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INSIDE NEW PASTOR page 6 SAD GOODBYE page 7 LOOK ‘EM IN THE EYE page 8 STONE MEMORIAL page 9

SEPTEMBER 2016 VOL. 11, NO. 4

BIGGER PIZZA page 12

Square Likely to Be Made a One-Way Street

DRIVEN FROM HOME page 13 THE CREW page 16 TRUE FRIENDS page 18 NEW HABITAT page 20 YOU CAN’T QUIT pages 24 THE LAND ETHIC page 27 WHAT’S EXPECTED page 29

The red area shows Milestone Partners’ proposal for Phase 1 of its development in downtown.

Downtown Project Goes to Planning Commission for Phase One Approval

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The project to redevelop the former Barnes Lumber property in downtown Crozet will go before the Albemarle County Planning Commission as a two-part process, Milestone Partners president Frank Stoner told the Crozet Community Advisory Committee at its August 18 meeting. Phase One will be commercial buildings and concentrate on the blocks immediately east of The Square and Crozet Library, extending the

WATCH FOR HORNY STAGS page 38

Police Open Satellite Office in Old Trail

PANORAMA RECORD page 33 PHARMA GREED page 34 FALAFEL page 35

YUCCAS page 39 DON’T MISS page 40 PHOTO CONTEST page 43 CROSSWORD page 44 BEREAVEMENTS page 45

The Albemarle County Police Department has opened a satellite office in space offered to them in Old Trail, a move that allows officers to do office work without having to return to police headquarters in Charlottesville, Chief Ron Lantz told a small crowd who came out to meet him at Crozet Library for a question and answer session August 16. Lantz took over the chief ’s duties from former chief Steve Sellers in June. He has been with the depart-

existing streets to intersect with an extension of High Street and thus creating, ultimately, two new blocks. The plaza, or public space, for downtown is now under design by the Baltimore landscape architecture firm Mahan Rykiel, which was hired in July. Stoner said the location of the plaza is not fixed, but awaits Mahan Rykiel’s recommendation. It will be in Phase One and likely on the west side of High Street. Stoner said he would proffer a continued on page 10

ment since 2012, joining it the first day the department went into its geopolicing program, which assigns officers to specific geographical areas where they are encouraged to become acquainted with residents and build community ties. He had spent the previous 24 years in the Fairfax County police force and was commander of its Fair Oaks station, which covered 125,000 residents with a geopolicing strategy.

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Parking congestion and storm water problems in The Square, along with the traffic implications of developing the former Barnes lumberyard beyond it, are forcing a resolution of longstanding issues that appear likely to result in the heart of town being turned into a one-way street headed eastward. That will allow angled parking in front of the stores and along the track fence as well as curbing and wider sidewalks. Business and property owners on The Square joined county lawyers and planners at King Family Vineyards August 23 at a meeting convened by White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek to gauge businesses’ willingness to accept a new traffic pattern. Constrained and frustrated by present conditions, business leaders showed little reluctance over the concept. Its implication is that traffic will be allowed to enter The Square from Crozet Avenue, but could only get back to it by exiting through Library Avenue, where, at some point, a traffic light will be needed. Joel DiNunzio, Virginia Department of Transportation’s chief

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Crozet is filling up with cars and its past time to get serious about road design and traffic. The county’s recognition of its ownership of, and therefore responsibility for, The Square (see the story on page 1) means that we can finally get going on an effective plan that will make the heart of old Crozet into an attractive entry to future development of Barnes lumber yard. There’s no budget for it, but there must be. The county also needs an earnest financial plan for the construction of the bridge over Lickinghole Creek that will allow an arterial road to be built from Cory Farm on Rt. 250 to Westhall and other neighborhoods in eastern Crozet. Given the number of houses that now rely solely on Tabor Street for access, a choke point, this bridge is an urgent project. The Crozet Master Plan dubs this conjectural road “Eastern Avenue” and portions of it are now being built. But the bridge is the key segment and the county’s capital budget must include it. Which brings us to the

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Mass In Crozet The Crozet Catholic community welcomes all Catholics, especially those new to our town. We have been meeting in Crozet for Mass since March of 2014 and have seen our attendance grow. We hold services on the second Sunday of each month at the Field School at 10 a.m. We first transform the gym into a lovely chapel, and then celebrate Mass as a community. In this welcoming atmosphere, with a choir to lead us in song, and a hospitality gathering after the service, we are ready to greet new friends. We are looking forward to the day when we are able to have Mass weekly here in

Milestone Partners plan for Phase One of the lumberyard development. The strong possibility that The Square will be converted to a one-way street means that Oak Street, which connects The Square to Library Avenue and is now partially built as part of the construction of Piedmont Place, should be a regular two-way street and not a parking lot as the proposed plan currently shows. The temptation to cut through the parking lot will be too strong. It should be conceived of as a street from the start and the parking needed should be shifted behind the buildings that will be built on the new block formed between Oak Street and High Street. This solution is shown in the plan for downtown offered by retired landscape architects Warren Byrd and Susan Nelson (local residents) who offered it (free, as good citizens), with an explanation of its hows and whys, to the Crozet Community Advisory Committee last August. That meeting is the only occasion in the memory of your editor when the CCAC responded to a presentation with spontaneous applause. It was appreciation for an elegantly simple resolution of a continued on page 37

Crozet. With that aim in mind, the Crozet Catholic community is trying to obtain mission status, which would allow for weekly Mass, religious education and ultimately our own parish here in Crozet. Monsignor Rev. Raymond Francis Muench, the canon lawyer of the Diocese of Richmond, will preside at our Mass September 11. Msgr. Muench also oversees the parishes in the Diocese’s central district, which Crozet would belong to. Fr. Joseph Mary Luyamuzi, pastor of Holy Comforter Catholic Church in Charlottesville, normally presides at Mass, but he is in Uganda this month. Singles, seniors, families, kids, and those who may be looking to rejoin in the practice of their faith are all welcome. For more information, write to crozetcatholics@gmail.com. Ellie Kroeger Crozet Mass Committee

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Sarah Evancho Gets the Call at Crozet United Methodist Sarah Evancho is the first female pastor at Crozet United Methodist Church. She took the ministry reins in July from former pastor Jim Chandler, who the Methodist church leadership has assigned to church development duties—“scalability”—across the state. Chandler, in the post for two years, had succeeded pastor Doug Forrester, who held the post for eight years before being moved to an assignment at a large church in Richmond. Methodist pastors are sent where the church leaders think their talents and communities’ needs line up. Evancho had been associate pastor at Larchmont United Methodist Church in Norfolk for eight years, a church smaller that CUMC, before learning of her posting to Crozet. This is her first post as pastor. She has a one-year appointment and will be renewed if all goes well. She’s taken over her new office with an orderly, polished style that includes a few eccentricities like a small electric heater that looks like a fireplace—these days she’s just got the hearth glow going—an essential oil mist machine and an esoteric collection of religious knicknacks like rosaries and images of saints and pictures of Hindu gods. She likes to wear a flamboyant shoe with a very tall heel and she keeps her hair clipped short. She described herself as “Type A and OCD; everything is organized.” She was born and raised in northern Virginia—“I’m a

Pentagon rat”—and in her childhood attended Floris United Methodist Church in Herndon. She graduated from Chantilly High School and got her bachelors at the College of William and Mary (a religious studies major with a specialty in non-Christian religions) before attending seminary at Drew Theological School in New Jersey, where she got a full scholarship. Her husband Clifton is a high school history teacher who is currently substituting and their son is now a first grader at Crozet Elementary. “I was born and raised a Methodist,” she said. “I grew up in the largest Methodist church in the Virginia Annual Conference, which comprises most of the state. I’ve been exposed to all the major world religions and I appreciate their gifts, and I’m still a Christian. “It was an honor and humbling to be appointed to Crozet. People wait more than a decade to get appointed to a church. It’s a sent ministry. The bishop tells you where you’re going to go and you go. If you decline, you’re out for a year and you’re not likely to get an appointment.” She said the conference has more than 1,500 active clergy. “A lot of people would have jumped at the chance to come here. This church has been very welcoming. I owe a lot to pastor Jim. He paved the way and set me up for success. He reached out and helped me transition

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Thanks for All the Great Meals, Three Notch’d Three Notch’d Grill in north downtown, for a decade Crozet’s idea of its top-flight place to eat out, shut down August 20 after a short notice of its intention to close. “The last two weeks were crazy,” said Cathy Berry, front of the house boss. “Ever since we posted the closing on Facebook so many people came in to show they love us. We got a lot of loving.” “Almost too much,” threw in Hayden Berry, the chef. It was their clean up day and the restaurant, typically tidy, handsome and clean, looked like a moving out day. They were getting ready to turn over the space to its new tenant, Southern Way Café. Three Notch’d opened on Oct. 11, 2005, Hayden remembered. “Old Trail had a road but no houses. “Restaurant years are like dog years,” he said. “Ten years is like a 100.” The pace, the hours, had piled up. The couple had been in the kitchen at Duner’s Restaurant

in Ivy for 17 years when the chance to go out on their own in Crozet came open. “An opportunity arose,” said Cathy. “We wanted to try. We’re history buffs and that’s how we came up with the name.” Three Notch’d Road, named for the blaze marks on trees, was a colonial route from Richmond to the Valley that followed established Indian trails. “We wanted, initially, to be a little downscale from Duner’s,” which bills itself as “casual fine dining.” “We wanted to cook food we wanted to eat,” Hayden said. “One day it would be Cajun and the next day it would be classic French.” In the end, he said, the cuisine was “mixed American grill” and the atmosphere was “casual fine dining.” “It’s been 30 years in kitchens,” explained Hayden. “The hours, the demands have always been a problem. It’s hard to staff a restaurant in the Charlottesville area. There are like 240. It’s hard for everybody. “We want more of a life for

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ourselves. We’ve missed a lot of milestones along the way and now we have aging parents.” Hayden graduated from Western in 1985. “We’ve watched some kids grow up here.” Now he’s moving his folks into a retirement community. “We’re not retiring, but we’re taking a break. We might get

back in the restaurant business in the future.” “It was harder—almost overwhelming—to close the restaurant than it was to open it,” said Cathy. “We have no real plans. But we’re not going anywhere. We’re staying here. We got to know a lot of our customers and we’ve made a lot of friends in continued on page 41

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What Should You Do With Your Money? Sam Harris worked for TFS Capital, based out of Richmond, for 12 years as a part owner. His job was to work with financial advisors to help them find investment funds for their clients. He was one remove from the people the funds were designed to help. Now he has hung out his shingle under the name Piedmont Financial as an independent financial advisor. Now he builds portfolios one on one. Raised in Chesterfield and a finance graduate of Virginia Tech, Harris came to Crozet in 2012, to be an outpost of TFS Capital. “We looked around for several weeks in Charlottesville,” he said. “One of my colleagues suggested Old Trail. We came and looked and we knew it. We wanted to be in Crozet. So we picked Crozet. My company let me open an office in Old Trail. “In fact I think Crozet would benefit hugely from having a shared-office space. I thought about it for myself, but when you’re talking about investments

you need a closed door—privacy. When he went on his own, in July, he looked for an office in Crozet and couldn’t find any. He settled for a space at Boar’s Head but he wants his business to be Crozet-centered and he— so far—is the only independent broker in town. “I started my company because I’ve seen all the ways people pay excessive fees. I’m passionate about keeping people from being ripped-off. It eats away people’s money and it really bothers me.” Harris started investing in high school. “As a boy I started with baseball stats. I was a numbers guy.” His first investment was in Calloway Golf Company. “I bought three shares. I don’t think I made any money. I think I still have it somewhere. “I recently bought each my [three] kids one share of Disney stock to get them introduced. I don’t generally think people should be buying individual stocks. My nine-year-old likes to check the price. The younger

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ones don’t know what it means.” As for his business philosophy, “I want to be straightforward and transparent and putting clients’ interest above my own. My business will grow when people know that. I want people in Crozet to call me because I have a reputation for doing business the right way. Most investors pay way too much in fees, some they don’t realize. “People need education about finance in general. Most people shouldn’t try to time the market. Invest consistently and rebalance as you need to. In the long run you’re best off. I don’t like mutual funds—it’s a way people over pay. They underperform for what they charge. One of my biggest philosophies is using ETFs, exchange trade funds, rather than mutual funds. ETFs are not actively managed. It’s not picking funds to outperform the benchmark. They have lower expense ratios, lower turnover, so lower taxes and broad diversification. “I would build a portfolio

with several ETFs to set different market exposure. I rebalance during the year. “Another thing is I’m an independent, state-registered investment advisor so I have a fiduciary responsibility to act in my client’s best interest.” Being state-registered means he had to pass an exam. Independent advisors who handle over $100 million must also register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. “Being independent means I don’t have to sell my clients anything. I don’t get compensation from anybody but my clients and my recommendations are totally about their needs. “As long as you’re diversified, you can react to different market movements. The key is to not take on more risk than you are willing to. Use market drawdowns, declines, to rebalance. “I’m investing in the exact same stuff as my clients and I can look them in the eye and tell them I’m doing the same thing. continued on page 41

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This Memorial Will Be Set in Stone By Sally James From what appeared to be only a pile of rubble heaped on a hillside in a quiet corner of Albemarle County, a magnificent chimney is emerging through the hands of a master stonemason. Darryl Whidby is working his craft with the rock from an old chimney brought from a homestead not far from the site of its new home: Patricia Ann Byrom Forest Preserve Park. The Albemarle Blue Ridge Heritage Project (ABRHP)— one of eight grassroots subgroups of the umbrella organization Blue Ridge Heritage Project—has begun construction of Phase I of the Albemarle memorial to remember and honor the families who were displaced by the creation of Shenandoah National Park. Each of the eight counties surrounding the park will erect a chimney—a symbol of the homes and communities that filled the mountains before the Park. Bronze plaques with the surnames of the families displaced within each county will be mounted on their respective chimneys. Phase II will consist of an open-sided post and beam shelter designed to represent a mountain cabin. There will be informational panels explaining the life and culture of that area of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and there will be opportunities for future presentations to share the mountain music, traditions and ways of life. ABRHP is actively fundrais-

ing to make Phase II a reality. (The funds needed for Phase I have been collected to date.) To that end, ABRHP is planning a wonderful and fun evening at The Lodge at Old Trail’s Third Thursday event on Sept 15. Beginning at 5:30 p.m., the evening will kick off with mountain music by Kim and Jimbo Cary, and light refreshments. Over 40 items for a silent auction will be on display at that time, and after a brief presentation with stories about the mountain people and an explanation of the memorial being built, folks will be able to bid fast and furiously until 6:55 when the winners will be announced. The items offered for auction have been donated from many generous businesses and individuals from our community. Gifts and gift certificates for products and services come from our neighbors at Blue Ridge Builders Supply, Crozet Eye Care, Crozet Running, Great Valu Grocery, Green House Coffee, Innovations for Hair, Modern Barber Shop, MudHouse Coffee, Piedmont Store, Sal’s Pizza, Salon R, Stinson Vineyard, and more. There will be several books by local authors and software relating to history and genealogy; some antique glassware and a scythe; paintings and handcrafted items from local artisans (D. Masters Kriebel: hand-woven scarves; Kelsey S. Watson: hand-crafted hunting knife; paintings/prints by Dick Carpenter, Larry Lamb, Tim Wright; four pieces of Native American jewelry); five hand

Master stonemason Darryl Whidby and his wife Jackie of Madison County endure humid 90 degree days as they begin to bring these old chimney stones to life again. Darryl’s work is, indeed, a labor of love as he honors his own family members who lived in the mountains. (Photo by Larry Lamb)

looms; a case of local wine; a market cart; even a cello lesson, a load of Currituck Compost, and a ride in The Lodge’s famous Blue Truck! Check out the ABRHP Facebook page and website for more items, and come see for yourself! Watching the chimney rise up out of the ground is a con-

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space of 28,000 square feet for the plaza with at least 12,000 square feet of it contiguous. Stoner told the CCAC the mission of the project is to “create an authentic and vibrant town center that honors the history and character of Crozet, stimulates economic development and is an attractive and affordable place for people to live.” Stoner said the project’s “principles” are: “to be authentic; to be environmentally responsible; to provide compelling reasons to be downtown; to honor pedestrians and bicyclists, to seek connectivity [in transportation]; to be inclusive and affordable; to be mindful of the market; to work together, be flexible and respectful; and to be resourceful and proactive. “I’ve demonstrated the ability to be flexible and to reach out and make you a partner in the project,” he said. “We can’t achieve our objectives if I have to pay for everything.” Former CCAC member Bill Schrader commented that the principles should include adherence to the Crozet Master Plan, which Stoner accepted. Stoner said he did not expect the rezoning of Phase One to include it in the Downtown Crozet District to occur before the end of the year. Next, he said, the project needs a “capital plan” for how to finance it. “We have really exciting [commercial] prospects who want to be in downtown. They want to know what it’s going to look like. They don’t want to be

holding the bag in an unfinished project.” He declined to describe what sorts of businesses those are. “We’re moving straight on to the plaza design rather than going through a branding process first,” he said. The streets shown as black lines on the drawing are public streets and those shown as gray lines are private streets, he explained. The private streets are essentially parking lots, he said, and they are private because the Virginia Department of Transportation standards will not allow pull-in parking on public streets. Stoner noted that a traffic round-about previously suggested at the east end of The Square has been dropped. It was formerly proposed so that VDOT trucks would have a turn around opportunity, he said. In Phase Two, a “primary street” would bisect the parcel and become the main commercial avenue. A “secondary street” would extend Library Avenue and potentially connect it to Hilltop Street. Parking lots would be behind the buildings and along the railroad tracks. Stoner said parking availability will continue to be an issue for the downtown and he suggested that a parking garage is necessary, perhaps on the site of the existing library parking lot. VDOT is considering making the turn into The Square a “right-only,” he said, meaning that traffic could not exit from The Square, where the street would become one-way eastbound, but would have to leave downtown via Library Avenue, where a traffic light will need to continued on page 15

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and he spoke highly of me to the membership.” Evancho is excited by the recent appointment of the Virginia conference’s first African-American woman, Charma Lewis, coming out of the north Georgia conference, as bishop. “We’re going to extend her an invitation to visit and preach in Crozet,” she said. “It’s a big deal to hear a bishop preach. We’re looking for diversity, reflecting humanity. Methodism in Virginia is pretty vanilla.” As associate pastor at Larchmont Evancho oversaw the third service on Sundays, which she described as having “a dynamic style, that does not follow a rigid structure but follows the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.” She prepared a homily and then an activity response such as prayer stations. “It’s a very innovative service for Methodism. It’s been done more in Episcopal churches. It’s very successful for young adults, an age group that’s missing from church. We had a culture of redemption. How do you respond to the culture they were encountering Monday through Saturday? We sang Michael Jackson and Pharrell songs.” Evancho also started a pastor’s Bible study on Thursday nights that drew more than 30 participants. She’s starting it at CUMC this fall. “It’s appropriate for high schoolers on up,” she said. “It’s good to engage them with adults in a mature way. It’s good for them to see that adults don’t have it all figured out.” CUMC has a membership of about 500 on its rolls and an average Sunday attendance of 285, she said. “Our attendance has gone up over the summer. Some of it is people are just being more consistent, and

some are new members. Our location is premium and we have high visibility. “We have a passion for children and for providing for the needy.” Evancho was referring to the CUMC’s well-known preschool program, its Boy Scout troop, and its equally well established food pantry, which has been a treasure for Crozet over the years. She also cited the church’s hosting of the Crozet Farmers’ Market. “The people of Crozet want to reach out,” she said. “This is really interesting: every age group is represented here in spades. The intergenerational contact is amazing. Our Vacation Bible School had people from all the breadth of life. The number of youth I see as I’m preaching is incredible and they are paying attention. People have a lot of options of things to do on Sunday mornings. If they choose to come to church that’s a huge statement about priority. “CUMC is really diverse. We have professors and farmers and small business owners. It’s all walks of life. It gives us all an idea of what we are blessed with. “I don’t really have an agenda for the church. We know we’re in a period of growth and we’re trying to meet the needs of a changing community. And to push ourselves in new ministry. There are needs here in Crozet. We should be addressing those, such as aging housing for some of our old Crozet members. We can help with renovations they need. Also we want to go beyond giving people food through the food pantry and help them in other ways. We want to take the things we do well and grow. In September we’re going to take stock and see what other needs we have. Do we want to launch another service? Our sanctuary is full at 250. The idea is to build the Kingdom.”

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Crozet Pizza Expands Crozet Pizza has expanded its footprint in the old Fruit Growers buildings in downtown by taking over next-door space that formerly was Maupins’ Music and Video. The dividing wall has been removed and the Pourhouse area enlarged with its roughsawn appearance (all the lumber is salvaged from the building) kept in tact. Where the Maupins once had their sales counter is now a dining room that is separated from the Poorhouse, accessed by an open archway, making it quieter. In all, 60 seats are being added, 35 of those in the new dining room and 25 in the Pourhouse. The restaurant has subscribed to Direct TV’s NFL Sunday Ticket, a service that provides all the NFL games live, and will inaugurate it on Sept. 11, the first day of the league’s regular season, according to Crozet Pizza owner Mike Alexander. “We’ll also have a tribute for the 15th anniversary of 9/11,” he said. Alexander said he will add more TVs in the Pourhouse

room to ensure that they are visible from the new tables. A new tap system is also being installed that will make 16 craft beers available and allow for filling growlers. “We’re not trying to be a sports bar,” said Alexander, “but you have to have enough TVs. We’re going to trick it out nice.” The map room, as it’s called, will be converted to kitchen space over the winter and the menu will be expanded to offer sandwiches and pasta dishes. The map, which shows customers wearing their Crozet Pizza T-shirts in exotic locations all over the world, will move to the new dining room. “The map will certainly stay. You’ve gotta hold on to your roots. Bob [Crum] would turn over in his grave if we lost that.” Alexander said that 16 parking spaces behind the restaurant, and behind the Rescue Squad hall, have been paved recently and are available for customers. They can be accessed from the alley behind the buildings.

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Joe Wood: Alone During the early decades of the 20th century, those passing through Sugar Hollow by way of Turk’s or Jarman’s Gap would have played the dickens trying to avoid Joe Wood. The larger-than-life figure was known by many in western Albemarle County, as well as to others across the Blue Ridge Mountains in east Augusta. Waynesboro newspaper headlines once trumpeted the claims of the famous “tamer of rattlesnakes and grower of two crops of apples on the same tree.” When those revelations were “checked for even an iota of contaminating truth,” the Mayor of Sugar Hollow was crowned Grand Champion in the region’s “Tall Story Contest” (modeled after the Burlington Liars’ Club of old.) Joseph Franklin Wood (1871–1944) was the second born of three sons and two daughters of Alexander and Martha “Mattie” (Ballard) Wood. Joe and his wife Winkie (Belew) (1872–1961) resided with their family directly alongside the road just south (uphill)

of where Shenandoah National Park’s Turk Branch Trail (Skyline Drive MP 94.1) intersects the South Fork Moorman’s River Road. Low stonewalls and scattered foundation stones lie mostly hidden in the heavily forested Wilderness-designated area that belies the productive cultivated fields, orchards and gardens that sustained the families who lived at the southern end of today’s Shenandoah National Park. In addition to the Wood family’s two-story home, originally built by Joe’s grandfather Ira J. Ballard, his property included a 54’ long log barn, a spring house, smoke house, chicken house, a blacksmith shop and a former still house once licensed and operated by his father Alex Wood. Joe Wood’s life, seemingly isolated and labor-intensive by softer, modern standards, was rich in close family and neighbor relations. A natural balance of hard but satisfying work and play alternated within the seasons. Joe loved his horses and

Joseph Franklin Wood: mountain farmer, orchardist, teamster, cattle driver, blacksmith, game warden, musician and teller of tall tales—takes aim from the back of one of his beloved steeds in Sugar Hollow. [Photo courtesy of the Larry Lamb Collection]

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The family of Joseph and Winkie (Belew) Wood of Sugar Hollow, c.1920. L-R: Sidney, Joe, Louise, Paul, Helen, Winkie, Russell. Not pictured is their firstborn, Arthur, who died in 1903 at age six from complications of scarlet fever, and their son Lertie who may have been behind the camera. [Photo courtesy of the Larry Lamb Collection]

mules and kept six to eight on hand for work and pleasure: saddle horses; others suited to pulling the family’s surrey on Sunday visits; and matched teams that could move heavily loaded freight wagons over steep, rough roads. Recognized as a top-notch teamster, he contracted the transporting of extract bark for tanneries, barrel staves for cooperages, plus lumber and wood shingles for building material suppliers. Crimora merchants Plaine & Koiner acquired timber tracts in Sugar Hollow with the expectation to cut a million board feet of oak, poplar, chestnut and other woods. A 1906 Staunton

Spectator news story stated, “Their right hand man in the heavy hauling necessary to reach the railway at this point is Mr. Joseph F. Wood, a teamster of skill and experience. Mr. Wood has himself brought over the mountain since last summer more than a half million manufactured [chestnut] shingles.” Joe and Winkie’s daughter Louise Wood (Austin) (1909– 1993), the youngest of the Wood’s seven children, reminisced on life in the mountains: “There was a little one-room school right back up here called Bellwood School,” she said. “It had all grades. Primer clear on continued on page 14

The Joseph and Winkie Wood family was the last to live in this stately house before it was razed by Shenandoah National Park. Mr. Wood’s grandfather Ira J. Ballard (1810–1888) who married Elizabeth C. Brown in 1836 built it. [Photo courtesy of the Larry Lamb Collection]

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up. I remember the first day I went to school [in 1916] the teacher asked me to say my ABC’s and I wouldn’t do it and I had to stand in the corner. I knew them but I wouldn’t say them. “The first teacher there was Miss Pauline Hamilton from Shadwell. The next one, my first grade teacher, was Miss Delma Thacker from Schuyler, Virginia. And the other one was Miss Lucy Duncanson. They stayed and boarded with us. “Mother was our home doctor. She had a medical book and whenever we’d get something, she would look it up in there and fix up something for it. She’d make us take sulphur and molasses [tonic] every spring.” Local midwives, including African American midwife Mary Wesley of lower Sugar Hollow and nearby neighbor and distant relation Mrs. John Craig, helped deliver the family’s babies. Another African American neighbor, Anna Rodgers, lived just east of Jarman’s Gap. Louise recalled, “When my mother and father used to go away they would get Anna to come and stay and keep us children and we all just loved her. She was real good to us. And she used to come help when we killed hogs. “We used to butcher nine

hogs in the fall. Daddy always said he butchered one a piece for us, there was eight in the family, and one for company. We’d salt it and let it cure and then he’d smoke it. “In one room in the front part of the house, my grandfather had it built especially for square dancing. They used to have a lot of dances in there even after I was a child. Practically everybody stayed ‘til daylight. My father played a banjo and called square dance figures. My sister played a mandolin and organ, and my brothers played mandolin and organ. The rest of us—we just danced.”

Joe Wood (left) and some of his family enjoyed the refreshing summertime waters of Blue Hole, near their home on Sugar Hollow’s South Fork Moorman’s River Road. [Photo courtesy of the Larry Lamb Collection]

The Joe Wood home and farm sat below Jarman’s Gap alongside the main road between White Hall in Albemarle County and Waynesboro in Augusta. By foot, horseback, buggy and Tin Lizzie, mountain travelers, Civil War troops and Syrian peddlers alike passed within sight of their front door. [Photo courtesy of the Larry Lamb Collection]

Russell Wood on mandolin and his father Joe, with banjo, pick a tune beside the chimney of their home in Sugar Hollow. Along with Russell’s brother Sidney and several others, they played for dances around the mountains. Joe was also a popular caller of figures for square dances. [Photo courtesy of the Larry Lamb Collection]

Joe Wood headed up crews who worked the mountain orchards, and was employed as Game Warden for the western district of Albemarle County when, in 1920, he installed 1,500 young brook trout in Moorman’s River. Ominous handwriting on the wall in the latter 1920s forecasted the removal of many from their Blue Ridge Mountain homes. Louise poignantly recalled, “When I was growing up practically everybody had moved away from here except for us.” Yet, even as old mountain right-of-ways were closed to the public, Joe remained helpful to

all and cooperative with Park officials, even assisting with their efforts to combat forest fires. As a result, he and his wife were allowed lifetime rights to remain in their home. The Park lands, officially terminating at Jarman’s Gap, were dedicated in 1936. When the Skyline Drive finally reached its southern terminus south of the Wood family’s home in 1939, few if any travelers realized that the final remnant of a once vital community of people resided nearly within shouting distance of the smooth new “mountaintop motorway.” By 1943, Joe’s health required that he and Winkie leave the mountain and move in with family members at Waynesboro. Just months later, in January 1944, the last of the true mountain men to have lived inside Shenandoah National Park boundaries in Albemarle County went to his final rest. Neither did Mrs. Wood ever return to live in her once-lively mountain home. Mere weeks after Joe’s passing, a thorough survey of the property was made by the Park. The final report stated, in part: “Solid construction, well made... There seems no probability of further use by former occupants... house is quite well built and in much better condition than abandoned mountain homes. Because of its isolated locality... recommend house and outbuildings be razed.”

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 © 2003–2016 Phil James

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be installed. “The main reason we are not showing Phase Two [as part of this stage] is that the county says there are unknowns that have to be resolved, so let’s focus on Phase One now.” Those unknowns include the connection of Library Avenue to Hilltop Street and Stoner’s proposal of a new road connection under the railroad tracks to Three Notch’d Road, roughly near the firehouse, which may or may not be possible and which Stoner said he would not pay for in any case. The rezoning request goes to the Planning Commission for a vote on Sept. 27. In a letter to CCAC Chair David Stoner (no relation to Frank), county planner Elaine Echols reacted to the submission by noting staff believe that Stoner’s proffer to cover $75,000 worth of the improvements to the Crozet Avenue intersections represents about 15 percent of the anticipated costs of those changes and “that tighter

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David Stoner, who also sits on the Downtown Crozet Initiative committee formed by Frank Stoner, which is now an official subcommittee of the Crozet Community Association, reported to the CCAC that the DCI is looking for grant-writing help to raise money for the development of the plaza. Frank Stoner also announced that he has signed a short-term lease of the former lumber company office, a small house, as a bicycle shop and that a “high tech business” is in the market for a former milling building on the lumberyard. “They are the poster children for what we want in Crozet,” he said.

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If you are interested in Crozet activities, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the Crozet Trails Crew. Or if you are one of the nearly 400 members of the Trails Crew email list, or who follow the Crew on Facebook, you get regular updates on our projects. The Crozet Trails Crew is such an integral part of Crozet life, it might seem like it’s been here forever. Newcomers may be surprised at how young the Trails Crew is. In 2009, the community of Crozet conducted a survey to prepare for an update of the Crozet Master Plan. Over 700 people participated. When the areas of concern were tabulated, pedestrian and bicycling activities received the greatest number of responses. Obviously, this was an area that could use some attention! Jessica Mauzy was serving on the Crozet Community Advisory Committee as the ombudsman for “Trails.” She contacted Dan Mahon, who is the Outdoor Recreation Supervisor for Albemarle County Parks and Recreation, and a resident of Crozet. They invited the people who had expressed an interest in working on trails in Crozet to an organizational meeting at the Mudhouse Coffee Shop. Jessica describes the process as “very organic and really fun.” The first few meetings resulted in a name for the organiza-

tion—The Crozet Trails Crew— and a mission: to plan, build, and promote multi-use trails in the Crozet community. Early Projects The Crew began by working on a trail in Beaver Creek Lake Park. The Henley Hornets Trail had been developed several years ago by students and parents from Henley Middle School, and gets a lot of use from people who enjoy fishing in the reservoir. The Crew then moved on to develop some new projects, beginning with building steps for a trail in Grayrock. They also did lot of work on the Lindy Bain Loop in Old Trail. In those early days, the County loaned the Crew tools from its cache in Mint Springs. In return, the Crew has pitched in to work on trails in Mint Springs Valley Park, the Patricia Ann Byrom Forest Preserve Park, and Preddy Creek Trail Park, plus the Rivanna Trail. Crozet Trails Days In 2010, the Crew held the first annual Crozet Trail Day in Old Trail, to help increase interest and awareness of the Trails Crew and its mission. In 2011, a 5K race and Pedestrian Challenges were added to the Trail Day. Money raised from the race’s entrance fees is used to purchase tools, supplies, and materials for the work of the Crew. In 2012, the Trails Crew began working on the Crozet

CROZETgazette Connector Trail, which will someday provide connections between Claudius Crozet Park and other downtown areas to several neighborhoods east and south of the park. By 2013, enough progress had been made on the Connector Trail that the 5K race was moved to the park, where it is run in conjunction with the Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival in October. The male and female winners of the 5K race are rewarded by having a trail bridge named for them. Challenges The majority of trails that the Crew maintains are public trails (have public parking areas within walking distance) that are either County-owned or held in easement by the County Parks and Recreation department. As Crozet adds neighborhoods and commercial areas, new trail segments are often added as well. This is great for pedestrian connectivity and property values, but it means more work for the volunteers and County staff who keep the trails clear and safe. Summer is the season when help is most needed, as the

SEPTEMBER 2016 weeds really take off with warm weather and plenty of rain. But not everyone wields a shovel or pushes a mower. Simply walking the trails and reporting problems is an important way to be involved. Check our web site, CrozetTrailsCrew.org, for other volunteer opportunities. The next Crozet Trails Crew 5K trail race will be run on Saturday, October 8. Organizing and running this event, with over 100 participants and mounds of prizes, is another project that takes many hands. Plus, of course, the runners who enter the race are supporting trails through their enthusiasm. The Crozet Trails Crew is a fun group, and the social ties are important. Our work days usually last no more than two or three hours. You can volunteer as often as you like. If you’re not on our email list, send a message to cloverc@crozettrailscrew. org. We welcome anyone who is interested in helping develop the trail system around Crozet. Remember—you can see maps of the Crozet trails and learn more about the Crozet Trails Crew on our web site.

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How to Be an All-Weather Friend It typically happens that when someone experiences a catastrophe in life, such as the onset of dementia, or another profound trauma or grief, they can lose their social connections and gradually become deeply isolated in their circumstance. What we all need at some point is an “all-weather friend,” and Mary Cail was at The Lodge at Old Trail August 18 for its Third Thursday program to talk about her book Alzheimer’s: A Crash Course for Friends and Relatives. “It’s a book about how to be supportive,” said Cail, who blogs for Maria Shriver and the Huffington Post and has had op-eds in the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Miami Herald. She is also the author of Between Jobs: Ten Ways to Help a Friend Who’s Unemployed. The isolation happened to her. Cail is now a caregiver to her parents, who depend on her for all their arrangements, including around the clock care by nursing assistants and managing all their health and financial affairs. In her 40s she experienced a year of personal tragedy. At the time she was an assistant professor of psychology at James Madison University, working on a textbook. She lost her first pregnancy, after much sacrifice to conceive, and then discovered that her husband Wayne, a doctor at U.Va. Hospital at the time, had a tumor on his brain stem. He endured a 9-hour sur-

gery to remove it and survived a long recovery, only to confront a career crisis that he resolved by taking his own life. She found him dead in his office one Sunday night when he failed to come home as expected. “Everything I cared about was in pieces,” Cail said. “During this time I only had my friends. They were my lifeline. “You divide the world into two groups, the ones who’ve been through it and the ones who haven’t. Most are in the second group. I wanted a resource, hence this book on the concept of the all-weather friend, someone who is supportive in a time of trouble. The idea is to develop informed compassion.” She wrote the book in a partnership with the Alzheimer’s Foundation, she said. “Alzheimer’s is the worst age-related loss—the ability to think. Dementia is not a disease, but a symptom of a disease. The two main players in the situation are the diagnosed and the caregiver. Helping one helps the other. Think about how it would feel to lose your ability to take care of yourself. You need to know your right to be loved won’t be taken away and that your right to dignified care won’t be taken away. “Caregiving is incremental loss and grief. It takes everything you’ve got. Both the victim and the caregiver lose their

CROZETgazette normal access to friends. It’s very isolating.” Both need social contact, she said, but neither is in a position to initiate it. Dementia is usually a “retrogenesis of capability,” Cail said, meaning that one loses abilities in the reverse order of gaining them and that as dementia advances the victim is reduced to ever-more childlike abilities. She said that 57 different diseases have dementia as a symptom but that her tips are good across all the causes. Frequently Alzheimer’s first manifests itself in a loss of “your personal GPS system,” she said, in forgetting and in getting lost. She recommended that a friend be a care partner. “It’s a stage where other people don’t see the changes happening. We have an instinct to try to make things better. But instead say, ‘This must be so hard for you.’ Period. Don’t try to fix it. Just recognize it.” The second stage is the loss of short-term memory. “The hippocampus degrades. It’s hard to predict what will be forgotten. With an early Alzheimer’s victim, start a conversation by telling something, not by asking a question. Don’t ask what’s been happening.” The next stage of the disease is severe atrophy of the hippocampus, the seat of memory, learning and emotion. “They lose orientation in space and time. Remember this adage: if you’ve seen one person with Alzheimer’s, you’ve seen one person with Alzheimer’s. It’s quite different in different people. With their nonsense talk, shift to non-verbal responses. Accept whatever the victim says

SEPTEMBER 2016 and say something that answers their need for conversation.” Your response needn’t follow logically from what the sufferer said. “Pause in conversation with Alzheimer’s victims. Don’t contradict them, don’t correct them, accept whatever they have to say. To the caregiver, listen and don’t advise.” Caregivers don’t want to hear any more advice, such as suggestions about nursing homes, she said. She had one last tip: “Do the remembering. The victim and the caregiver find that their friends fall away. A friend can help keep the memory of who the person was before the disease. It’s needed for the caregiver. “These tips are not hard to do. They are really easy.” Cail said her “grief and heartache over Wayne’s death was an involuntary wail for two years. I made a decision then to do whatever a friend asked me to do.” She meant she would agree to any invitation. She needed friends. Once in that spirit she went to a U.Va. basketball game and a former colleague of Wayne’s stopped her in an aisle without saying a word and hugged her. “It meant so much to me,” Cail said. “You can make a difference.” Cail said her cause is now the all-weather friend website, which she acknowledged has been slow to get going. Perhaps that’s because most people are in the haven’t-been-through-it group and the message about informed compassion sails past them because they haven’t felt the need of it.

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Habitat for Humanity Seeks Volunteers for Crozet Project Charlottesville’s Habitat for Humanity program will build six townhouses in Crozet in the Wickham Pond neighborhood off Rt. 240 and is seeking about 30 volunteers to help with framing during the week of Sept. 17 to 24. Volunteers are supervised by experienced crew leaders. The goal is to complete framing of one house per day. The project is Habitat’s first in Crozet. The row will include two three-bedroom end units and four two-bedroom units. All will have 5-star energy ratings and front porches. Parking is on street. Purchase families get an interest-free loan through the Virginia Housing Development Authority and private sources, said Jessica Eustace of Habitat. House prices are determined after construction is finished.

Habitat has built 190 houses in Charlottesville and Albemarle since 1991. It is taking on the redevelopment of Southwood mobile home park, with 342 trailers and 1,500 residents, in Charlottesville now. Families must occupy the houses for at least three years and after that they can sell, but Habitat has a right of first refusal. “Most people stay,” said Eustace. Four purchase families have been finalized for the units. “Crozet is a little different for us,” she added. “Typically we’re in town near public transportation. But the ones who’ve selected Crozet are really happy to be here.” To volunteer, call (434) 2939066 or visit cvillehabitat.org/ signupnow.

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“We enjoy a great relationship with our community,” Lantz said. “We are often told how much we’re appreciated. But we’ve lost 16 officers since January. Some decided they didn’t want to be in law enforcement after watching TV [and seeing police officers targeted for assassination].” The department is authorized to have 140 employees and currently has 129, he said. The department currently has five officers in training at the Central Shenandoah Valley Police Academy. Lantz said he will only offer jobs to the best qualified. The county is 10 percent African American, he noted, but black officers make up five percent of the force, so adding black officers is a recruiting goal, as is adding Hispanic officers. “Staff is working a lot of overtime,” Lantz said. “We’re getting fatigue on the department.” Lantz said the opening of the new, state-of-the-art shooting range at Milton is a milestone for the department that will allow better training and more proficiency. He said the range is a step toward opening a central Virginia police academy. “Our goal is our own academy on this side of the mountain.” “Only 3 percent of our applicants are accepted,” he said. “I’m going for 2.8 percent to get the best of the best. If we get three to five years [employment] out of an officer, that’s a bonus. They don’t stay as long as officers in the past. Pay is an issue. The cost of living in Albemarle

Police chief Ron Lantz at Crozet Library

is high. We’re doing exit interviews now to find out why they leave. Morale is an issue. Dallas and Baton Rouge [murders of officers] broke our hearts. It’s a tough time to be a police officer now. “It may take us two years to get back to 140,” said Lantz. “The normal attrition rate is eight officers a year. About 50 applicants will show up for the basic interview. We’re losing people in the background checks. Any moral turpitude is a no-go. They’re not going to be a police officer.” Among his staffing goals are a domestic violence detective and a full-time detective for online child predators. “I’m adjusting to not having the teams we had in Fairfax. We’re not big enough to need them. We live in a safe community. Our biggest problem recently was robberies.

Stakeouts and detective work led to arrests. “Geopolicing should draw more applicants. My question to applicants is, ‘Speak from the heart: when you watch the news why would you want to be a police officer?’ Some say, ‘I want to prove that’s not what police are.’ They are attracted to community policing, to being out in the community. We count how many community events officers attend. We have officers speak to groups to build up their confidence. What if they don’t get on board? Then they come to my office and we dust off their resumé. “My dream is 150 officers.” The department had a staff of 107 when he arrived, he noted. The goal is to hire seven officers a year. Another training goal is a high percentage of officers

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trained to handle mental illness situations. “About 50 percent of officers are trained with mental illness crisis situations,” Lantz said. “The goal is 70 percent, but attrition has hurt that. It’s a big deal for me. We want officers trained to de-escalate situations. Officers have to have some experience before the training becomes effective.” Asked about military–style policing, Lantz said, “We want to get away from the warrior mindset to the guardian mindset. But in a Dallas situation you still need the warrior mindset. I’ll give an officer every tool I can to keep him safe. “There’s got to be a need for military equipment before I’ll get into it. I’m not a fan of knocking down doors. Too many things can happen. I like to get them when they’re away

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for the Charlottesville residency, said that he would leave the present light in place to serve pedestrians needing to cross, but that the light would not otherwise regulate traffic once the intersection of Library Avenue and Crozet Avenue is controlled, probably initially by a 4-way stop sign set-up. He said that he is confident that a signal system will ultimately be required there. DiNunzio said the problem at The Square now is that cars backing out of parking places are tripping the signal. The meeting began with surprising news for the business owners. W.C. Winkler of Fardowners started off by asking who has responsibility for the sidewalk. The answer was that Albemarle County actually owns a 15-foot wide strip in front of the stores, beginning at their very walls, that has the sidewalk and the front half of parking spaces on it. The prevailing understanding had been that the 15-foot strip was created to ensure access to the lumberyard and that it belonged to the lumberyard. But assistant county attorney Andy Herrick announced that an investigation of deeds found that the strip was created in 1947 and belongs to the county. Combined with the quit claim deed negotiated with CSX railroad in 2011, the county now acknowledges ownership of all The Square up to the fence erected by the railroad, and thus fixing it is the county’s problem. The Square also has VDOT right-of-way and railroad access easements governing it, and Mallek’s next step is to approach Buckingham Branch Railroad to see if the proposed change is agreeable to them, too. Mallek turned to county transportation engineer Jack Kelsey, who had prepared a drawing showing the various interests at play in the street and where their access corridors lie, and asked him to undertake preliminary studies for how The Square should be redesigned. The county has no plan or budget for such a project, but the first step will be to learn what would be entailed. DiNunzio said that ordi-

narily when an older easement is replaced by a more modern one, the older one is vacated and thus persistence of the 15-foot strip is “an unusual situation.” “Why are we paying to [snow] plow county property?” asked Scott Stinson owner of the corner building that is the home of The Mudhouse coffee shop. He said he agreed with the “right-in” change and did not think that “right-out” was feasible. Winkler and Rick Ruscher of Crozet Hardware also agreed to the “right-in” solution. The staggered layout of the intersections of Tabor Street, Jarmans Gap road and Library Avenue with Crozet Avenue was raised and Di Nunzio said, “It’s very difficult to get intersections so close to work together.” Stinson suggested coordinated signals at Library Avenue and Jarmans Gap Road. DiNunzio said that studies predicted that such signals would not be necessary until 2028 and that meanwhile it would be better to direct traffic coming from the Park Road neighborhoods to travel up High Street to its proposed connection with Library Avenue. He said another option would be to make Tabor Street “right-in, right out,” which would end left turns from it onto Crozet Avenue.

Lumberyard developer Frank Stoner asked about a 4-way stop at the library. “It’s possible it could work,” said DiNunzio. “A signal is not necessarily the right thing to do. A signal there would also create gaps at Jarmans Gap Road to allow its traffic to move.” He said that angled parking in The Square would be safer and not change the number of available spaces. A one-way street would also allow for a wider sidewalk. Brenda Plantz of Parkway Pharmacy called the sidewalk “the issue” because it typically puddles up in front of business’s entrances during rains. DiNunzio said VDOT will accept responsibility for10-footwide sidewalks if they are required by county rules (which they are in the downtown district) but that the sidewalk must be entirely within the right of way. Planning Commissioner Jennie More said she thought that a one–way traffic solution was good but that it would put traffic pressure on Oak Street (a 40-foot right of way that’s now a gravel road), which would be drivers’ first opportunity to connect with Library Avenue. Current plans for the development show Oak Street being turned into a parking lot. Winkler also raised the problem of where dumpsters could

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go. Stinson said, “The county owns everything up to my building. I have no place where I can put a trash can.” A communal location in the rear alleys seems necessary. Mallek wanted to know if there was agreement about what message to take to the BBRR. Business owners complained about the railroad’s access gate, which takes up six parking spaces. “Why do they need that entrance?’ said Plantz. “They have never used it.” Winkler said that was his experience, too, and Ruscher nodded agreement. Stinson raised the possibility of chopping down the town’s traditional Christmas tree, which occupies two spaces, and establishing it in a new location such as the proposed plaza.

SEPTEMBER 2016 Charlotte Dammon, who owns two vacant lots next to the pharmacy that are commonly parked on, asked about a timeline for improvements. Mallek said first arrangements with Buckingham Branch must be made and second a road plan into the lumberyard has to be finalized. County attorney Greg Kampner raised the possibility of transferring the county’s ownership to some other entity, perhaps a nonprofit such as Claudius Crozet Park or the Crozet Board of Trade, that would become responsible for maintenance. “Should the county invest if it’s going to be conveyed?” he asked. “That would raise the price.” “It’s like we would need a condominium owners association that has maintenance responsibility,” said Stinson. “Why can’t the county maintain The Square?” asked Stoner. “Because the business owners have not demanded it,” offered Stinson. Plantz noted, “This is the first time the county has said it owns the sidewalk.” “This is brand new for us also,” said assistant county executive Greg Walker. Stoner said that downtown needs a long-term plan for parking, “including structured parking.” Stinson agreed that The Square needs more parking, too. Mallek said that new buildings on the lumberyard should include underground spaces where possible. Stoner said business owners on the Square should take an interest in how it will connect with the proposed plaza, which is now in the early stages of design.

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The First Step Is the Toughest Several months ago I was on a run with a few friends up on the Appalachian Trail. It was an easy-paced run and we were all enjoying the views and the good company. At one point, my friend Matt Banning told me how not too long ago he used to be really overweight and out of shape, not a runner at all. I would not have guessed that. I met Matt a few years ago because we run all the same mountain trail races. He has run over 20 mountain ultramarathons over the past three years. In fact, we were out on this run training for a 100-mile trail race taking place this summer in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming. As Matt went into his story, I was inspired at just how much people can change and get back to fitness if they simply commit to it. Matt agreed to share his story for this column, and I hope you will find it as inspiring as I did. John Andersen: Did you ever run in high school or college? Matt Banning: Nope. I grew up playing soccer and played in high school. I was also really into basketball from middle school until my 11th grade year. But I pretty much lost interest in all competitive sports around my 11th grade year. JA: OK, tell me about getting OUT of shape. MB: I was always super active as a kid and as a result was really skinny and never worried about what I ate. In my 20’s, I didn’t exercise and I smoked. This, plus a diet in rich food, led to weight gain. I started smoking in 11th grade but in college I was smoking at least a pack a day or more. I was drinking several days a week in college and continued to binge drink after college. I would get drunk Friday and feel like crap the rest of the week-

end. I try not to do that anymore. In my early 30’s I realized I had put on weight. It had happened over time and I really hadn’t noticed. It wasn’t until I went to the DMV to get a new license and I had my photo taken that I realized I had gotten fat. I still have and use the ID. JA: Let’s hear about when you first started getting back into shape. You told me that you wanted to run at first, but it hurt too bad, so you had to find other ways of exercising? MB: I’ve lost a total of 50-60 pounds. So at first, when I was 60 pounds heavier, I tried to run because it’s a cheap way to lose weight. But after a 30-minute run I’d just hurt and I struggled to just walk up and down stairs for days after. Seeing that running wasn’t in the cards for me right away, I decided to get a gym membership. I started going three to five times a week and getting on the elliptical for a solid hour. I made it a habit to go to the gym. It didn’t matter how I felt; I just went. That was really important for me, getting into the routine of exercising. I had tried and failed a number of times to run, bike or whatever, but always seemed to make excuses to not do it. It was awful at first because I was so out of shape, but I just kept going. I felt good when I left and I was soaked with sweat. Over the course of a few months, I lost maybe 30 to 40 pounds. I should mention that I cut out all fast food during this time. I still went out to eat and didn’t restrict my diet, I just decided not to eat fast food. I also ate the same breakfast and lunch everyday. For breakfast, coffee and cereal, and for lunch a PB&J, yogurt, fruit and pret-

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Mountain Thinking We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes–something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.—Aldo Leopold. Carmen screamed. I knew from the tenor of her frantic call for help that she was OK. Something else must be terribly amiss. I rushed outside to find my wife in the front yard anxiously waving a garden shovel at the metal cage holding our rasp of Guinea Hen keets. A large Black Rat Snake had slithered its way in and coiled itself around a now lifeless, strangled bird. The other keets were hysterical. A quiet, early June morning outing from the hatchery into the sunshine to feast on clover and insects suddenly had turned tragic. Weeks earlier, these keets were a clutch of eggs being rocking back and forth in a humidified incubator warmed to 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit. At 5 a.m. on a frosty morning in May, much to the delight of our granddaughter who was spending an overnight with us, the first of the clutch hatched. The miracle of new life coming into the world is a sight to behold. For a few anxious minutes, however, our diminutive hatchling almost did not make it. After taking its first sip of water (at my prompting), it went completely still. No chirps, no movement, eyes closed. Carmen held it close to her breast against the morning chill, singing a prayer as she gently stroked its tiny wings. We were thrilled when, with a little peep, it opened its eyes again. Such are

the daily adventures of life and death on our mountain farm in Blackwells Hollow. As much as I might like to, eliminating all risk of predation in the name of maximizing efficiency is not an appropriate goal for our farm. Predation is a natural and necessary phenomenon that governs the flow of energy up the food chain and across the web of life. Predators play a pivotal role in maintaining biodiversity and environmental quality. For example, deliberate extirpation of wolves from Yellowstone National Park resulted in greater than normal populations of deer and elk. This overabundance of large herbivores led to over-grazing of woody plants, which, in turn, effected beaver populations, degraded riparian water quality, and eventually weakened the deer population too. Today, the wolf is back in Yellowstone, in large part thanks to the pioneering insights and inspirational writings of Aldo Leopold; and the Park is healthier for it. Aldo Leopold was one of America’s premier wildlife managers and conservationists during the first half of the 20th century. After graduating with a Masters in Forestry from Yale in 1909, he began his professional career with the U.S. Forest Service assigned to the Arizona and New Mexico territories. A major focus of his early work was to hunt and kill bears, wolves, and mountain lions that preyed on livestock. While at the Forest Service, Leopold wrote its first game and fish handbook, developed its first comprehensive management plan for the Grand Canyon, and proposed that portions of New Mexico’s 3.3 million-acre Gila National Forest be managed as wilderness areas to remain wild and unaltered by the intrusion of roads or other evidence of human presence. Later in his career, he became the first professor of Game Management in the Agricultural Economics Department of the University of Wisconsin where he was recognized as the nation’s leading

expert on wildlife management. In 1935, Leopold purchased an eroded, played-out farm in Sauk County (one of several so-called sand counties of central Wisconsin). In a shack on his farm, he collected his thoughts on paper into what was to become his landmark work, A Sand County Almanac, published posthumously in 1949 by Oxford University Press a year after he suffered a fatal heart attack fighting a wild fire on his neighbor’s property. My opening quote comes from an essay that appeared in the A Sand County Almanac titled “Think Like a Mountain.” For Leopold, to think like a mountain (as opposed to thinking in a short-term, self-interested way) is to cultivate a deep appreciation for the long-term workings of the interrelated web of life. I wish to turn our attention now to “The Land Ethic,” perhaps his most influential essay from the Almanac. His maxim for ecological wellbeing—“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise”—has served as a beacon and guiding light ever since “The Land Ethic” was published. In this essay, Leopold envisioned community as more than people. Community, which he collectively called “the land,” includes soils, waters, plants, and animals to which we are intimately connected and ethically responsible. He wrote, “We can be ethical only in rela-

tion to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.” It is for the purpose of strengthening our ethical relationship with the land that I present two critiques of his landmark essay. They both have to do with energy. The first concerns his use of the “circuit” metaphor to describe the circular flow of energy from the soil through the food chain and back again to the soil. The second and more important critique has to do with the impact of generated energy on the food chain and “the land.” “Energy flows through a circuit call the biota, which may be represented by a pyramid consisting of layers. The bottom layer is the soil,” writes Leopold. “Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals. Food chains are the living channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil.” Based upon Leopold’s perception of “the flow of energy through plants and animals and its return to the soil,” he asserts that “fertility is the ability of soil to receive, store, and release energy.” I am uncomfortable correcting this distinguished Yale graduate and true giant in the field of ecology, but this simply is not true. Fertile soils do not release energy to plants. Energy does not flow through soils back into the food chain like electricity flows in an electrical circuit. Food chains do conduct energy continued on page 42

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Fall Planting, DARK Passage By Elena Day elena@crozetgazette.com It’s been a summer of too many 90-degree-plus days. I’ve noted that hot weather affects the fruit set of my French filet or “skinny” beans. These have blossomed heavily the last two weeks with relatively little bean production. In hotter weather beans, tomatoes and peppers, all of which are self-pollinating, drop blossoms rather than set fruit. Veggies like cucumbers, which are dependent on bee pollination, also set less fruit because bees are less active in hot weather. Gardeners are in for it as global warming becomes the constant. This past spring I found some prickly seeded spinach seed in the refrigerator that had been given to me years ago. I planted it and it came up thick. (It’s a lighter green and the leaves are less crinkly and easier to clean than smooth seeded varieties.) I was able to harvest a substantial amount of this heirloom spinach before it bolted. I let it seed and now I have plenty of prickly seeds to plant this fall. The prickly seeds have been painful to pull off the stalk. Thomas Jefferson planted prickly seeded spinach in his Monticello garden from 1809 to 1812. First mention of prickly seeded spinach was in the 13th century in Germany. The smooth seeded, curly darker green “Savoy” variety was documented in horticultural texts in Europe in 1552. The origin of spinach is Persia. Bernard McMahon, an early American horticulturalist residing in Philadelphia, recommended this traditional European variety as “the hardiest kind” of spinach for overwintering and early spring eating. It is also easier to clean as its leaves are smooth. McMahon wrote The American G a r d e n e r s’ Calendar, a 600-plus-page reference book on

everything a North American needed to know about gardening in the early 1800’s. He was also the recipient of the seeds and pressed plant specimens that Meriwether Lewis collected on his journey of exploration of the Louisiana Purchase (18041807). I grow French filet beans, green snaps, yellow snaps or “wax” beans, and Italian flat beans. Most commercially available green and yellow beans have had the string bred out of them within the last 30 years. I was selling a string variety at the Charlottesville Farmers’ Market up until five or so years ago, but customers complained about stringing the beans. Few market gardeners grow beans because picking is time consuming. I’ve heard said, “There’s no money in beans.” Agribusiness beans mature all at once and are harvested by machine. These varieties are toughened so that they won’t break during mechanical harvesting. Toughening also lengthens shelf life. This year I noticed that a number of customers ask why there aren’t more green beans (and sweet corn) at the local farmers’ market. Perhaps folks are redeveloping a taste for snap beans. I’ve become interested in diversifying the bean varieties that I grow next season. The number of heirloom beans is daunting. Appalachian Heirloom Bean, which offers 80 varieties of pole (also called “cornfield”) bean seeds, claims “real green bean lovers say that if a green bean does not have strings it is no good.” Bill Best of Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center near Berea, Kentucky, has collected 700 varieties of heirloom beans. Beans are categorized as pole, growing up to 12 feet on trellises; bush, which grow about 2 feet tall; and half-runners that might climb to 5 feet. There are “greasy” beans that are described as being slick in appearance because of lack of fuzz and “cutshort” beans, crowded in the hull and squared off. Yellow wax beans are described as having a satin finish with a “hint of wax” in their texture. Dry bean seeds are of all colors and combinations of colors.

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I can’t remember how or why, but recently memories of my veterinary school interview popped into my head and made me contemplate what I felt about this career and serving in a community then, versus how I feel about those things now, 15 years later. Getting into veterinary school is a challenge, because there are not a lot of schools. Currently, there are only 30 veterinary schools in the U.S. However, data shows that about 50 percent of applicants eventually get in if they keep working and reapplying, which is actually pretty comparable to our medical school counterparts. Nowadays, however, getting into veterinary school is only one of the challenges facing veterinary students. With rising student debt and relatively low starting salaries, there is a real cost-benefit crisis going on for current and future veterinary students, but that is the topic of another column! After sending in my application and taking the GRE exam, I waited anxiously to see if I had landed an interview. The interview was phase II of the application process; not all applicants will make it to the interview round. It is the interview that will help the application committee make its final decision on who gets in the incoming class, usually only 90-100 students. I received a letter telling me I had an interview at Virginia Tech. This was met with great relief, but also great anxiety! This would be the classic nerve-wracking interview. I didn’t hear back from any other schools, so it would be my only shot at a veterinary school—my whole life depended on it! (well, kinda). When the week of the interview came, I tried my best to

keep calm. I can remember driving down I-81 in my beat up Honda Civic, looking at the beautiful mountains and wondering if I’d be making this drive for the next four years or not. I stayed with a friend who was living in Blacksburg at the time and got a first hand tour of my potential new town. The morning of the interview, I put on a suit that I had borrowed from a buddy since I didn’t own one. It mostly fit me. When I entered the building, I was greeted by the nicest receptionist, who led me to where the other interviewees were waiting. It’s always amazing how the simple kindness of someone can really help to calm your nerves. I was doing okay, but I heard that one of the interviewees had to go home because she started vomiting from the stress! Finally, I was called into the interview room. The moment of truth. Me at one end of a table, surrounded by six professors! I had thought about what questions they might ask me, but I just had no idea. Frankly, I was pretty clueless about the profession at that point in my life. I had always wanted to become a veterinarian, but I’m not sure exactly why I felt led in that direction. Sure, I had always loved animals, and I did like science, but was that enough? Would they ask me medical questions? Or grill me on the history of science? When I sat down and introductions were made, they simply asked me questions about… me. Questions of who I was, my opinions on certain topics– things that I couldn’t fake or research–questions that would show the type of person I was. The interview question that popped into my mind recently was when one of the professors asked me, “So let’s just say that you’re a veterinarian in a small town. What do you think the community would want, need,

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Warriors Open Season by Trouncing Gobblers 40-0 By Jerry Reid jerry@crozetgazette.com Finishing last year in an epic postseason game against Staunton River, a 85-79 loss, Western Albemarle High School’s football team opened the new season by crushing the Broadway Gobblers 40-0 before a packed house of noisy, enthusiastic rooters in Crozet Aug. 26. On the opening kickoff Ed Redmond’s new team got a big return out of Robert Sims, setting the stage for running back Darren Klein and quarterback Derek Domecq to alternate first downs that were capped by Klein’s 10-yard sprint to the end zone. Just like that the Warriors were in front 7-0 after Domecq’s kick and the capacity crowd, Pep Band and Crozet Crazies went mildly berserk. That series showed offensive speed, line blocking and high energy. Now the fans would get their first taste of what their defense was going to stand for. Domecq, responsible for kickoffs and punts along with extra points, launched a worm-burner with bounce at the Broadway return team, handcuffing their frontline receivers. A few plays later WAHS had recorded a sack, a gang-tackle and solid defense across the board to force a punt that was fielded on the Warriors’ 15. Then first-game “stuff” got in the way. A fumble and penalty dug the team a hole only a punt could get them out of. The next defensive effort wasn’t a bed of roses either, as a weird mix of the good, the bad, and the ugly combined to almost give the Gobblers momentum. Linebacker Jack Weyher had two passes just barely slip through his fingers, thankfully as incomplete passes, and a couple of penalties included a roughing the kicker. But Broadway couldn’t take advan-

tage. Good pass defense, a knockdown by Klein, and a big stop by Sims and the team forced a fumble that forced a kick. The roaring fans got their wish on the next Warrior possession, which the Warriors started at their six yard line. Domecq dropped back, found Klein in the flat, and one or two cuts later he was gone 94 yards. The dazzling pass and run boosted the score to 14-0. Broadway couldn’t do anything on their next try, with a penalty along with a big stop on the Gobblers quarterback by Sims and another pass knockdown, this time by Noah Yourkavich. At the end of the first quarter Western got another score that came via the ground game. Domecq scampered 28 yards to boost the score to 20-0. Broadway showed some signs of life on the next offensive set, but a fourth-and-2 run by quarterback Brandon Cruz was stopped cold by Luke Tenuta and Joey Bowen, and the Gobblers turned the ball over on downs. Bringing the crowd to their feet again, the Warriors lined up on their 37. Domecq hit wide receiver Weyher for a 63-yard breakaway pass to put six more on the board. Domecq struggled a bit with extra-point kicks, missing this one as he subbed for the unavailable senior kicker Andreas McCullough. WAHS led 26-0. So far, Broadway was getting the ball back only because the Warriors were scoring. The Warriors continued to flex their stopping power on the Gobblers’ next set of downs. Led by Klein, who just barely lost a contested pass interception attempt in an exciting tussle, the Warriors’ Sebastian Crescimanno, Tenuta and Aidan Saunders stopped them cold with blitzes, a forced fumcontinued on page 41

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Warriors Dominate Ragged Mountain Cup; Girls Set Course Record Western girls and boys swept the team titles at this year’s Ragged Mountain Cup, a 4 x 2 mile relay that kicked off the local cross country season on August 30. The girls team of Aly SantoroAdajian, Faith Reid, Zoe Clay and Averi Witt broke the Cup course record at Panorama Farms by almost 11 seconds, finishing in 50:43. The previous record was set by Western in 2011. The Albemarle team finished second, almost three minutes behind WAHS. Western’s girls B-team of Jenna Hill, Claudia Giortz-Jorg, Caroline McGahren, and Grace Rainey finished in third in 53:52. Western’s boys, the defending 3A state champions, won the coveted Cup in 42:57 with a team of Stuart Terrill, Joe Hawkes, Cyrus RodyWAHS VARISTY GIRLS RESULTS Place 1. 3. 6. 8. 12. 14. 22. 24. 35. 38. 48. 50.

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Ramazani, and Max Feuerlein. The boys B-team of Will Koester, Max Miller, Stuart Schill and Mitchell Morris finished fourth in 45:37. Individually, junior Zoe Clay had the fastest time among girls, finishing in 11:51. Clay is the defending 3200m state champion in both indoor and outdoor track. Sophomore Cyrus RodyRamazani came in first among boys in 10:35. Eighth grader Joseph Taylor won the boys open race 11:13, and tenth grader Emily Winder won the girls open in 14:09. WAHS VARISTY BOYS RESULTS Place Name Grade 1. Cyrus Rody-Ramazani 10 3. Stuart Terrill 9 4. Max Feuerlein 11 6. Joe Hawkes 9 7. Will Koester 11 12. Max Miller 11 30. Jack Eliason 9 36. Stuart Schill 12 51. Matthew Capshaw 12 58. Mitchell Morris 11 61. Simon Rader 10 71. Mark Barstow 10 74. Thomas Gathright 10 80. Evan Hajek 9 86. Dylan Moore 12 92. Cam Wood 9 108. Aidan Lee 11 109. Bennett Nalley 11 115. Ben MontesBradley 10 144. Ben Letteri 12

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Volleyball Takes Fluvanna Tournament By David Wagner david@crozetgazette.com Western Albemarle’s varsity volleyball team traveled to Fluvanna County High School for a one-day tournament August 27. The format for oneday tournaments is a little different than regular season matches. To speed things up, teams play the best two out of three sets instead of the regular best three out of five. After cruising through two early season scrimmages in which the Warriors took all five sets from opponents Wilson Memorial and E. C. Glass, Western was ready to get their season started. The Warriors started pool play against Monticello High School and made quick work of

Faith Reid, Aly Santoro-Adajian, Averi Witt and Zoe Clay (Photo: Cherie Witt)

the Mustangs, winning in two straight sets, 26-24 and 25-13. Courtney Berry and Alema Atuaia had six kills each and Cassidy Wilson added five kills. Andrea Vial tallied 16 assists at setter and Abby Boitnott added five of her own. Jasmine Monge led the way with nine digs, while Atuaia had seven digs and four aces from the service line. In their second match the Warriors faced R. E. Lee of Staunton. The Leeman stood their ground but in the end Western won in three sets, 23-25, 25-19 and 15-13. Atuaia led the Warriors with 10 kills and four more aces from the service line. Courtney Berry had seven more kills, Ellie Bright tallied six kills and Olivia Nichols added five more.

Warriors in the open race (Photo: Cherie Witt)

Wilson and Nichols also stuffed the Lee attack with four blocks each to control play at the net. Setter Andrea Vial had a superb match with 28 assists in just three sets and Jasmine Monge did a great job defensively with 13 digs. Olivia Nichols had 10 digs of her own and Adriana Bland added eight more as the Warriors defended and passed with efficiency. In their final match of pool play Western Albemarle defeated Spotswood, taking two sets, 25-23, 15-25, 15-12 to win the pool and put themselves in the Championship match. Nichols, Wilson and Vial stepped up again for the Warriors. Nichols had eight kills and eight digs, Wilson had eight kills and seven digs and Vial added 20 more assists. Berry made her presence known at the net with five more blocks and Monge had 12 more digs to

steady the Western passing game. Bland played a solid role as well in the passing game for Western, tallying eight digs. The Warriors faced Broadway in the championship match. Western was carrying good momentum and took two straight sets from Broadway to win the tournament, 25-18 and 25-21. Atuaia, Berry and Vial led the Warriors in the title match. Atuaia had nine kills and three more aces from the service line. Berry added six kills and five blocks and Vial had 13 more assists. Sierra McCance tallied nine assists and Monge (seven digs) and Adriana Bland (six digs) once again made defensive plays and in the passing game to aid setters Vial and McCance. The Warriors will be at home on Tuesday, September 6, versus Handley High School. JV will start at 6:30 pm and varsity will follow immediately.

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As readers of my past columns know, I love the Olympics and this summer’s games were no exception. Right from the start the U.S. began picking up gold medals with the very first going to Virginia Thrasher in the women’s 10-meter air rifle event. I am not sure why air rifle shooting would be segregated by sex, but I do like the event because like most armchair athletes I could easily imagine myself as a world champion at this, having spent much time as a kid shooting BB guns at targets 30 feet away. Aside from my idle fantasizing, though, the Olympics is a good opportunity for me to get up to speed on some of the neglected medical conditions facing the U.S. public currently. Drug makers spent $56 million to air nearly 500 commercials for various medications during the two-week event. One commercial in particular that aired 46 times in two weeks was very striking and frightening. A young woman at a party is suddenly stricken with a life-threatening food allergy due to some peanut butter inadvertently baked into her brownies. Her hands and face instantly sprout hideous blotches in shades of red and violet and then she collapses while the partygoers panic. The announcer gravely intones, “Every six minutes, food allergies send someone to the hospital. Always avoid your allergens, and talk to your doctor about a prescrip-

tion treatment you should carry for reactions.” This treatment is, of course, epinephrine, delivered by the now infamous EpiPen manufactured by Mylan. Mylan has been in the news recently for its predatory pricing policies on the EpiPen. Mylan has increased the price of its EpiPen, a product that has been on the market for more than three decades, from about $57 a shot when it took over sales of the product in 2007 to more than $600 for two auto-injectors. This contributed to an increase in sales revenue from 200 million dollars a year to $1 billion a year. The actual cost to manufacture the active ingredient, epinephrine, is less than $1. The CEO of Mylan has blamed the price outrage on Obamacare, explaining that because insurance under the Affordable Care Act has higher deductibles and out-of-pocket costs that the big difference is that patients are simply noticing the cost more now than previously. While much attention has been directed to the price increases of the EpiPen, very little attention has been paid to the real problem with the marketing of this drug/device, the vast increase in the demand for this device driven by aggressive and misleading information and lobbying from Mylan about the prevalence and lethality of allergies. Due to Mylan’s efforts, the number of patients using EpiPens has grown 67 percent over the past seven years, and now they are also being placed in schools and at Disney venues for use by the general public. My l a n spent about

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I’ll never forget my first taste of Middle Eastern food; it was at the Calvert Café in northwest Washington, D.C., near the Zoo. It was 1974 and my friend Jane took me there to taste my first hummus (ohmygoodness), my first tzatziki (garlicky yogurt sauce) and my first falafel. Such a revelation! Younger readers should note that the plethora of ethnic foods available now were not so common years ago— especially in the smaller towns. For example, I tasted my first avocado when I was thirteen years old and we visited Colorado. Who says things don’t get better? The Calvert Café, opened in 1960, still exists but it was

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The Richness of Allusions by Clover Carroll | clover@crozetgazette.com Which political candidate will meet his/ her Waterloo in November? Will the upcoming debates reveal that one of them has an Achilles’ heel? Or will the debates simply open a Pandora’s box of problems facing our country and the world? Whether to watch the debates at all presents a catch22 situation: watching them will make you sick from the negativity; skipping them will make you miss out on the zingers. The election’s outcome is difficult to predict, since both candidates so often appear quixotic. Don’t worry, this column will not wade into the quagmire of presidential politics! I simply used these examples to demonstrate the power—and prevalence—of literary allusion. Although my first paragraph was peppered with enigmatic references to unidentified literary works and/or historical events, you probably understood exactly what I meant. Our shared education in western civilization’s history and literature –also known as cultural literacy—reminded you that Napoleon’s 1815 military loss to British and Prussian forces represents any major competitive loss, that legendary Greek hero Achilles’ only physical weakness led to his death by a poisoned arrow aimed there, that in Greek mythology the first human woman unleashed all known evils upon humanity when she opened the box (originally a jar) given her by Zeus, and that Cervantes’ memorable antihero, Don Quixote, is

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exceedingly idealistic, impulsive, and prone to delusion. In Joseph Heller’s novel of the same name, World War II bombardier Yossarian names his unresolvable predicament a catch-22: if he is declared insane, he can be excused from flying endless life-threatening missions; but completing an application to be excused is considered proof of his sanity. Even if you don’t remember the details of these stories or haven’t actually read the Odyssey (8th c. B.C.), Don Quixote (1615), or Catch-22 (1961), you understand the symbolism implied by these brief mentions; and if you have read them, my text becomes that much richer and more meaningful. This kind of indirect reference to an historical event, person, or literary work, is known as an allusion. Allusion is different from either a direct, cited reference or a general source of inspiration; it is a specific quotation, name, or location given without explanation, which the author expects the reader to recognize. But many allusions are missed. Imagine my surprise to learn that J.D. Salinger’s Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters (1963)—one of his many books I read and enjoyed in my teenage years—takes its title from a poem by Sappho, the Greek poet born in the 7th century B.C. whom the Greeks called “the tenth muse.” This phrase was used at the building of a wedding canopy (and also had erotic overtones), appropriate to a novel about Seymour Glass’ aborted wedding. I learned this surprising nugget while reading Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003) by Thomas Cahill, the title of which itself contains an allusion to Homer’s Iliad. Many titles of classic books are allusions, casting a mood over the work even before the first page, and deepening our understanding of its themes after the last. William Faulkner favored allusive titles; for example The Sound and the Fury (1929) comes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c. 1623), when, near the end of the play (and of Macbeth’s life), he reflects:

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Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. One of Faulkner’s narrators is Benjy, whom the other characters view as an idiot but who often sees more of the truth than they do; but all the striving in the book comes to nothing. Stephen Ambrose’s title Band of Brothers (1992) also comes from Shakespeare, quoting Henry V’s brave speech before the Battle of Agincourt. Both Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck also rely on allusive titles to deepen our understanding of their novels. For Whom the Bell Tolls is an allusion to John Donne’s famous Meditation XVII, “No man is an island” (1624), in keeping with the brutality of war depicted in the book. Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, from a line in Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1862), suggests that God is not pleased with the treatment of migrant workers displaced by the Dust Bowl. These references add another dimension to the works they identify. Poetry has been another rich source for book titles. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night (1934) comes from John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” which magnifies Dick Diver’s emotional pain and alcoholism:

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: …. O for a beaker full of the warm South,… That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim. Robert Penn Warren’s title All the King’s Men (1946), alluding to the whimsical Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme, casts a shadow of impending destruction over his story of the downfall of Willie Stark, believed to be based on 1930s Louisiana political kingpin Huey Long. When B.F. Skinner named his novel envisioning the application of his behavioral psychology theories to a human community Walden Two (1948), he evoked all of the utopian energy of Henry David Thoreau’s own 19th century experiment, when he lived simply in a hut on Walden Pond. I could go on and on! For more examples, visit www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_book_titles_taken_ from_literature Allusion is an especially powerful literary device because it allows an author or speaker to introduce complex ideas and emotions into a text with great concision. An entire set of concontinued on page 37

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notations, moral considerations, foreshadowings, or implications is imported into the new work by a brief mention of a past story, person, or event. It allows a poet, novelist, songwriter, or filmmaker to borrow the verbal beauty and emotional depth of his/her literary ancestors, creating an invisible link of appreciation and thematic resonance. The most common sources of allusion, Greek mythology and the Bible, can also add a supernatural or moral dimension to the work. One of the most famous first lines in all of literature, “Call me Ishmael,” which opens Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851), alludes to the Ishmael of Genesis (and of the Qu’ran as well), who with his mother Hagar is banished into the desert by Abraham after his

wife Sarah gives birth to her own son, Isaac. Thus from the outset, we associate Melville’s narrator with exiles and outcasts, but also with innocent victims and unlikely survivors (he is the only crewmember to survive Ahab’s maniacal pursuit of the white whale). These echoes of beautiful language through time underline the importance of reading the classics in order to become truly educated. In addition to literature, allusions abound in song and the visual arts. Our works of art create a rich tapestry of interwoven strands from earlier works, lives, and events that combine to create beauty and meaning while celebrating our artistic legacy. Recognizing and understanding allusions are the keys to fully appreciating this living connection between authors and readers that spans many places and ages.

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from the house. We’re stringent here before we deploy a SWAT team. “We’re guardians up front, but we’re still warriors behind that. We’re going to lock up the bad guys.” The department has a longterm goal of decentralizing operations, he said about the satellite office in Crozet, which officers will not staff but occasionally drop in at. The office is expected to be open on October 1. The 850-square-foot office is offered to the department free and allows officers a place for bathroom breaks and to eat meals. A staffed station will most likely open first in the Hollymead area, Lantz said. “Most of our calls are in the ‘urban ring’ around Charlottesville. We have a satellite office at

Fashion Square Mall now.” A station can dispatch officers to calls. A satellite office is a parttime office. “Community engagement and transparency are number one, particularly in at-risk neighborhoods,” Lantz said. He said crime in the rural areas is typically a daytime break-in or roaming scammers. There were 85 calls for service in the Crozet area in the last 30 days and 30 were for vehicle accidents, he said. The worst were four minor larcenies. “Our worst crime in Old Trail,” he said, “is kids smoking pot on the pathways. The way you can help, as we say, is ‘when in doubt, call us out.’” Lantz lives in Old Trail himself. “I love the community. That’s why we live here. I truly enjoy it. They know what we want to order when we come in the door at Crozet Pizza and Fardowners.”

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difficult location to build on. For a report with plan illustrations, see the September 2015 issue of The Gazette. Relegating the parking, as the urban planners call it, will mean that downtown’s public space, the plaza, won’t fit in the new block but will have to shift to the east side of High Street, where, with characteristic foresight, the Byrd/Nelson concept shows it. This wise plan, with a grid of roads connected with tuckedaway, large landscaped parking lots and a shady walking loop around the new blocks, deserves another inspection by county planners as the question of roads in downtown goes to a vote by the planning commission later this month.

The 2015 Byrd/Nelson plan for the Barnes development

It’s Time for Peachtree Baseball’s Annual Meeting! Do you enjoy watching the kids play and learn the game of baseball? Wondering how you can help the league grow? Are you interested in giving back to the kids in our community? Please join us on Wednesday, October 26 at 7 p.m. at Crozet Library.

We are currently accepting names for the following board positions for 2017-2018:

Secretary Cal Ripken • Vice President Major/Minor-Cal Ripken • Fundraising Coordinator • Coach Rep. T-ball & Rookie VP Softball • Coordinator, Non-board Positions • Concession Stand Coordinator • All Star Coordinator Field Fundraising Committee • Babe Ruth Secretary/Coordinator Applicants must submit their name and the position he or she is interested in via email by 5 p.m. on Saturday October 1, 2016 to Peachtree Baseball, attention Cheryl Madison, President: peachtree@peachtreebaseball.com

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Seasonal Advice to Help Wildlife This Autumn Deer mating season is upon us, which means bucks are busy chasing does along their own dirt highways that sometimes intersect with our paved ones. To warn drivers to be especially on the lookout for these amorous hoofed mammals in areas of high deer density, the highway department places yellow signs with an image of a deer on them. But hardly anyone seems to understand the point of these signs! You are supposed to slow down a bit and watch for deer ahead if you want at least some hope of avoiding a collision with deer crossing the road in front of you. Yet I have never seen anyone do this. Even if the speed limit is 55 or more, people just keep on zooming. It’s especially prudent to slow down so you can come to a stop, if necessary, when more than one deer is crossing. Males are chasing females in fall and herds are crossing together all year. Slamming on the brakes or swerving at a high rate of speed to avoid a deer collision is exceedingly dangerous, especially if there are other vehicles on the road. The fall clean-up is a common horticultural practice of homeowners. But removing spent plant debris from your yard and garden so as to limit the spread of disease and insects seen as “harmful” (no insect exists to seriously harm healthy plants) is detrimental to the proper functioning of the environment. Additionally, the premise is based upon faulty reasoning. First, there are uncountable numbers of fungal spores, bacteria, and viruses in the environment. You can’t possibly make a dent in their numbers simply by sending your affected plants to

the landfill, an action that locks them up and removes them from the environment instead of recycling them. Because matter is being neither created nor destroyed, it’s limited. That’s why it’s so important for all organic material (i.e., derived from living matter) to be broken down and returned to the soil in order to support, and become, new life. Second, the fungal spores, bacteria, and viruses associated with “disease” and considered “germs” are essential components of the environment, playing important roles in the cycling of carbon and other nutrients when the plants they affect die. It’s not your job to try to limit these plant pathogens because they function to prevent overpopulations. Third, plant problems are always the result of an environment that is not functioning optimally, perhaps because of unsuitable weather, plant overcrowding, the creation of an unnatural monoculture, or the introduction of an alien pathogen the plants did not evolve with. Doomed plants should be added to the compost pile and you should address the cause of the problem, if that’s possible. “Spent” flowering plants should not be cut, but instead left standing in place until spring, not only in gardens but also in fields. If the plants have made seeds or fruits, this food will be available to birds and mammals still active in fall and perhaps into winter. If the plants have hollow stems, or seed pods that are partially open, these structures can provide refuge for some kinds of insects and spiders to make it through colder days. If you feel you must limit populations of particular organisms, you need to recognize the necessity of living in agreement with nature. Most adult insects

Drivers don’t seem to understand the meaning of deer caution signs. You should slow down after passing one of them. Photo: Marlene A. Condon.

can fly, which is how they end up in your yard. You should start working on creating a nature-friendly garden that will bring in the required predators. Indeed, this “secret” to gardening without the use of pesticides is truly the only way you can have an environment that perpetually rebalances populations so that no one organism becomes overly numerous and problematic. So don’t waste your time and energy on a pointless task. Skip the fall clean-up and enjoy the wonderful days of autumn instead! Another highly detrimental-to-wildlife activity that humans engage in is the removal of fallen leaves from the yard. Although leaves must be taken off lawns and perennial beds to keep them from being smothered, leaves should—for the most part—be left underneath the trees that shed them. All natural occurrences happen for a reason. Leaves are the natural mulch a tree provides for itself to maintain appropriate soil moisture and temperature for the benefit of its roots. Its annual shedding also creates a wonderful blanket to protect many kinds of critters throughout the winter. If you can’t keep leaves underneath your trees, you really should rethink your landscape. Remove grass or plants that don’t belong underneath a

tree anyway, or get rid of any trees that make too many leaves for you to leave in place. It’s nonsensical to make work for yourself (or to pay others to do it for you) by gardening out of sync with Mother Nature. And note that when leaves are removed with the use of small engines, natural resources are used up and our air and water are polluted. If you must remove leaves, you really ought to use a rake (which is better for your health, too!). Now’s the time that bears are busy trying to put on enough fat to hibernate. Avoid putting garbage into your trash cans that will attract them. If you own a house with a yard, you really should be recycling all organic matter back into the environment by composting or burying it. Of course, it’s best to limit the amount of food you throw away by carefully planning how much you truly need to buy in the first place. Then you won’t waste money either! However, if you can’t avoid putting garbage into a trash can, secure the lid with a chain. It’s best for bears and you if they are not able to feed upon your food waste. And if you live in bear country, wait to put out bird feeders until very cold weather has set in. By then these big animals should be asleep for the winter.

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Please Pass the Asparagus The Asparagus family (Asparagaceae) consists of 114 genera and about 2,900 species, including Asparagus officinalis, the plant we grow in our vegetable gardens. Of potential interest to ornamental gardeners are a few genera sometimes known as the woody lilies. Like the true lilies, these “woody lilies” are also monocots—i.e. a large group of plants that include the grasses—but in actuality they aren’t truly woody, nor are they lilies. Putting terminology aside, let’s look at one genus that can be grown easily in western Albemarle County. As perhaps the best-known genus of this family, at least one yucca species grows wild—or perhaps escaped from cultivation— across much of Virginia, and they have won acceptance in (nearly) mainstream horticulture. True, some people are totally put off by “spiky” plants—including even upright conifers—but to those with more open minds, an evergreen shrub requiring no supplemental water or pruning and sporting a bold flower spike…what’s not to like? The approximately fifty yucca species are all native to the Americas and have been employed by native peoples and later immigrants for a variety of purposes. The dried leaves have a low ignition temperature and can be useful for starting fires. The leaves’ sharp points and tough nature allowed them to serve as meat hangers during curing. The Cherokees used leaves, stems and roots to stun fish. But if you’ve ever eaten “yuca” in a Hispanic restaurant,

Yucca filamentosa

Yucca rostrata

it has no relation to yuccas; rather it’s the root of the cassava plant, Manihot esculenta. The aptly named Yucca flaccida has pliable leaves that are not very likely to produce an “ouch” unless you really work at it. Sometimes given the name weak-leaf yucca or hairy soapwort, it typically attains a height of only 18”-24”, not including the much taller flower stalk. It does like to run, however, so lop off the young offsets if you don’t want to create a sizable patch. Then again, this spreading tendency would be highly desirable if you want to cover a large slope. Many of the available cultivars are variegated with yellow coloration either at the edge of the leaves or in a broad stripe running down the center. Common varieties are “Golden Sword,” “Color Guard,” and “Gold Heart.” Speaking of names, Yucca flaccida is sometimes confused with Y. filamentosa (Adam’s Needle or Spoon-leaf yucca). I don’t intend to delve deeply into taxonomic details regarding their differences, especially since

I would probably be proven wrong within five minutes. That said, Y. flaccida would appear to have the more relaxed leaves, Y. filamentosa, the more rigid ones, especially the younger leaves at the center of the rosette. Also, Y. filamentosa is known for the white, thread-like filaments at the leaf margins, an ornamental feature that can be appreciated at close range. To further the confusion with Y. flaccida, the cultivars “Color Guard” and “Golden Sword” (see above) are sometimes assigned to this species. Don’t sweat the names. If you see it and like it, buy it. Although the smaller nontrunked yuccas have become more common in mainstream gardening, one warning note was sounded by the Missouri Botanical Garden’s website. The yuccas increased use in fast-food restaurant landscapes might lead to a negative association for homeowners. I still stick to my “if you like it, plant it” mantra, however. Just don’t surround your variegated yuccas with reddyed mulch. If you’re truly adventurous you can try planting the trunked yuccas. One of the hardiest is Yucca rostrata, beaked yucca, a native to northern Mexico and one county in Texas. Beaked yucca can reportedly reach fifteen feet in height in ideal conditions. A couple of beaked yuccas I observed in the North Carolina Piedmont have grown from one-gallon size to four feet tall in ten years. Yucca rostratas typically bear light bluish-green leaves with a slight twist and are arranged in a roughly hemi-

spherical shape at the top of the trunk. If the plants are in an open area, the leaves can flutter hypnotically in the wind. In yet another chapter on confusing yucca species, Y. thompsoniana and Y. linearifolia are quite similar to Y. rostrata. The former tends to be shorter than the beaked yucca and will reportedly flower even before forming a trunk. Yucca linearifolia has narrower leaves, and retains additional tiers of green leaves below the main rosette. And speaking of leaves, the older ones cling to the trunks of these three species in grass-skirt fashion. If you were particularly (overly?) tidy and had a lot of time on your hands, these could be trimmed off. However, the old leaves provide some protection from direct sunlight and excessive temperature swings. One possible issue with the trunked yuccas: Do they look “right” in the Piedmont of Virginia? True, probably not much of a problem for dedicated plant nuts, but your realtor might have a fit when it comes time to sell the house. Or if you’re lucky, you’ll have a Mediterranean style home, and the yuccas would work fine. As for culture, yuccas generally prefer full sun and good drainage. That said, they also seem tolerant of much different conditions. I’ve seen older plants—20-plus years?—sited in unamended clay with a gravel mulch. I have also grown them in clay with no apparent problem. Partial shade is okay also, although you may not get much flowering.

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community events SEPTEMBER 7

Crozet Orchestra Season Begins

The Crozet Community Orchestra 2016-2017 Season re-opens on September 7. The orchestra has openings for string musicians, bassoon and brass players. Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. at Tabor Presbyterian Church (note: the Sept 7 rehearsal will be held in Gillum Hall at Crozet Baptist Church). Registration will remain open until September 30. For more information and sign-up forms, visit the CCO’s website: crozetcommunityorchestra.org. The CCO’s next concert is Sunday, Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. at Crozet Baptist Church. CCO Director of Music Philip Clark will offer weekly group classes for beginning string students beginning Sept. 12, at 6:45 pm at the Batesville Market at 6624 Plank Road in Batesville. Beginners or novices ages 14 and up interested in learning to play violin (fiddle), viola, cello, upright bass are welcome. Walk-ins are welcome. Help is available for arranging instrument rental or repair. Contact Clark at pclarkmusic@gmail.com or call 434-9793343 for more information. To register online visit: crozetcommunityorchestra.org/ string-class-registration/

SEPTEMBER 10

Second Saturday Art Receptions Crozet’s Second Saturday event art receptions run from 4 to 6 p.m., Saturday, September 10. Art on the Trax will present “Letter by Letter: Letterpress Prints from St. Brigid Press” by Emily Hancock during the month of September. Across the street, Crozet Artisan Depot will present

“The Art Of Chocolate” with Jennifer Mowad of Cocoa & Spice, with free chocolate samples.

All events are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

SEPTEMBER 10

Chiles Pancake 5k

Join us on Saturday September 10 at 8 a.m. at Chiles Peach Orchard for the 3rd annual Pancake 5K. All proceeds benefit the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad. The course runs along the scenic and flat Jarmans Gap Road with beautiful views of the orchard and the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains. Included in your entry is an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast at the finish.Register online at raceit.com.

SEPTEMBER 14

Crozet Jam Session

The Crozet Jam Sessions will move from their first home in the depot to Starr Hill Brewery on Three Notched Road beginning Sept 14. The move to a larger venue comes because the jams had grown in popularity. Jam sessions after that will be on the second Thursday of the month, with upcoming dates on October 13, November 10 and December 8. Sessions start at 7 p.m. and last until 9. Everyone is welcome regardless of whether they wish to play an instrument or sing or just enjoy the music. The session on September 14 will feature the music of Creedence Clearwater Revival and John Denver. These are amplified acoustic sessions but electric basses and drums are welcome. Anyone needing to hook up to the sound system needs to arrive by 6:15 p.m. For more information, write Jim Pyles at jcpyles44@gmail. com or call him at 434-8122124.

SEPTEMBER 15

Chimney Project Silent Auction

The Albemarle Blue Ridge Heritage Project will host a fundraiser at The Lodge at Old Trail’s Third Thursday event on Sept 15. To honor those displaced from their homes by the creation of Shenandoah National Park ABRHP is trying

to raise $25,000 to complete Phases I and II of their memorial that has now begun construction at Patricia Ann Byrom Forest Preserve Park. Beginning at 5:30 p.m., the event kicks off with mountain music by Kim and Jimbo Cary and light refreshments. More than 40 items for a silent auction will be on display at that time, and after a brief presentation with stories about the mountain people and an explanation of the memorial, bidding will last until 6:55 when the winners will be announced. Valuable gift certificates, expertly hand-crafted items and artwork, antiques and more have been donated by local businesses and individuals.

SEPTEMBER 17

Pace Chase 5k in Western Ridge

The first annual Pace Chase 5K will be held Saturday Sept. 17 on a route through the Western Ridge and Foothills Crossing neighborhoods. The race will begin at 8 a.m. at the Western Ridge Clubhouse and return there for the finish. The event is a fundraiser for CASA, Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children. Team Lost in Pace is a 12-member group, many of whom live in Western Ridge, who will be running a 200-mile relay race from Louisville to Lexington, Kentucky Oct. 14-15 to benefit CASA. Entry for adults and children age 13 and up is $20; kids 12 and under, $10. The top two male and female finishers will receive a prize. Team Lost in Pace will host a pancake breakfast at the clubhouse after the race for $5 per plate. Deadline for entry is 7 a.m. Sept. 17. For more information, call Heidi Brown at 434-465-0285, or write her at heidihbb@comcast.net.

SEPTEMBER 18

Boys and Girls Club Cycling Challenge

The 2016 Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Virginia Cycling Challenge will be held Sept. 18, beginning at 8 a.m. at

the Old Trail Swim Club at 380 Claremont Lane in Crozet, where the ride finishes as well. The Challenge Ride has four fully supported, scenic routes available with mile options of 25, 50, 75, and 100. Aid stations are stocked with food, drinks, and energy items as well as volunteers. Routes are clearly marked and directed with course marshals along the way. The eight-mile Family Fun Ride is ideal for families and children who like to enjoy a special day together. It begins at 10 a.m. and covers a local, wellmarked course to a fun rest stop where riders will enjoy drinks and snacks before biking back to Old Trail. The family route is flat, controlled carefully by local authorities and welcoming to people of all ages and abilities. At the finish line find cheering fans and enjoy live music, catered food, awards for teams and individuals, local beer and wine, a swimming pool, professional pictures, and more. For more information and to register, visit www.bgcchallenge. org.

OCTOBER 14-16

Martha’s Market

The Women’s Committee of the Martha Jefferson Hospital Foundation, along with Wells Fargo, will host the 23rd annual Martha’s Market at John Paul Jones Arena from October 14-16, with a special Preview Party on Thursday, October 13. Eighty unique boutiques from across the country transform the arena into a marketplace with something for everyone. For the first time, local vendors will be among the boutiques at the Market. The price of admission is $10 per person and allows unlimited entry throughout the weekend at the following times: Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 7 pm; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. John Paul Jones Arena is located at 295 Massie Road in Charlottesville. The Women’s Committee has raised over $5 million in support of breast health, advanced technology, women’s midlife health, palliative care, the Cancer Resource Center and outreach to underserved populations.

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ble and frustration. Broadway opened the second half but had to punt again after a penalty and good pass defense by Saunders, giving the Warriors the ball at the 42. Broadway had no answer for Domecq, who broke tackles on a sack attempt and took the ball to the barn on a 58-yard run that lit up 33-0 on the scoreboard. By now the huge crowd recognized that this team is the defending, undefeated Jefferson District champion. They’ll settle for nothing less than a repeat of that, one game at a time. Another disappointing Gobblers effort on offense saw Tenuta almost get a pick-six as penalties and swarming Warriors shut down almost everything Broadway tried. The Warriors had a rare four-downsand-out series, but the Gobblers again ran into the buzz-saw that’s the Warriors’ defense. Tackles by Saunders and Trev

SEPTEMBER 2016 Awkard, and a powerful hit for loss by Ben Alter created a turnover on downs. Sophomore Tai Atuaia next made his debut at running back and the stocky newcomer bulldozed his way for 41 yards on six carries, setting up Domecq for a sweep around right end into the end-zone for a TD. In the last series of plays, Coach Redford brought in senior Peter Slechta at quarterback and junior Zee Christmas as a runner, along with BB High at receiver. After this stellar effort, the Warriors hit the road this Friday, playing at Brookville September 2 and Spotswood September 9, returning to home and Jefferson District action against Monticello on the 23rd. They will play Powhatan at their place on the 30th to round out September action. Gazette Player of the Game Derek Domecq ran for three touchdowns (142 yards) and connected on two scoring passes. The versatile junior also plays defense, punts and placekicks.

Sam Harris

Three Notch’d

“My grandfather was an entrepreneur in Portsmouth. He started a hardware store. It was my mother’s childhood. For a while he was the only place selling coal. I admired him. I thought it was neat that he owned his own company. My mom tells stories about it all the time.” Now Harris is a tub on its own bottom, too.

Crozet.” They said their most popular dishes were salmon with horseradish crust, shrimp penne with pancetta and spinach, and crispy whole snapper. Hayden was also known for his soft-shell crab dish. We’ll miss them, and those nice tasty dinners. Thanks for them all.

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Ivy Landfill Now Accepts Paint Any Day

The Ivy Materials Utilization Center (MUC) is now offering free paint collection in order to better serve their customers’ needs and to eliminate long lines at their fall and spring Household Hazardous Waste days. The program is free of charge to residents of Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville. Latex and Oil-Based

paints in their original containers (1 gallon, 5 gallon, quarter gallon) are now being accepted. Other paint-related products such as spray paint or paint thinners or paints not in their original containers will not be accepted. The Ivy MUC’s hours of operation are Tuesday Friday 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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$4 million in 2012 and 2013 on federal lobbying for legislation, including the 2013 School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act, according to lobbying disclosure forms filed with the Office of the Clerk for the House of Representatives. This federal legislation provides a financial incentive for states to enact their own laws requiring schools to keep non-student specific epinephrine auto-injectors in case of an emergency. So far, 47 states have passed such legislation. Mylan also was the top corporate sponsor of a non-profit group called Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) that was the key lobbyist pushing for the bill encouraging schools to stock epinephrine auto-injectors, of which EpiPen is by far the leading product. And Mylan spent $35.2 million on EpiPen TV ads in 2014. All of this would make sense if indeed every six minutes (on the FARE website it says every three minutes!) food allergies send someone to the hospital. But they don’t. Some 20,000 patients visit the hospital every year for allergic reactions and 75 percent of the cases are due to medication or stings, not food allergies. So, at most every 2 hours food allergies send

someone to the hospital, or about 14 patients per day in the entire country. Still, this might be a problem until you realize that 78 percent of those patients are sent home directly from the Emergency Department and the case fatality rate for the most severe form of allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, is one in 2,000,000. In more good news for worried parents, the case fatality rate of anaphylaxis for children under the age of 17 is one in ten million. This includes not just food allergies but also wasp and bee stings as well as medication reactions. Just to be clear, food allergies are real and can be life-threatening. Epinepherine is life-saving in those cases. But Mylan is deceitfully fanning parents’ worst fears in order to profit to the tune of one billion dollars. Talk to your allergist about whether you need an EpiPen, or even better, ask about the generic version of an epinephrine auto-injector that has been quietly on the market for years and costs less than $150 for a set of two. Incidentally, why do EpiPens come in two-packs? Because despite training for one year, 14 percent of parents mistakenly inject the first dose into their own thumb and not their child’s leg. Not exactly a gold medal-winning design.

Call 811 Before You Dig

August 11 has been tagged as 811 Day, as a reminder to call 811 prior to have underground utility lines marked to any digging project. Every six minutes in the United States an underground utility line is damaged because someone decided to dig without first calling 811. In our area, homeowners and contractors are connected to VA811, the local contact center, which notifies the appropriate underground utilities of their intent to dig. Professional locators are then sent to the digging site to mark the approximate locations of the underground utility lines with paint, flags, or

both. This free service is essential for protecting Virginia’s underground infrastructure. Striking a single line can cause injury, repair costs, fines, and inconvenient outages. Every digging project, no matter how large or small, warrants a call to 811. Installing a mailbox, building a deck, planting a tree, and laying a patio are all examples of digging projects that need a call to 811 before starting. Call VA811 or enter a ticket using the Single Address Ticket system at sat.va811.com at least three business days before starting.

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originally derived from photosynthesis, but as energy flow through the web of life (biota), almost all of it gets expended via metabolism and ultimately is lost as waste heat to the atmosphere. As a better analogy than a circuit, I suggest a fireworks of plants, animals, microbes and fungi. The energy within a firework (plant) is expended going up (predation) and coming down (decomposition). By the time the remnants of the fireworks display reach the ground again, the initial store of energy is pretty well spent having been released as heat, light and sound into the atmosphere. The second critique pertains to his silence on the impact of generated energy upon the community of life. All forms of life expend energy. However, in stark contrast to all other living creatures, we humans dramatically augment our natural, innate strength with enormous quantities of exogenous power. We are the only organism on the planet to do so. We are unique in generating energy outside of our bodies and directing this energy to extend the work we do. Both the current human population and our standard of living are made possible by this technological enterprise. The natural world has a finite amount of energy flowing through the food chain that supports the web of wildlife. Unlike the stable energy budget of the natural world however, human consumption of generated energy has risen more than 500 percent since 1950. We have used generated energy— from wind, solar, biofuels, geothermal, fossil fuel, nuclear—to appropriate and transform natural habitats for human purposes such as agriculture, business, transportation, and homes. We have used this generated energy to co-opt for ourselves— through commercial and recreational hunting and fishing—a large fraction of the biological energy flowing through the food chain. In effect, we have become unnaturally ravenous predators possessing supra-human energy.

Our use of generated energy to conduct the global economy has resulted in a shocking diminution of the biotic community. According to the World Wildlife Foundation, on average, global populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish in 2010 are roughly half their 1970 numbers. Over this 40-year time frame, Latin America experienced the most precipitous drop—a decline of 83 percent! Governmental, financial and corporate plans are in place to increase the rate of expropriation of the natural world on a massive scale, especially in Africa. This internationally sanctioned policy to commandeer a greater share of the energy flowing through the natural food chain guarantees wildlife populations will continue to decline across the globe. I grieve their loss; I fear unforeseen consequences. I close with perceptive warnings from ‘The Land Ethic’ that call upon us all to think like a mountain and take personal responsibility for the land community in which we live. “A system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided. It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value but that are (as far as we know) essential to its healthy functioning. It assumes, falsely, I think, that the economic parts of the biotic clock will function without the uneconomic parts. It tends to relegate to government many functions eventually too large, too complex, or too widely dispersed to be performed by government.”

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1 Holiday honoring hard workers 5 Arm joint 7 Local elementary school named for a French civil engineer 10 Call-letters of Crozet Elementary’s TV news station 11 Sold by the slice in the lunchroom 12 Squares of grass ready for the lawn 13 Preschool program at Brownsville since 2005 16 Bees make this 17 Another word for the name of a book 19 _____ sticks (item on school supply list) 20 Canned fish in a popular sandwich 22 Newest public elementary school in Crozet 24 The color of modern “black”boards 25 Meat cooked much less than well-done 26 Use these for coloring

2 Two-wheeler 3 Naps (what a sleepy cat does by the fire) 4 Rhymes with met, let and bet 6 _____ Lightyear, space ranger hero in “Toy Story” 8 First day of the school week 9 _____ Crutchfield, new principal at Brownsville 11 _____ butter and jelly 14 The ninth month 15 Number of library books Brownsville 5th graders can check out at a time 18 People who go to back-to-school night 19 “Gee whiz!” 20 “________ days hath September” 21 Number of classrooms in the original Crozet Elementary School 23 The opposite of sweet

David Leighton Bauer David Leighton Bauer, 58, of Crozet died at his residence on July 30, 2016. He was born in Amarillo, Texas on May 30, 1958 to Harry L. Bauer and Evelyn E. Bauer of Brownwood, Texas. He is now with his Savior Jesus in Heaven. He is survived by his wife, Kelly Valentine Bauer of Crozet, two daughter, Sarah Ashlyn Brown of Virginia Beach, and son-in-law, Cash E. Brown, a future grandson, Asher of be made to CVFD, P. O. Box Virginia Beach, and Kristen 696, Crozet, VA 22932 or the Nicole Bauer of Arlington, a Samaritan’s Purse, P. O. Box son, Aaron Matthew Bauer of 3000, Boone, NC 28607, A funeral service was held on Crozet; a sister, Christine Trythall of Frisco, Texas, one August 5 at Hillsboro Baptist brother, Scott Easley Bauer of Church with Dr, Joel Jenkins College Station, Texas. one son- officiating. Internment followed in-law, Cash E. Brown of in the Hillsboro Cemetery. Virginia Beach, a future grand- Anderson Funeral Home handled the arrangements. son, Asher. Family suggest contributions

Gilbert Ray Shiflett Gilbert Ray Shiflett, age 81, of Crozet, died Sunday, August 7, at Oak Grove Manor Assisted Living in Waynesboro, where he had resided since early March 2016. He was born in Albemarle County, on January 20, 1935, to the late Clarence H. and Nellie F. Shiflett. Predeceasing him in death were his sisters, Helen S. Graves, Gladys S. Farish and Dorothy S. Walton, and his brothers, Elwood (Pete) Shiflett and John Henry Shiflett. Also, predeceasing him was a special sister-inlaw, Barbara F. Snead, whom he loved and considered his daughter. Surviving is a sister, Daisy S. Fitzgerald, and a brother, Calvin L. Shiflett. He is survived by his wife, Joyce Fox Shiflett, whom he married on October 18, 1958. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews. Even though he was never blessed with children of his own, he is survived by a special nephew by marriage, Clayton L. Shifflett and his wife, Karen, and their two grown children, Jead W. Shifflett and Charlotte A. Shifflett, all of Crozet, whom he loved and considered his children and grandchildren.

They enriched his life in so many ways. Gilbert was a veteran of the U. S. Marine Corps, serving during the Korean conflict. He was employed by Acme Visible Records in Crozet from 1957, when he returned from the Marine Corps, until the closing of the plant in 1990. He was a life member of Crozet Volunteer Fire Department and Crozet Sportsman’s Club. The family is most grateful to the staff of Oak Grove Manor Assisted Living and Hospice of the Shenandoah for the love and care each gave to Gilbert. To comply with his wishes, there will be no services of any kind. His wish was that you continue with your daily activities and remember him as you knew him. If you care to make a memorial contribution, please consider Hospice of the Shenandoah, P. O. Box 215, Fishersville, Virginia, 22939, Crozet Volunteer Fire Department or Western Albemarle Rescue Squad, both in Crozet. Anderson Funeral Home, Crozet, is in charge of arrangements.

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James Lee Shifflett On August 8 a child of God and a loving father, grandfather and great grandfather, James Lee Shifflett of Crozet entered into eternal rest. He was born April 18, 1948 the son of the late Arthur and Mary Lane Shifflett and brother, John Shifflett. James was a decorated Vietnam War Veteran. He leaves to cherish in loving memory a daughter, Judy Payne and husband Gregory, a loving companion Marie Glasspoole, along with her daughter, Cindy Jacob and son Dillon Jacob, two granddaughters, Lanette Ntenda and husband Hendricks, Hope Johnson and husband Joshua, 5 great grandchildren, Gabrielle, Tyrese and Tyrell Ntenda, Jaylan and Javon Johnson, 3 sisters, Joyce Morris and husband Clarence, Linda Youhess and husband Mark, Susan Shifflett,, 4 brothers, Art Shifflett, Michael Shifflett and wife Danna, David Shifflett and wife Doris, Jackie Shifflett and

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823-5002 wife Diane, a good friend and neighbor Robert Ziolkowski and a host of nieces and nephews. To many he was known as brother, uncle, cousin, or Dad. However, the name that brought the biggest smile to his face was “POP POP” A service was held Saturday, August 15 at the Anderson Funeral Home Chapel with interment following at Rockgate Cemetery in Crozet. Anderson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Green Olive Tree Snippets By Sheila Freeman It is time to officially say goodbye to summer stock and fill our store racks with fall and winter clothes. We have bountiful donations of great fashions for all and are eager to display our semi-annual changeover. Here is our schedule: The Olive Tree will be closed Monday, September 5 through Friday, September 9. We will reopen on Saturday, September 10. The store will be cleaned, reorganized, and redecorated. Our energetic shop manager, Ellie Kroeger, is a great planner and she inspires all the volunteers to come together to produce this semi-annual seasonal changeover. She and husband Kurt work tirelessly, as do our growing number of volunteers. We don’t know what to do about our continuing problem of after hours theft. Local merchants have spotted the same few trucks “circling like sharks,” then snatching donated items left at the back door. So, it is necessary to leave

donations only when we are open. We are happy to see our customers finding bargains, visiting, chatting and just enjoying your community thrift store. A most enjoyable event occurred in July as we hosted a “before opening hours” shopping spree. Six ladies in wheel chairs from the Cedars Nursing Home shopped at a time just for them. This was arranged by Cedars’ Margaret Thacker and Ellie. The atmosphere was rich with laughter and camaraderie and fun for $4 a bag. A good time was had by all. Sue Kyle, one of our many treasured volunteers, has set up our newly designed website: greenolivetreecrozet.com Thank you, Crozet Community, for all you do.

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