Rappahannock News, December 17, 1987

25 cents *!■' bold its annual community Christmas-tree lighting Sato evening on the front lawn of the 3 Courthouse. The tree will be lit at 7 ■■ p.m. Following will be community Cay St. Theatre, sponsored by RAAC. the event is free and the ■mm ' •vr^ . : u ; f 'bit* ■ - '& ' i- N, > r h >■ *’■4'V ■'■■■•>>' fV i;V ••• ■■ i Nominations made to Equalization Board ; v,* p.3 Mountain Side Market brings 4 cuisine to the country p;3. Fill the stockings with *: V ,, 4., r ^.10 Decorating with native l American holly '* p, t f | ; Early statistics indicate Mate ? orangeworks p. 13 Government at a glance ; :f •/Mchitectural Review Boaidi! ^ [ Thursday, Dec. 17,8 p.m., Courthouse; [ Regular monthly meeting. ; i ? l f t vV • Washington Planning • Commission: Tuesday, Dec. '7$,- WjjtShS ! Courthouse. Regular monthly meeting. \ Wednesday, Dec. 23, 9 *M, ^pp^bard of Supervisors: Tuesdays* in,ceiemohyf^^^ Weekend weather ,' tt /.., i #■ i |S According to die National Weather Service, partly cloudy, windy and cold ; J weather will continue until the weekend. < |4i Saturday brings a possibility of rain, : beginning as sleet or snow. Skies should clear on Sunday. Temperatures will rise only into the 40s, with nighttime lows well below freezing. Asbestos survey j will cost $10,000 Hr Already facing the challenge of finding $12,000 in this year’s school budget to finish the high school expansion project, Su- t perintendent David Gangel has yet another financial scavenging hunt before him, this time for $10,000 to have the county’s two public schools inspected for asbestos. It is no ordinary inspection. Ordered under the Asbestos Razard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) recently signed into law by President Reagan, the inspection must be conducted by an inspector licensed by the Environmental Protection Agency. ’The first class of graduates just finished the first EPA.sphool,” Dr. Gangel told the School Board last week, suggesting that the job of inspecting Rappahannock’s schools be put out for bid immediately. “There’s no money budgeted for this, but there are only so many people who can do the work,” .he said, adding that the State Department of Education has advised “if we wait ; past January, we won’t be able to find anybody at any price.” There appears' tcj be an economy of scale for the inspections, with cost estimates ranging from three cents per square foot for large:school divisions to 20 cents per square foot for smaller divisions. “I cranked in seven bents and that may be optimistic,” Dr. Gahgfel said, holding out the possibility that Rappahannock may be able to join with neighboring school divisions in hiring an inspector. At seven cents a square foojt, the cost for the two schools is approximately $10,000. The inspertion is only the first AHERA requirement. “Then a different person licensed by EPA must write a management plan' (setting out what Rap-1 !A is cdhtplete removal of ALL aa, something which niay prove'to be very expensive, according to the superintendent. He explained that unlike previous asbestos programs, AHERA does not differentiate between friable (easily crushed or crumbled into powder) and non-friable asbestos. “These probably contain (non-friable) asbestos,” Dr. Gangel said, painting to the tiles on the library floor. Under the plans resulting from previous inspections, schools would have been directed officially to monitor the tiles in the elementary library to make sure that the non-friable asbestos isn’t turning (See ASBESTOS, p. 18) Hot shot! _ Rappahannock Newt phMadndy Mahan THE PANTHERS* MIKE DEARING hangs one through the rim i purine a recent practice. The Panthers beat Manassas Park Tues No happy holidays for Christmas tree thieves By LOU HATTER Rappahannock New* SUIT Writer A county resident who called the Sheriffs Department to report a suspicious vehicle on Rt. 637 near Flint Hill led investigators to the men responsible for a series of thefts and break-ins in the Flint Hill area, according to Sheriff John Henry Woodward. Robert Lee Ramey, 39, Rt. 2 Box Ill, Huntly; and James Robert Smoot, 40, Box 85, Flint Hill, are charged with six felonies and two misdemeanors in the incidents. The two were arrested last Thursday night as a result of the Sheriffs Department’s investigation. According to Capt. Ed Streapy, the series of crimes began on Thanksgiving (See THEFTS, p. 18) gets litter grant By THERESA REYNOLDS limliiwiork W>w> Buf l«l Writer The Washington Town Council con-' . sidered a light agenda Dee. 10 before retreating into a lengthy executive session;’ to discuss matters of pending litigation,* • dispersal of public property, and person*-; nel. y Councilman William Wickens aw* nounced the receipt of a "trash grant*? from the state’s Division of Litter Con-* • trol. “I’m dismayed to tell you, however,**’ he added, "that the amount is not namedi in the grant. They did remember to irt-^ dude, though, pictures of cocktail lounged- - and girls at the swimming pool to remind; us that we can travel to Richmond at puW. lie expense to attend a trash conference." - No Town Council members were interested in the trip,, which they all agreed was a bad use of public money. The money is to be used for several 1 new trash receptacles around town. The council agreed to order two wooden containers similar to those already placed in' I town. The consensus was that purchasing them unassembled was the least expen-; | sive way to do it. From Water and Sewer Authority director Brad Fisher, the council heard thaV water use in October was down, but ilir creased in November. 8i Mr. Fisher, in his second role a»^‘ Town Treasurer, reported that the trea-.' sury had a balance of $24,278, with out-' standing bills of $778.89. Reading and approval of the minutes, was postponed until after the executive session. Mr. Wickens reported on the agenda facing the Planning Commission over the ' next several months: “We’re working on a ' list of things to consider, and hope to call' one public hearing for everything in late* January.” He said that parking require-' ments and bylaws were being considered, - and that the next regular meeting is Tuesday, Dec. 22. Mr. Wickens expressed his distress . aSthe ptrtfMMd S*i hijMfesfr between Washington wd SjfetfiffrHte: “Surely children are hungry and schools need hinds, more than we need this extravagant waste,” he said. “I know we have no jurisdiction, but I think the Town Council should go on record opposing this.” “I feel totally different,” Councilman Peter Skowronsld replied. “It’s a dangerous strip of road. With the farm vehicles, truck traffic and wagons, I feel it should be widened.” Since there was no consensus, the council passed over Mr. Wickens’ proposal. The council also failed to reach philosophical agreement on a smoke detector (See COUNCIL, p. 11) After debate and rewording, CSC resolution endorsed i J J * wrm.„ J.il J.. i.v mi “I tried to think what I could bring to you to demonstrate the heed for this resolution,” lo Gorman, executive director of the Rappalannock-R&pidan Community Services Board, told the supervisors at their Dec. 7 meeting. Last month, she asked for an endorsement of a resolution calling on Gov. Gerald Baliles to hold to his promise to allocate $42 million in existing state surplus for mental health, mental retardation and substance ibuse and to restore adequate funding for the maintenance of existing programs. They tabled her request. This month she tried again and this time she left with the resolution - reworded, unended and edited - but calling for the restoration of adequate funds for existing services and a more equitable distribution of mental health and mental retardation dollars to localities. “We must have a reallocation of state funds,” she said, emphasizing that the re quest to the governor is tied to neither new taxes nor a one-time influx of dollars. “We can no longer exist on three or four percent maintenance increases,” Mrs. Gorman said, in reference to the the percentage raises allocated in the past several years to the state’s 40 community services boards by the Virginia Department of Mental Health. Without greater financial support from the state, Mrs. Gorman predicted that the decline in federal dollars coupled with an increased demand for services will mean an end to the Community Service Board’s transportation system which now takes senior citizens and other Rappahannock residents to Warrenton for kidney dialysis treatment, to the congregate meal site aft'Trinity Church, to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, to FORE’s job training center for the mentally retarded in Fauquier and to programs for substance abusers and the mentally ill in Culpeper. “We don’t care where the money comes from, but more must come to the localities where the services are being provided.” The budgetary squeeze has held pay increases to 2.3 percent this year, she reported. “We’ve laid off staff and cut back services, and we’ll continue to cut back services.” “Why are people no longer being served in state institutions?” asked Supervisor Nelson Lane. The national trend towards deinstitutionalization is prompted by two factors, Mrs. Gorman explained. First is the acknowledgement that those who are mildly retarded or who suffer from less severe forms of mental illness do not belong in mental hospitals and can be better served by day treatment and residential programs in their own communities. Second is the realization that they can be more cheaply served in the communities where the highest level of care in a residential program costs $7,500 annually compared to $28,000 at Western State Hospital. The concept ,of deinstitutionalization is good, Mrs. Gorman affirmed. “But we went too far. We closed down too many wings of too many state hospitals without providing for increased services (day treatment, residential and job training) in the communities.” As for the added burden placed on Community Services by the 550 mentally ill and mentally retarded released from state hospitals and returned to this Planning District in the last five years, the board has no way to alleviate this demand or to change the deinstitutionalization program, Mrs. Gorman pointed out. “We have no control over the people who are sent to the state hospitals. We have no power to keep them in. ” . She relayed ‘to the supervisors an adage shared by the local sheriffs departments who must transport those who are committed and the mental health professionals who are balled by law enforcement officers in the middle of the night to certify a patient for commitment: “Often, the patient beats the sheriff back to the county." »«** O. AIIV UVI1H1 O HI V »U VUUJF MIC1 Vi A lie problem is the burden (of providing services) has shifted to the localities and there’s been no corresponding shift in EXISTING state money,” she emphasized. “I wish this resolution was worded that way,” interjected Supervisor Nelson Lane. • “Then I wish you would reword it to say what you want it to say,” countered Mrs. Gorman. “Because without that money, you will see your local mental health service and your transportation system cut out!” After dropping a couple of “whereases'* and eliminating a request for “a major new initiative,” the board reached agreement on the wording of the resolution, which notes that needs in mental health services remain unmet and supports restoration of adequate maintenance ftinds for existing services and a, more equitable distribution of mental health' dollars. With the unanimous endorsement from the Rappahannock supervisors, the resolution will be forwarded to the governor. Laurel House helps ease the way back for the mentally disabled By DArliiNE HU ltHIINSUN Rappahannock News Staff Writer Everybody needs a friend, but probably the men and women at Laurel House are a little bit needier than most, rhey are the former patients at state hospitals who have been released through the deinstitutionalization program that began in the 1950s. “A lot of them had successful lives before their break. They had businesses, jobs, families. They were successes in school. It’s hard for them. They know what they were like .before. They remember,” said Kathy Wright, site supervisor at the psycho-social center which s run by the Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Servces Board. Following the acclaimed Fountain House model of psychiatric rehabilitation, Laurel House is a club. And ike all clubs, it strives to make its members feel that bey belong to a vital and significant society to which bey can make an important contribution; that someone anticipates their coming to the clubhouse and that their Mining makes a difference; that they are wanted and that bey are needed. The club’s 38 members come from different social ind economic levels. “Some were in college when they bad their first break,” Mrs. Wright noted. “Others never finished high school.” It’s a young club: Most of the members are between 20 and 40 years old, although a few are in their 506. Most have had multiple hospitalizations for schizophrenia, depression, bi-polar personality disorders and other forms of mental illness. The supervisor emphasizes that the members of the Laurel House club are no longer mentally ill. “They were mentally ill when they went into the hospital. They were treated, and now they are mentally disabled.” To compensate for the disability, they need community support and assistance to re-integrate and re-establish themselves in society, she explained. Monday through Friday, from 8:30 to 4:30, they get that support and assistance at Laurel House. The club house is a busy place. On a standard day, volunteers from the Retired Senior Volunteer Program will lye working with small groups of club members on improving their reading skills. Club members will be pre ‘Everybody wants to go home9 “I wqs on top of the world!” said Robert. Sitting around the table at Laurel House, the psycho-9ocial center in Culpeper managed by the Community Services Board, Robert was remembering what life was like in 1964 before he began his battle with mental illness, a battle that is continuing today. “I had my own gas station, a family a house. Then three years later, I had a nervous breakdown, and that was the end of my marriage and the end of my business.” He was institutionalized at Western State, the first of three hospital stays for treatment of manic depression. Mental hospitals are no longer the bedlams of horror portrayed in films and literature of 50 years , ago. “The people there were good to me. They cared. (See ROBERT, p. 18) paring lunch or washing up after a meal, cleaning the hall floor, taking inventory of the big kitchen pantry, working on the club’s'newspaper, taking typing lessons and practicing office telephone manners. Advocates supervise the three units - communications, kitchen and maintenance. The program is designed so that it will not function without the cooperation of the members; every function is shared by the members working side by side with the staff. So if the club members don’t help, there is no lunch. The plates aren't served and the dishes stay dirty. The newspaper doesn’t get typed. The walls stay unpainted and the floors unwaxed. The work makes each member feel wanted as a contribute rand needed in the program, and simultaneously, the members learn skills that may help them find a janitorial, food services or clerical job. Mrs. Wright doesn’t pretend that this modest training program will prepare all of Laurel House’s members for outside employment. “Some will be here for the rest of their lives,” she conceded. But just working at the club house will ease their mental disability. “Work is an important regenerative factor. It helps people feel fetter about themselves.” (See LAUREL, p. 18)

News of Record General District Court Clarence Lee Walters, spotlighting, hunting license suspended 1 year, $250/20. Todd Allen Williams, spotlighting, $150/20. Robert Lee McCloud Jr., spotlighting, hunting license suspended 1 year, $200/20. Mancy Cook Jr., no blaze orange, $25/25. Benjamin Scott Coon, take doe in closed season, $200 replacement fee, $100/20; trespass to hunt, $50/20. Jonathan Bailey Coon, no blaze orange, $25/20. Kirkwood Wayne Hall, trespass to hunt, $50/20. Timothy Jenkins, possess doe in closed season, hunting license revoked 1 year, 6 months in jail suspended, $100/20. Clarence Dwayne Jones, spotlighting, continued to Jan. 12,1988. Ricky Lee Smoot, trespass to hunt, $50/20. David Alfred Stingl, trespass to hunt, complied with law. D&niel Mark Stingl, trespass to hunt, complied with law. Robert Edward Thomas, trespass to hunt, $50/20. William H. Trout, no big game license, complied with law; no hunting license, complied with law. Richard Weakley, possess doe in closed season, $100/20. Alvin Lee Williams, trespass to hunt, $100/25. Leroy Thomas Sisk, assault and battery, disorderly conduct, resist arrest and drunk in public, all continued to Jan. 5,1988. Larry F. Mann, obstruct justice, continued to Jan. 5.1988. Mary Ann McCloud, reckless driving (accident), $25/20; no operator's license, $10/20. Walter Curtis Miller, overwidth. $15; overlength, $15/25; drive on suspended license, license suspended 90 days, $100/25. Michael Joseph Tiscano, driving while intoxicated (2nd offense), continued to Feb. 12,1988. Gary O’Nal Hitt, no county sticker, $15/20. Robert Lee Ramey, break and enter, 4 counts grand larceny, 2 counts petit larceny, malicious killing (cow), all continued to Jan. 5, 1988. James Robert Smoot, break and enter, 4 counts grand larceny, 2 counts petit larceny, malicious killing of cow, all continued to Jan. 5, 1988. Terry Wayne Dailey, 68/55, $26/20. Roger Dale Hawkins, 74/55, $38/20. Donald Edwin Kline, 70/55, continued to Feb. 2,1988. Thomas Francis Gail, 73/55, $36/20. Jean Paul Provost, 72/55, $34/25. Vernon Calvin Sours, 70/55, $30/25. Carroll A. Weaver Jr., reckless driving (77/55), reduced to 74/55, $38/20. Ronald Lee Atkins, 69/55; drive on suspended license, both continued to Feb. 2,1988. Mary Eleanor Brown, 73/55, $36/25. Louis Alan Cable, 68/55, $26/20. William Cassius Crandall, 69/55, $28/20. Michael Jeffrey Falls, 69/55, $28/25. David E. Garrett, 72/55, $34/20. Marguerite Fraser Godbold, 70/55, $30/20. George Wesley Goff, reckless driving (91/55), $125/20. Rappahannock National Bank “Your community bank'1' Hours: Monday - Friday 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Friday evenings 5-7 v Gay Street, Washington 703-675-3519 J) PUBLIC NOTICE •"DUMPSTER SITES*** Due to Rappahannock County’s continuing landfill/refuse disposal problems, beginning on January 1, 1988, no so-called “white goods" will be accepted at any of the County’s dumpster sites for the next several months. Any County residents with stoves, refrigerators, freeZ' ers, washers or dryers, etc., are urged to keep these items for future disposal. Alternatively, you may wish to take them to one of several metals-recycling facilities/scrap yards in the area. Thank you for your cooperation. Yes!. Please enter my new subscription to &appai)annocfe.£e Subscription rates by mail: Rappahannock & adjoining counties.$10.00/yr. Elsewhere in the U.S.$15.00/yr. Outside the U.S.$15.00/yr. (plus postage billed quarterly) NAME:____ ADDRESS: ____ CITY: __STATE:_ZIP:_ Mail subscriptions are payable in advance. Make check or money order payable to: Rappahannock News, Washington, VA 22747. This form may also be used for CHANGE OF ADDRESS Old Address: New Address: Second class postage paid at the Post Office at Warrenton, VA. The Rappahannock News is published every Thursday by Rappahannock News, a division of Arundel Communications, Inc. Postmaster, please send 3579 to Box 631, Warrenton, VA 221860631. Rappahannock New* photo/Lou Hatter EXTRICATION is one of the skills taught during Emergency Medical Technician training. Under the guidance of instructor Chick Lauffer (left), Sperryville Rescue’s Linda Heeks and Brandy Station Rescue’s Holly Brooks open a door using the Hurst “Jaws of Life.” The exercise was held at Culpeper Auto Salvage, owned by Paul Bates, which provided an automobile. Kelly Mulford Layton, 74/55, $38/25. Raimon William Lehman, 68/55, $26/20. Christopher Joseph Meador, 67/55, $24/20. David A. Nemeth, overlength, $25/20. Roger M. Pratt, Overlength, $25/20. Anandarup Ray, 74/55, $38/20. Nancy Home Schary, fail to keep right (accident), $50/20. Judson Wilmarth Starr, 72/55, $34/20. Orval Carl Taylor, driving while intoxicated, operators license suspended 6 months; 6 months in jail suspended, $300 suspended. Real estate transactions The following real estate transfers were recorded during the past week: Michael W. Johnston to Donna M. LeCompte and others, Parcel 2, 10.3201 acres, Jackson District. $38,000. Orelia B. Berry to Charles E. Loyd Jr. and wife, Parcel A, 53.0914 acres (76 percent in Culpeper and 24 percent in Rappahannock). $115,000. James H. Williams to James H. Williams and others, Pracel 1, 4.20 acres, Parcel 2, 1.5+ acres, Stone wall District. Gift. Maijorie Dahlgren and others to Bedford Lee North and wife, 0.523 acres, Wakefield District. $28,500. Marriage licenses The following marriage license was issued at the Clerk’s Office during the past week: Timothy Rollon Bondelid, Woodville, and Margaret Louise Dudley, Woodville. Emergency log Fire and rescue The following calls were routed through the dispatch center in the past week: Dec. 8: 11:20 p.m., chest pains, Town of Washington, Washington Fire Department. Dec. 9: 3:50 p.m., vehicle fire, Rt. 730, Amissville Fire Department and Flint Hill Fie Department. Dec. 10:11:54 a.m., sick call, Rt. 626, Amissville Fire Department. Dec. 11: 9:26 p.m., possible stroke, Rt. 642, Amissville Fire Department, Flint Hill Fire Department and Washington Fire Department. Dec. 12: 2:30 a.m., sick call, Rt. 231, Sperryville Rescue Squad and Washington Fire Department; 3:06 a.BL, difficult breathing, Rt. 211, Amissville Fire Department and Washington Fire Department. Dec. 14: 1:35 a.m., injury, Rt. 600, Sperryville Fire Department, Washington Fire Department, Castleton Fire Department and Flint Hill Fire Department. Sheriff Dec. 7: Road hunting, Rt. 600, Sperryville. Dec. 8: Accident with deer, Rt. 729, Castleton; cow out, Rt. 211, Washington. Dec. 10: Road hunting, Rt. 633, Washington; animal complaint, Rt. 622, Woodville; accident with deer, Rt. 618, Castleton; suspicious, Rt. 637, Flint Hill. Dec. 11: Auto accident, Rt. 604 and Rt. 707, Boston; civil, Rt. 632, Huntly; burglar alarm, Sperryville area. Dec. 12: Public service, Rt. 640, Amissville; breaking and entering, Rt. 607, Woodville; theft, Rt. 637, Huntly; cows in road, Rt. 630, Flint Hill; road hunting, Rt. 633. Dec. 13: Domestic, Rt. 231, Sperryville; petit larceny, Rt. 647, Flint Hill; assault, Rt. 611; breaking and entering, Castleton. Dec. 14: Public service, Rt. 231, Sperryville; public service, Rt. 600, Sperryville. ^ wv C£ft\pr ^pOSU Season's greetings > from the staff at the Comer Tost ‘Restaurant > in flint Hitt ) ) i > > 5 ) > l We wish to announce We will be closed for holiday on DeC. 24 & 25 ( Reopening Saturday Dec. 26 for breakfast, ( lunch & dinner PLEASE TAKE NOTICE We will be closed from Dec. 31 thru Jan. 4 1988 for staff vacation. We will reopen Jan. 5 1988 on a regular schedule. ‘Thanffy'ou for Your Patronage This Past Year We Look Forward to Seeing You in the New Year 703-675-3862 Route 522 Flint Hi happy holiday May you have special joys and treasures this Christmas. THE BLACK KETTLI RESTAURANT Washington, Virginia 675-3539 WINTER HOURS Lunch Wednesday Lunch & Dinner Thure. - Sun. Cloeed Monday and Tuesday We bring old fashioned joys to warm your heart this Holiday. Gifts & Collectibles Sperryville, Va. 703-987-8951 <7n the^pirit of QfTristmas Peace, love, good will and a very special thanks to all our friends and customers. Country Elegance Crafted with Love Rt. 211, Box 246 Sperryville, Va. 22740 (703) 987-8711 JOl] TO JILL Wishing you a bright and happy Holiday Season. We’ve enjoyed serving you and look forward to seeing you soon. We Thank You For Your Kindness and Support Throughout The Year And Wish One and All A Happy Christmas and a Wonderful New Year! Special Thanks To Our Wonderful Staff Faith Mountain Company Cheri and Martin Woodard 987-8824 We will be dosed December 24 through January 2

RCEA budget proposal focuses on educational needs The Rappahannock County Education Association took a new tack this year, separating its budget request into instructional, building, and Safety components. The first two, presented at last Tuesday’s School Board meeting, give top priority to: ,• Elementary school instruction - an art teacher; an art classroom; another physical education teacher; an alternative education program for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders who are at ripk socially or academically, and a special allocation for supplies which the speech teacher needs toset up a new speech program. High school instruction - more electives, including another language and additional science options; the start of planning to meet the expanded and soon-to-be implemented accreditation, requirements for remedial reading and fine arts electives; time before the end of the school year for shop and science teachers to conduct inventory, repair broken equipment, and do preventive maintenance, and money budgeted on a rotating basis for special requests that come from various departments and grade levels. ; • Elementary school physical plant - a light in the parking lot; improvements to the bathrooms which now have no doors on the stalls of the upper level girls’ rooms and no partitions between the stalls in the boys’ room; amelioration ofithe urine odor in the bathrooms; corrections to the incinerator to prevent smoke from entering classrooms; a ceiling-to-floor divider in a room which now has only a half partition; repairs to classroom sinks where the fixtures have leaked, ruined the floors and swelled the doors, making the space unusable; improved copying machines; a teachers’ workroom separate from the lounge and eating area where the copy machines will be safe from fiddling by students using the stage, and at both schools, new and appropriately sized desks. • High school physical plant - “There’s an overwhelming worry about janitorial and custodial services,” Helen LaCava, the RCEA representative, told the School Board. “I know you know this, and I know you are working on this.” The only other physical plant needs cited at RCHS included parking facilities (which are scheduled to be completed soon) and replacement of the bulletin boards which were ruined when the roof was leaking. Mrs. LaCava explained later that the Educational Association will present its salary request in response to the superintendent’s budget. “At this point, we wanted to keep the focus on instruction and building needs.” “It’s difficult, when we’re looking to pay off building costs, to get into more expenses,” acknowledged Sharon Kilpatrick, the only other speaker during the budget input portion of last Tuesday’s meeting. However, she urged the board to bring starting salaries for teachers here to the average paid in Culpeper, Madison, Page, Warren, and Fauquier counties. “I know we’ve gotten close. I’d like to see us do it this year.” Then in the coming years, she added, the board can adjust the steps in the pay scale to give the experienced teachers a higher percentage raise. Mrs. Kilpatrick supported the addition of an art teacher to the RCES staff and the upgrading of the extra-curricular duty pay scale for teachers. She also advocated the re-establishment of an administrative position to supervise the gifted and talented programs. Superintendent David Gangel now has that job. Under his predecessor, Robert Estabrook, the special services coordinator was responsible for the gifted and talented programs but the post was abolished by the School Board last year after the Board of Supervisors cut the administrative category of the 1987-88 school budget by the amount of that administrator’s salary. “Every other aspect of special education has one or more full-time people assigned,” said Mrs. Kilpatrick. “I think a lot with the gifted and talented programs are falling through the cracks.” The calendar given final approval at last Tuesday’s meeting calls for Dr. Gangel to present the proposed school budget at a work session on March 1. Time for public response will be given at the regular meeting March 8 and then the School Board will hold work sessions on March 15 and, if needed, on March 22 and March 29. The budget is due to be forwarded to the supervisors by April 1. Leave policy An amendment to the leave policy prompted by a request that students be excused during the school day for monthly Bible classes was approved as recommended by the superintendent. The policy for prearranged absences now specifies that upon authorization by the principal, students may be released from school at a parent’s or guardian’s written request to “visit the dentist or physician, accompany parents on vacation, attend religious activities, or for any other reasonable purpose ... so long as the period of release does not interrupt the educational process of the school or the pupil.” “I see a tremendous potential for disruption,” warned Sharon Kilpatrick. “Experience in other school divisions shows that up to 90 percent of (See BUDGET, p. 12) Market brings gourmet foods to the country “rt’s wonderful to be back in town, visiting with old friends and making new friends! It’s been four years, and I’ve really missed everyone,” said Rae Haase, pausing in the rush to fill the shelves, complete forms for another order of cheese and hang a big evergreen wreath on the front door. Her Mountain Side Market, Washington’s newest business, opened last week, just in time for Christmas, in the white frame house across the street from Trinity Episcopal Church. The Market is an expanded and updated version of the natural foods store that Ms. Haase managed for eight years. Where Nature’s Foods combined health food with a cafe, th$ Market mixes health food and gouMtet1 ItehVs. Thero are the familiar bina.M bulk baa$LS_and grainy, driedl.friyt find nut^jawJ whole grain flours, tm the sheft&s above- hold pesto sauce, imported coffees and teas, salsas, homemade pastas from Bruce Veirling’s Flint Hill pasta “factory,” fresh herbs and spices, THINKING OF BUILDING YOUR OWN HOUSE? YOURSELF? WE MAKE IT EASY! Solid Wall Buildings (703)364-2161 • A CUSTOM PRE-CUT KIT • PINE LOGS MILLED ON ALL FOUR SIDES HORIZONTALLY LOCKING TOGETHER TO FQRM A FINISHED INTERIOR/CLAPBOARD EXTERIOR "SOLID WALL" A COMPLETE ENCLOSED SHELL *15,000 t UP. happy HoVDAft May the joys of the season fill every heart. FLINT Hill STOAC Jean & Wilson Burke dried shiitake mushrooms, artichoke hearts and bottoms, picante sauces and water chestnuts. Those who’ve been mourning the demise of the Small Farmers' local bakery business can rejoice. On Fridays and Saturdays, accomplished bakers will be delivering scones, muffins, banana bread, biscuits, soda bread, and loaves of marvelous French bread — crusty and golden on the outside, soft and chewy inside - to Mountain Side Market. The homebaked bread is a perfect vehicle for sampling the cheeses Ms. Haase has stocked. The selec* tion includes the standard favorites of cheese lovers, such as brie, Gruyere, Stilton, port salut, and belletoile, and new delicacies such as basil torta with pine nuts that will achiova^v»|ftglMfttwwith a single HM0VLoun^ v satisfied shopper who had popped in only.to say hello last Friday afV ternoon and left with the torta, pate compagne, and French bread still warm from the oven. Another homemade delectable that promises to disappear as fast as the French bread is the truffle. Beautifully packaged, these chocolate morsels are the creation of Cindy Mahan and come plain (an inadequate description for the layers of rich chocolate upon richer Belgium chocolate) and filled with Amaretto, Armagnac, Grand Marnier, and Kentucky bourbon. Mountain Side Market carries a full line of imported soaps, herbal products, shampoos, and other toiletries that make perfect stocking stuffers. And for the cook on the Christmas shopping list, Ms. Haase i offers a hundred and one hard to find Vtetchen items: cookie cutters, wooden utensils, lettuce spinners, fearlie* pressed that press instead of mush, lemon zesters, slicers, grat wwt« mvr* Mvn (Mm <mn <wi Only a few left! The Perfect Gift “Traditions” a cookbook published by the Rappahannock Woman’s Club $6.95 703-967-6056 Holiday Hours RAPPAHANNOCK NATIONAL BANK Christmas Eve, Dec. 24 9 a.m.-12 noon New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31 Regular hours 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Closed Dec. 251987 and Jan. 1,1988 Christmas Buffet December 25th 12-3 Carved Steamship Round Smoked Ham Orange Duck Broiled Fillet of Fish Steamed Shrimp Wild Rice Potato Vegetable Soup & Salad Bar Deserts Rolls & Butter All You Care To Eat 195 10 Children Under 12 - 6.95 For Reservations Call 825-1037 Located In the Holiday Inn > Rt. 29 South • Culpeper era, colanders of various shapes and sizes, egg baskets, and wine openers. The wine openers will come in handy come January, when the Market will begin stocking fine imported and domestic wines. In making selections, Ms. Haase has enlisted the help of Jody Carbone, former wine steward at The Inn at Little Washington. Also on the list of coming attractions are locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables, in season, and next spring, herb plants and hard-to-find vegetable seedlings from the Market’s backyard greenhouse. “So that customers will know when we’re going to have something special, I’m planning to do a little newsletter, as a way of announcing, for instance, when the. basil is * J V * JkJ A T; (SeeMAflKCft'p. 11) PAYMENT REQUIRED! Thursday, Friday & Saturday, December 17,18 & 19 On any purchase of furniture or appliances. Subject to credit approval. Thursday 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. BOTH CULPEPER LOCATIONS_ gAUnilf FURNITURE OvrlLIvCL company Schewels Downtown Culpeper 825-1059 Schewels Outlet Route 29 North Culpeper 825-6224 Nominations made for Equalization Board At a special meeting Tuesday night, Rappahannock’s supervisors wasted no time in coming up with a slate of nominees to recommend to Circuit Court Judge Shore Robertson for appointment to the county’s Equalization Board. Endorsed unanimously were Martha Lou O’Bannon (Stonewall-Hawthome District), Howard Butler (Piedmont), Frank Fishback (Jackson), Sheila Sweet (Hampton) and Paul Nichols (Wakefield). Judge Robertson is scheduled to interview the prospective board memebers on Thursday morning before making the appointments. Following a training session conducted by the State Department of Taxation, the Equalization Board will sit for six months to hear appeals from landowners dissatisfied with the appraisals set on property in the countywide reassessment recently completed. “What are they going to be paid?” asked Supervisor A1 Henry. “Well, the Board of Assessors got $20 a day (for their work accompanying the professional appraiser on his rounds, reviewing the values set on land and improvements and hearing appeals from landowners),” noted Supervisor Newbill Miller. "I know that’s not enough, but that’s the going rate.” “It is a community service. Even at a high rate (of pay), it would be a community service,” said Supervisor Nelson Lane. “They’re not going to do it for $20 a day and they’re not going to do it for $50 a day, if they’re' not motivated to do it,” said Mr. Miller, winning consensus support for his proposal that the pay remain the same as the Board of Assessors’. Also by unanimous vote, the board named a committee to study a proposal to install “enhanced 911” in Rappahannock with the computer-improved emergency service communication system to be paid for through a surcharge on the telephone bills of county residents. The committee members are Richie Burke (Stonewall-Haw. , thome District), Mary Edna Schaeffer (Piedmont), Paul Poling (Jackson), Robin Purnell (Hampton) and Franke Huff (Wakefield). Also on the committee are Sheriff John Henry Woodward and Supervisor Chairman Hubert Gilkey. Administrative assistant John McCarthy reported that with the final audit of the grants that funded construction of Sperryville’s sewage treatment system, the Water and Sewer Authority is in a position to repay the loans made by the county to the WSA from 1982 to 1986. With the board waiving the one percent interest it originally asked for on the final $8,528 loan, the total comes to $30,420. Not budgeted as income, the money will go into the county’s general fund as surplus. The board accepted the low bid of $5,542.38 from Everett Estes for a new fiimace for the courthouse. The county’s insurance carrier, in effect, condemned the old ftirnace, according to Mr. McCarthy. “They said either find a new furnace or a new insurance company.” Tabled until the January meeting was an offer to purchase the county-owned Scrabble School property. The final minutes of the meeting, the last for outgoing Supervisors Newbill Miller and A1 Henry, were given oyer to goodbyes. Mr. Miller, a veteran public official who has served on the Board of Supervisors, the School Board, the county Planning Commission and as mayor of the town of Washington, chose not to run for re-election in Hampton District in November. He thanked his fellow members for the courtesy and friendship they have shown, adding “my respect is now greater for every one of you than when I came on the board, and I liked and respected you then.” He noted that even in executive session, “when there’s no one to watch or listen,” the men sitting around the board table have never shown “selfish motivation.” For government officials, “that’s rare,” Mr, Miller cohcl WWwf8

I ! Rappafjannocfe iietos An Independent Newspaper Established 1877 Published Every Thursday ARTHUR W.ARUHOEL LOU HATTER Publisher Managing Editor JOHN T. McEWAN BARBARA C. BURKE JOHN T. TOLER President General Manager Exec. Vice Pres. ANN BROWN, Account Executive To Subscribe Phone (703) 875-3338 BY MAH.$10lO0 a year in Rappahannock and adjoining counties $15 .00 a year elsewhere in the United States BACK COPIES: 3 months or more 70c, 1-2 years-$1.00; over 2 years-$3.00 (if available) OFFICE: Rappannock News Bldg., Washington, Va. 22747 HOURS: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Published by Arundel Newspapers, Inc! Member, Audit Bureau of Circulation. i THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17,1987 Editorial Cooperation is the key For the second time in a month, an alert, concerned j citizen noticed something which didn’t seem right and decided j to get involved. With a telephone call to the Sheriffs j Department, he reported a suspicious vehicle on Rt. 637 ■ outside Flint Hill. j Sheriffs deputies responded and investigated the ; complaint, resulting in the arrest of two individuals who had ; created a two-man crime wave in the area during the ] preceding weeks. Last month, it was another county resident who heard noises outside his house and took the time to go out and see : what was going on. He saw two men standing in the road ; beating on his mailbox. When the two realized they had been : seen and took off, the man gave chase and got the car’s license ' number. Again, the license number was the clue needed by the Sheriffs Department to solve the vandalism of 15 mailboxes if in the area. The crimes wouldn’t have been solved without that important piece of information, however. >5 Sheriff J ohn Henry Woodward and his deputies and investigators are hard-working, responsible law enforcement officers. Unfortunately, they will tell you that c Rappahannock’s 274 square miles is a lot of territory for their J small department to cover. They try, but the manpower can be spread only so far. > As Capt. Ed Streapy said the other day, “The law) abiding residents of the county are our eyes and ears. We | depend on them. ” With the kind of cooperation that the | department has received, suddenly the Sheriff s Department j has a, few thousand extra deputies. Sheriff Woodward will be l the first to acknowledge how grateful he is for the help. | Rappahannock has always been known for the » cooperation and assistance which its residents are quick to I offer their neighbors. The cooperation of the residents with | law enforcement is just another expression of that community f spirit. I Capt. Streapy stressed that the Sheriffs Department is always happy to investigate information supplied by residents. Information need not be given personally, and if . the caller wishes to remain anonymous the department will - still investigate the information. He said that the important thing is to let the Sheriffs Department know if suspicious ;♦ activity has occurred, or is going on. ;* With criminal activity on the rise nationwide, and • residents in most places reluctant to get involved, the ■';* willingness of Rappahannock’s residents to assist local law !* enforcement, and in the process bring criminals to justice, is j< commendable indeed. 1 jj; Gifts that say ‘I care’ '{% Looking for a novel gift that says j you really care? Your local fire dell * partment and the Virginia Fire >' Services Board suggest you consider ! smoke detectors, fire escape ladders i, and portable fire extinguishers as J ( gifts to family and friends. In addij ’ tion to providing an interesting gift, l these items can save lives. v. When shopping for smoke detecj, tors, buy the battery-operated kind | for protection even when the power \ is knocked out. Include some extra j batteries as well. It takes only a |. screwdriver and a stool to install most detectors. In fact, install the i detector as part of your thoughtful , gift to ensure it is put up immedij ately. Detectors should be placed i. outside sleeping areas between the ' bedrooms and the rest of the house. < They should be located on the ceilJ ing, away from walls, corners and ;• air ducts. Additional detectors should be J. installed in separate sleeping areas ; or to protect against garage and '■ basement fires. Your local fire de< - partment can provide details on the ) best locations for detectors in your * home. ; In several instances smoke de( tectors given as holiday gifts have > saved lives in the first few days. *. Even detectors still packed in their ‘, boxes under the Christmas tree ! have sounded in fires, saving their ■ surprised new owners from holiday > fires. When purchasing fire extinquishers, get an ABC multipurpose type. That means it can be used to quickly put out any type of small fire. Make sure the gift’s recipient reads the label and instructions carefully and learns how to use the extinguisher properly. It’s easy to learn, but there is no time to learn once a fire has started. Fire extinguishers should be kept in homes — especially kitchens, garages and basements — cars, boats, campers and trailers. Home fire escape ladders should be 15 to 20 feet long and lightweight enough to be used by a child. Too often, people are trapped in secondstory rooms during a fire with no safe way to get down. Despite movies and stories, the fact is that there will not be enough time in a fire to tie bedsheets together! Keep the ladder stacked carefully under the window or coded under the bed. Check it from time to time to ensure it has not become tangled. You can purchase these metal ladders in most hardware stores. In fact, why not be your own best friend as well? While buying these gifts for your loved ones, pick up one for yourself. When buying these or similar merchandise, always look for the UL label. The Underwriters Laboratory tests items to ensure they pass certain safety criteria. Call 675-3349 Commentary Photo counety of Toni Updike Rappahannock Heritage WAKEFIELD’S KINDERGARTEN AND PRE-KINDERGARTEN students visiting Fanning Baumgardner’s Christmas Tree farm outside Washington. The students picked and cut their own tree, to be decorated for their classroom at the school. Letters to the editor Loan Closet’ r. V ?• To the editor: The Loan Closet of Rappahannock originated in a building owned by Col. and Mrs. Maurice Biddle where it remained for years. The equipment was monitored by Kim Novak. When these facilities wereno longer available Mr. and Mrs. Robert Metcalfe graciously agreed to the use of one of their ' \Nf\V buildings for storage for the Loan Closet’s equipment. The service of these volunteers has enabled the Loan Closet to function and grow, benefitting the entire county. We just wanted everyone to know. SARAH LATHAM and WANDA RODGERS Rebutting Mrs. Sweet lotne editor: In reference to Mrs. Sweet’s letter to the editor (Rappahannock News, Dec. 3), I suggest that some people review their own lifestyles rather than the subject of recycling. I guess some people do have a real problem trying to figure out which bin the colored glass and the clear glass should go in... I don’t. I guess people think it’s hard to pay attention to what they are throwing away. Maybe spending a little more time and effort to organize trash (a free source of fuel for incineration) in a way which is easier to dispose of and environmentally safer is not on the top of everyone’s list. But there are some facts about recycling that Ms. Sweet left out due to her onesidedness or ignorance (take your pick). Fact one: Paper left for recycling is a cheap and free source of already refined wood (so is glass, and some metal materials, but who’s counting). Fact two: For the most part, trash is a renewable resource, which is thrown out of every house in the U.S. and burned, buried, dumped, etc., with no thought of its economic usefulness. Fact three: If run correctly, a recycling program may reduce the an nual tonnage of refuse appreciably. This will decrease the space needed for landfills and the amount of air pollution due to incineration. But hey, we don’t care about that, do we? I guess if you don’t care about property values or breathe air you don’t have anything to worry about. Recycling is an idea which is capable, clean and cost beneficial if conducted in the correct manner. Ms. Sweets’ example of Woodbury, N. J., is an excellent example of how NOT to run a recycling operation. But basing an opinion on the negative aspects of one (substandard) recycling operation is not my idea of an unbiased view. In reference to Ms. Sweets’ line about not caring what they do with the garbage, I suggest that she take a good, hard look at how Woodbury got the way it is. Recycling did not cause the problems in New Jersey, uncaring people did. We don’t need that attitude in Rappahannock County, if it is to stay as it has over the years. Recycling is not a cureall, but neither is giving up due to bureaucratic failure and plain laziness. ROBERTA. BAINES M.S. Candidate Environmental Management Duke University Durham, N.C. EMS Council training The Rappahannock-Rapidan Emergency Medical Services Council, which oversees and coordinates EMS operations in the five counties of Planning District 9, has scheduled the following training classes in the coming months. EMT-A Basic: Classes at the Madison Rescue Squad building, Monday and Thursday evenings, 710, beginning Jan. 4. There will be a charge for textbooks only. All participants in the class must pre-register. EMT-A: Classes at the Flint Hill Fire/Rescue building, Monday and Thursday evenings, 7-10, beginning Jan. 4. There will be a charge for textbooks only. Participants must pre-register. EMT-A Refresher: Classes at the Culpeper Rescue Squad building, Monday and Thursday evenings, 7-10, beginning Feb. 1. Participants must have current CPR certification. EMT-A Refresher: Classes at the Marshall Rescue Squad building, Monday and Wednesday evenings, Maybe. . .There’s a Santa Claus To the editor. * + * * Maybe; little kitten, there is a Santa Claus. Maybe there is someone, somewhere, who would also like to help you by assisting Dan and Shirley Minton who operate the unfunded, no-kill, cageless cat shelter located at Route 5, Box 281, Abingdon, Va. 24210. The Mintons have taken you in, regardless of your condition, and have provided you with food and essential vet care. Despite severe health problems, Shirley has never wavered in her attempts to give you innocent ones what you deserve - a chance to live. Sometimes, the only thing she can do for you is to hold you gently in her arms, with her tears falling on your soft fur, while you die. She’s cared for thousands of you during the past six and a half years, including those mutilated from abuse — the one who was paralyzed and seriously ill as a result of having had a roofing nail deliberately inserted into her rectum - the beautiful blind calico who refused to eat and grieved herself to death for her former owners who didn’t even leave a phone number — and the one who had spent an entire day in someone’s yard, starved, dehydrated, a few hours from death, and the finders wouldn’t even give her a drink of water. To you felines who were lucky enough to get to the shelter, you no longer had to rummage through rot ten tratsh trying to fincTa frozen morsel of food. Shirley $annot afford to buy you the very best food, but you will never again be hungry whil? you’re in her care. She’s found loving homes for hundreds. Since early spring, your numbers have averaged 200 or more. Yoa’ve arrived in carriers, bags, boxes and even buckets. Presently, there are 150 little mouths to feed. Food, litter and yet bills are not cheap. Following Shirley’s open-heart surgery, that portion of Dan’s modest income that previously was reserved for the cats now has to be used for Mrs. Minton’s ongoing medical care. So, little kitten, during this season of unselfishness and caring and sharing and hope, maybe there’ll be a real Santa Claus who can help provide you with continued warmth, shelter and food during the long hard winter that surely lies ahead for the Mintons. Maybe too, little kitten, if that Santa could look into your pain-filled eyes, he could visualize your lying there on your tummy with your head bowed, front feet extended and your tiny paws brought forward covering your closed eyes. If Santa watched and listened closely, maybe he could know that your simple little Christmas prayer would be, “Give us this day...” JEAN SULLINS CAMPBELL Abingdon Health-watch on domestic violence To the editor: Piedmont Technical Education Center School of Practical Nursing students are members of the national organization, Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA). Each year our group selects a subject to promote community awareness of a health-related issue. Domestic violence has been chosen as our project for this year. We will strive to enlighten the public concerning the alarming number of reported cases of violence in the home, both nationally and locally. We will research the causes contributing to domestic violence and what is being done to alleviate j the far-reaching problems when the home is no longer safe. Several community projects are planned for the coming year. We also expect to make a positive contribution by supporting local groups in their efforts to help the victims of domestic violence. We encourage members of our communities to join us in this effort. 1 SHIRLEY MONEYMAKER Chairman Community Awareness Committee 7-10, beginning Jan. 5. Participants must pre-register and hold current CPR certification. Shock Trauma Tech/S. T. Refresher: R.R.E.M.S. office, Monday and Thursday evenings, 7-10, beginning Jan. 7. Participants must meet requirements (call EMS office for details). Applicants must be recommended by the chief or captain of their department and complete and submit an application form to the EMS office. A pretest is also required to qualify. For further information about any of the classes, or to preregister for classes requiring it, contact the EMS office, 825-6849. The office located in the back of the Culpeper Rescue Squad building on Rt. 29 just north of town, is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday..

Library concludes story hour The Story Hour for Pre-Schoolers which was in progress at the Rappahannock Library from Nov. 18 through Dec. 16 was attended by about 25 children each week. Activities enjoyed included stories and crafts, with special emphasis on Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah. Among those who helped to , jnake this event enjoyable and infor~|mative were Nina Stamer, Laurie ^Marshall, Marion Simpson, Penny !$Grant, Patricia Metcalfe and Lor^buike Robson. ‘To each of these and %*o an participants we extend deep Appreciation and best wishes for a ♦£Merry Christmas and a Happy New gjYear,”a library spokesman said. ‘Emulated quite a large assortment of S^hrtfetes left there by patrons. The li*»J>raiy will appreciate the owners >£laiming these articles as soon as '"■possible. 'S Rappahannock Library has accuand found •v* In , observance of Drunk and fePrugged Driving Awareness Week, Spec. 13-19, the Virginia State Police j%.Ju*e conducting intensified DUI pa•wtrols and motor vehicle safety j&checks, which began Friday, Dec. During motor vehicle safety - Sjj£hecks, troopers check drivers’ lijMense and registration and obvious Sftafety equipment such as lights and ’-tires, and are alert to identifying drinking drivers. December tradition holds that nearly 2,000 people across the nation can be expected to die in motor vehi-: cle crashes involving alcohol, according to National Safety Council statistics. Last year, 87 persons . were killed On Virginia’s highways during December and 34 of that number were alcohol-related. *** According to national statistics two out of five Amercians will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some point in their lives and onethird of all people killed in alcohol-related crashes were innocent victims. With statistics like these ■■ ■' ' —.. , JOHN /SMITH'S TAXIDERMY TOP QUALITY WORK Graduated From A Professional s School ALSO: Buying Furs 2 miles on Browntown Road Watch For Sign 703-635-5600 Come and enjoy a Blue Ridge Christmas Special Christmas sales Saturday & Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Spenyville Antique Market and Sperryville Storage Company rep to visit After his November visit was canceled due to the Thanksgiving holiday; Veterans’ Chum Representative Danuel L. Smith will again visit Rappahannock County this month. ^ On Tuesday, Dec. 22, Mr. Smith will be at the Social Services office on Gay St in Washington from 9-11:30 a.m. There are no appointments necessary; veterans with questions about claims or any other matters related to their military service are invited to.■ come and speak with Mr. Smith..' '. -.' \ •' „ ■ ;' In addition to his monthly visit to Rappahannodc, Mr.. ■ Smith may also be contacted through the Division of War Veterans’ Claims, Suite 2 Professional Building, 24 E. Stonewall Drive, Front Royal, or call (708) 635-4201. j Virginia motorists need to do everything possible to prevent crashes during the holidays by not drinking and driving, buckling up and, , most of all, driving defensively, the Safety Council said. ., . “We risk losing a friend, we risk the lives of others, and we risk living with the knowledge that we might have prevented a tragedy. These are risks that we can’t afford at any time >■ of the year,” said Colonel R. L. Suthard. news In bygone Rappahannock times 20 YEARSAGO RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS From the Dee. 21,19$7, edition 4 Dave Layman, president of the Rappahannock Lions Chib, presented a check in the amount of $66 to John Gregory of Manassas to be given to the Old Dominion Eye Bank, Richmond. A shooting match is held every Friday night ait the Washington carnival, grounds beginning at 1 p.m. Prizes include oysters, hams, tnrkeya and pigs, the matches are sponsored jointly by the Rappahannock Rescue Squad, Washington Fire Co. and Rappahannock Jaycees. ^ >"V-Vr ■*' •»- v ■. v'-^, *K..y 1SYEARSAGO RAPPAHANNOCK Sews nM.ik.DM.21,1972, MUm J Hitt, sonof Mr. and Mrs. Curtis L. Weaver of Green Hill Farm, Boston, graduated: from basic training at the Marine Coaps. Recruit Depot Via San . Miss Lois Evelyn /fates of Spetfyville has been initiated into the Gamma Alpha chapter of Phi Mu, a national collegiate sorority, at the Coimge nf Waiiin and Mary, Williamsburg. Miss Woodvllle, VA 987-6814 Sp»cl*l»,Thur*d*y, Friday l Saturday MEAT SPECIAL: moxcaioiM g a***aa a*taa aaaaa»aaa'aa •■4aa**al^b ft Pepsl,Mountain DeW'Dfet Pepsi, 116-02^ Returnable Bottles We will close at 6:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Mi . _ k-: ’4rl; - ..W • •' ; •• >-v-; May tA« <pjh*t of th* , Christmas Mason brim to you lasting kappino HolidayHours Closed December 25 Closed January 1st Open December 26 Open January 2nd. Yates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester L. Yates, is a sophomore mooring in education. > 10 YEARS AGO RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS |s* Pwnn dw Dec. 22,1977, edition I? ive students from RappaJT hannock County made the Deal’s List for the fall quarter at Lord Fairfax Community Colilege, according to an announcement by college president Dr. William H. McCoy. Barry Adfans, Mark Bailey, Richie Burke, Peter Skowronski and James Wayland achieved at least a 3.2 honor point average for credit loads of 12-quarter hours or mom . The Amissville Baptist Church will hold a New Year’s EVe candlelight service at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31. < / 5 YEARS AGO RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS Dec. 23,1982, edition A f ':~y l". • econd Lt. Forrest H. Kilby has graduated from the O.S. Air Force communications electronics staff officer course at Keeslcr Air Force Base, Miss. He is a 1981 graduate of Kansas Kewman College, Wichita. His Wife, Arlene, is the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Starks of Woodville. ; _ . ' v£- Photocounety of Mirgwet Settle THE FOSTER FAMILY, on their farm. Top, from left, Marie Woodard, James Foster, Colleen Foster, Ruth Ann Burke. Front row, from left, Rena Mae A&!ns, Margaret Settle and Elzora Nicholson. The phdto was taken in 1954. - The Rappahannock News is looking for itOut of the Attic” pictures of Rappahannock families celebrating ike holidays of yesteryear. Photos should be brought or mailed to the news oj^rx in ^ashirigton. All pictures will be returned after use. ..... ...... Check ®(jt Bappafomnocfe iieto* toftnd out who’s getting married or who ha* tied the knot in your neighborhood^ OUR Eric Kvarnes Margret Rogeir*,, , .... oavefte Kyatne* ;!;*// w J • • • >' . r U ‘ v>j 4■ ..' £j v :*. > ' Vr-’V-^V-v Blown Glass • Sculpted Porcelain • Engraved Glass • Weaving NOW OPEN EVERY DAY UNTIL CHRISTMAS EVE 0 ™E18TH THRU THURS. THE 24TH SAT. & SUN. • 10-6 • MON. THRU FRI. 12-6 • ?87-8474 ONE MILE WEST FROM SPERRYVILLE ON RT. 21V / Wishing all our good patrons holidays filled with joy, health and prosperity. It has been a pleasure to serve you. The Staff and Management of Brookside Restaurant Luray, VA We will close at 3:00 p.m. December 20 and will re-open February 20,1988

Church a Activities Ml. Lebanon Baptist Rt. 522 at Scrabble Pastor: John Warren Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Choir will sing special arrangement of “Joy to the World” Cantada “Promise of Peace” 7 p.m. Arranged by Joseph Linn, containing many familiar and beautiful Christmas melodies. Wednesday: Christmas caroling. Meet at the church at 7 p.m. Amissville Baptist Church Pastor: Rev. J. Paul Franklin Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Evening Service 7 p. m. Wednesday: Prayer, Praise and Bible Study 7:30 p. m. Forest Grove Baptist Pastor: Rev. Sidney Rodriguez ■ Sunday: Sunday School 10 a. m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Slate Mills Baptist Pastor: Rev. J. Harold Eaton Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday: Children’s Choir 6:45 p.m. Youth and Adult Choirs 7:30 p.m. Thursday: W.M.U. Meeting Gid Brown Bible Church Washington Pastor: John K. Burke 703-675*3662 Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Youth & Evening Service 6 p.m. Wednesday: Prayer Service 7:30 p.m. Saturday: Men’s Prayer Service 6 p. m. Five Forks Regular Baptist Pastor: Carl Menefee Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Evening Service 7 p.m. WedheSday: ' Prayer Meeting and Bible Study 7 p.m. ■ : » ‘ i: - Woodville Baptist ’ ,,<n^ Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Wednesday: Bible Study and Choir Practice 7:30 p. m. St. Peter9s Catholic Mission Fr. Albert Verbeke, C.I.C.M. Holy Masses: Sundays: 9 a.m. (Sung) and 11a.m. Sunday School For grades K-6 after the 9 o’clock Mass For grades 7-10 on Sunday afternoon Mass on weekdays (Monday - Friday) 8:30 a.m. Holy Days: Mass at 8:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Communion for the sick and homebound: on First Friday, First Saturday and as needed by appointment, call 675-3432. Family Worship Center Pastor: Rev. William “Bill” Taylor Phone: 987-8014 Sunday: Bible Class. All ages. 9:30 a. m. Adult Worship and Children’s Church 10:30 a.m. Monday: Aerobics. All welcome. No charge. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday: Intercessory Prayer 6:25 p.m. Praise Singing 7 p.m. Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Thursday: Aerobics. All welcome. No charge. 6:30 p.m. SperryviUe Assembly of God Pastor: Rev. Ray Campbell Sr. Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Young People 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Evening Worship 7:30 p.m. Wednesday: Bible Study 7 p.m. Saturday: Prayer Meeting 6:30 p. m. Washington Baptist Church Pastor: Rev. Larry C. Hovis Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Wednesday: Choir Practice 6:30 p.m. Macedonia Baptist Pastor Rev. James A. Price Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a. m. 1 Worship Service 11 a.m. Amissville United Methodist Pastor: Rev. Steven D. Parker Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Christmas Play 7:30 p.m. Monday: Diet Support f p.m. Jr. Choir Practice 7 p.m. Adult Choir Practice 7:30 p.m. Tuesday: Cub Scouts 7:30 p. m. Wednesday: Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Reynolds Baptist Church Sunday: Sunday School 10 a. m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Christmas programs in the area Slate Mills Baptist Church The Slate Mills Baptist Church will present a Christmas program Sunday, Dec. 20, at 7:30 p.m. “A wonderful opportunity for all to gather to honor Jesus Christ on His birthday, thanking God for His unspeakable gift to the world. We extend a cordial invitation for the public to worship with'us,” said Slate Mills pastor Rev. J. Harold Eaton. The Christmas party will be held at the church Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 7:30 p.m. “We wish for all the joys of Christmas holidays,” said Rev. Eaton. Gid Brown Bible Church. A Christmas play entitled “I Am” will be presented at Gid Brown Bible Church on Sunday, Dec. 20, beginning at 6 p.m. Following the play, Evangelist Don McCann from Kingsport, Tenn., will be preaching. The public is invited to attend. Washington Baptist Church The Washington Baptist Church will be having a Christmas musical, featuring the adult and children’s choirs and solos, on Sunday, Dec. 20, at their 11 o’clock service. At 7 p.m., there will be a candlelight communion service, followed by Christmas fellowship, and on Monday, Dec. 21, there will be youth Christmas caroling. Amissville Methodist Members of the Amissville Methodist Church will host a community Christmas caroling program on Saturday, Dec. 19, at 3 p.m. A Christmas play will be presented at the church on Sunday, Dec. 20, beginning at 7 p.m. An open communion service will be held at the church on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, from 6 to 9 p.m. All are welcome. Living nativity The Rappahannock County United Methodist Churches will present a living nativity scene, re-enacting the Birth of the Christ Child, on Saturday, Dec. 19, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the red shed on Route 211 a half mile east of the town of Washington. Live animals are used for the the hillside display, which can be viewed from the road. Visitors may also walk up the pathway bordered by luminaries to the shed where they can hear as well as see the Christmas story. Sperryville Assembly of God ,J The Sunday School of the Sperryville Assembly of God Church will present their Christmas play entii* tied “Christmas Guest” on Monday/ Dec. 21, at 7 p.m. All are invited, f Thornton Gap “ Regular Baptist * Thornton Gap Regular Baptist Church will have its Christmas program Sunday, Dec. 20, at 7 p.m. AS warm welcome is extended to every one. i Promise Land Baptist The Youth Department of th# Promise Land Baptist Church iir> Washington will present a! Christmas drama entitled "Down the Road to Bethlehem” on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited. Flint Hill United Methodist The Flint Hill United Methodist J Church will present its Christmas < program on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 8' p.m. The public is welcome. i Weekend busy for Washington residents Lynn Sullivan to Fodderstack Road. * Joseph Herman Baber, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Baber of Brandywine, Md., spent from Thursday until Sunday with his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Crews. Mrs. Clara Woodard visited Mrs. Janie Pullen Thursday. Guests Sunday were Miss Jennifer Pullen, Jack Pullen and Kenneth Baldwin, all of Sperryville, Mrs. Faye Pullen and son David, Thomas Walker and Todd Williams. Mrs. Margie Atkins and Mrs. Frances Eubank went shopping in Winchester on Tuesday. Mrs. Frances Eubank and Johnny Eubank had lunch at Country Cookin in Culpeper on Wednesday. Saturday Mrs. Eubank with Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hudson and daughter Victoria of Sperryville went shopping in Front Royal and had lunch. Sunday Mrs. Eubank and Ms. Etta Estes visited Mrs. Eubank’s sister Mrs. Vergie Hutchin By KUTH CLACK Phane(7S-MM son in Front Royal. John Moulis Jr. of Silver Spring, Md., was an overnight guest Friday of his grandmother Mrs. Ned Settle, Jimmy and William. Saturday guests of Mrs. Erma Jenkins were Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Butler of McLean. Miss Linda Jones of Amissville spent Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Richie Eastham. Mrs. Josephine* Wood of Reva 1 Check tKfye ftappabanttocb iittos to find out Swhb's getting married or who has tied the a Jmot in your neighborhood: ^ y r Park was a dinner guest Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Ashby Wayland. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Wingfield of Manassas visited Mrs. Mattie Ball Fletcher Saturday afternoon. Albert Slaughter of Leesburg was a guest Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Keyser at The Oaks. Their Sunday guests were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Painter of Winchester and Mrs. Ruth Keyser, and Mrs. Lee Bird visited them Tuesday. The community welcomes Ms. me wasmngion L.aaies auxh-i iapr Thrift Shop is closed for the! winter, but will take donations of! clothing, furniture or what you have) all during winter. Anyone who has; something to donate may leave it on» the park benches in front of the! Town Hall or call 675-3608 for pick-! up. A real friend is one who helps us J to think our noblest thoughts, putl forth our best efforts and to be our' best selves. \ Have a good week! ! CHRISTMAS SHOP Second Floor SALE ITEMS 30 to 7 5 December 18 through December 24 Open Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Hours: Dec. 21,22,23 .9:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. December 24.9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The BERRY PATCH 13 W. Main St. • 955-4614 • jBerryyijle, Va. RAYMOND B. KNEPP, R.Ph. 119 Water Street Front Royal, VA 22630 BALDWIN'S GROCERY General Merchandise - Gas Open 7 days a week Washington, Va. 703-675-3383 CHERRYSTREET BUILDING SUPPLY COW. "See Us For All Your Building Supply Needs" 1418 Orange Fload Culpeper 703-825-0397 GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY OF CULPEPER, INC. 767 Madison Road - South 703-825-0205 FRONT ROYAL MOTORS, INC. Sales Service Your Friendly Ford Dealer 703-636-2901 TURNER-ROBERTSHAW FUNERAL HOME Your Golden Rule Funeral Home 1200 N. Shenandoah Ave. Front Royal, Virginia 22630 (703)635-4186 OIL HEAT & BURNER Distributor of Exxon, Mobil Petroleum Products A Exxon LPGas Front Royal, 703-635-4155 Washington, 703-675-3214 COUNTRYSIDE FLOOR FASHIONS Cerpet-OnenlalsSheel Vinyls- Tilt fewpftoMwy -Sf'P Covers Orspes Wall Coverings 347-0400 - Amissville. Va SPERRYVILLE EMPORIUM Gifts • Pottery - Country Hams Solid Wood Furniture Open 7 days a week - Sperryvile. Va BEN VENUE MARKET 675-3133 & RECTOR’S STORE 937-4954 Groceries, Gas SOU GOLDEN CORRAL Family Steak House 703-825-5888, Culpeper LANE'S APPLIANCES, INC. j&SU&t $ Amana 336 James Madison Highway 703-825-9588, Culpeper Scriptures Se+ectod by The Amerean Btbte Society Sunday Matthew 2:13-21 Monday Thursday Luke Psalm 2:41-51 150:1-6 Tuesday Friday Psalm Mark 147:1-20 1:1-13 Wednesday Saturday Psalm Mark 148:1-14 1:14-20 In A.D. 155 Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, declared: "My God, in what a generation thou hast caused me to live!" Of course, it was a day of persecution for the good Bishop and many of his people. Fact is, not long after that, he was burned at the stake. Yet, in his opinion and experience, it was a great day in which to live. The greatness of life is determined not by ease but by how creative we are in times of hardship. We decide what we see in life and about life; that's what makes life real and exciting—our faith in what is and our hope in what can be. We need to grasp the faith and vision of the young Frenchman standing amidst the ruins of his little town caused by the Nazis. “How can you be so optimistic in the middle of so much gloom?" someone asked him. “The world is being wrecked but I am going to have the privilege of helping build it back." The Apostle Paul would have applauded such faith and commitment Said he "for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content” (Phil. 4:11) Copyright 1907. Keister-WiR<«ns Newspaper Services, P 0 Box 0005, Charlottesvttte. VA 22906 TRIPLETT MILLING COMPANY FARM SUPPLIES - HAY - STRAW Millers of better flour, meal & feeds Sperryville Road 703-825-0781, Culpeper SPERRYVILLE DEAL Antiques - Collectibles - VA Ham Quilts - Apples - Honey Homemade Cider, Apple Butter Open Weekends, Holidays or By Appointment, 703-967-8203 FADELY CHRYSIER-PLYMOUTH-DODGE, Inc. ' Sales Service 727 N. Royal Ave.. Front Royal 703-635-2151 ROBERT J. CLATTERBUCK Plumbing and Heating Flint Hill. Va 675-3378 SPERRYVILLE EXXON 24-hr Wrecker Service Fruit and Produce Stand Sperryville Va 987-8377 & 8015 ROYAL PALACE CLEANERS & LAUNDRY East 5th St & Warren Ave. Bullock s Quality Cleaners A Laundry 19 E Jackson. St. Front Roval T|/a Auto Sales, IJ 5 Inc. \ 106 W. Cherry St. Culpeper Dir No 3516 825-5900 HOMEMADE CAKES for all occasions Reasonable rates 703-987-8777 Contact Marianna Qioia Thera is something for everyone at THE VILLAGE CAFE Breakfast, tunch. Dinner 703-675-3877 COMMONWEALTH CORPORATION Lumber A Building Supplies' 424 Manassas St. Front Roya 703-635-2176 Rappahannock News Main St. Washington, Va. 675-3349 ABERDEEN BARN Steaks - Seafood - Prime Rib Banquets-Luncheons In the Holiday Inn of Culpeper 703-825-1037

Flint Hill Extension party held Mrs. Paul Miller entertained the Flint Hill Extension Homemakers Club for their Christmas party Dec. 8 at her home. Present were Mrs. Barbara Gentry, Mrs. Flo Duvall, Mrs. Alice Pullen, Mrs. Shelby Welch, Mrs. Janet Eastham, Miss Margaret Dodson, Miss Elsie Dodson, Mrs. Ethel Pullen, Mrs. Mary Frances Bywaters, Mrs. Jenny Matthews and Mrs. Florence Richardson. • Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Pearson of Hume visited Mrs. Pearson’s sister Mrs. Wade Pullen Tuesday. Mrs. Pullen attended the Christmas play at the Methodist Church in Front Royal on Sunday evening. Her grandchildren Todd and Daniel But By POLLY N. AY I.OR Phone V8 7-813ft ler took part in the play. Also on Sunday, Mrs. Pullen attended the firemen’s Christmas dinner at the fire hall. Edward Welch returned to his home last Monday after being a pa Pretty Christmas greens can harm children, pets The beautiful Christmas greens which add such charm and warmth to homes during the " holiday season can prove an irre~ sistible lure to children and pets as well. Unfortunately, some of the greenery can be harmful if in*• gested, the Rappahannock County Extension Service warns. Among the greens which should be kept out of the reach of '■ children and away from pets, es« pecially curious and playful kit- tens and puppies, are: - Holly: The red berries, per. feet size for plucking and eating, : can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Mistletoe: Traditionally the ■r plant underneath which a holiday > kiss may be given or received, its white berries are much prettier looked at than eaten. They cause acute stomach and intestinal disorders. •* * Poinsettia: The leaves and > flowers may be dangerous if t eaten - they tend to irritate the J mouth and stomach, sometimes •resulting in vomiting and diarrhea. The plant sap may cause a poison ivy-like blistering if it is not removed from the skin quickly. Yew: The leaves, bark and twigs of this member of the evergreen family can be toxic, as can the seeds within the berries. When swallowed the parts of this plant cause breathing difficulty, trembling and vomiting. Jerusalem Cherry: All parts of this plant contain toxic substances. They adversely affect the heart and may cause irregularities in the heartbeat. Children who chew or swallow plants which may cause toxic reactions should be seen by their family doctor or emergency room physician as soon as possible. If possible, a sample of the plant or berry which was eaten should be taken to the doctor with the child. The Blue Ridge Poison Control Center, located at University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, is staffed around the clock to provide information about accidental poisonings by telephone. Call collect 804-9245543. ■ . i » . . YULETIDE CHEER r Our sin car*' «ishn for a MERRY CHRISTMAS .md*. happy holiday fpasen \ Joyce & Bill Duvall 703/987-8518 Sperryvllle ^ We Wish You Joy In Your Heart, Love In Your Home, Peace In The World and Hope For A Prosperous New Year! Located in the Clopton House Washington, Va. 675-3738 Happy Holidays! ^Nan and Jim Thomasson Hours Dec. 17,18,19 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday Dec. 21,22,23 10a.m.-6pjn. Christmas Eve 10ajn.-4 p.m. January Hours Saturday ft. Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. BEDASHES THIS CHRISIMAS As the season of joy and cheer arrives, we extend warm wishes to you. Rappahannock National Bank Washington, VA 675-3519 tient at Warren Memorial Hospital. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Carson Lillard Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Lillard, Tommy Lillard, David Lillard, Michael LiDard, Mrs. Debra Moats and family, Mrs. Diane Dellinger and family and Jean Lillard, Christine and Steven Lillard. The Flint Hill United Methodist Women will meet Monday, Dec. 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Louise McCulloch. Visiting Mrs. Robert Nethers Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Nethers, Mrs. Dorothy Lewis, Karen Corder, Charles Corder Jr., Heather Aylor, Mrs. Helen Coffey, Mrs. Pauline Aylor and Clyde Lillard. Clifton Nethers of Amissville called on Mrs. Nethers Thursday. The Flint Hill United Methodist Church will have worship service on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 9 a.m. The Rev. Merlin Shorb, pastor, invites the public to attend. Mrs. Barbara Gentry, Mrs. Margie Atkins, Miss Phyllis Vemer and Mrs. Ruth Blackwell attended the Gershwin concert “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” at the Culpeper High School on Wednesday. George Grimsley visited his sister Mrs. Ethel Lilian! Saturday. We regret that Mrs. Alice Brady was omitted from the list of brothers and sisters having dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Carson Lillard recently. The item should have read “Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carson Lillard on Tuesday were Mr. Lillard’s brothers and sisters, Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Lillard, Clyde Lillard, Mrs. Nellie Pritchett, Mrs. Fannie Nethers and Mrs. Alice Brady.” Guests Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lillard were Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Sours and Mrs. Maizie Montgomery of Warrenton and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wade of Chantilly. The Flint Hill United Methodist Church will present its Christmas program on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 8 p.m. The public is welcome. Merl Shorb of Maryland visited his parents the Rev. and Mrs. Merlin Shorb over the weekend. Mrs. Frank Huff returned to her home last Monday after being a patient in Warren Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Huff entered Winchester Medical Center for tests Dec. 14. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Crane of Lanham, Md., Mrs. Libby Wharton of Warrenton and Mrs. Ellen Joback and Joey were luncheon guests Sunday of Mrs. Moffett Brady. Keith and Kevin Kinsey of Front Royal spent the weekend with their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Huff. Dinner guests Friday of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hickerson were Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Lillard of Springfield, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hickerson of Chester Gap were dinner guests Saturday. Also visiting were Steve Lillard of Manassas and Clyde Lillard. Call 675-3338 to subscribe WtWkWmWmSFmm imamm Coming your way with thanks and good wishes on the road ahead. Best wishes. Settle’s Garage & Grocery ♦ ♦ ♦ Cfjrist is JSom We thank you during this holiday season for your patronage and friendship. Merry Christmas. We would like to thenk you lor your eupport this yeerl SPERRYVILLE EXXON Charles Clinedinst, Proprietor Sperryville, Va. 987-8578 I May the message of the Christmas I Season bring Peace to all mankind. fox youx mjifjoxt -Seif wiiAe.i tfzxoucjfi {&£. c^foCidcuj cSe.a\on COUNTRY MANOR GIFT SHOP and HAZEL MOUNTAIN PUB Upcoming Events RAAC hosts community Christmas The annual community Christmas program at the Gay Street Theater will held be Saturday, Dec. 19, starting at 7 p.m. This popular event will include an appearance by Santa and his reindeer, holiday readings by county orators, and Christmas music, including individual performances and group carol singing. Admission is free, and so are refreshments. For more information, call the RAAC office at 675-3198. Quaker meeting There is an hour of silent worship on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Middle Street Gallery. Lions selling nuts The members of the Rappahannock Lions Club are selling Deluxe Mix Nuts (no peanuts) for $6 lb., fancy pecan halves (fresh crop) at $5 lb., and honey-roasted peanuts in 12 oz. tins for $3. To place an order for these items, the perfect thing to have on hand or give as gifts for the holidays, contact Mike Mahoney (6753446), John Schultz (987-8916) or any other Rappahannock Lions Club member. ARB to meet The Architectural Review Board will meet Thursday, Dec. 17, at 8 p.m. in the courthouse. Interested persons are urged to attend. County Methodist Services The United Methodist Churches will have worship services for Sunday, Dec. 20, as follows: Flint Hill at 9 a.m., Sperryville at 11:15 a.m. and Willis Chapel at 10 a.m. The Rev. Merlin Shorb, pastor, invites the public to attend. Christmas fruitcakes on sale The Amissville Ruritans are selling Christmas fruitcakes. This is one of two annual fundraising events sponsored by the Ruritans. Pro'ceeds benefit youth baseball, scholarships for RCHS graduates and other projects. For more information contact any Amissville Ruritan member. Fine gifts at Middle St. The Middle Street Gallery in Washington is displaying fine arts and crafts for holiday gifts. Oil paintings and sculpture, baskets, cards, tree decorations and more are available from the members of this fine cooperative gallery. Gallery hours are Fridays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to6 p.m., from Dec. 5throughJan. 3. Nethers Mill Lighthouse Tabernacle Weekly services at Nethers Mill Lighthouse Tabernacle include Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 5:30 p.m. The Rev. Charles Clinedinst, pastor, invites the public. Extension conferences set The 28th Virginia Turfgrass Conference and Trade Show will be held Jan. 19,20,21 at the Richmond Marriott. National Farmers’ Direct Marketing Conference will be held Jan. 21-23 at Williamsburg. The 1987/88 Commercial Small Fruits School has been rescheduled to Jan. 19. The conference was previously scheduled for Nov. 11, but was snowed out. It will be held at the Northern Virginia! 4TWiEdu1 cational Center,' located off Rt. 522 and Rt. 604, two miles south of Front Royal. All participant musttpre-t^gist^r preserve a place for lunch. Registration fee is $6 per person, which covers the cost of morning coffee, juice, doughnuts, lunch and handout materials. Red House Open House and Beef Judging Clinic will be held Tuesday, Dec. 29, at 10 a.m., at Red House Bull Evaluation Center, Red House. For complete information about any of the conferences, or to preregister, call the Rappahannock Extension Office, 675-3619. Santa at Castleton Santa will be at the Castleton fire hall on Sunday, Dec. 20, from 2 to 4 p.m. Parents are urged to bring their children. There is no admission charge and goodies will be served. Displays at Middle St. Rex Slack’s newest miniature construction - Night Train II - will be on display at Middle Street Gallery’s Christmas show this weekend only. It is a portrait of his mother in her living room, built into a 1950 Philco television set, complete with sound track. Also featured at the show are the sensitive and delicate black and white photographs of Anne Douglas Atherton, watercolor landscapes by Donna Brune and Dan Lewis, pottery by Jeanne Drevas, handmade paper by Nina Moore, photographs by Clyde Lee and whimsical collages (Santa Celebrations) by Laurie Marshall. Gallery hours are 11-6, Friday through Sunday. Monday Night Alternative planned The Rappahannock County Library, in conjunction with RAAC, is planning a series of speakers and other activities to be held on the fourth Monday of each month. James J. Kilpatrick, syndicated columnist and long-time county resident, will speak on "The Writer’s Art” on Jan. 18. This program has been changed from the fourth Monday because of scheduling conflicts. A reception will be held at the Rappahanock County Library following the program, where the public is invited to meet Mr. Kilpatrick. Refreshments will be served. There will be no charge for the evening, and the public is encouraged to attend. Chanukkah observance set Wednesday, Dec. 16 marked the first day of the Jewish observance of Chanukkah, the Festival of Lights. It commemorates the rededication of the Hebrew temple in Jerusalem 2000 years ago. Tradition states that when the temple’s lamps were lit, there was only enough oil for one day, but the lamps burned for eight days. So, each year, the eight-day Chanukkah holiday commemorates that event. On Friday, The Village Cafe will offer a traditional Chanukkah dinner, complete with authentic holiday foods, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The public is invited to join the staff of The Cafe in celebrating the holiday. Help for bird count The date is Dec. 19 for the Northern Shenandoah Valley annual Christmas Bird Count. This annual event is one of 1,500 similar counts taken from Hawaii to Labrador, from Alaska to Venezuela, during the period Dec. 19 through Jan. 3. This year marks the 88th anniversary of the original Christmas Bird Count taken on Christmas Day 1900 by an intrepid group of strollers in 25 locations, mostly around major northeastern cities. In the Shenandoah Valley count, about 55 people will be organized into 22 groups. Each group will have special tasks - some will call for owls starting at midnight; others will check roosting areas, while others will be canoeing down the Shenandoah River. AU counts are open to competent birders: if you have information about rare birds, or for information on the count participation, contact Rob Simpson at (703) 869-1120 or 869-2051.

Boston homes welcome visitors Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thornhill of Vienna and Winfrey Thornhill of Nokesville visited their mother Mrs. Cary Thornhill Saturday. Mrs. Thornhill was an overnight guest Saturday of Mrs. Lottie Johnston. Monday Mrs. Thornhill’s daughter Mrs. Harry Morrison of Winchester visited her. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Clatterbuck Jr. and family were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Southard at Woodville. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Frazier and family spent Friday evening with Mrs. Alvin Atkins in Sperryville. The Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church Christmas program Sunday evening was enjoyed by a good congregation. Dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peregory and family on 615 were Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Burke of Rochelle, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Peregory, Missy and Joel, and Mrs. Lucille Peregory of Front Royal, Johnny Bragg of Viewtown and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Peregory of Rixeyville. William Hawkins of Alexandria B* MARIK K. ATKINS Phonr 98741802 ■ and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Duncan and family of Shenanodah were guests Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Duncan. The Bill Duncan family remained as overnight guests. Mrs. A. E. Goddard of Quaint Acres served as delegate to the National Association of Social Workers at their assembly program held recently at the Sheraton in Washington, D.C. Last Monday she was in Richmond for the Virginia Code Commission, regarding social work. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cave and Tonya and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fincham and Peggy went to Stanley Sunday to visit E. A. Cave and family- ilyWe offer our congratulations to Earl F. Aylor and Miss Carolyn Peyton for having been named in the 10th annual edition of The National Dean’s List which has just been published in Lake Forest, 111. by Educational Communications Inc. To achieve this honor students must be in the upper 10 percent of their class. Miss Peyton and Mr. Aylor were both students at Germanna Community College. Mrs. Franklin Hitt of Cypress Knoll spent last Saturday in Winchester. 0 Let’s never look down on our fellow man; only God sits that high. When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they had, and will never have. Great men are the tables of contents of mankind. Holiday food safely Food safety practices must never take a holiday, says Virginia Tech Extension specialist Jo Anne Barton. There is a great deal of rushing during the holiday season, but those who prepare meals need to allow time to take care of food properly. She said food should be kept hot or cold. Bacteria grow best at temperatures between 60 and 120 degrees Fahrenheit — a range that includes room temperature. Keep cold food cold. Keep the refrigerator below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Use poultry, fish, and ground meat within two days after purchase and other fresh meats within five days. If they are not to be used that soon, freeze them. Cured meats can be stored in the refrigator for a longer period of time. Keep hot food hot. Hot means above 140 degrees Fahrenheit. This is particularly important when food is served buffet style. If food is to be served over a period of two or more hours, you may want to cook small amounts at a time and place on the ftappaijannocfe J2ett>* gift subscriptions are enjoyed 52 weeks a year. Call 675-3349 to give one. Rappahannock Business & Service Directory Next Deadline December 28 Call 675-3338 to place your ad! T . y-w . rA K , yr The Fauquier Democrat, The Clarke Courier, fJnly $3.50 per week for a Loudoun Ttmes-Mirror, and The Reston Times 1 inch space! 13 WEEK CONTRACT ■***; ALUMINUM 01 VWVl SIDINC Gutters, Shutters Soffit and Fascia BLUE MOGI HOME IMPROVEMENT CO. Culpeper 547-344* COUNTRY HERITAGE Antique* and Craft* l ..nwt.rtMiJJIcSt and Main W.idunmon. V.i 67S-171W lka>*************** The Wadungtoa 4 Antiques Center, Inc. J Antique* A ( oUntible* 4U onwr at Puclw 4 Cat Slr**ta 4 * * * ************** * S3 Bkhiagton. V A ,75-3223 4 Fri. IliruSm. ^ RUSSELL AUTOMOTIVE AuBmotwe pus A aq^mert 737 Eau Mwi St, Uray. Va 703-743-4551 Hours Mon.-Fn. 7:30a m ,pm Sal (am 3pm \ Bicycle / / Repairs \ Th* Bik* Stop New and Used Bicycles, Skateboards Parts Accessories Service (Ail Makes) GT Bikes & Accessories Fret Estimate on AN Repairs 120 W Culpeper St- _ Cutpep—, V« 22701 7®*^»-210S I Building / Supplies V Cherry Street Building Supply Curp i -1,., \n >,. f'tultliil:; Brandy Station Rt. 762 825-9690 M-F 7 30-6:00 Sat. 7:30-5:00 Closed Sunday Orshncltve Handmade Kitchens Libraries Bathrooms Mantles and Formal Wall Paneling F me Reproduction F umiture You must see our Showroom' t \n,niry < upfavnl* t7'/*■ ThePtams va 22t?t 703 *53-594* CountrySide Floor Fashions Route 211 AmissviUe, Va. 703-937-5111 or 703-347-0400 Open Wkdays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. _Saturday 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Carpet > Vinyl - Reupholstery - Draperies - and more * copy SERVICE AVAILABLE Copies while you wait ***nS*e«t 703 \IWno<* or' 675-3338 4*f4 iUqipaliamMkjliM Dentist I * I W.N. Mayberry, DBS? Family Dentist Washington Office 675-5530 Thursdays M Saturdays & by appointment lj _ \ Electric & / / Plumbing \ QUALITY II ELECTRIC a PLUMBING Old Work/New Work Farms. Residential. Commercial Licensed and Bonded Amissville. Va. 703 937-5343 Tiger Valley mw BacUweServia^e^ Charles W. Jenkins Route 1, Box 870 Washington, Va 22747 703/675-3463 SALES A SERVICE JOHN T KEYS 547-3477 OIL HEAT A BURNER DteMbulor of Euon. MoM Petroteum RoOicN 4 Exxon LP Qm 2nd St. A Commerce Avo. Front Royal 703-635 4155 Washington. 703-675-3214 Old Dominion Insurance Associates of Culpeper Representing Erie Insurance Group We Can Help With All Your Insuranee Needs 703-025-0121 COMETEUNEFEEDtu FARM SUPPLES ii Purina Feeds, Custom Grinding & Mixing Liquid Feed Supplement Grain Storage Grain Brokerage Ariens Equipment Echo Equipment Liquid Fertilizer & Nitrogen Farm & Lawn Seeds 325 Wausau Place Culpeper, Virginia 703/825-23R1 ) «**!■« ( _ Piedmont Press For Excellence In All Your Printing Needs £appabannocfe iietos 675-3338 weekdays 8:30-5 Pump "T hitiBrttoi.V Fxpert Pump InstaUtlioi < and Repair Service IU>1\ Jl Cutp^K Fannin Coop. Inc. •>m« m riippi. v» ■2S-2200 RaaHon JUSTIN 6. WADE, EJL ACCOUNTANT Accounting, Tax Services, Consulting 763 Madison Rd. Suite 208 B Culpeper, Va. 22701 703/825-6670 The Tree Mover Tree Spade for Hire 703-364-1799 eve. 703-347-1664 \ T.V. Sales / / end Repair v\ BROWER’S TV RCA and Magnavox Sell-. v% •S*»»vn pOn Most Mato*r'.ions • Stereos • Pho • a- •. Installation a M.-| 347-1119 I Storage I SPERRYVHX.E STORAGE CO. SAFE NANDV STORAGE RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL AN* SUE LARGE OR SMALL REASONABLE RATES , 987-8507 • 967-8180 SRERRYVELE VA Next Deadline December 28 List your services in our Business A Service Directory For only $3*50 per week you can bo among other refinlshen. carpenters. Insurance agents, builders, contractors, craftspeople, realtors, beauticians, agents, and ©•tier professionals. Directory ads are sold only on 13 week contracts, bringing the entire cost for a 1 inch ad to $45.50 In order to be in our January directory, ads must be received by ^ Dec. 8 >r serving table. Some food can be kept hot for that length of time but other items will be over-done and thus have reduced quality. She noted that everything that comes in contact with food should be kept clean. Throoughly wash cooking utensils and work surfaces. It is important to clean knives, pans, or cutting boards used for raw food before using them for cooked food to prevent cross contamination of bacteria. Wash hands often. Keep hands away from the mouth, nose, and hair while working with food. Cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue. Anyone with such infections as a cold, acne, or flu should avoid working around food. Do not lick fingers while handlings food. If the food must be sampled^, use a clean eating utensil each time. Do not use a stirring , spoon to sample the food and then use it for^ stirring, Ms. Barton said, as this caflj transfer bacteria from the mouth. jq When grocery shopping, select"' meat, dairy products, and frozep,. food last. Return home quickly after/, purchasing the food and put the pei^v ishable items in the refrigerator and'i freezer as soon as possible. r;g Never use, or even taste, the contents of any can of food that^ spurts liquid when opened. DiscartJj any food that has an off odor, or ^ discolored, moldy, or slimy. j Do not use food in bulging, leaking, or damaged cans'. Discard those food jars which are cracked or no?1 sealed. ^ Seniors sweep oration contest Wakefield seniors Lara Dose, Jennie Shanks and Sally Miller won first, second, and thud places respectively in the American Legion Oration Contest held in Front Royal on Saturday. Contestants from Warren County High School and Randolph-Macon Academy also competed in this annual event. The topic of the oration was, as always, any issue related to the NVCC offers Speedwriting Speedwriting, a form of alphabetical shorthand, will be offered Saturdays, from 9 to 12:50 p.m., beginning Jan. 16 at Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas. Sally Bedont will be the instructor. This notetaking system is easy to learn because it utilizes the letters of the alphabet rather than symbols. For more information call 3680184, extension 269. .-nii U. S. Constitution. orj Hie first-place winning speech by Lara Dose was entitled “CoBunoj^ Defense,” and was written, she says, in honor of her father, an offlT cer in the U.S. Naval Reserves. Jeni nie Shank’s oration concerned juvenile rights within the American court system. Sally Miller's speechP entitled "Reasonable Searches and'’ Seizures” traced the changes iii* Fourth Amendment rights frorrt‘; 1791 to the present. The format of the American gion Oration Contest is particularly, demanding. Contestants must first? speak for a minimum of eight min-^ utes without notes, prompting or po-f ( dium. Then they must give ah‘ extemporaneous speech lasting at least three minutes on a question, about the amendments to the Con-'' stitution drawn by the judges. All three winners were coachedf by Wakefield civics and political sciw ence teacher Mrs. Margaret Doyle. At the conclusion of the contest, tha* winners and their coach were presented cash awards and medals by American Legion officer Robert O’Neill. The next level of competition fd» district champion will take place on Jan. 20. -. .. - 1 ■ i ■_ —A WASHINGTON CASH STORE Come in and register for a drawing to be held Saturday December 19 1st. Prize GIANT CHRISTMAS STOCKING 2nd Prize Country Ham 3rd Prize Turkey 4th Prize 1 pint oysters We are now taking orders for Oysters tor Christmas Washington, Va. 703-675-3514 i CHRISTINAS GREETINGS Fran & Charlie Washington House Reproductions Washington, Va. 703-675-3385 Wishing you a Holiday filled with family and friends. WASHINGTON VIDEO RENTALS Main St. Basement of Baumgardner Bldg. ' , Washington, Va. 675-3454 Wed.-Sun. 12-7 J VpUDW To our good friends! We hope your Holidays are filled with love and joy. IHorseshoe iHiCCs famiCy ^Restaurant & Carry-Out Spenyvilk, VA _387-9005 * You’ve made it a pleasure'to serve you, friends and customers. Here’s hoping your Holiday is special. BALDWIN’S WEST END SHELL THOMAS R. BALDWIN, JR. PROPRIETOR Sperryville, Va. 987-8240

SperryviUe residents entertain ' Mrs. George W. Hawkins spent Friiday and Saturday with Mrs. Fred Codding and daughters Cally and Claire in Fairfax. ? Jack BroWn is recuperating after siirgery at' Fauquier Hospital in Whrrenton. He is expected home thus week: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thompson of Fork Union visited him Sunday. 9 Dr. arid Mrs. John P. Snead spent a week with Carolyn and Mark Lindsey in Charlottesville while trfeir parents Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Lindsey were away on a trip. „ Arthur McLean of Greenville, Tejin., was a guest last week of his cousins Mrs. Lee Swindler and Mrs. Roy Swindler. He also visited other relatives. Mrs, Hazel Deal is recovering at home from a broken leg received in a faD in her home. Her sons William ' » ' By MRS. B.M.VARNKR P1mmw«7-S7)0 Deal of Alameda, Calif., and Wayne Deal of Greensboro, N.C., have been to visit her. Dr. William Kilby and daughters Christie and Marie of Harrisonburg visited Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Kilby Sunday afternoon. Mrs. I. R. Kilby was hostess to the Sperryville Bridge Club at her home on Friday night. Guests were o News around WoodviUe (t Dr. Rollon 0. Bonedelid of Selbyv(Ue, Del., recently spent a week with his son and daughter-in-law Tim and Louise Bonedelid, enroute to,Texas. On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Willis III of Winchester were guests of. Mrs. H. B. Winfrey and Mrs. F$ank Brown. Visiting Sunday were Mr. mid Mrs. Jack Dellinger of Alexandria and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Spicer of Richmond. " Steve Hopkins of Richmond visited Mr. and Mrs. Maurice O’BannoA and Martha Lou O’Bannon on Saturday. Mr. Hopkins also called on Mr. arid Mrs. Ray Scott. ;0n Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Clifton By JUNE CLARK Pttonr 987-8S27 Hume of New Baltimore and Mr. and Mrs. John Williams of Culpeper were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Way land. Sue Titchenell was guest speaker at Woodville Baptist Church on Sunday. ^hristmas closings n The following businesses and county offices will have special hours during the Christmas, season: [1 The county offices will close at boon Thursday, Dec. 24 and will be loosed Dec. 25. The Rappahannock !i National Bank will also close at noon on Dec. 24 and be closed on Dec. 25 as will the Rappahannock Social Services Department. The Rappahannock Library will be closed Dec. 24, 25 and 26 and will reopen on Monday, Dec. 28. , The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Flint Hill will close at noon, Dec. 24 and will reopen Monday, Engagement Announced (j Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Williams |(jf Chester Gap^epreud to announce the.jmgagementof,their; daughter Norma Jean to Gregory Allen Settle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Settle, also of Chester Gap. The bride-to-be is employed as a secretary for the People’s National Bank in Warrenton. Mr. Settle is employed as an inspector for the highway department in_Fairfax. An April 16, 1988 wedding is planned. Joy to the World May the Spirit of Christmas be felt in every heart and home. I COUNTRYSIDE FLOOR FASHION! I Rt. 211 Amissville, Va. S37-5111 347-0400 n?»o No better time than the Holiday Season to say “thank you.** Baldwin’s Grocery Paul & Cucie Baldwin Washington, Va. 675-3383 Joy to the World May the Spirit of Christnms be felt in every heart and home. B&B SCRVICC CCMTCfll Rt 211 West, Washington, Virginia . turn As always, our staff is ready and waiting to serve customers and friends in every possible way. Sperryville Emporium (703)987-8235 & Parkway Gift Shop (703)987-8144 Spenyville. Va. Mrs. Dale Metzinger, Mrs. C. E. Johnson Jr., Mrs. W. H. Cordle, Mrs. T. J. Pillar, Mrs. Ulrich Maeyer, Mrs. Brown Miller and Mrs. N. K. G. Tholand. Prize winners were Mrs. Cordle, Mrs. Maeyer, Mrs. Tholand, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Miller. Mrs. Eleanor D. Brown, formerly a resident of the F. T. Valley, recently visited in the county and stayed overnight with her sister-inlaw Mrs. Mabel Gore of Barlow. Also staying for the night were Mrs. Gore’s niece Mrs. Elizabeth Williams of Ashland and her nephew Maury W. Brown Jr. and Ms. Suzanne Way of San Antonio, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lyne and their granddaughter Katherine Warren of Western Maryland College, Westminister, Md., were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. David Lyne and daughters Heather and Peachey in Warrenton. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wayland visitied Mr. and Mrs. Lester Deal in Sperryville Thursday. Tom Wiles will be guest speaker at the Woodville Baptist Church at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 20. Bob and Pat Maldoven of Windy Run Farm hosted their annual Christmas family reunion recently. Those attending were Nick and Ruth Ellen Maldoven of Alliance, Ohio, Jerry, Pat, Kim and Craig Maldoven of Myrtle Beach, S.C., Cathy, Jeff, Rick and Greg Behneke of Springfield, Terry Maldoven of Alexandria, Tricia, Bosie and Puffy Maldoven of Arlington. Friends who joined them for the day were Michael Post and Lisa Tyson, both of Springfield. Happy Holidays to all! Dec. 28. The Family Guidance Services will be closed Dec. 25. In case of an emergency, clinic staff may be reached by calling 675-3329. Rappahannock public schools will close at 2 p.m! on Tuesday, Dec. 22 and will reopen for regular school hours on Monday, Jan. 4. The Rappahannock News Will have an early advertising and editorial deadline of noon, Monday, Dec. 21. The deadline for advertising in the Horse & Farm Directory will be Friday, Dec. .18 at noon. Combo advertising will have a deadline of Friday at 3 p.m. The Rappahannock News offices will close at 3 p.m. Dec. 24 and will reopen -for regular -business hours Dec. 28.* .VV i- | Viewtown area news By MRS. GLADYS D0DS4 NS FU 9S7-MM Walter Reid and Acrey Dodson have returned to their homes after being patients at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton. Both are doing nicely. Mrs. Alice Grigsby of Flint Hill, Miss Wendy Hawkins and Glenn Dodson of Manassas and Mrs. Barbara Settle were weekend guests of .Mr. and Mrs. Acrey Dodson. Roger Hitt has been on the sick list for the past several days. We wish him a speedy recovery. ‘Trees’ class at Montpelier “Trees in Winter,” a four-week class, will be taught at Montpelier by Theodore G. Scott beginning Thursday, Jan. 28, and each successive Thursday through Feb. 18 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The charge for the course is $25. Participants will have the opportunity to hike Montpelier’s 2,700 acres during the field trips on Feb. 6, 13 and 20 from 9 a.m. until noon. Montpelier has been described by landscape architects as a “tree museum” as the property contains a number of unusual specimen trees, including the Cedars of Lebanon, thought to have been planted by President J ames Madison. The course, which focuses on tree identification, is taught in the winter when the trees are not obscured by their leaves. “The Tree Identification Book,” the required text for the class, can be purchased at the time of registration. Mr. Scott, a noted Orange naturalist, serves on the board of the Piedmont Environmental Council and volunteers as an environmental sciences teacher in Orange, Clarke and Culpeper school districts. For information and registration please call Montpelier, (703) fi72 SALE STARTS FRIDAY, 18 December BOYS AND GIRL’S JACKETS AND SNOWSUITS V2 OFF Month sizes through toddlers 4T GROUP OF BOYS AND GIRLS JACKETS AND SNOWSUITS 30% OFF Sizes 4-6 and 7-14 SELECTED GROUP OF DRESSES 30% OFF am sizes ana young juniors Starting Friday December 18th. We will be open from 9:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m. every day except Sunday [ Christmas Eve 9:30-5:30 207 Southgate Shopping Center, Culpeper, VA 825-2010 JACK & JILL SHOP 207 Southgate Shopping Center, Culpeper, VA 825-2010 May your Holiday Season be decorated with the laughter of children, the warm glow of friends and family, rnd the gift of peace. 7/ Maddox y Funeral Home 05 West Main Street, Front Royal HE DEPENDABLE WHITING f CULPEPER. V/RG/R/A ■■■■■■■■MM v-v Obituaries Joseph Fray Joseph Benton Fray of Madison died bee. 13 at Mountain View Nursing Home. He was bom Dec. 10,1894, son of late John D. Fray and Florence Jackson Fray. He is survived by his wife Mary Temple Hill Fray, his sons, Joseph Jackson Fray and John Temple Fray, daughters-in-law, Judy Ann Fray and Patricia W. Fray, grandchildren, Dana Temple Fray and Mary Florence Fray, and stepgrandchildren, John William Clarke and Catherine Susan Clarke. He also leaves his sisters, Florence Jackson Fray and Mary Ellen Fray. Another sister Anne Hester Fray and a brother Dr. John H. Fray predeceased him. Mr. Fray served as deputy treasurer and treasurer of Madison County for 50 years, and was a past president of the Virginia Treasurers Association, a charter member of Madison County Volunteer Fire Department, Madison Chamber of Commerce and Madison Lions Club. He was a graduate of Warwick High School and attended Roanoke College. Mr. Fray was a lifelong active member of Hebron Lutheran Church, Madison, where his funeral was conducted Dec. 15. Interment was at the church cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Madison County Fire Department or the Madison County Rescue Squad. Roger Williams Roger Jackson Williams, 54, of The Plains, died Dec. 8 in Prince William Hospital, following a heart • attack. Mr. Williams owned Piedmont Lumber Company at The Plains and was a former member of The Plains Town Council. A veteran of the Korean War, he was a member of American Legion Post 295, Middleburg, and of the Fauquier Springs Country Club. Mr. Williams is survived by his wife Charlotte, a daughter Teresa J. Williams, Marshall, his mother Mrs. Pearlie Sisk Williams, The Plains, a brother Robert T. Williams, Newport News, and a sister Ernestine Ball, Annandale. His father Andrew Williams predeceased him. A graveside service was conducted Dec. 10 at Ivy Hill Cemetery, Upperville. Memorial contributions may be made to The Plains Rescue Squad. Stop smoking clinic set Quitting smoking will be the focus of an American Lung Association of Northern Virginia's Stop Smoking Clinic, to be held from 7-9 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Alexandria, 2932 King Street, Alexandria on Jan. 5, 7,11 and 14. Featuring films, relaxation training, group support as well as individual attention, the clinic is staffed by a health educator and several ALANV volunteers who are successful ex-smokers. Using a positive, behavior-change approach that teaches smokers how to become smoke-free, the clinic is offered at a The Plains Pharmacy Home Health Equipment (800)237-5717 The Plains, VA cost of $20 per registrant, which is not relundable. Pre-registration is required byDec. 31. Since space is limited and clinic attendees will be asked to complete a smoker’s rating exercise at least 48 hours in advance of the first meeting date, those planning to attend are urged to register early by calling (703) 591-4131. The Final Tribute CLORE FUNERAL HOME , “The Home «f Thot^htfnl Service” Phone 825-2361 Culpeper CEMETERY MEMORIALS CHOOSE SCUT A BEAUTIFUL WHITE PINE Christmas Tree at Moose Hill Farm Slate Mills Complimentary hot cider and cookies. Thousands of carefully shaped trees to choose from. Directions: From Warrenton Rt 211 west to Sperryville, Rt 522 south to Woodville, right on Route 618 continue straight ahead at intersection of Rt 607,5 miles to Moose Hill Farm on right Open Weekends 9 a.m. until dark Other times by appointment 703-987-8271 Mary & Barney O'Meara CHRISTMAS SPECIALS! All rings available in Emerald, Ruby and Saphire. Emerald stones add 10% on to cost. LADIES RINGS AND ACCESSORIES •9950 \ Without Chain *89™ *129" Black Onyx •5950 $79*° $79*° I •9950 I ,14950 •179«> 0795° •4950 Hour*: Mon.-Thur*. 9:00-5:30 Fri. 9:00-8:00 Sat. 9:00-5:00 Custom Jewelry Work and Repair 118 North Main Street • Culpeper, Va. 825-0011

Making lihnstmas candy By SANDRA RICHARDSON Extension Agent, Home Economics There is something special about homemade Christmas candy. To young and old alike, it symbolizes thoughtfulness and love. A candy thermometer takes away much of the anxiety of overcooking and undercooking connected with candy making. Since temperature is the key to successful candy making, by merely . varying the temperature one can make five kinds of candy using the 'same ingredients. There are five stages based on heat that are used in candy making. The type of candy determines the stage. • Soft ball (232-240 degrees F.) fondant • Firm ball (242-248 degrees F.) caramels • Hard ball (250-260 degrees F.) taffy • Soft crack (270-290 degrees F.) butterscotch • Hard crack (300-310 degrees F.) lollypops It is no old wives’ tale that weather affects candy making success. The ideal weather is dry, fair and cool, day or night. If it snows or rains on the day that you plan to make candy, it will have to be cooked a little longer to compensate for the bad weather. To select a candy most symbolic of Christmas is almost impossible. It’s like the old saying: “It’s in the eye of the beholder.” Following are a variety of candies. Let’s hope one of them is your favorite. Almond Paste 1/4 cup water or orange juice 1/2 cup sugar 1 cup blanched almonds, divided 1/8 teaspoon almond extract (op tional) Combine liquid, sugar, and 1/2 cup of the almonds in blender container. Blend smooth on high speed, add half the remaining almonds and blend smooth again. Add remaining nuts and blend well. Stop motor and scrape sides of container when necessary. Add 1/8 teaspoon almond extract if desired. Yield: 1 Vi cups. Almond Paste is the basis for miniature candy fruits called marzipan. To prepare these, mix a beaten egg white, 1 cup of almond paste, and 1 to 2 cups of powdered sugar to make a dough stiff enough to handle. Refrigerate overnight. Shape into miniature fruits and vegetables; color with food coloring. Divinity 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup white com syrup 1/2 cup boiling water 2 egg whites, beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Cherries or nuts (optional) Combine sugar, com syrup, and water. Cook over moderate heat until it spins a thread when dropped from a spoon. Gradually add to the beaten egg whites, beating all the while. Add vanilla and beat until candy loses its gloss and stands in peaks. Drop by teaspoons onto waxed paper. Top with cherries or nuts, if desired. Yield: 114 pounds. EXTRA LOW FOOD LION PRICES! hole Or Shank Portio i SMOKED 09- I “Average Food Lion Grade A Basted TOM TURKEYS 45c ■Ww Lb. Food Lion Grade A f Basted Hen Turkeys 49« Large Assorted FRUIT BASKETS ^ 10-14 Lbs Lb. ^ . x ^ — — Avg. Starting At Custom Made ik. r In-Sheil English Walnuts.1 Lb. Bag .99 J5 $499 it ” Custo The Perfect Gift Anyone & Can Use! m ^ GIFT v CERTIFICATES Available At All Food Lion Stores Pkg. o! 6 • 16 Oz. NR Bottles • PepsiFree, Diet Pepsi, Diet Pepsi-Free RC $179 6 -18 Oz. NR Bottles • Cherry RC, Diet Rite, Diet RC, Diet Cherry RC rc 89* 2 Liter • Cherry RC, Wet RC, Diet Rite, 7-IIp, Wet 7-llp, Cherry 7-Up, Diet Cherry 7-Up, Dr. Pepper, Diet Dr. Pepper Pkg. of 12 • 12 Oz. Cans • Reg. & Lt. Folger’s Flaked Coffee Blue Bonnet Margarine Bonnet Wise Snacks 6.5 Oz. ■ Reg./Ridgie Potato Chips 8 Oz. • Puffed & Crunchy Cheese Doodles.99 ‘WTOS1 69< 15 Oz. • Whtte/Yellow/Butter/ Devils Food 616 Waterloo Road. Towne Center. Warrenton 340 Remount Road. Gateway Plaza Shopping Center. Front Royal 6 Oz. - Frozen Butter Mints 4T. butter 1 lb. confectioner's sugar 8 drops oil of peppermint 2T. cold water Melt butter; mix ingredients together. Knead until smooth. Or place all ingredients in a food processor. Shape dough and allow to air r dry. . ' ’ Pralines 1 box brown sugar 3 cups broken pecan meats 1/2 stick butter or margarine 1/3 cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla extract , Combine first 4 ingredients in heavy saucepan. Cook to 240 degrees or soft ball stage. Removp from heat; add vanilla and stir Untjl mixture begins to lose its gloss. Drop small portions onto waxed paper. Work fast, keeping the saucepan over a warm sur&ce while; dropping the pralines. Yield: £. pounds. • ' ' | Caramels 1/2 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup dark corn syrup 2 cups whipping cream, divided 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 pound shelled pecans Put butter, sugar, syrup and 1 cup whipping cream ifr heavysauoepan and bring to a quick boil. .Add': second cup of cream, turn heat down, and cook to 242 degrees on candy thermometer, stirring occa* sionally. Add vanilla and pecans and pour into a buttered pan. Place in refrigerator when cool and cut into squares the next day. Yield: 1V4 pounds. Hawaiian Fudge 2Vz cups sugar 1 cup rich milk or cream 1 small can crushed pineapple, drained 1 cup pecans, chopped ; Few drops green food coloring ~ Combine sugar, milk and pineapple. Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook until mixture reaches softball stage. Remove from heat and add pecans and coloring. Let cool slightly, then beat until creamy. Pour into greased pan; cool. Cut into squares. White Chocolate Fudge 2 cups sugar 3/4 cup sour cream 1/2 cup margarine 12 oz. white chocolate, coarsely chbpped., , 1.Y-das.jarmarsnmaUowfcrerteS/4 cup eh<^>pbd Wfilnuts't ; 3/4 cup chbpped dftbti apricots7 Combine sugar, sour cream and > margarine in heavy 2Vz to 3 quart saucepan; bring to full rolling boi, stirring constantly. Continue boilin $ 7 minutes over medium heat or unt 1 candy thermometer reaches 234 d< - grees, stirring constantly to prevei t scorching. Remove from heat; stir in choc ilate until melted. Add remaining ii tgredients; beat until well blended. Pour into greased 8 or 9 in< h square baking pan. Cool at roos ri temperature; cut into square;. Makes 2V4 pounds. Never Fail Fudge 3 cups sugar 1/3 cup white corn syrup 4 3/4 cup milk Almost 1/2 cup margarine, cut into pieces 3 ounces unsweetened, chocolate, cut into pieces « . T. 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup nuts, chopped (optional) ] Combine all ingredients, except vanilla and nuts, in a saucepan. Stir over low heat until all is melted. Turn heat to high; bring to full bop, stirring constantly, ami cook one minute only. Remove from heat add add vanilla. Beat with mixer until mixture loses its shine to attain proper hardening consistency. A<id nuts if desired. Pour into buttered 9x12 pan and cut into one-inch squares when firm. Yields approximately nine dozen pieces. "Delicious, smooth and creamy!” White Peanut Butter Fudge * 1 lb. box confectioners sugar ; Pinch of salt 1/2 c. milk j 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar 1 tsp. vahpla 12 oz. jar peanut butter 7 oz. jar marshmallow creme I Combine sugar, salt, cream of tartar and millc in saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook 6-8 minutes. Remoye from heat, add vanilla, peanut butter and marahmallow creme. (These ingredients should be well blended before adding tb boiled mixture.) Quickly stir and pour into buttered 9 x 9 inch pan. Cool; cut. Microwave Quickie Fudge - 1 lb. confectioners sugar ' 1/Zc. cocoa 1/4 c. milk 1/2 c. margarine 11. vanilla 1/2 c. nuts (chopped) - Blend sugar and cocoa in 8x8x12 inch glass dish. Pour in milk. Place margarine on top. Microwave on ftd) power for 2 minutes or until marga* rine is melted. Stir well to mix all in* gredients. Add vanilla and nnts and blend. Place in freezer for 20 tnih* (See CANDY, p. 15)

Rappahannock Journal -- / native American greens By BUCK KLINE Rappahannock Ncwi Contributing Writer Christmas traditionally means decorating our homes, businesses, and communities to celebrate a special time of year. Much of the time bur decoration centers around the hse of greenery. For example, Christmas trees, sprigs of mistletoe, and boughs of evergreens such as pine and holly are used. The dark green leaves and bright red berries thake the American holly ideal for Christmas decoration.^ Although there are 400 species in the holly family, American holly is the most commonly known in our county. Most of the other species are found, throughout the rest of the world. Holly species can be found growing in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, as well as the Americas. : . American holly ia most easily identified by its smooth, shiny, dark green leaves. The leaves are also pricked with a sharp spine. Broadleaved evergreens are rarely found outside of the tropics. The red berries are a good feature for identification too. Holly is one of the few trees •which have both male and female plants. The red berries are found only on the female trees. To insure that the red berries develop, a male tree should be planted within 100 feet. Otherwise, the bees and insects may not fully pollinate it. These red berries, which are eaten by some songbirds, ripen in September or October and persist throughout the winter. Holly is usually not a large tree. It is very slow growing, but it is long lived. This long life has enabled some trees to reach heights of more than 100 feet. The state champion in Virginia is located near Farmville and is 68 feet tall and 9 Va feet in circumference. Holly will reach its greatest size at low altitudes and in cool, moist sites. Also known as Christmas holly, the tree boughs have been widely sought after to sell on the market. Some areas have experienced probIgms with . vandals. In urban areas, the holly-.tersee hav^,become scarce ^due to overharvesting.; May this Blessed Event yield Peace and Hope to all mankind. WASHINGTON CASH STORE WASHINGTON, VA 675-3514 Merry Christmas from Skip, Kauty, Katie, Skippy, Pot & Adam Our pleasure is always to serve this community and it’s people. E. G. Hackley Groceries - Dry Goods Feed - Hardware Amissville 937-5373 The tree’s popularity is well documented in our country’s history. Holly was a favorite in colonial gardens and yards. In fact, many old housesites can today be identified by a lone, large holly. George Washington was a holly enthusiast. He kept entries in his diary concerning his holly gardening. Washington transplanted many from the surrounding woods to his home at Mount Vernon. He also received two barrels of holly seed from his brother John and a number of holly seedlings from the father of Robert E. Lee. Washington used these seeds and seedlings for planting the South Semicircle at Mount Vernon. Today, 13 of these trees remain. Because of the tree’s usually small size, it does not produce a great deal of lumber. The wood is harder than black locust. The hard, pale, even-grained wood is ideal for taking dyes. Much of the black and white inlaid lines in musical instruments and furniture is holly. Being hard, it can also be used for all sorts of turnery, knife handles, and dyed black for piano keys. Because of the whiteness and even texture, engravers prize it for their art work. Although small in size, the American holly is not small in character. (Buck Kline is the Area Forester for Rappahannock County. Residents with forestry-related questions can contact Mr. Kline at his office in Madison, Virginia Department of Forestry, P.O. Box 148, Madison, mYA.$2727, or call H8-53UI ■) Call 675-3349 to place your ad __ Rappahannock News phouVCindy Mahan KAAC S FRIENDS gave a benefit recently for the non-profit organization. After dinner, Linda Orfilla and Charlie Tompkins provide entertainment. Market (Continued from Page 3) ready,” Ms. Haase said. “And from time to time, I’ll do a sheet of recipes featuring one of the more unusual items we have in the Market. Then someone who has never eaten nori (dried seaweed) may get interested enough to try it, and those who already like it may find a new way of fixing it.” Ms. Haase will give discounts on bulk orders of anything from clam chowder to pignolia nuts, and she encourages customers to make suggestions on items they would like to see stocked at Mountain Side Market. “I want the store to meet the needs of this community,” she emphasized. “I’m very open to getting what people want.” Witfc its handsome wood floors, Hwim mantels Over the two downstair fireplaces, pine shelves and flowered wallpaper to match the curtains, Mountain Side Market is a long way from the impersonal die cast markets of suburbia. The cozy, CHOOSE & COT Christmas Trees Spring Hill Tree Farm Specializing in White Pines OPEN DAILY Aileen & Keeton Barnes Directions: Rt. 622 North, 1 mile from 211, Gid Brown Hollow. Watch for signs. Also: Wreaths & Garland 703-987-8619 comfortable atmosphere comes, in part, from its dual use; downstairs, it’s a store and upstairs, it’s a home for Ms. Haase and her daughter Jessica. “It’s important for us that this be a nice place. We live here!” Ms. Haase added, laughing. “We want shopping at Mountain Side Market to be like shopping in a country home.” Mountain Side Market on Gay Street in the Town of Washington is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Saturday from noon until 5. American Red Cross Best of everything to you. HILLSDALE GROCERY Rt. 211 Near Massie’s Corner 675-3115 Come Visit SANTA Every Saturday 10:00 - 4:00 Also look at our beautiful selection of live & cut Christmas Trees, Wreaths and Roping. Fraser Fir Colorado Blue Spruce Norway Spruce Scotch Pine White Pine ABERDEEN GREEN A Landscape Garden Center Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 - 8:00 p.m. Saturday MO ajn. • 6:00 p.m.. Sunday 12:00 noon - 5:00 pju. 825-5000 Park pass an ideal gift Shenandoah National Park Acting Superintendent Gerald W. Tays is suggesting a special “stocking stuffer” for Christmas gift-giving this year. “I can’t think of a better bargain, nor a more useful and appreciated gift, than either a Golden Eagle Pass or a Shenandoah Pass, Mr. Tays said. For those who wish to shop by mail, Mr. Tays suggests that checks or money ordersjjifmade out to “Department ofjke Interior-NPS” and be sent tyr Shenandoah National Park, Rt. 4, Box 348, Luray, Va. 22835. ♦*♦*♦»♦*♦*♦*♦*♦* May every moment of your Holiday Season be filled with good cheer. 90 BARBER O SHOPS Polly, Tammy, & John 703-987-8146 k * A A A A A •j. ▲ A it, Council (Continued from Page 1) ordinance for rental property, but directed the town Planning Commission to consider such an ordinance. The council struggled with ways to assure that outstanding water bills would be paid in cases where the tenant leaves the property and cannot be found. The council’s feeling was that the landlord becomes responsible for the Unpaid bill. In cases where the property is sold with an unpaid water bill, several members suggested that a lien be put on the property. Town attorney Franklin Reynolds told the council that there may be an existing state law making this an automatic lien. He agreed to find out if this was the case. Meanwhile, the mayor said that he would request that local attorneys and realtors determine if there are unpaid water MQs before closing a sale. In other business, the council: • Agreed to put up the town tree, possibly buying a live tree, using town employee Ray Pullen with possible help from prisoners at the county jail. Mr. Wickens agreed to supervise. • Directed Mr. Fisher to reimburse Ray Pullen for mileage at his discretion. Mr. Pullen uses his personal vehicle while doing work for the town. • Gave Mr. Fisher permission to proceed with alterations to the town hall that would make it suitable for storage of town equipment, at a cost not to exceed $2,000. • Confirmed that the fees paid foi services of the county’s zoning administrator and building inspector go to the county; and • Proposed the names of Ruth Critzer, Charlie Eldred, Carol Frizzel, and Nina Norman be submitted to Judge Robertson as candidates for the BZA. After the executive session, the council reconvened in open session and approved the minutes. May a joy-filled holiday walk right up to your door. Thank you friends. Greetings from Elmer and Martha Atkins ELMER’S CIDER MILL & ANTIQUES RL 651 SpwtyvM* Christmas Day May the spirit of Christmas surround us all and lot the deep meaning of this great holiday remain within our hearts. CLORE FUNERAL HOME “The Home of Thoughtful Service” Phone 825-2361 Culpeper

Sports and Outdoor Life Rappahannock News photos/Cindy Mahan rHE PANTHER VARSITY basketball team, 1987. Front row, from left: Julian Groves, Daniel Roy, Daniel Ellis, Mark Butler, Tony Clark, Mike Dearing. Back row, from left: Coach Gary Leake, Wesley Jenkins, Eric Dunn, Doug Smith, Butch Foster, Anthony Porter, Mike Payne, Carroll Frye, Manager Scotty Tummeyer. Not pictured is Greg Smith. RCHS PANTHER JV, 1987. Front row, from left: Shan Groves, Paul Hitt, Carlin Yeager, Paul' Butler, Bill Atkins, Jason Butler, Kenneth Baldwin. Back row, from left: Tony Atkins, Toby' Waterbury, James Roy, Dearl Cloud, Zack Allen, John Woodward, Benji Roy, Phillip Daczewitz. Budget (Continued from Page 3) the children participate in these ‘rolling chapels.’ It will be very difficult for a teacher to go on with instruction with only one, two or five children left, but I think you must insist on that and require those who miss the class to make up the work. If you don’t, you’ll be letting them preempt the educational program that’s supposed to goon here.” She added that teachers must also be cautioned against castigating the children who don’t participate in Bible study classes. “It’s happened elsewhere - teachers asking, ‘What’s wrong with your parents? Why won’t they let you go?’.” Infectious disease policy Tabled until next month is a proposed change in the policy governing communicable disease. The current policy states that children with contagious diseases will be removed from school. But this approach has been challenged and overturned by the courts in some states, Dr. Gangel told the board, adding that School Board attorney Phillip Stone and others have suggested that Rappahannock’s policy be revised. Mirroring the recommendation of the Vir ginia School Boards Association, the proposal submitted on Tuesday states: “If a student contracts a contagious or infectious disease that is transmittable through airborne means or through physical contact, the principal will notify the parent/guardian to immediately remove the student from the school setting. “The principal will require that the student be examined by the public health doctor or nurse and/or private physician. A committee of the principal, the assistant superintendent, and the public health official will convene in a timely manner to review the medical report to determine when the student may return to school and /or alteration of educational services ..." Pre-Holiday Sale! $1°° Christmas Tree* or $1°° Bed Frame* S'. THE MISER’S MATTRESS l DISTRIBUTORS "Roll-Aways" In stock now for Holiday Guests VISIT THE CHRISTMAS TREE LOT NEXT DOOR! •With purchase of matching set at Winchester store only. Offer good while supplies last. Good on $15 trees; bed frame values from $29.99 to $59.99. Not valid with other offers. Trees must be taken or picked up by the customer. •IMMEDIATE DELIVERY *FREE REMOVAL OF ALL ON MOST BEDDING OLD BEDDING Come to the — LOWEST PRICE ^ in Town We Accept All Major Credit Cards 90 Days Same as Cash (Or Take Up to 36 Months to Pay) SOMMAj WINCHESTER 1869 Pleasant Valley Road Winchester, Virginia 665-1813 or Toll Free 1-800-222-0831 Mon. - Fri. 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. HOURS: Sat. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sun. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. RCHS sports schedule The winter sports season is getting under way at Rappahannock County High School. The following games are scheduled for the coming week: Boys Basketball Friday, Dec. 18: Brentsville at Brentsville HS. JV game begins at 6 p.m., Varsity follows. Monday, Dec. 21: Page Co. HS at RCHS. JV game begins at 6 p.m., Varsity follows. Girls Volleyball Saturday, Dec. 19: Jamboree at Manassas Park. Game begins at 10 a.m. Admission prices for the public to RCHS winter sports events are as follows: Varsity and JV basketball, $2.50; Varsity and JV volleyball, $1.50; 8th grade boys basketball, $1. For farther information about RCHS sports events, call the high school at 987-8575. Professional Sales Opportunity To better serve the increased demand for new and used cars and trucks. Jim Stutzman Chevrolet-Cadillac is seeking a person with particular personality traits. One who may currently be employed, but who wants a more promising future than their present work offers. JSCC is one of Winchester's fastest growing auto dealerships. If you are a self achiever and would like to join our highly trained professional sales staff — We Want You! Our requirements are high, but so are the personal and financial rewards offered. The person selected for this position will receive salary, commissions, a company car. and attractive fringe benefits. A pension plan is included after a reasonable waiting period. Salary will be paid while you go through an intensive training program conducted by our experienced management team. For additional information Call Now — (703) 667-1000 Ask for Jim Stutzman, Jr. or Mickey Halon — OR WRITE — Jim Stutzman Chevrolet 2700 Valley Avenue Winchester, VA 22601 MAYHUGH'S STORES THE STORES WITH PERSONALITY "Smaller than a Mall, but we've almost got it ALL!" SPECIALS THIS WEEK Gwaltney Bacon.ni>. $1.39 Field Trial High Protein Dog Food...sort*.$8.49 Free Cup of Coffee with $8.00Minimum Purchase of Gas COME IN AND PICK YOUR LUCKY NUMBER WIN PRIZES | NOW TIL DEC, 24 t Try our homemade CHILI Special order on KEG BEER Hardware • Fireworks Gas • Diesel • Kerosene -LOCATIONSNew Baltimore 347*1252 Midland 788-4110 Amissville (Hunting Lie. & Check Station) 937-5586 Greenwich (Hunting Lie.) 754-4319

rAN I HER PARTISANS give the team a rousing pep rally before the players left on an early season road tnp. v 3 3 “anthers off to hot court start The Rappahannock Panthers traveled to Manassas Park on Tuesday and showed the home team the door, controlling the entire game and returning to Rappahannock with a 75-39 win. Coach Gary Leake said that the Panthers dominated the entire contest, jumping off to an early lead and Opening it up even further as the feame progressed. “We took the {rame to them,” Coach Leake said, find the Cougars never managed to regroup and return the attack. ; Coach Leake said that the Panthers were quite a bit bigger than the Manassas Park team, and he adnitted that the Cougars were obviously smarting from the loss of several of their outstanding senior players, who earned the team a Statewide No.2 rating before last gear’s competition began. [ And, sure enough, Manassas fark ended up in the district championship game last season after dealing the Panthers a tough loss in the Bull Run playoffs. Along the tvay, however, Manassas Park was dealt a surprise, upset loss when the team visited Rappahannock, as the underdog Panthers pulled out an overtime win in what veteran basketball fans described as one of the woi&exeiting contcsta.they.bad e ve*,. iieen. a. f Tuesday night, tttaeh Leake ' f said, the contest was entirely different — no contest. “They were unable to counter our game; we controlled the game inside, and they couldn’t stop the fast break.” With that strategy, the Panthers scored 43 points in the second half alone. On the offense for Rappahannock, Eric Dunn and Butch Foster led the attack. Dunn contributed 27 points and Foster sank an additional 12, while scooping up 15 rebounds. On the defensive end of the court, Mike Dearing, Wesley Jenkins and Julian Groves kept the lid on the Manassas Park attack. Dearing and Jenkins added six and five points, respectively. Coach Leake praised the efforts of Groves, a sophomore who won a starting berth, then held Manassas Park’s leading scorer to seven points on the night. “I was very pleased with our balanced scoring attack,” the coach said. “This team has a lot of depth this year, and I’m satisfied with the amount of teamwork that they put out at this point in the season.” He noted that of the 14 players suited up for Tuesday’s game, all 14 played and all scored. “That’s a very positive note. It’s a mark of a complete team effort and win.” The victory Tuesday brings the J^ntfciess. to, 2-0 jin Buy JRun District competition, having defeated Clarke County (also on the road) last week 66-58. In that game, Eric Dunn pumped in 32 points, while Mike Dealing contributed 12 and Anthony Porter added another 10. “These were two very important road wins,” Coach Leake said. He pointed out that the Bull Run District this year is evenly matched, with “four or five” teams capable of ending up with the district title. “The team that picks up the wins on the road is going to end up with the district title,” he predicted. “It’s good to get those wins under our belts; if we can get three district road wins before the Christmas break, we’ll use the holiday break to iron out a few wrinkles and then have a big plus going into the January schedule.” Compared to last year, Coach Leake said the team plans a different strategy. “Last season, there were a couple of important games to focus on. This year, the strategy is that the most important game is the next one. That’s going to be our philosophy, and I hope that it will Carry us through.” The Panthers hit the road again Friday against Brentsville. Their next home game is Monday, Dec. 21 when Rappahannock faces Page Co. JV action begins at 6 p.m., with the ; varsity following afterward.<■.. -• ■ « 'u «■» <*?'■' Blaze orange law cuts accidents If early reports to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries are believed, the state’s new mandatory blaze orange law is saving lives. Although this big game hunting season has not been entirely fotility-free, casualties are down compared to recent years. During the first three weeks of firearms deer season, the Virginia Game Commission had reports of 24 accidents involving firearms, with four fatalities. During the same period in 1986, game wardens reported 88 hunting accidents with seven natalities. Of the four fatal accidents so for this year, the commission said, only two were caused by hunters being mistaken for game. Neither victim, a commission spokesman stressed, was wearing Maze orange when he was shot. In the other two fatalities, one oceured when a hunter was shot by someone else shooting at a turkey while he was in the line of fire, and the fourth was self-inflicted when the hunter fell out of a tree. In the non-fotal accidents, 19 of the 20 did not involve hunters being mistaken for game. In that one remaining case, the victim again was not wearing blaze orange when he was shot. By comparison, in 1986, six of the year’s seven fatalities resulted when the victim was mistaken for game. An additional eight non-fatal accidents had the same cause. None of the victims of the fatal shootings was wearing blaze orange. Three of the eight non-fatal shooting victims were wearing blaze orange; however, one accident occurred after dark and in the other two cases the victim was in heavy cover when shot. Overall, the commission is reporting a 37 percent decrease in the total number of firearms-related hunting accidents during the fust three weeks of firearms deer season. In the category "mistaken for game,” accidents are down by 79 percent and fatalities have decreased by 67 percent. Baker named administrator William D. Doeller, president of the Fauquier Hospital board of trustees, has announced the appointment of Rodger H. Baker as administrator of the hospital. Mr. Baker has served Fauquier Hospital during the precedingten yeare jM assistant administrator.':* ; MEifflr YULETIDE To all our friends and customers, have a beautiful Christmas. Thanks. Darlene Moore, Hairstylist, Owner Kim Burke, Operator The Beauty Box Washington, Va. 675-3403 A wealth of good wishes we send you at this most Joyous Season. Thanks to all. BURKE’S STORE Richie, Kim, Molly Rick, Ann, Mabel Woodville, Va. presents A NEW YEAR’S EVE GALA Early Eve Buffet $10.95 p.p. 5:00-7:30 p.m. or Dine and Dance The Night Away 8:00 p.m. till ???? • 47 95 per couple Dinner • Prime Rib or Grilled Salmon Dancing • The Cavaliers of Charlottesville Door Prizes • Party favors • Split of Champagne Continental Breakfast after Midnight .Enjoy Southern Hospitality at its finest ■ Stay over • Special Room Rates from 30.00 Inquire about irur Special Christmas Ete anJ Ski Packages available this Winter For Reservations lr703-743-5105 401 W. Main Street Luray, Va. 22835 MSfei_ I CUSTOM VERTICAL BLINDS I 357© OFF through Docombor 31M Guaranteed Satisfaction and Savings. • Hundreds of louver colors, patterns and textures. Fabrics in weaves, tweeds, velours and more. Curved PVC's, aluminum macrames, suedes, etc. • Big, little or odd windows, sliding doors—we'N measure and install. Guaranteed. • Heavy duty headrail Even spacing, 180* rotation, center-split or one-way draw. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 to 5 Saturday 10 to 4 220 S. Loudoun St. WINCHESTER. VA. °^%WWittu (703)667-0574 HURRICANE LAMPS I Hand Blown • Hand Painted In a variety of sizes, colors, and styles. Made in U.S.A. £ Other Tasteful Gifts . . . Wooden and Brass Floor Lamps Marble & Brass Floor & Table Lamps *v Classy Brass Desk Lamps f Children's Lamps ‘The Lighting Center ■ 403 E. Main St., Downtown Front Royal s DIAMOND JEWELRY 1/3 OFF All Keepsake Diamonds 55% D OFF 14 Kt Gold 50% Chains OFF All Wedding 25% Bands OFF 25% DISCOUNT on Silverplated Holloware 101 N. Loudoun Street, Winchester • 662-6444 I nappanannocK News pnoto/ctndy Mahan “HUNT ETHICALLY” is the message Seamus passes along.| Although he’s not hunting, Seamus still wears his blaze orange' whenever he’s out in the woods. The Virginia Game Commis-’ sion urges all hunters to take the Golden Retriever’s advice. USD A to pay $1.3 billion The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation will make about $1.3 billion in deficiency payments in December to eligible producers of 1987 crop wheat, barley and oats, said Thomas V. Williams Jr., chairman of the Rappahannock County ASCS Committee. Mr. Williams said the payments will be in generic commodity certificates and will be issued as soon as 'Tfimfo Warm wishes to your home from ours. It’s been a pleasure serving you. Outdoor Trading Post Etlan, Virginia 703/923-4357 possible through local offices of the USDA’s Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Eligible wheat farmers will receive about $1.2 billion and barley producers approximately $100 million. Producers may determine the exact amount of deficiency payments to which they are entitled by contacting the county ASCS office. On that night in Bethlehem, the world was Blessed with the Greatest Gift. Happy Holidays W&JGroceiy Sperryville, Va. on Rt. 231 703-987-8361 i HO!HO!HO! , [ HUSKY l ' HUSQVARN A SALE \ •' • ,/ • Mus^*ania 254 • U cii. m. S4cc — Ihe new standard ot excellence thebOcr class Excellent po.ver >o weight ratio Inertia activated chain Drake SAVE $40 SALE $379.95 mi - j.u cu in. — men;,i acitvatea cham brake pcKvt'i a! io.\ speed to.v nnise anti vibMtiO" _ swe$75 SALE $299.95 HM"anu 266 XP-4 l CU .n 67cc - 10% More Power, no more weight v _ $75 SAME SALE $505.00 QjJHusqvama The Cham Saw fVo<ess<onah For optimum performance and safety consult your owners manual. SWAN’S J.A. Swan, Jr. & Co. 201 S. East St., Culpeper 825-8371

School Helping Others Serving Always Photo courtesy of PTEC HEALTH OCCUPATIONS STUDENTS of America, PTEC Chapter 87 recently elected officers. Installed for the coming year were Kim Meadows, president; Rita Washington, vice-president; Elly Jacobs, secretary; Alice Banks, reporter; Pam Burke, parliamentarian. Pictured above are Sandy Jacobs (left), treasurer, and Stacy Cox, historian. . K * 50% OFF All Finished Ceramics 1111$ Hi ** (except Christmas items) 10% OFF All Christmas Items Baskets*CrossStitch*Wreaths9Handmade Ornaments STOREWIDE SALE Christmas Hours: Mon. & Wed. 10-5, Thurs. & Fri. 10-8 Sat. 10-5, Sun. 11-5 Closed Tuesdays <n Ceramics, Qifts & Suppfies TOO NORTH ROYAL AVE.. FRONT ROYAL (Wtlhln Sweet Mar • Next to Hardee's) 636-6887 I do not believe government can run any business as efficiently as private enterprise, and the victim of every such experiment is the public. — Thomas E. Dewey FS0QU1E& \W _ -a LIVESTOCK T™ ! EZC81NBE 'lai!? INCORPORATED Regular Sales fevery Tuesday, * 2nd Sat., 10 a.m.. Every Month STATE GRADE ’ Fi T CATTLE 1st. Tues., 1 p.m. Every Month In additioo^fotffifceguratfgales^on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, starting January 12 we will have a State Graded Feeder Cattle Sale -Consignments Welcome For further information call 364-1566 1 mile east of Marshall on Rt 55 Fanners And Merchants 5-Year CDs. A Generous Return On Your Investment Now. With a minimum deposit of $10,700. vou can't miss with a Browning pump shotgun 'tour choice of a 12 or 20 gauge. With a minimum deposit of 18,000, you can see your return several times over with a GE wireless remote VCR Vl'tih a minimum dcpoMt of *S.(HK). gel a big return wuh a Little Lition microwave W ith a minimum deposit of $15700, you won't have to hunt for a better CD. Or a belter gun than a Browning Auto- 5 Your choice of a 12 or 20 gauge With a minimum deposit of S2S.800, move into the future sooner with an Apple lie computer with software. 3S Vt ith a minimum deposit of $11,500. you'll have it easy with a remote control RCA 20" stereo color TV With a minimum ( a CD worth its weight in gold with a valuable American Eagle i Gold Coin Set. I eposil of $29,000. you get And Later. ,4> >7-V r f 8% annual interest compounded annually. IKAs noi unlink'd Substantial penalrv I»>r earl\ withdrawal With our 5-year certificate of deposit, you get a 8% rate of interest to help you live more comfortably in the future. And a valuable gift with qualifying deposits to help you live more comfortably now. Because at Farmers and Merchants, we see no reason why you can’t be enjoying your money. While you’re earning it Fanners and Merchants National Bank MAIN OFFICE WINCHESTER. VIRGINIA BERRYV1LLE • FUNT HILL • FRONT ROYAL • MIDDLETOWN • MOUNT JACKSON • NEW MARKET • STEPHENS CITY • WOODSTOCK APPLE COUNTRY’S HOME GROWN BANK Choose ‘gifts’ that bring life-long happiness For most parents, the Christmas season is a time to choose gifts that will make their children happy. Dr. Eileen Nelson, associate professor of psychology at James Madison University, suggests that Christmas is a time to contemplate some non-material gifts that not only can enhance happiness during childhood but also can help children become happy adults. “What more wonderful gifts can we give, in our all-important role as parents,” she asks, “than the lifelong ability to function as a happy person?” Since Dr. Nelson understands that “happy” has different connotations for different people, she suggests certain characteristics of a happy person based on her discussions with other parents, teachers and professionals. Happy people show responsibil-. ity, integrity and self-esteem. They are also loving and autonomous. Dr. Nelson has noticed that happy people feel good about themselves. She has developed 10 “gifts” that parents can give to help their children feel that way: 1. Responsibility: “Children need age-appropriate chores which they perform on a regular basis simply because they are contributing members of a productive family.” Chil dren become responsible only by accepting responsibility. 2. Praise: “Seize every genuine opportunity that presents itself to tell your child about a job welldone,” Dr. Nelson suggests. “Children who receive praise for their accomplishments feel good about themselves.” She adds that children should also learn to praise themselves so they won’t have to depend on others for their sense of worth. 3. Choices: “Present your children with age-appropriate choices on a daily basis,” she said. At early ages, the choices can be between two acceptable things with the parent helping the child to examine the alternatives and to imagine the possible outcomes of the choice. 4. Personal interaction: “Hug your children, kiss them and tell them you love them every day,” Dr. Nelson advises. “Set aside regular times during the day to play with your children, and talk with them.” She added that watching television together is no substitute for true interaction and communication with family members. Dr. Nelson feels that personal interaction is the most important gift of all. “The ‘I love yous’ are the biggest thing. Young people often say they wish they could express affection, but their parents didn't,” she Christmas Hours Monday-Friday 9:30-9 p.m. Saturday 9:30-6 p.m. Sunday Noon-5 p.m. 7 S. Loudoun St. Mall "Old Town" Winchester, Va. J L White Post, VA. 22663 1 mile south of Rt. 50 on Rt. 340 20 miles west of Middleburg (703) 837-1375 With the holidays approaching fast... Mt Airy (circa 1753) it’s not too soon to make reservations for that special dinner for family, friends and business colleagues. Enjoy a cocktail or glass of vintage port in our new sitting room where we will offer the 13 traditional Christmas sweets from Provpnoe. We will be open Christmas eve and New Year’s eve. For reservations, call (703) 837-1375. As always, we will take orders for Buche de Noel for a scrumptious holiday dessert. We would also like, at this time, to thank our patrons and friends for their continued support in our 6th year. ^4* Sincerely, jnnf(eep€r)(: Chef Alain <fe Celeste Borel Jfh I I r \\ I Mi I I \\ 1111 Imiim|hmii flair and lomlnnrd w illi I lit- >lienj:fh <>1 IiiliIi i«*1o*:\. N» uni ran flljo\ lilt* ll^lllv\t*i*ihl r«mill»i1 nl \i»it*ri<aV fa\orit«* limit*'*'* tranif-.. Willi llit* a"**uianrt* lh.it (lu*\ will look UauliInl lor wars lo romt*. ■ 20% off any complete pair of prescription ( I eyewear (including frame and lenses). I ft « ^Doesjjo^jglyjo another offer or package. Expires 12-31-87 | Fauquier Opticol 41 Oak Springs Plaza Warrenton, VA 22186 Next to Giant-703/349-9015 noted. “I tell them they can always start right now and tell their parents that they love them.” 5. Strengths: “To develop a strong self-concept and high self-esteem, a person needs to have a success image,” Dr. Nelson insists. “Concentrate on the things your child does well and find the special strengths others do not have. Remember, everyone is capable of doing some things very well.” She recommends showing appreciation for children’s accomplishments and keeping a record of their special successes. When defeats come, parents can point to past successes and help children set realistic goals based on past actions that produced desired results. 6. Acceptance: “Your children are important persons,” Dr. Nelson said. “Let them know this by showing them the respect of listening to what they have to say, demonstrating understanding of their thoughts and feelings and indicating your children’s right to these.” At Christmas, parents give themselves most of all. By serving as an example and by being happy adults themselves, they can help children develop their own happiness. Dr. Nelson suggests that parents can also give these gifts to themselves if they need to make up for a lack in their own childhood. It is never too late. “Giving your child a loving parent who is responsible and autonomous with integrity and high selfesteem is the very best gift;' Building? • Paint • Lumber \ • Millwork • Hardware Complete One-Step BUILDING SUPPLY WARRENTON BUILDING MATERIAL CO., INC. on the by-pass, Warrenton 347-1400 Season's BEST! Have yourself a grand and glorious Holiday. Our grateful thanks to all. Old Hollow Grocery Open 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. Rt. 211 Sperryville, Va. Real Estate ti) _ IOUh WXOXC Eileen M. Day realtor ° WHEN THE PROSPECT ARRIVES When the Realtor and prospective buyer arrive to inspect your home, here are a few points to remember: Greet them courteously, then disappear. If you can, leave the house. Don’t tag along. Your presence will inhibit free discussion, making it difficult for the Realtor to ferret out the buyer’s likes and dislikes. Avoid having too many people in the house. This can make a buyer feel like an intruder. Children and pets should be housed elsewhere during the showing. Do not try to interest the buyer in purchasing furnishings before signing the sales contract. This can ruin a transaction. After the sale is made, there will be plenty of time for such discussions. Do not discuss the terms of the sale, occupancy, or related matters with the buyer. Refer these questions to the agent. The answers given may make or break the sale. \ If there is anything we can do to help you in the field of real estate please drop in at EILEEN M. DAY, Realtor, The Clopton House, Washington, Va. 22747. Phone: 6753033. We’re here to help.

Candy (Continued from Page 10) utes or refrigerate for 1 hour. Cut ' into 1 inch squares. Store in air-tight container. Time based on 700 watt “unit. Yield: 5 dozen. Date Nut Fondant 2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 4 cups sifted powdered sugar 1 cup finely chopped nut meats 1/2 cup finely chopped pitted* .dried dates Pecan halves In a large mixing bowl, blend sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract. Gradually stir in sugar. Blend in nut meats and dates, turn into an 8x8x2-inch pan and press .evenly on bottom. Refrigerate until . firm. With sharp-bladed knife, cut into 1-inch squares. Top each piece with a pecan half. Yield: about lVfe pounds. Rum Balls 3 cups vanilla wafers, crushed 1 cup confectioners’ sugar IY2 cups nuts, finely chopped IV2 tablespoons cocoa 2 tablespoons light com syrup 1/2 cup rum Confectioner’s sugar Combine all ingredients and mix thoroughly. Form into small balls ..and roll in confectioner’s sugar. Wrap in wax paper. They freeze well. Yield: 50. “Allow flavor to mellow a few days.” Christmas Holly Candy 30 marshmallows 21. green food coloring 1/2 c. butter 11. vanilla I 3V2 c. cornflakes ’ • Combine marshmallows, food ; 'coloring, butter and vanilla in top of ‘ a double boiler. Heat over water un■ til mixture is melted, stirring fre' quently. Remove from stove. . Gradually add cornflakes. Drop by ' teaspoonfuls onto wax paper. Deco; rate with red candy (red hot cinnamon). Makes about 36 pieces. Note: Two tablespoons of wax ; added to the mixture will help candy ; set faster. To avoid having the candy ; stick to the paper, sprinkle powdered sugar on paper before dropping candy. Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their Vices and follies than not to 1 be noticed at all. ChmsTMAs It's been a pleasure to serve you. Happy Holidays. SNAPSfc* -ProprietorsBrenda Moore Karen Martinsen-Parli Horse & Outdoor Supplies Flint Hill Square Flint Hill, VA 22627 NOEL Join us as we celebrate the Birth of the Prince of Peace. PANORAMA VIDEO RENTALS At the blinking light in Sperryville ph. 987-0197 Buckeyes 1 lb. confectioner’s sugar 2 sticks margarine 1 jar peanut butter, 1 lb. 2 oz. size Mix sugar and margarine thoroughly. Add peanut butter and mix well. Chill. Shape into little balls and dip in chocolate coating. Chocolate Coating 1 bar German’s chocolate 1/3 bar paraffin Pecan halves Melt chocolate and paraffin together in top of double boiler. Roll chilled buckeyes in chocolate and place on wax paper to harden. Pecan halves may be placed on top. Date Nut Balls 1/2 c. butter or margarine 3/4 c. sugar 8 oz. pkg. chopped dates 2Vi c. crisp rice cereal 1 c. pecans, chopped Flaked coconut or powdered sugar Combine butter, sugar and dates in medium saucepan. Bring to boil; cook 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in cereal and petans; cool to touch. Shape into 1 inch balls and roll each in coconut. Yield about 4 dozen. Thawing the Christmas bird betting a frozen turkey thawed safely is the first step in preparing the holiday meal, said a Virginia Tech Extension specialist in foods and nutrition. Leave the turkey in its original plastic wrapper and place it on a tray in the refrigerator. Allow 24 hours for each five pounds of turkey. It takes nearly three days for a 15pound bird to thaw. If the turkey was not taken out of the freezer in time to use this method, or if there isn’t space in the refrigerator, there is another safe way, said the specialist, Jo Anne Barton. Place the turkey in its plastic wrapping in cold water. Change the water frequently. This method of thawing takes about half an hour per pound or almost eight hours for a 16pound bird. A microwave oven can be used to thaw a turkey. Follow the directions that come with the appliance for length of times to defrost. It is also important to turn the turkey in the microwave oven so that it will defrost evenly and not start to cook. The giblets, which are often tucked inside the body cavity, should be removed and rinsed outside the cavity, she said. Stuff the turkey just before putting it in the oven. Stuffing doesn’t have to be inside the turkey, but it can be baked in a regular baking dish in the oven. If a meat therometer is being used, insert in the thick part of the thigh so that the tip is in about the center of the meat and not touching a bone, said Ms. Barton, a member of the faculty in Tech’s College Of Human Resources. Place the turkey in an oven at between 326 and 350 degrees Fahrenheit for the length of time recommended based on the weight or until the internal temperature is 185 degrees. If the temperature drops below 325, it creates conditions that permit bacteria to grow. ■■ ■ i■ RR 217 H LAT| »Ay DAT! DEC 03 a? ta.oo VOU MAY NOW CALL CUSTOMER SERVICES UNTIL 11 P.N. DAILY. AND a A.M. TO V P.N. SATURDAY. JUST DIAL YOUR LOCAL CUSTOMER SERVICES TELEPHONE NUMBER. 2 12 07 113 SOM 00000000 M 057721207 1350 00 . i ■ ■ ■■ *?■ < * - • TMo Mil moy bo mM « any PI offloo or ovMiorUM oonootk .war.jwr'i p fl"w v wra iihp portion or p*H mtn poywont tn oncioood onvoiooo wim oaarooo ►0* MOM MFORMATION MOOT YOUR Ml AMD RC OFFBE LOCATORS SEE REVERSE ME THf OfFti ItRVRM YOU I LUTED AS COOS RET AM THM PORT OR FOR YOUR RECORDS. NAME SERVICE . LOCATION ' METERNUMIER M3 ACCOUNT BAL CURRENT BILLING FOR LO DAYS US NOV 10 ACTUAL METER READING SEP 11 ESTIMATED METER READIN ENERGY CHARGE RATE 100-R FO CUSTOMER CHARGE FUEL RATE 9 O.Q13MMOO PER KWH TEMPORARY FUEL SURCHARGE O.OOOM MARYLAND PLANT SITING TAX SURCH MAKE CHECK PAYABLE AND MAIL TO: CHARGE FOR CURRENT BILLING PERI ACCOUNT BALANCE CORRECTED BILL AHOUNT SHOWN AS TOTAL PAYNENT D ELECTRIC USAGE COMPARISON SILL PERIOD ENO DAVS USE . PERIOD i wmi k8 INFORMATION! KWH BILLINO DATE NOV 13 S? f YOUR AVERAGE COST PER DAY I 1.52 SUBJECT TO LATE PAY PENALTY OF AFTER DEC 03 S7 Sava tims. Sava gasolina. Pay your olactrlc bill by mail. Fart •< tlM Ait<|lMl)y P*MT lyttM i P O Bos 1458 HafMatoim, MD 21741-1488 Potomac Edison Wants You To Know That Help Is Available If You Can’t Pay Your Electric Bill We all use more electricity during the cold winter months, and naturally, this means higher electric bills. Potomac Edison is aware that many people on fixed or low incomes may have difficulty meeting these higher winter bills. We have several programs designed to help customers who need assistance. In addition, there are energy assistance programs available through community organizations or local governmental agencies. But we can only help if you let us knowyouTe having a problem. So before you find yourself unable to pay your electric bill, please call your nearest Potomac Edison office. A helping hand is only a phone call "w Potomac Edison Part of the Allegheny Power System

Classified Advertising Your Action Number 675-3338 CLASSIFIED IMDEX GENERAL CLASSIHED V Antiques 2. Auctions 3. Businsss Opportunities 4. Child Servtoea 5. Child Cars Wanted 6. Commuters Comar 7. Cratts-a-Plenty 8. Building Materials 9. Construction Equip. 10. Farm Equip./Supplies 12. Firewood lor Sale 13. Garage A Yard Sales 14. Garden Equip/Produce 15. Giveaways 20. Happy Ads 21. Happy Birthdays 22. Horse & Farm Directory 23. Horses tor Sale 24. Household Iteme-Sale 25. Instruction 40. Livestock for Sale 41. Lost & Found 42. Misc. lor Sale/Rent 43 Misc. Wanted 44. Mobile Homes - Sale/Rent 45 Musical Instruments A Equipment 46. Office Equipment 47. Personals 50. Pets St. Recreational Equip. 60. Rentals - Apts. 61. Rentals - Business 62. Rentals - Houses 63. Rentals - Rooms 64. Rentals - Land 65. Rentals - Vacation 66. Rentals • Wanted 67. Real Estate - Wanted 68. Real Estate - Sale by Owner 69. Real Estate - For Sale 70 Roommates Wanted/Available 71 Services - Business 72 Services - Farm 73. Services ■ Home Improvements 74 Services - Personal 75. Services - Misc. 76 Swap A Trade 77 Tributes A Thanks EMPLOYMENT 100 Employment Sen/ices 101. Help Wanted 102. Help W. ■ Domestic 103. Help W.-Farm/Garden 110. Positions Wanted NOTICES & ANNOUNCEMENTS 125. Business Notices 126. Bids A Proposals 127 Legal Notices AUTOMOTIVE 200. Vehicles for Sale 201. Motorcycles 202. Mechanic's Delight 203. Parts & Accessories 204. Recreational Vehicles 205. Boats & Accessories 250. Too Late to Classify Antiques 1 An Ideal gift- hand tinted 19th century prints from the Spenyville Antique Market. Wide selection includes: Virginia, Civil War, Humor, Nostalgia, Scenic views. Errfoy a Blue Ridge Christmas ad the SPERRYVILLE ANTIQUE MARKET Special Christinas Sales New Winter Hours Saturday & Sunday 10a.m.-5p.m. Antiques, Collectibles Country Farm Tables For information can 703/987-8050 or 703/987-8180 Business 3 Opportunities 3M Means Business- Become a 3M Scothtint window film dealer. Get into the growing market for commercial, residential, auto window tinting. Dealers fee $3000. 301-8289144. Building 8 Materials All Steel dear-span building salel 30x40x10 - $4,490., 40x60x10 - $6,990., 40x60x10 - $6,990., 50x100x12 - $10,990.. 60x100x12 - $12,990., 80x100x14 - $16,490. Other sizes. Call 1/800/223-8028. Construction 9 Equipment Steel Bulldlnga40x75x12...$3.14 sq. ft., 50x100x16...$2.87 sq. ft., 60x100x16...$2.69 sq. ft., 70x100x14...$2.50 sq. ft., 100x100x14 . $2.39 sq. ft. Allied Steel 1-800/6354141. Farm Equipment 10 and Supplies Hay, Straw, Sawdust, Purina feed. Cassidy Brothers Farm, 703-777-5134, Monday-Saturday, 9am-5pm. Mitsubishi 372 deisei 4WD tractor with 48" belly mower and drag blade. Excellent condition, 1 year old. New, $7,500; sell $6,500. After 7p.m., 703/347-0659. Firewood 12 for Sale Firewood- Wanted reliable firewood contractor to follow logging crew. Large tracks of lap wood available. Call 703/955-3532 after 7p.m. LS. Tree Service, firewood, $95 cord. Dry or green. Call 703/987-8796. Seasoned hardwood, $90 a cord, mixed $80 a cord. Call 703/987-8297. Garage and 13 Yard Sales Mary’s Thrift Shop, 211 West Sperryville. 12-5p.m. Saturday, 10a.m.-4p.m. Sunday. Coats, sweaters, jeans, Christmas items, dresses, jewelry, bedspreads. Happy Ads 20 Holiday Flowers A Greens 12” - 36" Balsam Wreaths. Pine Roping (Garland), Green Holly, Varlgated Holly, Polnsettias, Christmas floral arrangements. Camille’s 703/675-3757 /jy q ■' •, Inflation Fighter Pr© Pay Your Classified Ad And Deduct 250 from rates below Wl)t ftappabannocbihto* CLASSIFIED ORDER BLANK Name___ Address--—-— City--State-Zip_ Classification__— CopyTo Run:_weeks (S2 Charge oer week lor mailing DO» numDer reDi'es ; RATES (per insertion) CLASSIFIED WORD AD: 20 words (or less).WOO 15c each additional word Save 25c when you pay in advance CLASSIFIED DISPLAY: Per column inch. W 80 HORSE & FARM DIRECTORY: Word ad (20 words or less) . $ 14.00 50c each additional word. Display type--Per column inch.:$18.00 TRIBUTES & THANKS: $3.00 per inch - $5.00 minimum • GENERAL INFORMATION ERRORS • No adjustment wilt be made on errors that do not materially affect the value of the advertisement. All errors must be reported by the Monday (5:00p m ) following the date of publication. Prepayment is required for some classifications and types of ads. Call for us further information. AFTER AN AD IS ORDERED it cannot be changed or cancelled after the posted deadlines for that issue At the time of placing your ad. it will be read back to you for any corrections you may want to make. Read your ad carefully the first time it appears in the paper. If it contains an error, or if you wish to make a change call us at once! MAIL TO: The Rappahannock News P.O. Box 59, Washington, Va. 22747 Attn: Classified Adv. Dept. Happy Ads 20 tiapw Nitliday Sunday, December 20th Charlie Tompkins llcyeycu! Malane Instruction 25 Train to be a TRAVELAGENT TOUR GUIDE —'WRfl’tt''RESERVATION 1ST Start locally, full time/ part-time. Train on live airline computers. Home study and resident training. Financial aid available. Jobplacement assistance. National Hdqtrs. Lighthouse PL, FI. A.C.T. TRAVEL SCHOOL 1-800-327-7728 Acqrodiud member NJH.S.C. Livestock 40 for Sale Purebred Angus Bulls. Some sired by Pine Drive. Ray T. Cannon, Castleton, Va. 703/937-4900 or James Cannon, 703/9374700. Lost and 41 Pound M You have found or lost a dog or cat, call Pet Registry anytime. 703/547-2298. Animals available for adoption. Misc. for 42 Sale/Rent S Aluminum Mag Slots, with tires. $500. Call 6354226. Ask for Windle. MAYTAG FRIGIDAIRE LITTON MICROWAVE JENN-AIR Quality appliances at real savings ft gMj§j|f V;1 Auctions lilac, for 42 Sale/Rent BABYLAND SALE, cribs from $159.99, including mattress. Specializing in baby furniture and accessories. Hours: Monday through Saturday 9 to 5, Friday nights until 6. Babyland, Weems Lane (Pineville Plaza), Winchester, Virginia. 703-665-1899. Diamond Ring, with presentation case. Fiery stone, just under V4 carat. Tiffany setting. Appraised at over $1,000, will sacrafice for $700 or best offer. Call 703/987-6343, leave message. Epson Equity PC System— 640KB RAM memory, two 360K DD floppy drives, MS-DOS. GW-Basic, CGA color card, color monitor, clock/calendar/battery, printer ports, serial port, Multi-Mate word processing, Lotus 123 spreadsheet, printmaker, and star Gemini lOx NLQ printer. All this for only $1750. Call 703-777-7010. Granny Oven for woodstoves. Use for baking; also provides extra heat. Brand new. Great Christmas gift for woodstove owner. $40. 703-5548290 early AM or late PM best. Hand-made Chocolate truffles and candied ginger for the holidays - treat your family and friends! Call Cindy, 703/987-3106. PHOTOGRAPHS Permanent prints of the STAFF PICTURES which appear in the Rappahannock News can be ordered from the News Office. Prices are $8 for 5x7 and $12 for 8x10. 703/675-3349 Tobacco-Chew or smoke a pipe? Big bargains on sweet chewing snuff smokeless, twist, plug, pipe smoking. Free sampfe. Write today. Stokers. Dresden, TN 38225. Used white refrigerator. $100. Call 703/675-3040. Wood Stove, Papa Bear Fisher, very good condition, $400. Call 703/9375751. Christmas Sunbeds Sunal -Wolff Sunbeds- For family or business SlenderOuest toning tables. Super moneymaker. Call for nee color catalogue & Xmas specials 1-800-8353826. Space Heaters, LP gas, 225,000 and 250,000 BTU. Wall or ceiling mounted. Used 1 year. $600 each or $1,000 both. 703/3641841. Miac. 43 Wanted Got A Timeshare? We’ll take it, America's most successful timeshare resale clearinghouse. Call Resort Sales International's toll free hotline 1-800-4235967. Wanted: Chestnut split rail fencing, approximately 100. Call Roger Hawkins, 703/675-3386. 2 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19,1987 10:00 A.M. - Rain or Shine CULPEPER AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES RT.29 SOUTH OF CULPEPER, VA. This is our regular monthly consignment sale selling farm equipment; vehicles; household and miscellaneous merchandise. We will sell anything you bring. Tractors: 9 N Ford, CA Allis Chalmers, A.C. 10 H.P. riding mower and other farm equipment. 1983 Yamaha 400 motorcycle. A/OTE:We expect to have merchandise here that will make good Christmas gifts. We will also have a lot of silver coins and other coins. If you want to consign something, please call me immediately. TERMS: CASH LUNCH SERVED BY: MADISON RESCUE SQUAD LADIES AUXIUARY SINCE I SSI UCMAW niw« i nnni Iliac. 43 Wanted Wanted: 100-500 garden fishing worms, willing to pay 5 cents each. Call 703/937-5014. Mobile Homes - 44 Sale/Rent 0 Used mobile homes. New homes start at $16,900 and up. We have double wides on our sales lot. Used homes start at $1,900 and up. Located Rt.29 and Rt.666. Culpeper, Monday-Saturday, 8-6; Sundays 12-6. Viralnia Mobile Homes. Call 703/825-2446. 1970 Commodore 12'x 60' for sale. 2- bedroom, remodeled, all appliances. , Beautiful! Lucketts area. Price negotiable, financing available. Call 703-7773759 anytime. Musical Instr. 45 ft Equipment HAVING A WINTER PARTY? Let us furnish the musk from DJ.’s to bands. Culpeper Musk Culpeper Va 703/825-1331 Office 46 Equipment Address-O-Graph Equipment Complete setup including address-o-graph printer, plate maker, plates, etc. Contact John Toler, The Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, 703/347-4222 days. Epson Equity PC System — 640KB RAM memory, two 360K DD floppy drives, MS-DOS, GW-Basic, CGA color card, color monitor, clock/calendar/battery, printer ports, serial port. Multi-Mate word processing, Lotus 123 spreadsheet, printmaker, and star Gemini lOx NLQ printer. All this for only $1750. Call 703-777-7010. Personals Amazing! I lost 28 lbs. in 2 Vi weeks with new scientific breakthrough product developed by two prominent doctors. Guaranteed! Safe! I feel terrific! Call Renee, 1-800-821-1989, Ext. 1005. Personals 47 HOME FOR THE ELDERLY. Come join our family. Lots of tender loving care in lovely country setting. Excellent references. 703-955-1246. Medical Insurance forms piling up? We can help. Professional filing service. Call MCPS, Inc. for brochure. (703)476-5609. Turn Fat!) Into $1 Need 21 overweight people, no matter how big, that want to lose weight and make money) New medical breakthrough. Bobbie, 303972-8202. SURPRISE! A BELLYDANCER for your party! Gassy, affordable 5, 15 or 25 minute shows by "ANTHEA". 703/547-2453 Services To Abused Families, Inc. Providing battered Women Alternatives for Safety. For help or Information call: 349-0309 or 825-TURN Pets 50 Exotic Birds at wholesale. Blue Front Amazons, $350 each; African Greys, $225 each; Umbrellas, $350; yellow Napes, $750. Shipping and health certificate available. 1-309-694-3371. German Shepherd puppies for sale, AKC, shots and wormed, intelligent, eager to please and ready to train. Wonderful Christmas gift. 703/3474859. Lhasa Apao, Pug, or Mini Poodle, AKC pups, 3-10 weeks old, 2nd shots, wormed. Beautiful colors! $235 - $350. 703/6723406. Puppy... Very cute, affectionate and loving part collie/ Jack Russell, brown and white. Mr. Warren, 202/224-0340 (work). Rentals - 62 Houses Available January 31st, 2 bedroom duplex, dishwasher, CAC, hardwood floors, $560/month. Convenient to Warrenton, Culpeper, Manassas. 703/4392898. When I was about 10 years old someone told me about Jesus, Heaven, and the plan of salvation. I asked Him to forgive me of my sins and to come Into my heart. When I did this my heart was overwelmed with His presence and I knew beyond any shadow of doubt that I was bom again and that I would live with Him forever. I was so filled with Joy that I wanted to tell the whole world of Cod's goodness and how they could pass from death unto Life. I wish that this Christmas season you could consider who Jesus Is. and what He has done for you. He offers us more than we can comprehend. May Cod Bless You this Christmas.' Eternally with Him Auctions 2 PUBLIC AUCTION USED RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT SAT., DEC. 19,1987 10:00 A.M. Rain Date-Sat Jan. 2,1988(CUP A SA VE) Having closed the Tee Pee Restaurant in Sperryville, Va. the owner has authorized us to sell the contents. Sale to be held on premises, approx. 1 mile west of Sperryville, Va. on Rt.211. Directions: From Warrenton - Rt.211 west to Sperryville, Va. continue thru Sperryville approx. 1 mile to sale on left. From Front Royal - Rt.522 south to Rt.211 west on Rt.211 to Sperryville, Va. continue thru Sperryville approx. 1 mile to sale on left. (2) Fryers Hobart Meat Slicer Elec. Shredder Bread Warmer Pie Case Charcoal Broiler Stainless Steel Shelves 3 Compartment Sink Old Cash Register Tables & Chairs Booths Odd China Odd Dishes Pots 4 Pans Misc. Glassware Ornate Concrete Picnic Table Lois. Misc. Merchandise Food Available Gas Pizza Oven (10 months old) Gen. Elec. Grill Beer Cooler (3 Keg) Salad Bar Vea. Table Retria Sandwich Bar Frigidaire Freezer (chest) Schaefer Freezer (chest) Philco Freezer (upright) (2) Frigidaire Freezers (upright) Walk-in Cooler w/ condenser Savage Ice Cream Freezer Taylor Ice Cream Machine Scotsman Ice Machine Shake Machine Old Soda Machine TERMS-CASH or Approved Check Owner - Juliette Gioia Auction Co Not Responsible For Accidents JAMES E. DEAL AUCTION CO. Culpeper, V A (703)825-92 Owner Operator - Deal’s Upholstery; & Window Treatments Rentals- 62 Houses Homs For rent: One mile from Washington, Virginia. Brick rancher with 4 bedrooms, 2 baths. Available in approximately 30 days. $650 per month. 703/6753442. 2 bedroom, 1 V4 bath townhouse, located in town of Warrenton, $585/ mo. 703/937-4339 8a,m.-5p.m. Rentals- 64 Farm For rent: Harris Hollow, Washington, Virginia. Pasture, hay fields, and buildings. 80 acres. $500/ year. Have hay to sell from first cutting. Call 703/6753328, evenings and weekends. Real Estate- 67 Wanted Couple Looking to purchase (with financing?) scenic property for retirement in 1999. No building before then for your privacy. 703-537-5660. Principals only. Real Estate - 68 Sale by Owner By Builder. Cape Cod style 3 bedroom home on 1.7 acre wooded lot with lake view. Home has 2,000+ sq. ft. heated area plus full walk-out basement. 2 car garage, fireplace and 280 sq. ft. porch are just a few of the amenities this home offers. Located 15 minutes south of Warrenton, Va. 3 miles from Highway 29. $159,500.703/439-2424. Homes ites. West of Warrenton, rolling cedar hills, river and road frontage, open and woods, 3Vi to 6 acres, $31,000 to $35,000... (Owner-agent), 703/675-3777; evenings 703/937-4388. FOR SALE - Undivided interest in recreational property in the Shenandoah Valley on the Shenandoah River, known as North Fork on the Shenandoah near Front Royal. Over 135 acres.. Deeded property. Must sell due to health. Has swimming pool, miniature golf, tennis courts, picnic areas, fishing, many other beautiful features and amenities. Hookups for RV’s and motor homes. Save 40 percent form original price. Asking only $5,000. Call 703-667-4484 (Winchester) after 6 p.m. 30 miles from there, priced at $57,500. Also, additional mountain cabins available. Call for details at Orth Realty Company, 703-6670101. Make Payment Toward Settlement — Intown Winchester, 3 bedroom, 2 story older home in very nice condition. Living room, dining room, carpet, well insulated. Flexible terms. $75,000. 703-667-8612 or 301-588-6935. Roofing - Gutters -down spoutings. Tinning and roofing of all kinds. Aluminum gutter; down spout. Roof repair. Bill Starks, 703/675-3630, 703/6753724. Real Estate - 69 For Sale Halifax Co.- 56 acres$24,500. Bold stream, lakesite, long road frontage. Excellent hunting, fishing, timber cut 1987. Low taxes. Less for cash. Wayne Long, 703/8969064. Quality Brick homes, Built on your lot 100%. Complete starting from $36,150. Capes, Ranchers, and 2Stories, no money down financing. Free brochures. Call collect Richmond 804/794-4614 or Fredericksburg 703/373-2711. LOCAL AUTHORIZED BUILDER/DEALER Nationwide Modular Homes. Will build or sell package 703/825-1663 CORBIN HOMEBUILDERS, QIC. Service# - 71 Business Auto Insurance problems? Call Leary Insurance for low monthly rates; immediate SR22 filings; Call 703/825- 4234 from 8:30a.m.-4p.m. daily. Bushhog Mowing, 6' mower. Have trailer, will travel. Call 703/754-9643. Chimney Cleaning. Make yours a safe wood burning season, 703/825-4509. Legal Representation by attorney with 19 years experience. DWI, traffic, and criminal. McLean and Herndon. Ed Younger, 893-2210. Mortgage Money available: All types of mortgage loans, good or poor credit. Brokers protected. Call (703)273-1450 or 800-3CASH11. Old Black and white photos copied, reasonable prices. Hand-coloring available. Cindy Mahan, 703987-3106. Tree Stumps removed — Neat and reasonable. By STUMP JUMPER, 703777-2349. Services - 71 Business ATTENTION PERSPECTIVE HONE OWNER: Don't overpey for your home. T.G. Tnyior Construction will introduce YOU to Caatineatal Modular Home! 703/987-8043 PULLEN’S ELECTRICAL A PLUMBING State Licensed New Si Old Work Pump Installation Free Estimates on New Work 703-675-3249 PIANO TUNING: Work guaranteed 30 years (till time Warren Emerson Dennis Coil collect. AmlssvtUe. Va. (703) 937-5857 Help For Hire •Handyman •Odd Jobs Reasonable Rates Free estimates 703/937-4910 BALDWIN BUILDERS Builder/ Dealer Quality Homes by Continental 703/987-8079 Tom Baldwin, Jr. Model shown by appointment WASHINGTON VIDEO RENTALS Open Wed.-Sna. 12-7 p.m. VCR's for rent or ule Main Street in the basement of the MUler Bldg. 703/675-3454 VHS & BETA BUD'S ROOFING •Reroofs1 ° ‘1 •New Work •Tear-offs •Paint Free EstimcUes Gauranteed work 17 Years Experience Call after 6p.m., 703/439-2373 WOODWARD FENCING Chain Link and Stockade Free Estimates Guaranteed work 5 Years Experience Call after 6p.m., 703/439-2373 Misc. 43 Wanted Lamb's Scrap Recycling at the comer of Nalle St. & Yancey St. In Culpeper will be Open Now until Jan. 3rd, 1988, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Top prices paid for your meted. Solder Copper Auto Radiators Aluminum Cans Heater Coils Heavy Aluminum Brass Insulated Wire Lead Die Cast Batteries Catalytic Converters Automatic Transmissions Alternators Starters Rack 8t Pinions Clutches Iron, Aluminum Pressure Plates AC Radiators Also Paying Top Prices for Antiques and Collectibles Open 7 Days A Week For Information Call Otis L. Lamb 825-8864 (Day) 832-3979 (Nights) CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY imbp iloume i^UlEEpB 1 Experienced and Fully Insured Modem Equipment Chimney Lining BRUCE VIERLING 703/675-3508 COPY SERVICE AVAILABLE Copies while you wait ftappafjannotb t Main Street Washington 703/675-3349

Classified Advertising Your Action Number 675-3338 9CTTIC€S - 72 Harman vandarWoude. Farrier, aM types of horses and the shoes that go on them. Available tor evening and weekend appointments. Call 703/788-9672. Services - 73 Hoa»e Improvement B * B BUILDING Specialising in decks, additions St remodeling 18 years experience Nojot> too small Call altar 8p.m., 703/837-5280 Dominion General Contracting. Remodelling, room additions, kitchens, bathrooms, rec rooms, garages, decks, patios plus handyman service. For estimates call 703/937-5482 alter 5p.m. Sanding A refinishing hardwood floors. Reasonable rates. Call Roger 703/635-2558. Tributes 77 Ip memory of Charles E. Huff who passed away one year ago Dec. 19, 1986. Oh, how we miss you so. What we would have given if you had not had to go. We still remember the events of that final night when we had to say farewell for awhile. We knew that you had gone to be with our Heavenly Father up above. Then God looked down on us to remind us as faithful children of his, that we could wipe away our tears. Reminding us that we have the promise and hope of eternal life and we would meet again. Charles we would have kept you here with us forever and will never give you up. For you are in our hearts and minds every second, every day. To us you never died, you're just away until we can meet again. Gone but not forgotten. Sadly missed by your wife, children and grandsons. Help 101 Wanted Accountant Opportunity knocks! Fast growing Manassas company with large computerized accounting system. Accounting degree end previous experience through profit and loss statements necessary. Competitive pay, great benefits and a modern place to work await you. To apply forward your resume to Box W, c/o Fauquier Democrat, P.O. Box 631. Warrenton, Va. 22186. Accounting Clark. Main office of a major corporation seeks career minded employee. Experience working with 10 key calculator and computerized accounting records needed. Tired of the commute? Come join our profitable company. Submit your resume with pay expected to: Box R, c/o Fauquier Democrat P.O. Box 631, Warrenton, Va. 22186. Accounts Payable Supervisor-See Supervisor. Asphalt Workers— Centreville Paving Contractor needs laborers, rakers. Bobcat operators, truck drivers, etc. Experience preferred. Good pay/ benefits. 703-256-2455, leave message. Avon Sales: Earn $$$$'s selling AVON at work or where you live. V A/M D/DC metro area. Call 451-7103. VA Toll free 1-800-2331015. Be on T.V. Many needed for commercials. Casting information 1-805-6876000 Ext. TV-7098. Driver/ Operator Must be able to deliver and set our concrete products with 15 ton mobile hydraulic crane truck. Compensation package includes paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, Blue Cross/ Blue Shield, pension plan, profit sharing, paid tuition and education expense. Apply in person to: Smith Midland Corp. Rt 28 Midland, Va. 22728 Assistant Editor Full tiMfe position Open for ma_ture, organized individual with the ability to create polished prose from rough copy. Must be able to handle multitude of details, working under pressure. Knowledge of Fauquier County is a definite plus. Responsibilities will include: Obituaries Social news Property transfers Community columns Church schedules Send resume and cover letter to: Owen Korsmo, Editor The Fauquier Democrat P.O. Box 631 Warrenton, VA 22186 Experience The Renaissance Advantage The Ramada Renaissance is a premiere hotel located near Dulles Airport. We offer competitive salaries, excellent health benefits, life insurance, complimentary employee meals, extensive training programs, outstanding promotional opportunities, and an employee recruitment bonus. Come grow with us! The following positions are now available: • Restaurant Server • Cashier e Housekeeping • Bus Person • Inspector/Supervisor • Front Office • Bellperson, 3rd Shift • Line Cook Please apply in person to the Human Resource Department between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday. 13869 Park Center Rd. Herndon, VA 22071 478-2900 EOE Help 101 Wasted Child Car* person lor 10 year old boy. Overnight 2 to 3 nights a week. Must be familiar with wood stove. Responsible high school student wiN be considered. 703/967-8660. Clerk zational Typist Good organi>al skills needed in this fun time position. Filing experience and accurate typing of 50-S5w.p.m. required. Old stable company offereing growth potential, very good benefits and a fair pay amount Man your resume to: Box T, c/o Fauquier Democrat P.O. Box 631, Warrenton. Va. 22186. Desk Clerk - permanent position avaRable. Immediate opening. Apply in person Howard Johnson Lodge, Warrenton. Drivers Needed bnmedh atety: 200 new trucks arriving by November 30th. Start at .23 cents per mile with regular increases to .27 cents. Minimum of 2,100 miles per week, guaranteed. Benefits package. 23 years old with 1 year OTR experience and good record required. (Inexperienced? Ask about J.B. Hunt approved driving schools. Financial Assistance Available). Cal J.B. Hunt Now: 1 -800-2553622. Help 101 Wanted Driwr. A quickly growing Northern Virginia construction supply dealer is in need of a driver for their Loudoun office. Must be sble to drive 2-speed rear, flat bed and dump. Bring copy of driving record between 9-5p.m. to Concraft Supply, 43825 Lee Jackson Hwy. (FH.50), Loudoun, Va. or cafl Terry at 703/5508680. Etectrictafis * and commercial mechanics and helpers. We offer top pay. life, dental and medical insurance, paid vacation, paid holidays, sick leave and profit sharing plan, pay rate up to $13 per hour. Sundance Electrical Contractors, New Baltimore Business Park. Va. E.O.E. 703/348-8200 or metro 273-5877. ATTENTION: Busy office has rnmedale openings for fecensed agents in Warren, Clarke, Page, Frederick. Shenandoah cotmSes. Contact: Gary K. Olsen 703/635-7157 ARA Services, located outside Leesburg at the Xerox Training Center has Immediate opening in the following positions: •Cook—FuH-flme hows lor tie morning or afternoon shift, mud be flexible to work weekends and overtime. Pay rommeneu rate with experience. • Custodians — Fun-ftme hows, from sjo pm to 1.-00 am • Front Desk Ctefk — FulMime hows, mud be flexible to work days, evenings, and weekends. Excel lent public contact skills required. We otter competitive storting wages with scheduled pay Increases and a complete benefit package, including a choice of medical/dental Insurance. Paid vacations, holidays and sick leave, free meals and uniforms. To schedule an appointmnet call the Human Resources Department at 703729-8000, ext. 6243. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F &STAFF RELIEF# Home Care " • RN s earn $22 - $25 per hr. • LPN’s earn up to $17 per hr. • Home Health Aides earn $5 - $7 per hr. Bonus and Vacation Programs Quality Care 703-534-7600 r Help Id Wanted Electrical Commercial foreman. Wa offer top pay, life, dental and medical insurance, paid vacation, paid holidays, sick leave and profit sharing plan, pay rate up to $14 per hour. Sundance Electrical Contractors, New Baltimore Business Park, Va. E.O.E. 703/349-8200 or metro 273-5877. Housekeeper D.C. Liberal sal ences. Call 202' Itve-in, Referilary. -775-1329. Help Wanted, Roofers, residential, new and old. Fiberglass and shakes. Call 703/754-7328 or 703/7547618. Inside Sales Full Time Opening for full time sales person to service retail and wholesale customers in our Warrenton store. Must be dependable, mature and interested in home decorating and paint products. For details, apply in person or contact Bruce or Terry at 703/347-4337. Help 101 Wanted Help Wanted. Mature. responsible individual to assemble and deliver equipment. Must have operators license and good driving record. Job also includes some mechanical repair. For interview call Tnble Equipment, Warrenton. 703/347-2880. Uve-tn to care for elderly person. References required. For information call 703-882-3273. Ogden Allied Services are looking for head cook, cashier, salad bar prep, and utility workers. We offer a Monday through Friday work week, no weekends or holidays. Good pay and benefits. If interested call Nora at 703689-5202 between 6am and 3pm. Receptionists Heeded for long and short term assignments in Herndon/ Reston area. Call for interview 703689-2400. E.O.E. Supervisor- Outstanding growth position with solid expanding company in our Accounts Payable department. Supervisory experience of multiple individuals and BS degree or equivalent required. Immediate consideration will be given to your reply. Please mail confidential resume to: Box O, c/o Fauquier Democrat, P. O. Box 631, Warrenton, Va. 22186. Computer 8/38 Programmer Headquarters of a rapidly expanding corporation in Manassas, Va. is seeking an energetic RPG ID Programmer. 2-3 years working experience required. ExceSert benefit package, competitive pay and very good growth potential. Submit your resume with pay requirements to: Programmer P.O.Box 188 Manassas. Va. 22110 Full Time Receiving/Sales Position Requires some lifting, also valid drivers license. Full company benefits. Applications are now being taken. Apply in person. Marshall Farmers Coop -•«*». Marshall, VA. E.O.E Wanted Immediately Fulltime Spreader/Fertilizer Truck Driver Good driving record. Agricultural background preferred but will train. Good company benefits. Applications are now being taken. Apply in person: Marshall Farmers Coop Marshall, VA. E.O.E. r Help 101 Wanted Time keeper wanted tor targe mechanical company, secretarial background helpful, excellent pay, transportation furnished. Cafl 703/920-2648, 6:30a.m. to 7a.m. or 12 to 12:30p.m., ask for Jim. Truck Drivers — Tandem dump truck experience. $9 per hour. Bring current driving record to: J.B. Shotweil & Son, Inc., 1106 Sterling Rd , Starting, Va. 703-4502340 Positions no Wanted Looking For work with elderly people in their home, nurses aid training. Good references. Call Peggy. 703/987-8524. Business 125 Notices NOTICE Advertising published in this newspaper is accepted with the understanding that it will meet the criteria of the standards of a family newspaper. Advertising is accepted on the premise that the merchandise and services as offered arc accurately described and are available to customers at the advertised price. Advertising that does not conform to these standards, or that is deceptive or misleading is never knowingly accepted. If any reader encounters non-compliance with these standards, we ask that you inform us. COPY SERVICE AVAILABLE . . '.:v v.;v- * Copies while i you wait mt fcappafjannocfe iieto* Main Street Washington 703/675*3349 Loudoun Times-Mirror Opportunities in our Circulation Department • Sterling District Carrier Director and Office Staffer Work from our Holly Avenue Office. Full time with benefits, health insurance, paid vacation, bonus program. Design carrier routes, work with youth carriers, handle complaints, and general circulation duties. e Telemarketers/Part time to sell subscriptions4-7pm, Monday-Thursday. •Drivers Loudoun Times-Mirror and Eastern Loudoun Times Drivers needed for Wednesday and or Thursday Newspaper deliveries. Bulk dropping, newsstand, and tube delivery to Sterling area. For Interview or Information Contact: Jeffrey Belpanno Circulation Manager 703-777-1111 or 703-430-8000 WASHINGTON DULLES ^ RAMADA w RENAISSANCE HOUSEKEEPING Here we grow again! Our luxury hotel, located near Dulles Airport has just completed a 100 room expansion. We are looking for several hard working, dedicated employees to complete our housekeeping staff. We now offer a $5.00 per hour starting wage, .25$ per hour increase after 90 days, 14 room quota, $3.00 per hour additional room bonus. Excellent health benefits free employee meals, Ramada room discounts and much more. Please apply in person to the Human Resources Department between 9am & 5pm, Mon-Fri. 13869 Park Center Rd Herndon, Va. 22071 478-2900 EOE Investigative Reporter Full time position with awardwinning Northern Virginia weekly. We are looking for an experienced journalist who can bring in accurate, concise stories under the pressure of deadline and can also analyze issues and put them into the context of larger trends. Beats will include: Supervisors Planning Commission Environmental Issues Town Council Local Politics Full benefits package and competitive salary to the right individual. Fauquier Democrat Owen Korsmo, Editor P.O. Box 631, Warrenton, VA 22186 EARN $8 AN HOUR WHILE YOU LEARN.* TELEMARKETING 100 PART-TIMERS NEEDED MORNINGS - EVENINGS Schedules open 8a.m.-12noon & 5-1030p.m. PROFESSIONALS-TEACHERS-STUDENTS HANDICAPPED PERSONS WELCOME (We have facilities) JOIN THE TELEMARKETING GROUP 1 WE WILL TRAIN YOU 6599 Commerce CL Gainesville, Virginia (RL29 &856) Interviews from 10-11a.m. and 5-6p.m. Wednesday-Friday NO TELEPHONE CALLS! For directions only, call 703/349-4270 *Th« learning period consists of no more than the hours worked »n the first week After that your salary will de pend on performance and up to * 15.00 per hour Business 125 Notices POSmVELY NO HUNTING OR TRESPASSING On The Following Properties MEADOWOOD Slate Mills Road Route 707 Scott & Kathy Sutton ★★★ James 5 Nancy Thomasson Route 615 Bounded by Jonathan Run and Blackwater Creek ★★★ KAYWOOD Massies Comer Hickerson Mountain Col. D.C. Knuepfer ★★★ PINEY KNOLL Route 211 West of Sperryville ★★★ P0INTS-0F-VIEW FARM Rint Hill And all land belonging to Patricia Sattonstall ★★★ Tom a Joanns Tapper Route 680 Bounded by Jonathan Run and Blackwater Creek ★★★ Mountain Green Farm George Sharp Washington, Va. ★★★ JOHN PULLEN Gid Brown Hollow Route 614 Washington, Va. ★★★ HANNON FARM Vince & Teddie Hannon Formerly the Helen Whorton Cloud Tract Rt. 626, Rock Mills ★★★ MT. PROSPECT FARM Mr. & Mrs. Stewart Willis Washington, Virginia ★★★ Old Coughlin Place Wendy Rogers Route 607 Woodville Bids ft 126 Proposals The Board of Education of Rappahannock County requests written and sealed bids on all food items used in the food service operation of schools. Information and applications may be obtained at the School Board Office. 703/9878773. Deadline for bids is January 5. Legal 127 Notices NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC The Board of Game and Inland Fisheries, at a Meeting held in Richmond, Virginia, on October 30. 1987, adopted the following amended regulation, applicable Statewide, pursuant to Sections 29.1-501 and 29.1-502 of the Code of Virginia, to become effective January 1,1988. VR 325-03-1. Fishing Generally. § 4. Sale of game fish or catfish prohibited; exception. It shall be unlawful to self, offer for sale or buy any species of freshwater game fish or catfish, provided that this shall not apply to game fish sold alive for propagation pumoses or sold pursuant to VR 32503-2, §§ 15 and 16, or any catfish taken from tidewater or artificially raised. Culture and sale of striped bass and hybrid striped bass conducted in accordance with Regulation 45001 -0034 of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission shall be exempt from this regulation. BOARD OF GAME AND INLAND FISHERIES Henry A. Thomas, Chairman Vehicles 200 For Sale IMS Cavalier Hatchback. 4 speed, PS. PB. AC, AM/FM stereo, good condition. $3,900.703/825-2842, evenings and weekends. 1M2 Dodge 12 passenger customized van, 3f8, Sower steering, power rakes. $3,500. 703/3474859. 1982 Olds 98 Reaencv. new tires. Clean. $3800. Call 703/937-4472. 1979 Pinto Squire Wagon. Loaded, good condition. Best cash offer or trade. 703/347-4997 after 6p.m. 1977 VW Rabbit. AC. sunroof, 4 speed, current inspection. Moving, $875. 703/347-3709. Ready for the snow! 1987Suzuki Samurai 4x4 Convertible, excellent condition, 17k miles, am/fm cassette, $8,500/best offer. 2 years left on warranty. 777-7174 after 5p.m. a THE CLASSIFIEDS GET RESULTS! A LURAY MOTOR COMPANY’S Pre-Christmas Specials December 16 thru December 23 Look At These Cash Back Incentives!* $500 CASH BACK ON '87 & '88 F-SERIES TRUCKS Now on automatic & standard transmissions. WE HAVE 25 TO CH005F PPO/Uli Automatic 4x4's & 4x2's 11 5-Speed 4x4's & 4x2's — PLUS — $500 CASH BACK $600 CASH BACK VJN '87 & *88 RANGER & BRONCO II THUNDERBIRD $400 CASH BACK ON '87 & '88 ESCORT, EXP & EXCORT GT *ONLY ON IN-STOCK VEHICLES Luray Motor Company's Sales Department is open 8 a.m.-6 p.m. MondayFriday, and Saturday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. North Broad Street Phone: 743*5128 Luray, Virginia Dealer No. 195

Robert (Continued from Page 1) They wanted me to get better. But nobody wants to stay in the hospital, even though they treat you A-l. A hospital is a place you go after an accident, when something bad has happened, like a break in your arm - or a break in your head,” he added, with a deprecating chuckle. “ To get fixed, that’s what you go to the hospital for.” The “fix” during his nine-month stay included electric shock therapy. His shoulders shudder involuntarily when he remembers. “I was awake. They attach little electrodes to your body, and then they shoot a current through you. I don’t imagine that the feeling is much different from being electrocuted, going to the chair. The current just isn’t as strong, so you live through it.” Released from Western State, Robert returned to Culpeper. For six years, he held a job at a local fast food restaurant, advancing from janitor to manager. Then he suffered another “break.” The institutionalization was shorter, only four months, and there was no electric shock therapy. But Robert still chafed to go home. “Everybody wants to go home. You’re there in the hospital around the clock and you see the staff, the doctors and nurses, going home at about four or five o’clock and you want to go, too. If there’s any spark of life in you, you want to get out of the hospital.” Since his release the second time, he’s had one short relapse into mental illness and one short stay of 19 days in the behavioral medicine unit of Culpeper Memorial Hospital’s psychiatric wing which is operated jointly by the hospital and the Community Services Center. He lives in a downtown apartment that the Community Service advocates found for him, and he has a regular job. He works just one day a week now but hopes that his hours will be increased soon. “I’m doing fine!” he says confidently. Robert looks fine, too. A slender, well-groomed man in his late 40s, he wears a suede jacket and navy blue shirt, carefully pressed. “You like them? I bought them at the shop here in the club house,” he said, explaining that club members earn credits for completing their assigned jobs and then can spend those credits in the Laurel House thrift shop. “I bought curtains for my apartment there, too.” A stranger could pass Robert on the street and never guess he’s men tally disabled. The only outward sign that anything may be wrong is the tremor in his hands, a side effect of the three tablets of novain and five lithium pills he must take daily, he says. The medication keeps Robert from having to return to the hospital - the medication and Laurel House. “The first time I came up here, it had no tables, no chairs. It had just opened,” he said of the psycho-social center which sits on a rise next door to Culpeper Hospital. “But I could see right then and there that it was going to amount to something, so I wanted to become a member. “It gives me something to do. Without Laurel House, I’d be wound up in myself. I might get out of bed in the morning to have a cup of coffee and listen to the radio, or I might not. I’d get fidgety. My mind would wander, and I could get into trouble. “Coming to Laurel House is like going to work. You make friends. You have a daily routine. We’re instructed, watched over, fed, evaluated, and protected. We learn - I’m learning typing - and we all have a good time. It’s a home away from home.” For two and a half months Robert walked five miles to and from the club house. But with the onset of winter, the effort proved too much for him, so he quit the club. But as soon as the vans started running, Robert rejoined. He rides the vans to and from the club house, and they take him to his janitorial job he’s so proud to have found - and held. He struggles to find the words that will explain what the program means to a mentally disabled person. “If you need help, who do you turn to? You turn to Laurel House. If you’ve been released from the hospital and you want to get back into society, you come to Laurel House. It’s the only chance for people like myself who are trying to get back up the ladder, to walk those steps. You do the best you can to make something of yourself. “Have you ever seen a chart for a business? The graphs that show sales going up and down? That’s the way it is with mental illness. I go up and down, just like a business.” But with the assistance and support he gets from Laurel House, Robert hopes that someday he’ll be up for good, rehabilitated, no longer mentally disabled. “Then I’ll be able to stick my chest out and say, ‘Yes, I did it!’.” — Daphne Hutchinson l_-—-n No one faces cancer alone. Call us. I AMERICAN CANCER SOCKTY 1-800-552-7996 iFiml IL1TSST0CE 'EXCHANGE INCORPORATED Witt Be Closed Tuesday, Decemfier 22 Season's greetings and Much Thanks for your'Patronage amt Support from John !Hegf & Staff Rt. 55 1 Mile East of Marshall 364-1566 Christmassy May all there is of Christmas be with our friends and neighbors this holiday. Looking forward to serving you in 1988. W.H. Lyne Real Estate Broker RL1, Box 465, Washington, Va. 703/967-6586 Cfjristmas (greetings As that special star shines anew, we greet you and thank ' you warmly. BALDWIN BUILDERS Builder/Dealer 703/987-8079 'TUmfo MenyCWnfc Season’s best to all and to all our special thanks. We are looking forward to serving you in 1988. Sperryville Realty SPERRYVILLE EMPORIUM Sperryville, Virginia 22740 (703) 987-6068 - Office Laurel Thefts (Continued from Page 1) And some of the club members will advance to the transitional employment program where they go as a group with an advocate to job sites. A few will find a regular job where they work independently without on-site supervision from* Laurel House’s staff. “People look at the mentally disabled and think they’re not motivated. They don’t understand. Our club members want to work. They have normal intelligence, some of them above normal. But they’re fearful of going out. They’re on medication, and the medication makes them feel funny,” Mrs. Wright explained. As unpleasant as some of the side effects are, the drug regimen followed by the club members is critical. If they stop taking the prescribed medications, they will invariably suffer another “break,” as Mrs. Wright calls the onset of mental illness, and they will be returned to the hospital. “We watch for signs that they’ve quit taking their medication, so we can move quickly to intervene before things get out of hand, before it gets to be a fullblown psychosis. That way, we can prevent, or at least shorten, the hospital stay.” Bureaucracy has a kind of Catch 22” to it: services are offered to the mentally disabled, but once mentally disabled, the people who qualify have difficulty gaining access to the system. So the advocates of Laurel House guide the club members through the maze of red tape to reach those additional services. “And we strive to empower the members, to make them advocates for themselves,” Mrs. Wright noted. As important as the monitoring, the advocacy and job training are to the club members, the key to the psychiatric rehabilitation program is the opportunity to find a friend and to be a friend. “We’re all social ani mals. But most of these people live by themselves. They have no contact with their family or they have no family in the area. They miss out on all the traditional social events. Here at Laurel House, they develop relationships with other people. They get involved; they interact. Without this human contact, they would regress and relapse.” So in addition to the weekday program, the staff plans regular social activities, such as canoeing and hiking, on weekends. And they hold special holiday gatherings: a luncheon at Thanksgiving with turkey and all the trimmings, a party and gift exchange at Christmas. Holding the range of programs and services together is the transportation system that brings the club members to Laurel House in the morning, takes them to and from job sites and returns them home in the afternoon. Mrs. Wright wants to see the routes expanded, but that takes additional funds and money is in short supply at the Community Services Center. She concedes that it’s more likely the vans will run fewer miles, and that a route to Rappahannock County won’t be added in the near future. “We need more money so we can get the people here. Transportation is critical. Someone who has been in a state hospital for 10 years doesn’t have the money for gas, much less to buy a car, pay insurance and keep up maintenance on a vehicle. And in a rural area, there are no alternatives - there is no metro, no bus service. “At Laurel House, we try to give the club members as much control over their lives as they’re willing to take, as they can take,” Mrs. Wright continued. “But if we can’t get them here, we can’t help them at all.” (Next week: Goldsborough House, where Kenny has learned, the skills he needs to live independently.) (Continued from Page 1) night, when the two allegedly pulled up and stole 150 small evergreen trees from the Yule Log Christmas Tree Farm on Rt. 637. Both men are charged with grand larceny in that incident. On Nov. 28, Capt. Streapy said, the two again returned to the tree farm, which is owned by Ralph _ Woodruff, and cut down and stole 36 large evergreen trees. Another tree, an arborvitae, was also stolen that night from Franklin A. Hume, who also lives on Rt. 637. Smoot and Ramey are charged with grand larceny in the evergreen tree theft and petty larceny in the theft of Mr. Hume’s tree. The two men are also charged with breaking and entering and grand larceny in the burglary of Foster’s Packing House on Nov. 30. Taken in that incident were an Echo chain saw, several jars of fruit preserves and apple butter and 10 cases of soda. Everything but the soda has been recovered, Capt. Streapy said. On Dec. 2, the two allegedly “maliciously killed and butchered” a 350pound head of cattle belonging to the Jordan River Farm, also on Rt. 637. According to Capt. Streapy, the two men butchered the animal in the field, within sight of the road, taking the four quarters of beef and leaving the remainder of the carcass in the field. Both men are charged with grand larceny in that incident. Finally, last Thursday, according to Capt. Streapy the two returned to the Yule Log tree farm a third time, on this occasion allegedly pulling up and stealing another 11 small trees. Both Smoot and Ramey are charged with petty larceny in that incident. Capt. Streapy said that all the items stolen in the thefts have been recovered, with the exception of the soda stolen in the Foster’s Packing House burglary. He said that the investigation last Thursday evening included Sheriff Woodward, Lt. Jeff Brown, Sgt. Charles Jenkins, deputies Todd Brown and Lee Keysel* and himself. “Although the Sheriffs Department conducted the investigation,T Capt. Streapy said, “we would have had no concrete leads to pursue were t it not for the concerned citizen who ^ noticed suspicious activity and reported it to our dispatcher. The tip was checked out by the deputies on duty and the resulting investigation produced two arrests. ” Citing pending legal proceedings, Capt. Streapy declined to reveal any additional details about the investigation or the crimes. He noted, however, that most of the stolen items had been recovered by the Sheriffs Department last Thursday night. ; Smoot and Ramey appeared in General District Court on Tuesdays where their cases were continued until Jan. 5. _■ “This is just another example,” Sheriff Woodward said, “of how the cooperation of residents and law enforcement can bring these cases ton successful conclusion.” “Again,” Capt. Streapy said, “we request that anyone who sees something which they think is out of pla& or suspicious please call the Sheriff^ Department. You don’t have to give your name if you don’t want to. We will investigate it — we will check k out.” Sheriff Woodward added that the winter months are traditionally A time when the department receives reports of weekend homes being broken into — often long after the culprits have disappeared. He urged residents who live in the county year-round to keep an eye on theijr neighbors’ property, and to notify the Sheriffs Department if they notice activity around the area when no one should be there. , The Sheriff also reminded rea<f: ers of the Rappahannock News thdt the “Emergency Log,” published each week on page two, contains a list of complaints received by the rlicr\otr»Vi Hnrinnr ttio Asbestos (Continued from Page 1) friable, he explained. “I don’t know what the new management plans might say.” But even the management plan is not the end of AHERA, according to Dr. Gangel. Asbestos hazard training programs must be conducted for SuaVpdial staff and each school must hav<? an administrator designated as the AHERA contact. Every six months, the site must be inspected and every three years an EPA li censed inspector must check the premises. “We’ll have to keep on paying for inspectors until we remove every bit of the asbestos.” “It’s going to be expensive,” the superintendent cautioned. Upon learning of the new requirements and being told init-ially that AHERA compliance would cost Rappahannock $60,000 this year, “I was totally outraged,” Dr. Gangel said, adding that he’d called the State Department of Education only to be told "there’s nothing s can do except write our congressman.” The deadline for compliance with AHERA is October 1988, and the trend in Congress is “not to give the school divisions more breathing time, but to expand AHERA to include more agencies . . . School division are accepting it, going with it, even though none of them has budgeted money for it this year.” As to penalties for failure to meet the October deadline, “no one knows what happens if you’re not in compliance,” the superintendent noted. “When Dr. Gangel told me at first that it was going to cost $60,000, I thought there are a lot of things we need more than to make jobs for people who’ll come through our schools and tell us to do this or that,” said Chairman Beverly Massie. “But even though we don’t have it budgeted, if we put it out on bids week. He requested that anyone who has knowledge of or information about a complaint which appears in the “Sheriffs Log” please notify the dispatch center so that investigators can check into the information. now and still can’t get the buildings inspected, at least we can show a good faith effort.” I With the board’s unanimous votie to solicit bids on the asbestos inspection, School Board member Bill Oliver had a final suggestion: “Sounds like we all need to quit what we’rej doing and get in that next EPA class!” Rose Dale Christmas Trees Choose & Cut Sheared White Pines Open Daily 9-5 am am/4^vre RAY T. CANNON CO.. INC REAL ESTATE SINCE 1SS1 VIVWVVi VIA AUVilVIUJU Directions: take 211 West to 229 (approximately 10 miles), left on 229 to Rixeyville turn light at P.0., V2 mile on right Call Sharon Snead 937-4779 • K4n«i Mav everv moment Eileen M. Day, REALTORS 25 wooded acres on hardtop near Sperryville provide several possible homesites, views and a stream for $62,500. 3000 sq. ft. home can be split into two living areas each with 2 bdrm., IV2 baths, living room, eat-in kitchen and 2 car garage on 7.6 acres. $159,000. On state road amid similar properties 25 acres of wooded sloping hillside with views of surrounding area - easy access to home sites. $60,000. Cabin in the woods - stream, woods, nr. park, plus two other log cabins for guest, parents, studio, etc. on 16 acres for $159,000. Mitzie Young Kevin Day Hazel Zinn-Day Butch Zindel Jens Thoiand 937-5196 675-3736 673-3736 937-5703 9S7SS66 Clopton House, Box 120 m Washington, Va. 22747 LEI 675-3033 “The Country Property People” of your Holiday be filled with joy. Thank you for making this a successful year! CASTLETON (703) 937-4111 Ray T. Cannon (703) 937-4900 James M. Cannon (703) 937-4700 POST SUMMIT WEEK SPECIALS!! SECLUDED TWIN RUSTIC HOMES on wooded bluff overlooking RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER and Mts.. Liveable but needs nail bangers etc. Ideal for high level political talks and weekend sorees, l8‘/i acres with abt. 1,000 ft. on river. Bring $110,000.. No fear of electronic bugging here.. ■ just the plain local bugs.. j SUMMIT SITE ON TOP OF OLD BESSIE! Two parcels on the M t. ridge with spectac- ' ular panoramic views of the Blue Ridge Mts. and the valley. Rugged and secluded, but awe- j some.. 2 6 Vi acres $35,000, 36 acres $45,000.. No electronic bugging here - m fact no ' electricity.. I INSPIRING MT. VIEWS: 101 acres with road frontage, mostly wooded, $180,000 ALPINE MEADOW and woods, stream, paved road frontage, Great Mt. views. 86 acres | at $1,900 per acre, may divide.. INTIMATE VIEWS OF OLD RAG MT and friends, 113 acre home site on FT Valley I Road (Rt. 231), rolling pasture and woods, $41,000 NEARLY SIX ACRES, homesite on knoll, open and woods, frontage on river and state ' road, $35,000. (owner-agent) I ROLLING MEADOW and woods, road frontage mosd> fenced, for horses or cattle, 26Vi acres, $80,000... I MY DONKEYS come to the fence early most every morning when my tape player comes on, and they join in. Their favorite, of course, is The Donkey Serenade by Assmkov.. | THE DONKEY OWNERS BALL has been postponed again.. ROGER BATGHELDER, Earthmm Real Estate Person Gay St., Washington, Va. 22747 703-675-3777 Res: 703-937-4388 0 ► Hcjsc —- j —*M D»y Rt»lrV^ Wirort/r^T*?' pen Mouse act* j Eileen M. Day Realtors The Clop ton House [ WashmqjtoKi, : December 18,1987 • 4 to 7:30 p.m.