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September 18, 2019 | Vol. 18, No. 38 | www.princewilliamtimes.com | 50¢ Covering Prince William County and surrounding communities, including Gainesville, Haymarket, Dumfries, Occoquan, Quantico and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.
Debates highlight differences By Daniel Berti
Times Staff Writer
“It turned Part 2 of a 4 out to be a perpart series fect storm,” on the opioid Caroline Folkepidemic and er said. “My its impacts on anxiety-ridden, the community naïve follower of a daughter. Very easily influenced and living in a time and place when this epidemic hit. She might as well have had a bull’s-eye on her back.” Caroline Folker and her husband have since separated, a consequence, she said, of their daughter’s struggle with addiction and her death.
Two separate debates for candidates vying for Prince William County’s top elected posts sparked spirited discussions last week on topics ranging from whether the name of the former Confederate president should remain on U.S. 1 to funding for local schools to whether the jail should retain its controversial agreement with federal immigration enforcement. In the first event, held Tuesday, Sept. 10 at the Regency at Dominion Valley, four candidates vying for chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors discussed Jefferson Davis Highway as well as state gun laws and the fate of the rural crescent. The post is open for the first time in 13 years, as current Board Chairman Corey Stewart, R-At Large, announced in January he would not seek re-election. Stewart’s decision came about two months after he lost his November 2018 bid for the U.S. Senate to incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine (D) by 16 points statewide. Kaine beat Stewart by a whopping 32 points in Prince William County. On the topic of Jefferson Davis Highway, Ann Wheeler, the Democratic candidate, said many county residents find the name offensive. “The name of that road, especially in the eastern end of the county, makes a lot of people uncomfortable,” Wheeler said. “We are a majority-minority county. We need to understand that it upsets people.” Republican nominee John Gray, as well as independents Muneer Baig and Don Scoggins, said they would
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PHOTO BY KENNETH GARRETT
Caroline Folker of Warrenton founded Families Overcoming Drug Addiction after her teenage daughter died of a heroin overdose.
Recovery: A slow, painful road
The region suffers from a shortage of residential and outpatient centers By Randy Rieland
Piedmont Journalism Foundation
It was agony enough that their 19-year-old daughter died of a heroin overdose. After all, Brian and Caroline Folker had always thought Fauquier County was a safe place to raise their two daughters. After much research, they had picked it as the place to live when he was trans-
ferred from London to a job in Vienna, Virginia. But it seemed like unnecessary cruelty to have Kathrine die not long after a stint in an addiction recovery center, after being buoyed by so much relief and hope. Through their terrible ordeal, the couple learned one of the awful realities of addiction. Most addicts relapse. Multiple times. Even after they receive treatment. Kathrine had been in the Edgehill Recovery Retreat in Winchester for only two weeks when she left. She told her parents she was afraid she would lose her job if she stayed any longer. She also told them she would be fine. INSIDE Calendar.............................................18 Classified............................................21 Lifestyle..............................................17
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