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The End of an Era at Crozet Library Beloved Crozet head librarian Wendy Saz will retire from her post this month, marking the end of a 12-year tenure that saw the building of the new Crozet library that has successfully perpetuated the comfortable, warm spirit that reigned in the depot when the library had its home there. Also departing are Allie Haddix, a children’s librarian, and Anna Thomas, who has been a fixture at the library for 25 years. Haddix will leave this month also. Her husband has accepted a promotion in his company that means moving to Columbus, Ohio. For Thomas, it’s simply a matter of having earned her relief from labor, but her last day on the job won’t come until the end of May. Saz called Haddix the library’s “sparkle fairy” and a sad loss for the community. “When we interviewed her we asked about specific book titles,” Saz recalled. “She knew every one of them, plus she knew all the series! She came into the Teen Program and they instantly connected with her. It was like magnetism.” Haddix boosted the number of volunteers on the library’s teen advisory
board to 20 and as proof of her influence, one of her former volunteers has gone on to be a librarian at Northside Library in Charlottesville. “Allie started ‘exam cram’ and that made it into a national magazine,” Saz exclaimed. “Her programs are wildly successful.” For her part, Haddix returns the love. “Wendy has been like a second mother to me. I’ve learned so much— about librarianship and about kindness and about finding joy in life. She’s the main reason the library’s so beautiful. Because she fought for what the community wanted [in the building’s design]. She deserves the credit. When Wendy is here everybody gets happy. She’s special and she’s been a really great boss.” “I smile because I see people smiling,” Saz said as an explanation for her cheerfulness. She called Thomas “the face of the library for so many people,” because of her long service. She started in 1990. Saz noted that Thomas, a voice major in college, can sometimes be heard singing at her tasks. “People walk in and go straight to
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Re-store’N Station on Rt. 250, just west of Western Albemarle High School, is seeking to triple in size by adding rental commercial spaces, two more fuel pumps, a drive-through food operation and a four-bay auto repair shop. It has submitted a request to alter the terms of its Special Use Permit. The focus of a contentious and sometimes bitter dispute when it was finally awarded a SUP for water use in 2010, the gas station and convenience store was recently known as Mulberry Station, until its management collapsed. Now, since owner Jeff Sprouse has taken over active management, it has been renamed Crozet Store. A dispute over how much square footage the County Supervisors had approved, was provoked when the second floor of the station was enlarged after the SUP was granted. That issue was finally resolved by a court case in 2013 in which Albemarle Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Higgins ruled against the station and enforced the Supervisors’ permit conditions, one of which limited the size of the footprint of the building on the 4.06-acre parcel to 3,000 square feet. The Crozet Community Advisory Committee was introduced to the new scheme for the property at its January 21 meeting at The Meadows. Development consultant Jo Higgins, continued on page 6
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From the Editor On Two Wrong Projects The Crozet Master Plan essentially hinges on two concepts learned from Charlottesville’s development history. First is the success of the Downtown Mall, a pedestrian landscape where people like to go. Second is the abject failure of Rt. 29 North and Rt. 250 east on Pantops Mountain, both areas that people try to pass through as promptly as they can. The master plan accepts that Crozet is an official Growth Area. Yet it tries to direct Crozet’s downtown to turn out like the Mall, and it tries to prevent Rt. 250 west from becoming like 29 North or Pantops. The zoning goal for downtown was also, hopefully, to enable the survival of Crozet’s small town culture as it perforce absorbed five and six times it original population in new residents. Thus the survival of downtown’s viability is integral to Crozet’s community integrity. Downtown may grow prodigiously, but it should remain the place Crozetians routinely
FEBRUARY 2016 head for their business. The density should occur downtown and, to the greatest extent possible, Rt. 250 should survive free from traffic lights as the “bypass” around Crozet. There is no route for a bypass around Crozet once we forfeit the highway we have now to congestion and shopping centers. After the master plan had been adopted in 2004, weaknesses in it became apparent in the light of development events. When the citizens convened in the plan review process that ended with clarified rules in 2010, they had two objects. One was to remove pockets of potential high-density housing next to established neighborhoods, such as happened in Haden Lane and Killdeer Lane with the construction of Haden Place. This shift essentially homogenizes the character of neighborhoods with relatively consistent housing types and densities and it was strongly sought by both long-time and newer Crozetians. Second was the concentration of density in downtown and its reduction at the edges of the growth area distant from
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downtown, not practically within walking range of it. This concept was referred to as “pyramidal density.” If you were to imagine the future geography of Crozet’s population expressed as a bell curve, then the hump would be centered on downtown and the “fringes” of the growth area, as they were called, would be comparatively low density. Acreage along Rt. 250 that was originally in the Growth Area was removed (imagine that!) and the already built areas of north Crozet were added to it, to make this desired density outcome more explicit and probable. Developers routinely tell us that people won’t walk more than a block from their cars. The improvement of Jarmans Gap Road with a sidewalk put the lie to this. We’ll readily walk even a half-mile or farther if we have a safe path. Foot traffic along Jarmans Gap is greater than anyone foresaw, and it’s why we now have sidewalk projects in north Crozet intended to allow residents living there to reach downtown feeling secure. Cars are essential. No one is
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The ACPS Non-Discrimination Policy Discussion Continues To answer Mr. Tim Wright’s question in his January Letter to the Editor, the other vote against the Albemarle County Public School’s policy change came from Mr. Jason Buyaki, representing the Rivanna District. I referred to Ms. Mouly because she represents the district my family has lived in for over 25 years. I tried to converse with Ms. Mouly before the letter was printed. Unfortunately, due to personal responsibilities, she was unable to reply to me until after the Gazette’s December issue was published. During our ensuing communications, she emphasized that she does indeed care for all students. What she doesn’t care for is specific language for any class or group. She feels we should
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going to lug his groceries home on foot if he can avoid it. So downtown needs parking, but nonetheless we should consider the pedestrian, a person, a higher priority in planning than his car. Otherwise we foreclose the option of being able to walk to places. This is also why Crozet is so determined about its trail plan; it creates a secondary sidewalk system based on natural terrain. This brings us to two plans now before the public for approval. One called Adelaide is on Rt. 250 next to Cory Farm, an established neighborhood, and the second is the expansion of Re-store’N Station on Rt. 250. In conformity with pyramidal density, Adelaide should not be rezoned from R1 and should proceed as a by-right development. The 20-acre parcel, once unbuildable parts are avoided, and assuming that density “bonuses” are granted for leaving some green space open and adding “affordable” housing, would likely yield about 28
houses. That would make it similar to and compatible with its neighbor, Cory Farm, and reduce the chance that a traffic light will ultimately be needed there. Adelaide demonstrates that the easy-to-develop parcels in Crozet are now history and, increasingly, only problematic ones still have potential. Those have not been developed yet precisely because they are problematic and they should not be developed unless those problems, which often involve safe access, are satisfactorily solved. Given the contentious history of Re-store’N Station’s existence, a four-year fight over water use that finally ended with a court ruling denying the developer’s interpretation of what he had been granted permission to do with building square footage, it is astonishingly cheeky of him to advance a substantially larger project. This application to change the existing special use permit should be rejected out of hand. It is exactly the sort of commercial growth the master plan aims to prevent in this location. Seven conditions were imposed
as part of the SUP approval, one limiting the parcel’s building size to 3,000 square feet, and they should be steadfastly enforced. Re-store’N Station would not exist today had the owner not agreed to accept the conditions. Now he must live with them and Crozet should be left at peace with the deal it made, reluctantly, in 2010.
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Anna,” said Haddix, apparently used to being passed over as an authority. “She’s an expert on mysteries and she reads a lot of them.” Thomas said her retirement plan is to “read, cook and eat.” When Saz interviewed for the Crozet post with JeffersonMadison Regional Library Director John Halliday, he told her, “You’ll be building a new library soon.” She hadn’t foreseen that. She was a children’s librarian and a single mom at the time, living in Charlottesville, as she still does, and not familiar with Crozet. “When the job at Crozet came open, I was encouraged by my branch manager to apply and I wondered if she was trying to get rid of me. I drove out and looked at the depot from the outside and then I went in and I was swept off my feet. Who would not be? So I applied. I got the job. I don’t know why. But I’m so thankful. I still have the wildflowers that I picked on the way to start my first day of work here.” She took over from Mary Plum, who oversaw the library for 20 years. “I immediately fell in love with the community,” she said, recalling many favors that she received in the spirit of small town life, where the law of “goes around, comes around” means that the best policy is generosity to your neighbors. “People want to know each other here,” said Saz. “It’s not about just passing by people on the street, but having the spirit of community.” Saz said one of
FEBRUARY 2016 her favorite writers is Alexander McCall Smith, who she praised as “poetical” and for his lesson to be content with small places and local things. “The warmth of the community comes across the desk. It feeds the dedication of the librarians to serve the community. It’s a reciprocal thing. “The staff here—you just could not find a more talented and dedicated group,” she said, trying for the umpteenth time to distract attention from the matter of her resignation. “I’m happy we have this team here. It’s really a family.” Continuing the tradition in the face of the looming departures are stalwarts Rhonda Johnson (herself a 15-year veteran), Pam Grammar, Margaret Lake and Peg Watson, as well as part-timers Jessie Coles and Ann Marx. Still, nearly half of a winning team will be gone. Saz sees the campaign to construct the new building as the biggest accomplishment of her time at the helm. “The effort to make this building, the way the community pulled together, and then the challenge of the fundraising,” she said in a tone of amazement. “The community is what inspires everyone who works here. It’s not like I did it. The community inspired me. Leslie Lepage (the mother of a family of prodigious readers) inspired me!” Demurring over another of her innovations, the Soiree Series that invites intriguing Crozet residents to come to the library to meet the community, she said, “We have that because we have so many people who do interesting things and people here are curious.” All true, but
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not an explanation for why the popular Soirees came to be. “We started more programming [in the depot], but it’s a small staff. We started more stuff for teens. Here, until a teen can drive, there’s not a lot to do, at least then there wasn’t. “My high water mark is keeping the staff here and of course opening the new building. I learned so much about myself and about life. The good thing about the depot—when we were designing—was that I could describe what the com-
munity wanted. They wanted the warmth and intimate feel of the depot. “I was allowed to make a lot of decisions in planning the building. I wanted it right and I felt a lot of responsibility. I’m really proud of that—when we opened the building [the first day] and everybody came in.” In her eyes she drifted back to that memory and the sense of achievement that infused her when the new building came to life. continued on page 7
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prominent in the station’s first approval foray, represented Sprouse, who did not attend the meeting. A new two-story, L-shaped addition to the existing building, extending it to the west and in the rear, would add 2,800 square feet of leasable commercial space. A drive-through lane would separate that addition from a new two-story, 6,500 sq/ ft building behind it containing the auto repair shop, with more offices above. Higgins said the drive-through would likely serve a donut franchise. The space for the new buildings would be found by filling in the station’s storm water detention pond and replacing it with underground tanks under the parking lot. The property is in front of Freetown, an historically black neighborhood that was settled immediately after the Civil War in the 1860s. Freetown residents opposed the original SUP out of fear for what would happen to their wells. Several came to the CCAC meeting to express their renewed opposition. The county’s rules for the station’s water use limited daily consumption to 1,625 gallons, a figure based on the parcel’s size and the county’s 400 gallons per day per acre limit on wells in rural zoned areas.
Jo Higgins presenting the Re-Store’N Station expansion plan at the January CCAC meeting.
Among the county’s SUP conditions was the installation of a meter on the wellhead and a flow valve that would cut off daily use once it reached 1,625 gallons. Higgins said the data on water use is self-reported by Sprouse, who records it weekly on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. She said that so far the figures show that the station uses only 25 percent of its daily allotment, and their expansion proposal is meant to be able to maximize their available water right. Higgins explained that one occasion where the data showed the station had used a great-
er-than-normal amount was an occasion where an employee had mistakenly hosed off the store’s sidewalks. Freetown resident Sandra Mears, a lifelong resident of the neighborhood, seized the floor as Higgins finished her overview and hotly challenged the plan. She said Freetown is “bombarded with light from the station” and that since the station opened it has been “nearly impossible for us to get out [onto 250], especially to go left.” Other residents supported her claim, agreeing that they cannot not safely turn into their
driveway, a reflection of growing traffic on Rt. 250. “There are trucks there all night,” Mears also asserted, adding that the station is open longer hours than allowed. The SUP conditions limit the station to 16 hours of operation a day and forbid overnight parking. No chain exists to close off access to the station overnight. Freetown residents Jason Crutchfield and his wife Erica Haskins (the parents of Western Albemarle football star Osiris Crutchfield) were present and said that a spring that used to
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“And it works. People like to spend time here.” Saz said the challenge of realizing the new building taxed her abilities and she felt humbled by the public profile that came with her role. She worried over things. She strived to always be authentic to others. “But I was passionate!” she averred. And, of course, the reward was success. Saz, who sidesteps stating her age, is still a few years away from drawing a Social Security check. She said she hasn’t really got a retirement goal and since most retirees find it takes time to dissociate their work identities from the rest of their life, what her future holds still keeps some suspense. “I don’t have a budget for travel. I don’t have much of a bucket list. I’ve been so fortunate in life. I tell them they better check the building every night when they lock up because I’m liable to still be here.” Formerly a cello player, she said she wants to take it up again, and she has a typically humble interest in the Crozet Community Orchestra. “I feel we’ve settled in to the
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FEBRUARY 2016 library’s new home, and I want to leave when things are really great. They are now. I’m grateful that I started at the depot and the master plan was going in those days. I understood what the community wanted for its future. I had one foot in the days before the master plan and one foot after it, so I could carry that spirit of old Crozet into what Crozet is becoming.” Saz’s official last day is the end of February, but she’ll use up some accumulated leave before that and her actual last workday will be February 11. She’ll help train her replacement, she said. “They’ll find someone who fits Crozet beautifully and that will be a lucky person!” she said emphatically. Her predictions for the library include planning for more space (lower level is designed to be expansion area that will be accessed by a new staircase) and the creation of a “maker space” that will allow the public to do audio and video recording and editing. For now the idea is put the necessary equipment on a cart that can be rolled into one of the smaller meeting rooms. “Crozet is very special and I’ve been so lucky,” she summed up. So were we.
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Re-store’N station has opened. Freetown had 13 houses in it until the 1950s, Brown said, but is now reduced to eight. There are now three black families and three white families living there with a total of 10 children, he said. Mears contended that “[Sprouse] has the principle that it’s easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission. He does what he shouldn’t do.” More said the county is looking into complaints about the continued on page 11
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The possibility was raised of requiring the station to install a wireless water meter that would send data directly to County officials, rather than having it recorded by Sprouse. Mallek said, “Anything is possible.” Richard Brown, a lifelong resident of Freetown and a party to the lawsuit over the station in 2012, said two natural springs, one next to a towering old poplar tree, that provided water for the Freetown houses when they were built following the Civil War have dried up since
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run in Freetown “has virtually dried up and turned oily.” They said they intend to start testing of the water coming off the station property. “It doesn’t look like there is much thought going into how to be a good community partner,” CCAC member Beth Bassett observed. “You have to think of your neighbors,” she told Higgins. CCAC member John Savage, who has served on the council since the first SUP controversy, detailed the SUP’s conditions to remind other members. “You guys are not trying to be good neighbors,” Mears said next. “What’s up with trying to aggravate Freetown. What’s up with you?!” She brought up Warren James’s auto repair business next door to the station, challenging the need for another repair shop in the same location and implying that another goal of the new proposal is to drive James out of business. “Are you just shoving this down our throats? Why are we here?” demanded Mears.
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CCAC member Phil Best said to Higgins, “You did agree to the 16-hour limit in order to get into business. It’s not unfair because you did agree to it. You should follow it.” He also raised the 3,000-square-foot building limit imposed in the conditions. Higgins asserted that the conditions relate only to water usage. “Your business is not using water because people in Crozet don’t want to go there,” said White Hall District Planning Commissioner Jennie More. “If the store had better trade the water use would be higher.” CCAC member Leslie Burns observed, “Our goal is to watch over the master plan and that plan is to not let commercial business expand along 250 but to orient it into downtown and this makes us one more commercial highway. Now that you are in there, you say you are going to do this. It’s a smack in the face.” A few days after the meeting, White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek joined More on a fact-finding visit to Freetown, where the residents showed them around.
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By Phil James
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The Woman’s Club Crozet Gazette newspaper editor Michael Marshall once noted, “To listen to the voices [of those who came before us] is to become humbled by our ancestors, for what they endured, what they achieved and what they bequeathed to us. That is a good point to make, given how ready we are to think the world was not here before we were.” Civic-minded community members come and go. A community’s civic consciousness might ebb and flow as well. The village of Crozet long has been blessed with individuals and groups who took to heart the needs of their town and rallied others to help meet those needs for the betterment of all. One such group that set a high standard for all community servants who would follow was the pioneer Crozet Woman’s Civic Club. Organized officially in April 1920, their objective, as recorded in the group’s constitution, was “the promotion of ideal conditions in the community—to make Crozet the most sanitary and most beautiful village on the highway.” After five years, the organization’s name was modified to “The Woman’s Civic Club of Crozet.” In 1928, after years of holding meetings in the Bank Hall, at the schoolhouse and in
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Miss Crozet Pageant, 1950, at Crozet Theatre. Organized by the Woman’s Club of Crozet, the event’s chosen one, Nancy Hughes [Fox], continued on to be crowned Miss Albemarle, as well as the first Queen of the Apple Harvest, forerunner of today’s Dogwood Festival. L-R: Dorothy Dale, Nancy Brown, Betty Jones, Lucy Hicks, Roxie Cook, Joan Hippert, Irene Hicks, Ann Black, Connie Daughtrey, Nancy Hughes, Mary Black, Myrle Shiflett. [Photo by W. Hubert Gentry; courtesy of Woman’s Club of Crozet]
various homes, they moved into their own new 24’x40’ clubhouse on the corner of Carter Street and Jarmans Gap Road. There they adopted the motto: “Labor conquers all things.” Some years later, the group’s name was modified a final time, giving rise to its long-revered nickname, “The Woman’s Club.” For nearly a century around these parts, everyone knows the name refers to the community-minded Crozet women. Operating on a shoestring
This American Red Cross blood drive was held at the Crozet clubhouse in February 1954. [Photo courtesy of Woman’s Club of Crozet]
budget, those dedicated women of early 20th century Crozet, “by every means at their command,” put their newly adopted motto to the test. To pay down their property and building loan, they engaged the community with “food sales, rummage sales, teas, dinners, plays, minstrels, pageants, dances, card parties, bingo parties, and, on one occasion, a golf tournament.”
To review the entire legacy of this stalwart group of ladies would be a herculean task, but a glance back through only its first dozen or so years of activities will leave one with no doubt that these women meant business! Helping to tackle the club’s initial task of cleaning up litter on the village streets and vacant continued on page 10
Smiling members of the Woman’s Club of Crozet, prior to a tea at the group’s club house. L-R: “Mrs. MacLeod, Mrs. C. Barnes, Mrs. O’Neill, Mrs. J. Barnes, Mrs. Luman.” [Photo by Carl F. Barnes Jr.; courtesy of Woman’s Club of Crozet]
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lots, 1920s schoolchildren competed for prizes by writing an essay on “How Our Town Could Be Improved.” High school students wrote on the subject of “Citizenship.” Boy Scouts made flytraps and competed to kill the most flies during the season. The scouts helped address the waste paper nuisance. The women purchased and placed trash receptacles around town and posted “attractively painted placards in stores and public places,” appealing for the community’s best efforts in keeping the village’s thoroughfares in good order. They induced the town’s merchants to clean up their premises. They planted flowers and trees at strategic places, and
donated funds to the school league for shrubbery for the school grounds. They purchased a flag for the school, donated funds to start the school library, entertained the teachers so that they and “the school’s patrons” could become better acquainted and work together more smoothly, and each Friday organized amusements for boys at the schoolhouse. In spite of a timeworn adage implying there was no use to fight with the likes of city hall, “they dissuaded the C&O Railway from putting up an ugly coal house in the town Square across from the old depot, thus preventing a permanent eyesore in the heart of the village. Repeated appeals to the railroad resulted in 1923 in a new depot with landscaped grounds.” (Being on a roll, they also petitioned the C&O to heat its freight office for the
This well-baby clinic was sponsored by the Woman’s Club and administered by Crozet physician Dr. E.D. Davis Jr. [Photo courtesy of Woman’s Club of Crozet]
Hazardous discarded metal and broken-down equipment behind Warrick Machinery in 1940s downtown Crozet were documented and addressed by the local Woman’s Club. [Photo by W. Hubert Gentry; courtesy of Woman’s Club of Crozet]
The Cotillion Club for local high school students had their social events at the Woman’s Club. Because the clubhouse also served as the village library, book-filled shelves surrounded the dancers. [Photo courtesy of Woman’s Club of Crozet]
benefit of its clerks. Apparently, no one had forewarned the ladies that the railroad barons were not to be challenged or trifled with.) When prudent, they collaborated with the Men’s Civic Association and other civic groups in the county. After a fire engine was purchased for the village, they solicited funds to help pay for it. They publicized the mission of the Virginia Tuberculosis Society, and hosted well-baby clinics at their clubhouse in conjunction with the County Child Welfare Committee. At one point, they assumed committee oversight of the Albemarle County Children’s Home and provided many services and benefits to that work. They inaugurated an annual village “Clean-up Day,” were active in Red Cross work, and organized a Law and Order Enforcement League. They had condemned bad cesspools and mosquito-breeding places, and appealed to the officers of the Crozet Cemetery to keep the grounds in “nice condition.” Even a casual perusing of the Club’s annual scrapbooks show these tasks to be barely the tip of a great iceberg of organization, desire, and energy—attributes that were in no short supply among the membership of the Woman’s Club of Crozet. Add to their list of accomplishments: the Christmas bags which were assembled and sent to servicemen overseas; magazines and newspapers taken to
the hospitals; hot soup and cocoa served at the school twice weekly during the coldest winter months; donations to the National Community Fund, the Children’s Home and the Old Ladies’ Home; donations of playground equipment; sponsorship of 4-H Club programs; the erection of a community bulletin board; inducements for the placement of highway safety signage along the local highways and in the village limits—well, one gets the general idea. The member who recapped the group’s early history in the introduction to their first club scrapbook in 1948 stated modestly that the club “has been a benign leaven in a growing complex community.” Her closing words still ring true today: “Crozet Woman’s Club... is still alive and eager to serve. Its worth in service to the community over the years cannot be measured. That service is a fitting monument to all of the incomparably fine women who have gone before.” God bless them, every one! Follow Secrets of the Blue Ridge on Facebook! Phil James invites contact from those who would share recollections and old photographs of life along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Albemarle County. You may respond to him through his website: www.SecretsoftheBlueRidge.com or at P.O. Box 88, White Hall, VA 22987. Secrets of the Blue Ridge © 2003– 2016 Phil James
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David Deal is in his second career now, law, and seems to have settled on a permanent place to live, too. A few months ago his family moved to Crozet and Deal found an office above The Mudhouse with a fantastic view of Bucks Elbow Mountain where he conducts his practice in criminal law, with an additional specialty in copyright law. “We talked about moving to Crozet for years,” he said. “Finally one weekend we went driving around here. We pulled into Wickham Pond and that made the decision.” The family had been living in Orange, which Deal had become acquainted with while interning in the county Commonwealth Attorney’s office during law school. Raised in Northern Virginia, Deal was an architecture major at U.Va. but after graduation found that the portfolio in photography he had developed as a sideline was more interesting to him than the one he had created of building designs. So his first career was as a freelance photographer. He started in the age of film, which placed a premium on knowing what you are doing, and saw it replaced by digital technology, in which the cost of discarding images is nil and images are as plentiful as raindrops. Expertise with light and being able to compose an image are still distinguishing talents, but they became less marketable. “I did well,” said Deal. “But in one year the industry just evaporated. It coincided with the introduction of cell phone cameras. There was one month between the good times and the bad times. It was that short. I thought, ‘This is not good.’ “My dad and uncle are both attorneys. I had though about it before. I took a couple of classes.” Eventually he went to Villanova Law School, commuting back home to Orange after four weekdays in Pennsylvania. “At law school I really learned how to read, how to be efficient and how to get the information. Law school is a lot about logic. “What I like about my profession—this is my experience,
the highest percentage of my cases are criminal cases—is not winning, but listening and understanding the client’s position. They want someone to advocate for them even if they lose. And most lose. Most of my clients are people who don’t get a lot of attention. They want to feel they got represented.” He joined the bar in 2013 and started out in Orange, taking cases in several central Virginia counties. Deal had encountered copyright issues as a photographer and often had his work infringed, but for the most part he did not fight in instances where his photos had been used without permission or compensation to him. “I like both criminal and copyright. In a criminal case there has to be a trial,” said Deal. “But in copyright there is rarely a suit. For the most part the infringers will settle. Now, with digital, it’s so easy to infringe. Everybody’s doing it. The bad direction things are moving is that there’s no line about intellectual property.” His copyright practice mainly represents photographers. He works with companies that can run online searches to find stolen images. “I used to see my stuff all over the place and I never did anything about it until I saw my photograph on a billboard. I thought, ‘That’s it! Number one, I want to go to law school.’ “The photographers love it [that I was a photographer, too]. I wish I had done more about it when I was a photographer. I didn’t have someone I could employ to help me. “I’ve done very well with my jury trials. I’ve won 90 percent of my cases. It never gets old. Getting a deserved ‘not guilty’ back from a jury feels like winning the lottery. It’s the idea that you are solely responsible for someone’s fate and you won—it’s beyond just a good feeling. And it’s the opposite when you lose. That’s beyond miserable. I’ve never experienced anything similar and it’s wonderful. I prepare really well, and then performing well—it’s
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completely different from my former profession. I’m a solid introvert and it takes a lot to get over that, but it’s an empowering feeling.” Deal is very careful about selecting clients. “There’s a lot of lying,” he said. “Once you have a client as a defense lawyer, you can’t walk away. You have to have the permission of the court. You become guarded, skeptical in a good way, in believing what people tell you. “Even someone who is 100 percent guilty needs a good defense. Our system is a great system because even knowing that someone is 100 percent guilty, the state has the burden of proof. Everyone is entitled to be adequately represented or the system is not fair. We have so many safeguards for the benefit of the defendant. The system does not allow people to get railroaded. The grand jury system is a layer of protection that ensures that the state does not abuse its power.” Some of his clients are court-appointed and some are what he calls retained work. “Around here you’re expected to do some court-appointed work. Virginia is number 50 for compensation for court-appointed lawyers. But you get lots of experience. This is the way Virginia is educating its attor-
neys. I like it, too. I like my court-apointed clients. They are more appreciative and realistic. A lot of clients just want to be heard and I don’t think a lot of them even believe what they are saying. I’ve never witnessed anybody being disrespectful of the courtroom. “There’s growing appreciation for copyright, more than a few years ago. My sense is larger companies are more careful and we’re not seeing it so much. Copyright is a nice counter-balance to defense work. In copyright you’re most often in the right and you can get a fair solution.” He’s taking on new clients, but his workload has grown so that after supper at home he comes back to office to work late. “I love my office,” he said. “It’s quiet and it has a great view.” He’s never had an assistant, but he’s thinking he might need one. “I need help to keep up,” he said. “So far Crozet is the best of a lot of worlds,” said Deal, who is an inveterate distance runner in his free time and enjoys running the local back roads. “Crozet seems like it has a very good balance about how it develops and geographically we’re close to everything. It’s a great combination and a great mix of people.”
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Western Albemarle Fourth Quarter Real Estate Report
Crozet Real Estate Has Banner Year in 2015 by david ferrall | ferrall@crozetgazette.com
Real estate in 2015 could have gone either way, as 2014 was sort of a “cooling off” year in Crozet. 2013 was a banner year, with the highest number of sales since before the start of the Great Recession. 2014 just couldn’t match that. So 2015 started with low interest rates, plenty of inventory, and homebuilders ready to build. And build they did. The number of new construction properties sold in Crozet in 2015 exploded by 56 percent to 105, while total sales for the year rose 12 percent to 285. And homes sold an astonishingly 46 percent faster in 2015 than in 2014. It’s hard to predict if this pace will continue into and through 2016, but the underpinnings of strength mostly remain. Real estate in Albemarle County also fared well in 2015. According to the Nest Realty Annual Report, sales rose 8.5 percent in the county in 2015, though the average price fell almost 8 percent (see chart provided courtesy of Nest Realty). About 18 percent of all county sales occurred in Crozet. For the fourth quarter of 2015, total sales were mostly unchanged in Crozet, rising a couple of sales to 67 from 65 in 2014. There was one sale over $1m in the quarter (5820 Plank Road sold for $1.1m), which will be excluded for statistical purposes. Of the total quarterly sales, 51 were for detached properties and 16 for townhome proper-
ties. Of the detached homes, 25 were for new construction, 11 being in Old Trail, five in Wickham Pond, four in Foothills, the balance being in Westhall, Haden Place and Grayrock. Average price rose almost 11 percent to $472,000, while the median price of $494,000 exceeded the average price, an inversion we don’t normally see in quarterly figures. Average price per square foot across all detached sales was $164. Breaking this down, new construction averaged $185sqft, while resale price was 22 percent less at $144sqft. The average price of new construction vs. resale was $544,000 vs. $401,000. Some new upcoming communities will hopefully bring sub $400K new construction options to buyers of detached homes in 2016, a segment that purchasers are asking for. There remain only two such properties available now in Crozet, both in Wickham Pond. There were 16 attached sales in the quarter, mostly unchanged from the 15 seen in the same quarter last year. Of these, five were new, a couple of sales each in Haden Place and Old Trail, and a resale in Wickham Pond. Average prices for these were down 10 percent to $268,000, with the price per sqft mostly unchanged at $144. With townhome properties in Haden Place now sold out, new construction attached-properties in the coming months can be found only in Old Trail. Look there for new rooftop
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that driver the benefit of the doubt. Can you imagine heading to work, driving on a narrow road on a foggy morning, when completely out of the blue appears a runner right in the road? You try to react, but there was no time, and you’ve ended someone’s life. This is also extremely tragic and our prayers should continue to be with the driver of that car. So what can we learn from this terrible tragedy? Will we learn from this? May I suggest some important, common sense things to consider when we are exercising (running or cycling) on the road: Be Defensive! I like to tell people to imagine that every driver is drunk and texting. Yes, we all know that drivers should yield to pedestrians on the road. Yes, we all know about the new Virginia law that requires vehicles to give cyclists at least three feet as they pass by on the road. Yes, we all know that people shouldn’t be texting, distracted, tired, etc. when they are driving. But are you willing to bet your life on these things? I recall a time in my driver’s education class in high school when the teacher was explaining to us never to trust another driver’s turn signal. In the example she gave, imagine you are stopped at a T-intersection with a stop sign, waiting to turn left. Now imagine there is a car driving towards you from the left, with their right turn signal on, as if they’re going to make a right-hand turn onto the street you’re on. Do you trust that they are actually going to turn right? Would you bet your life on it? Because if they didn’t, and you went ahead into the intersection, there would be a very bad accident. So run defensively and cycle defensively! Assume that nobody is paying any attention to you and act accordingly.
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When I am out running on some of our beautiful country roads and I hear or see a car approaching, I immediately consider how I can make myself safer. Can I get further off the road? Do I start waving my hand to make sure they see me? I never assume I am safe until that car has passed. Be Seen! If it is dark outside, and you are running or cycling on the road without any lights or reflective gear on, you are literally gambling with your life. I think it’s human nature to assume that because we can see a car’s headlights approaching so well, that naturally they can see us equally as well. WRONG! Reflective gear and lighting immediately makes you visual to cars from a far distance away, greatly reducing the chance for a collision. I always run with a headlamp in the dark, not only so I can see the terrain better, but also because I believe headlamps and flashlights can be seen even before reflective clothing. Another relevant “be seen” point: consider where you are located when you are running or cycling on our hilly, curvy country roads. There are many blind hills and blind curves where cars may suddenly appear and have little time to react when they see you. Half Mile Branch is a classic example of a bad road to run on. If you do run on these roads, make sure you are paying close attention as you approach those blind hills and consider waiting until you don’t hear any traffic approaching. Don’t assume that the drivers coming towards you are
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Warriors Basketball Romps in Orange County, Fluvanna Wins by Jerry Reid jerry@crozetgazette.com
Girls Track Wins Jefferson Title, Willcutts Breaks Meet Record by Jerry Reid jerry@crozetgazette.com Heading to the championship season, the Warriors boys and girls indoor track and field teams are coming from different places. The girls team won the Jefferson District Championship, and while the boys side didn’t, they were busy putting their best feet out front of the pack in distance running. Part of the small group (five girls and one boy) of WAHS athletes at the Virginia Tech Premier Invitational Meet was Warriors star Gannon Willcutts. He is a remarkable athlete and continued on page 27
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Romping to a win by 54 points at Orange County, the Warriors basketball team came roaring off the snow break to also crush Fluvanna County High School by 31 points. With two regular season games left, Darren Maynard’s team seems to be in a mindset that could lead to a Jefferson District title. In his twentieth season with eight titles already, this is not unfamiliar turf for him. At Powhatan last Tuesday night, and closing the books with a payback possibility against Albemarle this Friday, the Warriors are energized. An earlier loss to Albemarle in their house could be just the ticket to get the team and Crozet Crazies cranked up for a title celebration. For the Fluvanna game, call it havoc or call it chaos, the Warriors were all over the floor. They hounded the Flucos players, snagging the majority of
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loose balls. Spectators were nearly made dizzy watching the ball move back and forth on the court. In the end, the energy, plus the height and wingspan of Western’s players, completely stifled any serious threat by Fluvanna in the paint. The Warriors offense hammered together a 22-1 run late in the first quarter that effectively sealed the win. Chris McGahren and Ryan Ingram were stout defensively with Ingram bouncing across and sliding on the floor. Both also contributed on offense, with McGahren tallying 10 points. Carrington Murphy, who looks and plays taller and wider than his 6’-5” frame, knocked down 11 points. Included in that total was at least one graceful station-to-station layup. His seven rebounds (75 on the year) led both teams. The interior of the Warriors defense altered Fluvanna’s shots, contesting most attempts to
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Competitive Spirit Sparks Girls Basketball Team by David Wagner david@crozetgazette.com When the varsity girls basketball season started no one really knew what to expect from Western Albemarle. Head Coach Kris Wright’s team was young and inexperienced. Led by a senior backcourt consisting of guards Natalie Marbury and Julia Haws, the Warriors knew that intensity and effort would be there. A strong junior class of Ava Coles, Anna Fantozzi, DejaNewton Grant and Eleri Hayden reinforced the senior leadership to give the Warriors a good nucleus of experienced players. The unknown was the level of play the underclassmen would bring. Half of the roster are underclassmen (five sophomores and one freshman). The strong sophomore class of Mary Burch, Ann Meenan, Shannon Moore, Anna O’Shea and Mady Starsia made an immediate impact, along with freshman Elisabeth Coffman. The Warriors were competitive from the start, beating LibertyBedford and Covenant and winning two of their first five
Jefferson District contests. The Warriors have won at least one game against every Jefferson District opponent except Albemarle and Charlottesville and have only two lop-sided defeats all season (CHS 61-38 and Orange County 61-36). CHS has beaten the Warriors three times this season, but the other two losses were a 59-50 defeat at Charlottesville and a 44-37 disappointment in a mid-season tournament. The Warriors avenged that 25-point drubbing at Orange County High School with a 51-44 win at Western Albemarle in their second regular season match-up. As it stands, the Warriors are 9-10 overall and 4-2 in non-district games (those two losses to a highly competitive Jefferson Forest squad out of Lynchburg. Five of their ten losses have been by seven points or less, and the Warriors are giving up only about a point and a half more per contest than they are scoring (42.15/43.57). Take away the two big losses at CHS and OCHS and the Warriors are actually outscoring their
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WAHS Wrestlers Take District by Jerry Reid jerry@crozetgazette.com Western Albemarle High School’s Adam Mulcahy believes there’s definitely an “I” in the word team, and his coaching successes with the wrestling team back him up. To him, and hopefully his wrestlers, the “I” is individual performance that supports the laudable team-oriented victory. These young men go after every smidgen of a point in their matches like junkyard dogs, chasing what the team must have to win tournaments and titles. Proving his point for all to see, the team closed out regular season competition last Thursday and Saturday, winning both days but doing it in a big way at the weekend’s Riverheads Big Red Invitational Tournament. They finished first in a field of 10, adding this big win to the second-ever Jefferson District Tournament Championship, and an all-time high finish of second place at the Wildcat Invitational at Warren County High School. Mulcahy ecstatically related that “We had 12 wrestlers make the medal matches, and [this was] another team win with all 13 wrestlers scoring points and winning at least one match.” He emphasized the word “team,” and why not? His athletes are buying into his philosophy with glee. This same match saw another Warrior make the century mark in career wins. Junior Nate Riley did it with a pin, joining senior co-captain Russ Hill (104 wins). Hill, Riley and Asa Shin
also won championships. Junior Anthony Ramazani, the other co-captain, and Hill spoke highly of the work ethic and mindset that has seen their team soar to a 19-5 record. This unit produced the third straight winning record for Mulcahy. Western placed in the top four in 12 of 14 weight divisions at the district tournament and that proved to be the difference. “We won districts and that was huge for us; something we hadn’t done in a long time (since 1998). Coach was really proud of us, and Coach Anderson was on the last team to do this. He gave us a hard time about it; then we won, so we can now give him a hard time,” Ramazani said. “Everybody has an equal role, winning districts was pretty much a team effort. We won by a half-point, I believe,” It probably seemed that close, but in reality WAHS won 183.5 to Louisa County’s 180. Ramazani added, “Every single person matters— every single win, every single point. My role is the same as everyone else. I’m a captain and I lead them to believe that.” Hill added to the lore of teamwork with this group, and he was no doubt inspirational for many. When asked about his reasons for wrestling, he whimsically recalled, “I had a bigger sister and she was beating me up all the time.” Sibling self-defense is something many will recall with a smile. Giving a more solid reason for joining this contact sport, he said, “I love the fact that I can just bounce off the walls, off the
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mats, go hard without getting hurt, so that kept me in it.” His feeling for the team and bonds formed go deep. “It feels really great because everyone thinks it’s more of an individual thing, and it is because you’re out there all by yourself, but you’re all trying to contribute to the greater good. Even the younger kids look for the points if they’re down. They all want to be part of a team.” The Warrior’s efforts at the district meet saw Ramazani, Will Davis and Austin Beighley nail down seconds, with critical contributions from Cy Ward, Keegan Riley and Jake Jackson piling the points on. There are 12 wrestlers with 50 or more points as the regular season ended, and eight with 100 or more. Heavyweight sophomore Jake Jackson is one of those, as is junior Jabari Gomez. A Riverheads High and Bridgewater College graduate, Mulcahy and his family live near Staunton. He didn’t start out to be a teacher, but he has certainly become one. He took over the Environmental Sciences
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An Entire Winter in One Weekend Crozet averages 18 inches of snow per winter. After the warmest December in history, it seemed as if winter had been cancelled. But, on Friday, January 22, an entire winter’s worth of snow and cold came in just one weekend. My official measurement was 20.5”, which made it the fifth biggest snowstorm ever here. The king of them all was the 24 inches in January of 1922 (see insert). Measuring snowfall is difficult and inexact, so ranking storms historically is not that meaningful. But no matter how you slice it, this month’s storm was historic. So how do you measure snowfall? It seems easy. You just stick a ruler (or in this case, a yardstick) in the ground. But
the January storm had a lot of wind so amounts were uneven. When that happens, you need to measure over a grid and take an average. Also, wind compacts the snow, leading to errors. The weight of the snow packs down the snow beneath, so a foot of snow on top of another foot of snow might end up being only 23”. When the ground or air is warm, snow accumulates differently, depending on the surface. Also, some snow might get packed down by sleet and then have snow start accumulating again. In other words, there is no easy way to measure it perfectly. One of the easiest storms I ever measured was on December 19, 2009. Twentytwo inches of snow fell in just
20 hours with hardly a breath of wind. Everywhere I measured, it was exactly 22” deep. One of the most fascinating aspects of this month’s storm was how well it was forecast. On Sunday, a full five days before the snow started, Heidi looked up from her computer and said, “Have you seen this? Every weather model on the planet has us getting nailed on Friday.” She was giddy. There are at least a handful of well-known and different mathematical global forecast models. Their five-day forecasts are often wildly different. But this time, they were all the same. That causes a meteorologist to stand up and take notice because it’s a very good sign that the solution is correct. At about 11 p.m. Sunday night, Heidi woke me up. “They all still have it,” she said. Most models run twice a day. The new data was in. The solution was the same. And it never wavered right up to the first flakes Friday morning. The entire event was a proud moment for modern weather forecasting.
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January Recap The month averaged 36.4 degrees, which is 2.2 degrees below normal. That came in sharp contrast to the warmest December ever, which was a full 12 degrees above normal. The coldest was 11 degrees on January 6. Ice formed on our pond that morning, which was quite a shock after the warm holidays. The month went out like a lamb with 60 degrees on the 31st, creating a massive melting mess.
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Nuclear Energy More Wildlife-friendly than Most “Green” Alternatives Thanks to the burning of fossil fuels, global climate change is now a term everyone knows. But do we talk about limiting population growth and the particular aspects of consumerism that have brought about this dangerous alteration of our atmosphere? After all, as long as the human population keeps increasing, there will be a corresponding increase in demand for energy just for basic needs, such as heating homes and cooking—never mind the energy gluttony of our modern era of computers, cell phones, automatic doors that open and close constantly, etc. Yet as power companies attempt to provide the energy that our modern lifestyles are commanding, they are lambasted for their efforts. In Virginia, a lot of contentiousness exists about bringing fuel through the state via three huge natural-gas pipelines as well as the movement of electricity through gargantuan transmission towers. That’s not surprising. What person who appreciates the natural beauty of a rural area wants such unnatural-looking features running through it? However, every American whose house is larger than absolutely necessary, or whose computer runs 24/7 for no good reason, bears some responsibility for these situations. Many people insist that we don’t need coal or fracked hydrocarbons (environmentally destructive sources of energy) to supply our energy demands. They suggest we just need to develop “green” energy, such as can be obtained from sunshine, wind, and water. But these so-called green energy sources are not synonymous with “harmless to the environment” as many people seem to think. Although “green” power sources may emit fewer or no carbon emissions as compared to coal, their use—when employed on a large scale—results in a variety of wildlife losses, both directly by infrastructure and indirectly by habitat alteration or destruction. Dams built across rivers to create hydropower stop migratory (and edible) fish from being able to continue as far as they need to go in order to abundantly reproduce. And the concept of gathering energy from wave action presents such problems as alteration of habitat for benthic organisms (creatures that live at the lowest surface of a body of
water, including on the sediment surface and in some sub-surface layers) and animal entanglement due to underwater moving parts. Huge wind turbines kill migratory birds and bats that hit the spinning blades. Placing the bases of these structures within the ocean creates noise that can negatively impact sea life, especially cetaceans (whales and dolphins) that must communicate with one another over long distances. The deployment of acres and acres of solar-panel arrays destroy habitat for the variety of wildlife they displace, and in some instances, the solar array itself has caused the deaths of particular species of birds, many of which are already recognized as endangered. That said, solar panels on top of a roof (which are very common) and small wind turbines in a home landscape that no longer supports wildlife anyway are both great ways to obtain energy for the homeowner’s needs. However, large-scale solar- and wind-energy projects are too destructive of the environment. If people are going to continue to demand enormous amounts of energy instead of using energy more frugally—as I believe they should—the “greenest” alternative to coal is nuclear power. Yes, people tend to be terrified of this radioactive fuel source, and admittedly with good reason. Radioactivity can be exceedingly dangerous should we be exposed to too much of it by a radioactive release from one of these power plants. And, of course, there’s the problem of leftover radioactive waste that needs to be properly disposed of. But are nuclear power plants “prohibitively dangerous,” as I’ve seen written? There have never been deaths in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, or Europe due to nuclear power. Indeed, it has been in use now for over five decades and has a very good safety record. The sum total of accidents in over 16,000 cumulative reactor-years of commercial nuclear power operation in 33 countries is three: Three Mile Island (United States, 1979), Chernobyl (Ukraine, 1986), and Fukushima (Japan, 2011). Three Mile Island was contained without anyone being harmed, and there were no adverse environmental consequences. Chernobyl involved an intense fire in a reactor designed without provision for containment of radioactive material should an
accident occur. This design flaw is not allowed in Western countries. This incident killed 31 people and the ensuing environmental and health consequences have increased that total to at least 56. Fukushima was designed to withstand an earthquake, which it did just fine. The operating units shut down and backup diesel generators started automatically to keep the nuclear safety systems powered. The problem was the huge tsunami that knocked out the backup power systems, allowing the reactors to overheat and release some radioactivity. Lessons have been learned; in the United States, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission now requires that portable electric generators and water-pumping equipment be stored onsite in a building away from the units so it’s available if needed to keep them safe. Some folks worry that a nuclear power reactor might explode like a nuclear bomb. However, the fuel is not enriched anywhere near enough for that to happen. Can spent fuel rods be enriched and then employed in bomb-making? Yes, but that’s why operating staff are monitored carefully, especially if they handle fuel. And new methods of mining uranium and improved technologies for building reactors that run on less-enriched uranium fuel should help make nuclear power even safer. Although nuclear power stations emit about 17 tons of carbon dioxide per megawatt when producing power (compared to coal at a whopping 1000 tons), that’s not much more than wind and geothermal power, which emit the lowest amounts. In terms of electricity production, the main advantage of nuclear power is that it delivers energy almost constantly. This makes it well-suited for providing the always-on “baseload” power supply we depend upon for reliability. The main disadvantage in terms of electricity production is the problem of nuclear waste. According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, all of the used nuclear fuel produced over the past 50 years, if stacked end to end, would cover a single football field to a depth of about 21 feet. The plan is to eventually store nuclear waste in underground repositories, but for continued on page 27
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Fat Tuesday It would take far too much space in the Gazette to outline exactly how it was that a young, French chef came to live with us for a year. And what a year that was! We were also young and fairly ignorant of the joys of French cuisine, and knew nothing about wines, save for the cheap varietals that would be brought to our parties by other struggling friends (no Virginia wineries in that long ago past). Stephane taught us about good wine, good food and especially the intense joys of butter! Our year with Stephane is one of the happiest of memories and I will recount some of those times and a particularly wonderful recipe of his in a future column. This month I’m remembering one of the lovely gifts he brought: a small, porcelain baby meant to be baked into a King
Cake for Mardi Gras. I loved that little baby, but I lost it, and I’ve lamented it yearly, substituting a bean in the cake, in place of the precious little baby. But now that the new generation is learning of these wonderful customs, I decided I needed to search for a new cake treasure. Where else but the Internet? And there I found a vendor who would send me a dozen plastic (yuck) babies for $4.50 plus shipping! So now I’m in possession of twelve little ones. What will I do with all of them? Write me if you’d like one. There are many legends associated with baking a baby in a King Cake; some associate it with Epiphany (the twelfth day of Christmas), but in this country, heavily influenced by the French culture in New Orleans, it is made more often at Mardi
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Mardi Gras King Cake For the cake: ½ cup warm water 2 tsp yeast ¾ cup sugar plus 2 tsp for the yeast 4 cups flour
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Combine the warm water, yeast and 2 tsp of sugar. Let stand for five minutes. In a standing mixer, combine the flour, ¼ cup of the sugar and the salt. Add the warm milk, ½ cup of the melted butter and the yeast mixture. Beat at low speed till combined. Add the egg yolks and continue to beat until smooth. Add more flour if needed, to make a stiff dough. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured board and knead for ten minutes until smooth. Put the dough into a buttered bowl, cover with a tea towel and allow to rise for 30 minutes or until it has doubled in bulk. Punch the dough lightly and then return it to the floured board and roll into a rectangle shape, about 25 x 10 inches. Use the remaining ¼ cup of butter to brush the surface of the dough and then sprinkle with the remaining ½ cup of sugar and the cinnamon. Put the baby (or the bean if that’s all you’ve got) on the dough and, starting at the long end, roll as you would cinnamon rolls. Moisten the edges with water to help to seal the seam. Place seam side down on a buttered baking sheet and bring the ends around to form a ring. Seal all edges. Cover with the tea towel and allow to rise again for 30 minutes. Bake at 3500F for 25 minutes, until golden.
For the icing: 1½ cup confectioner’s sugar 2 ½ tsp milk ¼ tsp vanilla
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Combine the confectioner’s sugar, milk and vanilla and divide into three, small bowls. Color one bowl with the yellow, one with the red and one with the purple (you can use equal parts red and blue coloring to make purple). Decorate your King cake with the three icing mixes and then sprinkle with colored sugar. Yes—this is gaudy—we’re talkin’ New Orleans here. Have fun.
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Look sharp, be sharp. That’s what I was taught in medical school. It is generally true, I thought, as I put on my freshly laundered, medium-starched, pristine white lab coat. I snugged up my red power tie over my striped shirt and buttoned up my lab coat. I was ready for whatever the day threw at me. Whenever you feel that you are ready for whatever the day throws at you, be careful. My first patient of the day was a muddy mess. Found fifty feet from a crashed and flipped pickup truck, he had no recollection of how he arrived in our trauma bay. He kept insisting he was in a convenience store and had been dropped off there by his buddy. The helicopter crew that brought him in just shrugged. No other body or buddy had been found on the scene. It was a bit of mystery what had befallen him for there was not a mark on him. We presumed he had been ejected from the vehicle. He was covered in mud but had no cuts, abrasions or limb deformities. He was polite and well-mannered but perseverated anxiously over finding his buddy to drive him home. Whenever a trauma patient arrives by helicopter we assemble a large team to do the initial evaluation. Multiple nurses, techs, residents, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, X-ray techs, medical students and paramedic students were milling about the trauma bay waiting to see what direction this case was going to go. This is when we decide if the patient is “sick” or not (see last month’s column). Generally patients ejected from motor
vehicles have a high likelihood of severe injuries, so we were keeping an open mind and what we call a “high index of suspicion.” The team swarmed the patient, swiftly cutting off all his clothes with the ferociously effective trauma shears that ER nurses carry. These shears are capable of cutting through pennies, a common parlor trick in the ER during down times. Simultaneously, other team members were taking vital signs, inserting IVs, applying oxygen, ultra-sounding the abdomen for signs of bleeding, and performing primary and secondary surveys for any occult injuries. As the evaluation progressed the patient became more and more agitated. This is common in head injuries. “I’ve got to go!” he kept insisting as he struggled to get out of the bed. I was at the head of the bed and was able to calm him down multiple times by distracting him with banal and unexpected questions. “What kind of truck do you drive? What color is it?” The questions distracted him and forced him to focus his attention momentarily away from what was happening around him. Eventually, though, his head injury overcame his normal inhibitions and he exploded, shrieking and grabbing at me and trying to leap from the table. In the struggle my pristine white coat was splattered with red clay mud. Oh dang, that was not going to come out! I was a little nonplussed. So much for looking sharp. The team was experienced, though, and expected the move. Many hands grabbed the patient and quite gently restrained him onto the bed to protect him continued on page 27
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continues to be on a winning juggernaut, setting a 3200 meter meet record, and finishing in 4:13:79, just one second shy of the mark, in a 1600 last Friday and Saturday. He eclipsed injured teammate Trevor Stutzman’s 3200 mark of 9:05:58, set in 2013, posting a 9:05:49, currently the second-fastest in the nation. On the girls side, the pole vaulters continued their dominance by putting three vaulters in the top 12. Katrina Barredo finished sixth with an 11’-0” jump. Sarah Tolman jumped 10’-6’ to finish tenth and Madison Masloff cleared 10’-0” to finish 12th. Zoe Clay ran an incredibly smart race in the second of three heats to finish sixth after coming in as the sixteenth seed. Her time of 11:13.63 was a 12-second-better personal record and currently ranks her ninth in the state. Averi Witt ran a one-second PR in the 1000, finishing in 3:04.21, after having to hurdle a fallen athlete on the third lap. She placed twelveth in the 1000 and came back in the 1600 to place thirteenth. Coach Cherie Witt said that “the [Virginia Tech] meet was a great experience for these athletes since it had so many top athletes from all over the East Coast.” The Warriors girls hit the road for the Jefferson District Championship Meet after a snow delay, heading for Fork Union Military Academy January 28. When the day was over, WAHS had won the won the district meet with 120 points, topping Louisa 109.5, Fluvanna 80.5, Albemarle 39, Charlottesville 23, Monticello 21, Powhatan 9 and Orange 1. Averi Witt topped the fields in the 1600 and 1000, breaking the Jefferson District record in the 1000 set in 2009 by Katie Farina of WAHS. Caroline Outlaw won the 500, placed fourth in the 55 hurdles, and was a member of the winning 4x400 team. Katrine Berg won the triple-jump, was sixth in both the long jump and the
FEBRUARY 2016 300, and also competed in the high jump. Emma Ratcliffe was second in the 1600, just one second off a state qualifying time, and came back to place fourth in the 1000. Val Hajek was second in the 500, and was a member of the 4x400 along with Jane Romness, Savanah Wilson and Outlaw. Jasmine Monge was third in the shot put, fifth in the triple jump, and was a member of the second place 4x200 team with Nichole Heon, Madison Masloff, and Deborah Ayres-Brown. Leah Ackerman in her first season as a shot put thrower was the district champion. Kate de Jong placed second in the high jump and qualified for regionals in her second time competing in that event. Abby Zimmerman was third in triple jump. Jenna Hill and Alyssa Santoro-Adajian went third and fifth in the 3200. Julia Berg finished fourth in the 1600 and Ayres-Brown was fifth in the 300. Grace Rainey finished sixth in the 1000, running a 4-second PR to qualify for the Conference 29 Meet. Melina Punsalan and Abby Cole went fifth and sixth in the pole vault, with the team’s top vaulters sitting out in preparation for Virginia Tech. The 4x800 team of Christina Webb, Emily Winder, Alyssa Santoro-Adajian and Faith Reid finished first. WAHS Track and Field Coach Lindy Bain is hopeful that the boys are rounding into shape as post-season approaches. “The new team members such as Jackson Smith, Landon Smith, Eli Romaine, Harley Davis, and Corey Sims among others are getting stronger and faster,” he said. Some of his older team members that have been coming back from injury are starting to look good again, including Trevor Stutzman, and Davis Greene. “We still have some more work to be done, and we’ll see if we will be able to reap a big harvest from the work that has been sown as we compete in the conference championship. For us in track, it is mostly about what the team is able to accomplish in the championship season,” Bain said.
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from further injuring himself. We administered increasing doses of sedatives and the team patiently held their positions while waiting for the sedatives to take effect. Despite the wild thrashing violence of the patient the team was calm and conversed quietly amongst themselves. Pros. Suddenly a second explosion occurred and the source of some of the patient’s agitation became evident as a cascading fountain of urine poured forth, spraying several unfortunate teammates before a urinal was procured and contained the mess. Amazingly, no one broke their hold.
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opponents by just more than a point a game (42.7/41.5). With their scrappy never-saydie style of play, this team could surprise a few people in the post-season. They will wrap up the regular season this week
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Energy conservation should be practiced much more than it is, but the reality is that people are highly unlikely to change their ways. This fact was demonstrated by the need to legislate the use of more energy-efficient bulbs when people could have simply shut their lights off. That said, nuclear is far “greener” than most other sources in terms of maintaining the very existence of our natural world. “Oh! I got peed on!” the nurse next to me wailed. “Again!” she added. “You are pretty muddy, too,” I observed. “How was work today, honey? Anything interesting happen? Why are you so dirty? Is that pee I smell?” I mock asked her. “I know, right?” she gamely replied and gave me a grin. “No, just the usual, you know, got peed on again.” “I am so sorry that happened to you.” I added. She smiled sincerely and said to me, “No big deal, I had boys. This is not the first time this has happened to me.” And with that she put it behind her and continued to care for the patient. Sometimes you don’t have to look sharp to be sharp. before starting the Jefferson District tournament next week and then moving on to Conference 29 play. The experience garnered by this year’s team bodes well for the future. The Warriors will have an upperclassmen-laden team next year and Wright and his staff will have a talented and competitive group of players.
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score by the much smaller Flucos. Coach Darren Maynard was running batches of players in and out of the game, playing the roster, but there was no respite for the Flucos. This team suffers little if any drop-off in production by going to the bench, sometimes swapping five for five. They simply wear down opponents with fresh, talented bodies. Mike Vale, with a deft inside touch and second-most rebounds (93) on the team through the Fluvanna win, was in the thick of many skirmishes in the paint, as was Austin Cress with 106 caroms snagged. Will Cress, John Barkley and others contributed to this win and the experience the whole team got is invaluable at this stage of the season. “I thought we played well,” said Ingram. “We had a few lapses and the first part of the game we slowed down, but then we picked it up. We’ve got to play well on Tuesday (Powhatan) and then play Albemarle. I need to play better defense, go after the ball, make clutch stops so we can get the ball back.” “We’ve got to bring our best selves every day to practice, and every game, not take anything for granted,” said McGahren. “We can’t let up. And I think we did that today. Our energy this last week has been much better than prior.” McGahren also believes wholeheartedly in the substitution scheme designed by Maynard, saying that the constant energy whether on the floor or on the bench is one of the things making them a great team. Coach Maynard likes what he saw against Fluvanna. “I thought we brought very good
energy tonight. We pressured them and held them to a really low point total until we sort of eased up a little towards the end,” he said. Powhatan was on his mind first, but recalling this season’s losses at Charlottesville and Albemarle, he was happy to be home this Friday against Albemarle. He believes this team shadows some others that have made moves in the post season. Maynard knows it’s a tough road to travel—the conference title is no gimme, and regionals even tougher—but maybe he has a gut feeling that augurs well for the Warriors. “They remind me of the kind of teams I’ve had that have actually gone to places such as that. That doesn’t mean they surely will, but it’s in that ballpark. We’re really deep this year, probably the deepest team I’ve ever coached. We legitimately have five or 10 starter-quality players, and that’s rare.” Coming out of the Fluvanna game, the Warriors are scoring at a 64.6 clip, while allowing a paltry 45.1 points per game. Statistically, the Warriors have a plethora of players scoring. Leading is Ingram averaging 13.1 points per game, Josh Coffman with 9 per game, MacGahren with 8.2, and Vale, Murphy, Yancey, Carter, W. Cress and A. Cress all around five points per game. No one is looking past the next two games, but the pump is primed for postseason. The Jefferson District Tournament will be held February 10-12. The Conference 29 Tourney is set for February 16-20, with WAHS hosting games on the 19th and 20th, and Regionals are slated for February 22-26, with Cave Spring High School in Roanoke hosting on the 25th and 26th.
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