INSIDE FIREWORKS FUND page 4 STOP IT page 6 MORE ON ROUND UP page 10 FAMILY ALBUMS page 11 CYMATICS FANATICS page 13
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Grid Plan Favored for Barnes Lumber Development
ARTISAN DEPOT page 14 WYNOTT FARM page 16 THEN & NOW page 18 LAWN CARE pages 22 TALLY HO! page 23 POTATO SALAD page 24
Duncan Robertson at work on a new mural facing the Starr Hill Brewery Tasting Room on Route 240 in Crozet.
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Starr Hill Brewery Adds to Crozet’s Murals
NEED TO KNOW page 26 INNATE BEAUTY page 28 MINDSET MATTERS page 29 RUN-OFF page 32 LATIN TALK page 33 PROSTATES page 34 CROSSWORD page 35 THE TALE OF TOM page 37 DISTURBED SOIL page 38 PARK HISTORY page 39 NO CIGARS page 42
Richmond-based artist Duncan Robertson spent two weeks in June painting a mural depicting mountain musicians on a large blank wall across from Starr Hill Brewery in Crozet, dramatically adding to Crozet’s wealth of big wall art. The painting was a project of the Charlottesville Mural Project, which produces two murals a year, and the New City Arts Initiative, and part of a summer mural painting series called Poetry and Painting that aims to incorporate poetry into murals. Project director Ross McDermott helped Robertson, who did the
design, with the initial blocking out of the image. Robertson has done other murals, but this is the largest, roughly 40 long and 35 feet high, and the first to be outdoors. During June, Starr Hill’s Cheers for Charity program, which gives $1 from every pint of beer sold in the tasting room to a charitable cause, donated to the Charlottesville Mural Project. The mural shows a train leaving Claudius Crozet’s 1858 tunnel, a panorama of Blue Ridge Mountain landscape, and two musicians, a fiddle player (Robertson’s wife Shannon continued on page 42
The Downtown Crozet Initiative held its follow-up meeting June 11 at Crozet Elementary School to get public reaction to three preliminary plans for the development of the former Barnes Lumber Company property in downtown Crozet. The plans, which were meant to demonstrate conceptual options, were the product of a well-attended meeting May 27 when developer Frank Stoner asked Crozetians to describe what they thought should happen on the property. Stoner is one of five co-owners of the parcels in Crozet New Town Associates LLC and his development services company, Milestone Partners, is handling the nuts and bolts of their development. “We opened this up to the public and said this needs to be a public-private partnership,” said Stoner. “Without that, I don’t think we can be successful, but with it, I think we can.” Stoner estimated the cost to create a public space in the property at $2 million and warned that the cost of it would raise the price of new commercial space to unaffordable levels for tenants or lot buyers. “If the developer has to bear all the costs of the continued on page 20
Albemarle Looks at New Fee or Tax to Fund Stream Protection Albemarle County officials are weighing two alternatives for funding water clean-up measures that are mandated by state government to help save the Chesapeake Bay. One option would create service districts with varying tax rates that would add to property owners’ real estate tax bills, county water resources manager Greg Harper told the Crozet
Community Advisory Committee at its meeting June 17. The other idea is a storm water utility fee that would be based on the amount of a property’s impervious surface. “Since 2013, the rules are more stringent,” said Harper, “and meeting them is more costly. The state now requires a remediation plan and continued on page 30
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From the Editor The Vision of the People Last year about this time, Barnes lumberyard developer Frank Stoner, who was feeling bucked by the Crozet Community Advisory Council (as it was then called), asked the CCAC to express just what it was the community desired would happen on the property. The CCAC went into three additional late-night meetings that June debating whether they were getting their words right. They gave him their report and that was the last anything came of it. We want a downtown that’s got a proud heart beat and that’s got a fair chance. There’s more to that than just whatever happens on Barnes. But with some imagination, with some prudent attention to whatever plan comes forward, we can help downtown’s likelihood of real success. We expect downtown to be the town’s cultural/commercial center and to have a nugget of businesses, at least, that pack some jobs. Yes, we could stand a
deeper inventory of apartments. There’s a donut circle of neighborhoods within a half-mile walk of the lumberyard. It’s a sure pedestrian destination if the design is handled smartly. This year the public came out—its representatives on the CCAC not being sufficient—at two mass meetings in local schools and the people of Crozet spoke up for the vision of the downtown articulated in the Master Plan, again. There, they say anew, is our enduring will and statement. We know about the road confinement problems caused by the railroad—that’s old news in Crozet—and the traffic questions that those pose for the lumberyard acres. Those are best solved with intelligent circulation possibilities and that means parallel streets in some kind of blocks. Landscaped areas along avenues will surely pay off. Given the site’s higher calling to a cultural duty, a shady plaza/ park area is a necessity. These vital elements should be a given in any plan that asks for a rezoning to get the lumberyard inside the downtown zoning district. continued on page 15
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Dear Crozet Friends and Neighbors: We are writing again this year to ask for your enthusiastic support of our small town tradition—our annual Crozet Independence Day parade, celebration, and fireworks show on Sunday, July 5. The fun starts with a parade down Crozet Avenue starting at 5 p.m. Again this year, the Richmond Shrine Club’s minicars will join the parade with their entertaining precision driving down Crozet Avenue! The lifetime members of the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department will serve as the parade’s Grand Marshals this year. Any one 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 to watch the annual “grudge match” game between the Peachtree League coaches and the Crozet volunteer firemen. They’ll 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. They’ll also be great music by the local band, LockJaw, as well as traditional Fourth of July fare, including pork barbeque, hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn, and sno cones, as well as vegetarian and vegan choices, tacos, smoothies, and other favorites such as pizza and fruit smoothies. Local beer and cider will be available for you to enjoy 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: CrozetCommunity.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 and we’ll provide designated smoking areas and ask that you only smoke in those areas. If you live near by Crozet Park, we encourage you to walk! 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, Downtown Crozet Association, 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 outcontinued on page 6
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side 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. We hope you’ll join us by sending a donation today to help with these expenses. You can donate online at: crozetcommunity. org/2015/05/cidc2015/ #Donate, or send a check payable to the Downtown Crozet Association and mail it to: DCA, P.O. Box 863, Crozet, VA 22932 and note on the memo line “fireworks donation.” The DCA is a 503(c)3 non-profit organization and your donation is fully tax-deductible. Please give as generously as you can, so that our entire community can enjoy this patriotic tradition. In addition to helping to defer the cost of the fireworks and the event, your donation will help support CVFD and other civic groups in Crozet. On behalf of the Crozet Independence Day Celebration (CIDC) planning team, thank
you for your support. We look forward to see you on Sunday July 5! Sincerely, Tim F. Jost Tolson Chair, CIDC Planning Team President, Crozet Community Association CrozetCommunity@gmail.com CrozetCommunity.org Dear Crozet Gazette, I am writing you under the most unfortunate of circumstances. I write on behalf of the very large number of us who are feeling very hurt and helpless right now and need a platform on which to start a meaningful conversation. Just since this summer break started I have, in my very own circle of friends, stood by as numerous acts of racism occurred in our little town. The first was in the form of a message that went out to an entire neighborhood. In short terms, it was a red flag that was raised merely because an AfricanAmerican solicitor (with visible identification), had set foot on the individual’s front door, knocked, and rang the doorbell.
So the police were called! The police were called!! I am thankful to say that this “red flag” was not well received by many in the neighborhood as was evident by the ensuing firestorm that quickly spread across social networks and the “word-of-mouth-effect” of Crozet. Many kind, sorrowful, and outraged neighbors came to the sides of the AfricanAmerican families in their neighborhood. Families who became, in an instant, unsure of not only their acceptance, but also their safety. Who in the world can blame them? Five minutes of watching today’s news immediately imprints into one’s mind what AfricanAmericans are facing in this country: discrimination, terror, and uncertainty not seen in a generation! Unfortunately there also came a sense of denial of the situation. A desire to focus more on the solicitation factor (as a licensed solicitor is what the person ended up being), or the “what if ’s” of the insinuations of the email sent. A desire to add grey to the black and white (no pun intended) situation at
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hand. The situation being the irrevocable effects that so few words had on the AfricanAmerican families on the receiving end of this email, and in the community at large. The situation that, regardless of intent, people—no, NEIGHBORS— had been made to fear for their own safety, merely for the color of their skin. What era are we in again? This was all before one of my best friends became a target in yet another incident. He’s a friend who is a loving husband, a first-time father to a one-yearold, a man who works tirelessly and selflessly for his family, and a friend who has put his very own life and safety at risk to come to my aid before. This man was walking home from the park one recent afternoon, alone with his child, and all of a sudden found himself on the receiving end of malicious taunting. Stone cold, repeated taunting of words that should never be repeated. Words that have been banned from any civil person’s mouth years ago. And after the words came threats. When my friend turned to the continued on page 8
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offenders, he was faced with unapologetic laughter and sneers. All this taking place in a seemingly progressive, densely populated, close-knit, kidfriendly neighborhood, by a young PUNK (for lack of a better word), as his young punk friends stood by. Imagine my horror. Imagine theirs. This was the first time this little family had ever been directly faced with racism, and it was in their neighborhood and safe haven. It pains me to say that these aren’t the only instances of discrimination and racism that I have witnessed literally (and solely) just in the past month. The others were in a professional setting (that’s right, this town’s own businesses) so I must refrain. But I can assure you, it is just as outrage worthy. So here I am, doing all I can think of for these families, my friends, who are wondering if they are safe in Crozet. We need something to confront this growing elephant in the room. With all that’s going on in this country and now in our community, the silence has become deafening. How can we console the hurt circulating our community? Something has got to give, because I refuse to believe that the town I grew up in and am
raising my children in has regressed to the point where we are prepared to accept this as our new reality. I cannot accept that the only thing that can be done is to send sorrowful emails to the next family or individual that has to face this. I don’t know what the answer is other than to bring a spotlight to the issue, as SO many Crozetians have said they want to do. I do know, though, that as far as my family and I go, I am done being quiet about it. I ask each parent in the community to talk to each other and more importantly, talk to their kids. Tell them that they have a responsibility to their community to be sure that ALL of their friends feel safe, happy, and equal. To sternly and swiftly hold accountable those who feel differently, and let those people know that THEY are the minority now. They are the ones that Crozet and the world have no room for. And then I ask you to follow the words you have spoken. Claire Fisher Crozet Members, Neighbors & Friends Last week a YMCA member was verbally assaulted with racial epithets by another member on Claudius Crozet Park property. The YMCA and the Park Board are actively investi-
gating the incident. Clearly, behavior like this will not be tolerated. The consequences of such behavior may result in revoking YMCA membership and banning from Park premises. The YMCA and the Crozet Park Board of Directors are united in re-affirming the core values that both organizations share: • Caring: to show a sincere concern for others, for their needs and well-being. • Honesty: to be truthful in what you say and do. • Respect: to follow the golden rule. • Responsibility: to do what is right, be accountable for your promises and actions. Enjoying Claudius Crozet Park is a privilege, not a right. The Park is more than green and open space, ball fields and fitness facilities. When we weave these values into our day-to-day interactions at the Park, it builds a sense of belonging, family and community. Let’s all work to make sure our Park is exactly what it is meant to be: a fun, safe and respectful environment for all who visit. Kim Guenther, President Board of Directors Claudius Crozet Park Jessica Maslaney, Chief Executive Officer Piedmont Family YMCA
No Place for Non-native Species We write to express our dismay upon reading the piece by Marlene A. Cordon in your June 2015 issue. The article contains much misinformation about invasive plants and their impact upon native plants and ecosystems. We will address some of these: 1. Re: daffodils as “invasive.” Daffodils are not at all considered invasive. They do naturalize, but do not spread appreciably in natural areas and are not found on any invasive plant lists of which we are aware. Often, along roadsides, one can see areas where daffodil bulbs were planted and then multiplied. They are not deleted from invasive plant lists because they are “pretty,” though some invasive plants are considered by some to be “pretty.” 2. Re: “...usually non-native plants fill an area only after it has been left barren because of an altered soil profile...” One of the richest habitats in our area is along rivers in flood plains. Along the Rivanna River, there is an area considered one of the richest for spring ephemeral wildflowers in Albemarle County. It is infested with Garlic Mustard growing in the very rich soil in the flood plain. Garlic Mustard roots secrete a poison that affects soil fungi, which in turn has a negative impact on most plant species. continued on page 10
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We both see it in the rich soil of many wooded areas. 3. Invasive plants are “...also supporting our wildlife...” Dr. Doug Tallamy is a recognized expert in native plants that support native insects including caterpillars, which in turn provide essential protein for nearly all baby birds and many adult birds. These caterpillars are adapted to eat plants native to the area in which they live, and rarely are able to eat nonnatives (that’s why non-native plants are considered to be “pest-free”—yes, pest free because the caterpillars that feed native birds cannot feed on them.) Non-native shrubs also tend to have a somewhat different architecture than native shrubs, which can mean that birds that nest in shrubs may not be as well protected from predators if they are nesting in non-natives. 4. Example: Japanese knotweed. This plant often grows profusely along stream banks in rich soil and shades and crowds out native vegetation. It can survive some flooding and rapidly colonize stream banks. It is not good at holding soil in place and, by preventing native vegetation from growing, vegetation that can help hold soil in place, it leaves stream banks more subject to erosion. 5. It is good to be concerned about herbicides, but most conservationists consider their judicious use to be part of the armamentarium needed to control the worst invasive plants. There is no place for invasive non-native species in our landscape. Please do not encourage their use.
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Nancy Vehrs President, Virginia Native Plant Society Ruth Douglas Invasive Species Educator Boyce, Virginia How to Help a Veteran If you’ve wanted to honor a wounded soldier and help him/ her regain some freedom, here is a perfect project. The ladies of the Albemarle Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution are sponsoring the project “Back on Track.” We are raising funds to
buy two Trackchairs to be awarded to Virginia military veterans, who have served our country. They’ve made the full commitment to protect our freedoms and in the process suffered life-changing injuries. The Trackchair is a mobilized machine on a triangular shaped track that can travel up and down hills, onto a beach, into the woods and over any uneven terrain. They can even go into water up to the battery pack. This chair can take the veteran anywhere a wheelchair can’t go. Our hope is to give a new life and excitement to the soldier, who is currently denied these everyday pleasures. This will enable and give them the ability to go fishing, hunting, play golf, work in the yard, travel in wooded areas and attend children’s athletic events. If you’d like to join with us, make out your check to Albemarle Chapter, NSDAR and send it to Albemarle Chapter, P.O. Box 191, Ivy, Va. 22945. One hundred percent of funds raised will go towards the purchase of Trackchairs. Albemarle Chapter, NSDAR is a 501(c)3 organization and your donation is fully tax deductible. We thank you for helping in this very worthy project. Carroll White Mary Ann Doucette Service for Veterans Albemarle Chapter, NSDAR On Roundup Thank you for your recent articles regarding the dangers of Roundup/glyphosate. I wish you would do a thorough article explaining why the World Health Organization has declared glyphosate to be a probable cause of cancer. The recently published book, The Myths of Safe Pesticides by Andre Leu (Acres, USA, 2014. ISBN print edition: 97860173-084-8) summarizes and documents recent, peer-reviewed scientific studies of commonly used pesticides including Roundup. Here is some of the information: 1. Studies link Roundup to a range of health problems such as cancer, placental cell damage, miscarriages, stillbirths, endocrine disruption, and damage to continued on page 15
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Local History The most logical place to learn about local history just might be your family’s old photo album. History is local, you know. Moreover, what is history but a record of a people? So, who are some of the people in your family album and what were they up to? What can their photographic record teach us about our community’s history? How can their lives help us relate to national and world history? Through the years, Secrets of the Blue Ridge has been blessed with opportunities to take “guided tours” through a number of private family photo collections. Visual treasures abound, many of which have not been viewed outside of the owners’ families. A generation may have passed since some of these collections have seen the light of day. Aside from the occasional local personality, recognizable to many through association with a business or trade, most were like many of us: under-the-radar common folk, working for an honest living, greasing the wheel that squeaked loudest, striving to get by. It is from these varied resources that our stories come forth. In his 1922 memoir From Saddle to City, Rev. D. Gregory Claiborne Butts, who ministered in the western Albemarle area from
Frances Lelia Walker Hill (1919–2011) relaxed in the side yard of her Crozet bungalow on the corner of Carter and McComb Streets. The view over her shoulder revealed the Carter-Herbert Cold Storage and sundry rear additions that were razed in 1978. [Photo courtesy Walker-Hill family album]
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Did the proud Mom who snapped this c.1962 photo of Scouts marching in Crozet’s 4th of July parade give any thought that she was freezing a moment in time of downtown signage and architecture? [Photo courtesy James family album]
1895–1898, shared vignettes of his “fifty years service in the Itinerancy.” In his Preface, he made the following statement: “If the story brings out on canvas the names of men and women whom the world never knew, and so had no chance to forget, the object of the writing is attained.” Secrets of the Blue Ridge strives to embrace Rev. Butts’ sentiments in that respect. In a pinch of photos from a Mechum’s River family was an image of Roland “Buck” Hicks posed with his hand on a World War II bomber dubbed the “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” He was one of many who once walked among us and who mercifully returned home from that conflict, and he reminds us of the great sacrifices made by that generation. African American farmer Henry Rogers looked straight into the camera as he held firmly to a mule and horse belonging to Ernest Gilbert of Jarman’s Gap. His grandmother Julie was born in 1827 as enslaved property of that mountain gap’s namesake. She received her freedom at the close of the Civil War. Travelers passing through old
Jarman’s Gap knew Henry’s mother Anna, born in 1879, for her delicious homecooked meals and her hospitality. The Gentry family of Crozet documented their 1926 camping trip to Albemarle County’s storied Sugar Hollow. Page after page of neatly captioned photos celebrated their grand excursion into the wilds: the setting up of camp, group meals under the chow tent, reading, hiking to waterfalls and exploring chimney ruins, and obligatory group photos atop Goose Egg Rock. Frances Walker Hill was photographed seated, relaxed and smiling, in the side yard of her modest Crozet “bungalow,” as she preferred to call it. Immediately to her right but out of view was the embankment supporting the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, its cinders, dust and rumble an ingrained part of her life since the day of her birth. Another photo in her collection showed proud and admiring family members surrounding her following the 1938 graduation exercises from Albemarle [County] Training School (the county’s sole institution for high school classes for African Americans), the continued on page 8
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beautiful young Frances clad in her high school graduation gown. As a professional housekeeper for much of her adult life, she stayed throughout the week at her work place, returning home on weekends to catch up on her own week’s-worth of work, to be in church on Sunday, and then back to her “other” home-away-from-home to be in place and ready when Monday morning dawned. Hugh Strickler was a friend to many in the western Albemarle area, a coveted employee at the lumber company in Crozet, trusted deacon and Sunday School teacher at his church, and a member of Crozet’s Volunteer Fire Company. He was one who raced on foot from his job when smoke and flames were spotted coming from the town’s movie theater, and one of two men who first entered that building to fight the conflagration before being forced back outside and onto the roof of the adjacent six-story cold storage facility. The fire company saved the theater’s exterior from total destruction and, after a lengthy complete interior renovation, the shows went on.
Roland Cecil “Buck” Hicks (1913–1980) enlisted in the Army a week before his 29th birthday in 1942. His kin around Mechum’s River Depot were gratified to receive this wartime photo before his eventual return home in December 1945. [Photo courtesy Hicks family album]
Three generations of the Via and Strickler families rested at an overlook during an outing on the Blue Ridge Parkway. [Photo courtesy Via-Strickler family album]
Hugh’s family photos included local orchard and packing shed workers performing their seasonal work, as well as that extended family relaxing and enjoying one another’s company in the evenings and on a Sunday afternoon. Pleasant photographic surprises discovered in other albums have included steam engines threshing wheat, horsedrawn wagons transporting barrels of apples or being used in the orchard as a platform for sorting and grading baskets of fruit. A rider on horseback watched a local blacksmith change a tire on an early auto-
mobile, juxtaposing those two competing modes of transportation. All ages of persons can be seen at railroad depots, some posing for photos with groups of friends, others waiting with grip in hand for the next train. Tall water funnels could be seen mounted trackside to replenish the steam locomotives. General store porches and loading platforms were common gathering places in the neighborhood. Vintage storefront signage recalled earlier days when a lone business attempted to serve its immediate area with groceries, animal
Henry William Rogers (1897–1973) was born near Jarman’s Gap. He cared for and worked this spirited pair for Ernest and Alta Gilbert in their Yockey-Gilbert Orchard on the Blue Ridge slopes. [Photo courtesy Gilbert family album]
feeds, barter opportunities, mail order access, and U.S. Postal needs. The albums included photos of uniformed soldiers representing various branches of the military service during eras stretching from the American Civil War of the 1860s to the Korean War in the early 1950s. Photos were sent home showing barracks life, off-base trips into town, and buddies, hopefully for life, posed with their arms around their comrades’ shoulders. History can be better understood when viewed through a local lens. Every family album contains precious, one-of-akind pieces of the story. What treasures wait to be re-discovered in yours?
“Daddy just after his snooze,” stated the caption in an album dedicated to a summer 1926 camping trip at Sugar Hollow. [Photo courtesy Gentry family album]
Follow Secrets of the Blue Ridge on Facebook! Phil James invites contact from those who would share recollections and old photographs of life along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Albemarle County. You may respond to him through his website: www.SecretsoftheBlueRidge.com or at P.O. Box 88, White Hall, VA 22987. Secrets of the Blue Ridge © 2003–2015 Phil James
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Brownsville’s Destination Imagination Team Wins Globals By Rebecca Schmitz becca@crozetgazette.com Brownsville Elementary’s fifth grade “Cymatics Fanatics” Destination Imagination team—Rachel Walker, Elke Beaumont, Jackson Duvas, Ellie Boitnott, Grace Boitnott, Lucas Farmer, and Sophie Lanahan— returned home from the global competition in Nashville in May with a first place trophy, beating out 85 other teams from 17 countries in the scientific challenge portion of the competition. They are the only team from Albemarle County ever to win the global competition. Although they competed at the elementary school level, their score was higher than the scores of the 70 teams competing at the middle school level and higher than many high school team scores as well. Mary Dettman, gifted resource teacher at Brownsville, says the months of hard work the team put into their challenge showed. “While many students were using snow days
to rest, sled, or make snow forts, these team members were trying to write choreography and lyrics for their songs. Others were trying to figure out how to make sound waves move grains of sand and sticky substances. Their hard work has paid off.” The team practiced 1-2 times per week for 2-3 hours at a time for nine months. The students and their parents, led by team managers Rich Boitnott, Sue Brown, and Holly Walker, worked throughout April and May to raise money for their trip to Tennessee. They hosted several successful fundraisers, including a pasta dinner and pancake breakfast. Brownsville’s PTO also chipped in for some of the cost. The team had worked together before. “All but one child returned from last year and for two of the team members it was their third year on a DI team,” Boitnott said. “But from the beginning it was obvious to me that these kids knew how to do DI and they had the juice to go all the way!”
The Brownsville DI Team gets psyched to go into the Instant Challenge at Globals! L-R: Jackson Douvas, Grace Boitnott, Sophie Lanahan, Elke Beaumont, Lucas Farmer, Ellie Boitnott, Rachel Walker (Photo courtesy Mindy Beaumont)
The Cymatics Fanatics were challenged to create and build a sound machine that could make two different sounds and make sound waves (cymatics) visible. They presented their work as part of a skit called “You’ve Been Spooked,” based on an imaginary game show whose hosts try to scare an unsuspecting family out of a house as quickly as possible. With enthu-
siasm, creativity, and humor, the team demonstrated that their scriptwriting and acting skills were just as strong as their scientific knowledge. They not only wrote and acted in the skit, but also designed the set pieces and props entirely by themselves. They wrote new lyrics for popular songs like “Thriller” and The Munsters’ theme continued on page 31
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Crozet Artisans Reopen in the Depot A partnership of Crozet-area artisans that opened a shop in “the purple house” in the Olde Town Shops downtown last fall and then lost the lease after Christmas has reopened their business across the street in the Crozet depot. The county-owned building has been vacant since Crozet Library moved to its new building in September 2013. The artisans have a five-year lease from the county, agreed to by the Supervisors in June, with an option to renew. Both parties may also terminate the lease following a 90-day notice period. The artisans will get about 1,100 square feet in the 1923 train station, about two-thirds of the area the library occupied, and the remaining third will be filled by the Albemarle Tourism and Adventure Center, a project of the Charlottesville Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau. A workroom on the east end of the depot remains in the possession of the county. The county cleaned the space but otherwise made no alter-
From left, Crozet Artisan partners Fred Levering, Jennifer Paxton, Karen Yonowitz, and Kathleen Mistry. Not pictured are partners Ben Greenberg, Edward Pelton and Gillian Ruffa
ations. The former library check-out counter is back doing similar duty. “We want to make a presence for artists who live in this area,” said Kathleen Mistry, the spokeswoman for the group. “This will be a home for us and it gives the artisan community identity. It fits with tourism, too. “We’ve been incredibly supported by the artisans and the community and the county,”
she said. “The county has been very nice to work with and so has the Visitor’s Bureau. Everyone wants to help and I think it’s something the community wants.” The Adventure Center will open in mid-July and besides providing information for tourists who might be visiting local wineries and breweries, will stress the area’s outdoor offerings for hikers, trail runners,
cyclists, and anglers. It will have video monitors and be designed around high-tech features. The depot is a “trail site” on the Artisan Trail Network and because of the tourism center there will be signs on Interstate 64 and local major roads that point the way to the depot. The county will also install signs on the depot itself. Two partners from the artisans’ earlier group remain in the new one. The store will feature the work of about 30 artisans and offerings will include jewelry, pottery, paintings, photography, dulcimers, wooden furniture (and things such as bowls and cutting boards), baskets, fiber items, blacksmith products, and books, as well as other locally made items such as goat milk soap and CDs by local musicians. The store will be open every day to be available for tourists. Partners will staff the store, along with some help from the artisans whose work is for sale. The Adventure Center will also be staffed. The hours will be Sundays through Tuesdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. and
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To improve the prospect of things on the east end of the yard, the developer posits a new tunnel, just for cars, under the tracks. A second underpass in front of the firehouse is ideally desirable, but it is implausible, and likely not worth the expense. The public would be smarter to fund a bridge over Lickinghole Creek to tie east Crozet to Rt. 250 at Cory Farm. In transportation matters, the developer thinks of something less costly to him than grid streets, and he thinks that public space ought to be developed at public expense. He takes these features as undue and avoidable burdens on profits
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various organs such as the kidney and liver. Roundup is not usually tested for the toxic cocktail of ingredients that make it effective as an herbicide. These “inerts” such as ammonium sulfate, benzisothiazolone, glycerine, osobutane, isopropylamine, polyethoxylated alkylamines, polyethoxylated talowamine POE-15, and sorbic acid make Roundup more toxic than glyphosate alone. 2. The developing fetus and young children are at special risk. The 2010 U.S. President’s Cancer Panel Annual Report found, “Cancer incidence in U. S. children under 20 years of age has increased. …Leukemia rates are consistently elevated among children who grow up on farms, among children whose parents used pesticides in the home or garden, and among children of pesticide applicators. 3. At very low levels (parts per billion, parts per trillion) many pesticide chemicals disrupt the hormone and endocrine functions causing disorders of the thyroid, immune, digestive, cardiovascular, reproductive, and metabolic systems including childhood obesity and diabetes (Press release December 12, 2013 from the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the World Health Organization.) 4. A study published in the
JULY 2015 that can be ameliorated by taxpayer dollars. Meanwhile, citizen, you of course see this is a for-profit venture. So far, we people of Crozet haven’t seen a pitch worth swinging at yet. In fact, it’s these amenities that will secure people’s loyalty to the place and draw them to it, and thus they should be intelligently improved and optimized. It’s time to think like Italians. The lumberyard is a blank slate, still pregnant with possibilities. What if Crozet had a corso? It could be a way to walk off dinner, to see what people are up to. It could get us together. It could take in some views. Ciao.
peer-reviewed scientific journal Food and Chemical Toxicology in 2013 found that glyphosate at residue levels commonly found in people induced estrogen-sensitive human breast cancer cells to multiply. 5. Glyphosate becomes even more toxic when it breaks down into the more persistent aminomethylphosponic acid (AMPA) that has been linked to liver disease. 6. U. S. regulators have ignored years of research showing the dangers of glyphosate: • cancers (non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, gene mutation, chromosomal aberrations, and cell-cycle dysregulation). • endocrine disruption (estrogen-sensitive breast cancer). • disruption of metabolic pathways (gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, autism, infertility, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease). • disruption of the gut microbiome (celiac disease and gluten intolerance). • kidney disease. • oxidative stress and cell damage (Alzheimer’s, cancer, Parkinson’s disease). Do we need to subject ourselves to dangerous pesticides in order to produce enough food? Not according to studies that show that organic farming has not only higher yields, but better nutrition. Mollee Merrill Afton
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ife is indeed short. There’s no time to waste and it’s never too late to try something new. Especially something that carries on Crozet’s spirit of farm business. Bob and Kathy Ramsay wanted some livestock on their secluded small farm on the south side of Crozet, which they’ve named Wynott Farm. Bob’s family had moved from Maryland to Missouri when he was 10 years old and there he grew up on a small farm his parents, Jim and Jeanne Ramsay (who now live next door), named Wynott Farm. Bob— and his brother, who has an operation called Wynott Quarter Horses—have carried on the name. The family came back east to Virginia in 1975. “We like to say about the soap, ‘Have you tried it? Wynott?’” said Ramsey. Kathy started out with chickens and still raises them. “She recommended goats to me,” recalled Bob, who was not initially taken with the suggestion. “About eight months later, I thought, yes. I came across an Internet group on mini-Nubians that included someone from Charlottesville, who it turned out we knew.” Now they raise mini-Nubians, a breed that began to be developed about 25 years ago when Nubians, a dairy breed,
began to grow too large and breeders sought to reduce their size. Nubians were crossed with Nigerian Dwarfs. Breeders are trying to retain all the other Nubian characteristics such as long, dangly ears and Roman nose, Ramsey said. There are now four does, eight kids and of course, a buck. While they’re fresh, the does are milked twice a day, 12 hours apart, on the sixes. The Ramsay refrigerator is crammed with containers of creamy-looking milk. The goats, inside a fence of welded panels—goats are good at defeating a fence—are guarded by two Karakachans, an old breed developed in Bulgaria that by reputation is willing to take on bears. The large dogs raised exclusively with the goats, regard them as part of their pack and defend them accordingly. Ramsay bought a seven-goat herd from an elderly woman who was selling out. Since then he’s also bought goats from Wisconsin, Wyoming and one that hails all the way from Washington State. He transports them with a camper shell on his pickup. That separated from the truck once while travelling and blew off, but amazingly none of the 17 goats on board decided to jump out. Since them he confines them in
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dog crates for transport. “We got the mini-Nubian breeding business going, and one day I saw goats’ milk soap for sale. I came home and said, ‘Let’s start making soaps! It was like a high school [science] experiment. There are five qualities in soap recipes, things like ‘handiness,’ ‘lather.’ We loved the soap.” Soap-making takes the goat milk, which reacts with lye, the cleaning agent, and adds fats such as coconut oil and shea butter and finally scent oils. Once the ingredients are properly blended in their kitchen, the soap is poured into wooden molds to cure. Molds line the hallways of their home. Once ready, the Ramsay’s package the five-ounce bars in a burlap wrap secured with their Wynott logo sticker. Kathy’s mom Ros Ludwig helps with that. The soap is offered in 10 scent varieties based on five essential oils, mainly used in combinations, such as lemon/eucalyptus, cedarwood/rosemary, coffee/peppermint or lavender/teatree (their best-selling scent). There is also an unscented bar. Six months ago they had a logo designed for them and from there it’s been all about getting soaps to markets. They are making about 500 bars a month now. They rest while the goats are dry in January
and February. (Like most farmers, they have full-time nonfarm jobs, Bob at State Farm and Kathy as a nurse.) Kathy took some bars to the Crozet Farmers Market and sold nine at $6.50 each the first time out. Now the soap, also available in a 2.5-ounce size, is offered at the Charlottesville City Market as well as a dozen stores including Parkway Pharmacy and the new Crozet Artisans Depot. It can be found in shops in Charlottesville, at Michie Tavern, in Staunton, Lexington, and at The Cheese Shop in Stuarts Draft, too. It can ordered online though their website, wynottfarm.com. “I’m just thrilled for only doing it for two years. I love talking about it,” he said. “I learned a whole lot from the managers at the city market,” said Bob. “They were very encouraging.” A new project is a gift shaving kit that includes the Wynott soap, a shaving brush and a small, locally made pottery mug. “Everything in the soap is natural, no chemicals, no alcohol, no detergents,” said Kathy. “Goat milk is good for you and your skin; it helps people with sensitive skin. It moisturizes and it has lactic acid, which helps remove dead skin cells. It’s packed with vitamin A, which helps reduce wrinkles, and it has vitamins C and B and zinc, too. It’s pH level is very close to that of skin. You won’t go back to another soap. We know Cleopatra used to bathe in goat’s milk. She knew it was good for her.”
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that time, here is my summary of Cora’s life as a doctor’s wife versus mine: Cora rides around town with her husband every day and goes to visit patients with him. Today, taking your wife to see patients would be considered very odd and an invasion of privacy, but back then, it was expected of a doctor’s wife. Not only do I not do this, but I seldom even get to ride in the same car with my husband. In fact, one characteristic of a physician’s family is that it is often necessary to take two cars to events so that when he is called in to the hospital the rest of us can remain at the pool, barbecue or whatever it was that we were trying to do as a family. It’s helpful if you don’t leave the extra car seat in the car your husband drives away with when you are trying to return home with your children. Cora presumably did not need to contend with this as they rode in their carriage. Cora is intimately involved and knowledgeable about the medical problems of an entire town. Like Cora, we live in a small town, and not a single party or PTO event has gone by without someone coming up to us to either thank my husband for fixing them or to ask him for some medical advice. (No one asks me for medical advice unless they are having an emergency, which generally does not happen at the elementary school spring fling, and thank goodness for that!). I won’t go into too much detail about hearing about people’s medical problems in public, but suffice it to say that I am quite glad that the body part my husband’s practice focuses on is the hand. Cora sometimes doesn’t know what is expected of her, and is at a
CROZETgazette loss to find things to do. Luckily, I do not share Cora’s burden of numerous servants to do my bidding so this is not a problem I have to deal with. Cora’s husband is absent from the home for long periods, and sometimes sends a message about when he will return, but sometimes doesn’t. Most doctors’ wives can identify with this one. Poor Cora did not have the benefit of electronic paging. Even the telegraph was not functional yet. Her husband dispatched handwritten notes to her advising her of the approximate time of his return. Presumably those notes were carried by a messenger on horseback. I, on the other hand, have tortured many OR nurses by paging my husband and asking how many hours were left in his case. While 21st century doctors’ wives may not have the forbearance of our predecessors, we have learned to accept that “almost done” can mean anywhere from one to twelve hours. Cora doesn’t have other doctors’ wives to commiserate with. Cora’s husband, Frank, is the only game in town. Therefore,
JULY 2015 she is the only doctor’s wife. When my husband has to cancel pre-existing plans because of an unforeseen complication, I have a whole community of people who completely understand that, when I say I am mad, I’m not mad at him (see # 6). Cora and her husband are very forgiving of each other. I get this one—an essential characteristic of a doctor’s wife. When you are not sure when you’ll next see your husband, fighting is such a waste of time. Cora seems to be of rather fragile disposition, and requires her husband’s medical ministrations at times. Cora’s Frank is the only doc in town so who else would do this? The modern-day doctor’s wife has to be rather more resilient. If I complain about a hand problem to my husband, he is likely to say I am just fine. Who can blame him when only hours before he was reattaching a finger blown off by an errant firework? I can’t expect him to put me to bed and administer cooling draughts. Most likely those concoctions Cora was drinking
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public infrastructure and pass them along to commercial tenants, it will never happen,” Stoner said. He said they are also exploring VDOT funding for the project’s roads. A public share of funding would be drawn from a local fundraising campaign or county, state or federal funds. “Whatever sources are available we will seek out,” said Stoner. He raised the possibility of a tax surcharge on businesses such as Charlottesville imposed to support the Omni Hotel and the Ntelos Pavilion. When asked what amount of public funding would be needed, Stoner said it is too early to tell and would depend on how fast commercial space would fill. Stoner said Milestone will be transparent and accountable to the community. He said development will proceed “organically” and in phases. Slightly more than 100 people turned out to talk over the options. Milestone Partners hired Christine Gyovai and Reed Muehlman of White Hallbased Dialogue+Design Associates to be meeting facilitators and the Crozet Community Association, as co-sponsor of the meetings, provided food and babysitting to encourage attendance.
Meeting participants were asked to concentrate especially on assessing alternatives for road plans and for public and green spaces. In the opening general session, participants raised questions about the size of the prospective plaza, about parking, the nature of public-private partnerships. The plaza was shown in different sizes in the three options with the largest space, 200-by-200 feet, in “Plan B,” which expressed the grid concept. The public thought the public area should be a mix of lawn, hard surface and trees. Some suggested Lee Park in Charlottesville as a model. Parking “is a huge challenge,” Stoner acknowledged. The Downtown Crozet District requires only one space for every 1,000 square feet of commercial floor space on the assumption that the downtown is compact enough to allow walking to all parts from any single parking spot within it. More typical zoning codes for suburban shopping centers and malls require five spaces per 1,000 feet, but if that standard were applied to downtown Crozet, the downtown would become essentially a large parking lot. A parking garage is a possibility, but Stoner sees this as another case of public expenditure. Designer Mark Lieberth described all the options as “under-parked by a factor of four or five.” The DCD also
The June 11 meeting at Crozet Elementary School
requires “relegated parking,” which usually means behind buildings, not on lots on the street. The crowd divided into three groups, each joined by a facilitator and architect, for deeper discussion of the plans. All three plans include a greenway connection to Claudius Crozet Park, which is near the southeast corner of the property, as well as a new road tunneling under the railroad tracks roughly in front of the Crozet Firehouse. It’s not clear that this new connection to Three Notch’d Road is actually possible as the tracks may not have sufficient elevation to allow it and railroad operations could not be interfered with during construction, which would greatly complicate the effort. All the plans included parking areas along the tracks. In group one, participants favored Plan A, essentially a restatement of earlier plans presented by Milestone that show
an X-shaped intersection on the west end of the lumberyard and one central street through the center of the parcels with another street looping off it. In this scheme the public space compares to the size of a tennis court. In groups two and three, Plan B, the grid of streets option, was preferred by the public for both its road layout and more spacious park plan. The grid plan was seem as offering more flexibility for traffic management and allowing for two-lane, oneway streets that could handle greater volumes. Participants also raised the option of designing a central pedestrian mall on the property with parking under buildings. Plan C received almost no support. Participants were invited to write comments on a questionnaire and about a quarter did. The majority of those backed the grid plan, several calling it the only concept worth pursuing. Some expressed the view that the public-private partnership was an opportunity for the developer to profit at taxpayer expense. Participants again stressed walkability in the design and some also urged that the demolition of the lumberyard be finished. In a show of hands poll at the meeting’s conclusion about twothirds of participants voted for the grid plan. The DCI planning committee met a week afterward and the majority decided to continue as advisors to the developer. The next step appears to be an evolved design that builds on the meeting’s public comment. There is no timeline for that. The property, now zoned heavy industrial and limited essentially to use as a lumberyard, must yet go through a rezoning to be included in the DCD.
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Turf Battle You might recall an antilawn column that I wrote several years ago, “Kill Your Lawn.” Maybe it’s time to revisit the subject. First off, this will not just be another rant against lawns. Not quite. So we’ll start with some good things about lawns. PROS Lawns can look nice. There’s something soothing about a sweep of green in the landscape, especially as a foil to the color riot in your flower bed. Kids can play on a lawn— running, jumping, playing ball, lying on their backs and watching clouds. Lawns show that you are a real ‘Merkun Gardener, supporting Scotts, Monsanto, John Deere and other turf-care giants. Okay, just kidding. CONS Too much lawn can be really boring. And most Americans have too much lawn. An “ideal” lawn, consisting of only one species of grass, is a monoculture, and not favorable to a broad range of wildlife. Robins seem to like it, however. If you insist on keeping your lawn green through dry spells, lawns can really suck up water. Somewhere between 50 to 70 percent of residential water is used in the landscape, primarily on lawns. As a rough average, lawns require about one inch of water per week when they are actively growing. If you’re lucky, that water will come from the sky. But if you’re irrigating, it will take approximately 6oo gallons to provide an inch of water to 1,000 square feet of lawn. Depending on your toilet, that 600 gallons could also provide
about 300 flushes. Which do you value more, a green lawn or a clean potty? And most people have a lot more than 1,000 square feet of lawn. Even though lawns are taking up carbon dioxide and pumping out oxygen, they do have environmental costs. First, there’s the water that you might be taking from the county system, where water has to be treated and pumped. The most significant environmental impact comes from mowing. On an hourly basis, the typical gasoline mower pumps out eleven times as much pollution as a car. If you’re dumping on chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, the picture gets even worse. A lot of energy goes into making and transporting them, not to mention the havoc they can wreak after they’re applied. So, what’s a responsible landowner to do with his or her lawn? Here are a few important steps: • Reduce the area of the lawn, gradually if you want the task to be less daunting. Nothing says you have to stick with the lawn and bed dimensions that some developer left to you. • Curb your cutting. A taller lawn functions better to out-compete weeds. Tall fescue should be kept at about 3½”. But try not to take off more than 1/3 of the leaf height at a single whack, so mow when the lawn reaches about 4 ½ inches. • Keep your mower blade sharp. A cleaner cut doesn’t tear the grass, giving a better appearance and reducing the chance of disease. • Tan is tolerable. If your lawn if stressed by drought
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Crozet Tack and Saddle Opens in Crozet Shopping Center A consignment store for horseback riding gear has opened next to the Crozet Great Valu in Crozet Shopping Center. Kathleen Anderson launched Crozet Tack and Saddle in June, offering quality used tack and accessories. A rider could be completely fitted out at a reasonable price from the store, which does include some new items, mainly tack box supplies like sprays and wipes, brushes, combs and horse treats (which have been going fast). Used goods include saddles, bridles, bits, pads and blankets, shoes and boots, clothing, helmets, and horsethemed art works. The tack is mainly for English riders—there were about 30 English saddles to choose from-but some Western tack is available. “We’re interested in Western,” said Anderson, “But not much has come in. Our dream is to expand and have a Western side. “We want to cater to riders of all disciplines. I want any horse
person to find something they like here.” “I think the horse industry will stay strong. People love horses and riding, and it gets passed to generations.” “I’ve been accumulating things over the years,” said Anderson, who has four horses herself and is an active rider. She began advertising to draw in consignments after the Kentucky Derby in early May. So far they have been drawing a lot of consignments. Anderson said her nearest competitor dealing in new items is in Charlottesville and the nearest stores like hers with used gear are in Middleburg and Richmond. Anderson said the area— speaking somewhat broadly— includes six hunt clubs and “thousands” of horses. A nurse in an intensive care unit at U.Va. hospital, Anderson will keep her job for the time being. Her friend Barbara Barrell, who owns Mechums View Farm, which offers riding lessons and trail rides just south
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she made a potato salad that was unlike any other and was forever after called ‘Aunt Joanne Potato Salad. It was also one of the two dishes in which our extended family sanctioned the use of oregano (the other was pizza). It’s now July and the potatoes are ready to dig in Virginia. This brings to mind my potato experience during my first summer in Free Union. We had dutifully planted our crop on St. Patrick’s Day in March and marveled as they grew. The plants dropped dead the first week in July. I lamented to a neighbor: “What could have happened? We kept the bugs off and mulched faithfully.” He replied, “Time to dig ‘em.” “No!” said I. “It’s not September yet.” (That’s when the potatoes are ready in Pennsylvania) “Time to dig ‘em,” he said again. So we did—and imagine, they were perfect! Combine these with your garden green beans and you’re in for a treat.
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Boil the potatoes whole in salted water, with the skin intact until just under done. This will vary according to the size of the potato. In truth, I always use my pressure cooker and they are done in about 10 minutes, but most people I know fear their pressure cooker. We’ll discuss this and provide counseling in a future column. Allow the potatoes to cool until they can be peeled, and then cut into 1- to 2-inch cubes. Boil the green beans in salted water until they are just tender. Drain. Aunt Joanne always left them whole. In a small bowl, combine the oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper and oregano. Put the potatoes and green beans into a serving bowl, add the dressing and stir gently. This will work best if the vegetables are still a bit warm. The potatoes will smush, but that’s part of the charm. Serve at room temperature or chilled. Serves 8 – 10. Great for a picnic or cookout!
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Peachtree Hosts 11U State Baseball Tournament July 9-12 Baseball is coming to Crozet in a big way this summer. More than 1,000 people (including teams, families, and fans) are expected to descend upon Claudius Crozet Park from Thursday, July 9, through Sunday, July 12, for the Virginia state baseball tournament for 11-year-olds. Teams hailing from northern Virginia, Richmond, Virginia Beach, and other parts of the state will be vying for a spot in the Southeast Regional Tournament, where they’ll compete against state champions from Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. This is the first state tournament Peachtree has hosted in recent history. Peachtree’s 11U All-Star Team is made up of 12 boys who the coaches have determined to be the best 11-yearold-and-under players in the league. Matt Winkler is the team’s manager and Ed Quigley and Drew Holzwarth are the team’s coaches. Winkler believes that the top contenders in the state tournament will be Glen
Allen, Williamsburg, and Peachtree. Winkler is impressed with his team’s work ethic and camaraderie. “At the end of the day these are 11-year-olds who just love to go out and play hard and have fun with their friends,” he said. “There is a lot of talent in the state of Virginia, but what separates this group is their ability to stay composed under pressure, deal with adversity, and handle hot and humid conditions better than your average 11-year-old. They are experienced, as the bulk of this group has been together since they were seven years old. Most leagues start to lose their players to travel teams by that age and these boys have shown that they just want to go play hard alongside their buddies.” The team has excelled at past tournaments. “This group has already shown they can go far as they represented Virginia in 2013 in the 9U Southeast Regional in Nashville. They went 5-1 in that tournament and finished in third place against the best from Tennessee,
2015 Peachtree 11U All Stars. Back Row: Edward Quigley, Matt Winkler (Manager), Andrew Holzwarth. Center Row: James Meenan, Andrew Barrese, Lucas Farmer, Colin Winkler, Andrew Shifflett, Michael Holzwarth. Front Row: Phillip Zimmerman, Jameson Spence, Isaac Sumpter, Brendan Quigley, Matthew Heilman, Ross Hardy (Photo courtesy Doug Barrese)
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Nurses and medical administrators are not equipped to make legal decisions, nor would they want to, but they’re put in awkward positions by a federal law known as “HIPAA.” And who is shut out? Family, friends, neighbors and, by the way, reporters. The ugly acronym stands for Health Information Portability and Accountability Act. In theory it confines an individual’s identifiable health information to health care providers. (To better effect, the law also makes it possible for an employee to transfer health insurance to a new job.) The Act covers all types of health care agencies, from the ambulance to the pharmacy, from the hospital to the agency-employed nurse’s aide at home. It also allows information to be shared for research, for law enforcement functions, and other necessary exceptions. Hospitals may release information to the public when, in the hospital’s judgment, that would protect public health. Otherwise, the release of personally identifiable medical information by any of these “covered entities” could result in fines, and in extreme and rare instances, involving fraud and criminal intent, jail time. HIPAA is 563 pages long, filled with exceptions and nuances that aren’t well understood; thus, medical employees generally perceive that the prudent reaction is to say nothing, even when disclosure would be permitted or would be the compassionate thing to do. When any one inquires about the patient by name, HIPAA allows the health care facility to confirm (but not reveal) the name of a patient, which ward the patient is on, and the patient’s status or generalized condition (“fair”, “good”, etc.) so long as specific medical information is not revealed. The facility may do this if the patient has been given the chance to object first. When there is an emergency—or the patient is
otherwise unable to give consent—the health care facility can release the information if the patient has named individuals or if the facility’s staff believes disclosure is in the individual’s best interest. This makes it very difficult, sometimes distressingly difficult, for family members (or reporters) to find injured people and know what happened. And furthermore, the two Charlottesville hospitals have chosen to release less than what HIPAA allows. U.Va. and Martha Jefferson release only the patient’s condition if you have the patient’s name. A Martha Jefferson spokesperson says their concern is for the patient’s privacy, but in fact, it is legitimate to ask whether “privacy” is all that is at stake. Some injuries concern the whole community. When a firefighter goes to the emergency room with smoke inhalation, it is a matter of public concern on many different levels, most important to his/her colleagues, witnesses, neighbors, friends, and reporters. Injury to a public servant, especially a first responder, should not be treated as a secret. Everyone cares. Some injuries concern family who are far from the patient. If Grandma calls the hospital from New Zealand to find out what happened to her firefighter grandson who is in intensive care, U.Va. and Martha Jefferson will tell her only his generalized condition category, nothing else. Neither of our local hospitals will tell her that Grandson is in intensive care. Grandma has to fly here, be named on a list, or get her information from Mom, assuming she can get in touch. The hospitals will say, “Oh, she’ll learn soon enough,” eventually, sometime after a few hours of agonized waiting. If Grandson is one of hundreds injured in a flood, the HIPAA rules say that information can be released without getting the individual’s consent in order for family members to
CROZETgazette find each other. However, according to a 2007 Troutman Sanders analysis done for Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association, “The good news is that, during an emergency or disaster, there are numerous regular exceptions to HIPAA that will permit hospitals to share protected heath information with other providers, public health authorities and certain other designated parties. The bad news is that, even during a disaster, the majority of HIPAA requirements will remain in effect so hospitals must plan as if they will be responsible for fulfilling all HIPAA obligations even in the midst of a disaster.” There are other ways around this. You, as patient, can be sure that your doctor has a list of people to whom your medical information may be released. More often now, HIPAA consent forms include a request for that information. Disclosure of personal medical information is permitted to anyone involved with the patient’s health care, and this creates a list of possible sources outside “covered entities.” If Mom comes to the hospital with Grandson, she’s probably
JULY 2015 not going to have trouble getting information nor is she restrained by HIPAA. Or, if a non-medical stranger brings an injured person to the emergency room, that Good Samaritan is not restrained by HIPAA. And in a similar way, when the firefighter goes to the hospital, the chief or a fellow firefighter may talk toa reporter because the fire department (and the police department) are not restrained by HIPAA. This assumes the fire chief can get the information from the hospital. So while there are legitimate ways to get information, medical staff is confused by ambiguity and exceptions. Instead of erecting stone walls (and stony faces), application of HIPAA rules should be done with common sense plus compassion added in for the patient, family and friends. It is nearly impossible for medical staff to understand the advice from hospital lawyers and so they make the default, safe choice: say nothing. This column provides legal information, not advice. Should you need to get advice concerning HIPAA, consult with an experienced attorney. Facts change legal outcomes.
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Crozet Community Junk Orchestra Thursdays, 6:45-8:15 p.m. July 2 - Aug 6
(No meeting July 16) $10 per session, All ages 10+, Seniors welcome, vacation-friendly as not every session is required. Want to turn your rhythm and junk into music? Let’s do it this summer in Crozet. A tin ear? Perfect, you can still make music with us! Questions: Philip Clark pclarkmusic@gmail.com 434 979 3343 Sign up: Denise Murray murrden@gmail.com 434 987 5517
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New Crozet Lions Leaders The Crozet Lions installed new officers in June: Susan Miller is now president, replacing Becca White, and the vice presidents are Paul Dowell and Mike Capp. Once again, the Lions will be serving their award-winning gourmet hot dogs during the Crozet Independence Day Celebration at Claudius Crozet Park Sunday, July 5. Mark your calendar: the Lions will be selling homemade
peach ice cream at Chiles Peach Orchard in Greenwood on Saturday and Sunday, August 1 and 2. It’s too good to miss! The Crozet Lions meet the second and fourth Monday of each month at the Meadows Community Building off of Rt. 240. Anyone interested in attending a meeting is welcome. Please contact Karl Pomeroy at 987-1229. Meetings start at 6:30 p.m. with dinner, and a presentation typically follows.
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Beauty and the Savanna Hypothesis “Beauty is Nature’s way of acting at a distance.”
- Denis Dutton, TED Talk, 2010 Appealing or appalling, attractive or repulsive, pretty or ugly; constantly, reflexively, and often unconsciously, we make these sorts of snap value judgments about people, pets, works of art, architecture and the landscapes around us. Are these assessments learned responses? Or is our appreciation of beauty profoundly influenced by innate, subconscious, biological impulses? Is aesthetics merely a malleable, socially constructed artifact of human culture—perhaps no more than the narrow-minded imposition of the arbitrary tastes and preferences of one segment of society upon the sensibilities of another—or do some of its motivations, pleasures and principles run deep within us and transcend culture? Research indicates that indeed we do possess innate, instinctive, aesthetic proclivities that shape our sense of beauty and influence our appreciation of art, architecture and nature. In this first in a series of articles on aesthetics, art and design, I will describe some fascinating scientific findings in the immensely diverse field of aesthetics and its connection to the emerging field of evolutionary
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psychology. As a prologue, here is a little etymological and historical background about aesthetics. In 1735, German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten appropriated the ancient Greek word aisthētikos (sensitive, perceptive) into German as Ästhetik. He gave it a new meaning: artistic taste or the sense of beauty. Professor Baumgarten went on to develop the field of aesthetics—“the science of sensory knowledge”— predicated on deducing rules or principles of artistic or natural beauty from individual taste. Development of our modern, Western understanding of aesthetics occurred in the cultural context of an expanding and lucrative commercial market in Europe for fine art, arising from the desire of the nouveau riche to flaunt their good taste as manifested in their display of good art. Purchasers wanted some assurance that the artworks they were buying had enduring value within and even across cultures. Nine decades after the word was coined in Germany, ‘aesthetics’ had not yet made its way into Noah Webster’s authoritative American Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1828. However, the word did appear in our lexicon soon thereafter, and its frequency of use in America has increased steadily since then. Now let’s turn our attention to the science of natural beauty and to the ‘Nature or Nurture’ question. Do our individual tastes have an underlying biological component or, as sociologists have long taught, are our minds blank slates at birth awaiting instruction? To understand why the human brain works the way it does, evolutionary psychology argues that one must understand the environment in which we evolved. The Savanna Hypothesis posits that those individuals who comprehended and appreciated the value of their native landscape survived and multiplied in greater num-
bers than those who did not. The hypothesis takes as given that the majority of pre-human and human evolution took place in the East African savanna during the Pleistocene—the geological epoch which lasted from about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago —and that all modern humans descend from this population of closely related individuals. Before the advent of agriculture, before humans ventured forth from the African continent, the savanna was home to our hunter-gatherer ancestors; supplying food, water and our basic material needs without exposure to undue risks. Its rolling grasslands provided vantage points for hunting prey and spotting threats. Scattered, climbable trees offered escape routes and hiding places from predators. Affording both prospect and refuge, verdant savannas allowed our ancient ancestors to hunt without being seen, to make a quick getaway up a tree, if needed. As their heirs, modern humans are genetically endowed and predisposed to find the savanna pleasing. We are innately fond of its open, green and amber grasslands with widely spaced, laterally spreading trees (making for easy climbing). We naturally enjoy open vistas of blue sky with large animals grazing in the distance and a source of water nearby. This ideal has been depicted in countless landscape paintings, such as those of the great classical French Baroque painter and philosopher, Nicolas
Poussin (1595 - 1665). Entitled The Four Seasons: Summer (or Ruth and Boaz), this oil-on-canvas work represents not an actual landscape, but the world of Nature that one creates (or sees) in the mind. Summer was the second in a series of four canvases, each representing a season of the year, painted by Poussin between 1660 and 1664 for ArmandJean, Duke of Richelieu. The Duke commissioned these works to depict the power and seasonal grandeur of Nature in conjunction with enduring values of human society; in this instance, the generosity and protection of the wealthy Boaz toward Ruth, the poor, widowed Moabite immigrant. Boaz permitted Ruth to glean grain from his fields, to eat of his bread, to drink water from his vessels and to stay close to his servants. (Summer was one of twenty-five paintings the Duke lost from his private collection in a game of tennis against King Louis XIV of France; thirteen of which were by Poussin. Despite the great loss, perhaps it was wise of the Duke to lose to the King.) Today, the quartet of paintings is on regular display in the Richelieu Wing of the Louvre (© 2010 Musée du Louvre, Angèle Dequier). Given a choice, people everywhere preferentially find the idealized image of the savanna beautiful, more so than images of their own native landscapes, even when they have never seen an actual savanna! We humans consistently prefer savanna-like
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Nicolas Poussin’s (1595 – 1665) The Four Seasons: Summer (or Ruth and Boaz) from http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/summer-or-ruth-and-boaz © 2010 Musée du Louvre, Angele Dequier
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by John Andersen
A New Mindset One of the most rewarding aspects of owning a running store is getting to interact with people of all different backgrounds who are working on getting “Back to Fitness,” this column’s namesake. Whether coming back from raising three kids to overcoming health problems to just getting in shape for the first time ever, starting on a new fitness plan is really more like starting a new life plan, with big consequences. The future for these people is so bright and the possibilities are seemingly endless. Sadly, the number one limiting factor in people’s success in getting back to fitness is simply their own mindset. And I completely get it. It is HARD going from “couch to 5k.” There is so much unknown, the initial work is typically very hard, and there are likely to be some bumps in the road. Still, we all hold our future in our own hands and ultimately we choose how to live. Recently, a story I read got me thinking. It was an article on what “elite” ultramarathon runners do that the “mid-pack” runners should be doing. I won’t bore you with that particular article, but I thought of the more relevant point: what do successful local athletes do that our couch-to-5k people should be doing, too. I began to think on that and I realized every important thing I could find was not so much physical, as it was mental–a mindset. So here is my list of what “local elites” do that “Back to Fitness” folks should also do. And who I mean by “local elites” are not necessarily the people who are out winning all the local 5Ks and half marathons. No, these are the people who have jobs and kids just like the rest of us, who also manage to exercise and perform at a very high level. These are the marathoners, the iron mans, the long-distance cyclists whom you
know and work with or are friends with. Local elites see themselves as athletes. Yes, they may be working professionals or moms of three, but these people have another identity: athlete. They are excited about and committed to the athletic goals they set for themselves. They look at their body as a machine and are constantly looking for ways to improve it. They train. They know that if they apply stress to their body, and then give it the recovery it needs, they will get stronger/faster/better. Back to Fitness people need to see themselves as athletes, too. Okay, you’ve got four young kids and weight 80 more pounds than you did in college and you can barely walk up stairs without getting winded–you probably don’t feel very athletic. But you need to change your mindset and look at yourself as athletes looks at themselves to gain a new level of motivation and commitment to getting fit. Local elites work really hard. It’s easy to look at that 110-pound woman who is running down the road light and easy as a feather and just hate her, right? “Some people just have an easy time with this stuff.” Well, more often than not, that person has worked really hard to be where she is. I used to think of people who ran marathons as just freaks of nature to be able to even do that. Then I trained for one. And ran one. And I gained an entirely new perspective on what we are capable of if we work for it. Back to Fitness people need to work really hard, too, but don’t get down by seeing those fast, thin people. They didn’t always used to be like that and they work hard! Local elites don’t have any time either. They have to be at work at 7 a.m. They have kids and lawn. They have to travel. But they find time. They make
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action.” County expenses to meet the new requirements are expected to more than double the current annual expenditure on water resource protection, about $1.8 million per year, and reach $4.2 million annually. That raises the question of how to set up a dedicated funding stream to meet the cost. A citizen advisory committee that has been investigating the choice has recommended a utility fee as the fairer option. Charlottesville and Waynesboro have adopted the fee approach. Typical impervious surfaces are roofing or asphalt. Gravel driveways are also considered impervious. The greater your surface area, the more you would pay in fees, but it has the advantage of being tied to a parcel’s actual impervious area and
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and heat, it will eventually turn grey-blue, brown, or tan. Learn to live with this, at least up to a point. A dormant lawn is okay, a dead one not. In hot weather, your lawn should be able to take a week without rain, assuming it was adequately moist at the beginning of the period. Morning is the best time to water; water deeply to encourage a good root system. What about weeds? This is probably the most controversial aspect of “turf management.” Although turf should only be comprised of grass, lawns may include other species. At least in the minds of some, that is. Nowadays we spray-and-spread all kinds of potions to keep non-grass species at bay, but not that long ago, clover was actually added to seed mixes. It’s a tough legume that is able to add nitrogen to the soil, and it actually has flowers. And therein lies the rub. Flowers attract bees, and bees can sting. So, be careful and don’t walk around with bare feet. (And if you’re allergic to bee stings, consider other options.) And some experts
not generalized as a service district’s rate would be. Nonprofit organizations in a service district would not be subject to the tax. With the fee approach, credits could be devised to recognize a property owner’s efforts to reduce run-off, such as rain barrels or landscaping. There would not be a credits option with the service district solution. Impervious surfaces on a parcel can be mapped through the county’s Geographic Information Services department. “We could quickly figure it out on every property to the square foot,” Harper said. The committee will make a recommendation to the Supervisors in September. It will hold another meeting July 9 at the County Office Building in Charlottesville to consider public comment received so far. You can respond to a survey on the options online at www.albemarle.org/waterfunding. have rather unusual attitudes toward weeds. One says that he’s okay with his lawn consisting of 15 percent weeds. So, when they reach that level does he go out and order them to stop? Or does he then start pulling or spraying? Consider going with an electric mower if your lawn is fairly small. There will be some pollution produced at the power plant, but much less than what comes out of a gas mower’s exhaust pipe. (And I wonder if Tesla might consider getting into lawn mowers. They’d probably cost around $10,000, though.) Fertilize your lawn, but just by applying a quarter inch of compost. This won’t give you the instant green of the hi-test chemical fertilizers, but it’s much better for the lawn, birds, bees, and fish in the Chesapeake Bay, etc. So ignore that quaint Scotsman on television that would have you believe that a picture-perfect lawn can be yours, but only if you hurry on down to the home improvement store and buy a few bags of SuperDuperMiracleLawn. Adopt a more relaxed attitude, stop toiling in your lawn, and get out and enjoy it.
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sound, and performed the songs throughout the skit. The rules of the competition required them to speed up or slow down the narrative pace of the skit, which the team accomplished by acting out a scene in slow motion. “I watched dozens of these challenges performed between regionals, states, and globals, and their story of the game show that scared families with sound was unlike any other team that we saw,” said Mindy Beaumont, whose daughter Elke was on the Brownsville team. “Most of the teams that I saw went into outer space. It was a smart way to ‘slow down’ their narrative in zero gravity. But our team showing TV clips as a means of ‘replaying’ a portion of their performance in slow motion was so unique!” The team demonstrated how their sound machine worked during a kitchen scene. Colored sand moved in a pattern when one of the actors squeezed a ketchup bottle; and the “soup” jumped when another actor
JULY 2015 used a knife to cut berries. Team member Lucas Farmer said, “I was pretty nervous because most of us are taking a break from DI next year and we all wanted to do well.” However, he enjoyed the atmosphere at globals, which he described as “…very fun and not too serious. I liked getting to meet people from China and all over the world.” His teammate Ellie Boitnott felt the same way: she appreciated “meeting people” and believes their team’s “imagination and ability to work together” propelled them to the top. Destination Imagination is a volunteer-led, non-profit organization that fosters creativity and innovation in problem solving. Students who participate in the DI program form teams and compete in challenges from one of six categories: technical, scientific, structural, fine arts, and service learning. They compete locally to qualify for the state competition, where they have the possibility of qualifying for globals. The global competition was hosted by Disney and featured more than 1,400 teams from
The team performed a skit based on an imaginary game show called “You’ve Been Spooked.” L-R: Lucas Farmer, Ellie Boitnott, Rachel Walker, Sophie Lanahan, Grace Boitnott, and Jackson Douvas. (photo credit: Mindy Beaumont)
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Brownsville's fifth grade DI team and parent team managers at the global competition in Nashville. Front, L-R: Rachel Walker, Sophie Lanahan, Elke Beaumont, Lucas Farmer, and Jackson Douvas. Back, L-R: Holly Walker, Grace Boitnott, Rich Boitnott, Ellie Boitnott, and Sue Miller.
elementary school through high school. Eighty percent of participants were from the United States and twenty percent were international, from countries such as China, Turkey, South Korea, and Mexico. Boitnott found his role as team manager to be a rewarding learning experience. “The one thing I really learned was that no matter how outrageous their ideas might seem, do not get in their way. Their ideas seemed so farfetched at times, but when it all came together it was better than I ever could have imagined.” Dettman has seen the positive effect the DI program has had on the students who participate. “From the many years we have supported this program at Brownsville I have learned a few things about what students take away from the experience. Learning from others’ ideas can only make better solutions for the team and being self-reflective and looking at themselves objectively help the students see how their strengths and hard
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Weather Almanac
JUNE 2015
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Where Does All that Heavy Rain Go? We sure had a lot of rain last month. Over eight inches fell at our house and some of it came down really hard. In fact, on June 1, over two inches of rain fell in just 20 minutes. Most people don’t think about what happens after it falls, but the runoff from downpours has been a major environmental topic and source of change in the last couple of decades. In a natural setting, rain falls onto the grasslands and forests. Much of it is absorbed into the ground and the excess runs into creeks and streams, eventually heading to the ocean. The water that is absorbed into the ground is filtered, cleansing both the water and the earth. This absorption also dramatically slows the speed of the water runoff. The invention of modern cities has dramatically changed the environmental equation when it comes to runoff. Imagine a giant parking lot at the mall. When a thunderstorm hits, all the water and trash and road grime almost instantly race to the nearest creeks and rivers with no absorption, no filtering, and no cleansing. Also, many cities originally mixed storm water runoff with sewage so it all just went straight into the river. The result was an increase in
flash flood risk plus greater pollution of waterways. Another unforeseen problem was the creation of urban heat islands (UHI). A giant parking lot bakes in the sun and has no evapotranspiration to aid in cooling. Even a place the size of Crozet can create an urban heat island that makes it measureably warmer than the surrounding countryside. In the last 30 years, better and better environmental practices have evolved and been regulated to require storm runoff to simulate a more natural course. Crozet has doubled in size in the last 10 years and all the new development has come with provisions to slow runoff and prevent stream pollution. The most common environmental change has been the creation of stormwater dry ponds. If you look for them, they are everywhere these days. When new construction takes place, generally a dry pond must be built to capture the runoff. This slows and filters the water so that it makes it to the rivers at roughly the same speed and water quality as before the new construction. “Dry ponds” are dry most of the time and only fill during rainy periods. “Wet ponds” are similar detention ponds but stay at least partially filled all year. Both are often
Downtown storm runoff collects in this "wet pond" on Crozet Ave. before it enters Powell's Creek.
The new streetscaping installed miniature "dry ponds" between the street and sidewalk to slow down and filter storm water.
planted with water-loving vegatation that makes the pond a better filter and more visually attractive. A significant purpose of the recent streetscape project in downtown Crozet was to improve the storm drainage. Water from the buildings and pavement downtown is now captured in dry detention ponds in several locations and finally into a giant wet detention pond next to Animal Wellness on Crozet Ave. During a heavy rain, the water can collect here and slowly filter through the plants and ground before easing into Powell’s Creek, then Lickinghole Creek to Mechums River then to the Rivanna River near Ivy Creek Natural Area before joining the James River south of Palmyra and then to the Atlantic Ocean at Norfolk.
June Recap June was wet. Very wet. Our rain gauge picked up 8.36” of rain which is more than double the normal but short of the record of 12 inches. On a quiet afternoon, if you listened carefully, you could hear the grass growing. The grass grew an average of 12” in June and 37” so far this year. Neither is a record but enough to keep you busy trying to keep up. Rainfall Totals: Greenwood 6.65 Mint Springs 8.36 Beaver Creek 5.23 Ivy 4.94” Wintergreen 7.17” White Hall 8.77” Waynesboro 4.58” Nellysford 4.53” CHO Airport 7.85”
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E Pluribus Unum by Clover Carroll | clover@crozetgazette.com
Although my mother discouraged me from studying Latin in high school, maintaining (wrongly) that it is a “dead language,” I’ve been lucky to attain a solid working knowledge of Latin roots and phrases in the course of earning college and graduate degrees in English—a legacy which would make my alma maters (soul mothers) proud of their alumna (graduate)! I have always regretted my mother’s ultimatum (final word), because a thorough understanding of Latin is fundamental to a thorough understanding of English. Latin words and phrases took firm root in our language during the Roman occupation of Britain, from approximately 43 to 410 AD—or anno domini (year of our lord). They continue to amplify and enrich everyday English usage to this day, especially in legalese and patriotic mottos. While you have probably heard or used most of the expressions discussed here, you may not actually know their meanings! Crozetians will soon gather at the beautiful Crozet Park to celebrate the independence of our beloved country—whose Great Seal features our national motto, e pluribus unum (from many, one). This motto appears on the nickel, the quarter, and the dollar bill, along with the motto annuit coeptis (e approves our undertakings), as well as the Virgil allusion novus ordo saeculorum (a new order of the ages, or a new world order). All of this currency may be used to purchase a delicious barbecue dinner at the celebration! The Crozet parade will feature authentic, bona fide (in good faith) fire trucks and stirring patriotic songs such as “From the Halls of Montezuma,” the hymn of the U.S. Marine Corps, whose motto is semper fidelis (always faithful). ‘Cause that’s Crozet’s M.O., our modus operandi (way of operating) i.e. (abbreviation of id est, or that is), how we roll! To prepare for the festivities, I took my grandchildren shopping for their red, white, and blue outfits. While one of them
ran up and down the aisles startling shoppers, the other picked up a sparkly Hello Kitty figurine and smashed it on the hard tile floor. “Don’t forget that if you break it, you pay for it!” shouted a disgruntled store employee. “Mea culpa (my fault)!” I replied. “But it’s too late now, you know—as Julius Caesar said after crossing the Rubicon, “alea lacta est (the die has been cast, or there’s no turning back).” The clerk gave me a puzzled look, as if I had uttered a non sequitur (it does not follow or an out-of-context comment). I suspect he thought I was non compos mentis (not in control of the mind—a phrase that dictionary writer Samuel Johnson theorized was later corrupted into nincompoop). “You need to leave now,” he glowered. Needless to say, my girls and I are persona non grata (person not pleasing, or unwelcome person) at that store now. I would need an alias (otherwise, which has come to refer to a pseudonym) to ever shop there again! Next I took them to see a movie, where they greatly enjoyed the roaring lion logo above the MGM motto, ars gratia artis (art for art’s sake). The story began in medias res (in the middle of things), thrusting us into the action with a little girl hunting for her lost cat. The dramatis personae (masks of the drama, or cast of characters) included several cute children and a very talented trained cat. In the spirit of quid pro quo (this for that, as in returning a favor), the kids were good the rest of the day. Legal documents make extensive use of Latin because it adds a certain gravitas (weight, or seriousness) to the proceedings. School personnel are legally responsible for their students during the school day, serving in loco parentis (in the place of a parent). This means that ipso facto (by the fact itself, or by the very nature of the case), we may discipline or reward them. As with adults, we grant them the privilege of habeas corpus (literally, you should have the body), continued on page 44
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What Is a Prostate, Anyway? If you’re a man, you may have asked yourself this question at some point. We hear a lot of talk about our prostates, whether it’s from Joe Theismann promoting vitamins for it or the NFL encouraging you to “Know Your Stats” as they relate to prostate cancer risks. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men in the United States and justifiably receives a lot of attention. In fact, what do Robert DeNiro, Arnold Palmer, Joe Torre, Rudolph Giuliani and Nelson Mandela have in common? All of these men, from all walks of life, were treated for prostate cancer. Like it or not, our prostate health can have a big impact on our quality of life as we age, and having a basic understanding of the controversies around it can help you take charge of your health. Despite all the media attention, many men still don’t realize where the prostate is or why we have one in the first place. To start, the prostate is a gland found in the male reproductive system. Anatomically, it sits below the bladder and in front of the rectum. The tube that carries urine (the urethra) runs through the center of the prostate. In terms of function, the prostate helps make semen, which protects and nourishes sperm. In younger men, the prostate is typically described as being the shape and size of a walnut. As men age, the prostate can grow larger and that can result in difficulty passing urine. Enlargement of the prostate, when noncancerous, is termed benign prostatic hyperplasia or BPH. While benign enlargement is quite common, it is important to distinguish this from prostate cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that 1 in 7 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Screening for prostate cancer has come under increased scrutiny recently, which has made the decision of whether to pursue testing all the more confus-
ing for patients and physicians. Prostate cancer screening is generally conducted with a rectal exam and a “PSA” test. PSA is prostate-specific antigen, a protein produced by cells within the prostate. The blood level of PSA is often elevated in men with prostate cancer; however, PSA levels can also be high in men with an enlarged, infected or inflamed prostate. Determining what a high PSA level means is complex and must be judged in light of prior PSA values, age, size of the prostate, and any medications, which may affect PSA measurements. PSA is not a perfect screening test and carries its own limitations and potential harms. The advantage of screening is that when cancer is identified early, treatments may be most effective and prevent cancer from becoming life-threatening or causing serious symptoms. Overall, however, there is a low risk of death due to prostate cancer, and many detected cancers are slow growing and may never spread beyond the prostate gland. While the PSA test is straightforward (a blood test is all that is required), the test may give “false-negative” or “false positive” results. Elevated values may cause unnecessary worry and lead to additional medical procedures in the setting of a “false-positive” test, meaning the PSA is elevated due to benign causes. A PSA elevation may prompt a prostate biopsy, which is required to establish a diagnosis of prostate cancer. The majority of men who undergo prostate biopsy will not have prostate cancer and the biopsy itself carries some associated risks including bleeding, infection, and procedural discomfort. If cancer is detected, early treatment may more often result in cure, but not all prostate cancers need treatment. Interventions such as surgery or radiation for prostate cancer carry risks of urinary leakage and erectile dyscontinued on page 37
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E Pluribus Unum: Get Together on Independence Day
by claudia crozet
ACROSS 1 Little fight 5 Air gun ammo 8 “Fifteen items or _____” 13 Bardot or Depardieu movie 14 Pub pint 15 Mohammed Ali’s daughter 16 Horse morsels 17 Word before snow and gloom of night in postal worker creed 18 Dupont acrylic fiber 19 Patrick Henry exhortation to come together (1799) 23 Giant bird of legend 24 _____ Diesel 25 Table scrap 26 That guy 29 One who hears, “Thank you for your service.” 30 For all in America, according to Pledge of Allegiance 32 Indiana basketballer 35 Wii batteries 36 Mayberry boy 37 Symbol of fifty states and thirteen Colonies unified 41 Subject of Second Amendment 42 Massachusetts cape 43 Admission of defeat 44 With 30A, part of America’s promise for all 46 One for Lafayette 47 Little Red Book writer 48 3/5 of farmyard chorus 49 Contacts
50 Sunshine st. 53 Conclusion of rallying cry in 19A 57 English land division 59 “The Greatest” 60 Iranian currency 61 44th POTUS 62 Stimpy’s cartoon companion 63 Treater words 64 Music in keys 65 Trip trigger 66 Oliver Hardy’s partner, _____ Laurel DOWN 1 Scrub 2 Softly, in music 3 Hamlet assumes an “_____ disposition” 4 SOL or GRE 5 Masked man? 6 Word with fuses or covers 7 Near death Macbeth: “My way of life has fallen into the _____, the yellow leaf” 8 Independence Day sights on Crozet Avenue 9 Deserve 10 Safari sight: largest land mammal 11 “Evil Woman” gp. 12 Stood for office 20 Medgar _____, murdered civil rights leader 21 Japanese beans, sauce source 22 Future fund 27 Slushy alternatives
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we had to pass a feeding tube through Tom’s nose and syringe him the GoLytely to cleanse his colon. He was such a sport, even purring through the whole procedure. I felt like I failed him a little because I knew that was uncomfortable and led to a rough night of diarrhea. Colonoscopy the next morning was predictable—a donutshaped mass, and they got some biopsies, which did confirm the growth was cancerous. Surgery was scheduled the following day. Mrs. White came in that night to visit Tom, and I went over the day and the plan with her. She was concerned but not surprised. She then opened up to me and told me that Tom had belonged to her son Andrew, who they had lost several years ago when he was just a 12-year-old boy. She started to cry but did not elaborate anymore. Now I was on a mission. If I didn’t already like Tom and his family, I was now committed to making sure he got the best care and that she got the best communication we could offer. To make a long story short, Tom had surgery the next day, which went well and was uneventful; however, the following day he stopped eating and spiked a fever. Tom’s mom came back to visit him and this time brought her daughter, Andrew’s sister, who was now about 18. My heart ached seeing them visit Tom and thinking about their loss. The next morning, Tom deteriorated further and we finally found that Tom’s colon incision was leaking and he had a bad abdominal infection. I can still remember picking him up one time and he gave this awful yowl because his belly was hurting so bad. I again felt like we had let Tom and his family down. I told Mrs White that we had to go back into surgery, which
CROZETgazette she understood. Going back in, the surgeons found their incision opening up, and despite cleaning things up and repairing, it was all too late. Tom continued to go downhill and finally in the middle of the night in the ICU, he died from complications. It broke my heart to call and tell Mrs. White that Tom had died. I felt like I had let her, her daughter, and certainly Tom down. We had done everything we could, and yet everything went wrong. About a week later, Tom’s mom called me and said she and her husband wanted to take Michelle and me out to eat. We accepted and had a nice evening out. I think they truly enjoyed just feeding a young newlywed couple, and the elephants in the room—Tom’s and Andrew’s deaths—never came up. But at the end of the dinner as we were saying out goodbyes, she handed me an envelope. She said she just wanted
to share her story since I had helped her with Tom. We all hugged and went our separate ways. When we got into the car, I opened the envelope and found some newspaper clippings of her story. A family vacation out to Colorado turned tragic. They were all on a snowmobile tour,
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function, which can negatively impact quality of life. Adding confusion to the mix is that multiple professional organizations vary in their recommendations about who should and should not get a PSA screening test. The American Urological Association (AUA) recommends that beginning at age 55 men engage in shared decision-making with their doctor about whether to undergo a PSA test. Earlier testing may be called for in men at high risk (for instance
JULY 2015 Andrew and his mom on one snowmobile and her husband and daughter on the other. Heading up a narrow mountain trail, they lost control of their snowmobile and it veered off the trail and off a cliff. It took rescuers several hours to reach them. Mrs. White had a badly broken and mangled arm, but Andrew had suffered a ruptured spleen and was bleeding internally. He died in her arms as they waited for help to arrive. Michelle and I both shed some tears in the car after that. We drove home mostly in silence as I wondered just how I got into such an emotional case. I learned that whatever your profession, you are going to have significant interactions with other people. You can choose to listen and to care about them, even though they may be perfect strangers. I learned that people may be opening or closing a significant chapter in their lives, right when you meet them, and sometimes you are there just to play a part, and to do so with love. And I learned that sometimes, you just plain lose. This case was 13 years ago. I have since taken these lessons with me into the real world of private practice where they have served me well. We are often faced with tough decisions, strong emotions, and uncertain outcomes. All we can do is do our best and have faith in the people around us. Though we have since lost contact, Tom and his family made me a better veterinarian and person. They have remained with me.
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Non-native Plants Can Be Remarkably Nature-friendly, Part One Many people have taken to heart the words of Doug Tallamy (the entomologist who wrote Bringing Nature Home) to grow native plants because many native leaf-eating insects depend upon them. They’ve also been moved by his statement that “aggressive plant species from other continents…were rapidly replacing what native plants” were on the rural property he and his wife had purchased. Now people consider it a truism that non-native plants simply move into an area and push out native species. But Mr. Tallamy’s presumption was made without consideration of the prior history of his newly acquired parcel. The Tallamys had purchased land that “had been farmed for centuries before being sold and subdivided.” What had actually happened was that alien plants colonized barren, abandoned, nutrient-poor farmland with a disturbed soil profile—something I’ve watched happen in Virginia since I was a college student in the 1970s. At that time, the Eastern Redcedar (Juniperous virginiana) was the bane of many a cow farmer because these native trees constantly tried to move into their fields of compacted soil bereft of organic matter (other than cow pies) for who knows how long. This phenomenon was, and still is, something that can be observed, especially along I-81. Over the years, I’ve gotten off the highway numerous times to document it in photos. By the 1980s, cow fields along I-81 were beginning to be abandoned. I noticed how they filled eventually—I’m talking
years—with either redcedars or non-native Autumn Olive shrubs (Eleagnus umbellata), or a mix of both. Doug Tallamy’s land had likewise taken years to become “at least 35%” non-native vegetation because he mentions removing Oriental Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus)—vines considered invasive—that had 6-inch-caliper trunks. That size isn’t reached overnight. Therefore by the time he started to remove non-native plants, they’d had time to accomplish some degree of soil rehab, which is why some native trees could grow at that point. He can be forgiven his misperception because, unless you’ve been paying attention for decades, as I have, you won’t have a clue about this process. The fact is that most yards are rather similar to cow fields, except that their soil profile has been totally rearranged by land clearing and grading. This was, in fact, the situation when I moved into my house almost 30 years ago. The cleared and re-graded land had exposed gray clay subsoil in most of the yard. As someone who’d been enthralled by astronomy since the age of seven, I couldn’t help thinking my back yard looked like the surface of the Moon! The rest of the yard consisted of the more-typical Virginia red clay. Obviously there was no way that I could personally improve such a large amount of soil for the sake of native plants. It would take years of rehabilitation, mostly executed by non-native plants that didn’t mind one bit growing in a disturbed soil profile. Thanks to alien plants, my moonscape very quickly became a nature-friendly garden that supported an incredible diversity and abundance of wild-
When home construction destroys the soil profile, it’s difficult for native plants to take root. (Photo credit: Marlene A. Condon)
life—even more so than had existed here when the land was deeply shaded by forest. I’d spent time on the property throughout the seasons to document wildlife usage before a small area was cleared where my house was to be built. I discovered that it’s a myth that mature forest is the pinnacle of wildlife abundance. The reality is that it supports nowhere near the amount of life that a field (or meadow) habitat is capable of supporting—and a field habitat is exactly what most yards can be easily transformed into! Although you may immediately think “ugly” when envisoning a field, you shouldn’t. When I talk about creating field habitat around your house, I’m referring to the incorporation of the qualities of a field: an open area with a large variety and number of herbaceous plants, surrounded by shrubs and trees to create edge. I am not implying that your yard must be totally wild and unkempt, although the more natural it is, the better it will provide for life. Rest assured, a nature-friendly garden can be very nice looking. Even though many species of native plants have naturally moved into my yard over the decades as the soil has improved, I would never completely remove the alien plants I deliberately brought into the yard many years ago. They are so beneficial to wildlife that, in fact, they have sometimes been life-saving. Several years ago, deer consumed most of the native herbaceous plants in my yard and
took most of the leaves off small native shrubs and trees. As a result, the denuded woody plants were unable to produce fruits. To add insult to injury, the following winter was very cold and snowy, which meant fruit-eating birds were in desperate straits. But luckily for a flock of bluebirds that visited my yard that winter, my Japanese Barberries (Berberis thunbergii)—shrubs that deer do not normally feed upon—held numerous small red berries which the birds consumed over the course of a few days. Japanese Barberry can spread and is thus considered invasive, yet it can’t be denied that those bluebirds—a species that is not commonly seen in my yard— were aided by it. They were obviously on the move, desperately seeking food which they found on my deer-ravaged property where only some kinds of alien plants had been left alone by the hoofed browsers. Indeed, the many years of overpopulated deer herds have played a significant role in the enablement of so-called invasive plants. By keeping areas cleared of native plants, deer created opportunities for alien plants to move in. In actuality, the invasive-plant situation cannot be dealt with realistically until deer numbers are truly kept in balance with the environment. I’ve seen far more wildlife— both in species and in numbers—in my yard over the past three decades than most folks will ever see in a lifetime of visiting wildlife refuges and national parks. As a result, I
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contained opium, and then the DEA would be after my husband for prescribing narcotics for a family member. Cora arises in the morning after her husband has left for work. Even though I essentially awake with the chickens (my neighbor has some, so I know this is literally true), my husband is long gone when I wake up. Early in our marriage, he used to wake me up while dressing to ask if his tie matched his shirt. He has either become more compassionate about my need for sleep or his sartorial skills have improved because he no longer does this. Consequently, I spend most mornings alone with our children. Like Cora and Frank, we do usually have dinner together, but unlike them, without being waited upon by our numerous servants. I grew up with my parents reading the newspaper at the breakfast table every morning. Not only do we not eat breakfast as a family now, but we don’t get the newspaper. It would be delivered long after my husband left the house and I wouldn’t have time to read it before I get the kids ready for school and leave for work. And who wants stale news in the evening? Cora’s husband, Frank the Doctor, never puts his children to bed. Cora herself never does either. This job is left to the chambermaid. Lacking a chambermaid in our family, both parents are on bedtime duty. Poor
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know that non-native plants are not only beneficial to wildlife, but also to soil rehabilitation that allows native plants to show up when conditions are suitable for their survival. There are certainly situations in which alien plants shouldn’t be introduced, but most yards don’t fall into that category. In a world overrun by humans, with wildlife struggling to survive on our terms, it’s foolish to suggest that non-native plants should
JULY 2015 Frank, unlike my fortunate husband, was deprived of the singular pleasures of diaper-changing and getting just one more glass of water at bedtime. Cora and her husband are considerate of and grateful for each other, and appear to each set very high standards for their own behavior. Cora and Frank are fictional, idealized creatures who, while flawed, are aware of their flaws and work very hard to redeem them. I am sure my husband and I have many flaws of which we are not aware, and we could never be as kind, generous, loving and penitent as Cora and Frank. However, being married to someone who holds themselves to a high standard, which doctors should, makes one, as a doctor’s wife, try harder to hold oneself to a high standard, too. While I complain much more than Cora would think proper about all the things in life I’ve had to do alone, sharing a doctor’s life is about more than that. Cora blushes every time someone tells her how great her husband is. I’m never really sure how to react either, but it’s a nice thing to hear. So we see that some things have changed since the 50s, the 1850s that is, but some things are still the same. The next time you have a medical appointment, remember that behind physicians, men or women, there’s someone that helped them match their clothes in the morning and then maybe ate breakfast alone, complained to other doctors’ spouses about having to do that, but didn’t really mind that much, and is secretly quite proud of their spouse and what they do. be removed (usually by using herbicides) on private property that is in no condition to support native plants. It’s a myth that non-native plants do not provide adequate food, shelter, and nesting sites for many kinds of wildlife; in fact, many non-native plants are remarkably nature-friendly. In part two of this article (which will appear in the August issue), I’ll discuss five woody non-native plants in my yard that have been the most valuable to the critters in my area. I’m sure you’ll be surprised.
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Crozet Park Launches History Project By Ellen Braun Claudius Crozet Park has a long history dating back to 1957 when the 22-acre parcel was first donated to establish a community park. Since then, many Crozetians have served on the Park’s board of directors, volunteered in some capacity, attended an event, or swam in the pool when it was located on the opposite side of the parking area. For many Crozet residents, the park is a backdrop to memories like learning to swim, seeing fireworks arch across the sky on a July night, watching a favorite grandkid catch a fly ball on the run or using the ‘swarm of bees’ strategy in a kids’ soccer game. Crozet Park has played an integral role in our community, so it’s no wonder that, as we talk about development of a downtown mall, residents almost unanimously say new development requires a connecting pathway to the park. The Park is in its 58th year of operation. Recognizing how the park has figured in our lives, the park’s board is determined to gather up and share some of those memories from the community. The board is embarking
on a history project with the goal of gathering old materials related to the park. A team of 10-12 adult and high school/ college volunteers will work in space provided by Crozet Library to scan old photos, record stories and take in materials that shed light on the role of Crozet Park in our town. The team will use the same process to collect old board documents and sort them out, digitizing some and keeping others in physical form, helping current and former board members finally free up basement space. Here’s how you can help. If you have old documents or photos that you wish to share and that are relevant to the park’s history, bring them to the work session on Saturday, August 15, at the Crozet Library from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The team expects to see old park board rosters, brochures from Arts and Craft Fairs, old pool rules and, of course, photos that tell the park’s story. The team is also looking for a lunch sponsor, so offers are welcome. The project’s discoveries will be displayed at Crozet Library in the fall.
Crozet Community Orchestra Summer Programs Junk Orchestra
July 2 through August 6. Thursday evenings 6:45-8:15 p.m. at Tabor Presbyterian Church (no meeting June 25 or July 16). For ages 10 and up (seniors welcome). Cost $10 per session. A limited number of scholarships are available for financial need. For questions, write to pclarkmusic@gmail.com To sign up, write to murrden@gmail.com
CCO Summer Chamber Music Workshop Returns Friday, July 31 from 7-9 p.m.; Saturday, August 1, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 pm (lunch on your own) and Sunday, August 2, from 1 to 5 p.m. at Crozet Baptist Church (classrooms). Ages 14 and up. Strings and winds only, groups preferred. Cost $55* per person. A limited number of scholarships are available for financial need. Led by Philip Clark and other staff depending on the number of groups. For more information or to register, write to murrden@gmail.com
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Pride of a Warrior: Four Teams Reach State Championship Games By David Wagner david@crozetgazette.com The 2015 Spring sports season turned out to be a Warrior showcase as Western Albemarle High School sent four teams to the state finals at Liberty University June 13. Varsity Boys’ and Girls’ Lacrosse, Varsity Girls’ Tennis and Varsity Girls’ Soccer all competed for state titles on the same day. There was a bit of disappointment as none of them came away with a championship, but it was a big day nonetheless for the Warriors. The boys’ lacrosse team under Head Coach Alex Whitten again came close to realizing their title dreams (Last year they lost in the state semi-finals to eventual state champion Albemarle High School). Head Coach Tara Hohenshelt and the girl’s lacrosse team battled their way to the finals on the road through the regional playoffs. Head Coach Jacob Desch and an inexperienced girls’ soccer team turned a lot of heads on their way to the finals and Head Coach Ellen Markowitz and her resilient girls’ tennis team gave a valiant effort trying to defend their 2014 state title. The four teams combined for three conference titles, two regional titles and four state runner-ups. Each team returns many talented performers next year. Varsity boys’ lacrosse started their playoff run cruising through the Charlottesville group beating both Fluvanna and Monticello for the third time this season. In the conference semi-finals the Warriors took an 8-1 lead to the half over Fluvanna and rolled to a 15-1 win over the Flucos. In the group finals Monticello hung with Western early and only trailed 8-5 at the half but the Warriors took control of the game in the third period, scor-
ing six straight goals to beat the Mustangs 16-8. In the region playoffs the Warriors went on the road to defeat Midlothian before coming back home to face Salem in the 4A South Region Finals. The Warriors opened the season at Salem with a resounding 21-1 win over a squad that is usually extremely competitive. The region finals were not much different as Western rolled to a 19-3 win at home. Once again goalie Jackson Sours and the defense stood tall for the Warriors and enabled the offense to apply continuous pressure on Salem. Defensemen Matthew Mullin, Oliver Herndon, Sam Leeseman, Kyle Landis, Garland Carter and Josh Meeks thwarted any attack Salem could muster. Luke Reilly scored eight goals, Holland Corbett added five, and Clark Sipe tallied four assists and two goals. The Warriors were at home in the state semi-finals to face Fauquier County High School. Fauquier held a 3-2 lead at the end of the first quarter but couldn’t sustain the momentum. Western outscored the Falcons 7-2 in the second behind two goals a piece from Elliot and Taylor Godine to give the Warriors a 9-5 lead at the half. The two teams traded goals at the beginning of the third quarter as Western led 11-7. The Warriors then scored four consecutive goals to take a commanding 15-7 lead and never looked back, earning an 18-10 victory and a berth in the state finals. Elliot scored five goals, A. J. Donovan added four more, while Sipe and Ryan Ingram each had four assists. In the state finals the Warriors faced perennial power Loudoun Valley High School at Liberty University. Western got off to a good start, taking a 2-0 lead. Goalie Jackson Sours made two
spectacular saves. After Elliot tacked on another goal the Warriors led 3-2 at the end of the first quarter. The Vikings made adjustments and Loudoun Valley scored four goals in as many minutes, stealing momentum to lead 8-4 at the half. Western held the Vikings to one goal in the third quarter while scoring three of their own. Reilly scored just two minutes into the period off an Elliot assist and Elliot added the other two goals to cut Loudoun Valley’s lead to 9-7. Western seemed poised for a comeback, but on the opening face-off the Warriors were called for a controversial unsportsmanlike penalty, leaving them a man down for three minutes. The Vikings scored four goals and the Warriors never recovered. Loudoun Valley won 15-10 and took home the 4A State Championship. The Warriors graduated some exceptional talent but bring back a number of excellent players. Gone are Nick Crissey, Clark Sipe, Sumner Corbett, Holland Corbett and Taylor Godine, but the Warriors top two scorers, Elliot and Reilly, will return. Defensively, Leeseman, Kyle Landis and Josh Meeks will be missed, but goalie Sours returns along with defensemen Oliver Herndon and Garland Carter. Girls’ lacrosse had a much different journey to the state finals. After crushing Charlottesville High School 15-4 in the group semi-finals, the Warriors traveled to Monticello for the group championship game. The Mustangs rode the momentum of the home crowd to a 13-11 victory, capturing the group title. The Warriors then traveled to Midlothian High School and won a back-and-forth game, scoring seven of the last nine goals to win 13-10. The Warriors were home for a regional playoff game versus Rockbridge County High School. Western took an 8-3 lead into the break behind three goals from freshman midfielder Audrey Russell and two from freshman midfielder Kira Repich, and then cruised to victory by a final of 19-8. In the region championship they took on a strong, talented Salem High School squad in Salem. The game went down to
the wire before Kate Snyder scored the game winner with 19 seconds to play, giving the Warriors a 13-12 win and the 4A South Region Championship. In the state semi-finals they faced George Mason High School out of Falls Church at home. Mason jumped on the Warriors, but Western came back to take 4-3 lead behind goals from Joie Funk, Magargee and Audrey Russell. Teams traded goals until Mason scored four straight to end the half with a 9-7 lead. Western took control of the game in the second half, scoring seven of the next eight goals. Ellie Allen (who will play for George Washington University in the fall) and Kate Snyder each scored two goals and held off Mason to win 16-11, earning a berth in the state title game. Following nail biters versus Midlothian and Salem and a halftime deficit against Mason, the Warriors were ready for another scrappy, close game against the 4A North Champs, Woodgrove High School of Loudoun County. The lead changed hands five times in the first half. Western struck first just 27 seconds into the game when Hanna Schuler scored off of an assist from Genevieve Russell. Woodgrove scored the next two goals before Western countered with two of their own. But before the half was over, Woodgrove scored four straight goals and led 8-5. The Warriors never got closer. In the second half, Woodgrove stepped up the defensive pressure and scored four goals in the first 5:42 of the half, taking a 12-6 lead. The Warriors did not manage to score again until late in the game when Bella Moriconi scored twice. Woodgrove won 16-8. The departure of team captain and offensive leader Ellie Allen will leave a vacancy and Coach Hohenshelt will have to replace goalie Hamilton Ibbeken. But the Warriors have plenty of offensive talent returning with Magargee leading the charge. Sophomore goalie Catherine Adams is waiting in the wings to fill Ibbeken’s shoes, along with a strong cast of returning players. Girl’s soccer made an impressive run to the state finals as
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WAHS Varsity Girls Lacrosse 2015 (Photo courtesy westernalbemarlesports.com)
well. Behind strong defense, the Warriors found their stride going into the post-season. Goalie Erin Farina and a formidable defense posted 12 shutouts along the way. Seniors Langlee King, Sarah Honosky and Lillian Meggs shored up the defensive end and freshmen Caitlin Harvey, Jane Romness and Elizabeth Fabiano surprised everyone on the attack. The Warriors opened the Conference 29 playoffs with a 6-0 win over Waynesboro and followed it up with consecutive 2-0 wins over Broadway and Spotswood to outscore their opponents 10-0 in the conference playoffs. In the 3A West Regional playoffs they shut out Cave Spring High School, 5-0, at home. Ava Coles, Shannon Moore, Jane Romness, Genna Repich and Harvey scored for the Warriors. Freshman dominated the scoring in the Waynesboro game as well. Elizabeth Fabiano scored twice and Moore had a goal and added an assist in that game. They next upset Amherst before facing Blacksburg in the Region finals, earning a spot in the state playoffs. An experienced Blacksburg team proved to be too much for the Warriors and won the match 2-0. Western then went to Aldie [Loudoun County] to face John Champe High School in the semi-finals. Nichole Heon scored the game’s lone goal as the Warriors moved on to the State Championship game. The Warriors again faced Blacksburg High School, but this time it was for all the marbles. The Warriors were not intimidated. It was a physical game in which the officials, “let ‘em play” and the young
Western team didn’t back down. For the final 40 minutes Western gave it their all, creating some chances, but they just could not get that finishing touch. Blacksburg downed down the Warriors 1-0 and won the 3A Girl’s State Championship. With most of their offensive firepower returning, along with goalie Farina, the Warriors should be serious contenders next year. Coach Desch has a plethora of talent and now a playoff-seasoned club. They finished 2015 with 17 wins, four
losses, three ties and a 3A State runner-up banner to hang in the rafters. Head Coach Ellen Markowitz and the girls’ tennis team were on everybody’s radar to start 2015, as they were set to defend their 2014 state title. They barely missed the mark. They steamrolled the competition through the regular season, going undefeated until the 3A West Region Championship match where they lost to the only team that beat them all year, Cave Spring High School. In the Conference 29 playoffs the Lady Warriors dispatched Turner Ashby 5-0 before facing Spotswood in the finals. Maddy Ix, Stephanie Barton, Hannah Kearns, Noelle Stith, and Mia Singnil closed it out for the Warriors, winning 5-1, and the doubles teams did not even take the court. In the region playoffs the Warriors breezed past Brookville High School to face Blacksburg. Ix, Barton, Kearns and Savannah Diamond, and the doubles team of Ix/Barton took care of business, 5-2, to send Western into the region finals and the first match-up with Cave Spring. Ix (the team’s top
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player) missed the match due to illness, forcing the Warriors to play with a substitution. They played with tremendous heart and determination. Cave Spring won the match 5-4 and took the region crown but not without a strong effort from Western. Diamond, Rosy Ix, Stith and the doubles team of Diamond and Anna O’Shea won for Western, keeping the match within reach. Even with the loss the Warriors qualified for the state playoffs and they bounced back in strong fashion. Facing York County High School, Western came up big with a 5-2 win and put themselves back in the state championship. Kearns, Diamond, Rosy Ix, Stith and the doubles team of Kearns/ Rosey Ix secured the win, sending the team to the finals in a rematch with Cave Spring. Even with Maddy Ix in the line-up for this match, Western couldn’t pull off the upset and they lost 5-4. They finished the season with a remarkable 22-2 record and the State Champions were the only team to beat them. They still finished as 3A State Runner-ups, a tremendous season by any standard.
The 2015 Peachtree Rookie 8U All Star team defeated Northside in a double-header late Monday night, June 29, to become District V Champions. Front Row, left to right: Auggy Parkins, Jack Parkins, Kaegan Costa, Carter Parkins; 2nd Row, left to right: Ian Durnien, Bradley Winn, Peter Mierzejewski, Jake Johnson; 3rd Row, left to right: Gray Heilman, Madison Kelly, Jay Miller, Thomas Heilman, Gryfin Costa, Cole Madison; Back Row: Scorekeeper Don Costa, Assistant Sam Madison, Head Coach Sam Parkins. Not pictured: Jalen Sims, Quinn Eliason, Julian Miles
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posed as the model) and a banjo player. Well-known Richmond banjo player Red Lewis (leader of the band Red Lewis and The Letting Go) posed for that figure. The mural features a lyric from a song by the band Hurray for the Riff Raff, “My Heart is a Blue Ridge Mountain” (from their song Blue Ridge Mountain, on the album Small Town Heroes) that provides the theme for the painting. Starr Hill arranged for permission to use the lyric, which is a nod to Maybelle Carter. Raised in Maryland, Robertson has lived in Richmond since coming to Virginia Commonwealth University to study art, specifically illustration, 10 years ago. After graduating he attended a seven-week Illustration Academy, taught by professional illustrators, where he said he learned as much as in his college studies. “The pipes on the wall and the corrugated metal [siding] threw me off a little. When I did the design I tried to account for them. The most detail ended up [on that section of the wall]. It interrupted mark-making. I couldn’t make a continuous stroke. I had to change brushes to a tiny one and sculpt lines. I
had to get up and down a lot to look at the wall. What looked straight when I painted it actually looked curved from the road.” The project also changed his mind some about using spray paint. “I’ve never used spray before. I prefer holding a brush. I try to avoid hiccups, like might happen with spray, but now I see the why about them. You can do fluid motions with spray. The forgiving thing about the wall being big was my strokes could be big. When you step back, it gets crisper.” Starr Hill hosted a signing event June 26 and Robertson painted his name on the wall. Starr Hill also debuted its new label and packaging designs. (Only the star remains from the original designs.) “We hope the mural serves as a gift to the Crozet Community,” said Starr Hill CEO Brian McNelis, who explained that the glare off the wall into the tap room had made the brewery want to paint it a darker color. “I tend to be a perfectionist and keep coming back to things, so the signing event on Friday night made the project seem complete to me,” Robertson said. He expects to check in on the mural again. “We come to Charlottesville all the time,” said Robertson. “I proposed on Humpback Rocks.
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We’ve been looking around here and we’ve fallen in love with Crozet. “The cars going by that honked and waved were the people of Crozet and that was the highest praise for adding something to their life. They have to look at it everyday and I appreciate that. That was the highlight. I could catch kids with wide eyes looking at it. It reminded me of my awe at a young age. They would yell ‘thank you!’ and that humbled me and kept me going.” All the paint came from Blue Ridge Builder’s Supply in Crozet. “Those guys were great,” said Robertson. Robertson was an extra in the
movie Lincoln when it was filmed in Richmond and he appears in the scene of Lincoln’s death. The setting and performance were so convincing that he was moved by it and got a deeper appreciation of who Lincoln was. He has an ambition to paint the scene and has done some studies of figures who will appear in it. Robertson’s next projects are what he calls “editorial,” meaning they are illustrations for magazine or advertising work, something that promotes something. But he’s in the mood for more murals, too. To see more of Robertson’s work, visit www.duncanillustration.com.
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i.e., the legal right to know the reason that they are detained or punished (the “body,” as of an argument, referring to that reason). Some lawyers work pro bono (for the public good, meaning for no pay). I could go on ad infinitum (to infinity), but I’ll end with the recommendation that if you have teens entering high school at WAHS, they should seize the
opportunity to sign up for Latin with Mr. Mann, that sine qua none (without which not, or an essential component) of teaching, who helped me with this article. This study will put them on terra firma (solid ground) in their understanding of English, e.g.—abbreviation for exempli gratia, for the sake of example— will improve their vocabulary, spelling, and reading comprehension. Because when you think about it, Latin is as American as apple pie!
Take Me Out to the Tom Sox By David Wagner Valley League baseball has made its debut at Charlottesville High School as the Charlottesville Tom Sox inaugural season has launched. The Valley League is a summer league for college baseball players, consisting of 12 teams in Virginia and West Virginia. The league features many Division I baseball players from the eastern half of the country and plays from early June to early August. The League is split into two divisions (North and South) with four teams from each division qualifying for the post-season. Learn more about the league at Valley Leaguebaseball.com. The Tom Sox play all of their home games at Charlottesville High School. Start time for all games (except Saturday, July 4th) is 7 p.m. The regular season started June 4 and runs through July 25 with each team in the playing 42 games (21 home, 21 away). The Tom Sox are in the South Division with New Market, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Waynesboro and Covington. The North Division includes teams in Strasburg, Aldie, Front Royal, Winchester, Woodstock and Charles Town. Each team plays everyone in their division six times (three home, three away) and two games each against the teams from the other division. Former U.Va. and Colorado Rockies first baseman Joe Koshansky is the General Manager for the Tom Sox (a non-profit organization) and has done a superb job getting things rolling. Along with Jeff Burton (also a former Cavalier),
and the cooperation of VBL Commissioner Don Lemish, the organization has put a good team on the field. Admission to all home games is done by the carload to encourage attendance. One car, one person, $5. One car and two or more people is $10. Walk-ins are admitted for $2. You can park on the street (Melbourne) next to the stadium and get in the gate for two bucks. There are ample bleacher seats and plenty more vantage points to take in the game. Don’t want to sit in the stands? Bring a folding chair and relax in the grass down the third base line or set up camp on top of the hill in the outfield for an elevated seat. The outfield hill is perfect for families with small children and pets. The PR department also provides entertainment throughout the game with mascot races, kids’ activities and just plain old ballpark fun. You can bring in a picnic meal or enjoy ballpark fare from the concession stand or go a little more upscale with the food truck. Ball players from Florida to Texas and Indiana to New York compete in the Valley League. Last Sunday night Ryan Larson from the University of Florida made his debut for the Tom Sox and by the end of the week outfielder Christian Lowry and pitcher Jack Roberts will be joining the team fresh off of their College World Series experience and National Championship run for the Cavaliers in Omaha. The league is littered with Division I players from BCS conference
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GET UP, GET OUT, GET FIT: Come try Boot Camp for REAL People, an outdoor exercise class for all ages and abilities held at Crozet Park and WAHS track. There are AM/PM/Saturday class options this summer so you can find a time that works for you. Visit www.m2personal training.com or call Melissa Miller for more information. Come try your first class for FREE! NEED A HELPING HAND or a companion to an adult? Please call 8235802. Please leave a message. SHORT-TERM LEASE NEEDED: Family of 4 relocating from LA to Charlottesville. Our children will start school August 18 at W. Albermarle and Henley, but our home will not be ready to move in until October 1. Small furnished guest house would be ideal don’t need anything too fancy. Approximate dates needed would be August 15-October 15. Please call if any offerings or suggestions. Thanks! 310-948-6219 TWIN 17 year old girls are taking reservations for summer pet sitting. Also available for babysitting and small errands. 434-465-9019. W A R E H O U S E ASSOCIATES NEEDED IN CROZET! Manpower is looking for Pickers/Packers for exciting new opportunities. Job duties: Candidates will play a key roll in picking and packing merchandise in a busy warehouse. Hours: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday Friday. Pay rate: $9.50/hour. Are you interested? Please contact Danielle Dalton 434.245.0071 x70318. Danielle.Dalton@manpower.com.
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WAHS Graduation Awards 2015 For excellence in Art SEAMORE ZHU For excellence in Band IAN WRIGHT For excellence in Ceramics SARAH VAGNONI For excellence in Computer Aided Drafting JOSHUA REID For excellence in Drama BRENNAN REID For excellence in French KELLY MISSETT For excellence in German VALERIE HELMBRECHT For excellence in Manufacturing Technology BRYCE VAN DE CASTLE For excellence in Marketing CLARE O’DEA For excellence in Mathematics SEAMORE ZHU, ERIC XU For excellence in Photography/Digital Imaging BENJAMIN CHAMBERS
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with the Center. Now we’re thinking a monthly jam session.” In July the shop will host a workshop with the Waynesborobased Artisan Center of Virginia that will walk people through the process of becoming a juried Virginia artisan. For more information, visit their website, www.crozetartisan depot.com, or their Facebook page.
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Wednesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. “We’ll also participate in Second Saturdays (a monthly art show opening) with The Art Box and Over The Moon Bookstore,” said Mistry, a painter and jewelry-maker. “We’re in brainstorming mode for events to co-host
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environments over either dry, desert-like or damp, jungle-like habitats. A manifestation of our deeply held preference shows up in the way we design city parks. All over the world, parks most often mimic this landscape, reflecting a cross-cultural preference for our ancestral home. From Dubai to Dubrovnik, from Toronto to Tokyo, municipal parks frequently feature large spaces open to the sky. Fields of low grasses are interspersed with shrubbery, coppices and mature trees. Commonly, water is in view, with a path, a riverbank or a lake shoreline inviting us to wander and explore. The sense
of a vibrant habitat, embellished with flowers, birds, waterfowl, fish and other animal life, often is invoked. Like coins, human beings are image bearers. Three millennia ago, the writers of the Book of Genesis proclaimed to the ancient world of the Near East a revolutionary idea, that we are imprinted with the holy; “So God created mankind in his own image; in his own image God created them; he created them male and female” Chapter 1 Verse 27, International Standard Version. Today, science proclaims our bodies bear the mark of Nature, and it suggests the fine-looking, nurturing and comforting image of the ancient savanna is indelibly imprinted within our hearts and minds.
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The Virginia Film Festival is taking to the great outdoors this summer to present Moonlight Movies, a series of free screenings at locations throughout the Charlottesville area. All events are free and open to the public, and will begin at sundown (approximately 8:30 p.m.). On Saturday, July 11, the Moonlight Movie feature will be Back to the Future, and will be in Crozet, at Old Trail Village Center. Grit Cafe Crozet will be expanding their outdoor patio seating for the night, and they will set up an outdoor stand with beer, wine, non-alcoholic drinks, snacks, ice-cream, and more for purchase. Visit virginiafilmfestival.org for more information.
The newly formed chapter of the Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Humpback Rocks, will recruit volunteers to work on parkway projects at a concert at Humpback Rocks July 19. Volunteers are needed to plant trees, clear brush and provide interpretive and educational services to aid parkway staff this year. The concert, by the bluegrass band Grassy Ridge, will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Humpback Rocks Mountain Farm (milepost 6). The event is free. For more information call the Humpback Rocks Visitor Center at 540-943-4716. Bring a comfortable chair or blanket, a picnic meal and plenty of drinking water (no alcoholic beverages).
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up to expectations at a race, local elites fail and get frustrated a lot. But they don’t quit. Back to Fitness people need to realize that they are going to fail a lot and get frustrated a lot, but they should not let this stop their progress. Local elites take the lessons they learn from training and racing and apply it into their real life. These athletes have been at low points in training and even during the middle of a race, and have somehow managed to come out of it and grow in the process. Those are some of the more rewarding achievements, those that were just as much a mental victory as a physical victory. Pushing their bodies and their minds through these tough spots makes them more resilient in your day-to-day life, which is surely also filled with challenges. Back to Fitness people should look at every failure and frustration as good mental training for life. Local elites want to see other people achieve success! They are not hypercompetitive crazies! The vast majority of local elites are normal people who love to encourage others to break through barriers, just like they did one day long ago. If you are a “Back to Fitness-er,” don’t let your head get in the way of your success. Give yourself some credit! Come up with goals, work hard, and approach them like the athlete you are and can be!
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Southern is leading the team with a 0.71 ERA in 12 2/3 innings. And starting pitcher Drew Scott from Yale has a 2-0 record with a 1.98 ERA, 11 strikeouts and allowing only 11 hits in 13 2/3 innings. After a tough 0-4 start, the Tom Sox have played at a .650 winning percentage since then and they hover now around .500.