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In a closed session this past Monday, Roanoke City Council chose Northwest Recreation Club, Roanoke Valley Youth Soccer and Roanoke Natural Foods Co-Op for further consideration to occupy part of the former Countryside golf course property. The Northwest Recreation Club proposes a soccer complex that takes up most of the central area available for development. The area set aside for recreation in the Master Plan adopted by City Council allowed for up to a maximum City Gov’t of 13 acres. Northwest Recreation Club is asking for 17.5 acres. The remaining three acres of residential mixed-use property is adjacent to the Runway Protection Zone (RPZ) which receives considerable air traffic noise. Councilwoman Anita Price’s husband Charles Price is a Northwest Region I football coach. Price and Northwest Recreation Club President Clay Dawson have been lobbying for the property for a year. The proposal includes four full-size soccer / multipurpose fields with an additional smaller practice field. One soccer field can also be used for football. At least one field could have artifi-

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Less Stink P6– Virginia has a new insecticide to fight the dreaded stink bug and for many farmers (and homeowners) it’s just in time.

taff Sgt. Travis Surber, a native of Franklin County and a paratrooper with the 173rd Brigade Combat Team’s Battle Company of the 2nd Battalion 503rd Infantry Regiment parachutes out of a C-130 Hercules Transport Aircraft and into the Ukraine sky. This marks the first time the Sky Soldiers of the 173rd have jumped in Ukraine. Surber and his fellow mates will be training and conducting multinational airborne operations and field training exercises through August 5th as part of a U.S. Army led, multi-national exercise known as Rapid Trident, taking place at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv, Ukraine. Keep Travis and all our troops in your prayers.

Congressman Bob Goodlatte voted in support of the revised Budget Control Act which prevents the government from defaulting on current obligations while taking steps toward ending Washington’s culture of spending. The legislation, which passed by a bipartisan vote of 269-161, contains a two-step process for cutting historic amounts of spending. It cuts and caps government spending immediately. “Today the House passed the revised Budget Control Act, which prevents the government from defaulting on our current obligations while taking the necessary steps to rein in Washington’s out-

of-control spending,” said Goodlatte. requires that both the House and the “This legislation, which is the result of Senate vote by the end of the year on a bipartisan negotiations, cuts more fed- balanced budget Constitutional amenderal spending than it increases the debt ment, like the one Goodlatte introduced limit and takes the critical first steps to- on the first day of the 112th Congress. ward bringing fiscal responsibility back Goodlatte was also pleased that the revised Budget Control Act accomplished to Washington.” The legislation will save $917 billion all of these goals without raising taxes. “With forty-nine out of fifty over 10 years in exchange state governments, including for raising the debt ceiling Federal Gov’t Virginia, required to balance by $900 billion until approxitheir state budgets, people are mately February. Before the debt ceiling can be raised again, Congress amazed that the federal government is and the President must enact spending not restrained in this way and strongly cuts at least as large as any potential in- support a balanced budget amendment crease in the debt ceiling. The proposal to the U.S. Constitution,” said Goodlatte.

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“After all, living within your means is a concept that most Americans are all too familiar with and they expect nothing less from the federal government.” Fellow Republican Morgan Griffith found himself on the opposite side of the vote, however, and had this to say about the legislation and his hope for further reform: “Last week I made the difficult decision to compromise and voted for Speaker Boehner’s plan. While the Boehner plan was not perfect, it was a realistic approach and a step in the right direction. > CONTINUED P2: Budget

Latest Jackson River Suit Pits Landowners Against Fishermen

P7– Scott Stallings rolls in a six foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to claim the $1.08 million title at the Greenbrier Classic.

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The band “New Monsoon” plays on the Hill Holler stage at Floydfest.

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P9– Chico Harkrader travels to Opole Poland as part of the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge’s new Artists Exchange Program.

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FloydFest hoped its 10th anniversary would be an “eXperience,” which is how it was billed, and for the thousands that showed up it turned out to be just that. The music extravaganza ran out of tickets on two of its four day run (last Friday and Saturday) and some had to pay extra to camp in the VIP section since the regular camping spots sold out before the end of 2010. The vibe at FloydFest, which is set on a large tract of leased land near the Floyd and Patrick County borders, was as good as ever, even if a few actually complained that it had gotten too big in its tenth year. The array of food vendors, many offering organic dishes, was probably the best ever, and the beer and wine garden did brisk business. As always, the music offered at all 11 venues on site was eclectic, interesting and often new to many listeners. FloydFest has become a favorite of those who travel the music festival circuit every year, attending similar events throughout the southeast and elsewhere. Many in the crowd sported t-shirts from listening ventures in far flung spots. “We’re inspired by all of you,” the lead > CONTINUED P2: Floydfest

A civil case against promoted as public three Virginia anglers water by the Virginia that began last Tuesday Department of Game in Covington could set and Inland Fisheries. a precedent that would The suit charges the limit the public’s right anglers with civil tresto use and enjoy rivers pass for getting out of and streams across the their kayaks and wadstate. ing the river while fishDargan Coggeshall, ing and seeks $10,000 one of the anglers A fisherman plies the waters of in damages. named in the civil case, the scenic Jackson River. North South Develsaid: “I was fishing a opment owns River’s section of the Jackson River that I have Edge, a private community and golf fished for years and an area that the Vir- course on the banks of the Jackson River ginia Department of Game and Inland several miles upstream of Covington. Fisheries has said was public water. I The company claims it owns the river was told by a game warden bottom through a King’s that I could paddle and wade Grant on a 3-mile stretch that State Rivers so long as I stayed within the flows past its second-home high water mark. I don’t unlot sites and golf course dederstand how a private entity can usurp velopment. Since none of the defendants the public’s right and in effect seize state claim to own the river bottom, their lawowned property that all citizens have the yers asked the court to attach the state as right to enjoy.” a third party defendant to the suit, but The case, North South Development, on July 25 Judge Bo Trumbo ruled that LLC, et. al. v. Frank Garden, et. al., has he was not compelled to have the Combeen brought by a development compa- monwealth join the case and so now it is ny seeking to create a private trout fish- up to the defendants to prove that the ery for purchasers of its properties on a North South De> CONTINUED stretch of the Jackson River that histori- velopment does P2: Jackson cally has been patrolled, managed and not own the river

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Another cold front moves in for Friday and the weekend. Showers and storms are again possible for us. Temperatures will be near 90. Dry conditions return for Monday and Tuesday of next week with temperatures in the upper 80s on Monday and mid 80s on Tuesday.

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cial turf and multiple fields would have lighting. The tennis building would be expanded to twice its size and used for locker rooms, restrooms and office space. For the recreational investment by the club, the city will not receive any monetary compensation. As a nonprofit the city will not receive any tax revenue. The club anticipates that their investment will generate collateral tax revenue from out of town teams. The city paid $4.1 million for the property and is still paying on the debt. NWR asks for a 20 to 40 year lease. A letter of interest from John Lipscomb of L & M, LLC, a group interested in the property, proposed purchase of the tennis building and 2.5 acres. It was rejected in favor of NWR. Lipscomb offered $100,000 for the

> Budget Among other things, it required passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution before a second increase in the debt ceiling. However, the legislation before us today was not quite as good. By contrast, today’s deal only requires a Balanced Bud-

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Harvard and Cal-Berkley educated – and once selected by Esquire magazine as one of the people who are changing the nation – Schmookler isn’t all that crazy about the debt ceiling compromise, which saw many votes from both sides of the aisle cast against it before being passed and signed into law. Sixty-six Republican members opposed the legislation along with 95 Democrats. “Bad behavior is being rewarded,” said Schmookler, noting that the debt ceiling had been raised dozens of times in the past without having other issues attached to it. “You don’t play politics with it,” added Schmookler, a long time fixture on the radio in the Shenandoah Valley as a political commentator, who has also been heard on NPR also. Schmookler called the debt ceiling/deficit reduction debate “a violation of our political norms,” and sees a pattern of bad political conduct that has been “scandalous” over the past decade; behavior he says is rewarded because no one confronts them on it. He also says President Obama did not insist forcefully enough that the debt ceiling issue be handled on its own, without being attached to a deficit reduction bill. Democrats in particular said Schmookler

Tall task: Andy Schmookler wants to unseat Bob Goodlatte next year. have done a poor job of confronting bad behavior from the opposing party, and have not used the bully pulpit to their advantage. In any case it’s the “crash of the economy” and the worst economic times since the Great Depression that have set the country back, according to Schmookler, and the new debt ceiling bill will not address that. He claims that the majority of citizens polled and most politicians – even Republicans – were okay with tax increases for the wealthiest Americans, or just letting the Bush era tax cuts for the wealthiest expire. This in spite of data that shows the top 25% of wage earners now pay over 86% of income taxes and that the bottom 50% pay only 2.7%. Schmookler is also critical

that the Tea Party has been able to “extort really destructive demands” from the rest of the Republican Party, while “holding a gun to the American economy.” Meanwhile the Democrats have demurred to those demands, something he is very critical of. He also said the party should have run stronger campaigns in 2010, since he believes most of the nation was okay with tax increases on the wealthiest at the time. He claims that most Dems ran away from that issue, and from their support of the health care legislation many had voted for. That didn’t help in many cases anyway and numerous Democrat incumbents wound up being voted out of office. “The Democrats were out messaged on every issue… People went to the polls believing falsehoods,” said Schmookler, who saw a repeat of that pattern in the debt ceiling vote. Andy Schmookler may have a very uphill battle in his quest to unseat Bob Goodlatte next year, but said he will run – if nominated – as “the candidate who speaks the truth.” His criticism of the debt ceiling compromise may only be the beginning. By Gene Marrano gmarrano@cox.net

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U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy Kicks Off National Night Out

The first Tuesday in August every year “National Night Out Against Crime” has neighbors gathering to stand up against criminal activity. This year Tim Heaphy, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, kicked the day off in Roanoke at the Hurt Park neighborhood in front of their community garden. Mark Powell, director and founder of the Roanoke Community Garden Association, started the garden as a way to evoke neighborhood pride.

McGruff the Crime dog with a young fan. The Hurt Park neighborhood is a success story. The neighborhood has suffered from poverty and the lack of opportunity over the years but good things are beginning to happen. “Things are getting better … a diverse array of interests and energy has come together to revitalize this neighborhood,” said Heaphy. The “Goonz” gang has been eradicated from the area. The gang was selling crack cocaine, committing violent rob-

Mark Powell (left), Tim Heaphy, AUSA Charlene Day. beries and injuring many citizens. They entered the homes of drug dealers and were assaulting women and children. Botetourt County Sheriff Ronald Sprinkle and Commonwealth Attorney Joel Branscome jump-started the Goonz case. Home invasions reached a peak of 87 over a 16-month period in 2008 and 2009. In 2010 only 11 people reported invasion robberies had taken place following prosecution of the Goonz gang. Heaphy attributed the success to police investigators and prosecutors. Roanoke City’s Chief Chris Perkins along with police chiefs and sheriffs from Vinton, Botetourt and Roanoke County flanked him in front of Hurt Park’s community garden. He thanked them all for their cooperation in building a case against violent criminal enterprises. Heaphy says he seeks to combat crime with a comprehensive approach. He believes in coupling enforcement solutions with crime prevention and prisoner reentry programs. Heaphy

calls it a “three-legged stool” strategy. With the additional resources gained by completion of the Promise Neighborhood grant the community will now also have the ability to knock down stumbling blocks that get in the way of education. Freedom First Credit Union is developing affordable neighborhood banking in Hurt Park as well. Freedom First received Corporate Citizen of the Year from the NAACP at their recent banquet. They have been instrumental in providing financial education and offering short-term loans that help avoid predatory lenders. Heaphy chose the Hurt Park Community Garden as a symbol of “weeding out criminal elements and planting the seeds of hope and progress. With nurturing Hurt Park will be a thriving community,” he said. Heaphy joined Roanoke City police Tuesday evening traveling to several neighborhood “Night Out” events. He planned to celebrate, relax and eat with the community. “Tonight, neighbors here and across Roanoke will stand united in the fight against crime … Each citizen will be part of the solution to criminal activity in their own backyards,” said Heaphy. By Valerie Garner info@newsroanoke.com

Diversity In City Workforce Disappointing Brenda Hale, President of the NAACP Roanoke Branch, said of Monday morning’s Diversity Report to Roanoke City Council that she “was a little disappointed in the staff racial mix.” Hale thought the city’s gender mix is also inadequate. Caroline Glover, director of human resources, gave council an overview of the diversity of Roanoke City’s workforce of 1,621 employees. Males make up 64.16 percent, while females make up 35.84 percent of the city’s workforce. Female promotions lagged behind male promotions in 2010. Hale wondered aloud about the position level females were hired into compared to males. “Are they being hired in management or supervisory positions or are they glorified custodians,” asked Hale. The city did not capture data for new hire work assignments. As of April, Roanoke City’s minority population stands at 31.22 percent as recorded by the VEC. Roanoke City’s minority workforce is somewhat lower, at 21 percent. The percent of minority new hires came in at about the same rate. Staff hiring has picked up in 2010 compared to the lean years of 2008-2009. Prior year calculations reflect years of downsizing and seemed to have hit females more than males. “In 2010 hiring picked up to a more normal rate,” observed Assistant City Manager Sherman Stovall. Glover admitted that Fire / EMS is “predominantly a white male dominated environment.

A recycling awards program with Coca-Cola Bottling Consolidated Operations LLC can win a Roanoke City resident a $50 gift card from Kroger starting in October. A sticker will be mailed to residents to affix to their recycle bins if they want to participate. It is not mandatory. The city hopes to increase the 38 percent recycling rate and save on tipping fees. The plan is to entice more people to recycle, and recycle correctly. “One day the city will break even,” said solid waste manager, Skip Decker. On the scheduled day of pickup, the “Recycle and Win” prize patrol will check participating bins for accurate placement of recyclable material. Bin contamination will result in disqualification. Roanoke is the first city in Virginia to enact the program, which has been successful in Raleigh and Charlotte, NC. Each city quadrant will be patrolled equally. Decker also had good news for those who recycle plastic containers. All plastic with the numbers one through seven can now be placed in bins. No more eyestrain searching for a number on the container. Even Styrofoam cups are recyclable—be sure to check for the number six on the cup.

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Held for the third year, last Saturday’s Touch-a- Truck event at Roanoke County’s Green Hill Park was overflowing with activity which included crowd favorite, Firemen’s Foam, as well as a petting zoo and food vendors. And then there were the “trucks.” Almost any vehicle fits the bill, including Fire Trucks, Garbage Trucks, Race Cars, Back Hoes, Small Planes, Boats, Police Cars, Dump Trucks, TV Trucks, Army Cars, Tow Trucks, Freightliners, Helicopters, Cement Mixers, Front End Loaders, Cherry Pickers, Street Sweepers, Bob Cats, Ditch Witches, Antique Cars, Limousines and many more. The free event, allowed kids and adults to sit inside, touch and learn all about vehicles they usually don’t have the opportunity to be up close and personal

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There is a struggle in the Public Works department getting skilled applicants, and diversity is minimal,” she said. Budget cuts have required a reduction in the “Professional Development in Leadership” program. A smaller budget has led to the city being very selective in the recruiting of new employees. No-cost or low-cost job fairs are the norm. The Human Resources department works closely with Total Action against Poverty and other organizations. Councilman Ray Ferris said he’d like to see the percentage of minority applicants to determine if minorities were either not applying or not being hired. Hale believes that qualifications for city positions need to be clearly defined. If a minority applicant is not qualified, then “it sets them up to fail - it takes away their hope,” she said. Vocational education plays a big part in succeeding in many of the city’s positions. Hale was dismayed by the “total silence on military veteran recruitment.” Veterans are already a trained skilled workforce. “It doesn’t get any better than that,” she said. “The Non-Commissioned Officer Association is where they should be looking,” added Hale. Glover explained that recruited applicants have a hard time getting through the Police and Fire/EMS academy. Stovall said that they had been more aggressive in recruiting minorities in the past, and they plan to step it up again as the budget improves.

with. Wendi Schultz, Tourism / Event Coordinator for Roanoke County said “everyone had a fabulous time. It is indeed one of our most popular events. We estimate about 8,000 attended this year and everyone we spoke with was thrilled.” She added that “there were almost 150 vehicles and next year we anticipate having close to 200. Several of the companies who participated this year have already told us they want to bring more next year. We are so glad that we can bring this kind The Firemen enjoyed spraying the children who had a ball as of family fun to the Roanoke well getting soaked at this year’s event. Valley each year!” For more information visit wwwRoanokeCountyParks.com

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n the late 1970s or early 1980s I first heard of tamer’s whip reminds me not of man’s mastery the concept of animal rights from a professor over beast but a sleeping teenager’s angry response at Hollins College, as it was called then. to the appearance in his bedroom door of a parent To me those two words, "animal bearing a list of Saturday chores. rights," seemed as alien as, say, the words The possibility, however remote, of “nuclear donut.” human bloodshed doesn’t entertain me, Time has proven that the notion of aneither. imal rights was an idea that made sense This year, for my birthday in March, to a lot of people. my daughter Katharine provided three No longer do we expect to hear it only tickets to an April performance of the from a social science professor at a social Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey gathering at a party marked by learned Circus at George Mason University Patalk and the popping of wine corks. triot Center in Fairfax. My son Michael Animals have never been a reason to and I joined her for a Sunday afternoon Joe Kennedy attend a circus. Not for me. And the show. I was eager to see what effect the sight of elephants chained to stakes outside arenas wild animals would have on me and apprehensive and tents and swaying neurotically while awaiting that I might find them indispensible which would their turn in the ring has always appalled me. The mean my farewell to the traditional circus. sight of big cats peevishly swatting at their so-called From the blast of the band instruments

through the opening parade and the ringmaster’s masterful greeting (I’d have bought a CD of his performance if any had been available), the percussion-heavy afternoon was quick, crisp, and aweinspiring thanks to the superlative skill of the jugglers, tumblers, acrobats, fliers and other ordinary people doing, as they say, extraordinary things. Then came the elephants, with their ho-hum balancing on stools; really in today’s fast-paced world, would pachyderms on roller skates be too much to expect? Then came the big cats, sourpussed as ever when their trainer bid them, under threat of a lashing, to lie down, roll over, and get up. To my surprise this interlude was not completely worthless. It enabled me to notice that the beasts seemed to be staging a workplace protest. Their unenthusiastic obedience drew the show nearly to a halt. Baseball can be a slow game but the drama more than offsets the pace. A slow circus or one

The Preacher’s Corner - By Stuart Revercomb Striving and Receiving - Scripture: Genesis 32:22-31

slowed by some of its featured performers is as vexing as a slow computer As Judy Collins said, send in the clowns. Why drag those poor beasts out of their habitats anyway? The sheer number of cable TV shows devoted to animals and their environment no doubt has made humans, including children, more familiar with wild things than they have ever been in history. Cirque de Soleil is on to something and traditional circuses could save themselves a lot of money and grief by quietly dropping their least contented cast members and spotlighting their most remarkable ones—the humans who risk life and limb to entertain us with feats of almost unimaginable skill, feats that place them, whipless, in real danger.

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n the chapters just ahead of the above referenced scripture we learn that things are about to get very interesting for Jacob who, with all his wives and possessions and herds, is getting ready to cross back into his brother Esau's territory . Yup, that Esau - the one he has flimflammed and pilfered and conned like a small town carnival huckster. And he has just received the news that his brother is approaching from the north with over 400 men. Jacob is scared - and rightfully so. After considering his limited options, he divides all of his possessions (people, goods and herds) into two parties - figuring that if Esau attacks the one then maybe the other will get away. He then prays to God and seeks his help, admitting that he's not worth all the blessings he's received. He also reminds God of the promise he made to him that he would indeed be blessed if he (Jacob) returned to this land. "Don't forget God, I'm your guy. I've always tried to do my best - but things look mighty tough." Returning to a more "practical" line of thinking he decides to offer Esau presents and he takes his remaining possessions and sends them forward telling his servants to put some distance between themselves so that the different portions of gifts will come in waves and perhaps appease his brother from whom he has stolen just about everything of real value. There is nothing else left to do and that night Jacob sends his two wives, his two female servants and his 11 sons across the small brook that was before them. He then goes back across where he finds himself alone. Jacob knows there is no way out. But then a strange thing happens - and all we are told by way of introduction is that "A man wrestled with him until the breaking of day . . " And in this striving Jacob never gives up. And apparently this angel or representative of God or God himself as Jacob later boldly claims, is very impressed with the attribute of tenacity sticking with it - persevering. And when "the man" realizes he can't get away he touches the socket of Jacob's hip and puts it out of joint. But this doesn't help either and finally the man says, "let me go be-

cause the day breaks!" And Jacob responds with all the passion of a man that wants to live anew and overcome the challenges before him: "I will not let you go unless you bless me!" The man asks Jacob's name (presumably in order to bless him) and Jacob in turn asks him HIS name and you can almost hear the laughter in the man's voice - "Why is it that you ask MY name?" And he blesses him there. Jacob limps onward into the morning seemingly no better off - and maybe worse - than he was before. But the day goes entirely different than he ever could have imagined. Somehow through the mystery of his striving and struggling and wrestling with God, things have been put right with Esau, and his brother welcomes him with an attitude of forbearance and forgiveness. Esau even winds up leaving him with some of the servants that HE had brought. Hasn't your own intuition told you this your whole life - and hasn't life itself also born out the idea that this is what it takes? A willingness to wrestle and to strive - to not always play it so safe or exactly as the book might have it . . . To persevere - to endure - to have the nerve and the moxie to ASK for the blessing, even when you know you don't deserve it? That God isn't looking so much for the strongest or the smartest or even the bravest as he is for the persistent seeker that works well with what he's got . . . The honest doubter in lieu of the overconfident zealot who arrogantly believes he or she has God all figured out . . . The person with little who is willing to take a high risk - in lieu of the one who seeks to protect what he already has. Jacob seeks. Jacob wrestles. Jacob never gives up. Jacob asks for the man's name! And in the end Jacob receives God's favor and intercession. That we would all wrestle so boldly.

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s it just me, or does indulge my fantasies. most everyone you talk * The future won’t wrongly to these days think that pit economy against environmost everything in politics, ment in an either-or battle. In economics, society and the the new economic model, the environment is broken on a full value of services to hugrand scale? Wonder why? manity provided by healthy, We’ve blindly folresilient oceans, lowed a seriously soils, forests and flawed Human Busithe biodiversity of ness Plan for the past organisms will be century. During that given their true valtime, we shifted from ue and their health a needs-based to dewill be as important sires-based economy a bottom-line confor profit, not permasideration as profit. nence, and proceed[Search: triple boted as if the planet’s tom line]. National Fred First capacity to give and and corporate acto recover from insult were tivities that harm the overall infinite. Corporations came health and sustainability of to wield unprecedented power those globally-shared natural over governments, people and systems will incur shareholder planet; their single bottom line outrage and heavy penalties. has been profit in dollars only. * Corporate profitability We have acted as if our species’ and Gross Domestic Product best interest was the only mea- (GDP) will no longer be seen sure of progress and economic as the best measure of how the health. economy is working for you Lately, many are acknowl- and me. Measures, such as edging that the Human Enter- the Genuine Progress Indicaprise is on the cusp of rapid, tor (GPI) adopted at the state urgent, revolutionary reorien- level by Maryland and others, tation, because the old maps will give us truer measures of are leading us to a dangerous the well-being of all, not the place. These past standards of disproportionate new wealth business simply cannot guide of the few. us to the future we want for the * Along these same lines, the next generations. At last, per- nation of Bhutan is using an haps, we’re not only putting on index of national health called the brakes at the very edge of Gross National Happiness. the precipice, but radically re- The Happy Planet Index is the versing the direction we must measuring tool of the National go from this point on, to move Economics Foundation of the us away from, not ever closer, UK, an organization which to the brink. has as its logo “economics as In spite of this somber in- if people and planet mattered,” dictment of what has hap- reminiscent of the subtitle of pened here on my watch, I am Brit EF Schumacher’s prescient newly hopeful. While in such a 70’s book on this very topic positive delusional state, let me called “Small Is Beautiful.” share an abbreviated sampling * As more of us consume of personally-encouraging the planet, the pie does not get shifts and insights that seem any bigger. All our eggs are in to me to show we are able— this one basket; all humanity’s while only possibly willing--to life support comes from this fix what we’ve broken or badly ONE spaceship Earth. We will bent while there is still time. necessarily learn to live within I’m day-dreaming here, so just our means, and find that there

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Virginia Has New Insecticide to Roanoke College Debuts in Princeton Review for Beauty and Scholarship Fight Stink Bugs Virginia has a new weapon in the fight against the brown marmorated stink bug, a thumbnail-sized pest that has made headlines over the past year for the trouble it caused growers and homeowners alike. On June 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted an emergency exemption to use the insecticide dinotefuran to control the stink bug on stone and pome fruits in Virginia and six other states. Chris Bergh, tree fruit and grape specialist for Virginia Cooperative Extension and associate professor of entomology at Virginia Tech, prepared the application for the pesticide’s use as part of Extension’s larger effort to ward off the stink bug in Virginia. “The exemption will allow stone and pome fruit growers in a seven-state region to use this pesticide,” Bergh said. The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer

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round; coming from a J.J. Redick has come a family that ate plenty long way from his days of organic food, Redick as a star player at Cave also has an eye for what’s Spring High School healthy and what’s not. where he led his team to “I stay in shape year a Group AAA state basround,” he noted. ketball championship “There’s some really as a senior. At Duke he good talent here,” said set an NCAA record for Redick about the campthree point shots and was ers he had worked with named the two-time colat North Cross. He went lege player of the year. to plenty of camps himThen it was on to the Billy Hicks talks to NBA Skills campers at self growing up, includNational Basketball As- North Cross. ing some run by Hicks, sociation, where over and looked at them as “a brief the past five seasons Redick has dance. Hicks said Redick wanted it to opportunity to improve. I always “leaned out” (just four percent body fat!) and is now considered be a no-nonsense camp where wanted to take something away a decent defender – something he could focus on the skills that from every camp.” Redick figures he turned the that he would have never been could help attendees become called five years ago. In 2010- better ballplayers. Hicks noted corner as an NBA player two 2011, for the first time ever, that one of the sessions with seasons ago when he shut down playing for the Orlando Magic, Redick would be on playing de- Boston’s Ray Allen in the playoffs Redick averaged double figures fense; “he’s gone from being a de- and started several games. A fifensive liability [early in his NBA nals appearance against Los Anin scoring (10.1 ppg). Before last season he also career] to a guy now that’s con- geles that season was one of his scored big financially, netting a sidered among league coaches to career highlights. being a very good wing defendRedick said playing in Europe er. He guards Kobe [Bryant], he as a way to stay in game shape guards D Wade [Dwayne Wade], during an extended lockout is he guards Ray Allen …the best “not an option” for 90 percent scorers in the league.” of those in the NBA and is not Several former Cave Spring something he is considering at players and others that attend- this time. But, come January, if ed local high schools—Logan he is not playing yet and is fully Singleton, Zach Barrett from recovered from abdominal surHidden Valley and now Roa- gery this summer due to muscle noke College—also helped out. tears, Redick would consider alJ.J. Redick and his coach at “These guys have worked really lowing a foreign team to “rent” hard with the kids,” said Hicks, him. “But I do enough on my Cave Spring, Billy Hicks, colwho was grateful that Redick was own to stay in great shape.” He laborate on a camp drill. involved. It’s tough for Redick to figures the lockout could be a three year, 19 million dollar con- get back to Roanoke these days long one; “there’s no incentive for tract. Not bad for a jump shoot with his busy schedule and life the owners [who want to change specialist and spot starter, al- in Orlando, which now includes the league salary structure] to negotiate in good faith. It’s going though Redick has become more wife Chelsea. The impending NBA lock- to be a while.” proficient at going to the net on out may have taken some of Seeing Redick show up also drives in the last few seasons. Redick was in town last week the pressure off Redick, at least inspired some campers; “when for a fundraiser golf tournament for the time being, according to J.J. walks in everybody looks at at Ballyhack and a concert that Hicks, who has won two more him and goes ‘how does he play supported his new charitable Group AA state championships in the NBA? He looks just like foundation that will benefit the in the post J.J. Redick era. As for me,’” said Hicks. “What sets him Children’s Miracle Network and the NBA skills camp, Hicks is apart is the work ethic.” Hitting a CHIP (see jjredick.com for more hopeful it will piggyback on the close in, running shot perfected details). With life more settled annual golf tournament every several years ago helped earn that these days, he figured it was time year. “The fifty kids that are here 19 million dollar contract – that’s have gotten unbelievable value what Redick told his starry-eyed to give back to the community. “For the first year of doing out of this camp,” said Hicks, campers – that it wasn’t only his these events it couldn’t have gone who added that Redick had been long range jumper. Hicks can only hope that the any better,” said Redick, who “extremely hands on.” Before the last day of camp got next J.J. Redick might have been stayed for part of the following week to run the J.J. Redick NBA started, Redick spoke about the among the campers, heading to skills camp for 13-17 year old impending NBA lockout, which Cave Spring and perhaps on his boys, held at North Cross School. came following a season where way to stardom elsewhere. “I love working [and] talkRedick’s coach at Cave Spring, he claimed revenues were at an Billy Hicks, helped organize and “all time high.” Players are get- ing with Billy. It’s always good run the three-day camp with his ting money back from escrow to trade stories,” added Redick former protégé. Kids from West and can make it through the sea- about his long time mentor. Virginia, Ohio and North Caro- son if they don’t get on the court By Gene Marrano lina were among those in atten- at all, according to Redick. He eats well and exercises year gmarrano@cox.net

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Bluegrass fiddle-fireball, Michael Cleveland and his award winning band "Flamekeeper" will headline the "Bluegrass Fever" concert being held on August 7th at the Blue Ridge Music Center that will kick off the great week of music at the Galax Old Fiddler’s Convention. Eight-time winner of the IBMA Fiddler of the Year award, Cleveland has lead Flamekeeper in taking home the IBMA Group of the Year award 4 times. Both his CDs “Flamekeeper” and “Let Er Go Boys” have received the IBMA Instrumental Album of the Year award and the band’s new CD “Fired Up” is getting airplay across the country. Cleveland has performed with Rhonda Vincent, Dale Ann Bradley, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, J.D. Crowe and the New South, Audie Blaylock and Redline, Melvin Goins and others. The group has a new lineup that Cleveland says he is excited about bringing to Galax. The band now features Charlie Cushman on banjo, Ashby Frank on vocals/ mandolin, Charlie Lawson on vocals/guitar and Blake Bowen on vocals/bass. Kicking off the Bluegrass Fever concert will be hometown

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sociative tendencies manifest during the storms of her life, culminating with Katrina, the “Angel” responds to her heart’s call for love in a way that transforms not only her, but those who have entered her life. The story is richly multi-layered, woven with subplots that converge surprisingly at the end.

The award winning Bluegrass band, Flamekeeper. favorite, Houston Drive, sonamed in memory of banjoist, Houston Caldwell. They’re no slouches in this group either. Houston Drive won the blue ribbon for Best Bluegrass Band at the Old Fiddlers Convention last year and will be stiff competition this year as well with their powerful singing and hot picking.

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