INSIDE KEEP IVY OPEN page 2 BIG PIPE SENTRIES page 4 LET IT BURN page 6 CLARINET QUARTET page 6 CECIL MCALLISTER page 7
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Tabor Street to Close Daytimes March 10 - 24
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PARK NEWS page 10 PI DAY page 12 ORCHESTRA CONCERT page 13 INSECT INFO page 14 FIRST MASS page 15 TRADING PLACES page 16 JOE LUGIANO page 17 NO SCREENS HERE page 18 STATE CHAMPS AGAIN! page 19 THEY’RE SCARED page 20 WHITE LEAVES page 22 CROSSWORD page 23 READ TRUE GRIT page 24 WEEKNIGHT DINNERS page 26 CHICKEN FACTS page 27 TIME CAPSULE REUNION page 28 TOO COLD FOR STINK BUGS? page 31
Julian Bond Speaks at Crozet Library Civil Rights Movement hero Julian Bond, founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, came to Crozet Library Feb. 27 to be on hand for the screening of a film biography of him made by Ivy filmmaker Eduardo Montes-Bradley. Bond was a Georgia legislator for 20 years after leading SNCC, the president of the NAACP for 12 years, and a former history professor at the University of Virginia. He teaches now at American University in Washington, D.C. He was a cofounder and president of the
Southern Poverty Law Center in Birmingham and narrated PBS’s Eyes on the Prize series, a history of the Civil Rights Movement. He has been a strong supporter of Gay rights. Montes-Bradley’s 30-minute film was made to air on PBS, and it has. He presented a similarly designed film on poet Rita Dove at Crozet Library the week before. Taking questions from the crowd packed into the community room after the film, Bond said that one of the bigcontinued on page 26
Weather permitting, the daytime closure of Tabor Street will take place daily (Monday through Friday) for two weeks beginning March 10. The road will be closed to through traffic between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Access to private property will be maintained from High Street. Closing the road will speed up the proposed Tabor Street improvements— storm drains, sidewalks and new grading—and create a safer construction work zone. Traffic to the Crozet Park neighborhoods will detour on Library Avenue, through the lumberyard and on to High Street. The detour route through the lumberyard will be graded and gravel added as necessary to provide a drivable surface. Detour signage will be provided by VDOT. The road closure has been coordinated with the public school bus routing managers. VDOT has determined that the only viable detour route is via High Street, through the lumberyard, and connected to the newly constructed Library Avenue. For updates, visit the website at www. albemarle.org/crozetstreetscape.
Piedmont Pediatrics Opens In Downtown Crozet Piedmont Pediatrics, with a main office on Rio Road in Charlottesville, opened a branch of the practice in downtown Crozet February 24 in the former office of dentist Emery Taylor. Three pediatricians, Dr. Gretchen Brantley, Dr. Carol Boersma, and Dr. Rob Michel, all U.Va.-trained and all parents themselves, will staff the practice, treating patients from ages zero to 22. Together, they have 46 years of experience. The practice has admitting rights at Martha Jefferson Hospital. Their white cinder block building got new easy-to-mop-up flooring continued on page 22
From left: Practice manager Genevieve Blair, Dr. Gretchen Brantley, Dr. Carol Boersma, and Dr. Rob Michel
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From the Editor Was That a Wooden Stake at Last? We trust this is the last time the people of Albemarle will have to repudiate the so-called Western Bypass. Its defeat was urgently necessary in the name of honorable government and because it flatly failed to achieve its purpose. The horror with which local voters beheld the infamous “midnight vote” that saw the bypass unexpectedly pulled out of its grave and made to march around like a zombie was clear in their rejection of every candidate in November’s election who spoke up for it. The current board was elected to rid us of the appalling prospect of spending
hundreds of million of dollars—in an open-ended contract—for a what amounted to a service road to parallel a congested section of Rt. 29. Trust in government—or perhaps in anything—is fragile, and once betrayed it takes years of virtuous living to restore. Had the bypass survived the election, we could have expected conspiratorial intrigue and likely corruption as our standards for local government action. Albemarle, true to its traditions, refused to become that sort of place. In the hour before the public hearing began, local officials received a letter from federal highway authorities saying they would not consent to pay a share of the road’s cost. Someone must have asked where the emperor’s clothes were. What is the point of a bypass continued on page 32
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Keep Ivy Transfer Station Open We wish to thank all the signees of the petition to keep Ivy Transfer Station open. The response from the community has been very encouraging. We also wish to thank the following businesses who placed the petition on their counters: Batesville PO, B&B Cleaners, Blue Ridge Builders, Community Garage, Crossroads Store, Crozet Hardware, Crozet Insurance, Crozet Running, Gateway Market, Green
House Coffee, Mudhouse, Office Quad, Olive Tree, Parkway Pharmacy, Piedmont Store, Scott’s Ivy Exxon, Toddsbury of Ivy, Trading Post, Trailside Coffee, Wyants Store. Last, but not least, Crozet Great Valu, where we placed a table at their door. A short history is as follows: Several years ago, Charlottesville City Council stopped funding the Ivy Transfer Station. As costs mounted for the County, the Board of Supervisors (BOS) decided to close Ivy and open three convenience centers: one in the north, one in the south and another in the western part of the County. In pursuit of their plan to build the convenience centers, the BOS sent out a request for proposals for potential operators for the three convenience
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nPulse Technologies Is Crozet’s Answer to Silicon Valley The engineers at nPulse Technologies, Crozet’s favorite contender among information technology innovators, have emerged from their below-the-radar profile as experts in computer network forensics. “The company’s name is a concoction of network pulse,” explained founder Randy Caldejon. He started it his basement in Vienna, Virginia, in 2006. A few months later he and his wife made the decision to move their family to Crozet. “We drove through,” said Caldejon, “and we said, ‘why don’t we move here?’ We thought we’d be here a year, and we’ve been here ever since. It’s been great here. The lack of traffic. Just being able to slow down. It’s the biggest decision my wife and I have ever made and now we have many good friends. It’s a great place. We’ve never regretted it.” Caldejon had been in signals intelligence in the Marine Corps and fought in the First Gulf War.
Afterward he could have worked for a No-Such-Agency that may not exist in Maryland, but it’s unclear. “This started as a services company,” said Caldejon. “It’s a black box that is continuously recording that allows you recreate a scenario in a network. We were making custom products and we decided to make one that we could just sell. “We can figure out how a network was broken into and how it can be prevented. Target is a recent example of what can happen. We have huge customers, on Wall Street, the government networks and the Telcos [telephone service providers]. I draw an analogy to Claudius Crozet. He did an amazing engineering feat. Our firm’s boxes are monitoring some of the world’s cyber tunnels. “Network forensics is the niche we’re in. Of our four competitors, we are the fastest. When it comes to performance, people come to us. The Department of Homeland Security has a project called Einstein
Left to right: Ben Huson, Frank DeRosa, Matt Keeler, Riley Chandler, founder Randy Caldejon, Dennis Edwards, Courtney Christensen, Pete Akey. These are about half of nPulse’s engineers, some of whom work remotely.
that has trusted gateways that use our boxes. If there is a hack, we can figure out how it happened. In cyber space there are incidents every day, so we are trying to automate it so it’s not overwhelming.” He likened the job his product does to a convenience store camera set-up that records everything that
goes on in the store. “In our field we deal with what are called ‘big pipes’ that transmit at 10 gigabytes per second. For sure you will find a weak point. Everybody has an IP address, so in some cases you can trace back and find out who broke in. Whatever continued on page 34
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CVFD Trains With Controlled Burn on Browns Gap Turnpike As a training exercise, the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department conducted a controlled burn of a vacant house on Browns Gap Turnpike February 23. Other area departments also participated in the exercise, which lasted all day and into the evening. Butch Dalton, who watched the burn, said, “I saw firsthand the professionalism of our local volunteers as well as the intense heat, smoke and potential danger that they must work so hard in. We should be very grateful for their dedication to our community.”
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Air Force Clarinet Quartet Plays for Crozet The U.S. Air Force’s American Heritage Band’s Clarinet Quartet performed at Crozet Arts March 7. Based at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, they are on a tour of western Virginia and Maryland. The quartet performed a selection of works by American composers, including Dave Brubeck’s “Time Out.” Brubeck was a GI in World War II who was ordered to start a band after he was heard playing the piano to entertain hospital patients, explained quartet member Jeremy Cohen. Next came George Gershwin’s “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess, then two rags by Scott Joplin, the John Philip Souza march “Hands Across the Ocean”; three preludes by Gershwin; next, the first part of a
Mass that Leonard Bernstein wrote at the request of Jacquelyn Kennedy; “Tuxedo Junction” by Glenn Miller; and, finally, the four armed services’ anthems. “Our purpose is to bring the arts to life in our community,” Crozet Arts director Sharon Tolczyk told the audience of 40. “It’s a big community effort to get them here.” The quartet includes Cohen, a former school band director; Shelley Steepe, an 18-year veteran; Cynthia Ramirez, a former clarinet teacher; and Master Sergeant Amy Lynch, who is the group’s leader. “It’s obvious to us as performers,” Lynch said, “how committed to the arts you are in your community. We don’t see that in all the places we go.”
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Guardians Some bridges span more than meets the eye of the casual traveler. The passage of water and time at those places can leave rich deposits discernable to the ones who know what to look and listen for—what to hold on to and what to discard. A 19th century log cabin is perched on the hillside above the first bridge over Moorman’s River in western Albemarle County’s Sugar Hollow. From that safe vantage, James and Mary Susan (Via) McAllister raised and provided for their seven children: five boys and two girls. Cecil McAllister, the youngest of Jim and “Mollie” McAllister’s brood, was born there in 1913. “My daddy and Uncle Henry bought this place together for $600 before either one of them was married,” recalled Cecil. “When Uncle Henry got married and moved, Daddy bought his half out. My daddy was born in eighteen-andfifty and he was the oldest. He never did talk too much about his family. He died in ’35. “We don’t know what became of Thomas, my daddy’s brother. Him and his wife didn’t get along too good. Drummers used to come in there. You know, peddlers. They come in an automobile now, but back in those days they came in a horse and buggy. He got in the buggy with a drummer one time and left and nobody ever
Hiram and Cornelia (James) Wyant near an old summer kitchen at their Sugar Hollow home. Hiram, a blacksmith by trade, holds an ornately decorated walking stick he had whittled. [Photo courtesy of Douglas Decker]
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A work crew at Charlie McAllister’s saw mill near the first bridge in Sugar Hollow. [Photo courtesy of the McAllister family]
heard anything else. Some think they just didn’t get along and he just went on and left. “We used to raise wheat, corn, oats and stuff like that. Raised our own hogs and had chickens and everything way back years ago. There was about an acre-and-a-half in orchard here. I tell you, you can buy your bread now cheaper than you can raise your wheat and have it thrashed. Everybody uses combines now. We used a cradle when I was a young man. Then we got an old binder and used that the last few years. We used to fill up a straw tick with new straw every year when they’d thrash.” “Yeah, new straw,” added in Cecil’s older sister Mertie. “Aunt Betty used to come up here and she said I made the bed up high in the middle so she couldn’t get close to Uncle Charlie!” Mert continued, “Momma said years ago they had a flood and it washed chestnuts down here. It used to didn’t have that bridge down there and this road kept straight on up this way with no bridge. You had to cross the water.” “The road went right on up past here and then crossed the river to the other side,” said Cecil. “I don’t know exactly what year they put that bridge in, but I was old enough to work on it when they built it.” Cecil gazed from their front porch down the hill toward the bridge. “From this bank here to that hill over yonder you couldn’t see no land in nineteen-and-forty-two at 12 o’clock. That was all ocean between these two hills here. Washed
the fence all off the bottom. In that lower bottom, had corn in there and it washed two-thirds of that away.” In 1910, Hiram Wyant moved his young fam-
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Mollie and Jim McAllister with son Cecil at their Sugar Hollow home. [Photo courtesy of the McAllister family]
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ily to Sugar Hollow from Elkton in Rockingham County. It was a homecoming for his wife, Cornelia Frances, who had been born in Sugar Hollow in 1879, the eighth of 12 children of John and Fanny James. Emory Wyant, the eighth-born of Hiram and Cornelia’s 10 children, bridged the years with his own reminiscences of growing up in Sugar Hollow across the river from the McAllisters. “Dad ran the blacksmith shop there for years and did a little farming, mainly,” he said. “Howdyshell’s stave mill sat on our place for five years. They had two horses and about eight or ten mules, and he did a good little bit of work for them. Other people hauled a lot of timber and bark out of the mountain. He would shoe their horses, build wagons, stuff like that. That’s the way we learned to know a lot of them. Later, my brother-in-law, Charlie McAllister, ran a sawmill near there. It was over a little closer to our house. The stave mill sat out near the road and there were five or six shanties there that workers lived in. “If you cross the bridge in front of Cecil McAllister’s and go about a hundred yards or so, there’s a road that fords the river and goes back up in the mountain. Right straight in front of that ford is where our home was. That road went to the Jim Sandridge place. Wesley Barnes
The Hiram Wyant family. “It’s been a wonderful life. We came up poor people. Didn’t have money, but we had love in our family. We really did.” –Emory Wyant [Photo courtesy of Douglas Decker]
and a few other houses also were up that way. The Koontz’s had a grazing farm up there. They’d drive cows from over in the [Shenandoah] Valley, across the mountain and up there every spring, up there on the grazing farm. They’d come across at Jarman’s Gap. He would bring 40 or 50 head of cattle. Koontz. Just him and a dog.
Mertie McAllister (r.) and a friend relax on inner tubes in a Moorman’s River pool. [Photo courtesy of the McAllister family]
“Wesley Barnes was supposed to be half colored and half Indian. He was kind of reddish looking. He owned the land on the right as soon as you crossed the river. Years back, what they called the old tilt hammer sat in the corner at the [Sugar] Ridge Road. It was a blacksmith shop that this fellow Tom Barnes run. That was before my time. Wes Barnes was his son. Wes was born the night that they met in the middle, boring the Crozet tunnel. He couldn’t remember his age but he said he remembered they said he was born the night that they met. “I remember him well. We went up there one time and bought some locust from him and cut locust posts off his place. He worked a team of oxen all the time. He plowed those old oxen, just creep along like snails. He never did work them out for other people, I don’t think. Just used them for himself. He had some fields over there on that side of the river. Course, then, it didn’t take a very big piece of ground to live on. You just raised what you ate. It looks awful small to
look at it now. Yeah, it’s been a wonderful life. We came up poor people. Didn’t have money, but we had love in our family. We really did.” Cecil, Mertie, Emory and others have proved to be faithful guardians of the treasured memories from their lives and communities. Their shared recollections are our bridges across the waters of time.
Detail of a window frame at the former Wesley Barnes house in Sugar Hollow. [Photo by Phil James]
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 © 2003–2014 Phil James
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Set Your Heart Dancing with Footloose
Do you believe in the power of music and dance to bring joy to our hearts and solace to our souls? Then you are sure to enjoy the Western Albemarle Theatre Ensemble’s performance of the effervescent, upbeat musical Footloose on Friday and Saturday March 14 and 15 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday March 16 at 2 p.m. When dancing enthusiast Ren McCormack (Brennan Reid) moves from Chicago to a small town with his single mother, he is appalled to discover that dancing has been outlawed by the overzealous Pastor Shaw (Warren Elliott). As he embarks on a crusade to change the law and bring the spirit of fun and celebration back to the citizens of Beaumont, he enlists the help of Shaw’s rebellious daughter Ariel (Ryan Sheehy). The
1984 movie, starring Kevin Bacon with music by Tom Snow and lyrics by Dean Pitchford, won an Academy Award for best original song, and was remade in 2011. The musical opened on Broadway 1998 and was nominated for four Tony awards. The WAHS cast of 50 teens, supported by a live orchestra and crew of 30 more under the direction of Caitlin Pitts and Joel Hartshorn, have been rehearsing since late November, including many weekend hours to master the complex choreography for the dozen dance numbers. But the enthusiasm of the students embodies the positive spirit of the show! Come out and get your toes tapping as these talented, enthusiastic teens dance and sing their way into your hearts.
Sandridge Named to Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments Governor Terry McAuliffe has named Crozet’s own Leonard W. Sandridge Jr. to the Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments. Commissioners work with the Governor to choose board appointments for Virginia’s colleges and universities. Sandridge is joined by Dr. Charles Steger, President of Virginia Tech (when he retires form the post in June); Eva Teig Hardy, a retired executive vice president of Dominion Resources and Secretary of Health and Human Resources under Gov. Gerald L. Baliles; Joni L. Ivey, Chief of Staff for Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott; and Jeffrey B. Trammell, the recent Rector of the
College of William & Mary. Sandridge retired as executive vice president and chief operating officer of the University of Virginia in July 2011, having served the university for 44 years. From July 2011 until January 2014, he served as special advisor to the President of the University of Virginia. Sandridge joined UVa in 1967 as a member of the internal audit staff and held various administrative and finance positions prior to being named executive vice president in 1993. In 1999, he was appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer. Since July 2012, he has served as a senior advisor to the U.Va. Board of Visitors.
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Crozet Park officers Melissa Miller and Kim Guenther donate a quilt to Eleanor VonAchen, right, community liaison with Mountainside Senior Living.
The Claudius Crozet Park has been given a quilt from a quilter from West Virginia for the park to donate to Mountainside Senior Living’s Quilt Auction and Gala. The auction, planned for November 1, will be an event of the year in Crozet and not one to miss. Guest chef Mark Gresge of l’Etoile Restaurant will be teaming up with Mountainside chef Meredith Whindleton for a lovely four-course dinner. Cardinal Point Vineyard and Winery of Afton and Grace Estate Winery of Crozet will be serving up some of the area’s finest wines. All proceeds from the auction will benefit Mountainside residents. For more information about purchasing tickets or making a donation to the quilt auction, contact Eleanor VonAchen at evonachen@jabacares.org or 434823-4307. The quilt is a Jewel Tone Twister Lap Quilt, 62”by 62”, quilted by Gerry M. Mosier, proprietor of The Whistle Stop Gift Shop in Durbin, West Virginia. When Mosier heard about this project and how the proceeds were going to be used, she picked this quilt off her quilt rack in the shop and made the donation. What a pleasant surprise and beautiful gift. In other news, the Park is gearing up for the great big Crozet Park Arts and Crafts Festival May 10 and 11. The Arts and Crafts Festival, held twice yearly on Mother’s Day weekend and the second weekend in October (11-12), is critical to raising funds to support many Park mainte-
nance activities, including paying down the cost of the pool dome. Although spring may seem far off, many activities are already getting started at the Park. The Crozet Trails Crew has been working hard to build new trails and extend existing trails, all with an eye toward planning, building and promoting pedestrian and bicycle trails in and around Crozet. A dog park is being planned and dogs and their owners are already checking out the proposed new area. An early morning boot camp continues to keep early-risers fit and happy. Peachtree baseball will have its opening day March 15, and soon SOCA soccer will start. Peachtree has recently installed a new batting cage, thanks to a generous donor. The partnership between the Park and the YMCA continues to flourish, bringing year-round recreation to the community including yearround swimming. Year-round swimming could be partially responsible for the Western Albemarle swim team’s recent state victories. Many of these young swimmers enjoy yearround training thanks to the PARC pool. Congratulations, WAHS! Check the new Crozet Park kiosk located near the upper baseball field to learn about more activities. Because Crozet Park is community-owned, community members are encouraged to volunteer and be part of promoting the health of the community. Please go to the Crozet Park website at: www.crozetpark.org to learn about all the many volunteer opportunities.
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centers. The only proposal that was acceptable came from Van der Linde in Fluvanna, who offered to operate them for FREE in return for the recyclables. Anything that could not be recycled would go to the incinerator in Harrisonburg that makes steam for JMU. At a public hearing on January 8, there was so much opposition to the two proposed sites for a southern convenience center that the BOS voted to take both sites off the table and keep the Ivy Transfer Station open until July 1, 2015. Currently the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA) manages and controls the Ivy Transfer Center for the county. They send our trash to a landfill east of Richmond to be buried. It is the opinion of the authors of the petition that spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a duplicate of Ivy somewhere in Crozet that would provide fewer services is a waste of taxpayer money. Because of many phone calls and e-mails from her constituents expressing dismay at the county’s decision to close Ivy, White Hall Supervisor Ann Mallek has changed her position to one similar to ours. In response to her constituents, Ann proposes that Albemarle County apply for its own permit from the Department of Environmental Quality to run the Ivy facility and either lease or buy the Ivy Transfer Station from the RSWA, thereby eliminating RSWA from this equation. The current focus now is on a comprehensive trash management policy. The trash would be reduced to a very small amount, and the greater portion would be recycled. We applaud this line of thought! However, we should not lose focus on our need for a place to put our trash now. Let’s keep the Ivy Transfer Station open. We really appreciate your support. Please try to attend future public hearings because your presence would make a difference! Paul Grady, Claudia Sacellary Crozet
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A Library Is All About the Books If You Build It They Will Come. 1) Since the Library opened in September 2013, through the middle of January, 58,891 people have visited (doubled versus old library); 2 )Circulation is up an average of 80 percent per month since September 2013; 3) 1,255 new library cards have been issued.; 4) Internet use is up 104 percent; 5) There is an average of more than 50 reservations per month for the two meeting rooms; 6) Crozet is the number one library in the J-MRL system for self checkout with 6,587 folks using it in January. Why Are We Still Raising Money? The great support of the community has allowed us to pay off everything you see inside the library so now we can focus on raising funds for only books. Even with the success of the new Crozet/Western Albemarle Library the volunteer fundraising committee is not finished. We still need to raise funds for 24,800 more books. In the old library we had around 33,000 books and by the time the new library opened the book collection had increased to 51,000. Our goal is 75,800 by the end of October. Every $22 you contribute means another children’s beginning reader, a teen/young adult non-fiction or a new adult best seller. It gives the library staff an opportunity to review the 26 categories within the collection and make new purchases that fit our communities’ needs. Just because the library is open don’t think we are done. We still need everyone’s support to reach the goal, and remember it’s a new donation year for tax purposes. Please take a look at the Giving Tree the next time you are in the library and you will notice that we still have leaves available for $1,000 donations. It’s a great way to honor teachers, friends, parents, children or your family. One leaf equals 45 new books for the library. Bill Schrader Chair, Build Crozet Library
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My day job involves technology, medicine and yes, math. So when March comes around, we geeky types celebrate that very special day: Pi Day, March 14, 3.14. Pi (3.14xxxxx) is the numerical constant describing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It’s a beautiful thought that this number, represented by the Greek symbol π, is constant no matter the size of the circle. Pi is a repeating decimal. It appears to repeat indefinitely and randomly. That is astounding! If you really want to use up an hour or so, go to Wikipedia and read about pi and all its wonder and complication. I learned that pi has been calculated, using computers, to over one trillion places past the decimal point. My favorite fun fact is that pi is transcendental (great word!). In math lingo that means that it is not
algebraic, i.e. it is not a root of a non-polynomial equation with rational coefficients. Got that? Oh, never mind. Mathematics is one of the gifts of nature and deserves to be celebrated. And like many holidays (romantic love on Valentine’s, the world revolved around the sun again— New Year’s Eve, patriotism on July 4), one doesn’t have to quite understand it or completely buy into it to reflect on it, appreciate it and yes, celebrate it. And of course to observe Pi Day properly, you need a pie! So here is a wonderful little refrigerated pie recipe with a yummy graham cracker crust. But please, don’t make just one pie. Pull out your cook books and make several. Send them to a local school, serve them to your family or take them to work. Celebrate and be grateful for the beauty of mathematics.
Yogurt – Cream Cheese Pie For the crust: 1 ½ cup crushed graham crackers. Note: I think that using anything but the Nabisco red box, the original graham cracker, is a travesty. Please use the red box. 5 Tablespoons melted butter ¼ cup sugar Pinch of salt Crush the graham crackers by rolling between two pieces of wax paper. Add remaining ingredients and press into a 9-inch pie plate. Bake at 350°F for 12 minutes, then cool.
For the filling: 2/3 cup plain Greek yogurt 1 cup softened cream cheese ½ cup honey 2 tsp vanilla Using your electric mixer, blend the yogurt and cream cheese till smooth, add the honey, then the vanilla. Pour into the cooled pie crust and pop it into the freezer for a few hours till firm. Refrigerating overnight also works. Could anything be easier? And surely you know that we have lots of local honey available. Ryan Williamson has his available at the Free Union Grass Farm shop, at his sister Rachel’s Fairweatherfarmers.com and it’s also available at the Greenwood Gourmet Market. Many of his hives live at our farm, so of course I’m a special fan.
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MARCH 8
Second Saturday Art Shows in Crozet
Art at the Trax (a gallery at Creative Framing & The Art Box in Crozet) will feature “Fruits and Flowers: Paintings and Drawings” by Lee Christmas Halstead for the month of March, with an opening reception Saturay, March 8, from 4 to 6 p.m. with free ice cream sundaes. Over the Moon Bookstore and Artisan Gallery, just down the block, will feature photographs by Sharon Wilson with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. that evening.
MARCH 13
Senator Kaine Staffer to Visit Crozet
A regional representative for U.S. Senator Tim Kaine will hold office hours in Crozet Thursday, March 13, at Crozet Library, 2020 Library Avenue, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Citizens are invited to meet with the representative to discuss any questions or concerns they have. Appointments are encouraged but walk-ins are welcome. Contact Evan McWalters at Evan_ McWalters@kaine.senate.gov for more information or to make an appointment.
MARCH 15
Dr. Levine & the Dreaded Blues Lady
Dr. Stephen Levine and the Dreaded Blues Lady (Lorie Strother) will appear March 15 at 7 p.m. at the North Branch School fundraising concert. Dr. Levine & the Dreaded Blues Lady are well known on both sides of the mountain for their diverse selections and performance of acoustic blues music from the early to mid-1900s, along with a few more contemporary blues selections. Both performers bring a history of the music with some commentary on the selections. Tickets for the event are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. The performance will be held at the
school, located at 221 Mickens Road, and all proceeds will benefit the school. Tickets are available at the school, Wayne Theatre Alliance in Waynesboro, Greenberry’s Coffee & Tea in Charlottesville or Trager Brothers Coffee in Lovingston. For more information contact North Branch School at 540-456-8450.
MARCH 19
Crozet Community Orchestra Concert
The Crozet Community Orchestra’s March concert has been rescheduled for March 19 at 8 p.m. at Crozet Baptist Church, 5804 St. George Avenue in Crozet. Under music director Philip Clark, the program will highlight Vivaldi’s Concerto in A minor with WAHS soloist Annie Taylor, Russian Suite, and Tango (from “Scent of a Woman”). Check the Crozet Cares website for up-to-date concert information: at www.crozetcares.org. The CCO has openings for string players and is expanding its wind section and adding some brass instruments. Please contact one of the orchestra staff below if you play oboe, French horn, bassoon, clarinet or trumpet and would like info about the upcoming season. Either Denise Murray: 434-987-5517 or murrden@gmail.com; or Philip Clark: 434-979-3343 or pclarkmusic@gmail.com.
MARCH 22
Literacy Volunteers New Tutor Training
Literacy Volunteers is seeking compassionate and enthusiastic volunteers to tutor adults in reading, writing, or speaking English. Students come from a variety of backgrounds, and they are hoping to acquire the skills they need to independently pursue life goals, support their families, and contribute to their communities. Call 434-977-3838 to register for our New Tutor Training on Saturday, March 22, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. No teaching experience is necessary. Learn more at www.literacyforall.org.
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Bugs Rule! One late-summer day, shortly before my senior year of high school was to begin, I got a phone call from the principal’s office. I had signed up for one-toomany classes, so I needed to come in to decide which one to drop. I was disappointed but not terribly surprised when I got this call. My love of learning has always resulted in too few hours in each day for me. The same situation held true when I finally got to college five years later. I couldn’t possibly take all of the courses I had an interest in. Thus I never took a course in entomology—the study of insects and related creatures, such as spiders. Instead, my knowledge of these tiny animals has been acquired via personal observation and the reading of numerous books on my own. But now a book has come out that so completely and clearly covers this subject matter that it’s the ideal choice for anyone who wants to learn about these critters that so often seem quite alien to us. Bugs Rule!, published in late 2013 by Princeton University Press, is so easy and interesting to read that you find yourself well along into the
book in what deceivingly feels like just a few minutes. The authors, Whitney Cranshaw and Richard Redak, are both professors who have taught introductory entomology courses for nonscience majors who usually lack much knowledge about the animals classified as Arthropoda. This grouping (“arthropod” is Greek for “jointed-foot”) consists primarily of insects. Thus most entomology text books focus on them and give short shrift to non-insect members, such as spiders, millipedes, centipedes, and crustaceans. But many people have lots of questions about these other kinds of critters that are fairly commonly seen around homes. Therefore the authors have made a point to also give a fairly extensive treatment in their book to these insect relatives. The idea was to write a book that would inform not only students, but anyone—and the authors have succeeded admirably. They start by introducing basic concepts that can be built upon and they do this in a logical manner, moving along quite effortlessly from one subject to the next. Cranshaw and Redak start by explaining exactly what kinds of characteristics define an organism as an arthropod, then go on to tell you about the diversity and abundance
of these unique critters and the ecologically important roles they play in our environment. For example, arthropods can be described as having: a hardened external skeleton; a body that is divided into segments; legs, mouthparts, and antennae that are jointed; a nerve cord that runs along the lower part of the body and is not enclosed in a protective spinal column in the way that our spinal column is enclosed; blood that is moved by a tubelike heart located along the back part of the body; and an overall body arrangement that is bilaterally symmetrical (if you cut it through the center from head to tail, the two halves would be a mirror image of one another). Insects alone number almost a million known species and comprise over one-half of all kinds of life known to occur on Earth. But it’s thought that there may be four-tofive million species altogether, with at least 80 percent not yet identified. An abundance of arthropods are minute and live within the soil. Based upon a study done in an English pasture during November 1943, it’s estimated that there are about 2.5 billion arthropods per hectare. Think about this for a moment. Every time you see bulldozers pushing soil around for a new development or even when you yourself use machinery to till the soil in your garden—soil that you may have thought was lifeless—innumerable lives are being destroyed. Most people would say that it doesn’t make any difference, but of course it does. Those organisms
would not be there if it didn’t! Every critter exists to perform numerous jobs to keep the environment functioning properly. Therefore you can rest assured that the less you disturb the soil in your garden, the better it will function. (My own gardens haven’t been rototilled at all for many years. Incorporation of compost or lime or anything else is done by hand and only in the spot where a plant will be growing.) Moving beyond the first chapter of the book, we read about the external features of insects and then learn of the internal functioning of arthropod bodies. The mechanisms by which these animals acquire food for energy and growth, oxygen for respiration processes required by living cells, the ways in which they excrete waste products, and the manner in which they reproduce are just extraordinarily fascinating because they are so different from that of humans and other animals that we tend to be more familiar with. The next three chapters discuss the arachnids (spiders, mites, scorpions, and other eight-legged “wonders”, as the authors call them); the myriapods (“many feet”—millipedes and centipedes); and crustaceans (“crust covered”, such as lobsters, shrimp, and pillbugs). In the remaining chapters, which comprise most of the book, the authors delve into the details of the various orders (groupings) of insects. Along with the typical information you would expect, such as what kind of habitat a particular grouping of insects inhabits and what kinds of food they eat, you are also provided with answers to questions many folks may wonder continued on page 25
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Open House Draws More Than 100 to Support Catholic Mass Father Joseph Mary Lukyamuzi, pastor of Holy Comforter Catholic Church in Charlottesville, told a crowd of more than 100 who gathered at The Field School Feb. 16 to show their support for the introduction of the Catholic Mass to Crozet the story of how he became a priest. Fr. Lukyamuzi, 58, had wanted to be a priest since he was 10 years old, but his father had sent his older brother to seminary and told Joseph his job was to raise a family. But after a while at seminary, his brother changed his mind about his vocation, and with his father’s permission, the brothers changed places. Fr. Lukyamuzi was raised in Uganda and became a U.S. citizen last year. He refers to himself as an American with a Ugandan accent. After serving as a parish priest and diocesan youth pastor in Uganda, he joined the Benedictine Order to become a monk. But, unexpectedly, the Benedictines sent him to Richmond in 2001 to be the chaplain of Benedictine High School. From there, Richmond Bishop Francis DiLorenzo assigned him to Holy Comforter in 2012. He agreed to a request from
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When the Teacher Becomes the Student I recently decided to retire from teaching first-year medical students. I have been teaching first-year medical students the practice of medicine since 1993, more than 20 years, and I have watched the curriculum change dramatically over that time. Thirty years ago when I started, medical school students didn’t touch a patient clinically for the first two years of medical school. Instead we sat in a classroom memorizing facts. Every Friday there was a test. You could fail. You could even fail out of medical school. After all, if you didn’t know the facts you could fail your patients. Facts were hard to find. They were hidden away in obscure journals, mothballed in giant files in libraries. The Internet did not exist. Diligent effort to look up and memorize facts was considered one of the highest virtues, but it was a solitary pursuit. Medicine was a solitary pursuit. In 1983, 40 percent of all practicing physicians were in solo practice. Medicine is no longer such a solitary pursuit. Today only 18 percent of physicians remain in solo practices, many nearing retirement. The millennials, the generation I teach, the generation raised on the Internet and video games, like to work in teams. They are used to having facts instantly available via smart phones and the Internet. This offers some advantages as the delivery of medical care becomes more and more complex, but the fundamental interaction between a patient and a physician remains a one-on-one encounter. In recognition of this, students now begin see-
ing patients in the first months of medical school, knowing almost no “facts.” This challenges me as a teacher, especially as one enamored of my hard-won facts. It is hard to explain to a first-year medical student about the disease the patient she has just seen has when she has no knowledge of anatomy or physiology. Of course we still teach anatomy, physiology and all the other medical subjects but not always in discrete blocks and not before the students begin seeing patients. Along with the curriculum I, too, have probably changed dramatically over time. When I started I was old enough to be the students’ big brother. Now I am old enough to be their father. When I started, I struggled heroically to save every life, at all costs, no matter what quality of life I bought my patients. Now I recognize as a more experienced physician that the end of life comes for us all and how we go is as important as when we go. When I started I was somewhat skeptical of things patients told me but accepted what my teachers taught me as truth. Now I am skeptical of what experts tell me, and I am still a bit skeptical of what patients tell me. All of these things do not jibe with the mindset of first-year medical students who crave certainty and are not yet old enough to face all the suffering they are going to see and do not recognize that death is inevitable. I have become crusty. Curmudgeonly. Old. It is time to leave the teaching of the idealistic to the idealistic, if they still exist. I sent in my letter of resignation. The end of an era. Then I went to Key West, Florida. I went to Key West for continuing medical education. Like all continued on page 21
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Take Joe Lugiano as Your Model In February of last year, Joe Lugiano toed the line at the start of the Iron Horse 100 Miler in Florida at the ripe age of seventy. Since he started running in 1979, Joe has run the Boston Marathon eight times (with a best of 2:49!), the Shamrock Marathon 18 times, the Marine Corps Marathon 15 times, the JFK 50 Miler 10 times, and the Vermont 100 Miler 18 times. You could certainly call him a serious runner, as his resume is about as impressive at it gets. More impressive is that at 71 years of age, he’s still running and still active, while many of his contemporaries are simply…not. I first heard of Joe’s story from his daughter, my friend Kat Lowe here in Crozet. He was visiting their family and came into our running store. Kat later told me, “You know he’s a big ultra runner…and he used to be obese! He could barely walk, let alone run around the block without gasping for air!” I asked if he would mind if I interviewed him for this column, clearly there’s a story here. “Unfortunately, when people know that I run ultras (ultra-marathons, anything longer than 26.2 miles), I think they feel intimidated and don’t feel we can talk on the same plane. What they don’t realize is that I came from where they are and I know what they are going through as they attempt to get more fit.” Joe got married when he was 20 years old, had twin boys at 21, and a daughter at 26. He weighed 125 pounds when they got married and managed to stay active with the kids when they were young. His story begins when he and his family moved to North Carolina. “I was in a high pressure job, working 120-hour weeks, drinking coffee, and snacking out of machines. I was working at the computer on little to no sleep for days on end. I would do this for months on end, seeing the family to shower, change clothes, and nap. It was extreme. “The weight ballooned and the blood pressure went up. I felt anxiety over the job, the stress, the feeling of being overwhelmed with unreason-
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able demands. This all created a situation where I had to go to a doctor to get my blood pressure under control. I also had high levels of triglycerides and cholesterol. My doctor recommended that I begin exercising and change my diet, or I was going to experience the same issues of heart problems that my father had at a young age. At the same time, I was forced to get on a regular 40-hour work schedule until my condition improved. This required some serious meetings with management and company medical personnel to get the proper recognition of the problem. “My wife has always been the big motivator for taking care of my health, getting me to the doctor, helping me with my diet. But getting out the door to exercise was up to me. I decided to try to run for exercise.” “I had no idea how far I could run, or whether I’d have a heart attack when I started. I was 50 pounds overweight. We lived in a hilly neighborhood. I thought the best way to start was to try to run around the neighborhood. Easier said than done. I started by walking up the hill to the top of the street, went over the next street, then started to jog down the hill on a parallel street. That was fun until I hit the uphill section which quickly reduced me to a walk, gasping for air continued on page 25
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Events for the Crozet Community Phil James Book Signing & Discussion
Sponsored by Over the Moon Bookstore Tuesday, March 11 • 6:30 - 8 p.m. with Phil James, Author of Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Vol. 2
Crozet Community Orchestra Concert March 19 • 8 p.m. At Crozet Baptist Church
Inequality for All: Movie and Discussion March 23 • 6:30 p.m.
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April 26, May 3, and May 10 • 4 -6 p.m.
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Ivy Schoolhouse Preschool to Open This April in Crozet Nic and Sara Clark of Ivy will open Ivy Schoolhouse Preschool in April in the former location of Dr. Marketa Leisure’s Crozet Children’s Health Center on Three Notch’d Road. “We started as a summer camp for five- to seven-year-olds,” said Sara Clark, who is also the principal at Charlottesville’s Renaissance School. “And then we expanded to after-school and that took off, and then we decided to expand into preschool. Then we found this wonderful place. I knew we wanted a house,
but it had to have commercial zoning. We drove by and found it empty and contacted the owner. “The preschool has been in our house for a few months. It’s new. We take ages two and a half to five and we’re looking to cap enrollment at about 15. Legally we are eligible for 25 here. Because Dr. Leisure worked with children, it’s ready for us. We don’t have to change anything.” Clark said the school is buying the furnishings of a preschool in Charlottesville whose owner is retiring. The school will operate from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on a yearround format. Clark said there will be a program director and two teachers at the school. All will be qualified to teach and meet state licensing requirements. Clark said the building has also been thor-
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oughly looked over by state inspectors. They have a three-year lease. “One of the biggest things we like to do is Spanish integration. At that age, it’s amazing what they can pick up,” she said. They will use the house’s two former exam rooms as small-setting enrichment rooms. “They are for working on things that are at their peers’ level. We’ll have lots of art and music activities and we’ll be outside a lot. We may take some field trips next door to the firehouse. The kids who have been here are also excited about the trains going by. ” Clark said the preschool will use the Core Knowledge Preschool curriculum. Parents will be expected to bring their child’s lunch and the school will provide healthy morning and afternoon snacks. “We’ll be peanut-free,” said Clark, who has children ages 3 and 5. “The biggest thing is to have the kids learn a lot through fun and
play—and then there’s the daily Spanish. We’ll have inside and outside play. We’ll eat lunch outside some days.” Clark said both the front and back yards are going to be fenced in. “We’re not opposed to technology, but it doesn’t need to be in a kid’s day while they are here. No screens. There’s too much else to do. Research is showing that children are losing their social connections very young now because of their time on screens. They are losing being connected to each other and they tune each other out. How healthy is it to use a child’s imagination in that way? “It’s a parent’s right to say what their child should be exposed to. At Renaissance School we want them to learn to listen and to write things down. They have to learn how to filter.” “We almost moved to Crozet,” said Clark, who lives in Ivy. “We continued on page 27
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Swimmers Are State Champs—Again! by David Wagner The Western Albemarle girls swim team set an unprecedented mark in Warrior athletics this year with their FOURTH STRAIGHT STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. Led by nationally ranked Remedy Rule, the girls captured the title again in 2014 and the boys finished in sixth place, giving them top-eight finishes at the state meet in back to back years for the first time in Head Coach Dan Bledsoe’s tenure. Junior Remedy Rule anchored the first place 200 freestyle relay team,
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which set a new team record. She was joined on the relay team by seniors Lexi Campbell, Storrs Lamb and sophomore Brazil Rule. Remedy and Campbell were also members of the second place 200 medley relay team. Campbell anchored on freestyle, while Rule started the race at backstroke. Senior Kristen Richey swam the butterfly leg and sophomore Colleen Higgins swam the breaststroke leg. The girls also took seventh place in the 400 freestyle relay with the group of seniors Lamb and Maddy Tegen and
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Soccer Teams Get Ready To Win by Ben Scheiner The Western Albemarle Warriors girls soccer team, the defending Jefferson District champions, will kick off the 2014 season this week, and head coach Jacob Desch is very optimistic. “Our expectations for this season are to be very competitive and battle for another Jefferson District championship,” he said. “We have won the past two district titles and we would like to compete for another.” The Warriors will lean heavily on seniors Alexis Hucek and Sarah Grupp, their talented midfield duo. Hucek, who is returning from a broken foot suffered last year, will stress defenses from her attacking-midfield position. Grupp will be responsible for controlling the middle of the field and dictating the pace of play.
This season is sure to be the Warriors’ toughest test in some time. Thirteen players from last season’s roster graduated, and sophomore Anna Sumpter and senior Rachel Cooke have both been lost for the season to ACL injuries. These losses hurt, but Desch has confidence is his talented young team. “We’re inexperienced, but with our success in recent years at both the JV and varsity levels, we are confident and motivated to continue winning.” The team knows that nothing comes easy, especially in the competitive Jefferson District. “Albemarle is very talented, with several travel soccer players on the team. Charlottesville High School is our rival and always a difficult competitor,” said Desch. This is also the first season that the
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WAHS Wrestling Is Back by David Wagner Under second-year Head Coach Adam Mulcahy the Western Albemarle wrestling team attained success that the program hasn’t experienced in recent years. The Warriors finished third in the district tournament going 5-2 (the losses came to district champs Louisa and second place finisher Orange County), and
sent a total of nine wrestlers to regionals and two to state’s. The third place finish at districts was a big step for the Warriors, since both Orange and Albemarle were added to the district this year. They’re both 5A schools. The Warriors are classified as a 3A school, based on the number of students enrolled. The Warriors won an early season tourna-
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By John Andersen, DVM gazettevet@crozetgazette.com
A Towel Helps People must have been wondering what in the world we were doing when they saw a staff member and me recently in front of our hospital. We were on the sidewalk, kneeling over a dog with a muzzle on and a towel over his head in 25 degree weather. “I thought you were putting that poor dog to sleep!” admitted a client a few minutes later. But the dog’s owner was actually quite thrilled with what we were doing, as we were actually able to clip her dog Colby’s nails without using sedation! Nobody told me that when I signed up to be a veterinarian I was actually signing up to be an animal torturer, at least from the eyes of the animals. These pets suddenly get swept up from the comfort of their homes, lying peacefully in some sunbeam, only to be leashed up or shoved in a carrier and driven over to the place where bad things generally happen to me. Their sense of smell is so acute that they easily know where they arrived as soon as the car stops in the parking lot. The last time I was here, they took my rectal temperature and poked me with a needle! thinks the worried pet. What
next?! Why, mommy?! Why??!! Taking temperatures, getting blood, giving shots, trimming toenails, doing rectal exams, cleaning ears…these are the hourly chores of my job and I’m pretty sure no pet has those on their “favorite things” list. Fortunately, most dogs and cats take these little tortures in stride. Some dogs are just so excited to see new people that the harassment is an easy trade for a new adventure and a few biscuits. Others are clearly skeptical, but have a deep trust in mankind, and comply simply because they are good. Cats mostly just freeze, assuming that if they just sit still and don’t move, it’ll all be over soon. But then you have the fighters. The ones who say “go ahead, try and take my temperature!” with a deep growl and teeth bared. Or, “I tell you what, you can get some blood, but then I’m gonna get some blood!” These pets are really not bad; they’re just scared, independent, and kind of smart. In fact, I really do feel the most compassion for these “terrible at the vet” pets, because they are usually terrified beyond reason and need the most patient and gentle touch. Colby is terrible at the vet. We learned that the hard way at his first
few visits with us. As we entered the room, he was immediately on guard and making direct eye contact, yet huddled behind his owner. He would take a treat and allow me to talk to his owner, but as soon as I approached him, he would not hesitate to lunge at me, biting. These are always scary moments, as Colby is a big dog and could really injure me. Yet it’s my job to figure out a way to give him care. For most dogs, if we can get a muzzle on them, we’ve won the battle. Though their jaws are strong enough to crush the bones in my hand, the muscles to open their mouth are not very strong and a muzzle is a perfect defense weapon for us. It also seems to calm these situations down as the dogs often seem to surrender a bit when they realize their weapons have been disarmed. But how do you get a muzzle on a dog who’s lunging at you?! Sometimes they’ll let their owners do it, but not Colby. He’d bite her, too, and she knew it. For smaller dogs we can throw a towel or two over their head and control them that way, but Colby was 70 pounds, strong, and fast. Colby’s fear of “the vet doing stuff to me” was so strong he would often defecate and urinate when he felt threatened in the room. So, I decided to just bail on those first few appointments. I told his owner that this clearly was not going to happen today, we didn’t want anyone to get hurt, and emotionally it was hard for Colby. But he was overdue for his rabies vaccine and his toenails were ridiculously long. I recommended that we not give up and that she come back
in a few weeks and call us when she pulled in the parking lot. Two weeks later, I met Colby’s mom outside in the parking lot. It happened to be a nice day outside, and she got Colby out of the back of the car. I casually greeted Colby on the sidewalk in front of our office and it was amazing the difference in his temperament. Instead of acting like a caged Cujo, he was pretty normal, allowing me to pet him and rub his ears. I nervously pushed my luck as I lifted up his lip to look at his teeth. I was trying my best to act like nothing was going on while my heart was racing, waiting for him to snap at my hand or face. Score! I was able to give him a decent exam and his rabies vaccine without even a muzzle. But every dog has his limits. I made the mistake of touching one of his feet and Colby exploded with wide eyes and a big growl and snap. Fortunately my “don’t get bit” reflexes are pretty fast and I jumped away. Over the next several visits, we started to find our way with Colby. We found that we always have to do everything outside. We found that he is much better without his owner present. We found that if I give him a ridiculous amount of biscuits that he’ll even let me put a muzzle on him. And we found that if we put a towel over his head, he’ll even let us get blood and trim his toenails! So that’s how I found myself kneeling on a sidewalk over a dog with a muzzle on and a towel over his head. Colby was not loving it, but he wasn’t even growling as my technician ground his toenails short with a Dremel tool and adminis-
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tered his vaccines. When we were done, we got him up, took off the muzzle, told him how much we loved him and fed him tons of biscuits. He seemed as proud of himself as we were of ourselves! Over the past 12 years, I have been bitten several times by cats and dogs. Recently I had the entire backside of one of my pant legs torn off by a pit bull. In each of these incidents, I was never mad at the pet – I was mad at myself for letting myself get bit. In every event I should’ve known better and I let my guard down. I still get scared and nervous at times, but I have learned, really, that every animal ultimately has a way to be dealt with. Successful encounters with scared, aggressive animals, when we feel we finally were able to gain a level of temporary trust with these pets, are moments of pride for me and our staff. Colby is always ready to bite me and I’ll never be able to relax with him. But, oddly, I’ve come to cherish that dog over the years. Though that might change if he makes me buy another pair of pants.
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practicing physicians, I am required to spend a least a week a year in a classroom catching up on what is new in medicine. It is a good idea, as long as you can find a program that is worthwhile and up to date. It doesn’t hurt if it is in Key West. And so the roles were reversed. I became the student, not the teacher. Having just ended such a significant part of my professional identity, I was in a reflective mood. I found myself analyzing the teaching styles of the various lecturers, recognizing what worked and what didn’t. I began to miss teaching a little bit. As the week wore on, the several hundred ER docs in attendance grew comfortable with each other and a spontaneous discussion broke out about the current generation of medical school graduates. There was unanimous agreement that their ability to perform a physical exam is far less developed than previous generations of students.
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Splatter Plant Few groups of plants excite as much passion as variegated cultivars. Much of the response is in the “Hate it!” category; then again, some other folks can’t get enough of these plants with yellow, white or cream mixed into the green of the leaves. One of the more common variegated woody plants is the Japanese Aucuba (Aucuba japonica), often just referred to as aucuba. I’ve seen Spotted Laurel reported as a common name in some sources, but I’ve never actually heard anyone refer to it as such. Aucubas used to be placed in the dogwood family (Cornaceae), but are now considered to be more closely related to the Garryas, shrubs common in the western United States. Native to the woodlands of Japan, aucubas arrived in England in the late 18th century and quickly became quite popular, so much so that a hundred years later, the Brits were pretty sick of them. Perhaps a classic case of an
over-used plant: it’s fine as long as only you have it. But when your neighbors on both sides join the parade? Not so much. Aucubas have male and female flowers on separate plants, so with the exception of a few self-fruitful cultivars, you won’t get the bright red berries if you don’t have a male within shouting distance of your girl. The flowers on the male are burgundy-purple, but small and not terribly conspicuous. Often hidden within the foliage, the berries are not a major reason for growing the variegated aucubas either. In fact, some might find the contrast of red fruits against the yellow and green leaves a bit much. If so, look for one of the few solid green cultivars in order to better show off the berries. Good luck, though: most of the breeding has churned out dozens of varieties with various degrees of yellow blotches, speckles and splatters. Some look like Jackson Pollock dipped his brush in yellow paint and then went after your plant. With any variegated plant, less can be more. One well-placed gold aucuba could make more of a statement than an entire row of them.
They can really pop out if backed up by a group of shrubs with dark green leaves—a Nellie Stevens holly, perhaps. Depending on your preferences in color combinations, a yellow and green plant might not work against a red brick wall. But that depends on a lot of factors: precisely how much yellow is in the leaf, the color of your bricks, and your views on potentially bold color contrasts. I can’t remember ever seeing really big aucubas, although they reportedly top out around six to 10 feet, even 15 feet in the best conditions. Many varieties have been
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and a new nursing station, but was otherwise well suited to its new use. They added a small lab that will be able to perform urine, hemoglobin and lead tests and rapid tests for strep throat and influenza. The doctors will interpret the tests. “We have a modest number of folks who come to us from the west side of town,” explained Dr. Michel. “We’ll have one physician here at all times,” he said. “We’ll be closed on Fridays until the patient base grows.” Their main office is open six days a week with a half day on Saturdays. “We had thought for a while about a second site,” he said. “We
selected for compactness and reach only about four feet. Typically breadth is about the same as height. Aucubas are easily transplanted into your garden and even though they might prefer moist, welldrained soils high in organic matter, they will accept considerably worse conditions, including polluted air, drought and salt. What they are not fond of is direct sunlight—unless you’re growing them at your summer cottage in Ireland. Too much sun will turn the leaves a sickly green in winter and younger leaves may even turn black. Either plant them under trees or in the foundation beds on the north side of your house. Truth in horticulture: I cannot in all honesty say, “Aucubas are one of my favorite plants!” But I do grow them, and a few aucubas can certainly brighten up dark corners of your yard. were bursting at the seams. This area has the greatest opportunity for success. We started looking a year ago. “We have been accepting new patients already and a lot of our current patients are excited for us to be here. As people we are happy and relaxed. As professionals we provide care that is evidence-based and upto-date. We are stingy with antibiotics.” “I think of us as thoughtful and caring physicians who really enjoy our work and want to be here,” said Dr. Boersma. “We love what we do and we love our patients. We see our job as partnering with parents in raising their child.” They will have three nurses, Niki Allen, Jessi Tabor and Rachel Adams.
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A Rip-Roarin’ Read by Clover Carroll | clover@crozetgazette.com
Are you in the mood for a rootin’-tootin’, all out wild west adventure, fully loaded with outlaws, shoot-outs, train robberies, and snake pits? Then pick up this year’s Big Read selection for our area: True Grit by Charles Portis. This parody of the Western genre presents all the stock features of the traditional Western made familiar by James Fenimore Cooper, Louis L’Amour, and countless Hollywood westerns, but seen through the clear eyes and deadpan humor of an intelligent, fearless, and single-minded heroine. More well-known as a movie than as a book, the 1969 film featuring John Wayne in an Oscarwinning performance makes U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn appear to be its central character. But in the 1968 novel, this honor goes instead to the feisty, intrepid narrator Mattie Ross, who lends the story its motive, its humor, and its originality (I have not yet seen the 2010 remake by the Coen Brothers.) Vivid descriptions, thrilling action, and hilarious dialogue peppered with regional idiom enliven the story. “I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains,” Mattie proclaims when offered a drink of whiskey. After you’ve read the book, don’t miss the many events this month at all JMRL branch libraries, including the March 10 discussion by the Crozet Library Monday Night Book Group and the showing of both movies.
True Grit is adult Mattie’s fictional memoir, looking back on the life-changing events that occurred when she was an adolescent of 14 in Arkansas and Choctaw Indian Territory (later Oklahoma), in the late 1870s. Spunky, determined young Mattie goes to Fort Smith with the expressed purpose of avenging the murder of her father by his own farmhand, Tom Chaney, who also robbed him of both money and his horse. To this end, she enlists the support of the most ruthless U.S. Marshal she can find—the overweight, hard-drinking, one-eyed Reuben (aka Rooster) Cogburn, whom we first meet as the lead witness in a trial before the notorious Judge Isaac Parker (18381896), known as the “hanging judge,” who convicted thousands and hung most of those he convicted. During questioning we learn that, as an instrument of frontier justice, Rooster has killed 23 men in four years. Perhaps in honor of this book, Fort Smith, Arkansas, will be the future home of the U.S. Marshals Museum. Using money she collects in a hard-driving bargain with the local stock trader, Mattie hires Rooster to track Chaney and his band of outlaws into nearby Indian Territory— where U.S. Marshals were the only representatives of the law. Although Rooster resists an alliance with a headstrong young girl whom he views as a “baby,” Mattie insists on accompanying him on the quest: “I
will see the thing done myself,” she declares. When Rooster and the cowboy dandy LaBoeuf, who is also after Chaney, attempt a pre-dawn getaway without her, Mattie proves her mettle and ultimately gains their respect by following them on her pony, Little Blackie, through rivers, deserts, and other dangers, essentially refusing to give up. Eventually accepting her as one of their band, Rooster even defends her against LaBoeuf ’s harsh treatment. “She has got the best of us,” he admits. Charles Portis was born in 1933 in El Dorado, Arkansas. After serving in the Marines during the Korean War, he became a successful journalist, eventually becoming London Bureau Chief for the New York Herald Tribune. We may imagine that homesickness got the better of him, based on fellow journalist Tom Wolfe’s report that he “quit cold one day…and moved into a fishing shack in Arkansas,” where he focused on writing fiction. Both his first novel Norwood (1967) and True Grit were serialized in the Saturday Evening Post. Portis creates a violent, lawless setting with events such as a public hanging, the Wharton family slaughter, and a deadly confrontation with outlaws at a dugout shelter during a blizzard. His creation of such a spunky and unflappable heroine at the height of the secondwave feminist movement is no doubt partly responsible for its 20 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. With her clear-eyed, nononsense outlook, her staid, scrip-
ture-quoting speech, and her refusal to be treated as either a child or a lady, Mattie turns the stereotypes of both the macho cowboy and the shrinking violet on their heads. In 1968, courageous, intelligent heroines like Mattie were rare: while even Nancy Drew was driving her coupe to luncheon with her chums, Mattie was eating fatback out of a knapsack on the frozen ground of a desert winter. She is the one who finally administers justice, shooting Tom Chaney twice. “Most girls like play pretties, but you like guns, don’t you?” asks outlaw Lucky Ned Pepper after Mattie has shot Tom Chaney the first time, in his side, but failed to critically wound him because her gun misfired twice. “I don’t care a thing in the world about guns. If I did, I would have one that worked,” she retorts. The centerpiece of the story is the relationship between Mattie and Rooster. Mattie comes to Fort Smith having just lost her father, and in a way finds a new father figure in Rooster. She helps him roll his cigarettes and prepares his fee sheets (U.S. Marshals were paid not in salary but by a fee system until 1896) in the same way she helped her rancher father keep his accounts. She draws him out on their long horseback ride through the Territory, learning how he rode with Quantrill’s Raiders, a band of Confederate fighters that included Jesse and Frank James, who conducted one of the bloodiest raids of the Civil War on Lawrence, Kansas. Through her determination and courage, Mattie gains Rooster’s respect; through helping her, Rooster regains his pride and redeems a lonely and dissolute life. Hiring him in the belief that he has continued on page 25
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about: How do insects survive freezing temperatures? Do insects feel pain? There’s even an Asian recipe for cooking giant water bugs! The book is chockfull of photographs in full color, which means you will recognize and be able to identify many insects and other arthropods that you’ve seen yourself. I only have one quibble with Bugs Rule! It’s the use of the word “pest”. I find it puzzling that even scientists who recognize that there are no “good bugs” or “bad bugs” (p. 8) still refer to some organisms in this way. The word “pest” represents an organism whose function in life is to harm humans or their environment in some way. But it’s not logical to think that an organism would deliberately behave in a manner that is destructive of its own environment or that there’s no reason for there to ever be harm done to humans. It’s only when organisms overpopulate an area that there are environmental problems because space and resources are limited. Disease spread by some kinds of insects—so-called pests—used to help keep humans from overpopulating the planet, but due to technological and medical “advances,” that is not occurring as much. Because humans have not recognized that we now must instead self-regulate our own numbers, we are overrunning our world. But my one criticism aside, I can’t praise this book enough. Bugs Rule! is hard cover and expensive, but it’s worth every cent for the wealth of information and fascinating reading that it provides.
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with my heart pounding. Back to a walk to recover, and then a little more running until it became necessary to breathe again and get the heart back down. I continued this pattern until I got home, then sat down on the front porch sweating and gasping for air. The kids wanted to drag me in before the neighbors saw me. “I tried this routine for a while until I could run a little farther and walk a little less, until my heart rate began to rise slower and my breathing became easier. I experienced some initial knee pain, but as my weight declined, the knee pain seemed to resolve. It was easier to run more steady. Within the first couple of months there was a change in how I felt physically and mentally. My health reversed. I lost 50 pounds. My cholesterol and triglycerides went back to normal. As I lost weight, I felt so much lighter and I just began to feel better. That’s what it’s all about.” And his family noticed the change as well. “I don’t really remember him being very involved when I was younger,” said his daughter Kathryn. “He worked long hours and when he did get home, I don’t remember much other than watching TV together. But after he made such an amazing transformation, his whole outlook changed. He became more active in our lives. My memories from that point on are of us running together, having great conversations in places other than a chair or a sofa, and seeing him in the stands watching us play sports. I also have great memories of races, both mine and his. He
became an inspiration, not only with his running. He was the walking definition of putting your mind to something and achieving it. He taught me perseverance and steadfastness.” Joe wasted no time getting his health back together. After slogging that first mile in 1979, he lost 50 pounds over the next few months and incredibly, within 9 months he ran a sub 3-hour marathon in October in Greensboro, NC. The rest is history. “You know, we get busy with our lives, making a living, consumed with work, and never thinking of fitness. Then you’re forced to go to a doctor who tells you ‘you need to change or you’re going to die.’ “With running, you get to ask yourself, ‘what are my limits?’ At first, I thought ‘I can get away with just a few miles here and there,’ but I began to realize that wasn’t good enough. It wasn’t good enough just to run a few times a week. I had to change fully and keep testing my limits. You can always do more.” So where are your limits? And what’s keeping you from testing them? What if Joe had stopped after his first run around the block, when he was collapsed on the front porch gasping for air? Joe’s story is truly inspiring, yet is incredibly simple. We can go back to that time on the porch and create two different endings, one of living and one of dying. Many of us are sitting down, gasping for air on that porch right now. It’s time to ask yourself, “Living? Or dying?” When I spoke with Joe, I talked to a man who was living. You could hear it in his voice and in his spirit. We’ve got one life to live, folks, and this is it!
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the elusive quality of “true grit,” Mattie is disappointed and angry during the climactic scene when she believes Rooster has abandoned her in captivity by the bandits. This predicament leads in turn to a surprise, nail-biting ending in which Rooster displays true heroism as he risks his own life to save hers, much as he would his own daughter. In the appropriately unsentimental denouement, after she nearly dies of
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Spice Up Your Weeknight Meals It’s Wednesday night, you’re standing at the fridge trying to decide what to make for dinner, and all you can come up with are the same old go-tos. Here are a few tricks I use to keep weeknight meals exciting and new. • Plan ahead. When making sauces or pesto or soups, make more than you need and freeze portions for quick use when needed. If you are a meat eater, instead of using pre-cut meats (chicken breast, pork chops, etc.) try using a whole chicken or roast. Have a plan for the leftovers— roast the chicken one night, then make chicken enchiladas the next. • Try to recreate a favorite restaurant dish. While the dish might not be exactly the same, it’s fun to try and guess how the pros do it. • Keep a stocked pantry. Some of my pantry must-haves are: stock (homemade or boxed),
canned beans, canned tomatoes, grains, pasta, vinegars, dried herbs. With a few basics always on hand you can spice up any meal. • Try not to get hung up on recipes. Use what you have and improvise. • If there is time get the whole family involved, I find kids are more excited to eat something they have helped make. • Keep a dinner log. This is something I just started doing this year, and I find it very helpful and fun. I like to keep track of what I made, where the recipe came from, things I would do differently next time and special ingredients used. Also, it makes it easy to look back for a quick meal idea. Next time you’re faced with the “what’s for dinner” dilemma, I hope one of these tips can help. Bon Appetit!
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gest remaining challenges to social integration is that laws against housing discrimination are not enforced and segregated neighborhoods are the result. “I’m a lifelong optimist,” he said, “but unless we put our shoulders to the wheel, we’re going to continue to be stuck. “Each of us needs to be involved in public life, doing something. Unless we do it, we’re not whole people. I want to make my society perfect. I always think the best thing is going to become so. When I was younger in the civil rights movement, we thought we could integrate lunch counters. If you work hard, you can succeed, and it turned out to be true.” Bond is leading summer bus tours of important locations in the history of the movement and talking with people, now elderly, involved in those events.
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a snake bite, her several attempts to see Rooster again are never successful. But she displays her gratitude and affection for him by having him buried in her family’s plot. It is Mattie’s unique voice, combined with the contrast between her unsentimental, no-nonsense approach to events and the more vain, self-serving behavior of her male companions, that makes the book so very entertaining. “Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone,” she observes. Through this coming-of-age story, we experience the transformation of her naïve, black-and-white views of good and evil to a more mature recognition of life’s moral complexities. By the end of the novel, the multi-layered meaning of the title phrase has become clearer, and we realize that Mattie, through this adventure and throughout her long life, herself embodies true grit.
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[ by elena day • elena@crozetgazette.com \ Michele Obama may be working very hard to get Americans to make healthier food choices but meanwhile the Obama administration is poised to support the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s so-called cost-cutting measures in the poultry processing industry that will make all that chicken and turkey we eat less healthy. (I say “so-called” because in the end the consumer suffers and “pays” when sickened by E. coli or Salmonella-contaminated meat.) Poultry processing is already a dirty business with high fecal contamination rates and high incidence of worker injuries from repetitive slicing, carving and yanking. The new legislation dubbed by Food and Water Watch the “Filthy Chicken Rule” would increase line speeds in processing plants from 140 birds per minute to 175. (140 birds per minute translates into 20,000 cuts per day.) Hundreds of federal inspectors would be eliminated from the processing lines. Inspections would be essentially privatized. Plant workers with no training would be charged with identifying and removing tainted chickens/turkeys. Poultry processing plants already use toxic, bacteria-killing chemicals like chlorine and peracetic acid to remove contaminants that escape notice at current, already breakneck, speeds. Since the USDA began work on this plan in 2011, the National Chicken Council has spent more than $500,000 annually lobbying Congress, five times its average. You can write the USDA to rescind its “Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection” rule at http:// bit.ly/1eGDakZ. Incidences of failings in poultry and meat inspections by the Food Safety and Inspection Service at port(s) of entry have increased recently under USDA Secretary Vilsnack. This is particularly troubling since the USDA plans to expand meat and poultry imports from Brazil and China. Both countries have weak food safety systems. Poultry waste is “big” on the Maryland and Virginia Eastern
Shore, and in Delaware. (Closer to home, in the Shenandoah Valley, we have a large number of poultry operations.) Agricultural runoff from farm fields saturated with poultry waste from contract growers is a primary contributor to the wretched condition of the Chesapeake Bay. Maryland has attempted to get rid of those billion and a half pounds of phosphorus-laden poultry waste generated every year with the Manure Transport Program (MTP). Initiated in 1999, the MTP offers up to $20 a ton to move poultry waste off contract farms and out of the Bay watershed. Four companies account for all contract chickens on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Perdue has the lion’s share. According to the Maryland Dept. of Budget and Management, between 2008 and 2010 Perdue, with annual sales of $4.8 billion, was paid $2.5 million by the MTP to remove waste from its contract farms. MTP is often termed a corporate welfare program. The small fraction of the manure that Perdue picks up is used in its AgriRecycle enterprise. In 2001 Perdue began pelletizing chicken litter and marketing it as “organic” fertilizer. Perdue claims that it contributes half the money for the MTP program; however, it is more than likely that it is passing on costs of the MTP to its contract farmers. Perdue, Tysons and other Big Ag poultry corporations provide the contract grower with chicks, feed, medication and technical advisors to supervise the production. The corporation, which calls itself “the integrator,” owns the birds and regularly insists on contract operatorpaid upgrades in chicken housing facilities and equipment. When the chickens are ready for slaughter (about 6 weeks) the company picks them up and the grower is paid by the pound. Growers compete with one another as to price/pound and are subject to contract termination at any time at the discretion of the integrator. The integrator might be well called “the terminator” as many contract growers end up losing their family farm when forced to invest in new buildings and equipment or
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my favorite crop to grow. We eat lots of it and we eat our own, homegrown, all year. We eat it in salads and what we call lettuce bomb sandwiches. A lettuce bomb is lots of it piled on a fried egg and cheese sandwich. We’ve got plenty of head lettuce in the hoop house. It has frozen and thawed many times this winter. It survives, even when we registered 2° F.
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teacher Maureen Russell. “I saw how incredible it was when it arrived at the school,” said Russell. “Then I got into the whole project.” She asked her eighth grade art students to take on the mystery like detectives. They studied Henley yearbooks to identify the letter writers. They eventually discovered Brashear, now a news editor for C-ville weekly, and she made connections to two other Henley students who were involved, Margaret Marshall and Lauren Magerfield, who are also still living in the area. Russell’s students, led by Jacob Chang-Rascle, who made a movie of the how the mystery was solved, hosted a reception for the reunited letter-writers at Henley Feb. 27. The letters were returned to their authors. “I was a little embarrassed to read my letter,” admitted Brashear. “Me, too,” agreed Magerfield. Also invited were Tony and Kathy Zentgraf, whose son Aaron, who was in killed in a car accident in 2004, was among the letter writers. They received his letter to the future, silently. Russell’s students, now inspired, are creating their own time capsule. They intend to open it in 15 years. They got some advice from their predecessors, like don’t include a floppy disk, and maybe put your parents’ address in there in case someone comes looking for them.
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sophomores Mckenna Riley and Savannah Scarbrough. Riley swam a lifetime best on her leg of the 400 relay team. Individually, the girls were exceptional as well. Not only did Remedy Rule swim on the first and second place relay teams, she took first place finishes in both of her individual events, setting new team records in both the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke. All three of her first place finishes attained AllAmerican time standards and are currently in the top 50 times posted nationally. Only a junior, Rule is poised to continue her record setting ways and should be a top collegiate prospect next year. Lamb was impressive as well. She finished third in the 50 freestyle, setting a new team record, and was seventh in the 100 free. Richey finished 13th in the 50 free and 11th in the 100 butterfly (lifetime best time). Campbell landed in tenth place in the 50 free. Higgins, who was a member of the second place 200 medley relay team, finished sixth in the 200IM and fifth in the 100 breaststroke (both lifetime best times). Brazil Rule, who swam on the state winning 200 free relay, took home two top 10 finishes with a seventh in 200 free and a sixth in the 100 free. Scarbrough (400 free relay) finished ninth in the 100 Breaststroke and 11th in the 200
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team will compete in the Virginia High School League. “This is the first year of the conference format, so I don’t know the Valley teams very well. I expect that Monticello and Spotswood High School will be very competitive. Those two teams are extremely athletic and well coached.” While many American soccer teams are moving towards a more physical style of play and are looking for bigger and more aggressive players, Desch remembers why soccer is referred to as “the beautiful game.” “We challenge ourselves to play the most difficult style of soccer, a true possession-based game, not a
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freestyle (both lifetime best times). Other contributors were Brynn Acker, who got a top 10 finish in the 200IM and took 13th place in the 100 butterfly. Fellow junior Keller Whitlock finished 16th in the 100 backstroke and Tegen swam a seasonal best time in her leg of the 400 free relay team that finished seventh in the state. Tegen wasn’t even supposed to swim, as she was an alternate. At the last minute, Coach Bledsoe asked her how quickly she could get her suit on, and she proceeded to put in her best performance of the year in this event. The boys made a strong showing as well, led by seniors Spencer Elliott, Danny O’Dea and Zach Mandell. As a team they took fourth place in the 200 medley relay and fifth in both the 200 and 400 freestyle relays. Elliott was the anchor leg on the fourth place 200 medley relay and the fifth place 200 free relay and took a top 10 finish in the 100 meter breaststroke, posting a lifetime best time of 1:05.64. O’Dea anchored the 400 free relay team, swam the backstroke leg of the 200 medley relay, and finished fifth in both the 100 free and 100 back. Mandell added a lifetime best time on his butterfly leg of the 200 medley relay. Senior Meade Cogan added a 13th place finish in the 500 freestyle. Junior Kyle Benson had a strong state meet, swimming lifetime best times in both the 400 and 200 freestyle relays and posted an 11th place
finish in the 100 free. With the departure of Elliott, O’Dea and Mandell, the Warriors will likely look to Benson next year for leadership. Another strong junior who the Warriors will look to is Marcus Van Clief, who posted a lifetime best time in the 200 Free relay, as well as a lifetime best time in the 400 free relay in preliminaries. Sophomore Jake Paulson swam a seasonal best on the 400 free relay, while freshmen A.J. Donovan and Matt Mandell posted lifetime best times also. Donovan was great on his leg of the 200 free relay, posting a time of 23.51, and Mandell swam the breaststroke leg on the 200 medley relay in 29.50. Sophomore Ian O’Donnell also posted a lifetime best time by swimming the 500 freestyle seven seconds faster than he ever had (a pretty remarkable time improvement in the water). The Warrior divers also made a good showing at the state meet. The girls placed three in the top 10. Senior Leann Tarleton came in third, up from eighth place in 2013. Senior Alex Brown moved up to the seventh spot from an 11th place finish in 2013 and freshmen Charlotte Norris took fifth place in only her first year as a diver. Norris could make a serious run at a state championship. On the boys side, Bobby Surina took fifth in the state, moving up five spots from 10th place last year. Coach Bledsoe felt a special quality in this year’s team. He said it was
one of the finest groups of young people he’d been around in his years of coaching at Western Albemarle and felt the kids helped him as much as he coached them. The team’s support of each other, their unity and togetherness was tangible. They worked really hard in the pool and out of it. Their spirit was unbending and palpable, as they seemed to intimidate their opponents. I got a chance to interview two of the senior girl captains Campbell and Tegen, and they echoed Coach Bledsoe’s sentiments. The girls said that when anyone was in the pool at states the whole team was there to cheer them on. They seemed to think it had an intimidating effect on their opponents, as none of the other teams showed the team spirit and unity they did. They also felt like the hard work and training they did (Navy Seal training) really had an impact on their toughness and team unity. Working that hard together in small groups seemed to bring them closer together, not only as teammates but as friends too. That togetherness carried over to the meets. I asked the girls about “highlights” over the last four years. The looks on their faces, priceless, asked, how in the world do we do that when we’ve won four straight state titles? Congratulations Warriors on continuing to set the bar high and doing it with class.
physical game at all. We believe that good things happen when we have the ball.” The ultimate goal remains the same: build relationships, create a competitive atmosphere, and most importantly, bond as a team. “Our team embraces the idea of becoming a family. It’s not just about playing soccer, but creating relationships and bonds that will last long past their high school careers. Our program goal is to have fun, work hard, and get better as a team,” Desch said.
it to perform well. “We have high expectations this year. We have done well in district play. We have a strong core of technical, smart players, along with some quality new players, and we like to think we can play good enough soccer that we will extend our season into June,” Rittenhouse said. The strength of the team lies in the midfield, where seniors Michael Nafziger and Forrest White lead the charge. “Our team will be built around our midfield. White and Nafziger will join forces in the midfield just as they did when they were our starting center midfielders as freshman,” Rittenhouse said. The Warriors have plenty of talent in other positions as well. Strikers Chase Stokes and Aidan Sinclair, who Rittenhouse describes
as winners with creativity, give the team a decisive finishing touch in the final third of the field. They are complemented by Jake Lee, a versatile defender, also has the ability to push the ball up the field and help in the attack. The last line of defense will be Will Alton and Ilo Zak, two seniors who should steady the Warriors. The Warriors know they will need to be schematically sound to succeed. Rittenhouse emphasizes defense and expects this team to thrive on it. “We will continue using a formation that we started last year. It’s built around technical players who think well on their feet. Defense is our staple: we notched 11 shutouts and allowed only 10 goals in 19 games.” To defend well, a team must be
The Western Albemarle boys soccer team has their hopes set just as high. After graduating seven seniors, one might expect the team to be inexperienced, but head coach Paul Rittenhouse says this year’s team has plenty of experience and he expects
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Cold, Snow and Stink Bugs The big story in January was cold, but in February, snow stole the show. While January was the coldest month in 20 years, February racked up 17” of snow, the most since 2010 and 15th place all time. The most snow ever in a month was in March of 1960 when 30” fell. Of course, most of the snow fell in one huge storm the day before Valentines. The month wasn’t all wintry, though. Six days had highs above 60, with 68 on the 23rd. So, does the cold, snowy winter have an upside? Some research suggests that the cold weather will kill the stink bugs. I’m skeptical, but here is the basic research situation. Stink bugs arrived here around 2007 and have multiplied rapidly. In that time, there hasn’t been a really cold winter like this one. At Virginia Tech, Thomas Kuhar, professor of bugs (entomology), has been running survival tests each winter. The stink bugs are put into a bucket that has some hiding places and put outdoors for the winter. This year, 95% of the annoying bugs died from the cold. The spec-
ulation is that we will see dramatically reduced populations this year. Nobody really knows but we’ll find out a lot from this test case. Heidi and I are skeptical because we have lost repeated battles with the Asian imports. I suspect most found a cozy place for the winter… better than a bucket in Blacksburg…and they will just breed like crazy when it gets warm. Also, our Crozet friend Melissa went to her barn once after a bitter cold stretch and pulled back a tarp. She found a gazillion stink bugs that appeared perfectly happy, despite temperatures well below freezing for an extended period. Precipitation February was a wet one, with heavy rain early in the month and heavy snow mid-month. Crozet 3.89” Old Trail 3.49” Nellysford 4.10” Wintergreen 3.88” Univ. of VA 3.24” Waynesboro 4.25” CHO Airport 3.34”
Mint Springs Valley Park Gets Beach Repairs The upper lake at Mint Springs was drained in January and last month carpenters from Pleasant View Developers in Staunton completed repairs to the swimming platform and the 80-foot bridge that leads to the beach from the parking lot. The upper structure of the bridge was replaced and it got new composite decking, said carpenter Bill Izzillo. The platform got new decking and bracing. Izzillo said the supporting posts of both structures were found to be in good shape. County officials expect the lake to refill in time for the park’s regular summer season.
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ment at Albemarle High School. At the Conference 29 tournament, the Warriors finished fourth among eight schools and the nine wrestlers who qualified for regionals all finished in the top four of their weight classes. The eight schools that make up Conference 29 are Broadway, Turner Ashby, Spotswood, Fort Defiance, Stuarts Draft, Waynesboro, Monticello and Western Albemarle. The wrestlers that qualified for regional’s are: Andrew Dickerson in the 113 weight class placed first; Asa Shin at 126, third; Kieran Riley at 132, third; Khalil Bland at 138, fourth; Gabe Rhody-Ramazani at 145, third; Sean Sawyer at 152, fourth; Nate Riley at 160, third; Chris Miller at 182, first; and heavyweight Donte Henry, was third. Eight of the nine won at least one match at regional’s and Dickerson and Miller qualified for states. Khalil Bland was impressive at regionals as well. He finished in fifth place at regionals, winning four of his matches convincingly to
qualify as a state alternate in the 138 pound division. In 2013 the Warriors sent five wrestlers to regionals. Qualifying nine in 2014 was a great accomplishment for the team and Coach Mulcahy. In just two years, Mulcahy has revitalized the Warrior wrestling program. Dickerson, a senior and junior Miller excelled this year. Dickerson ended his career with 117 wins, breaking the 100 mark at the district tournament. He finished second at the 3A West Regionals and fourth in the state, going 2-2 at the state finals. His talent and career numbers garnered enough attention that he will be attending S. I. T. in New York next year as a member of the wrestling team. Wrestling in the 182-pound weight class, Miller finished second in the region and fourth in the state. He tallied 46 wins on the season (40 is considered a big year) and dominated opponents on a regular basis. With the return of Miller next year and a number of others, the Warriors will be looking forward to next season. Congratulations on a great 2014.
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that doesn’t bypass? As one speaker at the hearing put it, it might have been a bypass if it was built in 1949. Any bypass plan that does not extend north of Ruckersville is nonsense, and that requirement will make any future plan dauntingly expensive. Crozet actually had more at stake in the outcome. Given the way that highway improvement funds are distributed, had the bypass gone forward, Albemarle would have consumed its share of funds for another 40 years on a single stupid six-mile stretch. Now other needed roads and bridges can get back in scrum for funding. In the early stages of planning Crozet’s future, it was imagined that developers, in exchange for rezonings to higher densities, could be made to pay for a bridge over Lickinghole Creek that would connect Cory Farm to Westhall and create a north-south artery for eastern Crozet. Developers were also expected to pay for a crossing of the railroad tracks in the vicinity of Music Today that would tie that artery, “eastern avenue” into Rt. 240. That solution is now fantasy. Ten years ago, the bridge cost was estimated to be between $9 and $11 million. Who dares to guess at it now? Since it is highly unlikely CSX railroad will consent to a grade-level crossing at Rt. 240, a huge liability cost for them, a crossing will probably involve a trestle and underpass or a bridge high enough to allow double-stacked shipping containers to pass underneath it. We now know what the density of development in eastern Crozet will be and it won’t shoulder those expenses. These will ultimately have to be publicly funded projects and the demise of the bypass means that at least there should be some public funds to compete for.
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BEREAVEMENTS
Russell Herring, 1920 -2014 Russell Edward Herring, Jr., died February 23, 2014, in Charlottesville. Dr. Herring was born January 4, 1920, in Richmond. He graduated from John Marshall High School and the University of Richmond (Class of 1940), where he was a member of the cross country team and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He was briefly, before entering the Army after Pearl Harbor, a graduate student in the Biology department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After serving in World War Two as an artillery officer in North Africa and Italy with the 85th Infantry Division, he taught school for a short time in Fishersville. He then entered the Medical College of Virginia on the GI Bill. Upon graduation in 1950, he established a general medical practice in Crozet, where he was one of two physicians serving all of Western Albemarle County. In 1961, he began a residency in radiology at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine, and completed his medical career as a radiologist in Hendersonville, NC, and Martinsville, retiring in 1985. He is preceded in death by his wife of 67 years, Nancy Jane Sellers Herring of Wilson, NC (died 2010); a daughter, Nancy Herring Goodman of New York City (died 1982); and two grandsons: Michael Harris Goodman (died 1981) and William Patrick Herring (died 2014). He is survived by his three sons: Robert Herring (wife Anne Mayberry) of Arlington, Russell T. Herring (wife Patricia Herring) of Waynesboro, and Stephen A. Herring of Ashland; three grandchildren: James A.M. Herring and Emily E.M. Herring of Arlington, and Cori Killian of Houston, TX; and two great-grandchildren. After his discharge from the Army in 1945, Dr. Herring served in the U.S. Army Reserve, retiring with the rank of colonel in 1974.
He was extremely grateful to his country for providing him with the means (the GI Bill) to become a physician and to buy his first house. Like many Virginians of his generation, he was an avid Civil War buff, and always kept a framed portrait of Stonewall Jackson on the wall of his house. He counted as one of the redletter events of his life the day he shook the hand of Douglas Southall Freeman, the author of the multi-volume opus, Lee’s Lieutenants. Dr. Herring was a long-standing and very active member of Crozet United Methodist Church—shoving boxes around at the church’s monthly Food Bank until he was well into his late 80s. He was also a member of the White Hall Ruritan Club; he particularly enjoyed their apple butter-making festivities in the Fall. Dr. Herring left strict instructions that there was to be no funeral or memorial service. “I don’t want anyone making a fuss over me,” he said on numerous occasions. He has donated his body for scientific research. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad or the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department —two organizations Dr. Herring admired greatly.
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happens, it’s all there for re-examination.” The box that is capturing all that data, in every detail, virtually instantly, is important, but more important is the software that makes it possible to investigate the data that is captured. nPulse’s multithreaded software can detect a network compromise in minutes, rather than hours later, and reconstruct every step in what Caldejon called the “kill chain,” the vital series of events that led to the breakin. nPulse has two patents on algorithms, specific mathematical procedures for making calculations. The firm has 12 engineers, all with computer science degrees, including Ph.D.s. “We’re a family-oriented place,” said Caldejon. “We take off a week at Christmas and we work 9 to 5 hours. nPulse now has 30 employees, some of whom work remotely, and a sales office in Chantilly. “We do all the software here in Crozet,” said Caldejon. “Our competence is the software. The hard-
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fit and Rittenhouse and his staff are making sure that each player is in tip-top condition before taking the field. “We work hard for 80 minutes. We focus our time making sure everyone is technically and defensively sound and fit,” he said. While the talent and coaching is
ware is shipped worldwide out of a manufacturer in Chicago, MBX Systems.” Caldejon said he intends to keep going independently. “We’ve been approached many times about getting acquired, but it’s status quo,” said Caldejon, who is now chairman of the board. In 2011, in order to bring in private investment, the company went from being a limited liability company to incorporation with a board. nPulse engineers were in San Francisco last week for the RSA Security conference, the main such event in the cyber security industry. They won a silver Info Security Global Excellence Award for the Most Innovative Security Product of the Year (Hardware). “For the first time we had our own booth and we unveiled a new product, nSpector. It’s our next generation product. It’s what customers have been asking for. Now we have what we call distributed boxes that supply a central site. We’re responding to what our customers are asking for. We call our products userbased. “We’ve gone into an agile development model and that’s helped us get ahead, rather than just be reac-
tive. Now we’re in a three-year program. The first stage is packet analysis, second is forensic analysis and next year we’ll have threat analysis. We’re moving into being predictive. We’re trying to give warnings when we see a trend building. Our software is designed to work on multiple cores and it will take us up to 100 gigabyte-per-second volumes. We’re working on a shoestring budget. We boot-strap ourselves.” But nPulse has attracted partnerships with such well-known names
as Cisco, Intel, NetApp, Fire-Eye, Splunk and Symantec. Caldejon said the company expects to earn $10 million in revenue next year. Everything under development at nPulse is kept encrypted and Caldejon is studiously vague about some aspects of network forensics. But when you next hear about a network break-in and precious data being ripped-off, remember we’ve got the heroes in the white hats here in Crozet and they are riding to the rescue.
in place, the boys’ team expects to have their hands full with the other teams in their district, especially Albemarle and Charlottesville. “Albemarle joins our district with a talented team and coaching staff. CHS is also full of very athletic, competitive players. We have learned enough over the years that anyone is capable, so we are not looking past Fluvanna or Orange either,” Rittenhouse said.
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Jessica Mauzy, the indefatigable leader of the Crozet Trails Crew, joined by Jan Harrison and Bob Dombrowe holding a map of the unfolding Crozet trail system, celebrated the installation of a new steel truss bridge at the end of Summerdean Drive in Westhall. The new bridge gives the public access to a completed trail that leads to the Lickinghole Creek Basin in eastern Crozet (where they say you
can sometimes see a Bald Eagle) and will someday connect westward to Crozet Park. CTC volunteers led a hike over the route that the bridges have connected. Beside keeping existing trails in good condition, the CTC is next working on a trail connecting Western Ridge to Cory Farm and Rt. 250.
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B e Pa r t o f t h e S t o ry Come out for the 4th annual Salute to Swing dance to benefit three Crozet community organizations: Build Crozet Library, Crozet Volunteer Fire Department and the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad. Saturday, March 29 Field School- Crozet Ave. Crozet VA 22932 Tickets $20 include: Free dance lessons at 7 PM Music and dancing - 8-11 PM Light refreshments, beer & wine available.
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