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‘This can happen to any of us’ By Hannah Dellinger Times Staff Writer

Hundreds of Fauquier students participated in organized walkouts last week as part of a national movement to raise awareness about gun violence in schools. “This can happen to any of us. Anytime. Anywhere,” said Fauquier High School junior Kenneth “Charlie” Mulliss, who helped organize his school’s demonstration. “We need change in this country, so it doesn’t.” Student leaders from all three of the county’s high schools organized walkouts March 14, one month after the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people. EMPOWER, a youth branch of the Women’s March, organized the “Enough! National School Walkout to End Gun Violence” to give students, teachers, administrators and parents across the country an opportunity to demand change. “We don’t feel safe, and people just don’t care,” said Fauquier High freshman Cameron Morris. “And this is showing that we do care and we need to make a difference. We need gun control. Something needs to change.”

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TIMES STAFF PHOTO/HANNAH DELLINGER Fauquier High School students listen to remembrances of each of the 17 victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida during a planned walk out on March 14.

County supervisors get closer to full funding for schools By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer

Fauquier County schools stand to gain $5.2 million in additional funding from county government, nearly hitting the $6 million increase requested by Superintendent David Jeck. But the status of a proposed new library remains in limbo after the supervisors’ budget mark-up session

Monday. The move to boost local funding for schools came on the heels of a March 15 public hearing during which dozens of Fauquier County residents spoke of the need to fully fund the school division’s budget request. County Administrator Paul McCulla originally proposed only a $3 million increase for Fauquier schools but boosted that amount by $5.2 million

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during the March 19 supervisors’ meeting. Now, supervisors will have to weigh in, Jeck said, which could lead to more changes. The $5.2 million increase will stick “assuming the board of supervisors is OK with what [McCulla] proposed and there’s no change in the tax rate — and that’s a big asterisk,” Jeck said.

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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS The following babies were born at Fauquier Health during February 2018. 02/01/18: A son, Alexander Kane Knipfer, to Ida and Michael Knipfer of Warrenton 02/01/18: A daughter, Kendall Renee Harley Toone, to Erin Knox and Kenneth Toone of Warrenton 02/05/18: A daughter, Delilah Estelle Jenkins, to Renae Angeline Czerepak and Alexander Matthew Jenkins of Culpeper 02/05/18: A daughter, Eleanor Elizabeth Marshall Stribling, to Nicole Elizabeth and William Marshall Stribling of The Plains 02/05/18: A daughter, Ryleigh Braylynn Jean High, to Amanda Jeanne and Atreyue Austin High of Midland 02/06/18: A son, Giovanni Adriano Mendoza-Speach, to Mia Joy Speach and Alejandro Oscar Mendoza Suarez of Warrenton 02/06/18: A son, Christopher Paul Smith, to Amada Lunceford and Ethan Smith of Broad Run 02/07/18: A son, Oliver Clay Hanback, to Nicole Erin and Tucker Clay Hanback of Huntly 02/08/18: A son, Isaiah Shawn Miller, to Alina and Shawn Miller of Jeffersonton 02/08/18: A son, Weston Royce Parsons, to Hallie Richards and Coty Parsons of Catlett 02/08/18: A daughter, Karlynn Leigh Hawkins, to Jaclyn Renee and Aubrey Lee Hawkins II of Fredericksburg 02/12/18: A son, Abel Mason Hall, to Mary Katherine Gemmel and Michael Adam Hall of Warrenton 02/14/18: A son, Keagan Dane Shifflett, to Nicole Taylor Smithe and Kenneth Dylan Shifflett of Rochelle 02/14/18: A daughter, Lyv Helen Edwards, to Eliza Lynne Wolfe and Codie Michael Edwards of Catlett 02/15/18: A daughter, Malina Finley Fitzpatrick to Jennifer Lee and James Edward Fitzpatrick of Warrenton 02/15/18: A son, Remington William Jackson, to Rachel Elaine Melton and Winston Blake Jackson of Rixeyville 02/15/18: A son, Logan Micah Martin, to Briana Lynn and James David Martin of Bealeton 02/16/18: A daughter, Linnea Jayne Krick, to Elizabeth and AJ Krick of Warrenton 02/19/18: A daughter, Ava Elizabeth Carter, to Megan Carter of Marshall 02/21/18: A son, Arthur Lee Carroll, to Caitlin Fishpaw and Daniel Carroll of Warrenton 02/22/18: A son, Joseph Kindle Allen IV, to Emily Stewart and Joseph Kindle Allen III of Warrenton 02/22/18: A son, Dalton Emory Mayhugh, to Nicholas and Jennifer Mayhugh of Sumerduck 02/22/18: A son, Patrick James Frye, to Katherine Mary and George Joseph Frye IV of Unionville 02/23/18: A daughter, Natalie Harper Edwards, to William and Whitney Edwards of Culpeper 02/27/18: A son, Corin Robert Carroll, to Misty Ann and Robert Henry Carroll III of Woodbridge 02/28/18: A son, Landon Benjamin Miller, to Blair Ashley and Mark Benjamin Miller of Warrenton 02/28/18: A son, Josiah Xavier Yates, to Shayla Catherine Yates of Marshall 02/28/18: A son, Miles Nicholas Goers, to Meredith Eileen and Kevin Nicholas Goers of Warrenton

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FAUQUIER FOCUS Learn the basics of building your business March 6 was the first night of a debut series of workshops hosted by Be the Change Foundation. Christine Kriz was on as the guest instructor. Founded by Fauquier family therapist Marianne Clyde, the foundation’s mission is to empower and inspire women to be entrepreneurs. The 12-week offering of classes focuses on starting and/or boosting your business and features a cadre of local professionals who have volunteered their time to teach and mentor. Eight women signed up for the spring session and as they came into the classroom at Lord Fairfax Community College, Kriz was there to greet them as well as several of the foundation board members. Energized, enthusiastic and positive, Kriz shared with the budding businesswomen the many benefits that the Virginia Small Business Development Center can offer. As Kriz went through her PowerPoint presentation, she not only pointed out that the Virginia SBDC Network is the largest and most effective provider of customized counseling and education for small businesses in the commonwealth, but she shared many personal success stories. Her presentation was very user-friendly and upbeat — perfect for this group of women who represent a spectrum of ages, backgrounds and business acumen. Taking those first steps to starting a business can be risky but Kriz was quick to emphasize the many professional and personal rewards of taking that leap. Coming up on two years, Kriz is the executive director of the Lord Fairfax Small Business Development Center and, together with a team of professionals, she coaches small business owners on how to start, manage, grow and sell their business. And, as she pointed out, these resources are readily available if you know where to look. Prior to her taking the position as executive director,

Kriz served in a role as programming manager, researcher, curriculum developer, event planner, and public speaking instructor for nine years at Lord Fairfax Community College. “We are very grateful to Lord Fairfax for their donation of classroom space to hold our workshops,” said Clyde who was thrilled to have Kriz as the opening instructor. “What a way to start our series with Christine…she’s wonderful.” A graduate of Christopher Newport University and Strayer University, Kriz holds a BSBA in management and an MBA in human resources. Her bubbly personality and effervescence resonated well with the class who soaked up her positive, can-do attitude. Her passion and commitment to making a difference in the lives of others was apparent from her lively presentation to her personable rapport. She wants to make things happen and so do the women in the class. To learn more about the Virginia SBDC visit www.lfsbdc.org. To learn more about Be the Change Foundation, visit www.bethechangefoundation.us or email Marianne Clyde at bethechangefoundation@gmail. com. Dates for the fall session will be announced soon but you can indicate your interest now. Classes are open to all Fauquier County women who would welcome help and support to create their own business. — Compiled by Anita Sherman

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Virginia soon to offer new specialty license plates By Tianna Mosby

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Virginians are likely to see a handful of new specialty license plates this summer, including one aimed at those who support an end to gun violence.

Del. Marcus Simon, D-53rd, sponsored the bill authorizing the plate with the legend “Stop Gun Violence.” House Bill 287, which bounced between the House and Senate before legislators reached an agreement, is waiting for Gov. Ralph Northam’s signature.

Catlett man charged with firing shots at One Loudoun A Catlett man wanted for firing shots in the air at One Loudoun during a Friday domestic dispute turned himself in the next day. John H. Abel, 48, of Catlett, was charged Saturday with domestic assault, brandishing a firearm, reckless discharge of a fire- John H. Abel arm and discharging a firearm in a public place, according to a Loudoun County Sheriff’s Department press release.

The charges stem from an apparent domestic altercation that took place after 9 p.m. Friday at One Loudoun in 20700 block of Easthampton Plaza in Ashburn. Several gunshots were discharged into the air following an altercation with a woman. The suspect threatened to harm himself, but the woman wrestled the gun from his possession. The man, later identified as Abel, fled the area on foot. The firearm was recovered at the scene, and no injuries were reported. Abel was held at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center on a secured bond.

Northam has already signed into law specialty license plates for supporters of Virginia’s electric cooperatives, the Alzheimer’s Association and the Virginia Future Farmers of America Association. Last year, the Virginia FFA Association was given the opportunity to have its own plate available for purchase if it could get 1,000 people to register for the plate by the end of the year. Although the organization did not receive enough applications for the plate, its members still have hope; Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-24th, proposed Senate Bill 446 to give the group another chance this year. “I look forward to having the FFA Commemorative License Plate on my car and seeing them on cars in our great commonwealth,” Scot Lilly, former chair of the state’s FFA Association, said in a press release. During their 2018 session, legislators in Virginia considered 15 new specialty plate bills. The state Department of Motor Vehicles website already offers more than 310 choices. Beginning July 1, motorists can order the newly approved plates. The plates will then be per-

manently available if they reach the 1,000-plate registration minimum before the year ends. Specialty plates generally cost $25 above the regular vehicle registration fee. The DMV then gives $15 of that amount to the nonprofit group or cause associated with the plate. About 14 percent of Virginians have a specialty plate. Virginia offers four categories of plates — special interest, college and university, military and other. Although the “other” classification has the fewest number of plate options, its scenic plate has led the past two years with 214,332 total purchases. Of the collegiate plates, Virginia Tech’s athletic “Go Hokies” plate is the most purchased with a total of 7,530 plates registered as of 2017. The General Assembly carried over until its 2019 session proposed specialty plates for Parents Against Bullying, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (focused on increasing the elk population and advocating for hunters), supporters of Virginia’s women veterans, and the American Legion, another veteran organization.

Sheriff’s Office offers scholarship through Virginia Sheriff’s Institute The Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office is offering its annual scholarship through the Virginia Sheriffs’ Institute to qualifying Fauquier residents pursuing a career in law enforcement. Sheriff Bob Mosier’s VSI membership enables him to offer $1,000 scholarships to Fauquier students majoring in criminal justice at a Virginia college or university, and high school seniors planning to attend a Virginia college or university in the 2018-2019 school year majoring in the

same concentration. These scholarships are available to part-time and full-time students. Scholarships are renewable each year for as long as the student is in school. To apply, applicants must write an essay on why they want to go into law enforcement and what they have done throughout their education. Sheriff Mosier will then meet with students receiving a recommendation which is part of the scholarship requirements.

The deadline to apply is May 1 and there is no limit to how many scholarships can be awarded. The scholarships will be given out in the MayJune timeframe. For additional information from the Sheriff’s Office or to make an appointment to meet Sheriff Mosier contact Hope McGee at 540-4228619. Information for making an application can be found here: vasheriffsinstitute.org/scholarship/

Town of Warrenton schedules spring clean-up Spring clean-up for the Town of Warrenton is scheduled for the week of April 9 —13. Town trucks will provide extra collections in all residential areas to pick up trash, refuse and other items that cannot be handled on the regular weekly refuse schedule. All items are to be placed on the street line by 8 a.m. of the day scheduled for your area. No return trips can be made. All trash and refuse must be placed in proper containers. Tree trimmings and brush must be placed separately. Small clippings from bushes or

shrubs, leaves and grass must be bagged and placed with regular refuse. Town crews will not pick up tree trimmings and brush cut by tree companies and/or contractors; that is the responsibility of the contractor/company doing the work. All metal must be separated from wood and placed separately. For this collection, the town will pick up tires but there is a fee of $3 per tire and nothing larger than a standard pickup tire. To have tires picked up (with or without rims) you must pay $3 per tire. This is the amount the county landfill charges.

Call Public Works in advance to make arrangements. If the fee is not paid in advance or no arrangements have been made, the tires will not be picked up. To make arrangements or if you have questions call Public Works at 540-347-1858.

Items the town will not pick up Anything with Freon, (A/C units, humidifiers/dehumdifiers, refrigerator, freezer) dirt, rocks, sod, stumps, and large logs, concrete — blocks, bricks and slabs, and no masonry products, also no mattresses or box springs, TVs,

computer monitors, printers, copiers, fax machines, battery packs and no liquids, such as chemicals, paint, antifreeze, etc. Some of these items can be taken or recycled at the landfill and there are fees to dispose of some of them. For more information on the cost or when you can take any of the items listed to the landfill, call the Fauquier County Waste Management Office at 422-8840. If any of these items are set out during Spring Clean Up, they will not be picked up. If you have paint cans that are empty or dried up, remove the lid and they will be picked up.

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Community meeting focuses on school safety By Leland Schwartz

Warrenton Police chief Lou Battle, left, and PATH Foundation President/CEO Christy Connolly, right, discuss school safety in a community meeting March 13.

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Fauquier’s school division, community and law-enforcement leaders met last week to discuss school-safety concerns and ensure attention to the issue does not fade away. Above all, the group seemed to agree the community needs to prevent apathy. “One thing is the mindset,” Laura Hoover, principal of M.M. Pierce Elementary School, told the gathering. “We cannot think it cannot happen to us. We cannot let ourselves get comfortable with that.” That warning was mirrored by Southeastern Principal Shelly Neibauer, who told the roughly 60 people who came to the Stoneridge Events Center March 13 not to become apathetic. “We don’t want to get complacent and think everything is OK, just because you’ve trained once, we’ve trained twice,” she said. Organized in the wake of the Florida high-school massacre in February, the participants stressed the importance of building relationships with students to help create an early-warning system to spot mental-health issues before they become problems. “It’s all about relationships and getting to know each other,” said Sam Cox, principal of Liberty High

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School. “Getting in the trenches with each other.” The group also identified the need for consistency in training and practice drills. “There is no point in practicing if we’re not going to do it right and do it right every single time,” one administrator said. Warrenton Middle School principal Barbara Bannister pointed to an analogy made at the meeting by Sheriff Bob Mosier, who said every foreign embassy in Washing-

ton has the same rules and security measures. “Everybody is consistent and one of the things I know as an administrator is consistency,” she said. Tim Gardner, principal of Greenville Elementary, said safety “takes a significant investment, not just in time but financially, in facilities and support personnel.” Several in attendance said they believe the schools need more counselors. Participants said it’s important

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to challenge the status quo on all fronts. The roles of guidance counselors should be examined, someone suggested, as well as strategies to break down stigmas associated with asking for help for mental illness and sharing information with law-enforcement agents. Officers from the Virginia State Police attended the meeting, as did Warrenton Police Chief Lou Battle. School Board member Duke Bland (Marshall) said it was good the group included several students. “They have a lot of great ideas,” he said. Madison Humphnes, a Liberty High School senior, said, “I think this is amazing. Just hearing all the different perspectives is really important to me. I feel way better after coming to this because I know our school administrators are working to make things better.” Reach Leland Schwartz at lschwartz@fauquier.com.

‘This can happen to any of us’ WALKOUTS from page 1 Student leaders read aloud remembrances for each of the 17 victims of the Stoneman Douglas shooting to a crowd of about 200 students sitting in the bleachers on Falcon Field at Fauquier High. School administrators showed support for the student-organized optional walkouts at a Fauquier County School Board meeting last month. Superintendent David Jeck said he supports the demonstrations because the students want to express that they feel their safety is at stake. “I honestly thought there would be some punishment for doing this,” Mulliss said. “And I’m extremely grateful that there wasn’t.” Fauquier sophomore Hershel Rinker said he decided to participate in the walkout to show respect to the victims of the Stoneman Douglas shooting. “It’s a tragic event and I want to respect the families that lost lives,” he said. Student Betsy Avila said she chose to walk out to get “justice for what happened” and to call for change. “They’re trying to get teachers to have guns in school and I don’t think that’s a very good idea,” she said. Frankie Strano, the school’s senior class president, told the crowd of his peers the most powerful thing they possess is a voice. “Let your voice be heard. One voice can change the entire world,” he said. “It has happened in the past, it is happening in our country today and it will happen in the future.”

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County supervisors get closer to full funding for schools SCHOOLS from page 1 The school division budget will benefit from tweaks that include a proposal to lease rather than buy school buses, thereby reducing financing costs. Revised projections showing higher tax revenue and lower health-care costs will help as well. The school division will also be able use year-end carryover funds to educate at-risk students, freeing up additional funding for the schools. “We’re in a much better place. I’m appreciative of Paul McCulla working with us and filling that void,” Jeck said. The superintendent was present for the supervisors’ two-and-a-half-hour budget “markup/ mark down session” held March 19 to allow the county board to work through budget requests. The supervisors plan to continue that review on Thursday, March 22, at 4 p.m. at the Warren Green Building in Warrenton. They could vote on the general and capital improvements project budget and set the tax rate during that meeting, or they could postpone action. Board Chairman Chris Butler (Lee) said he’d like the vote to happen on Thursday. At present, a $766,234 expenditure has been proposed to hire an additional school resource officer and 11 additional school security specialists. The latter is a new group of hires to address heightened concerns about school safety in the wake of the latest school shootings in Parkland, Florida. The security specialists would work in tandem with school-resource officers currently assigned to Fauquier’s high schools. SROs are assigned to high schools and middle schools. The SRO assigned to Liberty High School splits his time with Southeastern Alternative School. Still to be worked out is whom the SSOs would report to — the school division or the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office — and whether they would

carry guns. According to Virginia law, only sworn law-enforcement officers and former law-enforcement officers who have left their departments in good standing and undergo special training can serve as armed guards in public schools. Once the new security personnel are in place, all Fauquier schools will have either an SRO or SSO. The high schools will have both. The proposed county operating budget totals $336 million. Of that figure, $185 million is for general fund expenditures, including $88.6 million the school division. A .987 overall real estate tax rate is proposed, which is lower than the current $1.039, but a reassessment has increased the tax value of properties across the county.

Board mulls library, new positions

No final decisions were made, but the board also discussed trimming some administrative positions McCulla included in the proposed operating budget to add to the ranks of the county’s administrative staff. Gone, at least for now, are the requests for an assistant county administrator, a buyer, marketing coordinator, project manager division chief, human resources data technician and information security analyst. The cost of the new positions would have been $800,000. Two staffers would be promoted to executive director positions. “The reality is that the county has to keep pace with the work that needs to be done,” McCulla told the supervisors while explaining the request for the new hires. “Erin’s office has seen a tremendous increase in grant work,” he said, referring to Erin Kozanecki, the county’s director of management and budget. “My staff works seven days a week,” Kozanec-

ki said. The county risks losing federal and state grants if the county doesn’t manage the funds properly, McCulla said. “There will come a point when we’ll have to limit the number of grants,” he said. Supervisor Chris Granger (Center) said he favors funding a budget manager, family service worker and custodian. Butler said he generally favors “more boots on the ground,” but whether to approve a new fire marshal position would be difficult for him. “I don’t want him policing small business or fining them out of business” for fire safety infractions, Butler explained. Fauquier Fire Chief Darren Stevens said the intent is to be “educational rather than punitive.” The focus would be on buildings open to the public. During a discussion about capital improvement projects, Granger pressed the case to fund a new central library in Warrenton, which is currently slated to the county’s “future years” capital improvement plan. “People have been asking for this and asking for this loudly,” Granger said of the library. “We bear a large burden of a tax increase from the assessment increase,” he said. A new library would have a positive economic impact on the district, he said. Elsewhere, the planned $4.9 million Main Street project in Marshall that includes a streetscape beautification and undergrounding of utility lines has gotten more expensive. An additional $1.39 million not included in the capital improvements project budget is needed. Marshall District Supervisor Mary Leigh McDaniel said she favors dropping the undergrounding of lines if there is no other option. Reach James Ivancic at jivancic@fauquier.com

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My hero, David Fairchild By Vicky Moon

Contributing Writer

Washington D.C.-based writer Daniel Stone has written a jewel of a book, which happens to be about a personal favorite subject. It’s the biography of David Fairchild and the title says it all: “The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of a Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats.” Fairchild’s explorations took him around the world at least three times. He brought back kale from Croatia, mangoes from India, peaches from China and avocados from Chile. He also was directly responsible for introducing the cherry blossom trees from Japan in Washington. And so, it’s most fitting to share this little story as the fabulous sakura flowering trees are expected to bloom in this area in late March. Around 1905, just after he had married Marian Bell, the daughter of Alexander Graham Bell, the couple decided to settle on 10 acres in the then-rural area of Chevy Chase, Maryland. They ordered 125 cherry blossom trees from the Yokohama Nursery Company in Japan to plant on the property. The price was 10 cents each and the trees first bloomed in

rail trip in December 1909. When the trees arrived in Washington, President Taft sent them to a storehouse near the Washington Monument for inspection. Sadly, there was a horrid infestation of insects, root gall and a wood-boring lepidopterus larve, and on and on. Agriculture was up against politics. Stone tells us that Fairchild wrote: “Every sort of pest imaginable was discovered, and I found myself in a hornet’s nest of protesting pathologists and entomologists, who were all demanding the destruction of the entire

shipment.” The burning of the trees made front page news. Then, the mayor of Tokyo, Yukio Ozaki, extended an unexpected offer to replace them. He shipped 3,020 of the biggest and best cherry trees on a faster boat. They were planted around the Tidal Basin and have been handled with care ever since. Some were even planted in Rock Creek Park and at the White House. Cuttings from those trees have helped to carry on an eye-popping tradition each spring. So think of David Fairchild and thank him as you stroll through Washington over the next few weeks. And next time you’re visiting South Florida, be sure to visit the informative and massive Fairchild Gardens in Miami as well as his nearby home, called Kampong. Vicky Moon can be reached at Vickyannmoon@aol.com.

Dr. Tim Durham, Ferrum College assistant professor of agronomy and agricultural sciences, doesn’t like the term “GMO.” He prefers “biotechnology.” At a recent Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers Winter Expo, he said, “GMO has a bad connotation to it. Scientists don’t like to use it. It’s precision breeding or biotechnology. It’s a refinement of conventional methods that we’ve been leveraging for thousands of years.” GMOs have been widely used since 1996, and Durham called them a “scientific bridge to a better life.” Biotechnology foes, he said, “have done a great job of demonizing technology they don’t know much about.” He said dogs have been bred over many years for characteristics that people want. “We’ve genetically modified animals through selective breeding, and no one bats an eye,” Durham said. “That’s A-OK. But use it for crop improvement, and that’s somehow not OK.” He said that consumers often think GMOs are unregulated. “GMOs are the most heavily regulated technology ever released, and that’s not up for dispute,” he asserted. “That’s an undeniable fact.”

Additionally, Durham said science has proven that GMOs are safe. “There have been more than 1,500 studies over 20-plus years showing there is no negative health or environmental impacts, so that’s what I’ll base my decision on.” He then introduced 11 common GMO myths—and busted them—so farmers in the audience would have information to share with the public. “I know I’m preaching to the choir, but I want you to be equipped with facts to constructively engage in conversations about GMOs,” Durham said. “There has been a historical reluctance on the part of farmers to defend themselves and engage the public. “Farmers feel like they don’t need to justify themselves or their existence to others, but the farming community now understands that we need people in the trenches to spread facts—‘The Gospel of Modern-day Agriculture’—if you will, to ensure our future.” He recommended directing consumers or anyone with questions to gmoanswers.com. The website uses more than 340 contributors, including farmers, academics and industry volunteers, to help answer the public’s questions.

PHOTO BY THEODOR HORYDCZAK, PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS View of Washington Monument, cherry blossoms and Tidal Basin, circa 19201950. Right, Daniel Stone’s biography on David Fairchild: “The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats.” the spring of 1906. Curious neighbors and many others came to “oooh” and “aaah” over the striking pink blossoms. Fairchild then ordered 300 more for the city of Chevy Chase. One thing led to another (you must read this book for the political and historical details) and 3,000 were to be shipped from Japan to Seattle to arrive in D.C. via a 14-day

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New VSU program opens doors for beginning farmers By Vicky Moon

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Virginia State University Cooperative Extension Small Farm Outreach Program is offering training for socially disadvantaged and veteran beginning farmers and ranchers in 53 Virginia counties. Through a series of educational seminars, beginning farmers will learn how to establish and sustain a viable agricultural operation. The comprehensive sessions include classroom-based workshops and field instruction as well as one-on-one training with an extension agent and farmer-mentor. “This program is important for Virginia’s socially disadvantaged and veteran beginning

farmers and ranchers in our endeavor to equip them with the tools and skills needed to make informed decisions in entering, improving and operating successful farm businesses,” explained William Crutchfield, director of VSU’s Small Farm Outreach Program. “The program is offered through education, outreach, training and technical assistance in a holistic manner, thereby enhancing the next generation of small farmers’ economic opportunities and quality of life.” Free or low-cost educational workshops will help participants: create financial plans and make decisions about when and how to grow a farm business; identify and apply for financial resources that may be available; improve farm production, livestock and forest

management practices; evaluate value-added production strategies that provide additional income from farm products; learn about stateof-the-art farm tools and equipment and develop marketing strategies to help find buyers and build a customer base. A whole-farm planning workshop also is being offered as an introductory course in starting a new farm business. Each month, a small farm orientation will be held at VSU’s Randolph Farm. Other workshop topics include fruit orchard establishment, hops research and production, timber management, small engine repair and farm equipment safety. For details contact the Small Farm Outreach Program at 804-524-3292 or ext.vsu. edu/sdvbfr-program.

Spring means farm equipment utilizing public roads Spring planting and the harvest of wheat and other small grains in May and June means more Virginia farmers will need to be moving tractors and other heavy equipment on public roads. The Virginia Farm Bureau and county Farm Bureau leaders statewide are encouraging drivers to be aware. “The most important thing you can do is watch for farm equipment on the road, and know that it’s probably not moving very fast,” said Scott DeNoon, farm product and underwriting manager for Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. “The next-most-important thing you can do is slow down when you

see equipment, whether it’s ahead of you in your lane or approaching you from the other direction. These are often machinery that are wider than a single travel lane, and they are built for power, not for speed.” State law requires that all farm tractors and self-propelled farm machinery that typically travel slower than 25 mph display a triangular slow-moving vehicle emblem on the rear of the vehicle when being driven on a public roadway. Many farmers also use flashing amber lights, reflective decals and escort vehicles to alert approaching drivers. SMV emblems on the backs

of slow-moving equipment warn drivers to start slowing down right away. The distance between a car traveling at 55 mph and a tractor going 20 mph will close quickly. Consequently, a little patience on motorists’ part goes a long way, DeNoon said. “Most equipment operators will pull over when it is safe to let traffic pass them. And many use the same three hand signals that bicyclists use to indicate when they are braking or turning.” He added that farm equipment takes longer than passenger vehicles to stop, some equipment requires the driver to swing wide to make a turn, and not all pieces

have turn signals. “There are a lot of good reasons not to follow too closely.” When passing farm machinery— never in a no-passing zone—use extreme caution. If the equipment is followed by an escort vehicle, don’t pass that vehicle and get between it and the equipment. “It’s not unusual in Virginia for farmers to have to use the roads to move equipment from field to field,” DeNoon noted. “Many of them try to avoid moving equipment during peak traffic times and try to avoid heavily used roads. “But they need the driving public to know they are out there.”

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Council to consider changes to Old Town parking rules By Leland Schwartz

The customer does not know that,” Thompson told councilmembers during citizens’ time. “So, when After getting a bit of a lecture [customers are] up here, they’re not from a local businessman who says going to spend any time because Old Town parking limits are hurt- they’re afraid they’re going to get ing commerce, the a ticket and Warrenton Town leave.” Council is considTown Manering lengthening ager Brannon the one-hour time Godfrey said limit along Main the council’s Street. public safety Dwayne Thompand transporson, a retired phartation commitmacist who owned tee will conRhodes Drug Store sider returning on Main Street for the Main 30 years, told the Street parkcouncil March 13 ing time limit the parking reto two hours striction needs from Monday to be doubled to through Fritwo hours because day at its next shops are “losing meeting April customers right 10. and left.” At-Large What’s more, Councilman TIMES STAFF PHOTO/ Thompson pointed LELAND SCHWARTZ Sean Polster out, all the parking The parking signs in Old Town Warsaid the town signs along Main renton inaccurately display Saturday manager has Street are inaccu- parking restrictions. Parking is not the authority rate in that they restricted on Saturdays. to alter or adlist one-hour parkjust parking ing from Monday rules without the through Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 6 council’s approval. p.m., even though the town has no “Council should be focused on parking restrictions on Saturdays. policies and not the daily operation “You know that. I know that. of the town and its employees,” Times Staff Writer

Polster said. Thompson also suggested building a “visually acceptable” multi-level parking garage in the lot behind the post office that would have all-day parking on the top and three- to four-hour or even free parking on lower floors. “That would generate more business for Old Town,” he said. Thompson, who lives on Old Waterloo Road in the county, said he is “extremely concerned about the vitality of Old Town Warrenton.” If recruiting new businesses to Main Street is a priority, Thompson said he’d be reluctant, as a business person, to launch a new venture in Old Town. “I don’t think we look like we’re up and progressive,” he added. “We look like we’re at the other end of the spectrum. It’s not good.” Thompson said he doesn’t believe there are sufficient parking spaces along Main Street to serve the shops and businesses. “Anybody in retail can tell you you’ve got to have parking places or you’re not going to live,” Thompson said. “It’s just that simple.” Thompson said he understands the one-hour parking limit was put into effect to turn over parking spaces to give more people the ability to park. But, he said, “One hour is not enough time to go to a restaurant to eat, to go to a salon and get your hair done. I even had a friend who had been to the dentist and when he came out he was getting a ticket. This is insane.” Councilman Jerry Wood (Ward 1), who also once operated a pharmacy on Main Street, said he has “no problem” with Main Street parking rules matching those in place along Old Town’s side streets, which permit two-hour parking. “People would need that time to

TIMES STAFF PHOTO/ LELAND SCHWARTZ Dwayne Thompson, a retired pharmacist who owned Rhodes Drug Store on Main Street for 30 years, tells the Warrenton Town Council, “We’re losing customers right and left” because of the lack of parking. have their prescription filled and do some shopping,” he said. “One hour is really too short of time even to go to lunch.” Thompson urged the council to adopt a resolution showing its commitment to Old Town, something he says he has done by refusing to rent his building to anyone other than a retailer. “I had five people apply last time, and one of them was retail and they got it because I feel strongly we need retail in Old Town,” he said. “Now if the town decides that we don’t care if it’s retail or not up here, please let me know because I can rent it quickly to anybody.” “But as soon as that mix falls and you get less retail,” he added, “the rest will go because people say there is nothing there. Don’t go up there. There is nothing there.” Reach Leland Schwartz at lschwartz@fauquier.com.

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New cancer center honors Virginia’s ‘immortal’ Henrietta Lacks By Yasmine Jumaa Capital News Service

The year was 1951. The place: Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where Henrietta Lacks, a native of Halifax County, sought treatment for cervical cancer. Doctors made a remarkable discovery about Lacks’ tumor: The cells remained alive and multiplied outside her body, creating the first immortal cell line. Since then, her cells have helped researchers develop the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, in vitro fertilization and other medical breakthroughs. Lacks was nev- Henrietta Lacks er compensated for her contribution to science. She died in 1951 and was buried in an unmarked grave in her hometown. Now, Virginia plans to recognize Lacks by establishing a cancer research and treatment center in her name in Halifax County. The General Assembly recently approved legislation authorizing the project to honor the woman who gave the medical world the immortal HeLa cell line. It is a fitting tribute, said Adele Newson-Horst, vice president of the nonprofit Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group. “Her cells were and continue to be an astronomical asset to the scientific

and medical world,” Newson-Horst said. “The significance of her contribution to the world - not Virginia, not just Maryland, but the world - cannot be overstated.” The General Assembly unanimously passed two bills — House Bill 1415 and Senate Bill 171 — to create the Henrietta Lacks Commission, which will have nine members, including state officials, representatives of the Lacks family and local officials from Halifax County. The commission’s goal will be to establish a public-private partnership to create the Henrietta Lacks Life Sciences Center in Halifax County. The center would use biodata tools to conduct cancer research, provide cancer treatment to rural Southside Virginia and incubate biotech businesses in the region. Science has advanced significantly since Lacks’ treatment at Johns Hopkins. In recent years, attention has focused on the ethics surrounding her case: Cells were taken from her body without her consent. Some said that was wrong; others said it reflected medical ethics of the time. Moreover, Lacks was an African-American woman from a poor family, and some wondered whether race was a factor. Those issues were explored in a 2010 book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” the basis for an HBO movie that came out last year. Last week, The New York Times published a belated obituary about Lacks, who the newspaper said had been overlooked when she

died 66 years ago. Belated recognition is what the Halifax County Industrial Development Authority had in mind when it proposed the Henrietta Lacks Life Sciences Center. “She left Halifax County … in the 1940s because of the lack of economic opportunities for African-American women. We’re trying to change that and bring her legacy back,” said Matt Leonard, the authority’s executive director. He said the agency ran the idea by two of Lacks’ grandchildren and members of her legacy group. “We got an immediate, very positive response from the family which we’re

absolutely and imminently grateful for, because without their support, their championing this to their family and to other members of the community, we couldn’t do this project,” Leonard said. Henrietta Lacks’ granddaughter Jerri Lacks said the family wholeheartedly supports the effort. “Words can’t explain how excited I am just to be part of the commission and to know that our grandmother is being honored in such a great way,” Lacks said. “What I hope it will accomplish is that people will be more aware of her contributions to science, and her legacy can continue to give people hope for a better life.”

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Hundreds of students at the area’s middle and high schools joined nationwide demonstrations against gun violence March 14 to mark the one-month anniversary of the fatal shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Organized by students, the walkouts gave voice to the concerns and fears of those students about gun violence in our schools, in all schools. Lest we forget, those fears became tangible just days after the attack, when Fauquier High School went through its own threat crisis. While it turned out that threat was directed against another Virginia school, it brought home the fears of students, parents, administrators and law-enforcement entities right in our own back yard. Some spoke. Some wrote postcards to representatives. Some signed banners to send to Parkland. All remembered the 17 fallen, and stood in solidarity with the survivors, their families, and with each other against gun violence in our country. OUR VIEW In the past, it was typical that school catastrophes like Parkland, and Columbine and Sandy Hook before it, stirred debate over gun violence, access to weapons and mental health issues. As time passed, after the thoughts and prayers ebbed, the conversation left the public eye and retreated into the realm of activists on both sides. Those activists drew their lines in the sand and the conversation ended until the next tragedy. This time, students nationwide have kept the conversation going, and that in itself is to be commended. If we are to make progress on these issues, we must keep them foremost in our minds. These debates will not conclude quickly; there are many informed points of view to be explored on both sides. And that means that these same students will likely be tackling these issues as adults in the years to come. And that is another aspect of these protests that deserves recognition. In organizing and taking part in these functions, students took on the mantle of responsible citizenship in a democracy. Participants and student leaders — as well as teachers and administrators who helped safely facilitate, or, at least did not stand in the way of these walkouts — remained true to their mission of education. It could be easily argued that what students learned from their demonstrations was at least as important at what they would have learned had they remained in their classrooms. There will always be those who shout down as uninformed those opinions that don’t coincide with their own. We see that with actors and athletes who use their platforms to make political statements, and we have seen that here as well, with commenters insisting students should stay in their classrooms or don’t know what they are talking about. That argument is misplaced here. “This is real. This could happen to us, and we need to stop it,” said Olivia Mumma, a Patriot High School senior. “This can happen to any of us. Anytime. Anywhere,” said Fauquier High School junior Kenneth “Charlie” Mulliss. “We don’t feel safe, and people just don’t care,” said Fauquier High freshman Cameron Morris. What those students are talking about is fear. We need to hear that. We need to figure out how to make our children, our citizens, feel safe again. We need to stay engaged.

PHOTO BY CHARLIE WESTHOFF, FOREST PARK SENIOR Showing their support: Forest Park High School students signed their names and penned messages of encouragement on a banner they’ll send to their peers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The activity coincided with student demonstrations March 14, marking the one-month anniversary of the Florida shooting.

FAUQUIER FLASHBACKS: FROM THE FAUQUIER TIMES 75 Years Ago March 18, 1943 The War Department has acquired by lease or purchase a large tract of farmland adjoining the Signal Corps Station near Warrenton, including or part of 11 farms. The largest, owned by Charles T. Grant of New Baltimore, is 725 acres, which is leased to the government with option to buy. Others include land owned by Mrs. Clinton Costello, E. F. Luke, Mrs. Natalie H. Rogers, Joe Lunsford, J. A. Payne, J.S. Lambert, L. H. Payne, Alphonso Grant, Frank Brooks and William Gloth. John Conway Kehoe, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kehoe of Bealeton, is enrolled as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Forces Pre-flight School for Pilots at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama. Here he will receive nine weeks training preparatory to beginning his actual flight instruction. 50 Years Ago March 28, 1968 Beginning March 28, Continental Trailways will start a commuter bus service From Warrenton to Washington, D.C. J. P. Burke’s garage, of Warrenton, the bus agency, will sell books of 10 commuter tickets for $12.75. One-ticket, one-way fare is $1.70, and round trip is $3.10. Pfc. Charles D. Bolton Jr., son of Mrs. Elmer C. Putnam of Warrenton, is serving with Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron 36, Marine Aircraft Group 36, First Aircraft Wing, at Phu Bai, Vietnam. W. W. Sanders, Warrenton businessman, was elected chairman of the board of Fauquier Savings and Loan Association March 12, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Charles H. Thompkins on Jan. 2. The Women’s Missionary Society of

Spec. Thomas E. Higgins, 21, of Warrenton was stationed at Vint Hill Farms Station in March 1966, and related his earlier experiences as an armored personnel carrier (APC) commander in Quin Tri Province during the Vietnam War. His unit was attached to Marines operating near Hue. the Warrenton Baptist Church gave a party March 15 for the children of Partridge School, Gainesville. Fourteen children attended. 25 Years Ago March 24, 1993 Thomas Y. Savage of Goldvein was named by the Virginia State Jaycees as a recipient of its Outstanding Young Virginian Award. Savage, a 36-yer-old attorney, received the award for his volunteer work with the Friends of the Rappahannock; the Goldvein Volunteer Fire Company; the Piedmont Environmental Council and an emergency foster family program. As the April 9 deadline approaches for Republicans to file for the 33rd District race, no one has come forward to campaign for the seat of retiring Del. Linda Rollins Wallace (D). Chairman of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors George L. Barton IV is the front runner, but has not made an announcement. Other names include James Rich of Fauquier County; George Atwell of Leesburg; and Durette Upton of Loudoun.

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Warrenton residents are caring and kind It’s true, Warrenton is one of the best towns with caring citizens. On March 6, I slipped while trying to get into my car and fell down on my back in the parking lot at Walgreens. Every man and woman that came by offered to help, asking if I was hurt, if they could call an ambulance, telling me not to be embarrassed because this happens to lots of people. Finally, three or four men helped

my husband lift me up off the asphalt to a standing position. I profusely thanked them all and they all said they were glad they could help. I bet that would not have happened in any other region around here. Warrenton is a great place to live with people who care for one another.

I feel both disenfranchised and downright mad when I hear or see Warrenton, the lovely town on top of the hill, referred to as “Old Town” or perhaps I should say “Olde Towne.” For nearly a century, when asked where I come from, I could say with considerable pride, “Warrenton.” Now when asked, if I say Warrenton, does that mean only the shopping centers that line the bypass? The seat of Fauquier County’s government is in Warrenton. It is not in “Olde Towne.” Let’s think up another name for the location of the Giant, the Safeway and the IGA. Warrenton is the town on the hill. From Main Street one has a view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. From High Street, the Pignut and the Bull Run mountains. A slight turn to the

right and one could see the Chesapeake Bay, if it were a little closer. From Winchester Street, View Tree Mountain, the Watery Mountains and the Rappahannock Mountains are on one side, and the Bull Run Mountains on the other. Culpeper Street descends from Main Street in a perfect transition from town to country with the bypass the only jarring note. Haiti, bordering its own park in a vale below the courthouse, is within a hop, skip and a jump for its children from the county library. If “Olde Towne” prevails, let’s at least call it Beautiful, Historic Olde Towne.

People buy bunnies, chicks and ducks because their child wants them as a present at this time of year. Parents often buy them without giving much thought to the fact that bunnies, ducks and chicks are living, breathing babies who are not toys. They are fragile baby beings. Their bones can’t withstand being mishandled. They each require tender care, special food diets and proper maintenance. Cared for properly, these animals are a commitment of up to 10 years. Sadly, most of the babies given as presents to children at this time of year don’t survive to their first birthday because children tire of them or don’t know how to treat them tenderly or nobody took the time to find out how to take care of them and what to feed them.

Please, if you must bring an innocent baby animal into your home, take the time to learn about the needs and care of that animal and what kind of commitment it needs from you before you put its life at risk. Not only might you save a helpless, dependent life, you might save a small child’s heart from being broken when it dies.

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Virginia League of Conservation Voters is nonpartisan Fauquier County is among the most pristine localities in Virginia. In order to stay that way, strong conservation measures are vitally important. Many of our members proudly call Fauquier home, and look to us to defend land conservation policies here in Richmond that help keep Fauquier, Fauquier. Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that our members — some of whom overlap with the Fauquier County Republican Committee — are being personally attacked for their affiliation with us under the mistaken premise that we only work to elect Democrats to office. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The nonpartisan Virginia League of Conservation Voters endorses candidates of both parties. We contribute to candidates of both parties. And we work closely with members of the legislature of both parties to advance conservation causes. In fact, we take pains to seek out, endorse and recognize Republicans who are good on our issues, a task admittedly made more difficult in an increasingly partisan

political climate. Locally, we endorsed Republican state Sen. Jill Vogel, who represents Fauquier, in 2015, and Randy Minchew, who represented Fauquier’s neighboring 10th district, in 2017. Fauquier’s Del. Michael Webert was among one of five Republican legislators to receive a “Legislative Leadership Award” from us in 2015. That same year, we organized a legislative retreat to Webert’s farm in Marshall to highlight agricultural best management practices and the value of land conservation firsthand. Conservation is too important an issue for all of our futures to let partisan politics impede progress. Regardless of party affiliation or ideology, we and our members work on behalf of Virginians who support access to the same clean air, clean water, and open spaces. These are not Democratic, or Republican, issues.

We are only days away from that old advertisement appearing again in these pages showing a Fauquier landscape and proclaiming “Save Fauquier.” This is used every two years to falsely label the challengers to the status quo leadership of the Republican Committee (FCRC) as people who want to “pave over” Fauquier. The authors of two recent opinion pieces have made false statements about candidate retired Gen. Greg Schumacher in an attempt to continue their longtime choke hold on the FCRC. Greg wants to see “Fauquier Saved” as much as anyone. I was at Greg Schumacher’s house recently when Holder Trumbo explained the advantages of the land-use programs to an audience the general had convened to get people talking to each other and bridge differences. Greg focuses on core values uniting Republicans,

and seeks to build unity. He seeks to grow the party. He was instrumental in getting an outreach started to the Latino community resulting in a Spanish radio call-in show discussing conservative values. He supported the Martin Luther King Jr. Day lunch where black faith leaders met Congressman Tom Garrett to discuss how conservative people could work together. When I heard Greg was considering leading the committee, I encouraged him to do so and now enthusiastically endorse him. Greg possesses the organizational and leadership skills our committee needs and has the temperament to bring unity, grow our party, and get Republicans elected. I urge you all to get behind his campaign and to vote Greg for chair.

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School funding a hot topic at county budget hearing “Students’ education is at risk, their safety and security is at risk and their future as a productive part of Fauquier County is at risk.”

By Jonathan Hunley Contributing Writer

The meeting was held in a school auditorium, which was appropriate because the big topic was schools. Education, and more specifically, how to pay for it, was the major subject discussed March 15 night as the Fauquier Board of Supervisors held a public hearing on the county budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. A total of 68 speakers took the microphone at Fauquier High School March 15 in a gathering that lasted the better part of three hours. Most asked the supervisors to fully fund the Fauquier County School Board’s proposed budget, which would include some $3 million more than the $88.6 million in local tax dollars County Administrator Paul McCulla recommended in his spending plan. One of those speakers was Sharon Mellon, a fourth-grade teacher at Ritchie Elementary School. She said not funding the school board’s budget puts the future of the county at risk. “Students’ education is at risk, their safety and security is at risk and their future as a productive part of Fauquier County is at risk,” she said. Thirteen-year-old Ethan Homenik, an eighth-grader at Taylor Middle School, described a good education as a way to combat the problem of opioid abuse. “If you help the schools now, you can prevent the epidemic from spreading,” he said. The school board’s proposed budget asks for $6 million in additional county funding for the next fiscal year to upgrade security, give a 3-percent raise to all employees, boost pay

SHARON MELLON Fourth-grade teacher at Ritchie Elementary School

scales for classified and administrative staff, add staff to support “equity and access” for all students and fund building updates and new technology. The supervisors are scheduled to approve the budget and set the local real estate tax rate March 22. It’s unclear if they will allocate any more money for education than what McCulla recommended, but if they do, it could come in the area of security. The supervisors met with the school board before the public hearing. They talked about school safety among other budget matters. After that meeting, board of supervisors Vice Chairwoman Mary Leigh McDaniel (Marshall) said it’s almost imperative that the county spend more on school security. “I think we almost have to,” she said. “You can’t not have the kids safe.” Overall, McCulla has proposed a $335.9 million budget for the next fiscal year, with general-fund expenditures totaling $185 million. The county administrator recommends the overall real estate tax rate be set at 0.987 cents per $100 of assessed value, lower than the current $1.039. However, because of a recent reassessment of property values, the average homeowner’s annual real-estate tax bill is slated to go up, not down, by $393, from $3,352 to $3,745. That’s because the average home rose in as-

sessed value by 17.7 percent, from $321,300 to $378,000.

Speakers urge funding for new library

McCulla’s proposed capital-improvement budget for the next five fiscal years totals $72.2 million. But discussion of the CIP Thursday was about what’s not funded in that timeframe: the new county library proposed for Warrenton. More than $9 million had been budgeted on the library in the next fiscal year, but the proposed capital budget delays the library for at least five years. That notion doesn’t sit well with library enthusiasts, some of whom spoke out at the public hearing. The project is expected to cost $15 million, and the idea has been that the county would spend $10 million on the project while a private fundraising effort would kick in the remaining $5 million. The private fundraising campaign, which has generated about $2.5 million, has been suspended. But it’s incredible that the public would be so dedicated, county Planning Commissioner G. Robert Lee told supervisors. Lee, a former county administrator, encouraged supervisors to spend the county’s share on the library, calling the fundraising component a “once-in-a-lifetime offer.” “I’ve never seen it before,” he said. “I’m not sure I’ll ever see it again.” Reach Jonathan Hunley at news@fauquier.com

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17 minutes for the 17 victims

Students participate in national school walkout By Carly Herbert

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On Wednesday, March 14 at 10 a.m., approximately 250 students walked out of school to show their respect for the 17 people who were shot and killed in a Florida high school last month. Senior Sara Massei, SCA president, was in charge of organizing the walkout. “I believe it’s important for the youth to start being politically active as soon as possible,” Massei said. “It’s important for us to have a voice.” This event was part of a nationwide event, organized by the Women’s March youth branch. Some community members were concerned about student safety since the date and time of the march was made public. Principal Meaghan Brill made sure their

On Wednesday, March 14, students participated in a nationwide school walkout to commemorate the victims of the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Students stayed outside for 17 minutes for the 17 victims. PHOTO BY ERIN HOGGE

concerns were addressed. “Our number one priority for the event was student safety,” Brill said. “We wanted to account for

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the well-being of the participants and provide a plan that accommodated their wishes while keeping everyone safe. I think the event went well; students were safe and accounted for.” Students assembled in the commons at 9:50 a.m. then headed out to the football stadium for the ceremony. Seventeen students volunteered to speak. Each speaker commemorated the life of the Florida victims in order to humanize the students and teachers that - until this pointhad been just names on a screen. “The other high schools’ presidents and I came up with the idea of the 17 speeches at our meeting,” Massei said. “We all agreed that we should honor the victims and thought this would be a great way to do that. By having our students speak about them, we’re humanizing them and showing the world that they’re more than just names on screens.” Junior Madison Slevin was one of the speakers. “I chose to speak today because I knew that I would regret not speaking up,” Slevin said. “It didn’t matter to me who I spoke of, or whose story I shared, I just knew that it was incredibly important. Sitting next to my 17 peers on the bench, the number of fatalities at Stoneman Douglas became very real.” Sophomore Emma Gray also spoke at the event. “I chose to speak because this is an opportunity to remember those who passed away in the Parkland shooting,” Gray said. “This was all for talking about the victims and sharing their stories. Many people may not even recognize

those names and that isn’t okay.” Those who attended the walkout had different reasons for participating. “I went to show that there is more to this world than our first world issues,” senior Liam Downey said. “We, as people, have to show our support for others in a major time of need.” “It is time for us as the generation of doers, to turn our strong emotions into brave actions,” sophomore Ryan Granche said. Students were given the choice to participate in the walkout or remain in their classes. Approximately 900 students decided to stay in class. Sophomore Seth Tenberg was one of them. “I didn’t partake in the walkout because on the official website of the Women’s March Youth Empower, the organizer of the walkout, they state that the walkout is to protest gun violence,” Tenberg said. “And another source stated that the walkout was to honor the victims of Parkland and push for stricter weapon bans, background checks, and magazine bans. I do value the lives of the victims; however, I do not believe in the call for more gun control.” Sophomore Marykate Behan also stayed in class. “I chose not to partake in the event because I didn’t want to politicize the victim’s deaths,” Behan said. Another event is being planned for April 20. More information will be released as planning takes place. “We cannot become complacent— we have to work together to make it known that enough is enough,” Massei said to her peers. “To the students who think they don’t have a voice, I say this: You do. What each and every one of us does now has the power to make a difference. One voice alone cannot make a difference, but when that voice inspires and is joined by masses, it can create waves.”

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‘Digging for Gold’ fundraiser helps local animal shelter Rummage sale proceeds benefit Fauquier SPCA

If you go “10th Annual Digging for Gold” Rummage Sale

By Anita L. Sherman Community Editor

A lonely, abandoned dog and a porcelain lamp with a Chinese motif may seem unlikely partners. But there is a bond they share. The proceeds from the sale of the lamp benefit will the shelter where the dog, Deuce, awaits a permanent home. Chances are many curious customers planning to attend the upcoming “Digging for Gold” rummage sale have never been to the Casanova shelter. While they come seeking treasures to spruce up the spare room or add a bit of whimsy to another, their purchases help keep alive a place of sanctuary for the county’s unwanted cats and dogs. Now in its 10th year, “Digging for Gold,” is an upscale rummage sale benefitting the Fauquier County SPCA. For more than 50 years, the shelter has continued its mission of providing local animals with the most complete services possible. Educating the public about the benefits of spaying and neutering is also

Highland School, 597 Broadview Ave., Warrenton Early Bird Sale and Party: Friday, March 30, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Admission: $25 Rummage sale: Saturday, March 31, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., free Credit cards, checks and cash accepted

COURTESY PHOTO Deuce is an 8-year-old cocker spaniel mix available at the Fauquier SPCA for adoption. He’s anxious to find a loving home and doesn’t mind other dogs. an extremely important part of their mission. The present Fauquier SPCA shelter was built in Casanova in 1989 on 11 acres of donated land. It has

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36 dog kennels, six dog quarantine kennels and three separate cat rooms, including a cat sunroom. A spay and neuter clinic is available to both the shelter and privately-owned dogs and cats. There is plenty of room to exercise dogs and a barn to house livestock. It is located at 9350 Rogues Road in Casanova. Highland School, 597 Broadview Ave. in Warrenton, has been the home for this annual fundraiser and it will once again host it this year on Saturday, March 31, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. While you are trolling for goodies, there will be a bake sale where you can purchase a delicious homemade sweet treat. Admission is free. Organizers appreciate all the help required to hold this event. “We wish to extend a sincere thank you to our generous sponsors, our donors and all who shop for our treasures. This event would not be possible without the hard work of many dedicated volunteers who work throughout the year to collect items, to price them and who work the days surrounding the sale. The proceeds from this event have given us a shelter of which to be proud,” said Fauquier County SPCA Board members and cochairs Penny Dart, Angela Keyser and Tammy Statler. If you can’t wait until Saturday,

there is an early bird sale and party the evening before on Friday, March 30, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Admission for that is $25 and includes light refreshments. Donations of gently used furniture, lamps, rugs, china, silver, jewelry, garden accessories, etc. are welcome. Please no clothing, exercise equipment or televisions. Donations are tax-deductible. Donation drop-off dates are Wednesday, March 28, from 1 to 5 p.m. and Thursday, March 29, from noon to 7 p.m. in the lower school gym at Highland School. Credit cards and checks can be used at checkout, but there is also a “dollar section” for cash-only customers. Long-time Fauquier resident Sylvia McDevitt is an ardent fan. “I donated a lot of costume jewelry this year and some old vintage furniture…I am not done yet,” said McDevitt, noting that it’s a well-attended event and there’s something for everyone. “I found such cool items last year… a vintage wooden cradle that I am painting and using as a planter out back. The items seem endless from outside Highland School to the inside,” added McDevitt who enjoys looking through the $1 items. Fauquier SPCA Director Devon Settle is equally grateful for the fundraiser and the benefits for the future. “Private donations and community fundraisers provide two-thirds of the annual budget of the Fauquier SPCA. The monies raised this year will go to updating our large animal facilities,” said Settle. “It’s an excellent fundraiser,” said McDevitt. If you would like more information, contact Angela Keyser at keyseralk@gmail.com or Tammy Statler at tammystatler@aol.com or you can phone Penny Dart at 540-3475138 or Anne Hall at 540-347-1268.

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‘Tween Rivers Trail campaign garners state grant

The Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission has received $21,012 from the Virginia Tourism Corporation Marketing Leverage Program grant fund. The state program has awarded more than $840,000 for 56 tourism marketing projects across the state to help increase visitation and revenue for Virginia’s localities through tourism. The grants are designed to help local and regional tourism entities attract more visitors by leveraging local marketing dollars, and will ultimately impact at least 232 other statewide tourism entities, according to a news release. The local organizations match the state grant funds by a minimum of 2-to-1 in order to support marketing projects. This funding cycle, the local partners will match the program’s grant dollars with more than $3.1 million, providing more than $3.9 million in new marketing to increase visitation to Virginia. The commission and its regional tourism partners received the grant for the ‘Tween Rivers Trail Brand Awareness Campaign. It partnered with the town of Culpeper Tourism and Economic Development Department, Fauquier County Department of Economic Development, Madison County Economic Development and Tourism Department, and Orange County Department of Tourism to supply $42,025 in matching funds for the project. The Rappahannock County Visitor’s Center is also a partner in the ‘Tween Rivers Trail and other regional tourism efforts. The grant will allow the regional partners to continue developing the ‘Tween Rivers Trail marketing materials and promote the region’s tourism industry. “Agritourism is a fast growing and important part of our region’s economy, representing over $210 million in economic impact for Central and Northern Virginia. The agritourism industry offers our farmers an opportunity to tap into the multi-billion dollar tourism industry, which helps them sustain and grow their businesses,” said Paige Read, director of Tourism and Economic Development for Culpeper. “The ‘Tween Rivers Trail bridges our agriculture, artisans, and tourists together, and from a socioeconomic perspective, it has something for everyone to enjoy.”

For an appointment outside these hours, contact Dorothy Rose, textbook manager at 540- 422-7113 or drose@fcps1.org. The new textbook materials will support the recently adopted History and Social Science Standards of Learning. For more information, contact Amy Acors, director of instruction, at 540- 422-7018 or aacors@fcps1.org.

Fauquier student competes on NBC’s ‘Genius Junior’

A Fauquier County Public School student will appear on a new NBC game show “Genius Junior,” which celebrates the brightest children in America. The weekly one-hour competition series is a test of intelligence and endurance.

“Genius Junior,” hosted and produced by Neil Patrick Harris, features 12 teams of children in the country, ages 8 to 12, who will take the stage to compete in a series of increasingly complex quizzes with the goal of being crowned Genius Junior. Melody Harlan, one of the contestants on “The Brainy Bunch” team, is a Fauquier County resident, and a fourth-grade student at Greenville Elementary School in Nokesville. She competed in this game of brains in its inaugural season, which premiered March 18. Melody said she loves memory games, math, reading and spelling. She recently championed the Fauquier County School Spelling Bee and advanced to the Free Lance-

Star Regional Spelling Bee on March 17. During the filming in California of the game show, Melody and her two teammates, who were also selected from a nationwide pool, solved complex math problems, spelled difficult words and used memorization to compete against other students. “I had an amazing time learning, filming, meeting new people and having lots of fun,” said Melody, “I’ll never forget the experience.” Melody’s father, Scott Harlan, said, “She’s developed this pattern of setting a goal and doing the work to achieve it. Her mother and I always tell her to do her best and have fun. What I’m most proud of is the way that she works hard and keeps a great attitude about it.”

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Library expands Story Time programming Fauquier County Public Library introduces a new story time geared to children ages three – six who have special needs, are on the autism spectrum or are sensitive to sensory overload. Children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver. “We already offer a variety of story times, but children who need more structure and an environment that accepts atypical behavior often don’t come. Now they will have a story time that meets their needs,” said Ellen Richmond-Hearty, a youth services librarian at the Warrenton central library. Richmond-Hearty, who will lead the Sensory Story Time, is a certified special education teacher. “Parents of children with special

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needs are looking for accessible activities and the opportunity to learn early literacy skills to share with their children,” Richmond-Hearty continued. Library staff has worked closely with Early Childhood Special Education teachers at Fauquier County Public Schools to develop the program. Sensory Story Time joins the library’s existing lineup of daily story times for children from birth to age

songs, stories and activities. Book Bonanza is held the first and third Tuesday of each month at 4 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. (pajamas encouraged at the 6 p.m. session). Check out the library’s calendar of events for additional program dates. Here are a few of library staff’s favorite authors and illustrators. Visit your local

five, and Book Bonanza, a story time for families. The library also offers 1000 Books Before Kindergarten, an ongoing program that encourages families to begin reading to their child at birth to strengthen language skills and build vocabulary – important tools to help young readers. Story Time dates and times can be found on the library website, fauquierlibrary.org and in the library’s calendar, available at all library locations. The first Sensory Story Time will be Saturday, March 24, 10:30 a.m. in the Warrenton central library. Registration is required; to register call 540-422-8500 ext. 6864. Lisa Pavlock, Public Information Coordinator

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Monday, Mar. 26 Baby Steps 10:30-11 a.m. (W) Scrabble for Adults 6-8 p.m. (JM) Marshall Evening Book Club 7-8 p.m. (JM) Tuesday, Mar. 27 Half Pints story time 10:30-11 a.m. (W) Books ‘N Stitchers 1-3 p.m. (JM) GED Classes 5:30-8 p.m. (B) * Socrates Café 7-9 p.m. (W) *Registration is required B – Bealeton branch library, 10877 Willow Drive North, Bealeton JM – John Marshall branch library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall W – Warrenton central library, 11 Winchester Street, Warrenton JBP – John Barton Payne Building, 2 Courthouse Square, Warrenton For full program descriptions, visit fauquierlibrary.org or pick up a calendar of events at any library location.

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Easter Eve Worship Service at Eva Walker Park open to the community

The churches of the Warrenton Gospel Partnership invite the community to gather with us for an evening worship service at Eva Walker Park on Saturday, March 31, from 6-6:45 p.m. Pastor Keith McCullough of Mt. Zion Baptist Church will deliver the message. The Warrenton Gospel Partnership is a collaboration of like-minded churches who desire to model and spread the

Stewart loses two weekend ‘straw polls’ for GOP senate bid By Jonathan Hunley Contributing Writer

Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart, a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, lost two straw polls over the weekend, including one close to home. Stewart, R-At Large, finished second to Del. Nick Freitas, of Culpeper, in a poll taken during the Prince William County Republican Committee’s Lincoln-Reagan Dinner held Saturday. Stewart was also bested by Freitas in what was almost a head-to-head matchup at the Virginia Tea Party’s spring conference held over the weekend in Richmond. Neither Stewart nor Freitas, R-30th, attended the local gathering, held at Heritage Hunt in Gainesville. Freitas was represented by his wife, Tina, while Stewart was represented by supporter Patty Lyman, a Fairfax attorney, according to D.J. Jordan, spokesman for the Prince William County Republican Committee. Stewart couldn’t be immediately reached to comment. In the local poll of 141 Republicans, Freitas finished with 49 percent of the vote to Stewart’s 30.4 percent. E.W. Jackson, the 2013 GOP lieutenant governor nominee, received 7.8 percent of the vote, as did Bert Mizusawa, a former major general in the U.S. Army Reserves, who entered the race last month. Minerva Diaz, a Northern Virginia consultant and pastor, also won 5 percent of the local vote. At the Tea Party event in Richmond, Freitas took 65 percent of the vote to 35 percent for Stewart. There was also one vote for Jackson in the poll of 217 people, said Tea Party Chairman Rick Buchanan. The Tea Party gathering also included a debate between Stewart and Freitas, an event that Buchanan said drew almost 300 attendees. The two hopefuls and their peers want to secure the Republican nod to face Virginia’s incumbent U.S. Senator, Tim Kaine, a Democrat who was Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential nominee in 2016. The GOP primary is June 12.

Gospel in Warrenton. The Partnership is sponsoring its second summer “Stories in the Park” family event June 24-26 at Eva Walker Park. The growing partnership is currently comprised of Mt. Zion Baptist, Heritage Presbyterian, Trinity Lutheran and Warrenton Bible Fellowship. For more information on the Partnership, contact Pastor Scott Ferrell at sjfwbf@gmail.com.

Come join us as we celebrate the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ

Dr. Decker H. Tapscott Sr. and the community of Faith Christian Church and International Outreach Center, 6472 Duhollow Road in Warrenton, invite you to their Easter Sunday Service on April 1, at 9 and 11 a.m. For more information, please contact the church office at

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St. James’ Episcopal Church celebrates Easter

St. James’ Episcopal Church, 73 Culpeper St. in Warrenton, celebrates the Easter season with services on March 29, Maundy Thursday, at 7 p.m.; March 30, Good Friday, at noon and 7 p.m.; March 31, Holy Saturday, at 8 p.m. and April 1, Easter Sunday, at 8 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. Easter Egg Hunt follows the 10:15 service. All are welcome. Contact: 540-347-4242 or admin@saintjameswarrenton.org.

Hendersons provide music at Grove Baptist Church

“We’re having an old-fashioned Easter,” says Pastor Ron Roach. Grove Baptist Church, 14260 Goldvein Road in Goldvein, will celebrate Easter on

Sunday, April 1. Music at the 11 a.m. service will be provided by the Hendersons, a gospel blue grass band. Contact Pastor Roach at 703-347-0746.

Redeemed Church of Jesus Christ invites you to ‘Holy Ghost Revival’

Redeemed Church of Jesus Christ, 9552 James Madison Highway in Warrenton, invites you to for three powerful nights at their “Holy Ghost Revival.” Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? Chains will be broken, lives will be changed! Join the church March 23 at 7 p.m., March 24 at 6 p.m. and March 25 at 11a.m. Hosted by Pastor Michael Robinson and Lady Fay Robinson. Visit www.redeemedchurchva.org for more information. — Continues on page 18

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Easter Egg Hunt in Marshall

Belvoir Assembly of God, 4180 Belvoir Road in Marshall, is hosting an awesome Easter Egg Hunt and event on Saturday, March 24, from 11 a.m. — 2 p.m. Contact: 540-253-5296

Christ Church holds Easter services

Christ Church, 95 Green St. in Warrenton, welcomes all to celebrate Palm Sunday, March 25, with Holy Communion at 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Other services include Maundy Thursday, March 29, at 5 p.m.; Good Friday with the Stations of the Cross, March 30, at 5 p.m.; and Easter Sunday, April 1, with Holy Communion at 7 a.m. in the garden and Holy Communion at 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. in the church. Contact: 571-732-1754

Upcoming services at Beulah Baptist Church

Beulah Baptist Church, 3124 Beulah Road in Markham, will celebrate its Annual Bertha Mudd Memorial Prayer Breakfast on Saturday, March 24, at 8 a.m. The preached word will be delivered by Pastor Ron Johnson from Hopewell Baptist Church in Rapidan. Easter Sunrise Service will be Sunday, April 1, at 6 a.m. followed by breakfast. On Sunday, April 8, the Golden Age Members will be honored at 11 a.m. with the Annual Friends and Family Day. All are welcome an encouraged to bring a friend and come up on the hill for worship. Contact: 540-364-2626

Easter Services at Liberty Community Church

On April 1, Liberty Community Church, 11775 Morgansburg Road in Bealeton, will host two Easter services for the community at 9 and 11 a.m. Celebrate Recovery will be offering a free brunch in between services at 10:30 a.m. Following the 11 a.m. service, Mothers of Preschoolers will sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt for the children of the community. All services are visitor-friendly and will feature upbeat music and encouraging teaching for all ages. For more information, call 540-439-0500 or visit www.positivelifechange.org.

Our Saviour Lutheran Church hosts Trivia Night

Women Build of Fauquier Habitat for Humanity is excited to announce its 15th Trivia Night to be held Friday, March 23, at Our Saviour Lutheran Church, 6194 Dumfries Road, in Warrenton. The event offers dinner, trivia, a silent auction, as well as a live auction during intermission. The goal is to raise funds to support the Critical Home Repair program. Dinner is catered by Northside 29 and is served at 6 p.m. Dinner costs $10 per person. Trivia begins at 7 p.m. and costs $10 per person to play. Something for everyone and all ages. Ten rounds of 8 questions to teams of eight or fewer players. For reservations or more information, contact Linda at 540-878-0908 or Fauquierwbtrivia@yahoo.com.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church hosts spaghetti dinner

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ship and delicious food at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 400 N. Church St. in Remington. The monthly spaghetti dinner is Friday, March 23, from 5-8 p.m. Choose meat or Alfredo sauce, green beans, salad, garlic bread and numerous special desserts. Donations welcome. Questions, call 540-4393733. Email TJBILGER@GMAIL.COM for reminders about upcoming events and dinners.

Join St. Stephen’s on Palm Sunday

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 8695 Old Dumfries Road in Catlett, invites all to celebrate Palm Sunday at 8:30 a.m. or 10 a.m. on March 25. The Easter season is one of the most important of the church. Contact: 540788-4252

‘Seven Last Sayings of Christ’ service held Good Friday

Salem Baptist Church, 4172 Rosstown Road in Marshall, invites you to its “Seven Last Sayings of Christ” service, on Good Friday, March 30, at 7 p.m. Participating preachers bringing the word will be the Rev. Rodney Smith, the Rev. Herman Nelson, the Rev. Phillip Lewis, the Rev. Michael Washington, the Rev. William Swann, the Rev. Leonard Morton Sr. and the Rev. Lindsay Green. All are welcome. Contact: the Rev. Leroy H. Stewart, 540-364-9514

Celebrate Easter at Mt. Olive

Interim Pastor the Rev. Leonard Morton Sr. will conduct Maundy Thursday services at 7:30 p.m. at Mt. Olive, 2932 Atoka Road in Rectortown (GPS use Marshall). He will deliver the message for both Easter services at 6 a.m. (sunrise service) and 10:45 a.m. (regular service). Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. Breakfast is served between the sunrise service and Sunday school. All are invited for prayer and fellowship. Contact: 540-364-2380

Walnut Grove Baptist Church SWAP holds mid-day Bible study

Seniors with a Purpose, of Walnut Grove Baptist Church, 8909 Meetze Road, Warrenton, cordially invite you to a Noon Day Bible Study. Every Thursday, from noon to 1 p.m., the group will be studying the book “Great Characters of the Bible” by Dr. Alan B. Stringfellow. This Bible study is open to all. For more information, call 540-347-0974 or email churchclerk@walnutgrovebaptistchurch. org or wgbc13@gmail.com.

Good Friday at Mount Zion Baptist Church

Everyone is welcome to worship at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 33 South Third St. in Warrenton, on Good Friday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. for “The Seven Last Sayings of Jesus Christ.” Guest speakers include: Bishop Robert L. Taylor, Mt. Olive BC, Centreville; the Rev. Charles Brooks, Faith Christian, Warrenton; the Rev. William Grant, Mt. Olive, BC, Rectortown; Minister Vinicent Holland, First BC, Warrenton; Deacon David Byers, BC, Woodville; Deacon Thomas Carter, First Springs BC, Warrenton; and Deacon Scottie Minor, Mt. Zion, BC, Warrenton. For more information, contact the church office at 540-347-3735

Easter Egg Hunt in Amissville

Amissville United Methodist Church, 14760 Lee Highway, will sponsor a Community Easter Egg Hunt at 2 p.m., on the grounds of the church. All children are welcome. For questions, please call Missy at 540-937-3590.

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Odd Fellows Cemetery under new leadership

The Odd Fellows Cemetery located on Fortune Mountain Road in Marshall (Rectortown) is now under the leadership of Mount Olive Baptist Church also in Marshall. All who have relatives/ friends buried there are asked to contact the Rev. Bill Grant Sr. at 540-270-1832.

‘Clothing for our Community’ planned for April

Grace Bible Church in Marshall is having its annual “Clothing for our Community” event on Saturday, April 14. If you have gently used clothing that you would like to donate, stop by the church between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on April 9-12. If you are in need of some clothes or other accessories, stop by the church on April 14, from 9 a.m. — 1 p.m. There are clothes for adults, children and babies. 4387 Free State Road. Contact the church office at 540364-3832 for more information.

Grace Episcopal Church hosts community lunch

All are invited to attend the community lunches of 2018 held at Grace Episcopal Church, 6507 Main St. in The Plains. Held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. mark your calendars for future community lunches this year to be held March 24, April 28, May 26, July 28, Aug. 25, Sept. 22, Oct. 27, Nov. 22 (Thanksgiving) and Dec. 15. Contact Sue Smith at sue@paulandsuesmith.net or 540-2700410.

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Places of Worship Grace Episcopal Church ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC CHURCH 271 Winchester St., Warrenton, VA 20186

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OBITUARIES Noreen M. Kellogg Noreen M. Kellogg, 77, died on March 13, 2018 at Avante Health in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She died peacefully after an extended illness. She was born in Grand Valley, Pennsylvania on September 27, 1940, to parents Leo Brown and Lavina Loomis who preceded her in death. Noreen was also preceded in death by step-father, Robert Frew, siblings Donna Smith, John Brown, Dale Brown, Gerald Brown, and a cousin Robert Brown. She is survived by her children and their families, Maureen Kellogg, Lisa Kellogg (Jim Arnold), Celeste King, and Patrick Kellogg (Sachiko); brother Robert Frew (Anne) and a sister Lora Wester. Noreen also leaves five grandchildren; Jacob Kellogg, Brianna Owens, Summer Owens, Shunji Kellogg, Kenji Kellogg, and a great grandchild, Joshua Segura. Noreen was a homemaker and raised four children. She enjoyed keeping a nice yard and growing vegetables for the family. She was an avid bowler, participating in local mixed leagues for a number of years. At her best she regularly maintained averages in the upper 200’s. Her hobbies included furniture repair and refinishing, crafting, and collecting and selling antiques. Noreen was active in the local United Methodist Church in various locations where she lived. She was a lover of music and enjoyed singing in the church choir. The family received friends on Monday, March 19 from 9 to 10 AM at Moser Funeral Home in Warrenton, Virginia, where services began at 10 AM. Interment followed at Stonewall Memory Gardens in Manassas, Virginia.

Joan Evans Semple Joan Evans Semple of Warrenton, Virginia passed away on March 6th, 2018 after a long battle with complications following a stroke. She was 91. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania she spent her early years in Rose Valley, Pa. At age 5 she contracted polio and while this might be a disability to some, she walked courageously through life never letting that slow her down and demonstrating to all that knew her that life was full of limitless possibilities. Mrs. Semple attended the George School in Newtown Pennsylvania and later earned her bachelor’s degree in Landscape Horticulture from Penn State. It was there that she met her husband, John Brooks Semple, and where their love story began. They were married September 10th, 1949. She shared his love of travel, sailing and farming, eventually settling in Warrenton Virginia in 1976. For 4 decades she worked as a licensed Landscape Architect and supervised their commercial Holly Growing business at Suffield Farm and their holly trees adorn the grounds of the White House, Arlington Cemetery, and the National Museum of the American Indian as well as many other federal and state grounds. In addition, Suffield hollies can be found in Colonial Williamsburg and many estates and homes surrounding Fauquier County, Virginia. While heavily involved in her community and in horticulture she also raised four sons. She was known to say that living with Brooks and the “boys” was “like living on the edge of a volcano”. Joan was an active member of the Warrenton Antiquarian Society and was involved with scheduling tours and activities at Weston in Casanova, VA She was a long time member of the Warrenton Garden Club and past president of the same. She was also a member of Christ Church in Warrenton. Her work ethic and never-give-up attitude inspired others to give their all. She enjoyed entertaining, reading and was an avid gardener. A friend to all, Joan touched many lives over her lifetime and left her indelible mark on her community. Wife, Landscape Architect, Mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother, she is survived by her husband of 68 years, J. Brooks Semple, of Warrenton, Her sons Charles B. Semple (Carol) of Boulder Colorado, Barry S. Semple (Lynn) of Boise Idaho, Andrew D. Semple (Shannon) of New Bern NC, and Stephen H. Semple of Warrenton Va. as well as her sister Gretchen S. Rogovin of Ibiza, Spain and Iowa City IA. She is predeceased by her brother C. Scott Seltzer, of Rose Valley. She cherished her 8 grandchildren. Mrs. Semple also enjoyed seven greatgrandchildren and was blessed with numerous nieces and nephews whom she loved dearly. Joan stood as a shining example of perseverance and determination for all. Never deterred in her desire to live life to its fullest, she led by example showing her friends and family that life was full of joy and challenges and all should be met head on. She is surely dancing in heaven unencumbered by braces and wheelchairs and tending to God’s heavenly garden. Services will be held on April 14th at 1pm at Christ Church in Warrenton. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations in her name to Christ Church or the charity of one’s choice. On line condolences may be sent to Moser Funeral Home.

Deborah Broadley Gale Deborah Broadley Gale passed away peacefully on Sunday, March 11, 2018. She was born November 6, 1939 in Bronxville, NY, the daughter of Charles Vincent Broadley, a U.S. Naval Officer, and Margaret Ericson Broadley, a published author. Debbie is preceded in death by her beloved sister, Barbara Broadley Beinhocker of Belmont, MA. Debbie is survived by her husband of 58 years Benjamin Gale, her son Thomas Gale, her daughters Mary Gale and Debbie Freer, and by her four grandchildren Tyler Gale and Ben, Molly and Sarah Freer. Funeral and internment services were held on Saturday, March 17th at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, VA. Messages of condolences may be posted on www.roystonfuneralhome. net. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to one of Debbie’s favorite charities, The Kamba Foundation, Inc. at 231 Wildflower Drive, Ithaca, NY 14850. Debbie spent her childhood in Kensington, MD where she was a student at the National Cathedral School in Washington, DC. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she studied drawing and painting. She went on to reside in Maryland, Georgia and Virginia. Throughout her life she was an avid artist most known for her colorful animal caricatures doing all of the laughable things that humans do. She was an accomplished artisan of crafts and a true lover of all things gardening. She was an active parishioner and volunteer at Trinity Episcopal Church and a founding member of The Gale Foundation. Her philanthropic missionary work in Africa, Bolivia and Honduras transformed the lives of many and drew her into loving communion with people all over the world. She will be deeply missed by her family, friends and all who were blessed to know her.

Coraine Sara Anne Somers Coraine (“Codgie”) Sarah Anne Somers, age 80, passed peacefully at Shenandoah Senior Living in Front Royal, VA on Tuesday, March 13th, 2018, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. She was born in England on April 20th, 1937, the daughter of the late, Joseph & Alicia Baker. In addition to her parents, Coraine was preceded in death by her husband of 39 years, Thomas Francis Somers, III and two siblings, Pamela Perceval Maxwell and Ian Baker. Mrs. Somers was born in Brentford, in West London, and survived the bombings of London in World War II as a young child. After graduating from college with a teaching degree, Coraine traveled to the United States to take a teaching job at Sacred Heart Greenwich school, in Greenwich, CT. While there, she met and fell in love with Thomas F. Somers III, her future husband, from Pelham, NY. After the wedding, they moved for his work to New Jersey and Illinois before he began his own business based in Beckley, West Virginia as a manufacturers’ representative. “Codge” helped Tom run the business, operating the office and raising their children while he traveled. They spent vacation time at Snowshoe Ski Resort and Alderson on the Greenbrier River, both in West Virginia. They also periodically visited many friends around the U.S. and her mother, Alicia, in England; Coraine was very proud of her British roots. “Codgie” loved playing bridge and card games in general. She had a great competitive spirit and also offered much-needed advice and support to her family and friends, whom she loved deeply. Tom and Coraine were both strong defenders of the unborn and supported many churches, including Saint Francis de Sales in Beckley, Precious Blood in Culpeper, and Saint John in Warrenton. She is survived by two children, Sarah Scaring and her husband, Bill of Warrenton, VA and Thomas Francis Somers, IV of Amissville, VA; a brother, George Winston Baker of England; and six grandchildren, Will, Ben, Nick, Claire, Lauren and Olivia. A mass of Christian burial will be held at St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 271 Winchester Street, Warrenton, VA, 12:30 pm on Thursday, March 22, 2018. Interment will follow at Culpeper National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Warrenton Pregnancy Center, P.O. Box 316, Warrenton, VA 20188. Online condolences may be made at www.moserfuneralhome.com.

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OBITUARIES Danielle Renee Layne

Caron A. Behrens Caron A. Behrens, peacefully passed into the the Lord’s hands at 0800 16 March 2018. All in the family were with her. She put up a strong battle with breast and lung cancer for the past 5 years; the doctors often referred to her as a “feisty lady” and passed around jovial caution about her “weird sense of humor”. Caron is survived by her husband of 48 years, James E. Behrens, son Eric J. Behrens of Warrenton, Virginia, daughter Kari An Behrens of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, daughter Terra Almond Throgmorton, and her son-in-law Msgt Joseph Throgmorton of Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Preceded in death are her mother Marion Applin, and father Hugh Applin. Caron was a devoted to her family and served her country. She was a Federal Employee for 14 years with assignments in Washington, Los Angles and Saigon, Vietnam. She met and married the love of her life, Jim Behrens while both were on assignment to Saigon, Vietnam (1967-1970). Together they went on overseas tours to Nicosia, Cyprus, Athens, Greece and Monrovia, Liberia. They built their earth-sheltered home on the outskirts of Warrenton, Virginia in 1981 in which Caron quickly realized her ability to tie steel rebar as well as any professional. She loved her home and her family very much as well as the animals they have shared their home with throughout the years. She loved the emerald green waters of Fort Walton Beach and the Bahamas where her mother and she had several beach side properties. She enjoyed tending to her flowers and indoor plants. Caron enjoyed visiting with family and friends. Caron desired that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to her favorite charity, St Jude’s Children’s Hospital (https://www.stjude.org/) or your personal favorite charity. Thank you and God Bless you all. Jim, Eric, Kari An, Terra and Joe“. The family received friends on Monday, March 19, 2018 at Moser Funeral Home, 233 Broadview Ave., Warrenton, VA. A Mass of Christian Burial wasoffered on Tuesday, March 20 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 271 Winchester Street, Warrenton, VA 20186. Notes may be sent to the family at: papatvlbear@gmail.com or to the family home outside of Warrenton: The Behrens Family, 7588 Porch Road, Warrenton, Virginia 20187

Danielle Renee Layne, 32, of Gainesville, Virginia, passed on March 3, 2018. Funeral services were held on Friday, March 16, 2018, 12:00 pm at Oak Shade Baptist Church, 3287 Old Catlett Road, Catlett, Virginia, 20119. Online condolences can be given at www.joynesfuneralhome.com

Edward Earl Hill Edward Earl Hill, 81, of Purcellville, Virginia, passed on March 2, 2018. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 24, 2018, 11:00 am, at Mt. Zion Baptist Church-St. Louis, 35285 Snake Hill Road, Middleburg, Virginia, 20117. Online condolences can be given at www.joynesfuneralhome.com

Maria Linardakis Maria Linardakis, age 75, passed peacefully on Friday, March 16th, 2018 at her home in Warrenton, VA. She was born in Montreal, Canada on June 27th, 1942, daughter of the late Angelo & Evangelia Timotheatos. Maria was the owner of Pete’s Park-N-Eat in Opal, Virginia for over 40 years. Maria is survived by her husband of 56 years, Peter Linardakis; four children, Georgia Hoover & her husband, Jimmy of Warrenton, VA, Lenny Linardakis of Warrenton, Angie Hall & her husband, David also of Warrenton and Angelo Linardakis & his wife, Eleni of Lorton, VA; four sisters, Tina Kassidakis & her husband, Kostas, Lily Bogdanos & her husband, Spiro, Bessie Dimopoulos & her husband, Billy and Helen Salmon & her husband, Robert, all of Montreal, Canada; and ten grandchildren, Zachary, Peter, Matthew, Ethan, Alex, George, Raquel, Peter, Chris & Maria and many nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. The family accepted visitors at Moser Funeral Home, 233 Broadview Ave., Warrenton, VA on Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 from 5 to 8 pm. A funeral service will be offered on Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at 11 am at St. Katherine Greek Orthodox Church, 3149 Glen Carlyn Road, Falls Church, VA 22041. Interment will follow at Fairfax Memorial Park cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Capital Caring Hospice and/or St. Katherine’s Greek Orthodox church. Online condolences may be made at www.moserfuneralhome.com.

John William Thompson April 25, 1924 - March 13, 2018 On March 13, 2018, God called John home, peacefully as he rested in Warrenton, Va, after nearly 94 years of a very good life. He was an amazing man. John was one of the kindest and most generous people you could ever know. He would help anyone at any time and most who met him would call him a friend. Born and raised in Bridgeport, Ct., he was a WWII USAF veteran who helped liberate the concentration camps. When he returned he worked as a union sheet metal worker until he retired in 1986 and moved to Bealeton, Va with his wife to be near family. He was an avid boater and a lifelong member of East End Yacht club in Bridgeport. The biggest part of his life was his family. He was an amazing son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and uncle. He taught his children the value of hard work and integrity but most importantly, the values of love and kindness. He would stop to help anyone in need and made sure that his family had everything he could give them. Even as he aged he was the rock for his family. He will be greatly missed by so many but has left such a legacy of love that it will live on in all the lives he touched. John was predeceased by his parents, Wallace and Bertha, wife, Margaret, siblings Wallace, Mildred, Donald and Arlene and grandson Michael Joseph Marti. He leaves to carry on his love, his children, John Leone (Gerrie), Kathleen Carpenito (James), Deborah Marti (Jose) and Kristine Lewis. Grandchildren: Alex Marti (Jamie), Michael Leone (Kimberly), Cassie Carpenito, RJ Lewis, Melissa Marti Signor (Ricky), great grandchildren, Mason and Colin Leone, Michael James Marti, and Jaxon Lewis. A celebration of his life was held at Moser Funeral home on Saturday, March 17th at noon, followed by a reception at The American Legion. At a later date, another celebration will be held in Connecticut. Family requests no flowers but anyone who wishes to can make a donation to the Wounded Warriors Project. Until we meet again, we love you Dad!

Carol Ann Witmore-Herring Carol Ann Whitmore-Herring passed away on the morning of March 15 after a courageous battle with cancer. A Requiem Mass will be offered by Father Francis Miller at 10AM on Wednesday, March 21st at the Nicholson Funeral Home at 125 East Front Street in Statesville, NC. A graveside service will take place at Amissville United Methodist Church in Amissville, VA at 3PM Thursday, March 22. Carol Ann was a gifted artist in the Statesville area and a devout Traditional Roman Catholic. A native of Rappahannock County, Virginia, she grew up in Amissville, attending county schools and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Madison College, Harrisonburg (later JMU), with post-graduate classes there and at VCU in Richmond. She taught briefly at Warren County High School, and after moving to North Carolina, at Mitchell Community College, Florence Thomas Art School, Mooresville Visual Arts Depot and at her own studio “Trinitykeep.” Carol Ann held art memberships at the Artist Guild of Statesville; Mooresville Arts; Watercolor Society of NC; and at the Blue Ridge Art Clan of Ashe County, NC. She was pre-deceased by her parents, Ralph H and Marion R Rowzie, and a sister, Sandra Rowzie Willis. She is survived by her husband Ralph A Herring, Jr., Statesville; sister Linda Rowzie Hann and husband H. C. Hann, Jr. Amissville; brother-in-law The Rev. John H Willis, III, Lynchburg; and nephew Mark Rowzie Willis, Fredericksburg. The family would like to express their deepest gratitude to Carol Ann’s closest friends who gave countless hours to attend to her these last few months. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Hospice and Palliative Care of Iredell County located at 7347 Simonton Road, Statesville, NC 28625. “My Pleasure has ever been in painting portraits of people, their children, pets, homes, schools, churches, all that we deeply cherish in Life”

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OBITUARIES Emma Alice Mudd Emma Alice Mudd, 81, of Warrenton, Virginia, passed on March 16, 2018, at Fauquier Hospital, Warrenton, Virginia. She was born on May 9, 1932. Emma is survived by two sons: Michael Lee Mudd of Warrenton, VA, George Mudd of Bealeton, VA; two grandchildren: Michelle Thornley of Alexandria, VA, and Eleanor Mudd of Warrenton, VA. Family will receive friends on Monday, March 26, 2018, from 11am until 12 pm with funeral services starting at 12 pm at First Baptist Church, 39 Alexandria Pike, Warrenton, Virginia, 20186. Rev. Matthew A. Zimmerman Jr. will deliver the eulogy. Interment will be in Bright View Cemetery, Warrenton, Virginia. Online condolences can be given at www.joynesfuneralhome.com

Myrtle Virginia Jenkins Myrtle Virginia Jenkins, 90 of Amissville, VA passed away on March 18, 2018 at Mary’s Place, Culpeper. She was born on June 27, 1927 at Woodville, VA a daughter of the late Charles W. Jenkins and Rosa Sisk Jenkins. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Franklin Jenkins; sons, Roy T. Jenkins and Kevin Jenkins; and her sister, Mildred Brown. Myrtle retired as a cashier with Safeway. She was a faithful member of Warrenton Baptist Church who enjoyed being around people and had a deep and abiding faith in God. She is survived by her children Beverly (Joseph) Hayes, Catlett, VA and Jeffrey K. (Patricia) Jenkins, Wheelersburg, OH; her sister, Peggy Beasley, Atlanta, GA; five grandchildren, Jamie Pohlmann, Shannon Edwards, Kim Baker, Andrew Jenkins and Zachary Jenkins; five great grandchildren, Grace Pohlmann, Kate Pohlmann, Brittney Hayes, Caroline Edwards and Virginia Edwards. The family will receive friends on Sunday, March 25 from 4-6 PM at Moser Funeral Home, Warrenton where funeral services will be held on Monday, March 26 at 10:00 AM. Interment will follow at Culpeper National Cemetery, (New Section). Memorial contributions may be made to The Culpeper or to the Alzheimer’s Association. Online condolences may be made at www.moserfuneralhome.com.

Sandra Elease Jolley Sandra Elease Jolley, 76, of Midland, Virginia, passed on March 5, 2018, at Fauquier Hospital, Warrenton, Virginia. She was born July 26, 1941. She was a retired systems analyst for the House of Representatives and was a member of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, Calverton, VA. Sandra is survived by her husband, Paul B. Jolley, Sr. of Midland, VA; one son, Paul B. (Ginny) Jolley Jr. of Midland, VA; two sisters: Queen (Ed) White, and Barbara (Charlie) Price both of Midland, VA; three brothers: Joseph (Anne) Addison of Baltimore, MD, Victor (Sonya) Addison Sr. of Warrenton, VA, Paul Addison of Brookland, NY and his partner, Roger N. Parker who was a very special friend; one grandchild, Elizabeth Jolley, Midland, VA. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, at 12 pm, at Faith Christian Church, 6472 Duhollow Road, Warrenton, Virginia, 20187. Rev. Robert L. Jones delivered the eulogy. Interment was in the Fitzhugh Family Cemetery, Midland, Virginia. Online condolences can be given at www.joynesfuneralhome.com

Joan Lee Moses Houston Joan Lee Moses Houston, 73, of Amissville died March 14, 2018 at Fauquier Hospital. She was born May 11,1944 in Alexandria to the late Marion Moses and Hazel Walters Moses. In addition to her husband, Charles Houston, Joan is survived by two daughters, Yvonne Barrett and her husband, Richard, of Bealeton and Peggy Lewczak and her husband, Scott, of Nokesville; a brother Bernard Moses; a sister Faye Shiflett; four grandchildren, Ross Barrett, Ryan Barrett, Katy Barrett, and Zoe Lewczak. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Houston is also preceded in death by two brothers, William R. Moses and Ronald A. Moses. Mrs. Houston was a retired school bus driver for Prince William County and worked for over twenty years. She loved her job very much, especially serving the children. A funeral service was held Monday March 19, 2018 at 6:00 pm at Moser Funeral Home, 233 Broadview Ave., Warrenton, VA with Rev. Darrell Mosely officiating. The family received friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to the Fauquier County SPCA. Online condolences may be made at www.moserfuneralhome.com.

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Liberty third baseman Ann Marie Hockman is one of eight returning starters on a veteran squad that hopes to challenge favorite James Wood for the Northwestern District title. Standout Makaela Kestner is back on the team after a year off. The Eagles are 2-0 after Kestner struck out 13 in Monday’s 12-3 win over Eastern View.

With a plethora of veterans on hand, the Liberty softball team could be a major factor in the revised Northwestern District this spring. Liberty has eight returning starters from the 2017 unit that finished 4-4 in Conference 22 and 8-9 overall. The entire infield returns intact, with Anna Marie Hockman (third base), Morgan Hatcher (shortstop), Rachel Allen (second) and Ally Fitzwater (first). Lizzie Waln returns for a fourth season as a starter behind the plate. Hope Mullins, Kaci Henrich and Fitzwater all pitched last spring. The returning crew also is bolstered by the return of senior Makaela Kestner, who earned Conference 22 Player of the Year honors as a sophomore. She skipped softball last spring to concentrate on the travel basketball circuit,. Kestner’s return makes the pitching staff deeper and stronger, and her athleticism and power at the plate are major assets too. “Makaela’s back…she’s a big part of the team,” Waln said. “I think she’s going to bring a lot to the table with her pitching. She hasn’t played in over a year and came back in her first scrimmage and hit a home run.” Amy Sheehan, Kaitlyn Strayer, Jada Leatherman, Veronica Nickerson, Paige Kyle and Taylor Smith round out the current team. Liberty’s experience factor is a significant boon. Waln hopes to savor a state tournament appearance before taking her talents to James Madison University this fall. The catching star thinks Liberty can make the postseason and excel in regionals. “I think we will be a lot tougher this year,” said Waln. “I think the pitching will be a lot better than last year and the hitting. We all have been working hard.” The Eagles were inconsistent at times last year. “We just have to have the mindset. Not get down on ourselves If things go awry. I think we will be a lot tougher this year,” she said. Liberty coach Ryan Washington was cautious in her assessments. On losing only one starter, Washington replied, “Not much of an advantage because there is still a lot of youth on the team.” On Kestner’s presence, Washington answered, “She is just getting back in the groove.” Liberty opened with an impressive 7-0 win over Brentsville last Friday as Mullins allowed only one hit and struck out seven in five innings. Kestner struck out all six batters she faced in the final two frames. Hockman belted two triples and scored three times. Waln doubled and drove in two runs. Hatcher also had two RBIs, with Kestner and Fitzwater adding one each. The Eagles host Osbourn Park 6 p.m. Wednesday. Liberty will not field a junior varsity team this spring.

KETTLE RUN SOFTBALL PREVIEW

A new season of promise for Cougars By Fred Hodge

Special to the Times

By the time the Northwestern District softball tournament rolls around May 22, Kettle Run softball coach Tori Hill is hoping to have answers to some pending questions. “I think I have a decent idea of who our speedy girls are and who are our power girls, but we really haven’t put it all in order,” Hill said. The outfield is the largest question mark as the Cougars have three brand new starters in left, right and center. Current juniors Chelsea Dodson and Larissa James-LaBranche both garnered second-team all-Conference 22 accolades last spring as outfielders, but they are needed else-

where this season. Kettle Run has stability though, with four returning starters out of six in the infield. Senior pitcher Jordanna Shorts earned first-team all-Conference 22 honors last spring, and she is headed to play at NCAA Division II Belmont Abbey in the fall. The Cougars also have Danie Cleveland (second base), Nicole Bayliff (first) and Blake Johnson (third) returning to anchor the diamond. “We’ve got the talent. It’s just a matter of putting it all together,” Hill said. Last spring the Cougars did not qualify for the Conference 22 tour See COUGARS, Page 26

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Ace pitcher Jordanna Shorts and the Kettle Run Cougars hope to make a run at the Northwestern District title.

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KETTLE RUN BOYS SOCCER PREVIEW

A BRAND NAME YOU CAN TRUST

Defending 4A champion Cougars taking talents to Northwestern District By Jeff Malmgren

Starting lineup

Times Staff Writer

Roster turnover never seems to affect Kettle Run’s boys soccer team. The 2018 season will certainly test that theory, though. The Cougars have only three returning starters from a 2017 team that won the Class 4A state championship, so their streak of earning a region bid in eight consecutive seasons may be at risk. Yet it’s hard to doubt a Kettle Run program that has won 84 percent of its games since 2009 (130-21-4 record) with a state berth in three of the past four seasons and a 3A title in 2015. Coach Philip Roper views that history as “a double-edged sword.” “The kids on the team know what it takes to get there,” he said. “At the same time, you’ve created this tradition so they [may] just expect it to come. So you’ve got to make sure they still work hard.” Kettle Run lost eight senior starters to graduation, including seven all-conference players, four of whom made an all-state team. But the Cougars still have five returning all-conference players, including three forwards in sophomore Lucas Tabit and seniors Lorenzo Falsone and Jakob Wine. That all-conference group also includes

FORWARDS: Lorenzo Falsone, Sr.^; Jakob Wine, Sr.*; Lucas Tabit, Soph.^ MIDFIELD: Justin Magill, Sr.*; Max Pillow, Fr.#; John Hamilton, Jr.#; Will Ayala, Sr.# DEFENSE: Blake Jerrell, Sr.†; Cameron Wollard, Sr.*; Evan Thompson, Sr.†; Alex Wollard, Soph.† GOALKEEPER: Sean Settle, Sr. *Returning starter ^Battle with Liam Downey, Sr., and Joshua Wine, Jr. #Battle with Luke Watrous, Soph. †Battle with Noah Stallard, Jr. and Hunter Anderson, Jr.

Yearly records PHOTO BY RANDY LITZINGER Senior Jakob Wine leads what figures to be another high-scoringKettle Run attack. The Cougars went 21-1-1 and won their second Class 4A title in three years last spring, nipping Charlottesville, 3-2, in double overtime.

senior midfielder Justin Magill and senior defender Cameron Wollard. “We have a good base to build on,” Roper said. “Fortunately we have a lot of guys that played last year. We went deep into the bench just so these guys get the experience. I’ve kind of done that every year. “So they’re not nervous at all,” he said, “but we’ve still got more guys

that we’re going to have to rely on that don’t have experience.” With few returning starters, Roper used largely different lineup combinations during each of the Cougars’ two scrimmages. They defeated Loudoun County 2-1, after beginning the preseason with a 6-1 loss to Loudoun Valley. “They had two guys pretty good

2017: 21-1-1# 2016: 15-1* 2015: 19-1-1# 2014: 17-2^ 2013: 15-2* 2012: 14-4-1* 2011: 14-6* 2010: 15-4-1* 2009: 6-10-1 Total: 136-31-5 *Region berth ^State berth #State champion

up top; kind of ripped our defense apart,” Roper said of Valley. “Did a lot better [against County]. We got some guys in positions where we’re more apt to excel.” Wollard will lead Kettle Run’s defense as a center back, while seniors Blake Jerrell and Evan Thompson will vie for other starting spots in the back with juniors Noah Stallard and Hunter Anderson, and sophomore Alex Wollard, while senior Sean Settle plays in goal. Battling for starting spots in the midfield next to Magill are senior Will Ayala, junior John Hamilton, sophomore Luke Watrous and freshman Max Pillow. Junior Joshua Wine and senior Liam Downey will also contend for playing time at forward along with Jakob Wine, Falsone and Tabit. “That might be our one spot that we know the most about,” Roper said of his forwards. He knows less about the Cougars’ new Class 4 Northwestern District, which has only two familiar foes in Fauquier and Liberty with four Winchester school replacing three Loudoun County schools from last season’s Conference 22 field. “It’s kind of hard to predict,” Roper said. “I think Sherando is going to be tough, and Millbrook and Liberty, they’re going to be pretty good. Got some talent down there” in Bealeton. Liberty was the lone team to beat Kettle Run last season, claiming a 1-0 victory in early April. So the Cougars finished with a 21-11 record, a final mark that Roper couldn’t recall this past weekend. “But I always remember how many losses we have,” he said. That, of course, hasn’t been difficult. The Cougars haven’t lost more than two games in any season since 2012.

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LIBERTY GIRLS LACROSSE PREVIEW

A surging team in Bealeton

Senior-laden Eagles hope to top last year’s 10-5 breakout By Fred Hodge

Special to the Times

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Jada Milton and the Eagles want to top last year’s breakout 10-5 season.

Coming off one of the best seasons in its girls lacrosse history, Liberty hopes to keep climbing. The 2017 Eagles went 10-5 and earned the No. 2 seed for the Evergreen District tournament but fell in the semifinals, one win from a regional berth. Liberty graduated first-team all-Evergreen District honorees midfielder Caroline Duckworth and forward Kaitlin Vannatter. They were Liberty’s top scorers, and the league’s coaches voted Duckworth its Offensive Player of the Year. Fortunately for Kat Tines, the 2017 Evergreen District’s co-Coach of the Year, the program’s skill level and participation continues to increase. “It was absolutely a hit with our three senior captains and five seasoned players graduating, but I’ve been pleased with how our team has stepped up so far,” Tines said following the opening week of games. “It was a very different dynamic of

girls this year. Our leaders changed, and with that our leadership style. And it took a little while to find a groove.” A core of eight seniors anchors the squad, led by first-team all-district goalkeeper Sophia Vilaca. Captains Rachel Brown and Vicky Machuca, Jada Hord, Kamryn Hitt, Kaylah Groger, Chloe Reingruber and Sierra Lacey are other keystones. Coach Tines believes she has a solid defense to support the transition on the offensive end. Vilaca and defender Jada Milton, another first-team allleague selection, should shine on that unit. “Our defense is looking strong,” said Tines. “They grew significantly last year together.” Tines said experienced freshman Abby Keller should have an impact and multiple opportunities exist for consistent scorers to step forward. Tines pointed to Brown’s strong shot and three-year starter Kaila Lacey, a junior who is a patient and crafty attacker. Hord has been a solid scorer in the past. Emma Miller moves into the key center midfield

slot, with newcomers freshman Gretchen Thomas and sophomore Mallie Lanier also up front. Jordan Hadler, Maria Fuentes, Angele Cipriotti, Rachael McCoy, Taylor Cash, Madison Clark, Ashley Harris, Lesley Melendez and Sydney Floyd all can contribute, Tines said of the group of veterans and new players. “It’s the first year we didn’t have to come out and spend half of our practices learning to catch and throw,” a grateful Tines said. “Our players have more experience, worked together in the off-season and I look forward to see what they will do this year.” Liberty split its two opening games last week, capturing a thrilling 4-3 double overtime victory last Thursday at Osbourn Park on a goal by Miller. Kaila Lacey, Brown and Keller scored earlier for the Eagles. Vilaca recorded 12 saves in goal. The Eagles opened with a 12-10 home loss versus Eastern View. Lacey scored three times, and Brown, Hord and Keller added two apiece. Vilaca had 12 saves.

KETTLE RUN GIRLS SOCCER PREVIEW

Get ready for another scoring explosion Mitchell, Fiel, Crater fuel Cougars’ potent attack By Jeff Malmgren Times Staff Writer

Recent records 2017: 15-3-2* 2016: 10-6-2 2015: 7-8-3 2014: 14-6-2*^ 2013: 14-5* 2012: 11-4-3* 2011: 13-4-1* 2010: 7-8-3* 2009: 10-6-2 Total: 101-50-18 *Region appearance ^State appearance

“All time” doesn’t seem to last long for the Kettle Run Cougars. For the second time in only a year, they are facing the challenge of replacing their all-time leading scorer in girls soccer. Emily Yergin graduated in 2016 with 49 career goals, but Liz Keefer filled that Possible lineup void last season by scor- FORWARDS ing 33 goals to help Kettle W: Alyssa Damato, Jr.* Run advance to the region C: Sarah Mitchell, Sr.* quarterfinal en route to a W: Carly Brummett, Jr. MIDFIELDERS 15-3-2 record. Payton Fiel, Jr.* Keefer then graduat- W: C: Taylor Creeden, Soph.* ed with 63 career goals, W: Amanda Dooley, Sr.* so now the Cougars face BACKS a similar scoring chasm. W: Lindsey Fisher, Sr.* “That’s always a tough C: Grace Crater, Sr.* one to replace,” Cougars C: Caitlyn Maloney, Sr. Zoe Zuras, Jr. coach Matt Zuras said, W: GOALKEEPER “but I think we’ll do it Carlyn Schneider, Jr.* with several people.” *Returning starter Kettle Run has depth and experience all over the field with 19 athletes earning significant playing time early this spring and eight returning starters, including forwards Sarah Mitchell and Alyssa Damato. They each scored more than 15 goals last season on the wings. Now, Mitchell, a senior, has shifted to Keefer’s old spot in the center with Carly Brummett joining Damato, a follow junior, on the outside after missing last spring with a knee injury. “We are kind of lucky in that we have pretty good depth there,” Zuras said. “I feel like we have a lot of scoring options, but Sarah, right now, is the one that’s kind of taken the reins.” Mitchell leads the Cougars this season with

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Payton Fiel and the talented Cougars hope to make noise in the Northwestern District. three goals and three assists, helping them win their first two games, but 19 of Kettle Run’s players have contributed by playing at least 30 minutes each in those matches, Zuras said. “It seems to be working well, keeping everybody fresh and excited,” he said. “I think we’ve got the depth to carry us even with illness or injury … or three or four games in a week because of snow.” Kettle Run has three returning starters in the midfield, including junior wing Payton Fiel, one of three Cougars who made the Class 4A West Region teams last season. Senior Amanda Dooley plays on the other wing with sophomore Taylor Creeden in the center. Senior back Grace Crater is also a returning all-region player who will work in the center along with senior Caitlyn Maloney, while senior Lindsey Fisher and junior Zoe Zuras fill the defensive wings

with junior goalkeeper Carlyn Schneider in goal. Kettle Run lost six players last season after winning the Conference 22 regular season championship, but that group included only a trio of all-conference performers in Keefer (also allstate) Catherine Scheffer and Alyssa Megill. “We have high expectations,” Zuras said. “We should have an opportunity to win in every game.” So the Cougars hope to earn a region berth for the seventh time in nine seasons. They’re vying for one of two bids to the new Class 4 Region C tournament out of the seven Class 4 teams in the Evergreen District. “Our region is really tough because we’re in with all the Loudoun schools,” Zuras said. “But we know we can play with them.”

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LIBERTY BASEBALL PREVIEW

Determan’s Eagles developing ‘a mindset of aggression’ Six seniors, key sophomores lead rebuilding Liberty By Josh Dorsey

Special to the Times

Liberty High first-year baseball coach Tom Determan is focused on changing the entire culture of Eagles’ baseball after a 1-14 campaign in 2017. Liberty returns six seniors in Drew Leach, Logan Meriwether, Andrew Oliveri, Mike Rubio, Zach Schweier and Brian Storey. “I still expect the seniors to set an example with work ethic and talent,” said Determan, who also will give prime time opportunities to two sophomores, Logan Rodney and Colby Neal. Rodney will catch, pitch and possibly play shortstop. Neal will pitch and move around as well. Standout freshman middle infielder Rock Hockman will also play. Determan will lean on Rodney and Neal to eat up innings from the right side with Rubio the lefty in the rotation. Liberty bullpen arms project to be Andrew Oliveri, John Tocheny and John Untiedt Before taking two years off to spend more time with family, Determan served as Liberty’s assistant coach for seven years. When Jeff Crane resigned last year, Determan applied. “I decided to interview for it and give it a shot. Luckily it worked out,” he said. Determan is preaching a new mantra to his guys. “My philosophy with hitting is being aggressive,” Determan said. “I want to attack other pitchers. We can’t let them

Liberty’s Logan Meriwether leads off against Brentsville in the season opener. get away with laying strikes in there.” Liberty lacks superior power but hopes to be a productive offense as the team matures. The offense will be built around Leach and Rodney. “We want to push other teams to their limits and see if they will make mistakes. We don’t have a lot of guys that are flat out speedsters but we do run the bases well,” said Determan. “It’s less about speed and more just

about a mindset of aggression.” Changes were implemented in the Eagles’ season-opening 13-5 loss to Brentsville on March 16. “We went up 5-0 in the second inning. You could tell the whole demeanor of the team changed,” Determan said. “Guys that hadn’t been in that position before weren’t necessarily ready for it. It is a complete shift in attitude.” The toughest task Determan will

OLDER, WISER, BETTER

Unified Liberty girls soccer team hungry to win By Fred Hodge

Thomas, Cynthia Meija and Sheila Goux complete the squad. There are some obstacles, however. Bianca PurThis is Year Two of the Liberty plan. pura (knee) and Claire Duckworth (ACL surgery) Coach Marc Costanzo knew making the Eaare the 2017 all-Conference 22 girls who are going gles’ girls soccer program consistently competito miss this season. Carly Sheppard is injured. tive would not be an instantaneous process when In addition, Costanzo and Harmon missed Frihe took over last year. Eleven seniors on a squad that struggled last day’s season-opening 2-0 loss to Brentsville with spring are gone, but that number is misleading be- injuries. The coaches elevated Daphne Daymude and Alicia Harp from the junior varsity unit on cause 10 of last spring’s starters were freshone day’s notice and played well, Costanzo men, sophomores or juniors. LIBERTY said. “The main focus last year was to learn GIRLS The second-year coach said one area of the system, build team chemistry and creSOCCER emphasis is finishing scoring opportunities ate a positive atmosphere,” said Costanzo. “This year we are focused on competing for PREVIEW because Eve Costanzo (six goals) is the lone Eagle to score more than once last season. a conference title.” “However I feel we have a lot of talented Costanzo says the added experience “is very nogirls that are eager for the chance to step in this ticeable. The atmosphere is very positive. The group we have this year is very competitive and does not area,” Costanzo said, pointing to Simpson and Garner who scored in a scrimmage against Warwant to settle for moral victories,” Costanzo said. Liberty again will use a 3-5-2 formation. Se- ren County. “We will need a lot more of that if we nior Megan Fiel is back in goal, with Taylor Hol- want to achieve our goals this season.” The Eagles will be at Sherando Friday to close land, Noelle Crane and Cyan Marek forming the out the pre-spring break slate. veteran defensive line in front of her. In the midfield, senior Eve Costanzo and junior Meet the JV Destiny Barton, a pair of second-team all-Conference The 2018 junior varsity team members are Michele 22 players in 2017, will join Madi Sertas in the three Borja, Abby Bynaker, Jordan Cabanban, Salma Cascenter positions. Sertas, a transfer from Kettle Run, tellano, Grace Curry, Daphne Daymude, Ashley Garexpands the midfield’s flexibility, Costanzo said. ber, Cheyenne Haley, Alicia Harp, Ella Hart, Lana Breanna Duncan and Maddie Harmon return Kraiwan, Kelly Lloyd, Lyla Marek, Jewel Reynolds, on the wings. Sophomores Carmela Garner and Gabriele Martinez, Leslie Quiroz, Jazmyn Reynolds, Baiiey Simpson are the starting forwards. Jessalyn Robinson, Erin Strong, Sam Westner, AkaKara Maines, Victoria Rosensteel, Madelyn sha Wilkenmeyer and Mackenzie Willis. Special to the Times

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face is getting his team to believe they can win while being thrown into the fire against stout competition in the Northwestern District. Determan is hoping for progress over the next two months. “Hopefully we get to a point by the time we reach our conference tournament that we are a team in which teams don’t feel comfortable playing against. That is the ultimate goal,” Determan said.

‘We’ve got talent,’ says Hill of Cougars’ strong lineup COUGARS, from Page 23 nament after going 2-6 in league and 9-9 overall. This year all seven Northwestern District members make the three-day post-season playoffs, with two earning regional berths. “I hope to be in the mix with everybody,” said Hill, whose squad has opened 0-2, including 0-1 in district. Dodson is playing shortstop after first-team all-conference Natalie Carmichael graduated and is playing at Christopher Newport. JamesLaBranche moves behind the plate to replace second-team Kendall Penn, now at Roanoke College. James-LaBranche is the top returning hitter after a .352 season. Allyssa Space and Olivia Conte also are members of the catching corps. Abby Boldt, Janelle Johnson, Aubrey Terrant, Kaylee Duckett, Space and Conte are vying for the outfield spots. This spring’s junior varsity team includes Lauren Chisarik, Hayley Ferguson, Audrey Fisher, Abby Gallaway, Jennifer Guzman, Makyla Martin, Rebecca Nefferdorf, Lorraine Palmore, Cara Preston, Leah Richardson and Stephanie Staats. Kettle Run opened with 6-0 loss to preseason Northwestern District favorite James Wood on March 13. Shorts allowed three hits with eight strikeouts. Visiting Culpeper beat Kettle Run 15-1 on Friday. Kettle Run’s next home game is 6 p.m. Friday with Brentsville.

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WARRENTON HUNT POINT-TO-POINT

McVicar wins twice at Airlie opener By Betsy Burke Parker Special to the Times

Exactly 13 years ago, Scottish native Liam McVicar won his first American race at the Warrenton Hunt Pointto-Point. Saturday, the Scottish-born pro braved snow squalls peppering the Airlie course most of the afternoon to notch two wins for trainer Jimmy Day on the circuit’s opening day. The duo opened the card with maiden hurdle winner Foxhall Drive. The 6-year-old jumped strongly, McVicar said, winning handily for owner Cristina Mosby. A $37,000 sales weanling and $200,000 Saratoga yearling, the New York-bred won six races and more than $200,000 in four seasons on the turf. He was claimed for $25,000 at Gulfstream at 4, and again out of a Monmouth seller a few months later. Day kept his eye on the horse, and dropped a slip when the horse was in for $15,000 last spring at Pimlico. Making his fourth start over hurdles, Foxhall Drive was mature in Saturday’s effort, McVicar said, drawing off by five in near whiteout conditions that obscured the long homestretch run. Three races later, Day saddled Bruce Smart’s Officer’s Oath to win his second-straight Virginia-bred race over the course. Officer’s Oath won the same Airlie prep last year en route to the Virginia series title, second here in 2016 on his way to the National Steeplechase Association 3-year-old crown. Leading trainer at the meet, Day also saddled Smart’s He’s One Wild Dude (Bryan Cullinane) to win the novice rider turf race.

Roundabout route

McVicar, 35 and a native of Glasgow, is an outlier in the world of steeplechase – he wasn’t born into it. An avid soccer player in high school, McVicar hoped to go pro, but was abruptly derailed when his father suggested his physical build suited racing more than football. McVicar had never actually touched a horse before he showed up for his first horsemanship class at jockey school in Newmarket, England. But he was game. “I’d never sat on a horse ‘til I was at the jockey school” at age 17, McVicar recalled. “The first day I was a little scared. They use big, retired ‘chasers as school horses. I didn’t even want to go into the stall.” He got over it, three months later working for fellow Scot Mark Johnston at his Kingsley Park yard in North Yorkshire. McVicar learned on the job, riding a handful of races on the flat at age 18, but after just one season he grew too tall for the track. Though he’d never jumped a jump, he knew he’d need to go ‘chasing to keep his pro hopes alive.

McVicar came to the U.S., working for Maryland flat trainer Gene Weymouth in 2004, shifting his tack to Jimmy Day’s Clarke County yard in ‘05. “Basically, I lied” to get the job, exaggerating the “Newmarket experience” with ’chasers, McVicar admitted. “I told Jimmy I’d ridden ‘chasers back home. Well, I had, you see. PHOTO BY DOUGLAS LEES “One morning I was Virginia-bred turf winner Officer’s Oath, second from right, races up the Airlie homestretch in a snow looking at the set list on globe at Saturday’s Warrenton Hunt Point-to-Point. Liam McVicar was up. Eryx, second from left, was the board. My horse had second, Trustifarin, left, third, and Surfing Up, far right, fourth. For results, visit centralentryoffice.com. ‘sch’ beside his name,” McVicar asked Day’s the wire a nose in front of Devon 4, and won at first asking over ‘chase then-stable jockey Carl Rafter what Zebrovious on her King of Hearts. fences, at Worchester at age 6. that meant. Vintage Vinnie won a handicap “Carl said we were schooling over Vintage Vinnie turns heads ‘chase at Market Rasen at 7, and at First-time out in the U.S., Armata Aintree at 8 before arriving stateside fences. I thought, okay, it’ll just be Stables’ Vintage Vinnie (Chris Gracie) for his 9-year-old season. Maryland little logs or something. “Nope. It was full-sized hurdles.” stunned in the open timber, winning by trainer Joe Gillet Davies called the McVicar recalls Rafter’s last-min- 25 and leaving many already pegging gelding “a natural” over timber, the ute, on-the-fly lesson in the art of him for Gold Cup. The Irish-bred had horse taking to the uniquely Ameristeeplechase. “He told me just keep won his debut, a Ludlow bumper at can jumping division easily. your hands down’,” McVicar said. It obviously worked: McVicar rode, and won, his first hurdle race a month later. He was hooked. To date, he’s ridden 66 winners from 466 starters in 14 seasons. Virginia leading rider in 2008, McVicar claimed the NSA apprentice title the same year. He took some hard falls, though, and retired after the 2011 season. He filled the time training a few flat horses, and last year returned to his first love, soccer, coaching boys’ and girls’ high school teams at Middleburg Academy. But McVicar missed jump racing. “I started galloping for Jimmy again,” McVicar said. “He wanted me to (race) ride a few. My doctor tells me I don’t have ‘anywhere good to fall.’ I’ve broken both shoulders, Real Heroes Unveiled both collarbones, and my neck. I Honoring Our Dedicated Public Servants need to be super careful.” McVicar stresses his return to racing is strictly on a limited basis. Seating Limited - RSVP Now! Date “Just a few,” he said. $45/person April 26, 2018 “It’s been great to have Liam back riding for us,” Day said. “He Help us provide a fitting tribute to those Time does a nice job …. giving (the hors6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. men and women of the Fauquier area es) the prep they need. Warrenton Police, Sheriff and Fire and Rescue who puts on a great meet.” Location

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Warrenton Hunt’s inaugural side-saddle race winner Teresa Croce insists the event is not that hard. “You’re really tight in the saddle,” said the 10-year circuit veteran, who won on Maureen Britell’s Tango. Croce, 24, gallops horses in the mornings and takes a full load of criminology classes at George Mason in the afternoons. She’s ridden 11 winners since starting out in the pony division in 2008; Saturday, she and Tango hit

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Historic Garden Week celebrates the open spaces of the area By Vicky Moon

Contributing Writer

The countryside of Northern Fauquier County will come alive on April 22-23 for this year’s Historic Garden Week. The extraordinary and always anticipated tour will feature four spectacular properties. From an iconic federal-period mansion to a French stone farmhouse, visitors will be delighted by the diversity of these grand estates and landscapes that celebrate the open spaces of Virginia’s Piedmont.

OVOKA

Nestled against the Blue Ridge Mountains and commanding sweeping views of the Crooked Run Valley, Ovoka Farm is a stately and picturesque federal manor house and estate. Ovoka is of tremendous historical significance. It was part of the George Carter land patent of 1731, deeding more than 3,000 acres to the son of Robert King Carter by Lord Fairfax. George Washington, who surveyed this land in 1769, later purchased acreage adjacent to Ovoka. The property also served as a temporary headquarters for both armies during the Civil War. Ovoka is a vibrant family home, with comfortable and elegant furnishing and antiques. The owners raise prized black Angus cattle on their working farm, which is under conservation easement. Numerous agricultural outbuildings, including an early-19th century carriage house, orchards, mature shade trees and magnolias and boxwoods, complete the bucolic setting. The entrance and terraces surrounding the house are planted with spring bulbs.

PHOTO BY MISSY JANES/ HISTORIC GARDEN WEEK At Kenilworth, a lovely tree-lined drive leads to a fieldstone paved circular drive at the entrance of the house.

KENILWORTH

Kenilworth is a beautiful 18th century fieldstone house with multiple stone additions over the years. The magnificent setting at the base of Ashby Gap and the colonial road over the Blue Ridge Mountains leading west to the frontier is exactly as it was during the Civil War. The fields around Kenilworth saw significant action during the Battle of Upperville in 1863. The owners are proud of a print from Harper’s Weekly dating from the Civil War that illustrates this same bucolic view. A lovely tree-lined drive leads past a pond to a fieldstone paved circular drive at the entrance of the house. Crepe Myrtles are lined along the front of the house and the center of the circle is planted with roses and a central garden ornament. There are various beds and containers of spring bulbs around the house and are featured in the pool pavilion area behind it.

FOXLEASE FARM

Foxlease Farm is a large equestrian estate with training facilities for polo

and foxhunting. The owner, with European roots, had a beautiful stone center building added to an existing 19th century house in the 1990s. The essence of these new architectural additions is from Provence, France, where the family has spent much time. Jacques Wertz, the world famous Belgium landscape garden designer, was the inspiration for the owner in his landscape designs. Wertz is known for his signature “clouds” of beautiful boxwood creating a green architecture, an impression of preserving and enhancing the spirit of place. There’s also a weeping Kastura and a fairly extensive vegetable garden. The lovely lake, stream and waterfall are features at the back view from this spectacular house. There are fabulous outdoor entertaining spaces surrounded by peaceful green pastures.

PEACE AND PLENTY

at Bollingbrook, circa-1809

Driving up the long, winding entry to Peace and Plenty at Bollingbrook, one is immediately taken with the stunning countryside, almost unchanged since the early 1700s, when it was part of the Lord Fairfax Grant. Originally a classic four-over-four bonded brick farmhouse, Peace and Plenty was transformed in 1849 into a grand example of the southern plantation manor in the Italianate style. The balanced, rectangular shape, the broad, low roofline, the towering central cupola, and the substantial double front doors are all hallmarks of this imposing style. Soaring columns grace the balustrade front porch, welcoming guests into the gracious hundred-foot-long foyer and adjoining drawing rooms. The 16-foot ceiling, a winding staircase, beautiful millwork, fireplaces and period lighting

Historic Garden Week in the Middleburg area The National Sporting Library and Museum, housing world-class collections and exhibitions of fine animal and sporting art, enhances your tour in the heart of horse country, an area also filled with unique shops and quaint restaurants. Sunday, April 22, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, April 23, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Advanced ticket price: $40 Day of ticket price: $50 Single site admission: $25 Children 13 and older: Full price Ages: 6-12: Half price Children 5 and under: Free Contact: Gail Clark, Chairman 585-737-2810 or gail.j.clark@gmail.com fixtures lend a classic air to this thriving, 365-acre working horse and cattle farm, under conservation easement. Paintings, silver trophies, and memorabilia throughout the house harken to a life well loved and lived in the Virginia countryside. A portrait of the glamorous owner, a three-time grand champion in the sidesaddle event at Madison Square Garden, can be seen in the grand foyer. Numerous paintings of animals attest to the owner’s fondness and commitment to the many abused and abandoned animals who now call this farm their home. Seventeen significant outbuildings on the estate have been restored. Of particular note is the circa-1800s gothic style slave church and cemetery, and the slave quarters, which now serve as a pool house. The Cedar of Lebanon positioned in front of Peace and Plenty is more than 200 years old and is a stunning specimen.

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Located just south Warrenton in very convenient area. All three lots have each been perked for a 4 bedroom conventional drainfield, all three lots have been approved by Fauquier County and are ready to go. Lot 1 – 1.9 ac - $150,000 Lot 2 – 1.4 ac - $137,000 Lot 3 – 1.5ac - $142,000 Each lot has road frontage as well as protective covenants. No homeowners association. Easy to show, see, and buy!!!

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UPCOMING EVENTS

annual Open House at 10 a.m. in the Conference Center of Fauquier Hospital, 500 Hospital Drive in Warrenton. Prints on various media, equipment and demonstrations will be on view. Bring your photo questions for members to answer. Free.

Wednesday, March 21 Spring job fair is today

The public is invited to a free job fair featuring representatives from more than 25 businesses, from 4-6 p.m. at the LFCC Warrenton Campus, 6480 College St. in Warrenton. A free resume and interview etiquette class, hosted by the Virginia Employment Commission, is being offered from 3-4 p.m. The fair is sponsored by LFCC Workforce Solutions and the Fauquier Chamber. Attendees are encouraged to dress to impress and bring copies of their resume. They’re urged to register online at LFCCWorkforce.com/JOBS. Contact: 540-351-1045

Thursday, March 22 It’s time to start planning

Please join Katherine S. Charapich, Esq. from Estate Law Center, PLLC and receive practical advice to safeguard your assets during and after your lifetime. Free workshop held from 2-4 p.m. at Fauquier Hospital Sycamore Room A, 500 Hospital Drive, Warrenton. Acquire up-to-date knowledge about wills, living trusts, health care documents, issues regarding guardianship, conservatorship, and power of attorney. Learn how to avoid probate. Space is limited so, please RSVP with Cindy Kelly at 540-316-2700.

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p.m. and continuing Saturday, March 24, from noon — 3 p.m. Fauquier High School, 705 Waterloo Road, Warrenton. In addition to beautiful artwork there will be music performed from various groups representing the county’s schools.

Saturday, March 24

Trivia Night to support Women Build

Taylor Middle School hosts FBLA bake sale

Fauquier Community Theatre presents Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’

Explore the Boston Mill Road Trail at Sky Meadows

Women Build of Fauquier Habitat for Humanity is holding its annual fundraiser at Our Saviour Lutheran Church, 6194 Dumfries Road in Warrenton. Dinner is served at 6 p.m. and costs $10 per person with catering by Northside 29. To play, trivia tickets cost $10 per person and starts at 7 p.m. You can form your own team or join another. Fun for all ages. Contact Linda at 540-8780908 or email fauquierwbtrivia@yahoo.com

The Fauquier Community Theatre is pleased to announce its March production of William Shakespeare’s riotous comedy “Much Ado About Nothing.” Performances will be at the Theatre at Vint Hill, 4225 Aiken Drive, Warrenton, on Fridays and Saturdays, March 23 and 24 at 7:30 p.m. (please note the change of curtain times from previous seasons); and Sunday, March 25 at 2 p.m. Order tickets at www.fctstage.org. Contact: 703-466-1961

Fauquier schools hold all-county fine arts show Young artists get a chance to display their artwork at the all-county fine arts show starting Friday, March 23, from 6-8

COMING SOON ON EON SCHOOL ROAD Spacious rambler on 8 acres. Gourmet kitchen with steel appliances, gas cook top and double ovens, cherry cabinets and granite counter tops. Open floor plan with two masonry fireplaces, finished basement, deck, front porch, circular driveway and oversized two car garage.

Hello! Hola! Salut! Come on down to the Taylor Middle School Future Business Leaders of America International Bake Sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Warrenton Walmart right off of James Madison Highway. Enjoy an amazing assortment of cakes, cookies and pastries from around the world. Help the FBLA support our local Fauquier Free Clinic one treat at a time. Contact: 540-2722986 or email tmsfbla@gmail.com

From woodlands to wetlands, fields and pastures, investigate the plants, animals and history of farming at Sky Meadows State Park, 11012 Edmonds Lane in Delaplane. Each day offers a different investigation. There will be a table full of discovery items for you to touch and explore, and Junior Ranger booklets and other self-guided activities for you to continue exploring on your own. Explorer Outpost is held March 24, 25 and 31 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. All programs and events are free with $5 parking fee. Contact: SkyMeadows@dcr.virginia. gov or 540-592-3556 — Continues on page 33

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Mark your calendars for annual ham and oyster dinner

March is moving right along. Spring officially started this week, thank goodness! Congratulations to Violeta and Christopher Legg on the birth of their son, Christopher James Legg Jr. who arrived safely on Friday, March 9. The little family is doing well with lots of support from grandmothers, Suzanne Cliver and Cynthia Legg. Birthday greetings to Jinx Fox, Susan Wyatt, Elaine Long, Allison Moore, Maryanna Stribling, Harry Atherton, Cathy Loch and Sean Armstrong. We hope that everyone gets to celebrate in a special way with someone they love and who appreciates them. The Orlean Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department ham and oyster dinner will be held on Saturday, April 7, at the fire house on Leeds Manor Road. Please come to enjoy this allyou-care-to-eat meal which features fried and raw oysters, two kinds of ham, veggies, and salad. And, of course, a choice of wonderful desserts which are so generously provided by our neighbors in the community. This fundraiser for the fire department has been ongoing since 1976 and it is very popular. Our volunteers put in a tremendous amount of work to make this dinner happen and we hope that you will come to enjoy the meal.

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One of our regular attendees who lives across the county from Orlean reports that she “already has it on her calendar.” Please come and support our efforts as we grow for the future. We note the passing of Jimmy Brown, our neighbor in Markham, who died following a lengthy illness. Please keep Dorothy and his family in your thoughts and prayers during these coming days. Can you pull a rabbit out of a hat? Wes Islei who will put on the magic show for all to enjoy on Saturday, April 28, at Fauquier High School has many more tricks up his sleeve to entertain and amuse you. This show is a wonderful family event suitable for all ages and the proceeds will benefit the Orlean Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department. Tickets are available from all members of the department and/or by calling Mary Tarr at 540-364-1410. A gift of tickets could provide a special treat for some youngster who otherwise might not

Haymarket

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Hello everyone — hope you’ve had a great week! So, let’s see what’s been going on in the neighborhood. I missed a very important anniversary the other week. Next time you see Bob and Anna Sinclair — please wish them a Happy 50th Anniversary! Their anniversary was March 2. Please keep Randy Coggin in your prayers. A piece of heavy machinery fell on him last week and he has a broken leg and will need surgery. Send all the well wishes you can to him and his wife, Robin. She’s got to take care of him! Also send some get well wishes to Gwynanne Rogers. She’s sporting a pretty purple cast from a broken wrist. So, how is your trivia knowledge? Women Build/Fauquier Habitat is hosting their 15th Trivia Night on March 23, at Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Warrenton. $10 per person and you can enjoy dinner and trivia. Starts at 7 p.m. Contact Linda — 540-878-0908 or Fauquierwbtrivia@ yahoo.com for more information. On March 24, stop by Grace Episcopal Church on Main Street in The Plains and enjoy their free Community Lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Breakfast will be cooking at the

hates him and the feeling is mutual, so extra precautions are necessary when Mom is not present to prevent murder and mayhem. Have a wonderful week and as our South Dakota friend says in her Facebook posts: “stay positive.”

BRENDA PAYNE MARSHALL THE PLAINS 540-270-1795 (phone) 540-364-4444 (fax) marshallvanews@gmail.com Marshall Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department, March 25, from 8 to 11 a.m. Stop on by and fill your plate with bacon, eggs, gravies, biscuits, sausage, apples and potatoes. Now how about some birthday wishes. Ronnie Smith and Ashley Frye (March 22), Billy Thomas (March 23), Robin Farrell (March 24), Becky Bailey and Jennifer Jones Sechrist (March 25), Marshall Beeler, Doris Boyd and Nancy Jackson (March 26), Donnie Ashby and Katie Leake (March 28), Sandra Cole and Dorothy Testerman (March 29). Happy Anniversary wishes extended to Jon and Annette Grymes (March 22) and Marshall and Shelly Beeler (March 29). I hope everyone is enjoying the additional daylight hours. Have a great week!

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Open meeting to discuss traffic issues is tonight

An open forum meeting on local traffic safety scheduled for March 21 has been canceled due to inclement weather. The public meeting, conducted by Chris Butler, Lee District representative and Chairman of the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors, has not been rescheduled. The meeting content will focus on year-to-date traffic improvement at intersection of U.S. 15/29 and Freemans Ford Road (Route 651) which leads out of downtown Remington from its congested East Main Street. Representatives from VDOT will be present to respond to potential future traffic safety concepts. This would be a community discussion for views and questions from local residents and businesses. Added in-

JOE KORPSAK REMINGTON BEALETON OPAL 540-497-1413 joe.korpsak@yahoo.com formation is available online from chrisbutler@fauquiercounty.gov. The Remington FCE Homemakers Club will be meeting on Wednesday, March 21, at 10 a.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 400 N. Church St., Remington. The theme will be “Cooking for Health” with

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Becky Sheffield. A potluck luncheon will follow this meeting. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall will host their monthly spaghetti dinner on Friday, March 23, from 5 8 p.m. There will be meat or alfredo sauce, green beans, salad, garlic, icetea, and many great desserts. Added information is available at 540-4393733. The annual Bealeton-Remington Ruritan’s ‘Ham & Oyster Dinner’ will be at Cedar Lee Middle School, Bealeton on Saturday, April 7, from 4 7 p.m. This ‘all-you-can-eat’ meal will include a 50/50 drawing, silent auction, and music by the Shenandoah Travelers. Cost ranges from $12-30 per person. Ticket information is available locally by Scott Davis at 540-4393883.

Greater Piedmont Realtors honors its own Dressed liked celebrity singers from a variety of genres, guests came to have fun and celebrate this year’s winners at the Greater Piedmont Realtors Annual Awards Banquet held Friday, March 16, to recognize the 2017 award winners. There were 74 award recipients recognized for their contributions to their clients, the community, and to the realtors’ association. The prestigious “Of the Year Awards” were presented to (pictured left to right) Stephanie McDonald with Long & Foster for ‘Rookie of the Year’; Tammy Roop with Century 21 New Millennium for ‘Salesperson of the Year’; Tish Smyth with Piedmont Fine Properties for ‘Realtor of the Year’; Chuck Cornwell with Re/Max Regency for ‘Broker of the Year’; and Eric Brindley with RGS Title for ‘Affiliate of the Year’. “All of the recipients should feel very proud of their accomplishments in the industry and their community contributions,” said President Philip Thornton. Greater Piedmont Realtors represents real estate professionals in Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock counties.

fering. The Fauquier Community Theatre is performing “Much Ado about Nothing” weekends through March 25. For ticket information, visit fctstage.org. Verdun Adventure Bound is having a fundraiser on March 24. A local artist will present “Artistic Sips of Vino

Painting” from 3-6 p.m. providing step by step instructions to make a spring themed painting. All supplies and a glass of wine are included for $35. Space is limited to 30 participants. You can reserve your space by emailing admin@verdunadventurebound.org or by calling 540-937-4920. Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 12714 Elk Run Road in Midland, would like to invite the community to an Easter musical, “This is God!”. It will be presented on Sunday, March 25, at 6 p.m. Grove Baptist Church, 14620 Goldvein Road, will have special music guests on Easter Sunday, April 1. The Hendersons, a bluegrass gospel band will be performing at the 11 a.m. service. Have a great week!

WOODS AT WARRENTON Popular, convenient and quiet neighborhood with large lots. Updated and upscale, lovely decor, modern kitchen, custom woodwork. Walkout basement with recreation room with stone fp and media area and full bath, master with huge bath and sitting room, main floor BR with bath, family room with fp, charming cottage-style staircase, 3-car garage. $669,000

THE HIGHLANDS C.1935 - Rare estate literally moments from Historic Warrenton on Lees Ridge. A manageable 29-acres with stone manor house in shade tree and boxwood setting. Incredible detail throughout with extra-wide carved trim, many built-ins, walnut paneling, ultimate kitchen and so much more. Separate garage with office suite, guest cottage and barns. $2,250,000

PRIVATE CHALET – Everything you would expect with spacious rooms, soaring ceilings, exposed beams, floor to ceiling stone fireplace, heart pine floors and plenty of glass to bring the outdoors in. Timberframe construction on 20-acres consisting of two lots with detached garage and miles of walking/riding trails. $549,000

ARBORVITAE – a rare example of late medieval architecture with massive chimneys and steep rooflines with heavy slate. Interesting brick patterns, barreled ceilings, multiple decorative fireplaces, winding staircases, archways and stone-walled gardens. On 111-acres with strong stream, stable and cottage in very centralized location and close to town. $2,550,000

HISTORIC DISTRICT COTTAGE – situated among larger historic homes this cottage has living room with fireplace and built-ins and opens to a large screen porch overlooking a rose garden and fenced rear yard. Formal DR with built-in corner cupboards, 3 Bedroom, 2 baths up, master with balcony, walk to summer concerts and town festivals. $498,000

OLD MILL FARM Very private setting yet only three miles from Warrenton in the heart of Hunt Country. Very comfortable country house with solarium, bright breakfast room, 2-fireplaces looking out across 27 beautifully rolling acres and mostly surrounded by protected property. Strong Great Run crosses property, small orchard, pool. Rare opportunity. $1,200,000

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Easter Egg Hunt is this Saturday at Monroe Park

March has certainly come in like a lion this year! I am hoping we will be feeling like spring again soon! One sure sign of spring is the Easter Egg Hunt at Monroe Park. It will be held this Saturday, March 24, at 11 a.m. This event is free, but participants are asked to call the park and RSVP with the number of children who will be in attendance. Donations of individually wrapped candy are needed as well as volunteers. The Friends of Monroe Park will be meeting tomorrow, March 22, at 6 p.m. to get ready for the egg hunt. St. Luke’s will be having their monthly spaghetti dinner this Friday, March 23, from 5-8 p.m. A delicious meal will be served for a free will of-

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Experience a Civil War encampment

Get up-close and personal with history. Immerse yourself in the sights, sounds and smells of a Civil War encampment. Interact with the 13th Virginia Infantry as they perform daily tasks of the Confederate infantrymen. Stop by their camp and visit with the soldiers. Activities will include cooking, drill and weapons demonstrations. Event is at Sky Meadows State Park, 11012 Edmonds Lane in Delaplane from 10 a.m. — 4 p.m. Saturday and again on Sunday, March 25, from 10 a.m. — 2 p.m. Contact: 540-592-2446 or email skymeadows@dcr.virginia.gov

Celebrate ‘Sing with Your Child Month’

Celebrate ‘Sing with Your Child Month’ by singing, dancing, playing and laughing from 10:30 a.m.-noon.

Bring your favorite stuffed animal and make teddy bear and picnic-inspired crafts, enjoy amazing refreshments, take pictures at Families4Fauquier’s photo booth and make music together. This is a free event but attendees are encouraged to bring along personal care items, pajamas, coloring books/ crayons and new stuffed animals to donate to Comfort Cases. 430 East Shirley Ave., Warrenton. Contact: 571-408-3437 or email CrescendoMusicLLC@gmail.com

Sunday, March 25 Planning a wedding? Kelly’s Ford hosts an open house All are invited to the first Wedding Open House hosted by Kelly’s Ford from noon to 4 p.m. at The Inn at Kelly’s Ford, 16589 Edwards Shop Road in Remington. Shop plenty of wedding ideas and services. Enjoy discounts, samples,

magazines, prizes, a fashion show and demonstrations and sign up for private one-on-consolations and entertainment. A special gift will go to the first 50 brides attending. Free. Contact: 540-399-1312 or email A.Foote.Kellysfordinn@gmail. com

Monday, March 26 Have a new baby?

Breastfeeding Support Group meets at Fauquier Hospital Family Birthing Center, 500 Hospital Drive, from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free.

Tuesday, March 27 Need help coping with an addiction?

Addiction Recovery Support Group meets at Fauquier Hospital Chestnut Room, 500 Hospital Drive, at 7 p.m. Free. Contact Suzanne Odum at 540-935-8148

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Robert Tyson to Deutsche Bank National Trust Co, Lot 3, 3.47 acres at 4300 Ringwood Road in Nokesville, ....................................$394,000 Maureen C. LeClair to Maureen Caron Brown, Lot 6-B, 1 acre at 4374 Golden Oaks Court near Nokesville, ...........................................$0 NVR Inc to John Kiecana, Warrenton Chase Phase 1 Subdivision, Lot 10, 6443 Bob White Drive in Warrenton, ...........................$692,939 Casey Crisp to Dezirae Crisp, Theno Woods Subdivision, Lot 2, interest in 1.2 acres at 4223 Goldmine Road near Goldvein, ...................$0 Tonia L Schuhart-Morris to Tonia L. Schuhart-Morris, 1.3 acres at 8051 Frytown Road (Rt 674) near Warrenton, ....................$0 Marilyn G. Brewer to Marinos Kalmoutis, 30.47 acres at 4386 Catlett Road (Rt 28) Midland, ...................................................$900,000 Benjamin P Nichols Jr to B&R Homes LLC, 1.5 acres at Rt 674 (Frytown Road) near Warrenton, .................................................$90,000

Center District

Lisa Dawn Nicholson Dudley to Lisa Dawn Nicholson Dudley, Addn Warrenton Lakes subdivision, Lot 5-R, 7023 Stafford Street, Warrenton, .8 acre, .......................................$0 Ty M. Orner to Lisa A. Turner, Copper Mill Subdivision, Lot 31, 795 Colonel Edmonds Court, ................................................$325,000 Wayne S. Conklin to Enoc Alexis Guerrero, Ridges of Warrenton Subdivision, Lot 105, 77 John Court, ........................................$471,000 Judith S. Hunt to Judith S. Hunt Tr, Olde Gold Cup Subdivision, Lot 54, 146 Secretariat Court, .......................................................................$0 Kris Karl O’Connor Tr to Charles H. Flynn Tr, Addn Warrenton Lakes Subdivision, Lot 98, 7108 Buckingham Court, ..................$300,000 David Scott Widmayer to Thomas H. Carter Sr, Millwood Subdivision, Lot 85, 2 acres, 7486 Waters Place in Warrenton ................$419,900 Dori A. Weathers Tr to Dori A. Weathers, Oak Springs Subdivision, Lot 61, 729 Arbor Court, . .......................................................................$0 OCMA LC to Rebecca Davis, Hillside Townes Subdivision, Lot 33, 213 Aviary Street, .............................................................. $230,000 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Domingo A. Henriquez, Foxhills Subdivision, 26 Rappahannock Street, ..........$290,000 Michael K. Burgin to Franconia Real Estate Inc, Edgemont Subdivision, Lot 41, 165 Autumn Wind Court, ..............................$492,500

Scott W. Puffenbarger to Caroline Wood, Lee Heights Subdivision, 14070 sqft at 245 Jefferson Street, .....................................................$0 Judy Castle to Judith Castellini, Broadview Acres Subdivision, Lot 101, 345 Gay Road, .$0 Dori A. Weathers to Dori A. Weathers, Oak Springs Subdivision, Lot 61, 729 Arbor Court, . .......................................................................$0 Steven Payne to Mi Casa Mi Casa LLC, Villas at the Ridges Subdivision, Lot 104, 190 Moonstone Drive and Hillsborough II Condominium, Lot A-6, 4 Falmouth Court, ..........................$0 Steven C. Payne to Steven C. Payne, Lot 2, 9.33 acres at 7384 Awsley Lane in The Plains, ..........$0

Lee District

Joann K. McCarthy to Stephen Michael Burns, 1 acre at 5221 Sumerduck Road in Sumerduck, ..............................................................$85,000 Michael Wayne Woodward to Brad Clearfield, Riverton Subdivision, Lot 21, 12192 Riverton Court, ................................................$335,000 NVR Inc to Brian Barden, Waverly Station Subdivision, Lot 49, 6222 Willow Place in Bealeton, ...........................................$265,365 Michael J. Ardelan to Dylan Heath Scott, Bealeton Station Subdivision, Lot 40-T, 6194 Newton Lane in Bealeton, .................$255,000 Scott A. Johnson to Caliber Homebuilder Inc, Lot 1-A, 2.13 acres on Rt 660 (Saint Pauls Road) in Bealeton, ..............................$84,000 Rhonda Carr to JP Morgan Chase Bank National Association, Summer Sky Subdivision, Lot 3, 5 acres, Union Church Road in Sumerduck, ...... ............................................................$499,950 Mintbrook Developers LLC to NVR Inc, Mintbrook Subdivision, Lot 123, Phase A Section 3-A in Bealeton, ...........................$107,213.53 Carson F. Weaver to Rockwood Homes Inc, 17 acres on Weaversville Road, .............$210,000 Harlan Norris to Robert M. Elam, 5.42 acres at 8625 La Merced Lane in Remington, ...$600,000 NVR Inc to Brett Petrie, Mintbrook Subdivision, Lot 122, 7581 Hancock Street in Bealeton, ............ ...................................................................$461,055

Marshall District

Donald Adam Davis to Stone Financing LLC, .56 acre at 6476 Corbin Lane in Warrenton, ...... ............................................................$285,000 Stone Financing LLC to Melissa R. Shaver, .56 acre at 6476 Corbin Lane in Warrenton, ............ ............................................................$285,000 June D. Smith Tr to June D. Smith Tr, 157 acres at

Rt 638 (Harrels Corner Road) near Linden, .....$0

Larry D. Payne to Mary Mochary Tr, Lot 4, 5.7 acres at 6244 Park Place in Hume, ........$298,000 John D. Burns to Kenneth Dean Strouth, Marshall Woods Subdivision, 5940 Free State Road in Marshall, 5.4 acres, .......................$460,000 Robert E Rigler to The Stone Ledge LLC, 101.64 acres on Harts Mill Road (Rt 688) near Warrenton, ......................................$3,250,000 Mark V. Muller Sr to Timothy R. MacWelch, 6.5 acres at 6420 Swains Road in Marshall, ...... ............................................................$505,000 Cortright W. Oliphant to Jogchum Poodt, 28.85 acres on Rt. 726 near Linden at 3775 Fiery Run Road, .................................................$189,500

Scott District

Vint Hill Village LLC to Vint Hill Conservancy Inc, impose open space 5.44 acres and 2.96 acres, ............................................................$0 Virginia MaClauchlan to Virginia MaClauchlan, Parramore Subdivision, Lot 18, 6712 Kelly Road near Warrenton/New Baltimore, .........$0 Ann Anderson to Ann Anderson, Parramore Subdivision, Lot 18, 6712 Kelly Road near Warrenton/New Baltimore, ..........................$0 Albert E. Jensen to James Lee Progar, Brookside Subdivision, Lot 39, 7176 Shepherdstown Road near Warrenton, .............$387,000 Strategic Equities Corp to Jack J. Goehring III, Deed-Agreement of Boundary Adjustment, add .09 acre and .21 acres to Goehring 2 acres on Zulla Road (Rt 709); 2.46 acres at 1608 Zulla Road (Middleburg); 2.31 acres on Zulla Road Raymond Trenum to Sujan Manchireddy, Lot A, 1.3 acres at 5023 Broad Run Church Road (Rt 600) near Warrenton, ...................$200,000 NVR Inc to Ryan Leeder, Brookside Subdivision, Lot 79, 4924 Sinker Court near Warrenton, ....................................................$532,317 James M. Burlingame to Trigon Homes LLC, Lot 1R-REV, 1.9 acres off Rt. 672 on Imagination Way near Warrenton, ..................$170,000 Joseph Heppler to Charles A. Strickland, Brookside Subdivision, Lot 27, 7495 Edington Drive near Warrenton, .......................$507,000 Steven Payne to Old Alexandria Venture LLC, Lot 1-A, 1.14 acres and use of 30 ft ingress/egress easement to 5451 Old Alexandria Turnpike, ....$0 NVR Inc to Esker Jay Farris III, Brookside Subdivision, Lot 53, 3069 Joy Court near Warrenton, ...............................................$610,107 Lakeside Homes LLC to Taylor J. Clark, Brookside Subdivision, Lot 56, 7141 Lake Drive near Warrenton, .......................$520,000

or Suzanne.odum@welovechurch.com for more information.

Wednesday, March 28 Have dementia or caring for someone who does?

Alzheimer’s and Dementia-Related Illness Support Group meets at The Villa at Suffield Meadows, 6735 Suffield Lane in Warrenton, from 4-5:30 p.m. Free, but call to register at 540-3163800

Saturday, March 31 “Digging for Gold” upscale rummage sale to benefit Fauquier SPCA Now in its 10th year, this upscale rummage sale is a great fundraiser for the Fauquier SPCA not only raising money but a place for some super finds. It will be held on Saturday, March 31, at Highland School, 597 Broadview Ave. in Warrenton, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Early bird sale and party is Friday, March 30, from 6-8:30 p.m. Admission $25. Donations of gently used furniture, lamps, rugs, china, silver, jewelry, garden accessories, etc. are welcome. Please no clothing, exercise equipment or televisions. Drop off items on Wednesday, March 28, from 1-5 p.m. or Thursday, March 29, from noon — 7 p.m. at Highland School in the lower school gym. Remember, donations are tax-deductible. Credit cards and checks accepted. There is also a cash-only dollar section. For more information, contact Angela Keyser at keyseralk@gmail.com or Tammy Statler at tammystatler@aol.com

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Jamie Wood Greg Bradshaw Shane Wagoner

I.S.A. Certified Arborists

BRANCHES AND BUDS

Branches support foliage and provide water transport from a plants roots to the leaves, and also transport photosynthates to other locations in the plant. The branching habit provides the basic shape of the crown. Every species has its own distinctive shape and can be identified that way. Tree shape is also influenced by available space that may be limited by adjacent trees, buildings and other infrastructures. Individual trees and shrubs follow this “genetic imprint” and grow according to their species. Species are noted also for the strength (or weakness) of their wood, fragrance and pliability. Common phrases such as “mighty as an oak” or “thin as a willow” have woven themselves into our vocabulary. Buds are points on twigs where future growth will occur. They produce new shoots, leaves and flowers for the next period of growth. A terminal bud appears at the end of a twig. If the terminal bud is removed, one or two lateral buds may grow to replace it. Again, proper pruning practices are required to maintain good growth patterns. Every year’s new growth can be identified by a color change on a twig. New bark is usually smoother in texture and lighter color or green. Terminal bud scale scars from the last year’s terminal bud also provide a means of measuring growth. For more information or to schedule an appointment for a complimentary consultation with one of our ISA Certified Arborists call (540) 364-2401.

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FAUQUIER

CL A SSIFIEDS ADVERTISING DEADLINES: Business Directory: Thursday at noon, All other Classified ads: Monday at 3 p.m. To place your ad, Call: 540-351-1664, Toll Free: 888-351-1660, Fax: 540-349-8676, Email: classifieds@fauquier.com Rentals — Houses Home on vineyard; Broad Run, VA Lovely & spacious farm house, tall ceilings, wood flrs, modern amenities. North of Warrenton off Rt29. 4+ BR, 2BA, 5 pristine acres w/ out-buildings. Basement, wood stove, CAC, radiator heat, near great schools. $2,500/mo. Avail 4/1/18. Call 540-270-2655

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Cemetery plots, in Catlett Cemetery. Sell 1, 2, or 3. $750 each. 304-856-1639 Kubota tractor, York rake, Befco finish mower, and ballast bucket. Tractor specs: 4 wheel drive, HST, point hitch, with 606 hrs. royfrancis711@ gmail.com

224 1 BR Apt, Washington, VA. Suitable for retiree, $700/mo. Ref´s & sec. dep req´d. 540-937-3439 1BR, Washington, VA. Full kit & BA. Inclds. W/D, water, sewer, trash, snow removal & lawn-care. $950/mo + sec dep. Avail now. 540.423.8469 Basement Apt on horse farm, $850/mo utils incl. 1BR, 1BA,Walkout (private ent). Catlett.No pets/smkg. Sec Dep, 1st Mo rent. Karen 571-237-1446 Old Town Warrenton, Stone house apt, 1BR, LR/DR, eat-in-kit, lrg office, hdwd flrs, FP, grge, single occupant, no smkg/pets, refs/sec dep $1000/mo incl util 540-222-9767 Warrenton, 1BR, 1BA basement apt, LR, kitchenette. No pets/ smkg. Separate entrance. 540-316-7866

Warrenton; 2BR, 1BA, 2nd floor apt, off-street parking, separate entrance, $950/ m o n t h . 540-229-0199, owner/broker.

Vint Hill, huge furn/ unfurn rm, 3rd flr w/ sky lts + kitchenette, priv bath. $690/mo incld utils, DTV, W/D, Net. 571/251/2606 Vint Hill, sngl BR w/ full BA, furnished, 12 acs. $550/mo. inclds utils, DTV, Net, W/D. 571-251-2606

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4 room suite w/full kit & bath, 1350 sf, across from Fauquier courthouse, parking included, $2000/mo. 540-220-5550. Individual office, 272 sf, across from Fauquier Co courthouse, utilities and parking included, $450/month. (540) 229-5550.

OFFICE CONDO FOR LEASE, OLD TOWN Approx. 1000SF, Corner Unit, Parking, All Amenities, Long Term Lease Available 20A John Marshall St Warrenton 540.270.0977

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Wanted land to rent up to 50 acs with good water supply for vetg production. Will pay top dollar for good land. 240-271-5585

(2) 2000SF (appox) spaced in Warrenton Station, 29 business, by hospital. For more info call Andrea

540-347-2713 540-229-0351

Farm Equipment

Firewood

Buy now Save later 1 cord; $195 2 cords; $375 3 cords; $500 4 cords; $600 703-357-2180 236

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Miscellaneous For Sale

2 antique 14k diamond rings. 100-150 years old. Belonged to great & great great grandmother. $125 each OBO. Older one has beautiful detailed markings. qzq812@ aol.com Antique Barrel Travel Trunk. Mid-Late 1800’s. Removal top drawer. Floral tin, wood and leather. All original.$600 OBO 703-678-3775 Beautiful white and black pearl necklace. $100. 703-678-3775

Hay, Straw & Feed

FILL DIRT

Clean, dredged from a pond, delivery available. 540-937-5160

Hay

Barn clearance! Horse quality, sq. bales $5. Delivery avail. Round bales $60 540-937-5160 Own your own park, south slope of Battle Mtn, containing 26.25 acs, walking trails with 100 mile views, l o n g r o a d frontage, Rappahannock Co, 4 miles from Amissville. Protected building site. $ 1 9 9 , 0 0 0 540-937-5160

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FAUQUIER SPCA LOST & FOUND ADOPTIONS TOO!

540-788-9000 www. fauquierspca.com e-mail fspca@ fauquierspca.com

for a complete up to date listing Sugar gliders in need of a new good home! Two healthy white neutered adult males, friendly and funny. FREE, including large cage and everything else needed including exercise wheels and pouches. Current sugar glider owner preferred but will consider all inquiries. Call 540-347-4649

355 END ROLLS. We have newspaper end rolls. Very limited. Located at Fauquier Times, 540-878-2491 FREE - FREE - FREE Do you have stuff??? We want to clean you out!! Reach 75,000

readers through the Fauquier Times, Gainesville Times, Prince William Times ALSO online! Run an item for a cost of $99 or less in the merchandise for sale section and your 5 line ad will be free!!! $100 or more the cost is only $7. Over 5 lines will be priced at $1 per line. (18 characters per line) To place your ad call 540-351-1664, e m a i l t o : classifieds@ fauquier.com or online at Fauquier. com. Deadline is Friday, 3pm. Private party only.

Pellet Stove. Used for two seasons. Ready to pick up. $600. 540-216-4176 White floral day bed cover with two shames, like new, aski n g $ 5 0 . 0 0 . (703)449-4361

Pets

Childcare Offered

All ages welcome, located in Fauquier between Bealeton & Manassas. Sherry @ 540-660-9066 I am available to babysit i n m y h o m e approximately two minutes from Bealeton. Certified with about 25 years experience. Call 540-252-6145.

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Move in or out cleaning weekly and bi weekly reaasonable rates and references call Sherry 540-660-9066

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Lawn/Garden

Tom’s Garden Tilling Garden planning is here. When I am finished with my 6ft Kodiak 3 pt hitch tiller all you have to do is lay out the rows & plant. Yard lime & fertilizer applications avail. Call: 540-547-9670 or text: 540-522-8417

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YARD CLEAN UP TREE WORK

Grass cutting, mulching, aerating, all aspects.

540-395-4814; 540-364-2682

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Antiques & Classics

Don´t limit your advertising to only the Internet!! Call to see if your ad qualifies to be free 540-351-1664, email to: classifieds@ fauquier.com or online at Fauquier.com. Deadline is Monday at 3 pm. Private party only.

12 Step Recovery Meetings Facility in Downtown Warrenton 12 Step meetings for alcohol, substance abuse and behavior 605 Automobiles - Domestic disorders meet 7 days a week at The Warrenton Meeting Place at 26 S. 3rd St. in 2005 Buick LeSabre downtown Warrenton Custom. 110K miles. across from Mt. Zion Very good condition. Baptist Church , next to New brakes & shocks. Municipal Parking Lot Recent inspection. B. The meeting room is Good tires. $3,200. also available to any 540-222-2641 group wishing to start 12 step recovery meetings. Information and 99 Toyota Camry/Solara meeting times can be Engine & transmission found at http://www. good. New motor warrentonmeetingplacmount needs to be ree.wordpress.com placed. Windshield cracked/will not pass inspection. No radio. Door handle on driver Memoir Writing d o o r b r o k e . Services Pmeyers2017@gmail. Firsthand accounts of com # 540-216-4802 life in the Piedmont, experiences in Wars, even those dating to the Depression are 630 Campers/RVs fading with the loss of every elderly person. Contact Piedmont 2004 Forest River LexMemoirs (piedmontmemoirs@ ington. Excel Cond. No Smkr/Pets. Super gmail.com) to schedule Clean No Leaks, an interview and have Stains, Smell or Odors your loved one’s most the Striping and Body cherished stories writare Perfect 100% Rust ten for posterity. InFree Everything dividual accounts or Works.$2500. Text: full memoirs are available. (501) 487-7619 or Email: cftoc@outlook. Don’t lose their stories com when you lose them.

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Motorcycles

2004 Harley Davidson Sportster, excel cond, lots of extras, clean title $3,800. Text Karla at 540-671-5168

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Sport Utility Vehicles

2007 Chevy Suburban LTZ, 4x4, AT, runs great, low miles, clean title. $3000. Call/text: (406) 282-1324 or email: d.cha3@outlook.com

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Trucks/ Pickups

2007 GMC Sierra Classic $7,500 ~ pick-up, 2 WD, 4 door, Nice shape, 150K mls. Lve msg @ 540-364-3378

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Auctions

Garage/Yard Sales Garage/Tool! March 24; 7a-12p 5519 Valley Green Dr, Broad Run, Va 20137 Roughneck 30Gal Fuel Caddy, DR 3Pt Hitch Trim Mower, 2Pc Craftsman Tool Chest, Air Compressor Accessories (Pin Nailer, Round Nailer, Air Hammer, Ratchet Wrench, Pneumatic Wrench, Ingersoll-Rand Air Impact wrench, & grinder),BenchDog Pro Max Router w/Cabinet, Various Bits (Freud, Bosch ,Porter Cable), Kreg Jig Master System w/Screw Kits, Kreg clamps, other clamps 9Rockler, Irwin, Jorgensen) other med & sm clmps, Tile saw & Blades, Wrenches, Hammers, Screw Drvrs, Bits, Assort Nails, Screws & Bolts, Auto items, Plumbing. Many other building type items! Most items 50 cents on the Dollar or Better!

ANTIQUE AUCTION BEALETON, VA LIONS CLUB BUILDING

Sunday March 25, 12:00 noon Featuring antiques and decorator showcase of fine furniture with Biggs, Baker, Modern History, Polidor, Sarreid, Jonathan Charles, B G Industries, Pennsylvania House, Drexel, Guildmaster, Ethan Allen, Henredon, Statton, Hancock & Moore, early cupboards, primitives, French & English furniture, chests, secretaries, cabinets, gold coins, silver dollars, fine jewelry, glassware, pottery, quilts, Persian rugs, lamps, bookcases, artwork, farmhouse & garden decor plus so much more! BEALETON, VA LIONS CLUB BUILDING www.bhantiqueauctions.com S Burke, Auctioneer #2759 11326 James Madison Hwy near Rt 28 (434)251-5769

NOTICE

FAUQUIER COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS APRIL 5, 2018 The following will be on the agenda for the Fauquier County Board of Zoning Appeals meeting to be held on Thursday, April 5, 2018, beginning at 2:00 p.m. in the Warren Green Building, First Floor Meeting Room, 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia: SPECIAL PERMIT #SPPT-18-008925, THEIR VOICE RESCUE (OWNER/APPLICANT) THEIR VOICE RESCUE - An application to amend a previously approved condition for a Category 13 Special Permit to operate a rescue and adoption kennel, PIN 6042-52-2679-000, located at 2581 Winchester Road, Marshall District, Delaplane, Virginia. (Adam Shellenberger, Staff) Copies of the Zoning Appeals and Variance applications may be examined in the Department of Community Development’s Zoning Office at 29 Ashby Street, Suite 310, Warrenton, Virginia between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. To review files on all other items, please visit the Department of Community Development’s Planning Office at 10 Hotel Street, Suite 305, Warrenton, Virginia between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. 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 Fran Williams, Administrative Manager, at (540) 422-8210.

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ABC Licenses

PUBLIC NOTICE

BOARD OF EQUALIZATION FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY

Public notice is hereby given that the Board of Equalization (BOE) for Fauquier County will meet on the days and times listed below for the purpose of hearing complaints of inequalities including errors in real estate assessments. Upon hearing such complaints, either oral or written, the BOE will give consideration and INCREASE, DECREASE, OR AFFIRM such real estate assessments. Before a change can be granted, the taxpayer or his authorized agent must overcome a clear presumption in favor of the assessment. The taxpayer or his agent must prove that the property is not uniform with other similar properties; or prove that the property is not assessed at its fair market value; or prove errors in property description.      Scheduling begins Monday, March 26, 2018. The deadline to request an appeal is Thursday, June 21, 2018.

2018 BOE HEARING SCHEDULE

      Tuesday May 22              Tuesday June 26           Thursday July 26               hearing, the taxpayer or his agent should submit documentation supporting each appeal to the Re and on the website. By order of the Fauquier County Board of Equalization                      

Full name(s) of owner(s): Thai Warrenton, Inc. Trading as: Faang Thai Restaurant 251 W. Lee Hwy, Suite 177, Warrenton, Fauquier County Virginia 20186-2047 The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL for a Wine and Beer on premises & Mixed Beverage on premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Watcha Chaokrajang, Director 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.

Full name(s) of owner(s): Gardiner Mulford Trading as: Maidstone Meadery 10657 Pleasant Vale Delaplane, Fauquier County Virginia 20144 The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL for a Class A Farm Winery license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Gardiner Mulford, Owner 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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Legal Notices PUBLIC NOTICE FAUQUIER COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTAL DISTRICT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING March 27, 2018 6:30 P.M. WARREN GREEN BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM, 10 HOTEL STREET, WARRENTON, VIRGINIA Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Code of Virginia §15.2-4300 et seq., the Agricultural and Forestal District Advisory Committee will consider the following applications to have land added as noted below: Addition and District

Name

Parcel I.D. #

14th Addition to Upperville (AGFO-17-008394)

Smith Atoka, LLC

6073-88-4395-000

23rd Addition to Middleburg/Marshall (AGFO-17-008493)

Bethany Powell Brower & John Vincent Brower

Announcements

Legal Notices

NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE FOR RECEIVING PROOF OF DEBTS AND DEMANDS PURSUANT TO VIRGINIA CODE § 64.2-550 Having been requested by Emily Scarboroggh, Administratrix for the Estate of David Waldron Trader, deceased (Fiduciary #CWF2017-90), 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 April 20, 2018, at 10:30 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 § 64.2-550. On this 9th day of March 2018, 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 Times, Warrenton, Virginia, for publication once in that newspaper´s issue dated January 17,02018 both of which last-mentioned dates are more than ten days before the date stated above for receiving proof of debts and demands. Gary M. Pearson, Commissioner of Accounts

Bids & Proposals

Acreage 40.8200

6070-52-6016-000

40.9234

21st Addition to Marshall/Warrenton Lisa S. Brown & Mark A. Kile (AGFO-18-008648)

6955-42-9365-000

79.1828

13th Addition to Springs Valley (AGFO-18-008649)

Steven M. & Susan W. Lewis

6953-83-1239-000 6953-73-3444-000

20.0000 20.0000

22nd Addition to Southern Fauquier (AGFO-18-008675)

Kane Manor Farm, LLC

6991-31-2826-000 6990-09-9692-000 6990-38-2675-000 6990-38-7197-000 6980-88-2718-000 6980-99-2377-000 6990-19-5232-000 6991-21-9662-000 6990-37-4369-000

22.5800 18.0000 11.4900 11.4900 10.5727 10.3160 10.1914 5.0329 5.0000

The Fauquier County Agricultural and Forestal District Advisory Committee will review and make recommendations to the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors concerning the above renewals and additions. The above files are available for review between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the Department of Community Development, Planning Division, 10 Hotel Street, Suite 305, Warrenton, Virginia. 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 Fran Williams, Administrative Manager, at (540) 422-8210.

BIDS & PROPOSALS Fauquier County has the following solicitations available on our website, www. fauquiercounty.gov click on Bids & Proposals: RFP 46-18sm, A/E Professional Services, As-Required Construction, Engineering & Inspection (CEI) for Grant Projects, contact susan.monaco@fauquiercounty.gov Sealed proposals due by 2:30 p.m. 4/19/2018. RFP 65-18sm, A/E Professional Services, Construction, Engineering & Inspection (CEI) Services for Marshall Streetscape Improvements Project; Optional PreProposal Conference @ 9 a.m. 4/5/18, AJC 2nd floor CR, contact susan. monaco@fauquiercounty.gov . Sealed proposals due by 2:30 p.m. 4/17/18 RFP 60-18sm, A/E Professional Services, Construction, Engineering & Inspection (CEI) Services for Central Sports Complex Project; Optional Pre-Proposal Conference @ 10 a.m. 4/5/18, AJC 2nd floor CR, contact susan.monaco@ fauquiercounty.gov . Sealed proposals due by 2:30 p.m. 4/18/18 IFB 75-17sm, Woods @ Warrenton Trail (RE-BID), VDOT Proj. EN08 030 121 P101, C501, UPC 91228, TEA 030-7 (042); this project includes Federal Transportation Enhancement Funds administered by VDOT. Optional Pre-Bid Conference @ 1:30 p.m. 3/29/18, AJC 2nd floor CR, contact susan.monaco@ fauquiercounty.gov Sealed bids due by 2:30 p.m. 4/12/18.

Fauquier Times | www.fauquier.com | March 21, 2018

Public Notices PUBLIC AUCTION Calverton Self Storage 4133 Old Calverton Rd. (Rt. 642) Catlett, VA 20119 (540) 788-3213 March 24, 2018 Calverton Self Storage will sell at public auction on Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., the contents of occupants’ self storage units listed below to satisfy rental fees and other expenses. Units to be auctioned off are: Walker Abel, Jr. - Units 2106, 2107 & 2108; Farrah Ashline Unit 1202; Nancy Baker-Smith - Unit 521; Brenda Beach Unit 502; James & Gracie Bell - Unit 1730; Harold L. Burke Unit 1005; Jason Culbertson - Unit 2024; David Drake Units 3416 & 3710; Kelly Dutton - Unit 1908; Philip Essex Unit 1110; Ricky & Avis Freeman - Unit 3212; Michael Gleason -Unit 1217; Justin Holley - Unit 2610; (Robert) Kevin Huddle - Unit 1806; Yolanda Latimer - Unit 1317; Edna M. Lawson - Units 2311 & 2431; Sarajane McDaniel Unit 3012; James Powers - Unit 733; Arthur J. Robinson & Sherry Westhafer - Unit 705; Jafar Shah - Units 105, 1328, 1401 & 3706; Anita C. Stevens - Unit 601; Lorrie & Ronald Stidham - Units 310 & 3301; and Ornan Whetzel - Unit 1530. Sold by unit. Terms: Cash or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover).

Legal Notices NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED REVENUE BOND FINANCING BY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF THE COUNTY OF FAUQUIER, VIRGINIA Notice is hereby given that the Economic Development Authority of the County of Fauquier, Virginia (formerly known as the Industrial Development Authority of the County of Fauquier, Virginia) (the “Authority”), whose address is 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia 20186, will hold a public hearing on the request of Wakefield School, Inc. (the “School”), whose address is 4439 Old Tavern Road, The Plains, Virginia, 20198, for the issuance by the Authority of up to $10,000,000 of its revenue bonds, to assist the School in financing or refinancing all or a portion of the costs of one or more of the following: (a) refunding the Authority’s outstanding Variable Rate Revenue Bonds (Wakefield School, Inc.) Series 2008 (the “2008 Bonds”) which were issued for the purposes of (i) refinancing Authority bonds and a loan previously issued to assist the School in financing various completed capital building projects (renovations to Archwood House comprised of three floors and approximately 5,000 square feet, parking, landscaping, tennis courts, Robert’s Classroom Building comprised of two floors and approximately 35,220 square feet, Upper School Building comprised of three floors and approximately 19,800 square feet, Science/Tech. and Library Building comprised of two floors and approximately 19,600 square feet, Activity Center/Upper Gymnasium comprised of two floors and approximately 13,040 square feet, Arts Building comprised of two floors and approximately 7,719 square feet) at the School’s campus at 4439 Old Tavern Road, The Plains (Fauquier County), Virginia (the “Campus”); (ii) financing infrastructure improvements related to athletic field parking, emergency access (new “East Road” construction), Campus storm water management, water wells and reservoir ponds for athletic field irrigation, and on Campus (Campus entrance) and off Campus (Route 245/Old Tavern Road) traffic flow located at the Campus; and (iii) financing certain working capital and other expenditures associated with the foregoing to the extent financeable including, without limitation, costs of issuance, credit enhancement costs, liquidity costs and a debt service reserve; (b) funding swap breakage costs in connection with the 2008 Bonds; and (c) funding certain costs of issuance of the proposed bonds. The issuance of revenue bonds or notes as requested by the School will not constitute a debt or pledge of the faith and credit of the Commonwealth of Virginia or the County of Fauquier, Virginia, and neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the Commonwealth of Virginia or any political subdivision thereof will be pledged to the payment of such bonds or notes. The public hearing, which may be continued or adjourned, will be held at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, 2018, before the Authority in the Warren Green Meeting Room (First Floor) at 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia 20186. Any person interested in the issuance of the proposed revenue bonds or notes or the proposed refinancing project may appear at the hearing and present his or her views. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF THE COUNTY OF FAUQUIER, VIRGINIA

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PT/FT barn help needed for a horse reproduction facility in Amissville VA. Great working enviroment.

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Musician/ Minister of Music

for Sunday morning worship services, weekly rehearsals & other occasions/services through the year. Call the church at 540 399-1315

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Superior Paving Corp., an award-winning Asphalt Company headquartered in Gainesville, VA, is seeking candidates for the following positions:

Assistant Milling Crew Foreman Yardmen (Leesburg and Centreville)

Must be available to work nights, weekends, and overtime as necessary. Interested applicants must complete an application online at www.superiorpaving.net. Superior offers competitive salary, health and 401(k) benefits. SUPERIOR PAVING CORP. IS PROUD TO BE AN EEO & AA EMPLOYER MINORITY / FEMALE / VETERAN / DISABILITY

Legal Notices Public Notice - Environmental Permit PURPOSE OF NOTICE: To seek public comment on a draft permit from the Department of Environmental Quality that will allow the release of treated wastewater into a water body in Fauquier County, Virginia. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: March 21, 2018, to April 20, 2018 PERMIT NAME: Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit - Wastewater issued by DEQ, under the authority of the State Water Control Board APPLICANT NAME, ADDRESS AND PERMIT NUMBER: Fauquier County Water & Sanitation Authority, 7172 Kennedy Rd, Warrenton, VA 20187-1646, VA0031763 FACILITY NAME, ADDRESS AND PERMIT NUMBER: Marshall Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), 4319 Old Morganstown Rd, Marshall, VA 20115 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Fauquier County Water & Sanitation Authority has applied for a reissuance of a permit for the public Marshall WWTP. The applicant proposes to release treated sewage wastewater at a rate of 0.64 million gallons per day into a water body. The sludge will be disposed by pump and haul to an approved facility. The facility proposes to release the treated wastewater in the unnamed tributary to Carter Run in Fauquier County in the Rappahannock River watershed. A watershed is the land area drained by a river and its incoming streams. The permit will limit the following pollutants to amounts that protect water quality: pH, Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5), Dissolved Oxygen, Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Ammonia as N (Dec-May), Ammonia as N (Jun-Nov), and E. coli. The following pollutants will be monitored without limitation: Flow. This facility is subject to the requirements of 9VAC25-820 and has registered for coverage under the General VPDES Watershed Permit Regulation for Total Nitrogen and Total Phosphorus Discharges and Nutrient Trading in the Chesapeake Watershed in Virginia. HOW TO COMMENT AND/OR REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING: DEQ accepts comments and requests for public hearing by hand-delivery, e-mail or postal mail. All comments and requests must be in writing and be received by DEQ during the comment period. Submittals must include the names, mailing addresses and telephone numbers of the commenter/requester and of all persons represented by the commenter/requester. A request for public hearing must also include: 1) The reason why a public hearing is requested. 2) A brief, informal statement regarding the nature and extent of the interest of the requester or of those represented by the requester, including how and to what extent such interest would be directly and adversely affected by the permit. 3) Specific references, where possible, to terms and conditions of the permit with suggested revisions. A public hearing may be held, including another comment period, if public response is significant, based on individual requests for a public hearing, and there are substantial, disputed issues relevant to the permit. CONTACT FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS, DOCUMENT REQUESTS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The public may review the draft permit and application at the DEQNorthern Regional Office by appointment, or may request electronic copies of the draft permit and fact sheet. Name: Alison Thompson Address: DEQ-Northern Regional Office, 13901 Crown Court, Woodbridge, VA 22193 Phone: (703) 583-3834 E-mail: alison.thompson@deq.virginia.gov

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Immediate openings for Skilled Plumbers. Must have experience in residential new construction single family and townhouses. Requirements: - Valid driver’s license -3+ years experience -Tools relevant to trade -Ability to pass a drug screen -Ability to pass a background check -Safety minded Benefits: -Vacation pay -Health and Dental Insurance -401K -Disability plans email: Cindy@foley-plumbing.net TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT OFFICER Town of Warrenton Police Department This is a part time position limited to 29 hours per week. The Traffic Enforcement Officer (TEO) will peform non-sworn law enforcement tasks. Tasks include report writing, traffic control/ parking enforcement and various administrative tasks. The TEO DOES NOT have powers of arrest and is unarmed. Must have thorough knowledge of standard office practices, procedures & equipment, including computers. Must have ability to interact with a variety of individuals and communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing. Must maintain composure during stressful situations and maintain confidentiality of information. Applicants must be at least 18 years old, good physical health, possess a high school diploma or GED and a valid Virginia Operator’s license. Salary range is $18-$22 per hour. Application may be obtained online at www.warrentonva.gov or by phone to 540-347-1102. Send completed applications to Human Resources, P. O. Drawer 341, Warrenton, VA 20188. Open until filled. EOE

POLICE OFFICER The Town of Warrenton, Virginia, is seeking qualified applicants to fill the position of Police Officer. Applicants must be at least 21 years old, in good physical health, possess a high school diploma or G.E.D, valid Virginia driver’s license, and be able to deal well with the public. Position is responsible for the enforcement of State and local laws; patrols the Town; answers complaints and conducts investigations. Career salary range $44,641 to $71,426, excellent benefits. Town of Warrenton Employment Application is required. Application and complete job description may be obtained on the web at www.warrentonva.gov or by phone to 540-347-1102. Send completed applications to Human Resources, P. O. Drawer 341, Warrenton, VA 20188. Open until filled. EOE.

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PERSONAL ASSISTANT Middleburg Area. Seeking experienced personal assistant with writing skills, event planning experience, and competence in computer skills. Full benefits avail. Email resume and cover letter: employinfo335752@gmail.com

Regional Teacher Recruitment Fair Sat., April 7, 9am-12pm

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**On-site interview included** Prior registration not required. Call (540) 868-7278 or visit LFCCWorkforce.com/Fair

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Gardener Seeking a Seasonal Gardener to support the garden team on a private estate in The Plains, VA. This is a temporary seasonal position, hours TBD. Duties include maintenance of garden areas and greenhouse. The applicant must be able to perform physical labor in various conditions, follow instruction, and maintain a valid driver’s license with a clean record. To apply please send resume to

PERSONAL ASSISTANT Middleburg Area. Seeking part-time, experienced personal assistant to work in office with executive. Writing skills, event planning, filing & computer competence skills. Flexible hours. Email resume and cover letter: employinfo335752@gmail.com

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Maintenance Worker

Seeking a skilled maintenance worker to perform upkeep tasks at St. John the Evangelist Church/School campus in Warrenton, Virginia. It is essential that this person possess good communication and interpersonal skills. Applicant must demonstrate the ability to ensure that all facilities are kept clean and functional. Applicant will perform various janitorial duties, assist in grounds maintenance, maintain logs pertaining to fire safety and emergency lighting and perform routine HVAC filter replacement. Applicant must be able to work safely off a high ladder, and perform other duties as assigned by the Facilities Director. Applicant must pass a background check to comply with the Child Protection Requirements for the Diocese of Arlington. Interested candidates should send their resume to bhelsel@sje1.org

Drywall Technicians

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Administrative Assistant / Bookkeeper Established Warrenton business seeks a seasoned administrative assistant. The ideal candidate: * will have experience working successfully in a busy office setting, wearing many hats, will be extremely detail-oriented, selfmotivated, flexible and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment * will have experience with Quickbooks and strong skills using MS Excel * is familiar with networked Mac computers, Google Docs and Chrome * is a team player with an upbeat “can do” attitude Key Responsibilities: · AR/AP processing using Quickbooks · Enter and submit bi-weekly payroll using Quickbooks, including payroll taxes and 401k payments · Cash flow management · Coordinate with CPA re tax returns, income statements, balance sheets · In conjunction with law firm, maintain licensing registrations in multiple states · Human Resources responsibility including 401k and Health Insurance Compliance · Reconcile Bank Accounts · Maintain office supplies and equipment · Maintain and produce weekly client performance reports in Excel or Pdf. format · Administrative support of company President and Vice President Competitive salary and excellent benefits, including group health and 401K. Please send resume and references to

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JUST LISTED!

CALL Nancy Richards 540-229-9983 *Brick Home w/Basement *Corner Lot, 2 Full Baths *Hardwood Floors, 1 Car Garage *Sun Porch $450,000 Warrenton, VA—$298,500

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JUST LISTED!

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CONTRACT

NEW CONSTRUCTION

CALL Tammy Roop 540-270-9409

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*Rappahannock Amissville, VA- $59,999

ON 5 ACRES!

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Castleton, VA—$250,000

JUST LISTED!

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Remington, VA - $325,000

RIVERFRONT!

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CONTRACT!

JUST LISTED!

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CALL Brenda Rich 540-270-1659

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Amissville,, VA—$359,900

Warrenton, VA—$349,900

CALL Brenda Rich 540-270-1659

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PRICE REDUCED!

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Catlett, VA—$479,000

SOUTH WALES!

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