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This year’s annual Crozet Christmas Parade is Sunday, December 6, at 3 p.m. Parade begins at Wayland Drive and ends at the fire station, where children can enjoy hot chocolate and meet Santa.
Loach Retires as Planning Commissioner White Hall District Planning Commissioner Tom Loach will retire January 1 after serving for eight years. Supervisor Ann Mallek will appoint current Crozet Community Advisory Committee chair Jennie More to the post. Loach, 69, served during Crozet’s growth boom, the revision of the Crozet Master Plan in 2010 and the contentious proposal to develop
Yancey Lumber Co. property near the Interstate 64 interchange in Yancey Mills. “I’d like to say thank you to Ann Mallek for appointing me and thanks to the citizens of Crozet for getting involved, doing the Master Plan, and having the foresight to plan rather than react to things,” said Loach. “I want to thank the Crozet Community continued on page 11
New Family Medicine Practice to Open Dr. Maura McLaughlin, a family medicine physician who has been practicing with the University of Virginia Health System’s clinic at Stoney Creek in Nellysford for the last nine years, will open Blue Ridge Family Practice in Crozet January 1. The practice will be on the subscription fee model and located on the second floor of the Clover Lawn shops next to the office of Dr. Barbara Mandell. Dr. McLaughlin received her medical training at Loyola University in Chicago and did her residency at U.
Va., where she met her husband, Dr. Timothy McLaughlin, who is now the medical director for U.Va. Family Practice in Crozet, a clinic in the Clover Lawn building next to his wife’s future office. The couple and their two young sons live in Crozet. McLaughlin chose U.Va. for residency through friend connections who suggested that she check out the Stoney Creek office. She did a rotation there. “I saw that my friends weren’t just talking up their school.” From there fate took over.
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Albemarle County will invest $2.5 million to bring the Ivy Landfill Transfer Station’s operations under roof and therefore in compliance with the state Department of Environmental Quality’s requirements. The Board of Supervisors’ 5 to 1 decision (Ken Boyd dissenting) on November 4 means that the Ivy station will remain viable for at least 15 more years. The county faces a Dec. 31 DEQ deadline for becoming compliant. Supervisors considered a second possibility, roofing over the currently existing buildings, which would have enclosed 7,800 square feet, but decided on a new and larger facility that will contain 10,000 square feet. The new structure will be erected on the left side of the current entrance. The existing structures will dismantled and sold for scrap once they are unnecessary. That will allow the later development of better recycling operations on that site, according to Douglas Walker, deputy county executive for community services. Going for the larger building means that sorting of trash, dumped inside on the floor, can be handled with more flexibility and that all transfer of trash will happen under cover. Sorted trash will be top-loaded continued on page 6
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ACPS Non-discrimination On November 12, the Albemarle County Public School (ACPS) Board voted 5-2 to change their non-discrimination policies. They added to the equal educational opportunity policy, and the equal employment opportunity policy, the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” thus codifying protections for ACPS lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students and personnel. White Hall District board representative Barbara Massie Mouly was one of only two dissenters. As a resident of Crozet, and an employee of a support organization for LGBT youth, I was dismayed by Ms. Mouly’s attempt to block this effort for these students (and personnel). Numerous studies report staggering bullying, depression,
truancy, and suicide rates for this demographic. Students report that the primary source of discrimination and damage is at school. All students deserve to feel respected and safe while accessing their education, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation. Adding specific language to these policies helps clarify, for all of us, the kinds of discrimination that will not be tolerated in our schools! In my opinion, a vote against this update sends a clear message to our children, and their families: that Ms. Mouley is not willing to respect and protect all students, that she does not care to offer each of them equal educational and developmental opportunities and success, and that she supports the perpetuation of damaging and divisive hatred and discrimination in our school community! I hope you will join me in thanking the majority of ACPS board members for making this critical policy change! Linda McNeil Crozet
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to pay because they don’t use it,” said Walker. The county is taking responsibility for paying for the facility’s improvement and will continue to pay the RSWA to operate it. “This is not a short-term investment,” he said. More than half the money needed for the new building is already set aside in the current budget, Walker said. The remaining cost will likely be financed. Construction of the new building will require eight months, once design approvals and permits are secured, meaning that the facility won’t be open for 12 to 18 months. Meanwhile, things will remain as they are. “This accomplishes what DEQ wants, which is to get the trash covered,” Walker said. Rain on the trash creates leachate. “There’s not a good pathway for county ownership of the transfer station and having possession of the permit,” he said. “It’s too complex and not in the county’s interest at this time. Once we get over this [construction] hurdle, the focus will be more on improving recycling there, hazardous waste handling, electronics, etc.”
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Pickford-Chiles Fellowship Hall to community groups that need a meeting place, among them boy scouts and girls scouts, the new Crozet Toastmasters Club, the Crozet Catholic Mass choir, and others. “We waive part of our fee to make it affordable to groups that otherwise would not have a space,” said Parton. “Crozet Cares has been Tabor’s gift to the community,” she said, stressing that the program has been run separately from the church. “We want Crozet Cares to be ecumenical and community-oriented. We weren’t trying to invite people to join Tabor. If you choose us, that’s great. But it’s not an agenda to get people in the pews. We’re trying to find a new way to witness who God is and that God cares for community. The Holy Spirit works in the secular world. Crozet Cares is the work of the Holy Spirit pulling the community together. One of our goals is to make the church the center of the community. Crozet Cares has put Tabor on the map in a way.” Tabor has about 50 regular Sunday worshipers and a total registration of about 100, she said. She said Crozet Cares per se has not led to new memberships, though the church does continue to add members. “We have been frugal as a church—frugal with money, that is. We’ve reached out to the community to show a way of witnessing that may be different from the past. “If there’s no direction, things just won’t happen,” said Parton. “Someone has to manage the
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Crozet Toastmasters Club Aims for Official Status The 1,600 Toastmaster Clubs around the world have some 300,000 members and now some are Crozetians. Their goal is to develop their ability to speak confidently in public and to become more articulate and expressive. The Crozet club aims to be official as soon as January. That means at least 20 members. Members pay semi-annual dues of $36 to cover workbooks, manuals, etc. Once a club has its charter, it can compete against other clubs. Crozet’s is a club based just on geography. Many clubs are organized by businesses that are trying to develop the communication and leadership skills of their employees. Members of Charlottesville clubs are helping the Crozet club get established. Christine Brown is the organizer of the Crozet club, which started in September and now has a dozen members who meet weekly on Tuesday nights at Tabor Presbyterian Church’s fellowship hall. Members proceed through a series of workbooks prepared by the international club that teach how to make different types of speeches. Club members politely critique each other, applaud each other readily and count up the mistakes they are trying to avoid. The idea is to learn by doing, so club members have different roles, such as the ah-counter, who tallies crutch words, the ahs, sos, and other pauses or repetitions that you don’t want to make, and the table topics master, who job is to develop extemporaneous speaking skills.
Speakers must conform to time limits and are tracked on how close they come to the target time for the speech. Other roles include the grammarian, who watches for grammar errors and helps develop speakers’ vocabularies, the timer, the joke master and speech evaluators. At the Thanksgiving week meeting Laura Brown gave a 5to 7-minute “goodwill” speech-her subject was The Local Food Hub--and Jamie Jackson gave an 8 to 10 minute speech that was intended to be inspiring to the audience. She spoke on the topic “What are you thinking?” and talked about becoming a dog owner. Both tried to make eye contact and to use their hands in gestures. Members passed short written comments to both after their speeches. Brown went just a few seconds long. She was praised for her wealth of detail. Jackson, who had graduated to a new workbook, was short of the target time. She was encouraged to think about how she used her hands and if they might convey anxiety. The table topics were “What do you like about yourself?” and “What do you want to improve?” Speakers who took up the topics had one to two minutes to make their answers. Part of the challenge is having the courage to stand up and face the group unprepared. Finally the crutch word tallies for each speaker were announced and everyone had at least a couple. They are hard to stamp out. The grammarian continued on page 12
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When Christmas Arrived In 1905, Rev. Josiah Ellis took charge of the mountain mission work of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. From his headquarters at Rockingham’s county seat in Elkton, he had oversight of eight workers, Sunday Schools, parochial schools, and churches spread out from high atop Brown’s Gap on the border with Albemarle, and north into Page County. One Christmas season, Rev. Ellis decided to deliver gifts into the hinterlands where many of those in his charge lived. This labor of love became a tradition for him. His much anticipated horse and buggy came to be called the “C&O Train” because his deliveries always included “candy and oranges.” His Christmas “connections and schedules” could be hampered by downright disagreeable weather. One mountain woman said that upon his arrival the thermometer read “seventeen degrees below Pharaoh.” Still, all of the children in his section were eventually visited. His dedication inspired similar endeavors in other areas of the mountain diocese. For 45 years, the newsletter titled Our Mountain Work shared reports, such as the storied deliveries of the C&O Train, from the peaks and hollows of the Blue Ridge Mountains in central Virginia. Begun in 1909 by Episcopal Archdeacon of the Blue Ridge Rev. Frederick W. Neve, the paper was mailed to that work’s proponents who were scattered far and wide. Field workers’ letters and accompanying photographs illustrated the challenges, joys, successes and failures at mission points
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Icy roads did not deter these Christmas gift-bearing parishioners on High Top Mountain in Greene County. [Photo courtesy of Larry Lamb]
extending mostly from southern Albemarle north to Page County on the western side of the Blue Ridge. Rev. Neve, who founded his first mission outpost in the Ragged Mountains of Albemarle in 1890, complemented their dispatches with his own inspirational prose and original poetry. Pressing needs were publicized, and donors responded with gifts ranging from schoolchildren’s pennies to an occasional check that would cover the full expense of building a mountain schoolhouse, church building or infirmary. Each season in the mountains included pleasant times and difficulties, from the rel-
These neighbors had gathered for a Christmas dinner party at French Memorial Chapel at Old (or Upper) Pocosan in Greene County. [Photo courtesy of Larry Lamb]
ative ease of warm weather months to lifeor-death challenges during the isolating months of winter in the higher elevations. Still, life went on. Customs observed in lowland villages had their counterparts even in remote locations where primitive roads were sometimes nearly impassable. The winter of 1935 was described by Philip Peters, at that time a mission worker in Cubbage Hollow in Page County. “The blizzard of January 22nd did not pass us by. A great part of the 18 inches of snow that fell is still with us. When the sun rose over the mountain at 9:30 the next morning, the giant persimmon tree behind the cottage resembled the recently discarded Christmas tree. The brightest of blue stars sparkled in profusion from root to top, and were strung along the wire fence as if that had been decorated by man. The only time I ever saw a more beautiful sight was in April on Frazier Mountain when the early apples were just beginning to bloom and a thick cloud came over the land, followed by a freezing wind. Every blossom was incased in a little bell of ice and the new sprouting leaves, also ice crusted, added their pale green to the picture. “To go back to Cubbage Hollow . . . While engaged in cutting open the hen house door with a chisel and hammer, I looked up from my rather chilly occupation, and there, going up the road, was the doctor in a Chevrolet drawn by a mule with a man continued on page 10
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mounted on his back. The car could not negotiate the 18 inches of loveliness. It certainly was a droll sight.” The Christian holy days of Easter and Christmas were typically observed with special services and youth pageants. Much effort was expended to assure that mountain congregations had special clergy-led services and that the children in those areas received gifts. Freeman and Marie Fisk served at St. John’s Mission in Blackwell’s Hollow during the Christmas season of 1942. Their Christmas services and festivities were spread across three days. “We begin to think about Christmas preparation as early as October,” wrote Rev. Fisk. “It is then that the children begin to ask Mrs. Fisk such questions as, ‘What pageant are we going to give this year? What part may I take?’”
Choosing and cutting the Christmas tree for St. Andrew’s Mission at Gibson Hollow in the Ragged Mountains was good cause for an outdoor community gathering complete with refreshments. [Photo courtesy of Larry Lamb]
Many rehearsals with the older boys and girls, as well as the teaching of songs and recitations to the youngsters, led up to their Christmas tree festivi-
Rev. J.R. Ellis and the C&O (candy and oranges) Train “en route in the Christmas season,” c.1912. [Our Mountain Work photo courtesy of the Phil James Historical Images Collection]
ties in the parish hall on the 22nd of December. “In spite of rain, sleet and snow,” remarked Fisk, “the Hall was filled with expectant children and adults long before the appointed hour. . . . The cedar tree, majestic in vari-colored ornaments and trimmings, and aglow with radiant lights, stood watch over the many gifts of love sheltered under its branches. In each window hung a wreath of running cedar and holly. . . . Once again, the glorious story of old had brought us new hope, new strength, and a determination to follow Christ. Each member of the Sunday School and Bible Class was called forth to receive his gift, candy and orange. “Christmas morning found our Chapel filled with reverent
This church building at St. John’s Mission in Blackwell’s Hollow had served formerly as Rev. F.W. Neve’s very first mission outpost in the Ragged Mountains near Ivy. Later, a stone structure was erected at St. John’s; following a fire that consumed the Blackwell’s Hollow Mission in 1932, this building was disassembled and moved there to replace it. [Photo courtesy of John Fisk]
worshippers for the early service of Holy Communion. The Christmas season found its climax on Sunday, December 27th. Although roads were mired axle deep in mud, our people again filled St. John’s Chapel [for] the arrival of Bishop [W. Roy] Mason for his first official visit to our mission.” Candy and oranges, even when delivered by special C&O express, are but a welcome, sweet diversion. When days and nights harbor challenges that threaten to try our very souls, we take stock of where our family members and closest allies are, and in whom we place our greatest trust. Twelve months following the entry of the United States into World War II, Mary Ella Bedinger, a worker at Mission Home on the Albemarle-Greene border, voiced the concerns of many. “Christmas, and War, and everything wrong!” she wrote. “But, no, not everything, for once again the Angels’ song has been heard, the Bethlehem star has shone and we have celebrated the Birthday of our Lord.” Follow Secrets of the Blue Ridge on Facebook! Phil James invites contact from those who would share recollections and old photographs of life along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Albemarle County. You may respond to him through his website: www.SecretsoftheBlueRidge.com or at P.O. Box 88, White Hall, VA 22987. Secrets of the Blue Ridge © 2003– 2015 Phil James
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Association and Tim Tolson for doing the community survey, as well as the 700 people who responded it, and thanks to the Crozet Community Advisory Committee for their continuing guidance. Having that input made my job as planning commissioner easier. Even on issues that weren’t in Crozet, I applied our logic to those situations.” Loach said that Crozet faces three development challenges. “First, we have to keep develop-
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Two Large Residential Projects Go Before CCAC Dec. 16 Two large residential projects proposed for Crozet, one roughly 98 units next to Cory Farm on Rt. 250, and the other about 89 units next to Orchard Acres and Crozet Crossings, will be presented to the Crozet Community Advisory Committee at its meeting Dec. 16. Proponents of each project will have 45 minutes to describe it and answer questions from the committee. The project that is proposed to connect to Orchard Drive will require a special use permit to build a road with a culvert over Powell’s Creek. The project on Rt. 250 will have a single entrance on the highway. Both
are proposed as a mix of single-family homes and townhouses. The CCAC was formed by the Albemarle Board of Supervisors to advise it on the implementation of the Crozet Master Plan and to allow developers to hear community reactions to their plans at an early stage of development, rather than at the final step where formal county approval is being voted on. The CCAC meets monthly at 7 p.m. in Crozet Library’s community meeting room. The supervisor and planning commissioner for White Hall District attend its meetings.
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regretted that she hadn’t herself used the word of day, tremulous, but she found very few grammar infractions among speakers. Whew. The meeting, which proceeds on a strict agenda with times for each segment, ended promptly on the hour. David Oxford, a new member, said, “I joined when it came
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programming.” Robin McElwee took on the job when the program launched—Parton called her “the driving force”—and Julie MacMillin has had the role for the last year and a half. She has volunteered to continue handling the website and art installations in the hall. “Tabor can’t take care of it any more,” explained Parton. “Now we’ll see if the community can own what’s going on,” said MacMillin. “I’m excited to see what happens and if Crozet Cares gets roots in the community even deeper. We’re still ambitious to do more. PickfordChiles Hall is booked five nights a week.” Parton said the idea for Crozet Cares came to McElwee and Molly Jones one day as they were working in the kitchen and talking how the hall might
be used. At once they both thought “women’s retreat,” and from then the seed was planted. Upcoming events include the handbell choir set for Sunday, Dec. 6, at 4 p.m. and the raffle of a quilt among the 20 about to be on display in the hall. An opening for the quilt show will be held Dec. 12 from 3 to 5 p.m. Raffle tickets are $5 each and the raffle will be held January 31. “We’ve been a mighty voice from a small church with big ideas,” said Parton. “What Tabor was trying to do was create a covenant with the community and live out that covenant in tangible ways.” Parton estimated that ongoing program direction would take about 10 hours per week. The church has set up a fund to accept donations. Checks can be made out to Crozet Cares and sent to Tabor at P.O. Box 449 in Crozet.
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Let’s Suppose Women Decided They Don’t Need Males Carolyn O’Neal earned second place in The Hook’s 2013 Fiction Contest for her short story Silent Grace. “It’s the story of what happens to natives when they have to contend with the exploitation of tar sands and the pollution of their river, their main fishery,” she explained. “Being able to eat your local food is a big deal.” Now O’Neal, an Ivy resident, has written a novel, Kingsley. She had a book-signing event at Over the Moon Bookstore in Crozet in November. Kingsley, set in Charlottesville and the Peninsula, tells the story of a 14-year-old boy who faces a situation resembling the colony collapse syndrome occurring with bees, O’Neal said. “I looked at what’s happening to bees and said what if that happened to humans. The bee collapse is mysterious because it manifests itself as the worker bees flying off from the hive and leaving the queen and eggs to starve. Anybody with a Y chromosome dies. So it’s all women left. Kingsley is a boy who is saved.” O’Neal is a cancer survivor. “I understand having a disease that’s scary. The problem is found in reptiles and amphibians and fish. It’s believed to be linked to pollution, all the artificial ingredients we have, and pesticides. We consumers need to take responsibility for all the pollution.” O’Neal herself has one child, a son, now 23. “If he were threatened, I would do anything. What would make me change my behavior? It was my
child. “Kingsley survives because his mother is resourceful and unscrupulous. She’ll do anything to save him. Some things are not up-and-up, but in the end he’s alive. “I did a lot of research on what it would be like for women if men disappeared,” O’Neal said. “So many tools are built for men and stronger hands. A lot of things would have to be retooled. It’s a disaster for women if men disappear, perhaps from endocrine disrupters we are finding in rivers and lakes and alligator and frogs. It’s scary. “I got the idea when my son was 14. I watched him and his friends playing video games and I got an overwhelming feeling that I don’t want anything to happen. I started to write. “Kingsley faces women adversaries who figure out how to reproduce without men, so they don’t want him around. They want to keep it that way. I say it’s a science fiction and young adult book. If you like Hunger Games and Margaret Atwood you’ll like this. Young adult is doing what [Star Trek creator] Gene Roddenberry did. You talk about the world in a fanciful way. I’m able to bring up issues of gender.” O’Neal said she’s happily married and does not want to get rid of men. “That would be a horror!” “What influenced me as a writer was that we read aloud every Harry Potter book. [J.K. Rowling’s] writing influenced me. The writing gets more continued on page 15
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Crozet Elementary Teachers Focus on Project-Based Learning at VMI STEM Conference By Rebecca Schmitz becca@crozetgazette.com
riculum.) The VMI conference focused on creating “21st century learners” through project-based learning, a teaching philosophy Crozet Elementary already subscribes to and implements. Fourth grade teacher Katherine Hamel said, “The mindset of 21st century learning is that you’re preparing the students for a future that you can’t predict. It’s not just about knowledge and content, but it’s about solving your own problems and giving kids the skills that they need to address whatever it is that they’re going to encounter.” The conference’s emphasis on “project-based learning—a way of learning structured around a central problem or challenge that needs to be solved creatively—resonated with Crozet’s teachers. Fifth grade teacher Brandy Garbaccio noted that the conference already aligned with much of Crozet’s teaching philosophy: “We learned a lot of valuable things, but we were
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Crozet Elementary teachers Barbara Albertson, Katherine Hamel, Atlanta Hutchins, Abby Claytor, Gay Baker, and Lori Phillips (L-R) pose with the VMI mascot at the VMI 2015 STEM Education Conference.
teaching as much as we were learning.” Garbaccio, along with teachers Betsy Agee and Justin Stauffer, gave a presentation during the conference titled “Our Town: How to Combine STEM, Project-Based Learning, and Community Service.” The teachers shared with the audience their students’ work creating a plan to test the water quality of the creeks and streams running into Beaver Creek reservoir. “We are looking to test the waters to see the water quality. We want to make a floating sensor that will detect the water quality and the pH level and will be part of our 3-D printer project-based learning that will happen in the spring.” The experience speaking to a crowd was nerve-wracking at first. “It was a large theater, and we were a little nervous,” Garbaccio said. “We are conditioned for a more interactive experience with our peers and we were hoping the size wouldn’t affect our working with the attendees.” Crozet’s teachers were proud to convey the results of what began as a small fifth grade project but has grown to involve multiple grades and incorporate many different subject areas. “It has transcended the grade levels, and it’s the students’ local community so they’re all invested in it,” Garbaccio said. “That’s what this type of project-based learning creates.” Katherine Hamel agreed: “It encourages that kind of investigation and discovery
and application.” The attendees were eager to learn more, Garbaccio said. “After the presentation, we were approached by several different schools across Virginia asking about our process and details on how to implement a community-based project.” Crozet’s teachers gained as much as they shared. The conference introduced them to new concepts and best practices for conveying complex technological concepts to their students. Third grade teacher Atlanta Hutchins found keynote speaker Dr. Jeff Goldstein, a nationally recognized science educator and astrophysicist, to be “really impressive. He talked about the enormity of the universe and how we try to explain that to a student. He showed us how to break it down to a student’s level so they could really understand the magnitude of things.” The teachers participated in hands-on workshops that allowed them to experience the activities from their students’ perspectives. Garbaccio found these workshops particularly helpful: “I worked with a LEGO Robotics kit that produced a fully functional robot. My team consisted of Abby Claytor [third grade teacher] and Justin Stauffer [fifth grade teacher]. We programmed commands through the LEGO Robotics software, which was then transferred to a processor. I liked that this procontinued on page 24
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Visiting violinists Monika Chamasyan and Mark Dorosheff performed a waltz by Dmitri Shostakovitch as an encore.
Crozet Community Orchestra Debuts Baghdasarian Rhapsody The Crozet Community Orchestra’s November 15 free concert featured the first—yes, it happened in Crozet first— American performance of Armenian composer Edouard Baghdasarian’s gorgeous Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra. It was performed by visiting violin soloist Monika Chamasyan, who joined her husband Mark Dorosheff—a violinist with The Air Force Strings, whose regular gigs are for U.S. Vice President Joe Biden—in a repeat appearance with the CCO. CCO conductor and musical director Philip Clark did the arrangement for the piece, after searching as far as Armenia to find one. Chamasyan complimented the arrangement. Both Chamasyan and Dorosheff, who also teach violin
at their studio in Reston, gave stunning performances, and if they come back to Crozet— they performed here also in the CCO’s March concert--they are not to be missed. Other pieces in the concert were the Petite Suite Armenienne by Diran Alexanian, The Hebrides Overture Op. 26 by Felix Mendelsohn, which Clark described as “a tone poem,” and Camille Saint-Saens’ Introduction and Rondo Capricioso for Violin and Orchestra, with Dorosheff as the soloist, assured and precise. The CCO, which is becoming a community treasure, will perform a free Christmas concert Saturday, Dec. 12, at 6 p.m. at Crozet Baptist Church. It will include the Field School Boys Choir and the Crozet Community Handbell Choir directed by Chris Celella.
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editors. “They were tough. I really worked on it. It’s 80,000 words, 258 pages, the size of the first Harry Potter book.” She hired a professional designer to do the cover. Meanwhile, she’s hopeful about the book’s reception, noting that the recent popular movie The Martian also started as a self-published novel. She paid for editorial costs with a Kickstarter campaign and sold 100 books. Kingsley is available on Amazon and from Over the Moon. The e-book version costs $2.99. In print, it’s $15.99.
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In her delightfully witty 2003 bestseller Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss mentions several analogies to explain the role of punctuation in written language. Punctuation marks can be thought of as traffic signals, as stitching holding the fabric of language together, or—my favorite—simply as “a courtesy designed to help the reader understand a story without stumbling.” The Oxford English Dictionary defines punctuation as “The … system of inserting points or other small marks into texts, in order to aid interpretation” (italics mine), and “In reading or speaking: the … articulation of appropriate pauses and phrasing.” Like musical notation, Truss continues, punctuation suggests the rhythm, tone, and flow of a piece of writing, showing us “how to hum the tune.” She concludes that without (accurate) punctuation, “there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.” I couldn’t agree more. Punctuation is not a superfluous nuisance, a space hog, or unnecessary clutter. I value and rely on judicious punctuation to pace and shape the voice I hear in my head as I read, providing vital signs of phrasing and emphasis. Although William Faulkner and e.e. cummings— pioneers in the movement to reduce or eliminate punctuation that began in the early 20th century and continues today—are two of my favorite authors, their deletions only work because our expectations are thwarted, and we recognize the absence of the many commas and semicolons that would have appeared if, say, Charles Dickens had edited their work. This awareness of the silence, so to speak, is what Truss calls the “seventh sense” of grammar sticklers like herself, because “we see dead punctuation” (an allusion to the 1999 film The Sixth Sense, in which the protagonist sees dead people). One of the most rapidly dis-
appearing punctuation marks these days (following in the footsteps of the ghostly hyphen, uppercase letter, and space between words) is the Oxford comma—so named because the Oxford University Press style guide has required it for over 100 years. Not to be out-Britished, American grammarians have also dubbed it the Harvard Comma. But it is most commonly known as the Serial Comma, because it is the last comma in a series of three or more items. For example, in ‘at the zoo we may see lions, tigers, or bears’ or ‘at the holidays, we give thanks for family, friends, and food’ the comma before the and/or is the serial comma. Although still required by the Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago, and American Psychological Association (APA) style guides, it is discouraged by most journalistic style guides such as the Associated Press (AP) and New York Times. With this kind of ambivalence even among the authorities, it is no wonder that the use or omission of this comma has become a matter of heated controversy. While punctuation minimalists believe it takes up space and creates unnecessary clutter, traditionalists believe it adds clarity and balance to written expression. I’m a believer in this tiny, maligned little curl of ink. I always put it in my series, and never omit it. In my opinion, not only does the Oxford comma clarify the meaning of many (if not most) affected sentences, but, equally as important, its absence speeds up the pace of the sentence, robbing the reader of a needed mental pause. ‘We give thanks for friends, family and food’ causes the family and food, in my mind, to bump up against each other and get gravy all over grandpa’s chin. Why do friends merit a pause, a kind of set aside, while family doesn’t? The reader, left to fend for him or herself, has to go back and imagine the appropriate space between them. Sentences without this comma remind me of
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Piedmont Place Reduces Scale Piedmont Place, a new mixed commercial and residential building planned to go opposite Crozet Library in downtown Crozet, has dropped its plan for a fourth floor, project developer Drew Holzwarth told the Crozet Community Association at its November 12 meeting. The sky bar restaurant originally shown on the fourth floor remains in the plan, but now on the third floor where two apartments were scratched to make room for it. Six 1,200-squarefoot, two-bedroom apartments remain on the second and third floors. “The feedback we’ve been getting is that Crozet needs elevator-served apartments,” said Holzwarth. “At the Advisory Committee meeting we thought we had a final plan,” he said. “We ran into a couple of stumbling blocks. County staff determined that if from any point on the grade of the building it measured more than 40 feet tall, it had to step back 15 feet [from the lower floors]. To keep it by-right, I pulled down the sky bar. I think we’ve ended up with
a better product. “We have all the commercial space. Since the story about the project appeared in the Gazette, my phone has not stopped ringing. We feel strongly that our town will support these new businesses.” The building was also lowered slightly deeper into the site as well. “The height of the building is roughly the same as Crozet Library. When you turn
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high. Only four to five percent of scouts earn Eagle.” Scout leader Mark Adams said to Hoffman, “Your conduct along the trail has been excellent. You’ve become an example to your community. I challenge you to enter the Eagle brotherhood and to uphold the tradition of honor and service.” Eagle Scouts in the audience were asked to stand, and eight men and teens rose. Hoffman’s father Eddie, an assistant scoutmaster with the troop, put an Eagle neckerchief on him and his mother Ginger pinned on his Eagle badge. Delegate Steve Landes presented Hoffman with a commendation awarded in his honor by the Virginia General Assembly. Landes mentioned that his brother had reached Eagle, but he did not. “I was jealous,” he admitted. “Eagle Scouts accomplish a lot in our country.” Landes also gave Hoffman a Virginia flag that had been flown for Hoffman’s sake above the capitol in Richmond. Scott Lancey awarded Hoffman the Council Heroism Award. He said that in the last five years, the Stonewall Jackson Area Council, which encompasses 13 Virginia and West Virginia counties and has 5,000 active scouts, has given the award only four times. Hoffman then told the story of a 2013 hunting trip in which a tree stand broke and left his father dangling backwards. “I ran to where he was. He yelled at me to cut him loose. I knew that wouldn’t be right. I put my tree stand under him and we made a circular ladder and got
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hank you to all who submitted photographs! This year’s overall winners and honorable mentions were anonymously selected by local National Geographic photographer Sam Abell. The photographs selected for calendar month pages were by: Malcolm Andrews, Robert Gutkowski, Beverly Diane Harner, Christopher Konnick, Nate Ostheimer, Tom Pallante, Bryan Parsons and Turner Smith.
Honorable mentions went to: Malcolm Andrews, Tracy Carmichael, Deborah Ferreira, Robyn Eaton, Katherine Greiner, Beverly Diane Harner, Early McDaniel, Bryan Parsons, Beth Seliga, Herb Stewart, Carl Stone, Bill Sublette, and Kim Kelley Wagner. Visit crozetgazette.com to see all the winning and honorable mention photographs. Join the Gazette at the Art Box on Friday, December 11,
at 6 p.m. for an ice cream sundae reception and to hear judge Sam Abell discuss his selections. The 2016 calendars feature an updated design and make great gifts. They are available for $12.95 at the Art Box, Crozet Great Valu, Parkway Pharmacy, Over the Moon Bookstore, and online at crozetgazette.com.
Cover Photo: Malcolm Andrews, Mirador Morning Snow (Honorable Mention)
Best in Show: Malcolm Andrews, Frost on the Vineyard – Seasons of Seven Oaks (November)
Best in Show Runner Up: Beverly Diane Harner, Reflection (October)
Robert Gutkowski, Crozet Avenue Freeze Out (January)
Nate Ostheimer, Deer at Dusk (March)
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Christopher Konnick, Ice Storm (February) Robert Gutkowski, Blue Fishing (April)
Turner Smith, Here Comes the Sun (May)
Nate Ostheimer, Silhouetted Mare (June)
Malcolm Andrews, Exploring Crozet’s Back Country - Sugar Hollow (August) Malcolm Andrews, Just a Splash of Orange and Blue – Crozet Fireworks (July)
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Two Florida Gardens— Old and New Standing high on a ridge top in Central Florida, we had a commanding view of lakes and citrus groves. If we squinted, we could imagine that we could see the Atlantic to the East, the Gulf of Mexico off to our west. But wait a minute. “High” and “ridge” in the same sentence as Florida? Well, remember that both these terms are used in the context of Florida’s topography, not to be compared with the hills and mountains of
Virginia. Florida’s highest elevation of a mere 345 feet is in the northwest corner near Alabama. But a series of “ridges”—the remains of ancient sand dunes and beaches—run down the middle of the peninsula and provides a little up-and-down variety to a mostly flat state. And here on the top of 295foot Iron Mountain perches one of Florida’s most historic gardens. A native of The Netherlands, Edward W. Bok immigrated to the U.S. in the 1860s at age six. He found work in the publishing industry and at age 26
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door with images from the Biblical Creation. Sculptor Lee O. Lawrie fashioned images of the flowers, trees, cranes, herons, swans and fish that adorn the tower. (His name might not be familiar, but you may well have seen his statue of Atlas at Rockefeller Center.) Aside from its gothic cum art deco design, the Singing Tower also houses a sixty-bell carillon, with concerts twice daily in season. Bok Tower Gardens is only about fifty miles from either Tampa or Orlando, a refreshing break from all the typical tourist craziness of central Florida. A hundred and fifty miles southwest of Bok Tower Gardens lies the Naples Botanical Garden. I’ve visited Naples often since my sister moved there in 1994 and have watched this garden go from just an idea to the impressive presence it has today. As with any non-profit, this was all owing to the vision of a few dedicated individuals. And the infusion of a considerable amount of cash, of course. As you might imagine, creating a new garden involves a tremendous amount of planning. Since there was no preordained plot of land that someone was donating, where are you going to put this new garden? Where do you find the funds to acquire the land? And you have to take into account that the various interested parties may have different visions of just what a garden should be. Although the Naples Botanical Garden was officially founded in 1993, it wasn’t until 2000 that a significant breakthrough occurred. The late Harvey Kapnick pulled together a land deal and donated $5 milcontinued on page 24
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the breathless haste deliberately created by e. e. cummings in his poem “In Just-,“ when “eddieandbill come / running from marbles and / piracies… / and bettyandisbel come dancing / from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it’s / spring.” Perhaps this change in our language reflects the newly accelerated pace of our lives, and the current trend toward downsizing. I’m all for concision, but let’s not throw out the baby with the bathwater! In my original examples above, the final comma could be removed without much confusion; ‘lions, tigers or bears’ is pretty transparent. However, in the case of ‘our Thanksgiving menu will include pumpkin, apple, and pecan pie,’ if written without the Oxford comma, becomes ‘our Thanksgiving menu will include pumpkin, apple and pecan pie.’ To me, this is patently confusing. We might be talking about three pies or two, the second containing both apples and pecans. While it might not be needed in the series red, white and blue, it is needed when there is another ‘and’ in the series, as in ‘I went to the pharmacy, Lord & Taylor and WalMart.’ Without a comma after Taylor, the name of my final stop could as well have been Taylor and WalMart if unfamiliar with these store names. If I were to write, ‘I invited Betty, an opera singer and a ventriloquist to my Thanksgiving dinner,’ you might think that Betty is both an opera singer and a ventriloquist. And I don’t even want to discuss the store title, Bed Bath & Beyond! Don’t our minds have to imagine the pauses that commas would supply in order to make sense of it at all? What on earth might ‘bed bath’ refer to? And if we don’t even know what it is, how can we go beyond it? We can sometimes clarify the meaning by changing the order of the items in the list—for example, moving Betty to position #3 for ‘I invited an opera singer, a ventriloquist and
DECEMBER 2015 Betty,’ or replacing the ‘and’ with ‘as well as.’ But this would take up even more of the precious journalistic space. Truss’s position on the Oxford comma is genially openminded. She views the decision of whether to include it or not as entirely a matter of style and utility, to be decided on a caseby-case basis and used only when it might cause confusion to omit it. But since consistency is the goal of most grammar rules, why dither? If we use the Oxford comma consistently in every series, as so many sensible style guides advise, we won’t need to decide each individual case, and we avoid any possible opportunity for confusion that we might have missed. Truss’s title example, though not in need of a serial comma, provides an excellent argument for the need for careful punctuation. To this description of a panda bear who “eats shoots and leaves,” the addition of any commas at all would create a more apt summary of Wyatt Earp’s behavior at the OK Corral: He eats, shoots, and leaves! I’ll leave it to you to choose a side in this debate, if you haven’t already. I will remain a stickler. Communication is a two-way street, a kind of compact between writer and reader. As a writer, I seldom assume that what I meant to say is what actually comes across. It is my responsibility to give the reader as much help as I can in deciphering the meaning I intend. I don’t want him to have to work hard simply to decode the syntax, but rather to use his/her energy to reflect on the message itself. An extra comma costs so little! Without the Oxford comma, the reader is left to fend for him or herself in solving the mystery of what the author was trying to say, and how s/he meant her prose to sound. For more info, visit www.oxforddictionaries.com/ us/words/what-is-the-oxfordcomma and/or watch the entertaining TEDEd talk called “Grammar’s Great Divide: the Oxford Comma debate” at w w w. yo u t u b e . c o m / watch?v=ptM7FzyjtRk.
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vides an engineering and project-based learning opportunity where the students are able to create their own challenges through a personalized system.” Fourth grade teacher Katherine Hamel said that the workshops enabled them to “put ourselves in our students’ places. It’s good to remember how that feels, to not know how something will turn out.” Garbaccio’s interest was also sparked by a presentation on aquaponics in the classroom. “I am a big fan of having an aquarium in my classroom. My students take ownership of their classroom jobs, but their favorite is caring for our fish. The first thing they do when a guest enters our classroom is introduce the fish. With aquaponics, we would be able to share first-hand an organic cycle of growth. Plants grow in a soil-less environment where fish provide the natural fertilizer for the plants and the plants clean the aquarium water by absorbing nitrates. It’s chemical-free and would connect to our curriculum and our project about keeping our community water clean. Our science teacher, Justin Stauffer, is considering raising brook trout, and imagine how the two would
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work together!” Hutchins learned about new mapping projects that would enhance the mapping unit her third grade students take as part of their SOL prep. “We got some great new resources. Third grade has to do mapping as an SOL, and we learned how to intertwine mapping with other SOLs like water conservation, and how your trash affects the watershed. It gave us really great ideas of what we wanted to do next year.” Crozet Principal Gwedette Crummie said the conference was important enough that “Half of our teachers were in attendance as part of our vision of building a community of 21st century leaders.” She says that now that the teachers have returned from the conference, their goal is to lead the rest of the staff by sharing what they learned. Garbaccio appreciates her principal’s commitment to giving them the tools to be as effective as possible. “Ms. Crummie is always encouraging us to grow, and to give the best possible experiences to our students. She’s willing to take a risk for the good of the students,” she said. If VMI co-founder and renowned engineer Claudius Crozet were still alive, he would likely agree.
Naples’ subtropical climate, allowing the establishment of distinct gardens with plants from Brazil, the Caribbean, or Southeast Asia. The various gardens not only include species from these different regions, but also strive to show how different cultures have used these plants. In all, there are currently 12 distinct gardens with more than 7,000 different kinds of plants, as well as a butterfly house and a large nature preserve. It’s truly amazing what the people of Naples have accomplished in less than a decade since first putting shovels to the ground. Not content to rest on their laurels, a $10 million expansion is now in the works. If your winter travels take you to Southwest Florida, be sure to visit the Naples Botanical Garden. And enjoy your holidays, whether you spend them here or in warmer climes!
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The move to go on her own “is courageous or crazy,” she said. “Maybe both. There’s a new model of primary care, direct primary care. In the traditional model—fee for service— there are incentives that many say are mal-aligned with providing the best possible care to patients. More and more people have high-deductible health insurance. They often pay out of pocket for the first $5,000 of care. That’s the majority of the cost of their primary care. That cost is higher than what the health insurance company pays. People do need catastrophic insurance, but we need to keep people healthy in a way that’s affordable to them. Traditional insurance payments add 40 percent for office overhead. Most offices try to see patients faster to make ends meet. The quality piece comes in because patients and physicians miss having time to talk. I’ll have overhead, but not the insurance part. “‘Concierge medicine’ as it is sometimes called came out a few years ago. Some doctors are ask-
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Witt, Clay Paint Future Bright for WAHS Girls Cross Country
By David Wagner On November 20 the topseeded Western Albemarle Warriors hosted the Staunton River Titans in the second round of the 3A West Regional VHSL football playoffs. What would transpire that Friday night was beyond believable as the Titans held off the Warriors in the final seconds of the game for an 85-79 win. The two teams combined for the second-most combined points in VHSL history, 23 touchdowns and over 1,300 yards of total offense. Western quarterback Sam Hearn accounted for nine touchdowns
(five passing, four rushing), 570 yards passing and 100 yards rushing and Staunton River tailback Jason Overstreet finished the game with 304 yards rushing and six touchdowns. The Warriors got on the scoreboard first. Hearn found tailback Oliver Herndon on a screen pass for a 51-yard touchdown. Herndon picked his way through the defense and broke tackles down the left sideline. Staunton River’s Overstreet then returned the ensuing kickoff 52 yards to the Warrior 35 and then scored on a 21-yard run three plays later to tie the
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Western Albemarle’s girls finished fourth behind Blacksburg, Monticello and Brentsville, as sophomore Zoe Clay took fifth overall for the Warriors with a time of 18:54 and junior Averi Witt finished 13th. This duo was the go-to pair all season long, and they produced just what a growing team needs. The Warriors may not have been in the hunt for a State title, but the future is bright with young runners aplenty. However, losses include two of their top seven. “I’m seeing a new level of commitment in this team that I haven’t seen in years. These girls aren’t afraid of hard work,” stated Brownsville physical education teacher and coach Cherie Witt. “I expect them to continue to improve and make the podium next year at States,” she said. Since she taught more than a few of these up-and-coming
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Senior Captains Trevor Stutzman, Jack Ehlenberger, Gannon Willcutts
Willcutts Posts WAHS First-Ever Individual Title; Warriors Sweep States By Jerry Reid jerry@crozetgazette.com Gannon Willcutts made his last year as a Warriors runner one for the record books. After superlative efforts throughout his running career, he continued to grow in stature all season long as the WAHS Cross Country squad dominated local events. But the State Championships loomed large as something the senior wanted to ride with into his high school sunset. Leading the team to its first title in 15 years, he posted the first individual championship ever for the Crozet school at a wet and challenging Big Meadows course in mid-November. He couldn’t do the team thing alone, though, as fellow seniors and tri-captains Trevor
Stutzman (7th) and Jack Ehlenberger (9th) dogged his heels on the way to the top spot. Exciting freshman Cyrus RodyRamazani took 25th, and solid Davis Greene nailed down 34th. His finish nudged the sophomore past a Blacksburg runner for valuable points towards the title. Also showing what’s ahead for the Warriors next year despite the loss of their three captains, sophomores Max Miller and Max Feuerlein did the double “Mad Max” act, cruising home in 41st and 42nd and grabbing a piece of savory victory with two more years to run for their school. Willcutts’ year is not over yet, as he recently placed second at the Southeast Regional Foot Locker regional. He earned an invite to the Nationals in San Diego on December 12.
Beaver Creek Sculling squad and coaches pack it in after an impressive performance at the 2015 The Head of the Hooch Regatta in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Front Row L to R: Coach Chris Jackson, Emmy Thacker, Olivia Spencer, Chandler Williams, Grace Shannon, Jesse Dugan, Kelsey Tarleton, Eme Massarelli. Back Row L to R: Coach Peter Massarelli, Grace von Elton, Maggie Vidal, Carrie Spencer, Wiley Martin, Emily Barlow, Peter Dister, Leah Gillespie and Coach Craig Redinger.
Beaver Creek Sculling Program Grows in Prowess and Popularity By Brooke Correll Warm sun and glassine water made for perfect racing conditions at Third Annual Dam Turn Regatta at Beaver Creek Reservoir Nov. 15. With single, double and quadruple scull events, the 2,500 meter head race—so named for its difficult 180-degree turn—is the only all-sculling event in the US. (Sculls are small boats in which each rower uses two oars, as opposed to larger, sweep boats in which each rower mans a single oar.) Rowers from across the state came to Crozet to compete against a Beaver Creek team comprised predominantly of Western Albemarle High School rowers. Spread out on the grassy field below the bridge, spectators and their dogs cheered as boats crossed the finish line. The local regatta grows
in competition and spectatorship every year. Although the Dam Turn Regatta capped off Beaver Creek’s year, their competition culminated two weeks ago in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Head of the Hooch Regatta (“The Hooch”) is the second largest rowing event in the world with over 2000 boats racing, 80% of whom are high school and college rowers. Beaver Creek youth rowers entered eleven boats in seven different race categories and showed solid-to-outstanding performances across the board. This is Beaver Creek Sculling’s second year attending The Hooch, but the first year it has sent a full squad. In the youth women’s quadruple scull race, one Beaver Creek boat comprised of team continued on page 38
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Tis the Season The holiday season is upon us! Don’t ever give into the cynicism of people who can’t help but portray the holidays as just about commercialism, marketing, annoying music, or uncomfortable family get-togethers. Although these things may be part of our holiday culture, the holidays are, and will always be, a special time full of a truly distinctive human spirit that fosters love, hope, and kindness every December. Such is true in my own life as a pet owner, and as a small animal veterinarian. Personally, my early Christmas memories as a “grown up” involve the many holidays my wife Michelle and I spent together as a young couple “BC”—Before Child. We had a dog and two cats, and these were our babies—such simple times! I love looking back at the Christmas cards with us wrangling our two cats and crowding up with our dog around our homely Christmas tree. Those images always bring me a lighthearted joy, remembering when the life we had had a whole lot less responsibility. Christmas will also always bring up a tough memory of losing our dog Kaya on December 27 several years ago after a yearlong battle with cancer. Kaya was my girl and jour-
neyed with me from bachelorhood to marriage to parenthood. There are holiday photos of her in her weakened state, but still enjoying the spoils of an adoring family around the holidays. The day she died and we buried her was busy and bitter cold, and I’ll always remember being taught the lesson that there really is no good time to lose a cherished friend. At the vet office, Christmas generally brings a cheery attitude where, for the most part, humankind shows its better side. Appreciative clients bring us cookies and snacks, which are always so appreciated. I am always in awe of the thoughtfulness of someone’s baking us cookies and writing a kind note, just for our doing our job and caring. There are also the holiday parties, both our office party and those with our friends and neighbors. These keep our weekends busy and keep us generally cheery as we celebrate the season with people we care about, and these stories carry
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Gift Guide for a Weather Geek Only about 0.005 % of people get a college degree in meteorology like Heidi and I did. But I would estimate that a good 5% to 10% of people you meet are serious weather enthusiasts. These people tend to be rather nerdy (like us) and there is a good chance at least one is on your Christmas list. So, we have put together a quick list of possible gifts that you can give that special nerd this season. Just for clarification, Heidi and I used to think that meteorologists were the biggest nerds in the world. But over time, we have come to realize that we only rank third behind Ham Radio Operators and Civil War Reenactors. Also, not all weather enthusiasts are nerds and geeks. Your perfectly normal grandmother may love to check her rain gauge every day. The potential gift list is huge. We will break it into six categories: thermometers, rain gauges, comprehensive weather stations, online data subscriptions, books and toys. The first question you need to ask yourself is “electronic or manual?” Modern fancy wireless electronic devices can be wonderful. But when it takes forever to assemble and it won’t work and you troubleshoot it for hours and then the battery dies and then the Bluetooth quits talking, you may think otherwise. The
cursedness of these things can be extraordinary. So, instead of a sophisticated electronic instrument that synchs in real time with the web, maybe a huge, easy to read, decorative instrument is a better choice for grandpa or your mom. Amazon or other online retailers have a great variety of choices. Also, assorted retailers have ones you can see, feel and touch right in the store. Crozet Hardware has a selection right in town and so do farm and garden stores like Southern States. Thermometers Thermometers range from large, easy to read manual devices to remote wireless sensors that can monitor your pool, the basement and various places in the yard. A $20 wireless device can be properly located outside and display indoors. This is very convenient but they often have wireless range or battery issues. Most claim a 100 foot range but I wouldn’t count on it. Lithium batteries do better in the cold. Regardless of the type of thermometer, you need to have it properly located to get a true reading. The key thing to remember is that you are trying to get the temperature of the air. It is very easy to end up measuring the temperature of the window or the tree it’s
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nailed to, or the temperature of the thermometer itself as it bakes in the sun. The ideal location is six feet off the ground, always shaded and with decent air circulation and away from any obvious heat source like the house. The wireless technology makes it easier to find a good spot for the sensor compared to manual thermometers. Many thermometers are designed to attach to windows. They do surprisingly well but will be corrupted by the temperature of the house. Galileo thermometers are another nice option. They date back to 1666 and are beautiful and decorative but for indoors only. Ironically, Galileo did not invent this device but it was named in his honor. It works with balls of various densities floating in a glass tube. I love the simplicity, elegance and beauty. If all the balls sink to the bottom, the house is too hot. If they all float to the top, it’s too cold. If some are at the top and some at the bottom, then it is just right. Rain Gauges Rain is actually much easier to measure than temperature. You just catch it and measure it. Old fashioned, manual gauges work the best. Most have a magnifying funnel that makes it easier to read accurately. Basic plastic ones can be found under $10 and an excellent one runs about $50. A professional rain gauge costs much more and has a heater to melt snow as it falls. Electronic rain gauges have been slow to evolve but now AcuRite makes an inexpensive wireless device that works pretty well and can remember the last 10 days. It works with a tipping bucket. Every time 0.01 inch of rain falls, the weight in the bucket causes it to tip which sends an electronic signal to the base unit. The advantage of electronic over manual is that you can watch downpours in real time from inside the house plus you get a 10 day memory and don’t ever have to empty it. The disadvantage is the same as with the thermometers… wireless connectivity and battery issues. Also, I trust the manual ones more. continued on page 32
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You Shouldn’t Need Honey Bees for Pollination At Cornell Orchards in Ithaca, New York, the scientists and managers of this 37-acre research and outreach facility decided this past spring to take, as they put it, “a leap of faith.” They chose to forego the assistance of commercial honey bees (hives of European bees trucked from growing area to growing area to ensure crop pollination) to see if their apple trees might still get adequately pollinated. To their surprise, they got a great crop of apples. This news release astonished me. I’ve been to Ithaca, where there are many natural areas that include deep forests, wetlands and waterfalls, and dense brushy habitat for wildlife. How could resident researchers from the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science and the Department of Entomology at Cornell be surprised that there would be plenty of native pollinators in the area? It might be because nowadays people think that they must personally orchestrate the workings of the natural world. But an orchard would only require the assistance of non-native honey bees if people had destroyed the biodiversity of the area—the incredible numbers of species that exist to perform such tasks as pollination. Indeed, such eradication is taking place around the world, thanks to an increase in pesticide usage and development of the landscape, along with a decrease in natural-area preservation. A natural area un-trampled by humans maintains a reservoir of organisms for the future, should people ever again recognize the value of nature to their lives. Until they do, honey bees will continue to be needed to pollinate about a third of commercial food plants world-wide. I’ve written hundreds of articles, and even a book, about nature-friendly gardening. Yet folks are still resistant to the main tenet of my thesis, which is that in order to be a successful gardener or farmer, you must blend your garden or cropland into the environment. In other words, your food-growing areas must meld with the larger landscape around it so as to become one with it. This means you must allow native and naturalized plants (normally viewed as “weeds”) to grow among and in the vicinity of the plants you transplanted or started from seed. When you follow this natural mandate, you don’t encounter the usual problems with insects and other invertebrates that
most home and commercial gardeners believe are inevitable. Unfortunately, people doubt this truism, especially because scientists and extension agents talk about “pests” as if they are, indeed, a given when growing plants. But the scientists, extension agents, garden writers and talk-show hosts are wrong. The problem for gardeners is not that certain organisms exist solely to kill their plants, but rather that gardeners haven’t provided habitat for the predators needed to keep plant-eating organisms in check. Logic and common sense should tell us that no animal is supposed to eat itself out of house and home by killing the very plants it is dependent upon. If an organism destroys its food source, how will it survive to reproduce? And should it manage to reproduce, how will its progeny survive if there’s no food for them? Thus when predators keep populations of plant-eating organisms limited to a population level that doesn’t seriously harm or kill the food plants of those organisms, the predators are aiding those creatures to keep their kind from going extinct. They are also allowing the food grower the ability to grow food without the use of pesticides that poison his world. In order to invite predators to any property—large or small, commercial or private—you can’t treat it as a room inside a house that needs to be kept perfectly neat and sanitized. The overly ordered appearance of a property signifies ignorance of how the natural world works and how to garden or farm in agreement with nature. Don’t get caught up in today’s societal standards that dictate a manicured look instead of a natural one. Garden cleanliness is definitely not next to godliness. It results in the need for pesticides to try to do the job predators could have done free of charge and much more safely, without effort on the part of the grower. Instead, go wild! And don’t apologize for it. My yard teems with numerous kinds of trees, shrubs, flowers, and wild grasses. Best of all, it’s absolutely alive with a variety of critters. A landscape teeming with wildlife is a landscape that is healthy. To be a successful gardener or farmer, keep or create a variety of habitats to provide food, water, shelter, and nesting sites for a mix of wildlife. Accept that all wildlife is providing services so don’t be prejudiced against particular organisms.
The European (more accurately known as the “Western”) Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) was brought to America in hives by European settlers. It escaped domestication and can now be found in feral colonies. This one helped to pollinate the author’s peach tree, but many native pollinator species also assisted. (Photo credit: Marlene A. Condon)
There’s no harm in moving along critters that have taken up residence right around your house or farm buildings where you might experience an unpleasant or unsafe interaction with them. But you should never attempt to rid an entire property of particular kinds of animals. Consider wasps: They limit the numbers of insects and spiders in addition to pollinating plants, which are all vital to the proper functioning of the environment. But if wasps start to build nests on or right by your house, you can tend to it in an environmentally friendly way. Check every day all spring to very early summer to discover where nests have been started. As long as morning temperatures are still in the 40s, you can easily knock down nests without getting stung. There will be very few wasps per nest at this time of year and they can’t fly or even move much when it’s chilly. Therefore they will drop to the ground when you hit the nest. But you must check carefully almost every day to get all the nests down before morning temperatures reach 50 degrees or above. By that time, very few wasps are still trying to start a nest. Vigilance is the key to avoiding or dealing with possible wildlife problems. You needn’t take action at all if the location of a wasp nest poses no danger to you because, for example, it’s so high on the house that no one will ever be close enough to it to get stung. And don’t just turn to pesticides or poisons. It’s your responsibility to do your best to avoid serious problems with wildlife, and I’ve found that where there’s a will, there’s a way to deal with difficulties in a safe manner for you and the environment. Why not make your New Year’s resolution the resolve to create a nature-friendly garden that’s safe for everyone—people, pets, wildlife, and the environment. It’s the only way to live.
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Christmas Eve Cod Fish Soup One of the enduring mysteries of my father is why he waited so long to share certain recipes. We learned early not to ask him about his childhood Christmas memories. We would hear, “I only got an orange. We were too poor for gifts.” And, “We never had a Christmas tree; we would walk down the street at night and look in other peoples’ windows to see their tree.” Grump grump. It was sad. They lived in the city during the Great Depression and it was rough. On the other hand, he did have one happy memory of being chosen at the age of eight or nine to sing “O Holy Night” in the town’s Central Park and he would repeat that performance for us at least once each holiday. Think Perry Como or Tony Bennett, same beautiful voice. Thankfully, the sour memories did not mean that he transferred that to our childhood. We loved Christmas and had great Christmases. My mom saw to that. Her childhood was full of all the things that a farm
can provide: great food, an enormous Christmas tree (actually, she claimed that there was a decorated tree in every room!) and a family affluent enough that she loved to tell how she didn’t find her toy dishes until two days later because the pile of gifts for seven children was so large. But I digress. It wasn’t until I was well into adulthood that Dad announced, “We always ate codfish soup on Christmas Eve.” I’ll bet that like me, this does not inspire you to run out and make this as a holiday treat. But I suppose it is a way that inland Pennsylvanians, Sicilian immigrants, could have the traditional meatless, seafood dinner on Christmas Eve without a huge expense. You see, this soup starts with salted cod, cod that could be shipped whenever. I can still find boxes of salted cod at Foods of All Nations. After recovering from the shock (fish soup—what, mom???), my kids now look forward to it. Merry Christmas to all!
Christmas Eve Cod Fish Soup One pound box of salted cod and lots of water for soaking 6 cups water for the broth 1 medium onion, chopped 2 carrots, chopped 2 stalks of celery, preferably the center stalks with the leaves, chopped ½ tsp basil 1 tsp dried parsley My father’s recipe also calls for 3 chicken bouillon cubes, which I would never dream of adding (too artificial). This was always a point of contention with us. Do what you like! The cod must be soaked in three changes of water over the course of a day to remove most of the salt used to preserve the fish. Do this the day before preparation, keeping the soaking fish in the refrigerator. Combine all other ingredients and cook until the vegetables are tender. Cut the cod into one-inch squares and add to the broth. Cook gently for five minutes and serve immediately. We never ate soup without grated Romano cheese, so pass the cheese.
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game at 7-7. Next Western’s Hearn engineered a 10-play, 77-yard touchdown drive that was capped off by a one- yard run by Herndon to give Western a 14-7 lead. Staunton River responded immediately as Overstreet scored on a one-yard run of his own. The extra point kick was no good and the Warriors led 14-13. The Titans got a break on the kickoff as a hard, low kick bounced off of a Warrior and Staunton River recovered. Four plays later, just a minute and five seconds into the second quarter Titans’ quarterback Jakob Divers scored on an eight-yard run and Overstreet completed the scoring drive with a two-point conversion giving the Titans a 21-14 lead. Western answered again, this time Herndon scored from three yards out. The game would then turn in the Titan’s favor as they scored three consecutive TDs for a 42-21 lead. Following Herndon’s touchdown Staunton River scored in just two plays as Tester
raced 64 yards for a touchdown. The Titan’s defense then forced a Warrior punt and scored on Overstreet’s 24-yard run. Then what looked to be the fatal blow for the Warriors came. Following a holding penalty and an incomplete pass, Western faced second and 25 on their own 7. Hearn’s pass was intercepted and returned for a touchdown, giving the Titans a 42-21 lead in the first half. But the Warriors answered. With 1:30 to go, the Warriors put together a 62-yard drive. With one-tenth of a second on the clock, Hearn hit wide receiver Derek Domecq in the end zone and the Warriors trailed 42-28 at the half. Domecq finished the night with 15 receptions, 264 yards and three receiving touchdowns. Staunton River received the second half kickoff and the teams traded touchdowns to bring the score to 56-42 in favor of the Titans. Western then got the break they were looking for. Staunton River had trouble handling Domecq’s deep kickoff and the Warriors pinned the Titans at the nine yard line. The continued on page 37
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Comprehensive Weather Stations You don’t need to have separate instruments. There are now many weather stations that have a myriad of instruments all on a single platform. Generally, they gather data and transmit it to your computer and put the data on the web in real time. Many people link their machines to the Weather Underground’s network of weather stations. Dyacon will sell you the ultimate complete weather station with solar power and solar intensity readings, soil temp, and it can measure rain to an accuracy of 1/1000th of an inch. This costs just $5100. Davis Weather Instruments has been a leader in the field and they sell a nice system for about $600. Some low cost weather stations run less than $200. These weather stations are amazing but they certainly aren’t for everyone. They require considerable installation effort and maintenance is ongoing. Heidi bought one in 1990s. Eventually, it died. We have decided it is too much work so we haven’t replaced it. One thing these weather stations do is measure wind but, unfortunately, not very accurately. Most people don’t have an open, unobstructed place to locate an anemometer. Also, only expensive anemometers will measure the maximum gust accurately. We have a great spot for a measuring wind at our farm but the anemometers we have tried are woefully lacking at measuring max gust. Books There are thousands of books about weather. I recommend
avoiding climate change books at Christmas unless you want to start a family fight. There are books on weather history, basic science or even mystery novels. The Old Farmers Almanac is always popular, just don’t believe the forecasts. Toys Toy stores often sell weather kits and gizmos for kids of various ages. Heidi’s favorite is a “Tornado in a Bottle”. You just shake it and a tornado develops inside the glass. Way cool. Online Subscription Some weather sites sell subscriptions for premium services. Most don’t interest me. But American Weather (americanwx.com) has a lot to offer a weather junkie. First, they have all the raw weather models from NOAA or the European Center. This is fascinating for the storm nut with a technical interest. Secondly, they have forums where you meet plenty of other weather crazies. This is great fun when a snow storm is hitting and somebody from Lake Monticello says “It’s sticking on my car!” and posts a picture. An hour later he cries when it turns to rain. The other benefit is that there are dozens of professional meteorologists online who can and will explain things. A subscription is reasonable, at about $6 a month November Recap November was warm and mostly nice. We did have a couple of funks where dreary rain settled it but the average high temperature was 62. That’s a full five degrees above normal and we hit 80 on November 6. A series of hard freezes hit the week before Thanksgiving and that ended any chance for keeping the plants and flowers going.
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Dear Santa I think I have been a pretty good ER doctor this year. I mostly kept a straight face during rambling, circuitous and preposterous stories of how various foreign bodies ended up where they did. I am sure the power could have failed in the middle of a shower, which would explain the flashlight, and maybe the slip and fall, but, weirdly, I have heard that story several times before. I have willingly provided second or third opinions on many chronic non-emergency conditions. While midnight on Saturday may not be the best time for me to obtain and review records from three outside hospitals, I have done my best (thank you, scribes!). Sometimes second opinions are quite easy. When three drugstore pregnancy tests in a row are positive, one doesn’t really need a board-certified ER doctor to confirm the blessed event. But I do. Congratulations! (Sometimes.) I have updated to the ICD 10 billing codes but have seen no uptick in spacecraft injuries so far. But I remain vigilant. So I think I have been pretty good this year. In consideration then, I present my list of gifts I would like this year. 1) Some Syrian refugees. We are one of the few International Rescue Committee resettlement sites in the U.S. and we should be proud of that. In fact, U.Va. has a dedicated refugee clinic that specializes in the particular challenges each culture brings with them. From Hmongs to Afganis, Iraqis to Nepalis, Burmese to Sudanese, I see them all in the ER. They present no threat; they just want their children or their parents to receive long-overdue healthcare. They still see America as the promised land, a great place.
Many in the political sphere could learn a thing or two about America from them. It is a pleasure to care for them. 2) Healthcare insurance for everyone in the Commonwealth. I know that seems like a big ask with over 400,000 uninsured citizens, but remember how good I have been this year. Also it should be easy because the Affordable Care Act offers 100 percent federal funding for this for three years and then 90 percent funding in perpetuity. Seems like a good deal to me. Patient lives would be saved (estimated as 400 Virginia lives saved a year) and, equally important, I would get paid for doing it. 3) I would like all neurosurgeons to understand enough about science and archeology to realize that the pyramids were not built as grain storage warehouses and that the world is considerably older than 6,000 years and the scientific ramifications of that, including the evidence for climate change. We have enough charlatans out there denying climate change. Men and women of science ought to know better. 4) More residency slots for graduating doctors. Aside from the fact that I like residents and always want more, we are facing a physician shortage of 90,000 doctors by 2025 and the federal government, which pays for residency training, hasn’t increased the number of training positions since 1997. The medical schools are doing their part by increasing the number of graduates, but now the number of graduates outnumbers the availabilities for residencies for the first time in U.S. history. We need more doctors and that means more funded residency slots. 5) Vaccines for every child. We could wipe out polio and rabies worldwide and measles in continued on page 36
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your bike fits you well, you can ride for hours at a time with low to no discomfort and wake up the next morning and do it again. Now, this does not mean cycling is easy. You are going to have some muscle soreness and tightness after pushing yourself on a ride. There are several very rewarding parts of cycling. One is seeing progression, not just in fitness with increased speeds and distances covered, but also with development of skills. This is especially true on the mountain bike. You can go out and ride a rocky, rooty trail and maybe have to put a foot down or get off and walk a dozen times. Keep at it though, focus on those difficult sections, and before you know it you are clearing obstacles and looking for new challenges. I think it is also rewarding to get outside, cover some ground and see some things, especially in an area this beautiful. As your fitness increases, you’ll start ticking off longer and longer rides, and you start looking at maps and saying “Wow, I can’t believe I rode all the way out there!” JA: You were a pro cyclist in your bachelor days. Now you’ve got two young twins and a newborn—tell me what has changed regarding your relationship with cycling? How do you balance it with family time? AG: The key to maintaining motivation is setting goals. It can start simply: ride three days this week, average over 14 mph on my next ride; and then ideally progress: participate in the Boys and Girls Club Challenge ride, climb Jarmans Gap without stopping (careful on the way down!). Write these goals down and share them, and you will stick with them. Balancing training time with family time has been tough. With work, family, and riding, training is always the first to get bumped. Basically, riding has to become part of your schedule and you can never expect it to just fit into a given day. This may mean some early mornings, or some short lunch breaks to accommodate workout time, but if you make it a priority you can make it fit.
DECEMBER 2015 JA: What is one of your favorite road cycling routes, and one of your favorite mountain biking routes? AG: My favorite road routes all involve crisscrossing the Blue Ridge Parkway. Climb up Old Afton Mountain Turnpike, finish the climb to the Parkway on 250, and then you can’t go wrong from there. On the mountain bike, the MSA campus trails are about as good as it gets! When I ride off campus, the trip up 29 to Preddy Creek is always worth the drive. JA: Your advice for someone new to fitness and wanting to get into cycling? AG: If you are new to fitness and want to get into cycling, there two easy steps to get you started: Get on a bike. Any bike. As long as the tires hold air, the gears work, and the chain is lubed, you’re all set. As you progress, a nice road or mountain bike is a good investment that will increase enjoyment. Make sure the bike fits. Proper fit is key to less discomfort and more efficiency, which will lead to more enjoyment and higher likelihood of continuing with the sport. Just a simple seat-height check by an experienced cyclist is a good start, and then there are several in-depth bike fit options offered by local bike shops if you find yourself riding regularly. JA: As the coach of the endurance team at MSA, what is it that these kids love about cycling? AG: As the director of the Endurance team and working with kids all the time, I see a wide range of motivating factors. When competing, cycling is like a high-speed game of chess, and many of the varsity athletes love that. It is a physical challenge along with a tactical component that not all endurance sports have. For many, though, it is all about the speed and seeing constant improvement. They work hard to get to the top of a hill, and then get to fly down while carving turns and hopping roots and rocks. It doesn’t get cooler than that, and you can literally feel yourself getting smoother and more efficient over obstacles. It is a great feeling. For any kids wanting to build continued on page 38
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him down.” The Council added a Certificate of Merit, too, saying that Hoffman had “demonstrated the best traditions of
scouting.” Shaffer also presented Hoffman with a binder full of letters of congratulations from state political leaders and a wallet card identifying him as an Eagle Scout. Congressman Robert Hurt sent Hoffman a U.S. flag that had flown over
the U.S. Santa, we already have the vaccines. I just need you with your magical sled to deliver them overnight to every child lacking them. Short of that, at least let U.S. parents know that
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captain Emily Barlow, Carrie Smith, Emmy Thacker and Olivia Spencer placed 5th out of 56 boats, a mere 4.5% behind the winner’s time, while a second Beaver Creek entry of Jordan Neuman, Kelsey Tarleton, Leah Gillespie and Grace Shannon finished 22nd. The youth women’s double, made up of Maggie Vidal and Emmy Thacker placed 9th in a 68-boat race, while lightweight rowers Jesse Dugan and Eme Massarelli placed 22nd in the same race. In the 46-boat youth women’s single scull races, Maggie Vidal placed 17th and Grace von Elton placed 23rd. As a measure of the level of competition across these events, the winning boats in the women’s quadruple, double and single scull races included multiple members of the elite U.S. Junior National Team. In the 68-boat youth men’s double category, Wiley Martin and Peter Dister placed 44th, while James Mahoney and Ben Burroughs came in 46th. In the youth men’s single scull race, Wiley Martin came in 41st out of 53 boats. In the novice men’s category James Mahoney rowed a single to 16th place out of 21 boats, and in the novice women’s category Chandler Williams rowed a single to finish 9th out of 17 boats. The team’s solid performance earned them a return to the Hooch next year. If a boat finishes within 10% of the winthe national Capitol. “I would like to say thank you to my scout leaders,” said Hoffman, “especially to Mr. Conley. You deserve a medal. And I’d like to thank my parents, and Rick and Jim Hegedorn for helping me with my project.” Rick Hegedorn
vaccines do not cause autism and save many lives. They can get the vaccines themselves, no magic needed. Thanks in advance, Santa, I know you will come through for me even though my legislators have not. Call it the triumph of hope over experience, I still believe! ner’s time, the program gets guaranteed return entry for the next year’s race. Six of the eleven Beaver Creek entries finished within 10% of their races’ winning boat time to merit guaranteed return entries. Given the small size of Beaver Creek’s squad—17 individual rowers out of a 28-person team attended the Hooch this year— their performance is all the more impressive. Head Coach Myriam Pitts finds great satisfaction in the team’s success and what she calls their “efficiency ratio:” “It’s really amazing to watch our small, dedicated, hard-working team compete on a large, national stage and to see our athletes make a name for themselves among much larger, well funded, storied programs.” Non-profit and 100% volunteer run, Beaver Creek Sculling is a community rowing club that cultivates champion scullers. The organization receives funding exclusively from member donations, fund-raising and charitable contributions. It takes a village of volunteers to run the program: Founder and head coach Myriam Pitts; water coaches Craig Redinger, Peter Massarelli, Katie Hollar Nielsen, Chris Jackson, and Steve Bragaw; alumni rowers Owen Coleman and Andrew Quarles; and parent land coaches Eric Amtmann and Brooke Correll. The organization offers a summer rowing program at Beaver Creek Reservoir for adults and teens who want to learn to row competitively. For more information contact info@beavercreeksculling.org. had also been present at the time of his father’s accident. By virtue of rank, Hoffman, a junior at Western Albemarle High School, is now a senior leader, helping the troop’s eight Life Scouts who are still working to achieve Eagle.
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Titans mishandled the ball and the Warriors got a safety, cutting the Titans lead to 12 points. Following Staunton River’s kickoff, the Warriors cut the lead to five (56-51) on Hearn’s seven-yard run. But the Titans didn’t let up. Tester burned the Warrior defense again for a 49-yard run, extending the Staunton River lead back to 12 points, 63-51. The Warriors scored just two minutes later. This time it was a 62-yard drive. The big plays were a pass to Michael Vale and another to Herndon that put the Warriors on the Titans’ nine yard line. Hearn scored to make the score 63-58 for Staunton River. The Titan’s scored on the first play following the kickoff. Overstreet broke clean through the middle of the Warrior defense and went 65 yards, 71-58 Titans. It looked like the Warriors would go into the fourth quarter trailing by two touchdowns. Not on this night. With 41 seconds to play in the quarter, Hearn connected with Domecq for a 67-yard touchdown pass. Domecq found a seam in the Titans’ coverage and broke tackles on a spectacular run to the end zone. The Titans opened the fourth quarter with possession of the ball. Western pinned the Titans deep in their own territory with good kickoff coverage. But Overstreet torched the Warrior defense on a 75-yard run and three plays later he would score his sixth touchdown of the night, making the score 77-65 for Staunton River. With 9:24 to play in the game, Hearn completed five passes for 71 yards and a touchdown, while converting a fourth and 10 from Western’s 30 yard line. Domecq scored his third touchdown a 13-yard pass to cut the deficit to five points. The Titans would not be denied, though. Divers ran 36
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portive,” Holzwarth said. “We lost some good weather, but you’ll see it soon.” He said he expects the building to open next summer. Revision of the plans also pro-
DECEMBER 2015 yards to the Warrior 18, setting up his second TD two plays later on a six-yard scamper. Overstreet scored a two-point conversion pushing the lead back to 13 points, 85-72. Hearn directed his next drive solely from the pocket, completing five passes for 54 yards and finishing with a 10-yarder to Yorkavich to make the score 85-79. The Warriors then got the defensive play they’d been waiting for. The Titans faced third and 14 at their own 49. They decided to pass and Western safety Darren Klein made them pay, intercepting the pass at the Warrior 39 yard line. WAHS trailed by six with 1:29 to play. Hearn completed three passes to Vale, taking the ball to the Staunton River 30 yard line. Two plays later, Herndon ran for two yards on fourth and one, giving Western a fresh set of downs at the Titans’ 28. Three straight incomplete passes set up a huge, game-deciding fourth and 10 with just 18 seconds to go. Hearn rolled out to his right and threw into the left side of the end zone. Staunton River’s safety back pedaled and made the interception, ending Western’s improbable comeback. The Titans won 85-79, advancing to the third round of the playoffs where they lost to Magna Vista. On a night that didn’t end like the Warriors wanted it too, they still made history. This game will go down as one of the greatest high school football games in state history. It may be a bitter pill to swallow right now for the Warriors, but in years to come it will remembered not as the game that ended the 2015 season, but as one of the most memorable games in school history. For all who played, coached, officiated and watched, this game will never be forgotten and it shouldn’t be. You couldn’t have written a more exciting script. It truly was “One for the Ages!” duced four additional parking spaces, bringing the total to 28. “I’ve never put as much attention into a project as this, but this is Crozet. It matters if downtown gets off to the right start,” said Holzwarth, a Crozet resident, who is a vice president with Stanley Martin Homes.
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community events DECEMBER 6
Crozet Handbell Choir Holiday Concert
Enjoy varied styles of Christmas pieces performed on handbells. Refreshments provided. Sunday, December 6, at 4 p.m. at the Pickford-Chiles Fellowship Hall at Tabor Presbyterian Church.
DECEMBER 11
Sam Abell on Local Photography
Join the Crozet Gazette for a reception and slide show discussion with Sam Abell, judge of the Crozet 2016 Calendar Photo Contest on Friday, December 11, at 6 p.m at Creative Framing and the Art Box. Ice cream sundaes will be served. Meet other local photographers and hear about Mr. Abell’s decision-making process as judge of the calendar contest. The event is free and open to the public.
DECEMBER 12
White Hall Children’s Christmas Party
The annual White Hall Children’s Christmas Party will be celebrated Saturday, December 12, from 10 a.m. to noon at the White Hall Community Building at 2904 Brown’s Gap Turnpike (intersection of Routes 614 and 810). Kids and their parents are invited for crafts, music, treats, and a special visit by Santa Claus. The annual party is sponsored by the White Hall Ruritan Club.
DECEMBER 12
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Ash Lawn Opera will present their family-friendly annual holiday show “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at the Paramount Theater December 12 at 2 and 4:30 p.m. Tickets for youth under 12 are $12. Adult tickets start at $27.
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DECEMBER 18
Bethlehem Village Opens
Bethlehem Village, a depiction of the village of Jesus’s birth, will open Dec. 18 at Hebron Baptist Church in Afton with nightly performances beginning at 6 p.m. and running through Dec. 22. The Village is a ministry of five Rockfish Valley churches and is one of the oldest such re-enactments in the U.S. The Village is open to the public for free. Fifty costumed characters will man village buildings, including an olive press and a carpentry workshop, and be joined by real camels and other livestock. The Nativity, described by singing angels, culminates the tour of the village. Hebron Church is at 66 Tanbark Drive in Afton, near the Rockfish Valley Volunteer Fire Department.
DECEMBER 25
Crozet Jingle Jog
Christmas morning at 11 a.m. at Old Trail Village center, join your neighbors for a family-friendly 5k event. Walkers, runners, strollers, bikes and pets on a leash are welcome. Registration is free. Sponsors are Crozet Running, Crozet Pediatric Dentistry, Piedmont Pediatrics, and Hamer & Hamer Orthodontics. Visit Crozet Running for more info.
JANUARY 21
Meet the Gazette Night at Crozet Library
You read and enjoy it - now meet and greet the people responsible for The Crozet Gazette. Chat with your favorite columnists, ask questions of the editorial staff, nibble some light refreshments as you learn more about our local paper and the people who work to keep the community informed. Thursday, January 21, at 7 p.m. at Crozet Library. All ages welcome.
their mountain bike skills and have a great time with their peers, check out these Cutaway Bike Camp summer camps we offer in June and July: www.cutawaybikecamp.org So there you have it, another great way to get back to fitness and enjoy this beautiful area! Now get out there and move!
Gazette Vet —continued from page 28 into the workday where we just have a little something extra to talk about. Let’s not forget about all the dogs who get into chocolate! Oh, ’tis the season for chocolate toxicity! We get a lot of calls about dogs who get into some chocolate chip cookies or milk chocolate, and fortunately, these are usually just fine. But the darker chocolates have a lot of the toxic metabolite that dogs can’t tolerate and these are the ones we see a lot. The 60 percent Cacao bars, Hershey’s Dark, full pans of brownies, full bags of dark chocolate truffles. I’ve never met a dog who had any regrets about eating as much chocolate as they could fit into his or her stomach. Best-case scenario is some vomiting and diarrhea and some unexpected carpet cleaning. Worse-case scenario is convulsions and seizures and a weekend at the ER. Keep your fancy chocolates and your baked goods up high this holiday season! And last, there are the touching stories that come along and make us feel a bit more human. The couple with no money whose dog had just been attacked, and a random stranger wanted to pay their entire bill. The sick cat we made feel better, only to learn that this pet is the owner’s only connection to a recently deceased child. And, of course, the holiday loss of a pet. One of our good friends lost their cherished family dog right on Christmas Day. It was tragic, but the power of the season made us all appreciate what we had, and we celebrated a life well-lived, even if cut short. I hope you all have an inspiring holiday season this year. Enjoy those holiday office parties that drag on forever. Cherish the family time while you’re stuck in the car traveling. Take some inspiration from your pets, loving, non-judging, loyal, honest, grateful. Be a light in your world this December like they are in yours every day!
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