INSIDE LETTERS page 2 CANDIDATE STATEMENTS page 6 LONGER DAYS page 7 WINNING CHEFS page 8 CROZET ORCHESTRA page 9
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County Wants State Tourism Designation for Crozet
LANGUAGE THERAPY page 10
OLD TIME TRAVELING page 11 NEW DR. HO’S page 13 AN OLD NAME page 14 CALM FORMALITY page 15 ASHLEY WALTON BENEFIT page 16 COUGH OR PUKE page 20 UNINSURED page 21 CROSSWORD page 25 VOLLEYBALL KILLS page 26 YUMMY KALE page 28 BEREAVEMENTS page 29 CROZET TRAILS 5K page 30 GLUTEN INTOLERANCE page 33 HENRICUS page 35 BAD WINTER? page 37 EMMANUEL’S RECTOR page 40 CYCLING MANNERS page 42
Delegate Steve Landes, Build Crozet Library committee chair Bill Schrader, Jefferson/Madison Regional Library Director John Halliday, Crozet librarian Wendy Saz and White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek
Crozet Library Has Its Grand Opening New Crozet Library, already thoroughly ogled and settled into by area residents, had a grand opening Sept. 28. Local political dignitaries made speeches and the energetic committee of local residents who have shouldered the $1.6
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The Crozet Growth Area could become eligible for the state’s Virginia Tourism Development Financing program, which would help finance tourism industry infrastructure in western Albemarle, county spokeswoman Lee Catlin told the Crozet Community Advisory Council at its Sept. 26 meeting. “It’s a gap financing program that will fund 20 percent of a project’s cost if financing for the other 80 percent is already in place,” Catlin said. “Once the project is running, the state will rebate one percent of the project’s sales taxes. The county would have to match that amount. It’s borrowing against future revenue. If a hotel has a restaurant we get a number of tax revenues from it.” County staffers proposed the idea to the Board of Supervisors in April and in June returned with a fleshed-out proposal. continued on page 24
Timbercreek Organics Is Achieving Sustainable Scale in Ivy The grand aim of the local food movement is to change the quality of food people are eating, making it as fresh and wholesome as possible, and to ensure that animals raised for food are treated with consideration for their health, dignity and happiness. Crozet and Charlottesville have a large market of people who are ready to support the costs of growing food according to organic principles and Albemarle, with a long tradition of agriculture, has the advantages of its temperate, fertile Piedmont landscape. It has optimal conditions for the success of organic, com-
munity-driven farming. But somebody has to show how it can be done as business. Timbercreek Organics on Garth Road in Ivy, just west of the Foxfield Race course, is now three years into its goal of achieving a scale of organic production that will make it a reliable meat supplier to area restaurants and retail customers. Timbercreek chicken, pork and beef are available in Crozet at Crozet Great Valu, at Stinson Vineyards in White Hall and on the menu at Fardowners on The Square. In Charlottesville, Timbercreek continued on page 4
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To the Editor Letters reflect the opinions of their authors and not necessarily those of the Crozet Gazette. Send letters to editor@ crozetgazette.com or P.O. Box 863, Crozet, VA 22932. 25 Is Right for Jarmans Gap Road In response to Mr. Girasek’s letter of September 2013: While no one likes to get a speeding ticket, the 25 mph limit is right for Jarmans Gap Road. The lower speed limit on the improved section of the road is precisely due to the improvements noted by Mr. Girasek. Bike lanes and sidewalks are in place to encourage pedestrian and bicycle traffic between downtown Crozet and the Jarmans Gap neighborhoods. Slowing car traffic encour-
ages people to walk and bike from their homes to the new library or Crozet Park or from downtown Crozet to the shops and restaurants in Old Trail. We are seldom alone when we walk, run or bike along the road with our elementary-aged children. We pass people of all ages enjoying all these activities. People need to know the car traffic is limited to a safe speed in order to feel comfortable walking and biking themselves or allowing their kids to do so. Many safety studies support slower vehicle speeds on roads leading into towns and village areas. A pedestrian struck by a car travelling 20 mph has a 95 percent chance of survival. If the car is travelling just 10 mph faster (30 mph), the pedestrian’s chance of survival goes down
to 60 percent and at 40 mph, down to 20 percent (www.americawalks. org). Clearly, slower car traffic makes for safer pedestrian routes. Finally, maybe a section of road that requires us to “feel... like one is walking” is a good thing—the more people walk or bike to visit friends or the library or the farmer’s market or the coffee shop (you can get to one in either direction!) the more our community is knit together. The 25 mph speed limit is a benefit to Crozet and should be here to stay. Anne and Donovan Dagner Crozet An Open Letter to the Albemarle Board of Supervisors Having just returned from sitting
in traffic and waiting patiently for the umpteeth time to deliver my son to Henley Middle School, I am writing to ask if you have now had time to consider the real consequences of the incredulous decision by you, the BZA and the ARB to allow for the development of yet another gas station on Route 250— just a few hundred yards from three large, and growing, schools and when we already had three existing gas stations within a half mile of this location. We have already suffered deaths, and numerous accidents, including my own accident last year outside Brownsville Market, due to the heavy traffic and congestion along this corridor of Rt. 250. With the growth of Crozet, and the correcontinued on page 22
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is supplying such restaurants as Brookville, Revolutionary Soup, Tavola, Citizen Burger, The Local, The Whiskey Jar, Commonwealth Restaurant, Maya and Michael’s Bistro. Soon it will supply a new organic grocery on West Main Street that will feature locally grown products. Timbercreek is managed by Zach and Sarah Miller, young and energetic thirty-year-olds. Zach grew up on the farm, 200 acres belonging to his grandmother that once was devoted to raising horses for flat racing. Zach had a brief career as a steeplechase jockey until a knee injury got him out of it. Adjoining acres under lease bring the operation’s total area to about 500 acres. They have two fulltime employees and according to seasonal needs will temporarily bring on two more. “It’s a tough to fill positions, to find someone who understands what it takes to raise an animal,” Miller said.
To keep up with the steady expansion of their herd and flock sizes as they try meet demand within the limits of the farm, they’ve added three feed bins at the venerable 19th-century bank barn on the property, giving them about 3,000 bushels of storage capacity. “We’re committed to buying organic local feeds and we need to buy by the truckload. This way we can support other farmers who share our values,” Zach said. The feed is a mix of whole corn, soybean, oats, some other grains, and a mineral supplement. The animals on Timbercreek are raised without being exposed to antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and hormones. The farm is now selling only wholesale. It closed the farm market to drop-in customers over the summer after an “incident” that Miller prefers to be mum about, and the front gate is being kept closed. Near the bins is the farm’s openair poultry-slaughtering operation, sheltered under a tent canopy, with hot water baths and work counters. Waste for the operation is collected
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and composted. About 300 meat chickens, a breed called the Cornish Rock Cross, are being slaughtered every week, then chilled and delivered to area restaurants and stores the next day, usually on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The farm will process 8,000 meat birds this year, Miller said. Slaughtering will be suspended in winter, once conditions no longer support raising the birds on pasture in portable frames
that are dragged into fresh locations every morning. That technique was first demonstrated by Joel Salatin on his Polyface Farm in Augusta County. Salatin now has guru status in matters of organic farming, and to a considerable extent Timbercreek is an attempt to replicate Polyface Farm in Albemarle. That puts the farm in what’s called the permaculture farming movement, which
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emphasizes developing vigorous grasslands through rotational grazing systems, complementary interactions between animals, and the general goal of promoting plant diversity for what Salatin calls “salad bar” grazing. Four year ago Timbercreek’s cattle pastures were bare and red where cedar trees were removed, Miller said. Now those areas, under a combination of chicken and cattle foraging, are developing lush turf. “It really encourages me that this works,” said Miller. “A polyculture looks a little wild at the edges. It means better health for the animals and the system.” “The Cornish Rock Cross is a traditional meat bird that Tyson uses,” he explained. “It’s instantly recognizable to the public. We want to use what’s been learned in agriculture.” The farm’s poultry raising starts with day-old chicks from a hatchery in Ohio that Miller has judged to be a reliable supplier, the same sort of supplier Timbercreek wants to be in the eyes of its customers. “Restaurants are our primary customers and we have to offer them consistency. Plus, they want different weights of birds for different dishes.”
So far chicken and pork are the farm’s main products, but the beef operation is expanding as Miller builds his breeding herd carefully to ensure that they are docile, fertile and well suited to the farm’s conditions. He has slaughtered about 70 head this year though T&E Meats in Harrisonburg, a slaughterhouse that Salatin is an investor in. Miller buys his piglets from trusted breeders nearby on Tilman Road and in Stuart’s Draft. Like the cattle and chickens, they are moved daily to fresh ground by shifting electric fences. The 80 Blue Butt hogs, a cross of Yorkshires and Hampshires, and their feed bin are being moved gradually through small parcels of the farm’s woodland. “The industry is moving to Berkskires because they appear to have superior marbling, which is getting popular when pigs are on pasture. It produces the most succulent meat.” He also raises Tamworths, slower growers that he said are known as the “bacon pig.” Cattle are moved similarly through pastures and woodlands on the leased property. There are few continued on page 18
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ELECTION 2013: CAMPAIGN STATEMENTS
Albemarle County Board of Supervisors: Samuel Miller District
DUANE SNOW
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I am Duane Snow and I am running for re-election to the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors representing the Samuel Miller District. My deep roots as a native-born Charlottesville/Albemarle resident provide me with great appreciation and respect for this area. I graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Advertising and Business Management. In 1978, I became CEO of Snow’s Landscape and Garden Center and remained in this position until 2003. My wife Rena and I have been married for 46 years and have five children who all attended Albemarle County Schools. We are also fortunate that the majority of our 14 grandchildren live in the Charlottesville/ Albemarle area. Through my business and community involvement, I am strongly aware of the needs of our county. As an Albemarle County representative, I am dedicated to excellence in education and the preservation of our beautiful rural areas. I am willing and available to listen to and represent the people of the Samuel Miller District. My priorities for the next four years include: Partnering with the School Board and community to build the additional space needed to educate our students. Our schools are continuing to grow. It is imperative that we all work together to ensure that our children have the facilities and
I am honored to be running for the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors in the Samuel Miller District, where I hope to serve the people of Albemarle with dedication and commitment. As a supervisor, I will focus on supporting school excellence, and I am proud to have been endorsed as the proeducation candidate in this race by the Albemarle Education Association. I am also committed to protecting our unique natural resources, and getting the infrastructure that we need, such as schools, roads, bike paths, parks and bridges. And I will dedicate myself to maintaining the public trust by involving citizens in all important decisions. As I actively campaign from door to door, from Bellair to Batesville to Bungletown, I am often asked why I decided to run. I told an elderly man in Howardsville that I have a deep commitment to Albemarle County and know I can do a much better job than the incumbent, Duane Snow. I told a young working mother in Ivy that I am the fiscally prudent, socially responsible choice in this race and I listed for her some of the poor decisions my opponent has supported. And I tell them all a little bit about myself. I tell them that my elderly parents, whom I care for deeply, moved here in 1975, and that I moved here in 1996 to be closer to them. That our children Clay, Ben, Matt and Bailey attended
resources that they need. In order to achieve this, we must continue to manage the resources that are available to us. Continuing to implement the County Economic Development Plan. Prior to 2009, we did not have an economic development plan. Over the last four years, we have researched and developed a plan for our area. We are currently in the implementation phase of our plan, which includes: Increasing workforce development opportunities to further career-ladder opportunities and higher wages. Supporting our K-12 population, as well as Continuing Education and training programs, to prepare the local workforce for the demands of current and future employers, and working to attract industries and businesses such as bio-science, medical devices, business and financial services, information technology and defense secucontinued on page 12
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Albemarle County Public Schools and that Matt, Ben and Bailey graduated from Western Albemarle High School. That I live near Meriwether Lewis Elementary School with my husband Herb Stewart, my loving companion and supporter. He has spent his entire career as a clinical psychologist at Western State Hospital, while I have been a practicing veterinarian for over 30 years and started a mobile practice in 2008 for end-of-life care and pain management for dogs and cats. I first became active in local issues in 1996 when, while hiking with my children along the Moormans, I was shocked to see that three miles of the river below Sugar Hollow Dam was dry. Water was being piped to Ragged Mountain Reservoir, but a lot was being wasted because of poorly maintained, antiquated infrastructure, and there were no plans or continued on page 12
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Albemarle County Police Go to a Ten-Hour Shift Schedule Albemarle County police officers will start working 10-hour shifts in November, a scheduling change that means that departing and arriving officers will overlap their work times by two hours at each change of shift. The new scheduling, desired by many officers, means that extra staff will be available at times when calls for police service typically are highest, according to Lt. Greg Jenkins, who oversees the department’s Blue Ridge District, which encompasses western and southern Albemarle. The Blue Ridge District has two officers on duty in it under current scheduling and under the new plan four officers will be present during the overlap. Jenkins said that when officers answer calls they can be tied up as long as four hours and not be available elsewhere. Thus unanswered calls can get “stacked,” Jenkins said, and the shift coming on is already in a situation of trying to catch up. It’s hoped the overlap time will mean that calls coming during peak times, notably late afternoon, will be more promptly attended to and not become a drag on officers who must also answer calls coming in the evening. The overlap is also expected to help communication among officers about what is going on in a district. The step is a stage on the way to what Jenkins called a platoon-based system, where the same officers work the same shift under the same supervisors on a predictable schedule. The platoon system is phase two of the county’s geo-policing initiative, which is intended to keep officers in sectors they learn very well and to promote personal acquaintance among officers and citizens. “The benefit of the platoon system is that you have the same officers and supervisors every single day,” said Lt. Pete Mainzer, who supervises the Jefferson District, which comprises the northeastern third of the county. The districts cover equal shares of the county population. “Now we have different mixes of officers and supervisors going out every day.” “We can do this schedule with our current manpower,” said Jenkins. To be able to staff a genuine platoon system, the department would have to add about 6 officers per shift, or 18 policemen total, he said. According
to the plan, once a platoon system exists, police operations would be decentralized to local stations, such as is proposed for Crozet depot. “Our goal is a five minute response time to priority one calls,” said Jenkins. “Those are calls where you are answering with your lights and siren going. Eighty-five percent of the time those are where a weapon is involved or there’s an accident where someone is seriously injured.” Calls in the western sector now average about 15-minute response times, but times vary according to circumstances. In the new schedule, daylight shift will work from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., evening shift will work from 2:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. and midnight shift will work from 10:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. Supervisors start their shifts 30 minutes earlier than the officers come on. Officers will work that schedule with five days on, followed by four days off, then again five days on and four days off, and then six days on and four days off. That works out to 160 hours in a 28-day pay cycle, Jenkins noted. Officers are working 18 days per pay period now and under the new schedule will work 16 days per cycle. “This mainly affects patrol shift officers and they want this,” said Mainzer. “We looked at three years of data on peak times for calls for service and from that we worked up workable schedules. A transition team has been meeting on the change over for 18 months,” he said. “Three p.m. to 5 p.m. is the top time for calls. Calls pick up at 7 a.m. and gradually increase through the morning and then level off at lunch time. It starts increasing at 2:30 and peaks at 5 p.m. It tapers off after 5 and then levels off until 10 or 10:30. Then the calls go up again,” Mainzer explained. “The challenge for us is that the busy times are at shift change.” The police department usually fields about 45,000 calls a year. About 55 percent are in the Jefferson District, 45 percent in the Blue Ridge District. Jefferson usually has a couple hundred more calls per month. “Since I’ve been here—I came in 1986—the schedule has never been messed with,” said Mainzer. “This is a big shift for our organization, but the continued on page 29
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Fardowners Wins This Year’s Crozet Culinary Competition Fardowners Restaurant walked away with the Crozet Culinary Competition’s silver bowl trophy in the second annual showdown of Crozet restaurants over bragging rights at The Lodge at Old Trail Sept. 19. Competing this year were Pat and Eddie Koemahathai of Bangkok 99, who won last year and were back to defend the cup, which had sat on their main counter since it was won; Mark Cosgrove and Alex Diaz from Fardowners; Paula Finazzo and Tiz Butterfield from Sal’s Restaurant; and Jason Fitzgerald and Kellie Carter from Southern Way Café. Da Luca Cafe had been expected to compete but withdrew when their sous chef was
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in an accident before the event. Lodge chef Jesse Kaylor served as the competition’s host and prepared hors d’oeuvres for the spectators. There was a continuous run on the barbeque sliders. Local wines and beers were to be had at a cash bar. A silent auction, including art by wellknown local artists, lined the main hallway. The cooks were given one hour to prepare an entrée and a dessert from a required assortment of mystery ingredients. Those turned out to be lamb loin from Black Twig Farm in Crozet, sweet potatoes from Whistling Hollow Farm in Crozet, duck eggs from Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm in Augusta County, gouda cheese for Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Crozet, and honey from the hives Lodge owner David Hilliard keeps nearby. This year the local causes benefitting from the competition were the Crozet Lions Club and Crozet Arts, a nonprofit arts education center. Lions president Skip Thacker thanked the crowd, who had paid $20 a ticket to watch the chefs in frantic action. Thacker said, “We have never refused a request for eyeglasses or hearing aids. Last year we
Alex Diaz and Mark Cosgrove of Fardowners.
raised $12,000 for the Large Print section of Crozet Library. We support leader dogs and the blind in third world countries.” Crozet Arts leader Sharon Tolzcyk said, “We believe deeply in the value of the arts. The money raised tonight will establish a scholarship fund so we can penetrate deeper into the community, and also so we can put mirrors on the wall in the ballet classroom.” Raffle tickets were sold for a drawing to choose two judges to join NBC29’s Henry Graff and the Gazette’s Mike Marshall at the
judge’s table. The winning tickets belonged to Jim Duncan, who publishes the realcrozetva.com blog, and to Sharon Bolmey of Ivy. Judges scored each entrée and dessert in four categories: taste, presentation, creativity and use of the required ingredients on a one-tofive-point scale. The scorecards were tallied and emcee David Hilliard announced Fardowner’s victory. A review of the scoring showed that each judge had scored Fardowners as the winner. The other competitors were awarded medals.
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Crozet Community Orchestra will hold an organizational meeting and first rehearsal Tuesday, October 22, at 7 p.m. in Tabor Presbyterian Church’s Fellowship Hall on Tabor Street. All chamber music/orchestra musicians are welcome. For more information, and to learn about sponsoring scholarships, please contact Denise Murray at 434-9875517 or 434-760-7039, email her at murrden@gmail.com, or call Philip Clark at 434-979-3343.
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Recognized as one of the region’s leading fine arts and craft shows, the Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival will be held rain or shine October 12 and 13 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. Roughly 8,000 people from around the MidAtlantic region are expected to attend. From a jurying process overseen by professional artists, 104 artists from across the country were invited to exhibit, some new and some favorites who are returning to the festival. Exhibitors will bring an array of jewelry, apparel and leather, artwork, photography and crafted glass, ceramics and sculpture. Local musicians, performing for free, and specifically chosen local food vendors will be on hand. Local wines and craft beers from our local breweries will be featured. A children’s entertainment area includes magic acts, karate expositions, play-along musical opportunities and ballet expositions. Children will be able to play on the grassy outfield of the baseball diamond. A baby care station will be provided as well. Blacksmithing, painting, and pottery demonstrations are planned, as well as painting lessons led by
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Crozet Speech & Learning Center Opens on Jarmans Gap Road The Crozet Speech and Learning Center, which offers language assessment and therapy for children, as well as educational tutoring, has opened under the management of co-owners Nina Schoeb and Alison MacCleery, both certified speech language pathologists with extensive experience. Both are mothers, too. They are joined by a pediatric occupational therapist, Brandi Clifford, and, for now, two tutors who will tackle students’ needs in science, math, social studies, Spanish and French. The center is interviewing to hire two more tutors and is offering tutoring Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will offer summer camps to support learning and for enrichment. The center will focus on articulation therapy, autism disorders, language problems related to reading, spelling and writing, study skills, social skills and verbal problem
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solving, fine motor development and daily living skills. “Typically, there is a team of therapists who create an environment that’s successful for the child and makes them successful in the classroom,” said MacCleery, who spent seven years in Albemarle County schools in speech assessment and interventions and who has been working privately for seven years. “One of the main reasons we are doing this is that there’s a need for this in Crozet,” said Schoeb, “to limit kids’ frustrations in school and improve their self-esteem in school and socially. We also provide parent chats and resources on such things as autism and reading. This is my love, working with kids.” “There is such a need for a place parents can go for help,” said MacCleery. “I kept hearing from people that they didn’t want to drive up 29 North. There’s a need in
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Nelson, too. We see it in all the areas surrounding Crozet.” “It’s important to have collaboration with teachers,” Schoeb said. “For a child to really succeed the link with teachers has to be open. We want to be a resource for the community and for the whole child. We can help teachers with strategies. It can be a challenge for a teacher with a whole classroom to know what’s going to work for an
individual student.” “We’re really excited about offering seminars and bringing in people to deal with educational topics,” added MacCleery. Schoeb and MacCleery have been visiting the schools in the western feeder pattern to acquaint them with what the center offers, and they will host an open house Oct 18 from 3 to 6 p.m. to give par-
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Hotels, Summer Homes & Rooms When little Lizzie Wyant was five years old, her family moved from near Elkton in Rockingham County, coming across the Blue Ridge Mountains to Sugar Hollow in Albemarle. Eighty-nine years later, Elizabeth Wyant Wood still vividly recalled the events of that 1910 wagon ride. “See, we didn’t leave from over there until that evening,” said
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Lizzie. “They was loading the furniture and everything before we left. Poppa kept one foot up on the side of the buckboard when he was riding. But coming up the mountain [toward Simmons Gap] Poppa walked, carrying a lantern. I was watching the shadow of Poppa in the dark. “That night it come up a terrible rain. They didn’t have no tops for In early times, travelers staying overnight at a stagecoach stop or tavern might expect a place to stable their horse, and, for themselves, a straw tick on the floor in a large room filled with strangers. By the 1950s, motorists staying at the Siesta Motor Court at Ivy, on U.S. 250 west of Charlottesville, could expect a private garage for their automobile, plus “steam heat, private tile baths, and Beautyrest mattresses.” [Courtesy of Phil James Historical Images]
African-American travelers had few options for public food and lodging during the era of Jim Crow. Crozet native Frances Walker and a friend posed next to a broadside that advertised an August 1944 Mt. Olivet Baptist Church daytrip to Log Cabin Beach, near Williamsburg. Businesses at this popular spot in the now-defunct town of Grove, alongside the James River in York County, catered to persons of color. Well-known black entertainers including Fats Domino, Little Richard, and B.B. King performed in Grove, providing musical entertainment to those who were not allowed into white clubs in the South. [Photo courtesy of Frances Walker Hill]
them old buckboards, you know, and Momma was afraid the baby would get too wet. So when they come by old Uncle Fountain Howard’s [the head of a respected African-American clan well-known to Lizzie’s family], Poppa went to see if we could come in ’til the thunderstorm was over. It was along in the morning. “They said, ‘Oh, yes, come on in,’ ’cause they knew Poppa and us. Went in, and their daughter was in the kitchen cooking. I can remember how that smelled, and that she had on a little white cap and a white apron. Oh, she was nice as she could be. But we left before breakfast because we was going to Grandma’s, and Grandma was looking for us.” For the foot traveler or soldier of old, even a piece of oilcloth provided welcome respite to the alternative of being exposed to the elements. The chronic moan of, “Are we there yet?” aside, travelers have always wondered where they would lay their heads when the sun went
down. One of the earliest cottage industries—that of providing hospitality to strangers—was born out of that necessity. In central Virginia, an increase in mid-18th century traffic gave rise to the roadside tavern’s offering of “ordinary” food and shelter to the passerby. Proprietors wanting to distinguish themselves from their competition attempted to provide food, spirits or accommodations that were just a cut above their nearest competitors’. Roadhouses were established on lonely stretches of roadway where no other services were available, or else at crossroads locations where travelers congregated to rest, resupply, or simply slow down in order to change direction. Brown’s Tavern, at the eastern foot of the turnpike and gap of the same name, catered to freight haulers from the Shenandoah Valley and Piedmont. Old Michie’s Tavern was continued on page 12
Afton House, a “charming summer resort” at Afton, was conveniently located 200 yards from the train depot. This four-story hotel, built in 1869 with an “unexcelled” view of the Rockfish Valley, advertised accommodations for 125 guests during its 1922 season. Its expansive dining room boasted a piano and “splendid food.” Repeat guests and locals alike anticipated the “weekend dances [that] are looked-for events.” [Courtesy of the Stratton family]
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originally situated along the roadside between Free Union and Earlysville. It welcomed 19th century travelers moving east and west between Charlottesville and the Shenandoah Valley. In 1927, growing automobile tourism led to Michie Tavern physically being moved to a spot near Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello shrine, where today it welcomes guests from around the world. The vanished hamlet of New York, or Little York, at the eastern foot of Rockfish Gap, supposedly came into existence as a rest area for teamsters on the Rockfish Gap Turnpike. A short distance away, during the mid-1850s, Col. Claudius Crozet found extended accommodations at Brooks’ Tavern while he engineered the Blue Ridge Railroad along and through the mountains. And, oh, the changes that were wrought with the coming of those steel rails! As commerce migrated to the wondrous rail travel, industry and hostelries sprang up at strategic points to take advantage of influxes of workers as well as affluent seekers of adventure and pleasure. Alreadyestablished mineral spring resorts in western Virginia enjoyed a boom in business. At Basic City/Waynesboro in 1890, the spectacularlyappointed Hotel Brandon opened on a hillside within sight of the train station. Today, it is poised to
recapture some of its earlier glory. Following soon after the arrival of trains to the Piedmont foothills, hotels were established near depots at Mechum’s River, Crozet, Greenwood and Afton. They joined the long-established Mountain Top Inn at Rockfish Gap, where, in 1818, Thomas Jefferson met with other dignitaries to decide on the location of his Academical Village. Entrepreneurial families advertised spare rooms and meals in their private homes. Others in busy areas converted their entire houses into boarding facilities. Summer homes were established specifically for seasonal lodging, such as Summer Rest at Greenwood. Visitors sought retreats where they could relax from the pace of the cities, or avoid
unhealthy summer conditions in areas such as the Tidewater region. The seemingly primitive nature of early public accommodations was a matter of note mainly for white travelers. Commercially available meals and lodging for African Americans were difficult to find prior to the repeal of segregation laws in the latter half of the 20th century. Social mores forced persons of color not only to the back of the bus, but also to the back doors of restaurants. Overnight lodging and other services might be found by asking the right questions of the right people. To alleviate those inconveniences— and potential dangers— The Negro Motorist [later, Travelers’] Green Book, published by Victor H.
This late-1860s Carte de Visite (CdV) was self-titled “Forget me not” by its subject Harriet Ardenia Naylor Via (1817–1876). The emotional sentiment of Mrs. Via, a mother of eight who lived in the Sugar Hollow section of Albemarle County, typified our human desire to be remembered.
Greenwood House, a hotel directly alongside the C&O tracks at Greenwood, filled with summer visitors seeking respite from the persistent heat of lowland cities. This 1910 postcard view marketed that village and its amenities. Guests often penned postcard messages describing their delight with the entertainments. [Courtesy of Phil James Historical Images]
Rev. Frederick W. Neve, Episcopal Archdeacon of the Blue Ridge, issued pleas for workers to come and minister among isolated mountain families. Those who answered his call in the early 20th century needed to secure room and board with the mountain residents whom they served. Mission school teachers like Albemarle County sisters Ruby Walton Knight and Nellie Walton Ford documented their difficult but rewarding work with photos; a newsletter was sent to supporters. This log cabin, perhaps located in Greene Co., was labeled “SPARE ROOM CABIN—The ladder is the only way to the guest chamber.” [Photo courtesy of Larry Lamb]
Green, first appeared in print in 1936 and continued with annual updates until it was rendered obsolete by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Especially helpful around cities, black travelers passing through the Charlottesville area could learn the exact location of Carver’s Inn or Chauffeur’s Rest on Preston Avenue, Alexander’s “tourist home” on Dice Street, or the Virginia Inn on West Main. The Green Book was of no help, though, in the rural western side of the county, where a room might be secured at a popular boarding house near the Piedmont Baptist Church
at Yancey Mills, or alongside the Doyle’s River near White Hall at one of Vassar Tarry’s overnight cabins adjacent to his store and dance pavilion. Tarry relocated to Waynesboro and, in 1940, opened Tarry’s Hotel next to the railroad tracks on Port Republic Road. The first African-American visitors to Shenandoah National Park in the late-1930s were directed to the “Lewis Mountain Negro Area” for services. Various forms of federally sanctioned racial segregation were encountered by black patrons in SNP until 1950. From the earliest of days, continuing to the present, Lizzie Wyant Wood’s c.1910 recollection charmingly portrayed what each of us would hope for when traveling away from home: safe transportation, shelter from the storms of life, and someone waiting and watching for us at the end of our journey.
Follow Secrets of the Blue Ridge on Facebook! Phil James invites contact from those who would share recollections and old photographs of life along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Albemarle County. You may respond to him through his website: www.SecretsoftheBlueRidge.com or at P.O. Box 88, White Hall, VA 22987. Secrets of the Blue Ridge © 2003–2013 Phil James
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In New Digs, Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie Stays the Same by Kathy Johnson Everyone has that favorite pair of shoes, the pair you reach for when you want to be yourself and just feel comfortable. Then there comes a time when you just have to break in a new pair. They don’t feel right immediately, but after a while you wonder why you waited so long. Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie in North Garden is going through that new shoe feel. Owners Nancy and Michael McCarthy say that the regulars are grumbling about the change. They liked it the way it was. “It’s a new space,” says Nancy, “but it hasn’t changed. The soul of the place is still the same.” A greatly expanded area with new tables and chairs is now open just next to the old location at 4916 Plank Road and in the future a new doorway will be opened to include the old space. “Our mission has always been to make really great food for the masses,” said Nancy. “We just needed more room.” “Everything here is made from scratch, lunch and dinner,” said Michael. “We do our best not to take any shortcuts. We make our own breads, all our desserts and we use fresh pineapple—as much fresh local produce and ingredients as possible.” Michael met Nancy when he was working at the Ivy Inn and she was waiting tables there. After they were married, they bought Dr. Ho’s and had kids. Both McCarthys take food seriously, but there is a glint in Michael’s eye that says business may be business, but he’s going to have fun while he’s working to put out what he believes to be some of the best food in the county. For a number of years Dr. Ho’s has been recognized as the “best in” some category. When these awards come their way, they celebrate with a new photo. One hanging over the
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Where Old Trail Gets Its Name By Jim Clark Is the name “Old Trail” merely invented or does it have real meaning? As a matter of fact, an old trail trod by animals and American Indians was a significant precursor to our modern-day transportation network. When they named the project, Justin Beights and his family, the original developers of Old Trail, were aware of the existence of an old trail that skirted the western side of Crozet and had become an old road when the area was settled. While they lack positive proof, historians agree that a trail was north of the present site of Old Trail Village, approximately along the route of Jarmans Gap Road. The path extended from Richmond, at the edge of the Tidewater area, through western Albemarle to the Shenandoah Valley to where Staunton stands today. Beginning in the 1730s, several Virginia counties started authorizing improvements to the trail for travel by wheeled vehicles, section by section from Richmond to the Valley. The road subsequently became a principal east-west
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artery between the Piedmont and the Valley going through what became known as Jarmans Gap. At that time it was called the Mountain Road, but that name was replaced with the name Three Notch’d Road by 1743, perhaps to better differentiate the road from others with the same name. Three notches were regularly used as a blaze mark on trees along the road. Most of the old road has been obliterated by land development, although remnants of a road are believed to remain on private property in the vicinity of the Old Trail golf course. Route 240 east of Crozet carries that name to this day. A turnpike was later built through Rockfish Gap, which was found to be a more suitable crossing of the Blue Ridge, and that caused the abandonment of the road through Jarmans Gap. During the 1930s, U.S. Route 250 became the successor road, and in the 1960s, Interstate 64 was constructed, essentially parallel to the old trail.
Batesville Apple Butter Days Coming October 19 & 20 Batesvillians will host their annual Apple Butter Days, celebrating its 38th year, on Saturday and Sunday, October 19 and 20, at Page’s Field across from the post office. Batesville residents will be cutting wood for the fires, hauling in tents and chairs and doing set-up on Friday evening starting at 4 p.m. Volunteers are invited. Peeling and cutting apples will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday morning and continue until around 5 p.m. when the stirring will begin. Stirring the butter, keeping the fires going, and storytelling will take place through the night until 10 a.m. Sunday. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, the apple butter will be canned and labeled. Sales will begin at 1 p.m. and last until 2 p.m. Pints are $5 and quarts are $8. The famous Batesville apple butter
pancake breakfast will take place on Sunday from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Pancakes are $5 for adults and $3 for children. Local musicians will provide entertainment. Everyone is invited and welcome to come help with production of the apple butter. Batesville apple butter is made the old-fashioned way in giant copper kettles over wood fires. Pennies are placed in the kettles to keep the mixture from sticking to the bottom, but constant stirring is required. Anyone interested in helping should email events@batesvilleva. org. Sign up for stirring is also available at the Batesville Post Office. The Batesville committee thanks the Page family for use of the field, Crown Orchard for the apples and Parkway Pharmacy for the special spices.
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First, let’s define “formal” as it pertains to gardens. For most of us, it’s pretty much, “I know it when I see it.” We generally envision a rectilinear layout, with beds bordered by straight lines. But actually, symmetry is more critical to formal design; for example, you might actually have a circular bed, perhaps crisscrossed by straight paths. Formal beds of seventeenth century French palaces would generally have been rectangular, but often with elaborate scroll designs within. Whether straight or curved, symmetry and order would prevail. Although these palatial French gardens allowed for strolling, the intricate designs were best appreciated when viewed from above. Walk out onto your palace balcony, admire the scene, give a courtly wave, then retire to the salon. During this period, you would show your wealth by subduing nature and transforming what appeared to be chaotic, wild, and possibly scary, into tidy geometrical continued on page 33
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Rev. James Harrison will come from Smithfield, bringing a choir, too, to lead the afternoon service at 2:45 p.m. For more information, call the church at 823-1292.
Mt. Salem Gospel Church on Old Three Notch’d Road in Crozet will mark its 120th anniversary October 20. The morning service at 11:30 will be led by Evangelist Stephanie Clark, the former Mayor of Covington, and member of First Baptist Street Church there. The afternoon service at 3:30 p.m will be led by Rev. Thomas Fleming, joined by his male chorus, from Emmaus Baptist Church in Goochland. Many former Mt. Salem Church members are expected to attend the afternoon service. The church was organized on Sept. 9, 1893.
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Union Mission Church to Celebrate 100th Anniversary
Union Mission Baptist Church in Crozet will mark its 100th anniversary October 13. Rev. John Vaughan, joined by a guest choir, will lead the morning service at 10:45 a.m. Lunch will be served at The Meadows at 12:30. Former Union Mission pastor
Ashley Walton Benefit Yard Sale
The annual benefit for the Ashley Walton Fund will be held Saturday, Oct. 19, at Mt. Moriah United Methodist Church at 4524 Garth Road in White Hall. Yard sale items—too many to list—will include household goods, kitchen tables and chairs, bookstands, sofas, children’s clothes, bikes, etc. There will also be baked goods, hotdogs, chili, chips and drinks for sale. Entertainment will be provided. The start time is 7:30 a.m., rain or shine. Proceeds benefit Ashley Walton, who was severely injured in a car accident several years ago and has ongoing medical expenses. The Mt. Moriah Men’s Group will be making apple butter at the event and those proceeds will go to their community projects.
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Mt. Calvary Usher Program
Mt. Calvary Baptist Church on Morgantown Road in Ivy will host an Usher Program October 27 at 4 p.m. under the direction of pastor Dr. Tracie Daniels. For more information, call the church at 295-0555.
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rity, and agribusiness/food processing which support and enhance the strengths of our county. Working to bring Internet and cell coverage to all areas of the Samuel Miller District. Ten percent of our county residents do not have Internet or cell coverage. These residents are not only faced with inconveniences, but with added burdens to their family budget and potential safety and health concerns. Adults lack the ability to correspond by email, efficiently manage a home business and/or potentially perform their job responsibilities, and participate in certain family, community, and more widespread projects. Children face a distinct learning disadvantage concerning their school work and research. Families have the added expense of having to keep a land-line in their home. Our citizens are unable to call for help in case of an emergency situation. Our first responders are potentially slowed in their response time. The following are steps being taken to help resolve this issue: I have put together a group of professionals and county staff to look at what it would take to get service into the various areas and analyze what the county can do to facilitate the process. I am working with the county staff and the Thomas Jefferson Planning District to search for funding through grants. I have met with many citizens to discuss this issue. I listened to their concerns and solicited ideas from them on how this issue can be resolved. Following through on the building of our infrastructure. The rebuilding of the Ragged Mountain Dam, one of my goals during my first term, is under construction. On completion, the dam will take care of our water needs for the next 50-plus years. Road projects that have been planned and have funding allocated include: widening of Rt. 29 from the Rivanna River (by Sam’s Club) to the Hollymead subdivision; constructing the Hillsdale Extension from Whole Foods on Hydraulic Rd. to East Rio Rd; putting an extra turn lane onto the Rt. 250 Bypass next to Best Buy on Rt. 29; and construction of the Rt. 29 Bypass. This will extend from Leonard Sandridge Road to Route 29 North, north of the Rivanna River. When completed, this Bypass will eliminate 15 traffic lights and
money to fix it. This started me on a 12-year journey to get a long-range, 21st-century water supply plan adopted, so that our people would have the water they needed and our rivers would be properly protected. In 1997, I joined a League of Women Voters committee where I met and worked with a number of people, including respected longtime Supervisor Sally Thomas, to work on long-range planning to protect our county’s rivers and streams and keep our water supply local. We examined how water pricing can help with conservation, and involved the Darden School in improving the water authority’s management structure. In 2006 I was appointed to the County water board where I worked on a fair-pricing system that would help us rebuild our needed infrastructure without stressing small water users. And we implemented a policy to make growth pay for growth through appropriate connection charges. I am proud of the 12 years I spent working on the water supply plan that was adopted in 2011. It brought together the local business and environmental communities (no mean feat) as well as city and county governments. I have continued my service on the county water board, after being reappointed in 2010. And I am honored to say that Sally Thomas is now my campaign manager. I have also served on the boards of the Rivanna River Basin Commission and the Ivy Creek Foundation. In the Commission we addressed water quality in the entire watershed, and in the Foundation we worked to foster environmental education and recreation for the public. Over the last four years I have watched with concern the direction the county is taking. We declined to make important long-term investments in our infrastructure and schools, missing the window of low construction costs and interest rates (though Crozet’s beautiful new library is an exception). Furthermore, we have not done the necessary planning to prepare for the needs of an aging population in our rural areas such as North Garden and Esmont. My opponent has made decisions where insensitive development— often inconsistent with our rural heritage—has trumped quality of life
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permanent fences on the place because “you don’t want to be locked in to an infrastructure that limits your production options,” Miller explained. Once the animals are trained to respect the electric fence as youngsters and because they expect to arrive on fresh ground every day, they do not challenge their enclosures. One of the reassuring things about watching Miller engaged with his livestock is seeing them approach him trustingly when he gets in their vicinity. They are contented and prospering, stress-free, and they come to him calmly. The new laying hens being raised in a 120–foot, hoop-roofed brooder on the farm are some 900 Barred Rocks and Anconas, and in the front pasture, in the custom-built hen house wagon that’s on a mobile home frame, are a flock of 900 Red Stars, mature hens that are busy laying and foraging. “They are good cold weather producers and they’re a dual-purpose breed that can be sold as a stewing hen,” Miller said. His production target for each of them is to produce two-thirds of an egg per day on average. The wagon must be opened and closed every morning and evening to protect the hens from predators. (Miller starts
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his day at 5 a.m. and ends it at 5 p.m. by milking two dairy cows that the family keeps for its own needs. “Our best customer for eggs are Albemarle Baking Company and Sweet House Bakery,” he said. Getting to this stage, being able to assure customers of a steady supply, has come “though the hard knocks of the business,” said Miller, who earned a degree in environmental science at U.Va. “Every year I’m disillusioned by the facts of the business. There’s so much conflicting information that consumers are presented with. The range goes from the super conventional to the super organic. It seems you have to pick an ideology even though there is a middle ground. Salatin says now that he’s ‘beyond organic’ and that he doesn’t need government inspectors on his farm.” “We’re at a tipping point,” Miller said. “We’re in our third year of full production. We’re at a workable size and the products make an impact in the marketplace. We have the burden of paying for the farm. The cost of inputs is high and the output is low. Timbercreek has to be a positive cash flow business. This is legitimate from the perspective of managing a large productive farm in Albemarle,” that unlike so-called estate farms is not supported by income from some other source. “We have the base production that
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makes us solvent and not dependent on the government. This is a stable place for us because of labor costs. Pork and beef are our growth areas. Our relationship with Citizen Burger has doubled our demand for ground beef. “One of our advantages is proximity to town,” Miller said. “We have Charlottesville chefs who come out to see what we are doing. That’s made all the difference in getting them to embrace it and want to be a part of it. They feel personally invested. “Consistency is what’s setting us apart. We show up every week. You just can’t disappoint people. What we sell is ourselves and our story. What we’re doing is very intensive and yet very diversified. We are trying to remove our dependence on
off-farm inputs and benefit from coexistence. There’s a perfect design to the natural system that’s evolved for millions of years. Why do we think we can improve on it with synthetics? The natural system is beautiful and it works well. We are trying to observe it. Nature is cruel in that it doesn’t let things hang around that are inefficient. The takeaway is that everything you need to produce food is already on the farm. The task is to harness it. And our biggest thing is to communicate to the customer the underlying ideology of the farm. We suspect we are winning because industrial agriculture is now trying to coopt our terms. People want to support a positive end. Where I see it is once we establish this model, we are unbounded in Albemarle.”
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Cough, Puke or Heart? Much like taking your car to a mechanic, trying to explain your pets’ noises and symptoms to your veterinarian can be a challenge. “Rosie has been doing this cough/ hack/gag thing lately.” “I think Snowball is vomiting, but she never brings anything up.” “Puffy gags when she eats. I think she’s coughing, but maybe she’s about to puke?” An important part of my job is to constructively steer the questioning to get to the bottom of a problem. I have yet to have a dog or cat explain to me how they’re feeling, so it often takes a bit of detective work. This is definitely the case when trying to differentiate between coughing, vomiting, or difficulty breathing in a cat. First of all, cats do not “cough up” hairballs; they puke them up. Hairballs are accumulations of hair in the stomach and, if they get large enough, they will block the outflow of the stomach and trigger a vomit reflex. So when your cat “coughs up a hairball,” he is very much retching, and then vomiting and will produce a disgusting hairball along with some stomach fluid. There is typically no coughing involved here. Coughing is actually a very specific sign that a cat has allergic inflammation in their airways, such as allergic bronchitis or feline asthma. When a cat coughs, it will typically crouch down, stick its neck out, and cough. This is often a dramatic and focused coughing effort, lasting 10 to 20 seconds, vs. a quick, casual cough such as you or I might have. If you see your cat only occasionally coughing—let’s say once a month–don’t worry, it’s obviously a
minor problem. However, if your cat is having several of these coughing spells per week or per day, or if they seem to go on for a long time, you should contact your vet. Allergic bronchitis can progress to very severe respiratory distress. The problem is that cats don’t tell us when they’re having some of the early signs of difficulty breathing. Since they don’t go jogging or exert themselves regularly, their cardiopulmonary system rarely gets tested and we have a hard time knowing something is wrong until it’s really wrong. Cats that have allergic bronchitis/ asthma typically have a lot of inflammation in their airways and lungs. Eventually they can become clogged with mucus and fluid, leading to a big decrease in their ability to take in oxygen. Typically, these cats need to get started on steroids to reduce the inflammation. Then we can decide on long-term management. Believe it or not, some cats do very well with inhalers! We have to use the masks and chambers like those used for small children, but this can be an effective way of managing this disease process for some cats. Of course, the cats that come in with asthma and smell like cigarette smoke are probably not going to get better until their owners quit smoking. Things like smoke, perfume, and fragrance in the house are definitely triggers, but for many cats it’s just an allergy to Virginia. Heart failure is the other tricky diagnosis when cats are having a hard time breathing. Typically, cats with heart failure don’t cough at all. They simply start having a harder time breathing. These cats typically have an elevated respiratory rate and their breathing is labored. With dogs and cats, we really don’t see heart attacks as in people, but rather congestive continued on page 32
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Limping Toward Healthcare Reform After voting to deny health insurance to millions of Americans or shut the government down the U.S. House of Representatives took the rest of the weekend off. I did not take the weekend off. I spent the weekend caring for the uninsured of Northern Virginia. I do this a lot. I work in a hospital in Central Virginia designated to receive federal funds for providing care to uninsured patients (a Disproportionate Share Hospital or DSH in our lingo), so those uninsured patients are funneled to us from the affluent Northern Virginia suburbs among other places. It may seem strange, inefficient and even unsafe to travel 85 miles from Manassas to Charlottesville for emergency care, passing several hospitals on the way, but that is the system. The patients seem grateful for the care and as a teaching physician I am grateful for the broader range of pathological conditions brought to our hospital from far and wide.
I saw a young man from the D.C. suburbs recently. He spoke only Spanish and had no health insurance. He had had a swollen knee for several weeks. There was no history of trauma and no other medical conditions such as gout or arthritis. He had no pain and no fevers, no rashes. He had been seen in a local Northern Virginia ER that provided him with a referral to a community orthopedic doctor for work up and treatment of his puzzling swollen knee. The orthopedist examined the patient and decided a rather costly work-up was needed to figure out the problem. At this point, in order to do the patient a favor and help him avoid a big bill, he recommended the patient go to my ER for free care. At least that’s how the patient relayed the tale to us. Sounds about right to me. I was pretty sure the patient had Lyme arthritis, a somewhat common complication of untreated Lyme disease, but there were some atypical features. Most Lyme arthritis is quite painful and usually red and hot over the joint but this knee, though massively swollen, was not
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sponding growth in our school populations, this is only going to increase—and that was BEFORE you approved the new gas station. I am a businessman, and I have no fundamental issue with growth or private enterprise, but this was a very bad decision for our community for all the reasons many other citizens have given. However, assuming there is now no longer a chance of reversing that decision, I ask that you seriously consider ways to reduce the consequences. Specifically, I ask that you seriously consider limiting access to this corridor by tractor trailers and other large, commercial vehicles, at least during peak school hours. The thought of even more heavy traffic being added to this section of road in the mornings and afternoons when schools open and close hardly bears thinking about. What is already taking twice as long usual to deliver my son safely to school will only get worse. Will he be given a
“pass” by the Principal when he arrives late for school due to no fault of his own? There WILL be more accidents, and possibly more deaths once this development opens and so I truly hope you will give very real consideration to how you can mitigate the impact of your decision. It’s not too late to act before something awful happens. In hope, Ian Sole Crozet Too Many Chemicals This letter is in response to Tech Specialist P. L. Hipkins’ letter in the September issue defending the use of the pesticide Krenite on our roadsides. I know that Ms. Hipkins’ extensive work at Virginia Tech involving research on and promotion of pesticides gives her expertise about these deadly substances, but some of us are deeply concerned about the bigger picture. The chemical revolution, while it brought us many benefits, has also burdened us with unintended consequences we
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remove large trucks and much of the commuter traffic from our neighborhood streets and commercial shopping areas. I fully support the construction of the Rt. 29 Bypass. Additionally, I fully understand and agree with the importance of addressing the environmental concerns, avoiding the historic cemetery, and the need to discuss in further detail the landscaping and noise buffer concerns that we all have. As we envision the total completion of the Bypass, we need to remember that the 250 Bypass was completed in several will be lamenting for generations to come. So, Ms. Hipkins, when Tech specialists start paying attention to the interconnected, interdependent nature we live in, I’ll start paying attention to you! Mollee Merrill Afton
stages during the course of many years. Like the 250 Bypass, there will be future extensions to the Rt. 29 Bypass. Many of the concerns that are voiced today regarding the new bypass are the same concerns that were raised when the 250 Bypass was proposed. Can you imagine the traffic nightmare, economic hardships, and safety hazards that we would have today if we had not moved forward with the 250 Bypass? My record for the past four years shows my commitment to education, proper management of the county’s finances, creating quality jobs, working to complete our long overdue transportation projects, and protecting our rural resources. My commitment to you for the next four years is to continue to work with our citizens, other Supervisors, and our County staff to continue to make Albemarle County a great community. To learn more of my vision for the Samuel Miller District, please visit my website, www.snowforsupervisor.com.
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and safety. We saw that in this year’s vote to approve a commercial campground in historic Howardsville in the flood plain of the James River. In the name of economic development, he and two others voted for a campground where lives would surely have been lost when the James flashflooded this spring, just as the neighbors had predicted. Public participation has not been a priority of some on the current Board of Supervisors, as was seen in the now-infamous midnight vote on the Western Bypass – a maneuver in which Duane Snow actively participated, taken with no warning to the public, late at night. The Daily Progress called the vote “a show of disrespect” and said, “The end-run around the public amounts to an act of contempt for the public. This is exactly the sort of maneuvering we abhor when it occurs in the halls of Congress. It is even more appalling when it occurs at such close range.” (Daily Progress, 6/14/2011).
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These and other decisions, such the vote against the Women’s Equality Day resolution and withdrawing from Cool Counties, paint a picture of an Albemarle County government that is letting slip its leadership role in good governance, environmental protection, and carrying out the wishes of its people. We can do better. Much better. We must do better to attract good teachers for our schools, entrepreneurs with vision who will build the technology companies and rural enterprises of our future, and do better to maintain our quality of life for future generations. Albemarle County is one of the most attractive and desirable places to live in the entire United States because its citizens care. Its local government, reflecting local citizens’ involvement, has made tough choices in rural areas to ensure natural resource protection. This protection is essential, not only to our quality of life, but also to the robust economic vitality of Albemarle County. The shortest path to economic decline
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To qualify for the state money the county would have to pass an ordinance creating a tourism zone and then adopt an official tourism development plan for it. The plan would identify infrastructure deficiencies in the zone and those considered “critical” could be met by projects with state and county government financial participation in the form of tax Nancy Fleischman rebates. The Board of Supervisors Principal would have the authority to decide An independent agency offering which projects would be financed a choice of companies. and in each particular case would Let us compare for you. have to create an ordinance authorizing the project. The public contribuGolf can be a spiritual experience. Come and see! crozetinsurance.com tion to the project’s financing would Charitable Golf Outing – Sunday, October 20th at 1 p.m. Contact Randall Brogan for details randallbrogan7006@comcast. continue until its debt was paid off. State law allows the term to be as net long as 20 years, but Catlin predicted the county’s likely terms would be Golf can be a charitable experience. for no more than 10 years. Come and see! Join us for a Charitable Golf Outing The county’s report to the supervion Sunday, October 20th at 1:00 p.m. sors showed that the amount rebated by the county in the future would be For details email Randall Brogan at randallbrogan7006@comcast.net less than the sum of the taxes it is www.stnicholasorthodoxchurch.org likely to receive from a hotel. A hotel orthodox church with a restaurant pays real estate taxes, food and beverage tax, business personal property tax and transient occupancy tax, it noted. “The county’s assessment showed that Crozet is a deficit area,” Catlin said. “There’s not a hotel.” She said the county’s investigation showed there is no public lodging within a 10- to 15-mile radius of Crozet, other than a handful of bed and breakfast inns, and no place that can accommodate 12 visitors. She had earlier briefed the CCAC on the county’s plans to use the other space on the lower level of Crozet Library as an “adventure outpost” and had gone over the familiar inventory of attractions in western Albemarle, such as wineries and Triple Crown & Legends Horse Feed & Pet Food breweries, parks, scenic drives, orchard stands, Crozet’s growing resby taurant scene, proximity to Rt. 151 attractions in Nelson County, etc., as Poultry Market this Saturday well as lodging demand posed by Oct. 5th 8 AM - 12 PM in our parking lot! weddings the wineries host, visiting relatives of area residents, small conferences, and others. “It would need to be an appropriately scaled hotel,” she said. And it would have to be within walking dis1000 W. Broad St. • Waynesboro tance of amenities travelers would (540) 949-8229 need, such as in downtown Crozet or www.rockinghamcoop.com Old Trail. Catlin said that the Crozet Growth Area boundary would also HOURS: Mon-Fri 7:30 AM - 6 PM • Sat 8 AM - 5 PM define the tourism development
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Mallek told the CCAC that developer Frank Stoner, who is also an owner of the Mountainside Senior Living building, has reactivated the zoning text amendment begun by former Barnes Lumber Company owner Carroll Conley that would include the lumberyard in the Downtown Crozet District, a special zoning area, unique in the county, that establishes rules for the 50-acre commercial center of town. The lumberyard is presently zoned heavy industrial. Stoner has been given a 12-month extension on the revived application, Mallek said. Stoner is also interested in modifying the DCD’s existing rule that does not allow residences on the first floor of a building. He would like that relaxed so that townhouses would be allowable on the east and south sides of the 20-acre lumberyard parcel that border residential sections now. That rule was wrestled continued on page 28
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Warrior Sports News by David Wagner | david@crozetgazette.com
Volleyball Bounces Back The Western Albemarle varsity volleyball team got off to a slow start, but seems to have turned things around. After disappointing losses in their first two matches and then losing three of the first four, the Warriors have rebounded, winning three of the last four matches. In the season opener at WAHS August 29 the Warriors dropped three straight sets to Fort Defiance behind the dominating play of outside hitter Meghan Goode. The Indians won 25-22, 25-23 and 25-17. The Warriors then traveled to Waynesboro to face the Little Giants and things didn’t get any easier. Waynesboro played solidly and got help from sloppy play by Western to win 25-21, 25-17 and 25-19. Western committed 16 unforced errors in the match and never got into any kind of rhythm. The Warriors then answered with their first win of the season over Orange County High School before heading to Albemarle to take on the perennial power and new Jefferson District foe for local bragging rights. Albemarle’s talent and size proved to be too much for the Warriors, who fell in straight sets (25-16, 25-14, 25-13) for the third time in four matches. Albemarle’s strong hitting, defense and intimidating play at the net seemed to keep the Warriors off balance and out of sync. The Warriors got their second win against Louisa in straight sets. Playing in a weekend pool-play format tournament at AHS gave the Warriors a chance to play competitive opponents and to work out the kinks. It seemed to have made a difference. The Warriors went 2-2 in the one-day event, playing the best 2 of 3 sets, before heading to meet Monticello. The Warriors made quick work of the Mustangs, winning 25-17, 25-16 and 25-17. Led by seniors Maggie Spindell, Ali Sandridge, Devon Via and Abi Wagner, the Warriors evened their
season record at 3-3. Spindell led the way with eight kills, 13 service points and numerous big plays at the net. Via added six kills, two points and strong net play as well. Abi Wagner led the team in assists with 18, while adding six points and one kill. Outside hitter Ali Sandridge added 7 kills and six points and sophomore Kelsey Grove made a splash with 10 service points and four kills. Junior Christina Blount was exceptional against the Mustangs at libiero with a handful of point-saving digs to go along with tremendous instincts and hustle.
Junior Anna Reifsteck goes up for a kill.
The Warriors have two huge district matches at home in October. On the 8th the Warriors will host archrival Fluvanna at 7 p.m. and on the 15th they will get another crack at the Albemarle Patriots (also 7 p.m).
JV Football Is Off to a Hot Start, Too Head JV football coach and varsity assistant Robert Crickenberger has his Junior Varsity squad off to a hot start with three straight wins. The Warriors opened the season at home, defeating Waynesboro 27-12, and followed that win by crushing Fort Defiance, 41-0. Next they won what turned out to be an exciting 34-20 game against Orange County High School. The team is led by sophomore captains Henry Kreienbaum, who is playing quarterback and free safety, wide receiver Michael Vale, offensive lineman Jackson Sours and Bowen, playing both running back and linebacker. Kreienbaum is the team’s leading passer and rusher with five touchdown passes and six rushing TDs. He’s also the team’s leading tackler. Bobby Bowen is a close second in total rushing yards, adding one touchdown run of his own. Vale is the team’s leading receiver in yards and has three touchdowns. Wide receiver Derek Domecq and running backs Victor Becerra-Garcia and James Buetow have also been significant contributors. Up front on offense, the Warriors are led by sophomores Sours and
Harrison McGrady. The offensive line has provided room to run for the rushing attack and given Kreienbaum time to pass. On defense, Kreienbaum’s leadership and athletic ability have him leading the team in tackles. Linebackers Jarrett Smith and Bowen and defensive end Tazhon Tyler have tallied a high number of stops also. Freshman Peter Slechta and eighth grader Domecq have also contributed on a defense that is very active and seems to have a nose for the ball. It’s pretty rare that you find a JV team that mirrors their varsity counterpart—the athletes, the schemes, strategy, execution and the results—as closely as this one does. The JV squad is running the same playbook as the varsity and it looks as though varsity head coach Ed Redmond has a program in the making. There’s obviously still plenty of work to do, but with the talent on the JV team, their transition to varsity should be smooth. JV squad will host Monticello High School October 16 and the Charlottesville Black Knights Oct. 23. Game time is 6:30 p.m. at WAHS.
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over in 2006 during the development of the DCD zoning, when some argued that it was too restrictive. Mallek said Stoner will come to the next meeting of the CCAC to discuss the idea.
Future of the Depot
Catlin said the county intends to “step back and look at attributes and defects of the [Crozet] depot and to figure out what it’s highest and best use” might be before deciding what should happen next at the former library. She said the county staff, presumably with input from the CCAC, will promulgate a set of guiding principles for how the building should be handled that will go to the supervisors. Noting its “constrained parking,” she said county officials will do an assessment of the depot’s condition and that meanwhile the county is aware of its “stewardship of a place of historic value to the community.” She described it as a “connector” between the north and south parts of downtown and “a natural hub.” “We can either sell it, or lease it, or use it,” she said. There have been some inquiries about leasing it, she said, but none that have become earnest. The county may issue a request–for-proposal about the use, since that tactic produced the outcome of Crozet Running, a new store going into the new library’s first floor. Catlin said the county is expecting to hold a town hall meeting in Crozet in late October to go over implications of the Crozet Avenue streetscape project with the public and that the use of Crozet depot would likely be on the agenda too. CCAC members discussed possible uses, such as the proposal by county police to make it their first substation. Catlin said, “A police substation may the right thing for Crozet, but the depot may not be the right building.” Several CCAC members had been at the Crozet Community Association’s meeting two weeks earlier, when county police chief Steve Sellers, attending merely as a Crozetian, he said, had answered questions about the police proposal.
“Geo-policing is officers connected with citizens, getting to know each other’s names and building trust. It’s the future of policing,” he said. “We’re in phase one [of implementation]. Phase two is about getting the manpower to do it and phase three is about decentralizing services into the community. We’re not near there. It’s about five to 10 years out. Our first priority for a station is in Hollymead. Crozet will need a police station. It’s a growth area and it’s an attractive place to live. “I first heard this idea a year ago at a CCA meeting,” Sellers noted. “Crozet has happened to have a building come open and our report on the building said it’s a place where we could kick-start decentralization.” Sellers suggested that other county departments could also offer services in the depot in a concept he called ‘hoteling.’ He said the police department would look to the volunteers in the Crozet Safety Corps to man the office, since police officers would normally be out on patrol or answering calls. In evident relief to many who heard his talk, he settled an apprehension that prisoners might be kept at the substation. That is not allowed, he said, and a person is either in custody in a police cruiser or at the regional jail. They are not held any other way. “[The depot] is not big enough to be a police station,” Sellers said, “but it would help us lower response times by 40 percent. Now the average response time in the rural west side is 15 minutes. The depot is an opportunity that’s come up.” Some sentiment at the CCA meeting favored finding a commercial user, some speakers were adamant for the police station as a visible deterrent to crime in downtown ,and many were attracted to the idea of a multi-service government office that includes police. Those same options were also talked about by the CCAC, with no clear preference emerging, and even its possible use again as a train station was suggested. In other business, CCAC member Phil Best called for improvements to the 4-way stop at the railroad trestle with a pair crosswalks marked off that would connect to its orphan northeast corner near Over the Moon Bookstore.
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MEMORIES & RECIPES FROM AN ITALIAN KITCHEN [ by denise zito • denise@crozetgazette.com \
Suzanne’s Kale Salad There is a kale craze sweeping the nation. Kale salad has become something of an obsession in our family ever since last year, when we got together to prepare a big meal for Christmas evening and my daughter Suzanne and her husband David made kale salad. All twenty of the people at that holiday table have been making and eating it ever since! It’s really a phenomenon because after we started having it, I have found that everyone from the staff at ACAC to far-away friends are discovering the joys of kale. Kale is available year round. I plant in mid to late February and we eat it from March through July,
when the bugs finish it off. Then we replant in August and we’re just harvesting the second crop this month. It’s also available in the local grocery stores: curly kale, flat kale, blue kale, green kale—it’s all delicious. And did I mention how cheap it is? I hope no one at the Crozet Great Valu is reading this because when my garden crop is depleted, I really enjoy buying a bag for less than two dollars and making enough salad for eight people. It’s nutritious, having all the vitamins and minerals we so value in the green leafy vegetable family. What makes this salad so delicious? I think it’s that umami flavor (Japanese word for pleasant savory taste) leant by the combination of tamari, nuts and sharp cheese. The other wonderful thing about kale salad is that it keeps well and travels well, making it great road and picnic food. So, just in case you’re one of the five people left in America who are not already enjoying the wonders of kale, here is Suzanne’s version:
Kale Salad Start with a large bunch of kale (large stems removed), chopped, and then massaged. Yes, massaged. Reach into the bowl with both hands and squeeze. Repeat about 25 times. Apparently this breaks up the plant fibers, allowing the dressing to coat the greens better, and helps us digest better.
The Dressing ½ cup olive oil ¼ cup tamari Juice of one lemon 1 tsp. Dijon mustard Shake together in a jar and dress the salad. Use only enough to coat the greens. Refrigerate the rest for up to two weeks.
The Additions • 1 cup of sliced toasted pecans, almonds or pumpkin seeds. (It’s very important to toast the seeds. Toast the nuts in a heavy skillet, stirring very frequently. They go from toasted to burned instantly, so give them your full attention.) • 1 cup coarsely shredded Parmesan cheese After tossing the greens with the dressing, add the nuts and cheese and toss again. It keeps in the refrigerator up to three days and the minimal wilting does not detract from the flavor or appearance.
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majority of officers want it.” He said that Sellers had heard about this often in his interviews with staff members. The department is hiring a second data analyst, this one to follow data collected from the operations [patrol] division. The department’s current analyst is dedicated to analysis for the investigative division. Analysts sift through the information collected by the department to find patterns relevant to crime prevention, clues to crimes, and other information that can enhance police effectiveness.
Ryan’s special needs, extraordinary gifts and exceptional view of the world touched all who knew him. With his gentle, enthusiastic and thankful spirit uplifting him, he soared over the many obstacles and limitations he bore throughout his life. A man of deep and abiding faith, he recognized the sacredness in and brought grace to the simple, day-today activities of life. He cherished and honored the festivals and seasons of the year. In addition to his parents, sister, aunts, uncles and many cousins, Ryan is survived by his niece, Stella Marisol Gustafson, of Charlottesville, and his maternal grandparents, Luis and Mary Morales of Merritt Island, Florida. A private memorial service will be held at Olivet Presbyterian Church.
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Trails Crew 5K Set for Oct. 12 The Crozet Trails Crew will host their annual 5K Run/Walk/Trot trail run Saturday October 12 at Claudius Crozet Park, coinciding with the first day of the fall Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival. This year the race will be held for the first time on newly opened sections of the Crozet greenway trails system stretching from the Park to Western Ridge subdivision. The race is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m.; line up will be at 8 a.m. Participants can pre-register for the event by visiting www. crozettrailscrew.org/crozet-trailsday. Registration and/or packet pick up will also be held on Friday, October 11 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Crozet Library or on the day of the race at the Crozet Park YMCA from 7 to 8 a.m. All registrants will receive the 2013 Race T-shirt designed by a local artist and sponsored by some of our local businesses. The on-line fee is $20 per person; in-person is $25. Registrants for the race will also receive a free pass to the Festival. “The Crozet Trails Crew, in partnership with Albemarle County, is continuing its tradition of promoting Crozet’s amazing community spirit by physically connecting Crozet’s neighborhoods, retail centers, and schools by means other than shoulder-less roadways and busy county roads,” said CTC leader Jessica Mauzy. “A system of trails and bridges is being built by the volunteer Crew members in an effort to lay tracks that are no less ground breaking than the original railway that opened this little town for business back in 1848. These trails will connect neighborhoods and the people who live and work in them.” This year’s Crozet Trails Race provides an opportunity to see areas that are not normally open to area residents as a few private property owners have allowed a one-day access to their properties for the run. The CTC also wants to show off the new bridges that span the streams that made running and biking a little challenging in the past. One of the new bridges will be named in honor of the race’s first place overall winner and prizes will be awarded to the first and second place runners in each age category as well as all children under 14.
There will also be a prize drawing for all race registrants at an award ceremony immediately following the race. For details, visit crozettrailscrew. org/crozet-trails-day.
Trailblazer Jake McDonald is a winner and he has made an impression on the “grown-ups” who are organizing the 2013 Crozet Trail Day 5K race, the Crozet Trail Crew’s key fund raiser. Many individuals and businesses generously donate prizes and paid ads to support the race, which raises money to buy tools and supplies so that the Crew is able to build and maintain Crozet’s trails. Jake, who is five years old, asked that in lieu of presents for his fifth birthday, everyone donate money to help with the trail work. Jake and his mother Marisa came to the Crew’s recent workday to offer his contribution of $50.
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The Staff of Life, Part 2: Gluten Intolerance [ by elena day • elena@crozetgazette.com \ Before wading into the somewhat controversial subject of gluten intolerance, sensitivity, and allergy, I urge readers to call their Congressional representatives regarding the fate of the Farmers Assurance Provision, more aptly called the Monsanto Protection Act, which was signed into law last March. On September 24, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) struck the Monsanto Protection Act from the Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government. The House version of the CR extended the Monsanto Protection Act, thus the need to weigh in. The law strips the federal courts of authority to halt the sale or planting of illegal and potentially hazardous Genetically Engineered crops while USDA assesses these crops. It also compels USDA to allow continued planting of a crop upon request, even if the assessment finds that it poses previously unrecognized risks. There was a worldwide outcry after the law passed, especially since this was followed in April by the discovery of unapproved RoundUp Ready wheat contamination of a field in Oregon. Europe and Asia do not buy GE wheat and consequently U.S. sales faltered. Monsanto is currently testing the next generation of GE wheat in North Dakota and Hawaii. *** Gluten is present in wheat, rye, and barley. I first became aware of gluten intolerance/allergy/ sensitivity when numerous customers at my booth at Charlottesville City Market informed me that they had become “gluten-free” and could no longer eat pies or apple cake. Then a couple of vendors appeared selling gluten-free products. They tasted okay, but I assume they are quite expensive to make as the base is often nut flour, like almond. I decided to find out more about this newly identified syndrome that seems to be affecting a lot of people. Distillation of the amount of information regarding gluten and allergies to gluten on the Internet is
daunting. There is Celiac disease, and there is gluten intolerance/sensitivity/ allergy. Celiac disease was first described by the ancient Greeks. It is an autoimmune digestive disorder. In response to gluten ingestion, the immune system attacks the lining of the small intestine, resulting in villous atrophy. The villi are there to absorb nutrients and when these atrophy, malnutrition, osteoporosis, and sometimes cancer ensue. Generally, endoscopy is necessary to verify villi dysfunction/atrophy. Gluten intolerance presents near identical symptoms as Celiac disease (as well as symptoms of many other diseases). Digestive symptoms of both syndromes include diarrhea, heartburn, bloating, and constipation. Other symptoms are fatigue, brain fog, headaches, depression and anxiety, anemia, joint pain, and rashes. Dermatitis herpetiformes, a very itchy rash characterized by blisters filled with watery fluid, is diagnostic of Celiac disease. This connection was first recognized in 1967. The autoantigens of Celiac disease can be detected in papules of the rash. One percent of the population suffers from Celiac disease. Gluten intolerance is less understood and needs further study. A 2011 University of Maryland study found that persons with gluten sensitivity have a different immune system reaction than those with Celiac disease. In the former, the body detects gluten as an “invader” and fights it with inflammation in the digestive tract and elsewhere. Dr. Fasano at UMD believes that 6 to 7 percent of the population suffers symptoms of gluten intolerance. Other researchers number sufferers as high as 50 percent. Another researcher, Dr. Ford of Christchurch, New Zealand, describes “the gluten syndrome” (in a book of the same name) as a neurological disorder resulting in gastrointestinal symptoms caused by irritation to the autonomic nervous system. And to add to the confusion, 27 potential wheat allergens have been identified, gluten being one. Wheat continued on page 34
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A Visit to Henricus Historical Park & Dutch Gap Conservation Area People who read this column regularly may remember that I find history as fascinating as nature. Thus when I first heard about Henricus Historical Park and Dutch Gap Conservation Area in Chesterfield County several years ago, I couldn’t imagine a better situation. There is no fee for parking in a lot located between both areas, which meant I could easily enjoy history and nature all in one day! In September, I finally got the opportunity to visit both sites. Because the nature area opens at 8 a.m., two hours earlier than the historical park, my hubby and I first hiked the 4.5 mile loop trail that is free of charge, but not free of effort! We were on our feet almost four hours to go all the way around because there were so many places to stop to look at the scenery, or to examine and photograph plants, or to identify birds, spiders, and insects. A manmade subject of interest is the Dominion Virginia power plant that is located right outside the natural area. The station itself covers a fair bit of ground, with what must be miles of electrical wires. But what especially draws your eyes over
there are the three huge stacks creating water vapor clouds that were very impressive to view and photograph. When we first arrived, early on a somewhat chilly morning, there were numerous vultures flying around those stacks. The big birds looked like they were trying to warm up by getting close to the steam. If you’ve ever spotted vultures at the tops of trees or on a fence with their wings outstretched to catch the morning rays of the Sun, you know they like to get the morning chill off by intercepting photons (packets of energy sent to Earth by the Sun). The trail in the conservation area is very accessible. It’s almost completely level and there are plenty of benches along the way where you can sit to rest, if you wish. You should download a trail map before visiting, as none may be available on site to carry with you. Having a map allows you to measure your progress around the loop as there are marker posts every tenth of a mile. Waterways, woodlands, and wildlife comprise the Dutch Gap Conservation Area, which borders the James River. It’s a lovely and peaceful place to walk.
The re-created village of Henricus in Chesterfield County provides us with insight to the lives of colonists in the second successful English settlement of the New World. Photo: Marlene A. Condon.
The Chesterfield Parks and Recreation Department also offers guided kayak tours of the Tidal Lagoon to discover the natural and cultural heritage of the site. These tours usually run from mid-April to mid-October. If you are interested, you can call 804-318-8735 for more information. There is a reasonable fee to visit Henricus Historical Park ($8 per person when we visited), which includes a fascinating re-creation of the second successful English settlement of the New World, the Citie (its historical spelling) of Henricus, along with the Virginia Indian community of Arrohateck. Historical interpretation and reenactments take place to honor Virginia’s Indians and the English settlers who lived in what was, at that time, Virginia’s western frontier. I find it odd that Virginians who have learned the history of the United States and Jamestown, the
first permanent English settlement, learned little, if anything at all, about Henricus. Yet this was the English home of the famous Pocahontas, the Native American woman of the Powhatan tribe who saved Captain John Smith’s life. How is it that we have all heard of Pocahontas, but we were never told about this location in Virginia where she was taught English customs and took the baptized name of Rebecca before marrying John Rolfe? Henricus was founded in 1611 by Sir Thomas Dale who led 300 settlers upriver 80 miles from Jamestown, which had been started as James Forte (its historical spelling) in 1607. Jamestown was located in a swampy area not particularly suitable for humans, so the idea was that Henricus would replace Jamestown as the principal seat of the English colony. continued on page 40
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shapes. But by the mid-eighteenth century, particularly in England, ideas of beauty were beginning to change. A new style, often known as the English Garden in other countries, employed a more naturalistic style that imitated landscape paintings—not the other way around as one might expect. Curves replaced straight lines, and clusters of trees dotted large swaths of lawn. Natural hills and valleys formed part of the scene, although manmade lakes and faux ruins might also be incorporated. And to a large degree, this style has persisted to this day, particularly on country estates such as we have in Albemarle County. Conventional design wisdom dictates that the style of your house should be reflected in the style of your garden. So a contemporary, or “modern,” house works best with an informal, naturalistic garden, while a Georgian mansion demands to be surrounded by formal gardens.
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Fortunately for most gardeners, design rules are made to be broken. So I could easily envision an informal garden around your Georgian mansion. But do parterres—the archetypal, symmetrical formal style—belong behind your cottage in the woods? A bit of a stretch, perhaps. If you decide to try some “formality” in your garden, don’t feel that it has to be strictly formal; it’s okay to blend formal and informal elements in the same garden. Strictly formal, the French parterres of the late Baroque would use a very limited plant palette, perhaps one species for the border and another forming the scrollwork within. Gravel or some other form of hardscape might provide an additional texture and color. A more modern interpretation would retain the formal rectilinear bed shape, but jazz it up with a variety of perennials, even daring to put different species on each side of the central axis! While getting the right amount of curve in a naturalistic garden can be tricky, laying out a formal bed is pretty easy: stretch a string between
two stakes, and you’ve got a straight line. Or swing a line around a point, and you’ve got an arc or circle. Making the ground level, or nearly so, is important in a formal design: different elevations or slopes on opposite sides of a central axis are not going to look good! If you don’t want to go all out doing a formal garden, consider incorporating just a few formal elements to provide structure and to counterbalance the more naturalistic matrix. A special plant or two pruned to a geometric shape can provide a touch of formality, or even whimsy. You can usually purchase plants pruned to resemble spirals or “poodles” at garden centers, but be forewarned: The nursery has spent considerable time pruning to achieve that shape, and you are going to have to keep up with it. An allée is a formal element that also can work in many landscapes. Just a fancy French word for alley, an allée is two lines of trees that arch over a path or road to provide a tunnel effect. In the Deep South, you’d be driving under the limbs of live oaks draped with Spanish moss. In
Albemarle County, the allée could be formed from deciduous oaks, maples or red cedars. Along a garden path, smaller trees such as dogwoods, redbuds or lindens would work. Depending on your preference, you might want to train the branches toward the center of the path to enhance the tunnel effect. In any case, you need to remove the lower limbs to prevent interference. Allées are a useful way to provide “compression and release,” in which you’re guided through a narrow space that suddenly opens onto a different view. I did encourage breaking some design rules, but the orientation of a formal garden or allée is probably not a good place to start. The axis should extend from the house at a right angle, ideally from either a door or window. Otherwise, you could end up with a rather disorienting feeling. Although it sounds a bit oxymoronic, consider loosening up a bit by making part of your garden more formal. You might actually find it to be calming.
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in. Unfortunately, the stress of the car ride must have been too much for her. As soon as she got into the exam room, she took her last gasping breath and died. I would love to imagine that this cat was probably showing some signs of difficulty breathing that could have been detected prior to that day, but some cats really don’t. “Jasper” was a cat who came in for an annual exam. I noted that she was clearly having a hard time breathing. The owner was convinced that it was simply the cat
purring–she would typically take deeper breaths when she was purring. However Jasper was clearly not purring and I was able to convince her to take some x-rays. We were both surprised to see about 70 percent of her lungs filled with fluid! I wasn’t sure if I was dealing with cancer, heart failure, or severe allergic/inflammatory disease and Jasper’s mom was not interested in taking her to a cardiologist for an echocardiogram (ultrasound of the heart – the only true way to assess continued on page 24
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ents a chance to learn about their services. “Language and speech problems usually appear at age two or three and reading and math problems appear in kindergarten and first grade,” Schoeb explained. “Reading to kids is the most important thing you can do,” MacCleery added as advice for parents. “There’s not enough down time from screens—TVs and computers. We need to play more games.” “The social implications of the problems we are seeing are really impacting kids,” said Schoeb. “We owe it to the kids in the community to find where that breakdown is happening. Our goal is to work ourselves out of a job, to get the child to be independent in the classroom. We offer kids a sense of calm as reassurance. It’s a tough world for kids to grow up in. Social media bombards them. The violence they see on TV has also increased. We see success in giving kids coping strategies and skills. It makes parents feel better, too, and it improves their relationships with their kids. We understand family pressures and being a working parent.” The Crozet Speech and Learning Center is at 5974 Jarmans Gap Road, on the lower level of the Crozet Blue Ridge Dental building. The center has a waiting area, a parent resource library, and three bright, cheerful, multipurpose rooms.
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heart disease). This was very reasonable, as Jasper is 15 years of age. So, I shot from the hip, did my detective work, and treated for everything. Incredibly, Jasper is alive two years after this event and we still don’t have a specific diagnosis. I think it’s a combination of heart disease AND allergic disease, but my therapy has worked and mom is happy! The take-home message is that cats will hide significant illness from you, so if you suspect something is wrong, have her checked out.
Handy Kitchen Substitutions We all know this story: in the kitchen with a fantastic recipe and you’re ready to create magic. When gathering all the ingredients, lo and behold you’re missing something. Here are a few easy substitutions that I find quite useful: • Cake Four—something I almost never have on hand when I need it. For 1 cup cake flour, substitute 1 cup all purpose flour minus 2 tablespoons. Replace with 2 tablespoons cornstarch, sift together 5-6 times until well combined and light. • Buttermilk—make your own with 1 cup milk plus 1 tablespoon
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allergies result in wheezing, stuffy nose and watery eyes, itching and hives, and rarely, even anaphylaxis. There are no specific tests for gluten intolerance. Most folks selfdiagnose, and symptoms or severity thereof are subjective. Often simply not eating products containing wheat, barley and rye results in symptomatic relief. I continue to wonder why there is such a surge of gluten intolerance and find it difficult to accept the explanation that it is the increase in gluten in strains of wheat currently cultivated. It doesn’t seem immunologically plausible since in other allergies, such as to peanuts or tree nuts, an infinitesimal amount can cause severe symptoms, even anaphylaxis. I also feel quite cynical about the food industry and its
white vinegar. Mix and let sit for 5-10 minutes. Plain yogurt can also be used as a substitute. • Cornstarch—for thickening, 1 tablespoon cornstarch is equal to 2 tablespoons flour. • Allspice—if a recipe calls for 1 teaspoon allspice, you may substitute ½ teaspoon cinnamon and ½ teaspoon ground clove. • Brown sugar—1 cup white sugar mixed with ¼ cup molasses can be used in place of 1 cup brown sugar. Next time you find yourself in a kitchen dilemma, I hope one of these tips comes in handy.
“gluten-free food” labels on now appearing on everything from potato chips to peanut butter and yogurt. Finally, I wonder if all those processed wheat/gluten products we’ve been consuming in ever-increasing abundance for the last 50 years also contain various and numerous additives that result in diverse and various symptoms, depending on the particular individual and his physiology. What do we know about the cumulative or synergistic effects of ingesting the food-thickener maltodextrin, or calcium proprionate in bread, or TBHQ (tert-Butylhydroquinone) in crackers, and a thousand others additives and preservatives that appear to be in just about everything in the middle aisles of our grocery stores? Couldn’t they, too, be contributing to the diverse symptoms and/or general malaise that gluten intolerant folks describe and seek to relieve? I look forward to more study.
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Fardowners Restaurant to Hold Library Days Fundraiser Fardowners Restaurant on The Square has designated October 28, 29 and 30 as Library Days to support the purchase of more books for Crozet Library. For every meal purchased during Library Days, Fardowners will donate a percentage of the meal—15 percent of lunch food orders and 10 percent of dinner food orders—to the Crozet Library. Diners will have the opportunity to make direct donations to the library
as well. Locally owned, Fardowners emphasizes using food grown on local farms. It takes its name from a group of Irish immigrants who labored for the Blue Ridge Railway Company and helped construct four tunnels through the Blue Ridge Mountains during the decade before the Civil War. For more information, call Fardowners at 823-1300.
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It is more cost-effective to reach diagnostic certainty before hospitalization, rather than admit patients to inpatient beds for the same resourceintensive workup in a more expensive setting. The ER has become more than just the expected safety net in the U.S. healthcare system; it has become the major diagnostic unit, the place where the most expensive decision in medicine is made: whether to admit to the hospital for therapy or discharge to outpatient management? On January 1 the federal DSH payment system that supports the hospitals that provide this kind of service to the poor will be phased out. That’s OK. The Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid (a state and federally funded insurance program for the poorest Americans) is designed to cover the cost of caring for low-income patients who need lifesaving care and is supposed to replace the DSH system. Unfortunately many states including Virginia are refusing to accept federal funds to expand Medicaid to cover more poor Americans due to partisan politics. DSH is going away regardless, so there will essentially be nowhere for poor uninsured patients to go in Virginia to receive subsidized health care. I think the richest nation in the world ought to do better. My patient was lucky. It was not cancer; it was an unusual presentation of Lyme arthritis. He got a 30-day prescription for amoxicillin. He was financially screened and his medical bills were prorated to a level he could afford. I wonder how much longer I will be working in a system that allows me to do this for all comers, regardless of their ability to pay. Thirty days of Amoxicillin—$8. Ruling out cancer in a young person? Priceless. Congress, are you listening?
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very warm or red and the patient could walk with only a slight limp. I consulted our orthopedic group, who took a keen interest in this unusual presentation. Blood work was ordered to rule out early rheumatoid arthritis or other uncommon forms of arthritis. Lyme titers were sent and a needle was inserted into the knee to obtain a sample of the fluid for analysis for bacterial infection. Bacterial infection of a knee joint, a so-called septic knee, can destroy the joint very quickly. None of these studies was diagnostic; nothing was definitive or characteristic of any one disease. Could this be cancer? It was time for the big gun, time to send the patient to the “donut of truth”—the MRI scanner. This entire extensive, expensive and potentially lifesaving workup was performed in the space of an afternoon and evening in a busy and crowded ER while hundreds of other patients were simultaneously being evaluated and treated. A quiet and overlooked revolution has occurred in the ERs, doctors’ offices and hospitals of America. Fifteen years ago this work up would have taken weeks to organize as an outpatient, requiring multiple office visits, outside lab blood draws and trips to X-ray facilities and would have been beyond the reach of this patient’s resources. Alternatively the patient would have been hospitalized for days to weeks to complete the workup. It would never have been expected in an ER setting. Now we are tasked with performing these extensive diagnostic workups in the ER routinely, and with good reason.
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“I done counted 36 smushed ones on my way home from work Friday.” That’s what a friendly fellow at a party recounted in gory detail to Heidi and me last week. Unfortunately, our eight year old had to hear this, too. But sometimes the truth isn’t pretty. It’s true. The squirrels have gone crazy. I personally had a crazed furry varmint stop my car on Crozet Ave. I honked and he stood his ground. I rolled the window down and yelled but he wouldn’t move. The same day, Heidi came home and said, “One tried to commit suicide in front of my car on Jarmans Gap.” So, what does this say about our winter ahead? This is the time of year that everybody asks us about the Farmer’s Almanac and the crazy squirrels and the bands on wooly worms. And every year, we have the same answer. Squirrels and wooly worms and the Almanac don’t have a clue about the winter ahead. Neither do the advanced computer models that meteorologist have been working on for the last 70 years. Unfortunately, science is only slightly better than flipping a coin or asking a squirrel at this point, so we’ll have to just wait and see.
September Recap September was the eighth straight month of colder-than-normal weather, which is an impressive streak. However, with an average high of 77, that still made for a delightful month. The streak may end in October, however, since the first week should start with a warm stretch of Indian Summer. We also had a streak of four straight wet months, but September was very dry. We had significant rain only once, on the 21st. One reason for the dry month was the lack of hurricanes. September is the busiest month of the year for hurricanes and often the remnants of storms from the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico get swept here and produce heavy rains. But the hurricane season this year has been almost non-existent. September Rain Totals Normal 4.56” Crozet 0.93” Old Trail 0.99” Greenwood 0.75” Waynesboro 0.84” CHO Airport 0.65” Afton Summit 1.53” Univ. of VA 1.13” Nellysford 1.52”
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Field School Looks Into Future Site in Charlottesville The Field School of Charlottesville, which has its abode in the old Crozet elementary school, had its request for special use permit to develop a new school on a 62-acre parcel on Polo Grounds Road near the SOCA play fields deferred by the Albemarle Bard of Supervisors until their October 9 meeting. Before a final vote, supervisors want to know more about events the school would host and how it proposed to screen itself from one neighbor. The school may also be required to improve part of the intersection of Rt. 29N and Polo Grounds Road. Field School headmaster Todd Barnett said any move would be years off and that at least five years of fundraising for the building would be necessary. Fundraising won’t start until the school secures the supervisors’ approval. “When the earthquake happened, the county had to condemn one room in the building, so that put us into thinking long-term about having a place of our own,” he said. “It’s a great spot for us. It gives us more land and it’s gorgeous. The school would be on the crown of the property with Blue Ridge views and the Rivanna River below. What we are
looking for is a place where we can have biking trails and science classes outdoors. Hopefully we’ll get there. “I would so much rather be in Crozet,” admitted Barnett. “I am unendingly impressed with this community and the initiative in this community. We love it here.” He said he would buy the building he is in if he could afford it. The school offers boys in grades 5 through 8 a traditional, academically rigorous curriculum, including Latin, and also stresses moral development and team sports. Barnett noted that on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills taken by students last May, each grade had a final overall score in the 99th percentile in reading, math, social studies and science. On Friday and Saturday, October 18 and 19, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. the Field School will host the fifth annual Crozet Spirit Walk. Students and community members impersonate characters from Crozet’s past and lead a fun and educational walking tour of Crozet. Tours depart from the Field School, where apple butter, brunswick stew and other treats will be for sale. Tickets are $10 for adults, and kids under 16 are free.
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projects. One of my goals as a member of the Board of Supervisors will be to improve City-County relationships for the benefit of the citizens of both jurisdictions. This November, I ask you to elect me to the Board of Supervisors from the Samuel Miller District. Together, we can protect our community from the threats it faces and from the neglect it has endured. Virginia has given me many wonderful opportunities and experiences over the years, and I would like to now give something back. The citizens of Samuel Miller District deserve a better choice than their current representation on the Board, and I offer them my energy, enthusiasm, experience and determination to work with them, for them, in an open and trusting government. Thank you, Contact me at LizPalmer forsupervisor.com, Facebook.com/ lizpalmerforsupervisor, or by phone at 434- 923-0992.
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would be to damage our natural resources, either by neglect or intention, in the name of uncontrolled, anything-goes economic development. I have made – and will continue as county supervisor to make – efforts to insure that appropriate balances exist to respect and protect our natural assets. A healthy environment is good for everyone. Our children will thrive and our economy and property values will grow. We all travel around our community without thinking about the political boundaries between city and county. However, the political relationship between the two has grown increasingly strained. As a member of the County water board, I have worked with the Charlottesville City Council to successfully negotiate cost-allocation agreements on large infrastructure
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However, following many trials and tribulations, James Forte became Jamestowne and served as the capital of Virginia until 1699 when the capital was moved to Williamsburg. That spelled the end for Jamestown, which now exists only as an archeological site that is well worth visiting. Henricus was named for the eldest son of King James I, Prince Henry. It was sited in an unknown wilderness where the people could be attacked not only by Indians, but also by Spaniards. In Henricus, people owned their own property, a unique concept 400 years ago. The first English college and the first hospital in the New World were built here, and tobacco became established as the first cash
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Cheryl, while they were both in law school and they have been married almost 23 years. They have two children, Elizabeth, 19, a sophomore at James Madison University and Thomas, 18, a senior at West Springfield High School. Rev. Garcia said, “I was attracted to Emmanuel by its beautiful setting: my family and I spent four happy years in Charlottesville (Thomas was born there), and we welcomed the chance to come back to Albemarle County.” Emmanuel Episcopal Church is at 7599 Rockfish Gap Turnpike.
crop. In other words, the successful permanent colonization of North America by the English really took root here, which led to the eventual establishment of the United States of America. Thus it’s very puzzling to me that Henricus has not been more publicized in American history books or articles. This highly significant destination, located between Richmond and Petersburg, is about a two-hour drive from Crozet. A living-history site for Colonial Virginia, it provides a view of life between the years of 16111622. It’s a hands-on kind of place, which is always delightful for children. I highly recommend a visit. More information can be found at www.henricus.org/aboutus/about-us. asp
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of the library, praised the crowd of 250 who had come out to celebrate. “Without the Crozetians of the world this would not have happened,” she said. State Senators Emmett Hanger and Creigh Deeds were on hand, as was Delegate Steve Landes. Boy Scout Troop 79 presented a color guard. Landes praised the library and made points about “lifelong learning,” “community hub,” and “citizen education.” He called out Build Crozet Library Chair Bill Schrader for special notice. “I can tell you this day would not have happened if not for this man. He got my attention and the state’s attention. It’s gratifying to see the support that has come together. It’s an example to the state of Virginia of what a community can do coming together.” Albemarle County Executive Tom Foley, who called himself a
OCTOBER 2013 Crozetian, said, “the main point is the unique partnership between county government and the community of Crozet. It’s been a successful and committed partnership that’s really a model.” He admitted that to start out he could not believe Crozet citizens really expected to raise $1.6 million to furnish the interior, buy computers and stock the shelves. Foley put the spotlight momentarily on MB Construction Co.’s construction supervisor, June Bug Reed, who delivered the building according to plan and on time. Jefferson Madison Regional Library Board of Trustees President Brain Lafontaine called the library a “commitment to democracy” that provides “the vital asset of community.” “My hat is off to the wonderful community of Crozet, who have banded together to bring us this library. This new Crozet Library is a model of citizen effort.” When his turn came, Schrader announced that 725 individuals have contributed to the library fund and he carefully gave credit to large
donors who had paid for specific sections of the interior. “Everything you see today is paid for. It’s done. Thank yourselves,” he said. Then, in a surprise, he called Dominion [Power] Foundation philanthropy director Iris Holiday out of the crowd. She had seen video of the book brigade and she said that made her get involved in the fund drive. “I have never seen a project so positive in any county in the last decade,” she told the crowd. Then she presented a ceremonial check for $40,000 to Schrader. “It’s to pay for the circulation desk,” she explained. Schrader said the Crozet public designed the interior and paid for it. “You have the library you want because it’s your dollars that’s doing it.” He called forward the fundraising committee and praised each one for his or her special contributions to its tasks. “This team has been working hard,” he said. The fund drive will continue for another year in order to build up the collection, which has already
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added 10,000 books to what was available in the old library, Schrader said. That’s 43,000 books in all, but the goal is a collection on the order of 75,000. Some 350 new library cards have been issued since the new building opened and circulation is up 18 percent in a month-to-month comparison with September of last year. Looking for a crescendo the end on, he announced the latest fund drive sum: impressively, $1,023,522.00 has been raised. Western Albemarle senior Madison Tegen, a library volunteer, wrapped up the ceremony. She once addressed the supervisors on the need to build the new library. “I moved to Crozet four years ago from a big city. At the library I felt friendliness and a strong community atmosphere. This library provides even more opportunities for Crozet to grow and connect.” Then a yellow ribbon was snipped and the crowd proceeded in, many wearing the commemorative “I helped Build Crozet Library” T-shirt.
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Cycling Road Rules & Manners by Beth Seliga & Erik Hultgren
More people are turning to cycling to stay in shape, which means more people sharing our beautiful, narrow winding roads. Here’s what everyone should know about bikes, bike lanes and keeping everyone safe. Keep in mind is that we are all living, breathing people. Even if a cyclist is doing something wrong, still give him some room and do not drive too close. Car versus bike: the bike (and its rider) always lose. Cyclists, even if a driver is irritating you, hitting his car with your hand generally will not bring about good will. If you feel you are being threatened, a call to 911 will work best. Virginia state law requires cyclists to obey all traffic control devices and use proper hand signals. Bicyclists may make left turns as either motorists or pedestrians do. To make a left turn as a pedestrian would, the bicyclist should continue straight across the intersecting road, obey the traffic signals, turn left at the corner and proceed as
When we moved to Crozet, we had no idea what to expect. We quickly learned that people here were kind, open, helpful and genuine. So, when we started riding bikes again in the Spring, we should not have been surprised to find how accommodating and considerate local drivers are. I have ridden my bike all over the U.S. and in parts of Europe, and I feel safer riding here than anywhere else. Local professional racer Ben King of Leopard-Trek says it’s true, too. “I trained around 25,000 miles last season, and a lot of that was around Charlottesville and Crozet,” he said. “I haven’t had a problem with any drivers in the area. Most honks are encouraging and occasionally someone will hang out the window to shout how fast I’m going. Also, if you know the right roads, you won’t see a lot of cars. I counted three cars in the first two hours of my ride last week.” b
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Cyclists in the Boys and Girls Club Cycling Challenge in Old Trail Sept. 15. Photo courtesy 3 Cats Photo/Beth Seliga.
usual. Bicyclists also may dismount and walk in the crosswalks of the intersecting roads. It is not lawful to turn left on a red light just because the road looks clear. Cyclists must stop for red lights and at stop signs before turning right. Drivers, if you see a cyclist indicating a turn, be prepared. Hopefully they are aware of you and will ride as expected. Treat them as you would another car. Virginia law requires both cyclists and motorists to travel safely on the roads and pass appropriately. Motorists must approach and pass a bicyclist at a distance of at least two feet and at a reasonable speed. While that is the law, two feet is surprisingly close. That is less than the distance most people can reach with one arm. The law says, “Bicyclists may overtake and pass another vehicle only when it is safe to do so. Bicyclists may pass another vehicle on the right or left, and they may stay in the same lane, change lanes, or ride off the road if necessary for safe passing.” Passing motor vehicles on the right side may be extremely dangerous if the motorist does not see the bicyclist and attempts a right turn. Bicyclists must not ride between two lanes of traffic moving in the same direction unless one lane is a separate or mandatory turn lane. Bicyclists cannot ride more than two abreast on highways. When riding two abreast, bicyclists cannot impede the movement of traffic, and need to move into single file when being overtaken from the rear. Some other tips: Wear a helmet, wear visible clothing, and tie down or cuff those pant legs flapping in the wind. I almost became a widow a week before my
first anniversary when a young driver turned left into my husband while he was riding. He tumbled through the air and shattered the back of his helmet on the road. Wear your helmet. Every time. It’s just not worth the risk. Also, Albemarle County requires helmets on all kids under 14. Anticipate the actions of drivers and watch for road hazards. Cyclists: Pros have long teased that crashing at 30 mph is like jumping out of a moving car in your underwear. If you listen to music while you ride, keep it at a volume where you can still be aware of traffic. Also, it is unlawful in Virginia to wear earphones in both ears while riding a bicycle. Like drivers, most cyclists try to avoid rocks, gravel, mulch, and broken glass. Even the best bike handlers can fall when riding through debris. Many cyclists will swerve around trouble rather than risk punctures or crashes. Please make space for cyclists in the lane if you see road impediments. Wear reflective clothing and use lights at night. Every bicycle ridden between sunset and sunrise must have a white light on its front with the light being visible at least 500 feet to the front. The bicycle must have a red reflector on the rear visible at least 300 feet. A red light visible for 500 feet to the rear may be used in place of or in addition to the red reflector. Cyclists, remember that when you don’t obey the traffic laws, motorists will use that as an example of how poorly cyclists follow the rules. Motorists, remember cyclists are all people like you: moms, dads, sons, daughters. All it takes is one too-close call for something tragic to happen.
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