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Polster, Carlos win in Warrenton • Nevill wins race for mayor • Reynolds loses council seat

Warrenton’s police chief retiring Warrenton Police Chief Louis Battle is retiring from his post at the end of May, according to town officials.

Battle has served at the helm of the police department since 2012.

He was first hired onto the force as deputy chief in 2007. Attempts to reach Battle for comment were not immediately successful Tuesday night.

Town Manager Brannon Godfrey expressed his appreciation for Battle’s service.

“Our Police Department is emulated as a model of professionalism thanks to Lou’s leadership. The changes that he brought to the Department – modernized technology and equipment, the standard of compliance with policies and procedures, the staffing and organizational structure to provide a high level of service, the outreach to the church community and nonprofit organizations – are the reasons we have attained state accreditation and re-accreditation, as well as the respect of our peer law enforcement agencies,” Godfrey wrote.

By Leland Schwartz Times Staff Writer

Carter Nevill, 47, will be Warrenton’s new mayor, beating a long-shot challenge by 19-year-old Grace Rigby. The vote was 988 to 478.

In a surprise upset, veteran Councilwoman Linda “Sunny” Reynolds lost her at-large seat to newcomer Renard Carlos, 998 to 500.

Sean Polster Councilman Sean Polster kept his at-large seat, with 1,125 votes.

Polster was the top vote-getter in Tuesday’s town election.

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PHOTOS BY RANDY LITZINGER Left, Carter Nevill talks with Steve Gordon and his wife Jane outside the Warren Green Building. Right, Renard Carlos watches a voter’s dog while they went to the polls.

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We’re all neighbors Suffield Meadows wins ‘small community’ award It was all glitz and glamour at Suffield Meadows on the crisp spring evening of Saturday, April 14. Dapper gentlemen and women dressed for cocktails arrived at the club house for a festive occasion.

“There’s about 70 of us and it’s going to be crowded but we’ll get them all in,” smiled Ann Novak, who, along with her husband Ron, were one of the first residents of the 55+ retirement community in Warrenton constructed some 12 years ago.

As the champagne was poured and glasses raised, the current president of the Suffield’s board, John Dunkin, positioned himself near the fireplace.

Near him was a framed certificate in a place of honor on the mantel.

“We’re here to celebrate,” he said.

“It was the first time we applied, and Suffield Meadows has been recognized as the 2017 Small Community Association of the Year…It took all of us to make this happen, this is such a great place to live.”

The recognition was given by the Community Association Institute, which represents Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. No shabby feat when competing with that large an area. The 40-page application and essay detailed the events and activities enjoyed by the Suffield Meadows residents, which led to the selection of the award.

Dunkin kept his remarks short and sweet as there was a table loaded with

FAUQUIER FOCUS fancy hors d’oeuvres and a large cake, not to mention the eager residents, set to celebrate.

According to Dunkin, all of Suffield Meadows’ units, which consist of single-family homes as well as condos and attached houses, are currently occupied.

As for Dunkin, he and his wife Kathy moved to Suffield Meadows about three years ago from Purcellville. Kathy had retired as a school nurse from Loudoun County and John from the federal government. They’ve lived in Virginia for more than two decades.

“Even though we weren’t ready to retire, Kathy and I visited Suffield Meadows soon after construction began in 2006 and remained interested in this as a retirement option. Little did we know that our daughter was going to move into Brookside with two of our grandchildren…we have three more in Illinois! Once we retired, Suffield Meadows became our number one choice. It didn’t hurt that we love our home and love the community,” said John who has held senior managerial positions in business as well as government.

For Dunkin, it took little arm-twisting

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John Dunkin to convince him to step up into the role of president of the Suffield Meadows’ board.

“My fellow board members and our management company, NRP Group, work well together and not only keep our community running but have also taken the initiative to complete several projects to enhance the community,” said Dunkin, 72.

“I would add that the prior boards worked through the startup issues, and that without their herculean efforts Suffield Meadows wouldn’t be nearly as great a place to live.”

In chatting with several of the residents, it’s clear the myriad of activities offered are enticing. Women’s luncheons, a men’s lunch bunch, bunco, hand-in-foot and poker night, to name a few, are part of the regularly scheduled activities.

The social committee plans at least one community-wide function each month.

“Last year they hosted over 15 functions, including our annual holiday party, Valentine’s Day Brunch and the Fourth of July Barbeque. Once the pool is open, our activities shift to outside and include the weekly Friday Night on the Porch gathering,” Dunkin said.

The porch, which boasts small tables, chairs and rockers, has a pastoral view. Several gathered there in the soft glow of the setting sun. Conversations ranged from books to bass fishing.

“We’re just very excited to receive this honor,” said Ann Novak. “It’s amazing and we’re very pleased.”

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U.S. 29 and Freemans Ford Road at issue in Remington forum

By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer

Proposals to make travel safer in Remington will be discussed at a town forum today, Wednesday, May 2, at the Remington Volunteer Fire and Rescue station at 200 E. Marshall St. The 7 to 9 p.m. forum was requested by Lee District Supervisor Chris Butler, who represents Remington.

Representatives from the Virginia Department of Transportation will seek public comment about options to make the intersection of U.S. 29 and Freemans Ford Road safer. It’s been the scene of two fatal accidents over the last two years.

N. Mark Nesbit, engineer in charge of the VDOT office in Warrenton, said an analysis of the intersection was done after the accidents.

One option would create a restricted crossing, or R-Cut, and re-

move the traffic signal at the Freemans Ford Road intersection. An R-Cut bars a left-turn movement.

Traffic uses a U-turn lane instead.

A lower cost option would be to move traffic along existing streets as alternate routes.

VDOT isn’t committed to any option at this point and nothing has been funded, Nesbit said. There is a June 1 deadline to file an intent to apply for funding through the state’s Smart Scale funding program. Aug. 1 is the deadline to submit an application.

The county supervisors on April 12 approved a resolution of support for projects to be submitted for Smart Scale funding in the next round. The R-cut proposal for the Remington intersection was among them.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board will make a decision on funding in June 2019.

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Young farmers learn a thing or two through the ‘Show and Sale’

By Leland Schwartz Times Staff Writer

Megan Day and her sister Meredith bought their four piglets for $75 each at the beginning of the year when they each weighed about 50 pounds.

In a perfect world, the not-so-little pigs — named Lindsay Loham, Michael Straham, Megham Markle and Hamlet (get it?) — now weighing in at nearly 250 pounds, will sell Monday night at the annual Fauquier County Show and Sale for $7 a pound.

Do the math. Ag heaven.

True, the prices are inflated because the buyers are there to support one of the county’s leading agricultural educational nonprofit events. But for the 9- to 18-year-old students who have nurtured their animals for this day, the math is one of the enticing forces behind what the 50 young 4-H farmers have put their hearts into for the past several months.

Many buyers will recover more than half their bids by simply selling the animal they won at Tuesday’s professional livestock auction in Marshall.

The Show and Sale is as much a lesson in business economics as it is in animal husbandry. The event committee raises about $10,000 from roughly 80 local companies, families and individuals, nearly every one of whom has been written to or visited by the students.

Their mission? “The youth of Fauquier County is learning about agriculture and how to raise the products and follow through all the way to selling them,” Megan Day said.

The whole experience of feeding and nurturing the nearly 100 steers, pigs, goats and lambs they have grown to love comes with the sobering life lesson of what has to happen to the animals soon after the auctioneer points at the winning buyer.

This is what is called a terminal sale, which means Megan and her sister, Meredith, know that Lindsay Loham and her siblings are headed for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

“It’s really hard to watch it, especially since you spent so much time with the animal. You don’t see any point that’s violent, but we all

Meredith Day, left, and her sister, Megan Day right, with the four pigs they raised for the Show and Sale.

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Fauquier County Show and Sale Sunday, May 6 and Monday, May 7 Fauquier County Fairgrounds

know what happens after the animal leaves the ring. Most animals come to this end, and we do get used to it,” said Megan Day, a 16-year-old student at Liberty High School.

First, it’s the steers, lambs and goats that will be judged for marketability, and their owners for their showmanship Sunday at the Fauquier County Fairgrounds.

Then it’s the hogs on Monday, followed by the auction and the awards dinner for the winners, the buyers and the show’s sponsors.

Make no mistake about it. This is a competition. To the registrants,

this is right up there with the Stanley Cup and NBA playoffs. Every student dreams of one of their animals emerging as grand champion.

Meanwhile, they are learning actionable intelligence. For instance, the industry target of 1.1 square inch of ribeye for every 100 pounds of live weight means most of their steers are going to be in the 12- to 15-inch range for a ribeye. Students learn to estimate the ribeye area by how high that animal stands in the back.

They also learn the optimum target is four-tenths of an inch of back fat, because a carcass cannot hang in a cooler without fat on it or it will lose water and dry out.

The students keep diaries on each animal with the intricate detail of a ship’s log, tracking everything from the amount, cost and type of feed, to what kind of medicine is administered, for what and when.

They learn if they need to give a subcutaneous injection, or sub-Q, it goes under the skin in the neck.

If it’s an intramuscular (IM) shot, it goes in the neck muscle. If given an option, it’s always a sub-Q. They learn to watch medicines’ withdrawal dates, so it’s administered long enough before the animal is killed to leave no remaining resi-

due when it’s sold and eaten.

To make it into the sales ring, the students must carefully calibrate the amount each animal eats and how much exercise it gets — especially when it’s getting close to show time — so it qualifies in its weight class.

In the case of pigs, for instance, one ounce over 300 pounds and forget about it.

“When he walked on the scales,” Megan Day recalled about one of her hogs, “I was on my hands and knees and had my hands crossed, and when Tim said 299, I jumped up and down, I was so excited!”

She was referring to Virginia Cooperative Extension Agent Tim Wise, the Show and Sale’s manager and advisor, who says the thing about the whole process is that “it tries to mirror the real world.”

Out in that real world, Megan Day said she hopes to be an ag teacher in a middle or high school, or an extension agent.

For now, she says she and her colleagues have a hands-on, frontrow seat learning how they might someday take what they’re doing on a miniature level to a real-life scale.

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Polster, Carlos win as Reynolds loses seat Littleton to be next mayor of Middleburg

By Leonard Shapiro Contributing Writer

elect a new vice-mayor.

Like Rigby, Carlos, 29, said Warrenton needs youthful representation on the council. He said he was “thankful for the vote of confidence.”

Rigby, surrounded by her family and supporters, said, “I’m going to stay interested in town affairs. That’s all you can do as a voter and a citizen, and I’m very excited to be that now.”

Developer Keith Macdonald withdrew from the race last week, saying he did not see a path to winning and wanted to reduce vote-splitting to prevent Reynolds from being re-elected. He got 30 votes, nonetheless.

There were 10 write-in votes for mayor and nine for the at-large seats.

Warrenton has 6,744 registered voters, according to the Fauquier County registrar, and about 1,486 voters turned out to the polls on what was a perfect spring day. According to the still-unofficial results, turnout topped 20 percent.

The winners will start four-year

terms July 1. The five ward seats will be up for reelection in 2020.

There was some confusion Tuesday as many voters went to the wrong polling locations.

Instead of the usual two voting locations picked by the county -- Warrenton Presbyterian Church and the Warrenton Community Center -- there were four for the May 1 town election, an arrangement made by the Town Council because it was a local election.

One of those voters, Amanda Coleman, was sent from the church to the Warren Green Building. “I’ve been voting here since I moved to Warrenton in 2007, and I’ve been voting here for every single election except today,” she said.

“I was quite surprised, actually,” she added. “But I’m still going to go do my civil duty and go vote.”

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On a day of a record voter turnout in Middleburg, Trowbridge “Bridge” Littleton, a native son born and raised in the village, easily prevailed Tuesday over two other candidates in what had been a hotly-contested mayoral race.

A total of 309 out of 531 registered voters cast their ballots at the town office. For the first time in 26 years, there were multiple mayoral candidates running to replace outgoing Mayor Betsy Davis, stepping down after 12 years on the job.

Littleton, 43, and a two-year member of the Town Council, received 207 votes, 66.9 percent. Local businessman Vincent Bataoel, who served as chairman of the town’s Economic Development Advisory Committee, got 91 votes (29.4 percent) and Mark Snyder, a Town Councilman for 20 years, had 11 votes (3.5 percent).

Littleton is president and co-founder of HELLEN Systems, a Middleburg-based company that implements public-private partnerships with the federal government to develop GPS backup systems.

He’s a graduate of the town’s Hill School, Radford University and the University of Richmond School of Law. His father, Trowbridge Littleton, is a 34-year former member of the Town Council.

In the Town Council race, with four seats being contested by seven candidates, three council incumbents prevailed — Darlene Kirk, Kevin Hazard and Peter Leonard-Morgan. Cindy Pearson, the town’s former economic development director, also was voted to the Council.

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term with no other declared candidates on the ballot. He received 45 votes. There were four write-ins.

For the Remington council, Evan Ashby III, Devada Allison Jr., Stanley Heaney Sr. and Van Loving will return. Ashby had 36 votes, Allison 41, Heaney 37 and Loving 43. Newcom-

ers Susan Tiffany and Marcus Bones were also elected to council. Tiffany received 41 votes and Bones, 36. Pamela Cook finished out of the running with 32 votes.

“I have to say I am pleasantly surprised,” Tiffany said about her victory. “I’ve only lived in Remington for two years. I’ve been walking my dogs and talking to people.”

Allison said he felt “humbled” by the support from voters.

“I look forward to continue serving, helping development and bringing new things to town,” Allison said, adding that he hopes downtown Remington will become a Main Street destination for visitors.

Ashby, 63, was elected to a fourth two-year term. He said he wants “well-planned expansion, not just seeing how many people we can shoehorn into the current space.”

Loving, 58, has served on council for 26 years. He said he’d like to see more small businesses, including restaurants, come to town.

Heaney, who owns the Corner Deli in Remington, was first elected

to council in 2006.

Bones, 65, described himself as “pro-growth when it comes to certain types. I would like to preserve the old parts of town.”

In The Plains, Heidi Van Voorhis, Lori Sisson and Joyce Heflin were re-elected. Newcomer Kevin Henry finished out of the running. Van Voorhis received 45 votes, Sisson 40 and Heflin 32. Henry received 19 votes. There was one write-in vote.

Van Voorhis, 51, has served on council for 12 years. She said she’s worked on traffic calming measures on the streets in The Plains for the safety of pedestrians, children and pets.

Sisson, 51, said town leaders have tried to bring about growth that is “in the manner of our small-town feel.”

Heflin, 55, said that as a native of The Plains, she felt she represents the older residents in town. “I don’t have any agenda,” she said before the election. “I want the community to remain a community that everyone loves.”

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PHOTOS BY RANDY LITZINGER Grace Rigby, who lost to Nevill, hands a sticker to Andrew Fuster of Warrenton. After talking, they discovered that they both went to Bradley Elementary School in Warrenton.

WARRENTON from page A1 Nevill, an Old Town businessman, will replace Mayor Powell Duggan, who opted not to seek re-election. Nevill said his first effort “will be to build a coalition.” At a gathering after the vote, Nevill added, “I am going to be reaching out to people.”

Reynolds, who is also vice mayor and has served eight years on the council in two separate terms, said, “I feel like I ran a great campaign.”

“In the last four years, myself and my colleagues brought Warrenton up to the correct century, and I’m very proud of that,” she added. “I ran a very clean and open campaign. I wish the new council all the best in the world.”

Polster, who aligned himself with Carlos, said he was “humbled by the number of people who came out to support me.” He said he appreciated his family and the volunteers, which, as a whole “embraced the change we’ve had over the past four years.”

Polster also said he is “excited and looking forward” to working with Carlos but added: “I am also very respectful of the service Sunny has given to the community, and eight years is a long time to put yourself out in public as an elected official.”

At their first meeting in July, the five ward and two at-large councilmen will

“I feel like I ran a great campaign. In the last four years myself and my colleagues brought Warrenton up to the correct century and I’m very proud of that.

I ran a very clean and open campaign. I wish the new council all the best in the world.”

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Incumbents re-elected in The Plains, two newcomers elected in Remington

By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer

All the incumbents on the ballot for town council in Remington and The Plains won re-election on Tuesday.

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Cedar Lee Middle students to get a new path to school

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A federally funded Safe Routes to School project will provide a shareduse path along Schoolhouse Road to serve Cedar Lee Middle School.

The path parallels Schoolhouse Road and will extend from the corner of Remington and Schoolhouse roads and pass under the U.S. 17 (Marsh Road) overpass where it will connect to a trail in Waverly Station.

Infrastructure enhancements around the school will include sidewalk improvement and repairs, bicycle and pedestrian-crossing improvements, off-street bicycle and pedestrian facilities and bicycle parking along Schoolhouse Road in front of the school. The project will be completed “This is an and open to appealing all in July.

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The Safe Routes to School program was created to provide safe, convenient, and fun opportunities for children to bicycle and walk to and from schools. The goal is to reverse the decline in children walking and bicycling to schools, increase kids’ safety and reverse the alarming nationwide trend toward childhood obesity and inactivity.

“This Safe Routes to School plan in Bealeton does just that. This community will be significantly safer and more walkable,” said County Supervisor Chris Butler (Lee).

“This is an appealing transportation alternative for many in this community who want to live a healthy and active lifestyle beginning at an early age,” added David Graham, Fauquier County Parks and Recreation Board member.

“This project is coming to fruition because of the cooperation and partnerships of Fauquier County Board of Supervisors, Fauquier County School Board, Fauquier County Department of Parks and Recreation, Virginia Department of Transportation and Bonnie Kidwell, the project catalyst,” said Cedar Lee Principal David Lee. Funding came from a $550,000 grant that the Virginia Department of Transportation awarded in January 2012. The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors provided $107,372 in matching funds. The total cost of the project is $657,372.

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Patch Adams dead serious about life, love and medicine

By James Ivancic

“The greatest thing in life is giving your love to another human being.

I’m trying to make loving more important than money.”

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There’s a better way to deliver heath care, says Dr. Patch Adams, the real-life doctor portrayed by the late Robin Williams in a 1998 movie by the same name.

Don’t be fooled by his two-tone hair, colorful clown clothes and tennis shoes. He’s serious.

Patch talked about his bouts with depression that led to suicide attempts and hospitalization; his own practice of medicine; and how love — of oneself and others — affects health during an April 26 appearance the at the Warrenton campus of Lord Fairfax Community College.

Several of the 125 people in the audience were dual-enrollment students from Rappahannock County High School considering health care careers. A few students from Kettle Run and Fauquier high schools attended as well.

“I’m a World War II baby who grew upon military bases. I was weird, a dweeb, a dork and a sissy boy. I was beaten up a lot,” said Adams, who’s now 72. He was born Hunter Adams in Washington, D.C. Adams talked about his suicide attempts that led to treatment in a mental hospital with drugs that “hurt my imagination.” From that experience, he concluded that love, rather than drugs, can cure mental illness.

“Depression is a symptom of loneliness,” he maintained.

Adams credits his mother’s love with helping him with his self-esteem issues.

“At 18, I decided I wouldn’t have another bad day and I’ve not had a bad day in 54 years,” he told his audience. “I was a goofy guy before I became a doctor.

“Spending a half hour in front of a mirror saying ‘I love me’ is self-esteem. It’s not egotistic or narcissistic,” he said.

Early in his medical career, Patch and other like-minded doctors started a community hospital in Arlington. They steered clear of malpractice insur-

DR. PATCH ADAMS

PHOTO BY RANDY LITZINGER The real-life Dr. Patch Adams, upon whom the 1998 Robin Williams movie was based, visited Lord Fairfax Community College in Warrenton April 26 to talk about his unique philosophy and methods of treating patients. Adams met with high school and college students considering the medical field. ance and dealing with patient health insurance, both of which, he says, drive up the cost of health care and take up a doctors’ time, filing forms instead of interacting with patients.

They kept the community hospital going for 12 years.

“We didn’t have one donation in 12 years. We had eliminated 90 percent of costs. We were living extremely poor lives,” Adams said. “It’s what we

wanted to do.”

“The number one reason people lose their homes is because of medical bills and it causes 70 percent of bankruptcies,” Adams maintained.

Patch said he spends four hours with a patient.

“I ask every question. I like to visit a patient in his home.”

Adams says medical schools should teach compassion. More attention spent on diet, exercise, love, hope and spirit “can alleviate a lot of suffering,” he said.

He wants to establish a medical teaching center and clinic within a communal village in West Virginia. It remains a work in progress. Patch said he’s heard from doctors interested in working there even though the pay would be just $300 per month.

In the meantime, he travels the world, making “clown trips” to cheer to hospital patients and others.

He’s visited 82 countries over the past 35 years. The first was a “love your enemy” trip to the then Soviet Union in 1982.

“The greatest thing in life is giving your love to another human being,” he said. “I’m trying to make loving more important than money.”

He had some advice for the students in the audience at Lord Fairfax.

Adams thinks “smartphones have made young people stupid.’”

“Where is the curiosity and engagement?” he asked them. “Do without it for a couple months and see if you are a different human being.”

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Middleburg Bank loses customers, workers after merger

By Leonard Shapiro Contributing Writer

Since merging with Reston-based Access National Bank in April 2017, the Middleburg Bank has lost at least 4,000 customers and 60 of its 200 employees at its13 branches, most located in Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William counties, according to Access Chief Executive Officer Michael Clarke.

Some customers say they left because they’ve been unhappy with the bank’s new policies and fees, shorter hours at drive-up windows and the elimination of Saturday hours.

Some employees say they departed because they became tired of dealing with complaints.

During merger talks with Access in December 2016, Gary Shook, president of the Middleburg Bank, said his 94-yearold institution’s longtime fox logo “will still be out there, and that’s not going to change. And everyone in the community wants to know someone at their local bank.

That won’t change Michael Clarke Access CEO either.”

These days, the white fox remains on the sign at the bank’s flagship branch, but Shook resigned last month to become president of the Luray-based Blue Ridge Bank.

Gary Shook Clarke conFormer president, firmed 4,000 forMiddleburg Bank mer customers have closed their accounts since the merger. Other sources said it may be as many as 6,000 from an original 42,000 base.

“Some of the discontent we’ve gotten is a result of policies that impact the mass-consumer market,” Clarke said. “We’re placing the emphasis on businesses and local organizations and the people who are affiliated with those organizations.

Our primary focus is in supporting the small and mid-sized businesses in the $1 million to $2 million range in revenue. That’s a market that is not well-served by the larger banks.”

And what about smaller depositors who keep fleeing?

“Our target market would be the average household income of Loudoun County, which is $125,000 [annually],” Clarke said, adding, “There are plenty of other choices [in Middleburg]. There are three other banks within a block from here.”

The bank had a rocky transition, according to Shook, who said in an interview he’d spent much of his days, prior to his resignation, trying to smooth ruffled feathers and worse. Shook had been Middleburg Bank’s president and/or CEO since 2008. He said he left for “an oppor-

Middleburg Bank has lost at least 4,000 customers and 60 of its 200 employees at its 13 branches since merging with Access National Bank in 2016, according to Access Chief Executive Officer Michael Clarke.

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tunity to be at a top level and use my skill set in community banking, as opposed to business banking. Access was more focused on commercial banking.”

“I think it was more a case of they didn’t know what they didn’t know about consumer banking, and we didn’t know that they didn’t know as much about consumer banking,” he said. “They didn’t come in here to blow up anything. But it did create more bumps than many people were willing to put up with.”

One longtime Middleburg resident who decided to remain said, “I think they really misread the culture.

People were used to it being a lot less rigid. They knew your name when you walked in. They’d cover your overdrafts. It just seemed friendlier.”

Several Middleburg branch employees also indicated staff morale is not good, mostly because of so much vitriol being expressed on an almost daily basis by unhappy customers.

Clarke prefers to accentuate the positive.

Access/Middleburg now has assets of $2.8 billion and is Virginia’s fifth largest bank with assets under $10 billion. Clarke said total assets grew by 11 percent in 2017 and customer deposits grew by 11 percent.

Was he concerned about the 4,000 (or possibly more) Middleburg Bank depositors who went elsewhere?

“No,” he said, “because we were losing money on many of those accounts.”

Charging $15 a month on checking accounts and the $1,500 minimum balance is in line with other industry charges, he said.

Eliminating Saturday banking was done “after we studied the behavior of the people using it. The activity Saturday was mostly not our customers. It was (third parties) with a check from the bank who just wanted to cash it.”

Clarke indicated Middleburg Bank remains committed to addressing the needs of local merchants and other organizations—church groups and charities, for example, including non-profits like the Middleburg-based Windy Hill Foundation

dedicated to increasing local affordable housing. He said the bank is more than willing to help them navigate tax credits and other cost-saving measures.

He also pointed to the bank offering financial education sessions for small-business owners with a series of symposiums called “Small Business Keys to Success.”

A Northern Virginia native who lives in Vienna, Clarke is well aware of the countless complaints, and admitted “it pains me when people say [Middleburg Bank] has been bought

by a big out-of-town bank that doesn’t care about the community.

The leadership of our company has deep roots here, and we care very much.”

“In terms of performance of the bank and being well-capitalized to serve the community for a long time, we’re in excellent condition,” he added. “Change is difficult. I understand that. The economy evolves.

The way people do business evolves, and we needed to adapt.”

Leonard Shapiro can be reached at badgerlen@aol.com.

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Fauquier Chamber salutes Fauquier’s first responders

By Anita L. Sherman Community Editor

The long drive leading to the Fauquier Springs Country Club was lined on both sides with American flags Thursday evening.

“They are stunning,” said Drew Pinilla whose wife Jacquelin is the events and programs coordinator for the Fauquier County Chamber of Commerce.

The patriotic theme continued inside the dining hall with red, white and blue tablecloths and paintings by fine artist and muralist John Kiernan of Blue Line Studios in Warrenton.

His artwork adorned each of the certificates given out that evening to 55 recipients.

Some 150 representing the county and town’s first responders filled the room. They were there as honorees, families and friends to celebrate the Fauquier Chamber’s Seventh Annual Valor Awards Ceremony.

The Liberty High School Army JROTC did the presentation of colors, while a vocal group from the Allegro Community School of the Arts sang the national anthem.

Fox 5 news anchor Will Thomas served as master of ceremonies.

Thomas was quick to note that those about to be recognized often don’t make the headlines, but they are the ones actually “saving lives” and he was honored to tell their stories.

Notably 97-year-old Dr. Rob-

PHOTO BY CIAO BELLA Valor Awards: The Fauquier Chamber 2018 Life Savings Award went to members of the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Department for their respective efforts in saving several lives. Pictured, left to right, are: Deputy Harner, Sergeant Moline, DFC Vanessa Breedlove, ECS II Kim Malloy, MDS Alex Armstrong, Deputy Nathan Smith, DFC Aaron Vescovi and ECS II Renee Settle. ert Iadeluca, who served in the U.S. Army 29th Infantry during World War II, was the first to be honored, not only for his military career but for his longstanding reputation in the community as a psychiatrist seeing

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“This may be one of the last opportunities that I will have to address this group,” said Iadeluca. “Thank you all for all of your support throughout the years.”

In the early morning hours one August morning in 2017, the Fauquier County 911 Center received an alert about an auto accident on Morgansburg Road near Savannah Branch. The car had left the roadway,

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struck a tree and the male driver had suffered a broken leg and his face was covered with blood. The car was quickly engulfed in flames. It took a team to save this young man.

Honored with the Fauquier Chamber Lifesaving Award was Firefighter John Gouldthorpe.

Receiving a meritorious unit award were Firefighter Gerald Moore, Firefighter Douglas Monteleone Jr. and Technician II Brendon Miller with Lois Rescue Engine 1113. Also receiving a meritorious unit award representing Medic 1114 were Senior Technician Andy Weeks, Technician II Anthony Crowder and Technician Zachary Flinn.

Honored for his 25-year career with the Town of Warrenton, Detective Sgt. Timothy Carter received the 2018 Chamber Meritorious Award for the Town of Warrenton for his work in closing a high volume of criminal cases, his integrity and his overall contributions to the Warrenton Police Department.

Sgt. Andrew Arnold was responsible for saving the life of a man in cardiac arrest in November 2017. By the time EMS personnel arrived, the man was breathing on his own and able to speak. Arnold’s actions reflected well on himself, the Warrenton Police Department and the community. Arnold received the 2018 Lifesaving Award for the Town of Warrenton It took a team of five policemen to calm a situation in July 2017 involving a belligerent and combative man, a gun, a vehicle and narcotics.

Receiving the 2018 Meritorious Unit Valor Award for the Town of Warrenton were Sgt. Arthur Leeper, Cpl. Carl Ferguson, Officer Ryan Gray, Officer Christopher Campbell and Officer Christopher Nixon.

A 1999 graduate of Liberty High School, Trooper Jesse Lewis of the Area 12 Office of the Virginia State Police took home the evening’s 2018 Chamber of Commerce Life Saving Award. Lewis had responded to a domestic situation in May 2017 only to be on hand when a vehicle crashed into a tree and started to burn, leaving two occupants screaming and trapped in the vehicle. Lewis was able to free them as the vehicle burned beyond identification. The occupants survived due to his quick response.

Fauquier County Sheriff’s Department Life Saving Awards went to DFC Aaron Vescovi for successfully administering naloxone to an unconscious man in October 2017; MDS Alex Armstrong, who administered naloxone to an unresponsive woman who had turned blue and was not breathing; DFC Vanessa Breedlove, who performed CPR on a resident who experienced cardiac arrest in January 2017; and Deputy Nathan Smith who extended the life of a cardiac victim in August 2017 along with assistance from Sgt. Moline and Deputy Harner.

911 calls are frequent. Those in the dispatch office are sometimes called to go beyond the call of duty. Such was the case with Emergency Communications Specialist II Renee Settle who also garnered a Life Saving Award for her calm communication that walked a caller through CPR in

January 2017 until medical personnel arrived. Similarly, Emergency Communications Specialist II Kim Malloy answered a call for a possible seizure in the same month. She provided CPR instructions to the caller. By the time the helicopter arrived, the patient was sitting up and able to speak.

The Fauquier County Chamber 2018 Meritorious Service Award went to Detective Jason Clark of the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Department, who came to the department in 2016 with nearly two decades of law enforcement experience. A K-9 handler, investigator and currently one of the department’s UAV pilots, Clark was praised for his upbeat and can-do attitude, his mentorship and his positive impact in the community as well as his collaborative work with other agencies.

In February of this year, a 10-yearboy went missing. He was found in the woods between Interstate 66 and Va. 55 as the temperatures started to turn cold and he was near hypothermia. The Chamber’s 2018 Meritorious Unit Award was presented to Sgt. Chad Brubaker, Cpl. Lance Davenport, Cpl. Lucas Jacobs, Master Deputy Jordan White, Master Deputy Wesley Frost, Master Deputy Chris Snyder and K-9 Katie and Sgt. Maj. Eddie Wines for their professionalism, dedication and collaboration during a crisis situation. Each performed their specific tasks without question.

Winter Storm Riley produced high, dangerous winds, plummeting temperatures and power outages. The county’s Communication Division was taxed for a period of several days in March of this year. Sheriff Bob Mosier was quick to point out that during that same period there was an armed barricade situation happening at the same time.

“They are to be highly praised for their work during this time,” said Mosier as a long list of honorees was announced.

The 2018 Meritorious Unit Award to the Fauquier Sheriff’s Office Communication Division: • Training Coordinator Allison Marshall

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Gold Cup makes Fauquier County shine If you’re new to Fauquier County, you might be just now finding out that Gold Cup is a big deal.

The race — in its 93rd run in its 96th year — is big, colorful feather in Fauquier County’s collective party hat, an event that surely puts us “on the map” in the Greater Washington and mid-Atlantic regions.

The race is known for its fancy hats, elaborate picnic spreads, colorful jockeys and gorgeous thoroughbreds, nearly 100 entered in eight races this Saturday, May 5.

But like most things in Fauquier County, the Gold Cup has humble roots. It began in 1922 as a day of country racing on a quiet farm west of Warrenton.

Now, of course, it’s much larger spectacle, with an afternoon of competition — on, and off, the racecourse, and prize money in excess of $425,000.

For those not part of the local equine culture or who have no previous spectator experience, the Gold OUR VIEW Cup can be intimidating.

It’s hard to make sense of all the traditions — the jockey jersey markings, the fancy picnics and the huge hats that seem central to the event.

That’s where we can help. Our special section, 2018 Virginia Gold Cup, contains all you need to know and more about the Gold Cup’s races and many traditions.

The 48-page guide is packed with information about races past and present. It includes a detailed schedule of the day’s events and primers on the top contenders. And just to make newbies feel at home, the guide explains racing vernacular, deciphers the colorful silks and includes everything you need to know about the beautiful Great Meadow venue and the handsome creatures who make the ground shake beneath our feet as they gallop and jump around the mile-long racecourse.

Another thing to know about the Gold Cup is that it’s part of a bigger business in Virginia.

The horse industry has an overall $1.2 billion impact on the state’s economy, according to the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.

The study measured buying and selling supplies, hotels and entertainment dollars, real estate transactions, construction, veterinarians, farriers and more.

More than 16,000 jobs are related to the Virginia horse industry, and horses rank as the state’s eighth-largest agricultural commodity. Cattle are first.

Nearly 1 million participants and spectators attend more than 1,000 horse events across the state each year.

The Virginia Gold Cup is the all-time leader, with more than 50,000 pressing into Great Meadow for the annual rite of spring.

We can credit Gold Cup not only for its economic boost but also for being the conduit through which lots of people find out about Fauquier and come to appreciate its many assets.

If you don’t yet know about the great Gold Cup tradition, now is a great opportunity to learn more and attend in person. Fauquier residents are eligible for discounted tickets, but you have to act soon. Parking passes at the 25-percent-off rate of $75 must be purchased and picked up from the Gold Cup office, 90 Main St. in Warrenton, by 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 4.

Remember: no tickets are sold at the gate on race day.

Mark your calendar for the fall meet, the International Gold Cup on Saturday, Oct. 27. Tickets go on sale in July.

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Fauquier’s towns poised to draw millennials Even as Fauquier bleeds the traditional retailers serving its 69,000 citizens, there are growing indications that the county will soon attract a population cohort —so-called “millennials” — that could bring new commercial and residential life to its towns.

U.S. Census Bureau data show that the much-touted “back to the city” movement spawned by the Great Recession has sputtered. Since 2012, the growth rate of urban cores has fallen by half, while exurban county growth has quadrupled.

Soaring housing and rental prices in Washington and its close-in suburbs are driving both older and younger residents out. Retirees are cashing out on their high-value urban and suburban homes to downsize in the far cheaper exurbs, while student debt-burdened 25-to-35-year-olds are finding that their scarce housing dollars go farther the further out they go.

Census Bureau data suggest that the (25-29) millennials are a quarter more likely to move out of, rather than into, the city, while older members of this cohort are more than twice as likely to do so.

What these data imply is that millenni-

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als are not so much averse to cars, subdivisions and shopping centers as they are fond of being within walking and biking distance of as many of their necessities and pleasures as possible.

The commercial opportunity for Fauquier’s towns in this demographic phenomenon is clear: Give the incoming millennials exurban versions of the amenities they enjoyed in the cities they are increasingly happy to abandon. Examples of this retail revolution already exist in Warrenton’s Wort Hog Brewery and Bike Stop, Marshall’s Whole Ox, and a growing variety of boutique bakeries and eateries in both towns.

These demographic data happily affirm the enduring prescience of Fauquier’s Comprehensive Plan, which directs future population growth into the service districts. They also indicate that Fauquier’s most promising residential and commercial development opportunities will be found in the county’s towns.

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FAUQUIER FLASHBACKS: FROM THE FAUQUIER TIMES 75 Years Ago May 6, 1943 Robert A. Pearson, a Fauquier boy who entered the Army under Selective Service in March 1941 and has won rapid advancement, was promoted to the rank of captain on April 15, less than a year after he graduated from Officer’s Training School at Camp Lee, Va., as a second lieutenant. Capt.

Pearson graduated from Warrenton High School. Before entering the Army, he was bookkeeper at the Warrenton Production Credit Association.

Cpl. William K. F. Grant and Cpl. William C. Robinson of Co. 111, V.P.F., left Sunday for a special military course at Ft. Meade, Md. On June 6, Sgt. James F. Austin and Sgt. Barrington E.B. Hall will go there for a week.

James Edward Fletcher, who was a member of the Warrenton Rifles before World War I, was enlisted this week.

50 Years Ago May 9, 1968 Vine Hill, one of Middleburg’s

Virginia Military Institute, Lexington. Mr. Wachtmeister presented $1,500 to VMI Superintendent Maj. Gen. George R. E. Shell to establish the fund.

25 Years Ago May 5, 1993

In anticipation of the celebration marking Fauquier County’s 200th anniversary on May 1-3, 1959, this large banner was stretched across the then two-lane Warrenton Bypass. oldest real estate properties, will shortly change owners and become the office of The Chronicle of the Horse and a sporting library.

George L. Ohrstrom has contracted to buy the property, including six acres and the old brick house located at the corner of Washington St. and The Plains Road. The seller was Oakton orthodontist Dr. Edwin R. Minetree.

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champion shown by Sue Rucker of Hill Crest Angus Farm, Delaplane, at the Fauquier Junior Fair and Sale at Marshall Tuesday. The 1,020lb. entry sold for a record 72 cents a pound for a total of $734.40.

Among those present at the sale was Mason Hitt, manager of the Warrenton Safeway.

Fredrik Wachtmeister of Warrenton has founded the Wachtmeister Rifle and Pistol Club fund at the

Catherine Woodward Tyssowski, owner of Cobbler Mountain Farms at Delaplane and last surviving child of Samuel Walter Woodward, the founder of the Woodward and Lothrop department stores, died at her home on May 4 at the age of 103.

Late last week, the board of the Fauquier Water and Sanitation Authority announced that C. D. “Dave” Binning has been selected as the new general manager of the Authority and will assume those duties on June 14.

Fourth graders at Highland School, under the guidance of teacher Emily Maxworthy, collected 100,000 pennies, which they converted into $500 donations to each the Fauquier Family Shelter and Head Start program.

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After 138 years, the bell still tolls

By John Toler

Associate Editor

It isn’t often that a relic from the 19th century survives into the 21st century. Even more unusual is that it has not been repurposed at some point.

Such is the case with the bell hanging in a stone arch in the garden above St. John the Evangelist Catholic School in Warrenton. Bearing the legend, “Henry McShane Co., Baltimore, Md. 1880,” it is a beloved reminder of the early days of the school, and of the two schools that preceded it.

The bell was originally acquired by the Bethel Military Academy, established at Bethel west of Warrenton in 1867 by Maj. Albert G. Smith (1834-1892). Beginning in 1880, cadets at BMA were called to assembly and class by the ringing of the bell, which was hung in the top of the recitation building.

Due to changes in the priorities of private and public education, BMA closed in 1911, but the bell was not idle for long.

Edwin B. King (1876-1950) opened the Stuyvesant School for boys on Winchester Street in 1912, in the pre-Civil War mansion on the site owned by his mother, Mrs. J. Francis King. A large frame classroom building was erected beside the mansion soon afterward.

It can be assumed that the bell was one of the assets acquired from BMA for the new school, which operated successfully until

TIMES STAFF PHOTOS/JOHN TOLER St. John School eighth-grade students Caleb Gay and Catherine Smith and seventh-grader Matthew Quarry enjoy a break in the school day above the garden where the school bell is hung. Right, cast in 1880, the bell has served three Warrenton schools.

Mr. King’s health began to fail.

In 1945, he leased the school to Clark C. Copp, Donald Williamson and Frank Limacher, with an option to buy it after the first year.

The classroom building burned in 1946, but the bell, which hung next to the structure, was spared.

A new, fireproof concrete structure was built on the foundation of the burned classrooms, and a new gymnasium added in 1949.

Despite outward appearances, Stuyvesant School was losing money, and when Copp died in 1953, his partners decided to close

it at the end of the school year.

The buildings were vacant for the next three years and were badly vandalized. Due to unpaid loans, foreclosure proceedings were started. The property sold at public auction in June 1957 to Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Stover of Woodstock.

The Stovers quickly found a new buyer: the Catholic Diocese of Richmond. St. John the Evangelist Catholic Parish had outgrown its 1860 church on Lee Street, and the congregation wanted to start a Catholic school in Warrenton.

By the end of 1958, Bishop John J. Russell of Richmond and the Rev. Robert E. O’Kane, parish priest, signed papers purchasing the property. Much work needed to be done, but the new St. John School — offering kindergarten through fourth grade and administered by nuns of the Benedictine order in Bristow — opened in September for the 1960-61 school year.

Classes and activities were held in the refurbished classroom building and the gymnasium. The old mansion was torn down in 1962, and the new church built in 1964-65. The school was later expanded to the eighth grade. In 1987, the present St. John School was built on property “down the hill.”

The old bell was moved to the arch above the garden, where it can be rung on special and not-sospecial occasions — sometimes by members of the third generation of children to attend St. John School.

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Future Puller Veterans Care Center wins $31M in federal funding

By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer

The federal government has come through with $31 million for the future Puller Veterans Care Center, decreasing the amount Virginia has to spend to build the skilled-care medical facility planned for Vint Hill.

In 2016, the Virginia General Assembly approved a total of $96 million for two new veterans care centers after failed attempts to win federal funding.

But on Thursday, April 26, Virginia’s two U.S. senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, both Democrats, announced $31 million in federal funding for the Vint Hill facility as well as $30 million for one in Virginia Beach. The awards are part of $685 million to be spent on renovating or repairing existing veterans centers or building new ones nationwide.

The Puller Center is expected to cost $50 million from design through construction, according to Steven J. Combs, deputy commissioner for the Virginia Department of Veterans Services.

The $31 million federal grant

COURTESY PHOTO The recent announcement of $31 million in federal funding for the future Puller Veterans Care Center, shown in this rendering, decreases Virginia’s burden to build the skilled-care medical facility planned for Vint Hill. means the commonwealth will spend $19 million on the project rather than $50 million.

“This is a great savings for the commonwealth,” Combs said.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs typically pays 65 percent of a project’s cost, leaving 35 percent for states to pay, Combs

explained. Virginia’s previous applications for funding never scored high enough in the evaluation to be accepted. After 10 years of previous failed attempts to secure funding, the Virginia General Assembly approved state funding in 2016.

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a difference in the latest federal awards, Combs said.

A ceremonial groundbreaking for the center was held at the Vint Hill site last October. The 128-bed facility will provide skilled nursing care and memory care to honorably discharged veterans who have some connection to Virginia.

It will take a couple years for the center to reach full occupancy. The veterans centers typically serve a population within a 50mile radius, Combs said.

Medicare, Medicaid, VA per diem allowance and private pay will cover operating expenses.

Some of the patients will come to the Puller facility for short-term rehabilitation or longer depending on their medical condition.

Each patient will have a private room.

The Vint Hill facility was named in honor of famed Marine Gen. Lewis “Chesty” Puller, his son and Marine veteran Lewis Jr., who lost his legs in combat in Vietnam, and Linda Puller, widow of Lewis Jr. and a former Virginia state senator.

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Author Suzi Weinert to visit Fauquier County Public Library Calendar: May 2 — May 8, 2018 Join Suzi Weinert, mystery writer and author of The Garage Sale Mystery series, at the next Sunday with the Library program, Unlikely But Exciting: The Writing and Film Adventures of Suzi Weinert. Weinert will discuss her Garage Sale Mystery series from early inspiration to its adaptation as the popular Hallmark movie and beyond.

“Everything bought at a garage sale comes with a story,” notes Weinert, who will share several of her favorite garage sale purchases that inspired her writings during the program.

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was first published in 2013, when the author was 75 years old. It has been adapted into a Hallmark TV movie and launched the popular Hallmark Channel Garage Sale Mystery movie series. Weinert lives with her husband, a retired Army officer, in Northern Virginia. Copies of her books will be available for purchase following the program.

This is a free program; no reservation required.

Sunday with the Library is part of a monthly series sponsored by the Friends of the Fauquier Library.

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Half Pints story time 10:30 — 11 a.m. (B) Toddler story time 10:30 — 11:15 A.M. (W) Paws to Read 4 — 5 p.m. (JM) Homework Help for school-age children 5 — 7 p.m. (B) English as a Second Language Class 6 — 8 p.m. (W) and 6:30 — 8 p.m. (JM)

Thursday, May 3

Preschool story time 10:30 — 11 a.m. (W) (B) Adult Writing Group 1 — 3 p.m. (W) GED classes 5:30 — 8 p.m. (B) *

Friday, May 4

Book Cellar open 10 a.m. — 5 p.m. (JBP) Preschool story time 10:30 — 11 a.m. (JM)

Saturday, May 5

Book Cellar open 10 a.m. — 5 p.m. (JBP) Children’s Book Week Celebration/Story Time 10:30 — 11:30 a.m. (W)

Sunday, May 6

Sunday with the Library: The Writing and Film Adventures of Mystery Author Suzi Weinert 2 — 4 p.m. (JBP)

Monday, May 7

Baby Steps 10:30 — 11 a.m. (W) Scrabble for Adults 6 — 8 p.m. (JM) Great Books Discussion Group 7 — 8:30 p.m. (W)

Tuesday, May 8

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Half Pints story time 10:30 — 11 a.m. (W) Books ‘N Stitchers 1- 3 p.m. (JM) Teen Advisory Group (TAG) meeting 4 — 5 p.m. (B) Homework Help for school-age children 5 — 7 p.m. (B) 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 St., 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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OBITUARIES Richard D. Robson Richard Douglas Robson, 80 of Rixeyville, VA passed away on April 29, 2018 at Fauquier Health and Rehabilitation Center.

He was born on January 25, 1938 at Rixeyville, VA a son of the late Charles Harmon Robson and Ethel Jasper Robson. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Charles Harmon Robson, II. Dickie retired from the Virginia Department of Transportation after 30 years of service. He served in active duty with the U. S. Army and then served 30 years in the U. S. Army Reserves. Active in his community of Jeffersonton, he was a lifetime member of Jeffersonton Baptist Church serving as a Deacon, Choir Director, Youth Director and Cemetery Director. He was also a lifetime member of the Jefferson Ruritan Club and former president of the Jeffersonton Community Center. He was honored to be named a “Culpeper Colonel” an honorary title bestowed upon Culpeper County residents recognized for their tireless community service. His volunteer service included 17 years at the Cardiac Rehabilitation Center at Fauquier Hospital.

He is survived by his wife, Thelma McConchie Robson; two children, Martha Love Jenkins and her husband Gabriel of Brandy Station, VA and Doug Robson, Rixeyville; his brother, Mort Robson and wife Audrey of Rixeyville; four grandchildren, Samantha Duda and husband Michael, Jeremy Robson, Nolan Jenkins and Becca Jenkins; and two great grandchildren, Rayna Jenkins and Jacob Duda.

The family received friends on Tuesday, May 1 from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM at Jeffersonton Baptist Church, 18498 Springs Road, Jeffersonton, VA where funeral services will be held on Wednesday, May 2 at 2:00 PM. Pastor Dennis Smith will officiate. Interment will follow at the church cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Heartland Hospice, 400 Holiday Court, Warrenton, VA 20186 or or to Jeffersonton Baptist Church Fellowship Hall Fund.

Online condolences may be made at www.moserfuneralhome.com.

Sheryl Gaye Desper Mrs. Sheryl Gaye Desper (born Campbell), of Marshall, VA, passed to the other side of the veil on Sunday, April 22, 2018 at the age of 63 after an extended and courageous battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and complications from chemotherapy.

Sheryl was born to parents Paul Lowren Campbell and Sylvia Marie Cubbage on September 7, 1954 in Luray, VA. She grew up as the eldest of three children and graduated from high school in Seat Pleasant, MD. She married her neighborhood sweetheart on April 18, 1973 (45 years), and together they raised two children. Sheryl went to work after her children started school and she enjoyed working in customer service. She retired for medical reasons in 2004 from Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative in Manassas, VA. Sheryl had a beautiful smile and it was easy to have a conversation with her. Along with her tenacity, she was best known for her love and dedication to her family. She attended to the needs of her family, both immediate and extended, with motherly love. She was the one family turned to and counted on when in need. Her family often sought her opinions and knowledge and if she did not know it, she would look it up and read about it. Her family teased her about being a self taught doctor because of all the reading she did for her own numerous medical problems. Sheryl loved her pets and considered them part of the family.

Her favorite breed of dog was the rottweiler.

Sheryl is survived by her husband, Audie “Gary” Wayne Desper; her son, Gary Wayne Desper (Chantal Muncey Desper) of Westminster, MD; her daughter, Lisa Marie Evans (Mark Evans) of Culpeper, VA; her granddaughters, Sylvia Desper, Jocelyn Desper and Caroline Desper; her grandsons, Garrison Kent Desper and Charles Evans; her brother, Darrell Keith Campbell (Rhonda Campbell) of Luray, VA; her sister, Cynthia “Cindy” Dawn Rice (Mark Rice) of Virginia Beach, VA; five nieces and four nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents.

A memorial service to celebrate Sheryl’s life will be held on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at Noon at Leake’s Chapel Church of the Brethren located at 2334 Honeyville Road, Stanley, VA 22851.

Attendees are requested to wear something purple as that was Sheryl’s favorite color. Family and friends will gather for a meal in the church hall immediately following the service.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Sheryl’s name to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (www.lls.org), or the Humane Society where you live.

Condolences may be sent to the family care of 43 North Court Street, Westminster, MD 21157. Sheryl’s cremains will be inurned at a later date in private in Shutterle Community Cemetery, Luck Stone Road, Churchville, VA.

Susan Nieto Susan Nieto, age 62, passed away peacefully on April 19, 2018 at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton Va. She was born September 2, 1955 in Bethlehem Pennsylvania, moved to Houston, Texas, where she met and married her husband of 39 years, Al Nieto.

Sue was Librarian Assistant at Bull Run Elementary in Fairfax County, VA. She loved working with children and her school coworkers. She moved to Warrenton, VA in 2001.

Susan is survived by her husband, son Adam Nieto, mother Florence Brosky, sister Jill Robey and brother Jeff Brosky.

A Celebration of Sue’s life was held on Friday, April 27 at Airlie Center in Warrenton, VA

Lois Thelma Rider Parsons Lois Thelma Rider Parsons, 82, of Warrenton died Sunday April 29,2018 at Fauquier Hospital. She was born May 23, 1935 in Amissville to the late Robert L. and Ruth Dodson Rider.

She is survived by four sons Steve Parsons Jr. of Blue Ridge Summit , Pa; R.C. Parsons of Warrenton; Tommy Parsons and his wife Lena of Castleton; and Mark Parsons and his wife Sandra of Amissville; three daughters Brenda Cressell and her husband Lou of Culpeper; Marjorie Campbell and her husband Bruce of Greencastle, Pa; and Cindy Padgett and her husband Tom of Amissville. In addition she is survived by eleven grandchildren, thirteen great grandchildren and one great grandchild, four brothers and two sisters. She was preceded in death by one brother and four sisters.

A Funeral Service will be held Thursday May 3,2018 at 2pm at Moser Funeral Home, 233 Broadview Avenue, Warrenton, VA. Burial will be at Warrenton Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.

An online guestbook and tribute wall are available at moserfuneralhome.com

Harold Gene Putt Harold Gene Putt, 70, of Warrenton, Va., passed away March 31st at Hospice of the Piedmont in Charlottesville, Va., after complications from esophageal cancer.

Harold was born in East Liverpool, Ohio on January 26, 1948.

His life’s love and work was the game of golf beginning in high school with many trophies. He began his professional golf career as assistant pro in Wisconsin then at Bethesda Country Club in Maryland. Harold was an excellent golfer and earned popularity and notoriety in the golf industry. He taught golf lessons to renowned people, including former president, Gerald Ford. He successfully took part in innumerable golf tournaments and his career naturally expanded into golf sales with the FootJoy Titleist Co., where he was employed close to 30 years. He settled and lived in Richmond, Va., traveling extensively up and down the east coast, earning top FootJoy Salesman year after year. He was well-known in the golf business and well-respected due to his great playing ability. He was a member of the PGA. His personal highlight was a hole-in-one at the island green at TPC Sawgrass in Florida, and shot under-par (including another hole-in-one) on his last round of golf in 2013.

Harold was vibrant, full of laughter, the life of the party, and an amazing piano player, often being asked in social settings to play songs like “Boogie Woogie.”

His long list of friendships were the core of his being, but he maintained his true foursome for over 60 years, namely “The Ohio Boys.”

They routinely played golf together and maintained a pure, lifelong friendship. Harold’s career was completed the last decade, where he lived as sales agent for Weichert Realtors in Warrenton, Va. He is survived by his three children, Heidi, Shannon, and Jason from his marriage to Pamela LeMasters; his two siblings, MaryJane Tickner and Bob Putt of Texas; ten grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

The family would like to thank all the medical staff who helped care for Harold along his journey, including Livin-Rite, Culpeper Medical, Brookside at Warrenton, UVA Vascular ICU and Hospice of the Piedmont. In lieu of flowers, please donate in Harold’s memory to the firsttee.org.

Please visit www.legacy.com for his memorial page and plans for his Pub Memorial.

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OBITUARIES Gregory L. Shamblin

Alton R. Whitehurst Jr.

Gregory Lee Shamblin of Marshall, VA die on April 24, 2018 at Fauquier Hospital.

He was born on June 10, 1975 in Loudoun County, VA to the late Gus and Judy Shamblin. Greg was a former member of The Plains Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company.

He is survived by his longtime partner, Betty Furr of Marshall, his daughter Abby Shamblin of Marshall and his stepson, Logan Bourne of Warrenton. He is also survived by his siblings, David Shamblin of Upperville, John (Lori) Shamblin of The Plains, Brenda (Fred) Wines of Marshall, James (Dawn) Shamblin of Front Royal and Tom (Alicia) Shamblin of Linden, VA. The family received friends on Saturday, April 28, 2018 from 1pm until the time of a funeral service at 2pm at Moser Funeral Home, Warrenton, VA. Interment followed at Ivy Hill Cemetery, Upperville, VA. Memorial contributions may be made to Moser Funeral Home to help the family with Abby´s education.

Online condolences may be made to www.moserfuneralhome.com.

Alton R. Whitehurst Jr., 32, of Sumerduck passed away Saturday, April 21, 2018.

Mr. Whitehurst was born in Culpeper and resided in Sumerduck for many years.

Survivors include his parents, Alton R. Whitehurst Sr. and Helen Whitehurst; special companion Nicole Saylor; brother Lonnie Newhouse; aunts Nora Ramsey, Sharon Kuba, Faye Taylor, Virginia Whitehurst and Dorothy Roberson; uncles Fred Seagrove, and George Liset; and numerous cousins.

A service was held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 26 at Covenant Funeral Home Chapel, Fredericksburg, VA. The family also received friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Interment followed at Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Online guestbook at covenantfuneralservice.com.

Edward Carl Axel Wachtmeister Edward Carl Axel Wachtmeister died on April 26, 2018. He passed away as a result of Inclusion Body Myositis and pneumonia, at home, in the presence of family.

Teddy was born on May 21, 1947 in Washington, DC to parents Frederik H. C. Wachtmeister and Anne Marie Von Krusenstierna Lawrence, who preceded him in death. He was raised in Warrenton, VA and attended Highland School, before leaving home to attend the Harvey School, the Salisbury School, and the Virginia Military Institute, where he earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering. After graduation, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1971, earning the rank of Second Lieutenant. He served as a pilot supporting the Military Airlift Command, including being stationed at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he met his wife of 42 years, Karen Weir Wachtmeister. Following his service, Teddy returned to Warrenton as a hands on owner/ operator of Whitehall Farm, raising beef cattle, from 1975 to present.

He was a strong advocate of educational institutions, especially of Highland School (trustee), Salisbury School (trustee), Virginia Military Institute, St. Lawrence University, and Texas Christian University. He was an active member of the VMI Foundation (trustee) and VMI Keydet Club (trustee). He was a life founding member of Great Meadow Foundation, and longtime local bank director. As a conservation advocate, he placed Whitehall Farm in a conservation easement with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. His devotion to Fauquier County as well as the organizations that contribute to it were lifelong. He supported the Warrenton Volunteer Rescue Squad, the New Baltimore Fire and Rescue Company, the Piedmont Environmental Council, the Fauquier Hospital, the Fauquier Free Clinic, SPCA, the Fauquier County Public Library, the Fauquier Education Farm, the Path Foundation, and many other local organizations.

Teddy enjoyed the art of speed, whether that was piloting aircraft, downhill skiing, driving sports cars but especially Ferraris, and later, even wheelchairs. Despite his 15 year struggle with IBM, Teddy was able to spend much of the last 20 years pursuing his love of Colorado and passion for skiing, supporting and skiing with the Challenge Aspen adaptive ski program. His big personality cannot be forgotten, but he will be remembered by all who loved him as a generous and devoted friend, father, husband, and grandfather. His positive impact on the community he loved, and the people he loved, will be felt for years to come.

He is survived by his wife, Karen Weir Wachtmeister; sons, Erik Wachtmeister and his wife Christie Wachtmeister of Warrenton, Carl Wachtmeister of Warrenton; sisters, Linda Wachtmeister and her husband Robert Strini of Scottsville, Virginia, Marianne Adair of London, England; brother, Hans Wachtmeister and his wife Anne Marie Wachtmeister of Warrenton; granddaughters, Elina Wachtmeister, Sylvie Wachtmeister, and Anna Wachtmeister; as well as many nieces and nephews.

The family extends their sincere gratitude to everyone who cared for and loved Ted, especially: Norma Breeden; the employees of Whitehall Farm: Michael Holloran, David Simpkins, Samuel Butler, Calvin Cook; Brett Heverly; the dedicated care providers from Cleansing Waters and Home Instead.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to Highland School, to Salisbury School (Salisbury, CT), or to the Virginia Military Institute.

A visitation will be held from 6-8 PM, Friday, May 4, 2018 at Moser Funeral Home. A private memorial service celebrating his life is to be held at a later date.

Robert L. Kettelkamp Robert L. Kettelkamp, age 75, passed peacefully at his home in Warrenton, Virginia on Saturday, April 28th, 2018. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August, 9th, 1942, son of the late Frank & Dorothy Kettelkamp.

After graduating high school, Robert earned his Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering in 1965 from the Missouri University of Science & Technology, (AKA: Missouri School of Mines & Metalurgy & University of Missouri in Rolla, Missouri). He then went on to earn his Master of Science Electrical Engineering in 1966 from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Robert began a forty-six year career as an electrical engineer in June, 1966 to June, 1993 with IBM Corp., June 1993 to September 2002 with Lockheed Martin, and September 2002 until his retirement in December of 2012 from General Dynamics-AIS. Robert is survived by his wife of 27 years, Barbara A. Kettelkamp; two siblings, Frances Ann Kettelkamp and James Edward Kettelkamp, both of St. Louis, Missouri; two children, Mark & Robin Kettelkamp; two stepsons, Brad & Craig Watkins; and five grandchildren, Haley & Hunter Steward and Clay, Ellis & Brendan Watkins.

The family will accept visitors at Moser Funeral Home, 233 Broadview Ave., Warrenton, VA from 1 until 2 pm on Monday, May 7th, 2018. A funeral service will be held at 2 pm, followed by interment at Little Georgetown cemetery in Broad Run, Virginia.

Online condolences may be made at www.moserfuneralhome.com.

Robert Conway Rodgers Robert Conway Rodgers went to be with our Lord and Savior on April 11, 2018, in Charlottesville, VA, after a long illness. He was born on March 28, 1931, in Hampton Sydney, VA. He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert and Ruth Rodgers and one brother, John, of Hampton Sydney, VA. He was known as Bob, Dad, Grandpa and Bobby. He is survived by his wife, Judy, of 34 years; one daughter, Diane Molnar and her husband, Chuck, of Santa Cruz, CA, and three sons – Christopher Carter and his wife Marty of Reva, VA; Timothy Carter and his wife Dawn of Lanham, MD; and George Oberst and his wife Nicolette of Mount Shasta, CA. He also leaves behind nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. He is survived by two siblings, Jean Garrison and her husband James of Appomattox, VA, and William Rodgers and his wife, Rose of Gladys, VA, as well as three nieces and two nephews and their families and several cousins.

Bob served in the US Air Force 1951 – 1954. He often happily reflected on those years. Upon graduating from DeVry Technical Institute in 1956, he accepted a position with Petersburg TV Corporation(WXEX-TV) as a TV Tech. In 1958 he moved to the Times World Corporation (WDBJ-TV).

In 1964 he accepted a position with the US Government where he worked as a television producer/writer for the remainder of his career retiring in 1992 after 28 years of service. While working for the US government, he was recognized many times for his outstanding service, receiving the prestigious Meritorious Service Award in May 1990.

Bob’s life centered around his faith and his love for his family. First in his life was his commitment to our Lord. He loved visiting with family members and hearing about their lives. He enjoyed music, remembering the “old” days and anything associated with aviation or amateur ham radio. He was a loyal UVA football and basketball fan – supporting them win or lose. While he always wanted them to win, he was very compassionate toward the players and coaches when they lost. A quiet man, he always found the best in every person and situation.

We will celebrate Bob’s life and walk with the Lord at a memorial service on May 12, 2018, 12:00 noon at Buck Mountain Episcopal Church, 1153 Earlysville Road, Earlysville, VA. Memorial contributions can be made to Buck Mountain Episcopal Church or the Salvation Army.

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The Rev. Lemuel Montgomery celebrates anniversary

Everyone is invited to worship with Mount Moriah, 64 Hackley Mill Road in Amissville, on Sunday, May 6, to celebrate an anniversary for Pastor Lemuel Montgomery who will be preaching at the 11 a.m. service. Lunch will be served from 1:15 — 2:30 p.m. The Rev. Jerome Gibson, the choir and congregation from Rising Zion Baptist Church in Jeffersonton will be the 3 p.m. guest preacher. Contact the Rev. Montgomery at 540-347-1209

Choral Evensong at Leeds Episcopal

To continue our celebration of Easter, Leeds Episcopal Church, 4332 Leeds Manor Road in Markham, will offer a choral evensong worship service on Sunday, May 13, at 5 p.m.

This beautiful service will include specially prepared organ pieces and choral anthems.

Following the service, there will be a wine and cheese reception in the parish hall. Contact 540-364-2849.

Trinity Baptist Church celebrates 44 years of ministry

Sunday, May 6, will mark 44 years in the life and ministry of Trinity Baptist Church in Warrenton. The day has been designated as “Round-Up Sunday,” with an emphasis on rounding up everyone to join in the celebration. Following the morning service there will be a “chili cook-off” lunch for everyone. Dr. David C. Gibbs Jr. of Mason, Ohio, will be the guest preacher for all services including Sunday school at 9:45 a.m., morning worship at 11a.m. and the evening service at 6:30 p.m.

In addition to his preaching ministry, Gibbs is founder and president of the Christian Law Association, a nationwide ministry of legal help dedicated to the defense of Christian liberty in America. Recognized as one of the leading constitutional lawyers in the United States, Gibbs has appealed and argued in 15 different state supreme courts. As perhaps America’s first “legal missionary,” he not only defends

Fauquier Times | www.fauquier.com | May 2, 2018 churches and Christians in the courtroom, but also exhorts Christians from the pulpit to stand for Jesus in America. Nurseries will be provided for all children through age 3. Bus transportation is available in many surrounding areas for the Sunday morning services. Call 540-347-7640 or go online to www.tbcwarrenton.org for information. Pastor Williams and the church family extend an invitation to everyone to join them in celebrating this special occasion. Trinity is located at 8803 James Madison Highway, two miles south of Warrenton on U.S. 29.

Bethel Baptist Church celebrates 148th anniversary

Deacon Ben Williams and the community is invited to celebrate the 148th anniversary of Bethel Baptist Church, 705 View Town Road in Amissville, on Sunday, May 20. The Rev. Loretta Strothers, senior associate minister at Swift Ford Baptist Church in Madison, is the guest preacher at the 11 a.m. service. The Rev. Walter Bryant, pastor at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Tanners, is the guest preacher at the 3 p.m. service.

Contact Jennifer Gray at 540-522-6942 or call 540-937-5012.

Beulah Baptist celebrates its Annual Day

The Missionary Ministry of Beulah Baptist Church, 3124 Beulah Road, in Markham will celebrate its Annual Day on Sunday, May 6, at 3 p.m. The Rev. Ronald Chunn, First Baptist Church, Nelsonville, Ohio, will bring the message.

The Gospel Dynamics from Herndon will provide the music. Lunch will be served. On Sunday, May 20, the church will celebrate its Annual Rally Day at 3 p.m. The Rev. Henry Hall, associate pastor of First Springs, Warrenton, choir and congregation will be their guests. Lunch served. All welcome.

Contact 540-364-2626.

Annual indoor yard sale at Cool Spring

Cool Spring United Methodist Church, 3322 Cobbler Mountain Road in Delaplane, hosts its annual indoor yard sale, Friday-Saturday, May 4-5, from 8 a.m. — 2 p.m. Huge collection of merchandise including collectibles, glassware, kitchen items, clothing, two sets of china, numerous pictures, prints and frames all at bargain prices. Contact 540-364-9773.

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IN THE FINAL HOURS Those of us who choose to stay by the sides of those who are dying should be alert for signs that death is approaching. In the weeks and days leading up to death, terminally ill patients are likely to sleep more, eat less, lose strength, become less social, become more confused, experience more pain, and exhibit dropping body temperature and other changes in their vital signs. During the final hours, it will become increasingly more evident that their heart rate will decrease, as their heart and other organs begin to shut down. At this time, it is important that the dying be made to feel as comfortable as possible. Conversation should be kept up until the last possible moment.

It’s important to take the time to acknowledge the uniqueness of the deceased. Not just for them, but for you.

It affirms the relationship and leads to healing after loss. Honoring a life is truly an act of love, for the both of you.

To learn more, please call MOSER FUNERAL HOME at (540) 347-3431.

Please tour our facility, conveniently located at 233 Broadview Ave., Warrenton. We’ll also tell you about our BRIGHT VIEW CEMETERY, just outside of Warrenton.

“Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.” ~David Searls

Private offers received until 10:00 a.m. on May 9, 2018 PUBLIC AUCTION: Friday, May 11, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. @ Fauquier Circuit Court, 40 Culpeper Street, Warrenton, Virginia For details see www.fauquiercounty.gov/taxsale, see the Legal Notices Section, or contact M.C. Anderson at 540-422-8010 or mc.anderson@fauquiercounty.gov

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St. Luke’s hosts sale

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 400 N. Church St. in Remington, hosts a rummage, bake, plant and craft sale on Saturday, May 5, from 8 a.m.

— 4 p.m. Proceeds will help children attend church camp this summer. Contact 540-4393733.

Free concert at Faith Christian Church

Join Minister Andre Marshall and Faith Christian Church on Saturday, May 19, at 6 p.m. (doors open at 5 p.m.) as they host Christian D. Davis and J.S.Y. Praise’s Victory Concert. This concert is free and open to the public and will feature Disquan Julius and The Clifton Boyz. The event will be held at Faith Christian Church and International Outreach Center, 6472 Duhollow Road in Warrenton.where Dr. Decker H. Tapscott Sr. is the pastor. Contact 540-349-0178.

Fish fry at Amissville United Methodist Church

Amissville United Methodist Men will host a fish fry, Saturday, May 5, from 5-7 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the church, 14760 Lee Highway, Amissville. Music will be provided by Cobbler Mountain Grass. Donations welcome and all proceeds are used in service to others.

Contact Reg at 540-987-9001.

Warrenton Chamber Singers performs at Our Saviour Lutheran Church

On Sunday, May 6, at 4 p.m., the Warrenton Chamber Singers, an ensemble of the Warrenton Chorale, will be onsite at Our Saviour Lutheran Church, 6194 Dumfries Road, to share their talents. All proceeds from this free-will-donation concert will support 10 OSLC youth members who are attending the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America National Youth Gathering from June 27—July 1 in Houston, Texas.

Following the concert, a reception will be held in the fellowship hall. To reserve your spot at the concert, visit eventbrite.com and search “Warrenton Chamber Singers at Our Saviour Lutheran.”

If you cannot attend, but are interested in donating, visit oslc-warrenton.org/donate and select “Youth Trip” from the drop-down list, or contact the church office at 540-347-3324. To learn more, contact Nancy Griffin-Bonnaire at ngeebee@hotmail.com.

St. Patrick Youth Group hosts chili cook-off

Come taste more than five different kinds of chillies and pies and vote for your favorite on Saturday, May 12, from noon — 4 p.m. Hosted

by St. Patrick Youth Group, there will be a petting zoo, facepainting, kids’ crafts, a silent auction with all kinds of amazing items and more. All proceeds benefit sending a group of youth on a mission trip to Project Mexico this summer.

Admission: $17/adults, $10/kids. 6580 Balls Mill Road in Bealeton. Contact Mary Ballinger at 540878-8339 or mballin2@gmail.com

Community Outreach Fair and ribbon cutting for new playground

Hearts Delight Baptist Church, 11229 Brent Town Road in Catlett, is hosting its second Com-

munity Outreach Fair on Saturday, May 19, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will also be a ribbon cutting for the grand opening of the church’s new community playground. Event features local choirs and other performances including special guest Pastor William Becton, Stellar Award winner for the hit single “Be Encouraged.” For those who love football, Ken Harvey of the Washington Redskins, will be in attendance. If there is someone in need of prayer and/or spiritual counseling, clergy and church leaders will be there to pray with them. Rain date is Saturday, June 2. Contact 540-788-9234 or heartsdelightbaptistchurch@ email.com.

First Asheville celebrates an anniversary

First Ashville Baptist Church, 4218 Ashville Road in Marshall, will celebrate the church’s 144th anniversary and the 35th anniversary of its pastor, the Rev. William Swann. On May 3, join the Rev. Samuel Smith from Little Zion in Bethel.

Services at 7:30 p.m. On May 6, morning worship at 11 a.m. is with Pastor Swann. The 3 p.m. service is with the Rev. Matthew Pearson from Warner Baptist in Bailey’s Crossroads. Dinner will be served. All are welcome. Contact Dorothy Swann at 540-364-1638

National Day of Prayer observed

On Thursday, May 3, at noon at the John Barton Payne Building and at 6 p.m. at Eva Walker Park, the Fauquier National Day of Prayer Task Force will host gatherings to observe the National Day of Prayer. Join to unite together to pray and worship the Lord. In addition to the prayer times by local leaders, the 6 p.m. gathering will feature music by Minister Andre Marshall and worship team along with the students of Fresta Valley Christian School. Contact Faith Christian Church at 540-349-0178.

Walnut Grove Baptist Church Mid-Day Bible Study

Walnut Grove Baptist Church, 8909 Meetze Road, Warrenton, “Seniors with a Purpose” cordially invites the public to its Mid-Day Bible Study, every Thursday from noon-1 p.m. Open to all. Study will focus on the book “Great Characters of the Bible” by Dr. Alan B. Stringfellow.

Contact Louise Gauthier at 571-217-8987.

Learn more about Christian faith

Hume Baptist Church, 4648 Leeds Manor Road, will host five evenings on Foundations of Christianity, starting April 2 and ending April 30, from 6-7 p.m. Topics are: Session 1: Who is God? What is the Trinity? Session 2: A walk through church history, Session 3: What is salvation? Why do we need it? What are we saved from?, Session 4: What will happen in the end times? God’s promise of the future and, Session 5: Recap of what we have learned. All are welcome. Contact Marie Browning at 540-364-1778.

Grace Episcopal Church hosts community lunch

All are invited to attend the community lunches of 2018 held at Grace Episcopal Church located at 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 May 26, June 23, July 28, Aug. 25, Sept. 22, Oct. 27, Nov. 22 (Thanksgiving) and Dec. 15. Contact Sue Smith at sue@paulandsuesmith.net or 540-270-0410.

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Hearts Delight marks 150th anniversary with community fair

By Anita Sherman Community Editor

Church to unveil new playground at community fair

splits his time between his job at Hearts Delight Baptist Church the Department of Veterans Afhas a pastor who is high-energy, fairs, where he has spent the last positive and very excited about the 20 years, and his ministry at Hearts church’s upcoming community fair Delight. taking place on Saturday, May 19.

Green is a graduate of South Pastor Tyrone Green has assem- Carolina State University, where bled an all-star cast of inspirational he studied marketing. His theguests, including Stellar Award ology studies have been at Lanwinner Pastor William Kingdom; caster Bible College, where he is former Washington Redskins working on a degree in biblical player Ken Harvey; Virginia Del. studies.

Elizabeth Guzman, D-31st; and “I love outreach and spreadsyndicated radio host ing the gospel of Jesus PASTOR Tracy Morgan. Round that Christ. I believe the body PROFILE out with music from local of Christ is one and pracchoirs, a farmers market, tice bringing Christians food and family-friendly activities, together,” said Green, who spearand it promises to be a wonderful headed a collaborative project and God-filled happening. with two other churches to create Thanks to the PATH Foundation, the Hope Emergency Warming there will be a ribbon cutting for Center, a first of its kind in Fauthe “Little Hearts” Community quier County.

Playground, which will debut in Green was recently awarded the conjunction with the fair.

2018 Martin Luther King Award in Green has called Fauquier Religion.

County home for 12 years. Before It’s hard not to feel happy and taking the helm as spiritual leader enthusiastic after you’ve had a at Hearts Delight Baptist Church, conversation with Green. He gladly he served at Oak Shade Baptist shares that he is happily married Church as deacon, director of and blessed with three lovely chilyouth ministry and youth pastor. dren, Teddy, 27, Andrea, 21, and Hearts Delight is celebrating its Brandon, 19.

150th anniversary.

Asked about his favorite bibli“We are celebrating all year with cal scripture, Green finds the first projects and activities to share the three verses of Psalm 27 to have a love of Christ,” says Green, who powerful message:

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To learn more about the upcoming community fair, visit www. heartsdelightbaptist.com or phone 540-788-9234.

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Sports

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EAGLES GO 2-FOR-2

Noelle Crane and the Liberty girls soccer team defeated Fauquier for the second time this year. Page 26 PHOTO BY RANDY LITZINGER

ONE HECK OF A GAME PHOTO BY RANDY LITZINGER

Jimmy Dooly and the Cougars blew a 9-5 lead against Fauquier, but rallied to win 10-9 in overtime.

Begley’s goal lifts Kettle Run past Fauquier 10-9 in overtime

By Jeff Malmgren Times Staff Writer

With less than three minutes remaining in overtime Monday, senior Matt Begley approached one of his Kettle Run teammates.

His Cougars were in danger of losing to the Fauquier Falcons for the sixth time during his fouryear boys lacrosse career, so Begley had a specific message for Jimmy Dooly, a fellow attackman.

I’ve lost to them too many times. I’m not losing to them this time.

“Next thing you know, Matt gets the overtime shot to win,” Dooly said later.

With less than 13 seconds remaining, Begley charged from behind the left side of Fauquier’s goal, dodged one defender and bounced a shot past the Falcons’ stalwart goalie to give Kettle Run a 10-9 victory at home in Nokesville.

“Feels real good,” Begley said. “So much sweeter because of the team rivalry.”

The all-time series is tied at 10-10, but Kettle Run (7-2) entered Monday having won only one of its past 10 games against the Falcons with a 1-5 run during Begley’s career. Fauquier (6-3) beat the Cougars twice last season, outscoring them 26-11, so even Dooly, a sophomore, could appreciate Kettle Run’s victory this spring.

“Since it’s only my second year, I think this was my favorite game to play in,” he said. “That was crazy.”

Especially because Fauquier forced overtime by rallying from a 9-5 deficit with four unanswered goals during the final seven minutes of the fourth quarter. So the Falcons entered overtime with seemingly every ounce of momentum, but Kettle Run still managed to win by limiting Fauquier to only one shot with three turnovers during the extra four-minute period.

“We did a good job of keeping our heads up,” Begley said of weathering the Falcons’ run.

And nobody showed more resilience than Begley, according to Kettle Run coach Blake Smith.

“He made a bad play in the third or fourth quarter, and he could have gotten down on himself,” Smith said. “It was huge on his part to finish the game with a statement goal. … We’ve been working on being relentless.”

While that focus may have aided the Cougars, fate may have helped too. Begley made a promise to Kettle Run’s head athletic trainer, Natalie Swick-Campbell, that he would score two goals Monday.

“She said, ‘I need one goal from you,’” Begley said of the conversation. “I was like, ‘One goal?

That’s it?’

“She’s like, ‘Alright, two,’” he said. “So I told her I would get her two.”

Begley scored only one goal during the 48 minutes of regulation, but overtime gave him the opportunity to fulfill his promise. He also finished with one assist, while Dooly scored a game-high

“You just talk back-and-forth on the field and then you just realize how much you want it in the fourth quarter.”

– JIMMY DOOLY Kettle Run attackman

four goals and Ashton Short had two. Braedan Allen added three assists and one goal.

So the Cougars improved their record to 2-1 in Class 4 Region B play while dropping the Falcons to 2-1.

The Falcons’ Jackson Eicher finished with a team-high three goals, including the one that forced overtime during the final 13 seconds of the fourth quarter. The unlikely goal came off a 20-yard pass from Nate Thomason to Eicher, who scored from the center of the field with two defenders challenging him.

“Hat’s off to him,” Dooly said.

“When they put that goal in, we all realized, ‘Yeah, we’ve really got to win this game,’” Begley said. “We were not going to lose that game when we led the whole time.”

Kettle Run took a 1-0 lead during the opening four minutes and entered halftime with a 6-4 advantage, then built it to 9-5 early in the fourth quarter.

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A computer geek, and agile Fauquier lineman

Former Falcon Ruland named all-Big South

Amir Siders will play football at Christopher Newport

By Fred Hodge

Special to the Times

Fauquier Falcon offensive lineman Amir Siders is thinking beyond football.

Due to his interest in computer science, Siders will play at NCAA Division III Christopher Newport in Newport News.

“I’m probably not going to the NFL, so I wanted a degree from an incredible university,” Siders said at Friday’s signing ceremony.

Siders said his two primary goals are to become an academic all-American and help Christopher Newport capture a New Jersey Athletic Conference title.

FHS coach Joe Prince expects Siders to shine.

“First and foremost, he has a big frame, and with that frame he has great feet,” said FHS coach Joe Prince. “He’s very quick and light on his feet.

Those things combined make him very attractive.

The 6-foot-3, 305-pounder had walk-on offers from the University of Virginia, Howard and William and Mary.

He also received interest from

PHOTO BY JOE PRINCE

Amir Siders plans to get a degree in computer science and play football at Christopher Newport University. “I saw CNU as having the balance of competitive D III football and a chance to get a good degree in computer science that would actually carry weight when I go into the actual work force,” said the Fauquier High senior.

Bridgewater, Randolph-Macon, Averett and the Newport News Apprentice School.

Prince praised Siders’ intelligent approach to selecting a school.

“The thing about Amir was he knew what he wanted

to study, so lot of his choice was on academics, which is a mature thing,” Prince said.

“Most 18-year-olds are not mature enough to do that.”

Siders expects to pursue amajor in computer science and a minor in leadership.

The school is looking to play him in the offensive line at guard or tackle. Currently weighing 305 pounds, Siders said the CNU staff would like to see him report at 290 to 295.

Siders said CNU was looking for linemen “who were not humongous, but who had good speed and footwork. They watched my film and were ‘We need you on the ship.’”

Siders is proud of his physical play: “You see my helmet at the end of football season, and it’s all torn up,” he laughed.

Christopher Newport competes in the Division III NJAC for football only. Its other teams are Capital Athletic Conference members. CNU finished 5-5 last year and 7-3 in 2016.

Siders was all-Northwestern District honorable mention as an offensive lineman as a senior.

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Radford junior lacrosse star Juliette Ruland made the allBig South second team.

By Jeff Malmgren Times Staff Writer

Radford University women’s lacrosse midfielder Juliette Ruland recently earned a spot on the all-Big South Conference second team by amassing career-highs in ground balls and caused turnovers.

The 2016 Fauquier High graduate was one of only two Highlanders making all-conference after she finished with 28 ground balls and 12 caused turnovers.

Radford went 6-11 and set a team record with 3-4 Big South record in its third year. The Highlanders lost to Campbell, 23-11, Saturday in Big South tournament quarterfinals.

“Juliette is truly one of the top athletes in the conference and I think this award is a reflection of that talent,” Radford coach Haley Marvine said in a press release.

“Everyone’s eyes are drawn to her when she takes off down field and she really has the ability to take over in the midfield.”

A junior, Ruland finished with 24 goals, 14 draw controls and two assists.

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But the Falcons responded with a 4-0 run that included two goals by Jack Averna in a 45-second span to narrow Fauquier’s deficit to 9-8.

“We just talk to our players about digging deep, finding the heart,” Falcons coach Richard Carpenter said.

“We have a great group of guys.

They don’t like to lose. They’re not quitting until the ref tells us we have to go home.”

The rivalry also seemed create some sloppy play. The teams combined for 57 turnovers and 10 penalties with the fourth quarter featuring an amusing 40-second span that included three Kettle Run turnovers and two by the Falcons.

Fauquier finished with 32 turnovers.

“Just silly stuff, trying to force it,” said Carpenter, whose team also had six penalties. “It’s just young players learning to control their emotions when things get hot like that.”

Kettle Run, meanwhile, had four penalties and 25 turnovers.

“It’s matter of kids panicking,” Smith said. “If we can maintain confidence in our stick work … we don’t have those turnovers and those empty possessions.”

Regardless, the Cougars out-shot

PHOTO BY RANDY LITZINGER

Cole Anderson and the Falcons mounted a fierce comeback Monday.

Fauquier, 36-24. So the Falcons needed a strong showing by goalie Sam Averna to even hang with Kettle Run. He finished with 14 saves, including a handful of difficult 1-on-1 stops.

Incredibly, three of Averna’s saves came in overtime with Fauquier playing down a man.

“He was killing it,” Carpenter said. “He was making tremendous saves; keeping us alive.”

The Cougars countered by holding their own on faceoffs. Ethan Jakum led Kettle Run’s effort from the “X,” winning 10 of 24 against a Fauquier team that features one of the area’s best faceoff specialist in Cole Anderson.

“That kid just hustles, hustles, hustles,” Begley said of Jakum. “I’ve never seen a kid with a motor like him.”

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WHAT A FEELING FOR WYATT TELLER Former Liberty star is first Fauquier County player ever taken in NFL draft

By Jeff Malmgren

“It’s an absolute blessing.

Mind blowing. … I was ecstatic.”

Times Staff Writer

During his freshman year at Liberty High, Wyatt Teller listened to coach Tommy Buzzo predict he would become an NFL All-Pro offensive lineman, the 23-year-old recalled recently.

He dismissed the idea then, but now he stands one step closer to fulfilling that bold prophesy after he became the first player in Fauquier County history to be selected in the NFL Draft.

The Buffalo Bills took Teller in the fifth round with the 166th overall pick Saturday following his successful redshirt senior season as a guard at Virginia Tech.

“It’s an absolute blessing,” the 2013 Liberty graduate said. “Mind blowing. ... I was ecstatic.

“When you’re the first guy, it’s an amazing feeling because there’s been a lot of good players” from Fauquier, Teller said. “Hopefully there’s a couple guys after me.”

Previous Fauquier County products signed with NFL teams as undrafted free agents, including 1977 Fauquier High graduate Mike Budd, who joined the New York Jets in 1981, and 1971 Fauquier High graduate Steve Galloway, who joined the Denver Broncos in 1976 and Washington Redskins in 1977. But neither of those players made a regular season roster.

So Teller realizes he has no guarantee to actually play in the NFL despite being drafted.

“It doesn’t mean anything,” he said. “Tomorrow I could be back in Fauquier.

“I know this is just the first step,” he said. “It’s going to be one of the longest roads that I’ve ever embarked on. … I’m getting ready to fight for a position.”

The Bills drafted Teller as an offensive guard after he switched to that position as a redshirt sophomore. A year earlier, he joined the Hokies as a defensive end before volunteering to move to offensive tackle in an effort to help bolster an offensive line depleted by injuries.

Then he shifted to guard.

He had considered defensive end his primary position since his freshman season at Liberty, but Buzzo saw other potential in Teller eight years ago.

“He said, ‘Wyatt, you’re going to be an All-Pro offensive lineman,’” Teller said. “And you’re like, ‘Um, OK, whatever you say Coach.’”

Teller’s parents, Richard and Cheryl, moved from Bealeton to Lake Anna when he began playing for Virginia Tech. They watched the NFL Draft this weekend with their son from that home.

They sat through the first round Thursday and the second and third rounds Friday without hearing Teller’s name called.

“I wasn’t thinking, ‘I’m going in the first round,’” he said. “I wasn’t blind.

– WYATT TELLER

PHOTO COURTESY OF VIRGINIA TECH

In 2015, former Fauquier High basketball player Jerrelle Benimon became Fauquier County’s first NBA player by appearing in two games for the Utah Jazz. Now, former Liberty star Wyatt Teller has positioned himself to become Fauquier County’s first NFL player after being drafted in the fifth round by the Buffalo Bills. “It’s going to be one of the longest roads that I’ve ever embarked on,” said the 2013 LHS grad.

“When Day Three came, I wasn’t sad, upset,” he said. “I thought, ‘If I don’t get drafted, just give me a shot” at training camp.

Instead, he received a call Saturday afternoon from Bills offensive line coach Juan Castillo. Meanwhile, on television, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas announced Buffalo’s pick with a Niagara Falls backdrop.

“My whole family was screaming, and I’m in the middle of this conversation with Coach Castillo,” Teller said, “It’s funny how the first few rounds went by so slow. Then I got the call, and then all of a sudden it’s 10 o’clock and the draft is over.”

Teller has never visited Buffalo, but he is familiar with the fan base, sometimes referred to as the Bills Mafia. That includes a rowdy group that likes to smash through tables during tailgating via body slams or leaps off of vehicles.

“We have the greatest fan base [at Virginia Tech], and now I’m going to another amazing fan base,” Teller said. “The Bills Mafia, they literally light themselves on fire and jump through tables. That’s the kind of [passionate] fan base I want.”

Teller is leaving Virginia Tech after growing to be a 6-foot-4, 314-pound lineman with a reputation as a weight room “freak” on many pre-draft NFL scouting reports. He credited the Hokies’ strength and conditioning staff, including Ben

Hilgart and Mike Gentry.

“It’s using that weight room to get the strength and power that you need to be successful in this sport,” Teller said. “I’m not the fastest guy. I don’t jump the highest, but through hard work I was able to” excel.

Many scouting reports also criticized his effort and aggression as a redshirt senior relative to his performance in 2016. But Teller said he needed to better regulate his aggression this past season after drawing too many penalties as a redshirt junior.

“Every ref would refer to me as ‘Hugs’ because I’d take kids and hip toss them to the ground,” Teller said.

“Yeah, it looks impressive, but it’s not helping the team [if there’s also a penalty]. And every ref is looking at me … to see if I jump out and toss a kid.”

It took him about half of the 2017 season to find a good balance of aggression and restraint, after many scouts had already made assessments for their reports, he said.

“By the second half of the season, to me, it’s the same kid as in 2016,” Teller said of himself. “The same aggression.”

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By attacking early, Cougars dominate Region 8

By Fred Hodge

Special to the Times

Kettle Run has won its first four Region B games this spring by utilizing the girls lacrosse equivalent of blitzkrieg, a German phrase for lightning war.

Fast-starting Kettle Run is using its speed and firepower to gain an early psychological advantage and disorganize the opposition.

The Cougars stand atop the Class 4 Region B standings with a 4-0 record after outscoring their foes 70-23 in the four victories. In each of those bouts, Kettle Run delivered a trademark opening barrage and never looked back.

The explosive unit built a 12-2 lead in a 16-8 win over Brentsville on April 19. Kettle Run then crushed Culpeper, 18-3, before last Thursday’s 20-5 Senior Night thrashing of Eastern View.

Fauquier’s Falcons were the latest to absorbed the early punishment in a 16-7 decision Monday in Warrenton, as Kettle Run remained in strong position to defend its 2017 Evergreen Conference title.

“The strong starts, that’s what makes us a stronger team,” Kettle Run coach Joanie DeGoosh said afterward, expressing pleasure with

PHOTO BY RANDY LITZINGER

With 10 goals against Culpeper, Kettle Run star Mary O’Toole surpassed the 100-goal mark last week. the squad’s lead in Region B. She was adamant, however, her emphasis is not on rolling up high numbers on the scoreboard.

“I just want to play good lacrosse,” she said simply, explaining good play translates to scoring opportunities, while bad play doesn’t.

“As long as my girls play well for the 50 minutes, I’m happy,” DeGoosh said.

The result raised the Cougars’ Region B record to 4-0 ahead of 3-0 James Monroe. Liberty fell to 2-1 Monday with a 13-11 upset loss at

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Brentsville, which moved into fourth at 3-2 while Fauquier fell to 2-3 with the defeat.

Fauquier opened Monday’s scoring, needing only 30 seconds before Zoe Savage gave the hosts their lone lead at 1-0. The Falcons didn’t score again for over 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, Kettle Run launched on a seven-goal spree in an 11-minute span to open a 7-1 lead. Fauquier got no closer than three goals.

The Cougar spree began when Jill Bennett converted from close range on a Grace Small feed with 2:16 left in the half. Katie MacMahon, Mary O’Toole and Maria Sturges then struck in the next four minutes after Falcon turnovers.

Small and Julia Robertson added unassisted goals, and Sturges converted a rebound in front for a 7-1 advantage with 13:02 left.

Fauquier finally produced momentum with scores by Sarala Grayson-Funk and Carleigh Cordova to narrow the deficit to 7-3. Fauquier’s Madison Filson and Elisabeth Sutton had scores before halftime, as did Cougars Small and Bennett for a

9-5 Kettle Run lead.

Savage tallied the opening goal of the second half to reduce the Cougars’ edge to 9-6 and give the Falcons hope. Both offenses bogged down due to multiple turnovers, resulting in scoreless play for more than nine minutes.

Then Small and her teammates rediscovered the accelerator.

Small ran off three straight goals, two unassisted and one free position, in three minutes to raise the lead to 12-6.

O’Toole scored three more times and Bennett once down the stretch.

Yvie Frazier tallied Fauquier’s lone goal in the final 23-plus minutes as Kettle Run won 16-7.

“The girls work hard, play well together,” DeGoosh said of the recent success.

She concluded by referencing a quote displayed on a player’s locker as a key.

“Unity is strength. I stand behind that 100 percent,” the coach stated.

Against Culpeper, O’Toole surpassed the 100-goal mark for career goals by scoring 10 times. Then she became a member of the 200-point club (points plus assists) versus Eastern View.

The Cougars travel to Liberty on Wednesday for another test before a possible May 9 showdown at James Wood.

Fauquier’s Budd named VHSL Athlete of Year

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For the third consecutive year, a Fauquier High School athlete was named the Allstate Foundation/ VHSL Achievement Award 4A Male Athlete of the Year.

The VHSL committee reviewed over 200 nominations with Kyle Budd being selected on the basis of athletic achievements, academic prowess and extracurricular activities.

Budd follows in the footsteps of Tyler Benson (2016, George Mason) and Sam Oravec (2017, Cornell) as previous Fauquier recipients of the honor.

A star wrestler, Budd was a fourtime state finalist who won a state title as a sophomore in the 113-pound

weight class. He was second at 106 pounds as a freshman.

As a junior, Budd was second at 120 and capped his career with the 132-pound silver medal in 2018.

He is 10th on the school’s all-time career wins list with 138. During his four years, Fauquier won backto-back state championships in 2015 and 2016 and was state runner-up in 2017 and 2018.

Budd is a student council officer who will attend Virginia Tech.

He’ll be recognized May 14 in a luncheon ceremony in Charlottesville, when he will receive a $1,500 scholarship and a silver bowl. Fauquier High School also will receive a commemorative bowl.

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Horse & Field Sports

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CONTRIBUTING EDITOR BETSY BURKE PARKER, BETSYBURKEPARKER@GMAIL.COM

Hendriks, Geraghty go 3-for-3 at Foxfield Officer Sydney prevails in Van Clief hurdle feature

By Betsy Burke Parker Special to the Times

The result was the same, but jockey Ross Geraghty said each of his three Foxfield winners needed a particular touch to prevail.

The Maryland-based, Irish-born pro tabbed his first triple at the Charlottesville meet, his biggest day in 11 seasons on the U.S. jump circuit since winning four at Fair Hill in 2014.

“I thought I might even win all five,” said Geraghty, at 41 something of a senior statesman in the jockey colony. “All five were in with a chance. But three wins, I’ll take that.”

Ricky Hendriks trained all three winners.

Geraghty partnered Rosbrian Farm’s Officer Sydney to annex the featured $30,000 Van Clief Memorial, following up his score last fall in the Rouse Memorial. Orchestra Leader, a two-time Foxfield winner, set a solid gallop, Geraghty said of the hot early pace in the 2 1/8-mile headliner.

When Orchestra Leader wilted headed up the hill last time around, Geraghty had Officer Sydney placed to pounce.

“He put in a solid race,” added Rosbrian owner George Mahoney, leading in his winner after the finish. “We’re pleased with that.”

The finishing time of 4:05 was well off Orchestra Leader’s course record of 3:58.20, but Geraghty saw improvement after taking second in the Georgia Cup hurdle stake two weeks ago.

“He needed that early pace to bring him on,” he said.

Officer Sydney won two over hurdles in his native Ireland at 3, and was imported to the U.S. in late summer, 2016 for Mahoney and trainer Hendriks.

The trio scored with maiden Cheers To Us in the program closer. Geraghty kept the 5-year-old forwardly-placed through nine jumps, looming boldly at the bottom of the testing Foxfield hill and taking command from late leader Ebullience (Gerard Galligan) at the final flight.

“He’s a big solid horse,” said Geraghty of the dark bay son of Artie Schiller. He was second

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Ross Geraghty, jumping at right, won the featured Van Clief Memorial and two other races at Saturday’s Foxfield meet. with the horse two weeks ago in the horse’s first hurdle start at the renewed Atlanta meet. “I told Ricky he’d improve off that,” Geraghty said.

Owner Mahoney said Cheers To Us could become timber horse down the road, something he’s “always aiming at.”

Geraghty’s third winner at Foxfield was Quarla (owner Eve Ledyard) in the distaff hurdle.

Quarla impressed Geraghty with her poise.

“It was the first (sanctioned) start of the season for Quarla,” he said. “She’s a nice horse, jumped well.”

Kentucky-bred by Gainesway, Quarla is the 7-year-old daughter of Dr. Greeley. She won firstout over hurdles last spring at the Warrenton point-to-point, but hadn’t made a jump start since.

“She got an infection in a hind leg and missed most of last year” after the spring point-to-point season,” said Geraghty. “Ricky told me to ‘take care of her’ today. It wasn’t a problem, because she went like an older horse. Good effort.”

Hendriks moved to second in the trainer standings behind Jonathan Sheppard, and Geraghty is second behind leader Jack Doyle. Rosbrian is current National Steeplechase leader after five weeks on the season. The Maryland horseman is long-time joint-master of the Green Spring Valley Hounds. Geraghty said he regularly hunts with the pack.

Middleburg point-to-point

Cyril Murphy saddled Irv Naylor’s El Jefe Grande to win the historic Middleburg Bowl at Sunday’s Middleburg Hunt Point-to-Point. Darren Nagle was up. Graham Watters partnered Naylor’s Osmoz to win the maiden turf.

Sean McDermott handled two winners, Wigwam Baby for Sean Clancy’s Riverdee Stable, and maiden timber winner Causeworthy for Northwoods Stable.

Complete results and more photos are at nationalsteeplechase.com and centralentryoffice.com.

YOUTH SPORTS

Blue Ridge Titans 13U, 11U baseball teams win titles Two Fauquier County travel baseball teams won their respective divisions in the Elite AA Border Wars tournament in Fredericksburg from April 21-22.

The Blue Ridge Titans 13U team went 4-0 and the 11U team 4-1.

The 13U team closed out their title run with a 7-5 win over the Snyder Baseball Bucks. Derek Reece delivered a two-run single and Peyton Mehaffey went 3-for-3. The 13U Titans also defeated the Virginia Stars Finzel 13-6, Spotsy Reapers 8-4, and VA Seminoles 15-9.

The Blue Ridge Titans 13U won the Elite AA Borders Wars tournament in Fredericksburg. In the front row from left are Jake Goltry, Trey Western, Ryan Beatty, Matthew Muncy, Ben Gray and Connor Dean. In back are coach Chris Beier, Blake McAndrew, Josh Witte, Matthew Western assistant coach C.J. Beier, Dakota Lindsay, Peyton Mehaffey, Derek Reece, assistant coach Scott Lindsay and assistant coach Tyler Colwell.

Members of the Blue Ridge Titans 11U team include, in back row, coach Dave Tincher, coach Mike Lillard, Bo Finkbeiner, Warren Bernard, coach Ronnie Gray and coach Josh Linebaugh. In the midde row are Trent DeRosa, Hunter Gray, Sam Linebaugh, Tyler Tincher and Jackson Lowe. In the front are Weston Lillard, Lucas Martinez, Javier Contreras and Bryson Yoder.

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More goals, more wins, happier Eagles

Liberty’s resurgent girls soccer team beats Fauquier again

By Fred Hodge

Special to the Times

Let the turnaround continue.

Liberty’s girls soccer team has won three of eight Northwestern District outings, with two of the losses coming by one goal in winnable games.

That’s a nice reversal from 2017 when the Eagles did not win a Conference 22 battle, missing the postseason tournament under then firstyear coach Marc Costanzo.

“It took a little longer than I anticipated when I took over last year,” Costanzo admitted last week. “Now that I look back on it, it is a process.”

A year’s experience, additional reinforcements from another solid freshman class, junior varsity veterans and contributions from new assistant coach Aubri Buzzo have resulted in a competitive 4-8 outfit.

The schedule began with a 2-0 loss to Brentsville before a pivotal 2-1 win over Fauquier in the league opener April 6. “Once we beat Fauquier, we were, ‘We can actually do that this season,’” said senior Eve Costanzo.

“We finally got over that hill. We saw it coming, and I think they felt it coming,” said coach Costanzo.

Several losses followed, including disappointing one-goal defeats against James Wood and Handley. Liberty defeated Millbrook, 2-1, on April 19 to provide momentum heading into the April 24 Fauquier rematch.

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Zoe Ott and the Falcons faced Handley Tuesday, followed by a Thursday home game with Sherando and Friday game at Kettle Run.

4 wins in a row for FHS softball PHOTO BY RANDY LITZINGER

Noelle Crane and the Liberty Eagles have beaten Fauquier twice this year.

That game was tied 0-0 at halftime, which made the Eagles refocus during intermission, according to Madison Serttas, a sophomore transfer from Kettle Run. “It was still 0-0, so I think the entire team felt the pressure of ‘Now we need a score,’” Serttas said. “You have to attack. You can’t just play it safe. In

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the second half, everyone put on that pressure to finish the game off.”

Liberty pushed forward more consistently, resulting in a goal 16 minutes in. A long, high kick came from the right wing of the Eagle formation, bouncing in the box. Costanzo took advantage with an unchecked run down the middle of the box. She caught the ball on a short hop and booted it into the net.

The 1-0 margin stood until six minutes left when Serttas made it 2-0 on a direct kick 20 yards out from the middle of the field. The hard line drive went six inches under the crossbar.

“That’s where I typically aim. It’s a lot harder for a girl to jump that high,” she said with a smile.

“When I first hit it, I thought it was going too high or too left,” said Serttas, noting the rainy, windy conditions.

Her teammates’ cheers confirmed she had been successful. “I surprised myself a little bit.”

A more experienced Sherando visited the next night and administered a 5-0 loss behind shifty speed demon Kendall Lincoln, who scored three first-half goals and added a fourth in the second period.

The same schools met two nights later in Winchester, another 5-0 Warrior win.

While those results were disappointing, Liberty senior Costanzo says the program’s culture is changing for the better.

“Now, we have a lot of younger girls coming up that have that travel experience,” said Costanzo.

By Fred Hodge

Special to the Times

Despite a 4-3 start, the Fauquier softball team was not an offensive juggernaut earlier this spring.

But the second half of April has seen Falcon output jump from 2.5 runs to six runs per outing in a fourgame winning streak. Fauquier is 5-1 in the Northwestern District and 8-3 overall and bracing for a run at league-leading James Wood (7-1).

“I’m ecstatic. It seemed all the hard work has paid off in the past week,” coach Mark Ott said.

Fauquier’s improved offense triggered a 5-4 win April 20 at Sherando, while the Falcons also posted a 3-0 win over Liberty and ace Makaela Kestner on April 23.

Against the Eagles, Sarah Lamper singled home Ashley Renzi for a 1-0 first inning lead.

“I thought that was huge. That set the tone of we’re not playing from behind,” Ott said. “I’ve always said hitting is contagious. Not only does it give motivation to the other hitters, it also motivates your defense.”

Fauquier made it 2-0 in the fifth when Marissa Croson doubled and Callaway Lee singled. Singles by Emily Turner and Zoe Ott made it 3-0 in the sixth.

Lamper struck out 11 and allowed four hits in the shutout. Hope Mullins had a double and single for Liberty.

Next up for the Falcons was a 10-hit 6-1 victory at Millbrook on April 25.

The offensive onslaught intensified the next night in a 10-3 win vs.

North Stafford.

In the third, freshman Meghan Harrington cracked her first career home run to score Lamper, who had singled.

Eagles sweep Sherando in softball Liberty swept a rare mid-week doubleheader at Sherando on April 24 to elevate their league record to 5-3, 10-3 overall, after winning eight of its last nine games.

Kaci Henrich and Makaela Kestner combined to hurl a four-hitter

in the 4-2 opening game.

Kestner and Lizzie Waln both recorded three hits, with Waln also driving in three runs.

Kestner threw a complete game with nine strikeouts in the nightcap as Liberty won 12-7.

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OUR COMMUNITIES/CALENDAR

May is National Military Appreciation Month May is National Military Appreciation Month. Since I grew up in a military family, I have always had a special appreciation for those who serve in the military and their families. It is quite a sacrifice to serve our nation in this way. A great big thank you to all who serve in the armed forces!

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church is having a yard sale this Saturday, May 5, from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.

There will be baked goods, plants, crafts and other goodies. All proceeds will benefit children going to camp this summer.

The Fauquier Community Theatre will be performing “Big Fish” May 4-20. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults and $18 for seniors and students. Visit fctstage.org to make a reservation.

Half Pints Story Time will be held at the Bealeton Library on Wednesday, May 9, at 10:30 a.m. There will be songs, activities and stories for 13- to 24-month-old children.

UPCOMING EVENTS Thursday, May 3 National Day of Prayer: 12 noon, 6 p.m.

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The Remington FCE Homemakers Club will meet on Wednesday, May 16, at 10 a.m. The speaker this month is Mary Sue Marsh. She will be talking about genealogy. All local homemakers are invited. A covered-dish luncheon will follow the meeting.

Have a great week! be led by various local pastors, leaders and youth at noon at the John Barton Payne Building, 2 Courthouse Square in Old Town Warrenton. At 6 p.m. the event will be at Eva Walker Park and joined by a unity choir and band. Rain location is Warrenton Bible Fellowship, 46 Winchester St. Contact Pastor Brooks at 540-349-0178 or www.nationaldayofprayer.org

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Remington Car Show benefits school playground

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In follow-up to the Remington Auto Show held April 21, the organizers met on April 25 to share the show’s suc- REMINGTON cessful results. The show’s organizer, BEALETON Bill Williams, presented M.M. Pierce OPAL Elementary School Principal Laura Hoover with various checks from many 540-497-1413 donations for new and replacement joe.korpsak@yahoo.com school playground equipment. The checks totaled about $5,000 from var- 1957 Pontiac Star Chief; Remington ious donors. Additional donations are Fire Department: J.R. Holmes’ 1970 in the offing from the show’s food ven- Chevy C-10 pickup; Best Car: Rick dors, local PTO and Fauquier County. Haines’ 1963 Chevy Impala SS; Kids Choice Award: Claudio Crisna’s 1976 Pictures are available on Facebook.

This highly successful event took Alfa Romeo Spider.

The estimated crowd attendance place in downtown Remington with many show sponsors, such as the Town was huge, maybe a couple thousand! of Remington, Wally’s Automotive, Many local people gave of their time Remington Drug, Groves Hardware, and talents to make the show a huge Crown Trophy, Rappahannock Station, success, such as Bill Williams, James Forget Me Not Flowers, Food Lion, Steele, Ray Bohlayer, Kim Henry, BB&T Bank, Scout Troop 1171, Rem- Stephanie Litter-Reber and many ington Baptist Church and many others other gracious volunteers.

Mark your calendar for the next too numerous to mention here.

The number of automotive entrants Second Annual Remington Auto Show totaled about 160 vehicles. Some of tentatively scheduled for April 20, the trophy winners included Best in 2019. Everyone attending had a great Show: Kenny Lowe’s 1951 Ford F-100 experience including the music, food, pickup; Mayor’s Choice: Ed Rollins’ fun and cooperating fine weather.

Brew your own beer: 7 p.m.

The Warrenton Brewers Guild meets on the first Thursday of each month at Powers Farm & Brewery, 9269 Redemption Way in Midland. Contact president Robert Ridgell at 703-906-1783.

Friday, May 4 Spring Plant Sale at Fauquier High School: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.

At Fauquier High School, 705 Waterloo Road in Warrenton, horticulture students sell plants grown at school on Friday and Saturday, May 4-5, and May 11-12, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. The sale is in the school greenhouse behind the annex.

Plants include annuals, perennials, vegetables and herbs. Contact 540-422-7306

Saturday, May 5 Virginia Gold Cup 93rd running of the Virginia Gold Cup races. The annual event at Great Meadow,

5089 Old Tavern Road – terrier races, steeplechase, hats galore, food, fun, tailgating and wagering. Gates open at 10 a.m. Visit www.vagoldcup.com. Contact 540-253-5000.

BSA Troop 1171 hosts On My Honor 5K: 9 a.m.

First annual On My Honor 5K race/ walk beginning and ending at M. M. Pierce Elementary School, 12074 James Madison St., in Remington. Proceeds will help troop give back to community. Starts at 9 a.m. https://runsignup.com/Race/VA/ Remington/OnMyHonor5K Community Spring Craft Fair: 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

The Warrenton chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society hosts a community Spring Craft Fair at the LFCC Warrenton campus. A great opportunity to buy something special for Mother’s Day or new graduates. Contact Jennifer at jvancuren@lfcc.edu or 540-351-1547.

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Cool Spring United Methodist hosts ‘Spring Fling’ Gosh, can you believe it is May already? My mother, Irene Sisson, used to always tell me that once you hit 30, time will fly by. Of course, I didn’t believe her, until I hit 30 and then I really understood that she was right!

Cool Spring United Methodist Church’s Annual “Spring Fling” Indoor Yard Sale will be held Friday, May 4, and Saturday, May 5, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 3322 Cobbler Mountain Road in Delaplane. It includes our usual supply of collectibles, glassware, kitchen items, clothing, china and many pictures, prints and frames all at our usual low prices.

School is almost over, and kids will be looking to do something this summer. Check out the various churches – they are all gearing up for Vacation Bible School. Marshall Baptist Church will be hosting its from June 11 – June 15. Visit www.marshallbc.com to register.

Families are getting ready for graduation parties. Congrats to Hunter Grogg, Lexi Olinger and Kylie Bridges. We wish you all the best Big Brew and Craft Beer Celebration: 9 a.m., 1 p.m.

Warrenton Brewers Guild, in Association with Powers Farm & Brewery, hosts event in honor of AHA Big Brew.

At 1 p.m., thousands of homebrewers around the world will simultaneously raise their glasses to toast homebrewing and the homebrewers who craft outstanding homemade beer, mead and wine. Full recipe details and directions can be found on the AHA website. Powers Farm & Brewery, 9269 Redemption Way in Midland, invites interested homebrewers to visit starting at 9 a.m. The members of the Warrenton Brewers Guild will brew for guests. Visit warrentonbrewersguild.com FHS Talons of Steel Pans & Jazz Band: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

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Please join me in sending my cousin, Paul Sisson, lots and lots of get well wishes and prayers.

How about sending a little birthday love to Nadine Bulmer and Betty Fewell (May 3), Norma Haught (May 5), C.J. “Tha DJ” Hunter (May 6), Charleigh Rose Gray who will be one on May 7, Robert “Junebug” Dodson and Sherri Rodriquez (May 8) and Emelia Anne Warren and Joyce Tompkins (May 9).

Let’s shout out some Happy Anniversary wishes to Pastor Mark Bryant and his lovely wife Debbie (May 5), and Randolph and Shirley Embrey who will celebrate 58 years on May 7.

Hope everyone enjoys their week!

FauquierBand.net or contact apaul@ fcps1.org “The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia” book signing: 12 noon - 2 p.m.

Meet Jim Hall, local author of “The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia.”

Fauquier History Museum,10 Ashby St. Books available for purchase or bring your own copy. Visit www.fauquierhistory.org or contact 540-347-5525.

Farmer’s Forge at Sky Meadows Park: 12 noon to 3 p.m.

The forge is fired up and the blacksmiths are hard at work in the historic area. Members of the Blacksmith Guild of the Potomac are ready to show off their skills. Free with $5 parking fee. Sky Meadows State Park, 11012 Edmonds Lane in Delaplane. Contact SkyMeadows@dcr. virginia.gov or 540-592-3556.

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For the thirsty, there will be a beer garden available with refreshments from Wort Hog Brewery, Old Bust Head, Powers Brewery and Cobbler Mountain. Town Duck will have a wine tasting from 5 to 8 p.m., and Pearmund Winery will be on hand for all of the First Friday celebrations.

Celebrating Mother’s Day, Kelly Ann Quilting has decided to help by displaying a photo of your mother in its front windows. Bring in your mom’s photo and the staff will make a copy and give you back your original. They will then place the picture in their window for everyone to see as they walk by. What a great way to celebrate your mother!

The Warrenton Police Department is asking town citizens and business owners to complete a survey to help better serve citizens.

Topics include safety issues, traffic law-enforcement, staff performance and suggestions for future programs.

One survey per Town of Warrenton household has been distributed, however if you have misplaced or lost your copy, surveys may be obtained at the Warrenton Police Department, 333 Carriage House Lane.

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It is sponsored by Fauquier County, Town of Warrenton and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

For more information call Wendy Wheatcraft, preservation planner for Fauquier County, at 540-422-8210.

A reminder that the Town of Warrenton Farmers Market is open on Saturdays in the parking lot at the corner of Lee and Fifth streets. Beginning May 2, the market will also be held Wednesdays at the WARF from 8 a.m. to noon.

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Kenthurst Lane is just minutes from Great Meadow and the village of The Plains, which will come alive for the running of the Virginia Gold Cup this Saturday.

Nestled in a distinctive enclave of seven custom homes in Fauquier County, each wooded parcel provides privacy and is encircled by a protected 91+ acre farm in a conservation easement. For families, the house is situated just a short drive to both excellent public and private school options.

This 10,000+ square foot federal-style custom home is being offered

by Cricket Bedford of Thomas and Talbot in Middleburg for the very first time at $2,195,000 and no details have been spared. This property pays tribute to the treasured homes of the past utilizing thoughtful design, energy-efficient products and the latest technologies. Exquisitely crafted details include intricate moldings, imported antique flagstone, terracotta and marble flooring and old-growth heart pine floors shine throughout.

Seven fireplaces grace the spacious rooms, whose tall windows show off the surrounding countryside of mature woods and rolling lawns.

The house boasts six bedrooms, five full baths and two half baths on four levels. The main level features a two-story entrance foyer flanked by the formal living and dining room.

Continue straight back to the library, guest powder room, and family room. A butler’s pantry, a rear and side entrance, mudroom and another half bath complete this level.

Walk out along a covered-brick portico to the three-bay garage with an office, studio or one-bedroom, one bath apartment above.

The showcase room on this floor is the custom-designed Clive Christian chef’s kitchen anchored by the La Cornue French cooking stove with copper trim at one end and a

floor-to-ceiling brick wood-burning fireplace in the light-filled breakfast room at the other. The space features hand-painted, custom-built cabinetry with gold-leaf accents, lighted china display cases and a massive island bookended with thick Spekva end-grain Iroko dark wood butcher blocks. The island and counters are topped with honed marble. Multiple high-end appliances include the Shaw’s Original farm sink, Meile dishwasher, Sub-Zero refrigerators, Sub-Zero 100 bottle capacity wine cooler and all Waterworks fixtures.

There are three guest bedrooms, two full baths, a private office or possible nursery, separate laundry room and master suite with tray ceilings, built-in linen closets on the second floor along with fireplace, private terrace, his-and-her walkin closets, separate marble vanities, glass shower and soaking tub.

The third floor has a large open room with dormered windows, a guest bedroom with built-ins with a desk, a cedar closet and a full bath.

The walk-out lower level features a spacious recreation room with brick fireplace, exposed beams, flanked by another area for a pool table or music room, the wine cellar, a second full kitchen, the media room, workout area, a guest bedroom and another full bath.

Ralph Monaco, Jr. llc.

540-341-7687

403 Holiday Court Warrenton VA 20186 RE/MAX Regency

Log Home Living Private Log home on 3 wooded acres in Jeffersonton. Open floor plan 3 level, 4 bedroom home with large porch, deck and patio to enjoy the outdoors. $389,000 10 Wooded Acres Beautiful rolling wooded lot in the Free State area of Fauquier.

Easy access to Warrenton Rt.29 or Marshall I-66. Build your dream home here. $186,000

See more pictures on the web: www.ralphmonaco.com YOUR REAL ESTATE CONSULTANT FOR LIFE

$265,000 - 6.7119 Acres Warrenton

Looking for that great parcel of land to build your new home? The Rainbow ends here!

6.71169 acres of century old trees and some cleared land with an approved 4 bedroom gravity flow perc site close to Warrenton with great mountain views from your house site, in a quiet suburban area with little traffic, and easy commute to Rt. 66.

Call Gloria to See

Gloria Scheer M acNeil 540-272-4368 540-341-1000 licensed in VA

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Tuesday, May 8

Friday, May 11

Fast Eddie and The Slowpokes live at Drum and Strum: 8 p.m.

The Gloria Faye Dingus Music Alliance is pleased to welcome Fast Eddie & The Slowpokes to the listening room at Drum & Strum, 102 Main St. in Warrenton.

Tickets: $20; seating is limited, advance purchase highly recommended. Children 12 and under free with parent or guardian. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Email info@ drumnstrum.com Contact: 540-347-7484.

Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services board meeting: 1 p.m.

Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services will hold its regularly scheduled board meeting on Tuesday, May 8, at 15361 Bradford Road, Culpeper. Individuals with disabilities who require special assistance should contact Laura Wohlford at 540-825-3100, extension 3146.

Remembering Moms and Dads: 7-9 p.m.

Do you want an opportunity to remember a parent who has died? We have a special evening planned as we create a memory collage. Chaplain Liz will facilitate. Teens are invited. Bring a picture to share. Reservations are required. Spiritual Care Support Ministry Center, 76 W. Shirley Ave., Warrenton. Free. Learn more atwww.scsm.tv or call 540/349-5814.

Sunday, May 6 Serve Our Willing Warriors Inaugural Warrior Bike Ride: 7 a.m.

Choose from four bicycle routes, enjoy live music, signature craft beer, and food.

The Farm Brewery at Broad Run, 16015 John Marshall Highway, Haymarket. Fee: $70 per rider. To register: www.bikereg. com/warrior-ride Women’s self-defense workshop: 1-3 p.m.

Become more aware of your surroundings, feel safer and stronger. The class is hosted by Carla Valentino of Damsel in Defense and taught by Ramfis Marquez, an eight-degree black belt with more than 40 years of experience. Location: U.S. Tigers, 6916 Piedmont Center Plaza, Gainesville. Fee: $30 per person. Register via PayPal to carlavalentino@yahoo.com.

Note “self-defense class” when paying.

Code Girls: American Women Code Breakers of WWII: 1 p.m.

Liza Mundy, a former Washington Post reporter and author of the recently released book Code Girls, will talk about the WWII female code breakers. Co-sponsored by The Cold War Museum and Old Bust Head Brewing Company, 7134 Farm Station Road. Cost: $25 advance online purchase through Eventbrite; $35 at the door. Ticket includes a $7 coupon toward a craft beer or other drink, a $10 contribution to the Cold War Museum and special access to the museum. Contact 703-283-4124 or jason@coldwar.org John Cowan w/Darin and Brooke Aldridge live at Drum and Strum: 7 p.m.

The Gloria Faye Dingus Music Alliance welcomes the return of bass guitar superstar John Cowan to the Listening Room at Drum & Strum, 102 Main Street in Warrenton. John will be joined by award-winning husband and wife duo, Darin & Brooke Aldridge. Tickets: $30, seating is limited.

Advance purchase or reservations recommended. Children 12 and under free with parent or guardian. Email info@drumnstrum.com Contact: 540-347-7484

Wednesday, May 9 Coffee with Warrenton Newcomers:

Saturday, May 18

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theme this year is “Where Do We Go From Here?” Keynote speaker is Mrs. Linda Thomas, immediate past president of the Virginia State Conference NAACP. $50/adult, $25/youth under 18. Reserve and purchase a table for 10 for $450.

Please consider placing an advertisement in our banquet journal. Full page/$100, half page/$60 and a fourth page/$40.

For table reservation and advertisement opportunities, contact Darlene B. Kelly at 540-303-1290 or email Darlene_24949@ msn.com

Fauquier County NAACP 63rd Annual 9:30-11:30 a.m.

The Warrenton Newcomers Club will in Freedom Fund Banquet: 7 p.m.

The Fauquier County NAACP will be Mercy Hall, near St. John the Evangelist Church, 121 John E. Mann St. Warrenton. celebrate its 63rd Annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Friday, May 18, with a Open to all residents new to the area, Visit www.fauquier.com reception at 6 p.m. and the banquet at recently retired or newly single within the These property transfers, filed Feb. 26 – March.

4, 2018, were provided by the Clerk of the Court in Fauquier County. past five years. Contact Jeanne Hayduk at 7 p.m. Fauquier Springs Country Club, (Please note that to conserve space, only the first person named as the grantor or grantee is listed.

The kind of instrument 9236 Tournament Drive, Warrenton. The jeanne7254@gmail.com is a deed unless stated otherwise.)

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Real Eѕtate

Anne C. Hall

Associate Broker, CRS, GRI, SRES Long & Foѕter, Realtors 492 Blackwell Rd. Warrenton, VA 20168

540-341-3538

These property transfers, filed April 23 –April 29, 2018, were provided by the Clerk of the Court in Fauquier County.

(Please note that to conserve space, only the first person named as the grantor or grantee is listed. The kind of instrument is a deed unless stated otherwise.)Top dollar deal: Scott District, $2,498,750

Cedar Run District RFI WC LC to NVR Inc., 0.6563 acre on Bob White Drive, Warrenton. $206,286 John M. Rohrbaugh Jr., to Rockwood Homes Inc., Bealeton, VA. 7.9543 acres, 4.3353 acres and 6.8104 acres off Rogues Road. $478,676 First Colony Homes Inc. to Rockwood Homes Inc., 2.7479 acres off Rogues Road. $126,324 George F. Grundler II to Curtis W. Hendrix, 6358 Barn Owl Court, Warrenton, VA $565,000 John A. Perks to Adam M. Weidner, 7380 Terranova Drive, Warrenton, VA. $491,000 Fauquier Housing Group to Clinton James Howard, 10.00018 acres & access, Lot 1A-1, South Creedmore Hunt. $210,000 Tricia M. Brown by Sub. Tr. To Pennymac Loan Services LLC, 5.0060 acres, 9045 Rogues Road, Warrenton. $364,662 Center District David Provance to Dennis D. Rude, 102 Mosby Circle, Warrenton, $362,600 Richard Robertson to Saundra Dee Olsen, 82 Blue Ridge Street, Warrenton. $346,125 Dawn Marie Wyatt to Jacob Edwards, 529 Cardinal Drive, Warrenton. $420,000 Tiffany Rizer to Ryan S. Eagle, Block C, part of Lot 28, and Block C, part of Lot 29, 164 E. Shirley Ave., Warrenton. $380,000 Joan C. Staiko to Joseph Robert Jackson, 6443 Cannon Drive, Warrenton. $345,000

Curtis Hendrix to Amanda D. Hemmila, Lot 43, 6340 Nordix Drive, Warrenton. $426,000 Matthew Christianson to Devren Charles Davis, 21 Quarterpole Court, Warrenton. $290,000 Aaron J. Lynch to Brandon D. Wagoner, 7376 Atlee Road, Warrenton. $258,700 James R. Todd, Tr. To April L.K. Turch, 723-C Cedar Crest Drive, Warrenton. $179,500 Susan B. Necci to Ray Pavone, 396 Winchester Street, Warrenton. $405,000 Benjamin K. Widrick to Erik Isaksen, 536 Colony Court, Warrenton. $399,900 Lee District Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Danielle Grove, 11578 Cemetery Road, Bealeton. $305,000 Joseph R. Tauro Jr. to Richard E. Robertson Jr., 10723 Weaversville Road, Bealeton. $399,000 Alice Fox to Thomas Earl Moore Jr., 10613 Fox Plantation Lane, Bealeton. Deed of Quitclaim. $10,000 Catherine Case to Brittany Haupt, 1105 Ransom Lane, Bealeton. $335,000 Steven A. Pereira Coto to Oni X. Avila Hernandez, 6542 Schoolhouse Road, Bealeton. $279,900 Lorayn C. Keeney to Jeffrey Ronald Olsen, Building 3 at 11230 Torrie Way, Bealeton. $125,000 Marshall District Alicia D. McNey to Kristen Marie Winter, 9497 Lees Mill Road, Warrenton. $396,500

Keyona C. Taylor to Georg J. Seyrlehner, 5859 Vine Lane, Linden. $110,000 George Sharikas to Juan Pablo Aguilar, 8584 Pelham Court, Marshall. $199,000 Bryan J. Carver to Jose DeJesus Barua Borja, 4519 Fieldstone Court, Marshall. $139,000 Scott District Emily R. Ristau Tr. to Eric Treene, 70 acres at 5415 Hillside Farm Lane, The Plains. $2,498,750 NVR Inc. to Robin Mason, 3068 Joy Court, Warrenton. $553,438 Ryan McKay to William J. Edwards, 7346 Stuart Circle, Warrenton. $280,000 Kevin M. Turney to John F. Kosek, 2.8998 acres at 7081 Grays Mill Road, Warrenton. $495,000 Lawrence J. Klecz to Evan Moore, 10.0201 acres at 5762 Pignut Mountain Drive, nr. Warrenton. $500,000 Richard K. Robbins to Ralph D. Hahn, 2.0359 acres at 9510 Caelan Way, Broad Run. $450,000 Richard L. Eaton Jr. to Trigon Homes LLC, 8.5 acres on Rt. 674, New Baltimore/Broad Run. $125,000 Dreamweaver Holding co. LLC to PFD LLC, 1 acre & RW at 4228 Aiken Drive, Vnt Hill/Warrenton. $949,938.54 John Leishear to Gil Rodriguez, 10 acres at 8816 Woodward Road, nr.

Marshall. $550,000 NVR Inc. to Amber Kroll, 4670 Gates Road, nr. Warrenton. $695,561

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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 001

Rentals — Apartments

1BR, New Baltimore area, above detached garage, yard, $900/mo + utils. No smkg. Cats ok. 540-878-1122

● 2BR, 1BA at

Remington Gardens $795 J&J Real Estate 540-825-1234 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

Remington

2 br completely renovated apt.

Credit & background checks req´d. No smoking building. $975/mo.

703 201-6151 Rentals —

022 Houses

Hume/Linden area, 2br, 1 ba, Lrg grt rm, all appl´s, FP & wood stove, lrg screened porch, $1100/mo, 540-364-3368 Orlean/Hume, farm house, 3br, 2.5 ba, kit, Laundry room, on bsmt, frt porch w/ lrg fence yard, totally renovated, $1750/mo, Avail. mid May 540-219-9066

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Rentals — Rooms

Culpeper, Master BR in SFH, priv. BA, walk-in closet, kit privleges, mo to mo $425/mo.

540-881-0659

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Rentals — Shared Housing

Linden, large house to share.Rent inclds 800SF MBR. Jacuzzi.

W/D. Garg. Near I-66. $950mo 505-500-5440

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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.

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Cemetery Lots

(2) Cemetery lots, Holly Memorial Gardens, $ 1 8 0 0 e a c h .

302-883-1611

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Firewood

Buy now Save later 3 cord; $400 4 cords; $500 703-357-2180 228

Furniture/ Appliances

2-modular split king bed platforms with fitted, quilted covers, 2 Serta box springs & 2 wheeled, metal bed frames. (King mattress not included.) Good condition. Email: lmechem@juno.com ALL MAPLE LOFT BED - $300. Near Mint Condition - All Maple Loft bed FS with integrated slide out desk and separate end bookcase. Takes a twin mattress, suitable for people up to 250 pounds. (540) 729-2115 Solid mahogany buffet, bowed front. Very good condition. May be seen Mon.-Thurs. $200. Call Deborah (540) 270-3783

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IT´S TIME TO MAKE THE MOVE...

YOU CAN BEAT OUR SPECIALS 540-349-4297 l TDD 711 Hunt Country Manor Apts.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Rentals — Houses Rappahannock County ● 3BR, 2BA with all appliances. Porch and deck. Private. $1500/mo ● 2BR, 1BA farmhouse on farm. $950/mo Call RRR LLC Washington, VA 540-675-3843 Lovely older stone and stucco home on the outskirts of Warrenton. 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, terrific views, plenty of room for relaxing and gardening. $2800.00 month.

4 stall stable available for rent at increased price. Anne Hall with Long and Foster, 540-454-5299 C / 540-341-3538 O Anne.hall2@LNF.com www.annetalksrealestate.com

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Garage/ Yard Sales

7588 Coopers Hawk Drive, Warrenton, VA 20187. 4/27, 12- 6p; 4/28, 7a-1p. Video games, movies, sneakers, clothes, exercise equip, wedding & holiday decorations, linens, HH, luggage & more Bealeton, 11558 Kings HIll Rd, 5/5 & 5/6, 8am4pm, HH, kitchen items, knick knacks, outside furn & more Craft & vendor show, Marshall Vol. Fire & Rescue Dept, 5/19, 8a-2p. We seek vendors. that are interested in selling their goods! Also spots avail. for yard sale items. Contact marshallfirecraftshow@gmail.com or Facebook ESTATE SALE Sat,5/5-8a-4p; Sun,5/ 6-8a-2p. 11550 Kings Hill Road, Bealeton, VA 22712 (VA-657 The road that runs behind the Moo Thru.

Split Driveway) Sleeper Sofa, antiques, furniture, lamps, glassware, house hold items, wall decor, and more.

Fauquier High School Horticulture will have its annual Spring Plant Sale on Friday and Saturday, May 4 & 5th and May 11th, & 12th. The hours are 8 am to 6 pm. The sale is located in the greenhouse behind the annex and students have grown a vartiety of annuals, perennials, vegetables & herbs for sale.

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Hay, Straw & Feed

FILL DIRT

Clean, dredged from a pond, delivery available.

540-937-5160

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Garage/ Yard Sales

MOVING SALE 9908 Meetze Rd, Midland, Fri. 5/4 & Sat. 5/5; 7:30-?? Half of everything we own has gotta go!! Includes furniture & appliances. & more 248

Lawn/Garden Equipment

’93 Kubota L2950 4WD Tractor 1.1L 4-cyl diesel with 31HP, Only has 1900 hours, $1.800! 804-375-1759 Mower; 22in, B&S engine, adjustable wheel, mulches, 1 yr old, $75.

703-221-1372

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Miscellaneous For Sale

2-55 gallon plastic water storage barrels & 1- 55 gallon plastic rain collection barrel. All have spigots. $100. cash for all three.

540-905-9443 or dvj7828@comcast.net 6 - Metal lawn chairs. $10 each.

540-937-4513 Antique Barrel Travel Trunk. Mid-Late 1800’s. Removal top drawer. Floral tin, wood and leather. All original.$400 OBO 703-678-3775 Apartment Stove, 24” GE electric with plug cable. $40.00. Broad Run. 540-349-2733.

Black metal futon frame. $50.00. 540-937-4513 Computer desk with wheels. $45.

540-937-4513 END ROLLS. We have newspaper end rolls.

Very limited. Located at Fauquier Times, 540-878-2491

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YARD CLEAN UP

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,

Grass cutting, mulching, aerating, all aspects.

3pm. Private party only.

Hoover Power Scrub Deluxe Carpet Steamer/Washer.

Lightly used. $40.540-905-9443 or dvj7828@comcast.net.

Horses, 2 gentle registered black Tennessee Walking mares for trail or light shod pleasure.

Pusher & Titanium b r e e d i n g .

540-246-9506 Massive black walnut timbers on Etlan farmstead. Email: chaslandgraf@gmail. c o m o r c a l l 540-923-4647 Universal Exercise Workout Stations. $150. Exercise Bike, Schwinn Model 230. $75. cash only.

540-905-9443 or dvj7828@comcast.net.

Women’s vests - seasonal, handmade, printed fabric size large, great for teachers $6.00 each 703-872-9282 Pets

Rentals — Office

39 Culpeper Street Warrenton, VA 20186 AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY ● Up to 7,000 Rentable SF ● Will Subdivide to Suit ● Short Term Leases Considered ● Brokers Welcome and Protected ● Central Business District ● Aggressive Market Rates Available ● ● Conveniently located in the heart of Old Town Warrenton at the intersection of Culpeper & Lee Sts. ● ● Next door to Piedmont Media LLC (Fauquier Times Newspaper) & Allen Real Estate. Close proximity to the Fauquier Government Center, Historic Courthouse Building and numerous local restaurants & retail stores.

FAUQUIER SPCA LOST & FOUND ADOPTIONS TOO!

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

for a complete up to date listing

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Announcements

12 Step Recovery Meetings Facility in Downtown Warrenton 12 Step meetings for alcohol, substance abuse and behavior disorders meet 7 days a week at The Warrenton Meeting Place at 26 S. 3rd St. in downtown Warrenton across from Mt. Zion Baptist Church , next to Municipal Parking Lot B. The meeting room is also available to any group wishing to start 12 step recovery meetings. Information and meeting times can be found at http://www. warrentonmeetingplace.wordpress.com Carpool buddy needed to drive from Warrenton to Union Station. Please email me at octrun@gmail.com Memoir Writing Services Firsthand accounts of life in the Piedmont, experiences in Wars, even those dating to the Depression are fading with the loss of every elderly person.

Contact Piedmont Memoirs (piedmontmemoirs@ gmail.com) to schedule an interview and have your loved one’s most cherished stories written for posterity. Individual accounts or full memoirs are available.

Don’t lose their stories when you lose them.

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Announcements

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.

605 Automobiles - Domestic 2004 BMW 325i, 5 speed, 4 door, gray, blk lthr, cruise control, CD, moonroof. $3700.

540-498-5123 2004 BMW 325i, 5 speed, 4 door, gray, blk lthr, cruise control, CD, moonroof. $3700.

540-498-5123 2011, Camaro SS, 6.22, V8, Manual, 6 speed, 28K mls. Blk, Lexani Rims, Pirelli tires. $26,500. Serious inquiries only.

540-316-7167 2011, Camaro SS, 6.22, V8, Manual, 6 speed, 27,800 miles. Black, Lexani Rims w/Pirelli tires. $26,500. Serious inquiries only.

540-316-7167

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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

680 Vans/Buses 2004 Dodge Caravan 3.3 V6, 177K miles, very clean, one owner, new windshield, good tires. Asking $2500.

Contact: 540-422-3494

GROW

99 Toyota Camry/Solara Engine & transmission good. New motor mount needs to be replaced. Windshield cracked/will not pass inspection. No radio.

Door handle on driver d o o r b r o k e .

Pmeyers2017@gmail. com # 540-216-4802

630 Campers/RVs 2004 Citation, 29 ft w/ silde out. Excel cond.

540-825-5699

Construction/

635 Heavy Equipment 1994, 70 foot bucket truck, good condition, $17,000. Inspected & certified.

(540)687-6796

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YOUR BUISNESS

Sport Utility Vehicles

2014 Ford Explorer XLT, excel cond, leather, recently serviced, all records. Charlottsville area. 252-532-5139

Announcements

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PET SITTING PROVIDED Lic & Ins Call Suzy 540-347-1870 Or Text 540-219-2247

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Bob White, CCIM; 703-447-2606; bwhite@landmarkcre.com Blair White, CCIM; 703-307-9711 blair@landmarkcre.com LandmarkCRE.com

Lawn/Garden

FREE - FREE - FREE Do you have stuff???

We want to clean you out!! Reach 75,000

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OFFICE SPACE IN THE HEART OF OLD TOWN WARRENTON

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Instruction

Learn fundamental one stroke Asian brush painting techniques from established artist.

Zen Art class for beginners & beyond.

434-981-7615

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TOWN OF WARRENTON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS

Legal Notices

Public hearings will be held by the Council of the Town of Warrenton, Virginia on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in Town Hall, 18 Court Street on the following: 1. The Town’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2018-2019 2. Calendar Year 2018 Tax Rates 3. Town Capital Improvements Program for FY2019-2024 4. Business, Professional & Occupational License Year 2020 Tax Rates and the implementation of a gross receipts threshold 5. A resolution of the Town Council of the Town of Warrenton establishing the percentage of relief granted to qualifying personal use vehicles, subject to the Town of Warrenton’s personal property tax, for the 2018 tax year 6. Water and Sewer Rates for FY2019 7. Proposed increase in the Cigarette Tax rate 8. Proposed increases in Community Development permits and fees Copies of the Budget are available for review at Town Hall M-F 8:30 AM- 4:30 PM or via the Town’s website (www.warrentonva.gov) In accordance with Section 15.2-2506 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, a Public Hearing on the Proposed FY 2018-2019 Budget, as set forth below, will be held by the Council of the Town of Warrenton on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 7:00 P.M. in Town Hall, 18 Court Street, Warrenton, Virginia. Any citizen of the Town of Warrenton shall have the right to attend and state his/her views hereon. The Town of Warrenton 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.

Evelyn J. Weimer, Town Recorder

TOWN OF WARRENTON, VIRGINIA PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018-2019 AMENDED FY 2018

PROPOSED FY 2019

$1,279,339 6,882,677 191,100 210,000 58,500 1,344,872 217,943 2,932,302 4,500 47,000 1,966,328 $15,134,561

$1,319,650 7,167,824 180,000 170,000 136,700 1,360,262 252,515 3,010,764 4,500 50,000 2,077,323 $15,729,538

$201,188 268,027 188,864 593,365 10,909 10,000 3,713,301 3,586,838 185,892 2,189,015 1,628,455 633,598 1,925,109 $15,134,561

$195,605 240,177 208,910 631,243 7,925 3,656,163 3,865,228 246,615 2,267,145 1,546,053 734,530 2,129,944 $15,729,538

CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND

$3,516,811

$2,943,162

WATER & SEWER OPERATING FUND REVENUE Transfer Fees Use of Money & Property Charges for Services Miscellaneous Revenue Use of Reserves TOTAL W&S OPERATING FUND REVENUE

$10,000 177,000 5,348,138 27,000 8,724 $5,57 0,862

$10,000 234,000 5,508,806 16,900 $5,769,706

EXPENSES Water Supply, Distribution & Billing Wastewater Treatment Administration Debt Service Transfer to W/S Capital Fund TOTAL W&S OPERATING FUND EXPENSES

$1,980,807 1,780,063 857,508 128,310 824,174 $5,570,862

$2,098,908 1,825,866 879,028 519,516 446,388 $5,769,706

WATER & SEWER CAPITAL FUND REVENUE Miscellaneous Revenue Non-Revenue Receipts Transfers In / Reserves TOTAL W&S CAPITAL FUND REVENUE

$12,157 3,953,667 2,512,533 $6,478,357

$62,100 $10,293,000 $2,096,312 $12,451,412

EXPENSES Capital Projects TOTAL W&S CAPITAL FUND EXPENSES

$6,478,357 $6,478,357

$12,451,412 $12,451,412

$0.05 $1.00 $0.00 $0.00 $1.00 $1.00 $0.80

$0.05 $1.00 $0.00 $0.00 $1.00 $1.00 $0.80

$0.15

$0.20

GENERAL FUND REVENUE General Property Tax Other Local Taxes Licenses, Permits & Fees Fines & Forfeitures Use of Money & Property Charges for Services Miscellaneous Revenue State Revenue Federal Revenue Transers In / Proffers Use of Fund Balance TOTAL GENERAL FUND REVENUE EXPENDITURES Legislative Department Executive Department Legal Services Finance & Human Resources Memberships & Dues  Public Safety Public Works Contributions to Outside Agencies Parks & Recreation Community Development Debt Service Transfer to Capital Projects Fund TOTAL GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES

TAX RATES Levy per $100 assessed valuation Real Estate Tangible Personal Property-General Tangible Personal Property-Handicapped Motor Homes, Campers and Boats Machinery & Tools Business Personal Property & Computers Bank Stock (per $100 net capital) Other taxes: Cigarette Tax (per pack)

TOWN OF WARRENTON, VIRGINIA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Town Council of the Town of Warrenton will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 7:00 PM in the Warrenton Town Hall Council Chambers (First Floor) located at 18 Court Street, Warrenton, Virginia, on the following item(s): Special Use Permit 2018-01 173 Main Street. The request, per Article 3-4.9.3 Permissible Uses by Special Use Permit within the Public-Semi-Public Institutional District, is to allow for a singlefamily dwelling in an existing building (Brentmoor) at 173 Main Street. The Special Use Permit would allow the structure to revert from a museum to a single-family dwelling. The parcel is zoned Public-Semi Public Institutional and the Comprehensive Plan identified the property as Live Work Neighborhood on the Future Land Use Map. The owner is the Town of Warrenton. The parcel size is 3.06 acres (GPIN6984-53-4158-000).

People having an interest in the above are invited to attend the hearing and state their opinion regarding the above issues. A copy of the application is available for review in the Department of Planning and Community Development located at 18 Court Street, Lower Level, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. The Town of Warrenton does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in admission or access to its programs and activities. Town Hall meeting facilities are fully accessible. Any special accommodations can be made upon request 48 hours prior to the meeting.

JOINT PUBLIC HEARING A Joint Public Hearing will be held by the Town Council and Planning Commission of the Town of The Plains, Virginia at 7:00 P.M. on May 21, 2018 in the second floor meeting room of The Plains Fire Department, 4260 Loudoun Avenue, The Plains Virginia, to hear public comment on the Subdivision Waiver of Requirements based on a Revised Sketch Plat for Mendleson, LLC to create eight (8) single family lots on 3.95 acres fronting on Mosby Street and Hopewell Road, The Plains, Virginia 20198; Tax Map ID Number 6999-18-3699-000 as provided by the Subdivision Ordinance.

The Property is located in the R2, Residential Zoning District, the Historic Overlay Zoning District and the Gateway Overlay Zoning District.

A copy of the Revised Sketch Plat, Waivers and supportive application materials is available for review during their regular business hours at the Fauquier County Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall, VA or by contacting the Town of The Plains, PO Box 104, The Plains, Va 20198, Phone/Fax (540) 364-4945.

The Town of The Plains does not discriminate on basis of handicapped status in an issue of access to its programs and activities.

Accommodations will be made for handicapped persons upon prior request.

Nancy E. Brady, Clerk/Treasurer

NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE FOR DELINQUENT TAXES

Pursuant to decrees of sale entered by the Fauquier County Circuit Court in the below referenced causes, the undersigned offers for sale by private offer until May 9, 2018 at 10 a.m. the following properties located in Fauquier County for payment of delinquent taxes pursuant to § 58.1-3965 et seq. of the Code of VA: 1) 2.14 acres +/-, Lot 8A, Golden Hill Estates, PIN 7806-70-9415, CL17-589; 2) 9.5 acres +/- in Linden at the S.E. corner of Fiery Run Rd. & Hardscrabble Rd., PIN 6000-61-2810, CL17-427; 3) 8.87 acres +/- in Catlett, north side of Cromwell Rd., 2200 block, PIN 7849-10-1874, CL17-429; 4) 2.5 acres +/- in Linden, north side of Fiery Run Rd., 3800 block, PIN 6000-94-0818, CL17-443; 5) 7.88 acres +/-, 11282 Rogues Rd., Midland, PIN 7809-40-4994, CL17448; 6) 0.1370 acre +/- in Town of Remington, east side of N. Church St. PIN 6887-08-5317, CL17-428; 7) 5.5 acres +/- landlocked parcel in Midland, north side of Longstalk Ln. PIN 7819-19-3835, CL18-6; 8) 9.29 acres +/- at 13099 Sillamon Rd., Goldvein, PIN 7836-44-3427, CL17-398; 9) 0.50 acre +/-, north side of Dumfries Rd. in the 4500 block, Catlett, PIN 7914-42-9657, CL17-456; 10) 212.55 acres +/-, 5174 Ritchie Rd., Bealeton, PIN 7808-44-5264, CL17-394; 11) 3 unimproved, landlocked parcels to be sold together, totaling 12 acres +/- to the east/southeast of Leeds Manor Rd., in the 2600 block, Markham, PINs 6022-52-8937, 6022-53-8156, 6022-53-9268, CL17-556. Properties not sold by private offer will be auctioned May 11, 2018 at 10 a.m. at Fauquier Circuit Court, 40 Culpeper St., Warrenton, VA. For more information, visit: www.fauquiercounty.gov/taxsale. Sale Terms: Funds must be paid by cashier’s check. Cash will not be accepted. Sales require Court approval. A deposit of $1,000.00 or 10% of the purchase price, whichever is greater, must accompany all private offers and highest bids. Checks must be made payable to The Fauquier Bank, General Receiver, and be delivered with written offers of purchase to M.C. Anderson. Balances are due within 45 days of Court approval. Properties are offered for sale as-is with all faults and without any warranties, expressed or implied, and are conveyed by Deed with Special Warranty of Title.

Properties are available for inspection at bidders’ risk and expense.

Inspection costs are non-refundable. Purchasers bear costs of title search, recording costs, and grantor’s tax. Mary Catherine Anderson, Sr. Asst. Co. Atty. & Spec. Commr. of Sale, VSB# 68654; 10 Hotel Street, 2nd Floor, Warrenton, VA 20186; (540) 422-8010; mc.anderson@fauquiercounty.gov. I, Gail H. Barb, Clerk, Fauquier Co. Circuit Court certify that the Court directed that all payments be deposited to the credit of the Court with The Fauquier Bank, General Receiver, and that no bond shall be required therefore of the Special Comm. of Sale pursuant to Code of VA § 8.01-99.

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BIDS & PROPOSALS

BIDS & PROPOSALS Fauquier County Govt & Public Schools has the following solicitations available on www.fauquiercounty.gov : RFP 76-18sm, 403/457B Advisory Consulting Services. Sealed proposals due by 2:30 p.m. May 22, 2018. Contact: susan.monaco@fauquiercounty.gov RFP 77-18sm, Employee Benefits & Communications Consulting Services.

Sealed proposals due by 2:30 p.m. May 23, 2018. Contact: susan.monaco@ fauquiercounty.gov

Fauquier Co. Water & Sanitation Authority has the following solicitations available on their website: http://www. fcwsa.org

IFB 18-P-09-0218: RWWTP Sludge Bay Extension Sealed bids due by 2:00pm 5/21/2018.

Contact Jason Bailey at jbailey@ fcwsa.org or 540-349-2092 EXT. 101

FAUQUIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION May 17, 2018 The Fauquier County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the following items at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 17, 2018 in the Warren Green Building, First Floor Meeting Room, 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia: 1. WAIVER – WAIV-18-008788 – ROBERT M. (IV) & LAINE W. ITEN (OWNERS/ APPLICANTS) – BLACKWELL KNOLLS – An application to waive the requirements of Subdivision Ordinance Sections 8-1(C) and (D) related to the installation of a pedestrian trail. The property is located along the frontage of Blackwell Road, Center District. (PIN 6985-62-1780-000) (Amy Rogers, Staff) Note: This is a public meeting where comments from the public will be accepted, but not a public hearing.

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2. ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT – TEXT-16-005487 – A Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment to Section 2-512 to address concerns due to overgrazing of parcels greater than two acres but less than 10 acres. (Amy Rogers, Staff) 3. ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT – TEXT-17-008165 – A Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment to Articles 3, 5 and 15 to Create a Short Term Rental Use, Develop Standards for Short Term Rentals and Develop a Definition. (Rob Walton, Staff) 4. 14TH ADDITION TO THE UPPERVILLE AGRICULTURAL & FORESTAL DISTRICT – AGFO-17-008394 · Smith Atoka, LLC (Owner/Applicant), PIN 6073-88-4395-000, located on Atoka Road and Rectors Lane, Scott District, Marshall, Virginia. (Ben Holt, Staff) 5. 23RD ADDITION TO THE MIDDLEBURG/MARSHALL AGRICULTURAL & FORESTAL DISTRICT – AGFO-17-008493 ·Bethany Powell Brower & John Vincent Brower (Owners/Applicants), PIN 6070-52-6016-000, located at 7435 Stoney Hill Lane, Scott District, The Plains, Virginia. (Ben Holt, Staff) 6. 21ST ADDITION TO THE MARSHALL/WARRENTON AGRICULTURAL & FORESTAL DISTRICT – AGFO-18-008648 ·Lisa S. Brown & Mark A. Kile (Owners/Applicants), PIN 6955-42-9365-000, located at 7330 Dudie Road, Marshall District, Marshall, Virginia. (Ben Holt, Staff) 7. 13TH ADDITION TO THE SPRINGS VALLEY AGRICULTURAL & FORESTAL DISTRICT – AGFO-18-008649 ·Steven M. & Susan W. Lewis (Owners/Applicants), PIN 6953-83-1239-000 and 6953-73-3444-000, located at 9255 Harts Mill Road, Marshall District, Warrenton, Virginia. (Ben Holt, Staff) 8. 22ND ADDITION TO THE SOUTHERN FAUQUIER AGRICULTURAL & FORESTAL DISTRICT – AGFO-18-008675 ·Kane Manor Farm, LLC (Owner/Applicant), PIN 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 and 6990-37-4369-000, located on Green Road and Balls Mill Road, Cedar Run District, Midland, Virginia.

(Ben Holt, Staff) 9. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-18-008826 – THE MOSBY HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION (OWNER/APPLICANT) – CALEB RECTOR HOUSE – An application to amend a previously approved Category 7 Special Exception to revise conditions. The property is located at 1461 Atoka Road, Scott District. (PIN 6073-98-4998-000) (Wendy Wheatcraft, Staff) 10. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-18-008974 – JOHN K. (III) & KRISTIN L. BROWN (OWNERS/APPLICANTS) – NORTHPOINT TRAINING – An application for two Category 5 Special Exceptions to allow for both an Indoor and Outdoor Technical School. The properties are located at 13001 Sillamon Road, Cedar Run District. (PIN 7836-75-1585-000 and 7836-64-6175-000) (Ben Holt, Staff) 11. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-18-008985 – COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (OWNER)/ST. MICHAELʼS ACADEMY (APPLICANT) – ST. MICHAELʼS ACADEMY – An application to amend conditions of a previously approved Category 5 Special Exception (SPEX-17-007099) to permit a primary school, grades kindergarten through fifth. The property is located at 6317 Vint Hill Road, Scott District. (PIN 7916-66-8334-000) (Adam Shellenberger, Staff) 12. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-18-009171 – JOHN BRISCOE WOODBURN III AND SIOBHAN WOODBURN (OWNERS)/CALVERT CROSSLAND, LLC AND VERIZON WIRELESS (APPLICANTS) – GOLDVEIN TOWER – An application for a Category 20 Special Exception to construct a 195 foot monopole telecommunications tower with associated equipment compound. The property is located at 3590 Rivenoak Lane, Lee District. (PIN 7824-06-9456-000) (Wendy Wheatcraft, Staff) 13. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT – COMA-18-008969 – A Comprehensive Plan Amendment to Chapter 9 related to Public Facilities and Utilities. (Kimberley Fogle, Staff) Staff reports for all items will be available online at agenda.fauquiercounty.gov approximately one week prior to the public hearing.

Copies of the full text of the proposed Fauquier County Zoning Ordinance text amendments may be examined in the Department of Community Developmentʼs 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 Developmentʼs 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.

NOTICE

FAUQUIER COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS PUBLIC HEARINGS The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on the following items at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in the Warren Green Meeting Room 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia: 1. A RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE FY 2018 ADOPTED BUDGET - A public hearing to consider a resolution to amend the FY 2018 Adopted Budget. Fauquier County was recently awarded grants from the Virginia Department of Aviation to construct a Terminal Building at the Warrenton-Fauquier Airport in the amount of $4,640,920. Upon holding the public hearing, this item will also accept and appropriate the grant award, as well as award the Terminal Building contract to Taft Construction in the amount of $4,241,350.

The Code of Virginia, § 15.2-2507, requires a public hearing when amendments to the budget exceed 1% of total expenditures, which for FY 2018 totals $3,108,945. (Erin M. Kozanecki, Staff) 2. A RESOLUTION REVISING THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT’S FEE SCHEDULE (Kimberley Fogle, Staff) 3. ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT TEXT-18-008926 – A Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment to Articles 3, 4, 5 and 15 to allow Mobile Eating Establishments as a temporary use and to develop standards and a definition for Mobile Eating Establishments. (Rob Walton, Staff) 4. REZONING REZN-18-008769, NORTH FORTY ASPEN, LP (OWNER / APPLICANT) – ASPEN CLUB – An application to rezone approximately 10.1540 acres from Planned Residential Development (PRD) with proffers to Garden Apartments (GA) with proffers.

The property is located at 6337 Village Center Drive, Lee District. (PIN 6899-35-6574-000) (Adam Shellenberger, Staff) 5. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT COMA-16-004574 / REZONING REZN-16004575, DEBORAH BROWN CROSS (OWNER / APPLICANT) – CROSS PROPERTY – An application for a Comprehensive Plan Amendment to remove approximately 1.15 acres from the Village of Calverton and an application to rezone approximately 1.15 acres from Commercial – Highway (C-2) to Rural Agriculture (RA). The property is located at 9658 Bristersburg Road, Cedar Run District. (PIN 7911-94-8162-000) (Andrew Hopewell, Staff) 6. REZONING – CALVERTON PROPERTIES – Applications to rezone approximately 130.01 acres from Residential: 1 Unit Per Acre (R-1) to Rural Agriculture (RA) adjacent to the Village of Calverton, Cedar Run District. (Andrew Hopewell, Staff) · · · · · ·

Linda M. Allen (Owner/Applicant), 0.69 acres, 9749 Bristersburg Road Louise J. & Thomas G. Walker (O/A), 58.60 acres, 4007 Old Calverton Road Jimmie & Robbie Kilby (O/A), 1.30 acres, 9755 Bristersburg Road Robert M. Hurley (O/A), 4.28 acres, 9737 Bristersburg Road Carl Sanford (O/A), 0.77 acres, 9758 Bristersburg Road General Lee Jr. and Patricia W. Edwards (O/A), 33.91 acres, 9743 Bristersburg Road, 3658 Old Weaversville Road, 3664 Old Weaversville Road and adjacent property north of Old Weaversville Road · Lori L. Blasius (O/A), 0.56 acres, 9739 Bristersburg Road · Old Acres, Inc. (O)/Douglas C. Trumbo (A), 0.70 acres, property north of Old Weaversville Road and southeast of Old Calverton Road (Portion of PIN 7921-24-2159-000) · Eleanor F. & Herbert F. Wilson Jr. Trust (O)/Eleanor Wilson (A), 29.20 acres, 3916 Catlett Road and adjacent property north of Catlett Road 7. REZONING – CATLETT PROPERTIES – Applications to rezone approximately 33.05 acres from Residential: 1 Unit per Acre (R-1) to Rural Agriculture (RA) and approximately 1.14 acres from Industrial Park (I-1) to Rural Agriculture (RA) adjacent to the Catlett Village Service District, Cedar Run District. (Andrew Hopewell, Staff) · Stacey R. Simpson (Owner/Applicant), 2.00 acres, 3057 Tenerife Road · Winterbrook Farm, LC (O), Barbara S. Trenis (A), 1.14 acres, south of Catlett Road and west of Elk Run Road (Portion of PIN 7921-88-1524- 000) · John Ashby Kyhl (O/A), 0.55 acres, 3077 Tenerife Road · Marie C. Kyhl (O)/William D. Colvin (A), 2.85 acres, 3087 Tenerife Road · H. Lynn & Teresa B. Sanford Living Trust (O)/H. Lynn & Teresa B. Sanford (A), 27.65 acres, 9199 Prospect Avenue Copies of the above files (except as noted) are available for review in the County Administrator’s Office, 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Any interested parties wishing to be heard on any of the above are requested to be present at the public hearing or send written comments prior to May 10, 2018, to the County Administrator’s Office. 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 Renée Culbertson, Deputy Municipal Clerk, at (540) 422-8020.

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE´S SALE (Sale at the Premises Address) Under and by virtue of the authority vested in the undersigned Substitute Trustee (the “Substitute Trustee”) under that certain Deed of Trust from Peter A. Barthelson aka Peter August Barthelson and as Peter Barthelson, and from Elaheh M. Barthelson aka Eleheh Barthelson and Elaheh Barthelson and as Elaher Mohammadkhani, dated June 11, 2010, and recorded on June 15, 2010, in Deed Book 1344 at Pages 1560-1585, among the land records of Fauquier County, Virginia, as amended

by Modification of Deed of Trust dated January 1, 2014, and recorded on February 4, 2014, in Deed Book 1453 at Pages 1665-1672, among the said County land records, and by virtue of a certain Deed of Appointment Designating Substitute Trustee dated January 29, 2018, and recorded on February 6, 2018, in Deed Book 1566 at Pages 98-100, among the said County land records, appointing Advantageous Equities, L.L.C., as Substitute Trustee thereunder, default hav-ing been made in the payment of the obligations thereby secured, and having been directed by the holder of the secured obligations so to do, the undersigned, on Friday, May 4, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. at the premises address of 9317 Green Meadows Road, Warrenton (Fauquier County), Virginia 20187, will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder the following described property, being a portion of the property mentioned in the aforesaid Deed of Trust, situate and being in Fauquier County, Virginia, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot, piece, or parcel of land situate, lying and being situate in Lee Magisterial District, Fauquier County, Virginia, containing 18.7215 acres, more or less, more particularly shown on that certain plat of survey entitled “Division Plat on the Residue of Property of Margaret C. Schreifels” prepared by Carson, Harris & Associates, J.H. Harris, L.S., dated October 17, 1997, recorded in Deed Book 802 at Page 1029 among the land records of Fauquier County, Virginia.

Property location: 9317 Green Meadows Road, Warrenton, Virginia 20187 Tax Map No.: 6982-70-6727-000 TERMS OF SALE: CASH. As a condition of participating in the auction, each prospective bidder, with the exception of the holder of the obligations secured by the above described Deed of Trust, if it is a bidder, must have first registered with the undersigned Substitute Trustee and must have first delivered a cashier’s or certified check in the amount of $20,000.00 payable to the undersigned Substitute Trustee prior to or at the time of the scheduled foreclosure sale. The undersigned Substitute Trustee will retain the check from the successful bidder as the bidder’s deposit; the undersigned Substitute Trustee will return any checks received from non successful bidders immediately following the sale. An additional earnest money deposit aggregating along with the abovementioned bidder’s deposit to 10% of the sales price shall be paid to the Substitute Trustee on or before May 9, 2018. The balance of the purchase money, with interest thereon at 6% per annum from date of sale to date of settlement, shall be due at settlement, which shall be held in the offices of the undersigned Substitute Trustee on or before May 14, 2018. Time shall be of the essence.

A memorandum of sale to be signed by the successful bidder, in addition to the bid price, will include a 10% buyer’s premium to be paid at settlement by the successful bidder to Motleys Asset Disposition Group.

Additional terms of sale will be announced at the time of sale, and may be obtained in advance of the sale by contacting the undersigned Substitute Trustee.

ADVANTAGEOUS EQUITIES, L.L.C., Substitute Trustee For information contact: ADVANTAGEOUS EQUITIES, L.L.C. c/o NEIL I. TITLE, Counsel KARPOFF & TITLE P. O. Box 990 1840 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 205 Arlington, Virginia 22216-0990 703-841-9600 phone ntitle@karpofftitle.com email Publication dates: Wednesday, April 25, 2018; Wednesday, May 2, 2018

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF FAUQUIER COUNTY MICHAEL F. THOMSON, Plaintiff V. Case Number CL-18-36 (Glenn Lewis, deceased (THE LEWIS LAW FIRM, defunct) UNKNOWN HEIRS OF GLENN LEWIS The widow, heirs, devisees and successors in title of Glenn Lewis, and the Lewis Law Firm, who are made parties defendant by the general description of PARTIES UNKNOWN Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to remove the cloud on the title of that certain tract or parcel of land known as 6328 Georgetown Road, Broad Run, VA, in Fauquier County together with any improvements thereon, and all rights, privileges, appurtenances, easements and rights-of-way thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, resulting from a Notice of Charging Lien, dated June 20, 2008.

Representations having been made to the Court that diligence has been used by the Plaintiff without effect to ascertain the identity and location of unknown heirs of Glenn Lewis, and proffer having been made that the last known address of Glenn H. Lewis is 10306 Eaton Place, Suite 200, Fairfax, Virgina, and the address of only one heir, his widow, Kimberly Lewis, is known.

It is ordered that the said defendants, the unknown heirs of Glenn H. Lewis do appear on or before May 21,2018 and do what is necessary to protect their interests.

It is further ordered that the foregoing portion of this order be published once a week for 4 successive weeks in the Fauquier Times.

Dated: March 28, 2018 Jeffrey W. Parker, Judge I ASK FOR THIS: Monica J. Chernin, Esq.; VSB #: 29007 Counsel for Plaintiff Law Office of Monica J. Chernin, PC P.O. Box 1221 Culpeper, VA 22701 (540) 825-2363 / (540) 825-2379

TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 6812 Chestnut Oak Lane Warrenton, VA 20187 In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original principal amount of $373,500.00, dated September 21, 2005, recorded among the land records of the Circuit Court for Fauquier County on September 26, 2005, as Instrument Number 2005-00017412, in Deed Book 1181, at Page 1114, the undersigned appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction, at the main entrance of the courthouse for the Circuit Court of Fauquier County, 40 Culpeper St, Warrenton, VA on May 17, 2018 at 3:45 PM, the property described in said deed of trust, located at the above address and briefly described as: All that certain tract or parcel of land located in Cedar Run Magisterial District, Fauquier County, Virginia, described as Lot 23, Section 8, BROKEN HILLS ESTATES, Fauquier County, Virginia and more fully described by plat of James G. Butler, Jr., CLS, dated October 1, 1974, and recorded in Deed Book 319 at page 612, among the land records of Fauquier County, Virginia. Tax ID: 7905-77-2629-000.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $12,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is lower, will be required in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. Cash will not be accepted as a deposit. Settlement within fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Trustee may forfeit deposit.

Additional terms to be announced at sale. This is a communication from a debt collector. This notice is an attempt to collect on a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

(Trustee # 582418) Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee, LLC, C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548, Leesburg, VA 20177, (703) 777-7101, website: http://www.orlans.com Towne #: 5000.1170

TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 10911 Rugby Drive Bealeton, VA 22712 In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original principal amount of $207,633.00, dated August 13, 2013, recorded among the land records of the Circuit Court for Fauquier County on August 15, 2013, in Deed Book 1441, at Page 607, the undersigned appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction, at the main entrance of the courthouse for the Circuit Court of Fauquier County, 40 Culpeper St, Warrenton, VA on May 17, 2018 at 3:45 PM, the property described in said deed of trust, located at the above address and briefly described as: THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF FAUQUIER, STATE OF VIRGINIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN LEE MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT, FAUQUIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND DESCRIBED AS LOT 160, ON ’’FINAL PLAT, SECTION M, MEADOWBROOKE SUBDIVISION’’, DATED FEBRUARY 1992, PREPARED BY GILBERT W. CLIFFORD ASSOCIATES, INC., RECORDED WITH DEED OF DEDICATION, SUBDIVISION, EASEMENT, RESTRICTIONS AND COVENANTS, DATED MAY 14, 1992 AND RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 674, AT PAGE 78 IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE OF FAUQUIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Tax ID: 6889-87-7406-000.

TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $11,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is lower, will be required in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. Cash will not be accepted as a deposit. Settlement within fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Trustee may forfeit deposit.

Additional terms to be announced at sale. This is a communication from a debt collector. This notice is an attempt to collect on a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

(Trustee # 580080) Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee, LLC, C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548, Leesburg, VA 20177, (703) 777-7101, website: http://www.orlans.com

Towne #: 5000.0608

The Fauquier County Department of Community Development hereby gives notice of the County’s intent to revise the flood hazard information, generally located at the confluence of Unnamed Tributary No. 2 to Carters Run with Carters Run. Specifically, the flood hazard information shall be revised along Carter Run from approximately 90 feet downstream of the confluence of Unnamed Tributary No. 2 to Carters Run to approximately 570 feet upstream of the confluence. The flood hazard information shall be revised along Unnamed Tributary No. 2 to Carters Run from approximately 90 feet downstream of the confluence with Carters Run to approximately 700 feet upstream of the confluence.

As a result of the revision, the 1% annual chance floodplain shall narrow and widen within the area of revision.

Maps and detailed analysis of the revision can be reviewed at 29 Ashby Street, 3rd Floor, Warrenton, VA. Interested persons may call Rob Walton at 540-422-8200 for additional information from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, M-F.

PUBLIC INFORMATION HEARING

The Virginia Department of Historic Resources will conduct a public information hearing of the Midland Historic District on May 15, 2018. The meeting begins at 6pm at Midland United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall 5435 Midland Rd. Midland, VA 22728. Public comment regarding the proposal will be taken at the time of the hearing or can be sent to: Director Julie Langan, Dept of Historic Resources, 2801 Kensington Ave, Richmond,VA 23221.This proposal has been recommended eligible for the Virginia Landmarks and National Registers. This proposal will be presented to the State Review Board and the Board of Historic Resources on June 21, 2018 in Stratford,VA. For a copy of the proposal and/or a boundary map contact Aubrey VonLindern at 540.868.7029 or Aubrey. vonlindern@dhr.virginia.gov.

TOWN OF WARRENTON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing is scheduled for Tuesday May 8, 2018 at 7:00 pm in the Chambers of Town Hall, located at 18 Court Street, Warrenton, Virginia for the Town Council of the Town of Warrenton to receive public comment in accordance with Virginia Code §15.2-1800(B) regarding the sale of property owned by the Town of Warrenton at 173 Main Street, Warrenton, VA. All public meetings are intended to be accessible to persons with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Any person requiring accommodation and/or auxiliary aids shall notify the Town Manager at least five days prior to the scheduled meeting.

Brannon Godfrey Town Manager

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Full Time Employment Seeking: investor to build small house on pretty 2.5 acres. $350k investment. $50k profit.

540-878-9519 ● ● ● ● ● ●

U.S Postal Contract Carrier

FT, Sumerduck P.O. Great Opportunity. $38K42K. Mr. Edwards 904-874-5325

HIRING Heavy Equip Operators Truck Drivers Pipe Foremen Pipe Crew Grade Foremen Laborers

Full Time Employment Sub Maker/Delivery/Kitchen Help

Musician/ Minister of Music

for Sunday am worship services, weekly rehearsals & other occasions/ services through the year. Ebenezer Baptist Church Lignum, VA 540 399-1315

Apply in person: JOE & VINNIE´S PIZZA Waterloo Shop Cntr, 540-347-0022

Seasonal Gardener

The Plains, VA. Please email resume to

openclassified @yahoo.com

CASHIER & GRILL

Excellent pay and benefits. Guaranteed time for hourly employees. 540-364-4800.

FT/PT Call (540) 937-5117 or apply in person at Ma and Paws Country Mall, 9040 Monumental Mills Road, Rixeyville, VA.

Motor Equipment Operator I

REHABILITATION SPECIALIST

The Town of Warrenton is accepting applications for a Motor Equipment Operator I in the Public Works Department to operate light to medium weight trucks and equipment in the construction, repair and maintenance of streets, utilities, waste disposal, snow removal, mowing operations and related facilities and systems; must possess a valid Virginia Commercial Driver’s License; copy of current DMV driving record is required at interview; starting salary $33,312; excellent benefits.

Application required and may be printed from web site: www. warrentonva.gov and sent to Human Resources, Town of Warr e n t o n , P. O . D r a w e r 3 4 1 , Warrenton, Virginia 20188 (18 Court St, Warrenton, VA 20186) Open until filled. EOE.

Blue Ridge Orthopaedic and Spine Center in Warrenton, VA, is looking for a FT Rehabilitation Specialist in our state of the art Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation center. Primary duties to include designated routine tasks pertaining to the care and maintenance of the equipment and aseptic technique. Prepare, maintain and clean treatment areas and assist in supply/ equipment maintenance, related to the efficient operation of the physical therapy service under the supervision of a Physical Therapist. Bachelor’s degree in Exercise physiologist, Exercise Science, or Athletic Training preferred but not required. We offer an excellent benefit package and an exciting work environment.

Visit our website @ www.broava.com.

To apply, forward resume to:

Attn: A. Dart Fax: (540) 347-0492 Mail: 52 W Shirley Ave., Warrenton, VA 20186 E-Mail: adart@broava.com

Part Time

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TOWN OF WARRENTON, VIRGINIA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Customer Service Representative

Notice is hereby given that the Planning Commission of the Town of Warrenton will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 7:00 PM in the Warrenton Town Hall Council Chambers (First Floor) located at 18 Court Street, Warrenton, Virginia, on the following item(s): Zoning Map Amendment 2017-02 Lindsay Holdings, LLC The applicant, Lindsay Holdings, LLC, is requesting to rezone approximately 1.01 acres at 232 and 234 West Shirley Avenue from Public-Semi-Public (PSP) to Commercial (C) to allow Automotive Sales, Truck Sales and Repair Garages, and Automotive Body Shop uses. The property is designated Commercial in the Comprehensive Plan. The subject application is companion to Special Use Permit 2017-09 Lindsay Holdings, LLC for Automotive Sales, Truck Sales and Repair Garages, and Automotive Body Shop uses. The subject site is presently owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Lindsay Holdings, LLC is the contract purchaser.

(GPIN 6984-03-8299-000 and 6984-03-8155-000) Special Use Permit 2017-09 Lindsay Holdings, LLC The applicant, Lindsay Holdings LLC, is requesting, per Article 3-4.10.3 Permissible Uses by Special Use Permit, to allow for Automotive Sales, Truck Sales and Repair Garages, and Automotive Body Shop uses on approximately 3.36 acres. The property is located at 232, 234 and 250 West Shirley Avenue. The site is currently zoned Commercial (C) and Public-Semi-Public (PSP) and is designated Commercial in the Comprehensive Plan. The subject application is companion to Zoning Map Amendment 2017-02 Lindsay Holdings LLC. Lindsay Holdings LLC is owner of 250 West Shirley Avenue and contract purchaser from the Commonwealth of Virginia of 232 and 234 West Shirley Avenue. (GPINs 6984-03-8299-000, 6984-03-8155-000, 6984-03-7368-000, and 6984-03-6502-000) Special Use Permit 2018-03 763 James Madison Hwy. The applicant, Cecil Campbell, is requesting, per Article 3-4.12.3 Permissible Uses by Special Use Permit, to allow for a fuel distribution storage yard on approximately one (1) acre portion of a nine (9) acre parcel. The property is zoned Industrial and the Comprehensive Plan identified the property as Light Industrial on the Future Land Use Map. Cecil Campbell is the contract purchaser of the property and the current owner is Wilson Brothers, Inc. (GPIN 6983-67-5171-000) People having an interest in the above are invited to attend the hearing and state their opinion regarding the above issues. Copies of all applications are available for review in the Department of Planning and Community Development located at 18 Court Street, Lower Level, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. The Town of Warrenton does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in admission or access to its programs and activities. Town Hall meeting facilities are fully accessible. Any special accommodations can be made upon request 48 hours prior to the meeting.

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Part-time positions available.

Must have good customer service skills. Computer knowledge and agricultural background helpful.

Apply in person: C F C FA R M & HOME CENTER 12375 Harpers Run Rd Bealeton, VA No phone calls.

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540-347-4222 or FAX 540-349-8676

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST

Blue Ridge Orthopaedic and Spine Center located in Warrenton, VA has an immediate part-time opening for a licensed Occupational Therapist in our DYNAMIC outpatient Orthopaedic facility. The therapist will provide evaluation, therapy diagnosis, treatment options, patient evaluations, discharge summaries, progress reports and maintain current progress notes on all patients treated. Ideal candidates must be self-motivated with Orthopaedic experience. Our friendly staff will train and mentor the newly graduated! Minimum Bachelor of Occupational Therapy required. We offer a competitive salary, outstanding benefits package, excellent continuing education programs and an exciting work environment.

Visit our website @ www.broava.com.

To apply, forward resume to:

Attn: A. Dart Fax: (540) 347-0492 Mail: 52 W Shirley Ave., Warrenton, VA 20186 E-Mail: adart@broava.com

CHEMUNG CONTRACTING CORPORATION, Mitchells, VA is now accepting applications for the following positions:

Heavy Equipment Operators (dozers, excavators, rollers, haul trucks), Pipe Layers, and Skilled Laborers.

Required to work nights and weekends based on specific project requirements, and have transportation to and from work.

All new hires are subject to a preemployment background check and drug screening. Apply in person: Main Office at 10496 Quarry Dr., Mitchells, VA 22729 Tues-Fri 8am-4pm or call 540-829-7203 to schedule an appointment.

Chemung Contracting is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and all qualified persons are encouraged to apply.

Full Time Employment

PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT Look no further! Blue Ridge Orthopaedic and Spine Center has an immediate opening for a FT licensed Physical Therapist Assistant in our state- of- art outpatient Orthopaedic facility. Ideal candidates must be self motivated with Orthopaedic experience. Our friendly staff will train and mentor the newly graduated! We offer a competitive salary, outstanding benefit package, excellent continuing education programs with an exciting, energetic work environment with a passion for patient care.

Visit our website @ www.broava.com.

To apply, forward resume to:

Attn: A. Dart Fax: (540) 347-0492 Mail: 52 W Shirley Ave., Warrenton, VA 20186 E-Mail: adart@broava.com

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BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY Builder

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Design & Installations • Sod Installs Patios & Walkways • Maintenance Top Soil • Fill Dirt • Excavation Credit Cards Accepted Discounts for Seniors, Military & 1st Responders

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Crest Hill Hume, Virginia $3,600,000 Crest •Hill Hume, Virginia • $3,600,000 Crest Hill Hume, Virginia • $3,600,000 Crest Hill

203 acres in Fauquier w/nearly 1 mile of Rappahannock river frontage • Elegant stone & clapboard house • 5 BR, 4 full & 3 1/2 BA • 4 FP • Wood floorsacres • Gourmet kitchen • Gunnite poolofw/stunning views overlooking Blue 203 in Fauquier w/nearly 1 mile Rappahannock river frontage • Ridge Mtns and pondhouse • Situated amongst protected properties stall Elegant stone &private clapboard • 5 BR, 4 full & 3 1/2 BA • 4 FP • 5Wood Jim Fletcher barn kitchen w/pristinely maintained and gdns • 2Blue car floors • Gourmet • Gunnite pool paddocks, w/stunningpasture views overlooking 203 acres inand Fauquier w/nearly 1 mile of territory Rappahannock river frontage • garage w/in-law suite • Old Dominion Hunt • VOF Easement Ridge Mtns private pond • Situated amongst protected properties • 5 stall Elegant stonebarn & clapboard house • 5 BR,paddocks, 4 full & 3pasture 1/2 BAand • 4gdns FP ••Wood Jim Fletcher w/pristinely maintained 2 car Alix Coolidge (703) 625-1724 floors •w/in-law Gourmetsuite kitchen • Dominion Gunnite pool w/stunning•views Blue garage • Old Hunt VOFoverlooking Easement 203 Fauquier w/nearly 1 mile of territory Rappahannock river frontage • Ridgeacres Mtnsinand private pond • Situated amongst protected properties • 5 stall Alix Coolidge (703) 625-1724 Elegant stone & clapboard house • 5 BR, 4 full & 3 1/2 BA • 4 FP • Wood Jim Fletcher barn w/pristinely maintained paddocks, pasture and gdns • 2 car floors Gourmetsuite kitchen Gunnite pool w/stunning garage•w/in-law • Old• Dominion Hunt territory •views VOFoverlooking Easement Blue Ridge Mtns and private pond • Situated amongst protected properties • 5 stall Alix Coolidge (703) 625-1724 Jim Fletcher barn w/pristinely maintained paddocks, pasture and gdns • 2 car garage w/in-law suite • Old Dominion Huntofterritory • VOF Easement 203 acres in Fauquier w/nearly 1 mile Rappahannock river frontage • Alix Coolidge (703) Elegant stone & clapboard house • 5 BR, 4 full & 3 1/2 BA • 4625-1724 FP • Wood floors • Gourmet kitchen • Gunnite pool w/stunning views overlooking Blue Ridge Mtns and private pond • Situated amongst protected properties • 5 stall Jim Fletcher barn w/pristinely maintained paddocks, pasture and gdns • 2 car garage w/in-law suite • Old Dominion Hunt territory • VOF Easement Alix Coolidge (703) 625-1724

Hume, Virginia • $3,600,000

Crest Hill

Hume, Virginia • $3,600,000

Gileswood Farm

Mayapple Farm Middleburg, Virginia Farm • $3,400,000 Mayapple Middleburg, Virginia • $3,400,000 Mayapple Farm Middleburg, Virginia • $3,400,000 Mayapple Farm

“Mayapple Farm," purist delight • Original portion of house built in 1790 in Preston City, CT • House was dismantled and rebuilt at current site • Detail of work is museum quality • Log• wing moved to site from Western “Mayapple Farm," purist delight Original portion of house built in Virginia 1790 in circa 1830 4 BR, 4 full was BA, dismantled 2 half BA,and 9 FP & detached 2-car • Preston City,• CT • House rebuilt at current site garage • Detail Historic bank quality barn and log shed VA • Virginia Private, of work isstone museum • Log wing moved moved from to siteLeesburg, from Western “Mayapple Farm," Original of house 1790 in minutes from •4Frontage Creek 37.65 acres built circa 1830 • town 4 BR,purist fulldelight BA,on 2•Goose half BA, 9portion FP• & detached 2-caringarage • Preston City, • House was log dismantled and rebuilt at currentVA site• •Private, Detail Historic stoneCT bank barn and shed moved from Leesburg, Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 of work from is museum • Log wing moved site from Virginia minutes town •quality Frontage on Goose Creek •to37.65 acresWestern “Mayapple Original house built 1790 in circa 1830 Farm," • 4 BR,purist 4 fulldelight BA, 2•half BA, 9portion FP & of detached 2-caringarage • Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 Preston City, CT • House was dismantled and rebuilt at current site • Detail Historic stone bank barn and log shed moved from Leesburg, VA • Private, of work is museum quality • Log wing moved to site from Western Virginia minutes from town • Frontage on Goose Creek • 37.65 acres circa 1830 • 4 BR, 4 full BA, 2 half BA, 9 FP & detached 2-car garage • Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 Historic stone bank barn and log shed moved from Leesburg, VA • Private, minutes from Farm," town • purist Frontage on Goose Creekportion • 37.65ofacres “Mayapple delight • Original house built in 1790 in Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 Preston City, CT • House was dismantled and rebuilt at current site • Detail of work is museum quality • Log wing moved to site from Western Virginia circa 1830 • 4 BR, 4 full BA, 2 half BA, 9 FP & detached 2-car garage • Historic stone bank barn and log shed moved from Leesburg, VA • Private, minutes from town • Frontage on Goose Creek • 37.65 acres Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905

Middleburg, Virginia • $3,400,000

Mayapple Farm

Middleburg, Virginia • $3,400,000

Old Fox Den Farm

The Plains, Virginia • $2,480,000 Stage Coach 52 acres, 3 miles from Middleburg within the Little River Historic District • Original 1780’s farmhouse •charm, $2,480,000 has beenThe completelyPlains, renovated w/anVirginia impressive kitchen, old porches & stone fireplaces • 3

Purcellville, Virginia •Farm $1,950,000 Gileswood Immaculate custom-built craftsman home with gorgeous finishes • Gourmet kitchen Purcellville, • & $1,950,000 • Vaulted ceilings • Open floorVirginia plan maximizes light views • 1st floor master suite

The Old Plains,Fox Virginia $1,750,000 Den• Farm Restored 3 bedroom 1830's farmhouse on 65 acres • Multiple porches & The Virginia $1,750,000 fireplaces, lots Plains, of charm • Lovely pool, shared•pond, 4 stall barn, workshop •

bayacres, garage has space above for overflow or home officeDistrict • Extensive site1780’s workfarmhouse has been 52 3 miles from Middleburg within theguests Little River Historic • Original completed to an excellent building siteimpressive w/views of Bull Run old & Blue Ridge Mts • & Well & septic installed has been completely renovated w/an kitchen, charm, porches stone fireplaces •3 • New boardhas fencing Original walls,guests old growth hardwood & multiple bay garage space•above forstone overflow or home office trees • Extensive siteoutbuildings work has been 52 acres, 3 miles from Middleburg within the Little River Historic District • Original 1780’s farmhouse completed to an excellent building site w/views of Bull Run & Blue Ridge Mts • Well & septic installed Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 has beenboard completely kitchen,hardwood old charm, porches & stone fireplaces • 3 • New fencing renovated • Originalw/an stoneimpressive walls, old growth trees & multiple outbuildings bay garage has space above for overflow guests or home office • Extensive site work has been Helen (540) 454-1930 52 acres, MacMahon 3 to miles from Middleburg the Little River • Original completed an excellent buildingwithin site w/views of Bull RunHistoric & BlueDistrict Ridge Mts • Well 1780’s & septicfarmhouse installed beenboard completely kitchen,hardwood old charm, porches & stone fireplaces • 3 •hasNew fencing renovated • Originalw/an stoneimpressive walls, old growth trees & multiple outbuildings bay garage has space above for overflow guests or home office • Extensive site work has been Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 completed to an excellent building site w/views of Bull Run & Blue Ridge Mts • Well & septic installed • New board fencing • Original stone walls, old growth hardwood trees & multiple outbuildings 52 acres, 3 miles from Middleburg within the Little River Historic District • Original 1780’s farmhouse Helen has beenMacMahon completely renovated w/an impressive kitchen, old charm, porches(540) & stone454-1930 fireplaces • 3

• Home office • Large family roomhome openswith to impressive pool area with cabana and Immaculate custom-built craftsman gorgeous finishes • Gourmet kitchen extensive terrace overlooking lake & • Large for • Vaulted stone ceilings • Open floor planneighboring maximizes light views barn • 1steasily floor built masteroutsuite horses • Land prepared for opens 2 acre to vineyard • Home officefenced • Large& family room impressive pool area with cabana and Immaculate custom-built craftsman home with gorgeous finishes • Gourmet kitchen extensive stone terrace overlooking neighboring lake • Large barn (540) easily built out for Helen MacMahon 454-1930 • Vaulted ceilings • Open floor plan light & views • 1st floor master suite horses • Land fenced & prepared for maximizes 2 acre vineyard • Home office • Large family room opens to impressive pool area with cabana and Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 Immaculate custom-built craftsman neighboring home with gorgeous finishes Gourmet extensive stone terrace overlooking lake • Large barn•easily builtkitchen out for • Vaulted ceilings • Open floor plan light & views • 1st floor master suite horses • Land fenced & prepared for maximizes 2 acre vineyard • Home office • Large family room opens to impressive pool area with cabana and Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 extensive stone terrace overlooking neighboring lake • Large barn easily built out for horses • Land fenced & prepared for 2 acre vineyard Immaculate custom-built craftsman home with gorgeous finishes • Gourmet kitchen Helen MacMahon (540) • Vaulted ceilings • Open floor plan maximizes light & views • 1st floor454-1930 master suite

Expansive3mountain open pasture fully•fenced elevated land& • Restored bedroomviews, 1830'srolling farmhouse on 65 & acres Multiple porches Gorgeous setting the protected betweenpond, Middleburg and The Plains • fireplaces, lots of in charm • Lovely valley pool, shared 4 stall barn, workshop Conservation easement permits 2 more the elevated compound Expansive mountain views, rolling open homes pastureto&complete fully fenced land • Restored 3 bedroom farmhouse on 65 acres • Multiple porches Gorgeous setting in the1830's protected valley between Middleburg and The Plains& • Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 fireplaces, lots of charm • Lovely pool, shared pond, 4 stall barn, workshop Conservation easement permits 2 more homes to complete the compound • Expansive mountain views, rolling open pasture & fully fenced elevated land • Helen MacMahon (540) porches 454-1930 Restored 3 bedroom farmhouse on 65 acres • Multiple Gorgeous setting in the1830's protected valley between Middleburg and The Plains& • fireplaces, lotseasement of charm permits • Lovely pool, homes shared to pond, 4 stallthe barn, workshop • Conservation 2 more complete compound Expansive mountain views, rolling open pasture & fully fenced elevated land • Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 Gorgeous setting in the protected valley between Middleburg and The Plains • Conservation easement permits 2 more homes to complete the compound Restored 3 bedroom 1830's farmhouse on 65 acres • Multiple porches & Helen MacMahon (540) fireplaces, lots of charm • Lovely pool, shared pond, 4 stall barn,454-1930 workshop •

bay garage has space above for overflow guests or home office • Extensive site work has been completed to an excellent building site w/views of Bull Run & Blue Ridge Mts • Well & septic installed • New board fencing • Original stone walls, old growth hardwood trees & multiple outbuildings Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

• Home office • Large family room opens to impressive pool area with cabana and extensive stone terrace overlooking neighboring lake • Large barn easily built out for horses • Land fenced & prepared for 2 acre vineyard Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

Expansive mountain views, rolling open pasture & fully fenced elevated land • Gorgeous setting in the protected valley between Middleburg and The Plains • Conservation easement permits 2 more homes to complete the compound Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

Stage Coach Stage Coach

The Plains, Virginia • $2,480,000 The Plains, Virginia • $2,480,000

Stage Coach

The Plains, Virginia • $2,480,000

Winchester Road

Gileswood Farm Gileswood Farm

Purcellville, Virginia • $1,950,000 Purcellville, Virginia • $1,950,000

Gileswood Farm

Purcellville, Virginia • $1,950,000

Kildare

Marshall, Virginia • Road $895,000 Winchester 1.69 acres with frontage on Route 17, right off Route 66, currently zoned R-4 Marshall, $895,000 • New Marshall code zoning Virginia calls for Gateway • District, potential office building,

Middleburg,Kildare Virginia • $775,000 Private 6+ acres in a lovely setting just 3 miles from town of Middleburg • Stucco Middleburg, home with 5 bedroomsVirginia • Traditional yet• open$775,000 floor plan • Hardwood

etc. •acres Solid stone houseononRoute property • Sold "As 66, Is" condition • Owner 1.69 with frontage 17, right off in Route currently zoned R-4 licensed real estate agent in VA • New Marshall code zoning calls for Gateway District, potential office building, etc.

Solid stone house on property • Sold in "As Is" condition • Owner Paul•MacMahon (703) 609-1905 1.69 acres with frontage licensed real estate agenton in Route VA 17, right off Route 66, currently zoned R-4 • New Marshall code zoning calls for Gateway District, potential office building, Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 etc. • Solid stone house on property • Sold in "As Is" condition • Owner 1.69 acres with frontage licensed real estate agenton in Route VA 17, right off Route 66, currently zoned R-4 • New Marshall code zoning calls for Gateway District, potential office building, Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 etc. • Solid stone house on property • Sold in "As Is" condition • Owner licensed real estate agent in VA 1.69 acres with frontage on Route 17, right off Route 66, currently zoned R-4 Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 • New Marshall code zoning calls for Gateway District, potential office building, etc. • Solid stone house on property • Sold in "As Is" condition • Owner licensed real estate agent in VA Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905

floors • 6+ Wood burning • Front rearfrom deck, patioof&Middleburg pool • 2 bay Private acres in a fireplace lovely setting justporch, 3 miles town • garage and main master suite • Very pretty with mature and old Stucco home withlevel 5 bedrooms • Traditional yet lot open floor plan trees • Hardwood stone floors walls • Wood burning fireplace • Front porch, rear deck, patio & pool • 2 bay Private 6+ main acreslevel in a master lovely setting mileslot from of Middleburg • garage suite • just Very3pretty withtown mature trees and old Helen and MacMahon (540) 454-1930 Stucco home with 5 bedrooms • Traditional yet open floor plan • Hardwood stone walls floors • Wood burning fireplace • Front porch, rear deck, patio & pool • 2 bay Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930• Privateand 6+ main acreslevel in a master lovely setting mileslot from of Middleburg garage suite • just Very3pretty withtown mature trees and old Stuccowalls home with 5 bedrooms • Traditional yet open floor plan • Hardwood stone floors • Wood burning fireplace • Front porch, rear deck, patio & pool • 2 bay Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 garage and main level master suite • Very pretty lot with mature trees and old Private 6+ acres in a lovely setting just 3 miles from town of Middleburg • stone walls StuccoMacMahon home with 5 bedrooms • Traditional yet open floor(540) plan •454-1930 Hardwood Helen floors • Wood burning fireplace • Front porch, rear deck, patio & pool • 2 bay garage and main level master suite • Very pretty lot with mature trees and old stone walls Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

Winchester Road Marshall, Virginia • $895,000 Winchester Road Marshall, Virginia • $895,000

Winchester Road

Marshall, Virginia • $895,000

Woodward Road Marshall, Virginia •Road $699,000 Woodward Marshall, Virginia • $699,000 Woodward Road Marshall, Virginia • $699,000 Woodward Road

1-level living in this energy efficient home • 10+ acres just 2 miles from I-66 • 3 BR, 2.5 bath house with 2 car garage • Office, sunken living room with10' ceiling • 28'x14' sunroom viewshome of garden rock just out 2cropping • Over 1-level living in this energywith efficient • 10+&acres miles from I-66 sized 38'x40' threehouse bay heated auto sunken lift • Great forroom collectors • • 3 BR, 2.5 bath with 2 workshop car garagewith • Office, living with10' 2 small •barns & 2sunroom paddockswith & spring pond & rock out cropping • Over ceiling 28'x14' viewsfed of garden 1-level living three in thisbay energy efficient home • 10+ 2 miles from I-66 sized heated workshop with auto acres lift • just Great for collectors Helen38'x40' MacMahon (540) 454-1930• • 3 BR,barns 2.5 bath with & 2 car garage • Office, sunken living room with10' 2 small & 2house paddocks spring fed pond ceiling • 28'x14' sunroom with views of garden & rock out cropping • Over Helen MacMahon 454-1930 1-level living three in thisbay energy efficient home • 10+ 2(540) miles from I-66 sized 38'x40' heated workshop with auto acres lift • just Great for collectors • • 3 BR,barns 2.5 bath with & 2 car garage • Office, sunken living room with10' 2 small & 2house paddocks spring fed pond ceiling • 28'x14' sunroom with views of garden & rock out cropping • Over Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 sized 38'x40' bayenergy heatedefficient workshop with • Great collectors • 1-level livingthree in this home • auto 10+ lift acres just 2 for miles from I-66 2• small & 2house paddocks fed pond 3 BR,barns 2.5 bath with&2 spring car garage • Office, sunken living room with10' Helen 454-1930 ceiling MacMahon • 28'x14' sunroom with views of garden & rock out(540) cropping • Over sized 38'x40' three bay heated workshop with auto lift • Great for collectors • 2 small barns & 2 paddocks & spring fed pond Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

Marshall, Virginia • $699,000

Woodward Road

110 East Washington St. ••P.O. Box 1380 Marshall, Virginia $699,000 Middleburg, Virginia 20118 110 East Washington St. • P.O. Box 1380 (540) 687-5588 Middleburg, Virginia 20118 110 East Washington St. • P.O. Box 1380 (540) 687-5588 Middleburg, Virginia 20118 110 East Washington St. • P.O. Box 1380 (540) 687-5588 Middleburg, Virginia 20118 110 East Washington St. • P.O. Box 1380 (540) 687-5588 Middleburg, Virginia 20118 (540) 687-5588

Kildare Middleburg, Virginia • Kildare

$775,000

Middleburg, Virginia • $775,000

Kildare

Middleburg, Virginia • $775,000

Oak Ridge Warrenton, Virginia • $655,000 Oak Ridge Warrenton, Virginia • $655,000 Oak Ridge Warrenton, Virginia • $655,000 Oak Ridge

Prime location, off Springs Road • Surrounded by large farms & estates • House circa 1890 with 2 BR, 1 1/2 BA, FP, hardwood floors, new kitchen • Garagelocation, • 2 sheds/studio potential house •byProperty shares&large spring Prime off Springs Road••Tenant Surrounded large farms estates • fed pond • Private setting House circa 1890 with 2 on BR,13.21 1 1/2acres BA, FP, hardwood floors, new kitchen • Garage • 2 sheds/studio potential • Tenant house • Property shares spring Paul MacMahon (703)large 609-1905 Prime location, offsetting Springs Surrounded by large farms & estates • fed pond • Private onRoad 13.21 •acres House circa 1890 with 2 BR, 1 1/2 BA, FP, hardwood floors, new kitchen • Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 Garage • 2 sheds/studio potential • Tenant house • Property shares large spring Prime location, offsetting Springs Surrounded by large farms & estates • fed pond • Private onRoad 13.21 •acres House circa 1890 with 2 BR, 1 1/2 BA, FP, hardwood floors, new kitchen • Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 Garage • 2 sheds/studio potential • Tenant house • Property shares large spring fed pondlocation, • Privateoff setting on 13.21 Prime Springs Roadacres • Surrounded by large farms & estates • Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 House circa 1890 with 2 BR, 1 1/2 BA, FP, hardwood floors, new kitchen • Garage • 2 sheds/studio potential • Tenant house • Property shares large spring fed pond • Private setting on 13.21 acres Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905

Warrenton, Virginia • $655,000

Oak Ridge

Warrenton, Virginia • $655,000

Old Fox Den Farm Old Fox Den Farm

The Plains, Virginia • $1,750,000 The Plains, Virginia • $1,750,000

Old Fox Den Farm

The Plains, Virginia • $1,750,000

Firethorn Lane

The Plains, Virginia Lane • $775,000 Firethorn Located in a sought-after area between Middleburg and The Plains • Main residence recently Plains, $775,000 renovatedThe • Large master suite and twoVirginia additional generous• sized BRs, each with their own full BA

Firethorn Lane The Plains, Virginia • $775,000 Firethorn Lane

• Large gourmet kitchen •area Lovely living and dining rooms • Wrap around porches with recently western Located in a sought-after between Middleburg and The Plains • Main residence views from•the elevated Charming guest house • Beautiful andtheir stonework renovated Large master site suite•and two additional generous sized BRs,gardens each with own full BA •Alix LargeCoolidge gourmet kitchen • Lovely living and dining rooms • Wrap around porches western (703) with 625-1724 Located in athesought-after area• between and• Beautiful The Plainsgardens • Mainand residence recently views elevated site CharmingMiddleburg guest house stonework Helenfrom MacMahon (540) 454-1930 renovated • Large master suite and two additional generous sized BRs, each with their own full BA Alix Coolidge (703) 625-1724 • Large gourmet kitchen • Lovely living and dining rooms • Wrap around porches with western Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 Located in athesought-after area• between and• Beautiful The Plainsgardens • Main residence recently views from elevated site CharmingMiddleburg guest house and stonework renovated • Large master suite and two additional generous sized BRs, each with their own full BA Alix Coolidge (703) 625-1724 • Large gourmet kitchen • Lovely living and dining rooms • Wrap around porches with western Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 views from the elevated site • Charming guest house • Beautiful gardens and stonework Located in a sought-after area between Middleburg and The Plains • (703) Main residence recently Alix Coolidge 625-1724 renovated • Large master suite and two additional generous sized BRs, each with their own full BA Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 • Large gourmet kitchen • Lovely living and dining rooms • Wrap around porches with western views from the elevated site • Charming guest house • Beautiful gardens and stonework Alix Coolidge (703) 625-1724 Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

The Plains, Virginia • $775,000

Firethorn Lane

The Plains, Virginia • $775,000

Halfway Workshop TheHalfway Plains, Virginia • $239,000 Workshop The Plains, Virginia • $239,000 Halfway Workshop The Plains, Virginia • $239,000 Halfway Workshop

Great building between Middleburg and The Plains • First floor currently used as a contractor's workshop • Many creative possibilities • Bring your artists or craftsmen • Lots of storage and lots and of light Great building between Middleburg The Plains • First floor currently used as a contractor's workshop • Many creative possibilities • Bring your454-1930 artists or Helen MacMahon (540) craftsmen • Lots of storage and lots of light Great building between Middleburg and The Plains • First floor currently used Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 as a contractor's workshop • Many creative possibilities • Bring your artists or craftsmen • Lots of storage and lots of light Great building between Middleburg and The Plains • First floor currently used Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 as a contractor's workshop • Many creative possibilities • Bring your artists or craftsmen • Lots of storage and lots of light Helen 454-1930used GreatMacMahon building between Middleburg and The Plains • First(540) floor currently as a contractor's workshop • Many creative possibilities • Bring your artists or craftsmen • Lots of storage and lots of light Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

The Plains, Virginia • $239,000

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On the cover

Award-winning Warrenton photographer Douglas Lees captured this image of Fauquier-bred Zanclus running off from the competition at the April 14 My Lady’s Manor meet in Maryland. Sara Collette’s homebred is expected to be a crowd favorite in Saturday’s Virginia Gold Cup.

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20 Get a jump in Kentucky Derby betting 34 Colonial Downs expected to reopen next year with our Rail Chatter, Junior edition Timing out race day 40 The definitive Gold Cup history Insider look at the Gold Cup entry list 22 The silk road: Leads to The Plains 42 FIFA’s is worth $20 million. Find out 28 From Oakwood to Great Meadow, Meet singer Angela Knight how Gold Cup’s gold cup measures up. follow the course of the Cup A sure bet: Wagering at Great Meadow 31 Leading owner Irv Naylor retired the 44 21,000 shrimp? Logistics make for a Tip your hat to the competition literal all-you-can eat smorgasbord. challenge trophy last year. And for 46 Last but not least, racing, in verse Steeplechasing by the numbers his encore?

18 He’s won as rider, and as trainer: Can Charlie Fenwick win his first as owner?

32 Inside scoop: Horsemen dish on their favored race day equipment

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GO FOR GOLD

ADDRESS: 41 Culpeper Street Warrenton, Virginia 20186 PHONE: 540-347-4222 FAX: 540-349-8676 HOURS: 8 a.m. 5 p.m. weekdays, 24-hour answering service

The greatest show on turf returns to Great Meadow Saturday

By Betsy Burke Parker

The Virginia Gold Cup is the decider. Since 1922, it’s the race that has set the standard, the event by which others are judged.

Everybody wants to win the Gold Cup. And short of winning in it, they want to compete. And if that’s not possible, they just want to go.

Outnumbered 50 to 21 in the National Steeplechase Association’s spring 2018 condition book, timber races do more than keep pace when it comes to action, competition and tradition.

At Great Meadow Saturday, timber is king. What started as a day in the country for eight amateur horse owners in 1922 has evolved into the circuit’s most lucrative timber stakes. The $100,000 Gold Cup, to be run for the 93rd time on May 5, attracted a crowd — eight of the top horses, including last year’s champion and a two-time Gold Cup winner passing the entry box Monday.

Insiders consider the field running for third this year if form holds — Ebanour has clear affinity for Great Meadow’s long oval, mostly flat but with

Publisher Catherine M. Nelson, 540-347-4222 cnelson@fauquier.com Section Editor/Photographer Betsy Burke Parker, 540-347-4222 betsyburkeparker@gmail.com Editor in Chief Christopher Six, 540-212-6331 csix@fauquier.com Advertising Director Kathy Mills Godfrey 540-351-1162 kgodfrey@fauquier.com Consultants Marie Rossi mrossi@fauquier.com Liliana Ruiz lruiz@fauquier.com Heather Sutphin hstuphin@fauquier.com Patti Engle pengle@fauquier.com Renee Ellis rellis@fauquier.com Production Manager Cindy Goff cgoff@fauquier.com Production Taylor Dabney tdabney@fauquier.com Sawyer Gwinn sguinn@fauquier.com Annamaria Ward award@fauquier.com

enough elevation gain from North Rail to the finish line to test endurance, stamina and speed. And last year’s champion, Doc Cebu, clinched the 2017 title, in part, with his 11-length trouncing in the 3 ½-mile International Gold Cup over the same course.

Still, 23 4-foot-high fences and four grueling miles are now, and have always been, the great equalizers. Plus, they’ve got to get past Fauquier favorite Zanclus The Gold Cup meet attracted more than 100 horses, overfilling eight races on the program, from card-opening maiden hurdle to the nightcap turf dash. Purses top $425,000 for Virginia ‘chasing’s biggest day of the year.

First post is 12:30 p.m.

Complete entries can be found at nationalsteeplechase.com. Past performance records can be obtained at centralentryoffice.com.

For ticket or admission information, contact the Virginia Gold Cup Association office at 540-347-2612 or vagoldcup.com.

Details and directions can be found by calling Great Meadow at 540-253-5001 or log onto greatmeadow.org.

SPCA and

Allen Real Estate

SPCA and Allen Real Estate have partnered to improve the lives of Fauquier County animals in need.

Allen Real Estate makes a generous donation for every real estate transaction in the name of your family or pet.

GRANDVIEW

Spectacular mountain views of range after range of Purple Mountain Majesty. Stunning stone and stucco country house with copper roof. 5 BR each with bath en-suite, first floor master with fireplace, great room with dry joint stone fireplace, media room with stone fireplace, bright conservatory overlooking gardens, pool, and mountains. Barn, stocked pond, 20 acres with more land available.

Warrenton Hunt. $2,200,000

Joe Allen, Broker

540-229-1770

LEEDS CHAPEL

Amazing Timber frame country house with views in every direction. Massive central stone chimney with 2 fireplaces, soaring heavily beamed ceilings; pine, oak, and cherry floors, conservatory, pool with waterfall and pavilion with fire pit. Media room, 5 bay garage, machine shed, 25 acres. Just listed $1,100,000

Allen Real Estate Co., Ltd. the Historic District • Est 1990

43 Culpeper Street • Warrenton, VA 20186

540-347-3838 • www.allenrealestate.com

Tray Allen, Broker

540-222-3838

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Yet another benefit to living in Fauquier County

• Fauquier residents get a $25 discount off of general admission parking passes. Available only at the Virginia Gold Cup Association office at 90 Main Street, in old town Warrenton with proof of residency.

• No tickets are sold at the gates — only advance admission.

• Tickets are available at the Gold Cup office, Harris Teeter stores — with VIC discount card specials, and other area outlets.

• The racecourse is divided into three sections: Members Hill is at the center of the course, centered on the finish line. North Rail is at the end of the course closer to The Plains; South Rail is on the end of course adjacent to U.S. 17. Call the Gold Cup Association at 540-347-2612 for more about the Fauquier discount or other tickets.

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Ebanour, above right, splashed to victory, his second, in last year’s Virginia Gold Cup. Local favorite Zanclus, below, is morning line second choice

Great Meadow specialist Ebanour looking for Virginia hat-trick But he’s got to get past local darling Zanclus and five others

By Betsy Burke Parker It’s setting up to be a clash of the titans on the racecourse in Saturday’s $100,000 Virginia Gold Cup timber classic, with four past winners over the course slated to face two formful runners this season and a clutch of outsiders with plenty of cred.

Two-time race winner Ebanour is likely favorite, but he’ll face stiff competition both on the track and at the betting windows from local darling Zanclus. A son of Fauquier County going back three generations, Zanclus has won at Great Meadow — though, uniquely, he won the cross-country steeplethon — and he comes into the 2018 renewal on strong seasonal form.

Zanclus set all the pace at Maryland’s My Lady’s Manor April 14 to draw off for 25 1/4-length victory in the key prep.

“He did all we asked,” said trainer Neil Morris after the win. “Now we move to our target race,” always the May 5 Gold Cup for his Casanova-based owners.

Irv Naylor’s Ebanour, Gold Cup winner the past two years, is trained by Cyril Murphy at Naylor’s home farm in Maryland. Saturday marks his first sanctioned start since November. The Irish-bred, now 11, prepped with a facile win in the timber feature at the April 7

See complete entry list pages 10-11 Elkridge-Harford Point-to-Point in Monkton, easily handling a field of nine that included Senior Senator who went on to win the Grand National timber stakes and the Maryland Hunt Cup. Ebanour had been aimed at a sanctioned prep April 21 at the Maryland Grand National, but Murphy had to pull an audible late in race week. The trainer scratched the horse, explaining that Ebanour has a metabolic issue — called tying up —

that flared up that week.

“He’s fine, we caught it and treated it, and he’s on therapeutic meds to help it, but we just don’t like to run him when he’s not 110 percent,” Murphy said. “It happened when we had those weeks of weather when it was 80 degrees one day, and 30 degrees and rainy the next day. It just does a number on some horses.

“The weather this week staying steady will help him a lot.”

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chestnut had won his bumper at 4 in England, then notched two novice hurdles in England at 5 before imported to the U.S. that summer. He turned to timber by the fall, finishing behind another hurdle star making the switch — Nationbuilder — at Callaway Gardens, then won his 2013 debut, the maiden at My Lady’s Manor.

Ebanour was on the shelf 22 months from an injury sustained when third at Winterthur in May, 2013.

Since he returned in spring, 2015, he’s hammered out wins in most of the nation’s top timber stakes — the New Jersey Hunt Cup, My Lady’s Manor, Pennsylvania Hunt Cup, and the Virginia Gold Cup — twice.

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Armata Stables’ Grand Manan, winner of the 2016 International Gold Cup and second last year, is trained in Maryland by William Meister. Unplaced in last year’s Virginia Gold Cup, Grand Manan set the pace in the Middleburg Hunt Cup before tiring and being pulled up.

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Hardrock Eleven. Owner: Gigi Lazenby. Trainer: Kate Dalton.

Hinterland. Owner: Harold Via. Trainer: Jack Fisher.

Jamarjo. Owner: Irv Naylor. Trainer: Leslie Young.

Mercoeur. Owner: Mike Smith. Trainer: Leslie Young.

Personal Start. Owner: Maggie Bryant. Trainer: Richard Valentine.

Sempre Medici. Owner: Irv Naylor. Trainer: Cyril Murphy.

Swansea Mile. Owner: Rosbrian Farm. Trainer: Ricky Hendriks.

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Andi’amu. Owner: Ballybristol Farm. Trainer: Leslie Young.

Boogie Biz. Owner: Happenstance. Trainer: Mark Beecher.

Cognashene. Owner: Pathfinder Racing. Trainer: Neil Morris.

Dye Fore. Owner: Gill Johnston. Trainer: Jack Fisher.

Hishi Soar. Owner: Randy Rouse Trust. Trainer: Kevin Palmer.

Saluda Sam. Owner: Irv Naylor. Trainer: Billy Meister.

Triton Light. Owner-trainer: Nicki Valvo.

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Amigo. Owner: Julie Nettere. Trainer: Zoe Valvo.

Artic North. Owner: Mimi Voss. Trainer: Elizabeth Voss.

Captain Dixie. Owner-trainer: Gerard Galligan.

Complete St. Owner: Harlan Crossman. Trainer: Lilith Boucher.

Go Get The Basil. Owner: Eve Ledyard. Trainer: Ricky Hendriks.

Gold Braid. Owner: Will Russell and Yadkin. Trainer: Neil Morris.

Overwhelming. Owner: Woodslane Farm. Trainer: Jack Fisher.

Renown. Owner: Merribelle Stable. Trainer: Elizabeth Voss.

Texas Zip. Owner: Lake Lonely Racing. Trainer: Jonathan Sheppard.

Tobias. Owner: Johnny Eason. Trainer: Rafe Fernandez.

Trustifarian. Owner: Rebecca Shepherd. Trainer: David Bourke.

Woodfield Springs. Owner: Hyggelig Haven. Trainer: Mary McGlothlin.

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Make your choices early for Gold Cup bets Virginia Gold Cup timber stakes. $100,000. 4 miles.

1. Super Saturday — 8-1 Gray gelding, 9. Owner: Irv Naylor. Trainer: Kathy Neilson. The Middleburg Hunt Cup winner stunned even his jockey that day, jumping a few fences on the lead and powering to the finish line. Gerard Galligan said Super Saturday has had a propensity to “stop, literally, stop” when he finds himself on the lead, preferring company until the final strides of a race. But trainer Kathy Neilson has worked on the gelding’s quirks, and maybe he’s over the issue.

2. Daddy in the Dark — 15-1 Bay gelding, 8. Owner: Merriefield Farm. Trainer: Bruce Fenwick. Bred in Kentucky by My Meadowview, Daddy In The Dark has run just once this year — seventh in Murray timber allowance mid-April. Won a 2017 Pennsylvania Hunt Cup maiden timber by more than 32 lengths. Raced on the flat in Maryland and specialized in off tracks.

3. Grand Manan — 6-1 Bay gelding, 9. Owner: Armata Stables. Trainer: Billy Meister. The regally-bred son of Giant’s Causeway won the International Gold Cup here two seasons ago, going wire-to-wire in an impressive — and fast — victory. He’s been spotty since, though, and pulled up in a key prep two weeks ago. Grand Manan set most of the pace for Ebanour last May but pulled up when he began to tire.

He’s trained by timber specialist Billy Meister for his Armata Stables owners.

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4. Ebanour — 8-5 Chestnut gelding, 11. Owner: Irv Naylor. Trainer: Cyril Murphy. Cyril Murphy said the strong winner of last year’s Virginia Gold Cup was in “fine form,” taking aim at a third-straight Cup win after a brief health issue in early April. He’s Irish-bred, and loves Great Meadow’s stout timber, Murphy said. He’ll likely be favored Saturday, but the other standouts mean he may go to post at an enticing price.

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5. Zanclus — 5-1 Chestnut gelding, 8. Owner: Sara Collette. Trainer: Neil Morris. Homebred

by Casanova’s Sara and Bruce Collette, Zanclus dazzled in his season debut, setting all the pace in the April 14 My Lady’s Manor stake to trounce a flashy field by 25 lengths. He missed all of 2017 due to injury, but had won the Great Meadow steeplethon at the 2016 fall meet. Counting his point-to-points, Zanclus has won seven of 10 over timber, most by double-digit margins, and has never been worse than second. Zanclus is trained for his owner-breeders by Neil Morris at historic Hickory Tree Farm, just a few miles up the road from Great Meadow.

6. Hill Tie — 20-1 Bay gelding, 8. Owner: Sportsmans Hall. Trainer: Joe Gillet Davies. Supplemented to Saturday’s Gold Cup, Hill Tie started the season a maiden but impressed his owners and trainer enough with allowance victory at the Grand National meet April 21 — and second at the Manor April 14 — to take a stab at the Gold Cup’s four miles. Amateur Eric Poretz gets the call, fresh off victory in the four-mile Maryland Hunt Cup. Davies hasn’t won a Gold Cup, but he knows timber, and he knows training. Hill Tie is certain to be the longest shot in the race, but he could be worth a $2 across the board flyer.

7. Le Chevalier — 10-1 Gray gelding, 9. Owner: Mike Smith. Trainer: Julie Gomena. Mike Smith’s colorbearer looks to prove that “gray is the new bay” for 2018. He posted a solid runner-up performance to Super Saturday a few weeks ago at Glenwood, and trainer Julie Gomena said she expects him to improve off that run. Le Chevalier won the 2016 New Jersey Hunt Cup, but hasn’t landed a win in top company since. Still, he’ll have tons of local support, and warrants a look in the post parade, especially if he goes off at long odds.

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Meet National Anthem singer Angela Knight

A ‘traditional’ call to the post precedes each race.

Angela Knight is a soprano in her 16th season with the Washington National Opera where she performs regularly. She has more than 300 performances to her credit.

Recent roles include “Idomeno,” in which she played The Cretan Woman, “The Crucible,” where she played Betty Paris, “Le Nozze Di Figaro,” where she played Barbarina, and “Sly,” in which she played Second Lady for U.S. and Japanese audiences.

A lyric coloratura soprano, Knight attended the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory and George Mason University. At GMU, Knight was recognized as Outstanding Musician at graduation.

After winning the Star Alliance Competition, Knight travelled to China, in 2007 performing her originally composed aria “Le Jardin” at the Great Hall. She represented the U.S. in the 2007 World Championship of Performing Artists, winning three gold medals.

Knight has toured Japan, Germany and Italy. She’s sung at the Washington Opera, Kennedy Center, U.S. Capitol, Lincoln Memorial, Shakespeare Theater and the Sylvan Theatre.

She sang the National Anthem for Pres. George W. Bush at the National

Angela Knight Republican fundraiser, and has performed for the Washington Redskins and Washington Nationals.

Since 2009, Knight has served on the Hylton Performing Arts Center board. She teaches at the Washington National Opera and teaches piano and voice lessons.

Knight produces and headlines an annual Christmas concert benefiting Wounded Warriors, Child Help and other local charities.

Knight lives in northern Virginia with her husband and daughter.

Horse industry brings billions to Virginia The Virginia Horse Industry Board trotted out some staggering numbers to measure the economics the overall equine business brings to the state. The horse industry has a $1.2 billion dollar impact on Virginia’s economy, according to a study conducted by Dr. Terance Rephann of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.

The study measured buying, selling, hay, feed, tack, supplies, hotels and entertainment dollars, diesel purchases, taxes paid, real estate transactions, construction, farriers, veterinarians, retail stores and more.

For more than 400 years, horses have played a role in building the commonwealth, with more than 215,000 horses today living in the Old Dominion. More than 16,000 jobs are related to the horse industry, and horses rank as Virginia’s eighth largest agricultural commodity. Cattle are first.

Nearly 1 million participants and spectators attend more than 1,000 horse events each year. The Virginia Gold Cup has long led the way for spectators — with more than 50,000 each year it has been held at Great Meadow (since 1985.)

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The annual Virginia Gold Cup attracts some 50,000+ spectators to Great Meadow, trickling huge amounts of money into the horse industry via fuel, food, tickets, hat shopping, betting and more.

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You better, you better …you bet

‘Boutique’ pari-mutuel wagering the crown jewel of 1988’s Horse Racing Act

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For the sixth year running, the Virginia Gold Cup betting public benefits from a tiny line of code written into Virginia’s Horse Racing Act nearly 30 years ago, one that allows pari-mutuel racing — without a county referendum — at “charitable facilities.”

With Colonial Downs still shuttered in New Kent, Great Meadow and Woodstock’s Shenandoah Downs stand alone as a chance to bet on live horse racing in Virginia.

Tellers and portable mutuel machines, along with account wagering, will be available Saturday. Self-serve terminals will be located on North Rail, South Rail and Member’s Hill. Pre-loaded wagering cards can be purchased, with cash, on race day or, with a credit card, ahead of time at Gold Cup offices in Old Town.

Too, wagering is available “early,” Friday night at an event honoring 2017 Virginia Thoroughbred Association champions.

Takeout from the handle — nearly $100,000 the past few years — pays into the horsemen’s account which along with takeout from the Virginia Equine Alliance’s OTB network funds purse increases and breeders’ incentives.

“A win-win,” said Great Meadow Foundation president Rob Banner. “As this has grown at Great Meadow, we’ve gotten a more effective and efficient model for steeplechase betting.”

A statewide referendum in 1988 allowed county-by-county votes for pari-mutuel betting and the eventual 1997 opening of the track east of Richmond. Before that, gambling was limited to informal tailgate party pools at point-to-points, and, before that, to bookies that operated on the margin of county code.

Loudoun County voters initially said “yes” to pari-mutuel wagering in ‘88, but voted “no” in 1993, which enabled the New Kent County track applicant, Colonial Downs, to win the state’s only pari-mutuel license.

Pari-mutuel has never come up for a vote in Fauquier.

— By Betsy Burke Parker

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Learn the betting vernacular to get a leg up on the competition Betting on the races makes the spectator an active participant in the result. Here are the wagers offered in each race.

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• Win: The most simple, easiest to understand wager, and the odds show you exactly what you’ll get. Your horse finishes in front, you win. (Basically, take the number you see — 2 to 1, for instance, and multiply it by 2, since $2 is the minimum bet you can make.)

• Place: If you bet on a horse to “place” — finish second, the wager pays if he finishes second, of course, but also if he finishes first. It pays a bit less than the win, using a complicated mathematic formula.

• Show: You bet on the horse to “show” — finish third, but this one pays if the horse finishes first, second or third. Pays less

than the odds show, but usually yields a profit on your bet, and, to a certain extent, hedges your bet.

Exotics

Once you’ve mastered the simple win-place-show wagering, try your hand at so-called exotic wagering.

The easiest is the Exacta, in which you select two horses to finish first and second, in that exact order. You can “box” your wager — bet twice, paying if the horses finish one-two or two-one, or you can box a particular choice with several others.

Each bet costs $2, but payoffs can be handsome if you have an insider tip or a hunch.

The Trifecta is even harder — you choose three horses to finish one-two-three. Like the exacta, you can box your wagers, and include several selections within your wager.

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Gold Cup competition: Not limited to the racecourse Throw your hat in the ring (literally) for the hat contest, tailgate contest Like all outdoor sporting events, tailgating at the Virginia Gold Cup is a time-honored tradition. Leave it to Great Meadow to turn it into a competition.

The Tailgate Contest is open to all attendees — enter the free event when reserving tailgate parking spaces.

The best tailgates have a theme, decorations and special food and drinks recipes. Reserved tailgating spots are available on the Member’s Hill, North Rail and South Rail.

Tailgates are judged by a panel of local food and TV personalities.

Prizes include dinners and hotel stays, airline tickets and gift baskets.

Hat contest

Another way to get into the race at Gold Cup is to enter any of a dozen hat contest divisions. Another free event, competitors are invited to a parade of hats and judging in the saddling enclosure at 2:15 p.m.

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Steeplechasing fast facts Saluting Saluter

The undisputed King of the Gold Cup is Henry and Ann Stern's Saluter. The Virginia-bred won six Virginia Gold Cups and two International Gold Cups. His ardor for the Great Meadow course and the distance (four miles, and 3 ½, respectively) put him firmly atop the race’s history.

His trainer-rider Jack Fisher is the all time top winning Cup rider with nine wins of the Virginia Gold Cup. Along the way Saluter swept the 1997 first running of the World Timber Championship by winning both the Virginia Gold Cup and Marlborough Cup in England.

Saluter’s course record for the Gold Cup stood for 11 years until 2006 when Kinross Farm’s Miles Ahead’s time of 8:19 shaved 8 seconds off of Saluter's previous record time of 8:27.

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There are just three four-mile timber races sanctioned by the National Steeplechase Association each year — the Virginia Gold Cup, the Maryland Hunt Cup and the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup. There’s a point-to-point at the marathon distance — the Eustis Cup at the Loudoun Hunt Point-to-Point.

U.S. trainers consider the four miles a difficult test, though most horsemen agree that endurance can be “trained into” most racehorses, and that speed was something that was innate.

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The A-Team running the Virginia Gold Cup races includes Gold Cup co-chairs Dr. Will Allison and Dr. Al Griffin, race executive director Diane Jones, Great Meadow Foundation president Rob Banner and Great Meadow course maintenance chief Bobby Hilton.

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Great Meadow: By the numbers • 93rd: Running of the Virginia Gold Cup (which began in 1922 but did not run in 1943, ‘44 and ‘45 during World War II, hence the 93rd running in 2018) • $100,000: Purse for the eponymous timber stakes • $425,000: Total prizes • 60,000: Expected to attend • 91: Entries in eight races • 144th: Wager on the 144th Kentucky Derby, simulcast live from Churchill Downs in Louisville after the Gold Cup meet’s conclusion.

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Charlie Fenwick, far right, jumps to Gold Cup victory aboard Sugar Bee. The Maryland horseman has won Cups as rider and trainer, and now hopes to win as owner. His Doc Cebu was the undefeated 2017 timber titlist, winning the International Gold Cup at Great Meadow last October.

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A changing role for Charlie Fenwick Renowned timber rider becomes more active as an owner on the circuit

By Don Clippinger Over the years, Charles C. Fenwick Jr. has worn many hats in the steeplechase game. Over more than six decades, he’s remained

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industry, a community leader, and an advocate for steeplechase racing, as well as serving on the board and holding executive roles for the National Steeplechase Association.

Most recently, Fenwick has been owner or co-owner of the two most recent NSA timber champions, Two’s Company in 2016 and last year’s International Gold Cup winner, Doc Cebu, nominated to — but not entered in — the Gold Cup. Early this year, Fenwick became chairman of the National Steeplechase Foundation, of which he’s long been a director, and in March was named a trustee of the Temple Gwathmey Fund, which supports the amateur rider aspect of steeplechasing.

Fenwick’s jockey days are long over, but the memories remain vivid. Part of a sporting family, he grew up north of Baltimore where—like parts of Virginia— riding horses and jumping fences are as natural as breathing.

He was good at it, as was older brother, Bruce. In the late 1960s, both were getting mounts in the

nation’s most prestigious timber races like the Maryland Hunt Cup and Virginia Gold Cup. They were riding against top pros and amateurs alike.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Charlie Fenwick reigned as the sport’s premier timber rider. He won five Hunt Cups, the first two aboard Ben Nevis II, who would go on to win the English Grand National at Aintree, in 1980.

Fenwick’s final Hunt Cup victory in 1987 was aboard Great Meadow founder, the late Nick Arundel’s Sugar Bee, who Fenwick rode and trained to the NSA timber title in 1985 and to Gold Cup victory in ‘84.

By then, Fenwick was deep into his training career, highlighted by an Eclipse Award in 1987 with Dogwood Stable’s Inlander.

He returned to his family’s automotive business, Valley Motors, and became president and general manager before its sale to AutoNation in 2015. He also served as chair of GBMC Health Care and as a director of the Gilman School.

In recent years, Fenwick has become more deeply involved

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as a horse owner. With friends and neighbors Michael Hankin and Charles Noell, he formed Bruton Street-US stable, which reigned as NSA champion owner last year. Among stable’s stars have been Two’s Company, the 2016 timber champion, and last year’s Eclipse Award winner, Scorpiancer.

Last year, Fenwick fielded his own champion, Doc Cebu, who accomplished the rare feat of going from timber maiden to multiple stakes winner in one season.

By the hard-knocking sire Hard Spun, Doc Cebu sold for $260,000 at the 2012 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale in Maryland to New Yorker Eric Fein, who named him for a physician acquaintance who had relocated to Cebu in the Philippines.

For Fein and partner Christopher McKenna, a gelded Doc Cebu won his eighth start on the flat for trainer Todd Pletcher in November, 2013 at Aqueduct, but shortly afterward began the rounds as a claimer who paid his bills while reportedly absolutely hating the racetrack environment. On the flat, he had four wins from 29 starts with earnings of barely $100,000.

Mid-Atlantic trainer Kieron Magee claimed him twice before Doc Cebu, at the bottom of the claiming ladder, was offered for sale to Bruce Fenwick with another jumping prospect. The elder brother suggested that Charlie Fenwick take a look at the pair. Fenwick liked what he saw and bought them both for $12,000.

Sent to trainer Jack Fisher and taught to jump, Doc Cebu began his career over hurdles at 6. Fenwick and Fisher unwrapped him for a $15,000 maiden-claiming tag at the 2016 Virginia Fall meet, and Doc Cebu won by 2 1/4 lengths. He completed his undefeated hurdle career with a half-length score in a $20,000 ratings handicap at Montpelier.

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Charlie Fenwick’s Doc Cebu was alone at the last in the International Gold Cup, winning by 11 lengths and clinching the national timber championship.

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Given that timber has been Fenwick’s lasting love, the owner didn’t hesitate to switch Doc Cebu to timber fences despite his promise over hurdles. Call it owner’s privilege or owner’s intuition. “I decided to have a good timber horse,” Fenwick said.

Doc Cebu won the maiden at My Lady’s Manor last April before putting in a bad jump and finishing second at Queen’s Cup two weeks later. Doc Cebu rolled past pacesetter Grand Manan before the last fence and won at Willowdale last May by nine lengths.

After the summer timber hiatus, Fenwick and Fisher targeted the Genesee Valley Hunt

Cup, and Doc Cebu won by 11 1/4 lengths under Frost. In the International Gold Cup — 3 ½ -miles over the Gold Cup course at Great Meadow last October, Doc Cebu took command two from home to win by 11.

“He’s such a consistent horse,” Fenwick said.

Doc Cebu began the 2018 season in Virginia, where he finished third in the Middleburg Hunt Cup at Glenwood Park April 21.

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What’s that you say?

Old-fashioned horse racing sayings echo strong around Derby time

Editor’s note: ‘Rail Chatter’ columnist, the late George Rowand used to provide Kentucky Derby picks, and pithy commentary, for his hometown paper. His son Michael — who George considered a lasting legacy as much as the thoroughbred dynasty he long managed — takes the reins with the same insight in the sport. Heck, he even uses the same language.

By Michael Rowand One of the joys of delving deep into horse racing is the old wisdom one picks up in maxims that often go back a century or more. Pithy or regal, they always evoke a smile. I learned a lot of the language from my dad.

One of his all-time favorites: “People have opinions and the horses have the answers” places the sport squarely back on the horse, where it surely belongs. That was one of my dad’s favorites.

Another, “If this horse doth run his race, the others are running for second place” is old-fashioned wording for the sort of bluster you find in horse racing just as much as the football field.

I got a lot of this racing lore, and the funny sayings, from my dad, who wrote this Kentucky Derby picks story in his Rail Chatter column for nearly 20 years for Piedmont Media’s predecessors.

He loved horses and loved horse racing, and thought there was nothing more noble than a group of thoroughbred horses surging for the finish line.

George Rowand considered the central journey of his life’s path to have been his quest to breed greatness.

And he did it, breeding and managing the careers of two Grade I winners and racing horses around the globe for two decades.

Dad’s all-time favorite saying must have been “All horses look fast running past trees.” That old quote has just the amount of sarcasm, the hint of irony that people remember my dad famous for.

Around Kentucky Derby time, he changed to the more introspective: “When they get to the eighth pole, and they’ve run as far as they ever have before, they call on their ancestors. Will they hear only a resounding silence?”

With that thought in mind, let’s look at some of those that will be running for the roses.

Contenders

These are the horses that look ready for a prime effort on the big day, and have legitimate pedigree — and connections — to bring them to Churchill Downs May 5 capable of winning.

• Justify — This winner of the Santa Anita Derby doesn’t seem to take a bad step. No one will be surprised to see him in front as they hit the wire. And Bob Baffert? He knows a bit about this Derby thing. Baffert trained 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, and Baffert horses have won four Kentucky Derbies, six Bob Baffert Preakness Stakes, two Belmont Stakes and three Kentucky Oaks. Trainer of Justify

Mike Smith Jockey of Justify

• Vino Rosso — He managed to turn back Bolt D’oro, no slouch himself, without too much trouble in the Wood Memorial four weeks ago.

The fact that the great jockey Johnny Velasquez picked to ride him this Saturday, choosing Vino Rosso as his mount over Audible and others seems like a good sign. The son of Curlin has won three of five in top New York and Florida company.

• Good Magic — The Bluegrass at Keeneland last month wasn’t the toughest prep, but this colt certainly looked impressive. The old experts on the backside rave about his works. Another son of Curlin, this $1 million sales yearling was last year’s juvenile champion, and has won nearly $2 million in just six month of racing.

• Audible — He was certainly comfortable in the Florida Derby, which is widely considered the most telling of pre-Derby preps. Maybe he has the best tactical speed, and the New York-bred skates into the Derby on a four-race winning streak. His sole loss was a third in his first start at 2 at Belmont Park.

Pretenders

These are the horses that tempt you with a bet, but are more likely to break your heart (and your wallet).

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• Mendelssohn — Sure, he won the UAE Derby by the length of the stretch. But no horse has ever won the UAE Derby and then come to Churchill and won the Kentucky Derby. I don’t think that’s going to change this year: running “off the plane” is just too tough on these young horses, though he did just that last fall, shipping to Del Mar to win the Juvenile Turf at the Breeders’ Cup.

Flyers

The horses that might just find their best stride on the big day — and reward those that favor them with a bet. These are the ones you’d want to be on the front row by the saddling paddock at Churchill Downs this Saturday: a sparkle in the eye and a spring in the step is often telling of how an underrated horse feels about his own chances.

• Hofburg — He’s working great. He’s already shown he can compete in good company. He looks like he’s maturing at the right time, finishing second in the Florida Derby and peaking at the right time for owner-breeder Juddmonte Farms and trainer Bill Mott.

• Magnum Moon — Ok, I’m going out on a limb on this one. He certainly won the Arkansas Derby easily. But horses don’t win the Derby veering out the way he did. He could be a monster later in the season, but for now, I’m skeptical.

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• My Boy Jack — He’s shown consistency through the spring and seems to have guts.

He’s probably not quite as good as the top tier horses, but if it gets too crowded within the first few lengths of the lead, which I think is possible, he could come from farther back with a good chance like he did to win the Lexington Stakes at Keeneland in early April. This horse has already won one top prize, for the clever name of his owner: Don’t Tell My Wife Stables.

So, who’s it going to be? I’d put my money on Vino Rosso. He seems to have what those in horse racing have long described as “the look of eagles.”

Just remember, people have opinions and the horses have the answers.

Find your way on race day • Great Meadow is located between Marshall and Warrenton at the intersection of U.S. 17 and Old Tavern Road. The mailing address in The Plains.

• There are eight entrances: check your ticket for the correct gate to come into the course. Most general admission tickets bring cars in the North gate — off Old Tavern Road, or the South gate — off U.S. 17.

• There will be food and drink available for purchase in each of the spectator areas, along with betting stations everywhere.

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PHOTOS BY CHRIS CERRONE Jockey colors display the owner of the horse. Owners select colors that are special to them, are attractive in combination, or at are easy to pick out across a racecourse — or all three. Sometimes, below right, an owner uses their initial to create a unique pattern — ‘J’ is for Johnston, Gill Johnston.

Colors of spring, steeplechase style Silks denote ownership, branding pride, and a whole lot more

By Betsy Burke Parker Lime green with pink trim. Pink horse socks to match.

Those are crazy colors. The shades don’t suit many — any — skintone, and, really, on its own the combination looks like nothing more than a brightly-clad clown, sure to draw the eye.

Turns out, that’s the point.

When it comes to jockey silks, brighter is better. Crazy color combos are coveted. Selected for distinguishing characteristics — for the announcer, for the fans, for the white-knuckled cheering owner — across acres and acres of racecourse, racing silks have long run out of easy to identify solid patterns, so nowadays, the busier the better.

Lime green and pink may seem an arbitrary color combo but in fact the hues were chosen carefully, and designed with precision, worn with pride in the 1980s and ‘90s by riders representing Richmond’s Ann Stern, owner of all-time Gold Cup record-holder Saluter and other ‘chasing standouts. For a decade, Saluter’s “pink socks” — leg wraps — were as easily recognized around Virginia as UVa’s Jefferson blue and Rotunda orange.

How it happened The heritage of distinctive colors dates back thousands of years, created out of necessity in warrior tradition by Celts who painted their naked bodies with what looked like Tiffany blue to unnerve rivals during invasions. Native Americans used color — warpaint on their faces, even on their warhorses, to depict bravery and energy. Knights in the middle ages draped shining armor with the trappings of their sponsors. Chariot drivers wore distinctive coats of arms to differentiate combatants.

The earliest recorded horse races were in the 1100s — though races were clearly held earlier than that. Still, the first citation of jacket colors particular to an individual owner wasn’t until 1515 when Henry VIII ruled England. A healthy leisure class vociferously supported British horse racing, and distinct colors helped fans and judges observe results with confidence.

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Read the rules

Middleburg’s Maggie Bryant, in the golf cart, usually dresses in colors to coordinate with her medium and light blue silks — here she’s wearing bright red clogs instead of a red cap cover like jockey Darren Nagle.

COLORS from page 22 the 17th and 18th centuries, registered colors became necessary. The British Jockey Club recorded 19 sets of colors at their Newmarket headquarters in 1762. Four years later, the Philadelphia Jockey Club followed suit. The more recent addition of numbered saddle cloths corresponding to post position and program number makes colors a bit less critical, though brightly colored jackets are much easier to distinguish across a field than small saddle numbers.

Why silk?

They’re called silks because the early variations were, in fact, sewn jackets made from silk. Silk holds colored dye quite well, and it held up to active outside use.

Modern jockey jackets are made of nylon or lycra. Whatever material is used, a set of silks weighs barely six ounces — critical in a sport in which a lighter load is requisite to success.

About 28,000 sets of silks are registered with the American Jockey Club. Owners that run horses in other nations have to register there as

well; sometimes “their” silks have already been claimed so they have to select another pattern.

From the Duke of Cumberland’s purple to the Queen of England’s purple with red — first used by her great-grandfather Edward VII in the 1800s, early colors were primary shades, traditionally topped with a black velvet cap. The “straw” registered by the Duke of Devonshire is still in use today.

The oldest American racing colors are the plain “scarlet” silks of Mrs. John Morris dating to the Civil War. The Morris family owned Ruthless, the filly who won the first

Silks must be registered for all racehorse owners. Owners’ silks are required to be used by every jockey unless judges give permission for something else. This happens when the correct silks aren’t available — left at home, or damaged.

The National Steeplechase Association has several sets of “substitute silks” that can be used, and sometimes officials permit using other colors as long as everything is recorded.

If an owner has more than one horse in a race, riders wear different colored helmet covers, and officials and the announcer make special note of this to differentiate between otherwise identically clad jockeys.

In 2005, the Jockey Club ruled to allow small logos and advertisements on jockey pants which prior were always plain white. Many jockeys are “sponsored” today — by tack shops, outdoors outfitters and the like, businesses that enjoy visibility much like sponsor banners encircling stadiums from Little League to Major League. running of the Belmont, in 1867; they won the 1898 Belmont with Bowling Brook. Heir to the family fortune, and silks, John Morris was 95 when he died in 1985. He was president of the old Jamaica racetrack, closed in 1959 for a Queens housing development.

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Weather or not …

Race day climatic conditions not the only factor affecting competition

By Betsy Burke Parker Every year thousands converge on Fauquier to attend the Virginia Gold Cup races. The challenging headline timber stake is one of the most distinguished steeplechase events in America, and one of the oldest.

First contested in 1922, the Gold Cup celebrates its 93rd renewal May 5.

Colonial history

Racing has long been part of the fabric of Virginia’s Piedmont — there are records of horses racing on Garretts Race Paths near Upperville as early as 1742, and in the 1830s, turf races were held regularly at Warrenton’s White Sulphur Springs (today the Springs Club.) Jump racing, too, has long been part of horse country fabric — there are reports of horses over hurdles at the Springs as early as 1844.

Horse showing followed, with the Upperville Colt and Horse Show established in 1853, the Warrenton Horse Show in 1899 and the Warrenton Pony Show in 1920.

The Maryland Hunt Cup was first run in 1894, the Grand National (a timber race, sometimes called the Grand National Point-to-Point to distinguish it from the Grand National hurdle stakes held in the fall) in 1899 and My Lady’s Manor in 1909. The Meadow Brook Cup on Long Island, N.Y. was first held in 1883. The New Jersey Hunt Cup was put into competition in 1915, and the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup debuted in 1921.

Virginia’s first big timber prize, the Middleburg Hunt Cup, was first contested in 1921.

The Virginia Gold Cup was a long time coming, then, when it was first created in 1922, but the race hit the ground running and has since become one of the most prestigious prizes in American steeplechasing.

PHOTOS BY DOUGLAS LEES Marjorie and Nick Arundel present the 1978 Virginia Gold Cup to winning jockey Don Yovanovich and Mrs. Edgar Scott following Navy Davy’s win at the old Broadview course off Warrenton’s bypass.

carry 165 pounds, and only amateur riders were allowed. Jockeys were to ride in racing silks or U.S. military uniform. There was no prize money — only prestige and a valuable golden cup were on the line.

The course was set over “about four miles across country” around Oakwood and the adjacent Hugh Ramey property on Waterloo Road (now Old Waterloo.) The race start and finish were in front of the 18th century manor house.

The course ran right-handed, jumping out of Merry-go-round of host courses The testing courses that have hosted Gold Cup the main pasture towards Waterloo, crossing the View Tree Mountain Road, downhill across are key to the event’s prestige. From the first the little Bear Wallow Branch, a sharp right to course at historic Oakwood just west of town, to an uphill jump over a cross-fence back into the the storied Broadview course some of which is main Oakwood pasture. There, the course went still visible west of the back out of the pasture, bypass by Rady Park, across another small to the custom-designed stream and rejoined Great Meadow at Old TRAINER-RIDER JACK FISHER OF the original circuit to Tavern, Gold Cup SIX-TIME VIRGINIA GOLD CUP WINNER SALUTER the long uphill finhas always featured a ish nearly 200-foot grueling stretch run. elevation gain in the The first two courses last 3/8ths of a mile.

The grinding uphill finish required bravery, with ditch and stream crossings puncuated the 16 jumps dotting the route, most as well as jumps set onto, and off of, roadways. so-called “line fences” between pastures, others The mostly flat course at Great Meadow, which special-built for the event, tall, solid stacks of has hosted the race since 1985, calls for flashing chestnut and oak rails. speed as well as endurance and courage, adding Six went to post that first year, and though strength to the argument that the race is the nathere’s no record of particulars of the race, Irish tion’s top test of a steeplechase horse.

Laddie and Arthur White were the easy winners.

White, who rode Oracle II to win the 1920 Early runnings Maryland Hunt Cup, also trained the chestnut A notice in the March 25, 1922 Fauquier gelding for owner Katherine Hitt. Hitt, whose Democrat announced that the “Virginia Hunt father Stephen B. Elkins was a U.S. Senator from Cup” would be held April 18, oddly, a Tuesday.

West Virginia, married William “Billy” Hitt, son No explanation of why a weekday was selected of U.S. Representative Robert Hitt from Illinois, exists, but a large crowd was expected, said the and they set up a farm, Homeland, in Middlenews report, to watch the big race at Oakwood. burg. Hitt also won the inaugural running of the Members of the newly created Gold Cup AsMiddleburg Hunt Cup the previous year, that race sociation met at the Fauquier Club in Warrenton with her horse John Bunny. on April 3 and changed the race date from April The second running of the Gold Cup was also 18 to May 6, the first Saturday in May. Though held at Oakwood, but the race — for reasons unthe Gold Cup would now butt heads with the explained — was moved to November. Katherine Kentucky Derby, it would — sensibly — fall Hitt won again, this time with Oddity and jockey after the Maryland Hunt Cup, something the Jules Dillon. planners believed would bolster entries.

The third year, the Cup moved to the BroadConditions were simple — all horses would

“He just loved that course.”

view estate, closer to downtown just off the much-later-added Warrenton bypass. A huge crowd was reported on the sunny hillside viewing area to see Arthur White ride the mare Parana wire-to-wire to victory. The following year, 1925, Hitt retired the first Gold Cup trophy when her John Bunny won with Raymond Belmont up.

The Broadview mansion burned on October, 1927, and though the 1928 race ran there, in 1929 the Gold Cup moved to temporary quarters at Clovercroft, a horse farm west of town on the Springs Road. Dunks Green won that year, making light of the strenuous course that included ditches and creek crossings. Winner in 1930 — first of 19 starters in front of a boisterous crowd of more than 10,000 — jockey Bill Streett described the course to a Democrat reporter as “a sporty one, owing to the steep hills.”

In 1935, the Gold Cup returned to Broadview, and brush races were added to the card to flesh out a full race day program. Considered something of a championship course, Broadview helped stamp the race as one of the nation’s best, according to the late Sandy Young of Marshall.

Young’s father Robert rode in five Gold Cups, the earliest being 1927.

“What you saw there at Broadview was pretty much the perfect course,” Young said in a Times interview, noting the long uphill pull to the finish line was testing. “I rode over that course in the 1950s — it was a fair test of a good horse.”

Perhaps best of all at the course, Young said, was the terrific sightline for spectators, who could see every jump from the hillside. “The viewing was grand,” he said. “Just grand. The water jump on the brush course there in front of the main house was so picturesque. Broadview could rival any course in the nation.”

In 1935, organizers charged an admission fee for the first time — one dollar per person with proceeds going to Fauquier Hospital. Indigo and Burly Cocks (he eventually became a Hall of Fame trainer) won that first year back at Broadview. New fences had been constructed, solid-stack chestnut rails set in the ground at an angle, making the face slightly sloped and eminently jumpable.

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The beginning of World War II forced cancellation of all but the main Gold Cup headliner and a preliminary turf race in 1942; spectators were admitted free of charge that year. That year marked tragedy and triumph — leading timber horse Blockade died after a fall at the 17th fence, but the first-ever Warrenton-owned horse won when Mrs. Amory Carhart’s Sir Romeo powered to victory.

Post-war legends

When racing resumed after the war, the Cup returned with great fanfare to the Fauquier social and sporting calendar. Though the 1946 and ‘47 meets were rain soaked and cold, nearly 8,000 fans attended in their enthusiasm to “return to normal.”

In 1955, a new survey done by civil engineer Robert Bartenstein found that the old course was slightly short of the four miles listed, and the committee extended the route, adding two fences to total 26. The jumps, which had settled somewhat since the course was first built, were beefed up with extra rails.

In 1964, Eve Fout became the first female trainer to saddle a Gold Cup winner, Moon Rock. Humebred, -owned and -trained Leeds Don became the first horse to win three back-to-back Gold Cups 1965’67; his trainer, Ridgley White was the son of Arthur White who won the first Cup. Development began to surround Broadview by the late ‘70s, and

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New beginnings

Great Meadow was carved out of an abandoned farm purchased for the express purpose by late news executive, and former Fauquier Times (then Times-Democrat) publisher Nick Arundel in 1982.

Tennessee shipper Prince Saran, who had won the 1982 Cup at Broadview, won Great Meadow’s inaugural running May 4, 1985.

A then-record crowd of 32,000 pressed onto the hillside viewing area and backstretch tailgate parking to see the historic race. It was the first time Gold Cup had a commercial sponsor — 1st American Bank of Virginia put up the $15,000 prize.

“Prince Saran loved the (new) course, loved the fences,” recalled Tennessee attorney and amateur rid-

er Paul Sloan. “He loved the crowd, too. He knew this was his day.”

Great Meadow, Sloan said, was decidedly unlike Broadview. He said the new course was nearly flat while Broadview, like Clovercroft and Oakwood before it, featured testing grades.

Virginia-bred and -owned Saluter so perfectly that Ann Stern’s gelding won an epic six Gold Cups in a row 1994-1999 for trainer-rider Jack Fisher. “He just loved that course,” Fisher recalled recently.

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Naylor retires Gold Cup with Ebanour’s second score With Ebanour’s impressive victory in last year’s Virginia Gold Cup, owner Irv Naylor entered an exclusive fraternity.

Just eight owners “retired” the Gold Cup in 92 runnings. Until 1984 — when the race was held at Broadview, and, before that, at Clovercroft and Oakwood, all in Warrenton — three wins by the same owner secured permanent possession of the golden trophy.

It didn’t matter if it is with the same horse, or the same trainer or jockey — just ownership counts to put a leg on the cup, explains Virginia Gold Cup Association director Diane Jones.

Five owners won three Gold Cups from 1922-1984.

When the race moved to Great Meadow near The Plains for the 1985 race, organizers upped the ante, requiring an owner to win the race five times to retire the trophy.

Ann Stern’s Virginia-bred Saluter did that, and more, winning six in a row, 1994-1999.

Naylor put his first claim to the cup in 2002 when he won with Make Me A Champ. He won in 2007 and ‘09 with Casanova-bred Salmo, and the last two years with Ebanour.

The 2017 triumph gave him five, ensuring Naylor permanent possession of the current Gold Cup, a delicate, six-sided, solid gold chalice.

“This was icing on the cake,” said Naylor’s wife Diane. “What an honor.”

Longtime leading owner on the National Steeplechase Association circuit, Irv Naylor is no stranger to retiring trophies: he’s also retired the Maryland Grand National trophy and the Iroquois challenge cup. He has two, of three, legs on the Maryland Hunt Cup.

How it happened

How Naylor became involved in horse racing follows the standard “foxhunter craves competition” storyline.

“I’d grown up foxhunting,” Naylor said, his grandfather and uncle had been blacksmiths. “My deeper involvement in steeplechasing harked back to the time I got my amateur steeplechase riders’ license in the 1950s. Mikey Smithwick trained for me, and I got a real taste of it finishing third on my horse Village Gossip at My Lady’s Manor.

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PHOTOS BY CHRIS CERRONE Racehorse tack and equipment is often quite unique, though certain items are used in other sports. All three pressing to the line here are sporting polo breastplates, typically favored by race trainers because they don’t interfere with shoulder movement. All three leaders also have on blinkers, little cups that shade a bit of the horse’s vision behind him so he stays focused on the course in front of him, and all three have on back ‘run-down’ bandages to protect their fetlocks from hyperextension. The horse on the right has an Irish martingale, which keeps the reins from both flipping to one side of the neck in case of a blunder at a jump. The horse at center is wearing a shadow roll, which keeps the head lower, which the horses to the inside and outside both have on figure-8 nosebands, which keep the jaw closed around the bit. The horse at left has no breastplate, no yoke, no blinkers and only a plain noseband.

Racehorse attire: Unique to the sport

It seems like a lot to learn, but almost everybody uses the same stuff Racehorse trainers have a tack catalog’s worth of curious bits and equipment for peculiar cases down the shedrow, but, typically their tack hooks are laden with a dozen identical bridles, outfitted with the same bits, same reins, same nosebands.

Middleburg-based Neil Morris, for example, says his tackroom wall has a row of leath-

er race bridles, almost all with D-ring snaffles.

“That’s my favorite,” he explained. “Simple, soft.”

Some say yes to the figure-8, others say nay, but what they all agree on is that they treat horses as individuals. What they need is what they get. Check out what the sport’s leaders tout as their go-to gear.

A bit about the bit This horse is racing in nearly the softest combo possible — a fat, loose-ring snaffle with a plain noseband. Many race trainers add a lip-strap (below the horse’s jaw) so the bit can’t pull through the mouth if there is a turning ‘emergency’, but it also makes a handy place to snap a plain leadrope to lead a horse onto the racecourse, or to pose in the winner’s circle.

A few of their favorite things From the strong opinion file, top trainers usually stay simple in their equipment choices, but they keep a few tricks up their sleeves for hard-to-hold.

• Jonathan Sheppard: We run a lot of horses in the (new) Triabit. it’s like a ring-bit but the ring part is fixed. For the strong ones, I have an old-fashioned Kineton we can use.

• Jimmy Day: Keep it simple is best, but I like the Titanium hood, ears and everything. I think it calms them. We run some in a Triabit, some in a rubber snaffle. I like the Happy Mouth snaffle.

• Julie Gomena: Most of my (race-day) bridles have a D-ring and a rubber figure-8. Nothing fancy.

• Cyril Murphy: Loose-ring snaffle is my go-to. I want them to take hold against the bridle. That’s a nice, soft bit.

• Lilith Boucher: Most of mine run in a full-cheek snaffle and a regular noseband. There’s less to forget on race day, and it’s hard to mess up putting it on.

• Doug Fout: I keep most horses in snaffles, but I have a neat bit — a straight-bar leather covered bit with prongs (on the sides.) It looks weird, but some of the soft-mouthed horses really like it. They settle, they don’t fight it. I think they like to chew on it a little bit.

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A bit about the bit A bit about the bit This horse is in a plain D-ring snaffle with a figure-8 noseband and an Irish martingale. Notice every part of a typical racing bridle is separate — the throatlatch, noseband and headstall are all interchangeable. Reins are wide to provide strong grip for the jockey.

A shadow roll is designed to keep the horse from ‘stargazing’ — head up and paying little attention where his feet are being placed. With a shadow roll, the horse naturally has to lower his head a bit, literally, to see where he’s going.

A bit about the bit A full-cheek snaffle lends a bit of steering assistance, say horsemen, with a pull on the left rein both pulling the horse towards the left with direct pressure, and ‘pushing’ him to the left with indirect pressure from the right-hand full-cheek. This horse also has a leather figure-8 — to keep the jaw closed around the bit, and a tongue tie, to keep the tongue from interfering with breathing during high intensity exercise.

A bit about the bit This horse is quite clearly a strong puller, outfitted as he is in an American gag bit, which adds a little leverage on the top of the head when the jockey pulls back.

The bit has cheek guards to keep it from pinching the sides of his mouth. He’s wearing both a figure-8 and a plain noseband; the plain noseband is attached to a standing martingale, which limits how high he can carry his head. The brown fluffy cheekpieces limit his view behind, though not as much as blinkers.

A bit about the bit A fat loose ring snaffle, figure-8 and lip strap are complemented by a tongue tie, the white strip of fabric looped around the horse’s tongue to keep his from displacing and affecting his breathing ability at top speed.

This horse has on blinkers, but under the blinkers he’s wearing a titanium hood, a fairly new device said to keep a fractious, fit racehorse a bit more calm before the race. The jury is out, professionals say, as to whether it works or not.

A bit about the bit Virginia trainer Doug Fout says he prefers a simple D-ring snaffle for most runners, but he’s found a lot to like in an odd throwback, a leather-covered straight-bar bit with ‘prongs’ on both sides. He’s found that horses — like Bullet Star, here winning at Orange County — like to chew on, and play with, the firm bit, relaxing them in the process which makes for a better performance, he said.

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Shuttered since the 2013 Thoroughbred racing season, Colonial Downs may reopen since new owners Revolutionary Racing purchased the track. The Chicago company bought when the governor signed a new law allowing wagering on so-called ‘historic racing’ on video lottery terminals which will be placed at the New Kent track and its OTB network.

A sure bet: Historical racing expected to lift Colonial Downs from the dirt Steeplechasing, world-class turf racing may return to New Kent track in 2019

By Betsy Burke Parker Right now, Great Meadow is the only game in town when it comes to wagering on live horse racing.

But if the new owners of Colonial Downs have their way, the New Kent racecourse will host a thoroughbred meet as early as next year.

Revolutionary Racing, together with partner Peninsula Pacific, last week finalized their purchase of Virginia’s only commercial pari-mutuel track, shuttered since 2013. The track, with its handsome, colonial-style red brick grandstand and world-class, highly-regarded mile-long turf oval, was purchased from long-time owner Jacobs Enter-

tainment.

The purchase price was reported to be in excess of $20 million.

Revolutionary Racing came on board last year when Virginia’s General Assembly began to consider an innovative wagering game, “historical horse racing,” allowed through HB 1609 that Governor Ralph Northam signed into law last month.

“We are thrilled to take an important step forward to help revitalize Virginia’s longstanding horse industry,” Revolutionary chairman Larry Lucas said in a release. “A vibrant and successful Colonial Downs is critical to ensuring that horse racing can thrive and grow in the Commonwealth.”

“The Virginia Equine Alliance is extremely proud of the hard work of all of our members and Virginia horsemen over the past nine months to help design a plan to jump start our industry,” said VEA executive director Jeb Hannum. The VEA represents racing horsemen’s interests in Virginia. “We are already witnessing an increase in equine-related services.”

“There is no reason Virginia cannot be a national leader in horse racing,” said JNB Gaming COO Jonathan Swain in a radio interview.

“The Commonwealth has the climate, the history, and the talent to be at the top of the sport. The reopening of Colonial Downs gets us closer to making this a reality, and we are looking forward to being involved in this effort as it moves forward.”

“Thousands of Virginians work in our horse racing industry,” wrote Virginia Equine Alliance president Debbie Easter in a release. “It is deeply embedded in the fabric of Virginia. Unfortunately, over the past years, this industry has faced tough times. In roughly two decades, Virginia thoroughbreds went from running more than 2,300 races to just 333 by 2014.

“Our breeding numbers declined dramatically. Our horses are having to race out of state, and they are taking the money, the jobs and the opportunities with them.”

A study by Richmond firm Chmura Economics and Analytics reports that Colonial’s reopening should

generate $203.7 million in direct operating revenue through 2022, including about $162 million from historical horse racing, and create more than 400 jobs. It also would generate about $18 million a year for Virginia’s horse industry.

Live racing would generate an estimated $7.3 million, with other gambling opportunities — off-track betting generating an estimated $27.9 million. advanced-deposit or online wagering producing $5.2 million and steeplechase betting generating more than $1 million, according to the study.

Indirectly, Colonial would create an additional 378 jobs in businesses that support racing, such as marketing, security and retailers, the report said.

Long time coming

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COLONIAL DOWNS, from Page 34 over race dates, purses and simulcast rights.

In the interim, the Virginia Equine Alliance — linking thoroughbred horsemen, breeders, and the steeplechase and standardbred colonies — has kept racing alive with festival-style meets held at non-commercial venues like Great Meadow and Woodstock’s newly refurbished Shenandoah Downs. VEA arranged for Virginia-bred races at Maryland tracks. VEA officials stress that races returning to Colonial doesn’t mean the other meets will disappear.

“The Governor and General Assembly (recognize) the many horsemen and contributions they make in Virginia as well as the importance of our industry and the value it brings

to local and regional economies and for the state,” said Hannum.

HB1609 was sponsored by Del. Michael Webert, R-Fauquier.

Historical racing terminals allow gambling on machines that accept bets on previously-run races, with only odds and limited past performance information supplied to bettors before they lock in their wagers.

Historical race wagering allows betting at a far faster pace than live racing, even faster than simulcast wagering on action from multiple tracks at off-track betting parlors.

For this reason, some decry historical racing as adressed-up slot machines, or video lottery terminals.

Supporters stress there is skill involved, since odds are posted before “bets” are made.

Colonial Downs’ Secretariat Turf Course is widely regarded as one of the nation’s top grass tracks. Racing may return in 2019.

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NAYLOR from page 31 “I went off to the University of Miami, and didn’t get back into it until I returned to Pennsylvania many years later.”

Naylor rode some 50 races — point-to-points and under rules, always over timber, he explained, “because that’s where I could make the weight,” usually 165 pounds.

He was badly injured in the 1999 Grand National timber stakes when he went down with Emerald Action, who he’d won with over the same course in ‘96. Naylor was paralyzed from the waist down in the fall, and spent three excruciating months at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center regaining the use of his arms and hands.

“Once, there, I really thought I had died,” he told the Baltimore Sun. “I felt like I’d had enough.

I remember closing my eyes and saying, ‘Take me away.’ ” Bitter and depressed, Naylor fell into a hellish spiral.

“I was really angry that it happened to me,” he told the Sun, considering suicide but eventually, he said, he accepted his lot and moved on. Naylor’s ardor for steeplechasing, the very sport that hurt him, brought the sparkle back into his life.

“I never wanted to give up being involved,” Naylor said, noting that being in a wheelchair takes some getting used to, but that he’s never given up on his dream of someday walking again. He told the Sun his “legs are mush now,” but he’s long been involved in stem cell research, his own cells are tucked away in a cryobank. A $6 million gift to McDonogh helped fund the school’s science, technology engineering and math facility, which opened in 2013.

In 2001, Naylor told the Sun, “I don’t intend to die in this damn chair.”

When Naylor focused all his attention on building a powerhouse string of horses as owner, his approach switched, somewhat, from timber to

Irv Naylor’s Rawnaq is one of his three Eclipse Award champions. Naylor says the IRS played a hand in changing the focus of his powerhouse stable from timber to hurdles, ‘because they said I needed to show a profit.’

He’s done more than that, winning six of the last eight National Steeplechase Association leading owner titles and setting a new single-season record for earnings.

hurdles. “The IRS told me I needed to earn money,” he said with a laugh. “They consider timber racing a hobby, which makes it ironic that one of my first good horses was named Tax Ruling.”

Leading owner six of the past seven years, Naylor’s plan clearly worked, amassing more earnings in a single season ever in National Steeplechase Association history.

“I still love the training aspect of it,” he said, noting that he often watches the horses train at his Maryland farm. “Cyril will come up to the house and tell me when he’s sending a set out to school so I can come down and watch them go.

“At the root level, it’s the love of competitive horses that drives this sport.”

He called Murphy a “vital cog in our wheel of success. He’s good at finding talented horses, and great at training them. He’s very savvy, I figure he’s thinking about horses 24 hours a day.”

Naylor believes horses have been, and will be, an integral part of his life. “I’ve forgotten the names of old girlfriends and wives,” he told This Is Horse Racing. “But I remember my first pony’s name.

His name was ‘Oats,’ but I couldn’t pronounce that word. I was very young. So we ended up calling him ‘Erz.’ That pony never missed a dinner. But I still remember him. It made an impression.”

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Did they know what they’d started?

First Virginia Gold Cup recorded in hometown newspaper

By John Toler The tradition of foxhunting in Fauquier County dates to the late 18th century, so the 1922 creation of the Virginia Gold Cup steeplechase was no surprise to those in Virginia’s Hunt Country.

Flat races were held at White Sulphur Springs — near the present-day Springs Club — in the 1830s, jump races added in 1844.

By 1875, the contest at the Springs was called “the best Steeplechase in America.”

The effort to organize the first Virginia Gold Cup — originally called the Virginia Hunt Cup — began in spring, 1922. Founders included Henry C. Groome, of Airlie; W.S. Sowers, G.B. Stone, E. A. Cooper, T.L. Evans J.A.C. Mason, E. W. Winmill, Richard Wallach, James K. Maddux, Capt. Sterling Larrabee. Raymond Belmont and Fletcher Harper.

It was originally planned the race was would be held on the course at Oakwood, the Larrabee estate in the hills northwest of Warrenton, and on part of the adjacent Hugh Ramey property.

It was originally scheduled to be run on Tuesday, April 18, 1922, so as not to conflict with other races running that spring. But that would change. `At a meeting the committee held April 3, 1922 at the Fauquier Club on Culpeper Street, it was decided that the race would swap to Saturday, May 6, and the name of the meet changed to the Virginia Gold Cup. The Virginia Hunt Cup designation was assigned to the four-mile timber race.

After winning the 1975 Gold Cup, owner Paul Mellon, jockey Paddy Neilson and trainer Ridgely White read an ‘early edition’ of the Fauquier Democrat printed up special by publisher, and race director, Russell Arundel as a publicity stunt. He printed newspapers with a headline for each of the entrants that year so that connections for any horse that won could pose for this shot.

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From the beginning, the Gold Cup was not intended to be just a local contest, but to feature a card that would draw entries from among the best hunters in the nation.

It was established that the gold trophy would be presented to the owner who won the Cup race three times. Groome selected the design of the trophy, and money was raised — $1,000 — to purchase it from the Washington, D.C. jewelry firm of Harris and Shafer. It was also decided that an individual cup should also be awarded to the owner of the winner.

Winmill donated the first cup.

Six lined up on race day. As reported in the Fauquier Democrat, “Irish Laddie, owned

by Katherine Elkins Hitt of Middleburg and ridden by Arthur White, won the first Virginia Gold Cup. Stilts, owned by Bedminster Stables and ridden by Lucien Keith Jr., ran second, and Mrs. Waugh Glascock’s Page Brook with Blakely Lodge up, third.”

“The Gold Cup Association would have preferred that the trophy remain in the hands of one of its Fauquier residents, but nonetheless, the first race was a total success,” wrote Bill Myzk in The History and Origins of the Virginia Gold Cup (1987).

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Gold Cup top prize: $100,000 Retiring the trophy: priceless.

By Betsy Burke Parker Throughout history a trophy has been an emblem of valiant victory. After winning a battle, soldiers traditionally requisitioned a portion of enemy armor, or perhaps a body part as token of triumph.

Trophies of today are easier to stomach, though no less difficult to win.

Of all sporting prizes — a Super Bowl ring, the Masters green jacket, the Cy Young award — soccer’s top trophy is the most valuable. FIFA’s World Cup — a tall, golden statue valued at $20 million — is so precious that the original Jules Rimet Trophy was stolen, twice. It was recovered the first time, but was lost for good in 1970, resulting in the adoption of the new trophy in 1974.

By comparison, the golden goblet that’s the Virginia Gold Cup challenge trophy is worth mid-five figures, but winning the timber classic, trophy committee chair Charlie Seilheimer said, is priceless.

“Eight Gold Cups have been retired” after three, or — now — five victories by the same owner, Seilheimer explained. It need not be with the same horse, Seilheimer said, nor in succession, but the lovely, and historic, golden trophies are given to owners who are clearly devoted to the sport of steeplechasing and supporting it over years, often generations.

“We hated to lose the (eighth) Gold Cup last year,” Seilheimer said,” but we were thrilled who it went to.” Seilheimer called Naylor’s fifth victory as winning owner last year, “retiring the most beautiful of all the Gold Cup trophies, I

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“This one was made in Russia, from gold ingots that came from the California Gold Rush,” he said. “No greater guy in steeplechasing could have won this trophy. Irv Naylor is a fabulous

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“He was appropriately excited to take the trophy home (to Maryland.) We’re sorry to see the trophy go, but we’re happy to know who won it.”

Winning owner, trainer and rider in each race are given permanent possession of what awards committee co-chair Wayne Eastham called “keepers,” small trophies that are often useful items such as engraved silver picture frames, water pitchers or pewter trays, in addition to traditional julep cups. They’re created, Gold Cup Association executive director Diane Jones said,

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“My favorite as a keeper is a picture frame,” Seilheimer said. “Totally useful. One thing that remains after the cheering dies down is your win photo.”

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“I’m up there trying to get everybody in the photo, wrangling owners and trainers and a jockey who’s doing his best to get out of there,” he said. “I’m having to grab the governor by the belt to move him off the front row, so the photographers can get a clear shot. I’m telling everybody to take off their sunglasses so they don’t look like mafia.

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The unusual trophy was found in a London was purchased by committee member Robert pawn shop just after World War II. Winmill in London in 1926. Fashioned in 1802, Hume horseman and foxhunter Zeke Ferguthe 15-inch tall gold goblet was on display at Warrenton’s Fauquier National Bank branch for weeks son won permanent possession of the elaborate trophy in 1967 when his Fauquier-bred Leeds before the 1925 race.

Don won his third Gold Cup — first horse to post The Winmill trophy was retired a few years three in a row. later, in 1933 by Summer Pingree, then when The race association set about finding a sixth won for a third time in 1940 by Mrs. Frank challenge cup, Gould, the comtrophy committee mittee purchased chairman Fredrik a magnificent, Wachtmeister historic trophy identifying the from Hammer perfect prize Galleries in in an antique New York City. jewelry store Once part of the in England in imperial silver early 1968. collection of Tsar Hallmarks on the Nikolas II of gold-plated silver Russia, according cup indicate it to engraving on was crafted by the base, the trosilversmiths phy was first won Digby Scott and by a horse named Benjamin Smith Ruler in 1795. in 1796. A racing A fifth Virginia scene engraved Gold Cup was on the side deput into competition in 1954 PHOTO BY DOUGLAS LEES picts jockey attire characteristic of after Christopher Jack Fisher won his fifth Gold Cup in 1998, retiring the seventh late 18th century Greer retired the challenge cup for Saluter’s owner Ann Stern. racing. fourth trophy Seventeen in 1953. The years later, Dr. Joseph Rogers’ Constantine new one, a thistle-shaped octagonal goblet, was retired the cup for his Leesburg physician owner bought from the Park Bernet Gallery in New in 1984. It was the final running of the Virginia York — now known as Sotheby’s. It was fashGold Cup at historic Broadview. ioned from gold nuggets mined during the 1849 In new quarters at Great Meadow for the 1985 California Gold Rush. It is inscribed with a bald running, course creator Nick Arundel in 1992 deeagle, the Royal Arms of Britain, allegorical cided to up the ante, raising from three to five the figures including Liberty, racehorses, hunting number of wins to retire the cup. Many thought it hounds and game animals, and the word “Calicouldn’t be done. fornia” inscribed on the lower rim.

Retiring in style: Virginia Gold Cup challenge trophy winners 1. Katherine Hitt: 1922 — Irish Laddie, 1923 — Oddity, 1925 — John Bunny 2. Summer Pingree: 1930 — Soissons, 1933 — Melita II, 1934 — The Prophet 3. Mrs. Frank Gould: 1937 — Ostend, 1938 — Ostend, 1940 — Black Sweep 4. Christopher Greer Jr.: 1941 — Golden, 1946 — Houseman, 1953 — Rayquick 5. Zeke Ferguson: 1965, 1966, 1967 — Leeds Don 6. Joe Rogers: 1972 — King of Spades, 1982 — Private Gary, 1984 — Constantine 7. Ann Stern: 1994-1998 — Saluter 8. Irv Naylor: 2002 — Make Me A Champ, 2007 — Salmo, 2009 — Salmo, 2016 — Ebanour, 2017 — Ebanour They hadn’t met Saluter.

Ann Stern’s powerful Virginia-bred might light of the challenge just a few years later, winning every Gold Cup from 1994-1998 and retiring the seventh challenge trophy.

The race committee went back in time for the next challenge trophy, purchasing the Russian-crafted trophy from Zeke Ferguson’s estate.

It looked like it may not happen ever again, but in 2017 Ebanour claimed the cup with a fifth victory for his Maryland owner. At press time, Seilheimer said “the awards committee was very close” to obtaining a replacement challenge trophy for the classic race. “This is Virginia’s biggest prize,” he said. “It has to be just the right one.”

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By the numbers: Logistics make Gold Cup quite a production Some 96 years ago when the Virginia Gold Cup was locked into the first Saturday in May, organizers studied the Farmer’s Almanac and determined that, historically, that weekend was one of the mildest in the spring.

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Ode to the Thoroughbred An original poem by the late Paul Mellon, championship racehorse owner and breeder, and an avid rider.

The day my final race is run And, win or lose, the sinking sun Tells me it’s time to quit the track And gracefully hang up my tack, I’ll thank the Lord the life I’ve led Was always near a Thoroughbred.

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