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Anne Mallek announced on February 24 that she is running for her third term as White Hall District Supervisor. See story page 13.
Rescue Squad Honors Its Volunteers The Western Albemarle Rescue Squad held its annual awards dinner and dance February 7 at King Family Vineyards to recognize the contributions of its “all-volunteer, all the time” members and named Raven Curtis as its Member of the Year. The slide show, a yearbook-like look at the past year, featured pictures of Robert “Bubba” Baber, who succumbed to cancer in June and whose family were special guests of the evening. “It’s a real significant loss to the community,” said WARS president
Bill Woods. “We appreciate that he was part of our lives. “Your smile, attitude and compassion, and desire to teach were contagious,” he said, addressing slides of Baber as they passed by. “Thank you, sir, for your dedicated service. Rest easy, my friend. We’ll take it from here.” Baber was also a volunteer fireman with the CVFD. A somber quiet fell over the room as the family came forward and the screen went blank for a minute. The crowd stood for an ovation. The famcontinued on page 20
Chronic Wasting Disease, an always-fatal neurological disease affecting white-tail deer, mule deer, elk and moose, has been discovered at Front Royal, within twelve miles of the Shenandoah National Park’s northern boundary, Park Superintendent Jim Northup told an audience at Crozet Library February 5. In 2009 it was discovered about 23 miles away from the park. A park report describes the advance as “rapid.” “It’s significant now in West Virginia,” he said. Northup said that the character of the 105-mile Skyline Drive and the edge-habitat nature of deer likely means that once the disease invades the park, it will advance southward along the scenic road and reach southern counties bordering the park. “The only way to slow it is to thin the deer herd,” he said. Chronic Wasting Disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy affecting the brains and nervous systems of deer and has no treatment. It is transmitted by prions, a type of protein, in the soil. Animals are infected by eating contaminated grass. The main symptom is loss of weight over time. Listlessness and repetitive walking in a pattern are also continued on page 12
A Million Stitches of Love Beatrice Mayo has a section of a quilt project on her lap nearly all the time, busily hand sewing every part. In winter she is on her couch in her snug house in North Garden, heated toasty by a sturdy wood stove she carefully tends, and in summer she sews sitting on a swing on her front porch. “I love sewing,” she said. “I love it. I love it. It’s a hobby to me.”
Now 79, she was raised in Louisa County, the fifth of 12 children (eight are still living), and learned sewing from her mother, who made clothes from flour sacking. “I’ve been a seamstress all my life. I sew my own clothes. I started in alterations at Miller and Rhoads [department store] downtown. They had three seamstresses then. Then I went continued on page 9
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We’re Not Divided I beg to differ with your representation of CCAC [From the Editor, February 2015] as divided, or the inference that some members are being wooed by Milestone partners. As a member of the CCAC, after hearing Mr. Stoner’s presentations, I had many more questions, so I called Mr. Stoner (not the other way around) and met with him once last spring to get those questions answered. I was very upfront with him on several problems I had with his proposal. A few other members also initiated meeting with him on their own time to do their own due diligence, and each of us subsequently shared what we learned and our impressions at later public meetings. The record shows that the CCAC later unanimously voted to reject his original proposal prior to its hearing at the planning commission. If Mr. Stoner was wooing members, then he did not do a very good job. We held two marathon special public sessions last summer to hash out our specific issues
MARCH 2015 with the Barnes Lumber redevelopment plan, and our vision for that particular piece of property. What I enjoy about serving on the CCAC is the respect everyone has for differing opinions—that is what makes a good committee. Not only do we listen to each other’s thoughts, but also incorporate the public’s input. Varying viewpoints are what make a strong and healthy committee. We all come from different professional backgrounds and bring a variety of expertise and experience, and I value that. The talk about market research stems from trying to get a handle on what are realistic expectations for business growth and development in Crozet. I want to have real data—not take a private developer’s word for it. I look forward to much thoughtful and respectful discussion during CCAC meetings in the coming year. Kim Connelly Crozet Community Advisory Council Snow Days Why is it necessary to close all county schools when only a few roads have hazardous con-
ditions? It is not. But, the Albemarle County Public Schools’ (ACPS) response to county road conditions is overly broad, unimaginative, and simplistic. Their approach disrupts thousands of students and parents because of a dozen or so patches of snow and ice. Every year we have snowstorms and freezing weather. This is a known and predictable occurrence that still seems to bewilder the ACPS. Four days after the Februray 16th snowstorm the schools were still closed. Why? Because a few of the secondary roads in the county have uncleared patches of snow and ice. The ACPS posted several examples of this on their Facebook page. I concur that the roads they showed were dangerous and should be avoided. But closing every school in the county is disruptive and unnecessary. It is disruptive because thousands of parents must arrange child care or miss work, an inconvenience for some but a serious financial problem for others. It also leaves many students unsupervised, a potential hazard itself. Furthermore, the least privileged students among us might be missing their best meals of the day.
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It is unnecessary because, with a little creativity and effort, the ACPS could create a policy designed to match the county road conditions. For example, reduced bus service with pick up/drop off locations that avoid secondary roads, or closing only those schools with uncleared roads in their district, or coordinating with the proper authority to have bus routes cleared or arranging safe passage over snow and ice patches or recording/ streaming some of the core classes. After all, the ACPS does like to brag about it technology. Numerous other organizations such as the USPS, Rescue Squads, etc. are able to operate because they plan for winter road conditions. The ACPS can still be prudent and cautious in regard to inclement weather, as they have been, but they can also be diligent, creative and industrious in getting students back in the classroom. Missing four days of school for five inches of snow is mismanaging a known risk. Matthew Sposato Crozet Virginia Redistricting I advocate for a non-partisan continued on page 6
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CCAC Looks at Street Names, Polo Traffic Andy Slack of the county government’s mapping division raised the problem of streets with different names growing into connection with each other at the Crozet Community Advisory Council’s February 18 meeting. The main problem is the extension of Park Ridge Drive through the Foothills Crossing area. Will the road change names once it meets Hilltop Street and will Hilltop Street change names once it is connected to Library Avenue? To an ordinary driver, it would seem to be all one road. “Basically, five roads will connect that all have different names,” explained Slack. “We want to start a discussion to see if there could be one, or two, names. There’s a possibility people will have to change addresses.” There are 15 new addresses in Foothill Crossings and 32 in Parkside Village that could be affected, he said. One solution would be two names that meet at an intersection with the future “eastern avenue” planned as a north-south connection from Three Notch’d Road (Rt. 240) to Cory Farm and Rt. 250. “We want to find a happy solution,” said Slack. “The usual process is to write all the affected property owners.” CCAC member Jennie More suggested that the matter be postponed until a road plan for the lumberyard is known. “We need to start thinking about it,” said Slack. “It could wait until the roads are near to being connected.” White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek said she thought it would be wiser if the street name questions were decided before houses are built on them. The connection of Hilltop Street to Park Ridge Drive is expected to happen within a year. County planners are currently reviewing plans for the new road section. David King of King Family Vineyards told the CCAC that the Special Use Permit that the county awarded to the winery in 2004 to allow it to host the Pink Ribbon Polo fundraiser for
breast cancer research expired last year. The winery wants to clarify its ability to continue to hold polo matches under the new ordinances that are designed to promote on-farm commercial activities. “We want to clear up a gray area about what we can do,” said King. “We want to make clear everything we do and make sure we are in compliance. We voluntarily went to the county. “We would prefer that the SUP be indefinite. So we are asking to do what we have been doing for the last 10 years. On Sunday afternoons [from May through October] we are open for polo. We have teams, mostly local, and there’s no admission. It’s guys and gals running around on horses. It’s becoming harder to find players, but it’s becoming more popular with the public.” King said they are asking for an attendee limit of 1,000 and that a usual crowd for a Sunday match is between 400 and 500 spectators. Parking has not been a problem, he said. The Vineyard hires traffic managers who set up cones on Half Mile Branch Road at the farm entrance to get cars off the road as promptly as possible. “There’s no sound at the matches. No announcer or music. So, it’s no changes, but we would like to be able to continue to do it. It’s a family day with kids. We ask for dogs to be leashed.” King, who opened the winery in 1996 and who is now the chair of the Virginia Wine Board, said that the increase in traffic on Half Mile Branch Road is due to population growth in Crozet, “not because of what we do at the winery,” and because some drivers are using the road now as a route to Interstate 64 and Western Albemarle High School. Jackie Washington, who lives on the road nearer to Yancey Mills, said traffic has increased markedly on Sundays. Another neighbor, Tim Spicer, said he has not experienced any inconvenience from traffic. continued on page 39
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The Crozet Independence Day parade and fireworks show will be held Sunday, July 5. The fireworks company that customarily provides the show, committed to larger shows in bigger towns, could not launch a show in Crozet on the Fourth, so the civic groups that sponsor the Crozet Independence Day Celebration accepted the com-
pany’s offer to put on a longer show the next day. The parade through downtown to Crozet Park will begin at 5 p.m. The fireworks show will launch at nightfall, about 9:30 p.m. As ever, bands, softball, diversions for kids, food and beer will be available at the park beginning at 6 p.m.
Shenandoah National Park Seeks Applicants for Summer Youth Conservation Corps Jobs Shenandoah National Park is now accepting applications for its summer Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program. The YCC program provides gainful employment and an educational experience in the conservation of the park’s natural and cultural heritage. YCC enrollees maintain park trails, roads, buildings and campgrounds while learning about Shenandoah National Park. The eight-week YCC program will begin Monday, June 15 and go through Friday, August 7. Applicants for crew-member positions must be between the ages of 16 and 18
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during the employment period. YCC enrollees work 40 hours per week and earn minimum wage. Additional program information and the current application can be obtained online from the park’s website at www.nps.gov/shen/parkmgmt/ ycc.htm. Completed applications should be mailed to Volunteer & Youth Programs Coordinator, Shenandoah National Park, 3655 US Hwy 211 East, Luray, VA 22835. Applications must be postmarked by April 15 to be eligible.
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People around the globe shared similar apprehensions during the fall of 1918: What has this world come to? Will the madness ever end and life get back to normal? The World War (that would not end all wars) had raged since 1914. Millions already had perished. Country after country was drawn out of its “neutral” position and into a most brutal conflict. Many church messages were pulled from the Gospel according to Matthew, referencing the world’s ultimate final stage of battle: “... for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” Then came the sickness—first in military encampments, and soon thereafter, into private homes throughout the world. A virulent influenza threatened any who crossed its path. Millions miserably died within days or a week or two of contracting the virus. Health professionals, hospitals and morgues were overwhelmed. Mass burials took place where insufficient facilities and manpower could not keep pace with the burden. The malady, often leading to fatal pneumonia, consumed children, robust adults and
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On the day little Susie Pearle Rea was born near Afton, in September 1918, the local newspaper made only one reference to influenza: a page two mention that “an acute respiratory infection, thought to be Spanish influenza,” had appeared among the soldiers at Camp Lee near Petersburg. The report concluded, “The situation is not serious.” Sixteen days later, front page reports were dire. [Photo courtesy of the John E. Rea family]
weakened elders. By October 1918, its destructive path led to central Virginia. Public health officials discouraged public gatherings. The Mayor of Charlottesville ordered “schools, public and private, churches, theaters, and all other places where there are public congregations” closed for several weeks. So many became sick
Rugged mountain men like this bark-peeling crew in Greene County were as vulnerable as young school children during the worldwide influenza pandemic of 1918. [Photo courtesy of Larry Lamb]
Public health organizations in 1918 raced to educate the population on ways to prevent the spread of the deadly influenza. During the peak of the crisis, cities enacted bans on many community gatherings. [Image by Virginia State Board of Health, 1918]
around the same time that businesses struggled to keep their doors open. The Albemarle Telephone Service pleaded with the public to use phones only for important calls, as few operators were able to report for work. At one point, all of the press operators and office staff at the Daily Progress were out, forcing the newspaper to call for hard-tofind outside assistance in order to prepare and print just a few pages of news. Even then, papers often went undelivered when newsboys could not get out.
Neither was the countryside immune to the plague of influenza. Unlike in the cities, rural folk often only had distant neighbors to call upon for help. Emory Wyant (1911–2001) was the third youngest of Hiram and Cornelia James Wyant’s ten children. Hiram, a blacksmith and farmer, lived with his family near the first bridge into Sugar Hollow, adjacent to Charlie McAllister’s sawmill and Harve Howdyshell’s stave mill. “How well I remember Bernard Carr,” said Emory. “He and his son Tom Carr worked a
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tannery in Sugar Hollow... and farmed and raised some cattle. Going up into the hollow, the tannery was on the right-hand side of the river [near the second bridge.] Going up by Tom Carr’s place there was a path. We always went up on that side of the river going to school, which was on up the river [near the third bridge.] “During the flu epidemic our whole family was down except Dad and my next older sister, Edna. That was back in 19-and18 when it first came around. Bernard Carr would come down with a basket full of food. He’d bring it and set it on the porch. He’d go away and Dad would get it and bring it in. After we’d get through eating, Dad set the basket back outside and he’d come back and get the basket. “Back then they didn’t know what to do with that flu. But Bernard Carr brought food down there. One of the finest neighbors you ever saw in your life. “I don’t know as it killed too many up our way, but so many of them had it. I know we had it. All but two of us got down with it. I don’t know if they quarantined the houses, but
people just wouldn’t go in if they knew you had it. It was really epidemic.” Like soldiers on foreign soil, travelers and workers employed far from their families were unfortunate victims in a strange land. Places with much employment, such as shipyards that were geared up for war production, overwhelmed local facilities with their sick and dying. Churches and other public buildings were used as makeshift hospitals, and the dead, sometimes unidentified, were buried in common graves. When possible, the deceased were loaded onto trains and shipped back to depots near their homes. Clyde McAllister, a son of Richard and Lillie Garrison McAllister, grew up on a mountainside in Blackwell’s Hollow. “In 1918/1919 there was a flu epidemic,” Clyde recalled. “My daddy and his younger brother were down in Kentucky in a logging camp. My mother received a Western Union that my dad had passed away—to pick his body up at the train station. Hooked up the wagon and went to the train station to get him, and it wasn’t he. It was his younger brother. The younger brother had three young daughters and a
Central Virginia newspaper headlines during October 1918 were dominated by daily updates on battles and casualties in the World War and equally dire health struggles on the home front. [Daily Progress, October 1918]
In the Sugar Hollow household of Hiram and Cornelia James Wyant, nine out of 11 family members contracted Spanish influenza during the autumn of 1918. All recovered. — One of their lovely daughters celebrated her 110th birthday in 2015. [Courtesy of Phil James Historical Images]
13-month-old son. His wife was destitute! She went to live with her mother, and my mother took this 13-month-old boy— he was a McAllister—and he became one of us. Instead of having 13 in the family we had 14.” Although the World War ended in November 1918, influenza continued to claim victims for many more months. Ironically, there was a third and final surge of sickness following Armistice celebrations: people desperate for news of a brighter tomorrow ignored public health
warnings and gathered together to rejoice this long-awaited peace. Worldwide deaths from the pandemic ranged in the tens of millions to possibly upwards of 100 million souls, potentially five percent of the world population at that time. Although history recounts the winners in a war, the ultimate losers are each and every household along the home fronts where loved ones never return and families are reshaped for generations to come. God have mercy.
Makers of over-the-counter medicines such as Kill-A-Kold pitched their products to a frightened public. Oh, that remedies for such menaces of life could be so effective and inexpensive. [Daily Progress, October 1918]
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to the shirt factory [in Belmont]. I did collars. I stayed there a while. Then I was at the Young Men’s Shop and then at Hazel Easton’s. Then I worked in a private household for 28 years. I didn’t stop working until I was 78.” That was last year. Since then she’s made four full-sized quilts, one about every three months. She usually gives them to relatives and her children and grandchildren. Typically each quilt has 12 panels. She takes her inspiration from calendar photographs and Christmas cards. Each panel contains from 300 to 400 individual pieces of fabric, each cut to a precise shape and carefully combined to form a scene. “I’ll tell you how I make it,” she said. “I’m a very good artist—other people tell me that. I’ve never said it. But if I look at it, I can draw it. I do it on a sheet of paper. Then I lay it out on the materials and I cut it out and then I stitch each piece by hand. It’s hard to find sky fabric.
I do some features with darning [embroidery] thread. I use a very small needle and I can still see to thread it. My eyes are real good. “My momma was a seamstress and we lived on a farm. We made our dresses. We sewed everything by hand until we came by a treadle sewing machine. I never went to school for seamstress work. It came natural.” She prides herself on keeping an even stitch. “Then I sew the square together. There’s always a background.” She uses a sheet for the quilt’s backside and puts a halfinch layer of cotton batting in the middle. She uses a sewing machine just once to put a seam around the outer edge. She only uses new fabric and she has a large, various supply of remnants stored in a bedroom. “When I finish one, I’ve got another one going,” she explained. Two panels of a quilt featuring birds are done toward the next project. “The calendars are very interesting,” she said. Her income was always modest, but she made a point of supporting a few charities, some of which
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“You’ve got to live right to get to the Kingdom of God,” she said emphatically. “I try to help people. The only thing for me is God. Give Him everything. Believe in God.” Her pride is a quilt she calls the Twelve Months of the Year, which she has made in both full and queen sizes. She did another she calls “Houses of Love” that shows various styles of old houses in different seasons of the year. “No quilts look as pretty as mine,” she said, not intending it
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Virginia Festival of the Book Brings Events to Crozet The 21st annual Virginia Festival of the Book will be held March 18-22, offering 199 programs, with 393 participating authors and moderators, in 77 venues in the Charlottesville region, including some in Crozet. Produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Festival is a program of the Virginia Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. It is the largest community-based book event in the MidAtlantic region and has attracted audiences of more than 20,000 for each of the past 11 years. In Crozet, look for: Histories of Local Virginians: Their Lives and Their Work Wednesday, March 18, 7 - 8 p.m. at Crozet Library, 2020 Library Avenue Kevin Donleavy (The Irish in Early Virginia: 1600-1860), Barclay Rives (William Cabell Rives: A Country to Serve), and Billy Wayson (Martha Jefferson Randolph: Republican Daughter & Plantation Mistress) share stories of local Virginians, from the Crozet tunnel laborers to master craftsmen, a Senator, and a plantation mistress.
Fiction with an Edge to It Thursday, March 19, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at The Lodge at Old Trail, 330 Claremont Lane Authors Michael Abraham (War, WV), Ellen Meeropol (On Hurricane Island) and Larry Bud Meyer (Mother Fracker) will read from their novels and discuss the issues raised in their stories. The authors blend great stories with real life complexities, including those that endanger our environment and our civil rights. Young Adult Books for Any Age: From Romantic Suspense to Steampunk! Thursday, March 19, 7 to 8 p.m. at Crozet Library Authors Melissa Marr (Made For You), Diana Peterfreund (Across a StarSwept Sea), and Tiffany Trent (The Tinker King) will discuss their Young Adult titles and their writing, and answer readers’ questions.
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St. Joseph Breadcrumb Pasta It is said that St. Joseph was a carpenter and his feast day is celebrated in some churches on March 19. I’m fond of this saint, as is my extended family. My father was Joseph (in fact, he was the second child in his family named Joseph, because the first child died—yikes!). My brother is Joseph. My Godfather is Joseph, as was an uncle on my mother’s side and of course many cousins. It’s such a large family that we have to double up on names. So many Josephs that nicknames abound: my father (Zeke), my Godfather Joe D (for DeMartino), my brother
Pepe (for Guiseppe) or you simply use their full name or place of origin: Joe Manganello or Joe Zito from New Brunswick. I’ve been surrounded by Josephs my entire life. Some families of Italian and Sicilian decent, especially in the U.S. northeast, celebrate this day with special foods and house-to-house visiting. The recipe that follows is, I suppose, to honor the sawdust of the carpenter and it’s the easiest pasta dish ever. When you enjoy this on March 19, know that it is almost spring.
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Put the water on to boil and add the salt. In the meantime, heat the oil in a heavy skillet. Add the garlic and stir constantly so that it doesn’t burn, about 30 seconds. Keep the heat on medium. Then add the nuts and cook gently for about a minute, until they begin to brown. Add the breadcrumbs and stir. That’s it… turn off the heat. When the water boils, cook the pasta until al dente, drain and mix with the breadcrumb ‘sauce’. Serve with grated Romano or Parmesan cheese. Note to readers: In August I’m going to feature a recipe that uses shishito peppers. If you want to make this, you’ll have to grow your own or spend a lot of money and time searching them out. I’ve saved some seeds and the first 10 readers to send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the Crozet Gazette will be sent five seeds with growing instructions. You can also order an entire seed packet online. I doubt you’ll find seedlings at any of the local plant nurseries, but I’ll keep my eyes open for that.
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noticed. “It’s like mad cow disease and it spreads through body fluids,” he explained. “It lives a long time in the soil and survives fire.” “Skyline Drive could function like a fuse and spread disease south,” he said. He said most of the deer in the park are around Big Meadows. Coyotes have come back in the park and are suppressing the deer population. Forty percent of the 200,000acre park is designated as wilderness and it includes 500 miles of trails. Visitation was up 10 percent in 2014 with 1.2 million visitors, about the annual average for the last decade, Northup said. The drive is in “fabulous shape,” he said,
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and only one of its 72 overlooks remains to be refurbished. Lodging and wayside exhibits are also being renovated. He said that bike lanes on the road are unlikely to happen, but the park will hold two bike-only days a year. The Emerald Ash Borer has been discovered in the park. The invasive insect destroys ash trees, which comprise four percent of the SNP’s trees, he said. “That’s an awful lot of trees,” he reminded listeners.
CROZETgazette He said feral hogs in Culpeper County are also a problem for the park. “They get to be an ecological disaster because they root for food like little bulldozers.” Northrup said that the Park Service used to think that forest fires needed to be suppressed but now “We realize that some ecosystems are fire-dependent,” he said. In some zones of the park fires are no longer managed, but are allowed to burn until they meet a natural barrier. The park also starts “prescribed burns” to keep certain landscapes open.
MARCH 2015 Northup, raised in northern Virginia, started his career in the National Park Service at Shenandoah as a ranger—“I got paid to go hiking”—and came back 35 years later as its leader. His career has taken him to eight national parks, including the Grand Canyon and Picture Rocks in Michigan. “I couldn’t be more lucky than to be here,” he said. He called Crozet “a wonderful town where lots is going on. It’s one of our very important gateway communities to the park.”
Mallek Announces Run for Third Term Standing in frigid weather outside Crozet Library February 24, White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek announced that she is running for a third term. “It’s been an honor and a joy to represent the White Hall District for the last seven years,” she said, citing her 30 years of “active service to Albemarle County.” Mallek pointed to four points of emphasis in her record. First, she said, was being accessible to citizens. She has appeared at 39 town halls during her tenure, with three more slated for this month. Second is publicly-funded infrastructure development in Crozet, such as the library, the streetscape project, the wetlands storm water project for downtown, and the completion of Jarmans Gap Road. Third is new agriculture ordinances that “simplified processes for on-farm markets” and her role in creating the Monticello Artisan Trail, the first such “trail” in the state. Mallek described herself as a promoter of the local food movement. Fourth, Mallek emphasized county budgeting, the “restructuring of county staff,” a focus on vulnerable citizens and the opening of two new county parks. She said her new emphases would be coping with population growth in Crozet, supporting the environmental academy at Western Albemarle High School, “recreational enhance-
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I’ve heard about the mysterious “runner’s high” since I was in high school, back when I thought that running and exercising was stupid. To the uninitiated, one would think that the runner’s high is a state of euphoria–without pain, stress, or fatigue–that runners often get at some point in their runs. You will find the runner’s high being discussed in articles and on blogs, perhaps trying to describe it using scientific terms like endorphins and endocannabinoids. Often, the runner’s high is painted as an end result of being a “serious runner.” For me, I’m not sure it really even exists during a run. In fact, I think the term often sets newer runners searching for something somewhat unattainable and in turn can lead to frustration or disappointment, as if they’re doing something incorrect. Don’t get me wrong. I certainly have moments during a run where things seem just perfect and I’m running along as though I’m flying effortlessly over the ground. However the reality is that about 30 seconds later I may hit a hill and suddenly feel hopelessly out of breath, or randomly start to feel a nagging tendon pain coming back. Then, only 5 minutes after that, those feelings disappear, giving way to the effortless running feeling again. You see, running is work. It is always work, and takes both physical and mental effort. You have got to put in effort every time you step outside. Running is never given to you. Running preys upon laziness and inconsistency, but always respects hard work and commitment. Regardless of your belief system, it is pretty unquestionable that our bodies were uniquely designed to run and walk. These are simply our means of locomotion as humans. As kids, we don’t think about our running.
We just do it as part of our play. It is pointless, often effortless, and comes natural. Then, we go to school. Maybe we go to more school. We sit a lot. We drive a lot. We get a job and typically drive and sit more. If we’re lucky, we get married and have kids. Then we sit and drive even more and don’t eat or sleep so well. The act of running gets buried in our past and our body forgets what it even feels like. Then one day, we decide to start on a new path—back to fitness! We’re going run again! But this time…it’s really hard! We’re quickly out of breath. Our muscles and tendons revolt. This is not the running we remember. Maybe we weren’t made for this. Maybe we’re too old now. The runner’s high, my friends, is for those who refuse to believe this. We were made to run, it’s just gonna take some work to get back to it. Slowly, but surely, muscles and tendons remember their jobs. The springs get reloaded. The machine breaks down less and soon enough we’re running again. We get up early and get outside into the cold morning air. It’s work, but soon the machine warms up and when the engine is running, the mind can start to wander. The thought train during a run is random and varied and different for everyone. Some people problem-solve. Some people fantasize. Some people plan. Some people just appreciate their surroundings. Usually, the record skips from one thought to another to another. Rarely do we have time during our days to just stop and meditate. I’m sure that if you give people 60 minutes to go and “meditate,” whatever that meant to them, some phones would be pulled out in no time,
CROZETgazette or perhaps meditation would turn into a nap. But when running we’re reliving a movement that is as old as we are. There’s no napping, no phone, no distractions. We are focused, yet unfocused, and our brains need that. It needs the freedom to just float from one thought to another. Meanwhile, we are in a constant state of movement, conscious and unconscious, and continuously receiving feedback. The runner’s high, to me, is not an absence of work or an absence of pain, fatigue, stress, or work. The runner’s high comes from finally appreciating what we are capable of. Appreciating that this run feels so much better than a year ago because you stuck with it. Appreciating that the hour you get away is an hour you can recharge your brain and come back ready to slug it out in the real world with a renewed spirit. It is appreciating that you are in charge of your own body— good decisions and bad decisions. And the good decisions have a payoff. The runner’s high is taking a crazy, overscheduled life with major stress and too many new ideas and plans and taking it all for a run. The runner’s high is sometimes feeling your lungs and muscles burn just to remember they’re there. The runner’s high is finding grati-
MARCH 2015 tude and peace through commitment and effort. The runner’s high is seeing a beautiful sunrise on a frigid morning. I also wish it wasn’t called the runner’s high, because the same thing happens when you go for a long hike, cycle, swim, or go to boot camp. It’s really a fitness high. And it’s not always happening while you’re exercising. It’s more the change it makes in your entire day and in your life because you are working! Our ancient ancestors had no choice but to move all day and be fit. And despite the trials of pre-civilized life, I can only imagine there was something beneficial to their minds from hunting and gathering outside all day. Today, we don’t have to move much at all. Life is really easy, and overall this is a great thing! But I think it comes at a cost to our mental health. We often look to drugs to make us feel a certain way, but forget about some of the things that make us truly human—like movement and fitness. You runners, cyclists, and boot-campers know what I’m talking about. You know it’s not always easy, but you know it’s always worth it. For the rest of you, get fitness back into your lives! Don’t expect it to be easy or effortless. Soon enough though, with work and commitment, I guarantee you’ll be flying high.
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by saying that all of our cats are spoiled and will certainly never die of starvation or malnutrition on a dry food diet. And despite it not being ideal (explained below), many cats tolerate it just fine. So this column is really more to educate on some specific cat nutritional needs and nutrition-related problems, not so much to convince everyone to change their cat’s diet. Let’s start by reviewing the original cat model: wildcats. Cats are obligate carnivores— their natural design was built for hunting and eating mostly small rodents. On average, small rodents consist of 55 percent protein, 45 percent fat, and 2 percent carboh y d r a t e . Rodents are also made of approximately 60-70 percent water. Without a doubt, this is the food source that cats are designed to eat. Thus, it would make sense that if we were making commercial cat food, we would create a diet that was near these ratios, right? The vast majority of dry foods have a profile of 35 percent protein, 15 percent fat, a
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CROZETgazette whopping 40-50 percent carbohydrate, and just 5 percent water. Compare this to the rodent. Pretty different! So why is dry food the standard diet we feed our cats, and is this okay? Canned food on the other hand has an average profile of 40-50 percent protein, 40-50 percent fat, 10 percent or less carbs, and 70 percent water. Much better. Dry food has many advantages over canned food that make it so popular as a diet choice for your cat. Dry food is less expensive, less smelly, less messy, requires less packaging, and can be left out all day. From a convenience standpoint, it is easy to see why dry food would seem preferable. Many cats seem to do quite well on dry food-only diets, however there are many diseases that we now know are associated with feeding a dry-only diet. So much so that it is now hard for me to recommend that anyone feed cats dry food exclusively. The diseases most associated with dry food diets are obesity, lower urinary tract (bladder) disease, diabetes, and inflammatory bowel disease. Obesity is probably the most common of these and stems from the fact that all those additional carbohydrates cats are consuming in dry foods go right into fat storage. Indoor cats are already predisposed to obesity from inactivity, but throw in a 50 percent carbohydrate diet for a species that only needs two percent carbs and you’ve got a recipe for obesity. We regularly see obese cats lose weight when their owners stop the dry food and feed 100 percent canned food. Bladder problems are also very common and dry food is mostly to blame. Bladder inflammation, which looks just like a bladder infection (frequent urination, peeing outside of the litter box, blood in urine) happens when the urine is overly concentrated or when crystals form in the urine and irritate the bladder lining. These are both caused by dry foods because of the lack of water and the fact that the high carbohydrate concentration causes an
MARCH 2015 elevated urine pH. Struvite crystals, the number one cause of bladder inflammation, only happen in neutral to slightly alkaline pH, which is often associated with dry food. The extra water and higher protein in canned foods causes more dilute urine with a more natural acidic pH and often solves this problem. We often see male cats present to us on an emergency basis because they suddenly cannot pee—their urethra has been obstructed by a clump of crystals, white cells, and mucus. This is a serious, life-threatening problem, but is typically totally preventable by feeding a canned food diet. Diabetes is another common disease in cats that is largely diet based. Just like in people, diabetes is often associated with obesity, and the excessive carbohydrate load in dry food is constantly forcing insulin secretion throughout the cat’s life. Eventually, they develop insulin resistance and become diabetic, which is a very frustrating disease to treat. Managing diabetics is where I have become a true believer in the power of canned cat foods. The vast majority of diabetic cats are obese cats eating primarily dry food. I can typically cure these cats of their diabetes by switching them to a 100 percent canned food diet, along with a short course of insulin to get them back on track. In a short period of time, we can stop the insulin and get good long-term control by canned food alone. That is pretty convincing, if you ask me. Last, chronic gastrointestinal problems are often associated with dry foods, as the feline intestinal tract was not developed to handle such a high carbohydrate load. Some cases of chronic vomiting and/or diarrhea will resolve by switching to a low carb/high protein diet, i.e. canned cat food. Talk to your veterinarian about whether or not you should change your cat’s food. This seemingly simple nutritional information is surprisingly relatively new. I graduated from veterinary school in 2002 and there was no information or recommendation about canned vs. dry foods. But you can always go back to the way animals were designed and usually the answers lie there.
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Crozet Teachers’ “In Our Hands” Project Places in Top 10 By Rebecca Schmitz becca@crozetgazette.com
their students needed and what the budget could provide. She began her pitch with these powFor most people, few things erful words: “Let me ask you a are more daunting than stand- question… what would you do ing on stage and speaking to a with 337 kids with a million packed auditorium. Now imag- ideas and 180 devices? Our idea ine you’re a teacher who has 60 is ‘In Our Hands,’ a grassroots seconds to pitch an idea for a technology accelerator.” project that could provide Agee, along with fifth grade much-needed support and teacher Brandy Garbaccio and resources to your students. third grade teacher Abby Throw in the fact that your Claytor, had recognized a need audience is composed of suc- among Crozet’s students for cessful, knowledgeable business more technology and other and education leaders and cre- resources. “We believe in and ative thinkers, all of whom will are proud of our students and be evaluating your pitch and what they accomplish day to possibly helping you make it a day. We were confident in our reality. Understandably, you’d needs and wants. We have so be a little on edge. much to say about our students, This didn’t stop Betsy Agee, a but to be brief and cut to the fifth grade teacher at Crozet chase, with a timer in front of Elementary, from taking the us, can be nerve-wracking,” stage at Monticello High School Garbaccio said. Despite the on a Friday night in November short time frame allotted for as part of Charlottesville’s their pitch, their idea, a Startup Weekend EDU and Kickstarter-based website that confidently pitching an idea she would allow local businesses to and two other teachers had partner with and support stucome up with after recognizing dents’ project-based learning, aTLOT gapThird between the resources impressed1 2/22/15 the judges. Their ThursdayMAR'15_Ad_CrozetGazette_Layout 9:24 AM Page 1
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pitch landed them in the Top 10. When Agee first read the email sent to county educators about the conference, an annual event designed to match student and educator entrepreneurs with people in the community who could help them develop and grow their projects, her interest was piqued. It seemed an ideal forum for the teachers to get the guidance they needed to refine and
enhance “In Our Hands.” Her colleagues agreed. “It seemed like a dream situation to share our passion for supporting our students,” Garbaccio said. In her pitch, Agee stressed the need to provide resources for tech-savvy students who have no access to computers at home. Also, some students had become so proficient in areas such as computer coding that they needed to be more chal-
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2442 BArGAmin orchArd LAne The perfect town home! Birchwood Place, a threestory office building designed by architect/developer Vito Cetta for a parcel in north downtown adjoining Crozet Great Valu, is back on the market. The plan was first made in 2006 and got county approval, but went dormant when the real estate market tanked in 2007 and 2008. The site is governed by Downtown Crozet District zoning. The building is planned to be on the rear of a 2.5 acre-parcel between the Crozet Shopping Center and the U.S. Joiner building on Three Notch’d Road. The parking lots of all three building would connect to each other. Birchwood Place has 68 parking places. “Three Notch’d Road is an entrance corridor where buildings require Architectural Review Board approval, so we designed the architecture for it as a 19,000-square-foot, three floor office building. We normally would not have gone that far,” Cetta said. The front half-acre is owned
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by Union Trust Bank, Cetta said, and has a parking lot and driveway ready for a bank building to be added when the bank judges that the time is right to open in Crozet. Access to Birchwood Place is through an easement past the bank. Cetta has meanwhile built a mixed-use residential and commercial project at Liberty Hall, off Radford Lane near Rt. 250. Townhouse residential units are above eye and hearing doctors’ offices on the ground floor. “It really does work because the offices are in use during the day and closed when the residents are home from work in the evening,” Cetta said. He is marketing Birchwood Place as a similar project with three residential floors containing 24 apartments above the commercial first floor. He said a residential design would have to go back to the ARB for approval. Bevin Boisvert is representing the project, which has a $550,000 price tag for the land and building plan.
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WARS. The Chief ’s Award went to Taylor Tereskerz. Raven Curtis was recognized as the member who “touched the lives of other members.” The President’s Award went to Bob Knox. Life Memberships were awarded to Patrick Watson, who was also ribbed about a broken mirror incident, and to Taylor Ashley, Mike Bauer, Michael Walton, Andy Todhunter and Melanie Welcher. The slides showed the volunteers in their blue shirts at the squad house and in the field, driving, napping, washing vehicles, cooking in their old
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Crozet Elementary Nominated for Environmental Award By Rebecca Schmitz becca@crozetgazette.com The Virginia Department of Education has selected Crozet Elementary as one of four Virginia schools nominated for the national Green Ribbon School award. The award recognizes schools that have reduced their environmental impact and costs, improved the health and wellness of their students and staff, and provided educational opportunities focused on sustainability and the environment. Crozet Elementary received the prestigious Green Ribbon designation for its many achievements related to the environment, including saving $6,000 through composting and mixed-use recycling, and creating outdoor learning spaces such as gardens and habitats that encourage students to protect, preserve, and care for the environment. The school also partners with Western Albemarle’s environmental studies academy to mentor future young environmentalists.
Principal Gwedette Crummie, who has made environmental responsibility a priority during her five years at the school, is pleased that the efforts of staff and students are being recognized by the state. “Our core is community, and that will never change,” she says. “The kids here love being outdoors and they love the environment. The kids recognize that protecting and loving nature is going to help the community in the long run.” Students and teachers have worked hard to create a “green” environment. The school’s rain garden habitat, three years in the making, was designed and created by second grade students and their teachers with support from parents and sponsors such as Piedmont Master Gardeners and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF). In October 2014, the garden, a self-sustaining habitat for a variety of Virginia plants and animals, was designated a Certified Schoolyard Habitat by the
Crozet Elementary students in the school’s rain garden habitat.
VDGIF. Students from all grades now use the garden to enhance their studies of life sciences and the environment. A digital weather station, also part of the project, is attached to a nearby shed and tracks temperature and humidity. The school also has a running trail circling the grounds that is used by physical education classes and others in the community as a way to experience
nature while building strong bodies. The fifth graders designed and built a butterfly garden in honor of an active PTO parent, Brenda Yordy, who died of breast cancer. Yordy loved nature, and the garden created in her memory is a quiet place for the students to observe and enjoy their natural surroundings. Students in all grades serve as continued on page 36
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Wow! I am startled. In February, the National Academy of Sciences, through its Committee on Geoengineering Climate, issued a report titled Climate Intervention— Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth. This report considers intentionally altering the reflective properties of our atmosphere on a global scale to combat and counteract the detrimental effects of global warming. According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), “Our planet has entered a period in which its climate is changing more rapidly than ever experienced in recorded human history, primarily caused by the rapid build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels.” They go on to suggest that “… we have reached a point where the severity of the potential risks from climate change appears to outweigh the potential risks from the moral hazard associated with a suitably designed and governed research program.” The research program the NAS has in mind would include evaluating technologies that reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the planet. The Climate Intervention Report received support from the U. S. intelligence community, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), showing the breadth of interest within the government on this subject. This potential enterprise, which in their words is fraught with “unfamiliar and unquantifiable risks,” deserves scrutiny by Americans from all walks of life. Here is some background information and geological history to help initiate and facili-
tate this scrutiny. The Earth has an energy budget. When outflows of heat and light into space equal incoming solar energy, the Earth’s energy budget is balanced. Any perturbation of the amount of incoming or outgoing energy shifts this equilibrium, causing global temperatures to rise or fall. Sunlight reflected back to space does not contribute to the Earth’s energy budget. Just as our household budget is not based upon our gross pay, but on our net pay after deductions are withheld, so it is with the Earth’s energy budget: the greater the reflectivity of the Earth, like payroll deductions in our analogy, the less global heating. Scientists use the term “albedo” to describe the degree of reflectivity of an object or material. Albedo, which is derived from Latin for “whiteness,” is that fraction of incoming radiation that is reflected; expressed as a number between 0 and 1. An albedo of 0 means no light is reflected (the object perfectly absorbs light). An albedo of 1 means complete reflection (the object perfectly reflects light). Freshly fallen snow is highly reflective and has a high albedo of 0.9. The albedo of the open ocean (0.07 – 0.10), forests (0.08 – 0.18) and grasslands (0.25) indicate they all are good absorbers of sunlight. Black paint absorbs almost all light. It has a very low albedo of about 0.04. Roughly 70 percent of sunlight striking the Earth is absorbed by and heats up the land, rivers, lakes, oceans, clouds and the air. The remaining sunlight (30 percent) is reflected back to space and does not contribute to warming the Earth. This degree of reflectivity translates into an albedo of about 0.3, making the Earth a good absorber of sunlight. For comparison, the Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor, the Moon, is much darker. Its albedo is 0.12. Our neighboring planet Venus, which is covered
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Solar radiation absorbed and reflected by Earth. Obtained from the global energy budget web page of NASA: http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/lesson-plans/globalenergy-budget
by dense clouds that are highly reflective, is much brighter than Earth. It has an albedo of 0.76. The Earth’s average surface temperature is about 58 degrees F. The Earth is revolving around the Sun in the bitter cold of outer space, so that’s actually pretty warm. By increasing its albedo and making the Earth more reflective, the Earth would retain less of the Sun’s warmth and temperatures would drop worldwide. For example, if the Earth were to become covered with ice and snow, its albedo would rise from 0.3 toward 0.9. More sunlight would bounce back into space without contributing its energy to the planet. This decrease in solar heating would cause the temperature of the planet to plummet to a frigid 40 degrees below 0! Based upon the geological record, scientists posit that ‘Snowball Earth’ has happened; twice! Ice and snow covered the Earth from the poles to the equator more than 2 billion years ago, and again about 650 million years ago. Apparently, in both cases, it was carbon dioxide that came to the rescue. Derived from volcanic emissions, CO2 slowly accumulated in the atmosphere to levels hundreds of times higher than they are today. These exceptionally high levels of CO2 increased the greenhouse effect, offsetting and compensating the high albedo of ice and snow. As the atmosphere retained more of the Sun’s energy, the Earth gradually thawed out, revealing dry land and open ocean. Photosynthetic microbes and
plants along with other mineral processes withdrew CO2 from the atmosphere little by little, dropping its concentration to levels we are accustomed to. These natural responses prevented the world from overheating, as the snow and ice retreated and the Earth’s albedo reverted back to less reflective, more absorbent levels. The Committee’s report describes techniques by which humans can intervene in these natural processes and intentionally increase the Earth’s albedo. One procedure is to introduce tens of millions of tons of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere. Modeling studies have shown that cooling, equivalent in magnitude to counterbalance warming caused by excessive CO2 in the atmosphere, can be achieved by this method. Feasibility studies suggest no major technological innovations are required and results would be attained quickly. Costs are estimated to be a tiny fraction of those associated with weaning the world’s economy off coal, oil and natural gas. In conclusion, human activities such as the clearing of forests, farming and the building of dams, roads and cities have changed, albeit unintentionally, the albedo of land areas around the globe. This research proposal is different; it is a deliberate and premeditated modification of the Earth’s albedo. In essence, we are mulling over writing a prescription to administer pills to the Earth’s atmosphere, in perpetuity, to reduce its chronic fever brought on by
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Wakerobin It’s been a long winter, one that seemed reluctant to loosen its grip. We’re all hoping for warmer weather and looking for signs of spring in nature. What could be better than to find a plant with the delightful name of Wakerobin? Wakerobin (or wake-robin, or wake robin) is one of the many common names for various trillium species. The genus Trillium consists of about four dozen species found across the temperate regions of Asia and North America, the name coming from the three-part flowers, and also recognizing the plant’s trio of leaves. Strictly speaking, they’re bracts, but they have chlorophyll, and indeed function like leaves. And that’s how I’ll refer to them. As spring ephemerals, trilliums are perennials that emerge early in deciduous woodlands, taking advantage of abundant sunlight before the trees leaf out. By early summer, the trillium’s annual cycle is complete, the leaves begin to wither, and the plant disappears until next spring. If you want to put other plants around trilliums, be sure to mark their location before you start digging. All trillium species have a central stalk emerging from the ground, reaching 6 inches to 20 inches in height and topped by a trio of “leaves.” Trilliums are divided into two major groupings: the pedicellate trilliums’ flowers are held on a short stalk (or pedicel) either just above the leaves or just below them. Owing to their placement, along with their typical white, pink or red coloration, these flowers tend to be more showy
than the sessile trilliums. In the latter group, the flowers squat at the center of the foliage and don’t appear to be fully open. Flowers in the sessile trilliums are generally burgundy to dusky purple, although one species sports greenish yellow blooms. The sessile trilliums make up for their more subtle flowers with interesting foliage, typically displaying varying degrees of mottling. An interesting quirk of young trilliums: many start out life as “monilliums,” with only one leaf. It may take them several years to develop the three-part structure, so be sure not to mistake them for weeds. Exploring the woods to find trilliums can be fun, but what about finding some for your garden? Since some species are somewhat rare, don’t collect them from the wild unless you have permission from the landowner. (And don’t assume that if plants are growing in the National Forest that you are the landowner.) When collecting in the “wild”—most likely a friend’s woodlot—take only a few plants. The idea is to build up your own garden’s population by natural reproduction, rather than by wiping out a native colony. For most of us, however, we’ll need to find a source for buying trilliums, especially if we want several varieties. Most nurseries don’t carry trilliums, since they are only showy for two or three months of the year. Moreover, their seeds can take two years to germinate, and plants then require four to seven years before flowering. Not a recipe for quick profits; therefore, you’ll likely have to seek out trilliums at specialty mail-order outlets. One such is Lazy S’S Farm
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on top of foliage that can reach 20 inches in height. Most of the Plant Delights trilliums have sessile flowers, however, and you’d likely be willing to buy them for the foliage alone. Trillium underwoodii is particularly striking, with dark, medium and light green “checkerboard” patches on the leaves and a silver streak down the center. More subtle, T. ‘Jefferson Silver’ has maroon flowers sitting atop silvery foliage. (In case you’re wondering, Thomas Jefferson has no direct connection with this variety; it was originally found near Jefferson, Texas.) Although Plant Delights Nursery is primarily a mail-order business, they do welcome visitors four times a year to their open houses; the first weekend in March happens to be an open time, so fire up the car and head south. Although a few trilliums prefer alkaline soil and others are native to very acidic conditions, they should all do fine in our soils. Most are native to deciduous woodlands, and that’s the condition they’ll prefer in your garden. They’re happiest with consistently moist, humus-rich soils with good drainage. A good water supply will allow them to keep their foliage later into the season. And if you wonder how trilliums move around your garden: ants. Trillium seeds have a nutrient-rich structure attached, the elaiosome, that ants are fond of. They carry the seed to their nests, feed the elaiosome to their larvae, and discard the rest. The result: happy ants, and a new trillium is planted.
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WAHS Girls Are State Swim Champs for Fifth Straight Year The Western Albemarle girls swim team won their fifth consecutive state championship in February, eclipsing their closest competitor by 97 points. The boys team finished third, matching a best-ever school finish. In all, 23 different Warriors scored points at the meet and 11 earned All-State honors: Brynn Acker, Kyle Benson, A. J. Donovan, Colleen Higgins, Aaron James, Morgan James, Caroline Riordan, Brazil Rule, Remedy Rule, Charlotte Rumsey and Marcus Van Clief. Senior Remedy Rule led the way for the Lady Warriors, capping off a superb high school career, winning the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke, setting new state records and meeting
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individual medley (eighth place) and 100 backstroke (third place). Sophomore James had probably her best meet of the season as well. James swam a season-best 24.98 to finish fifth in the 50 free and a season-best in the 100 freestyle for ninth place. She was also a member of the state champion 200 freestyle relay team composed of James, Riordan, Brazil Rule and Rumsey, and the state runner-up 400 freestyle relay team. Riordan, a junior, swam a lifetime best in the 50 free (11th place) and was also a member of the state runner-up 200 medley relay. Fellow junior Brazil Rule had a spectacular state meet as well. Brazil took sixth place in the 200 freestyle, was the state runner-up in 100 freestyle and the 400 freestyle relay and anchored the state champion 200 freestyle relay team. And freshmen Rumsey may have shone as brightly as anyone. In her first state meet, Rumsey swam lifetime bests in the 200 individual medley (fifth place) and the 100 breaststroke (fourth place), along with being a member of the state champion 200 freestyle relay and the state runner-up 400 freestyle relay. With three more years to compete at the high school level, Rumsey is loaded with potential and destined to lead the Warriors. Seniors Kyle Benson and Marcus Van Clief led the boys to their third place finish at the 3A State Championship meet. Benson and Van Clief were both members of the state runner-up 200 freestyle relay, along with junior Aaron James and sophomore A. J. Donovan. Battling a stomach virus, Benson swam a lifetime best in the 100 freestyle to finish 11th, was a member of
the seventh place 400 freestyle relay and the state runner-up 200 freestyle relay, which was faster than the previous state record. Van Clief had his best-ever meet in his high school finale. He finished sixth in the 50 free and fifth in the 100 free to go along with his state runner-up 200 freestyle relay and seventh place 400 freestyle relay. James was literally a “Warrior” as a junior at the state meet. Just two weeks after being released from the hospital, James was the state runner-up in both the 50 and 100 freestyle events, breaking school records in the process. Donovan swam lifetime bests in both the 50 free (fifth place) and the 100 butterfly (13th place) to go along with his state runner-up in the 200 freestyle relay and also a sixth place finish in the 200 medley relay. Much credit goes out to Head Coach Dan Bledsoe and his staff. Not only did the girls win their fifth straight state title and the boys matched a schoolbest third place finish, but the Warriors continue to show up when it matters most. Bledsoe motivates his swimmers to give their best performances on the biggest stage. They continue to excel as a team, and individually. These Warriors also had lifetime best showings at the state meet: Julia Elder, 50 free (15th place), Ian O’Donnell, 200 IM (17th place) and 100 butterfly (11th place), Jake Paulson, 100 butterfly (12th place) and 100 backstroke (12th place), McKenna Riley, 200 freestyle (13th place), Savannah Scarbrough, 100 breaststroke (sixth place), Matt Mandell, 100 breaststroke (11th place) and Jack Vaughn 100 breaststroke (13th place).
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Time for Brassica [ by elena day • elena@crozetgazette.com \ In most years our sweet peas and sugar snaps would have been planted by the third week of February. This year the garden is covered with snow and it would take a pickaxe to break through the soil. I’m anxiously awaiting the thaw to continue the business of transplanting lettuce and Brassica seedlings. Brassica oleracea is a genus and species which includes red, green and savoy cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kohlrabi, kale, collards, broccoflower or Romanesco and Brussels sprouts. Another genus and species, Brassica rapa, includes Napa or Chinese cabbage, mizuna, bok choy, turnips, and broccoli raab. The last has gained in popularity in recent years. The Brassicas are also referred to as cole crops or crucifers and are members of the mustard family. They are high in vitamin C, folate, carotenoids and fiber, and there is evidence that they may be a colon cancer deterrent. It is beneficial to eat them raw, in stir-fry or lightly steamed. Cooked-to-death cabbage or other cole crop might taste great but most of the positive benefits escape with the slow stewing. The Brassicas need to be well along as their success in spring is related to how quickly hot weather gets going. Broccoli and cauliflower are especially prone to bolting; i.e., flowering, rather than heading up, in warmer springs. The Brassicas
are heavy feeders, meaning that they need soil rich in nitrogen and organic matter. I generally side dress my Brassica plantings with organic matter at some point in the growing season. I keep the Brassicas under floating row covers to thwart the cabbage moths. These white butterflies appear as the weather warms. Two weeks after their appearance one can be sure that the Brassicas will be infested with green worms. There is nothing worse than cooking up a head of broccoli, buttering it up and finding dead worms at first bite. Floating row covers also protect young plants from temperature variations and frosts, providing a somewhat more controlled environment. Bacillus thurigenensis (Dipel) is an OMRI (Organic Materials Review Institute) certified insecticide that will kill the green worms but is ineffective against the butterflies or eggs. I especially recommend Romanesco or broccoflower to cole crop fans. It takes up a bit of space, but the taste of the Romanesco is better than that of either broccoli or cauliflower. Furthermore, its head is a light green natural approximation of a fractal. The largest part of a fractal replicates its smallest parts in a self-similar pattern. As for growing fall cole crops, I have yet to discover a foolproof system. It’s hard to protect young seedlings germinated in late July from the ravages of insect pests through August and into September. I did have a decent
crop of broccoli and cabbage this early winter until temperatures reached the single digits. Regarding kale and collards, I seed these in the fall and hope for the best. We had a cold winter last year and both came through and made a good showing in midspring. I will reseed kale again once the ground is no longer frozen. I germinate seeds of Tuscan or lacinato kale (also called Dinosaur kale) and Red Russion and Redbor kales and set these out a little later than the other cole crops. Last year, because of cooler weather, the kales continued into July. I find that cabbage moths are less likely to infest red kales and red cabbage as heavily. Briefly, the Yugoslavian Red butterhead lettuce, which I favor, thrives (and by this I mean big mature uncrinkled heads) in my unheated hoop house during the single digit and sub-zero nightly temperatures we’ve recently suffered. I have covered it with a floating row cover in the hoop house and have made sure it has adequate water. It’s the cold and dry that results in winterkill. The Yugoslavian Red is listed as an heirloom from Marburg, in the former Yugoslavia. Heirlooms are specifically adapted to a particular geographic area. An heirloom from Iowa might not perform so well in Piedmont Virginia because our soils
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and climate are very different; i.e., just because a variety is labeled heirloom doesn’t mean it will perform well in your garden. The “Yugo” adapts well to our area. Seeds are now available at Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Southern Exposure focuses on heirloom seeds and open-pollinated or non-hybrid seeds with an emphasis on crops that grow well in our Mid-Atlantic region. Common Wealth Seed Growers is a new cooperative seed house in Louisa County. These folks have varieties specifically adapted to Central Virginia. They are particularly focused on selecting for openpollinated varieties of cucurbits that exhibit resistance to Downy Mildew. Cucurbits are melons, squash and cucumbers. Downy Mildew can devastate these crops and last summer even infested basil locally. More about this fungal scourge next time. Finally, here’s a Virginia Commonwealth energy update. I was happy to hear about President Obama’s veto of the Keystone Pipeline. In addition to the environmental threats of pipelines, tar sands extractive operations result in acres and acres of toxic tailing ponds. To keep migrating waterfowl from alighting on these noxious stew ponds (from which many might never take off again) oil companies shoot off propane cannons every ten seconds around the clock. This has become routine in once pristine Alberta. Closer to home, Dominion Virginia Power is proposing alternate routes for its pipeline project, thereby angering more landowners with peremptory notification of surveys.
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Col. Edwin Dooley of Virginia Military Institute, the biographer of Claudius Crozet, was back in Crozet last month following his November appearance here to give a lecture on the life of the town’s namesake, to set up an exhibit on Crozet’s life at Crozet Library. “Claudius Crozet is a real hero of mine,” he explained. The selection of mounted
photographs includes a letter from Thomas Jefferson, written in a very neat hand, to Crozet explaining that Jefferson was not able to offer Crozet a teaching job at The University of Virginia. Another shows Villefranche, Crozet’s birthplace in France. The exhibit is donated to the library and will be on display intermittently.
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Old Downtown Crozet Goes on Display at Crozet Library
Crozet historian Phil James unveiled a large-scale reproduction of a 1950 photograph of downtown Crozet taken by Hubert Gentry, who was a junior at Crozet High School, now The Field School, at the time. Gentry, who now owns a photography studio in Harrisonburg, had intended to be present at Crozet Library February 22 for the installation but was prevented by a snowstorm. The 6-foot-by-8 foot photo, whose reproduction was paid for by the Build Crozet Library fund, is displayed on the wall behind the library’s main desk. It shows a Trailways bus stopping in front of Crozet Theater on Main Street, as Crozet Avenue was formerly known, to take on passengers. In the foreground is a 1941 Ford pickup truck loaded with oil cans that was owned by Leonard Sandridge’s father, who ran a gas station on Rt. 240. Sandridge was on hand for the unveiling
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and said he still has the pictured oil cans. On The Square are Crozet Drug, The Red Front Market (the ancestor of Crozet Great Valu), and Crozet Hotel on the second floor of what is now The Mudhouse. On the right the portico columns of the 1907 Crozet Bank building are in view. James noted that the photo shows 33 people, of whom 24 are white, and one dog. “Only the dog is looking at Hubert take the picture,” said James. “This is a really good cross-section of Crozet at the time. Nothing is lacking in Crozet at this time. You didn’t need to drive anywhere. “The time is just before the opening of Morton Frozen Foods and ACME Visible Records, who together employed about 3,000 people,” said James. He read from some reminisces recorded by Gentry. “I realized how lucky those of us who grew up in Crozet really were. And it is still that way,” Gentry said. He described the hectic peach harvest season and details from boyhood life, such as how the passing of The George Washington, a passenger train, through town was the signal for bedtime for local children. “I am so pleased there will be a reminder of what Crozet was,” said Gentry, who was valedictorian at CHS the year after he took the picture. “Changes happen in towns that are alive,” said James. “Crozet was alive.”
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BY DR. ROBERT C. REISER
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The Pause
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I see a lot of people die. Over the years it has worn on me. Not only do I have to tell the families and bear their grief, I also have to face my staff’s reactions and support my residents and students. But who is really supporting whom? As usual in the ER, we face these things together and support each other. I am honored to work with so many remarkable caring people. One of my RN colleagues pioneered at U.Va—and now nationally—a foundational change in how we navigate the enormity of a loss of human life in the ER. Below is his account of this change.
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Jonathan B. Bartels, RN BSN Nineteen-year-old Brad was driving his old 1970 flatbed ford down Route 64. Just past the 29 South exit, he reached down to the floorboard to pick up a cigarette he dropped. When he looked up and over the steering wheel he was slammed by an 80,000-pound semi-truck driving directly at him. Glass shattered, his truck flipped backwards end over end
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The Big Read: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri by Clover Carroll | clover@crozetgazette.com
The Big Read is a rite of spring in Charlottesville. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, this celebration of reading is observed annually in communities all over the U.S., each one reading a different selection in any given year from a set list of titles. But all share the mission to “revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture.” You, too, can join the readfest this month by reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, and/or by attending some of the many and varied events being held at JMRL public library branches throughout the area during March, including a Battle of the Book Groups and Book Swap at the Crozet Library at 7 p.m. on March 26. You will find all the planned events listed at jmrl.org/bigread. Be sure also not to miss the 2006 movie, starring Kal Penn and directed by Mira Nair, a classic of Indie filmmaking. Not a rollicking adventure like True Grit, nor an insight into American history like The Grapes of Wrath, nor even a passionate love story like Their Eyes Were Watching God (all previous Big Read selections), this year’s Big Read is a quiet bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, that follows an Indian-American boy from birth in 1968 to adulthood. Most similar to the 2013 Big Read selection, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Lahiri’s 2003 novel is an understated reflection on the unpredictable emotional and psychological costs of the immigrant experience, especially the toll it takes on relations between generations. Both books treat the theme of immigrant alienation and assimilation through the lives of the children of immigrant parents coming to terms with their ethnic identity. Like Jing-Mei in The Joy Luck Club, who comes to appreciate the gift of a jade pendant only after her mother’s death, Gogol only even bothers to read his father’s gift of the collected short stories of his namesake after his father dies. In both cases, these sym-
bolic objects provide a belated connection to the deceased, as well as to the ethnic heritage the children had spent their lives rejecting. The Namesake begins in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the birth of a baby boy to MIT engineering professor Ashoke Ganguli and his wife Ashima, who has followed him from Calcutta (now known as Kolkata), in the state of Bengal, India after their arranged marriage. According to Bengali tradition, the child will be given two names: a pet name that he will be called at home, and a “good name” that he will use in public, at school, on the job, and in other formal settings. Ashima’s grandmother was, as tradition again dictates, to provide the good name; however, her letter gets lost in transit and she dies before they can visit India to learn her choice first hand. In the hospital, still expecting the letter from India that never arrives, and pressed to put something on the birth certificate, Ashoke assigns the pet name of Gogol to his son. This name commemorates an horrific train accident that nearly killed Ashoke at the age of 22. Sitting up late reading his favorite Gogol short story, “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol, Ashoke survives when the train derails, while those who were sleeping in their berths are killed instantly. With his body trapped halfway out the window, rescuers find him when a crumpled page of the story drops from his hand. On his 14th birthday, Ashoke gives Gogol a volume of his namesake’s short stories, inscribed “the man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name”-- but still does not tell Gogol about the true reason for his name. When young Gogol starts kindergarten, his parents realize that he must finally be given a good name to use at school, so they come up with the Bengali name Nikhil, which echoes the first name of the beloved Russian author. At first rejecting this unfamiliar name, Gogol grows up with the typical immigrant conflicts arising from
observing Bengali traditions at home, while learning American ways at school and through the media. To Gogol, America is home; but to his parents, home will always be Calcutta, where their parents live and where they later celebrate Gogol’s traditional Hindu wedding. He always feels like an outsider, not least of all because of his strange name—which isn’t even Indian. “Living with a pet name and a good name, in a place where such distinctions do not exist— surely this was emblematic of the greatest confusion of all.” So when he starts college at Yale, Gogol finally decides to legally change his name to Nikhil, looking forward to “an alternative identity, a B-side to the self.” This confusing switching between names symbolizes Gogol’s own confusion about his identity. Is he Bengali, is he American—or is he Russian like his name? At Yale, while finding his calling as an architect, he learns that he is what they call an ABCD: an American-Born Confused Deshi (an insider’s term for Indian). Finally, during Gogol’s senior year in college, Ashoke tells his son about the accident which he barely survived, which caused his lifelong limp, and which is the true reason for this choice of name. “And suddenly the sound of his pet name, uttered by his father as he has been accustomed to hearing it all his life, means something completely new, bound up with a catastrophe he has unwittingly embodied for years.” The several train journeys in the book come to symbolize these transitions between worlds—between India and America, between childhood and adulthood, and between alienation and self-acceptance. Over the course of the book, Gogol slowly comes to accept his Indian identity, ultimately marrying another ABCD whom he had met as a child in the Cambridge Bengali community of his parent’s friends. He also comes to realize that the name he rejected is one of his few connections with his self-effacing father. Lahiri was born in London in 1967 to Bengali immigrant parents; their professions of teacher
and university librarian may explain the bookishness of all her characters. The family moved to Rhode Island when she was 3 years old, and she became an American citizen at age 18. She is best known for her short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000—the first awarded to an Indian-American woman. The Namesake is her first novel, followed in 2008 by a second short story collection, Unaccustomed Earth, and in 2013 by another novel, The Lowland. A lecturer and frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Lahiri lives in Brooklyn with her GuatemalanGreek husband. Like Gogol, she came to be known by her pet name, Jhumpa, because her good names, Nilanjana and Sudeshna, were deemed too difficult by her school teachers. To some extent, Lahiri is telling her own story here, but through the eyes of a man. This might not have been the best choice, since both Ashima and Moushumi are more vivid, developed characters than Gogol. There is no doubt that Lahiri’s novel is beautifully written, complex, insightful, and rich with detail. Memorable scenes, as when 19-year-old Ashima steps into the large, still warm shoes of her future husband before meeting him, touch a deep chord. However, I could never really sink in and get lost in the world Lahiri creates. I did not feel as if I really knew or cared much about the characters, especially the central character, Gogol/Nikhil. As he searches for his elusive identity, he seems to wander without purpose from one girlfriend and one job to another, not becoming deeply involved with any of them. Even when his father dies, and he goes to identify the body and dispose of his father’s belongings, he shows little emotion but seems to be watching events from a distance. Perhaps this numbness is understandable in response to losing a parent, but the same remoteness seems to characterize Gogol’s actions throughout the book. With no central conflict to keep us reading on, the book lacks continued on page 35
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March Madness (Go Hoos!) ACROSS 1 Proper partner 5 Fey who went to UVa 9 Off or Cutter job 14 Sub setting 15 Employs 16 Savory smell 17 Meal after Ramadan or Anderson after steal 19 Dirt covered 20 Word after pig and before America 21 Watch over 23 Greenwich Village coll. of Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese 24 Long, long time 26 Carnival locale since 1723 27 Cooking amt. 28 Space or time between 33 Post site 35 Das Kapital author 36 First lady 37 Adult nit 40 “_____! Dead for a ducat”: Hamlet stabs unseen Polonius 41 Amy Winehouse song 44 Femme fatale spy, _____ Hari 45 Downton Abbey, e.g. 47 Letters on seconds labels 48 Like LeBron James and Joe Harris 49 Word with dunk 51 New celebration for Crozet? (August 22 is National Eat a _____.) 53 _____ Lanka
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Sunday of the Passion Palm Sunday, March 29 | 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Maundy Thursday, April 2 | 7:00 p.m. Good Friday, April 3 | 12:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Great Vigil of Easter, April 4 | 8:00 p.m. Sunday of the Resurrection Easter Day, April 5 | 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.
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community events MARCH 6 - 7
Household Hazardous Waste Days
A Household Hazardous Waste Special Collection will be held Friday, March 6, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, March 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Ivy Materials Utilization Center on Dick Woods Road in Ivy. Service is available to Albemarle County and Charlottesville residents only. Items accepted include acids, gasoline, kerosene, adhesives, pesticides, household cleaners, floor and furniture polish, paint-related products and solvents, batteries, antifreeze, motor oil, fluorescent tubes and CFLs. Household hazardous waste collection is offered on two weekends per year, one in the spring and the second in the fall. The next collection weekend will be Oct. 2 - 3. Amnesty Days for other materials will be Saturdays in March from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.: furniture and mattresses on March 14, appliances on March 21, and tires on March 28. Normal tipping fees will be charged to residents for all non-amnesty items brought on these days. The Ivy facility accepts all above items during normal operation. Contact RSWA at 295-3306 regarding tipping fees for the above items.
MARCH 14
Crozet Swing Dance Fundraiser
The Fifth Annual Crozet Swing Dance fundraiser will be held Saturday, March 14, from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Field School, 1408 Crozet Avenue (across from Crozet Elementary). The dance is a fundraiser for the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department (CVFD) and the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad (WARS). Admission is a $20-per-person donation. Active duty first responders get in free. 100 percent of the admission dollars will go to these volunteer services. A free swing dance lesson by swing dance instructors Jessica and Taylor Moore will be
offered at 7 p.m., followed by three hours of music from 8-11 p.m. The music is being donated by Salute to Swing, a local 16-piece, big band that provides great dancing and listening music from the Forties and Fifties. Light refreshments and snacks, including beer and wine, will be available. The Crozet Community Association will hold a pie contest and a Pi costume contest for all ages, since it’s 3/14/15, which is the first five digits of Pi, 3.1415. You can bake a pie, buy raffle tickets to be a judge of the pies, buy a slice of pie or wear a “Pi” or “pie” costume. So get together with your co-workers, neighbors, or book club and come to dance and/or listen at the fifth annual Crozet Swing Dance. Bring your dancing shoes and have a wonderful evening.
MARCH 22
Schola Cantorum Performs Handel’s Messiah
Waynesboro Schola Cantorum’s free Spring concert will be held Sunday, March 22, at 3 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 301 S. Wayne Avenue, in Waynesboro. The concert will feature selections from all three sections of the Messiah by G. F. Handel, and include guest soloists and an orchestra.
MARCH 22
Adaskin String Trio at RVCC
The Adaskin String Trio will perform March 22 at 4 p.m. at the Rockfish Valley Community Center, 190 Rockfish School Lane in Afton. Formed in 1994, the trio performs extensively throughout the United States and Canada, and has appeared at Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and in Boston, Los Angeles, Montreal, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Santa Barbara and Chicago. The trio’s concerts are regularly broadcast by CBC Radio, Radio-Canada, and National Public Radio. Tickets for the concert are
$30, available online at www. wintergreenperformingarts.org or by calling 434-325-8292.
MARCH 22
Crozet Orchestra Concert
The Crozet Community Orchestra will hold a free public concert on March 22 at Crozet Baptist Church, 5804 Saint George Ave at 4 p.m. in the church sanctuary. The program is directed by Philip Clark with world-class husband and wife solo violinists Monika Chamasyan and Mark Dorosheff of the U.S. Air Force Strings, U.S. Air Force Band, performing the spectacular Navarra for orchestra and violin duo by Pablo de Sarasate, Mozart’s Rondo in C and
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lenged, but lacked access to a device long enough at school to improve their skills and continue designing. “In Our Hands” would strive to meet these students’ needs by matching local business and donor funding with schools demonstrating innovation. Garbaccio, Claytor, and Agee believe that “In Our Hands” can work both ways—businesses can not only donate money or volunteer time to support a particular project featured on the site, but also identify ways in which the students can help them. “We are inviting businesses to be more involved and interact with our students. It is more about giving businesses an open invitation to lay the path for their inheritors, the students of the community. “Abby Claytor is an example of this interaction. She was raised and remains in her community, and is benefitting Crozet by educating the students who will become the community members of the future,” Garbaccio says. “Our students are savvy and innovative. They are huge builders and creators and inventors. We are a resource that’s not tapped too often.” In providing support to businesses in areas such as computer coding or web design, students can sharpen their own skills while gaining real-world
Nocturne by Bagdasaryan. Also in the program are works by Elgar, Sibelius and Faure. A reception will follow.
MARCH 28
Twice Is Nice Fundraiser for Mountainside
Twice Is Nice thrift shop in Charlottesville will host a pancake breakfast fundraiser to benefit Mountainside Senior Living Saturday, March 28, from 8 a.m. to noon at Vinegar Hill Cafe at 233 4th Street NW, in Charlottesville. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for children under 10. Tickets may be purchased in advance at Twice is Nice and at Mountainside Senior Living.
experience. Garbaccio notes that the students have become more active in the community, and have already begun to share their skills and gifts with local businesses. “These kids have such big hearts. We wanted to make sure they realize that if they see a need in the community, they can make a difference,” she said. “The kids love everything about Crozet. They love their families and their communities and they see Crozet as part of their family and they want to keep it strong.” As part of their efforts, students are helping to develop marketing materials for the Crozet Community Orchestra’s March 22 performance. They also organized a supply drive for the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA, collecting blanket and other supplies for needy animals. To complement their science-based standards of learning, fifth grade students have begun to research and develop a device that would collect waste from local creeks, and are devising experiments to test and ensure the safety of local sources of drinking water. The teachers hope to have “In Our Hands” up and running by March 19, when the school holds its annual Community Night. that showcases students’ work in front of their families and local businesses. “It’s a time when the kids are excited about showing their family members and the community what they can do,” Garbaccio says.
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FEBRUARY 2015
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Very Cold & Snowy February
Everything Austen Crozet Library devoted itself to exploring the world of Jane Austen’s novels for an evening on February 12, decorating the library to reflect her time and themes. The goal was promote reading of Austen’s novels. Sixty Austen fans signed up for the evening, which included a lesson on Regency dance styles and a word game that involved discerning the meaning of words from Austen’s day that are no longer in use. Carriage and buggy types accounted for several terms and the crowd considered the game the most fun of the night. Guests, some dressed in Regency fashion, could choose Austen name tags. Crozet Librarian Wendy Saz dubbed herself Lady Eleanor of Rigby. There was also a silhouette table, materials to make valentine cards with, Austen Paper dolls, posters featuring illustrations from Austens’ books, bingo, and a 50-volume display of
Austen’s novels and other Austen-related books available from the library. There were also cookies, finger sandwiches and other refreshments. Seventeen couples took to the dance floor in the community meeting room for instruction from English Country Dancers Dale Mantautus and Ron Lehmkuhl. “As you hold hands and circle and the music repeats you go into this lovely place,” explained Mantautus. Soon all the dancers were smiling and laughing. The strictly prescribed movements, meant to give couples of the period a chance to meet within the bounds of decorum, turned out to be fun. Leslie Lepage, a library patron and a huge Austen fan herself, had the idea for the special event and helped put it on. Saz said that the library is thinking it will repeat the occasion with a new author to focus on.
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lush prose, its sensitive treatment of the immigrant experience, and its convincing depiction of Gogol’s evolution from a lost youth, torn between two worlds, to a mature young man who has come to appreciate his family and its ethnic heritage. In the final scene, Gogol at last sits down to read the volume of Gogol short stories his father had given him—the first time he has even read its touching inscription, a sign of his new appreciation of his father and all his gifts—even of his name. The Namesake is a graceful, gentle book that speaks to the outsider in each of us, encouraging us to accept, love, and celebrate ourselves.
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tension. The story is told primarily through narration and has little dialogue. We don’t witness any of Gogol’s four breakups in all their pain; we simply learn in the next chapter that the relationship ended. In other words, the story is told, not shown, and to me it never really comes to life. In its discussion on March 2, however, most of the members of the Crozet Library Book Group disagreed with me. And as usual, they helped me to appreciate the novel more than I did on my own. They liked its
We made it to Valentine’s Day with just an inch of snow for the season. But that evening, the infamous winds of Crozet began to howl and winter took a bitter turn for cold, snowy and windy. When the month closed out, it proved to be the fourth coldest February ever and the twelfth coldest month ever. That was quite a shock after hitting 71 degrees on February 8. Snow accumulated on six of the last 15 days of the month. We had a 6.5” storm on the 16th-17th and a 7.5” storm on the 21st. A few other lighter storms brought the total to 16.6” for the month. That made it the 19th snowiest month ever in roughly 100 years of records but was actually less than last February. Last year, despite being 8 degrees warmer, February dumped a monstrous 17.3”.
The snowiest month ever was March of 1960, when the famous “Wednesday Snows” brought 29 inches of snow for the month. More recently, December of 2009 brought 22”, which all fell in one night. March is starting off cold as well, but by the end of the month, the average high will be 64, the grass will need mowing, the cherries will be blooming and the sun will set at 7:36 p.m.
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skipping a beat. A pulse check was called, and the results were the same. No pulse. As is always the case, the lead physician quickly recapped the last hour and asked for any suggestions regarding interventions missed. No one on the team had any suggestions. It was decided that they stop the futile interventions. The room was quiet and you could sense the feeling of failure. Normally in hospitals across the country, the team walks out dejected and drained. They step away from the body on the table and turn their backs on it. Gloves thrown off in disgust, they step back out into the chaos of the Emergency Department. This is not how we roll. Often a member of the team will call out. “Before we leave this room, could we stop and PAUSE just for a moment in silence. Let us recognize this person in the bed. He was someone who was alive earlier today and now is gone. He was someone’s brother, son, and child. He loved and was loved. Let us stop and in our
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own way and in silence honor both this person and the valiant efforts his whole care team gave.” Then the room remains silent and each person takes a moment to honor the life that has passed. It may last a minute, maybe two, but it has become standard practice in our hospital and many others across the country. I initiated this action because I was willing to take a chance. I wanted to add a voice to the speechless. In standing in this space we pause and time stands still. This is a time to acknowledge the sacredness of a life that has passed and the sacredness of our own fallibility. This act allows us to embrace our own vulnerability and acknowledge our humanness. This has become THE PAUSE. This Pause allows people in this multi-cultural and poly-religious environment to stand as one and speak in silence. This practice has spread from our emergency department throughout the hospital. It has spread beyond our hospital to other facilities across the country. It has even spread internationally. We Pause because we care. about gardening by planting and taking care of vegetables in the composted soil. Second graders are encouraged to pick up litter and keep the school grounds clean. Crummie noted that while at first students had to be gently reminded to clean up trash if they saw it, they now pick up litter on their own, without being reminded. “We’re getting them to be self-sufficient,” she said. “They have really become environmental stewards. Our goal is for them to become lifelong learners and respect the environment they live in.” The winners of the Green Ribbon award will be announced on Earth Day, April 22. Winning schools will receive a special display banner and be invited to a June recognition ceremony in Washington, D.C. Bassett High School in Henry County, Coles Elementary School in Prince William County, and the private Steward School in Richmond were the other three schools in Virginia nominated for the award.
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kitchen and in their remodeled one, at an airport drill and at WAHS sports events, in the town parades and teaming up with the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department, in the backs of ambulances, writing up reports, at nighttime car accidents, being interviewed by TV news reporters, and standing ready at the squad house with their vehicles poised outside the doors. Squad chief Kostis Alibertis, famous for insisting on the tender care of vehicles, was teased
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to be a remark of conceit. “I make mine different. It’s all by hand. A quilt should be a little bit wrinkled. I do it all in my lap. I put it on top of my bed to sew it together.” She sews a personalized label identifying her as the maker on the back. She described her quilts as “lightweight” yet she admitted that she lifts hers off her bed at night because it keeps her too warm. She means for them to be used as bedspreads. She said people have asked her to teach them how to quilt. “They have to be able to draw,”
MARCH 2015 about knocking a light off the back of a truck as he backed it up. The squad has 80 members and answered 1,400 calls last year. One photo showed three WARS ambulances at U.Va. hospital’s Emergency Department doors at the same time. The tasty dinner of salmon and short ribs was catered by The Local. The Charlottesville/Albemarle Rescue Squad covered the WARS region for the awards dinner evening and answered three calls.
she said. “I can’t show them how to quilt if they can’t draw. You really have to love it or it’s no use. You’ll just get bored with it.” Her panels show extensive embroidery work to express fine levels of detail, such as frost in tree limbs or leaves emerging in spring. In some spots she resorts to fabric paint, such as to add details of markings on bird wings. “I quilt every day but Sunday. Sunday I leave alone. Each square takes a week of work. Sewing is a gift. God gives everybody a gift.” But her gift is beyond the ordinary and her quilts achieve the distinction of folk art.
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“Our own grandkids live on the road, too, and we don’t want it turned into a race track by widening it and flattening it,” agreed King. “We think our history on the farm has been to try to reduce traffic on the road.” Mallek said there are no plans for road improvements to Half Mile Branch Road. King said that if the polo matches were to draw 1,000 visitors they would be so big that the farm would probably not want to hold them. The CCAC was not required to act on the matter, but the meeting was considered a public meeting for the Crozet community to be able to express itself on the topic. “We’re here to do the right thing,” said King. “Agri-tourism is a huge component of state economic development plans. The state is very committed to it and this area is one of the very best places in the state to be in the wine business.
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a carbon dioxide overdose. As a society, do we wish to pursue a strategy of injecting tens of millions of tons of hazy pollution (sulfate particles) into the stratosphere to counteract global warming? The Committee “most strongly recommends any such action be informed by a far more substantive body of scientific research – encompassing climate science and economic, political, ethical, and other dimensions – than is available at present.” This is fine but not sufficient. Intentional climate intervention raises questions that go further than any substantive body of scientific research and technology can answer.
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Dominion continues to push (and spend ratepayer dollars) for a third nuclear unit in Louisa. North Anna has two aged nuclear units in close proximity to an active earthquake fault. A small tremor occurred on February 26 in nearby Goochland County. Although a slight shaking, it’s a little too close for comfort. A coalition of 15 groups in Central Virginia, Not on Our Fault Line, sent a letter last month to Governor McAuliffe, the General Assembly, the State Corporation Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Dominion to demand that expansion of nuclear power in Virginia cease and
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We could see more of it here.” Another neighbor said, “We are concerned about the safety of the road, not with anything the Kings are doing.” King said he would keep the traffic managers on duty longer on Sundays to discourage speeding. CCAC member John Savage said he did not hear any objection to the renewed SUP and suggested the CCAC would offer a resolution of support for it once it advances to official county review. Crozet Community Association President Tim Tolson offered to host a town hall meeting, likely in April, to allow the public to talk about potential development plans for the vacant lumberyard in downtown. He said the CCA is willing to hold meetings monthly, if needed, to broaden public discussion of matters that are coming before the CCAC. The CCAC elected a vice chair, choosing David Stoner over Mary Gallo by a vote of 8 to 6. Jennie More will take over as chair at the April meeting. Current chair Meg Holden’s term on the CCAC runs out in March. First of all, albedo modification does not address the underlying problem. Once we start increasing the Earth’s albedo, we cannot stop decades later— while CO2 has continued to build up in the atmosphere—without potentially unleashing dire consequences. Will we ever be smart enough to anticipate the ramifications of implementing these technologies? And if we are not, do the benefits still outweigh the unknown risks? Beyond all this, what value do we assign a clear blue sky? Do not rely solely on experts to solve this problem for you. We need the common sense and the ethical and aesthetic sensibilities of the public to be heard.
investment in clean energy move forward. In the last two weeks the General Assembly passed and McAuliffe put his pen to a bill designed by and for Dominion that will allow Dominion to keep the overcharges to its customers for the next five years without State Corporation Commission review/oversight. Dominion blamed the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan that seeks to curb carbon emissions and orient utilities to clean energy. Accountability to its customers has been legislated as passé in the Old Dominion and critics have sarcastically joked that our General Assembly is now “a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dominion Resources.”
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