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Mr. (jrortem said he would “rather have families next door . . . It’s transients I’m opposed to, no matter what their nationality.” He argued that the supervisors would be lending their weight to substandard housing by allowing the camp to be used in winter months, noting that workers would have to go outdoors during February to reach bathroom facilities in a separate building.
Robert Eastham called on the supervisors to determine whether Mr. Reynolds was right in saying that orchard ists want “dirt cheap migrant labor” to avoid paying a decent wage to local workers.
Miles Clark, who lives above the Gorfeins, said he also opposes the camp expansion for the same reasons cited by Mr. Reynolds.
Mr. McCarthy read into the record a letter from Harris Hollow landowner Patrick Crowley, who maintained that a temporary work force during harvest season is “all that’s called for” and charged that a year-round facility would threaten his privacy.
“The issue is housing,” insisted Meredith Gorfein, saying she and her husband have no objection to the use of the camp during harvest season. “But the use changes when it becomes year round ... As far as we’re concerned, 10 months is year round.” Big labor camps in Frederick and Clarke counties, which produce 50 percent of the state’s apples, close after harvest season, she said.
Then pruning and thinning crews are housed elsewhere, as has been the case in Rappahannock, Mrs. Gorfein added. “Existing housing is here. It always has been.” The migrant workers who will stay over at the Sharps’ camp in the off-season
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