Crozet Gazette September 2013 by The Crozet Gazette

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SEPTEMBER 2013 VOL. 8, NO. 4

Work to Start on Crozet Tunnel Trail

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Albemarle Police Lt . Greg Jenkins and Major Ron Lantz

County Police Propose a Station in Old Crozet Library Depot

Albemarle County police are proposing to use the county-owned Crozet depot as a police station for western Albemarle now that it no longer houses the library. The idea will go to the Board of Supervisors for approval and inclusion in the capital projects budget. It would be the first local station in the county.

Police Lt. Greg Jenkins, who heads the department’s Blue Ridge District (the western and southern parts of the county) in the department’s new geopolicing strategy, prepared a report on the idea for Chief Steve Sellers before the suggestion was advanced for the supervisors’ consideration. Police Major Ron

Nelson County, as the leader of a group that is promoting the opening of Claudius Crozet’s 1858 Blue Ridge Tunnel as a hiking and cycling trail, has been awarded a $749,000 grant from the Commonwealth Transportation Board to begin construction. The project’s first phase will secure and develop a parking area in Afton with access to the east face of the tunnel, install a trailhead kiosk, and repair some 1,500 feet of the tunnel’s brick lining on the Waynesboro side where the ceiling is unstable. Trail proponents would prefer to remove the two concrete bulkheads that close off the center of the tunnel, installed shortly after World War II with the intention of storing propane gas between them, while heavy equipment is already at the tunnel, but, as written, the proposal does not cover that cost, estimated at $90,000. Fill will also be needed on the

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Crozet Running Store to Open Below Crozet Library this Fall

Crozet Running shop will open in the lower level of Crozet Library, through the doors on Crozet Avenue, now that the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has agreed to a lease worked out in August on the first floor’s larger, 1,700-square-foot space. County officials have suggested that the other vacant space, about 1,000 square feet, could become a location for a tourism bureau. The store will be operated by John and Michelle Andersen, inveterate distance runners themselves, and offer both running shoes and street shoes, as well as apparel, gear and accessories for runners.

The store is expected to open in late October, said John Andersen, a veterinarian (and columnist for the Gazette). Michelle will handle its day-to-day operation. “Crozet Running will be a community running store, a gathering place,” said John. “We will be unique, however, in that we will be heavily focused on educating people about natural running form and encouraging trail running. ‘Natural running’ is not a specific technique or a ‘brand’ of running. It is simply running the way our bodies were

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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. In Defense of Krenite I read with concern Ms. Mallek’s letter about the hazards of the herbicide Krenite. Ms. Mallek is incorrect on several issues, not the least of which is her claim that Krenite is not labeled for rights-of-way use. That and forestry are its primary uses, which are stated on the product label. It has been used on Virginia highways since the mid-1970s and, to my knowledge, has never presented a health or off

right-of-way problem. The list of maladies Ms. Mallek associates with Krenite are addressed on the product Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), which is available on the Internet from a variety of sources. Those she addresses are for the undiluted product and no specific intervention is recommended for any of them, as none are likely to be hazardous. The protective clothing required for handling Krenite are a long-sleeved shirt, long pants, and socks and shoes. The hazard signal word on the Krenite label is ‘Caution,’ indicating only a slight hazard. By comparison, check your toothpaste tube or the products under your sink. With regard to Krenite persistence, its soil half-life is generally considered to be one to 12 days,

depending on soil type and other environmental conditions. There are no plant-back restrictions following Krenite use. Ms. Mallek asserts that there are applicators in the Charlottesville area who are making improper application with products they cannot identify. Anyone who believes that someone or some company is violating the pesticide label or Virginia or Federal law should contact the Virginia Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Pesticide Services. They have investigators who will respond to such reports and the penalties and fines can be very substantial. Cutting brush is an alternative. But one must remember that it is a dangerous operation (particularly for the worker) and also leaves a

petroleum residue with a half life far exceeding Krenite. P.L. Hipkins Extension Specialist (Weeds) Virginia Tech Speeding on Jarmans Gap Road I got a speeding ticket. I’m guilty. I was speeding. It was on Jarmans Gap Rd. at 6 in the evening. I was not in a hurry, just driving home to Crozet from a nice ice cream visit at Chiles orchard. I was talking with my wife and failed to slow down quickly enough when entering the new section of road. I’m not claiming I was cited in error. Lest the reader think I’m a young buck with a lead foot, I’ve been driving for continued on page 6

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designed to move. Humans are by far the best distance runners on the planet. There’s a reason for that. Overly cushioned and supportive shoes, along with our 21st century lifestyles, have interfered with our body’s natural ability to run efficiently and injury-free. A good example of natural running form is to look at elementary kids running around at play. Their legs are like springs as they land on their forefoot with a fast and light cadence. Most importantly, they are smiling, because running should be fun! “Michelle and I have been longtime runners. We wore overly cushioned shoes and never thought about running form. Then we both became injured a few years ago (with IT band syndrome, which causes knee pain). The injury lingered for both of us, and our medical background drove us to seek why we were injured, rather than just resting and taking ibuprofen. That’s when we started learning about natural running form, which is really just a back to basics thing. When we started to change our gait and our footwear, the most obvious result was that running was a lot more effortless and a lot more fun

SEPTEMBER 2013 all of the sudden. Unfortunately, we were a bit overly exuberant and incredibly both suffered metatarsal stress fractures from ‘too much too soon.’ We were just learning as we went with no real instruction. Then last summer for our tenth wedding anniversary we took a trip to Two Rivers Treads running store in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, owned by Dr. Mark Cucuzella, arguably the nation’s leader in the natural running reawakening. We had an amazing experience attending a running form clinic, then received personalized coaching on the in-store treadmill. We both worked out a few more kinks and were off and running. At our anniversary dinner we thought ‘if only there were a store like this near where we live,’ and the rest is history. “Three months later I ran the Marine Corps Marathon in a pair of ultraminimal shoes with zero pain. I ran my same time as the last year’s MCM despite a lot less training. The transformation was amazing. “We realized we need to do this. There is a huge running community here. We will be really focused on training and nutrition. It’s really misunderstood.” Andersen also organized the Crozet Running Club, which makes

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regular ascents of Jarmans Gap Road to the top of Calf Mountain (a 1,500-foot climb) and to the Shenandoah National Park. “You get off pavement and get a natural feeling,” said Andersen, who ran a 50-mile race last month and is about to run another. “Hopefully, we will exude that running could be fun. We should be going out there to play. Get outside. Walk, hike, run, play. “We’re excited about the store. We’re Crozet lifers. We expect to die here. We feel the pressure of a really big investment in our town and we

hope that it’s exciting for others here too.” The store will carry Oiselle clothing, a line of women’s running apparel, Mountain Hardware clothing for men and women, and Pearlizumi products, which include shoes and apparel. It will carry the Newton running shoe and other brands such as Scott, Merrell, Montrail and Ultra. “We’re not going to have the mainstream brands, but the brands that are committed to helping natural running. We’ll have shoes for every continued on page 17

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nearly five decades and have logged over half a million miles behind the wheel. I have been cited for moving violations six or seven times, the most serious for speeding, and most in my first ten years of driving. I haven’t questioned or complained about the rationale for any of them. I do, however, feel that there is something akin to entrapment taking place at the transition from the old, narrow, 40 mph, Jarmans Gap Road to the new, wide, 25 mph section. Not the legal definition of entrapment but certainly exploitation of human nature, perception and psychology. One transitions from a narrow, unmarked road with no shoulders, no sidewalks, no bike lanes, no center line and no edge markings, to a new, wide, clearly marked road with all of the above mentioned safety features. The new section of road is obviously designed and engineered to be safe at a much higher rate of speed than the old section, or at the very least to be much safer than the old section at the same 40 mph speed limit. One must question why the speed limit is set so low. I assume it was due to the higher population density. However, if the 25 mph limit is due to more houses, the citation would be for the more serious infraction of speeding in a residential area. It is not; it is simply speeding. There are a few issues for me regarding this citation and they tend to revolve around the gap between the law and justice. All appearances are that the very low speed limit and vigorous enforcement are about revenue not safety.

This is not just my opinion. It’s the opinion of multiple friends and neighbors I’ve spoken to about my experience. Without exception, the response from other people has been, “well, they have to pay for that new road,” or “they (the police) have to make quotas.” Not one person has indicated that they think the motivation is safety. No doubt it is safer to drive 25 mph; if the speed limit on I-64 was set at 25 mph, accident rates would plummet and fatal accidents would be virtually eliminated. I now reduce my speed to 25 mph immediately upon entering the lowered speed zone. Going from 40 to 25 upon entering a wider, more modern roadway has the effect of feeling like one is walking, exactly what psychologists and highway engineers predict. On a recent trip down Jarmans Gap Road, I entered the lower speed zone with no cars behind me. By the time I reached Crozet Ave, I was leading a parade of 9 vehicles, some, it seemed, driven by then-irritated people. Yes, I was speeding when I was cited, but the citation makes no distinction between driving at a dangerously high speed and exceeding an apparently arbitrary speed limit, not one related to the safe limits of road design and conditions. The fine is just the least of it and would not be all that onerous. However that is not the only consequence. There is the potential increase in insurance rates. In my case (I’m seeking employment), I can now eliminate, for three years, job prospects that stipulate, “clean driving record required.” In the case of drivers holding commercial drivers licenses, there are also poten-

tially serious employment consequences. But the most problematic outcome of this situation, in my opinion, is the effect on public perception and opinion. Along with the stated public perception of dubious motivation for such vigorous enforcement of a questionable safety issue, comes the erosion of respect for the law and law enforcement. The stated disbelief that safety is the primary concern damages the relationship between law enforcement and the community, undermines police credibility and the spirit of partnership so critical to effective citizen/police cooperation. Questions about resource allocation in a climate of limited and stretched manpower raise doubts regarding administrative policy and judgment. Whatever the reason for this situation on Jarmans Gap Road, the price is enormous. These are not my opinions, but those shared with me in the aftermath of my encounter. If the 25 mph speed limit on the new wider section of Jarmans Gap Rd. reflects the reasonable safe limit of the road’s design, then certainly the limit on the older narrower section devoid of the safety features found on the newer section should be reduced to 25 mph as well. If the 40 mph speed limit on the old section is in keeping with modern safety standards, then the 25 mph limit on the new section is unreasonably low and should be raised. I would be prepared to wager the number of citations written per hundred cars observed on this new section of Jarmans Gap Rd. far exceeds the average for almost any comparable road in the county. If this assertion is correct, then I believe some change in the posted

speed limits and/or enforcement efforts are in order. Ken Girasek Crozet Farewell, Depot, Old Friend When I first read the news that the old Crozet Library was closing Aug. 23 my heart skipped and I wanted to cry. How could it be that time already? I have loved watching our new library taking shape. I’m looking forward to seeing the Giving Tree, its golden leaves bearing the names of our friends and neighbors, and to touching the hand-crafted, curved desk made by a local artisan. Yet a part of me, the young mother in me, is grieving. My daughter was just two when we moved to Crozet. I took her to the little depot library for story time and puppet shows. We did it all, every week. We saw magicians and reptile handlers, listened to children’s folk singers and storytellers. My son was born a year later and we three made the library part of our “special time” together. We would sit on the riser in the bay window and read stories together. If by chance a train passed by, the kids would jump up and down, clapping their hands, thrilled. Not once did the librarians hush them, even in that busy space where everyone mingled so closely. As the kids grew, our weekly visits moved to the back left “junior” section, with The Littles series, E.B. White’s books, the Misty of Chincoteague collection and Harry Potter. A few years later Miss Allie took us to the right side of the room, to the “youth” section. She

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always had a good recommendation for that in-between reader. (I am still in search of the next good read for a boy who would just as soon go play outside than read.) I know it was more than the building that gave my children their love of books. It was the connection we made as I held them on my lap and read in hushed tones. It was the librarians who helped them find stories. It was the books, varied and abundant, on easyto-reach shelves. But it was also the little library depot building, the perfect size at the perfect time in our lives. There is now a tugging at my heart for the small part of our lives that is moving onto bigger and better things. Farewell, old friend, and thank you for all you have given to this family and this town. Kimberly Gale Crozet Black Bears in Crozet This has been a great year to see bears in Crozet and our surrounding mountains. As an avid trail runner, I spend a lot of time running the trails of Shenandoah National Park (SNP) and Mint Springs Park and I’ve never seen as many bears as I have this year. This summer I have seen at least 10 different bears for about 20 total bear sightings – all in Crozet or in our immediate area of SNP. Recently, I spooked a bear cub

who was cruising along the sidewalk on the new Jarmans Gap Road, and I’ve heard a few other reports of bear cubs running through Old Trail. I am writing to remind people of a few bear facts. First, black bears are very docile and timid animals. There are zero reported fatalities caused by black bears in Virginia. Ever. In all of my encounters this summer, the bears have taken off before I could even get my phone out to take a picture. They are by far more timid than deer. Crozetians should be aware they have nothing to fear from black bears. Bear spray is for Grizzly Bears (which are not present in Virginia)! Second, the best way to kill a black bear is to feed it or to provide it with easy access to food (i.e. non-secured trash cans, pet food left outside). Recall the sad, sad story of the little bear cub wandering around Old Trail in 2010. He became acclimated to humans (and their food) and was ultimately trapped and killed because he was deemed nonreleasable. That was tragic. Crozet is a sweet spot and we need to remember that our town is adjacent to Shenandoah National Park, where black bears live and thrive. These incredible animals unfortunately migrate into town occasionally. There are no easy answers here, but if everyone can respect them as local wildlife and treat them as such—without fear— we should be able to coexist under

most circumstances. John Andersen, DVM Crozet Three Cheers for the Brigaders The members of the Crozet/ Western Albemarle Library Fundraising Committee and Jefferson-Madison Regional Library staff want to thank the more than 300 citizens who formed the Book Brigade on August 27. By showing up in force, our community has strongly supported the idea of a new library since the first community meetings in 2004. You showed up in large numbers at the ground breaking on June 26, 2012. You showed up at many different types of fundraisers and events. You showed up with the almost 700 individual donations. And you really showed up at the Book Brigade. We had nearly 100 third and fourth graders from Crozet Elementary School, we had mothers and fathers with toddlers, adults of all ages, Crozet Lions Club, Crozet Trails Crew, Crozet Arts members, several neighborhoods like Stonegate and Old Trail, church groups, and seniors from Mountainside and The Lodge at Old Trail. The slogan of the fundraising is “Be Part of the Story.” That Tuesday, all of you in the Book Brigade were the whole story. One of the committee members described the Book Brigade as a cross between a street fair and a love fest and that was the feeling we saw and felt all morning. From the spontaneous applause for the school kids to the fun of forming the heart photograph, you demonstrated why

the new Crozet/Western Albemarle Library is already a community center. Thank you! The Crozet/Western Albemarle Library Fundraising Committee John Halliday, Kathleen Jump, Jane Kulow, Jackie Loach, Nola Miller, Brenda Plantz, Wendy Saz, Bill Schrader, Tim Tolson, David Wayland and Krista Weih Deadline for Filing Land Use Tax Forms Extended to Oct. 1 Land Use Valuation revalidation forms may be submitted to the county without fee until Oct 1. A further filing period exists, from Oct. 2 to December 5, but a $125 filing fee is required during this period. The date change was necessitated by a delay in mailing the forms to farmers. Postcards will be sent to program landowners informing them of the change. If a participating landowner did not receive a form, he or she should contact the Albemarle County Finance Office at 296-5856 and speak to Bob Willingham, Assessor. This is the third round of biennial revalidation, which began in 2009. The Land Use Valuation program began in Albemarle in 1973. Landowners should update the County finance department about the acreages and income used to validate the farm’s participation in the land use assessment program. This information helps assure all taxpayers that the program is run correctly and that those participating meet the state requirements. Ann Mallek White Hall District Supervisor DR. HILLARY COOK

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Pediatric Dentistry Practice Opens in Old Trail Village Dr. Kevin Clifford opened his pediatric dentistry practice in Old Trail Village at the end of August. Clifford had been with a pediatric practice in Charlottesville since 2009 and has now hung out his own shingle. He and his family— two young kids—moved to Crozet in 2011. He is a graduate of the VCU School of Dentistry and did his residency at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. “We love Crozet. We have a lot of young families here. There’s a need for this service where people can stay local,” Clifford said. Appointments started coming immediately after he opened. Pediatric dentistry is based on that premise that just as you take children to pediatricians for medical care, you take children to a dentist who specializes in dental care for baby teeth through the transition to adult teeth, he said. Pediatric dentists are also more trained in seda-

tion for children and in dealing with children’s behavior problems. “I want to change the perception of dentistry. I’m not going to berate somebody over a cavity.” Clifford’s office, with a play area set up to one side of the waiting room, also features a prize wall. Children who consistently show good dental habits and good behavior, have no cavities, and participate in sports or community activities are awarded points and will periodically—about every third visit—be able to claim prizes off the wall. “I want them to want to come to the dentist and to keep brushing. It’s mostly for small kids,” Clifford explained. “I didn’t want Mickey Mouse murals on the wall, but a clean environment with their parents involved.” There are televisions mounted high to be in view from the chairs so kids can be distracted. One room has two chairs in view of each other

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Food Storage in the Freezer

Barbara Buhr (left) and Tracy Verkerke’s winning painting (right). (Photos by Virginia Michel)

Blue Ridge Swim Club Hosts Plein Air Painting Weekend Blue Ridge Swim Club in Ivy hosted its First Annual Plein Air Painting weekend on August 25. Participating artists included Priscilla Whitlock, Meg West, Julia Lesnichy, Michelle Nevar, Richard Crozier, David Hawkins, and Tracy Verkerke. Barbara Buhr, director of Warm

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arriet Via gazed straight ahead into the camera of photographer William Roads. For a few minutes she set aside thoughts of 17 more tiring miles of travel back to her two-story hewn log home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The lack of emotion displayed on her visage belied the energies she had spent in preparation for this trip as well as the excitement of now finding herself in the city of Charlottesville. Such a journey in post-Civil War times would not have been considered lightly. The horsedrawn wagon upon which she rode likely had been loaded with grains or other home-gathered commodities to be sold or exchanged by her husband, Hiram. In the city’s shops, she enjoyed a special opportunity to purchase items rarely available at the Piedmont Store in White Hall, four miles east of their family farm in Sugar Hollow. But she already was anticipating the future mail delivery at the Moorman’s River P.O. of the finished 2½ by 4 inch photograph being taken that day in Roads’ Main Street studio: her very own likeness to display before family and visiting neighbors, picturing her not in an everyday work dress and dust cap, but in her finest. Harriet was destined to slip her earthly bounds within a half-dozen years of making this portrait,

and at some point during that ensuing time she sat down with pen and inkwell and wrote these three words on the treasured memento: “Forget me not.” To their credit, her descendents not only coveted the photographic likeness, but also took the time to write, first, Harriet’s name, and later, her husband’s name, on its reverse. With appreciation for the ones who took that moment for posterity, today, in a simple way, we honor the memory of Mrs. Via. But who, too, were the former ones who labored where we now live, play and ramble?

It once was not uncommon for children to be photographed in period military or nursing uniforms in support of loved ones who were away in service.

Tintype photographs were not actually tin, but were thin sheets of iron noted for rusting wherever their protective surfaces were scratched or creased. This may have been the first photo taken of this infant with its parents.

A young African American lady paused to be photographed with two distracted children in her watch care.

Who planted, tended and harvested the fruits that nourished our ancestors? Who swung the heavy hammer to secure the rails, and picked up fallen stones to keep mountain tunnels safe for passage? Who built the houses which we admire as we drive by them each day? And how did each of those individuals mesh into the fabric of a society that evolved into the one that we recognize today? A Biblical Psalm states that “we live our years

(or lives) as a tale that is told.” (Psalm 90:9) Too bad that so many of those tales of life have become posterity’s loss: lives spent so close to our own that we could have admired, been astonished by, and held up as models to emulate. By 1880, western Albemarle County was defined greatly by the C&O Railroad. The fouryears-old hamlet of Crozet slowly was showing signs of progress toward becoming more than a stop to offload rail freight. Thriving depots, hotels and businesses were well established at Ivy, Mechum’s River, Greenwood and Afton. For many citizens, a relatively short buggy or wagon ride to one of these local hubs provided a ready link to goods and destinations heretofore only imagined. The mostly-forgotten individuals who found their once remote abodes adjacent to or bisected continued on page 12

Accompanying vintage images in this column were preserved in photo albums of western Albemarle County families.

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Forgotten —continued from page 11

by this rail superhighway, and those who chose to re-invent their lives in its close proximity — their stories are the true secrets of the Blue Ridge. The foothills of 1880s Albemarle was populated with farmers. But the census revealed many rural households of even middling means with hired female housekeepers, nannies and cooks, including teens and some pre-teens. More often than not, these domestic workers were African Americans, enumerated as servants by the federal census taker. The blue collar workers of their day, farm laborers and domestic help have mostly been dismissed from the annals of history, their endless labor preventing the writing down of their own life events. We are left to wonder after the likes of Harriet Timberlake who cooked for the Wayland family while her two teenage daughters attended to other chores of domestic life; or Simon Timberlake, enumerated in an adjacent household, who, along with his four sons aged eight to 17, were farm laborers, likely on the Waylands’ property.

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.

Living near the properties of James Gentry and James Jarman were farm laborers Clay and Scott Briggs with their young families, and 64-year-old Carter Walker, also a farm laborer with a household that included his wife, sons and

Much-adored studio images of infants and toddlers are too often found with no identifying notes.

The plain, folded quilt of an itinerant photographer provided a backdrop for this child who leaned into the security of his mother and her protective hands.

grandchildren. James Kirby was a cooper and his wife Elizabeth a maker of willow baskets. George Shanks and Ellis Hughes worked at different sawmills. Mary Murray was a seamstress, living with her mother and 96-year-old grandmother. Horace and Alex Brown worked on the railroad along with Charles York and Louis Keener. George Cary’s mother, Milly, was a weaver. J.C. Houchens and W.A. Scantling were millers; Jesse Petitt, a millwright; George Clarke, a mail rider. Frank Tate and James Fisher were carpenters. James Carter was a stonemason. Hardin Jackson was a ditcher. David Hutchinson and Thomas Martin traveled across the Blue Ridge to work in the manganese mine in Augusta County. Silas Bowen was a shepherd. James Slaughter and Robert Whiting were blacksmiths, as was

William Day, with Day’s 12-yearold son being a striker in his father’s shop. Henderson Goins was a huckster. Belle Michie taught school. William Powell kept a grist mill. Tyree Dollins was a busy nurseryman and John Horton a brick maker. William Taylor, at age 77, was a retired shoemaker. William Wheeler was a steam mill sawyer. Martha Rogers clerked in the store belonging to her son, James Bruce. Such a brief list is hardly even representative of that peek through a window of time. Like our own families, neighborhoods and towns, there is constant change. The names change. The faces change. Each person we encounter is living a remarkable life, a tragic life, a life worthy of note. We do well if we honor the workmanship of our Creator by respecting and honoring those toosoon-forgotten lives that we meet along the way.

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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New Ivy Fire/Rescue Station Dedicated Albemarle County and University of Virginia officials convened at the new Ivy Fire Rescue station on Kirtley Lane, next to the Volvo of Charlottesville car dealership, on August 29 to dedicate the new twobay facility, officially Station 15, which the county established in a U.Va.-owned warehouse. The station serves the area between the Charlottesville city limits and Crozet. It has one engine and one rescue vehicle and is staffed by 17 firefighters, some paid and some volunteer. The station has a kitchen/dayroom, a fitness room, sleeping quarters and an operations office, plus a disinfectant room and storage areas.

County fire and rescue chief Dan Eggleston said that the insurance rating services are planning to expedite the rating of the station and thus cut insurance costs for Ivy residents. He said that since becoming operational July 1, the station has already lowered response times. Volunteer station chief Bob Larsen, who was instrumental in making the station a reality, thanked his wife and the wives of all the volunteers for supporting the firefighters, who contribute 48 hours a month. The station will host an open house with tours and equipment demonstrations Sept. 28 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Hope Presbyterian Church Now Meeting at Crozet Elementary Hope Presbyterian church, a new Crozet church led by pastor Todd Johnson, is now meeting every Sunday at 10 a.m. in Crozet Elementary School’s cafeteria/auditorium. “We hope to be a smaller church in Crozet with big church ministries,” Johnson said. The new church is being launched as a partnership of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville and Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in

Waynesboro. “The partnership helps with resources and leadership,” said Johnson, who now lives in Crozet. “Some members of those churches will form our congregation. Our congregation has roots here.” The church has recently wrapped up six months of “preview worships,” said Johnson, with attendance averaging around 70 to 80 people per week, including 40 adults.

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“Trinity has become so large it could not serve its outlying members well,” he said. “It saw a need to start new churches to love the community well.” Trinity has also started churches in Harrisonburg and north of Charlottesville, he said. “Crozet is a growth area and we want to serve Crozet well. We support all the churches that are getting started here and we want to see them all flourish. More people taking care of their neighbors is a good

thing. We don’t want to take anybody out of their church.” Hope Presbyterian has “children’s church,” where children leave during the sermon to do other activities, rather than a Sunday school class. Johnson was in campus ministry for 20 years, for the last eight at U.Va. He was also at Virginia Tech and Westchester University in Pennsylvania. He and his wife have continued on page 28

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residence. If you peruse the website of the U.Va. landscape architecture program, you’ll get a better idea of the faculty’s areas of expertise. You’ll see that plants are a topic that’s certainly covered, but often just as another way to define and cover space. Still, landscape architects are aware of the benefits that plants provide to people and the environment. To get a better idea why someone might chose a landscape architect over other design professionals, I picked a local one totally at random. I chatted a bit with David Anhold, principal at Anhold Associates in Greenwood, and he confirmed my feeling that an LA would be more focused on the spaces and overall function of a site, whereas a designer might just be concentrating on the “decorative” aspects. In answer to a question, he also guessed that not too many folks with a quarter-acre suburban lot would call on the services of an LA, although it’s not entirely out of the realm of possibility. And what about a landscape designer, or a garden designer? These are unofficial terms that anyone could apply to themselves, although in some cases they may have done considerable study at the university level. Most often, this would be through a horticulture department, generally at a state land-grant institution like Virginia Tech, or perhaps at a community college. A horticulture major learns all about plants—their names and ornamental features, how to grow them, their diseases and pests, etc.—and possibly how to design with them. The emphasis is definitely on the plant, and depending on the student’s interest, design continued on page 42

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Crozet Community Association Meeting The Crozet Community Association (CCA) will meet Thursday, September 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Field School auditorium. The meeting will include a presentation about Phase II of the Streetscape Project and other business. The community is encouraged to attend.

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Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle is seeking compassionate and enthusiastic volunteers to tutor adults in reading, writing, or speaking English. Students come from a variety of backgrounds, and hope to acquire skills they need to support their families and independently pursue life goals. There is a waiting list of students. No teaching experience is necessary. Once trained, volunteers are expected to commit to two hours per week for a year. Call 434-977-3838 to register for New Tutor Training on Saturday, September 14, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more at www. literacyforall.org.

SEPTEMBER 14

Second Saturday Gallery Receptions

Second Saturday at Art on the Trax, a gallery at Creative Framing & The Art Box in Crozet will feature paintings by Krista Townsend during the month of September, with a Second Saturday Artist Reception on September 14 from 4 to 6 p.m. The Art Box’s famous ice cream sundaes topped with peaches from Chiles Orchard will be served. Krista Townsend paints a wide variety of subjects and focuses on exploring color and light. This exhibit will showcase her recent urban studies of the

Charlottesville area as well as small travel paintings and chicken portraits. Over the Moon Bookstore and Artisan Gallery will feature “Landscapes, Wordscapes,” oils, watercolors and calligraphy by Terry M. Coffey, with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. All events are free and open to the public.

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Dog Club to Host Draft Tests at Park

The Bernese Mountain Dog Club of Central Virginia will host draft tests September 21 and 22 at Claudius Crozet Park starting at 9 a.m. both days. “Bernese Mountain dogs are farm dogs,” said club president Dan Lynn. “They pull carts. There will be a ring with obstacles and they must be able to pull a cart with weight and haul it a half mile. Owners must bring their own carts and leashes to participate and judges must be able to inspect and approve. We hope the public will come out to watch.” The event is free.

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Crozet Culinary Competition Set For September 19 The second annual Crozet Culinary Competition for Charity will be held September 19 at the Lodge at Old Trail with chefs from five Crozet restaurants competing to possess the gold trophy and a year of bragging rights. Teams from Southern Way Café, Fardowner’s Restaurant, da Luca Café and Sal’s Restaurant will challenge last year’s winners, Eddie and Pat Keomahathai from Bangkok 99, and will have one hour to prepare a dish from a mystery basket of local ingredients. The competition, which sold out last year, is designed to benefit local non-profit organizations. This year’s recipients will be Crozet Arts and the Crozet Lions Club. Guests will enjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres and desserts from Lodge executive chef Jesse Kaylor while they watch the teams cook. Local wines from King Family, White Hall, Veritas, Well Hung, Early Mountain, Flying Fox and Afton Vineyards and microbrews from Starr Hill Brewery will be available at a cash bar. Four judges, two celebrity judges and two audience members, will sample and score the entrées and desserts. Raffle tickets will be sold for a drawing to win the two open seats at the judge’s table. The celebrity judges selected this year are NBC29 reporter Henry Graff and Crozet Gazette editor Mike Marshall. Crozet Arts plans to use proceeds from the competition to establish a scholarship fund to support community participation in the ballet,

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The Crozet Safety Corps is now organized and recognized by the Albemarle County Police Department as their first community safety group. Crime prevention specialist Andrew Gluba, Jr., is the ACPD’s liaison officer for the CSC. The corps now has 31 citizens on its roster, 11 of whom are licensed Amateur Radio Operators. The corps staged an Amateur Radio Net last month to test their ability to communicate without the benefit of commercial power, cell or landline phones in the event of a man-made or natural disaster. The test was a success with eight stations participating. The corps participated in the National Night Out program of the Albemarle County Police August 6 in Old Trail, hosting an information station and assisting the police in various ways during the event. National Night Out in Old Trail was one of the best attended in recent years, according to the police department. “National Night Out was a great opportunity for the Crozet Safety Corps to establish our presence in this area of the county,” said CSC chair Tom Loach. “At our information station we distributed literature and explained how we plan to: (1) heighten crime prevention awareness, (2) generate support for, and participation in, local anti-crime programs, (3) strengthen neighbor-

hood spirit and police-community partnerships, and (4) send a message to criminals letting them know that our neighborhoods are organized and fighting back. Crozet Safety Corps members who showed up to assist were issued our new lime green safety vests with our symbol printed on them for positive identification. We are also issuing photo ID cards for positive identification of our members when they are working in the field.” “Our partnership with the Albemarle County Police Department is firmly established,” Loach said, “Their support and cooperation has been outstanding. They have already responded to several members’ concerns, mainly touching on gray areas in communications—whether to call 911 or the police offices, and what circumstances in a neighborhood should lead to calls for service—that have resulted in excellent resolutions of those concerns. Our goal now is to recruit more members and to train and extend our corps into every neighborhood in and around Crozet. We have several members already enrolled in Citizen Emergency Response Team training this month through the emergency management program of the 911 Center.” The group will have their third meeting on Monday, September 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Crozet Firehouse. Members and anyone interested in the corps are urged to attend. Come to the rear door.

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A Primer on Number Two Last week while hiking at “Dog Heaven” (aka Sugar Hollow), my dog Ruby saw a huge mud puddle. It was really more like a small mud pond after all the rain we’ve had this summer. Naturally, she sprinted right into it and quickly turned herself a delightful shade of brown, all the while drinking large gulps of this terrible muddy water. “Ruby, noooooo!” I pleaded. But it was hopeless. “Oh well,” I thought as we moved on down the trail, “that’s probably not going to turn out well.” Warning: If you’re eating breakfast as you read this, you may want to come back to it later as we are going to be talking about—diarrhea. If you’re a dog owner, you have surely had an unexpected present waiting for you at some point in your dog’s life. As a veterinarian, diarrhea in dogs is one of the most common problems I see. Later that evening, Ruby seemed perfectly normal, so I fed her and eventually the Andersens went to bed. Then at 2 a.m., Ruby woke us up by panting and whining. Mud puddle! I got her outside and she immediately had some pretty bad, watery diarrhea. Fortunately, that was the last episode that night. However, first thing the next morning she was having more diarrhea. This left me with a classic dog owner’s predicament. Your dog was up all night with diarrhea and now you’ve got to go to work all day. Do you leave your dog at home and pray you don’t come home to a disaster? Do you take your dog to the vet? Or have a friend or pet sitter check in? I know Ruby and her reaction to dietary indiscretion pretty well, and so as her vet, I medicated her and went off to work. We had someone check in on her in the middle of the day and, fortunately, she was fine. Disaster averted. But we have not been so lucky with our other dog,

Boone. We (and our dear pet sitter Laura) have had many instances of cleaning up a mess in his crate. Poor boy. The intestinal tracts of dogs and cats are pretty much the same as ours. However, dogs have very “reactive” colons and when they are out of balance, bad things happen to your carpet. Colitis is a broad term that simply means “inflammation of the colon.” Colitis happens commonly in dogs for a variety of reasons: intestinal parasites, dietary indiscretion, stress, Giardia (an intestinal bug), abrupt diet change, or medications. These things can all change the balance of the billions of bacteria in the colon and when those bacteria get out of balance, colitis and diarrhea ensue. Classic signs of colitis are urgency (i.e. accidents in the house because they can’t hold it), frequency (having to go again and again), straining, and sometimes blood and mucus. How do you know if it’s a big deal? Everyone has had diarrhea and most of the time we don’t go to the doctor. When do you take your dog to the vet for diarrhea and when is it okay to just wait and see? Here are some guidelines: If your dog is having diarrhea, but it’s mild, without much urgency or frequency, and he’s otherwise feeling totally normal, it’s okay to wait. But if you have to head off to a long day’s work, plan accordingly. Make sure someone can take him out at lunch and give you a report. If your dog has diarrhea with urgency and frequency, but is otherwise appears to feel totally normal, it’s still okay to wait. However, once the diarrhea gets watery with urgency, dogs usually need some medicine. You should consider calling your vet, especially if it’s getting close to the weekend. If your dog is having diarrhea with blood in it, call your vet. The vast majority of the time, blood in the stool is just a sign that colitis is prescontinued on page 24

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BY DR. ROBERT C. REISER crozetannals@crozetgazette.com

Lost in Translation Of necessity, I speak pretty good Spanglish, I think, although my fluency seems lost on native Spanish speakers. While in Honduras, for example, I worked hard to open every patient encounter by asking everyone in Spanish why he or she had come that day. To a person, they all seemed puzzled by the question. It was only after the clinic was over that my amused translators told me that I had spent the entire day asking the patients, “Why am I here today?” I did not make that mistake again, although I spent a good part of the next day asking the patients “How long am I here today?” I finally got the simple phrase “Por que estas aqui hoy?” down pat, but the answers sometimes surprised me. “I wake up every morning and think about blowing my head off.” That is what my first patient of the day told me through a translator. He was 79 years old, a weatherbeaten, wrinkled old caballero with

a rusted six-shooter tucked into his waistband. “How long have you felt this way?” “For many years.” Uh-oh. As far as I knew there were no psychiatrists available in the mountain villages of Honduras, and we had not thought to stock antidepressant medicines in our traveling pharmacy. Hundreds more patients were lined up waiting to be seen. I had to solve this ominous problem somehow. My translator was a University of Virginia student who grew up speaking Spanish at home (her parents were Peruvian) and she was quite fluent. I had her translate the complaint several times and each time it was the same. His very first thought every morning was blowing his head off. And yet something didn’t quite fit. The patient did not appear depressed and in fact was grinning and seemed delighted with the close attention he was getting from the gringo medico. I was missing something. I needed more than a translator. I needed an interpreter. I called Pedro over. Pedro was a native of Honduras and our local New P atient s

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fixer. If anyone could help, it was Pedro. He seemed to know everyone in Honduras and could talk to anyone. I asked Pedro to ask my ancient cowboy why he had come. “He has a headache,” Pedro told me. “Does he want to blow his head off?” Pedro and the patient chuckled. “No. He is saying his head feels like it’s going to explode. You know, blow up.” “He has had headaches for many

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Piedmont Flight 349 Sole Survivor Phil Bradley Dies at 87 Ernest Philip “Phil” Bradley, Sr., died August 23 in a hospice in Monroe, North Carolina, at age 87. He was the only survivor of the crash of Piedmont Airline Flight 349 on Bucks Elbow Mountain above Crozet on Halloween eve in 1959. He was born May 19, 1926, in Clifton Forge, a son of Felix Augustine Bradley and Ethel Mae Worth Bradley. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by three sisters and three brothers. He was a D-Day veteran in the U.S. Naval Armed Guard. Bradley is survived by his wife, Rose “Zella” Stansbury Bradley, son Brad Bradley and his wife Carol of Monroe, step-son Rick Toombs and wife Betty of Friendsville, Tennessee. and three grandchildren: Hayden, Conner and Brianna Bradley, all of Monroe. In retirement, Bradley collaborated with Crozet writer Richard F. Gaya Sr. on a published book, The Crash of Piedmont Flight 349 Into Bucks Elbow Mt. As Told By The Sole

Survivor E. Philip Bradley, that gives a full account, with photographs, of what it known about the crash. Or see the Gazette’s October 2009 issue for Crozet historian Phil James’s detailed narrative and unique photos. The FAA ruled that the crash of the DC-3 at 2,500 feet, about 500 feet below the top, was caused by a navigational error of omission by the pilots. The two-man crew failed to do a small, required course change and struck the ancient rib of rock, likely thinking they were approaching Charlottesville airport. Bradley was a labor union organizer for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers at the time of the crash and later became a labor dispute mediator for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. He was famous in his service as a peacemaker, broker and healer, and had an outstanding record of resolutions.

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properties to not really know what their dog’s regular stool looks like. This is okay when there’s not a problem, but knowing what the consistency of their stool is like when they are sick is very important. If your dog is sick, you should be able to answer the following questions: Is she having diarrhea? Is there blood in it? Is it watery or just soft? If your dog is straining to have a bowel movement, he is far more likely to be having diarrhea (colitis with straining) than to be constipated. Constipation is not a common problem in dogs. If you see your dog straining, get a close look to see if small amounts of soft stool are coming out, which would be diagnostic of colitis, and not constipation. If your dog has chronic loose stool, discuss this with your vet. Most dogs being fed commercial dog foods should have solid stool that is easily picked up off of your neighbor’s grass. Like many, my dogs will put just about anything in their mouths. Most of the time, incredibly, they are fine.

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ent. It does not mean your dog is bleeding internally. However, once blood is present, the colon is usually pretty inflamed, and these dogs will usually need medication to get back to normal. I find that once dogs with colitis start having blood in their stool, it’s not too long before they start vomiting and stop eating and can quickly get dehydrated. These dogs usually need more supportive care, so your vet bill will generally be cheaper the sooner you bring them in. If your dog is having diarrhea and is also feeling sick, not eating, or vomiting, you should call your vet. They could have something worse going on, like an obstruction or a bad infection. A few more tips: If your dog seems sick, be sure to look at every bowel movement until they are back to normal, even if that means going out at night with a flashlight. It is very common for people with fenced-in yards or country

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Crozet Library Book Group Goes Classic: David Copperfield by Dickens by Clover Carroll | clover@crozetgazette.com

What better way for the Crozet Library Monday Night Book Group to kick off its new reading year, in the meeting room of our beautiful new library, than with a discussion of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic, David Copperfield, at 7 p.m. on Sept. 9? Arguably the pre-eminent writer of the Victorian Age (defined as roughly coinciding with Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837-1901), Charles Dickens (1812-1870) wrote 15 novels (plus numerous short stories, essays, and travel books) that were enormously popular both in his own time and right up to the present day. “It has been estimated that one out of every 10 persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader,” proclaims the foreword of the Bantam

edition, and his novels have never gone out of print. Dickens’ writing has been extremely influential; I could even hear echoes of his prose in J.K. Rowling’s imaginative passages. While I can only scratch the surface of such a gigantic and complex work here and very little can be added that has not already been said, here goes! Of Dickens’ many well-known novels, including A Tale of Two Cities, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, and—my personal favorite—Bleak House, David Copperfield, published in 1850, is the favorite not only of many Dickens fans but of Charles Dickens himself (he named one of his daughters Dora). In this rollicking, joyful, and ultimately hopeful novel, Dickens rises to his reputation as the King of Character. It is said that Dickens created 989 named characters—each made vivid and memorable by a distinctive

voice and style. In this bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, the adult narrator looks back with a mixture of nostalgia and horror as the innocent, naïve, and trusting young David is taken advantage of by a series of corrupt and amoral characters—from his cruel stepfather Murdstone, to the charming and callous Steerforth, to the groveling and scheming Uriah Heep—augmented by a kaleidoscope of greedy innkeepers, schoolmasters, cart drivers, and even waiters. Although David may not see how he is being manipulated by these selfish opportunists, the reader does. The insightful dwarf Mrs. Mowcher points out this contrast between innocence and experience when she refers to Copperfield and Steerforth as “Young Innocence and Old Guilt” (ch. 32).

As he moves through this cold and dangerous world, young David slowly learns to recognize and align himself with kind, sensitive, likeminded characters such as his faithful nurse Peggotty, his true-blue school friend Traddles, the childlike Mr. Dick, and his eccentric benefactor aunt Betsey Trotwood—who is so vain she changes his name to Trotwood upon adopting him. Agnes Wickfield’s devoted, angelic nature inspires him throughout his life. Most of these characters are so one-dimensional as to be almost caricatures—from the purely good (Peggoty and Agnes) to the purely evil (Murdstone and Heep), reminding me of the “Saints and Sinners” punch bowls featured at my (Victorian) mother’s parties to designate alcoholic and non-alcoholic offerings. Fewer of the characters

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belonging to the depot, Hale said, that would provide a parking lot and ownership of the trail to the east portal. Tyler would keep his office. The tunnel is not open to the public and anyone approaching it now is trespassing. The possibility of a trail down to the tunnel from the Rt. 250 scenic overlook was also raised. The tunnel is about 700 feet below the gap. Foundation members also would like access from Stagecoach Road, the original road through Rockfish Gap. The job needs to be advertised, but work could start later this fall. Hale suggested that bulkhead removal be set apart as a separate job for bidders to consider. Albemarle Supervisor Ann Mallek said that VDOT should be asked about altering the original work plan in any case and that the counties should not assume VDOT will say no. County leaders from Nelson, Albemarle, Augusta and Waynesboro believe the tunnel trail has tourism and historical value and is fortuitously located at the convergence of the Skyline Drive, Blue Ridge Parkway, Appalachian Trail and the Route 76 cycling trail. Officials envision a long-distance, regional greenway trails system and a connection with the AT. The tunnel, opened in 1858, was designated as a National Civic Engineering Historic Landmark in 1976.

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Invasive Insect Killing Ash Trees Found in Shenandoah National Park Shenandoah National Park confirmed in August the presence of a single emerald ash borer (EAB) beetle in the park. The adult beetle was caught in a surveillance trap in the Dickey Ridge Picnic Grounds, in the park’s northern section. Park staff and state foresters will soon survey the infestation in the Dickey Ridge area. This detection is 11 miles southeast of a 2012 beetle trapping nearby in Warren County. The beetle (and possibly others) may have moved on its own or may have been transported by firewood. Park regulations prohibit bringing firewood into Shenandoah from outside. The emerald ash borer is a halfinch-long metallic green beetle that lays its eggs on the bark of ash trees. After hatching, larvae burrow under the bark, creating feeding tunnels that cut off nutrients and water flow to the tree. Trees typically die within three to five years of being infected. Ash trees account for five percent of Shenandoah’s trees and they are

present in 65 percent of the park’s forests. Eradication of EAB is not possible at this point. It was accidentally introduced to North America from Asia and was first discovered in southeast Michigan in 2002. Since then, the beetles have spread to 21 states and two Canadian provinces, killing more than 50 million ash trees. Because the beetles are a nonnative pest, the park is mandated to minimize their impact on native ash trees, and monitoring for them started in 2009. In April the park began preventive pesticide treatments on ash groves in developed areas and selected sensitive plant communities in Shenandoah’s northern section. The goal is reduce hazard from dead trees in developed areas and to preserve a portion of the park’s ash trees until bio-controls such as parasitic wasps become available. The park plans to treat 1,000-1,500 trees per year.

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three daughters, the oldest now in college. Johnson has been attending meetings of the Western Albemarle Ministers Association, an effort by Crozet–area Protestant churches to combine forces where possible. Hope Presbyterian is instituting weeknight small group meetings, one day a week, that members can join. “The idea is to pray and love

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MEMORIES & RECIPES FROM AN ITALIAN KITCHEN [ by denise zito • denise@crozetgazette.com \

Make Me Cry Hot Salsa I love spicy, hot food; the hotter the better—and the hottest of all are those gorgeous habanero peppers that finally arrive come September. I’ve heard that some of the nearby Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) groups have been distributing peppers to their members for weeks, but in my little corner of Free Union, no matter when I put them in the ground, the pepper plants just poke along all summer and then in September, the plants grow huge and the peppers arrive in abundance. The most beautiful pepper plant of all is the habanero. These cheery bright orange peppers look like small lanterns and a healthy plant, which has been given plenty of love and com-

post will yield about 100 peppers. So then what do you do? First, I freeze them whole. Just pick them (wear gloves and never ever touch your eyes after picking until you wash your hands) and pop them into a zip-lock bag. True confession: several days a week, I take one out, shave off a bit, sauté it for a minute and have it with a fried egg in a corn tortilla. To me there is nothing better for breakfast than hot peppers and hot coffee. Instead, I believe most of you would prefer a salsa to eat with tacos or any food that is improved by a little heat. This recipe was given me by my friend Jim Childress, who, just like me, enjoys the make-mecry temperature of the habanero.

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boast a more realistic, three-dimensional mixture of good and bad; yet even Mr. Micawber, Miss Trotwood, Mr. Wickfield, and David himself are only temporarily misguided. Throughout the course of David’s moral and spiritual development, we see his mistakes long before he recognizes them, which leads to satisfying resolutions when he finally arrives at the same conclusion. In spite of many temptations, David matures without being corrupted and retains his pure, honest, and loyal character to the end. This novel incorporates autobiographical elements—note that our hero’s initials are the same as his creator’s, in reverse‚—but also contains a good deal of fiction and romanticizes Dickens’ life. Charles’ idyllic childhood, living in various seacoast towns as one of eight children, was interrupted when his father John— like the penniless but affectionate blowhard Wilkins Micawber‚— ended up moving his family to debtor’s prison. At the age of 11, Charles was taken out of school and sent to London to work as a common laborer, surviving on his own in the London slums. Paralleling David’s treatment by his ruthless stepfather, this experience developed Dickens’ sympathies for the lower classes as well as child laborers, and provided fodder for many of the seamier characters and scenes in his books. His life got back on track at age 15, when a family inheritance allowed his father to pay off his debts, and the novel traces the trajectory of Charles’ writing career, from wide-ranging childhood reading to apprenticeship in legal offices to freelance reporting to world-renowned author. Dickens reveals his sympathies regarding the rigid British class system—which, though beginning to break down, still held sway at this time—when he portrays the Peggotty family as more honest and goodnatured than many of the upper-class characters. When Little Em’ly runs away with wealthy, charismatic Steerforth in hopes of “returning as a lady,” she is disappointed by his refusal to marry beneath his class. Emily’s plight uncovers another favorite Victorian theme: the fallen woman. As in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), once a woman has relations out of wedlock,

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even if not by choice, her reputation is irrevocably ruined, and her hopes of making a respectable marriage forever dashed—while the equally guilty man proceeds with his life untarnished. Through David’s and her uncle’s forgiveness and Emily’s sincere atonement, Dickens reveals his disdain for this ridiculous double standard. The further theme of choosing, or recognizing, the appropriate partner to marry—also explored in E.M. Forster’s A Room With a View (1908)—may be traced to Dickens’ unhappy marriage to Catherine Hogarth; he ultimately caused a public scandal by setting his wife up in a separate London residence and living and travelling with another woman. “Blind, blind!” his aunt observes, and the reader long recognizes, as David pursues his infatuation with the lovely but lightweight Dora—only much later realizing that “there can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose” (ch. 45). David’s redemption from this error occupies the last section of the book and allows for a distinctly satisfying and romantic ending. Last but not least, during David’s sojourn as a proctor in the Commons, Dickens satirizes Britain’s irrational legal system, a theme that he more fully develops in several later novels. David Copperfield, like many of Dickens’ novels, was issued in 20 monthly installments from May 1849 to November 1850. Each installment of three chapters was sold for one shilling. This serialization led him to establish the episodic form so familiar to us now in TV sitcoms, but also encouraged him to develop stories within stories like a set of nesting boxes. Juggling at least six separate but interwoven plots, Dickens shifts directions every two or three chapters to tantalize the reader with an unending series of cliffhangers. The myriad plots do, ultimately, come together in a crescendo of loose-end tying, with no plot line left unresolved. By the book’s end, all of the major characters have been disposed of, either through marriage, death, prison, or emigration to Australia. This resolution was a duty Dickens felt he owed the reader—a convention against which modern authors have rebelled. “There is yet an incident…,” he admits in the last chapter, “without which one thread in the web I have continued on page 42

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Western Wins Football Opener at Spotswood Western Albemarle’s varsity football team opened the 2013 season August 30 with a tough 17-14 win at Spotswood High School in Penn Laird. After a scoreless first quarter the Warriors and Trailblazers traded turnovers to start the second period of play. Following a Spotswood punt, Western took over at their own 46 yard line. On the first play of the drive quarterback Kent Henry connected with wide receiver Nic Drapanas for a 44-yard pass play to the Spotswood 10 yard line. On a third and goal at the 8, Henry found Steven Hearn for his first touchdown pass of the season and the first score of the game. Holland Corbett kicked the extra point and the Warriors led 7-0. The Trailblazers wouldn’t waste any time getting on the board. On the third play after the Western kickoff, Spotswood scored on a huge 53-yard pass play and tied the game at 7. Spotswood scored again on their next possession with a seven-play, 66-yard drive, capped off by Slater’s 18-yard run to the end zone. Spotswood led 14-7 at the half. In the second half the Warrior defense took control of the game, allowing Spotswood only six first downs and 73 yards of total offense. Meanwhile, Drapanas picked up 107 yards on three punt returns and Corbett kicked a 27-yard field goal that proved to be the game winner. At the midway point of the third quarter, Spotswood took over on downs at their own 9 yard line, thwarting a Warrior chance to score. Facing a third and eight on their own 25, Spotswood’s quarterback was sacked for a seven-yard loss by defensive end Osiris Crutchfield and Spotswood had to punt. Drapanas fielded the kick at the Trailblazer 45 yard line and dodged his way through tacklers for a

touchdown. On their next possession Spotswood was forced to punt again. This time Drapanas returned the ball 25 yards to the Trailblazers’ 46. Western benefitted from a 15-yard pass interference penalty and Henry connected with Chase Stokes on a 12-yard pass play. Henry next found Hearn for a 9 yard gain that got the Warriors in good field goal position. Corbett’s kick gave the Warriors a 17-14 lead with 6:45 to go. Spotswood forced a WAHS punt with 1:37 to go in the game and a 15-yard interference penalty against the Warriors put Spotswood in good field position on their 45 yard line. Matthew Wozneak then sacked the quarterback for a one-yard loss. Spotswood threw the ball deep twice only to see their hopes dashed as both passes fell incomplete. Henry knelt to kill the clock and ice the victory for the Warriors. He finished the game completing 12 of 26 passes for 142 yards, with one TD and one interception. Hearn led receivers with 6 catches for 54 yards and a TD. Henry also led the team in rushing with 16 carries for 94 yards and he was also sacked four times. The defensive side of the ball was a total team effort. Crutchfield, Stephen Kuzjak, Scott Fox, Wozneak, Alex Cassell, Anthony Cardoso, Michael Mullin, Burkes Summers, Henry, Hearn and Drapanas all contributed to smothering the Spotswood rushing attack. They also snuffed out their passing game in the second half as the Trailblazers completed 1 of 8 passes for three yards. Western will travel to Waynesboro for a 7 p.m. game September 6 and will play at home September 13 at 7:30 p.m. versus Fort Defiance High School. JV football will play at home on October 2, 16, and 23 at 6:30 p.m.

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Crozet Native Remedy Rule Competes at Junior National Swim Meet A junior at Western Albemarle High School, Remedy Rule, age 16, competed in the USA Swimming Junior National Meet held in Irvine, California, August 5-9. Junior Nationals is for the top age 18-and-under swimmers in the country. Rule swam in the 100 (meter) and 200 butterfly, the 50, 200 and 400 freestyle and the 200 individual medley. She was accompanied by Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club (SMAC) teammate Jessie Arnold, who competed in the 200, 400, 800 and 1500 free and 200 backstroke. Arnold set a new SMAC record in the 800 free, breaking the record set by Rule last year. Rule set new SMAC records in the 100 and 200 fly, and the 200 free. Her time of 2.02.65 in the 200

free places her in the top 10 nationally for 16 year olds this year. Rule also set new Virginia state records for 15/16 year olds in the 100 and 200 fly. Her time in the 200 fly broke the former Virginia state record by more than two seconds. The previous record in the 100 fly was set in 1986 by Olympian Whitney Hedgepath. Rule’s times are the fourth and sixth fastest in the nation for 16 year olds this year. Rule’s time of 2:11.32 in the 200 fly is the 14th fastest time by any American woman this year. Both Rule and Arnold train in Waynesboro with the Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club (SMAC), which practices at the YMCA and Augusta Health in the winter and the 50-meter pool at Ridgeview Park in the summer.

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WAHS Lacrosse Alums Suit Up Again The annual Western Albemarle High School alumni lacrosse game was held at Warrior stadium Saturday, August 10. The game gathered players from as far away as Seattle and Maui and included representatives from the first graduating

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Phil Bradley —continued from page 24

Bradley always wanted to draw attention to the victims of the crash and in 1999 he designed and had placed in Mint Springs Valley Park a memorial dedicated to those who perished on the mountainside above. Bradley returned to Crozet on Oct. 31, 2009, to the memorial to observe the 50th anniversary of the tragedy. A crowd of about 125, some families of crash victims, others Crozet residents who took part in the removal of bodies, attended a memorial ceremony Bradley organized. Bradley told the story of the flight, the apparition of Jesus Christ at the moment before the impact, and his ordeal on the mountain before he was found.

The flight’s memorial at Mint Springs.

“What if I had had to take another seat,” he said. “I ponder this every day and I have no answer.” Bradley was in a single seat at the very back of the plane. Dr. Frank McCue, the wellknown orthopedist at the University of Virginia who put Bradley’s hip back in his socket when, after two nights pinned on the mountain, he was finally discovered and rushed to the emergency room, described his memories of Bradley’s injuries. Immediately upon seeing Bradley arrive in the ER, McCue said, he and Dr. Charles Frankel put Bradley on the floor and with their combined might forced the hip in place. “Phil Bradley was one of the most stoic, straight-thinking individuals I’ve ever met,” Dr. McCue said. Bradley had made that flight before and knew what to expect. “I couldn’t understand why we didn’t land. It shouldn’t have taken so long to be down. Someone had told a joke and they were all laughing when we hit. I had the most beautiful vision of Jesus Christ. He looked at me just as I am looking at you. He said, ‘Be concerned not. I will be with you always.’ And I have never had a moment of fear since. If it hadn’t have been for the illumination of the mountain created by Christ I would not have known where I was.”

Phil Bradley and his wife Zella in 2007

This is how Bradley explained the memorial to Phil James: “I had that vision of Christ when we hit and I was thrown out. He was standing about three to four feet off the ground. Hence, this stone is three feet square and four feet high and comes to a [20-degree] peak like his arms were going to heaven. That’s how I arrived at the size of the stone. “There’s something I think about every day. I’ve already thought about it today: Suppose you were already in that seat when I got aboard that night up there in Washington. I would have to have taken a seat wherever it happened to be ‘cause it was only one seat left. Then would you have lived and I

had died? Or would I have still lived by being in another seat? Or would I have died, or we all died? “And I’ve had thousands of people ask me how come I survived. “I was asked recently if I felt guilty having been the only one that lived. My response is always the fact that I didn’t make that decision. The good Lord made that decision and I can’t have any feelings one way or another, me being the only one that lived—because Christ made that decision, not me. I had another one who asked me what I had done with my life after that accident that maybe somebody could get something from it. I said the only thing I can tell you is live by example. I just live by example. What else could I do?” Bradley credited Sally James of Crozet with the thought that Christ had appeared to the victims too. “I think we can all agree,” Bradley said, “those people saw him too. He was there for them. He took them with him. I believe that.” “I feel a spiritual attachment to all the lost ones that grows stronger as I get older. I would like to see a nice, high, tall cross erected at the site. If I live long enough.” The crash site is on private property. The family suggests that memorials be made to the E. Phil Bradley Scholarship Fund, 3112 Medlin Road, Monroe, NC 28112.

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get my translator back into the game, I asked her to ask him why he was carrying the gun. The cowboy patted the gun affectionately and gave me a toothless grin. “Banditos,” he told me with a wink. He pulled his pistol with a flourish and offered it to me to inspect. It looked like a Civil War relic. Pedro confirmed that carrying such antiquated firearms was indeed a common and common-sense practice. Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world. Oh, boy. Well, at least I could treat his high blood pressure. That I understood. Verbal translating and interpreting are closely related but sometimes critically different skills. Translating is generally word-for-word verbatim relaying from one (source) language into another (target) language. Interpreting is more likely to be paraphrasing what each speaker is saying. When done well, interpreting is more accurate than translating, but it requires a deeper fluency in both languages compared to translating, which requires less fluency in the source language, in this case Spanish. When trying to understand complex medical and social issues, especially in the time-pressured ER, interpreters are more helpful than translators, who are more widely available. Early in my career, non-English speakers were not common in the ER and interpreting services in the hospital were not available. We improvised when language barriers arose. Spanish speakers could usually be found among the ancillary staff. Once when faced with a patient who spoke only Chinese, our triage nurse called the local Chinese restaurant and used the waiter to translate. Of course this is not HIPAA compliant, but the patient got the care he needed and we got General Tso’s chicken for lunch. Times have changed. Now we have instant access to certified medical interpreters in over 200 languages via a subscription service on our ER telephones. It still amazes me to be able to get a Swahili interpreter on the phone in under 15 seconds. And yet interpreting across cultures still presents challenges and we still improvise. I recently saw a lady from Thailand who had a sore throat. The

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Crozet

Weather Almanac

AUGUST 2013

By Heidi Sonen & Roscoe Shaw | weather@crozetgazette.com

What Happened to Summer?

This summer wasn’t the coolest or the wettest ever, but what made it remarkable is how consistently cool and wet it was. The temperature never made it above 91 and there wasn’t a single “brownout” day where heat or drought baked the fields brown. Quite a few summers have been wetter, but they usually had some very dry periods mixed with some extremely heavy rain events. Summer of 2013 featured very consistent, moderate rains. Our summer total was 18.37”, well short of the record 22.36” in 1994. But 1994 had 39 “brownout days,” versus none this summer. Of course, summer isn’t technically over yet, but for this article, we are using June, July, and August as “summer.” To us, and many folks, summer ends with Labor Day despite what astronomers say. This wasn’t the coolest summer

either. 1927 was nearly two degrees cooler and at least a dozen other summers were cooler. What was striking was the lack of hot days. The summer high of 91 was matched only by 2004 when the hottest was just 90. The other 100 years or so in our database have reached at least 93. Almost half the years have a day above 100. The temperature has been cooling slightly over the last 15 years in central Virginia. We thought the cooling trend may have ended with a warm 2011 and 2012, but seven straight cold months this year has kept the trend intact.

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August Normal 4.26” Crozet 5.15” Greenwood 3.94” CHO airport 6.12” Waynesboro 7.69” Univ. of VA 7.11”

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These days more people are opting for a wheat-less or “gluten-free” lifestyle. If wheat rust persists, many more of us will be “gluten-free.” I first read about wheat rust about two years ago. It is often called the “polio of agriculture.” It was virtually absent from agriculture for 50 years and now, since 1999, it has spread 5,000 miles from Uganda to the Indian state of Punjab. It is a fungal disease spread by windborne spores that interferes with photosynthesis and hinders the wheat’s ability to produce grain. It gains a foothold in wetter weather, which is also beneficial to the culture of wheat. Rust has been forever present in wheat cultivation. The Romans sacrificed dogs to ward it off. In the first half of the 20th century wheat rust killed off a fifth of North America’s wheat harvests in periodic epidemics. The Green Revolution that followed WWII saw the end of wheat rust (more specifically, stem rust) due to the research of Norman Borlaug, who successfully isolated a resistant gene. The new crossbred plants resisted rust and also produced higher crop yields. Farmers were thrilled at the increased yields, abandoning their locally adapted wheat seeds for Borlaug’s Sr31 wheat. The “Green Revolution” may be proving itself quite a bit less “green” in the long run. It may have increased crop yields and staved off starvation for many after World War II, but today malnutrition persists among the world’s poor. Genetic diversity has been lost as fewer varieties of food crops are cultivated. Seeds today are even patented,

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thereby discouraging seed saving. At one time there were 25,000 types of wheat adapted to a wide range of temperate climates. Since the late 1940s, smaller agriculturist and subsistence farmers have been forced from their land as larger and larger enterprises produce our food and food distribution systems are consolidated. The increased and widespread use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides is the basis of the initial success of the Green Revolution in the second half of the last century. Meanwhile the Green Revolution has foisted onto humans a host of new and difficult problems. Wheat was first domesticated from wild grasses around 9,000 B.C. in southeastern Turkey or presentday Iraq. By 2000 B.C. wheat cultivation had spread to Europe, Asia and North Africa. Two traits differentiated domesticated wheat from wild grasses. The first was shatterproof spikes at maturity. Shattering is a good thing for seed dispersal in a natural population. Shattering is a negative trait for a farmer who must retain the seed as his crop. The second qualifying trait in domestication is a change from hulled forms to naked forms so that the wheat can be threshed. (Threshing is beating or flailing the grain in order to separate the wheat kernels from the wheat straw.) Seventy percent of the Earth’s agricultural land is planted in wheat. Wheat provides energy, protein and many vitamins and minerals. One website I visited claimed that one acre of current high-yield wheat can provide all the bread that a family of four eats in 10 years. Another touted wheat as the cheapest food in North America. At 2001 prices, just $90 can provide all the energy needs, protein requirements, and many vitamins and minerals that an individual needs to stay healthy for one year. Wheat is, after all, “the staff of life.” Wheat stores well and can last as long as 30 years in a cool, dry place. There are three types of wheat. Hard wheat is 15-16 percent protein. Soft wheat is 9-11 percent protein. In North America, soft wheat is generally grown east of the Mississippi and in the Pacific continued on page 26

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businesses, and after use, to properly return this water back to the environment. Through these investments we have achieved the wonderful blessing of water on demand. At the mere turn of a faucet handle or the twist of a garden hose nozzle, we have running water in abundance. Water we can use for drinking, cooking, washing, watering, sanitation, fire protection—and making rainbows. Because these waterworks function so well most of the time, our technological prowess can lull us into complacency. For if we had to garner by hand all the water we use —customers of the Albemarle County Service Authority use about 1.6 billion gallons (6.7 million tons) of water per year—we would be more aware, perhaps acutely aware, of how precious it is. We also would likely be more attentive to just how much work and energy is required to make all the water we use so readily available. Across the country, the average American household uses 320 gallons per day according to information available from WaterSense, a program run by the Environmental Protection Agency that seeks to protect the future of our nation’s water supply. That’s 100 gallons of water per person – enough for each of us to fill 1,600 drinking glasses to the brim every day. (For more information on water usage, water-efficient products and appliances, and watersaving tips in and around our homes, visit www.epa.gov/watersense.) Locally, C’ville residential customers of the Charlottesville Public Utility Division of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority use on average 478 cubic feet (3,575 gallons) of water per month, or about 118 gallons per day. That’s less water than the national average for a household, and that’s good, but it’s still a lot of water. Imagine getting hold of 118 gallons of water by hand. Using a 5-gallon bucket, a bucketful of water would weigh more than 40 pounds, and I know

that if I had to fill it and lug it indoors two dozen times each day, day after day, it would surely capture my attention, if not my mind, and most assuredly my back! Do we need this much water to live our lives well? Let’s take a look at our activities and habits to see where all that water goes. As we do, I will suggest tips that can save water. (Calculate your water use patterns using the Charlottesville Residential Water Calculator available at http://www.charlottesville. org/watercalculator.html and begin conserving water in ways that work for you.) Sanitation and bodily cleanliness are signature achievements of modern civilization, and not surprisingly, it is within our bathrooms that we use the most water—an estimated 50 percent or more. Flushing the commode is the single largest use of water in our homes. Depending upon the model, each washing out and refilling of a toilet uses 1.5 to 3.5 gallons, with older models using up to 7 gallons. The City of Charlottesville offers residents a $100 rebate for the purchase and installation of an efficient WaterSense certified toilet. When we run the bathroom faucet, we use anywhere between 0.5 to 5 gallons of water per minute. Turning on the tap only when needed during brushing teeth or shaving can save more than 200 gallons of water per month. Prior to 1980, many showerheads exceeded a flow rate of 5 gallons per minute. Now most restrict water flow to 3 gallons per minute maximum. At this flow rate, over the course of a 7-minute shower, 175 pounds of water will have streamed through the showerhead. As a household rule, we each strive to shower using less water than we weigh. Taking a bath in a full tub of water can use twice the volume of water as a shower. When drawing water for a bath, don’t wait for the water from the tap to reach the desired temperature, stopper the drain immediately and adjust the temperature of the bath water as the bathtub fills. Cleaning clothes represents another large expenditure of water. A standard domestic washing machine uses 45 to 55 gallons (that’s 375 to 460 pounds of water!) per load. Water-conserving, front-

loading models use about 20 to 25 gallons per load. Cleaning up after meals also involves a lot of water. Dishwashers use 5 to 15 gallons per load. Unless you can hand wash a full dishwasher load of dishes in under 7 minutes (7 minutes x 2 gallons per minute flowing through the kitchen sink faucet = 14 gallons), operating your automatic dishwasher without prerinsing probably is more water efficient. A disconcertingly large amount of residential water is lost through leaks. Across America, our dripping faucets, running toilets and leaky pipes waste more than 1 trillion gallons of water each year (more than 11,000 gallons per household) according to EPA’s WaterSense. A leaking toilet typically is the single biggest waster of household water. A faulty shut-off valve or leaky toilet flange can squander upwards of 200 gallons of water every day. To see if a toilet is leaking, put a drop or two of food coloring in the tank. If the color appears in the bowl without flushing, it leaks. In Virginia, roughly 30 percent of our household water is devoted to outdoor uses, more than half of which goes toward watering our lawns and gardens. Our water use jumps 20 percent in the summertime when plant needs are highest. Unfortunately, inefficient watering habits often result in losing half the water we shower on our landscapes to evaporation. Here are three water-wise landscaping suggestions to consider. Spend a little extra to improve the water-retaining properties of the soil when planting annuals, perennials or shrubbery. Plant regionally appropriate, drought-tolerant and native plants so that the landscape can be maintained with normal rainfall supplemented with strategic watering as needed. And group plants with similar watering needs into designated “hydrozones” to facilitate watering to each zone’s specific requirements. The true value of fresh water is priceless. We are so very fortunate to have access to adequate supplies of clean water and to have available the energy and infrastructure to deliver this water to our homes and businesses. Prudent use of water will help protect and manage our watershed and hydrological continued on page 42

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Are Monarch Butterflies on Their Way to Extinction The abundance of rain this summer made for lovely surroundings that I’d practically forgotten were ever a possibility in central Virginia. Instead of looking parched and dry, the forests—both from a distance and up close—have been lush with growth. Herbaceous plants have also grown extremely well. The world has looked so healthy, so capable of supporting all life. But something has been missing: Monarchs, the king of butterflies, have been nonexistent. Not a one has visited my yard and none have been visible in Shenandoah National Park when I’ve given my monthly talks. On visits to various parts of the state, I have constantly kept my eyes open for these beautiful insects, but they have eluded me. This situation probably portends the future of the one insect that most people, including young children, can recognize. 2012 was not a good year for Monarchs, the orange-and-black butterflies that make the longest insect migration in the world. Each one weighs, on average, about half as much as a paper clip, yet it might fly as much as 2,500 miles (over 4,000 kilometers) to reach Mexico by November. When scientists measured the overwintering acreage of these insects in Mexico in 2013 (they are unable to count individual butterflies), they found only about 2.74 acres (1.19 hectares) of land with Monarchs resting on the fir trees that shelter them from cold and wet conditions. This amounted to 59% less occupied acreage than in the previous year, which is statistically significant. Consequently, this species of butterfly may be on its way to extinction. Indeed, there have been few reports of Monarch sightings across the Midwest and the East this year. When the population of any particular kind of critter gets quite small,

that species is much more vulnerable to being wiped out should a catastrophic event occur. According to a 2011 research paper by Sweetbriar College professor Lincoln P. Brower, et al., there are three factors implicated in the decreasing numbers of Monarchs. (1) The downward trend began with the loss of critical overwintering habitat in Mexico due to extensive illegal logging. Fortunately, the destruction of the overwintering Oyamel Fir (Abies religiosa) forests has now come to a virtual halt. (2) There’s been a widespread reduction of breeding habitat in the United States due to land development (6000 acres a day for 2.2 million acres a year), which means fewer milkweeds—the requisite food plant—for the Monarch caterpillar. Additionally, there’s been a loss of milkweeds as a result of the increased use of glyphosate herbicide (Round-up) to kill “weeds” growing in genetically engineered, herbicide-resistant crops. (3) Periodic extreme weather conditions have decreased the spring breeding in Texas, which is the entry point to this country for Monarchs. Higher-than-normal temperatures decrease the lifespan of the butterflies, which reduces the number of eggs laid and thus results in fewer spring- and summer-breeding generations in the eastern United States and southern Canada. Other scientists have pointed to the management of our roadsides as a factor in the decrease of Monarchs. Highway departments use herbicides and either excessive or untimely mowing, all of which decimate milkweeds as well as the caterpillars on them. The obsession with manicured roadways to make them “more appealing” to travelers (as VDOT touted when they held a mowing blitz in advance of the July 4th holiday this year) is symptomatic of a culture out of touch with the serious consequences upon the environment of its actions. Gardeners throughout the

This Monarch feeding at Butterfly Bush (Buddleia sp.) blooms in the author’s yard was caught on camera a few years ago. As of the date this article was written, not one Monarch had made an appearance around the author’s home. Photo: Marlene A. Condon.

Midwest and the East could help Monarchs, but few want to plant the easiest milkweed to grow for these insects—the Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). Tall and often ungainly in stature, it’s not the lovely specimen plant that gardeners concerned with aesthetics usually choose for their flower beds. Instead they pick the Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa), a short plant with beautifully colored blooms of orange that stand out in the garden. Encouraged by virtually everyone—including some scientists who study Monarchs—to grow this plant, gardeners do a disservice to the Monarchs forced to lay their eggs upon Butterfly Weed. Yes, these insects are forced to lay their eggs upon this particular milkweed when there are no other species nearby that are far better suited as food for their caterpillars. Unlike most milkweed species, Butterfly Weed is latex-poor and thus an inferior food plant for the Monarch caterpillar. Latex contains the highly poisonous cardenolides that make the Monarch unpalatable to predators. These chemicals, concentrated in the abdomen and the wings of an adult where they don’t interfere with the butterfly’s metabolism, cause a nauseating taste in the mouths of predators, such as birds. Butterfly Weed does not produce much of the cardenolides and thus confers less protection to the Monarch in both the immature and the adult phase. The result is undoubtedly an increase in Monarchs killed by predators, which must also be a factor in the continuing decline in the population of these regal butterflies. A gardener can confirm for himself the inferior quality of Butterfly Weed by breaking a stem of this plant. The sap, rather than looking milky, as is the case with most milk-

weed plants and which is what gives them their name, is not at all milky. Instead it’s clear. I first discovered this decades ago when I noticed that the Monarch butterflies never laid eggs on my Butterfly Weed. They always chose the Common Milkweed plants. The scientist in me wondered why and when I saw the difference in the sap, I surmised it must be of inferior quality. Further research confirmed my suspicion. They say that ignorance is bliss, but ignorance can be deadly. That’s certainly been the case for our Monarchs as few people have chosen to plant the species of milkweeds that these butterflies prefer to utilize to increase their chances of surviving long enough to reproduce. And the highway department’s management of roadside growth, done without knowledge of or concern about its disastrous ecological impacts, is another case in point. If you care about Monarchs, please grow Common Milkweed. In addition, please speak out against the excessive use of herbicides and mowing by the highway department. And last, but not least, please contact your Federal representatives to say they should support the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). This program pays farmers to set aside marginal land for wildlife that is not really well suited for growing crops anyway. Unfortunately, the funds allotted for the CRP have been cut drastically, yet this is one program where our tax dollars can be spent wisely. It helps all kinds of critters that help to keep the environment functioning properly so as to support mankind.

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Crozet Firefighters Add iPads As Their Newest Firefighting Tool by Gary M. Dillon For years, volunteer firefighters have flipped through pages of map books and other documents to determine the best route to an incident, locate fire hydrants, and review “preplan” information. Now that has all changed for the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department. The CVFD followed the lead of the Charlottesville Fire Department and by the end of July it had installed iPads in all CVFD primary response vehicles– engines, brush trucks, ladder truck, tanker and the command vehicle— and officers have now this technology at their fingertips. Last year, several CVFD members began beta-testing an iPhone/iPad application called Active 911, a digital messaging system that delivers alarms, maps, and other critical information instantly to first responders. Active911 also allows response efforts to be monitored in real time. A large-screen monitor mounted in the station allows firefighters arriving at the station to see on the map which personnel are responding and their distance from the station and incident scene. The monitor was a generous donation from the Crutchfield Corporation. “Pre-plans” provide information about a particular structure—such as a school, factory or senior living home—describing the building’s size, number of floors, how it is constructed, what materials were used

Captain Mark Carlson demonstrates the new iPad.

during its construction, how many occupants are in the building typically and where any hazardous materials are located. An officer can simply press map points and retrieve any available pre-plan information. Fire hydrants and other water sources have been uploaded as a map layer so officers can quickly determine how to approach a scene and the most efficient method to get water to the apparatus. The CVFD is proud to be the first fire department in Albemarle County to launch this new technology. For more information about the CVFD, or to find out how to join, please visit www.crozetfire.org. You can also follow the CVFD on Twitter at www. twitter.com/crozetfire.

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Lantz said that White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek had asked the police to look into the feasibility of using the depot as a police station. Jenkins said his investigation revealed that the county’s cost in maintaining the depot while not being used is nearly what it would cost to maintain it if it were being used. “When we transitioned to geopolicing, we began looking at the decentralization of headquarters and the idea of using the depot came up,” said Lantz. “It’s all timing. There are some costs in converting it for our use.” Lantz said the report’s “wish list” of renovations—such things as upgraded bathrooms, a locker room, an interview room, a roll call room and kitchenette, plus preparing it for use as an emergency headquarters—come to about $349,000, but that fewer, cheaper alterations could still make it suitable for the

SEPTEMBER 2013 department. Lantz said the depot could be configured to have a “shelter” for officers that would allow them to stay over in times of emergency, such as when storms cause power to be lost. It could also be configured to host training sessions. “It’s not going to require that much stuff. We need new reinforced doors and a kitchenette. It’s not an overhaul.” Lantz said the station would be the base for seven officers assigned daily to western patrol sectors in the county and would likely be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and from 10 to 2 p.m. on Saturdays. He said the department would look for volunteers to staff the station while officers were on patrol and that he hoped Crozet Safety Corps members would participate. Jenkins said that officers assigned to the district would come to work at the station and start their day already in their sector rather than report first to the Charlottesville headquarters on Fifth Street. “If we’re there, we become neighbors in the community,” said Lantz.

“That’s our philosophy, and it should mean a reduction in response times. If you get that reduction, it’s a sign that geo-policing is working. Plus, you should get a reduction in crime because the presence of the police is more strongly felt and it creates deterrence. We should also get better information because we are here and people know our faces.” Lantz said that parking is limited at the depot and that an arrangement to use available spaces across Three Notch’d Road may be necessary to accommodate situations such as training sessions. He said three or four cruisers could park at the service door of the depot. Lantz said the department is receptive to using part of the depot as a museum space for the western part of the county where exhibits about Crozet history could be staged. “I cut my teeth as a patrolman on the west side of the county,” said Jenkins. “The folks here do want to help the police. People are receptive to us. If we get the green light, we’ll have a community meeting here to solicit input.”

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spun would have a raveled end”— that he quickly ties up in a neat bow. The serial form also allowed— even encouraged—him to luxuriate in language, spinning out long, convoluted sentences that only arrive at their elegantly clear meaning after many enjoyable detours. I believe Dickens is aware of this trait, and that Mr. Micawber, a consummate windbag who invariably uses ten words where one word would do, is a self-parody of Dickens’ own writing style. All of Dickens’ fiction is a gold mine of high styled, SAT-worthy vocabulary. How often, in today’s everyday communications, do we encounter words such as vicissitude, sagacity, vacillation, pecuniary, emolument, and comestible? Dickens makes one of many brilliant plays on words when the writhing, servile Uriah Heep announces that “I ate umble pie with an appetite” (ch. 39). As a fellow CMNBG member brought to my attention, “umble” originally meant “the edible inward parts of an animal, usually of a deer”

CROZET gazette of your budget, your interest in plants and gardening, etc. It might be best to talk with someone from each profession/business to see how they can help you. Particularly with designers and LAs, you will want to see photographs of their work and check references. Ideally, you’ll want to visit an actual property they worked on, assuming you have the owner’s permission. If you are able to talk with the owners, you can also find out how easy it is to maintain the landscape, an aspect of design that’s too often overlooked. ***** This past spring I was contacted by Sophie Laclef and Charlotte Thomas-Clarke from Girl Scout Troop 352. They wanted to undertake a project to beautify the Region Ten Community Services building on Crozet Avenue in order to receive their Girl Scout Bronze Award, the highest award that Junior Girl Scouts can receive. They were dealt a very tough hand: two long, very narrow planting “beds,” really more like sunken planters, and they needed some gardening advice. Thanks to their hard work, native flowers now grace the building. Kudos to Sophie and Charlotte! (OED), so that umble pie might in fact have served as a poor person’s dinner—suggesting that the absence of the apostrophe was intentional! In spite of its occasional sentimental scenes—the primary criticism of Dickens’ work—I have seldom read a more enjoyable book. The overall tone is both anachronistic and refreshing, as it celebrates the traditional moral virtues of generosity, mercy, and self-sacrifice as well as the personal traits of gentleness, emotional sensitivity, and compassion that are so often overlooked today. For a list of future Crozet Library Monday Night Book Group reading selections, visit www.jmrl.org/brcrozet.htm (scroll down).

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resources. By using water wisely, we will save energy too. Best of all, our grandchildren and their children’s children will be grateful that we did. *“Indoor Water Use in the United States,” Document EPA832-F-06-004, June 2008.

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