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contents 6 Dear Readers 10 Our Favorite
47 Taste of the
15 Panhandle Profile
Sub Shops
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50 Our Top Ten
The King Street Coffee 54 & Tobacco Emporium
Weirdest Hotels
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Properly Getting Rid of the Data
15 Panhandle Profile
58 The 150th
19 Caption Contest 21 Maria Lorensen
Battle of Antietam/ Sharpsburg 91 Re-enactment
John B. Hayes Tobacconist
From One Beat to Another
26 Nyagon Duany
64 Rely on Rick 66 Black Dog Coffee Company
Everything I do I have 70 brought with me from sports.
32 Jerry Mays
Politics is My Hobby, Not My Lifestyle.
Anniversary
Panhandle Healthy Living
Maintain Don’t Gain
74 Toys for Tots
80 The Unknown Eater
42 Dave Wadsworth
84 Meet Jessica Jacot
The Wadsworth Whip
Daily Companions Inc.
The Featured Eats Schmankerl Stube
94 Now It’s Your
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96 Monkey Joe’s 100 Dinosaurs Still
Roam the Earth in Virginia
Every Child Deserves a Toy for Christmas
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If you are looking for fun places to visit, check out the stories on Dinosaur Land and Monkey Joe’s. As the article notes, Dinosaur Land is a “blast from the past.” A much newer spot, Monkey Joe’s, caters to children aged two to twelve, providing for them a play place and party center. However, the facility also offers a lounge where adults can relax while the children are playing.
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The Unknown Eater Caffilene Allen Debra Cornwell Dana DeJarnett Victoria Kidd Rick Hemphill Bonnie Williamson Natalie Greene Bethany Davidson Tera Sakisat
The Eastern Panhandle has never been short of talented people, and we feature a few of them in this issue. Nyagon Duany, now a physician, tells her riveting story of how her family got to America from the Sudan, where she was born, and how she funded her college studies with basketball scholarships. Jerry Mays, known throughout the region for his extensive volunteer efforts, recounts his experiences at the 2012 Republican National Convention. Currently the development director at Hospice of the Panhandle, Inc., Maria Lorensen shares some of her experiences in her previous career as a journalist. David Wadsworth shares highlights from his wrestling career; for his outstanding achievements, David was recently honored by the West Virginia chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. One of the events that define the Eastern Panhandle is the Civil War. This year marks the 150th anniversary of that turbulent time. In September, an army of more than 5,000 re-enactors did their best to accurately portray the Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg, while spectators from throughout the United States and all over the world watched. Through their words recorded in this issue, you can feel their passion and commitment to accurately re-telling history through their actions. No matter what your interests, sooner or later, you are bound to get hungry. If you’re in the mood for just a quick bite check out our section on our favorite subs and sandwiches in the area. If you’re interested in a more substantial meal, then look no further than our featured eats and unknown eater. Believe it or not, what I’ve described here is just a sampling of all that we have included in this issue. Our goal, as always, is not only to entertain, but also to inform. We love to hear from our readers about whether or not we are succeeding in that effort. You can let us know by posting your comments on our Facebook page. We will be expecting to hear from you! Caffilene Allen Around The Panhandle Magazine 304-851-7460 editor@aroundthepanhandle.com Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AroundthePanhandleMagazine
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– Winchester, Virginia: While Piccadilly’s Public House at 125 East Piccadilly Street is one of Winchester’s most popular places to enjoy a cold one, it’s also a great place to get a high-quality sandwich. Their menu goes beyond the traditional, greasy pub-style treats to offer guests something truly unexpected. Popular choices for seafood lovers include the Salmon BLT, a delightfully light dish served on ciabatta bread, and the crabcake sandwich, a dish featuring a house recipe lump crab on a Kaiser roll. For land-loving types, the chef offers a delightful turkey reuben—a twist on the classic corned beef sandwich—and the Brew Pub Club—a ham, turkey, and bacon medley sized to satisfy anyone with a “healthy” appetite. Visit them online at www.piccadillysbrewpub.net.
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—Hedgeville, West Virginia: Blink as you’re driving on U.S. Route 11 in Hedgesville, West Virginia, and you might miss the opportunity to taste one of the best cheese steak subs outside of Philadelphia. At the modest stand-alone sub shop, the steak and cheese (plus a few garden vegetables, if you opt for the “supreme” version) are piled high atop Amoroso bread, imported daily from the Philadelphia bakery of the same name; Amoroso bread is an essential ingredient in an authentic Philly cheese steak sub. Further enhancing the quality of the sub is the freshness of the vegetables, picked from the garden in back of the shop. If you have the time, enjoy your sub on the shop’s back deck, overlooking a substantial vegetable garden that includes Italian melons, spaghetti squash, onions, tomatoes, peppers, and grapes. If you’re driving north on U.S. 11, start looking for the sub shop on the right just after you pass Hedgeville High School, also on the right. If you’re driving south on U.S. 11, the sub shop is about 15 minutes south of Williamsport, MD. To see a full menu, go to www. phillycheesesteakplus.com.
Turtle Subs
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Anthony’s Pizza
—Charles Town, West Virginia: Anthony’s Pizza is known for its cheese steak sandwiches, as well as its pizzas. The cheese steak sandwich is the most popular sandwich item, according to manager Luis Deleon. Anthony’s Pizza has been around for about seven years. There are only two tables in the restaurant so delivery is the main business. The cheese steak sandwiches are very reminiscent of their place of origin: Philadelphia. Service is fast. The sandwich is thick and hot, loaded with beef and any topping you wish. Cheeses include cheddar, provolone or American, along with onions, or you can go for the Special Steak, which includes toppings of mushrooms, green peppers, hot peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, mayonnaise, both American and provolone cheeses, along with four crispy bacon strips. For more information, contact Anthony’s Pizza at (304) 728-9559.
The Blue Moon Café
—Shepherdstown, West Virginia: The Blue Moon Café has been in the area for 13 years. It began when a blue moon was in the sky, says owner MaryBeth Kilner. It seats about 100 people with tables inside, as well as outside. Different art is exhibited each month in the restaurant and all paintings are for sale. The most popular sandwich is The Gobbler: local free range turkey, bacon, provolone cheese, and Russian dressing, all heated on a Kaiser roll. Also recommended are the reuben sandwich, made with thinly shaved corned beef or turkey, sauerkraut, and Swiss cheese on toasted rye bread, and the French dip sandwich, made with roast beef and melted cheese on French bread, with dipping sauce of au jus (beef gravy) and horseradish mayonnaise. All the food is incredibly fresh and delicious. For more information, visit www.bluemoonshepherdstown.com.
Freddies Subs
—Hagerstown, Maryland: Harry Truman was President and gasoline was pumping at 17 cents a gallon when Freddie’s subs opened in 1949. The restaurant is a family-owned business that has expanded to three locations around Hagerstown: Oak Ridge, Park Lane, and 1760 Dual Highway. Their traditional sub menu has expanded over the years to include salads, wings, and a variety of wraps. Their commitment to using only the best ingredients and providing twice as much meat on a sub as much of the competition, has kept them voted #1 best subs in town by the local newspaper. The salads are made fresh daily, and the beef comes straight from local farms in Washington County. Freddie’s has withstood the test of time because they know what makes a great sub. For more information, visit www.freddiessubs.com.
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—Martinsburg, West Virginia: When I ordered the Big Fish sub, Seth, my delightful server, exclaimed, “Everybody orders that!” Once you taste it, you can see why. Unadorned with anything other than a few tomato slices and some lettuce, the sandwich consists of only one main ingredient: a substantial portion of lightly breaded grouper, nestled between two halves of a crisp-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside sub roll. A small container of tartar sauce is also served, but taste the sandwich first before you add anything to it. You may find you don’t need the additions. The sub comes with one side order, which includes the traditional French fries (Bay fries, in this case), homemade coleslaw, stewed tomatoes, and a homemade mixture of cucumbers and onions, marinated in a slightly vinegary dressing that complements the fish sub nicely. Other sides are also available. To see a full menu, go to chesapeakecrabco.biz
– Winchester, Virginia: Located on Featherbed Lane in Winchester, Café del Sol’s “tucked away” location does not prepare patrons for the genuinely exquisite meal they will have upon visiting. The establishment offers some of the absolute best food available anywhere in the Valley. Guests seeking a twist on the classic sandwich/sub offering will certainly find it in the restaurant’s panini and flatbread menu. The menu features classics like the ham & turkey club or the roast beef sandwich, but guests can also find unique offerings such as the appetite-friendly primavera, the Mojo-marinated pork sandwich that is affectionately called the Cuban, and the Avocado Club (a favorite among regulars). To learn more about their menu, visit www.delsolcafes.com. www.AroundThePanhandle.com
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The King Street Coffee & Tobacco Emporium first opened its doors in 1993. It’s truly a locally grown establishment, complete with lifelong Martinsburg resident Edward Trout at the helm. The business offers the premium cigars and pipe tobaccos one would expect, but customers can also find a wide selection of coffee beans, loose and bagged teas, and even home brewing supplies. The Emporium should not be perceived as simply a place to purchase tobacco. In fact, it is much more than that. Trout explains, “You are only a stranger once. This is a relaxed, social, friendly atmosphere.” Trout has worked to build a comfortable environment around the social nature of coffee and cigars. This environment welcomes “regulars” and “newcomers” alike, providing a place to slip away from the busy nature of daily life. “We want people to be comfortable here,” Trout says, “and we pride ourselves on providing the service—and ultimately—the information they need to enjoy themselves here.” The shop’s staff is always interested in helping customers learn more about the Emporium’s offered products and they are more than willing to provide
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information and answers to even the most tentative new patron. Trout expounds that the cigar is a social product that is meant to be enjoyed with others in a social setting. As such, he started The Churchill Society, a group of about forty locals who meet regularly to enjoy a good smoke, watch football, dine together, or participate in various community-minded activities. (Visit their website at www.thechurchillsociety.com for more information.) Trout offers ATP readers three notable recommendations from among the wide selection of cigars available at the shop’s West King Street location. # 1 – The Arturo Fuente 8-5-8: Commissioned to commemorate Carlos Fuente Sr.’s father, the 8-5-8 is a “good, everyday cigar” according to Trout. It offers a mildto medium- bodied smoke, complete with occasional hints of chocolate and a creamy, sweet aroma. Expect to pay about $4.70 for this experience. # 2 – San Lotano Oval: This prestigious AJ Fernandez cigar has
a distinctive oval shape. It is a Nicaraguan cigar that is filled with “ultra-premium,” aged tobacco. The flavor, according to Trout, is consistent throughout the experience of smoking the cigar. It is recognized for having a “balanced” flavor that provides a medium- to full-bodied smoke. Patrons can expect to pay $7 to $9, depending on the size selected. # 3 – La Flora Dominicana Litto Gomez Diez: The Litto Gomez Diez is an exclusive line of cigars produced by La Flora Dominicana. It is the first cigar they have produced that uses tobacco which was exclusively grown in 2008 on the company’s farm in the Dominican Republic. (Most cigars are made using a variety of tobaccos from multiple producers.) The product’s aged tobacco burns smoothly, creating a rich, full-bodied cigar that has an unparalleled strength and flavor. The Emporium is the only authorized seller of this particular product in all of West Virginia. These cigars retail up to $13.50, depending on the size purchased. For more information about the King Street Emporium, visit www. kingstreetemporium.com.
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The Winchester location of the John B. Hayes Tobacconist enterprise opened in May of 2006. Guests will likely get the opportunity to be served by Mathew Hayes, the store’s resident expert in all things tobaccorelated. Some may have trepidation about venturing into the unknown, but Hayes and his staff offer reassurance that all guests will be treated like family in the store. “When they walk in the front door, we feel that they are walking into our living room,” Hayes says. “We aim to make the customer feel as comfortable as possible.” Hayes believes that he sells an item of enjoyment, not stuffiness, and no matter if you are just sampling cigars for the first time or are a long-term aficionado, you will find John B. Hayes a welcoming establishment. “This is a place to sit and enjoy cigars, not an exclusive club. We welcome everyone, and everyone can come in, sit, enjoy a cigar, and, more importantly, enjoy great conversation with new friends.” To help educate both new and established customers, Hayes strives
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to hold at least one cigar-related event each month. Representatives from various cigar producers come to the store to answer questions about their products. It is a great social event that allows patrons to learn more about the wide world of tobacco. These events, while somewhat educational in nature, are equally about the social nature of the product itself, drawing large crowds to the business. In addition to a wide range of cigars, the store’s downtown Winchester location offers everything from clove cigarettes and pipe tobacco to pipes ranging in price from $30 to $1,000. It sits at the corner of Cameron Street and East Piccadilly Street. Visitors have a wide window providing an excellent vantage point from which to “people watch.” While watching the passersby, consider enjoying one of Hayes’s recommendations. # 1 – The Perdomo Lot 23: This particular cigar is similar to a wine maker’s special reserve. The tobacco is fermented for one year before being bale-aged for a minimum of three years. The
result of these efforts is a mediumstrength cigar that is, according to Hayes, “an all around good cigar for the price.” Guests can expect to pay about $5.25 for this selection. # 2 – Partagas Naturales: This selection from the Dominican Republic is reported to be among the mildest and most consistent of the Partagas series. It offers a nutty taste and is ideally suited for individuals who consider themselves “casual smokers.” One can expect to pay about $6.50 for this particular recommendation. # 3 –Don Pepin Gracia My Father: Comprised of specially selected tobacco grown on the most prestigious farms in Nicaragua, this cigar features an old Cuban-style presentation. It is considered to be between a medium and full-bodied smoke. When asked to explain what it tastes like Hayes simply says, “You get what you pay for.” The selection retails for more than $10.00, but it truly fails to disappoint those making the investment. For more information about John B. Hayes Tobacconist, visit www. hayestobacconist.com.
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Sitting in her office in a twostory house on Legado Drive in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Maria Lorensen flips through pages of notes, looking for that perfect quote from that day’s interview. She shares the man’s story while skimming each page. As her eyes land on the passage she was looking for, she smiles and reads his words aloud. “Admittedly, there have been bumps in the road,” she reads, “but that’s better than no road at all, right?” It’s been four years since Lorensen left the world of headlines and deadlines, but old habits die hard, and a good story still excites the former editor. After all, journalism has shaped Lorensen’s life, bringing her to West Virginia, to her husband, and ultimately to her current position as development director at Hospice of the Panhandle, Inc. A young Lorensen traded her hometown of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, for Morgantown, West Virginia, in the 1970’s to chase her dreams of becoming a journalist. “I was drawn to journalism as I was interested in people,” recalls Lorensen. “In high school, I was editor of the school paper. My teachers had told me I was a decent writer. Plus, I’m nosey as all get out.” As a student at West Virginia University (WVU), Lorensen learned to turn her nosiness into a professional skill. It was in one of her early classes at WVU that she first met her husband. He was sitting in the front row of her Introduction to Journalism class, she remembers. “We had just gotten back a test, and the professor indicated that if we were able to argue a point on a question that was marked wrong, he would consider giving us credit. I was two points away from an ‘A’ and decided to go for it. The question was true/false and something like: ‘Copy editors need to be creative writers.’ The answer was false, but I argued that most copy editors actually started out as reporters and so it wasn’t completely false. My future husband then raised his hand and said ‘But Professor Martinson,
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on page 252 of the text it clearly states that copy editors do not have to be writers.’” After that, Maria didn’t speak to Michael Lorensen for about three years. “I was so angry,” she says. “But I warmed up to him.” After graduating from WVU, she made her way to the Eastern Panhandle for her first job at The Journal newspaper in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The fledgling reporter spent several years covering the news in Martinsburg and the surrounding cities before breaking away and taking a job on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. After just two years on the Hill, Lorensen and her husband, Michael made the move to Parkersburg, West Virginia. Michael spent his days as a clerk for a federal judge, while Maria continued to move forward in her career as a copy editor at The Parkersburg News and Sentinel newspaper. “We were there for three years,” recalls Lorensen. “I liked it, but knew it was kind of temporary.” In 1987, the young couple returned [ 22 ]
to the Panhandle, where they have made their permanent home. Lorensen did tours as both the lifestyle and city editor at The Journal, but soon the now-seasoned journalist’s focus shifted from career to family. “I knew we had wanted to have a baby,” says Lorensen. “We’d been married for six years and the newspaper life is just terrible for bringing up a family.” So when she was offered a job as the public information coordinator at Jefferson County Schools, she accepted. “It was a better fit for me at the time and I loved the people. I loved education.” During this time, the couple welcomed both son Will and daughter Lauree, but it wasn’t long before the newspaper world literally came calling.
“It was really an incredible opportunity,” she remembers. “I was 36 years old. To be an editor of a daily newspaper in the Eastern Panhandle…it was just cool. And then I started, and it was still really cool,” she laughs.
When her daughter was 13 months old, the gentleman who was the editor of The Journal at the time called. He was retiring and he said, “Why don’t you come up and we’ll talk about you being editor.” Maria’s response was a simple “What?”
In 2008, the newspaper industry began to change. When Lorensen came across an ad for a new position with Hospice of the Panhandle, Inc., in the very paper she helped create each week, she thought, “Maybe this is a good time to really start making a change.”
With Maria at the helm, The Journal underwent a number of changes. She led an initiative to highlight local news. Under her leadership, the newspaper staff also expanded and a vibrant editorial page materialized. Lots of young reporters were trained and hired and went on to bigger and better things during her 12year tenure. “It was a good training ground. I think it was neat that I had a part in training a lot of young journalists,” says the former editor.
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Hospice is a non-profit organization that provides compassionate care to those with life-limiting illness and assistance to their families and caregivers. When Maria saw the job announcement, Hospice was about to embark on a large-scale fundraising campaign for a new building project. This campaign would be the primary focus of the development director. Although Maria had only fundraising experience as a volunteer for numerous community non-profits, she applied for the position at the urging of Hospice CEO Margaret Cogswell. “I remember going home [from the interview and] telling my husband I think they may offer me this job.” The decision to change careers wasn’t necessarily an easy one, but after just a week at Hospice, Lorensen knew she made the right choice. On the last day of orientation, she went on a ride along with a staff chaplain. When she entered the house, she came to realize that she knew the caregiver in the home. The woman, who was now caring for her ailing mother, had been Lorensen’s OB nurse.
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“While it may no longer be her profession, she’ll always be a journalist.” As she was holding the hand of this woman and her mother, all she could think was “here is this woman who helped me bring my son into the world,” her eyes welling with tears, “and here I am with her now holding her hand…as she’s escorting her mother out of this world.” It was then that Maria knew she was in the right place. “I made the right decision,” she said. “Week One was amazing.” Settling into her new position, Maria began work on her primary task as development director, the agency’s Building the Dream Campaign. An estimated $11.6 million will be needed to make two new facilities a reality. To date, Lorensen and her team have raised $3.3 million. In June 2012, they broke ground on the agency’s new consolidated main office and inpatient hospice house. Construction on these facilities began in August 2012. The amount of money raised by
team members, with Lorensen at the helm, is quite an accomplishment, but there is much more work to be done. The agency will continue to raise funds for the building project and eventually for their operational costs. Other items such as planned giving and the tweaking of existing programs are also on the horizon. With so much work still to do, Maria sees herself staying in her position for a number of years. “I don’t envision leaving. I love the agency. I love what we do. I think it’s an incredibly important mission and the Eastern Panhandle seems to appreciate it.” As she finishes her story, Maria Lorensen packs up her notes and prepares to head home to her family. The interview from earlier in the day and the article she’s working on for Hospice’s Comforter Magazine will have to wait, but not for long because while it may no longer be her profession, she’ll always be a journalist. For more information on how you can donate to the Building a Dream Campaign or volunteer for Hospice of the Panhandle, Inc., visit www. hospiceotp.org or call Ms. Lorenson at 304-267-1870, ext. 205.
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The squeaky screech created by the friction of rubber soles against the waxed wooden floor is drowned out by the cheering crowd as the rematch between the NCAA Division 1 Bradley Braves University Women’s basketball team and Illinois State University Redbirds is grinding down in overtime. Illinois State defeated the Braves last year and, here in 2000, are up by two points and close to sealing another win. Senior Nyagon Duany of the Braves sent the game into overtime with a quick crossover fake going to the right and then breaking left with a threepoint shot just before the regular time horn. “Again it went down to a last second shot and I was on the right side and I took a three-shot,” now Doctor Nyagon Duany, M.D. says as she recalls the most exciting moments from her college basketball career. “It went in, and we won! I was screaming and going nuts as the year before they had beat us pretty bad.” Dr. Duany adds with a big smile that immediately makes you feel comfortable as if you have known her for many years. “Every athlete remembers that game where they were the star and won the game with that last second shot,” “I think the best lesson that my father taught us is that athletics is the road to your education. Dr. Duany notes that basketball scholarships helped her get to be where she is today. “It is the vehicle to your education while going to school is the prize,.” she says. “Once you are educated you can do anything.” Dr. Duany is the newest member of the West Virginia University Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine office, located at 201 East Fifth Avenue in Ranson, West Virginia, in their new state-of-the-art office, with their own digital radiography suite for x-rays.
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“I have been here for 2 weeks now,” Dr. Duany says, lighting up her face with that ever-present smile. “I really like the people. People are nice, genuine, and really appreciate how I can help them by promoting their health and not just choosing surgery, surgery, surgery.” It has been a long and complex ride to get Dr. Duany to the Eastern Panhandle. “My family story involves
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how we got to America after we left the Sudan in Africa, and moved to Bloomington, Indiana, when I was five years old,” Dr. Duany explains, telling the story of her family. “There was political and religious turmoil and eventually civil war in the Sudan, which is now two countries. At the time my father worked for the Sudanese government and they put my dad in jail. When you are a kid you don’t realize how much time passes. He was gone about eight months and I thought it was about a month, maybe. I thought he was on a business trip. We grew up in Bloomington and I played basketball and that is how I became involved in sports. My siblings all went into Division 1 basketball with scholarships and played all over the country.” “That’s how I got into medicine,” she continues. “I had a shoulder injury that required surgery and my other siblings had injuries that required reconstructions. We had the kind of injuries that meant we knew our surgeons pretty well so when I got to college I was interested in medicine. I knew I liked surgery because I liked working with my hands, and it was just an easy fit. After graduating from Indiana University School of Medicine, I did my residency in Washington D.C. at Howard University and I worked my Sports Fellowship at Wellington Sports Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Duany describes her life after training. “When I was ready, it was time to look for a job and I liked this area. I have family that lives in this area but my husband works in Baltimore and we are close. This area had a need for an orthopedic surgeon since there are two high schools and Shepherd University without appropriate coverage for the athletes. There is that niche and there is a hometown feel here that I like. I think that the patients here can really benefit from what I have to offer.” “This is not life or death,” Dr. Duany concedes, as she evaluates her options with her patients. “You can choose how you want to be treated. “For the most part there is always
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a conservative option. There is medication you can take or there are braces and things you can use to try to help you get along and get better without surgery. I can tell them that there is surgery but then there are these other options.” Dr. Duany adds, “People like that I am open and honest with them and appreciate that you can discuss the options and not just this is torn or this is strained and you have to do surgery. To give a patient the opportunity to ask questions and answer their questions are the interaction that people like in a doctor. I don’t have my hand on the door getting ready to go out,” she says, with a straightforward smile.
“Once you are educated you can do anything.” In the two weeks Dr. Duany has been on the job, there has been a mix of injuries come through the clinic. “There has been chronic pain, arthritis, tears to the meniscus, strains to the shoulders, rotator cuff tears, and then there are referrals from the emergency room, and they are generally fractures that needed surgery,” Dr. Duany relates as she clearly enjoys helping her patients. “But the things that come through the office are just chronic ailments that just haven’t been addressed because there has not been someone here to address them.” “Before I got here the patients that need what I can provide have had to go to Virginia, or they went to Washington, D.C. for orthopedic care or Baltimore,” she says with confidence in her abilities. “I think that people should have their health care here. The money that they spend here recycles back into this community versus going somewhere else.” Sports injuries are not the only issues Dr. Duany treats. “This is orthopedics and sports medicine so it is about your bones and joints,” Dr. Duany says. “You can come and see me without being involved in sports and I can help you from being
in pain and so it’s not just athletes that should come to see me.” But she has genuine concerns for young athletes.” I advocate playing sports when you are young as it keeps you active,” Dr. Duany says as she focuses on students and their futures. “You are not in the house watching TV or playing video games. It gets you exercise and also gets you around your peers and teaches you to interact with them and talk with them. Also sports help you solve problems both individually and as a group. So there are a lot of life lessons in sports that you can take with you the rest of your life and into the workplace. It teaches you not to give up, that if you work hard, you will be rewarded.” Dr. Duany brings her own sports experiences to this medical game. “I was a junior when I got hurt and my shoulder kept dislocating,” she says as she remembered the pain and frustration. “It happened so much that it didn’t hurt as much. It just tingled and I could put it back in place. I wanted to finish out the season before I had the surgery so I had to wear a brace to help hold it in place. It restricted me and I couldn’t shoot the same way and when I was fighting for a rebound I would eventually lose as my shoulder would dislocate.” It takes determination to get to be a doctor and she showed her courage while still in college. “Since I could no longer shoot from a normal position as it could be easily blocked I had to learn to jump higher to shoot,” she remembers. “I wanted to be a starter and be one of the best players on the team so I had to work harder in the preseason to be the best I could. That helped out in the medical school process because it took so long.” Dr. Duany points out the difficulty of her two choices. “It is not easy to be a Division 1 athlete and be pre-med student,” Dr. Duany remembers her smile brightening her face. “On Friday nights when my friends would be going out having fun I was in the library studying because I needed to have the right grades to get into medical school.” Dr. Duany wants to reduce and prevent injuries here in the Panhandle as well as heal them.
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“In general, I think a way to stay healthy is to eat correctly, get plenty of rest, and to train properly,” she says from her practical experience as well as her medical training. “You can’t just take the summer off and start football season and think that you can just jump in without doing the proper workouts. You have to get in shape before the actual season. That is a lot of the misunderstanding between high school and college athletics. When you are in college it essentially becomes your job. You are working out all year long plus going to school not just doing what you are doing for a season. In high school it is seasonal. If you are really serious about staying healthy, you will continue to stay in condition. If you are really serious about your sport and about staying healthy, you will continue working out during the off season so you don’t get hurt during the season.” Dr. Duany notes that there is some difference in injuries that affect boys and girls. “One of the big things in basketball in women is a higher rate of ACL tears in girls than in boys [anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, is one of four major knee ligament; the ACL is critical to knee stability] and it comes down to the landing,” she says with authority. “Girls land differently than boys. Girls land more with their knees bent inward. kind of knock-kneed, instead of with their kneecaps pointed straight and
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that puts a higher stress on the ACL. We don’t teach people the correct way to land; we teach them how to jump, but landing is where you have a lot of injuries. I would like to work with athletic trainers and physical therapists to hold clinics especially for girls to teach them how to land. They need to be taught to know where they are when they jump and how close they are to the ground to learn how to land safely.” “Sports come and go,” Dr. Duany says by way of a reminder and perspective. “Although there is a very small percentage of people who can make a living in sports by being professional athletes by continuing your schooling and your education you can do whatever you want. My father instilled that in me and my brothers. If I didn’t have the grades I wouldn’t have played basketball. Study hard and work hard and you can be whatever you want. It may not be a professional athlete but you can reach your goals and do anything you want.” Several members of Dr. Duany’s family are helping their fellow Sudanese to reach their goals through education. “Since the civil war stopped and South Sudan was created as an independent country in 2009 my parents and half of my siblings have moved back to Africa in South Sudan,” Dr. Duany says with pride in the efforts of her family. “My two brothers are involved as scouts
for promising high school-aged kids that do not have the opportunity to get a quality education. They train them there and help them get scholarships for high schools and give them the opportunity to go to school and play basketball in the United States.” “There are a lot of life lessons in sports that you can take with you the rest of your life and into the workplace,” Dr. Duany says with her smile and concern for her new community. “Everything I do I have brought with me from sports. Don’t give up, work well with others, communicate well, and always continue to strive for the best. Every day is a learning opportunity and, with medicine, it is a lifelong learning process. I learn from my patients. I have to learn every day. I have to continue reading and learning so that I can be the best doctor I can be so that I can take good care of your patients. Just as in sports you practice to improve your game. “I’m a people person and I love interacting with people,” she says in summary. “Knowing that you are providing a service that people appreciate is the best thing about being a doctor.” Dr. Nyagon Duany is accepting new patients. For more info, call 304.725.BONE or visit www.uhpBONE.com.
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Politics is My Hobby, Not My Lifestyle.
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“Ten days after I arrived in Germany one of the various factions set off a car bomb,” remembers Jerry Mays, as he leans back in his chair, the day before his 70th birthday. “The fireball came down the hall and blew out the back wall and injured a Marine 2-star general.” Jerry was recalling one of his more memorable work weeks. After a 30-year career with the National Security Agency, Jerry retired to the Panhandle in 1988 and has lived in Berkeley County, West Virginia since then. Born in Columbia, South Carolina and raised in parts of California and Arizona, Jerry takes a few minutes out of his schedule, which keeps him busier now than when he was working for NSA, to talk about his life. “I got out of the Air Force on a Friday in 1966 and went to work for the National Security Agency the following Monday and tripled my salary,” he says with a sparkle in his eyes that speaks volumes of what he can’t tell you. “I always thought I would retire to Arizona because that is what retired people do but my
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wife, Judy, and I have been married since 1986 and we have found a home here.” He adds, “And as I have told long time residents here who have commented upon those of us who have moved here that I am not leaving until the undertaker comes for me.” Jerry isn’t sitting on any porch rocker these days. He donates his time willingly to the community on so many levels that it may be difficult to tell what hat he may be wearing on any particular day. “I was never a joiner or a doer until I retired,” Jerry admits with a large smile. “But then I got involved with the United Way and the Chamber of Commerce very early on.” “I have always been a political junkie and, having been ‘hatched” all those years with the federal government [the Hatch Act prevents federal employees from engaging in partisan politics], I immediately joined the Republican Party and became a Republican activist.” Jerry went to his first meeting in May 1997 and
moved up pretty fast. “By the end of 1999,” he recalls, “I was president of the Republican Club and Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee for Berkeley County. It was a change from working for the federal government where it seemed they always tried to hold you back, whereas when I got involved in local activities, the harder you worked the farther you went. That had a lot to do with my becoming involved with things.” Political organizations are only part of his enthusiastic commitment to his adopted community. “I was the 1999 United Way Volunteer of the Year and last year I was the Chamber of Commerce’s 2011 Volunteer of the Year,” Jerry says, but he doesn’t put forth his efforts for the rewards. “I didn’t look to accrue any of these types of things. I just came to help. I really love living here and I think that, because Berkeley County is such a great place to live, it is easy for people to volunteer.”
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“I have never been hesitant to admit that one of the reasons I get involved in things is because I am nosey,” Jerry explains. “I just had my second meeting with the Berkeley County Planning Commission and everything goes through there. I am the cochair of the Government Affairs Transportation Committee for the Chamber of Commerce. I’m also on an economic development panel for Region 9. I’m also involved with the Berkeley County Ambulance Authority and the Eastern Panhandle Transportation Authority. If I have a cause, it is the MARC train. I don’t believe the people in Charles Town realize how important the MARC train is to residents of the Eastern Panhandle.” Jerry’s devotion to the community goes beyond just being nosey. “I am also a board member of CASA of the Eastern Panhandle and the larger organization of CASA or Court Appointed Special Advocates, which represents children in certain abuse, divorce, and other cases before the courts,” Jerry says, as if there was no alternative to his volunteering efforts. Jerry is a past president and Paul Harris Fellow of the Martinsburg Rotary Club. “There are so many unsung efforts that the Rotary Club does for various groups in the county,” Jerry explains giving credit to the hardworking club members. “It really is a good thing to see.” Jerry has seen the county deal with changes in the last 24 years. “We have seen the county more than double in growth over the past 20 years,” Jerry says reflecting on the changes and conflicts that such growth brings. “I certainly understand why people who have very deep roots that go back several generations have concerns about how their quality of life is influenced, but then I seen how an infusion of new blood creates new ideas. I think that, if you look at the Panhandle in relation to the rest of the state, you will see a reflection of what the infusion of new folks built. I have been here longer than 50 percent of the people in the county, so I guess I have become an old timer, although folks who have lived
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here forever view me as an outsider.” Business and politics still provide the most excitement and generate the most enthusiasm in Jerry. “I am also a past president of the Eastern Panhandle Business Association which has been characterized as the chamber of commerce with attitude,” Jerry says with his ever present smile. “We are a political action committee and we interview and question and endorse candidates for political office.” “One of the things I am most proud of is that I am an unrepentant Republican,” Jerry says with a dramatic flair. “I have been a Republican since I was a little fellow. I grew up under Barry Goldwater’s right wing out in Arizona. The county had primarily Democratic registration when I came here and, in the years since I have been active, the majority of registrations have changed over to Republican.”
“I grew up under Barry Goldwater’s right wing out in Arizona.” Jerry recently traveled to Tampa to participate in the 2012 Republican National Convention. “We all had these miner’s hats on,” Jerry says, as he pauses to display the hard hat covered with a black decal, which rests prominently on his side table. “This was to indicate that coal is very important to West Virginia. We probably did over 100 hours of interviews because everybody wanted to come and talk about the miner’s hats. On Tuesday when things really got started there was a tap on my shoulder and a camera in my face. The news reporter said that he had been looking at that hat for three hours and added, ‘I knew I would have to come down and talk to the man with that hat.’” Jerry had more to say about his Tampa experience. “I was even interviewed by a young woman from the Swedish news agency. Our elections truly generate international interest. We were located in a position where you could barely see us and we could barely see the podium but they were the best
seats in the house because all the VIP’s came right by us so we got to see everybody. I can’t say enough about how well organized the people in Tampa were and how well they treated us.” The Republican convention in Tampa was not the first one that Jerry attended. At some conventions, politics takes second place to other concerns. “I went to the 2004 convention in New York, and although I had more fun in Tampa,” Jerry remembers, as he pulls out a framed map of the twin towers in downtown New York, which is covered in black and gold dots, “this is more important. This map reflects the area of ground zero and the twin towers in New York City.” Jerry sweeps his hand across the map. “Each dot represents where specific remains were found. The gold dots represent where firemen and police were found. As you can see the majority of the dots are centered around the towers.” As he speaks, it is clear that he is especially moved by the emotional presentation he attended of a lost firefighter’s father who considered himself to be one of the lucky ones as he was able to find some remains of his son. The experiences of Jerry’s life have given him an appreciation of historical events just as moving to him as the events of September 11, 2001. “I read quite a bit of history,” he acknowledges. “I was in the service from 1962 – 1966 and served most of my time in the Florida Keys during the Cuban Missile crisis.” Later, when Jerry was working for the National Security Agency and still a single man, he was sent to Germany. “Before you go they send you to a psychiatrist for a mental evaluation,” Jerry laughs noting the happy memory. “As I was leaving he said to me,” ‘You have a fast car, you make pretty good money, and you enjoy beer, you are going to love Germany,’ and he sent me on my way.” “I was at the Brandenburg gate in Berlin when Germany was still divided during the Cold War,” Jerry says with a somber note in his voice. “I looked down into East Berlin. It was grey and the dark buildings were covered in soot from
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the cheap coal they were using. You might see an occasional car slowly moving through the dark street.” Jerry brightened, as he added, with a smile, “But if you turned around and looked at West Berlin, there were neon lights and bright colors. Literally it was like looking at death and life.”
I’ll live your life for you. I’ll tell you who to vote for, how to raise your kids, what car to buy, but I won’t be offended if you tell me to shut up and that it’s none of my business. I have never been so thin skinned that it doesn’t bounce off. I consider it exercising the First Amendment, which guarantees free speech.”
After Jerry completed his work in Germany, he was, at first willing to go on to Spain. “But I thought no,” he said, “it is time for me to come home. You really appreciate coming home when you have lived overseas. There are so many natural resources here and the state is so beautiful to travel around. The scenery is just spectacular,” Jerry says giving his take on West Virginia. “People say that coal and timber are the state’s biggest export but, unfortunately, our kids are the state’s biggest export. They all come back but they come back to retire. You see that time and time again. If we were to do things that would create jobs we could be the jewel of the East Coast.”
Just as he wants others to know what he is thinking, Jerry wants to know what they are thinking. “I really do want to know what people think,” he says. “Whenever I read a magazine or newspaper, I always go to the “letters to the editor” first to see what people are saying.” As if he doesn’t hear enough of what people are saying, he also has time to co-host a radio program. “I am on WRNR Radio, 740 on your am dial on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, from 8:40 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. When I was first offered the job, my wife, Judy, was skeptical. She asked, “They are going to pay you to talk?”
Changing the subject a bit, Jerry reflects on some of his personal characteristics. “I’m opinionated and speak my mind,” he says unabashedly. “I think that if you have an opinion you should share it.
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“But I’ve got the best hair in radio,” Jerry laughs. “I enjoy meeting the people who come to the station. We get a lot of candidates and politicians, representatives from non-profit organizations, and many others. We talk about everything. To me, it is like being able to
respond to all those letters to the editor. I always wanted to set aside one day a week to debunk all of the things from the people so far out in left field who write to the newspaper.” “Politics is my hobby; it is not my lifestyle,” Jerry says, although that hobby seems to be a driving force. “However, I really do enjoy politics. If you talk to people who are students of politics, it is the singleissue voters who drive them nuts. Politics is a series of compromises. You have got to look to the nine issues you agree on and not the one issue that divides you, if you want good government.” Jerry recently celebrated his 70th birthday and he shows no signs of slowing down or of even wanting to do that. He and Judy have four sons and a daughter spread out from upstate New York to Indiana. “I am Yankee fan, a Cleveland Browns fan, and I have my three-yearold beagle, Quinn, who is spoiled rotten,” he says, speaking of some additional aspects of his life. “I still enjoy everything I am doing,” Jerry says. “I think there is a sense of satisfaction in volunteering and in giving back to the community. “We owe it back to the people who follow us.”
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Nostalgia. It is a word that derives a specific cogitation. It’s a word that makes one reflect or consider times long past. It’s a word that has its own meaning in the traditional sense, but it’s an emotionally charged word with a meaning represented by memories of previous experiences. For local author Roger Engle, nostalgia was the catalyst for the production of a work that is rapidly gaining a local following. His book is titled Stories from a Small Town: Remembering My Childhood in
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Hedgesville, WV, and, as the name implies, it’s a collection of tales from Engle’s recollection of growing up in Hedgesville. The book covers the years between 1948 and 1964, and it offers a unique perspective of what life was like between those periods. Engle, who spent his 30-year career as a biology teacher in Hagerstown, can be best described as an accidental author. He explains, “I did not set out to write a book. You know how thoughts come to you as
a result of sight, smell, or sound? Something triggered a memory of my youth, and then there was suddenly a flood of them.” He recognized that he had an interesting perspective on growing up. During his childhood, Hedgesville was the true embodiment of a small town. There was a general store and a “greasy spoon” restaurant, but little more than that. His graduating class included only 31 or 32 people,
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providing an accurate glimpse of just how small the community once was. Households were generally self-sufficient, and nothing was ever wasted. As memories continued to return to him, Engle decided to write down his experiences. These recorded tales remained tucked away until one cold winter day when he decided to review the notes and re-envision them in story form. “I thought that they would be a nice thing to give to my children and grandchildren, since, you know, we won’t always be here to relay our stories to them,” he says. “They remember the big things, but life is lived in the details, and I wanted to make sure I passed those details onto them. I wanted to give my children a snapshot of the period of time during which I grew up, but it was never my intention to put the stories into book form. I just wanted to compile them.”
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“I cannot think of a better place to grow up or a better time to be young.” The stories remained on Engle’s computer until they were secretly discovered a few years ago by his daughter, Stephanie Engle. She is the owner of Girls on Press, the publishing imprint of Stephanie Engle Design Office. She compiled a few dozen of the stories and bound them as a Christmas gift for her father. Engle was moved by the gift, and he asked his daughter why she had selected those particular stories from all the ones that were recorded. Her answer set into motion the events that would lead to Engle publishing his memoir. His daughter selected the ones that were included simply because she
was unaware of how many of these stories had already been recorded. “She realized that there were a lot more there,” Engle said. “I just kept writing even more and more, and a year and a half ago, my daughter looked at the whole thing. She said, ‘You’ve really got to put these together in a book.’ So I gave it a lot of concerted effort, and here I am.” Engle’s daughter was able to use her design practice to produce a beautiful, high-quality book. The family received the finished product in the middle of August, and they have been sharing these stories with the surrounding community ever since. And that community is raving about the book. Even West Virginia State Delegate Walter Duke proclaims it as “delightful account of what it was like growing up in Hedgesville. Roger’s book rekindled a lot of great
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memories of Hedgesville happenings in the 1950s and 1960s.” Duke gives the book high marks for both content and readability, and his accolades are echoed by others.
together and pitch horseshoes or play ball. The time was simpler, and of it Engle says, “I cannot think of a better place to grow up or a better time to be young.”
William Moore, former Hedgesville mayor, says, “Roger’s book is a marvelous sociological piece that will leave you smiling and remembering.” Such is certainly true, but it must be stated that Engle’s narrative, while set in a small West Virginia town, is relatable to anyone from similar circumstances, regardless of location.
It’s all been a very unexpected and pleasant surprise for Engel and his family. “I couldn’t believe that people were interested in reading something I had written,” Engle said. To reach a wider readership, he donated a copy to all of the high school and middle school libraries in Berkeley County, as well as the Naylor Library in Hedgesville and the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Library. A copy has also been provided to Shepherd University, where it will be placed in their library collection.
While the book details Engle’s experience exploring his world— which was limited only by how far his feet or his bike could carry him—it also describes a time when children occupied themselves with more innocent fun. After school, they could travel into the woods to hunt, fish, or play. They could get
While his memories are being increasingly shared throughout the Eastern Panhandle and beyond, Engle encourages anyone who will listen to write their own stories.
“Anyone can do this,” Engle says. “My childhood years are no better or worse than anyone else’s stories.” He believes that passing on the details of life is a great gift to generations that follow. The book will soon be available through local purveyors, but you can get your copy by contacting roger@girlsonpress.com. In Martinsburg, you can secure a copy from Patterson’s Drug Store, the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Convention & Visitor’s Bureau, and the circulation desk of The Journal. You can also pick up a copy at the Hedgesville branch of the Bank of Charles Town. Once you start reading it, you’ll get a glimpse into a time long past, and, who knows, you may even find yourself ready to put pen to paper in an effort to pass on your own story.
Roger Engle enjoys the Hedgesville Scenery with his wife Gula and daughter Stephanie.
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The gym is quiet now, the mats have been put away, and the wrestlers have all gone home. Each individual match is unique and pits two strong competitors in a hands-on dance of falls, take-downs, and perhaps a pin. It doesn’t draw the biggest crowds or generate the revenue of other sports, but the thrill of each victory, along with the disappointment of a defeat, looms large in the minds and lives of those who have been lucky enough to compete. David Wadsworth of Hedgesville, West Virginia, has been one of those lucky souls who has not only been blessed with the ability and desire to wrestle one-on-one with another, but was able to continue in the sport and be an effective competitor for 42 years. He “left his shoes on the mat” and retired in 2010 after over 130 tournaments, countless matches, and unrelenting determination. The West Virginia chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame honored David at its tenth annual “Hall of Fame Day” banquet, which was held on Sunday, October 28, 2012, at the Embassy Suites in Charleston, West Virginia. David was honored as an Outstanding West Virginian to recognize him for his years of commitment and for being a positive role model for current student athletes. David has given countless hours of his time instilling in young people the skills needed to succeed in all areas of life. In addition to the West Virginia honor, David will be permanently recognized at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in Stillwater, Oklahoma. “I started wrestling in 1968 and won my first match in middle school,” David says, proudly reviewing his career. “I had to retire in 2010 because both of my knees are artificial now. After 1,000 hours of
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actual mat time and 30,000 hours of training, I just had the knees of a 75-year-old man.” His lengthy career has been marked by many moments of excitement, with awards and accolades along the way. David has won a Freestyle National Championship and three Folkstyle National Championships, as well as second- and third-place finishes at the Folkstyle World Championships. (Folkstyle wrestling is essentially collegiate wrestling, with some slight modifications.) “I just always knew I would be good at wrestling, and I knew I had the right temperament for it,” David says, as he discusses his career. “My wife, Joann, and I both grew up in Bowie, Maryland. I lived there for 35 years and went to Belair High School and won my first match in the eighth grade. I only lost one match in all of high school. I attended Prince George’s County Community College and competed in the Maryland Juco tournament. I had one match against another student who beat me in one of the few matches I have lost. That match, unfortunately, determined who got the scholarship to the University of Maryland,” David says, with no hint of remorse. Speaking of the student who did get the scholarship, David adds, “We became good friends.” “In 1976 I went to the national championships,” David remembers, as he sweeps his hand across displays of matches and wins that span Presidential terms from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama. “My record was 34-1-1 in college. My senior year, I flew out to the nationals but I was unable to make all-American.” He adds, “The Wadsworth Whip was my signature move. I designed the technique myself. My coach said I was vulnerable to attack from underneath and I had to fight like crazy and he taught me a defense. I was able to take that defensive move and, by reversing one arm, I can turn the defensive move into an offensive move that they can’t get free from. Sometimes I can’t get it, but when I do, it’s over. The only defense is not to let me get too close.” By 1979, David had begun his career in the automotive business, but he still
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received his second invitation to try out for the U.S. Olympic Wrestling team. However, the United States boycotted the 1980 Olympics because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, so David did not get to follow up on the invitation. “I was born in January and that is wrestling season, so on many of my birthdays, I was in a wrestling match, which was where I wanted to be,” David says, showing his love of the sport and that the memories of his wrestling days are still vibrant and powerful. “Wrestling was what I was made for. It is just me going out there and there is no place to hide if I win or lose.” In wrestling, the weight class is the determiner of who wrestles whom. “In college I wrestled in the 167-lb weight class,” David remembers. “Later, I moved up to the 190-lb class until 2003, when I moved to the 215-lb class. That’s where I stayed until I retired.” David notes that wrestling at the national level was usually in the 185-lb class. However, he adds, “In 2003, I won the National Freestyle Championship and, in 2004, when I won the Folkstyle National Championship, I was in the 215-lb class.” Both events took place in northern Iowa, which David describes as ‘the mecca of wrestling.” After remaining undefeated for his first two years and “un-scored upon,” David recalls that the thrill of winning the national tournaments also brought with it a bit of a problem. “I enjoyed the winning,” he says, “but after a point, it dilutes all the local tournaments. I wrestled many men younger and heavier than I was, but I was in better physical and mental condition. I had an advantage of experience. I could feel what they were going to do.” Although David loved participating in the wrestling tournaments, often using the local tournaments to prepare for the national tournaments, he acknowledges that “the real pleasure was working with the kids. I remember one boy. He was the first in his family to graduate from high school. I just kept trying to encourage him to keep him in school. Finally, he started to catch on. Then he started winning,
and it changed his attitudes and increased his self confidence.” “We moved to the Panhandle from Maryland in 1994 because Joann said ‘we are moving to Martinsburg,’” David says with a smile. “I owned several houses but sold them and moved into an apartment next to hers, just to be next door to her. Later, we got married and now we have just the one.” “What was different in Maryland,” David says contrasting his wrestling experiences in the two states, “is that you hardly know anybody you wrestle in Maryland. When I came to West Virginia, though, the coaches, Steve Britner, Bill Whittington, and Shawn Martz down at Musselman High School let me in. I would just walk in and show them the certificate I had from the state and I was allowed in.” After moving to West Virginia, David continued to pursue his love of working with children. “When I would go to another town on business,” he says, “I would stop in and ask if I could work with the kids and I had my certificate, so it was legal.” With a broad smile, he adds, “The kids would ask questions and want to know how old I really was. I would say don’t worry, you aren’t wrestling your father, you won’t hurt me.” David notes that “there is better wrestling at the smaller weights and the better technical wrestlers are the smaller weights.” Returning to his reminiscences about his own career, David states, “As I got older, the lighter weights were too quick, so I kept moving up in weight classes. The wrestlers used to be envious of the basketball players. They got to go home and eat dinner after a game, and we would have to suck on an ice cube to maintain weight. You learn discipline because the scale is unforgiving. In this particular sport, you have to make weight; that is everything.” Confirming what is perhaps already clear, David offers his opinion of wrestling as a sport. “This is pleasurable and enjoyable as a sport. It was really a pleasure day in and day out. But it is not just about wrestling; it is also about
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giving back.” David explains why he is so concerned for the kids who take part in the sport. “Wrestling really does prepare you for the future,” he says. “Business very much parallels wrestling. I work with automobile dealerships and the never-give-up attitude is instilled in wrestling. It is up to me.”
“The Wadsworth Whip was my signature move. . . . Sometimes I can’t get it, but when I do, it’s over.”
David and Joann have three sons, all now well beyond high school. R.B., the oldest, is 28; Steven, the middle son, is 24; and Michael, the youngest, is 22. “My oldest wrestled for Martinsburg, but it isn’t their sport,” David says of his sons. “However, we were all once in the same tournament in Jefferson. They finished second and third in their weights, and I finished fourth in mine. Still, he notes, his sons enjoyed other sports more.” “They were all stand-up soccer players, but wrestling was my game.” All great careers come to an end, and when David’s knees could no longer support the sport, he had to call it a match. “Most wrestlers leave their shoes on the mat when they retire,” David says with a touch of sadness. “I knew that I would retire after the final match at North High in Hagerstown, Maryland. During those last few practices, I didn’t want to leave the room, since there were so few opportunities left. There was one little kid who weighed maybe 40 pounds who was really cocky and I said do you want to wrestle me? He said sure. Afterwards I told his parents to bring him out to the tournament, and I would do something for him. When Coach Slick stopped everything and said we are going to lose somebody, instead of leaving my shoes, I gave that boy my headgear.” Today, David Wadsworth is wellrespected and remembered by many of the “kids” he mentored and helped during his many years of wrestling. What better recognition of a life of wrestling than to be honored as the Class of 2012 by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame? Congratulations, David, on your special place in wrestling history!
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“It really is a minimal expense for us, and it can do so much,” says Jodie Frankenberry, vice chair of the event. Taste of the Panhandle made about $25,000 last year. Donations were given to help Panhandle Home Health, a nonprofit agency that provides in-home care for individuals recovering from a short-term illness, surgery, or disability, and Young Lives, a faith-based organization that mentors teenage girls who are pregnant or who are already mothers. Jodie says this year’s focus is on CASA, “because it is such a great organization. CASA helps find placement for children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse.” Herman adds that “the abuse of children happens more than one would think.” Vicki Barnard, executive director of CASA in Martinsburg, says she is so grateful for being recognized by Taste of the Panhandle. “We are happy and honored. Donations from this event will give us some breathing room. Help
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us keep going. Besides grants, donations are our main funding. CASA currently is helping 97 children. The organization has about 35 volunteers. We have a very committed staff. The court petitions us and then we assign volunteers. There is a waiting list. We concentrate on the most critical cases, such as children who have been sexually assaulted.” Taste of the Panhandle will have at least 14 restaurants showing off their wares. This year’s theme is “Winter Wonderland.” Attendees can experience a wide variety of food and drink. Local restaurants bring in their specialties. There will be a variety of wines and beer, steak, smoked salmon, Mexican food, veggies, chocolate, and all kinds of desserts. There will be something for everyone. Last year’s participants included the Purple Iris at Heartwood, Bistro 112, the James Rumsey Hospitality and Culinary Arts Program, and the Blue Ridge CTC Culinary Academy. Beverages came from the Vandalia Brewery, while chocolates were on hand from DeFluris. German Street Coffee and Candlery brought their coffees. “We had about 200 people attend last year,” Herman says. “The Taste of the Panhandle has become one of the top events in the area. It is very well attended.” The event also has a silent and live auction with such prizes as vacations, golf equipment, free advice from financial consultants, paintings, and other
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merchandise. Music will also be part of the event, either live music or recordings. Tiffany Harshbarger, who owns The Purple Iris at Hartwood, along with her husband Daniel, the chef, has participated with Taste of the Panhandle since it began. Last year, The Purple Iris offered dishes like lobster/crab bisque soup and Yukon Gold potato pancakes. “It was great watching people walking around sampling all the food,” Tiffany says. “We brought the food right to the event and didn’t use the kitchen. We had our own hot box under the table. The Purple Iris doesn’t advertise very much, so the Taste of the Panhandle really helps people know what the restaurant has to offer.” Tiffany also believes the event is held during a great time of year. “January. It’s a slow time of the year. It gives people something to do instead of having cabin fever.” The Taste of the Panhandle is also referred to as Kelley Kisner’s Taste of the Panhandle. Kisner and Barbara Bradley, another Martinsburg Rotary Club member, had the idea for the event during a conversation. “They wanted to see the needs of the community met. Kisner’s drive, determination, and insight really are behind Taste of the Panhandle. She was helping get this event going even when she was fighting cancer. She has since passed away but she is not forgotten,” Herman says. Vicki notes that Kelley Kisner, the
event’s founder, frequently ate at the Purple Iris. Herman says the people involved with Taste of the Panhandle are “exceptional. They are some of the hardest working people around. I’m impressed with how they pull it all together. ” The Martinsburg Rotary Club is one of the oldest in America, Herman says. “We are devoted to the community and community service,” he adds. The theme of Rotary Club International is Service Above Self. The Martinsburg Rotary Club was founded on April 18, 1921. Twentytwo local businessmen helped form the club. According to their website, the object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster the opportunity for service, as well as encouraging and fostering high ethical standards in business and professions. Service is a big part of a Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life. So rid yourself of the January doldrums, have some delicious food, and help some great organizations, all at the same time. There’s nothing like getting a Taste of the Panhandle. For more information, contact Kathy Mason at 304-267-4144; Jay Rutkowski at 304-262-9355; Jodie Frankenberry at 304-264-8011; or Herman Dixon at 304-263-4802 or 304-389-2187.
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For some hotels, the “experience” isn’t limited to just feelings of restfulness; try awe-struck, amused, bewildered, even frightened. These hotels have uncapped new realms of possibilities, ones that demand attention even if they don’t demand serious business. Here are ten unusual hotels that will keep you up at night reassessing your preconceptions about this so-called business of “restfulness”.
10. Dog Bark Park Inn
This bed and breakfast, located in Cottonwood, Idaho, is shaped like a beagle. Owned by a pair of “chainsaw artists” who claim to have been able to afford such an investment through the “fortune” they made selling wooden dog carvings on QVC, this place is an obsessive dog-lover’s fantasy come true. Every motif is dog related, from the muzzle you can make yourself at home, to every little fixture and decoration. There’s even a gift shop where the chainsaw artisans sell their little wooden dog sculptures. The creepiest part of all has to be the entrance to the B&B, which is via a staircase that appears to enter the dog’s rear quarters. But then again, that’s exactly where a dog goes whenever he meets someone new. Interesting side note: their website doesn’t mention their pet policy, as much as their dog-centric theme begs for one (or maybe it’s just begging for a treat).
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9. Safari Land Farm & Guest House
Located in India, in the middle of the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, this resort offers lodging in the trees. Literally: you spend the night in a tree house constructed around a hulking agricultural up-growth, like the kind Dad builds in the backyard for his kids. Unlike the shoddy Home Depot DIY project by which your Dad upheld his manliness, a far-from-home, middle-of-a-jungle aesthetic really brings these lodges to life. As do the various monkeys, elephants, and other native creatures that happen to casually stroll and perch about. If you want to truly feel like Mowgli on your next visit to the jungle, this is surely the place to hang up your loincloth.
8. Capsule Hotels
Ever wondered what it was like to be abducted by aliens, or at the very least just to sleep on a UFO? Well, these mini-hotels, built from oil rig survival pods, are the closest thing to such an encounter of the third kind. Found in Den Haag, Netherlands, they rest upon water as easily as they do on land and make lodging accommodations as amphibian as the vessels from which they are derived. Only in a place where pot brownies are as ubiquitous as paper napkins could someone feel at complete ease stepping out of one of these to get the morning paper.
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Like sleeping inside of a giant soda can, these drain-pipes-turnedluxury-suites are the brainchildren of the Austrians, whose architecture is as wonky as their modern art. How they don’t roll away in the middle of the night must be credited to their weight, as these things boast the comfort factor of solid concrete.
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6. Alcatraz Hotel
If you’ve ever dreamed of sleeping inside of a German prison, but lacked the criminal wherewithal, here’s your chance to do so (although food and lodging in this case aren’t free). Granted, the luxury factor is dramatically augmented, with rooms looking like Ikea and David Lynch teamed up to refurnish an upperclass-catering correctional facility. The only real hints of prison life come with the crudely spray-painted room numbers and wine bars/concierge desks/etc., which resemble holding cells, with the solid vertical bars left intact.
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5. Jumbo Stay
Now sleeping on an airplane can be its singular function. In Sweden, a hotel in the form of a converted jumbo jet exists, where passengers (as it were) can sleep in private chambers and dine in a swanky-looking lounge, all while parked at an airport with the spectacle of constant arrivals and departures a calming (or perhaps unnerving) atmospheric backdrop. Luxury class lodgers can even sleep in the cockpit albeit sans (we hope) the ability to make inane, monotonous announcements at regular intervals via the intercom.
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4. Osaka Capsule Inn
In Japan, space is famously limited. Let these ideas of lofty luxury be one more instance of that fact. The rooms resemble industry ovens, wherein the roasts, err…residents can sleep peacefully, with an interior control panel, which allows the resident to choose the temperature he wishes to be cooked at. The image of these things evokes something incredibly bleak and sci-fi, like this hotel is the very source of the city’s power, harvested from “organic” energy sources, sources that never check out on their own volition. Neat concept though (better one for a movie).
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3. Hotel de Glace
This hotel in Canada is literally a giant igloo; constructed of thick layers of ice, the only things heated are isolated bathrooms (and there are fireplaces in the bedrooms). If you’re wondering how something like this could endure the seasons, it can’t. It only lasts from the first week in January to the last in March. The rooms are kept at subzero temperatures, you sleep on a bed of ice, and if you don’t take advantage of the arctic-strength sleeping bags, hypothermia is a very real possibility. Sounds like fun! Pretty as it is, even with the number of weddings that take place there, it really sounds more spectacular than practical.
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This is a real thing. No, your neighbors won’t be unusually short and hairy-footed, but no one’s to stop you from eating six meals a day in the Woodlyn Park main room. Otherwise, this so-called Hobbit Motel is completely modeled with the Shire, hobbit hometown of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings book series, in mind. The doors and windows are round, and the actual motel rooms are burrowed in the bosoms of a bucolic hillside, but the fact that this particular motel is located in New Zealand, where the movie franchise was filmed, has “gimmick” written all over it. Also written: “tourists are suckers”.
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The resort offers this possibility. Located on a private island in Fiji, guests can see godly beings both terrifying and gorgeous sweep across virtually every part of the hotel, as each toe-shaped room features giant transparent fingernails. This sounds like the perfect place for surface-resistant scuba-divers, but a little scary for those who remember that scene in one of the Jaws sequels where the shark crashes through that underwater corridor. But that probably won’t happen; actually, the website lists the various ways in which the Poseidon is “redundantly fail-safe,” although shark resistance isn’t explicitly mentioned.
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The Hogging Up BBQ Festival will be held at the fairgrounds off Route 11 in Clear Brook, VA. This is a sanctioned KCBS event, full of bands, vendors, wineries, beer garden, food, and a KCBS BBQ Competition! Fun for the whole family! See serious barbecue competitors from many states descend upon the fairgrounds smokin’ it up to win fame and fortune! Listen to the tunes of Stoney Creek Bluegrass, Circa Blue and other rising country and bluegrass artists like Kirsten Sowers! Find a complete band lineup on our website. The Hogging Up Festival is seeking vendors, sponsors, bands, participants and of course you the public . Visit www.hoggingup.com for details.
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Those sluggish, old business computers that have caused your employees hours of frustration and seem like an artifact from the past: you’re probably relishing the opportunity to launch them from one of your office windows into the dumpster below. Sure, the mere act would be a huge stress reliever but before you go to that extent, you may want to consider the amount of valuable corporate data that still lurks on your business computer hard drives. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that over 112,000 computers are discarded every day. That’s a lot of corporate computers that end up in the trash. As a result, business dumpsters have become a treasure trove for individuals seeking confidential information, such as clients’ Social Security numbers, credit card data, and corporate and proprietary trade secrets. Even if your company has a policy for protecting digital information, most of your organization’s computers probably have hidden confidential and private information waiting to be discovered. The fact of the matter is that a hard drive is a resilient piece of equipment. All of your business files are kept on directories linked to your operating system. When your employees delete a file, rather than being permanently removed from the hard drive, [ 54 ]
it’s really removed from only the directory. What this means is that tech-savvy individuals can locate erased data from corporate hard drives with relative ease. It’s part of the reason that corporate electronic data theft continues to be on the rise in the United States.
drives as it is happening, thus eliminating the risks associated with transfer and transportation of your business data. Most of all, it ensures that all components of your business computer hard drives are completely destroyed, so that retrieving any electronic data is made impossible.
While providing your used business computers to an authorized recycler may keep your electronic waste out of the landfill, it doesn’t necessarily ensure the security of your confidential corporate data. The press is awash with stories of electronic waste being sent and sold overseas, which means that your business data could literally end up half way around the world. And even if you degauss your hard drives, how can you really be sure that your digital information has been completely wiped?
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The 150th Battle of Antietam/ Sharpsburg Re-enactment Across the rolling hills and swales near the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, a ferocious battle began at dawn, 150 years ago, through a cornfield bracketed by deadly artillery and continued until sunset. Thousands of Union soldiers wearing heavy blue wool uniforms marched toward a thin line of grey- and butternut-clad Confederates who would drive them back but not before each side would inflict withering losses of one man wounded or killed every 2 seconds for the next 12 hours totaling over 23,000 casualties. It is September 15, 2012, two days before the actual 150th anniversary of the bloodiest day in American history. Not far from the actual battlefield, 5,200 Confederate, Union [ 58 ]
and civilian re-enactors stage a visually engrossing and audible retelling of the events of that day to educate and entertain the spectators who showed up from all over the United States and several foreign countries. The one-day battle in 1862 was actually several separate engagements by General George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac to deter Robert E. Lee’s invasion of Maryland, which had begun a week earlier just south of Frederick. A small white church built by a group of immigrant German pacifists, the Dunkers, would become a focal point for the early part of the battle, and a simple rutted road would mark the dying at midday by becoming a bloody lane. As the day wore
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on, one of the picturesque stone bridges across the Antietam Creek would provide a means of attack by Union General Burnside’s men whose sacrifice would give their commander’s name to the bridge for posterity. And yet the Confederate Army was saved from defeat by the heroic march of Ambrose Powell Hill from Harper’s Ferry to Sharpsburg whose foot cavalry presaged a movie cliché by arriving in the nick of time to hold the line to end the day’s fighting. This time the casualties were not as severe as Brooke Wilson discovered while her three-year-old daughter covered her ears in response to the cannon fire. “I was at a reenactment a few years ago but it was not the caliber this one is Around The Panhandle | NOV • DEC 2012
today,” she said as she took time out from watching the afternoon retelling of Bloody Lane. “I am having a blast. The noise is bothering my daughter a bit but she’s getting used to it. I think the whole thing is cool, the battle and walking around and seeing the vendors and all the people. It’s a lot of fun. I would highly recommend it to other people.” Dressed in 1860’s civilian garb and walking through the spectators, Steven Dias came from Alexandria Virginia, to portray “W.S.Holiday,” an 1862 correspondent for the New York Herald. “The largest circulation in the United States with 285,000 newspapers sold in 1862,” Steven says proudly maintaining his character for the crowd who stop and ask questions or perhaps gawk at his presentation. “I’ve been reenacting for about 35 years. I got involved in Renaissance festivals 35 years ago and then began with eighteenth-century Revolutionary War re-enacting. Now I portray Civil War and World War II.” “When you are with re-enactors, you don’t have to explain your love of history, as everyone is a history buff,” Steven explains. “At all levels you want to go out and not just learn about history; you want to be hands on and re-create it. I enjoy being outside and camping, the camaraderie among the people and getting a lot of exercise. Just loading and unloading all the equipment for the weekend can be a workout in itself.” The re-enactment is staged on a 400-acre farm just north of Sharpsburg. The battles are presented in the open field, topped with a replica of the white Dunkers Church. As the artillery booms and the smoke and movement of the battle unravels before them, the members of Boy Scout Troupe 212 stand quietly in their red shirts. They have traveled from North Carolina to see the re-enactment and troop leader Brian Bowman is engrossed in the presentation. “We came up here and it is very educational,” Brian states not wanting to miss any action on the field. “The uniforms and the history of the battle along with the attention
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to detail are just amazing. This is on a smaller scale but this is what the mass movements of the troops must have looked like.” The 5,000 soldiers march to drums and music from regimental bands with their flags flying in the warm breeze. They seem to keep coming, and it is difficult to imagine that only about five percent of the historical numbers of soldiers are here on the field. David Leach is only 18 and is not much older than the members of Boy Scout Troupe 212, who are enjoying the battle that David is helping to present as a member of the Union’s 95th New York Zouves. “It’s fun,” David says after finishing the afternoon event. “You read about the Civil War in school and you read textbooks but if it’s a good re-enactment you get a great feel for how it was for a Civil War soldier. It’s definitely something to come out and watch. You are going to enjoy it,” he says with his enthusiasm bursting through his dragging demeanor after a day of two battles. The site is large and divided into sections that house various aspects of the re-enactment. There are Confederate and Union camps where re-enactors stay in period tents and somewhat primitive conditions outwardly using the technology of the nineteenth century. There is also a living history area where people can learn everything from surgical techniques to housekeeping, Civil War-style. Of course, many vendors are plying their wares, from period hoop skirts to French fries. Dwight Lovett is here from North Carolina. He is a tall, tow-headed wiry lad with a Confederate Artillery Battery and has been re-enacting for 12 years. “I enjoy the camaraderie, learning the history of the war and going to places and seeing the historical sites,” he says with a gentle manner and a southern drawl. “I enjoy seeing what the different Southern states are putting up for monuments. It’s like a big family. You get to make friends, as you travel around to the re-enactments at Gettysburg, Shiloh, and other places throughout the United States.” Dwight is clearly enjoying
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his weekend. “This is the only 150th anniversary we’re going to get, and people need to see the real history at least as much as we can show and do,.” he says. “It is a really good time for the kids to come out and see too. If you’re a southern person, come out to the camp and learn about your history to see how people lived and took pride in where they come from and where they were going.” Women in fancy hoop skirts or dark mourning dresses are walking throughout the event. Many of them portray real people from the Civil War. One lovely woman dressed in a white billowing dress twirling her parasol portrays Sally Anderson, the wife of General Richard Anderson, who was wounded here at Antietam. Both survived the real war. On this 150th anniversary, she stays in character for the spectators. “I am from Pennsylvania and my husband is from South Carolina, and when he chose to leave the Union, I reluctantly went with him [ 60 ]
to the South,” she says, keeping Sally Anderson’s words to the forefront. “My father was a Supreme Court justice, which allowed me to broker some of the early prisoner exchanges.” The real woman behind the portrayal is Wendy Calling. “My husband and I were looking to retire and find a hobby we could do together,” she says coming out of character, clearly enjoying her impromptu presentation. “We both had a passion for the Civil War, although we are from the West Coast and didn’t really know that much about what happened here because it was so far away,” Wendy continues spinning her parasol. “We moved here 18 years ago, and we have been doing this for five years now.” “I want to help show what people were like, the truth, and the camaraderie,” Wendy says proudly, clearly happy to be sharing the event with her husband. “It is a family and, year around, you stay in
touch. Re-enacting is like nothing else you have ever done. Camping doesn’t hold a candle to it. We live in the 1860’s the entire weekend, our clothes, food, beds, everything, and it is a fantastic experience. I love being able to relate to those experiences as a Civil War survivor and being able to become that person and to teach people what it is all about and make it personal to them. Young people will remember it because it is not something in a book. Be prepared for the experience of a lifetime.” Joseph Baswell traveled a long way to get here. He is quietly watching the battle unfold before him, but his excitement boils over. “I have been to Revolutionary War events, but they don’t hold a candle to this one,” Joseph says with a large smile his sunglasses reflecting the Civil War battle scene. “It is the largest one I have ever seen and there are so many people out here. The 70 pieces of artillery are awesome.”
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Many of the beards displayed on the field are greyer than brown these days. Ray Wetzel is from Pennsylvania and has spent a large part of his life re-enacting. He is very proud of the last 38 years he has spent with a foot in both centuries. “I was at the 115th Sharpsburg and Gettysburg, and I used to do 25 re-enactments a year for 20 years,” Ray says stepping out of his living history characterization. “It was a way of life and I was the founder of the Pennsylvania Buck Tales re-enactment unit in 1976. In my mind it was just yesterday. I was marching out in the rain and eating out of a haversack while we were campaigning, and suddenly I’m an old man. How did that happen?” Patrick Falsi can be seen from a distance in his bright red tunic as he portrays Confederate Major General Ambrose Powell Hill, whose historical forced march saved Lee’s army from defeat. “I began in 1979 with the 14th Tennessee Hill’s Light Division, so we go way back,” Pat says, with a beaming and proud smile. “I was fortunate to get the role of AP Hill
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for the movie, Gettysburg, and the rest is history.” He added, “I really enjoy just meeting the people. For me to read the books, go to the battlefield, walk the terrain with the unit, try to do what the soldiers did back then, I can get as close as possible without being shot at with live ammunition. The marching into the re-enactment, wearing the wool uniforms during the hot summertime, with the smoke, heat of battle, and the confusion gives me a little more appreciation of what they went through. A week before this event, Pat participated in the re-enactment of the Confederate march from Harpers Ferry to Sharpsburg and waded across the Potomac River in costume. “Crossing the Potomac was awesome,” Pat says, his enthusiasm ramped up yet another notch. “It was really an honor crossing in the footsteps of AP Hill’s Light Division, leaving Harper’s Ferry early in the morning and marching mile after mile and then crossing the Potomac at the ford. Hill left Harper’s Ferry with 5,000 men and made it to the
battlefield with 3,000 men. Here we are, with 100 men, and about two-thirds made it. Sure it’s hard on my shoes and feet, but it was really something special. The spirit of the light division was with us that day.” For all the cannon blasts and musketry smoke, the sample balloon observations, naval commentary, hospital presentations, vendors, and the general event atmosphere, there is still awareness that a devastating battle took place near here 150 years ago. To show respect for the 3,600 men who perished during the Antietam/Sharpsburg battle, luminaries were placed by volunteers on the re-enactment site at dusk to show a representation of where the men fell on that fateful day. “Nothing compares to Antietam/ Sharpsburg,” says Mike Wicklein, the organizer of the illumination. “It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.” “What you have here is a snapshot of where the dead had fallen and shows the progression of the battle from the morning cornfield through
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the bloody lane and Burnside Bridge, as the candles are lit by the reenactors,” explains Mike, clearly moved by the effort. “A lot of folks helped us make candles and put them out on the field. Without those volunteers this couldn’t have happened.” “It was called the Battle of Sharpsburg if you were from the South, and Antietam if you were from the North, but whether they wore the blue or grey, these were all Americans fighting for what they believed in,” says Patrick Falci, speaking to the crowd. “There is a passion in re-enacting that was here today and will be here tomorrow and we express that passion on the field. We can get just so close to them. Lest we forget.” Gettysburg in 1863 is known the world over as the high tide of the Confederacy, and yet here at Antietam/Sharpsburg, the war’s direction and final outcome was determined. Five days after the battle, President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and later during an impromptu speech, he related some rough ideas that he would hone into the Gettysburg Address: “FELLOW-CITIZENS: … it is not proper for me to make speeches in my present position. I return thanks to our gallant soldiers for the good service they have rendered, the energies they have shown, the hardships they have endured, and the blood they have so nobly shed for this dear Union of ours and I also return thanks not only to the soldiers, but to the good citizens of Maryland, and to all the good men and women in this land, for their devotion to our glorious cause. And I say this without any malice in my heart toward those who have done otherwise. May our children, and our children’s children, for a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers!” President Abraham Lincoln speaking after the battle of Antietam– Frederick MD. October 4, 1862.
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interest, dividends, rents (less expenses), and capital gains (less capital losses). The tax will fall only on individuals with an adjusted gross income (AGI) above $200,000 and couples filing a joint return with more than $250,000 AGI. The new tax applies to the LESSER of investment income amount: excess of AGI over the $200,000 or $250,000 amount. The new tax raises more than $210 billion (over 10 years), representing more than half of the total new expenditures in the health care reform package. NAR expressed its strongest possible objections, but the legislation passed on a largely party line vote. The new tax is sometimes called a “Medicare tax” because the proceeds from it are to be dedicated to the Medicare Trust Fund. That Fund will run dry in only a few more years, so this tax is a means of extending its life.
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Coffee, java, or a cup of Joe. No matter what you call it, many people can’t function without a cup of coffee first thing in the morning. However, few realize what goes into making a great tasting brew. Brian Bircher of Summit Point, West Virginia, takes coffee very seriously. He recently opened the Black Dog Coffee Company in Shenandoah Junction, making a side hobby into a business. “Most people think coffee comes in a can. They have no idea what good coffee should taste like,” Bircher says. One of the keys is freshness. The store has a sign that explains it all. “Our Beans are so fresh, you’ll want to slap them.” Bircher says once you roast the beans, the clock starts ticking. “You need to use it quickly. Don’t wait more than two weeks. Freshness is so important,” he says. Bircher’s coffee experience began when a friend gave him freshroasted coffee for Christmas. “It really opened my eyes. I built my own coffee roaster and started roasting beans at home. I expanded into the garage and people began requesting my coffee. I started selling it online and things just began to grow. I had been in the construction business so when the economy started to go down, I thought I would try making coffee a full-time business.” The name for the company comes from Bircher’s constant companion during his early coffee days. “I had a large black dog named Bear. He was with me no matter when I was roasting coffee. He’d be there at 3 a.m. He passed away in July but he remains the spirit of the business,” Bircher says.
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One of Bircher’s most popular coffees is called DogWatch Dark Blend. He also has Black Dog Espresso and A Taste of Black Dog. Other coffees include Sumatra Mandheling, Ethiopian Harra, and Guatemala Huehuetenango. Bircher buys beans from all over the world. He is an avid supporter of the Rainforest Alliance, a group that is devoted to high quality coffee beans and highly supportive of the farmers who grow them.
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“Coffee beans are green and many different sizes and shapes. Again, people just aren’t aware of that,” Bircher says. Bircher offers tips for coffee drinkers on his website at www.blackdog.net. He suggests that you only order as much coffee as you expect to use in a couple of weeks. Once again, freshness is paramount. Beans should be stored in an air-tight container at room temperature. Bircher says if you’re comfortable, your beans are comfortable. He recommends a good quality grinder and grinding just enough for brewing at one time. He also recommends using cool spring or filtered water. One scoop of coffee per six ounce cup is the way to go. The pride and joy of Bircher’s business is the machine that roasts his beans: Plutonius. Plutonius is a 1931 roaster that weighs just under a ton and does its thing right in the store. Bircher says he was looking for Plutonius for more than 26 years. Neighbors in an apartment building he lived in years ago had Plutonius
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“and the whole building would shake when they began roasting coffee. They eventually sold me the machine.” Bircher says finding a Plutonius today would be nearly impossible. “This machine was extremely hard to find. During World War II, they were shipped wherever our troops were located. Soldiers had to have their coffee. After the war, the machines were left in Europe and most were destroyed. I may have the last one of this model. It is one of the oldest operating roasters in the country. When Plutonius is roasting beans, the whole building is filled with the noise it makes. Of course we have the trains nearby, too,” says Bircher. The store has railroad tracks right behind it. Customers can order Bircher’s coffee online. Free home delivery can be had for orders of one pound of coffee or more for businesses and residents in Jefferson County, West Virginia, and Clarke and Frederick
Counties in Virginia. Black Dog Coffee can also be purchased at many area businesses, including these: Dish Bistro in Charles Town, West Virginia; The Village Shop in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick, Maryland; and the German Street Coffee and Candlery in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Bircher admits that customers may pay a little more for his coffee, “but if you’re a coffee lover, it’s an affordable luxury. You don’t want to give it up.” Another coffee lover is now a part of Bircher’s life. His partner is Jefferson County Clerk Jennifer Maghan. They met when she became a customer. “I have always loved coffee and I’m very picky. I fell in love with Brian’s coffee from the moment I tasted it. It literally dances on your tongue. I consider Brian to be an artist. I’m so proud of him. There is definitely an art of roasting good coffee,” Jennifer says. Jennifer is determined to educate others about quality coffee and how it is made. She has been
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meeting with schools in the Eastern Panhandle to schedule field trips to the store. ‘They would get such a kick out of Plutonius and the whole coffee roasting process,” she says. When Bircher first began marketing his coffee, he visited farmers markets all over the area. He says that helped him get a real feel for the community. “I wanted to do more here than just sell coffee,” he says. The coffee company isn’t a restaurant, but Bircher does sell pastries and other items made by local residents. There are several tables were patrons can sit and enjoy their coffee. Bircher gets pastries from Aunt Irene’s Sweets and Treats in Harpers Ferry and Italian foods from So Angelina! in Charles Town. He sells honey, jellies, jams, cinnamon buns, and cookies, all locally produced products. Bircher has a room he calls the West Virginia Room, decorated in colors of blue and gold, where local authors, crafters, and others can sell their wares. He hopes to have a farmers market on the company grounds one day during the week. He is in the process of having a conference room built where local businesses can hold meetings. He also wants to have a room for coffee tasting. In addition, he eventually wants to have musicians perform at the company. “There is so much talent in this county. We want to get people to know about it. You don’t see it if you don’t get out and go to it,” Bircher says. Jennifer says the business may be a new one, but they have received tremendous support from the community. “When we participated in the Mountain Heritage Arts and Crafts Festival in September, we kept selling out. Brian had to keep making more. We know we are welcome here. It’s a happy peaceful place. A dream come true. We want to be West Virginia’s coffee,” she says. The Black Dog Coffee Company is located at 8001 Charles Town Road in Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia.
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traditions…. You dread the possible weight gain, the busy schedule…. Commit to making this holiday season more healthy and enjoyable. It was once thought that people gained 5-10 pounds over the holidays from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. Research shows that people may actually only gain 1-2 pounds. The problem is that most people don’t lose that weight. The weight accumulates from year to year and may explain mid-life weight gain. People who are overweight tend to gain more than 1-2 pounds; they gain 5 or more pounds during the holidays. Researchers found two things that influence weight gain over the holidays: level of hunger and level of activity. Those who said they were active and less hungry were the least likely to gain weight. Increased physical activity and not letting yourself get too hungry may be effective in preventing weight gain over the holidays. Sticking to an exercise program can be tough during the busy holiday season. Don’t add to the stress of the holidays by stressing over working out. Find ways to add activity to your day without stressing about the type or intensity of your workout. Think of exercise as giving you more
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energy to do more, not taking time away. • Try working out in the morning. People who exercise in the morning are the most consistent. • Try circuit training. In circuit training you move from one exercise to the next quickly. You can incorporate cardio and strength training for a full-body workout in a shorter period of time. • Find ways to be active throughout your day. Take extra laps while you are shopping; increase the intensity of your daily chores; make family gatherings active by taking a walk, playing games, etc.; exercise while at work by doing exercise at your desk or walking during your breaks. • Make plans to walk with a friend. You are more likely to stick with your exercise if someone else is counting on you. Not letting yourself get too hungry doesn’t mean eating all the time. The tendency is to skip meals and eat less if you have an event to go to. By the time you get to the event, you are famished and you overeat. Skipping meals also slows your metabolism, which means you will burn fewer calories and increase your risk of gaining weight. To combat getting too hungry: • Eat every 3-4 hours. Don’t skip meals. • Include a little protein and healthy fat in every meal and snack. The protein and fat take longer to digest and will help you feel fuller longer.
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• Fill up on fruit, vegetables, and whole grains. • Keep healthy snacks at the office so you are not tempted by all the sweets. • When invited to bring a dish to a potluck or to share in the office, be the one to bring something healthy. Last, but not least, make a plan to manage the stress of the holidays. Stress of the holidays can derail any healthy holiday plans. Make sure you get enough sleep and take time for yourself each day. Being tired and frazzled can compromise the immune system and can lead to overeating and other unhealthy behaviors. Think about what your priorities are for the holidays and determine what you can reasonably handle. Don’t overextend yourself with obligations that don’t have meaning to you and your family. To help you maintain your weight
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and stay healthy over the holidays, WVU Extension-Berkeley County is teaming up with The Wellness Center @ City Hospital, Berkeley Senior Services, Anytime Fitness, Gold’s Gym, JayDee’s Fitness Center, Weight Watchers, Berkeley County Health Department and the Martinsburg Mall to bring you the “Maintain Don’t Gain Challenge.” Weigh-ins will take place during the week of November 12, and weighouts will take place during the week of January 7, 2013. A similar program is available in Jefferson County from WVU ExtensionJefferson County.
centers. In addition, you will be emailed bi-weekly newsletters that are filled with helpful information.
Studies have shown that weighing in before the holidays and weighing out after the holidays motivates individuals to avoid the usual weight gain. Maintain Don’t Gain offers several convenient locations to weigh in and weigh out to keep you on track for the holidays. When you weigh in, you will receive a registration a packet with helpful tips and passes to participating fitness
For more information about Maintain Don’t Gain, contact Sue Flanagan at WVU Extension 304-264-1936 or Sue.Flanagan@mail.wvu.edu.
Participants who weigh in and weigh out will be eligible to attend the endof-program Celebration on January 15 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Berkeley Senior Center. All those who weigh in and weigh out will be entered in the prize drawing at the Celebration. Those who maintain their weight (within 2 lbs if the starting weight is <175 lbs and within 3 lbs if the starting weight is >175 lbs) will receive two entries in the prize drawing.
Make plans to stay healthy this holiday and Maintain Don’t Gain so you can stay healthy and prevent weight gain for a lifetime.
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Every Child Deserves a Toy for Christmas By Bonnie Williamson Every child deserves a toy for Christmas. That’s a statement the volunteers involved with Toys for Tots of the Eastern Panhandle stand by and act on, not only during the holiday season but all year long. Paul Turner, a software engineer and former U.S. Marine of Martinsburg, is the regional coordinator for the program, which began in the area six years ago. Toys for Tots of the Eastern Panhandle is part of the national U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program. The national program started in 1947 when Marine Major Bill Hendricks and a group of Marine Reservists in Los Angeles collected and distributed 5,000 toys to needy children. The idea for the program came from Hendricks’ wife, Diane, who made a doll and asked her husband to deliver it to an organization that would give it to a child at Christmas. No organization existed, so Hendricks started one. Hendricks, a Marine Reservist on weekends, was in civilian life the director of public relations for Warner Brothers Studio. He knew a lot of celebrities and convinced them to support Toys for Tots. In 1948, Walt Disney designed the Toys for Tots logo, which is still used. The
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Marine Toys for Tots Foundation became an operational organization in September 1991 and has been the fundraising and support organization for the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program since that time. Toys for Tots of the Eastern Panhandle made sure that nearly 6,000 needy children received toys for Christmas last year. The organization covers eight counties: Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan, Mineral, Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, and Grant. About 100 volunteers participate in the program. “I have two crazy retired Marines who have traveled as much as 400 miles a day, 800 miles a week, to get the job done. Our volunteers put their heart and soul in what they do,” Turner says. Those two “crazy” retired Marines are Scott Stulb of Martinsburg, West Virginia, and Joe Cox of Hedgesville, West Virginia. Beginning the Friday after Thanksgiving, volunteer Ron Stephens of Martinsburg, West Virginia, wears his dress blues and goes to the Walmart stores in Martinsburg and Spring Mills for two weeks. He holds a bucket with a Marine sticker on it. He doesn’t approach people. However, if
someone asks what he’s doing, he’s ready. “If they speak to me, it’s game on,” says Stephens. Stephens has received $3,000 to $4,000 in donations in one day. “One parent wanted her child to put $1 dollar in the bucket. Wanted him to know how to give, not just take,” Stephens says. The collection and distribution of toys takes place in communities in which a Marine Corps Reserve Unit is located, where a Marine Corps League Detachment is located, or where a group of men and women, generally veteran Marines authorized by Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, conduct a local Toys for Tots campaign. Individuals can apply for toys by going to the website at www. wvtoysfortots.com. “If you don’t have a computer, you can usually use one at the library, schools or even some police stations. People can also call me at 304-2677338 and I can help them fill out the application. We want people to come to pick up their toys but we do deliver when we have to,” Turner says. This year the toys will be stored
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at the old Corning Glass factory in Martinsburg. The warehouse is 50,000 square feet, Turner says.
me and look in one of the toy boxes. It wasn’t full so she filled it,” says Murphy.
One year, Turner says he delivered toys to what he called “a mansion. It didn’t look like the family was needy. But it turned out the house was being foreclosed. The children were left there with their grandmother. It was heartbreaking.”
Turner says the support from the community has been incredible.
Turner said another time a woman came to pick toys up and was given a large bag of toys for her children. “She looked very poor. She reached in her pocket and took out two dollars and insisted on giving it to Toys for Tots. It was probably the last bit of money she had. We don’t judge anybody. We help a lot of the working poor. They have a lot of pride,” he says. Turner says one family had 14 children. “The dad had to have a spreadsheet to keep track of what each child wanted,” he says. “We get the highest number of contributions from people who have served in the military. No questions asked. I had one woman come up to
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“We have Boy Scout troops, the American Legion, other veterans’ groups, the Rotary Club, American Public University, Homeland Security and other government agencies working with us. There are more than 200 Toys for Tots boxes. They are everywhere you look. And 97 percent of money we received goes right into the program,” says Turner. Toys can be dropped off at American Legions; Dollar Generals and a number of schools and police stations. Check the website for toy drop-offs in your area. Turner started the program in the Eastern Panhandle for a number of reasons. “When I was working in Texas, my office was on the same floor as the children’s cancer ward. These children were dying inch by inch, day by day. I wanted these children and all children to have a better
childhood,” he says. Turner’s wife Lisa is also involved with the program. “One year, we had a bad snowstorm the second week in December. We got the word out and people came from all over, even the fire department, to make sure the children got toys,” Lisa says. “We call her Saint Lisa. She gives a lot of her time to Toys for Tots,” says Turner. Members of the organization meet once a month to brainstorm. “We’re always planning other activities,” Turner says. For example, the Model Train Club of Martinsburg wants to set up trains in the former Sears store at the Martinsburg Mall for donations some time in December. Turner emphasizes Toys for Tots of the Eastern Panhandle doesn’t compete with any other nonprofit groups in the area. “We work with these groups to help the kids. That’s all that matters. Helping the children,” he says.
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Flavorful Food at the Jamaican Café. Before you have even sampled any food, your senses are treated to a series of delights the instant you walk into the Jamaican Café, located at 171 Retail Commons Parkway in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The reggae music playing in the background is lively but not too loud. On the walls are posters of the king of reggae, Bob Marley. The warm, inviting, and sparkling clean interior with its wood floors the color of honey, the comfortable orange booths, and other various tables and chairs all seem to say, “Stay and sit a while. Enjoy the food! Enjoy each other’s company!” And that’s exactly what we did! My guest and I started our meal in the usual way – with a beverage. I ordered the Jamaican-me-blue tropical punch because, well, it’s blue! My guest made a more grown-up decision and ordered the Jamaican ginger tea. We later found out from Cynthia Steele, who was not only our server for the day but also one of the restaurant owners, that the ginger tea is a customer favorite and is one of the menu items most often ordered. After tasting the tea, my guest declared that she could see why the tea was so popular, because it was absolutely delicious. I enjoyed my drink, too. I suppose punch is punch in any culture, but mine was particularly delightful, mostly because drinking an ocean-colored drink just lifted my spirits and made our entire table seem a little more colorful and island-like. Along with our drinks, we ordered two appetizers: a meat pie and an
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order of fried ripe plaintains. We shared the meat pie, a delicious blend of ground beef and spices, with a visible note of coriander, all of which was wrapped in a flaky golden orange crust. Since pumpkin season is upon us, I asked Cynthia Steele, if the tinge of orange in the crust’s color could be attributed to some seasonal flavoring. She graciously answered my silly question by noting that a little bit of curry not only gives the crust its extraordinary flavor, but also the hint of orange color. While my guest and I agreed that, next time, we would order more than one meat pie as an appetizer (one was not really enough), we could not say the same for the substantial portion of fried ripe plaintains that arrived as our second appetizer. The serving was big enough for two people, with still some left over to have another day. The plaintains are “finger foods,” so we ate them just as we would eat a French fry or two. Biting into the succulent, persimmoncolored flesh yielded a subtle, slightly sweet taste. My guest and I took some pride in knowing that not only were we eating delicious food, but also healthy food. The plaintains counted as one of our “fruit servings” for the day. Eating healthy food has never been so enjoyable! I have to admit that, when the fried ripe plaintains first arrived at our table, I was surprised to find that I had ordered a dish I had never really had before. I had been regaling my guest with tales of consuming delicious servings of fried plaintains in Dominican Republic restaurants in Maryland. I described them as being prepared in somewhat the same way that one would prepare fried green tomatoes. I added that fried plaintains are best eaten with a small bowl of sour cream nearby for dipping. Given that description, you can understand why my guest was surprised when the fried ripe plaintains arrived. “They don’t look or taste like you thought they would,” she observed. She was right. I quickly realized that I had been describing fried green plaintains rather than fried ripe plaintains. Although it’s exactly the same fruit, the two dishes are different as night and day. One is sweet (fried ripe plaintains) and one is savory (fried green plaintains). Fortunately, my
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guest loved the fried ripe plaintains and so did I. After the appetizer course, we had some tough decisions to make about which main course we would choose. Cynthia, the owner, noted that the two most popular dishes on the menu were two of the wrap sandwiches. The most popular is the restaurant’s special during weekdays from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.: jerk chicken sandwich or wrap that comes with fries and a drink for $8.99. The second most popular dish, she said, is the curry goat wrap that includes rice, beans, lettuce, and ranch dressing served in a warm tortilla for $9.99. The menu carries the note that the curry goat wrap is “spicy,” but Cynthia pointed out that the restaurant chef can make a dish as mild or as spicy as the customer likes. “Most people think of curry as being spicy hot,” she said, “but that is not necessarily the case. The spices you add to the curry determine how spicy it will be.” Although the two customer-favorite dishes sounded delicious, my guest and I were in the mood for a more substantial meal. I ordered chicken curry that came with a side of red beans and rice and a delicious side of steamed cabbage and carrots cut into ribbon-like strips. My guest ordered the curried fish that came with the same two side dishes. At first, my guest was undecided as to whether she should order the curried tilapia or the curried red snapper. Cynthia pointed out that the red snapper is a whole fish and comes to the table complete with all the bones still inside. The tilapia, on the other hand, is a less labor-intensive dish, since it is just a regular serving of fish, with the bones removed. My guest declared the curried tilapia a hit and I did the same with my chicken curry dish. While we were eating, Cynthia walked by, carrying a scrumptiouslooking dish that, unfortunately, was destined for a table other than ours. Artfully arranged on an oblong plate were several slices of chocolate cake. Lining both sides of the plate was a ribbon of billowing whipped cream. Such dishes are the stuff of my dreams; I couldn’t believe what had just passed me by. I later asked Cynthia the name of the dessert;
it is “totally chocolate cake.” I really wanted to try it, but after the meat pie, the plaintains, and the main dishes, neither my guest nor I could find any room for dessert. Still, we couldn’t just walk out of the restaurant without tasting at least one of the great desserts. We thought we might share a mango mousse cake, but found out that the asterisk next to that dessert on the menu means that it is a seasonal dessert, which is served only in the summer. Since we were there in mid-September, we lost our chance to try that, at least for the year of 2012. Still, my guest ordered lemon cake to go and, once again, the dessert came with several slices of lemon cake surrounded by billowing mounds of whipped cream. A few ribbons of lemon cream frosting topped the lemon cake. My guest graciously allowed me to sample the cake, along with some of the frosting and whipped cream. I will just say that bite was so scrumptious that I returned to the café a few days later for a full serving of the dessert for myself! Toward the end of our meal, Cynthia stopped for a few minutes to chat with us. She told us that the Jamaican Café has been open since 2009. Originally from Jamaica (of course), the family lived in Montgomery County, Maryland, before moving to Martinsburg to open the restaurant. In Montgomery County, Cynthia made a living as a paralegal for several years before giving that up to become a restaurant entrepreneur, along with her husband. In fact, she credits her husband with being the culinary genius behind all the great food served in the restaurant. “I know what I learned from my mother and grandmother about cooking,” she says, “but he is the one with all the culinary credentials, and he is the one who prepares the dishes here at the restaurant.” We are grateful to him for that! We will definitely be back to sample other great dishes at the restaurant again! The full menu, the hours of operation, and other information can be found on the restaurant’s Web site: www.jamaicancaferestaurant. com.
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Summit Bank Celebrates Accomplishments of Jessica Jacot By Caffilene Allen
If you ask Jessica Jacot why she enjoys working at Summit Community Bank, she will have a quick answer for you. “Summit Community Bank is a bank with a small-town feel but with all the capabilities of a large bank; that’s the main reason I enjoy working here,” she says. Summit Community Bank has fifteen banking locations in West Virginia and Virginia. Its deep roots began over 129 years ago in the South Branch Valley. Summit Community Bank offers a wide array of products and services including personal and business banking, lending, insurance, investments and a secondary mortgage division. While a customer can benefit from the wide range of online services provided by Summit Community Bank, Jessica points out, “You can still walk into one of our offices and everybody there will know your name.” Furthermore, Jessica says, they might ask you to sit down, have a cup of coffee, and just chat with them for a while. Jessica exemplifies Summit’s motto of Service Beyond Expectations and enjoys working with customers and being their personal banker. Jessica has reason to be proud of her career at Summit Community Bank. A native of Inwood, WV, she began her banking career right out of high school, when she worked for another bank as a teller. In 2006, she joined Summit Community Bank and is currently the Assistant VicePresident and Office Manager for the Summit Community Bank office at 1321 Edwin Miller Boulevard in Martinsburg, WV. The Martinsburg community has taken note of Jessica’s outstanding achievements. Jessica, who celebrated her 30th birthday in October 2012, was named as one of the “Top 40 Professionals Under 40” by the Martinsburg Journal newspaper. Also taking note of her accomplishments is Jessica’s employer. Summit Community Bank recommended Jessica for the prestigious and challenging Virginia Bankers School of Management, and she completed the 3-year course of study in August 2011. The school, which is sponsored by the Virginia Bankers Association (VBA), is held in cooperation with the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. While Jessica notes the 3-year program was extremely challenging, she adds that the knowledge she
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gained through her studies there has helped her immensely in becoming a better Assistant Vice-President and Office Manager for Summit Community Bank. She offers, as an example to support that belief, what she learned in the third year of the program. “During our third year,” she said, “the students participated in a bank simulation exercise. We were able to see how the decisions we make as a banker not only impact the bank customer, but also the economy as a whole.” In addition to being the Assistant Vice-President and Office Manager at Summit Community Bank’s Martinsburg location, Jessica is very active in her local community. For instance, she serves on the board of the Boys and Girls Club of the Eastern Panhandle. She plans the annual charity event for Panhandle Home Health, which is a putt-putt golf tournament. “Since it’s puttputt golf, also known as miniature golf,” she says, “anyone can play.” The tournament is held annually at JayDee’s Family Fun Center in Inwood, WV. Jessica is also active in the
Martinsburg Sunrise Rotary Club. As a member of the club, Jessica helps with the Rotary Club’s annual Crab Feast, held in September before the annual Martinsburg air show, Thunder Over the Blue Ridge. The September 2012 Crab Feast drew several hundred people, who came out to enjoy the food, as well as the live music. Drew Stevyn, a finalist on Season 4 of America’s Got Talent, provided the live entertainment. The proceeds from the event went to local non-profits. Through her work with the Martinsburg Sunrise Rotary Club, Jessica became acquainted with the Boys and Girls Club of the Eastern Panhandle and eventually became a board member for that organization. As a member of the Rotary Club, Jessica helps with the annual President’s Dance; the proceeds from that Rotary Club event, which amounted to more than $17,000 in 2012, go to the Boys and Girls Club of the Eastern Panhandle. “The more I became familiar with the purpose and activities of the Boys and Girls Club,” she says, “the more I knew I wanted to help.” As with all Boys and Girls Clubs, the mission of the Eastern Panhandle Club is to inspire and
enable all young people, especially those who need help most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. When not working for Summit Community Bank or helping out her community, Jessica enjoys her home life with her husband, Donald Jacot, and Isabella, her 2-year-old daughter. (Jessica and Donald are expecting their second child in December, a son named Cameron.) Since Donald is also in the banking industry, as a commercial lender, Jessica never quite leaves her work behind at Summit and doesn’t want to. “We really learn from each other,” she says of her husband. “While we respect our customers’ privacy and would never discuss any actual situations, we still ask each other questions about what we would do in hypothetical situations. That often gives us insight that we wouldn’t have had otherwise.” Currently, Jessica lives in the Martinsburg area with Donald, Isabella, and, as of December 2012, with Cameron, who will be the newest addition to the family.
Jessica with her team Ruth Gruber, Christina Copenhaver, Cindi Trenary, & Mike Blake at Summit Bank in Martinsburg
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As you enter the door of the Daily Companions office on Route 11 in Martinsburg, the sounds of singing and the general feeling of happy enthusiasm seem to rush forward to greet you. For the last eight years, Lee Cloughfeather, Brian Ball, Philip Mummert, and a staff of dedicated people have worked diligently to create a program that provides education and a superior quality of life to their clients. Lee Cloughfeather is a petite, whitehaired woman whose determination, empathy, and heartfelt concern for others outshine her grandmotherly exterior. “I moved to Martinsburg in 2002, and I brought my brother, Arty Smith,” Cloughfeather says as she recalls the route that brought all these people together. “Arty was mentally and physically challenged, and he was in a wheel chair. West Virginia is probably one of the best states in the country for services,” Cloughfeather continues, remembering her late brother. “There is no doubt I was just amazed at the programs available. We bought a van and had a rack put in for his wheelchair, and one day he said, ‘I don’t want to just ride around, I want to do activities.’ And I said, ‘Arty, what kind of activities do you want to do?’ He looked at me and said. ‘Don’t tell me what I can’t do. Let me show you what I can do.’ I sat down, and started looking at this from more of an educational and life enhancement program,” Cloughfeather explains, recalling her efforts to kick start Arty’s future. “This would not be just a day center. www.AroundThePanhandle.com
I had written several programs for the disabled back in Delaware. Being a neurological nurse and having a background in this, as well as working with my brother, I began to talk to people about the quality of life and the skill set that was important.” That was eight years ago and Cloughfeather’s persistence and expertise has built a remarkable facility in Martinsburg. “We are so busy that we forget that they also have needs and have dreams,” Cloughfeather remarks to emphasize the importance of providing a quality of life. “I saw Arty go from someone who lived happily with his family and then became very independent and doing activities with his friends.” “Our philosophy is to treat everyone with respect no matter what position you hold, and that goes for the clients as well, and they are our number one priority,” says Brian Ball, the soft-spoken Chief Operations Officer. “I have a Bachelor’s in Sociology and a Master’s Degree in business. I was a Special Ed Teacher in Virginia, and so I have been in this field for about ten years,” Ball continues. “From the time I graduated from college, I started working in a group home setting, and I fell in love with this type of work. I knew it was what I wanted to do with my life, so here I am.” “We work very hard to focus on education,” Cloughfeather says earnestly as she begins to explain the program. “The mind doesn’t
stop growing just because a person is out of high school. I believe that our advanced group can all read at the first grade level, and they could not when they came to us. We have several who can do geography and current events, so they know what is going on in the community in which they live.” “We have a professional music teacher who comes in every week, and they love to perform,” Cloughfeather explains with enthusiasm. “Music lights up both hemispheres of the brain and that creates more focus and concentration. We believe that music is what helps our clientele do better with their studies, comprehension, and reading skills. Since a lot of studies show that yoga and meditation help calm the body and the brain we have added that to our program. So far we are not seeing any maladaptive behaviors.” Phil Mummert is the Program Manager, and his quiet easy going manner cannot hold back his enthusiasm for his job. “They are always happy to see me and it’s hard to have a bad day when everybody is so glad to see you. As the program manager, I run the day program and come up with activities.” Mummert says beginning to emphasize the many things they do. “We break things down into sections, but we are doing our education section all the time, even though it may not feel like formal education.” “We use our center here mainly for [ 87 ]
education and music,” Cloughfeather interjects. “But out in the public we concentrate on the physical activities to strengthen their bodies and to keep them limber so every year we see growth.” “Everything that anyone else likes to do, these guys like to do,” Mummert says trying to show everyone’s connection. “We have physical education and sometimes we go to the pool. The clients love to go fishing, and the local fish hatchery even sets up the fishing poles for us. They get so excited when they land a trout,” Mummert says with a bright smile. “We also take them to special things like the youth fair, and we just had a trip down to Harpers Ferry. We get them out in the community so they are not going to sit and watch TV all day.” Lee really relates to the client’s parents. “I really have to take my hat off to the parents,” Cloughfeather says. “They have the natural fear of ‘will this place watch my child the way I would?’ I remember my mom with my brother Arty, and she would be so worried that they wouldn’t lift him correctly or they wouldn’t care for him properly, and our parents go through the same thing. We are very family oriented, and we are very much a team with our families.” “We know that if the parent tries to keep them at home all the time the parents will get burned out,” Ball
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says. “And once the parents get burned out then you have a lot of other issues start to happen. Maybe health or whatever, but we know from experience that if the loved one is not happy, then the parent is not happy.” “Mothers sometimes come in and say I feel so bad that ‘my child has these challenges,’” Cloughfeather relates. “I say don’t feel bad because you are one of God’s special moms. Only special moms have special children. If you think it takes a lot to be a mother, well, it takes ten times as much to be a special needs mother.” The special needs mothers need to start early to get their child into a program. “Families are coming to us and they are very happy,” Cloughfeather continues. “But it is time to educate new parents into filling out the waiver application. If we can’t get their children on waiver in middle school then it becomes harder when they are older.”
supportive employment, and an active treatment program during the day. Our biggest challenge is to get the parents to understand how important it is to get the child on waiver.” The “waiver” is shorthand for a government program that pays for the community based services. “We are funded through the state,” Cloughfeather explains. “I need to credit Brian with our success. Whereas I have the nursing background, Brian has the operations background. He developed the system for the employees, and you have to work. We are using tax payer dollars to make sure that a person is taken care of and through Brian’s system we have been able to hire the best employees.”
“We have about twenty-two on our waiting list right now,” Ball interjects.
“Here we have a system where we expect everyone to do their best.” Ball says. “We hold everyone accountable for every decision they make, and our employees must put the clients first. You have to have a special passion to work in this field and if you don’t then just choose to work somewhere else.”
“We like to get them as children, and if they have any maladaptive behavior, our behavior specialist can start working with them and get the parents trained so things don’t go in the wrong direction. Waiver is about the individual having a life and having the opportunity for
Work is a fulfilling aspect of adulthood and finding businesses that can provide part time employment for their clients is important. “I look for places for supportive employment,” Mummert interjects. “Supportive employment is a little different. We don’t
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send clients out to do the job by themselves; we send two clients out, usually with a companion who makes certain the clients do the job. The businesses don’t pay the companion, they only pay the employee.” “They can go to work once or twice a week, and they are so happy to get a paycheck like their brother or sister,” Cloughfeather says her face lighting up. “We hold these employees to the same standards as any other employee in that business,” Mummert says to accentuate their first-class citizen approach. “They will wear a uniform if there is a uniform, and they follow the same rules as everybody else, and our companion ensures that the employee follows that company’s programs.” As a client gets older and grows with the program, they can become more independent. “We do provide services if we have an individual or family that believes they need service twenty-four hours a day.” Cloughfeather says noting the growth that their clients go through.
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“They go into an apartment just like their brother or sister would.” Just as clients age and grow to do new things, so does Daily Companions. “We are beginning to work with many more children with autism,” Cloughfeather says. “We will be looking to create a special program for them which should be done in about three months. I also really want to thank this community, and the Boy Scouts, and the businesses, as they are so supportive and open to listening to what we are trying to do. We have been working with our elected officials, and we would like to see Berkeley County to be the model for the state.” Providing these services is a twoway street, as the clients help the staff grow as well. “They have things to teach me that I would never ever consider,” Ball says while reflecting on their clients. “The appreciation of my own life and an appreciation for things I can do. I have a deeper appreciation for the things they can do. So for me to feel like I have a down day or don’t feel appreciated as soon as I come in this place I
am like wow, I’m not even strong enough to live like they have to live,” Ball says, demonstrating a great respect for his clients. “I watch a human being triumph every day, and I pull up my personal strength from them.” “Everybody has a God-given talent,” Cloughfeather says. “Everybody has a God-given gift. It is time to start looking at how we can connect and work together, instead of focusing on the differences. I would really like to see everyone considered a first-class citizen.” As Cloughfeather reflects upon her efforts she is emotionally overcome with the strength and insight of her own family. “When my brother Arty was in the bed dying he said to me ‘My parents raised me, but the program let me grow.’ Certainly Cloughfeather and her colleagues at Daily Companions are honoring Arty’s legacy by providing a means for many other residents to continue to grow. For more information on their services and programs, call 304-263-5008.
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Hagerstown, MD.
By Debra Cornwell There is no bad time or wrong season to eat German food. However, during fall and winter, German cuisine particularly shines. It is hearty, warming, and comforting with a bit of zing. For 24 years and against all manner of tides in the ebb and flow of downtown Hagerstown economics, Schmankerl Stube is the little restaurant that could. Founded in 1988 by Charles Sekula, Schmankerl Stube has anchored the corner of South Potomac and Antietam Streets since that time. The Stube is actually not a little restaurant--it seats 100 inside, 30 for streetside cafe dining and 70 in the rear biergarten (outdoor patio.) Originally from Munich, Sekula immigrated to Ohio in the late1960’s to work on power line construction. The power lines came through Hagerstown, and Sekula stayed, eventually working at Mack Truck. Sekula then followed his dream to open a restaurant so, “I could share, with the community and beyond, the authentic Bavarian cuisine and hospitality with which I had grown up.” In 1997, Sekula placed a want ad in a German hotel/restaurant trade magazine for a chef. Chef Dieter Blosel answered the call, but the worker documentation process took two years before Blosel set foot on American soil and in the Stube’s
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kitchen. Since Sekula’s children has pursued other careers, he eventually made arrangements to sell the Stube to Blosel. The seamless, essentially invisible, transfer keeps Sekula in the front of the house to greet his longtime fans and to introduce newcomers to the best of Bavarian cuisine while Blosel runs the rest of the operation. Blosel’s extensive training includes an apprenticeship with a pastry chef and cooking jobs in Switzerland, Austria, and even on a cruise ship. Blosel reveals that Sekula could have yet another “act” left--that of a singer. “Sekula really sings well. I remember on the Sunday after September 11, 2001, we had a moment of silence in downtown Hagerstown followed by the Star Spangled Banner. You never heard anything like it. People were very moved by his voice.” Blosel says one of the things that helped the restaurant through the 2008 economic downturn is the fact that the Stube is a destination restaurant, not a daily eatery. “We recently had several couples from Philadelphia make an overnight trip to eat here. That is the sort of thing we see. We draw customers from
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Baltimore and Washington and from Pittsburgh and beyond,” he says. Blosel recalls that, like the dishes he serves, Sekula built the restaurant from scratch and had a tough go of it in the beginning. “Since the economy tanked a few years ago, I am seeing family diners returning, but we still have a way to go.” Although Sekula is from Munich and Blosel is from Nuremberg, the Bavarian cuisine is not limited to dishes local to those cities. Blosel explains, “Bavarian cuisine is very localized, but we have created a menu representative of the entire region by selecting what we think are the best preparations. We have also found that our diners want their favorites year round so we do not vary our menu by season. We offer consistency, and our customers appreciate that.” Another note of consistency is the fact that the Stube doesn’t close shop on slow days and can be counted on to open in bad weather. “Sekula believes that if we say we are going to be open on certain hours and days, then we keep that promise. We are closed on Thanksgiving Day, but if Christmas falls on a Friday or Saturday, we
will be open. Our busiest days are Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and when there are shows at the Maryland Theater. Our New Year’s Eve Dinner is also popular.” Blosel says. Diners enjoy homemade Liptauer kase (cheese) with German rye bread while waiting for their madeto-order entrees. The whipped cheese spread is a light, creamy savory alternative to butter. Blosel also makes his own quark cheese-a fresh, creamy, almost curd-like cheese. The mustards offered include a traditional dijon plus Blosel’s homemade sweet and spicy mustard--a fabulous condiment with the sausages or the pork shank. The fork-tender sauerbraten is one of the Stube’s most popular dishes. Marinated beef in spices and served in gravy, the dish is accompanied by whipped potatoes at lunch and by a bread dumpling at dinner. The delightful whipped potatoes include chives, but there is a hint of another flavor. See if you can guess what it is when you order a dish with whipped potatoes on your visit to the Stube! The bone-in pork shank is a monumental dish. Falling off the
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bone, the meat cooks for four hours before being served; therefore, diners must order it 24 hours in advance. I recommend ordering it when you make your dinner reservation. Served with both appleflavored red cabbage and sauerkraut plus a grilled bread dumpling, this dish doesn’t miss a beat with abundant Bavarian goodness. Here’s a hint: Chef Dieter makes a few of the local Mennonite-supplied pork shanks on Wednesdays--first come, first served. I also sampled spaetzle with mushroom gravy. Resembling scrambled eggs in appearance, these light fluffy noodles were the perfect delivery mode for the rich earthy gravy. I have to wonder if kase spaetzle would be a German mac and cheese? Blosel admits he loves to make desserts and personally does so at the Stube. The daily choices are simply divine. I sampled the Munich cake--essentially a baked-fromscratch yellow cake filled with a vanilla creme and topped with a thin layer of Swiss chocolate. The cake is dessert perfection, satisfying the sweet tooth without being overly sweet. With starched white table cloths, wait staff in Bavarian attire, and ornate Bavarian wine glasses, the restaurant might be construed as formal, but fortunately great food and great service do not require formal attire--casual dining is the word. “To someone who has never tasted Bavarian cuisine or visited Schmankerl Stube, then I say, “Try it’” suggests Blosel. “We use quality ingredients in simple preparations and have a dedicated, low-turnover service staff, some of whom have been here over 20 years. We work to please our customer.” German draft beers are served in traditional steins, and a full bar is available. It is also interesting to note that Hagerstown’s sister city since 1952 is Wesel, North-Rhine, Westphalia, Germany. P.S. Schmankerl Stube means Bavarian Specialty Room!
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Let Your Kids Run Wild at
Monkey joe’s
By Bethany Davidson
Running through an 18-foot pirate ship, a group of kids are on the high seas sailing toward that spot on their map marked with the big X. Suddenly, down the slide they go and into a jungle, where they emerge searching for that giant purple monkey, Monkey Joe. With room to run and bounce and create, Monkey Joe’s is not only a fun place for kids, it provides a healthy, positive outlet for play that parents approve of. When they walk into the 12,000 square foot facility there’s a wow [ 96 ]
factor for kids, says Jonathan CadleAdams, who serves as owner/ operator along with Allison, his wife. “It’s not dark. It’s bright. No color you would pick for your house, but it’s perfect for in there. It screams kids,” Jon continues. “If the decor doesn’t get their attention, then the eight giant inflatables, including the location’s most popular attraction, the pirate ship, probably will.” Located on Market Street in Winchester, Virginia, Monkey Joe’s is large-scale kids play place and party center that caters to children aged
two to 12. “We are a family-oriented entertainment center. As a family with two little ones ourselves, we know that finding affordable, exciting things to do with are children can be a challenge,” share the couple. But for under $10 children can play all day or, as Jon says, “as long as they can last.” Rain or shine, seven days a week, boys and girls from the area can have a blast exercising and burning energy. The center is also a place where children and families can build relationships. “Sometimes kids will Around The Panhandle | NOV • DEC 2012
come because they know certain employees will be working. We encourage our employees to play with the kids and they have a blast,” Allison says. “The interaction between the employees and the kids is just like having a big brother or a big sister,” adds Jon. Relationships are also being built at the Evening for Exceptional Children that is exclusive to the Winchester store. Once a month, the facility closes early to the public and stays open an hour later so that guests with special needs can enjoy the play floor privately. “As parents of a special needs son,” the couple shares, “we love that this evening also offers parents and caregivers the change to connect and form friendships. It’s a great feeling to talk to someone who recognizes and accepts whatever challenges you as a parent may be going through.” The Evening for Exceptional Children isn’t the only special event that the Cadle-Adams’ have incorporated into their franchise. In the year that it’s been open, the Winchester Monkey Joe’s has hosted super hero day, pajama jam parties, and seasonal activities. Adults are celebrated as well with free coffee or tea on days like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Even though Monkey Joe’s target audience is children under the age of 12, it also prides itself on being a place for families. So while those 13 and up aren’t eligible to play in the inflatables, admission for them is free. Once inside they can take advantage of the numerous other stations within the building. Older children can have fun playing in the full arcade and snacking at the concession stand. Parents can enjoy a much needed break in the adult lounge, where they can relax in comfortable seating and take advantage of the free wi-fi and computer stations as their little ones play. Toddlers have their own separate play area, which is filled with ageappropiate toys conveniently located next to the adult lounge. Those children under age two play for a reduced charge and are free when not playing.
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Most kids don’t care about whether or not their play area is clean, but for parents, cleanliness is a concern. Monkey Joe’s follows a weekly sanitation process, using products by Swisher. Swisher Hygiene products eliminate 99.9 percent of common germs. In addition to this weekly regimen, staff at the Winchester location wipe down all play equipment every night. “People say why so often and my response is because kids are gross,” says Allison. “We have two young kids and there isn’t a ball pit in the tri-county area that we haven’t played in. Sometimes when you get down to the bottom of those things, they are disgusting, so as a mom, I appreciate the fact that Monkey Joe’s does that.” One of the more important features of Monkey Joe’s is the Chimp Check. It may sound like a children’s game, but in a facility that caters to kids under the age of 12, it’s the furthest thing from a game. It’s security. Someone is standing at the door at all times at Monkey Joe’s. “We have a motto,” Allison says, “that everyone who comes together, leaves together.” To ensure the safety of every guest, everyone who comes into our facility is identified and given a wristband with a number that matches the signed waiver on it. When leaving each customer’s wristband is checked to make sure the all the numbers match up.” With the one-year anniversary of their franchise just around the corner, Jonathan and Allison Cadle-Adams hope that they can continue to serve the community well by provided a safe and healthy environment for children to play. In addition to walk-in play, Monkey Joe’s is also available for parties and fundraising events. For more information, visit www.monkeyjoes. com/Winchester or call the store at (540) 662-5221. And don’t forget to “like” the Monkey Joe’s Facebook page at www.facebook. com/MonkeyJoesWinchester to learn about promotions and events exclusive to the Winchester location.
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Still Roam the Earth in Virginia By Bonnie Williamson
You can almost feel the earth shake from the heavy footsteps of creatures long gone and hear their roars as you drive up to Dinosaur Land in White Post, Virginia. Dinosaur Land has more than 50 life-sized fiberglass dinosaurs waiting to scare, as well as educate, visitors about the prehistoric past. The park is owned by sisters Joann Leight of Stephen City, Virginia, Grace Newman of Alexandria, Virginia, and Barbara Seldon of High View, West Virginia. It was the brain child of their father, Joseph Geraci. But how on earth did creatures who lived millions of year ago find their way to Virginia? “Mr. Geraci got the idea for dinosaurs after he saw them at a putt putt golf attraction in Florida, more than 40 years ago,” says Martha “Marty” Stinnette of Stephens City, Virginia, who has been working at Dinosaur Land for 17 seasons. Geraci had a small gift shop called Rebel Korner on the current Dinosaur Land site when he discovered the Florida dinosaurs. He thought they would attract visitors to the shop. “He met Jim Sidwell, the artist who made the dinosaurs. Jim made five of them and delivered them to Mr. Geraci a few years later. He kept adding more and more,” says Stinnette. Additional dinosaurs were created by artist Mark Cline of Lexington, Virginia. Cline’s dinosaurs are interacting with each other. For example, a Giganotosaurus is chomping down on a Pteranodon while a Megalosaurus is taking a bite out of an Apatosaurus. Joann Leight and her sisters took over the park in 1987 after their father died. Leight talks about her father in a park handout saying, “My dad was a man who could do almost anything,
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plumbing, wiring, lay brick, etc. He did most of the work, building and designing the park.” The park remains a family affair. Seventeen-year-old Samantha Herrell of Stephens City, greatgranddaughter of Joseph Geraci, has been working at the park for the past three years. “I’ve been around dinosaurs ever since I was little. It really is a fun place to work. We have regulars who come year after year,” Herrell says. She adds that her brothers, Ty Herrell, 22, and Hunter Leight, 21, also worked at the park. Ty is a filmmaker and Hunter is majoring in history at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In case you didn’t know, dinosaurs first appeared during the Triassic period, approximately 230 million years ago. They were dominant from the beginning of the Jurassic (about 200 million years ago) until the end of the Cretaceous (65.5 million years ago). Although the word dinosaur means “terrible lizard” in Greek, that name is somewhat misleading, since dinosaurs are not actually lizards. Rather, they represent a separate group of reptiles with a distinct upright posture not found in lizards. While the mammoth-sized versions of the dinosaurs no longer roam the earth, many scientists believe that today’s birds have evolved from the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs have been the subject of numerous books and movies, including the famous Jurassic Park movies. Children are especially fond of them, Stinnette says. She adds their knowledge of dinosaurs is quite extensive. “The children who come here are so energetic,” says
Stinnette. “The little girls are just as enthusiastic and thrilled with the dinosaurs as the boys are. And the children will let us know if anything is wrong with the statues. One child told us the Tyrannosaurus rex had only two fingers, not three like the statue has. They tell me the statue just wasn’t made right.” Stinnette adds that Tyrannosaurus rex continues to be the most popular with park visitors. Other dinosaurs at the park include the horned Triceratops, the spikey Stegosaurus, the Iguanodon, and even dinosaur babies coming out of eggs. The park also has a woolly mammoth, a ground sloth, a 60-foot-long shark, a giant octopus, a 20-foot-high statue of King Kong, a giant praying mantis, and a king cobra snake. “The kids love to crawl inside the shark’s mouth. And you can have your picture taken sitting in King Kong’s hand,” says Stinnette. When you visit Dinosaur Land, you first enter the gift shop that is loaded with a wide variety of items, from dinosaurs of all different sizes and materials to Fenton glass items. A variety of educational materials are available. You can learn all kinds of interesting facts, such as the one that bees have been spreading flower pollen for 120 million years. And did you know that the cockroach is one of the oldest insects in the world? It’s been around for millions of years, dating back to prehistoric times. You leave the gift shop and enter the park itself in a self-guided tour. Visitors can literally walk through tree statues and dinosaur statues, too. Adults have to duck, but the site isn’t a problem for kids. “Children can have birthday parties here. We have a special room for parties that has a caveman and cavewoman in it, along
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with a giant orangutan. At the height of the season during the summer, we have about two birthday parties a day,” says Stinnette. Stinnette says she has been with the park so long “because it is such a fun place to work. It doesn’t feel like work. And you meet all kinds of different people. You name a country and someone from that country has been here.” During October, many visitors stop by the park as they’re on their way to Skyline Drive to see the fall foliage. “It’s kind of an inbetween spot. Stretch your legs and see the dinosaurs,” Stinnette says. She adds that more and more local people are visiting the park, Stinnette says. “They just didn’t know we were here or they kept passing by us and just never came in. I think with the economy being the way it is and the high cost of gas, all this makes people look for things to do close to home.” Approximately 1,000 visitors a year come to Dinosaur Land for a variety of reasons. She says people who came to the park as children return as adults and bring their kids. “They want to have their pictures taken by the dinosaur they remembered from their childhood. They are so happy that the park is still here after all these years,” she says. She adds that weddings have been held at the park and people have even proposed there. So, if you want a real blast from the past, visit Dinosaur Land. Dinosaur Land is located at the intersection of Routes 522/340/277, between Winchester and Front Royal, Virginia. Park admission hours vary, depending on the time of year. They are: March 1 to Memorial Day, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; summer hours until Labor Day, 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; after Labor Day, until December 31, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The park is closed on Thursdays in October, November, and December. It’s closed after December 31 until February 28. Hours are subject to change so check the website at www.dinosaurland.com or call 540-869-2222.
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