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INSIDE PARADE DAY page 8 SHENANDOAH BOYS page 12 THE UNDERPASS page 13 CHIMNEY SPOT page 15 CROZET BOARD OF TRADE page 16

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Commissioners Approve Adelaide Rezoning to R6

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This Revolutionary War-era cabin was dismantled and moved from Rt. 250 to Crozet Avenue.

Yancey Mills Cabin Gets New Lease on Life A small cabin home in Yancey Mills that is believed to date to the Revolutionary War era has a new lease on life now that historic house restorer Matt Lucas has taken possession of it.

Lucas is in the midst of restoring what is reputed to be the first true frame house in Crozet, a building that has been moved twice—once on the south side of the tracks and later over the tracks, probably around 1850— and now rests at 1278 Crozet Avenue roughly opposite the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad station. The

project is the admiration of Crozet not just for the daring in taking it on, but for the splendid authenticity of its renovation—for instance Lucas had its original windows refurbished— and its dazzling stone chimneys.

The cabin was in the way of a new office that Froehling & Robertson, F&R, an engineering firm, is building for itself on Rt. 250 next to its present building, not far from the Interstate 64 interchange. F&R’s shift is making way for an expansion of Pro Re Nata continued on page 10

The Albemarle County Planning Commission approved a request to rezone two parcels totaling 20 acres on Rt. 250 one-third of a mile west of the Clover Lawn shopping center from R1 to R6 at its May 10 meeting.

The vote for Adelaide, as the project is named, was 5-2, with White Hall District Commissioner Jennie More and Rio District Commissioner Mac Lafferty opposed. Lafferty is a former member of the Crozet Community Advisory Committee and More is its past chair. Lafferty is also More’s father.

Lafferty blasted the outcome in a letter to the Board of Supervisors the next day as the most appalling in his six years as a commissioner for its disregard of a ratified master plan.

At R1 the parcels’ greatest by-right density is about 28 units. The master plan calls for developments on the edges of the Growth Area to be less dense and a map in the plan shows the location as potentially three-to-six units per acre. The county does not have an official density category between R1 and R6, such as R3.

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Police Baton Passes in Full Stride

rating TEN Years!

Retiring Albemarle County Police Chief Steve Sellers was pleased to see his top officer, Major Ron Lantz, elevated to replace him in the post at the end of May. The two men, both Crozet residents, met early in their careers in Fairfax County. In 1999, Sellers was Lantz’s first sergeant as a street patrol officer. They were together six months and

then moved on to different assignments.

After 25 years in Fairfax, Lantz was eligible to retire. He had risen to the rank of captain and commanded the Fair Oaks district, population 125,000, one of eight in Fairfax, and had responsibility for a force—155 men—larger than the Albemarle police department. But he heard of the opening in Albemarle under

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From the Editor

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en years are gone since your editor, who needed a job, decided Crozet needed a newspaper. The Hook predicted the Gazette was doomed, but the Gazette lives and The Hook—a fine paper—has gone to its grave. So much for journalism’s powers of augury.

The Gazette family thanks its faithful advertisers, whose support of the paper shows their dedication to the community; its faithful columnists, especially

two who have written since the first issue—Dr. Robert Reiser, whose column is worthy of national syndication, and Phil James, the epitome of a local historian; and its loyal readers for picking up the papers fast enough to keep the advertisers buying in.

Content is king in news, especially when its delivered honestly and with love. The Gazette serves a great hometown and we’ll keep trying to be the paper it deserves.

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End of an Era As many in Crozet have heard, Maupin’s Music and Video is closing on June 30th.

This decision was made slowly over the past year with a heavy heart and thoughtful consideration.

We regret having to say farewell to the Crozet community after opening our doors over 18 years ago on January 1, 1998.

The shop has served us well: it’s kept us busy, but it has also been a tool in teaching our children the values of good customer service, detailed organization, and financial responsibility. On the surface, it may appear as if our beloved town is losing a video rental shop that provides entertainment. This may be true, but additionally, two brothers who have lived here their entire lives are losing so much more: the daily interaction with customers who make up the fabric of our com-

munity. In a recent article, a long­term video store owner said it best, “The loss of the video store severs a personal connection among the movies, the viewers, and the people who liked nothing more than being part of the conversation.” In sharing their lives, interests and experiences with us, our customers have become branches of our extended family. We have always been very proud to call ourselves Crozetians and feel deeply honored and blessed to have had the opportunity to serve our community for 18½ years.

The closing of the shop is bittersweet. It is the end of an era for us, but it is also the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. Having a more open schedule will enable us to travel to our grandchildren who are spread across Virginia, Missouri, and Texas. We have some spoiling to do!

We would like to thank Harold Burnett, Munro Russell, Sandy Everton, and David Wyant and family for their help and support. We would also like to acknowledge everyone who

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ily detached houses and 40 townhouses and “villas.”

Redinger reduced the number of units from 93 after a workshop session with the planning commission in February when the commission noted that the zoning called for “most” of the houses to be single-family detached. Nearby residents in the Cory Farm neighborhood and David Stoner, current CCAC chair, argued that “most” meant something like 60 to 80 percent, but on that day the commission determined that half means most. The project proposes to have 12 “affordable” units.

County planning staff gave the project a “favorable” evaluation, praising it for a 40- to 70-foot vegetation buffer along the highway and noting its only “unfavorable” as lacking a sidewalk connection to the shopping areas to the east, a cost likely to fall on county taxpayers someday.

County planning chief David Benish said that a traffic circle under study for the Radford

Lane intersection with Rt. 250, which includes the entrance to the Harris Teeter supermarket, could alleviate some problems for pedestrians by giving them a “refuge” space.

Planner Elaine Echols explained to the commission that the 3 to 6 designation was meant to allow “flexibility.” The

yes vote for the rezoning resulted in an effective density of 5.5 units per acre.

Joel DiNunzio, head of VDOT’s Charlottesville residency, said the state highway department has no plans for sidewalk improvements along the road.

Redinger thanked “the

Crozet community for being helpful in getting to a better design” and said that the Crozet Growth Area is “well under its growth target.”

“We listened to everyone and threw out our original design and started with a blank slate,” he said. The project’s loop road

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The Brownsville Bees Gymnastics Club brought home 19 medals from the state championships meet in May, including third grader Adley Euans, who was named the state champion on bars. They also had gymnasts place silver on floor and bronze on vault.

The club, which practices in the gym at Brownsville Elementary School twice a week from August to May, was up against some of the strongest teams in the state, all of whom come from full-service gymnastics facilities. The club has 15 gymnasts ranging from second through fifth grade.

The club began in 2010 under the leadership of former gymnast Kelly-Ann Rayle.

Rayle is an official for the National Association of Women’s Gymnastics Judges (NAWGJ) and has been judging since 1995. She coached at Classics Gymnastics for 8 years and started her own company, Gymnastics on the Move, LLC, in 2005.

The club started as an afterschool enrichment class (called BEE Gymnastic at Brownsville, under the organization of the

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The after-school enrichment BEE gymnastics classes led by Rayle and her assistant coaches are still going strong at Brownsville. Past team members who are now in middle school and high school also return to help coach the BEE classes and the Club’s practices, part of “giving back” that Rayle instills in the girls.

The BEE classes serve as an introduction to gymnastics.

Girls who move up to advanced classes, show a love of and dedication to the sport, and demonstrate a strong skill set are invited to compete with the club.

The club has received more than 100 medals in competitions this year.

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has worked at the shop over the years: Brenda Maupin, Cathy Maupin, Jason Maupin, Jessica Maupin Cleaver, Louise Cook, Arlene Fewell, Mike Temple, Sean Santiago, Matt Armstrong, Zach Armstrong, Christie Morris, Megan Maupin Burgess, Lauren Maupin, Allison Maupin, Johnathon Maupin, and Matthew Wozneak. We want to specially acknowledge Evan Taylor and Ashleigh Pugh Taylor, who met by working together at the shop and are now happily married with a child.

We offer our sincerest thanks to our loyal customers and wish you the very best. Please stay in touch and we hope to see you around Crozet soon!

Pete and Rick Maupin Crozet The Crozet Fourth We are writing again this year to ask for your enthusiastic support of our small town tradition—our annual Crozet Independence Day parade, cele-

bration, and fireworks show on Saturday, July 2.

The fun kicks off with a parade down Crozet Avenue starting at 5 p.m. We’re hoping the parade will be better and bigger than last year! Anyone interested in joining in the parade go to CrozetFire.org to get a parade unit sign-up form.

We’ll follow the parade to Crozet Park, where there will be free kiddie rides and amusements, including bounce and play inflatables, as well as laser tag. The pony rides will be back again this year as well. There’ll also be great music by the local band LockJaw, as well as traditional Fourth of July fare, including hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn, and sno cones, as well as vegetarian and vegan choices, tacos, and other favorites such as pizza and fruit smoothies. Local beer and cider will be available as well.

The fireworks show is set for 9:30 p.m., when it will be dark enough, but not so late that youngsters can’t stay up.

Bring a lawn chair if you want to be comfortable as you watch events. Look for updates about the parade and celebration at

the Crozet Community Association’s website: Crozet Community.org All of this for an admission of just $3 per person donation (children 12 and under are free) as you enter the festivities, rather than as you enter the park in your car. Also, there are no pets allowed in and we’ll provide designated smoking areas, asking that you only smoke in those areas. If you live nearby Crozet Park, we encourage you to walk! And this year, in conjunction with Albemarle County Police Department, we’re planning to make exiting the park after the fireworks much faster!

The celebration is a combined effort by Crozet’s civic organizations who have teamed up to put on the Crozet Independence Day Celebration, a task that in the past fell solely to the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department (CVFD), which for many years sponsored the celebration as a fundraiser.

Joining the CVFD in sharing the burden now are the Crozet Community Association, Claudius Crozet Park (which is community-owned and led by

volunteers), Crozet Lions Club, Life Journey Church, Crozet Board of Trade, Crozet Trails Crew, and the White Hall Ruritans, as well as many local churches and citizen volunteers.

This year the funds raised by this event will be given to the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department to help cover the cost of a new electronic sign to provide community safety notices and event updates outside the firehouse.

This event involves a lot of donated time from a lot of individuals and groups, but it can’t happen without financial contributions, too. July 2 will be here before you know it. We hope you’ll join us by sending a donation today to help with these expenses. You can donate online at: crozetcommunity. org/2016/05/cidc2016/#Donate Or send a check payable to the Downtown Crozet Association and mail it to: DCA P.O. Box 863, Crozet, Virginia 22932 and note on the memo line “fireworks donation.” Please give as generously as you can, so that our entire community can enjoy this patriotic tradition. In

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One likely fate for the cabin, which has the distinction of being featured on the Virginia Department of Historic Resources webpage as an archetype of Virginia cabins, was demolition. That’s what happened to a nearby twin structure used as a small engine repair shop that was demolished not long ago in the construction of Restore’N Station.

“Ann Mallek knows me from my house in Free Union,” explained Lucas, who earned his Ph.D. in computer science from U.Va. and now is in the telecommunications software business. “I also own a house in Freetown [next to the cabin’s original location]. Ann asked if I’d be interested in the Yancey cabin. I went and looked at it and I said OK. F&R wants their new building where the cabin was. They gave it to me, but there was a lot of work in moving it.”

The cabin is roughly 25 feet by 20 feet, made entirely of pine logs, and has two rooms on its lower floor and one on its second floor, which is accessed by a narrow, steep staircase. Lucas salvaged everything from it, including windows and flooring.

“The cabin was in worse shape than I thought. It was teetering. I found another one whose beams match it perfectly, so I can rebuild it. We took it apart and tagged everything.

The adze-work on the logs shows. The sill beams were shot but the upper half was solid.”

He also took down the stone chimney and he’s been scavenging additional rock for a new

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foundation and to contribute to rebuilding the chimney.

Lucas’s plan is to rebuild the cabin in the rear of the one-acre lot his main house sits on. “So now both houses were moved.

It’s like it was meant to be. It could be incredibly charming.”

Allen Frazier, the contractor working on the main house, moved the cabin with help from Peter Hunter, a cabin expert based in Batesville.

Rebuilding the cabin as a residence will require a zoning waiver from the county. The parcel also sits beside a cut that carries occasional drainage, which the county has decreed is a creek, and no structures can be placed within 50 feet of it.

Lucas has also bought an old smokehouse made of chestnut logs he found in Madison County, which he wants to move to become a kitchen building for the cabin. He’s unsure how he will connect them.

“It will be beautiful. It is so beautifully situated.”

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ing and he has one mantle piece that belongs to the house. He bought two other period mantelpieces to complete the house’s fireplaces.

He bought the main house with his son in mind, a special needs student who will graduate from Western Albemarle this year and who needs a residence within walking distance of services. Lucas does not intend to live in it himself.

“I’m holding it open for him.

He can walk to everything from here. I have no commercial

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interest for the property. I live in Free Union and I’m happy there.” He also restored the 1800s house he lives in.

“I love old farmhouses. I really do. It’s financially insane to restore something the way it should be. But the result is so cool and it’s something for the generations.

“I love Crozet, too.

Everybody here exudes character. And everybody is kind and generous. All my [4] kids went to Western. I can’t say enough about Crozet. It’s a gem.”

From left, Matt Lucas, builder Allen Frazier, and stonemasons Freeman Tabony and James Rucker

The first floor before the move.

The timeline for fixing the main house takes a year and a half. He hopes to have all the exterior work done by the end of summer. “We hit a spring when we dug the basement. The hole filled rapidly with three feet of water. It’s got special fixes. The house has great bones now. It’s not going anywhere.

I’ve hired engineers and architects and I’ve hired country ingenuity.” In that last, he was

referring to Frazier.

“I’m 100 percent excited about the cabin.” He intends to put a copper roof on it and leave the logs exposed. “As soon as I work it out with zoning, I’m going to jump on it. I want to put it back right. I’d like to reach out to local historians.

The scope of the project is really not that intense, not like the house. But there’s always the unexpected.”

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By Clover Carroll clover@crozetgazette.com It is 1931, and recent university graduate Ned Harper arrives at Midway School in the Blue Ridge Mountains to teach the children of local families who farm or work the apple orchards that dot the mountainsides. The kids give the naive, rookie teacher a lot of guff at first, requiring frequent recess breaks.

But when Ned hauls out his guitar and starts teaching them old timey songs, the students blossom. As a new, deep bond of mutual respect is forged between Ned and his charges, they begin to hear disturbing rumors: the school will soon be closed, their land will be reclaimed—for an unfairly low price—by the U.S. government under the policy of eminent domain, and the boys and their families will be relocated to the flat lands—all for the purpose of creating a new national park.

This is the bittersweet story of “Shenandoah Boys,” an historical musical joyfully per-

formed at The Field School on May 18 and 19 under the direction of drama and art teacher Michelle Nevarr. The artful script, written by Head of School Todd Barnett, was rousingly accompanied by the eight-student Old Time String Band led by music teacher Pete Vigour, who also arranged the authentic period songs performed by an enthusiastic chorus of students to embellish the story—including, of course, the haunting “Shenandoah,” but also “Shady Grove,” “Little Sadie,” “Two Dollar Bill,” and “Stay All Night.” English teacher Jen Buckett, sporting overalls and a straw hat, joined the band on guitar. Heather Hightower also assisted with the musical arrangements.

Excellent acting, clear diction, and pitch-perfect singing by the majority student cast made for a first-class, memorable production. The lively staging saw the irrepressible boys— convincingly played by Andy Volenick, Gus Hankle, Evan Mace, and others—alternately

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Andy Volenick, Noah Hochrein, Drew Bostic, Ian Bolton, Gus Hankle, Isaac Russell, Jeff Davidhizar, Luke Cantrell, Trevor Vernon, Evan Mace, Eamon Dougherty and Kees Leliveld take a bow at the conclusion of their memorable performance of Shenandoah Boys at the Field School on May 19.

learning Latin in the Midway classroom, playing ball in the orchard, singing in chorus on the stage, and even running down the aisle through the delighted audience that filled the Field School auditorium.

Period costumes by Laura Taylor—including knickers, suspenders, and tams—took us back in time along with the guitars, banjos, mandolins, and ukuleles. The hour-long pro-

duction moved at a good clip, with smooth transitions between past and present including the familiar “two weeks later” sign carried across the stage. The music and singing were just plain terrific, with solos, instrumentals, and jubilant choruses as an integral part of the story.

“Shenandoah Boys” dramatizes the fact that the Secretary continued on page 30

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The Crozet Underpass: To Avoid Unnecessary Perils Mention downtown Crozet to someone and before long the subject will arise of its ever-increasing traffic. Where did all of those vehicles come from, and where in the world are they going?

Well, let’s just cut to the quick and place blame right where it’s due—with the Colonial-era government. They are the ones who started this mess! A court-issued road order in 1734 shows Peter Jefferson “... appointed Surveyor of the Road from the Mountains to Licking hole Creek...”. In 1737, one of western Albemarle’s earliest settlers, Michael Woods, was charged “... to Clear a road from the Blew Ledge of Mountains down to Ivy Creek.” Unlike most east-to-west progressions in Virginia’s development, this roadway was improved from west to east.

That rustic byway, thought by highway historians Pawlett & Newlon “to be the improvement of an Indian trail from Tidewater to the Valley,” became part of Virginia’s storied highway: the Three Notch’d Road. In 1780, the state capital moved from Williamsburg to more centrally located Richmond. Old Three Notch’d served that new seat of government that had one eye keenly set on western development.

For 200 years, from the 1730s into the 1930s (when the development of U.S. Route 250 brought about a straightening of that system of roads), much of the westward

On December 5, 1913, Charlottesville photographer Rufus W. Holsinger made ten photographs of the area around Crozet’s C&O Railway station. This westerly view shows Railroad Avenue as it undulates along the base of the railroad embankment. At this location on the left-hand side of the photo, a railroad underpass was installed in 1917. The white frame building on the right side was at different times the A.E. Rea store and the Lyric Theatre with its ticket booth extending onto the front porch. [Holsinger photo courtesy of the McCauley Collection]

traffic passed right through the center of... yes, you guessed it: downtown Crozet. So, our suspicions are confirmed.

The 1830s ushered in the age of railroads in the Old Dominion, and in a herky-jerky fashion, the steel rails eventually arrived in Charlottesville and headed west, making it through (future) Crozet by 1851. The 1860s

brought the indecencies of the War Between the States, with both armies utilizing the rail path at various times during those years.

Then came Samuel Miller’s Manual Labor School to offer hope and a future for orphaned children. Miller’s unheard-of million-dollar bequest was what got the name Crozet printed onto the maps beginning in 1876. Now, not only did the big highway pass through the center of town, but the train stopped there, too. Moreover, on that continued on page 14

For 66 years, this 10% grade approach with a very limited line-of-sight presented a real hazard to travelers and freight haulers. Crozet buildings in 1913, L-R: railroad section house, C&O passenger station, C&O freight depot (double building), and the top of J.M. Ellison’s store, as seen heading south towards the tracks. [Holsinger photo courtesy of the McCauley Collection]

This builder’s plate is attached to a railroad bridge girder in downtown Crozet: “American Bridge Company U.S.A. 1917”. In addition to Crozet’s C&O bridge, notable examples of that company’s work include the Empire State Building, NYC (1932), at that time the world’s tallest building; and the New River Gorge Bridge, WVA (1977), at that time the world’s longest arch bridge. [Photo by Phil James]

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train came people who saw the word “potential” written on every tract of good farmland that fronted the roadways heading into and out of the blossoming village.

The 1880s and ’90s saw the first commercial plantings and lucrative harvests of local fruits: apples, peaches, plums, berries of all sorts, and waiting markets just hours away by rail. Ohhh... what to do with this “sudden” flush of cash? Why, build a bank to keep it in, and advertise for more people to come and join in building up the town. The idea caught on. Rapidly.

By 1910, there were around 250 people identified as living at Crozet, and plenty of jobs to go around. Most anything you needed could be had right downtown or just around the corner: a hardware, bank, brick manufacturer, a cider producer, a cooperage to barrel up all those good apples to send to the Queen of England and all her subjects. If you lived in the right place, there was electricity and running water, and if you did not have it, you probably knew someone who did and you could go over and use theirs.

Within three decades of nailing up the “Crozet—y’all come!” shingle, there was “one barber, three blacksmiths, a butcher, two carpenters and

house builders, two carriage and wagon-makers and dealers of the same, a druggist, several fruit growers, a furniture dealer, nine general merchants, three livery stables, corn mills, flour mills and saw mills, dealers in wood and railroad ties, three churches, two hotels, five music teachers, three notaries, a painter and paperhanger, a shoemaker, watchmaker/jeweler, an undertaker, a realtor, four physicians, an attorney and two teachers.” Whew!

So, what did the town not have? 1) Many cars; and 2) a safe way to get across the train tracks. You see, in spite of very few cars, there was still a traffic problem because everyone and every thing coming and going had to queue up at the village bottleneck when they needed to cross the tracks beside the depot. And heaven help ’em all if the train had stopped there to pick up or drop off passengers, take on freight, or switch boxcars onto or off of the sidings.

So the downtown merchants and principal farmers around the area, i.e. the Crozet Board of Trade, took it upon themselves to hire local lawyer Russell Bargamin and formally request that the C&O put in a two-way underpass to replace the “exceptionally dangerous” downtown crossing that had long since outlived its usefulness— and on the railroad’s dime, no less. You know what the railroad owners said.

Detail from an April 1916 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co. drawing titled “Station Grounds - Crozet, VA”. All foot, hoof and vehicular traffic had to pass through The Square and cross over the tracks at a point immediately west of the depot.

[Courtesy of the Phil James Historical Images Collection]

The group representing the Village of Crozet (formally composed of J.M. Ellison, Russell Bargamin, T.W. Woollen, Walter Whately, and C.F. Ballard) prepared their case. First, they counted the traffic at the town’s crossing.

They found that “in October, 1913, there were, per day, consisting of foot passengers, buggies, wagons, horseback riders, and automobiles, about 1,150 units per day. Evidence also shows that for six [of those] days [likely during apple harvest], about 2,000 units crossed per day.”

The case of the “Commonwealth of Virginia, at

The railroad arrived in 1851 at a quiet wooded crossroads that was destined to become downtown Crozet. Traffic flow was greatly enhanced in 1917 by installation of an “undergrade crossing,” following three years of legal wrangling between village merchants and railroad authorities. In the end, the State Corporation Commission ordered the C&O Railway Co. to eliminate the dangerous at-grade crossing. [1950s photo by Mac Sandridge]

the relation of J.M. Ellison and others, vs. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company” dragged on until June 1916, when the State Corporation Commission decreed the building of “An undergrade crossing re-establishing the old White Hall road, which was blocked by the embankment of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway when it was constructed in 1851... so as to avoid unnecessary perils to travelers upon the highway.”

On July 26, 1917, the Charlottesville Daily Progress reported: “Crozet has at last gotten on the map of the C&O Railway, as evidenced by the improvements that have been made and are yet to be made.

The completion of the underground crossing and the conveniences it carries with it surpass the anticipations of us all.”

The road through Crozet was hard-surfaced in 1921. A new, long-hoped-for passenger depot was placed in service in December 1923. Eventually, the highway between Brownsville and Mechum’s River was straightened and improved, denying, by default, a new generation of travelers the pleasantries and delights of a wonderful village, just off the beaten path, built on the hard work, pride and cooperation of its citizenry.

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Albemarle Blue Ridge Heritage Project committee members Larry Lamb, Teresa Kay Lam, Sally James, and Phil James were joined by Albemarle County Parks and Recreation representatives Bob Crickenberger and Dan Mahon to stake out the site of the ABRHP memorial at Byrom Park.

Albemarle-Blue Ridge Heritage Project Making Progress

By Sally James The Albemarle Chapter of the Blue Ridge Heritage Project (BRHP) has made great strides towards its goal to create a memorial site in the county that honors the families displaced by the creation of the Shenandoah National Park. One of eight chapters of the BRHP, Albemarle BRHP is part of the campaign to erect memorial stone chimneys in the eight counties surrounding the Park.

A beautiful site on a grassy knoll at Patricia Ann Byrom Forest Preserve Park in Blackwell’s Hollow has been offered by the County, and a week ago, stakes were driven to mark the locations of the memorial chimney and the post-and-beam shelter that will house informational panels.

The chapter has been especially blessed with a donation

by J. Temple Bayliss of an old rock chimney that presently stands at its original home place up the road not far from Byrom Park.

Stonemason Darryl Whidby will aid in dismantling and moving the stone; then he and his crew will rebuild the chimney at the memorial site.

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This beautiful chimney is all that remains of the Zermie and Addie Shiflett home in the foothills of Blackwell’s Hollow. Because of the generous gift of J. Temple Bayliss, these rocks will continue to stand as a memorial to the families who once lived on land now part of Shenandoah National Park. The chimney will be dismantled, moved and rebuilt at the memorial site at Patricia Ann Byrom Forest Preserve Park.

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Crozet Board of Trade Meets to Promote the Town

By Louise Ferrall The Crozet Board of Trade held an enthusiastic general meeting May 16 at Pro Re Nata Brewery in Crozet. CBT president Mike Marshall, publisher of the Crozet Gazette, told the crowd of 50 local business owners on hand that the organization, which has been dormant in recent years, active only to fundraise for the fireworks show at Crozet Independence Day Celebrations, needs to revitalize to bring economic development to the western Albemarle area.

The CBT is an IRS–recognized nonprofit that fundraises for Crozet charitable causes and to promote the civic life and economic growth of the town.

Marshall proposed that the CBT undertake two initiatives, one a targeted advertising campaign in Virginia’s urban markets—Virginia Beach, Richmond, and northern Virginia—to attract visitors to the area’s tourist attractions, perhaps timed to the Crozet Arts and Crafts Fair. The second would be a Christmas raffle program designed to keep customers shopping locally that would offer prizes for ticket holders who present receipts from Crozet businesses.

Host John Schoeb, owner of Pro Re Nata and Crozet Blue Ridge Dental, described his commitment to the community and the need for an active orga-

nization such as the CBT, and offered to be a location for CBT meetings, which will resume on a quarterly basis.

James King of King Family Vineyards, who was recently appointed to the Crozet Community Advisory Committee, encouraged business owners to attend CCAC meetings. “Ninety percent of local government is just showing up,” King said. Representing the perspective of Crozet business owners at these CCAC meetings is important because the CCAC advises the planning commission and Board of Supervisors on rezoning, development, and local infrastructure, including school impacts, he said.

Pointing to a T-shirt he was wearing that had the location of Crozet on a map of Virginia on it, King said he had been stopped three times in town that day by people who wanted to know where he got it. He suggested that the CBT develop an assortment of items bearing designs with the Crozet crest to sell and thereby raise a budget for CBT programs.

Peter Welsh, owner of Legacy Signs in Yancey Mills, addressed the group to suggest that they collectively take up businesses’ general frustration over the difficulty of getting commercial signage approved by the county.

Individually, business owners have not had an impact on the

problem, but working through the CBT they might be able to get attention on it, he said.

Karen Yonovitz, an artisan with the Crozet Artisans, promoted the visitors center in the downtown depot and suggested it as a location for community events.

Marshall said the CBT is looking for new officers, but had no volunteers and the existing officers—Brenda Plantz of Parkway Pharmacy as treasurer, and Jennie More as secretary— will remain for the next year.

Welsh and Mark Cosgrove of Fardowners Restaurant, came forward to join the board of directors.

Marshall reminded business owners that they, combined with donations from residents, have historically provided the funds that pay for the Fourth of July fireworks show and asked them to be generous in donating again this year. Donations can be made online at: crozetcommunity.org/2016/05/

Local Schools Get Extra Arts Funding

By Skye O’Donnell Arts in Western Education, a community arts effort, will donate more than $8,000 during the 2015-16 academic year to help keep arts education strong in Crozet-area schools.

Gifts will pay for a new conductor’s podium for the Western Albemarle High School band, new props and stage supplies for the Henley Middle School drama department, and new state-of-the-art cameras and tripods for Western Albemarle’s photography students.

The money was all raised locally in a fundraising cam-

paign called AWEsome 100. The awards are also possible because of the generous efforts of local businesses, community members and parents who supported ArtFest in the West on March 11 at WAHS, a Fifties-themed community arts event centered around the school’s production of Grease.

“Our non-profit group brings enthusiastic students, parents and local businesses together to support the fantastic work of our arts teachers,” said AWE president Skye O’Donnell. “Arts dollars go a long way in our schools.”

The teachers winning grants

and awards for 2016 are: 1- Joel Hartshorn, WAHS Band: $500 for Conductor’s Podium.

2- Nancy Mehlich, WAHS Art: $500 for mosaic project and $500 for frames to display art throughout the school.

3- Laura Chatterson, WAHS Ceramics: $500 for a sieve, under glazes, and supplies; $500 for banding wheels.

4- Eliza Brodie (for teacher on leave), WAHS Creative Writing: $400 to help publish the journal “Myriad.”

5- Kim Powers, WAHS Photography: $428 for DSLR camera.

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Or, checks payable to the Downtown Crozet Association can be mailed to: DCA, P.O. Box 863, Crozet, Virginia 22932. Note “fireworks donation” on the memo line.

The CBT was formed in 2003 under the name Downtown Crozet Association.

It was instrumental in developing the terms of the Downtown Crozet District, a unique zoning district in the county, designed to create a traditional, pedestrian-oriented town center. In 2013, responding to the development of commercial areas outside downtown in Old Trail and the Clover Lawn/Blue Ridge Shopping Center, it changed its name and adopted one honoring an earlier organization of community-minded businesses, the Crozet Board of Trade, which existed in the first half of the 20th century. The name change is now pending with the State Corporation Commission and the IRS.

6- Kellie Burnette, WAHS Digital Imaging: $428 for DSLR camera and tripod.

7- Caitlin Pitts, WAHS Drama: $500 for scene shop/set building area.

8- Jeff Melton, Henley Band: $438 for District Concert assessment.

9- Leslie Tanner, Henley Drama (in collaboration with Brownsville): $400 for props and stage set supplies.

General arts grants are: WAHS Band: $2,200; WAHS Drama: $700; WAHS Choir: $150; WAHS Orchestra: $250; Henley Art: $250; Brownsville, Crozet, Murray, and Meriwether Lewis Art: $200 each.

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Former Brownsville Teachers Seek to “Nourish Minds” This Summer with New Elementary Lunch Program

By Rebecca Schmitz becca@crozetgazette.com Although they left the classroom three years ago, two former first grade teachers are still making a big difference in children’s lives. Sara Parkins and Jessica Reon, both mothers of three young children, stopped teaching after having their third and second children respectively, and have now founded a program that will provide free lunches to all summer school students at both Brownsville and Crozet Elementary.

Their desire to serve hungry children was inspired by what they witnessed in the classroom.

“Since we come from a classroom perspective, we have hands-on experience with children whose families may not have the opportunity to attend PTO meetings and functions, and despite the efforts of the PTO to provide yearbooks, coats, and other things to these children, they are not always seen by the majority of the school community,” Parkins said.

“There are kids in our community who have no running water,” Reon added. There are kids who have nothing to eat for lunch when school is not in

session, and those kids need to be taken care of, because they are part of our community and they are part of our future.”

The lunches will be funded entirely by private donations.

Volunteers will pack the lunches the night before each school day, and Reon and Parkins will deliver them the next afternoon.

Each child will be given a lunch when he or she leaves summer school at noon. (Summer school runs from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon and lasts for three weeks.)

Although they don’t have exact numbers yet, Reon and Parkins anticipate feeding about 125 children. The lunches will include food such as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches; turkey, ham, and cheese sandwiches; chicken tenders; yogurt; fruit cups; and crackers.

Standard Produce Company is giving them two cases of apples, and Reon and Parkins have contacted local orchards in hopes of securing more donations of fresh fruit.

The idea for the summer lunch program grew out of a conversation over coffee between the two friends. Reon began telling Parkins about an article she had read describing a school district that provided lunches to underprivileged chil-

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“It was just an idea at first,” Parkins said. “We were joking about how we might do it, driving around in our vans and delivering the meals ourselves.

Then we started to get serious and said, ‘OK, let’s really do this!’” They started texting back and forth during the days that followed, brainstorming and sharing ideas. “We were dreaming really big,” Parkins said.

They secured a meeting with Brownsville’s principal, Jason Crutchfield, and assistant principal, Nancy McCullen, to present their ideas. “Once we met with them, we kind of reined in our expectations to make sure we could be successful,” Parkins

said, noting that the principals were “incredibly supportive.”

“We were more realistic, since it was only a month before school was out and we had this daunting task and no money,” she said with a laugh. “So we decided in our first year to just provide lunches during summer school, rather than all summer.”

They began fundraising immediately by visiting businesses personally and sending letters and emails. “We started going to businesses and we weren’t really having much luck.

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Next up was getting on the agenda at the next Brownsville PTO meeting to ask for help publicizing the program and soliciting volunteers. Their idea was enthusiastically received, and PTO members offered to get the word out to potential volunteers through the Brownsville Online newsletter.

Parkins and Reon also met with members of the Crozet Elementary PTO, who were enthusiastic about the idea and eager to help. Parkins said that “the Crozet PTO has been incredible, they’ve been so supportive. They’re already brainstorming joint fundraisers for the fall…. They really want to create that community bridge between the two schools.” Reon is also thankful for their commitment, saying, “It’s been wonderful to work with Crozet, and hopefully this will be a program that will bring our schools together.”

Several groups have already offered to volunteer by packing lunches, and Parkins says that “a lot of that came out of the willingness of the PTOs from Brownsville and Crozet to get the word out as a way to support us.” One Peachtree Little League team will ask its players to show up 15 minutes before practice one day to help bag lunches. The Crozet Gators Swim team, Brownsville’s Gymnastics Team, and the Girl Scouts have also expressed interest in helping.

Reon and Parkins believe that it’s important to get children involved in the volunteer process, and that having students pack lunches for their classmates is another benefit of the program.

“We feel that it’s so easy— and I’m guilty of it also—to just write a check and donate, but our kids aren’t really seeing us do it and understanding what we’re doing,” Parkins said. “At this age, it’s really important for them to be a part of that giving back. We don’t just want to do a good job feeding children, we want to help other children learn to give back.” Different teams can volunteer each day.

Parkins said it can be as simple as a parent sending an email to other parents, asking them to

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Reon and Parkins are eager to get started, but also realistic about the learning curve they face. “We’re probably going to be micro-managing a little this summer, because we really want it to be successful,” Parkins says.

Reon agreed: “It’s our first time doing it, and it’s the first time the community has had this happen, so we’re piloting this and our community is piloting this with us. We’re all in this together for the first time. We’re both learning, and we want this program to be the best it can be so we can grow it with the community.”

The two women believe that the more the community becomes involved, the more successful the program will be.

“This is not an Albemarle County-provided lunch,” Reon says. “This is our community supporting children.” They are still seeking volunteers and monetary donations, as well as donations of non-perishable food items (such as goldfish crackers and fruit cups) and gift cards to local grocery stores.

Reon said, “We really want to grow the program each year and reach more and more kids.” In the future, they hope to be able to provide lunches to all hungry children in the community, not just those who attend summer school. Reon sums it up simply: “We need to take care of each other. It’s just the right thing to do. It’s our community, and we’re a family. Nobody can learn when they’re hungry, so we want to nourish their bodies as well as their minds.”

Parkins and Reon are currently looking for team leaders to facilitate lunch packing for each day of summer school. A team leader will be in charge of recruiting a team. A team can be a sports team, a scout troop, or any neighborhood group of adults or children that will gather together in the evening.

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Bold Rock Cidery Opens Store at Chiles Peach Orchard Bold Rock Cidery has its main production facility and tasting room in Nellysford, but has now opened an “outpost” store at Chiles Peach Orchard in Crozet.

It’s meant to be a tasting and sales room and a growler filling station, said Lindsay Dorrier, director of retail sales for Bold Rock.

Bold Rock is leasing half of a new building at the orchard; the other half will be occupied by Prince Michel Winery, based in Madison County. Since last May, both companies have had shops at Chiles’ Crown Orchard location on Carter Mountain in Charlottesville.

“We decided to do the same thing at the peach orchard in Crozet,” said Dorrier.

“This is community-focused,” said Dorrier. “It’s for Crozet to be able to get to the cidery. We mean to engage with cyclists and runners. They can stop and get a refreshing cider.

We’d like it to be a n early-evening spot, so you don’t have to hike to Charlottesville.”

The shop is nestled among peach trees and has a pebbled-stone seating area in front that will accommodate at least a half dozen tables.

“It’s an in-orchard experience under the shade of the trees. It will be a pretty fun spot.”

The store will offer tasting flights of Bold Rock’s five ciders as well as cider mimosas.

Virginia Apple remains Bold Rock’s top seller, Dorrier said, but the IPA-style cider, which incorporates hops, is growing fast. “Beer drinkers are gravitating to it.”

“We have six major suppliers of apples from around the Rockfish Valley, but Chiles Orchards is the largest supplier of those and they are most forward-thinking about how to stay competitive,” said Dorrier.

“Our founders are incredibly involved and they care about the brand. They don’t want to cede control.

“Where does your food come from? We work with local farmers to get apples. You can know the families and not go the

Lindsay Dorrier at the new Bold Rock Cellar at Chiles Peach Orchard

industrial route. We have local people working hard to make locally sourced food available.

It’s the same for us in North Carolina with the Nix family, a five-generation orchard.”

The cidery arranges music at Crown Orchard and intends to do the same in Crozet.

“We’re starting to drive visitation there [in Charlottesville]

and we think the same thing will happen here. We’ll be here in the strawberry and peach season. It’s a place to relax.”

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Two More Crozet Eagle Scouts Does Boy Scout Troop 79 have an assembly line for producing Eagle Scouts? Virtually.

Last month saw two new Eagle Scouts have their Courts of Honor, Brendan Ventura and Tyler Petrell. They bring the troop’s scorecard to 69 Eagles since it was founded in 1950.

Ventura, a Crozet resident who is a student in Albemarle High School’s Math, Engineering and Science

Brendan Ventura

Academy, was awarded Eagle rank April 30. He’s the son of Bob and Karen Ventura.

A former Gator Swim Club member and the holder of a black belt in Karate, he earned 34 merit badges. He said his toughest was Emergency Preparedness because it required lots of organization. His favorite was Wilderness Survival, which teaches how to make fire and a shelter. His Eagle project was the reconstruction of a trail bridge near Albemarle High School that spans 20 feet and is four feet wide. The trail is used by the cross country team and the former bridge had been badly designed and subsequently collapsed into a small creek. He had to get county permission to do the job, but after officials looked at the old one, they agreed a new one was necessary.

Ventura said it took four months in the summer of 2015 to plan and organize the job, but the new bridge was built in one day with help from the cross country runners and other

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“I learned a lot about organization,” said Ventura, “to be very specific about where to drop materials, and about following up with people and getting a firm ‘yes.’

“It’s doing its job. It’s very sturdy. People say it’s a major improvement. Principal Jay Thomas thanked me for it.”

Ventura thanked assistant scoutmasters Keith Cheely and Amy Effland and gave Cheely a mentor’s pin. Crozet Masons Goldie Tomlin and Dr. Jeffrey

Hodges were on hand for the ceremony with a certificate for Brendan.

Ventura is headed for Virginia Tech to be an aerospace engineering major. “My dream job would be to work on a Mars space mission,” he said.

Tyler Petrell’s Court of Honor was held May 2. He joined Troop 79 in 2010 and ascended in rank and served as senior patrol leader.

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Life was TOUGH back then!

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And complex feet that sense the ground, as well as provide shock absorption and incredible stability to the huge body standing on top of them. If you get even further into the study of our tendons, joints, muscles, and nerves, the human body is a very, very impressive machine.

And today, it’s still tough!

Okay, our lives are pretty soft now. We do have cars. We do have grocery stores. We have really comfortable chairs.

Somehow we can be incredibly busy and productive people, without standing or walking hardly at all during the course of a day. But we all still do walk, every day. Most of us don’t really think about it much, not any more than how we get from our bed to the coffee pot, from our cars to the office, from one aisle in the store to the next.

Reminder: walking remains one of the best exercise tools out there. When you start adding some distance and time into your walking, something quite awakening and primal occurs, something very human.

And the beauty: Almost everyone can go out and do it.

Walking has much less impact than running. The ground reaction forces when walking are about 1.1 times your body weight, but with running they are anywhere from 2.5 to 3 times your body weight. If you are getting back to fitness, or trying to overcome an injury, get out there and MOVE, but with less impact. Walk! When you walk, you are strengthening all of the muscles, bones, tendons, and ligaments and making them more resilient for

when you are ready to take on other, more intense, activities.

When we exercise at lower intensities, our bodies use primarily fat as an energy source.

So when you walk, you are mostly fat-burning.

Yeah!

However, the trick here is that you need to exercise for a longer period of time to take full advantage of this. Think one hour. Give yourself an hour, 4-5 times a week. If you need to get back to shape, saying you’re too busy is simply an excuse. Almost anyone can carve out 4-5 hours a week for exercise if you are committed. Make it happen!

For some, long walks may sound boring at first, but give it a few weeks, and you will find that it becomes way more therapeutic than it could ever be boring. If you need distraction, bring music or an audiobook, or better yet, a friend. But you’ll be surprised just how busy your mind becomes if you don’t bring any distractions. It becomes a perfect blend of exercise and meditation.

Walk in the woods. We call this hiking. Fortunately, here in Crozet we are surrounded by amazing trails both in our neighborhoods (around Old Trail, behind Crozet Park…), as well as in our local mountains (Mint Springs Valley Park, Shenandoah National Park, Byrom Forest Preserve). This allows for some great home-totrail-and-back walks that are both long and interesting.

If you’re looking for fitness, walk with purpose. Call it power hiking. Use those legs, swing those arms. You don’t have to look like a speed walker, just use those powerful legs and get that heart rate up and you will not want for exercise in this hilly area.

One paradigm that is very wrong with common fitness advice is that if we just “work out” several times a week, we will get “fit.” What would our 2000-year-ago selves think about our strange behavior of sitting around all day, but then getting up to exercise for just 30 minutes, three times a week?

Walking regularly is a great way to bridge this gap between “exercising” and real-life fitness, because we can all do it, do it a lot, with a fairly low risk for injury.

Get outside, soak in the beauty that we live in, and walk!

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Trans-Pacific Partnership

By Elena Day elena@crozetgazette.com The Obama administration continues to press for Congressional passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The trade deal will increase corporate control over a world in which national governments (including our own) are beholden to multinational corporations. Consumers and workers are increasingly denied health, safety and environmental protections. Governments fail to challenge the World Trade Organization (WTO), which decides in secret tribunals whether food safety and environmental and workplace regulations are “illegal” barriers to trade.

What might ensue with the TPP for citizens of the signatory countries—the U.S., Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam—could make Pandora’s box look like a picnic basket.

Current China /U.S. agricultural trade gives a “foretaste.”

China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Entry into the WTO was the reward for opening up its internal markets to U.S.-manufactured goods in a trade deal negotiated by the Clinton administration in 1999. Other U.S/China bilateral trade pacts were negotiated and implemented.

Within the ten years of entry into the WTO, China’s agricultural sector became significantly industrialized. Pesticide and chemical fertilizer use increased 25 percent between 2000 and 2007 and China became a leading food exporter. In the same period (by 2005), the U.S. became a net food importer.

By 2009 70 percent of the apple juice, 43 percent of processed mushrooms, 22 percent of frozen spinach and 78 percent of tilapia that Americans ate came from China. By 2007 90 percent of Vitamin C supplements were imported from China. In 2010 China sold us 88 million pounds of candy.

Gilroy, California, is no longer the “Garlic Capital of the World.” After China joined the WTO, U.S. garlic production decreased by one-third.

Previously, U.S. growers supplied 70 percent of the garlic Americans consumed.

China dominates the world honey market and is our single greatest honey source. Its honey is regularly found to be contaminated with antibiotics.

China, the world’s leading seafood producer, supplied 25 percent of U.S. seafood imports, amounting to 1 billion lbs., in 2010. Chinese fish farmers (and farmers) use pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, including banned chemicals that are easily obtainable in China.

Since WTO rules are such that trade always trumps food safety, U.S. food manufacturers find it easier to source ingredients from China, where labor costs are lower and enforcement of safety regulations lax or nonexistent. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been overwhelmed by Chinese food imports and currently inspects less than 2 percent of all imported foodstuffs. China’s food safety problems quickly ensconced themselves on American grocery shelves.

The most memorable food safety debacle China exported to the U.S. was melamine contamination of pet food products in 2007. Melamine killed thousands of pets in the U.S. and was found in Mars, Heinz and Cadbury products. In China, melamine-contaminated milk products sickened hundreds of thousands of infants.

Melamine is a chemical byproduct of coal processing used in the manufacture of plastics, adhesives and insulation. In China it is used illegally to make food products appear to have a higher protein content so that they can be sold for a higher price. In the U.S., 60,000,000 packages of pet food contaminated with melamine were recalled. Some was redirected to hog farms. Hogs that consumed the melamine-laced pet food were destroyed but not before 56,000 hogs were processed into pork products.

Melamine continues to show up as a contaminant in food products in China, although a less detectable protein enhancer is also in use: hydrolyzed leather protein made from scraps of animal skin.

While U.S. consumers feed on uninspected Chinese agricultural products and processed foods, China imports our Roundup Ready soy for its poultry and hog farms. The shift from pastured livestock to factory farms since joining the WTO has increased Chinese meat consumption and concurrently obesity is becoming a problem. In 2010 Kentucky Fried Chicken (Yum! Brands) was opening a new restaurant in China every 18 hours and purchasing 25 percent of all chicken produced. In 2010 Yum! Brands earned 36 percent of its total profits from 3,299 KFCs and 500 Pizza Huts in China.

Other introductions by U.S. corporate interests include PepsiCo beverage plants, food processing plants and farms.

PepsiCo has become the largest potato grower in China. The potatoes are manufactured into Lay’s brand potato chips.

The TPP is a trade model similar to that which we have with China. Under the TPP, U.S. food safety rules on pesticides and additives higher than international standards would be subject to challenge as “illegal” trade barriers. Under threat of trade sanctions, the U.S. would be required to allow unsafe food into our country.

TPP imposes limits on labeling origins of food products, again as a “trade barrier.” Labels identifying how foods are produced or whether foods are genetically modified can be challenged under TPP. It’s clear that “barriers to trade,” read this as “the right to make as much money as possible even if one’s product is tainted or undermines traditional local agriculture,” must be eliminated. U.S. food safety standards will be required to fall to the lowest common denominator.

I can’t help but call to mind the Money song from the musical Cabaret. “Money makes the world go round, it’s such a happy sound” for Monsanto and Cargill and Bayer and Nestles and Chinese industry and for the Taiwanese corporation Formosa that built a state of the art steel plant in Vietnam.

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I went hiking last weekend with some friends, four kids, and four dogs. We hiked a local classic, Spy Rock. I highly recommend this hike, just an hour from Crozet, which starts just above the Montebello Country Store and winds up hill, hitting the Appalachian Trail, and then summits at Spy Rock, which offers an incredible 360-degree view of wilderness.

As it was Memorial Day weekend, a lot of people, with their dogs, had the same idea.

As we were descending back to the car, we were passing large groups of similar chaos—adults, kids, and dogs. You could quickly see the initial tensions rise between the dogs. Some dogs that approached were clearly friendly and submissive, while others were nervous and frightened. During one passing, my friend’s female dog “Josie” got into a brief scuffle with another dog. When the two dogs were passing each other on leash, they both were clearly tense and stiff, measuring each other. When the other dog growled at Josie, chaos erupted and teeth were snapping, but fortunately we broke it up before anyone got hurt.

“That’s so weird,” commented my friend. “She is fine with some dogs, but others it just seems they push a button and she explodes! Why do you think that is?” he asked me.

Dog-dog aggression is a very common problem that a lot of owners are forced to deal with.

First, I hate to call it “aggression,” because it’s really just them acting like dogs.

Remember, they are not people.

In the dog world, if someone insults you or rubs you the wrong way, you don’t talk about it. You bite them and show them who’s boss. That’s very upsetting to us humans, but perfectly normal and acceptable behavior in the dog world.

Then I told him the story of my former dog Kaya.

I adopted Kaya from a shelter when she was about 8 months old. She was so sweet then and because I was in veterinary school at the time, with a flexible schedule, she got a ton of playtime and socialization with other dogs. Almost every day, we would go on walks with my classmates and she would get to run around off-leash with anywhere from 3-10 other dogs.

They all had fun together in peaceful harmony. There was no question, Kaya was well-socialized.

But when she was around 18 months old, things started to change on those larger dog walks. It started with a few scuffles that clearly must have been the other dog’s fault. “Ugh, what’s up with that dog?” I would think as I judged its lack of proper upbringing.

A few more months and a few more small dog fights and I started to realize that maybe, just maybe, my dog was responsible for some of this behavior.

But still, if that other dog hadn’t looked at her like that….

Then one day, while running around the fields where we would go, we came upon another dog off leash that we had never met. Kaya ran up, had a brief stand off, and then clearly was the aggressor as she started snarling and snapping at the other poor dog, who was clearly not interested in getting into a fight.

This was a hard thing for me to accept! Had I failed at properly training my dog to be a good citizen? Had I not socialized her enough? Why would she start a fight like that, for no reason at all?!

Fast-forward 5 years, and I had clearly come to the conclusion, and acceptance, that my sweet girl Kaya was terrible around other dogs. Her days of off-leash play were gone, as I could no longer trust that she wouldn’t start a fight. Further, there would be times that she would see another dog across the street and just start lunging and

CROZETgazette growling, completely unprovoked! Yep, she was terrible with other dogs.

After 14 years of practice, I have come to learn that some dogs are just not going to get along well with other dogs, no matter how hard you try. These dogs were just born with that personality type.

All puppies get along just fine. They are too immature and careless to worry about stature, pride, and insults. But once dogs start to reach 1-2 years of age, they start becoming the “mature” adult version of the dogs they are. And for some dogs, this means bad behavior with other dogs.

Let’s go to the wolf pack.

Wolves live by a very tight hierarchical structure within a pack. There is one alpha male and one alpha female. These are the top dogs. And these dogs got to that position not because they are the biggest or the strongest. Rather, they got to it because they are the most rude, most cunning, and most dominant in their personality.

Studies of wolf packs show that these behaviors are clearly evident when they are young, but truly start to manifest when they become young adults.

Remember, our domestic dogs are all descendants of these amazing animals, and their instincts are still alive and well in many.

JUNE 2016 So dogs like my old dog Kaya, and my friend’s dog Josie, are simply alpha dogs. They are the ones that despite your training, your socialization, and your pleading and frustration, will not be able to get along well with a lot of other dogs. Interdog aggression is most strong with dogs of the same sex. Kaya was predictably terrible around other female dogs, while she would tolerate males much more. The dog that Josie squabbled with on our walk was also predictably female. In the wolf pack, there is an alpha male and an alpha female. Thus, there is not the hard-wired competition between males and females for the top spot; it is simply between all the males and all the females.

So, if you find your dog is not so good with other dogs, here are a few pointers: Accept it. It’s not your fault.

This is simply who your dog is.

Don’t get frustrated; remember, they are just dogs!

Be responsible. Don’t take your dog to the dog park, or let him/her off-leash, where there are a lot of other dogs. A fight may happen. Besides allowing dogs to get bit, dog fights can get chaotic quickly and nearby humans, including children, can easily be brought into the battle scene.

Work on it. It’s not like you can’t improve the situation.

Realize there is nothing you can do to make an approaching dog less antagonizing, but you can work on getting your dog to focus on you. Find some treats that your dog likes and NEVER go on a walk without them.

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Sellers and he applied.

Lantz had been born in Fairfax, where his dad was a police officer, too, but his dad was from West Virginia and when it came his chance to retire he took his family home to Elkins in the mountain state. Lantz began his education at Glenville State College and finished at the University of Charleston.

He always thought he would be a policeman, he said, and in high school he was given the nickname Trooper because his friends all expected him to join the West Virginia State Police. But the pay was better in Virginia. His brother joined the sheriff’s office in Arlington County, but Lantz went to Fairfax because of the even higher pay scale.

Lantz said his top priority is to consolidate Sellers’ institution of the geo-policing concept, which keeps officers in geographic territories and encourages them to get to know its residents.

“Geopolicing helps officers connect with the community,” explained Sellers. “You know each other by face.” The concept demonstrated its power recently when the department circulated a photograph of a wanted man and members of the Crozet Safety Corps promptly identified him.

Fairfax had a similar concept in the Public Service Area model, a neighborhood beat, and Lantz had experience with it at Fair Oaks.

“Newer officers embrace it sooner than older ones,” Sellers said. “Some of the older ones are now changing. It has more responsibility with it and accountability with it.”

“We’re going to keep growing it,” said Lantz. “Part One was creating districts. Part

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Two is building the capacity [of the department to staff it] and Part Three, eventually, is decentralization. We’d love to see a station in Crozet.”

The other priority Sellers is passing on is traffic safety. “We’re losing too many people on highways,” said Lantz. We need better enforcement and education. People aren’t wearing seat belts. Many deaths are preventable. This has always been one of Chief Seller’s emphases.”

The police department added seven officers last year, but will add none this year.

The department has 60 patrol officers and 139 employees in total, counting detectives and other support personnel.

“We need 11 more officers to go to squad-based schedules,” said Lantz. In squad organization, 20 officers work together every day in the same sector, under the same

supervision, and have the same days off.

Lantz led a squad-based district in Fairfax.

“There’s no use in reinventing the wheel,” he said. “We’ve been working toward it for more than a year now.”

Sellers said he told County Executive Tom Foley when he was hired that he would do the job for five years and then he intended to retire. He extended his service by another six months while the decision over replacing him was being made.

“I’ve learned many things from Chief Sellers,” said Lantz. “He’s a very analytical leader. He thinks things through. I learned his best trait: he’s a caring leader. He’s genuine and I learned what that means to an employee and getting them to follow up.”

“Ron is also very compassionate for the community,” said Sellers, “and he’s very continued on page 40

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The total rainfall at our house was 6.44,” which is plenty, but not that unusual. The May average is a healthy 4.51”.

What was unusual is the sheer number of rainy days and cloudy skies. Was this a record for most rainy days ever in a month? That’s not so easy to determine, but it was close.

Scanning our database back to 1894, I can’t find a month with more rainy days. However, I did notice that recent years tend to have more rainy days.

This, I suspect, is because of more sensitive electronic rain gauges rather than any real change in climate. In the old days, an observer checked the gauge once a day and likely missed quite a few days with a very small amount. These days, electronic gauges detect a smidgen at 3am when everybody is asleep. This difference doesn’t change the overall total much, but it does change the number of days.

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“Shenandoah was authorized in 1926 and fully established … in 1935. In the creation of the park, a number of families and entire communities were required to vacate portions of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Many residents in the 500 homes in eight affected counties of Virginia were vehemently opposed to losing their homes and communities. Most of the families removed came from Madison County, Page County, and Rappahannock County” (Wikipedia). To justify their actions, the government characterized these residents as uneducated half-wits tantamount to savages who would welcome the relocation as an improvement to their lot, but this was inaccurate. After Ned attends a planning meeting in town to protest the school’s closing and hears these attitudes first-hand, he decides to disprove this misrepresentation by bringing the boys to meet the federal agents, and to sing for them. In the show’s climax, their beautiful performance of “Long Journey Home,” led by soloist Xavier Mehta, clearly demonstrates that they are educated, talented, and soulful people; while their cause is lost, their dignity has been preserved.

This central story of dislocation and loss was ingeniously framed by a group of present-day Skyline Drive hikers— played with humor by Luke Cantrell, Isaac Russell, Trevor Vernon, and Ryan Darradji— who highlighted the many benefits offered us today by the Shenandoah National Park.

When they meet a park ranger (Jeff Davidhizer), he leads them to see an abandoned stone chimney and takes us back in time by telling the boys the history of the Shenandoah National Park’s founding. They eagerly observe wildlife, such as a black bear and an American woodcock, and round out the show by agreeing that, though it had a dark side, the creation of the park was ultimately beneficial in preserving and making

accessible to the public the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. “Shenandoah Boys” not only made for great theater, it made for good education, allowing the whole school to understand and relive this often overlooked slice of American history as we celebrate the centennial of the National Park system.

The Field School of Charlottesville is a private boys’ middle school serving grades 5 through 8, located on Crozet Avenue across from Crozet Elementary School. In its ninth year, the Field School’s mission is to develop well-rounded boys of character and accomplishment. With an average class size of 13, the 80 students and 10 full-time teachers (plus more part-time) enjoy individual attention, hands-on education, and interdisciplinary units shared among all subjects.

Technology is de-emphasized, but used when appropriate— the play’s credits were projected on the wall over a mountain scene. Daily time outside is part of the curriculum, including an hour of sports at the end of each day. Frequent field trips—for example to the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, the burn site in Shenandoah National Park, or the IIHS crash test facility in Charlottesville—are the norm, and the entire 8th grade visits Costa Rica every year. The school operates a daily shuttle bus from Charlottesville, so only about half its student population hails from western Albemarle. For more information, visit www.fieldschoolcv. net.

Todd Barnett, who wrote the musical and played the school’s owner, also writes the annual Crozet Spirit Walk. He is developing a series of four plays highlighting local history that will be reproduced every four years, with each new incoming class.

While the quality of this show reflected an enormous amount of work, rehearsals were all held during the school day. “The Field School is a wonderful place,” remarked Vann Slangerup, who stole the show with his solo in “John Henry.”

“We do a play every year, but this is our first musical.” After this thoroughly enjoyable performance, Crozet theater buffs should hope it is not their last!

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St. Nicholas Undertakes Icon Expansion Icons are increasing popular among the Christian churches, but they have long been appreciated among the Orthodox churches.

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Greenwood, in the Ukrainian Orthodox tradition, is set to expand its already impressive scope of icons dramatically.

A new dome in the center of the church will have all its panels covered in an icon of Christ.

Large new icons will occupy presently blank spaces on the church’s walls and a week-long workshop will be held this fall to allow individuals to paint their own icons.

“Thanks be to God, we are growing,” said Fr. Robert Holet.

“Our people come from all over, including the Shenandoah Valley. We have a nice facility and a nice community. We’re a transient community in our area. So we have flux. It’s one of the reasons we want to do the iconography. We want to be a place where people perceive God’s grace. The iconography does that. It’s a way people find expression of the faith in a visual way. They bring awareness of the Gospel.

“In some ways, they are simple, but the theology is authentic. Icons of Christ, Mary and the church go back to the second century. There’s never been a prohibition of that. In an age of images—the one we are in— there’s a need for sacred images.

An image that doesn’t vanish, but goes beyond this world and reveals the image of God. So they are treated with reverence.

The most beautiful church I’ve ever been in, St. Mark’s in Venice, is all icons.”

Holet said the church is interviewing icon painters now.

“We’re looking for someone who can do a scheme of iconography for the church. In a few years we hope to really transform the space with the presence of God. Full-figure icons of Christ, saints, angels and gospel scenes.

“You have to get on an iconographer’s schedule. Their availability is limited. Some of it is style, Greek or Slavic. The schools of iconography in Ukraine are full. It’s only 20 years since the communists and there’s lots of restoration to catch up.

“We’ve got three or four [iconographers] who can outline the project. This is a spiritual process. It’s not hiring a painter.

It’s about prayer and building the spiritual space. We’re touring churches and their iconographers to put together our plan.

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My Driveway Garden I absolutely love my 300-foot-long driveway garden. A gravel driveway is favored by many species of plants, especially rather small ones that you might not notice or pay attention to when they are in the mixed company of larger plants.

My driveway is yet another garden of delightful surprises every year, introducing me to flowers that I never before knew existed. Thus whenever people tell me they’ve paved their driveway, I can’t help but feel that they’ve lost a golden opportunity to see and learn about the wildflowers of our area.

I also feel that they might have lost the chance to meet new insects whose lives are closely tied to those particular kinds of blooms, and to notice bigger animals that might have taken advantage of the gravel pathway (which would feel much more natural to them than a surface of asphalt) to travel through their property.

Our first view of a Box Turtle for the year is often of one walking across the driveway from the forest to my planted flower gardens. And Red Efts (the terrestrial immature form of the Eastern or Red-spotted Newt) can often be found wandering around on the gravel following rainstorms when everything is wet.

Snakes, birds, and mammals regularly make use of the driveway. We’ve watched copperheads and rat snakes poking their faces down into the spaces between the rocks as if seriously searching for something.

Unfortunately, I do not know what.

Brown Thrashers enjoy taking dust baths whenever a bigenough area somehow becomes pebble-less. We now try to maintain such an area close enough to the house to enjoy the goings-on.

And foxes used to be seen crossing the driveway at dusk.

Unfortunately, both the Red and the Gray Fox have virtually disappeared from my area. The proof is evident by the noticeable increase in Eastern Cottontail Rabbits. (I believe the foxes have been extirpated, along with the coyotes I used to hear.)

But returning to my driveway garden, as my absolute favorite color is red, I was thrilled when numerous Hairy Bedstraw (Galium pilosum) plants showed up there. This wasn’t an easy plant to identify, however. My Peterson guide to wildflowers doesn’t include it.

The Newcomb guide contains this plant, but it tells us the bloom color ranges from greenish white to purple. The plants in my driveway are a true red (luckily for me!), which is an unusual turn of events in my experience.

I’ve purchased many plants that were supposed to have red blooms but ended up being various shades of pinkish purple.

As a result, you would think that purple was my favorite color when you look around my yard. (The lesson to be learned is that you should never take the color of plant blossoms on faith—buy your plants when they are blooming, if possible.)

So it’s rather amazing that red isn’t mentioned for Hairy Bedstraw, yet my plants are— for once—the color I adore.

Mind you, this is a tiny flower, but it’s absolutely lovely in close-up—as are many of the driveway plants.

Bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum), American Penneyroyal (Hedeoma pulegioides), and Bluets (Houstonia caerulea) are best viewed with a hand lens.

Another favorite of mine is Venus’ Looking-glass (Specularia perfoliata). The enchanting name makes me think of fairy tales, and the small purple blooms are pretty, but the heart-shaped leaves that

The lovely-but-tiny red flowers of the Hairy Bedstraw (Galium pilosum) are best appreciated with a hand lens.

(Photo: Marlene A. Condon)

clasp the stem are what really capture my fancy. It’s in the Lobelia Family, so many of its larger “cousins” are well known cultivated plants.

Venus’ Looking-glass is described in field guides as a plant of “sterile fields, clearings,” while Hairy Bedstraw is said to be a plant of dry woods and thickets.

While these details do not exactly match the characteristics of my driveway garden, those of St. Andrew’s Cross (Ascyrum hypericoides) hits the nail on the head: “dry sandy or rocky soil.”

St. Andrew’s Cross is in the St. Johnswort Family, but it has such flattened yellow flowers that the first time I saw one of these plants (in a wilderness area), I couldn’t imagine what it was. I didn’t manage to identify it from field guide drawings that gave the impression that it was an upright plant when it actually grows more as a dense, discretely mounded ground cover.

But once it showed up in the driveway, familiarity facilitated recognition.

The wildflowers in my driveway garden share the trait of growing well among small rocks surrounded by precious little soil for root growth or moisture retention. They are truly plants of great stamina that can even manage to obtain enough nutrients to be healthy even though they haven’t much access to organic matter. They are plants to be admired, really.

Yet I’ve noticed there can be a bias in wildflower field guides when it comes to how the location of these plants is described.

When the plants are native, the places where they tend to be found are usually described simply in terms of the physical characteristics of the site (dry, fields). But sometimes, when the plants are not native to our area, the places you will find them are described more in terms of human opinion of the plant’s non-native origin rather than in a straightforward characterization of the site.

For example, Garlic Mustard (Alliaria officinalis), an alien species of which I have very few even though it’s considered by many people to be a serious “invader,” includes the term “waste places” in its Peterson guide write-up, as does the alien Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) and Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). This site description is rarely found, if it’s found at all, for native plants.

Of course, many alien species do tend to be found in areas degraded by human activities, such as along railroad tracks, roadsides (current and historical), hiking trails, and within former or still active cow fields.

They are therefore quite commonly seen because they are able to take advantage of destroyed soil profiles of compacted dirt containing little organic matter. They keep the ground productive (i.e., they provide habitat for wildlife) that bare dirt can never do.

Over four dozen species of plants comprise my driveway garden, with a bit less than 50 percent of them non-native.

Many of these driveway plant species are not found anywhere else in my yard, not only because they obviously prefer dry, rather nutrient-poor soil, but because they are so small that they could easily be crowded out by much larger plants—whether those plants are native or non-native.

It’s a fact of life that there’s always this push-and-pull within the plant world. The plants that are best suited to a site persist, although they, too, will be replaced over time as conditions change.

Even my driveway garden changes from year to year, depending upon whether new gravel is added or new soil builds up among the rocks. It’s a classroom of sorts, one that provides beauty along with an education.

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Old Fashioned Becomes New! Improved!

I stand in my garden contemplating a shrub that I put in the ground a year and a half ago.

It’s looking very happy, about three feet wide and 18 inches high…except for some odd sprouts that poke up and double the overall height.

Such is gardening with abelias.

An old-fashioned shrub that your grandma might have planted near her front porch, abelias have recently enjoyed a resurgence in popularity.

Exciting new colors and more compact size have lured gardeners seeking alternatives to green meatballs.

Abelias are one of those convenient genera with the same scientific and common names, and a pronounceable one to boot. They are members of the Caprifoliaceae family, relatives of the honeysuckles and weigelas. The thirty-odd species of abelias hail primarily from eastern Asia, with a few native to Mexico. Shrubs that range from 3 to 20 feet tall, abelias may be deciduous, semi-evergreen or totally evergreen, depending on the variety and climate.

Abelia chinensis could be considered the granddaddy/ grandma of the abelias commonly grown in the eastern U.S. A shrub that reaches about six feet by six feet, it is probably the most fragrant of the abelias.

Butterfly-attracting flowers appear from late spring until frost in such great abundance that the branches appear to weep. A possible downside to chinese abelia: deciduous foliage, in an era when folks worship at the altar of the evergreen plant. Notwithstanding, it has been bred extensively, yielding

the very popular Abelia xgrandiflora, or glossy abelia.

Compared to its parent Chinese abelia, glossy abelia has the advantage of being evergreen or nearly so. Average ultimate size is listed as being about 6’ by 6’, but a whopper of a plant has been reported as being 18’ by 20’ at seventy years old.

Like most of this genus, glossy abelia has a delicate, twiggy appearance. Inch-long leaves are indeed a glossy green and turn burgundy or russet in the fall and winter. Flowers are about ¾” long, slightly fragrant and can bloom from June into November. When the actual flower has fallen, the rosy-colored sepals underneath persist for months and provide additional color. All in all, a worthy shrub, but it might be hard to find the “regular” glossy abelia anymore.

Dozens of cultivars have come along in the past couple of decades featuring variegated foliage and reduced size. A caveat: many are particularly seductive sitting in the container at the garden center, but may have “issues” after they’ve been in your garden for a while.

Foremost among these is the tendency to send up vigorous

Abelia chinensis flower

Abelia chinensis

shoots that give the plant an odd two-tiered appearance. If these shoots have solid green leaves instead of the variegated ones on the main plant, they must be pruned out or most of the plant will eventually end up green. If they retain the color you originally bought, it’s your call on pruning them. In addition to the tendency to throw up odd shoots, some of the newer cultivars are not totally evergreen.

I currently have two known abelia cultivars in my garden, as well as another whose tag has gone temporarily missing.

Among the known plants is ‘Kaleidoscope’, now about two feet across and 18” high. As of this moment, no wild shoots have appeared, but probably it’s too soon to tell. The foliage has a green center, with a bright yellow/gold edge. In cold weather, the plant becomes even more colorful with the green portion turning rose-red. I’ve seen these planted in a mass in full sun, and to my taste they’re almost too bright on a sunny day. Ours is in partial afternoon shade where it can light up a dark corner. Showing very good heat tolerance, this is a good selection for the South.

Our other abelia with a known identity is ‘Radiance’, with dark green leaf centers surrounded by cream or yellow borders.

It’s similar to ‘Kaleidoscope’, but much more subtle. Of our four ‘Radiance’ plants, two have put out some longer pokey-up shoots, and I just pruned one. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few months. Both ‘Radiance’ and ‘Kaleidoscope’ are one of several dwarf (or compact) abelias that have come

to market in the last few years, and apparently some are not entirely comfortable with that size classification.

Our “mystery” abelia is probably ‘Rose Creek’, yet another allegedly compact plant, sporting distinctive pink-white flowers. Ours is already throwing up long wild shoots, but these long vertical stems are also putting out side branches, so the plants may look somewhat less gangly in a few weeks. Supposedly maturing at 3’-4’ by 3’-4’, woody plant expert Michael Dirr reported that one six-year old plant was already 5’ by 6’.

Thus far, I have not pruned any of these three plants.

And what about pruning abelias? Since they flower on new wood of the current season, they can be pruned early in the spring and will still flower that year. If you have an abelia that has gotten out of hand, you can rejuvenate it by cutting it back almost to the ground in spring.

Abelias can also be tightly “meatballed” or even pruned as a hedge, but this will then put you on a maintenance treadmill.

Abelias are not particular regarding growing conditions.

Acid, well-drained moist soil is best, but they will tolerate drought once established. Full sun to partial shade is ideal.

They will grow in total shade, but will be less dense and have fewer flowers.

The old-fashioned abelias still do have their place in the landscape, and the new improved ones offer some exciting alternatives. With the latter, just temper your enthusiasm and be prepared for some surprises. And stay tuned for a pruning update in the fall.

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Dr. Reiser invited me to write a column about opening my own family medicine office in Crozet in a new model known as Direct Primary Care. He didn’t know that he was part of my decision to make this change.

I first heard of Direct Primary Care (DPC) a year and a half ago, at a family medicine conference at Wintergreen. I sat spellbound as the speaker described a new way to provide primary care that achieved the holy grail of medical practice: decreased cost, improved quality, and increased patient satisfaction.

The foundational element of DPC is an enduring and trusting relationship between a patient and his or her doctor. In DPC, the system of unwanted fee-for-service incentives (“do more tests and procedures, bill higher charges”) is replaced with a simple, flat monthly fee for a patient’s primary care. In this model, medical insurance is used the way insurance is meant to be used—for unexpected, potentially financially catastrophic events. Just as we have auto insurance to cover us in case of a crash that totals our car, we need medical insurance to pay if our child breaks his leg or needs stitches near his eye (both of which have been required in my family in the past couple years). Just as we don’t need our auto insurance to cover oil changes, we don’t need insurance for primary care— routine, expected services that can be obtained very affordably if practices don’t have the 40 percent insurance overhead (for every dollar that comes into an insurance-based practice, forty cents is spent paying the admin-

istrative costs of bringing in that dollar). Cut out the insurance middleman for primary care, and you can make primary care much more affordable, and also make medical insurance more affordable, since insurance will need to be used only rarely.

Listening to DPC being described that day was the only time I’ve been at a medical conference that I have ever wanted to stand up and cheer. Over the following months, I made the decision to open my own DPC practice, a move that a small but rapidly growing number of doctors around the country are making.

How can paying a monthly fee for your primary care lower your costs? If you are a small business owner or employee, or if you have ever had to purchase insurance on your own, you understand how incredibly expensive it can be. Here is an example: a healthy couple in their early 60s is paying $1,100 a month (yes, a month!) for their insurance that has a $6000 deductible (meaning they pay the first $6,000 before the insurance company starts paying), which they have never met in ten years. Twenty-four percent of all Americans now have high-deductible plans where they are paying the first $1,300$6,550 out of pocket. These plans can work great if you are a member of a DPC practice, but if you are obtaining care in the typical insurance-based system, they work . . . not so great.

In my last few years in insurance-based practice, I encountered more and more patients who were avoiding coming to the doctor because they were spending thousands of dollars a year on insurance that they then could not afford to actually use.

Those that would come in

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It’s a very moist individual chocolate cake, with the fluffiest of white icings between two layers and each is a single serving.

In the eastern part of the state and elsewhere, people call them ‘whoopie pies,’ but I only know them as gobs.

I once found them in a rural country store in western Pennsylvania while en route to a

family reunion. I bought all 60 of them. Big hit at the party, and they thought I baked them.

Suffice to say that I got this 1950s recipe from an aunt who got it from her neighbor, Mrs. Mauranno. Auntie wrote the recipe on the back of a piece of paper upon which she had already written: June 27, 1967 - Susan Kohlar has my permission to swim today.

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Double Vision Margie Shepherd is a woman of many facets. Teacher, artist, traveler, activist, and her newest gig: published author. On the evening of May 10, 40 friends, colleagues, and former students crowded into Over the Moon Bookstore to hear Shepherd read funny and poignant stories aloud from her recently published memoir, Double Vision. In the tradition of Booth Tarkington and Edna Ferber, Shepherd’s collection of homespun family stories takes us back to her relatively idyllic childhood in the Crozet-sized town of Valhalla, New York, 30 miles north of New York City, during the 1950s and ’60s.

Written in a plain, straightforward style, her nostalgic tales— some several pages long, others half page vignettes—of big Sunday feasts, drive-in movies, hitchhiking, drug experimentation, and skinny dipping will ring a bell with readers of a certain age, while the hijinks of her seven brothers and two sisters and her memories of being a young adult in a bygone Charlottesville hold universal appeal.

Margaret Walsh was

second-to-youngest of ten children of an organ-playing, vegetable-gardening FBI agent whose primary responsibilities involved investigating organized crime and the Mafia in the New York area. Her mother was primarily a homemaker, but later taught elementary school.

Several of the stories feature the effect her father’s profession had on the family. When her brother answered a phone caller’s request to speak to Bill Walsh with “this is Bill Walsh,” the caller replied, “I’m going to kill you.”

“Hold on,” Bill said calmly.

“You must want to speak to my father.”

When no one would admit hitting a baseball through an upstairs window, her father brought out paper and an ink pad and lined everyone up. “By the time he got to whoever was the guilty party, he had his confession.”

Shepherd loved the stories her father would tell at Sunday dinner, and so did his friend, the poet Billy Collins, who often joined them. When the FBI tried to transfer the family to Pittsburgh, her father wrote an appeal to J. Edgar Hoover explaining the difficulty of relocating the cow they maintained to provide milk for his ten children. Hoover granted his request to stay in Valhalla, although in point of fact there never was any cow.

“I’ve always been a storyteller,” Shepherd noted. “I used them in my teaching and my public life. I started writing them down for my four daughters while I was still working. I would get up at 5:30 a.m. to write before school.”

Many of our readers will remember Shepherd as a beloved teacher of English, geography, civics/economics, and humanities at Henley Middle School, where she taught for 25 years

until her retirement in 2011.

She also organized the annual Geography Bee, ran the Peace

by Piece program that raised funds for student-selected charities, and led self-designed language immersion trips to Guatemala for students and teachers.

Her book relates her experiences attending elementary and high school at School of the Holy Child Jesus, college years at Mary Washington—where she majored in studio art—and graduate school in education at U.Va. Along the way she taught at Oakland School (a residential school for the learning disabled in Boyd Tavern), was active in the Albemarle Education Association, and became a National Board Certified teacher.

Friends in her writing group encouraged Shepherd to revise and publish the stories. After some research she settled on Lulu.com, a self-publishing service that prints, markets, and sells the book for you. The book’s title stems from the fact that Shepherd herself suffered from double vision throughout her childhood, discovering this only at age 32 while testing other students. The title also

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well as wild caught tuna harvesting. According to a Formosa spokesperson, the local communities needed to consider whether they valued marine life or foreign investment. With TPP, Vietnamese (and Malaysia) seafood exports to the U.S. will soar, whether contaminated or not. * * * Regarding asparagus, one topic in last month’s column, I recently spoke to a thirty-something woman who had grown up in Kalispell, Montana,

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Margie Shepherd signing books at Over the Moon May 10.

alludes to the fact that she is re-visiting, re-envisioning these stories a second time after having lived them long ago.

Shepherd’s future plans include collecting stories about teaching and raising her children as well an art project she has in the works.

She encourages everyone to write down their stories.

“Everybody has them. Write them down for your family to remember—you won’t be here forever.” For a trip back to a simpler time—when young children could wander the streets of New York safely, and kids made money by bagging groceries or selling lemonade— visit www.lulu.com to order a copy.

nearby to Glacier National Park.

She spoke of gathering wild asparagus in the spring. It was abundant and in some areas almost invasive. “No one ever thought of going to the store to buy it,” she recalled. My husband then remembered that his father had told him of he and his siblings competing to find asparagus in the spring.

Whoever brought in asparagus first was rewarded with a quarter. Asparagus hunters make mental note of the location of browned fronds in fall and winter and then seek the emerging stalks in spring. Finding wild asparagus must be as exciting as finding morels.

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Parking Improvements Coming Soon to Crozet Park

By Kim Guenther In partnership with Albemarle County, Claudius Crozet Park will break ground on new parking spaces starting July 5. The project, funded via the County’s FY16 and FY17 Capital Improvement Program (CIP), supports the park’s ongoing effort to complete the top capital improvement priorities as identified in a community-wide survey conducted in May 2014. In the survey, respondents were asked to identify and prioritize capital improvements for the park.

Of all the park’s many improvements, both completed and planned, parking was identified as the number one un-met need.

Anyone who has been to the park, especially in the spring and summer, can attest to the many parking challenges. Park usage continues to increase, especially as new amenities—the dog park and perimeter trail—are added, resulting in less-than-adequate parking areas. To put this in context, traffic volume coming into the community-owned 22-acre Crozet Park is second only to the county’s Darden Towe Park, a 113-acre park in Charlottesville.

Crozet Park benefits from the County’s CIP process for some infrastructure improvements along with seasonal mainte-

nance of its grounds by Albemarle County Parks and Recreation (ACPR). In return, Crozet Park provides ACPR with much needed field space to meet the county’s current and growing demand for athletic fields.

The parking project has several goals: to increase parking spaces, with most of the new spaces located in front of the facility; to re-pave and line existing parking spaces; and to improve lighting and directional signs.

Another key goal is to increase pedestrian safety in front of the facility.

The most noticeable change will be to close the current traffic flow between the upper playground and summer swim entrance. This area has long been a safety concern as people enter and exit the pool and playground while cars are coming through the area.

The new traffic pattern will bring cars to the south of the upper playground and then curve around to the back of the facility by the basketball courts. Overflow event parking will continue to take place on the basketball courts and the grassy areas along the main park’s exit and around the pond. The area between the playground and summer swim entrance will change to pedestrian use only.

To increase park security, cameras will be

installed in various locations, along with gates, at each of the three entrances/exits.

The park’s Board of Directors will hold a small ceremony at the park on Thursday, June 16 at 7 p.m. to dedicate the main entry gate to the late Carroll Conley for his many years of community service. Additionally, the park’s secondary exit, long known by many as “Perkins” gate, will be formally dedicated to Jo Ann Perkins and her late husband Walter. All are welcome to attend.

The parking project is scheduled to start following the weekend’s Fourth celebration and conclude just prior to the start of the fall Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival May 8 and 9. The initial construction will focus on the area directly across from the main fitness facility entrance, and includes developing new parking spaces, adding curbs, bumper blocks, and ADA-compliant parking/offload areas and adding lighting conduit. The project’s later stages include paving and lining all other existing parking areas, installing light poles and fixtures and final landscaping.

The Park Board, County and the YMCA will be working closely to minimize disruption to park users by communicating changes as they occur and clearly marking available parking during the project.

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Warriors Baseball Has Red Hot, Phenomenal Late-Season Surge

by Jerry Reid jerry@crozetgazette.com A while back the Western Albemarle Warriors were looking for clues to success on the field, but they have now found that elusive “zone” where all nine cylinders are firing.

Warriors are riding an amazing roll keyed on lights-out pitching, opportunistic hitting and improved defense. Their epiphany obviously arrived just in time.

Below .500 in Jefferson District play and overall, WAHS was on a four-game losing skid, struggling in every way possible.

During that span, they were outscored 34-8. Their last win was a 4-0 victory against Louisa April 14. Sophomore lefthander Derek Domecq shut down the Lions with just two hits, while the Warriors maximized their seven hits to seal the deal.

But before their 180 turnaround, storm after storm with drenching rain played havoc

with schedules of all outdoors sports in the area. After 12 days without any action, the Warriors lost one more time in the regular season, falling 8-3 to Powhatan.

Shortstop Chris Hughes, brother of coach Ryan Hughes, is a sparkplug, a Crozet Crazy in the stands at basketball and football, and playing his final year as a baseball Warrior. His passion for the game is obvious, and he was somewhat stumped by his team’s downturn.

Sitting in the dugout at home after an earlier rainout, Hughes was thoughtful about his team, and very concerned with their lack of hitting, particularly with baserunners being stranded.

“We’re just trying to relax and have fun—and get back to the basics of baseball. Our pitchers are starting to settle in like we expected them to do. It’s mainly been our hitting that we need to come around on. We’ve left a lot of people on base, a lot of people in scoring position. We need to capitalize on our opportuni-

Warriors Coach Skip Hudgins

Matthew Mandell lays down one of two perfect bunts

ties and push runs across the plate when they need to be,” he stated firmly.

“We’d been a little unlucky this season. We had games where we’ve hit the ball right at somebody, but we should be playing our best baseball near the end of the season,” Hughes recalled, adding “we’re trying to get hot at the right moment; really get hot going into the playoffs.” Most teams lose good players to graduation. Western lost some really top-notch, hard-to-replace players with big hitting shoes.

“I feel like people were having a little sense of panic when we got off to a little bit of a rough start. They were trying too hard, forgetting that it’s just baseball and you’ve got to have fun, go out and just trust yourself . . . just play baseball and do what you do best and they can get the job done,” Hughes said.

“I try to just keep everybody focused and keep everybody excited, and just keep the main goal at hand, which is to go as far as you can and win a state championship,” he concluded.

Coach Skip Hudgins and his squad commenced to “go far” as sophomore Luke Tenuta threw a one-hit, complete game 12-0 shutout at Charlottesville on May 16. The Warriors then followed up with a 6-0 shutout,

one-hit complete game by senior Sam Hearn against Monticello. He carried a no-no into the last inning of this game.

Next was the Conference 29 quarter-finals, and sophomore lefty Domecq got the call, scattered 6 hits and went the distance in another shutout performance. In the conference semi-finals, the Warriors relinquished a single unearned run to opponent Turner Ashby, losing 1-0. Hearn again shone brightly with a complete game two-hit effort.

Next up was nemesis Fluvanna, winners over WAHS twice in district play. Getting their shot at making the regionals, the Warriors exacted revenge with a 3-0 complete game shutout, and a no-hitter to boot by Domecq. Five games with only one run scored against you is the very meaning of “being in the zone.”

They did it again at Monday’s scheduled regional championship opening game against Fort Defiance at their place. The Warriors played the role of unruly guest, scoring twice but more importantly holding Fort Defiance scoreless behind pitcher Sam Hearn for their fifth shutout out of their last six games. They were slated to play Rustburg at their place last continued on page 40

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WAHS Rowing Wins Gold and Bronze at National Championship

By Brooke Correll

JIM SHANNON

The senior Western Albemarle High School Women’s Quad won the Scholastic Rowing Association of America National Championship Regatta Saturday May 28 on Dillon Lake in Nashport, Ohio, capturing their third medal in as many weeks. The foursome of

Emily Barlow, Carrie Smith, Emmy Thacker and Maggie Vidal also won the Virginia State Championship May 14 and silvered at the Stotesbury Cup May 21, the largest high school regatta and second largest regatta in the nation. The 2016 Stotesbury Cup Regatta drew more than 5600 athletes, in 984 boats, from 191 schools across the country.

JIM SHANNON

2016 SRAA National Champions, WAHS #1 Women’s Quad (clockwise from bottom left): Emmy Thacker, Emily Barlow, Maggie Vidal and Carrie Smith

2016 SRAA Bronze Medalists, WAHS Rowing #2 Women’s Quad, Jordan Neuman (l), Hannah Carter, Clare O’Connell and Leah Gillespie

The SRAA was formed to foster school rowing and to stage an annual regatta open to all schools of the world, the winner recognized as North American Champion. The first regatta was conducted in May of 1935 and has been held every year since.

WAHS Women’s Junior Quad, consisting of Jordan

Neuman, Hannah Carter, Clare O’Connell and Leah Gillespie, brought home the Bronze Medal from a separate race in the same SRAA National Championship Regatta.

In June, team captain Barlow signed a national letter of intent to row at Division 1 Bucknell University.

By Cherie Witt & Alyce Outlaw

CHERIE WITT

The Western girls track team finished runner up at the 3A West Regional Meet on May 27-28. The girls were a mere 7 points behind the winning team, Blacksburg.

The pole vaulters had an outstanding day, taking the top three places with Sarah Tolman in first. Madison Masloff was second and Katrina Barredo was third.

Zoe Clay continued a strong season by finishing second in both the 800 and the 1600 meter events. She also ran the

anchor leg in the second place 4x800 team with Faith Reid, Caroline McGahren and Grace Rainey.

Caroline Outlaw won the 300 meter hurdles and set a new school record of 48.08. Faith Reid finished fourth.

The 4x400 team also placed second with Outlaw on the lead-off leg, followed by Reid, Caroline Koester, and Masloff.

The 4x100 team of Anna Harris, Outlaw, Nichole Heon and Deborah Ayres-Brown finished fourth and earned a trip to the state meet.

Alyssa Santoro Adajian fin-

Caroline Outlaw and Faith Reid celebrate with coaches William Tillery and Marie Whitten after they went first and fourth in the 300m hurdles.

CHERIE WITT

Girls Track and Field Regional Runner-Up; Teams Head to States

Back row: Alyssa Santoro Adajian, Zoe Clay, Anna Harris, Deborah Ayres-Brown, Faith Reid, Caroline Outlaw. Front: Caroline McGahren.

ished fourth in the 1600 meter and senior Nayiri Krysztofowicz, finished sixth in the 3200 meter.

Heon also placed sixth in the long jump.

The boys team had a number of strong performances, starting with Jackson Smith claiming third place in the pole vault.

The 4x800 team of Trevor Stutzman, Jack Ehlenberger, Will Koester and Gannon Willcutts took second place on

Friday evening.

Willcutts also won the 800 meter event and was on the sixth place 4x400 team along with Jay Adams, Corey Sims, and Will Koester.

Stuttzman won third place in the 3200 meter and Davis Greene also took third in the 1600 meter.

The teams will compete at the state meet in Harrisonburg June 3-4.

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WAHS Lacrosse, Soccer Are Post-Season Proud

By David Wagner david@crozetgazette.com In recent years both boys and girls soccer and lacrosse have enjoyed plenty of success.

Things haven’t changed much.

All four teams claimed conference championships and advanced to the regional playoffs.

On May 16 the varsity boys Soccer team hosted Monticello High School for Senior Night.

Looking to make amends for a 2-2 tie earlier in the season, the Class of 2016 took the bull by the horns and led the Warriors to a convincing 8-0 win over the Mustangs. All eight goals were scored by seniors, with Aidan Sinclair leading the way, notching three goals. Mark Ferguson scored twice, including a 25-yard free kick bender over the wall and Dylan Cooke, Santi Campos-Lopez and Jake Paulson scored once each.

Western carried that momentum into the conference playoffs, winning three consecutive games to claim the title while only allowing one goal over that span. They ousted Fort Defiance in the first game, 4-1, behind four more senior goals (Will Thomas 2, Sinclair 1 and Carrington Murphy 1) and cruised to the title.

The Warriors faced Christiansburg in the first round of the regional playoffs on Tuesday, May 31, that was too late for this edition of the Gazette.

In boys lacrosse, the Warriors

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Tuesday night.

During this hot stretch, senior Henry Kreieinbaum set the record for career hits at 111 in the Monticello game, surpassing Bryan Lescanec’s 2004 mark. He also tied the record for triples with his 12th at Charlottesville. And capping a happy year, he was tabbed as a “preferred walk-on” at James

also carried Senior Night momentum into the playoffs, securing a huge 11-6 win over the Albemarle Patriots. Seniors Carter Elliot, Luke Reilly, Oliver Herndon and Jackson Sours led the Warriors. Elliot and Reilly each scored three goals, Herndon scored one goal with two assists and Sours had 14 saves in goal.

Sophomore John Carr Haden scored four goals. The Warriors cruised through the conference playoffs, beating Fluvanna 16-1 and Charlottesville 21-10.

In the first round of the regional playoffs Western hosted Midlothian. After falling behind 3-0 early in the game, the Warriors rallied with four straight goals to end the first quarter leading 4-3. Haden, Ryan Albee and James Buetow scored in the second quarter to give Western a 7-4 lead at the half and they won going away, 13-6.

In the regional semi-finals the Warriors traveled to Salem on Memorial Day. Salem beat the Warriors at Western in the season opener (10-9 in O.T.) but it was a different story this day. Western defeated Salem on their home turf, 19-4.

Western traveled on Thursday, June 2 versus an undetermined opponent at the time of this printing.

Girls soccer made quick work of conference playoff opponents as well. After struggling to score through the first 60 minutes of their opening round match-up with Fort Defiance, sophomore Abigail Zimmerman scored Madison University, with all the possibilities that could bring.

Pitching wasn’t the only thing making this late surge happen, as hits were falling in for Domecq, Hearn and Tenuta, along with Hughes, Sam James, Ryan Sukovich, and Matt Mandell. In the Fluvanna game, Mandell produced two beautiful bunts, one that moved runners up and another that scored a run. Plus, the defense settled down and started making more plays.

twice in three minutes (the first of those two on a header of a corner kick from Cameron Hucek) to give Western the 2-0 win. The Warriors then beat Fluvanna 6-0 in the semis before beating Broadway in the championship game 3-0 on goals by sophomores Katrine Berg, Caitlin Harvey and junior Ava Coles.

On Memorial Day they hosted Staunton River in the first round of the 3A West Regionals and grounded the Eagles 6-0. The Warriors scored three goals in the first five minutes of the game and made easy work of the Eagles. Harvey scored two goals and had two assists and Elizabeth Fabiano, Julia Berg, Shannon Moore and Zimmerman all scored once.

This win set the Warriors up for a big showdown with Blacksburg High School in the region semi-finals. Blacksburg beat the Warriors last year 1-0 in the state finals and the winner of this game will most likely make a run to the championship game again this year. That game was played on Wednesday, June 1 and was too late for this edition.

Girls lacrosse also carried Senior Night momentum through the playoffs.

The Warriors hosted CHS May 10 and blew the Black Knights out 15-1.

Junior Hanna Schuler scored five goals, senior Sammie Magargee had two goals and four assists, senior Kate Snyder had two goals, senior Hannah Curry had one goal and two assists and sophomore Kira Repich had two goals. Western faced CHS

again in the conference semi-finals and won 14-1. It was a total team effort, with 12 different Warriors scoring goals.

In the conference finals Western faced Monticello in a highly contested match-up. The Warriors came away with a triple overtime, 15-14 win that wasn’t easy. After Western took a 9-3 lead in the first half, Monticello came storming back. The Mustangs scored six consecutive goals to tie the game at 9-9. Monticello’s Summer Larese scored all but the first of those six goals and proceeded to score back-toback-to-back goals later in the second half to tie the game at 12-12 after Western took a 12-9 lead. In the end, Magargee won the draw control to start the third overtime, racing all the way to the goal to win the game in dramatic fashion for the Warriors. Repich scored five goals, oneassist and Magargee ended up with three goals and two assists for the game. Schuler scored threegoals also.

That catapulted Western into a regional playoff game at home against the Hanover Hawks.

Western won impressively, 16-4. Margargee again had a big day with four goals, one assist; Repich three goals, two assists; Snyder three goals, one assist; Hannah Plantz, two goals, two assists; Schuler two goals, one assist; and sophomore Anne Patterson scored twice.

The Hanover win advanced Western to the region semi-finals where they hosted Hidden Valley in Crozet on May 31, too late for this edition.

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furniture-making. He worked as a cabinetmaker before going into law enforcement. He also likes taking his HarleyDavidson motorcycle out on local roads and he has a travel agenda that will likely take him around the country.

For his part, Lantz said, “I love it here.” His wife teaches at Monticello High School and his daughter also works for the county. His entertainment is “being outside, hunting and fishing and hiking.”

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approachable. It’s not every day that a chief can retire and hand over the organization with no worries. I will sleep well in June.

No more pagers going off in the middle of the night.”

Sellers said he’s staying put in Crozet. “I came here to retire. I built my house here.”

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Henley’s Erin Meier Travels Abroad with Virginia Olympic Development Soccer Team

By Rebecca Schmitz becca@crozetgazette.com Henley Middle School eighth-grader Erin Meier’s athletic skills have taken her from the soccer fields of Virginia to the stadiums of Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary. Meier, one of only 18 girls from the state of Virginia chosen to be part of the international roster for the 2002 Girls Olympic Development Program (ODP), played six games against foreign teams on an 11-day trip at the end of March. Her team, made up of girls born in 2002, was one of four—two boys teams and two girls teams—to make the trip, which involved a 13-hour plane flight. They were accompanied by two coaches, a trainer, a sports psychologist, and a parent chaperone.

“It was a thousand times more than I thought it would be, not just in terms of the soccer experience, but the cultural experience,” Meier said. She said she and her teammates enjoyed exploring the cities they visited and soaking in local customs. “During our free time we were allowed to explore in groups of four. We went to the markets and bought souvenirs.

We took tours, and we walked around.” They learned the exchange rates for the Euro and the Turkish lira. They also loved trying new foods and checking out the local grocery stores, and were especially fond of “Kinder eggs”—chocolate eggs with a small toy inside—that are banned in the United States (but nonetheless determined to be delicious by the team).

Though many of the people she encountered didn’t speak English, Erin found them to be friendly. “The people were all really nice. They really wanted to learn why we were there. It was so interesting meeting them!” Meier said they were warned about pickpockets at some of the Hungarian markets, but luckily did not experience any first-hand.

Another benefit of the trip was the bond she developed with her teammates, whom she usually sees only once a week at

ODP practices held December through March. “We all got super close, which was really fun,” she said. The Virginia ODP Team also befriended some of the girls on the teams from other countries, particularly the girls from Niederösterreich Select, an Austrian team, with whom they still keep in touch over social media.

For the girls, one of the most thrilling parts of playing internationally was before their games, when they got to walk into “real” locker rooms and see their jerseys and soccer “kits” laid out for them, much the way professional soccer players do.

They also enjoyed playing in actual stadiums with soaring bleachers and scoreboards. The girls won two games, tied one, and lost three. Meier said with a laugh that some of the teams they played “were much more aggressive, much more physical” than the teams they usually played in the United States.

“They were tougher, bigger, and stronger.” In some of the settings the refs and players did not speak very much English, so the U.S. teams had to rely on hand gestures and the common language of the game played around the world.

Meier has soccer in her blood. Her father, Eric, played soccer for Virginia Tech and then played semi-pro. Her sister Kella, a freshman, is on Western’s JV soccer team. Erin started playing soccer at age 5 in SOCA’s Hot Shots program, and has continued playing for the past eight years for SOCA. This year, she tried out for the 2002 Virginia ODP team in November. Sixty girls make up the 2002 ODP roster, and Erin was one of 18 players selected for the international trip (According to their website, the ODP’s mission is to identify players of the highest caliber and prepare them to compete for U.S. national teams in the international arena.)

The Virginia ODP takes teams on an international trip each year, but not all age groups get to go.

The 2002 girls team will have another opportunity to go in

Erin Meier

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Although Meier’s life is filled with soccer practices and games

for both her club and ODP teams, she is also involved with the National Jr. Honor Society and model U.N. at Henley.

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design remained essentially unchanged.

He displayed Charlottesville projects of similar density that were approved by the city and called the highway buffer “unique.”

The project will have “no significant traffic impact” on Rt. 250 he said, according to a study commissioned by the project.

VDOT’s planning rule estimates that each single-family detached house generates 10 vehicle trips per day and uses a lower factor for townhouses, resulting in a daily traffic count of 720 trips in this case.

Redinger said the project is expected to add just 27 students to local schools and that his project has the virtue of “balancing densities” with parcels in eastern Crozet that went with by-right plans, which avoid rezoning processes and proffers, but resulted building in less than their maximum potential units.

More argued that the 2010 Crozet Master Plan revision was about pulling density away from Rt. 250 and stressed that the recommend density was 3 to 6, not necessarily 6. More said that at the time of the 2010 revision Crozet citizens were presented with a choice between a larger area of lower density and a smaller area with 3 to 6 density, neither optimal, and the public went for the smaller area.

Cory Farm resident Steve Wadsworth said his neighborhood is not against any development of the parcel but against the density proposed. He said residents already have a hard time getting on to Rt. 250 during the peak school travel times.

He noted that the eventual creation of “eastern avenue” which will connect Cory Farm to Park Ridge Drive and downtown Crozet promises to greatly increase traffic in that part of Rt. 250.

He described Adelaide’s impact as making the situation “doubly worse” and “a huge safety factor we are concerned with.”

CCAC member John Savage presented the commission with a resolution opposing the density sought that was passed by the CCAC after three meetings with Redinger.

“Even the revised density is too high and should be lowered,” Savage said. He said the CCAC had two primary concerns with the project, traffic safety on Rt. 250 and the density, which he cited page numbers and language in the Crozet Master Plan to document.

Cory Farm resident Kevin Rumsey said as he read the master plan, Adelaide’s original layout “in no way conforms with it.”

He said the proposed density does not conform with what Cory Farm residents thought was possible on the parcels. “I really disagree with the ‘favorable’ factors. I don’t think it’s consistent with the master plan.

Cory Farm has no sidewalks. There is no way to walk to schools. Our points have not been refuted. They have been ignored. I

Adelaide’s location on Route 250 near Cory Farm

notice Mr. Redinger has dropped his use of the term ‘urban’. He really wants to pack them in. I don’t think it’s appropriate.”

Another neighbor said, “I moved to [Cory Farm] for the privacy we have. This neighborhood is turning into something I didn’t think was envisioned for it. There are no sidewalks and highway speeds are too fast.

Recently retired planning commissioner Tom Loach said that the argument about “balancing density” perpetuates a myth about the population target for Crozet, which the original master plan in 2004 set at 12,500. He said that in each of Redinger’s three meetings with the CCAC Redinger presented “very little change in his plan.”

“Since 2003 we have had the principle of keeping development off Rt. 250,” Loach said. “Last week a proposal to extend water lines across the road was turned down. We have master plans for a good reason. If our documents are not good, what will you tell the [county advisory] committees about whether their master plans are worth the paper they’re written on?”

Morgan Butler, a lawyer with the Southern Environmental Law Center in Charlottesville, said a project must meet the goals of the plan and that more should be done to protect the status of Rt. 250 as an official state scenic highway. He called for a wider landscape buffer of 100 feet with no existing trees disturbed.

“I appreciate the comments from Crozet,” said Redinger in response. “We’ve responded to everything in some fashion. We’ve spent a lot of time with county planning staff.” He stressed the addition of affordable units to the market, saying “We’ve gone above and beyond comparable developments.”

When the time for action came, More made a motion to deny rezoning, citing

page numbers in the Crozet Master Plan detailing the principle of keeping development off the highway and faulted the county planning staff’s report for “neglecting the language in the Crozet Master Plan.”

Planning staffer Megan Yaniglos answered, “We have a different interpretation.”

Echols said she thinks the landscape buffer addresses the issue of the highway’s scenic byway status.

More said the plan’s language “speaks to [Adelaide] coming in at the lower end of the density range.”

Commissioner Daphne Spain challenged the idea that that stretch of Rt. 250 might be more dangerous than other similar sections of the road and DiNunzio said that the highway’s design is a more important determinant of the speeds people travel at than the posted speed limits. He said that investigation showed that traffic is at the 85th percentile of speed, which is 45 mph.

He said the road has 9,100 trips per day in that section.

More answered that highway speed was the “number one concern of the CCAC.” Commissioner Mary Riley said, “The question is how to manage highway speeds, not to reduce the density of development.”

More also noted that other pending Crozet developments, such as The Vue and West Glen just west of downtown, are also offering affordable units and she called for an accounting of the units already offered and how many have been built. She said a county list showed that “Five out of ten affordable units” slated to be built in the county are in Crozet.

She made a motion to reject the rezoning on the basis that it was not compatible with the master plan, citing plan page numbers 7, 21 and 37. Lafferty seconded the motion.

CROZETgazette Commissioner Bruce Dotson said, “All of us see the master plans as essential. What tends to happen is many pages and maps that are bound to have contradictions. I think a map is more concrete and specific than the text. . . . I think reasonable compromises have been made.”

More said, “A density at the low range would be compatible with the plan. I make my motion based on what’s before us.”

Lafferty said the past policy of the county and the plan has been to stress density in downtown Crozet and that to vote against the motion “is against the Crozet Master plan and the County’s Comprehensive Plan and sets a dangerous precedent and we set up a dangerous situation on Rt. 250.”

When the vote was called, the motion failed 2-5 and a responding motion to approve passed 5-2. Bruce Dotson, speaking for Aye voters, said neither safety concerns nor the master plan were not being overlooked in the project.

The Commission’s vote was discussed a week later at the CCAC meeting. More told the CCAC that the majority of the commissioners had felt “that a map designation in the plan trumps the language of the plan” and that they also judged “Adelaide as less dense and allowing for a transition.”

“The idea I wanted to get across is that we are not no-no-no to everything. We could support a plan that had a lower density.”

JUNE 2016 “If all developments are at the high end of their possible density range, what’s our population? “ asked CCAC member Dean Eliason. No one could predict the answer.

“Did our resolution get discussed?” asked Martin Violette.

“No,” said More.

“I don’t understand why we have ranges, if the range is always taken as the high end,” observed Mary Gallo, a veteran member who has been active in master plan development. She said it reminded her of the Old Trail rezoning, in which density was granted at the high end of the range.

White Hall Supervisor Ann Mallek suggested that the CCAC revise its resolution.

“It’s worth it. The supervisors still have an interpretation to make beyond the staff’s and the planning commission’s. We’ll have to pick up the ball and do it for ourselves. The advisory committee is appointed by the Board. We need to respect it.”

Savage agreed. “I think we should express ourselves to the Board.”

“Rt. 250 and Rt. 240 are Entrance Corridors [which require special treatment] and that needs to be stressed,” said Bill Schrader, a former CCAC member.

“We need to revise the resolution and be more persuasive,” said Mike Kunkel, a recent appointment to the committee.

“We do recognize the map,” asserted More.

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In the late 70s she moved to Pinellas Park Florida, where she stayed until her passing. She loved the beach, the warmer climate and beauty of the Gulf coast.

She is survived by one sister, two nieces, her former husband, three children, 14 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

June was a creative, hard working individual who loved deeply and cared for those she

loved. She will be greatly missed. She was and is a believer of Jesus and his redeeming grace.

June will be laid to rest at Jonesboro cemetery facing the beautiful mountains she called home. She always said she was coming home. Well, she finally made it and is planning to stay this time.

Lois Tibbs Moyer “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away” (Revelation 21:4). Lois Tibbs Moyer, 93, entered eternal life on May 5, 2016. She was born on February 23, 1923, in Tazewell, Virginia. She lived in Crozet most of her life where she was a lifetime member of the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad, and was one of the first dispatchers. She was also a member of the ladies auxiliary of the Western Albemarle Fire Department. In the latter years of her life she lived in the Meadows in Crozet, where she made many friends, attended church, and many gospel concerts. She was a generous, loving, supportive, and unselfish woman who always put others before herself. Her grandchildren used to joke that she was the “Queen.” She cared deeply for everyone whether you were a family member, friend, or a member of her community. She had the kindest heart and always kept close with family every day.

She was a person so filled with light; everyone knew her and everyone loved her. She loved to whistle and dress up for any occasion, even if that meant sitting in the house. Her favorite restaurant was Cracker Barrel and she also loved to shop there.

She loved John Cena, WWE. She regularly kept up with any sport that was on television. She also loved to crochet and she made beautiful blankets.

Preceded in death by her husband, James “Billy” Moyer. She is survived by her children continued on page 45

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would bear the high cost of an insurance-inflated price for both the visit and labs, a price that, ironically, the insurance company then “discounts” and does not actually pay itself. A 15-minute visit for a sore throat could cost $150. Basic labs could cost $100-$300 or more, each. For a patient with diabetes who is seen every three months, with basic blood work, these costs for a year could equal at least $600 for visits plus $1,030 for labs—again paid by the person with the high-deductible plan, not by the insurance company.

Most DPC practices keep their monthly rates less than $100 (ours are $15-$60, depending on age), and offer discounted lab pricing (most of our common labs are less than $10 each). So that patient with diabetes seen in our DPC practice would end up spending $720 for as many visits as she needed during the year plus $55 for labs—a cost savings of $855 or more per year.

For insurance plans that are not high-deductible, monthly premiums and co-pay amounts are increasing, sometimes to levels where the co-pay is higher than our monthly fee! In the current system, at least a quarter of Americans are left without good, affordable options for healthcare (which is not the same thing as health insurance).

Direct Primary Care has spread by a grassroots effort of family doctors across the country, tired of waiting for the system to fix itself, who have figured out a better way and are helping each other to make it a reality.

My first week in my new practice, a patient asked me if anything about it had surprised me. It was so early on that I didn’t really know yet—but

JUNE 2016 now, five months in, I can say that the thing that has surprised me most is how many people have sought out the practice who have traditional (not high-deductible) insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. These people are paying $15-$60 a month to be my patients—why?

The short answer is that the current system isn’t working for them. The individual reasons are varied, but the reason that DPC is different can be summed up in one word: time.

In the DPC model, I have time to schedule longer visits, see patients with urgent concerns the same day, start appointments on time, look at the patient instead of the computer, answer the office phone myself, give my cell phone number to all patients, call patients to check on them, and make home visits. This is the kind of family doctor I always wanted to be.

Which brings me back to Dr. Reiser’s unknowing involvement in my decision to switch to this model of practice. In April 2015, in the Crozet Gazette, he published a column titled A Letter to a Young Physician. I remember exactly where I was when I first read these words of his about being a doctor: “What we do, if we do it right, is sacred.”

For me, the practice of medicine is a calling, and I realized I was no longer doing the work of my calling, but was instead doing the work of the insurance companies. The sacred space of the exam room had gotten so crowded with insurance restrictions, medical coders and billers, and computer scribes, that I could hardly see the patient any more. Now, when I sit down in the room with the patient and close the door behind us, the rest of the world falls away and all I am thinking about is how I can help the person in front of me. That’s the way medicine is meant to be.

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by Mary Mikalson

Solution on page 47

Batter Up! ACROSS

DOWN

1 Ball thrower 4 Referee 5 Mitten’s cousin 7 Ballpark entree 9 _____ pen 10 Single 11 Strike _____ 13 Opposite of win 15 Baseball jewel 17 A cold one for a

hot summer day 19 4 balls 20 Tricky pitch

1 Cake of tobacco 2 Best plate 3 What a Babe!

6 Type of fastener 8 Three strikes 10 Hardhat 12 Good slide 14 One of 13 on

the American flag 15 A famous Dean 16 On _____ 18 Fastball striker

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Bold Rock —continued from page 20

robustly. We’re unique in being the sixth largest cidery and being locally owned. Our main markets are Virginia and North Carolina. Angry Orchard is out main competitor in our region.

“But this is our core market and we want to maintain strong loyalty in our hometown. These outposts are feathers in our cap to be visible in the community.

We’re excited to be part of Crozet and the direction it’s heading. It’s cool for us. We want to be deeply involved in Crozet.”

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David Moyer and wife (Donna) and her daughter Carolyn Fletcher and husband (Michael); two sisters Betty Longerbeam and Laura May Gore; five grandchildren Pam, Melissa, Elizabeth, Davey, and Jamie; and many great grandchildren and great great grandchildren; and her very best

friend Lottie. She has touched the lives of so many people and even though she is gone her memory will live on in our hearts forever. Her spirit has not left us, everyone who was ever touched by her should have faith that she will be watching over you. A memorial service was held at Mountain Plain Baptist Church located in Crozet, Va. on May 11, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. with Dr.. Sam Kellum officiating.

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Cville Municipal Band Performs at WAHS

The 80-member Charlottesville Municipal Band will open its 94th Summer Season of free concerts at the Western Albemarle High School auditorium on Tuesday, June 7, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Music Director Steve Layman has programmed performances by flutist Maggie Archer, winner of the 2016 James W, Simmons Solo Competition and Dr. Genevieve Murphy Scholarship, and The Fluvanna Community Singers, under the direction of Horace Scruggs, and a percussion section feature.

Assistant Conductor Charles Torian will direct four selections including two from the classical repertoire: “Golliwogs Cakewalk” and “Sleeper’s Wake.”

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is nothing” as well as a scout’s duty to God and country, to helping others and to keeping himself “physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight”— and it also traced the positive symbolism of the eagle since ancient civilizations.

The first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong, was an Eagle Scout.

Assistant scoutmaster Mark Adams teasingly said Petrell “has been a role model as a first aid victim” and also gave him credit for “keeping the largest first aid kit known to man” as well as a portable box of spices for cooking in camp.

Adams called him and “expert latrine builder” and noted his “habit of standing up in canoes.”

Petrell’s dad Vince put his new blue

directly in front of the auditorium and there is plenty of free parking.

There will be a musical instrument petting zoo for the younger members of the audience in front of the stage from 7:15 until 7:30.

JUNE 5

Orchestra Concert

The upcoming Crozet Community Orchestra concert will be performed on Sunday June 5, at 4 p.m. at Crozet Baptist Church, directed by Philip Clark.

Admission is free.

The program includes well-known marches arranged for full orchestra and Vivaldi’s Concerto in C with Nancy Garlick on solo sopranino recorder.

The CCO will sponsor a joint clarinet and violin recital on Saturday, May 14, at 4 p.m. at Crozet Baptist Church. The CCO’s first clarinetist, Julia Klein, and violinist Bethany Reitsma will perform separately and together with piano accompaniment by Linda Blondel and Margaret Belanus. The recital is open to the general public and free of charge.

Eagle Scout handkerchief on him and in turn Petrell put small Eagle Scout pins on his parent’s lapels.

He thanked assistant scoutmaster Eddie Hoffman for helping him achieve the rank, and also Crozet Volunteer Fire Department Chief Preston Gentry and Innisfree Village leaders Carolyn Ohle and Jeanmarie Badar for their help with his project.

Petrell’s project involved building fitness stations on a trail at Innisfree Village, a rural residential facility for assisting the intellectually disabled north of Crozet, and for address signs marking its buildings so as to help emergency vehicles that must come to the location.

Petrell said First Aid was his favorite merit badge—he intends to go into medicine—and his least liked was personal management, which focuses on personal finance and budgeting.

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Artifacts, photos, maps and books about the mountain families and SNP will be on display until June 27.

The ABRHP had a booth at the Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival in May, and enjoyed meeting and talking with many attendees.

The committee is still seeking names of all families who lived on Albemarle County land now within SNP boundar-

ies, especially tenants, as their names do not appear on land records. Anyone aware of family names can contact Paul Cantrell at aftonbcrozet@gmail.com.

Check out the Project’s Facebook site (serach Blue Ridge Heritage Project) for more information and progress reports, and for ways to make tax-exempt donations to help meet the Project’s financial goal of $25,000. Checks can be made out to Blue Ridge Heritage Project— Albemarle, and mailed to P.O. Box 88, White Hall, VA 22987.

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and judgment. Your name can be lost from the Book of Life if you don’t repent. We’re doomed without the Lord’s mercy. We have no defense.

“Take it from me, I’m easy to distract from focus. The icon helps you focus.”

There are only two other Orthodox churches in the region, a Greek Orthodox Church in Charlottesville and a Russian Orthodox Church in Harrisonburg. St. Nicholas averages about 75 worshipers on Sundays, with lots of kids and seniors, reflecting growth trends in Crozet, Fr. Holet said.

Half the congregation is converts.

Fr. Holet said he is planning a penance service for July 15, the date of the Great Schism between the Eastern [Orthodox] and western [Catholic] churches in 1054 and would like it to be an ecumenical event that brings congregations to greater appreciation for each other.

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