INSIDE ENOUGH page 7 OLD CROZET page 9 RED HILL SLEUTHS page 11 HOT MARKET page 12
MAY 2015 VOL. 9, NO. 12
NEW HOUSES page 13
Growing the Heart of Crozet Town Hall Meeting About Lumberyard’s Future Set for May 27
GREEN RIBBON page 14 MEAL MAKERS page 15 DI TEAM page 16 TROUT TROPHIES pages 17 PET EPILEPSY page 20 PEA SPREAD page 22 HEADLESS EAGLE page 23 SHACKED UP page 24 SYRUP SALE page 25 CARBON CLIMBS page 26 WARM UP FIRST page 27 CHIPOTLE SAYS NO page 28 BLINDSIGHT page 32 HEON ON TOP page 34 REMEDY RULES page 35 CARPE DIEM page 36 CROSSWORD page 37 DEER DOWN page 42
Zion, Aiinday and Adanya Giles of Fredericksburg, visiting relatives near Crozet with their dad Lorenzo Giles, were among the most successful fishers at Kids Fishing Day at Mints Springs Valley Park April 25. See story page 17.
Western’s Honor Council Ambushed Albemarle County Public Schools snuffed out Western Albemarle High School’s Honor Council via an email to the school staff in a surprise move April 3. In a classic play from the news management handbook, designed to make a necessary announcement go unnoticed, it was released after school hours on the Friday before spring break. But of course Western senior Tim Dodson noticed. He’s co-chair of the
Honor Council with fellow senior Chance Masloff, who happened to be in Spain when the delete-honor move was executed. Both have served on the council four years. “We were supposed to have a meeting in Mrs. Gardner’s room [She and math teacher Lani Hosa are the Council’s faculty sponsors.],” said Dodson. “The sponsors and [de facto acting principal] Dr. Domecq wanted continued on page 18
The public is invited to a town hall meeting sponsored by the Crozet Community Association and Milestone Partners, the new owners of the 20-acre former Barnes Lumber Company property in downtown Crozet, that will be held Wednesday, May 27 at The Field School at 1408 Crozet Avenue to solicit community views on how the property should be designed and economically developed. The effort is tagged as the Downtown Crozet Initiative: A Vision for Barnes Lumber. Refreshments and design examples will be offered beginning at 5:30 p.m., with the meeting starting formally at 6 p.m. and lasting until 9. Child care and food (probably pizza) will be provided. A follow-up meeting that will show a response to input from the May 27 meeting is set for Thursday, June 11. If you plan to attend, the organizers ask that you RSVP by May 24 to: www.goo.gl/forms/4c2bypKd03. Walk-ins are welcome, however. Other key background information on the subject is available at the continued on page 38
Chasing Water: Global Water Sustainability Rests on Local Control Crozet’s Brian Richter has been the Nature Conservancy’s chief scientist for global water programs for 28 years and has summed up his knowledge of how water shortages should be managed in a new book, Chasing Water, A Guide for Moving From Scarcity to Sustainability. It’s published by Island Press, a nonprofit publisher that specializes in environmental topics.
After graduating from graduate school at Colorado State University, Richter did a brief stint with the U.S. Geological Survey and from there, in the late 1980s, took on a job with the Nature Conservancy, managing a newly-acquired property in Arizona that faced a water shortage threat from population growth in a town continued on page 8
Local author Brian Richter