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The owl embraces readers of all ages, as Kathy Jacobs discovered.

Samuels Library in Front Royal had a few special visitors recently. Students, teachers and the Owl mascot from Flint Hill’s Wakefield Country Day School (WCDS) were on hand to help the library’s youngest readers

learn about winter, do a little math, and investigate interesting facts about owls.

Led by Kathy Jacobs, the students and the Owl read and danced with the toddlers and pre-school children,

and Mr. Perry, the WCDS 9th grade and Middle School Science teacher, did a brief presentation about owls in our area. Later, the Owl and WCDS students helped the children make snowmen as part of the craft time during the youngsters story time visit.

The story time was part of Samuels Library’s efforts to build on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) as part of their children’s programming. WCDS Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten teachers, Mrs. McClung and Mrs. Shafran, also were there at the library and came away impressed with the level of engagement the children had with the stories, the movement activities and the crafts. The WCDS Owl and students will be participating in the Story Time again, so watch for programming details at the Samuels Library.

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Council exploring old town hall-Afton Inn property swap Small government proponent beats council to punch in announcement that,� Tederick began.

Here he injected that he had “no problem� with historic preservation “as evidenced by my office building – one of the oldest buildings in town.� He was speaking of the Peyton Street building he purchased cheap as part of a deal to hoist and move it to its current location several councils and town administrations ago.

However, Tederick elaborated that it is with government “funding� of such things, particularly regarding commercial buildings, that he took issue with. “Mr. Mayor, I question whether

that’s the role of government, to get involved in commercial ventures such as that,� Tederick said, adding that were the town involved in such a plan involving the Afton Inn that certain processes be followed.�

But from explanations outlined later in the meeting and offered in more detail later (see related story) it appears just such processes are being followed, though one might question why such an effort couldn’t be made public earlier. But unless one disagrees with very existence and essential function of local economic development authorities working in

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A plan to swap properties in order to gain municipal control of the once glorious but long-derelict Afton Inn at the main downtown intersection of the Town of Front Royal ran into trouble even before it became public – officially.

During public comments near the outset of the Jan. 18 Front Royal Town Council meeting, local conservative-Republican activist and former Warren County supervisor Matt Tederick expressed concern about a potential swap of the old Town Hall building on North Royal Avenue for the huge Afton Inn. Tederick prefaced this specific concern with an acknowledgement that while he had been approached about it “by a family member� he did not know if such a plan was true. But perhaps by fortuitous coincidence after that night’s Closed Session on the

“disposition of publicly held property ‌ on West Main Street and North Royal Avenueâ€? the potential property trade was made public, and a Jan 27 Public Hearing on the matter was announced.

Tederick’s misgivings came during a general expression of concern about the potential role of town government in future actions related to the most recent future “visioning� study for the town (see our Jan. 10 edition for detail).

During his Jan. 13 appearance before council, Tederick echoed comments of Councilman Daryl Funk five days earlier at a Jan. 8 joint meeting of council and the town planning commission on the Envision study report. “I have some serious concerns that are riddled throughout the document as far as the role of government. I think it’s weighted much too high on preservation of historic properties and the role of government in doing

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The former Town Hall – FDR and the New Deal built it and Republicans want to save it – go figure.

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The Afton Inn – a solid foundation, but it needs some work … proposal into the meeting record. A press release issued after the meeting echoed those comments: “The Mayor and Front Royal Town Council are pleased to announce that after months of negotiations, terms have been tentatively reached, which could result in the disposition of the Former Front Royal Town Hall located at 16 North Royal Avenue and the acquisition of the Afton Inn. The terms, once formally approved by all parties, will temporarily transfer the Town Hall to the Front Royal/Warren County Economic Development Authority (EDA). The EDA, with the assistance of its Executive Director,

Jennifer McDonald, brokered a property swap at the request of the Town with Afton Inn, LLC to exchange Town Hall for the Afton Inn, located at 2 East Main Street.

“The Town has been exploring options for the former Town Hall, which was erected in 1935, and is excited that the property will be entering the tax rolls as commercial property and anticipates one or more businesses to occupy the building. Furthermore, the Town Council is looking forward to working with the EDA in marketing and redeveloping the 1867 Afton Inn property.

“The agreement for the property

swap includes covenants that will protect the exterior appearance of the former Town Hall and give the Town the right to first refusal to buy back the former Town Hall should the property be advertised for sale in the future. In addition, the property swap will not include the Union Street public parking lot located behind the former Town Hall.”

Mayor Darr then announced a Public Hearing on the proposal to be held at the next council meeting, on Jan. 27, at the Warren County Government Center. He also directed citizen questions to the office of Town Manger Steve Burke at (540)

We inquired about the relative values of the two buildings.

EDA Executive Director Jennifer McDonald, who has been at the point of the negotiations, told us that the 2011 assessed value of Town Hall was $815,600 and that the Afton Inn was assessed at $515,000 at the same time. However, McDonald added that a 2013 appraisal had decreased the current value of Town Hall to $610,000. That $205,600 decrease was due to the discovered utility and other building infrastructure issues needing to be addressed before the property is reoccupied. She also noted that Afton Inn owner Frank Barros had quoted a sale price on the Afton Inn at $1.2 million when the EDA had approached him about a sale on behalf of the town several years ago after his initial elaborate development plans were put on indefinite hold around the time the national economy and building market tanked in 2008.

EDA role McDonald further explained that if council approves the plan – and a 5-vote “supermajority” would be

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required, we were told by the mayor – the EDA would assume ownership of Town Hall to facilitate the planned swap with Barros for the Afton Inn. A major concern of ours was whether the Afton Inn would be earmarked for demolition, possibly to facilitate expanded downtown parking. She replied that was not a working option and that the plan is to market the building that was once the centerpiece of downtown Front Royal culture to be redeveloped and that its historic value be maintained.

McDonald said she believed Barros was anxious to achieve the swap and bring the old Town Hall up to standard for commercial occupancy in short order.

While the Afton Inn was once the centerpiece of downtown Front Royal culture, the old hotel dating to 1867 fell into disrepair and vacancy over the past 20 to 30 years or so. The Afton Inn has been owned by Northern Virginia developer Frank Barros for nearly a decade. The town administrative offices were moved out of the 88-year-old Town Hall, whose 1935 cornerstone and contents was opened with much pomp and circumstance after the town moved its administrative offices into the more spacious and renovated BB&T Bank building just across Crescent Street from the now derelict Afton Inn.

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So there you have it sports fans – no direct use of tax money or municipal redevelopment; but an EDAdriven plan to bring BOTH properties to full private-sector redevelopment under strict guidelines that will see them become viable parts of the town’s commercial tax base at optimum revenue levels.

The case for the swap of old Town Hall for the Afton Inn majority statement in support of the proposed exchange. We would hope anyone planning to attend to ask questions or express an opinion at the Jan. 27 public hearing would familiarize themselves with the available information within that statement, also available through the town manager’s office.

But first a little sidetrack that could nip conservative opposition in the bud: A New Deal success

The Afton Inn during its heyday, circa the 1920s, as displayed in the current Front Royal Administrative building.

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Supporters of the proposed swap of the old Town Hall (1935) for the even older Afton Inn (1867) property have explained the rationale for the

swap (could it be they just don’t make them like they used to, especially way back used to?). First, Mayor Tim Darr read some of the major points in favor into the record of the Jan. 13 Front Royal Town Council meeting following a Closed Session discus-

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sion and announcement of a Jan. 27 Public Hearing on the proposal (see lead story).

And following the Jan. 16 towncounty liaison committee meeting, we approached Mayor Darr and ViceMayor Shae Parker, both strong supporters of the swap, about the deal they have been working toward for over six months through the towncounty Economic Development Authority.

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exchange. Mayor Darr concurred Parker’s statement was a good summary of the council majority rationale for pursuing the swap.

After receiving an e-mailed copy of the summary the following day, we forwarded it to the five other councilmen, including lone opponent (as of Jan. 16) Daryl Funk for comment on their concurrence or dispute with the statement. As the mayor and vice mayor explained on Jan. 16, a “supermajority” of five council votes of six is required to approve the land deal involving properties with a total assessed value of over a million dollars.

So it is crucial that the original five-vote majority be held and that none of the original supporters waiver in their support. The only two responses we got were from Bret Hrbek – strong support – and Hollis Tharpe, been won over to the idea but will still listen to opponents.

The argument for After visiting a short background detail, we’ll explore Parker’s detailed

“Town Hall was built in 1935 as part of FDR’s New Deal by the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) and it was not constructed with town tax dollars even, rather it was built with Federal funds and those borrowed by the Town from the Front Royal Relief Fire Company. The building was actually a combined fire house and Town Hall (until 1971),” Parker wrote in his summary.

Now seeing that the initial opposition to the proposed property exchange is coming from what I would consider ultra-conservative local Republicans who buy into the extremely limited role of government philosophy, which is diametrically opposed to such progressive notions as exemplified by New Deal programs like CCC job creation through federal construction projects (not to mention single-payer, governmentrun Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare benefits) shouldn’t this little piece of history derail that opposition?!!? – You know, out of sight, out of mind for those New Deal successes like job and public facilities creation.

Oh well, if that New Deal trivia doesn’t kill the opposition to this proposal, maybe a detailed explanation of the reasoning and facts behind the proposed swap will.

Why? Why does the Town want the Afton Inn? Vice-Mayor Parker asks.

“Quite honestly it doesn’t,” he says in response to his own question, explaining, “The Town did consider the property as a site to build a new police department; however, financially and logically it did not make sense. The town has no plans to invest any tax dollars into the Afton Inn, but rather plans for the EDA to find a suitable new owner to either renovate or redevelop the property in timely fashion … As outlined the Town Council and staff have determined that it has no further use for the former Town Hall.

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Opinion

The Morgan’s Ford Bridge debate continues One neighborhood’s fight against the wheels of ‘progress’

By Malcolm Barr Sr. If you read beyond the first letter to the editor (from me) in the mid-January issue of the “Report”, you would have found another compelling argument against the proposed two-lane bridge crossing Morgan’s Ford under the benign heading, “Bald Eagle Release.”

In her letter, Eileen K. Goodman of Fredericksburg stated that the building of a two-lane bridge would be ecologically “catastrophic” to all wildlife along this stretch of the Shenandoah River, including the species of eagle she was here to release back to the wild - the bald eagle that is America’s national symbol. It is people like Goodman of the Wildlife Center of Virginia who helped save this species of bird from the brink of extinction. Now, says Goodman, we are about to destroy its home on the Shenandoah along with the habitat of many aboriginal species of animal and bird.

“Has an environmental study been done on the cause and effect of building this bridge (with) respect to the habitat of the wildlife that call this area home?” the out-of-town visitor asked during the release of this previously injured native American bird to its former home environment.

Two-lane bridge proponents, principally the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), cite safety of drivers and their passengers for a bridge replacement that is bigger and will feed a plethora of new traffic on to country roads such as Rockland, Happy Creek, Fairground, Milldale, and Clark County by-ways ad nauseum. Safety of wildlife seems not to have been in their lexicon.

So, here’s the rub: almost nobody objects to the construction of a new bridge. In fact, most everyone I talk to would welcome it. The sooner the bet-

ter as the 88-year-old bridge is allowed to fall even into greater disrepair since arguments against the VDOT proposal of a two-lane bridge are said to have delayed construction.

Ironically, while VDOT attempts to cram a two-lane bridge down our throats here in Warren County, according to news reports it is attempting to cram its proposal for a SINGLE LANE span over the Shenandoah River near Woodstock against the wishes of Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors – no kidding!

“Our way or the highway” appears to be the VDOT credo. Incidentally, VDOT announced last fall a meeting in Front Royal in February on their idea of what a Morgan’s Ford Bridge should be. More on that when a firm date is announced.

Before that meeting, let’s examine the big issue allegedly in the minds of the twin-lane bridge proponents SAFETY! Presumably public safety, the environment be damned.

The three recent traffic deaths on the bridge were tragedies, no more and no less tragic than the three traffic deaths on Rockland and Fairground roads in approximately the same time period.

Let’s agree with the maxim, “Roads (and bridges) do not cause accidents; people cause accidents.” Check this

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A job well done

The Virginia Employment Commission and the Disabled Veterans Outreach Representative (Carrie Stuby) would like to thank the following agencies for assisting with a very successful Veterans Job Fair on January 14, 2014, at Lord Fairfax Community College .

I want to personally thank Lord Fairfax’s Workforce Solution staff Estelle Sanzenbacher, Catherine Kelley, and Guy Curtis. The college donated the conference room and assisted with the registration of Veterans and produced all of the flyers for the event; this event would not have been as successful without their assistance. AMVET’s Walter Jagiello and Rick Van Norton assisted with providing the media con-

nections and providing the drinks for the event. Bob Evans Restaurant Winchester location’s Jeff Girard (Manager) and Art Robinson (Assistant Manager) donated all of the food that was served throughout the day. I would also like to thank The Frederick County Report for its article which helped to promote the event and WINC-FM 92..5 for its radio interview about the event.

I also want to thank all of the employers and venders that participated in the Veterans Job Fair; the event was a huge success. It is very important that we as a community continue to work together to help support our local heroes and help them get back to work.

– Carrie Stuby, Stephens City

with your local sheriff ’s office or ask any highway patrol officer.

According to surveys conducted by Mary Powers Ryan and her friends a couple of years ago, few people want, for various reasons, a two-lane bridge at Morgan’s Ford, although some seem resigned to it. So let’s look ahead rather than at now. Let’s discuss safety and why, for reasons of public safety, a twolaner should be a non-starter.

Those living on the Rockland side of the bridge where I reside have cause for apprehension already - the narrow roads and byways are scary enough today without encouraging a surge of traffic that a two-lane bridge inevitably would bring. Public safety would indeed be compromised, not by a single lane bridge replacement but because of a thoughtless two-lane replacement that would jam already congested and inadequate country roads way into the future. Or is there an unannounced plan for widening our rural roads? Not believing that to be true, let’s now get off the pot and build a new, one-lane span, perhaps a couple of feet higher and wider than the old span, thus preventing unthinkable road congestion in the Rockland and Happy Creek ar-

eas for years to come.

Before writing this “Opinion” piece for the “Report”, and as a contributing writer I appreciate being given “equal time” with my esteemed colleague, Roger Bianchini (“A harsh dose of reality for Rockland’s rural recluses” Warren County and Frederick County Report, mid-November 2013), I thought to informally quiz a respected former public area official and asked him “Why?” “Why are they (the county, in this case) so fixated on a two-lane bridge that would inevitably cause havoc on our county roads?”

“Money!” was the terse response. An alternative route from I-66 to 522/340 and vice versa would encourage more commercial and residential development in the areas north and south of the river, ergo a higher tax base. Hmm, and I thought the county was simply after $8 million in mostly state funds for the bridge-building project.

PS A new low-water, single lane replacement would cost taxpayers, from whatever purse, a mere $3 million.

Think about it.

Bald eagle release

In doing research on Bald Eagle Habitats, I found via the Internet that Bald Eagles are sensitive to human disturbance, these birds select sites that are 0.75 miles away from an area having low-density human disturbance and 1.1 miles away from the one having medium- to highdensity interference. http://www. buzzle.com/articles/bald-eaglehabitat.html. I find it hard to believe that Eileen Goodman would use the premise that building a bridge that is desperately needed would somehow interfere with the Bald Eagle population at Morgan’s Ford Crossing.

These majestic birds will move away from the bridge building process and remain within the confines of the Shenandoah river. I would also like to know if anyone has thought about the Human Loss that has taken place at Morgan’s Ford crossing?

Ie.. FRONT ROYAL, Aug. 3 — Two young men were killed and a 49year-old man was hospitalized after the car they were in flipped as it went off the low-water bridge on Morgan Ford Road into the Shenandoah River Saturday night. Driver Coty James Ferguson, 18, and passenger Robert Allen Jeffries, Jr., 17, died in the crash. On March 30, 2010, Jessica Lynn Barr, 21, of Stephens City drowned in her car after she drove onto the bridge at night with nearly two feet of water flowing over it and was swept downstream. These

Deaths are the only ones I could find via the internet. However, there may even be more that we are not aware of. Considering the bridge was built in 1925 and according to VDOT, the bridge is beyond repair. How much more human loss has to take place before the bridge is replaced. I am not writing this response to lessen the Symbol of this majestic bird of United States, after all; my middle name is Arnold which means (Power of the Eagle) My license plates also say EGL-EYS on them and my e-mail address is Eagle33Eyes@.... I also mean no lack of deference towards the previous post from Eileen Goodman.

I know she means well but I had to flip the coin and give a different point of view. I have revered the Eagle for quite some time and still do.

However, the Bridge is desperately needed for access from different points across the tri counties and mainly for safety reasons. I agree with Eileen that precautions must be taken by VDOT to be in compliance with all applicable laws concerning the preservation of wildlife and the habitat that lies within Morgan’s Ford crossing. It seems to me that the tri counties could work together on precautionary measures to assure this process can go as smoothly as possible.

– Thomas Arnold Miller aka Eagle Eyes

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“Town Hall was built in 1935 as part of FDR’s New Deal by the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) and it was not constructed with town tax dollars ‌â€? – Republican swap opposition focused on preservation of a federally-directed New Deal success story – GO FIGURE?!!?

Front Royal AFTON INNX, from museum or center for non-profit agencies; however, it would need a funding source to offset the costs associated with such an endeavor and that would mean most likely a tax increase to pay for it. With no interested buyers, we looked at other options and came up with the idea of a swap. “The Afton Inn sits on one of the most prime corners in the entire Town and unfortunately for several decades has not been a pleasant site to see; nor has it been a significant contributor to the tax base. The Town has tried to work with the owner, engineers and the County Building Inspections Office but due to various reasons no progress has been made. “With the acquisition by the EDA they will be able to market it to a new owner with covenants that will ensure it becomes a viable contributor to the community once again. At the same time the former Town Hall will become a contributor as the new owner will pay property taxes on a renovated building; and has plans to lease space to businesses which will also pay taxes.�

As for concerns about losing the outside façade of old Town Hall or having it boarded up like the Afton

Inn has been for several years or that the familiar historical ambience of old Town Hall will be lost. As for the first concern, EDA Director Jennifer McDonald has asserted that Barros is anxious to make the exchange and bring the Town Hall building into productive use – at much less cost and work – as soon as possible.

And Parker noted, “The EDA has negotiated terms and covenants which will ensure that the exterior of the [Town Hall] building remain as it always has been. Town Hall is also essentially move-in ready compared to the Afton Inn. So while the new owner will need to make some improvements, they are nowhere near as drastic as what is needed at the Afton Inn.�

Transparency At least two critics, Matt Tederick and Kim Athey, have publicly questioned (the latter on social media) the proposal getting to this point behind closed doors. Parker responded to that criticism, stating, “Once negotiations had begun between the EDA and the owners of the Afton Inn and a tentative deal was struck the council wanted to keep the public informed.

If it had desired the Town could have simply transferred Town Hall to the

EDA and then let them broker the deal; however, Council wanted to make sure the citizens knew exactly what was being done and spelled out exactly what was going to happen and why.�

And he might have added, a public hearing was announced on Jan. 13 and scheduled for Jan. 27, prior to any vote on the matter.

And EDA Executive Director McDonald explains in our lead story on the matter, nothing can be done until council approves the transaction by a supermajority vote of five of six councilmen.

with a sale price of over one million dollars. “It is for all of these reasons and more that this proposition is being supported by all but one of the members of Council. The town agrees that property purchase and redevelopment is not a role of the Town; but it IS a role of the Economic Development Authority. And while the town does not know the future of either of these properties it has confidence that the EDA will make the most of both of them on behalf of the Town

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What if we don’t do this? “If this deal fall through there are no other plans for the former Town Hall,� Parker points out. “The EDA can still market the property but unless it finds a commercial buyer the property will not be a financially contributing partner of the community and the Afton Inn will most likely remain a silent boarded up property

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So, we’d hope to see an informed and rational public offering comment at the Jan. 27 Public Hearing – see you there. – rogerb@warrencountyreport.com

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Really Daryl, 4 days wrestling with this & the BIGGEST problem you have with this [plan] is people you disagree with are acting in a certain way that you perceive as cocky? I guess the logical follow up Q is, do you have anything substantive, as in ACTUAL reasons, for opposing this?

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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report

We first approached Front Royal Town Councilman Daryl Funk about his opposition to the proposed swap of two now-vacant buildings, old Town Hall and the Afton Inn on Jan. 17, along with seeking input for and against from the entire council and mayor.

With a looming Jan. 27 Public Hearing on the proposal announced on Jan. 13, we hoped to fully state both sides in our lone publication date of Jan. 23-24 prior to that public hearing and possible vote.

As reported in a related story, a detailed elaboration of the majority reasoning for the swap publicly summarized by Mayor Tim Darr following the Jan. 13 Closed Meeting on the matter has been presented to us and is published in a related story in this edition. Information is also available through the town manager’s office, (540) 635-8007.

As for the in-house opposition, we’ll let the following e-mail exchange between Funk and this reporter, explain it – or not. To summarize, Funk tells us his “biggest problem” is “that the Council has been acting as if the decision has already been made” and that he believes movement toward the deal is progressing too fast.

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vate sector – “strike while the iron is hot!”

And we certainly feel there is ample evidence the deal with Afton Inn owner Barros, who is reported by the EDA to be raring to move forward, which has already been negotiated and discussed internally for over six months, would be scrapped by a lengthy public re-examination.

So, why not state your case, pro or con, based on the information you have and make a timely decision in the best interest of the town and community? After all, isn’t the function of elected officials in a Republic form of government (which the last time we checked the US and all its governmental subsidiaries are) to take all the detailed information available on specific issues and then make decisions based on that information as processed through your social, economic and political philosophies?

On Jan. 17, we asked Funk about his opposition as we asked supporters if they concurred with the detailed rationale presented by ViceMayor Parker the previous day: From: RB; Sent: To: council and the mayor Sent: Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 11:18 AM Subject: Transfer of properties to EDA … And Daryl, as the lone opponent so far on council, I was wondering if you could elaborate on your disagreement and opposition?” thanx, RogerB WCReport (Parker’s written statement for the transfer included)

From: Daryl Funk; To: Roger Bianchini: Sent: Jan. 22, 2014 5:22 PM Subject: RE: Transfer of properties to EDA Roger, Thank you for your email.

I’ve spent the weekend and the snow days wrestling with how to respond, and I think this is the best I can do right now: Perhaps the biggest problem with the “swap” of our Town Hall for what’s left of the Afton Inn is that the Council has been acting as if the decision has already been made. As you have apparently been made aware, I have not supported this transaction in closed session … and I was alone in this regard … However, I do not believe that I am going to comment further in the press on the subject until we have the opportunity to hear from the Town citizens at the public hearing.

Further, if you get down to it, I do not believe that a single public hearing announced only two weeks prior is a sufficient amount of time to adequately inform the public (emphasis added), at least on this critical issue.

We spent years debating moving the Town elections, but this brief process has remained behind closed doors until our intention was announced by press release … I will likely have additional comments when this matter moves to debate before the council.

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As for 2 week notice to a PH, exactly how complicated an issue is this to understand? … a mutual “friend” told me you were soliciting comments and questions online and showed me around 16th or 17th – what I noticed was that while you had solicited Qs, you had not answered any of them …

DO you think it advisable that people come to the PH ignorant of the rationale for or against? I guess you could justify a longer process if you just sit on the facts as long as possible and refuse to give reasons for your own opposition – just saying’ …

Best, RogerB

From: DF; To: RB: Jan. 23, 8:23 AM Roger, I have only posted on Facebook because of the small window of notice we have provided on this issue – I have responded to most of my commenters privately and tried to elaborate further. However, I am spending some time listening before I wade into the debate publicly.

If council forces the issue forward after the public hearing, then I will express my point of view and we will vote. My concerns have not swayed council yet …

Daryl From: RB; To: DF: Jan. 23, noon:

From: DF; To: RB, Jan. 23, 2014 1:27 PM Thank you for your email, but I do not think I am going to comment any further prior to the public hearing.

From: RB; To: DF, Jan. 23, 2014, 3:08 PM Daryl, Daryl, Daryl…….whatever……happened to transparency in government? Doesn’t seem to be the “cocky” proponents who are staying behind closed doors at this point – I mean, it just seems strange that since you are concerned about transparency in the process, you are reluctant to publicly state your case against this …

You said you answered facebook Qs individually off the public facebook grid – did your “facebook friends” get more substantive answers than you seem willing to give to the media prior to the Jan. 27 Public Hearing? …

PPS OK, I’ll give you a break on this SWAP stuff – but speaking of potential conflicts of interest, any comment on the ex-governor’s troubles?

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Front Royal

Rumor control: the town does not add Xmas light charges How your astonishingly LOW municipal electric bills are calculated

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Got an inquiry from a faithful reader who posed a question about whether the town was padding customer utility bills to cover the expense of the town Christmas light decorations: “You may or may not have heard Front Royal residents complaining about their electric bills this month. Granted we had a few low temps - but - truth be told, the Town of Front Royal, every year tacks on extra charges for the downtown Christmas decorations. At least ... this is what has been rumored.”

To address the concerns of “citizen

rumor central” we inquired of Front Royal Town Manager Steve Burke about this one circulating on the streets. His reply should put these concerns and rumors to rest: “Each year the Town establishes our rates for electrical consumption to cover the costs of purchasing electricity, basic costs of transmission costs, and operation and maintenance costs. The only variable costs that are passed on to our customers are the additional transmission and peak related costs.

“Our budget for the Department of Energy Services includes the costs to operate and maintain street lights, as well as the additional lights for Christmas.

Malcolm sets the ‘Barr’ high at Library’s ‘Local Authors Day’

Author Malcolm Barr Sr. and “100 to 1” upon the occasion of our meeting during a “Valley Today” interview with yours truly at WZRV FM 95.3 in 2008.

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Our own Malcolm Barr Sr. will be one of a number of local authors featured Saturday, Jan. 25 at Samuel’s Public Library in Front Royal.

The event is from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The now “retired” Barr, of Warren County’s Rockland area, is a former Associated Press reporter and federal government publicist who authored the book “1000 to 1” about his exploits heading the Hampshire Racing syndicate for 21 years.

Meet and hear the stories of Malcolm and other locals who have been successfully published.

In Malcolm’s case that involves the ups and downs of Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding in a fi-

nancial partnership that made the sport of kings available to commoners like us – and how the native Brit got investors traveling as far as TV’s Downton Abbey (Highclere Castle) and Epsom Downs in the UK and to Minnesota where they won the National Claiming Crown.

Books will be available, including personalized, autographed copies.

For your copy of “1000 to 1” (I’ve already got mine) for the price of $14.95, stop by the library Saturday or call Malcolm at (540) 636-7407.

The schedule of Jan. 25 events is: 1-1:45 P.M.: panel discussion about publishing led by Ira Chaleff and Christine Andreae; 1:45-4 P.M.: a chance for the authors to meet and greet the public – and sign and sell their books.

“There is no additional cost to our customer during the holidays for lights.

“Any change in the amount a customer is charged is related to the amount of electricity they consume each month. The per kilowatt hour rate does not change as it is established each year.

“If any customer is concerned with their bill, they can contact our Finance Department. We will review their historic consumption and test the meter to ensure the readings are

Riverton Commons tanning salon robbery reported ‘Hey, I work here now – sure you can trust me to watch the register …

On Tuesday, Jan. 14, 3014 at 7:06 p.m., the Warren County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a robbery that had occurred at Beach Bum Tanning, 50 Riverton Commons in one of Warren County’s north corridor shopping centers.

An employee reported that a white male entered the business claiming he was the new maintenance worker. While the employee was distracted, the suspect opened the cash drawer and took an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspect also stole a wallet from the business. The suspect left the scene on foot in an unknown direction.

The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 5’9”-5’11”, thin build and sandy hair. The suspect was wearing a white hoodie sweatshirt and blue jeans.

accurate.”

This explanation satisfied our inquiring reader, who added that a similar rumor circulates in the summer – “there is also a rumor that circulates during the summer months that the Town charges more for water because of the large hanging potted plants that decorate downtown that are watered. :)” The town manager verified that the above explanation covers this rumor as well In fact, in our initial reply we

pointed out that “FR has the lowest municipal electric rates in the commonwealth according to state numbers for 2012; & next to lowest year before that; & as a rule municipal utility rates are always lower than private utilities because municipal utilities cannot operate for profit, only to cover costs of the system citizens pay taxes to support.”

Way to go town Energy Services Department, Director Joe Waltz and Mayor and Town Council!

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office canine was called to the scene in an attempt to determine a route of travel. The investigation has revealed that the suspect may be operating a dark colored sedan, unknown make or model. The sheriff’s office is also investigating some suspicious activity at the Wal-Mart located in the Riverton Commons shopping center that occurred prior to the robbery at Beach Bum Tanning to determine if the incidents are connected.

If anyone has any information they are asked to contact Investigator Smoot at the Warren County Sheriff’s Office at (540) 635-7100.

of Interstate 81 at the 318-mile marker.

A tractor-trailer traveling north on I-81 lost control and jackknifed as it ran off the right side of the interstate. The cab of the tractor-trailer struck a tree on the driver’s side.

The driver, Michael K. Goodwin, 58, of Jacksonville, Fla., was transported to Winchester Medical Center, where he died later Tuesday.

Road conditions and the vehicle’s speed were factors in the crash.

As for traffic crashes overall related to the winter weather: from 12:01 a.m. Tuesday (Jan. 21) through 8 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 21), the Virginia State Police has fielded 1,657 calls for service statewide. Of those calls, 366 have been for traffic crashes, with only 10 of those involving injuries; and 351 for disabled vehicles.

As of 9 p.m. the night of the storm, state police were on the scene of 28 crashes statewide. The Frederick County I-81 fatality was the only reported death as of that time.

Weather a factor in fatal I-81 tractor trailer crash Virginia State Police are investigating a fatal crash that occurred Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in Frederick County, Va. At 9:25 a.m., Trooper C.L. McNulty was called to the single-vehicle crash in the northbound lanes

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I continue to be impressed by the HSWC staff, volunteers, and supporters as they strive to be a no kill shelter. To that end, the HSWC developed the “Save the PAWS� Alliance. As a private non-profit (501C3), the HSWC is supported primarily by contributions. Save the PAWS was formed to recognize people, who through their generous financial support, are special friends to the homeless animals and to help establish an exemplary pattern of annual giving of $1,000 or more. On December 4th the founding members of the Save the PAWS Alliance were invited to a private dessert reception and shelter tour at the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter. Lavenda recognized the thirteen founding members including: Linda Cook, Lavenda and Tom Denney, Tony and Pat Inderbitzen, Tom and Lea Frazier, Malcolm and Carol Barr, Ken and Amy Thurman, Elise Upchurch, Jim and Denise Eastham, David and Susan Blount/Windcrest Foundation, Andy and Dee Stokes, Dana Adamson/Snead Foundation,

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Front Royal’s Main Street welcomes Sully’s Attic Two friends created a community-friendly place to buy and sell goods from the past

Humane Society’s table at “Sully’s Attic�

By Carol Ballard Looking forward to becoming a community asset by giving people a chance to sell items from the past is one goal of Sully’s Attic, a new business on Main Street.

It’s perfect for those who are longing to clean out their house and sell all the wonderful things they no longer want, but may not have the time or inclination to set up and sit at a flea market.

Last November, Heidi Jacobs and Chris Castle partnered to renovate the former Ramsey’s Hardware store at Front Royal’s 223 Main St., and named it Sully’s Attic.

There, vendors can set up for a reasonable fee, and either stay to sell their goods or have Heidi sell for them. “This town likes a bargain and there are lots of flea markets, but a lot of people miss out on the fun of

shopping when there’s cold weather.

This is a great cold-weather alternative,� said Chris. The building will also have air conditioning in the summer. “Also, vendors don’t have to take the chance of leaving their things out overnight,� added Heidi.

They are very enthusiastic about their bazaar becoming a friendly community gathering place as well as a place to buy and sell.

Heidi, who grew up in Front Royal reminisced about Main Street. “I liked growing up with Main Street being a hub, when there were lots of stores and seeing people you knew. There are lots of memories for the older town folks, too,� she said.

Ramsey’s Hardware, in particular, has been a fixture on Main Street for many years.

Chris was inspired to write about it like this, “Nails and screws stubbornly cling to the walls as evidence that this was once a hardware store. The

“Sully’s Attic� has tables set up for vendors to sell inside in warmth and comfort. old moorings refuse to relinquish their grip though Ramsey’s Hardware Store vacated some time ago.

Norman Rockwell might have channeled this anchor of Main Street for one of his pure, American backdrops reminding of us the ‘good ol’ days’.�

The name of the store, Chris said, came from a man named Bruce “Sully� Sullivan.

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cherishing the past, Sully’s Attic was born,� he related.

Chris is its managing partner, and Heidi runs it as sales manager. He has lived here for 14 years, but in the last few years, he frequented the flea market where Heidi was usually to be found and where they met. “I started to sell and get rid of stuff I had and went looking for bargains.

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Chris Castle and Heidi Jacob stand in front of their new business-�Sully’s Attic�- on Main Street.

It became addictive and I enjoyed seeing the regular vendors, and we became friends. I also saw different sides of the public which was interesting,� he said.

He also buys and sells on eBay. “Some people hunt for deer, I hunt for deals,� he said with a laugh.

But when it got cold, he missed it, and Heidi found herself trying to keep warm in a tent set up with a kerosene heater and hot tea to keep her warm. “There’s a subculture to the flea market. Many people know Heidi, and come in to visit her,� Chris added.

So they both like the concept of having a warm place to come to and sell their own things in the cold months, and make it comfortable for the community. “We have lots of ideas and possibilities, depending on how this comes to fruition,� said Heidi, and added, “We want people to come here and sell their things. There may be hundreds of people who would like to do that.�

The store is open only on weekends, but Heidi said that the place fills up, with 200 people coming through the door on a recent Saturday afternoon.

On Sunday afternoons when there’s not as much happening on the street, they’d like to see musicians showing up for jam sessions. “We’d invite people to come, bring their instruments, and play along with each other, to create a fun sense, like a community, with any one welcome to come and play,� she said, enthusiastically.

They see the split staircase that leads to a landing at the back of the store as a natural platform for the music. Other possibilities are to host movie nights and to welcome food vendors, maybe to set up a barbecue stand outside.

Right now the incentives provided are free Wi-fi and coffee. “We already have a few older gents who come by, play cards, and have a cup of coffee. There are people who live on Main St. who can walk here and they bring more people with them,� she noted.

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“It’s like a light bulb goes off,� he said.

They also outlined the wholesomeness of Sully’s Attic. “There will be no alcohol, tobacco, firearms, or X-rated materials sold here,� said Chris.

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McDonnell and wife indicted on federal corruption charges ‘The Wolf of Richmond’? Star Scientific gifts, friendship catch up to ex-gov

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Flanked by also-indicted wife Maureen, right, son-in-law and daughter on Jan. 21, former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell admitted lapses of judgment but vowed to fight federal criminal charges involving Star Scientific gifts.

After months of legal maneuverings, public accusations, apologies and non-apologies, the Star Scientific personal favors and political ethics fiasco that swirled around the final years of Virginia Governor Robert J. McDonnell’s administration has led to indictments.

On Jan. 21, now private-citizen McDonnell and his wife Maureen were hit with a 43-page indictment handed down in the U.S. Eastern District Court of Virginia. Within those 43 pages are 14 felony counts that include wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, obtaining and conspiracy to obtain property under the auspices of their official positions, and making false statements to a federal credit union.

Bob McDonnell was also charged with making a false statement to a second financial institution and his wife was additionally charged with obstructing the investigation into these allegations.

In a press conference the day the indictments were handed down McDonnell stated, “My fellow Virginians, earlier today federal prosecutors notified my attorneys that they have filed criminal charges against me and my wife Maureen, alleging that we

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And all this happened the day after I went over to The Alamo Theaters

just north of Middletown to sees the Martin Scorcese film “The Wolf of Wall Street� starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film depicts the wretched excesses, decadence, corruption and criminal behavior of the true-life story of one Wall Street executive of the late 1980s and 1990s, Jordan Belfort, portrayed by DiCaprio.

I wonder who might play the former Virginia governor and his wife if Hollywood decides to tackle this one.

Like Wall Street’s “wolf � Belfort, McDonnell and his wife face decades

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in prison if convicted of all the charges. But also like Belfort, they are likely to face much less, if any federal prison time (Belfort did two years of a fouryear sentence after facing 20 years or more).

That said, first indications are that unlike Belfort, who folded up under the weight of federal evidence against him to cooperate in indicting others in order to reduce his own sentence, Bob and Maureen McDonnell plan to fight the allegations of criminal behavior â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at least at this point.

McDonnell was quoted promising a full-scale defense utilizing â&#x20AC;&#x153;every available resourceâ&#x20AC;? and pointed the finger at an overstepping federal government for forcing the issue of criminal prosecution, rather than what he has admitted since last July were lapses in his own personal judgment.

And if part of that lapsed judgment Bob McDonnell believes was not criminal in nature, included acceptance of Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;personal generosity and friendshipâ&#x20AC;?, it appears that friendship has soured on both sides.

Williams is reported to have cooperated with federal authorities leading to the McDonnell indictments. As a trio of Washington Post writers reported the day of the indictment, â&#x20AC;&#x153;McDonnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal situation became treacherous as the investigations intersected and Williams, whom McDonnell in the spring of 2013 had described as a close family friend, began cooperating with authorities and offering evidence against the governor â&#x20AC;Ś In August, McDonnell likewise turned on his one-time friend, his spokesman describing Williams publicly as a man with a troubled business background whose word could not be trusted.â&#x20AC;? However, the Post writers add pointedly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;McDonnell never explained why he and his wife had allowed such a man to become so

Virginia closely entangled with their lives.â&#x20AC;?

Falling dominoes It all seemed to begin innocuously with the deterioration of Governor McDonnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with the chef that ran the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mansion kitchen and a March 2012 tip to a state hotline fingering Chef Todd Schneider for taking food for his own private business use from the mansion kitchen. Confronted by authorities Schneider actually became the first domino to fall over, alleging inappropriate receipt of gifts by the McDonnells from Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams dating back to $15,000 in catering expenses for the 2011 wedding party of Gov. and Mrs. McDonnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter. And Schneider supported his allegations with documentation, apparently beginning to photograph â&#x20AC;&#x153;anything he thought suspiciousâ&#x20AC;? once his relationship with the governor and his family became to totter.

From there the revelations snowballed, including loans eventually totaling $120,000; the use of vacation homes and what the Post reported was a $200,000 Ferrari for a vacation spin; not to mention unreported Star Scientific stock purchases and sales. On the bright side, unlike Wall Streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial â&#x20AC;&#x153;wolf â&#x20AC;?, thus far no alleged snorting of cocaine off the body parts of prostitutes.

But it was so ugly that by November 2012, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who hoped to succeed McDonnell in the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mansion, officially requested a local Richmond prosecutor to conduct a full review of all of McDonnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual financial disclosures.

But it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop there, as it came out that Cuccinelli too had accepted gifts from Jonnie Williams â&#x20AC;&#x201C; though

only $18,000 as reported by the Associated Press.

Unlike McDonnell, who at least apologized after being caught with his hand in the Star-Sci cookie jar, Cuccinelli, as far as I know, never apologized or returned any of his relatively meager collection of Star-Sci goodies.

Hey Bob, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not really that close to the Cooch, are you â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just sayinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;Ś Deal making 101 Last September, with a special prosecutor requested by then AG Cuccinelli handling the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mansion chef case, Todd Schneider plead â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Contestâ&#x20AC;? to two misdemeanor counts of â&#x20AC;&#x153;embezzlingâ&#x20AC;? food from the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mansion. While not contesting a guilty verdict, Schneider did not admit guilt and was sentenced to pay $2,300 in restitution of taxpayer-funded food supplies he was alleged to have removed from the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mansion; oh, and NO jail time â&#x20AC;&#x201C; again, just sayinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;Ś Star what? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Scientific is a Henrico Countybased company with roots in tobacco research that now sells nutritional supplements and health products, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Antablocâ&#x20AC;? a tobaccobased anti-inflammatory pill. The company sued the commonwealth over an interpretation of the state tax law in July 2011,â&#x20AC;? our Richmondbased Capital News Service affiliateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kirsten Smith reported in April 2013.

Further questions surfaced over Star Scientific products being included among Medicare-covered nutritional supplements in Virginia and pushed as part of state health plans. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rogerb@warrencountyreport.com

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We are broke, have an unconscionable amount in credit card debt already, and this Inaugural is killing us!! I need answers and I need help â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; former VA First Lady Maureen McDonnell

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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report â&#x20AC;&#x153;1 need to talk to you about Inaugural clothing budget. 1 need answers and Bob is screaming about the thousands Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m charging up in credit card debt. We are broke, have an unconscionable amount in credit card debt already, and this Inaugural is killing us!! I need answers and I need help, and I need to get this done.â&#x20AC;?

With that December 2009 e-mail from Maureen McDonnell to a staffer of her husband, then Governor-Elect Robert McDonnell, began the escalation of financial interactions between the soon-to-be governor of Virginia and his wife and the Chief Operating Officer of Star Scientific, a Virginia

company developing and marketing tobacco-based nutritional supplements.

Former Washington NFL football team cheerleader Maureen McDonnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s e-mail exchange with her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staffer is dated â&#x20AC;&#x153;at or near Dec. 21, 2009â&#x20AC;?, as her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inauguration as Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s governor loomed.

On page 5 of the federal indictment handed down on Jan. 21, 2014 against Maureen McDonnell and her husband just 10 days after he left office, the following scenario â&#x20AC;&#x201C; part of what is referred to in the Indictment as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Schemeâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; unfolds around what appears to be the now-indicted coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initial contact with Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams (referred to as JW in the indictment);

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There was no partisan gloating from his successor on the news that former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen had received federal indictments (see related story).

McAuliffe was sworn in as governor on Jan. 11 after leading a rare Democratic sweep of Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top administrative positions: governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am obviously troubled by the charges that federal prosecutors have made against Governor McDonnell and his wife Maureen and the message that this period in our history sends about how government in this Commonwealth is run,â&#x20AC;? Governor Terry McAuliffe began in a Jan. 21 press release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As this case progresses, it is my sincerest hope that justice will be served and that Virginians get the answers to which they are entitled â&#x20AC;Ś Dorothyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and my thoughts and prayers are with the entire McDon-

nell family. This is a sad day for Virginia, but I remain optimistic that we can work together to reform our system in order to prevent episodes like this from occurring ever again.â&#x20AC;?

Ethics questions surrounding the acceptance of reported and unreported â&#x20AC;&#x153;giftsâ&#x20AC;? from Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams were hot-button topics during the 2013 election campaign.

One of McAuliffeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first legislative acts was to set limits on â&#x20AC;&#x153;giftsâ&#x20AC;? to state political office holders, which had been one of his campaign promises. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As Governor, I will remain focused on leading this Commonwealth in a way that restores Virginiansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; trust in government and honors their expectation of transparency and accountability,â&#x20AC;?

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And from such a small acorn grew the giant Oak of ethical and legal problems likely to end the political career of a man once seen as a leading contender for the 2012 Republican vice-presidential nomination, and then â&#x20AC;Ś who knows?

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MAUREEN MCDONNELL also told JW that she could help Star Scientific but that she needed JWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial assistance.

27. MAUREEN MCDONNELL also informed JW that she and ROBERT MCDONNELL did not know how they were going to pay for their daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming wedding expenses, and she asked for JWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assistance. JW asked how much money was needed, and MAUREEN MCDONNELL responded that $15,000 was needed to pay the remaining catering costs.

33. On or about May 25, 2011, MAUREEN MCDONNELL deposited the $50,000 check (No. 1001) into her personal bank account (No. xxxx4417) at Wells Fargo Bank (d/b/a Wachovia Bank). Prior to that deposit, MAUREEN MCDONNELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S personal bank account had an available balance of approximately $4,798.

38. On or about June 1, 2011, MAUREEN MCDONNELL opened a brokerage account at Brokerage Firm A.

Virginia 39. On or about June 1, 2011, MAUREEN MCDONNELL purchased 6,000 shares of Star Scientific stock in her newly opened Brokerage Firm A account. To pay for the purchase, MAUREEN MCDONNELL wrote a check from her Wells Fargo Bank (d/b/a Wachovia Bank) account (No. xxxx4417) for approximately $31,079.

40. On or about June 1, 2011, MAUREEN MCDONNELL and her Chief of Staff, a Virginia government employee, traveled on JWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s private aircraft to Star Scientificâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event at the Roskamp Institute in Sarasota, Florida. MAUREEN MCDONNELL spoke at the event, which was heavily attended by Star Scientificâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s investors, and announced that she was offering the Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mansion for the location of Star Scientificâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official product launch of Anatabloc.

47. On or about July 31, 2011, at approximately 7:47 p.m., MAUREEN MCDONNELL sent an email to JW that contained no text but had an attached picture of ROBERT MCDONNELL driving JWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ferrari.

48. On or about July 31, 2011, at approximately 11:29 p.m., ROBERT MCDONNELL sent an email to the

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51. On or about August 1, 2011, MAUREEN MCDONNELL entered a calendar event on her electronic calendar for her attendance on August 30, 2011, for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lunch w/ VA researchers.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough, really.

But you know, judging from this alleged scenario, ex-NFL cheerleader Mo McDonnell really could have fit into a role in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wolf of Wall Streetâ&#x20AC;?.

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Delegate Mike Webert ... said his bill was meant only to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;streamline the processâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of searching through a citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s computer. However, the bill became problematic when it was first written to include entire public networks or households â&#x20AC;Ś

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Privacy concerns table searches and seizures bill Webert: seizing guns and computers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the same but differentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

File Photo of 18th District Del. Mike Webert with son and Mrs. George Allen during local 2012 campaign event.

By James Galloway Capital News Service RICHMOND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A bill that would give Virginia police power to search private computers without a secondary search warrant was tabled in committee after it was determined the billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s language failed to protect Fourth Amendment rights.

Delegate Mike Webert, R-18th (Marshall), who is chief patron of the bill, said his bill was meant only to â&#x20AC;&#x153;streamline the processâ&#x20AC;? of searching through a citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s computer, by eliminating the need for two warrants.

However, the bill became problematic when it was first written to

include entire public networks or households, which would have enabled immediate searches upon seizure of any number of personal computers in a household.

Webert said he wants to help police catch child pornographers, who keep illegal images on their computers.

He said there were magistrates who complained about needing a secondary warrant to search through files on a suspectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s computer. However, Webert said he could not recall any specific case in which a magistrate said the procurement of a secondary search warrant became problematic to an investigation.

Webert said after talks the resolution was to narrow the billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ter-

minology down so as not to include the network of an entire business or household, but to individual users on a given network. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The language originally had â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;network,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and had some of this other terminology and obviously when you go into a network, there are other people using a network and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s risk of invading their privacy.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of times, what will happen is somebody [police] will go and they will confiscate a computer looking for child porn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; then they need to go and get another search warrant to search inside the computer. The personal computerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already in the possession of the police. We just wanted to streamline the process so that they could go ahead and look into the computer,â&#x20AC;? Webert says.

Virginia already sends guns and drugs to labs without a second warrant, and Webert says computers are â&#x20AC;&#x153;the same but differentâ&#x20AC;? and he wants the Billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s language to reflect that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To get gun particles off of a gun that had been fired doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need a second search warrant,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;whereas computers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; due to the new digital age â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the same but different.â&#x20AC;?

The bill went before the Joint Commission on Technology and Science in December, which addressed Fourth Amendment and privacy issues other members had. Present at the discussions were state police, the commonwealthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorney, prosecutors, the attorney generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s representatives and representatives from

AOL, Facebook and Google.

Webert said he understands the corporations he named are known to be complicit with Fourth Amendment rights violations. He said the language of the bill changed dramatically after representatives from those corporations expressed privacy concerns.

Webert also said he highly doubts state police would have requested the bill with the intention of subverting Fourth Amendment rights.

The bill originally was requested of the McDonnell administration by the state police, said Delegate Kenneth R. Plum, D-Reston, as a means for expediting investigations into computer crime by removing the need for a secondary warrant to search a computer. Currently, probable cause must be established to obtain both warrants.

Plum was present during commission discussion of the legislation, where the bill was first criticized as lacking Fourth Amendment considerations, but Plum said nothing of Fourth Amendment or privacy concerns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It dealt with a very practical problem they had,â&#x20AC;? Plum said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They sometimes needed to take it (a computer) to some place other than where they may originally have taken it for a warrant, and that was simply because I think the technology support they need, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have every place in the state.â&#x20AC;?

Plum said the commission discussion stalled at what he referred to

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However, even after narrowing down language in the bill to apply only to the personal computers of a certain individual, the House subcommittee on criminal law determined there were still Fourth Amendment problems, that can only be addressed during the 2015 session, once the language is changed again.

White suspect sought in K-mart pharmacy robbery

The Front Royal Police Department is investigating a weekend robbery that occurred at the Kmart Pharmacy located in Royal Plaza Shopping Center.

According to Chief Norman Shiflett, a white male entered the Kmart store, located at 465 South Street, shortly before 1:30 pm on Saturday, January 18, 2014. The suspect approached the pharmacy counter and handed the Pharmacist a note demanding prescription medication. The suspect was provided with an undisclosed amount of medication and he then fled the store in an unknown direction. Officers searched the area but were unsuccessful in locating the suspect.

The suspect is described as a white male, mid to late 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, approximately 5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;07â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;09â&#x20AC;? tall, with a medium build. He was wearing camouflage coveralls and a taboggan covering his head.

Anyone with information concerning the robbery is urged to contact Detective Eric Rosemeck, Criminal Investigations Division of the Front Royal Police Department, at (540) 636-2208 or erosemeck@frontroyalva.com

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Open for business in Front Royal: The Blue Wing Frog

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By Marla Taylor Jones Dir. of Business Development Economic Development Authority

The Economic Development Authority would like to welcome â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blue Wing Frogâ&#x20AC;? to downtown Front Royal.

Located at 219 Chester Street, Blue Wing Frog provides a unique and diverse carry-out menu for folks looking for a nice picnic to take to Skyline Drive, the river or the wineries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The concept was developed around my love of wine and the beautiful wineries in the region,â&#x20AC;? said Kelly Sprague, co-owner of Blue Wing Frog. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You take a nice day trip out to the valley and the mountains and you stop at a winery, but they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily able offer much in the way of food that really pairs with and shows off the exceptional local wines.â&#x20AC;?

For instance, this week, they are of-

fering Chicken Tangine and Smoked Turkey Gumbo to carry-out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our menu changes daily, depending on whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh at the market,â&#x20AC;? said Sprague. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Also, we are working to use fresh products from local vendors like produce from the Sunflower Cottage in Middletown and goods from the Main Street Bakery in Luray in keeping with the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;buy localâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concept.â&#x20AC;?

Blue Wing Frog is in the early stage of development and will eventually have a retail section offering baskets, blankets, kites, and other â&#x20AC;&#x153;picnicâ&#x20AC;? related items as well as beer and wine, cigars, ports and other things. Among other local products, the owners plan to stock a craft beer corner for local brews and a coffee corner that will feature custom roasts from local coffee roaster, Happy Creek Coffee and Tea Company.

Sprague and her husband and co-

owner, Robert Hall, take their employees to the wineries, the local produce markets and the local destination spots to introduce them to the experience so that they may become enthusiastic promoters for her customers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are installing a wall map that will indicate destination points and I want my employees to be well-informed stewards for each of these regional sites.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are happy to have Blue Wing Frog in Front Royal,â&#x20AC;? said Jennifer McDonald, executive director of the Economic Development Authority. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have worked with Kelly and Robert through the process and look forward to their ongoing success.â&#x20AC;?

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I think you like trees as I have seen you at Tree Steward displays in Front Royal. I could use your help in explaining why we should be interested in trees. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Maggie Dear Concerned,

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You are right. I like trees -- they make our lives better.

Do you know there are over 23,000 kinds of trees and that trees are the biggest and oldest living things on earth -- redwoods over 2,000 tons and bristlecone pines over 5,000 years? Those trees produce oxygen we need to live, and one mature tree produces more than enough oxygen for both of us!!

Trees also provide food (apples, nuts, coffee beans); cork, cinnamon, and medicines from

their bark, excretions for medicines, chewing gum and golf balls; charcoal for grilling hamburgers and hot dogs; and beauty (flowers, leaves, and different shapes).

Trees also impact our lives in other ways.

They remove air pollutants -- we all breathe air to live. Trees clean soil of pollutants and keep it from blowing away by winds and washing away by rains into water sources - important as we all drink water drawn from those streams, rivers, and wells to live. And, for my wildlife friends, trees provide places for bird and squirrel homes.

Trees supply useful renewable materials.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bet your friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; houses were constructed using wood from lots of trees. Hopefully, foresters planted replacement trees for more lumber. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bet you have seen houses built from tree logs. Wish you were lucky enough to live in a log house? I do. Also, do you read books for school homework or a newspaper? That paper was once a tree.

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Finally, trees beautify neighborhoods. Almost everyone agrees a neighborhood with trees looks much nicer than one without trees. Do you know that Front Royal has been designated a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tree City USAâ&#x20AC;? town for the past 14 years due to the efforts of the Tree Stewards work with trees. And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget the Happy Creek Arboretum on Commerce where you can see a variety of trees identified with name tags. Consider taking your friends for a walk along its path to enjoy the trees and the creek.

Hope I have helped. Best wishes convincing friends that trees are worth their interest.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pope Francis

Faith & society

Pope Francis tells his flock to lighten up First Jesuit pope rocks the conservative hard core in August interview has grown increasingly active politically, not to mention aggressively conservative and dogmatic on social issues, particularly those of a sexual and reproductive nature.

The church as field hospital

Papal interviewer Fr. Antonio Spadaro, editor of the Italian Jesuit journal â&#x20AC;&#x153;La CiviltĂ Cattolicaâ&#x20AC;?, and Pope Francis in August 2013.

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Is it enough to bring a long-time lapsed Catholic back into the fold?

Probably not â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but it was at least enough to raise the question in this oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mind. And who or what, you may ask, has this half-century lapsed Catholic asking such questions?

Not surprisingly if you read my December 20 edition exploration of the first official teaching document of his papal tenure, it is Pope Francis himself. The popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first grab at my spiritual and intellectual collar came from an interview conducted by Fr. Antonio Spadaro, editor of the Italian Jesuit journal â&#x20AC;&#x153;La CiviltĂ Cattolicaâ&#x20AC;? published in mid-September 2013.

The popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message for his flock expressed there: mirror Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own love and compassion for all creation in

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WOW! Perhaps realizing the gravity of the new popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essential message and specific statements on a variety of topics over the span of a 10,000 word interview conducted over three days in August 2013, the Jesuits held off publication pending translations which allowed the interview to be simultaneously released in 16 nations, in 12 languages.

The in-depth interview ranges through a thoughtful appraisal of the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal growth within the church, faith versus fanaticism, and compassion versus ideological intransience in the practice of Catholicism. And the repercussions of the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thoughts, now coupled with his November 24 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Papal Exhortationâ&#x20AC;? damnation of the practice and self-justifying ideology of capitalist greed, are still reverberating around the world.

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Well into their three-day interview, Jesuit interviewer Father Spadaro broached the topic of social issues troublesome to the church and its membership. Under the sub-headline â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Church as Field Hospitalâ&#x20AC;? the interview proceeded: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle,â&#x20AC;? Pope Francis said, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules.

The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you. And the ministers of the church must be ministers of mercy above all.â&#x20AC;?

Of the exchange of this topic Fr. Spadaro wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mention to Pope Francis that there are Christians who live in situations that are irregular for the church or in complex situations that represent open wounds. I mention the divorced and remarried, same-sex couples and other difficult situations. What kind of pastoral work can we do in these cases? What kinds of tools can we use?â&#x20AC;?

After stating the need to â&#x20AC;&#x153;proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing,â&#x20AC;? Pope Francis said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Buenos Aires I used to receive letters from homosexual persons who

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pope Francis

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Perhaps a simple life leads to simple truths â&#x20AC;&#x201C; despite completion of renovations of the lavish papal residency, Pope Francis has elected to remain in the sparse Vatican guest suite he initially occupied. related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods.

This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that. But when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Proclamation in a missionary style focuses on the essentials, on the necessary things: this is also what fascinates and attracts more, what makes the heart burn, as it did for the disciples at Emmaus. We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel. The proposal of the Gospel must be more simple, profound, radiant.

It is from this proposition that the moral consequences then flow.â&#x20AC;?

Pope Francis continued with an observation about the content and priority of preaching the faith. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this procla-

mation. Then you have to do catechesis. Then you can draw even a moral consequence.

But the proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing â&#x20AC;Ś The message of the Gospel, therefore, is not to be reduced to some aspects that, although relevant, on their own do not show the heart of the message of Jesus Christ.â&#x20AC;?

A powerful message of compassion, not condemnation; of a Divine love that reaches out, does not fingerpoint, castigate, vandalize or worse.

Reactions However, right-wing Catholic and other Christian extremists were quick to react negatively to the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s call for compassion and balance in faith. Within a week of publication of the interview it was easy to find websites citing Pope Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statements on the above topics as further â&#x20AC;&#x153;evidenceâ&#x20AC;? of the ascendance of a conspiracy of â&#x20AC;&#x153;anti-popesâ&#x20AC;? within the Vatican.

And some â&#x20AC;&#x153;faith-basedâ&#x20AC;? rightwing politicians and commentators quickly lashed out at the pope. In an interview with the Richmond Times Dispatch this past 2013 electoral season, Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s then Republican Lt. Governor candidate and non-denominational minister E.W. Jackson

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At least the â&#x20AC;&#x153;truthâ&#x20AC;? of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gospelâ&#x20AC;? according to E.W. Jackson and those, who like him, apparently believe they have a more direct line to the Divine than the rest of us. Apparently the God that speaks to Jackson and other politically-active right-wing extremists within Christian faiths is not the same God that Pope Francis has sought out in the life of faith that has led him to the Vatican and spiritual

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Decisions for the flock The question remains, which voice will the thus-far hard-line flock within the faith choose to listen to in the future? Will it be the one coming from the thoughtful, spiritual and compassionate head of Pope Francis; or will it be a voice coming from inside their own, perhaps less discerning and experienced heads or the defiantly less-thoughtful heads of political and social extremists that flockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very human fears and prejudices have led them to?

For it is inside such heads as those latter ones â&#x20AC;&#x201C; prone to the quick answer and easy condemnation of others â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great Deceiverâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Opponentâ&#x20AC;? of true faith and spirituality may find his most fertile breeding ground.

After all, just because someone loudly claims to be Christian and wraps their own ego, prejudice and self-interest in the shroud of Christ, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean they are, in fact, what they claim to be.

You know the type â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a story

about guys like that in the Bible â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jesus met the prototype during a 40day fast in the desert. What was his name, Ken, Bob, Paul? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NO, Satan.

THAT was it, Satan, the Great Deceiver â&#x20AC;Ś Perhaps we should conclude with a quote from the pope included in our Dec. 20, 2013 exploration of Pope Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s condemnation of the callous heart that embraces a capitalist rationale of economic elitism and social exclusion: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The great danger in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart â&#x20AC;Ś and a blunted conscience â&#x20AC;Ś Now is the time to say to Jesus: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Lord, I have let myself be deceived; in a thousand ways I have shunned your love, yet here I am once more, to renew my covenant with you.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;?

Amen.

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“In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late … Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, ‘Too late.’ ” – Martin Luther King Jr.

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Martin Luther King: ‘Beyond Vietnam’ have a holiday named for him?

Well, obviously he was a champion for the civil rights of his race within American society. But Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday should be celebrated internationally because as he evolved as a human being and civil rights leader he extended the call for civil rights for all people, regardless of race, creed, economic class, ethnicity or nationality.

So, on these pages as we all should every year, we remember the message of Dr. King for all the world’s people suffering unjustly:

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report On Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, I covered my first post-heart attack assignment. Twenty-two days after, essentially dying at this very computer, and 12 days after leaving the hospital with a “bionic heart” I said NOW is the time I go back to work.

Why? Because you must stand to celebrate the anniversaries of the great

moments that mark your lifetime – and at that point for me, well, you never know how many you have left to celebrate, do you? So I listened and recorded as members of the Warren and Page Counties NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) gathered with guests at the Villa Avenue Community Center in Front Royal to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. on the holiday bearing his name.

Why does Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. ‘Beyond Vietnam’ April 4, 1967 Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world … And some of us

who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak … “Why are you speaking about the war, Dr. King?”

“Why are you joining the voices of dissent?” “Peace and civil rights don’t mix,” they say. “Aren’t you hurting the cause of your people,” they ask?

And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live … Beyond the calling of race or nation or creed is this vocation of son-ship and brotherhood, and because I believe that the Father is deeply concerned, especially for his suffering and helpless and outcast children … This I believe to be the privilege and the burden of all of us who deem ourselves bound

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by allegiances and loyalties which are broader and deeper than nationalism … We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls “enemy,” for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers.

And as I ponder the madness of Vietnam (note: insert Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Iran or …) and search within myself for ways to understand and respond in compassion, my mind goes constantly to the people of that peninsula … They must see Americans as strange liberators …

We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops … Now there is little left to build on, save bitterness … They question our political goals and they deny the reality of a peace settlement from which they will be excluded. Their questions are frighteningly relevant. Is our nation planning to build on political myth again, and then shore it up upon the power of new violence?

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You can visit our website at www.loavesandfishesfoodpantry.org We are looking for fellow community members to become recurring monthly sponsors of $25/month. You are invited to come on any Wednesday night at 4pm to 208 John Rice Road. It will touch and break your heart at the same time to see the lines of our neighbors waiting for whatever God has provided for the week.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Martin Luther King Jr. â&#x20AC;Ś At this point I should make it clear that while I have tried in these last few minutes to give a voice to the voiceless in Vietnam and to understand the arguments of those who are called â&#x20AC;&#x153;enemy,â&#x20AC;? I am as deeply concerned about our own troops there as anything else. For it occurs to me that what we are submitting them to in Vietnam is not simply the brutalizing process that goes on in any war where armies face each other and seek to destroy. We are adding cynicism to the process of death, for they must know after a short period there that none of the things we claim to be fighting for are really involved â&#x20AC;Ś and the more sophisticated surely realize that we are on the side of the wealthy and the secure, while we create a hell for the poor.

Somehow this madness must cease.

We must stop now.

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own nation: The great initiative in this war is ours; the initiative to stop it must be ours.

This is the message of the great Buddhist leaders of Vietnam. Recently one of them wrote these words, and I quote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the heart of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct.

The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies.

It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom, and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism.â&#x20AC;?

The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit ... and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing â&#x20AC;&#x153;clergy and laymen concernedâ&#x20AC;? committees for the next generation. They will be concerned about â&#x20AC;Ś Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa. We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end, unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy.

And so, such thoughts take us beyond Vietnam, but not beyond our calling as sons of the living God. In 1957, a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him

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that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution â&#x20AC;Ś It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.â&#x20AC;? Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments.

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin ... the shift from a thing-oriented society to a personoriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered (emphasis added).

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not just.â&#x20AC;?

It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not just.â&#x20AC;?

The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them, is not just â&#x20AC;Ś America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing ex-

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friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late â&#x20AC;Ś Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Too late.â&#x20AC;?

There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect â&#x20AC;Ś We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action â&#x20AC;Ś If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight. â&#x20AC;Ś

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cept a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood â&#x20AC;Ś We must not engage in a negative anti-communism (insert worst political â&#x20AC;&#x153;ismâ&#x20AC;? of the day), but rather in a positive thrust for democracy, realizing that our greatest defense against communism is to take offensive action in behalf of justice â&#x20AC;Ś It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries â&#x20AC;Ś A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies â&#x20AC;Ś This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind â&#x20AC;Ś When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response â&#x20AC;Ś I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality â&#x20AC;Ś This Hindu-Muslim-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first epistle of Saint John: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let us love one another, for love is Godâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;Ś We are now faced with the fact, my

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Indictments Rachel Marie Ardizzione The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about August 30, 2013, in the County of Warren, Rachel Marie Ardizzione, 23, of 3500 Pine Court, Dumfries, VA 22026, did unlawfully and feloniously possess a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin.

Jack Eugene Mulligan The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about August 26, 2013 in the County of Warren, Jack Eugene Mulligan, 33, of 283 Pine Ridge Rd., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously possess a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin.

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or about September 22, 2013 in the County of Warren, Matthew Tyler Berkowitz, 21, of 1226 E. 4th St., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously conspire, confederate, or combine with Cody Smallwood to commit Grand Larceny, a felony.

Zachary Thomas Callas The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about September 10 through 29, 2013, in the County of Warren, Zachary Thomas Callas, 19, of 455 Valiant Circle, Hedgesville, WV, 25427, did unlawfully take or steal a motor vehicle belonging to Allen Thrasher, with a value of $200.00 or more.

Ricky Lee Smoot Jr. The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about November 13, 2013 in the

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County of Warren, Ricky Lee Smoot Jr., 37, of 502 Virginia Ave. #2, Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously take, steal U.S. Currency, belonging to Michelle Henry, having a value of less than $200.00, the accused having been twice or times been convicted in the United States for an offense deemed to be larceny.

David McCalop The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about July 12, 2013 in the County of Warren, David McCalop, 30, of 2627 Stanton Rd., SE, Washington, DC 20020, unlawfully and feloniously steal property, having a value of $200.00 or more, belonging to Motor Max. James Allen Lawrence The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about October 5, 2013, in the County of Warren, James Allen Lawrence Jr., 38, of 87 Virginia Ave., Culpeper, VA, 22701, did unlawfully take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels of Walmart with a value of $200.00, or more.

Deborah Kay Easter The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Deborah Kay Easter, 49, of 144 Fiddler Ave., Winchester, VA 22602, with two counts. COUNTS ONE AND TWO: In the County of Warren, Deborah Kay Easter did unlawfully and feloniously with the intent to defraud, sell, secrete, destroy or dispose of a 50-inch and a 60-inch plasma television set owned by RentA-Center and valued at $200.00 or more and subject to a written lease, or fraudulently remove such property from Virginia without the written consent of the lessor, or fail to return such property to the lessor within 30 days after expiration of the lease or

rental period. Date of the offenses was on or about September 7, 2013.

Jenna Michelle Goodson The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Jenna Michelle Goodson, 25, of HC 83 Box 39BF, Capon Bridge, WV 26711, with three counts. COUNTS ONE, TWO and THREE: In the County of Warren, Jenna Michelle Goodson did unlawfully and feloniously possess, with the intent to distribute, a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin. Dates of the offenses were on or about June 20, 26 and July 19, 2013.

Bradley Laurence Skelton The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Bradley Laurence Skelton, 26, of 104 Hemlock Ct., Sevierville, TN, 37862, with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Bradley Laurence Skelton did unlawfully and feloniously commit an assault and battery against Trooper Hilliker, knowing or having reason to know that such person was a law enforcement officer engaged in the performance of his public duties.

COUNT TWO: In the County of Warren, Bradley Laurence Skelton did unlawfully and feloniously possess a Schedule II controlled substance, to-wit: Cocaine. Date of the offenses were on or about August 1, 2013.

Matthew Tyler Berkowitz The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Matthew Tyler Berkowitz, 21, of 58 E. Criser Rd., Front Royal, VA 22630, with three counts. COUNT ONE: Matthew Tyler Berkowitz did unlawfully and feloniously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and feloniously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, to-

wit: Heroin, while on public property or any property open to public use within 1,000 ft. of public or private school property. COUNT THREE: did unlawfully and feloniously sell or distribute an imitation controlled substance, which imitates a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin. Dates of the offenses were on or about July 23 and 30, 2013.

Victoria Leigh Peterman The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Victoria Leigh Peterman, 31, of 325 Cherrydale Ave., #1, Front Royal, VA 22630, with three counts. COUNTS ONE, TWO and THREE: In the County of Warren, Victoria Leigh Peterman did unlawfully and feloniously distribute and possess a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin. Dates of the offenses were on or about June 20 and July 19, 2013.

Kasey Nicole Thomas The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Kasey Nicole Thomas, 20, of 456 Cherrydale Ave., Front Royal, VA 22630, with four counts. COUNTS ONE and THREE: In the County of Warren, Kasey Nicole Thomas did unlawfully and feloniously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin.

COUNTS TWO and FOUR: did unlawfully and feloniously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, towit: Heroin, while on public property or any property open to public use within 1,000 ft. of public or private school property. Dates of the offenses were on or about July 23, 2013.

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The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Steven Michael Kay, 31, of 2374 Brighton Place, Jeffersonton, VA 22724, with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Steven Michael Kay did unlawfully drive or operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or other selfadministered intoxicant or drug, such offense being the second offense committed within a ten year period. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and feloniously possess a Schedule II controlled substance, to-wit: Hydromorphone. Date of the offenses was on or about September 1, 2013.

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The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Richard Michael Miller, 66, of 8 E. Jackson St., Front Royal, VA 22630, with two counts. COUNTS ONE and TWO: In the County of Warren, Richard Michael Miller, having previously been convicted of a sexually violent offense, did unlawfully and feloniously and knowingly fail to register or reregister with, or knowingly provide materially false information to the Sex Offender and Crimes against Minors Registry. Date of the offenses was on or about October 1, 2012.

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Kelly Lynn Wald, address and age unknown, with four counts. COUNTS ONE, TWO, THREE and FOUR: In the County of Warren, Kelly Lynn Wald did unlawfully and feloniously obtain or attempt to obtain a drug by the use of fraud, deceit, misrepresentation or subterfuge. Dates of the offenses were on or about October 4, 7, 11 and 12, 2013.

Cody Allen Smallwood The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Cody Allen Smallwood, 20, of 1223 E. 4th St., Front Royal, VA 22630, with four counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Cody Allen Smallwood did unlawfully and feloniously steal property, having a value of $200.00 or more, belonging to George E. Cline, Sr. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and feloniously break and enter in the nighttime, or break and enter the dwelling of George E. Cline, Sr., with the intent to commit larceny.

COUNT THREE: did unlawfully and feloniously attempt to commit Robbery, a felony. COUNT FOUR: did unlawfully and feloniously conspire, confederate, or combine with Matthew Berkowitz to commit Robbery, a felony. Dates of the offenses were on or about September 22 and 25, 2013.

Matthew Tyler Berkowitz

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Matthew Tyler Berkowitz, 21, of 1226 E. 4th St., Front Royal, VA 22630, with seven counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Matthew

Indictments Tyler Berkowitz did unlawfully and feloniously steal property, having a value of less than $200.00, belonging to Grafton Brinklow and previously been convicted on two or more other occasions within the Commonwealth or other jurisdiction, of larceny, an offense deemed larceny, or a substantially similar offense.

COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and feloniously conspire, confederate, or combine with Cody Smallwood to commit Breaking and Entering of a Dwelling, a felony. COUNT THREE: did unlawfully and feloniously steal property, having a value of $200.00 or more, belonging to George E. Cline, Sr. COUNT FOUR: did

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Calendar Friday, January 24 â&#x20AC;˘ Forecast 25° | 16° â&#x20AC;˘ 7pm - 10pm Front Porch Style Pickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Party. Warren County Senior Center, 1217 Commonwealth Ave. All levels of talent are welcome.

Acoustic instruments only. â&#x20AC;˘ 8pm - 10pm US Army Jazz Ambassadors. Armstrong Concert Hall, 702 University Drive, Winchester.

The Jazz Ambassadorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Band is the official touring big band of the United States Army.

This 19-member ensemble, formed in1969, has received great acclaim both at home and abroad performing Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original art form, jazz.

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â&#x20AC;˘ 8am - 2pm New Year Sale. Round Hill Ruritan, 164 Poorhouse Rd Winchester. Cold weather wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep us down! Come in from the cold and browse all the tables of a broad selection from crafters, vendors and more!

Find those must need items at after Holiday prices. Clothes, Kids Toys, Gardening items for Spring, Collectibles, Jewelry, hand made items, some yard sale items and great food, courtesy of the Ladies of the Rescue Mission (all food sales benefit the Mission). Come and support our local businesses and the community! â&#x20AC;˘ 8am - 5pm Rubbermaid product sale. Belk parking lot, Apple Blossom Mall, Winchester. Sales of donated products to benefit Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging. â&#x20AC;˘ 9am - 3pm Volleyball Camp. Warren County Middle School Gym. The Warren County Parks and Recreation Department in conjunction with Warren County Middle School will be sponsoring a Volleyball Camp for students in 6th through 8th grade. Cost is $25.00 per participant.

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by Our Shop and will include plenty of fun and fellowship. No invasive species are allowed. Check the arboretumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list of invasive species on the web site, http://blandy.virginia.edu.

Gardeners are encouraged to bring native plants. Call Donna Downing for more information, (540) 6673778. â&#x20AC;˘ 11am - 12pm Family Story Time.

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By Kevin S. Engle Warren County Report â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kevin Engle, I want to see YOU on Jeopardy!ÂŽâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Did you hear that? He said my name! Alex Trebek said my name! On TV!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Huh?â&#x20AC;? my wife asked as she looked up from her knitting to see what I was babbling about. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thanks Alex! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be there!â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not really what Alex Trebek said, but I swear itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I heard.

The host of the long running game show Jeopardy!ÂŽ was encouraging his viewers to become contestants and the first step in that process was taking an online test.

I signed up the next day.

I like Jeopardy!ÂŽ. My wife and I typically tune in each night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How do you know all this stuff?â&#x20AC;? sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ask as I fire off the answers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know. I just do.â&#x20AC;?

Some people remember important stuff, like their wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday and their kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s names. I remember Jeopardy!ÂŽ stuff.

The online test would be my first step toward riches and fame. And at 7:00 Tuesday night, I would begin to make that happen.

I logged on and waited for the test to begin. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be 50 questions and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have 15 seconds for each. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The test will start in 10 seconds. Nine, eight, seven, â&#x20AC;Ś .â&#x20AC;?

Here we go.

Question #1. Who was the Queen of France for less than three months in 1514?

Ahhhhh, ahhhhh.

Question #2. According to Greek mythology, what goddess was born an adult by emerging from her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head and wearing armor?

Huh? Question #3. This bird is a member of the Spheniscidae family and builds its nest with pebbles.

The cuckoo? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know.

Question #4. What singer, born in the West Indies , had a chart topping song in 2008?

Bruce Springsteen?

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Question #5. What Canadian province is home to the city of Vancouver ?

Finally, one I know! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been there! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Alberta !

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Question #6. Mark Harmon, the actor, stars in what popular TV show?

Ok, I got it! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve watched that show!

CSI! Right?

Almost, you loser. NCIS. Dang!

And so it went. Twelve and a half minutes later, my Jeopardy!ÂŽ hopes of fame and fortune were about as likely to come true as me becoming the next Queen of France and building a castle made of pebbles.

At 7:30, I tuned in to that nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show and watched as Alex quizzed the three contestants with tough questions like these.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the third letter of the alphabet?

Huh? How many states are in the United States of America ?

What?

What color is the sun?

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re kidding?

I went to bed that night, disappointed, dejected and depressed. My only hope was that other people had a hard time with the test as well. Or maybe, I was the only one who took it.

Yeah, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it. Maybe no one else in the world other than me gave it a shot. It wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter how poorly I did, because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d still have the best score. Yeah, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bet that happened.

Sorry Alex. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be seeing you anytime soon.

Hey, what about Wheel of FortuneÂŽ? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always wanted to meet Vanna.

That Queen of France ? Mary Tudor. The Greek goddess?

Athena. And that bird? The penguin. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; kevinengle456@comcast.net

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Sunday, January 26 • 12pm - 4:30pm The Blue Ridge Winter Bridal Marketplace Show.

Millwood Station Special Event Center, 252 Costello Drive, Winchester.

The Blue Ridge Winter Bridal Marketplace Show covering the Shenandoah Valley and Northern Virginia will showcase leading wedding venues, accommodations, and wedding professionals. Attend the Bridal Show with your friends - Register on line for the Silver Suitcase Giveaway or Register at the Door. Early Registration price is $6.00 for One and $10 for Two online. We have the finest wedding professionals in the Blue Ridge and northern Shenandoah Valley ready to meet YOU! If you do not

want to wait in line, register today.

By pre-registering you will not have to wait plus the first 80 brides receive a special VIP Bag just for them filled with great gifts from our exhibitors.

East Criser Road, Front Royal. This class is for anyone who wants to learn English.

• 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.

• 1pm - 4pm Open House. The Inn at Vaucluse Spring, Vaucluse Spring Lane, Stephens City. The Kernstown Battlefield Association will be having an open house at the Inn at Vaucluse Spring. The open house includes historic tours of the 1758 Manor House, refreshments and live music. Recommended donation is $10. For more information contact Sue Golden at (202) 302-9129 or Gary Crawford at (540) 931-4033.

• 4:30pm - 5:30pm Big Kids Story Time. Samuels Public Library, East Criser Road, Front Royal. Story time for Kindergarten and up. Come in and enjoy a story and craft all about monkeys.

Monday, January 27

• 6:30pm - 7:30pm Injury Free. Samuels Public Library, East Criser Road, Front Royal. Dr. Jeremy Busch, CEO and Clinic Director of Performance Sport & Spine in Front Royal, will talk about general ergonomics and personal care ideas to keep you injury free.

• 7pm - 8pm Council Meeting.

County of Warren Government Center.

Tuesday, January 28 • 10am - 11am English as a Second Language. Samuels Public Library,

• 6:30pm - 8:30pm Paint Your Own

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Looks like ART…feels like FUN… Create your very own Masterpiece and chase away those cold winter blues! Enjoy a fun step-by-step presentation using acrylics on canvas.

For those 17 years of age and older.

Cost is $35.00 per adult and includes all supplies. Advance registration is REQUIRED: please enroll 1 week prior to class date to secure your spot. Classes are taught by Suzanne Soliday. For more information or to register contact Ms. Soliday at (540) 252-2275 or via email at Suzanne@ suzannes-studio.net.

Wednesday, January 29 • 10am - 11am Wired Wednesday.

Samuels Public Library, East Criser Road, Front Royal. Join in for a computer club where talk is about a new

topic every week. Bring your questions! This week’s topic is tech support - troubleshoot all your cameras, phones and other gizmos.

• 10:15am - 11:15am Toddler Story Time. Samuels Public Library, East Criser Road, Front Royal. Come and join in for a story time all about birthdays. Afterwards, decorate a beautiful paper cake. Sibling welcome.

• 11am - 12pm Preschool Story Time.

Samuels Public Library, East Criser Road, Front Royal. Come in and join in for a story time all about birthdays.

Afterwards decorate a beautiful paper cake. Siblings welcome.

• 6:30pm - 9pm History and Hauntings. Valerie Hill Vineyard & Winery, Marlboro Road, Stephens City.

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Calendar CALENDAR, from 27 Join us for History & Hauntings at Valerie Hill! Enjoy a buffet dinner, a glass of your favorite Valerie Hill wine, and a detailed tour of the manor house that is sure to answer your questions about the history and hauntings - of our 205 year old manor house! SPACE IS LIMITED! Call (540) 869-9567 for reservations. $49 per person. Wine Club members $39 per person.

Thursday, January 30 â&#x20AC;˘ 10am - 11am English as a Second Language. Samuels Public Library, East Criser Road, Front Royal. This class is for anyone who wants to learn English.

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Dance Party. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Winchester. The Action Pack turns the movie theater into the best dance club in town with a music video dance party on the BIG screen!

The 1980s was the decade that gave us Michael Jackson, Madonna AND Prince. That power trio alone would be enough of a gift to mankind from any ten year period of time, but the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop there. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s was also the decade that brought us new wave acts like Depeche Mode and Erasure. It gave us glam rock from Warrant and Guns â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;n Roses. It gave birth to party rock from the J. Geils Band and Huey Lewis. And, of course, party pop from Tiffany and Belinda Carlisle, and old school hip

hop. In short, the 1980s were totally radical. Admission: $5.

Saturday, February 1 â&#x20AC;˘ 9am - 4pm Flea Market. Sullyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Attic. The Kiwanis Club of Front Royal will be having a Fund Raiser Flea Market today. Please come out and support your local Kiwanis club! â&#x20AC;˘ 10am - 6pm Front Royal Honorary Fire Chief Pageant. Front Royal Fire Dept. Newborn, Baby, Wee, Tiny, Lilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Pre-Teen, Junior, Miss, and Ms. all compete for the crown! Contestants must register by January 30.

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â&#x20AC;˘ 2pm - 3pm Teen Book Discussion.

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For ages 12 and up. Please register.

Sunday, February 2

â&#x20AC;˘ 4:30pm - 6:30pm Magic Lantern Theater screens â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stories We Tellâ&#x20AC;?.

Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Amherst Street, Winchester. This award-winning film explores the elusive nature of truth & memory in one familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history; the Washington Post calls it â&#x20AC;&#x153;masterful...a rich, sensitive, densely layered piece of poetic nonfiction.â&#x20AC;? Doors open thirty minutes early at both locations with wine, snacks and other refreshments available. Admission is $8 (MLT/MSV/ Barns Members: $5). For further info, link to www.magiclanterntheater.org, e-mail info@magiclanterntheater.org or call (540) 678-0963.

â&#x20AC;˘ 11am - 12pm Preschool Story Time. See description from Wednesday, January 29.

â&#x20AC;˘ 8pm - 11pm Totally 80s Sing-Along

â&#x20AC;˘ 10am - 11am Winter Reading Club.

Samuels Library, Front Royal. Snuggle with a book. The Winter Reading Club recognizes children for reading throughout the month of February.

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â&#x20AC;˘ 6pm - 7pm Business Forum. Front Royal Administration Building, 102 E Main Street, Front Royal. All Business owners/operators are invited to attend. This offers an opportunity to discuss the issues related to conducting business in Front Royal. Topics of discussion will include the Townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s draft Vision Statement, the Community Development Director Position and other issues pertinent to businesses in our community. Staff will be available to discuss ways that the Town can improve business permitting and relations to assist local business owners. More Info: (540) 6358007.

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Committee. Chamber Office. â&#x20AC;˘ 10:15am - 11:15am Toddler Story Time. Samuels Library, Front Royal.

Come join in for a story time and craft all about chickens. Siblings welcome. â&#x20AC;˘ 11am - 12pm Preschool Story Time. See above. â&#x20AC;˘ 12:30pm - 1pm Warren County Business On The River 95.3.

Thursday, February 6 â&#x20AC;˘ 9am - 10am Tourism Committee.

Chamber Office. â&#x20AC;˘ 10:15am - 11:15am Toddler Story Time. See description from Wednesday, February 5th. 11am - 12pm Preschool Story Time. See description from Wednesday, February 5th.

Friday, February 7 â&#x20AC;˘ 1:30pm - 2:30pm Education Committee. Chamber Office.

Saturday, February 8 â&#x20AC;˘ 7am - 11am Pancake Breakfast.

Riverton United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. Enjoy pancakes, sausages, scrambled eggs, sausage gravy, juice and coffee. All proceeds benefit the United Methodist Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ministries. Adults $6.00, children under 10 $3.00. â&#x20AC;˘ 10:10am - 11:10am Books and Barks. Samuels Library, Front Royal. Come to this extremely popular monthly program that gives developing readers the chance to read and relax with a trained therapy dog. For beginning readers and up. Please register. â&#x20AC;˘ 4pm - 7pm Spaghetti Dinner and Silent Auction. Front Royal Church of the Brethren, 106 W. 13th St., Front Royal. Hosted by Relay for Life.

Advanced tickets $6.00/adult, $3,00/ child. Prices at the door $7.00/adult, $4.00 child. Children 4 and under eat free. Sponsored by Connieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crusaders. All proceeds go directly to the American Cancer Society.

Sunday, February 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ 3pm - 5pm Magic Lantern Theater screens â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stories We Tellâ&#x20AC;?. Barns of Rose Hill, Chalmers Court, Berryville. See description on Sunday, February 2nd.

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Coach Brad Neffendorf is welcomed by Front Royal Cardinals Director of Operations David Wines The Front Royal Cardinals are excited to announce theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve hired Brad

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Neffendorf as the new Head Coach for the 2014 season. He was introduced to the community on January 18th at Momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Country Kitchen, where fans gathered to meet the new coach and hear his philosophy for building the 2014 Front Royal Cardinalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; team.

Coach Neffendorf has a solid reputation for developing winning teams, achieved over his nine years of coaching experience. For the last four years, he has served as the Campbellsville University Tigersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recruiting coordinator and pitching coach. In 2012, he helped lead the Tigers to their tenth straight NAIA play-off appearance, and NCAAA Regional Championship and a World Series berth. In 2011, he also joined the Valley Baseball League as a Pitching Coach for the Winchester Royals,

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Speaking at the event, Coach Neffendorf said he is looking forward to the 2014 season and is putting together an energetic and competitive team. He believes this combination will ensure an exciting VBL season.

Coach Nettendorf brings that same high-energy excitement to his coaching staff. Joining Coach Neffendorf are assistant coaches Jordan McCavitt, Jonathan Riddle, and return-

ing coach Keaton Neeb. McCavitt joins the team from his position as assistant coach/ recruiting coordinator for the St. Catharine College Patriots in Kentucky. Before joining the staff at St. Catharineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Coach McCavitt was the pitching coach at Arizona Western College, where he directed a pitching staff that allowed the fewest walks in the ACCAC, while having team ERAs of 3.38 and 3.36. Coach Riddle joins the Front Royal Cardinals from Union College

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Four FCPS Teachers Earn National Board Certification.

Four more Frederick County Public Schools teachers have earned the designation of National Board Certified Teacher. Greenwood Mill Elementary School first grade teacher Michelle Jenkins, Millbrook High School math teacher Anna (Mimi) Henshaw, Redbud Run Elementary School first grade teacher Rebecca Spires and Sherando High School math teacher Carolyn Arnold were recently notified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) that they have earned National Board Certification.

Frederick County Public Schools now employs 21 National Board Certified Teachers.

National Board Certification is a voluntary assessment program designed to develop, recognize and retain accomplished teachers. Certification is achieved through a performance-based assessment that typically takes one to three years to complete. During the assessment, teachers build a portfolio that includes student work samples, assignments, videotapes, and a thorough analysis of their classroom teaching.

In addition, teachers are assessed on their knowledge of the subject they teach. While state licensing systems set basic requirements to teach in each state, National Board Certified teachers have successfully demonstrated advanced teaching knowledge, skills and practices.

All 50 states recognize National Board Certification as a mark of distinction. According to a study by the non-partisan National Research Council, students taught by National Board Certified Teachers make higher gains on achievement tests than students taught by other teachers. Another study by Harvard Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Education Policy Research affirmed the strong positive

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Jenkins, Mrs. Henshaw, Mrs. Spires and Mrs. Arnold are to be commended for pursuing National Board Certification and achieving the distinction. They are outstanding examples of teachers who are committed to be-

coming the best they can be so that our students can become the best that they can be. I offer my congratulations to all four of our new National Board Certified teachers and thank all of our teachers and staff members

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United Way completes campaign The United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley recently completed its annual campaign for 2013.

We were pleased to report over $1,109,000 raised to support local human care needs and services. This campaign achievement was made possible through the efforts of dedicated volunteers and generous contributors.

I want to extend my appreciation to a caring community for your commitment to living united. Thanks to your support, community impact grants will be available to respond to priority needsâ&#x20AC;Śsupport for a growing elderly populationâ&#x20AC;Śstudent concerns about drugs and depressionâ&#x20AC;Ś and services for families unable to deal with day to day needs.

On behalf of the thousands of area residents who benefit from United Way supported services, I would like to thank all the local employees, businesses and individuals who worked together to Live United.

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Indian Hollow Elementary to Get New Principal Indian Hollow Elementary School Principal Deanna Marie Lock has resigned effective January 31 in order to accept an educational sales position in South Carolina. Frederick County Schools Superintendent David Sovine announced the resignation at the Frederick County School Board meeting on January 22.

Sovine says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ms. Lock has been an exceptional educational leader at Indian Hollow Elementary School for more than 13 years. She is a dedicated professional who has worked tirelessly to bring teachers, parents, support staff and others together to benefit students. We wish her well as she opens a new chapter in her career.â&#x20AC;?

Lock began her education career as a teacher in Michigan. She came to Frederick County Public Schools in August 2001 and served three years as the assistant principal at Indian Hollow Elementary School before being named principal in July 2004.

Lock says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have enjoyed my nearly 14 years at Indian Hollow and have many great memories tied to my

time here. I will never forget the students and staff members who make our school a wonderful place to work and learn. A school is not bricks and mortar. It is a living place where students, teachers, parents and others partner to help students reach their full potential. Based on that definition, Indian Hollow will continue to enjoy great success this year and into the future.â&#x20AC;?

James Wood Middle School Assistant Principal Sharon Cooley has been named the interim principal at Indian Hollow Elementary and will serve in that role through the end of the current school year. Cooley began working with Frederick County

Public Schools in 1989 after serving five years as a special education teacher in Syracuse, New York. Her career in Frederick County includes

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To advertise in Warren & Frederick County Report, Contact: Angie Buterakos at angie@fredcoreport.com • 540-683-9197 or Alison at alisond@warrencountyreport.com • 540-551-2072 2004, Cooley moved into administration at Aylor where she served three years as the Administrative Assistant to the Principal. In 2007, she became the assistant principal at Orchard View Elementary School. Two years later, Cooley was named the assistant principal at James Wood Middle School.

Sovine says, “We are fortunate to have Mrs. Cooley able to serve as the interim principal at Indian Hollow Elementary. The school will remain in good hands as we conduct a search for a new principal who will succeed Ms. Lock and continue to successfully lead Indian Hollow and assure that the students and staff there excel and grow.

The school division will start a search for the new principal at Indian Hollow Elementary School this spring with the intent of having the new principal begin working this summer.

Superintendent Presents FY15 Budget Proposal to the School Board Frederick County Public Schools Superintendent David Sovine presented the School Board with a budget proposal for FY15 totaling $178.3

million during the Board’s meeting on January 22. Sovine’s proposal is based upon the budget presented to the General Assembly by former Governor Bob McDonnell.

Sovine’s budget proposal includes a School Operating Fund of $143.6 million. The School Operating Fund is the fund accounting for the largest portion of the school division’s programs and operations. Sovine says, “The budget I’ve presented addresses the budget priorities established by the School Board for FY15. It allows for the continuation of current services and programs, the implementation of full-day kindergarten division-wide beginning in August and improves salaries so that we can be competitive in seeking the best teachers and staff members to serve our more than 13,000 students.”

Sovine adds, “School Operating Fund expenditures need to increase by $9.6 million in FY15 (from $134 million in FY14 to $143.6 million in FY15) in order for us to continue current services and programs, fund the state-mandated increase in employer payments to the Virginia Retirement System (VRS), pay the employer’s share of a projected health insurance premium increase, implement full-day kindergarten

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Sovine is requesting $1.7 million in his budget proposal to implement full-day kindergarten. The additional

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After flatlining during the economic downturn that began around 2008, housing markets in many regions of the United States and Canada have shown signs of recovery.

Those in the market to buy and sell may find this year presents an ideal opportunity to do just that.

According to the real estate listing Web site Zillow, home values rose 5.1 percent across the United States between February 2012 and February 2013. The latest forecasts from Canada Mortage and Housing Corporation indicate a strong housing demand into 2014, at which time a strengthened economy will energize both resale and new housing markets.

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It shows sellers that buyers are serious and that they have been vetted by the bank.

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It also is important to hire a buyer’s agent. Such professionals send buyers listings that fit their home-search parameters, which saves buyers a lot of time and effort. Some agents preview homes for their buyers, even going so far as to identify overpriced listings that can be avoided or finding sellers who are willing to negotiate. A buyer’s agent works for the buyer, meaning there will be no conflict of interest. Agents assist buyers in the negotiating process, using their knowledge of the real estate market to help buyers make realistic offers that are likely to be accepted while providing a wealth of information about housing trends, area services and home improvement vendors.

When sellers accept buyers’ offers, buyers must then arrange home inspections. An inspection is oftentimes included as a contract

Sellers competing for business in a thriving housing market also have to do their share of work. It is unlikely sellers will be able to list their homes for sale one day and have dozens of offers the next. Today’s buyers are much more conservative, and homes will have to be presented in the best light and listed at reasonable prices.

Sellers can start the process of selling their homes by researching recently sold homes in their neighborhoods, paying particular attention to final sales prices. This information may be available through tax records, and some real estate sites publish the data online. Sellers can then compare this information to what they still owe on their mortgages if their homes are not paid off, and this should give sellers an idea of their potential profits.

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Housing markets are once again looking up. As the new year arrives, many people may find now is the time find their next homes. Understanding the process and getting guidance from real estate professionals makes the process of buying and selling a home that much easier.

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Sovine says, “After years of discussion and planning, we are prepared to begin offering full-day kindergarten which will benefit our students and community. A great deal of work has gone into this effort. We recently finished the construction of classroom additions at four schools (BassHoover, Evendale, Redbud Run and Stonewall Elementary Schools) and completed an elementary school rezoning in order to position ourselves to launch the full-day kindergarten program division-wide this fall.”

The budget proposal also includes a salary initiative totaling $4.2 million which would provide a one-step movement on the salary scales for all staff. The initiative also would increase the step value on the teacher’s scale from $1,182 to $1,350.

Sovine says, “Prior to FY14, it had been five years since school employees had any sustained salary increase.

This year, I’ve requested funding to provide a salary increase which will advance teachers one step on an enhanced salary scale. This initiative will help us be more competitive as we seek to attract and retain the bestqualified teachers to engage our students in learning and help them be successful.”

Although Sovine’s proposed budget provides for the continuation of existing programs and services, accounts for increases in health insur-

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ance premiums and payments to the VRS, addresses salaries and provides for the implementation of full-day kindergarten, there are several issues that are not fully addressed. These include restoration efforts for educational needs, technology needs, replacement school buses and facility needs.

Sovine says, “The school division has established replacement cycles for both computers and buses, but we have not been able to adhere to those schedules due to the fiscal challenges we’ve faced over a number of years. As a result, we have nearly 1,800 computers that have not been replaced within the recommended replacement cycle. The story is similar when it comes to our bus fleet.

Ideally, the School Operating Fund should include funding to replace at least 13 buses annually at a cost of $1.3 million. Although temporary funds have allowed for the purchase of some replacement buses, we have not been able to maintain the replacement schedule. Currently, we have 22 buses that have traveled more than 250,000 miles and 45 that are 16years-old or older. Although staff has done an outstanding job maintaining the fleet and assuring our buses are safe, restoring the replacement cycles is an issue that will need additional attention in future budgets.”

In addition to using a special Web page to provide up-to-date information on the School Board’s work to develop the FY15 budget, the school division will also be sharing budget information via Twitter and Face-

book. A link to the FY15 Budget Web page is available on the Frederick County Public Schools’ homepage (www.frederick.k12.va.us).

LFCC Holds Super Saturday Event on College Financial Assistance Do you need financial assistance in order to attend college? Join other college-bound students and their parents at Lord Fairfax Community College (LFCC) for Super Saturday. Super Saturday is sponsored by the Virginia Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and hosted at LFCC’s Middletown Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Super Saturday is designed to educate individuals about the financial aid process and assist with the completion of the 2014-15 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form. Super Saturday will take place on February 8, 2014, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in room 140 in Fairfax Hall, located at 173 Skirmisher Lane in Middletown, VA. Individuals interested in completing the FAFSA form online with the assistance of financial aid professionals must bring the following items: · Your and a parent’s U.S. Department of Education personal identification number (PIN), if you are a dependent student. Register as soon as possible for the PIN at http://www.pin.ed.gov.

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Frederick County Crime of the Week - January 13, 2014 This week’s Crime of the Week is a grand larceny from Patton’s Movers, Inc., located at 160 Imboden Drive. On that date, the owner noted that two valuable pieces of Henkel-Harris furniture, including a rare cabinet and two dining tables were missing. Upon taking inventory, he discovered many other items of furniture, along with a rare china collection was also missing. The value of these items is estimated to be in excess of $80,000.00.

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Winchester Crime of the Week – January 6, 2014 Location: 2350 Legge Blvd., Winchester, VA 22601 Date of Crime: Between 10/22/13 @ 08:00 hours and 12/20/13 @ 15:52 hours Type of Crime: Grand Larceny Sometime between the above listed time frame, a black and gray car carrier with Indiana registration P178038 was stolen from the Penske Truck Rental located on the Home Depot lot at 2350 Legge Blvd. in the City of Winchester.

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Stephen H. Lake Stephen H. Lake, 64, of Winchester, Virginia, died Tuesday, January 21, 2014, in Winchester Medical Center. The family will receive friends on Friday, January 24, 2014, from 6:00-8:00 PM at Omps Funeral Home, South Chapel.

A graveside service will be conducted at 11:00 AM, Saturday, January 25, 2014 at Riverview Cemetery in Strasburg, Virginia.

Robert L. Kirk Robert Lee â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bobâ&#x20AC;? Kirk, age 72, of Stephens City, Virginia, died Monday, January 20, 2014, at a local Assisted Living facility.

Contributions to honor the memory of Mr. Kirk may be made to the American Cancer Society, 2654 Valley Avenue, Suite B, Winchester, Virginia 22601.

Gary McClelland â&#x20AC;&#x153;Redâ&#x20AC;? Dick Gary McClelland â&#x20AC;&#x153;Redâ&#x20AC;? Dick, 78, of Frederick County, Virginia, died Saturday, January 18, 2014, in his home. Memorial contributions may be made to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 West Cork Street, Suite 405, Winchester, Virginia, 22601.

Marvin B. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Butchâ&#x20AC;? Puckett, Jr. Marvin Berkeley â&#x20AC;&#x153;Butchâ&#x20AC;? Puckett, Jr., 65, of Brucetown, Virginia, died Sunday, January 19, 2014, in his home. Memorial contributions may be made to Wounded Warriors, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, Kansas, 66675 or Salvation Army, 300 Fort Collier Road, Winchester, Virginia 22603.

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Margaret A. Price Margaret Ann â&#x20AC;&#x153;Margieâ&#x20AC;? Price, age 76, of Winchester, Virginia, died Saturday, January 18, 2014, at her home. To honor her memory, contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 2516, Glen Allen, Virginia 23508-5216.

Ralph W. Poe Ralph W. Poe, 89, of Frederick County, Virginia, died Thursday, January 16, 2014, at his home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 West Cork Street, Suite 405, Winchester, Virginia, 22601 or Shrinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Children Hospital, 1712 Bellevue Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23227.

Shirley Sunderlin Shirley Bott Sunderlin, 76, of Winchester, died Saturday, January 18, 2014 in Winchester Medical Center. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the Jones Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Susan S. McDonald officiating.

Burial will follow in Shenandoah Memorial Park.

Louise Shade Louise â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weezieâ&#x20AC;? Kathryn Conner Shade, 91, of Winchester, died Monday, January 20, 2014 at Blue Ridge Hospice In-patient Care Center. Memorial Contributions may be made to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 West Cork Street, Suite 5, Winchester, VA 22601 or Salem Church of the Brethren, P.O. Box 613, Stephens City, VA 22655.

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Jimmie Foltz Jimmie D. Foltz Sr., 81, of South Point, OH, formerly of Winchester, VA, died Monday, January 20, 2014 at a local nursing home. Memorial Contributions may be made to Wesley United Methodist Church, 527 Van Fossen Street, Winchester, VA 22601.

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Academics Krista Williams Earns Degree at Wilkes University Krista Williams of Winchester received a Master of Science in Education.

Brady Melnikoff makes the Dean’s List at Coastal Carolina University Brady Melnikoff, a freshman Recreation and Sport Management major, of Stephens City, was among more than 1,900 students from Coastal Carolina University who made the Fall 2013 Dean’s List. To qualify for the Dean’s List, freshmen must earn a 3.25 grade point average, and upperclassmen must earn a 3.5 grade point average.

Elizabeth McCrary makes the Dean’s List at the University of New Hampshire Elizabeth McCrary of Winchester has earned Honors for the fall semester of the 2013-2014 academic year at the University of New Hampshire.

Students named to the Dean’s List at the University of New Hampshire have earned recognition through their superior scholastic performance. Highest Honors are awarded to students who earn a semester grade point average of 3.85 or better out of a possible 4.0. Students with a

3.65 to 3.84 average are awarded high honors and students whose grade point average is 3.5 through 3.64 are awarded honors.

Wyatt Clements Named to Dean’s List at Thiel College Wyatt Preston Clements, a senior from Winchester, was among the 315 students from Thiel College who were named to the fall 2013 Dean’s List. Clements has been on the Thiel Dean’s List three times. A student at Thiel College must attain a grade point average of 3.40 on a 4.0 scale while being enrolled full time to be eligible for the Dean’s List.

Sara Gustafson Named to Dean’s List at Wisconsin Lutheran College Sara Gustafson, of Winchester, a junior, has been named to Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Dean’s List for the fall semester. To be eligible for Dean’s List, a student must carry a semester GPA of 3.6 or higher.

Bridget Reddy Earns Dean’s List Recognition at Ohio Wesleyan University Bridget Reddy of Cross Junction has been named to the 2013 fall semester Dean’s List at Ohio Wesleyan University. To qualify for Dean’s List recognition, Ohio Wesleyan students must achieve a grade point average of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale in all ap-

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Brogan Hoover Named to Dean’s List at Emory & Henry College Brogan Hoover, of Stephens City, has been named to the E&H Dean’s List for the fall semester. To be eligible for Dean’s List, a student must achieve a semester GPA of 3.6 or better and take a minimum of 12 credit hours of course work during the semester.

Local Students Inducted into National Honor Society at Randolph-Macon Academy To be selected for the National English Honor Society, a student must have completed at least one semester of Honors or AP English and earned at least a grade point average of 3.5, including an average of at least 3.7 in Honors and AP English courses. The student must also have attended RMA for at least one semester and display exemplary conduct and honor.

Cody Borden, the son of Clif and Dean Borden of Winchester, was inducted into the National Honor Society. He is a sophomore at the Academy.

Jake Branham, the son of Michael and Diane Branham of Winchester, was inducted into the National Honor Society. He is a sophomore at the Academy.

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James Madison University announces December 2013 graduates Shannon Trout of Stephens City with a degree in Education - MEd Chase Dodge of Winchester with a degree in Justice Studies - BS Christopher Deck of Stephens City with a degree in Marketing - BBA Clint Whitacre of Winchester with a degree in Accounting - BBA Timothy Grant of Middletown with a degree in Education - MEd

Linda Farringer of Winchester with a degree in Education - MEd Michael Majher of Winchester with a degree in Public Policy & Admin - BS Donald Jenkins of Winchester with a degree in Studio Art - BFA Haley Jacobsen of Winchester with a degree in Comm Sciences & Disorders - BS Taylor Henshaw of Winchester with a degree in Health Sciences BS Anthony Sirna of Winchester with a degree in Geology - BS Kelsey Tirona of Winchester, Magna Cum Laude, with a degree in Nursing - BSN. Congratulations to our local graduates!

James Madison University’s Fall 2013 President’s List The following students made the president’s list at James Madison University for the fall 2013 semester.

Students who earn president’s list honors must carry at least 12 graded credit hours and earn a GPA of 3.900 or above.

Walter Battin of Winchester, a senior majoring in Health Sciences BS. Jenna Danzig of Winchester, a senior majoring in Media Arts and Design - BA. Shelby Franklin of Winchester, a senior majoring in Interdisc Liberal Studies - BS. Elizabeth Garfola of Winchester, a senior majoring in Biology - BS. Samantha Huse of Winchester, a junior majoring in Nursing - BSN.

Jenna Lowry of Stephens City, a junior majoring in Nursing - BSN. Alexandra Maben of Winchester, a junior majoring in English - BA. Margaret Nave of Winchester, a senior majoring in Music - BM. Jonny Novgrod of Stephens City, a senior majoring in Psychology - BS. Emily Vaughters of Winchester, a senior majoring in Interdisc Liberal Studies - BS. James Madison University’s Fall 2013 Fall Dean’s List The following area students made the dean’s list at James Madison University for the fall 2013 semester.

Gina Aicardi of Winchester, a senior majoring in Kinesiology - BS Emma Bales of Winchester, a senior majoring in Biology - BS Jara Barrett of Winchester, a freshman majoring in Media Arts and Design - BA John Battin of Winchester, a senior majoring in Health Sciences - BS Mitchell Beauregard of Winchester, a sophomore majoring in Sport & Rec Management - BS Anna Comer of Stephenson, a senior majoring in Hospitality Management - BS Madison Cornwell of Stephens City, a sophomore majoring in Health Sciences - BS Grayson Crickman of Cross Junction, a junior majoring in Psychology - BS Bradley Deck of Stephens City, a senior majoring in Health Sciences - BS Joshua Diaz of Winchester, a senior majoring in Graphic Design - BFA Emily Dowling of Stephens City, a sophomore majoring in Nursing BSN Jennifer Elder of Stephens City, a senior majoring in Justice Studies BS Heather Fasano of Winchester, a junior majoring in Comm Sciences & Disorders - BS Melanie Gray of Winchester, a senior majoring in Modern Foreign Lang - BA Claire Haskins of Middletown, a sophomore majoring in English - BA Matthew Jackson of Winchester, a junior majoring in Computer Science - BS

Academics Diversions Haley Jacobsen of Winchester, a senior majoring in Comm Sciences & Disorders - BS Eleanor Kent of Winchester, a sophomore majoring in Sport & Rec Management - BS Kittikun Kijbamrunglarp of Stephens City, a junior majoring in Quantitative Finance - BS Molly Knudsen of Stephens City, a senior majoring in Psychology - BA Alexander Kuhn of Winchester, a senior majoring in Marketing - BBA Kelly Lakin of Winchester, a junior majoring in Dietetics - BS Michael Larrick of Cross Junction, a senior majoring in Management BBA Jasmine Mack of Winchester, a junior majoring in Graphic Design - BFA Emily McNemar of Winchester, a senior majoring in Hospitality Management - BS Megan Miller of Stephens City, a junior majoring in English - BA Jennifer Nehrt of Cross Junction, a junior majoring in History - BA Braden Pierson of Winchester, senior majoring in Geographic Science - BS Matthew Raybuck of Winchester, a senior majoring in History - BA Sarah Riggleman of Winchester, a

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After a long winter of snow and ice, many people are ready for the warmth and sunshine synonymous with spring. But dirty windows can block that sunshine from finding its way into a home. Washing windows can be quite an undertaking, particularly in those homes with many windows on multiple levels. However, there are several time-saving tips available that can cut the work considerably. * Save window washing for a cloudy day. Otherwise, the warmth and sunlight may dry the cleaning solution too quickly and you will be left with streaks on your windows. * Vacuum windowsills and tracks first to remove a good deal of dust and debris. This will reduce the amount of dirt you smear onto the windows while cleaning them. * Use a combination of a sponge soaked in cleaning solution and a squeegee to get really clean

windows. The squeegee helps to prevent streaks and cut down on the time it takes the windows to dry, all the while helping the windows to sparkle. * Window screens may be the culprit behind dingy windows.

Hose down the screens with water to clean them, using a mild cleaning solution if water is ineffective. * Working with a partner can make the task go much more quickly. One person can clean the exteriors of the windows while the other does the interiors. * A mild dishwashing liquid diluted in water can cut through dirt and grime. For stubborn dirt, wash windows with diluted ammonia or vinegar. * Use a glass-cleaning tool to clean hard-to-reach windows.

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Fans and non-fans alike typically spend at least some time watching the big game, and many people do so at parties geared around the game itself. A good Super Bowl party can make the game that much more enjoyable, and the following are some must-have items no Super Bowl party host should forget. * Snacks: Snacks play an integral role on Super Bowl Sunday. Unlike other popular gatherings, Super Bowl parties do not typically feature a sitdown meal as part of the festivities.

Though it’s customary for hosts to make one large dish or order pizzas for guests, it’s still necessary to stock up on snacks to keep guests from getting hungry as the party progresses. The game itself often lasts three hours or more, and many guests will begin to arrive an hour before kickoff, if not earlier. So be sure to have snacks like potato chips and pretzels as well as some healthier fare, like vegetable trays, on hand for guests. * Dips: Of course, snacks always taste better when guests have something to dip them into. When choosing dips for the party, encourage guests with culinary skills to make their own homemade dips and bring them to the party, and make some of your own as well. Hosts hesitant to try their hands at making dips can always buy some from the store, just be sure to choose popular dips like onion- or cheese-flavored dips and even some salsa. * Nachos: Certain foods have become synonymous with Super Bowl parties, and nachos certainly fall into that category. If hosts and guests all eat meat, cook up some homemade nachos with tortilla chips, ground beef (or even ground chicken), green peppers, red peppers, jalapeno peppers, shredded cheese, and salsa, be it homemade or store-bought. Exclude beef or chicken when hosting guests who abstain from eating meat or poultry. Nachos can be made in a snap, so hosts might want to wait until just before the game starts to whip up some homemade nachos. * Beverages: Beverages are another important must-have when hosting a Super Bowl party. According to Nielsen estimates from 2011, Ameri-

cans consumed roughly 50 million cases of beer in the two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl (the NFLconference championship games, which determine who will play in the Super Bowl, occur two weeks prior to the big game), a significant portion of which is consumed on Super Bowl Sunday. So hosts should anticipate guests wanting to enjoy a beer or two during their Super Bowl parties.

But beer isn’t the only beverage hosts must stock up on. Have plenty of water on hand, as well as some beverages like iced tea and soda for kids and adults guests who do not drink alcohol. Hosts also should monitor guests’ alcohol consumption to ensure no guests overdo it. * Chicken wings: Like nachos, chicken wings have become synonymous with the Super Bowl. Hosts who want to try their hands at homemade wings can consider the following recipe for “Baked Jerk Chicken Wings” from Helen Willinsky’s “Jerk From Jamaica” (Ten Speed Press).

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Place the chicken in a greased baking dish.

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Some models may be slightly higher Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to service write-up. Offer ends 2/7/14. Not valid in conjunction with any other coupons or in-store specials. Good only at MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.

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Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to service write-up. Offer ends 2/7/14. Not valid in conjunction with any other coupons or in-store specials. Good only at MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.

ELDER AUTO CLUB SPECIAL 5 YEARS OLD TAKE

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t Family owned - so we treat you like family. t Our Technicians have combined over 80 years of technical experience. t Serving The Shenandoah Valley for over 65 Years. t New extended hours to serve you better. t Our Own Exclusive Service Rewards Plan. t Complimentary car wash on most services. t Rental car available on site t Shuttle service available.

Factory Recommended Scheduled Maintenance Discount Special

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4 dr., 1.8L I-4, Auto.

41K Miles Stock #A305A

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