Early June 2015 Warren and Frederick County Report

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Honoring our vets 2 NO consolidation of Volunteer Companies 6 ‘The Bing’ field naming approved 11 ‘War’ looms over 522 Corridor 14 “Beer lovers, get your beer here!” 18-23 Calendar of events 37-39

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Memorial Day

Front Royal honors its vets – both human and canine

At left, Diana Lieber and “Becky” of the HOPE Animal-Assisted Crisis Response team get ready to lead Humane Society of Warren County Wagner Shelter staff and some doggies looking for a home in a short Memorial Day Parade.

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Let’s open our coverage of Front Royal’s Memorial Day Ceremony honoring vets, both human and canine, by wishing our colleague and event organizer Malcolm Barr a speedy recovery from a bout with pneumonia (he’s feeling much better now). In Malcolm’s absence from the May 25 event at Front Royal’s Village Commons, retired Navy Commander Tory Failmezger took over Master of Ceremonies duties (talk to Mal about some hazardous duty pay, Tory).

After R-MA’s Mike Williams opened the event with a call on his father’s old bugle, the crowd of about 150 humans and numerous dog companions were blessed by First Baptist Church of Front Royal Pastor Mark

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Honored guests included VFW Post Commander Carl Schmitt, Air Force Association local President Norman Brander and State Air Force

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Assn. Vice-President Tom Shepherd, Diane Lieber of the HOPE AnimalAssisted Crisis Response team and doggie team member “Becky”, Humane Society of Warren County members and shelter staff – and dogs looking for a home, wearing sporty “Adopt Me” vests, Front Royal Mayor Tim Darr and numerous veterans

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Singled out for special recognition were two surviving World War II vets Phillip Funk, 95, and Tommy Strickler, 91, members of what has become known as “the Greatest Generation” for its efforts in halting, at least temporarily, the march toward world fascism in the 1940s. Funk and Strickler assisted Cmdr. Failmezger, Gen. Hobgood and Mayor Darr in presenting the Memorial Wreath honoring the nations service veterans.

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“The American military lays the foundation for America’s freedom.

There is no more honorable service than military service,” Hobgood said, asking those citizens present to “do something for a vet”. That something could be anything from a heartfelt “thank you” to a job for a vet in need of one, Hobgood said.

The crowd was entertained by the Warren County High School Marching Band, under the watchful eye of Band Director David Dingess; and the colors were presented by The Blue Ridge Young Marines.

Failmezger read some comments Barr had planned on delivering, noting Front Royal and Warren County’s ties to the training of war dogs, in addition to its contributions of young sons to the military that it shares with all American communities.

“There’s a reason for this special memorial for the war dogs, and that is that Front Royal was the first community in the country selected by the U.S. Army to train dogs for service in World War II – that was in August 1942. Fast forward to today and to Texas, where at its Lackland base in San Antonio, the U.S. Air Force now trains for all our military services, thousands of dogs, not only for ground wars, but also for the war against terrorism in this county and in foreign lands.”

Barr also noted that military canines had, like other Americans in recent years, made advances in the realm of, well not exactly “human”, but personal “rights”.

“You should know that once upon a time and until very recently, all war dogs, like some of these shepherds you see here today, were listed only as ‘equipment’ by the military. And just like equipment, the dogs were considered disposable. For example, not one dog of the thousands doing valuable and dangerous duty in Vietnam was officially returned home to the United States. At the end of the war the dogs were either euthanized or turned loose, left behind. But just three months ago, the Air Force announced that the dogs they train for duty from now on will be known as

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The big and small of it: Smokey and Joe Waltz and this diminutive fellow whose name we did not get. enlisted members of the military, and adopted out to live the rest of their lives in peace and comfort.”

Barr, through Cmdr. Failmezger, noted that “There are bills now in Congress seeking to retire all military and homeland security dogs with a small pension to help with veterinary and other expenses. Let’s hope these congressional proposals will eventually become the law. It’s a slow process but thanks to the Air Force for taking a lead role. And so today, we are unique in the Valley in expressing our thanks to the war dogs, and eventually it appears we will be able to welcome them home too.”

GO AIR FORCE!!

GO MALCOLM!!

And GO to all those participants and spectators who turned out for this unique Memorial Day tribute to our veterans, including the canine ones!!!

Others participating included: German Shepherd Rescue; Shear Elegance Pet Boutique, and Fussell Florists, who provided the Memorial Day wreath. Like Malcolm, Doggie Day of Caring organizer Carol Vorous missed the event due to illness – get better you two, the doggies need you.

– rogerb@warrencountyreport.com Retired Navy Cmdr. Tory Failmezger subs for event organizer Malcolm Barr Sr., who was under the weather this Memorial Day – get better soon, Mal – you too, Tory.

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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Two arrests stemming from the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office’s investigation into the late-night, May 11 IHOP robbery and assault indicate an inside job involving an RSW work release inmate and second employee. In a release issued at 11:44 a.m., Friday, May 15, the Sheriff ’s Office reported the arrest of RSW inmate Zachary Shawn Marquess a day after the initial arrest in the case.

The press release stated, “Marquess, a work release inmate housed at the RSW Regional Jail, was working at the IHOP Restaurant at the time of the robbery. Marquess is now being held without bond at the RSW Regional Jail. The codefendant in this case, Brandon Williams, AKA Brandon Jackson was also employed at the IHOP Restaurant. Williams was not working at the time of the robbery but returned to work at IHOP on May 13, 2015 and was taken into custody at approximately 10 p.m. on

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lease, which reported, “On Thursday, May 14, 2015, Warren County Sheriff ’s Office investigators arrested Brandon Scott Jackson in connection with the IHOP Restaurant robbery that occurred in the early-morning hours of May 11. Jackson, age 28, was taken into custody without incident.

His last known address was listed at 1409 Belmont Avenue, Front Royal.”

Jackson was charged with robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, and malicious wounding. He is being held without bond at the RSW Regional Jail.

Anyone with additional information is asked to call Investigator Brandon Darr or Sergeant Philip Henry of the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office at (540) 635-7100 or they may access the crime tip section of the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office website at www.warrencountysheriff.org where information can be provided anonymously.

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“Williams and Marquess were initially determined as persons of interest during the investigation. Both individuals were interviewed and subsequently confessed to their role in the robbery.

“An IHOP assistant manager was maliciously wounded with a baseball bat during the robbery and sustained a fracture to the facial area, lacerations, contusions, abrasions, and a concussion. The assistant manager was transported to Warren Memorial hospital for treatment and was later released.”

The press release announcing charges against Jackson/Williams was issued at 10:42 a.m., May 14.

Marquess was arrested later that day, though the second arrest wasn’t announced till the following day, after our May 15 edition reporting the IHOP robbery-assault and first arrest went to press.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have consistently NOT taken a position on whether Fortsmouth should be closed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not our business, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yours. Our concern is in a viable facility for our department. Cold, hard facts, not emotion should decide this.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Company 2 Assistant Chief Charles Prince

Supervisors reject Company 2-9 consolidation Volunteer departments to remain independent, Co. 2 renovation explored

Company 8 member Pat Cross tells board career staff could help company attract new volunteers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and notes 223 signatures on a petition against closing Station 8.

As an alternative to consolidating struggling companies, Herb Dunkle urges municipal reach out in tying knowledge of Volunteer Fire Companies work in the community to First Aid programs offered to high school students.

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Following some emotional Public Hearing comments and the raising of several alternative options, on May 19 the Warren County Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 not to proceed with consolidation of Volunteer Fire Companies 2 (Rivermont) and 8 (Fortsmouth). Happy Creek Supervisor Tony Carter absent.

Only North River Supervisor Dan Murray voted to proceed with the consolidation of the two companies tied to a $3-plus million construction project for a new fire station at the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Front Royal Airport to house a consolidated volunteer company to serve a section of the Fork District on the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s west side stretching to the border with Shenandoah County.

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Fox made the motion to approve the plan initiated in consultant Springstedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2009 Report on the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fire and emergency services operations, which rely heavily on volunteer companies spread around the county.

On March 5, County Emergency Services Chief Richard Mabie presented the board with a rationale for following the Springsted recommendation that included cutting funding to Company 8 if it did not agree to the consolidation plan. Part of the impetus for seeking approval from the board of supervisors now was what was described as a crisis-level deterioration in the physical condition of the Rivermont Company 2 fire house.

As for abandoning Fortsmouth Company 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newer fire house and bringing the company into a merger with Rivermont, Chief Mabie cited volunteer staffing problems. On May

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19, Chief Mabie and County Fire Marshal Gerry Miaitico teamed up for a power-point presentation reiterating in more detail the case that was first presented in support of the plan at the March 5 board meeting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fortsmouth is a fully volunteerstaffed station. Fortsmouth currently has 16 volunteers, of which five are deemed active. Unfortunately, out of five active volunteers, only one lives in the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-due area,â&#x20AC;? the background summary first presented

by Chief Mabie on March 5, stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The volunteers struggle to get out and when they do it is typically driver only. Their on-time response rate for 2014 was 24 percent and no response rate was 47 percent, with late at 29 percent.â&#x20AC;?

Comparatively, while housed in a deteriorating building considered too small for current needs, Company 2 was said â&#x20AC;&#x153;to have 50 current volunteers, of which 17 are deemed active/responding.â&#x20AC;? The Rivermont station is staffed from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and the background summary stated, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The volunteers do a good job of response in covering the evenings and weekends.â&#x20AC;?

However, Chief Mabie did note that â&#x20AC;&#x153;improvementsâ&#x20AC;? had been made on Company 8 staffing and call issues

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A summary of costs indicated an annual savings to the county of $65,000 for operational funding of only one station if the consolidation is achieved. Were Company 8 to opt

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Preliminary cost estimates for the new fire and rescue station range from $2.5 million to $3.5 million.

In concluding his May 19 report on the situation at the two volunteer stations, Mabie told the supervisors that he and his county emergency services department would move forward with whatever decision the board reached. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no question we should support a Rivermont Station fix,â&#x20AC;?

Fork District Supervisor Archie Fox told Mabie on March 5, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but there is some concern from constituents about closing Company 8.â&#x20AC;?

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Herb Dunkle recalled helping sweep out Company 8 as a young man and suggested the county start reaching out to youths through the public high school in relating first-aid training and the role of volunteer fire departments in servicing the county in which those students live. voting it down.

On March 5 when Chief Mabie first brought the issue to the board for a vote on a Resolution of Support of the consultant’s plan that would set what was estimated as a four-year process in motion, Supervisor Fox made a motion to table the vote to allow further consideration of the details. Glavis seconded the motion to table, which passed by a unanimous roll call vote.

But without details on costs for repairs to Company 2’s station house and positive movement on improving Company 8’s situation, the board decided now was not the time to move on one aspect of Springsted’s recommendations for the future of county emergency services.

After Fox made the motion to approve the consolidation/new station

plan, seconded by Murray, Glavis told her colleagues, “A lot of blood, sweat, work and hope has gone into these stations … It’s not always about new buildings. I know Springsted made a lot of recommendations – but I don’t think we should throw away Fortsmouth. We need to work to build up volunteers … I think we need to go back to the drawing board. I will not support the motion.”

After Fox and Murray spoke in support of the Springsted plan as a viable solution to problems at both stations, Traczyk followed with what appeared to be a prepared statement citing what he said were untenable costs for a new station, putting an unreasonable additional tax burden on county citizens.

“I think we can do some civil engineering work and see what repairs

are needed at Company 2 and what can be done to bolster volunteerism at Company 8,” Traczyk said, concluding, “I think we need to postpone this plan for now. I hate to kick the can down the road, but I think at this point we have to look at other options.”

Public Hearing Company 8 speakers presented a petition signed by 223 residents served by the company asking that the Fortsmouth Station not be closed and absorbed into a new location.

Pat Cross suggested adding paid, career staff to help bolster Company 8 – “Springsted noted Company 8’s strong history in the community … we’re still trying to attract volunteers, and with the addition of career

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Public safety staff I think it could work,” Cross told the supervisors.

Company 2 Assistant Chief Charles Prince told the board, “We have consistently NOT taken a position on whether Fortsmouth should be closed – that’s not our business, it’s yours. Our concern is in a viable facility for our department. Cold, hard facts, not emotion should decide this.”

Prince said that regardless of the decision on Company 8’s future, “We still need a new station for Company 2.”

Alan Reece, who joined Company 2 in 2013 cited potential health risks in the existing Rivermont Company 2 Station built in 1953. The station was added on to in 1977 (2 large bays and upstairs); 1990 (dayroom and offices); and 2013 (new ambulance building).

Prince cited the presence of black mold in walls and sulfur in well water. “Neither Company wants to give up its character or identity – but that is not the choice: Company 2 can’t afford to build a new station. This is a business decision on what is in the long-term best interest of the county … this should not be a referendum on either station,” he told the supervisors.

There was debate on increases in response times to certain areas from a new station planned at the edge of the county’s general aviation Front Royal Airport, versus existing stations, particularly Company 8 not far from the Shenandoah County line.

Some contended a trade off to 9 minutes from existing 2 minute responses could be pivotal in the survival of those in need of EMS services for heart attacks or other emergency health crises. Others argued that better staffing, including planned career staff additions, could minimize those response time differences and said they were willing to accept longer response times to their homes in exchange for an overall improvement to operations in their section of the county.

Herb Dunkle recalled helping

sweep out Company 8 as a young man and suggested the county start reaching out to youths through the public high school in relating first-aid training and the role of volunteer fire departments in servicing the county in which those students live. He also suggested that putting $200,000 to $300,000 into repairing and renovating Rivermont Company 2’s station house would be a preferable option financially to a $3-million to $4-million investment in a new station.

“I understand the concerns of Chief Mabie but this plan to close Company 8 and build a new station is not a cure for the problems that exist … you on the board have two responsibilities – to provide life and safety to your constituents, it’s in your codes.” And for Dunkle and many of the Company 8 supporters, the continued presence of two stations, perhaps both bolstered by paid career staff, was the preferable option to achieve that goal of continued health and safety for county citizens in the Rivermont and Fortsmouth areas.

Following these and other comments suggesting the county not rush into “government by consultant” without a more thorough exploration of all variables, including cost benefits of alternative solutions like repairs rather than replacement of aging stations and adding career staff and public-school outreaches to try and improve volunteerism at Company 8 and other struggling stations, the 3-1 board majority decided to do just that.

And so, Company 8 will live to see the potential light at the end of the tunnel of its recent struggles; and Company 2 will have an actual appraisal of the cost of refurbishing its deteriorating station house.

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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report

After a lengthy meeting on others topics addressed in this issue, the Warren County Board of Supervisors quickly approved purchase of new, paper-ballot optical scan machines toward the end of the May 19, 2015 meeting. The vote was 4-0, with Tony Carter absent, on a motion by Dan Murray, seconded by Linda Glavis.

The board approval of spending $177,430 for a total of 35 new paperballot scanning machines came in the wake of the state Board of Elections decertification of the current WINVote electronic touch-screen machines in April. As explained in our report in the last edition of a presentation on the OpenElect Digital Scanner machines from Electronic Services Online (ESO), the discovery of vulnerability to online hacking access in the WINVote machines led to their decertification by the state.

Just prior to the vote, County Administrator Doug Stanley commended the board for putting away money in earlier budget cycles to facilitate a purchase it appeared would eventually become mandated.

County Voting Registrar Carol Tobin has explained that the state would not allow the purchase of new touch-

screen machines as of 2007 due to security concerns. However, the state did allow those touch-screen machines to be maintained until they were decertified on new security evidence in April 2015.

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Voting process BALLOTS, from authorization of the purchase, the estimated $4,950 shipping cost was waived. Apparently that shipping and handling number WAS an estimate, because the cost approved May 19 discounts the county a total of $3,090 from the original price.

Fork District Supervisor Archie Fox queried Registrar Tobin publicly about the potential of other, more substantial financial assistance for the state-mandated change on May 19. Tobin explained that in 2005 due to HAVA (the so-called Help America Vote Act) the county had realized federal grants for all but $5,734 of a total cost of $220,348.50 for the newly in vogue (and hackable) touchscreen voting machines. She said that while she held out some hope that some retroactive state assistance might eventually come, that currently the Virginia General Assembly (one might note, Republican controlled) had not authorized any state assistance to localities for the state-mandated change to non-electronically hackable voting equipment.

Tobin also told the supervisors during the May 5 work session discussion that Governor Terry McAuliffe (Democrat) had recommended a full 100-percent reimbursement to localities in the state budget for the state-mandated changeover to nonhackable voting equipment. However as Tobin pointed out, a General Assembly majority blocked any state assistance in the new state budget.* Perhaps ironically, the Warren County Board of Supervisors rejected replacing the county’s old handlever, mechanical voting machines with digital optical scanners at the time it joined the lemming-like national move toward totally electronic, touch-screen machines in 2005.

From the outset of their appearance, questions about the potential of election fraud and outside electronic manipulation of results accompanied the promotion of touch-screen, online-connected voting machines – But “What, me worry?” as Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Newman was fond of saying, seemed to be the prevailing political reaction to those concerns.

“Basically, Mr. Fox it’s a non-option – we’ve got to do it. All we’re doing now is shopping price and the equipment that is available – unfortunately,” Board Chairman Traczyk commented following Tobin’s explanation the county cannot use its touch-screen machines again in the wake of the state decertification.

The machines recommended by Tobin and the Warren County Electoral Board are made by Electronic Services Online. A summary of the county Electoral Board recommendation of the purchase from ESO states, “These scanners have proven to be easy to use and provide accurate results. This company was the

ESO’s ADA compliant voting machine that can be moved to disabled voters first to offer a digital scanner with the capability to capture the image of write-in votes and provide the results on the print-out report at the close of polls on Election Day. This feature has proven to be a great time saver for our Officers of Elections on Election night when tallying results. We have used the services of this company since 2005 and have found them to be supportive in providing excellent support and quality service.”

The county Electoral Board summary also noted that the board had reviewed competitive equipment for “the past several years” and was com-

fortable in recommending the ESO machines.

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Cardinal initiative to name Bing Crosby field approved Field will bear one name – Wines - rather than many who have given

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report After noting a number of people had expressed a desire to speak to the proposed naming of the Bing Crosby Stadium field, Warren County Board of Supervisors Chairman Richard Traczyk moved to have the item removed from the Consent Agenda of the May 19 meeting. That led to a

quasi-Public Hearing at which four people spoke for and against the idea.

After listening to the conflicting opinions, the supervisors voted 4-0 (Carter absent) in favor of the naming of the field David L. Wines Field.

Wines, who died in last year, was husband of county EDA Board Chair Patty Wines.

Among concerns expressed were

that Wines was but one of numerous individuals who had made similar contributions over the decades to youth sports in the community; and that this could be the first step toward an eventual renaming of the stadium itself.

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“Thanks for giving me the opportunity to speak on behalf of the Front Royal Cardinals … Prior to my involvement with David Wines with the FR Cardinals, there was a significant amount of time he devoted to the youth of Warren County …” – FR Cardinal President Donna Settle

BING, from 11 the Front Royal Cardinals, there was a significant amount of time he devoted to the youth of Warren County in the Front Royal Little League organization, in the Babe Ruth organization, which are all baseball related, but also other organizations such as the Midget (football) League. He was also a member of the Parks & Rec Commission; he was a part of the Golf Committee; and other advisorytype committees in the parks and rec committee on fines and rules … he was a strong seed member of that organization … So, I’d appreciate your support and just want the public to know over the decades about all the time, countless volunteer time, not just in one sport but multiple sports he gave – he truly loved the youth enrichment programs …”

After Settle made her and the Cardinals case for approval of the renaming, Clay Gilliam came forward with some old, yellowing newspapers with Bing Crosby’s photo prominent, in hand. He noted they were his grandfather’s; whom he pointed out was part of the organizational group that worked on establishing the stadium eventually known as Bing Crosby. His grandfather, whom he noted passed away in 1972, was also involved in Babe Ruth League ball and donated land for youth sports programs here.

“Mr. Wines, he deserves a plaque – but they all put a lot of time into it,” Gilliam concluded of the alternative of letting Wines be the impetus in acknowledging many of those with similar histories in youth develop-

Wonder what they’d think of all this? Sam Cooksey, standing, and Warren Miller, two late members of the 1953 FR Little League World Series team, at the opening of the renovated Bing Crosby Stadium in 2006. Photo Roger Bianchini mental sports here.

And here’s Audrey But most colorful in questioning whether such an honor should go to just one man was 88-year-old Audrey Darr.

“What makes one sports person more deserving to go on the stadium than Bing Crosby?” Darr began.

Board Chairman Traczyk then assured Darr that the naming at issue was of the field only, not a change in the stadium name.

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“Everybody works at things, they come in the back door,” Darr observed.

Assured there was no back door on this proposed renaming by Traczyk, Darr continued. “I knew Dave and Patty, they’re nice people,” she said of the Wines. “But in my 88 years I’ve known a lot of people that were as instrumental in the sports programs – teachers, coaches, whatever.” Darr lauded those sports programs for keeping the community’s youth involved in organized activities and away from running the streets unsupervised.

“Then Bing took his time to come here – and Mr. Fox, I don’t think you’re that much younger than I am,” Darr addressed Fork District Supervisor Archie Fox, a member of the 1953 Front Royal Little League All-Star team that went to the Williamsport Little League World Series and finished third, despite an injury to key pitcher and field player Giles Darr.

That comment drew more laughter, including from Fox. But Darr then reminded people that Crosby, an international movie and singing star, was so impressed with his reception here in 1950 that he contributed what I have been told was around $4,000 applied to construction of the original youth baseball stadium here in the early 1950s.

“Like I say, I’m not a politician. But if we’re going to do it right, let’s do it right. That man, when we couldn’t raise enough money to start that stadium down there, he reached in his pocket and made out the difference,” Darr said of Crosby and the now renovated stadium that still bears his name.

“So, is one man more deserving than another? Maybe somewhere down the line we should start a plaque – Sweeney Shiflett, remember him? Does anyone remember

Bing Crosby Stadium will contain a field now known as David L. Wines Field – but could Bing’s name itself be in jeopardy?

Bing was impressed by his welcome to Front Royal and Warren County. Courtesy Photo …” Darr mentioned another name that was unintelligible as she turned from the podium microphone to the crowd behind her, “and Bobby North and Calvin Allison, Dougie Allison – all these people helped make the sports what they are here. So you all do what you’re going to do, but don’t make an incorporation of it – we’ve got to do something for this town besides make money,” she said, slapping a newspaper down for emphasis as she concluded.

And as we reported in our original “Late May” edition on this story, Darr’s concerns about “incorporation,” while perhaps early, may be right on target. As we wrote in the lead to our May 15 edition story on the field naming proposal: “Discussion of naming the field at Bing Crosby Stadium after the late David Wines revealed that the county has considered a re-naming of the stadium itself if a corporate entity is willing to pay for the privilege of seeing its name prominently displayed at all county sporting events played there.

“When it was explained the David Wines re-naming proposal was for the field only, not the stadium, North River Supervisor Dan Murray, a retired Interbake Foods employee, asked about the potential of corpo-

rate sponsorship. Assistant County Attorney Dan Whitten replied that staff has already considered the potential of a corporate sponsorship changing the name of the stadium itself.”

“Incorporation,” indeed …

During the May 5 work session discussion, Traczyk himself made the same point as Clay Gilliam and Audrey Darr about a plaque acknowledging the contributions of many to youth sports here, rather than naming the field for just one of the many who may be equally deserving.

“I know of 15 people deserving too,” Traczyk commented on May 5.

But on May 19, Traczyk noted receipt of a petition with over 300 names in support of the renaming as David L. Wines Field.

But in the end that background in youth sports, coupled with Wines’ involvement with the Valley League Cardinals and county parks & rec sealed the deal for David L. Wines Field at the stadium known as Bing Crosby – at least for now …

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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report

On Tuesday, May 26, the Front Royal Town Council continued to â&#x20AC;&#x153;kick the can down the roadâ&#x20AC;? on a decision on establishing an independent town building inspections department.

Rather than an up or down vote on establishing such a department that would bypass the county building inspection department entirely on projects inside the town limits, by a 4-2 vote (Connolly, Tharpe dissenting) council postponed any action until the first meeting of October 2015.

In explaining his motion to again delay an up or down vote, Gene Tewalt said that without assured passage that night he thought a fivemonth delay, rather than a minimum of a year to revisit the issue in the wake of a down vote seemed preferable. Perhaps ironically, Tewalt himself has most often appeared to be the swing vote in creating a 3-3 tie that would throw the decision to Mayor Tim Darr, whose economic committee suggested prioritizing the new town department in the fall of 2014.

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However, Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other freshman Councilman, BĂŠbhinn Egger, lauded Tewalt for allowing her to gather more information on details. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have been going back and forth with myself on this for weeks; and I am still going back and forth â&#x20AC;&#x201C; maybe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my failure but there are still people I would like to call about this.â&#x20AC;?

Three people with 30-plus years of local business ties to this community spoke in favor of the town initiative to create its own building inspection department. Former Mayor, Councilman and current motel owner Stan Brooks, New Look Kitchen and Bath remodeling business owner Kelly Miller and Royal Oaks Computer owner Craig Laird. No one spoke against the idea on May 26.

All three local business people noted potential economic benefit that would more than compensate for any costs tied to funding the department.

Miller noted undue delays and difficulties in gaining necessary permitting in Warren County compared to

other areas she does business in, including Loudoun County and Alexandria. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes, there is a state building code â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but it is open to interpretation â&#x20AC;Ś and that interpretation can vary significantly from county to county,â&#x20AC;? she told council.

She noted the large number of vacant storefronts in town â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and suggested the town â&#x20AC;&#x153;take controlâ&#x20AC;? of its own building and permitting destiny, rather than leave it in the hands of one that has a reputation for conservative interpretations of state codes that might discourage investment in new businesses here.

Brooks also reiterated a point made by others speaking in favor previously â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the danger of putting control of the approval process for in-town development in the hands of a municipality that is in direct competition with the town for new commercial business. He pointed to the Mayorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Economic Committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prioritization of the move to an independent town department â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t end up with just another report on the shelf,â&#x20AC;?

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And Laird also pointed to the potential danger â&#x20AC;&#x153;of letting others who compete with us make our decisions and control our destiny.â&#x20AC;?

The idea of an independent town department has been kicked around for about two years, perhaps coinciding with the inability of the town and county to reach a mutually-acceptable resolution to the ongoing impasse over Route 522 Commercial Corridor revenue (see related Corridor offer story). That dispute has been simmering since the town lost a 2009 legal challenge of its PILOT (Payment In Lieu Of Taxes) fee agreements with original corridor watersewer customers Applebeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Cracker Barrel and TGIFridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

The ruling against the town was essentially based on a wording glitch in the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original water-sewer contracts, with a side court acknowledgement of the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imposition of its own 4-percent meals tax that created a â&#x20AC;&#x153;double taxâ&#x20AC;? situation on county restaurant businesses (I guess some on the town side would say â&#x20AC;&#x153;turnabout is fair playâ&#x20AC;? on double taxation issues). The town has since rectified that wording glitch; however, has thus far declined to create a corridor fee system that would reward original corridor clients, including the three chain restaurant who brought the lawsuit, while punishing business that have since come here. The town lost 80 percent, or an estimated $480,000 at the time, of its corridor PILOT fee revenues designed to compensate it for lost in-town tax revenue based on its agreement to extend town central water-sewer into the county to facilitate commercial development there.

The idea of a town building inspections department picked up momentum when the Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Economic Committee officially endorsed the idea last December. After a February 9, 2015 Public Hearing to gather citizen input, the town scheduled a vote on approving or abandoning the move for March 23, at which point action was pushed back to May 26, and now to October.

Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major supporter of the idea, Bret Hrbek again pointed out that of the eight largest towns in the commonwealth, only Front Royal and Leesburg do not have their own building inspection department. And Hrbek added, unlike Front Royal, Leesburg is not struggling for economic development. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And this really is an economic development issue. The Town Council should not continue to outsource our core responsibilities to other political entities. The people of the Town of Front Royal should control their own economic fate,â&#x20AC;? Hrbek has repeatedly stated during this lengthy debate.

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Council sends new Corridor compromise proposal to county Town may have played its final hand – ‘We call, and raise you $70 grand’

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Perhaps coincidental to the discussion of whether the town should keep relying on a county building in-

spection department as competition for future commercial development looms, following a Closed Meeting at the end of the May 26 meeting, the Front Royal Town Council authorized the Town Manager to send a

revised letter and new Memorandum Of Agreement (MOA) proposal to Warren County about splitting some of the county’s Corridor revenue to compensate the town for its PILOT fee revenues lost to the 2009 legal

challenge of three corridor chain restaurants.

The new town offer, its third since the MOA discussion began in January, proposes the County provide the Town with 33 percent of its Corridor Meals Tax revenue and 15 percent of its Corridor Lodging Tax. The new town proposal excludes any agreement about the extension of town central water-sewer to the proposed Crooked Run West parcels that would lie outside the existing 522 Corridor to the west along I-66.

The new town offer would generate an approximate $231,000 split of the county’s $700,000 estimate of annual corridor meals tax revenue and $9,750 of the county Lodging Tax estimate of $65,000. That is a $240,750 share of county meals and lodging tax revenue to the town annually, down about $70,000 from what was an approximate $311,000 split of county corridor meals-lodging tax revenue based on a combination of 50-percent and 25-percent town takes on pre-and-post 2010 utility contract customers.

Coupled with the $122,000 the county has already assumed in joint funding of the EDA and Samuels Public Library that is a total of $362,750 compensated to the town for PILOT fee revenues lost in the 2009 restaurant lawsuit decision. The town estimated the loss of $480,000 of revenue, or 80-percent of its total PILOT fee revenues in 2009.

The initial MOA proposals last January based on some variation of a 50/25-percent split and about $311,000 of new PILOT fee revenue to the town, coupled with the $122,000 of joint funding assumptions by the county would have given the town a total of around $430,000, annually, only about $50,000 short of its estimate of $480,000 lost to the restaurant lawsuit of 2009.

Oh, by the way Town Manager Steve Burke also said Council will reconsider the resumption of the collection of Meals and Lodging taxes from post-2009 Corridor utility contract customers

As negotiations sputter, open municipal warfare looms over the Route 522 N. Corridor and its commercial tax base. Looking southwest, Riverton Commons below and Crooked Run above.

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at their July 27 meeting – Uh Oh, here we go again …

MOA Scorecard For those of you who may have lost your Corridor MOA negotiations scorecard, let us attempt to recap: 1/ In early 2015, with two new members elected to council the county proposed a 10-condition Corridor MOA to replace the original 1998/99 Agreement essentially rendered obsolete by the lost 2009 court case.

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However, a condition prohibiting the town from ANY annexation move in any direction for the life of the agreement in exchange for a promise the county would not move toward consolidation of the two municipal governments was a sticking point for a majority on the town side.

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Previously the county has phased in assumption of about $122,000 in town expenses on shared towncounty endeavors ($26,855 in EDA operational funding and $95,000 in funding for Samuels Public Library) since 2012 as part of the ongoing corridor negotiations. So, adding the proposed new revenue split to that earlier assumption of joint expenses would have given the town $433,250 of revenue annually – about $50,000 shy of the town’s estimate of its 2009 PILOT fee revenue loss; 3/ On March 3, the county responded by proposing a blanket 25-percent split to the town of the county’s meals and lodging tax revenues ($191,250) that would include future development in the proposed Crooked Run West expansion on what is not currently 522 Corridor land;

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Former Front Royal Police Chief Ronald Ricucci Ronald Andrew RICUCCI, 65, of Land O’ Lakes, FL passed away Friday, May 15, 2015 at the Marliere Hospice Care Center in New Port Richey, FL. Ron was a graduate of the University of Maryland. He joined the Montgomery County Maryland Police Department in 1969 where he served for 26 years and working his way through the ranks and retiring as Deputy Chief of Police.

He went on to serve as Chief of Police of the Jefferson County Police Department in Louisville, KY for three years; Director of Public Safety for the City of Louisville for two years; Chief of Police in Front Royal, Virginia for five years; and finally ended his career in law enforcement by serving as Chief of Police in Takoma Park, MD for five and a half years.

He also served as an instructor at the University of Louisville, Criminal Justice Department and

at Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville. He retired in 2012 after serving the citizens of various communities for over 42 years. He was always a man of tremendous integrity who loved and faithfully served each community in which he worked.

He always felt blessed to be part of the law enforcement family.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Vincent Ricucci and Alice Jacobs Ricucci.

He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Donna Hansborough Ricucci; his son, Bradford Scott Ricucci and his wife, Michelle Kopas Ricucci; grandchildren, Brendan and Haley Ricucci, all of Frederick, MD; his brother, Thomas Ricucci of Germantown, MD; sister, Brenda Ricucci Kehr and her husband, Stuart Kehr, of North Potomac, MD; many loving brother and sister-in-laws, cousins, nieces, nephews, loved ones and friends.

Ron was a member of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church in Land O’ Lakes, FL and loved his Catholic faith. In Revelation 21:4, we, as Christians, are given God’s assurances of life after death. “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death or mourning, wailing or pain, for the old order has passed away.”

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4/ On March 9, the town proposed an across-the-board 37-percent take ($283,050) of the county’s estimated $765,000 annual meals and lodging tax revenue; with no promises on central water-sewer extension or revenue exchange related to the developmental phantom now known as Crooked Run West; 5/ On March 17, the county responded by proposing a 30-percent share ($210,000) of its $700,000 corridor meals tax revenue alone, eliminating any portion of its $65,000 of annual lodging tax revenue from the equation, with several north-side hotel proposals – a Marriott near Riverton Commons and the Front Royal Golf Club and a Hilton in Crooked Run West in limbo. The new county offer also refused to defer an agreement on Crooked Run West water and sewer service from the town; 6/ Now as recapped above, as of May 26 the town has put the 33-percent Meals and 15-percent Lodging Tax proposal on the table generating a $240,750 share of county’s $765,000 of annual meals and lodging tax revenue, an increase of $30,750 above the county offer last put on the table; but down about $70,500 from the initial proposals of late January and early March A nasty little poker game Is it just me, or has this whole MOA negotiation turned into a kind of nasty and picky poker game between the two municipalities – one of which, if the announced town revisiting of imposing meals-tax PILOT fees on new, post-2010 utility customers is an indication – one side is getting tired of playing.

Excuse the editorializing – I know it’s rare for me to go that route – but it will be a sad day for this community if this municipal negotiation is abandoned over unbridled self-interest and it is back to square one of separation of town and county interests in the Route 522 Corridor.

Or as Michael Ahrnsbrak, General Manager of Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club, said at an October 16, 2014 council work session when the unfortunate idea of imposing mealstax based PILOT fees on new utility contract clients only (the pre-2009 contracts were apparently not only ill-worded, but open-ended into eternity) was last visited, “So, unless the town and county can sort out their differences, businesses will suffer. It seems because the community can’t get together – and I’m not saying who’s right – but it’s becoming more and more clear to me that a town-county impasse is at the root of this.”

Maybe Ahrnsbrak should run for office – wonder where he lives?

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“At the demurrer stage, it is not the function of the trial court to decide the merits of the allegations set forth in the complaint, but only to determine whether the factual allegations pled and the reasonable inferences drawn therefrom are sufficient to state a cause of action.” – Plaintiff Motion

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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Mosby Overlook Estates resident Tareq Salahi has been granted a June 3 hearing on a motion to have a new trial in Warren County Circuit Court on his suit to reverse a Warren County Board of Supervisors decision not to allow him to continue to use his home as a short-term rental site.

Judge Ron Napier, who dismissed Salahi’s suit on April 16, granted the motion to hear arguments on the new motion after a brief hearing on Friday, May 15.

Salahi appeared with attorney Jim Gilbert, who retreated to a courthouse meeting room with his client to add some handwritten notes to the motion seeking the new trial.

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That motion was then submitted and Gilbert and Assistant County Attorney Dan Whitten agreed to the June 3 date, at 3 p.m. The attorneys estimated arguments would take about half an hour.

Following the April 16 dismissal of the suit, Salahi said he planned to appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court, where he has had past success in ap-

pealing lower court decisions originating here, though that earlier successful appeal of a ruling in Salahi’s suit against the entertainment company representing rock band Journey and its guitarist Neil Schon, involved Judge Dennis L. Hupp, not Napier.

That overturned defeat involved Salahi’s claims of lost income related to his separation and eventual divorce from his wife, Michaele, who ended up on tour with Schon and Journey after leaving the Mosby Overlook Estates marital home without explanation or notice to her husband.

This case involves Salahi’s right to utilize his home for short-term rentals in order to supplement his income and keep up with his mortgage payments on the home, he has asserted.

Salahi’s attorneys claim the court made its decision to dismiss based on factual assumptions that went further than required legally at the point of the county’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

“At the demurrer stage, it is not the function of the trial court to decide the merits of the allegations set forth in the complaint, but only to determine whether the factual allegations pled and the reasonable inferences

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Deputies located a vehicle matching the description given by the victim and at 2:14 p.m. deputies conducted a traffic stop of this vehicle on Rt. 522 just north of I66. Deputies detained six individuals and recovered approximately $2,000 in counterfeit $100, $50, $20 and $10 dollar bills.

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drawn therefrom are sufficient to state a cause of action,” the motion states, adding, “By basing its April 16, 2015 decision on the Board’s arguments contained in the Memoran-

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The motion for a new hearing also asks the court to allow Salahi to amend his complaint, again sighting defense arguments heard for the first time on April 16. As explained by Warren County Assistant Attorney Dan Whitten following the April 16 hearing, the judge agreed with the county’s basic argument that Salahi’s filing against the county did not meet the standard required to rule that the board’s 4-1 denial of his Conditional Use Permit (CUP) application to continue a short-term rental business out of his Mosby Overlook Estates home was arbitrary and capricious.

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had unanimously recommended approval with certain conditional stipulations. Salahi’s attorney argued that those conditions effectively addressed the major concerns expressed by neighbors in the gated, rural mountain subdivision opposing Salahi’s short-term rental operation.

Primarily, as reviewed by Whitten, those concerns were large numbers of boisterous people occupying Salahi’s home for weekend events like Bachelor and Bachelorette Parties; security concerns from those renters, as well as additional wear and tear on the subdivision’s non-paved, privately-maintained road system.

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under short-term rental contracts, as well as observation of all county and subdivision codes or rules on noise, outdoor fires, parking and general behavior.

Salahi contends the county prohibition on short-term rentals in general and his application in particular transcends zoning authority granted municipalities and ventures into the realm of defining residential use.

“While Va. Code Ann. 15.2-2283 states that the purpose of zoning is to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the public, nowhere in any of the aforesaid statutes can authority be found for the proposition that a local government may prescribe a minimum amount of time for which real property may be rented or the manner in which a permitted property may be paid for,” Salahi’s attorneys wrote in their complaint.

Salahi and his attorneys from the firm Gilbert & Bird PC in Moneta, Virginia, also contend that the length of a rental does not alter the fact that a rental is a “residential use” permitted by right in not only Agricultural Districts like the district Mosby Overlook Estates occupies.

However, Whitten argued successfully that Salahi’s complaint against the supervisors, either individually or as a board, did not rise to the standard of creating a legally valid cause of action against the county and its board members.

The county’s motion for dismissal on those grounds, states, “Salahi has failed to allege facts proving that

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Salahi v. Warren Co.

The Mosby Overlook Estates home in question his request for a Short Term Tourist Rental is reasonable … has failed to allege facts which shows that the Board of Supervisors rejection of his application … was unreasonable … and failed to allege facts which demonstrate the actions of the actions of the Board of Supervisors lacked substantial relation to the public health, safety and general welfare.”

There was some discussion during the hearing that the plaintiff ’s complaint relied heavily on the county’s own minutes of his Public Hearings and discussion of the Salahi CUP application.

Following the court ruling, Judge Napier denied plaintiff attorney Sharpe’s request to enter an amended complaint. Sharpe noted his objection to the ruling and retreated

to a room on the second floor of the Warren County Courthouse to discuss their options. Following about 15 minutes the pair exited the room and Salahi told the media he would fight on to prove the county has overstepped its authority in defining the length of time a property rental can be considered a residential use versus a business one.

So, before that fight goes to a higher court as initially suggested it would, Judge Ron Napier is being asked to reconsider his original ruling as one of factual content, rather than simply a finding on the substantive validity of the issues in dispute – the definition of a residential versus a business use of a residential property as a rental unit.

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This region has its share of terrific craft brewers, but as this is a time when the public’s appetite for craft brews seems to be insatiable, there is always room for more brewers offering their own style of craft beer and taking the leap into brewery ownership. One up-and-coming brewery is Winchester Brew Works, a venture that is distinctively unique in that it is majority owned and operated through the contributions of two women, Holly Redding and Bonnie Landy (with the support of their “fellas behind the scene,” Arthur Redding and Jeff Landy).

Holly Redding, one of those two women, says, “Brewing is definitely a male-dominated field, and we can’t wait to shake up the stereotype….

We’ve worked hard for two years to get to this point and we are so pumped to share our beer love with Winchester!”

They will soon have a chance to do just that, as they have set up shop in Winchester’s downtown area and will be opening later this fall. Their story is timely, as the area looks forward to the upcoming Winchester Hop Blossom Craft Beer Festival. The festival is a unique event that marries the efforts of homebrewers with the endeavors of breweries, many of which began as small homebrew operations.

Winchester Brew Works is committed to the festival—an event they feel is central to the area’s craft beer culture. While their business timeline did not allow their brews to be ready for the event, they have been active participants. “We’ve been able to take part in some of the events leading up to the festival such as judging the homebrew competition, and representing at the Hop Blossom Alamo event in May,” Redding says.

“Hop Blossom is a ‘must-do’ just to meet some more of the beer fanatics in Winchester—and there are quite a few! But we’re also excited to enjoy all the different breweries, meet their reps, and let people know who we are.”

The general public sees one side of the festival experience, but its complement is equally interesting. Individuals involved with breweries and homebrewers alike share a common experience that makes the community much more cooperative and welcoming than other industries. Brewers see each other more as kindred spirits than as competition. This collegial atmosphere is likely made possible by the fact that each beer has its own unique flavor profile, and no two labeled beers are truly alike. There is room in the market for providers to

offer their brews and attract customers who find that particular profile appealing. For Winchester Brew Works, their focus is on making a flavor profile that can be enjoyed by a wide audience.

“We’re interested in seasonable beers that will appeal to people who have not been interested in craft beer or beer in general,” Redding explains.

“The word we have thrown around is ‘accessible’. To that point we’ve been playing with a cream ale recipe, an understated Belgian/wheat style, and an introductory hoppy beer with more citrus flavor and aroma, but less bitterness. We want to draw the

community in and show them why we love beer, and having options that don’t make you fall down after drinking one also goes with our goal of having a fun place where people want to come and hang out!”

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Aside from the act of offering beer, Winchester Brew Works and others like them strive to offer the community a place to enjoy fellowship, attend events, and appreciate a good fullbodied beer. Redding says, “When

it comes down to it, the popularity of craft brews is more than just beer and brewing. Breweries have a place in their communities and many have events that both draw their community together and events that directly feed back to their community. We want our brewery to be that place for Old Town Winchester.”

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By Victoria L. Kidd Frederick County Report There’s an Irish folksong that praises a mythical character named Charlie Mopps. His name rhymes with barley and hops, two of the main ingredients in beer. In the song, Mopps is applauded as the “man who invented beer,” and the song’s lyrics have passed the lips of many an overindulged college coed on a Saturday night. The refrain goes like this: “He might have been an admiral, a sultan, or a king, and to his praises we shall always sing.

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Had Charlie Mopps been a real person, he could likely have never envisioned the following that beer has today. Once considered the “working man’s drink,” beer’s popularity has grown tremendously over the past 20 years. Whereas Americans once thought a nice meal included a steak paired with an aged wine, many people have re-envisioned their idea of a fine dinning and are turning to the beverage once consigned to backyard barbeques and evenings at the bowling alley. Complementing beer’s surge

in popularity is the rise of a “craft beer culture” that has spurred the opening of many breweries offering a different take on the beverage many people previously only purchased from the big, national beverage companies.

Yes, craft beer is booming. In fact, craft beer garnered an 11% market share in 2014, according to

the Brewers Association, a membership organization representing the interests of breweries and home brewers. This is an unprecedented number. Never before has craft beer carved out a market share in the double digits. (In 2013, craft beer’s market share was only 7.8%.)

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It’s that flavor that demands a following and, arguably, a festival. Beer lovers, ask and you shall receive.

The Winchester Hop Blossom Craft Beer Festival is coming up on June 13th. The festival is in its third year, and many local beer lovers consider it a must-do summer activity. The event draws around 3,000 people to the Old Town Winchester walking mall each year, and ticket sales have been strong for the 2015 festival.

Attendees presenting a valid identification receive a commemorative tasting glass and a bracelet that provides them the opportunity to taste a variety of craft beers. Additionally, vendors will be onsite to sell arts and crafts while live music sets the mood for the day’s festivities.

Hop Blossom is one of the many events that really add truth to the idea that the walking mall is Winchester’s “living room,” as Downtown Manager Jennifer Bell called it in a public presentation last year.

This particular event is credited to Beth and Mark Bates of Web Strategies, a downtown area business.

Beth and Mark are two people who are very familiar with event organizing and planning and they are self-proclaimed beer aficionados.

“We love craft beer and wanted to bring a beer festival to Old Town Winchester,” Beth Bates says. “Mark and I have organized other events (like the animal-welfare-focused Pet Fiesta at the Reston Town Center) for about 10 years, and therefore we applied our knowledge of event management to this new and exciting event. Working with key members of the business community and our craft beer loving friends, we were able to bring like-minded folks together to create a beer festival that is family-friendly, utilizes the length of the Old Town walking mall, and draws locals and visitors alike to Old Town.”

Old Town, one of the distinctive success stories of the national

movement to revitalize American’s downtowns, is open for business throughout the festival, creating a unique partnership for the day. “Attendees are encouraged to visit the local businesses and restaurants that will be open during the festival,” Bates remarks. “All in all, it’s a fun day of craft beer and entertainment up and down the walking mall.”

That entertainment is provided

by The Burning Dirty Band and The Merge—two local favorites. The Burning Dirty Band (www.burningdirtyband.com) is a band whose music is unique in that it is hard to characterize as being squarely one genre to the exclusion of all others.

They have been called “quirky” with guitar rhythms that stick with you for days. They will be playing from noon to 2:30pm.

The Merge (www.mergerock. com) is described on the Hop Blossom website as “not your typical rock band.” They play much-loved music ranging from Metallica and Puddle of Mud to Maroon 5 and Kings of Leon. They will be taking the Courthouse stage from 3pm to 5:30pm. “We really wanted to support local talent, so both bands are from the Winchester area,” Bates says. “We always strive to showcase music that provides a complementary backdrop to the event.”

The sounds of the day will certainly provide a well-suited backdrop for the homebrew competition that is a key part of the day’s activities. Americans don’t just love drinking craft beer. They also love

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making/brewing craft beer, and the festival offers homebrewers a chance to show the world what they can do. (Anyone interested in competing should visit http://shenbrew. org/hop_blossom_14/.) The competition honors brewing as a popular hobby while providing a means to educate the public on just how accessible the hobby actually is.

Homebrew competitions also provide a “proving ground” for would-

be brewing businesses.

Tim Arndt from the Shenandoah Valley Homebrewers Guild explains, “Homebrew competitions are extremely important to craft beer and the craft beer culture in many ways because when you start to take a look at the craft beer brewers, an astounding 99.9% of them were once homebrewers themselves looking for solid, honest, and unadulterated feedback on their homebrewed

creations. And with that comes the tweaks to recipes and brewing techniques that make them better brewers, thus better craft brewers in the long run.”

The evolution of homebrewer to brewery owner is an integral part of the craft beer culture. This is really an industry for the people by the people. “All homebrewers are a huge apart of the craft beer culture and movement,” Arndt agrees.

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“Some say that you couldn’t really have one without the other, and I whole-heartedly agree. The hobby of homebrewing is taking being a fan of craft beer to the next level.”

For those who want to take their homebrewing to the next level, there is no better place to start than a homebrew competition that is AHA (American Homebrewers Association) and BJCP (Beer Judge

Certification Program) Certified.

Arndt says that these competitions represent a level of sophistication in the community in that “every entry is going to be judged, critiqued, and analyzed by a trained and BJCP judge who should be able to comment on all the areas of the beer (aroma, appearance, flavor, mouthfeel, and overall impression).”

Judges will then be able to provide

feedback that can help the brewer make improvements to their brews.

These brews are the foundation of the craft beer culture, a movement that has made the Hop Blossom festival possible. The festival is truly a community-driven event, with numerous area business and private individuals coming together to make the day one to remember.

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would not be possible without the blood, sweat and tears of our core planning team consisting of Charlie Fish, Rev. Dan McCoig, Tim Arndt and Eric Boyers. And, of course, the 100+ volunteers that show up and make the magic happen the day of the event are wonderful people and have always supported the event since day one.” Additionally, she praises sponsors including 50/50 Taphouse, Escutcheon Brewing, Winchester Brew Works, eM, the Old Town Winchester Business Association, the Warren/Frederick County Report, the Northern VA Daily, and Clear Channel.

The contributions of these people and businesses are demonstrative of America’s embrace of craft beer.

“The U.S. is making some of the best beer in the world right now and this uptick in quality beer has opened the door for beer lovers to expand their tastes beyond ‘big’ beers like Bud and Miller,” Bates explains. “And the Virginia craft beer market is grow-

ing daily, releasing incredible beer from smaller brewers and attracting larger craft houses like Stone. It’s an amazing time to be part of the craft beer movement.”

Everyone in the area has an opportunity to be at least a small part of the craft beer movement on June 13th from noon to 6pm. Your attendance affords you a chance to get introduced to some terrific local brews while supporting animal welfare, as the event is a charitable fundraiser with proceeds benefiting the Frederick County SPCA and GoodDogz.org.

Attendees are encouraged to purchase their tickets early at a number of Old Town venues or by visiting hopblossom.com. It is expected that the event will sell out, and if you want to spend a day in June paying homage to the beverage beloved by Charlie Mopps and his worldwide followers, don’t hesitate! Purchase your ticket today.

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Taste of the Town draws more than 2,000 to downtown Front Royal Crowds enjoyed fabulous food from 17 vendors, lively music and family fun

The Apple House staff was busy serving people who waited in long lines for their fabulous food.

Craig Laird, organizer and committee member of Front Royal Independent Business Alliance, sponsor of Taste of the Town, posed in front of the expanding moon bounce, highly anticipated by the kids who came to the family-friendly event on Main Street.

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By Carol Ballard Warren County Report Front Royal’s second annual “Taste of the Town” event happened again Friday, May 15 downtown on Main Street.

It was a treat for all the hungry folks who came downtown to sample the fine food offered by 17 local restaurants and vendors, enjoy each other’s company and listen to music in the closed-to-traffic street.

“The second Taste of the Town was a great success,” said Craig Laird,

owner of Royal Oak Computers and committee member of the four-yearold FRIBA organization (Front Royal Independent Business Alliance, Inc.), who sponsored it.

Tables and chairs were set out for people to sit, eat and enjoy each other’s company. Visitors described it as having a “very nice, laid-back feeling”.

This year’s non-alcoholic, familyfriendly event again had a lot of fun things for children to do. At the Gazebo, kids lined up to get free glowin-the-dark necklaces and bracelets,

have their faces painted, color at the coloring booth, play with balloons and bounce on the moon bounce.

The Vinyl Tracks band again provided a lively musical background for the festivities, and the antique car show wowed car fans with 100 entries.

But the main event was the food.

This year there were several new food vendors. C & Cs Italian Ices; Thai food from Ben’s Family Cuisine; and fish dishes from Thompson’s Fish Fry had long lines also.

Joe’s Steak House staff dished out Prime Rib Sliders; Blue Wing Frog restaurant again served their scrumptious shrimp skewers; and Green’s Catering brought southern barbecue.

Several businesses stayed open, including Gourmet Delights, The Daily Grind, C&C’s Italian Ice, and Happy Creek Tea and Coffee, whose servers poured out strong coffee.

Scout’s Buffet didn’t let people for-

get their dogs and cats, and sold lots of gourmet pet treats.

This year the organizers decided to hold the event the night before the Wine and Craft Festival, to make Front Royal a “Destination” weekend for out-of-towners looking for things to do.

Craig explained that the idea was sparked by the success of Winchester’s wine tasting event held the night before the Apple Blossom festi-

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Vendors received $6,500, proportioned to them by the number of tickets they collected. Green’s Catering brought in the most tickets, and The Apple House and Joe’s Steakhouse came in second and third.

“Also, C&Cs Frozen Treats collected 500 tickets, one by one,” said Craig with a laugh.

“I was very excited to know that the community really loves this family-friendly event and I look forward to bringing it back in the fall,” concluded Craig.

The event is scheduled to return sometime during mid-to-late September.

The sponsoring organization, FRIBA, is always looking for more businesses to join them, and, “Our mission is to give a voice and to support local independent businesses,” Craig said.

Vendors who set up downtown were: The Apple House, Apple House Deli, Naughty Girls Donuts, Joe’s Steakhouse, Blue Wing Frog, Flint Hill Public House, Happy Creek Coffee and Tea, Shenandoah Valley Country Club, Down Home Comfort Bakery, Green’s Golden Horseshoe Cafe & Catering, Crazy Carl’s Subs, Main Street Daily Grind, Ben’s Family Cuisines, Scouts Buffet and many more…

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Front Royal’s hanging baskets: town horticulturalist tells all

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by Leslie Fiddler Warren County Report “Many of our customers want to know how the town grows its hanging baskets” says Ann Orndorff, coowner of Springtime Garden Center with her husband Lamont. “From the moment the baskets are hung until they come down, our customers admire those glorious flowers.”

How does the town do it? Town horticulturalist Anne Rose lists three essential elements: variety, water and food.

The town uses “supertunias.” Says Rose “Supertunias are bred to be showy, hardy and fast growing. They are hardy, provide nonstop blooms, and don’t need deadheading.”

In November Rose decides on the following summer’s color scheme and contacts a Berryville grower who starts the plants in January. During the last week of April they are delivered to the town’s horticultural shop where they are transplanted into 24” baskets by members of the Front

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When is enough water enough? At the very least when two thirds of the basket has been saturated and there is a steady flow of water through the

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basket. For home gardeners Rose cautions “Planters with a small diameter may need watering 2 or 3 times a day. Also, as the plants grow, they have no soil left and need to kept cool and fed.”

Beginning in June water soluble fertilizer is added to supplement the fertilizer used at planting. “It’s a 2020-20 fertilizer with micronutrients” says Rose. “It’s applied in dilute solution at every watering.” Town merchants have noticed - after the watering truck passes some set out their plants to catch the drip.

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restrictions the baskets remain in place until staff can no longer assure their vibrancy. Last year the baskets came down prior to October’s Festival of Leaves. “We heard about it” says Orndorff. “People couldn’t understand why.” To maintain the Visitors’ Center’s festive decor town staff assembled fall themed baskets for the thousands of leaf peepers who visit Front Royal and Warren County.

“The baskets add to downtown’s

visual appeal, especially on Main Street. And our visitors tell us that they enjoy them” says Tim Smith, Director of the FRWC Visitors’ Center.

Elaine Faucher, a respected landscape designer and floral artist whose home was featured in the 2015 Virginia Garden Week tour, adds “I spend time in Georgetown and Middleburg as well as here in Warren County.

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Split Republicans endorse Flippin for Revenue Office

Francois Flippin fields questions about his late seeking of Republican endorsement for Commissioner of Revenue

By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report At its monthly meeting of May 28, a divided Warren County Republican Committee endorsed Francois WCDS’s Leskovec Earns Va. Tech Scholarship Jessica Leskovec, a graduating senior from Wakefield Country Day School, has been awarded an $8,000 scholarship as part of her commitment to the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets. The Emerging Leader Scholarship is awarded to incoming freshmen with outstanding leadership and academic potential who join the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets.

William H. Sterling III, the Board of Directors Representative of the Northern Virginia VT Corps of Cadets (1980), presented the award to Leskovec at the weekly WCDS Assembly this past week.

Jessica Leskovec said that she is “looking forward to continuing the proud tradition of service and commitment that the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets represents.”

Leskovec, of Winchester, competed on the WCDS Varsity Cross-Country Team as a high school student, and earned numerous academic accolades. Her older siblings are alumni of WCDS, and her younger brother is a current sophomore at the school.

Leskovec will be attending Virginia Tech due in large part on the Air Force Corps of Cadets that has a presence on the campus.

Relive WW II History in Stephens City The Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society in conjunction with P. M. Fravel, a local historian located at the former Sandy’s Imple-

Flippin as its candidate for Warren County Commissioner of the Revenue in the November election. A secret paper ballot vote was 22-14 to give Flippin the committee’s endorsement outside its normal nominating ment Service building 1.5 miles east of Stephens City, Virginia on Fairfax Pike (Rt. 277 east) will host a special museum presentation and display focusing upon WW II and the 70th Anniversary of the Victory in Europe, V.E. Day. This event will be conducted on Saturday, June 6 through Sunday, June 7, 2015, 10am until 5pm daily.

An extensive display of original artifacts depicting America’s involvement during World War II and the preceding events such as the influence of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) will be presented. Individual displays include: The American WW II Home Front The American Infantry Soldier and his Equipment- D-Day, the 6th of June 1944 The U.S. Army Air Force Flight Gear and Equipment The Battle of the Bulge- the last German Offensive, December 1944 The Weaponry and Ordnance of WW II WW II Military Vehicles Jerry Holsworth of the WinchesterFrederick County Historical Society and the Handley Regional Library will be available Saturday and Sunday representing the oral history project at the library and the World War II collection. Families are encouraged to bring WW II veterans as well as citizens involved in defense work and the Home Front to be scheduled for interviewing.

A video premiere of James Overton’s production, “In This Land: The Camp Lynhurst Saga / German Prisoners of War in the Old Dominion”

process.

Bruce Clark, husband of past committee Secretary Mary Kay Clark, made the motion to give Flippin the nomination after a brief presentation by the candidate. Current Committee Secretary Joe Patton called Flippin “exactly the kind of candidate” the committee needed in urging approval of Clark’s motion.

However, questions arose from both current Committee Vice-Chairman Matt Tederick and committee member Danny McEathron. Those questions revolved around Flippin bypassing the normal nominating process. Tederick told the committee he believed it would be the first time the committee had gone that route without the opportunity of other candidates to participate.

Incumbent Warren County Commissioner of the Revenue Sherry Sours withdrew from the committee when she first sought election to the office she initially was court-appointed to as deputy commissioner following the death of John Smedley. Sours

explained at the time that in her first move into electoral politics she did not want to be held to a promise not to run as an independent were she to have lost the Republican nomination.

McEathron, as county sheriff an elected Constitutional Officer like the Revenue Commissioner, County Treasurer and Commonwealth’s Attorney, said giving such a nomination outside the normal committee processes was his only “heartburn” in such a move. Other committee members noted they were unfamiliar with Flippin and any benefit he might bring to the office as a committee endorsee.

Former Committee Chairman Don Repici asked Flippin what he would do differently than the incumbent and former committee member Sours was doing in the office. Flippin replied that having visited the Commissioner of Revenue website “often – well, not often, once” and found it difficult to negotiate, he would work to improve the website (our check-

ing of that website indicates that it is a subset of the County Government website).

Repici then asked if Flippin thought it appropriate as Commissioner of the Revenue, were he elected, to comment on any actions by the county Board of Supervisors that might impact how money came into the county’s hands. Flippin responded that he had not given that question any previous thought, but acknowledged that he was “in favor of lowering taxes when possible.”

After discussion of the unusual approach to the nomination, which bypassed a normal $500 filing fee, Flippin indicated he was willing to belatedly pay that fee were he to receive the committee endorsement.

Assured by committee Secretary Patton that while unusual, such an endorsement was within both state Republican and local committee rules, a two-thirds majority of voting-eligible members present voted to give Flippin the committee endorsement.

will be shown daily. A Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp used to house German POWs in Augusta County, VA during WW II. Mr. Greg Owen of Rockingham County will speak at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 7 about the local prisoners of war (POWs) who worked in the agricultural industry of the Shenandoah Valley during WW II. WW II Re-Enactors and their displays will provide a “living history” interpretation on Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7.

The Museum and the featured display will be open to the public Saturday June 6 through Sunday June 7, 10:00am to 5:00pm daily. Plenty of convenient parking. There is no entry fee to the event and the entire family is encouraged to attend.

gardening questions. A free garden tool sharpening service will also be offered. Throughout the day, visitors may visit garden related demonstrations and displays and look over the wares of garden and specialty vendors. The Belle Grove Museum Shop also has unique garden and flower themed gifts for sale.

The Second Hand Rose area will offer great bargain purchases on gently used gardening and household items; proceeds will benefit the 2015 Belle Grove Garden Intern fund. The festival will also include raffle prizes, merchandise and food vendors and live music.

The Children’s Trail will offer a 90minute program of free garden related activities. A Trail Guide booklet will lead each child through creating a pollinator shelter to take home, mixing potting soil and transplanting a plant to keep, and interacting with others to move through nine different stops in the water cycle, collecting a token at each stop. Each child will receive a tote bag to carry treasures home, a pencil to record progress and a commemorative badge at the end of the trail. The program will begin at 9 AM and again at 10:30 AM, with preregistration required: GardenFestChildren2015@gmail. com.

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Engle’s Angle: “Game On!” Two Christmases ago, my wife gave me a fitbit, one of those wearable activity trackers that measures your steps, calories and a bunch of other stuff.

In typical fashion for me, I hadn’t taken it out of the box almost eight months later.

That was until my ‘friend’ Stan, who was visiting for the weekend, insisted I open it up and start using it. Forced me is more like it.

He has one too.

Stan’s a little on the competitive side. I’ve heard rumors he challenged his 89 year old mother to an arm wrestling match. And that was right after he beat her in a 10K race.

Even though I stink at golf, he gets satisfaction from whipping me on the course, like it’s something to be proud of. Come on Stan, your mother could beat me. That tells you a lot about the kind of person he is.

And now he wanted to do it again with fitbits.

At least I know how to walk better than play golf. Maybe I had a decent shot with this.

Or so I thought.

Every Tuesday, I get an email with the title “Your weekly progress report from Fitbit”.

It might as well be called “Your weekly LOSER report from Fitbit”.

Why? Because that’s what I am.

A LOSER! No matter how many steps I’ve accumulated for the week, Stan has more.

It doesn’t matter what I’ve done, he tops me.

I was hiking in Utah last month and racked up over 90,000 steps. I felt pretty good about my chances of coming out on top.

Wrong!

The scumbag still had more. Four hundred more. Four hundred lousy steps!

How does he do it?

His wife says it because of their dog. He takes her for long walks.

I think he’s cheating.

I take my wife for walks, but obviously they’re not long enough.

And if being a LOSER isn’t bad enough, he has to shove it in my face with nastygrams like these: “Are you not feeling well? You must not be, cause you’re not getting very many steps!”

Or, “Are you sure your fitbit is working?”

Nice friend huh?

When my wife gave me this thing, I didn’t even know if I wanted it. Now I’m obsessed, checking it 472 times a day.

“I have 1384 steps.”

And five minutes later.

“I have 1429 steps.”

I’m obsessed all right.

Obsessed with beating Stan.

And I’m going to. One way or another.

He has one dog. What if I had ten? Or became a professional dog walker?

I’ve been doing some weeding around the house. No more. You don’t get enough steps. The same goes with riding the lawn tractor. I spend a lot of time on these chores, but don’t get many steps in return.

From now on, I’m turning those jobs over to my wife.

Up until now, I’d put my fitbit in my pocket first thing in the morning and only take it off when I showered and went to bed. Starting today, I’m wearin’ that sucker 24/7.

When I stagger to the bathroom at 2:30 in the morning, I’ll be gettin’ steps. And when I shower, I’ll be gettin’ more, even if I have to duct tape that thing to my body.

My goal has been 10,000 a day. Some days I fell short.

“What are you doing?” my wife would call out from the bedroom, already knowing full well what I was doing.

“I need 487 more steps,” I’d tell her as I walked in circles around the kitchen and great room.

Hopefully, with my new plan of attack, I won’t have to do that anymore.

But if it turns out I’m still a LOSER, I’ll resort to Plan B. I know people. People with skills. Like how to hack into your computer and mess up your life. Someone’s fitbit is gonna start counting backwards. If at all.

Wouldn’t that be a shame?

Game on Stan!

I wonder if his mom has one too? Maybe I could beat her?

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For more information contact Coach Owens, (540) 635-2194 or via email at jowens@wcps.k12.va.us Registration forms are available at the Warren County Community Center, 538 Villa Ave, Front Royal, VA 22630 or the Warren County Parks and Recreation office at 200 E. 8th Street, Front Royal.

Annual Cops and Robbers Dash The Front Royal Police Foundation is holding its second Cops & Robbers Dash to benefit the Front Royal Police Department on June 13, 2015.

This rain-or-shine event begins at 9 a.m. at the entrance to Eastham Park and will consist of runners going through Phase #1 & #2 of the Eastham Park Trail. Participants dash the trail while trying to evade local officers! All runners receive refreshments and take-aways. The first 100 registrants receive t-shirts. The dash is anticipated to be finished around 12:00 pm. Advance registration at Runsignup.com is $17.50/person.

Register early and help support those who protect our community every day. For further information, visit us on Facebook (Police Foundation) or call (540) 841-2218. For any further questions please contact the WC Parks and Recreation Department at (540) 635-1021.

Warren County Wildcat Basketball Day Camp The Warren County Parks and Recreation Department in conjunction with Warren County High School will be sponsoring the Warren County Wildcat Basketball Day Camp for ages boys and girls ages 6 through 14 years old, at Warren County High School, June 22 – 26 from 9:00 am-2:00 pm. The camp costs $70.00 per participant.

For more information contact Coach Kelly, 571-343-1099 or via email at WCHSBasketballCamp@ gmail.com Registration forms are available at the Warren County Community Center, 538 Villa Ave, Front Royal or the Warren County Parks and Recreation office at 200 E. 8th Street, Front Royal.

Youth Rugby Union Camp The Warren County Parks and Recreation Department will be holding an Introduction to Rugby Union Camp for children ages 6 – 15 years

News old, Tuesdays & Thursdays; 6:00pm – 7:00pm June 16 through July16.

The camp will be held at the WC Health & Human Services Complex Football Field, 465 W. 15th Street, Front Royal.

Rugby union football is slowly growing in popularity in the state of Virginia. American football is a derivative of rugby football; where the objective of the game is to carry the ball onto the opponents’ goal area and touch it on the ground or kick for points.

This camp will help players to become skilled with not only the fundamentals of the sport but with the knowledge of the game; which will increase the players’ safety and increase the chances of allowing the players to enjoy a new athletic opportunity.

Cost is $55.00 for the 5 week program. Children will also be required to purchase and wear a mouth guard and cleats are recommended. For more information contact Aaron Painter, USA Level 300 Certified coach at apainter@vt.edu.

Registration forms are available at the Warren County Community Center, 538 Villa Ave, Front Royal.

NFL Co-Ed Flag Football The Warren County Parks and Recreation Department will be accepting registrations for their Co-Ed Flag Football League, for those ages 5 to 13 years of age, as of August 1, 2015. This league is sponsored and governed by the National Football League.

Registrations will be accepted June 1st through 28th and will only be accepted at the Warren County Community Center, Monday through Saturday, 8am-10pm and Sunday, 1pm-9pm. Cost is $55.00 per child.

For more information contact the Warren County Community Center, Monday through Saturday, 8am10pm and Sundays, 1pm-9pm at (540) 635-1021.

Defensive Firearms of Virginia, LLC Women’s Pistol Safety Class The Warren County Parks and Recreation Department in conjunction with the National Rifle Association will be holding an all Women’s Pistol safety and safety outside the home class for anyone interested, Saturday, June 6, 2015, 9:00am – 5:00pm at the Warren County Community Center, 538 Villa Ave. in Front Royal. This class is a complete program covering but not limited to: · Gun Safety & Handling · Aiming/Firing a Pistol · Awareness outside the home Cost: $65.00/person women 18 years of age and older. The class is limited to 35 participants; pre-registration is required.

For more information about the course contact Rex King at DFV357@ yahoo.com. To register contact the Warren County Community Center at 540-635-1021, Monday through Saturday 8:00am to 10:00pm and Sunday, 1:00pm-9:00pm.

Defensive Firearms of Virginia, LLC Basic Pistol Shooting Course Class The Warren County Parks and Recreation Department in conjunction with the National Rifle Association will be holding a Basic Pistol Shooting Class for anyone interested, Saturday, June 27, 2015, 9:00am – 5:00pm at the Warren County Community Center, 538 Villa Ave. in Front Royal. This class is a complete program covering but not limited to: · Gun Education · Gun Safety & Handling · Aiming/Firing a Pistol · Gun Cleaning Cost: $90.00/person; 10 years of age and older. Anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. The class will be limited to 35 participants; pre-registration is required.

For more information about the course contact Rex King at DFV357@ yahoo.com. To register contact the Warren County Community Center at 540-635-1021, Monday through Saturday 8:00am to 10:00pm and Sunday, 1:00pm-9:00pm.

Skyline Hawks co-ed Basketball Camp The Warren County Parks and Recreation Department in conjunction with Skyline High School will be sponsoring the Skyline Hawks CoEd Basketball Camp for rising 2nd through 12th graders (no 2014 graduates), at Skyline High School, June 15 through June 19, 2015. Camp will be held 12:00pm -3:30pm, Monday through Thursday and 10:00pm – Noon on Friday. Camp cost is $65.00 per participant. Camper should bring lunch each day or they may purchase at Skyline for $3.00 For more information contact Jim Kenney via email at jkenney@wcps. k12.va.us. Registration forms are available at the Warren County Community Center, 538 Villa Ave. Front Royal, and the Warren County Parks and Recreation Department, 200 E. 8th Street, Front Royal.

Samuels Public Library Youth Services Department events for June Tuesday, June 2 – · 11:00 Time for Baby. What do books, scarves, puppets, music, and babies have in common? They are all part of Time for Baby. Join us as we use all of our senses to explore the See BRIEFS, 28

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Wednesday, June 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ¡ 10:15 Toddler Story time. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story and craft are all about Elephants! Come learn about these gentle gray giants. Siblings welcome. ¡ 11:00 Preschool Story time. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story and craft are all about Elephants! Come learn about these gentle gray giants. Siblings welcome.

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Tuesday, June 9 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ¡ 4:30 Big Kids Story time for Kindergarten and up. Come in and join us for a Tea Party! Listen to stories and create a beautiful tea-inspired craft.

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Wednesday, June 17 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ¡ 10:15 Toddler Story time. Read to the Rhythm! Music is magic! Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s celebrate the joys of music through story, song, and a wonderful craft!

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Learn about bats in our attics, vampire bats, bat eyesight, migration, hibernation, and echolocation. After the program, you have an opportunity to stencil a bat T-shirt. Bring your own white shirt or buy one for $4. For ages 6 and up. Signup begins May 18th.

Saturday, June 20 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ¡ 2:00 Discuss This. Are you inspired by good books, articles, movies and art? Do you write, draw or enjoy playing music? If so, come in and share those things that have inspired you recently. Meet others who are also passionate about all the cool things out there! For ages 14-20.

Tuesday, June 23 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ¡ 3:30 Big Kids Story time for Kindergarten and up. Join us for a warm weather story time all about the summer.

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year is summer! Join us for warm weather stories, finger plays, and a fantastic craft! Siblings welcome. ¡ 11:00 Preschool Story time. One of the most wonderful seasons of the year is summer! Join us for warm weather stories, finger plays, and a fantastic craft! Siblings welcome.

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Saturday, June 27 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ¡ 11:00 Saturday Family Story time.

Bring the whole family to our sky blue room for an assortment of exciting stories with Miss Pattie. Take home a treat to remind you of the wonderful time you have had! The theme will be favorite songs.

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The author of the nonfiction book will speak to the public in September. Other programs about the topic of the book will be held, beginning Sept. 10.

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workshop on “The Value of Investing in Healthy Mothers,” on Saturday, June 6, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, at the Douglass Community Learning Center, located at 598 North Kent Street in Winchester. The event is free and open to the public.

Join us in learning a new wellness movement on improving physical, emotional, and financial health in families. The workshop centers on the adage “healthy women tend to have healthy babies,” and how lifestyle choices, available resources, and life management principles can increase the odds of healthy birth outcomes that enable children to reach their full potential and families to thrive.

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scene. In emergencies, seconds can save a life.

The kits include tourniquets and other medical tools to stop trauma and bleeding. Officers are undergoing training on the equipment to allow them to use advanced tourniquets and compression bandages to stop bleeding and stabilize patients until paramedics arrive.

The kits are one of a number of efforts by the Winchester Police Department to prepare officers and the community to better respond in the

event of an active shooter incident.

Trauma kits have been used by officers across the nation to treat victims in mass trauma incidents including the shooting in Tucson that killed

News six and wounded 13, and the Boston Marathon bombing.

The trauma kits were made possible by generous donations from Christ Episcopal Church’s Outreach

Committee and board members of the Winchester/Frederick County Law Enforcement Foundation.

Alleyway closings The Town of Front Royal Streets Division will have the following alleyways closed due to asphalt repairs beginning June 1 - June 10, 2015 from 8:00am – 2:00pm: · Between Church Street and Cloud See BRIEFS, 34

Driver Improvement Clinic - Licensed by DMV “Better Driving Through Better Training”

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Saturday June 6th & 20th Cost of the 8 hr class is $6500

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FRONT ROYAL Ramsey True Value Hardware 703 North Royal Avenue • Phone (540) 635-2547 Open Weekdays 7A.M. to 7 P.M. Saturday, 7:30AM-5:30PM & Sun 9AM-4:30 PM

Every Friday night doors open at 5pm Bingo starts @ 7pm Progressive games: Jackpot = $1,000 Queen of Hearts = $1,442 Treasure Chest = $3,200 1st Progressive = $1,400 2nd Progressive = $1,100 3rd Progressive = $600

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News BRIEFS, from 33 Street from Jackson Street to Stonewall Drive · Across from 8 E. Jackson Street · Across from 18 W. Prospect Street · Cemetery Lane · Across from 100 block of Stonewall Drive · Beside 15 W. Jackson Street · Behind the 100 block of W. Main Street · Between Blue Ridge Avenue and Cloud Street Randolph-Macon Academy June Open House Randolph-Macon Academy will host a community-wide open house on Sunday, June 14, 2015, at 2:00 p.m.

Families interested in a middle school summer camp, a summer school for teenagers, or a private school option

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for the fall are encouraged to attend this open house. Attendees will receive a tour of the campus and meet with admissions counselors, teachers, and students. This is the last open house before the summer programs begin on July 5th. RSVP appreciated walk-ins welcome. For more information, call (540) 636-5484, email admission@rma.edu, or sign up online at www.rma.edu/open-house.

Sing at the Independence Day Celebration The Front Royal Oratorio Society invites area residents -- young and old alike -- to join the us and sing in the July 3 Independence Day Celebration here in Front Royal. We welcome you and your family to be a part of our July 3 performance of easy-tosing popular American songs. No

audition is required -- just a love of music and a pencil. You’ll learn, have fun and meet new friends. Rehearsals will be held Monday, June 22 and 29 from 7:30 - 9:30 pm at the Happy Creek United Methodist Church in Front Royal. For more information, email FrontRoyalSings@yahoo.com, like us on facebook or call (540) 6354842.

Local Teacher Honored with Virginia Child Care Award Child Care Aware of Virginia (CCAV) has awarded Mountain Laurel Montessori teacher Carrie Irre the 2015 “Above and Beyond” Award for her dedicated work outside the classroom with special needs students. Ms. Irre has taught the primary classroom at Mountain Laurel for fifteen years and also leads a sum-

Worlds Away – Middletown’s newest business

One of the fireplaces in the Worlds Away’s stone room

By Sue Golden Frederick County Report Lisa Shaffer always wanted to own an old building. She loves old buildings so much that when the Wayside Inn was bought by George and Becky Reeves, she volunteered to help get the Inn back on its feet.

Now that the Wayside Inn is on its way, Lisa has a new project.

When the old Larricks Tavern,

next door to the Wayside Inn, was finally sold by the Bernstein Family Foundation, Lisa and her husband Terry jumped at the chance to own their own piece of history. After burst pipes, new landscaping, exterior paint and other improvements, the Shaffers formed a new business: Worlds Away Events.

According to Lisa, the Shaffers named the company because they want you to feel “worlds away from

the everyday” when you step back in time in their historic property.

There is the front porch that runs the length of the front of the building facing Main Street. There is the Magnolia room, which hosts a bar and exposed brick walls. The Stone room is the oldest part of the building and has stone walls and two fireplaces. There is a small kitchen, hallway and bathroom rounding out the first floor. Upstairs are two huge bedroomS, each with its own full bath.

So far, the Shaffers have hosted meetings for various organizations, including AMVETS Post 18 and the Stephens City Ruritans. As with all old buildings, they continue to do work both inside and out.

Lisa has lots of ideas for the property. She would like to host a Saturday morning café. Hopefully Friday night game nights, alternating with dances, will be held in the future.

She would like to host murder mystery nights and wine tastings.

Worlds Away Events also may host guests from the Wayside Inn. In the meantime, Comcast was hooked up, so there is telephone, television and internet. Worlds Away can host events both large and small. Worlds Away can be rented out for a cozy getaway or for a group rendezvous. Lisa loves to decorate and organize festivities, so your group can pick a destination, and she will help you go there.

In any case, you will end up worlds away.

Lisa can be reached at (540) 5359416. Watch for the soon to be developed website and see them on Facebook at Worlds Away Events.

Worlds Away is located at 7793 Main Street in Middletown, 22645.

mer mentorship program serving children with special needs in an integrated setting.

Her educational background includes teacher certification from the Association Montessori Internationale, an M.Ed. In Special Education, and a B.A. in Psychology. She also holds Virginia State Teacher Certification in Elementary and Special Education. Other work experiences include teaching second grade, supervising a group home for children with autism, behavior consulting, and a broad range of tutoring experiences.

On Saturday, May 2, CCAV held a special reception at the Willow Oaks Country Club in Richmond for all award winners. Child Care Aware of Virginia is a community-based network of early care and education specialists whose purpose is to deliver services to families, child care professionals and communities to increase the accessibility, availability, and quality of child care in Virginia.

Summer Discovery Camps Offered at Mountain Laurel Montessori School in Front Royal and Flint Hill Mountain Laurel Montessori School will offer a variety of “Summer Discovery Camps” for students ages 2 ½ to 12 this summer. Nine weeks of camps run from June 15 through August 14 from 8:30 to 5:30 with options for before and after care and half day programs.

The Primary Camp allows children age 2.5-6 years to embrace the world in a Montessori classroom, using all of their senses in joyful learning.

Language, math, geography and science all come to life through activities and materials designed to entice and delight. Arts and crafts will have a special focus in this summer program. Children will explore a wide variety of visual and textile arts and create fun, theme-based crafts to

take home.

The Elementary Camp for children age 6-12 years is held at the school’s Flint Hill campus situated on 23 beautiful acres of pastures, pond and woods. With a majestic view of Mount Marshall as backdrop, children spend their day engaged in a variety of activities on a working farm and finish the day with an activity or a swim at the 4-H center.

On Fridays, children age 6-12 years have a chance to participate in a series of exciting field trips to local and national resources in the area such as hiking trails, the National Zoo, and the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum, among others. Parents can sign up for one field trip, or any number in between. Campers may also sign up for any number of one week camps.

For more information, download the Summer Discovery Camps brochure from the school web site at www.mountainlaurelmontessori.org.

Randolph-Macon Academy Offers Two-Week Summer Camp Option for 2015 When Randolph-Macon Academy began offering a summer camp in addition to its traditional summer school program, the camp was closely modeled after the summer school in two ways: it was academically focused (although it offered many more fun activities than the summer school program), and it was four weeks long.

This year, the camp retains its combined academic/fun approach, with three hours of classes in the morning and many activities in the afternoons.

However, families are no longer tied to a four-week commitment. While the four-week camp is still an option (July 5-31, 2015), families may opt to instead do a two-week camp, choosing from July 5-17 or July 19-31.

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CRIME OF THE WEEK

Winchester Crime of the Week - May 18, 2015 The Winchester Police Department is investigating a larceny that occurred in the 100 block of West Oates Avenue. The owner reported that sometime between March and May 2015 unknown suspect(s) stole numerous hand tools, electrical tools, and archery equipment from a shed. The total amount of the stolen items is more than $3,000.

If you have any information regarding a suspect or suspect vehicle in this incident, please contact the Crime Solvers Hotline at (540) 665TIPS (8477).

Information leading to the arrest of a suspect may result in a reward of up to $1,000. Incident #15017420 Officer M.T. Brunson Frederick County Crime of the Week - May 25, 2015 The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a burglary and grand larceny at Always Green Garden located at 2122 N. Frederick Pike on May 9, 2015. Unknown suspects forcibly entered through a fence and accessed the storage area. Once inside the area, suspect(s) took a utility trailer belonging to the business and loaded it with a Big Dog 60” Mower, a Stihl Chain Saw, multiple Stihl trimmers and 2 Echo Backpack Blowers.

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

Incident #15002351 Investigator Darrin Bursey Winchester Police Make Arrest in Large-Scale Shoplifting Case

Winchester Police arrested a male Friday morning after thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise was found in a vehicle he was driving. On May 15th around 11:30 a.m. officers responded to Belk at Apple Blossom Mall in reference to a shoplifting. Officers were informed that a male and female had left the store with a suitcase and shopping bag full of clothing. A Winchester Police Officer located a vehicle matching the description of the suspect vehicle in the 1600 block of South Pleasant Valley Road. Two passengers, a male and female, ran from the area. Officers found large trash bags and a suitcase containing numerous stolen clothing items and handbags. It was determined that there were more than 100 items taken from Belk totaling nearly $3,400. Numerous other items had been taken from Victoria’s Secret at Apple Blossom Mall and Sears in Frederick, Maryland.

Officers arrested Henrry Steveen Navarette Aguilar, 20, with no fixed address. Aguilar was charged with possession of stolen property, driving without a license, and obstruction of justice for giving police false identities of the other two suspects. He was taken to the Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center and held without bond.

The total worth of the stolen merchandise is still being determined. All items were returned to Belk, Victoria’s Secret, and Sears in Frederick, Maryland.

The other two suspects in this case were not located.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call the Crime Solvers HOTLINE at 540-665-TIPS.

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News BRIEFS, from 34 camps was made last year after the admission office at R-MA reported seeing a shift in what families wanted.

“It used to be that a four-week camp was convenient for families,” explained Middle School Admission Counselor Pam Cole. “Now they want diversity. They want their children to be able to attend an academic camp like ours because of its obvious benefits such as keeping a child’s mind sharp over the summer or improving a skill set, but they also want their children to attend a Christian camp, a sports camp, and an outdoors camp, all in the same summer.

Offering a two-week option allows them that flexibility.”

This year’s theme for the summer camp will be Nature and the Environment, which is incorporated into the enrichment courses of History in Action, Reading and Writing, and Science Explorer. The science explorers can look forward to conducting an ecological study of a lake, visiting a landfill, and building miniature greenhouses. Meanwhile, the readers and writers will focus on Southern fiction, myths pertaining to the Shenandoah Valley, and learning the history of Skyline Drive.

Other courses available this summer include the enrichment courses of Digital Media and Music Technology, with skill courses focusing on pre-algebra, basic math, and study skills. For more information on the summer programs at R-MA, visit www.rma.edu/summer.

Preparing for hurricane season As the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season approaches, FEMA Region III continues to proactively work with its state, local, and federal partners to increase preparedness, coordinate response and recovery capabilities, and empower individuals to take an active role in their community’s emergency management team.

The Atlantic hurricane season

starts on June 1 and lasts until November 30; the greatest potential for storm activity is the months of August and September. A great time for the Whole Community to begin planning for hurricane season is Hurricane Preparedness Week designated May 24 – May 30, 2015.

Everyone should take time to ensure that their family, household, and workplace is properly prepared for a potential hurricane or tropical storm. Residents should also interact with their local emergency officials.

By talking to local officials, citizens gain valuable insight, lend input, and develop relationships for planning and communications before a storm.

FEMA recommends that everyone have enough supplies to last for several days. Emergency supply kits should include essential items like bottled water, a battery-powered radio, flashlight, batteries, medicines, toiletries, non-perishable food items, manual can opener, and first aid supplies.

When planning, think about the potential needs of everyone in the household during an emergency. If your household includes pets, a person with a disability, an infant, or a senior citizen, be sure to take the necessary steps to assist and make them comfortable during an emergency, in addition to having any necessary documents or medications on hand.

For more preparedness information, visit FEMA.gov, Ready.gov, and NHC.NOAA.gov.

arship is awarded to incoming freshmen with outstanding leadership and academic potential who join the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets.

William H. Sterling III, the Board of Directors Representative of the Northern Virginia VT Corps of Cadets (1980), presented the award to Leskovec at the weekly WCDS Assembly this past week.

Jessica Leskovec said that she is “looking forward to continuing the proud tradition of service and commitment that the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets represents.”

Leskovec, of Winchester, competed on the WCDS Varsity Cross-Country Team as a high school student, and earned numerous academic accolades. Her older siblings are alumni of WCDS, and her younger brother is a current sophomore at the school.

Leskovec will be attending Virginia Tech due in large part on the Air Force Corps of Cadets that has a presence on the campus.

WCDS’s Leskovec Earns Va. Tech Scholarship Jessica Leskovec, a graduating senior from Wakefield Country Day School, has been awarded an $8,000 scholarship as part of her commitment to the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets. The Emerging Leader Schol-

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1985 Chrysler New Yorker, garage kept. Only 27,000k. Excellent condition. $4500 Call 540-622-4448

York piano for sale. Weaver piano company. #70766. Made between 1915 and 1930.

Must go by March 31st. Needs some work. $200 or best offer. call 540-671-8707. can send pictures. You must pick up.

2013 Toyota Corolla for sale, 4-cyl, dohc 16 valve, 4sp-auto, AM/FM/CD/Bluetooth, Magnet grey/bl int., 16” spoke alloy wheels, $15,000/Neg. 540-636-0490 or 540-6310539 leave message 1994 Chevrolet Van, 3/4 ton high top conversion. 350 V8. Runs Great $1000 Call 540459-1748 1981 C30 1 ton Dually 350ci 4sp 75220 org miles, mechanics bed & top, runs needs some work--540-660-2913 EMPLOYMENT Sales representatives needed for Winchester/Frederick County area. Contact Holly@AreaGuides.com Current Job Openings. Contact the VEC for additional information at 540-722-3420 or 540-535-2875 or Winchester@vec.virginia. gov. Please enter “Employer Services” in the subject line and job number and title when you inquire about the position: Job Number / Title 577118 / Teller 576747 / Process Lead 576645 / Security Officer - Winchester 576509 / Driver - Regional Intermodal Truck Driver Class A CDL 575914/ Retail Sales Rep 576104 / Financial Services Advisor II 576243 / Warehouse Associate 576266 / Physical Therapist Asst 576299 / Legal Admin Specialist 575350/ Maintenance mechanic 57570 / Sort Observation for Package Handler 575440 / HR Generalist 2 575124 / Quality Control Technician JOB FAIR at the Virginia Employment Commission, 100 Premier Place, Winchester, VA, 540-535-2875. The Home Depot RDC 5030, Thursday June 11th, 9am to 1pm. Be prepared for possible interviews. General Warehouse Assoicates, JO#556648. Go to www.vawc.virginia.gov to apply online and register with the VA Employment Commission prior to the job fair.

JOB FAIR at the Virginia Employment Commission, 100 Premier Place, Winchester, VA, 540-535-2875.GEORGE’S CHICKEN JOB FAIR Every Tuesday starting, June 2nd, 2015 from 10:00am-2:00pm. (Until positions are filled)Poultry Processing Positions. Cut, trim and pack poultry. Various shifts, multiple openings, and full time positions at Edinburg, VA location. Must pass drug testing and be at least 18 years old. 2nd shift transportation from Winchester is available. Go to www.vawc.virginia.gov to apply online.

JO#572572 Sales representatives needed for Winchester/Frederick.: Holly@AreaGuides.com Looking for Nail Tech Instructor/ Nail Tech willing to teach. For more info.. visit Star Beauty School Tuesday-Friday 10 am to 6 pm at 2263 Valor Dr. Winchester, VA.

Masonic ring with two .4 caret diamonds, ruby with mason emblem. 14k gold. Appraises at over $7,000. Asking $4000.00.

Call 540-662-9023 Mercury outboards; 20 hp $800.00, 10 hp $500.00, Prentice vise “old 108” 6” jaws $1000.00, Helen Jean Smith 1987 framed Edinburg print $400.00, John J Pershing 1927 signed photo to General Passaga $1600.00, Antique Oak Ice box, 3 door org wheels $1200.00; Aluminum Light Poles 12’ tall x 4” od, square anchor, call 540-6602913 Cookie Jars, Aunt Jamima and others, assorted prices. Old wicker baby stroller, $100.

Big ceramic owl, $50.00. Canning jars $4 each. Old Schwinn girls bicycle, $50 and need tires.

Long Time Collections for sale: Carnival Glass, Pottery; E. Texas, Roseville, Depression glass (green and pink), Jewelry from the 50’s and forward. Call 540-635-1612 RENTALS 110 N. Massanutten Street, Strasburg, Va. Commerical space. $750 per side. Call 202302-9129 Temporary Housing, Front Royal, Mountain Lodge, furnished, 2BR,2BA, Avail.Dec.10, $2,400/mo. Includes all utilities/maid. Call 703-860-2711 SERVICES DIRT BUSTERS provides high quality services for: Cleaning or junk removal from houses, garages, sheds or attics, interior painting, transportation, shopping, errands and lawn mowing. Please call Debbie at 540-3056941 or Steve at 703-798-1786.

YARD SALES Front Royal United Methodist Church, 1 W. Main St. will have a BIG indoor yard sale on Friday, June 5, 8a-3p and Saturday, June 6,8a-1p. Household & yard items, children’s items, holiday decorations, small appliances, linens, knick-knacks & much more. Food will be available. Proceeds benefit missions.

Your business listed here. 6 lines only $35.00 for 4 weeks.

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Death notices

Barbara Susan Andrews, 67, of Winchester, Virginia, died Sunday, May 24, 2015, at Winchester Medical Center.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Frederick County, Esther Boyd Animal Shelter, 161 Fort Collier Road, Winchester, Virginia 22601.

Jim Burgholzer, 79, of Winchester, VA died Thursday, May 21, 2015 at his home A memorial service will be conducted at 11:00 AM on Saturday, June 6, 2015 at the Word of Life Ministries, 2560 Martinsburg Pike, Stephenson, VA, with Pastor Ron Neff officiating.

Bobby “Jack” Brown Sr., 80, of Stephens City, Virginia, died Thursday, May 21, 2015, at the University of Virginia Medical Center, in Charlottesville, Virginia. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions in memory of Jack may be sent to: Stephens City Fire and Rescue P. O. Box 253, Stephens City, VA 22655 or to Fairview United Methodist Church 165 Campbell Lane, Stephens City, VA 22655.

Harriet Natalia (Benson) Richardson, 88, of Winchester, Virginia, died Wednesday, May 20, 2015. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions in memory of Harriet may be made to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 West Cork Street, Suite 405, Winchester, VA 22601 Mr. Glynn Harold Owens, 89, of Winchester, Virginia, died Wednesday, May 20, 2015 in Berryville, VA. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America – 322 Eighth Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10001 or to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 West Cork Street, Suite 405, Winchester, VA 22601.

Samuel Stephen “Steve” Moran, 68, passed away on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 in the Blue Ridge Hospice Inpatient Care Center. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 W. Cork Street, Winchester, VA 22601.

Bernard Lee “Bernie” Turner, 65, of Winchester, VA passed away Tuesday, May 26, 2015 in the Winchester Medical Center. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to North Mountain Fire and Rescue, 186 Rosenberger Lane, Winchester, VA 22602 and Henry and William Evans Children’s Home, 330 East Leicester Street, Winchester, Betty Evelyn Willingham, 81, of Winchester, VA passed away on Sunday, May 24, 2015 in the Blue Ridge Hospice In Patient Care Center. Memorial contributions may be made to the Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 W. Cork Street, Winchester, VA. 22601 Mary Ethel Robinson, 81, of Stephens City, VA passed away on Saturday, May 23, 2015 at Winchester Medical Center.

In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society by going to donate.lls.org

Friday, May 29 Forecast 84° | 66°

Sunday, May 31 Forecast 83° | 60°

Saturday, May 30 Forecast 88° | 67° 9am - 1pm Old Town Farmers Market. Taylor Pavilion, 119 N. Loudoun St., Winchester. The market will run Saturdays from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. through October 31. All items were grown or produced within a 60mile radius of Winchester. Contact Jennifer Bell, Downtown Manager, or Sarah Acuff Chapman with any questions. (540) 535-3660 or OTW@ winchesterva.gov.

6:30pm - 9:30pm Bingo. North Fork Resort Associates, 301 North Fork Road, Front Royal. Doors open at 4:30. Early birds at 6:30. Food available for purchase. Door prizes, progressive games, queen of hearts, progressive pull tab. Also, brand new Electronic pull tab games. Find us on Facebook. (540) 636-7152. Must be 12 to play. No smoking.

Monday, June 1 5pm - 6pm UFAC Meeting. Front Royal Administration Building, 102 E Main Street, Front Royal. The Urban Forestry Advisory Commission (UFAC) meets tonight in the 2nd Floor Conference Room.

Tuesday, June 2 12:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesdays.

95.3 - the River radio station. Hear the latest tourism related news and events every Tuesday at 12:30! If you can’t listen live check out the podcasts at http://www.theriver953online. com.

2pm - 3pm Ambassador’s Club.

Chamber Office.

Wednesday, June 3 8:30am - 9:30am Small Business Committee. Chamber Office.

12:30pm - 1pm Warren County

Diversions Calendar Business on the River 95.3 Thursday, June 4 9am - 10am Tourism Committee.

Chamber Office.

6:30pm - 9:30pm Bingo. North Fork Resort Associates, 301 North Fork Road, Front Royal. Doors open at 4:30. Early birds at 6:30. Food available for purchase. Door prizes, progressive games, queen of hearts, progressive pull tab. Also, brand new Electronic pull tab games. Find us on Facebook. (540) 636-7152. Must be 12 to play. No smoking.

Friday, June 5 8am – 3pm Yard Sale. United Methodist Church. 1 W. Main St. No TVs or adult clothing.

1:30pm - 2:30pm Education Committee. Chamber Office.

6pm - 9pm First Friday Art Walk.

Old Town Winchester. On the First Friday of every month, Old Town Winchester plays host to artists with special gallery events, musicians playing in restaurants and cafes, and many of our shops stay open late. It is a great time to stroll our historic streets and a great place to meet new and favorite friends. Every month is something a little different. For more arts info, go to: www.shenarts.org or call (540) 667-5166.

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Saturday, June 6 8am – 1pm Yard Sale. United Methodist Church. 1 W. Main St. No TVs or adult clothing.

8am - 5am Relive History: Victory in Europe 70th Anniversary. 811 Fairfax Pike (Rt. 277) Stephens City (the former Sandy’s Implement Service location 1.5 miles east of Stephens City). Free!! Come see: Large collection of WWII Equipment, Civilian Conservation Corps, WWII Military Vehicles, WWII Re-Enactors, WWII Home front display and more. Saturday all day: WWII Re-enactors and museum displays. Bring the entire family for a living history depicting the American Soldiers’ defeat of Nazi See CALENDAR, 38

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Calendar CALENDAR, from 37 Germany during WWII, remembering the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe.

9am - 1pm Old Town Farmers Market. Taylor Pavilion, 119 N. Loudoun St., Winchester. The market will run Saturdays from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. through October 31. All items were grown or produced within a 60mile radius of Winchester. Contact Jennifer Bell, Downtown Manager, or Sarah Acuff Chapman with any questions. (540) 535-3660 or OTW@ winchesterva.gov.

9am - 5pm Virginia Herb Festival.

Sunflower Cottage, 150 Ridgemont Road, Middletown. The Virginia Herb Festival offers a weekend of fun, entertainment, shopping, food, music and learning opportunities for herbal enthusiasts and all other comers. The daily schedule of events will be posted on the Sunflower Cottage website and will include programs or workshops each day on subjects such as: “Herbal Folklore”, “Herbal Remedies”, “Essential Oil Distillation” and “Edible Flowers”. Local chefs will demonstrate their recipes, tips and techniques for cooking with fresh herbs. The vendor booths will include herbal crafters and products, potters, garden art, fabrics, fashions and more. Vendors are not be limited to herbal products; but, will include a wide variety of handmade items and foods. The festival will also feature live music, herbal lunches, and beer and wine. Garden Clubs, Herb Guilds, Red Hatters, tour buses and groups of any type are welcome. For further information call (540) 8698482 or visit www.sunflowercottage. net andwww.virginiaherbfestival. com 12pm - 3pm Splash Bash. Jim Barnett Park, Outdoor Pool, Winchester.

Let’s open the outdoor pool with a SPLASH this season! Come enjoy the slide, the diving board, the excellent kid pool, and the 50 meter outdoor pool! Fee: Daily Pool Admission Fee. There will be local vendors, great food, a DJ, and prizes will be awarded! Win a Season Pass to the outdoor pool!

6:30pm - 9:30pm Bingo. North Fork Resort Associates, 301 North Fork Road, Front Royal. Doors open at 4:30. Early birds at 6:30. Food

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available for purchase. Door prizes, progressive games, queen of hearts, progressive pull tab. Also, brand new Electronic pull tab games. Find us on Facebook. (540) 636-7152. Must be 12 to play. No smoking.

Sunday, June 7 8am - 5pm Relive History: Victory in Europe 70th Anniversary. 811 Fairfax Pike (Rt. 277) Stephens City (the former Sandy’s Implement Service location 1.5 miles east of Stephens City). Free!! Come see: Large collection of WWII Equipment, Civilian Conservation Corps, WWII Military Vehicles, WWII Re-Enactors, WWII Home front display and more. Saturday all day: WWII Re-enactors and museum displays. 2pm: Mr. Greg Owen speaks on the German POW laborers in the Shenandoah Valley.

Bring the entire family for a living history depicting the American Soldiers’ defeat of Nazi Germany during WWII, remembering the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe.

9am - 5pm Virginia Herb Festival.

See description from Saturday, June 6.

12:30pm - 5pm Longaberger Bas-

ket Bingo. Stephens City Volunteer Fire & Rescue, 5346 Mulberry Street, Stephens City. Bingo starts at 2pm.

Lots of new items. Must be 12 to play. Door prizes, raffles, homemade specials. Pre-sales get you in a special drawing. Call Tweety for more information at (540) 974-1667.

4pm - 6pm Spotlight on Women Event. Calvary Episcopal Church, 11 N. Royal Avenue, Front Royal. The Front Royal Women’s Resource Center is hosting a “Spotlight on Women” event to celebrate the remarkable life of Elsie Upchurch. Refreshments will be served and this event is open to everyone in the community.

Monday, June 8 7pm - 8pm Council Meeting.

County of Warren Government Center.

7pm - 8pm Council Work Session.

Town Administration Building, 102 E. Main St. Tuesday, June 9 12:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesdays.

95.3 - the River radio station. Hear the latest tourism related news and events every Tuesday at 12:30! If you can’t listen live check out the podcasts

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7pm - 7pm BAR Meeting. Town Administration Building, Front Royal.

Wednesday, June 10 3:30pm - 5pm Chamber Board Meeting. Chamber Office.

Thursday, June 11 6:30pm - 9:30pm Bingo. North Fork Resort Associates, 301 North Fork Road, Front Royal. Doors open at 4:30. Early birds at 6:30. Food available for purchase. Door prizes, progressive games, queen of hearts, progressive pull tab. Also, brand new Electronic pull tab games. Find us on

Facebook. (540) 636-7152. Must be 12 to play. No smoking.

Friday, June 12 4:30pm - 5:30pm Yard Sale-Church Fellowship Hall. Relief United Methodist Church, 5275 Middle Road, Winchester. Rain or Shine.

Saturday, June 13 7am - 1pm e-Cycling Electronics Recycling. Landfill, 281 Landfill Rd. Winchester.

9am - 1pm Old Town Farmers Market. Taylor Pavilion, 119 N. Loudoun St., Winchester. The market will run Saturdays from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. through October 31. All items were grown or produced within a 60-

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12pm - 6pm Hop Blossom Craft Beer Festival. Old Town, Winchester.

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be featuring 38+ craft breweries from the local area and beyond. Enjoy live entertainment and crafters too! The event benefits GoodDogz.org and the Winchester SPCA. Tickets available at: hopblossom.com 4:30pm - 5:30pm Yard Sale-Church

Pets Page Fellowship Hall. Relief United Methodist Church, 5275 Middle Road, Winchester. Rain or Shine.

6:30pm - 9:30pm Bingo. North Fork Resort Associates, 301 North Fork Road, Front Royal. Doors open at 4:30. Early birds at 6:30. Food

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