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Data Stream files $27 million lawsuit against county amid ongoing contract dispute

By Coy Ferrell

Fauquier Times Staff Writer

Data Stream Mobile Technologies filed a $26.9 million lawsuit against Fauquier County on June 30. It is the latest salvo in an ongoing contract dispute surrounding a public-private initiative dating to 2019 intended to provide subsidized fixed-wireless broadband service to rural homes and businesses.

The suit claims that county officials breached contracts, engaged in “business conspiracy” and defamed the Florida-based company’s reputation.

Data Stream provides fixed-wireless internet service to about 630 homes and businesses in Fauquier County, according to county data from March. The county has paid about $4.7 million to Data Stream since entering into an agreement with the company in a Sept. 12, 2019, memorandum of understanding that was amended on Dec. 8, 2020.

The contract dispute began formally on March 26, 2021, when county supervisors authorized a letter to Data Stream alleging “deficiencies” in the company’s performance that the letter claimed were sufficient grounds to nullify the agreements

In addition to Amazon-purchased land, two other sites in Warrenton are being marketed for data centers

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Some parents want Kettle Run library to remove 3 books they see as pornographic, violent

Owner David Dobson suggests 8 data center buildings could be built at the 2 locations Two more properties are being offered for data center development in Warrenton. If they were built out to their marketed potential, they could create 1.2 million more square feet of data center space inside the town’s boundaries – more than five times the 220,000 square feet already proposed for an Amazon data center off Blackwell Road.

The two properties are owned by David Dobson of Rixeyville, or his company Premium Business Parks International LLC. One, with 21.7 acres, is located just across U.S. 17

between Data Stream and the county. The letter requested an audit of Data Stream’s equipment used in Fauquier and “a full accounting of Data Stream financials” within 30 days. If the company did not respond, the letter said, the county would cease subsidy payments outlined in the MOU, which add up to about $46,000 per month, according to Data Stream’s estimates. According to county officials, Data Stream hadn’t responded to the letter even 11 months later.

Key Industrial-zoned parcels owned

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Three mothers are asking Kettle Run High School to remove three school library books they say contain “explicitly graphic, violent sex.” School officials are reviewing the books, but with teachers and students out for summer break, getting it done is taking some time.

During the school year, such a review might take two to three weeks, Kim Ritter, supervisor of library and media services, said.

During the summer, getting together a committee that includes teachers, who are on their summer break, takes longer. “I will say that we try to do it as quickly as possible,” she said.

Fauquier County Public Schools’ policies do not have a required timeline for finishing a review of library books after parents request one.

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Amie Bowman, treasurer for the Fauquier County chapter of Moms for Liberty, said that there are several books in the Kettle Run High School Library that are inappropriate for students because they contain “graphic sexual violence.”

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Game night features local board game inventor

By Abby Zimmardi

Local board game inventor David Fox stands with his game, Record Deal, in Warrenton Hobby Shoppe on June 29.

Record Deal is Fox’s most recent game to go on the market, and it will be available to play and purchase at the Hobby Shoppe’s game night from 6 to 9 p.m. on July 13 at Altered Suds Beer Company.

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A local board game inventor, with numerous games to his credit, will feature his most recent game on the market during Warrenton Hobby Shoppe’s game night from 6 to 9 p.m. on July 13 at Altered Suds Beer Company. The event is free, and participants can play party games, strategy games, role-playing games or request their favorite board game to play with family, friends and new faces.

Fauquier County native David Fox is a Warrenton Middle School math teacher and the owner and sole employee of Winner Games. He has created 50 games so far and will bring his music-based board game called Record Deal to the game night.

“There’ll be enough copies [that] if someone is interested, they can walk away with one that is not only complete, but it would be signed by the inventor,” Fox said.

The upcoming game night is one that “was rescheduled” after the first one was canceled due to a damaging storm on June 22. It is appropriately named Game Night: Take Two. Mady May, Warrenton Hobby Shoppe gamemaster, said that about 14 people signed up for the canceled game night, and she hopes even more people sign up for next week’s event.

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quired, but participants will be able to play their first or second choice of board game if they register ahead of time, May said. Interested people can register for free through the Hobby Shoppe’s Facebook page or by scanning the QR code posted in both the Hobby Shoppe and Altered Suds.

May said she hopes the game night will get more people interested in board games. If the demand for board games increases, the Hobby Shoppe can carry more games that interest patrons, she said.

“It’s [the game night] also kind of cool that it’s not something that’s electronic,” May said. “I mean, nothing against video games — I love video games — but sometimes there’s nothing that can really beat sitting around a table and playing a board game with friends.”

Additionally, the game night could give board game players who might not have anyone to play games with “an opportunity to meet new people and play games that they can’t play alone,” May said.

The Hobby Shoppe is typically known for selling RC cars but since the pandemic began, the shop owners, Wes McCarville and Lori Gibson, started carrying more board games for “people to do while they’re stuck indoors with their families,” May said.

In March 2020, Record Deal was released for people to purchase right as the pandemic swept across the U.S., Fox said.

In his 28 years creating games,

seven of the 50 games Fox invented made it to the market. He began creating games in 1994, soon after graduating college. Fox and a few of his friends worked together on his very first game, Culture Pop. “The games that were out there weren’t to my liking,” Fox said. “So, I felt like ‘Well, why not just make it?’”

Fox’s most successful game is called Talking Crap, a party game that sold 25,000 copies nationally.

He said he likes to make party games that have low stakes for the players, like Talking Crap, and he also likes to create games that use technology as part of the game play, like Record Deal.

“The ones [games] that I really like producing are just getting people together to laugh — a quick get,” Fox said. “I don’t like overly complicated games.”

In the collection of board games he invented, there are numerous party games that he has been able to use in his 7th grade classroom to help teach his students math concepts. Although none of his games are explicitly about math, he used the spinner in some of his games to teach fractions and used the chances of students pulling the same cards to teach probability.

“So that’s a concept that is in the seventh-grade curriculum, and I could teach it this way, which was much more fun for the students,” Fox said.

As Fox continued to make games, he said he noticed that more and more people seem to get glued to

Game Night: Take Two registration

Warrenton Hobby Shoppe workers will host a game night at Altered Suds Beer Company on Main Street on July 13 from 6 to 9 p.m. To sign up, scan the QR code or go to the Hobby Shoppe’s Facebook page and register via the link posted on the game night event page.

Although not required, registration is recommended, so participants can play their first or second choice of game. The event is free.

Record Deal

Record Deal is creator David Fox’s favorite game, he said, because it is his daughter’s favorite, and both of his children helped him create it.

Fox worked with his two children, both Fauquier High School students, to write 100 songs — on top of the 40 in the original prototype — to go into the game.

How to play:

• Players draw a card with lyrics about random tasks, such as making pancakes.

• They spin a spinner that lands on a music genre.

• They use an accompanying music track the game offers through a cell phone.

• Players perform their songs to compete for a record deal. their phones and fail to interact with other people. He hopes his games can be a counterweight to that disconnect.

When people connect through games, Fox said, “there’s nothing better. People will smile and laugh, and they really crave that sense of community and connections in an age of disconnect. It sounds a little trite, a little hokey maybe to say, but that’s one of the reasons I do this — to get people together and to spread joy,” Fox said.

Fox’s games can be found at discount stores, Amazon, TJ Maxx and his website: www.winner-games.net.

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Warrenton Community Police Academy builds trust, celebrates progress

By Coy Ferrell

Fauquier Times Staff Writer

A ceremony last week celebrated 20 graduates of the Warrenton Police Department’s Community Police Academy, a program designed to help members of the public gain an in-depth understanding of community law enforcement. As much as the June 28 event was about recognizing those 20 people, the evening was equally filled with praise for the broader departmental reforms implemented since early 2020, when Chief Michael Kochis was hired by Town Manager Brandie Schaeffer.

Kochis “came to Warrenton with a vision for a police department that will better serve, better protect, with greater transparency,” said Taryn Weaver, a graduate of this year’s community academy. (The inaugural program was held last year.)

Weaver said she learned a lot about policing during the seven-week academy, joking that she was disappointed to learn that some of her favorite TV shows don’t represent the realities of law enforcement. “It’s a lot that they have to go through,” she said of police officers.

But what struck her the most was what she said is the trust that the department has built with the community. Weaver recalled spending

Community Police Academy

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Rhiannon Child addresses fellow graduates of the Community Police Academy.

Child plans to become a police officer in Warrenton. the day riding in a patrol vehicle with Cpl. Shaver as part of the program. They pulled into a neighborhood, and kids were playing outside.

Weaver said that she expected that the kids might run away. Instead, they ran up to the patrol car with smiles and questions. “You got girl police officers?” one girl asked when she saw Weaver, whom Shaver introduced as his “partner” for the day.

“She was so excited to see a Black female sitting in the front seat of the

cruiser,” Weaver said.

Deputy Chief Tim Carter grew up in the area and has served with the Warrenton Police Department for more than three decades. Thirty years ago, he said, officers often tried to build relationships with community members but “a lot of times we were putting [the effort] out there, and it didn’t come back.”

The past two years — and the community academy in particular, which See ACADEMY, page 21

First held in 2021, the Warrenton Police Department’s Community Police Academy includes “presentations, demonstrations, displays and hands-on activities,” from Warrenton police officers along with classes about “accreditation, public information and community engagement, the volunteer program, court services, domestic violence, criminal investigations, crime analyst, patrol operations, crisis intervention, record keeping, training program and much more.”

Applications for the next Community Police Academy will open in January 2023. Applicants must live in Fauquier County, be at least 21 years old, pass a background check and be willing to attend a seven-week curriculum with graduation on the eighth week. The group meets one evening each week. Participants are also asked to commit to at least 10 hours of volunteer service at the department annually.

Questions about the community academy and the volunteer program should be directed to volunteer coordinator Betty Compton at bcompton@warrentonva.gov or 540-347-1107.

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Mothers want Kettle Run library to remove 3 books they see as pornographic, violent LIBRARY, from page 1 The school division’s policy is for parents to first ask that their children not be allowed to check out books that parents find offensive or otherwise inappropriate for their children. A request must be submitted to the school principal. Kettle Run Principal Meaghan Brill could not be reached for comment on this story.

However, Amie Bowman, treasurer for the Fauquier County chapter of Moms for Liberty, says the books are inappropriate for all students because they are pornographic or contain graphic sexual violence.

Moms for Liberty is “dedicated to the survival of America by unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government,” according to the group’s website.

The Fauquier chapter is new, and Bowman declined to say how many people are members. “We had a goal for June, which was our first month, and we exceeded our goal by 25%,” she said.

How can any parent know exactly which books are in the libraries at their children’s schools?

Bowman asked. “How, as parents, could you put your kids’ name down for all the books?” she asked. Bowman has a child who graduated from Kettle Run in May and another who is a rising freshman at Kettle Run. The three books Moms for Liberty are targeting are “A Court of Mist and Fury,” by Sarah J. Maas; “Out of Darkness,” by Ashley Hope Perez; and “Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda,” a graphic novel

by Jean-Philippe Stassen. All have been targeted by parents and school boards across the nation.

Several more parents have filed paperwork targeting the same books at Kettle Run, and one parent is attempting to file for a review of the same titles at Liberty High School, Bowman said.

If there is probable cause to label the book obscene for unrestricted reading by minors — as a circuit court judge in Virginia Beach recently ruled in the case of “A Court of Mist and Fury” — then it should be removed from the view of all students at Kettle Run, Bowman said.

At a school board meeting in June, Ritter discussed in detail how the school division chooses and retains books for its libraries. It starts with parents talking to the librarians at the schools their children attend, she said.

Ritter spoke at the request of board member Susan Pauling (Center District), who said she and the community needed a clear understanding of how books are chosen. Ritter retired June 30, and her replacement has not yet been hired.

“My request was also prompted because I had received several emails and phone calls regarding materials in our libraries, and I felt it was important to be transparent and discuss this matter publicly for our community,” Pauling wrote in an email in response to questions from the Fauquier Times.

Moms for Liberty is going through lists of books banned in other school districts to see if the books are in Fauquier schools and, if so, whether they should continue to be available to students here.

More than a dozen people spoke at the school board meeting, the majority in favor of keeping books in libraries instead of removing them. “I’ve been concerned about the national issue of book burning in general,” said Virginia Ann Burhans, who holds a leadership position with the Fauquier County Democratic Committee. “I’ve been shocked and appalled to find it’s an issue here in Fauquier.”

She said Ritter’s presentation was reassuring and thorough. “Our teachers and our librarians are professionals who know their jobs and what is appropriate reading material at each level,” Burhans said. “People often hold beliefs at odds with truth. … Education should expand students’ world, expose them to facts and to ideas beyond their community experience.”

Kathryn Lang, who has five children in Fauquier County schools, said she was worried that

Here are the books the Fauquier chapter of Moms for Liberty wants removed from the library at Kettle Run High School.

“Out of Darkness,”

by Ashley Hope Perez (2015) YA (Young Adult novel)

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School board member Susan Pauling

Plot Summary: Historical fiction set in Texas centers on high school senior Naomi, a Mexican American girl who recently arrived from San Antonio with her family. She faces overt racism and reluctantly befriends and then falls in love with an African American boy. — Booklist Banned book status: On 2021’s Top 10 banned books list compiled the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.

Objections of Fauquier County chapter of Moms for Liberty: Describes child molestation and contains violent scenes. One scene begins this way: “Harry was staring right at her. He grinned. ‘You thought you fooled me, but I fooled you,’ he said. ‘I knew you were awake.’ He closed the door behind him and locked it. He had put locks on all the bedroom doors the week before.”

“A Court of Mist and Fury,”

by Sarah J. Maas (2016) YA. (Second in a fantasy series) Virginia Ann Burhans spoke at the June 13 school board meeting, saying, “Our teachers and our librarians are professionals who know their jobs and what is appropriate reading material at each level.” the national debate over book bans would eventually reach here. “I started to wonder and honestly worry that a small but vocal minority will have an outsized impact on our schools, revamping curriculum and censoring books from all students because it’s not something they would select for their child,” she said.

“I think a lot of people are like me,” she said.

“We’re busy and content and don’t want things to change, so we don’t raise our voices. Our silence doesn’t come from a place of apathy,” she said.

“It’s a sign of our trust in the work you do.”

In school divisions across the U.S., books important to LGBTQ youth are being removed. “Remember, we are all different, and everyone is offended by something,” said Jen Wargo. “To be offended is to be uncomfortable, and growth occurs when we are uncomfortable. I encourage my children to read widely and freely without censorship,” she said.

Mary Haak, a community activist, noted that Gov. Glenn Youngkin had recently signed into law a bill that will require schools to notify parents if their students are assigned books or other materials with sexually explicit content. Youngkin also has called for schools to stop teaching “inherently divisive concepts.”

“This discourages classroom discussions about racism and bigotry without diminishing their existence,” Haak said. “It pits parents against teachers.” Because Fauquier County’s history and social-studies textbooks do not accurately portray reality, it is even more critical that school libraries contain books written by and for every race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and more,” Haak said.

Bowman, who also spoke at the school board meeting, said that she respected libraries’ need to allow all students to see themselves reflected in books at their school libraries. That includes LGTBQ students, as well as students of color. Her concern is with books she considers pornographic or sexually violent.

“I understand and appreciate the need to represent all viewpoints in school libraries,” she said. School librarians are, under the division’s own policies, supposed to reflect the morals of the community, she said. “How do libraries know

Plot Summary: A fantasy novel about the leader of a society of fairies.

Banned book status: Is on PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans. It also was the subject of a lawsuit in Virginia. The website commonsensemedia.org advises, “Parents need to know that ‘A Court of Mist and Fury’ … has lots of sex and gore.” The book is marketed as part of a “sexy, action-packed series.”

Objections of Fauquier County chapter of Moms for Liberty: Pornographic. The group sent passages from the book with graphic descriptions of sex.

“Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda,”

by Jean-Philippe Stassen (author and illustrator), Alexis Siegel (Translator) Graphic novel. (First published in 2000)

Plot summary: 2000 winner of the Goscinny Prize for outstanding graphic novel script, Deogratias is a harrowing story of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, as seen through the eyes of a boy named Deogratias. — Goodreads Banned book status: Comic Book Legal Defense Fund lists “Deogratias” among books banned somewhere in the U.S. from August 2021 and April 2022.

Objections of Fauquier County chapter of Moms for Liberty: Depictions of sexual violence, including a woman raped with a bottle. what the morals of the community are?” she asked. “They do this without input.”

Librarians in no cases are to purchase books that sensationalize, over-dramatize or provide pornographic content. “These guidelines are not squishy,” Bowman said. “They say in no case will this material be in schools.”

Yet the books she seeks to remove depict “Africans as dogs,” “talk about raping 6-year-olds,” teachers drugging children in order to rape them, and depict sexual violence, she said. “We’ve given you three examples,” said Bowman, referring to the three books her group seeks to have removed from the Kettle Run library.

Natalie Erdossy, also a member of Moms for Liberty, concurred. “I will share that I’ve seen some content specifically in graphic novels that has me deeply shaken,” she said. “I am questioning the appropriateness of letting my children into the libraries in the schools they attend without some sort of more thorough review.”

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Librarian outlines procedures for choosing, challenging, removing school library books

By Colleen LaMay

Policy for selecting library books

Fauquier Times Staff Writer

Fauquier County Public Schools choose library books based on students’ ages and interests, reviews and other factors, but does not shy away from controversial topics, Kim Ritter, supervisor of library and media services, said.

Ritter outlined in detail the process for choosing books at a recent Fauquier County School Board meeting, after board member Susan Pauling (Center District) asked about the policies for choosing books for school libraries.

“I requested the library presentation so that both the school board and our community would have a clearer understanding of how library books are selected and the process for which library resources may be reconsidered,” Pauling wrote in an email.

“My request was also prompted because I had received several emails and phone calls regarding materials in our libraries, and I felt it was important to be transparent and discuss this matter publicly for our community,” Pauling wrote.

Ritter told Pauling, other members of the school board, school officials and a large crowd at the meeting, “Librarians cannot defend the content. We cannot defend an author’s work, but we can tell you the process by which it was selected.

“The goal is to provide access to sources which will provide insight into human values, appreciation of the spiritual and joy in the beautiful,” Ritter said.

The school division is open to discussions with parents, Ritter said. “We are all on the same team,” she told the school board. COVID and its accompanying turmoil might have thrown a wrench into that communication, she said. “But as librarians, I can say that we invite parents to

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Kim Ritter, who recently retired as supervisor to library and media services of the Fauquier County School division, explains the process for objecting to a school division library book. come in and have conversations with us about the books that are in our libraries. Absolutely.”

The process

The Fauquier County Public Schools Division is too small to have a separate department that chooses books, Ritter said. Instead, librarians at each school choose books, allowing them to tailor choices to the needs of their students.

Some books are certain to be controversial, Ritter said, but that does not keep librarians from buying them. Books that include sexual incidents or content are subject to “a stern test” of literary merit and value, community standards and whether they present life “in its true proportions.”

Ritter noted that school libraries serve students from pre-K through 12th grade — very young children to adults — and the school libraries will reflect that wide age range. “Every book has its reader, but not every book is for every reader,” Ritter said.

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Fauquier County Public Schools selects books that “supplement the curriculum of the school, stimulate intellectual growth, promote reading as a leisure-time activity and stimulate new interest and imagination on the part of the individual student,” according to division policies. Here is a summary of the criteria for building a school library: • Provide permanent rather than temporary value • Provide balance in the book collection • Provide insight into human values, appreciation of the spiritual and joy in the beautiful • Provide material of an intellectual nature for all religious, ethnic and cultural groups and for all classes and grades • Present all sides of controversial issues, as far as is consistent with the moral values of the community • Ensure content is suitable for students’ backgrounds and ages • From authoritative and reliable publishers and authors, good format, recent date and healthy content • Reliable reviews and commentaries in school and library trade publications “Anything can be controversial, so we have to address that,” she said. For example, in some middle schools, she said, certain books might be reserved for 8th-graders only, because the content is not appropriate for the 6th-graders or 7th-graders who also attend middle schools.

At high schools, some students are 18 years old, legally adults, while rising freshmen are often just 14 years old. All of that must be taken into consideration.

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Elon Husk leaves the corn crib for the FIRST championship in Houston Aimée O’Grady

Special to the Fauquier Times

With a relatively small budget, only seven members and a corn crib as a workshop, the Fresta Valley Robotics Team took its competitive robot to an international championship for the eighth time.

Team 1731, as the group is known in competitive circles, was one of 5,000 worldwide robotics teams representing 40 countries that competed in the world championship, sponsored by FIRST -For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology -- in Houston, Texas, April 20 to 23.

Team 1731 had its beginnings as part of Fresta Valley Christian School, but parted ways with the school four years ago when the club was opened to students beyond the private school’s population.

This year’s team members represented Highland School, Fresta Valley Christian School, Kettle Run High School, the Mountain Vista Governor’s School, Fauquier High School and home-schooled students.

Farmers use corn cribs to store and dry corn once harvested from the fields. However, the corn crib where Team 1731’s robot -- Elon Husk -- was made has undergone some renovations. There are several rooms that serve different purposes including an electric room, a programmer room, a tool room and the main build room. White boards and peg boards line the walls to collect ideas and tools. There is no corn in this corn crib.

After a fall season of workshops in preparation for the competition, in January the team received the game, Fast Forward, for the 2022 contest.

Librarian outlines procedures for choosing, challenging, removing school library books PROCEDURES, from page 5 Every child should be able to find books in the library that mirror their reality, provide insight into the lives of other people and offer a doorway to new experiences, Ritter said.

“I think that’s one of the things they taught us in library school,” said Ritter, “and it’s true.

Every book is not for every reader, but we want to do our best by putting the best (books) in the hands of students.”

Pauling was clear in her email that the conversation around books was not about “book banning,” but about making families aware of their options. “Now that parents are aware that sensitive content exists in our libraries, it is up to each family to determine if their child can have access,” she said in her email.

This is the process Ritter outlined at the meeting for keeping books out of students’ hands.

Step 1: Talk to the librarian at your children’s school

Any parent who does not want their children to read a specific title in their school library can contact the school’s librarian, who in turn will put the children’s names on a list that prohibits them from checking out the book.

At the elementary level, “We have parents who tell us, ‘Don’t check out scary books to our students.’” That is easily done, Ritter said.

Step 2: Ask for a school-based review

If that per-pupil-approach does not satisfy parents, a librarian or teacher will outline the steps for filing an official complaint, including submitting a request for reconsideration to the librarian or school principal. From there, a committee will be formed that includes an administrator, teachers and school community members. All committee members must read the entire book and

Team 1731 They had six weeks to build a robot that would follow a set of commands on a field roughly half the size of a basketball court. The robot needed to shoot balls into different baskets, pull itself onto a lower and upper hopper and traverse four bars.

Elon Husk stands approximately 3 feet high and includes a shooter with wheels and a basket to change trajectory. The shooter uses Java code to determine distance and improve accuracy.

Six rollers on either side are part of the intake mechanism that “magically” carries the ball up the side of the robot and ultimately to the shooter. A matted base encasing the lower portion of the robot offered protection when on the field with other robots.

The team competed in district and regional competitions before moving onto the world championship. Team 1731 earned enough points in the regional competition to become an alternate for

Short history of banned books in Fauquier County schools

Just one book has been banned from all schools here in the past 22 years. That book is “After the First Death,” a book by Robert Cormier about terrorists hijacking a summer-camp bus full of children. The Washington Post says the debate pitted parents disgusted by the book’s violence against teachers and students who said the violence was vital to the book’s themes of courage and resilience.

“If I Ran the Zoo,” by Dr. Seuss, was removed from an elementary school library this year after a parent became concerned about insensitive images in the book. It is one of six Dr. Seuss books that will no longer be published because of racist and insensitive images, according to Dr. Seuss Enterprises, founded by Seuss’ family to protect his legacy. all supporting documentation. The committee’s decision will be delivered to the building principal. The policy does not include a deadline.

The book will remain in the library while the review is under way. At the high school level, there is a shared catalog, so removing a book from one high school library would remove it from all high schools. A book removed from elementary school libraries could be moved to the middle school level.

Step 3: Appeal to superintendent

If a parent objects to the outcome of the school review, the school principal will submit a Request for Reconsideration of Learning Resources form to the Associate Superintendent for Instruction, Major Warner, who could not be reached for comment this week.

Warner would appoint a committee of five to seven people, including a teacher, a parent and a member of the business or professional community. A public hearing would be required. A decision must be made within 60 days. The decision would apply only to the grade level for which the material is being challenged.

the world championship and had to wait for another team to drop out before being invited.

Elizabeth Waltz, a junior at Fresta Valley, spent the day refreshing her email anxiously waiting for the official invitation. Elizabeth joined the robotics team in fall 2022 for the first time. The well-rounded student was already on the debate team, in the honor society, and played lacrosse, soccer and swam. “I wanted to join it sooner, but my parents said there was a limit to the number of activities I could pursue.”

The robotics team impacted the trajectory of Elizabeth’s life as much as it impacted her schedule. “What I learned from the robotics team this year has confirmed my decision to pursue engineering as a career. I had the opportunity to see real-world engineering applications.”

In Houston, teams were randomly assigned opponents. Unfortunately, Elon Husk was up against the Cheesy Poofs, a well-known California team.

“We had tough competition,” said Elizabeth.

“The students on the team have to do a lot of thinking on the fly with minimal assistance from the adult mentors at the international competition,” said Tim Stevic, one of the adult team mentors. “This is a sport unlike other sports. It does not matter how big or fast you are. It does not matter how intelligent you are. You can compete on a team in many capacities. What matters is your interest and desire to learn.”

Elizabeth was the team’s “safety captain.” “My role was to walk around to see what the other teams were doing and bring that information back to our team,” she said.

See ROBOTICS, page 11

Library books about controversial subjects

• Religion: Factual, unbiased materials representing major religions of the world shall be included in library collections.

• Ideologies: “The libraries shall, without making any effort to sway reading judgment, make available basic factual information on the level of their students any ideology or philosophy which exerts a strong force, either favorable or unfavorable, in government, current events, politics or other phases of life.

• Sex and profanity: “Materials with accents on sex shall be subjected to a stern test of literary merit and reality by the media specialist who shall take into consideration the community, the laws and the accepted public moral standards. While libraries would not in any case include the sensational, overdramatic or pornographic, the appearance of sexual incidents or profanity shall not automatically disqualify a book.

Rather the decision shall be made on the basis of whether the book presents life in its true proportions, whether circumstances are realistically dealt with and whether the book is of literary value. Factual material of an educational nature on the level of the reader shall be included in the literary collections.”

— School Board policy 6-5.2

Step 4: Appeal to school board

People who disagree with the superintendent’s decision can appeal to the school board, which must announce the challenge at a public session and decide a book’s fate within 30 days. The decision is final. If the board decides to remove a book, it remains off the shelves of all school libraries for three full school years.

For more details, click here: https:// go.boarddocs.com/va/fcps/Board.nsf/f iles/ B4GW2A656CC6/$file/6-5.7.pdf Reach Colleen LaMay at clamay@fauquier. com

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In addition to Amazon-purchased land, two other sites in Warrenton are being marketed for data centers AMAZON, from page 1 from the 42-acre site, recently purchased by Amazon Data Services.

On Aug. 10, 2021, Dobson appeared before the Warrenton Town Council at it was preparing to pass a zoning text amendment that would allow data centers in industrial zones with a special use permit. The amendment had originally been written for sites of more than 25 acres, but Dobson successfully petitioned the council to reduce the limit to 20 acres so his property could qualify for data center use too.

At the time, he said Amazon might be interested in expanding onto his property, or the property might be put to government use.

Recently he began marketing that property and another one of 37.5 acres on the south end of town where the now-closed Sivaco wire factory is located. Both sites are zoned industrial which means they could be used for data centers. Dobson’s real estate agent, Ben Mann of Cushman & Wakefield, said his company’s capital markets team has various ways of putting the property in front of their list of general investors and other potential customers. Mann declined to say what price his client was seeking.

For the marketing effort, Dobson had notional site plans drawn up: The one for the U.S. 17 site depicts two two-story data center buildings with a total of 583,700 square feet

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The former Sivaco wire factory on Falmouth Street of floor space and another 112,700 square feet for generators. The drawing for the wire factory site, at 615 Falmouth Street, depicts six data center buildings totaling more than 700,000 square feet and an additional office building of 48,000.

The U.S. 17 location is called the Dobson Blackwell Road Data Center Site, and the one on Falmouth Street is named Warrenton Interchange Data Center Technology Park.

Town administration emails obtained by the Piedmont Environmental Council through a Freedom of Information Act request indicate that Amazon had considered the Falmouth Street location when it was looking for a site in Warrenton, but the fiber optic cable available at that site was not optimal for Amazon’s needs.

Amazon has submitted an application for a special use permit, ®

which is required to operate a data center in the industrial zone where its newly purchased property is located. The application is currently under review; once finalized, it will go to the planning commission and, if approved, to the town council.

While data centers have their detractors, some jurisdictions find them attractive because of the tax revenue they generate. According to estimates made last summer, Amazon’s tax contributions, based on the equipment it plans to install at its new location, would be $4.6 million for the town and $10.6 million for the county over five years.

It will also pay taxes on its land.

Before Amazon bought the 41.7-acre property last September, the land was assessed at $3.3 million. But after Amazon paid $39.7 million for the parcel, its assessment jumped to $31.3 million, so its annual real estate taxes are calculated at $282,480 for the county and $12,513 for the town. Dobson’s 21.7-acre parcel off U.S. 17 is currently assessed at $980,000, and the properties that make up the Falmouth Street site are assessed at nearly $3.4 million. But the assessments could jump if the properties are sold, and higher prices are paid. It is not unusual for data centers to pay $1 million an acre or more for land in Northern Virginia.

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Data Stream files $27 million lawsuit against county amid ongoing contract dispute DATA STREAM, from page 1 The county ceased payments in May 2021, according to the June 30 civil complaint filed by Data Stream’s attorney. Those missed payments add up to $620,000, the complaint claims. (A June 3 memorandum sent to county supervisors

by Deputy County Administrator Erin Kozanecki calculated the withheld payments to that point at $323,000.) In addition to compensation for the withheld payments, Data Stream is asking for $25 million in damages “related to breach of contract, business conspiracy, breach of duty of good faith and fair duty and defamation per se.” Other claims in the lawsuit bring the cumulative claims to more than $26.9 million, according to Data Stream’s attorney.

The dispute spilled into public view on June 3, when Data Stream sent an email to its Fauquier County subscribers blaming the county government and the withheld subsidy payments on “a higher level of service disruptions than normal.”

In response to inquiries from the Fauquier Times, Data Stream representatives declined then to point to any specific examples of the alleged direct link between the withheld payments and service disruptions.

“There is a direct correlation in that the county’s failure/refusal to pay directly impacts Data Stream’s ability to pay its team of vendors and employees,” Data Stream’s attorney, Michael Daniels, said at the time. “These vendors and employees provide services and support to the network. Without them, the network ceases to function. … If any of these vendors cease to provide services, the connection to the internet is lost, and service will be disrupted.”

Daniels said July 1 that he had no comment on the lawsuit beyond the 20-page complaint filed in Fauquier County Circuit Court the previous day. Fauquier County Attorney Tracy Gallehr did not respond to a request for comment.

Opposing claims

Both sides in the dispute claim that the other side first breached the terms of the 2019 MOU and subsequent contracts related to the broadband initiative. Consequently, both sides claim that they are no longer bound by the terms of the various agreements because the other side violated the agreements first.

“Virginia law is clear that the party who commits the first material breach of a contract may not enforce the contract,” said a June 29 letter from Daniels to county supervisors.

Regardless of the veracity of the county’s claims about Data Stream’s level of service, “the county has no legal authority to terminate the 2019 [memorandum of understanding],” Daniels wrote, claiming that the county broke the terms of the agreement first when it stopped payments.

For its part, county officials claimed in the March 2021 letter that Data Stream was “not making a good-faith effort to market its services in Fauquier or acquire and onboard new subscribers” and that the county “regularly receives feedback from the community where Data Stream failed to respond to inquiries from county citizens seeking broadband service.” The letter claimed that “deficiencies sufficient to terminate the contractual relationship for cause pursuant to [the terms of the 2019 agreement] have occurred.”

Another letter from the county, this one dated Feb. 15, 2022, said that Data Stream’s decision to raise subscriber rates the previous month was “an additional material breach of the MOU” and was, in itself, enough cause for the county to break off the agreement. If the county chose to terminate the contract, the letter said, that would trigger a clause requiring Data Stream to refund some of the county’s payments to the company. The June 3 memo from Kozanecki estimated those payments at $3.5 million.

The May 2021 letter, and the follow-up letter sent in February 2022, proposed a “’revised MOU’ under which all parties continue to operate for the benefit of the citizens of Fauquier … in a mutually beneficial way and in lieu of full termination.”

The county’s proposal would have ceased permanently some subsidy payments to Data Stream for towers with fewer than 50 customers and returned subscriber fees to their original level. (County supervisors voted July 8, 2021, to authorize the county administrator to “terminate the existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Data Stream Mobile Technologies, Inc. (Data Stream) and create a new agreement.”)

In the June 30 lawsuit, Data Stream’s attorney called the county’s requests for a “revised” agreement “attempts to exercise its disproportionately unequal bargaining power to extract unconscionable contractual concessions.”

The lawsuit went on to characterize the county’s factual assertions about the company as “mostly vague.” And, Daniels pointed out, “There is no requirement in the 2019 MOU for marketing or specific goals regarding the number of clients to be added per site.” Regarding subscription fees, he wrote that “the county lost its right to enforce such a provision at common law due to its prior and ongoing breaches of contracts.”

The rate increases, he added, “were a direct result of the county’s breaches of the contracts.”

‘Blatantly false statements’

The June 30 lawsuit filed by Data Stream takes particular issue with statements made by Supervisor Rick Gerhardt (Cedar Run District), who See DATA STREAM, page 9

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Geoffrey Lyster of Warrenton elected VFW state commander

By John Toler

Special to the Fauquier Times

A retired U.S. Naval officer from Warrenton was elected state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Virginia at its annual conference in Portsmouth in June. Commander Geoffrey D. Lyster, 59, is a proud “Mustang” – a sailor who started his naval service as a basic seaman (E-1) in 1993, rising up the enlisted ranks until being selected for the Aviation Officer Candidate School.

Commissioned as a supply officer in 1996, Lyster started his shipboard duties as a disbursing officer on the USS Fife (DD-991), followed by supply officer and diving officer on the USS Georgia (SSBN-729); he then became the aviation readiness officer on the USS Enterprise (CVN65), in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom in the Middle East (2005-2006).

Lyster’s operational tours included as contingency contracting officer, Navy Central Command in support of Iraqi Freedom in 2003; as requirements officer for Coalition Provision Authority in Baghdad in 2005; and as officer in charge, Afghan National Army from 20082009, where he was in charge of two large national supply depots – responsible for 50,000 weapons at one, 8,000 vehicles at the other.

It was in this tour of duty that Lyster participated in 610 convoys, earning the Bronze Star medal, among other awards.

He also had several shore tours,

VFW State Commander Geoffrey D. Lyster serving on the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command; as a logistics analyst for the Joint Chiefs of Staff; as a financial analyst for the Chief of Naval Operations; and as assistant lead business financial manager at the Naval Air Systems Command.

He retired as the deputy program executive officer-air for BFM in November 2013.

As part of his professional development, between 2002 and 2012, Lyster earned five master’s degrees in studies related to business administration, national security and finance. “I didn’t want to take time off from active duty, so I earned my degrees through night school,” he explained.

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Data Stream files $27 million lawsuit against county amid ongoing contract dispute DATA STREAM, from page 8 chairs the Fauquier County Broadband Authority. At a June 9 FCBA meeting, Gerhardt implied that alleged service disruptions for Data Stream customers at the time were “possibly a deliberate action aimed at pressuring Fauquier County to succumb to accepting what the county has already deemed unacceptable.” He also said — echoing official statements from the county — that Data Stream was “not pursuing new service requests from customers, even when requesters were in close proximity to established towers with service available.”

Data Stream’s lawsuit said that those and other claims “go beyond fair criticism and venture into the realm of blatantly false statements made with legal malice and designed to injure Data Stream’s reputation.”

On the allegation that Data Stream may be “pressuring” the county through service disruptions, the lawsuit said that Gerhardt “has no facts to back up such an insidious claim.” On the issue of adding new subscribers, the lawsuit said that the company “added new subscribers each month.”

Gerhardt declined to comment on the lawsuit.

Bank of America lawsuit

A further complicating factor is the fact that Data Stream is itself being sued. Two days before Data Stream sued Fauquier County, Bank of America filed a civil case in Howard County, Florida claiming that Data Stream had defaulted on at least $511,000 as part of a line of credit first opened in 2017.

On Jan. 26, 2021, about three months before Fauquier County sent the first letter alleging “deficiencies” in Data Stream’s service, Bank of America agreed to extend the repayment deadline for Data Stream’s line of credit until March 4, 2021, the bank claimed in its June 28 suit.

On May 3, 2021, the deadline was again extended, this time to Nov. 15, 2021, the bank claimed. The bank sent an “additional notice of default” on April 28, 2022. According to the bank’s lawsuit, the money has still not been repaid. Data Stream’s CEO, Sean Lee, personally guaranteed the company’s debts, according to the complaint.

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Pedestrian, 62, struck by car in Courthouse Square crosswalk Driver involved in the accident is a juvenile

By Robin Earl

Fauquier Times Staff Writer

A 16-year-old driver hit a woman walking in a crosswalk at Courthouse Square in Warrenton July 1 at about 8:55 a.m.

The impact of the crash caused the pedestrian to be thrown up into the air, said Warrenton Police Chief Mike Kochis, and she was transported to Fauquier Hospital.

The driver was charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian, according to

Sgt. Brent Coffey, Virginia State Police spokesman.

When the car, a blue Volkswagen, hit her, the 62-year-old pedestrian was in the crosswalk between Virginia National Bank and Miller Carpet, Kochis said.

The car had been turning left from Waterloo Street onto Alexandria Pike.

Warrenton Police were first on the scene, but Kochis said that the Virginia State Police is conducting the investigation. There was one witness to the accident, he said.

Police did not reveal the identity of the driver because they are younger than 18 years old.

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By 10 a.m. on Friday, the crash scene on Courthouse Square in Warrenton had been cleared.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY COLUMBIA GAS OF INC., NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OFVIRGINIA, AN APPLICATION BY FORCOLUMBIA AUTHORITY TO OF INCREASE RATES GAS VIRGINIA, INC.,AND CHARGES AND TO REVISE THE TERMS AND FOR AUTHORITY TO INCREASE RATES AND CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO GAS SERVICE CHARGES AND TO REVISE THE TERMS AND CASE NO. PUR-2022-00036 CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO GAS SERVICE

CASE NO. PUR-2022-00036 •Columbia Gas of Virginia, Inc. (“CVA”) has applied for authority for an increase in rates and charges and to revise the terms and conditions applicable to gas service.

•Columbia Gas of Virginia, Inc. (“CVA”) has applied for authority for an increase in rates and charges and to revise the terms and conditions applicable to gas service.

•CVA requests an increase to its total revenue requirement of $58.2 million.

•CVA requests an increase to its total revenue requirement of $58.2 million.

•The Hearing Examiner appointed to this case will hold a telephonic hearing in this case on December 13, 2022, to receive public witness testimony.

•The Hearing Examiner appointed to this case will hold a telephonic hearing in this case on December 13, 2022, to receive public witness testimony.

•The Hearing Examiner will hold an evidentiary hearing in the case on December 14, 2022.

•The Hearing Examiner will hold an evidentiary hearing in the case on December 14, 2022.

•Further information about this case is available on the State Corporation Commission’s website at: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information •Further information about this case is available on the State Corporation Commission’s website at: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information On April 29, 2022, Columbia Gas of Virginia, Inc. (“CVA” or “Company”), filed an application with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”), pursuant to Chapter 10 of Title 56 (§ 56-232 et seq.) of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) and Commission’s Rules Governing UtilityInc. Rate(“CVA” Applications and Annualfiled Informational Filings Investor-owned Gas Commission and Water Utilities, requestingpursuant authoritytotoChapter increase10itsofrates theCode first billing unit of October On the April 29, 2022, Columbia Gas of Virginia, or “Company”), an application withofthe State Corporation (“Commission”), Titleand 56 charges, (§ 56-232effective et seq.) for of the of Virginia (“Code”) 2022, and to revise other termsGoverning and conditions to gas service (“Application”).

In its Application, CVA indicates proposed rates and charges are designed to increase non-gasforbase byunit approximately and the Commission’s Rules Utilityapplicable Rate Applications and Annual Informational Filings of Investor-owned Gas that and the Water Utilities, requesting authority to increase its rates the andCompany’s charges, effective the revenues first billing of October $58.2 per year.

The Application states that the requested increase(“Application”). includes approximately $17.7 million revenuesthat associated with its Steps Advance (“SAVE”) Plan pursuant to Code § 56-603by et approximately seq. (“SAVE 2022,million and to revise other terms and conditions applicable to gas service In its Application, CVAofindicates the proposed rates andtocharges areVirginia’s designed Energy to increase the Company’s non-gas base revenues Act”).

CVA states that itThe is proposing to include recovery of the costs associated with approximately $154.4 million of net rate base SAVE as of September 30,Energy 2022, in base rates, as pursuant permittedtobyCode the SAVE Act.et seq. (“SAVE $58.2 million per year.

Application states that the requested increase includes approximately $17.7 million of revenues associated withinvestments its Steps to Advance Virginia’s (“SAVE”) Plan § 56-603 Act”). CVA states that it is proposing to include recovery of the costs associated with approximately $154.4 million of net rate base SAVE investments as of September 30, 2022, in base rates, as permitted by the SAVE Act. CVA states that the requested increase in annual non-gas base revenues reflects (i) its costs and revenues for the test year ended December 31, 2021; (ii) the increase in the Company’s rate base since its last base rate increase in 2018, Case No. PUR-2018-00131 (“2018 Rateincrease Case”); in (iii) an updated capital requested returnand on revenues equity offor 10.75%; (iv) certain rate year31, adjustments thatincrease “reasonably be predicted occur” 12 rate months ending CVA states that the requested annual non-gas base structure revenues and reflects (i) its costs the testand year ended December 2021; (ii) the in thecan Company’s ratetobase sinceduring its lastthe base increase in September 2018, Case 30, No. 2023, as permitted (“2018

by CodeRate § 56-235.2.

PUR-2018-00131 Case”); (iii) an updated capital structure and requested return on equity of 10.75%; and (iv) certain rate year adjustments that “reasonably can be predicted to occur” during the 12 months ending September 30, 2023, as permitted by Code § 56-235.2.

In the Application, CVA represents that in the time since it was last authorized to increase its rates and charges in the 2018 Rate Case, the Company has made significant capital investments to improve the overall safety, reliability, and integrity of gas system the benefit and to accommodate steady growth.

CVA statesin it the expects make overthe $390 millionhas in capital investments on behalf of its customers from through Inits thenatural Application, CVAfor represents thatofincustomers the time since it was last authorized to customer increase its rates and charges 2018toRate Case, Company made significant capital investments to improve the 2021 overall safety,2023. reliability, and integrity of its natural gas system for the benefit of customers and to accommodate steady customer growth. CVA states it expects to make over $390 million in capital investments on behalf of its customers from 2021 through 2023.

In its Application, CVA states that, in the time since the 2018 Rate Case, the Company has also continued to enhance pipeline safety and reliability through its formal integrity management program for its distribution system (“DIMP”) by identifying, prioritizing, and reducing gas time distribution pipeline integrity CVA indicates that, apart from DIMP initiatives, the Company conducts otheritsoperations and maintenance activities on further enhancing the safetybyof In its Application, CVA states that, in the since the 2018 Rate Case,risks. the Company has also continued to enhance pipeline safety and reliability through formal integrity management programfocused for its distribution system (“DIMP”) CVA’s infrastructure. identifying, prioritizing, and reducing gas distribution pipeline integrity risks. CVA indicates that, apart from DIMP initiatives, the Company conducts other operations and maintenance activities focused on further enhancing the safety of CVA’s infrastructure.

The Company also proposes modifications to its currently effective Rate Schedules, General Terms and Conditions, and Form of Service Agreements. First, the Company proposes a three-month bill credit to return certain tax savings to customers associated with themodifications Tax Cuts and to Jobs of 2017 (“TCJA”).

Second, CVA proposes a new companion designated Rate Schedule GPS, that will enable residential and bill small general service customers to opttoin to The Company also proposes its Act currently effective Rate Schedules, General Terms and voluntary Conditions, and Formtariff, of Service Agreements.

First, the Company proposes a three-month credit to return certain tax savings offset the greenhouse associated with gas they receive from theproposes Company by either 50 percent or 100 percent using environmental the residential Company requests modifications existing customers associated gas withemissions the Tax Cuts and Jobs Actthe of natural 2017 (“TCJA”).

Second, CVA a new voluntary companion tariff, designated Rate Scheduleattributes.

GPS, that Finally, will enable and smallapproval general of service customerstotoitsopt in to line extension policy. offset the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the natural gas they receive from the Company by either 50 percent or 100 percent using environmental attributes. Finally, the Company requests approval of modifications to its existing line extension policy.

CVA requests that implementation of the rate and tariff modifications proposed in its Application be authorized on an interim basis subject to refund, effective for the first billing unit of October 2022. The Company asserts that, effective with the first billing that unitimplementation of October 2022, rate tariff increase and the implementation the three-month TCJA-related credit willsubject increase average monthly bill first of a billing typicalunit residential customer dekatherms CVA requests ofthe thebase rate and modifications proposed in itsofApplication be authorized on an bill interim basis to the refund, effective for the of October 2022. using The 5.4 Company assertsfrom that,approximately effective with $79.54 approximately $88.53,2022, or bythe 11.30%.

The Company asserts that after thethree-month three-monthTCJA-related bill credit expires, the Company’s proposed ratesmonthly will result increaseresidential to the typical monthly bill5.4 fordekatherms a residential customer using 5.4 the firsttobilling unit of October base rate increase andfurther the implementation of the bill credit will increase the average billinofan a typical customer using from approximately dekatherms to approximately $89.38. $79.54 to approximately $88.53, or by 11.30%. The Company further asserts that after the three-month bill credit expires, the Company’s proposed rates will result in an increase to the typical monthly bill for a residential customer using 5.4 dekatherms to approximately $89.38.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application andapportion supporting documents.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled public hearings on CVA’s Application and permitted the proposed rate and tariff modifications to be placed into effect, on an interim basis subject to refund, effective for the first unitNotice of October 2022. that, among other things, scheduled public hearings on CVA’s Application and permitted the proposed rate and tariff modifications to be placed into effect, on an interim basis subject to The Commission entered anbilling Order for and Hearing refund, effective for the first billing unit of October 2022.

On December 13, 2022, at 10 a.m., the Hearing Examiner assigned to the case will hold a telephonic hearing, with no witness present in the Commission’s courtroom, for the purpose of receiving the testimony of public witnesses. On or before December 2022,atany person offer testimony as to a public witness shalla provide to the Commission your present name, and (b)Commission’s the telephone number thatfor youthe wish the Commission during the hearingwitnesses. to receive On your On December 13,7,2022, 10 a.m., thedesiring HearingtoExaminer assigned the case will hold telephonic hearing, with no (a) witness in the courtroom, purpose of receivingto thecall testimony of public or testimony.

This information may be provided Commission in athree ways: (i) by filling out atoform on the Commission’s website at (b) scc.virginia.gov/pages/Webcasting; (ii) the by completing thethe PDF version of this form before December 7, 2022, any person desiringtotothe offer testimony as public witness shall provide the Commission (a) your name, and the telephone number that you wish Commissionand to emailing call during hearing to receive your to SCCInfo@scc.virginia.gov; (iii)be byprovided calling (804) This witness will testimony. This informationormay to the371-9141.

Commission in public three ways: (i)hearing by filling outbea webcast form on at thescc.virginia.gov/pages/Webcasting.

Commission’s website at scc.virginia.gov/pages/Webcasting; (ii) by completing and emailing the PDF version of this form to SCCInfo@scc.virginia.gov; or (iii) by calling (804) 371-9141. This public witness hearing will be webcast at scc.virginia.gov/pages/Webcasting.

On December 14, 2022, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, the Hearing Examiner will convene a hearing to receive testimony and evidence related to the Application the Company, any respondents, thecourtroom Commission’s Staff.

On December 14, 2022, atfrom 10 a.m., in the Commission’s secondand floor located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, the Hearing Examiner will convene a hearing to receive testimony and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff.

The Commission has taken judicial notice of the ongoing public health issues related to the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19. In accordance therewith, all pleadings, briefs, or other documents required to be served in this matter should be submitted electronically the extent authorized by 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the of Commission’s Rules Practice andInProcedure (“Rules of Practice”).

Confidential Sensitive shall not be The Commission has takento judicial notice of the ongoing public health issues related to the spread the coronavirus, orof COVID-19. accordance therewith, all pleadings, briefs, or and otherExtraordinarily documents required to beInformation served in this matter should submitted electronically andto should comply with 5 VAC Confidential of the the Commission’s Rules of Practice. person seeking to hand (“Rules deliver and physically Confidential file or submitand anyExtraordinarily pleading or other document shall contact be submitted electronically the extent authorized by 5 5-20-170, VAC 5-20-150, Copies information, and format, of RulesAny of Practice and Procedure of Practice”).

Sensitive Information shall the not Clerk’s be Office Document Controland Center at (804) 371-9838 to arrange the delivery. submitted electronically should comply with 5 VAC 5-20-170, Confidential information, of the Rules of Practice. Any person seeking to hand deliver and physically file or submit any pleading or other document shall contact the Clerk’s Office Document Control Center at (804) 371-9838 to arrange the delivery.

Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Commission has directed that service on parties and the Commission’s Staff in this matter shall be accomplished by electronic means. Please refer to the Commission’s for Notice further instructionsRules concerning Confidential or Extraordinarily Sensitive Information.

Pursuant to 5 VACOrder 5-20-140, Filingand andHearing service,for of the Commission’s of Practice, the Commission has directed that service on parties and the Commission’s Staff in this matter shall be accomplished by electronic means. Please refer to the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing for further instructions concerning Confidential or Extraordinarily Sensitive Information.

An electronic copy of the public version of the Company’s Application may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Vishwa B. Link, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or vlink@mcguirewoods.com.

Interested persons may download unofficial copies from to thecounsel Commission’s website: Vishwa scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information.

An electronic copy of the public version of the Company’s Application may bealso obtained by submitting a written request for the Company, B. Link, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or vlink@mcguirewoods.com. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information.

On or before December 7, 2022, any interested person may file comments on the Application by following the instructions found on the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/casecomments/Submit-Public-Comments. Those unable, as a practical matter, to file comments electronically may filemay such to the Clerk of the State Commission, c/o Documentwebsite: Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. AllThose comments On or before December 7, 2022, any interested person filecomments commentsbyonU.S. the mail Application by following the Corporation instructions found on the Commission’s scc.virginia.gov/casecomments/Submit-Public-Comments. unable,shall as arefer topractical Case No. PUR-2022-00036. matter, to file comments electronically may file such comments by U.S. mail to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. All comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2022-00036.

On or before September 14, 2022, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation with the Clerk of the Commission at: scc.virginia.gov/clk/efiling/. Those unable, Ona or before matter, September 14,a 2022, person or entity wishing to may participate as notice a respondent this to proceeding doCommission so by filing aatnotice of participation withSuch the Clerk Commission at: include scc.virginia.gov/clk/efiling/. unable,or as practical to file noticeany of participation electronically file such

by U.S.inmail the Clerk may of the the address listed above. noticeofofthe participation shall the email addresses ofThose such parties as a practical to file a notice of participation electronically file such

by U.S.on mail to thetoClerk of the Commission address above.

Such notice of shall include the email addresses of such parties or their counsel. matter, The respondent simultaneously shall serve a copy ofmay the notice of notice participation counsel the Company.

Pursuant at to the Rule 5 VAClisted 5-20-80 B, Participation asparticipation a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice their counsel. The shall serve a copy of the notice of participation on counsel to the Company.

Rule 5 VAC Participation as a and respondent, of the Commission’s of Practice, any noticeor of participation shallrespondent set forth: simultaneously (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific actionPursuant sought totothe extent then5-20-80 known;B,and (iii) the factual legal basis for the action. AnyRules organization, corporation, of participation set forth: as (i)aarespondent precise statement the interestby of counsel the respondent; (ii) abystatement of the specificCounsel, action sought the extent then known; and (iii) factual andNo. legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation, or government bodyshall participating must beofrepresented as required Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, of theto Rules of Practice.

All filings shallthe refer to Case PUR-2022-00036. government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2022-00036.

On or before October 12, 2022, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission and serve on the Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, On each or before October 12, 2022, each respondent may file the Clerk the Commission serve on shall the Staff, the Company, and all other Rules respondents, any testimony exhibits which theand respondent expects to establish itsPrepared case, and witness’s testimony shall include a summary not with to exceed one of page.

In all filings, and respondents comply with the Commission’s of Practice, includingand 5 VAC 5 20 by 140, Filing service; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, and each witness’s testimony shallshall include a summary notPUR-2022-00036. to exceed one page. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5 20 140, Filing and service; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits.

All filings refer to Case No. testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2022-00036.

Any documents filed in paper form with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, except as modified by the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, all filings shall Any documents paper form of with the Office of theCopies Clerk and of the Commission in this docket Rules may use sides of the paper. In all other respects, except as modified by the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, all filings shall comply fully withfiled the in requirements 5 VAC 5-20-150, format, of the Commission’s of both Practice. comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The public version of the Company’s Application, the Commission’s Rules of Practice and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing may be viewed at: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information.

The public version of the Company’s Application, the Commission’s Rules of Practice and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing may be viewed at: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information.

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Elon Husk leaves the corn crib for the FIRST championship in Houston ROBOTICS, from page 6 Christian Benjamin was the team captain. The 2022 Fauquier High School graduate and Mountain Vista Governor’s School student has been a part of the team since he was 11. He was originally drawn to the mechanical nature of robotics, but over the years he transitioned to programming.

He will be attending the University of Virginia in the fall to study computer science and linguistics.

He says going to Houston was indescribable. “It’s a great opportunity to meet with other students, play with robots and learn from talented people.”

As captain, Christian said he learned a lot about leadership. “At FIRST Championship, I met with captains from teams all over the world and discussed different strategies. It was a great opportunity.”

Elon Husk competed in 10 matches at worlds.

The team lost nine and won one. “It’s hard to compete against teams with large budgets, but we do,” said Stevic.

Team 1731 has a budget of approximately $25,000, which mostly goes to entry fees. “With our budget, the kids can’t do what the other teams are able to pull off. The experience of getting to the international competition is what matters. While they are there, the kids have the chance to talk with engineers from other teams who have built some incredibly well-engineered robots,” said Stevic.

Despite their more modest budget, Team 1731 built a reliable robot and a solid reputation.

David Anand Samy, a homeschooled sophomore and the team technician, lent his expertise in coding and electricity to the team. “I had to make any fixes prior to sending the robot onto the field,” he said.

He was unable to attend the international competition but did attend the two district ones.

“I really liked seeing how other students solved

problems for their robots. There were so many solutions to the same problem,” he said.

What David liked most was “seeing STEM skills and teamwork in action to solve problems and finally see the robot compete. It’s a very rewarding experience to be part of a large-scale project like this, especially in high school.”

David is gifted in math and physics and would like to work for NASA, specifically researching deep space objects. He credits the Robotics Club with helping to narrow his focus-area. “I would recommend this club to anyone. It gives high school students the chance to apply what they learn.” He even recommends it for students who aren’t focused on STEM. “The team requires club members to solve problems and brainstorm.

STEM knowledge isn’t always required.”

“A representative from NASA once told the kids that everything they use on their robots, from the wires, gears and computers are what is used on the Mars Rover. The comparison to real-world applications is the big takeaway,” said Stevic.

The teams learn a lot in their failures as well, “When a team loses a match, they learn that failure is not a bad thing. It brings them to another level in their design because they know more about what will not work,” said Stevic.

Delaney Simpson participated on the Robotics Team throughout high school and has worked in both the mechanical and electrical roles, but she’s really had her hand in everything. “With such a small team, we all get to learn and work on everything. Everyone shares responsibility of the robot and becomes immersed in building it. That’s harder to have with a team of 20 or more students.”

Delaney’s role in Houston was as the “alliance captain.” “During the finals you get to pick the teams that will be part of your alliance. As alliance captain, I scouted other teams to see who we wanted to be in

an alliance with and who we didn’t.” It was her job to accept or reject offers and to make them.

Team 1731 has shaped Delaney’s future. “Robotics wasn’t on my radar when I entered high school. I love the human mind and thought I would pursue psychology,” she said.

That all changed once she joined the robotics club and Team 1731. “I love everything about it. I love building, creating and seeing those creations come to life.” Delaney, a 2022 Kettle Run graduate, will be attending Rose Hallman Institute of Technology in Indiana and will focus on engineering. Her goal is to work for the government designing work for the military.

“The robotics team shaped my future,” said Delaney. “Before the team, I was shy and timid. I walked into an environment with a group of boys and didn’t know what to expect. They made me feel welcome and comfortable right away. They taught me what I needed to know, and I jumped in, feet first. The robotics team helped me find my voice,” said Delaney.

Although it is a competitive activity, something paramount at FIRST Championship is gracious professionalism. “Yes, we are all competing against one another, but you are also helping each other out,” said Delaney. “For example,” she continued,” if you are missing a tool, you can go over to the neighboring tent and ask to borrow one, and they are more than happy to lend it to you. Mentors also regularly help students on other teams.”

Other teams may have dedicated facilities to use as their workshops or even use their sponsoring school, but Team 1731 would be hard-pressed to leave the corn crib even if they had the opportunity.

“There is a lot of history there. It’s hard to imagine working out of any other facility,” said Christian.

To join the 2022/23 Robotics Team season, visit www.team1731.org.

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UPCOMING FAUQUIER EVENTS JULY 6 TO 15 ONGOING EVENTS Reading program What: Oceans of Possibilities, summer reading program When: Through Saturday, July 30 Where: Warrenton Library, Bealeton Library, John Marshall Library Cost: Free Info: Register at the library and pick up game card Farmers market What: Warrenton farmers high season market When: Saturdays through Nov. 19; 8 a.m. to noon Where: 21 Main St., Old Town Warrenton Info: Indoor and outdoor spaces Food assistance What: Peas and Grace When: Tuesdays from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Where: Grace Episcopal Church, 6507 Main St., The Plains Info: Those in need of food assistance are welcome Spiritual Care Support Ministries What: Support groups/counseling and special events for those experiencing the death of a loved one, divorce and chronic illness Where: Spiritual Care Support Ministries, 7179 New Hope Lane, Warrenton Cost: Free Info: 540-349-5814 or www.scsm.tv The S.E.E. Recovery Center What: Recovery-oriented groups and meetings to speak with someone about mental health or substance use recovery.

A staff member available from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday Where: The S.E.E. Recovery Center, 710 U.S. Ave., Culpeper Info: 540-825-3366 or email: SEERecovery@rrcsb.org

CHURCH EVENTS

Vacation Bible School What: Family Crusade When: Through Friday, July 8; 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Where: Trinity Baptist Church, 8803 James Madison Highway, Warrenton Info: Children can do activities while adults are in the service; nurseries provided for children aged 3 and under; guest speaker will be evangelist Ed Dunlop from Ringgold, Georgia Transportation: Free bus for parts of Fauquier, Culpeper and Prince William counties; call 540-347-7640 managing stress and unleashing creativity; access to the pool after each session Yoga What: Sunset Yoga with Brittany When: Wednesday, July 6 and Wednesday, July 13; 6:30 p.m.

Where: Wollam Gardens, 5167 Jeffersonton Road, Jeffersonton Cost: $15 Tickets: www.wollam-gardens. squarespace.com/yoga Info: Bring own mat Trivia What: Trivia When: Wednesday, July 6 and Wednesday, July 13; 6 to 8 p.m.

Where: Barking Rose Brewing Company, 9057 Old Culpeper Road, Warrenton Trivia What: Trivia night When: Wednesday, July 6; 6 to 8 p.m.

Where: Old Bust Head Brewing Company, 7134 Farm Station Road, Warrenton Info: Hosted by Fauquier Trivia

Wednesday, July 6

Thursday, July 7

Farmers market What: Farmers market When: Wednesday, July 6 and Wednesday, July 13; 4 to 8 p.m.

Where: Buchanan Hall, 8549 John S. Mosby Highway, Upperville Info: Farm fresh meats and produce; artisan goods; live music; food trucks

Senior Supper What: Senior Supper at the Bistro on the Hill When: Thursday, July 7 and Thursday, July 13; 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Where: Bistro on the Hill, 500 Hospital Drive, Warrenton Cost: $7.50 (tax included) Info: For seniors 55-plus; registration not required

Story time What: In-person story time When: Wednesday, July 6 and Wednesday, July 13; 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Where: John Marshall Library and Bealeton Library Info: For children 5 and younger and their families; bring a blanket or lawn chair; in case of high temperatures or inclement weather, check with library, 540-4228500 Crafts What: Crafts on the Go When: Wednesday, July 6 and Wednesday, July 13; all day Where: Warrenton Library, Bealeton Library, John Marshall Library Info: Craft bags available while supplies last; choose from PreK/Child and Tween bags; one bag per child; no reservation needed Yoga What: Yoga Tools for Teens When: Wednesday, July 6 and Wednesday, July 13; 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Where: Middleburg Community Center, 300 W. Washington St., Middleburg Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ tools-for-teens-a-summer-workshopseries-tickets-340539852867 Info: Teens will learn strategies for

Food pantry What: Fauquier FISH food pantry When: Thursday, July 7; 6 to 7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 9 and Tuesday, July 12; 9:30 to noon Where: Fauquier FISH, 24 Pelham St., Warrenton Info: Ready to cook meals and additional food for residents of Fauquier County who need help; bring ID and proof of county residency ESL class What: English-as-a-second-language class presented by Piedmont Regional Adult and Career Education programs When: Thursday, July 7, Tuesday, July 12 and Thursday, July 14; 6 to 9 p.m.

Where: Bealeton Branch Library, 10877 Willow Drive North, Bealeton Cost: Free Info: 540-718-8243 Story time What: Stories for young children and caregivers with finger plays and singalongs When: Thursday, July 7 and Thursday, July 14; 10:30 to 10:45 a.m.

Where: Virtual Cost: Free

Conference What: Fellowship of Prophetic Churches and Ministries Conference When: Wednesday, July 13 to Friday, July 15; 7:30 p.m.

Where: Faith Christian Church, 6472 Duhollow Road, Warrenton Cost: $25; youth under 18 free Info: 540-349-0178 Homecoming What: Homecoming and Rally Day When: Sunday, July 10; 3 p.m.

Where: Providence Baptist Church, 7111 Leeds Manor Road, Marshall Info: Guest speaker Rev. Kathy Urby from New Grove Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. Info: Required registration at: https:// conta.cc/3snxcFJ Art class What: Art for all ages When: Thursday, July 7; 4 to 7 p.m.

Where: Middleburg Library, 101 Reed St., Middleburg Info: Learn about artists who mastered creative elements and their process and body of work Exercise class What: Tomba When: Thursday, July 7, Saturday, July 9, Tuesday, July 12 and Thursday, July 14; 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.

Where: Middleburg Community Center, 300 W. Washington St., Middleburg Info: Tom Sweitzer’s version of Zumba, 540-687-6373 Karaoke What: Open mic/karaoke When: Thursday, July 7; 4 to 7 p.m.

Where: Old Trade Brewery, 13270 Alanthus Road, Brandy Station Music trivia What: Name That Song When: Thursday, July 7; 6 to 8 p.m.

Where: Lost Barrel Brewing, 36138 John Mosby Highway, Middleburg Live music What: Featuring Bailey Hayes When: Thursday, July 7; 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Where: Death Ridge Brewery, 5393 Higher Ground Trail, Jeffersonton Friday, July 8 Farmers market What: Discover Vint Hill farmers market When: Friday, July 8 and July 15; 4 to 7 p.m.

Where: Larry Weeks Community Pool, 4248 Bludau Drive, Warrenton Story time What: Story time for the Littles When: Friday, July 8; 11 to 11:30 a.m.

Where: The Open Book, 104 Main St., Warrenton Info: Stories for children ages 3 to 6; 540-878-5358 Book Cellar What: Book Cellar with books, movies, and music for all ages, sponsored by the Friends of Fauquier Library When: Friday July 8, Saturday, July 9 and Friday, July 15; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: John Barton Payne Building basement, 2 Courthouse Square, Warrenton Volunteer: 540-341-3447 Pet clinic What: Pet wellness clinic When: Friday, July 8 and Friday, July 15; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Fauquier SPCA, 9350 Rogues Road, Midland Cost: Fee for various services

Appointment: 540-788-9000, ext. 208 Farmers market What: Farmers market When: Friday, July 8; 4 to 7 p.m.

Where: H&H Auto Garage (parking lot), 8382 W. Main St., Marshall Info: Local farmers/growers, food producers, artisans and community Theater Auditions What: Auditions for “Holiday Inn” When: Friday, July 8; 7 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, July 9; 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m.

Where: Gloria Faye Dingus Music Alliance, 92 Main St., Warrenton Info: Pre-registration for auditions is required; call 540-349-8760 or go to www.FCTstage.org Learning about robotics What: FROGbots When: Friday, July 8; 10 to 11 a.m.

Where: John Marshall Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall Info: Outdoor event; children and teens can learn about robot building and watch a robotics team show their skills; bring a chair or blanket First Friday What: First Friday in Warrenton When: Friday, July 8; 6 to 9 p.m.

Where: Old Town Warrenton, Main St., Warrenton Info: Crafts, games and activities for the kids; beer and wine garden for adults Kites What: Fly the Valley View Skies When: Saturday, July 8 and Sunday, July 9; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Valley View Farm, 1550 Leeds Manor Road, Delaplane Info: Join the Valley View Kite Club; bring a kite or purchase one at the market Live music What: Sunset in the Vineyards When: Friday, July 8 and Friday, July 15; 6 to 9 p.m.

Where: Philip Carter Winery, 4366 Stillhouse Road, Hume Info: Live music from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; drink specials; firepits; no reservations required Live music What: Featuring Victor Torres When: Friday, July 8; 6 to 9 p.m.

Where: Denim and Pearls, 29 Main St., Warrenton Live music What: Featuring Daniel Carter When: Friday, July 8; 5 to 8 p.m.

Where: Death Ridge Brewery, 5393 Higher Ground Trail, Jeffersonton Live music What: Featuring Luke Johnson When: Friday, July 8; 5 to 8:30 p.m.

Where: Barrel Oak Winery, 3623 Grove Lane, Delaplane Live music What: Featuring Sharif When: Friday, July 8; 5:30 p.m.

Where: Lost Barrel Brewing, 36138 John Mosby Highway, Middleburg Karaoke What: Friday night karaoke When: Friday, July 8; 6 to 9 p.m.

Where: Beer Hound Brewery, 201 Waters Place, Culpeper Saturday, July 9 Farmers market What: Farmers market When: Saturday, July 9; 2 to 6 p.m.

Where: Remington Farmers Market, 150 W. Bowen St., Remington See CALENDAR, page 13

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Sunday, July 10

Coffee and Cars What: Middleburg Coffee and Cars When: Saturday, July 9; 7 to 9:30 a.m.

Where: Middleburg Common Grounds, 114 W. Washington St., Middleburg Info: 540-687-7065

Farmers market What: Farmers market When: Sunday, July 10; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Archwood Green Barns, 4557 Old Tavern Road, The Plains Info: Vendors, crafters and more; 540253-5289

Chess club What: Middleburg Chess Club When: Saturday, July 9; noon to 1 p.m.

Where: Middleburg Library, 101 Reed St., Middleburg Info: No need to pre-register; just drop in and show skills Concert What: Summer Concert on Main Street When: Saturday, July 9; 7 p.m.

Where: Main Street, Warrenton Cost: Free Info: Featuring the Silver Tones Swing Band, sponsored by Allegro Community School for the Arts Car show What: Third annual Vettes for Vets Car Show When: Saturday, July 9, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where: Willing Warriors, 16013 Waterfalls Road, Haymarket Cost: Free; pre-registration for cars -$20; day of the event - $25 Register: https://www.willingwarriors.org Info: Live music; food; vendors; tours of the retreat Motorcycle Poker Run What: Third annual American Heroes Ride (Motorcycle Poker Run) When: Saturday, July 9; 9 a.m.

Where: American Legion Post 72, 345 Legion Drive, Warrenton Cost: $20 per rider; $10 per passenger Info: All proceeds support Fauquier Cops for Children; contact Carmen Rivera, 540-347-1566 Concert What: The Chicks and Patty Griffin When: Saturday, July 9; 7:30 p.m.

Where: Jiffy Lube Live, 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com Live music What: Featuring Justin Suede When: Saturday, July 9; noon to 3 p.m.

Where: Denim and Pearls, 29 Main St., Warrenton Live music What: 90s Rock with Waking Napster When: Saturday, July 9; 5 to 8 p.m.

Where: Beer Hound Brewery, 201 Waters Place, Culpeper Live music What: Featuring Shade Tree Collective When: Saturday, July 9; 4 p.m.

Where: Lost Barrel Brewing, 36138 John Mosby Highway, Middleburg Live music What: Wine until 9 When: Saturday, July 9; 6 to 9 p.m.

Where: Arterra Wines, 1808 Leeds Manor Road, Delaplane Cost: No admission fees Info: Enjoy wine and live music; bring picnics, family, and friends Live music What: Featuring Ryan Jewel Band When: Saturday, July 9; 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Where: Death Ridge Brewery, 5393 Higher Ground Trail, Jeffersonton Live music What: Featuring Christopher Rall When: Friday, July 9; noon to 3:30 p.m.

Where: Barrel Oak Winery, 3623 Grove Lane, Delaplane Live music What: Featuring Robbie Limon When: Friday, July 8; 2 to 5 p.m.

Where: Philip Carter Winery, 4366 Stillhouse Road, Hume

Cold War Events What: Subchaser-Finding and Tracking Soviet Submarines in the P-3C When: Sunday, July 10; 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Where: Virtual Cost: $20 Tickets: https://www.eventbrite. com/e/subchaser-finding-and-trackingsoviet-submarines-in-the-p-3ctickets-221751273027 Info: Presentation by Don Stanton; hosted by the Cold War Museum Yoga What: Bend and Brew When: Sunday, July 10; 11 to 11:50 a.m.

Where: Barking Rose Brewery, 9057 Old Culpeper Road, Warrenton Cost: $20, includes a 50-minute yoga class and a flight of beers Info: Any fitness level; bring a yoga mat and bottle of water Live music What: Featuring Adriel Genet When: Sunday, July 10; 1 to 5:30 p.m.

Where: Barrel Oak Winery, 3623 Grove Lane, Delaplane Live music What: Featuring Safe Harbor Duo When: Sunday, July 10; 2 to 5 p.m.

Where: Philip Carter Winery, 4366 Stillhouse Road, Hume Live music What: Featuring Chris and Kerry When: Saturday, July 10; noon Where: Lost Barrel Brewing, 36138 John Mosby Highway, Middleburg Monday, July 11 Crafts What: Adult DIY Kits (sea creature bookmark) When: Monday, July 11; all day Where: Warrenton Library, Bealeton Branch Library, John Marshall Branch Library Cost: Free Info: Pick up a kit while supplies last Therapy horse What: Lola, the Miniature Therapy Horse When: Monday, July 11; 11 a.m. to noon Where: John Marshall Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall Cost: Free Info: Meet local author Lori Bakewell and the horse who inspired her; outside event; bring a blanket or chair Tuesday, July 12 ESL class What: ESOL-English Language Conversation Group When: Tuesday, July 12; 7 to 8 p.m.

Where: Middleburg Library, 101 Reed St., Middleburg Cost: Free Info: Practice conversation and games in small group setting; for all levels; 540687-5730 Yoga What: Mommy and Me Summer Yoga When: Tuesday, July 12; 10 to 11 a.m.

Where: Middleburg Community Center, 300 W. Washington St., Middleburg Cost: $20 Tickets: https://www.mommy-yoga-mcc. eventbrite.com Info: For adults and children newborn to pre-K; bring a yoga mat; free pool usage after the class Freebies What: FRESH on Wheels

When: Tuesday, July 12; 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Where: John Marshall Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall Info: For families; free books, games and summer fun; presented by Fauquier FRESH Story time What: In-person story time When: Tuesday, July 12; 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Where: Warrenton Library, 11 Winchester St., Warrenton Info: For children up to age 5 and their families; bring a blanket or lawn chair; in case of high temperatures or inclement weather, check with library, 540-4228500 Story time What: All About Beavers Story Time When: Tuesday, July 12; noon to 1 p.m.

Where: John Marshall Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall Cost: Free Info: Outdoor event in collaboration with the Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund; bring a blanket or a chair Story time What: All About Beavers Story Time When: Tuesday, July 12; 2 to 3 p.m.

Where: John Barton Payne Community Hall, 2 Courthouse Square, Warrenton Cost: Free Info: Outdoor event in collaboration with the Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund; bring a blanket or a chair Story time What: All About Beavers Story Time When: Tuesday, July 12; 4 to 5 p.m.

Where: Bealeton Branch Library, 10877 Willow Drive, Bealeton Cost: Free Info: Outdoor event in collaboration with the Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund; bring a blanket or a chair Concert What: Backstreet Boys DNA World Tour When: Tuesday, July 12; 7:30 p.m.

Where: Jiffy Lube Live, 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com Wednesday, July 13 Newcomers Club What: Warrenton Newcomers Club meeting When: Wednesday, July 13; 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Where: Hope Fellowship Christian Church, 4173 Bludau Drive, Warrenton Info: Email Debbie Mancini, dbmancini51@gmail.com Open house What: Chamber open house featuring Culinary Arts Month When: Wednesday, July 13; 4 to 6 p.m.

Where: PATH Foundation, 321 Walker Drive, Warrenton Cost: $15 ($5 member discount) Tickets: https://ww.fauquierchamberva. chambermaster.com/eventregistration/ register/14685 Info: Light refreshments will be served Book club What: Marshall afternoon book club When: Wednesday, July 13; 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Where: Virtual; email deborah.cosby@ fauquiercounty.gov or all 540-422-8527 Cost: Free Info: The group will discuss “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros Learning for older adults What: OWLS (Older, Wiser Learners) When: Wednesday, July 13, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Where: Bealeton Branch Library, 10877 Willow Drive, Bealeton Cost: Free Info: For active, older adults who would like to get out and about; make new

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friends; learn new things; and share what they know; refreshments provided Registration: Not necessary Concert What: Josh Groban When: Wednesday, July 13; 7 p.m.

Where: Jiffy Lube Live, 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com Thursday, July 14 Community market What: Second Thursday Community Market When: Thursday, July 14; 4 to 7 p.m.

Where: Airlie, 6809 Airlie Road, Warrenton Cost: Free Info: Vendors; live music featuring local singer/songwriter Bailey Hayes Freebies What: FRESH on Wheels When: Thursday, July 14; 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Where: Bealeton Library, 10877 Willow Drive, Bealeton Info: For families; free books, games, and summer fun; presented by Fauquier FRESH Introduction to sheriff’s office K9s What: Paws on Patrol When: Thursday, July 14; 1 to 2 p.m.

Where: Bealeton Branch Library, 10877 Willow Drive, Bealeton Info: The Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office K9 unit will introduce their K9 partners and demonstrate what they do; outside event; bring a blanket or chair Cell phone photography What: Improve Your Cell Phone Photos When: Thursday, July 14; 9 a.m. to noon Where: Weston, 4476 Weston Road, Casanova Register: 540-229-0114, proceeds used to fund the creation of an art and education center at Weston Info: Workshop conducted by McClanahan Camera Live music What: Featuring Joe Downer When: Friday, July 14; 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Where: Death Ridge Brewery, 5393 Higher Ground Trail, Jeffersonton Beer Bingo What: Thursday night beer bingo When: Thursday, July 14; 5 to 7 p.m.

Where: Lost Barrel Brewing, 36138 John Mosby Highway, Middleburg Trivia What: Trivia by Hamilton When: Thursday, July 14; 5 to 7 p.m.

Where: Old Trade Brewery, 13270 Alanthus Road, Brandy Station Friday, July 15 Boats What: Cardboard Regatta and late swim When: Friday, July 15; 4:30 to 7 p.m.

Where: Middleburg Community Center, 300 W. Washington St., Middleburg Cost: Free, Registration required: https://www. middleburgcommunitycenter.com/ calendar1/regatta Info: 540-687-6373 Live music What: Featuring Justin Suede When: Friday, July 15; 6 to 9 p.m.

Where: Denim and Pearls, 29 Main St., Warrenton Live music What: Featuring Damon Mitchell Duo When: Friday, July 15; 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Where: Death Ridge Brewery, 5393 Higher Ground Trail, Jeffersonton Trivia What: Trivia night When: Friday, July 15; 7 to 9 p.m.

Where: Beer Hound Brewery, 201 Waters Place, Culpeper

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Local residents ask town council to deny Amazon’s special use permit This is an open letter to the Warrenton Town Council.

We treasure this county of Fauquier and this town of Warrenton that we live in. It is a breathtakingly beautiful rural county, anchored by the lovely and historic small town of Warrenton.

Whether we have lived here all our lives, or we moved here from Loudoun or Fairfax or Ohio, we know this is a special place.

Now all of that is at risk. The risk comes from the Amazon data center and the high voltage transmission line(s) that the data center requires.

Do not be fooled into thinking the State Corporation Commission will approve burying transmission lines. The SCC is adamantly opposed to the high costs of burying lines and will strenuously resist burying the lines unless forced by the Virginia legislature (as occurred CYNTHIA BURBANK, Woods at Warrenton DAVID RODDY, Warrenton Chase MARY PAGE, New Baltimore ROSEMARY SCHNEIDER, Warrenton KEN AND CORINNE THOMAS, Snow Hill MICHELE AND ERIC SCHANER, Brookside GERRY EITNER, Warrenton JASON ALLEY, New Baltimore RAY ENYEART, Woods at Warrenton BETH ALFORD, Snow Hill SHIRLEY ROMESBURG, Suffield Meadows BECKY GARBER, New Baltimore JOHN DUNKIN, Suffield Meadows DENISE SCHEFER, Warrenton LENNIE LOPEZ, Woods at Warrenton ALAN, DIANE, ALEC, ELLIE AND IAN SEKELSKY, Woods at Warrenton

in Haymarket after four years of forceful citizen opposition, litigation and state funding – which yielded only three miles buried).

If you approve the special use permit sought

by Amazon, you will be virtually guaranteeing 110- to 130-foot-high voltage lines on the gateways into Warrenton (U.S. 29 and/or Meetze Road), with a 100-foot cleared right-of-way. Residents and visitors to the town of Warrenton will be confronted by the jarring, industrial-looking, overpowering transmission towers and lines every time they come into town.

Every. Single. Time.

And, beyond the gateways, there will be high-voltage towers and lines dominating the agrarian landscape and edging the farms and homes and small businesses the lines will march through to reach either the Meetze Road substa-

KARLI SHERMAN, New Baltimore ED AND MARIONETTE JONES, Warrenton MARILYN LOPEZ BROWN, New Baltimore LULU BAER, Warrenton SHAWN, SHANNA AND KARLI HARDESTY, New Baltimore SUSIE EASTRIDGE, Warrenton SYL AND CHARLIE MULROONEY, New Baltimore P.J. LEARY, Warrenton BEVERLY KADESCH, Vint Hill Manor MIKE AND KAREN KOVACH, New Baltimore HAYLEY AND JUSTIN MONROE, New Baltimore KIM WINTER, Warrenton JAMES AND ANNA FORTUNE, New Baltimore ALBERT MUDRIAN, Warrenton AMY GALLICK, Warrenton EILEEN SHACKLEFORD, Warrenton

KEVIN O’NEILL, Sterling Valley MIKE, MARLENA, MEAGAN AND CAITLYN MALONEY, Vint Hill KIMBERLEY SHULL, Woods at Warrenton CAROLINE AND TY YOUNG, Woods at Warrenton LAURA ORT-PRESLEY, Warrenton KAYA OKTAYUREN, Warrenton JAMES GARY PINSON, Georgetown Estates JOAN MORRIS, Warrenton LINDA THOMPSON, Suffield Meadows DR. SALLY LAHM, New Baltimore JOE AND STEPHANIE MOOR, Whites Mill LUCI MORRISON, Warrenton SHERRI SCHOOLER, New Baltimore MARY JUDKINS, Warrenton KATHY SIMAYS, New Baltimore DAN HORNER, New Baltimore

Bury the power line to preserve Fauquier We all banded together in the last storm which proves we are all a part of a true community. Let’s band together again and stop Amazon from changing the face of Fauquier with its need for many miles of unsightly 120-foot towers cutting through

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tion or the Wheeler substation.

If you approve the Amazon SUP, you will be forever changing the look and feel of this county and this small town that we treasure.

The stakes are raised dramatically by recent news that three other parcels in Warrenton are now being marketed for data centers. The Fauquier Times reports that the area of these additional data centers could be 1.2 million more square feet of data center space within the boundaries of the town – more than five times the Amazon data center.

The county and the town have worked hard, for decades, to manage growth and to preserve the rural, scenic, small-town character of this place we all call home. All of that is now in your hands.

Please do not approve the SUP for the Amazon data center on Blackwell Road.

our beautiful rural and residential areas.

We all enjoy Amazon, but there is another way. Bury the lines! Please join in on the fight. It’s the only way to preserve Fauquier!

MARILYN BROWN Warrenton

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LYSTER, from page 9 Lyster joined Warrenton’s VFW Post 9835 in 2008, while still on active duty, and served as all-state and all-American post commander for three consecutive years, 2012-2015. He regards his comrades in VFW Post 9835 “as my family.” He notes that although they don’t have a permanent post home, the 275 members of Post 9835 are involved in a wide range of activities on state and local levels.

At the recent conference at Portsmouth, members of Post 9835 wore their “uniforms” – red shirts and khaki pants, representing the official red-and-gold colors of the post.

In the announcement of Lyster’s election as state commander, it was noted that “Geoff is committed to a strong and vibrant VFW at all levels, and he works hard to ensure that the VFW organization achieves those goals.”

A resident of Warrenton since 2008 – when he was not away on active duty – Lyster enjoys retirement in a place in Fauquier County he calls “God’s country.”

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FAUQUIER’S WRESTLING KING PICKS CORNELL Defending state champion Menifee makes early decision to attend Ivy League power

By Fred Hodge

Special to the Fauquier Times

Fauquier High state champion wrestler Kingsley Menifee just avoided one of a high school senior’s greatest questions: where to attend college.

The rising senior announced his verbal commitment over the weekend, selecting nationally-ranked Cornell University.

“I feel like making my decision got a bunch of unnecessary stress off my chest,” said Menifee, who has emerged as one of the finest 182-pounders in the U.S..

The 2022 Class 4 state champion, Menifee was recruited by over 30 NCAA Division I, II and III schools. He cited the University of Virginia as his second choice. He becomes the second local wrestler to choose the Big Red. Foster Cardinale, a 2022 Liberty High graduate, is set to wrestle at the Ivy League power.

Menifee said he made unofficial visits to several schools and attended prospect camps at others to provide opportunities to tour campuses. His official visit to the Ithaca, N.Y., school was May 5-8.

He admitted attending an Ivy League school was not on his radar earlier in the recruiting process. “But once I laid everything out on the table, it became an opportunity that was too great to pass up,” Menifee said. “First, you can’t go wrong with the academics.”

He found the campus to be “amazing,” adding he also felt welcome and enjoyed the interaction with future teammates. Then there was the important subject of future development.

“The coaching staff is top notch, so they will help me with my ultimate goal of going to the Olympics,” Menifee said of long-term wishes.

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“Their staff is a fantastic fit for Kingsley,” said Fauquier head coach Chad Hoffman about Kingsley Menifee’s commitment to wrestle at Cornell.

“Their staff is a fantastic fit for Kingsley,” said Fauquier head coach Chad Hoffman. “He will learn and grow as a student-athlete there and be set up for a very bright future.

“That’s what is important with recruiting. Going on these visits and feeling a connection with the coaches and potential teammates,” he added.

Menifee placed second in the Class 4 state tournament as a sophomore and was already on some recruiting radars. The interest then exploded to a nation-wide scale last season after he won the 182-pound title at the Beast of the East tour-

nament in Delaware. He went on to capture the Northwestern District and Region 4C gold medals before capping the campaign with the state championship at 182.

“Kingsley wants to get better,” Hoffman stressed.

“He realizes the expectations in front of him for his senior year. He has no choice. He has a target on his back. Everyone is going to want to get a piece of him,” Hoffman observed. “When you are at the top, you’re the villain. He will embrace that.

See MENIFEE, page 18

Senior softball league pulls players from all over

By Jason S. Rufner

Special to the Fauquier Times

You’re never too old to get out and play.

You’ll find the Prince William Senior Softball Association demonstrating that fact every Sunday afternoon at the stadium in Woodbridge, as two teams of men all aged 50 or over - the median age is about 62 - compete against each other in rousing slow-pitch games.

You’ll find even more PWSSA teams on Tuesday nights, keeping score as they play doubleheaders at Valley View Park in Nokesville.

“It’s a fun league,” said Bobby White, a player in the PWSSA since 1998 and now in his 14th year as league president. “We have a good time. We have a lot of respect for each other, since a lot of us have been playing ball against each other for a number of years.”

The PWSSA is the senior league of the Prince William County Soft-

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-Gender: Men’s slow-pitch softball -Age minimum: 50 -Spring season: April through July -Fall season: Late August through October -Home fields: PWC Stadium in Woodbridge (Sundays); Valley View in Bristow (Tuesdays) -President: Bobby White -Vice President: Chris Hicklin -Treasurer and Secretary: Jeff Cole -Website: Visit www.pwcseniorsoftball.com ball Association, which oversees several county-sponsored leagues.

At about 18 players per team, the PWSSA boasts more than 225 players. By statute, at least 80 percent are from Prince William, but White said players come from Fauquier, Fairfax, Front Royal, Stafford and Winchester to play in the PWSSA. It tends to be an experienced

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The Prince William Senior Softball Association has more than 225 players. On Tuesdays, there is a 10-team league playing at Valley View Park in Nokesville, as well as four teams playing Sunday at Woodbridge near the minor league baseball stadium. bunch on the field.

“A lot of the players played in other leagues, or played baseball or softball throughout their lives,” White said. “We play competitively to the best of our ability.”

At 76, White coaches a team

called the Reruns and was an active outfielder as recently as a few weeks ago, when a knee injury sidelined him. He’ll keep coaching but looks forward to getting back on the field.

See SOFTBALL, page 18

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50-over softball league features competitive teams, plays from spring to fall SOFTBALL, from page 17 League vice president Chris Hicklin, who’ll turn 82 later this year, coaches teams on both Sundays and Tuesdays, both known as the Knights of Columbus. He too was still on the field until a recent injury, and looks to return.

“I guess I’m one of those wannabe baseball players,” said Hicklin, who played baseball in college and in the Army.

Hicklin moved to Prince William in 1977 and started playing softball in church leagues. He joined the PWSSA in 1995 and has “enjoyed it ever since.”

“I get a lot out of it,” Hicklin said. “What I’ve enjoyed more than anything is the chance to play teams from all over the world.”

He recalled experiences playing against senior teams from Japan, Korea, and elsewhere at past

International Senior Softball “position night” near the end Association events hosted at of July to determine the final Prince William County Stastandings. dium.

White and Hicklin work “We played teams from all closely with the County. over the world. Those guys White said he’d like to see were serious.” light standards installed on The PWSSA is divided into more local fields, in order to a three-team Division 1 and attract tournaments that are a seven-team Division, with now hosted in Richmond and “younger, more proficient Hampton Roads.

PHOTO SUBMITTED BY BOBBY WHITE players” in Division 1, said “We try to do whatever we White, noting that many of Accubid Concrete is 17-3 and one of can to help the furtherance of those guys play also in com- the top teams in the PWSSA. softball in Prince William. petitive travel leagues.

We believe that softball has “They’re just as competitive [in Division 2], just been and continues to increase in the County, and maybe not the same ability anymore,” White said. it’s a really nice recreational activity,” White said.

The PWSSA’s summer season concludes with a “It helps the old guys stay in shape.”

Recruited by over 30 programs, defending state champion Menifee picks Cornell MENIFEE, from page 17

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One of the top 182-pound high school wrestlers in the nation, rising senior Kingsley Menifee of Fauquier High will wrestle at Cornell University.

“He wants people to come after him because he’s going to come after them. He wants a tough dog fight.”

Menifee agrees the early decision allows him to focus on winning another state championship and defending his Beast of the East title and competing in several other national-caliber events.

“The only pressure I will have now is the pressure I put on myself,” Menifee stated.

“He will compete with anyone in his path,” Hoffman predicted. ‘He will go through the ups and downs of Division I wrestling, but at the

end of it, I have full confidence that he will allow his name to be heard.

“He is a grinder with a drive you don’t see every day.”

The NCAA allows its athletes a maximum of four years of competition within a five-year period that begins the day an athlete enrolls at any institution of higher learning.

Redshirting is the common practice in collegiate wrestling to gain an additional year of physical maturity.

Menifee pointed out the Ivy League does not allow that practice in any of its sports.

Instead, he will be taking advantage of an allowable “grayshirt” pro-

cedure, where a collegiate program offers enrollment on scholarship at the start of the second semester. The athlete then has five years to play four seasons, with the ability to redshirt at some point.

He will not enroll at Cornell until January, 2024 at the beginning of the second semester. He will train this fall with the nearby Spartan Regional Training Center and compete in open tournaments as an unattached wrestler before beginning his Cornell career.

Menifee said he is unsure of his academic track, but he has early interest in Cornell’s famous Hotel Administration curriculum.

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Classic win, literally, a ‘Dream’ come true for local student

Madeline Hashwah gets outfitted in formal attire for Saturday’s $2,500 Country Chevrolet Pony Classic headliner at the 102nd renewal of the Warrenton Pony Show. Angie Pappas, left, lends her support while mom Christine Fiore, right, ties her daughter’s stock tie.

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My McDreamy jumps to win the featured pony classic with owner-rider Madeline Hashwah. That’s judge Kat Mulkey in the stand recording numeric scores in the two-round class held Saturday evening at the historic Warrenton Horse Show grounds.

102nd annual Warrenton Pony Show ‘the best ever,’ according to junior president

By Betsy Burke Parker

Special to the Fauquier Times

The trophies tell the tale.

Look closely at the artfully arranged, ringside prize table laden with priceless, historic silver trophies.

Names of past champions are neatly etched on dozens of trays, cups and huge polished bowls, allowing visitors to follow the relentless upward trajectory of pony hunter phenom – and aptly named, My McDreamy and young rider Madeline Hashwah.

Their names are all over the place: leadline winners in 2015, young entry champions in 2019 and small pony hunter champions last year.

The pair claimed top prize at the 102nd Warrenton Pony Show Saturday night, winning the $2,500 Country Chevrolet Pony Hunter Classic with nearly flawless performances in the two-round headliner.

“He’s the best pony, ever,” said Hashwah, 10, and a rising fifth-grader at Thompson Elementary. “I love him.”

The classic anchored the midsummer tradition at the historic Warrenton Horse Show grounds, four days of A-rated competition June 29 to July 3 at the Shirley Avenue facility near Old Town. The only junior-run show in the nation, the Warrenton Pony Show last year earned prestigious Heritage status from the U.S. Equestrian Federation.

Hashwah trains with her mother, Christine Fiore at the family

Warrenton Pony Show junior copresident Kellsey Stern gives final instructions for the stick-pony race in front of the grandstand. farm near Delaplane. You can find Fiore’s name engraved on several Pony Show trophies from her junior days when she trained with her own mother, Diane Fiore at their farm in Marshall.

Hashwah’s skillset comes as no surprise, and it was that consistency that won the classic, Fiore said. My McDreamy, a 12.1 ¾ Welsh-cross, scored 81 in the first round, 80 in the second, “handy hunter” round.

What earned top marks from judges were their nimble inside turns, Fiore said.

“We walked the course and had a plan,” Fiore explained. “If she needed the lead change, Maddy was supposed to go outside (the jump near the in-gate). If she landed on the right lead, she was supposed to take the inside turn.”

“I got the right lead,” said Hashwah.

It took quick thinking and split-sec-

ond timing, but Hashwah detected the correct canter lead and enacted a slick rollback turn to the final fence that showed off My McDreamy’s smooth gaits and jumping ability.

“Actually, it was really easy,” a lot to remember in her first time competing in a classic but not a problem with the veteran pony hunter, Hashwah said.

My McDreamy and Hashwah head to Pony Finals in Lexington, Kentucky next month, Fiore said. They’ll be joined by Hashwah’s best friend, Sloane Greiner, and her pony, Wonderland, who earned the local pony hunter reserve grand champion at Warrenton.

“They’re excited,” Fiore said. “It’s been a long summer, but it’s been worth it.”

This year’s Warrenton Pony Show was one of the biggest in history, said junior co-president Kellsey Stern.

“This year was probably the best ever,” said Stern, 17 and a rising se-

Smallwood Special Effects and Emily Easton lead the victory gallop; the pair winning an equitation classic, green pony and Virginia-bred championships plus pony hunter grand champion of the entire show. nior at Highland School in Warrenton. “Everybody chips in (to help), and it runs super-efficient.” Stern and co-president Grace Simpson were assisted by 20 junior committee members and a senior advisory board, along with the team of professional show manager Tommy Lee Jones.

Stern said it was her 11th year on the junior committee. “I started out as a ribbon girl” at age 6, she said. “I still love it.”

The show donates proceeds to the Fauquier SPCA. Complete show results are at horseshowsonline.com. For a complete history of the show and information on how to get involved with the 2023 event, go to warrentonhorseshow.com.

Alexis Mierzwa jumps to win the adult jumper classic Friday night at Great Meadow. Twilight Jumpers return to The Plains July 22. See greatmeadow. org for ticket details and more information.

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Warrenton Community Police Academy builds trust, celebrates progress ACADEMY, from page 3 he emphasized was made possible by the work of volunteer coordinator Betty Compton — are proof that substantive relationship-building is possible, he said. He is close to being able to retire, he added, but “Why would I leave? It’s a great time. It’s great things going on.”

The Warrenton Police Department has been recognized for putting in place several significant programs aimed at increasing transparency and trust in the community.

• Guardian Score: Late in 2021 a Guardian Score program was put in place. The program uses customer satisfaction surveys to gauge how well Warrenton Police Department officers are interacting with the public. When a WPD officer has an interaction with the public – a traffic stop, for instance, or a call at a resident’s home – the officer gives a business card to the resident with a QR code that is unique to the officer. The resident can use the QR code to fill out a survey. The officer is scored on: the ability to explain “why;” listening skills; fairness; professionalism; and the ability to explain next steps. The results are captured on a dashboard that is accessible to every officer, supervisor and commander in the WPD. After a 90day pilot program, the department had a score of 4.98 out of 5.

• Rolling Roll Call: Roll Call happens at the beginning of every shift, said Fuller, at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. It involves about four officers, including a sergeant who takes the lead. Officers use the time to learn where they’ll be working for the day, get updates on policy changes and notices about things to look out for. In May of 2021, daily Roll Call was taken on the road, moving to different public spaces in the town in order to be more visible and encourage residents to see officers

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at work in their community. Kochis said that the rolling Roll Call is “not just about engaging the community, but about involving them.”

• Community Focus Group: During the summer of 2020, Kochis and several of his officers held focus groups at different locations in the town to meet residents, answer questions and address their concerns. The groups were held at local parks and welcomed local residents to attend. The discussions tackled racial profiling, the Community Policing Act and other timely topics.

“Trust can be a bit complex,” said Kochis, “and it doesn’t happen overnight. … We need to begin

Warrenton Police Volunteer Coordinator Betty Compton congratulates Community Police Academy participant Stephen Hawkins. by understanding how we see each other. And to understand that we have to understand how we see ourselves.”

He said that he hopes programs like the community academy will help foster empathy from both police officers and the community they serve. He encouraged law enforcement officers to see themselves not only as a “thin blue line” against disorder, but also as “a thread through our communities.”

Warrenton Mayor Carter Nevill said that initiatives like the community academy have made Warrenton a safer and more desirable place to live. “Shouting and judgment are a cancer to dialogue and discourse, he said, and “no community can be safe where this is the norm.” Participants in the academy “are contributing diversity to our discourse,” he said. “Warrenton is made better because policing here is a true partnership.”

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These property transfers, filed June 22-28, 2022 were provided by Clerk of the Court of Fauquier County. (Please note that to conserve space, only the first person named as the grantor or grantee is listed. The kind of instrument is a deed unless stated otherwise.)

Top Dollar Deal: $2,800,000 in Marshall District Cedar Run District Roger P. Schmidt Tr. to Catherine Thal-Larsen, 8096 Burwell Road, Catlett. $701,000 RFI WC LC to NVR Inc., 0.6281 acre on Travers Place, Warrenton. $222,000 Nunez Brothers LLC to Cesar Gustavo La Serna, 0.77 acre on Ritchie Road nr. Elk Run. $50,000 NVR Inc. to Joseph Andrew Lowrence, 0.5972 acre at 2708 Travers Place, Warrenton. $798,220 Cindy D. Loving to Miller Attkisson Jr., 5.2771 acres on Sillamon Road nr. Goldvein. $100,000 Alice Marie Sheets to Elsie Labarete Hall, 2.092 acres at 9463 Rogues Road, Midland. $300,000 Mara Desmedt to Kyle James Tracy, 3.4786 acres at 4300 Ringwood Road, Nokesville. $750,000 Ricky Andrew Williams to Pascual Saucedo Saucedo, 2 acres at 10641 Brent Town Road, Catlett. $350,000 Andy L. Wilfong II to Edward R. McMichael,

2 acres at 6229 Ball’s Ford Road, Midland. $475,000

Lee District Donald E. Reynard to Joshua Thomas Grizzard, 17.4069 acres at 13667 Silver Hill Road, Sumerduck. $600,000 Kyle Ryan Boyer to Justin Thomas Wiser, 1.0005 acres at 5216 Sumerduck Road, Sumerduck. $440,000 Francie L. Rudy to Santos N. Carbajal Mendoza, 10836 Blake Lane, Bealeton. $370,000

Center District Gary Edward Cubbage to Kenneth Kernicky, 334 Singleton Circle, Warrenton. $727,500 Paul Davis Service Tr. to Mitchelle E. White, 1.2086 acres at 7305 Bayfield Drive, Warrenton. $925,000 Paula C. Poston to Gregory Joseph Guzi, 618 Evans Avenue, Warrenton. $439,900 Meredith Janet Hutchinson to John Crocker, 0.2500 acre at 386 Curtis Street, Warrenton. $448,000 Ryan J. Stewart to Wanda Legard Lilly, 0.970

acre at 356 Richards Drive, Warrenton. $675,000 Emily Marie White to Joshua Adam Gegoski, Unit A-10 at 12 Falmouth Court, Warrenton. $310,000 Kevin Barty to Thomas Michael Freiling, 717 Bear Wallow Road, Warrenton. $555,000 MZK Investments LLC to Tyler Justet, 474 Estate Avenue, Warrenton. $565,000

Scott District Dorothy Edmonds McCoy as Executor to Jacob Pemberton, 1.305 acres at 7154 Bunker Hill Road and 0.52 acre on Bunker Hill Road, The Plains. $240,000 Joseph Dedekind to Maronda Homes of Virginia LLC, 1 acre at 6367 Rosedale Farm Drive, Broad Run. $215,000 Jack Mitchell Kotz to Gabriella Patierno, 1.00 acre at 5046 Bust Head Road; 0.50 acre and 0.0275 acre on Bust Head Road nr. Broad Run. $600,000 David Raymond Borek to Binod Sharma, 3983 Lake Ashby Court nr. Warrenton. $797,000 Paula Dee Perrin to Jaime Rodriguez Mondragon, 1.2541 acres at 7174 North Crest Court nr.

Warrenton. $629,618

Marshall District Maison A. Paris LLC to Scott Rosenfeld, 0.4848 acre at 759 Federal Street, Paris. $450,000 Dunnottar Farm Inc. to Michael T. Brown Tr., 400.6539 acres at 7088 Dunnottar Lane nr. Warrenton. $2,800,000 Eileen M. Yorke to Marilyn Murphy, 0.4904 acre and 0.9982 acre at 1153 Poplar Row Lane, Upperville. $801,146 Benjamin Abbott to Gregory Forrest Wells, 0.505 acre at 3692 Cherry Hill Road nr. Linden. $220,000 Mark David Klinkenberger to Erika S. Hernandez, 4272 Warren Street, Marshall. $270,000 Upperville Investments LLC to Catherine Boswell, 9060 John S. Mosby Hwy., Upperville. $400,000 Ian Brian Burns to MNJ Real Estate LLC, 1.0885 acres at 4651 Morgan’s Bluff Drive, Marshall. $452,000 Robert Earl Moore Jr. to Kevin E. Beagin, 5 acres at 10161 Hiddenbrook Hill Drive, Marshall. $500,000

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OBITUARIES Joseph Lawrence Judd

Ronald Keith Sanders

Gainesville, VA

Ronald Keith Sanders, 87, was called home by our Lord on December 21, 2021. He passed away at his Haymarket home after a short but courageous battle with lung cancer. His wife of 45 years, Ruth, was by his side. He was gracefully supported by his 4 children and Vitas Healthcare Hospice A Memorial Service will be held 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 16, 2022 St Michael’s Anglican Church (meeting at Greenwich Presbyterian) 15305 Vint Hill Rd Nokesville VA 20181.

Ron was born in southern Illinois September 1, 1934. As a youth he moved to Chicago where he had many adventures including boxing for the CYO and quarterback of his high school football team. Upon graduation he joined the Army and served in the Korean War as a demolition specialist. After leaving military service he returned to Chicago for college where he received a bachelor’s degree.

After his education, he served in many roles through the years but felt the most significant was in 1980 when, joined by partners, he established We Print, Inc in Fairfax VA. While it was a business, it was also Ron’s way of providing a ministry and he touched many lives with it. In time he became the sole proprietor and successfully headed the company for 25 years. Ron always said the We Print staff was the best anyone could hope for!

In 2007 Ron joined Impact Publications as business administrator and worked for the owner, Ronald Krannich, until he retired in October of 2021. He loved using his diverse skills and working with a fabulous team including Ron, Paul and Mardie and Carol!

Ron was a devoted and loving husband, father, grandfather and brother. He had many interests, but most important was his love of God through Jesus Christ. He had a giving heart and was always ready to share words of wisdom and support with all he came in contact with. He was known to many as “Mr. Fixit” as he could fix just about anything!

Along with family and friends, Ron loved the outdoors and spent many fishing adventures catching fish throughout his life. He loved the peacefulness of God’s nature and could “listen to God” through the stillness of a lake or pond. He loved sunrises and sunsets, wildlife (many pictures of deer on his phone), and the views from Bull Run Mountain where he resided. Most of all Ron felt life had purpose and was happiest at work using the skills that God had breathed into him. He told many “I looked and didn’t find retirement in the Bible!”.

Ron was preceded in death by his father, Raymond, his mother, Naomi Francis Montanya, his brothers and sister-in-laws: Raymond Jr, Harold (Blanca “Dorie”), Ralph, Ora (Agnes) and Howard (Nancy), and sisters Rosemary, Velda and Melda, beloved granddaughter Lucy, nephew Harold “Bud” Sanders and brother-in-laws Robert and Larry Hastings.

Along with wife Ruth, Ron is survived by cherished family & friends: mother-in-law Marylyn Hastings, sons; Ronald II (Sue), Steven, Mark (Kyung Hee), daughter Sharon “Princess” Yarson, grandsons Patrick Sanders and his son Beckham & Ronald Sanders III, granddaughters, Julie Sanders, Amanda & Micaela Yarson, nieces and nephews including Pat Sanders, Celia (Gary) May; Harold “Pancho”(Leida) Sanders, Debbie (Rod) Wood, Terri (Paul) Conley; Jodie (JR) Evans, Tammy (Mike) Overby, Scott Sanders, Marjorie (Dave) Swanson, and the Hastings clan: brotherin-laws Tim (Rosemary), Casey (Valerie), sister-in-law Susan, nephews and nieces; Timothy II, Melissa (Quinn) Brown, Alex, Amy, Kenneth, Heather & Nicole (Alex) Colley, many great nieces and nephews, one loved as a granddaughter, Rebecca Karnecki, Marylyn’s caregiver Luisa Cumbe, best neighbors ever: Keith and Judy Broyles, Michele Failla, Bill Harris, Joe Dannible, his beloved church family, and many others!

Inurnment will be a private event at BrightView Cemetery Warrenton VA, by Moser Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be sent to St. Michael’s Anglican Church 14540 John Marshall Highway, Ste. 101 Gainesville, VA 20155; or for America’s Troops and their families USO.org; or St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital (Stjude.org); or your local food pantry.

Ron would love any gift of kindness to help others!

Joseph Lawrence Judd was born to Sara Eleanor Martin and Nelson Thomas Judd in Williamsport, PA on September 29th, 1936, at the Williamsport Hospital. He was the youngest of five children.

He was an active track and field athlete and player in Williamsport Little League Baseball and played in the Little League Series for two years. He was a hard working young man who mowed lawns and delivered newspapers (The Williamsport Grit) to raise money. He graduated in 1954 from Williamsport High School. He attended classes at Penn State University in State College, PA, majoring in Geology, until, in his junior year, he withdrew due to the birth of his first child in order to provide for his young family.

He moved his family to Ellicott City, MD, in 1964. He started and ran a successful Manufacturers’ Representative business selling large industrial process equipment, Joe Judd Ltd., for 50 years out of his home office in Ellicott City that covered the Mid-Atlantic region. He would play cards and other games with his kids in his free time on breaks, especially after their school day. He was a very active, loving, and appreciated father, raising his family of five children there. He was active in the First Lutheran Evangelical Church, where he taught Sunday School classes, and the YMCA in Ellicott City, where he sat on the board and taught fitness classes. He regularly started up softball games on the front lawn, with the neighborhood kids joining in. Many still cherish those memories.

With his second marriage, he moved to Jeffersonton, VA, Pensacola, FL, and then finally Gainesville, VA, where he resided until his passing. He traveled extensively in his retirement, visiting much of North America, Europe, China, and Taiwan among his many destinations. He had many friends and was well loved in the community for his friendly nature, story-telling skills, and quick wit. He was also a worthy opponent at chess games in Heritage Hunt. He was particularly close to Arthur Luna and his wife Dianne, as well as Mother Ed, Mother Superior Eirene and Mother Raphaela at the Paws A While Pet Motel in Warrenton, VA, where his beloved poodle/King Charles spaniel mix “Muffin” stayed on a regular basis. He often told people he met that he lived with his “eight year old girlfriend” when referring to Muffin. He mowed lawns and cleared snow from sidewalks and driveways in his neighborhood until a back injury forced him to retire at 82.

From a young age, he loved opera and classical music, and later, folk music as a young adult. He loved to explain the arrangements and instruments in the various classical works. He enjoyed tennis, hiking, swimming, refinishing antiques, marathon running, and fly fishing in his adult years, and in his later years, fine woodworking done in his well-equipped home workshop. He favored the clean lines of Shaker and Mission style designs in his tables, clocks, jewelry, and tea boxes, among other projects.

He is survived by his first wife, Alice Artley Judd, his children, Stephen Lawrence Kelly-Judd of Ellicott City, MD, Anna Sabrina Judd of Fredericksburg, VA, Tamara Marie Judd of Coombs, BC, Jessica Artley Judd, of Finksburg, MD; and Joshua Nelson Judd of Jessup, MD. His grandchildren are Kristin Monster Bonecrusher, Benjamin Joseph Atwater, Brandon Michael Botts, Alicyn JoAnn Fleischmann, Miranda Margaret Kelly Judd, Olivia Marlene Chung, Seth Joseph Judd, and Mariel Isabella Kelly Judd. His great grandchildren are Micah Joseph Atwater, Amelie Star Tschirn, Landyn Michael Botts, Olivia Nico Tschirn, Kayley Elizabeth Drake, Alexandra Michelle Botts, Coraline Josephine Botts, and his second wife, Rosa Huang.

The family would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff at both the UVA Haymarket Medical Center and Lake Manassas Health and Rehab for their kindness and care of our Dad during his and our time with them.

We would also like to thank Art & Dianne Luna, Grace Kameu, and Mother Superior Eirene, Mother Ed, and Mother Raphaela from Paws A While for their kindness and friendship while visiting Dad in UVA Haymarket Medical Center and Lake Manassas Rehab.

A Memorial Service/Celebration of his Life is planned for 1 pm on July 17, 2022 at the Heritage Hunt Marsh Mansion, 13451 Fieldstone Way, Gainesville. VA

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OBITUARIES William Hadden William Hadden, 102, passed away peacefully on June 4, 2022 in Warrenton, VA. Born in Belfast, Ireland on October 28, 1919, he was the eldest son of Ernest and Muriel Hadden, formerly of Glenanne and Warrenpoint.

In 1925, Bill and his family immigrated to America and settled in Queens, NY. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School during the Golden Age of Aviation, and was fascinated by it. He became an avid Radio Control Model Airplane enthusiast and was well known in the Model Airplane world. Later he obtained his pilot’s license and shared his contagious enthusiasm for flying with everyone he met.

After being drafted into the Army in 1941, he jumped at the opportunity to join the Army Air Corps where he was stationed in England, France and Belgium. He became crew chief for a B-26 Marauder, and his division was responsible for air support for Omaha Beach on D-Day. After the war, before returning home, he studied French language and civilization at the Sorbonne in Paris.

After returning to the United States, Bill earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering at City College of New York, starting a career that included work in the defense industry, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. In 1950, he met his future wife, Claire, at an event he described as « Some Enchanted Evening ». They settled in New Providence, NJ and later Amissville, VA where they were happily married for 62 years until Claire passed away in 2013.

Always living life to the fullest, Bill thrived on his optimism and thirst for learning. His interests included music of all kinds, piano playing, dancing, poetry, photography, reading, traveling, fitness, RC modeling and of course, flying. He and Claire traveled all over the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Asia and Russia. At the age of 95 be bought a new car with a five year maintenance warranty. At the age of 100 he flew to Seattle to celebrate his 100th birthday. At the age of 102 he was still texting, emailing and shopping online. Always interested in meeting people, he had a gift for finding common ground and putting people at ease. As our patriarch, his family always came first.

Bill is survived by three children, Carol Warfield (Bill), Gail Zarick (Mark), William E. Hadden (Betty), five grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren, two step-grandchildren, three step great-grandchildren and many cousins in Northern Ireland.

Burial was private. A memorial reception was held June 26th at Warrenton Presbyterian Church.

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Dolores Jenkins Nash Dolores Jenkins Nash, 90, of Gainesville, VA, passed June 24, 2022. She was born on November 17, 1931.

Dolores is survived by her husband, Col. William Atkins Nash, Jr. (Ret.) of Gainesville, VA; a son, Capt. William (USN Ret.) (Linda) Triplett of Dumfries, VA; and one grandchild, Kennedi Triplett of Rockville, MD. Family will receive friends on Saturday, July 9, 2022, from 10 am until 11 am with funeral services starting at 11 am at Faith Christian Church, 6472 Duhollow Road, Warrenton, Virginia, 20187. Dr. Decker H. Tapscott Sr. will deliver the eulogy.

Interment will be at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.

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Doris Elizabeth Mattingly Doris Elizabeth Mattingly, age 89 passed away in Warrenton, Virginia on July 3, 2022.

She was born on May 9, 1933 in Prince George’s County, Maryland to Mabel and Herbert Slunt.

Doris is preceded in death by her first husband: Carl Bennett Hatcher, Jr. with whom she has two children: Wayne Bennett Hatcher and Debra H. Smyers.

Grandchildren include Sara Rose Smyers, Lindsay Smyers, and Jenifer Smyers with great-grandchildren Theodore Smyers Haibon and Archie Smyers Haibon.

Doris’s second husband Virgil B. Mattingly passed away in 2013.

Doris had a career in banking and later interior design.

Services will be held at Moser’s Funeral Home on Tuesday, July 12 with visitation at 6 pm and a service at 7 pm.

For more information, call: 540-347-3431.

Online condolences may be made online at www.moserfuneralhome. com. Interment will take place at Trinity Memorial Gardens on Thursday July 14 at noon in Waldorf, Maryland: www.trinitymemorialgardens.com.

It’s never too late to share your loved one’s story.

Place a memoriam today. jcobert@fauquier.com 540-351-1664 Call 540.270.4931

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OBITUARIES Sandra Lee Matthews (Sandy)

David Cottrell Lyne

Sandra Lee Matthews (Sandy), 62 of Warrenton died peacefully at home on June 27, 2022 due to complications as a result of a long battle with LUPUS. She was born in Edmond, Oklahoma on February 6, 1960 a daughter of Arthur (Matt) and Patricia (Patsy) Matthews.

Sandy was a 1978 graduate of Jonesboro High School in Arkansas and 1985 Registered Nursing graduate of Northern Virginia Community College. She worked for several Home Health Agencies in Northern Virginia and INOVA before retiring. She was a devoted mother and nurse touching the lives of many throughout Northern Virginia. Her faith was an inspiration to many and she was loved by all who came to know her especially her immediate and extended family.

Surviving her are her husband of 19 years and best friend, John Kehoe; her son Daniel Matthews and wife Ali with two grandchildren Jane and Margaret of Prince William County; a step son Thomas Kehoe of California; her sister Kim Cantwell of Virginia Beach with nephew Adam Cantwell; a brother Randy Matthews and wife Andrea of Woodland Park, Colorado with a niece Amanda and nephew Jacob; her father’s wife Billy Matthews of Jonesboro, Arkansas; and her step father Gene Alward of Gainesville, Virginia. In addition, she was preceded in death by her brother Chad Matthews and her mother Patsy Jane Netherton Matthews Alward and her father Arthur Matthews.

A private family viewing was held at Moser Funeral Home at 233 Broadview Avenue, Warrenton, Virginia 20186 on Friday, July 1, 2022.

A memorial service celebrating Sandy’s life will be held at a later time.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the LUPUS Foundation of America DC/Maryland/Virginia Chapter at Lupusdmv.org.

Online condolence can be made at www.moserfunelhome.com

David Cottrell Lyne, age 76 of Warrenton, died June 26 at home after a brief illness from Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease (CJD).

David grew up in Rappahannock County. His parents, William H. Lyne and Frances C. Lyne predeceased him. David was a graduate of Woodberry Forest School, The University of Virginia, and received his master’s degree from Western Kentucky University. He was a career journalist. He began his career at The Fauquier Democrat then joined the The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg where he retired in 2008. Upon his retirement he completed the Fauquier Rappahannock Master Gardener program and volunteered at the education farm, the extension office garden, and the green grass program. He also freelanced for Lou and Ellen Emerson, writing features during their startup of Fauquier Now. David is survived by his wife Frankie of 47 years, his daughters Heather Appleton and her husband Mike of Amissville, and Peachey Trudell and her husband Myles of Charleston, South Carolina, his grandchildren, Emily Appleton of Key West, Florida, Michael Appleton and his wife Megan of Marshall, Rosemary and Lake Trudell of Charleston, South Carolina, his sister Mary Peachey Lyne and her wife Carol of San Mateo, California, several cousins, nieces and nephews.

Services are private.

Donations may be made to: National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center; Hospice of the Piedmont; Fauquier Education Farm; Fauquier SPCA. Online condolences may be expressed at www.moserfuneralhome. com.

Places of Worship St. John The Baptist Anglican Church

• HOLY EUCHARIST: Sundays, 9 a.m.

• SUNDAY SCHOOL: Children & Adults 10 a.m.

5096 Grace Church Lane, Casanova (1 mile off Meetze Road)

FUNERAL VISITATION

Call 540.270.4931

People often confuse a viewing with a visitation; however, they are not the same thing. A viewing means having an open casket, and a visitation occurs before the funeral when the body is laid out in the casket, which may be open or closed. It allows mourners to pay their final respects in a more private environment. It is also a time for mourners to meet and console each other in a less formal setting than a funeral. It is common to attend both the visitation and the funeral. Visitations vary, lasting for an hour to days before the funeral. While they are often held in funeral homes, they can also be in a family member’s home.

A funeral can and should be as unique as the life that is being celebrated. MOSER FUNERAL HOME wants to help you make the arrangements that you want. Personalizing a funeral or memorial service can be very therapeutic--it gives you and your family something to concentrate on as you relive memories. To learn more, please call (540) 347-3431 or see us at our 233 Broadview Ave., Warrenton facility. Our BRIGHT VIEW CEMETERY is located just outside of Warrenton.

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.”

Marcus Aurelius

Grace Episcopal Church

The Rev. James Cirillo, Priest • (540) 788-4419

www.gracechurchcasanova.org

Anglo Catholic in worship and order Mass Schedule: Sunday 8AM & 10:30 AM Wednesday 10 AM Holy Days 6PM Father Jonathan Ostman, Rector

540-364-2554 Facebook: stjohnsmarshall “At the Stop Light in Marshall”

MISS THE OLD TIME GOSPEL? God hasn’t changed his word to suit the culture!

11:00 am Sundays

FAUQUIER BAPTIST CHURCH 10550 JAMES MADISON HWY (rt 29) BEALETON, VA

Come, You will be glad you did, home of cowboy church, friendly folks, independent, bible believing, preaching the old-time gospel. All welcome, Info 540-347-0074

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CL A SSIFIEDS ADVERTISING DEADLINES: Business Directory: Thursday at noon, All other Classified ads: Monday at 3 p.m.

To place your ad, Call: 540-351-1664, Toll Free: 888-351-1660, Fax: 540-349-8676, Email: classifieds@fauquier.com Rentals — Apartments Don´t sweat it, we have your new home While There Are Vacancies At One of Our Properties!

540-349-4297 l TDD 711

Steeplechase Manor

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Miscellaneous

261 Wanted

FREON WANTED: Certified buyer looking to pay CA$H for R11, R12, R500 & more! Clarissa at 312-535-8384 Musical

Rentals —

001 Apartments Amissville, 1BR apt, priv. ent, full bath, kitchenette. $1000/mo. i n c d s . u t i l .

703-314-9493

Orlean APARTMENT Cozy 1BR, quiet.

Utils included. $ 1 0 0 0 / m o 540-229-9328

Furniture/

228 Appliances Looney Toons Bugs Bunny animatied, telemania, talking phone, excel, 6 answers 571-344-4300 Smith Corona blue portable typewriter.

Sterling model with c a s e . Ve r y g o o d cond. 571-344-4300

Lawn/Garden

248 Equipment

Rentals —

080 Office

6000 sf Office Building. on 1 acre, Lineweaver Business Park, Warrenton VA. Kit, reception area, lg conference Rm, Server Rm, Lg Production Rm. JARAL, LLC, Rob Rose 540-270-4250

Antiques &

200 Collectibles 45 RPM records. (Lots of 50) .50-1.00 ea. Comics $2 + ea. Snoopy mdse. Beanies, 571-344-4300 Baseball cards many complete sets, not old but excellent condition 571-344-4300 Baseball research national pastime journals, BB history, (app 12 books) 571-344-4300 Beatles memorabilia picture B&W (60’s), alb u m s , 4 5 ’ s , m a g a z i n e s , 571-344-4300 Blotters, local and international, approx. 300.

Excellent condition.

571-344-4300 Elvis collage 26x33 wood frame one of a kind - poster, album, cards 571-344-4300 Elvis memorabilia, Yankee memorabilia, Celtics merch. Hot wheels/ Matchbox cars 571-344-4300 Olympic magazines./ programs, Olympic m d s e ( 1 9 8 0 ) 571-344-4300 World tour books - Eagles, P Collins, N Diamond, McCartney, Cal Ripkin magazines 571-344-4300

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5pc BR set, Sorrento Chris Madden Collection. dresser, mirror, 2-nightstands, chest.

571-344-4300

Black & lawn weed Good 4300

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Decker electric mower, $85 wacker, $35. cond.571-344-

Building Materials

HAY FOR SALE Fresh-Cut 4x5 Bales; $40 ea.

Fauquier. Lve msg @ 540-825-4181 Miscellaneous

256 For Sale

11 piece stainless steel grill set. New. 571-344-4300 45 RPM record collection original 50’s, 60’s app 2500 various prices 571-344-4300.

JFK, Sinatra books/ magazines, M Jordan championship mini BB (set of 7) COA 571-344-4300 J. Gibbs 1991 football card as coach, racing book both autographed 571-344-4300.

Man on the moon 7/69 magazine,books records (album, 45’s) 571-344-4300 Raisinettes Tony the Tiger key chains Peanuts uncut card sets Redskins yearbooks game day books 571-344-4300 Ringling Bros programs 1971-2005 castaways wreck bar shaker cans 1 9 7 0 ’ s ( 5 ) 571-344-4300 Samsung, Blueray Disc Player, BD-P3600 sireless,1080HD, new in box. 571-344-4300 SI magazines also swimsuit issues 1970present M Jackson mag (3), 78 RPM records 571-344-4300

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262 Instruments FREE solid wood upright piano, good cond.

Needs to be tuned.

W i t h b e n c h .

703-622-6432

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LOST & FOUND ADOPTIONS TOO!

FAUQUIER SPCA 540-788-9000 www. fauquierspca.com e-mail fspca@ fauquierspca.com Small mix male puppies $100 details text 540-497-2633

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For all your heating and cooling needs. Rc´s AC Service and Repair, 540-349-7832 or 540-428-9151 GO WITH THE BEST!!!

Brian´s Tree Service.

LICENSED, INSURED, FREE ESTIMATES. Tree removal, trimming, deadwooding, stump removal, lot clearing.

Senior discounts 540-937-4742 or 540-222-5606 G R AV E L : A L L PROJECTS. Topsoil; fill dirt; mulch. No job too small.540-8254150; 540-219-7200

Hagan Build & Design. Specializing in basements but we do it all!

540-522-1056.

Free estimates, licensed and insured.

JBS Excavation & Clearing, Free estimates, tree removal, horse arena, d r i v e w a y s & landscaping. No job too big or too small.

703-582-0439 Miller´s Tree Servic, complete tree service. Renoval, mulching, storm damage, bucket truck, firewood.

540-222-2089 North´s Custom Masonry. Retaining walls, stone work, patios, repoint ing brick, chimneys, driveways.

540-533-8092

Business

350 Services

North´s Tree Service & Landscaping. Complete tree service. All phases of landscaping.

540-533-8092

NUTTERS PAINTING & SERVICES Call Erik 540-522-3289 375

Home Healthcare

Caregiving &/or Cleaning

for your loved one. Exp´d. Social work degree.

R e f s / i n f o 703-314-9493 Home

376 Improvement Addison´s Building & Remodeling. Additions, basements, b a t h r o o m s , sundecks, repairs. Licensed Insured.

540-244-2869 Remodels; New Homes; Windows; Painting; Garages; B a t h r o o m s ; Kitchens; Decks;.

Class A. Lic & insured. GMC Enterprises of VA, LLC. 540-222-3385

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GORMANS TREE AND LANDSCAPING SERVICES. Seasonal Clean up. Snow removal, grinding, mowing, take downs.

Free estimates.

540-222-4107; 540-825-1000

605 Automobiles - Domestic 2 0 1 2 V W Beetle-142K mls-5cyl, Newer tires & spark plugs. 1 owner.

New hitch. Text Jandy: 240-446-0520 $5,600 OBO.

Announcements

ABC Licenses

Hygiene, toiletries, new clothes, shoes, mentoring/training classes for families in need.

The 1st Saturday of every month.

9am-11:30am.

CDR Resource Center will be at Faith Christian Church & International Outreach Center, 6472 Duhollow Rd., Warrenton

Enjoy knitting? Want to meet other

knitters? We’d love to welcome you at Prince William Purlers! Check us out the first Tuesday of each month, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at 8730 Sudley Road in Manassas. Our needles are clicking in Room 8 at Manassas Baptist Church. Attendance by Zoom is also available.

All knitters invited! For more information, find us on Ravelry and Facebook, or email PrinceWilliamPurlersGuild@gmail.com.

Fauquier Falcons Softball Camp

will be held July 18-20, 2022 at the Varsity Softball Field for rising 1-9 grade girls. Girls will receive small group instruction, drills, games, tshirt, and prizes! Register here: h t t p s : / / f o r m s . g l e / rLWoPkJBRMhncmPdA

Full name(s) of owner(s): Stars & Shakes Bowling Center LLC Trading as: Galaxy Strikes Bowling Center 251 West Lee Highway, Suite 650, Warrenton, Fauquier, Virginia 20186 The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL for a Retail License - Wine & Beer on premise license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Brett Mills, Patricia Mills - Owners DATE NOTICE POSTED AT ESTABLISHMENT: 6/10/2022 Note: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

Public Notices

Fraternal Order of Eagles for Warrenton

NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE FOR RECEIVING PROOF OF DEBTS AND DEMANDS PURSUANT TO VIRGINIA CODE § 64.2-550

WESTON WORKSHOP “IMPROVING YOUR CELL PHONE PHOTOS” THURSDAY, JULY 14; 9-12 Come to Weston to attend a workshop conducted by Cindy McClanahan Ellis of McClanahan Camera to unlock the potential of your phone’s camera. Learn professional techniques. Limited to 10 to ensure thorough individual instruction. A set of pictorial guidelines will be given to every participant, and each technique will be demonstrated by means of computerprojected images. To learn more about Weston, additional workshops, and directions visit www.historicwestonva.org/ upcoming-events To register, call (540)229.0114.

Having been requested by J. William G. Brown, IV, Counsel to the Administrator for the Estate of Stephen E. Mayer, deceased (Fiduciary #CWF2020-262), to appoint a time and place for receiving proof of debts and demands, Gary M. Pearson, Commissioner of Accounts for the Circuit Court of Fauquier County, hereby notifies all interested persons that I have fixed July 27, 2022 at 10:00 A.M., as the time and my office at 9 Culpeper Street, Warrenton, Virginia 20186 as the place, for receiving proof of debts and demands against said decedent or said decedent’s estate pursuant to Virginia Code Section 64.2-550.

On this 22nd day of June 2022, I have caused this notice (1) posted on the public government website for the Circuit Court of Fauquier County, Virginia, and (2) to be delivered to The Fauquier Times, Warrenton, Virginia, for publication once in that newspaper’s issue on July 6, 2022, both of which last-mentioned dates are more than ten days before the date stated above for receiving proof of debts and demands.

Gary M. Pearson, Commissioner of Accounts

Auxiliary #4552 meetings: When: 7pm 1st & 3rd Mondays (Thursdays in June) Where: Warrenton Police Department (training room) 333 Carriage House Lane Warrenton, VA 20186 AND...

Aerie #4552 meetings: When: 7pm 2nd & 4th Tuesdays Where: The Path Foundation 321 Walker Dr, Warrenton, Va. 20186 Looking for new members!

Proceeds will be used to fund an art and education center.

B R I A N ’ S LANDSCAPING AND TREE SERVICE.“I have

been running my ad in the Fauquier and Prince William Times since 2011. My ad has paid for itself over and over again.

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Legal Notices PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF THE PLAINS, VIRGINIA ON JULY 18, 2022 AT 7:00 P. M. IN THE COCHRAN LODGE, 6514 MAIN STREET, THE PLAINS, VIRGINIA TO DISCUSS THE 2022-2023 PROPOSED BUDGET. NANCY E. BRADY, CLERK

Legal Notices TOWN OF WARRENTON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Town Council of the Town of Warrenton will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, at 6:30 PM in the Warrenton Town Hall Council Chambers (First Floor) located at 21 Main Street, Warrenton, Virginia, on the following item(s): Ordinance 2022-09 Voting and Polling Locations. This ordinance proposes to amend Article 2, Section 2- 22 of the Town Code Voting and Polling Places to the following locations: Ward 1: C.M. Bradley Elementary School Ward 2: W.C. Taylor Middle School

Ward 3: Warrenton Community Center

Ward 4: Warrenton Aquatic and Recreation Facility Ward 5: Town Police Public Safety Building This public hearing remains open from the June 14, 2022, Town Council meeting. Town Council will continue to receive comment through July 12, 2022.

Ordinance 2022-10 to add a new Article VI, Use of Public Grounds, consisting of Sections 14-101 through 14-103. The proposed ordinance is designed (1) to protect the rights of peaceably assembly, freedom of speech, and petitioning the government for a redress of grievances; (2) to protect public safety, property rights, and the peace and tranquility of residential property; (3) to make sure that streets, sidewalks, parks and other public places are available for their intended purposes; (4) to coordinate ability for damage to public facilities, and (6) to protect the operation of government. The proposed ordinance is intended to comply with all applicable judicial precedent regarding time, place, and manner restrictions on public assembly and expression. The proposed ordinance applies Town-wide. This public hearing remains open from the June 14, 2022, Town Council meeting.

Ordinance 2022-11 to add a new section to the Town Code, Emergency Management. The proposed ordinance is intended to meet the requirements of the Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Services and Disaster Law of 2000, § 44-146.13 et seq., Code of Virginia by: 

2. Appointing a Director and Coordinator of Emergency Management.

3. Delegating the appropriate legal authorities.

If your ad isn’t here, you are giving your business to someone else.

4. Creating an orderly line of succession consistent with other Town plans.

5. Assure a coordinated response to natural or human-caused disasters, emergencies, or planned events.

The proposed ordinance is intended to comply with all applicable local, state, and Federal regulations.

VDOT Smart Scale Grant Applications. The Town of Warrenton submitted pre-applications for VDOT Smart Scale Funding for three separate roundabout intersection improvement projects, located at Lee Highway/ Blackwell, Broadview/Winchester, Broadview/US 17 Bus, contained in the adopted Capital Improvements  projects are selected for award by the Commonwealth Transportation Board during calendar year 2023, one or more of these projects will go into the VDOT 6-year plan for funding in FY2026.

People having an interest in the above are invited to participate in the hearing and state their opinion regarding the above issues. The public may also choose to submit written comments through the Town’s website or by emailing citizencomment@warrentonva.gov during the public comment period which will end at noon the day of the Public Hearing, July 12, 2022. Copies of ordinances are available for review at Town Hall located at 21 Main Street, Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. The Town of Warrenton does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in admission or access to its programs and activities. Town Hall meeting facilities are fully accessible. Any special accommodations can be made upon request 48 hours prior to the meeting.

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Legal Notices TOWN OF WARRENTON

Legal Notices

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE OF FAUQUIER COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Notice is hereby given that the Planning Commission of the Town of Warrenton will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 7:00 PM in the Warrenton Town Hall Council Chambers (First Floor) located at 21 Main Street, Warrenton, Virginia, on the following item(s):

MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARINGS

Zoning Map Amendment (ZMA) 2021-01/Special Use Permit (SUP) 2021-01 Harris Teeter Fuel Station – the applicant, Harris Teeter, and owner, North Rock LLC, seeks to amend the North Rock Planned Unit Development zoning district (ZMA 1998-02) and SUP approval for an eight (8) pump fuel station. The existing PUD was granted in 1999 and proffered that the site would be developed per the Master Development Plan and ties all permitted/permissible uses to those listed under the 1991 Zoning Ordinance PUD District. The 1991 Zoning Ordinance allowed all uses in the Commercial Limited (CL) District within the PUD District upon issuance of a Special Use Permit, which includes fuel stations. The subject parcel (GPIN 6984-38-9605) is located at 530 Fletcher Drive, zoned PUD, and is approximately 11.68 acres.

The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors will hold a work session at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 14, 2022, in the Warren Green Building at 10 Hotel Street in Warrenton, Virginia, and will hold a regular meeting and public hearings at 6:30 p.m. in the same location on the following: 1. FAUQUIER COMMUNITY THEATRE LEASE – A public hearing to consider a lease with Fauquier Community Theatre-Story Painters, Inc., for the Theater on the Green at Vint Hill. (Gary Rzepecki, Staff) 2. AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 8, ARTICLE II OF THE FAUQUIER COUNTY CODE – A public hearing to consider amendments to Chapter 8, Article II to allow application on a rolling basis for the Tax Relief for the Elderly and Disabled Real Estate Exemption Program. (Eric J. Maybach, Staff) 3. AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 8, ARTICLE III OF THE FAUQUIER COUNTY CODE – A public hearing to consider amendments to Chapter 8, Article III to provide that if parcels enrolled in the land use taxation program are tax delinquent, those parcels shall not be removed from the land use taxation program provided the delinquent real estate taxes are paid in full no later than December 31st of the year the owner is notified by first class mail of the tax delinquency. (Eric J. Maybach, Staff) 4. A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FROM FAUQUIER COUNTY FOR PROJECTS SUBMITTED FOR THE FY 2024-2030 SMART SCALE PRIORITIZATION PROCESS (Adam Shellenberger, Staff) 5. REZONING AMENDMENT REZN-21-015939 WEXFORD PARTNERS, LLC (OWNER/APPLICANT) – WEXFORD VILLAGE – An application to amend portions of a previously approved Proffer Statement and Concept Development Plan associated with REZN-18-008683. The properties are located on the west side of Marsh Road across from Village Center Drive, Lee District. (PIN 6899-24-0759-000 and 6899-25-0237-000) (continued from June 9, 2022) (Adam Shellenberger, Staff) 6. SPECIAL PERMIT SPPT-22-017469 WILLIAM E. (JR.) & HEATHER M. BACON (OWNERS)/WILLIAM E. BACON, JR. (APPLICANT) – BACON’S GARAGE – An application for a Category 2 Special Permit to allow an auto repair garage as a major home occupation. The property is located at 5515 Beach Road, Cedar Run District, Midland, Virginia. (PIN 6992-92-0127-000) (Kara Marshall, Staff) 7. SPECIAL PERMIT SPPT-22-017545 RODNEY W. & SHARON J. CANNON (OWNERS)/SHARON J. CANNON (APPLICANT) – SHARON’S MINIATURE AMERICAN SHEPHERDS – An application for a Category 13 Special Permit to allow a minor kennel. The property is located at 11601 Putnams Mill Road, Marshall District, Hume, Virginia. (PIN 6926-64-1336-000) (Kara Marshall, Staff) 8. SPECIAL PERMIT SPPT-22-017546 CURTIS R. & SHEILA A. HANSEN (OWNERS/APPLICANTS) – MOUNT INDEPENDENCE TOURIST HOME – An application for a Category 3 Special Permit to allow a Tourist Home. The property is located at 2254 Winchester Road, Marshall District, Delaplane, Virginia. (PIN 6042-17-9718-000) (Rebecca Acland, Staff) 9. SPECIAL PERMIT SPPT-22-017547 RENEE KUENSTER O’CONNELL (OWNER/APPLICANT) – TURKEY CREEK LODGE – An application for a Category 3 Special Permit to allow a Tourist Home. The property is located at 10691 Crest Hill Road, Marshall District, Marshall, Virginia. (PIN 6947-16-2968-000) (Kara Marshall, Staff) Copies of the above files are available for review by contacting the Clerk to the Board of Supervisors’ office Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. by calling (540) 422-8020.

Interested parties wishing to be heard on any of the above are encouraged to send written correspondence in advance of the meeting to 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, VA 20186, or by e-mail to BOS@fauquiercounty.gov prior to July 14, 2022. Citizens wishing to appear in person should arrive prior to the start time of the meeting. Comments are limited to three minutes. The meeting can be viewed remotely on Fauquier County Government Channel 23 and is livestreamed at http://fauquier-va.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=1.

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 or requiring any other assistance related to the meeting should contact Ms. Renée Culbertson, Deputy Municipal Clerk, at (540) 422-8020.

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People having an interest in the above are invited to attend the hearing and state their opinion regarding the issue. The public may also choose to submit written comments through the Town’s website or by emailing citizencomment@ warrentonva.gov during the public comment period which will end at noon the day of the public hearing. Information is available for viewing on the Town website www.warrentonva.gov. If there are any questions, please call 540-347-1101 or visit Town Hall located at 21 Main Street, Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. The Town of Warrenton does not discriminate on the basis of disability 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.

Public Notice – Environmental Permit PURPOSE OF NOTICE: To seek public comment on a draft permit from the Department of Environmental Quality that will allow the release of treated wastewater into a water body and allow the reuse of reclaimed wastewater in the Town of Warrenton, Virginia.

PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: July 7, 2022 to August 8, 2022 PERMIT NAME: Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit – Wastewater issued by DEQ, pursuant to applicable water laws and regulations.

APPLICANT NAME, ADDRESS AND PERMIT NUMBER: Town of Warrenton; P.O. Box 342, Warrenton, VA 20188; VA0021172 FACILITY NAME AND LOCATION: Town of Warrenton Wastewater Treatment Plant; 731 Frost Avenue, Warrenton, VA 20186 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Town of Warrenton has applied for reissuance of a permit for the public Town of Warrenton Wastewater Treatment Plant. The applicant proposes to release treated sewage wastewaters from residential and commercial areas at a rate of 2.5 million gallons per day into a water body and reuse reclaimed wastewater for proposed bulk irrigation of athletic fields. Sludge from the treatment process will be disposed by land application. The facility proposes to release the treated sewage in an unnamed tributary to Great Run in Fauquier County in the Rappahannock River watershed. A watershed is the land area drained by a river and its incoming streams. The permit will limit the following pollutants to amounts that protect water quality: physical and chemical properties, nutrients, organic matter, solids and bacteria. The permit also requires reporting of flow and toxicity testing. This facility is subject to the requirements of 9VAC25-820 and has registered for coverage under the General VPDES Watershed Permit Regulation for Total Nitrogen and Total Phosphorus Discharges and Nutrient Trading in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in Virginia (Nutrient GP).

HOW TO COMMENT AND/OR REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING: DEQ accepts comments and requests for public hearing on the draft permit by hand-delivery, email, fax or postal mail. All comments and requests must be in writing and be received by DEQ during the comment period. DEQ must receive hand-delivery and postal mail by close of business and email and fax comments by 11:59 p.m. on the last day of the comment period. Submittals must include the names, mailing addresses or email addresses of the commenter/requester and of all persons represented by the commenter/requester. A request for public hearing must also include: 1) The reason why a public hearing is requested. 2) A brief, informal statement regarding the nature and extent of the interest of the requester or of those represented by the requester, including how and to what extent such interest would be directly and adversely affected by the permit. 3) Specific references, where possible, to terms and conditions of the permit with suggested revisions. A public hearing may be held, including another comment period, if public response is significant, based on individual requests for a public hearing, and there are substantial, disputed issues relevant to the permit.

CONTACT FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS, DOCUMENT REQUESTS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Douglas Frasier; DEQ-Northern Regional Office, 13901 Crown Court, Woodbridge, VA 22193; Phone: 571-866-6522; Email: Douglas.

Frasier@deq.virginia.gov; Fax: 804-698-4178. The public may review the draft permit and application at the DEQ office named above by appointment or may request copies of the documents from the contact person listed above.

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE FAUQUIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION JULY 21, 2022 The Fauquier County Planning Commission will hold a work session beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 21, 2022 in the Warren Green Building, First Floor Meeting Room, 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia.

The Fauquier County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the following items at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 21, 2022 in the Warren Green Building, First Floor Meeting Room, 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia: 1. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-22-017569 – ELITE POWER & ENERGY CORPORATION (OWNER/APPLICANT) – ELITE POWER & ENERGY PROPANE DISTRIBUTION SITE – An application to amend a previously approved Category 15 Special Exception (SPEX-20-014233) to allow for bulk storage of petroleum products. The property is located at 7587 Capitol Way, Marshall District, Marshall, Virginia. (PIN 6979-28-9770-000) (Kara Marshall, Staff) 2. SPECIAL EXCEPTION – SPEX-22-017585 – GREWAL TRANSPORT, INC. (OWNER/APPLICANT) – GREWAL TRANSPORT YARD – An application for a Category 21 Special Exception to allow a motor freight terminal. The property is located at 5245 Midland Road, Cedar Run District, Midland, Virginia. (PIN 7900-81-2043-000) (Kara Marshall, Staff) The application materials can be found on the Land Development Online Portal at: https://commdevpay.fauquiercounty.gov/Energov_Prod/SelfService#/home.

Approximately one week prior to the public hearing, staff reports for all items will be available online at: www.fauquiercounty.gov/meetingagendas. To arrange a time to review files in person, please contact the Department of Community Development’s Planning Office at (540) 422-8210, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Members of the public who would like to provide comments at a regular public meeting of the Planning Commission are encouraged to send advance written comments to Fauquier County Department of Community Development, 10 Hotel Street, Suite 305, Warrenton, Virginia 20186 or email to meredith. meixner@fauquiercounty.gov. Citizens wishing to appear in person should arrive prior to the start time of the meeting. Comments are limited to three minutes. The meeting may be viewed on Fauquier County Government Channel 23 and is livestreamed at http://fauquier-va.granicus.com/ ViewPublisher.php?view_id=1.

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 Ms. Meredith Meixner, Planning Associate II, at (540) 422-8210.

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF FAUQUIER COUNTY: TIMOTHY C. HINKEL. TRUSTEE OF THE SUSAN RICHARDSON HINKEL TRUST and AARON BALTIMORE CATHERINE NICHOLAS Plaintiffs, v.

CASE NO. CL22-191 COLIN M. ROBERTSON, JR., JAMES TYSON ROBERTSON, DAWSON LEE ROBERTSON, FRANCES R. CONNELLY, SUSAN M. ALLEN, MARY NEGRI, FREDERICK NASH HARRISON CRAIG, ALICE RIDGELY HARRISON, RANDOLPH FISHER HARRISON, JOSHUA ADDISON PACE, WARREN M. PACE, JR., JUDITH MARSHALL JAMERSON ZIRKLE, COLIN JAMERSON ROSE, CATHERINE MORRISETTE PACE, MARY DOSS, JACK WALTRIP, GIGI SPRATLEY, MARTHA TREDWAY SPRATLEY PELLINGTON, MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, MOLLIE R. SHEA and ALL OF THE HEIRS, ASSIGNS, DEVISEES, SUCCESSORS (AND THEIR CREDITORS AND SPOUSES) OF Eliza Clarkson Marshall Harrison who died in 1869, survived by her spouse Harrison Robertson and five children, Robert Robertson, Jaqueline M. Robertson, Harrison Robertson Jr., Frances F. Robertson, and Elizabeth M. Robertson, who are believed to be dead; and any and all persons who have or who claim to have interest in property surveyed as 13.5826 acres, Marshall Magisterial District, Fauquier County, Virginia (GPIN # 6010-52-1044-000) part of the land allotted to Eliza Clarkson Marshall Robertson as set forth in CHY 438, Robertson v. Robertson and a parcel supposed to have been conveyed to Harrison Robertson by deed as set for in CHY 453, Robertson v. Robertson, which persons are unknown and who are made parties hereto as PARTIES UNKNOWN, Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION The purposes of this cause are to (1) to confirm that Timothy C. Hinkel, Trustee, the surviving Trustee of the Susan Richardson Hinkel Trust, established June 18, 2008, and amended on September 5, 2015 is the owner of the real property, described as follows: GPIN 6010-52-1044-000 13.5826 acres, more or less, a portion of a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situate in the Marshall Magisterial District of the County of Fauquier, Virginia, containing 170.0523 acres, more or less and being more particularly described in the plat of survey by R. M. Bartenstein and Associates, C.L.S. dated June 2, 1971, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Fauquier, Virginia in Deed Book 288, page 286 which description is incorporated herein by this reference; which is the subject of this cause, (2) to remove clouds on title to the subject property; (3) alternatively, quiet title through adverse possession, resolving all questions of law; and (4) request such other and further relief as this case in equity may require.

It is therefore ORDERED that this Order of Publication be published once a week in the Fauquier Times for four consecutive weeks and that the captioned parties and those made defendants by the general description of “Parties Unknown” appear on or before the 26 day of August, 2022, in the Clerk’s Office of the Court and do what is necessary to protect their respective interests herein.

ENTERED this the 15 day of June, 2022 THIS CAUSE IS CONTINUED. Jeanette A, IrbyJUDGE WE ASK FOR THIS: By:Nikki L. Marshall, Esq. VSB #45607 Nikki L. Marshall, PLC 110 Main Street Warrenton, Virginia 20186 nmarshall@nikkimarshalllaw.com Telephone 540-349-4633 Facsimile 540-349-4163 Attorney for Timothy C. Hinkel, Trustee of the Susan Richardson Hinkel Trust By: Mark P. Friedlander, Jr., Esq. VSB #4773 Friedlander & Friedlander, P.C. 1364 Beverly Road, Suite 201 McLean, Virginia 22101 mpfriedlander@friedlanderpc.com Phone: (703) 893-9600 Fax: (703) 893-9650 Attorney for Catherine Nicholas and Aaron Baltimore

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There has been a release from an underground storage tank system at: 7-Eleven #23412 5059 Lee Highway Warrenton, Virginia The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is requiring 7-Eleven, Inc. (7-Eleven) to develop a Corrective Action Plan Addendum to address cleanup of a petroleum release. If you have any questions regarding the cleanup, please contact: AECOM Rachael Allen 410-379-6837 The Corrective Action Plan Addendum was submitted to the Northern Regional Office of DEQ on June 27, 2022. If you would like to review or discuss the proposed Corrective Action Plan with the staff of DEQ, please feel free to contact Kristopher McCandless at 571-866-6459. DEQ Northern Regional Office will consider written comments regarding the proposed Corrective Action Plan until July 27, 2022 and may decide to hold a public meeting if there is significant public interest.

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GAINESVILLE 8074 Crescent Park Drive | 703.753.7910

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NEW CONTRUCTION Warrenton | 849,000 New home to be built on 4+ acres 4 Bedrooms Unfinished Basement Call Brenda Rich | 540.270.1659

Warrenton | $960,000 OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY JULY 9th 12-2 This home has it all. Freshly painted interior with all new floors on main level. 6000 square feet of living space to enjoy and entertain.

Gourmet kitchen with new refrigerator and microwave. Other appliances fairly new. Granite countertops and cherry cabinets. Large Pantry and butler kitchen, large breakfast room with plantation shutters. Family room off kitchen with gas fireplace. Main level consists of kitchen, living room, dining room, office, family room, half bath, utility room with additional hook up for washer and dryer, breakfast room, large entry foyer. Upstairs has 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. Lower level has 1 bedroom, full bath, large rec room with bar area, Media room wired with speakers. Laundry on 2 levels (basement and primary bedroom) Some unfinished area for storage. Lovely patio area with room for large furniture and fire pit area. 3 car garage with paved driveway. This home is clean as a whistle and ready to move in. Make your appointment today.

Gainesville | $1,400,000 This custom-built, 6 bedroom, 6 1/2 bathroom estate, privately located on a 3/4 acre lot. Don't miss this rare opportunity for a luxury estate with no HOA and huge homesite in beautiful Gainesville. Come for a tour! Shown by Appointment Only!

Call April Geyer | 571.775.0092

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Catlett | $769,000 4 bedroom 3.5 bath Colonial on 6.73 acres in Catlett.

This home features a main level primary bedroom and bathroom. Main level office. The kitchen features white cabinets, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. Do not miss out on this large home in Catlett.

Call Kateland Rich Flinn | 540.270.8558

Culpeper | $619,000

Culpeper | $799,000

Rixeyville | $184,900

A must see gorgeous colonial in Rillhurst Estates! This home Large 3 bedroom home in Clearbrooke. This home offers Build your home on this beautiful 12.26 acre parcel in main level living with 2.5 baths, a formal dining room, offers 5 bedrooms and 4.5 baths with a finished basement.

Ashbourne Farms. Cleared homesite at the beginning Screened in back porch. 3 car attached garage. All of the top open kitchen and living room. The house over looks a of the lot. The rest of the lot is wooded with 400+ outlets on the front of the house are for Holiday lights, the pond for a nice view from your back deck. *Do not walk on feet of the Muddy Run. Expired 4 bedroom the back deck, it needs some TLC. This is a judicial sale switch is located in the primary bedroom. You will not be conventional perc site and covenants are uploaded in and will require court approval. Property sold AS-IS. disappointed in this gorgeous home!

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JUST LISTED Manassas | $579,900 Brandy Station | $329,000 Traditional Ranch -One Level Living close to town on Lake Living at its best!!! Welcome Home to this expansive rambler on gorgeous .69 acre Lake Jackson lot. 2 additional water front lots convey. This charming home offers over 2400 sq ft -large family space perfect for entertaining. The Great room is the Northern end of the County! Location Location center of the home with large stone fireplace with wood stove insert. Large updated kitchen features ample cabinetry, updated Location! All in a rural peaceful setting within appliances, center island and dining rm space. A sun room off the great room allows for significant natural light throughout the minutes to Old Trade and Deathridge Breweries for home and great views of the Lake Jackson community. This secluded residence backs an acre of woods, currently unbuildable entertainment too. Or simple enjoy the privacy of with waterfront lots just waiting for a dock. Have fun on any type of watercraft, including gas powered boats and jet skis, on the 800 acre private lake exclusive to residents and guests only. Close proximity to Manassas VRE, rt 66 rt 28 and downtown your yard - here you'll have a small private yard.

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3 bedrooms 1.5 baths.

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JUST LISTED Bealeton | $649,000 Meticulously maintained home sitting on 5 acres with numerous upgrades. Whole house dehumidifier. Roof 7 years old. Easy commute to Warrenton, Culpeper and Fredericksburg.

Call Nancy Richards | 540.229.9983

Culpeper | $899,900 SOLD IN 3 HOURS!!!

SLEEK & STYLISH ONE LEVEL LIVING AT ITS FINEST. THIS CUSTOM-BUILT HOME ON 10 ACRES. 3 BEDROOMS. 2.5 BATHS ON THE MAIN LEVEL. Call Beth Kramer | 571.220.2662

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Culpeper | $515,000 Culpeper | $462,500 Bumpass | $369,900 Beautiful house with main floor master, and Living in town is a dream! An open concept property MOTIVATED SELLER- GORGEOUS RAMBLER WITH PEACEFUL VIEWS.. This Well Kept Rambler has over offering 4 large bedrooms, tons of entertainment space spacious basement. This home boast two offices, inside and out, and a kitchen designed for hosting perfect for those who work from home. Minutes 8.3 acres which is partly cleared and partly wooded holiday parties and family events. The finished from downtown Culpeper or Warrenton shopping with a covered Carport for parking and a Shed. basement offers a full-sized bathroom, kitchenette, and dining, this home is perfect for entertaining Don't miss out on this opportunity to have a newer office with French doors, and walk out to the backyard with plenty of room to have your summer cookouts. home with beautiful land to explore! Book your and is currently used as a full-sized apartment space.

Call Stanley Heaney | 540.812.5533 appointment today!!

Minutes from Culpeper fine dining, Town & County Call Troy Price | 540.222.3260 parks, and a historical shopping district.

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