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We are excited to announce the launch of our new website, piedmontlifestyles. com. On the website, you can read articles from all our magazines: Warrenton Lifestyle, Broad Run Lifestyle, and Haymarket Lifestyle. Additionally, we will periodically post the articles on social media, so follow us on our vibrant Facebook page and on Twitter. On the Fourth of July, our thoughts naturally turn to patriotism. We remember those who fought, and died, for the freedom we enjoy in our country. Our Warrenton issue contains a feature on Dr. Joseph Warren, a Boston patriot who gave his life at the Battle of Bunker Hill and for whom our town is named. But the Fourth of July is not just for remembering the Declaration of Independence, but also those who have fought for our freedom since. In Broad Run Lifestyle, read about how you can experience for yourself the terror and immense stress of President Kennedy’s staff in the fascinating Cuban Missile Crisis Escape Room at the Inn at Vint Hill. Also think of our local veterans today; read about Battle Buddies, a nonprofit founded by a local retired U.S. Marine and a registered nurse that pairs volunteers with veterans who might need some company and assistance as they age. Our regular home section contains ideas for accessorizing your home with lights, and a lighthearted guide to
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Contents 06 Escape to Vint Hill
16 Taking Leadership Skills Outside
A Cold War experience comes to life
Kevin MacDonald and McNeill Mann BY AIMÉE O’GRADY
BY KATIE FUSTER
20 Families4Fauquier
12 Brand Identity
July’s Exciting News & Event Information
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A necessary component of marketing—and success—of both small and large businesses
22 Relay for Life
28 Home Away from Home
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The differences between sons and daughters moving into a dorm room
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38 Cinnamon Ice Cream The perfect way to create your own treat BY CHEF ANTHONY NELSON
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Escape to Vint Hill The Cold War experience comes alive at Vint Hill Farms Station
STORY AND PHOTOS BY KATIE FUSTER
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awn and Scott Donaldson have owned the historic Inn at Vint Hill for 17 years. On December 26, 2016, they launched Fauquier’s first escape room, The Cuban Missile Experience. An escape room is an adventure game in which participants must solve a series of puzzles in a set period of time using only the clues and equipment provided. Players win by successfully completing all their missions before their time expires. “It’s a relatively new phenomenon,” Dawn Donaldson explains. “Escape rooms are only about four years old, and wow, have we got the perfect place for a really fun, history-based room.” The mansion that is now the Inn was built on a cattle and sheep farm just before the Civil War; Mosby’s Rangers skirmished with Union cavalry at its back gate. During World War II (WWII), the mansion, farm, and all of its outbuildings were bought by the Army. The Inn at Vint Hill was used as a command center and officers’ club and quarters. Renamed Vint Hill Farms Station, the property was turned into an intelligence training headquarters and “listening post.” The men and women at Vint Hill Farms Station tapped into communications
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from locations including Berlin. The intelligence they gathered included a 20-page dispatch from the Japanese ambassador to Germany. That information became critical to the success of the Allied Forces’ Normandy Beach landing. After World War II, the station served as a top secret signals intelligence base during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Donaldson’s escape room, an intelligence-based adventure game on the inn’s second floor, incorporates the station’s involvement in the Cold War.
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Top: The Cold War Museum framed by the grapevines of the neighboring Vint Hill Craft Winery. Center: Museum volunteer John DePerro poses with a Kodak canister that held 225 feet of reconnaissance footage. Bottom: World War II-era communications equipment at the Cold War Museum.
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“The escape room transports you to October 27, 1962” “The escape room transports you to October 27, 1962,” Donaldson says. It is 12 days into the crisis, and tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States have reached an all-time high. The Soviets are working on nuclear missiles at four sites in Cuba, just 90 miles from Florida. In response, the U.S. forces’ alert level has been raised to DEFCON 2. On the morning of October 27, USAF Major Rudolf Anderson departs an air base in Florida, piloting a U-2 reconnaissance plane. He is shot down and killed by a Soviet surface-to-air missile fired from Cuba. The escape room scenario picks up here, as the United States finds itself on the brink of war. “You become a member of President Kennedy’s Executive Committee of the National Security Council during the Crisis, and you have sixty minutes to solve the puzzles and prevent nuclear war from happening,” Donaldson says. Failure means World War III and the end of the world as we know it. The Cuban Missile Experience owes much to the Inn’s neighbor, the Cold War Museum. Housed in a barn formerly converted for top-secret use by the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and U.S. Army Intelligence, the Cold War Museum now displays artifacts from a three-million-dollar collection. These artifacts cover the rivalry between the Communist bloc and the democratic free world from the 1940s through the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. “The Cold War Museum supplied us with all the historically accurate documents to take participants back to the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Dawn Donaldson says. It was an undertaking the museum’s executive director, Jason Hall, was pleased to
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be part of. “We are really close with the surrounding businesses. We want to make Vint Hill Farms Station a destination where people have multiple things to do,” Hall says. The museum building, as well as the buildings that house the Covert Café, Vint Hill Craft Winery, and Old Bust Head Brewery, are owned by Julie and Ike Broaddus. Hall describes a vision of communitybuilding and cross-marketing at Vint Hill, a vision the Broaddus duo share. “We want people to come here and make a day of it—tour the museum, have lunch at the Covert Café, go next door to the winery, get drinks at the brewery,” Hall says. “We want people to pick up the theme of this area, its uniqueness.” The Cold War Museum is a gem in itself, with rare artifacts such as the only declassified reconnaissance film from an SR-71 Blackbird, as well as a fragment of the plane Major Anderson was flying that fateful day
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Below: Signal Intelligence Service uniforms and equipment at the Cold War Museum.
The Cold War Museum has attracted heightened interest since the 2015 release of the Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg collaboration Bridge of Spies. The film, set during the Cold War, tells the story of how lawyer James B. Donovan negotiated with the Soviets for the release of Francis Gary Powers, who was flying a CIA mission in a top-secret U-2 spy plane when he was shot down over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg, Russia). Initially sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Russians, Powers was freed in a prisoner swap that saw the U.S. return convicted KGB spy Rudolf Abel to the Soviet Union. Powers’ son, Francis Gary Powers, Jr., founded the Cold War Museum and consulted on the film. Powers, Jr. has lectured around the world on the importance of preserving Cold War history and honoring Cold War veterans.
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Top: A sign outside the Cold War Museum replicates Cold War-era signs from a divided Germany that warned visitors that they were leaving the American sector and entering East Germany. Bottom: A fragment of the wreckage of Major Rudolph Anderson, Jr.’s U-2 spy plane is on display at the Cold War Museum. Anderson was shot down at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the event the Inn at Vint Hill’s escape room focuses on.
in October of 1962. On the weekends, the museum is staffed by volunteer docents with long histories of service in the Armed Forces and intelligence. It opens during the week for larger parties and special events. Vint Hill Craft Winery, next door to the museum, was once a top secret cryptographic intercept facility during WWII and the Cold War. In its tasting room, the winery features a display of period uniforms and artifacts on loan from the Cold War Museum. Vint Hill Craft Winery also hosted two talks in a series of presentations put on by the museum this year. Old Bust Head Brewing Company, also hosted a talk series that featured retired US Air Force General Michael Hayden. Hayden was the director of the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005, and the Director of the CIA from 2006 to 2009. “We knew we were going to max out, and we did. That event sold out in four days,” Hall says. Many in the audience were former intelligence officers who had worked under Hayden in some capacity. While they often welcome groups like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, visits from veterans and former intelligence officers are common at the Cold War Museum. “You wouldn’t believe how many times someone will come in and say, ‘That’s the exact machine I used!’ ” says longtime museum volunteer John DePerro. The same audience is drawn to the Cuban Missile Experience escape room to test out their long-held skills. “We have people come here from all over the world, a lot of whom are veterans or were in intelligence,” Dawn Donaldson says. “We’ve done about 300 rooms now, and we average a 10 percent success rate. We don’t make it easy for them!” ❖
On Sunday, July 23, at 1 p.m., the Cold War Museum will be hosting a presentation by noted pilot Colonel Adelbert “Buz” Carpenter (USAF, retired) on “Flying the SR-71 Blackbird.” Carpenter flew the SR-71 worldwide as an aircraft commander, then instructor pilot, accruing 777 hours of flight time on 65-plus missions. The event will take place at Old Bust Head Brewing Company and will be followed by a Q & A session and special access to the Cold War Museum. Tickets are available at Eventbrite.com. For questions, contact Jason Hall at jason@coldwar.org.
The Cuban Missile Experience is open for reservations seven days a week. Book your escape room experience by visiting www.escapevinthill.com. “We also welcome groups and corporate clients for team-building events,” Dawn Donaldson notes. For more information, contact the Donaldsons at info@ escapevinthill.com or 540-349-5700.
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KEVIN MACDONALD AND MCNEILL MANN REINFORCE ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP BY AIMÉE O’GRADY
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the administrator director and farm coordinator. Earth Village Education (EVE), based in Marshall, is a nonprofit dedicated to reinforcing environmental stewardship. EVE offers workshops and camps for both children and adults on firemaking, wilderness first aid, wildflowers, making natural sodas, beekeeping, and so much more.
Above: MacDonald and Mann live in a small cabin behind the main house with the Earth Village Education office.
Experience. The couple met in 2005 at a summer camp in North Carolina where both were working as outdoor trip leaders. After that experience, they were presented with an opportunity to live off-grid in a cabin in Boone, North Carolina. The community was comprised of approximately twelve families who all shared an interest in simple, sustainable, and self-reliant living, including learning to make items themselves instead of purchasing them from stores. The community pooled resources together and collaborated on larger projects. “We tended pigs, chickens, and rabbits, managed a large garden, and began keeping bees,” says MacDonald. He admits that he experienced some level of frustration with the amount of time things took; for example, showering. “We didn’t have any hot water, only cold water from a gravity-fed spring. So, we would put pots of water on the stove and dump them over our heads in the tub to take a shower,” he recalls. The experience made him respect modern conveniences. During these years, MacDonald worked as
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a graphic artist about 20 minutes away. “I would leave my 16 by 16 foot off-grid cabin and work with cutting edge design software in a fully modernized office,” he says. Meanwhile, Mann remained in the arena of education, working for an outdoor education group. “There were a lot of transferable skills between outdoor education and homesteading,” she says. Perhaps one of their most memorable experiences was the process of making sorghum molasses. “One of the neighbors in the community had an ancient sorghum press. We thought it would be a great experience to make molasses. We planted sorghum in early summer when the soil was warm enough for the plant to germinate.” The members of the community worked together to harvest the sorghum and used literal horsepower to work the press and extract the molasses. “The fun part is having everyone come together in the off-grid community, whether it was making the molasses, gathering firewood, bringing in the fall harvest, or processing animals,” says Mann. After leaving Boone, the couple ventured west and worked for a teen adventure group in Washington State. When they completed that opportunity, MacDonald received a call. “My college friend contacted me about an opportunity in Virginia to lead a nonprofit dedicated to nature connection and sustainability. She thought our experiences as outdoor leaders and homesteaders would make us a good fit,” says MacDonald. They traveled east and visited the center for a week. “By the end of the week, we knew this would be the right opportunity for us. We packed up our things on the west
Earth Village Education is located at 9125 Lake Daniel Road in Marshall. For more information, visit earthvillageeducation.org. Aimée O’Grady is a freelance writer who enjoys transforming stories told by Fauquier residents into articles for Lifestyle readers. She learns more and more about our rich county with every interview she conducts. She and her husband are happy with their decision to raise their four children in Warrenton.
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This event will be held from 11 a.m. to 4.pm at Earth, Glaze & Fire. Christmas in July is back again this year help us get a head start on making handmade and decorated Christmas ornaments, along with painted rocks for our November Hero’s Project for Walter Reed Medical Facility. Follow our event and stay up to date on all the details. We heard from Santa and he will be stopping by to see everyone! Be sure to follow our summer camp event page to stay up to date with great upcoming summer camps and vacation Bible school listings.
Follow our new group page and get involved today on Facebook. Top to Bottom: First Rock painted by Jenna for our new F4F Rocks painted rock club. Community Engagement Day. Bicycle Rodeo Bike Winner. Coldstone Creamery Ice Cream Tour. Red Nose Ice Cream Social with Peter Mccory “the one Man Band.” F4f’s Annual Bicycle Rodeo with the Fauquier Sheriff’s Office.
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Relay for Life raises more than $112,000 for the American Cancer Society BY ROBIN EARL
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auquier Health’s Relay for Life team was well represented at the annual event on Saturday, June 10, at Fauquier High School. Relay for Life benefits the American Cancer Society. The Relay for Life website explains, “Relay For Life is a team fundraising cancer walk event where team members take turns walking around a track … Each event is 6-24 hours in length and each team is asked to have a member on the track at all times to signify that cancer never sleeps. Cancer patients don't stop because they're tired, and for one night, neither do we.” Fauquier Health’s team was 32 members strong, and raised more than $16,000. The health system team was the top fundraiser for the night; in all, Fauquier Relay for Life raised more than $112,000. Team captains were Sandy Shipe, Director of Cancer Services; Richard Shrout, oncology nurse navigator and Judy Bodenschatz, laboratory clinician. Sandy and Richard were selected King and Queen of the fundraisers
when they were able to raise an additional $500 at the event. Sandy said, “It was wonderful to see so many of our patients – past and present – walking in the Survivor’s Walk to kick off the Relay. To see those that we have actually cared for… It was a very humbling experience for me.” “We displayed our Fauquier Health banner when it came time for teams to take a lap around the track; the stick that held the banner was a beautiful carved spirit stick made by one of our patients.” Team member Jenny Large, a practice manager with Fauquier Health Physician Services, said, “Relay for Life was so much fun! They had line dancing, jazzercise, moon bounces for the kids. And at 9 p.m. they turned all the lights off in the stadium and lit the luminaries. I was honored to be a part of it.” Christina Ballard, community manager of the American Cancer Society said, “Each luminary represents the life and story of someone who has either passed from cancer or who currently in the fight. We had more than 900 luminaries lit this year.” ❖
Top to Bottom: Richard Shrout and Sandy Shipe were crowned King and Queen of Relay for Life when they raised an additional $500 for the American Cancer Society. Laboratory clinician Judy Bodenschatz proudly proclaims her survivor status. Food, drink and fun were on the agenda at Fauquier’s Relay for Life on June 10. Team captain Judy Bodenschatz and Rebecca Wolfrey, director of Case Management, led the Fauquier Health team during the parade of teams. Photos by K. Conway Photography
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The exclamation point for your home Accessories will transform your space
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riends don’t let friends decorate their home without accessories. Most of us consider accessories to be things we use to enhance our wardrobe: jewelry, a scarf, hat, purse, or a pocket square for the blazer all complement what we wear and take our appearance to the next level. The same principle applies when decorating a room. Think of accessories as the exclamation points for your home. For example, take a clear glass vase and transform your plant stand into a seasonal, sensory sensation by filling it with layered colored sand and cotton ball stalks in the summer, fall leaves and corn stalks in autumn, or wine corks and tulips in the spring.
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I am frequently asked for advice on how to decorate a fireplace mantel. In most cases, the fireplace is the focal point of the room. This provides a great opportunity to get your “accessory groove” on. There are three main design methods you can use to spark that mantel to life: the “bell,” the “U,” and my favorite, the “upward slope.” The bell shape starts with a large, tall item in the middle of the mantel flanked on both sides by shorter, smaller items. The “U” has tall items on both ends and lower
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Think inside the box! Make a statement with antique or vintage style items. Then try pairing with more modern pieces for a balanced look.
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Try layering or combining home decor items for a personal touch.
Featured Listing items in the middle. The upward slope can be arranged to flow either left to right or right to left. Place a smaller, shorter item on the end of the mantel, a medium-sized, somewhat taller item in the middle and a larger, tall item on the opposite end. If you were to draw an imaginary line over the top of the items it would create an upward slope.
Lighting
Let’s illuminate the topic of lighting, starting with getting our terms straight. In the trade, the word “lamp” is used to refer to the light source that is commonly called the “bulb.” What is commonly called a “lamp” (a table lamp or a chandelier) is referred to as a fixture. Although it’s good to be aware of the technical terms, let’s just call them lamps! Lamps play a major role in accessorizing and decorating. When working with a client, I like to focus on function and mood. Lighting has three main functions in a room; in our industry they are referred to as ambient, task, and mood. Ambient lighting provides general overhead lighting to a room through recessed, track, and can lamps. Task lighting refers to light that serves a specific purpose. Reading, writing, and other activities require specific light. A floor lamp or a lamp placed on a table next to a comfy chair can provide ample reading light. Smaller lamps are great for lighting up your desk. A pair of candle lamps can provide just the right amount of glow to read piano music. Wall sconces by the fireplace accent the mantel while providing light for a conversation area. Mood lighting draws attention to items or textures in a room to affect the atmosphere for the occupants. Recessed wall washers spread light in one direction toward the wall. Placing floor can lights behind a plant can cast dappled shadows on the ceiling. Picture or painting lights can be installed above or below your wall art, adding yet another layer of mood to the room. Another option is the realistic flameless candle made of real candle wax with a faux flickering flame. These little beauties add a cozy ambience without the worry of real flame or melting wax and can be placed throughout the room. Use various wattages of bulbs throughout your lighting fixtures to allow some areas to shine and others to glow, providing a lovely variety of illumination. When accessorizing a room with light, always remember this: “It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.” Time keeps on ticking into the future—clocks make a timely addition to your décor too, and I must hang a huge six-foot sunburst mirror that just arrived. Blessings to all! ❖
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world.” My daughter is starting to plan, gather her things, and add to her Pinterest board. As of this writing, she is at 90 pins and it’s only the beginning of June (seriously, check out the dorm insanity on Pinterest—it is mind-boggling). Below are a variety of items that will most likely head off to college with your child this fall. Based on my observations over the years, here is some advice on the differences in gathering these items for girls versus boys. I’ll explain why I think it’s better for the STUDENT to pack, because “mom might get it wrong” OR if the MOM should pack because, well … you do want them to survive the first year, don’t you?
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girls: STUDENT ...must have newly purchased Lily Pulitzer coordinated bags. boys: MOM ...if the student selects they will come up with an old duffel bag previously used for sports and likely not smelling very fresh. Or a simple trash bag.
Sheets & pillows girls: STUDENT ... because they have to be cute, right? boys: MOM ... because if you don’t pack it they’ll just sleep on the bare mattress. Seriously, I have witnessed this with my own eyes. And don’t bother with the second set of sheets...they won’t change them all semester. *check the size of the mattresses at the dormmany colleges have long size single mattresses and standard single sheets will not fit. Bed Bath and Beyond knows all about this.
Mattress cover girls: STUDENT ...because, it’s a mattress and who knows who else has been sleeping on it? boys: MOM ...because, it’s a mattress and who knows who else has been sleeping on it?
girls: STUDENT ...adorable hamper found on Pinterest, laundry detergent, woolite, mesh bags for delicates, dryer sheets, drying rack for drip-dry clothes, color-coordinated hangers, and shoe-organizing racks. boys: MOM ...they will need the largest plastic hamper with handles you can find because they won’t do laundry until they bring the hamper home with them on breaks for mom to do it. OR they’ll wait till they have absolutely not a stitch left to wear and then spend a day and a half with the huge hamper washing everything they own in the dorm laundry room. Or they will only wash what is needed for that day.
Room Decor girls: STUDENT ...following the dorm room decor on Pinterest. Must haves: cute curtains, comforter, throw pillows, laundry hamper–all color coordinated and matching every single thing in the room. All of these details have been discussed extensively with her roommate ahead of time. A clock (to complement decor only, because everyone just looks at their phones for the time anyway). Twine to string photos across walls. Cute, color-coordinated baskets for storing anything and everything. Mirror … because, of course. Twinkly Christmas lights, and scented wax melting pot (no candles allowed in dorms, no matter how cute). Desk decor: colorcoordinated file folders, pen holders, notebooks. boys: STUDENT ...a sports poster. But they will not worry about how to hang it and will then just crumple it up and stuff it under the bed. Maybe a Budweiser sign. Everything else is just N/A.
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girls: STUDENT ...because there’s way too much and mom will pack the wrong thing
girls: STUDENT ...because mom will forget something.
boys: STUDENT ...because they only need a toothpaste/brush, deodorant, soap, and shampoo, and hopefully they can manage at least this basic packing?
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*caveat: regardless of the sport, both girls and boys will need hundreds of dollars of new equipment before departing for college.
Clothing Other items
girls: STUDENT ...because mom will pack all practical comfortable stuff and nothing that looks good.
girls will need a small refrigerator to keep sophisticated food like hummus, fresh mozzarella, fresh vegetables, yogurt, and fruit cold. boys will need it for beer. girls will need a microwave to cook a number of sophisticated recipes specifically for microwaves that are neatly cataloged on a Pinterest board and for which the dry ingredients are already purchased and packed. boys might do an occasional cup-o-
boys: STUDENT ...with mom caveat: they will only pack what is in season on the day of the packing, which in August in Warrenton would be shorts and t-shirts. They might throw in a sweatshirt. But if they are going north for school, they will likely have snow and very cold weather before Thanksgiving break, and they will not have a coat and will wander the campus in shorts. Again, I have witnessed this with my own eyes.
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Towels girls: STUDENT ...monogrammed, with a preferably matching comforter. Enough to use one every day between laundry days. boys: MOM ...because otherwise they'll just dry themselves off with a t-shirt from the hamper. Only pack one so they need to use it every day, otherwise extra ones will get stuffed somewhere and get moldy.
...I’d like to ask everyone to wish me luck as I help this daughter of mine pack for school! ❖
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Protecting Your Business Completing background checks may prevent problems with employees BY EDDIE NADAL
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hile large organizations may be able to absorb the impact of an untrustworthy employee, small businesses can be much more vulnerable. A single employee can do a great deal of damage to a small business, whether by malice or mistake. Failure to complete due diligence on employees may open your business up to a negligent hiring claim, resulting in costly litigation. And perhaps most importantly, a dishonest employee could seriously mar your valuable reputation for a long time. Nationally, examples of repercussions from failure to complete an adequate background check abound. A high school principal was forced to resign after the school newspaper's staff investigated her credentials and found that they were not as she had presented them. Though she had supposedly been vetted by the
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school district, nobody thought to verify her education and it went unquestioned until the students began to investigate. This school district isn't the only organization to be embarrassed by a failure to complete a thorough vetting. Wal-Mart's Vice President of Corporate Communications resigned after it came to light that he had falsified his degree on his resume, and the University of Notre Dame discovered that their new head coach hire, George O'Leary, had lied about having played football in college (he never actually played a single game). To prevent a hazardous hiring error, consider implementing a background check policy. This type of procedure will help decrease the likelihood of a hiring mistake that could drastically impact your business.
Why can’t I just Google them? While it can be tempting to simply do a quick online search of your prospective employee, this tactic is fraught with problems. First, there is plenty of inaccurate or misleading information online that may give you a false impression of your candidate. Second, there may be multiple people with the same name, making it impossible to determine whether what you’ve found applies to the right person. Finally, some of the most important information you need may not be available to the public, or may require deeper digging. For example, criminal records may require searching individual court websites, a time-consuming and labor-intensive process.
A small investment in background checks can help your business avoid the headache of expensive and potentially embarrassing damage
What kind of background check is necessary? Not every position requires an in-depth vetting. For most positions, a basic background check will suffice. The most critical things to discover with a background check are: • Is the information the applicant provided true and accurate? • Is there any important, relevant information the applicant failed to provide? For positions that deal extensively with large sums of money or sensitive financial information, a credit check is always appropriate, and for positions that involve a high degree of physical safety concerns, a drug test may be necessary. To do a background check, the prospective hire should sign a consent form. If you are engaging a company to perform background checks for you, they will usually supply a standard form to have your employees sign. Credit checks and background checks performed by a third party are governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and you must obtain written consent beforehand, as well as follow additional requirements set out by the law. If you are performing the check yourself, written consent is not legally required, but it’s considered good practice to have employees sign anyway. This way, they are aware that the background check is being performed and you have a record of obtaining their consent. A small investment in background checks can help your business avoid the headache of expensive and potentially embarrassing damage from dishonest or unqualified employees and provide you with peace of mind, knowing that you have the truth about those you trust to work for you. ❖
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About the AUTHOR Eddie Nadal is the owner of Nadal Investigative Services, a private investigation firm based in Broad Run. He is a 27 year veteran of the New York City and Nassau County Police Departments, where he investigated homicides, narcotics, and many other cases. His website is www. nadalinvestigations.com; he can be reached at 703-957-9349 or eddie@ nadalinvestigations.com.
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Rules of the Road
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Jared Nieters is co-owner of Haymarket Bicycles and founder of Mapleworks Endurance Coaching. He has won multiple national championships in cycling and now coaches endurance athletes in a multitude of disciplines. He can be reached at info@mapleworks coaching.com and found on most social media sites at @ mapleworkscoach. Photo by Greg Gibson.
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A cyclist riding recklessly not only endangers themselves and others on the road, but also damages the cyclist-motorist relationship.�
First and foremost, cyclists on roads must obey the rules of the road, and cyclists on sidewalks need to follow the rules for pedestrians. That is to say, when bikes are on roads they have to follow the same rules as cars, but when they are used on paths and sidewalks they need to operate as if they are on foot. Cyclists need to take responsibility for their own safety and help to maintain the smooth flow of traffic. A cyclist riding recklessly not only endangers themselves and others on the road, but also damages the cyclist-motorist relationship. It is important for all users of the roads to remember that cyclists
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are allowed to ride two abreast, but need to abide by the rules: “When riding two abreast, bicyclists cannot impede the movement of traffic,” according to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). While riding two abreast is enjoyable, cyclists should move to a single-file line when other vehicles are in the same lane of traffic, as the law requires. Additionally, drivers are required to give three feet of space when passing cyclists.
Runners Runners function as pedestrians on roads and paths. Runners are required to stay off the road where there is a sidewalk or path. However, in Fauquier County, many roads don’t offer those options. Where there is no dedicated space for pedestrians, runners should face traffic. Running against traffic affords the ability to observe and react to approaching vehicles. Like every other user, runners are required to obey any traffic control they may encounter. This includes traffic lights and pedestrian control signals. Drivers need to remember that runners do have the right of way in crosswalks and intersections where the speed limit is below 35 miles per hour. All bikers and runners should use common sense and take responsibility for their own safety. Wearing
Choosing Wisely bright colors, avoiding the use of earphones that drown out other noise, and avoiding odd hours when possible will improve safety. Using reflective materials and flashing lights at dawn, dusk, and in the dark is an easy way to be more visible. “Pretend you’re invisible” is a good approach for anyone exercising out on our roads. In an age when drivers are more distracted than ever, don’t assume you are “seen.” Behave accordingly and always give yourself an “out” by having a plan of action when being approached by any vehicle. Be ready to quickly step out of harm’s way if the need arises. Stepping off the road or pedaling into a driveway to make room for motorists is a reasonable way to engender a healthy relationship with drivers and ensure the safety of all involved. No workout is worth risking life and limb. In the end, cyclists and runners are also drivers, taxpayers, fathers, mothers, daughters, and sons. Shared space should be appreciated. It is a great fortune we have access to such a beautiful area and respect toward one another.❖
Opt for multi-use paths when possible. The best way to be safe is to avoid cars altogether. Drive new routes ahead of time and pay attention to the shoulders, hills, and turns. Look for roads with long lines of sight. Pick roads with wide shoulders. Avoid commuter routes. Don't train in eastbound lanes during morning hours. Try Gravel! Giving gravel roads a try will help you train on roads with few cars and where average speeds are lower.
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Cinnamon Ice Cream The perfect way to create your own treat and celebrate National Ice Cream Month BY CHEF ANTHONY NELSON
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Below: A Horchata Float, a Mexican drink made with rice and and vanilla bean that you may add the cinnamon ice cream to, similar to a float.
eggs without scrambling them. Then combine the rest of the cream mixture into the egg yolks. 4. Return the whole mixture back to the sauce pot. 5. Heat over medium flame, stirring constantly until the mixture reaches 165 degrees. 6. Strain the mixture through a chinois (cone-shaped sieve with woven mesh) and then allow to cool. 7. Your mixture is ready to be spun into ice cream. The process of spinning the ice cream depends on the ice cream maker. Follow the directions to your particular machine to achieve the desired result.
Chef Anthony Nelson grew up on a farm and ranch in Colorado, where his passion for food started. He attended CIA, class of 2004, and has travelled all over the US to further his cooking knowledge.
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