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Page • Warren County Report • Mid March, 2013 Given the richness of her imagination and virtuoso skills, one might expect Patricia Windrow to continue constructing ever more complex alternate realities. In her “Crystallinity” series, however, Windrow has returned to simpler compositions that now have all the epic elegance … of her mature style.
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With Windrow’s passing we lose another giant World-renowned artist who adopted our community passes at 91
Main Street Deli owners Sue Baldwin and Crystal Dolan purchased the former Windrow Gallery building at 401 East Main Street in 2010. As they undertook renovations, Baldwin tells us they discovered hints of paintings under already re-painted walls. With painstaking care they uncovered two of Windrow’s wall murals that currently greet patrons.
Windrow’s portrait of Belle Boyd currently resides, very appropriately, in The Belle Boyd Cottage housing archives of The Warren Heritage Society. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report I’ll tell you, writing and assembling these retrospectives on members of our community who have left a HUGE void with their passing is getting to be VERY OLD, VERY QUICKLY. And if
our last issue featured a native son whose life marked a deep respect and concern for his hometown, this issue features a transplant whose mark was made not just here, but in the world of art at large. Not only Front Royal and the Northern Shenandoah Valley, but
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also the world of art has lost a significant figure with the March 5 passing of Patricia Windrow Klein. Windrow initially became known locally after moving south in 1991 to establish her gallery on East Main Street in Front Royal for a series of outdoor murals, including “The Horses of High Street”, most of which unfortunately, due to a lack of artistic appreciation or vision by later owners of individual properties where the murals were, or perhaps such a lack on the part of the town and community itself, are no longer here. Perhaps Windrow brought it on
herself by relocating to a somewhat provincial community – as a transplant myself, I’ve always joked that you can be considered a “local” here after about three generations – in which she was often referred to as “that pushy Yankee woman” or “pushy New Yorker.” But if Windrow seemed unusually aggressive in promoting not only her own, but art itself into the consciousness of our community, it was with a vision, in part, of mixing art with
the often mundane brick walls along the quaint streets of our small, rural Virginia home. I always found Windrow engaging, informative and a pleasure to be around due to her enthusiasm for her adopted community, the world at large and art in general. And much of the art she created here reflected a love we shared for what I think we both viewed as “God’s country” in the historic and ancient Shenandoah Valley. Some of her works survive publicly, inside the Main Street Mill; the Main Street Deli at her old gallery location at 401 East Main; WCHS’s Wildcat, and a portrait of Civil War heroine Belle Boyd on display at the Warren Heritage Society in the Belle Boyd Cottage. One of my favorites, and an inyour-face example of her artistic and social consciousness, was a small sculpture of a house with rooms you could peer into like an open doll house – in fact, those who have recalled it with me have simply called it “The Doll House”. It was displayed at a Blue Ridge Arts Council Show and the theme was the societal violence that goes on behind closed doors. In each room there was an example of such violence – domestic violence against children and women; murder; prostitution, etc. I remember viewing it and sensing the alarmed reactions to it all around me – just NOT the proper subject matter for a work of art seemed to be the consensus. “If you think that’s bad, what if you walked into someone’s house and
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Windrow has massive wall murals on both floors of The Main Street Mill. A first-floor horse overlooks Windrow’s signature. Partons say the second floor canon will follow you around the room; others say the swarming birds will as well, perhaps on a bombing run … saw it ACTUALLY happening?!!?” I offered my artistic critique unsolicited to a few people who seemed especially put off by the work. “I think that’s her point, that the subject is found too distasteful to be raised in public and that helps facilitate it in the real world.” I think I got a couple “HARRUMPHS” in response that I think I was working for. And I remember an article I did during one of my tenures at “The Warren Sentinel” about her work “Liberty” done as a response to the 9/11 attack on her former hometown of New York City. It seems Windrow had somehow run afoul of town officials for the outdoor mural across from The Visitor’s Center. If memory serves me well, the headline read “
‘Give me your poor huddled masses yearning to be free – not so fast” Artistic legacy As for her art, we’ll let those more in the know about the “finer arts” describe Windrow’s work: Patricia Windrow is a realist oil painter whose enormous range encompasses portraits, landscapes, seascapes and floral paintings as well as surrealist treatments of timeless subjects, such as “Unbirth of Venus.” Her paintings range in scale from miniatures (such as those in the collection of the New Jersey Miniature Art Society, some of which measure one square inch) to upwards of four feet by six feet. She paints from life
and has been praised for her keenly observed depictions as well as for her subtle evocations of place and time. Her palette is varied but centered on what may be called the colorings of nature. Her remarkable series of large studies of crystals won special mention in the New York publication, Art Speak. Given the richness of her imagination and virtuoso skills, one might expect Patricia Windrow to continue constructing ever more complex alternate realities. In her “Crystallinity” series, however, Windrow has returned to simpler compositions that now have all the epic elegance and uncluttered monumentality of her mature style. Her style combines a keen observa-
Patricia Windrow sought to transfer the ambience and charm of her adopted hometown to blank walls and stark brick along streets around downtown Front Royal. “The Not So National Zoo” is one survivor of that period fading on a wall behind Windrow’s former gallery at 401 East Main St .. Might some enterprising art aficionados – perhaps the town itself – undertake a restoration?
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tion of natural detail, a superb sense of color and an imagination of classic taste. Working on stretching canvas or board with paintbrush as well as palette knife, Windrow evokes strong images that are contemporary yet timeless. In addition to her many original oils are prints of works such as the painting, “World Trade Center from the Brooklyn Side, 1982,” which captures the serene river in which is
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reflected the once familiar New York skyline. Other prints are available including some showing the Skyline Drive on the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. A world traveler who always carries her paints and brushes with her, Windrow has painted scenes of Italy, France and Belgium as well as the United States, from Long Island and the Shenandoah Valley to Florida and the desert Southwest. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and The Dictionary of Contemporary Achievement. A frequently commissioned painter, Patricia Windrow has executed numerous portraits of eminent people including the Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne and the late president of the Rockefeller Foundation, John Knowles. (Some info assembled from Windrow Galleries and Zoominfo websites)
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Patricia (Windrow) Klein (1921-2013) Patricia Windrow Klein died on March 5 at Blue Ridge Hospice, Winchester, Virginia, after a long illness. She was 91. She is survived by Howard Klein of Front Royal, her husband of 54 years; three sons, Kenneth Theodore Perez, Adam Charles Josef Klein, and Laurence Parker (Moondi) Klein; five grandchildren, Esten and Kari Perez, Lauren and Connor Klein, and David Brantley; and two great grandchildren, Max and Mya Perez. Her professional life spanned acting in films in France and in the United States, theater, radio, television and, most prominently, as an oil painter. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and The Dictionary of Achievement. Her paintings are in the collections the Minnesota Museum of Art, West Publishing’s Art and the Law, The Parrish Museum in Southampton, New York, and the Catherine Lorillard Wolff Arts Club of New York. Numerous private collectors, such as Robert Redford, Vladimir Horowitz, John Cage, and R. Philip Hanes, also acquired her work. She had exhibitions in galleries in New York, Washington, D.C. and Palm Beach. Patricia Windrow lived and worked in Front Royal for 22 years, opening her first art gallery on Main Street in 1991. In order to do that
she had to renovate the old building at 401 East Main Street, then a derelict, into a gallery with two apartments above. During the course of her life she had renovated 42 houses and other structures, often decorating them with murals and other painterly decor. Her last project in 2005 was an 1880s house on Virginia Avenue in Front Royal. She was a colorful character known for her direct personal style as well as for her accomplished work as an artist. She was commissioned to paint murals in local restaurants, notably the Feed Mill (now the Main Street Mill), as well as two local schools. She spearheaded the construction of and designed the Centennial Sundial near the Visitors Center. She was a founding member of the board of The Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Inc., in Hiltons, VA. She was born Aria Hope Sunbeam Windrow in London, England, on September 12, 1921, and grew up in Paris, France, where she was schooled. She moved to the United States with her mother, father and older sister, just prior to the invasion of France by the Germans in World War II. She completed her schooling in New York City, married a film actor, Jose Perez, and moved with him to Hollywood. While there, she acted in Lydia, a film directed by Ju-
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lien Duvivier starring Merle Oberon and Joseph Cotton. As a 12 year old living in France, Patricia had acted in Duvivier’s 1933 film Le petit roi (The Little King). She contacted him in Hollywood and he offered her a small speaking role, which Pat later said, “Paid the rent for five weeks.” Pat’s father, Stellan Sven Windrow, had been hired, at the age of 18, to be the first Tarzan in a silent film called Tarzan of the Apes. After completing the ‘tree-work,’ swinging on ropes through the trees of Louisiana, he joined the Navy as World War I broke out, leaving his role to the well-known Elmo Lincoln. Pat returned to New York by her-
self and found jobs acting on radio in soap operas such as Life Can Be Beautiful, and with The Voice of America, which broadcast programs to the GIs in Europe, and sharing scripts with actors such as Yul Brynner. Her son, Kenneth Perez, was born in 1941. She acted on Broadway under the name, Patricia Courtley, in Alfred Deliagra, Jr.’s production of The Madwoman of Chaillot, starring Martita Hunt, Estelle Winwood and John Carradine. It, too, paid the rent, running for 368 performances from 1948 to 1950. In 1958 she met and married Howard Klein, a pianist and later a music critic with The New York
Times. By then, Patricia Windrow was painting full time, living in Setauket, Long Island, New York and maintaining her own art gallery, a renovated slaughter house on Rte. 25A. She also developed and hosted a weekly educational television program called, “The Cable Easel,” that ran for 12 years. A pioneering series of television art instruction, it was recognized in 1988 by a coveted Cable Ace Award. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Ministry of Comfort entrusted to Cartwright Funeral Home, Inc., Winchester, Virginia.
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Why MLB owners will cheer the death of Hugo Chavez By Dave Zirin
The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will mean unseemly celebration on the right and unending debate on the left. Both reflect the towering legacy of Chavismo and how it challenged the global free market orthodoxy of the Washington consensus. Less discussed will be that the passing of Hugo Chávez will also provoke unbridled joy in the corridors of power of Major League Baseball. Historically, Venezuela has trailed only the Dominican Republic in the global race to provide a cheap source of Major League Baseball talent. In 2012, 58 players on MLB rosters were born in Venezuela, second only to the DR’s 64. For decades, teams had set up unregulated “baseball academies” in both countries where children as young as 15 could be signed for a pittance, and then, for 97 percent of major league hopefuls, casually disposed without any future prospects. A Mother Jones article published this week exposed in excruciating detail the DR baseball “sweatshops” and the preventable death of young Washington Nationals teenage prospect Yewri Guillen. They describe the academies as a deadly breeding ground for tragedy defined by “corruption and youth exploitation.” This is exactly what Chávez, a
baseball fanatic himself, was aiming to challenge. Venezuela is the birthplace of towering talents such as the 2012 Triple Crown Winner Miguel Cabrera, “King” Félix Hernández and World Series MVP Pablo Sandoval. In the last twenty years, 200 Venezuelans have played in the Major Leagues, with more than 1,000 in the minors. But the academies also left a wreckage of young lives behind, a status quo Chávez sought to challenge. He told MLB that they would have to institute employee and player benefits and job protections. He wanted education and job training, subsidized by MLB, to be a part of the academies. He also insisted that teams pay out 10 percent of players’ signing bonuses to the government. Chávez effectively wanted to tax MLB for the human capital they blithely take from the country. As the “CS Monitor” put it, “The threat of expropriations and onerous foreign exchange controls make teams wary of doing business in Venezuela.” Sure enough over the last decade, the number of teams with “academies” in Venezuela has dwindled from twenty-one to five. The threats of kidnapping and violence are often cited by teams as the primary reason for this move, but the facts say otherwise. As one major league executive said anonymously to the LA Times,
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A Better Papal Sendoff By Nick Thomas
Just what kind of retirement party do you give a pope? Since the Vatican has adhered to a “no pope left behind” policy for the past 600 years, this was surely a puzzler when Pope Benedict voluntarily cashed in his cassock last month. Most popes, you see, are carried out feet first. Not since Gregory XII, in 1415, has a pope left office under his own steam. So when Pope Benedict gave his two weeks notice, there was little time for the Vatican papal party planners to organize an elaborate shindig. As a result, a rather shoddy farewell reception was hastily thrown together. But this need not be the case for future premature papal abdications if the Vatican introduces new celebratory protocols immediately. To begin with, the farewell party should be an elegant affair. I don’t think it was appropriate to give Benedict a pot-luck luncheon, even if there was plenty of angel food cake on hand. And whoever brought the deviled eggs needs some serious timeout in the confessional. It was also apparent that the event lacked coordination when guests began arriving with duplicate dishes. Catholics have a good sense of humor, but did everyone have to bring along a plate
“Teams have left Venezuela because of issues with the government and security that have made it more difficult to do business there. Absent those problems, there would be a lot more teams here using academies.”
Major League Baseball has never been shy in their rage that Chávez wasn’t “rolling out the red carpet” for them “like they do in the Dominican Republic.” Lou Meléndez, senior ad-
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Duncan: the ‘yellow dog Democrat’ While always the soft spoken gentleman, Walter Duncan was a committed liberal, describing himself to me more than once as a “yellow-dog Democrat.” He had his many years contributing to the community in the non-partisan arena of local governance and management, and his tremendous achievements in that sphere have been justly lauded. But I think it is also important to acknowledge the national political philosophy that he ardently advocated. He was a proud supporter of the tradition of FDR, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ, Carter, Clinton and Obama. His life of service to others, always thinking of the common good, was an embodiment of that tradition. He displayed a stunning example of local political work during Glenn White’s race for Supervisor. Glenn in his seventies and Walter in his eighties knocked on the doors of virtually every likely voter in the district! His wife, Mary, sensibly retired him from such activity after that, but it will always inspire me when it comes to doing the necessary work of retail politics. Eric Olson Front Royal (Managing editor’s note: we received this personal reflection on Walter Duncan too late for inclusion in our last issue. So, we decided (with the writer’s permission) to include it this time as a letter to the editor.)
of Ex-Benedict? And what about those crazy cardinals who were clearly giddy on too much incense? What were they thinking – shamefully sending Benedict out at the last minute in the Popemobile to pick up a bucket of wings and slaw at the local Church’s Chicken Drive-thru. That’s just not right! Fortunately, Pope Benny was a good sport and enjoyed one last spin around the block. But he was still disappointed when told he couldn’t keep the Popemobile after retirement. “No Your Holiness,” the cardinals cautioned. “The job came with free room and board, but the company car stays for the new guy.” Another papal retirement consideration is the selection of suitable gifts. You just don’t send a pope packing with a flagon of Holy Water and two weeks supply of communion wafers. And who was the guy that presented the pontiff with the T-shirt inscribed with the catchy phrase “Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder”? So what is appropriate to give a soon-to-be pope emeritus guy? Clearly, gifts should be simple but tasteful. And honestly, you can’t go wrong with sporting gear. I would recommend a handy new sports bag for those Wednesday bowling nights with the Dalai Lama. I believe the Vatican gets a discount in the sporting department of the local See’s store. In the event that His Ex-eminence remains active, the bag could also be used for his sports gear should he make the Vatican soccer team. No kidding. It turns out that Benedict’s predecessor,
Pope John Paul II, actually created a Vatican soccer team in 2000 – and no, they’re not called the Cardinals. At 85-years-old, however, I don’t think Benedict will make the team. Which is a shame. He’d make an excellent goalie, especially after playing defense at the Vatican for so many years. Finally, there’s the question of entertainment. This is quite appropriate at a farewell papal event, provided the performers are low-key and dignified. Sure, rolling in a giant cake was a nice way to thank Pope Benedict for eight years of Hail Mary’s. I just think it was ill-conceived to hire a couple of nuns to leap out, wiggle their Rosary beads, and sing “Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye.” I do hope the Vatican takes these suggestions into consideration because, let’s be frank, it’s unwise to send a disgruntled pope into retirement after a crappy sendoff. With all that free time, he might be tempted to revisit church scandals in a tell-all book. And the last thing the pope-in-waiting wants to see atop the New York Times best seller list is a tawdry missive with a title like “Roman Rites and Wrongs.” Nick Thomas’ features and columns have appeared in more than 300 magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Christian Science Monitor. He can be reached at: http://getnickt.blogspot.com
Page • Warren County Report • Mid March, 2013 I asked Patricia if I could draw her while she painted at her easel. Imagine how shocked I was when she turned and said she would paint me while I sketched her! We sat together a few feet apart and in about 20 minutes Patricia handed me a small round portrait and said, “Here Vicki this is for you”.
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Patricia Hope Windrow: A Capital Artist
A Windrow self portrait from pre-Front Royal days.
Victoria ‘Vicki’ Gladstone Special to WC Report From the time I arrived in Front Royal, Virginia from Brooklyn, New York early in 2002, Patricia Windrow’s artwork was on my radar precisely because she painted so many large-scale public murals
around town. As the newly hired exhibitions coordinator at the Blue Ridge Arts Council I made it a point to walk down Main Street to her gallery and introduce myself. You see, she was not a member of the Arts Council and naturally I wanted to know why. Stepping inside Windrow’s Gallery at 401 East Main Street was an experience like no other. The smell of turpentine and oil paint has always been pleasing to me, but my eyes were overwhelmed by a visual riot. It was difficult to know where to look because canvases were not only hung on every available inch of wall space, but many were also leaning two and three deep along the perimeter of the walls. Light streamed in from the big picture window and there standing near an easel was Patricia Windrow in a paint-splattered shirt with multiple brushes clutched in the gnarled fingers of her right hand. Although larger-than-life, she was petite in stature.
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Even with loose strands of salt and pepper hair circling her face, and a smudge of paint across her forehead she was still very beautiful at seventy-something. I said hello and made my pitch for the Blue Ridge Arts Council, and rapid fire with bright blue eyes flashing Patricia told me in no uncertain terms that although she’d been in town a number of years she still felt the outsider. With that bit of business out of the way she was extremely gracious and invited me to have look around the studio, which I did that day and many days for years after. On one of those visits I took out a sketchpad and asked Patricia if I could draw her while she painted at her easel. Imagine how shocked I was when she turned to me and said that she would paint me while I sketched her! We sat together a few feet apart and in about 20 minutes Patricia handed me a small round portrait and said, “Here Vicki this is for you”. It took me another 10 minutes to finish my sketch, and when I handed it to her she could not have been kinder even though the masterpiece she handed me was no fair exchange for my amateur effort.
“Vicki” by Pat Windrow Patricia Windrow was so much more than a gifted artist; she was deeply committed to social causes and was always very generous with her time and talent. With my prod-
ding she eventually did get more involved with our local arts organization, and I am proud to say that I organized her first one-woman show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council.
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The Front Royal-Warren County History Page March 9th, 1836: A County is Born
By Patrick Farris Executive Director Warren Heritage Society Created in 1836 from portions of Frederick and Shenandoah Counties, Warren County – as a result of its position astride multiple avenues of travel – combines the English and African traditions of Tidewater and Piedmont Virginia with the Scots-Irish and German traditions of the Lower Shenandoah Valley. From frontier backwater during the colonial period to thriving hub of industry in the 1900s and a tourist and
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commuter destination 177 years after its creation, Warren County contains all the beauty and history of the Valley of Virginia in less than 216 square miles! We will take this opportunity, being March, to celebrate the formation of the county, which allowed Front Royal to become a county seat. The county’s formation by decree and on paper was accomplished in March of 1836, however forming a new identity as a community would take a bit longer. In 1836 county lines were often generalized, with references to borders being situated along the “crest of the mountain,” some communities like Linden were thought of by some of their residents as being in Warren County, and by some as being in Fauquier County. The community of Chester Gap actually sits astride the county lines of Warren, Fauquier and Rappahannock. This was less of a problem in the 19th century, but different zon-
ing regulations and school districts among the three counties make life interesting for residents of Chester Gap today. Residents living along the Strasburg Road still today often report Strasburg – located in Shenandoah County – as their address, and residents of Reliance Road will often refer to living in Middletown, which is actually located across the county line in Frederick County. The main reason for this lies in the official mailing address for a home, and because of this confusion I found myself informing students when I was a teacher at Warren County High school in the 1990s, that if they really were from Middletown they would be attending Sherando High School in Frederick County! The famous Shenandoah Valley historian Samuel Kercheval, author of History of the Shenandoah Valley (1831), ran for election to represent Middletown on the first Warren County Board
of Supervisors, despite the fact that Middletown was not even located in Warren County. Kercheval lost the election, although he had strongly defended the creation of Warren County in the Winchester press. He later would become sheriff of Frederick County. Warren County as represented on maps from 1836 through to the mid-1930s would often appear drawn or filled in almost as an afterthought by the cartographer, as if forgetting the county existed until it was too late to redraw county lines to scale. So what are some of the aspects of our county’s identity? Let’s take a look at agriculture, industry, military history and more. Agriculture The original cash crop along the Forks of the Shenandoah in the 18th century was hemp (for the British
Navy), which quickly gave way to wheat grown for the ever expanding urban market in Philadelphia, Alexandria and Baltimore. Wheat farming drew in more planters from eastern Virginia and caused a greater reliance upon slave labor, all of which collapsed following the Civil War. Wheat would gradually be replaced in the late 1800s by fruit orchards and poultry farming, with today’s
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Hoover takes us right through the powerful, even mystical nature of our early national memory-- shaped and intensified by the stirring and oversized military engravings which hung everywhere in American homes and public places. After a reprise of “The Death of General Wolfe” (take note those who attended Hoover’s talk on Benjamin West!), we go straight to John Trumbull’s trilogy of Revolutionary War engravings, attend the shell-swept burial of Scottish General Simon Fraser at Saratoga (see: composure under fire) and advance in time to the field of New Orleans, promiscuously strewn with British dead (Question: on the long voyage home, why did Royal Navy seamen detect something peculiar in their grog?). After this follows, no less, ‘Bloody’ Banastre Tarleton, Peter Francisco and his five foot sword, LaFayette and John Armistead, Yorktown and a heart-pounding account of the encounter between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard. It all came together on the steps of the Capitol, March 4, 1861, when Lincoln invoked America’s “Mystic Chords of Memory.”
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History HISTORY, from 7 agricultural diversity disallowing for any easy description. Industry Industry found an early home in Warren County upon the completion of the railroad through Manassas Gap, which freed many Irish laborers to settle along Happy Creek in the 1830s, providing local entrepreneurs with a surplus of labor for small manufacturing operations which complimented then traditional manufacturing trades of wagon building and blacksmithing. In rural areas mining operations, charcoal production and lumbering dominated the mountainsides. After the devastation of the Civil War Warren County recovered in great part due to the proliferation
of factories – including a piano factory, silk mill, pin factory, lime kilns, quarry and many more – culminating in 1939 with the opening of American Viscose’s (AVTEX) Front Royal plant. By 1950 AVTEX employed over 80% of the county’s workforce. Industry plays a role in contemporary Warren County, with several large plants – Baugh, DuPont – and warehouses operating in the county.
American Revolution in the 1770s and 1780s saw troops and prisoners move through, but no battles scarred the landscape, as for a second time in the 18th century men from the Forks of the Shenandoah
mustered in to service in defense of Virginia. Nearly a century later in the 1860s Warren County’s men served in the Confederate (and a few in the Union) armies while the civilian population watched the county’s na-
scent infrastructure disappear under flames and cannonades. It would be over three decades before non-rail bridges would again span the Forks of the Shenandoah. The great wars of the twentieth century saw men from
War & Peace The French & Indian War in the 1750s and 1760s saw the transformation of the Forks of the Shenandoah from a frontier settlement to a stop along the Cumberland Gap migration route, but during that war Front Royal (then LeHewtown) was evacuated twice due to attacks in the surrounding countryside. The
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To advertise in Warren County Report: Contact Alison at alisond@warrencountyreport.com • 540-551-2072 or Angie Buterakos at angie@warrencountyreport.com - 540-683-9197 Warren County sacrifice their time, their safety, and their lives. The Warren County Courthouse lawn stands in mute testimony to their service and sacrifice, and proudly proclaims that this is home to two recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Warren County also was home to a 5,000 acre Army base! Created in 1911 and opened in 1913, the US Army Front Royal Remount Depot trained and prepared men, horses, mules and dogs for war until its closure in 1947. The old base remains active today in other manifestations, as the regional 4H center, the Smithsonian Institution’s Conservation Research center, and the Department of Homeland Security’s dog training center – this last unit a direct descendant of the old Remount base. Political Representation Long under the political domination of representatives from Old Frederick County, upon political independence Warren County predict-
ably elected the community’s elite to power, but now had local representation to answer to local needs. Representatives to the Virginia House of Delegates for many years came from Warren County but represented both Warren and Clarke counties.
lowing a fire which gutted their main building. This tradition of valuing education is reflected in the fact that Front Royal has the second oldest lending library in Virginia.
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Sports were more than merely popular in Warren County over the years, with high school football and baseball in general taking center stage in the community’s social life. Festivals, such as the Warren Heritage Society’s own Festival of Leaves, are reflections of the County’s passion for recreation and sporting activities.
The “Athens of Virginia” was a nickname claimed by more than one Virginia community, but for size and spunk none deserves it more than Warren County. At one time home to two colleges (Reliance and Eastern) and multiple private academies (Randolph-Macon and Christendom College among them), Warren County’s public school system has continued since the mid-1800s to grow from the one-room schoolhouse to a system with two state-of-the-art high schools today. Eastern College in Front Royal – briefly Roller Typing College – was mostly torn down in the 1900s, and Reliance College burned, however Randolph-Macon Academy rebuilt in the 1920s fol-
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Religion Religious denominations of all stripes coexist today in Warren County, but the very first house of worship erected (1734) in what would become Warren represented a community of faith nearly lost to us today: the Quakers. Anglican tradition in the 1700s predominated in the Forks region until late in that century, when Baptist
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national park in this region, an idea built in part on the reputation of Warren County and its neighbors for recreation and relaxation, developed into Shenandoah National Park. Officially opened to the public upon the completion of Skyline Drive in 1936, Shenandoah National Park remains a popular attraction for the local and visiting population, although its creation did involve the confiscation of some private lands. Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park on Warren County’s western side, George Washington National Forest along the south and west of the county, and the Raymond “Andy” Guest Shenandoah River State Park in the middle of the county create an archipelago of parks and campsites connected by trails both internal and linked to each other, the famous Appalachian Trail meandering along Warren’s eastern bounds.
The Warren Heritage Society plans a series of events to mark the 225th anniversary of the founding of the Town of Front Royal. Learn more by visiting them on Chester St. in Front Royal or by calling 540-636-1446. Their website is at: warrenheritagesociety.org
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“We can negotiate water/sewer rates for our corridor customers, which we often do. But we are not in the position to ‘give away’ our system and have the town taxpayer subsidize the taxpayers of Warren, Shenandoah and Rappahannock Counties.” – Bret Hrbek on his no vote
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The RSW “Theme Park” rises By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Following a closed session after a laborious March 11 meeting at which individual showboating and political posturing appeared to take precedence at times over substantive discussion, the Front Royal Town Council took action toward a compromise solution on the long-simmering impasse with the RSW (Rappahannock-Shenandoah-Warren) Regional Jail over water and sewer central utilities. That action was a 4-2 vote, Hrbek and Parker dissenting, to offer the regional jail authority a monthly rate 37.5 percent above the in-town rate (1.375 of the in-town rate), but 62.5 percent below the normal double out-of-town water-sewer rate on the first 540,000 gallons used monthly. Town Manager Steve Burke later explained the 540,000-gallon measuring point was reached by multiplying the 18,000 gallon per day projected water usage at the jail times 30. The jail would pay the normal outof-town double connection fees for water-sewer hook up. The town would vote later on any necessary ordinance change to accept cistern-collected rainwater used in jail systems, laundry and cooling
have been proposed by the jail. As an accommodation of the lower monthly rates over a 20-year or longer period, the regional jail would not bill the town for its inmates housed in the jail as has been proposed for all towns in the three involved counties. The utility rates would be revisited after 20 years but the jail could not get better than the initially proposed in-town rate plus 37.5 percent of its first 540,000 gallons. The loyal opposition In explaining his opposition, ViceMayor Parker said he thought the offered compromise gave the jail authority a better deal than it had asked for either at the outset of the cisternlaundry water suggestion two years ago, or what he understood council put on the table following the March 4 work session, a 50 percent above the in-town rate on monthly usage. “One concern is that the town has been backed against the wall. The RSW Jail Authority is saying if we don’t get this or that we’ll put in our own water and sewer plants at risk of impacts on wells in the area, as well as of polluting a potential water supply at McKay Spring. “My other concern is that with
breaks on out-of-town rates to the regional jail we’re not just subsidizing Warren County residents who live out of town, but are also subsidizing Rappahannock and Shenandoah County residents – all on the back of town citizens. “The county board of supervisors is supposed to represent all the county’s residents, including the 40 percent living in town. But they are not stepping up to the plate for anyone living in Front Royal and it is those citizens who own the town water-sewer system. And that’s where I have a problem with this. “The county supervisors all have a say in what goes on with the regional jail because Warren County will be responsible for 50 percent of costs of the jail [due to projected inmate populations]. And the jail should be treated like any other business in the corridor. But they (the county supervisors) are essentially saying ‘the hell with the corridor agreement and the town.’ You either represent 100 percent of your citizens including those in town or you don’t,” Parker concluded. “I voted against it for two reasons, Hrbek told us. “One, we made the RSW Jail Authority a more than reasonable offer previously. We offered 1.5 times our water and sewer rates for 15 years plus acceptance of rain water into our system. They rejected that offer and asked for 1.25 times the rate for the life of the Authority. We can negotiate water/sewer rates for our corridor customers, which we often do. But we are not in the po-
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After backing off a threat to entirely bypass town central water-sewer in favor of building its own costly systems on site, RSW Authority officials said they would prefer to buy into the town utilities if they were allowed to dump cistern-collected rainwater used in jail cooling and
laundry systems into the town sewer system; pay the double out-of-town connection fees (estimated at $1.362 million, half of which might be paid by the state Department of Corrections); while being allowed to pay the base in-town utility rate on all subsequent water and sewer service (estimated cost of $4.4 million over 20 years versus double that at normal out of town rate). Three other options were still on the table that ranged from building its own systems at an estimated total cost of $5.36 million, $3.96 million in up-front construction and $2.7 million in maintenance and operations over 20 years; to paying the full town rates with projected total costs of $8.03 million over 20 years.
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RSW Jail offers ‘olive branch’ in seeking compromise Jail Authority seeks in-town rates, limited cistern dumping for full utility tie-in
Area B and C Cells - courtesy photo Moseley Architects By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Well, they didn’t exactly say, “We come in peace – take us to your leader,” – but on March 4 the RSW Regional Jail Authority did offer “an olive branch” seeking compromise on a water-sewer impasse threatening not only “bad interplanetary relations”, but also another round of 522 Corridor litigation likely to spill over into town-county relations. That impasse the olive branch was seeking to end began when the previous council decided against amending town codes to allow the regional jail under construction in the 522 North Commercial Corridor to dump collected rainwater for use in its laundry and cooling systems into the town’s wastewater/sewer system. The jail authority had developed a plan to collect rainwater in a rooftop cistern for laundry and cooling system uses as a means of gaining a fed-
eral green-facility “Leeds” Citation and realizing water use savings cited from $682,000 to $1 million over 20 years ($34,000 to $50,000 per year). However, council opponents worried over precedent setting for other corridor business requests to bypass portions of the town’s utility service in the corridor, as well as a lack of monitoring oversight of exactly what would be coming into the town’s wastewater system with that used jail water. That the latter concern (at least) was possibly a valid one may have been indicated by a March 4 observation engineering consultant Ron Mislowsky made that if now allowed, the cistern-laundry water would be diverted into other on-site water to make it easier to treat. In the wake of a closed jail authority meeting on Feb. 28, Mislowsky presented the town with four options covering the gamut of possible future directions from a total bypass of
town utilities through construction of a 20,000-gallon on-site wastewater treatment plant and groundwaterdependent water system – and likely litigation related to the town-county 522 Corridor Agreement) to tying into water and sewer service from the town and using cistern-collected water only for the jail’s cooling system. The preferred option cited by jail officials, Option 4, would see the jail not build any on-site plant, buy into the town’s central water-sewer system; pay the double out-of-town connection fees (estimated at $1.36 million); but receive in-town rates on monthly usage; and be allowed to dump cistern-collected water used in laundry and cooling operations into the town wastewater system after being adequately treated on site. RSW Jail Authority Chairman (and Warren County Administrator) Doug Stanley attempted to lighten the mood when he pointed out the cost to the jail of building its own water plant versus buying into the town
water system was “pun intended – a wash.” Stanley continued that after 20 years it would actually be cheaper for the jail to have built its own water plant, though he stated “we really don’t want to build our own but we will if we must … but we would rather work toward a mutually beneficial solution.” You going to sue us? After Mislowsky presented the four options to the town officials and fielded some questions, Councilman Bret Hrbek asked, “Are you going to sue us?” “We’re ready to move forward with an on-site plant if the town won’t reconsider [allowing some cistern-collected water into the sewer system]. But we are here with an olive branch,” Stanley replied. After a brief discussion of the RSW Authority’s Option 4 preference allowing the jail to pay in-town rates on monthly use, Hrbek, perhaps poking a little for absent Vice-Mayor
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Sunday, March 17, 2013 St. Patrick’s Day 10:30am - 11:30am Miss Shamrock Pageant. American Legion Post 53, Front Royal. Little, Pre-Teen, Junior Miss and Miss Shamrock Pageant. Admission: $5.00/adults; $2.00/students (ages 5-14) and under is FREE. Registration will be held at “Driver’s Choice” located at rear entrance to Daily Grind from 6:00p - 7:30p on Thursday, February 7,Tuesday, February 19 and Thurs-
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with the Work Session beginning at 7:00p. 7pm - 8pm BZA Meeting. County of Warren Government Center. 7pm - 8pm Council Work Session. Town Hall, Front Royal. Tonight the Town Council will have a Work Session in the Town Hall Conference Room located on the 3rd floor. For an agenda please look under the “e-services” tab of this website. Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesdays. 95.3 - the River radio station. Hear the latest tourism related news and events every Tuesday at 12:30! If you can’t listen live check out the podcasts at http://www.theriver953online.com.
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“This reminds me of Italy in the 1930s - it doesn’t make me feel comfortable,” Vicente said. After adding he was not well versed in public affairs – he never did explain which part of Italian fascism the Kratos proposal reminded him of – he pivoted nicely toward the UN Proposition 21 fear
Familiar Kratos faces, progressive plan divides council Work toward aggressive economic development partnership rejected
Matt Tederick calls out Councilman Bret Hrbek and Vice-Mayor Shae Parker for their involvement with early stages of the Kratos proposal. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report After extensive internal debate and public comment, on March 11 the Front Royal Town Council voted to reject signing a Letter of Intent to continue movement toward a public-private partnership to develop a commercial growth model for the town’s future. Actually it was Mayor Tim Darr who drove a stake through the heart of the notion of further exploration of an aggressive development-visioning partnership (described elsewhere in this issue) with consultant Kratos Infrastructure. Bret Hrbek’s amendment to his
original motion to approve sought a delay on a vote on the Letter of Intent until April 22 to allow further legal research and council discussion. When the vote deadlocked at 3-3 (Hrbek-Tewalt-Parker for; FunkSayre-Tharpe against), Darr broke the tie against a delay, saying he felt council should move one way or the other that night. With the writing on the wall along fairly predictable lines, Funk’s consequent motion to disapprove signing the Letter of Intent with Kratos then passed unanimously – no sense beating a dead horse supporters of exploring the arrangement may have surmised – or was there more at play
Yea, yea - we’ve heard this sort of innuendo before, Bret Hrbek may have been thinking as Matt Tederick blasted away. there? That the involved company, Kratos Infrastructure, has three familiar faces including Tom Conkey, Michael Graham and Willi Lauterbach, respectively a former town councilman, town manager and private sector investment strategist involved in an also-town-dumped solar energy partnership with the town, seemed to weigh heavily on the minds of some who commented. Among those were two who cited concerns about UN Proposition 21, a professionally-endorsed, “smart” planning initiative some ultra-conservatives see as a
UN conspiracy against America and American property rights. Chief among that group were an unsuccessful 2012 council candidate, Manuel Vicente; and to a lesser extent unsuccessful 2012 mayoral candidate Tim Ratigan. While Ratigan worried over implications related to UN Proposition 21 that seeks to direct growth worldwide adjacent to existing growth and utility infrastructure as a means of preserving more remote and undeveloped agricultural land, he suggested not rejection of the Kratos proposal, but further study and public meetings.
Also railing against the Kratos initiative and the timing of the requested vote on a Letter of Intent brought forward by an old political enemy, was local Republican activist Matt Tederick. In fact, Tederick complimented Ratigan, with whom he has often been at odds, for his idea of scheduling a public meeting on the Kratos proposal. However, perhaps more troubling was Tederick’s suggestion the mayor block off six hours for such a meeting, “Because I want two hours of it.” On the other side of the public weighing in positively on a possible town-Kratos partnership were three people with downtown business interests, including two Failmezgers, Patricia (co-owner with her husband Tory, of several East Main Street commercial rental properties) and Christian (co-owner with
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“[The Kratos proposal] Reminds me of the current administration in Washington and the Health Care Bill” (I guess that’s better than Mussolini in Rome in the 1930s). – Harry Reid (not the Democratic senator) on opposition to Kratos Letter of Intent wife Rachel of restaurant and wine and cheese shop Vino124), as well as Daily Grind proprietor Herb Melreath; and another unsuccessful 2012 council candidate, Linda Allen, with ties to the Downtown Business Association. All four of those supporters of at least exploring and hopefully devel-
oping an aggressive pro-business model for the Town of Front Royal lamented the state of the town’s current business climate, including vacant and sometimes deteriorating downtown store fronts and derelict properties near town entrances. But if those four with experience in, as well as vested interests in an
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Town’s future “This reminds me of Italy in the 1930s – it doesn’t make me feel comfortable,” Vicente said. After adding that he was not well versed in public affairs – he never did explain which part of Mussolini’s Italian fascism the Kratos proposal reminded him of – Vicente said, “I’m going to assume this is fair and above board – I’m going to say that (did I miss a wink, wink at this point?)” before pivoting nicely toward the UN Proposition 21 fear. “Let’s get rid of the UDAs (Urban Development Areas that used to be state law) like the state says we can,” Vicente asked council in parting. to D.C. promoted Health Care Harry Reid (not the Democratic Senate leader) opened the public comments by stating the Kratos proposal, “Reminds me of the current administration in Washington and the Health Care Bill” (I guess that’s better than Mussolini in Rome in the 1930s). Reid questioned the experience of the Kratos team*, “It’s like these people just walked in and said, ‘Here’s the way’ … I’m not an armchair cowboy, I know what I’m talking about here,” Reid closed in criticizing any solar energy component to the Kratos plan. Direct the witness to respond
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At one point as the debate moved to council, Daryl Funk, after making clear his opposition to dealings of this nature with Kratos, appeared to confuse his professional and public roles, the former as an attorney, the latter as a town councilman. Funk took the floor in front of the
council dais, lapel mike attached, by a stand with a blank sheet of paper. He then engaged Hrbek in a testy exchange on the logistics of how a Kratos-Front Royal arrangement would work. At one point Funk explained his tactic by saying, “I don’t understand this and want to be educated.” But after about nine minutes of that education – or not – Mayor Darr attempted to redirect Funk toward his public role, rather than one that might be interpreted as a courtroom cross examination of a hostile witness with conflicting business interests, not to mention ideological ones. “I don’t mean to be rude … but could you wrap this up? I think you’ve made your point and I think everyone up here understands your point,” Darr told Funk seeking movement toward a vote of some kind that night. After the vote to kill positive movement toward an arrangement with Kratos, Hrbek told us, “I look forward to my colleagues bringing forward their own ideas of economic development for Front Royal as soon as possible.”
*Footnote: Graham’s background is the corporate private sector; Conkey retired from procurement with military contractor Raytheon; and Lauterbach one regaled me with stories of national and international business deals he’d been a part of – but of course they’re just points on a resume or stories over lunch currying favor with the media – and Kratos itself is a relatively new business entity
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Kratos, Conkey respond to public comments As we approached deadline on March 13, we received the following press release from Kratos Infrastructure’s Tom Conkey regarding comments made prior to a vote on proceeding with a Letter of Intent toward the company’s proposal for a public-private partnership with the town for developing an economic growth plan: The recent Front Royal Town Council discussion and vote on Monday March 11, 2013 regarding a Letter of Intent with Kratos Infrastructure, LLC has given rise to comment and innuendo based solely on conjecture, speculation and ignorance of the facts surrounding the intentions or expectations of all those involved. The Letter of Intent’s purpose was only to initiate conversation regard-
ing possibilities for Front Royal that would benefit its citizenry with an array of infrastructure and business opportunities that would create jobs, enhance economic stability and improve the quality of life. The intent was that Front Royal would decide on and develop a long-term business plan that would encompass
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to enhance or expand government. In fact the whole perspective taken was to remove as much control as possible starting with the subsidies from the State and Federal agencies that have subsidized quality of life in the past. Our role in all of this was to simply assist in defining and facilitating Front Royal’s goals – not to become a beast of burden. We will never know what can be done or should be done until someone, or a group of people, sits and deliberates the
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Romie Nickels, Barbara Stevens, Patrick McCauley and Gerard Raoult on stage. Annie and Mac, center, with new friends Bernadette and Gerard Raoult By Carol Ballard Warren County Report The folks who came to Front Royal’s First Baptist Church on Feb. 5 to hear Patrick McCauley and Barbara Stevens, who perform as Annie and Mac, expected them to play their familiar back porch music, but they got a surprise when Frenchman Gerard Raoult, who had been “kidnapped” by his wife Bernadette, joined them on harmonica. “He didn’t know where we were going, I just told him we were going
to the USA,” Bernadette said with a big smile. Bernadette and Gerard live in St. Georges du Vevre, a city in Normandy, France and Bernadette explained that they are members of a group there called Normandie Country that is dedicated to learning about and taking part in “all things Western”, as in Country and Western, American-style. They enjoy dancing the two-step, and do line and square dancing, but love of American Country and Western music came first and Ge-
rard shares his appreciation of the music with his father who was a fan of Kenny Rogers. “Gerard plays ‘Old-time’ music like Bluegrass and the Blues with Normandie Country,” she said. Their visit this time happened because Gerard saw a video that Patrick and Barbara made of themselves singing and playing and put on You Tube. He dreamed about meeting them but didn’t think it was
sible, so Bernadette saw it as a chance to surprise him for his upcoming 60th birthday on Feb. 8. Keeping it a secret from was hard, she said, but she managed to arrange and organize the trip with Patrick and Barbara to make his dream come true. “Last October, it was a big surprise for everyone to get the email from Bernadette and I told her they
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Community zette that evening for all of them, hoping to be able to find sparkling apple cider and camembert cheese that typically accompany the dish. “I’m really happy. I couldn’t have planned it any better,” she said. For those not familiar with “Annie and Mac”, they are from Front Royal and are well-known in this area for entertaining in many senior centers in Warren and surrounding counties, in addition to parties, festivals, weddings, farm markets and all kinds of other events, Some of the songs they played on Tuesday with Patrick on banjo and harmonica and Barbara on guitar were old standard American favorites-like love Song by Tennessee Ernie Ford, “Bird on a Wing”, and “Jambalaya”. They were joined by Romie Nickels on harmonica and Gerard. “It’s just like playing on the back porch. It’s an easy style and people like it because we don’t play too fast, and senior citizens also like our music because they grew up with it,” Patrick said. Their website characterizes much of their music as, “old time songs that tell stories of everyday joys and struggles. The breakdowns and reels propel listeners to rhythms and dance that can go on and on with fun and laughter.” “We keep our music alive and do play at home all the time on our back porch,” Patrick said with a smile. They’ve attracted a whole new fan base from other countries in addition to their elder crowd and French friends by way of the internet. “Since we put videos on You Tube, it’s been such an outpouring of people from different countries like Newfoundland, Canada and
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“The urgency is set on the plan … It is more that we need to get this done and the process itself will be 6-8 months long. We don’t have the luxury of time while our economy continues to suffer.” – Bret Hrbek on timing of vote on Kratos Letter of Intent
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Council moves toward decision on Kratos proposal By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report
At a March 4 work session the Front Royal Town Council agreed to a request by Councilman Bret Hrbek to place a vote on exploring a public-private developmental partnership with Kratos Infrastructure LLC on the agenda of its March 11 meeting (see related story). Hrbek first broached the subject at a Feb. 25 meeting and read a statement summarizing some aspects of what he terms “a non-binding Letter of Intent” to move forward with Kratos at
the March 4 meeting. And while some of the language of the Letter of Intent (LOI) appears to commit the town to certain actions related to the developmental model being suggested, Hrbek assured us approval of the LOI does not commit the town to anything other than timely movement toward approving or rejecting a formal agreement. “There isn’t a commitment on the part of the town from this LOI except that we will pursue a more formal agreement. We will also follow all laws of the Commonwealth in regards to procurement. That means we will
eventually go to an RFP (Request for Proposal) or the PPA (Public-Private Partnership Act) public hearing to determine the final outcome,” Hrbek explained on March 7, adding, “This LOI lays out the format an ultimate agreement would look like and what the purpose of discussions are.” We also asked Hrbek about references that appear to place the financing burden on Kratos as “the Master Developer” of any projects a partnership would lead to. “The financing refers to the private investors that Kratos will secure once they know that the town is committed to the project.” Hrbek added that the rapid move-
ment he requested to a vote on the proposal by council was an effort to set things in motion as the town competes with other municipalities to be best positioned for development when the national economy recovers, as well as to deal with an existing issues. “The urgency is set on the plan. And yes it is timely but the LOI doesn’t contemplate specific property so there isn’t a timeline based on what is available. It is more that we need to get this done and the process itself will be 6-8 months long. We don’t have the luxury of time while our economy continues to suffer,” Hrbek said.
As for the Kratos perspective, former Councilman Tom Conkey told us, “Council has a decision to make on Monday (March 11). I’ll be there to support them and answer any questions they may have. If they want to move forward, I’ll give you some additional information. If they don’t want to do anything, then there really isn’t anything for me to say.” The Kratos plan The Kratos plan reflects known variables like Warren Memorial Hospital’s desire to expand its campus, earmarked for property between John Marshall Highway and
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clude former Town Manager Michael Graham; and former SolAVerde and Standard Energy principal and investment strategist Willi Lauterbach. Both Lauterbach and Graham were involved from opposite sides of the private and public sphere in a 2009 solar energy proposal initially brought forward by SolAVerde Inc. SolAVerde initially proposed placement of solar energy panels on public buildings to the county and were referred to the town by County Administrator Doug Stanley due to the town’s operation of a municipal electric utility. After SolAVerde officials, including local businessmen Greg Horton and Donnie Poe, brought that solar
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sion of economic benefit to the town and community from the solar proposal. Those benefits had repeatedly been topics at town manager reports on the status of the solar negotiations. And while Hrbek and Tewalt, two of Graham and the solar proposal’s biggest council supporters were turned out of office in the wake of the negative solar publicity in 2010, as the publicly popular town manager Graham later was by the re-aligned council, they won re-election in 2012 as both Holloway and Lauder were defeated. So, does the current council makeup portend better luck in forward movement toward new ideas as to how the town will approach its future? Time, seven days to be precise, will tell. Unresolved questions Holloway and Lauder ended up being named as defendants, along with long-time Graham critic Tom Sayre, as defendants in an eventually-dismissed $30-million-plus lawsuit filed by Horton and Poe as principals of SolAVerde against the town and the three councilmen for slander, defamation of character and interference in a business contract. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed due in part to a finding of sovereign immunity for the town and councilmen, as well as a failure of the plaintiffs to present adequate evidence of premeditated sabotage of the solar energy proposal and other aspects of their case prior to trial. The inability to identify, depose and cross examine the source of the Robinett memo media leak was instrumental in the failure of the plaintiff case, Horton and Poe believe.
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Portrait of the journalist as a “young dog” proudly displaying pet portraits present from Helga Heiberg during March 10 East Main Street birthday party. Photo Susan O’Kelley By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report With my recent experience as a heart attack victim it’s reassuring to hear that people live to be considerably older than 64 or 65 and can enjoy doing it. So, I was happy to be invited to the 80th birthday parties – it was a veritable weekend festival – for Warren County Report’s contributing writer, Malcolm Barr, Sr., of Rockland, though none of the parties were out that way.
Malcolm, who has become not only a co-worker, but also an exceptionally good friend, is a former Associated Press journalist who retired to the area after a 25-year career as a federal government publicist. So, I find his resultant multidimensional perspective invaluable. But back to the here and now – as Malcolm told us as his wild weekend was winding down on his actual birthday, March 10, his celebration of a landmark milestone in anyone’s life kind of got away from him. He
explained that while he was quietly organizing his own “little” March 10 party to mark a visit by his brother Neville from the UK, said brother, wife Carol and other unindicted coconspirators were collaborating with Pat and Tony Inderbitzen – the latter of the Humane Society of Warren County board – for a “surprise” party marking his 80th the previous evening. That one involved a cozy gathering of 75 of Mal’s friends and the traditional birthday cake and other refreshments – the finger food and dinner the following day were far less traditional … but tasty! On March 10 - the big “EIGHTZERO” - another 60 or so people jammed into the popular Main Street restaurant, Vino124, where the celebration featured not a cake, but a comical solo of a much-altered version of the “Whiffenpoof Song” by
the 74-year-old UK brother, and a visit by Wayside Theatre artistic director Warner Crocker and vivacious lead actress Thomasin Savaiano. Barr
was a member of Wayside’s board and is an ardent supporter of the theater. Harried restaurant operators Rachel and Christian Failmezger observed, “He told us 25 people and I think there are 60 here!” (Gee, its nice to have friends, and customers too of course) Two party vet like yours truly and former town manager Mike Graham wondered aloud “when this was all going to end so we can get some rest!” Meanwhile, Helga Heiberg, local prize winning artist of the Blue Ridge Arts Council, had an outstanding pastel rendering of Barr’s most recent and favorite pets, including a brood mare, an aging (now deceased) Japanese chin named Hamlet; his current companions, a black pug named Ophelia and Lola, a Siberian husky. Barr has been active in dog rescue and animal welfare since he was 16, including two years recently as president of HSWC. Barr and a former Capitol Hill staffer, Patricia Slifka, of Bayse, have marked their birthdays together since 1973. “Somehow, we always managed
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Community me. He joked that his family doctor, Thomas Ball, gave him at least another “10 to 15 years” after his last physical. So, hoping for the same and a second, third or fourth opinion on certain “post-incident” restrictions, Malcolm introduced me to the good doctor at the Vino bash. “If you want a promising longevity prognosis, here’s the man for you,” Malcolm told me. That’s WHO?!!?
Sunday party photographed by Paul Hutchins, includes Thomasin Saviano and brother Neville, top left; Dr. Ball and Warner Crocker, bottom left; and two unidentified party animals to right, one at bottom with the birthday boy. to have lunch or do a party or whatever,” Barr said after introducing Slifka to his Front Royal entourage at the Sunday night festivities. “We were on opposite political sides on the Hill,” Barr said, “but we always remained fast friends.” At the Saturday night (March 9) “surprise” party at the Inderbit-
zens place, south of town (Malcolm told me it really was a surprise - “I’ve done this to a few other people but never thought anyone, particularly my wife, could pull this on me!”) it turned out there were several coconspirators. According to the victim of the conspiracy those conspirators included Susan O’Kelly of Blue
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At the March 9 gathering where brother Neville had pulled together photos and letters home from many parts of the world, some of us were surprised by what the birthday boy calls his “checkered past.” I was amazed at an array of on-the-job photos from: the DMZ line dividing North and South Korea where, where he reported that as a military writer in the 1960s he had come close to being shot by a North Korean guard while obliviously straying into “no-man’s land” between the two countries; Saigon, where enemy fire penetrated the tail structure of the United Airlines charter flight he and his then wife were on; and his self-described “idyllic days” in Honolulu while covering Pacific military headquarters “during Vietnam”; and his training with army and marines for eventual assignment as a war correspondent (he never got the sought-after assignment and was sent to Washington, D.C. instead). “A different war zone!” said Mal, who ultimately covered the 1968 race riots in the capital. Regardless, he was invited into the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents’ Association and is a proud member to this day. And before his UK expatriation (was that part of the British “brain drain” of the 1950s and ’60s, Mal?) he served three years in the
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Leader of the pack A focal point for the dogs of Front Royal and Warren County after the snow storm was the county Dog Park at the end of Luray Avenue . Like a harbinger of spring (vernal equinox date is March 20) the animals frolicked through the March 8th to 10th weekend as owners watched and delighted in their antics. The identities of these dogs are too numerous to mention, or even to remember. Their activities were recorded by Neville Barr (see story on brother Mal’s birthday parties elsewhere in this issue).
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By Roger Bianchini & Malcolm Barr, Sr. ‘A Taste for Books’ 2 at Library Calling the promotion “A Taste For Books: The Second Edition,” Samuels Public Library is doing a reprise of its last year’s fundraiser on April 20. Apart from a place to read and reflect, the library that evening, from 6 p.m. on, will be a rendezvous to wine and dine. Under director Nikki Lynch, the library continues to build on its considerable history: The Front Royal Librarian Society, chartered in 1799 and incor-
porated in 1836, was the second subscription library in the Commonwealth. It was renamed in 1952 after Dr. Bernard Samuels who donated a building to house the library. Samuels’s brother, Walter, enabled the library to build a new facility, opening 1980, then moving to its new and present quarters on Criser Road in 2009. You may purchase your tickets for the April 20 event at the counter, or call 635-3153 for information. Rotary/4H Golf seeks players
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looking for golfers to compete in its 15th annual charity golf tournament on April 8 that it cosponsors with Northern Virginia 4-H Educational Center. Entry is $300 per team ($75 apiece that includes golf fees, cart, food and prizes. For information, call Byron Pitts (703)409-6639. RSW – annexation logic?
During a recent town council discussion of the much-covered elsewhere in this edition dealings between the Town of Front Royal and the RSW Regional Jail on central water-sewer, ViceMayor Shae Parker took the op-
portunity to utilize the regional jail’s initial stance it would be more economically viable for them to build their own wastewater treatment plant than buy into the town’s system to make a point. – “They have precisely proven the argument I have tried to make that the business corridor is not business friendly. When a not-for-profit organization like the regional jail authority cannot make the numbers crunch to connect to our water and sewer system, [the business model] is broken.” Parker suggested that as Walter Duncan has asserted to council on multiple occasions in
2011-12, the fix to that broken model is a boundary adjustment bringing the 522 Commercial Corridor into the town limits. “If it was boundary adjusted the regional jail authority would be saving on their tap fees, would be saving on their monthly water and sewer bills. But Warren County, which is responsible for 50 percent of the jail costs, as well as operational costs for this facility won’t even entertain the idea,” Parker said. rogerb@warrencountyreport.com WarrenCountyVA.com
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television, as well. However, in addition to the comedic episodes she recalls, she is also very distinct in terms of her personal life and how her lack of social adaptation made relationships almost impossible in so many situations. She seemed able to forget all barriers on stage, yet had difficulty making small talk, paving the way toward something more tangible. Rachel is painfully honest about this aspect of her personality and, aside from the fact that you often have great difficulty breathing due to the outbursts of laughter at her candid recollections, you may find yourself feeling a twinge of trepi Front Royal Women’s Resource dation hidden between the lines. Center and Royal Oak Bookshop Ms. Dratch is very skillful in donate books to Samuels Public Li- bringing to the surface the fact that brary that are by or about women. being a comedienne is one of the This book is a recent donation and most difficult parts to play, and the ‘dog eat dog’ atmosphere that suris available for checkout. rounds one in this field is forever Taking this book in hand is the present and all-encompassing. At same as requesting a front row times, Rachel had to deal with not seat at Saturday Night Live with only being consistently produca few important differences: the tive but in some circles, did not comedic frenzies you will be ex- pass the test for baring a comely posed to will not always be funny; appearance. Crude remarks were one might recall similar personal not infrequent and did nothing associations the author experi- except make her feel she was conenced that were painful; everyone stantly on a tightrope. Perhaps does not always leave laughing but this is true in all facets of the enis left with the feeling that the best tertainment business, but if you is yet to come if one does not give are doing a stand-up comedy rouup hope. Rachel Dratch, formerly tine that somehow does not seem of SNL and 30 ROCK, is convinc- to resonate on all levels with the ingly adept at conveying these sce- audience, ‘forgetaboutit’. Most imnarios. She is very funny on paper portantly, however, in this memoir and was successful at her craft on Rachel delves into the fact that
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Tax deal for donation to FRPD Foundation Anyone who has procrastinated about getting their taxes done just might be in luck. On Wednesday, March 20, 2013, Liberty Tax Service in the Royal Plaza Shopping Center will be offering a special deal: they will do your taxes for free, if you make a $125 donation to The Front Royal Police Foundation. The offer is good only for 2012 individual Federal and State income tax returns, but still represents a significant savings for individuals. “The typical cost of tax preparation ranges from $165 to $400,” says Bryan Williams, owner of Liberty Tax Service. “So the average person is saving over $200.” In addition to that, points out Celeste Brooks, current chair of the Board of Directors for the Front Royal Police Foundation, the donation will be tax-deductible on your 2013 taxes. The Foundation strives to close the gap between the police department’s budget and its actual needs. The mission statement also includes developing police programs; last year, the Foundation brought in funds to pay for officer training and Operation Blue Christmas. The offer from Liberty Tax Service includes federal and state tax returns started on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. For more information, contact Liberty Tax at (540) 6222500. Or donations can be made at any time to: Front Royal Police Foundation, Inc., 24 West Main Street, Front Royal, VA 22630 – c/o Deputy Chief Mark Werner – From a release
ing birth and especially when she talks about her parents, who, with this advent, become grandparents for the first time. It will touch your soul. This is a forthright, extremely amusing and encouraging chronicle. With all of the setbacks, unexpected pitfalls and
disappointments she experienced, Rachel Dratch never resisted trying to get to that place in her life where everything seemed to mesh together. It is an ageless lesson to be learned that, “where there is life, there is hope!” – Sheila Lamonzs, reviewer
Va. residents encouraged to nominate senior volunteers The search is on for Virginia’s outstanding senior volunteer. The Salute to Senior Service program, sponsored by Home Instead, Inc., the franchisor of the Home Instead Senior Care network, honors the contributions of adults 65 and older who give at least 15 hours a month of volunteer service to their favorite causes. Nominations for outstanding senior volunteers will be accepted between Feb. 1 and March 31, 2013. State winners then will be selected by popular vote at SalutetoSeniorService. com. Online voting will take place from April 15 to April 30, 2013. From those state winners, a panel of senior care experts will pick the national Salute to Senior Service honoree. Home Instead, Inc. will donate $500 to each of the state winners’ favorite nonprofit organizations and their stories will be posted on the Salute to Senior Service Wall of Fame. In addition, $5,000 will be donated to the national winner’s nonprofit charity of choice. “We all know seniors who do so much for our community,” said Aaron Blight, owner of the Home Instead Senior Care of-
fice serving Winchester, Frederick, Warren, Shenandoah and Clarke Counties. “These silent heroes give selflessly, expecting nothing in return. And yet, their contributions often make a difference not only to the organizations they serve, but in changing how the public views growing older.” Senior care professionals and those who work at hospitals, senior care facilities and other places where seniors volunteer are encouraged to nominate older adults. So, too, are family caregivers and the adult children of aging parents. Older adults also may self-nominate. To complete and submit a nomination form online for a senior age 65 or older who volunteers at least 15 hours a month, and to view the contest’s official rules, visit SalutetoSeniorService.com. Completed nomination forms also can be mailed to Salute to Senior Service, P.O. Box 285, Bellevue, NE 68005. For more information about Salute to Senior Service or the Home Instead Senior Care network’s services, call (540) 7228750.
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Humane Society prepares as ‘Kitten Season’ approaches
By Marcy Gallo Kennel Director Humane Society of Warren County April showers bring May flowers but the warmer temperatures also foretell that the dreaded kitten season is near. What is kitten season you may wonder? Kitten season is the time of year when animal shelters across the nation are flooded with kittens. In our area kitten season starts in May, peaks in July and August and tapers off in the late fall. During the summer months the intake of cats and kittens doubles at the Humane Society of Warren County. During the peak months, HSWC will take in nearly 200 cats and kittens each month. This puts an incredible strain on our already limited resources. The Humane Society of Warren County struggles to save the lives of all the kittens that enter our shelter. This is an incredibly daunting task. Many of the kittens that are brought to the shelter are not old enough to be adopted. The shelter is a stressful place for kittens to grow up. Kittens have a weakened immune system and are more susceptible to common feline illnesses. Some cats that enter the shelter will come down with an Upper Respiratory Infection (URI) which is similar to the common cold. Adult cats can usually recover from a URI in 10-14 days. Kittens are much more susceptible to becoming seriously ill from a URI-similar to infants and the flu. With so many kittens coming in each day it is a constant struggle to keep the kittens healthy.
From left are Porshia, Cricker and Mosby and Castiel Many of the kittens brought to the shelter are orphaned and underage. These kittens are especially hard to save. Orphaned kittens need to be bottle fed every 2-4 hours until they are old enough to eat on their own. Many of these kittens come in and are already sick. It takes a team of dedicated staff and volunteers to try to save these babies. What can you do to help? The most important thing is to spay and neuter our own animals. Many of the kittens surrendered to the shelter come from owners whose cats unexpectedly became pregnant. Cats can get pregnant as young as 5 months old. It is also possible for a female cat to become pregnant while she is still nursing. Even if you have a male cat it is essential to get him fixed. One male can father many litters of kittens with different females. Females can have up to 3 litters in one year, with each litter averaging 6 kittens each. That’s 18 kittens that need to find homes in an already saturated market. We partner with the Shenandoah Valley Spay/Neuter clinic to offer an affordable spay/neuter option. The cost is $60 per cat. If you are inter-
ested in signing your cat up please contact the shelter. An important part of the equation to help save lives is the availability of foster families. Fosters care for kittens that are orphaned, underage or sick is vital. Foster families typically keep the kittens until they are old enough and healthy enough to be adopted. If you don’t have the time to care for kittens we also need fosters
to care for adult cats. Cats can become very stressed out in their kennel and they just need a break for a week or two. This helps keep them healthy and adoptable. Looking for other ways to help? Volunteers play an integral part in saving lives. Volunteers can participate in off-site adoption events. Getting our animals out into the com-
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By Ken Thurman Warren County Report I had an opportunity to visit the Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC) and speak with Michael Kerns on their staff. Michael introduced me to six cats and explained to me their individual special needs. These are cats that deserve a second chance but have either a long-term care issue or in some cases rather mild challenges, like stunted growth or a previous injury. So, if you are thinking about a cat, check out these loving animals in need of a good home. The humane society has had a record year adopting both cats and dogs. Upcoming events include the Kitten Shower March 23rd complete with Easter Bunny and a lot of fun and their Spring “Wellness” Clinic April 28th (10:00 am -2:00 pm) for animal rabies and other shots (plus a yard and bake sale). For more information contact the HSWC animal shelter at (540) 6354734 or email the shelter at info@humanesocietywarrencounty.org
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Engle’s Angle: Samoas®, Shortbreads and Savannah Smiles® By Kevin S. Engle Warren County Report A couple months ago, I ordered Girl Scout cookies from two coworkers. Three boxes from one and two from the other. Their girls were selling them for the first time. And my coworkers? I’d soon find out they were rookies as well. When my first order arrived, so did an email. “They’re at my desk,” she said. “Come and get’m!” If the Post Office won’t deliver on Saturday, I guess Girl Scout moms can do the same thing during the week. When I got home, I was sure there’d been a mistake. I opened one box, and the bag inside. Half the cookies were missing! Did she eat them? And the ones that were there? There were roughly the size of a marble! My Savannah Smiles® didn’t make me all that happy. Ok, what’s going on here? I paid four bucks a box. Where are my cookies? A few days later, I got another email. This was for order #2. “They’re in the trunk of my car,” he tells me. “Next time you go outside, let me know and we’ll make the exchange.” The exchange? What is this? A drug deal? Obviously, Girl Scout dad isn’t big on delivery either. “What did you order?” he asked. I don’t have the list.” “I don’t know. We did this two
months ago.” What kind of operation are we running here? This guy is an embarrassment to Girl Scout nation. He tried to blame it on his wife, saying she lost the order form. At this point, I’m surprised they didn’t give me a list of ingredients along with baking instructions and tell me to figure it out myself. Yeah, I know, I shouldn’t complain. This is for a good cause. But why should I have to suffer? When I was a Girl Scout, I didn’t treat my customers like this. Ok, I never was a Girl Scout. They didn’t want me. In years past, I wanted Girl Scout cookies more often than just this time of year. I’m not so sure about that now. The next time, if there is one, this is what I want. I want a full bag of cookies. “Man sized” cookies. I want them delivered. To me. Not in someone’s trunk. And I want them for less than four bucks. And if I don’t get what I want? I don’t know. I haven’t thought that far ahead. Obviously, I was never a Boy Scout either.
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ZIRIN, from 5 viser to the MLB’s international relations department, said in 2007, “We don’t pay federations money for signing players anywhere in the world, and we don’t expect to do so. It’s certainly not a way to conduct business … When you see certain industries that are being nationalized, you begin to wonder if they are going to nationalize the baseball industry in Venezuela.” But despite the academy closures, baseball never stopped strip-mining Venezuela’s baseball hopefuls. Instead, they now sign Venezuelan children and whisk them off to the Dominican Republic to be trained, miles and an ocean apart from their families. Rather than be more humane in response to Chávez, MLB was just more brutal. I spoke with Illinois history professor and author of Playing America’s Game, Adrian Burgos Jr. He said it in perfect, albeit wrenching, fashion: The irony is palpable. On the same day “Mother Jones” publishes an article on Yewri Guillen’s death and the Washington Nationals’ lack of having a certified medical official on staff at its Dominican academy, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez dies. Certainly, Chávez’s demise makes MLB officials excited at the prospect of re-establishing their own blueprint for a baseball academy system being put into place in Venezuela, an effort that Chávez had forestalled. I still wonder who is/are the Latino representative(s) within the Commissioner’s Office speaking for Latinos. Do we need any more teenagers [like] Yewri Guillen, MLB prospect, dying for a lack of access to proper medical care due to a lack of health insurance and funds in the DR or Venezuela—health care that ought to have been, would have been, provided for such a signed prospect in the US? Dead prospects and dead president – I am wary of the road ahead in Venezuela and on its baseball diamonds. [Reprinted by permission of the author. First appeared on “The Nation” blog. Dave Zirin is the author of the new book “Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the SportsWorld Upside Down” (The New Press) Receive his column every week by emailing dave@ edgeofsports.com. Contact him at edgeofsports@gmail.com.]
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Pets Page Dear Stewart, Despite the cold weather, I see garden centers beginning to display trees for planting. This got me thinking about planting a flowering tree this spring. Which native flowering trees are best suited for this area while providing both beautiful flowers and benefits to local wildlife? Your fan, Peg Dear Peg,
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That’s a great question! As you might know, I love giant trees like oaks, maples and walnuts where I can run in the canopy, build my nest and find lots of nuts to eat. Nevertheless, I checked with the local birds, as well as experts with Virginia Cooperative Extension, to find out some of their favorite flowering landscape trees for our region. A top suggestion is the native Serviceberry(Amelanchier arborea/
Amelanchier canadensis). While thisslow-growing woodland tree can reach 40 feet in height, it is also often seen as a large clumping shrub. Small white flowers appear in early spring, followed by edible berries which are enjoyed by birds. The Fringetree(Chionanthus virginicus)is a small native tree boasting panicles of fragrant, creamy white flowers in May followed by dark blue berries. This beautiful tree can grow up to 30 feet and prefers full sun. Two of the most popular native trees in our area are Flowering Dogwood(Cornus florida) and Eastern Redbud(Cercis canadensis). Sadly, our native dogwood, the official state tree of Virginia, is under attack from both dogwood borer and dogwood anthracnose. Look for pink or white cultivars that are more resistant to pests and disease. For best results, don’t plant your dogwood in full sun and avoid dry, compacted soil. The much-beloved redbud, with its purplish-
pink flowers bursting in early spring, is a hardy tree which is more tolerant than dogwoods of variations in soil and light. Like serviceberry, it can be planted as a specimen tree with a single trunk or with a clumping, spreading crown. While large shade trees provide the framework for garden landscaping, a few well-placed flowering trees can offer food and shelter for birds and beneficial insects alike, as well as providing seasonal beauty for you, your family and neighbors to enjoy for years to come. For more information on selecting flowering trees for your landscape, visit the Virginia Cooperative Extension website at http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/category/trees-shrubs-groundcovers.html .To learn more about tree care and planting, visit the website of the Front Royal/Warren County Tree Stewards at www.treesfrontroyal.org.
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