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Running for the Celts Helping Haiti

P3– Roanokers Come together to pack over 285,000 meals for earthquake victims in Haiti.

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Shamrock Hill Distance Run leaders break away from the pack at the start of the 5K race last Saturday. More than 400 runners lined up at the starting line just as the rain stopped to begin the event presented by the Roanoke Catholic Educational Foundation.Tim Smith of Roanoke (number 676 on far right) crossed the finish line first to win the race.

Smith, 19, ran the course in 16 minutes 15 seconds. Beni Thompson finished first for the women, with a race time of 20 minutes 51 seconds. This is the 20th year the race has been run in downtown Roanoke.

Tea Tavern is Best Kept Secret in Botetourt County The aroma of freshly baked scones greeted visitors to the White Oak Tea Tavern in Troutville on a recent Saturday.

The scones were part of an elaborately planned scavenger hunt for a young woman who, at her final stop later in the day, would receive a wedding proposal.

(She said yes.)

That was just the beginning of a busy day for Sherry Conrad and other employees at the Tea Tavern. While checking on the scones and being interviewed by this reporter, the Fincastle resident greeted visitors and got ready for the rush-hour crowd.

Conrad says the building was originally a home owned by the Cloyds family in the 1700’s. Lisa and Richard Farmer disassembled it from its old location about five miles away in the Amsterdam area and reassembled it on its current site on Roanoke Road (alternate 220 between Troutville and Fincastle) in 1996. The Farmers made some additions, including a bathroom and kitchen, but Conrad says, “The rest of it is the original structure.”

Lisa Farmer ran a gift shop out of the building, and later it became a podiatrist’s office. The Tea Tavern, owned by Kim Arney, is the third business housed in the antique structure. Conrad says, “The atmosphere’s great. The building is part of

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The White Oak Tea Tavern On US 220.

what makes White Oak Teas a success.”

People come for the relaxed atmosphere - the cozy, homey feeling of it.”

The Tea Tavern is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and is closed on Sunday. There’s a gift shop in the front which sells items such as jewelry, books, and decorations; the restaurant, which seats 20, is in the back. Reservations are requested because the restaurant is fairly small. The upstairs resembles a living room with couches

and chairs. Conrad says it’s designed as a quiet place for people to drink a cup of tea and enjoy a book.

She says a lot of elderly ladies dine at the Tea Tavern and the Red Hat Society meets there. The restaurant hosts book clubs, Bible study groups, the Newcomer’s Club, and other groups. People can rent the restaurant portion of the building for showers and other parties when the Tea Tavern is closed.

Sometimes men are a little timid about coming in. “They think it’s going to be a little prissy tea shop. But when they get through (eating), they’re very content.”

According to business owner Kim Arney, the Tea Tavern sells 21 regular teas and has a variety of special teas. “We have green teas, we have black teas, we have oolongs and tisanes which are herb and fruit teas,” says Conrad. They have seasonal teas, such as a Valentine tea, wassail, pumpkin spice, and holiday spice teas and a Tavern signature blend, which is a more traditional tea.

Conrad says, “It’s one of the best kept secrets in Botetourt County.” They do a little advertising, but most customers find out about the Tea Tavern by word of mouth or on > CONTINUED the internet. She says some people P2:Tea Tavern

Rescue Mission Hails Volunteers

Any organization that depends on volunteers is likely to show its appreciation for them and the Rescue Mission is no exception. A recent Sunday— Valentine’s Day to be exact— was a day of celebration when volunteers were recognized and given a tour of the Mission’s new medical clinic. “O Happy Day” was the theme of the event. Yellow smiley faces brightened the atmosphere, which included cookies decorated with smiling faces given out as favors to all attending.

Fourteen stations set up around the Mission recognized volunteers as valued contributors who help to make their

operations run smoothly. Over 400 attended the reception, according to Director of Development and Administration Lee Clark.

Volunteers are vital at the Mission, where they logged 76,743 volunteer hours in 2009 - the equivalent of 37 full time employees, according to Clark.

The medical clinic already has volunteer workers, and “there is always a need for someone to step in and help,” he added.

Dr. Faith Pasley works as Volunteer Medical Director. She practices family medicine and

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Visitors on their way into the Fralin Free Clinic during the recent open house and volunteer appreciation celebration.

About 100 people were in attendance at the Roanoke City “candidate forum” held in the Fellowship Hall of Christ Lutheran Church last Thursday night. The Greater Raleigh Court Civic League, the Greater Deyerle Neighborhood Association, the Southeast Action Forum and the Grandin Court Neighborhood Association sponsored the forum. John Carlin served as the moderator.

The three Republican candidates waffled on tax increases, admitting during some of the questioning that it would be the last resort.

Republican Candidate Mike Powell advocated for smaller government, saying the city’s budget is “terribly managed… we don’t need to raise taxes… [we need to] cut the fat.” Powell has lived in the city for 14 years and owns several businesses, which he says “are all profitable and I know how to make them grow,” expertise he feels would aid council in managing the budget.

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Local School Systems Display Solidarity

Members of three local school boards and administrators stood shoulder to shoulder last week, announcing a joint resolution that called for state and federal lawmakers to make K-12 education a priority. The way to do that said Roanoke County, Roanoke City and Salem school board members, is by finding offsetting budget cuts elsewhere.

Roanoke City, which has adopted a preliminary budget that could see more than Education 140 people let go, programs slashed and schools closed (Round Hill the most likely candidate) could see state funding cuts of up to 16 million, although that is considered a worst-case scenario. Roanoke County faces more than eight million in cuts while the smaller Salem system expects around two million dollars of funding to disappear. (State lawmakers could amend the budget recently adopted during a veto session next month.)

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Temperatures will cool down a bit as the week begins before rebounding back into the 60s by next Tuesday and Wednesday.

find the Tea Tavern on their annual journey to the Homestead or Greenbrier and stop in. Then they make the restaurant a permanent stop on their trip. The business is staying busy even during the tough economic times. She says the recession hasn’t affected them that much, considering some people are eating out less to

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Roanoke City School Board chairman David Carson would not rule out the possibility of a law suit – if they can build a case that the Commonwealth has constitutionally failed in its duty to fund education. “After cuts last year, 88 positions [not refilled], closing schools, it doesn’t leave much besides personnel. Less teachers, more students,” said Carson. He added that fewer educators were being asked to do more as standards become more difficult. “At some point you [have] to play fair.”

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save money. “I think we have a lot of loyal customers.”

One of those customers is Mary Floyd from Fincastle, who has been coming to the White Oak Tea Tavern since she moved from Lynchburg three years ago.

She drove past on Route 220, “and saw how cute it was and just wanted to see

to school funding. However, he said “the problem is not going away in two years with declining revenue…we have to grow our economy with new business.”

Cooper admitted that it might be necessary to raise fees and taxes. He brought some chuckles when talking about council decisions, saying “what we have seen in many instances is like a merry-go-round; after they make a decision and before the ink is dry they’re back again revisiting the decision.”

The only incumbent, Democrat Dave Trinkle, was put in the position of defending his record, especially concerning the hiring of consultants for studies and school support. He said “studies are plans used to make Roanoke more competitive but the budget has placed everything on hold.”

Trinkle, a doctor of geriatric psychiatry at Carilion, was not opposed to a ward system, saying “we’ve got to be responsive to all parts of the city.” He admitted the city needs to do a better job of addressing code enforcement concerns of the neighborhoods. He feels tourism should receive increased funding and organizational efforts to increase tourism should be consolidated.

Attorney Ray Ferris is the only Democrat running who has not previously served on council. He took a wait-and-see stance on the 2% meals tax increase for schools, preferring to wait until the budget is thor-

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advocated for proactive fiscal management and reducing waste, Walker lives in northwest city and is currently a Regional Coordinator for Special Education with Roanoke County. Walker said “I have a doctorate from VT and we need to be proactive in fiscal management, have more economic development and support our schools. The graduation rate is 60% and it needs to get better.” He supports Chris Morrill, saying “the new city manager has good ideas.”

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months from now, realizing they had made a mistake that couldn’t be fixed, just as Roanoke was making academic strides. “I hope that folks have their eyes wide open … so we don’t get there.”

The resolution, read by Carson from the podium, urged state and federal legislators “to take whatever steps are necessary to make education a first priority, by considering bold and creative means.”

Roanoke County Schools Superintendent Lorraine Lange lent her support to the nonbinding resolution: “we believe

oughly combed through. He also wants to see what Richmond will contribute before committing.

In response to studies waiting the shelf, he said we will “dust them off and prioritize” in better times. Ferris was optimistic, saying “things are going to get better … believe me we have been through tough times before and things are going to get better.” Ferris said he expected to spend 18-20 hours a week as a council member, adding that his law practice takes 60 hours a week of his time, and said “I am a native Roanoker and I want to give back to the community that has given me so much.”

Former council member Bill Bestpitch said, “Being on council is like being at a square dance; every two years you get a couple of new partners to swing with.” He believes more citizen involvement and public input is needed prior to a consultant study.

Bestpitch wants to get back to basics, and reduce the size of government, saying “We need to make decisions and stick to them and not be wishy-washy. Roanoke does not need to be fixed but made better.”

The Democrats held on the possibility of increasing taxes and fees, and chastised Richmond, as Ferris emphatically stated, for “passing the buck to localities.”

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Let’s have the least amount of cuts for our students – because they are our future.” The county has already announced one school closing – Bent Mountain Elementary.

Salem City School Board chair Sally Southard supported that nation: “we truly ask that our children be spared. We need an educated work force in the valley and in order to do that we need educated students.”

Southard asked that any cuts be temporary, so that the state can restore funding once the economy does turn around. South-

ard wants lawmakers to look at other revenue sources for alternative sources of funding.

Carson said “every one” of the 32,000 students in the three school divisions could feel the impact of deep budget cuts next year. It leaves him feeling helpless and “desperate.” The Virginia Education Association has estimated that 15,000 or more educators could lose their jobs under the budget passed by the General Assembly.

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Daleville Town Center, located off US 220, was the site of a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Lewis-Gale Imaging Center on Tuesday.

A new $5 million facility will house CT, ultrasound and general radiology (x-rays) along with a primary care and specialty physician practice for Lewis-Gale. The new building will have the same design as other Daleville Town Center structures, according to Victor E. Giovanetti, President of HCA Southwest Virginia.

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The first imaging center in Botetourt County will serve as an anchor for the Daleville Town Center, Karen Waldron, CEO of Fralin and Waldron, said.

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wanted to spend her time at the Mission where she can share her faith. “God changed my life,” said Pasley, adding that she wanted to be helping people in Jesus’ name, believing that people’s spiritual needs are just as important as physical needs.

The new Dr. G. Wayne Fralin Free Clinic for the Homeless is named for a “compassionate and innovative family practice doctor who has served in the community for many years,” said a Mission press release. Dr. Fralin was present - and honored - at the ceremony.

The clinic made its move to its new location on Monday, March 8, and began seeing patients at its

new location just two days later. It has over three times the space—7,300 square feet - compared to the 2,000 square feet in the current clinic.

There are three ministries under the clinic’s umbrella. In the medical section there are six exam rooms, a lab, offices and a medication room.

Patients needing dental work will be served in an area with five dental chairs, an x-ray room and a lab. “The mental health area includes two psychiatrists’ offices for counseling,” added Clark.

“I think the clinic acts as a safety net for the homeless,” said Clinic Manager Stephanie Sylvester-Johnson. “We try to keep them out of the [emergency room].” Pasley said the clinic pro-

Roanoke Comes Together to Help Haiti and Each Other This past Sunday, Patrick Henry High School was abuzz with activity as the beat of music pumping and hundreds of people talking and laughing emanated from the expansive cafeteria. Every so often, the clang of a gong sounded and everyone stopped and erupted into a collective cheer.

The gong didn’t sound because someone scored a goal at a sporting event; rather it was letting “Stop Hunger Now” participants know that they were getting closer to their goal of putting together 285,000 meals to be shipped to Haiti. This was the scene at Patrick Henry all day long as groups of volunteers rotated in and out doing their part to meet that goal.

It was St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church’s response to the need they saw in Haiti that began this community wide event. As Jenny Fife at St. Elizabeth’s started to organize her church’s event with Stop Hunger Now, she quickly realized that there were other churches and groups outside the church that wanted to help too. Before long, what started as a single church’s effort to help feed the people of Haiti grew to almost 30 times the size of its original vision.

Stop Hunger Now provides hunger relief in crisis situations as well as school feeding programs all over the world, and has been active in Haiti since 1998. This put them in a uniquely strong position to respond to the massive need as soon as the tragedy hit.

Even before the earthquake, Stop Hunger Now had already slated three million meals to go to Haiti. They have since sent another one million for earthquake relief and are planning to send an additional two million. They strive to be as efficient as possible and because of the extensive volunteer support, Stop Hunger Now is able to provide the pre-packaged meals for around a $1.50 a piece.

Each of the 285,000 meals prepared at the event have six servings, so it ends up being 1,710,000 servings at $0.25 each. Not only did the Roanoke community provide the volunteers needed, but it also raised the $70,000 required to cover the cost of raw ingredients.

Their efficiency isn’t limited to how far they can stretch a dollar. It is amazing how smoothly the group expedites the work flow at the food packing events. Area Program Director Troy Henson has a commanding presence along with a driven, yet calm personality, which makes him a perfect fit for leading this type of event. That is a good thing; this last Sunday some 1000-1400 volunteers were rotated in and out from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Every volunteer needed to find their place in the coordinated work force. Jobs included: assembling the packets of rice, soy,

vides a “cost savings,” preventing unnecessary ER visits and hospital stays by treating chronic care needs. People who have insurance or who are working are not eligible for services.

“We are going to be able to serve over 20% more clients [in the first year],” said Sylvester-Johnson.

“There are more than 12,000 visits a year in the current clinic.” Patients will receive better care in the Fralin clinic, and medical, dental and psychiatric services can be offered concurrently. Only one service at a time can be provided now.

“There are only three full time staff members and over 100 clinic volunteers are needed,” said the Mission’s CEO, Joy Sylvester-Johnson. “Regu-

lar people” are needed to take case histories and provide childcare, she added, in addition to those with medical experience. There is also a need to educate clients about diabetes and hypertension, she added.

Medical volunteers are needed, including “doctors, nurses, dentists and mental health personnel,” said Clark. Other volunteer needs include medical transcriptionists, receptionists and support staff. Those interested in volunteering may contact Volunteer Coordinator Leslie Littlefield at 777-7651.

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St. Patrick’s Day Parade Delivers Again

One of the largest St. Patrick’s Day parades in the Southeast, perhaps the second biggest according to Event Zone’s Larry Landolt in the past, had everyone feeling a bit Irish last Saturday. That’s when the 20th Annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, now accompanied by a Celtic Festival, occupied the streets of downtown Roanoke.

First up was an attempt to set a record for the world’s largest Riverdance demonstration of Irish music, and while that effort may have fell a bit short, several hundred people of all ages did gamePhoto by Gene Marrano ly line up for a few minutes of instruction from performance artist Beth Deel and others. After a A parade float makes it’s way downtown. few practice runs and a three minute or so routine downtown for the Celtic Festival, while others it was over; then the parade starting coursing its checked out the Farmers Market or took advanway down Jefferson Street. tage of a free family day at the Taubman Museum Thousands lined the streets to watch more than of Art. 70 floats, bands and dignitaries go by, everyone

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Participants leave these events knowing they’ve done something real - something tangible. They can see the bags of rice the contributions bought.

They see the meals come together, the boxes going onto the truck. They know where the container is heading, and when it’s going to get there. The meals that were just put together here in the Roanoke Valley will be in Haiti in early April. While it’s only part of the many needs the people of Haiti have, it’s a part that participants know they’ve been able help with.

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ow there’s a title that can lead in many along with plans for a new medical school and directions! In the last three decades multi-million dollar clinic building, a hotel (prifew hospital systems have undergone vately financed), and other as yet to be disclosed the growth spurt that we have witnessed in Roa- plans. noke. Some had their origins back in the era of It has become apparent the independent pracW.H. (Ham) Flannigan; others are so current tice model, particularly for the primary care they are on the front page almost daily. It was Mr. physicians, is doomed. It is going the way of the Flannigan’s foresight that set the stage for the huge house call; my generation received much critienterprise that we have today. A half century ago, cism for abandoning that time-honored tradition. he began purchasing real estate for the hospital. It was too inefficient to survive. My hat is off to He had the vision that someday, Roanoke Memo- those few practices trying to surf this juggernaut rial would need it; he was certainly of a wave. They will be the last of their right about that. breed for a variety of reasons.

When Carilion announced some Now Carilion faces the charge that years ago that they were giving 25 there is pressure for their physicians to million dollars to start the Carilion refer internally, that is, to other CarilBiomedical Institute, many wondered ion physicians. That contention has what they were thinking. Today, it’s found its way into the courts. While still not clear what happened to that Carilion insists there is no such policy, organization. It may well be involved as one who spent 30 years in a referin its original purpose of developing ral cardiology practice, that’s how the biomedical ideas that are marketable; system works. Carilion does not need if so it has maintained a very low proto state the policy; physicians refer file. Perhaps it will find a renaissance Hayden Hollingsworth to those with whom they work on a in the near future. daily basis, particularly if they have As the purchasing of primary care practices by a common institutional interest. The Clinic has Carilion grew during the 1990s, the handwriting positioned itself to do that quite well. An imporon the wall was still somewhat murky but the fear tant offshoot has been the strengthening of Lewisthat referral sources to the specialists would be cut Gale and their allies; they have responded to the off seemed unwarranted. Carilion had no special- increased competitive pressure from Carilion ists in their system so those in a referral practice with expansion plans of their own. felt secure. That has changed radically. There are Take a drive down Reserve Avenue and then more than 600 physicians in their employ and tell me you’re unimpressed by what you see. The many of them are well-qualified specialists. courts will decide whether Surfaces, the only busiNow we have the integrated practice model— ness still standing, will survive. I hope the owners aka The Carilion Clinic. When that idea was first will be treated fairly, but anyone who thinks that presented, it came as a surprise to, not only the shop will be there in ten years hasn’t kept up with private physicians in the area, but also to a highly the history of medical development. placed board within the Carilion system. It has In five months the inaugural class of the medibeen suggested that conferring with those who cal school will arrive. It will mark the beginning had spent a lifetime in practice here might have of a whole new era in higher education for southmade the launching of the concept a little less tu- western Virginia. Carilion has created thousands multuous. Carilion’s reasoning may have been it of jobs, invested hundreds of millions of dollars in would be easier to get forgiveness than permission the community and capitalized on the vision of from the specialists. That has proven so.

Mr. Flannagan. There are numerous conflicts yet Early TV spots suggested that the area had been to be resolved. I hope they will be approached in suffering with substandard medical care for years; an open-handed manner by all who are involved. the Clinic would eliminate that. Hackles were We all have an investment in seeing this enterraised, long years of collegiality evaporated, and prise succeed. Those of us who have spent our fears of what was yet to come quickly surfaced. professional lives in this medical community still It wasn’t long before angry accusations from have one thought in mind: We strive for the best private practitioners led to activists groups who medical care for everyone. Those in private pracopposed the Clinic model. It was a classic case of, tice still believe that; in my judgment, Carilion “Where does believes it, too. the gorilla sit?”

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Since being emancipated by tool bag ownership, I have embarked on all sorts of interesting low-level projects, not the least of which is picture hanging. I have a stud-finder, which I rarely use, a measuring tape, and plenty of nails to go with my very own hammer. I have found that the best way to figure out where to hang a picture is to look at the wall, decide on a place, and whack in a nail with abandon. It works almost every time, except about 50% of the time, when I pull the nail out and move it over an inch and a half. Perfect.

All is well UNLESS my husband, or any man, is around. They hear a nail being hammered and run in to see what you are ruining. It’s annoying.

I have never yet checked for studs, used those anchor things or carefully measured six times just to hang ONE picture. And not one of the pictures I have hung has ever fallen off, even through two mild earthquakes that have hit the area in the last decade.

In fact, I would bet that if all that were really necessary, then at least two-thirds of all pictures hung in our area’s homes would have crashed to the floor during at least one of the quakes, but they did not.

This year, with spring finally upon us, the next logical step is for Coach and Vera Bradley to go ahead and start a line of -- tool bags, of course.

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ike most everyone else, I am longing for spring. That’s a more diplomatic way of saying we’ve all been about ready to take someone’s head off –run around screaming—or at the very least drive straight south without looking back--if the sun doesn’t warm things up pretty soon. But, hallelujah, we’ve just about made it!

The boots are being stashed and the spring duds are making their way out of storage—not a moment too soon.

Ladies’ accessories like purses are in immediate need of attention – black just won’t do when the clocks “spring forward” and the birds are singing.

I remember the cool purse I had in high school – at that time a trendy leather satchel that nowadays would appear to be some sort of tack for horses, or a saddlebag. This very cool purse, which most all the girls owned at least one version of, had little tooled flowers all around the edges, painted in with pretty pastels. I can still smell the leather and wonder where that now-retro 70’s era archetype ended up? It would make a great mid-life crisis pacifier.

There has been an explosion of purse styles since the days of my youth. Where once we debated whether to stash the Bonne Belle watermelon lip gloss in our pocket, backpack, or the tooled leather purse, today our young girls (and their mothers and grandmothers) covet Coach, Dooney & Bourke, and Vera Bradley, along with 9 West, Liz Claiborne, sparkly “Betsy” purses and probably hundreds of others of which I am blissfully ignorant.

One’s choice of pocketbook / handbag / purse-along with the contents-- is something of a distillation of one’s personality. The gal who carries a little stream-lined number containing only money and a cell phone is a far cry from the owner of a giant satchel loaded with a complete supply of makeup and a day’s worth of luggage along with a novel-in-progress and a water bottle. Peeking inside some of these overstuffed, inanimate companions is akin to jumping down Alice in Wonderland’s rabbit hole…or even worse, being caught in an over-sized Venus fly trap…it’s a whole parallel universe in some of them.

I am currently partial to a spiffy royal blue waterproof bag that looks stylish but is really utilitarian, which just may be reflective of some of my personality traits. Somebody needs to do a Psychology Thesis on the correlation between personality and purse style selection.

All of this brings me to another very important “satchel” – the tool bag. The end of winter means it’s time for fixing things up and getting ready for spring! I happen to own my very own tool bag (brilliant idea borrowed from Susan, a much more organized wife and mom than I) which I keep INSIDE the house, as opposed to the garage where my husband’s tools reside.

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Persistence and Passion Help Local Remembering Hank Hamrick Writer Win Honors At Hollins

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Elizabeth Matthews Jones semester driving to and from Baltimore, missing classes and trying to keep up with homework in hotel rooms. Other students and the faculty supported her with emails and phone calls, assisting with her homework via her computer.

“I do not know how I could have succeeded without their help,” she said, adding, ”They also helped me celebrate when Steven’s murderer was convicted.”

Succeed she did. Not only did she complete the requirements for graduation with honors, but she received other awards.

After winning a writing contest at Hollins, she was entered into a national writing contest for her nonfiction piece entitled “Rocking Chair.” The contest is sponsored by the AWP. The Association of Writing Programs,

of which Hollins is a member.

Awards will be announced in April.

She also won a scholarship to an Undergraduate Writing Workshop held recently at Sweetbriar College. ”What a thrill to be with outstanding students from other colleges, to read some of my nonfiction work, and have time to write uninterrupted by other responsibilities!” she said. “And my mentor was an alum from the writing program at Notre Dame!”

In addition to all these honors, Elizabeth was awarded a $1000 scholarship from Dan Smith (Valley Business Front) at the Roanoke Regional Writers’ Conference. Each year a Hollins writer of merit receives this scholarship.

This semester, with graduation requirements behind her, Elizabeth is acting and singing in “Violet”, the spring musical at Hollins. She is also working on an independent study about the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway, focusing on the road between Roanoke and Asheville. With persistence and passion she truly has earned her spot at the top of the class.

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heard a great joke the when surrounded by positive other day from a 6 year fun-loving friends. old. He asked “What Regarding our children’s happens when you hang out social world, it is our job to with a lot of ducks?........... restrict contact with those You start quacking!” The that are not good influences, funniest part of the whole both in behavior and attitude, thing was the kid and to open and rolling on the floor support access to laughing in comthose that appear plete hysterics. Afmore healthy and ter he calmed down positive. To take I asked him what it a “hands off ” apmeant. “It means proach about our if you hang out children’s friends with mean people, is both foolish and you will do mean dangerous.

We things,” he comhave the life expeKeith McCurdy mented. Wow, out rience and wisdom of the mouths of that our children babes. At this young age he lack in evaluating relationis already beginning to learn ships and can see things they that who he hangs around will not. with can have an affect on The driving force in emohim and his behavior. tional development is our This is not a new idea. In socialization. The healthier fact, we even have research the quality of that socializathat shows the number one tion, the healthier the emoindicator of delinquent be- tional development will be. havior is who our children As parents, it is our job to spend time with. While this not only monitor that demay be an obvious truth to velopment, but to shape it as many of us, one that is not so well. I hear quite frequently obvious is that who our chil- that we cannot pick our children hang around with will dren’s friends. While this also affect their mood and sounds like truth, it is not the attitude. complete truth. Yes, by the Is your child overly nega- time our children are 15, 16 tive? Are they grouchy and and 17 years of age, we have depressed? Do they com- much less influence on who plain a lot? Although we their friends are. The story often think that these char- is much different when they acteristics are due to our par- are 6, 7 and 8. At this young enting or some deeper issue age we have the greatest inwith our children, remember fluence on who our children to look at their friends. It is will begin to call friends and difficult for a child to remain even more importantly, on positive and hopeful when who they look for as friends surrounded by others who in the future. are consistently negative or By shaping this process, we mean. By the same token, help to set in motion a patit is difficult for a child to tern of friend “type” that our remain negative and sullen children will continue to seek

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The good news is that we as parents have the opportunity to greatly influence which “type” our child becomes used to and later pursues.

As for us parents, we need to ask ourselves about our friends. How do they affect us and what type of individuals have we surrounded ourselves with? Make sure that you surround yourself with those individuals that not only bring out the best in you, but those that live quality lives of their own. Remember what the 6 year old learned, if you don’t want to quack, don’t hang out with the ducks!

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As an athlete Hank was one of those people who could play any game and play it well. At Draper High School, he was an All-State 5' 10" 145 running back, prolific basketball scorer and star pitcher. A member of the Elon University Hall of Fame, Hank never lost a game he pitched in college, compiling an amazing 18-0 record and allowing less than two runs per game. Hank pitched professional baseball in both Canada and in South Dakota facing many players who went on to star in the major leagues. When asked about facing feared slugger Frank Howard, Hank's strategy was simple. "Well Frank was a big boy, Hank remembered "so I decided to walk him and pick him off first base." Hank was not only talented, but smart as well.

Many people knew Hank as a successful baseball, football and basketball coach teaming with Dick Kepley (Jefferson High School) and Woody Deans (Patrick Henry High School) for three state basketball championships. During the final days of Hank's life he was visited by scores of former players, coaching colleagues, college friends, and golfing buddies. Each spoke of how Hank influenced their lives and provided a strong guiding hand through their years together. Witnessing this outpouring of love was an unforgettable and poignant moment in my life, one which I will hold dear forever.

Behind Hank's athletic and coaching accomplishments were acts of selflessness that few knew about. Whether it was delivering toys to families who could not afford Christmas gifts for their own children, or by subsidizing a young basketball player who did not have the financial means to improve his game in a travel team setting, or by simply placing his gentle hand on my shoulder when I lost my beloved Mom to the same insidious disease that would later claim Hank's own life, this humble and wonderful man stood for the good that is in all of our hearts.

Somewhere, above the clouds, I like to think that Hank and my Dad have already met. Greeting his new friend, I imagine Willie Kaufman clasping Hank's hand and thanking him for taking such good care of his boy.

Who was Hank Hamrick? He was a man many will never forget and the kind of person we should all aspire to be.

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Good Friday from noon to 3:00 pm The church sanctuary will be open to the public for individual meditation and prayer.

All are welcome to come and go as your schedules permit.

Written materials will be available to assist your meditation.

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hirty years ago Elizabeth Matthews Jones began a journey that will be completed in May when she graduates, Magna Cum Laude, from Hollins University, majoring in English, with a concentration in creative nonfiction and a minor in theatre.

Elizabeth enrolled in college at age 17, but left after 1 ½ years to marry and help her first husband complete requirements for four degrees. During the ensuing years she divorced and remarried, raised two daughters, and continued to take college classes whenever and wherever possible. She has been a student at Northern Arizona University (NAU), LSU, J. Sergeant Reynolds, and John Tyler and Virginia Western Community Colleges, before discovering the Horizon Program for non-traditional students at Hollins.

Elizabeth credits Celia McCormick, the director of the Horizons Program, for encouraging her during the three years she has struggled to achieve her goal. Life was especially difficult her first semester because of turmoil in her personal life. The trial of the man who murdered her brother, postponed nine times, was finally scheduled.

She was subpoenaed to attend the trial, and spent most of first

wenty-five years ago my father passed way in his bed on Long Island. Last week I lost another father. Hank Hamrick, my wife Janet's father, had been my Dad for nearly twenty years, a great man seemingly heaven sent by another who left too soon. Whether Hank was your coach, your teacher, your father, or your friend, he left his indelible signature on your heart.

Hank was one of those people who was loved and admired by so many people, that it now seems impossible that he is not in our midst. I want to share a few things about the man who has touched so many lives. For example, few people know why a man named James Lewis Hamrick came to be called "Hank." To no one's surprise, James excelled at sports as a child growing up in North Carolina. As a twelve-year old, young James Lewis played on a youth league team which was sponsored by a collection of local businesses. Each player bore the name of the company who sponsored them on their back, and James represented "Hank's Grocery." As the season progressed, players and fans began to marvel at a slightly built left-handed pitcher who regularly mowed down everyone he faced. Not knowing the name of this star player, they began to refer to him by the name on his back, and so James Lewis Hamrick became "Hank," a name that would serve him well for the next sixty-eight years.

Hank was a man who would give anyone in need the very shirt off of his back. His love and kindness would change the lives of four children in November of 1966. Due to an unfortunate series of circumstances, Hank received a call from Dade County, Florida from a local official regarding the children of Hank's brother Bill. The kids needed a place to live and were in danger of being split up within the foster care system. Without a moment of hesitation, Hank informed the official to put his niece and nephews on the first available plane and send them to Roanoke. Dennis, Bill, Jim and Linda arrived in Roanoke with no winter clothes, yet they had a home - a home where they could all grow up together. It takes a special type of man to make a decision like that and a special kind of women like Hank's wife Janet to accept the responsibility of raising those children as well as two of her own. When asked about their 55 years of marriage, Janet is often heard to remark "We never knew who should get the medal for staying together so long, him or me."

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Commentary: Balancing the Federal Budget It is no secret that the American people are facing a very tough economic climate. Families and small businesses are cutting back on expenses. As economic uncertainty continues, many across our nation are looking to the government for leadership during this difficult time. In these challenging economic times it is even more important for government to control spending. The federal government must work to both eliminate every cent of waste and squeeze every cent of value out of each dollar our citizens entrust to it.

When you are preparing a budget for your family, you know that you can’t spend more than you take in. It’s a simple concept but one that Congress has failed to adhere to for far too long. We must balance the budget and reduce the deficit and the debt – not by raising taxes, but by being good stewards of taxpayer money.

Because it has become clear that neither party can exercise the self control necessary to rein in excessive spending, I have introduced a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, H.J. Res 1, to force Congress to do so. My legislation, which has the support of 175 bipartisan Members of the House, ensures that the federal government is held accountable and that the money our citizens work so hard to earn is not squandered on wasteful spending and programs.

My balanced budget amendment, which is identical to the legislation that passed the House in 1995 by a vote of 300-132 and fell just two votes short of passage in the Senate, forces Congress to enact fiscally responsible spending

Preacher’s Corner An appellant court in Northern California recently ruled on a lawsuit brought against the United States by a rather importunate atheist. He’s been after the government for years to remove “In God We Trust” from our money, coins and paper. Now the justices have rendered their final judgment.

The motto can stay, they decided, for one simple reason. “In God We Trust” merely has ceremonial meaning, they said. It does not convey any religious significance at all.

That’s always the tension, isn’t it? Most of us regularly speak of faith and talk about God. With over 90% of Americans saying they believe in God, we would expect this. God-talk is routine and commonplace. Every day, in fact, we exchange these small orbs of metal and thin pieces of paper with one another, each time declaring, at least tacitly, that in God we trust.

But is that exchange merely ceremonial, or is it rich with religious significance? That’s always the challenge, meaning what we say and saying what we mean—even when it’s stamped out for us.

In the Judeo/Christian heritage, nothing seems to irk God more than people speaking His name with their lips but not their hearts. Nothing gets God’s fearsome attention faster than a nation declaring billions of times daily that it trusts in God without in fact giving any real meaning to it.

In God we trust? It’s certainly something for us to consider.

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1. Small businesses will be forced to provide health insurance.

This bill is loaded with mandates and really expensive punishments. Despite their claims, Congress has not looked out for small business. Plain and simple: the legislation forces small firms to provide health insurance, whether they can afford it or not. The mandate applies to growing firms and those with 50 or more employees. And in a backroom union deal, it was extended to apply to already-struggling small construction firms with as few as 5 employees. Penalties are outrageously high - $2,000 per employee, which you can imagine could easily devastate any local construction firm. Even scarier, Congress is now trying to extend this onerous mandate to all part-time employees a prospect that would hit millions of already-struggling small firms.

2. Small businesses will pay more taxes.

On top of all the new mandates and penalties, small businesses will also be saddled with a new annual $6.7 billion tax on their health insurance plans. Congress will try to tell you that this is a tax on the big bad insurers. But here are the facts.

The new tax falls on health insurance companies based on their market share - the larger an insurer's market share, the higher their share of the $6.7 billion they have to pay. Sounds fair enough, right? Wrong. We're overlooking a major point here. Insurers aren t just going to absorb a $6.7 billion tax out of the goodness of their heart.

They will pass it on to their customers and it will increase costs by more than $500 per family annually. Not only will small businesses be the customers this tax is passed on to, but they will

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be shouldering this burden alone. Big business and unions negotiated a deal that exempts them from this fee. This is just another sneaky way to tax small business by funneling it through the very insurance they need to purchase.

3. Small businesses and their employees won t be able to keep the coverage they have.

This bill removes much of the already-limited flexibility small employers have and need when shopping for health insurance plans. They now will be forced to buy plans that meet standards determined by the government, even if they don t need a plan that extensive. For many selfemployed and small businesses, even those who already have insurance, their costs will go up in order to meet these new expensive coverage requirements. With small businesses suffering from premium increases of more than 113 percent over the last 10 years, you would think, the goal would be to make insurance less expensive and more flexible. Small businesses need more choices and more flexibility - not more out-oftouch officials in Washington telling them how to run their business and what insurance to buy.

These are just three of the most egregious provisions Virginians, especially small business owners, need to know about the 2,700-page healthcare legislation charging through Congress. Not only does the plan spend $900 billion we don t have, but it's paid for on the backs of small business. This is not the reform small business asked for or can afford. They need reform that lowers their healthcare costs, and the bill Congress is trying to jam through simply doesn't do that.

So, we all need to ask ourselves: Who is really working for small business? As we watch Congress ignore our protests and jam through this bill, it is up to us to let them know they are pushing policies that threaten our community's very livelihood. We all need to tell our Congressmen that voting for this healthcare bill is a vote against small business.

Julia Ciarlo Hammond is Virginia state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, the state s largest small business association.

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measures and reduce the deficit by requiring that total spending for any fiscal year not exceed total receipts. The legislation also includes a specific exception to the balanced budget provisions in times of war or other national emergencies.

This week I was pleased to join with Congressmen Mike Coffman, a Republican from Colorado and Jim Marshall, a Democrat from Georgia, in launching a new Congressional caucus aimed at adding support for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. The bipartisan caucus will be dedicated to achieving passage of H.J. Res. 1, and to educating Members of Congress on the necessity and importance of the proposed amendment to the Constitution.

As our nation faces many difficult decisions, Congress will face great pressure to spend beyond its means rather than making difficult decisions about spending priorities. My balanced budget amendment ensures that Congress and the President are held accountable to the American taxpayers. Unless Congress is forced to make the decisions necessary to create a balanced budget, it will always have the all-too-tempting option of shirking this responsibility. Americans are desperate for fiscal reform and the Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment is a common sense approach to ensure that Congress is bound by the same fiscal principles that America’s families face each day.

To contact me about this or any or matter, please visit my website at www.goodlatte.house.gov.

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ticular bill, President Obama and the Democrat congress are insisting on forcing it upon us, with little concern for the consent of the governed.

It is beyond the scope of this letter to explore why America has turned against the bill. Suffice to say that we don't see much in a bill that is over twelve times larger than the National Defense Act of 1947 (the act that established the Department of Defense) that would be beneficial to either our health care, or our liberty. As such, this bill needs to be stopped.

The Republicans are powerless to do anything about it, whether they wish to or not. No amount of compromising will stop the bill or fix it. They lack the numbers to put up a real resistance and the influence with the leaders of the Democratic Party to affect the outcome.

Given the toxicity of the bill, the Democratic leadership's lack of interest in compromise (even to the point of suggesting that a bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes and that locking the loyal opposition out of the process would make it even more bipartisan) and their lack of power, obstruction is the only option available to them.

This means it is the responsibility of the House and Senate Democrats to step up and put an end to this bill.

Congressman Boucher, Senator Webb, I am calling on the two of you, specifically to take this action. The reasons are twofold.

First, you both are legislators

from the Commonwealth of Virginia. This state is the birthplace of American Liberty. It is only natural that it should be the place where that same liberty makes a stand and defeats the greatest legislative threat our nation has ever had to contend with. Second, both of you have taken principled stands on the issue, already. Congressman Boucher, you voted against the bill the first time around. Senator Webb, your insistence that Senator Brown be seated before debate continued on the subject was a bold break with party leadership. In short, both of you have credibility on the subject.

What I am calling on you to do is to rally together a group of Democrats who are willing to kill this bill and start fresh. I understand that there is grave political risk in this, however our nation is calling on you to take that risk, regardless of how the party leadership may view this action. The risk to the Democratic Party, should this bill pass, is far greater, and the risk to the American public, greater still.

If this bill passes, there will be a strong backlash against the party. The audacity of forcing a plan on a free people will not go unnoticed. The Democratic Party will not be seen as the party of the worker or of the common man, but rather the party of the autocrats. It will have been lead there by President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Reid, however the rank and file will also be held accountable for not reigning in the party leadership. Republicans learned, in 2006, how this works. Given the nature and gall of the violation of the public trust, however, the backlash against the party will likely be deeper and longer-lasting.

That is why you need to step up and oppose the party leadership on this, even to the point of replacing them, if need be. Neither the Democratic Party, nor the country will benefit from the passage of this bill. If you succeed in defeating this bill, you can be part of a new Democratic Party that remembers its Thomas-Jefferson roots. If not, if you stand idly by while our congress betrays the will of its employers, then you will be seen as complicit in the fall of the Democrat Party. Is that worth a few thousand pages that only serves special interests?

Senator Webb, you ran with the motto "Born Fighting."

Congressman Boucher, you represent a district nicknamed the "Fighting Ninth." It's time to fight.

-Kenneth Miller, Blacksburg VA

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Cave Spring Repeats as State Champions!

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Cave Spring fans celebrate near the end of last Saturday’s state championship game.

Cave Spring Head Coach Billy Hicks was reveling in the moment. "I can remember when we only dreamed about being at this level, "Hicks said.

"When I took over this program, I wasn't sure we would ever get ONE state championship. Now, this group has won back-to-back titles. It's unbelievable! I'll never forget this achievement."

The Knights defied the odds for the second straight year, defeating Brunswick 54-43 for the Group AA Division 3 crown at the VCU Siegel Center in Richmond Saturday afternoon.

For Brunswick it was their fourth consecutive year to finish as the runner-up, including last year's loss to Cave Spring in overtime.

Brunswick Head Coach and UVa all-time scoring leader, Bryant Stith put it in perspective."It's so hard to get here," Stith noted." We've come so close."

"Cave Spring should be complimented on the win," he added." They are well-coached and played a smart game."

Brunswick employed a game

plan that was no surprise for the Knights. Using a 2-3 zone defense, their objective was to shut down Cave Spring 6'11" center Josh Henderson with double teams and physical play in the paint. Henderson, who had torched New Kent in the semifinal with 31 points and 22 rebounds, was held to eight points by the Bulldogs.

But Cave Spring was not deterred. Like so many times in the past two seasons, the Knights looked to the remaining seniors to pick up the slack.

They responded in championship fashion.

Clay Lacy scored 8 first quarter points including two baskets from behind the arc as Cave Spring led 13-11 at the end of the quarter, which was culminated by Justin White's 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Brunswick opened the second with a 7-2 run and led 1815 with 5:26 left. But the Bulldogs would not score again in the half as Cave Spring went on a 14-0 tear that included two more Lacy treys and six points

by Henderson. The Knights went to the break up 29-18.

Brunswick gained the momentum in the third quarter as Cave Spring, hampered by turnovers, could not find the basket. A layup by Bulldog Shaquille Jones knotted the score at 31 as Brunswick outscored the Knights 13-2 in the frame and the Bulldogs looked ready to pounce entering the fourth.

As Cave Spring huddled at their bench, Hicks may have provided his greatest coaching moment. "Look me in the eyes," he told his slightly rattled squad. Referring to the adversity, he added," We've been here before."

The Knights wasted no time in responding. Twelve seconds into the final quarter, Mark Overstreet found 5'11" Justin White alone in the left corner.

White launched a bomb that seemed to take forever to succumb to gravity before falling through the net. Brunswick looked stunned ut they hadn't given up. The Bulldogs pulled to within one on a Javonte Green dunk, but Cave Spring struck again as Quentin Dill hit Adam Hager with a pass be-

For Porter, Hard Work Brings Profit

Every team is made up of a combination of different parts. There are star players, and there are role players. There are standout performers, and there are “behind the scenes” guys. Or, as one coach once described it to me, there are “piano pushers,” and there are “piano players.”

“Piano pushers” never really get any headlines in today’s society, which is obsessed with superstars and highlights. Watch enough ESPN documentaries about Michael Jordan, for example, and you might eventually become convinced he won all 6 of his NBA championships by himself.

However, every team needs blue-collar, tough-minded, ego-less players in order to be successful. Guys who don’t mind doing the dirty work, guys who don’t need credit or accolades. Every team needs piano pushers.

For the Patrick Henry Patriots, senior center Paul Porter is a piano pusher -- a hard worker through and through. And for a Patriots team that just completed a magical 21-5 season that ended in the VHSL Group AAA State Semifinals, Porter’s role was irreplaceable.

Porter is listed at 6’4”, and to be honest, it might be just a bit generous. And yes, he played center this season for the Patriots. Over the past couple of seasons he’s had the unenviable task of tangling with the likes of Marshall Plumlee (7’0”) of Christ School in N.C. (who is currently being recruited by Duke), Andre Washington of Franklin County (6’9”) and Josh Henderson of Cave Spring (6’11”), among others. He’s been physically overmatched each game from a height perspective.

But Porter finds a way to compete, and make a difference, game in and game out.

How? “It’s real simple: he outworked and outsmarted everyone he played this season,” Patriots Head Coach Jack Esworthy said.

Porter agrees with the assessment. “I just have to play harder than everyone else, and want it more than everyone else.”

It’s been an interesting journey for Porter over his four seasons at Patrick Henry. In fact, he didn’t even play basketball until his freshman year. Up until then, he had always played football.

The first couple of seasons were rough. So much so, that Esworthy admitted to wondering whether or not Porter would ever have a future with the varsity. But he didn’t give up on Paul.

“I told myself I would never do that to a kid who worked as hard as Paul worked, who gave as much effort as he did,” Esworthy said.

On and Off The Court Paul’s work ethic extends well off the basketball court. To afford a car, along with car insurance, gas money and his cell phone, Porter works 20-25 hours a week at K-Mart. He is a terrific student -- currently taking four AP classes at Patrick Henry.

Most kids his age don’t have to shoulder such

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#33 Paul Porter works hard for a basket. responsibility. But Paul does do without complaint.

“I’m going to work hard at whatever I do, and I see that as a way of being successful in life,” he says of his job and his studies. “At some point you have to learn to take care of yourself.”

Of course, Porter is also a gym rat, spending countless hours in the gym with fellow players and coaches, honing his game.

But it almost ended far too early for Paul. Prior to the season, doctors noticed an abnormality with Porter’s heart, which nearly prevented him from playing. He wasn’t cleared until a week before the season, though the problem still remains a bit of an unsolved mystery.

Having basketball nearly taken from him didn’t scare Porter. His health didn’t worry him.

Rather, the situation motivated him.

“You know, it made me realize that you only live once, that it could all be over just like that, so you gotta make the most out of it.”

“I tell people that we cleared our biggest hurdle to winning the district the day they cleared Paul,” Esworthy said.

Back on the court, Paul went back to being a piano pusher. Grabbing key rebounds. Leading the team in charges taken. Playing stifling defense. Competing. Working.

College coaches have taken notice. In fact, Paul is being recruited by two local schools: Roanoke College and Averett University.

Like I said, every team needs piano pushers.

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Senior point guard Quentin Dill drives to the basket as Josh Henderson fights for position. hind the arc and Hager, who is second in career 3-pointers at Cave Spring behind J.J. Redick, lasered the twine.

Brunswick again responded with a Shaquille Jones layup.

However,14 seconds later, Hager hit Erik Jacobsen who rattled in another long-range jumper to open a five point Knight lead. Brunswick never got closer than three the rest of the way and, forced to foul, could only watch as the Knights hit eleven free throws in the final 1:02 to seal the deal.

State titles rarely come sweeter.

Lacy had a game-high 21 points and 8 rebounds for Cave Spring. Casey Walker led Brunswick with 20 points, but was held to 9-for-27 shooting

by Cave Spring defensive guru Mark Oversteet.

"This is something you dream about," Lacy said after the game." After Josh had that great game in the semifinal we knew others would have to step up. I got off to a good start which helped my confidence.

Coach told me to keep shooting."

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Cave Spring #5 Mark Overstreet blankets Brunswick leading scorer Casey Walker during second half action.

"The second time was a lot harder than the first," Lacy said of the back-to-back titles."We were everybody's target."

Hicks agreed."This shows the type of kids we have. They never gave up and didn't panic after the third quarter."

There are now twelve Cave Spring seniors, two state titles, and innumerable memories that no one associated with this team will ever forget.

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William Fleming Coach Resigns Just when the William Fleming football program was set to enjoy some much deserved stability, the team will have to start from scratch again – this time, with a new head football coach.

Rob Senseney, who has spent the past four years at the school, resigned last week to take the head coaching job at Knightdale High School, just outside of Raleigh, North Carolina.

For Senseney, the move makes perfect sense: the coach gets to move closer to his hometown of Fayetteville, which is also where his mother lives.

For William Fleming, however, the move comes at an interesting time. The team is supposed to open the fall season in a new stadium.

“For me, it was just an opportunity to get closer to home, and I couldn’t pass it up,” Senseney said.

Whoever takes over for Senseney will have some pretty

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big shoes to fill. The former Fleming coach went 30-12 over his four seasons at the helm, including two district championships (one in the Western Valley District and one in the Blue Ridge District). Those accomplishments are even more impressive considering the Colonels never played a true home game during Senseney’s time as head coach.

“I’m pretty proud of how the kids handled that situation,” Senseney said.

By Matt Reeve The Knightdale program is Matt@newsroanoke.com a work in progress. The school

has only been around for six seasons, and has won a grand total of five games during that span.

“They have a lot of athletes, and I think there’s a lot of upside there,” Senseney said.

New challenges aside, the

coach said it was difficult leaving his players.

“We had good kids and a great staff over the years,” he said.

“I’ve got a lot of fond memories there. It’s always hard to leave.”

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Tricking Ourselves About Finances

We all like to think that we make rational and wise decisions when managing our money. But most of us are influenced far more by our emotions than our brains. Why do smart people make irrational investment decisions so commonly and so easily? The fascinating study of behavioral economics and decision science fills many books, but let’s look at a few of the ways in which investors’ minds play tricks on them.

The Timid Bunny—Worrying Over Risk Why do so many people bank their money in savings accounts, CDs and money markets when they are often actually losing money if measured against inflation and taxes?

Some people do it because they are so fearful of risk that they don’t consider that such fixed investments are not risk-free.

The interest credited to your account each month is subject to the likelihood of shrinking purchasing power, especially over time. A canoeist struggling to get upstream against current and wind will have the illusion of movement, but he will have to switch to a boat with a motor to make real progress.

The Hoarding Pack Rat— Treasuring What We Own The preference to keep things the way they are is called the “status quo bias.” We tend to fall in love with what we own and stick to the familiar even if

we would likely be financially better off with a different investment. We validate our prior choice by sticking with it. What we know feels better than what we don’t know.

The Foolish Sheep—Fearing Loss We are so averse to accepting loss that we will throw good money after bad. This is sometimes called the “sunk cost fallacy” —our inability to let go of money that’s already been spent or lost. We will invest more money on car repairs simply because we’ve already spent so much on the car. Rather than evaluate a losing investment on its cost— as we are prone to do—it makes more sense to assess its current potential for loss or gain. If you would not choose to buy that investment today, then why do you make the choice every day to keep your money invested in it? Usually, it is because you are focusing on the past—what you have already spent. But it has no relevance to the future.

The Little Chicken—Focusing on the Negative We feel the pain that comes from loss more acutely than we do the pleasure from an equal or greater gain. If you invest $100,000 in a stock portfolio, and it rises in value to $150,000 but then drops to $130,000, you are more likely to be motivated by the disappointment in your “loss” of $20,000 than the pleasure in your gain of $30,000.

You may focus on your phantom loss rather than your available gain. This can lead you to be less willing to sell a profitable stock and buy an undervalued one, even though we have all heard that it makes more sense to buy low and sell high.

The Stubborn Mule—Refusing to Change We frequently decide not to decide, and that inaction can cost serious money. There are so many options out there that we become paralyzed and stay with the familiar.

Often this is motivated by fear of short-term regret at making a less-than-perfect decision even though we know that there are no perfect decisions. But, as Mark Twain said, “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do.” By placing more emphasis on what we have already expended than on what could be gained by change, we ignore lost opportunity costs because they don’t seem real. But with your financial security at stake, where you are headed is much more important than where you have been.

Dean Wadsworth is a Wealth Advisor at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney located in Roanoke VA and may be reached at 540-7253160 or the WadsworthGroup@ mssb.com

tba (The Becher Agency)Wins Five Addy Awards tba (the becher agency), a Roanoke public relations and advertising and firm, won five Western Virginia ADDY awards from the Advertising Federation of the Roanoke Valley. tba was cited for its work on behalf of Oak Hall, winning two gold awards and a silver ADDY for the campaign introducing Oak Hall's Greenweaver capand-gown set made from recycled plastic bottles.

tba also won a silver for the design of an open house invitation for Lanford Brothers and a silver for a newspaper advertising design for Astonish Antique Restoration.

In addition to the firm's awards, a new employee, Aimee Drysdale, won three student ADDY awards while the tba creative team contributed to pro bono work that won 10 awards as part of the Advertising Fed-

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Speaker William Weeks Brings “Brace for Impact” Tour to Roanoke

Whether helping Hurricane Katrina victims rise from despair to hope or inspiring challenged business professionals to find ways out of the recession, William E. Weeks has leveraged mountains of personal adversity to help others. Blinded by Stevens-Johnson syndrome at age 5 and initially given a year to live, Weeks survived to surmount disability and societal obstacles.

Today he is a nationally recognized professional speaker, trainer and facilitator who has provided training and technical assistance to state and federal government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Labor, the Division of Disability Workforce Program and the Employment & Training Administration. Weeks will present his compelling personal story and methodologies for success at his “Brace for Impact” 2010 tour on Friday, March 26 in Roanoke, Virginia.

“I learned to overcome a lot of labels and limits society tried to put on me and rise to answer the call of destiny,” says Weeks, who is also the Disability/Mental Health Manager for the ESAAA/CAA Project Head Start, which serves the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

“In the Katrina aftermath or during this recession, many people will just succumb unless they have the motivation and tools to regroup. You have to be prepared to reshape your attitudes, deprogram negatives, change direction and avoid distractions that blur your ability to concentrate on the correct path. You cannot let your life be dictated by the opinions and deeds of others.”

Weeks’ two-hour seminar, titled “Reshape,

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Realign, Refocus: The Champions Mentality,” will help business, corporate and non-profit professionals find ways to persevere and succeed during trying economic times. Through his remarkable life story of winning in the face of adversity, Weeks will show how to ascend above hard times to enjoy professional growth, surpass company expectations and balance career, family and economic challenges.

Participants will learn how to unlock potential in professional and personal life, renew purpose and self worth, accelerate drive and performance and better handle time management commitments and goals. The seminar will be held Friday, March 26 from 6-8 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Roanoke-Valley View at 3315 Ordway Drive in Roanoke, Virginia; 1-540-362-4500. The price is $35 per person. The event is part of a seven-city tour throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

Coronary Care Unit At Carilion RMH Receives Award For Critical Care

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Shadowbox Cinema Gears Up for Opening Night

While working at The Grandin Theatre Foundation, Jason Garnett began Open Projector Night, a program providing local filmmakers an opportunity to show their creations on a quarterly basis at the Grandin.

The success of this program gave Garnett an inspiration.

“Why couldn’t you have a theater, a small theater, a micro cinema, sort of dedicated just towards independent, local, regional filmmakers to give them a venue to show their films?”

Thus was born The Shadowbox Cinema, or “Shadowbox,” as Garnett prefers to call it. Located at Kirk Avenue Music Hall (22 Kirk Avenue) in downtown Roanoke, Shadowbox is preparing for its grand opening March 27 at 7 p.m., with a showing of “The Big Lebowski,” starring Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges. The evening will feature a “Big Lebowski”–themed party, complete with White Russian, a Wii bowling tournament, and costume contest.

“Thriving” is the word Garnett uses to describe Roanoke’s filmmaking scene. “I’ve seen it grow in leaps and bounds in the last…ten years, mostly because it’s become a lot more accessible for people. They don’t have to go out and buy expensive cameras and film stock. Now anybody can buy a reasonably priced video camera(s) and editing software on their computer and make a movie and burn it onto a DVD. I see a lot of talented people, and I think The Shadowbox is going to really highlight those people’s talents.

The whole point of The Shadowbox is to help them become breakout filmmakers.”

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Grammy Nominee Kim Burrell to Headline Gospel Concert

Grammy Award nominee and Stellar Award Owing to the easy accessibilwinning gospel artist Kim Burrell will perform ity of filmmaking equipment, March 20, at 5:30 p.m. in Burruss Hall auditorium and the appearance of alternaat Virginia Tech. Burrell is the headlining artist tive film outlets like The Shadfor the fourth annual gospel concert that is held owbox and the Internet, Garnett during the university's celebration of Black Hisbelieves that we’re in the midst tory Month. of a film revolution that allows With a distinctive and captivating voice and an filmmakers to skip Hollywood. uncanny blending of vocal jazz and gospel sensi“These aren’t the blockbuster bilities, Burrell has crafted a sound that has some type of films. These are lowreferring to her as "this generation's Ella Fitzgerbudget, independent films with ald." She has successfully gained the attention of great storylines” and “a lot of the jazz, R&B, and gospel markets with her hit heart. I think this is all about inprojects "Everlasting Life" and "Kim Burrell Live" dependent, experimental filmand with hits like "I Keep Holding On," "I Come Jason Garnett of Shadowbox making that sort of circumvents to You More Than I Give," "Anything," "Victory," what Hollywood is known for.” will present what Garnett calls Garnett, who was relieved of “a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Cinema and "I'll Be There."

Burrell's most recent album, "No Ways Tired," Kim Burrell will perform at Virgina Tech. his position as general manager Night, where people can present includes uniquely arranged secular and religious of the Grandin Theatre amid short films they’ve produced, of Fame, Lift Every Voice in London England, tracks such as the up-tempo "Happy," and Bursome controversy, is thinking in screening them for themselves, and other notable venues. Since her first solo terms of an underground com- their families, and friends. An- rell's re-interpretation, as an expression of wor- project, Try Me Again, she has shared the stage munity of filmmakers thriving other event, a “sweded film” fes- ship, of "Someone to Watch Over Me." Her latest with various gospel artists including: Shirley Caein the Roanoke area. That is, a tival, had its genesis in the film work also includes a mix of well-known church sar, Albertina Walker, Donnie McClurkin, Karen film culture that contributes to “Be Kind Rewind.” A “sweded tunes and beautiful originals like "Jesus" and the Clark-Sheard, Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin, the area’s arts scene, with The film,” says Garnett, is one “where choir-enhanced "Yes to Your Will." and Marvin Winans. Burrell has also worked with As a child, Burrell was surrounded by gospel Shadowbox part of this mix. people make their own version music. Her father was a pastor and musician in artists such as Missy Elliott, Chaka Khan, Stevie Current plans call for The of their favorite films.” The fesWonder, George Duke, Sean Combs, Whitney Shadowbox to present five or tival, likely to occur in August, the Church of God in Christ and her mother was Houston, and Harry Connick Jr. six shows a month, working will be one “where anybody an evangelist and singer. Early in her career she Tickets, which are $20 for general seating, around the performing sched- can make a ten-minute short was featured on recordings with the Gospel Mu- $17 for Virginia Tech faculty and staff, $15 for ule of the Kirk Avenue Music version of their favorite film.” sic Workshop of American Youth Choir, Trinity groups of 5 or more, $11 for children, are availHall, which The Shadowbox Such films, Garnett continues, Temple Full Gospel Mass Choir of Dallas, Texas able through the University Unions and Student shares space with. “In the sum- are “parodies, basically, and it’s along with Kirk Franklin, and The Inspirational Activities ticket office in Squires Student Center mer,” Garnett explains, “we’re [about] trying to be as creative Sounds Mass Choir of Houston, Texas. (a $2 processing fee and a $3.50 per seat fee will be Burrell has performed at the Lincoln Center, going to expand that to about and low-budget as possible.” added to the price of tickets purchased online), or Radio City Music Hall, Rock & Roll Music Hall twelve, thirteen movies a month by phone (540) 231-5615.

Garnett says, “We hope to and go from there.” In addition bring in many filmmakers for to spotlighting the work of lo- Q & A’s and to screen films you cal filmmakers, The Shadowbox would never have a chance to will show classic cult films about see anywhere else. We hope Area K-12 teachers learned other curricular subjects. “I of how educational policy is once a month. In the works is a to create a film community to how to incorporate the arts into make connections to geogra- made on a local, statewide and “Spinal Tap”–theme party, fea- enhance and add to the already their classrooms on Saturday, phy and math as students learn national level. Additional workturing an air-guitar contest, a vibrant arts and culture scene in March 6 at the Arts Institute through Minds in Motion cho- shops were led by Leslye Bloom, “Napoleon Dynamite” party, a the region.” for Educators presented by The reography,” said Pedro. “As stu- Atieno Asiyo, Chris Stup, Kath“Goonies” party, where particiFurther information on The pants will be part of a scavenger Shadowbox can be found at the- Arts Council of the Blue Ridge dents count measures of eight in erine Devine and Dr. Simone and Virginia Tech’s Roanoke each phrase, we reinforce mul- Paterson. hunt in downtown Roanoke, shadowboxcinema.com.

Center. Teachers from 23 differ- tiplication tables, division and The Arts Council of the Blue and a horror film festival slated Ridge is funded, in part, by the for Halloween.

By Melvin E. Matthews, Jr. ent schools learned about arts fractions.” education programs offered by John Abodeely, Program Virginia Commission for the Additionally, The Shadowbox info@newsroanoke.com the Roanoke Symphony Or- Manager of National Partner- Arts, the National Endowment chestra, Jefferson Center, The ships in Education at the John for the Arts and the City of RoaYoung Audiences of Virginia, F. Kennedy Center for the noke.

Brass 5, and Southwest Virginia Performing Arts in WashingBallet. ton D.C., served as Keynote Pedro Szalay, Artistic Direc- speaker. While stressing grass WEDDING tor for Southwest Virginia Bal- roots efforts to advocate for let led teachers through high arts education programs to enPHOTOGRAPHY 540-312-4585 Vision & Imaging. "We have energy dance steps and demon- sure student learning successes, everything to gain by interact- strated how the arts strengthen John also provided an overview

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ITT and Science Museum Debut New Exhibit

ITT Corporation's Night Vision & Imaging business will unveil a new technology exhibit at the Science Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke. After nearly a year of planning, the debut of the "Virginia Nightlife" exhibit marks the first use of actual live night vision technology in a museum exhibit. The exhibit debuts at 6:00 p.m. on March 19th and will be free and open to the public until 8:00 p.m.

"We are very excited to open this exhibit with ITT," said Nancy McCrickard, executive director of the museum. "As far as we know, this exhibit is the first of its kind in the United States to use authentic night vision technology."

As one of the area's largest employers, ITT Night Vision & Imaging, a business area of ITT Geospatial Systems, sponsored the exhibit as part of the Science Museum's Reinvention initiative - an initiative to enhance the way the Museum serves the community. School children and the general public will learn the benefits of seeing in the dark through a realistic representation of a nighttime outdoor scene, complete with animals native to the Roanoke region. Visitors will be able to view the exhibit both with and without night vision capabilities, learning the importance of this ability for safety and

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U.S. Coast Guard personnel use ITT night vision equipment to navigate through a waterway. survival in both humans and animals alike.

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