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Restoration of the Blue Ridge Tunnel Begins

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Thanks to a generous donation, a new pavilion replaced the one destroyed in the June 2012 derecho at Claudius Crozet Park. See story page 20.

Western’s Environmental Studies Academy Starts Strong By Rebecca Schmitz At the end of a long hallway at Western Albemarle High School, in a spacious, brightly-lit room, students hunched in groups over spinning globes, wet sponges dangling from a scale, and even a psychrometer (a thermometer that measures differences in atmospheric humidity, for those of us who have been out of the classroom for a while!). On a grassy lawn just outside the room another group analyzed wind speed—its

direction and how to measure it. A few weeks ago these students were atop Afton Mountain, studying the mountain’s geography and topography compared to other ranges looming nearby. These 24 freshmen are clearly passionate about the environment and science, and that passion has led them here, to Western’s Environmental Studies Academy (ESA), which began its inaugural year in August. Adam Mulcahy, who taught animal

A contractor has been selected for Phase I of the rehabilitation and trail project for the Blue Ridge Tunnel, Nelson County officials announced Sept. 19. Fielder’s Choice Enterprises, Inc., from Charlottesville was awarded the contract. Phase I encompasses the parking area and trailhead near the old Afton Depot and the construction of a pedestrian and bicycle trail along the original rail bed for approximately 3,400 feet to the East Portal of the 1850s tunnel. The $749,149 award from the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Commonwealth Transportation Board through the “Transportation Alternatives” competitive grant program provides funding for Phase I construction. Funding for Phase II has also been awarded and the procurement process for that project is underway. Allen Hale, Nelson County Board of Supervisors member and President of the Crozet Tunnel Foundation said he was “thrilled to anticipate the beginning of construction on the continued on page 45

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Henry Chiles Named America’s Apple Packer of the Year Henry Chiles, the patriarch of the family that operates Crown Orchard, has been named America’s Apple Packer of the Year by the U.S. Apple Association, the industry group that represents the nation’s growers. Chiles received the award August 21 at the association’s crop outlook and marketing conference in Chicago. The award was instituted in 1948 and is considered the top award in the apple

industry. Jim Allen, president of the New York Apple Association, cited Chiles’ relentless optimism in announcing his selection. Allen said a normal thing to hear from Chiles is, “Don’t worry about it. We can make it happen. We can make it work.” Chiles was dubbed “Mr. Positive” in the nomination for the award. Allen also cited Chiles’ continued on page 10

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Dear Crozet Community Members, As a community-owned and operated park since 1958, the Claudius Crozet Park relies on a broad base of volunteers and partners from across the community for its operations. The success of this involvement is measured in the dramatic increase in Park usage and volunteer hours over the last few years. This community support is the catalyst for the Park’s year-long $170,000 capital campaign, “Play Crozet.” Our goal is to build two new pavilions for our Crozet Community. To kick-off this campaign, the Park was recently the recipient of a generous gift of $45,000 from a local family. This gift was put to work almost immediately and the end-result, a beautiful new pavilion, is now in place. This family now challenges the Park Board and the greater Crozet Community to raise the remaining funds, $125,000 to build a pond-side amphitheater. Imagine sitting under the stars with your family listening to local high school students playing in a jazz quartet, or enjoying a bluegrass jam session, or watching a play or dance. This is our 2015 goal and we need your help. Consider a tax-deductible gift to the Crozet Park. Donations can be made online with a credit card at: www.crozetpark.org or by sending a check made out to: Claudius Crozet Park, PO Box 171, Crozet, VA 22932. On behalf of the Park’s Board of Directors, thank you for your effort to continue to make the Claudius Crozet Park a truly special place! Kim Guenther President Claudius Crozet Park Board

The Proposed Amphitheater looking

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Private Alex Davis Comes Home Private Alex Davis, Western Albemarle Class of 2011, came home to Crozet from Afghanistan not expecting to be noticed, but a large crowd of relatives and friends gathered at the Crozet firehouse Sept. 14 to surprise him. He was badly injured in a helicopter crash May 28 while on a medical evacuation mission to aid an Afghan special forces soldier. One man was killed in the crash and 14 were injured. Davis’s back was broken, and he suffered four breaks in his right arm and two in his legs. “I thought I was going out to

take pictures with my parents,” he said. His parents are Todd and Tina Davis. Instead they took him to Brownsville Market where a police motorcycle escort including Police Chief Steve Sellers waited and some 36 bikers who are part of the Patriot Guard were rendezvousing. Once together, the softly growling motorcade made its way through town to the firehouse. There the CVFD’s giant American flag was suspended above the firehouse driveway by the ladder truck. The Patriot Guard is a statewide club of motorcycle riders

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Davis arrived escorted by the Patriot Guard.

who convene—only at the invitation of a family—to provide escorts for fallen or wounded soldiers, often at funerals. The Guard says its mission is to ensure that soldiers and veterans are shown respect. Assistant state captain Jim Robinson led the guard. A patch on his jacket read: “It’s Not About Us.” “The average person has no comprehension of what they go through,” explained Robinson. “If we can show him some respect . . . He’s now part of our brotherhood.” At the firehouse an honor guard of 50 cadets from Fishburne Military School in

Waynesboro waited, forming two files that led to the firehouse’s back door and the reception room where a big cake was ready. Davis climbed down bravely but stiffly when the tricycle bike he was chauffeured in stopped at the head of the cadets. “I was only doing my job,” he said to the crowd modestly, looking abashed by the occasion. His wife Heidi came to his side. He acknowledged the crowd with gestures and with Chief Sellers at his side made his way between the cadet ranks continued on page 36

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and shrubs, to done by mid-October. The contractor has a November deadline. The milling exposed the cobblestones under the asphalt. About 100 feet was laid in an early attempt to cope with persistent drainage problems under the trestle, which had a tendency to flood until recent times.

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As part of efforts to improve the commercial area north of the railroad tracks, which have included re-siding the Fruit Growers building, paving the parking lot behind them, and fixing the drainage problem in the Crozet Shopping Center parking area, planters have been placed in two parking spots near

Sal’s Restaurant and Crozet Great Valu supermarket. Both planters have crape myrtles in them now. Shopping center manager Renee Wyant said she next hopes to remove the chain link fence along Three Notch’d Road and replace it with a hedge of shrubbery.

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“countless hours working on industry committees.” Formerly on the board of the association, Chiles also has had leadership roles in the U.S. Apple Export Council, the National Peach Council and the Virginia State Horticultural Society. Chiles said he was completely surprised to receive the award. “I love the industry and I love all the people here,” he told the crowd who witnessed the presentation. He was presented with a large silver bowl. “The association does a lot of lobbying and trying to deal with industry problems,” said Chiles, whose expertise has caused him to be invited to testify before Congressional committees. “It’s a pretty good organization.” “I’m trying to make the industry better,” he said. “You’ve got to tell the government about the industry sometimes. They have to hear from the grassroots.” In 2013 America’s apple

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growers produced 248.6 million bushels of apples, worth about $2.7 billion to the growers. The top producing areas are Washington State, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania and California. In 2012 Virginia ranked sixth in production. America is the world’s second largest producer after China. A quarter of U.S. production is exported. The Red Delicious remains America’s favorite apple, but is it being challenged by the Gala, which will probably overtake it, Chiles predicted. “The Gala is a better apple, but Red Delicious is awfully good and has been number one for many years,” he said. Other popular apples are the Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Fuji and McIntosh. Crown Orchard is now shipping apples to Russia, Cuba, India and Panama (his biggest export customer last year), Chiles said. About 30 percent of his crop is being exported. “The export market only wants the high-end apple,” he explained. There used to be 60 packing houses in Virginia and now there are six, Chiles noted. The Winchester environs and

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Central Virginia are the state’s main surviving apple-growing areas. Virginia is producing about 5.5 million bushels a year, far below its production of 12 million bushels 10 years ago. “Our area had 30 to 40 orchards about 25 years ago,” he said. He expects Virginia’s current production to stabilize and perhaps not drop further, but it is unlikely to regain its earlier levels. Chiles said his orchards typically produce 40 bins per acre (there are 20 bushels in a bin),

so in a usual year Crown Orchards grows about 800,000 bushels. “Some years you get more and some years you get less depending on rain fall,” Chiles said. He said all his peach orchards are irrigated and many of his apple groves are, too. “For the most part we had a good summer,” he said. “It was cool and apples are still growing despite its being dry recently. Older, standard trees have good root systems.” Chiles, 78, took over his fam-

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American supplies are low. All apples passing through the packing house are individually labeled with bar-coded stickers to ensure food safety. Boxes and crates are individually bar-coded, too. It is now possible to trace an apple from a supermarket bin back to the very person who picked it, Chiles said. “Every step is scannable.” Often apples picked that day are on the road by evening, all shipped in refrigerated trucks. “It’s an advantage for us that we can ship overnight,” he said. The family opened a farm stand at their peach orchard in Greenwood 40 years ago and

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you never forget. It’s like farming. I’ve been lucky because I have had really good people working for me.” The business now employs 100 people year round and hires additional labor during the harvest season. “My daddy said to me, ‘Anybody who works, take a chance on him.’” Both Huff and his son speak Spanish. “I’m the only one who doesn’t,” admitted Chiles. Chiles’ primary customers are chain stores such as Walmart and Harris Teeter. The harvest season runs from June through November, and loaded trucks are constantly leaving Chiles’ packing plant in Covesville for supermarket warehouses. Chiles keeps some apples in chilled controlled-atmosphere storage facilities, which use ozone to “put the apples to sleep” so they are available for winter and spring sale. America imports apples from Chile and New Zealand in the seasons when

replaced it with a modern retail facility a few years ago. “It lets us see what the customer likes,” Chiles said. “We work hard at education and to explain the fruit business. Apples don’t grow on shelves. “We see people are caring more about locally produced apples. Their taste—our taste— is a lot better. The chains are looking for local suppliers now. That’s been quite a change in the last five years. “Labor is our big problem. Our work is hard work. Picking is hard and not many people will do it.” In the East, America’s apple production is being severely challenged by the arrival of stink bugs from China five years ago, Chiles said. The bugs leave a residue in apples they feed on and this blemishes the apple. Supermarket buyers will reject apples that are not essentially perfect looking, he said.

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of three main destinations: 1) Some of it travels around in the bloodstream and is used by cells and tissues that currently need energy, 2) some of it is stored in the liver for use later, and 3) excess glucose is stored as fat. So when we eat our bread and pasta and the incredible amounts of sugar we consume, we get a lot of glucose released into the bloodstream at once that raises our insulin levels. These elevated insulin levels help the glucose get into the muscle or brain cells, etc. where it is needed. However insulin also promotes fat storage, shuts off your ability to break down fat, and also shuts off your satiety center. Essentially, when you drink that soda, much of it turns right into fat. Protein: Much of the protein we eat is broken down into amino acids, which are used as the building blocks of new proteins, hormones, and other bodily upkeep. Our bodies can break down protein for energy too, but prefers to use carbs or fat first. Fat: When we eat fat, it is broken down into fatty acids, which circulate in the bloodstream and do about a million things. They provide energy for our cells, they help to maintain our cell membranes, they battle inflammation, and help in the absorption of certain vitamins and proteins. Excess fatty acids will be stored as fat. However, fat does not spike insulin like sugar does. Fats provide a slow, steady burn of energy in our body and keep you feeling full and satiated longer. Let’s take a look at what happens when we eat our “healthy” Chobani yogurt, which is fatfree and has 130 calories. As stated, there is zero fat in this food, but there are 19 grams of continued on page 25

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Hair stylist Will Rosson opened Salon R in September in the Crozet Shopping Center in space formerly occupied by Office Quad. It’s the culmination of a return home for Rosson, who grew up in the area and graduated from Western Albemarle High School in 1989. He had been living in Richmond for 20 years and moved back four years ago and went to work for Face Value Salon in Old Trail Village. Rosson started out in 1998 with a salon in his house. He built up. In Richmond Rosson had operated his own salon with six stylists. Now he’s back on his own, but the shop has a vacant chair if needed. “It was time to move back to my family,” he said. “It was time to come home.” Home is some good things. “I love the fact of Crozet being able to have local food. There’s lots of great things about the quality of life here. “Now I think it’s time I should go back on my own. I like seeing the trends in Crozet and where we can add to them. “I’ve trained with lots of

places,” he said. “Vidal Sassoon, Bumble and Bumble. I believe in lots of education. “I wanted to do a boutique feel. Something more intimate. It’s me by myself for now. I’m cool with that.” The room is spare silver and white, its mood of modern sleekness relieved here and there by a bit of sensous baroque curve. There’s a hair washing room farther in that has the aura of space travel to it. “I want a Hollywood glam look,” Rosson said. “I want the vibe to be sophisticated, like you would see in New York City in Soho or Tribeca.” “He’s cosmopolitan. He’s a unique find for Crozet,” said Mandy Few, who drives from Richmond to continue under Rosson’s attention. “I will cancel any appointment before my hair appointment,” she asserted. “It’s a God-given thing. That’s why I follow him.” She was getting “a graduated layered swing bob,” Rosson said. The salon’s hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Thursday until 6 p.m. Call 205-4300.

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Steve Early: Crozet Boy A no more up-and-coming place existed in 1890s Albemarle County than the progressive little village of Crozet! The Blue Ridge Railroad section of the Virginia Central in the 1850s had created viable rail stops at Mechums River, Greenwood and Afton. But in the nation’s Centennial year of 1876, the sunshine on those dusty little crossroads was about to be eclipsed by a new kid on the block. A consortium of local farmers and orchardists envisioned greater opportunities as a by-product of Samuel Miller’s magnificent Industrial School near Batesville. Their concerted appeal to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway resulted in the establishment of “A regular Freight Station, and a Flag Station for Passengers… to be known as CROZET…” By the latter 1880s, the growing village had a modern C&O passenger depot; stores operated by Jim Ellison, J.T. O’Neill, and the Haden Brothers; a hotel; apartments; and a growing cottage industry welcoming sum-

mer vacationers from eastern cities. It was in this invigorating community that Thomas Joseph Early and Ida Virginia Wood courted and wed in the late winter of 1888. Thomas, a 22-year-old grandson of John Early, from whom the village of Earlysville derived its name, was employed by the C&O as a postal mail clerk. Crozet Station was the jumping on and off point for his daily mail run. In August 1889, Thomas and Ida were blessed with the arrival of their first child, a son whom they named Stephen Tyree. And if that were not enough excitement for the young family, C&O engineers set the area abuzz in the spring of 1890 when they began to survey a proposed rail line along the eastern base of the Blue Ridge Mountains from Crozet to Washington, D.C. By the time Crozet’s first oneroom public school was opened in 1894, young Steve had become a big brother to two siblings. During his meanderings through the bustling village

Stephen Early signed and issued this press pass to Richard Strout, national correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. U.S. President Roosevelt traveled to Charlottesville to give the commencement address at the University of Virginia’s Memorial Gymnasium where his son Franklin Jr. was graduating with a law degree. That morning, Italy’s dictator leader Benito Mussolini had declared war on France. FDR’s commencement remarks departed from his prepared text when with great fervor he announced, “On this 10th day of June 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of his neighbor.” The speech came to be known as his famous “Stab in the Back” speech. Five months later Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented third term in office; 18 months later the United States was forced into WWII following the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. [Courtesy of the Phil James Historical Images Collection]

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President Franklin Roosevelt (left) with his press secretary Stephen Early in August 1935. Early, born in 1889 in Crozet, served FDR from March 1933 until March 1945. He was the longest serving presidential press secretary in history.[Courtesy of the Phil James Historical Images Collection]

of Crozet, Steve marveled as the ground was shaken by the massive steam locomotives. He was intrigued by the ringing of hammer on anvil at Burton’s blacksmith shop. He whiffed the mixed aromas of leather, oils and polish employed by Mr. Toombs the shoemaker, and encountered the nurturing dispositions of the Haden brothers and watchful eye of Mr. Owen the depot agent. And, all around, he heard the sounds of buggies, wagons and horses’

hooves moving people and farm and orchard freight from place to place. But, in 1898, unprecedented changes loomed for Thomas and Ida Early as they readied their farm for sale and prepared to move their growing family of four children: Thomas had accepted a transfer as postal clerk to Washington, D.C. His decision to move his family would forever redirect the destinies of his children, and ulti-

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Steve Early’s boyhood in 1890s Crozet, included many barefoot visits to the wooden boarding platform of the village’s Chesapeake and Ohio Railway passenger depot. His father Thomas Joseph Early was a postal clerk for the C&O, employment that brought about the family’s relocation to Washington, D.C. in 1899. [Courtesy of the Phil James Historical Images Collection]

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mately, bring a great influence upon our nation. The Earlys, by spring 1899, were settled into their new place on North Carolina Avenue in the District of Columbia, a relatively short distance from the White House. Although it was a working-class neighborhood, life hardly could have been more different than back in old Albemarle. Here, five more eventually would join their fold, bringing to nine the number of Early children. Steve remained a caring older brother to his siblings throughout his life. Growing up in D.C., Steve delivered the Washington Post newspaper in his neighborhood. After finishing high school he entered straightway into the workforce as a messenger boy for the Government Printing Office. Later, during his work with the United Press wire service, while covering the 1912 Democratic National Convention, he met another up-and-coming young man named Franklin D. Roosevelt. Early’s dedication to garnering news scoops led to his becoming an Associated Press correspondent assigned to cover

the Navy and more encounters with FDR. Entering World War I at age 27, Steve’s regiment was assigned to the 80th Infantry Division whose nickname was the Blue Ridge Division. Their insignia depicted the beloved mountains of Early’s youth. Three years later, with that devastating conflict behind him, the grateful-to-be-alive decorated war veteran moved back home with his parents and found work as a publicist for the Chamber of Commerce. He was asked by FDR in 1920 to be the advance man for his Vice Presidential campaign. Familiar with the workings of the news service, Early prepared the way for the candidate’s campaign and simultaneously created a network of media connections. Following the Democrats’ loss that year to Republican Warren G. Harding, Steve returned to the news grind. In 1921 he married Helen Wrenn, and over the next ten years they had three children. Steve Early reconnected with the Associated Press, where, in 1923, he scooped the news of the death of U.S. President Harding even before the official announcement by the doctors and White House. Early left the AP in ’27 and joined with Paramount News, producing

Details from the Albemarle County license for the marriage in 1888 of Thomas Joseph Early and Ida Virginia Wood. Their first five (of nine) children were born at Crozet where the Earlys made their home until 1899.

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Stephen Early (right) was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by President Harry S. Truman in June 1945. Early also served as Deputy Secretary of Defense during the Truman administration. [Courtesy of the Phil James Historical Images Collection]

popular newsreels with a focus on events in the nation’s capital and throughout the world. Between 1920 and 1932, Franklin Roosevelt’s life and political career endured many highs and lows. When he was readying his run for the White House in ’32, he knew exactly on whom to call. Early’s “eyes and ears in Washington” would well serve that future President’s far-reaching purposes. Early wrote in 1948, “I reported to FDR for duty in the Mayflower Hotel on the evening of March 3, 1933, the eve of his first inaugural. I went into the White House with the understanding that I would serve two years and then be permitted to return to private life.” As Roosevelt’s Secretary responsible for press relations, Steve Early proved himself “honest, honorable and forthright.” He became indispensable to the President and to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The country lad who had skipped barefoot among the hoof prints on the White Hall-to-Crozet Road strode just as comfortably alongside FDR through some of the United States’ most harrowing and dramatic years. A devoted friend and personal adviser of FDR, Early served as Presidential Press Secretary from 1933 to 1945. Under President Truman he again briefly served as Press Secretary, and then as the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense in 1949-’50. It was Steve Early who coined the word “fireside” for FDR’s

Fireside Chats; and Early’s voice that first announced to the press corps on December 7, 1941, that “The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor from the air…” It was he who, in April 1945, along with FDR’s physician, apprised Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and afterwards, the nation, that “The President slipped away this afternoon” in Warm Springs, Georgia. It was Early who accompanied her from Washington to that place, and later, in Hyde Park, NY, mourned graveside with the family. A few days later Mrs. Roosevelt wrote to Early, “… you’ve always been loyal and kind. Franklin loved you and I am deeply grateful to you and have a deep and abiding trust and affection for you.” He replied, “For years there have been two I have thought of as the most wonderful women— my Mother and you… You and the President made me feel as almost one of the family. And that is the way it always will be with me.” A mere six years later, Stephen T. Early also slipped away too soon, the best strength of his 61 years spent in service to his country. The Full Honor Funeral ended with his burial at Arlington National Cemetery close by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Among the hundreds of dignitaries in attendance that day with Mrs. Early and her family were President Harry Truman and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Crozet Artisans Opens in The Little Purple House A half-dozen Crozet-area artisans have formed company and will open a gallery Oct. 4 in the small purple house that formerly housed Bark Avenue dog grooming salon to retail their creations. “I think it’s a good location and I think the community will support us,” said Kathleen Mistry, who has been organizing the effort. “We have the Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival, but a lot of us are here all year. We’re building our community and hoping to turn Crozet into more of a destination. “I was sitting in Fardowners [restaurant],” she recalled, “and I thought, ‘We ought to have our own place here.’ As soon as I would mention it to people, they would say yes. It’s definitely the right time for our town. “The timing is everything. A group of us tried last year, but it fell through. [Former Bark Avenue proprietress] Patti Siehien is one of us. We pulled together a meeting and since then it’s been go-go-go to make it happen. I saw the light bulbs go off in Patti when we talked about needing a location. We’re going to leave the building purple. We may put “The Little Purple House” on our logo. “We’re a limited liability corporation, not a co-op. Our

name is Crozet Artisan Creative Gallery and Gifts. None of us could have done it alone. The holidays are coming, so we’re trying to get our stock up and get this business going, so we’ve been busy. “We’ll be open late on Fridays and Saturdays for the Three Notch’d Grill customers. Locals know you can park in the back, but we’ll put up a small sign about it, too. The six principals are backed up by another dozen artisans who are not part of the company but will contribute their creations and, in some cases, time to the gallery. Among the main artisans are: Kathryn Matthews (painter and custom map artist); Kathleen Mistry (wildlife painter and silversmith); Roslyn Nuesch (Two Owls Pottery); Trina Player (Player Pottery); Gillian Ruffa (wearable art and fiber artist); Sarah Canady Schultz (jeweler and silversmith); Patti Siehien (paintings and clay sculptures); Meg West (landscape oil paintings); and Lisa O. Woods (wood carvings and paintings). This is the core group that will staff the gallery’s open hours. “We’ll be all locally made crafts. We’re bringing in artists to fill the gaps, glass workers, photographers, furniture makers and more painters. We may

Clockwise from upper left are Trina Player, Kathleen Mistry, Ros Neusch, Lisa Woods, Patti Siehien, Gillian Ruffa.

add more artisans later. We’ll see how the space works. I didn’t think we’d have trouble finding people. This is something that’s come together fast. “The Crozet artist community is well established,” said Mistry. “This is saying, ‘Here we are. This is where we live and work.’ We want a place to sell. We’re excited to see what comes next after the streetscape is finished. This community is growing, but it still has its roots. I have a good feeling. I want to

be part of what’s happening in downtown. “People are coming through [Crozet] on the weekends. They go to the wineries and the breweries. Now they can go to a gallery, too. What we need now is a couple of nice inns. Visitors need to be able to spend the weekend.” The gallery will host an official grand opening reception Saturday, November 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. There will be live

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studies and environmental science for six years at Western before becoming director of the program, said the goal of the ESA is not just to prepare students for success in environmental-themed careers, but to be good citizens. “Regardless of what they do or where they go after graduation, they will have a better understanding of the earth and the natural world,” he said. “Our hope is that they become stewards for the environment and more involved in their communities.” The program’s curriculum pulls in different elements of earth sciences, environmental sciences, and global issues. The ESA was born two years ago when Western began researching ideas for its own specialized academy, which would be modeled after the Math, Engineering and Science Academy at Albemarle High School and the Health and Medical Sciences Academy at Monticello High School. A

panel of teachers and principals came up with a list of options, which was then given to school stakeholders and the public for input. More than 500 people responded, and the Environmental Studies Academy was chosen. “The support from the community and the parents has been fantastic,” Mulcahy said. “There are so many people in this part of the county that have a progressive view of the environment.” Students began submitting applications in December 2013. The review panel looked at more than just grades when choosing students for the program. Teacher recommendations and personal essays were key to identifying students who were enthusiastic about nature, science, and the environment. Applications were submitted “blind,” so that gender, race and ethnicity were not known to the reviewers. While the ratio of boys to girls is 2 to 1, Mulcahy is confident the number of girls in the program will grow. “I’m hoping the girls enrolled now will become advocates for the program.” This year’s incoming class had 24 students. Next

From left: Ava DiVita, Anna Dunn, Davis Greene, and James Keese measure evaporation rates.

year, two groups of 25 freshmen will be admitted, and the program will grow from year to year. Students who are accepted will spend all four years in the program. Seventy-five percent of the ESA’s students are from the Western Albemarle district; the rest are from private schools or other districts within Albemarle County. Students from outside Western must find their own transportation to school, but

can be dropped off at the Western bus stop closest to their home. Once accepted into the program, they are considered students of Western and can participate in Western’s sports and extracurricular activities. “These students had to really want to be here,” said Mulcahy, who is impressed with their dedication. “They are brave—it takes courage and leap of faith for a 14-year-old to enter a school with a whole new group

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OCTOBER 2014 focused as they work together. “This is way more interesting than regular science,” said student Emma Bittle. “I want to learn more about the world around us. I like this type of independent learning.” Will Teague agreed, “I like how hands-on it is and that we really get to test things.” This group is well-rounded, and the list of sports and activities they participate in is long: football, softball, band, lacrosse, robotics club, chess, figure skating, fencing, cross country, and more. Although they spend one-quarter of their day in ESA classes, it’s important to Mulcahy that they become full participants in the Western community. This goes for academics as well. He explained that the program was purposely named “Environmental Studies” instead of “Environmental Sciences” to allow students to

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mine rates of evaporation. A procedure list and sheet of questions wait for them at each station, and they analyze, discuss, and compare notes with each other until they understand the concept before them. Mulcahy and Mark Posovsky, who has taught earth science at Western for 22 years, circulate around the room. They help the students by facilitating discussions, explaining complex topics, answering questions, and providing technical support. Both teachers are brimming with enthusiasm. Their deep love of and understanding of the subject matter is evident— and infectious. The students are engaged, inquisitive, and

blend in an understanding of other topics. For example, while studying geography, students might also examine the history and culture of different regions of the globe. “We want to give kids a wellrounded understanding of how the environment impacts everything. The teachers here have been great at integrating the ESA into other departments.” The students are also sharing what they’ve learned. A recent field trip took them to a local park to help third-graders from Cale Elementary learn mapping skills through geocaching. This year, participants in the program will take courses in continued on page 21

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When a gift inspires others to give it’s magical, and so it has been at the Crozet Park over the past four weeks since the park board formally announced a yearlong $170,000 capital campaign, “Play Crozet.” The goal: to build two multi-use pavilions for our Crozet Community. Just a few days after the campaign launched, a generous Crozet family, who wishes to remain anonymous, gave the park a $45,000 gift to build the first of two pavilions. Their request was to use their gift to challenge the community to give and to rebuild the pavilion destroyed by storm in 2012. This particular pavilion has some history. Those of us who have lived in Crozet for a few years remember the last day of June in 2012 when derecho winds swept through the area, knocking down trees and power lines and cancelling the Independence Day parade and fireworks show. When it was over, the Park’s much-used pavilion sat in a heap, a total loss. Since then, the spot has sat vacant, only the cement pad remaining, a trip hazard and a sad reminder of a useful structure that had sheltered family picnics, exercise classes, kids’ camp activities and more. The Park was unable to afford a replacement until our donor family came along. Inspired by the family’s gift, others in the community have

stepped up as well. Stanley Martin Homes, under the direction of Drew Holzwarth, provided pavilion materials at cost and offered to manage the first stages of work, all at no cost to the park. On September 17, a team of 15 descended upon the park to begin erecting the pavilion. Their aim was to have the pavilion framed, roofed, and painted in two weeks, in time for the park’s Arts & Crafts Festival October 11 & 12. Plus they intended to re-roof and paint the pavilion next door to match. The same day, nearly 45 volunteers participating in the United Way Day of Caring came to the park to complete eight different Park projects, including painting the entire front fence running along Park Road. Teams of volunteers came from U.Va., the CFA Institute, and Volvo of Charlottesville. The park was teeming with people working side-by-side A few days later, the company who framed the pavilion, CC Carpentry, inspired by the family’s gift and the show of volunteer force from the community, decided to donate their work. The cost of framing labor was zero. Soon after, Southern Insulation donated siding. This all started with one generous gift. While all this was taking place at the Park, another event brought together the culinary talent of the Crozet area to raise

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The original pavilion, after June 2012 derecho hit.

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earth science, geology, and world geography. Next year, they will take biology, ecology, and botany. Year three will focus on environmental chemistry and environmental science. In their senior year, students will choose an area they are particularly interested in for an independent project, and will intern or job shadow in their chosen area of study. More projects are in the works. Although the ESA is funded through the approved county budget, it also receives grants. A recent $10,000 grant from Verizon will allow students

to develop and build solar panels for a greenhouse they’ll build next year. A glance around the ESA’s facilities revealed a group of students and teachers motivated to learn and happy to be doing something they love. “This is something different from the classes we usually take,” said student Ty Huneycutt. “I wanted to be there at the beginning of the program—I wanted to be a part of something new.” For rising ninth-graders interested in applying to the ESA, all three Albemarle County academy web sites will have a link to a common application that goes live in the first week of December.

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Performing experiments helps Graciyn Goldstein, Trent Phillips, Caroline Lund, and Frank Kennedy understand weather-related concepts.

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OCTOBER 11

Dulcimer Fun Day at Royal Oaks

Royal Oaks Retreat on Love Mountain will host Dulcimer Fun Day, a free mountain music event, Oct. 11 from 12 to 4 p.m. Dulcimer string music will be performed by Blue Ridge Mountain Dulcimer Club. Keith Smith will perform John Prine and spiritual tunes. Meet local historian and author Lynn Coffey, who will be signing copies of her Backroads books. Food will be available from the Parkway Deli. Bring chairs and blankets for seating. Located off Interstate 64, Exit 99 (Afton Mtn) on the Blue Ridge Parkway at milepost 16 (10 miles south of Humpback Rocks Visitor Information Center), 500 feet west of the parkway on LOVE Road, Route 814. From Waynesboro, go four miles past Sherando Lake on LOVE Road. For more information, call 540-943-7625 or visit www. vacabins.com

OCTOBER 11

Second Saturdays Art Receptions

Art on the Trax will host “Tabletops and Trees” by students of Jessie Coles during the month of October, with a Second Saturday Artist Reception on Oct. 11 from 4 to 6 p.m.. Meet the artists and eat The Art Box’s famous ice cream sundaes. Local artist Jessie Coles has gathered together her students to show off their stuff!

“Tabletops and Trees” includes these local artists: Chris Tucker, Mary Murray, Lindsay Freedman, Maggie Walker, Susan Weiss, Randy Baskerville, and Nancy Campa. Down the street, Over the Moon is hosting a reception from 6 to 8 p.m for their October show, Paintings by Julia Lesnichy.

OCTOBER 11

Crozet Trails Crew Trail 5k

The 2014 Trails 5K Run/Jog/ Walk will begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct.11. Participants may register in advance by visiting www.crozettrailscrew.org, or in person on Friday, Oct. 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Crozet Running, 1159 Crozet Avenue, or on Saturday morning from 7 to 8 a.m at the Crozet Park YMCA. The online fee is $20 per person; in person is $25. This fee includes a race t-shirt and admission to the Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival, which opens at 10 a.m. at Crozet Park following the race. Both events benefit the non-profit Crozet Trails Crew and Crozet Park.

OCTOBER 10-12

Martha’s Market

The 21st annual Martha’s Market, an event that benefits breast health programs in Central Virginia, will be held October 10 through 12 at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville. The Market will feature at least 75 vendors selling everything from jewelry and clothing to birdhouses, blown glass, gourmet cakes, and chil-

dren’s toys; 29 of the vendors are new to the market this year. Organized by the Women’s Committee of Martha Jefferson Hospital, the event raises funds for new imaging devices at the hospital, biannual breast health screening days for 100 women each year (many of whom have never had a mammogram), and resources for women with breast cancer, including educational materials, wigs, scarves, and relaxation programs. The market will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, October 10; from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday; and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. The $10 admission price is for the entire weekend. Parking is free at the arena.

OCTOBER 18 & 19

Batesville Apple Butter Days

Batesville Apple Butter Days will be held October 18 & 19 in Page’s Field in “downtown” Batesville. Hosted annually since 1975 by the Batesville Ruritans and local residents, the event will feature two days of stirring and cooking apples (with special seasoning) to create the famous Batesville apple butter. Apple peeling and slicing will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday and stirring will begin around 5 p.m. Two kettles will be stirred through the night. Stirrers can sign up at Batesville Post Office. A pancake breakfast with music and entertainment will be offered beginning at 8 a.m. Sunday for $5 per adult and $3 per child. Canning and labeling will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday and apple butter will go on sale around 1 p.m. for $8 per quart and $5 per pint.

OCTOBER 18

Ashley Walton Fund Benefit

A benefit for the Ashley Walton Fund will be held rain or shine Saturday, Oct. 18, from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mt. Moriah United Methodist Church in White Hall. There will be a very large yard sale, a bake sale, lunch (hot dogs, chili, etc.) and live music by James River Cutups and Willie Ralston & friends. Watch apple butter being made, too. Yard sale items include household goods, new and used small appliances, glassware, linens, Christmas items, toys, etc. Something for everyone. Shop, get lunch and enjoy the music. Questions? Call Debra, (434) 466-2094.

OCTOBER 25

Pints for Pups at Starr Hill Brewery

The second “Pints for Pups” fundraiser to benefit the Crozet Dog Park will be held at Starr Hill Brewery Saturday, Oct. 25. For each pint purchased between 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. a dollar will be donated towards development of the dog park, which will be located at Claudius Crozet Park. The outside patio at Starr Hill is dog-friendly. Feel free to bring your favorite furry friend.

NOVEMBER 2

Gospel Singer at Piedmont Baptist

Jewel Gospel Singer of Fork Union will perform at Piedmont Baptist Church in Yancey Mills Nov. 2 at 3 p.m.

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Rockfish Valley Community Center to Unveil Wildflower Meadow Rockfish Valley Community Center and Nelson County Master Gardeners will host an unveiling ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Mallory Creek Native Grasses and Wildflower Meadow on the Center’s grounds in Afton on Saturday, October 4 at 10 a.m. The Meadow, which stretches over half an acre, was the brainchild of local master Gardener and RVCC member Herb Thomas. It received financial and volunteer support from the Nelson chapter, as well as grant monies from the Thomas Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation Office, the Nelson County Community Fund and Keep Virginia Beautiful.

“Besides being beautiful to look at, the meadow has great practical, ecological and educational value as well,” said Stu Mills, RVCC’s executive Director. “It will save us a few dollars in lawn maintenance every year, but more importantly, it promotes the biodiversity and water retention of the soil underneath and will help us sustain endangered pollinators such as Monarch butterflies and honeybees. And we’re really looking forward to hosting field trips from our local schools to help kids learn about sustainable gardening, native grasses and wildflowers and the protection of threatened wildlife,” he said.

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Fall Tree Sale Fall is the time to plant trees! Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards will hold their fall tree sale Saturday, Oct. 11, from 7 a.m. until noon at the Charlottesville City Market downtown on the corner of Water and South Street. The sale includes a wide selection of mostly native trees and shrubs for a variety of growing conditions. These are young trees that will transplant easily and successfully. Shade trees include American Chestnut, Chinese Chestnut, Bald Cypress, Black Gum, Hackberry, Shagbark Hickory, Black Oak, Chestnut Oak, Northern Red Oak, Scarlet Oak, Post Oak, White Oak, Willow Oak, Pecan, Persimmon, White Pine, River Birch,

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Fardowners Repeats as Crozet Culinary Challenge Champ Fardowners Restaurant claimed the 2014 Crozet Culinary Challenge trophy cup Oct. 18 at The Lodge at Old Trail, to become the event’s first repeat winner. Lodge chef Jesse Kaylor unveiled the mystery local ingredients: trout, apples, squash, Caromont Farm goat cheese and Gearharts dark chocolate. An entrée and dessert are required. Competitors had an hour to be ready. They hardly noticed the studious audience, seated to keep views open. Fardowners faced off against Da Luca Bistro and Bar, Sal’s Restaurant and Southern Way Café for town bragging rights. Event emcee David Hilliard

Fardowners’ winning plate

called attention to the fact the chefs had left their restaurants, even closed them, to participate and contribute to a community cause. Ten local wineries and two local breweries also donated. Newsplex 19 weatherman Travis Koshko stepped up to be celebrity judge, and this year the three remaining judges table seats were drawn from a lottery of ticketholders on hand. Frank Cerrone, Jeri Evans and Valerie Long were holding the winning tickets and happily sat down to await the taste buffet. Meanwhile, a silent auction went on and spectators socialized and filled up on barbeque sliders and other small bites prepared by The Lodge. Similarly new, this year competing chefs made an additional meal and four lottery ticket holders heard their numbers called out to eat it. They took seats at a table not far from the judges. Winners were Helen Hilliard, Carmen Fischer, Jim Schweitzer and Cole Fischer. Their summations of their meals were “amazing,” “really good,”

Lodge chef Jesse Kaylor presented the Crozet Culinary Challenge trophy to Fardowners chefs Mark Cosgrove and Alex Diaz. Cosgrove’s sons—Dylan, right, and Jackson, partially concealed by the bowl—joined in.

“I’d eat this as my last meal” and being unable to speak. The challenge’s charitable cause this year was Claudius Crozet Park. Drew Holzwarth announced the park’s $170,000 building fund campaign. The declared aim is to replace the collapsed pavilion, flattened in the 2012 derecho, and to build an amphitheater for performances by the pond.

Already the campaign has had success. A Crozet family that remains anonymous gave $45,000 to fund restoration of the lost pavilion and to replace the roof on the neighbor pavilion Holzwarth said. “We have put it to work.” The target was to be done before the fall Arts and Crafts Festival. “Let’s bring music back to the park,” said Holzwarth next. “We’re going to build an amphi-

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CROZETgazette theater and bring back music.” He had an illustration of a platform, appearing to extend to the water’s edge, with a roof pitched high in front. Seating was on arcs of terraces. Holzwarth appealed for volunteer manpower for the park and asked for community members to serve on the park board. “And, we’ll put your money to good use.” Judges labored over their evaluation duty. The savory tasting came at a cost of responsibility. They kept all four plates in front of them to be able to

OCTOBER 2014 refresh comparisons. Drawn into a hushed clutch, organizers tallied the scoresheets. Another innovation, this year the runners-up chefs were presented crystal beer glasses with the competition commemorated in engraving. The challenge announces only a winner. For Fardowners the victory announcement was a moment of jubilation. Cruising in a spirit of camaraderie, all the chefs joined for a group photo with the judges a few minutes later. It had been worth it.

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carbs (15g sugar!) and 12g of protein. Those 19g of carbs are broken down into simple sugars, which are quickly absorbed into the bloodstream. Thus, your insulin spikes, and whatever sugar is not used right away by the body is stored as fat. Further, the insulin has turned off your fat-burning enzymes, so as soon as your blood sugar starts to drop back down, you quickly become hungry again because your body is not burning fats anymore. So how in the world did that fat-free yogurt do you any good? It literally made you more fat. It’s amazing, but when you go to the grocery store, it seems everything is low-fat or fat-free. Guess how they make these foods taste good since all the delicious fat is removed? Yep, they add sugar. Don’t take my word for it; check the labels yourself. Now for one more spin on things, let’s talk about how our

body uses energy when exercising. When you are exercising at a lower intensity—walking, running easy, biking at a relaxed speed—your muscles preferentially use fat as an energy source. Yep, that same fat around your belly that you’re trying to get rid of is getting burned with low-intensity exercise. When you are exercising at a higher intensity—running/ cycling at a more intense pace, intense “cardio” workouts— your body preferentially uses sugar as an energy source. That fat around your belly stays put. Your body needs a quicker energy source. When we look at our Fitbit and it tells us we burned 1,000 calories, well, how much was fat and how much was carb? And how about if we eat a snack right before exercise? You likely just spiked your insulin, which has now reduced your ability to burn fat during your exercising. Don’t count calories. Eat moderate portions. Avoid sugar like the plague. Minimize bread and pasta consumption. Avoid continued on page 46

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Crozet Trails Crew 5K Run Set for October 11

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Ghost Tales and Legends with Kathy Coleman Called one of the distinct “Voices of America” by the Smithsonian, Kathy Coleman is, in her own words “a storyteller and Appalachian folkways preserver.” She was born to a coalminer’s family in Wise County, Virginia, and from childhood was immersed in the rich folklore tradition of songs, stories and verse of the region. She has traveled the world bringing her tales, tunes, folk toys, and quilts to let listeners know her mountain people. Join us as she shares her inherited and collected ghost tales and legends of the Blue Ridge and the Old Dominion.

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Winners get a trail bridge named for them. Here are 2013 race winners Steve Rosinski and Karen Zvarych on the bridge named for them.

For the second year, the Crozet Trails Crew will combine their successful and much anticipated annual trail run with the Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival. Slightly different than last year, the course winds through eastern Crozet on trails largely built and maintained by local volunteers. The 5K Run/Jog/Walk is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, October 11, with line up at 8 a.m. Participants may register in advance by visiting www. crozettrailscrew.org, or in person on Friday, October 10 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Crozet Running, 1159 Crozet Avenue, or on Saturday morning from 7 to 8 a.m at the Crozet Park YMCA. All registrants will receive the 2014 Race Shirt designed by a local artist and sponsored by some of our local businesses. The online fee is $20 per person; in person is $25. This fee includes admission to the Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival, which opens at 10 a.m. at Crozet Park following the race. Both events benefit the nonprofit Crozet Trails Crew and

Crozet Park. This year’s Crozet Trails Crew 5K provides an opportunity to experience areas that are not normally available to residents, as a few private property owners have allowed one-day access to their properties for the run. Come and be part of the adventure and increase your local knowledge of our trails while you enjoy the beautiful scenery of western Albemarle County. The crew also wants to show off the new bridges they have built to span the streams that made running and biking a little challenging in the past. A new bridge will be named in honor of the first place male and female 5K winners, and prizes will be awarded to the first and second place runners in each age category, as well as all children under age 14. There will also be a prize drawing for all race registrants. The award ceremony will take place immediately following the race. For more information, visit www.crozettrailscrew.org, or contact jessica@crozettrailscrew. org.

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Trail Correction: A story in the September issue of the Gazette stated that the trail in eastern Crozet connecting Westhall and Western Ridge was accessible at Crozet Park. Well, perhaps some day. That connection is on private property and is only opened one day in the year for the Crozet Trails Crew 5K Race. See the above map for a compete guide to presently open public trails in Crozet.

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funds for a pond-side amphitheater. The Lodge at Old Trail, under the direction of David Hilliard and Judy Bowes, hosted the third annual Culinary Competition for Charity. Chefs from Southern Way, Sal’s Restaurant, Fardowners, and da Luca Café all gave up a weeknight in their own restaurant to help raise funds to benefit the park and compete for this pres-

tigious culinary award. The judges know best that all our local chefs gave inspired efforts, but Fardowners took the prize for a second year in a row. It was a tremendous evening culminating several days of inspirational giving. Giving has become a hallmark of our small Crozet community. Claudius Crozet Park relies on leadership, volunteering and funding from all of us. Whether your gift is small or large, you can donate at www.crozetpark. org/play-crozet/.

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shove pills down their mouth? Do they think I’m just a really weird friend of their owners? These random thoughts and emotions came flooding in when I recently had to put a dog named Annie to sleep because of end-stage cancer. Annie was a yellow Labrador Retriever who was always very nervous at our office, to the point where she would often tremble when I would examine her, terrified that something bad was going to happen. For her part, the concern was justified. We had years of wellness visits, where vaccines, blood draws, and rectal temperatures regularly took place. Unfortunately for her owners, Annie was a frequent flier for problems, Lyme disease, a herniated disk, not one but two knee surgeries.

Annie had a lot of unpleasant vet visits, but despite her anxiety, she was always sweet and would never ever bite or growl. Earlier this year, Annie came in with a rather large lump on her lip. Initial testing showed that it was concerning, so we scheduled surgery and removed it. Unfortunately, a short time later Annie came back in with huge enlargement of her local lymph nodes. I knew then that the cancer had spread systemically and that her time was going to be short. This broke my heart. Annie

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was a dog with whom we had been through a lot. Between surgeries and diseases, Annie was always keeping my job interesting and challenging. And though she was not the type of dog to jump up on me and lick me affectionately, it was clear that she eventually began to have a relationship with me and my staff. Call it a truce: You guys do what you need to do. I’ll stand here and shake, just please be nice to me. I always liked Annie because she was her dad’s best friend and I could appreciate what a good companion she was. In all the cliché ways, she was a good dog. We began some relatively benign chemotherapy to try to keep her comfortable and alive for as long as possible. Annie was a champ, doing her best to keep up a charade of normalcy despite her growing lymph nodes. But more recently it was clear

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My house is quiet these days. The kids have all grown and gone. So when the phone rings at midnight my heart rate jumps up a little bit. Last week when the phone rang at midnight an ER doctor was on the other end of the line— never good, but at least familiar. We both spoke the same coded language and shared a culture where midnight is little different from noon and things happen and have to be dealt with. My 90-year-old aunt had fallen at her nursing home and broken her hip again. She was going to be transferred to an orthopedic specialty hospital if they could find a bed. I verified with the doctor that she was not in pain and confirmed to him that she was pleasantly but deeply demented. This was her third hip fracture but she remembered none of them including this one. A small blessing. The femur has the distinction of being the strongest bone in the body but also the most frequently fractured, due to the high incidence of hip fractures in the elderly. Hip fractures hospitalize over 350,000 Americans each year at a cost of 15 billion dollars. They often herald the last year of life. Twenty per cent of patients who suffer a hip fracture will be dead in a year. My aunt had outlived those odds, sailing on through all adversities and improbably surviving massive heart attacks and calamitous falls, major operations and stubborn infections. One day in a brief lucid moment she asked me if it was possible that God had forgotten her. Who knows? Due to the economic impact and the high morbidity and

even mortality of hip fractures, many strategies for prevention have been studied. None work very well. Osteoporosis prevention drugs like aledronate may help some patients with very low bone density and a history of fractures, but even in this subgroup the benefits are small. Hip protectors, special underwear with pads over the bony prominences of the hips, do not work and are unflattering as well. The best strategy for hip fracture prevention is to engage in high-impact exercise while young and on into middle age. This builds bone density, which has long-term benefits in hip fracture prevention. Moderation is required, however. Avoiding a hip fracture in old age while wearing out your knees in midlife is a poor trade-off. Well, my aunt got transferred to the orthopedic specialty hospital that night and her very nice orthopedic surgeon called me the next day. Based on her x-rays he could not tell whether she actually had a new fracture or not. There were fractures seen, but also cement, plates, wires and screws from her previous surgeries patching everything together. He recommended a CT scan of her hip to further delineate the extent of her injury. He called toward the end of the day after the CT scan had been done to report that as far as he could tell there was no new fracture. All of the damage was old. Hip fractures, though, can be tricky. Sometimes the fracture can be occult, meaning that although the bone is actually fractured, it cannot be seen on x-ray. This is a big problem because if not recognized, the fracture will eventually give way into a displaced fracture, the continued on page 33

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“The quality of what we sell has to be exceptional now. Every chain only wants high quality fruit. Now we have to take the apple’s natural wax off it and put on an artificial wax [that makes it shine more]. “The insects are driving us crazy,” he said. “For years we’ve been trying to reduce spraying, but now we need to [spray] to produce useable fruit. The bugs dimple the apple and remove it from being top grade.” He noted that his grandson, ‘little Henry” in family parlance, is interested in studying natural pest control methods at Tech. Called to testify on the problem to Congress, Chiles said the industry had no trouble raising federal research dollars because the congressmen were familiar with stink bugs, too. “They are pest to everyone,” Chiles said flatly. “You can kill what’s there

OCTOBER 2014 today and tomorrow they are right back.” Stink bugs have not reached Washington State but have been found in 38 states. Chiles said the stink bug population is naturally controlled in China by the presence of a predator wasp. The USDA is now experimenting with the wasp but has not released the insect yet, presumably because it is still unsure of how the wasp might affect other native American insects. The rise of the hard cider beverage industry has been some consolation for growers as cideries are a market for lessthat-perfect apples, such as misshapen ones. Chiles said he is now the primary supplier for Bold Rock Cidery in Nellysford. Chiles said he spends 100 hours a week at the packing house. “It takes a lot to make little things happen,” he said. “Yeah, I like the apple business.” Now it’s shown it’s grateful to him, too.

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the state of the cement, the fit of the plates, the orientation of the screws, the position of the wires. I was really impressed with his willingness to explain in depth the CT. But I still had my question. “No. I mean when she stands up, does she have pain?” An awkward pause followed. “Well, I haven’t actually seen your aunt.” Oh. It took another consult, to Physical Therapy, (the next day), to get a professional ruling on whether she could stand up. Turns out she could. She did not have a hip fracture, occult or otherwise. It took another day to arrange insurance coverage and transportation back to her nursing home. When she arrived right back in the same nursing home bed three days later she looked around bewildered. “Do I live here?” she asked. “Yes, you do.” “Well, I am ready to go.” she declared. She folded her hands across her chest, closed her eyes and went straight to sleep.

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Green Beans: A Heritage Food [ by elena day • elena@crozetgazette.com \ quartered lengthwise before cooking. Green beans are also referred to as string beans because of the tough fibrous strings along the pods’ sides that needed to be removed back in the day before most seed companies successfully bred the strings away. The first stringless bean was bred by Calvin Keeney, “father of the stringless bean,” in 1894 in LeRoy, New York. Snap beans come in green, yellow, red and purple. I haven’t grown or seen red ones yet. The genus includes unusual varieties like Dragon Langerie, which is yellow-tinged with purple stripes. The name means Dragon Tongue. French filet beans or Haricot Verts (in England they are called fine beans) are thinner, crisper and harvested when five to seven inches long and a quarter-inch thick. These must be picked every three days. They don’t

The end of summer is a most is a most appealing time of the year. Goldenrod and tickseed (fall coreopsis) adorn the roadways and the delicate asters are coming on. I grow oppressed by those red orbs we call tomatoes. I don’t want to can any more of them. Green beans are coming on strong in these shortening days and cooler weather. I haven’t lost my enthusiasm about green beans and I am still harvesting them. I enjoy comparison tasting of the multiple varieties I grow for the city market. There are over 130 varieties of Phaeseolus vulgaris or snap beans. The green in beans refers to their immaturity. The snap is associated with the freshness when the stem end is snapped off and the beans are halved or

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MEN’S HEALTH by Dr. Ryan Smith

Is Male Fertility Declining? With recent news of Robert De Niro, Rod Stewart and Steve Martin all fathering children in their sixties, it’s hard to believe that some scientists are heralding a public health crisis on male fertility. In fact, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Chicago Tribune have run prominent articles over the last several years. This concern stems from the 1990s when an analysis of multiple international studies on male fertility showed dramatic declines in sperm concentration among healthy men over the prior half-century. More recently, a study from France found that sperm concentration decreased by nearly one-third between 1989 and 2005, or 2 percent per year over the study period. So why are we less fertile than our fathers? Environmental influences including hormone-disrupting compounds like bisphenol A and some pesticides, smoking, stress, obesity, medications and delayed paternity have all been implicated as potential causes. One big misconception among men is that our reproductive health doesn’t change as we get older. That’s simply not true. Testosterone begins to decline about 1 percent per year around age 30 and sperm quality changes as well. So while a man may continue to make sperm, the number, speed and those with normal shape can decline. Delays in paternity are not uncommon, especially with changing careers and educational aspirations, increased life expectancy and widespread use of contraception. Birth rates to fathers ages 25-29 have decreased while those among men in the age ranges of 30-34, 35-39 and 40-44 have all risen. In fact, birthrates to fathers ages 35 to 50 have increased nearly 30 percent between 1980 and 2000. As we continue to delay paternity, the implications of our changing reproductive health become more significant.

Why does male fertility matter and why do some people have cause for concern? For centuries, the myth has flourished that women are the usual cause of infertility. Contrary to popular opinion, men contribute to 50 percent of cases of infertility. While 1.2 million women per year make a new office visit to a physician for fertility concerns, only 20 percent of their male partners ever see a doctor. At least one percent of those hundreds of thousands of men have a serious underlying medical condition contributing to their infertility that may remain undiagnosed. For men, fertility is in many ways a barometer of our overall health. In fact, a sizeable portion of our genes are involved in reproduction. With the advent of assisted reproductive technologies, like in vitro fertilization (IVF), it’s easier for men to contribute to having a child, even with an abnormal semen analysis, while never being seen by a physician. Recent studies have revealed increased cancer risks among men with infertility, including testicular and prostate cancer. Furthermore, data taken from the National Institute of Health database showed that men who have no children have a 17 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death. Importantly, some studies involving the children of fathers with advanced paternal age (defined as older than age 40) demonstrated increased rates of genetic abnormalities, cancers, and even mental disorders. While debate continues as to whether a true “crisis” exists, it is nonetheless clear that male fertility is an important public health indicator. So, what can men do? First, they should take the above factors in consideration when planning their family. They should be aware of what medications they are taking and ask their doctor if they can affect fertility. Of particular imporcontinued on page 45

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highly productive and very flavorful. These keep on giving while bush beans lose their vigor after three or four good pickings. Snap beans are easy to grow. Some bush varieties grow to maturity within 50 days. I am regularly appalled to see fourpacks of snap beans offered at local nurseries. Just plant the seeds. The soil doesn’t even need to be particularly nitrogen-rich as beans fix their own nitrogen within a symbiotic relationship with bacteria that infests their roots. Compost is always good (for vegetables in general) and mulching will decrease weeds and keep soil moist. Beans need to be planted when soil temperatures are at least 65 degrees Fahrenheit, although the optimal bean germination temperature is 80 degrees. Beans do not set fruit well when temperatures are into the nineties. Later summer plantings (if not too late) do well because the crop ripens in somewhat cooler temperatures with enhanced flavor.

Beans cease to set fruit once the night temperature averages 45 degrees. The literature mentions spider mites, aphids, and stink bug damage (in recent years) as cultivation setbacks. Damping off, or death by fungal agent, sometimes occurs if the beans are planted too early and the spring is particularly wet and cool. Bean rust and powder y mildew are other fungal pitfalls. The worst enemy of a good bean harvest in my garden is the bean beetle, Epilachna varivestis, native to southern Mexico. The beetles are coppery-brown or yellow with dots and resemble ladybugs. The larvae are bright yellow and hairy-looking. Both adults and larvae eat the underside of the bean leaves and even munch on the developing beans. A bad infestation defoliates the plants and effectively decreases yield. Insecticidal soap and organic

sprays hardly work. Since beans are self-pollinating, floating row covers can be used preventatively. I monitor for adults, larvae and deposits of yellow eggs on the underside of leaves and squish them. Most years I succeed in keeping the beetles in check. One can also release parasitic wasps that feed on the bean beetle larvae. A state-sponsored program initiated in the early 1980s to release tiny parasitic Pediobius foveolatus has nearly eliminated

the beetles in New Jersey soybean fields. There is an ongoing program of wasp releases in Maryland soybean fields as well. A vial of 20 mummies costs a home gardener $45. Check out the garden catalogues to choose your bean plantings for next season. The versatility in flavor and produc-

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spotty, so the longer that shrub is sitting around, the greater the danger that it might suffer from neglect. If you can’t find the plants you want at local retailers, there is always the very seductive option of mail-order nurseries. Whether it’s the traditional printed catalogs or their online counterparts, they offer just about any plant you can imagine. Whether they will actually grow in your yard is another matter. This is definitely the world of caveat emptor. It’s hard not to be mesmerized by the glossy pictures and the gushing verbiage. These horticultural wonders can look and sound even better than the actual plant sitting on a bench at the garden center. And you have to read between the lines of the horticultural puffery. “Give plenty of room to romp!” or “spreads quickly in good soils” can translate to: These plants will take over your garden! Seeds and bulbs are the ideal forms of plants to receive in the mail. Bulbs are dormant, and seeds are lightweight, to boot. So, no worries about the shipper leaving live plants to cook on your porch while you’re away for the weekend. Asking friends about mail-order companies is always a good idea, but if that doesn’t work out, try the website Dave’s Garden. It has customer reviews and rankings of over 7,000 mail-order outfits; if nothing else, some of the rants make for interesting reading! A very quick glance at their current top 30 companies revealed at least two Virginia nurseries, Brent and Becky’s Bulbs, and Lazy S’S Farm and Nursery. What about the size of plants you buy? With mail order, you don’t have a heck of a lot of

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Keep Your Leaves to Save Butterflies, Moths, and Many Other Critters October is the month in which we might be treated to a colorful show of leaves, courtesy of our deciduous trees. As chlorophyll breaks down and reveals a variety of hues (the result of sugars that were in the leaves all along, but masked by the green chlorophyll), these trees give us a spectacular display of natural art (as long as soil moisture and temperatures have been conducive to this outcome). Yet, to most people, the minute those lovely leaves fall to the ground, they become litter to be bagged and hauled off the property, or worse yet, burned. These actions are disastrous for our wildlife and not at all helpful to the trees either. Leaves are supposed to remain around the tree from which they came because they are, literally, nutrients that have been taken from the soil and transformed into leaves. After the leaves fall to the ground, they are supposed to be recycled back into the soil to nourish the tree’s future growth. Nutrient recycling is accomplished by numerous kinds of critters that feed upon the leaves and break them down. The nutrients from the leaves are returned to the soil in the droppings of these animals. In other words, the leaves, along with the help of wildlife, constitute your natural—and absolutely free—fertilizer program. Additionally, those leaves are your natural mulch that maintains soil moisture and moderates soil temperatures for the benefit of the tree’s roots. It’s wasteful of time, money, and effort to get rid of leaves only to

replace them with some other kind of mulch from the store. But most importantly of all, those fallen leaves become an incredibly important blanket for the benefit of numerous invertebrates out there (and even some vertebrates, such as our treefrogs) that require this covering to get through the winter. For example, female fritillary butterflies (we have several species in our area) lay their eggs in late summer near violets (Viola spp.), the gorgeous host plants for their caterpillars that will hatch out shortly. But those tiny caterpillars will not feed this fall. They will take shelter in leaves and other plant debris to hibernate. When the violets resume growth in the spring, the caterpillars will start feeding and resume their own growth as well. Thus if you want to create habitat for these attractive butterflies, it’s essential to provide leaf mulch as well as violets. And these aren’t the only butterfly species that absolutely depend upon leaves to perpetuate their kind. The Red-banded Hairstreak, a small but attractive butterfly, does not lay its eggs upon its host plant, Winged Sumac (Rhus copallina). Instead the female attaches each tiny egg to the bottom side of a fallen leaf below the plant from which the leaf dropped. When the eggs hatch, the caterpillars feed upon the decaying leaves instead of fresh ones as most other caterpillars do! And if the caterpillar is from a late-summer brood, it will overwinter among that same leaf mulch. The caterpillars of Tawny Emperors and Hackberry Emperors curl dried brown hackberry leaves (Celtis spp.).

A Luna Moth (seen here resting on a wall of the author’s house) lives only to reproduce. It dies within a week of emerging from its cocoon. (Photo credit: Marlene A. Condon)

around themselves to overwinter. Some lepidopterists (scientists who study moths and butterflies) say they remain attached to the tree, but others report that they fall to the ground when the leaves fall off their host trees. If you run a lawn mower over the fallen leaves, or bag or burn them, you kill your caterpillars and thus your future butterflies. And, of course, our moths— being closely related to butterflies—also require leaf mulch for some species. The familiar Woolly Bear caterpillar, the larva of the Isabella Tiger Moth, is spotted along roadways in September because it is searching for an area of sufficient leaf cover to hibernate under. When spring arrives, it will pupate (form a cocoon) and finally emerge in its adult stage. Have you ever seen the gorgeous, pale-green Luna Moth? With a wingspan up to four and a half inches, it’s one of our largest moths and is the animated insect in TV commercials for the sleep aid named Lunesta. This beloved species even appeared on a first-class postage stamp (22 cents) back in 1987. The caterpillar can feed upon the leaves of a variety of trees and shrubs, such as Black Walnut (Juglans nigra), Persimmon (Diospyros virgini-

ana), hickories (Carya spp.), Sweet Gum (Liquidambar straciflua), and sumacs (Rhus spp.). It has also been found less frequently upon Red Maple (Acer rubrum) and White Oak (Quercus alba). When it’s fully grown at about two and a half inches, the caterpillar wraps itself in a leaf, entering the pupa stage. If this occurs as winter is approaching, the cocoon falls to the ground as the tree loses its leaves, where it’s sheltered in the leaf mulch. Of course, butterflies and moths represent just a fraction of the many invertebrates that make use of leaf mulch. But as you can see from just the few species of butterflies and moths that I’ve written about here, keeping leaves under the trees from which they came is literally a matter of life and death for many species of wildlife. The Luna Moth used to be considered common, but it is now feared that they are endangered in some areas due to habitat loss and other factors, such as lights left burning all night. Usually when we hear the term, “habitat loss,” we think only about plants disappearing. But in the case of the Luna Moth, the problem is not a loss of trees and shrubs, but rather the loss of leaves as people insist upon removing them from their yards.

CROZETgazette Here are some tips on how you can be more nature friendly while simultaneously lessening your load of work in the fall: • Don’t plant grass underneath trees. It doesn’t belong there; leaf mulch does. • It’s best not to plant anything underneath trees because you shouldn’t be walking there a lot to tend to plants. Your weight compacts the soil, which is harmful to the tree’s roots. But if you feel driven to decorate the area, plant only shrubs that are meant to grow among fallen leaves and place them near the drip line. • If the autumn weather is drier than usual and the leaves are being blown out from under the tree, retrieve some pruned tree and shrub branches from your brush pile (every yard should have at least one) and place them gently over the leaf area beneath the tree. They will help to keep the leaves in place. When I see bags and bags of leaves lining city roadways to be picked up, I see mankind’s ignorance about the everyday impact humans have upon the natural world, which is accompanied by an appalling lack of concern about living in agreement with nature. I also see a world that has become—and every day is increasingly becoming—not only far less enchanting, but also far less capable of supporting us.

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music by Ragged Mountain String Band, door prizes and refreshments, and the artists will be on hand. Regular hours will be Wednesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays from 11a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. “We may close on Sundays after the holidays,” said Mistry. “We’re hoping for tourism business, so we want to open on weekends.” “It’s an organic development as a business,” said Mistry. “It has a feel for the community. I’m in business with neighbors I know and trust. There’s a buzz in Crozet. I feel it. I’m proud to live here.”

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Crozet

Weather Almanac

SEPTEMBER 2014

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The Old Farmer’s Almanac, Version 223

The difference between modern meteorology and the Farmer’s Almanac is roughly the same as the difference between Astronomy and Astrology. They have virtually nothing in common (science vs. entertainment) but are both often confused. Back in the day when Heidi was a young television meteorologist, the best way to get under her skin was to call her a “Weather Girl”. Now, the way to get her goat is to ask her what the Farmer’s Almanac is forecasting for the winter. You can try it for fun but I’d stand back a good ten feet. So what is the Farmer’s Almanac and is it really worthless at forecasting the weather? The surprise answer is that there are two different “farmer’s almanacs”, both of which trace back almost to the American Revolution. The oldest is The Old Farmer’s Almanac which has been published continuously since 1792, making it the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. The other one is the Farmers Almanac, which began in 1818. The similarity in names obviously predates trademark infringement lawsuits and both have long-term legitimate claim to their names. Both sell about four million copies a year, both publish detailed long-term weather forecasts and both use

“secret forecasting formulas.” Robert B. Thomas, the founder of The Old Farmer’s Almanac had a philosophy that the almanac ““strives to be useful, but with a pleasant degree of humor.” This basic philosophy has kept both almanacs going for two centuries. The roughest time for the almanacs was during the depression and World War II. Circulation at The Old Farmer’s Almanac had dried up to just 89,000 in 1938 and editor Roger Scaife dropped the weather forecasts. People were furious. The forecasts were back in 1939. A German spy was caught in New York City with The Old Farmer’s Almanac in 1942 and the forecasts were again terminated from 1943-1945 to prevent them from falling into enemy use. The “secret forecasting formulas” aren’t of much scientific interest. We all realize that basically they just make this stuff up while using a touch of science and clever weaving of normal weather patterns into vague phrasing. To my surprise, somebody actually bothered to do a real scientific verification. Dr. John Walsh, meteorologist at the University of Illinois, found that 50.7% of the monthly temperature forecasts and 51.9% of precipitation

forecasts were on the correct side of normal. In other words, flip a coin. As Heidi not so elegantly puts it, “If they were actually any good at it then they could make a fortune trading natural gas. Way more than publishing an Almanac.” This is true. Natural gas prices move sharply on weather changes every day and over a billion dollars a day gets traded. A modest weather edge at the natural gas game could make you “Warren Buffet rich” pretty quickly. Of course, we meteorologists aren’t much better. Forecasting skill for less than a week is actually quite high these days but it goes down quickly beyond that. For some places like the western USA, success at ‘yes/no’ forecasts can exceed 60 percent several months ahead, but for most times in most places, we are just flipping coins beyond two weeks. Just for fun, this morning I said “So, Heidi, what does the farmers almanac say about this winter?” “I don’t know and I don’t care.” I made sure I was standing back at least ten feet. September Recap Temperatures for September were almost exactly normal and the weather was generally very calm and pleasant. Often we pick up lots of rain this time of year from hurricane leftovers, but all was quiet in the Atlantic. Rainfall at our house was a very dry 0.56”, which isn’t that far from the September minimum record of 0.28”. Rain Totals Waynesboro was the driest of the dry. The McCormick Observatory had nearly 3” of rain, which looks like a data error, but they are an official site so I think it’s legitimate. Crozet Mint Springs 0.56” Old Trail 0.60” Greenwood 0.81” Ivy 1.02” Univ of VA 2.86” Waynesboro 0.25” White Hall 0.59” CHO Airport 0.86” Nellysford 0.76”

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Dorothy M. Mitchell Dorothy M. Mitchell, age 93, of Selma, Alabama, passed away August 16, 2014. Dorothy “Momma Dot” Mitchell was born in Brown’s Cove, Virginia, on April 9, 1921. She was the tenth of fourteen children born to Richard and Lillie Garrison McAllister. She grew up in Albemarle County, but as a young woman, worked in Baltimore in a military factory making ammunition boxes for the war effort. She married Elbert Mitchell in 1945, and he preceded her in death in 1985. Momma Dot loved and was devoted to her family and friends. She is survived by her son, Richard Mitchell of Selma and daughter, Becky Grainer of Decatur, Alabama; daughter-inlaw, Alicia Davis of Selma; grandchildren, Richard (Fay) Grainger of Germantown, Tennessee, Holly (Terry) Thompson of Hartselle, Alabama; Scott (Lynn) Mitchell of Valley Grande, Alabama and Heather (Brad) Pierce of Selma, Alabama; great-grandhilcdren Donovan (Kayla), Nicholas and Courtney Mitchell of Selma

and Daniel Keeton of Decatur and two great-great-grandchildren, Karsyn and Braylen. She is also survived by her brother Clyde (Carolyn) McAllister of Crozet; sister-in-law, Emma Jean Bellmy of Owensboro, Kentucky, and a great number of nieces, nephews and friends. Momma Dot worked for Independent Lock Company for over forth-one years and had made Selma her home since 1957. Please visit www.selmafuneralhome.com to view the obituary, sign the guest registry and offer online condolences.

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Is Energy Renewable? Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and forever! –The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott (Canto iii. Stanza 16) Renewable energy is touted as a sustainable solution toward meeting our country’s voracious energy needs. But is energy actually renewable? We recycle paper, plastic, glass and metal. We compost organic materials for later use in the garden. In nature, moisture evaporating from the salty ocean falls to earth renewed as pure rainwater. These examples demonstrate that atoms can be recombined into new materials and recycled myriad times with no loss in their inherent properties and value. But is the same true for energy; can it be recycled and renewed? The First Law of Thermodynamics says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, so it would seem reasonable that it could; yet the answer is emphatically no. Energy is not renewable. Furthermore, once energy has run its course on earth, regardless of its source, “like the bubble on the fountain,” it is “gone, and forever!” Energy—from the Greek meaning “at work”—is a subtle concept to grasp. Physicists elegantly describe what it does and how it behaves, but stumble when expressing what it is. Energy has no substance. It is immaterial. It possesses no essence. It often hides itself and appears in many guises. Like yin and yang, energy is sometimes active, as in the radiant energy of sunlight and the flowing energy of a waterfall; while at other times it is passive, like electrical potential stored within

batteries and food calories stored in a grain of corn. Life—our lives and all life on earth—requires energy that flows. This holds true for an individual organism, for large ecosystems, for the entire biosphere of earth. For life to exist, for our economy to function and prosper, this is a universal, steadfast rule: energy must come in, energy must be processed, energy must leave. To do the work of life, energy must flow through life. Energy must visit but it cannot stay. To illustrate this idea, I will use flowing water as a metaphor for energy. Picture a waterwheel beside a gristmill. The weight of the water and its forward motion push against the paddles, causing the wheel to turn a shaft that rotates the runner millstone that grinds corn against the stationary bed stone—a proven technology in use for more than 2,000 years! The wheel will continue to transform energy into the useful work of grinding corn into cornmeal until either the water dries up or the flow of water downstream is impeded. In the first case, no more water means no more energy. This we readily can understand. In the absence of water, the wheel stops. But equally important, in the second case, if water can’t flow away from the wheel, the millstream eventually will create a lake deep enough to engulf the wheel, causing it to stop turning. In other words, even in the presence of energy, when energy stops flowing, work ceases. Now imagine our waterwheel, with the water able to freely flow again, operating a water pump instead of a millstone. There are two millponds in this scenario; one located just upstream and the other just downstream of the waterwheel. The water pump is situated in the lower pond. As water flows over the wheel and into the lower pond, the pump continu-

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ously returns a corresponding amount of water through a pipe back to the upper pond. In theory, this waterwheel could turn forever. The water (energy) could be perpetually “renewed” by returning it back to the upper pond.

Here’s the catch. The water could be renewed to the upper pond only so long as we did not have the waterwheel do anything else but operate the pump. This is the key point. Energy can only be renewed if we make continued on page 44

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no demands upon it to do anything else but renew itself. But this is a futile exercise, like walking around in a circle. Nothing new is accomplished. You merely end up where you started from. Moreover, in the real world of friction, turbulence, chaos and entropy, all perpetual motion machines (including our imaginary waterwheel-powered pump) eventually will stop. No machine, no matter how advanced in its technology, can turn energy into work, work into energy, or convert energy from one form into another and back again with 100 percent efficiency. This is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Some fraction of energy always dissipates away and is lost to the environment, often in the form of waste heat. A corollary of the Second Law of Thermodynamics is that heat always travels from hot to cold. Consequently, the bitterly cold expanse of outer space is energy’s ultimate destination. This is where all energy on earth eventually travels to. Space is the final frontier and dumpsite for waste heat generated by work performed here on the planet. This is true whether the source of energy to power our economy and to do the work of

life is renewable or not. Getting back to the main point, since energy is not profitably renewable, what do we mean when we say “renewable energy?” We mean that we extract energy from a resource more slowly than the resource itself is being replenished by natural processes. The sun, by slowly transforming its mass into sunlight, is the principal source of energy here on earth. Solar energy and its manifestations found in hydroelectric power, biomass, wind and waves are considered renewable because we are tapping these resources slower than they are being naturally restocked. Conversely, we are consuming non-renewables such as coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear materials much faster than the earth, sun and stars are replenishing them. In conclusion, for life to exist, for our economy to work, energy must flow. Life flourishes and grows in richness, complexity and diversity over time because the rotating earth (like a waterwheel) receives a steady stream of high-value energy from the sun. This inflow is balanced by an equal outflow of energy wafting back into space. And we can thank our lucky stars that the cosmos is big enough and cold enough to handle our planetary outflow

so heat doesn’t get dammed up here on earth. Energy’s lot in life is to survive when used, but with a diminished capacity to do more work. This behavior explains why we are in constant need of high-value, work-capable energy. Relying heavily on non-renewable energy to do the work of life is like living off an inheritance; a sure path to insolvency. The remedy is to switch to naturally replenished energy resources. We can rest assured that there always will be sufficient funds in our bank account so long as deposits are greater than withdrawals, so it is with renewable energy. To power our economy from replenishable energy resources, however, will take a lot more than luck. Hard work and thoughtful choices need to be made. We can find encouragement and fortitude for tackling the monumental task of moving our economy in the direction of more closely emulating the energy economy of nature in the knowledge that in doing so, we will establish not only a more secure energy future for ourselves and our children, but also promote harmony between planetary inward and outward flows of energy. But that’s another story which I will address next time.

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future generations. World leaders are currently unlikely to take definitive, unified actions to stem carbon emissions. But all actions have some cumulative effect toward change. One doesn’t know what will result in rapid and substantive improvement in our human condition. Incredibly swift changes for middle class women of my generation occurred in the late 60s and early 70s. Suddenly women had access to birth control, changing relationships with men forever. All male colleges and universities opened their doors to women and women could choose to be doctors and lawyers instead of teachers, nurses or homemakers. So we must hope and work. I recall an observation made by Noam Chomsky, linguist, political commentator and activist, when he spoke at U.Va. in the early 90s. Imagine what it would have been like in the 1840s, he said, to invite friends and neighbors over to discuss the abolition of slavery. Guests would likely have been few. Yet slavery was abolished and the civil rights movement continues today.

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tance, they should understand that testosterone replacement therapies actually suppress sperm production. Environmental factors that might harm reproduction may have other negative health consequences. Avoid smoking and adopt a healthy, balanced diet with plenty of exercise. Finally, if you are having trouble conceiving, it’s important for both partners to be seen by a medical professional. We are fortunate in our community to have specialists trained in male and female fertility who can make sure you and your partner are appropriately evaluated and assist you in starting or growing your family.

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Blue Ridge Tunnel Trail after so many years of effort and planning.” Hale credited the Commonwealth Transportation Board, the Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel Foundation, “our local government partners in the region, and individuals on both sides of the Blue Ridge Mountains and especially the hard work and persistence of the staff of Nelson County in overcoming the many hurdles.” Work began September 29 and is scheduled to be complete by February. There is currently no public access to either the west portal or east portal of the Blue Ridge Tunnel, nor the tunnel itself.

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Make sure that when you buy a gallon plant you are not just buying a pot with more soil. When a nursery raises a plant, it is put into increasingly larger pots as it grows. When a quart plant is “promoted” to a gallon pot, there is initially a lot more dirt than plant in the container. A good nursery will not sell the plant at this stage, so if you receive such a plant, consider registering a complaint. Woody plants can be purchased in just about any size from a gallon to something with a root ball of several tons. (The latter is moved and planted with a special device known as a hydraulic tree spade.) Unless you absolutely must have instant gratification, I lean toward smaller plants, perhaps no larger than 10 gallons. This is less plant to heave into your car, plus it’s a lot easier to dig a smaller hole in Piedmont clay. And it will require smaller quantities of water—but not less frequent watering—during its establishment. One more reason to buy smaller rather than large: I have seen at least one study showing a smaller plant catching up with its larger cousin in a couple of years. By the way, don’t pay too much attention to fancy plant “brands” with catchy names and colorful plastic pots. I’m sure that they’re fine plants, but probably no better than plants in plain old black containers. Enjoy your plant buying. Just don’t forget to put them in the ground, admittedly not as much fun as picking them out.

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“fake healthy” foods—low-fat or fat-free foods— these are often loaded with sugar to make them palatable and will actually make you fat. Look at the sugar content and keep it to an absolute minimum. When you start reading food labels, you’re going to find this difficult, but this is the path to weight loss. Add exercise as a regular part of your lifestyle. Mostly keep the intensity low but the duration long. Do what you need to do to keep it fun.

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