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Riverton Quarry Cats get eviction notice
Event organizer and group moderator, Tammy Tharpe Smelser, founding member of SNAP (Spay Neuter All Pets), has been active in the local community for the past four years in lending assistance to individuals that have stray felines on their property By Greg Harold Warren & Frederick County Report “Are you going to stop me from feeding the cats?” was the most poignant question presented to Conservation Police Officer Alberto Medina of the Virginia State Game and Inland Fisheries Bureau. The question posed by Webb Davis, caretaker of the Riverton Quarry Cats was not a question of defiance or a challenge of authority, but simply an expression of emotional con-
cern that Davis has for this cat colony that he estimates he has been taking care of for upwards of 40 years. Feral cats, community cats, barn cats, sanctuary cats and nuisance cats, are but a few of the terms used to describe the cat colony located at
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The Riverton Quarry Cats, the adopted name of this local colony, have been a fixture of the boat landing for decades. Photos by Ryan Harold. land Fisheries would have taken action on the colony if it hadn’t been for the efforts of Tammy Tharpe Smelser, Warren County Humane Society, and the community at large. The State agreed to allow the community to respond prior to any action on their
part. Smelser, event organizer, group moderator and founding member of SNAP (Spay Neuter All Pets), has been active in the local community See CATS,
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CATS, from for the past four years in lending assistance to individuals that have stray felines on their property, helping persons that have too many cats, or are unable to reasonably afford or can no longer physically manage the care of their pets. Ms. Smelser has been called upon many times to assist in removing an abundance of cats from individual homes and various commercial locations throughout Front Royal and Warren County. Smelser reports having live trapped upwards of 25 cats during a three-night stint at a well-known downtown shopping center. In the last two years, Smelser has been involved in seven major TNR operations, yielding 65 successful procedures while losing only three cats due to untreatable sickness or injury. While Smelser requires no personal validation for her efforts in controlling the stray cat population, she quotes statistics from the Feral Cat Coalition and the Humane Society of the United States where, “The average stray female will have 5.25 litters in her lifetime, comprising 22.3 kittens, roughly six females will survive, where these six females will continue to have 22 surviving kittens each.” This geometric phenomenon would have a profound impact on the stray population were it not for a control mechanism as is advocated by Smelser. Her SNAP program is an independent organization fully managed by her, and does not rely upon public monies of any sort in carrying out her assistance. In her four years of activity, Tammy estimates that she has financially assisted with over 200 spay/neuter procedures where the financial impact has been tabulated in the thousands. These minor surgeries are only a portion of the total expense. Smelser ensures that her
Alberto Medina of the Va. Game and Inland Fisheries explains the difficulties and environmental ramifications that are associated with supporting feral cat colonies “friends” are vet checked and updated with combo tests for feline AIDS and Leukemia if necessary. While Smelser relies on her own income and financial means to carry out her mission, she has accepted in kind donations from various organizations and individuals which are used to help pay for the spay or neutering of the cats. Ms. Smelser does receive assistance and has a continuing relationship with the Middleburg Humane Foundation (MHF). The Foundation has loaned traps and assisted with spay, vaccination, and de-worming procedures and associated costs. The MHF also aids in temporarily housing the cats pre and post-surgery to ensure a safe and controlled environment prior to their re-release.
Smelser, recognizes that the feral cat problem is a town and county wide issue, appropriately involving the necessary county, state and private institutions in helping to remedy this problem. Enlisting the help of the Warren County Humane Society, The Warren County Sheriff ’s Office—Animal Control, Va. State Game and Inland Fisheries authorities, along with private organizations such as Cat Safe, 4 Paws, Alley Cat Allies and the Middleburg Humane Foundation, along with the general public, she organized the collaboration to discuss potential resolutions and develop an appropriate course of action to help properly remove these colonies and educate the public on the legalities, dangers, and issues that abandon-
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Lavenda Denney, of the WCSPCA indicated that there will be many opportunities for adoptable Riverton Quarry Cats ing domestic animals poses to their health and the negative externalities that it creates for the community at large. As previously mentioned, Alberto Medina of the Va. Game and Inland Fisheries aptly explained to the group the difficulties and environmental ramifications that are associated with supporting feral cat colonies. While many issues arise from such action, the two primary concerns of his agency are the feeding of indig-
enous wildlife and the unsightliness and litter created by such actions. Medina indicated that there has been evidence of “bear, deer, and vultures” feeding at the boat landing site. The sources of food provided to the cats by concerned individuals, inadvertently feeds the nomadic wildlife, which no longer become nomadic due to the constant source of food. Medina indicated that feeding indigenous wildlife constitutes a Class III Misdemeanor punishable up to a
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$500 fine. Sgt. James Darr, a 16-year veteran of the Warren County Sheriff ’s Department is in support of a permanent solution to the Quarry Cat problem. While understanding the good and well-meant intentions of all those involved, Darr believes that “things are going to work out for the best” upon removal. The boat landing area has become a de facto dumping ground for unwanted animals because people feel that their unwanted pets will at least have some type of shelter and food made available to them. Darr stated that in times of economic uncertainty people are forced from their immediate housing and need to seek arrangements where pets are not permitted, and abandon their animals at the boat landing location. Another very active speaker at this charrette was Lavenda Denney, Executive Director of the Warren County Humane Society. While Denney has not taken a formal position on the status of the various cat colonies located throughout the immediate area, she is aware and understands the problem. In a private interview, Denney indicated that, “the Humane Society is not tasked with investigative powers” nor does it have resources to conduct trappings, as this falls under the jurisdiction of the Warren County Animal Control. Denney is more than amenable to collaborate on solutions or helping utilize other resources in controlling the unwanted or abandoned pet population as is evidenced in her active participation in this meeting. Director Denney indicates that the WCSPCA does have “immediate space” available for friendly, adoptable cats” retrieved from the Quarry Cat population. Denney stated that there will be many opportunities for adoptable Riverton Quarry Cats. Friendly felines are generally identified in their temperament and approachability. If the cats can be handled or seek human attention that is the first hurdle to finding a permanent home. Any
The Riverton Quarry Cats, the adopted name of this local colony, have been a fixture of the boat landing for decades. stray cats that are brought in to the shelter are placed on a “stray hold” in hopes of the owner coming forward. Medical treatment is administered as required and when the stray hold is released, the cat is available for adoption. Denney’s experience with this process, cat dependent, can last anywhere from two weeks to a month. The Humane Society of Warren County will begin to trap less “friendly” Quarry Cat extraction, as mentioned before, toward the end of February. However, Denney did indicate that the local Society is not equipped to re-habilitate true feral cats and they would need to be relocated to adoptive organizations or other willing individuals. Follow-up meetings will be planned to finalize all of the activities and to ensure they have the proper commitments to find homes for all of the cats.
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In organizing this outreach, Smelser’s aspiration is first and foremost to find “a loving home for the Riverton Cats”, and secondly and equally important, to make the community aware that “dumping pets” at the Riverton location, or any other for that matter is inherently wrong. There are people and organizations in place that can assist in re-homing animals, for whatever the reason, without abandoning them in unfamiliar and unsafe locations. “We have the ability to stop the
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Seniors get in the spirit of Mardi Gras Warren County Senior Center provides safe place, hot meals and much, much more
Director Terry Byrne sets up for Household Bingo, a favorite game of seniors at the Warren County Senior Center By Timothy Ratigan Warren & Frederick County Report At the end of Commonwealth Avenue sits a single story brick building. Several white buses belonging to the Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging are parked in the parking lot. The tennis and basketball courts sit idle in the cold winter weather. And around ten in the morning, Tuesday through Friday, a steady stream of Warren County’s senior citizens
walks into that brick building. I arrived with my mother, who is 76, with my camera in hand and entered the building to finish up an interview. When we walk in that building the sounds of talking and laughter filled our ears and gathered around tables 25-40 senior citizens were sitting playing games, doing crafts, sipping coffee and chatting among friends. On this particular day, a cold Friday morning, the occupants of the room were waiting for the day’s event. This
day was Household Bingo, a favorite game of the occupants of that lone brick building on Commonwealth Avenue in Front Royal. What is this place? Is it a church? An assisted living facility? No, it is the Warren County Senior Center and for many decades it has provided a vital role for many citizens of Warren County. Let’s backtrack to February 12 of this year. I arrived at the center after 12:30 p.m. to do an interview with the Director of the Center. Director Terry Byrne had set some time aside to give me the scoop of just what the Warren County Senior Center is and why it is so important for daily life here in our town and county. Byrne retired from her career of 26 years as a Warren County Correctional Officer and soon found herself at the center in April of 2014 and took over as full time director of the center on July 1, 2014. After her long career in law enforcement she wanted to do something fun in her retirement. “For the most part this has been fun. You have your good days, and the bad, but fun for the most part. When I originally went for this job I applied for the cook’s position, but was hired for this one. I thought that this job would be breeze. I was wrong. I thought I was going to come in and plan activities and play games with the seniors. I quickly found out it is a lot of computer work, and personal interaction. I get to be nice all the time now. That has been a real switch for me from my last occupation. I also wear many hats. I wear the director’s hat, the activities director hat, sometimes I put on the cook’s hat too and I even get the drive the bus every now and then,” said Byrne. When asked how long the center had been in operation she replied,
“Longer than I can remember. Probably started back in the 50s and the only long time director that I can remember was Anne Crim back in the 80s. We then touched on the mission of the center. “The Warren County Senior Center is a department of the Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging (SAAA). We provide socialization for seniors 60 years and older. You do not have to be 60 to come here. You can come and volunteer. In fact, we strive to run things through volunteers,” Byrne responded. She explained that volunteers can help in many ways such as preparing meals for meals at the center and the Meals on Wheels Program. They also need volunteers to help provide en-
tertainment events such as a Mardi Gras party thrown at the center a week ago. Entertainment can also be in the form of musical performances or arts and crafts. The Center is open four days a week, Tuesday through Friday, depending on the weather. The seniors start arriving at about 9:30 a.m. and generally head back home around 12:45 to 1:00 p.m. “Usually by this time they have had a nice hot meal and are ready to head home for nap,” Byrne said with a laugh. We talked about the meals served here at the center. On an average day, 25-30 hot meals are served at the center depending on the activities taking place. If there is a group entertaining, the participation is often higher than
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To be qualified, interested persons should contact SAAA Case Manager Carol Bellenitti, who is assigned to Warren County. When the call is placed, she goes to the applicant’s home and does an interview to see if they qualify for other services the agency provides. We then talked about the difficult topic of funding for the center and where it comes from. The center receives a lot of its funding from the SAAA, but receives some from government funds, through fund raising efforts throughout the year, and cash
donations. Byrne also stressed that a donor could request that a donation be earmarked for the center if the donor wished and make the check out to Warren County Center (sock and rec fund). Donations received in that fashion would enable the center to purchase items for crafts and other activities for the center. At the time of this interview, the crafts involved Hershey Kisses for Valentine’s Day and there was even the afore-mentioned Mardi Gras party the previous week. “We had full decorations, red beans and rice and sausage and beads and masks. You know these seniors went wild on that day. They even had a “King Cupcake” with the baby in it,” she informed this reporter while laughing. Part of the entertainment portion goes to Bingo games, which the seniors enjoy very much. Prizes for Bingo generally come in the form of food items, (generally easily prepared microwavable items) to soup and shampoo and lotions. Prizes come from a wide variety of sources, sometimes like when private citizens
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Warren County resident Judith A. Ratigan gets dressed up the Mardi Gras party at the Warren County Senior Center clean out their closets and donate knick knacks. The Center also receives donations from the local Martin’s grocery store. Director Byrne often holds a special third week of the month “Food Bingo” knowing that the third week of the month can get a little tight at the end of the month.
Doing these seemingly small things can go a long way to help the seniors of our community. The next time you are down by Commonwealth Avenue off of Shenandoah Avenue, down from the hospital, playing tennis or attending a game of basketball or picnicking at the shelter, remember that brick building is a very special space providing a special service to a lot of our senior citizens in Warren County. Without the center a lot of our seniors (many of them family members) would be stuck alone in their homes and apartments. The Warren County Senior Center gives them a chance to get out, visit and play Bingo and most importantly…Live! – tim@areaguides.com
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Meh... Grammy Award artists need help
By Dmileson - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34983023 By Teresa Brumback Warren & Frederick County Report If the Grammy Awards showcase America’s best vocalists, we’re in trouble. Last night’s televised awards ceremony and entertainment featuring some of the hottest stars failed to excite, inspire or entertain. After a long, grueling day at work, I kept waiting and hoping that I’d hear someone who would make me feel wonderful through their music, but with few exceptions, it was a vast wasteland of so-called talent. Dewey Vaughn of Front Royal is a singer who could give them a run for their money for sure. He is known for having perfect pitch and a great voice and has performed at venues including the Lucky Star Lounge on Main Street in Front Royal and Griffin Tav-
ern in Flint Hill. I haven’t heard him in years but I don’t have to. I’m sure he still rocks the stage. For groups, there is Souled Out from Winchester, which I heard in Luray. They were fabulous. Hitting a new low, “To Pimp A Butterfly” was a song that received a standing ovation after its fast, rapped vocals with dancing. I really can’t comment since I know nothing about hip-hop music but I couldn’t help feel bad for the poor butterfly who was the subject of the song. I checked around and I learned I wasn’t alone in my opinion, though the television entertainment commentators later gave their usual hyped-up synopses. The only ones who saved the day to my mind were the musical icons they brought in that still sound incredible in their older years including Lionel
Richie, and Stevie Wonder. While a relative newbie to the stage comparatively speaking, Lady Gaga made a weird but fairly impressive tribute to David Bowie by dressing up like him and singing his songs in a deep masculine sounding voice. I have not seen her perform much but I thought she did a bang-up job singing the National Anthem at this year’s Super Bowl in a normal voice. With jazz vocalist Tony Bennett she has shown her versatility singing the popular Christmastime duet, “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” Carrie Underwood is a gifted country singer, but one of her latest singles is of another style, more of a slow-dancing “smooth jazz” song that she sang with Sam Hunt. He’s apparently an up and coming wonder, if you believe some of the hosts on country music television. I don’t think so. Poor Carrie Underwood, trying to coax some emotion out of his voice, almost in a pleading fashion, by turning and singing to him, doing knee-bends as she does while going for the high notes. But Hunt was off-key; his voice wasn’t full of
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any energy and overall his presence was in stark contrast to Underwood’s high energy, usual spot-on performance. She had no choice but to lag with him in places where she was obviously trying to get him more up tempo. Several stars took turns in doing a tribute to Lionel Richie, singing some
of his old hits from the 1970s, as he watched spellbound from the audience. Luke Bryan actually sounded better singing Richie’s song than he has his own songs. It was the first time I’ve heard him sing on key in a long time. He just doesn’t seem to have control over his voice; it wavers in intensity when it’s not supposed to,
Read full issues FREE on www.WarrenCountyVA.com & www.FrederickCounty.com but then again, maybe he’s improving because he sounded OK last night. John Legend played the piano and sang one of Richie’s songs, and while it was good, it wasn’t up to his usual top quality performances. Perhaps it was the arrangement that was the problem, as he sang “Easy on Sunday Morning” a bit too fast and sharp on the word “easy” so that, ironically, it didn’t sound easy at all. Legend, how-
ever, gave a stellar performance recently during a tribute to Frank Sinatra. He sang one of Sinatra’s classics better than “Old Blue Eyes” himself, in my opinion. But it was brunette Demi Lovato who seemed to earn the greatest praise from Richie in the audience, as she belted out the tune, showing off her wide vocal range. Richie’s eyes widened as he yelped “YES!”, giving
proof to my thought, that she nailed it. Taylor Swift took the stage to receive an award in a bright halter top and flowing skirt, pink and red or something, and while I think she’s a talented songwriter and would have been an even better high-fashion model, I’m not crazy about her singing. I must say I think she is better suited to this new pop music she’s
Cattle truck overturns on I-81
A vet tends to cattle at I-81 crash in Frederick County Feb. 15, 2016. Courtesy photo. At 5:28 a.m., Monday Feb. 15, 2016 Virginia State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash in Frederick County. A tractor-trailer loaded with 33 cattle was traveling north on Interstate 81 when it ran off the left side of the highway and overturned in the median. The driver, Derek S. Crabtree, 22, of Dante, Va., was treated at the scene for minor injuries. He was
charged with reckless driving. Troopers went to great lengths to look out for the welfare and humane treatment of the cattle involved in the crash. Of the 33 cattle riding in the trailer, six escaped the damaged trailer and were rounded up by troopers. Six cattle did not survive the crash. State police had a local veterinarian respond to the scene to assess
the conditions of those cattle injured in the crash. The veterinarian is making the necessary determinations of their treatment and advised state police on how best to manage the scene. The northbound lanes of I-81 were closed and traffic was detoured around the crash as troopers and crews worked to clear the tractor-trailer from the scene.
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in 2015-2016. Motown in the 1960s and 1970s had singers like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, who melted hearts with their silky, lyrical voices, and others like James Brown, the King of Soul, a master of rhythm and feeling, who made his listeners experience a wide range of emotions with his songs. “I Feel Good” really does make you feel good. It’s a great way to start the day. When Brown shrieked out the notes, he was on key. I enjoyed the sound. I didn’t cringe. I enjoy a wide range of music, from Motown to Big Band, to Elvis, Beatles and Italian opera. All I care about is that a person sings on key and knows how to sing a lyrical line—it doesn’t matter what type of music. If they can do those two things I’m happy. As a case in point, go to You Tube and listen to Doris Day sing “Again” It’s not a widely known song but when I first heard it on the radio years ago I was spellbound. It’s got to be one of the most beautiful love ballades in musical history, and probably dates to my favorite era in music and fashions: the 1940s. If only we could recreate that era somehow especially in music. – brumback@areaguides.com
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4-H Shooting Club conducts “postal match” “If we train kids in safety, then they take it out to friends and family, says coach of NRA-sanctioned event
Cody Graves, 13, of the Little North Mountain 4-H club competes at a recent NRA-sanctioned match By Mario Orlikoff Warren & Frederick County Report Shots were fired inside a church in Strasburg recently. Children as young as nine years old were involved. You may not have read about it on the Internet or in your local newspaper. It probably didn’t make the TV news. But it really did happen. Rifles and pistols were aimed. Actual lead was flying through the air. Things went positively postal. Maybe you didn’t hear about it, maybe it wasn’t flashy news, because nothing but good came out of the Liberty Baptist Church’s Family Life Center on that Thursday night in ear-
ly February. The Little North Mountain 4-H Shooting Education Club was conducting a “postal match” sanctioned by the National Rifle Association. Around a dozen kids ranging in age from nine to 18, shooting precision rifles and pistols, took part in the match in which competitors fire on their home ranges using targets marked for identification. The fired targets are then sent to NRA for scoring and ranking for awards. The NRA conducts various postal matches, many of which are in cooperation with national and fraternal organizations. Others fill the need for specialized matches among groups that are
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Taylor DiPaola of the Little North Mountain 4-H Shooting Club, Photo courtesy of Taylor’s Facebook page unable to support their own separate competition. “Yeah, when we tell people we’re doing a postal, we don’t want them thinking the wrong thing,” said Tracey DiPaola, who along with her husband, Lou, helps coach and run the team. You’ve heard of soccer moms? Well, meet Tracey, a shooting mom,
who has been dedicating herself to 4H ever since her son, Jordan, joined the four-leaf-clover global network of youth organizations in 2004. Jordan is now in his third year at the United States Naval Academy. Tracey’s daughter, Taylor, is now one of the club’s top shooters. Tracey is now the go-to person for everything from registration forms to target backings.
She believes that the 4-H shooting program has helped not only her family but her community and beyond. “If we train kids in safety, then they take it out to friends and family, and then if they would happen to see a situation that is unsafe, they can speak up, and that’s what we teach them,” Tracey said. “From our standpoint, that is the answer. And the families get the training, too.” Lou, a former Winchester City police officer who now works for a company that produces training and instructional videos, collaborated with his wife eight years ago to make the classic public service announcement about shooting safety titled Don’t Shoot Your Eye Out. Unfortunately, copies of Eye cannot be located today, but Lou has since produced another work – a 16-minute video called Rifle: The Sport. Along with the joy of watching Jordan, Taylor and others excel comes a “huge responsibility,” both Tracey and Lou emphasized, to keep things secure within the club. Safe and responsible use of the firearms is the number-one priority of the members, followed by marksmanship and principles of hunting and archery. Only when the safety guidelines are in place can young people shoot for the stars. Taylor, 16, who practices almost daily in the basement range at home, counted off some of the benefits of the competitive shooting life.
Read full issues FREE on www.WarrenCountyVA.com & www.FrederickCounty.com “I’ve met a lot of really great people with this,” she said. “My team’s basically my family. And then along with that, there’s a lot of benefits you gain, a lot of focus, determination. It just gives you a lot. You know, because when you’re shooting, you can kind of tune out anything else that’s like, bad or whatever, and you can just shoot. I mean, you might have a bad target but it’s nice to be able to put yourself in a different mindset. It’s just kind of calm and quiet. When
you set yourself a goal and make a success of it, it’s very rewarding.” A sure shot There are other reasons that competitive shooting could be considered a great activity for anyone: Some athletes peak at a certain age. A national shooting champion can be 60 or 16. It’s a co-ed sport. It’s an indoor and outdoor sport,
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featured at both the Summer and Winter Olympics. It offers individual participation, team participation, or both at the same time. Sure, it’s nice to get time at gun ranges or other facilities, but in a pinch, this sport requires little more than a room that is 50-by-20 feet. Disabled people can excel in shooting. Scholarships are awarded. According to the web site athleticscholarships.net, more than 3.5 million high school students participating in competition riflery have opportunities through the NRA, Junior ROTC, and NCAA. Although the NCAA doesn’t recognize all kinds of competition shooting, 42 NCAA programs now sponsor the sport of small-bore (.22 caliber) riflery. Granted, no officially sponsored NCAA scholarships are available for riflery, but several private sponsors and donors are generous in providing high school shooters with college rifle scholarships.
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Frederick County 4-H shooters, left to right, Zach Harner, 13, Hunter Shoemaker, 15, and Aiden Ockerman, 10, gather at the Winchester Conservation Club ‘Kids and guns’ Warren County and Frederick
County also have thriving 4-H shooting programs. During an NRA-sanctioned rifle match at the Winchester Conservation Club, Brandon McDonald, who is 16 going on at least 21 in terms of maturity and poise, talked about the significance of his and other shooters’ actions in the Frederick County 4-H shooting program, which works with around 35 kids. “Schools today, and kids – they’re not taught about gun safety when they’re younger,” he said. “And that’s when you have to teach them – when they understand it, when they’re absorbing everything. You try to teach them when they’re older, and they’re like, no, they’ve watched the movies, they’ve played the video games. Oh, that’s how you do it.” “Kids and guns,” continued McDonald. “The first thing people think, ‘That’s bad.’ Well, do you want an adult with a gun who doesn’t know how to use it? Or a kid who knows how to, and when he becomes an adult, he knows how to and he’ll pass it on to his kids? You kinda – you’ve got to start somewhere.” Like many of the 4-H competiSee 4-H, 15
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INDICTMENTS January 2016 Indictments-January Term
possess a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin.
Carl Donald Hammett
Domonique Joseph Griffith
The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about October 21, 2015, in the County of Warren, Carl Donald Hammett, 31, of 612 W. 11th St., Front Royal, VA 22630, having previously been convicted of a sexually violent offense, did unlawfully, feloniously and knowingly fail to register or re-register with the Sex Offender and Crimes against Minors Registry, this being a second or subsequent offense.
The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Domonique Joseph Griffith, 18, of 18088 Deer Forest Rd., Georgetown, DE 19947 with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Domonique Joseph Griffith having received a visible or audible signal from a law-enforcement officer to bring his motor vehicle to a stop, did unlawfully and feloniously drive such motor vehicle in a willful or wanton disregard of such signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of the law-enforcement vehicle or endanger a person. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully drive a vehicle on the highway in excess of 80 miles per hour. Date of the offenses occurred on or about August 4, 2015.
Matthew Lee Cairrikier The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about November 11, 2014, in the County of Warren, Matthew Lee Cairrikier, 36, of 213 Liberty St., Rockwell, NC 28138, did unlawfully take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels belonging to Bridget Lucas, with a value of $200.00 or more. Bradley Scott Pullen The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about October 8, 2015, in the County of Warren, Bradley Scott Pullen, 43, of 325 Cherrydale Ave., Apt. 2, Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously, with the intention of converting goods and merchandise to his own use without having paid the full price thereof, willfully conceal the goods or merchandise of Brooklyn’s Marketplace, having twice or more before been convicted of an offense deemed as larceny. Vincent Michael Bruce Faulkner The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Vincent Michael Bruce Faulkner, 21, of 121 Fay St., Winchester, VA 22602 with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Vincent Michael Bruce Faulkner did unlawfully and feloniously penetrate the labia majora of a child eight years of age, who is not his spouse, with any object, other than for bona fide medical purposes. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and feloniously sexually abuse a child under 13 years of age. Date of the offenses was on or about November 20, 2014. Ashley Victoria Secor The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about July 17, 2015, in the County of Warren, Ashley Victoria Secor, 28, of 6082 Riverforest Dr. Manassas, VA 20112, did unlawfully and feloniously
Kenneth Linwood Pearson, Jr. The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about May 12, 2015, in the County of Warren, Kenneth Linwood Pearson, Jr., 30, of 631 N. Royal Ave. #7, Front Royal, VA 22630, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously having been convicted of a sexually violent offense, as defined in Virginia, unlawfully enter or be present, during school hours, upon property that the accused knew or had reason to know is a public private elementary or secondary school property.
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den Rd., Linden, VA 22642 with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Sarah Gladys Moon did unlawfully take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels of Target with a value of $200.00, or more. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and feloniously obtain by false pretense, a gift card valued at more than $200.00 belonging to Target, with the intent to defraud. Date of the offenses was on or about December 3, 2015. Phillip Danyell Wilson
The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Phillip Danyell Wilson, 36, of 716 Warren Ave., Apt. 4, Front Royal, VA 22630, with four counts. COUNT ONE: Phillip Danyell Wilson did unlawfully, and feloniously, maliciously wound or cause bodily injury to one Timothy Carter, with the intent to maim, disable, disfigure or kill said Timothy Carter. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and feloniously attempt to murder one Timothy Carter. COUNT THREE: did unlawfully and feloniously use and display a firearm, while committing or attempting to commit a felony. COUNT FOUR: did unlawfully, feloniously, knowingly and intentionally possess a firearm, after previously been convict-ed of a felony within the past ten years. Date of the offenses was on or about November 1, 2015.
The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about October 17, 2015, in the County of Warren, William J. Loveless, Jr., 50, of 7 Redmon Dr., Fredericksburg, VA 22405, did unlawfully and feloniously sexually abuse a child 8 years of age. Sarah Gladys Moon
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John Edward Embrey The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about January 22, 2015, in the County of Warren, John Edward Embrey, 28, address unknown, did unlawfully and feloniously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin. Demond Alexander Lightfoot The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Demond Alexander Lightfoot, 18, of 476 Hill St., Front Royal, VA 22630, with five counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Demond Alexander Lightfoot did unlawfully and feloniously have in his possession a tool, implement or outfit with the intent to commit burglary, robbery or larceny. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully attempt to take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels of Jiffy Lube, with a value of less than $200.00.
COUNTS THREE and FIVE: did unlawfully, intentionally destroy, deface or remove without the intent to steal, the real or personal property of Jiffy Lube, and Linda Jackson the value of, or damage to such property less than $1,000.00. COUNT FOUR: did unlawfully attempt to take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels of Linda Jackson, of some value. Dates of the offenses were on or about December 7 and 15, 2015. John Randolph Linaburg The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about December 16, 2015, in the County of Warren, Randolph Linaburg, 21, of 1433 John Marshall Hwy., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously assault and batter James Benson, a family or household member, having been previously convicted of assault and battery against a family or household member within twenty years of this second or subsequent offense, and that each such assault and battery occurred on different dates.
Eric David Jones The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Eric David Jones, 26, of 337 Kendrick Ln, Front Royal, VA 22630, with two counts. COUNTS ONE and TWO: In the County of Warren, Eric David Jones did unlawfully and feloniously distribute a Schedule III controlled substance, to-wit: Buprenorphine and Naloxone. Dates of the offenses were on or about August 20 and September 3, 2015.
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Engle’s Angle: “Name that State” By Kevin S. Engle 415. 361. 203. Can you name that state? In three numbers? Within minutes of my wife pressing the ‘Enter’ key on her computer, the phone started ringing. And it hasn’t stopped. The calls have come from everywhere. Area code 509. 540. 815. Like a car salesman that won’t leave you alone, they were relentless. Especially those first few days. 954. 770. 424. They called in the morning. They called in the afternoon. They called at night. 202. 603. 601. We’d gotten a notice in the mail informing us my wife’s retiree medical benefits were going up in price. Just a few bucks a month, but enough to get my attention. “Maybe we could save money getting health insurance on our own, through Obamacare?” I wondered. I should’ve kept my mouth shut. My wife went online and filled out the necessary information. And that’s when the onslaught began. 802. 813. 951. It got to be annoying. Very quickly. “Where are they calling from?” I’d ask her. Occasionally, call waiting would tell us. “Florida call” or “Texas call”. Most of the time though, only
the number popped up. “I don’t know,” my wife said. “I just wish they’d stop.” We answered every one for the first few days until we couldn’t take it anymore. And then we ignored them. As best we could. But they didn’t ignore us. 207. 323. 402. It was time for a different approach. Tell them we already had coverage. Don’t call back. Please. We’re begging you. That didn’t always work. We’d get calls from the same company two days in a row. Even after she told them on Day 1 we had what we needed. But at least we saved money right? Wrong!!! We stayed with our current plan. All that aggravation for nothing. And in case you were wondering, like I was, here’s where all those calls came from. California, Texas, Connecticut, Washington, Virginia, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, California, Washington DC, New Hampshire, Mississippi, Vermont, Florida, California, Maine, California and Nebraska. Geez! Thank goodness we only have 50 states. ALAKAZARCACOCTDEFLGA HIIDILINIAKSKYLAMEMDM AMIMNMSMOMTNENVNHN JNMNYNCNDOHOKORPARIS CSDTNTXUTVTVAWADCWVW IWY
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Stanley Adolphus Thomas, Jr. The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about August 7, 2015, in the County of Warren, Stanley Adolphus Thomas, Jr., 31, of 239 Manassas Ave., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously possess a Schedule II controlled substance, to-wit: Phencyclidine (PCP).
Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about December 23, 2015, in the County of Warren, Alfred Beaston, Jr., 50, of 272 Woodard Ln., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously falsely assume or pretend to be a sheriff or peace officer, or any local city, county, state or federal lawenforcement officer, or who falsely assumes or pretends to be any such officer.
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Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about April 13, 2015, in the County of Warren, Sean Patrick Davidson, 32, of 11 Dogwood Tree Dr., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin, this being a second or subsequent offense, said prior con-viction occurring prior to the date alleged in this indictment. Ariel Leigh Rush The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Ariel Leigh Rush, 25, of 1021 Capon Rd., Strasburg, VA 22657, with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Ariel Leigh Rush did unlawfully and feloniously obtain by false pretense, with the intent to defraud United States currency in the amount of $200.00 or more from LoanMax. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully, feloniously and fraudulently, make a false statement on an application for certificate of title issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Date of the offenses was on or about 3/24/15.
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Jennerations celebrates ten years in Front Royal “Much of my success is due to community support,” says owner Jennifer Nichols
Flowers for the Tenth Anniversary celebration of Jennerations Hair Studio were donated by Fussell Florists By Carol Ballard Warren & Frederick County Report There’s been a push in the last few years by many communities all over the country to support small independent businesses, and Front Royal is one of them. Jennifer Nicholson’s Jennerations
Hair Studio, a small, independent, local business, has withstood the test of time and celebrated a major anniversary on Saturday, February 13, with the help of local patrons. “We have been here for ten years and hope to be here many more. We owe it all to our customers and stylists,” said Jennifer.
Jennifer Nicholson, co-owner with her father Russell Payne of Jennerations Hair Studio, are proud that their business has contributed to the success-rate of small businesses in Warren County They had customers, friends, and family coming through all day to their salon, just a few steps away from Martin’s grocery store in the Royal Plaza Shopping Center, with cookies, candy and cupcakes to warm the cold chill of the day, that was less than helpful with lower than average temperatures outside. To give back to the customers, they did $10.00 specials for the day and
will have a drawing at the end of the month from a box that customers can still put their names in with a chance to win $10 gift certificates. “Things started out slow because of the cold, but many customers came in later, bringing happy celebration vibes to fill the salon that day,” Jennifer said. The salon has made itself a contributing member of the county and
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Read full issues FREE on www.WarrenCountyVA.com & www.FrederickCounty.com This year Jennifer and her husband Mike will walk in the Relay for Life, and the business will partner with the Virginia Hills Church, holding bake sales and donating to it. She said many family members and friends attend the church, so they’re helping to support their efforts. The business also sponsors Front Royal Little League baseball games; partially sponsor the girls’ traveling softball team, and have sponsored the girls’ soccer team. They got involved with sponsoring the Little League when their sons, Dylan and Zachery, who now attend Warren County’s middle and high schools were on the
teams, and have continued to support it even though the boys have stopped playing. One year they sponsored her niece Heather as a beauty pageant contestant. “We try to do as many donations as we can,” Jennifer said. When John Lake needed help with cancer treatments, they held a cut-athon and donated to his cause, and give gift cards to silent auctions for various charities and groups around town. “Without the community, we wouldn’t have a business. It works very well with the people around us, and all who we meet,” she said.
She wants everyone to know that they have expanded the business since opening, when they only offered hair care and waxing. They remodeled a few years ago and now have a private spa room, with a full-time Nail Tech/ Pedicurist/Esthetician. She said she is happy to be in the Royal Plaza Shopping Center, and that the businesses work well together, whether they’ve been there longterm, or brand new. “If something is going on, and there’s a problem, we get together to resolve it,” she said. She closed with this, “It’s important to shop local. It’s all going good for us.
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father got him started with trap shooting. What got passed down that people might not realize? “Well, you’ve got to concentrate on your breathing,” he said. “Because when you’re about ready to shoot, you kind of have to take a deep breath and just slow your adrenaline some, and when you take that deep breath in, you hold it.” The four leaves of the 4-H clover stand for Head, Heart, Hands, and Health. “I pledge my head to clearer thinking/I pledge my heart to greater loyalty/My hands to larger service/My health to better living.” But the four H’s could also symbolize what’s truly important to dedicated shooters. In this sport, you definitely need the head, heart and hands; good health never hurts. “I don’t think they realize the focus, the responsibility you learn that goes along with it,” said Perry Bookmyer, 19, a former shooter with the Little North Mountain Club. She now helps coach some of the younger shooters. “And it takes a lot of endurance for long matches,” Bookmyer continued. “It’s one of the longest events in the Olympics. So if you’re looking at a full rifle match, it’s one of the longest things. Just being focused on what you’re doing for that long – after a match I’m always exhausted, just from the focus.” Shooting demands stability, calmness and micro-coordination, says the International Shooting Sports Federation, and also a strong, dependable index finger. Beginning shooters figure out which is their dominant eye, then practice breathing through the stomach. It breaks down to four key components, no matter what gun is being used: shooting position, aiming, pulling the trigger, and breathing. It’s specialized, no doubt, and incredibly challenging at the higher levels. Taylor, who also competes for another team in Pennsylvania, was asked what she thinks are some misconceptions about competitive shooters. “I think in some ways, they don’t realize that we’re athletes,” she said. “Not every shooter takes the athletic part serious enough, and not every shooter exercises to get better. But when you really get serious about it, you realize how important the athletic part of it is – stretching and running and doing other things
along with it. It’s very … intense.” It’s also very safe.
tive shooters, McDonald is also an avid trap and skeet shooter. For trap shooting, he uses his grandfather’s old but trusty Remington 3200 Over Under Shotgun. It’s both a testament to his family line and his thriftiness. You might be able to find McDonald’s photo in future James Wood High School yearbooks above the caption “most likely to succeed.” In the Conservation Club’s meeting-room-turned-shooting-range, 10-year-old Aiden Ockerman took his shots with a precision air rifle as his mother, Codie, stood a little behind him and to the side. Aiden is just getting started in 4-H. Codie, who describes herself as a “mountain girl” who has been in the woods since she was eight years old, has been involved in 4-H for almost as long. “It’s going slow but it’s been going well” with Aiden so far, Codie said. “He doesn’t have a lot of strength in his arms, so we’re working on that with his standing. The guns are very heavy … for his size. So it’s a little more difficult for him versus the older guys that are much bigger. So he’s having a little bit of difficulty getting it held right.” “I just want to learn so that when I do shoot real deer, I’ll be good at it,” Aiden explained. For Codie and her family, shooting isn’t just about bull’s eyes and deer season. Shooting is a way of life, a legacy she feels strongly about. “I grew up in the woods and I hunted everything,” she said. “I think the last time I was out huntin’ with my dad, I was still in college. I was still out huntin’ with my dad. So that’s kind of what we’ve always done. It’s now getting the next generation in the woods and that’s very hard because that’s not what they want to do anymore. When you don’t live in the woods, like I did, it’s even harder for the kids to understand. … I loved it, and I still love it. I just asked if I can shoot with [Aiden] sometime.” Zeroing in The aptly named Hunter Shoemaker, 15, who started shooting in 4-H when he was nine, can identify with Aiden. He started young but is now one of the Frederick County 4-H club’s top marksmen. Hunter’s
There are 18-20 salons in the area, and for us to be one of them with support from the community, is great. Their services include basic cuts, perms, coloring, facials, waxing, making extensions, whether individual or for the entire head, and are available to do participants’ hair, nail enhancements and other services for weddings, proms and homecoming events. Attending the Tenth Anniversary celebration were: Owner/Stylist Jennifer Nicholson; Assistant Manager/
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Safer than walking Feel free to pick your source, but just about any set of available numbers will indicate that 4-H shooting and other junior shooting programs (along with hunting and archery) provide the setting for some of the most worry-free activities in the youth sports world. The web site Familiesafield.org released a sports injury study, based on numbers from 2006. Out of 3,696 trap and skeet shooters under the age of 18, only 16 were injured – a rate of 0.1 percent. Football and basketball predictably topped the list as the most dangerous, but it’s even more interesting that, according to the study, shooting was safer than bowling, swimming, and even walking. Only archery and canoeing were considered safer than shooting. Some people might find all of that ironic, but not Bud Graves. Three of his sons – Cody, 13, Shepard, 11, and Garrett, 8 – fired rifles and pistols during the Little North Mountain postal match at the church. A fourth, McKinny, is on deck, but he’s only four. (Judging by the way he behaved and took in the action, McKinny will be just fine.) Bud worked with all of his sons during the match, but only helped when they needed it. He believes in this. “It’s about the safest sport out there,” Bud said. Beyond the safety, awareness, responsibility, education, knowledge and focus demonstrated by the shooters and mentors, it’s just plain fun. “When I’m shooting, I’m just comfortable on the line,” Bookmyer said. “It’s just where I’m happiest. And I’ve learned so much from it over the years.” Bookmyer could still vividly recall the moment when she realized that she was going to be a shooter for life. “My first two shots - the first shot was a 10 with a BB gun. My coach was like, ‘All right, you can shoot again.’ I shot again, and it was like, ‘Where’s the shot?’ It was inside the same exact hole. So they’re like, ‘Yeah, you can join the team.’” - mario@areaguides.com
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Belle Grove Exhibit to honor 276 slaves at plantation “We have first names of 276 people. What we don’t know is what happened to them,” Director says.
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Belle Grove signage at probable site of the slave cemetery By Teresa Brumback Warren & Frederick County Report Belle Grove Plantation near Middletown is researching the lives of 276 slaves that records show lived and worked on the plantation between 1783 and 1851 as well as what is believed to be a slave cemetery with 15 graves. The site, which is protected under the National Trust for Historic Preservation, plans to open an exhibit on the mansion’s lower level honoring these slaves when it reopens March 19 for the 2016 season. “It is a top priority that our board and staff has made, to do research
and interpretation on the enslaved community at Belle Grove,” said Executive Director Kristen Laise. “What we’re trying to do with this research is restore their humanity,” she said. “We have first names of 276 people. What we don’t know is what happened to them.” Some letters document the women of the household writing about sending slaves to their households. An enslaved man at Belle Grove wrote someone to complain that his wife was working at another plantation, the director said. The plantation was owned by Isaac Hite Jr. and his wife Nelly Madison Hite, the sister of President James
Madison. They were given the property as a gift when they were married in 1783. The first 15 enslaved Africans were deeded to Hite by his father-in-law, James Madison, Sr. and they were named Jerry, Jemmy, Sally, Milley, Eliza and her five children: Joanna, Diana, Demas, Pendar, Webster, and Truelove and her four children: Peggy, Priscilla, Henry, and Katey, according to Belle Grove’s website. Eliza and Truelove’s families would be at Belle Grove for three generations. Although no slave quarters have been found, there is a small cemetery believed to be the final resting place of some of the enslaved. The 15 enslaved people came from President Madison’s house, Montpelier in Orange County, when the Hites moved to Middletown around 1783. The slaves were a gift from the father of Nelly Madison Hite, Laise said. “It was pretty typical when someone one moving out of the household. One was a personal servant to her. One could have been to help her establish her house.” It is not known how the slaves were treated, but records show the Hites were Episcopalian. The known writings talk about the humane treat-
ment of slaves,” she said. “We have to remember that this institution (of slavery) is ultimately based on property. You treat someone well because you want to maximize their work,” Laise said. “It’s very sobering because a great number were children,” she said, adding they were as young as three years old. “The way slavery worked; anyone born into slavery was considered a slave. The only way to get more slaves was to have children since the Transatlantic Slave market was abolished. These people were property. It was pretty harsh. Treatment was basically humane but does that come from understanding the humanity of the person you’re dealing with or from the
investment since you’re dealing with human capital?” she said. Slavery was abolished with Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. But in 1783, when the plantation was in its early years, men who were brought to the farm were highly valued. But in the 1830s, even before Emancipation Proclamation, one slave, Manual Jackson, managed to get his freedom. He bought his slave son Emmanuel from the Hite family for $800, according to papers, “to solidify the sale.” Manual was a free black man. “We don’t know why but we’re looking into that.” Manual went to Pittsburgh. “Apparently a number of free black people from Northern Virginia had gone to Pennsylvania. They had abolished slavery before Virginia did. Apparently he made a deal with Isaac Hite Jr. that after Isaac’s death he could purchase his son’s freedom,” said Laise. Hite’s second wife Ann died in 1851. Her estate inventory showed she had 4-5 slaves. “Records showed 276 enslaved people came through Belle Grove, and were owned by the Hite family at some point.” With ground penetrating radar, JMU’s geology team is hoping to definitely identify the graves. Belle Grove may have spanned 7,500 acres, not necessarily in one piece, when the manor house was built between 1794 and 1797. Surveys have indicated there was a grist mill, saw mill, distillery. They grew corn,
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Read full issues FREE on www.WarrenCountyVA.com & www.FrederickCounty.com wheat and raised sheep and cattle. Open to the public since the late 1960s, Belle Grove now has just 283 acres. About the research, she said “It’s not that it hasn’t been done. But all that research on the original records, creating family trees; it hasn’t been put out to the public as much. These answers are not easy to find. Enslaved people were systematically erased from history.” Currently Belle Grove has a house tour that shares some of the history on slaves, as well as a short orientation video. A marker has been erected at what is believed to be a slave cemetery. “it shows the deed of the first 15 enslaved people who lived their entire life at Belle Grove.” Only their first names and the year they were born are now known. “The slave cemetery isn’t that big. We’re not even sure if they’ll be able to confirm burial sites,” Laise said. Late last fall, James Madison University’s geology department led by
retired professor Clarence Geier, and an archaeology student working on his doctoral dissertation at Syracuse University, began doing some work at Belle Grove, both at no charge. The student, has a master’s degree in archaeology and did some work at James Madison’s house, Montpelier, in Orange County. “He wanted to do his own research for his PhD dissertation. He asked if he could excavate the (slave) quarters at Belle Grove. The answer was, of course, ‘yes,’” said Laise. The student is following up on work done by JMU in the past on different segments of the plantation. JMU did an overall survey and dug for artifacts close to the manor house in the 1970s and 1990s. They found artifacts including a ruin of the original house and possible evidence of an outdoor kitchen that would have been used by slaves. They theorized that an area across from the parking lot was where slave quarters were located. Officials are hoping to pursue
grants through the National Trust for Historic Preservation, or if a decision is made to go to a full-blown archaeology dig, the site will pursue funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she said. The History of Belle Grove begins with the German immigration into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. In 1732, Jost Hite with his business partner Robert McKay and 16 families, journeyed to the northern Valley to settle on 140,000 acres obtained in two land grants. Isaac Hite Jr, grandson of Jost Hite attended William and Mary College and served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. In 1783, his father gave him and his bride Nelly Conway Madison, sister of a future president of the United States, the 483 acres on which Belle Grove Manor House was later built. In 1794, construction began, and was completed in 1797. The grand mansion was built with limestone quarried on the property and faced the Valley Pike to display the owners’ social and financial sta-
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tus. Isaac and Nelly Hite had three children and two lived to adulthood. After the death of Nelly in 1802, Major Hite married Ann Tunstall Maury, with whom he had ten children. In 1815, as the family grew, an addition was made at the west end of the original house to create the 100foot facade as it stands today. The grain and livestock plantation continued to grow until Major Hite controlled 7,500 acres of land. Hite also owned a general store, a grist-mill, a saw-mill and a distillery. Hite family records indicate that they owned 276 slaves at Belle Grove between the dates of 1783 and 1851. Although no slave quarters are extant there is a small cemetery believed to be the final resting place of some of the enslaved. Extensive research is underway to learn more about the individuals that were enslaved at Belle Grove and about their lives and families. Major Isaac Hite, Jr. died in 1836, and nine years after Ann’s death in 1851, Belle Grove was sold out of the
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Wildcat and Hawks seniors battle in final game of season Wildcats played hard at Conference 28 Tournament against Hawks, but Skyline netted 64-50 victory
1. Coach Tony Clark tries to motivate his Warren County Wildcats at Skyline By Mario Orlikoff Warren & Frederick County Report If you were sitting right behind the Warren County High School boys’ basketball bench and listening closely, you could hear the final instructions of the season from the Wildcats’ head coach, Tony Clark. Clark, a Wildcat but also a bear of a man, sat in front of his team, eyes undeniably moist, and said: “I love you all. I’m going to miss you all.” Seconds that seemed like minutes went by without any sound from the coach or players. The din of cheerleaders, fans and music didn’t seem to penetrate the invisible, soundproof bubble. Then Clark quietly concluded the huddle: “So let’s just go play hard, and play the rest of this one out.” To their credit, the Wildcats did just that, even though they were trailing by double digits late in the fourth quarter of the Conference 28 Tournament win-or-go-home quarterfinal showdown on Feb. 11 against the Skyline High School Hawks. The game was played at Skyline, which is 2.7 miles or eight minutes away from Warren County High School. In those last minutes, Warren County senior guard Clyde Ritchie hit jumper after jumper after jumper, scoring six of his 16 points in blazing fashion. Senior forward Darrell Mills blocked shots and gave up space in the middle only grudgingly. Junior guard Cam Ford, who led Warren County with 22 heroic points, furiously forced the action. Right to the finish, the Wildcats (and the Hawks) played as if the score was 0-0. When the buzzer sounded, Skyline walked off with a 64-50 victory that set up the Hawks with a semifinal challenge against top-seeded Culpeper County the following week. The Hawks would have to travel, but they would live to play another game, and maybe pull off an upset. Meanwhile, the Wildcats, especially their
senior standouts - Ritchie, Mills and brothers Robert and Joseph Rutherford - would have to live with the fact that their 8-15 season ended with a loss to their closest rivals, guys they may have played with and against in the junior leagues and middle school. Ritchie was soft-spoken but forthcoming when asked for his thoughts after the game. “Since it’s my last game and it’s
2. TrayQuan Diamond hits one of nine free throws for Skyline also my birthday, it was tough losing cross-town,” he said. “But they played a good game. I felt like we had our ups and downs, but I loved the season. I love my team. I love my coaching staff. And I feel like Warren County athletics is just going to move forward and become the teams of this county, and we’ll make an impact in the state soon.” Ritchie picked up his fourth foul early in the fourth quarter when the game was possibly still in doubt, so
Clark pulled him. As the Hawks sustained their lead and the end result became apparent, Ritchie re-entered the game. For the final 2:57, he was a left-handed, 5-foot-10, 165-pound whirlwind, competing as if his team was down by six instead of 16. “Clyde finished strong,” Clark, who finished his first season as Warren County’s coach, said. “We kind of put the four seniors out there at the end and let them play it out. … Those four seniors are great kids. You can’t
ask for anything more from them. I mean, they’re like the easiest kids to coach, hard workers, great manners, great personalities, good kids. So we’ll miss ’em.” Ritchie talked about the anxiety of sitting on the bench as the seconds ticked away on his high school basketball experience. “It was the last game and we were down and I didn’t want to go out in my last game,” Ritchie said. “I didn’t want to go out sitting on the bench so I asked him if I could go back in. At least let me foul out. If I’m going to sit, give me a reason. … Go out with one last … with a bang.” It was also a highly symbolic night for Skyline. Sure, the Hawks would still be practicing for another game. They had earned more time to hope and dream March Madness-style (February fever?) But this was likely the senior Hawks’ final official run on their home court. And no, they weren’t going out like that, not against Warren County, of all people. Skyline senior point guard TrayQuan Diamond, who scored 17 points with eight rebounds and four assists, was the best, most polished player on the court. It can’t be a coincidence that he wears No. 1. Senior forward Antwain Swain (12 points, seven rebounds) was the most effective player on the court. That
Read full issues FREE on www.WarrenCountyVA.com & www.FrederickCounty.com combo of talent and experience, together with the versatility of senior forward Ted Casile (11 points) and the dynamism of sophomore guard Colin Smith (14 points), broke down Warren County’s scrapping, 2-3 zone press and 2-3 half-court defense. During the regular season, Warren County won 53-51 at Skyline in January. This was after Skyline had won 56-55 at Warren County in December before the holiday break. Why was this do-or-die tie-breaker so different? “I was pleased with the way our guys played tonight,â€? said Skyline head coach Jeff Monroe, “I thought for the first time all year we played a complete game. ‌ Our defense was the difference tonight. Our guys did a really good job of closing out on their shooters and rebounding tonight. I was pleased with that but we also got some good contributions from our bench tonight. Ted Casile - he stepped in tonight and made some
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4. After his final high school game, Clyde Ritchie leaves the gym with his parents, Robert and Conny of the press or the breaking down of the defense, often passing to the reliable Swain in the middle, who would either take a high-percentage shot or pass to a teammate, often Smith and Casile finishing on the wing. And to state the obvious: Diamond had a lot of success creating on his own within the team framework. He got to the free throw line 11 times and made nine points off the efforts. “I think their seniors played pretty tough,� Clark admitted. “Same with our seniors. Nobody wants the season to end. They were playing at home. Their seniors stepped up, but you know, we’ll move on. We’re excited about the core we have coming back. We’re going to be a lot stronger next year.� Long after the game, Ritchie was about to push on the Skyline High
School doors and head into the freezing night. He was wearing a Warren County hoodie and carrying his red game shoes. Ritchie’s mother, Conny, put her arm around his waist, and Clyde’s father, Robert, stood beside them and smiled while holding the car keys. They were asked to pose for a photo. “I think I’m going to cry,� Conny said before the click. It was time for her son to leave high school basketball, and all it has done for him, behind. It was time continue focusing on the next phase, college, and perhaps a spot in a basketball program like that of Virginia Southern’s. It was time to head off and celebrate an 18th birthday, and all of the potential that it represents. – mario@areaguides.com
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Va. State Police Investigation continues into Frederick County shooting The investigation remains ongoing into the officer-involved shooting that took place Sunday morning (February 7, 2016) in the Clear Brook area of Frederick County. On February 7, 2016, at approxi-
mately 10:01 am, Deputies from the Frederick County Sheriff ’s Office responded to the 300 block of Browns Lane in reference to a 911 call concerning an armed subject threatening suicide. Deputies responded to the residence and despite their efforts to calm Charles H. Cook Jr., 42, of Clear Brook, Va., he became more agitated and fired his weapon at the deputies. A deputy returned fire striking Cook. He was transported to the Winchester Medical Center, where he is still being treated for a serious but non-life threatening wound. The scene was secured and, at the request of the Frederick County Sheriff ’s Office, the incident will be investigated by the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Culpeper Field Office’s Police. Charges are pending against Cook as the investigation remains ongoing.
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FRIBA president Craig Laird answers questions about the local small business group and its role in helping independent operators By Timothy Ratigan Warren & Frederick County Report On February 12, this reporter sat down with Craig Laird, local business owner and president of the Front Royal Independent Business Alliance, (FRIBA) to discuss the role of the organization, and how it benefits the area. We met at Shenandoah Confections, a business recently acquired by Laird. Over the last several years, Laird and other members of FRIBA have been familiar faces at town council meetings and work sessions, where Laird has spoken in front of the council on several issues related to small businesses in Front Royal. I asked him several questions regarding the organization and its current and future role for the small business owners in Front Royal. Q. What is FRIBA? A. FRIBA is the Front Royal Independent Business Alliance. It’s a group that is an affiliate of the national American Independent Business Alliance, an organization that has chapters such as ours. There are 80-some chapters around the United States and it was formed to help the ‘buy local, shop local and live local’ movement. Our job is to support local and independent businesses and lift their voices up amongst the noise
of all of the big box stores and to help give them strength in numbers. Q. How old is FRIBA, when was it founded and established here in Front Royal? A. We started FRIBA in 2012 so we are coming up on our fourth year. We had our initial launch ceremony out at the Apple House and within the first year we gained about 70 members. Q. Moving onto the relationship with elected bodies. What is FRIBA’s relationship with the Front Royal Town Council and Warren County Board of Supervisors? A. One of the roles of FRIBA as an advocacy group, is to support our membership by raising issues before the town council and board of supervisors. To find common ground where we can meet together and identify strengths and weakness within the community from the small independent business owner prospective. Q. You’ve had a couple of changeovers on the town council since FRIBA was launched. Have you been able to work with the council? Has it been for the most part a pleasant experience? A. Dealing with municipal bodies is always challenging form a business point of view. So we try to find all the common ground we can. And
our mantra, so to speak, at the moment is ‘Positive but firm’. So we try to address everything in a positive manner. For example, we, along with the chamber of commerce and Economic Development Authority, have helped write the job description for the new community development director’s position that the town is looking for. We have aided council in helping them figure out what they want. We are continuing to work with the council to finish getting the lights across Main Street, which is an ongoing project. It is looking pretty positive that that measure is going to continue. We also partner with the town for events such as the ‘Taste of the Town’ and the New Year’s Eve celebration which we are hoping to host this coming year. Q. Speaking of the Taste of the Town, can you dispel any rumors that you will not be holding the Taste of the Town this year? A. What we found is that this what we really want, a family oriented event-safe and fun for families. It attracts families down to Main Street to see what Front Royal and Warren County have to offer. I haven’t heard any rumors but if there are any of them out there, I am happy to dispel them. We are eager and looking forward to having our next ‘Taste of the Town’ in May, the Friday before the Wine and Craft Festival. so we can provide a destination weekend of events for people to come to. So it’s not just one event that is sitting out there, we now have a weekend full of events. So yes, we are excited about having the ‘Taste of the Town’ in May. And we are talking about the role of possibly having it in September before the Annual Festival of Leaves as well. It is a lot of hard work to put together and work with the community and the Chamber of Commerce. But we do have a lot of fun with it. When we put the tables out and the people sit down at the tables to sample the food and talk to their neighbors, it really shows how much the community cares. Town Council Q. When you last spoke in front of the council you brought up some concerns regarding the Royal Phoenix Site. Any new updates on that? A. We have addressed our concerns to the town and to the county. We understand that they have broken ground on the IT Federal site. But one thing we have to keep in mind is that small businesses and local independent businesses are the core of the town and we need to make sure we recognize that and see what we can do to support that. If we don’t have a center of town then we don’t really have a town. Q. The Mayor has expressed at least an interest in the possibility of establishing some sort of guidelines
to allow food trucks to come into the area. What are your thoughts on that? A. Some of these eateries on Main Street are members of FRIBA and I haven’t heard of any concerns or negative responses from any of them. When you have a brand name, a fast food restaurant, you can stand there and look out the window and see it’s competition. Competition breeds good results. So having food trucks as an addition, they have them in many communities, they have food truck rodeos out there. It is really springing up around the country. Again I haven’t heard anything negative about having food trucks from the eateries. I don’t think it is an imposition as long as you have them pay for a business license as was discussed with the town. Consider the old Avtex Property, as they start with construction of IT Federal. What better place for a food truck? I’m good friends with Marco Gabby who has Gabby’s Grub that he just started. He is a resident of the community and he has a food truck. It was down here for the Front Royal New Year’s celebration back in December. His empanadas are really dreamy, they are fantastic. Food trucks are not what some people might envision with the cleanliness and the outstanding food. These trucks are now regulated by the health department and they are really spic and span and they really do have great food. We are looking at this as a chance to bring in some competition and even partner with them in some way. It has shown to work really well in other localities. It has been shown that the more quality restaurants you bring to your downtown area the more traffic you bring to the area. Q. What type of education and outreach programs does FRIBA have to bring more attention to the downtown area? A. When a new business or businesses come to the area we try to stress that they have regular business hours, posted hours, so when people do come down town they find those businesses ready and willing to wait on them. Nobody wants to come see the ‘closed for the afternoon’ sign on the doors. And it is hard, every community has this problem. What we hope to do, is in conjunction with town and small businesses development centers’ resources and the Chamber of Commerce, is to educate and inform the community and businesses in better ways to conduct their businesses to get them up a level from having a single owner business to having a couple of hires so they can go out and attend meetings and go to banks and run those important errands. At this point we touched on a controversial decision by Town Council, one that was spearheaded by Coun-
cilwoman Bébhinn Egger. This was the vote to remove the cameras at the gazebo area on Main St. Q. Has there been any feedback regarding the issue of Councilwoman Egger spearheading the movement to remove the security cameras at the gazebo? A. Oh yes, I would say 100 percent of the businesses that I have reached out to feel that those security cameras at the gazebo were necessary and should be put back. The privacy issue of people going around conducting their business and being seen on camera happens around America. The security of America is made better in a lot of cases by having security cameras, whether you go to an ATM, or if you go to a council meeting and you have a camera that pans the public. I really don’t see any difference regarding lack of privacy or lack of liberty going about your daily lives. The police department obviously felt it was a very necessary item to have those cameras posted at the gazebo. There was no public discussion before the decision was made. Q. Back to FRIBA, other than the Taste of the Town are there any other events you are looking forward to? A. We are working with the Chamber of Commerce, People’s Inc., and the Small Business Development Center to do different workshops and presentations around the community to help businesses. We are looking forward to Independents Week, the first week in July that we celebrate nationally. [Editor’s note: National Independents Week is an annual campaign to engage local independent businesses and citizens in celebrating entrepreneurial spirit and the freedom that local businesses embody. Independents Week also is an occasion to recognize small businesses’ contributions to the community–and to affirm citizens’ role in shaping their community’s future. Source: www.amiba.net/buy-localcampaigns/indie-week/] We are also working on some ‘Farm to Table’ initiatives. That is where the local producers of produce and meats etc., work with restaurants and other organizations to help with sustainability. This means what is grown and produced in your area stays in your area. This is an idea that has been sweeping the nation for a few years now. In closing, Laird explained that the ‘Taste of the Town’ also helps a couple of the local food banks in the local area. A certain percentage of funds raised from the event goes to C-Cap and other food banks in the area again, with the stress on, ‘what is raised in your local community stays in your local community’. I believe it is safe to say that FRIBA will be a fixture of downtown Front Royal and yes, even in a small way, local small town politics as well. – tim@areaguides.com
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Herbalist’s business blossoms from garage to backyard
Sondra B. Johnson showcases her herbal formulations at the Highland County Maple Festival 2015
Some of Sondra’s plants used in her “Common Scents” herbal treatments By Teresa Brumback Warren & Frederick County Report Sondra Johnson enjoys the heady aromas and hues of flowers and herbs as much as any woman, especially during Valentine’s Day. But just as much, she enjoys discussing their other benefits such as their capacity for healing. A minister’s wife and a self-taught herbalist, she runs a web-based business “Nature’s Common Scents” from the 20-acre farmette she and her husband the Rev. Larry Johnson run near Rivermont. It’s also her personal ministry, to help people and to share her knowledge through workshops on soap-making in crockpots, among others. Saying she focuses on skin issues with her products, Sondra points out that she isn’t claiming to cure any diseases, only to help relieve symptoms such as pain, itchiness, dry or chapped skin. “I was appalled when I was doing research. Ever the things that are geared toward skin problems so often have alcohol or chemicals that make the product smell better or last longer in the jar. But you can achieve a lot of that with using plants,” she said. In her backyard Sondra has grown many of the herbs and flowers for her own formulations. Everything is made with plants except for a few ingredients including beeswax, honey and Shea butter as the base for her creams. When her business started taking off like a weed, she had to cut back.
She stopped growing most of what she uses because the work in growing, harvesting, then the long hours of drying the plants and herbs was overwhelming. Instead, she turned to buying most of her ingredients from organic wholesalers as she still does. Today she’s taking a little more time to sniff the roses but she’s still doing a bustling business with roughly 10 orders a week--not too shabby for a one-woman shop. She makes and sells soaps, creams including one for wrinkles and another for acne, shampoos and more. Altogether she has around 30 products that are mostly $20 or less. A bar of soap, weighing more than 5 ounces, sells for $7. The popular Virginia Mountain Mint bar is made with wild mint that grows and spreads on her farm. It is refreshing; its scent is mild, not overpowering. She uses everything from comfrey to lemon balm, lemon verbena, elder, valerian, rose, aloe, echinacea, eucalyptus and most of the culinary herbs including basil, sage, parsley, thyme, and lavender. None of her products need to be refrigerated. They can last up to six months, she says, adding that vitamin E oil, grapefruit seed extract and pennyroyal will prevent mold growth. One of her top products is an acne wash with ingredients including plant-based castile soap, essential oils of lavender, tea tree oil, lemon and aloe, and sunflower seed oil. The special formulas begin with
Sondra’s son Larry II pours and weighs creams for the “Common Scents” business her own research. “I do research to see what should be used and shouldn’t. Some dermatologists had gotten together with naturopaths to come up with something, or I’ll find recipes, or because I’ve worked with a plant. These are all original recipes.” They are infused either with a plant oil or essential oil or water. The work is exhausting at times but extremely rewarding. At one of the craft shows she appears in, she says, “I had a woman come up and say her husband had just finished radiation for cancer. She asked me if I had anything that would help the burns. “The only thing that would help is the ‘comfort cream.’ She told her. She wrote me about how it worked.” Another customer used one of her products for shingles. “When it comes to skin there is nothing like using a real plant,” she said. However, she notes, “I would never tell people not to use their medicine when it comes to diabetes or heart” or other diseases. “While I think there are things that will help, when it comes to your skin, the more natural (the product), the more likely you are to heal.” Her theory is that all plants are here for a reason. “My theory is where God has put people on the earth, there are plants to help them. I don’t need to get something from India or China. God
wouldn’t make the mistake of putting people in an area where they couldn’t get a plant that would help them,” the herbalist says. However, she notes, “I use cinnamon and that’s not outside my door and never will be, but most of what I use will grow locally.” Sondra considers the business her ministry. “When people have a problem and can’t afford to buy it” she says she has given her products away. “It’s important for me to price my products so that anyone who needs a skin product can afford it. It’s much less than prescriptions. It’s been shown to work when people have
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tried everything.” Both plants and people have cells. That much we know. “I don’t believe we know everything. They work synergistically with each other,” she explains. Her son Jim, an attorney who once suffered from psoriasis, claims that nothing else has helped him the way his mother’s products have, she says. “He still tells me it’s the best thing he used topically.” Asked if she has an anti-aging formula, she replies that her antiwrinkle oil works against the formation of wrinkles. In it are carrot seed oil, wheat germ oil, myrrh and frankincense, and the essence from a pink geranium called rose geranium. The product sells for $12 to $23 depending on size. One drop will cover the face. A small jar lasts about six months, she says. Sondra is quick to point out she is not making any medical claims. “I don’t make any claims for my products. I say what the herbs are known to do.” While their benefits have been known since early man, and Native Americans and ancient cultures for centuries, they are making a comeback in the U.S. Here, the Mayo Clinic is doing more “in the herbal realm,” she says. She notes that in some countries that her husband had visited, Sondra says residents are given the choice to go to either a regular hospital or a natural medicine practice for their medical treatments. Those countries include India, Germany and England. Sondra is an author of magazines and books and an editor. She grew up in Falls Church and moved to Warren County in 2000. Her husband Larry, a retired Marine specializing in education, is the Bishop of the Anglican Church of Virginia. He oversees churches all over the U.S. For more information, contact her at 635-7073; or sondrancs@embarzmail.com, or visit her website at naturescommonscents.com – brumback@areaguides.com
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;To Catch a Tigerâ&#x20AC;? recalls Massive Resistance Front Royal native Jim Bennettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book takes reader back to the Front Royal of 1959
Front Royal native Jim Bennett has written the book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;To Catch a Tiger,â&#x20AC;? that takes readers back to the Front Royal of 1958 By Carol Ballard Warren & Frederick County Report The main character in Jim Bennettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book â&#x20AC;&#x153;To Catch a Tigerâ&#x20AC;? can remember vividly the moment when his mother told him to never say the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nâ&#x20AC;? word. He was seven years old and innocently reading the Eeny-meeny-miney moe rhyme to his younger brother and his mom told him to substitute Tiger for the ignorant word. It illus-
trates how deep the prejudices went, and how difficult it was to change them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To Catch a Tigerâ&#x20AC;? carries on that theme from that first chapter until the last paragraph. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Throughout the book, there are references to tigers. There are numerous explanations of why,â&#x20AC;? Bennett said, mysteriously and partially
explaining what inspired the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name. To find out, people will have to read the book. Front Royal native Jim Bennettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cousin was a senior in Warren County High School in 1959. She was all ready to graduate and get on with the rest of her life, but due to events surrounding integration and massive resistance, she became a member of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the lost classâ&#x20AC;?, students who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get their diplomas until a few years ago, when the state decided to issue them. He decided to write a book about those turbulent times in Front Royalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. He was here during those times too, but went to private school in 8th grade in 1958-9, but attended Randolph Macon Academy, starting in the ninth grade in 1959, which gave him what he calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;a ringside seat to watch the eventsâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t because of the integration issue, I always wanted to go to RMA from when I was a kid. My cousins went there and I liked the uniforms,â&#x20AC;? he said. While doing research for the book, he met James Kilby Jr., whose father, James Kilby Sr., had a major role in getting equal rights for the black students, and interviewed numerous people, including as much information as possible in his book. He describes the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style as â&#x20AC;&#x153;creative narrative non-fiction.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all true, but fictional elements are introduced. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The intent is to portray what people thought, their reactions, beliefs, feelings and the culture at the time, to be faithful to that. I did add fictional elements to a historical story. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to write a history book. Some things several individual people did, I combined into one charac-
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General of Virginia, he argued the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case for segregation of public schools before the Supreme Court in the case of Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, which was consolidated with Brown v. Board of Education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 1957, he was elected Democratic Governor of Virginia, and took office in January 1958 for a single term that ended in 1962. One of his notable accomplishments as Governor was ending massive resistance against the desegregation of schools, in opposition to other highprofile southern politicians. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heeding the advice of several within his own party, including Senator Mosby G. Perrow, Jr., Almond realized that opposition to desegregation was ultimately futile as the state continued to lose in the courts; when Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stanley plan, the package of laws which implemented massive resistance, were declared unconstitutional he changed the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policy, adopting the proposals of the Perrow Commission.â&#x20AC;? During the closing of the high school, and when black students were allowed to go there, many white students went to school in various buildings, homes and churches. Because of the actions of several local attorneys, who got people in charge in Richmond to support the private school accreditation, those students whose parents could afford the private schooling got credit for graduation, and could go on to college. Students started John S. Mosby Academy in eighth grade. The school opened in 1959 in an attempt to separate white students from black students. Although Warren County (Front Royal) was able to educate white students with the help of churches and
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terâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions. When I looked at the timeline, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a typical story with protagonist, antagonist or conflict, so I spiced it up without changing actual events. I took great liberties, and even included a murder which didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen at that time,â&#x20AC;? he said. The character in the story goes to public school. He isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t based on Bennett. He explained that his own personal experience was too complicated, but all the other characters are based on real people or a combination of several people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This makes it easier for the reader to follow actions, thoughts and feelings,â&#x20AC;? he said. He believes that everyone in the Front Royal area would have fun recognizing many of the 35 main characters in the story, but he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use their real names. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They come and go, you can read a little about one, then it jumps to another. I was advised that stories should have only five or six main characters, but I tried to tell the whole story,â&#x20AC;? he said. The story follows the lives of Davey MacLaren, who is white, and Jackie King, who is black. Bennett said they meet once in the book, are friendly and have a good time. They hope to keep in touch, but only meet once again, although they have somewhat parallel lives. Warren County High School was closed by Governor Lindsay Almond to avoid integration, but in his speech at the graduation ceremony for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;lost classâ&#x20AC;? in the theater on Main Street, he shifted his stance, and eventually became one of the leaders advocating integration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want the federal government to take over the schools,â&#x20AC;? explained Bennett. According to historians, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 1948, when Almond was elected Attorney
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Read full issues FREE on www.WarrenCountyVA.com & www.FrederickCounty.com philanthropic organizations such as the American Friends Service Committee, when Warren County High School re-opened, it was an all-black school, since no white students enrolled. Their parents had opted instead to send their children to the John S. Mosby Academy (named after a Confederate cavalry leader), one of many “segregation academies”, which were private schools opened throughout the state as part of the massive resistance plan. Over the course of the 1960s, white students gradually returned to Warren County High School and Mosby Academy closed eventually, becoming the county’s middle school. One of the interesting things Bennett does with the book is to take the reader back to a time in Front Royal that is gone now. Not all of it was great, but the time when downtown was thriving is mourned by many, especially the remaining downtown businesses and people who enjoyed shopping there. “I count over fifty businesses within walking distance in the commercial area that centers on Main Street. You’ll see that our downtown is basi-
cally a triangle. One leg is Royal Avenue, which is right in front of us. It runs north-south and intersects right here on our left with the Main Street which is the second leg, running eastwest. The third side of the triangle is Chester Street, which is east of here. We can walk the entire area in about twenty minutes,” observed one character in the fourth chapter. Another excerpt from the book reveals the root of the problem which is now generally not mourned. “They crossed Royal Avenue at the crosswalk and walked west on Main Street. Rogieri (a visitor to the town) noticed two barber shops side by side on the other side of the street. They had signs in their windows; one sign read ‘colored,’ and the other read ‘white only.’ “‘I’m definitely in the South,’ Rogieri reminded himself.” One fascinating thing about the book was how it described some of the places that were there, as recently as 20 years ago, like Newberry’s Five and Dime Store and its lunch counter on Main Street, where people gathered for coffee in the morning, or had a quick lunch. Also, it was sobering
to remember how long it used to take to get to Front Royal from New York City. “We took two days (from New York City) mainly because I wanted to make the trip as easy as possible for my wife. If I had been driving by myself, I would have made the trip in a single day. I figure it took us about eleven hours all total,” said the visiting CEO. Bennett was born and raised in Front Royal, but left a few years after college to live in upstate New York which is where his wife is from. He still has ties here, though. His brother and sister-in-law still live here, and he visits occasionally. He came back recently to RMA for his 50th reunion, and keeps in touch mostly through Facebook. “I think this is an important story that needs to be told – it’s more complicated than has been told or people remember,” Bennett said, in conclusion. He added that people who have read it tell him, “It’s a page-turner, I couldn’t stop reading it.” “An author always likes to hear that!!” he said.
Late February, 2016 • Warren & Frederick County Report • Page 25 Bennett will join several local Virginia authors and aspiring writers at a free, half-day conference at Samuels Library for Samuels Authorcon 2016 on March 19. Authors will be there to sell books, and Bennett will have copies of his books there. “I would also like to share information about self-publishing. If I had taken the book to a publishing company, it would have taken two to three years, but it has done well because I published it myself,” he said. He said he has “struck it rich” with
Amazon, and has written books with them before. “This is an exciting time in the writing world. You can write, self-publish and do quite well with it,” he said. Jim Bennett is retired, from teaching, is an artist and writer. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University and lives in Poughkeepsie, NY. He can be contacted at jim@riverflow.com, and his book, “To Catch a Tiger”, published December 5, 2015, is available on Amazon. – carol@areaguides.com
Subway opens at LFCC’s Middletown campus
Net profits from the new Subway will support LFCC’s Educational Foundation which owns the franchise Lord Fairfax Community College (LFCC) opened a new Subway restaurant on January 25 in the Student Union building at the Middletown Campus. The official Subway grand opening will be Thursday, March 3 and will include a ribbon cutting at 4:00 p.m. with the Top of Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Subway’s slogan is “Eat Fresh,” which is precisely what the college is hoping to provide. Drew Allen, Food Service and Catering Manager says, “At LFCC, we feel it is our responsibility to offer healthy and freshly made food options for students and employees, and we can do this at a fair price by operating a Subway on campus.” What makes the franchise unique is that it is owned by the LFCC Educational Foundation. The Foundation also owns and financed the $9 million Student Union, which opened in January 2014 and was built on property donated to the Foundation in 1995 by local farmer Garland Snapp. “Net profits from our campus
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Page 26 • Warren & Frederick County Report • Late February, 2016 FREDERICK, from 21 auditions will compete in the semifinals April 6, and winners from that event will compete in the finals April 27. The finals will be held during the 89th festival whose theme is Unforgettable! All contests will begin at 7 p.m. at the Bright Box in downtown Winchester. Prizes awarded at the final event include first place, $5,000; second place, $1,500, and third place, $500. Rules and guidelines are posted on the festival’s web site, thebloom.com. Click on SABF info and then on the word forms. A sample of talent and background music must be included with the application. A URL or MP3 is needed for the application process. Audience tickets for the auditions are $10 in the downstairs theater and $5 for the upstairs location. Visit thebloom.com for registration and ticket information. Call the festival office at 540-662-3863. Email info@sabf.org. First annual travel expo in Winchester This Sunday, February 21st will be the opening of the first annual Travel Expo in Winchester, Virginia. Although travel expos happen all the time in the DC Metropolitan area, New York and Los Angelos, the Alpha Voyages Travel Expo will be a first for the Winchester – Frederick County areas. “It has been my dream for twenty eight years to do this. When I started in 1988, I had no idea where the life as a travel agent would take me. Today, I have been to every continent in the world and love it all,” said Mary June Williams, president of Alpha Voyages travel agency. It is my hope that people new to the travel world will begin by exploring the Shenandoah Valley utilizing the planning tools offered on Go Blue Ridge Travel and the Shenandoah Valley Kids Trail. Then once the travel fever hits, they can expand their trips to anywhere in the world they would like to go.” The Alpha Voyages Travel Expo offers people in this area the opportunity to meet travel experts face to face. The Travel Expo will have thirteen travel specialists. There will also be testimonial couples you can talk to about travel experiences like scuba diving, the romance of Sandals, and fun family travel trips. We will also have a regional managers from San-
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of Justice Committee, ACLU-VA Executive Director Claire Guthrie Gastañaga said concerns expressed about the implications of HB 893, sponsored by Del. Michael Webert (R-Marshall), on the ability of police to respond when needed to disorderly conduct are unfounded. “Fighting words” or speech meant to incite a riot are addressed in other statutes that can be used to prosecute disorderly conduct or use of abusive language against another person. HB 893 does no more than delete unconstitutional language covering the use of profanity to express viewpoints. “Profane language, as the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed long ago, remains protected by the First Amendment, however, because it reflects personal viewpoints and is not associated with prohibited conduct,” Gastañaga’s letter states. “It would be hard to argue this is not a clearly established constitutional right” that gives rise to a claim for money damages against any officer who tries to enforce it. Currently, profanely swearing or cursing in public is punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor. A Courts of Justice subcommittee voted to recommend tabling the decriminalization billon Thursday but the full committee can still bring the bill back for a vote when it meets next week.
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R-MA Senior Alice Gong Makes All-Virginia Chorus Randolph-Macon Academy senior Jingwen “Alice” Gong from Beijing, China, has earned a spot on the AllVirginia (a.k.a. All-State) Chorus, an elite group comprised of some of the top high school singers from all parts of Virginia. “Alice is only the second student from R-MA to make it into this prestigious group,” said R-MA Chorus Director Michael DeMato. (The first was Margot Cramer of Winchester, in 2013.) DeMato wasn’t surprised by Gong’s success, since she had scored first out of all soprano 1’s during the regional competition back in November 2015. The All-Virginia Chorus Concert will be on Saturday, April 30, in Vir-
New arts organization launches in Front Royal A new organization in support of the arts, artists and collectors launched operations in Front Royal and Luray as 2015 ended. The brainchild of long time Front Royal native, Bryane Miller Lickson, herself an artist of national repute, Lalo, Inc. is the corporate anagram for “Let Art Live On”. Bryane Miller Lickson and her husband, Charles “Chips” Lickson are the Founders of Lalo, Inc. headquartered in Front Royal, Virginia.
“We wanted to be certain that our artworks,, original paintings, drawings and sculptures, would not end up in storage, someone’s attic or the trash pile”, said Mrs. Lickson, Chairperson of the new Company’s Board of Directors Charles Lickson added, “People can see our art and those of outstanding artists because the Company operates both an online gallery, called “Studio Bee Gallery” on our website, http:/letartliveon.com or www.letartliveon.com and physical galleries in both Front Royal and Luray.” The Front Royal gallery is located inside JENNerations Hair Studio near Martins Store in the Royal Plaza Shopping Center. Jennifer Nicholson, principal of JENNerations, is one of the Founding Directors of the Company. A large wall in the waiting area of the Hair Studio is the first location of Studio Bee Gallery in the Town of Front Royal. There are more than 16 original paintings, pastels and drawings are on display there.. These represent work by area artists and others. In Luray, the Studio Bee Gallery is located in the Expressions Room of the Warehouse Art Gallery, a very large facility operated by artist and sculptor, Jim Mayes. The Warehouse Art Gallery is on the Artisans Tour of Virginia and contains almost 10,000 square feet of display space. In that Gallery, one can see artworks by not only Lalo artists but also artists from all over the Eastern U.S. “Please visit our galleries online or at our physical locations in both Front Royal and Luray”, encouraged the Licksons. “It doesn’t cost anything to look and maybe you’ll fall in love with a wonderful piece of art – and, in turn, support the good work of an area artist.” They added. Lalo, Inc. also provides an opportunity to join the Lalo Society and support the mission of the new organization as well as have fun being with fellow artists, art lovers and supporters. Information about membership in the Lalo Society can be found on the firm’s website listed above, by emailing Charles Lickson at: clickson@letartliveon.com or by calling him at: 540-636-2515. Photo courtest of Tom Wible. Suicide On February 4, 2016 at 5:42 pm the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office responded to a report of a male slumped over in a vehicle in the WalMart parking lot with a possible gunshot wound. Warren County Fire and Rescue units arrived and the male was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident is being investigated as a suicide at this time. There were no other individuals involved. The situation did not cause immediate concern for the safety of the patrons of the Wal-Mart store and there was no need for evacuation. A small portion of the parking lot of Wal-Mart was blocked during the course of the investigation. Warren County Sheriff ’s Office units cleared the scene at 11:34 pm.
Energy Services Department relocating The Town’s Energy Services Department currently located at 520A E. 6th Street will be CLOSED on Tuesday, Febraury 23, 2016 to relocate their offices to 1101 Manassas Avenue. They will re-open on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at their new facility located on Manassas Avenue Extended. There is a guard on duty due to other Town facilities located in this area. The office hours and phone number for the new Energy Service Department remain unchanged; 7:00am – 3:30pm, Monday-Friday, excluding holidays, (540)635-3027. Join Randolph-Macon Academy for a 5K Fun Run commemorating the 100th Anniversary of JROTC Randolph Macon Academy will celebrate the 100th JROTC Anniversary with a 5K Fun Run Event on April 23, 2016 on the RandolphMacon Academy campus. As part of a worldwide commemoration of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) 100th Anniversary, the run event is unique in that participants around the world start and run/walk simultaneously. Registration is open now and the public is encouraged to participate to support JROTC. The event begins at 11:00 a.m. at Randolph-Macon Academy. Please visit bit.ly/JROTCrun for details and registration. Outstanding Students Rachel Reitz, a junior English major at Grove City College, has been named to the Dean’s List with High Distinction for the Fall 2015 semester. Rachel is a 2013 graduate of Lighthouse Baptist Academy and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Reitz (Patricia) from Winchester, VA. Students eligible for the Dean’s List have a GPA of 3.40 to 3.59; for the Dean’s List with Distinction a GPA of 3.60 to 3.84 and for the Dean’s List with High Distinction a GPA of 3.85 to 4.0. Matthew Vitagliano of Clear Brook has earned a weekly track & field award from the Liberty League. A sophomore, Vitagliano (James Wood HS) earned Field Performer of the Week after he recorded first-place finishes in both the long jump (6.49 meters) and the triple jump (13.58 meters) on Saturday. In the long, he out-jumped 16 other competitors, including teammate Alex Monaco, who was runner-up, by four centimeters. In the triple jump, Vitagliano defeated 15 others with his best leap of 13.58 meters. The runner-up had a jump of 13.40 meters. Vitagliano was honored once prior to this week, February 1. Students at Randolph-Macon Academy participated in the annual school science fair on February 10, 2016. A total of 18 students earned scores high enough to send them to
the regional science fair to be held at James Madison University on March 8, 2016. The following local students were among those earning the top scores: Haley Clingerman of Middletown, the daughter of Anthony and Danielle Clingerman of Middletown, received honorable mention in the Middle School Division for her project, “Exceptional Equitation,” which focused on the physics of horseback riding. Haley is a seventh grade student at Randolph-Macon Academy. Jacob Karen of Winchester, the son of Matthew Karen and Santa D’Alessio of Winchester, received honorable mention in the Upper School Division for his project, “Rockin’ Around the Petri Dish,” which focused on the effect of music on bacterial growth. Jake is a freshman at Randolph-Macon Academy. Demolition of Old South Fork Bridge The Town of Front Royal has been notified by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) that demolition of the old South Fork Bridge will begin Monday, February 29, 2016. The demolition will NOT include any blasting, but will be accomplished by removing all the concrete and cutting the steel girders. The demolition will take approximately 4 months from start to finish. Business Forum The Town of Front Royal invites business owners and operators to the Town’s Business Forum on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 6:00pm in the Front Royal Administration Building located at 102 E. Main Street. The Business Forum offers an opportunity to discuss issues related to conducting business in Front Royal with Town Staff. Topics of discussion will include issues pertinent to businesses in the community. Staff will be available to discuss ways that the Town can improve business permitting and relations to assist local business owners. Public Hearings The Front Royal Town Council will hold the following public hearings on Monday, February 22, 2016 at 7:00pm in the Warren County Government Center 1) An ordinance to amend Front Royal Town code Chapters 98 (Business, Professional and Occupational Licensing) and Chapter 138 (Solicitors and Vendors) to provide expanded use of food trucks in the Town of Front Royal. If approved, individuals seeking to conduct sales regulated by the Town Code would be required to obtain a permit through the Town Manager’s Office prior to conducting sales. In addition, individuals would need to pay the appropriate business license fees and have a site approved by the Front Royal Planning Commission for itinerant merchandising. 2) An ordinance to amend Front Royal Town Code Chapter 126 (Weapons) to add Urban Archery
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Friday, February 19 Forecast 44° | 38° 10:30am - 11am Dance Party! Handley Library. Toddlers, Preschoolers, & their grown-ups are welcome to come boogie down! Now offered EVERY Friday! 5:30pm - 8pm Game Night. Bowman Library, 871 Tasker Road, Stephens City. Get Your Game On! Gamers can rotate throughout the electronic, card and computer games. This program is intended for middle school and high school students. It is free with no registration required. Saturday, February 20 Forecast 64° | 41° 10am - 11:30am Chess Club. Bowman Library, 871 Tasker Road, Stephens City. Become a chess champ! Develop another winning move! Learn and play! Led by members of Shenandoah Valley Chess Club for all ages and all skill levels. 11am - 12:30pm Author Harry Jaffe book talk. Handley Library auditorium. “Why Bernie Sanders Matters” is the first biography or Vermont’s enigmatic Senator. Stretching back to his youth, the book is a comprehensive assessment of Senator Sanders’ career, and what lead him to be a presidential candidate. Copies of “Why Bernie Sanders Matters” will be available for purchase at this event, provided by Winchester Book Gallery.
11am - 12pm Pancake Day. Bowman Library, 871 Tasker Road, Stephens City. Pancake Day or Maslenitsa is a special holiday in Ukraine. Celebrate it at Bowman Library. Games, music, dancing, and pancakes. Suzy Pancake from IHOP will stop by for a visit. 1pm - 2:30pm Family Film. Bowman Library, 871 Tasker Road, Stephens City. Join us Saturdays at the Bowman Library for a Family Picnic and Movie event. Families are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch to the show. Popcorn and lemonade will be served. The movie showing is free. February 20: Home on the Range. 1pm - 2pm Tour the library. Handley Library. Staff members and volunteers will give tours of Handley Library, concentrating on the architecture and history of the library. The tours will take you behind the scenes to all floors of the library, including the famous glass floors and the well under the stage. The tours are free, but making reservations is helpful. To make reservations or for more information, call (540) 662-9041, ext. 11. 2pm - 4pm Telling Our Story with Nancy Finley Barbour. Handley Library. In celebration of Black History Month, Nancy Finley Barbour will give a talk entitled “Telling Our Story.” Nancy was born and raised on Winchester’s North End. After graduation from John Handley High
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ries, puppets, dancing and songs. 4pm - 5:30pm Apps Workshop. Handley Library. Delivering a world of possibilities at your fingertips…. Join us for a Library Apps Workshop and learn how to get free eBooks, music and more on your Android tablet or smart phone. Participants will learn how to install and use library apps including OverDrive, Freegal, and Mango Languages. Register with the Bowman Information desk ((540) 869-9000 ext. 203) or the Handley Information Desk ((540) 662-9041 ext. 19).Registration required. Bring your own Android device and Handley Regional Library card. Questions? Contact Adult Services Librarian Adrienne Davis at adavis@handleyregional.org or (540) 869-9000 ext. 212. 4:15pm - 4:45pm Spanish with Angela. Bowman Library. Using games, songs, puppets and picture books children and their parents will learn the Spanish language. 4:30pm - 7:30pm Chess. Handley Library. Open chess games. 1-on-1 instruction for new players. At 5:30 PM a lecture is available on Chess Basics and Strategy. Families, adults, kids -- all ages and skill levels – are welcome to come and play. Bring your board or just yourself. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit http:// www.winchesterchess.com. 6pm - 7:30pm Apps Workshop. Handley Library. Delivering a world of possibilities at your fingertips…. Join us for a Library Apps Workshop and learn how to get free eBooks, music and more on your Android tablet or smart phone. Participants will learn how to install and use library apps including OverDrive, Freegal, and Mango Languages. Register with the Bowman Information desk ((540) 869-9000 ext. 203) or the Handley Information Desk ((540) 662-9041 ext. 19).Registration required. Bring your own Android device and Handley Regional Library card. Questions? Contact Adult Services Librarian Adrienne Davis at adavis@handleyregional.org or (540)
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Extension and sisters Hannah and Sarah Chichester from Skyline High School in Warren County. Panel discussion followed by Q & A. 11am - 11:30am Story Time. Bowman Library. For ages 3 and up. A 30minute program of stories, puppets, dancing and songs. 12pm - 2pm Family Film. Handley Library. Join us for a family picnic and movie event. Families are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch. Programs are free and open to the public. No registration is required. February 27: Curious George (G). 1pm - 2:30pm A Gut Feeling: How Your Gut Affects Your Mood. Center for Intentional Wellness 117 West Boscawen Street Winchester. Your body has a second ‘brain’ and many of us are either unaware or we ignore its signals. Unfortunately, your gut will not be denied. Learn to read the signals of your “second brain” and not just pacify it but really begin to remedy your gut issues. (540) 7734120. $10.00. 1pm - 3pm Chess: A Game for the Ages and All Ages. Handley Library. For centuries the game of chess has captivated the minds of young children and brilliant masters alike. This brief talk by David Hubbard, Director of the Shenandoah Valley Chess Club will entertain and enlighten. You’ll hear stories about the historical figures who loved the game and learn why chess is the perfect game for kids. 1pm - 2:15pm Paws for Reading. Bowman Library. Read a favorite book to a reading tutor. It is Paws for Reading! These canine listeners are patient and love kids. Come meet our certified therapy dogs. 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, and brand new
electronic pull tab games. Find us on Facebook. (540) 636-7152. Must be 12 to play. No smoking. Monday, February 29 10:30am - 11am Preschool Time. Handley Library. No registration is required. Most appropriate for preschoolers age 3 and up. Free and open to the public. 11am - 11:30am Toddler Story Time. Bowman Library. For those three and under. A program of stories, songs, finger plays, flannel boards and movement. 4:30pm - 5:30pm Coloring Club. Handley Library. Tweens and teens join us every Monday to color and unwind. 4:30pm - 5:30pm Lego Club. Bowman Library. Calling all elementary and middle school Lego builders! Design and construction themes are different each week. Free, no registration required. 7pm - 8pm Council Work Session. Town Administration Building, 102 E. Main St. Tuesday, March 1 10:30am - 11am Baby Story Time. Handley Library. Bring Infants (birth to 15 months) to enjoy stories, finger plays, and songs. Stay afterwards to socialize and play! 10:30am - 11am Preschool Story Time. Clarke County Library. Hear great stories and fun with Mary! Clarke For ages 3 and up. 12:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesdays. 95.3 - the River radio station. Hear the latest tourism related news and events every Tuesday at 12:30! 2pm - 3pm Ambassador’s Club. Chamber Office. 6pm - 6:30pm Twilight Tales. Bowman Library. A family event at Bowman Library. Stories, music, finger plays, movement and a craft. Wednesday, March 2 8:30am - 9:30am Small Business Committee. Chamber Office. 11am - 2pm AARP Free Tax Help. Bowman Library. AARP will be offering free tax help. No Reservations needed. Sign-up begins when the library opens at 10 A.M. For more information call AARP At (540) 2476479. This is not a library program. 11am - 11:30am Preschool Story Time. Bowman Library. For ages 2-5. A lively 30-minute program of stories, puppets, dancing and songs. 12:30pm - 1pm Warren County Business on the River 95.3 3:30pm - 4pm Stories with a Sheriff. Handley Library. Hear stories read by our very own Winchester Sheriffs! All ages are welcome!
Late February, 2016 • Warren & Frederick County Report • Page 29 4:15pm - 4:45pm Spanish with Angela. Bowman Library. Using games, songs, puppets and picture books children and their parents will learn the Spanish language. 6pm - 7:30pm Bull and Bear Club. Handley Library, 100 West Piccadilly Street, Winchester. Investment club meets in Benham Gallery at Handley Library. Free and open to the public. 6pm - 6:30pm Pajama Story Time. Handley Library. Can’t make it during the day? The whole family is invited to put on pajamas and slippers and join us for bedtime stories. Bring your favorite snuggly. 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, and brand new electronic pull tab games. Find us on Facebook. (540) 636-7152. Must be 12 to play. No smoking. 6:30pm – 730pm Tour the library. Handley Library. Staff members and volunteers will give tours of Handley Library, concentrating on the architecture and history of the library. The tours will take you behind the scenes to all floors of the library, including the famous glass floors and the well under the stage. The tours are free, but making reservations is helpful. To make reservations or for more information, call (540) 662-9041, ext. 11. Thursday, March 3 10:30am - 11am Preschool Story Time. Clarke County Library. Hear great stories and have fun! For ages 3 and up. 10:30am - 11am Toddler Time. Handley Library. An Early Literacy program designed specifically for active toddlers, ages 3 and under. This program is a developmentally appropriate transition from our “Baby Time” program to “Preschool Time.” We are growing readers here! Programs are free and open to the public. 11am - 11:30am Baby Story Time. Bowman Library. Story time for Infants (birth to 15 months). A program of songs, stories, clapping and tapping. 12pm - 1pm Books & Brown Bag at Barns of Rose Hill. Barns of Rose Hill, Berryville. Bring your lunch and a friend to Barns of Rose Hill for a book discussion. Mar: The End of Night by Paul Bogard Apr: The Bird Artist by Howard Norman May: The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
Friday, March 4 10am - 4pm Free Health Screening. Handley Library, 100 W Piccadilly St, Winchester. Free health screenings for: Blood glucose; Blood Pressure; and BMI. Flu Shot; HIV testing; depression screening Health Education Cholesterol test also available ($4) Must be 18 years or older. No insurance required. Results provided on the spot. Event provided by the Free Medical Clinic of Northern Shenandoah Valley, Inc. For more information contact Todd Strader at the Handley Library Information Desk (540) 662-9041 Ext. 19 10:30am - 11am Dance Party! Handley Library. Toddlers, Preschoolers, & their grown-ups are welcome to boogie down! 1:30pm - 2:30pm Education Committee. Chamber Office. Saturday, March 5 11am - 11:30am Story Time. Bowman Library. For ages 3 and up. A 30minute program of stories, puppets, dancing and songs. 1pm - 3pm Chess: A Game for the Ages and All Ages. Handley Library. For centuries the game of chess has captivated the minds of young children and brilliant masters alike. This brief talk by David Hubbard, Director of the Shenandoah Valley Chess Club will entertain and enlighten. You’ll hear stories about the historical figures who loved the game and learn why chess is the perfect game for kids. 1pm - 2:30pm Family Film. Bowman Library. Family Picnic and Movie event. Families are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch to the show. Popcorn and lemonade will be served. The movie showing is free and sponsored by the Friends of Handley Regional Library. March 5: Big Hero 6. 2pm - 3:30pm Demo of New App for Mt. Hebron Cemetery. Handley Library. Demonstration of new app for Mt. Hebron Cemetery. 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, and brand new electronic pull tab games. Find us on Facebook. (540) 636-7152. Must be 12 to play. No smoking.
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Tuesday, March 1 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 world around us. Meet with your baby up to two years of age. Siblings welcome. 4:30 Big Kids Story time for Kindergarten and up. “Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse?” Come get your Dr. Seuss stories at Big Kids Story time! Wednesday, March 2
10:15 Toddler Story time. Our stories and craft will focus on the uniqueness of each child with our All About Me theme. Siblings welcome. 11:00 Preschool Story time. Our stories and craft will focus on the uniqueness of each child with our All About Me theme. Siblings welcome. Thursday, March 3 10:15 Toddler Story time. Our stories and craft will focus on the uniqueness of each child with our All About Me theme. Siblings welcome. 11:00 Preschool Story time. Our stories and craft will focus on the uniqueness of each child with our All About Me theme. Siblings welcome. Saturday, March 5 10:10 Books and Barks. Come to our extremely popular monthly program that gives developing readers the chance to read and relax with a trained therapy dog. For beginning readers and up. 2:00 Discuss This. Are you in-
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spired 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, March 8 - 4:30 Big Kids Story time for Kindergarten and up. Happy Birthday! Everyone has a birthday! We’ll celebrate all of them at story time! Wednesday, March 9 10:15 Toddler Story time. Hurry, hurry, hurry! Our theme this week is fast! Siblings welcome. 11:00 Preschool Story time. Hurry, hurry, hurry! Our theme this week is fast! Siblings welcome. Thursday, March 10 10:15 Toddler Story time. Hurry, hurry, hurry! Our theme this week is fast! Siblings welcome. 11:00 Preschool Story time. Hurry, hurry, hurry! Our theme this week is fast! Siblings welcome. Saturday, March 12 11:00 Kooky Chefs Cook Through Literature: Fairy Tales. Magic beans, lumpy peas, gingerbread houses. Have you ever thought about the foods that are eaten in fairy tales? This is your chance to try them. For ages 7 and up. Advanced registration required. Tuesday, March 15 4:30 Big Kids Story time for Kindergarten and up. Please join us for a S.T.E.M. program about shapes. Wednesday, March 16 10:15 Toddler Story time. Whoa! Take it easy! We will enjoy our slowthemed story time. Siblings welcome. 11:00 Preschool Story time. Whoa! Take it easy! We will enjoy our slowthemed story time. Siblings welcome. Thursday, March 17 10:15 Toddler Story time. Whoa! Take it easy! We will enjoy our slowthemed story time. Siblings welcome. 11:00 Preschool Story time. Whoa! Take it easy! We will enjoy our slowthemed story time. Siblings welcome. Saturday, March 19 11:00 Spring Celebration Story time. Join the Front Royal/Warren County Tree Stewards on Saturday, March 19 at 11:00 a.m. for a special story time in celebration of spring! Tuesday, March 22 4:30 Big Kids Story time for Kindergarten and up. Please join us for a fiery story time about dragons. Wednesday, March 23 10:15 Toddler Story time. Welcome, Spring! will be the theme of our stories, poems, and craft. Siblings welcome. 11:00 Preschool Story time. Welcome, Spring! will be the theme of our stories, poems, and craft. Siblings welcome. Thursday, March 24 10:15 Toddler Story time. Welcome, Spring! will be the theme of our stories, poems, and craft. Siblings welcome. 11:00 Preschool Story time. Welcome, Spring! will be the theme of
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United Way gears up for “Day of Caring” 2016 The United Way of Front Royal/ Warren County announces the opening of the planning for the 2016 Day of Caring for Front Royal and Warren County…and we need your help to get clients! This year’s event will be held on FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2016, from 8 am to 4 PM, and is currently looking for good clients who might need a bit of
The United Way will consider ALL applications that meet the above criteria; however, preference will be given to individuals who have NOT received assistance in prior DOC events. Last year, more than 24 projects were completed with more than 150 volunteers from our community giving of their time and money to make it happen. Projects from yard work to carpet replacement, window repair to plumbing fixes all happened on Friday with the help of these wonderful people from all over Warren County. Please let your United Way know if you are aware of any homeowners that could use our assistance, or if YOU need assistance yourself.
help. As with every year, the hardest part of this project is finding qualified individuals to work for. All clients must meet the following criteria for acceptance: Live in Warren County or Front Royal Own the home that will receive the repairs (or family-owned) Be low-income, disabled or otherwise and unable to complete the work If you are aware of anyone needing some help to stay comfortable in their homes, Please have them contact us here at the United Way. Last year we had more volunteers than we could possibly use….please help us find some good clients to help out this year.
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Become a member of HSWC and help us save lives! Funds collected through membership dues help HSWC provide compassionate care to abandoned, abused, homeless and neglected animals in our community. To become a member or renew your membership, please call the shelter at (540) 635-4734 ext. 225 Archer - 2 year old male Walker h o u n d . Archer is a very sweet and playful pup, and he gets along well with people of all ages and other dogs too! He would love a home with lots of room to run and play!
Leo - 1 year old neutered male hound mix. Leo is a ton of fun! He loves running around outside and chasing tennis balls. Leo would also love to swim once the whether warms up. So why not come down and meet him so he can steal your heart?
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