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Thanks to pandemic planning, pre-schoolers return to classrooms
Half of Head Start-eligible students have resumed in-person learning By Robin Earl
Times Staff Writer
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“Miss Angie” helps a student with an in-classroom activity.
Youngest students could return to school 4 days a week beginning March 15 By Robin Earl
Times Staff Writer
Some elementary school students could return to classrooms four days a week by March 15. The initiative would include kindergarten through second grade or kindergarten through fifth grade students. By April 5, all students in Fauquier County schools could have the option of attending class in person four days out of the week. Superintendent of Schools David Jeck announced the initiatives at Monday night’s school board meeting. Surveys will go out to families “in the next day or two,” asking families if they’d like to return to school on the four-day a week schedule, said Jeck. See SCHOOLS, page 2
Nine preschool children play together – apart – four days a week in each of five Head Start classrooms at Central Community Center and in two classrooms at Mary Walter Elementary School in Morrisville. Pairs sit at desks facing one another; a Plexiglas shield allows them to talk and hold up their work to show one another while providing a physical barrier between them. On the morning of Feb. 4, some focused on
cutting out pictures of healthy food to paste on a picture of a lunch box. Other children played with blocks or puzzles while sitting on the floor in “pods,” 6-foot square areas divided with bookshelves. “Do Your Ears Hang Low,” and “The Wheels on the Bus” played while the children completed their tasks and two teachers stopped by each station to reinforce the lessons. “How many children do you have there in that house?” “What color are those blocks?” See HEAD START, page 4
Cost-share program provides funding for stream-saving fencing Program protects half of county’s streams from livestock By Peter Cary
Piedmont Journalism Foundation
Mel Miller had long wanted to keep his cattle from polluting Town Run, a pretty creek that meanders through his Catlett farm. Using a wetlands banking program, he had fenced off most of his pastures from the stream but he still had a mile to go. And that would TIMES STAFF PHOTO/COY FERRELL cost a lot, at least $50,000, not just for Mel Miller signed on to protect the creek that crosses his Catlett farm. the fencing but also for a watering system to serve the cattle once they were of the cost of such projects, but even Miller signed on. And ten months barred from the creek. that was not enough. “We’re a small later, in December 2020, the Elkrun Miller knew the John Marshall operation and every dollar matters,” Valley Ranch that he runs with his Soil and Water Conservation Dis- he said. But in 2019, the district an- dad sported a mile of grid-like wire trict, a state agency headquartered in nounced that it would start paying up Warrenton, was paying 75% to 85% to 100% of the cost. See FENCING, page 8
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COVID-19 snapshot Tuesday, Feb. 9
month of December. There have been 12 so far in February.
New cases of coronavirus
Deaths
Virginia: 3,291 Tuesday; 534,116 to date Fauquier: 24 Tuesday; 3,697 cases to date Perspective: The sevenday average of new cases in the state is 3,391 per day. For the county, the average number of new daily cases in the last seven days is 26.
Seven-day positivity average (total PCR tests vs. positive tests)
Virginia: 10.2% RRHD: 9.7% Perspective: The positivity average in the local health district has generally been moving downward, but with numerous drops and spikes since Jan. 5, when it was 13.2%.
Hospitalizations
Virginia: 22,339 Fauquier: 138 Perspective: There were 30 COVID-related hospitalizations in the county during the first month of 2021, 12 more than during the entire
Virginia: 78 Tuesday; 6,898 to date Fauquier: 35 Perspective: The county has lost seven residents to COVID-19 so far in 2021.
Outbreaks
Virginia: 2,393 total (876 outbreaks in long-term care settings -- resulting in 28,690 cases and 3,137 deaths -- 836 outbreaks in congregate care settings, 137 in correctional facilities and 202 in health care settings. In the educational settings category, there have been 133 outbreaks in childcare settings, 63 for college/ university and 146 for K-12. RRHD: 30 total (15 outbreaks in long-term care facilities, seven outbreaks in congregate settings, three in correctional facilities, one in a healthcare setting, one in a childcare setting and three outbreaks in a K-12 setting); 1,302 cases have resulted from those outbreaks.
New vaccine clinic to open in Warrenton on Feb. 11 April Achter, population health coordinator of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District of the Virginia Health Department, offered some details Thursday on a new vaccination site opening in the county Feb. 11, and on the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses Virginia would be receiving in the coming weeks. She said that Fauquier Health, the town of Warrenton, Fauquier County and RRHD are working collaboratively to host a vaccination clinic in Warrenton. Achter said, “RRHD will allocate doses to the effort and they will use patient information from the surveys collected on rrhd.org.” Residents who have already signed up for a vaccine through the health district do not need to sign up again. County Administrator Paul McCulla said that the vaccination site will be in the former Fashion Bug store, next to Home Goods. The clinic will be by appointment only for those already registered for the shot through the health district. Fauquier County is operating a call center to help with those registrations and the scheduling for those receiving shots. The call center can be reached at 540422-0111, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays. Questions can also be addressed to covid.registration@fauquiercounty.gov. The county administrator emphasized that there will be no walk-ins served at the clinic. McCulla said that the RRHD has management responsibility over the clinic and is
providing the county with lists of names -primarily from Fauquier and Rappahannock counties -- drawn from the health district’s list of registered residents who qualify for the shot in Phase 1b. The county will work from those lists to fill vaccination slots. Fauquier Hospital will receive the vaccines allocated for the clinic through the health department and will prepare and deliver the vaccines for each clinic. The county will staff the clinic and shots will be administered by Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management personnel, who are trained and qualified to administer the vaccine shots. Fauquier Health CEO Chad Melton said that the new site will replace the vaccination clinics that have been hosted at the hospital for the last several weeks. Virginia will receive approximately 106,000 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine per week for the next few weeks, Achter said, adding that district allocations will be based on population. The RRHD has about 2% of the state’s total population and expects to receive 2,075 doses each week for the next four to eight weeks. These doses are for all five counties in the district. The health district will utilize 1,100 Moderna doses at the central site at Germanna Community College in Culpeper.
Youngest students could return to school 4 days a week beginning March 15 SCHOOLS, from page 1
Students who are now learning remotely will have the opportunity to switch to the hybrid model as well. Fauquier County resumed the hybrid model of learning Jan. 19. Students whose families have chosen hybrid returned to classrooms two days a week (either Mondays and Tuesdays or Thursdays and Fridays), and have three days of asynchronistic learning. Students whose families have chosen virtual learn synchronistically through a classroom video camera two days a week (half on Mondays and Tuesdays and half on Thursdays and Fridays) and through asynchronistic learning three days a week. Jeck said he anticipates that most students who are learning under the hybrid model now will want to continue -- and double their in-classroom time. He thinks that some children who are learning remotely now might be ready to return as well. Jeck said he is encouraged by the lower COVID-19 case numbers in the Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District and in the state. The state’s COVID-19 case numbers dropped to 1,700 this morning, a drastic reduction from December and January numbers, when daily totals hit 5,000 regularly and even went as high as 9,914 in mid-January. On Feb. 8, the county added 13 new COVID-19 cases after adding 10 on Feb. 7; the average number of new daily cases in the last seven days is 26. That average went as high
as 46 on Jan. 7. The school division currently has 28 “active” cases of COVID-19, 12 in students and 16 in staff members. Thirty-four staff members are currently quarantining, but 199 students are in quarantine. Since Sept. 24, the school division has seen 94 positive cases of the virus, 33 in students and 61 in staff members. Jeck said that the speed at which residents are receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is a positive step; 60% of teachers have already received the first dose of the vaccine and appointments are currently being made to get the second required dose as well. Jeck said that when the school division first surveyed employees, about 80% said they wanted to get vaccinated. He said Monday that some who declined when those surveys came out have since decided to have the vaccine. “And that’s good news,” he said. As of Feb. 8 data, almost 8,000 Fauquier residents had received at least one dose of the vaccine. School board members seemed all in on the idea of bringing kids back to school, but Jeck cautioned that there are still lots of details to be worked out – staffing, transportation and food service considerations, for instance. “It’s going to depend on how many kids we are talking about,” he said. “We are trying to avoid having teachers juggle a classroom full of kids as well as students who are on computers. We could work it out so that some teachers only teach virtu-
al students, but then that means that some kids will have to change teachers, and we don’t want that.” Jeck did say that if a large number of children wanted to come back to school four days a week, mitigation strategies would have to be reexamined. He said that the “gold standard” is mask wearing and six feet of social distance, but that masks and 3 feet is “acceptable.” David Graham, executive director for administration and planning, said that transportation is a major consideration. “If we want to fill our classrooms, we’ll have to fill our buses.” He said that the average number of students on a typical (non-COVID bus route) is about 40. Some routes have 77 kids and some have 12, but the average is 40. The school dis-
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trict’s state-reviewed mitigation plan says that only 22 kids can be on a bus at one time, sitting one to a seat. “It just depends how many kids we are talking about,” he said. Graham said that before COVID, “We were 26 drivers short. Now, if every kid showed up, we’d be 18 drivers short,” but that’s if buses were full. Lastly, Jeck said that an effort will be made to bring back as many special education students as possible. He said that currently, the most atrisk children are receiving in-classroom instruction, but he’d like to see more of those students return to school. Reach Robin Earl at rearl@fauquier.com
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Baileywyck Antiques celebrates urban artist Brookie Maxwell By Liam Bowman
Piedmont Journalism Foundation
The cavernous and faintly musty Baileywyck Antiques shop in The Plains is a maze of handcarved furniture, chandeliers and stacks of porcelain dinnerware—all ornaments of a bygone era. But through a doorway in the back of the shop is a small gallery filled with vivid images of Harlem, urban construction workers and Rwandan refugees. The Brookie Maxwell Gallery is named after the artist and social activist from New York City who depicted the city’s urban landscapes and its inhabitants, especially the experiences of the working class and underprivileged, during the 1990s and 2000s.
Maxwell died in 2015 of ovarian cancer at age 59. Her friend and executor, Charles Wright, brought her collection to The Plains in 2019. Wright, a former dancer and choreographer, befriended Maxwell at one of his dance classes. Now retired, he restores furniture at Baileywyck and helps run the gallery. The gallery fits in well with the town’s other artistic offerings. With the portraits of bird-headed humans adorning the walls of The Front Porch and the contemporary realism studios around the corner at the Stuart Street Atelier, The Plains stands out for its range of unexpected finds. See MAXWELL, page 8
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The Building America portion of the Brookie Maxwell Gallery.
Supervisors to consider installing speed cameras in school zones Speed limits in school zones may soon be enforced by speed cameras. A public hearing on the proposal will be conducted this Thursday at a regular meeting of the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors. If the proposed ordinance is approved by supervisors, a fine of $100 would be issued automatically to the registered owner of each offending vehicle. (The owner would be able to appeal the fine if the driver of the vehicle is not the registered owner.) The proposal came after feedback from school board members, school parents and the sheriff’s office, explained Board Chair Chris Granger (Center District). There are “big speeding problems in school zones,” he said, and there are simply not
Residents 65 and older can arrange for vaccinations at CVS By Robin Earl
Times Staff Writer
As of Tuesday, those 65 and older, eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine under Phase 1b, can register at https:// www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid19-vaccine to arrange for a vaccine through CVS Pharmacies. CVS will begin administering vaccinations on Friday, Feb. 12 at 36 locations. Those who contact CVS will be able to make appointments for vaccinations through the site. An appointment for a second vaccination will be made when the first vaccination appointment is scheduled. Those without online access can contact CVS Customer Service at (800) 7467287. Walk-in vaccinations without an appointment will not be offered. Even if someone has registered with the Virginia Department of Health website, they will need to register through CVS as well. The appointments will be made on a rolling basis, since when the week’s doses run out, another supply will be arriving the next week. If no vaccination is available at a nearby site, registrants will be asked to
enough sheriff’s deputies to monitor traffic effectively everywhere. The ordinance would apply to established school zones in Fauquier County, Granger explained, but would not apply to the school zones within the towns of Warrenton and The Plains unless those town councils passed similar ordinances. The draft ordinance also requires a “conspicuous sign” informing drivers of the presence of a speed camera be placed at each school zone. Additionally, a 30-day grace period would be implemented after each speed camera is installed. A violation caught by a traffic camera would not be considered a traffic conviction for the purposes of a person’s driving record or insurance. The program would come at no direct cost to the county government, explained County Attorney Tracy check back another day. The federal government is providing the 26,000 doses per week to Virginia through the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program for COVID-19 Vaccination. The original plan, according to the state’s immunization lead Dr. Danny Avula, was to open CVS vaccinations to those 65 and older who had already pre-registered through local health departments of the Virginia Department of Health. Technical issues at CVS prevented the pharmacy’s system from working with the VDH site. So, Avula said, if someone had already registered through VDH, they will not automatically be included in the CVS initiative. Avula said the intent was to get vaccines to people who had already registered and had been waiting. Because of the technical issues, that didn’t work out. “We’ve hit a dead end,” said Avula. He said, “The silver lining is that there are 26,000 more doses per week in Virginia… The vaccines given by CVS to those 65 and older should hopefully take some pressure off the people who are already on our list.” Avula said that essential workers or those 16 to 64 should still register through VDH sites if they haven’t already.
Gallehr. “There are no direct setup or maintenance costs,” she said. A company called Optotraffic would install and maintain the devices; the first $25 of each $100
fine would go to the company, with $75 going to the county. Optotraffic would receive an additional $10 if the company successfully retrieves a fine that has gone to collections.
How to participate in the public hearing
The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors will hold a work session at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 11. The regular meeting and public hearings will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Warren Green Building at 10 Hotel St., Warrenton. Members of the public may participate in a public hearing either remotely or in person. The full agenda for Thursday’s meeting, the video livestream and information about how to participate in the public hearing remotely can be found at agenda.fauquiercounty.gov. The work session and meeting will also be broadcast on Comcast Government Channel 23.
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Since they opened to students in September, Head Start classrooms have only nine students instead of the usual 18.
Pandemic planning brings pre-schoolers back into the classroom HEAD START, from page 1 Another pair of 4-year-olds in smocks painted on either side of a standing easel. There were no smiles to be seen, but giggles sometimes escaped from under their child-sized masks. Several of the children were fascinated by the double-masked reporter in the corner taking photos with a long lens. They indicated that they would be happy to take the camera to their pod to push the buttons and twirl the dials, if she would let them. (She didn’t.)
The Head Start program
Fauquier County’s Head Start program is funded for 139 at-risk children; the pandemic has reduced that number down to 77. Sixty 3- and 4-year-olds attend in-person classes; 17 learn virtually. Head Start Executive Director Pat Washington said that virtual learning for 3- and 4-year-olds doesn’t mean sitting in front of a computer. “On Mondays, we send hard copies home for families to work on through the week; they are delivered to homes by bus drivers,” she said. The Head Start program was shuttered in March 2020 and did not open its doors again until Sept. 14. During that time, Head Start staff kept in touch with parents through phone calls and provided weekly food packages and hard copies of “homework” for the children. Washington said that the period between March and September gave her agency an opportunity to come up with a solid pandemic plan, “We did a lot of planning, to really understand what it would look like when we reopened. We had time to think it through.” The Head Start program has been COVID-free so far, but Washington admitted that before they reopened in September, she was “was scared to death.” She said she spent the time while they were closed reviewing other programs, taking in all the information she could find, then evaluating how it could work for Fauquier. Once she came up with a plan, she had to sell it to her managers, then to her staff. “Once the staff became comfortable, we brought our families on board. I wouldn’t budge until everyone felt comfortable. We set expectations and goals.”
Students work on creating new worlds with blocks or puzzles. She explained that there are two staff members and up to nine children in each of seven “hubs,” or classrooms. The children in each hub all take the same bus, so that if the program did have a COVID case, the number of potential exposures would be limited and easily identifiable. “Having one bus for each classroom, having the children wear masks and socially distance, helps us to keep them safe,” said Washington. Children do not attend school on Fridays, so that classrooms may be thoroughly cleaned. Washington said that 59 of the 77 children in the program are 4-year-olds, transitioning to kindergarten next fall; the rest are 3-year-olds. The children who attend in person are fed breakfast, lunch and a snack, and receive food for weekend meals. Children who attend school remotely are provided food for the week along with their learning materials. Washington said that because of the pandemic, some parents choose not to send their children to school and some have opted out of the program entirely for now, but asked to be kept on the wait list. “It’s their choice,” Washington said.
Lessons learned
Three-year-olds learn to share and work at getting comfortable separating from their parents; they learn colors and shapes, practice their manners and learn to follow rules as a group. For 4-year-olds, the emphasis is on academics, said Washington. They learn their letters and numbers, in preparation for kindergarten. One boy who was returning to the classroom for the first time since last March was gently reminded by his teacher, Angela Jackson, to stay in his pod, but the eight other children showed no inclination to wander from their areas. Washington said that the children have been quick to pick up on the new rules. “At this age, they are very resilient. They have a regular routine and know, ‘this is what I do at school now.’” She said that this newest member of the class had been in the program last year as well. “It’s different than it was the last time he was here. He’s adjusting; he’ll get it.” She added that his mother wanted him back in school; “she said she had heard we were doing a great job keeping everyone safe.” See HEAD START, page 6
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Back into the classroom
HEAD START, from page 4
Jackson said that the COVID-conscious classroom has taken some adjusting. “It’s a new way of thinking. We have to take it a step further to figure out how to do some things.” She said she appreciates being able to be more one-on-one with her students and she is very glad to be back in the classroom. “It gives you purpose. It’s what I love to do… Elementary and pre-school kids need to be in school to learn. Learning virtually isn’t the same as what they get in school.” Jackson’s assistant, Katie Loveless, admitted, “It’s different. We have to take that extra step to get everything done. And we are constantly cleaning.” Washington said that with attendance halved, the children are getting “quality time” with their teachers and are able to move to the next level. She and her staff serve the county’s most vulnerable children. Eligibility for the program is income-based, but there are other considerations. “We prioritize homeless families, children with disabilities and those who use services from social services.” Children with Individual Education Plans are prioritized for the program and there is special attention to children who have lost a parent; the children’s mental health is a priority. A counselor monitors classrooms once a month to look out for any troubling signs of mental health issues. Washington said the ethnicity of her charges is about evenly split among White, Black and Hispanic children. Some are undocumented. “A lot of parents are scared to seek services; they are afraid someone will turn them in. We try to make families see that we are here to help. We want to build relationships.” Washington said that sometimes when parents come in, their older child comes with them to translate. “We encourage those families to sign up for adult English as a Second Language classes, so they can help their child. We work with whole families.” A lot of children speak little to no English when they arrive, but by the time they complete two years in the program, they are fluent in English…. We only have them for two years. We want to do everything in our power to make them self-sufficient and ready to enter kindergarten.”
Head Start has a family engagement team that focuses on helping families succeed. One supervisor and three staffers work with parents to set goals. “We tell parents, you have to crawl before you can walk,” said Washington. She told the story of a homeless family – a single mom with four kids – who recently was able to rent an apartment. “She took the class we offer on finances and is doing well. We celebrated with her.” Yoseli Flores is one of Head Start’s family engagement workers. She regularly works with 24 families – about half as many as before the pandemic. Her daughter is also a 4-year-old in the program. Flores said her family was speaking only Spanish at home, so that before her daughter started at Head Start last year, she did not speak English. “She was shy at gatherings because she didn’t understand what people were saying. She stayed close to me.” Now that her daughter has learned to speak English, she is more outgoing, said Flores. “She has lots of friends and is excited to go to school every day.” The pink-loving, princess aficionado loves coloring and playing with numbers. “She is counting all over the place,” said her mom. But Flores’ daughter is particular about what at-home schoolwork she does. “If I pull something out of my purse, she doesn’t want to do it. She only wants to do the home activities that Miss Angie sends home.” Washington said there is a physical health component of the Head Start program as well. “We make sure they are caught up on immunizations; they have a physical; they get a dental screening. If a child has a toothache, they can’t learn; if they can’t chew, they eat less than they need… We want to make sure their physical needs are met so they can learn.” Washington acknowledged that the year or two before a child starts kindergarten is “vitally important, and she knows that the time the children missed is significant. But “Head Start makes a difference,” Washington said definitely. Once children leave the program to enter the public schools, privacy concerns prevent individual tracking, but Washington said, “the feedback we get from the schools is that our kids are doing well.”
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Parks department seeks public input on draft 10-year plan By Coy Ferrell
Times Staff Writer
This month, the Fauquier County Department of Parks and Recreation released the first draft of its comprehensive master plan for the next decade, a 60-page document that lays out “a flexible guideline for making positive changes” to the county’s parks, facilities and programs. The previous formal
Public comments due Friday,
The parks and recreation department is currently soliciting feedback from county residents about the draft master plan. To view the document and submit public comments, visit recreation. fauquiercounty.gov or call 540422-8550. Based on community feedback, the plan will be adapted and presented to the parks and recreation board on March 1. If approved, the parks and recreation department will work with community development staffers to present the master plan to the board of supervisors. If approved by supervisors, the parks and recreation master plan would be integrated into the county’s comprehensive plan.
2021 program catalog available
The spring edition of Good Times, the parks department’s catalog of spring and summer program offerings, was mailed to county residents this week. The catalog can also be found online at recreation.fauquiercounty. gov and can be requested by calling 540-422-8550.
Maintenance backlog
Rzepecki explained some of the challenges in addressing the maintenance backlog, which the master plan analysis found would cost approximately $1.4 million in more than five years to correct. The research for the master plan found, for instance, that many tennis courts and basketball courts were in a state of disrepair, affecting their safety and usability. Those cracks and crevices often are the result of problems with the foundation, Rzepecki said. To really fix it, the entire court needs to be renovated; otherwise, the need for patches and repairs continues indefinitely. Rzepecki said there is some money in the department’s operating budget for ongoing maintenance, but – to use the tennis court example – permanently fixing just two tennis courts would take up most of the operational budget for an entire fiscal year. “So it takes a number of years to catch up. Ideally, you don’t want to be playing catch up. You want to make them last a long time,” he said. The master plan, he said, “will really help us look at things holistically and zero in on what we need to do with the resources we have.”
update to the department’s vision for the future came in 1993. There are three main focal points of the draft plan, which was developed by Charlottesville firm Land Planning and Design Associates in conjunction with the county parks department. First, more money needs to be invested in basic maintenance of existing parks and facilities, especially to accommodate residents with disabilities. Second, more parks and facilities will need to be added in the next decade – and existing facilities expanded – to serve the growing populations of the Bealeton and Marshall areas. Finally, program offerings need to be adapted to serve a larger part of the county’s residents. (See boxes.) Parks and recreation director Gary Rzepecki said there have been several planning documents since 1993 that affect aspects of the parks
Parks and facilities
Many of the pages of the draft plan contain information about how parks and facilities are distributed across the county and where some of the gaps in service might be. There is a common theme: the Marshall, Bealeton and Remington areas are largely underserved. For instance, the document identifies the need for a community center and indoor recreation center in southern Fauquier County. The document also says Remington-area residents have few options for a nearby park. To meet that need, the draft plan calls for the mostly undeveloped Southern Sports Complex property north of Remington – it now hosts only a disc golf course -- to be built out as a multiuse park instead of focusing on ballfields. The plan also calls for new public pools in the Marshall and Bealeton areas; currently, Larry Weeks Community Pool in Vint Hill is the only public pool operated by the county parks department. Trails like the Warrenton Branch Greenway should also be a focus of future projects, the draft master plan says. According to a 2017 survey of county residents, respondents overwhelmingly identified trails as the most important park facility. Trails and greenways exist in several parts of the county; some are independent trails, some are part of a larger park. In addition to addressing maintenance issues at existing trails, the draft master plan calls for more links to be created between trail systems and neighborhoods. National recreation trends show an increasing preference for individual outdoor activities like running and hiking, in a shift away from team sports. A shooting range, pickleball courts, dog parks, indoor running/ walking track and a “sprayground” (a playground comprised of water features) are among the other facility priorities listed in the document.
Participants in a charity 5k make their way down the Warrenton Branch Greenway in 2018. Trails and greenways are the most valued county parks department assets according to a 2017 survey of county residents. COURTESY OF ST. JAMES’ EPISCOPAL CHURCH
department’s mission, but many of those ideas have never come to fruition. “There are aspirational things on those plans,” he said. “We want to make it more concrete.” Rzepecki, who has headed the
Programs
The draft plan points out on several occasions the need to track participation in parks and recreation programs, adapt program offerings to changing community preferences and closely monitor what portion of expenses are recouped by program fees. Rzepecki said addressing these deficiencies in particular has been one of his top priorities since coming on the job. Before he became director in 2019, he said, programs had been managed on a districtby-district basis, and no one had kept track of how well-utilized each program was or to what degree fees covered the costs of programs. “When I became director, one of the first things we did was looking
parks and recreation department since taking over for the retiring Larry Miller in 2019, repeatedly emphasized he wants the master plan to be a practical and adaptable document. at programs throughout the county. Before it has been district by district,” he explained. “Sometimes Marshall was doing their own thing, Crockett was doing their own thing. Now it’s under one umbrella. … No one had really been looking at these things holistically before.” It’s an ongoing process, he said, but the need to identify program offerings that are becoming less popular – and replace them with programs more in demand – is being addressed. Using data to better serve community residents is one of his main goals as parks director, he elaborated. “Whatever we can do to empower staff to do on their own … to really analyze and make decisions on data. If the data’s there, make decisions and run with it.”
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Celebrating artist Brookie Maxwell MAXWELL, from page 3 The Maxwell collection seems particularly timely these days, in the era of racial reckoning, and was not without controversy in its day. Maxwell’s subject matter often contains explicit messages about racism, poverty and other social injustices. Some took issue with a White woman portraying the Black experience and, at a time when the New York art scene was becoming increasingly experimental, Maxwell’s work was deemed “too easy.” Others commended her. “Her art is special and timely,” said Charles Daniel Dawson, professor of African American Art at Columbia University. “It advocates justice for every human being.” Dawson, a photographer, exhibited one of his collections in Maxwell’s Gallery 138. She created art out of relationships, he said. Her subjects had a say in how they were represented. One of Maxwell’s frequent collaborators was Satch Hoyt. “She was championing us, Black artists, back then when there was very little diversity,” Hoyt said, “when you could count the [number of] Black artists that any of those Chelsea galleries were showing.” Emily Brooke Maxwell was raised in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Her parents were Emily
Noyes Maxwell, a painter, and William Maxwell, a renowned fiction editor at the New Yorker magazine. She studied art and worked as a magazine illustrator before creating “42nd Street: A Walk Across”—a panoramic sculpture that captured the entire length of 42nd Street in Manhattan—in 1985. Around this time, Maxwell founded the “Creative Arts Workshop,” a nonprofit that sought to empower underprivileged children through art. Deeply affected by her experiences with the nonprofit, Maxwell spent years portraying the lives of the poor, mainly Black New Yorkers. In 1999, Maxwell opened Gallery 138 in her Chelsea apartment. “When a show was up, the living room became a gallery,” said Ellis Maxwell, her son. “It was always pretty exciting work.” One major exhibition was “Brown v. Board of Education” (2004), a collaboration with Hoyt and other artists of color commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision ending desegregation in public schools. Maxwell’s art has been exhibited at the State Department, The Brooklyn Museum and The New Orleans Museum of Art. Her final project, “Coming Home: Journey, Community and Dialogue,” was com-
PHOTO BY LIAM BOWMAN
This painting is part of Brookie Maxwell’s “Deep Water” series. missioned by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (https://vimeo.com/193738883). The project told the story of combat veterans, some severely wounded, returning to their families and civilian life. She was working on the project when she died. Maxwell’s smaller drawings sell for $600 to $1,800. Her larger pieces range from $6,000 to $23,000. Wright said he was initially apprehensive about displaying her work in Virginia “because I didn’t quite know how it would be received,” he said, given its criticism of race relations and what he called Maxwell’s “northern attitude.” A few people have dismissed her message, he said, but for the most part her work has resonated with
people. One such customer was Meredith Holland, who, after viewing Maxwell’s work, decided to start volunteering at the gallery. “I came in this room and just fell in love with the artwork,” said Holland. “I literally spent four hours in [the gallery] reading through her show books and fell in love not only with her art, but with her as a person.” The antique shop just off Main Street on Loudoun Avenue., contains Maxwell’s life work, except the “Coming Home” project, which her son continues to show at universities, including the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2017. “I would love to see large portions of the work donated to schools or community art programs,” said her son, “anywhere using her art for instruction.”
Program protects half of county’s streams from livestock FENCING, from page 1 fencing and three new cattle watering tanks. The fencing keeps his 90 cows from muddying and polluting the stream while the three new watering tanks, shared by six fields, let Miller rotate his cattle from field to field for grazing. The Millers are participants in the conservation district’s cost-share program, which reimburses Fauquier County landowners for projects that improve water quality. From July 2019 to June 2020, the district set a new record -- $1.2 million – in cost-share payments to landowners. And since last July the district has approved 84 new projects worth $1.2 million more, according to Tom Turner, the conservation district’s director. The reimbursements can run from $1,000 to $100,000 or more: they pay for livestock fencing; stream bank improvements and buffers; animal waste and fertilizer controls and other similar projects. Turner guesses his programs now protect 50% to 60% of his district’s creeks from livestock. “It’s a win-win-win,” that benefits the farmer, the community and the environment, said Patty Leonard. She and her husband, Jeff, run their 550-acre Al-Mara Farm near Midland, where they graze a 75-cow herd. Their cost-share projects include fencing and buffers and conversion of rowcrop land into grass. Water in Fauquier’s streams is generally of good quality, and has improved over the years. Still, there are spots and stretches that exceed EPA limits for bacteria, and some, like Goose Creek, contain silt that smothers the bugs that fish feed on, according to the Goose Creek Association, a non-profit founded in 1970 to clean up and protect the watershed. If a stream supports trout, it means that it is cool, clean and healthy, said John Odenkirk, a biologist with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. But one of the main enemies of clean water is livestock. Their sharp hooves erode the banks and
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George Chester, whose family owns Virginia Farms, LLC, has built more than 10 miles of cattle fencing and 15 watering tanks, financed through the conservation district’s cost-share program. silt up the waters. “It’s like a meat-grinder going up and down the stream,” said Odenkirk. And their excretions load the streams with bacteria, making the water unsafe for human consumption. The remedy is to fence the livestock out, and then plant buffers of grass, bushes and trees along the stream bank (called riparian buffers) to absorb runoff from fields and to shade the creeks from sunlight. Once a project is finished, change can be almost immediate, Odenkirk said. “I’m 100% behind this program,” he said. “It’s a complete no-brainer; it really is.” Yet Odenkirk has seen resistance. Turner said some fear they will have to give up their land rights if they participate in his programs. They won’t, he said. Some don’t want to take money that feels like a subsidy. He said he tells them this is their tax money at work: “If you don’t like paying taxes, this is one way of getting it back.”
The biggest hurdle, however, is the fact that the district only reimburses the landowner after all the work is finished. So the landowner must front all the costs, which can be considerable. Reimbursement formulas are complicated. On the plus side, some projects merit tax credits, and the district pays farmers for the grazing land they lose when buffers are created. But 100% reimbursement is not guaranteed, as the payment depends on the size of the buffer area, the number of years the fencing will be maintained, and whether contractor quotes exceed the district’s estimates. George Chester, whose family owns Virginia Farms, LLC, a 1,200-acre Delaplane assemblage that grazes 400 to 500 head of cattle, has property on Goose Creek, Kettle Run, Crooked Run and the small streams that feed them. He said that over the past 20 years he has been fencing off these streams from the cattle, all largely financed through cost-share programs. When he is finished, more than 10 miles of cattle fencing and 15 watering tanks will have been installed. He said because his current project will surpass the district’s allowed costs, he expects to be paid about $100,000 on a project that will cost him $150,000 or more. For those who don’t have the cash to pay upfront for their projects, several organizations have stepped in. The state Department of Environmental Quality has an agriculture best management practices loan program to lend money for projects that will reduce water pollution. The Piedmont Environmental Council has tapped two conservation funds to provide no-interest loans for water-protection projects, said PEC Director of Conservation Mike Kane. And Friends of the Rappahannock has a similar no-interest loan program to seed cost-share conservation projects, said deputy director Bryan Hoffman.
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Love of love: Forever begins in Fauquier
PHOTO BY KIR BEN
Event planner Terry Kaye says she loves Bealeton’s Great Marsh Estate for weddings, both small and large. The grand staircase is perfect for portraits and candids, Kaye says.
When weddings are your work, it’s a match made in heaven By Betsy Burke Parker
Special to the Fauquier Times
Wedding planning isn’t a piece of cake. And right now isn’t exactly a good time to schedule anything, let alone a big, expensive wedding. Two area event planners are offering a way to have your cake, and eat it too, a unique twist on the grand-scale affairs that marked past decades in the marriage business. Micro-weddings. Instead of scrapping your plans altogether, Mona McLinden of Ciao Bella in Old Town Warrenton can help map out the most important day of your life, start to finish. “In miniature,” she said. “People still want to get married and have it a little festive,” said McLinden, who, with husband, Dan, opened Ciao Bella in 2017. Like tiny houses that have become popular these days, tiny weddings are a thing, McLinden said, and they’re here to stay. “People recognize they don’t want to spend the money it takes to do a big wedding. They’re (rightly) scared to spend that $20,000, $30,000, this year especially, when you don’t even know if people can come. “Bigger isn’t better.” “We were doing big weddings for years,” McLinden said, but an elegant micro-ceremony she planned for a couple at the Inn at Little Washington gave her a new view of love. “I fell in love with that version of love – there were only six guests. I thought, ‘let’s make this our business model.’ ” Like any event planner, the main job of a wedding planner is to manage the stress level of the couple, McLinden said. Even with a micro wed-
ding, there’s a certain amount of pre-planning required to make the ceremony run smoothly. Weddings comprise about 90% of Ciao Bella’s business; other events they plan include marriage vow renewals, baby showers and bridal showers. In addition to professional wedding photography between Mona and Dan, Ciao Bella’s wedding venue – the “Little Wedding Chapel” – is available for the ceremony. Couples can use the traditional “Dearly Beloved” framework, or write their own vows. The McLindens are licensed marriage celebrants. Ciao Bella has partnerships with local vendors to round out traditional wedding accouterments: Gateau can provide retro-traditional wedding cupcakes, and they have a period trolley for a private, rolling party in a COVID-safe space. McRae Visual Media produces videos so couples can re-live their special day again and again. Warrenton is a one-stop shop for couples, with licensing at the courthouse, ceremony at the Little Wedding Chapel, Village Flowers for décor, the trolley ride for cocktail hour, photos around Old Town, dinner at another of Ciao Bella’s partners, Denim and Pearls, and wedding night accommodations at Chilton House B and B. The bride can even find her dress, or customize a family heirloom, at Something Old Something New Bridal. McLinden said they hosted more than 200 weddings in 2019, but the pandemic has done financial havoc to the privately owned small business, down by half last year. But she sees light at hte end of the tunnel in 2021. See WEDDINGS, page 10
Meet Mona McLinden
Owner of Ciao Bella event planning in Warrenton, Mona McLinden, 61, has been married to husband Daniel for 27 years. The California native ended up in Northern Virginia when her father’s military service brought him to the area. She studied business at the University of Maryland, taking photography classes and later marrying Daniel, also a Maryland grad. They have three adult children. Both professional photographers, the McLindens started out with youth sports photography, with the Babe Ruth Baseball League contract, creating Ciao Bella a few years ago when they branched out into wedding photography.
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A match made in heaven WEDDINGS, from page 9
Love of history
Valentine’s Day didn’t start as a Hallmark moment As with so many modern, secular holidays in America and Europe, the origins of the Roman holiday, Valentine’s Day, have their roots in pagan practices. The modern version of love and chocolates is a nod to the Roman festival of Lupercalia, celebrated Feb. 13 to 15. Part of the ceremony included sacrifice of a goat and a dog, then the men took turns whipping the women, lined up for the privilege, with the hides of the slain animals. It was thought the practice increased fertility. The start of the celebration also featured a matchmaking lottery, in which young men drew the names of young women from a jar to become a “couple” for the duration of the festival, or longer, if the match proved right. Roman Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century CE. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine’s Day. In the 5th century, Pope Gelasius I tied St. Valentine’s Day and Lupercalia, supposedly to expel the pagan rituals. Around the same time, the Normans celebrated Galatin’s Day. Galatin meant “lover of women.” That was likely confused with St. Valentine’s Day at some point, or combined. As centuries passed, the increasingly light and sweet holiday gained wide acceptance. Chaucer and Shakespeare romanticized it in their writings, and handmade paper love notes became part of 16th century courtship. The industrial revolution introduced mass-produced, factory-made greeting cards in the late 1800s. In 1913, Hallmark Cards of Kansas City, Missouri, began mass producing boxes of Valentines cards. February hasn’t looked the same since. Today, love is big business: According to market research, Valentine’s Day sales approach $20 billion.
The “pomp and circumstance,” is wonderful and meaningful, but at the end of the day, what matters is that you get to spend your life together,” McLinden said. A scaleddown wedding “alleviates stress. Plan a moment with your (spouse) and take it all in. There’s absolutely no one-size-fits-all solution” to combat changes due to COVID, she added. “It really comes down to what makes the most sense for the individual couple and their individual circumstances.” Bride “Chrissy” said McLinden was a ceremony-saver. “We originally had our wedding planned for October, 2020.” She explained the tricky planning for her marriage to Jared, “My grandfather’s health was quickly declining, which put life in perspective. We realized we cared more about having our close family around us as we join together in marriage than having a big wedding. “We lost my grandfather, and we thank God every day that he was able to be present at our wedding and celebrate our union in July.” The best thing about the smaller ceremony, she said, was holding onto every memory. “Weddings (can) become so overwhelming that the bride and groom do not spend time with each other or their guests. Jared and I are blessed to have had our wedding day coordinated, officiated and photographed with Mona and Don.” “They truly make wedding dreams come true.” Visit: sweetandsimpleweddings. com
Local venues shine
Event planner Terry Kaye said “love is in the details.” The longtime wedding and event consultant has worked in the indus-
PHOTO COURTESY OF CIAO BELLA
Chrissy and Jared Zeigler were married in July in Old Town Warrenton. The micro-ceremony, planned by Dan and Mona McLinden, included a photo shoot in front of the Warren Green Building. try more than two decades, developing what clients call a creative vision, impeccable style and a relentless attention to detail to guarantee what one bride said was “the flawless execution of the most important event in my life.” “I love what I do,” said the Warrenton resident. “When there is passion in the planning process, you can expect something extraordinary. I try to create an experience for my clients, one they and their guests will remember for the rest of their lives.” Kaye, 45, planned corporate events at the Westfields Marriott before
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Event planner Terry Kaye, second from left in photo above, says Fauquier County is a perfect place to host weddings, especially the smaller-scale ‘micro weddings’ that have become popular in the past year.
starting Terry Kaye Events in 2000. She loves intimate weddings, calling them sentimental and unique, and local wineries are perfect for ceremonies big and small. Blue Valley Winery is unrivaled for the views and the vibe, Kaye said, and Stone Tower Winery has created a special micro-ceremony. The Great Marsh Estate in Bealeton is another favorite venue. With event planning, Kaye says that whatever the size, there’s always the opportunity for something to go wrong: “I have so many stories.” From a ripped wedding dress (fixed with tape) to candle wax drips on linen tablecloths (hidden by re-placing the flower arrangements), she’s seen it all. Once Kaye had to use a fake cake for posed photos when the real one – very fancy and very expensive – fell off the table. “We bought a sheet cake at Wegman’s to serve.” Another time, a 4-year-old flower girl dropped the wedding ring in the grass at an outdoor ceremony. “I spent 20 minutes on my knees looking for that ring. The little girl was over at the altar twirling around in her dress like nothing was wrong. “I was freaking out.” She found the ring. Married without incident at a Kaye-planned ceremony at Great Marsh, Jennifer Douglas was thrilled with her wedding. “Terry was such a pleasure to work with from day one,” Douglas said. “She really listens to your planning needs, gets everything done exactly, if not better, than envisioned. “Our plans were changed multiple times due to COVID, but Terry never stressed. She made sure we would have the best day of our lives.” Visit: terrykayeevents.com
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Tell me you love me
Veterinarian Dr. Amanda Gray says that animals talk without human language, physical communication cues speaking volumes about their feelings and desires.
What animal behaviors really mean They speak without words, and it says a lot By Dr. Amanda Gray
Special to the Fauquier Times
Your dog tilts his head a certain way or places a paw just so, and you swear you know what he’s saying. Or maybe your cat “speaks” to you with her body language, rubbing against your leg, purring and gazing adoringly into your eyes. You just know she’s telling you she loves you. Even a horse can talk without words, nickering when you walk in the barn and wrapping his neck around you looking for a treat. As beautiful is the animal-human bond, Dr. Melissa Bain, professor of clinical behavior at the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, explains that there’s science behind non-verbal communication between species.
Cats
Picture a cuddly cat in your lap while you enjoy a cup of hot tea and a good book. And the cat is probably purring. This odd rumbling in the throat has been scientifically proven as a sign of contentment in felines – even big cats regularly exhibit this behavior. Your cat might display a high level of comfort by his or her boldness in exploration. If you notice your cat meandering from room to room, looking around seemingly aimless, don’t automatically think that the cat is ignoring you. More likely, the cat spent most of the day napping in one spot, but when the owner returns home, a comfortable, happy cat feels protected and safe enough to explore.
Eye kisses
Eye contact means something different for all species, but research points to felines displaying affection by holding their owner’s gaze and giving “eye kisses.” A cat eye kiss is when a cat looks at you, the eyes start closing, and they blink while keeping your gaze. Recent research suggests you can get your cat to eye kiss by eye kissing them first, according to a study released by the Mammal Communication and Cognitive Research Group at the University of Portsmouth.
Licking
Cats love to groom themselves, and when they live in colonies, they will also groom each other. It is a powerful way of bonding. So next time your cat licks your face at 4 a.m., before pulling the covers over your head for protection, remember this is a demonstrable way felines express affection.
Pawing and biting
Pawing and biting are ways that cats express affection with each other. When you think petting your cat
is going well and sense that your cat is about to become aggressive, it is not necessarily that they have had enough of you. They could just be trying to take the affection to the next level. However, paws and bites do not feel the greatest on our human skin; it is acceptable to gently deflect the behavior with a nudge or redirection.
Rubbing and head butting
When a cat rubs against you or head butts you, the automatic assumption is that she’s trying to tell you she cares. Science proves it – you’re right. The cat is also marking and mingling your scent with hers, just as she’d do with a member of her feline family instinctively. Stephen Tomecek says in his book, “Animal Behavior,” it is the highest form of flattery, but something more, too. “Some people think it’s a sign of affection when a cat starts rubbing its head against them,” he writes. “The cat may like you, but it has another motive. Cats have scent glands all over their faces. When they rub up against you, they are really spreading a chemical message that you belong to them.”
Horses
Horses, like cats, can be subtle in the ways in which they express affection. Also, like cats, a horse may take some time to warm up to a human owner, handler or rider. Most people know that when horses pin their ears, they’re upset and may even be gearing up to kick at something. How a horse communicates happiness can be just as obvious if you pay attention.
Whinnying, neighing, nickering and whickering
Neighs and whinnys are the words generally used for a horse’s call to equine herdmates. The horse is usually saying “I’m over here. Where are you guys?” Neighs are generally more highpitched and more concerned in tone than the more gentle whinny. Nickering is even less concerned, typically a low vocal tone, considered scientifically and anecdotally, as an expression of comfort and happiness. A whicker, sort of a combination of a nicker and a whinny, most often expressed between horses but sometimes “spoken” to a human handler. Bain explains that horses will exhibit this behavior as a way of demanding attention or food. Like a dog that places its paw on you for attention – rewarded either when you turn to it to say hello, or no – horses can learn, “I whinny; you give me food.”
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Muzzles that nuzzle
Horses often lightly blow at or into one another’s muzzles as a way of communicating. If it ever seems like a horse has come up to you only to breathe in your face, trust that you’re part of his herd, he thinks you’re cool and worth communicating with.
human is likely reading right saying that dog is “happy.” But if the back is hunched or rounded, Bain cautions, hackles raised, eyes darting back and forth, that dog could be considering a bite or attack. “A high tail wag with a stiff body is not necessarily friendly,” she says.
Licking and leaning
Rolling over
Other ways a horse might express affection are by licking (usually on a human’s hands) or by leaning into a handler during grooming. Both behaviors say “I’m happy” and “I trust you to keep me safe.”
Dogs
Dogs are the quintessential lovebugs of the domestic animal world. Bold in their affection – whether it is always wanting to know what we are doing, going along with every little thing we do, snuggling or giving actual kisses – it doesn’t take much knowledge to recognize canine-human love. However, because dogs in general are so loving, human handlers can mistakenly interpret all canine behavior in this light. Veterinarians warn that learning to read dog behavior is necessary to keep human owners from getting it wrong.
Eye contact
Eye contact means something different in every species, but, for dogs, it’s usually considered a challenge. Pay attention to how dogs play. At best, eye contact is held between two dogs right before a big play move is made. At worst, it happens immediately before a vicious dog fight breaks out. While there are always exceptions to the rule, direct eye contact is something to avoid with a dog you don’t know. Don’t forget, this includes a dog just brought home from the shelter. Until you really know the dog, be careful not to accidentally “challenge” it with a stare.
Tail wagging
Most people think “happy” when seeing a dog wag his tail. That read isn’t fully incorrect, but, depending on the situation, tail wagging can mean something else. A tail wag means stimulation, usually, in the case of a comfortable family pet, happy stimulation. Other times, it demonstrates anxiety, fear or stress stimulation. Always take the full context into account. If a dog’s tail is wagging, the eyes are relaxed and the mouth is softly open with the tongue out, a
Many times, a domestic – or wild – dog rolling over expresses playfulness. A domestic dog coming up to a human he trusts and rolling over shows comfort and a desire for bonding. The behavior also shows a form of submission. Context is key. If your dog is rolling over and showing its belly around new people after displaying wary eyes and making his body smaller as if to cower, that is a fearful dog. Bain says rolling over “is not an invitation to be petted, necessarily.” The dog may be trying to appear to be a passive player in a situation. Go slow with a dog displaying this behavior when introducing new people, animals or activities. Offer praise and treats to make new activity less scary. Eventually, Bain says, pets learn that offering the belly usually results in a comforting and pleasing rub.
Chickens and ducks
Poultry owners say watching chicken, duck and guinea fowl behavior – with one another and with humans – is as good as watching television. They’re not a species you commonly think of as giving affection, but, in their own way, they definitely do.
Following
Just as ducklings or chicks follow their mothers, backyard fowl often parade behind their humans as they grow comfortable in the human-avian bond. Consider it a sign of respect and interest, Bain says: “It’s contact. Do they seek contact with you, or do they go away?”
Being held
It is not easy to catch birds – even domestic ones, but if they let you pick them up and hold them, this is definitely a sign of comfort and trust. Yvonne Toone of Delaplane says her daughter Ariana is the only one on the family farm that can “hold our ducklings and calm them down.”
Rubbing their heads
Like cats, a bird rubbing its head on a human is the closest thing you’ll get to a snuggle.
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State-level election systems It’s time to give Fauquier County teachers a raise As the Virginia legislature wrangles over -- nearly all provided by local property taxes. So need improvements Currently there is an effort to characterize the statement that there were numerous irregularities during the 2020 election in at least seven states as the “Big Lie.” This seems much like the “Big Lie” of the 2016 election, the claim against President Trump of collusion with Russia, that four separate federal investigations determined there was no evidence to support the charge. The most recently released declassified documents reveals that in a September 2017 FBI interview, the Russian dossier author, Christopher Steele, admitted to the FBI that he leaked the Russia collusion story during the height of the 2016 election to help Hillary Clinton overcome her lingering email scandal and because he believed Donald Trump’s election would be bad for U.S. relations with his home country of Britain. Individuals who have followed the release of Congressional and DOJ IG reports and transcripts have known since late 2017 that there was no truth to the 2016 election “big lie.” With regard to the purported 2020 election “big lie,” there is a concise report – The threevolume Navarro Report -- which covers the results of inquiries into irregularities identified during the 2020 election. An example of how court cases addressing these irregularities were often handled by the courts is the Wisconsin Supreme Court Case where more than 200,000 absentee ballots were processed without an absentee ballot request used to verify voter identification, as required by state law. This was dismissed by a 4 to 3 vote with the rationale the case “addressed alleged improper local election practices that were apparent long before balloting occurred.” The dissenting opinion, written by the court chief justice, noted that the actions of election officials in Dane and Milwaukee Counties violated state laws. (NYMAG. com Dec 15, 2020). Chief Justice Patience Drake Roggensack’s dissenting opinion also stated, “Four members of this court threw the cloak of laches over numerous problems that will be repeated again and again, until this court has the courage to correct them.” (homafiles.info.2020/12/16) While, like the Wisconsin Supreme Court, other courts made decisions to deny claims, or dismiss cases, but so far, no court case has been found which denied a claim because the claim was false. Claims have been denied because the votes were already counted; the sworn affidavits were insufficient evidence; the claim was made too late to exercise a remedy or other such administrative reason. Yes, the court cases have run their course, the electoral votes have been counted, and a new president has been sworn in. These facts do not eliminate the reality that our state level elections system need a serious review followed up with effective improvements so the nation has honest and auditable elections in the future. In my humble opinion, people who think it is a “big lie” that irregularities occurred in the 2020 general election need to do some research on these irregularities and associated court cases. There should now be an effort to promote improvements to state election laws to eliminate sources for irregularities in our future elections. CHARLES MEDVITZ New Baltimore
the question of when children should return to in-person instruction and parents and students do their best with virtual learning, I think this is the right time to raise the issue of teacher pay. Although I am not a teacher, I did study to become a teacher, completed my student teaching and gained the necessary certification required by Virginia. I thought teaching would be the perfect job, allowing me to leave my civil service position and give me more time with my newborn son. That vision quickly changed as I began to actually look for a teaching position and realized the pay difference between the two careers. I could not think about being a teacher and meeting my expenses; I returned to my government job. That experience did, however, make me realize the scope of time, effort and commitment it takes to be a teacher -- an experience parents must certainly understand given the circumstances of the pandemic and its effect on educating our children. According to the Virginia Department of Education, the commonwealth ranks 32nd in the nation for teacher pay; number-one ranked New York State pays its teachers about $33,000/year more. Salaries in Virginia also vary from county to county -- the average pay in Prince William County compared to Fauquier is about $14,000 more per year. This discrepancy leads many teachers in the more rural counties to leave for higher salaries in the wealthier counties after a couple of years. Who could blame them? Fauquier County spends 60% of its budget on schools. The 2020 estimate per student cost was $13,907, of which 64% comes from local funding
… every time the school board asks the board of supervisors for additional funding for teacher salaries, some other needed and important program -- i.e. police, fire, etc., -- would have to be shorted. Robbing Peter to pay Paul is never a good idea in any circumstance. In the 2020 legislative session, Sen. Jill Vogel introduced a bill to provide a 5% raise for teachers over each of the next two years. That proposal, however, was watered down in the final budget and resulted in a 4% raise over the next two years. A portion of the raises will need to be funded by the Fauquier County government and it doesn’t address the salary gap between counties, especially between contiguous counties. In the current crazy world in which we are all living, it may seem unreasonable to some to ask for teachers’ salaries to be increased. My thought is that it is exactly the reason for this to be asked now, particularly given the importance of the job our teachers do (and we expect them to do – be honest with yourself about that part). The pandemic has highlighted the extremely valuable role that teachers play in our society and we should compensate them accordingly. As a final personal note on this topic, I’d like to give a shout out to all the terrific Fauquier County teachers who provided a good education for my son. He was fully prepared for college studies and was even able to save on some college tuition by completing his studies in less than four years (Thank you AP course teachers!). KIRSTEN KING Warrenton
Writer is frustrated with local health district’s lack of transparency about vaccine administration. I am extremely frustrated at the completely ineffective management and disparate application of the vaccine process by the Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District and I am sick to death of the state and RRHD continually explaining that their vaccine redistribution problems are the result of the limited quantity of doses that they receive from the federal government; when in fact the problem is primarily a lack of planning at the state, health district and local county levels. One of the Times’ articles noted the frustration with the vaccine sign-up process. I’ll take that one step further. How about frustration with the complete lack of transparency and management of the sign-up process? And, no, don’t tell me to go to the RRHD vaccine dashboard for answers; polished statistics are meaningless. A high school junior (if he/she were actually in school) could develop a better sign-up process, applicant database and applicant evaluation and appointment control methodology than apparently exists with RRHD’s current process. Reading the Times’ Feb. 3 article about Piedmont Family Practice (a for-profit entity) now dispensing vaccinations to their patent database put me over the top with my anger. Apparently the RRHD and [county administrator] Paul McCulla are OK with the misappropriation of vaccines and disregard of an established applicant database by a for-profit entity, to the detriment of
all of the other Fauquier County’s residents in the RRHD survey queue. Is the RRHD aware that PFP is only serving its existing paying customers irrespective of the RRHD survey applicant database? The bottom line is that apparently any Fauquier County resident who is not a paying customer of Piedmont Family Practice can just suck it up while a very privileged few are served at the head of the line by this for-profit business. And, no, don’t tell me that PFP using the RRHD vaccine registration database to select the vaccination appointments when this for-profit has already made it clear that they will not vaccinate anyone who is not an existing patient. Maybe my above concern begs the question. Maybe the question should be “Who is in charge of actually using the RRHD database to (1) contact the next eligible applicant to make an appointment and (2) to designate the Point of Dispensing that will actually dispense the vaccination dose to the recipient? Is the RRHD maintaining its centralized responsibility for managing and controlling the health district’s dispensing of the vaccinations to recipients or has the RRHD relegated its responsibilities to for-profit entities without any RRHD oversight? Unfortunately, I think that I know that answer. CHARLES DENNIS Broad Run
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Fauquier Times | February 10, 2021
FALCONS’ GIRLS HOOPS DROUGHT IS OVER Fauquier downs Kettle Run 41-25 for first district tourney title since 1972
Fauquier 41, Kettle Run 25
FAUQUIER 9 7 12 3 – 41 KETTLE RUN 4 5 6 10 – 25 FAUQUIER (41): Skyler Furr 3 9-12 15, Makayla Foddrell 4 6-10 14, Bhavika Regeti 3 0-0 6, Emma Carter 1 2-2 4, Katie Harrington 1 0-0 2, Shannon Seiler 0 0-2. TOTALS: 12 17-26 41. KETTLE RUN (25): Erin Porter 1 8-10 11, Faith Schaefer 2 0-2 4, Emma Humphries 2 0-0 4, Kate Bloom 1 0-0 2, Maddy Edwards 1 0-2 2, Madison Canterbury 0 2-5 2. TOTALS: 7 10-19 25. 3-point field goals: KRHS (1) Porter. FHS: None.
By Fred Hodge
Special to the Times
Nearly one-half of a century has passed since Fauquier High School has won a girls basketball district championship. That changed in the Northwestern District tournament final as the top-seeded Falcons downed No. 2 Kettle Run, 41-25, Saturday morning, ending the program’s 49-year title drought. For years, Fauquier coaches have pointed to the record board on the gymnasium wall that lists 1972 as the only time the Falcons had claimed a league girls basketball title. “Right now, my emotions are everywhere because it’s been almost 50 years since that has happened at the school,” said Brian Foddrell, Fauquier’s third-year head coach. “It’s a testament to all the hard work they have put in. It’s a collaborative effort. The girls bought into our system and have seen they are capable of winning basketball games,” he said. The Falcons (10-1) were staring at a season-ending defeat two days earlier in the semis as Fauquier trailed No. 4 Culpeper for the first 26-plus minutes before taking a 34-32 lead with five minutes left and prevailing 41-35.
Class 4 Region C pairings PHOTO BY RANDY LITZINGER
The Fauquier Falcons are district girls basketball champions for the first time since 1972 and hosted Tuscarora in the Class 4 Region C semifinals Tuesday. Foddrell blamed his team’s lack of aggressiveness for the scare and came out in a man-to-man defense, a change from their usual halfcourt trap or zone team. “Ultimately we lacked intensity against Culpeper. I told the girls ‘As long as you play good hard defense. That’s where we win basketball games,’” Foddrell said. The score was 4-4 with 1:09 left in the first quarter before a 12-2 FHS run over the next four and one-half minutes, led by five points each from Skyler Furr and Makayla Foddrell to lead 16-6. The Cougars (64) stemmed the tide at the halftime buzzer on Erin Porter’s off-balance 20-foot 3-point heave.
Third quarter baskets by Faith Schaefer and Emma Humphries narrowed the Cougars’ gap to 16-13. Fauquier launched a 12-2 surge over the final 4:54 of the quarter to open a 28-15 margin. “We’re still getting shots, but we’re missing that final piece,” said first-year Kettle Run coach David Noonan. “We need to keep working our butts off to get to making those shots. We have to convert or be able to draw fouls to go to the free throw line. It just didn’t happen today.” Still, Noonan was proud of his girls for making regionals. “I’m ecstatic about this. I can’t wait to get back to the gym on Monday,” he said. The final buzzer elicited a dream-
Tuesday’s semifinals: Tuscarora (12-3) at FAUQUIER (10-1); KETTLE RUN (6-4) at Loudoun Valley (14-0). Only region winner makes states like sensation for one Falcon. Emma Carter, the lone senior, came into the program as a freshman when the Falcons were mired in a lengthy string of losing seasons, often winning four or fewer games. She opted to swim as a sophomore before returning as a junior, and she knows she made the correct decision. “This is all so crazy to me,” she admitted. “We’ve really built this program up so much since that freshman year, I’m really proud of everyone who helped build it. “I’m extremely excited for next week,” Carter said of this week’s regional playoff. I’m just so happy we are here, and I don’t want to stop.”
Handley noses out Kettle Run to win district wrestle crown Liberty sends 13 to regionals, FHS, KRHS each send 11 By Fred Hodge
Special to the Times
It is not unusual for the Northwestern District wrestling title to come down to the final match, but a late script change saw the Handley Judges steal the spotlight. With only the 285-pound gold medal bout remaining, Kettle Run held a 197-193 lead over Handley. Handley’s Rodd’ney Davenport stepped onto the mat to meet Fauquier’s Gavin Robertson. Davenport registered a second period fall, and the six additional team points vaulted the Judges over the Cougars for the team title, 199-197 with Liberty third with 192.5. “It’s always going to be a little bit heartbreaking when you are two points away,” said Kettle Run coach Mike Foy. “Going in, we felt we could win it. We put ourselves in a position to do so, but Handley just took over there right at the end. But I am very, very happy with the way my guys wrestled. I couldn’t have asked for anything else. They went out
and did their job.” Liberty finished a strong third with 192.5 points to 174 for Fauquier and 92 for Culpeper. The top four place winners in each weight earned berths in this Saturday’s Class 4 Region C meet at Tuscarora. Entering the championship round, Kettle Run was in first place with 186 points ahead of Handley (177.5), Liberty (168), Fauquier (162) and Culpeper (80). The Cougars had the most finalists with eight to seven for Fauquier
Team scores: Handley 199, Kettle Run 197, Liberty 192.5, Fauquier 174, Culpeper 92. and six for Handley. Liberty advanced five to the finals and Culpeper two. The Cougars excelled in the championship semifinal round, recording eight victories, seven via fall to give the squad two additional points for each pin. “That’s huge. “That’s where I knew we had to get points,” said Foy. See WRESTLING, page 16
Championship finals
106 pounds: Nick Baker (H) dec. Christian Eberhart (LHS), 6-4. 113: Luke Sturges (KR) maj. dec. Garrett Stickley (H), 17-7. 120: Cam Gordon (H) fall Brandon Brumigan (KR), 3:51. 126: Kyle Brumigan (KR) fall Remington Olsterblad (H), 1:33. 132: Mason Barrett (L) tech fall Logan Hall (KR), 15-0, 2:22. 138: Colin Dupill (LHS) fall Colin Kinkaid (KR), 2:25. 145: Noah Hall (LHS) maj. dec. Matt McLaughlin (KR), 13-0. 152: Simon Bishop (H) tech fall Nick Walsh (FHS), 15-0, 4:07. 160: Eric DeWald (FHS) fall Dirk Schreifels (KR), 2:11. 170: A.J. Marshall (C) fall Kobe Link (FHS), 0:47. 182: Kingsley Menifee (FHS) fall Abram Chumley (KR), 2:09;. 195: Royce Hall (LHS) dec. Ben Bell (FHS), 4-0. 220: Bracken Hibbert (C) fall Jacob Wirick (FHS), 4:22. 285: Rodd’ney Davenport (H) fall Gavin Robertson (FHS), 1:25.
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Liberty, Fauquier and Kettle Run head to regionals Saturday looking to qualify lots of wrestlers for states.
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Kettle Run girls place second at region swim meet By Peter Brewington Times Staff Writer
A strong balanced performance from their core swimmers led the Kettle Run girls to second place at the Class 4 Region C meet last Saturday in Leesburg. The Cougars were fourth in the boys meet. The Kettle Run girls scored 90 points to finish within striking distance of champion Broad Run, which had 103. The Cougars’ girls won the 400 freestyle relay in 3:49.27 thanks to the unit of Megan Fallin, Lily Von
Herbulis, Peyton Talomie and Emma Crddock. They also had three other third place finishes. Only a freshman, Von Herbulis was third in the 200 freestyle (1:58.69) and fifth in the 500 free (5:34.92). Fellow freshman Allegra Craft took third in the 100 breaststroke (1:10.79) with Talomie fifth (1:12.74). Emma Craddock was third in the 200 IM (2:19.24) with Talomie fifth (2:20.46) and Craft sixth (2:21.07). Craddock also took fifth in the 100 back (1:04.13) with teammate Gemma Flook seventh.
Cougar Erin Pechin was fifth in the 50 free (26.95). Megan Fallin took fourth in the 100 butterfly (1:01.64) and fourth in the 100 free (59.22).
Fauquier’s Goldman shines
Fauquier senior Jake Goldman won the boys 100-yard butterfly in 52.11 and took second in the 200 individual medley in 1:55.90. Goldman also swam on the Falcons’ 400 freestyle relay, which took fifth and also included Graham Savage, Tristan Boyd and Mason Worst. Worst was fifth in the 500 free and fifth in the 100 butterfly.
WRESTLING, page 15
Positive COVID tests dominate boys basketball’s final week By Peter Brewington Times Staff Writer
The pandemic played a role in ending the boys basketball seasons of Fauquier, Liberty and Kettle Run last week. After receiving a positive COVID test, No. 4-seeded Liberty forfeited its Northwestern District first round home game with No. 5 Kettle Run, ending its season at 1-6. Fauquier also had a late season positive COVID test, with school officials letting the Falcons play with JV players in a season-ending 70-45 loss to Culpeper in the district semifinals. “It was nice to get a chance to play that game. We’re appreciative of that,” said Fauquier coach Wayne Brizzi, whose No. 3-seeded Falcons finished 6-3. Kettle Run was the only school to play its district tournament game with its varsity, losing to No. 1 seed Handley 64-50 in the semifinals to finish 1-8. The Cougars hung tough, sticking
Kettle Run’s Mark Fallin was third in the 50 free (23.07) and fourth in the 100 back (57.58). Cougar freshman Andrew Brown took third in the 500 free in 5:11.53. Kettle Run freshman Cory Frisk was fifth in the 100 breaststroke (1:12.14). Liberty’s William Frederick was fifth in the 100 free (54.83). Heritage scored 96 points to win the boys meet, followed by Dominion (76), Broad Run (58), Kettle Run (57), Loudoun County (54), with Fauquier (48) sixth. Liberty scored 12 points for 10th place.
Foy said six of his 12 wrestlers competed up one weight due to a surfeit of lower and middle weights. He lauded the sacrifice of those wrestlers “to give us the best possible team.” Kettle Run came away with two gold medalists in Luke Sturges (113 pounds) and Kyle Brumagin (126). Led by four-time district champion Mason Barrett (132), Liberty had four individual titlists to tie Handley for the most. Other Eagle winners were Colin Dupill (138), Noah Hall (145) and Royce Hall (195). Fauquier had a pair of winners in Eric DeWald (160) and Kingsley Menifee (182). Culpeper had two victors. Liberty is sending a district-high 13 wrestlers to the regional competition to 12 for Handley. Kettle Run and Fauquier both advanced 11 and Culpeper six. Wrestlers must advance to the regional finals in their respective weight because only the top two in each classification qualify for the state Class 4 state tournament instead of the usual four. The Virginia High School League reduced the number in response to COVID-19 concerns. The state Class 4 meet is Feb. 20 in Virginia Beach.
close at 41-41 with 1:17 left in the third quarter before the Judges closed on a 23-9 run. Liberty coach Pat Frazer was disappointed his Eagles did not get a chance to play Kettle Run in the district tournament but had an optimistic announcement on Twitter: “Even before Day One, we said we were going to enjoy every second (because) we know it could be over the next day. I enjoyed every second with these guys and I am so thankful for the opportunity to coach these young men.” Fauquier’s Brizzi said his JV acquitted themselves well against a more mature Culpeper team. “They beat us, no question. But there were times where you could not tell we were a JV team,” he said. Falcon players stepping up included Kevin Chienku, who scored 11 points, Zachary Potucek (10 points) and Rey Ruiz, who played point guard and scored five.
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Gerald Billingsley, Remington’s mayor for three decades, dies at age 73 Remington Mayor Gerald Billingsley died Jan. 24 at Fauquier Hospital. He was 73 years old. Billingsley was first elected as the town’s mayor in 1988 and had served in that capacity, with some breaks, since then. Raised in Falls Church, Billingsley attended George Marshall High School, where he was the class valedictorian, according to an obituary provided by his family. After graduating from Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) he joined the U.S. Army. While serving in the military he met his now-late wife, Katie, and they eventually moved to Remington in 1981, where they raised three children. Billingsley spent his 40-year teaching career teaching civics and history at Joyce Kilmer Middle School in Vienna. He also taught aikido. Remington Vice Mayor Devada Allison, who has served on the town council for seven years, remembered Billingsley as fatherly figure to town council members. Billingsley’s years of experience as a teacher came in handy if members lost focus during a meeting, Allison said. “He always had the voice of reason, had a calming voice at meetings,” he remembered. “I myself was on the end of some scolding,” he said laughing, “but he always did it with respect.” Allison said it was his ongoing goal to catch the calm, measured Billingsley off guard. “It always made me happy if I could make the mayor smile and laugh.”
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Gerald Billingsley No one elected to serve in town government does it for the money, but Billingsley was even more remarkedly committed to the people he served, Allison remembered. He recollected overhearing conversations in town hall about Billingsley not cashing his small paycheck even months after he got it. “The town and the people meant so much to him, [the money] didn’t even matter to him,” Allison said. “It didn’t even register.” Sarah Billingsley, of Remington, is one of Gerald Billingsley three children. “I don’t know if dad had any idea how much he was loved and looked upon as a role model,” she said Tuesday. “We’ve received so many kind words and stories about my dad, and I’m glad so many people thought my dad was as great as we did.” In addition to Sarah Billingsley, the former mayor is survived by two other adult children: Matthew Billingsley, of Remington, and Blythe Drewer, of Baltimore. He was a grandfather to Shea Drewer. He is also survived by his sister, Mary Leah Bruno, and his nephew, Christopher J. Bruno, both of Silver Spring, Md.
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These property transfers, filed Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 2021 were provided by Clerk of the Court of Fauquier County. (Please note that to conserve space, only the first person named as the grantor or grantee is listed. The kind of instrument is a deed unless stated otherwise.) Top Dollar Deal: $3,750,000 in Lee District LLC, 7205 Silver Beech Lane nr. Lane, Bealeton. $95,000 Willow Place, Bealeton. $295,000 Cedar Run District Warrenton. $331,000 Daniel J. Scott to Scott Cook, 1.9563 acres LRW Investments & Property Management Michael Vanderpool to Franz Gutierrez, at 5650 Creekside Crossing, Warrenton. $540,000 Roger L. Kelly to Reginald Bruce Wayland Jr., 14.128 acres at 9780 Meetze Road nr. Midland. $799,000 Millfield IV LLC to Wester Tucker, 8187 Major Watters Court, Warrenton. $533,086 vStephen M. Messick to Filadelfo Vergara Velazquez, 2.4889 acres at 10312 Rogues Road, Midland. $465,000 Robert W. Hummell to Willis L. Darnell, 6.05 acres at 10593 Elk Run Road nr. Catlett. $545,000 John L. Coombs Tr. to Matthew H. Fallon, 2 acres at 8036 Springhope Drive, Catlett. $710,000 David P. Tatro Sr. to David Michael Weiss, 1.139 acres at 6268 Redwinged Blackbird Drive, Warrenton. $980,000 Samantha Perry Brown to Marie Angela Dewey, 1.691 acres at 12721 Foxtrot Road, Bealeton/Morrisville. $379,900 Center District Sean Dixon t0 Kenneth Gordon II, 6170
LLC to Keri Ann Blansett, 11180 Crest Lane, Bealeton. $278,000
8629 Bud Court, Bealeton. $292,000
7-Eleven Inc. to GCS Multi LLC, 1 acre at the intersection of Rts. 17 & 28, Bealeton. $3,750,000
Winchester Chase Development LLC to NVR Inc., Lot 26 (0.1472 acre) off Winchester Street, Warrenton. $165,000
Ryan W. Kowasic to Riley B. Watts Jr., 2 acres at 5444 Courtney’s Corner Road, Sumerduck. $279,900 Mintbrook Developers LLC to NVR Inc., Lots 39, 40, 41 and 42 in Mintbrook, Bealeton. $288,000 Charles D. Gibson to Salvador Marchorro, 1 acre at 11124 Marsh Road, Bealeton. $310,000 John A. Varnese to Charles E. Smith Jr., 2.0823 acres at 5195 Old Gray Farm Lane, Sumerduck. $440,975 Emory Fletcher to Luke Mitchell, 2.1015 acres at 4422 Secret Lane, Sumerduck. $440,000
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James I. Hackney to Frank Montigny, 198 East Shirley Avenue, Warrenton. $500,000 Scott District Eric Paschal Johnson Jr. to Alice Lawaetz, 9.82 acres on Rock Hill Mill Road, The Plains. $1,000,000
Richard L. Carr by Sub. Tr. to US Bank Nat’l. Assn. Tr., 0.9207 acre at 6367 Georgetown Road, New Baltimore/Broad Run. $248,000 Dan McBride Jr. to Femke Morelisse, 3.0619 acres at 5456 Old Bust Head Road, Broad Run. $631,000 Clyde J. Hilliard Jr. to Kyle Byler, 4056 Von Neuman Circle nr. Warrenton. $690,000
ECH-Vint Hill Associates LLC to AM Marshall District Campanaro Properties LLC, 2.5804 acres on Deborah Vaughn to Mancat Marshall Burroughs Drive nr. Warrenton. $450,000 LLC, 5.22793 acres on Enon School road, Russell Whalen Karr to Vincent J. Murray Marshall. $200,000 III, 1.0590 acres at 7377 Stuart Circle nr. David G. Tonizzo to Kevin Hooks, 22.6934 Warrenton. $535,000 acres on Jessica Lane off Olinger Road,
Keith B. Seymour to Michael C. Moon, 2.0001 acres at 4397 Montreux Road nr. David LaPorte to Jennifer Katherine Decker, Warrenton. $727,000 Mill Run Condominium LLC to Kandz 5008 Godwin’s Landing, Remington. LLC, Lots 19 and 20 at 6649 Garland Drive $350,000 Michael A. Trapanese to Edgar Salcatierra- nr. Warrenton. $567,540 Cazorla, 10.0895 acres on Heritage Eagle
Robert Holder Trumbo Jr. Successor Tr. to Crista Jordan, 1.4978 acres at 7360 Serenity Lane, The Plains. $555,000
Peter T. Davies to Aran Capital Partners
Marshall. $245,000
Elizabeth U. Jones Tr. to Morgan Strahle, 11.013 acres at 9417 Mountjoy Road nr. Marshall. $480,000 Vanita C. Mattson to Michael E. Esparza, 1.1411 acres at 7809 Trafalgar Place nr. Warrenton. $650,000
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OBITUARIES Grace Thompson Smith Grace Thompson Smith, 91, of Gainesville, VA, passed February 3, 2021. She was born on December 18, 1929. She was preceded in death by her husband, Rev. Dr. Norman W. Smith, Sr., and a son, Norman William Smith, Jr. She was a member of Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Rectortown, VA. Grace is survived by three daughters: Faithe Smith of Centreville, VA, Leah Smith Jackson of Manassas Park, VA, Lorri Smith Jackson of Manassas, VA; a son, Timothy Smith of Bowie, MD; 13 grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren; one son in law, Bruce; and one daughter in law, Memo. Viewing will be Saturday, February 13, 2021, from 10 am until 11 am, at Faith Christian Church, 6472 Duhollow Road, Warrenton, VA, 20187. Funeral services immediately following will be private. Services will be streamed live at GotFaithNow.org Pastor Rodney L. Smith, Sr. will deliver the eulogy. Interment will be in Pleasant Valley Memorial Park, Annandale, VA. Online condolences can be given at www.joynesfuneralhome. com
Eugene C. Cook Eugene C. Cook, age 91, passed away on February 4 in Park West Hospital after fighting Covid. Gene was born in Lafayette, Georgia on November 17, 1929 and lived in several places during his life, including Philadelphia, PA, Hollywood, FL, Virginia Beach, Alexandra, and Gainesville, Virginia. He graduated from Drexel University and spent his career in accounting and mortgage banking. With his wife, Peggy, Gene lived in the Heritage Hunt Community in Gainesville, VA. After the death of his wife, Peggy J. Cook, Gene moved to Knoxville, Tennessee to be near family and resided at Sherrill Hills Retirement Community. He became active in the retirement community, playing bingo, attending movies and participating in dance nights. He met a certain young woman, Ruby Liles and they danced together until the end. Gene was a member of St. Thomas United Methodist Church, Manassas, Va. and attended St. Mark United Methodist Church in Knoxville. Gene leaves one son, Brion T. Cook, of Miami, Florida. Also pre deceasing him were two sons, David A. Cook and Richard E. Cook and his first wife, Helen M. Cook. Other relatives include Faye J. Fillers, his sister-in-law and his niece and driver, Arlison Hall of Knoxville. Gene will be buried in Stonewall Memorial Gardens Manassas, VA. Because of Covid, there will be no service at this time. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to St. Mark United Methodist , Knoxville, and the Norfolk Urban Outreach Ministry, 972 Norfolk Square, Norfolk, VA 23502.
William Scott Baker William Scott Baker, 64, of Bealeton, VA, passed February 5, 2021. He was born on December 19, 1956. William is survived by his wife, Deborah Baker of Bealeton, VA; a son, Ron, of Jeffersonton, VA; daughter-in-law, Amanda, and his grandchildren: Autumn and Emily. A daughter, Charlotte, preceded him in death. A celebration of life will be held at a later date in the spring. Online condolences can be given at www.joynesfuneralhome. com
Katherine Wesley Quantrille December 24, 1943 – January 27, 2021 Katherine Wesley Quantrille of Bristow, VA, passed away Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at the age of 77 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease and dementia. Kathy was born in Washington, DC on December 24, 1943, the daughter of the late Bertram W. and Gloria K. Keller. Kathy graduated from Camp Lejeune High School. She was married to James E. Gibson I for many years and later married the late Joseph C. Quantrille, who passed away on June 15, 2012. Known for her unconditional love, Kathy was a mother figure to many. She was a loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, and friend. She was a homemaker and part-time bookkeeper. Her hobbies included bowling, playing cards, genealogy, and playing with her grandkids. Katherine had 4 siblings: brothers Bertram, Brian, the late John, and sister Susan. She is survived by her sons James E. Gibson II and Kevin W. Gibson, their wives Amy L. Gibson and Carissa N. Gibson, and her step-children Michael Quantrille and Michelle Taggart. She was blessed with 4 grandchildren (Hayley, Jake, Logan, Aiden) and many nieces and nephews (Brian, Jenna, Marissa, John, Cory, Kody, Alesha). Services will be held at a future date to be determined. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation In Loving Memory of Katherine Quantrille to The Parkinson’s Foundation at 200 SE 1st Street, Suite 800, Miami, FL 33131 or online at www. parkinson.org, or the Michael J Fox Foundation at Donation Processing, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, P.O. Box 5014 Hagerstown, MD 21741-5014 or online at www.michaeljfox.org
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OBITUARIES MICHAEL FRANCIS POWERS Michael Francis Powers of Warrenton, Virginia, left this life at Reston Hospital, Reston, Virginia, on January 21, 2021 after a prolonged and challenging illness. He was born on Loring Air Force Base, near Limestone, Maine to John Joseph Powers and Helen Marea Fortier on July 23, 1961. He was preceded in death by both parents at a young age, whereupon his older sister, Margaretta and her husband, John raised him to young adulthood. Being a military family, they travelled widely. After finishing school, Michael joined the Marine Corps, serving in various missions overseas. Prior to receiving an honorable discharge, he attended the Culinary Institute of America, whereby after leaving the Marine Corps, he was able to pursue his love of cooking. When he decided to chef on a personal level instead of commercially, he began working in the computer field, first as a help desk technician for various government contractors, ultimately expanding his professional systems expertise to concentrate on networking and database management. He volunteered as an Emergency Medical Technician in both Springfield and Lake Ridge, Virginia. On September 11, 2001, having seen the billowing smoke from his office window and hearing reports of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon, Mike drove from his office in Washington, D.C. to the Pentagon, where his fire and rescue skills and training were immediately employed to assist the first responders of Arlington County. Yet he was also a gentle rescuer, helping small children by relieving them of the pocket change they had swallowed, to their parents’ immeasurable relief. Whatever task was at hand, Mike was there to help, and served in the volunteer service until his physical condition made it impractical. His hobbies were cooking and grilling, gardening, reading military history and collecting and building models of military vehicles. He is survived by his loving wife of 20 years, Karen Eldridge Powers, his sisters Margaretta (John); and Sister Joanne Maria Powers, and his brother, John Powers (Katherine); a son Michael Brantley Powers, niece Jacqui Picard (Todd); nephew John Edward Swift IV (Becky), nephew Jack Powers, great-nieces Gwendolyn, Delaney and Jocelyn Swift, and greatnephews Collin and Tyler Picard. Keeping with COVID-19 restrictions, a small, private visitation was held on January 25, 2021 at Moser Funeral Home in Warrenton, Virginia. Cremation occurred on January 28. A celebration of life will follow later this year, at a time yet to be determined. Expressions of sympathy may be made in his memory to the Fauquier SPCA or to the Sisters of Christian Charity, Mendham, NJ.
Joyce Houghton Carmines Joyce Houghton Carmines, 77, of Warrenton, VA, died at home on January 21, 2021 surrounded by her three loving children and family friends. She was born on January 5, 1944 in Portsmouth, VA, a daughter of late Roland Clyde Houghton and Virginia Savage Houghton. Joyce was a 40-year employee of the Chesapeake Public School system. During her career she positively affected the lives of countless children, many of whom still fondly remember her to this day. To know Joyce was to love her. She had the ability to make instant long-lasting friendships with anyone she had contact with. Joyce was an accomplished baker and cook who enjoyed preparing meals for her family, as well as catering weddings and other events. She also maintained a flourishing vegetable and flower garden for many years. She was a proud lifelong member of Cottage Place Methodist Church in Portsmouth. The quintessential wife, mother, and grandmother, she shared her beautiful life with many family members. Her late husband of 50 years, Franklin Lewis Carmines, three children; Robin Carmines Vaneman, and her husband Warren, Franklin Lewis Carmines, Jr. and his wife Cindy Meuser, and Ernest Christopher Carmines. She was a Grandmother of Chase Carmines, Wyatt Vaneman, Jackie Carmines, Jesse Carmines, and Noah Vaneman and Great-Grandmother of Rilyn Carmines. She also leaves two special daughters, Amy Gale and Lori Carmines Finn. She also leaves behind many other nieces, nephews, and cousins that were dear to her. Joyce led an authentic life of love for family. This world is just a little dimmer without her presence. All of us who were fortunate enough to know her will carry the special essence of her loving nature in our hearts. Thank you for that rare gift Joyce. You will be forever missed; you will be forever loved. Due to Covid restrictions, the family will have an on-line service at a later date. If you wish to attend virtually please contact the family to receive a link for the service.
Darlene Mann Andes Darlene Mann Andes, 70, of Sumerduck, Virginia, passed from this world to her reward on February 1, 2021. She was predeceased by her parents John P. Mann III and Mae D. Mann, and her grandson, Noah Matthew Andes. She was born January 22, 1951, and was a 1969 graduate of Brentsville District High School in Nokesville. She also attended Bridgewater College. Mom was always a Homemaker after her children were born. She was a strong woman of Christian Faith. She loved to organize a gathering or have a family meal. For many years, she volunteered at school, church and the Christian Women’s Club. Fellowship and caring was her ministry to others. She loved her family, especially her grandchildren. When the phone rang, a letter came in the mail or a care package was sent, it was always about the grandchildren first. Left to cherish her memory are her husband of 50 years, Roger E. Andes; son Phillip Andes and his wife Karen, granddaughters Hope and Hannah; and son Darrell Andes, Sr. and his wife Chanda, grandsons Darrell, Jr., Devin, Dustin and Dylan. She always considered Chanda and Karen her own daughters. She also leaves her two brothers John P. Mann IV and his wife Nancy, and Chuck Mann, special neighbors and in-laws Paul and Carolyn Croushorn, Wayne and Cindy Andes, along with many other extended family members and friends. We had fun. We talked. We laughed. We cried. We played. We sang. We ate meals. We celebrated. We grieved. We prayed. We sometimes raised the roof. We always loved...Together. We miss her...Together. S ome of her favorite Bible verses can be reviewed at your leisure: John 3:16, John 14:6, Matthew 19:14; and ours: 2 Timothy 1:12, Revelation 21:4 and Revelation 22:5. She often wrote “Without Christmas, there is no Easter.” and “Jesus is the Reason for the Season!” The Andes family is in the care of Moser Funeral Home in Warrenton, Virginia. A private celebration of life will be held at a later date. If you would like to make a contribution to help defray the cost of final expenses, you may send those gifts to Moser Funeral Home. “Jesus...loves...you.” Online condolences may be given at www.moserfuneralhome.com
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OBITUARIES Willie Mae Anns
James E. Williams
Willie Mae Anns of Bealeton, Virginia, peacefully passed away on January 6, 2021 at the age of 86. She was devoted to her family and is survived by her daughter, Gloria Crittenden and her husband, Brady; her son, Michael Anns and his wife, Donna; her daughter, Glenda Anderson and her husband, Bob; her daughter, Gina Faragher of New Jersey; her nine grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, Wallace K. Anns; her parents, Willie and Lillie Childress; her sister, Hazel Bywaters; her brother, Raymond Childress; and a grandson, Kody Faragher. Willie Mae retired after forty years as a hairdresser. She was also a member of the Lois Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary for many years. She loved camping and needlework. She was also a member of the CMA: Christian Motorcycles Association, Retreads Motorcycle Club, and Goldwing Riders Association. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, February 10, 2021 from 1:00 PM until the funeral service begins at 2:00 PM at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 12714 Elk Run Road, Midland, VA. Interment will follow at the church cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Heartland Hospice, 493 Blackwell Road, #319, Warrenton, VA, 20186. Live Stream Link to service: Facebook.com Mt. Carmel Church Youth and Events. Arrangements by Moser Funeral Home 233 Broadview Ave. Warrenton, VA 20186, 540-347-3431, online condolences at:moserfuneralhome.com
James E. Williams, 81 of Warrenton VA., died Monday February 1, 2021 at the Fauquier Hospital. James worked as a Sanitation Truck Driver for Fairfax County for 30 years. He is preceded in death by his daughter, Polly Mulubuh. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Christine Williams; a son, James Williams and wife Cynthia of Georgia; seven grandchildren; James Williams, Jr., and Kriss Williams both of North Carolina; Devin Williams, Jada Williams and Brandon Meyer all of Georgia and Michael Mulubah and Lashana Mulubah both of Warrenton; and two greatgrandchildren. The family will receive friends at Moser Funeral Home, 233 Broadview Ave., Warrenton, VA on Wednesday February 10, 2021 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m at which time the funeral service will begin. Burial will follow in the family cemetery, 5780 Enon School Rd., Marshall, VA 20115.
Connor Berkeley Baker December 15th, 2000 - January 26th, 2021
“If I were a lighthouse, and you were a ship at sea, I’d shine my light through the night, till you returned to me.” -Charles Ghigna Connor Berkeley Baker, 20, of The Plains, Virginia passed away on January 26 in Richmond, Virginia in the loving embrace of his parents. From a young age Connor was known for his love of lighthouses, especially the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Dare County, North Carolina, where he enjoyed many summer vacations. As he grew, his love of adventure took him farther, to Italy, England, Scotland, Uganda, and more. Connor attended Grace Church in The Plains, Virginia where he was baptized and raised. He was an alumnus of Little Graces Preschool, Wakefield Country Day School, and a graduate of Kettle Run High School. Connor was deeply connected to his friends, new and old. He was an animal lover with many pets over the years. He was a sophomore at Virginia Commonwealth University pursuing a degree in criminal justice and he loved exploring Richmond, Virginia. Connor is survived by his devoted parents, Jon and Kathy Baker; his brother Campbell; his maternal grandparents, Charles and Margaret Trefzger of The Plains, Virginia; his paternal grandparents, Jim and Joan Baker of Fredericksburg, Virginia; and his loving aunts, uncles, cousins, and godparents. Let us put our hope in the knowledge that Connor is now in the care of his loving and compassionate heavenly father. May the God of peace draw us close as we mourn the loss of this extraordinary, courageous, and deeply loved young man. A graveside service is planned for February 13, 2021 at 2pm at Little Georgetown Cemetery in Broad Run, Va. In lieu of flowers or gifts, memorial donations may be made to Grace Episcopal Church, The Plains Va. or the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) https://www.gofundme.com/f/ in-memory-of-connor-baker. A special memoral page has also been created where you may leave condolences, share a story or upload a photo https://www.mykeeper.com/profile/ConnorBaker/.
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Janet W. Harris Janet W. Harris, age 90, of Warrenton, Va passed away peacefully on February 2, 2021 at the Noble Senior Living in Warrenton, VA. She was born on August 3, 1930 in Warrenton, Va to the late Curtis and Eleanor Waybright. Janet truly loved life and was devoted to caring for her husband and sons. Along with her parents, she is predeceased by her late husband Hugh F. Harris, Jr. Janet is survived by her three sons; Philip Harris (Cathy), Mike Harris (Teresa) and Kevin Harris (Sherri); her sister Betty Sue Robertson; brother Charles Waybright; and brother-in-law Billy Harris. She is the proud grandmother to five and a great grandmother to eight. The family will receive friends at Moser Funeral Home, 233 Broadview Ave., Warrenton, VA on Wednesday February 24, 2021 from 10 – 11 a.m. with a memorial service starting at 11:00 with the Rev. Frank Fishback officiating. Burial will be private. The family would like to express their thanks for the wonderful help and care given by both Heartland Hospice of Warrenton and Noble Senior Living. Online condolences may be expressed to Janet’s family at www. moserfuneralhome.com
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OBITUARIES Laura Love Church March 21, 1928 – February 2, 2021 Laura L. Church went home to be with the Lord on February 2, 2021. She was born in Tennessee City, Tennessee, on March 21, 1928, one of nine children and the oldest of four sisters. She was preceded in death by her father, Samuel Dudley Love, mother Katherine B. (Stanley) Love, her brothers James, Robert, Harvey, Virgil, Bill, and her sisters Mildred Morgan and Effie Love. She is survived by her youngest sister, Genevieve “Genny” Spencer of Summerfield, Florida. She is pre-deceased by her husband of 42 years, David L. Church. Together they raised two children, Steven D. Church of Warrenton, Virginia, and Linda E. (George) Knapp of Harvest, Alabama. Laura had three grandchildren, all of whom live in Alabama, William (Joanna) Knapp, Sara (Kevin) Petty and Ashley (Andrew) Howell and five great grandchildren, Kendrick, Gabriel, Isabella, Alexander, and Henry. Laura grew up in rural Tennessee during the hard times of the Depression. It was a formative experience that influenced her entire life of almost 93 years. She left Tennessee in 1948 to take a job with the FBI in Washington, DC, and met David, who had come from North Carolina to work at the Post Office Department. They were married on September 17, 1949. Laura continued working until Steven was born in 1953, then she resigned never to return to work. Linda’s birth followed in 1956. Laura was always proud of her time at the FBI and proud of David, who retired in 1985 from a senior job at the Pentagon. Being a stay-at-home mom was one of the happiest times of her life. She and David sacrificed to see that Steven and Linda received a college education, something never within reach for themselves. Following Linda’s marriage, they enjoyed many years with their grandchildren. She remained close to both her Tennessee and North Carolina families. She was David’s primary caregiver during his long illness, relying on her trust in the Lord and the resilience she learned as a Depression-era child. After David died in 1991, Laura relocated to Warrenton to be close to her son. She was active in various churches, eventually becoming a member of the Warrenton United Methodist Church. She volunteered with the Fauquier Hospital Auxiliary. Her skill as a seamstress evolved into an interest in quilting. She made many beautiful quilts, including one for each of her grandchildren. Family always being important to her, she dove headlong into genealogical research, with many trips to courthouses and online research. She loved to travel, making trips to Israel, Ireland, Continental Europe, Alaska and the Western United States. Through her years in Warrenton her constant companions were her cats, first Teenie then Twinkles. Laura’s faith was strong. In her later years, she wrote: “I felt my mother and dad really loved each other and, even more important for me I felt (they) could always take care of anything.” When David became ill, she said: “I trusted my parents when I was a child and right now, we need to trust God the same way, even more so. I believe I learned that trust when I was a child. When I was about 11 years old, I asked Christ into my life. Because of his sustaining presence in my life, I have never felt alone.” Laura’s family wishes to express deep gratitude to those who cared for and comforted her during the last period of her life, especially the staffs at The Villa at Suffield Meadows, Fauquier Hospital and Fauquier Health Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Visitation will be on Thursday, February 11, 2021 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm at Moser Funeral Home, 233 Broadview Ave., Warrenton. Services will be the following day on Friday, February 12, 2021 at 11:00 am at Warrenton United Methodist Church, 341 Church St., Warrenton, with interment in La Plata, Maryland. To honor Laura’s memory the family suggests contributions in Laura’s name to Paws For Seniors, PO Box 738, Bealeton, Virginia, 22712, www.pawsforseniors.org , info@pawsforseniors.org. Online condolences may be expressed at moserfuneralhome.com.
WRITING A EULOGY When tasked with writing a eulogy, it can be daunting to find the right words to summarize a person’s life and then deliver those words as a speech in front of family and friends. Although there is no right or wrong way to write a eulogy, there are several factors to keep in mind. First, decide on the tone—how serious or light-hearted should you be? A good eulogy need not necessarily be somber, just appropriate. It is essential to get the facts straight and remember that eulogies don’t have to sound like obituaries. A few points should be touched on to make the deceased stand out in the audience’s minds, such as family life, career achievements, hobbies, and interests.
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HOLIDAY REFUSE SCHEDULE “PRESIDENTS DAY” FEBRUARY 15TH 2021
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FOOD PANTRY 2nd & 4th Sundays
WEDNESDAY - 2/17/21 RECYCLING COLLECTIONS (BLUE BAGS, NEWS PAPER
3124 Beulah Rd, at Beulah Baptist Church, Markham VA will have a food pantry on 1:30pm-3pm Please contact Cecelia Williams at 540.364.2428. Church number 540.364.2626.
THURSDAY - 2/18/21 REGULAR REFUSE COLLECTION FRIDAY - 2/19/21 REGULAR REFUSE COLLECTION
OUR FOOD PANTRY IS EMPTY
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At the Salvation Army of the Virginia Piedmont, we serve thousands of residents in Fauquier, Culpeper and Orange counties 365 days a year.
MONDAY - 2/15/21 HOLIDAY NO REFUSE COLLECTION TUESDAY - 2/16/21 DOUBLE REFUSE – (MON & TUES REFUSE COLLECTION) & CARDBOARD)
TOWN OF WA R R E N T O N CEMETERY CLEAN-UP NOTICE
Pre-spring cleaning in the Cemetery by removing all winter / Christmas flowers. All arrangements, decorations or flowers that are dead, dried up, faded or fallen apart will be removed the week of February 22, 2021. All items such as vases, saddles, baskets, etc., that you wish to keep, will need to be removed prior to that date. Then the Town will be doing a pre-check / cleaning prior to Mother’s Day and again prior to Memorial Day, so if you have any items, arrangements or containers that may have fallen off or needing attention, please take care of prior to these days. The Town appreciates your cooperation and if you have any questions or concerns, please call Public Works at 347-1858.
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SEEKING active duty, retired, & former Army Green Berets!
Chapter 90 of the Special Forces Association is looking for active duty, former and retired members of the U.S. Army Special Forces to join our Chapter. Chapter 90 meets monthly at the VFW post in Fredericksburg and also over “Zoom” for those who cannot attend in person. We are a large group of former Green Berets who now hold charitable golf tournaments, gun raffles, and other activities through the year to support veteran focused Charities such as Special Operations Warrior Foundation, The Fisher House, Purple Heart Homes and many local charities. Visit our website at www.sfach90.org to learn more or send us an email at SFA_Chapter90@hotmail.com if you want to contact us. We have a lot of fun and promise not to bore you!
SALVATION ARMY NEEDS YOUR HELP
Every donation helps; however, we are most in need of the following: CANNED VEGETABLES & FRUIT CANNED MEAT SPAGHETTI SAUCE PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY RICE, PASTA INSTANT MASHED POTATOES DIAPERS SIZES 4-6, BABY WIPES BABY FOOD
Donations of food pantry goods are joyfully accepted at our two pantries located at 62 Waterloo St, Warrenton, VA 20188 weekdays from 9-5; and 133 E. Culpeper St, Culpeper, VA 22701 on Tuesday and Wednesday from 9-5 and Friday from 9-1 as well as Monetary donations can safely be received via our mailing address of P.O. Box 3474, Warrenton, VA 20188. Thank you. We appreciate you.
ABC Licenses Full name(s) of owner(s): MY SWEET THYME LLC Trading as: MY SWEET THYME 8549 John S. Mosby Highway, Upperville, Fauquier, Virginia 20184-1837 The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL for a Mixed Beverage Limited Caterer license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Rejane Monday Note: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.
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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE FAUQUIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION FEBRUARY 18, 2021 The Fauquier County Planning Commission will hold a work session beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 18, 2021 in the Warren Green Building, First Floor Meeting Room, 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia. The Fauquier County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the following items at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 18, 2021 in the Warren Green Building, First Floor Meeting Room, 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia: 1. ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT – TEXT-19-011518 – A Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment to revise Ordinance provisions related to the Importation, Storage or Disposal of Fill Material. (Amy Rogers, Staff) 2. ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT – TEXT-20-014234 – A Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment to Section 5-001.4 requiring Special Exception approval by the Board of Supervisors for Special Permit uses allowed on property subject to an Open Space Easement. (Amy Rogers, Staff) 3. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-20-013740 - PARKSIDE VILLAGE, LLC, VINT HILL VILLAGE, LLC AND COUNTY OF FAUQUIER VIRGINIA (OWNERS)/ VHL EAST, LLC AND VHL WEST, LLC (APPLICANTS) – VINT HILL LOFTS – An application for a Special Exception to allow multi-family residential uses in existing buildings. The properties are located at 4285 Bludau Drive and 4221 Sigler Road, Scott District. (Portions of PINs 7915-63-2639-000, 7915-63-8665-000 and 7915-64-9304-000) (Adam Shellenberger, Staff) 4. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-20-014233 – ELITE POWER & ENERGY CORPORATION (OWNER/APPLICANT) – ELITE POWER & ENERGY PROPANE DISTRIBUTION SITE – An application for a Category 15 Special Exception to allow for bulk storage of petroleum products. The property is located at 7587 Capitol Way, Marshall District. (PIN 6979-28-9770-000) (Kara Krantz, Staff) 5. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-20-014263 – DONALD LEE & DEBRA L. SHERBEYN (OWNERS/APPLICANTS) – PAY IT FORWARD RANCH – An application for a Category 29 Special Exception to waive the public street requirement. The property is located at 13199 Elk Run Road, Cedar Run District. (PIN 7816-89-1656-000) (Kara Krantz, Staff) 6. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-20-013767 – GILL BROTHERS TRANSPORTATION, INC. (OWNER/APPLICANT) – GILL BROTHERS TRANSPORTATION – An application for a Category 21 Special Exception to allow for a Motor Freight Terminal. The property is located at 4175 Whiting Road, Scott District. (PIN 6979-39-9034-000) (Adam Shellenberger, Staff) 7. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-20-013938 – FRANCIS G. FORTIN, JR. (OWNER)/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP. (APPLICANT) – HARTWOOD AIRPORT – An application for a Category 17 Special Exception to allow for General Industrial use in the Rural Agricultural (RA) District on more than one acre when reusing legally existing airport facilities. The property is located at 40 Dophie Road, Cedar Run District. (PIN 7836-61-5667-000, 7836-60-4388-000 and 7836-70-3951-000) (Adam Shellenberger, Staff) 8. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-20-014264 – BRETT J. LUDDEN (OWNER/ APPLICANT) – LEEDS MANOR ART GALLERY – An application for a Category 7 Special Exception to allow the adaptive re-use of a commercial garage for an art gallery. The property is located at 5049 Leeds Manor Road, Marshall District. (PIN 6928-56-6141-000) (Wendy Wheatcraft, Staff) 9. REZONING AMENDMENT/SPECIAL EXCEPTION AMENDMENT – REZN-20014259 & SPEX-20-014260 – MINTBROOK DEVELOPERS, LLC (OWNER/ APPLICANT) – MINTBROOK – An application to amend portions of a previously approved Proffer Statement, Concept Development Plan and Code of Development; and an application to amend a previously approved Special Exception for a drive-through facility. The properties are located on Marsh Road and Lafayette Avenue, Lee District. (PIN 6899-18-3742-000, 6899-17-2503-000, 6899-16-3430-000, 6899-16-4132-000 and a portion of 6889-99-0259-000) (Adam Shellenberger, Staff) The application materials can be found on the Land Development Online Portal at: https://commdevpay.fauquiercounty.gov/Energov_Prod/SelfService#/home. Approximately one week prior to the public hearing, staff reports for all items will be available online at: http://agenda.fauquiercounty.gov/. To arrange a time to review files in person, please contact the Department of Community Development’s Planning Office at (540) 422-8210, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Due to the threat to public health and safety of the residents of Fauquier County from exposure to COVID-19, and pursuant to the County’s emergency continuity of government ordinance adopted April 9, 2020, citizens are encouraged to participate virtually in this process. The meeting may be viewed on Fauquier County Government Channel 23 and livestreamed at: http://fauquier-va.granicus.com/ ViewPublisher.php?view_id=1. Citizens desiring to participate in the meeting remotely are required to register in advance. Instructions are available on the County website at: www.fauquiercounty. gov/PCVirtualMeeting. Comments will be limited to three minutes. Participants will be required to wear a face covering and maintain strict social distancing measures that may involve waiting in line outside of the building. Fauquier County does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in admission or access to its programs and activities. Accommodations will be made for handicapped persons upon prior request. Citizens requiring reasonable accommodation for disabilities should contact Meredith Meixner, Planning Associate, at (540) 422-8210.
Legal Notices Public Notices VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF FAUQUIER COUNTY; DAVID CURTIS WALKER, Plaintiff, v. JENNIFER ANNE WALKER , Defendant. Case No.: CL20-111 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is Plaintiff’s request for a divorce a vinculo martimonii from Defendant. Pursuant to Va. Code §20-104, diligence has been used on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city such defendant is, without effect. Defendant’s last known address is 7245 Twilight Court, Warrenton, VA 20187. Therefore, it is: ADJUDGED, ORDERED, and DECREED that this Order be published in the Fauquier Times once per week for four consecutive weeks and that the parties appear before this Court on or before Friday, March 12, 2021 at 8:30 A.M. and do what is necessary to protect their interests. THIS CAUSE IS CONTINUED. ENTERED this 14th day of January, 2021. James E. Plowman, JUDGE I ASK FOR THIS: John C. Clark (VSB: 71927) Howard, Clark & Howard, PLC 7 Hotel Street, Warrenton, VA 20186 Tel: 540-422-0100 jcc@hchlawva.com Counsel for Plaintiff
Public Notices NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE FOR RECEIVING PROOF OF DEBTS AND DEMANDS PURSUANT TO VIRGINIA CODE § 64.2-550 Having been requested by Samantha S. Fredieu, Counsel to the Executor for the Estate of John Charles Myhre, deceased (Fiduciary#CWF2018-250), to appoint a time and place for receiving proof of debts and demands, Gary M. Pearson, Commissioner of Accounts for the Circuit Court of Fauquier County, hereby notifies all interested persons that I have fixed February 23, 2021 at 10:00 A.M., as the time and my office at 9 Culpeper Street, Warrenton, Virginia 20186 as the place, for receiving proof of debts and demands against said decedent or said decedent’s estate pursuant to Virginia Code Section 64.2-550. On this 29th day of January, 2021, I have caused this notice (1) to be posted at the front door of the Courthouse of Fauquier County, Virginia, and (2) to be delivered to The Fauquier TimesDemocrat, Warrenton, Virginia, for publication once in that newspaper’s issue on February 10, 2021, both of which lastmentioned dates are more than ten days before the date stated above for receiving proof of debts and demands.
Legal Notices One white duck and one brown/black/tan duck were seized in the 5603Blk of Old Auburn Rd on February 1, 2021. A hearing will be held on February 11, 2021 @ 9am at the Fauquier County General District Courthouse. They are being held at the Fauquier County SPCA at 9352 Rogues Rd Midland Va. Please call 540-347-3300 if they belong to you or you know who they belong to.
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NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE FOR RECEIVING PROOF OF DEBTS AND DEMANDS PURSUANT TO VIRGINIA CODE § 64.2-550 Having been requested by William D. Ashwell, Counsel to the Executor for the Estate of Vivian Rose Davis, deceased (Fiduciary#CWF2019-227), to appoint a time and place for receiving proof of debts and demands, Gary M. Pearson, Commissioner of Accounts for the Circuit Court of Fauquier County, hereby notifies all interested persons that I have fixed February 23, 2021 at 11:00 A.M., as the time and my office at 9 Culpeper Street, Warrenton, Virginia 20186 as the place, for receiving proof of debts and demands against said decedent or said decedent’s estate pursuant to Virginia Code Section 64.2-550. On this 29th day of January, 2021, I have caused this notice (1) to be posted at the front door of the Courthouse of Fauquier County, Virginia, and (2) to be delivered to The Fauquier TimesDemocrat, Warrenton, Virginia, for publication once in that newspaper’s issue on February 10, 2021, both of which lastmentioned dates are more than ten days before the date stated above for receiving proof of debts and demands.
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WORK! TOWN OF WARRENTON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Planning Commission of the Town of Warrenton will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 7:00 PM in the Warrenton Town Hall Council Chambers (First Floor) located at 21 Main Street, Warrenton, Virginia, on the following item(s): Subdivision Ordinance Waivers (ZNG 2020-0172) as it relates to the parcel located at 50 Oak Street and 110 Oak Street. The proposal is to allow a cul-de-sac, not require a connection to the adjoining property, an alternative turnaround, and a reduced right-of-way to serve a future subdivision. The proposed wavier requests apply to the subject properties. The applicant is Robert N. Springer. People having an interest in the above are invited to participate in the hearing and state their opinion regarding the above issues. Copies of all applications and full versions of the proposal is available for review in the Department of Community Development located at 21 Main Street, Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. The Town of Warrenton does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in admission or access to its programs and activities. Town Hall meeting facilities are fully accessible. Any special accommodations can be made upon request 48 hours prior to the meeting.
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If you’ve ever wanted to be an administrator with Fauquier County Public Schools now is the time to apply. We are currently accepting applications for the Assistant Principal Pool. Possible vacancies include Elementary, Middle, and High Schools. Must have or be eligible for Virginia teaching certification with an endorsement in Administration and Supervision, PK-12. Submit an online application, visit http://jobs.fauquiercounty.gov/ .
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