Early March 2014 Warren and Frederick County Report

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Winter of Their Discontent: Afton-Town Hall swap approved

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Winter of Our Discontent: The loss of a friend & ‘PAX’ dumps on us

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Cline is FRPD’s Officer of Year!

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Public safety

Cline named FRPD Officer of the Year

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report

At the Feb. 10 Front Royal Town Council meeting it was announced that Crystal Cline had been elected FRPD Officer of the Year. Cline is currently assigned as a Detective to the Criminal Investigations Division, where she was promoted in 2007.

Her assignments include Felony investigations, “in-depth Misdemeanor” and “DOA” cases, she told us.

Cline became a Certified Public Information Officer in September of last year as an additional duty. She is also an Instructor at the Rappahannock Regional Criminal Justice Academy and an Instructor at the Citizen’s Police Academy.

All employees of the Police Department vote for an Officer of the Year and for a Civilian Staffer of the Year.

We asked Cline’s immediate supervisor, Captain Jason Ryman, about his officer’s selection.

“Crystal has become one of our veteran go-to officers. She’s an accomplished criminal detective and, as a side interest, an analyst as well.

FRPD ‘Officer of the Year’ Crystal Cline with Cpt. Jason Ryman and a couple of dummies during August 2013 ‘National Night Out’ event in Front Royal Village Commons I fully understand why she was selected this year. She closed numerous criminal cases of her own, is always willing to assist other officers with their cases and has no problem with holding people’s feet to the fire when

it’s needed. She’s blunt, to the point, and will give you an honest assessment of a situation when asked.

“When an officer is confident

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“Although the $12,500 [per unit] proffer is about $10,000 less than the County’s fiscal impact model indicates, I think getting the transportation improvements that are proposed helped sway support from a majority of the Board.� – County Administrator Doug Stanley

Front Royal-Warren Co

County re-approves FRLP boundary adjustment by 4-1 vote County and town keep 3-party agreement option alive for state officials

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report On Feb. 18, there was only one vote of opposition to a revisiting of the county’s approval, this time of two versions, of the Voluntary Settlement Agreement between Warren County, the Town of Front Royal and Front Royal Limited Partnership, the latter owner of 604 acres of vacant county pasture land earmarked for development on the town’s east side boundary with the county.

Fork District Supervisor Archie Fox said he wasn’t happy with the

discrepancy between the cited perunit proffer amount in the agreement to the county for service impacts from new residents and a model the county has to cover its cost from population growth. Fox, who owns Fox Mechanical, a well-drilling business, has close ties to the local building community though he did not cite any builder’s concerns with the proposal or development on the impacted land whether it be in or out of town.

Despite Fox’s stated concerns, the 4-vote majority held to its belief that the citizen-driven (by FRLP principal

Dave Vazzana) boundary adjustment request was a “win-win� for the town and county. We later asked County Administrator Doug Stanley about the majority stance and staff understanding about the gap in the proffer amount and model numbers not being a deterrent to approval. “Although the $12,500 [per unit] proffer is about $10,000 less than the County’s fiscal impact model indicates, I think getting the transportation improvements that are proposed helped sway support from a majority of the Board. If the annexation had been hostile there was a chance the

County could have ended up with a smaller proffer contribution. With the agreement we are guaranteed that amount,� Stanley told us.

The Feb. 18 staff summary also noted the agreed-upon per-unit proffer amount totals $10,225,000 to the county in addition to associated road development funds.

During a joint meeting of the full town and county boards and FRLP officials in February 2013, transportation infrastructure totals of $8.7 million for the east-west connector, minus transportation credits were cited. It was also noted that remain-

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ing transportation proffer dollars (estimated at $5-10 million) could be doubled by VDOT matching funds were the town to be in control of that proffered money.

Those road-improvement dollars were enough to ease per-unit impact concerns for all but one county supervisor from the planned development of 818 residential units. It is development that if occurring in Front Royal will certainly be connected to town central water and sewer utilities. That central water-sewer access eases future groundwater use and quality concerns long expressed by some supervisors and environmentalists about such development occurring in the county and relying on individual well and septic.

Final approval is now in the hands of the state Commission on Local Government, which held its own public hearing here on Nov. 18, 2013.

The revisiting to consider a two-party agreement involving only the county and town, excluding the private-sector applicant for the boundary adjustment, was made because of a difference in legal interpretations about how a Voluntary Settlement Agreement can be structured according to state law, County Attorney Blair Mitchell explained prior to the vote.

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enough to perform in that manner, it lends itself to the improvement of the whole unit,� Ryman said, adding, “The Officer of the Year award is interesting because it’s NOT an award that is determined by administrative/command staff. Each year the rank and file of the department are asked to submit their choice for the year. The officers look at work ethic, cooperation, skill sets, etc.

The officer with the most votes from the rank and file is selected to receive the award.�

Informed that retired FRPD traffic officer-mannequin and current Fussell Florists window fashion model Mandy was overjoyed at her selection, Cline replied, “Mandy and I have worked hard to dominate in our chosen career fields! We have learned a lot from each other in the past 10 years together. Maybe next year she will get the award.�

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The Republican sponsored law that presently mandates ultrasounds for women seeking abortion services may face repeal after Senate Bill 617 passed this past week through The Virginia Health and Education Senate Committee.

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Northam’s swing vote crucial on women’s health future Democratic Lt. Governor propels mandatory ultrasound repeal forward

By Dana Carlson Capital News Service RICHMOND, Feb. 14 – The Republican-sponsored law that currently mandates ultrasounds for women seeking abortion services may face repeal after Senate Bill 617, patronized by Sen. Mamie Locke, DHampton, passed this week through The Virginia Health and Education Senate Committee.

The bill narrowly passed with a tiebreaking vote from Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam as senators demonstrated the pro-choice and pro-life rift, which divides the General Assembly along party lines. SB 617 will make its way to the House where a number of similar measures to eliminate the ultrasound requirement died in various committees. Cianti StewartReid, the Planned Parenthood PAC liaison, credited the defeat of the House bills to the dramatically differing political composition of the chambers.

Among the bills previously tabled in the Republican-controlled House was HB 546, supported by Delegate K. Rob Krupicka, D-Alexandria. The bill would have made the ultrasound procedure optional but died in the Courts of Justice subcommittee of Constitutional Law by a party-line voice vote.

“There is no reason why politicians in the General Assembly should be deciding very personal, very difficult decisions that women need to make with their family, their faith and their

medical provider,” Krupicka said.

“The public has been clear that they think women should be able to make their health care decisions with their family and their doctors. For some reason we keep revisiting these issues, and it really distracts from all the work we can do collaboratively and (in a) bipartisan (manner).

“If a doctor doesn’t think it’s safe, or a doctor doesn’t think it’s necessary, the years and years of medical school go out the window because a politician has a different point of view,” Krupicka said.

According to the American Pregnancy Association, ultrasounds only are considered necessary if there is a medical concern. The procedure is not a requirement of prenatal care for women who plan to continue their pregnancies to term.

Health – on whose terms?

Senate Bill 618 also passed through the Health and Education Senate Committee in early February and would add abortion procedures to health care coverage. A contrasting bill in the House, HB 1417, patronized by Delegate Bob Marshall, RManassas, would prevent insurance companies from providing any form of contraception drug or device.

The original legislation to ban abortion from insurance plans was proposed by former Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell in 2011 and continues to be championed in the Republican-controlled House.

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While SB 618’s intent is to make reproductive health services more affordable, the impact of last year’s Virginia Board of Health “abortion hearings” has forced a number of health clinics that include abortion among services offered to close.

Regulations coming out of those hearings championed by then Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who headed the Republican ticket swept to defeat in November, force abortion providers to meet the building-code standards of hospitals at a cost most clinics cannot afford.

“The clinics that are being forced to close provide services beyond abortion. When they are forced to close they deny women access to a number of health services … and that’s the tragedy in this,” Krupicka said.

Among the clinics scheduled to close was NOVA Women’s Healthcare in Fairfax City, the busiest abortion provider in the state. And it is that one service offered among many that abortion opponents see as justification for closing health care clinics across the commonwealth.

“Babies and their mothers are safer in Northern Virginia because this deadly facility has been closed,” said Director of Americans Victims of Abortions Olivia Gans Turner in

a Virginia Society for Human Life press release.

As the deadline to meet the new regulations looms, more clinics may be pressured to close in the coming months. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading reproductive health care advocate, also has been targeted with legislation meant to restrict the organization’s services.

Although House Bill 531, which would have eliminated state funding for Planned Parenthood, was defeated in the Health and Human Resources committee, an identical measure in the House budget bill remains in consideration.

“In 2012 we served 24,000 men and women at Planned Parenthood,” Stewart-Reid said, adding that people who depend on high quality care at an affordable cost would be left without resources like STD screening, family planning, reproductive education, birth control and more.

In Virginia the average cost of an ultrasound at a private physician’s office is $345 and $602 at a hospitaloutpatient provider, according to the Virginia Health Information website.

“This mandate seems to contradict claims that we need to manage health care costs better,” House Democrat Krupicka said.

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In 2012 the Virginia Department of Health recorded 22,916 terminated pregnancies throughout the state, but a 2012 law also prohibits insurance companies from covering the cost of abortions.

“I think we are in a time where we are talking about expanding access to health care,” Stewart-Reid said.

“But when you talk about things like the cost of an ultrasound, that narrows the number of people who can access care.”

COUNTY, from lieved a three-party agreement was both preferable and legal. He also observed that there are no attorneys on the CLG, which is essentially composed of former municipal planning officials. So, as a safeguard the town and county legal staffs suggested approval of both two and three-party versions of the agreement, keeping the preferred one alive were it determined to be legal.

What would move forward if approved will be incorporation of 604 acres of now vacant FRLP land into the town for redevelopment. That redevelopment is capped by the agreement at a total of 818 units, with commercial and open space or park aspects included. The land border 150 acres of FRLP land already in town and approved and rezoned for development 150 to 300 units, depending on the type of units.

The property in question borders both sides of Mary’s Shady Lane, a 2-1/2 mile private dirt road between Happy Creek Road and the Shenandoah River. That winding road is the only current access to several remote, rural residential neighborhoods, primarily Shenandoah River Estates.

Among the proffers offered by owner-developer FRLP is eventual construction of an east-west connector road between Shenandoah Shores Road and Eighth Street near Bing Crosby Stadium in midtown Front Royal. Pre-vote discussion noted that eventually the winding, private dirt road would be replaced as existing neighborhoods’ access. Despite residents’ concerns about negative access impacts from coming changes, the plan to pave future access roads should neutralize any additional time and distance concerns. rogerb@warrencountyreport.com

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School, county officials hash out coming expenses School officials bemoan lost operational and staffing revenues

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report On Feb. 18, the Warren County Board of Supervisors and School Board sat down for a budget work session overview of the funding situation for the department – public education – that accounts for an average 25 to 30 percent of the total county annual budget.

The meeting was largely historical overview of the last 7 to 10 years, with a tad of “gumbaya” love fest thrown in, as well as equal measures of harsh economic and educational realities.

In all it made for an interesting recipe of yet-to-be-determined palpability from the two “cooks”.

The school board’s initial request is for a Fiscal Year 2015 local contribution of $20,548,574, down $135,000 from FY 2014’s $20,683,574. However, it appears that request does not include any pay increases or health insurance adjustments to cover increases at the state level, or continuing salary competition from other jurisdictions.

And in a best of all possible worlds, such increases would be factored in to raise the county contribution.

However, there are economic realities to deal with.

As County Administrator Doug

Stanley’s power point review noted, much of the recent county increases in funding of public schools has gone to debt service for much-needed capital improvements. Those improvements including one totally new high school (Skyline), one new high school converted from an existing junior high school, and one new middle school converted from an historic, if 70-year-old high school building.

County debt service on those projects has averaged between $5.8 and $5.7 million and change since 2010, after a five-year span that saw money begin to be put away in 2005-07 ($195,173, $460,500 and $769,445) before construction began and bond issue payments kicked in at $3,373,552 in 2008, rising to a high of $5,857,756 in 2009. The debt service payment for FY 2015 is $5,749,145.

So far the county has accomplished this with 7 cents in county tax increases, 3 cents in 2005, 3 cents in 2007 and 1 cent in 2008, producing a total of about $1.8 million in annual revenue since 2008. The difference has been made up of a combination of Enterprise Zone commercial and Meals Tax revenues, climbing from a total of about $857,000 in 2005 to an eventual average of $1.67 million since 2012. There are other revenue

variables but elaborating on them would give us all headaches.

The final payment on the debt service for those Phase I capital improvements will be made in 2035, at $4,693,500.

A major topic of work session conversation was the pending start of construction of the second middle school, originally envisioned to be built around 2010 but pushed back due to a combination of factors, largely justified by the slowing new residential building and consequent leveling out of the county and student population increases.

However, the delays have been facilitated by placing eighth graders, who would normally be at a middle school, in wings of the two new high schools. But that added student population has placed the high schools near their design capacities far in advance of population projections.

And School Board member Joanne Cherefko noted the less-than-educationally ideal situation created by that eighth-grade placement: “From an educational standpoint we need to get those eighth graders out of the high schools,” she told county officials, using an educational “truism” about student age differences and teaching patterns to illustrate her point – “They say teachers at high

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A Capital Improvements Plan, Phase II, Part II for that middle school to be built between John Marshal Highway and Happy Creek Road and accessed off the new north-south connector road Leach’s Run Parkway projects an opening in 2015 and debt service averaging $2.8 million from 2016 to 2035.

That debt service is estimated to be enabled by $72,687 in annual Enterprise Zone payments; $100,000 in annual meals tax payments; and $1 million in annual tax revenue from the Dominion Power Plant upon its scheduled 2015 opening.

But it seems these hard capital improvements numbers, while considered more than overdue by the time the county began taking them on around 2005, have created an ongoing funding gap in operations and staffing cost of living adjustments.

And it is how to try and balance those ongoing capital improvement

costs with the nuts and bolts cost of day to day education and the ability to maintain a competitive and adequate teacher pay scale that is the challenge that is coming to a head for Warren County and its Public Schools.

“People say they love to teach in Warren County, but they can’t afford to teach in Warren County,” Schools Superintendent Pam McInnis told county officials.

New County Board Chairman Dan Murray noted the cooperative spirit that has developed over the past 10 to 12 years between the county and public school administrations was holding as illustrated in the factuallybased and honest exchange of information and opinions of budgetary needs that were heard that night.

“We’ll scratch our heads and maybe someone will come up with some ideas,” Murray said of ways to resolve the school system’s space, operational and staffing needs versus the county’s finite available revenues.

Looking for Pictures of Middletown

By Sue Golden Frederick County Report

Charlie Harbaugh, Middletown native and current mayor is looking for help with a book he is writing.

“I am writing the Middletown edition of Images of America Series.

The book will mostly be a picture book, with between 180 and 240 photographs. I have been through the files at Handley Library. But I really would like to have access to private collections.”

Middletown was originally settled in the mid-1600s. The town was incorporated in 1796. The

Wayside Inn and Belle Grove Plantation each date to 1797. The town was the scene of many battles and skirmishes during the Civil War. The Wayside Inn was in its 52nd season when it closed and was the start of the careers of many super stars, including Susan Saradon and Kathy Bates. In addition, many local families can trace their heritage in the area for generations. Charlie is interested in any and all of the history of Middletown and its residents.

Anyone having pictures that they would like to share with Charlie can reach him at (540) 877-4594.

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Virginia public schools instituted new policies for managing student-athlete concussions in the wake of Austin’s death, but youth sports organizations, which often use public-school property, are not legally held to the same standard.

State

Assembly debating youth-sports concussion policy Policy expansion beyond interscholastic sports on the table

By Chris Suarez Capital News Service RICHMOND, Feb. 14 – Studentathletes in youth-sports programs could be included under new concussion policies if a bill seeking to add guidelines for non-interscholastic teams passes.

House Bill 410 patron Delegate Richard Anderson, R-Woodbridge, said the bill was introduced in memory of Austin Trenum, a student from Brenstville High School in Prince William County. In September 2010, Austin – the son of Prince William County School Board member, Gil Trenum – took his own life in the aftermath of experiencing a concussion during a high school football game late that summer.

Virginia public schools instituted new policies for managing studentathlete concussions in the wake of Austin’s death. But youth sports or-

ganizations, which often use publicschool property, are not legally held to the same standard, Anderson points out.

“There’s a well-defined body of guidance for scholastic teams, but there is no requirement right now for non-interscholastic teams to comply with any sort of concussion protocol.” Anderson said.

While the procedure will require extra work for non-interscholastic youth sports programs, Anderson said he thinks the policy should be an easy transition if the groups work in conjunction with the schools.

“If they’re going to practice or play on school property, they’ll have to either develop their own concussion protocols in accordance with school policies or adopt an existing policy that’s been authored and blessed by the state Board of Education,” Anderson said.

The bill was rejected by the House of Delegates this past week

after coming back from the Senate.

Amendments made by the Senate struck down a clause in the bill encouraging the tracking of students’ academic performance after suffering a concussion.

A Senate companion bill without the academic-effects clause currently is making its way through the House, but Anderson says any related bill that passes the House will include the provision. “When we go to conference committee, we’ll make the agreed upon version between the House and Senate include the statement about the effects of concussions on studentathletes academically,” he said.

Paul McShane is a senior at Centreville High School, who suffered a concussion in the summer of 2011.

McShane, who has yet to be medically cleared for any contact sport, had to drop out and become home schooled after his injury. For one, McShane welcomes a provision to

educate coaches, students and their families about the adverse effects of concussions on academic performance.

“I think the coaches of whatever sport and training staff are fully responsible and should be held accountable. A child’s future and development as a person is rooted in their programs ... and they’re responsible for that,” McShane said.

McShane says suffering a concus-

sion is a unique injury because typical remedies do not work. While many players combat injury by taking rehabilitative services or medicine, McShane says there is no concrete treatment for concussions.

“Not knowing is the worst part.

I don’t know when the day will be that I don’t wake up with a headache. I don’t know what it’s not like to have one,” McShane said.

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Editor, I recently read your article entitled “SMACK DOWN – the rise of heroin use in the valley”. I found it ironic that this article was featured on the front page next to the other article entitled “Critically endangered Mirconesian Kingfisher hatches in Front Royal: only 129 left on earth”.

While I respect preservation efforts of the natural world, I am appalled at the lack of similar efforts on behalf of another endangered species right here at home – the American small business owner. Why is it that our government is willing to spend resources to save a bird that is native to Guam but is not putting more ef-

fort into getting people off of welfare and into education and small business?

It is the very lack of opportunity that is denied to people on welfare that drives them into the drug market. Anyone on food stamps will tell you that even with employment and food stamps their families are struggling to feel full every day. Every time someone on Food Stamps earns $100, their food stamps are reduced by the equal amount. This leaves people on Food Stamps with the choice to either hide money made by selling drugs or to not try at all.

Also, the cost of College Tuition has doubled in the State of Virginia, yet resources available to people trying to fund their education have remained the same since 2000. And

Opinion the probability of someone on Food Stamps getting a small business loan is nearly impossible. Having denied people the opportunity to have adequate resources for a college education or small business, the United States Government is creating an environment that directs these people toward creating their own underground small business market - drug dealing.

Clearly, if these people selling heroin have enough intelligence to manufacture, market, and sell a product like drugs, they have the ability to manufacture, market and sell items like clothing, food, and similar handmade items. All around the world lower and middle class citizens set up stands and small shops selling items. Contrary to what is often said, it does not take a college degree or major business training to make and sell products. Small business is an institution as old as money itself. It is the reason the Guilds of the Renaissance made Europe flourish.

In a recent study, Virginia Tech started a micro-financing program lending small amounts of money as little as $25 to women in Middle Eastern countries in an effort to start small local businesses. Why has no such thing been done for the American people in their own backyard?

If the government is willing to risk lending people money for college,

why not small business?

Until the federal government, state governments and private enterprise are willing to give small loans to middle class and lower class people, the drug problem as a side effect of illconceived economic policies will only continue.

Instead of focusing on saving birds that are not even native to the American continent or creating successful micro-financing programs overseas, the institutions of this nation and its states need to start looking at the people in their own financial backyard - or it is the middle class American who will soon become extinct.

Sincerely, Melinda Scott Front Royal

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Council approves Afton Inn-old Town Hall swap Now it’s up to the EDA to make council’s ‘supermajority’ look good

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report

Well, slap me senseless (settle down out there, figuratively, NOT literally) but in an upset of gargantuan proportions – Super Bowl XLII (42) comes to mind, Giant and Patriot fans – on Feb. 10, the Front Royal Town Council’s early-polled 5-vote “supermajority� held up to some old-school political pressure and typical conservative hyperbole (see related story).

As a result of that 5-vote stand, including by two Republican swing votes (Tharpe, Sayre), with only Daryl Funk dissenting, the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority will now move toward acquiring the longderelict (2005 since any use) Afton Inn property at the center of Front Royal’s historic downtown in exchange for the more-recently derelict (late 2013) Town Hall building around the corner.

The focal point of the plan centers on gaining municipal control of the huge and once magnificent (so I’m told) Afton Inn, which sits unused, boarded up and less than magnificent – sort of like a clogged artery – at Front Royal’s major downtown intersection of Royal and Main.

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Substantive opposition centered on several points, including: • Would the town receive equal value in the trade of the two buildings? • Would the proposal primarily be a benefit the Afton Inn owner, rather than the community as a whole – and was that owner being rewarded financially despite perceived past offenses against the town?? • Was the town destroying a historical resource dating to 1935 and FDR’s New Deal successes in federally-stimulated job creation and municipal development? • Was the town overstepping its municipal authority and moving into the realm of commercial development?

Counterpoint On the latter issue, as we have pointed out previously – despite a reluctance to accept or understand it by some opponents – the town will NOT be developing the Afton

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Rather, the property will immediately be marketed by the EDA to the private sector for redevelopment, a redevelopment that according to town and EDA officials will be mandated under strict timelines within a sales contract.

As for actual municipal expenses, the town IS responsible for maintaining the Afton Inn’s upkeep while on the market, an expense cited as a taxpayer millstone by council opponent Funk. However, what is that expense likely to be? Our guess is next to nothing.

We make that financial appraisal due to the current owner’s previous court-ordered efforts, circa 2010, to shore up deteriorating elements, most visibly broken windows and loose bricks, in what was, surprisingly to most, found to be a sound structure foundationally. So, the upkeep expense so problematic to Councilman Funk is likely to be no more than the cost of town staff inspecting the building to assure the previous owner’s work is holding up.

As for benefit, the view of supporters, including many locals owning small businesses on East Main Street in the shadow of the Afton Inn, is that the proposed deal will be a benefit to the ENTIRE community, not just the man who has owned the Afton Inn since 2005.

That benefit comes from ending a 7-year impasse (see related story) with Barros over redevelopment of the Afton Inn, as well as moving two now derelict properties toward private-sector ownership and redevelopment.

Historically, the EDA director and town have both confirmed there will be contractual guaran-

tees protecting Town Hall’s historic façade match to the nearby county courthouse.

And as for RELATIVE VALUES of the two buildings, that is somewhat problematic, though due to stated long-term financial and redevelopment goals, perhaps not as pivotal as opponents would maintain. Recorded values include: Afton Inn, assessed in 2011 at $515,000; Town Hall assessed in 2011 at $815,600; Town Hall appraised in 2013 at $610,000.

Barros and his company had the Afton Inn on the market at a bloated figure of $1.2 million, over twice what he paid for it in 2005, three years before the national real estate market tanked, eventually taking both the national and international economies with it. Some have asserted that the actual current value of the Afton Inn might be closer to what it sold for in 1995, $110,000.

Be that as it may, if the primary goal of the town is to bring two now-vacant properties, one municipally owned, on to the commercial tax roles within contractually-mandated developmental guidelines, it is likely to be the long-term return and general benefit to the entire downtown business community, rather than short-term gain/loss on the front end of the deal that is guiding the town and EDA’s hand.

And we might add, swap opponent Matt Tederick even told us that he would agree with such a deferred-benefit scenario, were he to accept it as true. However, that seems something he is reluctant to do without someone’s signature – probably Bret Hrbek’s in blood – as a guarantee.

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Front Royal v. Frank Barros And on the topic of deferred benefit, this leads us to the complex and contentious relationship between the town and current Afton Inn owner Frank Barros (as Afton Inn, LLC). Barros has been vilified

by some, prominently Pond-AtheyPond attorneys Kim Athey and Daniel Pond III during the public hearing, as an outside developer who has held the town hostage over the years since his 2005 purchase of the building. It is an issue broached

by Councilman Tom Sayre during

discussion of a series of motions concerning the swap on the table prior to the Feb. 10 vote. It is a long and convoluted story, bearing a separate and detailed accounting of its own, given elsewhere on these pages.

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“I’ve lived and worked in this town for fifty years, even before some of you were alive, and I’ve never witnessed Council stupidity like this. Even closing the schools to prevent equal access to non-white citizens, a Front Royal shame, pales to this charade.” – Joe Swiger’s draft remarks circulated to council

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Opponents run gamut in belaboring town swap plan From Dr. Seuss, saving trees and the New Deal, to school segregation

Joe Swiger, sporting his 1976 Summer Olympics press badge, called councilmen ‘plain DUMB’ for support of the Town HallAfton Inn swap proposal and insinuated nefarious forces at work in the deal.

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report The vote to allow the Afton InnTown Hall property swap and subsequent marketing and redevelopment initiatives came after seven people addressed points for and against the proposal. The Feb. 10 public split was 4-3 against the proposal, compared to the 11-7 split for it at the Jan. 29 public hearing.

Some of the faces addressing council prior to the vote were familiar from two weeks earlier – Matt Tederick against; and Linda Allen, Tim Ratigan and Craig Laird for.

They were joined by new players Joe Swiger and Rhonda North, both former town employees, and local businessman Robert Athey speaking against the proposal.

Then there was the lone stated council opponent, Daryl Funk, finally breaking his silence on his reasons for that opposition.

But if new points substantial enough to swing a vote one way or the other were hard to come by, the entertainment value of some re-

marks was enough to elevate the town website meeting video to some “must-see TV” lists – and that was with Swiger’s remarks being radically reduced from an early e-mail-circulated draft of even greater dramatic impact.

But first for substance – this is after all a “news” story, despite some opinions to the contrary. Only Athey, who owns a commercial building on Peyton Street in the vicinity of the two buildings in question, raised a really new question. That was consistency in enforcement of parking regulations he was forced to address in the commercial and residential development of his Peyton Street property.

However, in response to a request for an explanation from one of two swing votes, Tom Sayre, Town Planning Director Jeremy Camp explained that the Afton Inn’s frontage on East Main Street gave that property a parking exemption allowed all East Main Street buildings, if not those, like Athey’s, nearby.

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Despite staunch and vocal STOP opposition, old town hall is being traded for control of the Afton Inn property. viewers? But I feel your pain, really I do – so, on to the “entertainment tonight” or perhaps “comedy central” portion of our show, I mean story.

And boy, it is far reaching, ranging from Councilman Funk’s paraphrasing of Dr. Seuss character the Lorax, to longtime local Republican campaign strategist Swiger’s dragging in well-worn right-wing targets, including a “threatening media”, U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Obamacare, as well as Biblical-style “moneychangers” he alleges are pulling the strings of town government right here in little, ole River City circa 2014.

Then if you count Swiger’s e-mailcirculated draft of his planned re-

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marks, you can add racism and the closing of Warren County Public Schools in 1959 to prevent court-ordered racial integration into the mix.

REALLY, I’m not making this up.

“I’ve lived and worked in this town for fifty years, even before some of you were alive, and I’ve never witnessed Council stupidity like this.

Even closing the schools to prevent equal access to non-white citizens, a Front Royal shame, pales to this charade,” Swiger wrote of his perspective on the property swap in a Feb. 9 e-mail. While he was seeking advice on content and EDA financing from old friends Matt Tederick and Tony Carter, for some reason Swiger copied the message and draft to a broad

list of recipients, including current and former councilmen among others.

Besides pulling “the race card” out of left field AND media, liberal and Biblical villains out of the Republican enemies closet, the old Little League “ball coach” and mentor to local Republican candidates followed up a closing observation on elect-ability with a prediction of media silence on his salient points.

“I think you are each elected on the strength of your personality, not your brains (well, maybe – but it’s not just town officials, is it?)! Of course none of what I say will be reported in the press, I believe they are in bed with you!”

Never one to ignore a challenge – especially one involving our sleeping or reporting habits – we’ll go Republican insider, campaign strategist, moralist and historian Joe Swiger one better – we’ll print BOTH highlights of his public bashing of council and the media, along with quotes from his earlier draft.

Why, both?

Because while not delivered publicly on Feb. 10, the draft was circulated a day earlier to councilmen preparing to vote, making them part of the public discussion. They also illustrate the sort of over-the-top, perhaps politically-intimidating verbal hyperbole too often prevalent in modern politics. After all, what public official wants to be equated, at least publicly, with racism and segregation – much less accused of being “plain DUMB”?

As for his final delivered version,

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“ ‘I am the Lorax, and I speak for the trees.’ Well, Mr. Mayor, I am Daryl Funk, and I speak for the Town Hall.” – the Lorax, I mean Daryl Funk opposing the proposal Swiger told council, “Here’s my personal opinion on the matter at hand – history is important, some remember it, some change it, some learn from it. For decades council’s strings were pulled by the barons of Riverton Corporation or American Viscose.

Who’s pulling the strings now? …

Who manages the town – the threatening media; Main Street, or you?

“This is simply money into the pockets of the proponents; money out of the pockets of the opponents.

“Trading the useful, historic town hall for the empty, useless inn is just plain dumb … You have to pass it to know what’s in it. That reminds me of what Nancy Pelosi said about Obam-

acare, and it worries me very much how this is going down – you have to pass it before you know what’s in it.

“This scheme started when the moneychangers said you needed to do something. I think you’re doing something only for the moneychangers, most of whom don’t live in town or own the buildings … I’ve worked and lived here for over 50 years; won the Outstanding Young Man Award at 27; managed many political campaigns; and I bet I can name all the past councilmen. Being on council still requires good sense and fair judgment. They had the right stuff.

“Give us hope, not the Afton Inn.”

Political vertigo Right Stuff – first of all, did I miss something – did some of those old timers on council get shot into space while I wasn’t looking?!!? I seem to remember one of them getting blasted all the way to Richmond, but no further …

And I’ve previously addressed my disorientation at opposition to the proposed property swap coming in part from Republicans lauding the historic import of a town hall building erected in 1935 as part of Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal” Civilian Conservation Corps federal job-cre-

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Now, Swiger has added to my political vertigo by attacking unidentified “moneychangers” as villainous overlords controlling political processes and governmental decision making.

And silly me, I thought SHOW ME THE MONEY was a general political mantra of which Republicans are especially fond. You know, corporate interests and rights trump human interests and rights because as we all know, “Corporations are people, my friend.”

I’ll believe that when Texas executes one for its crimes.

But I guess in the modern political netherworld, all ethics and rules are conditional dependent upon whether you agree with the specific application at – or in whose – hand.

‘I speak for the trees’ …

Then there was Dr. Seuss, I mean Councilman Funk.

“Mr. Mayor, as the father of a three year old, I am forced to watch a lot of children’s television and read more than my share of children’s books … Well, while I’ve watched this extremely abbreviated public debate over the fate of our Town Hall, a line from a Dr. Seuss book has kept coming to mind. I don’t know how many of you have read “The Lorax” (or seen the movie) but one of the most famous lines is ‘I am the Lorax, and I speak for the trees.’ Well, Mr. Mayor, I am Daryl Funk, and I speak for the Town Hall. – And just like the Lorax felt about the trees, I am worried that I am watching the gradual destruction of one of our community’s most important assets.”

First it was Republicans belaboring the influence of “moneychangers” on politics; then comparing old town hall to trees – another item at the top of most Republican preservation lists (right next to corporate profits, aren’t they?) – someone hand me the Dra-

mamine!!! … and hostages Then Councilman Funk moved into the realm of hostages and “The Stockholm Syndrome”.

“Mr. Mayor, I do not know if this Council is familiar with Stockholm Syndrome, but as best as I understand it, it is a condition in which a hostage begins to sympathize with his or her captors and even to begin to defend them. We seem to have developed that condition concerning the Afton Inn and its owner. We have perceived ourselves to be hostage to the condition of that building for so long that we believe that if we simply give up our Town Hall that the owner will instantly take interest in Front Royal and give the Town Hall the attention that he has failed to give the Afton Inn.” And speaking of hostages, as he moved into a description of his wife and daughter confusing a picture of town hall for the courthouse, I thought perhaps the councilman was moving toward his own hostage taking – by way of the ever-popular Republican strategy of filibustering anything they don’t agree with.

And while paranoia strikes deep – not to worry, the councilman made his final point on the architectural similarity of the two buildings and rested his case for the municipal defense of town hall – even if FDR and the New Deal made it.

But alas, the verdict was NO DEAL on New Deal municipal-owned preservation in River City.

And I would have thought local Republicans would have had a parade to celebrate such a decision – and lobbied the new owner to bring the building to the ground, stone by New Deal-placed stone.

But hey, what do I know?

– rogerb@warrencountyreport.com

Matt Tederick reiterated municipal-commercial-redevelopment-funded-by-taxpayer claims against the town, despite official statements to the contrary.

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“Councilman Brooks apologized to the BZA for the process at hand … Mr. Brooks noted that filing suit in a court of law was necessary, and although it was unfortunate, it was the only option available …” – June 12, 2006 Council meeting minutes

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Afton history: Cutting off your nose to spite your face?

Town to Barros - we like your plan, but we’ll sue to see it doesn’t happen

Daryl Funk, right, pauses graciously during remarks against the building swap to allow a photo with his eyes open. While swing voters Hollis Tharpe and Tom Sayre were all smiles too, first-term Councilman Funk’s reasoning against the property trade didn’t convince those with a longer municipal perspective.

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report During remarks explaining his coming vote in support of the proposal to gain control of the Afton Inn property in exchange for the now-empty town hall building, Councilman Tom Sayre referenced the contentious legal history between the Town of Front Royal and current Afton Inn owner, Afton Inn, LLC and its principal Manassas Park developer Frank Barros.

That relationship, born in mutual hope of redevelopment quickly deteriorated into hostile litigation and counter threats of litigation, as well as unsuccessful attempts to first mend broken fences as the collapse of the national building market and economy loomed; and later to force action or abandonment of the property by the owner. Sayre was gracious enough to share copies of the town record of this history with us, saving us the trouble of aggravating Council Clerk Jennifer Berry for our own copies.

To recap, Manassas Park-based developer Barros’s company purchased the Afton Inn from local businessman Tito Howard in 2005

at a price of $550,000. At the time, during the height of the national building boom, the 1867 building once the centerpiece of downtown Front Royal culture was being used only for textbook storage. It had last seen public use as a first-floor restaurant space in the late 1980s, perhaps into the early ’90s.

But Barros had grand plans to turn the ancient building into renovated office space, with preliminary design plans featuring raised ceilings and elaborate foyers, some if our memory serves us, including interior fountains.

However, those plans included adding a floor and raising the height of the building to 58 feet, 13-feet above a maximum town zoning code height allowance of 45 feet.

That code apparently dated to an intention by county and town officials to prevent any structure in Front Royal from exceeding the height of the renovated Warren County Courthouse directly across the street from the Afton Inn. But assuming municipal support for his plans, Barros pressed ahead, asking the town’s appointed Board of Zoning Appeals for a height variance to allow his plan to move for-

ward. In mid-2006 the BZA granted Afton Inn, LLC that variance – and it all went south, way south, from there. Minutes of town council meetings, as well as a court decision of July 30, 2008, are a front page on opportunity lost and the municipalprivate sector black comedy leading us to the vote of Feb. 10, 2014:

decision was based on the legality of the BZA decision, rather than a vote for or against the fourth floor of the Afton Inn. “Town Attorney Mitchell explained that the BZA could have granted a variance to allow the

fourth floor only if it was a physical hardship situation according to State law. He noted that although the BZA determined that a physical hardship did not exist, they decided to vote in favor of the request regardless. Mr. Mitchell stated that

June 12, 2006 On June 12, 2006, a town council composed of Mayor Jim Eastham, Vice-Mayor Daniel Pond III and Councilmen Tim Darr, Fred Foster, Eileen Grady, Stan Brooks and Joe McDaniel, as well as then Town Attorney Blair Mitchell discussed the perceived legal dilemma launching the lawsuit against the BZA over the variance allowance granted for the Afton Inn project. Following a motion offered by Darr, seconded

by Grady, to “authorize the Town Attorney to challenge the recent Board of Zoning Appeals Decision regarding the Afton Inn” the meeting minutes state: “Councilman Darr asked the Town Attorney to brief the public on the matter for clarification, and to address the fact that Council’s

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“Councilman Foster commended the BZA for their decision and for their actions on behalf of the community. He stated that laws were made by men, and sometime men should reconcile themselves and change the law.� – June 12, 2006 Council meeting minutes

Don’t know how it got their attention – the new Front Royal Administration building, at right, and the boarded up Afton Inn – then there’s the history.

the BZA violated State law since a physical hardship did not exist; therefore, the BZA did not have the authority to grant the variance.

Mr. Mitchell explained that the applicant could have gone to the Planning Commission and then to the Town Council by amending the Town Code, but chose not to do so. “Councilman Brooks apologized to the BZA for the process at hand ‌He noted that if a Staff member had been present to explain the definition of a hardship, the Board would have most likely reconsid-

ered the request. Mr. Brooks noted that filing suit in a court of law was necessary, and although it was unfortunate, it was the only option available ‌ “Councilman Foster commended the BZA for their decision and for their actions on behalf of the community. He stated that laws were made by men, and sometimes men should reconcile themselves and change the law. Mr. Foster noted that the Afton Inn project was noteworthy and a benefit to the community; however, the BZA’s vote was il-

legal. He stated that the renovation of the building would be an asset to the downtown area and that he expressed hope the issue would come to a workable resolution.�

Responding to a question from Mayor Eastham, Town Attorney Mitchell told council it could direct the planning commission to draft a change to the height ordinance that would allow Barros’s plan to proceed.

Then by a 3-2 vote (Darr, Grady, Brooks for; Foster and Pond against; McDaniel absent) council authorized the town attorney to file a legal challenge of the BZA decision allowing the height variance due to the violation of parameters of state law in granting a variance.

Sept. 11, 2006 Three months later, on Sept. 11, 2006, following a post-election change in its makeup, council unanimously approved a second reading change to the town ordinance on height restrictions: “Councilwoman Grady moved, seconded by Councilman Hrbek, that Council adopt on its second reading an ordinance to amend and re-ordain Front Royal Town Code Section 175-50 to allow building heights of up to sixty-feet (60’) in the C-2 Downtown Business District by Special Use Permit. “Councilman Brooks asked if the

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The unanimous vote of approval was made by Councilmen Brooks, Darr, Grady, Hrbek, Tewalt and Sayre. Minutes indicate Sayre expressed concern over the change allowing buildings higher than the courthouse, however, those concerns did not prevent his vote in support of the change.

July 11, 2008 (sidebar) Perhaps inexplicably, nearly two years after the above code change that would have accommodated Barros’s original plan, a decision was rendered by Judge Dennis Hupp in Warren County Circuit Court in favor of council’s challenge of the BZA height-variance allowance dating to June 2006. One can only wonder what mysterious legal procedures or political logic kept the case alive if the town’s stated goal was to accommodate, not challenge Barros’s plans for the Afton Inn. During comments prior to the Feb. 10, 2014 vote on the property swap with Barros, then and again Councilman Eugene Tewalt noted that he had attempted to contact the Afton Inn owner during that earlier time period and learned Barros had threatened legal action for harassment against any town official who continued to attempt to contact him about the property.

Such threats apparently led to the intervention of the EDA on behalf of the town, we have been told leading Barros to lower his asking price from $1.4 million to $1.2 million.

Those efforts were authorized by council, with concurring approval of the county, on June 11, 2007.

June 11, 2007 “Councilman Brooks noted that the Town had done all that they could in order to assist with moving the project forward, including the change of the Town ordinance regarding the height of buildings.

He expressed hope in having the EDA involved in the process, as it was economic redevelopment in the community.�

2010 As Sayre noted in prefacing his vote, in 2010 the town explored municipal condemnation and found state law does not authorize towns, but only cities and counties to do so.

A related inspection of the building mandated only that the owner shore up deteriorating portions that presented an immediate public danger.

As a result, the owner boarded up windows, stabilized loose exterior bricks and secured the structure from easy public access. As we have noted previously, the inspection found the building structurally sound at its foundation.

Feb. 10, 2014 By a 5-1 vote (Hrbek, Tewalt, Parker, Sayre, Tharpe for; only firstterm Councilman Funk against) council’s 2007 mission assigning the EDA to seek positive movement on the property was accomplished by the somewhat circuitous path of exchanging the Afton Inn for the now empty and unwanted by council, old town hall building. As several council supporters of the exchange noted, council’s desire to make the exchange came after a 2013 appraisal and subsequent study of the town hall building’s potential use as a police station or other municipal use.

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Judge David Novak said the McDonnell case will be tried in the courtroom and will not be tried in the media.

“The gamesmanship with the media ends now,” Novak said.

Federal authorities say the McDonnells repeatedly asked Johnnie Williams, a Richmond area businessman, for loans and gifts totaling more than $165,000. The 43-page indictment alleges the McDonnells asked for money, clothes, golf fees, equipment, numerous trips and private jet rides in exchange for access

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McDonnell traveled with Star Scientific in October 2011, speaking favorably of the product at corporate functions.

According to the indictment, state health officials resisted endorsing the product due to a lack of scientific testing in support of the company and the governor’s health claims for the product. According to the indictment, Williams sought independent studies in July 2011 to lend credibility to Star Scientific’s new product, Anatabloc. But when he approached the Tobacco Commission – a state research institution – it refused to fund the research as requested by a for-profit entity.

In addition to using the governor’s office to promote the product while receiving numerous financial and other gifts from Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams, the indictment alleges the defendants hid financial dealings in the company’s stock as they were promoting its products.

The indictment describes specific charges against Maureen, stating she intentionally avoided annual reporting requirements by transferring a total of 5,000 Star Scientific shares into newly opened brokerage accounts in the names of her five children. “(Maureen McDonnell) further informed the broker that these transfers had to occur before year-end in order

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“Good announcements lately,” McDonnell told Williams in a text, according to prosecutors. “Stock looks good. Hope all is well. You and (Williams’ wife) enjoy the 4th of July.”

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“We’re proud of the bipartisan effort and work that went into this bill so far. We look forward to continuing to work across the aisle to make sure we get an ethics reform bill that will help restore the public’s trust ‌â€? – Delegate Jennifer McClellan

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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report The political tremors across party lines from both the sweeping statewide victory of Democrats in November and the multiple federal indictments handed down against former Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen on Jan. 21 are rumbling through the state capital of Richmond.

On Feb. 11, Virginia Democrats reacted favorably to passage of House Bill 1211, with what was termed “overwhelming bipartisan support�. Known as the “Ethics Bill�, HB 1211 would establish a “Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council� to review disclosure forms, ban gifts of more

than $250, and require disclosure of gifts to immediate family members.

Former Republican Governor McDonnell and his wife have run afoul of federal authorities for accepting and failing to initially report as much as $169,000 in money and gifts from Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams. According to the indictment, Virginia-based Star Scientific was seeking and receiving political help from the governor’s mansion on promoting its tobacco-based health supplements as Williams was wooing the governor and his family.

McDonnell’s Democratic successor Terry McAuliffe made ethics reform a major talking point of his 2013 campaign against Republican

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“I promised ‌ that regardless of my personal support for marriage equality I would conduct a rigorous independent analysis of the constitution’s questions ‌ I concluded that based on extensive court precedent ... marriage is a fundamental right protected by the US Constitution.â€? – VA AG Mark Herring

The time’s they are a changing: New Attorney General supports state court’s same-sex marriage ruling

By Liz Butterfield Capital News Service RICHMOND, Feb. 14 – The fight for marriage equality for same-sex couples in Virginia con-

tinues to progress through the courts this week after a federal judge ruled the state’s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.

Federal District Judge Arenda Wright Allen struck down the law

used in the controversial Bostic v.

Rainey case as unconstitutional in Norfolk’s federal court on Feb. 13. In her 41-page opinion, the judge cited violations of the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution as factors that ultimately reversed the ban. “What Judge Wright Allen affirmed is that couples like them who are committed to sharing the marital bond deserve to be treated equally under the law,�

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said in declaring support of the ruling against the same-sex marriage ban in the commonwealth. “The ruling by Judge Arenda Wright Allen is yet another step forward in the long road toward ensuring that all Virginians are treated fairly and equally under the law,� Herring said. Virginia’s new democratic attorney general announced just days after coming into office that his administration would not support the commonwealth’s law in federal court.

Herring reversed Virginia’s legal position on its stance in Bostic v. Rainey upon entering office in late January. During his 2013 election campaign, Herring said publicly he would investigate the

constitutional issues of Virginia’s law before changing the commonwealth’s political position. “When I ran for the office of attorney general I promised the people of Virginia that regardless of my personal support for marriage equality I would conduct a rigorous independent analysis of the constitution’s questions before determining the state’s legal position in this case,� Herring said. “I concluded that based on extensive court precedent ... marriage is a fundamental right protected by the United States constitution.�

Opponents of the decision are expected to support an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Approximately 57 percent of voters ratified the same-sex marriage ban, known as the Marshall-

Newman Amendment or the Virginia Marriage Amendment, in 2006. The law strictly defines marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman, and refuses to recognize similar legal status for other couples.

While the appeal progresses, same-sex couples will not be able to marry in Virginia because of a stay on the execution of the decision issued by Judge Wright Allen.

A class action lawsuit challenging the same-sex marriage ban still is pending review in a federal court in Harrisonburg.

Virginia Solicitor General Stuart Raphael argued the case on the behalf of the commonwealth.

Timothy Bostic, Tony London, Carol Schall and Mary Townley acted as plaintiffs in the case before the Norfolk court.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real gun or real narcotics, I can see a zero-tolerance threshold. But when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a kid with a Pop Tart, a pencil or his finger saying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;pow,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nuts.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sen. Thomas Garrett, R-Hadensville

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By Chris Suarez Capital News Service RICHMOND, Feb. 14 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The federal statute requiring students, who bring firearm or drugs to elementary or secondary schools, be expelled for a full year might see a change in Virginia if state Senate Bill 441 passes. The bill, introduced by Sen. Thomas Garrett, R-Hadensville, seeks to offer leniency under certain circumstances to children facing expulsion or suspension.

Examples of children across the country whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve faced expulsion for imitating weapons with objects such as pencils, or fingers, or passing off kitchen spices for illicit drugs is the reason why Garrett says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s introducing the bill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real gun or real narcotics, I can see a zerotolerance threshold. But when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a kid with a Pop Tart, a pencil or his finger saying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;pow,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nuts,â&#x20AC;? Garrett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotten to a point, frankly, that I might expect this from other states.

But when it starts happening in Virginia, something needs to be done. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a bunch of wonderful professional educators in the Commonwealth of Virginia, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not lawyers,â&#x20AC;? Garrett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you have a federal bill that dictates â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;zero-tolerance policyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; you end up with administrators and educators who think their hands are tied, and they have to expel.â&#x20AC;?

Federal mandate states students who bring firearms or drugs on to school property â&#x20AC;&#x153;shallâ&#x20AC;? face a suspension or expulsion. The bill, written to clarify the mandate seeks to substitute the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;mayâ&#x20AC;? for â&#x20AC;&#x153;shall,â&#x20AC;? when there is no real firearm or drugs involved, Garrett said.

Garrettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s measure has seen little opposition, being passed by the Senate and the House committee on Education unanimously the past two weeks.

Last September, two Virginia Beach minors were suspended for shooting an air-soft gun near a school bus stop. The families

of the two 13-year old students suspended by the Virginia Beach Public School System appealed the decision saying the minors shot the pneumatic gun on private property.

The language of Garrettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s measure states pneumatic guns do not fit under the federal zerotolerance policy because a firearm is described as a weapon that fires a projectile by means of an explosion.

Garrett cited the Virginia Beach story as the reasoning behind the bill because both teens could face future repercussions having expulsions on their respective permanent records.

The Virginia School Boards Association supports the bill and says amendments made by Garrett influenced the associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to back the legislation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The amendment was very straightforward and clear; saying nothing in the section should be construed to require expulsion regardless of the facts and circumstances,â&#x20AC;? said Pat Lacy, a special counsel to the school

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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Sometimes I miss living on a mountain in a remote, rural neighborhood with a panoramic view for miles in multiple directions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; other times NOT so much.

Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, was a notso-much moment as I watched forecasts come true as 18 inches of snow accumulated in our mid-town Front Royal yard.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be stuck on that mountain for a week,â&#x20AC;? was our assessment recalling that when the town got 27 inches our first winter on High Knob, we got over 40 inches from that one storm alone on the way to a 2009-10 winter total of 95 inches.

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was beneficial to the American public, and especially to women.

Her discussion of dealing with all members of Congress, regardless of party affiliation, makes one’s mouth water in anticipation of a return to that process.

Webster defines the word common as: belonging to or shared by each or all. In trying to find common ground, Ms. Snowe makes it very clear that compromise is not a dirty word. She also boldly suggests that we, the people, must take a stand. We, the people, must

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“When a broad table is to be made, and the edges of planks do not fit, the artist takes a little from both, and makes a good joint.

In like manner, both sides must part with some of their demands.”

– Benjamin Franklin, addressing the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

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cations gone? Why do most of us feel that our government is broken and, if not repaired quickly, will suffer horrific moments that will defame our history? Olympia Snowe, the former Congresswoman from Maine, furnishes direct, frank explanations to these questions that are revelations for all who are willing to listen. She does not pamper the reader with her declarations, but rather allows information, perhaps heretofore not known, to be realized. Ms. Snowe’s tenure in the federal government (first in the House of Representatives then the Senate), emboldens her spirit to inform the people of what used to be and what can be, once again. The statements in this book may not surprise you but they will force you to stop looking through rose-

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Virginia State Police Trooper T.L. Hilliker responded to a twovehicle crash in Warren County Sunday, Feb. 9. The crash occurred on Route 55 (John Marshall Highway), just over a mile west of Route 79 (Apple Mountain Road).

A 1996 Chevrolet Corsica was traveling west on Route 55 when it ran off the right side of the road and struck the guardrail. The impact of that crash caused the car to come back into the westbound lanes, cross over the centerline and strike an eastbound 2004 Acura TL head-on.

Both the driver of the Corsica, a 16-year-old male of Luray, Va. and the driver of the Acura, Vighna Rajesh Karyampudi, 26, of Bowie, Md. were transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of serious injuries. Both drivers were wearing seat belts.

Three adult passengers were also transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of serious injuries. All three passengers were wearing seat belts.

The teenage driver was charged with reckless driving. The cause of the crash remains under investigation at this time.

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Home-school sports access in limbo after Senate shakeup

By Colin Kennedy Capital News Service RICHMOND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; After nearly a decade of debate, some Virginia legislators are hopeful home-

schooled students will soon be allowed to participate in public school sports.

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through the House of Delegatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Elementary and Secondary Education subcommittee this past week and likely will be heard by the House Education Committee next week.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of the bill is identical to those that have failed by one vote at the Senate Education and Health Committee in recent years, Bell says. But he believes there is reason for opti-

mism this time around. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For several years it has passed the House and been defeated in the Senate,â&#x20AC;? Bell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Senate has always been a trouble, (but) weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some changes in membership â&#x20AC;Ś so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hopeful we can get it out of the senate this year.â&#x20AC;?

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By Sue Golden Frederick County Report Carrie Stuby, the Disabled Veterans Outreach Representative with the Virginia Employment Commission, thanks all those who helped to make the recent Veteran Job Fair Conference such a huge success. There were approximately 200 attendees and 33 work force representatives.

Special thanks go to Estelle Sanzenbacher, Catherine Kelley and Guy Curtis from Lord Fairfax Community College Work Force Solutions; Art Robinson and Jeff Girard from the Winchester Bob Evans; and Walter Jagiello and Ric Van Norton from AMVETs Post 18. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were delighted with the turn out. Even better, we have heard from several veterans who were able to gain employment through the job fair.â&#x20AC;?

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So, while Bell is correct on the Senate membership changes, his hope may be ill-founded because the scale may have tipped further in favor of the Democrats, who have traditionally opposed home-school sports access. Jennifer Wexton won Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 33rd Senate District race in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Mark Herring.

Though Democratic control of the Senate could help determine which legislators are appointed to the Senate Education and Health Committee, Sen. John C. Miller, D-Newport News, says the issue extends beyond partisanship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Decisions have consequences and when a parent decides to home-school their child, they are taking that child out of the public school and â&#x20AC;Ś away from all of the extracurricular benefits that a public school offers,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that a homeschooled student should have the ability to pick and choose which activities of public school theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to participate in.â&#x20AC;?

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Calendar Friday, February 21 Forecast 63° | 34° 7:30pm - 8:30pm Chorus Concert. Randolph-Macon Academy, Academy Drive, Front Royal.

As part of the national Military School Band Festival, R-MA will host the U.S. Army Chorus today in John Campbell Boggs Chapel. The event is FREE and open to the public.

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Saturday, February 22 Forecast 61° | 36° 8am - 12pm Rubbermaid product sales. Belk Parking Lot, 1850 Apple Blossom Drive, Winchester. United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley. Sales of donated products to benefit NW Works.

9:30am - 11am Youth fundamental camp. All Star Batting Cages, Berryville Avenue, Winchester. Held on the next two Saturdays, Feb. 22nd and Mar. 1st. Cost is $35 for one session or $55 for both sessions. Take advantage of this great opportunity for your player.

11am - 12pm Saturday Family Story Time. Samuels Library, Front Royal. Bring the whole family to the cozy play area for an assortment of exciting stories with Miss Tamara. A perfect way to spend an enjoyable Saturday morning.

4pm - 7pm Relay for Life Spaghetti Dinner and Silent Auction.

Front Royal Church of the Brethren, 106 W. 13th Street Front Royal. Prices for advanced tickets $6.00/adult, $3,00/child.

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6:30pm - 10pm Fundraiser Event. Moose Lodge, John Marshall Highway, Front Royal. Travel Softball (Front Royal Fire) for the 10-U and 11-U Division is having a Fundraiser Event tonight. Dinner buffet and drinks provided. Must be 21 to attend as alcohol will be available. Grand Prize of $1,500.00 with other cash prizes awarded throughout the event. Every 25th ticket drawn will be the winner of $25.00. Tickets: $30.00.

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Tuesday, February 25 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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Engle’s Angle: When in Russia, …

By Kevin S. Engle Warren County Report I was in one of those stores the other day.

The kind that puts your purchase in a brown paper bag.

My wife and I were getting ready to watch the Winter Olympics. This year, the Games were in Russia. I had an idea. When in Russia, do what the Russians do. And what’s more Russian than vodka?

I can’t remember the last time I’ve been in one of those stores.

I wasn’t sure what I’d find. What I found was a lot of vodka. People must like their vodka.

When I walked out, my brown paper bag held the smallest bottle of vodka I could buy. It was one of those mini bottles they sell on airplanes for five bucks.

I was already buzzed. Mine only cost a dollar fifty.

Even though I don’t drink, despite what you may think from the quality of my writing, I was confident my wife and I could finish this thing. After all, it was only 50 milliliters. That’s about 1.69 ounces. Pfft, that’s nothing.

“We can do this!” I told her.

“I don’t know,” she said.

My brother-in-law, who’s been to Russia and knows what a lightweight I am, had already warned me.

“Vodka is not for you,” he said.

“You’ll want to mix it with something else. That is, unless you’re trying to get sh#$-faced!”

I wasn’t trying to get sh#$faced. Honest. I was just doing that Russian thing.

I opened the bottle of triple distilled 80 proof and emptied its contents into two shot glasses. That’s when I got my first surprise. That little bottle had more in it than I realized.

After a short pep talk and a quick prayer, I took a sip. Actually, the stuff barely touched my lips.

Whoa!

And that’s when I got my second surprise.

My tongue and throat burned.

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der I don’t drink.

My brother-in-law was right.

This stuff wasn’t for rookies like me.

But I was determined to finish what I’d started. I took another sip. At this rate, I’d be done sometime tomorrow.

I made a face and my wife laughed.

I considered downing the rest of it in one gulp, but the thought scared me. I couldn’t do it. After a few more painful sips, she convinced me to mix it with some lemonade and a black cherry flavored drink mix.

I conceded and poured what remained into another cup.

I swirled it around and gave it a try.

MUCH better. I couldn’t really even taste it now. This I could do.

The next day, after the headache was gone, I went on line and read all about vodka, something I should’ve done before I walked into that store. We should’ve tried a White Russian.

Or a Black one. Or even a Moscow Mule. Anything would’ve been better than drinking it straight.

If the Olympics ever return to Russia, I won’t be going back to that store. I’ll be going to the grocery store.

For some Coke.

But no rum.

2016 Olympics. Brazil. Hmm. What do they drink?

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Halin-Harrison Hall, Shenandoah University, Winchester. Lecture: “The Now Near Prospect of Civil Fratricidal War”: Winchester on the Eve of Civil War, presented by Prof. Jonathan A. Noyalas This presentation will cover the wide-ranging reactions of Winchester’s population to the events of John Brown’s raid, the varied attitudes toward secession in the community, and what ultimately prompted loyalties to shift from pro-Union to ardently pro Confederate in the spring of 1861. For more information contact Jo Miller at Shenandoah University jmille3@su.edu or (540) 665-5442. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Friday, February 28 7pm - 10pm Front Porch Style Pickin’ Party. Warren County Senior Center, 1217 Commonwealth Ave. All levels of talent are welcome. Acoustic instruments only.

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Come in and learn about excitMonday, March 3 ing glow-in-the-dark shapes in 5pm - 6pm UFAC Meeting. the STEM program: “Glow-inTown Hall, Front Royal. The Ur- the-Dark Geometry.” ban Forestry Advisory Commis- 12:30pm - 1pm Warren Counsion (UFAC) meets tonight in the ty Business On The River 95.3.

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7pm - 8pm Council Work Ses- 9am - 10am Tourism Commitsion. Town Administration Build- tee. Chamber Office ing, 102 E. Main St. Front Royal. 10:15am - 11:15am Toddler Story Time. Samuels Public LiTuesday, March 4 brary, East Criser Road, Front 11am - 12pm Time for Baby. Royal. Come in and learn about Samuels Public Library, East exciting glow-in-the-dark shapes Criser Road, Front Royal. What in the STEM program: “Glow-indo books, scarves, puppets, the-Dark Geometry.”

Sunday March 2 music and babies have in com- 11am - 12pm Preschool Story 1pm - 4pm Open House. mon? They are all part of “Time Time. Samuels Public Library, See description from Saturday, for Baby”. Join in as you use East Criser Road, Front Royal.

March 1st. your senses to explore the world Come in and learn about excit 3:30pm - 5pm Valley Stars around you. Meet with baby up ing glow-in-the-dark shapes in showcase baseball teams try- to 2 years of age. Siblings wel- the STEM program: “Glow-inouts. All Star Batting Cages, come! the-Dark Geometry.”

Berryville Avenue, Winchester. 12:30pm - 1pm Tourism TuesThis year the Valley Stars will days. 95.3 - the River radio staFriday, March 7 field 12u, 14u, 16u, & 18u tion. Hear the latest tourism 1:30pm - 2:30pm Education teams. The 12u team will play in related news and events every Committee. Chamber Office. elite tournaments in the Tri-State Tuesday at 12:30! If you can’t lisarea and the high school teams ten live check out the podcasts Saturday, March 8 will play in college showcase at http://www.theriver953online. 7am - 11am. Pancake Breaktournaments during the summer com. fast. Riverton United Methodist in VA, MD, and PA. 2pm - 3pm Ambassador’s Church Fellowship Hall. Adults 4:30pm - 6:30pm Screening of Club. Chamber Office. $6, children under 10 $3. There “Monsieur Lazhar”. Museum of 4:30pm - 5:30pm Big Kids will be pancakes, sausage, Shenandoah Valley, Winchester. Story Time. Samuels Public Li- scrambled eggs, sausage gravy, Set in Montreal, the film tells of brary, East Criser Road, Front juice and coffee. an elementary school teacher Royal. Come in and enjoy the 10:10am - 11:10am Books who must deal with the healing silly, imaginative stories of Dr. and Barks. Samuels Public LiSeuss, show and tell, and story brary, East Criser Road, Front time - for kindergarten and up.

Royal. Come to the extremely popular monthly program that Wednesday, March 5 gives developing readers the 8:30am - 9:30am Small Busi- chance to read and relax with Home Décor and More ness Committee. Chamber Of- a trained therapy dog. For beBUZZ on in for one

Royal. Please feel free to stop by the Open House to meet the Commander, Officers, and Registered Adults who will be running the new unit, and learn more about the Young Marines!

Or drop by our first drill meeting to see the Blue Ridge Young Marines in action on April 6 2014.

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7pm - 10pm The George Washington Ball. First Presbyterian Church Social Hall, 116 S. Loudoun St, Winchester. Sponsored by Old Court House Civil Ware Museum. Dances led by the Victorian Dance Ensemble.

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Take Control of Your Driving Future.

The Winchester Police Department wants mature drivers to take control of their driving future. Older drivers, those who are 70-years-old and older, make up 10 percent of all licensed drivers in the U.S. Age alone is not enough to indicate a safe driver, in fact, statistically elderly are the safest group of drivers, however, even the most experienced and competent drivers need to refresh their driving skills as they age. It is normal for our driving abilities to change as we age. By reducing risk factors and incorporating safe driving practices, many of us can continue driving safely well into our senior years.

On Friday, March 7th the Winchester Police Department will hold a presentation for mature drivers. Topics will include: How Aging Affects Driving, Safe Senior Driving, Driving Defensively, Finding the Right Car for You, Medications and Driving, and Preventative Steps You Can Take to Continue Driving Safely.

The presentation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Active Living and Recreation Center in the War Memorial Building at Jim Barnett Park. Limited seating is available.

Please register by March 3rd by e-mailing or calling Lauren Cummings at Lauren.Cummings@ winchesterva.gov or (540) 5457548.

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Lola: a family remembrance & memorial One unexpected loss strikes a universal chord for all pet owners

By Malcolm & Carol Barr Warren County Report She was bright, with eyes as blue as a coral sea. For just over two years, she was a love of our lives. Her name was Lola and she died Feb. 5 of stomach and pancreatic cancer. Lola, a Siberian Husky known to many in the area, was eight years old.

We relate our bereavement to the community because Lolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family was much larger than just we four: our military son who, upon re-deployment, bequeathed her to us in 2011; her sister, Ophelia, a feisty, miniature black pug; and, of course, the two of us.

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The folks at our bank, the pharmacy, the pet and hardware stores, the realty company and the animal shelter, were on her list. Also, the people in the Rockland area where she lived and who waved from their cars as she lounged with us beneath a shade tree with the black pug, Ophelia - the “odd couple” - during warm weather afternoons. Oddly, for a husky, she became best friends with a black and white cat named Simon who walks the Shenandoah Valley Golf Course

on a feline leash.

To salute the service of her former master, USAF Staff Sgt. Malcolm Barr, Jr., an Iraq veteran now serving in Europe, she attended the annual Veteran’s Day ceremonies each Nov. 11 and was front-and-center last Memorial Day weekend at the “Salute to the Dogs of War” at the Gazebo. She will be missed at a similar ceremony this June.

On Thursdays, during the warm weather months, she did a meet-andgreet at the Vino124 outdoor tables where for two years a weekly “Yappy

Hour” raised funds for homeless pets. Her “date” this past year was often Luda, a black pit-mix, on Virginia Avenue. At the dog park, she favored the lively Rochester and the less lively pug, Mugsy.

Lola’s great pleasure in life was leaping into the back of our SUV, sticking her snout out a rear window and awaiting arrival at whatever destination we chose.

At the end of her daily journey into town with stops scheduled at both dumps, her friends - her extended family -- would be greeted by a strik-

Community ing black, silver and white animal with the facial looks of a wolf, about 45 pounds, with a memorable steady gaze from those azure blue eyes, and a friendly wag from a bushy tail.

Lola attended the opening of the dog park on Luray Avenue in September 2012. As reported in this newspaper’s report of the event, she was the first dog to “squat” on the animals’ new and popular territory!

What turned out to be her last visit to the park was on Jan. 30. We were alone as the temperature had sunk to single digits. But the frozen-over Shenandoah River, and the snow, made the environment beautiful and peaceful – a tundra just suited to a Siberian Husky, so I took a photograph (see above).

Exactly one week later, we were at an internal medicine hospital in Manassas where her veterinarian specialist, at the end of a day of scans and tests, gave us the unexpected news: incurable, virulent cancers throughout her intestinal tract, her pancreas and stomach. Lola’s life expectancy was now measured in days, not weeks or months.

We took her, with doggie companion Ophelia, for a final walk at about 9 p.m. outside the hospital. She got in her licks, we surrendered final hugs.

She lay on a blue rug on the hospital floor, the medical staff around her. In a minute or so, the blue eyes closed.

A minute later, she was gone.

R.I.P. beautiful Lola, and thanks from all of us for the memories.

When a family pet dies

By Malcolm Barr Sr. Warren County Report

When our dog Lola died, a thoughtful friend who works for Blue Ridge Hospice sent a “Care Note” titled “When a family pet dies.” The eight-page pamphlet was immeasurably helpful to us in handling our initial grief.

It noted that in losing Lola, we had lost a member of our own family, but that there was no ritual to guide us through our grief and no funeral to ease us into the final separation from our pet. Reading the pamphlet and its caring recommendations helped us through those early, tearful days.

If, on reading this, you need similar help as your pet dies or is put to sleep, a single copy may be available from our hospice – www.blueridgehospice.org – and multiple copies for churches or other support groups may be purchased through www.carenotes.com

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AFA to sponsor Memorial Day â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dogs of Warâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; event

Lola and Lou werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only patriotic doggies and owners attracted to the War Dog event Lola and pal Luda, foreground, at 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dogs of Warâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Memorial Day event in Front Royal.

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report The U.S. Air Force Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s local chapter, headed by Chief Norman Brander (USAF, ret), a veteran staff member of Randolph-Macon Academy, will be a leading sponsor of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Memorial Day weekend â&#x20AC;&#x153;Salute to the Dogs of War.â&#x20AC;?

Our contributing writer, Malcolm Barr, Sr., whose son serves with the air force in Europe, began the observance a couple of years ago with an informal ceremony at Vino124 on Main Street, which for two years hosted a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yappy Hourâ&#x20AC;? Friday nights in aid of the local Julia Wagner Animal Shelter operated by the Humane Society under contract with the county.

Last May 26, Barr took an expanded ceremony to the Gazebo

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Danielle Boyd, Thirty-One Consultant, is hosting this event on behalf of HSWC. Take advantage of great thirty-one deals in March, for every $35 you spend you get one of five totes for ½ price. All products ordered at this event will be delivered in time for Easter.

where scores of people with their dogs heard the Rev. Debbie Ritter of Calvary Episcopal Church lead an inspirational blessing for â&#x20AC;&#x153;the dogs of war.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year, since there is no formal ceremony in Front Royal to mark Memorial Day, we will honor not only the dogs of war, but all veterans of all wars at the Gazebo,â&#x20AC;? Barr said. Barr said he is beginning early to organize for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event, which will feature the Rockland Singers directed

by Barbara Garst; R-MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of student life Michael Williams playing Taps with his late fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World War II trumpet (Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad was a dog handler in the USAF); and a contingent from the animal shelter which last year adopted out one of the visiting homeless dogs at the downtown

park. Barr, 80, of Rockland, is a past president of the Humane Society of Warren County and has dedicated 60 of his years in animal welfare and rescue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe we owe it to the dogs of war to honor their memory. Many of them gave their lives for our troops since World War II, in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other trouble sports around the world,â&#x20AC;?

Barr said.

He regrets that his own dog, the Siberian Husky Lola, who played a role in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ceremony, wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be there this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She died recently (see related article) and she will be missed.â&#x20AC;?

Barr, a Royal Air Force veteran, described himself as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;one man bandâ&#x20AC;? for the ceremony and through this article asks veterans who plan to attend to call him at 636-7407, or email

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barr127@yahoo.com so they may be recognized. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Town and county officials are automatically invited,â&#x20AC;? Barr said.

Also, he asked for veterans organizations such as the American Legion to please volunteer to take part and to similarly call or email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too time consuming to begin writing emails and letters of invita-

tion,â&#x20AC;? Barr continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I invite everyone to come, from the VFW to the Moose, to the Elks, the Kiwanis and Rotary, and most particularly those individuals with doggie companions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year, we were proud to have the Sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office and Front Royal Police Department send their K-9 dogs to our ceremony. This year, I hope to hear from the Border Patrol who were invited but couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it due to the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sequestrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stuff going on in D.C. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While we are expanding our ceremony (Sunday, May 25,12:30 to 1:30 p.m.) to honor all veterans, there still will be an emphasis on the dogs of war because of their early connection to the Town of Front Royal,â&#x20AC;? Barr explained.

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Tractor-trailer â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;museum on wheelsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is filled with interactive exhibits and activities History is on the move in Virginia as the Civil War 150 HistoryMobile rolls into Middletown for a 3-day visit February 20-22. The exhibit, an initiative of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, will be located at Lord Fairfax Community College and will be open daily from 10:00am-6:00pm.

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new board members and new officers. We had lots of plans. But the shows put on in 2013 did not sell. The ticket sales did not meet budget expectations. The theatre had a $45,000 loss for those three shows alone. In the last ten years, the theatre was averaging a loss of $50,000 a year. Do the math. The theatre was $500,000 in debt. We, sadly, could not continue.â&#x20AC;?

BB&T Bank has a first deed of trust on both the theatre and the staff house located at 7864 Main Street. Notice has been given that the staff house will be auctioned off at the Frederick County Courthouse at 10:30 am on February 25, 2014.

The fate of the theatre building is still an unknown. BB&T has not yet foreclosed on the theatre build-

ing, although the Wayside Theatre is not making any payments. Brill said that the bank did a phase one environmental study of the theatre and found that the site had once been a dry cleaner. Because it was a dry cleaner, a phase two environmental study is being done.

In the meantime, Brill bought the contents of the theatre for a deduction in the debt he is owed by the theatre. Brill said the board had their accountants determine the value of the contents of the theatre and voted on the transaction.

Many of the smaller items found in the theatre are being donated to local organizations. For example, some of the older lights went to Theatre Shenandoah. Many of the props went to Randolph Macon Academy.

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Massanutten Military Academy is starting a theatre club so some items went to help the club get started. The shoes left at the theatre are being sent to an organization in Africa that will reuse the leather.

But what about the big items that people have reported being taken from the theatre, like the wood paneling from the Curtain Call CafĂŠ and the new seats? Mr. Brill says he is putting the big items in storage in the hopes that someone will buy the building with the desire to reopen a theatre.

Leo Bernstein, who originally helped to open the Wayside Theatre, â&#x20AC;&#x153;was such a visionary and he had the financial means to pursue his visionsâ&#x20AC;? Mr. Brill recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be wonderful if someone with vision and financial ability would come forward. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure the bank would love for someone to make them an offer.

I would be delighted to sell all of the items back to the new owner of the building so that Middletown could once more have a theatre.â&#x20AC;?

Doug Arthur, former Wayside Theatre board member and a winner of the coveted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leoâ&#x20AC;? award, agrees with Mr. Brill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;An angel or angels that could come in and rescue the theatre would be wonderful. Saving the Wayside Theatre would be very exciting.â&#x20AC;?

Charlie Harbaugh, the mayor of Middletown, said that losing the theatre was a great loss for Middletown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The theatre was vital to the town, culturally, artistically and historically. We wish and hope for another Leo Bernstein to come along and help to save the theatre.â&#x20AC;?

Are there any angels out there?

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State Police AMBER Alert shows results in 27 minutes Orange County child recovered on Eastern Shore – aunt faces multiple charges

Amiyah Dallas was located safely in the company of her aunt, Olivia Dallas, within 27 minutes of a statewide AMBER Alert being issued Feb. 19. Aunt Olivia is facing charges.

ORANGE CO., Feb. 19 – A missing Orange County girl is being returned to her family following a Virginia AMBER Alert activation. Amiyah M. Dallas, 5, of Orange, Va., was located

by Virginia State Police in Accomack County Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 19. The girl’s aunt, Olivia N. Dallas, 22, of Orange, Va., is being held at the Accomack County Jail on one felony Hey Stewart!

What’s been going on with the Tree Stewards this past year? It would be great if you could review what you all have been accomplishing.

– Peter Dear Peter,

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I’d be glad to update you on all our activities this past year and thanks for asking.

The Front Royal/Warren County Tree Stewards had a busy 2013, volunteering at least 1,780 hours for a benefit to our community of approximately $39,400. Obviously they think trees are an important part of what makes our town and county a beautiful place to live and so do I. One of their primary missions is to educate the public about trees and they do that in a number of ways. They had the annual

count of abduction and one count of unauthorized use of a vehicle.

The AMBER Alert activation took place at 12:07 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 19. Within minutes of the activation, the Virginia State Police Chesapeake Division Communications Center received more than a dozen phone calls from people on the Eastern Shore about a woman and young girl fitting the description broadcast via the AMBER Alert.

Based on those tips, Virginia State Police Trooper A.D. Montross began searching for the suspect vehicle along Route 13 in Accomack County.

At 12:34 p.m., the trooper spotted a burgundy 2001 C240 Mercedes stopped on the southbound shoulder of Route 13 near Painter, Va. The car had a flat tire. Olivia was in the driver’s seat and Amiyah was seated inside the vehicle.

Amiyah had last been seen in the custody of her aunt the previous day, Feb. 18, in the 15,000 block of Mountain Track Road in Orange County.

When the girl was not returned to her mother later that day and family was not able to contact the aunt, the girl’s family reported the child missing to the Orange County Sheriff ’s Office.

During the course of their investigation, the OCSO was able to confirm that Olivia had been spotted in Queen Anne’s County, Md., late Tuesday night, Feb. 18. Their investigation also led the sheriff ’s office to become seriously concerned about the child’s safety, at which time the sheriff ’s office requested an AMBER Alert activation in hopes of safely locating the missing girl.

The Orange County Sheriff ’s Office, with the assistance of the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Culpeper Field Office, All About Trees course in the fall. This is their largest education event each year.

They had information tables and displays at the town festivals and the Farmers Market.

They also attended the Shenandoah River Fest in August where they had a program with activities for children called Trees Are Cool.

The Tree Stewards maintained and planted more trees in the Happy Creek Arboretum along Commerce Avenue across from the flea market. They participated in Arbor Day on April 27th at which time Front Royal was designated a Tree City USA for the 14th consecutive year and received a Growth Award for the 15th year! (I’m so proud of them!) They planted a Yellowwood tree in the Happy Creek Arboretum as part of the annual celebration as well.

Their Royal Shenandoah Greenway Committee continued to push for continuing the four mile walking trail through the town and

Olivia Dallas was initially charged with abduction and unauthorized use of vehicle. is continuing its investigation into the abduction.

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conniesmallwood@mris.com www.conniesmallwood.com county. Warren County completed Phase Two of the Eastham Trail (part of the Greenway) from the South Fork of the Shenandoah River up to Skyline High School. Even more exciting after a 20-year effort, a part of the greenway along Happy Creek from South Street to Criser Road was constructed by the Town of Front Royal. Come find this beautiful trail and see how it provides a great way for town residents to walk to Samuels Library, Burrell Brooks Park, and Ressie Jeffries Elementary School. You might even see me scampering along the creek.

Their new, revamped website, www.treesfrontroyal.org, has a great deal of information about trees and on-going Tree Steward activities. Please take a minute and see how much information is included on the site.

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The Front Royal/Warren County Tree Steward program began in 1997 with volunteers dedicated to improving the health of trees by providing educational programs, tree planting and care demonstrations, and tree maintenance throughout the community.

The group now consists of over 30 active members with several interns working toward becoming certified tree stewards from our annual “All About Trees Class”. Each month Stewart will answer a question from our readers. Please forward it to “Stewart” in care of: frwctreestewards@comcast.net and we may publish it in a future issue. Please visit our website at:

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Briefs Assistant Superintendent for Instruction to Retire July First Frederick County Public Schools Superintendent David Sovine has announced that Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Peter J. Vernimb will retire effective July 1st following a 33-year career in public education. Vernimb has served as Assistant Superintendent for Instruction for Frederick County Public Schools since July 1, 2006. He succeeded Patricia Taylor who began her tenure as Schools Superintendent the same day Vernimb began his employment in Frederick County.

Sovine says, “Mr. Vernimb has been a valuable member of the school division’s leadership team since 2006.

Throughout his career and during his tenure with our school division, Mr. Vernimb has remained focused on doing what is best for students in order to help ensure they receive an excellent education. Although schools have faced some significant challenges over the past eight years due to the economic downturn and an increased focus on high stakes, standardized testing, Mr. Vernimb and his team have focused on finding solutions to challenges and worked tirelessly for the students of our community.”

Vernimb says, “My tenure as assistant superintendent for instruction in Frederick County has been the most rewarding experience of my career. I could ask for no better school division than Frederick County Public Schools in which to be afforded the

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opportunity to grow professionally and to assist in providing leadership to the many talented teachers and administrators who work in our schools and at the administration building.

These people are among the most talented with whom I have ever worked.

I also am appreciative of the School Board for its support and patience as we worked together to navigate the most difficult economic times in two generations while seeking to protect quality instruction. Unyielding accountability expectations compounded our work, yet we are well poised to emerge stronger and more focused on meeting the needs of all children.”

Sovine says, “Mr. Vernimb has been an integral part of a number of accomplishments during his time with Frederick County Public Schools including the maintenance of state accreditation for all of our schools, the opening of three new schools (Evendale Elementary School- 2006, Gainesboro Elementary School2007 and Greenwood Mill Elementary School-2009), the initiation of the new teacher induction program, the establishment of the LINKS Alternative Education Program, the development and support of the Division Comprehensive Plan and planning for the launch of full-day kindergarten in August. These accomplishments and many others speak to the commitment Mr. Vernimb has to students and helping them become successful, engaged citizens.”

FCPS Supervisor of Social Sciences One of 50 Educators Selected to Participate in International Professional Development Tour Frederick County Public Schools Supervisor of Social Sciences and Health and Wellness Education Tara Woolever is one of 50 educators from across the United States selected to travel internationally this summer through the Education First Professional Development Tour Program.

Woolever will be representing the Virginia School-University Partnership (VSUP) as well as Frederick County Public Schools during her visit to China from June 23 through July 2.

VSUP is an educational consortium composed of school divisions from across Virginia and the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. VSUP is dedicated to providing high quality professional development and promoting professional collaboration among educators in order to improve instruction and increase student achievement.

Woolever says, “I’m extremely excited to be selected to participate in this prestigious program. I was made aware of the Education First Professional Development Tour through a colleague at VSUP and was encouraged to apply for a full travel scholarship to represent the consortium abroad. A few weeks after completing the scholarship application, I was informed that I was one of four finalists. Following an intensive interview

process that included my immediate supervisor, I learned I had been selected to travel to either Peru or China. I decided to visit China because I think there’s a great opportunity for me to learn and make connections during my visit there that will benefit our students, teachers and schools.”

According to Education First, the 50 winners of the full travel scholarships were selected based on their interest in and commitment to global education initiatives within their states. Woolever says, “I’m hopeful this travel experience will provide relevant political, economic and social experiences I will be able to connect to existing social studies curriculum.

In addition, I would like to add a class in contemporary history to our course offerings in order to help students become more acquainted with the international community. We live in a global society and it’s important for students and the community to understand how much we have in common with the rest of the world.”

Woolever’s tour of China will include stops in Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai. While in Beijing, the group will visit the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and the Temple of Heaven Park. The visit to Xi’an will include tours of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda,

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the Shaanxi Provincial Historical Museum and the Terracotta Warriors. While in Shanghai, the group will visit the Shanghai World Financial Center, the Bund, the Jade Buddha Temple, the Yu Yuan Garden and Nanjing Lu. In addition to sightseeing, the group will enjoy a number of unique experiences such as visiting a local school in Beijing, participating in a calligraphy demonstration, eating a traditional Peking duck dinner and enjoying a Chinese acrobatics show.

The tour of China is designed to help educators open their classrooms to the world, discover new ways to make 21st century skills more relevant and prepare students to compete in the global economy. School visits will provide a unique view of the Chinese educational system through which Woolever will have the opportunity to observe a class in action, discuss best educational practices with other teachers and meet their students. Each of the educators will also participate in an online course called “Chinese Legacies and Modern Life” prior to their trip.

The course will help prepare them for the experience and provide them with enhanced tools for bringing the experience back to their school divisions.

CRIME OF THE WEEK

Winchester Crime of the Week - February 10, 2014 The Winchester Police Department is investigating a breaking and entering that occurred between January 18, 2014 at 6 p.m. and January 20, 2014 at 6:49 p.m.

Sometime during that time frame unknown suspect(s) broke into a residence in the 3000 block of Shawnee Drive in the City of Winchester. Entry was gained by breaking out a basement window.

If you have any information regarding a suspect or suspects involved in this crime, please contact the Crime Solvers Hotline at 540-665-TIPS. Information leading to the arrest of a suspect may result in a reward of up to $1,000.

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Frederick County Crime of the Week - February 17, 2014 This week’s Crime Solvers Crime has to do with a grand larceny from a construction site at 123 Harold Court. The owner reported that sometime between January 19th and 20th, 2014, unknown suspect(s) removed a 2008 construction trailer, white in color, displaying Virginia registration 297029 “T” over “L” from the site. The trailer is reported to have a straight front end body type and contained miscellaneous tools and other equipment.

If you have any information regarding a suspect or suspect vehicle in this incident, please contact the Crime Solvers Hotline at (540) 665 TIPS (8477). Information leading to the arrest of a suspect may result in a reward of up to $1,000.

Incident #14000377 Investigator K. C. Bohrer

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Diversions Briefs

The Lord Fairfax Community College Forensics Team Schools Superintendent David Sovine says, “We are very excited for the opportunity Mrs. Woolever has to travel to China and make connections with other outstanding educators. We’re even more excited about how this trip will impact students and teachers once Mrs. Woolever returns, begins sharing experiences from her trip and integrates what she learns into our current practices to benefit our instructional program.”

Big Win for LFCC Forensics Team Lord Fairfax Community College’s (LFCC) Forensics Team celebrated one of its most decorated tournament competitions on February 9, 2014 at Wilkes University Harold Cox Invitational Forensics Tournament in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

The team brought home 17 individual, first through seventh place finishes, and was second in the overall Team Sweepstakes. All students delivered outstanding performances, and the following depicts the LFCC

team members and awards won: Ron Anderson –2nd in Persuasion (Strasburg) Natalie Capps –4th in Duo Interpretation (Stephens City) Kim Carbajo –Prose competitor (Winchester) Camille Gibson –2nd in Poetry; 4th in Prose (Middletown) Lydia Hisey –4th in Duo Interpretation (Front Royal) Bailey Hutchinson –4th in Persuasion (Delaplane) Erik Jurek –1st in Persuasion; 5th in Informative; 6th in Extemporaneous (Strasburg) Anthony Klahre –7th in Persuasion (Winchester) Kelsey Owens –2nd in After Dinner Speaking; 3rd in Persuasion; 3rd in Duo Interpretation (Clearbrook) Bekah Pennington –3rd in Duo Interpretation (Front Royal) John Riggs –3rd in Extemporaneous; 5th in Impromptu (Martinsburg) See BRIEFS, 36

Number of Accidents Decline in the City The Winchester Police Department has sent a message to residents and visitors of the city to take their personal safety seriously when behind the wheel, and statistics show the message is being heard. According to statistics that meet Department of Motor Vehicles reporting standards in 2013 there was a 34 percent decrease in traffic crashes in Winchester from 2012 to 2013. There were no fatal accidents in 2013 and crashes involving injury dropped 36 percent. Alcohol-related crashes involving injury fell 92 percent from 2012 to 2013. Crashes that resulted in injury and were found to be speed-related declined 58 percent.

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Over the past three years officers have performed some of the highest enforcement efforts in the department’s history. While these statistics are encouraging officers continue to be aggressive and proactive in an effort to encourage good driving behavior. The public has acknowledged that the message heard on the street is you don’t drink and drive in the city, or you will be caught.

The Winchester Police Department would like to thank the public for taking driving seriously in an effort to ensure the safety of themselves and others on the road.

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Briefs BRIEFS, from 35 Angelica Ruscio â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6th in Poetry; 6th in Prose (Stephens City) Colt Scott â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1st in Single Dramatic Interpretation (Strasburg) There were 11 competing colleges and universities participating in the tournament. They included: Binghamton University, Bloomsburg University, George Mason University, Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College, Lord Fairfax Community College, Luzerne Community College, Malone University, Marywood University, Misericordia University, University of Tennessee, and Wilkes University.

The Forensic Team is sponsored by the Speech and Drama Department for students who want to excel in speaking and performing arts. For further information, contact Andrea Ludwick, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Theater, at (540) 868-7194.

Garden in the Valley Symposium An all-day program for home gardeners (of varied experience in gardening), will be Saturday, March 15, 2014 at Shenandoah Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hester Auditorium in Winchester.

Sponsored by the Northern Shenandoah Valley Master Gardeners, this annual event is open to the public.

Registration fee is $45 per person, with free parking. Pre-registration is suggested. All proceeds from the Symposium will go towards the NSVMGA Scholarship Fund for local high school and college students.

A continental breakfast and lunch are included in the registration fee and several door prizes will be awarded. Cook books - for those herbs and veggies from the garden, a cedar planter box, a bird house, and containers of worm castings are among the selections. Also, each participant will receive a folder with additional gardening information.

The topics include: growing vegetables and herbs in small spaces such as a balcony or patio, presented

by Cynthia Brown; Horticulture Collections Management and Education with the Smithsonian Gardens- preparing and preserving the food you grow, with attention given to the harvest from planter boxes and containers, by Rebecca Davis (a Family and Consumer Sciences Agent with Virginia Cooperative Extension Service - Cynthia and Rebecca have been collaborating on recipes and audience sampling); health benefits of gardening, with a panel of healthcare professionals including Cindy Quinnelly; Occupational Therapist with Valley Health, Dr. Wendell Combest, Professor in the Pharmacy School of Shenandoah University, and Elizabeth Courts, Professor of Nursing with Shenandoah University; a checklist for the weekend gardener presented by John Fish; Landscape Designer with Meadows Farms

Cornhole Leagues The Warren County Parks and Recreation Department is offering several Cornhole Leagues on Sundays beginning May 4, 2014, at the Warren County Health & Human Services Complex main football field. Leagues offered will be: Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Co-Ed, Child and Adult/ Child. Each team will consist of 2 people. Adults must be 16 years of age or older. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s league will consist of 2 divisions; 8-11 year olds and 12-15 year olds. (age as of May 4, 2014). Cost is $25.00 per adult and $10.00 per child. Receive a 20%

discount if you sign up for more than one league. Registration deadline is Friday, April 25, 2014. For more information contact Tiffany Walker, Recreation & Aquatics Supervisor at (540) 635-1021 or via email at recsu-

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Death notices

Elmer H. Lauck Elmer Harold Lauck, 91, of Winchester, Virginia, died Tuesday, February 18, 2014 in Winchester Medical Center. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Round Hill Ruritan, PO Box 4536, Winchester,VA, 22604 or Gainesboro Volunteer Fire and Rescue, 221 Gainesboro Road, Winchester, VA, 22603.

Barbara L. “Bobbie” Racey Barbara Lynn “Bobbie” Flowers Racey, 63, of Frederick County, Virginia, died Thursday, February 13, 2014, in Winchester Medical Center. Memorial contributions may be made to the Esther Boyd Animal Shelter, 161 Fort Collier Road, Winchester, Virginia, 22603 or Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 West Cork Street, Suite 405, Winchester, Virginia 22601.

Robert Dick Robert Allen Dick, 66, of Winchester, VA, died Friday, February 14, 2014 at Winchester Medical Center. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the Robert Dick Burial Fund at the Bank of Clarke County.

Elizabeth Johnston Elizabeth Thompson Johnston, 100, formerly of Winchester, VA, died February 12, 2014 at her residence in Richmond, Virginia. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association or Best Friends Animal Society.

Harry “Chief” Carter, Jr. Happy Harry was called home to be with his Father on February 14, 2014 after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer! In lieu of flowers, Memorial Contributions in honor of Harry can be made to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 west Cork Street, Winchester, Virginia 22601.

Charles E. Hefele Charles Edward Hefele, 79, of Winchester, Virginia, died Tuesday, February 11, 2014 in the Veterans Medical Center, Martinsburg, West Virginia. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project, PO BOX 758517, Topeka, KS 66675. Please view obituaries and tribute wall at www.ompsfuneralhome. com.

Lee G. Martin Lee G. Martin, 84, of Frederick County, Virginia died Wednesday, February 12, 2014, in Blue Ridge Hospice Residential Center. Memorial contributions may be made to Wounded Warriors, Boulder Crest Retreat Center, 18370 Bluemont Village Lane, P.O. Box 117 Bluemont, Virginia, 20135 or Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 West Cork Street, Suite 405, Winchester, Virginia, 22601.

Alice Catherine Malcom Oates Alice Catherine Malcolm Oates, 81, of Stephenson, Virginia, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 9, 2014.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Ladies Auxiliary, Winchester Medical Center, 1840 Amherst Street, Winchester, Virginia, 22601.

teams to participate in a Summer Co-Ed Volleyball League on Sundays beginning June 15, 2014, at the Warren County Health & Human Services Complex Gym. Participants must be 16 years of age (as of 6/15/14) or older. Teams must have 2 males per team with a 9 player maximum.

Maximum 8 teams will be allowed in the league, so register your team EARLY! Cost is $75.00 per team and

registration deadline is Friday, May 30. For more information contact Tiffany Walker, Recreation & Aquatics Supervisor at (540) 635-1021 or via email at recsupervisor@warrencountyva.net.

Wrestling Club The Warren County Parks and Recreation Department in conjunction

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Diversions Briefs with Warren County High School will be sponsoring the Warren County Next Level Wrestling Club for grades K through 12th, at Warren County High School Monday through Thursday, 3:45pm-5:00pm. Club will begin March 13,2014 and run through November 20, 2014. Club is FREE of charge. For more information contact Coach Wadas at (540) 635-4144 ext. 44179 or via email at mwadas@ wcps.12.va.us. Registration forms are available at the Warren County Community Center, 538 Villa Ave. Front Royal, VA 22630 and the Warren County Parks and Recreation Department, 200 E. 8th Street. Front Royal.

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ADD/ADHD seminar for parents Saturday, March 8 in Front Royal

Dr. Sherri Yoder

By Malcolm Barr Sr. Warren County Report Dr. Sherri Yoder, PsD, and Katie Pierron, a local businesswoman, will co-chair a seminar on childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

ADD/ADHD at the Front Royal community center (the old library building) on Saturday, March 8, from 9 to 11 a.m.

Dr. Yoder, who specializes in working with the developmental needs of school-age children - her masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree is in applied behavioral analysis - came to Front Royal from Winchester two years ago and works from her office at 44 Chester Street.

She is a member of the Rotary Club of Front Royal.

Pierron, whose specialty is organizing homes and offices, also offers tips to kids who have trouble keeping their thoughts and their desks tidy.

She is a former Fairfax County middle school teacher and has a background in marine biology.

A speaker at the seminar will be Michael Williams, director of student life at Randolph-Macon Acad-

emy, who personally carried ADD into adult life and talks candidly about how he handled the affliction as a child, and now as an adult.

The seminar is for parents of children with ADD/ADHD, or who

suspect that that may be the root of their kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; problems. Yoder said she is contemplating a second seminar confined to teachers of public and private schools at a later date.

Participants are encouraged to ar-

rive about 30 minutes early to register (there is a small fee) and to mingle over coffee and muffins.

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Please ask about our low cost spay and neuter program. Please be sure your pets at home are spayed/neutered and up to date on vaccinations. Dog adoption available on Sat. 10 -2 at Petco • Cat adoption available on Sat. 10 - 2 at Southern States • Dogs and Cats available on Sat. 10 - 2 at Helmuth Builders • Please make sure your pets have adequate protection from the frigid temperatures!!

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