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THE SMITHFIELD TIMES
SERVING ISLE OF WIGHT AND SURRY COUNTIES SINCE 1920
Volume 94 Number 48
Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013
CASTLE PARK
Smithfield, Va. 23431
THANKSGIVING
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“ ”
Some alternate ways of
bringing the turkey to the
table.
A Council committee
gives the OK for frisbee
golf among Castle
trails.
I have been asked not to speak
up.
— Town Council member Denise Tynes
On proposed park additions, p. 8
— See page 13
— See page 8
50 cents
Windsor Castle sale near?
Town negotiating to sell manor house, grounds
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
The town of Smithfield appears to be in the midst of negotiations to sell the Windsor Castle
manor house and grounds.
More than two years since
bids were first accepted, the town
of Smithfield may now sell the
circa-1750 Windsor Castle manor
house and barn buildings to
Smithfield Winery LLC.
Smithfield Winery’s Natasha
Huff recently expressed the family-owned company’s goal of buying the property, restoring it and
incorporating it into the winery’s
business model.
“We just really want to restore
it, that’s been a huge part of what
we want to do,” she said.
The manor house as well as its
outbuildings and surrounding 42
acres are already under a historic
easement by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources that
requires the land and buildings
retain its original appearance.
Huff said she wants to turn
the roughly 260-year-old homestead into a tasting room and
wedding venue.
Smithfield put the property up
for lease or purchase just three
years after buying it in 2008.
The conversation lay somewhat dormant since the 2011 request for proposals was issued,
but it has been revived as
Smithfield Winery has entered
into talks with the town about
purchasing the property.
Earlier this year, Smithfield
Winery entered an agreement to
lease five acres of land from the
town on which it planted its
grape vines and leased the basement of the manor house where
it is storing some of its equipment.
Smithfield Winery has also
purchased a building previously
owned by the town at 117 North
Church St., which it’s converting
into a wine production facility
and tasting room.
The Smithfield Town Council
recently voted to extend the negotiation period for the Windsor
Castle manor house and sur• See SALE, p. 8
Staff Photo by Abby Proch
The entrance sign to Windsor Castle Park features the manor house that the town is
negotiating to sell.
State: town has ‘lack of vision’ for property
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
Virginia Department of Historic Resources Director
Kathleen Kilpatrick has condemned what she says is the
town of Smithfield’s “lack of
vision” and sparse attention to
Windsor Castle Park’s historic
buildings.
Kilpatrick penned a letter to
Smithfield Town Manager Peter Stephenson in July criticizing the town’s approach, or lack
thereof, when it comes to main-
taining the historic homestead
and nearby outbuildings.
“I am deeply concerned that
this property, which should be
the ‘jewel in the crown’ of
Smithfield continues to sit vacant marginally attended,”
wrote Kilpatrick in her July 26
letter.
Kilpatrick noted that the
town should be working with
DHR to develop a timeline and
prioritize the work.
State officials visited the 46acre section of the park for a
present conditions report on
July 10.
The report summarizes the
park’s features, current use and
historical value, as well as gives
a summary of the conditions of
its buildings and suggestions
for repairs.
Kilpatrick urged the town to
address the physical condition
of the park buildings and lay
out plans for its future.
Kilpatrick said she had received calls from Smithfield
residents concerned about the
care of the buildings as well as
“the Town’s lack of any solid
plan for its use.”
Those calls, she said,
prompted a personal review.
“She’s
right,”
said
Smithfield Mayor Carter Williams. “It needs a lot of work.
Right now, we’re patching and
fixing on as need basis.”
Williams said he’d like the
town to keep it — if it had the
money.
Though no cost estimates
have been calculated, Williams
said the repairs would be too
costly for the town.
So to keep it in good shape,
Williams said he’d like it to be
leased or sold to someone who
would retain as much public access as possible so weddings,
concerts, festivals and events
that have been ongoing can continue in the future.
He also realizes that that’s a
heavy request — telling the future buyer he’ll be responsible
• See VISION, p. 8
Morris to push for mental health services
And while he intends to secure
state funding for the first year, he
Del. Rick Morris, 64th-R, plans hopes to work local community
to introduce a state budget service boards to create a nonamendment that would create a profit that, with community doregional 24-hour drop-off center nations and contributions from
to provide Hampton Roads resi- local governments, would sustain
dents with emergency psychiat- the program in the future.
“I never believe a long-term
ric services.
Morris estimates the center answer is going to the state for
would cost between $250,000 and funding,” he said.
With the input of local law
$450,000 each year.
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
enforcement and mental health
professionals, Morris drafted a
pilot program that would treat
people having an acute mental
health problem while also reducing the amount of time spent by
law enforcement handling those
issues.
Over the past several months,
Morris has been working to remedy a flawed system in which
people experiencing mental
health crises are often jailed or
put back on the street without
proper mental health treatment.
While the issue is complex,
Morris has boiled it down to
these points: law enforcement is
spending too much time outside
their regular duties to detain and
seek treatment for those experiencing mental health crises, jails
are not the appropriate place to
treatment those with mental ill-
Seward says financial
realities will drive budget
By Diana McFarland
News editor
With the county already
short on cash this year, and
anticipating a larger hole
next year, new Isle of Wight
Administrator
Anne
Seward plans to inject
some “reality” into the budget and capital improvement plan process.
Isle of Wight is currently $400,000 short on revenue, and next year that
goes up to $1.2 million —
the result of one-time fixes
that haven’t panned out as
expected.
At the same time, the
county is facing the need to
come up with $10.6 million
just to cover its current
debts in fiscal 2015 — and
that doesn’t include the
cost of running the county
government on a day-to-day
basis.
In an interview Monday,
Seward said she’s not opposed to pointing out the
truth about the county’s financial situation, even if it
means taking a look at
property taxes.
The Board of Supervisors needs to be honest
about where it is, build
policies and goals about
where it wants to be and
make an action plan to get
there, she said of the annual budgeting process she
plans to roll out in March.
And while it’s too far
along in the process to
make many changes to the
capital improvement plan
this year, Seward plans to
work with staff to restructure the document to better
represent actual needs and
not just wants — providing
a more realistic expectation for the public.
Instead of individual
departments, Seward also
wants to group the document by categories of service.
That’s how it’s done in
other localities, she said.
Another change is to include the operational costs
of every new building
added to the CIP.
The Board needs to
know the impact of operational costs, which are ongoing, she said.
“It’s eyes wide open.”
The Norfolk water deal
is perhaps one of the largest pieces of the CIP, and
this fiscal year, it’s expected to cost the county
$5.1 million in direct and
indirect capital costs and
expenses mandated by the
deal itself.
The 40-year deal, signed
in 2009, allows the county to
eventually purchase up to
an additional 3.75 million
gallons of water a year, but
it doesn’t actually become
available until 2014.
Seward said there’s no
use continuing to fight over
what’s already been done.
As for the water deal,
“those decisions have already been made,” she said,
adding that it doesn’t necessarily mean the county is
• See FINANCES, p. 9
ness and people with mental illness deserve better treatment.
Morris first became aware of
the issue at a public safety forum
held earlier this year in Windsor.
Morris scheduled the most recent meeting with mental health
professionals before the attempted murder-suicide of Sen.
Creigh Deeds, 25th-D, which po• See MENTAL, p. 10
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(These weekly quotes compiled by The Freedom Forum)
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Our Forum
Giving thanks
in America
Thanksgiving comes as close as any event can
— or should — to being an American religious
holiday.
That’s because it’s not a Christian holiday. Nor
is it a Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist holiday. It’s not Christmas, not Hannukkah, not
Ramadan, not Vesak nor Akshaya Tritiya. It is a
uniquely American holiday (from the words Holy
Day) designated for the purpose of giving thanks
for what we have, in whatever fashion we choose,
to God as we understand Him.
That’s not to say Thanksgiving doesn’t have
Christian roots. Of course it does. The observance
as we more or less celebrate it was begun in the
English colonies by early Christian settlers, first
in Virginia and then in Massachusetts. But even
that hold on history is somewhat tenuous. Rituals
of thanks for harvests were celebrated by Native
Americans long before the Virginians-to-be or the
staid Pilgrims knelt to offer thanks for a safe entry into what, to them, was a New World.
As a thoroughly ecumenical event for believers
of any faith, Thanksgiving stands as a testament
to the wisdom America’s founders showed when
they decided to guarantee total freedom of — or
from — religion. Few places in the world have a
tradition in which people of faith are so completely protected in that faith than we, and that
alone is cause for much thanksgiving this week.
While Thanksgiving’s ecumenism is important,
it is its emphasis on family that makes it dear to
many Americans. A family gathered around the
Thanksgiving table is as recognizable as any tableau in our history, and while the size, age and even
definitions of “family” have changed dramatically
over time, the tradition remains the same. This a
time for those who love each other to gather, embrace and give thanks in their own way for those
blessings they share.
And even in times of trial, “counting blessings”
is a very positive way to spend one’s time.
All of that having been said, we find the rush
to Christmas madness on Thanksgiving Day to be
crass and insulting to what has been traditionally
one of our least-commercialized celebrations. The
Big Box drive to move Black Friday ahead by a
day only reinforces the image of American consumerism gone mad. It’s not the shopping that so
troubling. It’s the demand by major corporations
that their employees forego this historic family
observance for the sake of their stockholders’
greed.
Some of these same corporations will run ads
from now to Christmas touting “family values,”
but they can’t allow their employees a full day to
be at home with their own families. It says much
about business in America today.
‘Flavor Hails from
Smithfield’
When Shuanghui International purchased
Smithfield Foods, company officials went to
great pains to reassure Smithfield, the town and
Smithfield, the company, would remain close allies.
A couple weeks ago, Smithfield Packing Company announced a new advertising campaign
that reinforces that pledge in a very important
way. The campaign proclaims that “Flavor Hails
from Smithfield.”
Make no mistake, the Smithfield being referred to is Smithfield, the company. That’s the
whole idea. But the historic link between the
company name and the town that is its home is
unmistakable — and hugely positive for both
the town and the company.
Smithfield Packing marketing experts have
worked for years to capitalize on the historic
“folksy” nature of the food giant’s hometown,
the place where Smithfield Ham originated two
and a half centuries ago. This community, they
have said repeatedly, is internationally known
as the home of a unique flavor.
The new advertising campaign reinforces
that concept and further joins the town and
company at the hip. That’s huge.
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Picking peanuts
Shocks of peanuts were stacked on a wagon to be hauled to the picker in this very early
photograph of a stationary peanut picking operation. A tractor, meanwhile, provides the power
to drive the picker. In the background, peanut vines are stacked after the peanuts have been
picked from them. The vines provided winter feed. (Photo courtesy of Carolyn Keene)
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Shortfall
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Editor, Smithfield Times
I have the perfect fix
for the county budget
shortage: Tell the “Land
Barons” that run this
county to dispose of the
land they have purchased
that most residents don’t
want or need and had no
say in the purchase of.
That should more than
take care of the budget for
years to come, providing
they don’t purchase more
land!
Norman Hults
Windsor
health treatment are
seldom seen.
Only when people have
a tragedy in their own
family such as suicide
does the stigma of mental
illness quickly dissipate.
At that time, the disease
takes on its true identity
as an equal to cancer,
heart failure, Alzheimer’s
and all the other physical
calamities that kill.
Why was there no bed
available for the son of
Editor, Smithfield Times Creigh Deeds? The answer
is that money was diNot until the public
rected to other items in
rids itself of the stigma
the State budget, one of
mindset associated with
which was jail expansion.
mental health abnormalIs such a thing just
ity will anything ever be
justified? No. Statistics
significantly done to help
prove that jails house
control the serious cycle
countless numbers who
of repeated mishaps.
have mental illnesses. Yes,
Our mailboxes fill up
they have broken the law,
weekly with pleas to
but treatment should
donate to numerous
serve to help make them
causes, yet such pleas for
again become useful
improving services to
citizens of society. That is
those who need mental
A prayer for
“Gus” Deeds
St. Luke’s in
capable hands
Editor, Smithfield Times:
For the past nine years,
leadership of Historic St.
Luke’s Church has been in
the capable hands of
Charlotte Klamer, executive director. She worked
tirelessly to preserve the
Old Brick Church and
promote its presence in
the community. She will
be missed.
Charlotte’s retirement
will leave a void to be
filled by Rachael
Buchanan as the new
director. In my opinion, it
is both a challenge and a
privilege to serve as
Executive Director of
Historic St. Luke’s
Church. Rachael comes
well qualified and experienced for the position.
The Old Brick Church
remains in good hands.
Barbara Lindley
Friend of St. Luke’s
Smithfield
not likely to happen if a
person is housed behind
bars in a jail cell.
We can only hope that
the General Assembly will
soon take more action to
address this problem as a
higher priority and not
continue to count it as
something lower on its
list.
The actions of the son
of Deeds last week should
awaken in us all both
prayers and action.
Furthermore, if more
attention is not given to
treat those with mental
health issues, then we can
expect more losses and
deaths, which could have
been prevented through
proper treatment as a
result of adequate
funding.
It is urgent that we all
call on our legislators to
provide this funding.
The Oct. 30 Times
Lud L. Spivey
Windsor
• See LETTERS, p. 3
It’s about
the birth rate
Recent events are optimistic
Two recent
N
events in our
N HE
HE
community offer
compelling evidence that Isle of
Wight
and
Smithfield are
maturing in our
ability to deal
By John
with race.
One is the Hardy Election
District’s selection of a School
Board member and the other is the
Smithfield Little Theatre’s decision to produce the musical
“Hairspray” as its opening offering for the 2013-14 theatre season.
I T
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First, the election:
Two years ago,
when the Board of
Supervisors was
redistricting the
county as required
by federal and state
constitutions and
Edwards
statute, there was a
huge fight over whether to create
seven districts, one of which would
have been significantly weighted
with African American residents.
Opponents of the plan, both white
and black, argued that the county
should keep its five-district plan,
SHORT
SHORT
ROWS
even though it requires grotesquely shaped districts in order
to maintain one minority-majority district and has a smaller percentage of black residents than
would have the seven-district
plan. The thinking, so it was argued, was that the five-district
plan would guarantee black voters
could keep one of five seats on
both the Board of Supervisors and
School Board, a greater “weight”
of power than one of seven.
The current Board of Supervisors appears to have swallowed
• See ROWS, p. 3
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The Smithfield Times - Wed., Nov. 27, 2013 - Page 3
Jumping sturgeon are a hopeful sign
By Karl Blankenship
Bay Journal News Service
Two years ago, Bill Harris
and his daughter were fishing
on Marshyhope Creek on
Maryland’s Easter n Shore
when suddenly, across the river,
a large sturgeon jumped out of
the water.
“‘That is a once in a lifetime
experience!’” Harris exclaimed
to his daughter, Susan. “We’ll
never see another sturgeon.”
He was wrong. During fishing trips last year with his
friend, Randy Rowland, the two
retired U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists saw sturgeon after sturgeon. They
counted nearly 50 jumping sturgeon during their weekly fall
fish trips on the creek, a tributary to the Nanticoke River.
This year, they got an even
closer look. On Sept. 20, Harris
and Rowland were carp fishing
when they saw a number of
sturgeon jumping nearby. They
edged nearer.
Suddenly, a five-and-a-halffoot sturgeon leapt out of the
river and into their 16-foot boat,
landing between Harris, who
was sitting in the back seat, and
the motor. The big fish knocked
a rod holder off the boat, sent a
fishing rod into the water and
brushed against Harris’ thigh.
“It went ballistic,” recalled Harris, who leapt from his seat. “I
was hoping he wouldn’t beat the
bottom out of the boat.”
Letters
• Continued from p. 2
featured an op-ed that
argued we should put a
halt to immigration in
order to reduce pollution:
More immigrants mean
more people; more people
mean more pollution. The
author somehow believes
that immigrants don’t
immigrate, but are made
out of thin air, thus
creating new pollution, as
opposed to merely
transferring it from one
place to another.
Population is lowered,
not by constraining
immigration, but by
reducing birth rates.
Birth rates are lowered by
increased prosperity and
education. As societies
advance, birth rates go
down. Allowing more
immigration increases
overall prosperity, thus
lowering birth rates.
Rows
the argument hook, line
and sinker, and refuses to
revisit the seven-district
plan.
But two weeks ago, voters in Hardy District declared the whole argument
to be nonsense. Hardy voters showed wisdom far
greater than that of the supervisors and their lawyer.
They said with their ballots
that their “minority-majority” district can and sometimes will vote for the candidate based on something
other than race. And it did.
Tina Hill, who won the election, is white. Her opponent, Alvin Wilson, who
lost is black.
And rest assured that
the division went both
ways. While Mrs. Hill’s
election required the support of black voters as well
as white, you may be confident that Mr. Wilson, a
county native from a wellknown family, education
professional and genuinely
nice guy, received both
black and white votes as
well in his narrow loss.
That’s real progress, for
it foretells a time when race
will truly be set aside in the
public as well as private forums.
Hairspray
There was a time when
a musical such as
“Hairspray” would probably not have been staged
in Smithfield. The subject
matter — a liberal-minded
1960s Baltimore teenager
determined to advance the
cause of racial integration
The fish calmed down after
less than a minute, and the two
men were able to return it to the
water. But they also took pictures — photographic evidence
of what a number of other
people have reported in recent
years: large, jumping sturgeon
in the Marshyhope and
Nanticoke.
State and federal biologists,
intrigued by the reports, have
made excursions to find sturgeon but with no success. “The
only things we’re catching are
sticks,” said Chuck Stence, a
fisheries biologist with the
Maryland Department of Natural Resources. “I don’t doubt
him that he is seeing them, especially when you have one
jump in your boat.”
No one knows why large
sturgeon leap from the water,
but it’s been going on for centuries. During the Revolutionary
War, a soldier was killed while
rowing across the Potomac
River when a sturgeon jumped
out of the water and landed on
him.
The bigger mystery is why
there have been so many reports coming from the
Nanticoke and Marshyhope.
Although large sturgeon are
occasionally seen in Maryland
waters, breeding populations
are considered to be extirpated
in the state.
One
possibility:
The
Nanticoke was the scene of an
That said, considering
that Americans constitute
5 percent of the world’s
population and consume
25 percent of the world’s
energy, it’s more than a
bit perverse to focus on
population control and
not consumption levels.
The author also
mentioned the huge
increase in immigration
that started in the ’90s.
What he didn’t mention
was the reason for this
increase: NAFTA. The
North America Free
Trade Agreement (Don’t
let the name fool you. Free
trade has nothing to do
with it.) opened up
industry in Mexico that
undermined local economies, as well as taking
away U.S. jobs. It also sent
in subsidized U.S. corn
that non-subsidized
Mexican farmers couldn’t
compete with. They were
— would have been considered a bit edgy for our community.
In that not-too-distant
past, our community would
have preferred not talking
about the matter of race so
publicly and bluntly. And
had the Little Theatre attempted to present such
fare a couple decades ago,
the chances are that it
would have been received
lukewarmly, at best.
Not so, the recent production. It was sold out
from opening week forward. Crowds loved it, gave
its performers enthusiastic
ovations and embraced the
young actors following
each performance with a
“thank you” for bringing it
to Smithfield.
Ironically, the young
people who carried most of
the roles in “Hairspray”
probably didn’t realize that
they are doing anything
special, other than turning
in a good theatre performance. For they have
grown up in a different
world than their parents
and, certainly, their grandparents, and have likely
found any hoopla over
“Hairspray’s” social message to be puzzling. That,
too, is progress.
But the community’s
oldsters knew what a
change has taken place
and, for the most part, rejoiced in it.
And so, congratulations
to the voters of Hardy District, and to the Smithfield
Little Theatre. It’s appropriate that politics and art
are leading our community
forward.
experimental release in 1996 of
more than 3,000 hatcheryreared sturgeon. Sturgeon are
an anadromous fish that spend
most of their lives off the Atlantic coast but return to their
native river to spawn. Sturgeon
are long-lived, slow-maturing
fish that don’t begin to reproduce until they are about 15
years old.
So the timing is about right
for some of those fish to return.
Dave Secor, a fisheries scientist
with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental
Science who participated in the
original Nanticoke release,
said that the fish being reported — mostly in the 5–6 foot
range — are “in the ballpark”
of being the right size for 17year-old sturgeon.
Yet he and others are uncertain the fish came from the 1996
release. Those sturgeon were
the offspring of adult fish from
the Hudson River that were
produced at a U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service hatchery in
Pennsylvania.
Not only were the fish not
from anywhere near the
Nanticoke, they were a year old
when they went into the river.
Biologists don’t know when
young sturgeon “imprint” on
their native river so they can
find their way back as adults,
but they think it’s before a year.
Hatchery-reared shad imprint
on a river within 45 days of
thus pushed off their land
and into the United States.
Bill Clinton even admitted
that his policy of exporting subsidized crops
undermined recipient
countries’ self-sufficiency.
Our government is
responsible for this
disastrous policy and we
are responsible for our
government. The least we
can do is welcome people
who have been displaced
by our misguided actions.
And NAFTA is just one
part of the story. Support
for brutal dictators, and
their death squads, all
throughout Latin
America, certainly hasn’t
helped matters. The
vicious war on drugs and
climate change are part of
the mix as well.
Stephen Warren
Waverly
Consider
UMCOR
As the death toll
continues to climb from
the storm that recently hit
the Philippines, over 5,000
families have been
ravaged with the loss of
loved ones.
While the rebuilding of
their community will take
many years, numerous
groups are on the ground
there now supporting
immediate relief efforts
there. Groups like the Red
Cross support disaster
relief from the immediate
aftermath of the storm’s
devastation.
However, there’s
hatching,
said
Brian
Richardson, of the Maryland
Department of Natural Resources.
“It does correspond with the
stocking in 1996, as far as these
fish coming back,” Richardson
said. “But I would be very surprised if a sturgeon stocked at
a year of age imprinted to the
river.”
Secor said there are other
possibilities. The large number
of adult sturgeon being caught
on the James River the last few
years suggest that river might
have had several strong years of
reproduction about 15 years
ago. Some of those returning
fish might be finding their way
into the Nanticoke.
“In the grand scheme of
things, the Nanticoke isn’t that
far from the James,” Stence
noted.
It’s also possible, Secor said,
that they actually are
Nanticoke fish. The last eggladen female found on breeding
grounds in Maryland was in the
Nanticoke River in 1972.
Although no breeding population is known, it’s possible a
small number of fish survived
unprotected, and successfully
reproduced about 15 years ago,
and their progeny are now returning to the river. After all, in
the mid-1990s, most biologists
didn’t think there were sturgeon in the James River, either.
The origin of the fish won’t
another group that will
also be arriving to help
with relief efforts in the
Philippines. UMCOR, the
United Methodist Committee on Relief, serves
the United States and
more than 80 other
countries around the
world whenever a crisis
strikes.
While UMCOR is not
among the very first
organizations to arrive on
the scene, they remain in
the community long after
the Red Cross and other
groups leave. For example,
10 years after Hurricane
Isabel came to Hampton
Roads, UMCOR continues
to operate in Poquoson
and many other areas
affected here by that
storm.
UMCOR is committed
to providing help and
relief over the long haul.
As the international
missions group of the
likely be resolved until biologists successfully capture a fish
and get a tissue sample that can
be analyzed to identify the
source of the fish.
In the meantime, Richardson
said, Atlantic sturgeon will continue to be considered extirpated from Maryland until biologists find evidence of actual
reproduction in the form of
little sturgeon.
“We never really looked for
little sturgeon, either,” he
added. “So it’s possible there
has been some spawning going
on that we don’t know about.”
Some of those answers could
come next year, when biologists
hope to return to the river with
new nets, new equipment such
as side-scan sonar, and new
knowledge from people like
Harris and researchers in Virginia about how to better find
and net large sturgeon.
If they catch a fish, they’ll
not only get a tissue sample for
DNA analysis, but when they
make an incision to place a
tracking tag, they will be able
to peer inside the fish to see if
it is “ripe” — ready to spawn.
“I’m looking forward to this
coming year,” Stence said. “If
we do find that we have a spawning population here, that would
be great.”
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Upton Bill or “Keep Your
Health Plan Act,” which
will allow individuals to
keep their current health
plans and offers others
the opportunity to
continue purchasing
plans they deem adequate
and affordable. In the
spirit of the President’s
own words, “If you like
your plan, you can keep
it” I would urge the
President himself, and
more members of the
Democratic party to
support this legislation.
As a co-sponsor of the
Upton Bill, Randy Forbes
is speaking up for not only
his constituency, but the
nearly five million
Americans who saw their
policies terminated, and
were offered nothing more
Editor, Smithfield Times than a choice between
I would like to applaud unaffordable premiums or
our Hampton Roads
exorbitant deductibles.
congressional delegation
Sharon Burton
for their support of the
Windsor
Kudos to
Rep. Forbes
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MASTER GARDENER
Few herbaceous plants can rival, for the attention
of gardeners or the passerby, the colorful floral display and foliage of the peony. They are exquisite and
can be planted now through the end of November. Bare
root planting instructions follow.
1. Well-drained soil, away from roots, full sun with
afternoon shade when possible, as well as protection
from wind.
2. Peony does best left alone, so provide enriched
soil with a 2-foot across, 18-inch deep hole with compost in the bottom. Fill halfway with topsoil, more
compost and 1 cup of bone meal. If acidic, add 1 cup
of ground limestone. pH 6-7.
3. We have a rather mild winter here and planting
shallow is usually acceptable exposing the roots to the
winter cold. To avoid air space, fill the soil firmly
around the roots.
4. Water gently and surround with a light mulch
such as chopped leaves. The mulch will reduce weeds
and regulate the soil moisture and temperature. Remove the mulch in winter. Plant needs to be chilled.
The plant may not bloom the first year. It should be
in top form by the third year. Expect a lush 2-4 foot
peony that might need support if it is a tall double
hybrid.
Two that are grown in home landscapes are Paeonia
spp. hybrids (garden peony) and Paeonia suffruticosa
(tree peony).
The garden peony has five or more large outer petals and a center of stamens or modified stamen. Single
forms have centers of pollen bearing stamens. Centers of semi-double forms consist of broad petals inter mingled with pollen-bearing stamens. Double types
have dense centers of only broad petals (transformed
stamens.) In any case, flowering usually lasts one week
in late spring to early summer. By selecting and planting early, mid and late-season bloomers, flowering can
be extended for six weeks. There is a variety of beautiful colors with deep red being my favorite. In case
you are wondering, they do not bloom blue.
Gwen Holt
Master Gardener
Tween 12 & 20
Why Do Teens Commit Suicide?
By Dr. Robert Wallace
Creators syndicate
Dr. Wallace,
Andrew,
A University of California research team interviewed over 6,000 teens who had attempted suicide and
compared their life histories with teens who had never
considered suicide. The data revealed that family
problems, death of a loved one, and the breakup of a
romantic relationship were the three most common
reasons teens took their lives.
These three situations can result in confusion,
loneliness and depression. The teen then feels hopeless, isolated and abandoned, and decides there is only
one way to be at peace, and chooses self-destruction.
The teen years, because of all the emotional and
physical changes they bring, are difficult for almost
everyone. For some teens, these difficulties produce
pain that is too much to bear, especially when combined with a major upset or disappointment.
I often get inquiries from readers who wonder why
a young person would commit suicide when he has
his entire life in front of him. Teens have no perspective on their troubles. They don’t know that they’ll
emerge from them and that life will eventually feel
worth living again. Suicide is the tenth leading cause
of death for adults in the United States, but for teens
it ranks third. More boys commit suicide because they
use more violent methods, whereas girls tend to use
sleeping pills, and many times they can be saved.
Dr. Wallace,
My boyfriend and I have been dating steadily for
the past year. Both of us will be graduating in June
of next year. In the fall, I will be a student at Indiana
University in Bloomington, while he will be going to
Purdue University in West Lafayette.
I want the freedom to have a social life by dating
other guys. He wants us to stay faithful to each other
and not date anyone else. He says we can still see each
other on the weekends because our two campuses are
only about 100 miles apart. I’d appreciate your comments.
— Amanda, Carmel, Ind.
Amanda,
Weekends are a good time to catch up on studies,
not to spend time on the highways. I would agree that
you both should enjoy a campus social life and see
each other occasionally, when time and studies allow.
Fall of 2014 is a long way off. I’m wondering why you
are concerned about dating others at this early date.
Is it possible that you both could be dating others by
fall of 2014?
Dr. Robert Wallace welcomes questions from readers.
Although he is unable to reply to all of them individually, he will answer as many as possible in this column.
E-mail him at rwallace@galesburg.net. To find out
more about Dr. Robert Wallace and read features by
other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit
the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Green becomes platinum
Isle of Wight County Schools
have been certified platinum in the
2013 Virginia School Board
Association’s (VSBA) Green
Schools Challenge. The division
was one of 38 recognized in the
challenge this year.
“We are excited to be a certified
green school division again this
year,” said Superintendent Katrise
Perera.
“Our staff continues to make
great efforts in conserving energy
and being more environmentally
friendly which has a positive ipact
in our community.”
The VSBA’s Green Schools Challenge is a friendly competition designed to encourage implementation of specific environmental policies and practical actions that reduce the carbon emissions generated by both the local school division and the broader community.
This is the fifth year the awards
were given out. IWCS was certified
gold last year and won first place
in the Student Population 5,000–
10,000 category.
The VSBA Green Schools Challenge was sponsored by Moseley
Architects and ABM Building &
Energy Solutions.
IWCS will be honored for this
achievement at the VSBA meeting
later this winter. For more information on this program, visit
http://www.gogreenva.org.
Academy names honor roll
Isle of Wight Academy
recently announced its
honor roll for the first nine
weeks.
•4th grade
Headmaster list: Bradley
Davis,
Hannah
Rowland, Rachel Sawyer,
Alaina Stallings, Evie
Taliaferro, Allison Catlett
and Chase Magrisi.
Honor roll: Hannah
Craun, Maddie Daniels,
Lilly Darden, Olga Diaz,
Caroline Eure, Joshua
Harrell, Brooke Hayden,
Trent Holland, Lily Jones,
Nicholas
Newman,
Amanda Barlow, Jacob
Chapman, Brylee Clark,
Emma Compton, Petra Cutler, Alyssa Donnelly, Riley
Goss, Haylie Kavanaugh,
Alex Miller, Andrea Savage, Lorraine Upton, Cade
White
and
Hannah
Willman.
•5th grade
Headmaster list: Garett
Brown, Anali Castillo,
Quinn Hooper, Molly
Johnson, Jenna Miltier,
Erin Ross, Allison Dolan,
Sean McDermott, Joseph
Askew, Erica Munford,
Daniel Scrivanich and
Olivia Upton.
Honor roll: Duncan
Bryce, Gavin Gregory, Russ
Wells, Seth Archer, Amber
Domino,
MaKayla
Donnelly,
Aaron
Felgentreu, Emily Hill,
Caroline Prescott, Seth
Baker, Connor Cary,
Brooke Davis, Zachary
Lightfoot and Kayleigh
Yohn.
•6th grade
Headmaster list: Lucas
Baylous, Chip Darden, Jed
Davies, William Fricke,
Katie Hiner, Alicia Ray,
Shawn Rhodes, Kelly
Sabin, Zach Stroud, Sarah
Wait, Tyler Watkins,
Lauren Weeks, Ethan
Willette, Blake Atkinson,
Andrew Barlow, Melanie
Bellavance, Lee Bowden,
Dailey Ellis, Mason Goss,
Zara Kelly and Madison
Lightfoot.
Honor roll: Rachel Butler, Lauren Gardner, Juliet
Halley, Tyler Hayslett, Morgan Magrisi, Jackson Plott,
Peyton Rose, Miranda
Upton, Michaela Wampler,
Sarah Boynton, Sarah Beth
Burnham, Amanda Days,
Rett Edwards, Sykler Gray,
Kaelyn Hooker, Logan
Jones, Canaan Key, Grace
Landen
and
Tucker
Leverone.
•7th grade
Headmaster list: Ryan
Boyce, Connor Capwell,
Noah Hendricks, Joshua
Savage,
Alexander
Stidham,
Natalie
Summerlin, Darren Upton,
Jacob Hayden, Olivia
Newman, Conner Soady,
Katelyn
Bryant
and
Mackenzie Wooten.
Honor roll: Hannah
Couch, William Ellis, Laurel Goff, Sarah KerrApplewhite, Betsy Pollard,
Haley Redmond, Ashley
Blair,
Ellis
Bryant,
Nathaniel Carpenter, Taylor Jernigan, Noelle Ober,
Zachary Thompson, Karl
Yohn, Bryce Daniels,
Sydney Grimes, Caitlyn
Kinsey, Devin Lane,
Michael Laskey, Jacob
McCrary, Autumn Moody,
Madison Rountree, Ethan
Sylvia, Martina Viola,
Michelle West and Aidan
Williams.
•8th grade
Headmaster list: Jerry
Dashiell, Colton Heard,
Jaxson Hooper, Nicholas
Johnson, Kevin Jurewicz,
Kaylin Manner, Jana
Nelhuebel,
Reagan
Nier man,
Dylan
Robertson,
Hayley
Stallings, Christopher
Vaughan, Anna Wait and
Meredith Webb.
Honor roll: Brandon
Casey, William Ciaston, Joseph Coons, Blake Davis,
Lindsay Days, Alexander
Gardner, Shelby Hockett,
Emaleigh Hooker, Joshua
Hooker, Kayce King,
Hannah L’Abbe, Alexander
LaMothe-Toland, Zachary
Murden, Carolann Lynch,
Robert Matthews, Victoria
McBee, Laura McCann,
Sabrina Palmer, Hannah
Plott, Ciara Revell, Zachary
Rhodes, Cameron Schuett,
Spencer Scott, Riane
Smith, Taylor Wampler
and Madison Wells.
•9th grade
Headmaster list: William Keyt, Hayley Lane,
Jacob Newman, Kaitlin
Peterson, Ashley Petroski,
Michael Quirin, Alex
Simmons,
Mackenzie
Terry, Peyton Baylous,
Brett Bradshaw, Dustin
Brown, Georgia Earley,
Amber Edwards, Trent
Gwaltney and Abigail
Hickman.
Honor Roll: Stephen
L’Abbe, Alison Marshall,
Diana McBride, Kendall
Parsons, Hunter Sherman,
Gavin St. Clair, Rachel
Tafoya, Ally Amory,
Nathan Eurich, Cheyenne
Freeman, Dawson Holmes
and Zeph Kelly.
•10th grade
Headmaster list: Falyn
Fentress, Will Morningstar,
Kayla Robichaud, Trish
Webb, Alexandra Williams.
Honor roll: Matthew
Byrd, Kaitlin Ciaston, Alec
Edwards, Gavin Hockett,
Thomas Hutchins, Tara
Jeralds, Morgan Jones,
Jacob Mintz, Marissa
Mullen, Elizabeth Pittman,
Madison Saunders, Ariel
Smith, Grant Taylor, LJ
Walter and Zach Wilson.
•11th grade
Headmaster list: Taylor
Hart,
Christopher
Hickman, Emily Hooker
and Jacob Wait.
Honor roll: Andrew
Ballard, Arianna Castillo,
Madeline Ek, Emmaline
Hartley, Gabriella Hooper,
Bailey Key and James
McRoy.
•12th grade
Headmaster list: Jessica
Atkins, Connor Edwards,
Matthew Herrmann, Ben
Hickman,
Joseph
Jernigan, Tabitha Palmer
and Amanda Petroski.
Honor roll: Kendall
Ballinger, Virginia Blair,
Lane Blanton, Gaby Bryce,
Tyler Carlile, Lexi Castillo,
Mackenzie Daniel, Josh
Darden, Corey Holleman,
Ashlynn Lane, Min Young
Lee, Brandon Saxby and
Amanda Williams.
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I just returned home from the funeral of a 17-yearold friend who committed suicide. All the people who
knew him are in shock. All I heard at the service was
that he was the last person you would have thought
would want to take his own life. All kinds of rumors
were floating around, including some that were farfetched.
What I really need to know is — why do teens kill
themselves, and do more girls or guys commit suicide?
— Andrew, Philadelphia. Pa.
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Church St. winery work progresses
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
Like a fine wine, wineries, too, take time to come
to fruition.
Such is the case with
Smithfield Winery, which
has put roots down at
Windsor Castle Park with
its grapevines and is now
outfitting an old storage
building on North Church
Street.
The cavernous room at
117 North Church still
looks much like its old self
— barren, dank and a bit
dusty — but soon it will be
renovated and outfitted
with
the
latest
in
winemaking equipment
and decor.
The one-room building
will be part tasting room in
the front and part wine production area in the rear,
said Natasha Huff with
Smithfield Winery.
Huff, an engineer who
recently
obtained
a
viticulture certificate, and
A rendering shows the eventual facade of the Smithfield Winery on North Church Street.
her parents Michelle and
Denton Weiss are embarking on the project together.
Huff ’s husband, Matt, has
a doctorate in chemistry
with a focus on soil amendments and will monitor the
vineyard’s soil content.
The family started leasing the park property and
bought the Church Street
building earlier this year.
New machinery is
slowly trickling in, with
the bladder press, crusher/
de-stemmer and hopper be-
ing the first to arrive.
Huff is looking into buying stainless steel tanks
now and just recently secured a trademark for their
American champagne,
Southern Bubbly.
Huff said the winery’s
focus will be small batches
of mostly white wines,
with some table reds and a
port.
Huff
expects
the
building’s construction to
take four months as soon as
the contractor is selected
and permits are finalized.
Even still, they won’t be
quite ready for the public.
Production is a long
way’s away, with the grapes
at Windsor Castle still two
years out from harvest.
Because grape harvests
happen in November, and
she didn’t harvest her own
or buy any grape juice from
another grower this month,
Huff will likely have to until next November to purchase grape juice and wait
until spring of 2015 to have
any wines ready.
In the meantime, Huff
has been busy with the
build out and checking in
on the fledgling plants at
the park.
To date, no sour grapes
to speak of.
“We haven’t had any issues,” said Huff, including
any foraging deer.
Huff said some growers
complain the deer eat the
leaves, others say the fruit,
but she hasn’t witnessed
either.
Of the 560 Muscadine
grape plants, about 10 will
need replacing, she said.
It’s considerably less
than the 10 percent loss
they anticipated.
“People are always
walking up and taking pictures — it’s awesome,” said
Huff of the vineyard’s
popularity.
“It’s part of the fun of
being at Windsor Castle
Park,” she said. “That
would’ve been the wrong
property to pick if you
were bugged by that.”
But just prior to harvesting, Huff would like the
public to be hands off to
make sure the grapes are as
sterile as possible before
harvesting.
As renovations to the
processing facility and tasting room on North Church
Street grow near, Huff still
has her attention on the
vineyard. When the
weather warms up again,
Huff will be out fertilizing
and painstakingly pruning
each plant — all by hand.
“That’s pretty much my
life, but I love it.”
TRINITY UNITED
METHODIST CHRISTMAS
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Natasha Huff explains what will eventually occupy the Church Street
building.
When & Where:
Trinity United Methodist
Church, 201 Cedar Street,
Saturday,
December 14, 2013 at 6:30pm
757-357-3659 trinityumcsmithfield@verizon.net
"Love Was Born For Us to Share"
Come join us for a music filled night of the Christmas story. The pageant will
feature the Chancel Choir, Rivers of Life Praise Band, Children's Choirs,
Handbells, and costumed actors. A reception will follow in the Family
Activity Center (with a special guest in a large red suit for the children).
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OBITUARIES
Obituaries are posted as received, complete with
visitation and funeral dates/times at:
www.smithfieldtimes.com
Katherine Lynn Taylor
Katherine Lynn Taylor,
54, passed away peacefully
at home with her devoted
family by her side, Sunday,
Nov. 24, 2013, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Born in Norfolk, Katherine was the
daughter of the late Oliver
Kenneth Sr. and Jean Rae
Murphy Harris. She had
been a Smithfield resident
for the past 23 years.
A beloved wife, mother,
grandmother and sister,
Katherine is survived by
her husband of 23 years,
Robert P. “Robbie” Taylor
III; her daughters, Jamie L.
Mott of Smithfield and
Anne Taylor Lewis (Mike)
of Virginia Beach; her
sons, Neil Harris (Jenny)
of Carrollton and Thomas
A. Mott of Smithfield;
grandchildren, Neil, Katie
Carly, Shane, Thomas, Ava
and Griffen; her sister,
Donna Rae Garbus (Hal) of
Smithfield; Oliver K. Harris of Chesapeake, Timothy
M. Harris of the Outer
Banks of N.C., Jeffrey P.
Harris of Smithfield;
nieces and nephews and a
host of extended family.
Katherine will be remembered for her love and
passion for the great outdoors, and she was an avid
member of many outdoor
organizations. She was a
member of Calvary Baptist
Church. Katherine was a
nurse for doctor practices
in Norfolk and Virginia
Beach. For some 13 years,
she was a nurse of Dr. John
Lyle and Dr. Eugene Gray,
ENT doctors, a experience
and opportunity Katherine
appreciated the most.
Family and friends will
gather Wednesday, Nov. 27,
4-6 p.m. in Colonial Funeral
Home, followed by a service
celebrating Katherine’s life
at 6 p.m. The Rev. Kawal
Rampersad will officiate.
Burial will be private at a
later date.
The family suggests memorial contributions to a
local rescue squad of
choice or to the IW Relay
for Life, c/o Pam Jordan,
18214 Far mview Lane,
Windsor, VA 23487.
Arrangements are in
the care of Colonial Funeral Home, Smithfield.
Edward T. Remick II
Edward
Timothy
Remick II passed away Nov.
19, 2013 after a long battle
with cancer. He was predeceased by his father, Robert
Remick;
Worthington
mother, Wortley Stott
Remick; sister, Betty Lou
Fentress; stepmother, Charlotte Ferguson Remick; and
stepbrother, Nathaniel
Remick. Ted was bor n
March
16,
1926
in
Smithfield.
He attended Emory and
Henry College V-12 Navy
Program, but he preferred
to see action and went to
sea aboard the sub chaser
SC 1504 in the Atlantic. Ted
served a tour of duty in the
Pacific aboard the USS
PGM II, a navy gunboat. He
saw action at Okinawa and
served through the end of
the Pacific War. Ted attended VPI and RPI (now
VCU). He began a career in
advertising. He was cofounder and vice-president
of Martin Remick Moore
Advertising.
Ted was an ardent sailor,
boat lover and water colorist. He was a member of the
Virginia Motor Sport Club,
the Jack Woodson Sketch
Club, a member of the Sons
of the Revolution and a
member of the Pumpkin
Hill Club.
He is survived by his
wife,
Kay
Gwaltney
Remick; son, Edward Timothy Remick III (Anne);
daughters,
Charlotte
Remick Wetzel (Scot) and
Kate
Remick
Kurtz
(Patrick); his six grandsons, Charlie, Teddy and
William Wetzel, Remick
and Bernard Kurtz, and
Micah Remick. Ted is also
survived by a sister, Edith
Remick of Williamsburg;
and a brother, Commander
(Ret.) William C. Remick of
Norfolk.
A memorial service was
held Nov. 25 at St. Stephen’s
Episcopal Church, 6000
Grove Ave., Richmond, followed by a reception in the
Parish Hall. A graveside
service followed Nov. 26 in
Ivy
Hill
Cemetery,
Smithfield.
Memorial contributions
may be made to Lewis
Ginter Botanical Garden,
1800
Lakeside
Ave.,
Henrico, Va. 23228.
Thanksgiving
services slated
Surry Baptist
Surry Baptist Church
Thanksgiving service is
Wednesday, Nov. 27, 7 p.m.
Mt. Sinai Baptist
Deacon James Clarke Jr.
will preach his initial sermon Saturday, Nov. 30, 4
p.m. at Mt. Sinai Baptist
Church.
Pentecostal Holiness
T h a n k s g iv i n g
servicewill be held at Pentecostal Holiness Church
Nov. 28, 9 a.m. Guest church
is New Covenant #2, Zuni,
with Pastor Kenneth
Powell, Dec. 1. The Christmas program is Dec. 22, 1:30
p.m. Watch night service
will be Dec. 31, 10 p.m.
Brown’s AME
Brown’s AME Lay Organization will be hosting a
musical extravaganza featuring the Smithfield High
School Band, the Brown’s
Mass choir and others musicians on Sunday Dec. 8,
2:30 p.m.
Little Zion
Little Zion Baptist
Church is having an indepth study of the book of
Revelations Wednesday
evenings at 6:45 p.m. Join
Little Zion, Main Street,
and First Gravel Hill Baptist Church for a Thanksgiving Service Wednesday,
Nov. 27, 7 p.m. at Little Zion.
Info: 357-4830.
Ruth Ann Thompson
Ruth Ann Dunning Thompson, 81, passed away
Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, after a
brief illness. Bor n in
Hampton, Ruth was the
daughter of the late Leroy
and Nellie May Gray Dunning. She grew up in Rescue/Battery Park and attended Isle of Wight
County schools.
She had lived in Georgia
and New York. Ruth retired from Erie County
Home and Infirmary in
New York after 30 years of
service. In her retirement,
she retur ned to Isle of
Wight County.
Ruth was a member of
Riverview United Methodist Church.
Ruth was a beloved
mother, grandmother and
sister. She is survived by
her daughters, Karen Fitch
Linda Sangbush, Debra
Fraley and Patty Gibbs;
and her son, Jim Jones; sisters, Irene Buchanan,
Janice Martin and Brenda
Tew; and a brother, Leroy
Dunning Jr.; 16 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren; and a host of
nieces and nephews and
extended family.
In addition to her parents, Ruth is preceded in
death by her first husband,
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Rufus Jones and then by
husband Oakley Thompson; and two brothers,
Keith Dunning and Pat
Dunning.
A graveside funeral service will be held Saturday,
Nov. 30, 11 a.m. in St. Luke’s
Memorial Park, with the
Rev. Leon Basham officiating.
The family suggests memorial contributions to
Riverview United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 288,
Rescue, VA 23424 or to the
Isle of Wight Humane Society, P.O. Box 273, Smithfield,
VA 23431.
Arrangements are in
the care of Colonial Funeral Home, Smithfield.
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Oyster harvest
a recent record
RICHMOND — Governor Bob McDonnell announced Monday that
Virginia’s most recent oyster harvest has greatly exceeded recent years, reaching the highest level since
1987. The 2012-13 harvest of
406,000 bushels was also 60
percent greater than just
one year prior. The oyster
has an economic value of
$42.6 million last year. The
$2 million for oyster restoration included in the current budget is the greatest
appropriation for the sector in Virginia history.
“This is very gratifying
news, even better than I’d
hoped,’’ McDonnell remarked. “Good management has allowed us to put
Virginia’s exceptional oysters on dinner plates
around the world, creating
good jobs, and generating
new revenue for our state.
Today’s announcement
should also remind consumers everywhere to grab
some delicious Virginia
oysters next time they’re at
dinner or in the store;
thanks to Virginia’s sound
management practices
there are more for everyone
to enjoy.”
The Virginia Marine
Resources Commission’s
harvest data showed
406,000 bushels of oysters
were harvested in the 20122013 season, up from 257,000
bushels harvested in the
previous year. This is an
almost 60 percent increase
from year to year.
The harvest boom came
from both wild-caught oysters and from dramatically
increased yields in oyster
aquaculture operations on
privately leased water bottoms.
The agency had projected Virginia’s oyster
harvest last year potentially could reach 320,000
bushels but the year-end
numbers revealed the harvest was, in fact, a whopping 406,000 bushels. Of
that, 149,000 bushels were
harvested from public oyster grounds and another
257,000 bushels were harvested from privately
leased oyster grounds.
“We had high expectations for the oyster harvest,
but this is substantially
better than we dared to
hope,’’ said VMRC Commissioner
Jack
Travelstead. “This year’s
oyster season opened last
month and the initial reports we’re hearing indicate we’re off to a very good
start. The oysters being
caught are big, tasty, and
plentiful.”
The previous year’s
(2011-2012) harvest totaled
124,000 bushels from public
oyster grounds and another 133,000 bushels from
oyster aquaculture operations.
“Over the past 12 years,
the oyster harvest in Virginia has exploded from
23,000 bushels in 2001 to
406,000 bushels in 2013,”
said Doug Domenech,
Virginia’s Secretary of
Natural Resources. “In
that time, the dockside
value of the oyster harvest
increased from $575,000 to
more than $16.2 million.”
The ripple effects
through the economy from
last year’s unexpectedly
large oyster harvest resulted in an estimated $42.6
million in economic value,
using a multiplier of 2.63
on a dockside value of $16.2
million, a formula established by the late Dr. James
Kirkley, a well-respected
Virginia Institute of Marine Science seafood industry economist.
The state’s oyster harvest is poised to increase
even further, if weather
and other environmental
factors remain unchanged,
due to this year’s historic
$2 million investment in
oyster replenishment. This
is a program in which
empty oyster shells are
spread on state-owned public oyster grounds to provide habitat so naturally
occurring oyster larvae
can attach to the shells during spawning and grow to
form new adult oysters that
reach market size in
roughly three years.
“This investment provides significant ecological
and economic benefits, and
will present consumers
with more delicious, highquality Virginia oysters in
the years to come,” said
Anthony Moore, Deputy
Secretary of Natural Resources, who leads the restoration efforts in the
Chesapeake Bay.
A single adult oyster can
purge up to 50 gallons of
water a day. Oyster reefs
provide important forage
and refuge habitat for invertebrates, as well as juvenile crabs and finfish species. VMRC estimates every $1 spent by the state to
plant oyster shells yields $7
in economic benefits in the
form of larger harvests and
increased jobs for oyster
harvesters, shuckers, and
packing houses.
General fund appropriations for oyster replenishment funding have ranged
from zero to as much as $1.3
million over the past two
decades, and have never
surpassed the $2 million
allocated to the program in
the 2014 state budget. The
appropriation was proposed
by
Gover nor
McDonnell and approved
by the Virginia General
Assembly earlier this year.
These Local Churches welcome you and
your family to weekly services.
Central Hill Baptist Church
10270 Central Hill Rd, Windsor 357-2225
Rev. Roger Johnson, Pastor
Parsonage 757-539-7759
Sun School 10am, Sun Worship 11am
Wed Bible Study & Prayer Meeting 7pm
12/13
Good Shepherd Catholic Church
300 Smithfield Blvd., P.O. Box 840, Smithfield
Mass 9am Sun, Weekday Mass:
Tues & Thu at noon, Wed at 6:30pm
Fri at 9am, Sat 5pm
Phone: 365-0579 Fax: 757-365-4749
Pastor: Fr. Oscar P. Paraiso
www.goodshepherd-smithfield.org 12/13
Healing Waters Worship Center Hope Presbyterian Church
12172 Smith’s Neck Rd, Carrollton, VA
356-1515; hwwcnow.org
Pastor William M. McCarty, Senior Pastor
Sunday am Worship 9 & 11am w kid’s church
Wednesday worship 7pm & Bible study
with Girls Club & Royal Rangers
255 James Street
Meeting at Smithfield Luter YMCA
Worship: 9:30 am
Sunday School” 11:00 am
www.hopepca.com
Pastor George Boomer, 771-2243
Mill Swamp Baptist Church
Riverview United Methodist
12/13
6329 Mill Swamp Rd, Ivor, VA; 357-2575
“A church That is Alive is Worth the Drive!”
Sunday: Sun. Sch. 9:30am, Worship 10:45am, AWANA
5:30pm, Teens WOL, Adult Prayer Time 5:45pm.
Wed:. Adult Prayer Time 6:15pm, Children & Teen
Rec. Programs 6:15pm, Adult Bible Study 6:45pm
Rev. James “Jim” Jones, Pastor
12/13
6/13
10696 Smiths Neck Rd Rescue
Tuesday
covered dish dinner/bible study 6:30pm
Worship & Childrens Church 11am
Leon Basham, Minister 357-0738
email: c.basham@charter,net
12/13
Saints of Runneymede Holiness Church Sandy Mount Baptist Church
7711 White Marsh Rd, Elberon, VA
Intercessory Prayer Sunday: 8:30 - 9:30 am
Sun. School 10am;
Morning Worship 11:30am
Wed Noon Day PrayerPrayer & Bible Study 7pm
Andrew L. Cypress - Pastor
12/13
Smithfield Baptist Church
100 Wainwright Dr., Smithfield, 357-2536
Sun.Sch.9:40am/Worship 8:30am & 11am
Wed, 5:15 Cherub Choir, 5:30 Dinner,
6:30 Bible Studies & Missions,
7:30 Adult Choir, 7:30 Children’s Choir
Dr. Donald R. Rhoton, Pastor
sbchurch@charter.net
12/13
16091 Scott’s Factory Rd, Smithfield
Church School - 9:00-9:45am
Worship Service - 10am
Bible Study - 1st & 3rd Wednesday
2nd & 4th Tuesday @ 7pm
Rev. Dr. Bobby L. Taylor, Pastor
12/13
Southside Vineyard Community Church
“Real, Reaching & Ready”
14353 Benns Church Blvd., Smithfield, VA
Services Sunday @ 10:00 am
Nursery, Children, Youth Ministries
Casual with a Real Life Message
www.southsidevineyard.com
Pastor Bill Eley, (757) 357-SVCC (7822)
6/13
Trinity United Methodist Church Benn’s United Methodist Church
201 Cedar St.,
Smithfield, VA 23430-1303
Sunday School 9:30
Worship 8:30 & 11am,
9:30am Rivers of Life
Rev. Jeff Cannon
357-3659
12/13
Smithfield Christian Church
18420 Battery Park Rd.
Smithfield, VA 23430 Ph: 357-6644
Sunday Sch. 10am Worship 11am
Wed., Study 7:00pm
Jack Perry, Minister
www.smithfieldchristian.org
14571 Benns Church Blvd., Smithfield
Sunday Services 8:30 and 11:00am
Sunday School 9:45am
also offering preschool M-TH
Rev. O.H. Burton, Jr., Ph. 357-3373
Bennsumc@yahoo,com
12/13
Christ Episcopal Church
111 S. Church St., Corner Church & Main
Smithfield • 357-2826
9AM - Contemporary Service
10AM - Christian Education
11AM - Traditional Service
Rev. Derek Pringle, Rector
www.christchurchsmithfield.org12/13
Smithfield Assembly of God Church Uzzell United Methodist Church
1800 South Church Street, Smithfield 357-5539
Sunday Sch. 9:45am
Worship Service 11:00am
Wednesday Evening (including
Children's Services) 7:00pm
Donald E. Watkins, Pastor
15363 Uzzell Church Rd, Smithfield VA
Sunday Worship Service 11:00am
Becky Gwaltney, Pastor 810-9397
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Bethany Presbyterian Church CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
5358 Zuni Circle, Zuni, Va. 23898 15155 Turner Drive, Smithfield, VA 23430
Pastor Dan E. Gray Phone: 357-5718
"A Church Home for Your Family"
Worship 10:30am
Sunday: 9:45 AM 11 AM 6:30 PM
Rev. Dr. Steven Frazier, Pastor
Wednesday Prayer Mtg. & Children's
www.bethanyzuni.org
Bible Clubs @ 7 PM
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Battle of Smithfield commemoration
tunity to capture the Union
troops. On Feb. 1, a skirmish along Main Street ensued. During the threehour engagement, the
Union gunboat SmithBriggs arrived, and the
Union troops attempted to
escape.
Capt.
Joseph
Norsworthy cut off the
Union retreat with cavalry.
The gunboat was destroyed
by Confederate cannon fire,
and the Union forces were
captured.
The
Smith-Briggs’
gilded eagle figurehead remains intact and will be on
display during the Isle of
Wight County Museum’s
two-days of Sesquicentennial events, Jan. 31 – Feb. 1
in Smithfield.
Friday, Jan. 31 is set
aside for local school chil-
dren and includes an opportunity to visit the Virginia Civil War 150
HistoryMobile hosted by
the Virginia Historical Society.
The
HistoryMobile
draws together stories
from all over Virginia and
uses state-of-the-art technology and immersive exhibit spaces to present individual stories of the Civil
War from the perspectives
of those who experienced it
— young and old, enslaved
and free, soldiers and civilians.
The HistoryMobile will
be available to the public on
Saturday, Feb. 1, 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. at the Isle of Wight
County Museum, located
on the corner of S. Church
and Main streets in downtown Smithfield.
Also that weekend, Civil
War re-enactors will have
an encampment at Windsor
Castle, demonstrating how
soldiers lived during that
time.
Julius Octavious Thomas,
Capt. Joseph Chapman
Norsworthy,
Capt.
Nathaniel A. Sturdivant,
Junious Wilson, Boat Capt.
Cheshire, Mayor William
The Museum plans to W. Joyner, Euphonius
have living historians on Seeds, Edwin Morrison,
hand there and at the 1750 Mollie Cowper and others
Courthouse, as well as a
downtown walking tour
about the Battle of
Smithfield.
The Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee is
also looking for local residents who may have letters,
diaries, photos, drawings
or newspaper articles from
that time that can be used
to add to the story.
Descendants of those
involved in the battle are
also being sought, such as
Richard Sidney Thomas,
Supers firm on charging fees
By Diana McFarland
News editor
A request to waive the
fee for a Relay for Life soccer tournament was unanimously denied Thursday
by the Isle of Wight Board
of Supervisors.
The Smithfield Soccer
Club asked the county to
waive $1,725 in fees to use
Nike Park for its annual
Kickin’ It for Cancer tour-
nament, which draws
teams from all over south
Hampton Roads, as well as
North Carolina, according
to its Facebook page.
So many teams participate in the annual event
that it closes the park for
county residents for the
day, Furlo told the Isle of
Wight Board of Supervisors at its Nov. 21 meeting.
Now in its fifth year, the
tournament is scheduled
for Feb. 22-23.
The tournament typically generates more than
$17,000, so subtracting the
rental fee doesn’t cause a
significant loss to the
American Cancer Society
Relay for Life contribution,
Furlo said.
The tournament also requires additional park
staff, resources and sup-
plies, as well as causes
Parks and Recreation to
deny other rental requests
that day due to lack of parking.
That’s another possible
revenue deficit of $500, according to county staff.
Fees for the tournament
were reduced in previous
years, but the county hasn’t
ever waived the entire
amount, Furlo said.
Windsor High School.
At Smithfield High, 93
percent of the 1,269 students have received iPads,
compared with 92 percent
last year.
Just 10 students have
opted out of the iPad program altogether, and as of
October, 120 students have
been denied access pending
outstanding obligations
like fees, forms and digital
citizenship.
At Windsor High, the
number of students now
using school-issued iPads
has grown from 88.5 percent of the student body to
97 percent.
This year, 471 students
have received iPads, three
students have opted out
and 10 have outstanding
obligations.
Neither school has students that have opted to be
day users only, but last year
there were one at each
school.
Criticisms of the program include poor plan-
ning, little teacher training, lack of educational
materials and inadequate
digital safety measures.
Since then, the schools
have implemented stronger
security controls and more
teacher training.
In April, Assistant Superintendent Laura Abel
said year two is for setting
specific expectations and
training for individual
needs and by year three,
the iPad will be part of the
school environment.
iPad acceptance improving
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
After a shaky first year,
Isle of Wight County
schools’ one-to-one iPad
initiative has gar nered
more high school users the
second time around.
School administrators
pushed through poor public perception and debuted
the three-year, $1.3 million
program last fall.
It appears interest in the
program has grown overall, but most notably at
who were involved in one
way or another in the engagement.
For more information
call Historic Resources
Manager Jennifer Williams at 357-0115 or local historian Albert Burckard at
613-6183.
G1-112713
The Battle of Smithfield
is the centerpiece of Isle of
Wight County’s two-day
commemoration of the
Civil War Sesquicentennial, Jan. 31 – Feb. 1.
The weekend event tells
the story about a unit of
Union soldiers who sailed
up the Pagan River 150
years ago on Jan. 31, 1864 to
investigate Confederate activity in the area.
After landing and heading inland, the Union soldiers encountered a small
Confederate unit, and after
a minor skir mish, the
Union detachment headed
back to Smithfield to leave
the area. Their gunboat departed without them forcing the soldiers to spend
the night.
Confederate Maj. N.A.
Sturdivant took the oppor-
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December 14, 2013
8 am - 10 am
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Enjoy a hot pancake breakfast provided
by the Smithfield Kiwanis
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sharing their Christmas wish with Santa
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Committee OKs Frisbee course, theatre
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
Smithfield is forging
ahead with plans to add
amenities to Windsor
Castle Park — despite not
knowing the costs —at the
request of the park’s
fundraising foundation.
The Smithfield Town
Council’s Parks and Recreation Committee — chairperson Connie Chapman,
Randy Pack and Denise
Tynes, also council members — roundly approved
all amenities in a natural
playground plan recommended by the Windsor
Castle Park Foundation
last week.
The plan will go before
Smithfield Town Council
on Dec. 3 for final approval.
The committee agreed
to: three play areas, traditional and “military-style”
fitness stations, a labyrinth, a wooded classroom/
stage, a fairy garden, a disc
golf course, a picnic shelter
and ravine sheltered overlook, a community garden,
a per manent restroom/
storage facility with drinking fountain and expanded,
paved parking lots.
Foundation President
Sue Ivy asked town officials to decide quickly what
amenities they want so that
the Foundation can begin
fundraising.
Ivy said the Foundation
needs to know all the approved amenities up front
because it would only hold
one capital fundraising
campaign.
Vision
for expensive repairs and
asking him to allow public
access.
“I just wish we could afford to keep it,” he said.
Kilpatrick also noted the
uncertainty
of
the
property’s future.
“Of equal concern to me
is the Town’s apparent lack
of vision for this property,”
she continued. “… The only
proposed use that has been
brought to my attention is
for a winery that frankly is
unrealistic given that the
interested party’s overly
ambitious vision for new
construction is inconsistent with the terms of the
easement.”
Kilpatrick continued to
say that potential buyers
were not alerted to the easement requirements until
recently.
On Sept. 6, Stephenson
Sale
rounding properties until
Feb. 5, 2014, said Town
Manager
Peter
Stephenson.
In
2007,
retired
Smithfield CEO Joseph
Luter III gave the town $5
million to purchase the
land for a park.
In November 2008, the
town purchased, with a
At first, council members regarded the list of
amenities as a master plan
that they would approve in
phases, with the most popular approved first.
But as the conversation
unfolded, council members
brought more amenities to
the forefront until all were
on the table and ultimately
approved.
Several council members affir med that the
amenities they approve
must stick, because they
cannot renege on an amenity once the Foundation
has raised funds for it.
In a later interview,
Pack said he wasn’t concerned about approving all
the amenities, even those
they weren’t popular in the
public survey, because
plans can change.
“We are in no way
locked into having a
Frisbee golf course or having a community garden,”
he said, even though he
likes both.
Committee and council
member Denise Tynes said
she wants more public input.
“Put the big map up so
they can see it,” said Tynes
in an interview Monday,
referring to drawings of
the proposed amenities. “If
they don’t show up, that’s
fine. We tried.”
Until then, “I’m going to
ask them to pull it and
bring it back [to the committee level] until we can
get more public input,” she
said. “…It’s their property.”
Tynes said she only
voted to move the plans forward to be “a team player.”
The Foundation, which
had been a committee appointed by Town Council in
2010, recently dissolved as
a government body and reformed as a tax-exempt organization.
While it awaits approval
from the Internal Revenue
Service, it has linked up
with Historic Smithfield, a
local non-profit, to handle
its donations.
As a tax-exempt organization, the Foundation’s
sole purpose will be to raise
funds. It will not have the
ability to directly impact
the park, as it remains in
the town’s ownership.
What is not known is
how much the amenities
will cost and whether Natural Playground Company,
the firm that designed the
plans, will also handle construction, or if it will be
sent out for bid.
Some town officials still
appear confused about
what each other’s roles are
when it comes to managing
the park, asking whether
the Foundation will serve
as project manager or consultant.
It will not, said Ivy. But,
it has begun collecting cost
estimates from Natural
Playground Company, said
Ivy.
Ivy said she should have
those estimates for the Dec.
3 Town Council meeting.
Tynes said she’s concerned about the construc-
tion of a disc golf course,
as well as lack of a price
tag.
“This committee (the
Foundation), if their
fundraising is not successful, it’s going to fall back on
the citizens. Don’t do anything in that park until you
have the funding for it,”
Tynes said.
Chapman said if the
funds aren’t raised, they
won’t build all of the
amenities.
“When the foundation is
able to gain support for the
project, we will offer
amenities that will benefit
all park users from children to seniors - without
compromising the natural
park atmosphere,” said
Chapman, who could not be
reached by phone, in an
email Monday.
Pack said he wasn’t worried about approving the
plans without an estimate
because “cost estimates
aren’t a huge part at this
point, because they aren’t
asking the town for
money.”
Rather, the Foundation
is raising money, and the
only taxpayer-funded amenity at this point is the
$200,000 public bathrooms
included in the town’s capital improvements program, he said.
Also in the CIP is
$350,000 for a playground
area, set aside for fiscal
year 2014-15, and $25,000 for
a community garden in
2015-16 — but those are all
placeholders until dona-
requested assistance in establishing a timeline and
budget to complete the
renovations. He also requested help with creating
a request for proposals for
the work.
Stephenson also said the
town is interested in
amending the easement to
allow for “commercial
wine making operations
beyond the permitted agricultural use” and more
flexibility when it comes to
the tenant farmhouse.
In January, Town Council discussed ways in which
to repair dilapidated twostory tenant house, which
dates to around 1910.
Since then, no work has
been done to the tenant
house but the town is working with a contractor, said
Stephenson.
Williams said he’d like
to demolish the farmhouse
because it’s too far gone
and too costly to fix.
Stephenson said he has
not heard from DHR since
he sent the letter to
Kilpatrick on Sept. 6.
Repairs suggested in the
present conditions report
include:
• For the manor house —
repair flashing on the east
side of the north porch,
trim weeds and remove
vines from the building,
address the deterioration
of the stucco, remove debris from perimeter drain,
clean gutters and downspouts, repair a leak in the
second floor dormer, investigate and repair flashing
leak at chimney, remedy
moisture in basement
(with fans or dehumidifiers
or by cutting back floors
from the historic walls),
replace missing baluster
on staircase, conduct structural evaluation of the
stair landing to ensure stability, investigate and repair cause of moisture and
spalling on fireplaces, and
conduct structural evaluation of the basement foundation for soundness.
•For the tenant house,
bar n office, granaries,
smokehouse,
sheds,
children’s house and log
cor ncrib — secure the
buildings to prevent water
infiltration and further deterioration with priority to
roof repairs and repair deteriorated wood siding.
•For the kitchen — secure the buildings to prevent water infiltration and
further deterioration with
priority to roof repairs, repair deteriorated wood siding, conduct a structural
evaluation of the foundation walls and repair to the
chimney cap.
portion of Luter’s donation, the 163-acre Windsor
Castle property for $3.8 million
from
Lewis
McMurran, who had
bought the property for $2.2
million in 2007 with plans
to build a large “new urbanism” development.
In addition, McMurran
donated the manor house,
outbuildings and about 46
acres to the town.
tions come in, said Town
Manager
Peter
Stephenson.
An estimate from 2012
said the construction of a
natural play area could cost
between $100,000 and
$350,000, depending on how
many elements are included.
There has been no public discussion of maintenance costs for the new
amenities.
Council members verbally agreed that the first
elements to be built will be
a toddler area, main
children’s area and a hill
slide.
No one spoke strongly
against anything in the
plans — but Tynes said she
was told to stay quiet.
“I really didn’t approve
it, but I’m a team player,”
said Tynes, who said she
was told by an unnamed
“superior” to hold her comments until the council
meeting on Dec. 3.
“I have been asked not to
speak up.”
Tynes said naming a
proposed butterfly garden
after Rhonda Ralph, who
worked at the YMCA and at
7-Eleven and died earlier
this year, should go
through an application process, and it should be
named for someone all citizens know.
“Sometimes I feel
like I might be out there on
a limb by myself,” said
Tynes, who said she trusts
council members Mike
Smith, Randy Pack and
Carter Williams because
they are “for the citizens”
and “have no agenda.”
Mayor Carter Williams
briefly aired complaints
from residents about plans
for a disc golf course.
In a later interview, Williams said he’ll approve all
the recommended amenities at the Town Council
meeting, but said they’ll
start with the playground
and build in phases as
money comes in, and disc
golf is toward the bottom
of the list.
“We’re not bulldozing
for disc golf,” Chapman
clarified, adding that some
people are misguided about
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Critics worry town will spoil natural park
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
Critics of a proposed
disc golf course are worried it will ruin current
woodlands and interfere
with walkers on Windsor
Castle Park’s walking
trails.
A relatively new sport,
disc golf is a game in which
players toss discs — or
Frisbees — toward a target,
called a basket, in as few
throws as possible. Courses
can be nine or 18 holes like
traditional golf courses,
but differ in that they are
usually partially wooded
and have a narrower field
of play with more obstacles.
Current
plans
at
Windsor Castle show a
4,000 linear-foot course
snaking through a wooded
area of the park.
Critics of a potential
Windsor Castle disc golf
course have expressed concerns over whether trees
will be cleared to make way
for the course.
Smithfield’s Parks and
Recreation Committee
chairperson
Connie
Chapman said last week
that they will not be “bulldozing” to make way for the
course.
The fine print on the
park’s plan says in red ink,
“No existing trees are to be
removed!”
Terry Baronner, parks
manager with the city of
Suffolk, said the “extremely popular” 18-hole
course at Bennett’s Creek
was built without cutting
down a single tree.
“We just took the natural contour of the woods …
we didn’t do a whole lot,”
Baronner said.
Baronner said his
course cost $9,000 to construct, with labor offered
by volunteers from a Portsmouth disc golf club, and
left the woods intact.
Also a concer n was
whether players will come
in contact with walkers,
increasing the chance a
walker might be hit in the
Amenities
what disc golf actually is.
Chapman suggested
holding a community forum to educate the community, but the suggestion
didn’t gather traction.
Pack, whose family busi-
ness, Smithfield Station,
sits across the street from
a park entrance, said he
doesn’t feel he has a conflict of interest in making
decisions regarding the
proposed amenities.
Pack said he’s never
seen someone visiting the
park walk over and have
lunch or drinks, though it
can happen.
“You put the interest of
the town first and there are
no conflicts at that point,”
he said.
Town Council will vote
on the natural playground
plans on Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. at
The Smithfield Center.
Wight Volunteer Rescue
Squad building at $5.4 million and the Norfolk water
deal at $10 million.
In 2002, the county was
carrying $49.3 million in
debt.
Debt spending began in
earnest in 2009 when the
total debt shot up to $84.3
million — despite the global economic downturn.
Two years later, it was at
$135 million.
At the same time, the
county’s largest taxpayer,
International Paper, closed
its mill in 2010 and took
with it more than $5 million in revenues. Some of
that has been recouped
with the limited reopening
of the mill, as well as the
opening of Green Mountain
Coffee
in
the
intermodal park.
Finances
stuck with the contract, but
it’s more useful to look forward.
In the past 10 years, the
county’s debt has grown by
175 percent, with major
purchases requiring debt
including the Smithfield
Volunteer Fire Department
building at $5 million;
Smithfield Middle School
at $26 million, the new
courthouse building at $17
million, the new Georgie D.
Tyler Middle School at $24
million, the county administration complex at $9 million; and the new Isle of
Correction
In Nov. 20 story titled
“Windsor Christmas to include 460 tree,” an incorrect address was given for
the open house to be held at
the new Windsor Police
Department on Dec. 7, from
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The correct
address is 56 East Windsor
Boulevard.
head with a errant disc.
Though park plans show
the course separate from
walking trails, town officials have repeatedly said
the plans are not written in
stone.
In Bennett’s Creek,
when walkers and golfers
do cross paths, there isn’t a
problem, said Baronner.
The 18-hole course at
New Quarter Park in York
County is mostly separate
from its walking trails, said
Parks Supervisor Molly
Nealer.
On a beautiful day, it attracts about 40 players, she
said.
Hampton Roads has at
least six disc golf courses,
with one of the most popular being at New Quarter
Park.
“Oh, it’s fabulous,” said
Nealer. “I never imagined it
would be so popular.”
In the five years it’s been
there, the course has become one of the most popular in the state, is often a
stop for tourists coming
through Williamsburg and
plays host to tournaments,
said Nealer.
New Quarter’s partially
wooded course was designed by a York County
employee and constructed
by volunteers with materials purchased by the
county, she said.
Baronner said the 18hole course at Bennett’s
Creek is “one of our most
popular amenities in the
park.”
It’s free and plays host to
tournaments.
Disc golf, as well as
other proposed amenities
to Windsor Castle Park, recently made it through the
first round of approval by
Smithfield town officials
despite gaining little interest a public survey.
Smithfield
Town
Council’s Parks and Recreation Committee approved
plans to outfit the passive
park with several new features, including children’s
playgrounds, a labyrinth,
an amphitheater, a community garden and a disc golf
course.
A new disc golf course
got 50 votes compared with
170 for climbing structures,
the most popular amenity,
from 226 respondents.
The town also solicited
opinions from focus
groups.
The majority who participated in the survey
&
were Smithfield residents
between 41 and 60 years old,
indicated that they bring
kids to the park and said
they used the park one or
more times each month.
Of the current amenities, people most enjoy the
walking trails (61 percent),
followed by the kayak
launch (12 percent) and the
overlooks, benches and water views and access (10
percent).
When asked what they’d
like to see in the natural
play area, respondents suggested climbing structures,
slides, benches, a butterfly
garden, a labyrinth and a
fort.
In addition to the natural play area, people
wanted restrooms, more
informational signage, nature lectures, smaller or
lower picnic tables, drinking water foundations,
farmers market, food vendors, better parking and
better accessibility for
those with disabilities.
The least popular
amenities were barometers, disc golf course, magnifying station, compass
and something called
“‘reach-through holes.”
Mental
lice say was committed by
Deeds’ son, who was refused extended mental
health care services the day
before.
Morris met Friday with
mental health experts from
around the state — David
Lyons, director of Eastern
State Hospital; David Coe,
executive director of Colonial Behavioral Health and
chair man of a regional
leadership team; Dr. Mark
Freeze, executive director
of Eastern Shore Community Services Board; John
Duell, director of Hampton
Roads regional projects;
and Demetrios Peratsakis,
executive director of Western Tidewater Community
Services Board.
Within hours, Morris
and his cohorts developed
a pilot program that works
similar to an emergency
room — but for people ex-
periencing acute mental
health issues, he said.
After receiving treatment that could last up 12
hours, depending on each
case, patients would be released or referred for additional treatment, he said.
About 50 percent patients will need long-term
care, he said.
Minimum requirements
for a drop-off center are:
access to a medical pharmacy, appropriate psychiatric staffing and services
and security.
Security is key, he said,
because police need a
proper chain of custody
before they can release
people into a center’s care,
he said.
Morris is looking into
private security firms.
Morris has come up
with three options for a
drop-off center: a renovated building at Eastern
State
Hospital
in
Williamsburg, increasing
staffing at local Crisis Stabilization Units or using an
existing freestanding, privately-owned medical facility.
Morris favors an existing freestanding facility
and has two in mind, but he
isn’t ready to name them
just yet.
“That’s the most financially feasible option,” he
said, because the building
and access to the pharmacy
are already there. It just
needs more staff, he said.
“I’m looking at the most
efficient and productive
way to do it — and cost effective,” he said.
As for retooling a building at Eastern State, Morris says he has encountered
“a lot of pushback from
that due to the stigma of a
state-run mental health institution.”
Eastern State Hospital
has been tearing down
buildings and selling off
property in recent years, he
said.
It’s down to 302 beds
from a few thousand, he
said.
As state-run facilities
began closing 40 years ago,
patients were transferred
to group homes and moved
back in with their families,
he said.
But both types of homes
aren’t often prepared to
treat people with mental illness that turns violent,
Morris said.
Now police are being
called to group homes in
large numbers and are often forced to jail people, he
said.
“There was some very
well-intentioned reasons to
get them into the community, but I guess they
thought there was someone
there that will be there to
take care of them and that
isn’t always the case,” Mor-
Police Department, Hope
had wiped out the original
payee’s name on a preprinted company check
with a solvent and typed
his own name in its place.
Hope also changed the
check amount from $50,760
to $9,760 to be less conspicuous, Valdez said.
He then tried to cash the
checks at Farmers Bank
where bank tellers reported him as acting weird
and called police.
Hope abandoned his
plan and left the bank, leaving the forged check and
his I.D. card behind, said
Valdez.
Hope was not armed and
did not threaten tellers,
Valdez said.
Smithfield Police conducted a search that led to
a chase as the man ran toward Council Sales and
Service and into the
Grimesland neighborhood.
Hope reached Magruder
Road and hid in the marsh,
Valdez said.
Smithfield
Police
searched for the suspect by
boat on Cypress Creek and
sought the help of a canine
unit from Suffolk Police
Department, but to no
avail.
After concluding the
search at 4 p.m., police received a tip from a Farmers
Bank teller at a little after
11 p.m. that evening saying
the man was walking along
South Church Street.
Police arrested Hope at
McDonalds.
They believe the man
hid from police in the
marsh all day.
Check forgery draws sentence
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
A North Carolina man
chased by police into the
marsh and later arrested
while ordering a sweet tea
at McDonalds recently
pleaded guilty to forging
checks at a local bank.
Bryan Hope, 46, of Charlotte, N.C. pleaded guilty on
two felony counts of forging coin and bank notes after trying to cash a forged
check at Farmers Bank in
Smithfield on Aug. 2.
Hope was sentenced to
five years in prison with
four years suspended, and
will serve a year consecutively with another sentence from another jurisdiction.
According to Lt. Patrick
Valdez with the Smithfield
ris said.
Private facilities have
no obligation to take them
and sometimes patients
want to stay because they
have no family support.
Sometimes people are
tur ned away because
though there may be space
in the hospital, there is no
space in a psychiatric area
equipped to treat people
who may be har mful to
themselves or others, he
said.
The third option, using
Crisis Stabilization Units,
is also less likely as the
units would need security
upgrades and the addition
of a pharmacy, he said.
Morris estimates a
single drop-off center
would
cost
between
$250,000 and $450,000 a year,
with a private facility being
the least expensive option
and retooling Eastern State
the most expensive.
Morris hopes for the
center to start as a statefunded pilot program,
eventually moving it to local funding.
He believes that the
drop-off center will put
more law enforcement back
in their primary duties and
cut costs associated with
having law enforcement
handle psychiatric crises.
One or more officers often spend their whole shift
or longer detaining and
transferring mental health
patients to hospitals or
treatment centers clear
across the state, he said.
“I think there’s going to
be a direct savings to every
single community here.”
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By Abby Proch
Staff writer
Students aren’t the only
ones who dislike standardized tests.
Isle of Wight educators
recently supported a movement to revamp the state’s
Standards of Lear ning
standardized testing and
school accreditation programs.
The Isle of Wight School
Board, with the support of
Superintendent Katrise
Perera and school officials,
stood up against standardized testing recently when
it approved a resolution for
standardized testing reform.
The resolution will be
presented before the upcoming General Assembly.
“I’m not afraid of accountability … but let’s not
put so much on one day of
a student’s life,” said
Perera. “… You can’t get an
experience from taking a
standardized test.”
By way of the resolution, the School Board
joined a public school sys-
tem movement in Virginia
that contends the state relies too heavily on “high
stakes testing” that is
“strangling our public
schools” and undermines
teachers’ ability to provide
broad and exploratory educational experiences.
The Board also alleges
that there is no research to
suggest that taking the
tests will aptly prepare a
student for college or a career, and no research to
suggest the test results are
an authentic measure of
student achievement and
growth.
Windsor representative
Julia Perkins, a for mer
teacher, lamented that students nowadays don’t get to
go on as many exploratory
field trips as generations
past due to their obligation
to testing and testing
preparation.
Perkins was particularly troubled by the fact
that a student will take as
many as 34 standardized
tests between grades three
and 11.
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Sparse acorn crop tough on wildlife
ease — that collectively influence acorn development
from the time of flower initiation to acorn maturity.
Most flowers seem to be
aborted between the time
of initiation and pollination. Late spring freezes
and high humidity during
pollination are primary
causes (we experienced
both of these over much of
Virginia in 2013). Later,
immature acorns can be
lost due to summer
droughts, high temperatures or insect predation.
In addition, research has
shown that the inherent
cycles between bumper
crops and light crops may
be an adaptation to allow
the trees to restore their
resources following a
bumper crop.
“In other words, a large
crop one year may reduce
the trees’ resources resulting in lower production the
following year(s). Since
2012 was a bumper crop of
acorns for much of Virginia, this could be another
explanation for this year’s
light crop. The overall consensus seems to be that
there are inherent cycles of
reproduction that are
modified by the impact of
weather conditions in a
particular
location,”
Creighton said.
Several observers have
questioned whether the periodical cicadas that
emerged in much of the
Commonwealth this year
could be a factor. According
to VDOF Forest Health Program Manager Dr. Chris
Asaro, that is unlikely.
“I don’t think they have
anything to do with it,”
Asaro said, “because the
mast failure seems to be a
lot more widespread across
the state, including areas
that saw no cicadas. Plus,
cicada activity was pretty
spotty even in the outbreak
areas, yet mast failures still
seem to be occurring just
about everywhere. While I
think it’s physiologically
plausible that some heavily
attacked trees saw lower
mast yields than they otherwise might have, I don’t
think it’s a complete explanation for what’s going on.”
“Acorn production in
Virginia in 2013 was low –
comparable to the previous
low in 2008. The white oak
crop appeared to uniformly
fail across the state, while
some pockets (generally in
eastern Virginia) of good
red oak production were
found. Mast production has
alternated from high to low
levels since 2010. The impacts of acorns on wildlife
populations are extensive
and complex. And they are
most dramatic where there
is little diversity of habitat
types and few alternative
food sources to acorns,”
said Gary Norman with
DGIF.
DGIF officials are con-
County wants ATV trail
at Heritage Park
Isle of Wight plans to
apply for a grant to build an
ATV trail at Heritage Park.
The $25,000 grant is from
the Virginia Department of
Conservation and Recreation and requires a local
match of $6,250, which is
already in the fiscal 2014
budget.
The ATV trail is part of
the park’s master plan.
The motorized trail is
for young riders with engines not to exceed 50 cubic
centimeters, according to
the master plan.
The trails will be created and maintained by local youth riding groups
within Isle of Wight
County.
Other amenities listed
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center, restrooms, playground, dog park, picnic
shelter, community center
and more.
cerned about a light crop
because acorns are a preferred food for many wildlife species, including
white-tailed deer, black
bear and wild turkey.
Acor ns are rich in fat,
soluble carbohydrates and
energy, which are important nutritional needs that
contribute to the animal’s
body condition, survival,
harvest rates, reproduction
and, eventually, population
status. The roaming range
of black bear and wild turkey can increase two- to
four-fold in years with mast
failures, and long-range
gray squirrel movement
can be significant as they
search for acorns.
“Oftentimes the search
for food creates situations
that bring wildlife closer
into residential areas to
find human-related food
sources resulting in unwanted interactions between animals and people,”
Norman said.
In addition, deer may
over-browse their habitats
when acorns are not available, thus reducing their
habitat’s carrying capacity
for future deer populations.
Black bear tend to den earlier when fat-rich acorns
are scarce, and this tends to
limit the build-up of their
nutritional reserves (fat).
And bear cub survival
tends to decline in years
with mast failures.
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Oaks are among the
most common hardwood
tree species in many parts
of Virginia. Because of
their importance both as a
source of forest regeneration and as a mast crop for
wildlife, each year’s acorn
crop is the subject of much
attention.
It seems almost every
year there are concerns as
to why there is either an
over-abundance or scarcity
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Many reports from various
parts of the Commonwealth indicate that the
acorn crop this fall is very
light, according to officials
at the Virginia Department
of Forestry (VDOF) and the
Virginia Department of
Game and Inland Fisheries
(DGIF).
“Acorn production varies widely — from nearly
zero to a quarter million or
more acorns per acre. Different locations, years, species and even individual
trees produce extremely
different crops, and heavy
‘bumper’ crops occur only
every two to seven years.”
sad VDOF Research Program Manager Jerre
Creighton.
While it is impossible to
pinpoint one specific cause
that would explain the
acorn crop for an entire region in a given year, there
are many factors — such as
weather, insects and dis-
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SECOND FRONT
Nov. 27, 2013
Community
calendar
Thursday, Nov. 28
5K RACE—The second annual Ian
Burgett’s Thanksgiving Day 5K and
one mile fun run is Thanksgiving
morning. Register online at
www.runreg.com, search Iansrun,
by Nov. 20. Late registration is
Wednesday, Nov. 27, 3 - 7 p.m. at
the Gatling Pointe Yacht Club. Day
of event registration opens at 7:30
a.m., race begins at 9:15 a.m.
Event benefits the Ian Burgett
Memorial Fund.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED— Food
donations and raffle items for the
Ian Burgett’s Thanksgiving Day 5K
and one Mile Fun Run are needed.
Volunteers and sponsors are also
needed to help with this event.
Contact: iansrun@gmail.com or
344-4215.
Friday, Nov. 29
TREE SALE—Carrollton Volunteer
Fire Department’s annual
Christmas tree sale starts Friday
Nov. 29, 9 a.m. at the Fire Station.
Sales continue 6 – 9 p.m.
weekdays and 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
weekends. Donations from this
fundraiser benefit fire/rescue
services. Info: 613-6183.
Page 13
Old Bible leads to search
By Diana McFarland
News editor
W
illiam L. Folk’s
“mama” gave him a
Bible for Christmas
in 1887.
But Sometime between 1888
and the 1960s, the Bible got lost
in a heap of papers, magazines
and other items stashed in the
attic of a house located on South
Church Street in Smithfield.
That’s where building contractor Fenton Wyatt found it after
being asked by his boss to clean
out the attic as part of an ongoing renovation.
Wyatt decided to keep the
Bible, and there it remained with
him, untouched, for more than
five decades.
Recently, the old Bible sparked
Wyatt’s curiosity — what if he
was able to find a member of the
Folk family and return it in time
for Christmas — 126 years after
it first found its way into the family?
Folk was attending the University of Virginia in 1887 when he
received the thick, gold leaf-edged
King James Bible as a gift.
To reassure his mother that he
would use it, Folk penned a promise to “read this Bible every night
and try to be a better boy.”
However, the gold leaf remains pretty much intact — as if
fingers hadn’t flipped through
the pages very much.
The only other information is
Folk’s address while at UVA — 45
West Lawn.
The fact that Folk stayed in a
Lawn room while at the University of Virginia could be a story
• See BIBLE, p. 14-
Saturday, Nov. 30
OPEN HOUSE—Historic St. Luke’s
Church Christmas open house is
Saturday, Nov. 30, 10 a.m. – 4
p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 1, 1 - 4
p.m. Live music, tours of the
church and refreshments. Free
admission. Info: 357-3367.
Sunday, Dec. 1
ART OPEN HOUSE— A genuine art
from the heart open house at the
Arts Center @ 319, 1 – 4 p.m. Hot
cider, treats and meet new resident
artist Juliette Marshall. Featuring
hand crafted figures, oils, acrylics,
pottery, jewelry and more. Now
offering a layaway program.
Staff Photo by Diana McFarland
Monday, Dec. 2
MEDCARE INFO—The MedCare
Access program will be at Windsor
Pharmacy, Dec. 2, 10 a.m. – 12
p.m.; the Windsor Library, Dec. 3,
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.; the
Carrolton Public Library, Dec. 3, 12
- 2 p.m.; at Mary Wells Senior
Center, Nike Park, Dec. 4, 10:30
a.m. – 12:30 p.m.; and at the
Smithfield Library, Dec. 5, 1 - 3
p.m. Event Event will help
Medicare beneficiaries navigate
Medicare and Medicare Part D.
Free and open to public, no
appointment necessary. Info: 3284217.
Tuesday, Dec. 3
BUDGET MEETINGS—Isle of Wight
County Schools community budget
meetings will be Dec. 3, 6 p.m.,
Windsor High School and Thursday,
Dec. 5, 6 p.m., Smithfield High
School. The meetings will offer
open discussion regarding the
fiscal 2015 budget process.
Friday, Dec. 6
TREE LIGHTING—Smithfield
Christmas tree lighting is at The
Smithfield Center, Dec. 6, 5:30
p.m. Music by the Smithfield High
School Band. Soup and chili will be
available after the ceremony. Free
admission. Info: 344-5839.
IW TREE LIGHTING—The tree
lighting is held on the front lawn of
the Isle of Wight courthouse
complex, Dec. 6, 5 p.m. The
Woman’s Clubs of Carrollton and
Windsor will hang the wreaths and
Dr. and Mrs. B.F. Jamison will light
the tree. Music by the Isle of Wight
Academy chorus. Refreshments
served. The event is free and open
to the public and sponsored by the
Isle of Wight County Events
Committee. Info: 357-2503.
Saturday, Dec. 7
WINDSOR PARADE—The Windsor
Christmas parade is Saturday, Dec.
7, 4 p.m. and ends with the tree
lighting at the Windsor Library.
CAR SHOW—The 13th annual
community Christmas party at
Charlie Daniels Racing is Dec. 7,
11 a.m. – 5 p.m., at 20128 IWIP
Road. Event features a car show,
the Smithfield High School band,
the Heather Edwards Band, Foot
Note Dancers, vendors, children’s
activities and food. Car show
registration is $20 and starts at 9
a.m. Goody bags and dash plaques
to the first 100 cars. Santa will
arrive by Nightingale helicopter
around noon. Info:
• See CALENDAR p. 14
Carrollton resident Fenton Wyatt, above, is looking for the
descendants of William L. Folk. He found the young man’s
Bible more than 50 years ago while renovating a house in
Smithfield. Left: Folk provided some information about the
origins of the Bible and where he lived when he received it
for Christmas in 1887.
dry
In the beginning, there was turkey
Today, there are alternatives
By Diana McFarland
News editor
Turkey could hardly be considered “fast food,” but it was
speed that got Brett England
hooked on deep frying.
The whole bird, that is.
Roasting a turkey in the
oven takes all day, he said.
But frying it only takes 3540 minutes, England said.
“It’s almost a spur of the moment thing when you decide to
make a turkey.”
England is in charge of the
Thanksgiving turkey for himself and his wife, Jennifer, who
is the Historic Resources Manager for Isle of Wight County.
But before submerging the
turkey into hot oil, England
soaks the bird in a brine solution – one of the latest solutions – in addition to deep frying – for overcoming the one of
the biggest challenges of
Thanksgiving dinner – dry
breast meat.
There are many reasons
suggested as to why turkey becomes dry when it’s roasted in
the traditional oven — from
being very lean to not being
stimulating enough for the
taste buds to secrete saliva.
Back in the day, as they say,
cooks tried to overcome that
tendency by slathering the bird
with butter. But basting wasn’t
foolproof and sometimes the
meat still came out dry. That’s
where the gravy came in – but
that’s another challenge all its
own.
By brining the bird in a solution of salt and water, the meat
soaks up the liquid and allows the
muscle fibers to swell and unwind.
For a whole turkey, it takes
about a gallon of water, two cups
of salt and a 12-24 hour soak in
the refrigerator to get the best
results.
England likes to add some
brown sugar to his brine solution, and there are many recipes
online that call for a variety of
herbs, spices and other additives.
But all brine mixes contain salt
and water.
The brine doesn’t make the
turkey salty.
“It just adds a nice mellow flavor that is exceptional,” England
said.
Once his bird is brined, England pats it dry and lets it sit out
long enough to warm up to room
temperature before moving onto
the next step – deep frying.
Deep frying is a little trickier
than soaking it in salt and water.
England uses a store-bought
turkey fryer and peanut oil to add
the hint of dry-roasted peanuts to
the bird. A 10-14 pound bird needs
about five gallons, he said.
England uses two thermometers – one to measure the temperature of the oil and the other,
the bird itself. The fryer is
In the 1960s, most cooks were limited by a roasting pan,
an oven and a basting brush to achieve a moist turkey.
hooked up to a propane tank and
the oil is heated to no higher than
350 degrees.
Above 350 degrees the oil can
scorch and ignite, England said,
adding that it would take a lot of
propane to get past 350 degrees.
It’s also important to make
sure the turkey is completely
thawed and thoroughly dry before putting in the oil, or there
can be some splattering.
England waits until the breast
is 150 degrees before removing it
from the fryer. Once out of the
fryer, he lets the bird sit until the
internal temperature reaches 160
degrees.
England isn’t particular about
his brand of turkey. He’s not
hung up on free range or “natural” either.
Whatever is on sale, he said.
However, for brining, it’s im-
portant to get a bird that isn’t
“pre-basted,” which is basically the same as brining.
Other methods for overcoming dry turkey have also
popped up recently, such roasting the bird on the grill, or
grilling it with a can of beer
inside. Cooks advise using
smaller turkeys on the grill.
England said there’s nothing quite like the look of a
deep-fried turkey.
“They’re amazing to look at
when they come out … it’s the
prettiest turkey you’ve ever
seen.”
There’s only one drawback,
though, he said.
The bird can’t be stuffed if
it’s deep fried.
“It’s a small price to pay for
having a bird done in 40 minutes,” England said.
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Robert C. Claud Sr. Board of
Supervisors room, Isle of
Wight County Courthouse.
Wednesday, Dec. 11
callthemooseteam@gmail.com ACRYLICS CLASS—Students
practice textures, effects
or 880-7191.
and preparation of the
CHRISTMAS BAZAAR—
painting surface. Class is
Whitehead’s Grove Baptist
from 1 – 4 p.m. Instructor
Church Christmas bazaar is
Pricilla Barbour. Bring you
Saturday Dec. 7, 9 a.m. – 1
own photos. $55 members/
p.m. Bazaar includes yard
$75 non-members. Materials
sale, Brunswick stew, ham
fee: $35 new students/ $10
biscuits, chili and bake sale. returning students. Info:
Vendors spaces $20. Call
357-7707 or visit
255-4227
www.SmithfieldArts.org.
HOLIDAY PARTY—Isle of
Wight Museum Foundation
will host a holiday party Dec.
7, 2:30 – 5 p.m. in the
upstairs of the museum. The
public is invited.
PUPPET SHOW—The
Victorian Shadowlight
Theatre’s “Magic of the
Holidays,” a puppet show
play, will perform in the
downstairs of the Isle of
Wight Museum at 2:30 p.m.
and 4 p.m. The event is free
and the museum will also
offer shadow puppet crafts.
Sunday, Dec. 8
HEALTH FAIR—Mt. Nebo
Baptist Church health fair
will be Sunday, Dec. 8, 1 – 3
p.m. Will offer free health
screenings, flu vaccinations,
blood pressure and blood
glucose readings,
information and materials.
Light refreshments will be
served.
Monday, Dec. 9
STORY TIME—Children ages
3–5 and their families are
invited to the Isle of Wight
County Museum for Tell Me a
Story, Monday, Dec. 9, 10 –
10:30 a.m. Victorian
Christmas. Info: 356-1223
or
www.historicisleofwight.com.
CITIZENS MEETING—The
Isle of Wight Citizens
Association will meet in the
conference room of St.
Lukes Sentara, Dec. 9,
7.p.m. Guests include
Supervisors Dee Dee Darden
and Buzz Bailey, and Lisa
Perry, Director of Economic
Development. The proposed
Benns Church intersection
overhaul will be discussed.
The public is invited to
attend. Info: 357-5352.
Tuesday, Dec. 10
IDA MEETING—The Isle of
Wight County Industrial
Development Authority
meets Dec. 10, 4 p.m. in the
Upcoming
CHRISTMAS SHOW—The
Smithfield Little Theatre
presents “A Christmas
Carol” by Charles Dickens
and directed by Julian
Bouchard. Dec. 12-15 and
Dec. 19-21. Tickets available
at the Isle of Wight Visitor’s
Center or the box office 3577338. $10 adults / $5
children 13 and under.
TOYS FOR TOTS—Isle of
Wight and Surry Toys for Tots
are accepting donations and
requests for toys at
toysfortots.org. Local
businesses accepting toys
include Farmers Bank, State
Farm, All State Insurance,
Smithfield Skate, SHS, Knox
Auto, AJ Gators, Barlow’s
Store, Surry Equipment, Foot
Notes and Ultimate Tan.
Volunteers needed. Contact
callthemooseteam@gmail.com.
SCHOLARSHIP—
Applications are now being
accepted for the Ian Burgett
Memorial Scholarship. The
$2,000 scholarship will be
awarded to a local
graduating senior.
Applications are due March
15 and are available at
www.IanBurgett.org.
COUNSELORS NEEDED—Isle
of Wight and Southampton
Junior 4-H Camp will be at
the Airfield 4-H Educational
Center in Wakefield, June 2327. Applications for
counselor-in-training or teen
counselor will be taken Dec.
1-Jan. 3. Applicants must
be between 14 - 18 years
old on June 27. Applications:
http://offices.ext.vt.edu/
isle-of-wight. Info: 365-6262
or vnichols@vt.edu
Smithfield
KNITTING—Ongoing
knitting and crocheting
group, Knit at Night, meets
the second Monday and
fourth Wednesday each
month at 7 p.m.
STORY TIME—Ages 2-3 on
Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.;
ages 4-5 on Thursdays,
10:30 a.m.
PAJAMA RAMA—The
Smithfield Library’s annual
Christmas Pajama Rama is
Friday, Dec. 6, 6:30 – 7:30
p.m. Wear your pajamas
and enjoy stories, songs, a
craft, refreshments and
Santa and Mrs. Claus.
Info: 357-2264.
CHRISTMAS
CRAFTERNOON—Make a
Christmas ornament, hear
a story, play games, and
enjoy refreshments.
Wednesday Dec.18, 3 – 4
p.m., Grades PK-5. Info:
357-2264.
library
Carrollton Public Library
14362 New Towne Haven
Phone: 238-2641
Claremont Public Library
Phone: 866-8627
Smithfield Public Library
255 James Street
Phone: 357-2264, 357-4856
Surry Public Library
11640 Rolfe Highway
Phone: 294-3949
Windsor Public Library
18 Duke Street
Phone: 242-3046
On the Internet:
www.blackwaterlib.org
KNITTING—Knitting for
beginners is every
Wednesday, 6–8 p.m.
Registration required. Info:
238-2641.
Carrollton
TUTORING—One-hour
computer tutoring offered
the first and third Tuesday
or Wednesday afternoons
by appointment. Info: 2382641.
GINGERBREAD—
Gingerbread house
construction contest,
Saturday, Dec.14, 11 a.m. 12:30 p.m. All materials
provided. Ages 12 and
under, registration required.
Call or inquire at the front
desk.
STORY TIME—Story time
will break from Dec. 23 Jan. 30. Story time
resumes with the winter
reading program on
Monday, Feb. 3. Ages 2-3,
Mondays, 10 a.m.; ages 35, Thursdays, 10 a.m.
Call for information.
SILVER YOGA—Jeannine
Carroll from the Smithfield
YMCA hosts a chair yoga
class geared toward the
50-plus crowd. Classes are
Fridays Dec. 6, 20, Jan. 3,
17, and 31 from 10-11
a.m. First come, first
served.
Windsor
STORY TIME—Ages 2-5,
Tuesdays, 10:45 a.m.
FRIENDS—Friends of the
Library meet the second
Monday of each month at
6 p.m.
Bible
in itself since, back in
those days, some Lawn
rooms were occupied by
different generations of the
same family.
According
to
“Smithfield: A Pictorial
History,” by Segar Cofer
Dashiell, William L. Folk
was one of four children of
William D. and Martha
Nock Barradall Folk. The
elder Folk was once the
mayor of Smithfield, and
the family’s house was located on the other side of
the street from the house
that Wyatt remembers finding the Bible. Today the
former Folk family home,
built in 1876, is owned and
occupied by retired Judge
William and his wife,
Florine Moore — the first
woman
mayor
of
S m i t h f i e l d .
According to Dashiell’s
book, William L. never
married, and he isn’t mentioned again, so it’s unknown how his Bible made
it across the street.
Another house attributed to the Folk family is
the Wills Folk house on
South Mason Street. It was
built around the time the
town was founded, in 1752,
and had several owners before Folk purchased it in
1836. The family continued
to own the house for the
next 110 years.
Folk family members
can call Fenton Wyatt at
357-2205.
ANGEL TREES—Christian
Outreach angel trees are at
the Luter YMCA, RingO’s
Donuts and Bojangles. Gifts
go to low-income seniors and
special needs persons at
Christmas. Please bring
wrapped gifts to any location
by Dec. 14.
Birthday for homeless
Rachel Sawyer of Carrollton recently
celebrated her 10th birthday party at Yo Mix in
Carrollton. In lieu of birthday gifts, Sawyer
asked her friends to bring toiletry items to
donate to Mission of Hope, an organization
with whom her family volunteers. She collected
more than 350 items. Mission of Hope is a
collection of churches that provide shelter to
the homeless.
Going for the record
Hardy Elementary Principal Tawana Ford and
third grade teacher Tonya Wilson and her class
brought food items to help “stack our school”
with donated food items for Christian Outreach
and needy families this Thanksgiving. On Nov.
14, students around the world, including those
at Hardy, attempted to break the Guinness Book
of World Records speed-stacking record. It is
not known if they succeeded.
“I am very happy to see that this year’s food
drive was so successful, but most importantly
the students learned a life long lesson of
helping others in need,” said Dexter Warren,
Hardy’s physical education teacher.
Governmental meetings
•Dendron Town Council,
Monday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m.,
town municipal building,
2855 Rolfe Highway. 267-2508.
•Smithfield Town
Council, 7:30 p.m.,
Tuesday, Dec. 3, The
Smithfield Center, 220 N.
Church St., 365-4200.
•Claremont Town
Council, 7:30 p.m.,
Wednesday, Dec. 4, town
center, 4115 Spring Grove
Ave., 866-4827.
Thirty-five distinguished dealers featuring
furniture and decorative accessories from the 18th,
19th and early 20th centuries including silver, antique
jewelry, fine glass, ceramics, hooked rugs, oriental
carpets, antique quilts, clocks, paintings & prints.
Appraisal Clinic by Gordon Converse,
Gordon F. Converse & Co. Auctions
www.auctionsatconverse.com
Saturday & Sunday of the show, appointment available
Appraisal fees donated to charitable origanizations
Friday Nov. 29 6pm-9pm, Saturday Nov. 30 10am-5pm
Sunday Dec. 01 11am-4pm
(757) 220-1299 www.holidayantiqueshow.com
50 Kingsmill Road The President’s Ballroom
Doubletree by Hilton Williamsburg, Virginia
Admission: $7, With this ad: $6
“Make This An Antique Christmas”
SPORTS
Nov. 27, 2013
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Page 15
SHS athletes sign with colleges
By Abby Proch
Staff writer
Three Smithfield High
School seniors have committed to colleges to play
their respective sports.
Senior
Alexandria
“Allie” Nowak became the
Packers’ first softball
player to sign a national letter of intent.
Nowak has committed
to Davis & Elkins College in
Elkins, West Virginia.
“It was honestly tailormade for me, I can’t imagine going anywhere else,”
said Nowak, who liked the
close-knit feel of a campus
that hosts just 750 students.
“I’m a name, not a number,” she said.
Nowak’s mother, Julie,
said Coach Cathy Riddick
“pulled the most out of
her” and played large part
in Nowak’s success.
Nowak is still undecided
on her major.
She is the daughter of
Frank and Julie Nowak.
Jordon Garlow also
looked for a small-town feel
when he selected South
Carolina’s Coker College, a
Division II school with
1,200 students.
The college recruited
Garlow for his wrestling
skills.
At the high school level,
Garlow has earned 100-plus
wins.
Garlow placed eighth in
his weight class (170 lbs.) in
state last season. This year,
he’s shooting for second.
Garlow attributes his
selection to a persistent
coach at Coker and the fact
that it’s a new program,
meaning he’ll likely see
starting time as a freshman.
Garlow plans to study
marketing.
He is the son of George
and Barbara Garlow.
Senior
Michael
Morehead has committed
to Maryland’s Mount Saint
Mary’s University, the
nation’s second-oldest
Catholic university.
Morehead was recruited
as a catcher and first
baseman.
Morehead said he most
known for his batting abilities, racking up a .440 batting average in his junior year.
Morehead, the son of
Bill and Paul Morehead,
said he chose Mount St.
Mary’s because they made
the best scholarship offer
and had a nice campus.
Morehead plans to study
sports management.
SHS runners
compete at state
Two members of the
Smithfield Packers cross
country team finished
their season by competing
in the VHSL 4A state championship race Nov. 15 in
Warrenton.
Smithfield High School
junior Chris Ivy placed
49th (17.22) on the hilly
state meet 5K course at the
Plains Plantation after
earning a spot on the AllConference team (6th overall) and All-Region team
(9th overall). In doing so,
he became the first male
Packer runner in more
than 15 years to qualify for
state.
Sophomore Jamilla Jordan placed 84th (22.11) at
state after earning All-Conference honors (10th overall) and placing in the top
10 individuals at regionals.
Jordan became the fourth
girl in Smithfield’s recent
history to qualify for state
following Rebecca Babski
(2009), Savannah Miller
(2009) and current assistant
cross country coach Karen
Terry (2004 and 2005). Next
year, Ivy and Jordan will be
looking to help their teams
advance to state with several young talented runners retur ning on both
squads.
From left, seniors Michael Morehead, baseball; Alexandria Nowak, softball;
and Jordon Garlow, wrestling, recently committed to their respective colleges
on athletic scholarships.
Junior Cougars win district
The L.P Jackson Middle
School junior Lady Cougars downed previously
undefeated
Carter
Woodson Middle School to
win the Fall Line District
Tournament by just one
point.
The Lady Cougars beat
Woodson 38-37 — a team
that has so far this season The Fall Line District
beat its opponents by an champion junior Lady
Cougars are, front from
average 30-point margin.
The Cougars had lost to left, manager Joshua
Woodson twice this season, Pierce, JerRhonda King,
by 30-26 at home in Surry Alaysia Claiborne,
Amanda Jones, Jasmyn
and 51-19 at Woodson.
In the semi-final game, Pierce, Bre’cha Byrd;
the Junior Lady Cougars second row, from left,
defeated Peabody Middle of Molly Seals, Chainti
Petersburg in 52-24, after Bailey, JaKyra Jefferson,
having lost to Peabody 32- Tatianna Stewart,
AnJanette Byrd, Daijah
30 the week before.
During the champion- Wooden, Makya
ship
game
against Claiborne; back row
Woodson, seventh grader
Pierce received the Fall
Jasmyn Pierce led the team
Line
District MVP Award.
with a game high 15 points,
The Junior Lady Couscoring 12 of those points
in a decisive third quarter. gars finished the season
Pierce also scored a game with an 11-3 record.
high 26 points against
Peabody in the semi-final
game.
Anjanette Byrd made
the game winning free
throw with eight seconds
remaining, along with
JerRhonda “Wink” King, a
sixth grader, making a
game-saving block as time
expired.
Spectator please bring
toys or donation
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Elizabeth Moose
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The Smithfield High School debate team took home two first place
trophies and one third place trophy in November. The Packers claimed
titles at the Peninsula Debate League Tournament and the William &
Mary Winter Classic. This past weekend, the Packers took third overall at
the Tidewater Debate League Tournament. Leading the team was
sophomore Grace Reon, who took first at all three tournaments in the
Lincoln Douglas division. Also placing in the top three in their divisions
were seniors Shelby Gandee, Kelly Stronach, Meghan Grumbling and
Everett Fortner; juniors Xavier Sivels, Joseph McNure and Sabrina
McAllister; and sophomore Kim Marchant.
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Smithfield High School JROTC
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Maj. Brandon Halsey placed third
and first, respectively, in the Armed
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where cadets compete on an
individual basis: with (armed) and
without (unarmed) rifles. Cadets
are removed for making mistakes
to commands given by a drill
sergeant. Other drill sergeants tap
cadets making a mistake and have
them leave the drill area.
Historic homes tour
View some of Suffolk’s
most historic and picturesque homes during its 37th
annual “Between the River
and the Creek” candlelight
tour.
The tour of the historic
Bennett’s Creeek area is
Saturday, Dec. 7 and Sunday, Dec. 8 and is sponsored
by the Suffolk-Nansemond
Historical Society.
Featured homes this
year include the Cornell
Home (Eagle Point Farm),
the Willis Home (Town
Point Far m) and the
Northey Home, which will
be open from 1-5 p.m. The
Obici House will also be on
display from 1-4 p.m.
The Nansemond River,
like the James, was a superhighway for the early English settlers. The land
near the mouth of the river
was the first of present day
Suffolk seen by John Smith
in 1608 as he explored the
island and looked for signs
of the lost Roanoke Island
colonists. Bennett’s Creek
and Bennett’s Pasture Road
are named for Richard
Bennett who came to the
area in the 1620s. He was
elected to the House of Burgesses in 1629 and was appointed to the Governor’s
Council (some claimed he
was governor) in 1642. He
received, over time, a large
land grant from the king.
All of the homes on this
year’s tour stand on what
was once Richard Bennett’s
land.
The Willis Home, also known as Eagle Point Farm,
is featured in the “Between the River and the
Creek” candlelight homes tour.
Some of the homes include:
• The Cornell Home, also
known as Eagle Point
Farm, is located at 5301
Bennett’s Pasture Road and
is owned by Dr. and Mrs.
George Cornell. The current owners’ parents
bought the property in
1946. The original farmhouse with grand views of
the river was built in 1908.
• The Willis Home, also
known as Town Point
Far m, is owned by the
Leonard Willis family and
located at 2527 Bridge Road.
Town Point was the name
given to the land early in
the written history of the
area. It was farmland for
centuries but came into its
own in the late 19th century
under the hand of Confed-
erate veteran Willis John
Lee. In 1895, Lee and his
wife Jennie built the large
Victorian house that stands
near the Nansemond River
Bridge today. They built a
schoolhouse on the property and provided the
teacher as well. The schoolhouse has now other uses
but will also be open for the
tour.
Tickets can be purchased at the Suffolk
Visitor’s Center, the Suffolk
Seaboard Station Railroad
Museum, A. Dodson’s, 18th
Century Merchant and
Bennett’s Creek Pharmacy
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Isle of Wight County to hold stormwater session
By Diana McFarland
News editor
Isle of Wight residents
confused about the new
stormwater fee and regulations are urged to attend a
work session, Thursday,
Dec. 5, 5 p.m. at the courthouse complex.
County officials will
also distribute a brochure
that explains the program.
The stor mwater fee,
which is $72 for residential
property and is calculated
individually for commercial property, stems from a
mandate from the federal
gover nment that was
passed to the state government, which in turn left it
to localities to administer.
It’s part of the federal
effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and counties, cities and towns lying within
the watershed are affected.
The fees are being used
to administer the county’s
program and associated
capital projects, such as
building “best management practices” (BMPs)*
on county-owned property
to assist with future development.
The $72 stormwater fee
is based on the average
residential impervious surface, and in Isle of Wight
County, that was determined to be 2,050 square
feet.
The 2,050 square feet
represents one equivalent
residential unit, or ERU
and is $72. All residential
properties are given the
same amount — one ERU.
For commercial property, the total amount of
impervious surface is assessed individually, calculated as multiple ERUs, or
$72 per unit, to determine
its stor mwater management fee.
Winning scarecrows
Staff Photo by Diana McFarland
Two rows of scarecrows stood “muster” recently in front of Boykin’s
Tavern, as part of the Isle of Wight Museum’s first “Scarecrow Muster.”
The Isle of Wight Academy 9th grade English class swept the awards,
winning first for “Fortunato” (pictured above), third place for “Edgar Allan
Poe,” most original for “The Raven” and the people’s choice award — with
nearly 400 votes — for “Annabel Lee.” Winning second place was “Ted
O’Lantern,” fashioned by Mrs. Morris’ pre-school class at Smithfield
Baptist Church. “Patch and Pappy” by Brent and Patricia Ward won
honorable mention. Judging the contest were Judson Little, Bernie Bishop,
Mary Kayaselcuk and Connie Chapman.
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A commercial property
containing 20,500 square
feet of impervious surface
would be the equivalent of
10 ERU, or $720.
The fees are expected to
generate $609,503 in revenue for fiscal 2014.
Also changing next year
Photo
contest
Attention amateur photographers — Take a shot
of the people of Isle of
Wight County and enter it
into The Smithfield Times
weekly photo contest.
Weekly winners will be
printed in The Smithfield
Times. Photos are judged
by The Smithfield Times
staff. One submission per
person per week and photos must have been taken
within the past year. To enter, send your JPEG digital
image by 4 p.m. Friday to
news@smithfieldtimes.com.
Include name, address,
phone number, type of
camera, settings and any
additional infor mation
about the photograph.
is the percentage of impervious surface allowed on
individual lots in the
county. Currently, lots are
allowed to have up to 16 percent of the square footage
be an impervious surface,
such as a house, shed or
concrete driveway. That
changes to 12 percent July
1 of next year.
In order to exceed the 12
percent threshold, property owners will be required to build an individual BMP to address the
pollution runoff associated
with impervious surfaces.
SMS announces honor roll
The following students
received honor roll for the
first nine weeks at
Smithfield Middle School:
•Grade 7
All A’s — Justin Allen,
John Altizer, John Barb,
Jaylin Barrett, Natalie
Benham, Marlese Boyer,
Zachary Brich, Spencer
Buehlman,
Melissa
Faulkwell,
Kamryn
Godsey, Curtis Hall, Emma
Harris, Justin Harris,
Joshua Hassell, Ellie
Hinkle, Megan Johnson,
Matthew Lemon, Grace
Lewis, Joshua Lewis,
Samantha Lundberg, Capri
Manfred,
Brianna
Marshall, Deanna Meade,
Emilee Meadors, Shyla
Millikin, Charissa Morris,
Nicholas O’Reilly, Glenn
Petty, Tiyauna Richardson,
John Sharps, Zachary
Slone, Patricia Smith,
Emily
Smithson,
Samantha Stein, Emily
Tenney, Kyle Wheeler, Jessica Wolford
A-B honor roll — Dylan
Allen, Macey Anderson,
Taylor Anderson, Emily
Babyak,Ethan Bell, Garrett
Blatt,
Alexis
Boley,
Grayson Bondurant, Christopher Bradby, Ethan
Braswell, Kaitlynn Brock,
Macy Camper, Jaden Cash,
Peyton Chapman, Charles
Chislum, Paul Chism,
Jonathon Clark, Courtney
Collins, Montgomery Cook,
Brooke Copeland, James
Counts, Theodore Davis,
Robert Delk, Andrew
Elliott, Joshua Far mer,
Amya Fields, Noelle Finley,
Alan Fletcher, David
Fletcher, Tevy Green,
Ariana Grimm, Jade
Grooms, Solen Grossman,
Jonah
Guill,
Noah
Gurganus, Kaitlyn Hall,
Richard Hancock, Shelby
Hare, Zaniah Harris, Raina
Hempley, Tyler Hicks,
Joshua Higgins, Tyrik
Highsmith, Brianna Hill,
Tyla Hill, Dallas Holloway,
Skylar Horton, Derrick
Jackson, Mackenzie Jackson, Daria Jetton, Marcus
Jones, Natalie Jones,
Michael Keeylan, Aaron
Lane, Zachary Little,
Sydnee Loftin, Shanyia
Massenburg,
Summer
Mathes, Alexander Maury,
Carolina Mayorga, Aiden
McCall, Bryanna Meade,
Breeauna Meadors, Elizabeth Miles, Tyler Mullen,
Jenna Murray, Aaron Nau,
Jordan Neblett, Morgan
Nelms, Linda Ni, Erin
ODonnell, Stor m Ogle,
Meredith Oliver, Colby
O’Reilly, Pace Palmer, Logan Patron, Emily Ployd,
Caitlin Powell, Emma Putt,
Matthew Richter, Tory
Robertson, Jada Robinson,
Haley Ross, Kayla Ruffin,
Alyssa Scovillle, Gabriel
Serrano, Reyannah Shaw,
Jada Smith, K’yaira Smith,
Andrew Snyder, Brooke
Spradin,
Andrew
Stephenson, Sydney Swan,
Izaiah Terrell, Mallory
Todd, Teron Turner, Alyssa
Waite, De’Ja Warren,
Colton Welsh, Ethan
Wendt, Dylan Westphal,
Grace Wichman, Darius
Williams, Taylor Williams,
Morgan Wood,Delaney
Wright.
•Grade 8
All A’s — Trevor
Addison,
Madelyn
Bauman, Brayden Bird,
Loganbay Campbell, Daemon Carroll, Noelani
Christy, Abagail Conyers,
Savannah Cook, Gabriel
Culver, Elizabeth Darden,
Howard Dunleavy, Sophia
Erickson,
Skylar
Hedgepeth, Karra Johnson,
Hailey Joyce, Katelyn Kelly,
Erin Lee, Brooke Locascio,
David Logan, Padraig
McGowan, Erik McNally,
Mateo Mejia, Dylan Miller,
Kelly Moore, Jessica Morris, Connor Rosenberry,
Harrison
Senter,
Mackenzie
Sherwood,
Kevin Siu, Kendall Stalls,
Zachary Thomas, Riley
Tucker, Samuel Wiggs
A-B honor roll —
Madelyn Allen, Elizabeth
Altizer, Cody Armstrong,
Lauren Barrett, Rafe Bene,
Olivia Blatt, Morgan Bond,
Kathryn Britt, Dionte
Brown, Brooke Burnette,
Parker Caterbone, Madison
Cavallo, Daniel Correia,
Heather Coultas, Heather
Cowan, Jordyn Cowen,
Ciara Cross, Marcus
Custis, Joshua Davis,
Smithfield Strings to perform
Smithfield Strings is performing during the
community holiday concert at Smithfield High
School, Thursday, Dec. 19. Pictured front row,
left to right: pianist Katelyn Kelly, Andrew
Ballard, Joseph Brown, Nick Nemec, Lisa
Meunier, Dru and Karen Stowe; middle row, left
to right: Karen Waters, Brandon Babbs,
Meredith Babski, Joshua Bateman, Gerald
Gwaltney, Barbara MacLaren, Sean Putnam,
Katie Nemec; back row, left to right: Aresman
MacLaren, Hannah Shoemaker and Graham
MacLaren. The Smithfield Strings ensemble is
open to all local string players from student to
adult. The group rehearses weekly at Trinity
United Methodist Church on Sunday from 1:30 3 p.m. For more information, call Karen Stowe
at 356-9010.
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PUBLIC NOTICE
HOLIDAY RECYCLING COLLECTION SCHEDULE
There will be no recycling collection in the Town of
Smithfield on Thursday, November 28th 2013 or Friday,
November 29th, 2013 in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday. There will be no makeup days during this
holiday week.
Peter M. Stephenson, AICP
Town Manager
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During this Thanksgiving Holiday, I want
to take this opportunity to say how thankful
I am to the World’s greatest husband, Ralph
Williams Sr;� no doubt, the world’s greatest
sons, Ralph Williams Jr., bka RJ, & Terrance
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daughter, Tiffany Jones; and of course, for
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Virginia Uniform StateLaura E. Smith, DC
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