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Residents Weigh In On Countryside

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Roanoke’s New Skyline?

After Roanoke-owned Countryside Golf Course ceased operations on March 1 due to city government budgetary restraints, questions quickly arose as to how the land would be used.

At a public meeting last Monday at New Covenant Christian Church hosted by the Miller Court Neighborhood Alliance, residents from Community the neighborhood offered up their opinions as to what should be done with the property.

Planning Administrator Chris Chittum was on hand, along with Council members Anita Price, Ray Ferris and Court Rosen to listen to residents’ concerns.

According to records from previous meetings, residents from the Dansbury Acres and Arrow Wood neighborhoods suggested uses from recreational facilities to a park protected by conservation easements. A few homeowners from Miller Court took a similar tack with their suggestions at this most recent meeting.

Jerome Richardson said that he would like to see a community center on the land, since there is not one on Countryside’s side of town.

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Well, not exactly, but if we had buildings this tall you probably wouldn’t want to be hanging out with these guys . . . This picture and many others taken by “Guerilla Photographer” Joseph Carnevale, who likes to take photographs and videos in restricted, off-limits areas (the ledge of a high rise building, freight trains, abandoned property, sewer tunnels, etc), will be on display Saturday, Aug. 7th at the Shadowbox Theatre in downtown Roanoke. Carnevale will also be telling stories of his adventures. For more information see Gene Marrano’s story on page 11.

Power of Place P5– Our very own Happy Chef discovers the joys of the surf and shares her wisdom and a recipe along the way.

Funds by Virginia Early Childhood Foundation Support Area’s Young Children Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke, a local collaborative working to improve the quality of early education and care in the Roanoke area, has received a grant of $100,000 from the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (VECF), a public-private partnership headquartered in Richmond.

Funds for this “Sustaining Grant” will support the coalition’s ongoing efforts to build partnerships with business and

community leaders and to increase pub- preschools and childcare centers parlic engagement about the importance of ticipating in the Virginia Star Quality providing young children, ages 0-5, with Initiative. This is a statewide system dequality early childhood experiences so signed to help families make more inthey will be successful in school and in formed choices when considering where life. According to Kris Meyers, Program to send their young children for childManager for Smart Beginnings, “The care and preschool. Currently there are grant will be used to expand only six early childhood proparent education opportunigrams in the Roanoke region Education ties, increase the number of which have been “star rated” families receiving home visby the state of Virginia. The iting services, and provide professional VECF funds will increase that number development training for early child- to 20 or more programs by 2012. In hood educators.” addition, the VECF grant funding gives Another focus of the VECF grant Smart Beginnings the ability to provide funds will be to increase the number of these programs with intensive training

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and mentoring support designed to develop higher-quality learning experiences for young children.

Meyers began her career as a kindergarten teacher and knows firsthand the importance of early childhood education. “Many people don’t realize how much learning takes place between the ages of 0-5, but when I was a kindergarten teacher, I could clearly see the difference between children who had quality early learning experiences from those who did not. I am confident that > CONTINUED P2: Smart Beginnings

Acting Scion Shoots The Better Side Of Roanoke

P10– Local Chef extraordinaire Joshua Smith now has his dream kitchen as Local Roots opens its new digs.

Photo by Gene Marrano

A model poses during a commercial shoot to advertise the upcoming Second Runway event that will benefit Goodwill Industries of the Valleys.

Goodwill Shows Off Its Fashion Sense While Raising Money

P11– With temperatures pushing well into the 90’s and the humidity soaring, more than just the music was hot in Floyd.

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$100,000 Grant Awarded to “Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke”

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Don’t think of your local Goodwill stores as fashion centers? Think again. Raising the awareness level for what is really available at the seven Goodwill outlets in the valley and raising money for the non-profit’s workforce training programs are the goals behind Goodwill Industries of the Valleys’ “Second Runway” fund-raiser on Thursday, August 12.

Local radio jocks David Lee Michaels and Melissa Morgan will emcee Second Runway, which runs on August 12 from 6-9 p.m. at the Jefferson Center. A runway for the models to strut their stuff will be built to run from the stage at Shaftman Performance Hall to the third row of seats.

Kelly Sandridge, the Director of Marketing and Community Relations for Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, said many don’t realize that some of the clothes found > CONTINUED P2: Goodwill

place they should conUnlike his famous sider living. actor parents, TimoHutton praised lothy Hutton and Debra cal backers for supWinger, Noah Hutporting a film that’s ton aspired to be on the other side of the not the “cookie cutter” camera – shooting the tourism video. “They action. That’s exactly wanted something difwhat the 23 year old ferent, with a story,” Photo by Bill Turner said Hutton. The projwas doing in Roanoke and Blacksburg for over Director Noah Hutton makes ect also stems from an a week – filming venues camera adjustments as film initiative that came out and local personalities crewman Alex Footman stands of last year’s Creative for a short film that will by.

Connectors initiative, be used to sell the valley when several dozen to outsiders. area residents were asked to brainstorm The City of Roanoke, Advance Auto ideas about how to attract professionals Parts, the NewVa Corridor Technology to the Roanoke-Blacksburg corridor.

Council (NCTC), the Roanoke/AlleghRoanokers John Anderson and Sharon any Planning District Commission and Rappaport, husband and wife, helped rethe Roanoke Valley Convencruit Hutton for the project. tion & Visitors Bureau are “They knew the producer of Documentary among the entities that paid a documentary feature I had for Hutton and his producjust finished directing,” said tion company, Couple 3 Inc., to spend Hutton, referring to a film about cancer more than a week in the region, shoot- patients. (Anderson wrote and released ing a six minute film (after editing) that a book last year > CONTINUED will showcase the region’s assets, letting called “Stand By P3:Acting young professionals know why this is a Her,” about the

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Noting the presence of Green Ridge Recreational Center in north Roanoke County, he said that a community center could serve as a counterpart: “We could complement the county and the county could complement us.”

Johnny Taylor, Sr. saw the use of the land for recreation as having historical precedent. Saying the open space lends itself to recreation, he argued that it would “be easier to build on what you have in place.”

Educational needs were also on the minds of the residents. Donald Dickerson pointed out that the area has no nearby elementary school while Councilwoman Anita Price, an educator for Roanoke city schools, called for a study to be done to look at the possible effect that changes at Countryside could have on local schools. “It’s a very serious variable that has to be put into play. We can’t talk about [new] housing without how it would impact schools and transportation.”

A sizeable chunk of the conversation, however, centered on whether the land should be kept as a golf course. Delores Reed reasoned that it was the only public golf course in the area and it would be preferable to keep it as such, even if it were to be a smaller course.

Chittum responded that while a 9-hole course may be feasible, the current 18-hole setup at Countryside was not thought to be a workable situation.

Charles Price argued that the environmental, economic and social benefits of a golf course are “a lot more than perceived” and wondered if funds that were at one time appropriated to keep the golf course open for five more years could be reappropriated. He suggested that city planners discuss options with the economic development department in terms of marketing Countryside.

Maintenance of the course was a point of contention at the meeting. Mike Higgins fretted that the 50-foot buffer section on the perimeter of Countryside’s property was not being fully and properly mowed by the city government as legally required and stated that a neighbor was actually doing the majority of the mowing.

Discussion of maintenance led to concerns regarding animal populations on the Countryside land. A number of residents began to list purported instances of animal control issues on the land, centering on a “strong presence” of skunks. Higgins contended that “a lot of the problem comes from destruction of habitat” by clearcutting expansion from the airport.

The possibility of rezoning from recreational to commercial

Valley residents meet with city officials to discuss the future of the Countryside property. land was also on the minds of many residents. Some of them argued against stores and malls moving in given the “closed-in” nature of the land. Price asked if developers could build without regard for common areas should the land be subdivided into portions. Chittum responded that development would also have to adjust to the nearby residential areas.

“As planners, we have to look at what’s going on next door,” said Chittum. “We can’t put incompatible uses next to each other.”

Other concerns put forth by Miller Court Neighborhood Alliance President Daniel M. Hale, Jr., included proper lighting of the land to prevent crime and the possibility of increased traffic and its impact on safety. He also argued that should the land be rezoned, nothing should be allowed that would lower property values.

The meeting ended on a positive note with Jerome Richardson musing on the land’s value and willingness of the community to give input: “Nobody’s taking this lightly ... this is a prime location for the city and [we all] want a win-win situation.”

A community meeting scheduled for August 31st, 4-7 p.m., will allow all residents near the site to review the ideas presented. After further refinement, the planning department plans to submit a report to the City Council in September.

By Aaron Layman info@newsroanoke.com

> Smart Beginnings the services we provide through Smart Beginnings will help reduce that gap, and ensure that our children are ready for kindergarten.”

United Way of Roanoke Valley will serve as the fiscal agent for the grant, which will impact the lives of approximately 5,000 young children in the Cities of Roanoke and Salem, in the Town of Vinton, and in Roanoke, Botetourt, and Craig counties over the next two years.

“Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke has made great strides

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since being established in 2007,” said Dora Butler, Program Officer for the VECF’s Southwest Virginia region. “The coalition is creating and leveraging early childhood systems and infrastructures that will launch young children on a path to lifelong success, as well as transform the economic vitality of our region.”

For more information, contact Kris Meyers at 540-777-4211, or visit www.smartbeginningsroanoke.org.

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at Goodwill are truly fashionable. “We have found every bit of them in our Goodwill stores,” said Sandridge of those items chosen to be modeled.

Rolex and Breitling watches (donated to local Goodwill stores) will be auctioned off that night as well. “They are real,” said Sandridge. Proceeds from the sale of items donated to Goodwill will help fund the training programs offered. “When they’re shopping in our stores what [patrons] are doing is actually helping someone who needs assistance getting back to work, or getting training. That’s what our mission is.”

Goodwill typically held an annual golf tournament to raise money but when the economy went south “that’s when we made the decision to move away [from that]. This year we decided to try the fashion show.”

Sandridge hopes it becomes an annual event. Miche Bags, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Southern Living and a Goodwill boutique are among the vendors that will also set up shop on the 12th.

Goodwill Industries of the Valleys serves 31 counties and 14 cities in the Roanoke, New River and Shenandoah Valleys. In 2009 more than 32,000 people were helped via job training and employment programs.

The new Workforce Center at Crossroads

Mall, opened with a ribbon cutting attended by then-Governor Tim Kaine last year, is actually managed and staffed in large part

by Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, which also provides dislocated worker training as a Workforce Investment Board partner.

Federal funding helps Goodwill operate the program.

Second Runway will feature a wide array of volunteer models, including Roanoke City Councilman David Trinkle, artist Eric Fitzpatrick, city schools spokesperson Tiffany Woods, etiquette expert Donna Dilley, Valley Business Front editor Dan Smith and Drs. Newman and Blackstock of local commercial fame.

“They’ve been very, very excited [about participating],” promises Sandridge. Fitzpatrick has donated several Virginia Tech football prints that will be offered during the silent auction that evening. Themes for the fashion show include party and wedding segments.

“We’ve got some unbelievable wedding dresses,” said Sandridge, who has been “blown away” by some of the fashion items they found while looking for clothes to be worn during Second Runway.

A downturn in the local economy means “business has been very good” at Goodwill

Photo by Gene Marrano

Ginger Poole, Leonard Jones, Erin Hildreth, and Mallory Nielsen model Goodwill fashions. outlets, with a class of clientele “much different than it was several years ago,” said Sandridge. Those who shopped once looking just for bargains “now realize the quality and are coming back again and again.”

Second Runway tickets are $40 each or two for $75 in advance. Call 581-0620 ext. 107 or go to goodwillvalleys.com to purchase. Tickets at the door on Aug. 12 are $45. Schaal’s will provide the catering.

By Gene Marrano gmarrano@cox.net

Correction: Last week's Back Creek Civic League meeting story (County Notes) was written by Susan Ayers. The article last week on modular health care was written by Aaron Layman. We regret any errors in identifying the authors of these two stories.

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women in his life that have battled breast cancer.)

Hutton, a Manhattan, NY resident whose stepfather Arliss Howard (Full Metal Jacket) is also an actor, does have a turn in front of the camera, portraying someone in New York bemoaning the high cost of living there. That’s where the Star City comes in. During his scenes Hutton is asked to make a film about Roanoke as he drives south to check out the valley himself – the film within a film technique. “I get here … and fall in love with the place,” he said. That’s how the film will end – with Hutton looking at apartments.

“I hadn’t even heard of [Roanoke],” Hutton chuckled while relaxing at Mill Mountain Coffee earlier this week. Jeff Hoffman of the local band My Radio and other groups helped show Hutton around town; Hoffman was also a cameraman during the shoot.

“At first glance it’s a surprisingly developed metropolis,” noted Hutton, who also liked the fact that Roanoke is surrounded by natural assets that are easy to get to. In fact his crew hiked to MacAfee’s Knob last week, shooting scenes from that well-known rock outcropping. He liked the green initiatives espoused by people like Jeremy Holmes (Ride Solutions) and the lively nightlife in downtown Roanoke.

Hutton went fly-fishing with someone from Orvis as his guide and spent last Saturday film-

ing at FloydFest. He also praised the level of cooperation from everyone involved. “People really connected to the town get that this [project] is positive.”

On the list of people and places he was asked to shoot were the Taubman Museum of Art (executive director David Micklenburg), the ubiquitous River “Carless Brit” Laker, Jason Garnett of Shadowbox Cinema, the Elizabeth Arden facility, John Reburn (Roanoke Valley Printworks) and the new Virginia Tech-Carilion medical school, which opens this fall. “John Reburn was one of my favorite shoots – he was awesome, a great guy” recalled Hutton.

Not to mention hyper-kinetic Beth Deel and Wendy Schuyler, who recruited Hutton for their latest “Starbomb,” a night time run from the top of Mill Mountain on tricycles and other small wheeled vehicles. Hutton’s crew filmed the Starbomb as well. “It was just a lot of fun,” said Hutton, who wore a dinosaur helmet during his own ride down the mountain.

Hutton attended a “Ted Talk” at Kirk Avenue Music Hall that featured neuroscientist Henry Markham – the subject of a ten-year documentary Hutton is working on. He will follow Markham for The Blue Brain Project, as Markham attempts to simulate the human brain, cell by cell.

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Photo by Gene Marrano

the artificial brain, “to see if it is self-aware.” The project has medical research implications according to Hutton, who would like to mix feature film directing with documentaries in the future. He’s also directed a few music videos in New York, which has allowed him to work on creative concepts.

Hutton’s Crude Independence film about oilfields in North Dakota marked his directorial debut at age 21. It won several film festival honors.

Being an actor was just something he never pined for as a child – despite his pedigree.

“People would always ask me, do you want to do what they’re doing? I would always say no, I wanted to be behind the camera. I was so surrounded [by actors] I wanted to do my own thing.” Hutton always brought his video camera to movie sets while growing up, whetting his appetite further for filmmaking.

While in Roanoke, Hutton shot scenes downtown at developer Ed Walker’s Hancock Building, extolling the virtues of urban living. “Ed’s been our go-to guy here,” said Hutton. The completed film will premiere at the NCTC gala on September 1 at Hotel Roanoke.

Director Noah Hutton likes the scene in downtown Roanoke.

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ers,” said Hutton. Sounding something like science fiction, in ten years Markham will turn on

Living Beautifully Green in Grandin Village Every once in a while you get more interview for your money.

Likewise, every once in a while you get more bang for your buck. It is certainly true when you have the opportunity to rent from 2049 Windsor Avenue LLC. That is the company name for a family business. It is also a hot address if you are looking to rent a stylish “green” apartment in Roanoke.

Located in Grandin Village, this sixteen unit apartment complex has risen from the ashes of neglect. That is due to the visionary and hands on approach by the father / son team behind “2049.” John, Mark, and Aaron Garland have literally poured blood, sweat and tears into their project. The stories abound. The picture and story of the petrified (not scared… mummified) squirrel found during the tear down phase is just one of many the two brothers share with enthusiasm. It was not uncommon for one to finish the sentences of the other.

A tour of the complex is a treat, not just because of the care taken during restoration, but because of the obvious pride of the two Gen Y members of the team. If you have a preconceived notion of those “lazy kids today,” these two will blow that notion out of the water.

Both of them recognize this project as a long term investment that may not show return until it is time to send their own children off to college.

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That the project was a labor of love is evident in every detail. A lot of what they have done exceeds LEED standards. Though LEED standards were developed for large commercial application, this team is currently processing the paperwork to certify their building according to those very standards that are more often seen in large cities.

During the reconstructive process great consideration was given to using original elements of the building along with local skilled and trustworthy contractors. When wood needed to be replaced externally, regional cypress was used alongside the original cypress used in 1928. Original bathroom fixtures have been re-glazed with care.

Thoughtful design elements that were scattered throughout the building have been relocated so that each apartment has amenities like glass front cabinets in the kitchen. There are many restored light fixtures that graced the building during its heyday, and they are joined by customized fixtures that recall those long gone days.

The eight panel solid wood doors have been meticulously restored Photo by Christine Slade throughout the interior.

When some good natured razzing broke out about the tendency The Court Yard at 2049 Windsor. Two rain barrels are tucked toward perfectionism in the family Mark expressed himself suc- against the building to capture water from the roof to care cinctly. “I don’t have a problem with flaws; I have a problem with for the herb garden. not doing the best I can do.” When asked why he cared about things and their guests often gather in the courtyard set in the middle of like fixing the ceiling for noise mitigation he replied, “it’s a quality an herb garden. Though great thought and planning went into the of life issue”. When was the last time your landlord cared about physical restoration, the brothers consider the community feeling your quality of life? an added bonus.

Step back outside to the courtyard with its two water features Though the team was encouraged to tear down the eight car gaand bistro tables and you can see why this complex is a commurage, it now houses a locked community room for bicycle storage. nity within the greater community of Grandin Village. Neighbors The upper third of the garage needed restoration because of a tremendous tree that had become a part of its wall. Attic storage and a ! well equipped community laundry make the space practical as well as pretty. A few rainwater barrels and compost tumblers add to the green living practiced by the owners and encouraged in the tenants.

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A Move From Black Death to Sustainability?

he numbers are be- about this oil spill is the volume yond comprehension of dispersant spread so dispasfor the global catas- sionately across the Gulf ’s watrophe that continues to unfold ters. Recently, one toxicologist in the Gulf of Mexico. called dispersants “deodorized Eleven human deaths. Thir- kerosene.” EPA Administrator ty species of birds and more Lisa Jackson and NOAA Adthan 400 species of other kinds ministrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco of wildlife threatened. At least admitted in a recent conference 3 million gallons of oil, creat- that the effects of the dispering an oil slick that’s sants are largely 130 miles long and 70 unknown. At best, miles wide by 17 May the chemicals seem 2010. Nearly 600,000 an environmental gallons of an oil distradeoff; at worst, persant called Corexit their hoped-for to break it up. Twelve “cure” could prove thousand Louisiana to be as lethal as residents who have the “disease” itfiled for unemployself! Senator Lisa ment since the spill Murkowski, a Rebegan. As of 14 June publican from 2010, the confirmed H. Bruce Rinker, PhD Alaska, asked why cost: $1.6 billion. chemical disperAnd one other nagging sta- sants used to break up the oil tistic: 30% of the nation’s oil were not tested prior to the production is derived from the incident. Senator Robert MeGulf of Mexico. nendez, a New Jersey DemoThese numbers stand as un- crat, said at a hearing in May, equivocal condemnation of BP, “What I see is a company not an oil company already found prepared to address the worsttwice guilty of negligence here case scenario but a company in the United States. At its that is flailing around, trying Texas refinery in 2005, a mas- whatever [it thinks] of next.” sive explosion occurred that Would any of us administer an killed 15 workers and injured untested medicine to our chil170 others; the company was dren suffering from ill health? fined $87 million for negli- Why then would we think it acgence. Just a year later, BP was ceptable to apply such untested cited for leaking 4800 barrels of substances to an entire ecologioil into Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay cal system? and was fined another $20 milAs an undergraduate at VA lion for ignoring opportunities Tech, I completed an indepento prevent the spill. One can dent research project on petrohardly imagine another antag- leum pollution and waterfowl, onist in this story so uncaring, specifically 6-week-old mallard so removed, so profit-driven ducklings, through the U.S. as this company: the corporate Fish and Wildlife Service. I diequivalent of the Marquis St. vided hundreds of animals into Evremonde in Dicken’s A Tale four groups: a control group of Two Cities. BP is, perfectly, confined for 8 hours in a trough the image of the uncaring, even of clean water, a second group predatory aristocrat of the an- confined to a trough of water cien regime “across the pond.” with crude oil on its surface, a Of course, I don’t think there’s third to a trough with a mix of any single multinational petro- crude oil and Corexit disperleum company with its hands sant, and a fourth to a trough clean; they all seem cast from with dispersant only. When the same nefarious mold. A I had designed the study and quick look across the globe, sought approval, one of the onespecially into remote areas of site scientists informed me that Amazonia, corroborates my it seemed an unnecessary waste umbrella condemnation of the of taxpayer money because the entire lot wherever they haul research had been completed out the Earth’s guts. long ago. I retorted that the What especially concerns me supposed studies, all published

as multi-color, glossy handouts, were conducted by a USAbased petroleum corporation with no peer-review or independent confirmation. When this same scientist observed my experimental results at the end of the day, he changed his attitude instantly, swallowed his pride, and helped to initiate a new phase of federal research on dispersants. The outcome of my little study? All control animals survived, all crude-oil animals survived, about half of the animals exposed to the oildispersant mix survived, and all dispersant animals died.

That’s right: 100% mortality for those mallards exposed solely to Corexit! To be fair, I used an early version of Corexit no longer applied in the field. It’s discouraging, however, that so many years later we’re still asking the same question: why weren’t these chemicals tested prior to their application in the Gulf of Mexico?

It’s almost enough for me to lose faith that we can EVER live sustainably with our ancient planet, especially its jaw-dropping, irreplaceable richness of species and ecosystems. How many more warning signs do we need to reform our appetites for nonrenewable natural resources? Three decades ago, we had the oil embargo. Then Exxon Valdez. Now BP. And how about those horrific stories from the remote corners of the Earth where such companies too-often operate covertly without much public scrutiny?

It’s time that we all learned our lesson from the “Black Death” spreading across the Gulf of Mexico: It’s an international failure of the highest order. Let us always remember 20 April 2010 as a day of infamy for the Republic, the starting point of reform – real reform – in our nation’s energy policy as we move toward individual and collective sustainable solutions. Enough is enough.

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The Season of Spiders Draws Nigh

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t is now officially the middle of summer— and I take turns with this duty. But it is almost alnot the weatherman official but the Goose ways the dog who goes first on these walks. We Creek local-native official middle of the invent clever imaginary ways to attach something summer. And so it will be six more weeks until to Buster (a rooftop TV antenna, for instance) to fall begins. This practical fact few people know, outfit him to clear away the webs before we get to because they don’t know how to read the spiders. where he has already been.

Every morning we walk the AT—the In four weeks, the spiny spiders Annie Trail—that she keeps mowed (genus Micrathena) will show up. around the edge of the pasture. We walk These are very visible, ornate, chunky along the edge of the field, then cross spiders that live in a rolled leaf at the the creek to follow the old logging path highest point of their web. They spin we call the “middle road” through the more elaborate webs across the path, rhododendrons and mountain laurels and without the stick, these bizarre and mixed hardwoods. Yesterday the but harmless little monsters often end small spiders of mid-summer were acup perched on the rim of your glasses. tively “bridging”: extruding their invisYou really need that spider stick. ible one-strand silks on the air currents In a few weeks, the inch-thick, across gaps between tree branches, round-bodied orb-weavers too will be Fred First blackberry canes, and especially across stringing their snares across the path, open spaces, like footpaths. This spider set out to capture a hiker. It is rumored event is one of the hopeful signs of fall and cooler that just one average sized pedestrian can feed an weather to come, and I am glad to see them, if an- orb-weaver family for an entire year! noyed by their attempts to snare me as food.

Summer will have ended in my almanac when It is just at this time of year that a “spider stick” the balloon spiders appear floating tethered to is essential on the trails. Without it, you’d better bright threads in the September sky. Airborne spibe prepared about every twenty feet to stop, mut- ders are a true marvel that too few have witnessed, ter to yourself, and swipe your hand ineffectually and I anticipate the first sighting on a perfectly across your brow to remove the invisible stand of clear, cloudless afternoon in late September. The microscopic spider filament from your forehead long gossamer thread of silk streaming out ahead and eyelashes. Occasionally you’ll find yourself of the tiny mote of spider will glow like fiber-optic staring cross-eyed at a small nondescript arachnid cable to lift each traveler into the current, to sail dangling from the bill of your cap—no real threat away with the flow of fall. here, just the less-than-wonderful sensation that Adapted from Fred's Slow Road Home ~ a Blue living legged ornaments are hanging from you Ridge Book of Days like tinsel from a Christmas tree.

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Where Canines Fail Can Felines Fill In?

riends, following my last column in which I described the increased population of rodents in my neighborhood as a burgeoning concern, I was offered a variety of advice from our readers.

Along with the usual recommendations to go back from whence I came, it was suggested that I might consider employing a feline contractor to help eliminate my unwanted guests (the mice, not my son's friends).

Although I am not opposed to cats, I have not had much luck with them either.

H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. My first paying job came at Science Department Chairman age ten, when our neighbors BRinker@NorthCross.org hired me to take care of their cat while they were on vacation.

The job seemed simple; I was to feed Zsa Zsa twice a day, make sure she had water to drink, and collect the mail and newspapers from the porch. For this seven day gig I would be paid $10.00 (big money for the time). Not 9 Training Corps. even a schlemiel such as I could 9 Parlay bungle this assignment, right?

11 Leaky Before embarking on their 12 Peacock blue trip, our neighbors stopped by 13 Vassal around seven to remind me to 14 Seize feed Zsa Zsa no later than ten.

19 Advertisement 33 Eager to please, I strolled next 21 Roberto's yes door a little bit after nine to 23 Over the top. (us check on my new buddy and slang) prepare her food. As I walked 25 Makers of the into the kitchen I could see Zsa Prelude Zsa stretched out on the floor.

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the down right inert behavior me, although my cat sitting fee of the common house cat, I was prorated down to $1.00. continued to the frig and began One could hardly blame them. to ready the feline feast. Plac- Entombed in a shoebox Zsa ing the bowl on the ground, I Zsa was laid to rest under a tree started to realize that something in our neighbor's backyard. I was wrong. Hoping for the best, donated my fee back to help I reached over to pet pay for the arrangeZsa Zsa who was stiff ments and perhaps as a leftover pork purchase some inner chop. Yes, the kitty in peace. my custody (for less Over the years I than two hours) had roomed with people ascended to the great who housed a feline litter box in the sky. or two, and other Panicked, I sprintthan a couple of ed back to my house bulimic kitty's who and into the care of were fond of purgmy loving mother. ing on my bed pilMom sat me down low, I found them Jon Kaufman and explained that to be fine furry Zsa Zsa was twenty-one years bunkmates.

Our veterinarold and had lived a long and ian's office boards perhaps the rewarding life and her time had ugliest cat I have ever laid eyes come to fly up to heaven. Mom on. Completely void of fur, had a true talent for spinning this poor thing looks like it's a believable story with little to been turned inside out! Very no preparation. (Note: after friendly and fond of rubbing up watching Lee Harvey Oswald against me when I am picking gunned down live on televi- up diabetic dog food, this hair sion in a Dallas garage, Mom barren creature manages to be calmly explained that the fracas sweet, creepy, and loving all at I witnessed was just some dumb the same time. For an animal guys fighting over a parking that looks as though she was the space, fearing the experience night watchmen's companion might somehow damage me.) at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant, Still, even with Mom's colorful she seems very well adjusted. revisionist recollection of Zsa Perhaps Dr. Jennings will Zsa's life, I was inconsolable. loan me the services of her bald When the neighbors re- mouser? Even if the feline muturned, they were quite kind to tant can't catch the offending rodents, she might be able to scare them into relinquishing their squatter's rights. As long as I am not her primary care taker, the Chernobyl Cat should live a long and rewarding life just like the dearly departed Zsa Zsa.

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Processed Foods Found to Be as Addictive as Drugs

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ey Mister, can you help me out? I need premiums, while they are profiting from customa fix. Can you lend me $5 for a Big ers' - dare we say it? - addiction to junk food.

Mac? "NOT TRUE!" argued the insurance indusIn a newly released study, the Scripps Insti- try spokesfolks. They claim to own WAY less tute in Florida has concluded something we all fast food stock than the study suggests, and only sorta suspected: junk food may be as through index funds, the composition addictive as cocaine. In the study, reof which they don't control. But the searchers monitored the brain activity stridency of their reaction is bringing of rats given unlimited access to foods back painful memories of a previous like cheesecake and bacon. The rats ate episode, when insurance companies voraciously and quickly became obese, were criticized for charging high preeven ignoring electrical shocks meant miums to smokers, while profiting to dissuade them, while the pleasure from tobacco company stocks. Looks centers in their brains lit up like Vegas like we may be having a relapse of Inat 1AM. When the junk was replaced surance-Addiction-Gate. with healthier options, the rats stopped Back at the first study, there aren't eating altogether and starved themany spin-doctors attacking its validMike Keeler selves for 2 weeks. Said Dr. Gene-Jack ity or its applicability to humans.

Wang of Brookhaven Laboratory, And fast-food flacks are quick to "processed foods are designed to trigger prefer- point out that the new health care legislation reences for fats, sugar and salt; we make our food quires them to post the nutritional content of very similar to cocaine now." everything on their menus. So people can make Meanwhile, your life insurance company thinks informed dining decisions. you look pretty phat as an addicted lab rat. Or so When pressed for comment, rat # 2374 said, says the Harvard Medical School. They just re- through a mouthful of chocolate pudding, "Go leased a study of their own that concludes that the away, I'm getting high." top 11 companies offering life, disability or health insurance own about $1.9Billion worth of stock of Mike Keeler is proprietor of quicksilver, a marthe top 5 fast food companies. If true, insurers are keting communications firm. www.quicksilverbetting on customers' health through long-term hg.com

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ere you to walk erywhere. The bird in question Sabrina saved twelve of the thirthrough Sabrina’s was a Black-Crowned Heron. teen victims bought to us. That and my home to A young married couple was my first exposure to the exits end, you would find your- called us; told us ‘there are mil- istence of such a thing as a Sancself in our ‘animal room.’ This lions of baby birds flopping tuary Tree. is where injured, orphaned, or around on the ground!” with Without question, there are diseased critters are in-taken parents circling frantically, un- many other trees on our propand housed until we’re sure they able to re-nest their off-spring erty, great soaring things with can be moved to outside cages given the loss of the tree. The protective canopies many stoprior to release. couple bought them ries off the ground. But our If you step outside to us. They were newly-released birds feed near that room, there is a young, newly-wed, the patio; they are immature small patio, and you and poor [we had and not yet capable of the fullwould notice a oneto give them money powered flight needed to reach story tall dense evfor gas as they made those canopies and safety. This ergreen of uncertain multiple trips to us little tree sits not ten feet from species growing close that day with more where they feed, giving them thereby. But, like I victims.] But there that extra sliver of time to perdid for several years, was no question haps escape predation. you would dismiss it where their hearts In the wild, sanctuary – safety as ‘just another tree.’ lay. or defense – takes many forms: Lucky Garvin This is justifiable in A baby Black- cover or camouflage; branches, that on our properCrested Heron is burrows, bowers or brambles; ty there are many others, larger eighteen inches tall with a three and as a part of that overall deand far more imposing than this inch beak, and a readiness to fense, this little tree, hour after little guy. use it. They stabbed at our eyes. hour, every night and every day One day something happened We donned protective glasses looks after his wards. that proved to me how special and gloves, sutured wounds, this tree is. What I’m about to straightened and splinted fracContact Lucky at relate happened in the course tured limbs and sent them on to info@theroanokestar.com of one second. I had just set foot the Wildlife Center of Virginia. out of the animal room to the patio when I heard a screaming shoot past my ear. A small bird flying for its life. Overtop of this screech, a second presence flew Since 1984 so close to my head, I felt the 2203 Crystal Spring Avenue after-draft of its large wing. A Coopers hawk. The wren made 985-3700 it to safety in the density of the “The Cure for the Common Gold.” evergreen’s boughs, a density 43 years Expertise the hawk could not penetrate.

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Shrimp Tacos We should not define ourselves by our profession or by our children or by where we live or by how much money we have or by any external circumstance.

Who we really are is defined in our Spirit, which is given and cultivated by God. But certainly all these external circumstances help to build our personalities.

Children change us, our job fosters parts of our personality and where we live defines a lot of what we do. I came face to face with this fact as I faced the “monster waves” off the coast of Sunset Beach this past week.

When on vacation sometimes you soak in the beauty of the place and become reflective, sometimes you become extremely lazy and lay with a book for hours and sometimes the adventure and freedom of the place sweeps you up. Well the latter happened to me and my children as we stepped into that ocean. She possessed us and we all screamed with delight as she threw us, rolled us and allowed us to soar upon her back to the shore. You would have thought we had never been to the beach in our lives - it is as if we caught something. It hit me suddenly, as I watched the surfers and began to paddle out to their depths on my brand new boogie board, that if I had grown up on the coast this is where I would find myself – on or in the ocean.

I could not get enough of those waves and I cried when the kids and I stepped out of the ocean for the last time at the end of the week.

As it is, we live in the mountains (which I love). I grew up in West Virginia so it is what I have known my whole life - and so we are mountaineers instead of surfers - and we do tackle those mountains much like we did those waves last week, so the spirit is much the same no matter where we find ourselves. The adventure of both mountain

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When you truly let go, you can feel the power of such a moment and know it is from God and that it is more true to who you are then any of the other things in the busy world that we use to define ourselves. Remember Spirit is from the Latin spiritus, meaning “breath.”

Next to the waves I love cooking at the beach. Here is my recipe for shrimp tacos that I concocted while running to and fro from kitchen to shore!

Bean dip 1 – 15 oz. can black beans 1 – 15 oz. can whole kernel corn 6 Roma tomatoes chopped 1 small onion chopped 1 small jalapeño pepper or banana pepper (if do not want too much heat) chopped 1/3 cup of cilantro chopped ½ of lime squeezed 1 tsp. chili pepper ½ tsp. cumin -Mix all of ingredients in bowl Guacamole 4 avocados

½ cup sour cream 1/3 cup salsa 1 lime squeezed 2 tsp. celery salt Pepper to taste -Peel avocados and remove pits.

Smash with a potato smasher or fork in bowl -Add the rest of ingredients and blend thoroughly Shrimp Tacos 1 lb. fresh shrimp 2 tbs. cooking oil 1 tbs. Bill’s stuff (found in Sunset Beach, NC) or any seafood seasoning 6 tortillas 2 cups shredded Colby Monterey Jack Cheese Sour cream Salsa -Heat oil on medium in skillet.

When hot throw in peeled and de-veined shrimp with seafood seasoning, cook for 4 minutes on each side until pink then remove from heat.

-Heat tortillas in microwave for 1 minute -Fill tortilla with shrimp, bean dip and guacamole.

-If desired add toppings of cheese, sour cream and salsa then wrap up your soft taco and enjoy!

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Fun In The Sun Can Lead To Better Health

Attention, desk jockeys: ditching the cubicle and computer screen this summer can be good for your health.

While the hazards of summer – sunburn, bug bites, swimmer’s itch and so forth – are well-known, the hot season offers plenty of health advantages the desk-bound may overlook.

Dr. David Rakel, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of the UW Health Integrative Medicine program, says the human body needs to connect with nature and the outdoors to build greater immunity to disease.

“A theory called ‘hygiene hypothesis’ suggests we are staying too clean by remaining indoors with our hand sanitizer and anti-bacterial soap, and not training our immune system to become fully developed,” he says. “There’s

some promising research that shows kids who grow up playing in the dirt and on farms actually have less asthma and allergic rashes of the skin. In essence, kids who are exposed to bacteria and elements in nature train their immune systems to be better balanced, so in the long run, they may remain healthier.”

Rakel says getting outside at any time of the year, including the winter, is helpful. But the summer sun seems to provide even greater benefits, so long as it’s done in moderation and the skin is not over-exposed.

“It could be the longer days,” he says. “You also get to appreciate the sense of community. There are more picnics, more triathlons, and more family reunions. People are leaving their homes and making social connections, which are important to good health.”

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“It’s what research and common sense are pointing at,” he says. “If I’m out in nature surrounded by beautiful trees, blooming flowers, watching my child play soccer with my neighbors, I’m going to perceive that as a more positive experience than sitting inside a cubicle with recycled air.”

Rakel says the good feelings that come from being outside trigger the release of neuropeptides, which are proteins in the brain that have a positive effect on the overall function of the body when triggered by positive perceptions.

“If your mind is cluttered with the stresses of the day like the big project you have at work or your child not doing well in school, take a walk in nature and concentrate your attention on the flowers, the beautiful pine trees or the bumble bee,” he says. “That can be a great opportunity to get your mind out of its chaotic stories.”

Katherine Bonus, founder of the mindfulness program for the UW Health integrative medicine program, says connecting with the outdoors can be tantamount to meditation.

“It could serve as a simple meditation practice for all the times we feel too busy to notice we are alive, too busy to notice it’s summer and too busy to remember both are impermanent,” she says.

“Step outside several times a day, feel the sun and wind on your skin, notice the sights and sounds of summer, and enjoy those moments.”

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As Chairman of the Roanoke County Committee of the Republican Party, and pursuant to the Plan of Organization and as recommended and directed by the Committee, I, Mike Bailey, do hereby issue this call for a Mass Meeting to be held at Friendship Retirement Community, 327 Hershberger Road, Roanoke, VA with registration starting at 6:00 p.m. and the mass meeting starting at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 12, 2010 for the following purposes: Nominating a Republican candidate for the office of Sheriff of Roanoke County; and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the mass meeting.

Qualifications for Participation

All legal and qualified voters under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, regardless of race, religion, national origin or sex, who are in accord with the principles of the Republican Party and who, if requested, express in open meeting either orally or in writing as may be required, their intent to support all of its nominees for public office in the ensuing election, may participate as members of the Republican Party of Virginia in its mass meetings, party canvasses, conventions or primaries encompassing their respective election districts.

In addition to the foregoing, to be in accord with the principles of the Republican Party, unless otherwise stipulated by the appropriate Official Committee, a person otherwise qualified hereunder shall not have participated in Virginia in the nomination process of a party other than the Republican Party after March1, 2004 or in the last five years, whichever is more recent.

A single exception to this shall be approved for a voter that renounces affiliation with any other party in writing, and who expresses in writing that he/her is in accord with the principles of the Republican Party and intends, at the time of this writing, to support the nominees of the Republican Party in the future. Any voter that utilizes the forgoing exception, and thereafter participates in the nomination process of a party other than the Republican Party, shall not have the benefit of the exception thereafter.

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Google Awards Full Scholarships to Haitian Students at VA Tech

Google, the Web search engine company, has provided funds to fully support four Virginia Tech students from Haiti to pursue graduate degrees in computer science.

Sherley Codio of Cap-Haitian, Fabrice Marcelin and Jennifer François, both of Port-auPrince, and Mario Calixte of Les Cayes will continue their studies in computer science at Virginia Tech thanks to the support. A fifth student, Benoit Bernadel of Fond-des-Blancs, has received a full, merit-based scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

The five graduating seniors came to Virginia Tech in April 2008 through a partnership between the Office of International Research, Education, and Development, Virginia Tech’s Department of Computer Science, and the Ecole Supérieure d’Infotronique d’Haïti (ESIH) in Port-au-Prince to strengthen the school’s computer science program. Their studies at Virginia Tech were part of a threeyear initiative funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development through Higher Education for Development to train a new generation of technical professionals for Haiti.

All students were in the United States at the time of the Jan. 12 earthquake, two of them on

The students gather on the Virginia Tech campus (left to right): Mario Calixte, Sherley Codio, Jennifer François, Bernoit Bernadel, and Fabrice Marcelin. a service project to help build homes in communities along the Gulf Coast affected by Hurricane Katrina. One ESIH professor and 13 students were killed in the earthquake, and the ESIH building was completely destroyed. Nonetheless, classes at the school resumed on March 15, held under a tent.

“The earthquake that struck Haiti totally changed our plan,” said Marcelin. “Since then, the next step on our life was very uncertain.” Receiving word of the Google award, “was the best news ever,” he said. “We were so happy that we started screaming and spent the whole night talking about it.”

After completing a master’s

degree at Virginia Tech, Marcelin, like his fellow students, expects to return to Haiti. He plans to build a company related to computing, to help get the country on a technological track. François also plans to return to Haiti. “My country needs entrepreneurs to invest and create more jobs. Haitian women have a history of entrepreneurship. We will help rebuild the country.”

To learn more visit "Building bridges in Haiti ­before and after the earthquake" www.research. vt.edu/resmag/2010summer/ haiti.html

McAuliffe Talks About Region’s Future With Local Leaders

The last time Virginia businessman and fundraiser extraordinaire Terry McAuliffe came to Roanoke, he was accompanied by former President Bill Clinton. Clinton was speaking for the then gubernatorial candidate at a rally on behalf of McAuliffe’s 2009 bid for Virginia governor. On Tuesday, McAuliffe returned to the Star City to hold an economic roundtable made up of about 50 local area businesswomen and community leaders to discuss issues that lay ahead for Virginia.

Talking points at the meeting highlighted connections between education, transportation and government policies, with an emphasis on stimulating job growth in Southwest and Southside Virginia. McAuliffe said, “We are missing business opportunities in this area and all kinds of money is being invested into Northern Virginia -- well what about the rest of the state?”

Although McAuliffe was unsuccessful last year in receiving his party’s nomination, he has continued to stay active across the state, with meetings similar to the gathering Tuesday at Montano’s Restaurant.

His recent undertakings have included a bid for a Southside paper mill which McAuliffe hopes to convert to a biomass energy power plant, estimated to create about 1,000 jobs. McAuliffe, a proponent of new energy solutions, has also expanded on his promise to “move Virginia forward in green power and to preserve and create jobs” when GreenTech Automotive, a company that McAuliffe sits as chairman, purchased Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer EuAuto Technology Ltd. The move is speculated to bring anywhere from 4,000 to 4,500 jobs to Virginia, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

During the luncheon, McAuliffe reiterated his promises to diversify Virginia’s energy portfolio,

Terry McAuliffe saying, “What I’m not able to do as governor, I’m still doing as a private citizen.” In fact, The Appalachia America Energy Research Center reached out to McAuliffe as well as to Delegate Terry Kilgore, R-Gate City, to help explore new energy job opportunities in Southwest Virginia. McAuliffe was quoted by the Kingsport Times News as saying “I always think very big; it is my pleasure to serve on the Appalachia America Energy Research Center’s advisory board seeking to bring new energy jobs to the coalfields of Southwestern Virginia.”

After the meeting, 6th District Committee Chair and Roanoke native Linda Wyatt had high hopes for the area. “Terry has good ideas for what we need to do to revitalize the Virginia energy industry and this will hopefully kick start Southside and Southwest Virginia. We have been overlooked for a long time and it’s good to see some people are bringing big plans and big ideas to the table for our region.”

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RVAA City-County Swim Meet At Salem YMCA Hunting Hills defeated Roanoke Country Club 16,193 to 15,143 to capture the city-county meet Friday and Saturday at the Salem YMCA and secure their eighth straight RVAA season championship.

Read Mountain won the Division 2 championship, edging out Our Lady of Nazareth. The Elks Club took Division 3, while Spring Run took home the Division 4 title.

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The Sox are in the midst of a six-game homestand this week at Lewis-Gale Field, running through Saturday. Salem battles the Lynchburg Hillcats for the final time this season on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. First pitch on Thursday and Friday is at 7:05 PM, while Saturday’s game starts at 6:05 PM. Come out on Friday for a Zooperstars Appearance and Saturday for live pregame music by The Worx.

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Salem dominated the first two contests by scores of 5-1 and 11-2 before falling 3-0 and 6-5 on Saturday and Sunday.

Alex Hassan broke open what was a 1-1 contest in the third inning of the opener with a twoout grand slam to put Salem up for good 5-1. Hassan’s slam was the third of the year for the Sox, two of which have come against Lynchburg. Tim Federowicz’s grand salami against the ‘Cats on June 8 gave Salem a 10-6 walkoff win over their route 460 rivals. Hassan then came back the next night with another homer, this one a two-run shot with two outs in the ninth for his fifth blast of the year. The Sox outfielder went 6-for-16 in the series with a double, two homers and eight RBI. Newcomer Jason Place homered twice in the 11-2 victory Friday night, his first two dingers for Salem in 2010. Place played in 76 games for the Sox in 2009 and homered four times before getting promoted to Double-A Portland.

Aside from the offensive fireworks, Stolmy Pimentel was simply dazzling in his start on Thursday night. Less than two weeks removed from an appearance at the XM Futures game in Anaheim, CA, the 20-year-old phenom was lights out against the Hillcats. Pimentel tied a career-high with seven innings of three-hit ball, striking out a season-high seven. In his last two starts, the Dominican righthander is 1-0 with a 1.93 ERA, striking out 13 in 14 innings.

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Greenbrier Classic Hosts First Tee of Roanoke Valley The First Tee Programs from West Virginia and Roanoke Valley were part of Tuesday's inaugural Greenbrier Classic Youth Day in White Sulphur Springs.

Kolton Cooper of Hardy was selected to represent First Tee Roanoke Valley along with one member of First Tee of West Virginia. Each was paired with a player in the Greenbrier Classic field and competed for a charity purse of $10,000 for their First Tee program in a scramble format. The two teams tied and wound up sharing the purse with $5000 going to First Tee Roanoke.

Cooper, a member of the First Tee since 2008, had been looking forward to this once-in-alifetime opportunity. "Since I've been involved at The First Tee, I've had a number of amazing experiences, including attending Hank Haney Academy. I'm learning so much at my chapter about golf, but more importantly, about life."

Cooper added, "Playing with a TOUR player at the Greenbrier, WOW, that's just so cool, and is another amazing opportunity The First Tee has given me. I can't wait to see what the future has in store!"

Jennifer Blackwood offered her perspective as the Executive Director of The First Tee of Roanoke Valley on the unique opportunity to connect First Tee kids with TOUR players. "It is so rewarding to be part of The First Tee organization and to have such strong support across our network from the major organizations in golf. Thank you for offering the children of our community exposure to the PGA TOUR Tournament experience, as well as the chance to learn from these incredible athletes in an amazing setting. " The event was sponsored by Polo Golf along with Greenbrier Classic sponsors Callaway Golf, Coca-Cola, and Nature Valley.

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Salem Distance Run Aug. 14th The 36th Annual Salem Distance Run will be held Saturday, August 14, featuring 5k and 10k distance runs and a 3-mile “Poker Walk.” All 3 events will begin at 8 a.m. at Longwood Park.

The entry fee for the running events is $20, while the participants in the “Poker Walk” are required to pay a $15 fee. Registration forms for the events are available throughout the Roanoke Valley or online at www.healthfocusswva.org Any registration forms postmarked after August 7 will require the participant to pay an additional $5 to the entry fee.

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That can be appealing, and even addictive, for perfectionists.

5. Golf is a sport rich in history and full of tradition. The golfer who approaches the game seriously and philosophically will acquire a feeling the he or she has formed a bond with everyone who has ever played the game. Every golfer shares the same struggles, defeats and joys.

Being a golfer is, in a sense, like becoming a member of a tribe and gaining a sense of belonging.

6. In golf, how one plays the game is the responsibility of the individual. Unlike team sports, there are no substitute players.

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There is no referee in golf.

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Players who adhere to the rules are considered to be honorable.

Players who violate the rules, even when unobserved, are considered dishonorable and not worthy of the game.

For these reasons, golf is a metaphor for life. How one plays golf is likely to be a reflection of how one lives his or her life. The question, then, isn’t so much why do people play golf. The question really is: why doesn’t everybody play the game?

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If it were easy, there would be little interest in it. While every other sport has its “natural” athletes ­those born to excel by virtue of their physical attributes­ there are no “natural” golfers.

Everything about the golf swing is “unnatural.” Thus, everyone of every shape and size must learn the game and practice constantly in order to play well.

On the other hand, since no one is born knowing how to play golf, your chance of being great at the game is as good as anybody else’s chance. That’s good news for people who don’t have the physical attributes of, say, a basketball or football player.

2. Golf is unpredictable. No matter how badly you play today, you can play better ­ or worse -- tomorrow. Performance is governed by so many variables. One must not ignore the fact that every course is different ­ demanding different golf skills and strategies. This is unlike other sports. Football, soccer, rugby, baseball, and tennis are played on flat fields of a prescribed size. Every golf hole is different ­ different lengths, different elevations, different hazards. The course itself adds to the challenge ­and, ultimately, the fun -- of golf.

3. In general, golf courses are beautiful, peaceful places to spend four to four and a half hours. They’re not places to bring your troubles. In fact, most people feel guilty about bringing their workplace or relationship problems to golf courses, because they don’t want to mar the setting. Therefore, they develop a strong philosophic approach to golf and find ways to control their frustrations ­ or, at least, save them for another place and time.

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This is to refute the recent propagandized information provided to our area citizens from a “green” money- motivated industry, posing as a “green” energy hero. A Chicago-based corporation, “Invenergy”, proposes to lay claim to our area mountain winds, beginning with 18 industrial-sized wind turbines on Roanoke County’s Poor Mountain.

Wind energy is best captured with the latest technology that uses battery storage for this sporadic energy source—residential-sized wind generators -- not the 443’ industrial-sized turbines proposed for Roanoke County. This 443’ height is much taller than most turbines in other locations. The industrial turbines can only operate at 25% maximum of the industry’s claimed efficiency rate due to our area being in the lowest acceptable wind classification. AEP was recently denied their request to accept inefficient and uneven wind energy, which would have necessitated increased customer bills (RT 6/04/10).

Industrial scale turbines require highly efficient and stable energy, such as coal or natural gas, to maintain the “on demand” availability of our electrical power. This requires our current coal power be turned up and down since wind is variable in presence and strength. Fluctuation in the coal powered operation increases pollution. Furthermore, this project does not have a capacity for wind energy storage.

The citizens of our area and S.W. Virginia need to research scientific sources that are not connected with the industrial wind turbine industry. In my research, I have found that mountainous areas have a greater diameter of area affected by industrial scale turbines than flat land.

Large quantities of low frequency sound and vibrations, measured on a “C” scale in decibels, are emitted from the industrial wind turbines.

These sounds and vibrations, cause insomnia, headaches, seizures, and nausea, and eventually take a heavy toll on general human health and work productivity. The specifics of this are most recently presented in “Audiology Today.” This negatively influenced area in the mountainous terrain extends to a 4 mile diameter from each turbine tower. Other health related problems such as shadow flicker (turbine lights and sunlight “chopped” by the rotating blades) can cause headaches, nausea, and vertigo. Also, ice and snow thrown from blades travel over ¼ mile (3 city blocks) from the great turbine heights.

The presently proposed site locations, on Poor Mountain, the tallest mountain in the area (3928’), has its own set of unusual characteris-

tics. Transmitter towers for radio, television, and safety communications occupy a small portion of this mountain. The chopping effect of turbine blades can affect the transmitting waves of these communication towers. Increased flight path height for aviation may also be required , due to the very tall rotating blades proposed, and would be another potential hazard for planes landing at Roanoke’s airport. Environmental threats include concentrated kills of migratory birds and insect-eating bats from turbine blades and air pressure, high erosion potential of unique, fragile, and shallow mountain soils, and also water reduction (spring destruction). The latter two pose significant problems downstream for “tier-three” Bottom Creek, stemming from the construction, anchoring, and clearing methods used for three acres per turbine (1 acre = 1 entire football field area). There are only 30 tier-three described streams in the entire state of Virginia.

The similar area of major impact proposed is described for familiar locations in Roanoke.

The presently proposed perimeter of this area of the18 industrial-sized towers, and its lowfrequency noise-vibration influenced area, would include the following locations: Round Hill School, Valley View; the New Yorker Deli, Williamson Road; Gus Nicks Blvd. at Orange Avenue; Mt. Pleasant at the Blue Ridge Parkway; Roanoke Mountain; Tanglewood Mall; beyond Patrick Henry High School; Fairview Cemetery, Melrose; and back to Round Hill . The height of each turbine would be 5 times as tall as the Roanoke Star. A turbine placed at Crystal Spring near Roanoke Memorial Hospital would be over half the height of Mill Mountain itself.

Many homes and property would be devalued in this sized area’s proposed location with its negative impact. Since real estate values decline and residents’ health problems increase, the industry can use taxpayers’ money to encroach on more lands to increase turbine locations, devaluating more homeowners’ investments and lives.

Roanoke County invested millions of dollars in a new recreation/ aquatic center to draw people to relocate here. The industrial wind turbines will deter potential new residents and make current residents move away.

Don’t let the winds of this fad blow away your common sense. The “green” that the turbine industry is after is taxpayers’ money for their own pockets. Roanokers need to research the effects for themselves.

Karen Scott, Bent Mountain

Letter Misrepresented Tea Party and Fair Tax I haven’t seen as much misinformation in a short article as that provided by Sidney Vaught in his July 9-15 piece, “Tea Party Unsuccessful and Misleading.”

He took on Roanoke Tea Party (RTP) and the FairTax, misrepresenting both along the way.

I am a member of RTP and a supporter of the FairTax so I know both rather well. Although individual members of RTP support the FairTax, RTP as a body has not endorsed it, thus dispelling all the horrors Vaught attributed to that imagined connection. What RTP does support with vigor is the election of legislators who believe in and abide by the U.S. Constitution. How this could lead to “destroying democracy and creating a new type of dictatorship or even communism” is beyond me. A simple look at the policies of the Obama Administration, which the RTP generally oppose, puts the lie to that charge. He equates promoting the election of Constitution-abiders to “throwing yourself into the proverbial estuary of sewage without a paddle.” In Vaught’s view we celebrate July 4th as the day the Founders created a sewer. Some sewer!

Vaught’s description of the FairTax proposal is more mystifying and I urge him to read “The FairTax Book” by Neal Boortz. Vaught complains that “the consumer will end up paying all taxes for goods and big business … will end up getting richer.” The book will tell him that consumers already pay those taxes in the prices they pay because what businesses have to pay is simply rolled down to the ultimate consumer. The FairTax eliminates these and all

other income taxes in favor of a consumption tax.

The provision of freedom from federal taxes for the poor, and reduced rates for the middle class, under the FairTax flies in the face of Vaught’s claim that it “stand(s) on the backs of the

If you were to take a drive along Interstate 8 in Arizona, many miles north of the border, you would very likely come upon signs, placed by the U.S. government, warning travelers of possible danger including drug and human smuggling, armed criminals, and other suspicious activities. The signs, which have been placed by the Federal Bureau of Land Management throughout parts of Arizona, are evidence of the very serious and growing problem of illegal immigration.

Unfortunately, the federal government has done little more to combat this problem than place these warning signs.

As a result of this escalating problem, the Arizona legislature passed, and the Governor signed into law, legislation designed to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants.

This new law, which is scheduled to take effect in just a few days, will ensure that the immigration policies, which some in Washington are refusing to implement, are enforced. The state of Arizona has the right to protect their citizens when the federal government fails to enforce its own laws.

The problem of illegal immigration has reached crisis proportions, not just in Arizona, but throughout our entire country. Recent estimates indicate that there are over thirteen million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States. This population grows by as many as 500,000 a year. Illegal immigration costs our taxpayers billions of dollars every year and places a significant burden on our schools, health care facilities and law enforcement to name just a few.

If we cannot control who enters our country, then we cannot control what enters our country, whether it be narcotics, counterfeit good, or the tools and weapons of terrorists and organized criminals. Securing our borders is a national security issue and should be just one step in the effort to eliminate illegal immigration. We must look at many other solutions, both at

the border and throughout the entire country.

For years, weak enforcement and confusing provisions in immigration law have allowed illegal immigrants to stay in the country. Deportation cases often last for years -- even decades in some instances. The Department of Homeland Security needs to be able to act in a rapid and firm manner to find and deport illegal immigrants.

In recent years studies have shown that between forty and fifty percent of the illegal aliens in the U.S. came on legal temporary visas but never returned home when they expired. Any immigration reform efforts must ensure that we fight against illegal immigration in all its forms, by including stiff and meaningful penalties against individuals who illegally overstay the terms of their temporary visas.

America is a land of great opportunity and promise. Our nation was founded by those

who sought a better life and our strength and diversity comes from our immigrant heritage.

However, our nation was also founded upon a set of principles, among them the rule of law and fairness. I support a system of legal immigration for those who choose to respect our laws before they even arrive to continue to come to our nation and help strengthen it. However, we must reform our immigration system to ensure that we can control our borders, know who is in our country, and not reward those who choose to break our laws before they ever arrive.

As your Congressman I remain committed to the principles of fairness and the rule of law and will continue working for serious immigration reform.

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“Local Roots” Moves to New Expanded Location Once in a while future dreams become today’s reality. Joshua Smith, Executive Chef of Local Roots, a farm to table restaurant, will be living his dream.

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Last week he was out of town cooking for famed gardener and author P. Allen Smith. This weekend he will be cooking up a storm at the new location of Local Roots, assisted by a Sous chef and two part-time chefs.

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Kyl, R-Ariz. It would permanently set the federal space. The bathroom doors are Price points remain at an afestate tax rate at 35 percent of a deceased person’s salvaged from a school and the fordable $5 to $30 range with assets with a $5 million exemption phased in over bar is held up by reconfigured occasional higher priced spe- a decade, and with the exemption indexed to rise old doors purchased from Black cials. Lunch is served from 11- or fall with inflation.

Dog Salvage. Memories of the 3. Dinner is served from 5:30 – "We’re urging our senators to support the Linold location are evidenced by 10 p.m., with the bar remaining coln/Kyl amendment and move this bill forward," the “indoor porch” and the open until midnight. Sunday said Lindsay Reames, assistant director of govquaint outdoor seating arrange- brunch is offered from 10-2, ernmental relations for the Virginia Farm Bureau ment. The fabric of the booths which reflects a change from the Federation.

"While the measure doesn’t give farmers all we’d came from the former curtains original hours. Reservations are in the previous establishment. recommended, but not neces- like in this legislation, time is quickly running out.

Farmers need to know what the law is immediateA chain-ey sort of place? Not sary. Live music is planned for ly in order to make their financial and inheritance quite. the not too distant future. plans before the current 100 percent exemption The staff has been increased expires Dec. 31. The uncertainty is what’s really by 30%. Kevin Robbins brings Local Roots is located at 1314 hard for farm families. Right now, no one knows his organizational development, Grandin Road, next to the Gran- how to plan their estates, especially if they want din Theatre. Reservations may be to be able to pass on the farm to their children or relatives." made by calling 206-2610.

Northumberland County grain grower Robert Hall is one of many Virginia farmers who’ve

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FloydFest Hot In More Ways Than One With temperatures pushing well into the 90’s and humidity levels pushing the upper limits, it was more than just the music that was hot last weekend at FloydFest 9. But make no mistake, the variety of acts presented on more than a half dozen stages, highlighted with performances by Levon Helm, Grace Potter, Old Crow Medicine Show and Mountain Heart – not to mention more than 100 other bands – had everyone’s full attention.

By late Saturday afternoon only a handful of people had stopped by the first aid tent asking for help with heat-related issues. “People are staying well hydrated,” said one volunteer that was manning the tent.

“You’re very kind to sit out there in the sun and listen to this set,” said Joe Pug, performing with the 100 Mile High Band on the Hill Holler Stage.

Many artists thanked those who endured the sweltering heat on Saturday. More than 14,000 were expected over the weekend; many camped out and stayed for the duration.

FloydFest is truly a family affair and this year’s event was no different, with kids and adults of all ages attending. In the Children’s Universe, Roanoke artist Katherine Devine gave classes for children during the day. “This is my ninth year,” said Devine, recalling the first FloydFest, held in September during hurricane season. It turned out to be a soggy affair. “We’re happy to be here.”

Devine called the Children’s Universe “wonderful. There’s

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Guitar maker/performer Wayne Henderson, whose work was featured at the Taubman Museum of Art, takes center stage at the Workshop venue. good music all day. Even a lot of my grownup friends are happy to hang out here.”

Devine likes how “the [local] community came together to pull it off ... and what they bring in from out of the area.

I get to see new artists and expand what I’m already familiar with.” Devine, who has a studio in the Grandin neighborhood, will show off some of her mixed media work at Oddfella’s Cantina in Floyd in August and September.

Yuriel Yard was in charge of the Children’s Universe, enlisting the help of Devine, Cindy Peterson and others.

“We’re looking for things that are inspiring and fun for the

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The lead singer for “3 Minute Lovin’” serves up some Rockabilly in the dance tent. kids,” said Yard, who worked to make sure parents weren’t bored either. It didn’t seem like too many people were bored at FloydFest. Yard received “a lot of positive responses,”

resented “the diversity we need to have in our cultural milieu, bringing people together and exposing them to new things.”

Kennedy figured that at least “85 to 90 percent,” of the mu-

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Roanoke artist Katherine Devine taught classes in the Children’s Universe. to Devine’s art workshop and other Children’s Universe offerings. “We’ve gotten good feedback.”

Tom Kennedy, the market manager for Centennial Broadcasting and in charge of overseeing 101.5 The Music Place in Roanoke, was at FloydFest for the first time. “Its magnificent,” said Kennedy, “much, much nicer - better than I expected.” Like FloydFest, 101.5 has introduced a wide variety of music to listeners that might not experience it anywhere else in the area.

Kennedy said the worldbeat, jazz, bluegrass, rock, Americana, etc. presented for all four days at FloydFest rep-

sic at FloydFest would fit with The Music Place’s all-over-themap format. “I can’t think of anything here that wouldn’t wind up on our station.”

(Across the Way Productions, which staged FloydFest and Floyd Fandango a few weeks before that, aren’t done yet. They head to Centreville, Virginia to run the Virginia Wine Festival on September 18-19. See Floydfest.com and click on the link for more details)

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Guerilla Photography Comes To Kirk Avenue; Theatre Troop Moves Laker production at Kirk Avenue: The Carless Brit, River Laker (about to be featured in a documentary about Roanoke) is well known for the Emerging Artists Series he stages at the Roanoke City library in downtown Roanoke. Now, in conjunction with Shadowbox Cinema he’s bringing underground “urban adventurer” Joseph Carnevale to Kirk Avenue Music Hall on Saturday, August 7 at 8 p.m.

Carnevale likes to take photographs and videos in restricted, off-limits areas – the ledge of a high rise building, freight trains, abandoned property and sewer tunnels for starters. His website address – nopromiseofsafety. com – might be a tip-off.

Laker said Carnevale is somewhat familiar with Roanoke: “he got stranded here once … when he jumped a freight train.” The show on August 7 ($7 admission) will feature a slide show, videos and conversation. Time Magazine labeled Carnevale one of its top ten guerilla artists for 2010.

The 22-year-old artist, a college student in North Carolina, was once arrested in Raleigh, for turning construction area warning cones into creatures that looked like robots. “The police didn’t find that funny,” said Laker. His own recent film retrospective at Kirk Avenue Music Hall was the first he produced away from the library – not counting his temporary Carless Brit Museum. (see theshadowboxcinema.com for more on the Aug. 7 event.)

Gamut Moves: Gamut, a local theatre group known for its productions of cutting-edge 20th-and-21st-century plays, will have a new home this fall at

Guerilla artist Joseph Carnevale - somewhere he shouldn’t be. the K.W. “Pete” Smith Theatre on Campbell Avenue. Gamut, which stands for “Gypsies And Misfits Unknown Theatre,” will produce four plays in the space between October 2010, and October 2011. The group is subleasing the facility from Studio Roanoke, the not-for-profit theatre company that specializes in the development of new works.

“It’s really a bonanza for theatre lovers in the region,” said Kenley Smith, Studio Roanoke’s artistic director. “Gamut seems like a perfect fit for this space, and I feel that their mission is wholly compatible with ours.

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have never been seen before in Roanoke.”

Miriam Frazier, artistic director of Gamut, agreed. “Between the two groups, the Roanoke community will now have twice the innovative theatre under one roof.” Although Studio Roanoke will provide ticketing and front-of-house services, the Gamut productions will be mounted independently of Studio Roanoke’s own eight-play season.

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First Institutional Chaplain Considers Life Of Service More than 40 years separate the telephone interview I had with the Rev. Burton Newman and the one in person a few weeks ago as the Presbyterian minister convalesced from knee surgery at his Southwest Roanoke home. Now well into our senior years, both Newman and I are still doing work we love and we're thankful for it.

The reason I called Newman in 1967 was to introduce to the Roanoke Valley the young pastor who had just been chosen the first full-time, paid chaplain to three public institutions serving inmates in the city jail and the juvenile facility at Coyner Springs and patients at the nursing home there.

Then 32 and not long married, Newman was a transplant from the Philadelphia area who had come south to attend Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. While there, he had had an internship as a chaplain at the Woodrow Wilson Rehab Center and served

the Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church in the Staunton area. He was finding that he liked the somewhat specialized role of listening to people confined because of unfortunate life circumstances -- illness, age or incarceration.

Following his seminary graduation, Newman was called to the Low Moor Presbyterian Church where, he recalls, Providence brought him together with the parish secretary, Joan Downey. Married in 1963, they were to have many good years together. Being in a pastorate had convinced Newman of his continuing call to what was then a new ministerial choice, the role of a clinical pastoral counselor. These men and women were excited about what the science of psychology could offer the troubled in their churches.

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Realizing this, he and Joan moved to Columbia, S.C. where Burt Newman took further study to qualify himself as a pastoral counselor. Their only child, a son, Scott, was born there.

It was at this point that Newman caught my interest as the man the then-large and active Roanoke Ministers Conference chose to carry on a ministry those busy running a congregation could not find time for. For the next four years the Newmans lived in Roanoke. My old clippings reveal that paying the chaplain was often difficult; appeals were constantly being made to church folk to support the new ministry. As a jail ministry only, it is still going on.

Burt Newman remembers now that he especially liked working with teens at the juvenile home; he knew teaching was his first love. He prepared in these years to take a doctorate in sacred theology, and in 1971 he and Joan left the city for a pastorate, First Presbyterian in Covington.

His enjoyment of the counseling role as a pastor may have stemmed from his own background. Born to a Christian father and a Jewish mother--her parents had left Romania in the late 19th Century to escape discrimination there --the boy lost his father when an infant. Times were tough in the 1930s and he and his widowed mother were befriended by a Presbyterian couple. When Burt was four his mother converted to Christianity, but retained involvement in a community support group for American Jews. It may have given the future minister a broad view of faith.

After seven years at the Covington church, Newman was invited to direct a new pastoral education training program at the Episcopal Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. Graduate study for clergy on the job was developed there leading to an academic degree known as Doctor of Ministry. For all denominations, it attracted several from the Roanoke area.

Those were 22 fulfilling years for the Newmans, but as the century turned, health challenges forced a move from Northern Virginia. Burt Newman survived prostate cancer, but Joan's diagnosis of the ovarian variety brought the family back to her home area where she died nine years ago on July 4.

Then on the staff of Raleigh Court Presbyterian Church as a pastoral associate assisting the Rev. Tupper Garden, Newman soon found love again in Susan Marney, a professional counselor for some years in Roanoke.

She was active in Stephen Ministry, a national program that trains church lay persons in listening skills and practical help for the ill, bereaved and other personal crises.

With the marriage came a larger family for the couple since Susan had two adult children, Peter and Erin, from a former marriage.

Both are married and living in Charlotte and Baltimore respectively with their children.

Scott Newman, the pastor's son, is also married and a recent father. His family will soon be moving from Illinois to Rutgers University in New Jersey where a second counseling career is being considered.

Now 75 with life evolving in a home on Carter Road, where the yard blossoms with flowers and birds, Burt Newman decided 18 months ago to become interim minister at Campbell Memorial Presbyterian Church in Vinton. Soon a longer-term pastor will be called there.

He's still qualified to assist groups and clergy with issues that may be helped by a counselor versed in the problems of the institutional church, and with his knees working better says he hopes to stay in touch with the world a while longer.

Commenting on churches today, Newman sees lay leadership as more important than it once was when pastors were often placed on a pedestal. Denominational loyalty has largely disappeared with many children growing up with no family ties to a certain style of faith. He sees the Roanoke religious community as basically conservative. Growing congregations attracting young persons offer that approach to theology along with material comforts new buildings bring. Regardless of denomination, personal concern must always remain.

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