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the flowers we will donate them to a local nursing home resident. member spotlight DOGWOOD VILLAGE would like to recognize Jim Beavers for his contributions to the facility. Jim was born in Roanoke, Virginia and came to faith in Christ as a young man and subsequently served in lay leadership roles for over 30 years. Later he earned his Master of Divinity and was ordained an Anglican priest in 2009. Previously Jim served in primary and secondary education, both as a teacher and head of school for two Christian schools. He has also worked for non-profit organizations including Open Doors with Brother Andrew and the C. S. Lewis Institute. In May 2011 he was called to Christ Anglican Fellowship in Orange, Virginia where he continues to serve. Jim met his wife, Anne, while at William and Mary where he received Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degree, and they have been married for 42 years. They have three grown children and seven grandchildren. He enjoys photography, graphic design, nature study and lawn and garden care.
FRIENDS OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN
BATTLEFIELD welcomes volunteers to support preservation and clean-up projects at the battlefield on April 4, the American Battlefield Trust’s annual Park Day. Volunteers are invited to help with spreading mulch on trails, picking up litter and more, and will receive a commemorative t-shirt for their efforts. Info at friendsofcedarmountain.org TAMMY LAGRAFFE has joined the
Culpeper Wellness Foundation
team as director of the Culpeper Free Clinic. A registered nurse, she most recently has worked with the Virginia Department of Health as a Public Health Nurse Supervisor. Tammy also brings experience with women’s health, behavioral health and communitybased wellness programs to her new role as clinic director.
THE LIVING THE DREAM
FOUNDATION has begun planning for their 5th Annual 5k run and ‘Walk for Home.’ All funds raised are used locally to raise awareness and educate the community on depression, substance abuse and suicide. They give two scholarships each year to both Culpeper High schools, Orange, Madison, and Rappahannock High Schools for students who respond with
The SIGNATURE Team of RE/MAX
Regency was recognized for the fi rst half of 2022, as one of the Top 100 REMAX Teams of ALL sizes in the entire state of Virginia. WAR Craft was recently featured in the Culpeper Star-Exponent and live on Fox 5 News for becoming the fi rst Quad-Fecta Farm Winery-Brewery-Distillery-Cidery in Virginia. War Craft Brewery’s 1-year anniversary is Sept. 24. Home & Tack Organizing, LLC celebrated its 1st birthday on August 1, 2022. We are so thankful to those who helped get it started and to our clients whom we've been able to assist to create a more peaceful home.
Karoake Tonight! With Hostess
Linda B has additional times and locations for her shows. She is now hosting Wednesdays, from 8-11 p.m., at The Pier, located at 302 E Davis Street, in Culpeper and on Sept. 10 at the Craft and Crust Pizza Tavern, in Remington from 7:3010:30 p.m. The Culpeper’s latest expansion is our new Hillside Independent Living Cottages. The Culpeper offers access to high-quality health services, including Assisted Living, Memory Care, Skilled Nursing, and Rehabilitation, right on campus. Golden Rule Builders Justin Basile has joined the GRB sales design team. Prior to coming on board Justin was our electrical contractor of nine years. He loves fi shing with his family and resides in Woodbridge Virginia with his wife and 5 children. Jeff Nolte joined the GRB in this year and comes to us with 20 years of experience in the cabinet and home improvement business. While not at work, Jeff enjoys sports, traveling, the outdoors and spending time with family and has been a resident in Warrenton, VA over 15 years.
K9 Caring Angels Dog Training
is proud to announce that we are offering FREE training to ONE lucky TEACHER. We want YOU to help us choose them! We know teachers are underpaid and overworked, so we would like pay it forward by helping one who really needs training for their dog. For more information on the nomination requirements, go to k9caringangelsdogtraining.com Alan Boxley, Ralph W Kilby Wire 16 CHAMBER ADVANTAGE Culpeper Times • August 18-31, 2022
and Water, recently completed classes for the VA Plumbing 2018 and Gasfi tter Code Updates for continuing education as a VA licensed Master Plumber and Gasfi tter. Alan has been employed with R W Kilby Wire and Water for over 40 years. Courtney Simpson of Court's Kitchen is thrilled to be well underway in the renovations of her commercial kitchen on Lakeside Drive just outside of town! The space will offer much needed room to expand her new business of offering charcuterie and catering! Courtney recently received her ServeSafe certifi cation and is looking forward to a busy holiday season! Divine Shine Reiki LLC is happy to announce that classes in our new location started the weekend of July 30th and everyone loved the new space! Our next Reiki level I and II classes will be held in September and a portion of each tuition will go towards the restoration of The Historic (decommissioned) Fleetwood Church in Brandy Station/Culpeper, Virginia. Congratulations to Wayne Mason for 16-year work anniversary with Faye's Offi ce Supplies and moving to a new position of Sales Rep with the company. Introducing our Junior Stylist Drea Streightiff at Shear Artistry! Drea is an incredible talent that has a passion for detail and is committed to guest satisfaction! Experienced in cutting, styling, and coloring services. Check out her portfolio on Instagram and Facebook @drea_and_hair MFA Studios - #StaffSpotlight - Meet Miss Reese! Reese has been dancing since she was fi ve years old. She trained in ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, modern, lyrical, and pointe. Reese was on the competition team at MFA Studios for fi ve years and she also competed with the Orange School of Performing Arts for another three years. Reese attended Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated this spring with a degree in Business. She was a member of the Gold Rush Dance Team for four years while at VCU and was the team captain her junior and senior year. As a member of the team, she trained in jazz, hip hop, and pom, and performed halftime and third quarter routines at VCU basketball games. Reese is excited to be back at MFA Studios
and is looking forward to sharing her love of dance through teaching! Culpeper Battlefi eld Tours LLC - We had 50 horses and riders Aug. DOGGY CLIPPS is now offering Mobile grooming in our new state of the art mobile grooming van! 7 at the Battlefi eld! It was a very successful trail ride and there is a tremendous amount of interest for more trail rides and guided tours. Our fi rst in-depth guided horse tour THE CULPEPER REC CLUB will keep will be Sept 3 with a group of riders its pool open to members until Sept. from Staunton. Jasan Hileman, LBG 20 this year. The club welcomes from Gettysburg will be conducting new head manager Tracy Fox and the tour and we will be recording the assistant managers Kendra Smith and audio and video via drone. Jeremiah Walker. Rappahannock Electric CooperaTHE REC CLUB is proud to be tive’s Communications & PR team recently received numerous awards working with Friendly Fin Swim in recognition of their hard work and Lessons, with Allison Woods as main dedication to cooperative communiinstructor/owner. The Club is also cations. Photo: Casey Hollins, Managpartnering with Dance for Joy Studio ing Director – Communications and with Joyce Sanders for dance classes Public Relations at REC, received the and Pranapiloga Yoga/Massage/ Spotlight Awards on behalf of the Wellness with Rebecca Elsen. team. Rebecca will teach Land Yoga at 10 Resident Spotlight- Frances Coxa.m. and water yoga at 7:30 p.m. on Wince recently moved into DogFridays. wood Village Senior Living. Frances answers to Fran or Franny. She is THE CULPEPER YOUNG originally from PROFESSIONALS braved the heat Lynchburg but on Saturday July 18th at CULPEPER resided in Orange CAR WASH, scrubbing tires, drying County during her vehicles, giving out goody bags and collecting donations for the CULPEPER FOOD CLOSET. 203 vehicles attended and they raised a total of $1,300 to donate! later years. Frances has been a jack of all trades and has worked at a dry cleaner, Ricketts Pharmacy, Waugh Harley Davidson, NARMADA WINERY won 2 Gold and Lightfoot Medals in the Critics Challenge Elementary as a teacher’s aide. She International Wine & Spirits was an avid volunteer at Dogwood Competition. Their 2017 Cabernet Village Health and Rehab and assisted residents with Bingo. Fran has 1 son and 2 daughters, Richard, Robin, and Roxane. She has 2 granddaughters, 1 grandson and 1 great-grandson, who she adores named Liam. Frances is enjoying staying active at Senior Living and is up to trying anything new! Burnt Ends opened their new location Burnt Ends Y Mas at 401 S. Main St., Culpeper. They are hiring for their new location. On Aug. 25, Historic Smoke is hosting a Virginia Values Veterans V3 Program which offers free virtual employer training on nationally recognized best practices in recruiting, hiring, and retaining military job seekers and military spouses. Earn Virginia certifi cation as a V3-Certained Employer after your organization learns how military affi liated job seekers can be the ideal solution to your talent needs.
Franc Reserve - Gold Medal 90 Points and their 2017 Yash-Vir - Gold 91 Points. EXIT CORNERSTONE REALTY has announced their 2nd Quarter winner for production. They are as follows. #1 Danny Butters-$1,685,900, #2 John Fischer $1,244,800, #3 Michael Buters Jr, $1,156,450 and the Stuart Team # 4 at $1,037,200. Mike and Ellen Butters just celebrated their 10th Anniversary with The EXIT Franchise, EXIT CORNERSTONE REALTY and Danny Butters just celebrated his First Anniversary with the company and we are excited to Welcome a new agent to our office , James Smith from Madison, Va . ELEVATE offers NEW Discounted Memberships for Students and Teachers! ELEVATE invites students 16+, and teachers, to join our coworking community with an exclusive membership that allows access to the space at any time (day or night — weekends, too!) at a very budgetfriendly price. Awesome internet, plus tech and gadgets to help you connect, in a comfortable space where you can focus and knock out your work. NEW Private Office and Reserved Desk Options! ELEVATE is now partnering with other Downtown spaces to provide private offices and reserved desks. We are managing these agreements through the
Elevate platform, so it works very similarly to our monthly co-working membership: affordable monthly membership with no lease or COMMUNITY-STARS IS GROWING! contract! It's the most flexible, C-STARs Pediatric Therapy Specialists affordable way to secure an office just added Pediatric Occupational space! Let us know what you're Therapy to its therapy services! We looking for: info@elevateculpeper.now offer physical, occupational, and com speech therapy for children. We are pleased to introduce Sam Robson, ELEVATE Black Artists Community OTR/L! Sam is a graduate from James Art Show. We are accepting visual Madison University’s Occupational art submissions until Monday, July Therapy program. She has had a 27th, for a special exhibit that will be variety of different clinical experiences shared both in person and virtually! including an inpatient psychiatric Drawing inspiration from the themes hospital, a skilled nursing facility, of Equality, Hope, Peace, Progress schools and early intervention. She and Love, Black artists of any agespent her first level 2 fieldwork in early are invited to submit a piece, in any intervention and the school system. medium, for the show. Pieces can LIFESTYLE PHYSICIANS has introduced a new service PRP (PlateletRich Plasma) also known as a “Vampire Facial” for Hair Restoration and Skin be dropped off at Elevate Mon-Fri from 8am to 6pm. Full details and guidelines at www.ElevateCulpeper. com Rejuvenation. ENDLESS CREATIONS FLOWERS THE CULPEPER COUNTY LIBRARY is hoping to better serve the needs of Library patrons by conducting a community wide survey in 2020 which & GIFTS is having a Christmas in July sale. All Items in store are 25% off except plants, fresh flowers and delivery. in hopes will provide increased quality services, programs, and events. The Library is inviting patrons to consider participating in a quick, 3-5-minute survey that can be found winter edition of the Culpeper Quarterly which was mailed out to Culpeper County residents or located at The Chamber. Upon survey completion you can submit by mailing or dropping off at the Culpeper County Library. Copies COMMUNITY BANK OF THE CHESAPEAKE is pleased to welcome Sam Kessler as Vice President, Commercial Loan Officer. In this role, he will focus on generating business lending opportunities while building banking relationships. Sam will serve Orange, VA and the surrounding markets, including Spotsylvania, Culpeper, Charlottesville and more. of survey will also be available at the Library desk or online. The Library is seeking all survey responses turned in by April 1, 2020 to assist in planning for the upcoming fiscal year.
RAPPAHANNOCK-RAPIDAN
COMMUNITY Services is proud of our Gladys Williams, who has been named the Culpeper Times Citizen of the Year. Gladys, who’s been with RRCS for 38 years, is a program coordinator at the Culpeper Senior Center, working with 75 seniors every week — with more applying by the day to provide them with programs, cheer, a warm meal, and transportation. She is a rock in the community.
ENDLESS CREATIONS FLOWERS &
GIFTS celebrates the season of love by giving back. They are be doing food for flowers throughout February. Simply bring in 5 cans or boxes and receive $5.00 value of flowers. If you don't want welcome new members
Robinson Plumbing
Chris Robinson- Owner 9048 White Shop Road Culpeper, VA 22701 Robinsonplumbing25@gmail.com www.Robinsonplumbinginc.com Plumbing
Jim Beavers Living the Dream Foundation
Ed & Gloria Long – Founders PO Box 4 Culpeper, VA 22701 livingthedreamculpeper@gmail.com Non-profit
Blesseddreams, LLC
Ana Lyon – Photographer/Owner 14614 Manorwood Drive Culpeper, VA 22701 ana_lyon@blesseddreams.com www.blesseddreams.com Photography
The Real Estate Store, Inc.
Ashley Rinehart 101 Duke Street Suite 215 Culpeper, VA 22701 info@therealestatestoreva.com www.therealestatestoreva.com Real Estates
Kona Ice of Culpeper, Locust Grove & Warrenton
Maria Lischak 132 Harrison Circle Locust Grove, VA 22508 culpeper@kona-ice.com Food & Beverage
an essay and plan to work in a related field in this area. Their motto is based on founders Gloria and Ed’s late son Ben Long’s name-B.E.L.: Believing in Every Life! DAVID MARTIN, Manager at Full Circle Thrift, is pleased to announce the promotion of Justine Lawson and Tracy Corbin to Supervisors. Justine’s warm smile and friendly hello has been greeting customers for almost 13 years. Tracy has been with the store for 5 years and her energy and enthusiasm is contagious. Full Circle Thrift is beginning its 18th year in business and our motto is “Culpeper Helping Culpeper."
CENTURY 21 NEW MILLENNIUM
TEAM Receives Coveted 2019 President’s Team Award for Commitment to Quality Service and Productivity. CAITLIN TROILO-WADDELL from KK’s Printing and Stationery received the award for 2019 Public Servant of the year by the Culpeper County Republican Party. LAUREL VAN HORN has been named stage manager for StageWorks' upcoming show called The Emerald Heist. Laurel retired from teaching English at Rappahannock County High School in 2010, and was fortunate to find StageWorks and follow one of her dreams which was working in the theater. She has happily worked behind the scenes for two of their most recent productions, Salt & Pepper and Southern Fried Funeral. Through StageWorks, she has met and worked with a group of incredibly knowledgeable directors and actors. Laurel is looking forward to two performances of a unique and funny play that will engage and delight their audiences. FAYE’S OFFICE SUPPLY Wishes Happy Birthday to Rachel Rouleau. APPLETON CAMPBELL, a leading provider of residential HVAC, plumbing and electrical now in its 44th year of top-rated service to Fauquier and surrounding counties, is looking forward in 2020 to opening a new facility in Warrenton.
THE AGING TOGETHER TEAM
hosts “Dementia Friends” session at monthly meeting. JIM LAGRAFFE, Executive Director of
welcome new members
Community Bank of the Chesapeake
Sam Kessler 10 Chatham Heights Road Suite 104 Fredericksburg, VA 22405 kesslers@cbtc.com www.cbtc.com Bank
Vent Vikings
Anthony Barnhill 19507 Bootsie Lane Brandy Station, VA 22714 ventvikings@gmail.com www.ventvikings.com Home Improvement Seek Lavender has expanded to include steam dictation process. Seek Sweet Roux Lavender now distills our Lemon Balm and Mint for Hydrosol. Ariel Davati de Campos 201 South East Street Culpeper, VA 22701 adavati@outlook.com www.sweetrouxofculpeper.com Restaurants/Food Upcoming events
18th Annual Golf Classic
Friday August 21st 8am Registration Country Club of Culpeper 100 Country Club Road, Culpeper, VA 22701
Rappahannock-Rapidan Community
Services and a Board Member of Piedmont CRUSH were invited to the White House for the launch of the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s (ONDCP) new Rural Community Resource Guide, on January 31st, 2020. The ONDCP works to reduce drug use and its consequences by leading and coordinating the development, implementation, and assessment of U.S. drug policy. The action guide is one of several tools that was created specifically for rural leaders who are facing drug addiction in their communities. In attendance were: Jim LaGraffe, Piedmont CRUSH Board Members Sean Polster, Town of Warrenton, and Crystal Hale, Orange County Director of Social Services.
welcome new members
Culpeper Battlefield Tours, LLC
Susan Ralston 25023 Algonquin Trail Culpeper, VA 22701 540-632-4500 info@culpeperbattlefieldtours.com www.culpeperbattlefieldtours.com Outdoor Recreation
Multiverse Comic ‘N Games
Dan Dyer 509 S. Main Street, Suite 151 Culpeper, VA 22701 540-560-5588 multiversecng@gmail.com www.multiversecng.wixsite.com Books
Culpeper Automotive
Carmen Pincus 15145 Rosson Troilo Circle Brandy Station, VA 22714 540-764-4907 culpeperautomotive@gmail.com www.culpeperautomotive.com Automobile Repair/Service
Carmen’s Miracle Makers
Sydney Hatcher 1809 Magnolia Circle Culpeper, VA 227101 703-732-8415 carmensmiraclemaker@gmail.com carmensmiraclemakers.org Non-Profit Clubs & Organizations
John Beck
Court’s Kitchen
Courtney Simpson 9461 Bear Ridge Road Rixeyville, VA 22737 (540) 316-8298 courtskitchenllc@gmail.com http://courtskitchenllc.com Caterers
BRS CPA
Brian Schobel 11205 Arbor Mill Ct. Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA 22551 610-568-5008 brian@bookkeepingbrian.com www.bookkeepingbrian.com Business & Professional Services
Genesis Restoration
Paige Johnson 101 E Marshal Street Remington, VA 22734 540-404-8255 Info@ grxva.com www.grxva.com Property restoration
Alum Spring Baptist Church
Pastor Ron Young 11058 Dutch Hollow Road Culpeper, VA 22701 540-825-3820 Alumspring@comcast.net www.alumspringbaptist.org Church
The E.V.O.L.V.E. Center
Damion Motley 2038 Cranberry Lane Culpeper, VA 22701 540717-6370 theevolvecenter.info@gmail.com www.theevolvecenter.org Non-Profit Clubs & Organizations
Fat Daddy’z Ice Cream Inc.
Kamar Embry 2505 Harpers Run Rd Bealton, VA 22712 540-497-2373 Kamarderder126@gmail.com Restaurant/Food & Beverages
Ribbon Cuttings Wild Birds Unlimited Culpeper
Friday, August 19, 2022, 4 pm 15311 Montanus Drive, Culpeper, VA
Shear Artistry
Friday, September 9, 4 pm 1200 Sunset Lane, Culpeper, VA
Chamber Golf Classic
Young Professionals Luncheon
Wednesday, September 7 at noon Piedmont Steakhouse 110 East Cameron Street, Culpeper, VA
Young Professionals Charity Crab Feast
Saturday, September 10, 4-7 pm Mountain Run Winery 10753 Mountain Run Lake Rd, Culpeper, VA
108th Annual Meeting & Awards Banquet
Thank you to our BIE Day sponsors
