Early June 2016 Warren and Frederick County Report

Warren FREE County Report

Volume XI, Issue 11 · Early June, 2016

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Friday Night Live kicks off summer with beach music at the Taylor Pavilion

Old Town Winchester is excited to announce the summer’s first Friday Night LIVE event, presented by Apple Federal Credit Union, on June 3rd from 5-11p.m. The series will be at the Taylor Pavilion again this year, which is the perfect place to host this jammin’, Caribbean themed music event as we start summer off with the Friday Night Live series. At 5:00 p.m., we’ll kick off the start to the series with live beach music, dancing, street performers and more!

Starting off the evening will be Caiso Steel Drum Band, an upbeat, reggae soul band from Washington, DC. They are credited as being the number one steel band in the DMV. Parrotbeach Band, the headlining act, will hit the stage around 8:00 p.m. to deliver their extraordinary performance of beach tunes.

This group is the best Jimmy Buffett tribute band around. The five group members have been playing together for over 10 years and will have you “singing, laughing, and dancing on the beach”, and will also help you find your Cheeseburger in Paradise.

The Winchester Art Market will be returning again this year. They will create a colorful, creative atmosphere that includes interactive live art. In addition, they will be setting up locally made art and crafts for sale all along the walking mall. “We are happy to be able to showcase local artists at Friday Night Live,” states Jennifer Bell, Downtown Manager.

“We had a great response from the community last year for Friday Night Live and we wanted to make this year

more exciting than ever,” Bell adds.

Thrilling street performers such as acoustical musicians, artists, a magician, juggler, photo booth, stilt walker and more will provide free, familyfriendly entertainment suitable for all ages. So break out that Hawaiian shirt in your closet that you never get to wear and sport your best flip-flops for a relaxed Caribbean atmosphere.

Virginia Blood Services is providing an outreach program to give donors a free ticket to Friday Night LIVE, and other upcoming ticketed events. Visit the donor center and

donate a pint of blood to receive a ticket, while supplies last. A pint of blood can save up to three lives.

Please support our community and visit Virginia Blood Services Donor Center 333 W. Cork Street, Suite 220.

“Last year was amazing. There was a great crowd on the walking mall and the bands sounded great! We are really excited to continue the tradition of Friday Night LIVE,” said Dario Savarese, President of Full Circle Marketing. Tickets are $5 in advance or $10 at the door. Buy tickets in advance online at OldTownWinchester-

VA.com or stop by the Espresso Bar and Café, Old Town General Store in Old Town or Apple Federal Credit Union (1850 S. Loudon Street or 190 Campus Blvd) to purchase them. A variety of wine and beer will be offered for those 21 and over, including Landshark and Devil’s Backbone, and the proceeds will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters. Save the dates of July 15th and August 19tht for the second and third Friday Night LIVE of the summer season.

Old Town Winchester offers a delectable plethora of dining choices in

the historic downtown with over 35 restaurants. Every type of dining and price range can be found in these few blocks of the charming downtown area with a pedestrian mall that offers plenty of parking at close proximity. Spectacular wine choices and craft beer selections prevail along with music and festivals. Weekly and daily specials give diners a chance to try new and adventuresome choices as well as standing menu favorites.

Whether it is Thirsty Thursday or Foodie Friday, come fall in love and be amazed in Old Town Winchester.

Friday Night Live is hosted by the Old Town Winchester Development Board and the City of Winchester and is organized by Full Circle Marketing. Sponsors and community partners include: Apple Federal Credit Union (Presenting Sponsor), Virginia Blood Services (Featured Sponsor), Big Brothers Big Sisters, KEE Construction Services Inc., Signet Screen Printing & Embroidery, Seven Bends Media, Grand Rental Station, Tech Team Solutions, Partlow Insurance, I Heart Media (Kiss 98.3, Q102, The Fox 99.3), Centennial Radio (92.5 WINC FM, Apple Country B105, 1400 WINC AM) and Fredrick and Warren County Report.

Friday Night Live is also searching for volunteers. Please contact Cindy Savarese at Full Circle Marketing, (540) 722-8700 or admin@ fullcirclem.com if interested. For additional details about the event please contact Dario Savarese (540) 722-8700. For questions about Old Town Winchester and other upcoming events, contact Jennifer Bell, Downtown Manager, at (540) 5353660 or Jennifer.Bell@winchesterva. gov. For more information, visit www.OldTownWinchesterVA.com, or like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram @oldtownwinchesterva. Also visit Old Town Winchester’s channel on YouTube to watch the videos profiling our events.

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Tom Howarth wants Goodlatte’s spot in Congress Warren County Democratic chairman will run against winner of June 14th Republican primary

By Timothy Ratigan Warren & Frederick County Report Bob Goodlatte is facing opposition from both sides of the fence.

First he must overcome a challenge from a fellow Republican, Harry Griego, in their party’s primary on June 14.

Incumbent Robert William “Bob” Goodlatte, represents the Sixth Congressional District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, and has served 11 terms.

Roanoke, Lynchburg, Harrisonburg and Staunton are included in the 6th District.

The candidate who wins this primary has to turn around and do bat-

Domestic violence awareness event On Saturday, June 11th in Warren County, an event will be happening that deals with a serious subject: Domestic violence.

It’s a problem that can leave families devastated, especially the children. Quite often women and their children are left homeless.

At this point in time there is no women’s shelter in Front Royal, but there is an organization that is there to help.

Phoenix Project (http://phoenix-project.org/) began providing services to those affected by domestic violence who are living in Front Royal/Warren County in May 2014. Services were made possible through a grant from the United Way Front Royal/ Warren County. United Way Front Royal/Warren County continues to be their umbrella agency until the application for their own 501(c)3 is obtained.

The event, “Concert For Women” will be held at to raise awareness and funds for the Phoenix Project. Event organizers Jay Powell and Jeff Jenkins have a goal of getting a women’s shelter in place in Warren County in the future.

The June 11th event will be held at Skyline Ranch Resort, 751 Mountain Road in Front Royal.

The bands at the event will be quite varied in genres, but there’s meant to be something for everyone to come together for one purpose... Helping others with their gifts of music.

Scheduled to appear are Grace 101, The Band-Changed, Dubby White, The Kingdom Blues Band, Jay Powell, Demyze, Digital Collapse and Finding Dimes feat. Kristin Itnyre .. From praise to rock as well as guest speakers.

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tle with Tom Howarth, Front Royal resident and Warren County Democratic Chairman, who announced recently that he would be running against the victor. He was confirmed as the Democratic Candidate on May 21st at the District Convention in Lexington.

In the press release announcing his candidacy, Howarth expressed his concerns for the country and the 6th Congressional District.

“Our country is at a crossroads.

We can enter the future full of anger, hatred and bitterness or we can return to a time of bipartisan cooperation that produced real benefits for the American people. Democracy does not require that we agree with each other but it does require a civil discourse about the direction we want to take for the nation. Democracy demands that we respect and listen to each other as fellow citizens,” he said.

Howarth bills himself as a life-long advocate for those who struggle in

American society. He was raised by hard-working parents who faced illness and hardship. According to the bio on his website: howarth2016. com, his education in an inner-city high school in the long hot summers from 1965-68 instilled in him a deep commitment to civil rights and economic fairness. He was the first in his family to attend college and became active in electoral politics in 1970 with Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential race.

After graduating with a masters’ degree from the LBJ School at the University of Texas at Austin, he became a legislative representative for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO. He worked in President Jimmy Carter’s administration in the Department of Commerce and for the Washington, D.C. office of the City of New York before becoming a legislative assistant for Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ). In 1984, he played an essential role in passage of

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by President Ronald Reagan. From 1987 to 2002, Tom served as vicepresident of Peyser Associates, a government relations firm, where he represented cities, transit agencies and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).

After the deaths of six Jesuits priests in El Salvador in 1989, Tom became active in human rights work and made the first of twenty-one trips to El Salvador in 1991. After

surviving cancer in 2001, Tom devoted the rest of his working life to the poor, working at Jubilee Housing, a ministry of the ecumenical Church of the Savior and at the Perry School Community Services Center. The organizations provided affordable housing and other services like economic empowerment and youth development for low-income families and children to help alleviate conditions of poverty.

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Saint Aloysius Church in Washington, D.C. serving homeless men with addictions and mental illness as well as families in need of food and rental and utility assistance. He retired in 2014.

This reporter spoke with the candidate at the last Warren County Democratic Committee meeting and asked him questions regarding his reasons for running for office.

“I feel very strongly about whether it is a House of Delegates race, or whether it is another state’s legislative race, or a congressional race, that the Democratic Party has something to say and that it is a contrast to what we are getting from the policies in Richmond or Washington,” he responded.

I then asked him to list specifically what he could do for the 6th Congressional District that the incumbent couldn’t.

“I think there are environmental challenges, transportation challenges, there are certainly challenges amongst children. Those are the kinds of things that the Democratic Party brings a perspective to that is not the same as the Republicans,” he said.

I challenged him to explain what he meant by each issue, and asking him to list the specific challenges to which he was referring.

“The Atlantic Coast pipe line, which is a natural gas pipeline on the Atlantic coast that Dominion Power wants to run through the central part of the district, is one that I think will have a lot of impact on the environment, housing values and safety issues that the Federal Regulatory Commission is currently looking at.

I would certainly urge them to be as careful as they can. Natural gas pipe lines have a tendency to blow up, as the one did in Pennsylvania. (Referring to the pipeline explosion which took place in Salem Township, PA on April 29, 2016 burning one person and damaging some homes. [editor’s note: See website in references at the end of the article] We then moved onto the topic of transportation.

“Transportation is an interesting issue. I love living in Front Royal. I loved it in the past when I was working in the Washington area and lived here full time. Without transportation, other than the automobile, the commute from Interstate 66 is very daunting. If we had transportation rail service here to Washington

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stretching west from Manassas, I think it would make a huge difference for people who do work in Washington. It would make it a lot easier on them,” he replied.

I then pressed him for information on traffic-related issues west of the Front Royal, specifically Interstate 81.

“I would like to inaugurate a safety study in that area. If you are traveling on 81 on a rainy or foggy day and you have Dodge trucks (eighteen-wheelers) it is harrowing at times. I would like to look at safety studies of that route. I would like to look at ways to make that route less narrow. I understand from talking to people that there are at least one to two tractor trailer accidents a week in that area.

This is an area that I have experience with – working in mass transit in the past – and I would like to bring that to bear on looking at the obstacles of transportation improvements. I have a particular track record in highway safety which is one of the things I will bring to bear on Interstate 81.”

Howarth talked about growing concerns in the quality of housing for citizens in Front Royal, particularly renters.

I asked him what he thought he could do if elected to Congress to help the housing crisis in his home town.

“If anybody is paying 60-70 percent of their income towards their rent, they should be eligible for a housing voucher. We had a federal housing program available for a long time. We began to lose it under the Reagan administration. There are cities where the waiting list for housing assistance is so long that they’ve stopped taking new applicants. There is nowhere in the country where a person who is working for minimum wage can actually afford an apartment. The federal government defines a person in need if they are paying more than 30 percent of their income for rent.

They are burdened. People here in Front Royal/Warren County are paying 60 and 70 percent of their income for rent. Something has to be done for those people. Home ownership is a great goal and a lot of people enjoy that, but people on very low incomes are going to be renters and they shouldn’t be so heavily burdened by rent that they don’t have money for food and medicine and the other things that are necessary,” he said.

He related an experience he had when volunteering at St. Luke Community Clinic in Front Royal.

“I had a couple come to me. The husband, who was on disability, got

a $700 disability check and they were also on food stamps of about $300 which gave them an income of $1,000 a month. They had to pay $700 a month for rent, and I asked them if it was a good place to live and they said ‘no’. We have to also do something about the quality of the housing in the area. In order to do something about the poverty and housing situation, the whole community has to come together. With 16 percent of the children in Front Royal living in poverty, the department of social services is basically a department of the state and federal government.

The amount that Warren County puts into it is actually very little. So somehow, from Washington, Richmond and the local community, we have to devise a way to come up with an attack on childhood poverty. And it is related to such things as housing. If you don’t have a housing policy at the federal level that addresses the problem of renters here in Front Royal/Warren County and if you don’t have the resources from the state and local governments to address it, you are left with the kinds of problems we are discussing. There should be some things that the community shouldn’t accept like people living in the kinds of conditions that have been described to me,” Howarth explained.

Finally, we then moved on to the subject of the possibility of refugees coming to the Commonwealth. I asked him what he would do as a congressman to alleviate some of the concerns and fears that people may have with the refugees being infiltrated in by what some have called ‘Radical Muslims’.

“Some of the fears fanned by Donald Trump make it very difficult to have a rational discussion about refugees except to say that this county has always welcomed people who were and are fleeing for their lives,” he said.

“Isn’t there a legitimate concern that some of those refugees could be terrorists bent on doing serious harm to Americans? Shouldn’t we at least have that thought in the back of our minds and be prepared for it?” I asked him.

“I think we should have in the front of our minds. We should have a vetting process. We are living in a time of xenophobia in this country and we’ve had other times like this in our history but we have to understand what we are dealing with in regards to immigration. And Mexico is not going to pay for a wall to be built,” he replied.

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Tom Howarth, candidate for the Sixth Congressional District of Virginia, talks to supporters at the latest Warren County Democratic Committee meeting.

Here is a final statement from the candidate.

“There are those who say that the image of America is that of a man astride his horse in a field by himself.

I disagree. America is best captured in the tradition of the barn-raising, where citizens come together to lift up the community and assist those in need. I want to help bind up the wounds that are separating us,” he concluded.

A similar interview will be held after the June 14 primary determines who the Republican candidate for the 6th Congressional seat will be.

Howarth has a degree in sociology from the University of Connecticut and a masters’ in public affairs for the University of Texas at Austin.

He is married, with two daughters and three grandchildren. He lives in Front Royal.

Goodlatte has served 11 terms since 1993. He resides in Roanoke with his wife, Maryellen. He and Maryellen have been married since 1974 and have two adult children, Jennifer and Rob. Harry Griego is a U.S. military veteran of 23 years including the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard.

He and his wife Leslie were married in 2004, live in Roanoke County and have an adopted son name Gabriel.

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Miranda Lambert delivers stellar performance in Bristow

Miranda Lambert in 2010 by Keith HInkle

By Teresa Brumback Warren & Frederick County Report Thinner and a bit misty-eyed, Miranda Lambert still dazzled the crowd at her concert last Saturday in Bristow at her “Keeper of the Flame” tour.

An estimated crowd of 14,000 poured out despite intermittent rains all afternoon and evening, according to an official with Jiffy Lube Live, who said the pavilion’s capacity is 25,000.

Lambert and country star Blake Shelton, who announced their divorce last year following four years of marriage, haven’t said much publicly about why they broke up. Neither did Lambert mention Shelton on Saturday. But at one point, in singing “Over You,” a song she co-wrote with her ex after Shelton’s brother’s passing, her voice cracked in a few places and she appeared teary-eyed.

She could have been sad over Shelton’s brother dying, or she could have missed Shelton, or both. It was the only time she sputtered in an otherwise flawless performance. Perhaps it was a message to her fans that the

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last year for her has been rough. After all, it wouldn’t be easy—whether the split was her idea or his, or both— seeing images of him in public with his fiancé, red, pouty lipped rock star Gwen Stefani, now rumored to be pregnant with Shelton’s baby.

Attempts to interview Lambert failed, with Jiffy Lube officials saying that Lambert’s team required long notice in advance.

While she is still as gorgeous as she is talented, she has aged noticeably in the last year with weight loss and perhaps the stress from her muchpublicized divorce.

Her show was preceded by backup singers The Brothers Osborne and Kip Moore as well as local bands which began at 4:30 p.m. Lambert didn’t get on stage until 9:30 p.m. but then played seamlessly and continuously until 11 p.m.

Lambert is a talented vocalist, guitar player and also writes much of her own music. Some of her big hits were featured Saturday including the gutsy, hard-driving “Mama’s Broken Heart”, “Gunpowder & Lead”, “Fastest Girl in Town”, and “Little Red Wagon”. Other songs included “White Liar”, “All Kinds of Kinds”, “Automatic”, about how wonderful life was when it was simple and technology-free, and another song “The House That Built Me” over a visit to the house where she grew up, and another song that spoke to her affection for small town living: Everyone dies “Famous in a Small Town.”

She belted out the hard-hitting

songs while strumming an assortment of pastel-colored guitars, or otherwise stomping across the stage to the beat in her grey boots, possibly snakeskin. She threw out pink guitar picks to the fans in the first few rows, which were standing-room only.

It was a great performance by all accounts and her eight-piece band including a backup female vocalist, was top notch.

Seated in one of the top rows under the tent, we squinted to see her but we saw the enlarged videos of her that flashed next to the stage.

The show began with the stage darkened while the musicians set up, and a video show of apparently some of her favorite stars, including Clint Eastwood, the only male actor, followed by a string of famous actresses and singers who all sported rifles and guns during their performances.

Among them were Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell and the 1960s television pistol-toting private eye “Honey West,” played by Ann Francis.

Lambert then commanded the show for an hour and a half with no stops for tuning up or wardrobe changes. She wore her blond hair in a shaggy bob, similar to the hairstyle worn now by equally famous country star Carrie Underwood. When the two did a duet together, their voices blended so beautifully and neither appeared better than the other.

Lambert paid homage to a hippie look from the 1960s or 1970s, wearing a black v-necked top with a long medallion, long brown leather vest, with fringe extending to her knees and cutouts in the vest in a star pattern, perhaps Native American. She wore faded blue denim jeans with a giant belt buckle and grey boots. The best part of her outfit, however, was the gold fabric headband around her head.

Seats for the concert started at $36 for the lawn area and $51 for nosebleed seats in the tented section; up to around $100 for standing room close to the stage. VIP seats were available that included servers bringing food and drinks and special invitation to the VIP tent after the show and more.

The Jiffy Lube staff was friendly and while they weren’t always knowledgeable about when performances started, they were everywhere, it seemed, increasing a feeling of safety if nothing else.

The only disappointment, and it wasn’t Lambert’s fault, was the parking area and the long trek to and from that to the concert.

The lot wasn’t well lit and while there were signs with letters and numbers to remember where you parked, such as C-1 or B-2, it wasn’t clear once you got there how it was organized. The best way to remember is to look for tree lines and fence lines. The experience was a lot like going to your local country fair and trying to find your car afterward in

the mass of mud, cars and people anxious to get home. Jiffy Lube would do well to have paved parking with bright night lights and more staff directing traffic, as it was a free for all at the end. It was a challenge to get out safely.

If you go be sure and stuff yourself beforehand. Stay away from the food court, where French fries go for $9 and a big pretzel at $5; wine at $9 a glass and beer at $12 for a 12-ounce can.

It had been a while since we had been to a concert. The last time was when we saw Little Big Town at the Shenandoah County Fair, when the group was on the cusp of becoming famous. The harmonies and perfor-

mance overall were wonderful and parking was a breeze.

The Jiffy Lube pavilion was easy to find off I-66 just west of Gainesville.

But I probably won’t be going back to any more concerts there unless it is to see someone I just have to see.

Lambert will continue her tour with a stop in Columbia, Md.s this summer. She is reigning six-time consecutive Female Vocalist of the Year awarded by the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music. She also earned her fifth nomination this year for Entertainer of the Year.

She’s definitely worth seeing live in concert.

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Discovering Warren County: Farmer’s Market kicks off its 9th Year!

By Ken Thurman Warren-Frederick County Report For nine (9) years, the Front Royal Farmers Market has been treating locals and visitors with is “Locally grown farm fresh” produce, dairy, meats, plants, home-baked goods, handmade crafts, music and more.

I talked with Tony Tringale of Tony Ts Apple Farm & Kitchen one of the

founders of the Front Royal Farmers Market. All products have to be produced within 125 mile radius of Front Royal and many are farm to table fresh, organically grown, and even gluten and sugar free.

Returning vendors include: 1. Tony Ts Apple Farm & Kitchen with Apple everything (pie and so much more), gluten free and sugar free items plus chocolate chip cook-

ies.

2. Mighty Oak Farms with plants, flowers, produce, cheeses, milk, eggs, butter, jams and jellies.

3. Valley Creekside Farms with designer veggies, root crops, and cut flowers.

4. Faith Farms with beef and produce.

5. Rendevous Farms with Chicken, Cornish Hens, Rabbit, Quail and more.

6. Dubby’s Stained Glass with pieces for sale and custom orders.

7. The Tree Stewards with information on trees and plantings for our area.

8. Scout’s Buffet/Wolfe Star Agriculture with homemade doggie

treats and more.

9. Valarie’s Royal Soap with soaps made from all natural ingredients including sensitive skin safe.

10. Occasional Part-Time vendors bake goods from local churches and charitable organizations.

New vendors this year include: 1. The Kiln Doctor with pottery, woodwork, sculptures and more.

2. Vine Ripe Farm with naturally grown vegetables, cut flowers, Artisan breads and more.

3. Blue Wing Frog with Artisan breads.

4. Wild Hare Fiber with threads and more straight from the spinning wheel.

Also new this year are live cook-

ing demonstrations commencing June 11th and continuing every other Saturday designed to promote eating and cooking healthy using products from the Farmers Market. And, don’t forget the live music every Saturday featuring local artists like Annie & Mack, the Bill Dykes Trio, and John & Mary Kovaks with their homemade harps.

The Farmers Market sponsors this year include: the Warren County Economic Development Authority (WCEDA), Allison James Estates & Homes, Aire Serv, Southern States, Warren Memorial Hospital, the Warren County VA Farm Bureau, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, SONA Bank, ShenValley Web Hosting, Lawson & Silek, P.L.C., Americana Signs & Engraving, Jack Evans Chevrolet, Keller Insurance Agency, and Union Bank & Trust.

Open Saturdays 9:00 am to 1:00 pm from May thru October the market is located behind the Gazebo next to the caboose on Main Street.

For more information or to see how you can become a vendor call (540) 622-2244 for Tony or (540) 244-8934 for Becky or email info@FrontRoyalFarmersMarket.com.

You can also learn more by visiting them on the web at www.FrontRoyalFarmersMarket.com. There’s nothing like farm fresh produce and baked goods, so check it out, you won’t be disappointed.

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Volunteer warns supervisors about deteriorating fire department Claims Rivermont station has no additional funding to fall back on for unforeseen repairs or equipment needs

County resident Allen Ris expresses concerns about conditions in the Rivermont fire station.

By Timothy Ratigan Warren & Frederick County Report At the public hearing to approve the capital improvement plan for 2017, Warren’s supervisors heard concerns regarding the condition of the Rivermont fire station.

Warren County resident Allen Ris spoke on behalf of Charles Prince, who has been a volunteer at the fire department since 1992. Ris reported that Prince is deeply concerned about the building and the budget.

“Charles is concerned that the building will give out long before the county completes a new Rivermont fire house. The county’s capital improvement plan shows an allocation of $2 million for the new fire house over fiscal years 2017-18. However, the county’s original estimated construction cost was $2.5 to $3 million.

Charles is concerned about where or how the additional funding will be acquired,” he said.

Ris went on to highlight issues with the current structure. He said that heavy timber beams had been installed to shore up the retaining wall at the fire house, and mentioned that Charles Prince remembers hearing the county building inspector saying that the heavy timber beams were meant to sustain the building for a period of two years while the new station was being built.

Ris remarked that the bracing is already showing signs of separating from the retaining wall and wondered if the county was committed to a two-year construction timeline.

Serious concerns are: Roof is failing Water system in the building partially shut down Issues with black mold Drive way crumbling No adequate ventilation system to vent out the diesel fumes from the vehicle “We don’t want to continually pour good money after bad, to constantly patch a crumbling facility when replacing is the most cost efficient option,” he observed.

He also mentioned that the county staffs the fire house with two paid

personnel for 48 to 60 hours per week and that the county has some obligation to provide the employees with facilities that are sanitary, safe, and adequately equipped. He mentioned that there are not separate men and women’s sleeping or bathing facilities, and those provided are what he termed ‘marginally adequate’ and continue to deteriorate with age.

County Administrator Doug Stanley and Board Chair Linda Glavis present Executive Director James D. Campbell with a plaque honoring his years of service with Virginia Association of Counties.

He pointed to a study done in 2009 that concluded that the Rivermont facility needed to be replaced within a five-year period and that a total of seven years has now passed. Ris stated that Charles is concerned that

delay will be the continuing theme on this project. Ris also pointed out that the income stream for the fire station was significantly impaired after the second floor of the facility was condemned back in 2015 due to

structural concerns and will continue to remain impaired until a new fire house with meeting hall can be built.

Ris also pointed out the funding from grants and the county will fall short in meeting their operating expenses.

He made it clear that the station has no additional funding to fall back on for unforeseen repairs or equipment needs.

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Others seem to be in denial and try to avoid the subject altogether. They don’t want to talk about it or think about as if it will never impact them.

But the fact is that these same people do need fire/EMS services and do use it and they expect to have it when

they need it. Like it or not, accept it or not, fire/EMS services are not optional, lavish or frivolous. Unlike a fairy godmother, it takes adequate people, planning, preparation and funding for us to show up at your place during your time of personal crisis,” he said in closing.

The board voted to postpone action on the county’s fiscal 2017 Capital Improvement plan in order to discuss the plan at the board’s next work session.

At the beginning of the meeting the board honored James D. Campbell for his service as the executive

director for Virginia Association of Counties since 1990. Campbell announced his retirement effective June 30, 2016. Campbell was presented with a plaque honoring his service and was also given gift baskets from the surrounding counties. Representatives from Frederick County and Shenandoah County were there to honor him, as well.

The board: Proposed and approved the 2016 Sanitary District Tax Rate of $385 per lot and Fiscal year (FY) 2016/17 Budget in the amount of $9,143.75 for the Shangri-La Sanitary District Approved the proposed FY 2016/17 Shenandoah Farms Capital Improvement Plan Approved a conditional use permit for a Gunsmith/Repair shop in conjunction with a single-family residential dwelling Approved a motion to adopt the Virginia motor vehicle traffic laws

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Approved a motion to increase the maximum gross combined income to $35,000 for grandfathered persons under the tax exemption program for the elderly and disabled in Warren County Voted 4-0 to repeal a section of the county code which bans the distribution of handbills, solicitation of contributions, and the sale of merchandise or services on the highway.

North River Supervisor Daniel Murray expressed concerns about the possibility of an increase of litter that could be created with the distribution of handbills and which would undoubtedly fall on the shoulders of the law enforcement officers.

With no further business, Chairperson Linda Glavis adjourned the meeting.

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Council hears more from public on budget Speaker calls for a report card on the town’s progress, food/lodging taxes still a concern

Local business owner Mike McCool expresses concerns regarding the number of disappearing businesses in town, saying that the only thing growing seems to be the Town and County governments.

By Timothy Ratigan Warren & Frederick County Report

Two members of the community stood up at the last public hearing of the evening at the Front Royal Town Council meeting on May 23 and spoke about their concerns with the next fiscal year budget.

The Town has set a budget of 45.78 million for fiscal year 2016/17.

Former mayor and town resident Stan Brooks Jr. addressed the council and repeated concerns he had expressed in the past regarding the town’s agreement with Warren County about revenue sharing collected from food and lodging taxes

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and then suggested that the county increase its hotel tax rates by two cents in the following year. Brooks also stated that one of the best ways to use the money raised by the lodging taxes was to put it towards the promotion of tourism in both town and county. Brooks told the council that he no longer owned the Parkside Inn on South Royal Ave. He had a suggestion for the council.

“I’m asking that the town consider doing a report card on the town of Front Royal. And by that I mean a social/economic report card. This is something that you could commission, or you might even be able to do this yourself by using some resources that the state may offer,” he said.

He listed a few questions that he would like answered and put on the report card: How does the town stand; what does it look like? Is the town progressing? Is it thriving? Is it treading water? Or is it regressing?

He then continued, “These are basic questions that we need to answer. The decisions you are going to make over the next year are going to have a huge effect on that.”

He said that if the town is not going in the right direction, it needs to do something to correct it.

“My gut feeling is that we are regressing, but I don’t have the numbers and I think you don’t have the numbers either,” he charged.

Questions to be asked that would provide the numbers needed for the report card were: 1. What is the leading income?

2. What are the rental rates? Meaning what percentage of residents are renting as opposed to those who own homes 3. What is the town’s business potential concerning losses and gains?

4. What kinds of businesses is the town attracting?

He mentioned members of the council who plan to run for re-elec-

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“These should be some of the things that should be on your agenda as far as you being a candidate,” he told them.

Brooks also brought up the issue of the new police department. He said that it doesn’t make a lot of sense to build a $9 million police department in a recession, and emphasized that the timing on the project is bad, and that the town needs to focus on eco-

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During the council’s budget discussion, Councilman Bret Hrbek mentioned that United Way is already looking at ways to do a report card on the town.

“Our United Way is joining the other United Ways in Virginia in what is called the Alice Project. It is designed to do a report card to determine the social economic standing of the town, the homelessness issue, the poverty issues and what the real needs in Warren County and Front Royal are. There has never been a real study on that. The Alice Project will not go to the business level but it will let us know who is hurting and where the real need is. They will look at drugs, homelessness, domestic

violence, and juvenile delinquents.

The Alice Project will find out those things. I think the study will be done by the end of the calendar year. That study should go into a lot of what Mr. Brooks said in his comments,” he said.

Front Royal business owner Mike McCool also spoke at the public hearing regarding the next year’s budget.

He said that small businesses are disappearing, and as a business owner, he sends out mailings to the businesses in town and he receives an alarming number of these mailings back due to that fact that they are closed. He has observed during his travels that he sees towns and cities “dying from the inside out” and doesn’t want to see the same thing

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The vote on the first reading of the budget was postponed until the next meeting so that Councilman John Connolly could vote for the measure. Connolly was absent from this week’s meeting.

There were three other public hearings held at Monday’s meeting.

The first public hearing voted on was a measure to affirm on its first reading, an ordinance to add an optional set of performance standards known as cluster development to the R-1A District Regulations. The measure passed on a 4-1 vote with Tewalt voting against the measure, saying it could bind the town to maintaining recreational facilities in the developments.

The council also approved on the first reading a request by Front Royal Limited Partnership (FRLP) to adopt a “Future Land Use Plan” as part of the Town’s Comprehensive Plan. The plan is for the FRLP’s 604acre property annexed in 2014 and currently zoned A-1. Representatives from FRLP gave a brief presentation on the plan.

Shortly before the vote, Stan Brooks asked for verification that this measure had been included in the discussion about the future land use plan. Jeremy Camp, director of Planning and Zoning, stated that the developer submitted the application and that the Planning Commission had discussed the plan.

Former mayor Stan Brooks calls on town council to do a report card on the progress of Front Royal.

There was also the hearing on an ordinance to increase rates for solid waste pick up. No one spoke at the public hearing and the council approved the amendment on the first reading to increase the fees from $277 to $300 per month for commercial pick-ups. The measure would also charge $14.10 per month for non-commercial pickup of each 96 gallon container and $12.00 per month for each 32 gallon contain-

er. The new rates will be incorporated in the customer’s bills after July 1st.

Council Eugene Tewalt said he hoped the town would do a study on the possibility of privatizing waste collection. He also expressed concerns about the town’s future plan to purchase two waste disposal trucks at $500,000.00 apiece.

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A shameful chapter in Virginia history: lynchings

Richmond Planet, June 23, 1894

By Sterling Giles and Brian Williams Capital News Service Raymond Bird, a black man accused of having sex with a white woman, was reportedly asleep in jail in the western Virginia town of Wytheville when the mob arrived.

According to historical accounts, there were at least 25 men – all armed, all masked. On Aug. 15, 1926, they rousted Bird from his cell, shot him, tied him to the back of a truck and dragged him for more than nine miles. When the truck stopped along State Route 699 in Wythe County, the mob left Bird’s lifeless body hanging from a tree.

That grisly murder nearly 90 years ago was the last recorded lynching in Virginia. A recent report has shed light on how common such vigilantism was in the South. Between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and 1950, there were 4,075 “racial terror lynchings” in the region, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.

Virginia shares a piece of this shameful history. Between 1880 and 1926, more than 90 people were lynched in Virginia, according to the initiative’s data and other documented incidents.

Bird was a native of Speedwell in Wythe County. He was married to Tennessee Hawkins, a black woman, and had three daughters – Edith, Lillian and Hazel. After serving in World War I, Bird worked as a farmhand for Grover Grubb, a white landowner.

According to J. Douglas Smith’s book “Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia,” Bird was accused of raping Grubb’s daughter, Minnie.

However, Minnie Grubb vehemently denied she was raped and insisted that the sex was consensual. Even if consensual, sex between blacks and whites was illegal then.

On July 23, 1926, Minnie Grubb gave birth to a biracial daughter, Clara. Bird was immediately imprisoned in the Wytheville jail.

Bird’s lynching three weeks later made headlines across the country in publications such as Time magazine and The New York Times. The national exposure prompted Louis I. Jaffé, editor of the Norfolk VirginianPilot, to prod state officials to approve an anti-lynching law.

The Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit based in Alabama, spent four years researching racially motivated lynchings in 12 Southern states. “Racial terror lynching was much more prevalent than previously reported,” the group reported.

“Some states and counties were particularly terrifying places for African Americans and had dramatically higher rates of lynching than other states and counties we reviewed,” the report added. Moreover, “terror lynching played a key role in the forced migration of millions of black Americans out of the South.”

Mississippi had the most lynchings (614), followed by Georgia (595), Louisiana (559) and Arkansas (491), the data showed. Of the 12 states studied, Virginia had the fewest lynchings – 88 by the initiative’s count.

(In researching this story, Capital News Service found authoritative references to lynchings that were not

included in the initiative’s data. The total number of lynchings in Virginia exceeded 90. In addition, in 1927, a Virginia mob seized an AfricanAmerican man from a Kentucky jail and murdered him on the state line in an apparent attempt to confuse authorities.)

Lynchings occurred in at least 50 localities in Virginia, according to W. Fitzhugh Brundage’s book “Lynching in the New South.” Most of these localities had just one or two lynchings; however, Alleghany County had four, Danville five and Tazewell County 10.

On Feb. 1, 1893, five AfricanAmerican railroad workers were lynched in Tazewell County. According to the blog “The Homesick Appalachian,” the railroad workers were allegedly drinking with two white store owners the night before the lynching. The Richmond Planet, an African-American-owned newspaper, reported that the workers had allegedly robbed and murdered the store owners. In fact, the supposed victims were alive – just injured.

At the turn of the 20th century, racist whites did not need much of an excuse to kill black citizens.

“Many African Americans who were never accused of any crime were tortured and murdered in front of picnicking spectators (including elected officials and prominent citizens) for bumping into a white person, or wearing their military uniforms after World War I, or not using the appropriate title when addressing a white person,” the Equal Justice Initiative’s report said. “People who participated in lynchings were celebrated and acted with impunity.”

On Oct. 17, 1891, three adults and a teenager were lynched in Alleghany County. The victims were AfricanAmerican coal miners: Charles Miller, Robert Burton and the brothers William and John Scott.

That morning, several black miners reportedly were walking leisurely through Clifton Forge. According to Brundage, the miners’ behavior was “foolhardy black bravado in a region where the definition of acceptable conduct by blacks was very circum-

scribed.”

A police officer accosted the group.

The men fled back to the mines but were confronted again by the officer, this time accompanied with a group of whites. A gun battle broke out.

The miners were eventually arrested by the town’s police and thrown into jail. Later that evening, a mob of townspeople broke into the jail and seized the men. Hours later, they were shot and hung.

Such incidents continued with disturbing regularity until Bird’s lynching in 1926. Then Jaffé, a crusading newspaper editor and civil rights activist, wrote a letter to Gov. Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (Coincidentally, the governor and the lynching victim had similar names. Some accounts of the lynching spelled the victim’s

name as Raymond Byrd.)

The governor was adamant about attracting businesses to Virginia.

That was why, during his term from 1926 to 1930, Byrd paved more than 2,000 miles of roads throughout the state. Jaffé evoked this priority to advocate on behalf of African-Americans: He told Byrd that mob violence only hindered the chances of attracting new industries to Virginia.

Jaffé asked Byrd to support legislation to make lynching a state crime.

Byrd initially hesitated, saying such a law might conflict with the Virginia Constitution.

According to Smith’s book, Jaffé sensed Byrd’s reluctance. So he used his editorial pages to call on Byrd and other officials to take action.

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Engle’s Angle: “Life is Good”

By Kevin S. Engle One of my brothers-in-law lives in Texas. He’s a very organized, detailed kind of guy. A planner and a go getter. And what he go gets, he gets done.

When he retired from a successful 30+ year career with a large oil company, he immediately set another lofty goal for himself. To eat every kind of hot dog on the menu from a nearby restaurant. But not all at once.

With names like the Guac-A-Dog and the Sloppy Slaw Dog, there were 14 varieties in all.

It took him awhile, but he got it done.

I expected no less of him.

When we visited this past Christmas, he took us there for lunch one day.

I had the Fried Corny Dog, minus the mustard and sriracha ketchup.

I’m not big on condiments. My wife, who’s discovered she likes the ‘put a fried egg on your sandwich’ option, went for the Benedict Franklin with a piece of ham and the egg on top.

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When Dairy Queen first introduced them in 1985, I fell in love.

That love affair continues to this day. Sorry Judy.

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In addition to those 14, Dairy Queen comes out with special limited time flavors as well, like Cotton

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ginia because, deny it as one will, it commands a certain social sanction,” wrote Jaffé, who won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1929. The Pilot editor suggested that the state strip lynch-mob members of their right to vote and hold public office.

In addition, he argued for strict fines and punishments for lynching.

Byrd came around. With the governor’s support, the Virginia General Assembly passed anti-lynching legislation. On March 14, 1928, Byrd signed it into law. Among other provisions, the law gave the state the power to enforce stiff penalties against localities that didn’t report vigilante murders.

The Anti-Lynching Law of 1928 was a breakthrough in curbing violence against African-Americans.

“Lynch mobs were generally a group composed of poor whites,” said Dr. John Kneebone, chair of the History Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. “Elites in the South never favored lynching.

But because race was involved, the majority chose not to stand up and oppose lynching. Byrd changed that.”

After his term as governor, Byrd served for 30 years in the U.S. Senate and continued to exert a powerful influence in Virginia politics. A staunch segregationist, he opposed the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

Byrd and his allies adopted a strategy called Massive Resistance, forcing Virginia schools to close rather than integrate.

As the 90th anniversary of Bird’s lynching approaches, it is Byrd who is back in the news.

The longtime politician died in 1966. Five years later, Henrico County named a middle school after him.

This year, students and others petitioned the county to rename Byrd Middle School, arguing that it should not honor a man who stood for racial segregation.

In March, the Henrico County School Board voted unanimously to rename the school. The board has

Lynching victim Raymond Bird and his wife, Tennessee (Tennie) used with permission of the Hayes-Quinn family. not yet selected a new name.

Civil rights advocates have pushed for honest discussions about race like the one happening in Henrico County. That is one of the goals of the Equal Justice Initiative.

Its report, “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,” noted that “there is an astonishing absence of any effort to acknowledge, discuss, or address lynching.”

“Many of the communities where lynchings took place have gone to great lengths to erect markers and monuments that memorialize the

Civil War, the Confederacy, and historical events during which local power was violently reclaimed by white Southerners. These communities celebrate and honor the architects of racial subordination and political leaders known for their belief in white supremacy,” the report says.

“There are very few monuments or memorials that address the history and legacy of lynching in particular or the struggle for racial equality more generally. Most communities do not actively or visibly recognize how their race relations were shaped by terror lynching.”

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Local history comes alive at National Park Service in Middletown The educational and fun programs will keep visitors busy all summer reation and leisure. Pets are allowed, but must remain on a leash at all times. The main trail head is located along U.S. Route 11, south of Middletown. The site (8739 Valley Pike, Middletown) is located immediately adjacent to NPS Headquarters, and is marked by signage that reads “8th Vermont Monument.” Future plans include additional signage and a larger visitor parking lot.

During the weekend of June 24th, 25th and 26th, the NPS will be hosting a series of presentations and activities about the Vermont troops that fought at the Battle of Cedar Creek. The schedule includes: Friday, June 24th

National Park Service Ranger points out sites of historical events to visitors

By Sue Golden Warren & Frederick County Report The rangers and volunteers at the Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park are ready to keep you busy and learning all summer long.

The Visitors Center in Middletown has a really cool map which lights up as it describes the Battle of Cedar Creek. Rangers and volunteers stand ready to discuss the park and its history, aided by exhibits and a book store.

The National Park Service (NPS) also has two different series going on this season and a special weekend rededicating the newly refurbished 8th Vermont Monument in Middletown.

New walking trails also are open to the public.

In honor of “National Trails Day” on June 4th, the NPS announced the opening of the “Morning Attack Trails” which consist of the following

three trails, and can be hiked individually or in various combinations: The 8th Vermont Monument Trail - a 300-yard trail (600 yards roundtrip) to the 8th Vermont monument.

The Thomas Brigade Loop Trail a 0.6-mile-long trail that focuses on the stand of Col. Stephen Thomas’s brigade.

The Hayes-Ramseur Loop Trail - a 0.7-mile-long trail that explores the attack of Stephen D. Ramseur’s Confederates on the Union forces of Rutherford B. Hayes and Howard Kitching.

The 8th Vermont Monument, one of only three veteran-placed monuments on the battlefield, commemorates one of the most famous stands taken during the Battle of Cedar Creek. The 8th Vermont troops were part of Col. Stephen Thomas’s brigade of approximately 1,000 men.

During a Confederate surprise onslaught on the morning of October 19, 1864, the regiment sacrificed it-

self against an enemy four times its size. Nearly twenty years later, a simple monument was erected to honor the sacrifices of the regiment.

The Thomas Brigade Loop Trail, and the Hayes-Ramseur Loop Trail cover the area where additional Confederate attacks that morning overran other parts of the Union defenses, including troops commanded

by Col. (and future President) Rutherford B. Hayes. All of the trails are located on land owned by the NPS. A free 8-page trail brochure is available on site, or the Visitor Contact Station. The brochure narrative corresponds to the numbered stops that are marked on the trails.

The NPS encourages visitors to hike these trails in order to learn about the critical history which occurred on the property and for rec-

6:30 p.m. “History at Sunset” – (Howard Coffin): “War! Vermont Responds!”

7:15 p.m. “The Valiant Stand of Thomas’ Brigade” (Ranger Program) Saturday, June 25th 9:00 a.m. The 10th Vermont troops at Cedar Creek (Ranger Program) 10:00 a.m. Re-dedication of the 8th Vermont Monument 1:00 p.m. The Vermont Brigade at Cedar Creek (Ranger Program - 90 minutes) 3:00 p.m. The 1st Vermont Cavalry at Cedar Creek (Ranger Program) 6:00 p.m. Vermont’s Sacrifice in the Valley (Winchester National Cemetery) (Ranger Program.)

Sunday, June 26th 10:00 a.m. The 8th Vermont troops at Cedar Creek (Ranger Program)

2:30 p.m. Cedar Creek in a Box (Belle Grove) (Ranger Program) The 3rd Vermont “Hemlocks” reenacting unit will be camping at the Monument all weekend and will be giving living history demonstrations on Saturday at 11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. The “Hemlocks” will be giving living history demonstrations Sunday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

The NPS is introducing a new series this season called the “Battlefield Series.” This series is intended to highlight particular stories and events related to the Battle of Cedar Creek and other Civil War sites in the Shenandoah Valley.

“The Battlefield Series programs examine these events in more detail than our regular presentations,” says Campbell. “They also allow visitors an opportunity to see sites not normally open, or widely accessible, to the general public.”

The Battlefield Series programs are offered at 2:00 p.m. on select Saturdays. Each program is free and lasts between 90 minutes to two hours.

The NPS always recommends wearing comfortable clothes and bringing water to all events. The Battlefield Series includes: June 4 The Confederate Defense of Miller’s Lane. Location: NPS Visitor Contact Station July 30 “An Appalling Spectacle

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State Police investigate fatal plane crash in Orange County

At 4:31 p.m. Tuesday (May 24, 2016), Virginia State Police were notified of a plane crash in the 1,000 block of Tinder Lane in Orange County. The plane was a 2007 Jihlavan KP 5 ASA, fixed-wing, singleengine aircraft, and was classified as experimental.

The crash location was at the at the intersection of Tinder Lane and Ridge Field Lane (both are private roads) located in a rural section of Orange County near Mine Run. There were two confirmed fatalities: the pilot, Charles Neal Caldwell, 57, of Apopka, Fla., and

passenger as John Joseph Quinn Jr., 81, of Culpeper, Va. The Virginia State Police along with the Medical Examiner’s Office, NTSB and FAA are investigating the incident to determine the causative factors that lead to the crash.

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Early June, 2016 • Warren & Frederick County Report • Page 15 of Panic” The Collapse of the Army of the Shenandoah. Location: Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation, 8437 Valley Pike, Middletown August 27 “Don’t run until the Vermonters do!” The Vermont Brigade at Cedar Creek. Location: NPS Visitor Contact Station Sept. 10 “A great deal of labor was... expended in building breastworks...”

Exploring the Civil War Entrenchments at Cedar Creek. Location: NPS Visitor Contact Station Sept. 17 Capt. Henry DuPont and the Role of Artillery at the Battle of

Cedar Creek. Location: NPS Visitor Contact Station October 8 “Boys, when they come, aim low and give them one good steady fire!” The Battle of Hupp’s Hill.

Location: Hupp’s Hill Civil War Park, 33229 Old Valley Pike, Strasburg, Va. The History at Sunset Series continues this season. The presentations are given in and around the Middletown area and are given at different times. They include: June 10 “I will guarantee that my line will stand” Ramseur’s Attack Against Hayes and Kitching. 7 p.m.

Location: NPS Visitor Contact Station June 24 “War! Vermont Responds!” presented by Vermont Historian.

Howard Coffin and followed by “The Valiant Stand of Thomas’ Brigade” (Ranger Program). 6:30 p.m. Location: 8th Vermont Monument July 15 A Diamond in the Rough: The Forgotten Story of the BowmanHite Homestead. 7 p.m.

Location: Bowman-Hite Farm, 621 Bowman’s Mill Road, Middletown July 29 An Ever-Restless Landscape: Change, Continuity and the

Creation of the Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park. 7 p.m. Location: NPS Visitor Contact Station August 19 “Attention – Company!”

Civil War Soldier for an Evening. 7 p.m. Location: Belle Grove Plantation Sept. 9 “Our once beautiful but now desolate Valley” Post-war Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. 6 p.m.

Location: Belle Grove Plantation Sept. 23 “. . .a perfect slaughterhouse.” Battle of Third Winchester Tour. 5 p.m. Location: 541 Redbud Run, Winchester, Virginia Sept. 30 “The Long Gray Trail” History of the Valley Turnpike. 5 p.m. Belle Grove Plantation October 14 The Battle of Cedar Creek Tour. 4 p.m. Location: NPS Visitor Contact Station The NPS is hosting three Star Gazing Parties scheduled throughout 2016. These events are held in partnership with the Shenandoah Astronomical Society (SAS) and the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation. They are scheduled for Saturday, April 2nd, Saturday, August 13th and Saturday, October 1st with a rain date of October 29th.

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

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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 SAS. 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 a debris stream associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle.

In addition to all of the above, the NPS puts on even more programs.

For example, they have a self-guided car tour. Every day at 11:30 a.m., except Sunday when it is at 2:30 p.m., the NPS presents Cedar Creek “in a box” on the front lawn of Belle Grove Plantation in Middletown. The presentation is a 30-minute description of the Battle of Cedar Creek. Rangers give walking tours of Middletown every second Saturday of the month from June through October. The 90-minute tour starts at 5 p.m., at the corner of Main Street and First Street in Middletown.

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The 30th Annual Virginia Wine and Craft Festival enjoyed by all Despite rain, community gathered for unique shopping, eating, drinking and gathering experience

Kasey Fuller’s The Gypsy Catwalk is new to both the Wine and Craft Festival and boutique retailing as she debuts her new venture.

By Greg Harold Warren & Frederick County Report The weather forecast was grim with a high probability for rain all weekend, but despite the cool and damp weather that May has brought,

advance ticket sales to the 30th Annual Virginia Wine and Craft Festival were brisk; and a strong crowd was still expected.

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The Festival, the largest event sponsored by the Chamber reported that all 175 available spaces for wineries, crafters, public service promoters, profit and non-profit organizations, and concession vendors were sold out. The event, taking place along East Main St., Chester St. and the central Gazebo is held annually; typically, on the third weekend of May, between the hours of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Originally established as the Virginia Wine and Mushroom Festival, the name was later changed to cater to a broader variety of participating vendors and to expand patronage by expanding the focus of the festival.

There is one vestige of the original Mushroom Festival still participating as he has done for the past 30 years. Wild Roots Produce founder Paul Goland, and his protégé Rosey Santerre who will be taking over the reins at future festivals, has been

selling inoculated Shiitake Mushroom logs and 1 lb. bags of freshly harvested Shiitake for the past three decades. A brief visit with Paul and Rosey quickly opened up a conversation of mushroom farming, sustainability practices, and tips to yielding a continuous supply of the edible fungus. Many passers-by recognized Paul, took a few moments to chat about his participation, purchased some product, and wished his successor much success.

The festival is not just for local crafters and wineries.

New and existing international participants were in attendance.

Possibly the most unique and drawing quite a bit of attention were the “Doors of Colombia” by Bogota based Alfredo Londaño. Alfredo, under the encouragement of his daughter, who currently resides in Sterling, persuaded her father to present his wares to a more international market. Who knew Front Royal was on

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Londaño, who had only been to the United States on one previous occasion, packed two suitcases with his miniaturized hand molded, carved, and painted doors, and trekked to the United States to visit his daughter; and for the next 30 days to expose various localities to his craftworks. The “doors” are wall hanging reproductions of traditionally lined and architecturally significant building doors in his native Colombia.

Many of his miniaturized works are displayed with the actual door photograph from whence the design originated. My attempts at an interview with Alfredo were limited, as he was just, as if not more, interested in exploring and learning about Front Royal, Virginia wineries and small town living as I was about his native country and his craftsmanship.

Clearly one thing that transcends borders is the desire to learn about different cultures and the appreciation for quality work.

Along the lines of additional international experiences were the very

Early June, 2016 • Warren & Frederick County Report • Page 17 intricate designs by Henna artist Jed Rau. While most have experienced a Henna tattoo at one of the T-shirt shops at a regional beach destination, Rau’s temporary designs are of the true Henna variety. Rau explains that “beach based” Henna tattoos more often than not are of the black ink variety that contain a mix of chemicals that contain known toxins and can cause anything from a temporary rash, blistering, to permanent scarring.

True Henna is derived from the Henna plant and is known to be grown from India to Africa. Many of Rau’s designs are based upon traditional Indian, African, and Middle Eastern designs. Those interested in adorning their bodies with fanciful but temporary artwork might find satisfaction with true Henna.

A fixture of the festival has been Johnsy Gonzalez, commercially known as Johnsy G. The Whisper.

Patrons of the festival will hear and see the traditional Peruvian flutist performing and selling handmade Native American flutes and native flutes of Peru, along with traditional clothing worn by peoples from the Andes Region. Gonzales has been participating and entertaining at the festival for over 15 years. Now a resident of Frederick, Md., Gonzales has been playing music for over 35 years and hand making his own instruments for over 25 years.

It would not be appropriate to leave out the local organizations and merchants participating in this year’s festival. A simple but interesting booth presented by the Col. John S. Mosby Camp provided quite the learning experience. The local organization is a Heritage Association focused on many things including education, honoring confederate heritage, and is physically involved in resto-

Paul Goland, a 30-year fixture at the Wine and Craft Festival is passing down his Shiitake mushroom growing skills to Rosey Santerre. ration efforts of confederate grave sites. Descendants of fallen confederate soldiers can request graveside honors complete with full military honors, a color guard, and bugler.

Non-descendants can request that the organization help in restoration of gravesites known or found on private property pending appropriate permissions.

Probably the most colorful addition to this year’s event was the introduction of the mobile retailer, Gypsy Catwalk. The namesake, a play on the wandering culture of gypsies and the catwalk reference; identifying with modeling and fashion, is quite suiting to this young entrepreneur’s first venture into retail, mobile, and festival marketing. Kasey Fuller, a Mt. Jackson resident and first time festival participant, literally rolled into Front Royal with her mobile retail shop. Fuller acquired a surplus S.W.A.T vehicle from the city of Los Angeles, gutted the tactical office, and converted it into a roaming fash-

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Of course, a wine festival would not be complete without an array of local Virginia wineries and entertainment. This year’s participation included 17 different vineyards presenting selections of sweet, dry, reds, whites, and blended varieties. While the rain tempered some participation, tasting activity at the winery vignettes was very active with full glasses being purchased and poured after a satisfying taste of the samples.

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Sometimes things are unbearable In the Blue Ridge Mountains in Warren County, bear sightings/invasions are part of the price for living in spacious woodland settings

Bears on the author’s porch Bear drinking from kiddie pool on the deck of a home near the Shenandoah National Forest

By Jerome Aumente My neighbor recently sent a cautionary e-mail to some of us living on a mountain in the BentonvilleBrowntown area about a bear invading his car. He came out of his garage to find the driver’s side rear door opened and his computer bag, notebook and a few papers scattered about. There were bite marks on the notebook and inside the car he found scratches, mud and hair on the door and seats. He said he was glad he hadn’t left the keys in the car or the bear might have taken the car for a joy ride. There was no food in the car so what the bear was after remains a mystery.

The next morning, I was taking my morning hike up a hill that grows steeper with every passing month when another neighbor drove by.

She had sent out an e-mail telling us that she too had encountered a bear invasion in her car. She found the driver’s side door wide open and the bear had pulled away at plastic bags in the backseat filled with clothing destined for a local charity. There

were bear prints on the passenger side, and near a door handle, obvious scratches where the animal had opened the door.

The day after, another neighbor further down on the mountain sent out an e-mail with a photo of a brawny adolescent black bear on his property, and there was speculation this was the culprit that was responsible for the wave of car break-ins. It is striking how in this age of pocket sized smart cell phones with cameras for sharp photos, keyboards for composing messages and e-mail to distribute them, all of us instantly are connected in this conversation with nature and bear incursions.

In the closer-in, denser populated Northern Virginia suburbs bear sightings are treated as rare, momentous events, sometimes of monstrous, hysterically reported proportions. But here in the forested Blue Ridge Mountains with multiple acreage home-sites in rural Warren County, bear sightings/invasions are considered part of the inevitable price for living in more spacious woodland settings. We have invaded

their territory, so get used to it, is more the prevailing mood.

Still, the idea that a three or fourhundred-pound black bear might be rifling through the inside of your car, and is smart enough to open doors and nibble on notebooks can give pause. My wife, Mary, and I hardly knew what to expect when we bought land, then a vacation home in High Knob in the 1980’s and then moved further out to the forested land to build our retirement home thirteen years ago.

It wasn’t long after we moved into our retirement home (dubbed “Last Resort”) that we had a visit from the bears. We looked out the front door one morning to see a bear cub, and an adolescent bear with their mother bear on our front porch, playfully tossing the door mat in the air. It was too good a picture-taking moment to pass up. But after that, we did bang on the door and sent the baby bears scurrying up a front yard tree, and the mother bear then protectively

herded them away.

Bears can mark off as much as 700 square miles for their territory. The next adventure for us was to have an adult black bear near the house selecting a recently planted Serbian Spruce tree and a Blue Spruce tree.

He embraced the full girth of the trees, gathering the branches close, and in subsequent visits to the trees continued to renew his mark of ownership. The trees survived, somewhat stunted and out of perfect shape, but more accustomed to the rites of territoriality than we were.

Another neighbor lost a beautiful pine tree to a marauding bear. Scat with seeds and berries periodically appears on the road to remind us that the bears are nearby. Another neighbor out walking suddenly encountered a bear hastily sliding down a tall cherry tree that it was feeding on.

Yet another neighbor sent a photo of a bear standing on its hind legs with ballet-like grace, feeding on the tree’s fruit in their front yard.

We were careful to remove our bird feeder every April 1st and not put it up again until November 1st but one year we forgot about our April Fool’s deadline. In the early morning darkness, we heard crashing noises as two Black Bears shinnied up the cedar posts to the deck and proceeded to poke claw holes through the thick, plexiglass feeder to get at the Oiled Black Sunflower seeds.

Through the years, the fables and anecdotes about life with the bears continue to grow, and everyone has a personal tale to tell. When we bought some rocking chairs in Front Royal the salesman told us stories of bears getting into homes and rollicking around on dining room tables. A neighbor saw his steel barbecue grill bent to pieces when hungry bears were attracted by the meaty aroma that lingered on the grill. Seeing this, should have given pause to someone else near us who in a fit of bizarre kindness put spoonsful of honey on a rock outside her home to watch the bears lick it up, but finally was convinced of the down-side of attracting the bears this way.

Here we were, situated between a national forest and a national park, well within the zone of uncertainty as black bears took their adventurous romps. If we walked on our dirt road and saw a black bear in the near distance, we knew enough to turn around and head in the opposite direction. Unfortunate hikers who found themselves in the red danger zone between a mother and her cubs

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The humorist, Bill Bryson, in his amusing “A Walk in the Woods” tells of hiking portions of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.

He called the Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive portion of his journey “lovely… It is possibly the most wonderful national park I have been in”. He estimated there were 500,000 to 700,000 black bears in North America, some weighing up to 600 pounds. The Shenandoah region of the Blue Ridge has one of the world’s highest populations of black bears, so the spillover into neighboring rural communities such as ours is

commonplace.

From 1960 to 1980 in North America there were about 500 black bear attacks on humans, according to Bryson, and from 1900 to 1980 there were 23 killings of humans.

Some advise avoiding stares or eye contact with black bears if you accidentally get too close to one, but the results are questionable and hard to do when you fear for your life. Trying to make noise with pots and pans, throwing sticks and rocks might help. But running from the bear is unwise. A bear can run 35 miles per hour, easily climb trees, and goes into Momma-Rage-Mode when you step between her and her babies. If you do encounter a bear in the wild, experts suggest, avoid eye contact and do not

turn your back and run away, but back away slowly. If you spot a bear in the distance talk quietly to let the bear know you are there, one expert suggests, and retreat.

There is the joke about the hiker armed confidently with bells and pepper spray to ward off bears as he marches off to the woods. The next day they find only a pile of scat mixed with bells and pepper spray.

The best thing is to take preventive measures in advance. Don’t leave food where it can attract bears. They have a tremendous sense of smell.

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Dumpster diving bears are not cute. State and National parks have spent enormous amounts to bear-proof their garbage collection cans. Look at the containers in the Shenandoah National Park which are ingeniously designed, heavy steel contraptions with a difficulty of access, more like war machines with the bulk and muscle of Humvees ready to do battle with the bears.

Simple common sense is in great demand. Bryson describes a woman so anxious to photograph her small child with a bear. She put honey on the child’s hand and the bear bit off the hand.

There was a time earlier in some parks history when bleachers were built to accommodate visitors who watched with great amusement as the bears cavorted, did tricks to gain food treats and attention, and were

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Bears are not toy Teddy Bear stuffed animals to play with, but animals deserving of our respect.

They are the subject of many humorous puns and jokes---- “Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear” or “The Right to Arm Bears” come to mind. There are revered songs of the mountaineers about bears crossing the mountains and humans encountering them falling into danger.

One joke describes the atheist who came upon a large, menacing bear while walking in the woods. The atheist falls to his knees and begs God to help him, and God says, ‘how dare you ask my help when you have denied my existence?’ Well, at least make the bear a Christian bear, the atheist pleads and God grants this wish. The bear then kneels down and prays: Dear Lord I thank you for this wonderful meal I am about to receive.

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Cedar Creek Battlefield hosts First Revolutionary War reenactment Event commemorating Frederick County Virginia riflemen to be held June 4-5

Revolutionay War reenactors parade in formation, recreating the battles fought for American Independence.

Revolutionary War reenactors will be part of the first ever Revolutionary War (1775-1783) event at Cedar Creek Battlefield on June 4 and 5.

By Sue Golden Warren & Frederick County Report The Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation (CCBF) is preparing numerous opportunities for people young and old to learn more about American history this summer season. Eras from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War will be covered, all in participatory fashion.

Starting the summer season will be the CCBF’s first ever Revolutionary War (1775-1783) event. Even though

all Revolutionary War battles took place east of the Blue Ridge, hardy Virginians were instrumental in the war. On August 11, 1775, the Second Continental Congress authorized the raising of ten companies of riflemen from Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania to help General George Washington evict the British from Boston. Colonel Daniel Morgan, an old friend of Washington’s from their days fighting Indians around Winchester, was one of the first to come to Washington’s aide. What better way to remove the British than with the help of some sharp shooting riflemen from the frontier?

Heeding Washington’s call for help, the “Old Wagoner” as Washington called Morgan, gathered the 96 riflemen of Frederick County,

and together they embarked on a march to Boston. These same riflemen were prominent in many other Revolutionary War battles.

According to Charles Harbaugh IV, a CCBF board member and a member of the 4th Company Brigade of the Guards (a British reenacting unit), the CCBF reenactment will be the first of its kind in the Shenandoah Valley. The two-day event will feature mock battles all weekend. Guests are welcome to visit the camps and interact with the reenactors. There will be vendors and guest speakers.

The Revolutionary War reenactment will take place on Saturday and Sunday, June 4th and 5th, on the Cedar Creek Battlefield. The gates will

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CCBF’s next event of the season will be on Saturday, June 11th at the Hupp’s Hill Civil War Park and Visitors Center (Hupp’s Hill). Co. D of the 33rd Virginia Regiment will be in camp doing living histories and demonstrations of Civil War soldier life.

The camp will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. This is a free event.

The CCBF will hold its annual “Kid’s Civil War Day Camp” on Saturday, June 18th from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Regiment will spend the day drilling the new recruits and teaching them about the life of a Civil War soldier.

The training will culminate in a “skirmish” between the recruits and the reenactors. Kids aged 8 to 14 are eligible to attend. This event is limited to 100 kids and costs $25 per child.

Registration will be $30 the day of the event. Registration is on the CCBF website at www.ccbf.us. A rain date is possible in case of severe weather.

Hupp’s Hill will be hosting a traveling exhibit from the Library of Virginia from June 22nd until June 24th.

The exhibit covers Virginia women in history. In honor of the exhibit, the museum will be free during those days.

The CCBF will sponsor the reenactment of the 155th Anniversary of the 1st Battle of Manassas (1st Battle of Bull Run) on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 22nd to 24th.

Friday, the gates will open at 4 p.m.

At approximately 7 p.m., the Battle of Rich Mountain will be reenacted.

Gates will close at 8 p.m.

Saturday, the gates will open at 9 a.m. and the Battle of Blackburn Ford will be reenacted at approximately 4 p.m. The gates will close Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, the gates will open at 9 a.m. and the 1st Battle of Manassas will be reenacted at approximately 1 p.m. The gates will close at 5 p.m There will be many other activities throughout the weekend, including sutlers (Civil War period vendors) and food vendors. The cost is $15 per person. Retired/active military, seniors, and students less than 18 years of age are half price.

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The CCBF will sponsor the 152nd Anniversary of the Battle of Cedar Creek on Saturday and Sunday, October 15th and 16th. The gates will open both days at 9 a.m.

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In all three instances, the burglar(s) forced their way inside. No items were reported missing in two of the incidents, however, miscellaneous jewelry and an unknown amount of US currency was taken from the Apple Ridge Road residence.

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

Incident #16002189, 16002246 and 16002260 Winchester City Crime of the Week - May 20, 2016 The Winchester Police Department is investigating a case of vandalism near the Korean War Memorial at Jim Barnett Park (1001 E. Cork Street). Someone broke two electrical breakers, a solar light and three Hubbell 70W lamps. The equipment is valued at over $600.

Park employees say the incident occurred sometime between 11 p.m. on 5/12/16 and 7 a.m. on 05/13/2016 If you have any information regarding a suspect in this incident, please call the Crime Solvers Hotline at (540) 665‑TIPS (8477). Information leading to the arrest of a suspect may result in a reward of up to $1,000. Incident #16020443 Winchester City Crime of the Week - May 16, 2016 On Thursday, May 12, 2016 around 1:00 p.m., officers with the Winchester Police Department responded to the 1100 block of Allen Drive for a report of a larceny. The victim reported that an air conditioner and two wall pictures were missing from the home. She observed a gray older style pick-up truck leaving the scene.

If you have any information regarding a suspect in this incident, please call the Crime Solvers Hotline at (540) 665‑TIPS (8477). Information leading to the arrest of a suspect may result in a reward of up to $1,000. Incident #16019680

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INDICTMENTS

2016 April Indictments – April Term Elena Jesika Fernandez The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about Oct. 16, 2015, in the County of Warren, Elena Jesika Fernandez, 29, of 122 Elsia Dr., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously take steal, and carry away U.S. Currency and wallet belonging to Crystal Laing with a value of $200 or more.

Matthew Joseph Signor The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Matthew Joseph Signor, 31, of 325 Wright’s Run Ln., White Post, VA 22663, with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Matthew Joseph Signor did unlawfully and feloniously forge a public record or certificate in relation to a matter where such document may be received as legal proof.

COUNT TWO: did unlawfully use identification information of another person to avoid summons, arrest, prosecution or to impede a criminal investigation. Date of the offenses was on or about November 16, 2015 Thomas Peter Marzolf The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about June 1, 2014, in the County of Warren, Thomas Peter Marzolf, 40, of 813 Parkview Ave., Staunton, VA 24401, did unlawfully and feloniously, being eighteen years of age or over,

with lascivious intent, knowingly and intentionally propose to a child under the age of 14 years, who is not a spouse of the accused, that she expose her sexual or genital parts.

Michael Johnny Boy Cannechia The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Michael Johnny Boy Cannechia, 40, of 1372 Linden St., Front Royal, VA 22630, with four counts. COUNTS ONE through FOUR: In the County of Warren, Michael Johnny Boy Cannechia did unlawfully and feloniously possess sexually explicit visual material utilizing or having as a subject a person less than eighteen years of age. Dates of the offenses were on or about May 18 and June 29, 2015.

or about February 13, 2016, in the County of Warren Crystal Dawn Wines a/k/a Crystal Dawn Compton, 34, of 46 Chester Gap Rd., Chester Gap, VA 22623, did unlawfully and feloniously take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels of Walmart, with a value of less than $200.00, the accused having previously been convicted of larceny two or more times.

Dennis M. Wright Jr. The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about February 9, 2016, in the County of Warren, Dennis M. Wright Jr., age and address unavailable, did unlawfully and feloniously possess a Schedule II controlled substance, towit: Cocaine.

Kemberley Dawn Miller

Rebecca Lynn Bennett

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about February 22, 2016, in the County of Warren, Kemberley Dawn Miller, 49, of 1420 Anderson St., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels of Walmart, with a value of less than $200.00, the accused having previously been convicted of larceny two or more times.

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Rebecca Lynn Bennett, age unknown, of

415 E. Criser Rd., Front Royal, VA 22630, with four counts. COUNTS ONE through FOUR: Rebecca Lynn Bennett did unlawfully and feloniously forge with the intent to defraud a check drawn on the account of Theophilus D. Reynolds, at BB&T Bank, dated January 5, 2016, payable to the order of Rebecca Bennett, signed as follows, Theophilus Reynolds. Date of the offenses was on or about January 5, 2016.

Jessica Bridget Lowman The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Jessica Bridget Lowman, age and address unavailable with two counts.

COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Jessica Bridget Lowman did unlawfully and feloniously take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels of Target, with a value of $200.00 or more. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels of Target, of some

value. Dates of the offenses were on or about September 23 and 27, 2015.

Robert Lee Smallwood The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about January 1, 2015, in the County of Warren, Robert Lee Smallwood, 41, of 1049 Judy Lane, Stanley, VA 22851, did unlawfully and feloniously possess a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin.

Maranda Lynn Costello The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Maranda Lynn Costello, age and address unavailable, with three counts.

COUNTS ONE and TWO: Maranda Lynn Costello did unlawfully and feloniously forge with the intent to defraud a check drawn on the account of William Jenkins at First Bank, dated October 29, 2015, payable to the order of Food Lion. COUNT

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Crystal Dawn Wines a/k/a Crystal Dawn Compton The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on

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From left with ‘Snuggles’ are Jackson Baldi, Mrs. Kim Shafran, Gavin Ross, Mac Wofford, Laith Kassira, Ty Brady, Gavin Cosby and Aiden Costa Mrs. Shafran’s Pre-Kindergarten class from Wakefield Country Day School visited the Luray Zoo recently. As a part of their visit, the WCDS group of students raised

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Early June, 2016 • Warren & Frederick County Report • Page 23 THREE: did unlawfully and feloniously obtain by false pretense money in the amount of $1,209.86 from William Jenkins, with the intent to defraud. Dates of the offenses were on or about September 24 through October 29, 2015.

Thomas Andrew Ashby The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Thomas Andrew Ashby, 36, of 210 Virginia Ave., #19, Front Royal, VA 22630, with two counts. COUNT ONE: In

the County of Warren, Thomas Andrew Ashby did unlawfully and feloniously obtain or attempt to obtain a drug by the use of fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or subterfuge.

COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and fe-loniously possess a Schedule II controlled substance, to-wit: Dextroamphetamine. Date of the offenses was on or about January 4, 2016.

Ashleigh Patricia John The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or

about March 20, 2016, in the County of Warren, Ashleigh Patricia John, 24, of 334 Pine St., Front Royal, VA 22630, did unlawfully and feloniously take, steal, and carry away the goods and chattels of Walmart, with a value of less than $200.00, the accused having previously been convicted of larceny two or more times.

ly, with the intent to defraud, obtain cash with a value of $200.00 or more through the use of a credit card without the consent of the cardholder.

Date of the offenses was on or about November 7, 2014.

Patrick Lee Jenkins

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about January 10, 2016, in the County of Warren, Kymberly Sue Myers, 21, of 233 Short 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 that: on or about December 22, 2015, in the County of Warren, Patrick Lee Jenkins, 31, of 2218 Seminole Trail, Madison, VA 22727, did unlawfully and feloniously take steal, and carry away a chainsaw belonging to Stephen Lockhart of Lockhart Construction, with a value of $200.00 or more.

Santana Lynn Castro

Andrew Scott Polk

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges Santana Lynn Castro, 28, of the Blue Ridge Motel, Strasburg, VA 22657, with two counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Santana Lynn Castro did unlawfully and feloniously take 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 felonious-

The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges, 24, of 317 Randolph Ave., Front Royal, VA 22630, with six counts. COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, Andrew Scott Polk did unlawfully and fe-loniously break and enter the dwelling house belonging to Jeannette Campbell, with the intent to commit larceny therein. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and feloniously take steal, and carry away the goods

Kymberly Sue Myers

and chattels of Jeannette Campbell, with a value of $200.00 or more.

COUNT THREE: did unlawfully and fe-loniously break and enter the dwelling house belonging to Berkley Turner, with the intent to commit larceny therein. COUNT FOUR: did unlawfully and feloniously take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels of Berkley Turner, with a value of $200.00 or more. COUNT FIVE: did unlawfully and fe-loniously break and enter the dwelling house belonging to Anna McGreevey, with the intent to commit larceny therein.

COUNT SIX: did unlawfully and feloniously take steal, and carry away the goods and chattels of Anna McGreevey, with a value of $200.00 or more. Dates of the offenses were on or about February 12, 24 and March 2, 2016.

Steven Neal Hall The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about March 2 through 16, 2016, in the County of Warren, Steven Neal Hall, 47, of 1400 Shenandoah Ave., Front Royal, VA 22630, having previously been convicted of a sexually violent offense, did unlawfully, feloniously and knowingly fail to register or re-register with the Sex Offender and Crimes against Minors Registry.

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The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about December 15, 2015, in the County of Warren, Chelsea Jade Wines, age and address unavailable, did unlawfully and feloniously possess with the intent to distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, towit: Heroin.

Melissa Ann Evans The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: on or about March 22, 2016, in the County of Warren, Melissa Ann Evans, 37, of 290 Cattail Rd., Winchester, VA 22602, 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 mer-chandise of Walmart, having previously been convicted of larceny or an offense deemed as larceny two or more times.

D’Andre Christopher Lawrence The Warren County Va. Circuit Court Grand Jury charges D’Andre Christopher Lawrence, age and address unavailable, with two counts.

COUNT ONE: In the County of Warren, D’Andre Christopher Lawrence did unlawfully and feloniously rob Eugene Rollison of U.S. Currency and his cell phone. COUNT TWO: did unlawfully and feloniously conspire to rob Eugene Rollison, by assault or otherwise putting him in fear of bodily harm. Date of the offenses was on or about February 19, 2016.

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Rural King Announces New Store Location in Front Royal, Virginia

The Town of Front Royal is proud to announce that Rural King, a fastgrowing farm and home store headquartered in Illinois, is pleased to announce plans to open a new store in Front Royal Virginia, with a grand opening in September, 2016. The store will be located at 465 South Street. This will be the 90th Rural King store, with other store locations in the Midwest and Florida. The store will be approximately 84,000 square feet, (the entire former K-Mart building) and will offer guests an outstanding product mix: everything for your pets and livestock from feed to medications, power equipment, seasonal décor, lawn and garden chemicals, agricultural parts and chemicals, hardware, plumbing, sporting goods including camping, hunting, and fishing, automotive, heating and cooling, clothing, power tools, toys, and pest control.

The location will employ approximately 45 Part-Time Associates and 25 Full-Time Associates. The positions needed are Assistant Managers, Department Managers, Office Manager, Receiving Manager, Customer Service Manager, Repair Shop Mechanic, Cashiers, Sales Associates, Receivers, and Loaders. Candidates may apply online at www.rktalent. com. Rural King will conduct interview days approximately 2 months prior to the new store opening.

Rural King planted its roots in Mattoon, IL in 1960. Since that time, Rural King has added stores in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, and Florida. The company continues to grow – opening on average 10 new stores each year. The heart of Rural King is the corporate office, distribution center, and flagship store, located in its city of origin, Mattoon, Illinois. Rural King welcomes visitors and encourages them to come in and take part in the 50-year tradition by enjoying a free bag of popcorn and cup of coffee on them.

You never know what you will find at your local Rural King and that’s why every trip is an adventure. Rural King’s friendly staff is dedicated to serving your needs and can help you find whatever you’re looking for. To learn more about Rural King, please visit www.ruralking.com.

Click it or Ticket The Front Royal Police Department will be joining other area law enforcement agencies in this year’s Click it or Ticket Campaign. The campaign is a

national effort by police to increase seatbelt usage rates and it runs from May 23 to June 5 of this year. Front Royal Police Chief Norman Shiflett says that the protection of our citizens on the highway is the purpose of his agencies’ participation in this campaign. “Wearing a seat belt is one of the most important steps in increasing survivability in a crash” says Chief Shiflett, “It’s our greatest defense when involved in a traffic crash.”

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly half of the 21,022 people killed in traffic crashes in 2014 were unrestrained.

According to Chief Shiflett drivers in the Front Royal area can expect to see extra officers on the street as well as checkpoints in their effort to increase seat belt usage and decrease crashes involving serious injury and death.

Shiflett cautioned drivers to “Please buckle up when traveling on the roadways. It may save you from being issued a ticket or even save your life”.

American Cancer Society Relay For Life More people than ever before are surviving cancer. By taking part in the American Cancer Society Relay For Life, on June 4 starting at 6pm at Skyline High School, you can pay tribute to those survivors and honor the memory of friends and loved ones. We invite the whole community to join the cause and come out for this celebration of life. Get your team together for the American Cancer Society Relay For Life. For more in-

formation, call 540-451-0211 or visit RelayForLife.org/warrenva Goodlatte Staff to Hold Open Door Meetings in Front Royal A member of Congressman Bob Goodlatte’s staff will hold open door community office hours every Wednesday in Front Royal. A staff member will be available to meet with individuals in Warren County to discuss any problems they might have with the federal government and hear their views on current issues before Congress.

Warren County Open Door Meeting from 10am – noon at Samuels Public Library, 330 E. Criser Rd, Front Royal, VA Upcoming Dates (Every Wednesday): June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016.

Memorial Day holiday closing and refuse/recycling collection notice The Town of Front Royal Business Offices will be CLOSED on Monday, May 30, 2016, in observance of Memorial Day. Refuse and Recycling will be collected on Wednesday, June 1, 2016.

There will be no yard waste collection this week.

Line Painting Clatterbuck Pavement Markings, Inc. will be line painting throughout Town May 31 – June 10, 2016 between the hours of 7:00am – 7:00pm.

Prior to June 2, 2016 work will begin after school buses have completed their routes; afterwards schools will be closed for the summer. Crosswalks, stop bars and arrows will also be installed during this time at the intersection of Commerce Avenue/ Water Street/Manassas Street.

This intersection will be a work zone as they apply these materials; therefore, motorists are asked to use caution while driving in this area.

All work is weather permitting.

Department of Environmental Services (540)635-7819.

Training Academy Warren County Sheriff Daniel T. McEathron on behalf of Warren, Clarke, Frederick Counties and Winchester City sheriff offices, Winchester City, Middletown, Stephens City, Strasburg, Berryville, Front Royal, Lord Fairfax Community College police departments, Rappahannock Shenandoah Warren Regional Jail, Northwestern Adult Detention Center and Frederick County Emergency Communications Center formally appeared before the Criminal Justice Services Board on May 12 in Richmond to request and was unanimously approved that the aforementioned members become the Skyline Regional Criminal Justice Academy and the 11th regional academy in the Commonwealth, effective July 1, 2017. The membership has been operating under Rappahannock Regional Criminal Justice Academy as a satellite facility since 1999. The 14 agencies with a total of 731 officers are very excited about the approval and look forward to the future.

Summer Reading Club Samuels Public Library will once again hold a Summer Reading Club for area children and teens. The Summer Reading Club is designed to keep youth reading while they are on summer break from school, thereby maintaining or enhancing reading skills that may otherwise atrophy during the summer months. Children from birth on up are encouraged to participate. Readers will receive prizes for books read each week. For those who are pre-readers, prizes will be awarded as they listen to books being read to them. “This year’s theme is ‘Read for the Win!’ and we hope that children will use the library’s many resources to spend time with good books throughout the summer,” remarked Michal Ashby, Youth Services Supervisor. “We are again using a software program which will allow patrons to register and participate in the Summer Reading Club

online, from the library’s website.

We hope our patrons will appreciate that convenience.” Many children will be drawn to the library for the variety of activities that will be held during the summer. “We want the ‘Read for the Win!’ theme to encourage children and teens to be inspired by books and pursue their dreams.

Our special programs will encourage children to enjoy new experiences, like gardening, cooking, and new hobbies. And our summer wouldn’t be complete without a puppet show, animal shows, and a magic show.

For teenagers, we will host a discussion group, a crafting program, two cooking classes, scrapbooking, and chess,” Ashby noted. The Summer Reading Club will begin on June 6, with pre-registration beginning June 1. The library is located at 330 East Criser Road in Front Royal. Questions about Samuels Library and its programs can be answered by visiting www.samuelslibrary.net or by calling (540) 635-3153.

Front Royal Sings!

The Front Royal Oratorio Society is inviting all members of the community (even entire families!) to join us onstage to sing at Front Royal’s annual Independence Day Celebration at the 4-H Educational Center, held July 2.

We will rehearse some easy-tolearn standards, pop and Broadway tunes on Monday, June 20th and Monday, June 27th at Front Royal United Methodist Church, 1 West Main Street at 7:30 pm-9:30 pm. You are welcome to sing with us.

For further information, email us at FrontRoyalSings@yahoo.com or call us at (540) 635-4842 or like us on Facebook.

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We truly appreciate your support.

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Blue Ridge Young Marines The Blue Ridge Young Marines will be hosting an open house on Sunday June 5 from 12pm to 1pm at Front Royal Elks located at 4088 Guard Hill Rd, Front Royal. For more information contact Blue Ridge Young Marines via emailBRYM@embarqmail.com.

The Blue Ridge Young Marines in partnership with American Legion Post 53 would like to invite Vietnam Veterans, their family and the community to our 1st Annual Vietnam Veteran Commemorative Dinner to be held on Saturday June 18 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. The dinner will be held Giles B. Cook American Legion Post 53 located 22 W 8th St, Front Royal. For more information contact Blue Ridge Young Marines via email BRYM@embarqmail.com.

The Blue Ridge Young Marines will be hosting a No Tap Bowling Tournament being held at Front Royal Family Bowling Center on Saturday July 23 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.Entrance fees: 4 Bowlers per team, $25 per person or $100 per team. Entrance fee includes 3 games & Shoe rentals. For more information contact us via email at BRYM@embarqmail.com or hrmelnyk@embarqmail.com.

The Blue Ridge Young Marines will be hosting a Spaghetti Fundraiser Dinner to be held on Saturday August 20 from 5:00pm to 6:00pm at Ameri-

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Come in for stories, songs, and a craft.

11:00 Preschool Story time. It’s so much fun to use your imagination!

Come in for stories, songs, and a craft.

Thursday, June 2 10:15 Toddler Story time. It’s so much fun to use your imagination!

Come in for stories, songs, and a craft.

11:00 Preschool Story time. It’s so much fun to use your imagination!

Come in for stories, songs, and a craft.

Saturday, June 4 10:10 Books and Barks. Come to our extremely popular monthly program that gives developing readers the chance to read and relax with a trained therapy dog. For beginning readers and up. Registration begins May 7.

Monday, June 6 Read for the Win! Summer Reading Club begins. Let the books inspire you to greatness. Win prizes and books each week of the summer.

11:00 Sport of Champions. Steve Sommers will use magic, puppets, and comedy to teach healthy habits and making wise choices. For all ages.

Tuesday, June 7 11:00 Time for Baby. Join us as we use all of our senses to explore the world around us. Meet with your baby up to two years of age. “Playful Puppies” will be the theme.

3:30 Big Kids Story time for ages 6 and up. Fun is guaranteed at our S.T.E.M. program about bubbles!

Wednesday, June 8 10:15 Toddler Story time. Our

story time will feature our Summer Reading Club theme, Read for the Win! 11:00 Preschool Story time. Our story time will feature our Summer Reading Club theme, Read for the Win! Thursday, June 9 10:15 Toddler Story time. Our story time will feature our Summer Reading Club theme, Read for the Win! 11:00 Preschool Story time. Our story time will feature our Summer Reading Club theme, Read for the Win! Friday, June 10 11:00 Play date Picnic. Preschool moms and dads, bring your little ones for a play-date picnic in the garden.

You bring the food, and we will supply the lemonade and cookies. For ages 3-5. Registration begins May 10.

Saturday, June 11 11:00 Kooky Chefs Cook the World: Keep Calm and Eat On. Join us for popular English sandwiches and treats while exploring a bit of history. For ages 7 and up. Registration begins May 11.

2:00 Aspiring Artists. 12. Are you aged 7 to 11? Do you enjoy art? If so, please join us for our new children’s art class. Registration begins May 11.

Tuesday, June 14 3:30 Big Kids Story time for ages 6 and up. Please join us for a story time all about bears.

Wednesday, June 15 10:15 Toddler Story time. Our stories, poems, and crafts will be about dads during our Father’s Day-themed story time.

11:00 Preschool Story time. Our stories, poems, and crafts will be about dads during our Father’s Daythemed story time.

Thursday, June 16 10:15 Toddler Story time. Our stories, poems, and crafts will be about dads during our Father’s Day-themed story time.

11:00 Preschool Story time. Our stories, poems, and crafts will be about dads during our Father’s Daythemed story time.

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Friday, June 17 11:00 Summer Memory Book.

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Bring it back to share in August. For ages 7 and up. Registration begins May 17.

Saturday, June 18 11:00 Veggies with a Story. Let’s plant a vegetable patch using historic varieties with a story to tell! Learn a bit about history while you garden!

For ages 6 and up. Registration begins May 18.

Tuesday, June 21 3:30 Big Kids Story time for ages 6 and up. We will experience tales of adventure, along with games and a craft.

Wednesday, June 22 10:15 Toddler Story time. The author and illustrator of Frisbee’s Adventures will join us for our story time about squirrels. The book and artwork will be available for purchase and signing.

11:00 Preschool Story time. The author and illustrator of Frisbee’s Adventures will join us for our story time about squirrels. The book and artwork will be available for purchase and signing.

Thursday, June 23 10:15 Toddler Story time. The author and illustrator of Frisbee’s Adventures will join us for our story time about squirrels. The book and artwork will be available for purchase and signing.

11:00 Preschool Story time. The author and illustrator of Frisbee’s Adventures will join us for our story time about squirrels. The book and artwork will be available for purchase and signing.

Friday, June 24 2:00 Power and Energy presented

by Sciencetellers. Throw on your lab coat and buckle in — you are about to experience the science of power and energy through several exciting, hands-on experiments that will have the audience laughing, learning and having fun! Enjoy this energetic adventure as we discover what makes us move and what powers the world!

Saturday, June 25 2:00 Chess and More! Meet other kids and teens who enjoy the challenge of a good chess, checkers, or other board game. For ages 6 and up.

Bring your favorite game with you.

Registration begins May 25.

Tuesday, June 28 3:30 Big Kids Story time for ages 6 and up. Ahoy, Mateys! Come aboard ship for a story time full of pirate tales! Aargh!

Wednesday, June 29 10:15 Toddler Story time. Our stories, songs, and crafts will celebrate summer!

11:00 Preschool Story time. Our stories, songs, and crafts will celebrate summer!

Thursday, June 30 10:15 Toddler Story time. Our stories, songs, and crafts will celebrate summer!

11:00 Preschool Story time. Our stories, songs, and crafts will celebrate summer!

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Virginia State Police Concludes Investigation Into Winchester Resident’s Death The Virginia State Police will be presenting its investigative findings into the death of D’Londre T. Minifield to the City of Winchester Commonwealth’s Attorney the first of next week. The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Culpeper Field Office has concluded its investigation, which was initiated in late February at the request of the City of Winchester Police Chief Kevin Sanzenbacher. The Commonwealth’s Attorney will then make the final review and adjudication of the incident.

Virginia State Police investigators met with Minifield’s family Friday morning (May 13) to inform them that the investigation has concluded and the findings will be turned over

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Get ready to read the 2016 One Book One Community selection.

The announcement of the book title will be held at 11 a.m. June 1 in front of the Handley Library on Braddock Street. The public is invited and a reception will be held in the library following the announcement. A free

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State Police met with the command staff of the Winchester Police Department Friday afternoon to advise them, as well.

On Feb. 28, 2016, at approximately 4:05 p.m., the City of Winchester Police Department received a report of a fight in progress with the possible involvement of a firearm. Officers responded to the 2200 block of Roosevelt Boulevard. Upon arriving in the area, officers made contact with two male individuals. One of the individuals, Minifield, fled on foot and officers pursued. During the foot pursuit, Minifield stumbled and fell to the ground. As the officers approached him, he produced a .38-caliber revolver and fired one round.

Minifield, 20, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The revolver was recovered at the scene.

As previously reported, none of the

The annual WW II “G.I. Soldier” event will be held Saturday and Sunday June 11-12 near Stephens City, VA. This is in conjunction with the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society.

The museum collection and WW II vehicles will be on display both days.

Features include WWII re-enactors, displays and a living history encampment on Saturday.

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Hey! You must be Stewart the Tree Steward Squirrel! I saw you at the Arbor Day celebration a while back.

Certified Arborists have been approved by the International Society of Arboriculture for achieving certain standards in the art and science of tree care through at least three years of experience and a comprehensive examination. They are also required to earn continuing education credits each year in order to maintain their certification, ensuring they are updated on the latest arboriculture techniques.

Stewart: That’s me, I am Stewart the Tree Steward Squirrel, who are you?

I am Dave, the ISA Certified Arborist, and I am up in this tree taking care of the broken branches caused by last winter’s heavy snow and ice. Wearing my climbing saddle, I am attached to this climbing line, taking care of people’s trees.

Ask Stewart

Winchester Police officers discharged a firearm during the incident. One officer deployed a Taser, which only came into contact with the jacket Minifield was wearing.

The Office of the Medical Examiner in Manassas has concluded Minifield’s manner of death as a suicide, with the cause of death resulting from a gunshot wound to the head.

Stewart: What and who is an ISA Certified Arborist? I’ve seen a lot of tree workers, but they don’t call themselves “ISA Certified.”

Well, Stewart, the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) can be researched at this website, http://www.isa-arbor.com/ home.aspx. Certified Arborists are trained professionals that are knowledgeable and equipped to provide proper tree care. ISA

Stewart: Wow, that is pretty impressive, but what do you have to know so much about?

That is a good question, Stewart. There are ten focus areas that are taught and tested when becoming an ISA Certified Arborist. 1) Soil Management, 2) Identification and Selection, 3) Planting Installation and Establishment, 4) Safe Work Practices, 5) Tree Biology, 6) Pruning, 7) Diagnosis and Treatment, 8) Urban Forestry, 9) Tree Protection, 10) Tree Risk Management, and other related information.

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copy of the book will be given away to a lucky attendee.

This is the 14th consecutive year Winchester and Frederick and Clarke counties have read the same book during the same time period.

The author of the selected book will speak to the public Oct. 6, and a special program will be held Sept. 27. A complete list of the programs will be distributed at the announcement.

The book was an instant New York Times best seller when it was published in 2015. The author wrote this book to tell the largely untold story of the aftermath of globalization.

David Gray, who represents Lord Fairfax Community College on the One Book committee, said the book

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Stewart: Whew, that’s a lot of information for one little squirrel. How does a tree owner find an ISA Certified Arborist?

Stewart, checkout the website “Trees Are Good”, http://www.treesaregood.org/, where you can find Certified arborists near your town that are listed as “For Hire”.

These Certified Arborists have Liability Insurance, follow the “Safety Standards” of (ANSI-Z133), and the “Standards for Tree Care Practices” (ANSI-A-300). ISA Certified Arborists never top trees nor round off trees.

Stewart: I have never realized there was so much to know, thanks for taking care of the trees. I definitely prefer my home in a healthy tree with nice leaves and branches.

I remember what you always say Stewart, the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is today.

- Ask Stewart

The Front Royal/Warren County Tree Steward program began in 1997 with volunteers dedicated to improving the health of trees by providing educational programs, tree planting and care demonstrations, and tree maintenance throughout the community. The group now consists of over 30 active members with several interns working toward becoming certified tree stewards from our annual “All About Trees Class”. Each month Stewart will answer a question from our readers. Please forward it to “Stewart” in care of: frwctreestewards@comcast.net and we may publish it in a future issue. Please visit our website at:

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country. “But mostly it appeals because it’s a great story about a real Virginia character who sets out to do something that everyone said

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Partners and sponsors of One Book One Community include Handley Regional Library, Shenandoah University, Lord Fairfax Community College, Literacy Volunteers – Winchester Area, Winchester Public Schools, Frederick County Public Schools, Clarke County Public Schools, Friends of the Handley Regional Library, Berryville Graphics, The Winchester Star, Piccadilly Printing, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester Book Gallery, Magic Lantern Theater, Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum, and Blandy Experimental Farm.

Previous books include following: 2003 “Rocket Boys” by Homer Hickam, 2004 “Seabiscuit” by Laura Hillebrand, 2005 “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” by Mark Haddon, 2006 “Wish You Well” by David Baldacci, 2007 “On Agate Hill”

by Lee Smith, 2008 “This I Believe,” edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, 2009 “See You in a Hundred Years” by Logan Ward, 2010 “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, 2011 “The Devil Amongst the Lawyers” by Sharyn McCrumb, 2012 “For Cause and Comrades” by James McPherson, 2013 “O Pioneers!” by Willa Cather, 2014 “Monuments Men” by Robert M. Edsel, 2015 “The End of Night” by Paul Bogard.

To keep abreast of the programs and events, visit Facebook, One Book One Community, and like the page.

Email onebookonecommunity2015@ gmail.com 3rd Annual Children’s LEGO Parade of Homes on May 21st Looking for free local children’s fun? The Top of Virginia Building Association is proud to present the 3rd Annual Children’s LEGO Parade of Homes on May 21st at Jim Barnett Park War Memorial Building, featuring the life size Volvo SUV made entirely of LEGOs loaned to the event

by TVBA member Don Beyer Volvo!

Children ages 5-12 can “compete” to build their dream home! Children ages 5-8 will be building from 1:00 pm-2:00 pm and children ages 9-12 will be building from 2:30 pm-3:30 pm. Registration is open at 12 noon!

We loan the children a 400 piece LEGO set and they give us their imagination! All proceeds go to the Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Shenandoah Valley.

All children are eligible with parental or guardian supervision as long as they are between ages 5 and 12. Big kids can only watch or sponsor their friends and family. Register today by visiting www.tvba.org or sending an email to aglogau@tvba.org Job fair Job fair at the Virginia Employment Commission, Winchester office, 100 Premier Place, 540-535-2875 Thursday June 9, 2016 from 10 am-1 pm Full Time Janitorial Floor Tech/ Project Worker – starting at $12 and

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Outstanding Students Sara Fergus has been named to the dean’s list for the spring 2016 semester at the University of Vermont.

Fergus, from Winchester, VA, is a Mathematics major in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences.

To be named to the dean’s list, stu-

dents must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.

DiCenzo Named Dean of Pharmacy at Shenandoah University Robert DiCenzo, Pharm.D., BCPS, FCCP, professor of pharmacy practice and interim dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Albany, New York, has been named Shenandoah University’s next dean of the Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy.

Dr. DiCenzo will begin his new position on June 27, 2016.

DiCenzo was selected after a lengthy and rigorous search process; his appointment was strongly supported by both the search committee and the university community. He will succeed Alan McKay, Ph.D., who retired from Shenandoah at the close

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“I am delighted that Dr. DiCenzo is joining our academic community,” said Vice President for Academic Affairs Adrienne Bloss, Ph.D. “An accomplished teacher and scholar, he is dedicated to student-centered learning and patient-centered care, and he brings leadership experience in developing programs, supporting faculty, and building community collaborations to meet these goals. He is exactly the right person to build on the current strengths of the pharmacy school and take it to the next level.”

“I am very fortunate to be part of the Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy and I am looking forward to working with such a talented group of faculty, students and staff as we build off the wonderful program the founding dean, Dr. Alan McKay, and all the faculty and staff have developed,” said DiCenzo.

“Considering the wonderful foundation we have to build on at Shenandoah University, an achievable vision is to gain national recognition as leaders in team-based, genomics driven, patient-centered pharmacy and graduate education,” said DiCenzo.

“We’ll achieve this through continued collaborations with other schools within the university and by partnering with regional healthcare centers; creating new innovations in student-centered teaching and learning; and building on the success we have had weaving inter-professional and genomics education into the curriculum,” he added.

DiCenzo notes a main challenge for the pharmacy school will be continuing to enroll talented students and graduate leaders in team-based, patient-centered pharmacy care who are positioned well for success, as health care in the United States moves away from fee for service and towards fee for value, and expands the use of precision medicine.

However, he believes the location of Shenandoah’s pharmacy school on two campuses enriches the program and gives the school an edge.

“We are able to increase the number of talented faculty in the school and expand the range of health care institutions we partner with, which results in a broader range of courses, programs, clinical rotations and research opportunities for our students,” said DiCenzo.

Prior to assuming his interim dean role at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, DiCenzo served as chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and senior associate dean of academic affairs and operations. He previously held a faculty appointment at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, and an administrative and leadership role as the director of experiential education at the Wegmans School of Pharmacy at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.

DiCenzo’s teaching experience includes the application of drug in-

teraction information in clinical practice; applied pharmacotherapy; biopharmaceutics & pharmacokinetics; biostatistics in pharmacy; experimental therapeutics; pathophysiology and therapeutics; and pharmacotherapeutics.

His academic and research interests include antiretroviral pharmacology and the influence of transporter proteins on the toxicokinetics of drugs of abuse, as well as increasing the pneumococcal vaccination rates of elderly Vermonters.

DiCenzo is president-elect of the APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Sciences. He was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy in 2008 and was named the New York State Chapter of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy’s Researcher of the Year in 2009.

He won the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Hematology/Oncology Investigator Development Research Award in 2005, the NYSCHP-Amgen Oncology Leadership Research Award in 2004 and the Top Abstract Award at the ASCPT 103rd Annual Meeting in 2002.

DiCenzo earned a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy from the University at Buffalo, received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and completed an Antiretroviral Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics Fellowship at the University at Buffalo.

New trail to open for “National Trails Day” In celebration of “National Trails Day” on June 4th, Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park is pleased to announce the opening of a series of new park trails. The “Morning Attack Trails” consist of three individual trails, when combined total 1.7 miles in length. The trails cover an area where part of a surprise Confederate attack during the Battle of Cedar Creek occurred on the morning of October 19, 1864.

“As a park-in-development, the Morning Attack Trails represents one of the first opportunities the National Park Service has had to offer unrestricted regular public access to large section of the battlefield,” according to Eric Campbell, the park’s chief of interpretation. “Providing new trails is an important step in the process of creating that access and interpreting one of the park’s major interpretive themes.”

The “Morning Attack Trails” consists of the following three trails, which can be hiked individually or in various combinations: The 8th Vermont Monument Trail - a 300 yard trail (600 yards round-trip) to the 8th Vermont monument.

Thomas Brigade Loop Trail - a 0.6 mile long trail that focuses on the stand of Col. Stephen Thomas’s brigade.

Hayes-Ramseur Loop Trail - a 0.7 mile long trail that explores the attack of Stephen D. Ramseur’s Confederates on the Union forces of Ruther-

ford B. Hayes and Howard Kitching.

The 8th Vermont monument, one of only three veteran placed monuments on the battlefield, commemorates one of the most famous incidents related to battle. Belonging to Col. Stephen Thomas’s brigade of approximately 1,000 men, the regiment sacrificed itself against a Confederate onslaught four times its size. Nearly twenty years later, a simple monument was erected to honor the sacrifices of the regiment.

The Thomas Brigade Loop Trail, and the Hayes-Ramseur Loop Trail, cover the area where additional Confederate attacks that morning overran other parts of the Union defenses, including troops commanded

by Col. (and future President) Rutherford B. Hayes. All of the trails are located on land owned by the National Park Service. A free 8-page trail brochure is available on site, or at the National Park Service Visitor Contact Station (7712 Main Street, Middletown). The brochure narrative corresponds to the numbered stops that are marked on the trails.

Visitors are encouraged to hike these trails to order to learn about the critical history which occurred on the property, or simply for recreation and leisure. Pets are allowed, but must remain on a leash at all times. The main trail head is located along U.S. Route 11, south of Middletown. The site (8739 Valley Pike, Middletown) is located immediately adjacent to the National Park Service Headquarters, and is marked by signage that reads “8th Vermont Monument.” Future plans include additional signage and a larger visitor parking lot.

Upcoming National Park Service ranger programs and events are planned which will highlight these trails and the various stories that occurred on the property. These include a “History at Sunset” program on June 10 and a special “Vermont at Cedar Creek Weekend” from June 24-26. For additional information on these programs, along with other ranger-conducted presentations offered regularly by the park, visit www.nps.gov/cebe or call (540) 8693051.

Garden Fest Belle Grove Plantation and the Northern Shenandoah Valley Master Gardeners Association will host Garden Fest on Saturday, June 4 from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Admission and parking are free. Tours of Belle Grove’s historic Manor House will be $5 for visitors 12 and older and offered from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A key feature of Garden Fest is the Master Gardeners’ Plant Sale.

Wagons will be available to transport purchased plants to vehicles and Master Gardeners will answer plant and gardening questions. Throughout the day, a garden tool sharpening service will be offered and visitors may peruse garden themed displays.

There will be more than 20 additional garden and specialty vendors on site.

The Belle Grove Museum Shop, a site of the Top of Virginia Artisan Trail

also has unique gifts for sale.

Great bargain purchases on gently used gardening and household items will take place in the “Second Hand Rose” area with proceeds benefiting the Belle Grove Garden Intern fund.

The festival will also include raffle prizes, a food vendor and live music.

Belle Grove will be hosting the 2017 US Border Collie Handlers Association National Sheepdog Finals and there will be sheepdog herding demonstrations at Garden Fest at 10 a.m., noon, and 2 p.m.

The Children’s Trail will offer a series of activities related to trees and a potted seedling will be provided for each child courtesy of the Virginia Department of Forestry. The program will be offered at 9 a.m. and again at 10:30 a.m. Preregistration is required by emailing GardenFestChildren2016@gmail.com. Younger visitors will also enjoy face painting and the animal petting area.

Additional activities include hands-on workshops to create a concrete leaf bird bath at 9 a.m. for a $15/person materials fee. A gourd birdhouse workshop will take place at 10:30 a.m. for a $25/person materials fee and at noon, a stepping stone workshop will be held for a $15/person materials fee. Preregistration for workshops is required; please email Cy Haley at cyhaley@comcast.net.

In Belle Grove’s red, 1918 barn there will be several presentations including: 9:30-10:15 a.m. “Composting” by Michael Neese of Public Works for the City of Winchester

10:30-11:15 a.m. “Rebounding Agriculturally in the Shenandoah Valley after the burnings of the Civil War”

by Shannon Moeck, Ranger, Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park 1:00-1:45 p.m. “Raised Beds” by Lynn Phillips of Natural Art Garden Center, Toms Brook, Virginia.

Friday Night Live!

Old Town Winchester is featuring a beach theme on June 3rd for Friday Night LIVE. Jimmy Buffett tribute band, Parrotbeach, and Caiso Steel Drum band is performing LIVE at the Taylor Pavilion. Along with live music there will be artisans, street performers, and acoustical musicians.

Tickets are $5 in advance or $10 day of. For more information about tickets, visit OldTownWinchesterVa.com or call (540) 722 – 8700.

PaintNite Fundraiser The Blue Ridge Center for Therapeutic Horsemanship (BRCTH) is hosting a fundraiser on Saturday, June 18, from 3-5pm at the IJ Canns American Grille, 3111 Valley Ave., Winchester. Admission is $45, of which $15 will be donated to BRCTH to provide scholarships for children so they can attend our Fun with Horses Day Camps! A Silent Auction will be held as well. All food and beverage sales are in addition to the admission price. For more information, call (540) 533-2777.

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Shenandoah County Chamber is teaming up with the New Market Chamber and the Town of New Market to offer a one night workshop centered on the Ever Changing Customer. Allison Dugan from the Shenandoah Valley Small Business Development Center (SV SBDC), will be talking to our businesses on how to stay relevant to the new informed customer. With information so readily available, businesses need to look at their strengths and weaknesses to be able to compete for the customer dollar.

This is a workshop that many businesses have asked for and with providing it in the evening; we are hoping to get a good crowd for Allison. This workshop is open for anyone who would like to attend. It will be held on June 7 at

6:00pm.

The SV SBDC was established in 1989 at James Madison University. We offer no-fee, confidential consulting services, assist with feasibility studies and business planning, sponsor seminars and training events, and provide information and other services to new and established small and medium-sized businesses.

Their service area includes the counties of Augusta, Bath, Highland, Page, Rockbridge, Rockingham, and Shenandoah, and the cities therein.

We maintain offices in Harrisonburg and Verona, but also meet with our clients in Monterey, Lexington, and Luray.

The Shenandoah County Chamber is hosting this event in New Market Town Hall, 9418 John Sevier Rd, New Market. It is part of the Chamber’s mission to continue to provide educational opportunities to our busi-

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ness partners. If you are unable to make the May series, stay tuned for our June series which will concentrate on Shoestring Marketing.

For more information please email director@shenandoahcountychamber.com Baby (animal) shower On Sunday, June 12 from 12:003:00,The Blue Ridge Wildlife Center is having a baby animal shower to raise baby wildlife orphans in need of supplies. The shower will be at Long Branch Plantation in Millwood, Va. Meet wild animals up close. Play games, silent auction, and more.

Wildlife items will be sold. Barbecue plates ($8) and hot dog plates ($4) will be sold by Boyd’s Nest Family Restaurant. Bring a gift for a wildlife orphan such as baby food (sweet potatoes/turkey/banana), bird seed, puppy/kitten dry or canned food, bleach, gift cards, cash and more. Or visit our website for more suggestions: www.blueridgewildlife.org or call (540) 837-9000.

Celebrate National Trails Day and Clean the Bay Day, June 4 in a Virginia State Park

With more than 600 miles of trails, Virginia State Parks are the perfect place to celebrate National Trails Day, June 4.

Coordinated by the American Hiking Association, National Trails Day encourages you to #FindYourTrail

June 4 corresponding with the #FindYourPark initiative that is part of the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of Virginia State Parks and the National Park Service’s Centennial.

Saturday, June 4 is also the 28th annual Clean the Bay Day in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, sponsored by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

State park trails are available for mountain bikers, horseback riders, bird and wildlife watchers, geocachers, nature explorers, history lovers and of course hikers. Hiking or walking on trails is the most popular activity in Virginia State Parks. State parks also offer water trails for kayakers and canoers.

On June 4, all 36 Virginia State Parks have volunteer projects and other programs and events to help improve trails and water ways. For a complete list of National Trails Day and Clean the Bay Day events in Virginia State Parks visit: http://bit. ly/2016NTD. National Trails Day is part of the Virginia State Parks Get Outdoors!

Challenge. Park guests who log visits to five different Virginia State Parks between May 21 and June 30, 2016 can earn an annual park pass. Find the details here: http://bit.ly/GetOutdoorsChallenge.

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Friday, May 27 Forecast 88° | 67° 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.

Acoustic instruments only.

Saturday, May 28 Forecast 88° | 65° 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.

May 28: Karate Kid 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, May 29 Forecast 85° | 66° Mon May 30, 2016 Memorial Day Tuesday, May 31 10:30am - 11am Preschool Story Time. Clarke County Library. Hear great stories and fun with Mary!

Clarke For ages 3 and up.

12:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesdays.

95.3 - the River radio station. Hear the latest tourism-related news and events every Tuesday at 12:30!

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

Wednesday, June 1 8:30am - 9:30am Small Business Committee. Chamber Office.

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

1pm - 2pm Tour. 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.

7pm - 9pm Local Author Howard Means. Handley Library. Book talk with Howard Means about his recent

book. Sponsored by Friends of HRL. Thursday, June 2 9am - 10am Tourism Committee.

Chamber Office.

Friday, June 3 10:30am - 11am Dance Party!

Handley Library.

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

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

Saturday, June 4 1pm - 2:15pm Paws for Reading.

Bowman Library. Read a favorite book to a reading tutor. It is Paws for Reading! These canine listeners are patient and love kids. Come meet our certified therapy dogs.

6:30pm - 9:30pm Bingo. North

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

Monday, June 6 11am - 11:30am Toddler Time.

Bowman Library. For children three and under. A lively story time program of stories, songs, finger plays, flannel boards and movement.

4pm - 5pm Lego Club. Bowman Library. Calling all elementary and middle school Lego builders! Design and construction themes are different each week. Free! No registration required.

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Town Administration Building, 102 E. Main St. Tuesday, June 7 10:30am - 11am Preschool Story Time. Clarke County Library. Hear great stories and fun with Mary!

Clarke For ages 3 and up.

12:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesdays.

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2pm - 3pm Ambassador’s Club.

Chamber Office.

Wednesday, June 8 3:30pm - 5pm Chamber Board Meeting. Chamber Office.

6pm - 7:30pm Bull and Bear Club.

Handley Library. Investment club meets in Benham Gallery. Free and open to the public.

6pm - 8:30pm Shenandoah Poetry Alliance. Handley Library. All poets welcome!

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.

Friday, June 10 10:30am - 11am Dance Party!

Handley Library.

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

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, June 11 10am - 5pm Relive History – the WWII GI Soldier. 811 Fairfax Pike, Stephens City (the former Sandy’s Implement Service Location). Free!

Come see a large collection of WWII Equipment, WWII re-enactors, Civilian Conservation Corps, WWII military vehicles, WWII home front display, Korea, Vietnam, and more.

1pm - 4pm Ice Cream Social and Bake Sale. Bennett’s Chapel UMC. Proceeds will be used to help fund the Warren Charge’s upcoming mission trip.

6:30pm - 9:30pm Bingo. North

Sunday, June 12 10am - 5pm Relive History – the WWII GI Soldier. 811 Fairfax Pike, Stephens City (the former Sandy’s Implement Service Location). Free!

Come see a large collection of WWII Equipment, WWII re-enactors, Civilian Conservation Corps, WWII military vehicles, WWII home front display, Korea, Vietnam, and more.

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

Buy a shirt to make life better for shelter dogs while they wait for a second chance at a forever home! Purchase a shirt and you will help the animal shelter obtain new kennels for homeless dogs waiting for their second chance at the Humane Society of Warren County, VA. You can buy your shirt at www.booster.com/make-a-difference-for-homeless-dogs Cecil: 5 year old male Chihuahua mix. Cecil has done great with other dogs and with cats here at the shelter.

He is a shy but very sweet boy, and not to mention ador‑ able!

Cecil’s ad sponsored by:

The Front Royal Moose Lodge #829

Gertie: 1 year old fe‑ male Pit mix. Gertie is a very sweet and laid back girl. She loves to be outside, and really enjoys playing fetch and jumping into the water after her favorite ball! She is house trained and knows some basic commands.

Gertie’s ad sponsored by:

Spicewood Flats Boarding Kennels & Grooming

125 Spicewood Lane • Front Royal

540-635-8979

spicewoodflats.com

Maggie is a 6 year old spayed female English Mastiff.

Maggie is a very lov‑ able girl, who is a lit‑ tle shy with strang‑ ers, but quickly wins over the hearts of everyone she meets! She is house trained, walks great on leash, and knows some basic commands.

Tonto: 1 year old male Pit mix. Tonto is a fun loving guy, and his favorite thing to do is get outside to wrestle around with his doggy friends! He is house trained, and did well with children in his previous home.

Maggie’s ad sponsored by:

Tonto’s ad sponsored by:

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

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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