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A Sign of Blighted Property?

Second Life

P3– Former Roanoke Postmaster Billy Martin finds new life as an elected representative and artist.

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Signing On

P5– Editor Cheryl Hodges has a new account on Facebook, much to her children’s chagrin.

Wired Wrong P9– Roanoke College Fowler Lecturer Nicholas Carr says the Internet is re-shaping our minds in a not so positive way.

State Champs P13– The North Cross Volleyball team wins the Independent Div III State Title on their home court.

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A pink flamingo ironically stands watch under a tree at the Roanoke City Parks and Recreation building on Reserve Avenue. To the left is the Surface’s property that has been part of a 10 year eminent domain battle between the city and its owners. Carilion’s new parking garage and the new Riverside Center buildings can be seen in the background. Pink Flamingos have long been viewed as a sign of questionable taste. > See Full Story on P3: Court Rules Land Can Be Seized for Private Development

“Kids’ Tech University” Gears Up for Second Semester “Kids’ Tech University,” a and excitement of the proprogram developed at Virgingram continues after the chilia Tech in partnership with the dren leave campus through Virginia Cooperative Extenan online lab component feasion’s 4-H Youth Development turing activities designed to Program to spark children’s cultivate continued interest, interest in science, technology, and a forum area to promote engineering, and mathematics discussion and teamwork.

(STEM) disciplines, will return KTU held its inaugural seto the Virginia Tech campus mester in the spring of 2009 for a second semester in and will begin enrollment for January 2010. the spring 2010 semester on A ground- breaking proDec. 15, 2009. gram for kids between the The following is the schedages of 9 and 12 living within ule for the spring 2010 KTU a four-hour drive of Virginia semester: Tech, Kids’ Tech University is - On Jan. 30, 2010, Arthur Photo submitted designed to introduce kids to Children at a recent “Kids’ Tech University” workshop enter Benjamin, professor of math“STEM” topics, as well as life the microscopic world. ematics for Harvey Mudd on a university campus, at an College will present “Why is based on a similar program in Germany. early age. mathematics like magic?”

“Following a very successful first se- “Our goal is to show kids how exciting, - On Feb. 27, 2010, Marya Lieberman, mester of KTU, we are pleased to offer a dynamic, and compelling the world of associate professor of chemistry and biobrand new semester of engaging activi- scientific research can be.” chemistry and a member of the NDnano Held four Saturdays over the course Center at the University of Notre Dame ties, including lectures from world-class scientists who are devoted to sharing of a semester, the events feature lectures will present “What is the smallest thing a their enthusiasm for science, technol- from internationally recognized scientif- person can see?” ogy, engineering, and mathematics with ic researchers and hands-on activities de- On March 20, 2010, Louis Guilchildren,” says Reinhard Laubenbacher, veloped by various Virginia Tech student lette, professor of zoology and director professor and deputy director of educa- clubs, Virginia 4-H, extension agents, of the Howard Hughes Group Advantion and outreach at the Virginia Bioin- Virginia Tech professors, and commu> CONTINUED formatics Institute, who spearheaded the nity organizations to encourage further development of Kids’ Tech University exploration of the lecture topics. The fun P2: Kids’ Tech

Not Your Average Thanksgiving Butterball This is the time of year for giving thanks, and for giving a nod to the Mayflower, maize, and a magnificent traditional meal in about a fortnight.

Being that Virginia is one of the original Thirteen Colonies, what could be more fitting than to cook a wild turkey for Thanksgiving? Ironically (and as veteran hunters already know) this is much easier said than done.

Avid hunter Chip Davis of Roanoke points out that with the exception of Thanksgiving Day, turkey season does not even fall during this time.

Official turkey season starts on Oct. 24 and runs through Nov. 6; it resumes on Dec. 7 and continues until Jan. 2. Hunting on Thanksgiving day wasn’t included again until more recently. Therefore the window of opportunity to bring home a wild gobbler for the holiday dinner table is narrow to say the least. Davis says “a hunter would be hard pressed to kill a turkey, clean the bird and have it cooked in time for lunch on Thanksgiving—maybe an evening meal could be do-able.”

Davis actually killed his first turkey Thanksgiving Day last year, although the bird did not end up on the Thanksgiving platter. He commemorated the event by saving the wing bones from his turkey and sending them to his second cousin in Martinsville who makes turkey calls from the wing bones, and engraves them as well.

The uninitiated may find this merely a curiosity but according to Davis, “His wing bone calls are well known among hunters and game wardens in the area because he donates them for auctions to raise money for the National Wild Turkey Federation.”

Native Roanoker and long-time hunter Larry Long made it happen – he got his turkey to the table and his wife Carla didn’t even have to cook it. There are numerous obstacles to surmount, however. Long points out that turkey season just

Larry Long bags a beautiful > CONTINUED gobbler for dinner.

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City Approves Pool Upgrade; Market Tenants Want Faster Renovations Pool improvements get green light: Despite reservations from a few northwest city residents worried about parking issues or a lack of focus on other amenities, Roanoke City Council approved a 1.9 million dollar appropriation for improvements to the public pool at Washington Park at Monday’s City Council meeting. Council chose Option 2, which would upgrade the pool for family entertainment, without turning it into the regional attraction that the more extensive Option 3 would have provided.

Roanoke City held a series of public forums earlier this year, asking for input on what the pool upgrades should include, as well as any other amenities citizens would like to see at Washington Park. The list included a fitting tribute to Booker T. Washington, for whom the park is named, and renovations to the tennis and basketball courts.

City Council reassured several residents that spoke about > CONTINUED P3: City Council Notes

Open Doors Series Looks at Diversity in Roanoke

Susanna Rinehart leads the discussion as part of the “Open Doors” series.

Does a more welcoming, diverse community help retain and attract the families and young professionals, among others, that Roanoke strives to lure through a variety of efforts? That was the focus of a discussion last week at the Open Doors Shenandoah Club, organized by one of the four Creative Connectors subgroups. STAR -- the Spirit of Tolerance and Art in the Region -- invited Susanna Rinehart, the Director of Education for Diversity and Inclusion at Virginia Tech, to facilitate a spirited conversation for a group of about 50.

Rinehart asked: “What is community? What value should be placed on inclusion, acceptance and diversity?” STAR member Joe Cobb called it the “dynamics of difference,” before he introduced Rinehart, who works out of the Office of Equity and Inclusion at Tech.

The “Open Doors” series will continue with another conversation (open to all) on February 11 at the Claude Moore Education Complex and again during

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the pool upgrade, saying it did not preclude some of the other changes residents are hoping for. “We’re making progress,� said Councilman Rupert Cutler, who often walks the Lick Run Greenway that runs through Washington Park.

City Manager Darlene Burcham said that Parks and Recreation has approved a master plan for Washington Park that includes other upgrades. “It is a question of timing‌and money,â€? she noted.

Vice-Mayor Sherman Lea assured residents that the pool renovations were badly needed,

A chance of rain. Cloudy, with a high near 55. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday Night: A 30 % chance of rain. Cloudy, From page 1 with a low around 42. the “Down by Downtown Festival� in late April - early May. Cobb said Creative Connectors groups -- the brainchild of planning guru Richard Florida -formed in other cities “all have an element of the celebration of diversity and an inclusive community. It’s what attracts artists, writers, [and others].�

Rinehart asked the group about the “particular challenges to that goal [diversity] in this region.â€? Some mentioned a suspicion of outsiders that move here, while others said Roanoke has been more welcoming in recent years. Rinehart conducted -*.*5&% 5*.& 0''&3 t &91*3&4 %&$ an exercise in which she asked t "DSZMJD TVCMJOFS WBMM 4VSSPVOE *OTUBMMFE attendees to identify themselves t "OZ 4UBOEBSE $PMPS FSFF Corner Caddy and Soapdish • FSFF .PFO 'BVDFU *OTUBMMBUJPO VBMVF

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and did not include the “bells and whistles� found at Roanoke County’s new Green Ridge Recreation Center. The renovated pool will be about the same size as the current one. “The pool is in a crisis,� said council member David Trinkle. “Something’s got to be done with it.� He labeled the refurbished pool a “family aquatic center.�

Fellow council member Court Rosen also pointed out that the Washington Park pool is not only for people living in Northwest, but “for all city residents.�

Parking upgrades and a drop off / pick up point for parents at the

pool are also planned.

Faster, please: A spokesperson for City Market building tenants asked City Council if the pace of renovations could be picked up. “A shutdown of up to 18 months will mean that most will leave and relocate elsewhere,� said Anita Wilson with Burger in the Square, the president and spokesperson for the City Market Building Tenants Association. “We’ll relocate somewhere else and we’ll stay there. We’re not coming back.� There seemed to be some confusion among council members as to how long those

renovations would actually take.

Wilson told Council that the cost of relocating and then coming back to the market building could total $100,000, a price too steep for current vendors. Wilson also said other parties are interested in welcoming the market building vendors. “We’ve been approached by three malls and about four to five different realtors, and they’re all very interested.�

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show that many people have more in common than they think.

Community is “a place where I can move from a feeling of exile,� said Cobb when Rinehart asked what that word meant to the group. River Laker, development coordinator for Roanoke City libraries, coined a term, calling it “inner-connectiveness.�

Rinehart said people often want to have a “sense‌that the difference matters,â€? when it comes to inclusiveness, that being homogenized is not what they want, but rather acceptance.

That kind of welcoming attitude may make the Roanoke Valley a more attractive place for some people, or for businesses looking to locate here. “Diversity is a

component of what attracts and keeps people in a community,â€? said Rinehart, a “piece of what people seek. It may be as simple as looking at diversity as making a place more interesting.â€? “Do you see Roanoke as a place that holds diversity‌as a value to be actively sought?â€? asked Rinehart. It’s a question that the STAR group will ask again as part of the Creative Connectors exercise. Roanoke City officials chose 30 people of diverse backgrounds last March; after a two-day workshop four subgroups were formed.

Members have been tasked with coming up with programs that can help keep young people in the valley, while attracting others. Showing off Roanoke’s best side – the growing arts and

cultural scene, outdoor amenities and its diverse community – is a major goal. As for the “art� part of the STAR group’s name, a December 3 “Wine and Wonder� event at the Taubman Museum of Art will feature discussion about a current work that invokes diversity and inclusion.

A youth essay competition on building an inclusive community will also be held during January’s Roanoke Regional Writers Conference at Hollins University.

full camo and rifles and muzzle loader rifles are in the same woods deer hunting.� Because of the way the hunting seasons are set up, he added, “there are only about 11 days of turkey season that you can be in the woods without deer hunters.�

Add to that some surprising turkey stats that might cause less tenacious types to forego turkey hunting altogether. Turkeys can: fly 40-50 mph; run over 30 mph; hear 3-4 times better than a human; see ten times better and they have a peripheral vision of 270 degrees. Turkeys may not be particularly bright, but they are very well-equipped to avoid getting caught in a hunter’s line of sight.

Long’s solution is to hunt for turkey in the spring, when it is safer as well. The spring season is from April 10 – May 1 (1/2 hour before sunrise until noon) and from May 3 – May 15 (1/2 hour before sunrise to sunset).

Spring is also optimum because the spring birds are larger, although hunters are only allowed to kill gobblers in the spring— no hens. If the hunt proves successful, Long advises that from there it’s: “freeze that bird and have it for your Thanksgiving meal in the fall.� Although many consider wild birds to have a “gamey� flavor, Long says he, his wife and two daughters have no problem with it, in fact he says he really doesn’t notice the difference.

Perhaps that has something to do with the recipe he has had around for so long that he can’t remember who gave it to him.

His wife Carla gets a pass; Larry does the cooking. The length of cook time requires that either a frozen spring bird is used or the family will have to wait until around midnight on Thanksgiving, but either way Long says it works every time. He prefers to put it in the oven in the evening

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Fired Fleming Principal Hints Battle May Not Be Over While not going as far as to say she will be suing Roanoke city schools to get her old job back, former William Fleming High School Principal Susan Willis did reference the thought in a speech Tuesday morning to the Virginia Board of Education.

The state board met in Richmond to discuss Fleming’s accreditation situation, which was put in limbo after a state investigation into so-called SOL testing inconsistencies at the school in May. “I am not here to discuss

my wrongful termination,� Willis said in prepared remarks during the “public comment� portion of the meeting. “That will be discussed in higher court,� Willis said.

Willis went on to say all the reasons were wrong as to why Fleming had been put in limbo in the first place. She said the Roanoke city school system provided the state department of education with phony information and statistics about the testing situation at Fleming. Armed with a state inves-

tigation implicating Willis in a scheme to inflate SOL scores during the past two academic years, the Roanoke city school board voted to fire Willis last week.

Willis also promised to give her okay to release her entire grievance hearing report once all her other “options had been exhausted.� The State Board of Education also awarded full accreditation to William Fleming High School on Tuesday.

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Roanoke Court Rules Land Can Be Seized for Private Development

Judge William Broadhurst ruled on Tuesday that land belonging to Jay and Stephanie Burkholder was properly condemned and seized by the Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority on behalf of the City of Roanoke to later be sold to Carilion Clinic for use in creating its new Riverside Center.

The building which is leased to Surfaces, a local flooring provider, is located at 217 Reserve Avenue across from the old Victory Stadium parking area.

Carilion spokesperson Eric Ernhardt pointed out that while they continue to abide by their original agreement with the city to develop the property in the area, that they “were not a party to the court hearing.� He added that there was no particular designation ever made as to how any acquired property could be developed. “The original agreement allowed the property acquired to be developed by selling parts of it to a private developer as was done with the [Cambria Suites] Hotel now under construction, or it could be used for offices and

physician practice facilities as has been done at the recently opened Riverside buildings.�

Carilion has indicated they have no plans for the three acre site except to use it to complete an internal road network that connects the various facilities within the Riverside complex.

Much of the basis for the ruling in the case came down to the Burkholder’s contention that the blight determination process by which the land was condemned was flawed and that improper conduct resulted in an incorrect determination by consultants who carried out that process for the city. But in his nine page opinion Judge Broadhurst ruled that, while the arguments put forth by the Burkholders’ lawyer Joe Waldo had merit and were substantiated by a variety of evidence, that the group responsible for determining the blighted designation, “were able to insolate themselves from any improper effect of that conduct.�

Jay and Stephanie Burkholder submitted the following statement to the Star-Sentinel shortly after the ruling:

“Judge Broadhurst’s decision was very disappointing. It is difficult to accept that a municipality can have this degree of power over an individual’s personal property. Understand, we are not greedy, and we are not obstructionists. The Riverside Project is by all accounts a great asset to the region.

Our contention is twofold: Firstly, the method. The Housing Authority used the veil of blight to encompass perfectly good properties that just happened to be within the area that Carilion wanted for its expansion. Evidence of this nature was presented in court and acknowledged in the Judge’s ruling. At the time, Virginia law allowed this to happen, the law has since been changed.

Secondly, the purpose. Although regrettable to those affected, eminent domain is justifiable in cases of roads and schools. Purposes that are genuinely for the public good are understandable. In this case however, property is being condemned and transferred to another private owner. How exactly does that constitute a

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We purchased that property in 1999 as an investment in our future. Our plan was to sell it to fund our retirement, ten or so years down the road. We are being required to sell it now.

What if the city stepped in and required you to cash in your IRA ten years early? Again, were it a school we could swallow that pill. But for private development it is simply wrong.

There is considerable public discontent with the Kelo verdict. This may be Virginia’s opportunity to make it right, as we intend to appeal Judge Broadhurst’s decision.�

It is widely believed that such an appeal will provide a significant test to changes recently made to Virginia eminent domain law that came after the Kelo case, which allowed the government taking of land which was then gifted to a private developer for economic development purposes.

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Second Life for Former Roanoke Postmaster

It's never too late to start something new. Former Roanoke City Postmaster and current Botetourt County Supervisor Billy Martin personifies that reality. Martin was 47 when he took up oil painting, and he was 64 when he decided to become a politician. He won the election in 2007 and took office in 2008 after defeating two opponents in a three-way race for the seat vacated by 20year veteran supervisor Wendy Wingo.

These days the Republican representative is battling a water rate increase in the Blue Ridge District. His public forums and comments at supervisors meetings about Aqua Virginia's proposed 69 percent rate increase have been well received by voters.

The company has over 2,200 customers in the Blue Ridge and Cloverdale areas of Botetourt County. The proposed increase, which is before the State Corporation Commission, would cover $44 million worth of improvements to Aqua Virginia's water and sewer systems statewide. “The rate increase on Botetourt citizens is subsidizing improvements for other parts of the state,� Martin said at a recent supervisors meeting. The company does not have sewer or storm water run-off systems in Botetourt.

"My big question is why do they need a 69 percent increase when they made $98 million last year? I know their shareholders want to make as much money as they can, but they

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Billy Martin, Blue Ridge District supervisor for Botetourt County, is also an excellent artist. His oil paintings are in great demand. don't use their profits for capital improvements and to me that's not right," he said.

Martin came to politics after the supervisors instituted a telephone tax about six years ago that he thought was unwarranted. The tax issue caused him to take a more active role in the county's Republican Party.

Despite his party affiliation, he strongly believes he represents everyone. "Once you’re in office, you represent all the people,� he said. “If anyone in Blue Ridge has an issue, we need to sit down and address it regardless of who you are. I've enjoyed working with people while being a supervisor and I've enjoyed helping people get their problems resolved. That's one of the reasons I ran."

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He believes his work at the Roanoke post office, where he managed a budget of $12 million, has benefited him as he has worked to make the Blue Ridge District supervisor's seat his own. During his government employment he was a union member and worked in management.

As a trained mediator, he sees both sides of an issue. “I’ve been in a lot of leadership positions,� he said.

He worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 32 years, retiring in 2001. Now he is active politically, busy in his church, and is an attentive grandfather who dotes on his two grandchildren.

Martin is also an artist; his oil paintings are top-notch, exceptional work, coveted by many of the area's art patrons.

One painting in particular, a portrait of Mill Mountain Zoo’s Ruby the tiger, has garnered him a modest amount of fame.

He only has a few of his paintings in his home; most are completed and sold on commission. He is currently working on three projects, two for relatives and another for a client. His fight against the water rate increase has forced his artwork to the back of his to-do list lately.

“I’ve enjoyed my time here on this earth,� Martin said as he eyed an oil painting of an eagle and New York’s Twin Towers that he hopes to give to President Bush. “I’ve enjoyed most of the things I have done.�

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Feeling Elderly? Get Educated! Faking It All Over the Place

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ne of the many advantages of living in the Roanoke metropolitan area is the variety of educational opportunities available. With Hollins University, Virginia Western, and Roanoke College there is no shortage of courses one can take, and you need not be a full-time student or even of college age. In many cases courses are available for audit. With no reason to dread a final exam you can sit back and soak up the information just for the fun of learning.

At Roanoke College there is a perfect venue that fills the bill: The Elderscholar Program.

As the name implies, you need to be “elderly� (that means 55 or >) and you are supposed to live in the area. There are two courses of study in the fall and another two in the spring. The classes meet on Tuesday and Thursdays from 12 to 1 and are followed by lunch. More about that later. Each lecture is a stand-alone given by a faculty member. The topics are as varied as the Roanoke College courses of study.

The series is in its 23rd year and a spin off of the Elderhostel program. In that format, you travel for a week or so with a professor who will lecture daily on the topic of interest. It might be archeology in Egypt, Colonial Life in Williamsburg, or Ancient Greece. As attractive as those programs are, they do require travel, sometimes extensive. In the Elderscholar series, the only travel problem is parking space at the college and they even provide special spots for the participants.

As a former teacher I have always enjoyed being in the

if you choose, the audience of a gifted discussion with your lecturer, particularly classmates. when I don’t have Roanoke College the pressure of rehas distinguished itcalling at a later date self further with the everything that was Fowler Public Policy said. It works both Lecture Series. In ways: In a formal 1983, Henry Fowler, class the professor a 1929 graduate of is concerned about the college and forwhether the stumer Secretary of dents are getting the information Hayden Hollingsworth the Treasury under President Johnson, plus the fact that there will be exams to grade, established the series. The honnever, at least for me, an activity orees include past presidents, of unbridled joy. It is easy to tell prime ministers, internationalwhen the lecturer is engaged ly renowned columnists, most with the class; in the elder- recently, Sandra Day O’Connor. scholar programs, each profes- These marvelous offerings sor shows an enthusiasm that is are open to the public, free of charge, although you must reinfectious.

During the lectures, ques- serve a place in advance. When tions and comments are wel- Justice O’Connor’s appearance come. Unlike the usual college was announced, we called imsetting, you can ask a question mediately but it was already without the risk of your fel- filled. To our delight, the Elderlow students or, worse yet, the scholar Program had tickets set professor pointing out that aside for its registrants and they everyone in the world, except called to asked if we would like you, knows the answer. Nor is to attend (on the main floor, no there a need to trot out some less, not the bleachers).

Of course, as everyone is observation to impress anyone; everyone is there for the same aware, there is no free lunch. purpose: to enjoy sharing of an The Elderscholar Program has a fee: $75 dollars for five lecintellectual pursuit.

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erhaps one of the toughest calls in “parental baseball� is when to send the child to school and when to keep them home based on the pathetic and wildly overplayed dramatic performances that must play out on hundreds of thousands of bedroom stages each and every day.

If you’ve never had the opportunity to witness such a performance, it’s guaranteed (I don’t care who you are) that you’ve at least given one yourself. “Oh, Mom . . . ack – cough. . . I feel so – ack - cough (while pulling your hair straight back on your forehead) ba, bad . . .

I think I’m (long pause for full effect here), Si-ICK.�

That last word is said as though you were holding the word itself in your hand and it has the consistency of a 2 week old dead jelly fish and the smell of something worse . . . “Si-ICK . . .� It has now become a two syllable word and you utter it as though you are right on the verge of regurgitation when the “ICK� part is pronounced.

Clearly someone should contact the mortuary and let them know that an extra case may be on the way. I mean really, it could be just that bad.

Of course, no amount of having given your own Oscar winning performances will help you discern whether the one you are witnessing as a parent is as real or as fake as the stuffed lion at the foot of the bed. I have sent them off to school only to have them back by noon with a temperature of 103. I have allowed them to sleep in and stay home only to find them propped up later on my bed watching TV and eating hot buttered popcorn with a Root Beer in one

a fever of 100 or so hand and a remote (that felt like 112 becontrol firmly in the cause you are so darn other. old now) and the best “Hey Pop, what’s you can remember up?� getting was the mail “I thought you brought to your bed were Si-ICK today.� so a late bill might There is a very be promptly paid. long pause as they But Junior, who’s as realize they are perhealthy as this year’s haps looking a little Derby winner gets less than Si-ICK. “Uh, . . . (throat Stuart Revercomb more attention than a baby at a Junior clearing sounds) yeah, I am . . . Just feeling a little League meeting.

For the record, however, it bit . . . ack – cough . . . better . . . I think maybe I’ll go lay down should be noted that I gave a few fine performances in my a while . . .� “You already are lying down.� time and clearly our children “Yeah – guess I am . . . but did not fall far from the patermaybe I should be in my bed . nal tree in this regard. Son Rob today put on a “swine flu perfor. .� “Yes, maybe you should.� (“In mance� that was one for the ages the bold faced liar’s section at – complete with a grim nauthe State Hospital,� you want seous countenance at 7:00 AM to add - but you don’t. Gotta let that would have had Hollywood them keep a little pride as they agents extending contracts over muck their way through a day top of each other.

Of course, by 11:00 AM he when they know they aren’t exwas solidly ensconced on the actly on the best side of life.)

Mothers are the worst. (Yes, I sofa next to his loyal dog with mean all of you.) They not only his macaroni and cheese and fall for these acts with little to no soda pop watching the History attempt at any sort of “credibil- Channel and talking up a storm ity evaluation,� but they reward about how “the marksman of the little offenders (Si-ICK or the past are so much better than not) with all manner of tender anyone around today . . .�

Not when it comes to acting loving care - everything from ice cream to homemade soup to son.

He looked so darn comforttime on the game cube to special magazines from the local able there, I really wanted to join him, but alas tomorrow’s convenience store. “Well – I just thought he deadline was looming and I had plenty of work to do. But I might be getting bored . . .?�

But with that kind of treat- may just feel the slight touch of ment how do you think Junior a fever coming on. I’ll be sure to is going to respond the next take my temperature when the time he’s contemplating a little presses finally stop.

Wouldn’t want anyone else Russian vacation?

You also can’t help but re- around here to get si-ICK. member the last time you were

By Stuart Revercomb a bit under the cloud deck with stuart@newsroanoke.com

Preacher’s Corner : Understanding the Mystery of the Saints

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arlier this month, the day after we put our Halloween costumes away, the Christian world celebrated the Feast of All Saints. This is the day when we lift up the paragons of faith and virtue in the life of the church. We tell the stories of men and women who stood out during their lives and have been set apart after their deaths. The piety of some Christians even leads them to pray through these saints (not to these saints) as ones who can most tenderly carry our intercessions to God. Of course, it’s not easy to become a saint.

In Roman Catholicism the process is lengthy and arduous. First, the person must die.

(For those with saintly ambitions, this news is a real bummer.) Then, after a respectable amount of time, the deceased’s bishop must initiate an investigation into whether the candidate led a virtuous life. Next, the case is presented to Rome, after which the candidate’s body is exhumed and examined.

Subsequent steps require confirmation that a miracle has occurred through the intercession of the candidate, and finally the Pope must declare that the person shares in the beatific vision around the throne of Christ.

And that’s how a saint is made.

Saints, of course, have specific job descriptions. I’m especially grateful for the journeyman saints, those who don’t get a lot of fanfare but nevertheless have a tough row to hoe. Just consider St. Dominic Savio, the patron saint of juvenile delinquents, or St. Hubert of Liege, the patron saint of mad dogs. I don’t know about you, but I’m glad they’re there, keeping adolescent hormones and frothing canines—sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference—in check.

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diminished place. St. Jude is the patron of hopeless causes. The story of the 1950s actor Danny Thomas praying to St. Jude to jump start his hopeless career is well known. Thomas eventually landed the starring role in the sitcom “Make Room for Daddy,� and he subsequently founded St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in my former home of Memphis, in thanksgiving and gratitude. The lives of countless children have been saved as a result.

I take such stories seriously, but I also find myself wondering about the real nature of sainthood. Is sainthood about suspending the laws of nature with miracles, or something else?

On All Saints Day, many churches read the Beatitudes from Matthew’s Gospel.

The Beatitudes are Jesus’ overturning of the world’s values. They are God’s claim of worth upon the very things and very people that our conventional wisdom declares weak and worthless: “Blessed are the poor in spirit‌Blessed are those who mourn‌ Blessed are the meek‌Blessed are those who are persecuted‌â€?

When I was preparing for the priesthood, I participated in an exercise called the “spiritual lifeline.� You take a sheet of butcher paper, and draw a crooked line across it, with the peaks and valleys indicating the high points and low points of your life. And then you go back and draw a second line in a different color, indicating when you ultimately felt furthest from and closest to God in your life. A common surprise is that these lines often have an inverse relationship to one another. Oftentimes the deepest valleys in life lead to the closest walk with God. The Beatitudes tell us why this is so. It is crucial to notice that the verb tense in the

first half of each Beatitude is present. Jesus does not say the weak, the sorrowful, the hurting will be blessed. He says they are blessed. Surely, the second half of each beatitude promises the alleviation of our pain and sorrow when the kingdom is fulfilled, but the first half assures us that God walks with us even now in our most tender moments. It is when the fall into the pit seems bottomless that God extends his hand.

And how does God do so? By parting the heavens? By miraculously suspending the laws of nature? Maybe. Rarely. But most often we meet God because we are met by someone else who has walked in the valleys in which we find ourselves. Episcopal priest Bill Tully tells us that another way to translate “Blessed are the poor in spirit� is “Blessed are those who know their need of God. Blessed are those who know the valleys they’ve lived in.�

They are us. We are the saints. We are the ones, by the grace of God, to walk with one another in the valleys, speaking of God and of hope. In the wake of All Saints, we are invited to remember those who have walked through the valleys with us. If they are yet living, we can thank them. If they have moved on, then we can give ourselves permission, even if it isn’t our custom, to pray through them just once in thanksgiving to God the Father.

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Watch Out Kids! Mom is On Facebook Too

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nce upon a time there was a really fun and creative way to connect with all your friends if you were in high school.

It was called MySpace. There was also something much cooler, more elite, which was exclusively for college kids – the now iconic Facebook. In keeping with the rapid technological advances of our time, the social aspect of these venues also quickly evolved and changed; soon Facebook was ok for high schoolers, even middle schoolers. And, in a truly terrifying turn of events, Facebook is now for Moms too.

I have long lamented the whole Facebook thing as I watched my kids and their generation wind their way through the often confusing, last-ditch chance to experience a dry-run at the labyrinth of life, a stage of their lives also known as High School. Isn’t there enough drama without a constant community commentary going on to create additional drama, even the kind that wasn’t really happening in the first place -- Fake Drama?

It has been interesting to watch how this is impacting our kids’ generation. The best we could do was pick up the phone (land line mind you) and talk in whispers or in Pig Latin while our mothers hovered somewhere nearby. If we got lucky, and she was busy, we could monopolize the phone in the back bedroom. All this effort to communicate with: exactly ONE person at a time!

Facebook reminds me of the “Matrix� movies -- with the gently but rapidly falling, omnipresent bits and bytes of data streaming down the computer screen, (along with your brain) impersonating real life. It’s everywhere and it never goes away.

But along with the ease of communication via Facebook, comes an abundance of nuance which results in the exacerbation of many inherent human weaknesses – a reality often lost on the young peo-

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ple most involved in it. Translation: people can be rude, I had resisted getting a Facebook account for all the selfish and snotty AND think they are getting away with above reasons but if nothing else curiosity prevailed— it more than ever. Consider these typical scenarios: that and “lots of Moms are doing it.â€? There actually are •Two-faced/ passive aggressive: some upsides to the whole thing. I mean, how cool is it One young lady’s boyfriend thought it would be “funâ€? to be messaging friends you have not been in touch with to change their status (see explanation below) to “in an for 30 years? My Facebook Broker (eldest son) set up open relationshipâ€? for a day or so. He acted like it was a an account for me and said I really should get with the joke - the classic passive aggressive approach. Why not times. Just for fun and without my knowledge, the Brojust put down what he really meant: “player.â€? It got the ker friended his sister on my behalf. I give her credit for expected and desired outcome: attention, and drama. restraining herself and quietly asking “MOM!!! WHY • Needy/ trying-to-feel-important DID YOU BREAK YOUR LIFETIME PROMISE to These are the ones constantly updating their profile, never ask to ‘friend’ me?â€? That’s Ew. When I finally got Cheryl Hodges pics and activities with earth-shaking and potentially a profile pic up it turns out she is wearing the exact life-saving information such as: same dress in hers. Double Ewwww. I knew this was -Johnny is in the shower (try not to picture that) going to be awkward. Suffice to say we are not friends on Facebook.

-Susie is eating sushi with friends (like we are supposed to be im- For now that is as it should be. pressed she has friends AND likes sushi) So I have delicately been tip-toeing amongst the Facebook pages -Mary likes Mike’s photo album (Mary is letting Jenny know that and finding that it is kinda neat that people connect so easily. Still, she looked at Jenny’s boyfriend Mike’s pictures – got that?) there is an undertone in all of it that makes one wonder if people -Shannon didn’t pass her learner’s – for the second time – LOL will survive such self-absorption and TMI – Too Much Informa(going public can sometimes make you feel important, even for be- tion. ing dumb) I am keeping my rudimentary Facebook account but I am also • “Statusâ€? is never the status quo currently rushing to get my Psychology degree because I am bustStatus usually refers to one’s relationship situation, as in single, ing to get out there and enlighten any who will listen -- I hope to be married, broken-hearted, thinking it over etc. Think: revolving one of the first to be able to teach Facebook 101. Syllabus title: Get door; Baskin Robbins ice cream; anything with a lot of choices. It is Over Yourself!

Contact Cheryl at apparently the norm to claim to be married to someone or somecvhodges@aol.com thing unlikely or in your dreams, like Bruce Springsteen. Status is rarely static and we all get to know about it via Facebook.

Good to Eat, Wholesome to Digest

he American satirist Ambrose Bierce offered the following definition of “edible� in his 1911 book, The Devil’s Dictionary: “good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.� Gardeners often use this quote to promote composting; epicureans, good food; selfhelp guides, humility and positive thinking; medical experts, healthy lifestyles; and cynics, bankers and lawyers. Bierce’s biting satire seems to extend well into the 21st century!

As a forest ecologist, I like the quote because it’s an engaging metaphor for nutrient cycling.

Now before you turn the page and back away from a stiff term like “nutrient cycling,� let’s give it another look by way of example. Nitrogen inundates the air we breathe: in fact, 78% of our air consists of nitrogen – unless you’re the Mona Lisa as you hang at the Louvre inside a sealed bullet-proof case with 100% nitrogen gas to prevent your decay from oxygen. Eight out of every 10 molecules of air is nitrogen! Under ordinary conditions, however, the nitrogen in our air does not react with other elements. We scientists call it a stable molecule. Yet nitrogen compounds are found in all fertile soils, in all living things, and in many foodstuffs.

Importantly, it’s a key component of protein and DNA. If nitrogen is so stable, how did it get inside us to become vital parts of life’s macromolecules?

The answer: bacteria.

More than 90% of all nitrogen fixation is effected by these little critters. Some of them are free-living. Others are associated with legumes, cereal grasses, and other plants. Aside from commercial nitrogen-fixation processes, it’s a diminutive array of microorganisms that sustains us.

In the jargon of computerspeak, they are the linkerati.

In the parlance of ecologists, they are keystone organisms.

Analogous to the role of a keystone in an arch, they have a

disproportionate effect on their environments relative to their abundance or total biomass. As Pulitzer prize-winning scientist E.O. Wilson so aptly declared, it’s “the little things that run life.�

Yet we effortlessly call them “germsâ€? ‌ or we yawn and turn the page.

We all marvel at the venerable age of the world’s oldest living trees. For example, bristlecone pines in the western United States are generally recognized as the oldest continuously standing trees (around 5000 years old). In 2004, researchers in Sweden found a Norway spruce with a root system that has been growing for 9550 years!

But these astounding statistics don’t even compare to 3 billion years – the earliest undeniable form of life fossilized in rock – with continuous lines of descent from that distant past. Those early forms of life were bacterialike. Today we call their living single-celled progeny “archaea� because they live in oxygen-free environments that mimic the conditions of the early Earth.

Imagine a family tree with 120

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No More Ice Cream, Burgers, Or Hang The Recipe of the Week from The Happy Chef Gliding Under Nationalized Health Care?

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ing a tax on “sugand has been done ary drinks� to pay elsewhere.

Even for health care. The the architect of the Center for Science in health care bill, Jathe Public Interest, a cob Hacker of U.C. Washington-based Berkeley, has admitwatchdog group, is ted that the public pushing the Senoption part of the ate for a federal tax bill is designed to on soda, certain lead to an eventual fruit drinks, engovernment takeergy drinks, sports over and a “single Brian Gottstein drinks, and readypayer� system to-drink teas. And where the federal government is the sole health calls for a national “fat tax� have insurer. President Obama has been around for years and are also talked about his desire for gaining even more ground now a single payer, government-run that implementation of socialized medicine looks possible. system.

It is harder, but possible, to Now, back to my question.

To answer it, Cannon pointed impose a tax on certain activiout that when we are all under ties considered high risk. On a taxpayer-subsidized health other activities, it may just be care plan, all taxpayers (and easier to ban them outright, therefore, the government) will especially for older people who have a vested interest in mak- are considered more susceptible ing sure we are not committing to injury and disease.

Liberals, conservatives, and acts that will increase medical moderates alike should all fear costs.

According to Cannon, this level of government intru“When the government subsi- sion into our lives and the podizes health care, anything you tential loss of freedoms it bodes. do with that money becomes Is “discounted� health insurance the voters' business. And rather really worth giving up all that?

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Sound farfetched? Not really, according to health care expert Michael Cannon from the Cato Institute in Washington, who is also co-author of “Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.�

I recently interviewed Cannon and asked him a question I hadn’t heard addressed in much of the debate about nationalized health care: Could a government-run health care system eventually prohibit us from eating certain foods and participating in certain everyday activities?

Before I get to his answer, let me state that I am not going to get into a debate with those who argue that there is no government takeover of health care in the Housepassed health care reform bill.

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I found this recipe when I was looking up Thanksgiving recipes online but it actually comes from my sister-in-law, Lucinda’s brother Donald Barickman! (Small world, eh?) Don owns 3 wonderful restaurants in Charleston, SC. He created this recipe with and named it after his father Elwood Barickman.

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-Heat the oil in a large stockpot over medium-low heat. Add ham, and cook until it starts to release juices, about 2 minutes; do not brown. Add onions and garlic; cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 10 minutes.

-Working in batches, if necessary, so as not to overcrowd pot, cook collard greens, tossing frequently with tongs until thoroughly wilted. Add tomatoes and juice, chicken and beef stocks, potatoes, thyme, and parsley. Bring to a boil, and reduce heat to a gentle simmer; cook, stirring and skimming any foam from surface occasionally, until potatoes are easily pierced with a paring knife, 30 to 40 minutes. Remove from heat; season with salt, black pepper, and hot-pepper sauce, as desired. Serve hot.

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Documentary Explores Power Of Forgiveness

People really can forgive even if they can’t forget, as a documentary film making the rounds of some Roanoke area faith communities proves. “The Power of Forgiveness” features eight people or groups who have experienced God’s power and human-will bringing about serenity after what might be seen as unforgivable events According to Kate Zawacki, who with her husband John is active in the Catholic parish, the interfaith group Voices of Faith is an initiative of the Diocese of Richmond and was established to increase mutual understanding among different religious groups while still permitting individuals their private beliefs.

Though Msgr. Joe Lehman, pastor of Nazareth, said the Voices group is mostly Catholic it is intended as ecumenical and interfaith, meaning Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and other folk who take God seriously are more than welcome to join in the occasional gatherings.

“The Power of Forgiveness” is indeed a powerful film suitable for religious education in many

group settings. The showing at OLN in early November was followed by a panel discussion the next week at Hollins University, as representatives of five major world faiths attempted to define how their group views forgiveness. The Rev. Kirk Ballin, a Unitarian, served as moderator of the event. About 50 people from throughout the valley heard first from Carol Gerhardt and her husband Jay Landman, Buddhists from the Bodi Path group in Rockbridge County. They discussed how the faith that predominates parts of the Far East views how life can continue despite outrages.

Dr. J.S. Desai, a psychiatrist and a Hindu, pointed out that the word “Namaste” (“the divinity in me greets the divinity in you”) is a bridge to understanding. He told of a Hindu festival known as Holi in which a bonfire symbolically burns away all unneeded emotions like anger and jealousy. Once purified in the annual event, a person is free to take up life again fresh and energetic. The doctor said that he believes the principles of his faith and his medical knowl-

edge are compatible.

Marci Brumberg, representing Judaism, noted that in her faith the day of Yom Kippur each fall is spent in fasting and prayer for cleansing of one’s sins. Though Hebrew law demands that forgiveness be practiced, it may involve both a sin against God’s laws or an offense to another person. If the latter, forgiveness must be sought in person.

For the Rev. Deborah Hentz Hunley, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Jesus’ stories of the Prodigal Son and the Ungrateful Servant sum up the Christian position that calls for repeated forgiveness. Her branch of the faith provides for a reconciliation service in which the person seeking forgiveness in turn asks it of the confessor, for all are seen as sinners.

An African-American religious leader, Imam Ibrahim Hamidullah, noted that the Prophet Mohammad taught that, “We must get rubbish out of the way on our way to the mosque.” Mohammad was known for his compassion, the Imam said. Observant Mus-

lims pray to be freed of their sins several times daily.

The Rev. Dr. James Forbes, retired from The Riverside Church in New York and a speaker at Hollins in the past, introduced the film “The Power of Forgiveness.” He concurs with a prayer Zawacki (a retired Roanoke County schoolteacher) gave at the showing: “Revenge and hate do not lead to peace.”

Efforts in Ireland to overcome centuries-old resentments between Protestants and Catholics are revealed through teaching children --who wear symbolic glasses to see with new eyes -- not to harbor hatred. Though permanent peace there is fragile, it is being sought at the grass roots level.

The well-known example of Amish forgiveness following the murder of five schoolgirls in 2006 also is explored by the author of the book “Amish Grace.”

Elie Wiesel, who as a Jewish teen survived the Holocaust and has spent his long life trying to find God in it, describes how he brought together cur-

Heavy Rains Impact Less After Flood-Control Work Runners and walkers usually pack the Roanoke River Greenway to get some fresh air and exercise. But the only thing that ran down the Greenway last week was the Roanoke River as the rain caused some flooding in the area. Crews moved in later to clean all the debris left behind.

“When you have high water like this, you’re going to have trees and leaves and plastic and other things. That’s what we’re stuck with now,” said Gary Hegner, the Roanoke Parks and Recreation Superintendent. Workers raked, pushed,

and blew away the debris left on the path.

Last Thursday’s flood also took down parts of the splitrail fence but Hegner said, overall, they’re pleased with the minimal amount of damage. What Hegner said looked like a disaster on Thursday could have been much worse without the flood reduction project. (The 60-plus million dollar Army Corps of Engineer project that has added bench cuts to the Roanoke River also allowed for construction of the greenway.)

“We probably would have

had water up in homes. I’m sure the residents are the ones thanking the project for happening,” said Hegner. People who live there agree. One man said if the city had not built the flood reduction project, he’s afraid the area would look like it did from the flood of ‘85.

It’s a project that not only prevents flooding, but saves the city money in clean-up costs.

Hegner said this was the first real test; “Yes, absolutely, and a very successful one.”

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rent German leaders with those in Israel for symbolic forgiveness.

Two university professors, Everett Worthington and Kathleen Lawler-Row, are teaching young adults through their own examples how important it is to try to forgive. Worthington lost his elderly mother to an intruder. He says his years of teaching about forgiveness helped him accept the horror of her death. Lawler-Row recounts how studies of the body reveal that even the memory of a terrible event causes a rise in blood pressure. Holding resentment leads to serious illness, which she demonstrates in a lab.

The film continues with the story of three women, each affected by the loss of their man

in the 9/11 tragedy, and with how reconciliation is being accomplished by some Christians and Muslims in Lebanon.

Finally, the film concludes with a remarkable story of a California Muslim father who lost his student son to murder by a black teen.

Both grieving fathers not only became friends but now use their reconciliation to teach San Diego school children how to forgive.

(If you are interested in viewing “The Power of Forgivenes,” Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church (Rt. 419) owns a copy and will lend it.)

By Frances Stebbins info@newsroanoke.com

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Star City Playhouse Just the Ticket for Playgoers

Marlow Ferguson, a former New York stage actor who founded the Star City Playhouse on Williamson Road along with his wife Karon Sue Semones, is busy prepping the theater for the second production of its current season, “Class Acts,” slated to run from November 27 to December 20. Based on the Gurney Norman stories “Kinfolks,” it was adapted by Ferguson’s wife, in collaboration with Norman.

The latter, Ferguson says, “just loves it and, knock wood, we’re hoping Gurney will come out here and see this production.

We’ve tacked on, as a second act, the funniest play I’ve ever seen,” Robert Anderson’s “I’m Herbert.” The latter, a one-act work, “just seems to fit into the ‘Class Acts’ that we wanted to create -- a light-hearted, hilarious Christmas show.”

Star City Playhouse has already presented its initial production of the season, Tennessee Williams’ “Cat On a Hot Tin Roof,” a play Ferguson says is seldom performed now. Ferguson believes that the universities teach Shakespeare “and what was written last week - and they don’t teach anything in between.” The classic

playwrights–Chekhov, O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, etc.–“are ignored today.”

Next up on the playhouse schedule after “Class Acts” is “Awake and Sing.” Written by Clifford Odets and scheduled for February, “Awake and Sing” is a play many people have heard of, Ferguson says, but one he believes hasn’t been performed in Virginia. He feels it is quite timely.

“Clifford Odets wrote it in 1935, in the middle of a depression, and I thought, ‘Well, we’re in the middle of a depression. Let’s have a Depression– era comedy and see if it goes over.’ I think it will. It’s a brilliant, heart-grabbing play.” The season then concludes with a production penned by Ferguson’s wife, “Grave Concerns,” which Ferguson characterizes as “a very funny play. It’s about a little theater…the director dies and they decide they’re going to put on a performance to give him a send-off, a memorial performance, which turns out to be hysterical.”

Looking ahead to next year, Ferguson believes they’ll do some more Tennessee Williams works. “I have a list of 350 plays and cutting them down is quite

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Actors Sandee McGlaun and Christopher Reidy during rehearsal. a hard job. A lot of people give me suggestions, and some of them are just wonderful. They’d send me rushing to my library to reread plays that they give me.

But it will be plays that you can take your grandmother to, and you can take your granddaughter to, and neither of them will be offended or shocked. They may be surprised, as you should be in theater, but they won’t be shocked.”

In addition to presenting productions by classic playwrights with integrity and high standards, Star City Playhouse trains young actors who may be thinking about making acting their career. It also provides a place for older actors who don’t want to travel and who have families, in order to, in Ferguson’s words, “keep sharp, to keep them on stage. All the talent that we use is from here, from the valley, and we’re delighted.”

As for as the cultural scene in Roanoke, Ferguson believes that while there are wonderful amenities such as the orchestra and the opera, “the problem is you have to hunt for these things.” Regarding the opening of Star City Playhouse several years ago (after completing major renovations to a building the couple purchased), “we thought that we would be working hand and glove with Mill Mountain.

And, suddenly, right after we opened, Mill Mountain disappeared, which shocked us.”

Ferguson estimates that fifty to sixty percent of Star City Playhouse’s current audience originally attended Mill Mountain productions. “We’re delighted to have them, but I certainly wish Mill Mountain were

back in the sense of a beloved old grandfather.”

Calling it “an institution,” Ferguson notes, “When I was in New York, there wasn’t an actor I knew who wouldn’t give his eye-tooth to come down here in Roanoke and work at Mill Mountain. That’s how highly Mill Mountain was thought of.”

Roanoke’s professional Equity Theater was, in Ferguson’s view, “skunked” by the city when the decision was made to open up the Performing Arts Center for traveling Broadway musicals – a decision that, in his words, “cut the legs out from under Mill Mountain.” He called MMT a League of Regional Theaters (LORT) institution, which made its money from musicals.

With that, “Mill Mountain began to die. This city has to make up its mind: Does this city want to be homegrown or does it want to be like everywhere else? And there’s so much here that’s lovely that’s homegrown, I can’t see [Roanoke civic officials] throwing it away.”

The Taubman art museum for example, resembles “a beautiful bird” that could have landed anywhere but “just happened to land in Roanoke. It didn’t grow here - the city had Mill Mountain, which grew here for the last fifty years, and didn’t know how to cultivate it. [The City] let it die. They don’t know the value of what they have.”

Further information concerning Star City Playhouse’s current season can be obtained by calling 366-0060, or by visiting www.starcityplayhouse.org.

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Roanoke College Upcoming Events

Roanoke’s theme for the year is “The Challenge of Intellectual Inquiry,” as the College is launching a new general education curriculum. Many events will focus, as does the curriculum, on what it means to study something deeply – to explore, inquire and examine. Happenings on the Salem campus over the next few weeks include the following: Art Exhibit Through December 11. Smoyer and Olin galleries. In Smoyer Gallery, Rob Tarbell presents his work titled Diagnostics, a series concentrated on the effect of smoke on paper. While the smoke is controlled and manipulated, it is allowed to remain true to its nature and explores Tarbell’s interest in the manipulation of “traditional materials.” Diagnostics has evolved Generators, a series of “work that combines elements of the parlor game ‘Ghost of My Friends’ with the responses from the Rorschach Inkblot test.” Tarbell hopes his work will “both balance accident with control and give permanence to the ephemeral.”

Olin Gallery will present Margaret Evangeline’s Polychromatic Series from Roanoke College’s permanent collection. As a New York based and Louisiana-born artist, Evangeline explores different mediums that “deepen the immediacy of a moment.” Her gunshot Polychromatic Series shows a departure from the traditional concepts of art and embraces a charged aesthetic language. Evangeline’s video eXile also will be shown. eXile encompasses the dynamic world of fashion photo shoots through the eyes of an artist. It is an infusion of the process of Abstract Expressionism, coupled with the visual vibrancy of pop culture.

Poet Monday, November 23, 2009, 6:30 p.m. Colket Center Pickle Lounge. Poet Dorianne Laux will be hosted at a reception and book signing. Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, received the Oregon Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States in the previous year. Her work has been included twice in the Best American Poetry annual anthologies. She has received a Pushcart Prize, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Laux teaches at North Carolina State University. Sponsored by the D.L. Jordan Endowment for the Humanities and the Roanoke College Department of English.

Trumpet Recital Monday, November 23, 7:30 p.m. Olin Recital Hall. Trumpeter Matthew Kuhns will perform with Kandinsky Trio Pianist and Roanoke College Teaching Associate/Resident Artist Elizabeth Bachelder. The program will feature modern compositions by Anthony Plog, Arthur Honegger and Arvo Pärt along with the world premiere of Alleluia Motets, a sonata for trumpet/flugelhorn and piano by Joseph Blaha, associate professor of music. Kuhns is a member of the Wisconsin Brass Quintet and a doctoral candidate in Trumpet Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Hollins Graduate Wins Mississippi Review Top Prize

Liana Quill is the latest Hollins University alumna to earn a prestigious writing award. Quill, an English and creative writing major from Falls Church who graduated from Hollins last spring, has been named a winner of the first Mississippi Review Poetry Series contest.

Her poetry collection, Fifty Poems, is one of three books selected for publication in January 2010.

Quill competed against poets from across the country for the award, which also includes a $1,000 cash prize.

“I am so happy for Liana I am beside myself, and this is a big honor for our undergraduate creative writing program as well,” said Hollins Professor of English R.H.W. Dillard. “She is certainly the youngest Hollins alumna to have a ‘real’ book published since possibly Anna Sevier in 1963 and Lee Smith in 1968.

Dillard added that Quill will also have a selection of 15 poems from the book published in the next issue of Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts, for which he is writing an introduction.

The Mississippi Review Poetry Series contest was judged by award-winning poet Dara Wier, who has authored 11 books of poetry and directs the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the

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Arts Council of the Blue Ridge Receives $5000 Grant to Promote Women in the Arts

The Arts Council of Blue Ridge has received a $5,000 Tourism and the Art Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Virginia Tourism Corporation.

The grant will support Rising Stars: A New Constellation of Arts and Culture as Southwest Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts.

Rising Stars will promote events and activities that celebrate women writers / playwrights, musicians, dancers, actors, visual artists, filmmakers, artisans, and women-themed performances / activities March 1 through June 30, 2010. “Executive Directors from our member organizations asked The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge to apply for the grant and to help them with tourism initiatives,� said Laura Rawlings, Executive Director. “The Virginia Commission for the Arts has developed the statewide initiative MINDS WIDE OPEN: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts March – June 2010. The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge developed Rising Stars to promote what our regional arts community has developed in response to the statewide program.�

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Area children have completed a massive quilt decorated with images of peace and tolerance as part of the Conflict Resolution Center's Peace by Piece initiative.

"Peace by Piece" is an ongoing art project sponsored by the CRC to increase the community's awareness of and interest in peace, tolerance and collaboration. The CRC is bringing together children from a variety of neighborhoods, communities and organizations so they can each create a quilt square to illustrate a story representing what peace means to them.

Reflecting the ties that bind individuals into healthy communities, each of the hundreds of squares will connect to one another and to a centerpiece containing an image of a dove, the universal symbol of peace.

"Once assembled, the quilt will embody the ideal that, when we work together, our diverse perspectives and world views are the pieces that strengthen the fabric of harmonious, sustainable comAmy Cofield brings Lucia to munities," said Alice Burlinson, chair of the CRC's board of direclife in performances with the tors. "The quilt will serve to show that there is endless strength and Roanoke Symphony Orchestra opportunity within our communities because people see things difand Chorus. ferently."

To complete the project, children were asked to convey their River Valley Fine Arts Center, thoughts, ideas and dreams about what peace means to them on Hollins University, Jacksonville an 8-inch quilt square. With the help of Kim Weitkamp, a nationCenter, Gamut Theatre, and ally recognized storyteller, the children were guided through the Southwest Virginia Ballet. All participating organizations will present programs and activities that fit within the theme of women in the arts.

Rising Stars will include a free take-away booklet, special web site, on-line calendar and hotel packages and will build on current cultural tourism initiatives presented by The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge.

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Nicholas Carr Speaks at Roanoke College

Acclaimed business writer and speaker, Nicholas Carr, spoke at Roanoke College last week to a sizable crowd that braved heavy rains to make their way to the Bast Center.

Carr, whose often controversial theories relative to technology, business and culture have drawn both scorn and praise presented his lecture, “The Shallows: Mind, Memory and Media in an Age of Instant Information,� as part of the Henry H. Fowler Lecture Series.

Carr’s main premise, which he continually wrapped in layers of supporting evidence, is that once literate humans are losing their ability to concentrate on longer, more substantive sources of information – that by virtue of having access to an endless stream of short bits of information via the internet, “we are now in the middle of a cultural / information revolution no less important and ground shaking as when Guttenberg invented his printing press.�

Carr warned that it is not so much the content of what we watch on television or pursue on the internet but how we take that information – the process by which we go about it – that has the potential to adversely affect us the most as both individuals and as a culture.

He made a compelling case for this statement over the next 90 minutes citing both concrete studies from leading medical journals to his own oft-revealing personal experience. At one point he reached into his pocket and withdrew a mobile internet device and said, “It’s now with us everywhere we go. If you don’t think it’s changing how we think and how our minds go about processing information – think again.�

Some of Carr’s more influential books include, “The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google� (2008), and “Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage�

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As is the norm for the Fowler Lecture Series, Carr concluded his presentation by taking questions submitted from the audi-

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Judy McWhorterof Creative Quilting made the centerpiece while area children designed the squares of the “Peace by Piece� quilt which will be on display at the Taubman through January.

creative process using imagery techniques to write a story about peace. Using these stories as a guide, the children created their quilt squares to reflect or illustrate the peaceful memory or vision described in their story. The quilt and each of the stories is now on display in the Taubman Museum of Art where it will allow viewers to identify the corresponding stories and quilt squares.

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High School Football Playoffs

Several area football teams will begin their quest for a region championship this weekend. Some of the games of interest: Northside (8-2), the #2 seed Region III Division 3, comes off its bye week to take on Brookville (9-2) Friday at 7:30 p.m.

The Vikings, champions of the Blue Ridge District, face a dangerous opponent in the Bees, who already had success against some area opponents this season, including a 42-19 stomping of William Byrd on September 11th, and a 34-7 win over Hidden Valley on September 18th. Brookville also carries a ton of momentum into the matchup, having won three games in a row, including a come-from-behind 19-16 victory over Alleghany in a first round game last weekend.

Northside’s chances of moving on will depend on whether or not they can control the clock with their rushing attack, a three-headed monster featuring Philip Scott, Dustin Phelps and Tyler Fisher. The trio has been averaging right around 300 yards per game, and will need to duplicate that production in order to advance.

Hidden Valley (7-3) will take on River Ridge District foe Christiansburg (8-3) Saturday at 1 p.m. at Bogle Field.

Hidden Valley will see a familiar opponent on Saturday in the Blue Demons of Christiansburg. Just a month ago, on October 16th, the Titans handed the Blue Demons their first loss of the season in a hotly contested 28-21 victory. In their first matchup, the Titans defense was dominant, limiting the Blue Demons to 135 yards of total offense, including -5 during the second half. David Williams, the area’s leading rusher, was spectacular once again, running for 278 yards and two touchdowns.

Titans coach Scott Weaver expects a tight game between

two opponents who are well versed in what the other likes to run.

“With the number of times we’ve seen each other over the past few years, there are no big secrets,” Weaver said, noting his team has faced Christiansburg in the playoffs in 2004 and 2006 as well. “It’ll come down to execution and not turning the ball over.”

Cave Spring (8-2), the #1 seed in Region IV Division 3, will host Graham (5-6) Friday evening at 7:30 p.m.

Photo by TJ Whitten Cave Spring also faces a faCave Spring coach Tim Fulton would like to forget the team’s miliar foe on Friday evening, the Graham G-Men. The two loss to Hidden Valley. teams met way back on September 4th, where the Knights quarter. But Brooke Pointe, Western Valley District and scored 34 unanswered points led by backup quarterback secure a berth in the Region to open the ballgame in a 55- Zach Deutel, answered with IV playoffs, despite having 12 blowout victory. However, three scoring drives in the to replace more than half of Cave Spring coach Tim Ful- fourth quarter to secure the their starting offense and deton doesn’t expect things to win. Deutel was impressive, fense from 2008. going 15-23 for 131 yards and Raiders Upset: The North be as easy this time around.

Cross Raiders’ bid for a sec“They’re a much improved two touchdowns.

“He came in, and was a lit- ond consecutive VISAA Diteam from the first time we tle rattled at first, but showed vision III state championship saw them,” Fulton said. “That night, a lot of things really a lot of calm and poise and came to a sudden end at the went our way. The kids have made big plays for them,” hands of Blessed Sacrament – to realize that they have to Colonels coach Rob Senseney Huguenot last Friday.

The Raiders (8-3) had dedo their jobs well, or we can said.

The Colonels were led feated the Knights in each of come up on the short end of by dual-threat quarterback their previous two meetings, things.”

The Knights are looking to Devin Dean, who ran for 101 28-7 on September 11th, and bounce back from a tough yards and a score, threw for 21-6 in last year’s state title loss to rival Hidden Valley, 94 yards, and returned a kick- game. On Friday, however, the in which Cave Spring held a off 69 yards for touchdown. Raiders couldn’t get anything commanding 21-0 lead in the While Senseney wished his going offensively. Harvard2nd quarter, only to see the team had played better in bound running back Tyler Titans come all the way back the first half, he was proud of Caveness was held to 47 yards their comeback. rushing on 21 carries (a 2.2 to win, 28-21.

“We just came out flat, not yard average), and the Raid“We have a pretty bad taste in our mouths from that ready to play,” he said, “but ers committed 5 turnovers, game, and we’re just looking we challenged them at half- including two costly interto respond and play a good time to play more physical ceptions, one of which was and really get into the game. returned for a touchdown for football game,” Fulton said.

Salem (10-0) kicks off its We don’t have anything to the Knights. annual playoff run against hang our heads about.”

Despite the loss, the ColoMagna Vista (7-4) Friday evenels (7-4) have to be encourning at 7:30 p.m.

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Hidden Valley Titan shortstop Cam Hodge won’t have to ponder his college choice any longer when he takes his place at shortstop, as a senior this spring. Hodge has signed on the dotted line with Radford University, where he will team up once again with former infield partner Brent Mollenauer.

“I am extremely excited,” said Hodge, who overcame a broken arm suffered while a freshman. He played 45 games in 38 days last summer at showcase camps, a ritual that many high school players endure as they look to college for baseball. Hodge also visited Radford, was impressed, and was ultimately awarded a scholarship.

“They were the best fit,” said Hodge.

His mother Penny is the budget director for Roanoke County Schools while his father Craig is a teacher at William Byrd Middle. Titan head coach Jason Taylor said the partial scholarship Hodge earned demonstrated “how much Cam has worked hard, where he’s gotten to the point that a [Division One] school …showed an interest.”

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Hodge is the sixth Titan that has been offered scholarship money; Taylor has had eleven players in all go on to compete in college.

“He’s worked awfully hard for several years and certainly over the summer,” said Craig Hodge at a signing ceremony last week, noting that his son “grew up with a bat and [baseball] glove in his hands.”

Cam Hodge has the right stuff, according to Coach Taylor. “Fundamentally he’s great defensively; he catches everything and makes plays. [He has] real quick feet.” Hodge broke the Hidden Valley single season record for stolen bases last year; his coach sees him in the leadoff spot at Radford.

Titans players are already getting in shape for next season. Hidden Valley made it to the regional semifinals last spring and has been in the state final-four twice before under Taylor.

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Swimming doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a ton of media attention, save for the Olympics - or anytime Michael Phelps, the undisputed star of the sport, decides to hop in the pool. Most of the time, competitive swimming, its athletes, and their stories get buried beneath our love of the NFL, Major League Baseball, March Madness, Tiger Woods, the BCS, or the Chase for the Cup. Around here, that list might be amended to include high school football and the Hokies.

For fans of swimming, you have my sympathy. I know what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to have your favorite sport snubbed; as a soccer fan, I have not yet accepted the fact that soccer in the U.S. is only slightly relevant once every four years, when the

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I recently was introduced to a young man from right here in the Roanoke Valley, whose accomplishments in the pool are hard not to be impressed with.

His name is Keith Myburgh.

Keith, who goes to Cave Spring elementary, is only 10 years old. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been swimming competitively for less than three years. But based on his accomplishments during that time, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite possible that the sky is the limit.

A member of the Virginia Gators swim club (headed up by coach Doug Fonder), Keith ranked #1 in the country for his age group during the long course season, according to the USA Swimming, Inc. IM Xtreme Challenge rankings.

Keith is also currently ranked

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For a nine year-old, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of responsibility to handle.

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I have to admit that I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be surprised if he pulled it off, and then some. In fact, the only thing that I learned about Keith that did surprise me was when I asked him who his favorite swimmer was.

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Keith said. Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t argue with that. Good luck, Keith. I hope you break his record someday.

Another Gator swimmer with great promise is Jacob Siar, who was named by Virginia Swimming as the 13-14 swimmer of the year. Siar, a southwest Roanoke County resident, broke eight team records, won multiple events at Age Group Championships, and qualified for USA Swimming Junior Nationals to be held in December.

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The 2009 VIC Division III Champions: Back Row- Asst Coach Shannon Yopp, Gussie Revercomb, Lauren Oddo, Catherine Merritt, Emma Caveness, Anna Black, Hillary Cox, Khaki Comer, Mgr. Emma Florin, Head Coach Heather Donaho with son Noah, Front Row â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mary McConaughy, Marli Dabareiner, Sarah Jessee.

North Cross Falls in State Raiders Win State Volleyball Championship Semi Finals:

Marli Dabareiner powers the ball past defenders from Broadwater Academy to win the Virginia Independent School Division III State Championship on Saturday as Hillary Cox (#14) Sarah Jesse (#22) and Anna Black (#4) look on in. Dabareiner was also the tournament MVP. The Lady Raiders finished with a final record of 22-3 and were ranked number one in the state for the entire season. Â The last time the Raiders won the State title Coach Heather Donaho was a player on the team along with current Roanoke College Volleyball Coach Blair Trail.

Three Maroons Earn All-ODAC Honors in Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soccer Three Maroons were named to the 2009 womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer All-ODAC Team announced Tuesday afternoon. Alida Haslett and Jessica Welfare were named First-Team All-ODAC while Rebekah Adams was voted honorable mention. Welfare is a former Hidden Valley High School standout.

Haslett, a senior captain and center back, was named to the all-conference team for the second straight season. A team captain this fall, Haslett was a second-team selection last season and finished her career starting in 60 of her final 61 games.

Welfare, a junior midfielder, was named all-conference for the third straight season. She started in all 19 games, totaling a team-best 60 shots and 33 shots on goal. The former Hidden Valley Titan finished second on the team in points (18) and goals with eight. Two of her eight goals came off penalty kicks and two others were game-winners. A two-time All-South Region performer, Welfare was named to the ODAC All-Tournament team also.

Adams, a freshman midfielder, earned her

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The new roundabout, or traffic circle, which realigns Colonial Avenue and Penn Forest Boulevard in Southwest Roanoke County is finally open. The roundabout was first proposed several years ago and construction began in June. Originally set to open in August, it was delayed by rain and construction problems. The entire budget for the roundabout and associated road and drainage work was four million dollars. This is the first part of the project, with further roadwork and landscaping planned for next summer.

This roundabout is the American version, which is designed so that drivers yield to oncoming traffic going into the roundabout instead of coming out of it. The traditional English roundabout is a wheel design with a hub and spokes. The American version is the preferred choice of the Virginia Department

of Transportation, according to spokesman Thomas Digiulian. He said that â&#x20AC;&#x153;according to traffic analysis, it works more efficiently in reducing traffic accidents and has less of a right-of-way impact on traffic.â&#x20AC;? As of today, there have been no accidents in the roundabout and traffic seems to flow smoothly.

VDOT spokesman Alex Price said it has been well received by neighbors. One neighbor sitting in her lawn chair watching traffic on a sunny afternoon said she was against the idea at first. She refused to give her name, but said she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like the fact that the state took part of her front yard for the construction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At least they put down grass seed and straw,â&#x20AC;? she said, admitting that she did enjoy watching people drive through it hesitantly.

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Motorists are getting used to the new roundabout in SW county. traffic count in 2008 was 11,000 vehicles a day through that intersection; the projected traffic count for 2030 is 16,000 vehicles a day. That is why this intersection was judged the most urgent in need of a roundabout instead of a traffic signal. Roundabouts have been shown to reduce fatal and injury crashes by as much as 75%, due to the slower speed and reduced number of contact points.

Next summer VDOT will close the intersection for a

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When the new Roanoke County library opens on Merriman Road, a similar roundabout will be built.

That project will be a revenue sharing venture between Roanoke County and VDOT. It will be contracted out by the County with bid requests to be sent out in the near future.

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Commentary: Tech Needs to Play Historically Black Colleges I recently read an article regarding VA Tech playing the University of Cincinnati on Fed Ex Field in 2012. In that particular article it also stated that VA Tech is looking for a Division I-AA opponent to fill its schedule for next season when Western Michigan asked out of a game. I want to renew my request to Athletic Director Jim Weaver, that VA Tech consider playing one of the two historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) I-AA schools in Virginia, which is Hampton University and/or Norfolk State University.

I have spoken to Athletic Director Weaver by phone on this very issue and he stated that the university had established rivalries with several instate I-AA schools, primarily William and Mary and James Madison University. Also, it is noted that the University of Virginia plays I-AA opponent, the University of Richmond. I will be making this request again as it seems as though the other ACC schools that have HBCU's in their states are playing those schools when the

schedule allows. This year the University of Miami played I-AA opponent Florida A&M University, which is a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) which is the same conference that both Hampton University and Norfolk State are members of.

Also this year, the University of South Carolina, a member of the SEC, played South Carolina State University, a HBCU and MEAC member. Last year Clemson University of Clemson, South Carolina played South Carolina State in Death Valley. Again, this season Rutgers University of the Big East played Norfolk State, and again last season the University of Kentucky in the SEC played Norfolk State in Lexington, Kentucky.

I am realistic to know that the game itself either with VA Tech or the University of Virginia may not be as competitive on the field but we all know from an athletic standpoint this will be added exposure to both Hampton and Norfolk State along with being a major pay day for both in-

stitutions. The good thing about it, it all stays within the State of Virginia. Both schools have a tremendous fan base and have exceptional marching bands. Again, when I look at the roster of both of our Division I universities, it reflects extensive recruiting in those areas (Tidewater) and I would suspect that many of the players were all teammates in high school.

I am writing this letter so that information on this request will be shared with the public and that further support can be built. I will soon be speaking with Delegate Onzlee Ware and some other state legislators around the state who are HBCU graduates to help encourage both of our Division I universities to do what the best football conferences are doing on a consistent basis. I think it would be a win/win for the Commonwealth of Virginia in a number of different ways.

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Assurances of present "protection" aside, it seems apparent that whatever area is not in-

cluded in a Mill Mountain conservation easement will need ongoing citizen commitment to preserve the open natural park qualties of the summit area.

Photographs, maps and further Mill Mountain information is available at www.savemillmountain.com, the website of Mill Mountain Conservancy.

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Protection of the remaining park's summit area, shows how open green space in the sum- weak the park's existing protecmit area of Mill Mountain Park tions are considered to be by is the urgent concern of many pro-development individuals.

Roanoke area people. Those Some imperiously wave aside concerns are now brought to the zoning as something to be readforefront by the current move ily changed to suit their desires.

by City Council to place most of Others resort to renaming their the mountain under a conser- proposals to sidestep restricvation easement, but excluding tions. For example, though resthe summit area from that pro- taurants are specifically prohibttection. The Western Virginia ed in parks, while community Land Trust (WVLT), the body centers are allowed, developers which would hold the easement hoping to build a restaurant on and monitor the holding has top of Mill Mountain employed stated its resistance to inclusion the ruse last year of calling their of the summit area in an ease- restaurant a community center, ment, due to the existing devel- since a meeting room was inopments in place there, such as cluded in the design. That projthe zoo, the Discovery Center ect was taken off the table as the and the Mill Mountain Star. The economy declined last year, but WVLT states on its website that continuing public mention by "This portion of Mill Mountain development advocates favoris not appropriate for an open ing it or similar projects shows space easement due to the dif- that the park's summit is still ficulty of monitoring activity in regarded as available. such a highly developed, intenA restaurant is not the only sively-used area." There has not facility some envision adding to been any apparent effort from the park's mountain top; some Council to negotiate that mat- call for an inn as well. But the ter. impact of a restaurant alone on Some observers have claimed the natural space of the sumthat the summit area of the park mit area would be ruinous for is already well protected by its its open-space park qualities. park status and its zoning ("Recreation and Open Space," ROS), providing specific restrictions 2711 Franklin Rd. Roanoke, VA 24014 as to its use and development.

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HomeTown Bankshares Corporation, the parent company of HomeTown Bank, reported net income of $155,000 for the 3rd quarter of 2009 compared to a net loss of $394,000 for the third quarter of 2008. Net interest income for the quarter amounted to $2.1 million, a 57% increase over $1.3 million in the third quarter of 2008, due to growth in investments and loans in both the Roanoke Valley and the New River Valley.

Included in net income was a 56% increase in non-interest income to $195,000 in the 3rd quarter of 2009 vs. $125,000 during the 3rd quarter of 2008.

This increase is attributed to a sizable increase in the Bank’s income from growing commercial and retail deposit accounts as well as an increase in brokerage income from the Bank’s residential mortgage business.

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September 30, 2009, HomeTown Bankshares Corporation earned net income of $300,000 compared to a loss of $1.27 million for the first nine months of 2008. Earnings per common share were $0.09 thru September 30, 2009 vs. a loss of $0.48 per share for a comparable period in 2008.

“We are very pleased with our continued profitability and increased earnings during 2009 in spite of the challenging economic environment,” stated Susan K. Still, President and CEO. “This has been a difficult environment for many businesses and consumers in our markets during a recession that has lasted almost two years, President Still said.

“We are, however, committed to actively serving our communities, prudently working with our customers during these difficult times, and continuing to grow our market share.”

Junior Achievement of Southwest Virginia Receives Major Donations

Junior Achievement of Southwest Virginia has received nearly $15,000 in grants and donations from regional companies. The Wachovia/Wells Fargo Foundation provided an $8,000 unrestricted gift as a result of the merger with Wells Fargo, which wants to play a larger role in financial literacy education. The gift will secure more classroom kits and provide training to at least 20 volunteers in schools throughout the region.

In addition, Junior Achievement of Southwest Virginia received a $4,320 grant from the Allstate Foundation to promote financial literacy in middle school grades and expose the students to the variety of insurances available to cover the expense of accidents, illness and property. The Pepsi Bottling Group also presented JA $2,500 on behalf of the employees of the New River Valley Pepsi facility who participated in the Wytheville-Wythe-Bland Chamber of Commerce, Inc. Junior Achievement Success Skills Program presented to high school seniors in Bland and Wythe county schools. The program supports the delivery of essential economic education to students in this area to enhance the region’s future work force.

"We are delighted that during this challenging economic period companies are recognizing the importance of financial literacy from kindergarten through graduation," said Katherin Elam, president of JA of Southwest Virginia.

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According to The National Association of Resale & Thrift Shops (NARTS), resale continues to gain in popularity for several reasons. For starters there’s the “green” angle; aside from the current economic conditions, people would rather consign, sell or donate their unwanted or unneeded items rather than just add to the waste stream. Some consumers prefer not to hassle with the work a yard-sale entails.

Even higher-income “fashionistas” and decorating divas have jumped on the bandwagon and are buying stylish clothing, accessories and furniture for a third or a fourth of the original price - sometimes even less - leaving money for other things in life.

Many consignment shops have evolved to incorporate a boutique appearance, carrying new and gently used upscale, name brand, and designer apparel and accessories. While the larger thrift stores may require more effort sifting through the merchandise, there is upscale clothing, accessories and shoes as well as furniture, decorating accessories and household goods to be found at bargain prices. Better yet, profits from items sold at many of these outlets support charitable causes.

Some of many resale-shopping opportunities to choose from in Roanoke: Consignment 1st Roanoke Valley, 2065 Electric Road at Oak Grove Plaza. Owners / Operators: Wayne and Susan Moore and Nick and Martha Perez. Call first if interested in consigning furniture or large items. Electronics are not accepted for consignment. Categories: new and “like new” used furniture that is in style, antiques and collectibles, wrought iron, wicker, estates, home décor, artwork, pottery, crystal, silver, and jewelry.

Discovery Shop, 3723 Franklin Road (Townside Shopping Center) Manager: Amy Whit-

low Peck. Categories: The new and gently used merchandise is donated by area businesses and individuals and includes quality and some designer clothing for women and men, home furnishings, collectibles, books and jewelry. The money from sales goes to the local chapter of the American Cancer Society. With the exception of the manager, volunteers staff the store.

Euro Fashions & Exclusives, 3635 Franklin Road ( Townside Shopping Center).

Owner / Operator: Rhonda Cheatwood. Consignments by appointment only. Categories: boutique-like atmosphere, new lingerie, “like new” brand name clothing for women, accessories, jewelry, handbags, shoes, and trendy clothing.

Brands carried include Armani, Chanel, Gucci, St. John’s, Ann Taylor, and more.

Express Unlimited Furniture & Consignment, 401 Campbell Avenue, SW (beside Angels of Assisi in downtown Roanoke). Owner: Anthony Miller. Manager: Tracey McNew. Categories: Has found a niche from their other business, Express Delivery & Moving, by turning customer’s used household items into cash and at the same time helping families find items they need at affordable prices. Their store offers gently used furniture, decorative accessories, electronics, and appliances.

Gently Worn, 2107 Apperson Drive (beside the Paperback Exchange) Owners / Operators: Kaye Garland and Joanne Foster. Consignments by appointment only. Categories: “lLike new” clothing for women including suits, separates, casual wear, cocktail and formal wear, shoes, handbags, jewelry, belts, designer name jeans, home decorative items, gifts. Name brands seen in the store include Talbot’s, Eddie Bauer, Gap, Ann Taylor and more.

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Rescue Mission Thrift Store, 421 4th Street SE, Manager: Charlotte Anders Categories: Clothing and shoes for ladies, men, and children; toys, household goods, appliances, furniture, bedding, window treatments, formalwear, and costume jewelry. Items may be donated at the store during regular hours Monday through Saturday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. The dollars spent in the stores are used to provide needed services for the poor such as meals, shelter and medicine.

2nd Helpings Shop/Gallery/ Café - 1502 Williamson Road (in the former Sears Building) Manager: Joyce Sylvester Johnson; Co-Managers: Rhonda Hamed and Terry Wilkinson.

The Roanoke Rescue Mission’s recently opened upscale thrift shop includes a store, café and art gallery. Categories: The store sells gently used fashions, furnishings, collectibles and pet accessories. Clothing is arranged by color and size. The Art Gallery, a successor to Art on a Mission at Tanglewood Mall, contains eclectic works of art including drawings, pottery, photography, sculpture and jewelry from more than 100 regional artists. All of the profits raised from the 2nd Helping store are used to fund the operating budget for Rescue Mission ministries. The purchase of original art from the gallery supports local artists and provides funds for the homeless to access the medical attention they need. Items for sale in the store originate from donations taken in at the 421 4th Street location.

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Categories: features clothing for both women and men, upscale, designer labels, casual wear, work attire, shoes, costume jewelry, some fine jewelry, handbags.

Goodwill has several retail stores in Roanoke and surrounding areas. Categories: men and women’s clothing, accessories, furniture, kitchenware, art, music, toys, books, electronics, and collectibles.

Many of the items are brand name and designer labels.

Items may be donated at any of the Goodwill stores during regular business hours. The dollars spent in the stores support Goodwill’s Mission Services programs for people with disabilities and disadvantages.

Hidden Treasures Consignment Boutique 4216 Brambleton Avenue (at Brambleton Plaza) Owner/Operator: Bethany King. Consignments by appointment only. Categories: primarily designer labels and the latest fashions in clothing, shoes, purses, consigned jewelry as well as jewelry by local artists, formalwear, and furniture in order to offer an upscale venue to consign, shop, and save money.

New To Me Consignment Boutique, 1504 Grandin Road, Southwest Roanoke. Owner/ Operator: Jenny Prickitt. Consignments by appointment only. Categories: Upscale boutique that sells art, furniture, clothing, shoes, gift items, jewelry, collectible antiques, decorative accessories for the home, and unique gifts.

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Roanoke Police Launch “Safer City Roanoke” Campaign The Roanoke Police De- launch of ‘Lock It or Lose It’ we partment has announced the have seen a significant decrease launch of the “Safer City Roa- in theft in our city – our goal is noke” campaign, a new crime to not only sustain that accomprevention and public aware- plishment but to reduce crime ness initiative to educate Roa- incidences even further,” said noke citizens on measures to A. L. Gaskins, Roanoke Police prevent larceny incidents, many Chief. “The ‘Safer City Roaof which are crimes of opportu- noke’ campaign is a proactive nity. The campaign, developed and aggressive new approach pro-bono for the Department to empower the community to

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