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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Nrwn Staff V liter
Before the deficit watchdogs in Washington take their budget-cutting cleavers to any more job training programs, they should check with Robert Bowers.
The owner and manager of the new Blue Ridge Guns in Amissville is a testimonial to the "dollars and cents” sense of job training.
Schooling he gained through a vocational rehabilitation program has turned Bowers from a tax liability into a tax asset.
“1 could have stayed on disability from now until the day 1 die. Instead, I’m back in the work force and employing other people as well...The money the government spent to teach me a trade and get me back in the work force will be totally repaid in taxes in my first year of business," Bower said.
A resident of the Rixeyville area for the past 12 years, Bowers was injured in 1976 when a truck crashed through a bridge in a farm accident. He broke four ribs and damaged nerves in his spine.
"I was in hospitals in Richmond, in Fauquier. Winchester and Prince William for three years. Finally, I was sent to Charlottesville and the doctors there diagnosed the injury as permanent.”
Treatment left Bowers with a spine fused from the second
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