Neck District for
the 2009-2010 school year.
Eastern Montgomery...17 16 22 20— 75
Colonial Beach............11 16 30 20— 77
Eastern Montgomery — Shawn
Christian 5, Brad Wooten 12,
Henry Hall 21, Julian Stewart 18,
Laquin Khalil 9, Bobby Cerva 0,
Adam Sisson 8, Justin Motley 2.
Three-point goals: Hall 5, Stewart
3, Wooten 2, Sisson 2, Christian 1.
Colonial Beach — T.T. Carey 37,
Jamel Dickerson 6, Kevin Swope 1,
Dylan Farinet 18, Paul Roberson 0,
Thomas Peery 8, Jeryl Dickerson 7.
Three-point goals: Carey 2, Peery
2, Farinet 2.
Soccer team raises funds for foundation The Christchurch girls soccer team put spring break on hold to play in the 10th annual Christine Garvey Memorial Soccer Tournament at Riverview Park in Newport News. The girls
raised money for the tournament by selling doughnuts on campus. All proceeds from the
tournament go to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Team member Hannah
Lidicker presented Patrick Garvey a check for $581.44. Above, from left, are Garvey, Katie
D’Antonio, Emily Moore, Lidicker, Catherine Harris, Becky Sease, Laura Ransone, Libbie
Randolph, Haley Corson, Elizabeth Prillaman, Amelia Dunston, Kaylee Oliver, Gretchen
Lidicker, Carter Clark, Emily Allen, Elie Smith, Joanna Spotswood and Lauren Waite.
All Stars named for Shrine game
The 11th annual Northern
Neck Shrine Club high school
basketball games will be
played Saturday, March 21, at
Northumberland High School.
Doors open at 6 p.m. The first
game begins at 6:30 p.m.
Tevin Moore, Malcolm Carter
and Anton Veney of Lancaster
will join Carolmane Diggs, Joel
Deihl and Jason Caster from
Northumberland and Matthew
Jewell, Bryan Lee and Darrell
Porter of Rappahannock along
with James Carey and Richard
Taylor from Washington and
Lee and Jeremy Sayles and
Northern Neck District Player
of the Year John Dille who will
represent the Northern Neck
All Stars when they take on the
Tidewater All Stars Saturday
night.
Northern Neck Coach of the
Year Tim Rice of Lancaster will
head up the “Neck” team. He
will be assisted by Bill Young,
also from Lancaster.
The Tidewater All Stars,
coached by Tidewater Coach
of the Year Steve Swope of
the newly crowned Group A
Division 1 State Champions
Colonial Beach Drifters will
challenge the “Neck” All Stars
with Tidewater Player of the
Year T.T. Carey.
He will be joined by team
mate Kevin Swope, both from
“the Beach” as well as Delonta
Holmes and Antwon Broaddus
of King and Queen, P.J. Roye
and Kyle Moore of Mathews,
Terrance Briggs and Eldred
Holmes from West Point, Malcolm Ward and Nigel Rich of
Middlesex and Allen Johnson
and James Carter from King
William.
On the girls side, two-time
state final four, Lancaster will
send Tyesha Harvey, Takeia
Jones and Darnisha Jones,
along with Northumberland’s
Kantice Rice and Morgan
Howard, Kori Oord and Janelle
Hickman of Rappahannock,
Eboni Veney, Amber Smith
and Kendra Braxton from
Essex and Kelisha Johnson and
Ashley Farmer from Washington and Lee.
Joanne Webb-Fary of Lancaster will be the head coach.
She will be assisted by Northern Neck Coach of the Year
Darrell Long from Northumberland
Tidewater Coach of the Year
Robert Thomas of Mathews
will counter with her own
Lindsay Hudgins, Briana
Miales and Suzanne McLaughlin. Joining them from Middlesex are Katrina Reed, Kiersten
Baylor, Kim Ammons, and
Whitney Walton; also Kristen
Medlin and Courtney Bell of
West Point and Katandra Gray
and Ramona Roane from King
William. Head Coach Mark
Ware of West Point will be the
assistant coach.
The All Stars, chosen by
their coaches, must be seniors
so this will be their final game
in a high school uniform, said
promoter Carroll Lee Ashburn.
A half-court $100 cash prize
shoot-out will take place during
the half-time of both games,
with one winner. The shoot-out
is open to all at $1 per shot.
Sponsored by the Northern
Neck Shrine Club, the games
are held to raise funds for the
Shriners Hospital for Children. Admission is $5 for both
games.
Chesapeake Academy summer camps slated
It’s never too early to being
thinking about summer activities for your energetic, outdoor-loving children ages 4
to 14, so Chesapeake Academy is kicking its Summer
Camp planning into high gear
for 2009. The school plans a
variety of fun programs and
challenging activities to build
healthy bodies, strong character and skills to last a lifetime.
“Something for Everyone”
remains the theme for 2009.
“Gone are the days when day
camp meant simply tying
knots or making pot holders,” said camp director Cynthia Walker, who has over a
decade of camp experience
guiding her programming.
“Our programs are as unique
as the campers themselves,”
she added. For the summer of
2009, Chesapeake Academy
is offering several one-week
sessions of the following day
and overnight camps: Camp
Irvington, Field Trip Camp,
Sports Camp, Water Sports
Overnight Camp, and Sailing
Camp.
New to the 2009 camp
lineup is Sailing Camp. It is
being offered for a limit of six
kids for the week of June 29 to
July 3. “A low student to sailing instructor ratio was really
important to us when developing this camp,” noted Walker.
Besides learning to rig,
steer, trim, heel, tack, flip and
race, beginning sailors will
have access to the facilities of
the Rappahannock River Yacht
Club on Carters Creek. “This
is the perfect camp for kids
who love mucking about in
water and challenging themselves by trying new things,”
added Walker, who will teaminstruct with Chesapeake
Academy board of trustee
chair Ron Mihills, who has a
lifetime of leisure and racing
sailing experience.
Field Trip Camp will be
offered for ages 9 to 14, established to give kids the opportunity to experience some of
Virginia’s finest amusements
and attractions while introducing them to the fun and
challenge of overnight tent
camping.
“One of the greatest appeals
of Field Trip Camp, besides
tent camping and going roller
skating, go-karting, rollercoaster riding to Six Flags
or Kings Dominion, is doing
these things with a posse of
friends,” noted Walker.
Field Trip Camp will be
offered during two one-week
sessions this summer with
limited enrollment: June 15-19
and July 6-10.
Camp Irvington, for children
ages 4 to 10, will be offered
for six one-week sessions this
summer. Camp Irvington is
filled with activities designed
to enhance skills in a particular area of interest such as fish-
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Bridge
Results
Seven pairs played the Howell
Movement of duplicate bridge
March 11 at the Woman’s Club of
White Stone.
Winners were first, Cynthia
Birdsall and Arden Durham;
second, Judy Peifer and Virginia
Adair; and third, Liz Hargett and
Tot Winstead.
The next bridge for this group
is Thursday, March 19, and
Monday, March 23, at 1 p.m.
Five-and-a-half tables of bridge
were in play March 10 at Rappahannock Westminster-Canterbury.
Winners north/south were
first, Joe and Beverly Oren; and
second, Judy Peifer and Ginger
Klapp.
Winners east/west were first,
Cynthia Birdsall and Ronnie Gerster; and second, Tot Winstead
and Liz Hargett.
The next bridge for this group
is Tuesday, March 24, at 1 p.m.
Fri
Sun
20-24.
Chesapeake Academy will
again offer two weekly sessions of Water Sports Overnight Camp after a favorable
response from campers ages
9 to 14 in 2008. “Taking full
advantage of the school’s proximity to the Rappahannock
River, we added this camp to
satisfy those kids who just
can’t get enough salt-water
satisfaction,” said Walker.
Waterskiing, knee-boarding,
wake-boarding, tubing and
fishing opportunities abound.
Under the guidance of Walker’s
professional, outdoor-loving
staff, Water Sports Overnight
Camp also features land-based
recreational activities like
capture-the-flag, Frisbee golf,
campfire cooking, lacrosse,
soccer, dodgeball and more.
To register for Chesapeake
Academy Summer Camps,
please call 438-5575, email
camp director Cynthia Walker
at cwalker@chesapeakeacademy.org or download the information and registration packet
at chesapeakeacademy.org.
Those registering before
May 1 qualify for last year’s
rates. Financial assistance is
available. The camp sessions
are open to all children and
grandchildren ages 4 to 14 of
families residing in Northumberland, Lancaster, Middlesex
and Mathews Counties, as
well as out of state.
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advance knowledge through
a broad range of challenging
activities such as planning
strategies for winning Capture
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cheesecake.
Camp Irvington activities
take advantage of the campus
and surrounding landscape,
which includes access to the
headwaters of Carters Creek
via the school’s nature trail.
Camp Irvington is capped
each Friday with an excursion
to a special place of interest
including the zoo, a skating
rink or bowling alley.
Sports Camp, for children
ages 9 to 14, differs from traditional camps that specialize
in a single sport.
“We geared this camp
towards active kids who love
sports of all kinds,” said
Walker. Sports Camp concentrates on building coordination,
strength, sportsmanship and
dexterity in children engaged
in activities that include tennis,
soccer, dodgeball, volleyball,
kickball, ultimate Frisbee and
much more. Under the supervision of Walker’s experienced
staff, campers polish existing
athletic skills while building
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Flotilla 3-10 improves its
navigation and GPS course
Flotilla 3-10 recently rolled
out its new “Introduction to
Navigation/GPS” course. The
new improved one-of-a-kind
version was shared with some
of its harshest critics—flotilla
Sail V
From left are (front row) Corey Jameson, Sebastian Vazquez, members who use the course
Kevin Cox, Chris Way, Faith Cheetham, Hannah Richard- techniques on a daily basis
son, Mike Ribich and Alex Raffetto; (next row) Bill Johnson, during the boating season.
The six- to seven-hour course
Matt Guthrie, Kate Banchoff, Katie Cox, Michelle Burch
will be offered in Callao at the
and Tyler Grogan.
Bank of Lancaster from 6 to 9
p.m. March 24. The fee is $35
per person. To register, call
public education officer Judy
Julian at 529-6765.
The course covers use of
charts to plot a course, determine courses to steer, distances,
time of arrival, and how to find
and avoid hazards to navigation depicted on local charts,
explained public affairs officer
Carroll Barrack.
Actual exercises on local
waters are used and there is an
Sail VI
instructor for every two stuFrom left are (front row) Soren Jespersen and Melanie Piller; dents, said Barrack. The Global
(next row) Bill Johnson, Ronnie Calkins, Stewart Hall, Justin
Guthrie, Rosemary Hall and Michelle Burch.
Positioning Systems (GPS)
portion introduces students
to a variety of GPS, how they
work, and some practical ways
to make waypoints, staying on
course, and other safety tips.
“There is a reason why we
teach the navigation portion
first and use such familiar
charts,” said Julian. “We
want students to know the
charts before they set up a
course that might be dangerous. Second, all sorts of
things can go wrong with
high tech electronic equipment in a marine environment. We want students to be
able to do it manually in case
the GPS fails.”
The primary course designers were Julian, Oliver Knight
and Wayne Ploger. Their member-only session was designed
to get member feedback, and
also to train others in the flotilla to teach the course to the
boating public.
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From left are (front row) Sally Johnson and Aline Johnson;
(next row) Erik De Mario, Ben Thompson, Henry Thompson, Jason Carson and Jack Allen; (next row) Bill Johnson,
Rosemary Hall, Justin Guthrie and Michelle Burch.
From left, John and Lin McCarthy accept an award recognizing their contributions to the sport of sailing from vicecommodore Frank Miller.
Yacht club hosts racing seminar
Forty sailors attended a
workshop March 14 on the
new racing rules of sailing for
2009-12 at the Rappahannock
River Yacht Club.
The informative and entertaining course was taught by
the Chesapeake Bay Yacht
Racing Association race management coordinator John
McCarthy. He and his wife,
Lin, publish the “Southern
Bay Racing News,” a newsletter for sailboat racers. The
rules of sailing are updated
every four years following the
Olympic Games.
“John McCarthy is an outstanding educator, and we are
fortunate to have him visit to
share his knowledge of the
new racing rules with our
local sailors,” said club ViceCommodore Frank Miller.
Former commodores to speak
Sail VII (2)
From left are Bill Johnson, Tyler Grogan, McKay Allen, Stephen Johnson, Jaellene Carson, Lyn Hoehner, Luke Allen,
Zack Johnson, Forest Konwerski, Luke Johnson and Matt
Guthrie.
Sailing camp
posts strong finish
The Indian Creek Yacht and
Country Club Junior Sailing
Camp finished its 14th year
with 61 sailors attending
10-week-long sailing camps,
including four beginning
classes, three intermediate
classes, one keel boat class
and two racing classes.
The sailors ranged in age
from 7 to 17. Totals for the
summer were 32 beginning
sailors, 17 intermediate sailors, 2 keel boat sailors and
12 racing sailors, with several students increasing their
skills by taking more than
one class.
The club’s junior sailing
program, certified by U S
Sailing, provided each sailor
with 30 hours of instruction during the week, rain or
shine. Training was provided
by instructors Bill Johnson
and Matt Guthrie. Other certified instructors included
Michelle Burch, Justin Guthrie, Tyler Grogan and assistant Rosemary Hall.
Beginning classes used
International Optimist Dinghies, 420s and Lasers, said
camp director Anne Reisner.
Intermediate classes, for
sailors who had completed
at least one previous sailing
class, also used the Optimists, 420s and Lasers, said
Reisner.
July 21 through 25, a
regatta at the Rappahannock
River Yacht Club attracted
participation from the entire
Intermediate class (10 sailors).
All the instructors and
most of the sailboats were
put to use during the last sailing class August 4 through 8.
There were 14 beginners.
The class was broken into
two separate age groups,
which helped keep the
instruction more efficient.
In addition to camp t-shirts
made by Bay Window, each
sailor received a US Sailing certificate and completion card, a certification
record book documenting
their accomplishments, a
picture of their class and
individual sailing pictures of
themselves at the helm. Box
lunches were provided by the
club each day.
The 2009 camp schedule
has gone out. Club members
may call for information, go
on their web site, or contact
Reisner.
Lady golfers to hold
organizational brunch
The Quinton Oaks Ladies
Golf Association will hold an
organizational meeting and
brunch Wednesday, March 25,
at 9 a.m. at the clubhouse. A
Captain’s Choice tourney will
follow the meeting. All golfing
ladies are invited.
The group plays every
Wednesday from April through
October, weather permitting.
The yearly association dues
of $5 will be collected at the
meeting. Those unable to
attend may pay the dues on
opening day. In addition, a fee
of $3 is collected every week;
$1 for the association treasury and $2 for weekly prize
money.
Opening day for the league
will be April 1 at 8:30 a.m.,
with play to begin at 9 a.m.
Call Alice Rawlings at 4725837, or Carol Reese at 5299452.
Former commodores Anker
Madsen and Dwight Timm
will speak at Yankee Point
Yacht Club’s (YPYC) third
seminar of the season March
28 at 9 a.m.
According to Madsen the
seminar will cover a spectrum of subjects for racers
and cruisers. “Dwight will open with
an introduction of what
the Chesapeake Bay Yacht
Racing Association does and
how local yachting clubs fit
into the regional racing picture. He will also bring us up
to date on the 2009 changes
in Performance Handicap
Racing Fleet guidelines,”
Madsen said.
Noting that every sport is
governed by tradition as well
as rules, Timm said it is a
tradition at the club that he
also discuss changes to the
Racing Rules of Sailing. “By covering all our rules,
we’re trying to ensure that
the racing experience is a
positive one and that no one
is disqualified on a technicality because they didn’t
know about a rule change,”
Timm said. Changes
often
reflect
improvements
in
racing
safety, he added. Timm’s presentation will
be followed by Madsen’s
class on crewing for sailors
and cruisers. “This part of the seminar
is for people interested in
crewing, but have little or
no experience. It is relevant
for both racers and cruisers,”
Madsen said.
He will cover some of the
basics which include rigging
a sailboat, sailing terminology, sail control and trim,
how to organize the crew,
what the responsibility of
each crew position is, and
what that position should be
doing during hoisting, dousing, tacking and gybing. Madsen said there will be
an opportunity to sign on as
an active crew member.
“Being part of the crew is
really the best way to learn
what is involved in both
racing and cruising. It turns
the sailing experience from a
passive activity into one over
which you have some control
because you are an active
participant. What you do and
how and when you do it matters. There is no better way to
learn,” he said. He added that in his experience, there is also no better
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■ Waterfowl Show
The Rappahannock River
Waterfowl Show will celebrate
its 30th anniversary March 21
and 22 at the White Stone firehouse. Show hours are 10 a.m. to
6 p.m. March 21 and 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. March 22. Admission is $8
for adults and free for children
ages 12 and younger. Proceeds
benefit White Stone Volunteer
Fire Department operations.
■ Get fit
Bethel United Methodist
Women and Northern Neck
CASA will offer
exercise
classes Mondays and Thursdays at 8 a.m. in the fellowship
hall of Bethel United Methodist Church in Lively.
From left are (front row) Mal Brown, Anita Cook, Amy Thomas, April Cortese, Howard
The fee is $2 with $1 going
Montgomery and Roy Sheppard; (next row) Jim Thomas, David Pope, Frans Kasteel, Ted to the Women’s Missions ProTulis, Bob Vogel, John Mill, John Bowles, Paul Lassanske, Jerry Hawley, Ian Duncan, Wally gram and $1 to CASA. To join,
Dawson, Dick Herbermann, Sam Conge, Jim Wroth and Brian McArdle.
call 462-0037, or 462-0881.
Flotilla 33 honors members
Recently, Flotilla 33 of
the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary conducted a recognition
dinner for its members and
their spouses to honor those
who contributed to a successful year.
The highlight of the evening
was the presentation to immediate past Flotilla commander
John Mill for being ranked the
leading Flotilla in the Third
Division in 2008. Division
commander Joe Riley presented the award, said public
affairs officer Brian McArdle.
It was also announced that
Flotilla 33 was ranked first in
the entire district, which is
comprised of 20 divisions, said
McArdle.
The evening began with the
presentation of retirement certificates to Elizabeth Maxwell-
Warren for 40 years of service
and Ray Warren for 24 years of
service, he said. Their contributions to the auxiliary, Coast
Guard, community and the
country was recognized and
appreciated.
Six auxiliary facilities were
awarded operation awards for
their time on patrol. Receiving
Silver Awards were Jim and
Amy Thomas of Family Time,
Frans Kasteel of Allese and
Roy Sheppard of Diane-C.
Bronze awards were issued
to John Texter of John’s Joy,
John Mill and John Hoekstra
of Paradox and Jim Wroth of
Miz Molly.
Individual division awards
were presented in operations,
public education, member
training, public affairs and
marine safety to Charlie Bern-
hardt, Jack Blaine, Wally
Dawson, Ian Duncan, Andy
Ernst, Don Gallagher, Brian
Hart, Jerry Hawley, Dick Herberman, Frans Kasteel, Brian
McArdle, John Mill, David
Pope, Roy Sheppard, John
Texter, Amy Thomas, Jim
Thomas and Bob Vogel.
“All areas of volunteer
hours increased in 2008,” said
Flotilla commander Wally
Dawson. “Flotilla members
rescued 17 people in 2008 and
most of them were in a very
serious situation when we got
there. Our time spent patrolling and training really paid
off,” he said.
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is a member of Team
Coast Guard and operates in
conjunction with Coast Guard
Station Milford Haven.
■ Bowling night
The Middlesex High School
Band Boosters Association and Village Lanes in Gloucester will host
an all night bowling event April
3 from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. at Village Lanes. Admission is $15 per
person and includes as many games
as one can bowl and shoe rental.
There also will be activities
such as Guitar Hero competition,
games, raffles and food items
at an additional cost. Proceeds
will benefit the Middlesex High
School Band. Tickets will be sold
in advance and at the door. Call
776-0209, or email mhshauntedhouse@yahoo.com for tickets.
■ Boating classes
■ Winter Warmers
■ Golf open
An informational meeting will
be held Thursday, March 26, at
6 p.m. at the Northumberland
Public Library to explore interest
in organizing a 4-H Alpaca Club.
Youth ages 9 to 19 years and
parents are welcome. Participants need not own an alpaca to
attend. Alpacas are known to be
extremely gentle animals and can
be handled safely by children.
Contact 4-H Extension agent
Julie Tritz at 462-5780.
Belle Isle State Park’s Winter
Warmers series will continue at 1
p.m. March 19 with “Conservation Measures in Northern Neck
Grain Production,” by Matt Lewis,
a Virginia Cooperative Extension
agent in Northumberland and
Lancaster counties. The program
will be held at the Visitor Center.
There is a $2 parking fee.
■ Jacob’s golf
The 16th annual Jacob’s
Ladder Golf Classic will be
played May 15 at the Golden
Eagle Golf Course near Irvington.
Teams and players can register at jladder.org, or mail to
Jacob’s Ladder Inc., P.O. Box
555, Urbanna, VA 23175. The
entry fee is $150 per person.
Jacob’s Ladder must receive
a registration form with a $50
fee per player by April 10 for
that person to be eligible for an
earlybird prize drawing.
On March 21, U.S. Coast
Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 3-10 will
conduct an “About Boating Safety”
class at the Bank of Lancaster in
Callao from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
fee is $35 per person. To register,
call Judy Julian at 529-6765.
On March 24 and 26, Flotilla
3-10 will conduct an “Intro to
Navigation/GPS” class at the Bank
of Lancaster in Callao from 6 to 9
p.m. The fee is $35 per person. To
register, call Julian at 529-6765.
Rappahannock
WestminsterCanterbury’s 25th annual Open Golf
Tournament will be held April 21 at
the King Carter Golf Club near Kilmarnock. The tournament will benefit the RW–C Fellowship Fund.
There will be flights for men and
women. For a brochure, contact
the RW-C development office at
48-4013, or foundation@rw-c.org.
■ Speedway option
Due to the increased interest by competitors and the current
economic conditions, officials
at Bill Sawyer’s Virginia Motor
Speedway have decided to add
Crate Late Models as an option for
the track’s Late Model division.
The GM Performance 604 and
602 motors will now be allowed to
run in the Victory Lap Late Model
division. Engine rules for the GM
Performance 604 and 602 engines
will follow the Fastrak Racing
Series engine guidelines and will
be strictly enforced. Competitors
should visit vamotorspeedway.
com, or call 758-1867.
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Weekley’s ride to reunion to raise
money for the Boys & Girls Club
Bob Weekley of Lancaster will
ride his bicycle to West Point,
N.Y., to attend the 50th anniversary of his graduation and commissioning from the U.S. Military
Academy April 30.
He’s turning his 10-day bike
ride to West Point into a fundraiser for the Boys & Girls Club
of the Northern Neck.
Weekley has always liked challenges. And the bike ride to his
50th anniversary is no different.
He hopes to raise at least
$5,000 for the Boys & Girls Club
through pledges for the more than
500 mile trip, according to club
spokeswoman Kathryn Kahler
Vose. He’s never done a solo bike
trip before.
Weekley’s pursuit of an education at West Point some 50 years
ago required some of the same
“can-do” spirit he is exhibiting
in planning the 500-mile solo
bike ride that will take him from
Lancaster County to Fredericksburg; Washington, D.C.; through
Maryland and Pennsylvania; and
on to New York, riding on mostly
back roads.
“Fifty-four years ago, living on
a farm in a small town in western
Colorado, I decided I wanted to
apply to attend the United States
Military Academy at West Point,
New York,” Weekley said. “No
one I knew of had ever attended
West Point, and no one in my
family had ever served in the
military. I knew the studies and
the training would be hard, but I
had always liked challenges so I
gave it a try. That summer, after
graduating from high school, I
boarded a train for New York and
was off on my new solo venture.
Four years later, I graduated and
was commissioned as a second
lieutenant in the U.S. Army.”
Weekley added: “My Army
assignments took me all over
the world. I lived in Germany,
Argentina, Switzerland, Spain,
and many places in the U.S. I
had the privilege of commanding
troops in the field for two years in
Vietnam. The small-town boy
had opportunities to learn and
do things he had never dreamed
of.”
Weekley will leave Lancaster
County April 20. He is asking
friends and supporters to pledge
ten cents per mile – or more. Proceeds will go to the Boys & Girls
Club of the Northern Neck.
To pledge, call 435-9696. His
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to next phase of stimulus initiative
RICHMOND—Gov. Tim
Kaine last week launched an
overhauled Stimulus.Virginia.
Gov, transforming the state’s
original, pioneering website
into Virginia’s comprehensive
online portal for the American
Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA).
With the conclusion of the
project solicitation phase of the
Commonwealth’s program to
implement the recovery plan,
the website is transitioning to
present a range of information
related to the ARRA—including maps, graphs, charts, and
downloadable tables that allow
citizens to see where proposals
have originated, where money
is flowing, and what specific
projects and geographies are
benefiting from recovery plan
funding.
“In Virginia—just as in
other states across the country—we’ve made transparency and accountability a core
part of our program to implement the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act,” Gov.
Kaine said. “As we work to
build a stronger economic
future for Virginia, the redesigned Stimulus.Virginia.Gov
will be a central tool to ensure
Virginians can see where
funds are being used and how
the recovery plan is working in
our state.”
Virginia will receive
approximately $4.8 billion
in direct appropriations from
the ARRA—not including tax
cuts, which will aid Virginia
citizens directly. In addition,
a large amount of additional
funds will be in the form of
competitive grants that have
yet to be awarded. These
grants may be awarded to state
agencies, institutions of higher
education, local governments,
quasi-governmental organizations, non-profit organizations,
and private companies. White
House economists estimate
the recovery plan will create
or save 93,000 jobs in Virginia
over the next two years.
Given the ARRA’s unprecedented requirements on disclosure and reporting the use
of funding, State Comptroller
David Von Moll will ensure
state agencies and institutions
of higher education meet all
reporting requirements to the
federal government.
The revamped Stimulus.Virginia.Gov website mirrors the
principles of Recovery.gov by
posting this disclosure information as it becomes available. This additional reporting
allows Virginians to monitor how the recovery plan is
working throughout the state
and ensure tax dollars are
being spent productively and
responsibly. The site will show
all available ARRA funds by
Cabinet Secretariat, and map
expenditures by locality and
will be updated on a continual
basis.
Virginia was among the
first states in the nation to
launch a website dedicated to
offering citizens, community
groups, and localities a voice
in the recovery plan process.
Between February 10 and
March 6, Stimulus.Virginia.
Gov received more than 9,000
project ideas, totaling $450
billion, including:
• $180 billion in transportation projects.
• $14.4 billion for K-12 academic projects.
• $7.9 billion for K-12 construction projects.
• $1.6 billion of higher education projects.
• $654 million of higher education infrastructure projects.
• $2.5 billion of higher education construction projects.
• $1 billion for health information technology projects. •$8.8 billion for broadband
infrastructure.
• $28.6 billion in water and
environmental infrastructure
projects.
Over the next few weeks,
a working group on stimulus
funds will continue routing
these projects to the appropriate Cabinet Secretariat for
review and evaluation.
Ultimately, recommendations around potential projects will be presented to Gov.
Kaine, who is expected to
make final decisions on recovery plan allocations in early
April.
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Local groups supply Lakota libraries
“Cheers and applause go to
the generous participants of
the second annual Lakota
Libraries project: delivery of
home study resources for the
Lakota reservation in Rosebud,
South Dakota,” said chaplain
Grace Harley of White Stone
Academy and Capella International. Many boxes of materials
have been delivered to Washington, D.C., and will be rolling west along the highway
this weekend, she said.
Among the contributors were
Lancaster Community Library,
the White Stone United Methodist Church Thrift Shop
and Friends of White Stone
Academy. The items included
dictionaries, encyclopedias,
healthy cooking books, magazines, storybooks and teaching
games.
Another result of this project is a collaboration between
White Stone Academy and
YouthWorks, a Christian youth
mission agency. This summer
youth will visit the Lakota reservation to perform patch and
paint projects on homes. Visit
youthworks.com, or call
1-800-968-8504.
This week launches the
newest literacy project “Books
for Troops” which will deliver
reading materials to U.S. military bases, USOs, military
lodgings, and base recreation
centers, Harley said. “These books will find their
way into flight bags, sea bags,
gym bags and handbags. The
troops and their families
are invited to ‘read and share,’
leaving books at their next destination for another to enjoy
and pass along,” she said. Inside each book will be contact information where
the troops may write to the
chaplain for counseling,
t Northumberland school budget . . . .
could be used not only to run
summer school but to offer
special interest classes such
as art, music and gifted programs.
There would be little leeway,
however, for snow days and
other weather-related closures
under the proposed schedule.
A blizzard or hurricane could
push the school year back into
June.
Students who did get out
in May would have a jumpstart on the summer job
market, mother Amy Reynolds noted.
The board also is debating
whether to give the teachers
raises and whether to cut four
positions through attrition.
One teaching position would
be cut from each school, plus
an aide position at the elementary school, saving a total of
about $200,000.
This was cause for concern among the school board
members, who don’t want to
compromise the quality of
instruction.
“How much we cut out of
the school program is significant compared to what we
are saving,” said school board
member Dean Sumner.
Sumner, on the other hand,
said he would oppose any
salary raises for teachers.
“Look at the direction this
economy is going,” he said.
“There are wage freezes, IRAs
are down, people are losing
their jobs. It would be irresponsible to ask these people
to come up with more money
so that government employees
can get a raise, and I’ll vote
against it.”
Principals from the middle
and elementary school spoke
on behalf of the raises noting
that Northumberland already
has some of the lowest salaries in the state and recruiting
only becomes more difficult
the wider the discrepancy
becomes.
They noted that other teachers in the area are getting
raises. (Lancaster’s school
board approved a 2 percent
salary increase for teachers in
addition to the elimination of
seven teaching positions in its
budget proposal.)
Several teachers added that
insurance costs are rising for
teachers and it would help to
give at least enough of a raise
t Lancaster County budget . . . .
me how to decrease spending,
I will.”
Assistant county administrator Jack Larson supported
the request, telling supervisors
the budget should reflect the
amount the sheriff’s department had actually spent over
the past few years.
Supervisors also appeared
sympathetic, noting that the
department raises its own vegetables in a garden behind the
jail to offset food expenses
during the summer.
Belt tightening was apparent
in many areas where requests
were level or down from the
current year.
Level funding requests were
submitted for emergency services, social services, the Lancaster Community Library and
the refuse center.
The audit report showed the
refuse center had overspent by
$125,000 in 2007-08. However, the department head said
recycling is way up, resulting
information, prayer, or simply
a friendly word from the
folks back home. This project blends pen-pal support
with literacy promotion, she
reported.
Another White Stone Academy project is the Cherokee
Children’s Library which will
see its second annual delivery this summer to the North
Carolina reservation. Last
year’s reading books and
puzzles to the new elementary
charter school were appreciated gifts which surprised
the librarian. “Our goal is to
double the donation this year,”
Harley said.
Community members who
wish to financially support
or participate in the ongoing projects may write White
Stone Academy, P.O. Box 1318,
White Stone, VA 22578, visit
whitestoneacademy@hotmail.
com, or call 435-7245.
to cover that cost.
After more than an hour of
conversation on the topic, the
board asked Stables to come
back with more information.
The board’s decision on each
of these issues will impact
any increase it requests from
the county and, ultimately,
whether county taxpayers see
an increase in their bills this
year.
Under one variation of
the budget, there would be a
county funding decrease of
$13,000.
Teacher raises alone would
require an increase of nearly
$275,000.
If the four teaching positions
are not cut and the school year
isn’t shortened, the increase to
the county could be more than
$300,000.
If bus routes stay the same
and the school year doesn’t
change and teachers get their
raise, then the increase to the
county could be more than
$600,000.
The board will make its final
decision on these issues at 6
p.m. next Wednesday, March
25, in the school board office
in Lottsburg.
in a cost savings on refuse disposal this year.
There was some discussion
on closing the centers one
day a week during the winter
months to reduce costs. However, it was noted employees
spend that time cleaning up
and organizing the sites.
Judicial
administration
requests were down $28,000
to $620,000, due in large
part to the Commonwealth’s
attorney’s expected need for
$25,000 less.
Increases in general administration of $11,000 mostly
reflected insurance costs,
while expenses for the Electoral Board nearly doubled, up
$23,900.
Several non-profit organizations noted the bad economy
had dried up many of their
grants and donations. While
claiming more families need
financial assistance, most
groups asked for level funding, including the YMCA at
$75,000.
The Boys and Girls Club
asked for $50,000, an increase
of $35,000, and the Northern Neck Free Health Clinic
requested $107,640, up nearly
$17,000. Virginia Quality Life
dropped off the request list
this year while one new group,
RCAP Water is Life Campaign, got onboard asking for
$5,000.
Supervisors
will
hold
another budget work session
Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the
General District courtroom in
Lancaster.
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From the front
Supervisors request more
details on Light Street project
HEATHSVILLE—Unsatisfied with the information they
received last week, the Northumberland County supervisors delayed approval of a grant
application for the Light Street
Community
Development
Block Grant.
If approved, the grant would
rehabilitate or replace 16
houses near Brown’s Store,
including five without indoor
plumbing.
In one case, 10 people are
living in a two-bedroom home
with no running water, said
Friends present gift
Donna Thompson, executive
The Friends of the Library recently presented a
director of Scenario, a consult$10,000 gift to the Northumberland Public Library
ing firm.
in Heathsville. The bulk of the funds were collected
Thompson has been orchesduring the 2008 Super Raffle and the Christmas at
trating the project planning
Burnt Chimneys Songs Alive organ concert. “At a time
process for several months
of economic downturn, the library is increasingly
with the supervisors’ blessing,
important to the community as a source of employbut now the board says it needs
ment information, computer services and entertainto see results from the planning
ment. This money will go a long way toward meeting
phase before it will sign off on
the challenge,” said library director Jayne McQuade.
an application for the construcFrom left are (front row) Friends president Jay Walker,
tion phase.
presenting the check to McQuade; (next row) library
The grant application is due
trustees president Wonda Allain and Friends of the
April 8.
Library vice president Lien Groenwold.
With the clock ticking,
Thompson had not turned in
any final numbers or construction cost estimates to the county
as of March 17.
The board last week repeatedly asked Thompson for some
kind of final report on the planning.
LANCASTER—Planning supporting services such as
Thompson kept saying that
commission members will churches, cemeteries, schools, she had already given county
tackle capital improvement hospitals, nursing homes,
requests, conduct a public day care centers, restaurants
hearing on a proposed multi- and shops. Developers would
family residential ordinance, receive a density adjustment
and begin discussions on cash allowing one additional unit
proffers tonight, March 19, per acre in exchange for 10 perwhen they meet at 7 p.m. in the cent of the units being priced as
by Alex Haseltine
General District courtroom.
workforce housing.
IRVINGTON—The
IrvingCapital improvement requests
Planning/land use director
totaling $2.2 million for fiscal Don Gill said planners also are ton Town Council last Thursyears 2010 through 2014 expected to begin a discussion day abandoned plans to
were presented at last month’s on the feasibility of cash prof- install signs urging motorists to “slow down and enjoy
meeting. Requests included fers.
$1.5 million over five years
According to Gill, proffers our beautiful town.”
The signs were designed
for school projects, $288,600 are promises developers volunover two years for the sheriff’s tarily make to local government by town resident Edwina
department and $315,000 next in exchange for conditional Crockett and presented to
year for emergency services.
rezoning consideration. Nor- council in November. While
Planners tabled a vote last mally, exceptions allow a higher the design and sentiment
month in order to allow more density district, such as rezon- behind them was widely
time to review the proposals.
ing from A-2 agricultural gen- praised by members of counAfter months of fine tuning, eral to R-3 medium residential. cil, there were concerns that
planners are ready for a second Because proffers apply only to the proposed signs would be
public hearing on an ordinance land being rezoned, a good deal ineffective in slowing traffic and contribute to clutter
creating a residential commu- of development is exempt.
nity district (R-4). The new disGenerally, cash proffers are along Route 3 in the town,
trict designation would allow intended to offset a commu- where existing speed limit
moderate- to higher-density nity’s cost of services for new signs are already equipped
off-water residential communi- developments and are allowed with flashing lights.
“I like the idea, but if
ties. Such developments would by the General Assembly in
be required to be located where areas considered “high growth.” people aren’t going to slow
central water and sewage dis- Under the code, proffers could down for a blinking yellow
posal are available or could be be made in the form of a cash sign, I don’t think it will
provided.
payment or in-kind contribu- make much of a difference,”
The ordinance provides for a tion such as land for schools or
mixed-use zoning district made road improvements. However,
t Waterfowl show
up primarily of multi-family proffers do not cover all the
housing including apartments, services and infrastructure new covers of many publications,
townhouses, duplexes and developments require.
including that of the Easton
condominiums. Also allowCurrently, the county does Waterfowl Festival booklet. A
able under the R-4 district are not accept cash proffers.
full-time artist for 32 years,
Ewell is a member of the
Baltimore Watercolor Society
and is listed in Who’s Who in
Wildfowl Art.
All visitors to the show will
have a chance to win two door
HEATHSVILLE—Zoning consideration for approval or prizes: an original painting
will top the discussion at the denial of boathouse applica- by Bill Bolin of MidlothNorthumberland
planning tions.
ian and a carving by Wayne
commission’s monthly meeting
The commission also will dis- Baker of Richmond. Visitors
tonight (March 19).
cuss its next steps in the zoning to the Preview Night will
The commission will discuss code overhaul and review pro- have a chance to win two door
whether the county should con- cess.
prizes: an original painting
tinue to allow boathouses and,
The planning commission by Art LaMay of Palm Coast,
if so, whether to recommend meets at 7 p.m. in the courts Fla., and a carving by William
specific criteria to aid in the building at 39 Judicial Place.
Bruce of White Stone.
Lancaster commission
faces full agenda tonight
Community rallies
for improvements
A community meeting to discuss the Light Street
project on March 10 was well attended. More than 30
members of the community attended the session at
the Northumberland County Community Center near
Browns Store.
Scenario Inc. executive director Donna B. Thompson, a consultant enlisted to assist in the grant application process, praised residents for their dedication
and urged continued involvement.
“As far as a community, you all are certainly a
family, but we have a long way to go,” said Thompson.
The tenor of the meeting was one of cautious optimism, with the main topic of discussion being the
importance of attendance at the board of supervisors’
meeting later that week.
Jim Long, who serves on the board, told residents
that they had his complete support, but other members would need to be convinced.
“The meeting Thursday is it,” said Long. “I am
with you, but there are five people on the board and I
only have one vote.”
administrator Kenneth D.
Eades a copy of the planning
grant application.
Eades produced the original
application, but said that it did
not include the results of the
study.
Thompson and the board
went back and forth for nearly
45 minutes before Thompson
produced an incomplete copy
of the construction grant application, which contains much
of the information they were
seeking.
The board was unaware that
Thompson had already started
working on the construction
grant application.
“You have gone further than
you were authorized to go,”
said chairman Ronald Jett.
The county was particularly interested in the amount
of money being requested
for houses, wells and septic
systems since it may be held
responsible for any cost overruns on the project.
“We don’t have a clear picture of what each house is
going to need,” said supervisor
Tommy Tomlin.
The board emphasized that it
supports the project.
“We want this to go through
and go through right,” Jett said.
During the public comment
period at the end of the meeting, Ken Rioland, pastor at
Macedonia Baptist Church,
told the board that the Light
Street residents left in “a very
deflated mood.”
“I understand that this
banter and discussion is what’s
required to get the desired
result,” he said, “but these
people don’t see it like that.”
The board said it would hold
a special meeting to review
Thompson’s materials once
they are submitted.
“We want to make sure this
is done right the first time,” Jett
reiterated. “We don’t want to
end up hurting the people we
are trying to help.”
Irvington nixes new welcome signs
Northumberland planners continue
zoning discussion tonight, March 19
said Councilman Robert
Westbrook. “It would just be
another sign.”
Following a discussion on
the merits of the proposal,
Councilman Jimmie Lee
Crockett made a motion,
seconded by Randy Ransone
to install the signs. Council
members Kathleen Pollard,
Gene Edmonds and Robert
Westbrook voted against the
motion, which was defeated
3-2. Councilman Bill Evans
was not present at the meeting.
Mayor Alex Fleet asked
council members and members of the community to
make lists of projects they
would like to see in the
town’s fiscal year 2009
budget and appointed Ransone and Westbrook to the
budget committee.
“If you have got some
things you want put in there,
is this weekend in White Stone. . . .
The Rappahannock Decoy
Carvers and Collectors Guild
will host the annual decoy
carving contest Saturday in
the White Stone Women’s
Club building. Registration
will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday
and judging starts at noon.
An auction will begin at 11
a.m. Visitors are welcome to
watch the judging and view
the entries.
A popular feature of the
show is the raffle. About 60
items, all donated by exhibiting artists, are drawn at the
show’s close. Raffle items
include original paintings,
framed prints and carvings.
Winners need not be present
t Legislators discuss Chesapeake Bay restoration measures . . . .
greener their grass is the
greener they are,” Sen. Stuart
said.
Sen. Stuart’s legislation
requires people who apply fertilizer to be properly trained in
nutrient management and soil
analysis techniques.
The bill was passed but
met great resistance from the
industry, forcing legislators to
allow the Virginia Department
of Conservation and Recreation two additional years to
write the regulations and three
years before they enforce the
new policies.
Not everyone agreed that
lawn fertilizers are the key
point in this fight.
“Lawn fertilizers are just a
drop in the bucket,” said NAPS
member Lynton Land. “Water
quality in the bay isn’t going to
improve unless you deal with
agriculture.”
Spending wisely
Rep. Rob Wittman reported
on his proposed amendment
to the Water Quality Improvement Act, which would pro-
vide financial oversight of the
funds spent by federal, state
and local agencies in efforts to
restore the Chesapeake Bay.
Now it is difficult to track
progress across those agencies and to see which dollars
are having the greatest effect,
he said.
“Every year we get this
report card on the Chesapeake
Bay cleanup process and every
year we get Ds and Fs. It
makes me wonder if our agencies aren’t overstating their
progress,” said Rep. Wittman.
The amendment would
require every agency to maintain a seperate line item to
track spending on Chesapeake
Bay restoration, whether it be
oyster replenishment projects,
point source pollution cleanup,
or non-point source pollution
research.
“Let’s make sure we are producing results and, if not, then
let’s move the money to some
area that is working,” he said.
Wittman noted the Chesapeake Bay was once the most
productive body of water in
the world. Even 10 or 15 years
ago it was very different than
it is today.
“The bay is at a tipping
point,” said Rep. Wittman. “If
we don’t do something soon,
we won’t be able to bring it
back in any way meaningful to
the people here.”
The goal, he said, is to
restore it to the productivity
and health it experienced in
the 1950s.
Burning manure
Del. Pollard took his time to
talk about the health of the bay
and why cleaning it up is such
a difficult task.
He explained that the bay
is an estuary that can be seen
from 40 miles into space. It
has an abundance of biodiversity that one would expect to
see in an equatorial region, not
a temperate region, he said.
“There are more than
700,000 acres in the bay
where a 6-foot man can stand
and not get his hat wet,” Del.
Pollard said. Yet, it has a
let us know,” said Fleet.
Town manager Bob Hardesty said he is in the process of securing bids for
the installation of 227 feet
of sidewalk on King Carter
Drive. The new sidewalk, if
approved by council, would
extend from the West Irvington sign to the existing sidewalk. Hardesty will present
construction bids to council for consideration during
budget hearings.
Pollard brought council
examples of tourism maps
and brochures from other
towns in the area and told
fellow members that she
thought it was “time for
an update” to an existing
Irvington brochure. Mayor
Fleet put Pollard in charge
of getting a new prototype
for presentation to council.
Bob Morrison, chairman of
the Irvington Planning Com-
very small mouth and its
waters don’t flush well.
But in years of drought, the
bay bounces back, giving environmentalists and scientists hope
that there is a solution, he said.
He noted that areas of
intensive animal production
create hotspots of nitrogen
and phosphorus, which present the greatest opportunity to
improve water quality.
“It is a tremendous challenge, but the first pound of
reduction is cheaper than the
last,” he said. “We can cut 88
percent of the nitrogen for 17
percent of the cost.”
Del. Pollard also said
importing corn from Iowa, fertilized with phosphorus mined
in Florida, to feed chickens
in the Northern Neck while
exporting locally grown corn
overseas makes no sense.
“The only thing that stays
here is the manure,” he said.
Burning that animal manure
for energy represents the single
greatest alternative for cleaning up the bay, he said.
mission, delivered a report
to council informing them of
plans to hold public hearings
on the adoption of the Commonwealth’s Maintenance
Code. According to Morrison, by adopting the code,
town officials will be able to
utilize county resources to
enforce the repair or removal
of substandard structures
within town limits.
Edmonds, who has been
charged with developing
a procedural manual for
enforcement of Irvington’s
new unsafe structure ordinances, said the adoption of
the code would enable the
town to work out the logistics of enforcement.
“Once we get the maintenance code, then we will
revisit how we want to use
town and county resources
in implementing it,” said
Edmonds.
for the drawing.
Other exhibitors include
Vince Ciesielski of Harrisburg, Pa., Bradley Jackson
of Weathersfield, Vt., William Redd Taylor of Newport
News, John Shaw of King
George, Charles Jobes of
Havre de Grace, Md., David
Turner of Turner Sculpture in
Onley, Dick Cook of Topping,
Jane Partin of Petersburg and
Mathews, Jim Wilson of Yorktown, Bea Berle of Corolla,
N.C., Jim McInteer of King
William, Lewis Shelton of
White Stone, David Davis of
Williamsburg, Ed Hatch of
Spring Grove, Jean Carter of
Front Royal, formerly of Kil-
marnock, and John Obolewicz
of Powhatan.
Business sponsors include
W. F. Booth and Son, Bank
of Lancaster and Bay Trust,
Connemara, Rappahannock
Rentals, Lawler Real Estate,
B.W. Wilson Paper Co., Willaby’s Catering and Currie
Funeral Home.
The show is open from 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday
and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
on Sunday. Admission is $8
per person; children under 12
are free.
The fire department will offer
lunch items both days. Proceeds
benefit the White Stone Volunteer Fire Department.

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