Late March 2016 Warren and Frederick County Report

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Town Council split over $8 million tax rate for police headquarters Motion to increase real estate tax rate to 14 cents failed and council may decide at special meeting

Mayor Timothy Darr awards Police Department Civilian of the Year award to Cindy Bailey

By Timothy Ratigan Warren & Frederick County Report Front Royal Town Council gathered for their first meeting of the month on March 14, and disagreed about increasing the tax rate on the first reading of the 2016 fiscal year budget.

The rift among council members was quickly apparent and it centered around the proposed $8 million new police department. Councilman Eugene Tewalt balked at setting a tax rate without considering a penny tax increase and that penny being set aside for the newly proposed project on Monroe Avenue.

At the beginning of the discussion Councilman John Connolly was first lay down the gauntlet against raising taxes.

“I think we’ve got a good solid plan in place as far as what we are going to do to proceed for the new police department. I don’t feel at this point that it is required of us to raise the tax rate and I am going to vote against any move to raise the tax rate

and that is why I move that we keep the tax rate the same,” he said.

Councilman Eugene Tewalt immediately fired back, “Mr. Mayor, again when we brought this up we talked about the police department.

I am still in favor of raising the tax rate one cent in order to put it aside for the police department. We’ve approved an architectural designed for $8 million at the last meeting and we

still don’t have any way of knowing where the money is coming from. If we don’t use this one penny for the police department we can always rescind it and bring it back down. But if we vote on this tonight we have to raise it to get any more money and we will be locked out of it this year.

We can lower it but we cannot raise it if we vote this through tonight. So I will vote against this tonight.”

Councilwoman Bébhinn Egger added to Tewalt’s comments, “Mr. Mayor, I am in favor of keeping the tax rates the same but as I stated in the last meeting I am not in favor of going over budget on our police department. I think we need to consider all the ramifications of that. I know that taxes have already been raised twice for that project. Raising taxes a third time might be an indication that perhaps we are spending too much on it. The architectural firm building the police department came to us and said, ‘this is the building we think you should build and here is what it is going to cost regardless of what your budget is’. So why can’t they stay within our budget?

Actually I know why they can’t stay within our budget because they are a

business looking to make money but it is our job to tell them, ‘no you are going to stay within our budget’, then we will not have this dilemma of are we going to raise taxes one cent or five cents in five years. We have $5.5 million already in the budget for this.

I think we can build a very nice building for the police department. Again I am for keeping the tax rate the same and I don’t see the need to raise it in the future. I don’t think we are going to have a problem knowing where the money is going to come from if we don’t spend too much money,” Egger said.

“I agree with you 100 percent. But again if this council will go along with what you said I agree with you.

But doesn’t appear that we are going to do that because we have already given the architect the go-ahead to design a $8 million building. So if you consider that, then we are going to need to raise one cent. If you are not going to do that then leave it alone,” Tewalt responded.

Mayor Timothy Darr called for a roll call vote. The vote passed on a 32 vote, but because Councilman Bret See FRONT ROYAL,

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FRONT ROYAL, from Hrbek was absent from the meeting, the super majority 4-2 vote was not achieved and the motion failed and went back for additional discussion.

Tewalt made a motion to increase the tax rate to 14 cents with an effort to compromise by explaining that if the additional penny wasn’t needed they could always go back and rescind the increase but reminded the council that they could not raise the tax rate at a later date. They could lower the rate but not raise it.

Councilman Jacob Meza asked Tewalt at what point in the tax year the tax rate could be lowered.

Tewalt reminded the council that the mailings for tax bills are now split between two mailings six months apart.

Even with the compromise included in the motion, Egger and the Christendom College alumni-turned councilman, held firm on their determination not to increase the tax rate for this year which sent the resolution back to another meeting.

Tewalt reminded the council that Councilman Bret Hrbek was scheduled to miss an additional meeting because of a scheduled eye surgery, and the chances of him being present at the next meeting was slim.

Mayor Darr said that the council would need to revisit the matter and decide on the rate for fiscal year 2016 at a special meeting.

Other items attended to at the council meeting included the presentation of two awards to members of the Front Royal Police Department.

The Civilian Employee of the Year award was presented to Master Communication Officer Cindy Bailey, an 11-year veteran of the police department. The Mayor cited her dedication to her job and to the police officers she is charged with, and that she makes sure she knows where her officers are, where they may be, and that they are safe.

The next award went to Patrolman Mark Ramey, a four-year veteran of the police department. The Mayor cited Ramey’s dedication to service in regards to his interest in deterring impaired driving in the community by leading the department in D.U.I. (Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol) and D.U.I D. (Driving Under the Influence of Drugs) arrests. Officer Ramey was also recognized back in September for his contribution to the community by Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Other items passed at the meeting included the affirmation on the first reading changes to the town’s flood plain ordinance as it was recommended by the Department of Conservation and Recreation. This was also a public hearing, but no one spoke.

Council also affirmed on the first reading an ordinance to town code pertaining to by-right uses in the I2 (Industrial District). The changes would allow for certain uses in the district by right rather than having the applicants require conditional use permits by council. Again this

Councilman John Connolly stands his ground by voting no change in tax rates was a public hearing and again no one signed up to speak. Tewalt informed the council that he would not support the change due to the fact that it would include school as a by-right use in an industrial district.

The measure passed on 4-1 vote.

Food Trucks were again on the agenda for the second reading. The motion would reduce the itinerant merchant license fee from $500 to $250.

At the beginning of the meeting, local resident and business owner Mike McCool spoke during the public comments section and urged the council to provide more education on the subject of food trucks in Front Royal and what the impacts on traditional (brick and mortar) business

would be.

Councilwoman Egger also made a motion to remove wording from the ordinance that would require food truck applicants to submit to thumb and finger printing as part of the application process.

Vice Mayor Hollis Tharpe cast the lone vote against the amendment.

The motion with the amendment in place passed on a 5-0 vote.

Council also affirmed on its first reading an ordinance to amend the town code to replace the deer management plan with the Urban Archery Hunting plan. Tewalt was the only one to vote against the measure, citing concerns in the ordinance dealing with what he called ‘a lack of definition’ of an adequate backstop

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The Council approved a resolution to proceed with the development and construction of the Solar Project with American Municipal Power (AMP) and NextEra to include the lease and interconnection agreement, bringing solar power generation one step closer to becoming a reality for the town of Front Royal.

One final item the council ap-

proved was an amendment to the current budget and acceptance of an insurance reimbursement from the Virginia Municipal League of $31,415 for a town storage building that collapsed from the weight of the snow that fell during the blizzard of 2016, January 22-24.

Having no further business to come before the council the mayor adjourned the meeting.

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Warren County needs Samuels Public Library The March 2nd article in an area newspaper headlining the possible shortfall in Warren County revenue for fiscal year 2017 unfortunately ended with Samuels Public Library being portrayed as somehow the problem. We would like to set the record straight.

For fiscal year 2017 the Library made a request to the County for a funding increase, certainly not one million dollars as erroneously reported in the NVD, but still substantial. The Library was not told before it submitted its budget that the County was in financial straits, but even had we known, our request would not have changed. Our request is based on need.

Many citizens probably do not know that Samuels Public Library is not an agency or department of Warren County. It is an incorporated entity that has provided services

LETTERS to County residents since 1836. The Library submits its budget annually and the County provides most of the funds to operate the Library by annual appropriation. Samuels Library is 1 of only 4 libraries in Virginia which operates in this manner - the other 87 libraries are County or municipal departments.

The Library has informally approached the County on a few occasions about whether everyone might be better served if the County took over the Library. Library employee compensation packages are generally less than those of County employees.

Citizens might benefit in many ways,

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such as through the County’s ability to buy in bulk at lower cost. The County has not yet been interested in seriously discussing the Library becoming a department - the short answer being something like: “You are doing better than the County could do and costing it less.”

The Library reviews its proposed budget very carefully each year. The requested increase for 2017 was based primarily on 2 items.

First, the Library needs additional employees. The Library’s service to Warren County citizens has increased tremendously in recent years but we still operate with the same number of staff we had in 2009, the year Samuels moved to its new building.

We are open 6 days, 54 hours, per week. Our circulation has increased by 87%. Our free adult and children’s programs have increased in attendance by 313% with a monthly average attendance of 1770 citizens.

But even though we have had, and met, these tremendous increases in demand for services: • Samuels operates with only 1 full time employee in the children’s department making it very difficult to oversee all activities. We need an additional full time person.

• With an average of 14,470 citizens visiting each month we have to operate with only 1 part time maintenance person. This needs to be a full time position.

• We are making a concerted effort to raise funds by donation but cannot afford to take a staff member off other duties to concentrate on this.

One additional person needed.

We feel that the citizens of Warren County need a fully staffed library.

Second, the Library cannot cover rising technology costs. Although Samuels, as any library, is hugely dependent on electronic equipment and media (computers) for its operations, Samuels simply does not have the funds to replace aging equipment. The County has continually told the Library that it will not fund capital expenditures, such as com-

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puters. This year the County told its agencies that computers would no longer be considered capital expenditures but would be part of operating budgets. Samuels feels that the rules should apply to all and we included computers as part of the 2017 budget request.

There are many fine outside agencies in Warren County that need and depend on County funding. If the County cannot resolve its purported financial problems, all outside agencies, and indeed all County citizens, will have to do with fewer resources and services. Please don’t see Samuels Library as being the problem in this confusion.

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It is so rare that a politician does in office what he promised to do during his election campaign. Town Council member Bebhinn Egger is a shining example of a politician who actually does what she promised. Ms. Egger ran as a fiscal conservative with the unique perspective that money belongs to the people who work to earn it. Her fidelity was well-displayed during the recent Town Council debate over the proposed police station once budgeted at $4 million but now being considered at $8 million. Her straightforward suggestion was that the Council should determine how much more it would tax us before authorizing architects to move forward on the $8 million design plan.

Apparently this bit of common sense has been around a long time. Jesus once asked “For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?” (Luke 14:28) Sadly, Ms. Egger was out voted 4-2 because most politicians spend other people’s money without cost to themselves.

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Bryce Peacock accepted to Olympic Development Program Twelve-year-old Warren County Middle School soccer goalkeeper is committed to the game

Bryce Peacock of Front Royal stands in the doorway of his home away from home - the Shenandoah Soccer Academy in Winchester

By Mario Orlikoff Warren & Frederick County Report Bryce Peacock, 12, who was recently accepted to the Virginia Youth Soccer Association’s prestigious Olympic Development Program for the boys 2003 age group, has good hands. That’s one of the reasons he’s an excellent goalkeeper.

Another reason for his success is that he’s in good hands.

His father, Greg, regularly transports Bryce from their home in Front Royal to West Virginia, where Bryce plays for the Epic Freedom team, and to Northern Virginia, where the Olympic Development Program practices, and to workouts in Winchester. His mother, Krista, dutifully performs the role of soccer mom, helping with nutrition, snacks, fluids and even the cool cleats he wears.

His brothers, Hunter, 13, and Luke, 10, also play soccer, and also wear cool cleats. (His little sister, Karleigh, is the lone hold-out, but she has her own interests, namely gymnastics and cheerleading.)

And Bryce is coached by Chris Peter, a teacher and coach at Randolph-Macon Academy and the owner of Shenandoah Soccer Academy in Winchester. Peter, 37, a former standout goalkeeper at Shenandoah University who still ranks No. 1 in save percentage for a season in

the school’s record books, started playing soccer when he was 5. Yeah – he’s got 32 years in the goal. Peter is nationally-licensed with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and is working on his United States Soccer Federation credentials. He played at the semi-pro level for the Winchester Impact be-

fore starting the Shenandoah Soccer Academy, which was first an outside set-up before moving to one old garage and then another in the heart of Winchester. (Peter is excited that he will soon be moving his soccer academy to Front Royal.)

“It’s pretty awesome,” Bryce said of the coaching he receives from Peter, “because he pretty much knows everything to do, and he’s been through this situation.”

It gets even more awesome. One of Bryce’s Olympic Development coaches, Dustin Butcher, trained under Peter, as well, before branching out on his own to start the Winchester Soccer Academy. Butcher played at George Mason University before going on to play professionally with DC United, Toronto FC and Sporting KC. So that’s two generations of goalkeepers sharing their knowledge and passion for “the beautiful game” with Bryce.

All of Peter’s training and dedication to the sport has led him to this wonderful moment in time – observing up close and personal the metamorphosis of a bright and diligent Warren County Middle School student.

“He’s come a long way,” the tall, blonde-haired coach said. “He’s been with me for at least three years now and he’s come from a little, spry guy all the way into what he is now. He’s developing into a mature, awesome goalkeeper. So he’s a well-rounded player. He’s starting to become a good team leader. He’s a large part of what we’re doing successfully as a team. He’s the anchor for the defense. He also instructs them all the time vocally.”

Peter admitted that he doesn’t often come across this kind of commitment at such a young age.

“He also plays for a team in West

Virginia so he spends a large part of the time commuting, so it’s a commitment and he also does a lot of ODP commitment in Northern Virginia. It’s a lot of miles on the car.

Time in the car. He doesn’t get to go play with his friends most of the time so this is what he’s doing.”

Peter offered an example of how much Bryce has developed and brought himself into this responsible role.

“We do a little bit of core work here for our stomachs and he’ll take that and go home and do 500 sit-ups,” he

keeper should be the best guy on the team in the sense that he’s the most athletic guy and can do everything.

He needs to be the hardest working player on the team. You need to be a good communicator and a good leader vocally. So all these kids need to be able to talk to their teammates and start to delegate and everything.

They are taught at a high level to go introduce themselves to everyone they see that they don’t know so they can start that leadership process.”

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Most kids don’t, and I give everybody the same information. Bryce is a great athlete but his hard work is the really key factor in what he’s doing.”

So what does it take to be a good goalkeeper? What is it that Bryce and others on his level have developed that others lack?

“It takes courage, and you can’t coach that,” Peter said. “You just have to be ready to be hit with projectile objects. You need to be able to have things shot at you and be willing to have that done, and that’s the first step. Second, you need to be able to learn how to catch. You don’t need to know how to catch yet, but you need to be able to learn how to catch.

And you need to know how to defend your face. This whole idea that something’s going to be flying at me and I’m all right with that.”

Bryce added another factor: communication.

“You have to know who everybody is and where everybody on the field is,” he said.

Peter agreed, and explained further: “We often say that the goal-

players develop with their clubs incrementally, providing international trips, domestic competitions and a well-thought-out training program.

The ODP philosophy is that in order for players to become as good as they can be, they must step outside their comfort zone to seek high level training and to compete with and against the best talent in Virginia and the nation. Bryce’s involvement with the Olympic program may not have happened if not for his association with such a passionate and communicative coach.

Greg and Krista Peacock provided a testimonial on the Shenandoah Soccer Academy’s web site: “Peter’s ability to connect with him has taken him from a boy who didn’t want to attend practice to a player who is excelling in the keeper position and now working out on his own at home. The self confidence that you have instilled in him has been lifechanging, even though he may not know it yet.”

Outside of the old, converted brick garage in downtown Winchester off W. Oates Ave., Greg stood and watched Bryce and his brother, Luke, go through goalkeeping drills with some others before the main practice

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to go to practice. He finally seems to be setting his own goals and trying to meet them.”

It may be too early to make such a call, but there’s a chance that Bryce’s soccer skills could take him places in high school and college. But if soccer doesn’t become a continuing passion the way it did with his coach’s young life, what else would interest him?

“I’ve always wanted to be in a movie,” he said. “I really don’t how and why it started, but I’ve just always wanted to be in a movie or on TV.” Come to think of it, Bryceland Wayne Peacock does resemble a very young Leonardo DiCaprio.

So, maybe you’ll be trying out for plays as well as the soccer teams in the near future?

“Um, the problem is, I can’t sing,” he said with a laugh.

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Frederick County man has dramatic recovery after stroke Winchester Medical Center unique in area in offering life-saving procedure

At left is Winchester Medical Center Interventional Neurologist Dan-Victor Giurgiutiu, MD who performed life-saving neurosurgery on David Sayen of Frederick County (right) to remove a blood clot in his brain.

By Dan McDermott Warren & Frederick County Report Geography has its benefits when a life-threatening event occurs and you are close to people who can fix it. This was demonstrated in September when a stroke victim was able to have a serious clot removed from his brain at Winchester Medical Center about 90 minutes after the initial onset of symptoms. The Valley Health campus is the only facility in the Northern Shenandoah Valley with an interventional neurologist capable of performing the procedure.

The hour or more saved by not having to be transported to another

hospital can mean the difference between a full recovery or being in a wheelchair or a nursing home for the rest of your life.

Then-46-year-old David Sayen of Frederick County was sitting on his couch around noon Labor Day thinking about what to do the rest of his afternoon off. His wife was sitting opposite him and his son was upstairs.

“It almost seemed like the air was leaving the room. The effect was almost like you cupped your hands and put them over your ears and it felt a little bit like a pressure change like if you go up in an airplane and your ears pop. It was very similar to that.

Then I started to get confused where

I wasn’t sure what was really happening, where I was,” Sayen said.

“From the base of my neck a real hot pain shot up the center of my skull and it literally went all the way to the front. If you’ve ever stuck your hand in an electrical socket, it was similar to that and very hot and it was very fast. It went all the way to

the front and then it went all the way back again down the base of my neck.

Then my left arm went numb.

“The feelings of confusion began to get worse and worse until I couldn’t even formulate a thought. I was trying to figure out what was happening and the only thing I could think of [given] the area being affected on my body was that this could be a stroke.

“I have a heart condition that runs in my family and I’ve been in atrial fibrillation before. I’ve gone in and out of that over the course of the last two or three years. I always knew stroke was a risk if you’re not properly monitoring your health. (Atrial fibrillation is an irregular heartbeat caused by incorrect or out-of-sync electrical signals being sent to the upper and lower chambers of the heart.)

“I thought that might be it but I couldn’t be sure because I’d never had a stroke before. And I couldn’t even relay that to my wife. She happened to be sitting right there near me. She was watching me. My left arm was numb but it wasn’t completely numb, like when your arm falls asleep and it starts to come back again. I kept rubbing my fingers with my right hand to see what was happening.

“My wife noticed this and said, ‘What’s wrong? What’s wrong?’” And I couldn’t tell her. She said, ‘Look at me. Look at me.’ When I tried to my eyes went all the way to my right. She got right in my face and I tried but I couldn’t look right at her.

“Of course I started to get scared.

Everything you hear about a stroke, there’s nothing good. You always hear about people either dying or winding up in a wheelchair or having longterm problems. I got really scared and confused. When I tried to talk to her my words were really slurred and I could hear that they were slurred and they didn’t make any sense.

“She called 911 immediately and hollered for my son Matthew to come downstairs. He’s in training for EMS and firefighter. He got on the phone with the dispatcher and told them to upgrade the call to stroke.

He took my pulse and vital signs and waited for the ambulance to show up out front and waved them down.”

Sayen was rushed to the Winchester Medical Center Emergency Room where he was quickly diagnosed as having suffered a stroke, which is in simplest terms when blood to a part of the brain is cut off, blocking the supply of oxygen and sugar.

“I’m the emergency room neurologist and you have a very long blood clot that’s blocking the flow of blood to your brain and we need to go in and get that out and you’ve got about 15 minutes before it starts to do permanent damage. Are you okay with us doing the procedure to remove the clot?” he recalled being asked.

“Well sure, go ahead. No problem,” Sayen replied.

The ER doctor introduced Sayen to interventional neurologist Dan-Victor Giurgiutiu, MD, who would perform the surgery.

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Winchester Medical Center Interventional Neurologist Dan-Victor Giurgiutiu, MD displayed ‘before and after’ images of a front brain view of David Sayen of Frederick County. The left image shows the severely blocked flow of blood due to a long clot. The clot has been removed in the image on the right, showing a healthy brain. A dye is used to make the blood vessels show up clearly in the photos.

(Guided by imaging, interventional doctors will thread a long catheter– or tube–through a small incision in the femoral artery and up to the site, in this case the brain. They use that “tunnel” to deploy tools and devices to address issues within the vessel itself. Dr Giurgiutiu extracted the clot through the catheter, explained one official later.)

“As they were doing the procedure, they walked me through the whole thing, told me where they were at, ‘I’m almost there.’ You could feel something going on. You could hear a little bit of rustling. It almost reminded me of the sound of rubbing your thumb on a metal guitar string.

He told me he was at the clot and you may feel a little bit of pain as we remove it. He started to pull it out and

there was a rush of pain that was a very excruciating headache and then a big release of pressure. It all happened really fast. They kept me in Intensive Care for a while to watch me. I was in the hospital for about a week.

Listening to Sayen explain his experience having a stroke was Dr. Giurgiutiu. “It’s really interesting to get your perspective because I have in my mind what happens, to feel the heat and have all of your backup loose [blood] vessels open up to keep your brain alive and the confusion,” he said. I don’t doubt that he said it this way but it’s a little confusing.

When Giurgiutiu examined Sayen, he saw that because the clot was so long–about 9mm to 10mm–even very strong blood thinners wouldn’t

be enough to dissolve it. Surgery to remove the clot would be necessary to offer Sayen the best hope of recovery.

And strokes are serious. “The brain is the most energy intensive part of your body. It gets 20% of your blood flow. That’s why it’s more likely to get clots because there is so much blood flow... it doesn’t resist a lack of blood flow well. To put it in perspective, if the heart doesn’t get blood flow because of a blockage it takes 12 hours to get permanent damage. And that grows slowly but there’s always a bit of the muscle that you can recover.

For the brain you have 3 or 4 hours before a lot of permanent damage happens. A stroke can be sudden without a lot of warning,” Giurgiutiu said.

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Giurgiutiu noted that Sayen’s experience of benefitting from an alert wife wasn’t unique. “I’m reminded almost several times a day of the statistic that married women don’t live any longer but married men definitely live longer than unmarried men. Hopefully we men can learn to return the favor as we grow older,” he said.

Sayen thanked the WMC staff for reassuring him throughout the process that he would be okay and for delivering on that promise. He says he’s taking his health much more seriously now and has lost 50 pounds.

How, we asked? Cut the carbs and get out and move.

“I had gotten up in my weight where I didn’t want to get off the couch and that contributes to all sorts of health problems,” Sayen explained.

Dr. Giurgiutiu said movement is the most important factor to prevent strokes even beyond weight loss.

“Don’t eat between meals. Stay as active as you can. Park further away.

Take the stairs. Find friends so you can support each other by walking. If you always wanted a pet, get a pet because those guys really never feel like not walking. Also be aware it’s going to take a week where you’re just getting used to it and you’ll feel like

you’re really pushing yourself before you start to see any improvement. Be patient because it takes a little time to see that improvement,” he said.

Neuroscience Director Debby Massie agreed that was the best advice. “You try to tell people that it is really important to cut out the smoking, lose some weight and just move.

Sometimes they just look at you and say, ‘you’ve got to die of something,’” she said, bewildered.

And with that the sound of several pagers beeped through the room.

“Code stroke,” said one Valley Health employee. “In the ER.” As I gathered my things Dr. Giurgiutiu brushed past me on his way out the door.

He was in a hurry.

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Fracking hitting too close to home Local environmental group’s “Earth Allies” fear and dislike everything about hydraulic fracking ing outside of the southwestern part of the state.

In November 2014, the George Washington National Forest became part of the battle, when it was announced that a compromise was reached in which oil and gas drilling would be allowed in the areas that are privately controlled. The deal meant that 90 percent of land in the 1.1-million-acre forest would be off-limits to fracking.

meeting, even though the entire proceeding came off as more realist than alarmist.

Steve Foreman of Front Royal: “Overall, I’m concerned about the environment and want to learn as much as I can about fracking. I’m not really convinced that it’s a very safe thing to do, and I think the jury’s still out on it. But with the way the energy companies are, it’s going to be hard to fight that, but this might be the

time for people to get together and do things about that.”

Sidney Quinn of Shenandoah Farms: “We all have wells. If you have a well, what your neighbors do can affect you. … If you have something that affects our underground water, it affects everybody. You never know where your well water is coming from. It doesn’t just come from right under your house. It can come from four miles away. So it’s important to

Earth allies

Treasa Vogel of Stephens City wears a familiar slogan at the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League meeting

By Mario Orlikoff Warren & Frederick County Report The United States is in the midst of an unprecedented gas drilling rush.

Major advances in the controversial technology called hydraulic fracking - a well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid to create cracks in deeprock formations - have helped energy companies extract natural gas from tightly-bound shale deposits like never before.

But above ground, the practice has also formed a battleground between those who see natural gas as the most promising natural resource in decades to come and those who fear that the extraction process will turn rural communities into nightmarish industrial zones. The fight has come to Virginia, parts of which sit above two, natural-gas-rich geological shale

formations - the Taylorsville Basin in the eastern part of the state near the Chesapeake Bay and the much bigger Marcellus Shale bordering West Virginia in the southwest and running along the state line north.

Shore Oil and Exploration Corp., an energy company based in Dallas, Texas, had been making moves that could eventually allow it to drill on tens of thousands of leased acres south and east of Fredericksburg.

Drilling for natural gas in Virginia has occurred only in the southwestern region of the state, where thousands of wells exist. The company wanted to start drilling other areas in 2015 before The Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy assembled an advisory panel of state officials, an industry representative and others to review the state’s existing rules on fracking, effectively putting the brakes on any further drill-

For the six women and two men who showed up at the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League’s “Earth Allies” chapter meeting in early March at the Shenandoah Farms POA building, that’s all hitting a little too close to home. Those in attendance were firmly on the side that fears and dislikes pretty much everything about hydraulic fracking. Their main concerns about fracking were aired and listed: Contamination of groundwater.

Methane pollution and its impact on climate change.

Air pollution impacts.

Exposure to toxic chemicals from chemically-laced water.

Blowouts due to gas explosions.

Large-volume water use in waterdeficient regions.

Most opponents of fracking focus on potential local environmental consequences. That certainly was the case at the Shenandoah Farms

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Carmen Gill, a real-estate broker from Stephens City: “I’m really concerned about the environment but I’m also very passionate about property-owner rights and very passionate about the market not declining in prices as a result of an environmental disaster or an environmental concern. … I want to protect this area. I love this area. I think this is one of the prettiest areas in the United States to live. To see a big corporation or anybody take advantage of that just really burns me, you know, just makes me fired up and upset about it. So I want to do the rational, right things, going through the proper channels with local ordinances, as well as all of us, to pass bans on fracking so we don’t have to worry about that.”

As a whole, the group was especially focused on the danger to the Shenandoah River and the water table in the region. The fracking water cocktail includes acids, detergents and poisons that are not regulated by federal laws but can be problematic if they seep into drinking water. Fracking since the 1990s has used greater volumes of cocktail-laden water, injected at higher pressures than ever before. Methane gas can escape into the environment out of any gas well, creating the real though remote possibility of dangerous explosions. Water from all gas wells often returns to the surface containing extremely low but measurable concentrations of radioactive elements and huge concentrations of salt. This brine can be detrimental if not disposed of properly.

Injection of brine into deep wells for disposal has in some cases caused minor earthquakes, environmentalists claim.

Some perspective: Only a small percentage of the thousands of wells drilled throughout the country, the

Associated Press pointed out, were found to be contaminated, and not all were necessarily connected to drilling. With so many potential sources of pollution, the precise cause can be difficult to determine. But what troubled and rankled the people at the Shenandoah Farms meeting is that many of the people directly affected by fracking-related problems are silenced by the gas and oil industry under non-disclosure agreements.

In support of fracking On the other side of the issue, there are people such as Jon Olson, Associate Professor in the Petroleum and Geosystem Engineering Department at the University of Texas, who wrote in an on-line debate: “In the national energy debate, natural gas is seen as a competitor with wind and solar to reduce our dependence on coal-fired electricity generation. We should utilize all our energy resources responsibly, but some are clearly more important than others. We currently get 49 percent of our power from burning coal, 21 percent from nuclear, 18 percent from natural gas (www.eia. gov, 2010 statistics). Wind accounts for only 2 percent and solar a mere 0.03 percent. … What about the environment? According to the EPA, natural gas electricity generation produces half the carbon dioxide of coal, less than a third of the nitrogen oxides and 1 percent of the sulfur oxides. Best practices in natural gas drilling provide multiple lines of protection for groundwater resources.

There have been problems, but they have been rare and most importantly, they are avoidable. Just like any other industrial activity, there are risks, but good engineering, in combination with sensible and effec-

tive regulation, reduces those risks to maximize societal benefit. Water usage, often decried as irresponsible, is small compared to other domestic water consumers. Marcellus Shale gas development accounts for one one-hundredth of the domestic water usage rate in Pennsylvania, and one fifth of what is used in the state solely to care for livestock. … We are a big country with big energy needs.

Natural gas is an energy solution that works today, at utility scale with current technology. Shale gas is the most promising natural resource find in decades. …”

And there’s this opinion that appeared in the New York Times, written by Susan Brantley, a distinguished professor of geosciences of the Earth and Environment Systems Institute at Pennsylvania State University, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, along with Anna Meyendorff, a faculty associate at the International Policy Center of the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan: “And while the natural gas produced by fracking does add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere through leakage during gas extraction and carbon dioxide release during burning, it in fact holds a significant environmental advantage over coal mining. Shale gas emits half the carbon dioxide per unit of energy as does coal, and coal burning also emits metals such as mercury into the atmosphere that eventually settle back into our soils and waters.’’

It’s helpful to anybody on any side of the fracking debate to understand the new technology from an industry and consumer standpoint. As Suzanne Goldberg of The Guardian wrote, until about eight years ago, “America’s oil and gas production had been in steady decline as reservoirs of conventional sources dried up.”

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Treasa Vogel and Maya White Sparks talk about ways in which citizens can express their feelings on fracking in Virginia poll released in March 2015, 40 percent of Americans say they favor the procedure, while 40 percent oppose it, and a substantial 19 percent do not have an opinion. This was amid the Obama administration announcing the first nationwide safety rules for fracking.

But that’s not what this story is really about. It’s about those eight people who cared enough to meet in a room for two-plus hours one evening at the Shenandoah Farms facility, where enough catered food had been ordered to feed at least 50.

They’ve read and heard what they consider the horror stories coming out of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York – the massive water usage and contamination, air pollution, flammable water coming out of faucets and kitchen taps, road damage, the incredibly long lines of trucks carting oversized equipment and materials for hours, days, weeks or even months at a time, making some local thoroughfares all but impassable, the ruination of beloved property sight lines, the around-the-clock banging, clanging and bright lights, the nauseating mix of chemicals competing with the aroma of dinner, the empty squares of flattened earth, and large, open pits of waste water after the drillers have left – and they don’t want it to happen in this region.

The people at the Shenandoah

Farms meeting were not being naïve.

They realize and acknowledged that fracking can bring jobs to an area and cheaper, cleaner energy to the state and country. But they always end up getting stuck on the same conclusion: Natural gas may burn cleaner than coal, but, for now, it’s dirtier to extract. You got a sense that these people would rather be less affluent or even poor if it means having clean air and water. You got a sense that their biggest fear is not necessarily economic hardship, but that drilling and its waste could pollute mountain streams that directly provide drinking water to about 260,000 people in the Shenandoah Valley.

‘No fracking way’ If there’s an Erin Brokovich – the woman who battled the Pacific Gas and Electric Company about a watercontamination cover-up and the subject of the 2000 movie Erin Brokovich – to this story, it’s Treasa “Tess” Vogel, a Stephens City resident who wore some butt-kicking high-heeled boots and a button that said “No Fracking Way” at the meeting. She was asked to share her story with the group.

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Page 12 • Warren & Frederick County Report • Late March, 2016 FRACKING, from 11 to be in a community that is heavily fracked. I understand the ramifications of having to deal with your own ignorance, in having to learn the hard way of what it feels like to live in a community that is heavily fracked.

I’m here today because I was born and raised in Virginia, and there is no way that I’m going to see Virginia destroyed the way other states have.

There are probably only two states in the United States of America that have banned fracking. First, Vermont. Second, New York. I was one of the people who stood up and said ‘No fracking way in New York.’ I’ll be standing up saying ‘No fracking way’ for the rest of my life. I’m a Virgin-

ian. I’m a lover of the Earth. And although we may be a small group now, I’ve seen where groups can grow. I’ve seen it where a few can go to meetings and be heard. I’ve seen few make a difference in the governor’s office.

I understand that one voice, added with another, and another, and another, getting the word out, can make a big difference. We, the commonwealth of Virginia, can ban fracking.

We can stand up to the governor.

We can stand up to the state health commissioner. They’re humans. They have a conscience, just like we do. I have seen the power of one governor standing up to the gas and oil industry and making a difference and putting the people first. It can be done.

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I’m sorry to hear about your apple tree - that must have been very disappointing.

Fruit trees can be temperamental, and there are many reasons why they may not produce fruit. The most important issue is pollination. Few apples self-pollinate (your tree, being large and old, is unlikely to be one of the newer self-pollinators.) To produce, your tree needs another apple or crabapple within 100 feet to cross pollinate. If you don’t already have another

Fracking for Fuel graphic Courtesy of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League apple tree, be sure to purchase a variety that pollinates the type of apple you have not all apples cross pollinate successfully.

If you don’t know what kind of apple yours is, choose another variety that blooms at the same time. Consider a dwarf or semidwarf for ease of harvesting.

Even if your apple tree has a suitable ‘friend’ within 100 feet, it might still have failed to pollinate last year because of the cold, wet spring. Frost once the buds begin to swell damages flowers - even in ways you cannot see when the blooms open - and they’re unable to set fruit. Bad weather during blooming season also reduces activity of pollinating insects. If this spring is as bad as last year’s, you might want to try some sort of frost protection once the buds set (e.g. wrapping the trunk in blankets or covering the soil in plastic), and/or hand pollination. If you plant a new

tree for pollination, locate it in an appropriate spot, ideally a north facing slope to delay blooming until warmer weather.

There are other things you can do to help your tree. Proper pruning is vital, and now is the time to do it. You probably can’t fully prune a large tree without professional help, but try to eliminate as many dead, damaged or vertical branches as possible - apples prefer to grow on horizontal branches. You don’t need to eliminate all excess branches right away; it’s actually better to do so gradually over several years. Damaged branches should be removed immediately, however. This fall, fertilize carefully with a fertilizer rich in calcium and potassium. Finally, check the tree for disease and insect damage.

Good luck with your tree.

- Stewart

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

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Engle’s Angle: “Fat Burritos and Español”

By Kevin S. Engle

English version.

But I didn’t want to wait until then.

Maybe someone could translate for me?

But who?

Then I had another thought.

Why not look online?

You can find anything online.

I googled ‘language translator’. You type in what you want to translate and then click the language it’s currently in, as well as what language you’d like it to be in.

I typed the five word quote highlighted on the bag, clicked Spanish to English, and voila (that’s French), it worked! Ok great, but I didn’t want to do that for the entire article. That would take too long.

What if I tracked down the author? Maybe that would do it?

I googled her name. Laura Esquivel. She’s from Mexico.

And then it hit me.

Maybe if I look on the Chipotle website itself, I’ll find it there?

And sure enough, it was.

All the articles were there.

But it was still in Spanish.

“What the?”

And then I saw them. Those three little words.

“Read in English” I clicked, and presto, the story was magically transformed right before my very eyes.

That was a lot of work to find out what was printed on a brown paper bag.

Was it worth it?

It was.

And better than a fat burrito.

We went to Chipotle recently.

We like Chipotle.

A lot.

But not this time.

Why? Our burritos were too fat.

It was partly my fault.

Ok, it was all my fault.

The female burrito-ista was new.

I thought the serving of rice she gave us was a bit skimpy, white for me and brown for my wife, and so I asked for a little more.

That was a mistake. She loaded them up.

It didn’t look like it at the time, but when we got home and ate them, oh my.

My wife always eats her burritos with a fork. I prefer to pick mine up like a sandwich.

That can be a challenge if the burrito isn’t wrapped well.

Stuff spills out all over your plate.

And that’s what happened.

I had no choice but to use a fork. Even my wife had her troubles.

But that wasn’t all.

Even more troubling was the brown paper bag our food was in.

Chipotle has these “Cultivating Thought – Author Series” articles printed on their bags.

Short stories, like mine, except they’re written by people who can actually write well.

I like them, especially the funny ones. One guy wrote about doing lots of research to be sure he got the best toothbrush. It was good.

But I couldn’t read this one.

Why? El autor no le gustan los burritos de grasa.

It was in Spanish.

My first thought was to take it back the next time I was – kevinengle456@comcast.net there and exchange it for the

worthless now. Virtually worthless.

And it’s right off a main creek that is as wide as what the Shenandoah River is. Beautiful. Magnificent. I learned about fracking when I went to take a bath and I placed a tea light candle on the tub spout and lit it.

The fire, the faucet, the water – everything a ball of fire. Months, years later, I was dragging around and saw all the fracking laws and I finally got the story of what happened. I learned about emminent domain. I learned about landsmen. I learned about the Halliburton EPA and how that was passed. I learned about our legislation. I learned about Dick Cheney. I learned about landsmen who lie.”

The landsmen?

“Landsmen are employees of the gas and oil industry,” she explained.

“They go around and they try to get you to sign gas leases. They will tell you that you will receive lots of money, that no harm will come to you, that it’s safe, that all your neighbors are involved with this and if you don’t do it, you’ll be shunned.”

Vogel wasn’t just there to complain.

She was there to inform.

“How do you know what’s going on in your local community?” she asked.

“You pay attention to your state government. You pay attention to what the federal government is doing. You pay attention to well permits. You pay attention to the gas and oil companies in your area. Look them up. Pay attention. Tell your neighbors to pay attention. Tell your friends and family. If they get tired of hearing you, pray. Pray really hard that information and knowledge and wisdom defeats ignorance. People, it’s easier to turn away and ignore something like this. Everybody needs it. Everybody uses gas and oil. … This has been a long time coming. This country has been set up for gas and oil. It doesn’t

have to be that way. Your voice matters.”

(When Vogel mentioned the Halliburton EPA, she was referring to the loophole in which fracking operations are exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act and other environmental measures. Companies can withhold information on the chemicals they use in the fracking water and can withhold any information they decide is confidential.)

The underlying tone to Vogel’s message was that activities such as fracking are only temporary solutions. Fracking, she asserts, is only binding the U.S. even more tightly to a fossil-fuel future and increasing the risks of climate change. Sure, she admits, fracking reduces coal consumption, but it doesn’t necessarily curtail greenhouse gas emissions and other damage to the environment.

Learning curve In a letter to the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, the Southern Environmental Law Center, representing an array of conservation groups, called Virginia’s existing regulations inadequate.

It warned, “Virginia must not repeat the lessons learned during the drilling boom in West Virginia and Pennsylvania where the fast pace of development forced regulators to play catch up with the industry’s widespread impacts on the environment and communities. We have an important opportunity to ensure that Virginia’s regulatory framework is amended before high-volume hydraulic fracturing is underway in the state.”

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Maya White Sparks, the leader of the “Earth Allies” chapter, concluded the meeting at Shenandoah Farms by coming up with a working list of things that people can do to make their voices heard on fracking: Create and build community groups.

Research existing local ordinances.

Write draft ordinances to ban fracking in your community.

Work within each community to build your community group and consensus to ban fracking.

Present draft ordinances to the Planning and Zoning Board, Boards of Supervisors, Town and City Councils.

The end result, they hope, will be that once enough bans are in place in localities, community groups can approach General Assembly members requesting that they submit legislation to ban fracking state-wide.

James G. Pinsky, the Education and Information Coordinator for the Lord Fairfax Soil & Water Conservation District, was part of the Shenandoah Farms gathering. He thanked the group for inviting him.

He assured people that he and his office care – about the land, the water, the people. He told the group that he welcomed their input and feedback.

He then invited people to attend a meeting in two days at the Strasburg office.

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Women empowering women make dreams come true Front Royal Women’s Resource Center to award seven 2016 Dare to Dream grants totaling $5,600

Artist Janet Brome of Limeton was the 2000 Dare to Dream Winner

JoEllen McNeal, founder of Front Royal Women’s Resource Center, and President Barbara Way enjoy helping women achieve their goals

By Teresa Brumback Warren & Frederick County Report Pursuing education or a new business is tough enough for women busy raising families, strapped for cash, or in their older years.

These challenges are made a little easier to overcome for women with scholarship programs available from the Front Royal Women’s Resource Center.

The group will award seven 2016 Dare to Dream grants totaling $5,600 and a $1,000 Elaine Bromfield Memorial Scholarship at a breakfast event at 8 a.m., Thursday, March 24 at Shenandoah Valley Golf Club in Front Royal. The winners have already been selected, but the names are a closely kept secret until the event, officials say. The grants and scholarship will be awarded to Warren County women who have “demonstrated their need for assistance to follow their dreams,” the rules say.

Members, non-members and friends are invited.

The stories of past scholarship recipients are as amazing as they are varied. Past applicants have used their grants to go to school or start a business. They have purchased computers, attended beauty school, created non-profits, attended training programs and developed gardens for hospice patients.

Pamela Martin worked as a pastry chef for 30 years, but felt her true calling included children with special needs. Thanks to the grant paying some of her tuition and educational costs, she now works as a special education teacher in the Warren County Schools.

Jessica Ray dreamed of having a

home daycare and preschool. Her grant went to the purchase of outdoor play equipment for her business.

These annual grants provide women “with an opportunity to take a bold step forward in their lives or support the momentum they already have,” says Rebecca Vaughan, Dare to Dream chair. Some women have bought computers, created nonprofits, attended training programs, or started or expanded a business, she explains.

One past recipient, artist Kelly Walker, launched Front Royal’s first dog park along the Shenandoah River.

The group has been offering the spring grants every year since it started in 1999, the brainchild of JoEllen McNeil of Browntown and her friend, Judi Booe, formerly of Front Royal. The group seeks to empower women to “change their world, to move their lives forward and impact their families and community as a whole,” says Vaughan.

The grants are made possible through funding from the United Way, since the Resource Center is one if its community agencies. Other donations come from private sources and fundraising such as yard sales, says Vaughan.

The judges for the scholarships are five members of the WRC. The application process starts in November and finalists chosen in January.

For women who don’t win, “We try to give referrals and give some mentoring” so they may achieve their dreams, Vaughan says.

Artist Janet Brome of Limeton was the 2000 Dare to Dream Winner of $500. She says the money gave her

the gumption to retire from teaching and dive into her dream of becoming a full-time artist. “Ever since I was a child. I said, ‘I gotta just do it.’

That meant my income would be way down.”

She left 10 years of teaching and school administration in Warren County, Fauquier County and in Md. to live out her artistic dream.

With the Dare to Dream money she took a class in drawing nude models at the prestigious Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington. “It did get me going. The class was a huge deal. But the important thing was these wonderful women with the Women’s Resource Center believed in me enough to encourage me to get ahead,” she said.

Brome says she was able to get her art studio out of her bedroom and have it in another room in her house.

“It was ho-hum, kind of boring,” she recalls of her original studio. The new studio is bigger and brighter, in what was the original kitchen of the former Limeton Schoolhouse which she owns.

Following the Corcoran art class, she moved from paintings into sculptures. Now she makes sculptures out of window screens. “I just evolved,” she says. Today she shows her work at galleries in Little Washington, Vero Beach, Fla. and Asheville, NC. Kathryn Laky, formerly of Front Royal now living in Gainesville, was a recent scholarship winner. “It changed my life,” she says. “It paid for expenses for school.” Working as a before and after school teacher, she majors in criminal justice at Old Dominion University. Upon her expected graduation in 2017, she says she is leaning toward a career of helping victims of domestic violence.

“I’m 42. I’m thinking, ‘What do I want to be when I grow up?” She was thinking of becoming a probation officer but she says she feels that she can make a bigger difference reaching out to abuse victims.

She is still a member of the local women’s group and like all winners, gave a speech when she received her award. “I love the women there. They are so inspiring and caring. They want to see you succeed.”

The Front Royal Women’s Resource Center has given away 96 grants totaling $68,000 since 1999. Last year more than 10 grants were awarded.

The group also awards the Kim Smith Girl Grant in the fall, to mid-

dle school girls, so they may attend a writing class or go to a 4-H camp for example, Vaughan says.

The women’s center, with offices at 316 N. Royal Ave., may be reached at (540) 636-7007. Applications will be reviewed on the merit of the project or activity description. Grant review criteria may include, but are not limited to, the following: prior educational and/or work experience, letters of recommendation from others who have knowledge of the applicant’s capabilities, additional biographical information, other life and work experiences, volunteer work, financial need and conclusions which the grant selection committee may draw as to the applicant’s motivation, character, ability, or potential.

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Tom Howarth is county Democrats’ new committee chairman “The key thing is that I want to do God’s Will in the work that I am doing,” he says

Warren County’s Democratic Committee Chairman Tom Howarth, prepares for the monthly committee meeting

By Timothy Ratigan Warren & Frederick County Report On March 12, this reporter sat with the chairman of the Warren County Democratic Committee, Tom Howarth, to discuss the future of the committee and the upcoming national and local elections.

Howarth was elected chairman of the committee in January, and replaced two-term Chairwoman Molly Snyder.

During the opening minutes of the interview we touched on local elections and in particular the upcoming town council race. I reminded Howarth that the Warren County Republican Committee was once again going to endorse candidates in the race.

I also reminded him that most of the constitutional offices were held by Republicans and that Republicans held a majority on the county board of supervisors. I asked if the Democratic committee would be endorsing candidates for town council.

“Yes I could see us endorsing candidates for the town council race but

it would have to happen in an appropriate way. In other words, if you are running for office here the dominance right now would be the Republican party, which may change after this next election. But as a candidate you have to ask yourself, ‘Do I want to run under the Democratic banner or do I want to run as an Independent?’ This is assuming that you have an attachment to the Democratic philosophy.

“But at the end of the day the issue really is, what is good for the people?” he replied.

He then brought up the North River Supervisor race when Shae Parker ran as a Democrat.

“He ran as a Democrat, but if someone were to emerge as an Independent and say that I care about the same things you care about, I would say: ‘I care about revitalizing Main Street; I care about the heroin epidemic and what we can do about it; I care about homelessness.’

“At that point my job would be to go the state Democratic party and say to them. Here are the rules that apply to Warren County and Front

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“It makes it difficult with the town because it is a non-partisan election and our Republican brethren say we can’t do that despite the fact that they are doing it. I think that if we had a partisanship election in the town, we would do well,” he observed.

We then touched briefly on the poverty situation in Front Royal and Warren County. He was very blunt.

“Look, I think there are people out there who abuse food stamps. There are some people who are on them that don’t need to be on them. Having said that, I volunteer at St. Luke Clinic and people come in and say I only have a $600 monthly income. I ask if they get food stamps and they say they don’t. When asked why, they report that they have to work 20 hours a week to get food stamps.

Does that make sense? Isn’t someone who is working 20 hours a week less likely to need food stamps? The problem is that in the county, the poverty rate is 11.3 percent and in the town, it is probably over 20 percent.

“If the town elections were partisan, we could say Bob Dole, a Republican, and George McGovern, a Democrat, created this program.

They understood that part of people’s health is good nutrition. We think it should happen. Right now under the rules it can’t happen. I am speaking for myself but I think that would resonate well. I’m working on a good cause right now, homelessness. I go to Ramsey Hardware and ask for a donation and I get one.

“Some places I don’t get one. One place I asked four times, and nothing.

These are the kinds of things I look at when I say that I want local businesses to thrive, I want the county to thrive, particularly in education. I

want to see the board of supervisors say, ‘well it might be difficult for us to come up with the same per capita for investment that the other surrounding counties do, but maybe we can do something else in our budget to do it, because teachers are leaving.

“A quarter of our teachers leave every year. We want to retain our teachers and have a trained and experienced teacher block. It is going to be expensive. Those are the kinds of local issues that I am focused on,” he explained.

I then asked him about actively recruiting candidates to run under the Democratic banner. His response was, “Absolutely we are going to do that.”

I then pressed him on the constitutional offices like the Sheriff and Commissioner of the Revenue and whether or not we could expect to see a partisan choice at the ballot box.

He replied, “Absolutely. There are a few things that have to happen.

My goal is to revitalize the committee, add members to the committee, create active committees within the committee such as the communication committee, educate the public so that we can present our point of view like our point of view on minimum wage and income inequality.

“That is what we are going to do.

That way when we go knocking on doors to get more members we will start to hear things like, ‘Oh you’re those guys who did that seminar of minimum wage and the one on the condition of our water.’

“Molly worked very hard on this and I want to build on what she did.

At the end of the day if we are telling the truth and we are acting in the best interests of the town so we have an attractive and fully populated Main Street, and we have put a dent in homelessness by supporting the

House of Hope, and we scrutinize the budget as closely as we can and we are not wasting any money, maybe a capital improvement project can wait a year or two while we support the teachers. If we do that, we will get to where we want to be. I am an impatient fellow but we will get there.”

We talked about another pressing issue for the Warren County Democratic Committee.

While attending the Warren County Republican Mass Meeting the previous night, I took note of the average age of the members and discovered that the average age of a Republican member of the committee ranged from 27 to the mid-50s. However, the average age of a Warren County Democrat attending the Democrat Meeting was anywhere from 55 to the low 80s.

I asked Howarth what his plans were regarding the aging population of the current Democratic Committee. I also reminded him that many of the younger Republican committee members also have large families and are successful at balancing family life, jobs and careers with political activism.

“I have a saying; it is not a rule of the Democratic party that you have to be eligible for Medicare to be able to join the Democratic Party. We are a party, nationally, state and locally. We have to build on the success that Bernie Sanders has in attracting young people. We have to look at technology. Right now many young people here only hear one side of the argument. We need to talk about the issues,” he replied.

We also touched on a subject that surprised me when it came up. In his closing comments, Chairman Tom Howarth talked about something that was very personal to him and how he lives his life.

“I’m a Catholic, a Vatican II Catholic when things opened up and became more progressive. The Mass was no longer in Latin, it was in English. The point I am trying to make is if you walked down the street today and asked people if they think that the Democratic Party today was a faith based institution I would bet that you would get a lot of ‘No’s. Because here the general consensus is that the only good Christian here is a Republican. I want to do God’s will.

“I looked it up in the book and it says ‘Feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and clothe the naked’. So I am not going to tell people that we can’t expand food stamps. I don’t think you will find that in the Republicans.

“The key thing is that I want to do God’s Will in the work that I am doing. I’ve been around a lot of Democrats for most of my life and that is what most of them believe,” he declared.

– tim@areaguides.com

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Warren’s Republican Committee elects new chairman at Mass Meeting County Clerk Daryl Funk will lead the local party forward in an effort to get Republicans elected in November

County Clerk Daryl Funk addresses the Warren County Republican Committee as their newly elected chairman Vice Mayor Hollis Tharpe joins fellow Republicans at the Warren County Republican Party Mass Meeting to elect the new chairman of the committee

By Timothy Ratigan Warren & Frederick County Report The council chambers at the Warren County Government Center were filled to capacity by members of the Warren County Republican

Committee, new members and guest speakers on March 11, with the purpose of electing a new chairman for the committee.

They also elected delegates to the State and 6th Congressional District Conventions.

This was not this reporter’s first mass meeting. My first vote ever cast was in the early spring of 1984 at the Warren County Republican Mass Meeting.

The only difference was at the March 11 meeting, I was an observer, a reporter with a mission. That mission was to get the story.

At the start of the meeting an opening prayer was held and then a young Marine was asked to lead the Mass Meeting in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Steve Kurtz, outgoing chairman of the Warren County Republican Committee, (WCRC) gave the opening remarks. He acknowledged the

honor it was to have served the committee for the last two years. He gave credit to several committee members for the help and advice he had received during his term as chairman.

“One of the things I wanted to do when I became chairman was to get a database in Warren County to help us win elections, identify voters and to get people out to elections.

We have done that and are in fact in our second year of implementing that database. We have knocked on numerous doors and have added an enormous amount of information to our database. The Information we have gathered is helping us- helping Republicans win elections in Warren

County. I am very proud of that accomplishment. The second thing we did as me being chairman is that for the first time in Front Royal history, we endorsed candidates for Front Royal Town Council.

“Those three candidates were elected. One was Hollis Tharpe, the other was John Connolly and the other Bébhinn Egger,” he said.

Kurtz went on to say that he will not be seeking re-election for chairman because he is seeking the position of 6th District Regional Vice Chair. Kurtz was the only one who pre-filed for that position and will be nominated by acclimation at the 6th District Convention.

He stressed that 2016 was going to be an exciting year.

“We are going to get a Republican elected into the White House. Once we pick our nominee we must get behind and support him. Our only other option is Hilary Clinton. And I’m not going there,” he said.

While the chairman waited for the various other committees such as the credentials committee to complete their reports, various guest speakers were asked to address the body.

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The first guest speaker was Suzanne Obenshain, wife of State Senator Mark Obenshain. Obenshain is running for the office of National Committeewoman.

She said, “I am running for National Committeewoman because three years ago my husband lost by 167 votes, and I believe that we need a strong conservative voice to represent us, the grassroots activists, in Virginia to make sure that we have the resources across Virginia that we need to win elections once again. I believe that Mark and Ken Cuccinelli would be our governor and attorney general had we had the resources we needed from the RNC (Republican National Committee) in Virginia. I

believe that Ed Gillespie would be our senator if we had the resources in 2014.

“But we did not have those resources and I know firsthand that I am a product of not having what we need. I want to be the conservative voice that will make sure that the resources we need are given to the grass roots activists. I have been working actively for the last thirty years to make sure that we were electing Republicans in the Shenandoah Valley.

I want to work at the RNC level and the state level as your National Committeewoman to make sure that we are winning elections again in Virginia. I look forward to seeing you on April 30th in Harrisonburg.”

April 30th is the date when Republican Party of Virginia State Convention elections for National Committeewoman will be held. Delegates for the National Convention will be selected as well.

Town Councilman, and WCRC member, John Connolly, was elected as temporary chairman to run the

meeting, and outgoing Chairman Steve Kurtz completed his duties as Chair. The new chairman was elected toward the end of the meeting.

Election of delegates and alternate delegates to attend the Republican Party of Virginia State Convention was next on the agenda. A total of 63 delegates and 60 alternate delegates will represent the WCRC at the State Convention on April 30th in Harrisonburg.

Next to speak was outgoing Vice Chairman Matt Tederick who informed the committee that he would not be seeking re-election because he is now the vice chairman of the 6th Congressional District.

“There is a lot happening in Warren County, the 6th District and in Virginia right now. The grassroots are on fire in my opinion and we are fed up with the status quo in Congress.

I look around this room tonight and I see two people that I personally brought into the party. I encourage everyone in this room to go home and do the same. We have a lot of

Late March, 2016 • Warren & Frederick County Report • Page 17 apathy out there and the reason for that is that most of the people don’t know what we do. I would venture to guess that a lot of people in this room didn’t know that we had a 6th Congressional District. We need new energy and new leadership in the party,” he remarked.

Throughout the meeting, the recurring message was about the need to get organized, to get out the vote and to grow the party.

This reporter took a few minutes to scan the crowd and took note of the ages of attendees in the council chambers. The average age was about 25 to late forties. That sent me the message that the WCRC is, for the most part, a young and growing party both in age and in numbers.

The final piece of business for the mass meeting was the election of the chairman of the committee for the next two years.

County Clerk Daryl Funk was nominated and elected as the next WCRC Chairman.

“I just turned 34 and that marks 16

years that I have been affiliated with the WCRC. I can’t say that overjoyed is the feeling that I have right now.

After being a member for so long I know that many better men and woman have served as Chair before me. One other thing I can say about this committee is that we have been moving upwards. The Republican Party of Warren County has been strong for my entire adult life.

“I would like to recognize a few points this evening. We have a majority on the board of supervisors and on the town council as well.

We’ve got Jacob Meza, newly appointed, to take my seat. We’ve got John Connolly here and Hollis Tharpe here as well. When I first joined this committee I was actually volunteering on Hollis’s campaign. This committee has continued to grow.

If there’s anything I want to see over the next two years, it’s that we continue to progress. And I will do my best to bridge any divides that are in our committee. We are a party that is conservative for one reason or another. We are the party of Donald Trump, we are a big tent and we have always been. My job is to make the Republican who calls himself moderate or liberal feel just as welcome as the people who share my perspective as very conservative and pro-life. Being pro-life has always probably been the most important issue to me and will always be so. I want to see that we are able to get together and elect good candidates to office. In order to do that we have to be able to work together,” Funk said.

So as the mass meeting closed, I took note of one town council member and candidate, Jacob Meza, now an official member of the WCRC who was walking around the crowd, seeking coveted signatures on petitions needed to be put on the ballot.

I couldn’t help but wonder how many town council candidates would be actively seeking the endorsement of the WCRC. We do know for fact that William Sealock has already gone on record that he will be seeking one such endorsement. But what of Councilman Jacob Meza, or any other of the candidates who were collecting signatures?

I guess we will have to wait and see.

One other thing I took note of is this. What will happen after a presidential nominee is finally chosen.?

What if that someone is Donald Trump?

How many WCRC members will get up and walk out?

We already saw that happen at the last WCRC meeting before this mass meeting when Dr. Mary K Clark interrupted a recognized guest speaker who was speaking on behalf of Donald Trump and walked out of the meeting in protest of the Trump campaign.

Will we see the splintering of the committee? Or will we see the committee rally behind the candidate that the People have chosen?

Only time will tell.

– tim@areaguides.com

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Backroom Brewery-one of the hoppiest places in Virginia Warren County’s only microbrewery, surrounding area grew out of Sunflower Cottage herb farm

Backroom Brewery offers more than 20 different beer recipes

Daniel Flory, left, and Darren Queen get the tanks ready for another run of the Lemon Basil wheat beer

By Mario Orlikoff Warren & Frederick County Report This is a happy place. And this is a hoppy place.

It only seemed natural that the Backroom Brewery in Middletown, the only microbrewery in Warren County and the surrounding area, would grow out of the noted herb farm called Sunflower Cottage. After all, as the 20-acre farm’s owner, Billie Clifton, points out, hops are the herbs that flavor beer.

In 2013, Clifton began the process of creating an ordinance in Warren County to accommodate farm breweries, and by that spring, Backroom Brewery became the first farm brewery in the Northern Shenandoah Valley. Now, almost three years later, the

place is bustling with life like never before – culinary and medicinal herbs growing in the garden center, a hops field with giant stalks, many other kinds of diversions, dedicated brewers and employees, and, perhaps most importantly, devoted, impressed customers.

You walk around the place and it’s a breath of fresh air, and basil, and cilantro, and oregano, and lavender, and rosemary …

This isn’t so much a microbrewery as a micro-destination, a place that serves creative dishes out of its scratch kitchen like the Beer-Bread Grilled Cheese Sandwich along with, of course, the 20-plus different beers made on the premises – unique creations such as the popular Lemon Basil Wheat, Cilantro Lime, Backroom

Blonde, and Helltown Red IPA. The main room can seat up to 20.

Another room can seat up to 25.

There’s an upstairs space for at least 10. Outside, there’s room for a small town.

“We’re a destination,” Clifton said.

“We’re not really a production brewery. We’re a destination brewery. We want people to come here. And they do. They google breweries in Virginia and they try to go to every single one of them, and they come here. Lots of people come here, and that’s what we want. We’re a destination.”

And when they get there, stuff is happening. In the fall and winter, they do bonfires. In the busier spring and summer times, they do picnics, live music, and host The Virginia Herb Festival (June) and Hop Harvest

Party (August). They’re kid-friendly.

And they’ve taken pet-friendly to a new level: A man brought his pet alligator on a leash for a visit one time.

“It’s a place you can come and just spend some time,” Clifton said.

“When you’re doing a brew trail or through an industrial park, you go in, you do their tasting and leave. But here, you can come and bring your kids, bring your pets, and just hang

out. There’s plenty of room outside for almost any number of people.”

Apparently, the people agree.

Check out some of the nearly unanimous positive reviews on Yelp: “Awesome, awesome, awesome.

A new reason to visit Middletown.

Normally at a new brewery I find one or two beers I kinda like. Here, I liked-to-loved all of my tastings.

They also have a decent selection of

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“If the beer and food doesn’t convince you to go, then the atmosphere is worth the trip. So zen-like with the herb farm, rolling hills, labyrinth, white horse over yonder, ahhh. …”

“This place is special. I don’t say that about many places. … Several hours were blissfully spent in a great environment, immersed in good conversation, drinking great local beer, plucking hops off vines, and listening to live music. Not a bad way to while away an afternoon.”

Many customers obviously admire the Backroom staff ’s experimentation and creativity with various brewing herbs and hops grown on the property. Not many craft or micro-breweries grow their own hops, much less herbs.

“It’s nice,” said Daniel Flory, who along with fellow brewer Darren Queen was prepping the fermentation tanks one afternoon. “Tomorrow, when we do the Lemon Basil, we literally will just walk into the greenhouse and cut the plants right off and

toss them in.”

Queen, the smiling head brewer who wore a Fraggle Rock t-shirt, and Flory are quite accessible during any part of the brewing process.

“People are always coming in and hanging out,” Flory said. “They will come over and hang out and ask what we’re brewing. And we like that aspect. I mean, I would enjoy that. I know someone else would enjoy it.

We have the ability to make that happen. We encourage people to come over here and talk with us. They’ll come over all the time and talk about their home-brew stuff.”

“There’s nothing better than brewing beer,” Queen said.

Come on, there’s got to be some drudgery involved, right? Not really, they maintained.

“Even the cleaning is fun,” Queen said. “We love all of it.”

Clifton and her crew are constantly adding to the place and product. The brewery itself was new in 2013. In 2014, they added the patio. In 2015, they enclosed the patio out front. In

2015, they also purchased additional fermenters – they now have four, shiny tanks – to increase production.

And what’s on tap for 2016?

“We’re focusing on the ability to serve more of our beers,” Clifton said.

They will increase their taps from eight to 10, with a goal of 15 or more beers on tap at a time. You can buy beer by the glass, or by the growler to take home.

This is a relatively small operation – if you can call something on 20 acres small - with some really big beers. A tasting board, or paddle, of six beers (for just $5!) might consist of the following: Perhaps their signature beer, the Lemon Basil, is a thirst-quencher with fresh lemon zest and basil harvested, of course, from their own gardens.

The Kiss Me Kolsch is smooth, crisp, pale and golden, brewed with the classic German Kolsch yeast strain and Noble hops.

Backroom Brewery and Sunflower Cottage owner Billie Clifton holds up some of the many varieties of herbs grown on the farm For the true hop lovers who enjoy testing their palate, there’s the Balance of Power Double IPA, brewed

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For a beer drinker looking for some sweetness mixed with a dry-roasted finish, there’s the smooth and malty Reliance Road Red. The Golden Strong is a complex Pilsner malt that checks in at 9.4 percent ABV. And for breakfast in a glass, there’s the roasted, toasty Oatmeal Stout, which is Flory’s favorite.

Whether it’s the beer, food, friendly atmosphere, gift shop or pastoral setting, there’s always something brewing for just about everyone at one of the hoppiest places in Virginia. Even a reporter who has visited many micro-breweries and tap rooms and was looking hard for a nitpick or two to balance out the article couldn’t find much but positivity. They’re doing it right, and there’s nothing wrong with leaving it at just that.

As the Backroom Brewery web site proclaims: “Life is good and we are living the dream.”

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INDICTMENTS 2016 February Indictments – January Term Jalon Charles Ezzell The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about October 16, 2015, in the County of Warren, Jalon Charles Ezzell, 23, of 565 Grimes Golden Rd., Linden, VA 22642, did unlawfully and feloniously possess, with the intent to distribute, a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin.

George Edward Caison, III The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges George Edward Caison III, age and address unavailable, with five counts.

COUNTS ONE and TWO: In the County of Warren, George Edward Caison III did unlawfully and fe-lo-

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niously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin.

COUNT THREE: did unlawfully and feloniously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin, while on public property or any property open to public use within 1,000 ft. of public or private school property. COUNT FOUR: did unlawfully and fe-loniously sell or distribute an imitation controlled substance which imitates a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin. COUNT FIVE: did unlawfully and fe-loniously sell or distribute an imitation controlled substance which imitates a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin, while on public property or any property open to public use within 1,000 ft. of public or private school property. Dates of the offenses were on or about October 20, 23 and November 3, 2015.

through TEN: did unlawfully and feloniously, with the intent to defraud, forge checks drawn on the account of Doris Clatterbuck, at the Wells Fargo Bank, dated May 11, 13, 14, 15, 2015 on each of those dates, payable to the order of 7-11 store, for the payment of $45.00 and signed as follows: Doris Clatterbuck. Dates of the offenses were on or about May 11, 13, 14, 15 and June 29 through July 6, 2015.

Victoria Lynn Myers

Daniel Edward Shifflett

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Victoria Lynn Myers, age and address unavailable, with ten counts. COUNT ONE: Victoria Lynn Myers did unlawfully and feloniously, take or obtain a credit card from the control or possession of another without the cardholder’s consent, with the intent to use said credit card. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and feloniously, with the intent to defraud, obtain money and goods or services with a value of $200.00 or more within a six-month period through the use of the credit card by representing without the cardholder’s consent that she is the cardholder. COUNTS THREE

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Daniel Edward Shifflett, age and address unavailable, with three counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Daniel Edward Shifflett did unlawfully and feloniously take drive or use a certain vehicle, the value of $200.00 or more, the property of Glenn Russell, without the consent of said owner and with the intent to temporarily deprive the owner thereof of his possession. COUNTS TWO and THREE: did unlawfully and feloniously assault and batter Chelsea Pinto, a family or household member, and Brook Pinto. Date of the offenses was on or about November 29, 2015.

Davonte Laquan Starks The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about December 14, 2015, in the County of Warren, Davonte Laquan Starks, age and address unavailable, did unlawfully and feloniously take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels belonging to Rosa Starks, with a value of $200.00 or more.

Michael Kelley Barr

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about December 28, 2015, in the County of Warren, Michael Kelley Barr, age and address unavailable, did unlawfully and feloniously take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels belonging to Donna Marie Booth, with a value of $200.00 or more.

Allen Julian Whitehead The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Allen Julian Whitehead, age and address unavailable, with five counts. COUNTS ONE and TWO: In the County of Warren, Allen Julian Whitehead did unlawfully and feloniously, maliciously shoot and wound Heather Wilson, with the intent to maim, disfigure, disable or kill said Heather Wilson. COUNT THREE: did unlawfully and feloniously use and display a firearm while committing or attempting to commit a malicious wounding.

COUNT FOUR: did unlawfully and feloniously discharge a firearm with-

in a building when occupied by one or more persons in such a manner as to endanger the life or lives of such person or persons. COUNT FIVE: did unlawfully and feloniously handle a firearm in a manner so gross, wanton and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life and caused the serious bodily injury of another person resulting in permanent and significant physical impairment. Date of the offenses was on or about August 19, 2015.

Michael Paul Addison

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Michael Paul Addison, 31, of 101 Rolling Valley Ln., Front Royal, VA 22630 with four counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Michael Paul Addison did unlawfully take steal U.S. currency belonging to B&G Mart, with a value of $200.00 or more.

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Robert Hampton Henry, Jr. The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about August 9, 2015, in the County of Warren, Robert Hampton Henry,

Jr., 51 of 339 Kendrick Ln., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully drive or operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, this being a third offense within five years of two prior offenses.

Late March, 2016 • Warren & Frederick County Report • Page 21 Holly Lynn Kuhn The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about July 25, 2015, in the County of Warren, Holly Lynn Kuhn, 29, of 37 Ritenour St., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously possess a Schedule I or II controlled substance.

44, of 15 Silkwood Ln., Amisville, VA 22106, did unlawfully and feloniously fail to stop and give aid and information after being involved in an accident in which a person was injured, fail to render reasonable assistance to a person injured in the accident when it was apparent that medical treatment was necessary or was requested by the injured person.

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The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about July 25, 2015, in the County of Warren, Holly Lynn Kuhn, 29, of 37 Ritenour St., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously possess a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin.

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Shaquin Arell Goring, 32, of 416 Winston St., Richmond, VA 23222, with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Shaquin Arell Goring did unlawfully and fe-loniously forge a public document, to-wit: Virginia Uniform Summons #13-27589.

COUNT TWO: Shaquin Arell Goring did unlawfully and fe-loniously utter or attempt to employ as true a public record knowing the same

Thomas Leroy Walter, III The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about August 22, 2015, in the County of Warren, Thomas Leroy Walter, III,

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Angelique Marie Hannah The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Angelique Marie Hannah, 30, of 333 Grimes Golden Rd., Linden, VA, 22642 with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Angelique Marie Hannah did unlawfully and feloniously impede the blood circulation or respiration of A.P., a child of nine years of age, without such person’s consent, by knowingly, intentionally

and unlawfully applying pressure to the neck of such person resulting in bodily injury. COUNT TWO: being the parent of, guardian for, or person responsible for the care of A.P., a child of nine years of age, whose willful act or omission in the care of such child was so gross, wanton, and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life which resulted in a serious injury. Date of the offenses was on or about September 1, 2015.

Telina Shanterra Cline The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about January 18, 2016, in the County of Warren, Telina Shanterra Cline, 32, of 353 Kendrick Ln., #33, Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and

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Stevon Leondre Cardwell The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Stevon Leondre Cardwell, 26, of 43 Cloud St., Front Royal, VA 22630, with four counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Stevon Leondre Cardwell did unlawfully and feloniously assault and batter Officer E.J. Suess, knowing or having reason to know that Officer E.J. Suess was a law enforcement officer engaged in his duties as such. COUNT TWO: did

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Read full issues FREE on www.WarrenCountyVA.com & www.FrederickCounty.com of Warren, Elizabeth Mary Driscoll, age unknown, of 476 Pine Ridge Dr., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously possess a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin.

Maximino Mendoza Miranda, Jr. The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about January 11, 2016, in the County of Warren, Maximino Mendoza Miranda, Jr., 24, of the Rappahannock, Warren, Shenandoah Regional Jail, Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously assault and batter Dusty Hottinger, knowing or having reason to know that Dusty Hottinger was a law enforcement officer engaged in his duties as such.

Rachael Dawn Huntt The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about August 17, 2015, in the County of Warren, Rachael Dawn Huntt, 28, of 851 Morgan Pl., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously possess a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin.

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Tyee Vontae Johnson The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about February 18, 2015, in the County of Warren, Tyee Vontae Johnson, 20, of 503 Warren Ave., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously assault and batter Brad Pennington, knowing or having reason to know that Brad Pennington was a law enforcement officer engaged in his duties as such.

Robert Shawn Crow The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Robert Shawn Crow, 54 of 735 W. 11th St., Front Royal, VA 22630, with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Robert Shawn Crow did unlawfully and feloniously fail to stop and give aid and information after being involved in an accident in which a person was injured or killed.

COUNT TWO: did unlawfully drive or operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, this being a third offense within ten years of two prior offenses. Date of the offenses was on or about December 7, 2015.

Matthew Allen Showers The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about November 10, 2015, in the County of Warren, Matthew Allen Showers, age and address unavailable, did unlaw-

fully and feloniously take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels belonging to Martin’s, having a value of less than $200.00, the accused having twice or more before been convicted of an offense deemed as larceny.

lawfully and fe-loniously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin, upon the grounds of a publicly owned recreation facility.

Date of the offenses was on or about September 25, 2015.

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The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about December 22, 2015, in the County of Warren, Sherri Rochelle Brent a/k/a Sherri Baltimore Brent, 35, of 121 E. 14th St., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously, with the intention of converting goods and merchandise to her own use without having paid the full price thereof, willfully conceal or take possession of the goods or merchandise of Martin’s, having previously been convicted of larceny or an offense deemed as larceny two or more times.

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about October 1, 2015, in the County of Warren, Dawn Marie Fewell a/k/a Dawn Marie Berry, 48, of 231 Church St., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, towit: Heroin.

Michael Ray Williams The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Michael Ray Williams, 24, of 2 E. 19th St., Front Royal, VA 22630, with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Michael Ray Williams did unlawfully and fe-loniously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin, this being a second or subsequent offense, and said prior con-victions occurring prior to the date alleged in this indictment. COUNT TWO: did un-

Christopher Troy Berry The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Christopher Troy Berry, age and address unavailable, with three counts.

COUNTS ONE, TWO AND THREE: In the County of Warren, Christopher Troy Berry did unlawfully and fe-loniously distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin, this being a third or subsequent offense, and said prior con-victions occurring prior to the date alleged in this indictment. Dates of the offenses were on or about October 1, 13 and November 11, 2015.

Adrian Darnell Edwards The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Adrian

Darnell Edwards, 21, of 1432 Cedar Dr., Front Royal, VA 22630, with three counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Adrian Darnell Edwards did unlawfully and fe-loniously possess, with the intent to distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin, this being a second or subsequent offense, and said prior con-victions occurring prior to the date alleged in this indictment. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and feloniously possess, with the intent to distribute, a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin, while on public property or any property open to public use within 1,000 ft. of public or private school property. COUNT THREE: did unlawfully, knowingly attempt to obstruct or impede Investigator Josh Tanner, a law enforcement officer engaged in his duties as such. Dates of the offenses were on or about October 21 and 29, 2015.

Christian Garrett Corathers The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Christian Garrett Corathers, age and address unavailable, with seven counts.

COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Christian Garrett Corathers did unlawfully and fe-loniously take or obtain a credit card from the control or possession of another without the cardholder’s consent, with the intent to use said credit card. COUNT TWO: did feloniously sell stolen property with an aggregate value of $200.00 or more where he knew or should have known that the property as stolen. COUNT THREE: did unlawfully and feloniously steal a motor vehicle belonging to Tracey Diamond Jr, with a value of $200.00 or more.

COUNT FOUR: did unlawfully and feloniously, intentionally destroy, deface damage or remove without the intent to steal, the real or personal property of Tharpe’s Garage, the value of, or damage to such property being less than $1,000.00. COUNT FIVE: did unlawfully and feloniously, with the intention of converting goods or merchandise to his own use without having paid the full price thereof, willfully conceal or take possession of the goods or mer-chandise having a value of less than $200.00 and belonging to Martin’s. COUNT SIX: did unlawfully and willfully break, tamper with, or remove a part or parts of a 1995 GMC belonging to Joshua Hooter for the purpose of defacing, destroying or temporarily or permanently preventing its useful operation, or for any other purpose against the will or without the consent of the owner. COUNT SEVEN: did unlawfully and willfully break, tamper with, or remove a part or parts of a 2000 Jeep, belonging to Chelsea Chewning for the purpose of defacing, destroying or temporarily or permanently preventing its useful operation, or for any other purpose against the will or without the consent of the owner. Dates of the offenses were on or about October 30 and December 21, 2015.

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On March 13, 2016 at 1:50 pm the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office responded to the area of Freezeland Road in Linden for a report of a passenger in a vehicle, firing a semi-automatic handgun out of the window.

Deputy D.J. Henry was in the area and located the suspect vehicle at the intersection of Bifrost Way and Freezeland Road.

Deputy Henry initiated a traffic stop in the parking lot of the Monterey Store and detained all of the occupants of the vehicle. Deputy Henry recovered two semi-auto handguns and numerous spent shell casings from the interior of the vehicle.

Through the course of the investigation 19 year old Jordan Antione-Everette Hayden, from Dumfries, VA, was identified as the suspect firing the handgun.

Hayden was subsequently arrested and charged with a class 1 misdemeanor for reckless handling of a firearm, a class 5 felony for shooting from a vehicle and a class 4 misdemeanor for drunk in public. Hayden was also arrested for outstanding misdemeanor warrants from Prince William County. Hayden was taken to the Rappahannock Shenandoah Warren Regional Jail. He was released on 3/14/2016 after posting a $6,000 secured bond.

Anyone with additional information in regards to this case is asked to contact Deputy D.J. Henry with the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office at (540) 635-4128.

Frederick County man arrested on four counts of attempted capital murder A Frederick County grand jury indicted a Clear Brook, Va., man Thursday, March 10 on nine felony counts related to a shooting with the Frederick County Sheriff ’s Office Feb. 7, 2016. The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Culpeper Field Office served the indictments Thursday (March 10) afternoon on Charles H. Cook Jr., 42.

The indictments include four felony counts of attempted capital murder of a law enforcement officer, four felony counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and one felony count of possession of a firearm by a violent convicted felon.

The charges stem from the officerinvolved shooting that took place at Cook’s residence in the 300 block of Browns Lane Feb. 7, 2016. At approximately 10:01 a.m., Frederick County Sheriff ’s deputies responded to the residence in reference to a 911 call concerning an armed subject threatening suicide. Deputies responded and despite their efforts to calm Cook, he became more agitated and fired his weapon at the deputies.

Frederick County Sheriff ’s Office Sgt. D. Holliday returned fire. Cook was struck and transported to the Winchester Medical Center, where he was treated for serious but non-life threatening injuries.

Upon release from the hospital, Cook was arrested Feb. 29, 2016, by State Police on a probation violation and transported to the Northwest Detention Center, where he continues to be held without bond.

At the request of the Frederick County Sheriff, the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Culpeper Field Office investigated the officer-involved shooting.

The state police findings were turned over to the Frederick County Commonwealth’s Attorney, who after reviewing the case ruled the sergeant’s actions justified.

Warren Memorial Hospital Hosts Diabetes Alert Program The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has declared Tuesday, March 22 to be ADA Alert Day®, a one-day “wake-up call” for community awareness about risk factors for type 2 diabetes.

Valley Health Warren Memorial Hospital will host a free program on March 22 from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. in the hospital’s main conference room next to the cafeteria. The public is invited to stop by and complete a brief risk assessment and talk with the hospital’s certified diabetes nurse educator and other health experts.

A free continental breakfast will be served, and participants may register for door prizes.

“Awareness is crucial in the effort to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes,” says Arlene Figgins, RN, CDE. “Completing the risk assessment can be the first step in knowing your risk and taking control of your

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According to the ADA, nearly one in three American adults is at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes, while another 86 million American adults have prediabetes, meaning their blood glucose (sugar) is higher than normal. Some of the primary risk factors for type 2 diabetes include being overweight, sedentary, over the age of 45 and having a family history of diabetes.

For more information on the ADA Alert Day at Warren Memorial Hospital, contact Diabetes Management at 540-636-0314 or email afiggins@ valleyhealthlink.com. Warren Memorial Hospital is located at 1000 N. Shenandoah Avenue in Front Royal.

Announcing The Blue Ridge Singers’ Spring Performances The Blue Ridge Singers’ spring concert “I Saw Water Flowing…,” conducted by BRS artistic director Dr. Jeffrey Alban with organist Heather Ankerbrand and accompanist Elaine Wright, features sacred and secular works about water. Concerts are Friday, April 15, 7:30 at Front Royal Presbyterian Church; Sunday, April 17, 4 pm at Opequon Presbyterian Church, 2317 Opequon Church Ln., Winchester; and Tuesday, April 19, 7:30 pm, All Saints Catholic Church, 9300 Stonewall Rd., Manassas. A $10 donation is requested.

Dr. Alban selected the water theme after discovering Gabriel Jackson’s Vidi aquam and Richards Dubra’s Asperges – settings of traditional liturgical chants symbolizing spiritual cleansing. The program includes spirituals about water (Hogan and Staheli); a poem about a legendary sunken city (Brahms); a song about a gondolier (Schubert); a setting of the poem “Dolphins” by Emma Lou Diemer and local references with James Erb’s setting of O Shenandoah and Winchester composer William Averitt’s Ocean Dance For information please visit The Blue Ridge Singers on the web or on facebook.

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The bus will leave from the Warren County Community Center; 538 Villa Ave., Front Royal, Virginia, at 12:45 p.m. for the live action adventure at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. on Sunday, April 3, 2016, show time is 3:30pm. The cost is $62.00 per reservation, includes admission ticket and transportation. Tickets are limited to six (6) tickets per house-

hold, with only 38 tickets available.

Registration information can be obtained by contacting the Warren County Community Center, at (540) 635-1021, or via email at wcccinfo@ warrencountyva.net.

Tot Tumbling Class The Warren County Parks and Recreation Department is now accepting registrations for their Tot Tumbling Class, for those ages 4 years and younger. This program is geared to provide a safe environment for children to become confident as they develop fundamental movement skills and to encourage participation in physical fitness.

The class will be held at the Warren County Health and Human Services Complex Gym on Mondays from April 4 through May 9, 12:00 p.m. 12:40 p.m. The cost of the tot tumbling class is $62.00 per child for the

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Registration information can be obtained by contacting the Warren County Community Center, at (540) 635-1021, or via email at wcccinfo@ warrencountyva.net.

Tiny Tykes Volleyball Program Warren County Parks and Recreation Department is offering a volleyball program for children ages 4 to 10 years of age, on Wednesdays, April 13 through May 18 at the Warren County Health and Human Services Gym.

Those ages 4 -6 years will attend from 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. and those ages 7 -10 years will attend from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity that will prepare your child for organized volleyball in a fun, up-beat, non-competitive environment. This program will provide the

Late March, 2016 • Warren & Frederick County Report • Page 25 opportunity for children to work oneon-one with a parent to learn various skills associated with the sport of volleyball. The cost is $30.00 per participant for the 6 week program.

For more information contact Tiffany Walker, AFO; Recreation and Aquatics Coordinator at (540) 635-1021 or via email at twalker@ warrencountyva.net.

Registration information can be obtained by contacting the Warren County Community Center, at (540) 635-1021 or via email at wcccinfo@warrencountyva. net.

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It affords them the opportunity to learn the basic ballet position, terminology, skill building, movement through music and getting creative with kids their age.

This class is designed for the beginner or the first/second year dance student and open to both boys and girls, ages 4-9 years. The session will be held from April 13 through May 16. Classes will be held Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. at the RES Youth Center, 200 E. 8th Street, Front Royal. The cost is $55.00 per participant for the 6 week session. Minimum of 5 students are needed in order to hold the class.

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Belle Grove Plantation opens for 2016 season On Saturday, March 19, Belle Grove Plantation will open for its 2016 season after being closed for the winter. The site will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and resume its seven day a week schedule thereafter.

Starting this year, there will be two new features for visitors to Belle Grove. Six new exhibit panels that discuss slavery at Belle Grove will be on display of the lower level of the Manor House. Surviving records of the Hite family at Belle Grove indicate that they owned 276 individuals between 1783 and 1851. Belle Grove staff and volunteers are conducting archival and archaeological research to learn more about the enslaved and the exhibit will report on the findings to date. The exhibit may be viewed as part of the tour of the Manor House.

Opening day will also debut Belle Grove’s new Little Free Library. It will become one of the 36,000 free book exchanges worldwide that promote literacy and build a sense of community (www.littlefreelibrary. org). Belle Grove’s Little Free Library was donated by Literacy Volunteers Winchester Area and built by volunteers at their United Way Day of Caring. It has been decorated to replicate the stone walls and grey roof of the Belle Grove Manor House.

Located in the parking lot, it will be freely available as a place where the public may take or leave a book. On Tuesday, March 15 at 10 a.m., Kim Herbstritt, Executive Director of the Literacy Volunteers Winchester Area and Kristen Laise, Executive Director of Belle Grove Plantation will conduct a short dedication ceremony and be available for press interviews

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To celebrate Opening Day, admission will be discounted to just $5 for visitors 12 and older. All Belle Grove members will be free of charge. Visitors who choose to purchase or renew their membership on Opening Day will receive $5 off and may immediately use their benefits, including free admission and a 10% discount in the Museum Shop. Belle Grove Plantation is located off Route 11 at 336 Belle Grove Road in Middletown.

In 2016, Belle Grove Plantation’s 1797 Manor House and grounds will be open from March 19 to October 30 on Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Sundays 1 5 p.m. (closed major holidays). From October 31 to December 1, Belle Grove will be open Saturdays 10 a.m.

- 4 p.m. and Sundays 1 - 5 p.m. From December 2 to 30 Belle Grove’s annual Christmas tours will take place Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Sundays 1 - 5 p.m.

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Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park announce Star Gazing Parties Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park invite visitor s to view and learn about the nighttime sky through three Star Gazing Parties scheduled throughout 2016.

These special National Park Service events, held in partnership with the Shenandoah Astronomical Society (SAS) and the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation, are scheduled for Saturday, April 2nd, Saturday, August 13th and Saturday, October 1st (rain date: October 29th).

As part of the National Park Service’s Centennial celebration this year, these programs encourage visitors to explore Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park in a variety of ways and to discover the night sky in a quiet and peaceful setting.

Read full issues FREE on www.WarrenCountyVA.com & www.FrederickCounty.com All three programs will be held at the Thoburn Redoubt property, located on Bowman’s Mill Road, in Warren County. This tract has been preserved by the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation and marks the location where the Battle of Cedar Creek began on October 19, 1864. The site will be marked by directional signage for each event.

The Star Parties will begin at 7:00 p.m. and are free of charge. Each program will include a short introduction by a park ranger, followed by an astronomical related program given by a member of the SAS. Visitors are welcomed to bring their own telescopes, or use the ones that will be provided by the Shenandoah Astronomical Society.

The events on April 2nd and October 2nd will look at a variety of celestial features. The Star Party on August 13th is scheduled to coincide with the Perseid Meteor Shower, which results from debris stream associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle.

Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park offers a wide variety of ranger-conducted programs, which tell the park’s many stories related to the rich cultural history of the Shenandoah Valley and the American Civil War. These programs are offered regularly. Check the park website (www.nps.gov/cebe) or call (540) 869-3051 for a current schedule.

Announcing The Blue Ridge Singers’ Spring Performances The Blue Ridge Singers’ spring concert “I Saw Water Flowing…,” conducted by BRS artistic director Dr. Jeffrey Alban with organist Heather Ankerbrand and accompanist Elaine Wright, features sacred and secular works about water. Concerts are Friday, April 15, 7:30 at Front Royal Presbyterian Church; Sunday, April 17, 4 pm at Opequon Presbyterian Church, 2317 Opequon Church Ln., Winchester; and Tuesday, April 19, 7:30 pm, All Saints Catholic Church,

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Randolph-Macon Academy Students Win Gold at Regional Science Fair A group of 18 Randolph-Macon Academy students competed in the Shenandoah Valley Regional Science Fair on March 8th at James Madison University. The following students won awards: Eighth grader Jonathan Bunker of Berryville received the Gold Medal by the Broadcom Masters program of the Society for Science. His project “To Kill a Germ” examined bacterial growth and disinfectants.

Eighth grader Lawrence Carvana of Washington, DC, was awarded

the Gold Medal by the Broadcom Masters program of the Society for Science. His project “Does Exercise Effect Memory” studied the effect of exercise on memory.

Sixth grader Alex Self of Front Royal received the Gold Medal by the Broadcom Masters program of the Society for Science and the Air Force Achievement Award. His project was “Distillation of Water.”

Seventh grader Autumn Thomas of Linden was awarded the Gold Medal by the Broadcom Masters program of the Society for Science. Her project “Equine Emotions” studied how the emotions of a horse impact its stride, gait, and responsiveness.

The Broadcom Masters winners are nominated to compete in a national competition which is described by the Society for Science website as “earned by being in the top 10% of sixth, seventh, and eighth grade participants at the Regional Fair. Students who choose to do so submit an online application and out of hundreds, 30 finalists are selected to present their research projects and compete in team hands-on STEM challenges to demonstrate their skills in critical thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity.”

Outstanding Students Chelsea Academy announced the names of student athletes recognized by their coaches for dem-

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Lord Fairfax Community College is hosting its third annual Focus on Health: Education, Employment and Wellness Event on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 in the Corron Community Development Center and McCoy Theatre on the Middletown Campus from 10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The College will host multiple vendors made up of employers hiring in healthcare fields, schools with continuing education programs, and organizations providing community services.

The public is invited to attend this open-house event. Join us to jumpstart your career or to take your foundational training/education to the next level. This is also a great opportunity to learn more about health and wellness services in our area.

To RSVP for this event or to learn more information about the employers, organizations and schools represented, visit www.lfcc.edu/HealthCareFair or contact Janet Finley at jfinley@lfcc.edu.

The Rotary Club of Front Royal announces its Annual Community Service Grant competition.

Grant applications from NOT FOR PROFIT organizations whose activities, promote and enhance the quality of life or the citizens of Front Royal/Warren County, are now being accepted by the club. The winning grant could receive up to $8,500.

Application forms may be obtained by writing to the Rotary Club of Front Royal at PO Box 85, Front Royal, VA. 22630; emailing debra.morfit@ bankatunion.com; or visiting frontroyalrotary.org. Applications will be accepted until March 31, 2016.

LFCC Launches Veterans Mentor Program Lord Fairfax Community College (LFCC) is one of five community colleges in the state to receive $200,000 for an initiative titled, “Virginia Veterans Service Demonstration Project.”

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Andrea Lo, Veterans Specialist at LFCC, said, “We seek to provide our veteran students with the skills, knowledge, resources, and personal connections they need to achieve their academic goals, and the new Veterans Mentor Program<http://www.lfcc. edu/future-students/financial-aid/ veterans-affairs/veterans-mentorprogram/> is a good example of this.”

The Veteran Mentor Program matches one student with one veteran mentor in the community. Both meet once a week, over a cup of coffee, meal, or event. The college will also host trainings and social events on campus for mentors and their students. Some of these may include: Interactive Job Workshop Family Potluck Dinner College Skills/Study Skills Workshop Sporting Events Family Movie Night “A mentor is someone who can be a coach, comrade, and friend to the student. There is a wonderful intrinsic reward playing a role in someone else’s success,” explained Lo. Virginia’s veteran population is growing. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the commonwealth will be home to nearly 850,000 veterans by the year 2017, ranking it 5th in the nation in terms of veteran population.

“At any given time, LFCC averages about 120 veteran students,” said Lo. For more information regarding the Veterans Mentor Program or any of our veteran services, contact Andrea Lo at (540) 868-7088 or email ALo@lfcc.edu.

Poetry Contest and Performance Will Celebrate Front Royal Voices To celebrate National Poetry Month, Selah Theatre will host Front Royal Voices, an evening of poetry and music on Saturday, April 23 at 7 PM. A fundraiser for the Back-

pack Buddies program, the event will showcase local poetry, live music, and the creation of a group mural and poem. As part of the celebration, Selah Theatre will also hold a poetry contest for local teens and adults.

Winning poets will be invited to read their work at the event.

The evening’s theme—“Where I’m From”—asks performers and audience members to think about the life experiences, places, and people that make them who they are. Everyone attending is invited to wear clothes that express this—their most personal and defining outfits (whether those include fedoras, feather boas, kilts, or kimonos).

Says Selah Theatre founder La Tasha Do’zia-Early, “This is a chance for teens and adults to celebrate who they are through the written and spoken word, as well as music, and visual elements. We want to promote poetry as a path to self-understanding and connection with others.”

The event is also a fundraiser for Backpack Buddies, a program that fills backpacks with nutritious foods for underserved children who attend E. Wilson Morrison Elementary School. Admission will be $5 and all proceeds will go to Backpack Buddies. Selah Theatre is located at 30 E. 8th Street, Front Royal (http://www. selahtheatreproject.org).

To enter the poetry contest, writers should email up to three poems in MSWord as an attachment to hdavis67@gmail.com by March 31, 2016.

Poems should loosely explore or take off from the theme “Where I’m From.”

They may touch on a wide variety of subjects and can be in any style. Winners will be chosen in two categories: 13-18 year olds and 19 years and up.

Winners will be honored at the event and invited to read. A reception with food and drink will follow the event.

Book Talk by Lesley Francis, Granddaughter of the Poet Robert Frost Lesley Lee Francis, granddaughter of the beloved American poet Robert Frost, will visit the Barns of Rose Hill on Friday, April 22 at 7:00 PM to talk about her new book, You Come Too: My Journey with Robert Frost. The new book is mainly a memoir but also a biography of the poet based on scholarship as well as recollection.

The author received her bachelor’s degree from Radcliffe College and a doctorate in Romance Languages from Duke. She has taught Spanish language, literature and history at colleges and universities and also operated a summer program for students in Spain. She has retired from the professional staff of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in Washington, DC. A resident of Arlington, Virginia, Francis continues to teach and write as well as organize the annual Frost Symposium. Much of her speaking and writing is about her grandfather. Her biographical study Robert Frost: An Adventure in Poetry was See BRIEFS, 28

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Her new book balances anecdote, commentary and emotion-laden narrative. Illustrating the fact that the Frosts have lived a life in poetry for three generations, she peppers the book with her grandfather’s, her mother’s and also her own poetry.

Reviewer Sean Street says, “This is the nearest we can come to being in the same room as the Frost family at

key moments as well as in everyday living.”

Copies of You Come Too will be available for purchase at the event.

The Patsy Cline Historic House will open April 1 for the 2016 season The house was where Cline -- born Virginia Patterson Hensley Sept. 8, 1932 -- developed as a singer. She signed her first record contract while living there, and it was the location of her preparations for

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She was voted the winner of the national talent show.

A special exhibit will feature a pocket diary belonging to Randy Hughes. It was recovered from the actual airplane crash site where Patsy died March 5, 1963, in Tennessee. Randy was her manager and the pilot of the plane. On loan from Lenny E. Lundberg of Orland Park, Ill., the diary shows concert dates, future bookings, TV appearances for Patsy in 1963, and much more.

“I wanted this historical item to be shared with millions of Patsy fans and admirers (such as myself ) by having it on view at the house,” said Lundberg. “The house museum is where it belongs so everyone can see it and hear the story of this piece of history.”

In addition, a WSM (We Shield

Millions) history, picture book signed by 28 country music performers, including Patsy Cline and others who died in the plane crash, will be on display. “They must have all signed the book two weeks prior to the crash,” Lundberg added.

The house will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays to Saturdays and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays.

It is closed Mondays. In addition, the house will be closed the weekend of April 29 to May 1 due to the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester.

Tours are conducted every 45 minutes by local docents of the four rooms that are featured in the approximately 1,000-square-foot house, owned by Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. This is a popular destination for bus tours and 28 have been scheduled for the year, said Judy Sue Huyett-Kemfp, director of the

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) will award $16,000 in grants to emergency service agencies, non-profits and local educators in 2016. The grants are made possible through REC’s LEARN (Literacy, Education and Rural Networking) program. Completed applications must be returned to one of REC’s offices or be postmarked by April 15, 2016.

The Cooperative began the LEARN program in 1996. Since then, the program has awarded grant money in support of hundreds of projects throughout REC’s service territory.

REC will award 16 grants to organizations in the following categories: Education – Five $500 and three $1,000 grants to individual or groups of teachers, from grades K-12, who demonstrate a need for supplemental funding to complete educational projects.

Community – One $2,000 and four $1,000 grants will be awarded to non-profit groups serving REC members, or whose services directly benefit them.

Emergency Services – Three $1,500 grants will be awarded to emergency service agencies whose services directly benefit REC members.

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Friday, March 18 Forecast 63° | 37° 10:30am - 11am Dance Party!

Handley Library. Toddlers, Preschoolers, & their grown-ups are welcome to boogie down!

5:30pm - 8pm Game Night. Bowman Library, 871 Tasker Road, Stephens City. Get Your Game On! Gamers 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, March 19 Forecast 47° | 34° 7am - 11am Country Breakfast.

North Warren Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company 10, 89 Rockland Road, Front Royal, VA. Join us for pancakes, biscuits, sausage, bacon, sausage and chip beef gravy, scrambled eggs, baked apples, coffee, juice, and hot tea. Adults $8, 4-12 years old $4, under 3 free.

9:00 am– 3:00 pm Indoor flea market. Front Royal Church of the Brethren. 106 W. 13th Street, Front Royal, VA. Over 20 tables of treasures! Lunch available for purchase.

To benefit the American Cancer Society. Sponsored by Connie’s Crusaders.

10am - 11:30am Chess Club. Bowman Library, 871 Tasker Road, Stephens City. Become a chess champ!

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Learn and play! Led by members of Shenandoah Valley Chess Club for all ages and all skill levels.

11am - 1:30pm Genealogy Program. Handley Library. Margaret McMahon will present a program on

genealogical research.

11am - 1pm Preschool/Daycare Open House. Handley Library. Come browse different preschool and daycare options and talk with staff from a variety of schools and centers.

11am - 11:30am Story Time. Bowman Library. For ages 3 and up. A 30minute program of stories, puppets, dancing and songs.

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.

March 19: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. 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.

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1pm - 5pm Benefit Bingo. John H. Enders Fire Hall, 9 S. Buchmarsh St, Berryville. Event benefits the non-profit Blue Ridge Center for Therapeutic Horsemanship. Tickets are $20 advance sale or $25 at the door. 14 prize-filled games. Raffles for very special Thirty-One prize, 50/50 and themed baskets. Chili, snacks and beverages available. Pro-

ceeds will provide scholarships for students with special needs and funds to help care for our therapy horses and ponies. For tickets or for more information, contact Margie Youngs at (540) 533-2777. Tickets can be purchased online at http:// marchbingofundraiser.bpt.me.

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.

Sunday, March 20 Forecast 37° | 31° Monday, March 21 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.

5:30pm - 6:30pm Coloring Club.

Bowman Library. Join us for coloring enchanting designs that feature hidden objects and fun mazes. Discover the magic! This program is designed for our tweens and teens, but is fun for the whole family.

5:30pm - 6:30pm Manga Art, Bowman Library. Bring your sketch book to create your manga drawings. Get tips from other artists and share your work. For Tweens and Teens at Bowman Library Tuesday, March 22 10:30am - 11am Baby Story Time.

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10:30am - 11am Preschool Story Time. Clarke County Library. Hear great stories and fun with Mary!

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12:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesdays.

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4pm - 6pm YA panel of authors. Handley Library auditorium.

Panelists: Laura Shovan, The Last Fifth Grade Of Emerson Elementary(Random House, April 12, 2016); Janet Sumner Johnson, The Last Great Adventure Of The PB&J Society (Capstone Young Readers, April 2016); Ava Jae, Beyond The Red (Sky Pony Press, March 2016); Kathy MacMillan, Sword and Verse (Harper Teen, January 2016).

6pm - 6:30pm Twilight Tales. Bowman Library. A family event at Bowman Library. Stories, music, finger plays, movement and a craft.

Wednesday, March 23 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.

3:30pm - 5pm Chamber Board Meeting. Chamber Office.

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.

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Thursday, March 24 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.

4pm - 5pm Anti-Litter Council Mtg. Warren County Government Center.

Friday, March 25 10:30am - 11am Dance Party!

Handley Library. Toddlers, Preschoolers, & their grown-ups are welcome to boogie down!

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

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Saturday, March 26 10:30am - 11:30am Community Health Forum. Handley Library Community Mental Health: It’s Not Someone Else’s Problem. Presentation with time for 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.

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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 See CALENDAR, 30

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Sunday, March 27 Easter Sunday Monday, March 28 10:30am - 11am Preschool Time.

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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.

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4:30pm - 5:30pm Lego Club. Bowman Library. Calling all elementary and middle school Lego builders!

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6pm - 9pm Preview Night for Spring Used Book Sale. Mary Jane & James L. Bowman Library, 871 Tasker Road, Stephens City. Book Sale Preview night for Members of FHRL only. Memberships available at the door.

6pm - 7pm Teen Advisory Board.

Bowman Library. Teen Advisory Board for Bowman Library Open to Middle and High School students.

Plan and present events, advise on library materials, advise on tween and teen library events, assist with other library events and activities.

7pm - 8pm Council Meeting.

County of Warren Government Center.

7pm - 8pm Council Work Session.

Town Administration Building, 102 E. Main St. Tuesday, March 29 10am - 8pm Used Book Sale. Bowman Library. Spring Used Book Sale.

Open to the public. Sponsored by Friends of HRL.

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12:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesdays.

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6pm - 6:30pm Twilight Tales. Bowman Library. A family event at Bowman Library. Stories, music, finger plays, movement and a craft.

Wednesday, March 30 10am - 5pm Used Book Sale. Bowman Library. Spring Used Book Sale.

Open to the public. Sponsored by Friends of HRL. 11am - 2pm AARP Free Tax Help.

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11am - 11:30am Preschool Story Time. Bowman Library. For ages 2-5.

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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 In-

fants (birth to 15 months). A program of songs, stories, clapping and tapping.

Friday, April 1 10am - 5pm Used Book Sale. Bowman Library. Spring Used Book Sale.

Open to the public. Sponsored by Friends of HRL. 10:30am - 11am Dance Party!

Handley Library. Toddlers, Preschoolers, & their grown-ups are welcome to boogie down!

1:30pm - 2:30pm Education Com-

mittee. Chamber Office.

the show. Popcorn and lemonade will be served. The movie showing is free.

April 2: Hotel for Dogs.

2pm - 4pm Streets of Winchester talk. Handley Library. Tim Youmans talks on “Streets of Winchester” Cosponsor Friends of HRL and Winchester Frederick County Historical Society. Reception to follow in Benham Gallery.

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.

Saturday, April 2 10am - 5pm Used Book Sale - Last Day. Bowman Library. Spring Used Book Sale. Open to the public. Sponsored by Friends of HRL. 11am - 12pm Graduation for 1,000 Books b4 Kindergarten. Bowman Library. It’s Graduation time for those who have completed the challenge of reading 1,000 books before Kindergarten. Everyone is invited to the celebration!

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

Humane Society of Warren County

540-635-4734

Monday thru Sunday 10 am to 4 pm - Closed Wednesday • 1245 Progress Drive, Front Royal, VA • 540-635-4734 • humanesocietywc@gmail.com

Get Lucky for St. Patrick’s Day! Adopt your own lucky charm! $7.00 adoption fees on all dogs and cats from March 17-20 Excludes puppies under 5 months. Adoption fee does not include spay/neuter Zoey is a very sweet and lovable 10 month old pit mix. She is house trained and crate trained, and does great with other dogs and chil‑ dren, but will need a home with no cats.

Kimba is a beauti‑ ful 7 year old Chow Chow. She is a sweet and mild mannered girl that would like a new home with experienced Chow Chow owners. She needs a home with no other pets and older/considerate children only.

Kimba’s ad sponsored by:

Allie is a sweet 13 year old Jack Russell mix looking for her perfect home to spend her golden years in.

She does well with cats and most dogs, and would like a home with older children only. She is an af‑ fectionate senior that bonds closely with the people she loves.

Allie’s ad sponsored by:

Hillbilly’s Junkyard Tana Hoffman Realtor, SFR, CMRS, CRS, Licensed in VA

540-671-1994

111 East King St. • Strasburg, VA 22657 www.sagerrealestate.com

For all your repair and maintenance needs!

6768 Winchester Rd. Front Royal

540-635-BILL

(2455)

www.autocareclinic.biz

Hillbilly has what you NEED! 4381 Stonewall Jackson Hwy Bentonville, VA • 636-2671 hillbillysjunkyard.com

Jizelle is a gorgeous 2 year old Black mouth Cur mix. She loves to play, and does great with other large dogs and older/consid‑ erate children.

Jizelle’s ad sponsored by:

Wanda Snead

Property Management

Serving the area for 20 years!

Sam Snead Realty • 540-635-9753

SamSneadRealty.com

With your help we have been able to place thousands of animals in good homes. Contact Alison @ 540-551-2072 if you would like to become a pet sponsor too!

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