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IN commenting on a farm taxation issue in Fauquier County recently, a publication of the Piedmont Environmental Council had some pertinent things to say which are appli: cable to Rappahannock County as well. The PEC shares this newspaper’s views about farming the value that activity has for the environment in which people, live, work, play „• and raise their families. We only had to substitute the county name used in the PEC’s l ■’ statement to make the point
jp that needs also to be made about Rappahannock County: | ; “You live in Rappahannock | County because you like it. | '• “You like Rappahannock Co| unty because it is still a rural county, with good farms, beautiful open space and attractive towns.
“Rappahannock County is a rural county primarily ber cause farming.. .is the basis for our way of life.
“If we lose our farms, we lose what we like about where we live.”
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