Crozet Gazette May 2012 by The Crozet Gazette

INSIDE More Play page 3 Letters page 5 YMCA Debut page 7 Sales Up page 8 Chestnut Revival page 10

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May 2012 VOL. 6, NO. 12

Last Big Acreage in Eastern Crozet Slated for Development

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what’s inside counts page 12 plank road exchange page 13 teamsters page 15 lyme disease page 18 three tours page 19 king’s kettle page 22 food & water page 23 Foxes page 24 What to Do? page 25 sad, mad & bad page 26 pea soup page 29 poetry winner page 29 globals page 30 gone crazy? page 31 crossword page 33 st. paul’s rector page 35 hunger games page 38

Fifth District Congressman Robert Hurt met with Bill Schrader, showing the plans for the new Crozet library, and Jefferson/Madison Regional Library Director John Halliday to talk about fundraising for the library’s contents.

Hurt Tours Western Albemarle Fifth District Congressman Robert Hurt of Chatham dashed through the Crozet area May 2, calling on small businesses and getting a status update on Crozet Library. He arrived at Wyant’s Store in White Hall at 7:30 a.m. and sat on the long plank bench under the porch, chatting with farmers stopping in for coffee as a noisy stream of traffic turned south on Rt. 810 toward Crozet. It is a district work week in Congress, a week when no votes are scheduled in the House and con-

gressmen have a chance to attend to business at home. The Fifth District is Virginia’s most sprawling, reaching from the North Carolina line to Fauquier County, nearly to the riverbanks of Maryland. Hurt has a lot of geography to care about. “The Fifth District is unique in that it is mostly rural but it has flavor with the University [of Virginia] and Charlottesville,” he said. “The agriculture sector is huge and vitally important, but we still have some manufacturing and some furniture continued on page 12

A plan to build as many as 145 houses on what was formerly the Shifflett Farm, the last large undeveloped acreage in eastern Crozet, was considered at an Albemarle County planning department review meeting April 19 and the plan, dubbed Westlake Hills, has gone back to the drawing board for revision. The by-right plan, one that the county may regulate but not deny, was put forward by Riverside Management. Their CEO Alan Taylor attended. By leaving 45 percent of the land in open space, mainly creek bottoms and the slopes along them, the plan is entitled to a six percent housing density bonus. Lots would be a half-acre, said Taylor, the same size as those his company is developing next door in Foothill Crossings, a by-right subdivision that is an extension of Park Ridge Road. Foothill Crossing and Westlake Hills will connect. Part of the property has critical [steep] slopes and Riverside is asking for a slopes waiver in order to achieve the 145-lot scale. Some 27 lots in the plan are affected by critical slopes, according to county engineer Glenn Brooks. Planning chief David Benish said that the county takes a more protective view of continued on page 17

Storm Water Wetlands Serving Downtown Crozet Nears Completion The project to detain and filter storm water falling in the 50-acre watershed that drains most of downtown Crozet is expected to be complete by July. The project on the south end of downtown, begun in December, is converting a triangular section of bottomland along Powell’s Creek into a six-cell wetland that will hold storm water and allow sediments to sift out into terraced pools before it reaches the creek. The shal-

low pools, just six to twelve inches deep, will be planted, as will the low berms that divide them. Vegetation will filter the runoff and by the time water does make its way into the creek it will be substantially cleaned. The project is necessary to enable development in downtown, according to county water resources manager Greg Harper. He said the need came to light when county staffers continued on page 37

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From the Editor U.S.A.: Under Surveillance Always We’ve gotten used to cameras watching us in banks and some stores. We know the government records our phone calls and has the originals of our text messages and emails archived. We know web browsers record every click and keystroke we make so that their knowledge of us will ultimately be so intimate and accurate that they may confidently try to sell us anything. Satellites in space, if their controllers wish to train their cameras on us, can see if we laced our shoes with a snug knot. Now comes the news that the government, so well pleased by how small unmanned aircraft commonly called drones have worked in military operations, has authorized their use in American skies. According to news reports (see the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal)

as many as 30,000 drones are expected to be watching us from the sky after 2015. We thought only God had that vantage point and, mercifully, he doesn’t seem to take advantage of it. In the future when you are standing in your yard, you should remind yourself that someone somewhere could be asking himself if your behavior is suspicious. Hmm, was that a weed you just pulled out of your garden or a protected species? The Department of Homeland Security is naturally among the 50 or so institutions licensed to operate the drones. Others are police departments, which are already becoming militarized with their SWAT teams, and universities. Private companies are also likely to be authorized and there is clearly a big, lucrative commercial market opening up in drone technology. There are obviously benign uses for this technology that will give timely and helpful information that

would otherwise be nearly impossible to obtain. Like looking for lost hikers. Or appropriate police uses like looking for drug smugglers at the border. But all those rely on the virtue of the person in control of the technology. We must trust that those in control restrain themselves to employing drones only for good purposes. How much do you trust the virtue of those possessing power? Drones are challenging our fundamental sense of what it means to have human dignity and the notions of liberty that we learned in school. Those freedoms and our privacy have deteriorated gradually while we go on assuming our assumptions are intact. Soon our technologies will enable those in authority to manage us absolutely. Will America still be the Land of the Free or essentially a continental prison yard? Will we have responsibility for ourselves? Will we develop in virtue to master that responsibility? Or will we be herded?

To the Editor Letters reflect the opinions of their authors and not necessarily those of the Crozet Gazette.

The Academics of Play This letter supports the petition to increase recess/playtime in Albemarle County kindergarten classrooms. Currently the Board Handbook, page 20, states: “Elementary students have a total of 30 minutes of recess per day.” The question is not whether or not kindergarten teachers teach playfully. Our kindergarten teachers are masters in this approach. The real question is, what else is sacrificed by severely limiting free play? The petition asks that board members and administrators recognize that play is a core subject, critical to brain development, not a luxury limited to brief interludes between lessons or merely at the end of a long day. The petition seeks

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a healthier view of childhood and education by recognizing that free play needs more time, not just some time, as free play is a child’s pursuit in complex cognitive and social problem solving. Many talented kindergarten teachers quietly sneak in extra play time at the beginning of the year but feel compelled to eliminate it by late fall and early winter. Accountability reaches beyond standardized test scores and includes gains and losses in children’s overall physical and mental health. Play itself won’t solve all of education’s complications, but it is a step in the right direction and begins to right the out-of-balanced ship named SOLs. Alliance for Childhood (AFC) research finds that children in academic kindergartens have no later academic advantage. In fact they have higher levels of test anxiety, are less creative, and are more negative towards school. Strikingly, by age ten, the children who learned to read at age five have no academic

advantage over those who learned to read at age seven. Open-ended free play improves cognitive problem solving and abstract thinking while simultaneously developing socially healthy children. Analysis from the College of William and Mary reveals a severe drop in creativity scores among K-6th grades since 1990, even among the “advanced” students. Why is this occurring during an era of rigor and standards? One reason is that child-initiated free play, which stimulates nerve development and increases brain density, is not considered a core subject by administrators and legislators. Free play is a child’s stress relief. The American Academy of Pediatrics acknowledges that limited free play and reduced recess is associated with classroom misbehavior, stress, and depression. Beginning kindergarten is now an emotionally and physically fatiguing experience. Germany and Finland achieve world-class results by embracing the play-based model. A German study comparing 50 play-based kindergartens with 50 academic kindergartens revealed that by age ten, children in play-based kindergartens

surpassed those from academic kindergartens. Students were more advanced in reading and mathematics and better adjusted socially and emotionally. They excelled in creativity, intelligence, oral expression, and industry. Thus all German kindergartens became play-based. Kindergarten teachers express concerns about developmentally inappropriate SOLs and formal reading groups. They mourn the limited free play, sacrificed for the political cult of rigor. Kindergarten children don’t need rigor, they need healthy oral and written language and numeracy experiences. Third grade SOLs will not be diminished if kindergarten teachers are allowed to use their professional knowledge and dismiss inappropriate SOLs, as these standards are re-taught and extended in first and second grade. We have moved from no kindergarten, to half-day kindergarten, to full-day kindergarten, and now fullday kindergarten with reduced free play. One must begin to pull the brake on this out-of-control train. Kindergarten is not about developing fluent readers. It is about emergent reading and numeracy development. Kindergarten teachers

need to be freed from micromanagement so they can be allowed to do what they do best, which is celebrate childhood. Karen Rubendall Crozet There is a link to the petition available at crozetgazette.com/category/opinion

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Open House at Crozet Park May 5 Marks YMCA Debut The Crozet Park Aquatics and Recreation Center, alias Crozet P.A.R.C., a joint venture of The Piedmont Family Y.M.C.A. and Claudius Crozet Park, will showcase its programs for western Albemarle Saturday, May 5, when the YMCA hosts a special open house event at the park from 2 until 5 p.m. Tours of the renovated facility will be offered along with discount membership, special camp and program offers, Quick Start tennis demonstrations and an information session for the Crozet Gators Swim team. Construction of a pool dome structure that makes the pool a year-round facility will be finished this month and the Y will begin to deliver year-round swim programs. It will also oversee a state-of-the-art fitness center next to the pool that will feature the latest in exercise equipment and a full range of programs designed in accordance with the YMCA’s mission of building communities through supporting members’ bodies, minds and spirits, according to Denny Blank, CEO of the Piedmont Family YMCA.

The P.A.R.C. will be a familyfriendly facility will also allow the YMCA to expand its popular summer camp programming to include year-round child and teen-friendly programs, he said, including martial arts classes, a teen leadership club, CPR/AED and First Aid certification and more. “We are so excited to share all that the YMCA has to offer with the people of Crozet,” said Jessica Maslaney, site director of the Crozet P.A.R.C. “We know that especially in these times, taking care of your health and fitness needs can be difficult to do. We are happy to be able to offer the Crozet community the kind of innovative programming and community building initiatives that are at the core of the YMCA experience.” “We have greatly enjoyed sharing our summer camp programs and sports programs with many families in Crozet over the past few years,” said Blank. “Now, with the opening of this facility, we look forward to being a positive force in this community for many years to come.”

“My wife and I fell in love with the Crozet community and have raised three children here,” said Kelly Strickland, a member of the Claudius Crozet Park Board. “We have always found Crozet to be the best kept secret in Central Virginia. While we have been devoted fans of the Piedmont Family YMCA, our family has never enjoyed commuting to Charlottesville for programs. The Crozet P.A.R.C. is sure to be a tremendous resource and a perfect fit for Claudius Crozet Park.” The new removable pool dome will be in place from September through May each year, transforming the 8-lane, 25-meter pool into a year-round aquatic center. Programming will include learn-toswim classes ranging from “Mommy and Me” preschool classes to classes for adults; a special Lifeguard Training pilot program as part of the Ben Hair “Just Swim for Life” program; fitness programs including water aerobics and therapeutic swim programs; and recreational programs that will include everything from lap swimming to birth-

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Western Albemarle First Quarter Real Estate Report We have had a relatively stunning first quarter here in the Crozet real estate market, and indications are that the trend will continue. This should be thrilling news to homeowners, as perhaps some balance is starting to find its way back to the scale of measure between buyers and sellers. This scale has been toppled over in the buyer’s favor for the past several years. There are finally signs that this may be changing. And while buyers may bemoan the edge they have been enjoying, a more balanced market is healthier for everyone. By all accounts, September 2008 was a turning point in the country’s recent fiscal health. The real estate market had been weak and in decline for the prior 12-18 months, and the failing of Lehman Brothers and ensuing financial crisis only exacerbated this slide. Here in Crozet in the first quarter of 2009 there were 17 total sales, a dismal number that foretold correctly a slow year for real estate transactions. 2010 was better with 21 sales, and last year also saw an increase to 34 sales. This year, Crozet has had 45 property transfers, a 32 percent increase over last year, and up 165 percent from the trough of 2009. Good news indeed, especially because the first quarter is traditionally one of the slowest times of the year. And the good news continues. Recent market reports indicate strong first quarter sales increases in Charlottesville, Albemarle, and surrounding counties. Data indicate there are more property showings, agents report open house attendance is up dramatically, and some

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sellers are receiving quick multiple offers after listing their properties. All are sound indicators that the local real estate market has a bounce in its step! And while the warm late winter weather may have bumped up some folks’ spring buying plans, historically low mortgage rates, relatively good property pricing and higher than usual inventory continue to drive the market. But the increase in first quarter sales over last year is only the start of the good news. Prices rose also. The average price for a detached home in the first quarter was $387K, an increase of 19 percent over last year. The price per finished square foot of these homes increased also, though at a more modest 5.5 percent, to $134/sqft. Of the 27 detached sales in the quarter, 16 were new construction, and 5 were on an acre or more. There were 18 attached property sales in the quarter, up 50 percent from the 12 sales in 2011. Prices were up almost 8 percent, though the price per finished square foot was mostly unchanged. Over all the 45 sales, the average price rose, the median price rose, and the price per finished square foot rose as well. The num-

ber of short sale or bank-owned transactions stayed the same at four, but represented a percentage drop of the total amount of sales to 9 percent from 12 percent. We will be keeping an eye on this as the recent National Mortgage Settlement may clear the way for increased foreclosures. An interesting trend to note is the increasing proportion of sales in planned developments over county properties. In the first quarter of 2002, 20 percent of the Crozet sales of houses with an acre or more were in the county. These larger lot properties tend to be outside of planned neighborhoods. A decade later this percentage has dropped almost in half to 11 percent. There are financial reasons for this, including competitive pricing for new construction in neighborhoods like Liberty Hall, Westhall, and Old Trail, and rising gas prices, which has folks wanting shorter drive times to their various destinations. But it also represents a lifestyle swing. Families are busier than ever with activities, and living in a convenient neighborhood allows easier manipulation of the complex scheduling matrices many families face. Not having a

large yard or property, or an older house that needs attention, also saves time for families who have interests elsewhere. So while properties in the county still attract those looking for a bit more room to spread out, the number of these buyers seems to be dropping disproportionately to the number of overall property buyers. We see this reflected as lower sales numbers in the category and at lower prices per square foot. If you are a seller in the county, consult a realtor to price your house accordingly. Where we go from here is anybody’s guess, but there are plenty of past real estate bears who have recently said now is the time to buy. The Fannie Mae Quarterly Housing Survey released last week suggests more Americans think buying now is more compelling than renting. Perhaps the worst of our recent real estate woes is behind us. The fiveyear trend of sales activity chart above (courtesy of Nest Realty) seems to show strengthening quarters and a trend line that may have found bottom. Time will tell if our early spring success has foretold a tide change, but the signs are certainly pointing up! DR. HILLARY COOK

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New Plantings Aim to Produce Blight-resistant Chestnut Trees Some 160 sprouted American Chestnut nuts were planted in a deer-fenced field on the Fried Farm in Brown’s Cove April 7, part of a effort by the American Chestnut Foundation to breed an American Chestnut with the blight-resistance of a Chinese Chestnut. The American Chestnut was once the dominant tree in America’s eastern forests, numbering probably four billion. They stood 120 to 140 feet tall. Its wood is easy to work and has rot resistance, making it useful for building framing, utility poles and fencing. Its nuts were commonly used as hog feed (that’s the reason for those rock walls in the mountain forests) or roasted as a treat on holidays. An oriental blight was introduced in New York in 1900 and within 50 years virtually all the native chestnuts had been killed by it. The virus is a fungus that is spread by air or water and enters trees through wounds in their bark. The blight affects the above-ground part of the tree. Stumps will sprout new growth but those shoots will not survive, and meanwhile they provide a home

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for the virus. The ACF has been in a 40-year effort to transfer resistance from the Chinese variety to the American variety through a genetic strategy called backcrossing. Backcrossing involves pollinating Chinese Chestnuts through three successive generations with American Chestnuts that exhibit some blight resistance until in the fourth generation a tree results that is 15/16 American and possesses the blight resistance gene in the 1/16 that remains from the Chinese stock. The seeds planted at Fried Farm are third-backcross stock grown on an ACF farm in Abingdon. That farm is not producing many nuts from resistant trees and that limits the speed with which the ACF can develop new plantings. The Fried Farm location will be planted again as more hybrid nuts become available. The AFC wants to introduce resistant trees throughout the tree’s former natural range and is trying to develop stocks adapted to local conditions. Thus it is trying to get plantings in counties along the Blue Ridge. The planting in Albemarle

Jack Marshall of Free Union and Rod Walker of Sugar Hollow inspect a sprouted nut to be sure they are planting it with the proper orientation of root and trunk stems.

used four families of trees drawn from Greene and Nelson Counties. Different families of trees must be developed so that sufficient breeding combinations are possible, one for each generation of the backcross. Other plantings exist in Warren, Clarke, Loudoun, Floyd, Fauquier, Culpeper, and Madison Counties. The new trees will produce nuts within seven years. Once their trunks are 2.5 inches thick, the ACF

will infect each tree to test its blight resistance and those susceptible will be culled, according to John Scrivani, president of the Virginia chapter of the ACF. Only about one in eight of the trees planted will show moderate resistance, he said. Scrivani and ACF science director Katy McCune showed the 32 volunteers who came out to help with the planting how to properly continued on page 17

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Library Fundraising Group Gears Up The 10-member group that will organize fundraising for the $1.6 million needed to provide for the contents of the new Crozet Library—books, computers, audiovisual materials, tables, chairs and shelving, and much more—met for the third time April 23, gearing up its plans now that construction of the library is expected to start in July. The committee discussed mailings to area residents, postage rates and rules, organizing a kick-off event in June and a dinner event in the fall, coming up with a brochure that explains the cause, setting up a website for online donations, and even putting a unit in the Crozet Independence Day parade. Crozet librarian Wendy Saz reported that the library staff recently visited libraries in Maryland that were also built by Grimm and Parker Architects, the designers of the Crozet library, and came away

with ideas about purchases that had proved out and mistakes to avoid. The largest contributions will be sought from community foundations and those with a special interest in supporting libraries. Chairman Bill Schrader said that at a meeting with leaders of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation they were “very enthusiastic about Crozet library” and another meeting is set for May. The group has identified seven local philanthropic organizations likely to have an interest in supporting the library. Schrader said he has also talked with Virginia government officials about state grants, such as those given to Greene and Louisa when their libraries opened. Schrader said that the group hopes to raise all the money it needs before the library opens, a year after construction starts, but it will take at least a million dollars to set up the library for its opening.

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and textile factories. Not like we used to, though. “You don’t get a sense of some things that you hear being talked about until you see it on the ground,” Hurt said. He said he has two bills pending in the House now that are the result of touring the district. In one case a farmer in Southside had wanted to build a farm pond for irrigation and cattle watering. Farmers with projects like that are supposed to be exempt from oversight by the Corps of

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Former Batesville Store Location Reopens As Plank Road Exchange by Kathy Johnson kathy@crozetgazette.com What do a Brontosaurus, a Buffalo Bird, a Fuhgeddaboudit and an Asian Persuasion have in common? They are all among the new signature sandwiches available at the Plank Road Exchange, a café/ market, that opened on April 21 in downtown Batesville. The “soft opening” at the location of the old and popular Batesville Store is already bringing in passing tourists, locals and passersby to try out some of the Plank Road Exchange’s ‘grab and go’ items, sandwiches, and desserts, as well as lasagna and the always popular macaroni and cheese. Aris and Jessica Cuadra are the new chefs and owners and they, along with their three-and-a-halfyear-old son, Rocco, are excited about their new location and the opportunities it presents. Rocco spends most of his time visiting with customers and providing the official welcome while his parents

share duties behind the counter. The Cuadras anticipate approval of their ABC On and Off permit shortly. They have plans for live music on weekends and also offer WiFi. While a maximum of 15 guests at a time are welcome to dine in, to comply with state agricultural department regulations for country stores, the Cuadra’s will also specialize in grab-and-go prepared meals for dinner. Moving here from Page County, where they owned and operated a casual fine dining restaurant, the couple will offer breakfast, lunch and dinner Tuesday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at their new location. Saturdays they will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Breakfast items include toasted Bake’mmm® Bagels with cream cheese, specialty bagels, sausage biscuits, oatmeal and Trager Brothers Coffee. Guests at lunchtime may choose to build their own sandwiches from a large assortment of Boars Head deli meats, cheeses,

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Hauling Freight What did teamsters, muleskinners, moonshiners, truckers, and teenaged boys with hotrod jalopies have in common? Politely put, it was a pressing need to not let any grass grow under their feet. The Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia proved a formidable barrier to rail passage until Col. Claudius Crozet’s historic breaching in the mid-19th century. But a century earlier, anxious pioneers and county governments were already mapping out routes and improving trails in order to move people and commodities more efficiently. Footpaths became bridle trails that, in turn, became primitive wagon roads. A tobacco-centered economy required smooth, wide paths in order to roll the thousandpound wooden casks of cured leaves to market or to river ports for shipment ultimately to the Crown. The nearly forgotten village of Brooksville in Albemarle County was located at the eastern foot of the Blue Ridge at the junction of the road passing through Rockfish Gap from the Shenandoah Valley and the Plank Road that led to Scottsville on the James River. The village was said to have formed around a “yard” where teamsters would congregate and rest before or after crossing the mountain. Though regarded as a rough and rowdy crowd in early society, the

men who drove the wagons and managed the teams of harness animals (horses, mules or oxen) were as vital to society as professional truckers are today. At the turn of the 20th century, local haulers, such as John Robert Daughtry, were still operating in ways similar to their ancestors many decades earlier. Daughtry, who lived near the foot of Smith’s Pasture Fence Mountain adjacent to Sugar Hollow, left a detailed ledger of his business activities. In addition to farming, as was required of all persons living in remote areas, he hired out his services as a mover of goods in his mountainous region. Loads upon loads of chestnut oak bark were stripped by industrious individuals and sold to buyers, usually local storekeepers. Teamsters such as Daughtry would transport that bulk raw material to the tanneries where it was used in the preparation of leather goods. He was paid $25–$30 to carry an average load, and, in-season, made two to three hauls per week. At other times he was contracted by sawyers to haul lumber from their wood lots. In fruit season, great quantities of apples had to be transported to rail shipping points. Contrary to the ill-conceived stereotypes of mountain dwellers, Daughtry not only kept detailed

Farm trucks typically hauled livestock, field produce, orchard fruit, and, often, crews of hired hands who worked the farms and orchards. On warm Sunday afternoons, however, they were as likely to be found loaded with children and adults bound for a picnicking adventure. [Photo courtesy of the Hugh and Catherine (Via) Strickler family]

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The infrastructure of big cities and small towns alike depended on the skills and, sometimes, daring of teamsters and truck drivers. This 1920s crew was parked on Railroad Avenue in Crozet, next door to property that would later become home to the Teamsters Union Local 29 meeting hall. [Photo courtesy of the Levi Maupin family]

A large boxwood was being transported on this Ruggles Motor Truck to the Mirador estate in western Albemarle County. John Clayton made the delivery in 1929 for the Greenwood contractors Fox Brothers. [Photo courtesy of Bill Clayton, John W. Clayton & Son]

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records of his daily expenditures— from buttons to eggs—but also performed an annual personal property inventory. In 1909 his horses Solie and Peggy were valued at $60 and $75, respectively. Tommy, a colt, was valued at $50. The following year, due to either increased age or hard mileage, Solie’s and Peggy’s values had been reduced to $50 and $40. Tommy, however, coming of age, had nearly doubled in worth. Similarly, his wagons, saddles, harnesses, log chains, plows and other items required to do his work were accounted for and valued. Daughtry was a true family man and active leader in his church, not a so-called “rough and rowdy” muleskinner of yore. Truckers have related interesting accounts of crossing the mountain in the days prior to the federal interstate system. Steep grades and temperamental truck brakes required drivers to employ all their skills with each ascent and descent. On hot summer days, it was not unusual to see loaded trucks crawling up the mountain highway in granny-low gear, the driver’s door open as he stood on the running board trying to catch a little cooling breeze, one hand inside on the steering wheel. Bill Clayton of Mechum’s River has told of his father teaching him to drive loaded trucks down the

mountain highway in the days of mechanical brakes and less traffic. John W. Clayton Sr. told his son not to use the brakes, least they overheat. Instead, he was instructed to steer the truck into the ditch and ride there until the truck’s speed had slowed sufficiently to pull back onto the highway. In those earlier days of primitive roads and simple mechanical systems, experience and skill were just as important as they are for today’s drivers of computerized, streamlined trucks. The would-be driver who believes that all that’s necessary is the ability to kick the tires and hold the steering wheel would never be allowed inside the professional

Daring young men have often entertained notions of flying. Could that have been racing fuel that a smiling E. B. Hicks was pumping into his jalopy? [Photo courtesy of E. B. Hicks]

Morton Frozen Foods (later Del Monte and ConAgra) in Crozet, distributed their frozen prepared foods throughout the continental USA. Their pairs of professional drivers drove millions of safe miles in trucks maintained by a team of highly skilled mechanics. The company was once Albemarle County’s largest employer and had the largest fleet of tractortrailers in the region. [Photo courtesy of Bill Sprouse]

Mountain man Joseph F. Wood, accompanied by one of his sons, was photographed at Basic City, Virginia. The Sugar Hollow natives with their four-horse team were hauling a tall load of wooden barrels over precarious mountain roads. The containers were likely destined to be packed with a bounty of mountain apples. [Photo courtesy of Larry Lamb]

ranks of those shining knights of the highway. A multitude of dangers has always existed for freight haulers. Just as a sudden horse kick or inattention near a wagon wheel could bring injury or death to the careless teamster, so the speed of motorized trucks and variable road conditions have occasionally spelled doom for those on the more modern highway. Those unavoidable variables proved tragic in 1969 for Almond Herring and John Seal Jr., two Morton Frozen Food truck drivers. They had driven their tractor-trailer away from the Crozet plant on the night of August 19, unknowingly headed toward an area downstream from a historical deluge in the mountains of neighboring Nelson County. The unimaginable flooding caused by remnants of Hurricane Camille had already swept away a major highway bridge on U.S. Route 29 at Wood’s Mill. Never seeing the breach in the darkness and driving rain, their rig plunged into the deadly waters. Their bodies were eventually recovered, but the memory of their loss lingers as a sad reminder of the fragile, ephemeral nature of our lives. Oh, yeah, and what of those moonshiners and homemade jalopy owners previously mentioned in the same sentence with legitimate working class heroes? Well, the “freight” they were usually hauling was mainly their own backsides. And, if they were lucky, better reason prevailed before the relentless, long arm of the law collared them and placed them in time-out. Let’s all pledge to be more careful out there!

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critical slopes when they are in growth areas and that the planning staff was not likely to recommend that a waiver be granted. The county engineer must also make a call. But the supervisors have agreed to reduced, 50-foot buffers along critical slopes in other Crozet projects, Benish said. If Riverside Management wants to pursue the waiver it will have to make its case to the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors. County staffers have the authority to approve the plan if no waiver is sought. Staffers asked that the locations of trails called for in the Crozet Master Plan be shown. Riverside granted trail easements as part of Foothill Crossing and Taylor said there was no objection to showing the trails in the new project. The property lies on the west side of the Lickinghole Creek pond. A park was once proposed for the vicinity. Taylor said he is aware of a stand of old beeches along one creek that he wants to protect. Residents from Western Ridge and Westhall came to express apprehension over the implied growth in

May 2012 traffic through their neighborhoods. The plans made the connection to heavily-traveled Park Road and Tabor Street clear. Taylor reassured residents that the new project would not get started until Foothill Crossing builds out and a second eastward connection to Park Ridge Road exists. Taylor said Foothill Crossing, a 75-unit project, has been selling at a rate of one house per month and that unless the housing economy improves it will be another five years before Westlake Hills begins. Taylor said that they are using the time meanwhile to get plans approved so they are ready to go when the market seems favorable. The plan constructs a segment of what is known as Eastern Avenue, conceived of as the main north/ south artery in eastern Crozet that would connect Cory Farm on Rt. 250 with Rt. 240 at the brick-columned gate between MusicToday and the former Acme building. The south connection at Rt. 250 depends on a bridge costing several million dollars over Lickinghole Creek and the north connection depends on a railroad crossing, also a costly and difficult project. Foothill Crossing also creates a segment of the road. County staffers reported that the

Crozet Volunteer Fire Department had expressed some worry over the possibility that access through Westhall could be cut off by a fallen tree or power pole. The plan shows Eastern Avenue as 80 feet wide and White Hall Supervisor Ann Mallek asked for more detail that would show bike lanes on the road and whether it could have a tree-planted median. Riverside later pulled the plan to rework it. Taylor said the subdivision’s road plan may change and that a stem road with cul-de-sacs off it is the most likely thing to happen.

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position a seed and protect it with a tube and stake. Volunteers used a hand-held auger to open holes for the seeds in plastic covered rows. Translucent vented tubes protect the seeds and encourage the tree to grow tall rather than spread out. McCune said the Fried Farm is an ideal site. “Wild surviving trees are here and the chestnut was prevalent here at one point. We have good soil, good exposure and people willing to take care of the trees.” Farm owner Barbara Fried helped plant trees.

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with vacation houses. If a tree falls into the lake a property owner cannot remove it without permission from the Federal Regulatory Commission. To Hurt, it is another case of regulatory hassling and he has put in the Shore Act to, as he sees it, let common sense have more force. “The bureaucrats are always going to out-smart you,” he observed. He also has also proposed a bill called the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, which attempts to mitigate the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate dust. “Farming makes dust,” said Hurt. “The EPA should not be able to shut farms down over it.” His opponent, Democrat John Douglass, has asserted that Hurt’s real aim is to restrict the EPA’s ability to regulate uranium dust, which could affect Hurt’s father’s ambition to reopen a uranium mine in Pittsylvania. “We’re going off a cliff [with federal debt],” Hurt told listeners at Wyant’s Store. “It’s appalling that we’re going this way. It calls for a sensible tax reform.” But, he said, continued on page 20

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tick season.” This is a timely subject as we are in an endemic area (meaning it is common here) and it’s only going to get worse. Lyme disease is a tickborne disease (i.e. spread via tick bites) caused by the bacterium Borrelia Burgdorferi. It is mainly spread via the black-legged/deer tick, but with other tick diseases out there such as Ehrlichiosis, Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis, any tick is a bad tick! When we or our dogs are infected with Lyme disease, clinical signs usually include fever, malaise/lethargy, and painful joints. There are additional symptoms that may develop including neurologic problems, kidney disease, and immune system dysfunction, but these are less common.

Making our diagnosis of Lyme disease difficult is the fact that most dogs become ill 2-5 months after they are infected. Were these dogs feeling any symptoms during this time? Why did it take so long for them to become ill? We really don’t know the answers to those questions and can only appreciate them being sick when they start acting such! This is what makes me most nervous about Lyme disease in dogs. Some dogs can have some serious consequences of Lyme disease infection such as kidney failure, vasculitis, autoimmune disorders (where the body starts attacking itself ), and neurologic damage and we really didn’t know they were sick until it was too late. Fortunately, we can screen dogs for Lyme disease. We recommend a yearly blood parasite screening in dogs that is a simple, quick, inhouse test that checks your dogs for heartworm disease, and for antibodies in their blood to Lyme disease, Ehrlichiosis, and Anaplasmosis. Some may argue, “Should we be screening asymptomatic dogs?” Five years ago, I was one of those. But now, having seen so many dogs painfully sick with Lyme disease

and many with those other serious complications of Lyme disease, I know that we can prevent a lot of problems if we catch it early. This will be a hotly contested point for the foreseeable future, though. So what if you see an asymptomatic dog (or person) with a positive antibody titer. That just proves they’ve been exposed, but does not prove that they are actually going to become ill, and many positive dogs don’t! Will we be inappropriately using antibiotics, leading to undue side effects and selecting for antibiotic resistance? These are really important and difficult questions. Like many things in medicine, it comes down to each individual case and a clinician’s judgment. If dogs have high antibody levels, I recommend treating even if they’re not sick. I feel that these dogs have a high risk of becoming ill sometime in the next few months. Also, persistently high antibody levels make me worry about chronic immune system stimulation, which can lead to kidney damage and immune system problems. Fortunately, doxycycline—the antibiotic of choice—is extremely well-tolerated in dogs. continued on page 38

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Three Gardens, Three Styles Waterperry Farm in Free Union

A nice thing about garden design is that there are not many absolute rights and wrongs, despite what the textbooks might tell you. A recent visit to three gardens in western Albemarle County showed three different approaches to gardening, all equally appealing in their own way. I was fortunate to be the guest of the Potomac Valley Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society on a tour led by Cole Burrell, a horticulturist, garden writer and designer living in Free Union. And despite the name, the Rock Garden Society does not restrict itself to one genre of gardening; they are general garden fanatics and plant nuts. I was in good company. Our first stop was Waterperry Farm and the garden of Katherine Kane and Olin West in Free Union. Except for a few large trees near the house, this one hundred-acre property was mostly open meadows with some woods at the boundary when

they acquired it. Katherine designed the garden to provide both intimate enclosed spaces, as well to give views of fields, forests and mountain ridges. She first led us into the formal gardens, with their rectilinear shapes and symmetry, fastigiate boxwood and Japanese maples flanking the paths. I overheard one of my fellow visitors saying, “I don’t usually like formal gardens, but I like this one.” I recall a similar comment from a fellow gardener on a visit to a formal colonial garden many years ago. Could it be that

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Democrat or Republican issue. What Obama has tried hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worked. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small businesses, like this store, that create jobs. Big businesses create jobs, but small businesses create more.â&#x20AC;? Hurt mentioned the local fear of the possibility that the Greenwood Post Office will be closed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to do whatever we can to protect them,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re borrowing 40 cents out of every dollar the government spends.â&#x20AC;? The implication was that is hard to vote for subsidies for the U.S. Post Office in that circumstance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I represent 22 counties and cities. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mostly rural. I know how important our rural post offices are.â&#x20AC;? Next Hurt hustled off to Crozet Library where he was given a quick tour of the depot building and then headed for the site of the new library. The depot library has 75,000 visitors a year and as many as 10,000 a month over summer vacations, librarian Wendy Saz told him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to keep kids reading over the summer,â&#x20AC;? she said. The library has four public-access computers that people wait for chances to use, she pointed out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that beautiful,â&#x20AC;? Hurt said as he was shown the design for the new library. He was joined in the new buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future parking lot by Tim Tolson, chair of the JMRLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of Trustees, Bill Schrader, head of the local committee that is raising money to furnish the new library and stock it with books, computers and audio and video content, and JMRL Director John Halliday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This view is incredible,â&#x20AC;? Hurt continued. The Crozet library serves about 28,000 people in western Albemarle, Schrader explained. He emphasized that the library is

Crozet gazette expected to be an economic driver for Crozet. “County officials tell us they think it will led to a 40 percent increase in business volume in downtown Crozet,” he said. “I know you are against earmarks,” Schrader ventured. “There’s an earmark ban across the board,” said Hurt, “but we’ll look for what we can that will help.” “This is a real shovel-ready project, right now,” said Schrader. Hurt said he was going assign a staff member the task of looking for ways the federal government might pitch in on the $1.6 million needed. At Parkway Pharmacy, Hurt told pharmacist Brenda Plantz, “There’s nothing that means more to me than an independent pharmacy. They know everybody in a community.” He said he admires the way the independent pharmacies support each other. Plantz took the occasion to speak out against monopoly formation in the industry by large pharmaceutical manufacturers. “The big pharmaceuticals shouldn’t be able to merge with smaller ones and buy up drug stores and consolidate control over the industry. The drug stores issue cards that make customers think they can only get their prescriptions filled through that one company’s stores.” Hurt raised the matter of CSX railroad relinquishing ownership of the parking lot on The Square. Plantz said it still hasn’t happened, though the businesses are regularly told, for 18 months now, that the transfer to the county is about to happen. “Lawyers are involved,” said Hurt, who is a lawyer. He offered to call CSX. Hurt checked in at Crozet Hardware and talked about parking some more. He was easy, natural

asdfghjkl;’ zxcvbnm,./ May 2012 21 !@#$%^&*()__+ QWERYUIOP{}| and gracious with everyone, yet was ASDFGHJKL:’ wound up with nervous energy that expressed itself in a tendency to ZXCVBNM<>? fidget. He approached passersby when he encountered them and tried to talk to them. Many, not recognizing him, gave a perfunctory greeting and went on with their business. At Chiles Peach Orchard Hurt stood in the grove and owner Henry Chiles explained tree pruning and management and the business and marketing of fruit. Chiles said, “We are very concerned about where we are going to get the labor to harvest this crop. Our industry takes so much hand labor.” “I worked a couple of summers in tobacco,” said Hurt with a knowing look. Chiles was concerned about whether changes to immigration laws would harm the supply of seasonal farm workers. “Just because someone is unemployed doesn’t mean they can pick fruit,” he said. “We have to have experienced pickers. They have to be trained.” “I have real concerns about e-verify,” said Hurt, referring to an immigration control proposal. “Good,” said Chiles. They visited the three-acre pick-your-own strawberry field and Chiles handed Hurt a tray of plump strawberries. Chiles asked Hurt to keep apples from China out of the American market. China raises more apples than the U.S., he said. “We went over there and taught them how to do it. I said then it was stupid thing for us to do.” Next Hurt paid a call at The Lodge at Old Trail and from there he went on to a series of meetings set up in Nelson County. He said he logs about 1,200 miles during district work weeks. He predicted he would hear complaints about gas prices again soon.

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Kettle Corn King Opens At Rockfish Gap By Kathy Johnson kathy@crozetgazette.com Ronald King has a big voice, a boisterous laugh and a broad smile. King is the kettle corn king at Big Mama’s Kettle Corn located atop Afton Mountain. Nelson County resident Eileen O’Rourke said she first met King atop the mountain while she was waiting there to pick up her grandchildren. “It was damp and cold and real foggy. They wanted some of the kettle corn and he said, ‘Let me fix some fresh and hot and it will warm you up.’ He is so nice,” O’Rourke said. King said the perfect kettle corn weather is “today,” as he let sugar caramelize on fresh kettle corn and then added salt to give it that sweet and salty taste. He broke up clumps of sugar and salt and scattered it around as his giant kettle—it holds 150 quarts—continued to pop. Actually, perfect weather might have been when the fall foliage was at its peak and traffic on the Blue Ridge Parkway was heavy. “They see my popcorn and it gets them in a good mood,” he said. King says he likes making kettle corn because it’s fun for customers to watch, though he has to keep them back from the kettle some because of the heat. “See, the kettle dumps like a dump truck. And you see all this popped corn cascade out like a waterfall and it’s kind of exciting. And I love doing it.” He said the stand is partly about showmanship and partly about the food. “What I think separates me out from the other vendors is the seed

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that I use. It’s called a mushroom seed. This corn naturally has a sweet tang to it without any sugar on it, so that helps. You wouldn’t believe how many different kinds of seed there are. I think I picked the right one for the recipe that I’m using. “People say that I’ve got the best and I like hearing that,” he said. “This guy came up with his family. Nice SUV, you know, typical American family. They’re driving the Parkway. He says, ‘Well I’m from Williamsburg and the best kettle corn I’ve ever had is down there.’ So he picked up a bag and just before he left the parking lot he rolls down the window and he goes, ‘You know what, yours is the best I’ve ever had.’ That meant a lot to me. “You know this is like any business, it’s a risk. I didn’t know what was gonna happen, but I saw potential.” He likes the location and says that with Rt. 250 and the Parkway he has a lot of opportunities. He hasn’t figured out how to lure customers to come off Interstate 64. King is working under his yellow tent from 10 a.m. to at least 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays and also sets up at many area festivals. He will be at Rockfish Gap through October, weather permitting. King is also a caricature artist, for hire. “I do a lot of birthday parties and wedding and festivals. I’ve been

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drawing since I was a kid. It started with comic books. I used to love drawing super heroes and that evolved into drawing caricatures. I won several contests and then I put it down. I picked it back up recently after I saw someone doing caricatures at a festival and it was fun. People were laughing and there were long lines and it kind of inspired me

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Get a Kit, Make a Plan, Stay Informed by Larry Miles “You don’t really store all that water in your house do you?” My neighbor of the last ten years asked me that a couple of weeks ago. “Ummm, actually I do. There are four of us, and at three gallons per person that’s only twelve gallons. It really doesn’t take up the room you’d think. In fact, I actually have 15 gallons since we decided to store three, five-gallon bottles,” I answered. She called me after reading the article I wrote for the Gazette last month about beginning to get ready. In that article I referred to the Virginia Department of Emergency Management’s website, www.vaemergency.com and some of the suggestions they make that all families in Virginia can take to prepare for an emergency. Our state and federal governments have devoted significant resources, on the web, in print, and through other educational services to try to convince us, as private citizens, to protect ourselves by making a basic level of preparations for potential emergencies. The more I think about this, the more compelling it seems to me. Many of us expect the government to keep us safe and provide for us during emergencies. But the advice of government is that we prepare to take care of ourselves. That’s worth thinking about (maybe twice). So what do they recommend we do? Those steps are found here: www. vaemergency.com. On that website is a section titled “Ready Virginia.” If you click there and follow the links you’ll find their basic threepoint plan, which is modeled exactly after FEMA’s plan. Here it is: Get a Kit, Make a Plan, Stay Informed. For now we’ll look at the first step, the instructions for putting together a kit. They start with some basics: food and water. The Department of Emergency Management recommends storing three gallons of water per person in the household. This is one of the easiest and most sensible things we can all do. I’m sure everyone remembers that nearly 70 percent of our bodies are water, so needless to say, water is one of, if not the most, critical items we should all have on hand in the event of an emergency.

Whether you store several cases of bottled water, or choose to keep it on hand in five-gallon bottles (which are available at most grocery stores these days) the important thing is that you do it. Why not do it this week? (One tip I’ve also heard passed around is in the event of an actual prolonged emergency to remember that if you have a hot water tank, then you probably have 40-50 gallons of water available to you in that tank depending on the size of the tank.) So after your water situation is covered it’s time to consider your food supply. The Department of Emergency Management recommends a three-day supply of food that does not need electricity for storage or preparation. “That does not need electricity for storage or preparation.” Hmmm, what does that mean exactly? It could mean a lot of things, and what it means to you specifically really depends greatly on your personal tastes as well as those of the rest of your family. For some, perhaps three days worth of pop tarts and saltines will suffice (note I cover both salty and sweet with that suggestion). For those who are more nutritionally minded it probably means something more substantial, perhaps in the canned, or dehydrated food arena. On a personal level I like some of the dehydrated options available. They have a long shelf life, they’re available with great nutritional content, they’re easy to store, and some are even quite tasty. (An important trick, especially if you have young children - buy a very small portion of whatever type of food you need to keep on hand and test it first to make sure everyone in the family will in fact eat it.) A quick search of the Internet will inundate you with many options in this arena. Personally, in the dehydrated category, I’ve found www. efoodsdirect.com to be a pretty decent option. (For the record, I have absolutely no connection with them in any way.) After the food and water situations are covered there are many other very common-sense items the site recommends: Here are some I found particularly reasonable. Hand-crank flashlights, especially those that also have a built-in radio (available at Walmart, Target, Dick’s, etc.). A good first-aid kit,

(good depends on the number of people in your family and the contents of the kit), also available at the same places I just mentioned. Some basic tools: screwdriver, and pliers are important in case you need to turn off utilities in an emergency. (A good quality multi-tool like a Leatherman or Gerber can often provide you all you’ll need in a very handy and compact package here.) Finally, enough sanitation supplies (read toilet paper here) are crucial. The Department of Emergency Management actually offers many more suggestions, but I find that trying to do everything at once can sometimes be overwhelming (as well as prohibitively expensive). The suggestions I’ve outlined while by no means exhaustive, are a good start and will provide you with the basics for getting through the first few days of just about any unplanned interruption to our normal lives. There are two more areas that I strongly encourage everyone to consider if they apply. The first involves prescription drugs. If you have a prescription for a chronic health condition, you should talk to your healthcare provider and ask him or her about options for maintaining an adequate supply of your medicine in case of an emergency. The second special situation involves the presence of infants, toddlers, or the elderly in your home. For obvious reasons each of these situations requires certain specific considerations. Fortunately, the Department of Emergency Management addresses these areas specifically on their site. It seems like it’s often in vogue these days to complain about the shortcomings of our government and local officials. In my opinion, this is one time where they have done an excellent job of not only advocating that we prepare to take care of ourselves, but have actually compiled some very valuable information that enables us to do just that. Finally, remember this: if a real disaster comes, we are the ones who will be there to help one another. Get to know the folks in your community, your neighborhood, and on your street. Urge one another to be ready. Our community will be stronger if we are prepared and together than we could ever be on our own.

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Three-Legged Red Foxes One of my earliest childhood memories is of a red fox at my g r a n d f a t h e r ’s farm in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. I was in the front seat of the car between my parents as we entered the driveway to the farmhouse. It was after dark, and as the headlights lit the front of the barn ahead of us, a red fox trotted through the beam of light. I was enthralled. It was my first-ever glimpse of this very small relative of man’s best friend, the dog. Barely as large as your average house cat, a Red Fox is a slim creature with lovely red fur and a large bushy tail. It’s been said that the red fox couldn’t survive without its tail, which it uses as a blanket to cover the bare bottoms of its paws and its nose in cold weather. I’ve never understood why people tend to fear this little animal that doesn’t pose much of a threat at all to humans or their pets. Unless a fox has rabies (a disease that’s rare; otherwise it would wipe out entire populations of susceptible animals), it is not about to attack a human, a cat, or a dog. First of all, humans are not prey species for such a small animal. Second, wild animals try very hard not to interact with any animal that’s larger than they are.

In the natural world, size confers advantage. That means a smaller animal is much more likely to be harmed or killed in an encounter with a larger one. Because it doesn’t want to die, and because it can’t survive easily if it’s injured, an animal will try to flee from bigger creatures, if that’s possible. If it’s not possible to get safely away, the small animal will attempt to intimidate the larger animal into leaving it alone. This is the reason that a rattlesnake rattles its tail tip before striking and a skunk stomps its front paws, hisses, and raises its tail before spraying. So, generally speaking, people don’t need to fear personal harm to themselves or their pets from a little fox. However, if folks are raising animals, such as chickens that are food for foxes and other predators, then folks obviously need to build a predator-proof enclosure. Predators are not trying to be problematic to humans. They are simply hungry and they don’t know your chickens are supposed to be off-limits to them. To expect an animal to know it shouldn’t enter your chicken coop is like expecting a two-year-old child not to go near a swimming pool. Unfortunately, some people in these situations view wildlife as pests, as if wildlife exists solely to vex mankind. In fact, all organisms exist to keep the world functioning properly, even though it may not

This three-legged Red Fox came onto the author’s deck to get a drink of water and spotted her taking its picture through the sliding glass door. [Photo: Marlene Condon]

seem that way to humans. The Red Fox’s role is to help limit rodents and other critters to sustainable levels. When folks begrudge wildlife, they can become vengeful and want to physically harm animals. This situation might be taking place in the Crozet area. Someone may be setting traps that are mutilating Red Foxes and undoubtedly other wildlife as well. I have recently received reports of three-legged Red Foxes and I have seen one in my own area. It seems suspicious that we should suddenly have a rash of such sightings. The fox that I have personally observed appears to have been caught in a trap. It has somehow survived, losing its right front leg, permanently injuring its back right leg, and retaining a permanent “dent” in its pelvic area that could be due to a snare-type trap. There are three main types of traps. A whole-body trap, a device whose jaws squeeze an animal’s body tightly, eventually kills an animal in a slow, undoubtedly agoniz-

ing, process. The steel jaw leghold trap, which is more commonly used by trappers, is no kinder to the innocent animal (be it wild or someone’s pet) that ventures into it. Two jaws close around the animal’s foot, exerting enough pressure that blood flow is usually cut off. Neck snares slowly strangle the critter that gets caught. Body snares slowly tighten around an animal’s body. The Commonwealth of Virginia sanctions trapping. However, I don’t believe society would find trapping acceptable if people looked at the pictures online of animals caught in these traps. Speak out for wildlife by contacting your state (including the governor) and federal representatives to ask that this activity be outlawed. And please, if you have seen a three-legged fox, report it to the local game warden—and to me. I will keep your information confidential. I would like to follow up on the situation. Thanks so much.

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The Western Albemarle Pop Warner Association (Chiefs) will hold an open house Thursday, May 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Field School (old Crozet School). You will be able to meet some of the coaches, have your questions answered, turn in the required paperwork (except for the year-end report card) and order Chiefs gear at a discounted price. Registration is now open online at cvpopwarner.com for ages 8-13. The association is also offering a cheer team for the girls this year.

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May 12

Ride For Hope Rally for House of Hope

Cornerstone Church of Albemarle along with House of Hope Central Virginia and local businesses in the surrounding communities will host a “Ride For Hope” benefit rally Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to raise funds to acquire a house to serve as a teen shelter. The event features a 75-mile motorcycle ride through the mountains of central Virginia, five Christian Bands from as far away as Richmond and Harrisonburg, a visit from Wild Earth Encounters, a silent auction with items from local artisans and businesses, and a Biker Blessing with CMA Chapter Eagle’s Wings of Charlottesville and Cornerstone Church of Albemarle participating. Food will be available for a donation and there will be activities for kids and adults throughout the day. The ride fee is $20 per vehicle, passengers ride free and cars are welcome. Cornerstone Church is at 470 Twinkling Springs Road in Crozet. For more information, call Scott and Becky Selzer at 540-8360052.

May 12 & 13

Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival

The Spring Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival will be Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 13, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Claudius Crozet Park.

GrowthBusters Screening

Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP) and the Piedmont Chapter of the Sierra Club will co-host a showing of the film GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, in the McIntire Room of Central Library, 201 Market St., Charlottesville. Admission is free and open to the public. A preview can be accessed at www.youtube. com/watch?v=qTTSaaDoZJO. The library validates parking tickets for two hours of free parking at the Market St. Parking Garage (504 E. Market St.) For more information, call Elizabeth at 434-984-4582.

May 17

Flag Ceremony at The Lodge The Lodge at Old Trail will hold a flag-raising ceremony May 17 at 5:30 p.m. and hoist a flag that has flown over the U.S. Capitol. The occasion is a tribute to America’s veterans and those serving in police, firefighting and rescue units. Special guests will include Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade Jim Cheng, White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek, Albemarle police chief Col. Steve Sellers, and the honor guards from American Legion Post 74, the Albemarle Police Department and the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department. A choir of fifth-graders from Crozet and Brownsville Elementary school will sing. The public is invited.

May 18

Third Friday Coffee House at RVCC

The Rockfish Valley Community Center hosted its first Third Friday Coffee House at the center April 20, featuring the group Chinquapin. A crowd of nearly 30 people turned out for what interim center manager Aaron Messer hopes will be a regular event. The next Third Friday Coffee House is set for May 18 at 7:30 pm

and will feature singer/songwriter Michael McConkey, a special guest, and McConkey’s daughter, Juliet McConkey. Michael McConkey is a locally well-known Nelson County performer. Food and beverages are available to purchase during the evening and a donation of $5 is suggested for the music.

May 19

Cruise-In Car Show for CVFD A cruise-in car show to raise money for the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department will be held in the firehouse parking lot May 19 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. More than 100 street rods, unfinished customs, antique cars and trucks and motorcycles are expected to be on display. The event will include a motorcycle poker run of about 100 miles around the region, starting at 9 a.m. Food (chicken, hamburgers and hot dogs) and drinks will be available and DJ Paul Seal will provide music. Prizes will also be raffled. Tickets are available for donations. “We’re doing this so the firefighters can help the people of this town,” said organizer Richard “Boogie Man” Raemsch. “Help us help you. These boys are volunteers and when the bell rings they come running.” Raemsch said he going to other shows to drum up participants for the Crozet event. There is no registration fee. Those who show vehicles will get an embossed dashboard plaque. For more information, call 823-4383 and ask for Richard.

May 19 & 21

Literacy Tutor Training Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle will offer training for literacy tutors May 19 and 21. Tutors help an adult in reading, writing, or speaking English. LVCA students come from a variety of backgrounds, and all hope to acquire the skills they need to independently pursue their life goals, support their families, and be active in the community. There is a waiting list of students who need help. No teaching experience is necessary. Training will be held Saturday, May 19, from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm and

Monday, May 21, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (both sessions are required). Call 977-3838 for more information or to register.

May 27

Memorial Day Celebration at Piedmont Baptist

Piedmont Baptist Church in Yancey Mills will hold its annual Memorial Day Celebration Sunday, May 27, at 3 p.m. The program is dedicated to Walter Washington and Nancy Barnette and will include a “Tolling of the Bell” honoring deceased members of the church. The Waynes-Union Male Chorus featuring Tommy Davis and Wallace Redd will be in concert. The public is invited.

June 3

Friends & Family Day at Mt. Salem

Mt. Salem Gospel Church in Mechums River, near Crozet, will hold its Family and Friends Day Sunday, June 3, at 3 p.m. The guest speaker will be Rev. Mark McCoy and his dynamic gospel choir from St. James Baptist Church of Waynesboro. Food will be served on the grounds immediately following the morning service, around 1 p.m. A free-will offering will be taken. The public is invited.

June 30

Independence Day Celebration

Crozet’s Independence Day celebration at Crozet Park will be held Saturday, June 30. The parade will form at Crozet Elementary School at 3 p.m. and begin its march through downtown to the park at 4 p.m. Food vendors will offer a variety of all-American fare. Local breweries and wineries will offer beverages. Two bands will perform between 5:30 and 9:30. The Crozet Volunteer Firefighters will play a doubleheader against the Peachtree Coaches on the upper ball field. There will raffles for cash prizes as well. Fireworks will go off at 9:30. Plan to celebrate your town and your country. Don’t miss this fun day.

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May 2012

By Dr. Robert C. Reiser crozetannals@crozetgazette.com

One Flew East, One Flew West I have been spending a lot of time with the mentally ill lately. More accurately, due to state funding cuts for inpatient psychiatry beds, the mentally ill have been spending a lot more time with me in the ER lately. We often have no beds at our own facility, and even with a statewide search for beds, can find no place that can take patients so acutely mentally ill that they need hospitalization. As a result the patients spend many hours and even days hanging around the ER, receiving what little therapy we can offer them. I have only modest training in psychiatry but I do have extensive psychiatric experience. In the 1970’s I dropped out of college and spent a year in the locked ward of a mental hospital. Over time I realized that I had the key to that locked door in my possession the whole time. You see, I was an orderly, not a patient. I spent a great deal of time in close contact with the patients that year and what was at first strange soon became familiar. The definition of “normal” behavior became moot. What was important was how to enable the patients to be functional in the world in the face of their pathologies, and in fact in the face of all the other pathologies in the world that they would encounter. A psychiatrist there gave me a simple and rather broad overview of

his field. “Rob, there are really only three categories of mental illness: the sad, the mad, and the bad.” The sad are the mood disorders-mostly depressed patients including the frankly suicidal. My psychiatry mentor called suicide “a permanent solution to a temporary problem.” He emphasized that the depression was only temporary and completely treatable. Thus in the ER we may detain the patients against their will under a state statute called a Temporary Detention Order (TDO) if they are an acute threat to themselves, using that time to treat the underlying depression. TDO’s have a 48-hour time limit, (72 hours on the weekend), after which the patient must be released or a more permanent judicial custodial arrangement made. Usually what happens over that period of time is that the patient improves to the point that they agree to further treatment voluntarily. The mad are the acutely psychotic patients. Psychotic patients have lost the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy and their behavior reflects whatever delusions are driving them. The causes for psychosis are many but the overarching diagnosis is usually schizophrenia. When these patients’ behavior becomes too bizarre or threatening to the public or family and friends they may be brought to the ER by police under Emergency Custody Orders (ECO’s). ECO’s have a time limit of four hours, so the clock is at Crozet Children’s Health Center P.C.

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pretty much say it all and you can imagine the challenges of dealing with patients whose very core identity is identified as a pathology. Try telling a narcissist that others struggle with the same problems or a paranoid that nobody is really out to get them. There are other personality disorders as well, and the actual diagnoses have been subject to much revision over the years as these disorders are somewhat conceptual and change with our notions of what is normal and what is exceptional. All seem to be associated highly with childhood abuse. Personality disorders, unlike mood disorders and schizophrenia, are resistant to most forms of treatment. They are very frustrating for clinicians and family alike, not to mention for the patients themselves. Much has changed in the world of psychiatry since my long ago days in the mental hospital. The bible of psychiatric diagnoses, the DSM manual, has been revised four times and is due for another revision this year. Entirely new diseases will be named and other diagnoses reclassified as no longer illnesses. But the central truth remains: none of us is completely normal when seen through the eyes of others—and the world is richer for it.

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Fresh Pea Soup With Dumplings We’ve had spring since January and summer in the first half of April. Fortunately April reverted to its cooler, rainy self in the latter part of the month and gave the azalea bloom some longevity. Now one can look at the tops of our Blue Mountains (as Jefferson called them) and see that the oaks haven’t quite leafed out. Perhaps there is hope that May will indeed be the “gentle month” this year after the hot and dry misery of last year. The recipe below is seasonal and hearty for those cooler evenings we hope to enjoy this May.

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In the Garden —continued from page 19

Burrell provided some additional insights on garden design. He lived with his property for quite a while before daring to make major alterations, only then removing select trees to open up a view, for example. As a designer, he is nonplussed when after being on their property for five minutes, some clients say, “Well, whaddaya think?!” Too many folks just think it’s just a matter of hitting RESET. Tucked away at the end of a subdivision off Owensville Road, the garden of Fran and Andrew Boninti

combines elements of both gardens we visited earlier. At first glance, you see a barn-red house accented by attractive plantings. But the real treat lies beyond, hidden from initial view. Off to one side, you enter the formal Secret Garden, where 250 varieties of daffodil explode in early spring. As you wind around to the back of the house, the true scale of the garden becomes evident. From the terrace you can peer beneath the flowers of a stunning red buckeye to the woodland garden. Once you’ve had some time to relax, you can follow the meandering paths down to the bottomland. Here you can take advantage of a bench to look back at the hillside

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garden, enjoying the shade of a large pecan. The Boninti garden was very much a do-it-yourself project spanning the last thirty years. Many plants came from cuttings provided by friends. Fran and Andrew were also justifiably proud of reusing materials; for example, recycled concrete became steps. You could tell that they had imbued the garden with their own sensibilities, perhaps explaining a comment I

overheard: “This garden has a really nice feel!” So, three different gardens, all differing according to what their owners encountered when they first laid eyes on their properties, then by the individual genius they applied. But all made for a wonderful day. P.S. One item all these gardens shared: a deer fence, without which gardening would have been virtually impossible.

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Hawkes Named Poetry Winner

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the team. They are my best setter (Martin), blocker (Rossberg) and libero (Crowder).” The team had a 19-7 record and were District champs and the regional runner-up They lost in the state championship semi-finals to Jamestown. WAHS wide receiver/linebacker Austin Ellis also signed on to play football at Hampden Sydney College recently.

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Henley Students Head to Destination ImagiNation Global Finals After winning honors in regional and state tournaments, three Henley Middle School teams have earned the right to travel to Destination ImagiNation’s Global Finals—the largest creative thinking and problem solving competition in the world—to be held May 23-26 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Destination ImagiNation, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides educational programs for students to learn and experience creativity, teamwork, problem solving, and improvisation with more than 125,000 students participating in the United States and 30 countries around the world. The Henley teams are among more than 8,000 students representing 1,200 teams that will advance to Global Finals. Henley team members include eighth graders Alex Kingsley, Walker Smith, Vivian Lin, Sophie Salomon, Chet Hunter and Chris Rabasa,

coached by John Kingsley; sixth graders Landon Smith, Juliet Kingsley, Lucy Coulson, Jeffrey Dodson, Jenna Reilly and Jack Hanchett, coached by Debbie Smith; and sixth graders Audrey Geis, Lauren O’Donnell, Bridgett Bucci, Rachel Wang, Emma Graham and Chloe Horner, coached by George Geis. “DI is an extra-curricular activity where the students work after school and on weekends from October through March to solve the requirements of their Challenge,” explained team manager Smith. “Participants solve challenges through their unique hands-on experiences in one of seven difficult, open-ended challenges that require youth to apply science, technology, engineering and math as well as improvisation, theatre arts, writing, project management, communication, innovation, teamwork and community service challenges.”

The Fasteroni Thinkers, another local Destiniation ImagiNation team, held a car wash on April 28 to raise money for their own trip to Globals. The team, which was founded at Brownsville, has been together three years. When some students transfered schools, the group chose to continue as an independent team. This is their second time making it to Globals. PIctured above from left to right are Isabelle Brown (Brownsville), Kella Meier (Village School), Everette McConville (Brownsville), Rowan Breen (Village School), Julia Douvas (Brownsville), and Annie Meenan (Brownsville). [Not pictured: Thomas Cunningham (STAB)]

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The greatest challenge the Henley teams face is funding for their participation at Globals. All costs to compete are the responsibility of the team members, with entry fees alone exceeding $13,000. Fundraising events will be con-

ducted throughout May and community support would be greatly appreciated. For private donations, please contact Teresa Goodin at tgoodin@k12albemarle.org, or Henley Middle School at 434-8234393.

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Green Olive Tree Celebrates Anniversary The Green Olive Tree thrift store celebrated its first anniversary in its new location on Three Notch’d Road April 28. “It’s been great to have more parking and a better drop-off setup,” said Nancy Virginia Bain. The store ran a special sale every hour of the day. Bain said the store has given $28,000 in charity since the move. A Christian organization called Love Inc. gets monthly support and

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New Rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Ivy Rev. Eric Liles has taken up the duties of rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Ivy. He and his wife Allison and two children settled into their new home in Emerald Ridge in Crozet in March. Rev. Liles comes to St. Paul’s from St John’s Episcopal Church in Decatur, Alabama, a church similar in size to St. Paul’s, he said, where he served as associate rector for two years. Before that he was rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Smiths Station, Alabama, where he served from 2007 to 2010. In his new post he succeeds Rev. H. Hunter Miller, who had been rector of St. Paul’s since 1993. St. Paul’s origins date to the 1830s, when the first church was established near Mechums River. The current building dates to 1868. Its most famous rector, Archbishop Frederick Neve, arrived from England in 1888 and, based there, began his illustrious ministry to farflung communities along the Blue Ridge. In the process Neve established several other Episcopal churches, among them St. John the Baptist on Dick Woods Road. St. Paul’s now has about 750 members, Liles said. About 640 attended on Easter and an ordinary Sunday will find the congregation numbering above 200. Twenty-five people were confirmed in the church in March, mostly teenagers. Besides its venerable sanctuary, fully expressive of old Virginia style, the church has handsome and wellequipped support facilities and an attractive and spacious parish hall. It has two Sunday worship services, at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Communion is offered at every Sunday service. Raised in California and Texas, Liles received his theological training at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, where he also met his wife, who is a priest as well. “I discerned that I should be a rector again,” Liles said about his interest in the post. “When the tornadoes struck Alabama last April a priest in Virginia who is a friend called to check in and mentioned the vacancy at St. Paul’s.” St. Paul’s has a reputation for leadership stability, Liles said. Rev. Hunter served 17 years. The average tenure of a rector at an Episcopal church is five years, he said, and the transition from one rector to a new one normally takes 18 months. Lilies said he expects to hire an

is an interesting location,” said Liles, referring to the relative affluence of the area. “We know we have to go beyond our immediate range to be relevant.” The church also has a “companion relationship” with a church in Nzali, Tanzania, which it connects to through a program called

Carpenter’s Kids. This summer, for the third year in a row, members of St. Paul’s, eight teens and five adults, will visit Nzali for three weeks to teach English and assist with other needs. “When you come home, it’s been a life-changing experience,” said Liles. “People realize how God is active and how much we can learn from our African brothers and sisters.”

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associate rector in the next two months. The church also recently hired a new organist. “I hope to have a long run,” said Liles. “I don’t want to be thought of as a short-timer, so that means at least 18 years. I can’t imagine going any place else.” The church held a cleanup day for its playground and yard and about 90 people came out to help, including 25 kids. There was a meal afterward at the parish hall that was also a welcoming event for Liles and his family. Liles said the search committee said it was looking for a rector who would be “‘a preacher, a teacher, a leader and a friend.’ I appreciated it because they understand what a priest does and that’s a good match for who I want to be. I love to preach.” Liles said that in college he was attracted to both medicine and the ministry. “All my life people would tell me I was going to be either a doctor or a priest. I pursued medicine through college at Texas A&M. I interviewed at med schools and I asked God in prayer what he wanted me to do. I was working at an Episcopal summer camp in Texas when I sensed that God was calling me to the ministry. “What’s great about St Paul’s is our excellent church and classroom space and we have excellent parking. People are very warm and they love their community. We draw people from all over the county and from Charlottesville. They can be in this community and know that it’s bigger than them.” “Our lookout for the church is to keep being the parish we are. We want to be active for the good of the community and figure out how God wants us to serve the community.” St. Paul’s has a program that helps feed 40 families a month. “Ivy

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started looking at drainage for the Crozet Avenue Streetscape project and the new library. Crozet citizens had also been saying that, given the legacy of the parcels and buildings in downtown and their divergence from county storm water regulations, a common solution was required before development was likely to proceed. Without the new wetlands property, owners could have had to bury large storm water holding tanks to catch runoff from their buildings and on many parcels no locations for tanks exist. Thus new businesses headed for Rt. 250 and Old Trail. Harper said the staff will soon propose a service district for the watershed to county supervisors. Land inside a boundary that follows parcel lines would be eligible to buy into the regional system. Otherwise property owners would have to meet storm water requirements onsite with an internal plan. Fees for the service district would be based on the amount of impervious

May 2012 surface on the parcel, Harper said. The idea would be that the fee to join would be less than the cost of not joining. He posed the question, what would it cost to comply be if the wetlands didn’t exist? He said fees might also be made mandatory. The $1.35 million project was paid for with $854,000 in county funds, a $74,000 proffer connected to Grayrock, $107,000 from the Rivanna River Basin Commission and $315,000 from the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. Why should fees be charged if the public has already paid for the project? Harper said so that developers who come into the district don’t, in effect, get subsidies while developers outside the district still have the expense. The county doesn’t want to seem to favor particular developers, he said. The fee saves the developer the cost of hiring an engineer, he said. Harper said the supervisors will have to sort through the issues of charges and incentives. The system is designed to accommodate the build-out of rooftops and roads foreseen in the Crozet

Master Plan, Harper said. The system will handle a once-in-10-years type of rainfall, one that drops about 5.6 inches of rain in 24 hours and results in a flow of about 160 cubic feet per second. Storm water will emerge from two large pipes just south of Jarmans Gap Road and follow a 20-footwide channel, its flow broken up periodically by rock weirs, like rapids, and then enter a one-third acre pond. From there it begins its slow cascade through 1.5 acres of terraced wetlands. The pond also has an emergency spillway. Harper said that given our typical storm events, the spillway may come into play a few times a year, but normally the pond will capture the runoff of a storm. Two footbridges and a plank bridge capable of handling a vehicle will allow property owners access to parts of their property cut off by the channel. About 13,500 cubic yards of soil were removed to make the cells, or between 800 and 900 truckloads. The top cells will be further excavated before the project is finished. The county will leave a small access road into the site and Harper

Drain pipes empty into a channel just off Jarmans Gap Road

expects that in 20 years sediment will need to be cleaned out of the cells. Harper said the plantings “will the typical vegetation you see along a creek, a mix of natives depending on where you are in the wetlands and channel.” Meanwhile the wetland will be open to the public to walk around in. Birdwatchers especially should enjoy it, Harper said. Greenway plans call for a trail along Powell’s Creek someday, that the wetlands would be a link in. Engineering for the project was done by Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. and the contractor was Synchronized Construction Services, Inc. out of Orange.

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And don’t forget to do a simple tick check on yourself and your pets after you’ve been on a hike. Rick Osfeld, an ecologist specializing in Lyme disease transmission, predicts that, “We think the summer of 2012 is going to be the worst yet for Lyme Disease…We expect there will be hordes of infected tick nymphs crawling around on the forest floor waiting to grab a hold of us.” Ugghh! Solution to this month’s puzzle: E

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clearly having some difficulty breathing, and has a distended abdomen. Her lab work shows that Misty is in kidney failure and that she is losing huge amounts of protein through her kidneys and her blood proteins are low. Low protein levels in her blood led to fluid leaking out of her vessels and into her chest and abdomen. She is strong Lyme positive and has had lots of tick exposure for years. Misty’s prognosis is grave and she likely is suffering from Lyme-associated kidney damage. We see this case several times per year, and is one of the arguments for treating even asymptomatic dogs for Lyme disease. There is vaccine to prevent Lyme disease that has proven very safe and effective and I recommend it for most dogs. It is, of course, important to use a good tick preventative like Frontline or K9 Advantix on a monthly basis, year round. Remember that ticks do not hibernate during the winter; they are active all year round in Virginia.

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dogs fortunately respond very well to treatment. I see this case a few times a week. Case 2: Mr. Parker is here for Marley’s annual exam, which includes the heartworm/Lyme disease test. Marley is active and healthy and his physical exam is perfect. However, his heartworm test shows a very strong positive antibody level for Lyme disease. I educate Mr. Parker on Lyme disease and the pros and cons of treatment and recommend treating him with a course of doxycycline. Version “b” of this case would be if the Lyme antibody level was weak – I would discuss Lyme, but not recommend treatment. I see these cases every single day, year round. Case 3: Ms. Hill comes in with Misty who has been ADR (ain’t doin’ right) for several months and today seems to be having difficulty breathing. Her appetite and energy level are down and she has been losing weight. On physical exam, she has lost a lot of muscle mass, is

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days of survival takes the prize—one billion dollars. Legend by Marie Lu (2012): Like The Hunger Games, this novel has nonstop action and characters we care about. Alternating chapters tell the stories of upper-class June, whose perfect scores at the Trial have insured a great future for her, and Day, an injustice-fighting hero to the street people who out of necessity kills June’s beloved soldier brother as he tries to get medicine for his own. June’s mission to exact revenge gets derailed when she meets Day in person, an event that sets us wondering how it’s all going to play out. Combine star-crossed lovers with the need to take down the Republic, and readers are sure to remain on the edge of their seats. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006): In this Pulitzer-prizewinning novel that has been called McCarthy’s masterpiece, a father and son walk alone through a burned and ravaged America. Nothing moves in the desolate landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, the sky is dark, and when the snow falls it is gray. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing except a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the

The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins, has become the latest literary/box office craze and Young Adult/adult crossover hit— following in the footsteps (inkblots?) of the Harry Potter and Twilight series. The Hunger Games tells the story of a courageous, independent heroine who lives in a corrupt future America where the ruthless leaders orchestrate an annual, gladiator-like competition in which 24 teens fight to the death on live TV. Think Survivor meets Lost, only being voted off the island in this case means exiting the planet. This book is much better written than Twilight, with fully-developed characters and compulsively readable pacing. It portrays 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen not only as heroic, but even as nurturing amid all this violence; she supplements her family’s meager food supply through (illegal) hunting, volunteers to participate in the Games to spare her beloved younger sister, and seems to feel genuine regret for each murder she is forced to commit in order to survive. Add to this nail-biting plot a love triangle and an underlying class struggle (the poorest families in society have the highest chances of being chosen for this grisly spectacle), and Collins has created an original novel with mass appeal that

reflects the pessimism many of us feel as we face our future. The Hunger Games falls into the science fiction genre, which means it takes current reality to the limits of possibility. Fantasy, by contrast, involves magic and the supernatural, that is, events that are outside the realm of possibility. In the tradition of great dystopian sci-fi classics from Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 to Zamyatin’s We, many of these novels feature women playing a leading role in the rebellion against the oppressive and mind-enslaving State. So if you’ve flown through Hunger Games and its sequels— Catching Fire and Mockingjay—and find yourself craving more of the same post-apocalyptic adventure with themes of survival, rebellion, and romance under pressure, you might want to try one of these readalikes. The Running Man by Stephen King (1982): Turns out King, writing under the pen name Richard Bachman, had the idea of the ultimate reality show long before Suzanne Collins. The year is 2025 and The Running Man is America’s favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program’s latest contestant—and the Hunters’ latest target in a rigged game of death. Thirty

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clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food, and their love for each other. The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch (2011): In a future America devastated by war and plague similar to The Road, the only way to survive is to keep moving. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn and his family were among the few that survived and became salvagers, roaming the country in search of material to trade. But when Stephen’s grandfather dies and his father falls into a coma after an accident, Stephen finds his way to Settler’s Landing, where he meets strong, defiant, mischievous Jenny, who refuses to accept things as they are. Uglies by Scott Westerfield (2005): Tally Youngblood can’t wait till her sixteenth birthday, when she will have an operation to become supermodel beautiful, join her boyfriend across the river where he already lives with the other “pretties,” and party to her heart’s content. She has no reason to question her place in society until she meets Shay, who not only refuses the surgery but tries to convince Tally there are others out there fighting the system. Finding the truth means questioning all Tally has ever known. Sequels Pretties, Specials, and Extras continue the story of dangerous rebellion. Find more of Clover’s recommendations online at crozetgazette.com/ category/clovers-literary-corner.

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Babe Ruth Baseball Holds Its Opening Day in Greenwood Greenwood Baseball, the Babe Ruth division of the Peachtree League, held its opening at Greenwood Community Center April 21. The league fielded four teams of boys ages 13 to 15, who chose their team names from minor league teams across the country. On

Billy Wagner throwing the first pitch.

opening day the Grasshoppers played The Thunder in the first game and the RiverDogs faced the Scrappers in the second. The teams play a 16-game season and then an all-star group is chosen to be the league’s tournament team. The league has grown from 25 to 40 kids since last season. Scott Baker, the head coach of Thunder and president of Greenwood Baseball, opened the day by reminding spectators of the rules. “There is a code of ethics here,” he sad. “This is about the boys and nobody else.” Parents are expected to keep cool. Former big league pitching star Billy Wagner, now the JV coach at Miller School, threw out the first pitch and stayed to watch some of the play. He was friendly and encouraging to the players, many of who approached him. The Greenwood field was in outstanding condition. Five truckloads of special soil were added recently and low wet spots in the field are now built up and overall drainage

Kelly Kirby rounds third on his way to an inside-the-park home run in the Grasshoppers’ game with Thunder.

has improved. Its left field fence is at 286 feet, right at 240 feet and center field extends to 331 feet. Billy Adcock was thanked for getting the electronic scoreboard to work again.

The 13U district tournament will be held on the field in July. It will draw teams from Greenwood, Greene, Fluvanna, Madison, Orange, Spotswood and the Lane Babe Ruth League in Charlottesville.