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County mulls ‘2nd Amendment Sanctuary’ status By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer

The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors is weighing whether to designate Fauquier County a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” in a show of support for gun ownership rights. A Second Amendment Sanctuary declaration could state the county’s opposition to any legislation that would limit gun rights, but the resolution would not have any legal effect. The wave of resolutions from other rural counties declaring sanctuary status follows the Democratic Party winning control of

the Virginia General Assembly in the Nov. 5 election and expectation that action on gun regulation legislation will follow. Democrats could consider so-called “red flag” laws, which would enable guns to be taken away temporarily from people who might injure themselves or others. They may also consider legislation to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines and expand background checks for private party sales and gun show purchases. A ban on assault weapons may also be on the table. During the July General Assembly special session – which was cut short by Republicans after only 90

minutes – Democratic legislators proposed about 30 bills affecting gun use and sales. Dinwiddie County became the sixth Virginia county to be a Second Amendment Sanctuary following a vote of its supervisors on Thursday, WWBT in Richmond reported. Appomattox, Campbell, Carroll, Charlotte and Pittsylvania counties previously took that action. In their resolution, the Dinwiddie supervisors said they don’t want county funds used to restrict gun rights. The Second Amendment Sanctuary movement has also been seen in Wisconsin, Florida, Arizona and

Texas, according to Reason magazine. In Fauquier, “People have been contacting me through social media” about the sanctuary matter, said Supervisors Chairman Chris Butler, R-Lee District. As of Wednesday, he said he had heard from about a half dozen people. At the very least, the supervisors are expected to discuss the sanctuary matter at their next regular monthly meeting on Dec. 12. “We’ll probably have a discussion if we get a lot of calls or have a large turnout,” Butler said. See SANCTUARY, page 8

FHS Campus Overhead

Athletic Field Improvements to be Funded from Fund Raising Practice Field Improvements In design phase $375,000

All-Weather Courts “Old Tennis Court Project” Fund Raising in Progress - $100K

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The side-by-side charging sites are part of the Tesla Destination Charging network.

First two Tesla charging stations installed in Warrenton Staff Reports On Thursday afternoon, Town of Warrenton officials announced the installation of a new charging site in the Tesla Destination Charging network. The site, which has two charging stations side by side, will allow any electric vehicles to charge, with an adapter. The stations are free for drivers to use. See TESLA, page 4 INSIDE Business.............................................13 Classified............................................34 Communities......................................29 Faith...................................................27

Upgrade to Artiﬁcal Turf Pending Approval $1,100,000

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Funding the Future of Fauquier Athletics would like to renovate Fauquier High’s old tennis courts, the practice fields out behind the school and Falcon Field, where students play football, soccer and lacrosse.

Group would like to fund artificial turf at Fauquier High Funding the Future of Fauquier Athletics has plans to improve sports fields By Robin Earl

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The group named Funding the Future of Fauquier Athletics needs to raise another $10,000 to $15,000 beHealth and Wellness............................21 Horse Sports.......................................20 Lifestyle..............................................23 Opinion...............................................10

fore its members can finalize plans to refurbish the old tennis courts behind Fauquier High School’s football field. FFFA’s “small project” would place artificial turf on the tennis courts and convert them to team sport practice fields, at a total cost of $100,000. The group also has a “medium project” in mind that would regrade some practice fields behind the

school and convert two and a half fields into three and a half. The price tag on that project is about $375,000. Those field improvements would make a big difference to athletes at Fauquier High, but FFFA is thinking bigger still. It’s “big project” is a $1.1 million conversion of Falcon Field – See TURF, page 4

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Town of Warrenton Old Town Warrenton celebrates Small Business Saturday announces holiday Charity Furness, executive director of Experience Old Town said that decorating contest her organization will have a welThink you have the best holiday decorations in town? This contest is for you. Town of Warrenton Parks and Recreation Director Margaret Rice Thursday announced a holiday decorating contest for residents who live within the town limits. “We are excited to bring the holiday spirit to residents and hope that everyone will enjoy a happy and health holiday season,” Rice said in a news release. Judging will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 11, between 6 and 9 p.m. Winners will be notified by Dec. 16. One winner will be chosen in three categories: Best Holiday Spirit, Classic Holiday and Best in Show. All winners will receive a special yard sign, a gift certificate and recognition at the Jan. 14 town council meeting. To enter the contest, register online at www.warfonline.com by Dec. 6.

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come table on Main Street in Old Town Warrenton on Saturday. She said, “Guests will be able to check in, receive goodies and register for a giveaway while supporting their favorite family-owned businesses by purchasing their holiday gifts locally. Come experience all that Old Town has to offer …” Furness said that Santa will be popping in and out of stores all day Saturday. Haute Cakes will host cookie decorating and a Haute cocoa bar. Children can enjoy story time with Mrs. Claus at VonCanon General Store. Furness enumerated some of the gifts available in Old Town: • Diamonds at Hartman Jewelry. • A print of a celebration on the baseball diamond at Framecraft. • Carter & Spence has specialty gifts crafted from MLB game balls and bats.  • Horse Country is filled with gifts for horse lovers • JP Antiquities, Vallie's Vintage Jewelry and Marta von Dettingen offer unique classic gifts.  • Remote-controlled cars at The Hobby Shop. • The gift shop at The Fauquier History Museum for Warrenton and Fauquier gifts. • Crafted gifts from Sherrie's Stuff.

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Two Middleburg developments generate opposition By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer

Two housing developments on opposite sides of Middleburg have stirred opposition from residents who view them as a threat to rural areas because of their potential impact on traffic, water and historic areas. A proposal by Middleburg Land 1 LLC would create the 38-home Banbury Cross development on 570 acres at Sam Fred Road and U.S. 50. The other involves a 30-home subdivision proposed by MOJAX LLC off Snake Hill Road in the community of St. Louis, a historically African-American community.

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St. Louis lies to the west of Middleburg and Banbury Cross to its east. Leonard “Hobie” Mitchel, who is working with fellow developer Jack Andrews on the Saint Louis project, said wells are being dug on the St. Louis property to supply the 30 new homes. He said test wells have produced sufficient water. Job Woodill, who lives across Snake Hill Road from the development site, disagrees; he says he and other neighbors have water supply problems. Mitchel said an archaeological survey has delineated an area on the property where there are about 50 graves -- in the Robinson-Howard Cemetery. Mitchel said a 50-foot buffer will protect them. Daniel Haney has started an online petition to gather signatures from those opposing the by-right development. Haney grew up in St. Louis on Wellbourne Road and now lives on Millville Road within the unincorporated community. “I’ve seen what’s happened over a number of years,” Haney said, noting the growth in eastern Loudoun and encroachment in the west. “We’re feeling like we’re being bullied, and the people of St. Louis aren’t being listened to,” said Haney. Woodill lives in a house with 5 acres of land at the end of the paved section of Snake Hill Road. The road continues unpaved past homes on larger lots. Woodill is among those who ride horses in fox hunts on the neighborhood’s pastures. Homes along the paved section of Snake Hill Road are older homes more tightly clustered. The community of St. Louis has about 90 homes. “Everybody here gets along,” said Woodill, who moved to St. Louis three years ago. Besides the 5 acres he owns, he leases another 450 acres. He has horses and bales hay. Mitchel said MOJAX will see to it that the unpaved section of Snake Hill Road will be paved, though Woodill says that would be up to the state, not the developer. Woodill noted that farm vehicles use the road, but because of the traffic, they do so with some difficulty.

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The areas marked in yellow depict where the Banbury Crossing Reserve development would be built cently, the drilling of test wells. Woodill and Haney said the land clearing caused Loudoun County to issue a stop work order because a permit had not been obtained. They also said the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality found previously undocumented wetlands. They said draining of wetlands led to a second stop work order. A third was generated by excessive land clearing, they said. Mitchel confirmed the stop work orders but said that workers complied within 24 hours. “The first notice was after we started drilling wells. In order to get the rig in there we had to clear some land. Normally, you don’t need a grade permit for drilling wells but for some reason we had to. We took some shrubs and trees out of the way. We got the grading permit.” In the case of the wetland, “We drove a dozer through a yet to be determined wetland area. We got violated (referring to a notice of violation). That was when we were digging a well and was within a wetland that was going to be mitigated anyway,” Mitchel said. “We’re going to comply with what we have to do,” Mitchel said. Work going on now is for the purpose of drilling individual wells to serve the 30 homes – 27 clustered in one large section and three others on the other side of existing homes that separate the two sections.

Mitchel said results have come back showing two of the test wells drew 50 gallons per minute while others drew 40, 35, 20 and 15 gallons per minute. “The least amount showed eight gallons per minute,” Mitchel said. “We’ll have enough water for the whole community.

Public reaction

Marcus Howard said he’s lived all of his 45 years in St. Louis. “I’m personally opposed to it,” Howard said. The development would border the church he attends, See DEVELOPMENT, page 5

Teman Treadway doesn’t want to see the rural life that he and his wife enjoy disrupted by more residential neighbors across the street.

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St. Louis water supply

St. Louis is served by a public sewer system, but its residents have individual wells. Mitchel maintains there’s an aquifer below St. Louis, but Woodill said, “The water situation here has always been questionable.” He said he has four wells on his property. A 500-foot deep well is dry and one that is 75 feet deep is intermittently dry, he said. A 600-foot well produces about two gallons of water per minute. “A lot of neighbors have low flow” of water, Woodill said. “Are you telling me 30 wells across the street won’t have an effect on me?” “If it weren’t for the public sewer you wouldn’t be able to build here,” said Woodill, who is a developer in the Washington, D.C. area.

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Group would like to fund artificial turf at Fauquier High TURF, from page 1 Fauquier High’s football field – to artificial turf. FFFA’s Steve Potucek and Richard Gargagliano presented plans to the Fauquier County School Board’s Building Committee at a September meeting. Committee members Donna Grove (Cedar Run District) and Duke Bland (Marshall District) have asked the group to provide more details on their plans before it goes before the full board for approval. The Building Committee next meets on Thursday, Dec. 12, at 8:30 a.m. in the School Board offices. Erika Lamper, varsity softball coach and sports marketing director is also an FFFA supporter -- as are her students. “They’ve made flyers, helped to come up with a name for the group and manage our Facebook page. They’ve done a good job getting students involved. The kids have a real stake in this,” she said.

Falcon Field

If everything goes to plan, Fauquier High School could be the second school in Fauquier to have an artificial turf football field. The plan is coming into focus just as Liberty High School’s artificial turf field is nearing the end of its life.

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It would cost about $1.1 million to replace Fauquier High’s grass field with artificial turf. With the school board’s blessing, Potucek and Gargagliano said they’d start a campaign to raise $1.1 million to replace FHS’s grass field with artificial turf. FHS Principal Kraig Kelican was at the meeting too, and has said, “I do support this proposal and believe it would benefit not only the students of FHS but also the community.” David Graham, director of plan-

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The Horner Street parking lot in Warrenton features two side-by-side Tesla charging locations.

First two Tesla charging stations installed in Warrenton TESLA, from page 1 Located in the parking lot at 45 Horner St., the expansion of the Tesla network will ensure that Tesla owners in the Warrenton area are able to charge their vehicles while in town. Town Councilman Sean Polster (at large) said, “The Tesla charging station will be a wonderful pilot for the town and shows our commitment to environmental solutions and working towards sustainable energy. I’m excited for this capital investment that will reap economic benefits for years to come.” Town Manager Brandie Schaeffer added, “Warrenton has a considerable number of electric vehicles, and we felt it would just be

another effort toward tourism, as we will be placed on the maps for those traveling, looking for a place to stop and charge for 30 minutes while they grab a coffee and shop.” The charging location was paid for by Tesla, with no capital expense to the Warrenton taxpayers. Shaeffer said that Polster expended considerable effort “to get them donated to us.”   Since October 2012, Tesla has installed more than 21,300 Tesla Wall Connectors across more than 11,000 Destination Charging locations globally. Visit tesla.com/destination-charging to learn more about Tesla’s Destination Charging network.

ning and administration, said the Building Committee has endorsed the plan “in concept. We need more details from the group raising money. But the feeling seems to be, ‘if you all raise the money, we’ll take it.’” The full board needs to endorse the plan, “so the public knows their fundraising is legitimate,” said Graham. During their presentation, Potucek and Gargagliano pointed out that in 1963, when Fauquier High School opened, the natural grass field hosted only five football games each year. Soccer, lacrosse and field hockey teams had not been formed. Fifty-five years later, the men explained, there are 25 sanctioned sports at FHS and there has been a seven-fold increase in the number of student athletes. More than 100 games are played on Falcon Field annually, a 20-fold increase in usage. The pair said that grass-field games often have to be cancelled because of field conditions. Athletic Director Mark Ott said that to build a “premium field” using top-of-the line materials -- including the end zones and the periphery of the field -- the cost would be about $1,100,000. The price tag includes a center logo and permanent markings for football, soccer, lacrosse and field hockey. The premium field requires less maintenance than a lesser-quality field; Ott said the artificial turf can handle 18 inches of rain per hour before affecting the playing surface. The fundraising plan floated by the FFFA would include $220,000 of in-kind donations, $660,000 raised from donors and sponsors and $220,000 over 10 years from the FHS budget and athletic department revenue. Ott said that money raised by renting out the field to outside groups would start a fund so that when it’s time to replace the field, the money is in place already.

Renovating practice fields

The two-and-a-half practice fields

behind Fauquier High School are used by the school’s teams and by community youth teams. Ott admits the fields are in bad shape. In between the two fields are ditches 75 to 100 feet wide. “The ditches are so deep, you could lose a small child in there,” Potucek joked. The plan is to get rid of the ditches and wind up with three and a half fields in the same space. The project is slated to cost about $375,000, depending on what kind of grass is used. Potucek said the fields need to be graded so they will drain properly, “leveled out, taken down to dirt, seeded and fertilized.” The fields will have an irrigation system installed. He said they were hoping to get $150,000 to $250,000 worth of work donated, but the association he had been working with has declined to take on such a big project. He said he’ll be talking to some other firms to try to get in-kind donations. The idea was to complete the project in the fall of 2020, but since the in-kind work has yet to be settled, the timeline on this project is uncertain.

Tennis court renovation

The old tennis courts represent the smallest of the three projects, with estimated cost of $100,000. Members of the FFFA are using a $10,000 matching grant from the Fauquier High Booster Club and another $40,000 from two foundations – the Airlie Foundation and the Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation -- they have already lined up. That leaves a gap of $10,000 to $15,000. They are confident they can raise that with other in-kind donations before the renovations would begin. The plan is to use donated turf for the practice fields. Ott said he already has 36 rolls of turf on hand; he is expecting a donation of another half a football field’s worth of turf this summer. “I’d love to have it ready for fall sports. It will take about a month to do.” The space – above and behind the home team bleachers of the football field – is the size of four tennis courts. Graham said the resulting practice area would have to be certified safe for athletes. “If we are going to let kids play on it, we want it to be safe.” Potucek said that the safety rating of a surface is measured on a scale from 100 to 200. Once complete, the tennis courts will fall in the 145 to 150 range, he said. Lamper said the fields could be a boon to FHS teams. She said that some teams have had to practice at Highland School and “the soccer team has had to raise money so they could play at the WARF because they can’t practice on their game field.” Potucek said that once they know they have the fundraising in place, Ott can find the best company to do the work. Reach Robin Earl at rearl@fauquier.com

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Available 540 area codes will run out in 2022 State Corporation Commission seeks public input on a solution By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer

The available numbers that are available to assign to the 540 area code are running out. The State Corporation Commission will hold four public hearings in 2020 on possible solutions, including splitting the area with 540 numbers into two; one would keep 540 and the other would get a different area code. “It’s a numerical fact given the rate of growth in the area,” explained Allan A. Sharrett, senior communications specialist for the SCC. There are only so many numbers that can be assigned to landlines, mobile phones or other device in an area code. 540 area code “exhaustion” is expected to occur during the year 2022, according to the SCC. Planning to deal with the issue began this June. The request to the SCC for “area

code relief” came from the North American Numbering Plan Administrator. The 540 area code was created in 1996 when it was split off from the 804 area code as that code was nearing exhaustion. Each area code has about 7.9 million usable numbers, according to Sharett. NANPA uses statistics to make a calculation as to when these usable numbers will be exhausted. When NANPA estimates that there are 36 months (or three years) left before exhaustion of usable numbers, it contacts the state to begin the process of establishing a new area code, Sharrett explained. If the 540 area code region is split into two area codes based on geography, one section would retain 540 while the other would get a new area code. Under an all-services overlay option, every current 540 user would keep that area code but would have to dial 540 as well as the seven-number sequence that

follows. New customers would use a new area code. Under another scenario, new customers would get either a 434 area code or a 276 area code. Both of those codes have available capacity to handle more customers and border the 540 region. No current 540 customers would lose that area code. The 540 area code covers a broad area over multiple counties, including Fauquier, Stafford, Clarke, Frederick, Louisa and part of Loudoun County and counties in the Shenandoah Valley. The public hearings will be scattered within the affected area with one at 2 and 6:30 p.m. March 3, in the Roanoke City Council Chambers; one at 2 and 6:30 p.m. March 4, in the Rockingham County administration center in Harrisonburg, and one at 2 and 6:30 p.m. March 5, in the Warren County General District Court in Front Royal. The Front Royal hearing is the nearest one to Fauquier County.

The SCC will hold a hearing at 10 a.m. May 6 in the commission’s second-floor courtroom in the Tyler Building, 1300 E. Main St., Richmond. Anyone wishing to comment at any of the hearings should arrive early and sign in with the SCC bailiff. Written comments can be submitted by April 29, and the mailing should be addressed to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission and sent to the Document Control Center at P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia, 23219-2118. Comments should refer to case number PUR-2019-00148. Comments can also be submitted online at www.scc.virginia.gov/case and refer to the case number. Click the “submit comments” button to send them. Sharrett said the change of area code process can take up to three years. The SCC will decide which option would be best after considering the feedback it receives. Reach James Ivancic at jivancic@fauquier.com

Two Middleburg developments generate opposition DEVELOPMENT, from page 3 Mount Zion Baptist Church. Banneker Elementary School is also located along Snake Hill Road. Teman Treadway and his wife, Alyn Beauchamp, live next door to Woodill. “When we moved to Middleburg, we were looking for something different.  We weren't looking to live in the highly developed part of Loudon County. We love St. Louis the way it is, we love country life. The other residents of St. Louis seem to feel the same way. The proposed development is an eastern Loudon kind of development. It would rob this community of what makes it unique and why we love it so much. It’s so out of whack with the whole community.” Treadway said he’d rather the development be limited to 10 homes. “This is more for Purcellville,” Haney said of the Middleburg Preserve project. I think you should be able to do what you want with your property within good conduct and the law,” said Woodill. “I just want the county to enforce the regulations.” Though the MOJAX proposal is by right under its zoning of countryside residential 1 and 3, “they can take legislative action on anything. They can offer a motion for a rezoning and advertise a hearing in a public notice,” Woodill said.

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“We’re not asking for anything other than what the zoning will allow,” Mitchel said. In order to build, the application needs administrative approval. “A subdivision application has been submitted and we’re getting the necessary permits. Hopefully by

next spring we’ll start the lot developments.” Mitchel said the single-family detached homes will be in the high $400,000 to low $500,000 price range. “They’ll be high-quality products,” Mitchel said. They’ll have front porches, twocar garages and basements. Lot sizes will vary with some 15,000 square feet and others 20,000 square feet. Mitchel said Banneker Elementary School, built in 1947, is under capacity and could support additional students. The Loudoun County Public School System’s enrollment figures and projections show Banneker currently has 192 enrolled there. The building’s capacity is 263. A school enrollment of 246 is projected for the 2025-26 school year. As far as the cemetery is concerned, Mitchel said, “We’ve defined the outside perimeter of the cemetery. We don’t want to disturb it. We put up a barrier and there will be a 50-foot buffer around it.” The cemetery didn’t show up when a title search was conducted during the process to buy the land but the developers learned of it in talking to members of the community, Mitchel said. “It’s in a public area and we wanted to protect it,” Mitchel said of the cemetery. The same thing was done when other developments he’s worked on have had burial sites. Regarding the organized opposition he faces in St. Louis, Mitchel said, “Vengeance breeds vengeance and I’m not going to get into a battle with a neighbor.”

Banbury Crossing Reserve

Developers of the other Middleburg area proposal, the Banbury Crossing Reserve 38-home develop-

ment, received a setback when the Middleburg Planning Commission in September voted 5-1-1 to reject the preliminary subdivision application. The commission thought the application should have more information about floodplain boundaries, archaeological sites on the property, road widths, plans for fire protection and identification of trees. Deputy Town Administrator William Moore said a revised application hasn’t yet been submitted. Andrew Hertneky, the manager of Middleburg Land 1 LLC, said he’d have no comment about the project. Both the town and Loudoun County are reviewing the project. Though the site is outside town borders, Middleburg has a say since the town has a subdivision control area that extends a mile beyond its corporate boundary. “For the portions within Middleburg’s subdivision control area, their subdivision ordinance is in effect with the county’s zoning ordinance in effect. For the portions outside of the subdivision control area county subdivision and zoning are in effect,” explained Glen Barbour, public affairs and communications officer for Loudoun County. The town is taking the lead in reviewing the project with input from the county. The county supplied comments in September. Its building and development department reviewed the preliminary plat. It asked that it be clearly stated that no further subdivision of property can be created beyond the 38 lots for Banbury Cross, that the location of water storage tanks or other facilities to meet fire protection standards be clearly shown, and that a homeown-

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The dotted lines are the county boundary lines. ers association be created, among other items. The Loudoun County Public Schools expects 16 school-age children from Banbury Crossing at full buildout, seven of them being elementary school-age, four middle school-age and five high school-age. But Haney, the organizer of opposition against both Banbury Cross and Middleburg Preserve, hopes to stop both in their tracks. Through his GoFundMe effort to stop Banbury Crossing, he’s collected more than 700 signatures and raised $5,980 toward a goal of $10,000 as of Nov. 19 to cover legal fees, advertising, yard signs and hiring consultants in a bid to stop it. Haney is collecting comments in opposition to the Middleburg Preserve project on ipetitions.com. There were 350 comments as of Monday, Nov. 25. Reach James Ivancic at jivancic@fauquier.com

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Community provides delicious thank you to first responders Thanks to local churches and businesses, 227 turkey dinners were distributed to the Fauquier men and women who work every day to keep citizens safe. The mood at Operation Turkey Drop for First Responders on Thursday, Nov. 21, was festive. The pick-up was set to happen again Friday, Nov. 22, at the sheriff’s office parking lot at 78 W. Lee St. All employees from the sheriff’s office, the Warrenton Police Department, the Virginia State Police, school security officers, and members of the Warrenton, Lois, Catlett, Remington and Goldvein fire departments were all welcome to stop by and pick up a “thank you” feast. The Rev. Tyrone Green of Heart’s Delight Baptist Church in Catlett said that 2019 is the third year of the project, which grows every No-

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Darren Stevens, Department of Fire and Rescue Emergency Management chief, was awarded the 2019 Roland Tapscott Good Scout award, by the Boy Scouts of America, National Capital Area Council.

DFREM Chief Darren Stevens named 2019’s Good Scout By Robin Earl

Times Staff Writer

Department of Fire and Rescue Emergency Management Chief Darren Stevens was honored Thursday morning with the annual Roland Tapscott Good Scout award, by the Boy Scouts of America, National Capital Area Council. About 70 friends, supporters and town and county officials gathered at Fauquier Springs Country Club for the ceremony. Stevens is a 23-year veteran of the DFREM. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army and worked as a Fauquier County deputy. He was also a Boy Scout. He remembered, “I had risen to the rank of Life Scout and had my eye on the Eagle Scout prize when I was stricken by two common Boy Scout ailments: girls and cars.” Even without an Eagle Award, Stevens epitomizes the Boy Scout dedication to public service and volunteerism. He has contributed to volunteer fire companies, the Boys and Girls Club and numerous charitable organizations. And of course, he was a scoutmaster. Stevens said, “… the most important lessons stayed with me through adulthood. I was blessed to later become an adult Scout as both my sons moved through the ranks. My fondest memories as both child and adult are sitting around the campfire and enjoying outdoor cooking, I strongly believe that there is no meal that cannot be improved upon by the application of open flame and cast iron.” He elaborated on what he’s learned through Scouting: • Always be kind, encourage one another and build each other up. As you progress through the ranks you learn that it’s nice to be important but more important to be nice. • Always share, it doesn’t matter if it’s toys or knowledge. Be grateful for what you have and readily share it with others. • Always tell the truth. If you tell a

lie just once, then all your truths become questionable. • Always be a good citizen, take the time to help others and find a way to serve your community. • Always be The Good Scout willing to award is named bite off more after Roland than you can Tapscott, one of chew, and the first African then keep chewing. I’d Americans to serve rather choke in the U.S. Marines during WWII. on success than nibble on mediocrity. • Always aim for the bull’s-eye; start each day with your sights on the center of the target. You won’t always hit it, but I guarantee you will miss 100 percent of the times you don’t try. • And lastly, always do a good turn daily ... it can be as simple as holding the door, raking some leaves or shoveling a walk for a neighbor. Each night when you lay down, ask yourself, “What was my good deed today? What am I doing to make my world a better place?” Stevens acknowledged that because of some serious health challenges, “2019 had been a challenging year for me. Redskins fans would probably call it a ‘rebuilding year.’ I would be remiss to stand in front of you today without taking a moment to stress the importance of living your best life to its fullest each day, you simply don’t know what is lurking around the corner. “While I have faith in God’s plan for me, this past year showed me that it is most likely not in a straight line. I feel truly blessed to be standing here today, that in itself is a victory.” Reach Robin Earl at rearl@fauquier.com

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Rectortown No. 12 school remembered with historical marker By Robin Earl

Times Staff Writer

Saturday’s program to recognize Rectortown School No. 12 with a historical marker was filled with stories. Some of those who spoke at the ceremony, held at Claude Thompson Elementary School, told stories about Julius Rosenwald, the philanthropist who helped built 382 schools for African-American students across the South before integration. But mostly, the stories shared intimate moments in the lives of the students who attended the three-room schoolhouse between 1924 and 1963. Russell Gaskins remembers hearing the school bus driver singing long before the bus would pull up to pick up Gaskins and his fellow students. Gloria Crawford Gore remembered that in 1959, her teacher provided a television set for the school -- at a time when television sets were rare -- so the children could learn about current events. Lt. Col. Adrian Upshur shared stories of his great-aunt Lavinia Washington, a legendary teacher at Rectortown No. 12. Just as the school had no heat or running water, his aunt’s home lacked these luxuries, too. Upshur described how he and his siblings would – before getting ready for school each morning – walk down to the spring to bring two buckets of water to Miss Lavinia’s house and place the buckets next to

the stove. Then they would light the stoves, feed the chickens and collect the eggs for breakfast. Upshur said that -- at his greataunt’s direction – he would take old calendars and cut them up to create multiplication tables as he prepared to start first grade. He said, “It never occurred to us that we were underprivileged.” He added that it wasn’t until the mid-1970s, when he was a student at Fauquier High School, that he learned that lesson. When he expressed surprise at being eligible for free lunches, his classmates explained to him matter-of-factly, “That’s because you’re poor.” Claude Thompson’s daughter, Adriene Thompson, stood in for the man for whom Claude Thompson Elementary School is named. She said that when her father had a phone interview for a teaching position in Fauquier County, “They hired him, but when he showed up, they said, ‘Oh, you’re black. What are we going to do with you?’ “They had him teach at Foster’s Hill (a black school in The Plains).” Claude Thompson went on to become the assistant principal at Coleman Elementary and then the principal at Northwestern Elementary (in the mid-1970s). In 2001, Northwestern was renamed Claude Thompson Elementary School. Thompson passed away in 2007. Thompson’s daughter described

The history of Rectortown No. 12

Three hundred and eighty-two Rosenwald schools were built in Virginia between 1917 and 1932, eight in Fauquier County offered a quality education to AfricanAmerican children. George and Addie Bannister, Rectortown residents, provided land for the original Rectortown No. 12 school. The second school at Rectortown was a two-room Rosenwald school. It was built in 1924 at a cost of $4,500. The school was funded in three parts: the black community contributed $800; the public at large contributed $3,000 and the Rosenwald Fund contributed $700. The growth in population in the 1950s necessitated a third classroom. The teachers, Lavinia E. Washington, C.E. Lewis and Eura H.

Lewis taught grades one to seven in the three-room school. The Rectortown No. 12 School was closed in 1963 for the opening of Northwestern Elementary School in Rectortown, later renamed Claude Thompson Elementary School.

her father as kind and steady. “I know I have a legacy to live up to. If every one of us lives up to that legacy, it will be a better day.” Former Rectortown No. 12 student Frederic “Mike” Grant told a story of bottles thrown at him and his classmates while they walked to school. The projectiles were thrown from school buses carrying children to other schools. “A glass bottle thrown from a moving school bus hurts,” he said. He remembers walking to school through the woods when the snow drifts were 12 to 15 feet tall. He said

he once tried to climb to the top of a drift, but fell in. “All of a sudden there was snow all around me. My siblings had to pull me out.” He said, “We bonded together to make school the best we could.” Grant said that while growing up he was told that nothing good would ever come out of Rectortown. He spoke of his own double master’s degree, followed by a Ph.D. He spoke of the impressive accomplishments of some of his classmates and friends and declared, “Something good has come out of Rectortown.”

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Former student Russell Gaskins reminisces with John Payne, who graduated in 1951 from the Rectortown No. 12 school.

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Supervisors lay out legislative priorities for next General Assembly County asks for state support of education, transportation and local land use decisions Staff Reports The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 14 approved a list of legislative proposals for the Virginia General Assembly to consider during the 2020 legislative session.

Revenue impacts for local governments:

Fauquier County opposes the imposition of any additional unfunded state mandates upon localities. Fauquier County urges the General Assembly to return to paying $14 per day for all state-responsible inmates incarcerated in local jails, for whom they are now paying $12 per day. Fauquier County supports continued funding for local day placement programs under the Children’s Services Act. The largest expenditure for Fauquier County is special education day placement, for which the commonwealth only provides funding for two-thirds of expenditures. Local day placement programs would allow children to remain in their communities, allow local school personnel to track the progress of the child, allow community services to be provided to families and children beyond the day placement and achieve savings for taxpayers through a shorter length of stay.

Education:

Fauquier County urges the state to be a reliable funding partner in accordance with the Virginia Constitution and state statutes. The Standards of Quality should recognize the resources, including positions, required for a high-quality public education system. Any changes in methodology and changes in the division of financial responsibility that result in a shift of funding responsibility from the state to localities is unacceptable. Fauquier County urges the General Assembly to take a thorough and broad look at reforming public education funding and the structure of state and local taxation. Any such reformation must recognize the unintended consequences of revenue sources not aligning with service delivery. For example, the current commonwealth policy of using full assessed value in the calculation of the Composite Index penalizes localities that employ Land Use Value Taxation to incentivize land conservation consistent with Virginia’s land preservation goals and policies.

Land use and zoning authority:

Fauquier County seeks legislative authority to relocate its circuit courthouse up to 1,000 feet in any direction without public referendum, provided that the courthouse remains

within the boundaries of the Town of Warrenton. Fauquier County opposes any measure that would eliminate or reduce any local government zoning, land use or revenue authority. Fauquier County supports legislation that grants localities additional tools to adequately meet increasing needs for public services driven by new development without burdening current residents with the cost of new growth through increased real estate taxes. Such additional tools may include broad impact fee authority for all counties, and adequate public facilities provisions in subdivision ordinances. Fauquier County supports additional funding for the Stormwater Local Assistance Fund to assist localities in meeting their TMDL goals. Fauquier County supports legislation providing for tighter regulation of fill dirt purported to be for “agricultural purposes.”

Transportation priorities:

Purchase of Development Rights and Conservation:

Health, safety and welfare:

Fauquier County supports increased state funding for the purchase of conservation easements and other land conservation needs.

Libraries:

Fauquier County seeks an increase to the state aid formula for public libraries. Funding available for public libraries currently falls short of the amount needed to fully fund the formula as defined by the Code of Virginia. Funds are needed, as more and more Virginians turn to their public libraries to bridge the gap between those with access to electronic resources and those without.

Registrar:

Fauquier County is concerned with managing the volume of voters and additional local expense resulting from recent “early/no excuse voting” legislation and urges the General Assembly to delay implementation for one year to an “off year” election year.

Fauquier County seeks support from the Virginia General Assembly to encourage the Virginia Department of Transportation to construct a traffic light at the intersection of U.S. 29 north and Mill Run Industrial Park. Fauquier County requests the General Assembly to encourage the Virginia Department of Transportation to realign Independence Avenue in Bealeton to be adjacent to Lafayette Lane with an all-way traffic signal in order to increase traffic safety, provide savings in school bus fuel and enhance transportation efficiency.

Broadband/wireless telecommunications

Fauquier County supports additional funding to expand broadband capabilities in underserved and rural areas including protecting and enhancing local authority to deploy or partner with others, public or private. Fauquier County strongly supports legislation increasing statewide penalties and restrictions on a driver’s use of technology, or other distraction while operating a motor vehicle. The numbers of accidents and deaths nationwide that are caused by distracted driving are increasing at alarming rates. In an effort to protect the health and safety of our citizens and public that travel by roads within our jurisdiction, the county further supports legislation that would provide clear authority for the county to adopt and enforce a local ordinance requiring drivers to pay full attention while driving. Fauquier County seeks the General Assembly to strongly encourage the Virginia Department of Health to promote harvested rainwater as potable for human consumption. Fauquier County strongly opposes any legislative attempts to undermine or limit legal and Constitutional gun ownership in the county and commonwealth of Virginia.

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In the meantime, the Fauquier County attorney’s office is researching the matter. “Is it legal, is it even worth taking up? That what Tracy is looking up,” Butler said, referring to County Deputy Attorney Tracy Gallehr. “We don’t want to start spit-balling until we know.” Butler said, “I personally support lawful gun ownership and the Second Amendment. I’m a lawful gun owner and user.” He noted Fauquier has a lot of hunters. Butler noted the supervisors this month approved a list of legislative priorities they want the Virginia General Assembly to consider. Among them is one stating “Fauquier County strongly opposes any legislative attempts to undermine or limit legal and constitutional gun ownership in the county and commonwealth of Virginia.”

Butler noted the county’s commonwealth’s attorney and sheriff are the constitutional officials tasked with law enforcement. “I support the Second Amendment. I take a constitutional oath,” said County Sheriff Bob Mosier. “This needs to go to state lawmakers. That’s where attention needs to be. I’m not a legislator. My position is clearly defined.” Supervisor Rick Gerhardt, R-Cedar Run, said he thought “the prudent thing to do is to wait to see what the General Assembly comes up with” in terms of new gun legislation. Supervisor Mary Leigh McDaniel, I-Marshall, Supervisor Holder Trumbo, R-Scott, and Supervisor Chris Granger, R-Center, couldn’t be reached for comment about the Second Amendment Sanctuary issue. Reach James Ivancic at jivancic@fauquier.com

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At an art class at Fauquier High in November 1963, student Frank Brown served as the model as instructor Mrs. David Johnson (at left) urged his classmates to sketch him, with particular focus on the accent formed by his shoulders.

In defense of snowflakes The recent brouhaha over a mandatory Veterans Day assembly at Fauquier High School led to laments that the children of today are delicate snowflakes who can’t face differing views or challenging ideas. After a conservative speaker upset some students with a presentation that included calls for pro-life policies under any circumstances, including rape and incest, parents flooded the school administration with angry calls and emails. The school division apologized. Parents have since been accused of being over-reactive and over-protective. Some folks charge concerned parents with trying to build a protective bubble around their children and suggest that students need to toughen up and deal with it. This has been a familiar complaint through the decades. Every generation, it seems, believes that the ones who come after are “too soft,” and don’t know how to handle hardship. They believe the youth of today are coddled and weak. We disagree. Today’s youth may not have to walk miles to school in the snow, but their generation is facing trauma and stress their parents and grandparents did not have to absorb. Academic achievement, harassment over social media, bullying, sexual abuse, addiction, school shootings, environmental disasters … these are all very real concerns our kids deal with every day. Most students don’t have to wake up at 5 and do farm chores before school, but the constant drum of chronic stress takes a toll that is often invisible. The threats come at a dizzying speed, and many students feel powerless against them.

According to the National Institutes of Health, nearly one in three of all adolescents between 13 and 18 will experience an anxiety disorder. These numbers have been rising steadily; between 2007 and 2012, anxiety disorders in children and teens went up 20 percent. The number of hospital admissions for suicidal teenagers has doubled in the last decade. Parents see the anxiety in their children and rush to help. Their protective instincts help to provide a safety net. When a child knows their parent has their back, it gives them a chance to take a breath before they face the world again. When I was a soccer coach teaching 8-year-olds, I remember the first practice of the season. One boy was hesitant to take the field with the other kids. A lot of parents would have pushed him into the – to him – scary melee. “Go on, get out there. What are you afraid of?” But this little boy’s mom let him spend most of that first practice on the sidelines, watching, working things out for himself. Before the final whistle blew, that little boy crawled out of his mom’s lap and joined the fray, as confident and joyous as the rest. She provided him the safe place to gather his strength and meet the challenge on his own terms. No judgement, just a silent refrain of “It’s OK, you got this. I’m here if you need me.” We have met scores of Fauquier’s so-called coddled youth. We’ve seen strength and passion, and a determination to stand up for what they believe in. This generation has a commitment to making the world a better place. If that makes them snowflakes, bring on the blizzard.

FAUQUIER FLASHBACKS: FROM THE FAUQUIER TIMES 75 Years Ago Nov. 30, 1944 Mrs. Robert Winmill was elected president of the Warrenton Garden Club at its annual meeting Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Arthur Charrington. Other officers chosen were Mrs. Alan Day, first vice president; Mrs. William Rowland, second vice president; Mrs. Alexander Duer, secretary-treasurer; and Mrs. Crosby Miller, recording secretary. Warrenton’s Christmas lights will be dark again this year. This is because of the war, according to H.H. Hulfish, president of the Warrenton Lions Club, which along with local merchants sponsors the street lighting in peacetime years. Lt. J. A. C. Keith and Lt. Kenneth Jenkins of Warrenton, both U.S. Navy Reserves, and Lt. Gilbert Cogdon, U.S. Navy Reserves, a former Warrentonian, are among officers recently selected for promotion to lieutenant commander. Maj. and Mrs. Roy S. Duhart have purchased from Mrs. M. J. O’Connell the two-story brick building on Culpeper Street occupied by the Virginia Electric & Power Co. office and the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. The building was formerly occupied by Gaines & Brother Bank. 50 Years Ago Nov. 27, 1969 Col. and Mrs. George Thornton Walker announced the engagement of their granddaughter, Miss Blair Thornton Walker to Robert de Treville Lawrence at a small party Nov. 21 at Wyndham, their home outside of Warrenton. Fauquier High School’s Harlequins romped about the auditorium

stage last weekend in a revival of a 35-year-old Broadway hit comedy, “You Can’t Take It With You.” The cast included Bill Muenster, Kathy Trenis, Mark Robinson, Charles Walker, Leigh Somerville, Bruce Noland, Vincent Day, Billy Ritchie, Lucy Shipe, Joey Groomes, Gordon Holt, Anda Clater, Curtis Smith, Barbara Bedingfield, Rhett Bickle, Steve Bartenstein, Lester Stevens and Sandra Riley. Radarman Seaman James S. Gulick Jr., USN, of Casanova, is serving aboard the amphibious transport ship USS Raleigh at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 25 Years Ago Nov. 30, 1994 The Piedmont Environmental Council won its greatest battle in defeating the Walt Disney Co., and it has many more ahead. But it will fight them without Robert Dennis as its president. The 58-year-old Dennis has announced his plans to step down after nearly 14 years of service. The new county treasurer will be a familiar face for many in Fauquier, now that a three-judge panel has appointed chief deputy treasurer Beth Ledgerton to take over for outgoing Bitsy Lineweaver on Dec. 19. She will complete the remaining year of Lineweaver’s term before voters elect a new treasurer next November. Liberty High School handed out its most valuable player awards for the fall season at its inaugural sports banquet Nov. 21. They were Mike Hayes (football), Terri Williams (basketball). Mark Swinger (golf) Aaron Barlow (boys’ cross country) Jennifer Modiszewski (girls’ cross country) and Sharon Barton (cheerleading). –Compiled by John T. Toler

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Fauquier supervisors should continue steady approach to rural land preservation Let us now praise consistency and competence. Even as our national and state governments fracture along increasingly bitter partisan lines, Fauquier’s continues its steady adherence to a remarkable electoral consensus: The people who live here like the way the county looks and the way its elected officials run it. Our 2019 local government elections were a non-event, with four of five sitting supervisors and a popular sheriff reelected without opposition, and the fifth supervisor returned to office in a landslide victory. Elsewhere, the entire Virginia General Assembly changed hands, and a divided Congress began impeachment proceedings against a polarizing President. There are good reasons for this anomaly. Fauquier has a long and repeatedly tested political tradition: a bipartisan dedication to the protection and preservation of the county’s rural

agricultural character and an almost unbroken series of competent and farsighted local leaders. Over the past 50 years, Fauquier’s supervisors have put into place a set of local laws whose largely consistent enforcement has enabled the county to avoid the political see-saws in zoning policy that have led to the explosive exurbanization of large parts of Loudoun and Prince William counties. Sometime after it takes office in January, the reelected Board of Supervisors will likely have to resolve a serious challenge to the consistency and competence of Fauquier’s zoning rules and their administration: Brian Roeder’s assertion that the zoning ordinance’s prohibition of hotels and restaurants in rural areas does not preclude his operation of a 42-room luxury hotel and a 50-seat restaurant on 50 acres of open countryside adjacent to his Barrel Oak Winery because

they are a “lodge” or “resort,” uses allowed in a different chapter of the same ordinance. The significance of this challenge lies in the fact that the conflicting chapters of the county’s rural zoning rules apply to a staggering 80 percent of Fauquier’s 660 square miles of land. If the BOS were to accept Roeder’s rationale, it would inject enduring uncertainty into future enforcement of the ban on hotels and restaurants in the vast expanse of Fauquier’s farmland. In anticipatory praise of the BOS’ consistency and competence, I trust that it will reinforce the county’s historical commitment to its current character by denying Roeder’s applications and rewriting its vague and hopelessly obsolete zoning rules to eliminate non-agricultural commercial enterprises in our precious rural domains.

LES CHEEK Warrenton

Simply put: the President has abused his power, but he won’t be indicted

Springs Road will be impacted by Clevengers Village development

“Why don’t you watch the impeachment proceedings? Every day brings a new revelation. It’s like reading a good novel.” My wife is an ardent viewer. My response is: “Why should I?” Forty-six years ago my Senate office was about 40 paces from the Watergate investigation hearing room. I would duck in and out. The cast of characters was writ large and colorful (Irvin, Rodino, Baker, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean, Liddy—never mind "deep throat”). Nixon was being slowly plucked clean. It was a real saga. Revelation after revelation, not knowing how it would play out. Then came the smoking gun — the 18-minute tape. And the doomed Nixon resigned before formal impeachment proceedings moved forward. The [2019] hearings were conducted largely by unknown representatives appointed to the House Intelligence Committee. Those testifying are, for the most part, earnest, dutiful bureaucrats whose overlapping narrative was convincing enough to move ahead with articles of impeachment. Despite their riveting testimony as to Trump's political scheme, Republicans call these civil servants part of an intramural “deep state.” They scoff at “hearsay” testimony. They complain that

I am concerned that the potential impact of Clevengers Village upon Springs Road (Va. 802) was not addressed in your recent article concerning this development (Fauquier Times, Nov. 20, “Clevengers Village approved; officials predict increased traffic”). Springs Road is already experiencing increased traffic to and from Culpeper, via U.S. 229. Clevengers

the whole show is a sham. That the president was well within his constitutional power. Why don’t I watch?  Because I know the story; it’s been told hundreds of times. These hearings are an effort to attract the nation to a somber truth-telling indictment of our president. Simply put: the president has abused his power. He tried to bribe the new Ukranian president to deliver dirt on the Bidens -- or promised arms would not be delivered. And, what’s more, he wouldn’t get his photo taken with POTUS. Pretty simple. Quid pro quo. In the end, the House committee will produce articles of impeachment. The House will approve them with no Republican crossovers and send them over to the Senate for trial. Not enough Republican senators will vote to indict. And the impeachment will end with the president's acquittal. The man, who is so guilty of abusing his office, gets to roar his innocence to his base (who, like me, has probably giving the hearings a pass lest they be exposed to troubling facts that might dull their adoration). The rest of us will just have to wait for November to challenge that acquittal.

JOHN SHERMAN Paris

Marshall Main Street project not a done deal The volunteer board of the Marshall Business & Residents Association would like to remind residents that the Marshall Main Street project can still be stopped or amended. Just today, Supervisors Chairman Chris Butler informed me that this project is not a "done deal" until the contracts are awarded; the date the Board of Supervisors vote whether to award contracts is Dec. 12 at 6:30 p.m. For information on the county's Main Street plans, see the Main Street tab on the MBRA

website:  www.MarshallVirginia. org. See www.ShapingMarshallTogether.com for an efficient lowcost alternative plan and a petition against the project.  For a fraction of $6 million and without narrowing Main Street, we can improve and beautify our entire Main Street with new streetlights, crosswalks and ADA accessibility while preserving our small businesses, our people and our community.

MARY WILKERSON MBRA president

Corner traffic will likely be an even greater impact on this rural road. Further, Springs Road is already just as difficult to drive as Leeds Manor Road (Va. 688), a concern mentioned in a companion article. Fauquier County and Warrenton traffic planners/road managers need to evaluate and prepare for this probable impact on Springs Road. JOHN CHAMBERS Warrenton

Addict’s story a tale of redemption I am writing in response to the article titled “Former addict shares lessons of hope,” published in your newspaper on Nov. 18. I found the piece to be very inspiring and interesting as it grasped the nature of one’s humility. Nathan’s [Mitchell] story is a special case in that it contradicts the common narratives of drug abusers and formerly incarcerated individuals in general. From what I gauged from the article, it seemed as though throughout Nathan’s life, he did not always feel a sense of human connection with others. His only real connection was with the drugs he was using. However, when he went to jail, this was the first time that he felt a connection to others and received an investment of love and

care from the people around him.  Oftentimes in our society, we do not value or appreciate the connections that we build with others. We are not always aware of how our community and the people around us have an effect on our actions and how we see the world. Even after Nathan’s release, he was still able to find a sense of solidarity amongst individuals who related to his experience and this was the most heart-warming part of the story.  Nathan’s story was truly a tale of redemption and how just when we want to give up on life, there is someone to remind us how beautiful and amazing it really is. Thank you for bringing this story to light and representing Fauquier County.

ANASTACIYA K. WHEELER Harrisonburg

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Model railroading relives yesteryear’s Christmases By John Hagarty

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Railroads built America. The embryonic beginning occurred with the first passenger and freight line established by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1827. Networks expanded like kudzu smothering a southern forest, inexorably expanding west and fulfilling the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, the belief American expansion was both justified and inevitable. Over the ensuing two centuries, a series of bankruptcies, consolidations and a decline in rail traffic due to auto, truck and air travel have seen railroads fade as a major transportation cog. Route mileage peaked at 254,251 miles in 1916, falling to 140,000 by 2018. But who hasn’t heard that “lonesome whistle blow” and been reminded of the legacy of the train and its contribution to the nation? The decline in rail traffic parallels the decline in model trains popular during the middle of the last century and a former centerpiece of Christmas in millions of homes. But toy train lovers still exist and may well be more passionate than their compatriots of more than a half-century ago. If you pursue the hobby today in the face of public disinterest, you might be on the leading edge of a revival. And if you’re not, who cares? Passion is always in fashion. Today’s model train industry is truncated but thriving in places like Fauquier and Prince William counties. One simply has to know where to look.

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Located at 46 Main St. across from the Warrenton post office, Virginia Hobbies, Etc. is owned and operated by Burrell Stindel, who has been the conductor behind his radio-controlled trains, planes and automobiles for 35 years. He moved to Warrenton in 2002 intending to sell only model trains but, “found out what the town needed was a more expansive hobby shop.

Model trains come in many different sizes that all have a scale reference to the real thing. The classic Lionel (middle) is 1/48. TIMES STAFF PHOTOS/ SAWYER GUINN

Today, we sell about 800 major items and some 10,000 products supporting those toys.” If you need a wheel bearing for a truck, a track pin for your choo-choo, a doll baby or model airplane kit, it’s in stock. The toy maven explains that the popularity of model railroading has faded over the decades because “we’ve now raised three generations of people who have never ridden on a train. There’s no connection today between the miniature and the real deal.” He acknowledges that movies have helped drive sales to the younger set for trains like the Hogwarts Express and Polar Express. But most of his sales are to folks in their 40s. Trains can range from $90 to $1,700 for a locomotive car depending on the quality and features a buyer is seeking. A complete set from a trusted manufacturer like Lionel sporting four cars, track, and the controller will run from $350 to $450. Stindel underscores that he typically matches prices on websites; it’s an important feature for parents purchasing a train set for the kids only to later realize they have questions about its operation and maintenance. His service doesn’t stop once the train is rolling down the tracks.

Toy Trains and Collectibles

Dan and Hope Danielson and their children and grandchildren run Toy Trains and Collectibles; their shop is dedicated to the world of model trains. Located at 7216 New Market Court in Manassas, Dan Danielson has been a model train buff for 65 years. You can try and stump him with a train question but why waste your time? He has a firm grip on the locomotive throttle. He and his wife are collectors with different interests. Hope focuses on trains from the 1900s to the early 1940s; Dan’s passion is collecting trains sold from the late ’40s to the late ’60s. The modern era of model railroading began in Model trains have been a holiday tradition for more than a century in America.

1970. “You can pay upwards of $8,000 for a mint condition pre-war locomotive.” In addition to antique trains for sale, the couple carries a wide variety of modern trains, tracks and accessories available in Standard, O, O-27, S, HO and N gauges. Their selections include respected manufacturers such as Lionel, MTH, Bachmann, Williams, Atlas, Athearn and Kato. Dan explains that track gauge is important when purchasing a train for a youngster. “You don’t want to buy an HO gauge train for a 7-yearold. It’s too fragile and they’ll get frustrated in assembling and running it. “Rather, buy an O gauge set that they are not going to easily break. Our passion here is to make sure we get the right train for the right-aged child so he or she can get the most fun and enjoyment out of it. Not just for Christmas, but year-round.” From Dec. 18 to the 22, Dan recommends that anyone interested in model trains drop by the Manassas Center for the Arts at 9419 Battle St. and check out its Winter Wonderland Model Train Show. Weekdays it’s open from 5 to 8 p.m.; weekend hours are from is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “It’s a stunning layout and it’s all Christmas-themed. It’s one dynamite train display.” Even better? It’s free. One cautionary tale if you are considering a leap into model trains. Rod Stewart, the British singer, and songwriter, spent 23 years building a massive model train and cityscape in the attic of his Los Angeles home. Often while on tour he requested a separate room and had the bed cleared so he could work on the project while on the road. Might that have inspired his 1989 hit “Downtown Train?” For those who want to leap from the miniature to full-blown, consider an overnight jaunt to Elkins, West Virginia, to hop aboard the seriously real Polar Express. The fun run unfolds each November and December and recreates the iconic movie in real-time. For information and tickets visit mountainrailwv.com/tour/polar-express. If model railroading catches your imagination, no need to wander alone onto the tracks. In addition to the two valued shops in our area, stop by the National Model Railroad Association at www.nmra.org. Learn all there is to know about choo-chooing before donning your striped engineer’s cap. All aboard! For more business and wine tales, visit www. hagarty-on-wine.com

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Handmade, hard to find items are in Remington Snake Oak Farm Store opens for business By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer

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Snake Oak Farm Store is on Main Street in Remington. It used to be town hall. Erika Warner co-owns Snake Oak Farm Store with her husband, Christian. They sell unique gift items locally and regionally made from the store they opened in October.

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The safe inside and the time capsule outside are still there, but other signs that the Snake Oak Farm Store was once the town hall of Remington are gone. Dr. Erika Warner, a chiropractor, and her husband, Christian, renovated the space themselves with the help of extended family to create a gift shop stocked with handmade items in the front area and a chiropractic treatment room in the rear. Office space separates the two. Warner said she wanted to sell items that shoppers typically wouldn’t find somewhere else. So, on her shelves and tables are such things as vegan soap – made without lard – and oil-based salve that’s good as an anti-itch treatment. Snake Oak also carries regionally produced items such as Old Rag Mountain candles; candleholders, wine racks, cutting boards and other woodworking items made by Doug Linton; knitting items made by Warner’s mother and copper bracelets and rings made by her dad, and Erin’s Elderberry Syrup made in Floyd, Virginia. Also sold are beeswax candles, handmade washcloths, lip balm and Warner’s own goose egg soap. The latter uses the eggs of geese on the Warner farm. The eggs are emptied, sanitized then filled with a handmade soap. To use it, crack the egg and peel to reveal the soap inside. “We’re trying to keep it very Virginia but also local,” Warner said. A product list and photos can be seen on the website at snakeoakfarm.com and also on the Instagram account at @snakeoakfarm. Christian Warner also churns out gift cards and note cards using an 1890 printing press that he acquired and set up in what used to be the town jail that sits just outside their business’s back door. The Warners bought the former town hall building at 203 E. Main St. last spring for $115,000 and spent another $18,000 on renovations that included fresh paint and a dropped ceiling. The building was formerly a bank – which explains the walk-in safe – before town government used it. Town offices are in a new building shared with a DMV Select service a few doors away at 105 E. Main St. “We were going by and saw that the building was for sale. We had been in here before,” said Warner. Seeing the “For Sale” sign got them to thinking. She had been considering opening a chiropractic office. The old town hall space was big enough for her to both have an office and a retail shop. The Warners had been selling flowers, seasonal herbs, soap and salves at a farmers market in Culpeper. Opening a shop in Remington also make it possible to “invest in Remington. We’ve lived here for six

Christian Warner shows how he makes note cards and greeting cards using a printing press dating to 1890. years and have really fallen in love with the town,” Warner said. “We both talked about starting a business, but it wasn’t until the building came up for sale that we started the groundwork” to make it happen, Christian Warner said. “We were already doing things that we are good at,” Warner said, she in chiropractic medicine and together they have business experience. Christian Warner is a business consultant for 7-Eleven stores. “We like to be involved in multiple things,” Warner explained. She plans to offer flower arranging workshops at the shop in the spring. The Warners grow flowers at their farm outside Remington and sell them for weddings and local events. At the farm store, Christian Warner “helps out where needed and makes sure I don’t spend too much money,” said Warner. Her mom also helps out at the store, often working behind the counter tallying up purchases. “A lady came in saying ‘I’m not buying anything’ and waving her hands but left with $200 of purchases,” said Melissa Janssen, Warner’s mother. Even though the farm store is only open from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, business has been good, Warner said. “We were really packed the first day,” which was Oct. 12, the day of the Remington Fall Festival, Warner said. “We’ve had repeat customers twice since then and townspeople are trickling in.” She’s also gotten several new chiropractic patients through word of mouth. The Warners hope they are part of a revival of downtown Remington, which still has some empty storefronts.

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The name Snake Oak, by the way, came about after the Warners discovered that a big oak tree in the front yard of their farm was full of black snakes. “So many they would leave their skins hanging from the tree branches like tinsel,” said Warner. Reach James Ivancic at jivancic@ fauquier.com.

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‘THE BEST TEAM I EVER PLAYED ON’

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Liberty lost to Tuscarora 52-22 last Friday in the Class 4 Region C semifinals to finish 11-1. A host of legendary Eagles are graduating, including Tre’Von White and Justin Lawson. But there’s plenty of talent back as Dylan Bailey, Jordan Woodson, Mason Gay, Jordan Hicks, Wyatt Hicks, Colby Lewis and A.J. Johnson return.

Liberty finishes 11-1 after 52-22 loss to Tuscarora in region semifinals By Josh Dorsey

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The outcome was evident in the faces of the Liberty Eagles around 9 p.m. They wore somber, glossed-over looks, the result of a sobering 52-22 loss to Tuscarora in Friday’s Class 4 Region C semifinal in Bealeton. Despite being overwhelmed by the potent Huskies in the second half, the Eagles stood tall and proud as they walked over to salute Liberty’s band one last time. Their brilliant season was finally over at 11-1 but the memories remain sweet. “I love this team. They did a great job all 12 games. I couldn’t be more proud of them,” said first-year coach Travis Buzzo. The young coach, known for his meticulous planning, is not a procrastinator, but he was able to postpone his first loss until the end of November. While Liberty enjoyed the home field Friday, Tuscarora (11-1) came in focused, hungry and powerful. Tuscarora had not lost since a 28-26 defeat in its opening game to Dulles District champion Broad Run (12-0), who the Huskies face in the region final Friday at 1 p.m. at Broad Run.

“I love this team. They did a great job all 12 games. I couldn’t be more proud of them.” COACH TRAVIS BUZZO

“We talked all week about how Liberty were something that we are not, and that was undefeated,” Tuscarora coach Brandon Wheelbarger said. “Coach Buzzo has done a fantastic job of having them grit it out and find ways to win.” The 2019 Eagles finished as one of only four Liberty teams to end a season with one loss, joining the teams from 2004 (10-1), 2003 (11-1) and 2001 (11-1). “This is the best team I have ever played on,” senior Tre’Von White said. “Not just record. The kids on it are great. I would never have wanted to play for another high school.” Despite the lopsided final score, the Eagles stood toe to toe against a monstrous, fast, strong and wellcoached Huskies team. The Eagles trailed only 17-16 at halftime, but Tuscarora scored three third quarter TDs to win going away. The Huskies jumped on top early by displaying the nearly unstoppable

GREAT SEASON, EAGLES

Liberty returned to dominance after missing the playoffs in 2018. A look at Liberty’s last 10 years: 2010: 10-2* 2011: 10-3* 2012: 7-5* 2013: 7-5* 2014: 12-2* 2015: 6-5* 2016: 4-6 2017: 9-3* 2018: 5-5 2019: 11-1* *Made playoffs run-pass option skills of quarterback Ethan Gick. Tuscarora, which held six opponents to fewer than eight points in a game, stuffed Liberty on a fourth-down-conversion attempt on the game’s first possesion. Soon the mobile Gick rumbled his team into scoring position. Kicker Max Skirkanich connected on a 38yard field goal to give the Huskies a lead they never relinquished. Tuscarora then stifled the Eagles’ second drive, leading to Gick scoring on a 1-yard run for an early 10-0 lead. After taking two early punches from the Huskies, Liberty got back

in the game thanks to a masterfully-orchestrated drive from junior quarterback Dylan Bailey. The Eagles drove deep into Tuscarora territory where Bailey threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Tre’Von White on a short out pattern to the left side. Bailey then rolled out and hit Justin Lawson for a two-point conversion to narrow the deficit to 10-8 early in the second quarter. As usual, the Tuscarora offense answered as sophomore running back Bryce Duke surged for 60 yards on four carries to set up Gick with a 2-yard TD run to make it 17-8. The Eagles failed on their next drive but soon forced Tuscarora’s first punt of the night. Unfortunately, the quality kick pinned them just outside the 1-yard line. Facing a third-and-long with his heels on the edge of the goal line, Bailey unleashed a pass deep down the right sideline that drifted over the heads of Tuscarora defenders and into the arms of Lawson, who ran nearly 55 yards all alone up the sideline for an amazing 97-yard TD. “I thought it was going to be picked off, but it went right past him and dropped right into my hands,” said Lawson, who caught four passSee LIBERTY, page 16

Fauquier Times | www.fauquier.com | November 27, 2019

FAUQUIER GIRLS BASKETBALL PREVIEW

FALCON GIRLS PREPARE FOR LIFTOFF After years of hardship, Fauquier girls have worked hard, could turn heads By Fred Hodge

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Tia Minor anchors one of the most promising Falcon teams in years. She is Fauquier’s lone senior and was a second team allNorthwestern District performer last season.

Brian Foddrell is tired of seeing the Fauquier girls basketball as a doormat. In his second year atop the program, Foddrell hopes his players will be able to alter that long-held image this season. “I think for the first time in a while, we will be recognized in our district,” Foddrell said last week. “Instead of being the Fauquier where people just came in and run all over the scoreboard because we didn’t have enough players or other things.” After a 5-14 season last winter, Foddrell is taking a upbeat tone. “I think this year we actually will start to see that change a little bit.” Normally, a program’s quick turnaround is reliant on a bevy of upperclassmen. Not so with the Falcons, who have just one senior and one junior on the 11-girl team. Fauquier has four sophomores who earned varsity letters as freshmen. “Last year, the girls were inexperienced, and they got some experience in a rough way,” Foddrell said. But those travails inspired the girls to work diligently over the next nine months. They played in summer and fall leagues and worked with a private trainer to gain skills and strength. “The difference I see from last year to this season is the confidence level is a lot higher,” Foddrell said. Tia Minor is the senior, back for her fourth season on the varsity. She was a second-team all-Northwestern District choice last winter as the team’s leading scorer. The junior is Emma Carter, who played as a freshman and returns after swimming last winter. Payton Swart, Skyler Furr, Makyala Foddrell and Skye Corum are sophomores who

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Coach: Brian Foddrell (second year) Last year’s record: 5-14 Early games: Dec. 2 at Skyline; Dec. 4 at Rappahannock County; Dec. 9 HOME vs. Rappahannock County; Dec. 12 at James Wood Returning varsity players: Tia Minor, Sr.; Makayla Foddrell, Soph.; Payton Swart, Soph.; Skyler Furr, Soph.; Skye Corum, Soph.; Carly McMurphy, Soph. started most games last season. Classmate Carly McMurphy will be an asset on defense, Foddrell said. Sophomore Bhavika Regeti missed last season with a knee injury, but her size will be a big positive for the Falcons. In fact, height is abundant, and the Falcons were successful on the offensive boards in last week’s scrimmage versus Highland. “Once a person shoots the ball, we are attacking the backboard. We go over that a lot in practice,” Foddrell noted. The Falcons also were aggressive driving to the basket, which helped to compensate for some anemic outside shooting. “We had a more aggressive approach offensively. We weren’t just standing around,” a pleased Foddrell said. Sophomore Caroline Thompson and freshmen Mikayla Gilmore and Shannon Sellers complete the team. Ƒoddrell said the freshmen may see junior varsity time as well depending on the opponent. Fauquier opens Monday, Dec. 2 at Skyline before traveling to Rappahannock County Dec. 4. The first home game is Monday, Dec. 9 vs. Rappahannock. Fauquier has enough girls to field a small junior varsity after many years without. The JV players are Gilmore, Sellers, Katie Harrington, Taylor Knighting, Haley Ponn, Violett Scribner, Valle de Pablo-Blanco, Kamran Lewis and Takara Moore.

Eagles eliminated in region semis See LIBERTY, page 16 es for 169 yards. “There was zero chance they were going to catch me.” After Mason Gay’s two-point conversion run the Eagles trailed 17-16 with three minutes left in the first half. Tuscarora tried to extend its lead before halftime, but White made a leaping interception in the corner of the end zone, leaving the score 17-16 at halftime. “On film I saw that whenever they had one-on-one they went to the fade, so I was expecting it,” White said of his interception. Unfortunately for Liberty, the Huskies were relentless in the second half. Duke scored an early touchdown from 16 yards out to extend the Tuscarora lead to 24-16. Then he added three more rushing touchdowns on 149 yards, giving the Huskies 29 unanswered points. Gick rushed for 134 yards with three touchdowns,

and he passed for 208 yards and a touchdown. “We went and made some adjustments offensively and defensively,” Wheelbarger said of the second half. “We pride ourselves on being a third quarter team. Our coaching staff is phenomenal with the amount of film and prep that they do. We have a second, third and fourth plan.” Liberty finally responded when White caught another of Bailey’s three touchdown passes with 7:22 remaining, but that was too late for the Eagles to save their season. Duke put the nail in the coffin with a final 2-yard touchdown run in the final four minutes. Liberty was bidding to reach the region final for the first time since 2014, when they defeated Jefferson Forest 35-28 and made the state semis for the fourth time in school history. “It hurts,” White said of the loss. “At least I can say I ended my senior year with one loss.”

Fauquier Times | www.fauquier.com | November 27, 2019

KETTLE RUN GIRLS BASKETBALL PREVIEW

‘WE HAVE A GREAT CORE BACK’ Inside presence, versatility look like Cougars’ strengths By Fred Hodge

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Here’s a paradox for you. The Cougars are young, yet they’re one of Kettle Run’s most experienced girls basketball teams in years. Coach Ellen Allen has only one senior on her 10-girl squad, but there three returning juniors and three sophomores who played as freshmen, giving her six girls with varsity credentials. “We have a great core back from last year’s team. We’re young, but we do have experience,” said Allen, whose squad opens Monday, Dec. 2 at home against Manassas Park. Allen expects her team should be improved after last year’s 3-20 campaign, citing progress the veterans have made along several fronts. This winter’s workouts started at a higher plane than in her previous three seasons. “We’re moving forward. We are stronger physically after being in the weight room in a regimented off-season program,” said Allen. Allen also is impressed with the developing chemistry of the returnees and three varsity newcomers.

MEET THE COUGARS

Coach: Ellen Allen (fourth year) Last season’s record: 3-20 Early games: Dec. 2 HOME vs. Manassas Park; Dec. 4 at Handley; Dec. 5 at Brentsville; Dec. 10 at Millbrook Returning varsity players: Rachel Schwind, Sr.; Faith Schafer, Jr.; Maddy Edwards, Jr.; Mary Maxwell, Jr.; Ashley Hume, Soph.; Emma Humphries, Soph.; Madison Canterbury, Soph. “I think we will play together as a team. They work hard, and [those elements] will make us better all the way around.” Post player Rachel Schwind is back for her third varsity season and is the lone senior. Schwind and sophomore Emma Humphries give the Cougars an inside presence. Kettle Run also has size and versatility with junior Faith Schafer and sophomore Ashley Hume. Both can play multiple positions on the perimeter and can move inside if needed. “Both are tall and lanky and run the

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Kettle Run is expecting much more girls basketball success this winter. Coach Ellen Allen has a solid cast of returnees as the Cougars practice for their Monday (Dec. 2) opener at home against Manassas Park. floor well,” Allen said. Junior Mary Maxwell also demonstrated versatility a year ago, as did sophomore Madison Canterbury. Junior Maddy Powers returns as the floor leader and has improved her skill set. “Maddy is doing some good things at the point guard spot,” Allen said. Newcomers will handle the other guard duties. Sophomore Katie Kuzma moves up after a year on the junior varsity team, and freshmen Katie Bloom and Meg Harkness fill out the roster. Kettle Run has struggled offensively in recent seasons, but offseason work should improve their

shooting. Plus, the team’s overall athletic ability and tough defense will create scoring chances. The district favorites are expected to be James Wood and Millbrook. Kettle Run has a heavy pre-Christmas schedule with eight games before the holiday. The Cougars meet league foes Handley, Millbrook, Liberty and James Wood during that span. The junior varsity team includes Morgan Mullins, Maddy Garretson, Charlotte Bloom, Gracie Garretson, Becca Harkness, Nora Whetzel, Hannah Carlson, Simone Tapscott, Alissa Sullivan, Kenison McEwen, Bethany Norman and Jada Flemmings.

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LIBERTY GIRLS BASKETBALL PREVIEW

Offseason training could help Eagles soar By Fred Hodge

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Senior Tiffany Shull is viewed as one of Liberty’s go-to players. The Eagles debut Dec. 3 at home against Brentsville.

British writer and teacher Amelia Barr once wrote, “It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.” Liberty girls basketball coach Quynh Nguyen is emphasizing that theme with three simple teachings for her kids. She wants them to “Get better every day. Know your role. Do your job.” Liberty finished last season on a pronounced upswing by winning five of its last nine games to go 6-18 as solid chemistry developed after a 1-14 start. Nguyen hopes to maintain that momentum despite some changes. Gone is leading scorer, quality rebounder and four-year letterman Maggie Williams, now at NCAA Division II Davis & Elkins in West Virginia and post Kinsley Lewis, now at Radford. Senior Tiffany Shull and junior Jazzmin White headline a core of six returnees that should lead the way this season. “The leadership from our returners has definitely made the transition easier for our newcomers,” Nguyen said. “I emphasize that anyone is able to be a leader on our team, whether verbally or by example. They can set the standards and lead others.” Liberty opens Tuesday, Dec. 3 at home against Brentsville, then journeys to North Stafford on Dec. 6. Nguyen was pleased with her girls’ offseason improvement. Many were so dedicated they kept working only a week or two after last season ended. Several played travel basketball. Liberty also competed in summer and fall leagues. Dedication in the weight room under Ben Defibaugh has helped with increased strength, speed

MEET THE EAGLES

Coach: Quynh Nguyen (second year) Last year’s record: 6-18 Early games: Dec. 3 HOME vs. Brentsville; Dec. 6 at North Stafford; Dec. 10 HOME vs. Handley; Dec. 11 at Park View Returning varsity players: Tiffany Shull, Sr.; Aleya Jenkins, Sr.; Kaitlyn Strayer, Sr.; Mackenzie Willis, Sr.; Jewel Reynolds, Sr. Jazzmin White, Jr. and size, and their skills are improved. “They have worked hard on ball handling and the ability knock down shots,” Nguyen said. “Our effort is always good. That is one of the best things about this team.” Tiffany Shull, a 6-footer, and junior Jazzmin White were season-long starters last year. The nucleus also includes seniors Aleya Jenkins, Kaitlyn Strayer, Mackenzie Wilis and Jewel Reynolds. Senior post Makenzie Teed (6-1) returns after a year away from the program. The remaining varsity newcomers include junior Keely Crane, sophomores Emma Costanzo, Allison Corvin and Robin Morton. Freshmen Brianna Gutierrez and Lauren Leatherman join the crew. “The new girls give us some quickness, ball handling and depth at the guard position,” Nguyen said. “We won’t rely so heavily on the low post anymore. I think we will have a balanced attack this year.” Emalea Novlan, Tanaya O’Bannion, Makala Sawyer, Lillie Gouldthorpe, Laila Spottedcrow, Salem Sifford, Jocelyn Budd, Zahriah Bumbrey and Amara Collins comprise the junior varsity unit.

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HORSE BRIEFS directors, NSA president Guy Torsilieri and vicepresident Doug Fout, an active trainer based in The Plains, were elected to new terms. New are Sean Clancy, an owner and bloodstock agent from Middleburg; Jeff Lehew, an owner from Front Royal; and Tom Collins. The board comprises 15 members, with five elected each year to three-year terms.

DEC. 30 CLINIC

Attend session in Amissville Britta Johnston will conduct a clinic on training and care for competition horses Dec. 30 at Mountain Vista in Amissville. Horse experience is not required for the unmounted workshop open to those ages 7-22. Tickets must be purchased by Dec. 23. Visit facebook.com/events/526685271521532 to sign up.

TRAIL RIDE

Rappahannock hosts Nov. 29 event The Rappahannock Hunt hosts their annual holiday trail ride and chili cookoff Friday, Nov. 29 at 11 a.m. at Pine Rock in Reva. Visit rappahannockhunt.com.

EHV-1 CONFIRMED

Horse put down in Blacksburg On Nov. 17, a neurologic horse was admitted to the Virginia Tech veterinary hospital in Blacksburg. The horse’s health deteriorated, and it was euthanized the next day. A test for Equine Herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) was confirmed positive on Nov. 20. All exposed horses at the horse hospital were quarantined and are being monitored. The farm where the sick horse lived is also under quarantine. EHV-1 is a virus that is present in the environment and found in most horses all over the world. Horses typically are exposed to the virus at a young age with no serious side effects. Vaccines are sold for EHV-1 and the more common EHV-4, which is a minor, respiratory strain. Horse owners with concerns should contact their veterinarian.

ASHLAND BASSETS

Photos run in Washington Post Local photographer Julie McGuire’s work following Warrenton’s own Ashland Bassets foot pack was featured on last week’s Washington Post photo blog. Find the work at washingtonpost.com/photography

BOOK SIGNING

Rita Mae Brown coming to Warrenton Dec. 4 Writer Rita Mae Brown will sign copies of her latest book in the “Sister Jane” series, titled “Scarlet Fever,” on Wednesday, Dec. 4 from 6-9 p.m. at Horse Country Saddlery in Warrenton. Call 540-347-3141 for details.

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At Saturday’s Orange County Hounds meet at Kinross, joint-master John Coles was joined by daughter Sloane as the pack headed off to first covert.

STEEPLECHASE BOARD

New officials elected The National Steeplechase Association elected five members to the board of directors at its annual meeting Nov. 20 in Fair Hill, Maryland. Two current

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Caroling on horseback in Clifton The Clifton Horse Society hosts their annual mounted caroling through the village of Clifton on Dec. 7. Riders will take part in the town parade at 12 p.m. Contact dressagegirl1993@yahoo.com to register.

RIDEFAUQUIER PARTY

Warrenton event is Dec. 22 RideFauquier members, family and friends are invited to the club’s Dec. 22 holiday party at Molon Lave Vineyards in Warrenton. The free event runs 2-5 p.m. Visit ridefauquier.com.

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Fauquier Health Weight Loss Center offers bariatric procedures Sleeve surgery available locally for the first time By Robin Earl

She said her daughter is thrilled Times Staff Writer that her mom will be able to be more active. “It has stopped me from Dr. Elizabeth Alexandra Zubo- doing things with my family. It’s wicz, board certified in general sur- enough to depress anyone.” gery, performed the first bariatric Poston said she is grateful Zubowsurgery procedure at Fauquier Hos- izc landed in Warrenton. “Until now, pital Oct. 17. Two more patients are if people needed this kind of surgery, queuing up for the surgery soon, and they’d have to go into the city,” she almost 200 people have filled out said. “Dr. Zubowicz is a great doconline assessments and expressed tor, and she has a good heart.” interest in learning more. Zubowicz, a physician with Lisa Poston, Zubowicz’s first the Drs. Farr, Wampler, Henson, Warrenton patient, is recovering Dougherty, Brown & Zubowicz well. She’s adjusting easily to eat- general surgery practice at 432 ing much less at a sitting and her Hospital Drive in Warrenton, has stomach area is healing nicely. been working in bariatrics for 10 She said, “Your body will let you years, most recently with MedStar know if you’ve overdone it. And Washington Hospital Center in I have a team to help me if I have Washington, D.C. She is currentany issues.” ly leading the team The 52-year-old at the newly develMiddleburg resident “Until now, if oped Fauquier Health said she has about people needed Weight Loss Center, 100 pounds to lose, this kind of located at 253 Veterweight that she put on surgery, they’d ans Drive, Suite 205, when she gave birth in Warrenton. to her daughter 11 have to go into She said that about the city,” years ago. 80 percent of the barFor years now, Posiatric surgeries she ton has suffered from LISA POSTON performs are what’s a multitude of orthoknown as sleeve surpedic problems. She’s had four gery. The procedure removes about back surgeries, two neck surgeries 80 percent of the stomach, leavand knee replacements. “I’m walking a sleeve-shaped organ. Sleeve ing around with some hardware,” surgery effectively restricts the she admitted. amount of food a person can eat at Poston said that she has really one time, said Zubowicz. It’s a perstruggled the last five years and has manent solution, though the surbeen unable to lose the weight. She geon said the stomach does stretch is hoping when the pounds drop off, a little over time. she’ll get some relief from the nagSleeve surgery is described as ging orthopedic issues. minimally invasive; four incisions

Teaming up with the Wellness Center Fauquier Health Wellness Center supervisor Taylor Birley explained that the facility is working with the Fauquier Health Weight Loss Center to prepare bariatric surgery patients for a lifestyle that includes exercise. The Wellness Center is offering a bariatric surgery package that includes a 12-week membership with three one-hour personal training sessions. A health history and assessment with an exercise physiologist is part of the plan. Birley said the program represents a $450 value but is discounted to $240 for weight-loss surgery patients. “We’ll find out where they are at and design a program just for them,” said Birley. She said that several of the classes at the Wellness Center would be appropriate for bariatric patients just starting out on an exercise rou-

tine. The Golden Tone, gentle yoga and tai chi classes can be done seated, for instance. Birley admits that people may be intimidated at TAYLOR BIRLEY a gym for the first time. The equipment may be unfamiliar and they may be self-conscious. She said the goal at the Wellness Center is to get people comfortable with exercise, to focus on movement that they can continue in their daily lives. Bariatric surgeon Dr. Elizabeth Alexandra Zubowicz said, for surgery patients, “exercise is not a requirement by insurance but we strongly encourage it both pre and post op.”

Restoring health

Weight-related medical issues that can improve after bariatric surgery, according to bariatric surgeon Dr. Elizabeth Alexandra Zubowicz: Diabetes High blood pressure Sleep apnea High cholesterol Joint and back pain Infertility Hypothyroidism (less than a centimeter each) are made in the upper abdomen. The surgery itself is done laparoscopically. “Patients may feel something akin to bad heartburn for about 48 hours, and there is some swelling.” A patient may lose 10 to 20 pounds within the first few weeks, said Lubowicz, “It depends how much they have to lose.” She said that she has worked with 1,000-pound patients who lost 30 to 40 pounds during the first few weeks. Those who have less to lose will drop pounds more slowly. On average, she said, patients lose 60 to 70 percent of their excess weight in the first year, and 80 percent of patients have kept the weight off for five or more years. She added, “Even those who have regained the weight are able to stay off their medications. Patients who have had weight loss surgery have found that it helps with co-morbidities. They have statistically longer lives.”

Good candidates for surgery

Zubowicz described a typical successful patient. First of all, she said, the person has to come in on

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Dr. Elizabeth Alexandra Zubowicz, bariatric surgeon their own, ready to make a change. He or she will have tried lots of other methods to lose weight, and they will have experienced weight-related medical issues. Those considered for surgery should have a BMI of 40 or above, or a BMI over 35 plus two weight-related medical issues. So far in Fauquier, most of those interested in the surgery are in their 50s or older, said Zubowicz. When she worked in D.C., patients were more often in their 30s or 40s. “We are trying to get patients to consider surgery when they are younger so they can avoid the illnesses that come with obesity.” When it comes to bariatric surgery, smokers are less likely to achieve the results they are after. Smoking drastically increases the risk of complications, said Lubowicz. Some potential patients are ill enough that they can’t be cleared to have anesthesia. Others may have untreated mental health issues that make them poor candidates for the surgery. See WEIGHT LOSS, page 22

The surgical weight loss process Attend a support group to assess Because bariatric surgery requires lifestyle changes in order for it to be successful, these preparatory steps are necessary. The pre-surgery process takes between three and six months. Are you a candidate? Attend a seminar or make an appointment with a bariatric surgeon for an evaluation. Determine the cost: Check with your insurance company to check benefits and request an estimate for hospital and surgical costs. Meet the team: Meet with bariatric surgeon and registered dietitian to review diet history, behaviors and nutritional guidelines. Prepare for surgery: Complete medically supervised diet. Testing and clearances: Complete physical exam, lab work, sleep study, psychological evaluation.

readiness for surgery. Get insurance authorization: Allow at least 30 days for authorization. Once received, schedule surgery. Prepare for surgery: Attend preop visit 10 to 14 days before surgery. Meet with nurse and anesthesiologist; complete labs, EKG and chest X-ray if necessary. Meet with surgeon and dietitian. Surgery: Plan to spend at least one night in the hospital. Follow-up: Meet with surgeon, dietitian to evaluate diet, vitamins, exercise plan. In the weeks after surgery: Follow-up appointments are usually scheduled for one, three, six, nine and 12 months after surgery. Attend monthly support group meetings.

Source: Fauquier Health Weight Loss Center

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At what age should a person stop driving? The risk of motor-vehicle crashes is higher among teens aged 16 to 19 than among any other age group. And yet, many people think getting old is a good reason to stop driving. But, what does that actually mean? What age? We all age differently. For this reason, there is no way to set one age when everyone should stop driving. It is true our bodies change with the aging process and therefore it makes sense to be aware of how these changes might affect one’s ability to drive. The National Institute on Aging offers some advice. As we age, our joints may get stiff, and our muscles may weaken. Arthritis, which is common among older adults, might affect the ability to drive. These changes can make it harder to turn your head to look back, turn the steering wheel quickly, or brake safely.

Safe driving tips:

• See your doctor if pain, stiffness or arthritis seem to get in the way of your driving. • If possible, drive a car with automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes and large mirrors. • Be physically active or exercise to keep and even improve your strength and flexibility. • Think about getting hand controls for both the gas and brake pedals if you have leg problems. Eyesight can change as we get older. It might be harder to see peo-

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ELLEN PHIPPS ple, things and movement outside your direct line of sight. It may take longer to read street or traffic signs or even recognize familiar places. At night, you may have trouble seeing things clearly. Glare from oncoming headlights or streetlights can be a problem. Depending on the time of the day, the sun might be blinding. Eye diseases, such as glaucoma, cataracts and macular degeneration, as well as some medicines, can also cause vision problems.

Safe driving tips:

• If you are 65 or older, see your eye doctor every year. Ask if there are ways to improve your eyesight. • If you need glasses or contact lenses to see far away while driving, make sure your prescription is upto-date and correct. Always wear them when you are driving. • Cut back on or stop driving at night if you have trouble seeing in the dark. Try to avoid driving during sunrise and sunset, when the sun can be directly in your line of vision.

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For nearly a century, your health has been our priority. It will be for the next century, too. That’s why we’re continuing to work hard to provide you with high quality care close to home. You’ll see it in new programs and expanded services designed to meet your unique needs. You’ll feel it in advanced technology and facility upgrades to give you the best experience possible. And you’ll know it by our steadfast commitment to creating a health system our community can count on today and every day.

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As we get older, our hearing can change, making it harder to notice horns, sirens or even noises coming from our own car. Hearing loss can be a problem because these sounds warn you when you may need to pull over or get out of the way.

Safe driving tips:

• Have your hearing checked at least every three years after age 50. • Discuss concerns you have about hearing with your doctor. There may be things that can help. • Try to keep the inside of the car as quiet as possible while driving. • So, how do you know if you should stop driving? To help decide, ask yourself: • Do other drivers often honk at me? • Have I had some accidents, even if they were only “fender benders”? • Do I get lost, even on roads I know? • Do cars or people walking seem to appear out of nowhere? • Do I get distracted while driving? • Have family, friends, or my doctor said they’re worried about my driving? • Am I driving less these days because I’m not as sure about my driving as I used to be? • Do I have trouble staying in my lane? • Do I have trouble moving my foot between the gas and the brake pedals, or do I sometimes confuse the two? • Have I been pulled over by a police officer about my driving? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, it may be time to talk with your doctor about driving or have a driving assessment.

Perhaps you are worried you won’t be able to do the things you want and need to do if you stop driving? Many people have this concern, but there may be more ways to get around than you think. For example, in Planning District 9, (Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, Orange, Rappahannock) there is a program called, FAMS (Foothills Area Mobility System). FAMS manages several different initiatives aimed at expanding community transit options, providing support to members of the community who are elderly and/or disabled; and sharing transportation knowledge and resources. For more information call FAMS at 540-829-5300.

Upcoming Caregivers Workshop

Aging Together connects people with resources and communities to improve quality of life as we age. A Caregivers Workshop will be held in December. The workshop will connect caregivers to local resources and provide information on a variety of topics such as financial planning, strategies for caregiving, communication strategies for caregivers of persons living with dementia and more. The workshop is free and open to the public. If you go Aging Together Caregivers Workshop Thursday, Dec. 5 10 a.m. to noon Fauquier Health Hospital (Sycamore Room) 500 Hospital Drive, Warrenton RSVP to Ellen Phipps at ephipps@agingtogether.org

Sleeve surgery available locally for the first time See WEIGHT LOSS, page 21 A psychological evaluation is part of the surgery prep, which all told is a three- to six-month process. Lubowicz also said that early on, a dietary review allows a dietitian to counsel the patient on healthy eating so they can adjust to that lifestyle change before the surgery. The recommended diet for patients is high-protein (“It fills you up and is good for healing,” said Zubowicz.), low-fat and low-carb. “Exercise is absolutely crucial,” said Zubowicz. The research says that exercise is actually not a great method for weight loss, but she said, “it’s crucial for weight maintenance.” The surgeon said that although dedicated exercise is important for lots of reasons, “people who are physically active during the course of their day are more

successful.” Gastric bypass surgery, another bariatric procedure, will not be done at Fauquier Hospital until the hospital acquires a robot that can assist with that surgery. Zubowicz said gastric bypass also reduces the size of the stomach, but connects the stomach more directly to the small intestines via a tube. The food goes directly to the small intestines, where the absorption process begins. Zubowicz said that gastric bypass patients are at a greater risk for malnutrition, so monitoring is important. “In addition to restricting the size of the stomach, it’s a malabsorption procedure,” she said. For either surgery, caffeine and alcohol are best avoided, especially for the first six months to a year. Reach Robin Earl at rearl@fauquier.com

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Middleburg trots out its finest

PHOTO BY BESTSY BURKE PARKER

The Middleburg Hunt Review is always eagerly anticipated as riders, horses and hounds parade through town. A timely snowfall can be an added attraction.

Christmas in Middleburg will be Dec. 7 Staff Reports The historic village of Middleburg, located in the heart of Virginia’s horse country, is well known for its bucolic countryside, unique shopping, fine dining and luxurious accommodations. Each year on the first Saturday in December, the village hosts its annual holiday cel-

ebration, Christmas in Middleburg. The traditional Christmas festivities, with the backdrop of a classic hunt country village have become a family tradition and essential part of the spirit of Christmas for small children, world travelers and visitors from far and wide. Christmas in Middleburg is a wonderful community event. Festivities begin at 8 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 7, with Breakfast with Santa and a silent auction at the Middleburg Community Charter School. Starting at 11 a.m., the Middleburg Hunt Review takes to the streets, creating a spectacular sight

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Santa Claus always takes time to visit Middleburg and arrives in grand style.

as approximately 150 horses, riders in hunting attire and dozens of hounds come through the town. Throughout the day there are choir performances, hayrides, the Christmas in Middleburg Craft Fair at the Middleburg Community Center (300 W. Washington St.), as well as shopping and dining in the town’s shops and restaurants. In addition to the town’s restaurants, food trucks will be located on North Pickering Street, behind the BB&T Bank during the event. The Middleburg Christmas Parade begins at 2 p.m.; spectators line the sidewalks along Washington Street (U.S. 50) to watch as a unique assortment of floats, troops and musical groups march by. In keeping with the animal friendliness of the town, the parade includes horses, ponies, llamas, alpacas and a variety of dog breeds. Not to be missed are the antique fire trucks and of course, Santa brings up the rear riding on a beautiful horse drawn coach. From 3 to 6 p.m., adults can relax and enjoy the Spirit of Middleburg. The progressive hospitality of food and wine tasting will allow adults to wind down and relax at Middleburg establishments of their choice while sampling foods, wines, and spirits from throughout the area at local restaurants. Visit www.ChristmasinMiddleburg.org for a full list of

Spirit of Middleburg stops. “Christmas in Middleburg is a wonderful family festival,” said parade organizer Jim Herbert. “This year’s event will be especially exciting because the parade day will feature more food and drink, more amenities, with unique activities taking place throughout the day for visitors to enjoy. Christmas in Middleburg is where you see everything that Middleburg is really all about.” The Middleburg Business and Professional Association will host a Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony on Friday, Dec. 6. Caroling begins at 5 p.m., behind the Pink Box Visitor Center at 12 N. Madison St. Refreshments will be served. Mayor Bridge Littleton will lead the countdown to the tree lighting. The town’s Christmas tree features more than 1,000 lights. Event parking for Christmas in Middleburg will be available for $20 per vehicle, one mile east of Middleburg on Route 50. Free shuttle service will be provided. For more information call the Pink Box Visitor Center at 540-6878888 or email Organizer@ChristmasinMiddleburg.org. Visit www. ChristmasinMiddleburg.org to view an event schedule, list of activities, shop specials, and more. Follow Christmas in Middleburg on Facebook for event updates.

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Piedmont Singers celebrate 21st season at Emmanuel Middleburg Staff Reports Maria”) by Rachmaninoff.  Carols to spice up the performance. There ling, music director at Emmanuel The Piedmont Singers launches vary in tone from the mystery of “O will also be ample opportunities for Church. She has designed musically its 21st season with a program of Magnum Mysterium” to the joy of the entire audience to join the choir diverse programs to celebrate the favorite carols from many cultures “Carol of the Bells.” Several carols in singing familiar carols.  close of Christmas in Middleburg and traditions: Christmas from will be sung in their original lanThe Piedmont Singers was found- since 1999, when the rector of EmWest to East. The Piedmont Sing- guage (with translations provided) ed and directed by Wendy Oestermanuel Church wanted ers serves as an outreach to celebrate Christmas in ministry of Emmanuel Middleburg with the singEpiscopal Church and was ing of Handel’s beloved founded in 1999 to offer a oratorio, “Messiah.” Recmusical end to the annual ognizing the difficulty of Christmas in Middleburg performing Messiah with celebration. The Christa small church choir, Oesmas concerts will be held terling invited singers from on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 5 neighboring churches to p.m. (following Middleparticipate. The choir grew burg’s Christmas Parade), over the years and today inand 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. cludes singers from about 8, at Emmanuel Episcopal 15 churches across NorthChurch, at 105 E. Washingern Virginia. The Piedmont ton St. in Middleburg. The Singers presents concerts concerts are free and open at Christmas, during Holy to the public, with a freeWeek and is honored to have will donation gratefully acserved as choir-in-residence cepted. For more informafor five weeks at five differtion, call Emmanuel Church ent Anglican cathedrals in at 540-687-6297.  England and Ireland.  The choral program The community is invitwill open with the lovely ed to begin its Christmas and haunting carol from celebration with The PiedCanada, with “The Huron mont Singers at Emmanuel Carol” and travel through Episcopal Church, MidAmerica, Ireland, England, dleburg, on Dec. 7 and 8 Spain, Italy, Finland, Geras they perform Christmas many, Ukraine, and end in COURTESY PHOTO from West to East, joining Russia with the exquisite The Piedmont Singers as the choir-in-residence at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, England, in in the worldwide celebra“Bogoroditse Devo” (“Ave August 2018. tion of Christ’s birth.

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Nightlife

Live Music &

Entertainment

Email event info to asherman@fauquier.com

Nov. 29

Nov. 30

Live Music at Northside29: 6 p.m., 5037 Lee Highway, Warrenton. Visit www.northside29.com. Contact: 540347-3704. “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical”: 7:30 p.m., 4225 Aiken Drive, Warrenton. Fauquier Community Theatre presents this childhood classic with a musical version. Fun for the whole family. Plays Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 15 with evening performances at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18 for students, $20 for seniors and $22 for adults. More information and reserved seating for all the performances is available online at www.FCTstage.org or by calling 540-349-8760.

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Calamity Improv: 7:30 p.m., 92 Main St., Warrenton. Gloria Faye Dingus Center hosts improv comedy show by Dark Horse Theatre Company. Tickets are $15; 10 percent off if you wear wild west gear. Visit www.centerofwarrenton. org. Contact: 540-347-7484. The Tyler James Band at Wort Hog Brewing Company: 4 to 7 p.m., 41 Beckham St., Warrenton. Visit www. whbrew.com. Contact: 540-300-2739.        Crossthreaded: 7 p.m., Live music at Orlean Market, 6855 Leeds Manor Road, Marshall. Local Hume band plays bluegrass, country and oldies. RSVP for dinner. Contact: 540-364-2774. Northern Virginia Ballet: “The Nutcracker:” 2 and 6 p.m., Hylton Performing Arts Center, 10960 George Mason Circle, Manassas. Start your holiday season with Northern Virginia Ballet’s traditional and family-friendly production of “The Nutcracker,” featuring guest artists and the international award-winning dancers of NVB/ARB, the performance includes exquisite costuming and Russianproduced sets. Tickets: $35 for adults; $25 for seniors (ages 55 and up) and children and youth (ages 1-17). Visit hylton.calendar.gmu.edu/northernvirginia-ballet-the-nutcracker.

The Duskwhales live on the Taproom Stage: 6 to 9 p.m., Old Bust Head Brewing Company, 7134 Farm Station Road, Vint Hill. Menu by Two Smooth Dudes. Contact 540-347-4777.

Dec. 3

2019 “Messiah” Sing-a-Long: 7 p.m., Hylton Performing Arts Center, Merchant Hall, 10960 George Mason Circle, Manassas. Students from Osbourn Park, Patriot, and Brentsville District high schools join forces under the direction of OP’s Choir Director Dominick Izzo, for the annual “Messiah” Sing-a-Long. An all-student choir and orchestra with professional soloists perform Handel’s timeless masterpiece. Tickets: $15 adults, $10 seniors (65 and older), $5 children and youth (ages 5-17), free (ages 4 and under)

Dec. 12 Hidden in Plain View: European Piano Gems of the Early 20th Century: 7 p.m., 105 E. Washington St., Middleburg. Emmanuel Episcopal Church’s Parish House welcomes pianist Sophia Subbayya Vastek. Reservations are recommended but not required. $10 donation appreciated. All welcome. Contact: 540-687-6297.

Dec. 14 Kid Sister live on the Taproom Stage: 5 to 8 p.m., Old Bust Head Brewing Company, 7134 Farm Station Road, Vint Hill. Menu by Roaming Coyote. Contact 540-347-4777. NUTCRACKER – NOV. 30

Dec. 7

Fauquier County Youth Orchestra: 3 p.m., 92 Main St., Warrenton. Gloria Faye Dingus Center hosts Fauquier County Youth Orchestra featuring student soloist Tazreen Hassan performing the Mozart “Violin Concerto No. 5.” Tickets are $10. Visit www. centerofwarrenton.org. Contact: 540347-7484.

ALSO ON THE CALENDAR: SEE FULL LISTING AT WWW.FAUQUIER.COM Send your events to asherman@ fauquier.com at least a week in advance. Visit www.fauquier.com for more calendar listings.

Nov. 27

The Fauquier County Youth Orchestra and Jazz Band meets weekly on Wednesdays from 5 to 8 p.m. at Gloria’s, 92 Main St., in Old Town Warrenton. Offering beginner, intermediate and advanced strings and a jazz band. $10 a week. Email info@fauquieryouthorchestra.org or call 540-717-9349.

Nov. 28

Happy Thanksgiving from the staff of the Fauquier Times!

Nov. 29

Crooked Run Valley 5K, 10K and Half Marathon: 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., 11012 Edmonds Lane, Delaplane. Explore the Crooked Run Valley and Sky Meadows State Park as you traverse through the meadows, pastures and woodlands of Sky Meadow and into the back roads of the scenic Crooked Run Valley. Purchase a Wine Festival ticket for $15, and after the race in the Historic Area enjoy tasting three wines at five separate wineries, as well as food and other activities. $30/5K; $45/10K, $65/half marathon. Contact: 540-592-3556. Email: skymeadows@dcr.virginia.gov.

Nov. 30

Mini Holiday Pet and Family

Photo Sessions: Noon, 3623 Grove Lane, Delaplane. 20-minute indoor photo session with award-winning professional pet photographer Julie McGuire at Barrel Oak Winery. Join your furry friends on festive backdrop or photographed alone. Costumes available, Christmas music and doggie treats galore. Ten percent of your $75 booking fee is donated to Washington Area Animal Adoption Group and includes one perfectly edited highresolution digital image. Contact: 540-905-2269.

Dec. 1

Archwood Green Barns Farmers Market: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 4555 Old Tavern Road, The Plains. Fruits, vegetables, baked goods, orchids, bamboo, quilted specialties and more. Through Dec. 22. Visit www. archwoodgreenbarns.com or contact 540-253-5289.

Dec. 3

Open Book Storytime: 11 to 11:30 a.m., 104 Main St., Warrenton. Storytime and songs especially for the wee ones – all ages welcome. Visit oldtownopenbook. com or phone 540-878-5358. The Fauquier Pokémon League meets every Tuesday, 4:30 to 6 p.m., at Virginia Hobbies Etc., 46 Main St., Warrenton. Pokémon card game 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Pokémon video games, 5:30 to 6 p.m. Players new to the game and experienced players welcome. Contact Mary Ivie at 703887-7586 or Cassandra Mitchell 410-

215-7711 or email pokemon.fauquier@ gmail.com. Santa and Paint event: 5:30 to 8 p.m. 7323 Comfort Inn Drive, Warrenton. Come see Santa and then stay to paint a mini canvas picture ornament with Creative Crafts. Or choose a wood cutout ornament to paint. Easy enough for kids of all ages! $5-$10 per painter. No need to register- just show up and have fun. Contact: 540-216-2339 or amy@creativecrafts.space

Dec. 4

Lights for Life: 7 p.m., 9236 Tournament Drive, Warrenton. Fauquier Hospital Auxiliary honors and remembers loved ones in the 37th annual lights for life celebration. First Responders from all nine Fauquier County Fire and EMS are top of the tree honorees. Single light donation is $10. Download form at fhauxinc. org. Mail to Lights for Life, Fauquier Hospital Auxiliary, Inc., 53 Main St., Unit 997, Warrenton, VA 20186. Forms can also be left at hospital gift shop. Contact: 540-303-1290 or Darlene_24949@msn.com

Dec. 5

Coffee & Conversation at SCSM: On Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon, Spiritual Care Support Ministries opens to the community to provide fellowship, encouragement and hope. Light refreshments provided. Visit www.scsm.tv or call 540-349-5814 for more information. Caring for a Loved One – what

you need to know: 10 a.m. to noon, 500 Hospital Drive, Warrenton. Aging Together hosts informational roundtables on variety of topics: dementia stages, goals of care, options and care navigation, effective communication strategies, spiritual care and social support and financial planning. Facilitators available for questions and assistance. Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public. Held in Fauquier Health Hospital’s Sycamore Room. Contact: 540-829-6405 or info@agingtogether. org Middleburg Garden Club’s annual Christmas Flower Show, Greens Sale and Bazaar: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 105 E. Washington St., Middleburg. Emmanuel Episcopal Church Parish Hall will be filled with floral designs and artistic crafts. This year’s theme is “The Nutcracker.” Vote for your favorite. Show continues Dec. 6. Admission is free.

Dec. 7

Celebrating Christmas with SCSM: 3 to 5 p.m., 430 E. Shirley Ave, Warrenton. Join Spiritual Care Support Ministries for a joyful Christmas celebration, to honor personal heroes and the memory of loved ones. There will be music, refreshments, a time of remembering loved ones, a visit with Santa and the reading of the Christmas story. For more information call 540349-5814. Visit www.scsm.tv.

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Young marksman earns accolades Staff Reports

At the monthly meeting of American Legion Post 72, held on Tuesday, Nov. 19, Cmdr. Claude Davenport was thrilled to call up a young man to the podium. Seth Carver, a sophomore at Kettle Run High School, was awarded the coveted Civilian Marksmanship Programs Junior Distinguished Shooter Gold Badge for Three-Position Air Rifle.   The Junior Distinguished Badge is awarded to school-age junior three-position air rifle shooters who distinguish themselves by attaining a series of high rankings in designated major junior air rifle championships that include State Junior Olympic Qualifiers, CMP Cup Matches, the National Junior Olympic Championships and other National Council Three-Position Air Rifle Championships. The Junior Distinguished Badge is a gold-filled badge. To receive the badge, junior shooters must earn a total of 30 Excellence in Competition credit points in designated competitions.  At least 10 of the 30 points must be won in National Championship competition.   Since the program’s inception in 2001,18 years ago, only 1,450 badges have been awarded out of the tens of thousands of junior air rifle competitors. Seth is number 1,422. Seth is the fourth Warrenton Rifles member

to earn this distinguished award in the team’s 10-year history. Seth is a member of the Warrenton Rifles Junior Shooting Sports Team in Fauquier County. The team is sponsored by the John D. Sudduth American Legion Post 72 and Fauquier County 4-H shooting sports programs.

‘Legally Blond Jr.,’ a musical marvel PHOTO BY CARIE HAMMOND PHOTO BY JOHN FREDERICK

Seth Carver is presented with Junior Distinguished Badge by Cmdr. Claude Davenport at American Legion Post 72.

“It was a fantastic performance,” said Laura Rehaluk of Warrenton Middle School’s production of “Legally Blond Jr.” held Nov. 16 to 17. “The audience was wowed.” As a happy ending to the fabulous performance, two dogs used in the show ended up getting adopted. They were from Paws for Seniors. Pictured is the cast from the show.

Celebration of the Savior Christmas Concert December 15, 2019 • 7pm St. James Episcopal Church 73 Culpeper St. Warrenton, VA

Participants: St. James Episcopal Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, St. John Catholic Church, Bethel United Methodist Church, and Warrenton Presbyterian Church Anyone interested in participating in the combined chorus contact David Evans at fauquiercelebration@gmail.com

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is free but a good-will offering will be accepted. Volunteers are also being sought to help out. Contact Sue or Paul Smith at 540-270-0411.

Wednesday, Nov. 27

Retirement celebration: 2 p.m., Join the First Baptist Church family as they honor the Rev. Matthew Zimmerman Jr. and his wife, Barbara, in the church sanctuary, 39 Alexandria Pike, Warrenton.

Saturday, Nov. 30

Thanksgiving eve service: The Plains community will come together to join in thanks on Thanksgiving eve, Wednesday, Nov. 27, at 7 p.m. at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, The Plains. Come out and enjoy this evening of remembrance for all the blessings of the year. The Rev. Timothy Ahl of The First Baptist Church, The Plains, will be the speaker and a time of fellowship and refreshments will follow. Bring a friend and share in this wonderful time of fellowship with neighbors and grateful thanksgiving.

Thursday, Nov. 28

Thanksgiving dinner: The annual Thanksgiving Day feast is set for Thursday, Nov. 28, from noon to 2 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church, 6807 Main St., The Plains. Ham and turkey with all the fixings will be served, along with desserts galore. Last year, about 250 folks attended. Church members supply the food. The meal

Sunday, Dec. 1

Advent Lessons and Carols: 10:15 a.m., 73 Culpeper St. Warrenton. St. James’ Episcopal Church will begin the season of Advent with lessons and carols woven into the 10:15 a.m. Rite II liturgy. Four parallel lessons from the Old and New Testaments will tell the story of the season. A hymn or anthem with a harmonizing theme be sung after each lesson. Following the four lessons and prayers the liturgy will continue with the eucharist. Contact: 540-347-4342. Usher announcement: District No. 2 Ushers’ Ministry invites residents to the 19th annual Candlelight and Rededication Service at First Springs Baptist Church, 9307 Springs Road, Warrenton, at 3 p.m. on Sunday,

Dec. 1. The Rev. Errol Siders, pastor, will deliver the Word. Lunch will be served after the morning worship service. All ushers are asked to be in uniform. Attendees are also asked to bring non-perishable food and canned goods to be distributed to needy families. Contact: The Rev. Errol Siders, pastor, 540-729-1626. Guest preacher: At Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Warrenton, the guest preacher at the 10:30 a.m. worship service will be the Rev. Ralph Williams, associate pastor of Mount Morris Baptist Church, Hume. Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church is at 33 S. Third St., Warrenton. Keith McCullough is pastor. Contact: 540-347-3735. Visit www.mountzionva.org. Advent at Middleburg United Methodist Church: Middleburg United Methodist Church members invite the community to join them for the following Advent events. Sunday services are at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 1, first Sunday of Advent, “Season of Wonder, Season of Light;” Thursday, Dec. 5, JOY Club; Saturday, Dec. 7, Christmas in Middleburg, Holiday Bazaar; Sunday, Dec. 8, second Sunday of Advent, “The

Get them to the church on time! Advertise your church on our church page. 540-351-1664 • 540-349-8676 (fax) classifieds@fauquier.com

Grace Episcopal Church • HOLY EUCHARIST: Sundays, 9 a.m. • SUNDAY SCHOOL: Children & Adults 10 a.m. 5096 Grace Church Lane, Casanova (1 mile off Meetze Road) The Rev. James Cirillo, Priest • (540) 788-4419

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ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC CHURCH 271 Winchester St., Warrenton, VA 20186

540-347-2922 MASS SCHEDULE Weekday: 6:30am & 8:30am Saturday: 8:30am, 5pm & 7pm (Spanish) Sunday: 7:30am, 9am, 10:45am, 12:30pm & 5:30pm For Holiday Masses, please visit

www.stjohntheevangelist.org St. John the Evangelist Parish is a Catholic faith community committed to living God's message as given to us by Jesus Christ. We strive to encourage Christian love, faith & peace.

Father James R. Gould, Pastor

Truth Sent from Above;” Saturday, Dec. 14, Middleburg Concert Series, “A Christmas Spectacular,” 4 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 15, third Sunday of Advent, “We Wait for Thee,” featuring special music and guest musicians; Sunday, Dec. 22, fourth Sunday of Advent, children’s Christmas pageant, “The Littlest Star;” Monday, Dec. 23, Chanukah service and menorah lighting at Rectortown UMC, 5:30 p.m.; and Wednesday, Dec. 25, Christmas Eve service, 7 p.m. Middleburg United Methodist Church is at 15 W. Washington St., Middleburg. Choral Evensong for Advent: Join Leeds Parish to mark the beginning of Advent with a Choral Evensong on Sunday, Dec. 1, at 5 p.m. Soloists from Shenandoah University Conservatory will join organist Fred Clyne and the Leeds Church Choir to perform selections from Pepping, Creighton, and Messiaen along with traditional Advent hymn settings. The service will be followed by a complimentary wine and cheese reception. Admission is free and all are welcome. The Episcopal Church of Leeds Parish is at 4332 Leeds Manor Road, Markham.

Saturday, Dec. 7

Meet St. Nicholas at Christ Church: Stop by Christ Church, 95 Green St., in Old Town Warrenton on Saturday, Dec.7, between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. to visit with St. Nicholas and find out where Santa Claus got his start. St. Nicholas was a fourth-century bishop of Myra, a seacoast town in southern Turkey. He was known as a helper of the poor and sick. One of the most famous stories of St. Nicholas’ kindness is about a man with three daughters. They were very poor, and the man was afraid there wouldn’t be any money for marriage dowries and the girls would have to be sold into slavery. One night the girls hung laundered stockings in front of the fire to dry. Nicholas, knowing of their poverty, went by the window and tossed in three bags of gold – one for each girl. The bags of gold landed in their stockings. Because of their newfound fortune, the girls were able to be married and their father was very happy. St. Nicholas was perhaps the first Santa Claus and from this story we get the tradition of hanging stockings by the fireplace. After you’ve seen St. Nicholas, visitors are invited to make a takehome Christmas decoration and join in singing traditional Christmas carols. Then sample cookies and cider donated by Warrenton Giant Food. The event is free, but it will help with planning to phone the church at 540-347-7634 to let them know you are coming. To learn more about Christ Church, visit the website at www. christchurchofwarrenton.com.

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Catlett Cape Cod offers the best of country living

This beautiful, five-bedroom Cape Cod in Catlett, tucked away on a woodsy 5-acre lot, offers the best of country living with quick access to Va. 28 and Interstate 95. The home boasts a porch, an attached three-car garage with an apartment, a three-stall barn with tack room, hay storage and a fenced pasture. Entering the home, you will find

beautiful wood floors in the family room with a wood-burning fireplace, 9-foot ceilings, granite countertops with stainless appliances and a master bedroom on the first floor. The upper level offers bedrooms and a Jack-and-Jill-style bath and study area. On the lower level, there’s a recreation room, two possible additional bedrooms, a full bath and walk-out to the yard. There’s

also a huge, partially covered deck; it’s perfect for entertaining. An enclosed breezeway attaches the house to the apartment and garage. The upper level of garage offers the perfect rental apartment with family room, kitchen, full bath, bedroom and laundry. This one-of-a-kind property, located at 11545 Bristerburg Road, offers the possibility of owner fi-

nancing at a competitive rate to a qualified buyer. It’s offered at $699,000. Call Tammy Roop at Century 21 New Millennium for details at 540-270-9409. Tammy Roop Century 21 New Millennium Tammy.roop@c21nm.com 540-270-9409

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Leeds Episcopal Church holds service of Evensong on Sunday, Dec. 1 Thursday is Thanksgiving Day and all of us have so much that we need to be thankful for. Let’s all make that list and really rejoice in our blessings. Leeds Episcopal Church will have a service of Evensong on Sunday, Dec. 1, at 5 p.m. to celebrate the beginning of the Advent season. The Leeds choir and singers from the Shenandoah Conservatory will provide the special musical offerings. The service will be followed by a reception in the Leeds Parish Hall. Everyone is invited to attend. The Saint Nicholas Day sale is coming on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Leeds Episcopal Church, Markham. This annual sale, the brainchild of our friends, Mary Lou McCullough and Ann Chung, has been happening for more than 30

‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical’ opens Friday, Nov. 29 at FCT Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone has a wonderful time celebrating Thanksgiving with family and friends. Here are a few things happening in our area that you might like. Fauquier Community Theatre is presenting “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical” Nov. 29 through Dec. 15. For tickets and information, call 540-349-8760 or go to www.FCTstage.org. The Fauquier History Museum is hosting a “Mysteries of the Murals Walking Tour” on Dec. 7 at

Mark your calendar for upcoming holiday events The annual Remington Fire & Rescue “Santa Run and Stuff the Ambulance” campaign will begin at 4 p.m. and run through 9 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 1. Santa will ride throughout the Remington area on a firetruck. Bring a new unwrapped toy and help “stuff the ambulance” with toys for the Toys for Tots in Warrenton. Visit www.RVFRD.com for more details.

ANNE DAVIS MARKHAM HUME ORLEAN 540-364-1828 hlfmhouse@aol.com years. We are pleased to announce that every vendor space is taken this year. The Episcopal Church women’s group will offer an interesting variety of gift baskets plus all sorts of baked goodies to enjoy now or freeze for later. In addition, there are many gift items including handmade wooden spoons, artwork, soaps, wooden bowls, gifts for babies, woven wool items and much more. Proceeds from this sale benefit the scholarship fund for young Episcopalians who wish to attend summer

VEE KREITZ NEW BALTIMORE BROAD RUN 540-347-5140 veescolumn@aol.com 12:30 p.m. Discover the stories, the painters and marks they leave on Warrenton today. Visitors are urged to bring binoculars. For tickets and information, call 540-347-5525 or go to www.fauquierhistory.org. The Duskwhales, a three-piece

JOE KORPSAK REMINGTON BEALETON OPAL 540-497-1413 joe.korpsak@yahoo.com The American Legion - Remington Post 247 will have its “Food Auction” on Sunday, Dec. 1, from 2

camp at Shrinemont. Check out the beautiful signs near the church with the drawing of St. Nicholas that advertise the sale. The original artwork was done by Mary Lou. Come and bring your friends for a great one-stop shopping experience. Birthday wishes for Emma Lowden and Frances Anderson this week. Hope these are special days for both of you. We note the passing of two members of our local community this past week: Bob Cain and Dorothy Shifflett. Bob Cain, resident of Orlean, died on Nov. 16 following a lengthy illness. Bob, who retired from the U.S. Navy and worked as a civilian contractor following his military service, was active at Leeds Episcopal Church and was a longtime member of the Leeds Ruritan Club. He enjoyed “ringing the Salvation Army

bell” at K-Mart (Sears) for many years during the holiday season. He and his wife, Carolyn, always helped with breading those wonderful oysters for the dinners at the Orlean Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department. Bob and your writer shared a special interest since both of us had previously lived in Key West. Please hold Carolyn and Bob’s family in your hearts at this time. Dorothy Shifflett was a longtime resident of Markham. She loved her hair clients and enjoyed the ladies who came to her home to be “made beautiful.” These ladies were frequently treated to delicious homemade goodies from Dorothy’s kitchen. She enjoyed antiques and her pretty home, her family and community goings on. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends. Thought for today: Be the reason that someone believes in the goodness of people.

indie rock band, will be performing live on the Taproom Stage at Old Bust Head Brewing Company on Nov. 30 from 5 to 8 p.m. For information, call 540-347-4777. New Baltimore Volunteer Fire and Rescue are looking for volunteers! Did you know that 70 percent of our nation’s firefighters are volunteers? Here is a great opportunity for you to help your neighbors and your community. They offer free training. Volunteers staff the fire station as firefighters and EMTs, protect our neighbors responding to emergencies, and save lives. For information go to recruiting@nbvfrc.org, call 540-349-9004, or stop by the fire station and learn what you can do to help your community and help sup-

port the New Baltimore Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company. Mark your 2020 calendars! The next “Be the Help Until Help Arrives” course will be Jan. 11, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Fauquier Hospital Sycamore Room. Fauquier County Fire and Rescue is teaching this free class to the public. The skills you will learn can be used in many situations, including active shooter situations, traffic accidents and accidents at home. Learn how to be the help “Until Help Arrives.” To sign, up call 540-422-8800 or go to www. fauquierfirerescue.org. Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving! Please send news and information for our area so we can help get the word out. Thank you.

to 5 p.m. at the post building, 11420 James Madison Highway, Remington. (Post doors open at 1 p.m.) The auction profits help support oratorical contests, Red Cross blood drives, local cemetery flag placements for Veterans Day and Memorial Day observances, Remington Community Garden events, local high school scholarships, Boys and Girls State recognition, Hero’s Bridge Vietnam Veterans Day 5K and other local community activities. For more information, visit www.alpost247.org. There will be a gathering and

coming together of four local churches for a Thanksgiving Eve service for the Remington community. These churches are Remington United Methodist Church, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Providence Baptist Church, and Remington Baptist Church. The gathering will be on Thanksgiving Eve, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Remington United Methodist Church, 150 W. Bowen St., Remington. For more information, contact the Rev. James Cirillo (revjhc1@ gmail.com) or Mrs. Dale Cirillo at 540-905-2196.

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Maple Tree Farm opens Friday, Nov. 29 Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. There is always something to be thankful for. Recently, I was thinking of a story I had heard many years ago that was a conversation that a Cherokee Indian had with his grandson. The grandfather told his grandson of two wolves that battle within each of us. The first wolf is evil and the second wolf is good. The grandson asks, “Which wolf wins the battle?” The grandfather replies, “The one that you feed.” As we move along into the busy

Piedmont Railroaders host a train show Saturday, Dec. 7 Thanksgiving is this week and it’s one of my favorite holidays. I love it because it is all about family, food and being thankful. I am so blessed and I hope all of you have a wonderful day with your family and friends! The Fauquier Community Theatre will be playing “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical” beginning this Friday, Nov. 29, through Dec. 15. For more details, visit fctstage.org.

AMANDA ARMSTRONG WOODWARD CALVERTON CATLETT CASANOVA 540-295-4925 woodwardamanda1@aol.com Christmas season, it’s easy to lose ourselves in the hustle and bustle, but try to make time to feed your good wolf. Bring joy to others. The small, random acts of kindness that we can share with each other many times have

PAM VAN SCOY GOLDVEIN 540-379-2026 pamvs2000@yahoo.com The Piedmont Railroaders will be having an exposition Saturday, Dec. 7, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Bealeton Depot. They will have

a far deeper meaning than the material items that we tend to stress about during the Christmas season. If you do not want to fight the traffic on Black Friday or Small Business Saturday, come on down to Cedar Run Antiques in Catlett for many bargains and sales. Delicious refreshments await. Patty and Jeff Leonard will be opening Maple Tree Farm on Friday, Nov. 29, at 5:30 p.m. The farm will be open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday until the first of the year. Come experience an old-fashioned Christmas down on the farm with light displays, music and special treats. This is the Leonard family’s third business venture as they also operate Cows-

N-Corn and Haunted Hollow. Maple Tree Farm is located at 8287 Maple Tree Lane, Warrenton. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church will be having its Christmas Bazaar on Saturday, Dec. 7 in the parish hall. There will be vendors and the Sweet Shop. More on this next week. The Catlett holiday potluck dinner event is scheduled for Dec. 14 at 4 p.m. at the Catlett Rescue Building. Contact me to enter your gingerbread house in our first Gingerbread House competition. Santa will be there, too. Let me know of upcoming Christmas events in your community and church. Enjoy your week!

multiple layouts on display. This event is free and open to the public. The Sumerduck Ruritan Club is hosting a luncheon for seniors and veterans on Saturday, Dec. 7, at noon. There will be door prizes, fellowship and great food. The Ruritans will have Senior Bingo on Monday, Dec. 9, at 10 a.m. Anyone 55 and older is welcome. Please bring a small prize to contribute if you would like to play. The Remington FCE Homemakers Club will be having its Christmas party and meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 10:30 a.m. Bring a

gift if you would like to participate in the gift exchange. There will be a covered-dish luncheon following the meeting. Santa Claus is coming to town on Friday, Dec. 13. Bring the kids to the Sumerduck Ruritan Club at 7 p.m. to see the big guy dressed in red! There will be punch and other treats for everyone. Bring your camera to take pictures of your child with Santa. The Fauquier SPCA is offering free cat adoptions until Thanksgiving. Call 540-788-9000 for more information. Have a terrific week!

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Enjoy local concerts this holiday season The best of all wishes are for you and your friends and family for this Thanksgiving season. Although there are special days set aside to be grateful for all of our circumstances, we should strive to voice our thanksgiving every day of the year. Just take a little time each day to do so. With that said, our community should be grateful for all of the talented singers, musicians and artists we have. Here are some of the Christmas celebrations coming up. On Thursday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m.;

Meet Santa, enjoy a parade in Marshall Saturday, Dec. 7 Well, another 5K is in the books! Eddie and I, as well as our friends, Bert and Jan Newman and Steve and Shelly Wright completed the Gobble, Gobble, Run or Wobble this past Saturday. We had a great time and I hope a lot of money was raised for education. We have one more scheduled for December and then I think I’m done until spring. Gosh, Thanksgiving is tomorrow! Where has the time gone? And after Thanksgiving, you know what is next, right? You guessed it! Breakfast with Santa at the Marshall Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department and the annual Marshall Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 7. Start

ALICE FELTS WARRENTON 540-349-0037 warrenton.news@gmail.com Friday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, Dec. 7, at 3 p.m., audiences will enjoy the beginning of the Christmas season at the Warrenton’s Chorale’s “Christmas in Music,” while the group

BRENDA PAYNE MARSHALL THE PLAINS 540-270-1795 marshallvanews@gmail.com your day with some scrumptious breakfast at the firehouse (7:30 to 10 a.m.), give Santa your Christmas list and while you’re there. Take a snapshot with Santa, he loves getting his picture taken. Then get all bundled up and grab your seat on Main Street for the annual Christmas parade beginning at 11 a.m. And speaking of the Christmas

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Cedar Run District Antoinette B. Buchanan to Kellie M. Stover, 5.5668 acres at 7744 Frytown Road, Warrenton. $637,500 Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC TO Aran Capital Partners LLC, 2 acres at 8069 Greenwich Road, Catlett. $292,600 Robert M. Heflin to Ramon Perez, ½ interest in 0.3436 acre on Log Cabin Road and 4.18 acres at 4000 Log Cabin Road, Catlett. $558,500 Lee District Christopher Leatherman to Shirley Marina Gonzales, 11102 North Windsor Court, Bealeton. $380,000 Amy L. Scolforo to Sophia Danielle Turonis, 6859 Maplewood Drive, Bealeton. $266,000 Rhoda L. Rosenberger to Wendy Coleman Tr., 3.687 acres at 10351 Fayettesville Road, Bealeton. $316,900 Harry E. Schaidt to Mauricio Rivera Palencia, 11155 Crest Lane, Bealeton. $285,000 Center District Fauquier Habitat for Humanity Inc. to Gwendolyn R. Miller, 0.1093 acre at 124 Flikeid Lane, Warrenton. $220,000 Catherine Irene Rawley to John Asaro Jr., 80 Frazier Road, Warrenton. $245,000 George P. Sardineer to Kevin S. Singleton, 167 Royal Court, Warrenton. $389,000

Chantal Alfonsine Kastorff to Christopher J. Abraham, 101 English Chase Lane, Warrenton. $440,000 Ronnie W. Smith to Gabriel Colon Roman, 104 Aviary Street, Warrenton. $269,900 WVFC Land Co. LC to Foxville LLC, 0.3595 acre at 159 Moffett Avenue, Warrenton. $369,000 William T. Miller to Sherrie J. Wampler Miller, 274 Norfolk Drive, Warrenton. $374,400 Scott District E. Rigg Wagner to Randy A. Flores, 1.25 acres at 7255 Baldwin Ridge Road, nr. Warrenton. $350,000 Independence Realty LLC to Bethany Andersen, 1.6535 acres at 6604 Gray’s Mill Road, New Baltimore. $543,500 Lakeside Homes LLC to Richard Stockwell, 0.2393 acre at 4841 Point Road nr. Warrenton. $649,000 Fauquier Lakes Limited Partnership to Lakeside Homes LLC, 0. 2296 acre, Phase 11-B, nr. Warrenton. $187,500 Thomas Larsen to Sherry Ullmann Steffey, 5852 Newbury Street nr. Warrenton. $570,000 Old Denton LLC to Henry G. Stutzman Tr., 58.2283 acres at 7060 Young Road, The Plains. $3,337,000 Daniel J. Mayer to Scott McGleish, 5.0036 acres at 5153 Hopewell Road, The Plains. $1,050,000

Anita Marie Parris to Leslie Wallington, 5.6 acres at 7289 Greenbrier Road nr. the intersection of Rts. 605-676, Warrenton. $377,000 NVR Inc. to Kenneth Reiser, 5167 Island Court, nr. Warrenton. $584,375 Bobby Kerns to Kyle Kratzer, 0.7070 acre at 5168 South Hill Drive, nr. Warrenton. $379,900 Catherine F. Adams to JBA White Hall LLC, ½ interest in 4.125 acres on Old Tavern Road, The Plains. $110,000 Marshall District William J. Clinton to Michael Dendy Young, 203.6942 acres at 10562 Josiah Adams Place, Delaplane. $1,250,000 Equity Trust Co. as Custodian to Michael Dendy Young, 102.1749 acres at 10562 Josiah Adams Place, Delaplane. $550,000 DTR Properties LLC to SNR Properties LLC, 11,662 sq. ft. at 8371 West Main Street, Marshall. $1,089,500 RY-BR Inc. to Thanh CaoDac, 5.2606 acre, Lot 12 in Appalachian Estates. $40,000 Corey Pitts to William Leo Rettig Jr., 10 acres at 3638 North Red Oak Lane nr. The Plains. $400,000 Henry L. Fletcher Trust to Joseph B. Saffer, 16.3916 acres on Rt. 802. $968,408

is celebrating another great anniversary. The youth chorale and hand bell choir will join in by performing traditional vocal and musical selections. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for children (K-12). The performance will be at the Warrenton United Methodist Church (341 Church St.). The Piedmont Symphony Orchestra will present Handel’s “Messiah” on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 8, at 3 p.m. This holiday favorite will feature soloists Emily Casey, Nakia Verner, Jason Labrador and Matthew Ogden who will be joined by members of the Reston Chorale. An added feature is that this concert is a parade, we’re still accepting entries and sure would love for you to enter. Contact me directly at 540-270-1795 or via email at marshallchristmasparade@gmail.com. It’s going to be a great day for a parade. It’s time to show some birthday love: George Smallwood, Steve Kling and Catherine Bowman on Nov. 29; John Sinclair and Donna Corbin on Nov. 30; Nancy Brady and Frank Fair on Dec. 1; Cindy Griffith on Dec. 2; Rusty Gibson, Kennedy Ledden, Sunnylyn Gochenour and Alice Yarborough on Dec. 3, and Henry Peck and Jennifer VanPelt on Dec. 4. I hope that everyone enjoys their Thanksgiving holiday with lots of family and friends, tons of food and laughter, loads of love and, above all, remember to be thankful and grateful.

sing-along with members of the audience. The program also includes the rarely performed Vivaldi “Concerto for Three Violins.” The Living Christmas Tree, sponsored by Warrenton United Methodist Church (341 Church St.), is a group of talented singers who actually sing holiday music while standing in the form of a Christmas tree. Performances will be Thursday, Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Dec. 13, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 14, at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are free. You can call 540-347-4367, ext. 125, for additional information..

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VDOT prepares for snow and ice this winter Staff Reports

The Virginia Department of Transportation has a $13 million snow removal budget this year to keep roads in the Culpeper District clear and safe this winter. The Culpeper District includes Fauquier County. The larger Northern Virginia District snow removal budget is $53 million. Statewide, VDOT has $205 million available for snow removal this year, according to figures released in advance of the coming winter. VDOT has 2,500 crew members and employs additional contractors when needed. Among the other facts released by VDOT: It has more than 12,100 pieces of snow-removal equipment, including trucks, loaders and motor graders. It has nearly 700,000 tons of salt, sand and treated abrasives and more than 2.4 million gallons of liquid calcium chloride and salt brine. VDOT maintains more than 128,000 miles of road in the state. If snow is two inches or more deep, VDOT activates an online snowplow tracking map. VDOT trucks are equipped with automatic vehicle location technology and can be monitored. VDOT has 77 weather sensors in

roadways and bridges to alert crews about roadway surfaces that might be freezing. Motorists are encouraged to visit 511virginia.org or call 511 to obtain up-to-date information on road and traffic conditions before setting out. The average cost of a major statewide snow or ice storm affecting all nine VDOT districts requiring full mobilization is $11 million per day. Residents are urged to: • Monitor weather closely and adjust their commutes accordingly. • Telework if that is an option. • Wait to shovel driveways until plows have come. • Have enough gas, wiper fluid, the proper tires, an emergency kit and any medication you need on hand. “Our top priority is to keep motorists safe,” said VDOT Chief of Maintenance and Operations Kevin Gregg. “The commonwealth has a complex network of roads and bridges, and we prepare year-round to keep Virginia moving when winter weather arrives.”

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OBITUARIES Elizabeth Washington Gaines Elizabeth Washington Gaines, 93, of Warrenton, VA, passed November 18, 2019, at her residence. She was born on September 11, 1926. Elizabeth is survived by a daughter, Gwendolyn Gaines of Warrenton, VA; two sons: Wallace B. Washington of Warrenton, VA, Charles H. Washington, Sr. of Catlett, VA; 8 Grandchildren; 9 great grandchildren; and 2 great-great grandchildren. Family received friends on Sunday, November 24, 2019, 6 pm to 7:30 pm and Monday, November 25, 2019, from 11am until 12 pm with funeral services starting at 12 pm, all at First Baptist Church, 39 Alexandria Pike, Warrenton, Virginia, 20186. Rev. Matthew A. Zimmerman, Jr. delivered the eulogy Interment will be in Bright View Cemetery, Warrenton, VA. Online condolences can be given at www.joynesfuneralhome.com

Nathan Theodore Wald, Jr. “Ted” Nathan Theodore Wald, Jr. “Ted”, was born April 19, 1936 in Roanoke, VA and died of cardiac arrest and multiple organ failure on November 20, 2019 at Prince William Hospital. He was preceded in death by his parents Mattie Jane Gibson and Nathan T. Wald, Sr. and numerous uncles, aunts, and cousins. Surviving is his wife Virginia of 59 years, his son Frank, his daughter Debbie, his son-in law Will Nash, and two grandchildren, Liam and Allie. He entered the US Air Force in 1955, served for four years and remained on inactive reserve status for four years after being discharged. He was called to active duty during the “Bay of Pigs” but did not have to deploy. After his duty with the Air Force, he came to Washington, D.C. to pursue the possibilities of joining the police force. Instead, he started work at Holiday Shoe Store, later to Hanover Shoes and then to a career with Safeway for 37 years. He started as a clerk in the produce department, using his experience from working at Kroger’s in Roanoke and moved up to Produce Manager in stores from Chillum, Maryland, Graham Road, Fairfax and finally retiring from Tackett’s Mill Safeway. Family was very important to Ted, since he grew up with cousins that were more like siblings and nieces. He travelled to Norfolk several summers during his childhood, spending time with his uncle who worked at the Naval Ship Yard. They would spend time together, fish off the wharf, before returning to Roanoke for the school year. Having a family of his own, he enjoyed traveling to Kings Dominion, Busch Gardens and travels to Roanoke. As he grew older, his heart conditions limited his travel closer to home, with shorter trips to visit friends and family. He enjoyed retirement, working in the yard, walking in the Mall, watching old western movies, puzzles, and talking with neighbors. When his grandchildren arrived, his biggest enjoyment was the ability to be with his grandchildren on a daily basis until they were ready for elementary school. He was called “Coolpa”. He enjoyed helping Liam with his Legos, carving pumpkin for Halloween with Allie and showing them how to snap green beans. They had many walks to the playground. He loved watching Liam play ball and Liam’s mastery of various string instruments. Allie’s performances in local plays and school activities brought him much happiness. He also loved his grand dog Charlie, who was always a delight for Ted. Ted was an active member of St. Thomas United Methodist Church in Manassas for 47 years. He was an Usher for over 25 years, served as Church Accountant in the 1970’s, and briefly provided janitorial service at the Westmoreland Avenue location. He loved his church and his church family. Arrangements by Pierce Funeral Home, 9609 Center Street, Manassas, Virginia 20110 Services will be Sunday, November 24th at St. Thomas United Methodist Church, 8899 Sudley Road, Manassas at 3 pm, followed by a reception in the Fellowship Hall. Burial will occur on Monday, November 25th at 11:00 at Stonewall Memorial Garden. In lieu of flowers family request donations can be made in his name to St. Thomas United Methodist Church or to the American Heart Association.

Earl Wilson Riley Mr. Earl Wilson Riley, age 78, passed away on November 14, 2019. He was born in West Virginia the son of Roxie and Harry Riley; husband of Kay Riley; brother of Charles, Donald, Harry, James and MaryAnn. He was the father of David (Karen) Riley and Danny (Ann) Riley; step-father of Rip (Audrey) Gerber; Bill Gerber, Donna (Lynn) Barber and Cheryl (Mark) O’Donnell; grandfather of Kristin, Tyler, Josh, Robby, Austin, Ryan, Max, Natalie, Jack, Jared, Kevin and Madi; and great-grandfather of Astrid, Gideon, Gavin and Elise. Mr. Riley was an Army veteran and worked 38 years for Trans World Airlines (TWA). A private family service will be held at the Cremation Society of Virginia in Chantilly. Memorial services and a reception will be held at McLean Bible Church, Manassas, on December 28th at 10:30 a.m.

William “Bill” Edward Fischer August 14, 1974 – November 14, 2019 William Edward Fischer passed peacefully on November 14th, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Bill, as everyone called him, battled cancer with unwavering courage and fierce determination for almost three years before finally succumbing to the disease. He was closely surrounded by family and friends during his last two weeks, and he left us with many memories to cherish. Bill was 45 years old. Born on August 14, 1974, in Fort Lauderdale, FL, to parents Carl and Helen Fischer (McCormack), Bill grew up in Boca Raton, FL, before attending Villanova University for college. Bill earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and captured the admiration of his professors and peers with his exceptional abilities, determination, and ingenuity. In 1996, Bill started his professional career as a computer programmer and data analyst. Through the years, Bill continued to impress as an independent technology consultant. Most recently, he led a dynamic group of Security Engineers, Audit, Compliance, and Policy SMEs in orchestrating systems and programs that enable the leading cybersecurity solutions for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). A dashing man, Bill’s infectious smile lit up every room and helped him secure the lead role in an off-Broadway musical in New York, where he studied acting during a two-year professional sabbatical. Bill saw things that others did not. He recognized the potential in a dilapidated three-story brake shop in Washington’s Logan Circle, and carefully restored it to a prime, mixed-use space. The National Trust for Historic Preservation devoted a full spread in Preservation magazine on Bill and his husband, Drew Mitchell, in recognition of this achievement. Bill was then inspired to undertake an even more ambitious restoration project, historic Avon Hall in the Town of Washington, where he could apply his firm belief in environmental stewardship through geothermal and solar energy sources. Bill cherished long drives out on country roads with Drew and their rescue mutt, Mia, in his beloved black Tesla. This neatly combined his passions for technology, green energy, and Rappahannock’s magnificent scenery. As the youngest of twelve children, Bill learned early how to serve, versus be served. His selfless nature kept him actively engaged in various clubs and community organizations throughout his life. When Bill learned of Avon Hall’s long history as a community hub, he jumped at the opportunity to rekindle similar events for his new Rappahannock neighbors and friends. With the help of many others, he and Drew began hosting the annual Independence Day concert conducted by the internationally renowned Col. John Bourgeois. Bill’s deep commitment and love for Rappahannock were palpable, and his passion and generosity will live on through Avon Hall serving as a philanthropic and social gathering place for our community. Bill led a happy, fulfilled, and inspiring life during his short but concentrated time with us. He is survived by his husband, Drew Mitchell; his mother, Helen Fischer; his three sisters, Kate Stinson (Leo), Mary Fischer, and Maggie Polisano (Lou); his eight brothers, Carl (Vicky), Kevin (Barbara), Jim (Paula), John (Tess), Greg (Kim), Jeff, Tom (Jen) and Matt; as well as numerous Fischer and McCormack cousins, all of whom adored him. A celebration of life will be held this Spring on the grounds of Avon Hall.

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OBITUARIES Aaron Michael Hawkins Aaron Michael Hawkins, 35, of Amissville, VA died on Thursday, November 21, 2019 at Culpeper Hospital surrounded by family and friends. Aaron was born on July 3, 1984 at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, VA. Aaron loved to hunt and fish, he was an outdoorsman, but most importantly he loved his family. He is survived by his parents, Cleveland and Angela (Sally) Hawkins of Amissville, VA; one son, Shane Bryant Lee Hawkins of Washington, VA; one brother, Anthony Hawkins and his wife, Stephanie, of Boston, VA; three nieces, Melanie, Haley, and Natalie and one nephew, Gavin Hawkins all of Boston, VA; and grandparents Ralph and Goldie Hawkins of Reva, VA. Aaron is preceded in death by one sister, Ashleigh Hawkins, and grandparents, Henry and Juanita Grigsby. A memorial service was held on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 6 p.m. at Found and Sons Funeral Chapel, 850 Sperryville Pike, Culpeper, VA with Rev. L.D. Savage officiating. The family received friends one hour prior to the service. An online guestbook and tribute wall are available at www. foundadnsons.com Found and Sons Funeral Chapel of Culpeper is serving the family.

Dorothy Showers Shiflett Dorothy Showers Shiflett, 95, of Markham, Virginia passed away on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at Commonwealth Senior Living. A graveside service will be held on Saturday, November 23, 2019 at Leeds Cemetery in Markham with the Rev. Terry Hendricks officiating. Mrs. Shiflett was born on July 5, 1924 in Linden, Virginia to the late Walter Henry and Ruth Alma Johnson Showers. She was also preceded in death by her husband of 75 years, Lloyd Newton Shiflett and nine siblings, Tom, Joe, Giles, Ray, Monk, Winnie, Elma, Jack and Lavinia. After raising her children she became a licensed beautician and started her home business. She was a member of Linden United Methodist Church and a graduate of Warren County High School. Survivors include her daughter, Ruth Ann Florance of Marshall, Virginia; two sons, Billy Shiflett (Terri) of Front Royal, Virginia and Paul Shiflett (Christine) of Markham; ten grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 225 N. Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601 or American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22478, Oklahoma City, OK 73123.

IS A CASKET THE SAME AS A COFFIN? Most people use the terms “casket” and “coffin” interchangeably. Yet, there is a difference, which largely hinges on its design. While both perform the same function of housing the body of the deceased, a coffin features a tapered design that is less wide at the head and feet than it is at the shoulders. A coffin also has a lid, which is completely removable. A casket, on the other hand, has a rectangular shape with a hinged lid. Aside from these specific physical features, each has its own distinct character. While coffins are usually thought to be simple and austere, caskets feature a wider variety of materials and features. The choice depends on personal preference, style, and even religious belief.

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Donald Nathan Carr Donald Nathan Carr of Woodbridge, Virginia, has passed away at the age of 68 years. Don was vibrant and happy in recent years, and actively making healthy lifestyle choices. To the sadness of those who love him, he succumbed to heart failure on Monday, November 18, 2019. Don was a career Army Public Affairs professional, leader, and mentor for many. Upon graduating high school in 1969, Don joined the U.S. Army and immediately served in the Vietnam Conflict. His Army career continued for 21 years in Army Public Affairs, serving in Thailand, Texas, Alaska, Germany, and for five years at the Pentagon in Virginia. He retired from the Army as a Master Sergeant in 1990. Don’s professional career continued in Government Civil Service at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He began his civil service career as the Editor of the Belvoir Eagle, continued as the Command Information Chief of Fort Belvoir, and culminated as the Director of Public Affairs. Don trained and mentored countless Public Affairs professionals over the many years of his career and is a highly respected leader among other Public Affairs professionals around the world and a well-known public servant in the local Fort Belvoir community. Don was born to Joseph Nathaniel Carr and Viola Mae Gilbreath, both of Walnut Springs, Texas, on June 27, 1951. Don was preceded in death by his father Joseph Nathaniel Carr in July 2008, mother Viola Mae Carr (Gilbreath) in February 2001, sister Rita Jo Porter in September 2010, brother Gregory Virgil Carr in March 2000, and granddaughter Emily Megan Chaipan in April 2000. Don is survived by his loving wife, Jirapa Noy Carr, sons Daniel Pracha Chaipan and Nathan Randall Carr, and daughter Jiranee Rita Carr Elter. Additionally, Don is survived by grandsons Joseph Chaipan, Matthew Chaipan, Charles Carr, Lane Elter, and Jonathan Elter; granddaughters Harmony Carr and Olivia Elter; and nephews Eric Martin, Vince Porter, and Adam Carr. Services are being coordinated through Mountcastle Turch Funeral Home in Dale City, Virginia. There was an open viewing on Monday, November 25, from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at 4143 Dale Blvd. Funeral Services were held on Tuesday, November 26, at 9:30 a.m. at Marine Memorial Chapel Quantico, 3251 Embry Loop, Quantico, VA 22134. Cemetery services followed, at 11 a.m. at Quantico National Cemetery, 18424 Joplin Road, Triangle.

Patricia Anne Caton Patricia Anne Caton, 78, died peacefully in her sleep on October 31, 2019. Patricia was born on July 7, 1941, in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Agnes and Andrew Grogan. She was in the middle of the middle: the second of three daughters and the fourth of six children. Middle children are often their family’s peacekeeper—empathetic and loyal—and she was certainly those things and more. In addition to being the best mom her children could have asked for, Patricia earned her college degree, with honors, while caring for her two small children. She had a successful career, culminating in her position as an Administrative Specialist for the Prince William County Circuit Court Judges’ Chambers where she kept everything running smoothly. She loved her work and the people she worked with. Patricia is survived by her son, Darren, and daughter-in-law, Jessica; her daughter, Kimberley; her older sister, Agnes, and brother-in-law, Robert; her stepchildren and extended Caton family; and many nieces, nephews, and friends. She is preceded in death by her parents; brothers Joey, Billy, and Andy; nieces Mary and Kristen; husband, Leo; and many furry, four-legged family members. Her family takes comfort in knowing they are all together again. Stories about Patricia have a common thread: her kindness. She always put others before herself. In lieu of flowers, her family asks that you share kindness in her memory: leave a generous tip for your server, buy coffee for the person behind you at the Starbucks drive-thru, always be quick with encouraging words. Donations can also be made in Patricia’s honor to the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, your local animal rescue, or a charity close to your own heart. A funeral mass will be held for Patricia on Friday, December 6, at 10:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Manassas, VA. A reception will be held at the church afterwards.

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Rentals — Apartments

Midland, 1BR, 1BA, apartment in old farm house on 120 ac. $500/mo plus shared utilities. 540-788-9516 Old Town Warrenton, 1 BR, 1BA apt. 2nd floor, secured entrance, quiet & private. Avail now. $1250/mo. Application, deposit & job vitrifaction required. 540-272-4056

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2br home on farm near Hume Va, no pets, DW, fridg, W/D. Swimming pool. $1100/mo (540)364-3368 Remington, sm renov. 2BR, 1BA, country setting. $875/mo + dep. (703)765-3192 between 9a-3p, Mon - Fri

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ROOM FOR RENT FEMALE, FULL H O U S E PRIV I L E G E S , $500/MO PLUS 1/2 UTILS. 540-788-4924

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Farm Equipment

Ford 7700 Farm Tractor Asking $8000. Call 540-292-1242 After 4 pm

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Firewood

FALL SPECIAL!! 2 cords/$400 4 cords/$675 703-357-2180

FIREWOOD

seasoned hdwood, $200/ cord + delivery more then 15 m l s f r o m Nokesville.

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Furniture/ Appliances

E A Clore - 6 Dining Chairs. Light Cherry finish. $899. 703-367-0598.

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Garage/ Yard Sales

Tack sale in barn, 9247

Ramey Rd, Marshall. 11/30 & 12/1; 10a-4p. Rain/Shne. Hot choc, cookies & holiday cheer avail.

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Miscellaneous For Sale

45 RPM record collection, orginial 50´s/ 60´s. Approx 3000. Va r i o u s p r i c e s . 571-344-4300 45 RPM records (lots of 50) 0.50-$1.00 ea, comics $2+ ea, beanies $2+ ea, pez $1+ ea, 571-344-4300 BEACH SET-2 Fully Reclining Chairs & Matching Umbrella $40 540-337-2000 Beatles memorbiliapicture, black & white (60´s), albums, 45´s & magazines.571-3444300 B r e a d M a k e r, R i c e / Vegetable Steamer Crock Pot,Rice M a k e r , $ 1 0 . 540-337-2000 Elvis memorabilia, Yankee memorabilia, Celtics Merch, Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars 571-344-4300 Frank Sinatra, JFK, MIchael Jackson, Redskins, & sports books & mags. Michael Jordon mini chanpionship basketballs + magazines. 571-344-4300 Keurig Elite Coffee Brewer System - NEW $79.00 540-337-2000 NEW AND USED STAIRLIFTS for sale starting at $1800.00 Call Tom at (540) 932-7300 or (434) 327-4697 Olympic merch $2+ ea, Sports cards $3+, playing cards $3+ ea, Disney Merch $3+ ea, 571-344-4300 Record albums $5+ ea, Sports Illustrated mags incld swimsuit $5+ ea, Old books $7+ ea, Snoppy merch $1+ ea, 571-344-4300

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Miscellaneous For Sale

Small gas engine tachometer. LN. $70 CASH. Orange, Va. 540-672-4697

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Pets

German Rottweiler puppies. Show quality parents Tails docked. Shots, dewormed, first month tick flea and heart worm prevention. 5 males 4 females. Starting at $1,000.00. Vet checked and ready t o g o n o w . 434-465-1335.

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Mini Dachshund Puppies - just in time to enjoy over the holidays! We have male and female puppies available. For pricing & more information please email: tommyandlesley@ gmail.com Rottweiler puppies, akc registered, ready to go 11/28/19. 1st shots wormed, tails docked, $ 8 5 0 . c a l l 540-867-5236. Rottweiler puppies, akc registered, ready to go 11/28/19. 1st shots wormed, tails docked, $ 8 5 0 . c a l l 540-867-5236.

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Business Services

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

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G R AV E L : A L L PROJECTS. Topsoil; fill dirt; mulch. No job too small.540-8254150; 540-219-7200

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Business Services

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 JENKINS EXCAVATING & LOGGING. Free Estimates, Class A Contractor, Commercial, Residential. Demolition, land clearing, site prep, roads, drives. 540-661-0116

N U T T E R S PA I N T I N G & SERVICES Call Erik, 540-522-3289

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Domestic Services

TIDY MAIDS HOUSE CLEANING RESIDENTIAN & COMMERCIAL. LICENSED & I N S U R E D 571-228-7572

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Home Healthcare

CAREGIVING SERVICES OFFERED

I am Exp´d, w/ excel. refs provided. Errands, appts, housekeep, etc. 540-729-6926 ELDER CARE, I am an honest, caring and dependable CNA and want to take care of your loved one. Excellent references. Over 30 years exp. 571-732-7475,0571-732-7446.

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Home Improvement

Addison´s Building & Remodeling. Additions, basements, b a t h r o o m s , sundecks, repairs. Licensed Insured. 540-244-2869 Affordable Roofing with Terry´s Handyman Services, LLC. Licensed & Insured. Commercial & residential. Senior discounts. 540-937-7476 Design/build services. New, renovations, additions for residential. Commercial renovations & tenant uplifting. Licensed & i n s u r e d . 540-428-3050 www. s o u t h s t a r construction.com

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605 Automobiles - Domestic

Power Washing, Go from Green to Clean!!540-642-2349, 703-987-5096. Licensed & Insured!

2009 FORD FOCUS SEL SEDAN, 125k miles, moon roof, lthr, Exc. Cond. $4200 obo, 434-227-0743

Remodeling & custom homes, Certified aging in place specialist. jprimeco@aol. com 540-439-1673. Class A, GC, LEED AP, CAPS.

2012 HYUNDAI ELANTRA LTD, leather, sunroof, new factory engine, exc. cond. 540-885-5331

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

2012 Nissan, 73K mls, $4900.

703-380-5901 GOOD CONDITION!

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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 Total Lawn Care, home services. Cranium Services giving you peace of mind. Call Glenn 571-839-8495; glenn@ craniumservices. com; cranium. services.com

605 Automobiles - Domestic 1999 Mitsubishi Mirage, 151K, insp. in June, runs well, $750 obo. 434-589-1420. 2000 LEXUS RX300 STOCK#9267. AWD, A L L P O W E R , LEATHER, VERY NICE, 105K MILES, $7950. CROWN, O R A N G E V A 1-800-442-2769 www. crownautosales.net

Motorcycles

’06 HONDA GOLDWING TRIKE 1800 series, 1 owner, 12,000 miles, like new. Call 540-298-8128 or 540-421-9509. 2003 Hyosung GV250 Motorcycle ($800). Vtwin engine with dual exhaust; Garage kept; low mileage; new battery; needs minor work to get up and running as it’s been unused for 3 years. E-mail nefaunt@aol.com YAMAHA - VW TRIKE will trade for car or motorcycle. As is. REDUCED TO $5000.00 Firm. 540-221-1302.

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2 0 0 8 Vo l v o X C 9 0 ; loaded; 3rd row seat; 1 owner; excel cond; no accidents; mls. 167K, $ 4 7 5 0 O B O . 540-222-5049 OR clpcvc@yahoo.com 2009 Chevy Avalanche Extended/crew cab, bed liner, and bed cap. 4 door, 220,000 miles, 2 New Front tires. Ask for Jack. $7,000 540-672-5597

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Trucks/ Pickups

1990 FORD F-250 4x4, XLT LARIAT, 351 Engine, Automatick, 104k miles, Exc. Cond. 540-421-8822 or 540-298-1443. 2005 FORD F250 SuperDuty 6.0L Turbo Diesel. 4x4, insp. May. 51K, garage kept, great tow vehicle (13,500#). ARE cap. $15,000 obo. Call 434-589-1420.

Announcements

FOOD PANTRY 2nd & 4th Sundays

3124 Beulah Rd, at Beulah Baptist Church, Markham VA will have a food pantry on 1:30pm-3pm Please contact Cecelia Williams at 540.364.2428. Church number 540.364.2626.

Legal Notices A Hearing will be held at Fauquier County General District Court on Monday, December 2nd, 2019 at 1:30 p. m. pertaining to the three cows seized by Fauquier County Sheriff’s Department, Animal Control Division. The Three cows were seized on November 20th, 2019 from 7918 Belmont court, Marshall, Virginia 20115. There are two black & white cows and one black cow. Now held at the Fauquier SPCA.

Public Notices NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Selfstorage Cube contents will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Asset Management, LLC as Agent for the Owner 689 Industrial Road Warrenton VA 20186 and 411 Holiday Court Warrenton VA 20186 to satisfy a lien for rental on 12/4/2019 at approx. 12:00 PM at www.storagetreasures. com.

ABC Licenses {Full name(s) of owner(s):} Andrew Rosado and Bonnie Evangelista Trading as: WOODLAWN PRESS CELLARS 6535 BLANTYRE ROAD BLDG A, WARRENTON, VIRGINIA 20187 The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY For a Winery - Limited (5,000gals or less annually) and Farm Winery - Class Alicense to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Andrew Rosado, OwnerNOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www.abc. virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

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Foreclosure

TRUSTEE’S SALE 129 Brenda Ct Warrenton, VA 20186

TRUSTEE’S SALE 6244 Ghadban Court Warrenton, VA 20187

In execution of the Deed of Trust dated June 27, 2005 and recorded on July 18, 2005 in Book 1168 at Page 260 in Instrument # 2005-00012383 of Fauquier County land records, Trustee Services of Virginia, LLC, the appointed Substitute Trustee, will offer for sale at public auction on the front steps of the Fauquier County Courthouse located at 40 Culpeper Street, Warrenton, Virginia on December 17, 2019 at 3:00 PM the property more particularly described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust, located at the property address listed below and briefly identified as follows:

In execution of the Deed of Trust dated November 15, 2005 and recorded on November 18, 2005 in Book 1190 at Page 1204 in Instrument # 2005-00020757 of Fauquier County land records, Trustee Services of Virginia, LLC, the appointed Substitute Trustee, will offer for sale at public auction on the front steps of the Fauquier County Courthouse located at 40 Culpeper Street, Warrenton, Virginia on December 31, 2019 at 3:00 PM the property more particularly described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust, located at the property address listed below and briefly identified as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land, situate in Center Magisterial District, Fauquier County, Virginia, described as Lot 30, Section II, CEDAR RUN, as shown on plat thereof recorded with Deed of Dedication in Deed book 394, Page 134, in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Fauquier County, Virginia.

ALL that certain lot or parcel of land lying and being situate in the Town of Warrenton Fauquier County, Virginia, more particularly described as Lot Six (6), containing 13,160 square feet in the subdivision known as KIMBERLEY SUBDIVISION, as per plat of subdivision prepared by James H. Harris & Associates, Inc. Land Surveying & Land Planning recorded in Deed Book 606 at Page 1364 among the Land Records of Fauquier County, Virginia. HAVING a street address of 129 Brenda Court, Warrenton, VA 20186. Tax ID # 6984-25-8886-000. BEING the same property which, by Deed dated May 28,2004, and recorded 06/01/2004 among the Land Records of the County of Fauquier, Commonwealth of Virginia, in Liber No. 1102, folio 392-393, was granted and conveyed unto Dionicio Rodriguez and Rosa E. Rodriguez. Tax No.: 6984258886000/733775900 Property address: 129 Brenda Ct, Warrenton, VA 20186 The property will be sold “AS IS,” WITHOUT REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND SUBJECT TO conditions, covenants, restrictions, reservations, easements, rights of way, and all other matters of record taking priority over the Deed of Trust, if any, as might be listed in this notice or may be announced at the sale. TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of $34,500.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is less, by cashier’s or certified check required at time of sale, except for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss is on the purchaser from date and time of auction. Balance of the purchase price must be paid by cashier’s check within 14 days from sale date. Except for Virginia Grantor tax, all settlement costs and expenses are purchaser’s responsibility. Taxes are pro-rated to the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining possession of the property. If purchaser defaults, deposit may be forfeited and property resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees of both sales. If Trustee does not convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including but not limited to determining whether prior to sale a forbearance, repayment, or other agreement was entered into, the loan was reinstated or paid off, or whether the property became subject to an automatic stay under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to the sale; in any such event this sale shall be null and void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit without interest. Pursuant to the Federal Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, this law firm is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. (19-10238) FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: BROCK & SCOTT, PLLC (Attorney for TRUSTEE SERVICES OF VIRGINIA, LLC) 484 Viking Drive, Suite 203 Virginia Beach, VA 23452 (757)213-2959

Tax No.: 6994199814000 Property address: 6244 Ghadban Court, Warrenton, VA 20187 The property will be sold “AS IS,” WITHOUT REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND SUBJECT TO conditions, covenants, restrictions, reservations, easements, rights of way, and all other matters of record taking priority over the Deed of Trust, if any, as might be listed in this notice or may be announced at the sale. The property is further sold subject to a deed of trust dated 11/15/2005 and recorded 11/18/2005 Instrument # 003078440011 among the said county/city land records and to all other prior liens and encumbrances of record. TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of $9,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is less, by cashier’s or certified check required at time of sale, except for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss is on the purchaser from date and time of auction. Balance of the purchase price must be paid by cashier’s check within 14 days from sale date. Except for Virginia Grantor tax, all settlement costs and expenses are purchaser’s responsibility. Taxes are pro-rated to the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining possession of the property. If purchaser defaults, deposit may be forfeited and property resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees of both sales. If Trustee does not convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including but not limited to determining whether prior to sale a forbearance, repayment, or other agreement was entered into, the loan was reinstated or paid off, or whether the property became subject to an automatic stay under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to the sale; in any such event this sale shall be null and void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit without interest. Pursuant to the Federal Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, this law firm is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. (19-08350) FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: BROCK & SCOTT, PLLC (Attorney for TRUSTEE SERVICES OF VIRGINIA, LLC) 484 Viking Drive, Suite 203 Virginia Beach, VA 23452 (757)213-2959

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ORDER OF PUBLICATION

Commonwealth of Virginia VA. Case No. JJ017346-06-00 IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF FAUQUIER IN RE: MALE CHILD BORN JULY 12,

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The object of this suit is to fully and completely terminate all residual parental rights of Unknown Father of the male child born to Selena Garibaldi on July 12, 2017.Based on an affidavit filed herein, the Court finds that there exist sufficient grounds for causing service of process by publication. Said Unknown Father of the male chile born to Selena Garibaldi on July 12, 2017, the father, is hereby notified that his failure to appear on the hereinafter noticed date and at the time may result in entry of an order terminating his residual rights with respect to said child. The father is hereby notified that if his residual parental rights with respect to said child are terminated, he will no longer have any legal right with respect to said child, including, but not limited to, the right to visit with said child or have any authority with respect to the care and supervision of said child. Further, the father will have no legal and/or financial obligations with respect to said child. Further, as a result of the termination of the father´s residualparental right, the Department of Social Services of Fauquier County, Virginia, may be granted the authority to place said child for adoption and consent to the adoption of said child. This notice by order of publication is being provided pursuant to Section 16.1-263(A) Code of Virginig, 1950 as amended. It is ordered that Unknown Father of the male child born to Selena Garibaldi on July 12, 2017, the father, appear at the above-named Court to protect his interests on or before the 15th day of January, 2020 at 9:00 am. Date: November 13th, 2019 Melissa Cupp Judge I certify that a certified copy of this order was: mailed to the respondents/ defendants at the addresses set forth above, where an address was provided posted at Courthouse provided to NEWSPAPER named above Date: 11-19-19 Christa K Bawkey Deputy Clerk

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11721 Fort Lee Drive, Remington, VA 22734 By virtue of authority vested in the undersigned Substituted Trustee by certain deed of trust dated May 12, 2017 and recorded in Deed Book 1545 at Page 756, assigned in Deed Book 1581 at Page 2110, among the land records of Fauquier County, Virginia, as amended by an instrument appointing the undersigned as Substituted Trustee, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and having been requested to do so by the holder of the note evidencing the said indebtedness, the undersigned Substituted Trustee will offer for sale at public auction in front of the Fauquier County Circuit Court, 29 Ashby Street, Warrenton, VA 20186 on:

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December 10, 2019 at 2:30 o’clock P.M. Lot 105, Section 2, Phase 4, LEE’S GLEN, as the same appears duly dedicated, platted and recorded in Deed Book 1142 at Page 1187, among the land records of Fauquier County, Virginia. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 11721 Fort Lee Drive, Remington, VA 22734 TERMS OF SALE: Cash or certified funds. A bidder’s deposit of $5,000.00, payable in cash or by certified or cashier’s check to the undersigned will be required of the successful bidder at time of sale, which shall be applied to his or her credit in settlement, or should he or she fail to complete the purchase promptly, to be applied to pay costs and expenses of sale and balance, if any, to be retained by Trustee as compensation in connection with sale. Terms of sale to be complied with within 14 days from date of sale or property to be resold at costs of defaulting purchaser. All real estate taxes are to be adjusted as of date of sale. All costs of conveyance, examination of title, state and local recording fees, grantor taxes, notary fees, etc., to be at cost of purchaser. Property sold as is, where is, without any duty of Trustee to obtain possession for purchaser. Additional terms may be announced at the sale.

FAUQUIER COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARINGS The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors will hold a work session at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 12, 2019, in the Warren Green Meeting Room at 10 Hotel Street in Warrenton, Virginia, and will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the same location, to be followed by a public hearing to obtain citizen input on the following items: 1.

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND FAUQUIER COUNTY CODE SECTION 8-29.2 TO CREATE A SEPARATE TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX CLASSIFICATION FOR ONE VEHICLE OWNED BY A DISABLED VETERAN - A public hearing to obtain citizen input on an amendment to the Code to create a separate classification of tangible personal property for taxation purposes applied to one motor vehicle owned by a disabled veteran pursuant to Code of Virginia § 58.1-3506(A)(19). (Tracy Gallehr, Staff)

REZONING AMENDMENT REZN-19-012063, OPAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, LLC / DEVIN T. FINAN, MANAGER (OWNER / APPLICANT) – WILLOW CREEK PROFFER AMENDMENT – An application to amend previously approved proffers associated with REZN05-CR-004, which do not affect use or density. The property is located off Avenel Drive, Cedar Run District. (PIN 6981-45-6906-000) (Adam Shellenberger, Staff)

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FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen K. Christenson, P.C. Substituted Trustee By: Stephen K. Christenson, President 4160 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 591-3445 (HUD/18SKC240- HOGAN)

Copies of the above files (except as noted) are available for review in the County Administrator’s Office, 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Any interested parties wishing to be heard on any of the above are requested to be present at the public hearing or send written comments prior to December 12, 2019, to the County Administrator’s Office. Fauquier County does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in admission or access to its programs and activities. Accommodations will be made for handicapped persons upon prior request. Citizens requiring reasonable accommodation for disabilities should contact Mrs. Renée Culbertson, Deputy Municipal Clerk, at (540) 422-8020.

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NOTICE FAUQUIER COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS DECEMBER 5, 2019 The Fauquier County Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a public hearing at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 5, 2019 in the Warren Green Building, First Floor Meeting Room, 10 Hotel Street, Warrenton, Virginia to consider the following items: APPEAL #AZAD-19-012140, RCH, LLC (OWNER/APPLICANT) – RCH, LLC PROPERTY/PAIGE LEIGH ANNE WAY – An appeal of a Zoning Administrator’s determination related to the storage or disposal of nonagricultural fill material in excess of the amount allowed by Zoning Ordinance Section 5-1816.2(1) without the required Special Exception approval and in violation of the standards for this use listed in Section 5-1816.2; the expansion of a non-conforming use without approval of a Special Exception; the commencement of a use prior to the issuance of a Zoning Permit; and the excavation or grading of a parcel before the issuance of a Zoning Permit, PIN 7847-88-1968-000, located on Paige Leigh Anne Way, Cedar Run District, Midland, Virginia. (Heather Jenkins, Staff) Note: This is a public meeting, not a public hearing. Copies of the Zoning Appeals and Variance applications may be examined in the Department of Community Developmentʼs Zoning Office at 29 Ashby Street, Suite 310, Warrenton, Virginia between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. To review files on all other items, please visit the Department of Community Developmentʼs Planning Office at 10 Hotel Street, Suite 305, Warrenton, Virginia between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Fauquier County does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in admission or access to its programs and activities. Accommodations will be made for handicapped persons upon prior request. Citizens requiring reasonable accommodation for disabilities should contact Fran Williams, Administrative Manager, at (540) 422-8210.

Notice is hereby given that the Town Council of the Town of Warrenton will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 7:00 PM in the Warrenton Town Hall Council Chambers (First Floor) located at 18 Court Street, Warrenton, Virginia, on the following item(s): Zoning Text Amendment 2019-03 – to amend Articles 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 of the Zoning Ordinance, and Article 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Subdivision Ordinance. The proposed amendments to the Zoning Ordinance are to Article 2, General Provisions, Regular lots width measurements; Article 4, Site Conservation Manual, to Steep Slopes, Wetland Areas, and Program Standards and Procedures; Article 5, Stormwater Management, Contents of Plan; Article 8, Landscaping, Retention of Existing Trees; Article 9, Supplemental Regulations, Steep Slopes; Article 10, Site Development Plans, Information Required; Article 11, Administration, Procedures for Application Review and Approval, subsection Special Use Permits; and Article 12, Definitions, Planning Director, Subdivision Agent, and Zoning Administrator. The proposed amendments to the Subdivision Ordinance Article 2, Administration and General Regulations, Administration, Duties, Additional Authority, Variations and Exceptions, Appeals; Article 3, Plat Preparation and Procedure, Purpose of Preliminary Plat, Final Plat to be Submitted, Documents to Accompany Final Plat, Town Council to Act on Final Plat; and Article 4, Standards, Suitability of Land, Lots, Blocks, Curbs, Gutters and Sidewalks; and Article 5, Definitions, Planning Director and Subdivision Agent. These proposed changes do not impact residential density. People having an interest in the above are invited to attend the hearing and state their opinion regarding the above issues. Copies of all applications and full versions of the proposed text amendment changes are available for review in the Department of Planning and Community Development located at 18 Court Street, Lower Level, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. The Town of Warrenton does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in admission or access to its programs and activities. Town Hall meeting facilities are fully accessible. Any special accommodations can be made upon request 48 hours prior to the meeting. Run dates: November 20, 2019 and November 27, 2019.

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CLASSIFIEDS@FAUQUIER.COM V I R G I N I A: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF FAUQUIER COUNTY Trustees of Walnut Grove Baptist ChurchPlaintiff, v. CIVIL NO. CL19-469 Henry Baker Heirs Patricia Allen, William S. Lawson Jr., MaryAnn Lawson, Carlos Lawson, Edward Lawson, Addresses Unknown All heirs, devisees and successors of Henry Baker, his children Nelson Baker, William Henry Baker, Sarah Baker Chichester, and Mary V. Baker; Sarah Baker Marshall and children; Mary Madeline Marshall and children; and any and all persons who might have an inerest in 10 1/2 acres deeded to Henry Baker now titled in Plaintiff: PIN#6992-88-8892-000 and PIN#6992-898311-000, 8909 Meetze Road, Warrenton, Virginia who are all made parties hereto as Parties Unknown Defendants. ORDER OF PUBLICATION The objects of this cause are to quiet title to the property in Walnut Grove Baptist Church; to partition the property by allotment to Walnut Grove Baptist Church as to any outstanding interests, resolving all questions of law, and terminating the interests of all others; and for such other and further relief as this cause in equity may require. It is therefore, ORDERED that this Order be published once a week for four successive weeks in the Fauquier Times and that the above-named persons and those made defendants by the general description of “Parties Unknown”, appear on or before the 23rd day of December, 2019, in the Clerk´s Office of this Court and do what is necessary to protect their interests herein. ENTERED this 28th day of October, 2019 Jeffrey W. Parker, Judge I ASK FOR THIS: Robert deT. Lawrence, IV VSB#03779 Hanna L. Rodriguez VSB#48719 Walker Jones, P.C. 31 Winchester Street Warrenton, VA 20186-2896 540-347-9223 Counsel for Plaintiff

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Compensation: Based on Experience Employment type: full-time The Kauffman Group Inc. For an interview or more information please email: helpwantedloudoun@ gmail.com

Flaggers Full time, to provide traffic control & safety around construction sites. A valid driver license & clean driving record a must. Starting $13/hr & scheduled raises. Company-paid medical & dental premiums.

Please fill out an application at careers.trafficplan.com or come to our office Tuesdays or Thursdays (8am-10am).7855 Progress Ct., Suite 103; Gainesville, VA

Micro Assembly Technician

Small Charlottesville company is currently accepting resumes for a Micro Assembly Technician. Two years Electronics technician degree or equivalent/similar is preferred. Experience working under a microscope with microelectronics if preferred. Retirement and health benefits provided. EOE. Send resume as pdf to: electech2@gmail.com

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Alex Wood 540.222.7700

Amber Castles 703.399.5923

Ann Frias 727.808.7765

Beth Kramer 571.220.2662

Beth Liles 540.717.2337

Brenda Rich 540.270.1659

Cathy Kane 703.868.1976

Christine Duvall 540.270.6344

Diane Quigley 703.732.5952

Dink Godfrey 540.270.5779

Don Robertson 540.229.3825

Edie Grassi 540.878.1308

Ethel Goff Everett House 540.272.4074 703.477.3003

Frank Martin 540.270.1494

Hodge Miller 540.272.4967

Judy Rose Julia Foard Lynch Karen Goff Kateland Rich Flinn Kathleen Martin Kathleen Modolo Kathy Holster 540.359.5366 540.270.4274 703.408.1480 540.270.8558 703.867.1133 703.944.6437 703.930.0453

Kelly Davenport 703.303.6416

Cliff Weeks 910.391.5236

Dave Bryan 540.219.1159

Denise Goff 703.839.3300

Diana Feldman 703.434.2988

Jack Payne Jackie Douglass 540.227.0775 540.687.1263

Janet Light 540.219.7509

Joan Zorger 540.379.6313

Kim Herrewig 703.501.0072

Lisa Lisjak Mary Ann Dubell 703.499.2622 540.212.1100

Kim Holzer 540.729.7462

AnyÂ success attributed to Century 21 New Millennium is simply a reflection of the hard work done by our Agents each day. Agents get no regular paycheck; they are self employed. Many are single parents running single income households. Agents have kids in college, elderly parents they care for and more than most, are faithful servants within their Community. Agents are honorable and noble human beings. Agents make the dreams of others come true. Agents are mighty and Agents are brave. This year, as I reflect upon the many things I am thankful for, it is our Agents that share the top of my list. I remain grateful for the trust they place in me that allows our continued association. I pledge to reward that trust. I say ''share'' the top because before next Thanksgiving, I will meet my first Granddaughter for which I am grateful. -Herb Lisjak, Principal Broker

Mary Anne Dispanet 540.219.1196

Otis Williams 703.627.1327

Melinda Livingston 703.472.1400

Meredith Schmahl 540.270.2907

Pam Jenkins Paulina Stowell Stanley Heaney 540.219.3611Â 571.275.8646 540.812.5533

Michaela Mummert 540.270.2907

Michelle Hale 540.222.0121

Starr Ibach Stephanie Wayne Tammy Roop 703.786.3229 703.965.1643 540.270.9409

Mike Graham 703.927.3288

Tony Pitorri 540.717.0874

Monica Justiniano 703.725.2381

Nancy Richards 540.229.9983

Troy Price Vanessa Sfreddo 540.222.3260 540.270.7949

Century 21 New Millennium 8074 Crescent Park Drive, Gainesville, VA 20155 - 703.753.7910 85 Garrett Street, Warrenton, VA 20186 - 540.349.1221

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