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Crozet Crossing resident Robin Lueke at the Powells Creek Dam
Stream Crossing Approved to Allow New Development of 70 Houses The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors approved a Special Use Permit for a stream crossing of Powells Creek linking Orchard Drive and Cling Lane at their meeting September 14, enabling the development of 70 houses named West Glen adjoining Crozet Crossing. The vote was 5 to 1 with White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek objecting that the decision undermined the county’s stream protection rules. Those supporting the idea saw compensation in
having Southern Development take over the potential environmental clean-up of a small dam that was built to impound water for filling pesticide sprayers at the time the area was an orchard. The new road will pass over the creek on three 10-by-10 box culverts and require filling of the flood plain and slicing through steep slopes. The capacity of the culverts is expected to be large enough to maintain base continued on page 10
JAUNT bus service between Crozet and Charlottesville is likely if a survey of U.Va. employees living in Crozet and other locals who commute to jobs in Charlottesville shows that a dependable ridership is at hand. A survey to answer the question is available online at crozetex press.org. JAUNT executive director Brad Sheffield, who also represents the Rio District on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, joined Rebecca White, director of the University of Virginia’s Parking and Transportation department (and a Crozet resident), at the Crozet Community Association’s Sept. 8 meeting to announce the “Crozet Express” idea. The pair also presented it to the Crozet Community Advisory Committee Sept. 21. JAUNT first offered bus service from Crozet 10 years ago, Sheffield noted. Now he has some extra money in his budget and he is exploring the possibility of service similar to the hourly 29 Express service that
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Planning Commission Okays Rezoning in Foothill Crossing The Albemarle County Planning Commission approved a proposal to rezone 39 acres east of Crozet Park and adjoining the existing part of Foothill Crossing to allow up to 180 units to be built there by Riverbend Development. Previous zoning was one unit per acre. Half the houses will be single family detached, according to Valerie
Long, an attorney representing Riverbend, and the rest townhouses. Fifteen percent of the units will qualify as affordable housing and the project also includes an undefined civic space. The area borders Parkside Village and the road system for the new houses means that a connection from
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Memorial chimney in progress. See page 16.
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Dear Editor: This November, Virginia voters will have an opportunity to vote on two very important constitutional amendments: “Right to Work” and “Property tax exemptions for spouses of certain emergency services providers.” Too often, voters overlook these critical amendments amidst the excitement and attention given to our Presidential and Congressional races. The first is on our right to work status. Virginia has been a right to work state for decades. As a result, Virginia enjoys great success in recruiting and retaining businesses. We must maintain this status as a job friendly state as we work to rebuild our economy. Passing this amendment will make Virginia a stronger state by guaranteeing that no employee can be fired just because he or she refuses to join a union.
Enshrining it in our constitution permanently protects our right to work status. The second constitutional amendment will give localities the option to provide a property tax exemption to the surviving spouse of a law enforcement, firefighter, or emergency service member killed in the line of duty. Everyday men and women in uniform risk their lives to serve our communities. Unfortunately, many have given the ultimate sacrifice to keep us safe. This amendment is a small recognition for the efforts of our first responders who put their lives on the line each and every day. Passing this amendment will show our public safety personnel that we stand with them and their families. I urge you to vote “Yes” on both of these important amendments in November. Sincerely, Steve Landes Delegate for the 25th District 4117 Lee Highway Weyers Cave, VA 24486 (540) 246-4116
Bonnie & Friends One did not have to catch a train to a New York concert hall or sail on a ship to hear the Royal Caribbean Singers in order to enjoy some of the finest performers one can hear. Their outstanding props were in the imagination and a red cape, plus a few vivid, whimsy scarves and a dashing cowgirl hat. From the first cord, tickled on the piano keys by the very outstanding pianist Nancy Fleischman at the annual “Bonnie and Friends In Concert, Sunday, August 14 at Crozet Baptist Church, the audience was captivated until the final cord of the performance. No one wanted to leave the gathering of old friends, and stayed around to make new ones. Chuck Miller and David Collyer brought down the house, so to speak, with their strong, rich voices and their gifted abilities to “play to the audience.” David Collyer’s gift to the audience was imaginary tables and chairs that were so powerfully put down that one could imagine seeing them, sitting
around, but all empty of friends who had once been there. This was done by his singing “Empty Chairs and Empty Tables” from Les Miserables. Bonnie Samuel was not new to performances like this and whether she sang a soft romantic song or a toe tapper, she was superb. Her performance of “The Greatest of These,” and her selections from “Phantom of the Opera” all left the audience with a smile, quietly humming the songs. Bonnie’s personality was charming, so was her little red cape. Dry Bones, sung by the ensemble, was brought to life before one’s eyes when the old, dry skeleton began to dance around with his eyes rolling and his feet dancing to the rhythm of the music. Judy Bazin was absolutely the “Cat’s Me-Ow” as she sang and performed the song, Raunchy, from the play The Rainmaker. She played the part of Lizzie, an aging unmarried woman, who lives with her father and brother on a drought-stricken ranch. Here again, as thoughout of the entire concert, New York per-
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Looking at Defeat, Adelaide Asks for Postponement Adelaide, a proposed housing project of 80 units on Rt. 250 next to Cory Farm, saw its chances of approval fading at the Board of Supervisor’s Sept. 7 meeting and as the vote drew near developer Kyle Redinger went to the microphone and asked for a deferral. Sixteen speakers, many from Cory Farm, opposed the plan as too dense. Redinger is seeking a density of 5.5 units per acre in a location where the Crozet Master Plan calls for a density of 3 to 6. He had originally proposed 93 units but reduced it after the Planning Commission said it thought the mix should be 50/50 single family and townhouses or “villas.” The Crozet Community Advisory Committee had passed a resolution against the proposed density, but seemed prepared to accept a density closer to three units. County planning staff had recommended the plan. Tom Loach said the high density poses traffic safety issues on a stretch of Rt. 250 that in
recent years has seen two pedestrians killed. He reported that police data shows that there is an accident at least once a month on the 1.3 mile stretch between Harris Teeter and Western Albemarle High School. “I grew up in California in the ’40s and ’50s, “ said Steve Wadsworth. I understand about growth. Cities did not follow their master plans and now they have problems. We have a master plan. We know its intent. Follow the plan.” Michael Salerno said, “It adds 8.9 percent of new traffic to Rt. 250. Affordable? Twelve [affordable] units is the minimum he could have.” Morgan Butler, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, argued for a deeper landscape buffer along the highway. Allowed to make a rebuttal of comments, Redinger said, “I haven’t heard anything new. Twelve of the speakers are Cory Farm neighbors. We have made adjustments. I understand
change is hard… You need to do this to provide affordable housing to the people of Albemarle County.” He said projections showed that the subdivision would add 30 children to local schools. “The density is supposed to be in downtown,” said White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek. “Somebody mentioned pyramidal density. It’s supposed to taper off to the ‘fringe’ at the Growth Area boundary. Traffic backs up to Foxchase now. Current citizens are already invested. They need some standing in the question. I can’t support 5.5 units.” “My planning commissioner said she followed the Crozet Master Plan and she thought that higher density should not be in that location, said Samuel Miller Distric Supervisor Liz Palmer. “Where are we going?” said Rick Randolph, Scottsville supervisor. “The location of this project is just plain wrong. It will add to traffic and there’s no
sidewalks [to Harris Teeter]. How would we feel in Rivanna if this density proposal came up east of Glenmore? They would string me up if I approved it. They’d run me out of town. This is a case where undevelopable acreage should be reduced from the buildable. …We should adhere to the CCAC resolution.” Supervisor Norman Dill said that, “It’s not the responsibility of developers to deal with capacity of schools or roads. We can’t let people not move in because 250 is too crowded. I’d rather have the houses in one place and the green area left open.” “I’m worried about traffic. There shouldn’t be shopping centers on 250. I can’t agree with this density,” said Palmer. At this point, seeing a tie vote was likely, Redinger stood to request the deferral. “Come back with a lower density,” said Palmer. At this point the project restarts the whole approval process, pointed out Mallek, who voted no on the deferral motion.
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Crozet Park Plans Expansion of Fitness Facility and Pool House By Kim Guenther and Ellen Braun Should Crozet Park grow its facilities to keep up with the growth of Crozet and Western Albemarle County? A new survey launched October 1 to run for six weeks has the specific goal of capturing input, ideas and insights from the community to steer the vision for a potential expansion of the Park’s aquatic and fitness center. Almost three years ago the Park’s board of directors solicited input via online survey from the Crozet community and the county at large regarding ideas for new amenities at community-owned Claudius Crozet Park. From that input we triggered work on five significant capital improvements: • Pavilion replacement destroyed by derecho winds in 2013 (complete), • A fenced-in dog park (complete), • new parking (complete), • installation of a .75 mile, sixfoot wide paved perimeter trail • a pond-side amphitheater. With the parking project completed (with only a few new trees left to plant), the perimeter trail to be completed this fall, and a pond-side amphitheater still to plan, we are well on
our way to completing all five projects and, we’ve still managed to make additional improvements along the way. This past summer, thanks to a generous anonymous donation, we were able to erect a beautiful new pool-side pavilion and another smaller pavilion in the dog park. We’ve also made significant capital improvements to the pool. Solid Arts and Crafts Festival results have enabled the park to pay-off the last of the pool dome bank loan in the same time span. The Park has never looked more beautiful thanks to all the many volunteers, donors and partners who have consistently made the Park a priority. However, there’s one project yet to be tackled; we saved the biggest and boldest project for last. A consistent theme throughout the 2014 survey was the desire of many respondents to expand the existing aquatics and fitness facility. This idea is fully supported by the Park Board who recently voted to make this project a priority over the next three years. To put this into context with the larger Park, the potential expansion includes the main fitness building, the pool and surrounding storage sheds, the summer pool house and, the new open grassy area (now closed to traffic)
Crozet Park Master Plan, early 2016
extending from the summer pool entrance across to the playground. This footprint represents a significant amount of space to create something truly amazing that will serve current and future generations. The first step in our planning is, again, to solicit input from the community, current members of the YMCA at Crozet Park, and residents throughout the County, especially those living in Western Albemarle County. As with the 2014 survey results, your input will directly guide our efforts. Please take a few minutes to share your ideas by filling out the survey at: www.sur veymonkey.com/r/ facility-expansion It is inspiring that after
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One of Us: Keeping the Faith There’s a lot to be said for commitment. David Collyer’s first post coming out of seminary, 34 years ago, was Crozet Baptist Church. He’s still there, and it’s given him a long view of change in Crozet and a deep knowledge of the Crozet families he has comforted in their times of trial and suffering. “We Baptists, all the free church groups, are free to choose who we like as pastor,” he said. “One thing is sure: if you don’t make the best choice you can change it. A good thing is that it can produce a long pastorate. And there are good things in that. You get deep personal relationship and that’s good in times of crisis. You don’t want to get stale, or lose creativity. But when you genuinely invest in a community, that’s when you get a return on it.” For 15 years he lived in what is known as the Maupin House, since then sold by the church, across the street from the church’s front door. The Collyers then moved to a quieter abode in Free Union. Roy Thomas was the pastor when Collyer came to Crozet. “I came as the youth ministry intern. I did that two years. It’s a lot to do and you don’t get paid well. Roy was a good mentor and we got along well. “After that I was made Minister for Youth and Senior Adults and that went on for eight years. Up until the last 10 years I was an associate pastor who would do whatever. Only about then did I begin to preach every Sunday.
“I’ve also been involved as our music director—though I did take a long hiatus. I play guitar and I’ve been singing since high school.” Now he’s taking voice lessons and, with his wife Susan, he’s also a member of Crozet’s handbell choir, which has a rigorous practice schedule and requires close concentration. Crozet Baptist Church hosts the Crozet Community Orchestra’s concerts, too. “It’s a strong connection,” said Collyer. “We feel like they are part of us.” But that’s all avocation. “I want to promote the larger Christian community of western Albemarle. I have a vision beyond Crozet Baptist Church that embraces all the Christians who are working hard to be Christ-like and promote God in our community. We are open to partnering in that. “The Easter Sunrise service at Mint Springs Park is inspirational to me. That’s been held for at least 45 years. And the community Thanksgiving service is at least as old. I’ve been in that every year I’ve been here.” CBC’s Sunday attendance averages about 150, Collyer said, but looked at as a monthly figure, the total membership is around 300. Collyer, who, like his wife, is from south Georgia, went to the University of Georgia as a history major. Then he went on to Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville. Later he went to Drew University, a United Methodist seminary, and is at
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Greenwood Motel on Rt. 250 has been sold to an adjoining property holder and will be razed. The 10-room motel dates to the 1940s and the business was active into the 1980s. It was one of a series of motels that were built in Ivy and Crozet after World War II to cater to tourists and which eventually succumbed to a loss of trade after Interstate 64 bypassed them. Paul Barbato, known commonly as Paulee, who had inherited the business after the death of his mother, died in September. The pair had lived in an apartment over the motel’s office, which contained some four dozen antique clocks. A proud Marine, Barbato was buried in his uniform with military honors. He gained some local notoriety after he put up a sign at the end of the motel driveway that read: Still Here. It referred to his adamant contention that the county was trying to tax him off the property. If his ownership of the motel was referred to, his regular answer was to dispute it and say that it actually belonged to the government. Gary Peppe got to know Barbato in recent years and helped him around the property. “I stopped in because I saw it was falling apart. I asked if he needed help and we became friends. People loved him wherever he went. I miss him, even what a pain he was.” Peppe was running a fire-
wood business on a corner of the yard. The motel used a wood-burning furnace and Barbato needed a healthy supply of wood. “I was selling firewood because I had to do something and it took off.” Salvageable components of the building are being removed, such a windows and the locally made sandstone veneer on the front of the building. But they are few. The roof has had major leaks for years and the mold-ridden structure is hopelessly disintegrating. “The motel was packed in the 50s,” Peppe said. It housed crew members of Evan Almighty while the movie was being filmed in Old Trail. “The motel was successful until his mother passed away,” said Peppe. “He couldn’t keep up with it and he was tight with money. He was very close to his mom and he lost spirit. His cat died the same day Paulee died. He was very close to the cat, too. It was surprising.” Peppe served as caretaker of the property in recent weeks and took on the task of selling its contents and arranging for it to be cleared out. “I once tried to buy it. I wanted to make it into a B&B.” There are no plans for a new use of the 3.2-acre property, according to Mark Kirk, who manages the large farm that adjoins the motel. “We like it quiet, peaceful and open, he said.
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ReStore’N Station Decides to Punt and Regroup Faced with a tie vote by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors—a tie means no— ReStore’N Station decided to ask for a deferment of its request to reopen the Special Use Permit for water that allowed the gas station and convenience store to be built. Supervisors Ann Mallek, Rick Randolph and Liz Palmer had voted no. The vote will come up again at the board’s Oct. 12 meeting. ReStore’N Station, on Rt. 250 near Interstate 64, had asked for the conditions on the permit to be removed to allow it to triple its building space, add diesel pumps, allow vehicles to be parked there overnight, and to be open longer hours. Its zoning is Rural Area. Jo Higgins, representing ReStore’N Station, said that the station’s record of water use showed that it stays below its limit of 1,625 gallons a day and the untapped remaining volume of water allows more uses on the property. The wellhead has a control valve on it that does not allow more than the limit to be
drawn from the well. Besides changing the limits on the convenience store, owner Jeff Sprouse has proposed new uses including a doughnut shop and a tire and auto repair shop and office space. The station is next to Freetown, a community created by freed slaves after the Civil War, and Freetown residents opposed lifting the conditions, citing Sprouse’s carelessness about observing them so far and pointing out that the station would become a truck stop if they were lifted. “All the agreements they made they should have to stick with,” said Sandra Mears of Freetown. “Now they want to stick it to us again.” She said trucks are parked there overnight now and also asserted that because the station self-reports its water use the figures might be doctored. Supervisor Norman Dill, who had voted yes, said he wanted to listen to the tape of the 2010 meeting in which the SUP was granted to see what
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promises had been made to Crozet and Freetown residents. “Crozet is a community where your word is your honor. If these commitments were made they should be honored.” The deferment was made to allow a review the statement of
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go was originally in West Glen’s parcel, but a boundary change attached it to The Vue. Because the county calculates housing density on the gross acreage of a parcel, rather than its actual buildable land, the effect of transferring the floodplain between parcels was to double the allowable units in The Vue, which initially had 65 apartments planned. Six speakers opposed the SUP. Crozet Crossing residents said the road ruined their neighborhood, where children play in the cul-de-sac, by turning it into a through street. “It’s a quiet dead-end street,” said Penny Chang. “We hear Screech Owls. We were told the stream could not be developed. The Crozet Master Plan makes a principle to preserve neighborhoods. This will completely change the neighborhood. All the reasons we moved here would be wiped out.” They offered the idea that the 1990 SUP be amended to allow 30 additional units by extending Cling Lane and having a bollarded fire/rescue access off McComb Street. But that would not address the dam and the possibility that toxic sediments are trapped behind it. Southern Development’s next steps is soil sampling on the parcel to see if lead arsenate is found. That chemical was used as a pesticide. In 2006, 58 lots in Orchard Acres were remediated by the EPA in a Superfund project because lead arsenate was found on them. Mark Graham, the county’s community development director, said that Southern will have to address the potential probcontinued on page 23
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the stage of writing his Ph.D. dissertation. “I grew up in the church and I always had a positive experience. My mom made sure I was there. My dad later renewed his commitment. In college I began to be active in Baptist student organizations. For two summers I was what they call a summer missionary in Indiana and Michigan. I thought, maybe God is calling me to do this full time and I decided to go to seminary. I had the experience to know I could do the things you have to do as a pastor. There was a sense of ‘ought-ness’ [to do it]. That’s the Holy Spirit. “I expected to go back to south Georgia. I had resumes out. I saw a notice at Seminary that a group from Crozet was coming. It was Ben and Maria Hurt and Judy Barber. We hit it off right away. I felt it was the right thing. “It’s been my one and only ministry. I’ve done others, but not fulltime, and it’s been good. There’s been an opportunity for variety and the community has changed, but God has been good. “The church I came to had a majority of members who were related to each other. That had a style and culture. In recent years we have had new folks and new ideas that come from their experience. If those new ideas are worthy, we are open to them. We try to be discerning. Crozet Baptist is such a welcoming community and that remains true. Obviously the community has changes a lot. At one time I could walk into any business and see two or three people from church. Now I go in and I don’t know anybody. “This is really important to me: There are few relationships that aren’t going to experience
OCTOBER 2016 conflict. Are you going to leave, or are you going to work through it and get to a more meaningful relationship? We give up on relationships too early these days. Some you have to, but there ought to be a lot of striving before that. I don’t like to give up on people. Help them to grow. Rally around them before you give up. “I think the big problem in the world today is selfishness. My job is to help people move closer to God. It’s a gradual process. Sometimes people make leaps, but usually it’s slow. That’s one of the benefits of a long pastorate. That’s who I want to be, to encourage the faith journey. That goes for me, too. I’m not Mother Theresa or Billy Graham, but I’m trying to move.” “I love that bumper sticker, ‘Wag more, bark less.’ We need more kindness in our interactions with each other. The Bible clearly calls us to it. For all his focus on sanctity, Collyer is an avid reader of science and likes to check in on a science blog, “13.7,” a reference to the estimated age of the universe. He also reads to keep up with current events. His office is serene and dignified with photos of National Parks he has hiked in on the walls. “I enjoy the outdoors. I’ve also become a foodie. Susan is really something. She is very scientific about her cooking. And she really does think about other people more than herself.” Susan is a well-known mainstay in the kitchen at Green House Coffee. “I’m at the stage of life where my parents are passing out of life,” said Collyer, who will turn 60 in November. “I want to continue to grow as a pastor. CBC wants to be a strong resource for Christ in Crozet. We like to work with school counselors to identify needs of children. We want even stronger relationships with organizations such as the Crozet Community Chorus, Girl Scouts, and the Crozet Community Orchestra. “We want to remain faithful followers of Christ in a changing world. Slow and steady. Strong and steady wins the race.”
Crozet Baptist Church on St. George Avenue (Photo courtesy of Claire Fisher)
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Bike Shop Coming to The Square Crozet newcomer Cor Carelsen will open Crozet Bicycle Shop, offering new bikes and repairs, in the former house on The Square that once served as the office of Barnes Lumber Company. The house is being remodeled—fewer walls, larger windows—to suit the needs of the new business, which is expected to open next month. “We want to make it a friendly store,” he said. “The customer will be able to see everything happening in the workshop, which will be behind the counter.” The store will sell Giant and Santa Cruz brand bikes. Giant is a Chinese manufacturer—“one of the best,” said Carelsen—and Santa Cruz he described as a “high-end mountain bike.” Carselsen said that there are other manufacturers he believes in but those companies have existing arrangements with Charlottesville bike shops. He’s shooting to have a small inventory on hand for Christmas. Carelsen was raised in Kimberly, South Africa, and he and his wife, an American who spent her childhood in England, formerly operated a horse safari business in Botswana. This is his first venture into the bike business. “We had the horse safari operation for 14 years,” he said. “I got tired of horses. I got into bikes. Some couples would be both, one on a horse and one on a bike.” Carelsen learned to repair the bikes they used and later went to a school, Barnett
Bicycle Institute, for formal training as a bicycle mechanic. “You have to have a passion for fixing it right,” he said. “Modern bikes are getting complicated with hydraulics.” “My wife is the real horse rider. I’m a mountain biker. I was looking for a place to bike. This area has both horses and bikes. I need to get into nature and then I’m happy. Here it’s 10 minutes away.” Carelsen said he had never heard of Crozet and identified it through an Internet search. The family is living in Greenwood now and looking for a house in Crozet. “We first looked at Staunton. Charlottesville appealed to us more. We saw a house for rent in Crozet. I saw a lot of bikes around and there’s no bike store here. The Charlottesville stores are well established. We need one here closer to the mountains and the trails.” “We’re really focused on quality work, quality bikes, and on friendliness,” said Carelsen. “It will be about good service. I’ll come get a bike to fix and bring it back.” He said he expects to be in the shop early and late. “I’d like to be involved in the development of the sport locally. We’ll be sponsoring events once the business gets settled. For instance, we’ll hold workshop on how to make roadside repairs,” he said. Carelsen has joined the Crozet Cycling Club on their morning jaunts around western continued on page 23
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Leet & Sarah Jane: Letting Go Moletus and Sarah Jane (Frazier) Garrison married in 1908 and went to housekeeping high atop the Blue Ridge Mountains in western Albemarle on the Rockingham County line. Never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined that in less than two decades everyone and their brother in the eastern United States would begin making plans to come traipsing right through their backyard. Life was much too busy for such far-fetched thoughts. Although the newlyweds lived for a while with Moletus’s grandmother, there still was land to clear, a garden to set out, orchards to work, field crops to tend, and provisions to put by for the winter ahead. Travel off the mountain to the post office, store and mill at Mountfair would be too treacherous to risk when ice and snow arrived at their 2,800' elevation. Before the year was out, their first child Sally was born. As the years raced by, eight more babies, four boys and four more girls, arrived beneath “Leet” and Sarah Jane’s wood-shingled roof, as did the occasional extended family
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members who needed a season of shelter from life’s storms. The gathering storm that they could not prepare for, however, was wrought not by nature’s fury but by the desire of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the mid-1920s to host a national park within convenient driving distance of the major population centers in the eastern US. When the state chose to exercise its authority of eminent domain and proceeded to make a blanket condemnation of the acreage required by Congress for a national playground— cleansed of all evidences from two centuries of human habitation—the Garrisons and their good mountain neighbors found themselves smack-dab in the middle of the proposed park’s South District. With little if any recourse, they waited on the dreaded piece of mail containing eviction papers that would compel them to leave behind all of the improvements and securities for which they and preceding generations had labored. While they waited, the 1920s drew to a close with dismal news of economic depression
Detail from the c.1926 “Map of the Proposed Shenandoah National Park falling within Albemarle County Va.” Moletus Garrison’s tract #118 was one mile south of Brown’s Gap. The park’s “Greatest Single Feature, a Sky-Line Drive”, as well as the famed Appalachian Trail, passed through the Garrison’s former garden and fruit orchard. Close by their homesite at milepost 84.1 is parking for the Jones Run Falls Trailhead. [Image courtesy of White Hall Media]
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The household of Moletus and Sarah Jane Garrison assembled for photographs below their mountaintop house. Two year-’round springs proceeded from that hillside: a lower one with cool, sweet drinking water, and an upper one with a more tepid output used primarily for washing laundry. [Photo courtesy of Rosie Mae Garrison Keyton]
and difficult times in the lowland cities. The early ‘30s brought more of the same. Season to season, the mountain residents lived with the uncertainties of what their own future might hold. Yet, flowers still bloomed in the springtime, trees continued to provide an annual bounty of fruits and nuts, new babies enlarged their communities, and the dead were laid to rest in ages-old mountain burying grounds. Leet and Sarah Jane’s daughter Rosie Mae, bride of Woodie Keyton (the storied “Sage of Pasture Fence Mountain”), penned vivid personal recollections of the Garrison family’s self-sufficient life on the mountaintop prior to the establishment of Shenandoah National Park.
“I remember everything about our home in the Blue Ridge Mountains,” said Rosie. “Our house had a big front porch, high off the ground. On one end of the porch was a 10x12’ room which Dad called the meat room. We had two big rooms downstairs. One was the living room, one was the kitchen. We had two big bedrooms upstairs. We had two big beds in each room for us children. Mom and Dad slept downstairs in the living room. “Underneath our front porch was a big cellar. Over on the right of our house was a hill. My dad dug back under that hill and made another cellar, which he called the dirt cellar. Mom, Dad and the oldest boys
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and girls worked hard all summer. When winter came, both cellars were full of canned goods, potatoes, apples—bushels of them— sauerkraut, and brine cucumbers in wooden barrels. My dad was a real farmer. “We had two good work horses and one mule. Always had two milk cows. He raised his own hogs, chickens and jackrabbits. Always two good hound dogs. Raised corn that he had ground each year into corn meal. Raised his own wheat that he had made into flour. I remember going with my dad in a two horse wagon to Mr. Lem Shifflett’s water mill [at Mountfair] in Brown’s Cove about nine miles off the mountain from where we lived. Dad would give Mr. Shifflett so much corn and wheat to have [ours] ground for the winter. He never paid with money. “Dad always planted pole beans in the corn field. He would let them dry and we would shell them out by the bushel to have for the winter to eat. Raised his own cane to make molasses. He raised cabbages, turnips, tomatoes, butter beans and sweet potatoes. “We had all kinds of fruit trees: apples, pears, cherries, damsons. Dad made his own apple cider. We had wild blackberries, raspberries, huckleberries and blue grapes.” Some proponents for the establishment of Shenandoah National Park and their allies in the media, in order to sway public opinion and hasten the removal of all residents (or “squatters” as they were often characterized) still living on proposed park
lands, painted the mountain residents with a broad, disparaging brush. One of many such examples appeared in Charlottesville’s Daily Progress newspaper in May 1932, where some were described as living in “perennial starvation and penniless squalor”, and speaking a “queer, Chaucerian English, almost un-understandable.” One doctor reported that “the use of soap was almost unknown to them and that many suffered from malnutrition and tuberculosis.” The article summed up its biased position thusly: “No matter what is done with these people, they will be better off. They have Jimmy Garrison (1911–1946) stands at his family’s garden located directly behind their house. Surveyors for the Appalachian Trail spent a night in the nothing to lose.” Garrison’s corn house as they worked their way through the area. Mrs. Garrison “I don’t remember fixed breakfast for them before they left the next morning. The route of that how long it was before early trail passed between the family’s dwelling and their garden. [Photo we left the park,” said courtesy of Rosie Mae Garrison Keyton] Mrs. Keyton, “but we moved before winter. We moved to Dad didn’t do much farming there. Barboursville. My dad bought a small farm “I know it broke my mom’s and dad’s there. We didn’t have a barn or corn house heart to leave their home on the Blue Ridge there so Dad built one of each, and a big Mountains. But they didn’t let us children hog lot for our pigs. The farm was real poor. know it.”
Rosie Mae Keyton holds a jar containing dried calamus (or Sweet Flag) roots that her husband Woodie dug in the 1940s. An herbal tonic was brewed from the roots to treat their young son’s colic. It did its job. [Photo by Phil James]
The Albemarle County “home, sweet home” of the Moletus Garrison family sat on 53 acres condemned for the creation of Shenandoah National Park. Mr. Garrison’s land included corn, sorghum and wheat fields, in addition to a fruit orchard of 128 trees. His farm contained seven other buildings used for various farm utility purposes. [Photo courtesy of Rosie Mae Garrison Keyton]
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BRHP Memorial Dedication Planned for November 5 By Sally James The last stone has been carefully chosen and laid in its place. Now the chimney stands a proud 16 feet tall, an impressive work of art set amidst the green hills of Blackwell’s Hollow. This chimney is the first part of a memorial being created to honor the families displaced from their homes in order to create Shenandoah National Park. Albemarle Blue Ridge Heritage Project, one of eight grassroots chapters of the BRHP, chose the site at Patricia Ann Byrom Forest Preserve Park to build this county’s memorial. Before the dedication planned for Saturday, November 5, a bronze plaque will be affixed to the chimney that will list the surnames of the Albemarle County families displaced. Darryl Whidby, master stonemason, and his wife Jackie built the memorial chimney for Madison County, and now for
Albemarle, too. They would be honored to build all eight chimneys planned, if needed. When asked why he has this desire to contribute, he replied, “It’s a way I can honor and remember my family [who lived in the mountains]. My grandmother helped to raise me…I like to just feel the rock.” These beautiful stones, indeed, could tell a story: as part of the mountain, gathered and laid up a hundred years or more ago, taken down and moved, and raised up again to remind us of those who were here before us. The chapter is continuing fundraising efforts to meet its goal of $25,000, which will allow construction of a postand-beam shelter at the same site with educational panels and with room for cultural events. The ABRHP had a successful, standing-room-only event at The Lodge at Old Trail September 15. The Silent Auction raised over $2,400, thanks to all the generous
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Crozet Elementary fifth grader Cal Hughes poses with the pennant he designed for Carnegie Mellon University, the school he hopes to attend someday.
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Crozet Elementary is the first elementary school in Albemarle County to institute Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), a program that teaches students research-based learning strategies designed to help them succeed throughout their academic career and beyond. All fifth graders at Crozet will be taught using AVID methods; and there is a possibility that the program will eventually be instituted schoolwide. Principal Gwedette Crummie says that in addition to teaching students proven techniques for studying and learning, it also helps to instill a new mindset in students who lack confidence. “It’s getting students college-ready—especially students who may be the first in their families to go to college. The whole purpose of it is to teach students to be self-determined. It’s teaching them they can do anything—either go to college or straight to a career. We want them to be confident in what they can do.” In order to help instill this confidence, for example, fifth graders embarked on a research project at the beginning of the school year to identify what their futures could look like. “We started our year focusing on our hopes and dreams. We used our hopes and dreams as a
guide to how can we work this year to support those goals,” said fifth grade teacher Brandy Garbaccio. “We also talked about how the future won’t look the same for every person. We talked about trade schools. We talked about college. We talked about having a skill you want to enhance. That’s what we’re focusing on, so they have some sort of vision of a possibility. They can see that there are options for them, they all don’t have to follow that same cookie cutter path.” Students researched colleges or trade schools they might want to attend someday, and created pennants to reflect their choices. The pennants are displayed on a bulletin board in the hallway with the heading “Where Will Our Hopes and Dreams Take Us?” Each pennant has three facts about the student’s chosen school and a representation of their mascot. Cal Hughes has always liked robotics, so he narrowed his search to schools that had strong robotics programs. He came up with Carnegie Mellon University, because “They have the best robotics program out of any university in the world.” He notes on his pennant that Google and Pixar both recruit students from CMU. He loves technology and is adept at anything to do with computers, and he enjoyed the pennant assignment because “it showed everybody what we wanted to
CROZETgazette do and where we might be going to college, and why we chose it. It was pretty fun, even though it took me a pretty long time to draw the logo!” Cal plans to learn more about robotics when he gets to Henley, and then later at Western. Asha Snyder, who hopes to be a famous TV actor while in her 20s and then switch to teaching in her 30s, chose Yale because she knew it was a good school. She said the most challenging part of the project was figuring out what she wanted her future to look like. “We had to search colleges that would be good for what we want to do when we grow up.” Her bright blue pennant features an impressive rendering of Yale’s mascot, a bulldog named “Handsome Dan.” Another part of AVID’s mission is to hold all students accountable to high standards. Nationwide, 64 percent of the secondary education students (grades 9-12) enrolled in the program are identified as “low income.” It has proven to be effective at closing the education gap and reaching traditionally underserved students. In 2015, 92 percent of AVID students reported plans to attend either a 4-year college (61 percent) or two-year college (31 percent). AVID is used by schools in 44 states. Rather than focusing on what students learn, the program focuses on how they learn. Garbaccio said it teaches students academic strategies to prepare them for success in school
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OCTOBER 2016 and beyond. “With AVID, everything is routine, routine, routine. It teaches new ways of note taking and organizational skills that become immediate.” Each student has the same planner organized in the same way, and Garbaccio said that “Our planners are key to our communication with our families and communication with the teacher. It places the ball in the students’ court and instills responsibility, so it’s not on the parents to be on top of their students all the time. This is about accountability. It’s about promoting each student and building their confidence.” AVID programs already exist at Henley Middle School and Western Albemarle High School, along with the other middle schools and high schools in the county, and Crummie hopes that by implementing AVID at the elementary level, fifth graders will have a more seamless transition to Henley and be prepared to enroll in the AVID program once there. “AVID came to my attention through the county. It started at the high school and it trickled down to the middle schools.” She began to envision using AVID at the elementary school, and along with a few other principals, she toured Jack Jouett middle school and witnessed AVID “in action” and talked to students. “The kids were really academically successful—and not just academically, but in terms of confidence too.” Crummie spent two years
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Crozet Elementary fifth-grader Asha Snyder, who hopes to go to Yale someday, poses with the pennant she created for the school.
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possible riders. “We have a good amount of time [to plan],” said Sheffield. “It’s about getting it right. The target of commuter service is employment. It has a lot of potential.” Sheffield said the service could start as soon as March. “We can put the service out and if it doesn’t work we’ll pull it and put the buses on other routes,” said Sheffield. He said JAUNT now has 19 new buses. Buses would seat 28-30 and also allow standing. Sheffield said he could purchase larger buses if they prove justified. The ride time aimed at is under 45 minutes. The idea being talked about now is that U.Va. employees would ride free, subsidized by the University, and others would pay a round-trip fare of $3. “The idea is about trips to work,” said White, “not just needing to get to an appointment in Charlottesville.” Sheffield said about half the riders being served by JAUNT are the elderly and handicapped but that the buses are open to anyone. He described Crozet’s ridership as “low-hanging fruit.” “We’re willing to throw a lot of resources at this to make it happen. We have to be strategic in how we serve Crozet.” the ensemble. Every one of the performers was relaxed ad made the audience feel that each one in attendance was the most important there. The numbers on the program were finely selected to appeal to the audience and each singer was well suited for the part. This was an event that was so very well done. Betty Clayton
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Endurance Endurance: The ability to do something difficult for a long time. The ability to deal with pain or suffering that continues for a long time. The quality of continuing for a long time. Earlier this summer, on a warm, sunny June afternoon, I sat along the banks of the Tongue River in Dayton, Wyoming, feeling completely overwhelmed. The following day, I was going to start, and hopefully complete, the Bighorn Wild and Scenic 100-Mile Trail Run through the rugged Bighorn Mountains of northern Wyoming. The race finishes in Scott Bicentennial Park in Dayton, along the banks of the Tongue river. This was my first attempt at the 100-mile distance and we had some free time the day before the race and thought we’d visit the finish area. The park was empty, but the finish line arch and banner were already set up. As I sat and stared at that finish line, it was simply overwhelming to consider the physical and mental effort that would be required to get me through 100 miles of trails in the wild and unknown mountains. Could I even finish? Would my body break? Would I stop being able to hold food down? Would I just get tired and not care any more? Would I have the endurance required, both physically and mentally, to finish? These were all real fears that coursed through my head that day and gave me a healthy dose of doubt and some pretty humble expectations of myself. For some perspective, I can recall when I signed up for my first Charlottesville 10-Miler. The most I had ever run prior to that was 6 miles, and that was years earlier, and that hurt! I
signed up for the 10-miler because I was in a place in my life where I felt like I needed to increase my fitness and break out of my routine of minimal physical exercise and definitely no scheduled time for fitness. Ten miles then seemed like 100 miles to me this summer. It seemed like forever. It seemed like a distance that “other” people ran, that “runners” ran. How the heck was I going to work up to that?! I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I figured I needed to get into shape and I had better start now. We had just had a child, and I wanted to be an active father, one that was not limited physically, even when trying to keep up with him 18 years down the road. Training for that 10-miler was tough. Getting your body to get used to running 3-5 miles at a time is the toughest transition in all of running. It just doesn’t really feel good most of the time! That combined with a lack of good gear and inexperience made for some tough training times. But I was committed to my goal, and I tried not to get discouraged, and just took it one breath at a time, one step at a time. And I gained endurance. I finished the 10-miler with a feeling of elation. Not only had I finished that distance that seemed so unattainable just months prior, but I had also been transformed through the process of training. It wasn’t so much, “Hooray, I finished the 10-miler!”, it was more like “Of course I finished the 10-miler, I just finished four months of training!” That feeling, of transformation, of completing a daunting physical challenge by just putting in the work, was quite motivating for more of the
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same. Over the past 10 years, the challenges have grown, and thus the confidence in facing challenges has also grown. All of which led me to the banks of the Tongue River, about to take on something that seems downright unattainable. But only in these past 10 years have I learned that attainable, or unattainable, is truly a mindset, not a genetic gift. Here in this Back to Fitness column, I am not suggesting that everyone needs to go out and run the Charlottesville 10-miler and beyond. However, I am making a case for challenging yourselves with physical challenges of endurance, relative to where you are in your fitness. The beauty of endurance, is that it is something that you earn, and that you can improve over time. By committing to a physical goal, you are taking daily mental steps to improve your overall endurance, both physical and mental. Think about endurance in our daily lives for a minute. Ever show up to work overwhelmed, just sitting in your car knowing what a hard day lies ahead? What about standing in your kitchen, feeling completely overwhelmed by all of the tasks that you are so behind on. Or perhaps just feeling overwhelmed about a relationship, not knowing how long you can keep hanging on. Challenging ourselves to expand our physical endurance, in my opinion, absolutely teaches us endurance in our daily lives. When we have faced difficulty, fatigue, disappointment, and pain in sport, we will be more prepared when we face
these things in real life. We were so fortunate to have Jennifer Pharr Davis come and do a talk at Crozet Running one evening this past winter. Several years ago, Jennifer broke the speed record for traveling the entire 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail, man or woman. It was her third time hiking the trail. Reading her books and listening to her talk, you can easily get the sense of exactly how difficult it must have been to work so hard with so little sleep, day after day, for 46 days. And after being so incredibly exhausted, injured, and beat up after just her first week, how on earth did she find the endurance to carry on? The answer, she shared, was “one step at a time.” Don’t quit. Just take one step at a time. So how is your endurance, physically and mentally? Remember, this is something you can grow and gaining endurance is confidence inspiring. There are so many great endurance challenges to be had—your first 10k, your first long cycling ride, your first section hike of the AT… the opportunities around here are endless. All you need is the perseverance to take it one step at a time. Editor’s Note: The 12th annual Bill Steers Men’s Four Miler, hosted by the University of Virginia Department of Urology and the Charlottesville Track Club is November 6 at 7:30 a.m. The race goes through the U.Va. grounds and finishes on the fifty yard line of Scott Stadium. Runners and walkers of all ages and abilities are welcome. There is a free training program as well. Visit www.mensfourmiler.com.
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Oxygen and Biodiversity Autumn ushers in its particular scents here in c e n t r a l Virginia. Chilly rain on damp leaves. Open bonfires and wood smoke from a chimney. Apple butter and mulled cider. Folded sweaters removed from a musty trunk. Crisp, frosty, morning air. The earthy smell of an Indian Summer afternoon in the woods. Coming home in the evening shadows to scented candles flickering on the windowsill. Dinner rolls baking in the oven. I love the memories autumnal fragrances evoke. We live in a privileged time in the natural history of Earth. For the first three billion years of life on the planet, none of these smells existed; in fact, none of them were even possible! During the Archean Eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago), the atmosphere and the oceans contained significant quantities of noxious, corrosive, toxic and smelly compounds such as ammonia, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide. Yet from within these alien environments devoid of breathable oxygen, made stranger still by dim sunlight— the Sun in its infancy shone at roughly three-quarters of its present brightness—and more violent by frequent volcanic activity and bombardment by asteroids, life first appeared on Earth. And life, working nonstop over billions of years, transformed sterile earth into the verdant world we enjoy today. When does science tell us that life first appeared on earth to begin its ecological transformation of the planet? Geologists from the University of New South Wales, Australia scoured the oldest known rocks on the surface of the Earth— Greenland’s Isua Greenstone Belt—looking to answer this question. This past summer, they reported finding fossilized microbial biofilms called stromatolites in these rocks. Dating
to about 3.7 billion years ago, they represent the earliest fossilized record of life ever found. For thousands of millions of years, this was pretty much all Nature had to offer: single cell microbial and algal lifeforms, sometimes organized into colonies. If you could go back in time and walk those ancient landscapes or swim those ancient seas, you would be a giant. No fish or animals, no majestic trees, nothing growing taller than waist-high for as far as you could see. And yet, within these primordial ecosystems arose an inconspicuous, microscopic species (oceanic cyanobacteria) that ultimately would change the course of natural history. Roughly 2.3 billion years ago, oceanic cyanobacteria became the first organisms to release oxygen gas to the environment as a by-product of photosynthesis. The world was never to be the same again as it ever so slowly began to oxidize and rust. Scientists define this Great Oxidation Event (GOE) as the point when free oxygen started to accumulate in air and water. Oxidation of land and sea, which took a billion and a half years to achieve, eventually
made advanced life possible. After billions of years of relative stagnation, oxygen provided the impetus for the abrupt and dramatic advancement in the complexity, diversity and vibrancy of life on Earth, resulted in a crescendo of new life forms appearing in the Cambrian Explosion. The Cambrian Explosion, which began 542 billion years ago in the Cambrian Period and lasted for a brief 25 million years, shepherded in the arrival of nearly all major body types (phyla) of animals that now appear on Earth. It was accompanied and followed by rapid diversification of other lifeforms that began to resemble what we see around us today. Molecular oxygen floating free in the air and dissolved in ocean waters was the chemical key to the Cambrian Explosion. Life extracts much more energy from food if free oxygen is available. This extra burst of energy was put to work (against the dissipating forces of entropy) to create and maintain the genetic information, metabolic pathways, and biological structures that make complex, multicellular life possible. A team of geochemists, paleoecologists and geologists from a consortium of British universities recently added strong weight to this theory. Their research showed that elevated oxygen in the oceans just prior to the beginning of the Cambrian Explosion gave sim-
ple aquatic lifeforms access to the energy they needed “to evolve skeletons, mobility and other typical features of modern animals.” The team analyzed rock samples laden with fossils of the earliest forms of animals from an ancient seafloor in what is now Namibia, Africa. They found that early skeletal animals were restricted to only those sediments that were associated with well-oxygenated waters, providing “strong evidence that the availability of oxygen was a key requirement for the development of these animals.” Following the Cambrian Explosion, the greening of the continents occurred. Moss forests and bacterial, fungal and algal mats were joined by primitive, ground-hugging, rooted plants with leaves that created the first stable soils. These more hospitable ecosystems permitted trees, such as the Wattieza, to appear on the scene 385 million years ago. These original forests and other new habitats on land paved the way for the terrestrial mammals and flowers; the ancient ancestors and progenitors of our fellow creatures today. As I enjoy a breath of heavenly Shenandoah Mountain air and revel in the colorful canvass of autumn, I am struck again that we have been bequeathed a legacy of diverse beauty billions of years in the making. May we always give thanks for the gift of delicious air perfumed by the spices of life.
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By Elena Day Election day is a month away and the Republican candidate has expressed plans to get rid of the “FDA (Food & Drug Administration) Food Police” and has promised to “End the War on Energy” or in other words, bring back coal and increase fracking. Both ideas are shortsighted given the ongoing contamination of our food sources with antibiotics, pesticides, and herbicides and, of course, the increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere associated with the burning of fossil fuels. Note that coal and fracked natural gas compete for the same market. Increasing fracked gas supplies has resulted in decreases in coal production. This year natural gas will overtake coal as the primary source of electrical generation in the U.S. Overseas markets for coal are not as lucrative as China shifts from coal and India pledges to end coal imports by 2020. West Virginia is left with leveled, barren mountaintops, debris-filled valleys and polluted streams. The state has yet to see the end and tally up the costs of the natural gas fracking boom. It is becoming widely accepted that carbon dioxide and methane emissions have to be drastically reduced to slow the accelerated pace of climate change/global warming in our increasingly industrialized and populated world. Natural gas is composed chiefly of methane, which is 86 times more potent than CO2 in heating our planet. The oil and natural gas industry are the primary sources of methane emissions. Methane is leaked into the atmosphere throughout the natural gas supply chain. It is this that disqualifies it as a “greener” transition fuel to renewable energy. In 2015 the oil and gas industry was responsible for 29% of methane emissions in the United States. The cattle industry followed close behind with 26%. More recently, nitrous oxide (N2O) has been implicated in contributing to higher global temperatures. A few years back
scientists became aware that nitrous oxide, also known as “laughing gas” at the dentist office, was being released as permafrost up north thawed. The thawed soils were subsequently re-saturated with water from more permafrost thawing. In 2014 nitrous oxide accounted for about 6% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Although N2O is naturally occurring, human activities such as agriculture, fossil fuel combustion, wastewater management and diverse industrial processes are increasing the amount of N2O in our atmosphere. Globally, 40% of total N2O emissions result from human activity. N2O is proving to be an even greater source of atmospheric warming than methane. One pound of N2O is the equivalent of 300 times of 1 pound of carbon dioxide. Nitrous oxide molecules remain in the atmosphere for 114 years before being removed by a sink or destroyed through chemical reactions. Most nitrous oxide undergoes photolysis to nitrogen and oxygen in our stratosphere. A portion reacts with oxygen to form nitric oxide and enters into the stratospheric ozone-depleting cycle. Seventy-nine percent of nitrous oxide emissions are a result of “agricultural soil management” or simply humans adding nitrogen in synthetic fertilizers to soils. Emissions of N2O from agricultural soils were 5% higher in 2014 than in 1990. N2O emissions from agricultural soil are expected to increase another 5% between 2005 and 2020 as use of nitrogen fertilizer increases. One hundred million tons (100,000,000) of nitrogen fertilizer are applied worldwide every year. Nitrogen fertilizer (and the Green Revolution of hybrids launched in the late 1940s) continues to be credited with providing the planet’s growing population with an abundance of corn and soybeans, wheat and rice. However, the reality is that many of the seven billion Earth
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We lost our dear cat Lucy last month. She was 16 years old and was very much a special part of our little family. Lucy came to me on almost a whim as a veterinary student. She was found as an 8-week-old kitten right on Duck Pond Drive on the Virginia Tech campus. My then girlfriend (now wife) Michelle told me there was a really cute kitten that needed a home and let’s just say I was eager to impress. The rest is some really good history. For the past couple of years, we could tell that Lucy was slowing down. Probably just a combination of older age and some older joints, but she would generally sleep about 22 hours a day and had a very strong routine. Every morning when either Michelle or I would wake up early for a run, Lucy was up with us, meowing and squawking loudly all the way to the coffee pot until we finally picked her up. She was the most content thing in the world to just be in our lap, purring, while we drank coffee and woke up. She would sleep in our dog Ruby’s bed all day long. Ruby didn’t stand a chance, despite being about 8 times bigger than Lucy. Every night, she would stay up until I went to bed. Her hips had a lot of arthritis in them, and so instead of jumping right on the bed, she would go under the bed, walk on some plastic wrapped cardboard box (wedding dress?) and then jump from there to the window sill, and then to a bedside table, and then jump on my chest where she would purr loudly until everyone was asleep. Every single night this was the routine and it definitely brought us both a lot of comfort. Although she was older and her life was quite simple, Lucy
ate well, never lost weight, and lived the fortunate life of a spoiled pet. Then we noticed she didn’t finish her food for a couple of days in a row. The next day she didn’t greet me for coffee in the morning. The next night she didn’t do her loud getting-into-bed routine, and the next day she didn’t eat anything at all. Michelle and I both knew something was wrong and I planned to bring her into the clinic the following day. However that night, she started having difficulty breathing which started to progress over night. After listening to her chest, we could tell that she had a lot of fluid around her lungs, and there is pretty much no good reason for that to occur in a 16-year-old cat. Making the decision to either euthanize (put to sleep) your cherished elderly pet, or to do more diagnostic testing and treatments, is never an easy decision. On one hand, we want to do our best for them and if there is a treatment that can make them better, we always want to try. On the other hand, we don’t want them to suffer, and when the prognosis looks really bad, sometimes letting them go is the best decision for both the pet and the owners. Making this decision was no less difficult for us, both veterinarians. Harder was that we were having these discussions at 2:30 a.m. while watching our poor little girl have a hard time breathing. I made a middle of the night trip to the hospital to get some medications, but she was continuing to have a harder time breathing despite this. We both struggled with the decision to bring Lucy into the hospital the next day to do some more testing and get her on oxygen. We knew our cat. She hates traveling in the car and that would definitely have been a disaster with her already hav-
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slowly get sleepier and sleepier, we all sat on our bed together, taking turns crying and showering her with hugs and stories of when she was younger. It was both a time of great sadness, but also instant healing. Involving kids in a euthanasia is another very difficult decision, but for older kids (let’s say 7-8 and older), they can be surprisingly mature and have an amazing perspective. Our time on this earth is indeed finite, and there is no sense in hiding that fact. Slowly, and finally, Lucy took her last breaths, ending a very long night and a very wonderful 16 years. It was a sad day for our family, however we all had a sense of gratitude for her life and it amazed me how much that broke though the cloud of sadness. Our pets come into our lives at different times, and if we are lucky, they will be with us through some great life changes. They become a part of our daily routines and they give us as much as we give them. Making the decision to say goodbye is always difficult and deeply personal. However, our job as humans is to care for them until the end, and often times that means ending their suffering, even if we are not ready. When we make these decisions with our best intentions, and with a sense of gratitude for the years of friendship we were given, there are no regrets.
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Western’s Robotics Club Awarded Shannon Foundation Grant By Rebecca Schmitz Thanks to the hard work and initiative of one Western Albemarle High School student, more children in underserved and rural areas in and around Charlottesville will be exposed to STEM-related learning in the upcoming school year. (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math.) Largely due to the efforts of junior Madison Crouch, the Shannon Foundation for Excellence in Education awarded its largest grant— $4,982—to Western’s Robotics Club to increase its community outreach efforts. Crouch got the idea to apply for the grant after observing that the club’s existing hands-on learning materials did not allow the club to reach enough children during its events at elementary schools. “We wanted more materials to use with a larger number of kids,” she said. Although the club had received Shannon grants— which are designed to help pub-
lic schools implement innovative teaching ideas—in past years for smaller amounts, Crouch felt more money was needed to adequately reach more students. “We had two different kits that we’ve used for different outreach that we’ve gotten with Shannon grant money, but it just wasn’t enough for the amount of students that we wanted to start working with. We were working with around 8 kids, and I wanted to work with a lot more at one time.” With the encouragement of career specialist Caroline Bertrand, who worked with Crouch as the sponsor of the club, Crouch identified the budget needed to purchase more robotics kits (which are used to teach children how to make circuits) to use during the club’s sessions with elementary students. “We had to write a three-page grant application describing what our message is and what we wanted to do with the money. And we had to write a budget with the different
Western's Robotics Club will use some of its grant money to buy more materials to use during the monthly Girls' Geek Day event.
materials we wanted to buy and explain how we would implement all of our ideas in the community.” Crouch worked with two parent volunteers who had grant writing experience. The club’s outreach involves “Going out in the community and sharing what we do, and trying to get more kids involved in STEM,” Crouch said. The Club participates in “Girls’ Geek Day,” which allows up to
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Western Faces Challenges in Defending District Title By Jerry Reid jerry@crozetgazette.com Western Albemarle’s home opening game August 26 was a bright success as the Warriors crushed Broadway 40-0, but two away losses came after that. Brookville manhandled the Warriors 41-7 and Spotswood sent them home with a 28-14 loss. After the opener against Broadway, Coach Ed Redmond, in his 36th year of coaching, wasn’t about to get carried away by butterflies or jitters. But a couple of things no doubt get his attention—the District is loaded with talent this year, and his squad is defending their 2015 title. “You try to build as much depth as you can,” Redmond said of his players, who get plenty reps on both sides of the ball this year. Last year saw a few who played just one side. “Right now we’ve got our guys out there playing two ways and the goal is to get more guys on the field and get them experience,” he said of the Western culture of having players ready to step up. WAHS rebounded after those losses with a 29-15 Jefferson District victory against Monticello September 23. That home game had all of the trappings of a rivalry match, filling the stands with vociferous Crozet Crazies, parents and friends. A sizable contingent of Monticello fans found their way to Crozet also. From the opening kickoff there was a sense of urgency. Monticello received the kickoff, and after Jarret Smith sacked Mustangs’ quarterback Kevin Jarrell, they punted. WAHS started on their five yard line, and a well-executed pass and run combo by Derek Domecq and wide receiver Jack Weyher gave the Warriors breathing room at the 39. The ground
grind then began chewing up the clock, and Domecq was carrying the load. The first quarter ended with WAHS fourth and goal at the one yard line, and Domecq punched the ball in for a 7-0 lead as the second quarter began. Monticello had a dismal series on their first try in the second quarter. Pressure from Robert Sims created an incompletion while Noah Crutchfield, Luke Tenuta, Aidan Saunders and the rest of the Warriors defense shut them down quickly. Western next recovered a fumble at the Mustangs’ 26 yard line. The Warriors reached the 8 yard line, but a holding penalty, a tackle for a loss, a dropped pass and a fumble lost at the 5 put an end to this effort by Tai Atuaia, Domecq, Weyher and Darren Klein. Monticello had another dismal series and another sack by Smith forced a punt. Starting at the Mustangs’ 31, Domecq hit Victor Becerra on an 11-yard touchdown pass, and connected on a two-point conversion pass to Klein. Domecq scrambling out of harm’s way during on this drive was key to the 15-0 lead. With time running out, Monticello mounted a serious continued on page 41
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Miller School Races Open Cycling Season By Andrea Dvorak Nearly 300 6th-12th grade student-athletes descended on the Miller School of Albemarle last weekend to compete in the first race of the Virginia Interscholastic Cycling League’s fall season. Now entering its third season, the Virginia League boasts more than 300 riders, over 120 certified coaches, and more than 25 teams around the state. The Virginia League is a project league under the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA), a national nonprofit based out of California. NICA’s mission is to make mountain biking a mainstream interscholastic sport, right up there with basketball, soccer, and football. What makes mountain biking so special is that every participant ‘plays’ every second of every ‘practice’ and every ‘game.’
There are no try-outs, benchwarmers, or cuts. The only prerequisite is the desire to have fun. The Miller School of Albemarle (MSA) has been hosting interscholastic mountain bike races for over 5 years. Sitting on 1600 acres, MSA has developed and continues to build some of Virginia’s finest mountain bike trails. Under the tutelage of Andy Guptill, former professional bike racer and now full-time teacher and coach at MSA, all the trails are entirely student-built. The racecourse for Race 1 covered 3.5 miles of the nearly 12 miles of trail that MSA has to offer. Racers of all abilities tackled the challenging course. For some racers, the race at MSA was their first time racing mountain bikes. But any nerves that might have been felt at the start line were quickly turned to
Two Western Albemarle High School juniors have placed in the ACTION! High School Director’s Competition at the Virginia Film Festival for the third year in a row. A group of student directors from Light House Studios, including WAHS Junior Ryan Beard, has won the Grand Prize with their film, Loop. Ryan, with different groups of Light House student directors, won runner up in ACTION! the previous two years. WAHS Junior Jacob ChangRascle won runner up in ACTION! this year with his new film, Override. He won the Grand Prize last year and run-
ner up the year before. Every year the Virginia Film Festival gives three awards to Virginia high school directors in its ACTION! Competition. The Grand Prize winner is awarded $1,000. Two runners up win $500 awards. The three short films are shown before three different feature films during the festival. This year the Virginia Film Festival is November 3-6 in downtown Charlottesville and at U.Va. The featured guests this year are actress Shirley MacLaine, German director/ screenwriter Werner Herzog, and Norwegian actress/director Liv Ullmann.
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I’m not Catholic, but I followed with great interest the canonization of Mother Theresa last month. Not just because I grew up in India, where her blue and white sari clad figure is as recognizable as Gandhi, and every child is familiar with her work, but because I’ve long felt that Saint Theresa, would be the perfect patron saint for the emergency physician. As anyone even slightly familiar with her knows, she dedicated her life to, in her own words ““the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society”. In the emergency department, that is who we serve. Sure, we save lives, fix broken bones, suture wounds, and write prescriptions. But we also serve as a refuge for everyone who has no other place to go. Sometimes that is the most overwhelming part of our job. It’s the least glorified, least well compensated, and often not the most rewarding. But we do it everyday, sometimes well and sometimes not. We never know, on any given shift, if we will have the opportunity to diagnose and treat a heart attack and save someone’s life. But we do know that there will be at least one chance to soothe a broken heart and touch someone’s life, even if only in a small way. To see humanity at it’s worst and to allow that to bring out the best in us is something we can take from her work. Mother Theresa also made dying with dignity a large part of her mission. In India, where she started her work, people died on the streets, alone and miserable. There’s always hope
for the living, but she gave those people who had no second chance for a better life, a few moments of comfort and the feeling that someone cared for them. Sometimes, in emergency medicine, that’s all we can do. We can’t heal everything that comes through our doors, even if we make the right diagnosis. But we can give people dying alone a last moment of value. We can get them a blanket and a hand to hold. And sometimes that has to be enough. Her canonization was expedited, but a stumbling block was the lack of miracles that could be attributed to her. Eventually, a couple of people were found whose incurable illnesses were cured by contact with her. But to me, the real miracle is that she persisted in her work with dogged determination despite a deeply troubling crisis of faith for nearly the last fifty years of her life. While she was initially felt called to do her work, she began to feel only emptiness when she prayed. Her doubt made her feel like a hypocrite and yet she continued with her massive undertaking for half a century. There’s a lesson in this for emergency physicians, and for anyone who cares about what they do. It’s not always easy to know if you are doing the right thing. There isn’t always going to be a voice telling us that we are on the right path. There are many days when we get home from a shift and don’t know if we made a difference in a single person’s life, if we unintentionally harmed someone, or if we are just cogs in an ill-conceived medical machine that serves no purpose other than to perpetuate itself. But if we don’t ask those questions, leave room for
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y friends Linda and Rob live on the Northern Neck of Virginia, one of the three peninsulas on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. They spend a lot of time on their boat, cruising up and down the eastern seaboard, and a fair amount of time in the Caribbean. They’ve also rented a boat and spent a summer on the Netherlands’ canals. Even though I am a bit water averse, we are fast friends; they got married in our front garden years ago, and we’ve had many happy times together since. Linda is an extraordinary and creative hostess. Apparently ‘boat culture’ is very friendly and when people anchor in the evening, boaters meet and greet, and share food and beverage. Sounds like a good life! I’ve learned a lot from Linda about making tasty treats with simple ingredients that you can carry aboard a sailboat. But the coolest trick is the one I’ll share here: pressure-cooked brown rice. Let me pause to ask whether you embrace the pressure cooker or are one of those people who fear it. It seems that if your mother didn’t use a pressure cooker, you’re convinced that you’ll blow up your house with it. Far from it! The pressure cooker is a nifty invention that saves time and energy. As Linda said, “When you’re on a boat, you don’t want to heat up the cabin while you’re cooking and you don’t want to use up all your propane, so a pressure cooker is great!” This statement can apply to all of us. Let’s not overheat the kitchen nor use too much energy. The pressure cookers that Linda and I have are the old-fashioned kind. Turn the lid
to lock, place the metal pressure regulator gizmo over the vent, heat until the safety valve closes and the regulator rocks gently. Start timing. When you’re finished, carry the cooker to the sink and run it under cold water to reduce the pressure. When the safety valve releases, give the cooker a shake and then open it. OR You can get a new-fangled one like the cooker my daughter Suzanne received as a wedding present. It’s Chinese (there are so many cool Chinese gadgets) called a Tatung electric pressure cooker. Plug it in, add the food and water, push the button corresponding to the food you want to cook, watch the machine reach pressure, cook, cool and let you know when it’s finished. Wow! Suzanne said, “Pinto beans in twenty minutes!” I use my pressure cooker to prepare quick soups and for cooking dried beans. Brown rice is healthy and delicious but takes nearly an hour to cook conventionally. Here is Linda’s recipe that cooks in a jiffy.
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The Ghost of Memory by Clover Carroll | clover@crozetgazette.com Do you believe in ghosts? Many people do, though some would probably not admit it. I expect many of us have had brushes with the paranormal that we can’t quite explain. As All Hallow’s Eve—aka Halloween—approaches, as we both remember the dead and usher in the season of darkness, our thoughts may turn to menacing ghosts and sinister spirits. The gentle poem “Haunted Houses,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), dispels these fears by blurring the line between memory and the supernatural. Longfellow begins his poem with a straightforward but surprising statement: “All houses wherein men have lived and died/ Are haunted houses.” The speaker dispels the typical ghostly prerequisite of suffering, unfinished business, or malicious intent; every soul that departed this earth, he proposes, lingers in his/her former dwelling. And Longfellow’s ghosts are very different from the “ghoulies and ghosties” of popular imagination; they are neither unhappy nor fearsome, and they neither moan nor clank. These are domesticated ghosts, busy with errands, moving purposefully around the house as they did in life. The speaker describes them as “harmless,” “inoffensive,” and welcome to join him at table. In the next stanza, we learn that only the speaker can see and hear these phantoms— what “has been”—which makes us question whether they exist only in his memory. Yet now, having lulled us into a feeling of rational safety, he at last ushers in the notion of mysticism and otherworldliness that the earlier stanzas’ matter of fact tone held at bay. Here he admits his belief in the supernatural with “the spirit world around this world of sense / Floats like an atmosphere.” Note that the poet has reversed clauses in this statement in order to maintain his rhyme scheme; in free verse, it would read “the spirit world
floats like an atmosphere / around this world of sense.” All our daily activities on the material plane occur within, or beside, a medium of departed souls. This mood of mystery and spirituality is confirmed in the final two stanzas, which create an ingenious simile in the form “as x, so y.” The ethereal image of moonlight floating across the ocean waves is compared to a glorious “bridge of light” that descends “from the world of spirits” to earth. Our thoughts, memories, and aspirations can travel across the “trembling planks” of this bridge to connect with the spirits of loved ones who have gone before, and to rise above “the dark abyss” of the materialistic world in which we live. In this memorable image, Longfellow deftly captures the way that moonlight “sways and bends” on the water to create the “unsteady floor” of this bridge that only spirits, not bodies, can cross. Like most of Longfellow’s work, this poem is comforting, both in structure and in content. It assures us that, rather than being hostile, ghosts are simply the shades or vestiges of departed friends and family members—enhanced by memory and emotion—whom we are glad to have still with us in whatever form. The somber, nostalgic tone of this poem, published in 1858 in the Birds of Passage collection, may have been influenced by the loss of Longfellow’s first wife to a miscarriage when he was only 24 years old. But it foreshadows an even more devastating loss when his second wife, Frances, who had borne him six children during 18 years of happy mar-
Longfellow circa 1850, daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes (Wikipedia. org)
riage, died only a few years after its publication when her dress caught fire while sealing a letter with wax. Longfellow is most likely thinking of houses in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
where he taught at Harvard for many years. Many of us can relate to Longfellow’s basic premise: many houses, and even spaces, are “haunted” by past presences, both living and dead. I expect we can all point to memories so vivid as to seem almost real. From the balcony at Emmanuel Church, Greenwood, for example, I can still see my mother in the pews below, where she stood the last time I saw her before her stroke in 1979. Thanks to that most powerful of blessings, the imagination, I have seen and felt the desolation of defeated soldiers laying down their arms at Appomattox, or the spirits of the Anasazi still roaming Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Some of these are memories, but others are at the very least energy fields that
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Haunted Houses All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no sound upon the floors. We meet them at the door-way, on the stair, Along the passages they come and go, Impalpable impressions on the air, A sense of something moving to and fro. There are more guests at table than the hosts Invited; the illuminated hall Is thronged with quiet, inoffensive ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear; He but perceives what is; while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. … The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air. … And as the moon from some dark gate of cloud Throws o’er the sea a floating bridge of light, Across whose trembling planks our fancies crowd Into the realm of mystery and night,— So from the world of spirits there descends A bridge of light, connecting it with this, O’er whose unsteady floor, that sways and bends, Wander our thoughts above the dark abyss.
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speak to us across the boundaries of time and known reality. As Faulkner said, and illustrates so effectively in his novels, “the past is never dead; it’s not even past.” Those who came before us still live in our hearts, our memories, our genes, and even perhaps our environment. Longfellow was a leading member of the Fireside poets, a 19th century American literary group that included John Greenleaf Whittier (“Snowbound”), Oliver Wendell Holmes (“Old Ironsides”), James Russell Lowell and William Cullen Bryant (apparently they were all attached to their middle names!). These were the first American poets to become as popular and well known and as their British rivals. As Jill Lepore notes in The American Scholar (Spring 2011): “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used to be both the best-known poet in the Englishspeaking world and the most beloved, adored by the learnèd and the lowly alike, read by everyone from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Abraham Lincoln to John Ruskin and Queen Victoria—and, just as avidly, by the queen’s servants.” Although his poems may now be viewed as sentimental and simplistic, at the peak of his career, Longfellow’s popularity rivaled Lord Alfred Tennyson’s
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smiles as racers crossed the finish line. Race-day conditions were perfect. Taking the win in the Varsity Boys category was St. Christopher’s racer, Edward Anderson. Sam Roach of Roanoke was second, and Miller School rider, Laurent Gervais, was third. For the Varsity Girls, a trio of riders from the Northern Virginia Composite team swept the top steps with Elizabeth Shaw taking the win. Local racer Jack DiChiara of the Charlottesville Racing Club MTB team took the win in the Middle School Boys A race. Teammate Austin Payne fin-
OCTOBER 2016 in England as well as in America, and he was a noted translator and scholar in several languages—translating Dante’s Divine Comedy, among other things. He was the first American poet to be honored with a bust in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner. The regular rhythm and unvarying abab rhyme scheme of this poem is also comforting and familiar. “In general, these poets preferred conventional forms over experimentation, and this attention to rhyme and strict metrical cadences made their work popular for memorization and recitation in classrooms and homes” (poets.org). Many adults, myself included, can still recite lines from “Song of Hiawatha” or “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Describing scenes of contentment and domestic happiness, of comfort and quiet reflection, or of patriotic fervor, Longfellow confirmed and celebrated traditional values rather than challenging assumptions. While Longfellow’s poetry is less layered and sophisticated, and therefore more accessible, than more celebrated and challenging poets such as John Keats or T.S. Eliot, this does not detract from our enjoyment of its grace and harmony or our appreciation of its own brand of artistry. There is room in our poetic universe both for the cerebral complexity of John Donne and the homespun coziness of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
ished third. Julia Martins of the Miller School won her first mountain bike race, winning the Sophomore Girls category. Also of Miller School, Gus Meyers took the win the JV Boys category, with teammate David Yang finishing in third place. The races are separated by age and grade. The Middle School category is opened to any Virginia student in grades 6-8th. What is exciting about the future of mountain biking is that the Middle School racers made up nearly 40 percent of all participants. More and more, kids are choosing mountain biking over other sports. It’s a sport that you can do as a family, and more importantly, it’s a sport you can do for life.
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The Warbler Guide App A perpetual m o t i o n machine is one that can do unending work without an input of energy—an apparatus greatly desired by mankind. However, the laws of physics tell us that such a machine isn’t possible because energy is always expended and thus lost from the system. Without an additional input of energy, then, the machine will eventually run out of the energy it requires to keep moving. In my mind, warblers seem to be biological perpetual motion machines because they almost always seem to be moving! It’s as if they possess an unlimited internal supply of energy. If you spot one in a shrub or tree, it’s likely to be constantly hopping around or flying from one branch to another, as if it hasn’t time to waste as it searches for its next insect meal. Birders find these birds of particular interest because they are often brightly colored and thus lovely and enjoyable to see. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to get a good look at a warbler because of its almost constant motion. The best time to see them is early spring when deciduous trees and shrubs are either leafless or have leaves just emerging so they are still very small. Even so, some species are very similarly colored, making identification a challenge even when you do get a good long look. If you’ve experienced the frustration of trying to tell warblers apart, especially in fall when they may not be in their much more colorful and distinctive breeding plumage, there’s a nice new tool you can use that combines a real world manner of usage with an electronic one.
Princeton Press has published “The Warbler Guide App”, a lightweight, water-resistant, folding card that shows North American warblers with their identifying features. Brief written descriptions of field marks inform you what to look for and the warblers are shown from the side as well as from below (a belly view), which is especially useful in spring when they tend to be located high above you. The card itself is useful for the few folks such as I who have not embraced the latest in technology, but it’s only a starting point for those who are never far from their electronic devices. If you want more information and have a mobile device, you can make use of the small black-and-white square that accompanies each species account. When you scan the square (formally known as a “QR Code”), you are taken directly to the species’ page that is located at a website. There you can view a rotating 3D model of the bird to really get an idea of what it looks like. Additionally, the bird’s primary songs (the ones most often heard in the field) can be played, courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. And if you are into sonograms (graphs that show the distribution of energy at different frequencies for a particular bird’s song), they are provided at the web site as well. The real-world beauty of the folding card is that it works no matter where you are birding, unlike the electronic features that are unavailable in locations too far from a cell tower to get web-site access. It fits easily into a glove compartment and is made of sturdy, plastic-coated paper to withstand the inevitable degradation associated with use. You can find out more about this app at thewarblerguide.
A Nashville Warbler searches for insects on late-blooming goldenrod in midOctober. Photo: Dick Rowe, VMI Biology Department.
com. You can purchase the app from Apple’s App Store. I think the folding card itself would be extremely helpful to beginning birders who are new to warbler identification and the difficulty of telling these birds apart. In contrast to a book where images are spread out over many pages, the card places all of the images right into your hands on just two sides of an easy-to-hold card. Therefore you can quickly search over one side of the card and then the other for the bird you want to identify. The only criticism that I have of this app is the arrangement of the warbler species on the card. For identification purposes, it’s always helpful to have similar-looking birds close together for side-by-side comparison. Instead, these warblers are in alphabetical order, as if you’ve already made your identification and know the name! So where do you find warblers? If you’ve landscaped properly, you should be able to see them right at home, especially in spring and fall when they are migrating through the area. Because they are insect eaters, they need to leave the northern areas of our country in fall to head south because insects will disappear from view once very cold temperatures have arrived. But these birds return in spring to breed as insects once again become active.
If you want to assist warblers on their migration in fall, be sure to keep spent flower stalks standing. Often these withering plants will have aphids on them that can nourish warblers very well. I often notice warblers and other bird species in my gardens going go up and down and all around old stalks searching for these tiny insects that are usually the last insects easily available to insectivorous birds as temperatures become ever colder. Because warblers are especially easy to see at ground level on my dried, browned herbaceous plants, fall is my favorite time to look for them. There’s far less frustration trying to get a nice look because they aren’t hidden by leaves way up high. I don’t have to crane my neck towards the sky, which is always more comfortable. And the birds tend to stay in view much longer, making it easier to spot their identifying features. With this Princeton Press foldout guide at my fingertips, I’m more able to quickly match field marks on each bird to the photos in the guide with much less effort than when searching through a book. So even, or perhaps especially, if you’re not as “into” the digital age as most folks tend to be these days, you might like this old-fashioned basic method for quick assistance identifying warblers.
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Cosmos: A Worthy Annual Sp a n i s h priests in colonial Mexico gave the name Cosmos to a flower that possessed an orderly, symmetrical shape, in honor of the (supposedly) harmonious and orderly universe. They could just as easily have given the same name to the sunflower, but perhaps they saw the cosmos first. And given our current knowledge, I dare say that we no longer consider the universe to be quite so harmonious. With the same common and scientific name, the genus Cosmos consists of some three dozen species, all native to the Americas, but naturalized through much of the tropical and warm temperate world. Along with dandelions, sunflowers, asters, etc., they are part of the very large family known currently as the Asteraceae. Formerly known as the Compositae, the “flower” in fact consists of many small flowers: each individual petal is a flower, as is each tiny dot in the disc at the center of the inflorescence. Most cosmos species are annuals; indeed, all are so in our climate. And here we come to one of its most worthy attributes, at least in the mind of this lazy gardener. To “plant” cosmos, simply throw the seeds on the ground. If you’re feeling energetic, you could tamp them lightly with your foot or scratch them in with a rake. Last fall I just sprinkled the seeds around my garden, and in late spring they started popping up. (Germination doesn’t occur until the soil warms up to about 75 degrees, so be patient.) Assuming that something
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doesn’t go awry, this year’s crop of cosmos will seed into the garden and get it ready for next year. The obvious message here: don’t be in a hurry to “clean up” your garden. When you do clean up, sprinkle some of the black, spiky seeds onto sunny places. Or better yet, just lay the whole stalk on the ground. Two species of Cosmos are commonly available for sale in our area. The wild Cosmos bipinnatus appears with pink, purple and white flowers, often all occurring in the same population. Although almost all varieties of C. bipinnatus have flowers in this color range, a new cultivar ‘Xanthos’ has appeared with pale yellow blooms. The 4’ to 5’ stature of the species can lead to floppy plants if they don’t have something to lean on, but cosmos actually has a strategy to deal with that. The frilly foliage of neighboring plants can interlock, providing rigidity to the whole group. If you prefer shorter plants, dwarf varieties reaching only one to two feet in height are available. Some of these varieties are also listed as
“early” types, with flowers starting earlier in the season. (Hailing from tropical latitudes with shorter summer days, cosmos generally bloom for gardeners in temperate latitudes in late summer into fall.) The sulfur cosmos (C. sulphureus) can grow even taller than bipinnatus; the straight species can reach seven feet, although dwarf varieties are available. As the name implies, sulfur cosmos often has yellow flowers, but orange and orangey-red varieties are also common. All cosmos want full sun and do not require particularly rich soil. In fact, overly fertile soil will just lead to tall, floppy plants, so throw the seeds on some of the nastier corners of your garden. Shrubs or tall ornamental grasses can provide support, as long as the cosmos gets sufficient sun. You can prolong bloom by deadheading, but I wouldn’t advise the tedium of snipping off individual flowers. Just wait until they’re nearly spent and whack off the tops of the plants with shears. Or if you want flowers for a vase, cut them just as the petals unfold, and they should be good for 7-10 days. A couple of other notes about
cosmos: Chocolate cosmos (C. atrosanguineus) is a species often described as a perennial, but only in zones 8 (or 9) and warmer. Producing sterile seeds, it must be propagated from root divisions. Depending on whom you believe, the dark red/chocolate-brown flowers produce some degree of chocolate fragrance. And speaking of food, what about a cosmos that you can eat? The foliage of Cosmos caudatus (Ulam Raja, or King’s salad) is commonly eaten raw in Malaysia. I couldn’t find any source for seed, but you might have better luck. * * * Now for an update on abelias. In the June column I mentioned that two of our Abelia ‘Radiance’ plants had produced long shoots that stuck up oddly from the rest of this low-growing cultivar. As a test, I cut one plant down to the main structure, and left the other one alone. As of this writing—early October—the uncut plant still looks rather odd (see picture). The pruned shrub looks more graceful, so I expect to cut the others back next spring.
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community events OCTOBER 8
Second Saturday Art Receptions
Art on the Trax will present ”Reoccurring Images” by Rhonda Roebuck, who is a former Western Albemarle High School teacher, for the month of October. The Art Box will be serving their famous ice cream sundaes a the reception from 4-6 p.m. on October 8. Across the street, Crozet Artisan Depot is presenting the beautiful wood furniture and decorative items of StrongWood Designs. Strong will be at the opening reception from 4 - 7 p.m. in the historic Crozet train depot. Refreshments will be served. Meanwhile, from 4 - 6 p.m., The Blue Ridge Art Guild will have a reception at Green House Coffee for their show that is on display through October. Exhibiting artists include: Carol Ziemer, Sarah Tremaine, Lanier Bogen, Tara Little, Bridget Baylin, Anne French, Sarah Trundle, Hina Naeem. All events are free and open to the public.
OCTOBER 8
CVFD and WARS Open Houses
The CVFD and WARS will hold open houses Oct. 8 from 10a.m. until 2 p.m. to give the public a chance to see the facilities and to take questions about being a volunteer.
OCTOBER 12
Learn About the Worldwide Refugee Crisis
The Crozet Library will host a conversation with representatives from the Community Advisory Board and staff of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Charlottesville at the library on the evening of October 12 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 2020 Library Avenue in Crozet. Learn about the worldwide refugee crisis, the European response to increased Syrian and North African refugees, how the IRC supports U.S. refugee resettlement and ways to
help local refugees adapt to their new lives in our community. Over 250 refugees will be resettled by the IRC in Charlottesville this year. Alyson Ball, a member of the committee from Ivy, will be leading the discussion.
OCTOBER 17
Annual Mount Moriah Fundraiser
On Saturday, October 17, 7:30 am - 2 p.m., Mt. Moriah UMC, 4524 Garth Rd in White Hall, will host an annual fundraiser, including a yard sale, bake sale, live music, and lunch available. Apple butter will be for sale, prepared on site. Rain or shine. Contact Debra at 434466-2094 for more information.
OCTOBER 22
Fall Family Festival
Commonwealth Christian Community of Crozet will host its Fall Family Festival Saturday, October 22 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the field at the corner of St. George Avenue and McAllister Street in Crozet. Activities include games, balloon animals, and a bounce house. Everyone will be able to sample homemade Brunswick Stew, with containers ready for purchase. There will also be a yard sale to help Crozet’s less fortunate. Each person who brings a canned good to the Festival will be able to select one free yard sale item. Proceeds from the sale of other yard sale items will benefit The Haven in Charlottesville. The canned goods will be donated to a local food bank. For more information, call 823-4469.
OCTOBER 23
Old Trail Village Fall Festival
Old Trail Village will host their annual fall festival on Sunday, October 23 from 3 - 7 p.m. at the Village Center. Beer proceeds and $1 activity tickets will benefit SK8CROZET. Activities include trunk or treating, a costume contest, hay rides, a haunted house, hay mountains, an inflatable basket-
ball toss, a magician, potato sack races, photo booth, live music, tractor climb and pony rides. Snacks, dinner and desserts will be available for purchase from local vendors. Fore more information visit facebook.com/oldtrailfallfestival.
NOVEMBER 5
ABRHP Memorial Dedication
The Albemarle Blue Ridge Heritage Project will be unveiling its memorial chimney on Saturday November 5th at 1:00 PM at the Patricia Ann Byrom Forest Preserve Park. The chimney will stand as a testament to the families and landowners who were displaced in order to create Shenandoah National Park. A bronze plaque attached to the chimney with the names of those families who lived in Albemarle County will also be unveiled. Drive eight miles north from White Hall on Route 810; the Park will be on the left. Come and enjoy some mountain music, refreshments and other activities!
NOVEMBER 13
Crozet Community Orchestra Concert
The Crozet Community Orchestra will perform a free concert Sunday, Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. at Crozet Baptist Church with cello soloist Andrew Gabbert. Program details are on the CCO’s website. An Adult String Class for ages 14 and up led by CCO music director Philip Clark is being offered for beginners and those with some prior playing experience. Classes are held weekly on Monday evenings from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. at the Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd, in Batesville. Walk-ins are welcome. Cost is $12 per class or $40 monthly. Please visit the CCO’s website for more info or to register: http://www. crozetcommunityorchestra.org/ string-class-registration-form. A limited number of needbased financial scholarships are available for participants of all CCO sponsored programs. The CCO is a 501(c)(3) non profit Virginia corporation, donations are tax deductible and very much appreciated.
NOVEMBER 16
Brownsville Elementary 50th Anniversary
Brownsville Elementary School is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The school is planning a reception on Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 6 - 7:30 p.m. in the school’s community room. The school would like to invite all members of the Brownsville community to attend. The evening will include tours of the new additions to the school, a slide show presentation, and organizers will honor principals and staff— past and present. For more information, contact Teresa Tyler, Assistant Principal, Henley Middle and Brownsville Elementary at (434) 823-4393, ext. 51011.
NOVEMBER 21
Nelson County Community Orchestra Concert
Nelson County Community Orchestra will perform a free concert November 21 at 7 p.m. at Rockfish Valley Community Center. Under the direction of guest conductor Rick LaRue, the NCCO will be playing fun and familiar movie themes including: Colors of the Wind, Lord of the Rings, and Ashokan Farewell, as well as other classical music favorites. It will also featuring local jazz artists accompanied by the NCCO and young musicians of the Music Magic Nelson String Education Program. Anyone interested in joining the NCCO is welcome at any time, at any playing level. NCCO provides a friendly, fun orchestra environment. Trombone, Tuba, Oboe and Bassoon players particularly needed, in addition to strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion. All ages and levels are welcome, with repertoire arranged to match the skills of members. Rehearsals Mondays at 7:15 p.m. at Tuckahoe School in Afton. For more information, contact Ellen Neal at info@nelsoncco.org or 434-263-4745.
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drive, aided by penalties, but was finally stopped when Weyher acrobatically picked off a Jarrell pass in the end zone. The Mustangs took the second half kickoff, and thanks to stout defense by James Buetow, Trev Awkard and a sack by Crutchfield, they went nowhere. The Warriors were no better on their first drive of the half, stymied by penalties, and at one point a big collision left Smith and Weyher lying on the turf. Both were banged up a bit and the Warriors were forced to punt. Monticello wouldn’t take no for an answer on this series, and Jarrell launched a pass to Reid Huffman that created a 73-yard touchdown run against four defenders. The score tightened at 15-7 with 6:16 left in the third period, but neither team could make anything happen on their next possessions. Late in the third period the Warriors exploded behind good blocking and protection by Ryan Adcock, Noah Yourkavitch and friends for two big pass plays. The first covered 24 yards to Weyher,
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those doubts, how will we ever make ourselves better at what we do? Perhaps if Mother Theresa had not suffered from a questioning of her faith, she would not have pushed herself as much as she did. Her doubt made her work harder to accomplish something while a blind faith that she was doing the right thing might have made her stop after she felt she had achieved it. In medicine, we have to accept that questioning the system and our role in people’s lives is a tool that can be harnessed to make us better, kinder, and gentler physicians. I did get to meet Mother Theresa once, although I was too young to remember it. My mother, along with me as a toddler, was passing through Calcutta’s airport on her way somewhere else. My uncle handed her a wad of rupees and asked her to give it to Mother
OCTOBER 2016 who finished the night with 100 total receiving yards. The second was a and 51-yard bomb to Becerra, who racked up 105 yards through the air. They set up a 4-yard run for the score by Domecq. With 10:52 left in the game, Klein scored from the six yard line after breaking off a dazzling 37-yard run, along with a Domecq to Becerra pass play, that took the score to 29-7. Good defense was the rule for the rest of the game, except for a breakdown allowed a Jarrell to Huffman repeat of their earlier success, resulting in a 41-yard pass for a TD and a final score 29-14. Last Friday, the Warriors went to Powhatan in another District matchup. With the Indians showing the strength that is evidently abundant in many district teams this season, they dropped a district game for the first time in two years by a 27-13 score. Out-run 489 yards to 128, Western couldn’t make up the difference through passing, converting just one of 12 third-down plays. Five more District games remain on the schedule starting at Orange this Friday and ending Nov. 4 at Albemarle.
Theresa. In a city of several million people, my mother thought there was no chance she would run into her, but when she waiting for her plane at the airport, there she was, in her blue and white sari, surrounded by her Sisters of Charity. My mother ran up to her, toddler in arms, and handed her the money, which was probably not a very large amount. Mother Theresa thanked her as if it was a huge donation. I like to think of that chance encounter in a city of millions as my family’s own little miracle, but the miracle that I really hope for is all of us to be able to continue to serve the medical profession even when we lack the certainty that I’m doing the right thing or even the feeling of reward, to treat everyone with the greatest kindness possible, and to remember that while it’s not the role we trained for, we exist in part to provide dignity to the destitute and dying. In her words: “I must come and give until it hurts.”
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Peachtree Baseball Annual Meeting Do you enjoy watching the kids play and learn the game of baseball? Wondering how you can help the league grow? Are youinterested in giving back to the kids in our community?
Please join us
Wednesday, October 26 at 7 p.m. at The Field School 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 may submit their name and the position he or she is interested in via email to Peachtree Baseball, attention Cheryl Madison, President: peachtree@peachtreebaseball.com
AugustA Audiology AssociAtes is celebrAting 20 yeArs of service for your heAring heAlthcAre needs! We are the only center in the Shenandoah Valley and surrounding areas that offers complete evaluation & management of your hearing healthcare needs, including:
Complete Assessment of Hearing, The Vestibular System and Auditory Processing.
stAte-of-the-Art heAring Aid technology: To help you hear what you have been missing, our hearings aids are available in different styles and a wide range of prices for your budget! We Specialize In Custom Earmolds For: Musicians, Hunters, Swimmers, Nascar Fans, MP3 Players, Industrial Employees and MORE! Our Services Also Include: Assistive Technology For Personal Listening, T.V., and Telephone We care about you and your family! We are here to serve you!
Call 540-332-5790 to schedule your appointment! Julie Farrar-Hersch, Ph.D., Clinical Audiologist 540-332-5790 • Augusta Health Medical Office Building 70 Medical Center Circle, Suite 204 • Fishersville, VA 22939
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inhabitants continue to deal with hunger and starvation. The agribusiness model that serves up all that nitrogen-fertilized, genetically modified corn and soy also is using more pesticides and herbicides to maintain record harvests. Too many small and subsistence farmers have been displaced, crowding into urban areas. On this side of the world we’ve witnessed the migrations from Mexico and Central America to El Norte and in sub-Sahara Africa migrants are crossing the Mediterranean to Europe. In 1909 a German chemist, Fritz Haber, synthesized ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. A second German chemist, Carl Bosch, succeeded in doing the same on an industrial scale. Both were awarded the Nobel Prize. Since then synthetic nitrogen fertilizer has displaced traditional techniques such as crop rotation, cover cropping and livestock. Monsanto actually sponsors clinics to encourage Midwest
farmers to plant “corn on corn” and skip beneficial crop rotations that decrease such problems as corn rootworm infestation. After all, for Monsanto the bottom line is increasing sales of pesticides (and Roundup) so bring on the insects. A modern ammonia-producing plant converts natural gas (methane) or liquefied petroleum gases (such as propane or butane) or petroleum naphtha into hydrogen gas. The United States is the world’s third largest producer of nitrogen fertilizer. China produces over 30%. India and Brazil are high producers and consumers as well. It is acknowledged that synthetic nitrogen fertilizers are generally overused. In China they are overused by 30 to 60%. In the U.S. we are applying 11 million tons of nitrogen fertilizer to our farms fields every year. Only a fraction of fertilizer nitrogen is converted into plant matter. The rest accumulates in soils, is lost as runoff into surface water or pollutes groundwater. Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer runoff has resulted in the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of the
Mississippi River. In 2014 the Dead Zone measured 5,052 square miles. In 2015 it measured 6,474 square miles, greater than the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Fertilizer pollution promotes algal blooms on the sea floor. Algal die-off at the end of summer/fall results in oxygen depletion as decomposition sucks up available oxygen. Fish and marine life do not thrive in low oxygen. It goes without saying that toxicity within the Dead Zone is further exacerbated by the residuals of chemical pesticides and herbicides. Corn is the Midwest’s mainstay crop. It is grown to feed cattle and pigs in feedlots and factory farms. In 2014 the U.S. harvested 14.2 billion bushels of corn. 13% was exported. If the Corn Belt didn’t grow so much corn there would be less need for nitrogen fertilizers. There would be less N2O and fewer cows belching methane. The big agrochemical companies would not be making megaprofits on sales of ever more toxic pesticides and herbicides. I recently read an article about a photographer, Craig
Childs, who visited an Iowa farm for a photo essay. Among the genetically engineered corn stalks of the 600 acre farm he found “an isolated spider, a single red mite and a couple of grasshoppers” and heard neither birds nor clicks from insects. “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself,” said Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And so we need regenerative agriculture, not geo-engineering. The latter seeks to dominate and control nature. The former seeks a return to healthful balance and sustainabilitity. To be continued… * * * The Monsanto Tribunal is scheduled to take place in The Hague, Netherlands October 14-16. Monsanto is responsible for the development of PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) that affect human and animal fertility; 2,4,5 T (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid)—a dioxin containing component of Agent Orange; Lasso, an herbicide banned in Europe; and Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world. Monsanto promotes an agro-incontinued on page 45
Albemarle County Fire Rescue Open House Saturday, October 8th, 2016
10:00 am to 2:00 pm Visit your local Fire Department or Rescue Squad Operational and Auxiliary members needed Stop by to see how YOU can serve your community For more information or to download an application, go to www.acfirerescue.org or call (434) 296-5833 Charlottesville Albemarle Rescue Squad– 828 McIntire Road, Charlottesville
North Garden Volunteer Fire Company– 4907 Plank Road, North Garden
Crozet Volunteer Fire Department– 5652 Three Notch’D Road, Crozet
Scottsville Volunteer Fire Department– 141 Irish Road, Scottsville
Earlysville Volunteer Fire Company– 283 Reas Ford Road, Earlysville
Scottsville Volunteer Rescue Squad– 805 Irish Road, Scottsville
East Rivanna Volunteer Fire Company– 3501 Steamer Drive, Keswick
Seminole Trail Volunteer Fire Department– 3055 Berkmar Drive, Charlottesville
Hollymead Fire Rescue– 3575 Innovation Drive, Charlottesville
Stony Point Volunteer Fire Company– 3827 Stony Point Road, Charlottesville
Ivy Fire Rescue– 640 Kirtley Lane, Charlottesville
Western Albemarle Rescue Squad– 1265 Crozet Avenue, Crozet
Monticello Fire Rescue– 1515 Founders Place, Charlottesville
LAST CHANCE TO ENTER! DEADLINE: OCTOBER 17! Announcing the Seventh Annual Crozet Gazette
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Photographs taken in the Crozet area or with Crozet-area related themes, suitable for a horizontal calendar, will be given preference. Photographs must be submitted in digital format. Prints will not be accepted and may not be returned. Submissions should include the name and phone number of the entrant along with where and when the picture was taken. Photographs must be high-resolution. The top photographs will be published in the Crozet Gazette and featured in the 2017 Crozet Gazette Calendar. The calendar will be for sale in local stores and online in December.
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Jonathan David Coleman Jonathan David Coleman, 54, of Crozet, passed away on September 28 at the Cardiac Care Unit of UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville. Jon was born on August 9, 1962 at DePaul Hospital in Norfolk. He graduated from Albemarle High School in 1980. He earned a B.A. in History and Political Science in 1984 from Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, TN and received his Teacher Certification from Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, VA. Jon was formerly employed in sales at Jim Price Chevrolet in Charlottesville. He was a beloved son, brother, brotherin-law, uncle, and dear friend to many. Jon is preceded in death by his father, the late Rev. Gerald Price Coleman of Crozet, and an infant sister, Cynthia Elizabeth Coleman. He is survived by his mother, Martha E. Coleman of Crozet; three sisters: Karen Coleman Mills (Ritchie) of Crozet and Winchester, VA; Rev. Nancy Coleman Johnson (Rev. Bruce) of Amherst and New Market, VA; and Linda Coleman Thornton (Greg) of Palmyra, VA; two beloved nieces and nephews: Michael Edward Mimms (Bree) of Ashville, NC; Lydia E. and Anna R. Johnson of Lynchburg; and Nicholas Coleman Thornton of Palmyra. Arrangements are being coor-
dinated by Anderson Funeral Service in Crozet. The family will receive friends at Anderson’s (5888 St. George Ave., Crozet, VA 22932) on Friday, October 7 from 6 - 8 p.m. A Service of Death and Resurrection celebrating Jon’s life is scheduled for Saturday, October 8, 11:00 a.m. at Crozet United Methodist Church (1156 Crozet Ave.), followed by a Service of Committal at 4:00 p.m. at Nicopolis United Methodist Church (1158 Nicopolis Drive, Bedford, VA 24523). The family invites contributions to be sent to U.Va. Heart and Vascular Center/Cardiac Care Unit (indicate in memo field of check) in memory of Jon and in honor of the wonderful CCU team of doctors and nurses who so lovingly cared for Jon during his last days. Gifts may be mailed to U.Va. Health Foundation, P.O. Box 800773, Charlottesville, VA 22908.
George Meade Poats George Meade Poats, 82 years old, passed away at Martha Jefferson Hospital on September 22, with his family by his side. He had been in ill health for several years. He was born and raised in White Hall, to the late Louis James and Mary Shepard Black Poats. In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by four brothers, Louis, William, Philip and Frederick. He is survived by his loving wife of 55 years, Barbara Conyers Poats of White Hall, his daughter Rebecca Poats
Cogan and her husband Bradford Cogan, our son in law and their two sons, Richard Patrick Cogan II and Grayson Meade Cogan, also his sister Margaret Fowler Poats of Crozet, and many nieces and nephews. He was a member of the Church of Christ, 1525 Rugby Avenue, Charlottesville. A funeral service was held September 27 at Mt. Moriah Church in White Hall, with minister, Larry Macomber officiating. Internment followed in the church cemetery.
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Paul Parmalee Barbato Paul Parmalee “Paulee” Barbato, 79, of Crozet died at a local nursing home on September 23. He was born in Centralia, Illinois on February 15, 1937 to the late Frank Carlo Vincenzo Barbato and Hellen Howe Barbato Lang and the late stepfather Armin Lang. He is survived by loving cousins Lucia Barbato, first cousin of Lubbock, TX, Norma Edom and James Kaufogiens, second cousins, of Pisctaway New Jersey; and his dear friends, Eddie Shiffett of Stanardsville, Betty and Perry Shifflett of Charlottesville, and Tom Henley of North Garden. Paulee was the proprietor of the Greenwood Motel in Crozet. He was a musician, historian, mechanic and story teller. He was a friend to all who knew him. He played all types of music on the organ, piano and guitar. He recorded the
music of many local country musicians in the Greenwood Motel Studio. He loved dabbling with electronics from computers to cameras. He was a member in good standing of the American Legion, Marine Corps League and sons of the American revolution. He loved to eat out with his friends at the Golden Corral and Wood Grill. He always took care of business, his cars, his friends and his cats. Family suggest that memorial contributions be made to the American Cancer Society 1445 Rio Road East Ste 104, Charlottesville, VA 22901. Funeral services were held at Emmanuel Episcopalian Cemetery in Greenwood, on September 26, officiated by Chaplain Colonel Joel P. Jenkins, Jr.
Sandra Crawford Campbell Sandra Crawford Campbell, 71 of Crozet died at her residence on September 10. She was born on November 2, 1944 in Charlottesville, the daughter of the late, Leslie K. Crawford and Alma P. Crawford. She is survived by her husband, Dennis D. Campbell of Crozet; a daughter, Tracy C. Reed and husband George of Phoenix, AZ, a son, Marc R. Campbell of Batesville; two sisters, Gloria C. Stricker of Crozet and Colleen C. Herndon and husband, John Carson of Charlottesville; mother-in-law, Evelyn Campbell of Mt. Air,
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dustrial model that contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, depletes soil and water resources, patents seeds and has displaced small farmers worldwide. On September 27 Monsanto announced that it would accept the $56 billion takeover offer by Bayer. The merger will result in four companies providing 59% of global seeds and 64% of the world’s pesticides. Farmer’s will have fewer options at higher
NC and brother-in-law, John Campbell of Charlotte, NC, three nieces, two nephews and three great-nieces and three great nephews. She graduated from Lane High School School in l963 and retired from State Farm Insurance after twenty-seven years. A funeral service was held at September 13 at Mountain Plain Baptist church with Dr. Sam Kellum officiating. Internment followed at Monticello Memory Gardens in Charlottesville.
prices. Bayer’s history includes selling Zyklon B gas to the concentration camps to gas Jews. (Bayer was then I.G. Farben.) In the 1980’s it sold HIVcontaminated Factor VIII for hemophiliacs in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. It continued to sell the product for a year after contamination was discovered. Bayer is a primary marketer of neonicotinoids that are causing our honeybees to die off. The Bayer-Monsanto merger may well be described as “the marriage of two behemoths made in hell.”
Serving Western Albemarle Families Since 1967 Robert S. Anderson & John W. Anderson, Jr., D I R E C T O R S
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BEREAVEMENTS Jean Sonja Mawyer, 79
August 19, 2016
Matthias Ellsworth Kayhoe III, 85
August 22, 2016
Sarah Spruill Armstrong, —
August 24, 2016
Nancy M. Carson, 69
August 24, 2016
Forrest Gaston Baker, 56
August 25, 2016
Vern Crawford, 72
August 27, 2016
Ronald Thomas Haney, 64
August 30, 2016
Elliott Jerome Knox, —
August 30, 2016
Junior Lee Morris, 77
August 30, 2016
Willis Junior Martin, 75
September 1, 2016
Barbara Stoneburner Gentry, 74
September 2, 2016
Mary Alice Martin, 84
September 4, 2016
W.C. Winkler, 90
September 4, 2016
Frances Goodson Jones, —
September 5, 2016
Julie Lynn Morris, 52
September 9, 2016
Frankie Russell Brooks, 73
September 10, 2016
Marjorie Haney Cubbage, 86
September 11, 2016
George Gilmer Grattan IV, 82
September 11, 2016
Louise Candler Grinstead, 86
September 11, 2016
Herbert Hoover McDaniel, 86
September 12, 2016
James Douglas Vere Nicoll, 60
September 15, 2016
John William Clarke Jr., 24
September 17, 2016
James E. Shifflett Jr., 59
September 17, 2016
Eleanor Lee Barnes, —
September 18, 2016
William Cooper Bascom, 87
September 18, 2016
Jane Deloris Blakey, 63
September 22, 2016
George Meade Poats, 82
September 22, 2016
Paul Parmalee Barbato, 79
September 23, 2016
Wellman N. Morris, 83
September 23, 2016
Marion Thomas Wise, 85
September 23, 2016
Jay Matthew Douglas, 57
September 28, 2016
Dorothy Collier Morris, 91
September 28, 2016
Mary Elizabeth Gentry Wilberger, 85
September 28, 2016
Phyllis Jean Lively, —
September 30, 2016
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3 FAMILY YARD SALE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 from 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Burch’s Creek Road. Women’s clothes (sizes 2 – XL) shoes (size 7 - 9), jewelry, men’s & boy’s Clothes (various sizes), living room chairs, small rugs, sheets, towels, blankets, baskets, dishes, Nikon 35mm camera, and a Bowflex with attachments and much, much more. Also on Craigslist. COMPUTER CARE: Quality computer repair in your home or office. Virus removal, networking, wireless setup, tutoring, used computers. Reasonable rates. Over 15 years’ experience. Please call (434) 825-2743.
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CROZET ARTISAN DEPOT: During October we present the beautiful wood furniture and home accessories by Jacob Strong of StrongWood Designs. Meet Jacob at our Second Saturday Reception October 8, 4-7 p.m. CROZET BUILDING LOT FOR SALE BY OWNER: 4.54 acres four minutes from The Square. Acreage open, great views, strong drilled well, asphalt drive. $190,000. Adjoining 1.34 acre parcel, building site with mountain views, shares asphalt drive. Address: 6550 Jarmans Gap Rd, 22932. Quick access to Rt 250 and I-64. Current survey available. Photos and more information at www. 6550JarmansGap.com or tel. 434981-4705. EXPERIENCED SEAMSTRESS with over 30 years of tailoring and garment alterations experience. I work from home in Crozet (Highlands Subdivision). Please call for a free consultation. Ruth Gerges: 434-823-5086. FALL INTO FITNESS: Looking to get in shape this fall? Let M2 Personal Training help you get started. Offering Boot camp classes at Crozet Park and in-home personal training in your home. Call or email Melissa Miller for more information at 434-962-2311 or melissa@m2personaltraining.com or visit m2personaltraining.com.
FOR RENT: 1200 sq. ft. newly renovated two bedroom home just 5 minutes from Crozet and 20 minutes from Charlottesville. Quiet location, mountain views. $1050/ month. No children, no pets, no smoking please. Call 434-823-1520 for more information. FUNDRAISER: Sat., October 17, 7:30 a.m. - 2 p.m., at Mt. Moriah UMC, 4524 Garth Rd, Crozet/ White Hall. LARGE YARD SALE, BAKE SALE, LUNCH available (hotdogs, chili, etc.) & MUSIC. Yard sale items include furniture, household items, glassware, linens, Christmas items, toys, etc—something for everyone. Too many items to list. Shop and join us for lunch and enjoy the music. RAIN or SHINE. Watch apple butter being made, too. Questions? Contact Debra: (434) 466-2094 GET A ‘LEG UP’ ON THE JOB COMPETITION with “Legz”! Personalized resumes that have proven results! Affordable prices and a FREE review of your current resume! www.ResumeDeZign Studio.com LOST: Scooter stolen, September 5 from Miller School Road. Red and black motor bike/moped. If spotted contact the Albemarle County Police. (434) 977-9041.
NEIGHBORHOOD YARD SALE: Western Ridge in Crozet, Saturday, October 8, 7 a.m. - 12 p.m. Baby/children/adult clothes & shoes, toys, bicycles, furniture, appliances, house wares, sports equipment, antiques & collectibles and more. PEACHTREE SOFTBALL FIELD DAY: Sunday, Oct. 30 at Crozet Elementary School. Open to all 6 and 7 year old girls interested
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Crozet Gazette Business Card Ads in playing Spring 2017 Peachtree softball. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: 12:30-1:30 p.m.: Softball Clinic - an introduction to basic softball skills, including pitching, fielding and hitting. 1:30-2 p.m.: Attendees will be paired with a current 10u Peachtree “mentor” and participate in pre-game warmups. 2- 4 p.m.: Attendees are invited to stay for the 10u Peachtree game, sitting on the team bench and cheering for their player. Peachtree will be offering 8u, 10u and 12u softball in the spring of 2017. If your child is interested, please join us for this free event! Please contact Lance Hoover at lanceChoover@gmail.com to register or with any questions. REGISTERED PIANO TECHNICIAN to service your piano. Tuning, in-home repair. Wendy Parham, RPT 434-2189093 or wendyrparham@ gmail.com TUTORING: Experienced tutor and certified teacher in Crozet. Offering PSAT/ SAT/ACT/SOL Test Prep, Reading, Writing, Study Skills, homework help in most subjects and all grade levels. Call 434465-4311. TUTORING PAR EXCELLENCE: Academic Tutoring available in Crozet Mathematics: Algebra I and II, Geometry, PreCalculus; Spanish I and II; French. References available. Please call me at 540-456-66-82 or email me at tutoringparexcellence@gmail.com
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we can service your existing equipment water testing • water filtration • water softeners • uv sterilization • well pumps
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Stanley Martin Homes is proud to be a part of this year’s Parade of Homes. Don’t forget to stop by our models on October 8th- 9th! We are featuring 8 of our homes in different communities through the Charlottesville area. Visit our homes and connect with us online at StanleyMartin.com/CVParadeofHomes or call 888.978.3548 200 Garrett Street, Suite B, Charlottesville, VA 22902
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