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FRACKING
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THIS IS NUTS
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HOTTER OR COLDER?
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GOODBYE, BUBBA
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SIMMONS GAP
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AUGUST 2014 VOL. 9, NO. 3
Hotel Project
Collapses After
Bank Revises
Loan Terms
DRY BRIDGE BRIDGE
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TOXICOLOGY REPORT
page 10
DOWN MARKET
page 12
NEW AT
HILLSBORO
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PINTS FOR PUPS
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VERY GOOD
NEIGHBORS
page 17
NATURAL BRIDGE
page 18
SEE THE PARADE
page 20-21
WHY SCHOOL?
page 23
SELLING SICKNESS
page 24
READING RECORD
page 26
DEMENTED DOGS
page 28
CROSSWORD
page 29
STATE SOCCER
CHAMPS
page 30
PRAIRIE GROWING
page 32
ATLANTIC
STURGEON
page 33
FLIES ON THE WIND
page 34
BEREAVEMENTS
page 37
Shriners with the Richmond ACCA Temple joined in the Crozet Independence Day parade July
5 to show off their precision go-kart driving. The fireworks show at Crozet Park afterward drew
nearly 5,000 people, the largest town gathering at the park in memory. See photos pages 20-21.
Planning Commission Grants Stoner
Indefinite Deferral on Plan Vote
Developer Frank Stoner’s application to rezone the Barnes Lumber
property in downtown Crozet to
include it in the Downtown Crozet
District, a special commercial zoning
area, was granted an “indefinite deferral” by the Albemarle County
Planning Commission at its August 5
meeting.
When Stoner appeared before the
Commission on June 19 seeking
approval for a plan that showed only
general forms of development for the
20-acre parcel, he had accepted a
deferral to August 5 in the face of
what appeared to be a likely rejection. Stoner cited contractual deadlines in his agreement to buy the
property as pressuring him to make
expeditious progress in the county’s
approval process.
By mid-July he had informed
county officials he was seeking an
indefinite postponement of a vote on
the plan.
continued on page 9
A project to build a 58-room hotel
on an undeveloped site adjoining The
Lodge at Old Trail collapsed in July
when the bank that had agreed to
loan a portion of the building costs
revised its terms.
Hotel developer David Hilliard,
owner of The Lodge, told county and
state officials in a message, “the bank
I had been dealing with decided to
take another appraisal that was lower
than the appraisal that worked and
averaged the two, which changed the
numbers needed to complete the
project.”
Hilliard said he looked at what he
had spent so far on the project and
decided to back away from further
effort.
“The worst part of all is that this
project is sorely needed in this area,”
he said. “It can make money and provide tax revenue. My hope is that
someone, not me at this time, can
build something here in the Crozet
area.”
In May, Hilliard had announced
that financing had been completed
and that he expected to start construction promptly. The necessary
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WARS Agrees to Support Insurance Billing for Squad Calls
The Western Albemarle Rescue
Squad has agreed to support the billing of insurance companies for transporting patients to local hospitals.
WARS, which prides itself on being
“all volunteer, all the time,” has never
charged for its service, and wrestled
with county officials for three years
over participating in the county’s
“cost recovery” program for generating revenues for county emergency
medical services by charging insur-
ance companies.
WARS members fought the policy,
fearing that once the public believed
that WARS’s costs were being covered
elsewhere, the long tradition of community financial support for the volunteers would deteriorate. WARS is
an independent corporation.
WARS leaders insisted that the
county not send bills to county residents whom WARS transports and
won that concession. Thus no one
will ever be denied emergency medical treatment or transportation based
on their ability to pay. The uninsured
will not be charged. But WARS will
collect insurance information when
available and non-Albemarle residents
will be charged. County residents will
not be charged for any amount owed
above what their insurance company
authorizes. This policy went into
effect countywide August 1.
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To the Editor
Letters reflect the opinions of their
authors and not necessarily those of
the Crozet Gazette. Send letters to
editor@crozetgazette.com or P.O.
Box 863, Crozet, VA 22932.
Hats Off to Western Albemarle
Rescue Squad!
On June 29 I had to call on
the services of the WARS. Upon
arrival to our home my husband
was suffering from an unexpected heart attack. WARS’s
quick response, calmness, training, and dedication helped save
my husband’s life.
All the support for the family
from friends, relatives and
neighbors has been overwhelming to say the least. If I forgot to
say thank you at that time, I
certainly did not mean to over
look anyone. Please accept my
thanks now.
A personal thank you goes
especially to the team of doc-
tors and nurses in the Intensive
Care Unit at Martha Jefferson
Hospital, who never gave up
and continued to provide a
quality of care that amazed me,
and to staff at the University of
Virginia hospital’s ICU. Also to
Mike
Thompson, Dustin
Morris, Alice Herman, Kate
and George Williams and to
Judy Thurston, my sister, who is
always there for emotional support and advice.
We can never say enough to
be able to continue on our celebration with a husband, father
and grandfather.
Sharon Middleton
and children Mike, Tom Jr.
and Michelle Hodges
On Fracking
Concerning Ms. Day’s exposition on “fracking,” (The Crozet
Gazette, July 2014, “Fracking Is
Banging on Virginia’s Door”) she
spends the first half of the arti-
cle telling us how bad the chemicals used are, then says that
NO ONE, not even the EPA,
knows what they are. How,
then, do we know they are all
that bad?
The problems with overland
shipment of gas and oil products are real, that is why pipelines are used when available.
Overland is also far more expensive than pipeline.
France and Bulgaria both
have extensive natural gas
reserves and have banned fracking. They do not need it.
She mentions localities that
have come out against fracking,
including agencies in D.C. and
Fairfax. There won’t be any
fracking there anyway, so it is of
no concern to them. The U.S.
government has not stopped it,
in spite of those in power now.
That might mean something.
W. Rockwell Lambert, Jr.
Nelson County
More On Fracking
I appreciated your excellent
article by Elena Day on the
many dangers associated with
fracking. Ms. Day outlined
some of the deep concerns associated with the process including the inappropriate exemptions from environmental legislation fracking companies enjoy.
These exemptions were unjustified, present ongoing dangers to
wildlife and human water supplies and should be restored.
Oversight is a basic tenet of
modern industrial life.
The article correctly stated
that the chemicals used in the
process of hydraulic fracturing
are protected as trade secrets.
However, this does not mean
the chemicals in use are
unknown. In fact 596 chemicals are used including, benzene, diethyl benzene, diemethyl
pyridine, naphthalene, formaldehyde, ethyl-methyl disulfide,
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Runners debrief with John Andersen (right) before the start of the race.
Inaugural Jarmans Invitational
Marathon Held August 2
The
inaugural
Jarmans
Invitational Marathon was held
August 2 on the gravel portion
of Jarmans Gap Road that
climbs up Bucks Elbow and
Calf
Mountains
to
the
Appalachian Trail. Starting at
noon, 41 runners from Virginia,
North Carolina, and Maryland
gathered at the base of Jarmans
Gap Road for the run and ran
three miles and 1600 feet up the
mountain, then turned around
and ran back to the bottom.
This was repeated five times for
a total of 29 miles and 7,600
feet of total elevation gain and
loss.
The race was the idea of
Crozet Running owner John
Andersen and his teammate
Dan Spearin. “We both did a
‘triple Jarmans’ one day when
training for a long distance race
and jokingly said, ‘We should
do a Jarmans Marathon!’” said
Andersen. “Distance runners
really love a challenge, so we
made what we thought would
be a really challenging, and
honestly downright miserable
run.”
Plans for a tough day were
“ruined,” Andersen quipped, by
unseasonably cool weather.
“The weather was so cool and
overcast, so that was great. And
the trail and ultrarunning community has some of the most
positive and genuine people I
know. Going up and down in a
multi-loop format allowed
everyone to interact all day
long, so it really made the miles
go by quickly. I made so many
new friends.”
Andersen was quick to point
out that “The J.I.M” wasn’t an
official race or a marathon.
“There was no fee or official registration required, and no medals or finishers awards handed
out. It was really just a bunch
of great people coming together
to do what they love, run in the
mountains with friends.”
Of course some runners gave
it their all, as Crozet native-son
Michael Dubovsky, running his
first-ever ultramarathon gave
eventual
winner
Nicholas
DiPirro a run for his money.
DiPirro finished all 5 laps in an
incredible 4 hours and 21 minutes with Dubovsky just 5½
minutes behind. The first place
women’s finisher was Rachel
Kelley from Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, in 5 hours and 5 minutes.
Mikael Herlevsen of
Crozet also ran for his first
ultramarathon finish. Thirtythree runners finished all five
laps.
Runners had a potluck-style
aid station at the bottom of the
hill, sharing drinks and snacks
including donuts and ice cream
during the run. A train passed
once, stopping several runners
temporarily, and there were two
bear sightings on the course.
“Today was what running is
all about” said Andersen.
“Community, encouragement,
challenge, and perseverance. It
was a great day.”
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trimethyl benzene, methyl pyridine, tetraethyl benzene, carbon
sulfide, and many more. Many
of these compounds are
extremely hazardous and at least
one, formaldehyde, has been
qualified as carcinogenic by the
Center for Disease Control.
Additionally, the list of proprietary chemicals and toxins
includes heavy metals—barium,
mercury, chromium, arsenic
and lead. According to the
Center for Hazardous Substance
Research, inorganic arsenic is a
carcinogen that can cause cancer of the “skin, lungs, liver and
bladder.” Low-level exposure
can reduce white blood cells
and damage blood vessels.
Barium can lead to vomiting,
cramps and difficulty breathing.
In high doses both arsenic and
barium can be fatal. Longterm
low-level exposure to chromium
can lead to liver damage and
damage to nerve tissues. Lead is
extremely toxic, building up in
the body over time and leading
to serious health issues, especially in children, including premature death.
Any of these chemicals leaching into water systems could
cause longterm, perhaps irreversible consequences to human
health and to ecosystems.
Sky Hiatt
Charlottesville
On Climate Change
Crozet Weather Almanac
article “Climate Change” by
Heidi Sonen and Roscoe Shaw
(The Crozet Gazette, June 2014,
“Crozet Weather Almanac”)
accurately foresaw the perils of
presenting factual evidence for
various aspects of climate history.
When I spoke at Governor
Kaine’s
Climate
Change
Commission meeting at the
Miller Center in March 2008, I
also heard a Kaine commission
member describe the U.N.’s
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change Commission
(IPCC) review process for their
Summary for Policy Makers
(SP). Two-thousand or so scientists may contribute papers to
the IPCC; however, the SP is
the end-product of 50 or so
U.N. political appointees.
Many are not scientists, but are
charged to review the scientific
AUGUST 2014
reports line-by-line to ensure
that U.N. climate policy is
reflected in the SP. If any one
reviewer objects, the item is
rejected. The SP is a political
group consensus report, not an
independent scientific report.
Doubting readers can visit the
U.N. IPCC web site: http://
www.ipcc.ch/index.htm. The
U.N. mandate is: “understanding the scientific basis of risk of
human-induced
climate
change…” There is no mandate
to consider all climate change
causation, such as natural variation related to solar change,
cloud-cover, and ocean circulation cycles, just presumptive
human causes such as fossil
fuels. The IPCC sees the human
climate-fingerprint everywhere
because that is what they are
looking for.
Brian Richter claims greenhouse gases are “causing a rapid
acceleration of planetary warming.” False. Official global temperature agencies (such as the
RSS: www.remss.com/) report
no change in global temperatures for over 17 years, even
though atmospheric carbon
dioxide has risen about 10 percent. UN IPCC chief, Rajendra
Pachauri, acknowledges the
17-year pause in global temperature rise, as confirmed by
Britain’s Meteorological Office.
The assumed cause-effect relationship between CO2 and
global temperature is broken.
In January 2005 the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) established a network of 114 temperature stations across the
United States. These U.S.
Climate Reference Network
(USCRN) temperature records
show no increase at all for the
past 10 years. Rather, the
United States has cooled
approximately 0.4 degrees
Celsius.
“Forecasts” are computer
models attempting to replicate
global climate. When forecasts
of 73 climate models 19792012 were plotted against actual
temperature record by Roy
Spencer (Principal Research
Scientist, University of Alabama
in Huntsville), they all failed by
falsely predicting higher temperatures than the measured
temperature record.
NOAA claims of hottest
month/year depend upon a
variety of original data “correccontinued on page 10
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More than 300 mourners
gathered for the graveside
funeral of Robert Charles
Baber, known universally as
Bubba, at Rockgate Cemetery
in Crozet August 3. Baber, 44,
succumbed to an aggressive
abdominal cancer that he
learned of in the spring after
seeking medical attention for a
nagging cough.
Baber was a fourth-generation volunteer with the Crozet
Volunteer Fire Department
and served as chief for seven
years. The CVFD brought its
ladder truck to the cemetery
and, connecting to a ladder
truck from Charlottesville’s fire
department, suspended the
giant American flag that it flies
at the Fourth of July celebration over the scene.
Baber’s body was brought in
by an ambulance from the
Western Albemarle Rescue
Squad, with which he also volunteered, and his flag-draped
casket was carried to his grave
by fellow firefighters serving as
pallbearers. It passed between
solemn files of volunteers, their
hands raised in salute.
When Baber was too ill to
attend the parade on July 5,
the CVFD brought part of it to
the street outside the hospital
where he could see it from his
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bed. Baber’s son Jacob, 19, is a
volunteer with CVFD, too.
Martha Jefferson Hospital
Chaplin Tammy James gave the
eulogy, praising Baber’s “fighting spirit” and wit. WARS
president Bill Wood called him
“the epitome of service. He
made Crozet a better place.”
CVFD assistant chief Will
Schmertzler presided over “The
Last Alarm” ceremony, ringing
a bell five times in a traditional
honor to a fallen firefighter.
“His duty is done. He has done
his best. He has gone home,”
said Schmertzler, summoning
the will to continue as sounds
of grief came from the large
crowd.
In a final tribute, Baber’s
passing was announced over
the emergency radio frequency
and broadcast to firefighter and
EMS pagers around the county
from the graveside. “Rest easy,
friend,” the listeners heard,
“we’ll take it from here.” Then
a lone bagpiper played Amazing
Grace on the brow of the hill
above the grave.
Mourners gathered at Crozet
Baptist Church afterward.
Baber was the model of generosity and sacrifice, an exemplary citizen, husband and
father and one of the best men
ever to come out of Crozet.
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By Phil James
phil@crozetgazette.com
Aunt America, Uncle Billy & Life
High upon the Blue Ridge
mountaintop on the GreeneRockingham County line, a
pioneer road once carried traffic
up and over the ridge through
Simmons Gap. As the crow
flies, it was only 2.7 miles north
of the Albemarle County line,
but as often is the case in the
mountains, “you can’t get there
from here.” From the east,
access through Simmons Gap
required a roundabout trip into
Shifflett’s Hollow, then another
five-plus miles up a mountain
trail past the community of
Sullivan. From the west, the
climb was a little longer coming
from Swift Run through Beldor
Hollow.
America
Jane
Sullivan,
daughter of St. Clair and
Frances Sullivan, was born in
1834. She was a direct descendant of the gap’s colonial-era
namesake, Ephraim Simmons
(Seamons). It was in that neighborhood which she and William
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“Billy” Atwell Garrison courted
and were married in the winter
of 1857-’58.
Billy and America Jane knew
the discipline required to survive in the mountains. They
raised a family of six: five
boys—Henry, Robert, Malachi,
William, and John; and, finally,
one little girl, Salenia. Amid the
coveted joys of life, their family
also experienced its sorrows
when, in January 1882, first
John, age 10, then Salenia, 8,
followed by Malachi, 16, died
nine days apart. The three children were laid to rest in the
Sullivan Cemetery east of
Simmons Gap.
Devout Dunkard (Brethren)
believers,
the
Garrisons’
Christian faith was tested nevertheless, as all would be in similar circumstances. During such
adversity, they might have
turned in the Scriptures to
Psalm 50:15 where it is written,
“Call upon me in your day of
America Jane Sullivan Garrison and William Atwell Garrison with two of their sons
at home near Simmons Gap. “Our best friends,” wrote Archdeacon of the Blue Ridge
Rev. F.W. Neve in one of his pamphlets. Scores who were nurtured in the Garrisons’
mountain home concurred. [Photo courtesy of the Larry Lamb Collection]
in
Simmons Gap
L–R: Alford Morris, Stewart Sowers, Ambrose Washington Shifflet, Bev Morris, John
Sullivan. A few of the old boys of Simmons Gap. [Photo courtesy of the Larry Lamb
Collection]
trouble. I will deliver you, and
you will honor me.” In their
lifetimes, Billy and America
Jane honored God with their
compassion and good-heartedness which became legendary
among those who knew them.
In the 1890s, Rev. Frederick
W. Neve, a transplant from
Kent, England, was serving
Episcopal congregations in the
Ivy, Greenwood and Ragged
Mountain areas of Albemarle
County. When communicants
directed his attention toward
the remote ridges of the Blue
Ridge Mountains, exploratory
trips into those heights convinced him of the genuine needs
and daunting challenges.
After much thought and
prayer, Neve came to envision a
network of mountain missions
and schools planted every ten
miles along the Blue Ridge
crest, the first one being at
Simmons Gap. An ad was
posted in diocese newsletters,
and the lone reply of interest
was from a young woman, Miss
Angelina Fitzhugh of Maryland.
This disheartened the man of
faith, as he felt that the physical
rigors and isolation would be
too demanding for a woman.
In November 1900, after
meeting with the hopeful missionary and presenting her to
his congregation at Ivy, Neve
and Miss Fitzhugh agreed to go
together and assess the possibilities. At the end of their arduous
journey, Angelina was face-toface with the realities of no
building in which to teach the
previously unschooled mountain children, and, for her housing, a decrepit log cabin with
missing chinking and no ready
wood supply with which to heat
it.
To Neve’s dismay, she
entreated him to allow her to
stay. Leaving her on the mountaintop, Neve turned for home,
more concerned than ever for
her well-being, and equally
determined to find the necessary funds to improve her living
conditions and erect some semblance of a school building.
When the Garrisons realized
that the Reverend alone had
departed the mountain, they
immediately went to check on
his charge. They found Angelina
struggling to start a fire on the
cold stone hearth. The couple
directed her to gather her few
belongings and return home
with them. Later that night, as
Neve fervently petitioned his
Maker for Angelina’s safekeeping, he was unaware that already
she was safe and snug, and
would remain so, under the
secure roof and watch care of
Uncle Billy and Aunt America.
From that most humble and
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Aunt America
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tenuous beginning, a great
benevolent work was born.
Neve soon located a benefactor
who gave $150 to purchase a
small lot and build Simmons
Gap’s first school house.
Miss Fitzhugh stayed with
the mission until 1903. By that
time, other mission outposts
had been established, and
George Mayo was appointed by
Neve to oversee the work and its
ongoing expansion. The concept of a centralized mission
workers’ “home” was studied.
Shared living arrangements with
opportunity for fellowship was
a key consideration. The first
such facility was established at
Mission Home, VA, located on
a ridge between Bruce and
Shifflett Hollows on the
Albemarle-Greene County line.
Its early residents included
workers from Simmons Gap,
Frazier’s (Loft) Mountain and
Wyatt’s Mountain.
At Simmons Gap, the simple
wood-framed schoolhouse doubled as a chapel until 1911
when a more substantial cement
block school and separate
church were erected, each protected from the harsh elements
by roofs of iron shingles.
Consecrated as “The Church of
The congregation of Holy Innocents Church of the Simmons Gap Mission on the Blue Ridge mountaintop, October 15, 1931.
Pictured in attendance that day were 69 parishioners and one puppy dog. [Photo courtesy of the Larry Lamb Collection]
The Holy Innocents”, the solid
building with its opalescent
green stained-glass windows
quickly became the centerpiece
of that community.
The seminal work of a faithful few, once sheltered solely in
the plain cabin abode of Aunt
America and Uncle Billy
Garrison, in eleven years had
grown to encompass “four
churches, two mission homes,
one infirmary, five day schools,
and an industrial school [Blue
Ridge School at Dyke/Bacon
Hollow] with a farm attached of
some 500 acres.”
The missions’ beneficial
The Church of the Holy Innocents at Simmons Gap Mission was consecrated in
November 1911. Its original location was near present-day Skyline Drive milepost
73.2 in Shenandoah National Park. [Photo courtesy of Phil James Historical Images]
endeavors continued to expand
for two more decades before
ominous whispers of a pending
government intrusion filtered
into the mountains. The State
of Virginia was considering condemnation of the property of
private citizens in order to host
a national park. All who lived in
the community along Simmons
Gap Road were threatened with
eviction. The processes of surveying, valuations, authoritarian
double-speak and individual
court challenges kept those families in limbo for nearly a
decade. In 1935 the last shoe
finally dropped.
“We are trying to adjust ourselves to the new conditions
caused by the Shenandoah
National Park running through
the middle of our territory, taking two of our missions and
leaving the others divided into
two groups, one on each side of
the Park Area,” wrote Rev. W.
Roy Mason, who had oversight
of the mission work in 1935.
“Now, what was formerly the
mission house [at Simmons
Gap] is the home of the Park
ranger... Park officials were good
enough to allow us to move
Holy Innocents Chapel from
Simmons Gap to our new point
at the Cross Roads [west of Free
Union].”
One of the last mission workers at Simmons Gap, Virginia
Cary, reflected in the pages of
“Our
Mountain
Work”:
“Simmons Gap Mission will
soon be closed. The little old
frame schoolhouse close to the
road, with just a few square
yards of ground surrounding it,
fenced with a rail fence. I can
see it now! Of a Sunday afternoon the fence would be
adorned with many sitters, boys
and men. In spring the shutters
were swung back and the windows opened, and the fragrance
of apple blossoms with the hum
of many bees entered to beautify the place. The baby organ,
the folding kind which you sort
of carry on your lap, makes a
goodly sound, and the clear
shrill voices of the congregation
are lifted in a rather dragging
rendering of the old familiar
hymns.
“Mr. Mason gives his words
of comfort and help, a small
child comes creeping, closer,
closer, while the people watch.
He settles contentedly at the
preacher’s feet and plays with
the toes of the shiny black shoes
on the platform. The preacher
goes on, unnoticing, undisturbed apparently.
“How
many
summer
Sundays have I known just such
as this... I have never found a
more lovable group than my
people at Simmons Gap.
“It would seem heartless to
close up this mission whose
record is so fine. But the Park
has taken the people... The mission will have to close. The people are going. Many have gone,
and almost all will be gone by
autumn.
“The mission closes, the people move away, the Gap is
alone.”
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T
o improve the existing drinking water system in the Crozet
service area, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, in a
joint effort with the Albemarle County Service Authority, will
replace 4,700 feet of waterline along Three Notched Road (Rt.
240) in Crozet. Construction will occur approximately from
Union Mission Lane to Park Ridge Drive and will last 6 to
7 months.
The new bridge over the railroad tracks on Dry Bridge Road in Ivy is near
completion. VDOT officials say it is on schedule to open in September. [Photo
courtesy R. Kingston]
Stoner
—continued from page 1
The decision to defer was
largely pro forma, but commission vice chair Mac Lafferty
asked county staffers why the
Commission should not simply
vote to deny instead.
County Planning director
Wayne Cilimberg said he
understood that Stoner was
working out a contract extension with the bank that foreclosed on the property, Union
First Market, and that the
county planning department
has not received any new material on the project meanwhile.
Commissioner Bruce Dotson
asked if a deferral would either
privilege or prejudice the plan,
to which Cilimberg responded
that a deferral would mean the
plan would have to be re-advertised to the public and that if
any substantial changes were
made to what had been previ-
ously submitted it would likely
mean that a new application for
the project would be required.
Lafferty asked what deferral
would mean if a new developer
of the property came forward.
Cilimberg said that if the bank
became interested in a new
buyer, the new buyer would
have to submit a new application.
Stoner’s firm, Milestone
Partners, offers real estate development services for investors.
The prospective owners of the
property are identified on the
project’s application documents
as “Transatlantic Partners.”
Stoner said previously that the
contract to buy the property
was contingent on its being
rezoned into the commercial
district. The parcels are now
zoned heavy industrial and conditions on its zoning effectively
limit it to being used as a lumber yard.
The commission voted 5-0 to
grant the postponement.
The project will provide additional flow capacity. A new
16-inch diameter ductile iron waterline will replace two
antiquated lines currently serving the area. The old lines will
be abandoned in place, and new fire hydrants will be installed.
Due to existing right-of-way limits, much of the new line
will be installed within existing asphalt pavement, which will
require flagging operations and minor traffic delays during
daytime hours. Traffic lane closures and flagging operations
should start in early August.
The contractor hired for the project is Linco, Inc., the same
contractor for the downtown Crozet streetscape project.
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Snow and Ice Data Center
(NSDC), April 2014 beats the
previous sea-ice coverage record
from April 2008 by 124,000
square miles.
J. Moody [July Letters] forgets about China. Germany is
building 10 new coal powered
plants, including four powered
by lignite, the dirtiest form of
coal. Be assured, your minuscule carbon footprint is of no
concern to the climate.
To the Editor
—continued from page 5
tions.” The dust bowl year of
1936 had the record until the
data were re-worked. “The
NCDC
U.S.
temperature
record is completely broken,
and meaningless. Adjustments
that used to go flat after 1990
now go up exponentially.
Adjustments which are documented as positive are implemented as negative”: (stevengoddard.wordpress.
com/2014/01/19/just-hit-thenoaa-motherlode/). The Earth
has been warming since the end
of the Little Ice Age (13001850), and no one has been able
to differentiate the human contribution to climate change
from the background of naturally occurring cycles.
According to the National
Charles Battig, M.D., M.S.
Albemarle County
VA-Scientists and Engineers for
Energy and Environment
www.climateis.com
Roundup Evidence
Some controversy has arisen
regarding my mention of
Roundup
in
“Natural
Homemade Weed Killer” (July
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2014). A Google search of
“roundup
problems”
or
“roundup dangers” will provide
a wealth of corroborating evidence for my statements. Here
are a few of the online resources
I used.
Gammon,
Crystal
and
Environmental Health News.
“Weed-Whacking
Herbicide
Proves Deadly to Human Cells.”
Scientific American, June 23,
2009. www.scientificamerican.
com/article/weed-whacking-herbicide-p/
“Used in gardens, farms, and
parks around the world, the
weed killer Roundup contains
an ingredient that can suffocate
human cells in a laboratory,
researchers say…”
“The research team suspects
that Roundup might cause
pregnancy problems by interfering with hormone production,
possibly leading to abnormal
fetal development, low birth
weights or miscarriages.”
“Last month, an environmental
group
petitioned
Argentina’s Supreme Court,
seeking a temporary ban on glyphosate use after an Argentine
scientist and local activists
reported a high incidence of
birth defects and cancers in people living near crop-spraying
areas. Scientists there also linked
genetic
malformations
in
amphibians to glysophate. In
addition, last year in Sweden, a
scientific team found that exposure is a risk factor for people
developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.”
Gillam, Cary. “Heavy use of
Herbicide Roundup Linked to
Health Dangers—U.S. Study.”
Reuters, April 25, 2013. www.
reuters.com/artic l e / 2 0 1 3 / 0 4 / 2 5 / ro u n d u p health-study-idUSL2N0DC22F20130425
“Heavy use of the world’s
most
popular
herbicide,
Roundup, could be linked to a
range of health problems and
diseases, including Parkinson’s,
infertility and cancers, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed report, published last
week in the scientific journal
Entropy, said evidence indicates
that residues of “glyphosate,”
the chief ingredient in Roundup
weed killer, which is sprayed
over millions of acres of crops,
has been found in food. Those
residues enhance the damaging
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Western Albemarle Second Quarter Real Estate Report
Local Home Sales Dip in Spring Quarter
by David Ferrall
ferrall@crozetgazette.com
What a party!
Kudos to the
organizers of the
July
5th
Independence
Day parade and
celebration
at
Crozet Park. The partially finished streetscape project was
lined with folks who enjoyed
perfect weather and an entertaining parade. The huge turnout for the celebration at the
Crozet Park was a testament to
the sense of community Crozet
enjoys. And speaking of enjoyment, how about those fireworks!
But fireworks are not exactly
the story being told in the current local real estate market. For
the third quarter in a row,
Crozet has experienced a yearto-year drop in total property
sales. And sales in Crozet
through the first half of the year
are down 23 percent from 2013.
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If there is good news in this it is
tipped towards the buyer, as
average prices are down a touch
and inventory is up slightly,
which has for now put a cap on
prices. But the inventory feels
like a misnomer to buyers and
agents alike, many of who are
frustrated with Crozet’s seeming
lack of fresh offerings. The quarter started strong with new listings (see chart provided courtesy of RealCrozetVA.com), but
the strength faded as inventory
slowly started creeping up.
Crozet’s performance was
roughly mirrored in the total
Charlottesville market statistical
area. Median prices overall in
the area were up 1 percent and
total sales were up 1 percent as
well, according to the quarterly
market report by Nest Realty.
Days on the market were down
to 85, but inventory rose 15
percent. The relatively flat performance perhaps signals a
stronger third quarter, or the
start of a flattening out after the
post-Great Recession increases.
There were 77 total sales in
Crozet in the second quarter,
down 11.5 percent from the
same time last year. There were
3 sales over $1 million (which
are excluded for statistical purposes). Of the 77 sales only 11
were for townhouses. This represents a 56 percent drop from
last year, and reflects limited
new inventory and a possible
shifting of buyer interest. Of the
66 detached properties sold in
the quarter, 19 were for new
construction with the majority
being in Old Trail and Wickham
Pond. There were 14 properties
sold that were over an acre, a
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pretty consistent 20 percent of
homes that typically sell each
quarter out in the surrounding
county. There were only two
foreclosures/short sales, a number that continues to be inconsistent quarter to quarter, but
that is seemingly in a downtrend. At quarter’s end there
were 81 properties under contingent or pending contract,
many of which will presumably
close in the upcoming quarter.
Prices in the quarter were
down in just about every category. Total price per finished
square foot dropped 7 percent
to $144, and the average price
of a house dropped 5.5 percent
to $377,000. Average price for a
detached property dropped 4
percent to $393,000, the average price per sqft of these houses
being $145. Of these detached
homes 29 percent were new
construction, with Old Trail (9)
and Wickham Pond (5) having
the highest number of sales.
Townhomes represented the
largest quarterly drops, as new
townhome choice continues to
diminish. There were only two
new townhomes sold in the
quarter, out of a total of 11 sold.
A year ago in the second quarter
25 townhomes sold, of which
12 were new. Sales in the latest
quarter were split evenly
between
Old Trail
and
Highlands, with one new sale in
Haden Place. The average price
for an attached property
dropped 16 percent to
$283,000, which is most likely
explained by the fact that the
majority of sales were resales.
Price per square foot dropped
13 percent.
So where are the next fireworks in the local real estate
market? It is hard to say, but
this past quarter could be an
indication of stabilizing prices
and number of properties sold
quarter to quarter. Interest rates
remain stable. Both Freddie
Mac and the Home Mortgage
Bankers Association expect
30-year rates to be in the 4.3 to
4.7 percent range at year’s end,
and maybe up to 5 percent by
this time next year. For the sake
of affordability, prices will need
to remain steady if rates start to
creep up. Inventory should
remain static or grow slightly,
hopefully with a smattering of
new listings to entice buyers
waiting on the sidelines. A slow
and steady pace should be a
welcome forecast for upcoming
quarters.
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Hillsboro Baptist Church in
Yancey Mills welcomed Chris
Grella as its new pastor July 1.
Grella comes to Hillsboro from
Westminster Baptist Church in
Westminster, Maryland, where
he was associate pastor for a
congregation of 300. Hillsboro
has about 90 regular attendees.
Grella was raised in Oakton
and attended Virginia Tech. He
holds a Master of Divinity from
Bethel Seminary in St. Paul,
Minnesota, where he began his
career in ministry. He and his
wife Angie have two sons,
Nathan, 14, and Joshua, 11.
His appointment at Hillsboro is
his first as senior pastor.
“It’s good to be back in
Virginia, for sure,” he said.
“This is a good area with good
people. It’s attractive here and
it’s growing and so you have the
challenge of growth. I like that.
Hillsboro is 175 years old this
year and it has a rich tradition
and culture.
“I have a heart for loving and
helping people and reaching out
to the community, sharing the
love of Jesus. That’s huge and
this church has it, too,” he said.
“We’re very intergenerational. I
think that’s distinctive. I want
to celebrate that.
“The church community here
has a heart for the heritage of
the church, and they want to
help the Crozet community
deal with growth. I have a good
feeling. I think God is doing
amazing things with this community.”
Grella said the church plans
to convert its current parsonage,
which sits behind the church,
into an office and to use the
unfinished basement level as a
youth center.
Grella said he will begin an
11-week series of lectures on the
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Fall Season Begins
upcoming events
AUGUST 9
“Pints for Pups”
Crozet Dog Park
Fundraiser
Claudius Crozet Park will
host a fundraiser for its new
2-acre dog park at Starr Hill
Brewery Saturday August 9
from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The
Brewery will donate $1 from
the sale of every pint to the
park. Dogs are welcome on
Starr Hill’s outdoor patio.
AUGUST 9
Second Saturdays
Art Opening
Art on the Trax will host
“Recent Work by Joe Sheridan,
Chairs and Cups” during the
month of August, with a Second
Saturday Artist Reception on
August 9 from 4 to 6 p.m., featuring the Art Box’s famous ice
cream sundaes topped with fruit
from local orchards.
An Albemarle County native,
Sheridan’s experience ranges
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AUGUST 25
Nelson Orchestra
Rehearsal Begins
The
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JERRY & SUZY O’DELL
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Blue Ridge Beads & Glass
Community Orchestra will
begin its new season under the
musical direction of Philip
Clark with rehearsals starting
Monday, August 25, from 7 to
9 p.m. at the Rockfish Valley
Community
Center.
The
orchestra invites string players
to join and is also seeking woodwind, trumpet and French horn
players. All aged 13 and older
are welcome.
The NCCO will launch a
String Education Pilot Program
in early October, giving fourth
and fifth grade students a
chance to study violin. Tye
River and Rockfish Valley
Elementary Schools will host
after-school violin classes. All
area students are welcome.
There will be two classes at each
school offering weekly, 60-minute small-group lessons (3-5
students) for 8 weeks.
The tuition for the fall 2014
course is $150, which includes
professional instruction and
materials. Parents will be
responsible for providing an
instrument and a music stand.
Limited financial assistance is
available. Interested students
should complete the course
application on the orchestra’s
website: www.nelsoncco.org.
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September 10 under the musical direction of Philip Clark.
Rehearsals
resume
on
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Tabor Presbyterian Church in
Crozet. A concert is set for Nov.
16.
In addition to violinists, the
orchestra currently needs an
English horn player, a trumpet
player, an oboist, a bassoonist
and a concert harpist.
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SEPTEMBER 13
WAHS Rowing
Club Flea Market
The Western Albemarle High
School Rowing Club will host a
flea market Saturday, September
13 from 7 to 11 a.m. in the
school cafeteria. The club hopes
to raise $2,000 to help cover
expenses this year. Items for sale
include furniture, miscellaneous
household items, electronics,
toys, and books. Coffee and
baked goods will also be available.
The club will accept donations in good condition—no
clothing, please—from 4:30 to
7 p.m. Friday, September 12 in
the cafeteria.
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SEPTEMBER 14
Boys and Girls
Club Cycling
Challenge
Hundreds of cyclists will be
on roads around Crozet on
Sunday, September 14 for the
annual Cycling Challenge, a
fundraising event for the Boys
and Girls Club of Central
Virginia. There are 25, 50, 75
and 100-mile routes, and an
8-mile family fun ride. Routes
begin from Old Trail Village in
Crozet. Riders are treated to a
finish line party including
lunch, local wine and beer, and
live music. Register at www.
bgcchallenge.org
SEPTEMBER 21
Mt. Salem Church
Anniversary
Mt Salem Gospel Church of
Mechums River will celebrate
its 121st anniversary Sunday,
September 21 with a service at
3:30 p.m. The special guest will
be Pastor Thomas Fleming and
the Emmaus Baptist Church
Family along with the powerful
Male Chorus from Goochland.
The public is invited. Mt Salem
is at the intersection of Three
Notch’d Road (Rt. 240) and
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The county instituted its
EMS Cost Recovery Program in
2010 and since then county
ambulances
based
at
Hollymead,
Monticello,
Pantops, Rt. 29 North and Ivy,
as well as the volunteer squad in
Scottsville, have been participating. On September 1, WARS
and the Earlysville Volunteer
Fire Department will be
brought into the fold.
County spokeswoman Lee
Catlin said the county is trying
to collect from insurance companies who are already charging
policyholders for the coverage.
The county got the approval of
the state’s Office of the Inspector
General, a division of the
Attorney General’s Office, to
implement the residents’ program, she said. Insurance billing
for EMS transport is established
in 40 localities in Virginia, and
some 50 volunteer squads
around the state are participating. Medicare and Medicaid
will cover ambulance service.
Catlin said the county’s goal is
to relieve county taxpayers from
completely shouldering the burden of supporting EMS services.
“When we started this three
years ago, we said we wouldn’t
do it unless nobody gets a bill,”
said WARS chief Kostas
Alibertis. “We have volunteers
who said they would quit if we
went to collecting.” It’s not clear
now if any will.
“We started out saying we
wanted the money to come to
us. The county did not want to
give us the money directly. They
wanted to be the collector. They
still don’t think of it as our
money, but as their money.
They say that if we need facility
improvements, we can make
requests to the county’s Capital
Improvements Program.
“We got the best deal we
could,” he said. “Our agency is
protected. There is no ‘good’
deal in this. It doesn’t make
sense for the volunteers to have
to collect the money and then
for us to have to argue for the
money back. It should come to
us.
“The service we provide costs
a fraction of what it costs for the
professionals and we are all performing to the same standard. It
should be cost-neutral to be a
volunteer.”
The county is now buying
ambulances through the CIP,
Alibertis said. WARS needs a
replacement ambulance, which
he expects will cost nearly
$200,000 by the time it is fitted
out. The squad also needs a new
response car, a car that accompanies the ambulance when it
leaves on a call in case the squad
receives a second call while it is
at a scene and the EMT must
dash to another location. He
said that before long a replacement crash truck will also be
needed, at a cost of somewhere
between
$600,000
and
$700,000. WARS currently has
three ambulances, one crash
truck and two response cars.
Alibertis said he appreciates
that the county has expenses in
offering EMS services, some of
which directly affect WARS’s
service, such as staffing the dispatch center. The county is currently covering WARS’s annual
operating costs—gas, utilities,
etc.—contributing
about
$212,000 per year.
“Scottsville’s donations have
dropped off pretty substantially
because of this,” said Alibertis.
Donations to WARS now
will go the squad’s new building
fund, he said. The squad anticipates needing to relocate to a
new base south of the railroad
tracks in downtown Crozet
where it will remain close to the
densest population in its service
area and still be convenient and
attractive for volunteers. He
said the cost of a new facility
would approach $5 million.
“We appreciate it that the
community supports us,” said
squad vice president Greg
Paquin, an EMT since 1978
who has served with WARS 14
years. Alibertis joined WARS in
1985, nearly 30 years of volunteer effort. The squad currently
has about 75 members, about
50 of whom are responding to
the majority of calls. Bob Knox
is WARS’s longest serving-volunteer, active since 1984.
Alibertis said that WARS
expects to answer 1,400 emergency calls this year.
“We’ll still be all-volunteer,”
said Paquin. “We will still provide the service. We have a good
member base.”
The squad will host a public
information meeting at Crozet
Library Monday August 25
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. to be
available to talk to the public
about the new policy.
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CCA Good Neighbor Awards
Go to Schrader and Mauzy
Crozet
Community
Association President Tim
Tolson presented the association’s Good Neighbor Awards
to Build Crozet Library chair
Bill Schrader and to Crozet
Trails Crew leader Jessica Mauzy
at the Crozet Independence
Day Celebration at Crozet Park
July 5. The award recognizes
Crozet citizens who make special contributions to the welfare
of the town.
The citation for Schrader
read:
“In appreciation of his wise
and persevering leadership of
the fund raising campaign to
provide all the contents of the
new Crozet Library, a goal met
by the generosity of the people
of western Albemarle thanks to
his commitment to team building and humble leadership; for
his service to the citizens of
Crozet
on
the
Crozet
Community Advisory Council;
for air travelers as chair of the
Charlottesville-Albemarle Joint
Airport Commission, and for
his vigilant advocacy for the
welfare of his neighbors.”
The citation for Mauzy read:
“In appreciation of her pioneering and dogged leadership
of Crozet’s volunteer trail builders, who are realizing the vision
of Crozet as a town connected
by pathways; for her personal
tirelessness and toughness at the
toil of trail-making; for her
patience and persistence with
public process, and for her abiding aspirations for the health
and unity of the people of
Crozet.”
Tolson said the awards were
presented with gratitude on
behalf of the people of Crozet.
A crowd approaching 5,000
witnessed the presentation.
Mauzy was traveling on the
occasion and Bob Dombrowe
of the CTC accepted in her
absence. Tolson presented the
award to her personally at the
CTC’s monthly meeting later in
July.
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Day Trips from Crozet:
Natural Bridge
Story & Photos By Margaret Marshall
I
n 1781, Thomas Jefferson finished the
first edition of Notes on the State of
Virginia, the 23-chapter book in which
he aimed to answer every type of question
about the new commonwealth. But though
he eloquently detailed everything from its
elk to its economy, one feature of our home
left Jefferson at a loss for words. “It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here,”
he wrote. “So beautiful an arch, so elevated,
so light, and springing as it were up to
heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really
indescribable!” You can find that word-defying, heaven-springing sublimity still today:
it’s the Natural Bridge, and it’s only an hour
away.
A few miles off Interstate 81 at exit 175
in Rockbridge County (whose name makes
sense to me now), Natural Bridge captivated
Jefferson so much that he bought it, paying
King George III 20 shillings for 157 acres
including the Bridge in 1774. But Jefferson
wasn’t the only one to be smitten with and
inspired by Natural Bridge. George
Washington surveyed the land on behalf of
Lord Fairfax in 1750, and you can see the
initials “G.W.” he allegedly felt moved to
carve into the rock after scaling the cliff
about 20 feet above the creek. Hudson River
School artist Frederic Edwin Church
painted it in 1852, and Herman Melville
used it as a simile for the whale in Moby
Dick in 1851. It’s no wonder the Romantics
loved it so much, because it really is what
Jefferson said: sublime.
But don’t take anyone else’s word for it—
even Jefferson’s. You need to see Natural
Bridge for yourself. Head west on 64, then
south on 81, and get off on Route 11 S.
Route 11 actually goes over Natural Bridge,
though you won’t realize you’re motoring
over a National Historic Landmark. The
Bridge is so vast that the trees growing atop
it mask the fact that you’re 215 feet over a
creek.
As soon as you open the doors to the
Visitor’s Center, you’ll be swallowed into an
immense gift shop selling everything from
T-shirts to tea sets, but don’t lose heart! The
site’s commercial aspect may be cheesy, but
its natural one is awesome. After you pay
your $18 admission
fee (kids ages 7-17 are
only $10, and anyone
6 or younger is free;
there are also discounts for AAA members and military personnel, so bring your
ID cards), you’ll exit
downstairs,
where
they have an indoor
playground and cute
learning stations set
up for children.
The real fun begins
back outside, though.
The walk to the Bridge
begins with a descent
down 137 steps beside
a burbling stream,
slipping over mossy
rocks and passing by
stunning arbor vitae,
giant ancient trees
whose trunks twist
upwards out of sight.
A sign memorializes
one that died several
years ago at age 1,600!
At the bottom of the
stairs, there’s a pavilion where a friendly
attendant will check
your ticket and direct
you to the Cedar
Creek Trail.
As soon as you turn the corner, you’ll see
the Bridge looming ahead. I understand
why Jefferson had to resort to describing it
as indescribable. The Bridge’s height and
mass is so staggering, and yet its shape so
graceful and dynamic—there’s no way to
understand how something so heavy can
feel so light unless you’re standing beneath
it. It’s a not just a natural bridge; it’s a natural cathedral. The light streams around it,
illuminating the gray-green creek that created this cavern over millions of years, and
the cool, damp air in the cliff’s shadow
seems sacred. We visited at 7 p.m., only an
hour before closing (the site is open from 8
a.m. to 8 p.m. daily), and stood in the
silence simply trying to absorb the awesome.
Eventually, though, we kept walking. The
Cedar Creek Trail continues for about
three-quarters of a mile along the stream,
and you should definitely walk the entire
thing. It’s a well-maintained, fine gravel
path that’s almost entirely flat, and while
comfy shoes are recommended, there’s no
need for any special footwear or clothing.
The whole place is dream for anyone interested in local history or in native plants and
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animals. We met a courteous rat snake on
our way, as well a common skink, and my
friend was thrilled to spot a white cedar tree.
Besides creating the Natural Bridge, Cedar
Creek has also created—and is still creating—other really interesting geological features, including a saltpeter cave you can walk
up to but not into. During the War of 1812
and the Civil War, soldiers made gunpowder
inside it from mined nitrates and guano.
There’s also a recreation of a Monacan village,
where you can watch interpreters put on
demonstrations, or, when that’s not happening, read all about the daily life of the Indians
who discovered the Bridge long before
Jefferson bought it.
At the trail’s end, you reach Lace Falls,
where water whose source is too high to see
cascades over a boulder, creating sheets of liquid lace that dissolve into a deep pool. A rock
wall that borders the entire trail prevents visitors from climbing into the creek (we were
sorely tempted because it looked so cool on
the muggy summer evening), but just looking at it felt refreshing.
You retrace your steps to come back to the
Bridge, and we were delighted and amazed all
over again approaching it from the opposite
side. The whole walk, with plenty of time to
stop and take pictures and read signs and sit
and sigh, took us about an hour. At a busier
time of day, I can imagine that crowds might
obscure the magic a little, but at that evening
hour, we passed fewer than a dozen people
on the path, and all of them, as well as the
two attendants we met, seemed as happy to
be there as we were.
The Bridge alone is worth the drive to
Rockbridge County, but to make more of a
day of the adventure, you could combine
Natural Bridge with a trip to Virginia Safari
Park, only three miles down the road, where
you can see tigers and feed giraffes and marvel at all sorts of other
exotic creatures from
your car as you drive
through the park’s 180
acres.
The
drive
through Safari Park
might be a nice complement to the walk
along Cedar Creek.
In May of this year,
Governor McAuliffe
received the deed to
Natural Bridge, which
will become a state
park in the next year or
two.
The
former
owner, Angelo Puglisi,
gave the Bridge and
188
accompanying
acres to the state, a gift
valued at $21 million.
20 shillings or 21 million dollars: neither
assessment matters.
When you stand
under Natural Bridge,
you’ll know it’s priceless.
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effects of other food-borne
chemical residues and toxins in
the environment to disrupt normal body functions and induce
disease, according to the report,
authored by Stephanie Seneff, a
research scientist at the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and Anthony
Samsel, a retired science consultant from Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Samsel is a former private environmental government contractor as well as a member of the
Union of Concerned Scientists.”
Kimble-Evans,
Amanda.
“Roundup Weed Killer Kills
More Than Weeds.” Mother
Earth News, December 2009/
January 2010. www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/roundup-weed-kille r - z m a z 0 9 d j z r a w. a s p x # i x zz3767ZFEhr
“…A new study in the
respected journal Toxicology
has shown that, at low levels
that are currently legal on our
food, Roundup weed killer
could cause DNA damage,
endocrine disruption and cell
death. The study, conducted by
French researchers, shows glyphosate-based herbicides are
toxic to human reproductive
cells. The potential real-life risks
from this are infertility, low
sperm count, and prostate or
testicular cancer.”
“Environmental and health
impacts of GM crops - the science.” Greenpeace Briefing,
September 2011. www.greenpeace.org/australia/
Pa g e Fi l e s / 4 3 4 2 1 4 / G M _
Fact%20Sheet_Health_%20
and_Env_Impacts.pdf
(visit
webpage for footnotes/citations).
“Most genetically modified
(GM) crops awaiting EU authorization for cultivation are either
herbicide-tolerant or pesticide-producing (or both). The
environmental effects of these
crops are increasingly well documented, often from experience
in North and South America,
where they are principally
grown.
GM
pesticide-producing
crops kill specific pests, by
secreting toxins known as Bt,
which originate from a bacterium. Peer-reviewed scientific
evidence is mounting that these
GM crops are:
I. Toxic to harmless non-tar-
get species. Long-term exposure
to pollen from GM insect resistant maize causes adverse effects
on the behavior and survival of
the monarch butterfly, America’s
most famous butterfly. Few
studies on European butterflies
have been conducted, but those
that have suggest they would
suffer from pesticide-producing
GM crops. These studies are all
based on one type of toxin,
Cry1Ab, present in GM maize
varieties Bt and MON810.
Much less is known about the
toxicity of other types of Bt
toxin (e.g. Cry1F, present in the
GM maize 1507). Cry1F is
highly likely to also be toxic to
non-target organisms, but
requires separate study.
II. Toxic to beneficial insects.
GM Bt crops adversely affect
beneficial insects important to
controlling maize pests, such as
green lacewings. The toxin
Cry1Ab has been shown to
affect the learning performance
of honeybees. The environmental risk assessment under which
current GM Bt crops have been
assessed (in the EU and elsewhere) considers direct acute
toxicity alone, and not effects
on organisms higher up the
food chain. But these effects can
be important. The toxic effects
to beneficial lacewings came
through the prey they ate. The
single-tier risk assessment has
been widely criticized by scientists who call for a more holistic
assessment.
III. A threat to soil ecosystems. Many Bt crops secrete
their toxin from their roots into
the soil. Residues left in the field
contain the active Bt toxin .19,
20, 21, 22 The long-term,
cumulative effects of growing Bt
maize are of concern.
Siegel, RP. “Monsanto’s
Roundup Ready Crops Tied to
Butterfly
Decline,”
Triple
Pundit.
www.triplepundit.
com/2012/03/monsantos-roundup-ready-crops-tiedbutterfly-decline/
“The
latest
oops,
in
Monsanto’s growing list, after
the recent study linking
Roundup with birth defects, is
the elimination of large numbers of monarch butterflies from
the landscape. Does Roundup
kill butterflies? No, it doesn’t. It
simply kills everything that butterflies like to eat: milkweed
plants in particular. A 2011
study in Insect Conservation
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Why We Go Back to School
by Clover Carroll | clover@crozetgazette.com
Most people involved
in education
cringe when
the first ads
for Back to
School sales
start appearing in mid-July. “Give me a
break!” we think. “We still have
three weeks of freedom left.” Yet
we realize that we—teachers
and students alike—welcome
the new year with happy anticipation. Yes, it can get super
busy and intense, but we love it
just the same. No matter which
side of the desk you’re on, the
joys of learning are unbeatable
in their intrinsic reward and
enrichment of life. Even as a
high school student, I could not
understand why some of my
friends hated school. I loved
school so much that I’m still
there! Where else could we
spend our days discussing the
meaning of life, the lessons of
history, or the sources of beauty
in art and poetry with people
from all walks of life who
express myriad points of view
that we might never have
thought of before? Where else
could we witness and participate in original creativity every
day? And most importantly,
where else could we spend serious time and effort contemplating and debating life’s essential
questions? And maybe even
answering some of them.
The public education to
which we return with mixed
feelings each fall is one of the
greatest goods that Americans
enjoy, and forms the foundation
of the American dream. In a
public school, people from all
income levels, social classes,
races, and ethnicities have an
equal opportunity to learn,
grow, and succeed at whatever
field they choose to pursue. The
means are provided them to
develop their talents and abilities so that they can escape
whatever limitations they may
face and become the best they
can be. Public education is our
first and best means of providing the equal opportunity
promised in our founding documents. As Thomas Jefferson
pointed out, “The most important bill in our whole code is that
for the diffusion of knowledge
among the people. No other
sure foundation can be devised,
for the preservation of freedom
and happiness... [we must]
establish and improve the law
for educating the common people” (1786).
Jefferson’s belief that an
enlightened citizenry was the
key to a successful democracy,
and his strong advocacy for free,
secular education for all citizens
were further developed by
Massachusetts Secretary of
Education
Horace
Mann
(1796-1859) so that, by the late
19th
century,
government-funded public schools
had become standard practice
in America, providing the basis
of our ascendancy as a world
power. As Kelly Jensen explains
in “Libraries are not a ‘Netflix’
for Books” (Bookriot.com/
author/kjensen), the profit-based
goals of a business like Netflix
where “private citizens pay private cash in order to access the
goods,” are the opposite of public libraries [and schools], which
“are one of the few institutions
where any and all citizens,
regardless of their income or
abilities to pay, may receive
equitable access and service.”
This is why education, including the books and supplies
required to provide it, must
remain free to all citizens.
Unwarranted fees—such as for
workbooks, transportation, or
uniforms—negate the concept
of equal access.
What does being public really
mean? We, the people, have
agreed through our votes to pay
taxes that in turn support services from which we all benefit,
such as national defense, roads,
parks, public transportation,
libraries, and schools—a list
which should, in my opinion,
include the post office. Public
education benefits not only the
children who attend school but
all of us, whether we have children or not. The children we
educate now will build the
bridges, invent the technology,
protect the planet, and lead the
governments of tomorrow. A
well-educated populace, whose
awareness has been deepened by
exposure to a broad spectrum of
art, culture, and scientific reasoning representing a range of
perspectives, creates a more
informed, more capable, and
more tolerant country because
we understand the consequences of our actions. Business
models, in spite of repeated
attempts to apply them, are
destructive to public institutions because the goals of earning a profit and advancing the
public good can be at odds with
each other.
The purpose and content of
this education are increasingly
under attack. We are witnessing
an attempt to define all education at all levels solely in terms
of its value in the job market.
Education that does not develop
job skills and lead to success in
the marketplace is deemed irrelevant; the humanities—loosely
defined to include art, music,
literature, philosophy, and history—are being systematically
downsized and eliminated,
drowned out by the clamoring
voices of commercialization.
Turning our institutions of
learning into trade schools is a
serious mistake and a major
threat, both to our quality of
life and to our success as a
nation. Since the time of Plato,
the aim of education has been
to discover what constitutes the
good human life and the good
human being. As educational
philosopher John Dewey (18591952)
pointed
out,
“Education…is a process of living and not a preparation for
future living.” This kind of education requires reflection, contemplation, and discussion—
not merely vocational preparation. It enriches the lives we
lead outside of working hours,
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BY DR. ROBERT C. REISER
crozetannals@crozetgazette.com
The Trouble with
Disease Mongering
It is good to
be back from
vacation, back to
the world of diseases. Medicine
moves fast and
you can’t be
away for too long without missing something.
I was gone for nearly a month
and I have already missed several
new diseases and developments.
Apparently Ebola is not only
ravaging West Africa but may
now be massing at our southern
border, at least according to
Congressman Phil Gingery,
MD. Dr. Gingery, a Republican
from Georgia, sent a letter to
the CDC demanding action to
prevent the wave of unaccompanied immigrant children
crossing the U.S. border from
transmitting diseases such as
swine flu, dengue, ebola, TB
and even Smallpox to U.S. citizens. Wow. Then he held a press
conference to announce his
alarm.
I am not sure which is weakest, Dr. Gingrey’s grasp of geography (we don’t share a border
with Africa, the only place
where Ebola exists), history
(smallpox has been eradicated
from the world since 1977) or
medicine (dengue is not transmitted person to person). I
guess what is weakest is the
good doctor’s social conscience,
demonizing immigrant children
as vectors of contagion.
Rep. Gingrey is engaging in a
type of fear mongering called
disease mongering and there is a
lot of it going around.
Disease mongering consists
of convincing a group of people
that a new danger to their
health has been discovered. It is
usually done by drug companies
to sell new pharmaceuticals.
As my career has unfolded, I
have watched in wonderment as
diseases I had never encountered in standard medical texts
have risen to afflict the population. One of the first patients I
saw upon my return from vacation was a nervous lady looking
for a refill for her Restless Leg
Syndrome (RLS) prescription
medicine. The diagnosis of restless legs syndrome requires the
presence of the following four
criteria:
• An urge to move the legs
due to an unpleasant feeling in
the legs.
• Onset or worsening of
symptoms when at rest or not
moving around frequently.
• Partial or complete relief by
movement for as long as the
movement continues.
• Symptoms that occur primarily at night and that can
interfere with sleep or rest.
My patient had none of
these; she had insomnia and
anxiety.
While RLS had been
described in sporadic medical
reports for hundreds of years, it
was only when GlaxoSmithKline
began marketing a drug for it in
2003 that the shockingly high
prevalence of the disease (10
percent of adults) was posited.
Apparently almost 40 million
Americans have this disease.
That is a lot of prescriptions. I
am not sure how we ignored
this extraordinarily common
disease for so long. Even today
in my practice I only encounter
a tiny percentage of patients
reporting it, complaining about
it or on medication for it. So
where did that 40 million number come from? If you guessed a
single-question survey study
funded by GlaxoSmithKline
you would be correct. Hrumph,
madam! Perhaps I am not back
in the world of diseases at all.
While I essentially never see
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all-important kids’ group.
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sign up, substantially more than
last year’s record 679. They read
more books, nosing out last
year’s 18,215 to reach 18, 258.
Teen readers numbered 245 and
they read 1,258 books. The 175
adults who signed up, up from
154 in 2013, read 577 books.
Fifty-six adult readers qualified
to enter the grand prize drawing
by reading nine books in six
weeks.
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record, “ said Crozet librarian
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announces the tally on the last
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More of the firm come in with a
briefcase handcuffed to him and
he passed out the numbers that
we held up.”
Saz said a crowd of roughly
250 filled the aisles of the library
for the cookie party, on hand to
enjoy the suspense of the book
count and celebrate zeal for
reading.
Weekly drawing winners
(they got a coffee mug and a
diary)
included
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Locke Downer, Lady Keller, and
Beth Bassett and her sons Sam
and Ross. Winner of the grand
prize was Jessamy Senn, who
won a $50 gift certificate to
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study of non-vocational subjects
deepens and enriches all aspects
of human life.
As we begin the new academic year, let us be thankful
for the treasure of a free, liberal
arts education, and raise our
voices and votes to preserve it.
As Jefferson said, the fundamental purpose of our public
schools is to educate a citizenry
that can carry on our democracy. Along the way to that goal,
students will also acquire the
skills that make them productive workers. If we were to value
education foremost for its workforce benefits, we could emulate
the educational systems of
non-democratic societies at far
less cost. But that choice would
ultimately undermine democracy. Our goal for education is
not just that our children will
work, but that they will live free
and wisely.
—continued from page 23
the time we spend with our
families in recreation, visiting
art galleries, or attending concerts. True education has value
in and of itself, a value that leads
to self-actualization and that
cannot be measured with standardized tests. Through education, and especially through
studying the humanities, we
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to become our best selves. As
University of Virginia philosophy professor Talbot Brewer
points out in his excellent essay,
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President Exposed the Fault
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“Mindy”
used to be the
canine picture
of health. As a
middle-aged
mixed
breed
dog, she was
super fit and
was a great family dog. Like
many dogs she had made the
transition from being the “baby”
of a young married couple with
no kids, to being the older dog
whose human pack had grown
by three. At 14 years of age,
Mindy’s physical body is still in
surprisingly great shape. Her
blood work is perfect, no arthritis, and even her teeth are still in
good shape. Her mind, however, is another thing.
Mindy’s owners report that
she has definitely been “getting
old” over the past year. Her
hearing is gone and her eyes
look cloudy and they are not
sure how well she sees. She still
eats like a champ, devouring her
food in seconds, yet she is just
not the same dog anymore.
Over the past two months,
Mindy has started waking up in
the middle of the night, panting
and pacing. They let her outside, but she doesn’t have to go
to the bathroom. It takes her
about an hour to get back to
sleep. This now happens every
night. She is also very anxious,
constantly following her owners
everywhere they go in the
house. She usually sleeps all
day, and in the evenings she
seems to be restless and anxious.
She pants all the time, even
when she’s not been exercising.
She doesn’t want to stay in the
backyard anymore. She has
started having accidents in one
of the bedrooms lately, and
every once in a while they will
see her standing in a corner
panting, as if she can’t figure out
to just turn around.
Mindy’s signs are classic of
canine cognitive dysfunction,
also known as senility! Just like
people, older dogs can definitely
have senility or dementia.
Although there are probably
many different specific causes of
these disorders, we can generally
say that the brain as an organ
can succumb to age-related
degeneration, just like kidneys
or the heart. Memory loss, confusion, changes in behavior,
anxiety and restlessness are some
of the common signs we see in
dogs that we believe are having
senility/dementia problems.
My grandmother lived to be
101 years old and was fortunate
to live at home with my mother.
However, those last few years
were quite difficult on my mom
because my grandmother definitely had dementia, and who
would be surprised given her
age? She would often start
talking about things that didn’t
make sense, such as asking my
mom to please drive her home
so that her parents (who had
been gone for 40 years!)
wouldn’t be worried. She also
became very scared, even terrified, if my mom simply left the
room. She had pretty much no
short-term memory and the
long-term memory seemed very
difficult to access.
In people, we can easily identify when an elderly person is
starting to get senility/dementia
issues. However, in dogs, it can
be difficult to see these signs
coming since they don’t talk,
and testing their memory is difficult. Further, as they get older
we most often measure their
“wellness” based on their appetite and lack of pain, puking,
etc., as opposed to noticing
their mental health.
One of the most common
instigators I see for dementia in
dogs and cats is loss of hearing
and/or vision. Dogs and cats
lack the deep logic and rationalizing ability of humans. They
truly live in the moment based
on their senses and their animal
instincts. If they lose their ability to sense their environment,
their cognitive function, as we
know it, starts to decline rapidly.
Senility/dementia is very
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ACROSS
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4 Sound partner
8 Gnat or termite
12 Cheery syllables
13 Gillette razor
14 Ready _____, here I come!
16 Hamlet line while stabbing
Polonious
17 _____ the dishes
18 Singer/songwriter who advised
“Blow up your TV . . . eat a lot of
peaches.”
19 Pre-list punctuation
21 Necessity
23 Fencing foil
24 Really big deer kin
25 Bullfight shouts
27 Not even
29 Avoided being tagged out
30 UVa player, for short
31 Clear tables
34 Must-have high-tech for
County freshman
37 Former phone-call cost
38 Number we want to be
39 Partner to 38a
40 Favorite uncle?
41 Word with Towne or Shoppe
42 OJ judge
43 Wordsworth work
45 Newly resigned House
Majority Leader
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48 Bauxite
49 Measure student learning
50 Surf turf?
51 Carol chorus part
52 Lady lawyer aptonym?
55 Regarding
58 Guess
60 Snoopy used to be one
62 Rambles
64 Building add-ons
66 Informal rejection
67 Radio receiver
68 Brews
69 Teachers keep students on theirs
70 Microscope essential
71 Fmr. French fliers
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1 Seasonal song
2 Obsolete teacher tool?
3 Analogy center
4 Word with sack or story
5 Made up for
6 Emancipates
7 No sweat
8 So goes the weasel
9 Was human?
10 Scissor act
11 Voice quality
12 Women’s Four Miler
15 Golf aid
20 _____ contendere
22 Bad fate
26 Sass
28 Bambi mother
29 Pig palace
30 That guy
31 Aptly named Jamaican sprinter
32 Computer command option
33 One like Tiresias
34 Kind of chop or cloth
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Kids’ Crossword
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37 Sugar Hollow or Hoover
40 Understand
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43 “Annabel Lee” author
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51 Leading cause of injury
in seniors
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54 Soul windows
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56 James Brown genre
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down in New Orleans”
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Undefeated in 24 games, the
Western Albemarle Boys Varsity
Soccer team finished off their
2014 season in dramatic fashion, knocking off the defending
state champion Blacksburg
High School Bruins at Liberty
University in Lynchburg June
14. The match proved to be a
nail biter as the Warriors beat
the Bruins in sudden-death
penalty kicks, 2-2 (7-6) to claim
the 3A State Championship.
The game started off somewhat frenetically with neither
team able to find a rhythm.
Western
struggled
against
Blacksburg’s tough, hard-nosed
defense. But the Bruins never
posed any serious threats against
senior goalkeeper Al Luna and
the Warrior defense. Ilo Zak
continued his solid play at central defender with the help of
fellow defenders Chris Ferguson
and Will Alton. The first 40
minutes came to a close as one
of the most exciting and
up-tempo scoreless halves of
soccer in recent memory.
Second-half action picked up
where it left off, but the tide
turned a little in the Warriors’
favor. The physical nature of the
game intensified as well.
Western had beaten Blacksburg
1-0 in the 3A West Regional
finals a week earlier and that
game looked to be fresh in the
minds of both teams. Neither
team was going to back down
with a state title on the line.
Western gained momentum
on offense when senior midfielder Michael Nafziger scored
the game’s first goal. Nafziger
found the ball at his feet off of a
deflected pass just outside the
18-yard box, settled the ball,
and nailed a beautiful rightfooted shot at the far right post.
The ball squirted through the
hands of an outstretched
Blacksburg
goalie
Will
Linkenhoker for the score with
33:44 to play.
Things went from bad to
worse for Blacksburg. About 8
minutes later, junior midfielder
Shane Meacham got his second
yellow card of the match, disqualifying him and leaving the
Bruins a man down for the
remainder of the game. That
misfortune
seemed
to
strengthen the Bruins’ resolve.
With 12 state titles and plenty
of big game experience,
Blacksburg
refocused
and
started to gain momentum and
confidence.
The Bruins capitalized on a
Warrior miscue and tied the
game at 1-1. Western goalkeeper Luna came off his line
for a punch save but wound up
on the ground when he got tied
up with a teammate. Luna was
unable to get back on his feet in
time and Blacksburg scored off
the save deflection with a high
floating header. The Bruins
didn’t look as though they were
playing a man short, as they
continued to push forward
aggressively. They weren’t content to play for overtime and a
penalty kick shoot-out.
The Warriors quickened their
pace also. The intensity of the
game remained at a high level as
the teams took turns trading
punches before Blacksburg
delivered what seemed to be the
knockout blow. With just over
seven minutes to play, a left-toright crossing pass by the Bruins
eluded Luna and Blacksburg’s
Teig Lesko was there to bang it
in the back of the net, giving
the Bruins a 2-1 lead with 7:07
to play.
But the Warriors weren’t
done. As the clock ticked down,
the Warriors had a throw-in
from the left sideline deep in
Blacksburg’s end and once again
Nafziger found the ball in his
possession. He settled the ball
with his right foot, got a second
good touch on it, pushing it
towards the center of the field,
and then drilled another rightfooted shot at the far post. The
shot beat the Bruin keeper into
the side netting and sent the
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game into overtime. Nafziger
was lucky to even be in the
game at that point. Three minutes earlier he had received a
yellow card and had to leave the
field. He waited on the sideline
for a stop in play and a chance
to re-enter the game. Head
coach Paul Rittenhouse settled
Nafziger down, instructing him
to, “Go back in and do something productive.” Nafziger did
just that, scoring maybe the biggest goal yet of his soccer career.
After three scoreless five-minute overtime periods, the game
was still tied, but not without
high drama. In the third overtime, senior forward Forrest
White, the Warriors’ scoring
leader and now the state recordholder for career points and
goals in a season, had a chance
at victory with a penalty kick.
But his kick was off the mark
and the game went on.
In the penalty kick shoot out,
both teams scored on all five of
their first round attempts.
Sophomore Jake Paulson started
off the scoring for the Warriors
followed by senior Jamie
Ingersoll, White, senior Chris
Ferguson and senior Chase
Stokes. For Blacksburg, Teig
Lesko, Andrew Kim, Bradford
Mills, Asa Britten and Kelby
Zeiger all scored. Goalkeepers
Luna and Linkenhoker gave
great efforts, but weren’t able to
guess right. All 10 shots were on
goal, sending the match into
sudden-death penalty kicks.
The Bruins got the first turn
and Lesko scored. This put the
pressure on Paulson. He moved
in slowly and sent the ball
toward
the
right
post.
Linkenhoker guessed right and
got a hand on the ball, but
Paulson’s shot had enough on it
to get past the keeper to tie the
score at 6-6.
Kim was next up for the
Bruins. This time Luna’s hunch
was right and he made the first
save of the penalty kick rounds.
Then it was up to Western’s
Jamie Ingersoll. But it wasn’t
meant to be. Ingersoll’s shot was
high.
Next up for Blacksburg was
Mills. Once again, Luna got a
good read on Mills’ shot and
made another huge save, giving
Western another chance. Enter
White. This was his second
chance to win the game. The
pressure was on the Virginia
Tech-bound senior. He had been
the Warriors’ most outstanding
scorer all season. White
approached the ball with a bit of
a stutter step and then pounded
a hard, low, left-footed shot
inside the right post, beating
Linkenhoker and giving Western
Albemarle the win 2-2 (7-6).
Afterward, White kept a
humble, sincere attitude. He
said the personal records were
“very cool,” but going undefeated and winning the State
Championship was much more
gratifying. The team accomplishment outweighed the personal success by far.
White
is
already
in
Blacksburg practicing and taking two classes. “It’s very
demanding and exhausting, but
good,” he said. “It’s a great experience, playing with very talented people from all over the
world.” Tech’s roster includes a
number of players from
Germany, two from Trinidad &
Tobago and one from Brazil.
One of the players from
Germany has played with Mario
Gotze, who scored the World
Cup-winning goal in overtime
for Germany last month.
Nafziger left a mark of his on
own on the Warrior program,
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Community Advisory Council
that a market study of a hotel’s
viability showed that Crozet
could support a small hotel and
possibly even two.
Hilliard’s architectural plan
for “The Rutherfoord Hotel”
stresses accommodations for
wedding parties. State and
county officials had been
encouraging the project because
of their estimation of Crozet’s
tourism potential with the
expansion of area wineries and
breweries.
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Hilliard described the Bank of
Middleburg as subsequently
taking “a hard line.”
In 2010, when Katurah Roell
of Piedmont Development
Group was actively pursuing the
development of the Barnes
Lumber property, he suggested
that a “boutique” hotel was one
of the likely initial projects for
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Prairie in a Can
Do
you
remember
meadows that
came in a can?
(Or a packet for
that
matter.)
You can still
buy
them,
although I’d bet that sales
peaked long ago. The concept of
throwing some seeds on the
ground and getting a beautiful
flower garden understandably
had appeal to less-than-energetic gardeners. The results fell
considerably short, however.
What went wrong? After all,
these are tough “wildflowers”
that should be able to thrive
with almost no care. Alas, things
are rarely that simple.
Just what are we are trying to
create here, anyway? A prairie?
A meadow? (Or a steppe, if you
prefer a European term.) The
differences between the former
two are not always clear cut; in
fact the early American pioneers
borrowed the term “prairie”
from the French, where it actually meant something more akin
to “meadow.” Notwithstanding,
I’ll attempt to make some distinctions that I think the average person can relate to.
In the U.S., prairies are vast
grasslands that originally occu-
pied huge swaths of the middle
of the country. In actuality, the
term grasslands is a bit of a simplification, since much of the
vegetation was forbs, or what
most people would call flowers.
And “The Prairie” was not one
homogeneous entity. Taller species of grass grew in the wetter
eastern portions, while shortgrass prairie occupied the drier
western plains. In drier zones,
trees and shrubs would have
only occupied river bottoms,
while in the moister prairies
woody vegetation would be
more common and would tend
to “invade” the grasslands. Fire
and animal browsing would
keep the trees and shrubs in
check.
Meadows are usually smaller
pockets of herbaceous vegetation surrounded by woodland.
Many are man-made, especially
in humid areas. Roadside clearings are examples we’re all familiar with. Others, like alpine
meadows, are too cold and
windy to allow much in the way
of tree growth. Although man
may still be creating meadows—or prairies—by slicing
roads through the landscape,
almost all the original wild
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In some ways, creating a
meadow/prairie garden is not as
different as you might expect. If
you have a typical flowerbed, its
species composition to a large
degree already mimics that of a
meadow. The manner in which
it was installed and is maintained differs greatly, however.
In a flowerbed, typically you A.)
dig a hole, and B.) insert plant,
although natural seed dispersal
might also help some species to
spread. For maintenance, you
cut down old vegetation by
hand and probably remove
weeds the same way. But what
about installing and maintaining a large-scale prairie garden?
Given the “sprinkle some seeds”
ads, people imagine that a
meadow is going to be a
low-maintenance
garden.
Maybe. Eventually.
If you’re actually going to
attempt creating a prairie, your
first step is removal of existing
vegetation. This can be an arduous process, and annual weed
seeds will be difficult to eliminate totally. But there are four
techniques you can choose from:
Herbiciding—the least environmentally-friendly method
for a variety of reasons
Sod cutting—removing the
top 2 to 3 inches of sod will
only be effective if no perennial
weeds are present, a highly
unlikely proposition
Cultivating—tilling repeatedly at one-week intervals, or
for a full growing season at 2-3
week intervals if perennial
weeds are present. Eventually
effective, but repeated tilling
wreaks havoc on beneficial fungi
and bacteria.
Smothering—covering the
bed with black plastic, carpet,
wood, newspaper, etc. This
would be pracital for a flower
bed the size of your living room,
but what about for an entire
acre?
As you can see, there are
drawbacks to all of these. Pick
your poison, but not literally.
Next, comes planting. Till
lightly again to eliminate any
small weeds. Your seed mix
should be blended with a carrier, such as sand, sawdust, peat
moss or vermiculite. Do not
plant in wet soils. If spreading
seed by non-mechanized methods, split it into two batches.
Spread half in one direction,
then the other half at ninety
degrees to that in order to
ensure even coverage. Mulch
with straw. Watering is not
absolutely necessary, but will
hasten germination.
Now for maintenance, where
any garden reaches the make-orbreak phase. Mowing is required
roughly once per month, or
when weeds reach one foot tall.
Mow your prairie to 6 inches
high. This should set back the
weeds, but allow the shorter
perennial prairie plants to keep
growing.
In Year 2 of your prairie, in
mid-spring mow as close to the
ground as possible and rake off
the cuttings. When weeds reach
one foot tall, cut them down to
six inches.
Year 3 would ideally begin
your mid-spring burn cycle, the
best way to maintain a prairie.
Beginning with Year 5, burn
half your prairie every other
year to allow an area for invertebrates to breed in the off years.
It will be a while before you
can fully enjoy your prairie.
Prairie seeds will germinate over
a two to three year period, and
some will not flower until Year
3 or 4. No instant gratification
here. And remember that a true
prairie will be majority grasses,
with wildflowers scattered
about. The grasses not only help
to support the floppy forbs, but
also provide an attractive green
matrix to back up the flowers.
All the above wisdom on
prairie installation and maintenance comes from Prairie
Nursery
in
Westfield,
Wisconsin; their website provides considerably more detail.
Consider all the prairie dos and
don’ts that they provide as a
sobering reality check. But if
you’re willing to make a longterm commitment, prairies can
provide a beautiful space that
wildlife loves.
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A Rare Opportunity to
View a Rare Fish: Atlantic
Sturgeon in the James River
The Atlantic
Sturgeon
(Acipenser
oxyrhynchus)
is the largest
and longestlived aquatic
organism in the Atlantic rivers
of North America. Extirpated in
most of its historical range along
the eastern seaboard, this rare
fish still visits the James River in
Virginia.
And luckily for Virginians
who want a chance to actually
see one or more Atlantic
Sturgeon,
Captain
Mike
Ostrander, of Discover the
James tours, offers boat trips to
provide this unique opportunity. Information on dates and
costs can be found at discoverthejames.com.
Sturgeon have been on the
planet for over 120 million
years, appearing in the fossil
record when dinosaurs roamed
the Earth. They continued to
exist well beyond the era of the
dinosaurs into the present day,
but only just barely.
Beginning in the 1700s, following the arrival of Europeans
on this continent and their discovery of the economic value of
these fish, sturgeon populations
started to plummet. The folks in
Jamestown harvested sturgeon
to sell for a profit and soon
these fish were being harvested
in other fisheries along the
Atlantic coast. It’s been said
that only lobsters brought in
more profit.
In colonial times, sturgeon
could live to 100 years of age,
reach eight feet in length, and
weigh up to 300 pounds. They
were harvested for food, especially their eggs that were used
for caviar, an item that is still
considered a luxury. In 2012,
this “delicacy,” which is eaten as
a spread, sold for $2,500 per
pound.
Unfortunately, most people
who eat caviar probably have no
idea that the harvesting of eggs
(known as “roe”) is usually a terribly inhumane procedure. The
female fish may be killed outright, but more often she is subjected to surgery without benefit of anesthesia or pain-killing
drugs in order to keep her producing eggs.
Commercial fish farmers
often perform a C-section (surgery) to extract the eggs, which
is so extremely painful for the
fish that at least some countries,
thank goodness, ban this
method of extracting roe.
Other farmers employ a process called “stripping,” which
involves making a small incision
along the uro-genital muscle
when the fish’s eggs are ready to
be retrieved. This is apparently
considered the most humane
approach, but it’s obviously still
painful and stressful for the fish.
In the 19th century, seven
million pounds of sturgeon
meat was being exported per
year from the United States.
Within a matter of years, only
22,000 pounds was being
exported. However, almost up
to the 20th century, most major
river systems from Canada to
Florida still contained populations of Atlantic Sturgeon.
Sadly, due to overfishing and
pollution of the waterways,
sturgeon have disappeared from
some rivers along our east coast
and today survive only in low
numbers where they have managed to hold on. Spawning populations (those in which males
and females get together to
reproduce) are very rare, but in
Virginia small populations are
still coming up the James River
and the York River to try to perpetuate the species.
You have a wonderful likelihood of seeing the males in the
James River by taking a Discover
Researchers Matt Balazik (at left) and Joel Savedge gently return to the James River
the last of 23 sturgeon they netted for tagging on September 19, 2013. (Courtesy
of Holly Smith)
the James tour in August or
September with Captain Mike.
My hubby and I took one of
these tours last year, and I would
say it was far better than most
of the whale-watching tours
that I have been on.
Whales are so large that even
when they breach (throw themselves up and out of the water),
you only get to see a small part
of the body and thus really don’t
often get much of an image of
what the animal actually looks
like. A sturgeon, on the other
hand, completely jumps out of
the water so that you can actually glimpse the entire creature.
And at five feet long, it’s large
enough to be easy to see, even
from a distance.
Additionally, while sightings
are not guaranteed for either
whale or sturgeon watching, our
experience suggests that you are
far more likely to see several
sturgeon than you are to even
get one good look at a whale. I
saw more sturgeon come up out
of the water on just one trip
than I have seen whales after
taking many trips.
The Atlantic Sturgeon is an
anadromous fish, which means
that it spends most of its life at
sea and only enters fresh water
to reproduce. In most waterways, these fish swim upriver
only in the spring, but here in
Virginia, we have a population
that also makes a late-summerinto-fall run up the James from
the Chesapeake Bay. Scientists
are studying these animals to see
if they might be a separate population from the spring spawners.
The boat trip starts about
suppertime. On our trip,
Captain Mike supplied a wonderful array of sandwiches, soft
drinks and water, and a fruit
tray of such variety and abundance that people were still
snacking on fruits as we headed
back to shore after a couple of
hours on the water!
A late summer, early evening
ride on a pontoon boat is very
pleasant, even if you aren’t
expecting to view something so
historic and rare in nature as
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Thunderstorm or Just Bugs?
Way back toward the middle
of last century when Heidi and
I were young loves, we decided
to go to Kansas City for a
romantic getaway. What happened that hot July night was
right out of a 1980s horror flick.
We were engulfed by a swarm of
mayflies.
Driving down Interstate 29
along the Missouri River, suddenly we heard what sounded
like big raindrops. But quickly,
our windshield became smeared
with bugs. Not just a little bit,
either. Heidi turned on the
wipers and fluid and but we had
no chance. We had to pull over.
We looked for something to
clean the windshield and then
drove more.
We drove slower but very
soon, we were completely
slimed again as we committed
mass murder of millions of
mayflies. We had nothing left
to clean the windows with.
Eventually, we made it to a gas
station where other cars were
trying to clear their view, too.
We stocked up on liquid and
paper towels and braved the
road again.
Did I mention the dead bugfest on a hot summer night was
gross? Really, really gross.
Suddenly, we broke out of
the bugs and resumed clear sailing. The next day, we washed
my old Subaru, something I
almost never do. The green car
was completely brown on the
windward side from a fresh
thick coat of dead bugs. We
didn’t dare touch it.
Mayflies tend to hatch all at
once in the heat near the water.
They only live a day or two,
either dying by Subaru or natural causes.
Bugs on Radar
My first job out of graduate
school was as a tornado chaser.
That sounds crazy but most of
the time, it was rather boring
and methodical research. The
NEXRAD Doppler radar system that we now rely on was
brand new. Our job was to
drive into storms so that we
could match what the new
radars indicated versus what was
actually occurring on the
ground.
One thing we noticed was
that we often saw minor but
very real radar echoes in clear
skies
during
summer.
Frequently, storms erupted in
these areas later in the afternoon. Eventually, we realized
that we were seeing bugs on
radar that converged into
groups due to wind flows.
These same convergence zones
later produced thunderstorms.
Mayflies can produce radar
echoes as strong as a thunderstorm. Recently, radar near
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Medicine
Gazette Vet
any patients on medicine for
RLS, I am amazed at how many
of my male patients are on
Viagra for an only recently discovered epidemic of erectile
dysfunction. Once again what I
was taught in medical school is
in conflict with a drug company’s promotional materials.
According to drug manufacturer Pfizer’s web site, over 50
percent of men over the age of
40 have difficulty getting or
maintaining an erection. This
unreferenced
statement
is
patently untrue according to
every study done on the topic.
Nevertheless, Pfizer has managed to convince patients and
their doctors that erectile dysfunction (ED) is a serious
source of psychological stress
and a disease state when, again,
the studies do not support that
conclusion at all. This disease
mongering is worth $2 billion a
year for Pfizer and another $2
billion a year for Lilly, the makers of Cialis, another ED drug.
I will never forget one of the
first patients I saw on Viagra.
He was brought in by ambulance after fainting during intimate relations. He had taken
both Viagra and then nitroglycerin when he developed chest
pain. Remember what the ad
says, check with your doctor to
make sure you are healthy
enough for sex! He was not.
Viagra and nitroglycerin
should never be mixed; the
combination can lead to dangerously low blood pressure and
subsequent fainting as had happened to my patient. What happened next was worse though.
The medics informed us that his
wife was on her way directly
behind them. When she arrived
five minutes later she was
understandably agitated and
demanded to know what had
happened. As I explained some
of the physiology behind her
husband fainting during his
exertions she seemed at first
confused and then furious. It
seems her husband was not with
her when he had his unfortunate swoon. She had been called
by the medics to come to the
hospital when they had arrived
on the scene.
Sometimes the cure is worse
than the disease.
common in older dogs. Often
times it is just a fact of life that
is readily manageable. For
example, Spot doesn’t see or
hear well any more, but he eats
well, does his business outside,
sleeps well and just requires a
little help getting outside. Most
people will care for their elderly
dogs with great compassion and
patience. However many dogs’
dementia is so severe that their
overall quality of life and/or
ability to function are greatly
compromised.
A complicating factor is that
senile behavior can be incompatible with an owner’s quality
of life. Some dogs with significant senility wake and vocalize
for hours on end every night.
Some dogs become very moody
and suddenly start snapping at
their owners or children. Some
dogs seem to have totally lost all
urinary and bowel control and
not only urinate and defecate in
the house daily, but also do it in
their bed and sleep in it. These
are really tough situations.
For dogs with senility/
dementia, we first like to check
what other diseases may be
occurring that may be contributing to their anxiety or behavioral changes. Then we usually
discuss some changes to the
home and dog’s routine that
may help to manage some problems. After years of living freely
in the home, many geriatric
dogs find themselves being confined during the day or at night
in order to prevent disruptive
behaviors. It is often similar to
raising a puppy again.
For more significant cases,
there are anti-anxiety medications, and I will say that we use
these frequently. For the geriatric dog with dementia, medications can often decrease the
anxiety that often comes with
less cognitive function and
improve both the dog’s life, as
well as the owner’s.
Then there are the dogs that
seem beyond help. It is hard to
watch these dogs; they seem like
a ship without a pilot, an anxious, demented mess. These are
the cases where we sadly do discuss euthanasia, though again it
is so complex when these dogs
are still eating. Measuring qual-
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Betty Goodwin
Betty F. Goodwin passed
away peacefully with her son by
her side on July 8, 2014, at the
McCall Hospice House n
Simpsonville, SC following
complications from a heart
attack. Betty was 95 years old.
Betty attended Longwood
College and began teaching
school at the age of 19. She met
her husband, Dexter B.
Goodwin, while he was attending Roanoke College in Salem.
They married in 1939 and Betty
kept the home fires burning
while her husband flew 68 combat missions during World War
II. They had two daughters
before the war, and a son was
born following her husband’s
return from overseas.
At their retirement, the
Goodwins moved to Martha’s
Vineyard, where Betty continued to teach and volunteer.
They had many friends and a
full life on the island, but
returned to Salem, VA to care
for Betty’s mother.
Betty and Dexter moved to
Crozet in 2000 to be near family. Betty’s husband, Dexter,
passed away in 2005 after 65
years of marriage. It was the
small town atmosphere that was
perfect for Betty and sustained
her. She made frequent trips to
the library, the bank, and grocery store, where everyone knew
her and enjoyed her friendly
spirit.
Betty, or “Gummie” as she
was called by her growing brood
of grandchildren, never stopped
teaching and always enjoyed a
party with lots of children gathered around her knees, listening
to stories and singing songs. She
always looked as if she’d just
walked out of a spring garden
because she dressed in colors
that complimented her sparkling blue eyes. Quick to smile
and a friend to everyone she
met, Betty was the quintessential lady, who made everyone
around her feel special. She
lived each day to the fullest and
would always offer a toast to her
husband, “to another day
together.”
Betty is survived by her children, Dexter B. Goodwin Jr.
(Gale) of Greenville; Bevin G.
Cetta (Vito) of Charlottesville,
VA; and Ann G. Draper (Jerry)
of Chattahoochee, FL; nine
grandchildren
and
19
great-grandchildren. Her family
is sustained by many happy
memories of Betty, and knows
that she was always proud of all
of them and their accomplishments.
Following cremation, Betty
will join her husband once
again in Edgartown, MA where
a memorial is planned for this
fall. Memorial contributions
may be made to the McCall
Hospice House in Simpsonville,
SC or to the Felix Neck Wildlife
Sanctuary in Edgartown, MA.
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Robert Charles “Bubba”
Baber, 1970 - 2014
Robert Charles “Bubba”
Baber, age 44, of Crozet died on
Friday, August 1, 2014 at a local
hospital.
Born in Charlottesville on
February 18, 1970 he was the
son of Fay Funk Baber and the
late Roger L. Baber, Sr.
Bubba is survived by his loving wife of 23 years Tracey E.
Baber; his son, Jacob L. Baber
and his fiancée Amanda Collins;
brother, Roger L. Baber, Jr.; sister, Lisa Jones; grandfather,
Berlin Funk; mother and fatherin-law, David and Joan
Anderson; sister-in-law; Mary
Mason; brothers-in law; Chuck
Mason and David L. Anderson,
Jr.; and numerous nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles. He was
predeceased by his daughter
Elizabeth Baber and grandmother Ruby Funk.
He was a very selfless man,
wonderful father, loving husband, doting son and caring
brother.
Bubba was a fourth generation volunteer firefighter with
Crozet
Volunteer
Fire
Department. He served 30 years
with seven of those as Chief. He
also served with the Western
Albemarle Rescue Squad.
A graveside service was held
August 4 at Rockgate Cemetery
in Crozet, with Chaplain
Tammy James officiating.
In lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions are suggested to
the Crozet Volunteer Fire
Department and the Western
Albemarle Rescue Squad.
Friends may sign the guest register at teaguefuneralhome.com
Peggy Jean Sandridge Tomlin,
1934 - 2014
Peggy Jean Sandridge Tomlin,
79, of Palm Harbor, FL, died at
the Hospice of the Suncoast
Brookside, Palm Harbor, FL, on
Jul 6, 2014, after a brief struggle
with cancer, and a much longer
battle with COPD. She was
born in Charlottesville, VA on
Nov 15, 1934, the first of three
girls, to the late Virginia Coles
“Pete” Gay and Moses Melton
Sandridge, of Charlottesville.
Preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Polly Ann,
Peggy is survived by her husband of 60 years, Curtis Tomlin,
of Palm Harbor, FL (formerly
of Crozet); her sister, Patricia
Gay Sandridge Salmon of
Clearwater, FL; one son, David,
and his wife, Kay of Odenville,
AL; one daughter, Laurie Fiess,
and her husband, Greg, of
Clearwater, FL; five grandchildren; four great-granddaughters; four brothers-in-law and
three sisters-in-law; an uncle
and aunt, The Reverend Doctor
Sidney E. Sandridge and his
wife, Gladys Brewer Sandridge
of Harvest, AL, two additional
aunts: Miss Mary N. Sandridge
of Crozet, VA, and Mrs. Agnes
Wine Sandridge of Frederick,
MD; six nieces, eight nephews,
eight grand nephews, eight
grand nieces, five great-grand
nephews, and a host of cousins
and other very close friends.
A 1952 graduate of Lane
High School, Charlottesville,
Peggy attended the Univ. of VA
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for two years. She received her
BS Degree from Athens St.
Univ. in Athens, AL. She
worked in the field she loved,
Early Childhood Education,
serving and later concurrently
managing
two
Child
Development
Centers
in
Athens. Moving to Clearwater,
FL in 1980, she worked for
Head Start, then the Pinellas
Co. School System under the
Federal Title I Program for elementary school students with
special needs.
A “casual-dress” gathering of
remembrance will be held in the
fellowship hall of the Crozet
United Methodist Church, at 2
p.m., Sunday, August 10, 2014.
All those who knew Peggy and/
or any of her relatives are cordially invited to participate.
Interment of the cremains will
be private at 4 p.m. that Sunday
afternoon at the Riverview
Cemetery,
Riverview
St.,
Charlottesville.
The family requests instead of
plants or cut flowers, remembrances be donated to the charity of the donor’s choice.
Suggestions are Crozet UMC,
1156 Crozet Ave (PO Box 70),
Crozet, VA 22932; the Crozet
Library’s Large Print Book
Fund, the American Cancer
Society, or the American Lung
Assn.
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823-5002
5888 St. George Avenue
Crozet, VA 22932
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CLASSIFIED ADS
ALTERATIONS & TAILORING: Experienced seamstress with 30 years of tailoring and garment alterations
experience, working from
home in Crozet (Highlands).
Call for a free consultation.
Ruth Gerges: 434-823-5086.
BABYSITTERS
AVAILABLE: Teen Twin
Girls available to babysit, dog
walk and pet sit. Both girls
drive and are Red Cross certified. Please contact 434-4659019.
CROZET PARC YMCA
NOW HIRING: membership representatives, lifeguards, swim instructors &
water fitness instructors. Call
205-4380 or visit www.piedmontymca.org for more information.
DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
JAZZERCISE SALE. Come
get started for just $20.00
during August. Morning
classes are ongoing and open
to all levels. Check out
Jazzercise.com for information and class times.
FOR SALE: Beautiful granite
sink, never used. 14” outside
diameter; 12” inside diameter’
6”high (straight vertical sides)
Polished inside, rough outside. $150. Call 823-2042.
HELP WANTED: Down sizing small law practice, help
needed to discard files, reorganize. Requires a neat person,
attention to detail. Call 823
4131 in Crozet.
LOOKING FOR A
LIVE-IN HELPER for lovely
elderly woman in western
Albemarle, private bedroom
and bath provided, duties
include preparing breakfast,
companionship, light housekeeping, references required.
Call 434-941-6485.
MAKE POSITIVE
CHANGES: Get up, get out
and get fit with Boot Camp
for REAL People at Crozet
Park. All ages and abilities are
welcome and encouraged to
attend. Come try your first
class for free! New 12 week
accountability program starting August 26.
Contact
Melissa Miller at 434-9622311 or visit www.m2personaltraining.com for more information and class times.
INSIDE SALE: Saturday
August 23, 7 a.m. - Noon.
White Hall. Much miscellaneous items. Mt. Moriah
Methodist Church, 4524
Garth Road.
Classified ads start at $16 (repeating) and include
free online placement.To place an ad, email ads@crozetgazette.com.
To the Editor
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and Diversity found that the
heavy Roundup use associated
with GMO crops in Mexico,
where North American butterflies overwinter, has contributed
heavily to a 17-year decrease in
monarch populations.
Dr. Chip Taylor, an insect
ecologist at the University of
Kansas [and Director of
Monarch Watch] claims that
the milkweed has disappeared
from hundreds of millions of
acres of row crops. The use of
GMO corn, with its associated
herbicide, is considered a major
cause of the monarch’s decline,
along with the loss of milkweed
to land development, illegal logging at the wintering sites in
Mexico, and severe weather.
Clover Carroll
Crozet
Gazette Vet
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ity of life is complex! Poor quality of life can occur without
pain. Unfortunately, end-of-life
care is a decision that you as the
owner have to make, hopefully
along with the trust of your veterinarian. Loving them to the
end is never easy, but with careful thought and love, your decision is usually the right one.
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5690 Three Notch’d Rd., Ste. 100 • Crozet (Beside PT Plus)
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NOW ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS!
Longest Serving Dental Practice in Crozet—Locally Owned & Staffed Since 1975
New State-of-the-Art Facility Opened May 2013
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Character galore in this 2100+ sqft,
4 bedroom, 2.5 bath Cape Cod. Large
garage, finished walk-out basement,
abundant landscaping surrounds a large
patio & fish pond. 1st floor master, fireplace,
skylights. Call to see where you can view
pictures. $203,000. Qualifies for 100%
VHDA rural home financing. 434-466-4634.
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—continued from page 36
LaCrosse, Wisconsin (pictured)
recorded bug echoes of 40 DBZ
which is the same as a substantial summer thunderstorm.
July Recap
The first half of July was normal with highs up to 94 degrees
and some typical thunderstorms. But the second half of
the month turned very cool and
dry. We had lows in the 50s six
times and our lowest of 51 was
just two degrees off the all time
July low of 49 set back in 1913
and tied in 2002.
All seven months this year
have been cooler than normal.
That wasn’t much fun in January
but most of us like it in July.
Rainfall
Spring was wet so our water
tables are in good shape but late
July was quite dry. Of course,
at this time of year, amounts
vary quite a bit from place to
place. Our house seems to have
gotten the least rain. Average
July rain is nearly five inches.
Mint Springs 1.44” Waynesboro 4.19”
Old Trail 2.57”
Whitehall 2.20”
Yancey Mills 2.44” CHO Airport 3.05”
Greenwood 2.66” Nellysford 2.67”
Univ of VA 2.78”
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beautiful downtown Batesville. $106,000.
434-466-4634.
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not to mention the two goals he
scored in the state title game.
He was proud of the resilience
and unity his team displayed
throughout the year. “As a team
we kept fighting to the end and
had what it took,” he said.
Nafziger credited his coaches
Paul Rittenhouse and Milo
Oakland for teaching them the
focus and determination to
keep playing their game even in
the toughest situations. Nafziger
will continue his soccer career
this fall at Division 3
Swarthmore College.
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For Sale By Owner
DOUG SEAL & SONS
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
Licensed & Insured Contractor Since 1964
We Do All Home Interior & Exterior Remodeling & Repairs
Plumbing, Electrical, Painting, Carpentry, Floors,
Walls, Kitchens, Baths, Etc.
We Also Buy Old Coins and Paper Money
Crozet ................................... 434-823-4167
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Class “A” Contractor Looking for Small Projects
UVa Architecture Graduate
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Stonework, dry-laid or mortared
Hardscape, including brick paths
Small Additions or Remodeling
Planting, Maintenance, and
Drip Irrigation Systems
OVER 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE
References Available
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General Contractor
(434) 823-9009
pgrady@nexet.net
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