County Collects Opinions on Uses for Old Crozet Elementary

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JUly 2008 VOL. 3, NO. 2
Greenwood
Group Works to
Establish Rural
Historic District
By Kathy Johnson
Many residents and landowners in
the Greenwood/Afton area are finding
common ground in their love for the
history of the area, the land itself and
the preservation of the many fine old
homes located here. In the spring of
2007, the Greenwood Rural Historical
District Committee submitted what is
called a Preliminary Information Form
(PIF) to the Virginia Department of
Historic Resources, for the purpose of
determining eligibility and recognition
of a unique Virginia historic area of
Albemarle and Nelson Counties. That
PIF has been approved and the committee has been invited to submit a
nomination for the Virginia Landmarks
Register and the National Register of
Historic Places.
As it was presented, the PIF covers
the land from Yancey Mills to Rockfish
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County Collects Opinions on
Uses for Old Crozet Elementary
About 30 people showed up at the
Western Albemarle High School cafeteria June 19 for the first of three days
of meetings on what use should be
made of the old Crozet elementary
school since it has been vacated by the
Charlottesville Waldorf School.
Architects with the Newport News
consulting firm PMA Planners and
Architects, which will produce a report
on plausible options and their ballpark
costs, noted that the school might be
eligible for an historic register. Built in
1924, the school sits on two parcels
totaling eight acres and was added
onto in the 1960s. It is within the
boundaries of the proposed Crozet historic district.
Ideas were collected on large sheets
of paper, those were hung on the wall
Peachtree All-Stars Head
for the State Tournament
WAHS Class of 2008
pages 24–26
Rowers
page 27
By Nick Ward
Scouting News
page 28–29
After defeating Fluvanna County 10 to 9, Madison
County 10 to 3, and Greene County 3 to 0, Crozet’s
Peachtree 10-and-under All-Stars found themselves in
the District 5 championship game. The District tournament is played under a double-elimination format, so
because of the dominance that the Peachtree team
showed early in the brackets, to lose the championship
Peachtree would have to be beaten twice in a row by the
same Fluvanna team that they already defeated. Peachtree was the home team for the first of two
games against Fluvanna to decide who moved onto the
Home on Faith
page 32
crossword
page 33
Heart of Crozet
page 36
Fluvanna took out the Peachtree All-Stars in their first game, but not the
second.
Crozet gazette
page 2 s JUly 2008
from the Editor
The School Is a School
It’s astonishing to watch people
ruminate about what a building that
has been a school since 1924 should
be used for. Old Crozet elementary
school was designed to be a school,
was used as a school a short year ago
and, especially for reasons of economy, should continue to be a
school.
In the Crozet Master Plan,
County officials assumed that some
20 or so acres in the eastern section
of town would be proffered as a
school site by some unidentified
developer as part of a conjectured
rezoning seeking a higher density.
The owners of one of the two most
likely parcels for that to happen on,
in fact the strongest candidate,
meanwhile decided to proceed as a
by-right project, to be called Foothill
Crossing. So, no school will happen
there.
Buying land somewhere in the
Crozet growth area and building a
new school will cost millions, probably on the order of $20 million at
least. Renovating the old school and
putting the upper grades there, since
they are the ones most likely to be
sensible about crossing the street,
would allow the single administration of a fairly large student body
that nonetheless has the experience
of being in a smaller school(s). Even
with a gym or cafeteria added to the
old school, the cost would be substantially less. The government does
not have a magic piggybank. It’s
either being efficient or wasteful
with your money, which you would
otherwise spend in ways important
to you.
Crozet Elementary went through
a redistricting last year and will do it
again next year. Redistrictings are
sometimes necessary, but if it’s happened to your kids, you know you’d
prefer that it did not. The school’s
traditional attendance boundary
extends north into Browns Cove
and beyond and a bigger capacity
school would allow those long allegiances to endure, at least for a while
longer. It was shameful that kids
from White Hall were shifted to
Meriwether Lewis Elementary last
year at huge inconvenience to their
families. This is an identity issue for
Crozet. Who are we? Who belongs
with us? Enlarging the school is also
the friendliest solution to the northern neighborhoods, which would
not face the prospect of adapting to
new uses that might involve nights
and weekends and lighting.
A committee has been formed
now to oversee the design of the
new 20,000-square-foot Crozet
library and meanwhile the County
has passed rules that say, properly,
that all buildings in downtown must
be at least two stories. Many of the
public space needs identified in the
County’s recent meetings about the
old school could be incorporated
into the library with a little forethought. The future is likely to be
more digital, not less, and digital
does not use much floor area.
Then there is the currently library,
the former depot. What will happen
to it? It might be a sensible candidate for satellite county offices,
especially a police station to serve
the western side of Albemarle. The
point is we should take full advantage of the land we own before we
go shopping for more. We taxpayers
already have plenty of public property to take care of.
Ave Atque Vale
The Gazette notes with sadness
the passing of Charlie Bell, who was
a good soul and kept a lot of folks
fed in his day. He did a lot of favors
for Santa Claus, and we expect
Santa will miss him, too.
Such Nice Gentlemen
The editor would like to thank
the two young men, whoever they
are, who stopped to push his daughter’s car out of a ditch on Rt. 250
recently. We do all rely on the courtesy of strangers more than we recognize.
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JUly 2008 s page 3
Summerfest Schedule
July 5 • Claudius Crozet Park
9 a.m.
Poker Run
10 a.m.
Festival Opens
10 a.m.
10 a.m.
11 a.m.
12 p.m.
1 p.m.
2 p.m.
Family Games begin
Sack Race
Egg Toss
Water Cup Race
Frisbee Toss
Water Balloon Toss
10:30 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Activities include:
30’ Rock Climbing Wall
Extreme Air Bungee Jumper
Inflatable Jumper
Dunk Tank
Dime Pitch
Car Show
11 – 2 p.m.
10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
FOOD
Pork Bar-B-Q, Hot Dogs,
Polish Sausage, Fruit Plate,
Hamburgers, Funnel Cakes
and MORE!
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
3 p.m.
Craft Exhibitions
PARADE
5:30 p.m.
FiremEn’s Competition
10:30 p.m.
Music Schedule
11 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and 4 – 10:30 p.m.
11 – 12 p.m.
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
4 – 5 p.m.
5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
7:45 – 8:45 p.m.
9 p.m. – Fireworks
FIREWORKS
The Wave
Skyline Cloggers
Lester Seal Band
Ashleigh Pugh & Sarah
Pollard
Freddie Frazier Band
Ronnie Johnson Band
Morris Family
Eli Cook
Down Til Now
From left to right: Joanne Perkins, Isabelle Marshall, and Meg Sewell
White Hall
Ruritans Name
Scholarship
Winner
Isabelle Marshall received the
Walter
Perkins
Memorial
Scholarship from Joanne Perkins
(left) and White Hall Ruritans president Meg Sewell at a picnic supper
at Claudius Crozet park June 26.
The scholarship honors the former
White Hall District supervisor and
school board member. Marshall will
attend the University of Mary
Washington in Fredericksburg in
September and is thinking about a
biology major.
Besides the scholarship, this year
the Ruritans have made donations
to the Crozet Volunteer Fire
Department and Western Albemarle
Rescue Squad, supported the
“Destination Imagination” teams
from Henley Middle School, honored three outstanding fifth grade
students from Crozet Elementary
with gift certificates, sponsored an
SPCA rabies vaccination clinic at
the White Hall Community
Building, sponsored the Civilian
Conservation Corps celebration at
the Community Building, erected a
creche at the Community Building
during December, held a Christmas
Party for children in the White Hall
area, conducted a fall community
picnic on the old horse grounds on
Spring Hollow Road, did Spring
and Fall road clean-up on roads into
and out of White Hall, installed a
new heating and air conditioning
system for the Community Building
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page 4 s JUly 2008
Shenandoah
National Park Offers
Camping Seminars
Shenandoah National Park will
offer a seminar on “The Basics of
Family Camping” on Saturday and
Sunday, July 19-20. Camping overnight, families can get hands-on
experience in the basics of cooking,
setting up a tent, and applying Leave
No Trace techniques. Park rangers
and volunteers will demonstrate
camping gear and provide tips on
how to have a fun, safe outdoor
family adventure. Tents, cooking
equipment, and food will be provided.
The seminar costs $50 for one
adult and child (5-12 years old) and
$10 for each additional family
member. Reservations are required.
Shenandoah
National
Park
Association members receive a 20
percent discount. To register, go to
the SNP website at http://www.nps.
gov/shen/planyourvisit/resource_
seminars.htm. A second session of
“The Basics of Family Camping” is
scheduled for August 2-3.
For more information, contact
the park’s Education Office at (540)
999-3489 or visit the park’s website
at www.nps.gob/shen.
Gospel Jubilee
Set for July 10-12
The seventh Virginia Southern
Gospel Jubilee will be held July 10,
11 and 12 at Glen Maury Park on
10th Street in Buena Vista. Several local groups will singing
as well as professional gospel groups
including Mike Upright, The
Browders, and Kevin Spencer and
Friends on Thursday evening. Restoration, The Singing Cookes, and
The Cooke Brothers will perform
on Friday. Saturday will feature The
Bowlings, The Oxendines, and
Carla and Redemption.
Starting times on Thursday and
Friday are at 6 p.m. and on Saturday at 5 p.m. The Jubilee will be
held rain or shine beneath a multipurpose shelter. Some seating is
available but it is recommended that
everyone bring a lawn chair. Park
camping and concessions are
available.
All are invited. There is no admission fee, but a free-will offering will
be received each evening to help
with event expenses. The Pentecostal
Outreach Church of Buena Vista is
sponsoring the festival. For more
information, please call Pastor Larry
Clark at 540-261-2556 or visit
www.VaSouthernGospelJubilee.
com.
It’s A Little
Cooler at
Humpback Rocks
Mountain Farm
Area groups will perform traditional Appalachian music at
Humpback
Rocks
Mountain
Farm on Sunday afternoons from 2
to 4 p.m. throughout the summer. The re-created 19th-century
Appalachian pioneer farm is at
Milepost 5.8 on the Blue Ridge
Parkway. Weekend activities include
quilting, basketmaking, and open
hearth cooking, as well ountainside
as the usual
care of the garden and SENIOR
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flock. Wildflowers are in bloom.
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music; Sunnyside Assisted
with
Carolyn
Living Community
Phillips performing old-time tunes;
also featuring Harry Baldwin and
his Percheron draft horses.
July 13: Grassy Ridge with Pam
ountainside
Ward. Traditional songs
of the
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mountains.
July 20: Concert with Loose
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Gravel. Old-time
bluegrass.
July 27: Mel A JABA
Lee and Band
Assisted Living Community
Nonesuch. 100-year-old
ballads
from the Shenandoah Valley
All events are free. Park Rangers
are ready to answer questions. Call
(540) 943-4716 for ountainside
information
and to confirm events. SENIOR LIVING
abandonment in Poe’s personal life,
weaving together Poe’s prose with
jazz standards. Suggested donation:
$10. Tel: (434) 361-1999. The
Hamner Theater (at 190 Rockfish
School Lane, south of Afton on Rt.
151) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) project of the Rockfish Valley
Community Center. Visit www.thehamnertheater.com.
Family and
Friends Day
At Mt. Salem
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by Phil James
Shenandoah National Park
The Hidden Sacrifice
P
resident Franklin Roosevelt dedicated
Shenandoah National Park on the 3rd of
July 1936, “to this and succeeding generations of Americans for the recreation and for the
re-creation which they shall find here.” Ten years
of struggle, great sacrifice, and countless tears had
preceded this speech expounding on land conservation and the motorized pursuit of happiness by
the American people.
Now, imagine living in a place where everything you need for work and play is available just
a short distance from your front door. Throw in
spectacular views, a network of roads with only
occasional traffic, and good neighbors whose
ancestral roots run as deeply in that place as your
own.
Then, imagine that when your children reach
adulthood and are continuing the same traditions
which were handed down to you, a law is established that requires them to abandon their homes,
property, neighborhood and way of life.
Such was the case of Christopher Columbus
Via, born the fourth of 13 siblings, and raised in
the Blue Ridge Mountains of Albemarle County.
When Christopher Via was born in 1850, an
agricultural census that same year noted that his
grandfather Clifton Via was blessed to own a
farmstead of several hundred acres and a wide
variety of livestock. His field crops included oats,
wheat, corn and tobacco, while his gardens produced beans, potatoes and peas and other staples.
Clifton Via’s forefathers had farmed Albemarle
County lands since the mid-1700’s.
A traditionally strong work ethic led
Christopher Columbus Via to establish an
orchard of Albemarle Pippin apples in a 2,700’
elevation wind gap below the crest of the Blue
Ridge Mountains. His most select fruits were
shipped to England, beginning that long trek
from Via Gap by horse-and-wagon over the
mountain to a railroad shipping point in the
Shenandoah Valley. The balance of the crop was
distilled into brandy for legal sale. The seasonal
apple business supplemented his usual farming
and timbering operations.
Via’s commercial pursuits provided work for
many in his neighborhood, and served as lessons
in business for the fifteen children born to him
and his wife Melinda (Marshall) Via. His hardearned prosperity allowed him to contribute land
for two community buildings: Wayside Brethren
Church (built near the intersection of the North
Fork of Moormans River and Black Rock Gap
Road), and Via School (built in the mountains
alongside this same fork of the Moormans
River).
As America prospered and grew, forward-looking individuals began to call for the setting aside
and conservation of certain public lands. The first
such project was Yellowstone National Park,
established in 1872. By the early 1920s more
than a dozen U.S. National Parks had been established, all but one being in the western states.
Post-World War prosperity coupled with massproduced, affordable automobiles enabled
Americans of modest means to become increasingly mobile.
A demand was raised to establish a national
park easily accessed by the masses living in the
eastern U.S. Much lobbying was done by states
hoping to be awarded the unique distinction—
and the tourism dollars—that such a designation
would bring. In 1924 the Southern Appalachian
National Park Committee recommended two
sites: Great Smoky Mountains National Park in
North Carolina/Tennessee and Shenandoah
National Park in Virginia. In 1926 both parks
were authorized by Congress—with the condition that their lands be donated.
The lands comprising Shenandoah National
Park lie in eight Virginia counties. Congress had
stipulated that the proposed park must contain a
minimum of 160,000 acres. From 1926 to 1928
an area of more than 300,000 acres was surveyed
President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially dedicated
Shenandoah National Park on July 3, 1936.
for possible inclusion in the park. This included
344 individual tracts of land in Albemarle County
totaling nearly 25,000 acres. Houses and barns
were inspected, fruit trees were counted and values were placed on saleable timber. The Hoover
continued on page 6
Daniel C. Via (1877–1930), sitting on right, rests beside his sons, Jessie and Junie, c.1901. Daniel followed the logging
traditions of his father, Christopher Columbus Via, in the Via Gap area of western Albemarle County.
[Photo courtesy of Leon Via III.]
Crozet gazette
page 6 s JUly 2008
Shenandoah National Park—continued from page 5
Robert H. “Bob” Via sits with two youngsters in the midst of baskets and barrels of
Albemarle Pippin apples. Bob Via unsuccessfully challenged the Commonwealth of
Virginia’s right to take his Blue Ridge Mountain land and orchards and give them
to the federal government. [Photo courtesy of Leon Via III.]
Moletus and Sarah (Frazier) Garrison with their children at their home on the crest
of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Albemarle County. Like many others, the Garrison
family was forced off their land for the creation of Shenandoah National Park.
[Photo courtesy of Woodrow and Rosie Keyton.]
administration had been willing to
allow the mountain people to remain in
their homes. The powers-that-be in
Roosevelt’s administration dashed the
hopes of many when they decreed that
all park inhabitants would have to move
out.
Following a blanket condemnation
by the state, monetary settlements were
offered to titled land owners, and an
appeals process (usually fruitless) began.
Some owners were ready and willing to
sell—many more were less than willing
at the prices offered. Others were
unwilling to sell or leave at any price.
Unease was the order of the day in
many
mountain
settlements.
Neighborhood meetings were held
among the mountain dwellers, and correspondence, news and rumors were
passed along. As individual appeals
wore on and fears of the inevitable
became more of a reality, landowners’
letters to park and government authorities took on a different tone. Owners
asked if they could move buildings, or
requested permission to plant gardens
or repair fences one more season.
Individuals outside of the proposed
park area asked to salvage materials
from abandoned homes. Most citizen
requests were denied.
Former renters and tenants of sold
properties, having no legal or financial
recourse in the condemnations, sometimes quietly moved into nearby
recently abandoned houses. When discovered, they again were forced to leave,
and the houses were dismantled or
burned to prevent repeat occurrences.
When it appeared to the remaining
mountain residents that all recourse had
Joseph F. Wood (1871–1944) was the only
Albemarle County landowner granted
lifetime tenure following the establishment
of Shenandoah National Park. He and his wife
Winkie (Belew) raised their family on the south
fork of Moormans River in Sugar Hollow, near
today’s popular Blue Hole.
[Photo courtesy of Larry Lamb.]
been exhausted, a spark of hope was
rekindled late in 1934. Albemarle
County landowner Robert H. “Bob”
Via (1883–1958), a son of Christopher
Columbus Via, contended that “the
state had no power to condemn property within the state for the purpose of
making a gift of it to the United States.”
Via took his challenge against the State
of Virginia to the federal courts.
Bob Via had no small interest in the
state’s condemnation affairs. He had
continued his father’s legacy in the Via
Gap area by planting thousands more
Albemarle Pippin trees, and netted
$2000 annually (a princely sum in that
day) on fruit sales alone. Though the
federal court considered Via’s arguments, his challenge died in November
1935 when the U.S. Supreme Court
rejected his final appeal. A month later,
on the day after Christmas 1935, over
176,000 acres of Virginia mountain
lands were titled to the federal government.
Thousands of park boosters were in
attendance when President Roosevelt’s
dedicatory speech was presented in the
grassy field at Big Meadows in
Shenandoah National Park. Their
appreciative applause echoed down the
mountainsides, but few remained in the
hollows and coves to wonder what the
commotion was all about. The previous
Crozet gazette
JUly 2008 s page 7
Rockfish Valley Volunteer Fire
Department to Host Fundraisers
By Kathy Johnson
The gravestone of Christopher Columbus Via (1850–1906) and his wife Melinda
(1849–1921) stands tall over the graves of their extended family members in the Via
Cemetery. The National Park land condemnation took Via’s former home with much of his
mountain farm, and isolated the cemetery on private property.
ten years, overseen by three presidential administrations, had been
fraught with economic depression,
the devastating chestnut blight, a
hog cholera epidemic, the worst
drought in 100 years, and a smear
campaign against an innocent people orchestrated by Park proponents
and the media.
Roosevelt’s entourage motored
from Big Meadows to Farmington
Country Club in Charlottesville.
There the President spent the evening and night before speaking the
following day, Saturday, July 4th, at
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. His
election campaign theme song,
Happy Days Are Here Again, was
doubtlessly played while he was in
town, but it was probably not running through the minds of the former residents of the Blue Ridge
Mountains in Monticello’s western
viewshed.
Descendants of Christopher
Columbus Via bushwhack almost a
mile down from Shenandoah
National Park’s Skyline Drive, carrying the tools needed to maintain
their ancestral burial ground in Via
Gap. They search the surrounding
woods—some on private lands,
some in the Park—to pay homage
at the home sites of their mountain
ancestors. Similar pilgrimages are
repeated throughout the Park by
other families. They are occasionally
accompanied by one who can still
recall the days before the families
were scattered and the mountain
lands provided all of their needs.
It is their legacy and sacrifice that
we honor with our appreciation and
respect for the lands they once called
home.
Phil James invites contact from those who would share recollections and old
photographs of life along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Albemarle County,
Virginia. You may respond to him at: P.O. Box 88, White Hall, VA 22987 or
philjames@firstva.com. Secrets of the Blue Ridge © 2008 Phil James
Crozet
Baptist Church
With a new $300,000 fire truck,
the Rockfish Valley Volunteer Fire
Department is set on a course of
fundraising events this summer and
fall to help pay for the new addition. Located on Rockfish Valley
Highway (Route 6 [also 151]) in
Afton, the department provides fire
and rescue service for Nelson
County, Route 250 to the top of the
mountain and parts of western
Albemarle County.
The combination volunteer fire
and rescue service hosted a truck
and tractor pull in June, the first of
numerous events designed to raise
money for the truck and other
department expenses. “We handled
a lot of money,” says Teresa Davis,
Rescue Captain. “Now we have to
see what we get to keep.”
Staffed by an all-volunteer group
of local residents, the department is
not only responsible for fire and
safety, they must raise the money to
provide those services and rely
strongly on community support to
help reach their financial goals.
Regular Tuesday night Bingo has
helped with expenses in the past,
but with the new fire truck and
other regular department expenses,
it will take more than Bingo to cover
their costs.
On Saturday, July 12, beginning
at 9 a.m., the group will hold an
auction to raise funds. Currently the
group is accepting items for the auction. Those willing to donate good
usable items for the auction should
call (540) 456-6379 or (540)
456-6052 to schedule a time to bring
the item or for more information
about the sale. Food will also be
available at the auction. Items
already included in the auction
include a bush-hog and the old fire
department squad truck.
The next event currently scheduled will be on September 6, when
a Bluegrass Festival will be held at
the fire department. Tickets for this
event are $10 per person for adults
and $5 for children 6-12. Children
under 5 will be admitted free. There
will be a 50/50 drawing and food
will be available. Scheduled bands
for the event include James River
Cut-Ups, Little Mountain Boys and
In the Tradition. A fourth band will
be announced. For more information on this event call Gary Nickell
at (434) 361-1059 or (434)
962-9558.
On September 27, a tractor pull
will be held and the department’s
Tractor Raffle and dinner is set for
November 1. The group is currently
selling tickets for that event, which
features the raffle of a 2008
Chevrolet pickup truck. 350 tickets
are being sold for the raffle and purchase of a ticket for $100 will
include two steak dinners and
chances at other prizes during the
evening. The evening will end with
the drawing of the last ticket to
determine the winner of the new
truck.
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CCC’s White Hall Camp Remembered
The Civilian Conservation Corp
camp that existed in White Hall
from 1933 through World War II
was remembered at a talk by local
historian Phil James at the White
Hall Community Center June 8.
Joan Sharpe, president of CCC
Legacy, a group of CCC alumni and
their families who want the contributions of the CCC to be remembered, was on hand and presented
James with a CCC 75th Anniversary
medal to recognize his exemplary
history reporting on the subject.
[See the June 2008 Crozet Gazette]
“We’re trying to elevate the CCC,
particularly in Virginia,” Sharpe told
the crowd of 45. “I think of it as the
home of the conservation movement. The first CCC camps were in
Virginia, Camp Roosevelt and
Camp Luray. It’s a Virginia first that
gets little attention. It’s not just the
national forests and the Shenandoah
National Park. State parks and the
first state fish hatcheries were built
by the CCC. They did a lot to
restore national battlefields in
Virginia, especially Chancellorsville
and Fredericksburg. We have to
fight for that history.”
CCC Legacy is moving its
national headquarters to Edinburg,
near the site of Camp Roosevelt, she
announced. A statue to CCC workers was erected there May 17 to
mark what would have been the
CCC’s 75th anniversary. The U.S.
Forest Service is trying to raise $1
million for a CCC museum there,
Sharpe said. Meanwhile, a statue of
a CCC worker nicknamed “Big
Mike,” shown bare-chested with an
axe at his side, has also been erected
CCC Legacy president Joan Sharpe presented local historian Phil James with a CCC 75th
Anniversary medal to recognize his writing on the corps.
at Big Meadows. More than 3 million men served in the CCC.
Among their many contributions,
they put up most of the telephone
poles in America that established
the national telephone infrastructure.
James had put up an impressive
display of local CCC memorabilia,
including clippings of local newspaper stories, old photos of Virginia
camps and men at work, CCC promotional and recruitment literature,
posters, a silk pillow embroidered
with “Happy Days In the CCC: We
Can Take It,” felt CCC pennants,
matchbooks, CCC license plates,
book ends with the CCC shield,
and a bugle.
“My interest is the people who
lived the history,” said James. “They
built rock walls we drive by and they
planted the trees we sit under,” he
noted.
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Three men who were at Camp
White Hall are still alive. Local
Truman Huckstep, who died two
years ago (with 45 years of perfect
attendance at White Hall Ruritan
meetings), spent two-and-a-half
years at the camp. Workers had to
be qualified to join—including a
need qualification—and attended
training camps to get fit, James
explained. When World War II
broke out, many CCCers enlisted.
“[The government] wanted to
train the boys with social skills and
literacy. They lived together around
the clock. Camps were like high
school classes. They went in and
they graduated out.”
When the first group of 196 men
arrived in June 1933, they had no
trucks so they walked eight miles,
carrying their tools, to their worksite.
“These young guys were aware of
what a special thing they were a part
of. We’ve gotten jaded to so much,”
James lamented. “Boys were working to support their families.”
Workers earned $30 a month, he
said, and were allowed to keep $5.
By rule, the other $25 was sent
home to their families. Camp payrolls brought $5,000 monthly into
their locales and were important
support for rural economies.
The woods were full of dead
chestnuts at the time and forest fires
were common. James speculated
that some were started by the CCC
men because they got paid for putting them out. The camp had a
nursery and men worked on controlling forest diseases.
Camp White Hall men worked
at digging ditches along roads,
building bridges, and cutting fire
trails in the mountains. They also
made all the signs (637) for CCC
camps in Virginia. It took three
years, but they built Lake Albemarle.
Later the camp was used to house
German prisoners of war who were
put to work picking fruit and cutting cordwood. Some of the
Germans returned to the area to live
after the war was over. Sherando
Lake was also a CCC camp used to
house POWs.
James is hoping to get a Virginia
Historical Marker placed in White
Hall to commemorate the camp.
The cost would be $1,350, he said.
Sharpe said CCC Legacy was ready
to help with fundraising.
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Condon’s Corner: Kitchen Gardening
Blueberries
There are many kinds of blueberries, and the
names of the different types are often descriptive
of their growing habits (half-high, low bush). The
ones that are cultivated in our gardens are usually
the “highbush” types.
These bushes typically grow from four to five
feet in height and produce fruit over 8 to 10
weeks. They make cute little bell-shaped flowers
in the spring, blue berries in the summer, bright
red leaves in the fall, and have red (sometimes
yellow) branches in the winter.
If you have already planted blueberry bushes,
you are harvesting and enjoying these wonderful
berries now. If you do not have blueberry plants
in your yard, you might consider that they are
probably the easiest fruits to grow in the home
garden.
You can plan now for growing some of these
lovely and useful shrubs next year if you have a
sunny area with acid soil (the same pH that rhododendrons and azaleas require.
A highbush blueberry shrub has a very fine,
fibrous root system that is mostly located in the
top 12 inches of soil. These roots can dry out easily so it is important that you place mulch (two
to three inches) around the base of the plant. The
mulch cover should extend out to the “dripline”
(where rain drops drip off the branch tips).
There are many varieties of mulches. Grass
clippings are probably the easiest and cheapest to
obtain since most homeowners have a lawn. Use
the bagging device on your mower to gather up
the clippings and then spread them around your
bushes. However, if your lawn was treated with
herbicides, DO NOT use grass clippings.
Herbicides are not selective and will kill the plants
you want to grow as well as the ones you don’t.
Herbicides are also extremely harmful to our
amphibians, such as toads and salamanders that
are your “natural insecticides,” so you should
avoid using them in the future.
Wood chips are very good choices for mulching, although they may be expensive. They can be
bought in quantity from sawmills or folks who
specialize in selling mulch by the truckload (look
in the yellow pages). This is cost efficient if you
have lots of areas around the yard that could use
mulching.
Twice a year, fertilize with 5-10-10 or 10-10-10:
in the spring as plants are budding out, and again
about now (early July). Organic gardeners can
add blood meal, cottonseed meal, and well-rotted
manure (a combination of these substances
should be employed to provide a more balanced
fertilization). Do not use wood ashes (from fireplaces) or bone meal (from dead animals) as these
make the soil less acidic.
Lastly, in order to keep your plants productive,
they will need to be pruned in early spring just as
the flower buds begin to swell (become enlarged).
For the first five years after planting, you need
only cut out any diseased or broken branches
each spring. After six growing seasons, however,
the bushes are considered to be “mature,”
and productivity will
decline on the oldest
shoots. These shoots Marlene A. Condon
must be cut back all
the way to ground level in order to encourage
new shoots to sprout from the base of the plants.
These young stems will form flower buds for the
next summer’s bloom.
You may sometimes see Yellow-necked or Fall
Webworm moth caterpillars or Brown Elfin butterfly caterpillars, but you should just leave them
be. They may defoliate a few branches, but the
shrubs will simply re-leaf after the “cats” are gone
in a few weeks. In a nature-friendly garden,
numerous predators, such as tachinid flies, will
help limit future numbers of caterpillars free of
charge for you.
Keep in mind that caterpillars serve as important food for many other kinds of animals, especially baby birds still in the nest. Moths are an
especially critical food source for bats, while butterflies provide great beauty for you in addition
to serving as food for other critters. Do what’s
best for our natural world (and ultimately
us!) and just be patient.
The biggest competitor for your blueberries will be birds, followed by mammals. If you place netting over the bushes,
you must check the netting several times
every day. Snakes may become entangled
and birds may fly underneath and get
caught. They will die if left there and you
need snakes to limit vole populations and
birds to limit insect numbers.
Or do what I did: Instead of using netting, grow some blueberry shrubs away
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Peachtree—continued from page 1
Lorenzo Carrazana with a good cut.
10-and-under State Tournament. Matt Schoeb, the starting pitcher
for the local little league got off to a
rough start. The hard-throwing lefty
gave up four runs in the first two
innings and meanwhile got no run
support from his teammates. Schoeb allowed two more runs in
the top of the third inning, but the
winds of change were beginning to
blow. David Strucko led off the bottom of the third for Peachtree with
a bunt single which energized the
rest of the lineup. Not to be outdone, Jonathan Peterson made solid
contact on a ball that the Fluvanna
third baseman could not handle. The team’s leadoff man, Lorenzo
Carrazana, was next in line to the
plate and he smacked a line drive
into centerfield, loading the bases
for Schoeb. Schoeb helped himself
Matt Schoeb on the mound.
out by drawing a four-pitch walk,
which brought in the first run for
his team. The starting shortstop,
Chris Hughes, was up next, and he
continued the rally with an RBI single into centerfield. The bases were still loaded with
no outs when Peachtree’s smooth
swinging clean-up man, Caleb
Handley, stepped of to the
plate. With one swing of the bat the
big first baseman tied up the game
by absolutely demolishing a ball
over the center field fence for a
grand slam. A tie game was not
enough for Peachtree in the third
inning, and after more hits by
Stephen Kuzjak, Peterson, Carazana,
and Hughes, the scoreboard showed
that Peachtree had taken a three-run
lead, 9 to 6. Hughes moved from shortstop to
pitcher for the top of the fourth
inning and allowed no runs in his
first inning of work. Although
momentum was in their favor,
Peachtree could not add to their
lead. In the top of the fifth inning,
Fluvanna decided that it was their
turn to have a rally, and they took
back the lead, 13 to 9. Hughes had
to leave the game during the fifth
inning after being hit with a batted
ball after releasing a pitch, and
Handley was forced to come to the
mound. After losing a team leader in the
top half of the fifth inning, Peachtree
was not able to answer Fluvanna’s
offensive onslaught in the bottom
of the fifth. Fluvanna would add
three more runs to their lead in the
top of the sixth, and down by 7
entering the last half inning of the
game Peachtree was in trouble. Fluvanna was able to hold off
the home team’s final effort at a victory and win game one of the district championship, 16 to 9. Although Peachtree lost the first
game of the championship series,
they were able to bounce back and
put together a very strong performance in the elimination game. Peachtree 10-andUnder All-Stars:
Lorenzo Carrazana
Caleb Handley
Chris Hughes
Ryan Jones
Stephen Kuzjak
Robert Mihalko
Jonathan Peterson
Matt Schoeb
David Stucko
Bryce Whitehurst
Kyle Rose
Manager: Eric Schoeb
Lead by Schoeb and Hughes with
strong showings on the mound,
Peachtree was victorious in the second championship game against
Fluvanna 9 to 1. After winning districts, the team will now move onto
the State Tournament where it will
look to bring back another championship trophy to Crozet.
Crozet gazette
JUly 2008 s page 11
A New York Yankee in Chief Bubba and Hubba’s
Firehouse
By Tom Loach
Coming Soon to Crozet: Truckies
W
hile it’s very noticeable
over the last couple of
years that the population
of Crozet has soared, we have not
only been growing outward, but
upward as well. It’s not unusual now
to see three-story homes in most of
our new developments. For the
Crozet Volunteer Fire Department,
this new verticality presents its own
set of challenges if fire should
strike.
One of the basic tenets of firefighting is that you have to open
and ventilate the building to let the
heat and smoke out at the same time
you attack the base of the fire with
water hoses. Because smoke and
heat rise, the best place to start ventilation is at the top of the building.
This can be accomplished in a number of ways, from the very simple
like opening the windows and using
fans to push the heat and smoke
out, to the more difficult operation
of cutting holes in the roof with axes
or a power saw. When we’re talking
about the third floor and roof, this
usually means using a 35-foot
ladder, and often two ladders,
because you want to have at least
two avenues of escape from the
building or roof if something bad
should happen.
Another important aspect of dealing with taller buildings is the ability to make rescues from the upper
floors. While we practice getting
victims down a ladder, this maneuver can be a daunting and danger-
ous task for both the firefighter and
the victim.
To confront this new height reality, the Crozet fire department is
considering adding a ladder truck.
Some call this new truck a platform
truck because at the end of the ladder (which can extend up to 95 feet)
is a platform or bucket-like extension. The platform has a number of
advantages over a straight extension
ladder. It provides a stable base for
the firefighters to work and just
underneath the platform is a large
caliber hose and nozzle that can put
out a considerable amount of water.
Another benefit is it allows the firefighters to cut a hole in a roof without actually standing on one potentially weakened from fire. When it
comes to rescues, the bucket has a
small door that can be opened to
allow victims easy entry into it.
For the Crozet fire department,
this new technology comes at not
only a significant dollar amount, it
will also have a major effect on how
we operate. In many fire departments there is actually a division of
labor, assigning firefighters to either
a ladder truck or engine company.
Those assigned to the truck company, or “truckies” as they’re known,
have the primary responsibility of
performing ventilation and search/
rescue functions. The firefighters
assigned to the ladder truck will also
become the experts on forcible
entry, which has jokingly led to the
view of truckies as highly trained
vandals.
The arrival of the new ladder
truck will mean a significant amount
of training for our drivers, who will
have to adapt to a truck much longer than our current trucks, and for
all of the firefighters who will operate off the platform. Our chiefs and
officers will have to coordinate the
efforts of both ladder and hose
teams.
Having been assigned to a ladder
truck in New York, I can tell you
that operating 95 feet in the air
takes getting use to. I recently got a
chance to go up in the platform of a
ladder truck similar to the one
Crozet will be looking at, and I
admit to holding on very tight as
the platform neared its vertical limit.
Then again, up that high you get a
very good view of Crozet.
There are currently three other
ladder trucks in the area, one in the
city and two in the county. Adding
a ladder truck to the Crozet
Volunteer Fire Department will add
a new layer of safety for the residents
of Crozet and Albemarle County
and one more reason to be proud of
our fire department.
CVFD Chief Warren
“Hubba” Wood, Jr.
To Receive Outstanding
Leadership Award
Fire News will recognize CVFD Battalion Chief Warren “Hubba”
Wood, Jr. as the 2008 Outstanding Leadership Award Winner at
Firehouse Expo, the leading fire, rescue, and EMS expo on the East
Coast, which will be held July 22-27 at the Baltimore Convention
Center in Baltimore. Chief Wood has proven to be a person who
communicates effectively, cultivates trust, pride and commitment,
and enhances the image and reputation of his department, according
to the award selection committee.
Crozet gazette
page 12 s JUly 2008
Destination Imagination Teams Go to “Globals”
A Destination Imagination team of Henley
Middle School 6th graders composed of Megan
Pritchard, Allyson Barkley, Jessie Powell, Angela
Li, Claire Flynn, Maggie Roesch and Emily
Kochard won the Virginia State Championship
Left to right: Megan Pritchard, Allyson Barkley, Jessie
Powell, Angela Li, Claire Flynn, Maggie Roesch. Not
pictured: Emily Kochard.
on April 5 in Destination Imagination’s
“Chorific!” challenge. So next they were on their
way to Knoxville, Tennessee, for DI’s Global
Finals on May 21 - 24, where 1,031 teams from
across the world competed.
Destination Imagination is a program that
teaches participants skills in teamwork, problem
solving, and creativity. The team created a sixminute improvisational skit with props made
from cardboard, cloth, pipe cleaners, and lots of
bubble wrap. In the skit, a mundane chore went
terribly wrong. The students overcame two obstacles in order to complete the chore, and they integrated a famous person into the skit. They also
created an original sound design to enhance their
performance.
The students traded pins with teams from all
over the United States and the world and met
teams from China, Canada, and Guatemala. Adults
Carol Flynn and Bill Pritchard were the team’s
managers. The team had support from the
Albemarle County Public Schools, which recognized their accomplishments at a School Board
meeting June 12.
A second Henley team produced State
Champions in Destination Imagination’s (DI)
Shown with Albemarle County School’s Assistant
Superintendent for Student Learning Bruce Benson at
the June 12 School Board meeting are, left to right, Claire
Flynn, Megan Pritchard and Angela Li.
middle level SWITCH competition. The team of
Katie Armstrong, Gabby Friedlander, Megan
Holley, Julia Minnerly, Emily Schill, and Deepa
Shivaram designed and built a structure weighing
22 grams (less than 4 quarters). The girls tested it
by placing weights on it in one orientation before
Bike Safety Class at
Bright Beginnings
A dozen three-year-olds on trikes
and small bicycles with training
wheels looped around a horseshoe
shaped course in the parking lot of
Bright Beginnings day care center
June 25, dodging 20 brightly colored kitchen sponges and, for the
most part, though it took relentless
coaxing from their teachers, staying
inside the boundaries they were supposed to follow: the safe road. Fourand five-year-olds got the same program the next day.
Caroline Heinz and her husband
David, a husband and wife team for
the Alliance for Community Choice
in Transportation, were trying to
teach them how to ride safely as part
of the larger Safe Ride to School
program. Each rider was given a
new helmet free and coached about
understanding roadways.
“Wearing a helmet is the most
important thing,” said Caroline
Heinz. “Staying on the right side of
the road and never going on the left,
and obeying signs and avoiding hazards.” That’s the lesson goal.
The program is six years old. The
free helmets are provided by the
Virginia Department of Motor
Vehicles and a new grant from the
Virginia
Department
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And they’re off. Miles Read, Amedeo Claudia and Cabo Rodriguez were liking the idea of
biking places. Instructor David Heinz is in the background.
Transportation is paying for plans
that will show, and develop, safe
routes to school for a two-mile
radius around all the Charlottesville
and Albemarle public schools.
Heinz grew up in Alexandria and
remembers walking or biking to
school every day. “In the 70s, 60
percent of kids walked or rode to
school. Now it’s 13 percent,” she
said. “Meanwhile, there’s a big spike
in childhood obesity and diabetes.
Walking and riding gives kids a
chance to exercise before they sit
down in school. It’s a national movement.” Crozet has the largest par-
ticipation of anybody in the city or
county,” she noted.
“The big concern is about safety.
But eventually kids will leave the
house. We’re trying to educate them
in a practical way.
“Maybe parents will rethink driving the kids to school. So the idea is
to give them [the kids] a chance to
practice being on the road. The idea
is not that kids walk to school by
themselves, but with a parent and a
gaggle of other kids—a ‘walking
school bus.’ Parents could arrange
to take turns walking.”
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JUly 2008 s page 13
An Era Passes At Parson’s Green
Change, they say, is the only constant. Even if it happens slowly.
Parson’s Green, the home of The
[late] Reverend Harvey Lee Marston
and now his son, John II, near
Foxchase on Route 250, is going up
for sale and with it an era fades.
Curtis Alexander, who has kept the
grounds of the house since the
1970s, can see its passing as oblivious motorists on the highway, out
of sight of the house, pass by.
For 37 years, Rev. Marston was
the pastor of Emmanuel Episcopal
Church in Greenwood and its mission church, Holy Cross in
Batesville. He died in 1990. He
preached as a visitor at local churches
and other Episcopal missions along
the Blue Ridge. He was famous as a
local Boy Scout scoutmaster, baseball and basketball coach, swimming instructor (he taught more
than 3,000 kids) and square dance
caller. He was a pacifist who worked
as a volunteer in local orchards during World War II while farmers’
sons were in the service. He was a
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founder of the Crozet Lions Club.
He promoted racial desegregation.
He opposed the Vietnam War. He
was a member of the University of
Virginia’s secret Seven Society. His
values seemed to exemplify the best
of the mid-20th century in western
Albemarle.
Alexander has been trimming
branches along the drive recently,
trying to spruce up the nearly
150-year-old place, and has accumulated three large brush piles to
burn. For the last 18 years he’s
worked in the yard for Blue Ridge
Builders Supply and meanwhile
kept up the outside chores, plus
whatever else needed doing at
Parson’s Green. He lives in
Greenwood on Newtown Road with
his wife and daughter. Born in Avon
in northern Nelson County, he went
to Rockfish Elementary and finished
at Nelson County High School
before getting electronics training
that he never really used professionally.
He was hired at Parson’s Green
Curtis Alexander
by Dora Sims, also of Greenwood,
now gone to her reward, who managed the house for Rev. Marston
and, best of all, did the cooking.
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bered Alexander. “Man, could she
cook!” She used the Marstons’ station wagon to get back and forth
from home.
“When I first started, I brought
my lunch,” Alexander recalled.
“Then Rev. Marston said, ‘You eat
what we eat.’ You don’t find many
like him. He bought my ring and
suit for me when I got married. He
was a neat man. He gave me a teeny
Bible when I got my car and I’ve
still got it in there. That’s why my
car is still running.”
Alexander is an occasional
church-goer, sometimes to Mt. Zion
in Newtown. “Things are going
pretty good for me so I need to be
going more,” he said. “Rev. Marston
used to donate there every year.
There aren’t too many people like
him. He had a lot of wisdom. He
knew I don’t like snakes and he used
to tease me about it when he saw
one.”
“I didn’t mind whatever they
asked me to do. Coming here was
like being at home. It’s like a vacation here. Nobody was watching me
and I knew what I needed to do.
Why bite the hand that feeds you is
what my grandfather used to say. If
it ain’t mine and you don’t put it in
my hand, I’m not taking it.” He
usually works on the place three or
four days a week plus Saturdays.
“When I work I feel better than
when I sit around at home. It keeps
you healthy. Plus, I like money.
Crozet gazette
page 14 s JUly 2008
By Dr. Robert C. Reiser
Drowning on Dry Land
Well, the dog days of summer are upon us and the cool waters of Mint
Springs and Crozet Pool beckon. Yet an insidious and sinister danger may
await our children there. On June 5th the national media heavily reported
the tragic case of a 10-year-old South Carolina boy who “drowned” an hour
after walking home from the pool and taking a nap.
My wife called me to the computer to quiz me on this.
“I’ve never known a child could walk around, talk, speak and their lungs
be filled with water,” Cassandra Jackson told NBC News in a story broadcast
on The Today Show.
Yikes! Neither did I! All those years of medical school and practice and no
clue. My wife looked at me skeptically and showed me the numerous medical experts who had weighed in on this phenomenon of “dry drowning.”
Dr. Daniel Rauch, a pediatrician from New York University Langone
Medical Center, told Today’s Meredith Vieira that there are warning signs
that every parent should be aware of. Johnny Jackson exhibited some of
them, but unless a parent knows what to look for, they are easily overlooked
or misinterpreted.
Every parent? Easily overlooked? Update at 11!
Also from MSNBC: According to the Centers for Disease Control, some
3,600 people drowned in 2005, the most recent year for which there are statistics. Some 10 to 15 percent of those deaths were classified as “dry drowning,” which can occur up to 24 hours after a small amount of water gets into
the lungs. In children, that can happen during a bath.
It can? My wife wanted to know why I didn’t know that. All those baths
for our kids followed by naps. Man, was I getting medically schooled by
Meredith Vieira.
Needless to say, Johnny Jackson’s story alarmed every parent who heard it.
And yet it was essentially completely untrue. The CDC quickly released
this:
“Recent media reports have incorrectly attributed to CDC data about
incidents of ‘dry drowning.’ CDC supports international consensus defining
drowning as ‘the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid’ and does not distinguish between ‘wet’ and
‘dry’ drowning.” So what is going on ?
When a person drowns it is always in the water, but water doesn’t always
get into the lungs. “Dry drowning” or drowning without water entering the
lungs is thought to be due primarily to a spasm of the larynx preventing the
water from entering the lungs. This occurs in about 10-15 percent of all
drownings, but they all occur in the water. Not at home in your bed. What may have happened to this kid is delayed drowning. Delayed
drowning refers to drowning victims who are resuscitated and later succumb
to lung damage from the drowning event. This happens to roughly 3 percent
of all resuscitated drowning victims. But they have to drown or nearly drown
(unconscious and not breathing followed by awakening, usually after resuscitation efforts) first.
Johnny Jackson, like 30 percent of all kids who drown, was developmentally delayed, with both autism and ADD. In addition he could not swim
and had never even been in a pool before. At some point he was reported to
have soiled himself in the pool, which was likely during his drowning event.
Despite popular depictions, most drownings are calm, silent affairs, without
the thrashing and splashing we would expect. It is not clear from the reports
all that happened that afternoon, but it seems that he recovered from his
near drowning somehow and was taken home, where he later succumbed to
the water damage to his lungs. This is well-described in medical literature
and is the reason why we hospitalize all victims of near drowning.
So the easily overlooked warning sign that every parent should know is:
has your child recently nearly drowned? If so, and he recovers consciousness,
don’t put him down for a nap. Bring him to see me in the ED.
And for the record, Meredith Vieira, I still recommend a warm bath followed by a good nap. I learned this from my kids.
–
Crozet gazette
JUly 2008 s page 15
By Charles Kidder
T
Hedgehog Flowers
he genus Echinacea, the purple coneflowers, gets its name from the Latin echinus—probably borrowed from the
Greek—meaning either hedgehog or sea urchin,
depending on where you sit. One look at the
flower’s central cone shows the resemblance to
either of these spiky creatures. Despite the cone’s
rigidity, however, it’s not sharp enough to break
skin. So, you can welcome these American natives
into your garden without fear.
Purple coneflowers belong to the family
Asteraceae, which was called the Compositae back
in the good old days. The “flower” on most composites is actually composed of dozens of flowers
arranged in an inflorescence. On a coneflower—
or aster, sunflower, daisy, etc.—ray flowers with
showy petals surround the disk flowers that lack
petals. But so much for botanical correctness;
from here on, I will just call those things that look
like flowers … flowers.
Not surprisingly, most of the wild purple coneflowers are indeed purple, or at least a pinky-purple. (The major exception is Echinacea paradoxa,
known as Ozark Coneflower or Yellow
Coneflower.) Echinacea purpurea is probably the
species best known to Eastern gardeners, although
it is not a common wild plant in this part of the
country, being more abundant once you cross the
Appalachians. Even the wild straight species of
this coneflower looks great in a garden setting.
The typical pink-purple rays surround bright
orange cones, atop stems 3-5 feet tall. If you
watch the flowers open over the course of a few
days, you will notice that initially the rays are
held in a nearly horizontal plane and the central
disk is quite flat. Then as the flower develops, the
rays start to droop, the disk takes on its conical
shape, and the whole flower assumes that badminton birdie look.
I’ve heard some people object to the droopy
phase of the flowers, and plant breeders have
attempted to address this. Also, at least one person told me she could not abide pink combined
with orange. (Hey, those are the corporate colors
of Dunkin Donuts, one of my favorite fat forms!)
So, in the last few years, breeders have brought a
whole slew of new colors to the coneflowers, so
let’s see what’s out there.
Much of the breeding involves crossing the yellow and purple coneflowers, or even bringing the
white form of the coneflower into the mix. The
Saul family of Georgia has produced many culti-
vars; their ‘Katie Saul’ features flowers that are
peach toward the tips, but grade toward cherry
red near the cone. If you favor a bright orange
flower, look for Echinacea ‘Evan Saul’ at the garden center. E. ‘Sunrise’ is good for those with
more subtle tastes, with buttery-yellow flowers.
This has also proven to be a very sturdy plant and
a good rebloomer.
E. ‘Mango Meadowbrite’ is another subtle
color, not as intense as actual mango flesh. If you
want white coneflowers, there are a few varieties
available, including the new ‘Virgin,’ the frilly
petals surrounding a fragrant dark green cone.
And for those looking for another way to avoid
the pink-with-orange problem, there is ‘Pink
Double Delight,’ with pink petals around a pink
center.
As with many plants, someone is always trying
to make a shorter Echinacea. One is ‘Pixie
Meadowbrite’ from the Chicago Botanic Garden,
the result of a three-way cross of E. purpurea, tennesseensis and angustifolia that tops out at 18
inches. This little coneflower also holds its petals
in a more horizontal position, a bonus for those
averse to the typical drooping.
Aside from their neat looks, coneflowers are
also very undemanding to grow. They’re not fussy
as to soil and actually prefer that it not be too
rich, so hold off on any amendments and fertilizers. Once established, they are drought tolerant
and also rank pretty low on the menu as deer
food. (Incidentally, if any of you have particular
plants that do well against deer, I would like to
hear about it. Contact me at charles kidder@bellsouth.net.)
Perhaps the major issue with maintaining
coneflowers is the abundance of offspring. At least
on the plain old Echinacea purpurea, you will have
many seedlings, although they will not flower
until their second year. (The fancy hybrids will
not usually produce viable seed.) The obvious
solution: pull them up and try to find them new
homes, although at some point you will run out
of willing recipients.
Alternatively, you can deadhead your flowers
and avoid the problem in the first place. The
downside to this: you will be depriving goldfinches of a major food source in the fall. You
could compromise by removing most of your
spent flowers, while still leaving a few for the
birds. After all, I would really miss the cheerful
chortle of those little yellow guys as they swoop
through my garden.
I hope you will enjoy coneflowers as much as I
do, whether they remind you of hedgehogs, sea
urchins—or Dunkin Donuts!
Destination Imagination
—continued from page 12
“switching” to a different orientation and placing
weights on it again. Their structure supported
more weight at the state competition held at
WAHS on April 5 than any other team in
Virginia, including 4 high school teams and a
team from JMU. In addition, they wrote and performed a skit around the breaking of the structure, about sculptures in a modern art festival.
They were chosen to represent Virginia at the DI
Globals competition in Knoxville. Many generous donations from the Crozet community,
including from the White Hall Ruritans and The
Green Olive Tree, allowed the team to go to
Tennessee.
Crozet gazette
page 16 s JUly 2008
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Internet Connection Options
by Mike Elliot
With gas prices showing no signs of dropping anytime soon, all of us are
having to rethink our traveling. For me, this means fewer trips into town
and certainly second thoughts about a few of the trips I’d hoped to take this
summer. Another area that’s getting a lot of attention is cost savings from
changing driving habits to and from work. This could mean carpooling, taking public transportation (if available) or even not going to work. I know
some people who’ve moved to a four-day-a-week schedule where they work
10-hour days to “get in their time.” (I think measuring productivity by time
alone is silly, but I’ll talk about that in a column when I’ve run out of tech
topics to ramble about.) I’m hoping to reduce travel into work by working at
home a little—telecommuting. For me, this could work because 90 percent
of what I do I can do on my notebook computer, or I can get access to any
of the systems at work over the Internet by going through a “Virtual Private
Network.” A VPN allows me to use my high-speed Internet connection as
the conduit for private transfer of information to and from my work network.
This brings me to the topic of this month’s column: high-speed Internet.
Do you know what your choices are for getting high-speed Internet service?
Do you have any choices? I’m lucky. In my neighborhood, I have at least
three options for high-speed Internet and maybe more. I can get near instant
access to the computing resources I need access to at my work and I experience excellent response times on most sites around the Web.
However, not everyone is so fortunate. My parents, for example, live in a
rural area and have just recently managed to obtain a wireless Internet connection that far exceeds the speeds of dial-up and, adding to the good news,
the connection is always on.
Let’s start with some background in what all the options are. I’ll assume
that you have a computer at home and you’d like to connect to the Internet
at the fastest available speed. You’re probably familiar with the two primary
classifications of Internet connections, “dial-up” and “broadband.” Dial-up
is the way most of us started accessing the Internet, which required us to
“dial-up” the service provider using a modem connected directly to our telephone line. “Broadband” is used to describe newer technologies that provide
higher-bandwidth (and thus, higher speed) connections and although some
of them may use the telephone cable, they don’t tie up your telephone while
they’re working. We’ve also referred to this type of connection as “Always
On,” but that’s almost a given outside of the world of dial-up access.
Starting at the top-end, a fiber-optic connection to your home from a
communications company will give you the best Internet speed available,
outside of purchasing a dedicated communications line that larger businesses
often use. But this option doesn’t yet exist in my neighborhood in Crozet,
and probably not in yours yet either. The big communications companies
are making progress, but they’re starting in larger cities first and will get to
our town in their own time.
One step down are either cable or DSL connections. Both options have
become widely available and can provide more than adequate speed to do
most tasks. They are often available at different tiers that provide greater
speeds at higher prices. I’ve been a long-time cable connection user, which
runs me about $40 per month over and above my cable TV service and
although I’ve had various problematic interruptions in service since moving
in seven years ago, it has pretty well stabilized in the last year or so and only
rarely goes out.
The next step down is somewhat significant, but improving at a faster rate
than all others. That is wireless broadband using either dedicated wireless
modems or a connection that piggy-backs on your mobile phone to access
wireless Internet service using the cellular phone network. Now this is different than Wi-Fi and the services available in coffee shops and Panera Bread
(one of my favorite places since it offers FREE Wi-Fi Internet access). Those
sites provide a wireless local area network connection that still gets linked to
the Internet with one of the methods we’ve discussed here.
This wireless category has the greatest potential to address the Internet
service needs of the largest group of people who still can’t get DSL or cable
Internet services in their location. In the simplest case, the Internet connection is made directly to your computer using a smaller-than-a-cell-phone
device that plugs into a USB port and renders decent Internet access. I’ve
used this very effectively from the sidelines of a soccer game in town to
address a critical problem at work. It’s awesome. I’m not going to get into
satellite connections. From everything I’ve heard, they’re not worth the effort
or expense.
If you suffer from slow Internet connection speed, investigate the options
in your area starting with local cell phone carriers. I think you’ll be surprised
how easy it is now to get high-speed Internet service, even if you didn’t think
it was available in your area before now. If you don’t have any options, I’d
like to hear from you … but I only take email at this point, so use that dialup account and drop me a line at mike@informationupgrade.com.
Next issue, I’ll briefly discuss WiMax and LTE and go into measuring
your effective Internet connection speeds and look at some initiatives going
on to increase the availability of broadband Internet access to all Virginians.
June 14 Guitar duo David Bailey & David Ferrall
Music 1-3 p.m.
Crozet gazette
JUly 2008 s page 17
Young Triathletes Challenge Themselves in Tough Races
By Nick Ward
Shortly after the sun rose on the
morning of June 29, 110 local children arrived at Crozet Park to compete in the annual Crozet Youth
Triathlon. The parking lot was full,
cones were placed throughout the
park and the surrounding neighborhoods to mark the running and biking courses, and parents and fans
alike were beginning to gather along
the edges of the competition area to
cheer on all of the brave young souls
who decided to spend their Sunday
morning straining their bodies with
three different strenuous activities. The race was divided up into different age groups, and the top male
and female finisher in each group
would be crowned champion. Because of the extreme difficulty of
a triathlon, the younger age groups
were not expected to cover as much
ground and water as the older athletes. The 7- through 10-year-olds
swam one hundred meters, while
the 11- through 14-year-olds swam
two hundred. The younger group
of boys and girls cycled two miles
and ran half a mile, and the older
group of competitors biked four
miles and ran one mile. The gun rang to start the race at
8 a.m. sharp, and the first heat of
athletes began their race in the
swimming pool. Every eight minutes another group of swimmers was
ushered into the pool to begin their
race, and each athlete’s time was
kept up with separately. After swimming their allotted distance, a barefooted jog awaited them to the transition area between the swim and
the cycling events. Once on his or
her bike, each athlete pedaled down
Hill Top Street and bore left onto
High Street. Another left hand
turn—the bully curve—awaited the
athletes at the corner of High Street
and Park Road, and then competitors sped down a long straight
stretch on Park until reaching
Claudius Court. From Claudius
the cyclists turned onto Brookwood,
then onto Jamestown, and back
onto Park, which would lead them
back to the pool where they began. The older group of athletes completed this loop twice and started
their mile-long run which would
ultimately end in front of the
entrance to the pool. The younger
group completed the biking loop
once and embarked on their halfmile route which also ended at the
entrance to Crozet Pool. Alex Simpson crossed the finish
line first with the best overall time. Simpson’s friend and classmate,
Kevin Burns, finished close behind
in second place. “I feel great. I love winning, winning is the best,” said Simpson after
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his great race. Burns was very happy
with his performance as well, saying, “I think I did about ten minutes better than last year.”
Although Simpson had the top
time, many more champions arose
as the race wore on. Lexi Campbell
won the girls 13-14-year-old group. In the 11-12-year-old group,
Christopher Ferguson won the boys
crown and Madison Kline won the
girls. Samuel Holstege had the best
time for a 9-10-year-old boy, and
Madalyn Messier had the best time
for a girl in that age group. In the
youngest age group, 7-8 years old,
Sam Neale won the boys race and
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Old School—continued from page 1
and participants were given green dot stickers to
apply next to options that they wanted to
endorse.
Among the proposals were: a charter school, a
cultural arts center (which had the heaviest density of stickers), a museum, affordable housing,
athletic fields, a recycling center, a police station,
a community market, a band shell, community
garden spots, a satellite county office building, a
teen center, a skate park, a movie theater, a coffee
house, a site for Piedmont Virginia Community
College and Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical
Education Center classes, a home for scout meetings, condos, a YMCA branch, a place for musicians to jam, a fruit study center, a tourism center, artist exhibition space, an indoor pool, a
recording studio, an electricity-producing windmill tower, a bowling alley, a thrift store, a crisis
shelter, or as an expansion site for the current
Crozet Elementary School across the street.
“A lot of the things on the list wouldn’t be consistent with [County] policy on the use of that
property,” observed PMA’s Jeff Stodghill, who is
heading the study. PMA has done school planning for large counties, as well as other types of
building conversions, he said, and brings a “systems approach.” But with that, he added, “change
one component, like gas or diesel cost, and you’re
looking at changing policy.” The firm is engaged
in historic preservation and adaptive reuse projects in several Virginia towns and cities, notably
Kilmarnock’s dramatically refurbished main
street. Stodghill said he has designed both schools
and community centers.
Stodghill described the old school as “a typical
early 20th-century wood and masonry Virginia
Board of Education school designed for grades
Kindergarten through 11. It’s almost a pattern
design that you see across the state in different
places. It’s not significant historically from an
architectural standpoint. Its standing in the community is more important. It’s rare that these
buildings are reused and rehabilitated. And that’s
why it may be eligible for an historic preservation
program. Federal tax credits would really soften
the costs [of renovation].”
With proper legal and accounting controls,
county governments can sell the credits to private
investors to raise construction money, he said.
Newport News and Roanoke have done it.
“We’ll take the concepts back and have a follow-up meeting,” Stodghill explained. “We’ll take
the ideas and make them concise alternatives and
attach some costs for each concept and look at
feasibility and possibilities for implementation.
The intent is to provide the County Board [of
Supervisors] information on what the Crozet
community said and what the options would
mean. It’s a general analysis. We’re not shaping up
any one specific project.
“Sometimes you end up with a heavy consensus on one or two options. We’re getting community expression that’s very general and wide-ranging. There’s not a single solution that everyone’s
gravitating to.”
The next day PMA architects were back for a
day-long drop-in session where the public could
talk to them and see concepts played with in
sketches.
County Deputy Parks Director Bob
Crickenberger and his boss Pat Mulaney, both
Crozet residents, were investigating what might
happen if the property were added to those they
manage. They wanted to know if a regulation
school playing field would fit on it, something in
the order of 160 feet by 350 feet, what
Crickenberger referred to as an “NFL footprint.”
“You could easily get a soccer field in [the area
between the creek and the school],” replied
Stodghill, going over the site drawings with a triangular architect’s rule. “Plus a green embankment and landscaping.
“In my experience, if people want to save a
building it ends up being assigned to parks and
rec,” Stodghill said.
“That’s why we’re here,” said Mulaney soberly.
He and Crickenberger toyed with using the
school as a parks office and perhaps maintenance
shed. They weren’t interested in the newer classroom wing particularly.
They asked about a commercial-grade playground, “like you have at elementary schools,”
and Stodghill, swinging his ruler through different angles, confirmed that two more baseball
fields fit as well as a playground. In fact they are
already there. It turns out the people who laid out
the school were as smart as we are.
“Should the basketball courts go?” asked
Mulaney. He said neighbors had complained
about having to listen to cussing during pick-up
games. “Above all we want field space.”
“Re-use has to deliver a product equivalent to
spaces today,” said Stodghill. “You have to think
beyond just sprucing it up. “Try to avoid a middle-of-the-road solution. What happens next is
you get some bad news during the implementation phase and nobody’s happy.”
Suffolk converted an old high school into a
cultural arts center, he said, and Powhatan made
an old school into a government center. Those
two outcomes got sketched by PMA architect
Rob Crawshaw. The cultural center had gardens
and dance and studio art spaces. Stodghill saw
issues with where to enter the building.
As for a school use, Stodgehill said, “That’s
doable. Being across the street makes it hard.”
The next day wrapped up with a presentation
of sketches. PMA’s report on feasible options is
expected to be presented to the Supervisors in
September.
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Crozet gazette
JUly 2008 s page 21
Chilled Cantaloupe Soup
with Mint and Lime
By Cathy Berry [Three Notch’d Grill]
This recipe can be prepared in 30 minutes or less but requires additional chilling time. Makes about 8 cups, Serving 8
Ingredients :
2 ripe cantaloupes, peeled, seeded and cut into 1-inch pieces
1 cup plain yogurt
1 cup ice water
¾ cup fresh orange juice
2 limes juiced and zested
¼ cup honey
1cup mint leaves
½ teaspoon salt
Generous pinch of cayenne
Preparation:
Put half of cantaloupe into a blender along with yogurt, ice water,
orange juice, lime juice and zest and puree until smooth
Add remaining ingredients to puree – cantaloupe, salt, cayenne and
mint and blend until smooth
Chill until cold, at least 2 hours
Serve soup garnished with mint
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Friday, August 1 &
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Greenwood—continued from page 1
Gap, up around to Swannanoa,
including three historic roads, all
four of Claudius Crozet’s tunnels
and over 100 historic properties. It
includes parts of Route 637 toward
Batesville but not to Batesville.
While the total area currently
includes some 14,000 acres,
Committee member Doug Gilpin,
says this project is “much smaller
than one recently approved (85,000
acres) in southern Albemarle
County.”
Jennifer Hallock, whose firm
Arcadia Preservation, LLC has been
recruited by the committee in a
consulting and managerial capacity
to assist them in achieving National
and State Register designation, said
the historic district achievement
would be an “honorary designation”
and would impose no obligation on
property
owners
within
it.
Designation would make property
owners eligible for tax credits if they
were to rehabilitate certified historic
buildings in the district voluntarily
according to the rules intended to
preserve their historic character.
“It’s a dollar-for-dollar tax credit,”
Hallock says. Owners of residential
properties would be eligible for a
state income tax credit equivalent to
25 per cent of the total certified
rehabilitation cost. For those landowners with income-producing
properties, a 20 percent federal
income tax credit would also be
available. “Commercial properties
can piggyback the credits and get
back 45 percent of their expenses,”
says Hallock. “The regulations for
obtaining tax credits are not so
stringent as to be hard to surmount.
You can have additions to a structure that don’t overwhelm the original part.”
Relying on private funding to
employ Arcadia Preservation LLC,
and to meet other expenses involved
in achieving the Historic District
designation, the committee has
established a non-profit affiliate,
Western Albemarle Association,
comprised of interested residents
within the area. Establishment of
this nonprofit arm will allow contributors to the Historic District
page 22 s JUly 2008
Crozet gazette
Graceworks Bridges the Gap
As Julie Baker was driving her kids to soccer practice, she noticed groups
of young kids loitering at the side of the road in the less affluent neighborhoods she was passing through. They weren’t going to soccer practice, just
looking for ways to pass time until supper. They had forlorn looks on their
faces.
The childhood opportunity gap came home to her and she decided she
had to do something about it. That was more than seven years ago. Now,
during the school year, she teaches English to seniors at Western Albemarle
High School in the mornings and then dashes home to her farm in Ivy to
run Graceworks, her attempt to close the gap for some local kids who are
stuck on its bottom side by giving them a chance to do the things they see
other well-off kids getting to do.
It’s been frustrating and tiring and expensive and she’s not even sure it’s
making any impact. Maybe it’s just a sand castle. But she keeps trying.
She has help, staff members Kate Beach and Brian White, and the active
help of her family. Baker has five children of her own. They plan activities,
handle the related logistics, supervise and control kids, and follow-up with
the kids’ parents and teachers. Beach handles the food issues. White does a
lot of driving, getting the kids from their schools to “the barn,” a handsome
new timber frame building on the Bakers’ farm, Chinquapin Hill, where
most activities take place. One of the key issues in the opportunity gap, she
said, is transportation. Graceworks gets the kids, takes them places, and
brings them back home.
The kids are fourth- and fifth-graders from Greer and Agnor-Hurt elementary schools. They have been identified by school guidance counselors
or county family support workers as children who would benefit from the
program. They stay in for two years. There are two groups, one that comes
on Mondays and Tuesdays after school and another that comes on
Wednesdays and Thursdays. Parent sign permission releases and waivers
when their kids join. The kids are taken home at 5:30.
“It’s kids who will be OK in a group,” Baker explained. “We can’t handle
kids who are belligerent or have emotional problems. They can’t handle a
group structure.” Some kids have been removed for recalcitrant bullying.
Baker tries to get enough kids of the same sex that they can play team
sport, namely basketball at the YMCA. “We have a real team,” noted Baker.
“We lost every game, but next year we’ll win some. The kids don’t have discipline and don’t listen at practices. It’s challenging to deal with the attitude.
We try to teach perseverance. Finally, the idea of responsibility and accountability comes through.”
Kids finish their homework first when they get to the barn. They get
“stars” for helping out, “strikes” for misbehaving. Three stars will get you
into the pool party or in the group that goes to see the Harlem
Globetrotters.
At the end of the afternoon, the kids sit down for a family meal. They set
and clear the table and good manners are stressed. Each child has to describe
the high and the low moment of their day. “The Golden Rule gets a heavy
emphasis here,” said Baker. They pray before every meal and the program
observes Christmas and Easter.
“I think faith should be part of it,” she said. “I’ve been upfront with the
schools about it, though at first I didn’t stress it.”
“Bless this food and let’s have a great day!” was the table grace offered at
snack time, which was yogurt, corn chips and melon and cantaloupe.
Graceworks stresses healthy eating and exercise. Some of the kids are already
overweight.
On the wall near the wide plank table in the barn (it is finished inside as
nicely as a house) is a chore wheel that kids spin to see which task it will be
their turn to do that day. Chores include taking out the trash, sweeping up,
serving dinners, pouring drinks, collecting eggs from the farm hens and
being Leader of the Day.
“They help with the food, cooking and chopping stuff,” said Beach,
approvingly. Some of what they eat is grown in a garden they help tend
nearby.
The school year was about over and it was the last day of Graceworks for
the year. There would be a pool party after their snack, followed by a pizza
dinner.
They had been keeping scrapbooks all year and they would close those
out today, too. Inside were pictures of them with their friends, or fishing,
cooking, painting, or at archery. They had certificates of accomplishment in
them. The books would come back with them next year to get filled out
more. Weeks earlier, they had planted herbs in clay pots that they had written their names on and now those were ready to go home, too.
The kids have a lot they like about Graceworks (besides getting cakes on
their birthdays). Among their favorite things, they said, were swimming at
ACAC, picking apples at Carter’s Mountain, playing soccer together, canoeing and archery, planting the garden and taking care of baby chicks. That
day the favorite thought was the pool party. The day before it had been fishing in the big farm pond. Other activities include hiking, learning knitting,
pottery, rock climbing, painting and photography. Volunteers and the
Bakers’ neighbors help put on the events and projects.
Doing all this has been costing Baker about $40,000 per year, she
acknowledged. She’s gotten some private donations, some contributions
from churches and now for the first time grants from the Charlottesville
Area Community Foundation and Dave Mathews Band’s Bama Fund.
“We get mostly good feedback from the schools,” said Baker. “They give
us honest feedback. Sometimes we should have been more proactive with
communication. The boys often start out out of control. Now we see them
carrying dishes, saying ‘please’ and complimenting their friends. We up their
standard of behavior and we won’t tolerate bad behavior. We’re after a sense
of responsibility and accountability and gratitude. You have to have an adult
male there to handle boys. It’s just the truth.”
“Watch me! Watch me!” shouted kids as they jumped in the coolish water.
Crozet gazette
JUly 2008 s page 23
Crozet Library Book Club
The Crozet Library Book Club’s
selection for Monday, July 7, will be
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, first published by noted Midwestern author
Thornton Wilder in 1927. Wilder,
best known for his play Our Town
(1938), won a Pulitzer Prize for this
short, intense novel that is still read
today in many school and college
classrooms.
Do our lives unfold according to
a plan, or are the events that shape
them the result of pure chance? Are
we put on earth for a purpose, or
are we merely the victims of accident? This question, as enigmatic
and compelling today as it was when
Wilder wrote his brilliant gem of a
novel, is what Brother Juniper sets
out to answer after a rope bridge
collapses near Lima, Peru in July,
1714, killing five seemingly random
people. Were they really random, he
asks, or were they on that bridge at
that precise moment for a reason?
Why these five? As one might suspect, Brother Juniper believes the
deaths had meaning, and sets out to
prove it by examining the victims’
lives in detail and recording the
results of his interviews and examination of documents in this book.
In this way, Wilder sets the reader
up to expect a didactic, predictable
religious tract, a set of examples that
prove what Brother Juniper already
believes: that everything happens
according to a plan.
And so it is that we—the reader—follow the lives of three idiosyncratic adults, two of whom carried children across the bridge, from
their childhoods right up to the
moment when they started across
the bridge on that fateful day which
was to be their last. Against the
exotic backdrop of 18th century
Peru, which the author points out
was still a frontier of Spanish culture
in the New World at that time,
Wilder fully develops these three
loosely-connected and, on the surface at least, very different characters. The Marquesa de Montemayor
is a wealthy but bitter aristocrat who
pours out her unrequited love for
her faraway daughter in elegantly
written letters which later come to
be viewed as great literature. Esteban
is a devoted orphan who loses his
will to live after his twin brother,
Manuel, dies of a leg wound (the
most moving portrait, drawn in part
from Wilder’s experience of losing
his own twin brother). Uncle Pio,
the illegitimate child of an aristocratic Castilian, runs away to
become a jack-of-all-trades and ultimately devotes his life to nurturing
the celebrated theatrical star Camila
Perichole. In concise and elegant
language that reads almost like fable,
Wilder sandwiches the three chapters that relate these three lives—
along with their unexpected points
of connection—between the frame
of Juniper’s question and his
attempted answer. But the ultimate
strength and power of the book lies
in the fact that Wilder presents his
characters with so much complexity,
and relates the aftermath of the accident and the results of Brother
Juniper’s quest with such depth of
reflection, that the reader does not
come away with a definitive answer
but is left to puzzle out his/her own
conclusions from the evidence. We
are left thinking about it long after
the last page is turned. It is as if
Wilder’s entire book is a fleshingout of his original question, the full
Graceworks—continued from page 22
The sky was darkening and rain was threatening. Some of them felt better
clutching an inflatable ring. They piled on the adults, thrashing and splashing, and screamed for attention. For some it was their first chance ever to
jump off a diving board. It didn’t count if it wasn’t seen by somebody else.
Then they toweled off and sat in the kitchen for supper. A flashy bouquet
of peonies sat on the table. There were a variety of pizzas and carrots, fresh
pineapple chunks, watermelon wedges and fruit juices. Everybody’s high of
the day was the swimming fun. Everybody’s low was that Graceworks was
over until fall. They signed cards for Ms. Beach and Mr. White saying how
much they appreciated all they had done. Beach responded with a motherly
affection. White, playful but authoritative, was organizing the van trip
home.
Baker was looking forward to a couple of months of recuperation. But for
a moment there was still the glow in the room from happy children.
“I’m a big believer in grace and the work of grace,” said Baker softly.
by Clover Taylor
weight and import of which we realize only at the end of the book. Yes,
events may happen for a purpose
and according to a plan—but that
plan is not fully discernible to the
human mind.
What makes a work of literature
a classic is its universality, its originality, and the quality of its writing.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey excels on
all counts, most notably the last. I
have to admit that I enjoyed this
book much more as an adult than
when I was required to read it in
high school, when my limited
understanding led me to dislike it.
What struck me most this time
around, and what makes the book
such a treasure, is the beauty of the
language and the nuggets of philosophical wisdom buried within the
narrative. Had each of the three
characters reached a point where
they were ready to die? Were their
deaths the only way to convince
others—their children, parents, lovers—to truly appreciate them? Or
had they finally learned the meaning of true love?
Sally Johns, in the Dictionary of
Literary Biography, offers one satisfying explanation. “Their stories
reveal a common theme: each had
focused obsessively on an object of
affection who either could not or
did not reciprocate; the extensiveness of the obsession resulted in
spiritual isolation from the rest of
humanity. Shortly before traveling
over the bridge, each had awakened
to the folly of such an obsession and
had set out in a new direction,
attempting to make recompense.”
In his conclusion to the book,
Wilder offers his own memorable
interpretation through the reflection
of the Madre Maria del Pilar, the
Mother Superior of the convent,
who knew and understood all the
characters affected by this sudden
calamity. “But soon we shall die and
all memory of those five will have
left the earth,” muses the Mother
Superior at the end of the book,
“and we ourselves shall be loved for
a while and forgotten. But the love
will have been enough; all those
impulses of love return to the love
that made them….There is a land of
the living and a land of the dead
and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
Newcomers are always welcome
to attend the Crozet Library Book
Club, which meets from 7:00-8:30
p.m. the first Monday of each
month (with a break in August) and
has an average attendance of 20-25.
Crozet Library Steering
Committee Appointed
The Albemarle County Supervisors have appointed a Crozet Library
Steering Committee to oversee the design development of the new town
library. Members are :
Bryan Elliott, Assistant County Executive
Pamela Grammer, Crozet library patron
John Halliday, Jefferson/Madison Regional Library Director
Kathleen Jump (Crozet Community Association)
Russell (Mac) Lafferty (Downtown Crozet Association)
Bill Letteri, Director of Facilities Development (chairman)
Thomas Loach, Planning Commission
Ann Mallek, Board of Supervisors
Wendy Saz, Crozet Library Branch Library Manager
William (Bill) Schrader, Crozet Library Fundraising Committee
Charlotte Self, PVCC Library Director of Circulation
Terry Tereskerz, Crozet Community Advisory Council
Sally Thomas, Board of Supervisors
Tim Tolson, Jefferson/Madison Regional Library Board Member
Formal design of the 20,000-square-foot library is expected to take
place throughout 2009, with bidding for construction held in December
and construction beginning in the spring of 2010. The new library is
scheduled to open in the summer of 2011.
It is expected to be certified according to Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design [LEED] “green building” standards.
Crozet gazette
page 24 s JUly 2008
WAHS 2008 Graduates
Courtesy of The Western Hemisphere
BRENNA BROADUS
Denison University
BRENNAN DOUGHERTY
Old Dominion University
STEPHANIE ADAMS
Radford University
ANDREW
BUTTERWORTH
Manchester College
KEVIN DUBOVSKY
Virginia Commonwealth
University
CATHERINE ADKINS
University of Virginia
MARSHALL BUXTON
Fordham University
TAYLOR DUDLEY
James Madison University
HOLLY ALBERTSON
LAURA CAMPBELL
Washington and Lee University
TESSA EVANS
Lynchburg College
JEFFREY ALBRIGHT
BRIAN CAREW
University of Colorado at
Boulder
MONIKA FALLON
George Mason University
KIRSTEN ABRAHAM
University
PATRICK CARRUTHERS
Traveling
EVA FARRELL
University of North Carolina
at Wilmington
JESSICA CARTER
Brigham Young University
TAYLOR FELLOWS
Lynchburg College
PAIGE ARMSTRONG
University of British Columbia
MARK CASTLE
CHRISTINE ASH
Piedmont Virginia Community
College
ROSS CATON
Undecided
ANDREW FICKLEY
The College of William and
Mary
ANNA ALMY
University of Oregon
MEGAN ANDREWS
College
CHRISTOPHER AWKARD
College
JESSICA BABER
College
KENNETH BAILES III
US Air Force
JULIANNE BAR
University
WALTBARBER
TESSA BARBERA
College
LIBBY BARGER
University of South Carolina
KACY BASSIGNANI
ANDREAS BASTIAN
SHANNON BAYLISS
FORD BECHTLE
University of Northern
Colorado
RAYMOND BEST JR
KAITLIN BEVERLY
College
AUSTIN BLAKE
Northern Virginia Community
College
HOLLY BLECK
CALLUM BOGGS
CATHERYN BOWMAN
Virginia Tech MITCHELL BOWSER
The College of Wooster
DUSTIN BOWYER
BRIANA BRENNAN
University
BENJAMIN
CHERNIAWSKI
Virginia Tech
THOMAS FICKLEY
BENJAMIN FITTS
MARY CHIARELLA
Blue Ridge Community College
MATTHEW FITZGERALD
Working
SARAH CLUGSTON
MITCHELL FITZGERALD
College
RYAN HAMMER
National Outdoor Leadership
School in New Zealand
THOMAS LEACH
Unknown
TYLER LEWANDOWSKI
Virginia Tech MATTHEW MOON
Working
JOHN HAWK
Virginia Tech JAKE LINDSAY
JOHN MOORS
Lafayette College
ROBIN HAYES
Art Institute of Philadelphia
HENRY LOEHR
DOMINIQUE HENRY
Virginia State University
TOMAS LOYA
Unknown
CIERRA MORRIS
College
ROBIN HICKS
College
JORDAN LYNN
Villanova University
HEATHER HASTINGS
College
PRESTON HILL JR
Year Off
ELIZABETH HORN
Unknown
KAITLIN HOWELL
BILLIE HUCKSTEP
College
JONATHAN HUGHES
Virginia State University
KAYLA INGERSOLL
University
BETH FOSTER
Hamilton College
BRIAN FOX
Working
SYLVIE JOBES
MATTHEW GALVIN
Cabrini College
CAMERON JOHNSON
BRITTANY GEARING
Unknown
CHRISTINE JONES
University of Richmond
COLLEEN CROWLEY
Mary Baldwin College
BRAD GENTRY
College
MEGAN DABNEY
Blue Ridge Community College
COURTNEY GENTRY
Working
ASHLEE JONESHOWARD
College
LENA DAVIS
Hollins University
STEVEN GEORGE
Longwood University
TORY DAWSON
Savannah College of Art and
Design
WILLIAM GILRAIN
DANIEL CORLEY
College
COLLEEN COZART
Denison University
MEGAN CRAWFORD
RACHEL DE JONG
PATRICIA DEALE
Radford University
SUNNY DEBUTTS
MATTHEW DENTONEDMUNDSON
Unknown
DUSTIN DOLLENS
Year Off
MARKWOOD DOLLENS
College
MACKENZIE DOSS
Washington and Lee University
SADEEKA DOSU
California State University:
Sacramento
ZUBAIR DOSU
Kansas State University
ERIN DOTSON
University of Virginia at Wise
MICHAEL GOEKE
University of Alabama
AARON GOLDBERG
Virginia Tech JUSTIN GOOLSBY
Working
SAMANTHA GOOLSBY
Year Off
MEREDITH GOULD
SCOUT GRAHAM
Year off
BRENNING GREENFIELD
University
ELIZABETH GROGAN
St. Lawrence University
MIRANDA GROVE
Virginia Tech
DAVID HADWIN
Undecided
KELLY MILLER
Lynchburg College
MICHAEL
MONTGOMERY
College
QAIS HANIFI
University of Wisconsin
CHRISTOPHER
JACKSON
College
JAMES CONNALLY
University
GINNY LAYNEMAHANES
College
MIRANDA KAUFMANWALDRON
Emory University DANIELA-ROSA KEY
College
SARAH KING
College
NOLAN LYNN
Marymount University
RUBYANA LYON
MARSH MAHON
College
HANNAH MANGUM
ALEXANDER MANN
University of Mississippi
GRACE MANNO
University
ELIZABETH MANZELLA
BENJAMYN MARKS
Rochester Institute of
Technology
JOSHUA MARKS
Rochester Institute of
Technology
IAN LAMB
Ithaca College
ROGER LAMB
Unknown
LAURA LAYNE
Virginia School of Massage
LAINE MYERS
University
ANJALI NANDA
RACHEL NEFF
Longwood University
CHAD NELSON
MICHAEL NGUYEN
North Carolina State
University
MARK NICHOLSON
Ohio State University
GRACE NOLAN
University Kentucky
BRITTANY OLSON
College
JOSHUA MARTIN
Working
ANNE PARENT
JUSTIN MARTIN
Unknown
JULIA PARKER
Virginia Tech
EDWARD MARTIN JR
College
DANIEL PARMELEE
SCOTT MASSELLI
Virginia Tech
JORDAN MAUPIN
Longwood University
HEATHER MAYO
Unknown
MIRANDA LACY
Longwood University
ELINOR MYERS
ISABELLE MARSHALL
University of Mary Washington
KELLY KNAPP
at Chapel Hill
GABRIEL KOSOWITZ
CORINNE MURPHY
University
DANIEL NOONAN
Merchant Marine Academy
RALPH MAUPIN JR
Unknown
PATRICK KNAUS
KELLIANNE MULLIN
Randolph Macon College
ZACHARY MAROTTA
New York University SKYLER KITCHEN
Longwood University
LUCAS KNAUS
College
ELEANOR MULLEN
University of Georgia
KEVIN MCCRORY
The College of William and
Mary
ELIZABETH MCGILL
Unknown
ALEC MCHUGH
College
KEITH MEADOWS
Piedmont Virginia
Community College
SEAN MESLAR
Unknown
ALISON MILLER
Year Off KEITH MILLER
ADAM PASCHALL
Year Off
BRITTANY PATTERSON
Averett University
WALKER PERFATER
Unknown
JENNIFER PERRY
Virginia Western Community
College
LARS PETTYGROVE
Denison University
MAX PFEIFER
University Notre Dame
KRISTINA PIETRO
CONOR PRATT
University of New Mexico
CHRISTOPHER PUGH
Working
LUCY QUINN
College of Charleston
MELISSA RABIN
University
Crozet gazette
JUly 2008 s page 25
NICHOLAS RAGOSTA
Brown University
ALEXIS SWANSON
Michigan State University
LEANN RAINES
Undecided
QUIN SWEENEY
Wilmington
JOSEPH RAINEY
College
KASEY RANDLE
College
SARAH TEPLITZKY
Temple University
CAMERON THOMAS
West Virginia University
Graduate Awards
for Excellence
Art
Colleen Cozart
Band
Kaitlin Howell
KATHERINE READ
JAMES THOMAS
University of Colorado at
Boulder
BRIDGET REISER
University of Pittsburgh
WILLIAM THRANE
TESSIE REYNOLDS
Johnson and Wales University
JENNIFER TREACY
Year Off
Computer Assisted Drafting
Miranda Grove
DAVID RHODES JR
undecided
TYLER TREVILLIAN
Campbell University
ELIZABETH ROGERS
Longwood University
ALEXANDRA TRIANA
Crafts
Erin Dotson
MICHAEL ROPER
JIM VALE
Virginia Tech SAMANTHA ROSE
Marshall University
KELLEY VAN DILLA
Vassar College
ROBIN SALISBURY
Working HANS VERKERKE
Parasitology Research
CHAS SANDRIDGE
Lynchburg College BILLY VIAR
Working
JACOB SCHMITT
Temple University
MARIA VOLBERG
MARY SCHWARTZ
DAVID VONHEMERT
MACKLIN SCHWOEBEL
University of Utah
ALICE WAGNER
MOLLY SCHWOEBEL
Cabrini College
GERALD WALSH III
Denison University Orchestra
Sean Meslar
SAMUEL SCHWOEBEL
Randolph Macon University
ALEXANDER WARD
US Coast Guard
CAPRICE SERAFINI
NICHOLAS WARD
Photography
Kevin McCrory
DAVID SLACK
Longwood University
STEPHANIE WARREN
JEFFREY SMITH
University
LAWLER WATKINS
ALEXANDRA SOULIOTIS
St. Joseph’s University
ERIC SPARKS
College
NOAA SPIEKERMANN
ANDREW STAFFORD
College
MORGAN STALNAKER
Unknown
TAYLOR STARNS
Guilford College
ANTHONY STEPPE
Working
BAILEY STEWART
ALEXANDER STRAUME
College
CHARLES STUMP III
Colorado State University
AMBER SULLIVAN
Unknown
JORDAN SUMMERS
Traveling and Volunteering
Choir
Jennifer Perry
English
Kelly Knapp
French and Social Studies
Elizabeth Webb
• Ice Cream Made from Scratch —
8 Flavors Daily
Latin
Alice Wright
• Cold Soups using Veggies from
Local Farms
Marketing
Jessica Baber
Mathematics
Conor Pratt
Science
Andreas Bastian
Spanish
Sylvie Jobes
Technology Education
Michael Goeke
TOM WHITMORE III
Paul H. Cale Scholarship
Tyler Trevillian
LEAH WILLING
Virginia Tech
LAURA WILSON
University of South Carolina
LEONARD WINSLOW IV
Unknown
VIKTORIA
WOOLHEATER
Bridgewater College
ALICE WRIGHT
JAXON WRIGHT
Unknown
ASHLEY WYANT
Working
at the Batesville Store
German
Noaa Spiekermann
ELIZABETH WEBB
CHELSEA WILLIAMSON
College Summer's Sizzlin'
• Pride of VA Steaks, Ribs & Ground
Beef — Great for Grilling
• Chilled Whites from Cardinal Point,
Veritas & other wineries
• Iced Coffee, Freshed-brewed Iced
Tea & Pink Lemonade
• New Specialty Sandwiches — Great
for Picnic Boxes
• Sesame Noodle, Tuscany Bean &
Other Homemade Cold Salads
Hallie S. Cale Scholarship
Hannah Mangum
Paul Goodloe McIntire Award
Shannon Bayliss
The Connie Y. Fix Memorial
Scholarship
James Connally
The Joe M. Fix, II Memorial
Scholarship
Kristina Pietro
Frances R. Witt Memorial
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Leann Raines
Charles S. Armstrong Award
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Western Albemarle High School Valediction Awards
Albemarle County Rotary
Club Foundation
Scholarship
Grace Manno
Green Olive Tree
Scholarship
Grace Manno
Family and Community
Education Scholarship,
Crozet Moonlighters
Chris Awkard
White Hall Ruritan Club
Scholarship
Isabelle Marshall
J. T. Graves Memorial
Scholarship Award
Ruby Lyon
St. Thomas Aquinas
University Parish
Scholarship
Mary Chiarella
St. Paul’s–Ivy Episcopal
Church Scholarships
Jessica Baber
Tessa Barbera
Brittany Olson
Women’s Club of Crozet
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Jessica Baber
Daniel Corley
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Michael Montgomery
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Jordan Lynn
Hannah Mangum
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Alexandra Triana
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James and Nellie Butler
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Joshua Marks
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Crozet gazette
JUly 2008 s page 27
First row seated, left to right: Monalyce Hamza, Kim Purdy, Sadeeka Dosu, Maddie Beveridge, Sam Masri, Annie Watson and Morgan Dent;
Second row kneeling, left to right: Alex Ernst, Rachael Nidiffer, Marli Gordon, Laura Wozneak, Jennifer Bisgaier, Jenna Engle, Ansley Luce
and Stephanie Gibson; Third row standing, left to right: Coach Mary Dobmeier, Philip Hadwin, Ben Jones, Josh Laubach, Sungjin Yoo, Alex
Mathew, Nick Sjolinder, Jeff Diamond, Howie Clark, Chris Till and Coach Myriam Pitts; Team members not pictured: Sophie Baker, Melissa
Gilrain, Adam Hamza, Sarah Healy, Lauren Muller, Adam Pastors, Sean Raynor, Tara Riccio, Emily Shepherd, Erin Schill, Maggie Southwell,
Kathryn Wesson, and Coach Laura Pietro
Western Rowing Wins at Norfolk
31
Western Albemarle High School
rowers, in only their second year,
competed in their first regatta in the
fall and competed in the Polar Bear
Regatta on the Occoquan Reservoir
on March 29, the Mathews Regatta
in Hampton Roads on April 19 and
the Independent Schools Regatta
on Lake Whitehurst in the Norfolk
Botanical Gardens on May 10. In
Norfolk they were the only public
high school competing and they
placed in several sweep events. The
Womens varsity took first place in
both the 8- and the 4-rower boats.
The Mens 4+ took second place, the
Mens Novice 8+ took third place,
and the club’s mixed 8+ also came
in third.
The 40-member team also joined
USRowing this year and is in the
process of raising funds to build a
boathouse and dock on Beaver
Creek.
Several rowers earned special recognition at the team’s end of year
picnic on Beaver Creek May 17.
More than 20 rowers were recognized at the WAHS Academic
Awards night on May 19.
Coach’s Award
Mens: Alex Mathew
Womens: Stephanie Gibson and
Kim Purdy
MOst Valuable Rower
Mens: Ben Jones
Womens: Ansley Luce
Most Improved rower
Mens: Josh Laubach
Womens: Madison Beveridge
Cox of the Year
Mens: Morgan Dent
Womens: Morgan Dent
Scholarship—continued from page 3
and put in new landscaping around it.
The 41-member club raises money through its barbecue chicken dinner at the Crozet Firehouse, by handling
parking for the Crozet Arts & Craft Festivals, staffing
the ticket booth at the Albemarle County Fair, and
coordinating rentals of the White Hall Community
Building for community meetings, birthday parties,
graduation celebrations, wedding receptions, family
reunions, etc.
The first Ruritan Club was organized in Holland,
Virginia, (now part of Suffolk) in May 1928. The name
came from two Latin words meaning “open country”
and “small town.” The National Ruritan headquarters is
still in Dublin, Virginia. The White Hall Ruritan Club
was chartered in 1961 and several charter members are
still active in the club. The club meets on the fourth
Thursday of the month in the White Hall Community
Building.
Crozet gazette
page 28 s JUly 2008
Crozet
Scouting News
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Left to right are: Scoutmaster and Troop Leader Gary Conley, Cody Watson, Alex Lehmann,
Alex Garcia, John Wilder, Colin Williams, Bryce Deering, Gavin Ratcliffe, Dan Baer, and Matt
Carmichael.
Scouts Canoe Down the James River
By Sandy and Colin Williams On Memorial Day weekend,
Crozet Boy Scout Troop 79 went
canoeing down the James River.
This was the troop’s third annual
canoe trip on the James River. Before
the scouts could attend the trip,
they had to attend at least four of
the canoe practices held at Beaver
Creek Lake on Sunday afternoons.
There they practiced the paddling
skills they would need to make their
trip safe and fun. The attendees met
in the parking lot of Crozet
Methodist at 7 a.m. Saturday,
checked in, and were on their way.
In addition to Scoutmaster Gary
Conley, parents Bill Baer, Jim
Carmichael, John Ratcliffe and Bill
Wilder joined in as chaparones. The
put-in site was in Arcadia, just north
of Buchanan. Once on the water,
the three-day trip seemed to fly by.
The highlight of the trip was probably the class 3 rapids they faced on
the third day. Luckily, only one boat
flipped, and most of the items were
caught floating downstream and
returned to the owners. Nobody
was hurt (other than minor sunburns), and everybody seemed to
have a great time. The 22-mile run
ended at Snowden just south of
Glasgow.
The stories that came home were
all great ones: great fishing, great
weather and great scout spirit.
Crozet Youths Win Soapbox Derby
Brother and sister Kyle and Kelsey Fitzgerald of Crozet won two of the
five top spots during the Blue Ridge Soap Box Classic in Waynesboro
Saturday, May 31. The Waynesboro race is the second largest Soap Box
Classic in the country.
It was a beautiful day with some wind, which caused a few ripples in the
driving stream for some drivers. A few drivers found themselves fighting the
winds and some crashed into the hay bales lining the course. At least one
young lady suffered from a bruised ego and a bloody nose, but for the most
part the event was family fun for those who came out to cheer them on.
Kyle, 11, attends Crozet Elementary and Kelsey, 14, attends J. T. Henley
Middle School. Winners from all five divisions will now participate in the
71st All-American Soap Box Derby set for July 26 in Akron, Ohio.
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JUly 2008 s page 29
Girls Scouts are Busy at
Camp Sugar Hollow
Camp Sugar Hollow Program Center was home to more than 100 Girl
Scouts while they learned about outdoor skills at the 2008 Camporee last
month. Fourteen scouts from Cadette Troop 396 in Crozet put on the weekend event at the camp near White Hall for the younger girls, who ranged in
age from five-year-old Daisy scouts to 10-year-old Juniors. The girls represented 10 troops from all over the Western Albemarle area. The eight outdoor skills—which was the theme of the weekend May 31and June
1—included activities in knot tying, first aid, knife handling, fire-building,
cooking, ecology, what to wear and compass skills.
Scouts from Troops 3080, 208 and 572 dry off in Rocky Top shelter after getting caught in a
sudden downpour at the 2008 Camporee at Sugar Hollow.
Elizabeth Noonan, second from right, peeks out of a teepee atop Skippy’s Haven while
instructing a group of Girl Scouts from Troops 208, 572 and 3080 about how to use a
compass.
From left to right, Cadettes Emma Weiss, Becca Stoner, Elizabeth Noonan, Emily Moffett,
Margaret Given and Krista Brown perform a campfire skit at the 2008 Camporee at Sugar
Hollow.
Members of Brownie Troop 874 of Crozet enjoying a moment at the 2008 Camporee. Front
row: Ellie Plantz, Noelani Brockett. Back row: leader Heidi Brown, Desiree Koch, Avery
Moultrie, Annie Meenan, Isabel Brown, Halina Guterbock, Lori Benedict, leader Maryann
Russell and Isabelle Mildonian.
Cadette Margaret Given of Western Albemarle High School helps a troop make first aid kits
out of recycled film containers.
Crozet gazette
page 30 s JUly 2008
Who’s Afraid of Snakes? Not Girl Scouts! Members of several Cadette Girl Scout troops at Western Albemarle High School, Jack Jouett and Henley Middle Schools raise a 200-pound Asian
python named Penelope high above their heads. From left to right: Ron Cromer, herpetologist, Lauren Blake, Michelle Sprouse, Kelsey Faust,
Emma Weiss, Suzi Mulshine, McKenzie Black, and Alice Newkirk.
Greenwood—continued from page 21
fund to receive a tax deduction for
their gifts.
Association members include
Frances S. Scruby, whose family
owns Pea Ridge Farm. Scruby is
president of the association and a
member of the Greenwood Rural
Historic District Committee. Other
officers include Mary Buford Hitz,
secretary, and Charles Cory, treasurer. Committee members have
already raised cash and pledges
totaling half the funds required to
employ Arcadia Preservation LLC
and to meet other expenses involved
in achieving Historic District designation.
“Being a part of the historic designation would be an honor,” said
Scruby. “A homeowner could still
demolish if you wanted to or have
additions. It could include any
homes 50 years old or older and
homeowners could opt out or
request to be included. The current
boundaries are just preliminary.
They could change,” Scruby
explained.
Scruby said there will be public
meetings—probably in September
either in the Yancey Mills area or
possibly at Emmanuel Episcopal
Church—where the public will be
provided with more information
and public input will be invited.
The committee is excited about
the future possibilities might hold
and pleased to have Jennifer Hallock
involved in the project. Hallock is
eminently qualified in preservation
work and was recently successful in
her involvement in the Southern
Albemarle Historic District (85,000
acres) in the Schuyler and
Lovingston areas of Nelson County
and the Laurel Mills area of
Rappahannock County. Following
the public meetings this fall, Hallock
will start on the prescribed survey
work required by the Virginia
Department of Historic Resources.
Those interested in donating to
the effort can send contributions to
the Western Albemarle Association,
1870 Ortman Drive, Afton, Virginia
22920.
Crozet gazette
JUly 2008 s page 31
B ereav e m ents
Caroline Boxley Petty March 27, 2008
Robert Hutchings Jennings, 79
May 31, 2008
Hayden Charles Curry III, 59
June 1, 2008
Karen Sue Franklin Hudson, 51
June 1, 2008
Anna Bridgwater Slaughter, 73
June 1, 2008
Ronald Dale Woodson, 49
June 1, 2008
Carl L. Edwards, 70
June 2, 2008
Patricia Ann Morris Hall, 65
June 2, 2008
James Robert Howe
June 4, 2008
Harry Boulden Pugh, 80
June 4, 2008
Lorinal Alverad Randall, 79
June 4, 2008
Henry Richard Dean, 79
June 5, 2008
Donald Robert Hemmer, 76
June 5, 2008
Percy Coleman Payne, 91
June 5, 2008
James Ronald Chandler, 43
June 6, 2008
W. Gertrude Meadows, 73
June 8, 2008
Diana Akers Rhoads, 64
June 9, 2008
Norman Jerome Wood, 44
June 10, 2008
Elizabeth D. van der Linde, 85
June 11, 2008
Evelyn Garrison Via, 97
June 11, 2008
Mary E. Wood, 77
June 11, 2008
Dorothy Iola Duncan, 95
June 12, 2008
Reba Lear Blair Logwood, 77
June 13, 2008
Amy Carter Reid, 95
June 13, 2008
Margaret Ethyl Goodloe Small, 93
June 14, 2008
Lillian M. Dickerson, 87
June 15, 2008
Cecil Lynwood Hamilton, 71
June 15, 2008
Lewis E. Morris, 68
June 17, 2008
Paula Yvette Goines, 38
June 19, 2008
Mary Elizabeth Cook MacGregor, 72
June 19, 2008
Anderson Thurman Rea Jr., 68
June 19, 2008
Betty Faye Quillen Collins June 20, 2008
Ingrid B.A. Pors, 80
June 20, 2008
Patricia Solnok Harding, 85
June 22, 2008
Charles Bell, 64
June 24, 2008
Charles W. Dobbins, 65
June 24, 2008
Elmer Earl Myrtle, 79
June 25, 2008
James Edward Brooks, 92
June 27, 2008
Christopher Goodwin, 58
June 27, 2008
Now scheduling work
for summer and fall.
Green Olive
Tree Snippets
By Sheila Freeman
At a recent meeting of the Green
Olive Tree board, members came
prepared to hear about such weighty
topics as the role of wire hangers in
the shop and prices of boutique
items.
The agenda was changed, however, when we had visits from two
most important local people, Hae
Shin Yoo and Linda Beard.
Hae Shin, a Korean minister, lives
in Crozet with his family. His presence and message inspire others
through his non-denominational
Healing Peace ministry at Virginia
Tech. This is a new program by
which Korean War veterans “adopt”
Korean-American students at Tech.
Haes Shin of struggling with tragic
events will help the students overcome the pain of the killings on
April 16, 2007. Hae Shin has also
started a Bible Study program at
Tech that is open to all students.
Our second visitor also held us in
her spell of selflessness.
Linda Beard from Christworks
told us about her ministry to reach
victims of poverty. Linda and her
husband, Roland, have been
involved in helping, both monetarily and “hands-on,” a variety of
those in need. She began by teaching special needs children in her
home. The couple then expanded to
provide for material needs when
they could. They partnered with
other Christian groups nationally.
Now the Beards have gone international with a mission in Uganda.
With the help of photographs,
Linda educated us about the extreme
poverty in villages in Uganda, much
fostered by corrupt political leaders
past and present. She told us of her
visits and contacts in Uganda as well
as her purchase of property there.
She has filled two trailers with
clothes and household items and
was working to acquire farming
necessities. The trailers were shipped
to Uganda in May and the Beards
planned to meet the shipments in
June to distribute their contents to
villagers. Various Christian groups
are assisting her, but much of this
work the Beards fund personally.
Thanks to the community, we
will be able to provide some monetary assistance to Hae Shin Yoo and
Healing Peace and to Roland and
Linda Beard and Christworks.
The Green Olive Tree has awarded
two college scholarships of $500
each to deserving students from our
area.
At our next board meeting we’ll
work out in-store problems. In the
meantime we hope to be good stewards.
Parson’s Green—continued from page 13
Now for real with the price of gas.
It’s sad to see it sold. I’ve been coming for so long.”
The place, now reduced to seven
acres, was once a dairy farm, though
not while Alexander has been there.
The block foundation of a silo stands
in the rear yard.
Near it is a shed where turkeys
were once raised. “I used to prepare
[kill and clean] about 15 a year. The
Rev. gave them away at Thanksgiving
to the needy,” said Alexander.
There is a long, sunny vegetable
garden, now neglected, with a failing picket fence surrounding it. It
was worked and produced heavily.
Sims canned from it and, again, a
lot of it was given away.
“I’ve always had happy times
here,” said Alexander, scanning the
front drive with its ancient, majestic, broad-branched oak in the cen-
ter. “Rev. Marston and I would sit
on the porch and talk about everything. I get peace of mind here.”
But now something new is on the
way. An old way is passing.
Mountain Plain
Baptist Church
A small, friendly, moderate church invites
you to share your Sunday with us.
Sunday School r 10 am
Traditional Worship Service r 11 am
Rev. Sam Kellum, Pastor
4297 Old Three Notch’d Road
Travel 2 miles east of the Crozet Library on Three
Notch’d Rd. (Rt. 240), turn left onto Old Three Notch’d
Rd., go 0.5 mile to Mountain Plain Baptist Church
More information at
www.mountainplain.org or 823.4160
Crozet gazette
page 32 s JUly 2008
Department of Updates:
[RE: Crozet Gazette Vol. 2, No. 4]
Hae Shin Yoo
Goes Home
on Faith
Korean pastor Hae Shin Yoo is
back in Seoul, South Korea. His
wife and four children left Crozet a
week ahead of him in mid-June and
were staying with relatives. Hae
Shin had things he had to wrap up,
visa stuff, so he was alone, busy, for
a few days more.
On the eve of his flight, he sat
peacefully in his spare living room
in the former parsonage to Crozet
Baptist Church, a man at rest
despite the tension and uncertainty
of the moment. He is man devoted
to compassion and he has a field of
holiness about him. This summer
he learns where his mission is.
Five Crozet churches—Crozet
Baptist, Cornerstone, Victory Hill,
Mountain Plain Baptist and Crozet
United Methodist—joined in a
Song Festival at CUMC June 6
where Yoo was sent off with blessings. About 165 people attended.
Nancy Virginia Bain said it was one
of the five best things she’s ever
known to happen in Crozet, and
she speaks with authority on that
subject.
The Yoos had expected to face
this ordeal last summer. He had
conflicting feelings about what to
do with last summer’s court ruling
that his status as a foreign national
in the U.S. was invalid. But: to go
and perhaps be locked out of the
States, or stay and keep appealing?
Impecunious, they stayed on. Yoo
was loathe to upset his children’s
schooling. But now he’s making a
move. “I always want to be obeying
the law,” he affirmed. He needs to
get a resolution.
His family will present itself at
the United States Embassy in Seoul
and hope Hae Shin’s visa as a temporary religious worker is approved.
If it is, they will come back, hopefully in August, to Crozet or perhaps Blacksburg. If it’s not, then his
mission is in Korea.
“Not sure,” said Hae Shin with a
pained smile when asked to predict
which will happen.
After all, his job as pastor at
Lighthouse Church had turned out
to be unauthorized.
But he expects that issue to be
waived once he makes his new application in the proper venue.
Healing Peace Ministry, which he
established with some Crozet neighbors in December, has raised enough
money to count for one year of his
salary as a pastor to KoreanAmerican students at Virginia Tech,
an effort to reach out to them after
the killings of 2007, but the ministry has no financial history. He
doesn’t know if what’s there will be
judged sufficient support.
He did wonder if he should delay
and raise more money before filing.
But he doesn’t want to risk any
interruption in the kids’ school
progress.
The Korean Presbyterian Church
in America has commissioned him
as a “planting minister” (someone
establishing the church’s presence in
a new area) for Virginia Tech. He’s
been spending three days a week on
the Tech campus since January,
mainly at the chapel. Healing Peace
is a officially registered organization
at the University.
He hadn’t expected what he
found there. “Virginia Tech is very
open and supportive. It’s a very
warm place. I went there to bring
healing, but in reality the Virginia
Tech community is very healthy. It’s
a very good community. They have
a lot of compassion. I’m trying now
more to help them provide global
leaders from their international and
American students.
“I’m trying to connect students,
especially international students.
They need care,” Hae Shin explained.
“International students tend to be
very busy with studies and the second generation Korean-American
students tend to be isolated. They
do not have a rich experience of the
bigger life.
“This is a Christian ministry and
it is building the whole community.
As the Pope said, Christianity is
always contributing to general
humanity. I want to make everyone
be a good person and experience
inner healing by meeting God.”
Yoo is a prayer warrior and was
spending at least three hours at day
at prayer in the Tech chapel. “There
is some power bigger than what we
experience,” he said. “Psychological
problems have spiritual roots. The
evil spirit is hanging around and it
captured one student [the murderer]. I am moving toward a more
spiritual confrontation and to fight
the evil with intercessory prayers.”
He told the story of a student
addicted to pornography who had
become depressed. “The root of it
was his sin. Only stopping could
ultimately stop his depression.”
He had three cases in which students confidentially confessed sinful behaviors to him and he offered
them absolution, likening it to the
Catholic practice.
“They had to repent,” Yoo
explained. “It’s quite different from
conventional psychology, which
deals with problems superficially
only to have them come back
again.”
The Healing Peace prayer ministry, weekly Bible Study classes and
regular worship services are supposed to start up again in the fall,
assuming the visa is granted.
Yoo’s other tactic is to connect
American Korean War veterans
with Tech’s Korean-American students. Fifteen war vets in the
Blacksburg area attended a dinner
arranged, at Yoo’s instigation, by
Tech students, including KoreanAmericans, to honor the veterans’
service.
The Yoo family (top to bottom) brothers Ahn
Jin, Sung Jin and Kyung Jin, Hae Shin and
Seon Hee, and Ha Jin
“That was really meaningful and
we had “grandfamily” adoptions,”
Yoo said. “Eight of the veterans
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31.Upright, or grand
34.Valley park
36.Past, present, or future
37.GEICO’s spokesman
38.Sound of discovery
39.Idiomatically the limit
40.Common article
43.Type of fit?
46.Month after next, in payment
terms
47.Day to plant a tree
48.Sound of relief
51. Posthumous title for4 Across
52. Crozet water supply
55. Wight, for one
56. Come through
57. Noise
58. Latin prefix for NaCl
59. With -creek, proposed parkway
60. Between ready and go
Down
1. Proclamation
2. Breathe
3.Identifying number
4.A phone signal
5. Breakfast staple
6.Don’t put it before the horse
7.Type of deep bend
8.Eve’s home
9.Ecru
10.Iraqis’ neighbors
11.Likes
12.Fume
15.Make bubbles
17.Country lodging
18.Printer measures
25.Ornamental vessels
26. Dole
27. Faux- follower
29. Sale container
30.Fuel efficiency measure
31.Select
32. Blackness descriptor
33. In the past
34. Spaghetti enhancer
35. Hi-___ monitor
36. “Little Flower” saint
38. Rockcress genus
40. Chords
41. Precedes -tonk, var.
42. Magnitude
44. Political Karl
45. Source of iron
46. Buddy
48. Peak
49. Region
50. Group of cattle
51. Misrepresent
53. Dreamy sleep
54. Sense of self
are not appreciated. I want them to
feel integrated with [Koreans] and
know that they lived good lives. It’s
also good to get them ‘on duty’ and
reaching out to international students. The vets are excited about it.
This is something that could reach
into other parts of the States.”
‘God will prove if this is where
my ministry lies,” said Hae Shin,
drawing back from talk of the
future. “A lot of things happen
through prayer and they happen
effectively. But there is always doubt.
I think, ‘God, do you want this?’
“I move in faith. It’s hard to start
a ministry and I have to do it in
English and I make errors.”
His children want to come back
to Crozet. “Culturally, they are
Americans,” said Hae Shin. “But I
am in God’s hands. It is very stressful.” If their request is denied, they
will get traveler’s visas and come
back to move the belongings they
have left here.
“All this is really the Crozet community reaching out,” Hae Shin
said, referring to the Song Festival.
“That gathering was so encouraging.
People saw the need and experienced joy.” Now there is talk of having the festival every year. “All my
handicaps are filled by my Crozet
friends,” he said quietly. “They are
so loving. I had a fear of being
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‘adopted’ 40 Korean-American students as ‘a grandchild.’ They stay in
communication with the students
and the veterans have formed a
committee and they are planning
and leading events.”
At Virginia Tech’s graduation in
May, Korea’s Ambassador to the
United States, Tae Sik Lee, met for
lunch with 15 of the students and
three vets and their families. The
next event will convene 200 vets at
Salem’s American Legion Hall in
September.
“[The vets] help students experience a wholistic lifestyle and not be
trapped in the academic setting.”
Korean War veterans are sort of a
separate ministry, Yoo said. “They
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Yoo—continued from page 33
rejected as an alien. But our Crozet
neighbors’ love has been sacrificial. Their
energy is spreading to Tech and the vets
are joining in it too. The rhythm of love
is going on.”
Should the visa be denied, what view
would he take away of America?
“America is very special,” he said.
“Especially at this time of globalization.
If there was no such country as America,
there would be many wars. America is
the center of networking.
“But there is more to do than that.
America is where people from other
countries come to get a common culture, a common language, that recognizes the dignity of humanity. Americans
should be open to that. Try to understand each other.
“Friendship is social capital. America
is a Christian culture and shares the love
of God. Americans have a strong family
ethic. This resource you don’t understand because you live here. But it is not
that way in other countries.
“I want to see America’s spirit spread
and be a global spirit.”
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CROZET
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Working Cats looking
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job. Rodents can wreak havoc on
nurseries, gardens and farms. Our
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appointment, offer ends August
31st.
Warehouse
Workers
MusicToday is seeking full-time
(M-F 9-6), dependable warehouse
workers for its Crozet facility.
Primary responsibility is to pull
and pack orders. Must be able to
stand for long periods of time and
some lifting is required. Reliable
transportation is a must. Excellent
benefits including health, dental,
LTD, Life and 401(k). Please apply
at 5391 Three Notch’d Road,
Crozet, VA between 10 a.m. 2 p.m.
daily; or by fax at (434) 923-3937;
or email at jobs@musictoday.com
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Heart of Crozet
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Supervisors Approve Downtown Zoning District
Crozet has new zoning for its downtown commercial district, a unique set of rules in Albemarle
County, that aims to attract new business and residents to an area imagined as a traditional, walkable town center. After nearly 18 months of development and some 40 public meetings, Supervisors
created the new zone with little fanfare June 11 on
a unanimous vote.
All buildings in the 53-acre area are required to
be a minimum of two stories with both floors
habitable. No residential uses are permitted on the
first floor of a building. Four-story buildings are
allowed by-right (the fourth floor must be setback
by 15 feet to prevent buildings from seeming to
loom over the street) and up to six stories are possible by special request. Buildings must have their
main entrance face the street and corner lots will
be able to choose which street to put their main
entrance on or have one on both. With a waiver
request, buildings can be allowed to setback up to
20 feet from the street in order to allow for café
seating areas.
The rules require 10-foot sidewalks on Crozet’s
main streets and 8-foot sidewalks on others. Street
trees are required every 25 feet.
Breaks—alleys, sidewalks or parking lot
entries—must occur in building facades at least
every 200 feet. Supervisors raised the height of
screening fences between the commercial district
and adjoining residential areas to 6 feet.
Screening of parking areas is set at 4 feet high
for security reasons. Parking, except for what is
possible along the street, must be “relegated,”
meaning behind stores. Parking standards were set
at one space per 1,000 square feet of floor area
and downtown residences will have to have one
space for the first bedroom and another for any
additional bedrooms.
Supervisors removed one property on High
Street from the district’s boundary at the owner’s
request. The owner of a parcel on White Hall
Road, now for sale, that adjoins the boundary
asked to be included, but will have to go through
a separate process to join the district.
Virtually all commercial and office uses are
allowed, and passing the new rules means that
property owners with plans to build can proceed
to submit conforming building plans to the
County without having to go through lengthy
and expensive rezoning appeals.
The County itself has a new library planned for
the new main intersection downtown as well as
streetscape improvements and a new storm drain
system for the area under way. County officials
estimate that the new district will generate an
additional $11 million in business taxes over the
next 20 years.
Supervisors expressed some concern over the
tax increases some properties now in the district
will experience and asked county staff to report
later what that effect is. White Hall District
Supervisor Ann Mallek made the motion to
approve and it was seconded by Samuel Miller
District Supervisor Sally Thomas.

County Collects Opinions on Uses for Old Crozet Elementary

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