“I’m here as a customer of the Hampton Inn.

“I’m here as a customer of the Hampton Inn. I’m not a hired gun. I’m not getting paid for this. I’m speaking from the heart,” said attorney Doug Baumgardner Monday as he presented the Board of Supervisors with a petition carrying 116 names attesting to the high quality of food served at Millie Cibula’s roadside restaurant. “Simple country cooking — that’s the Hampton Inn’s specialty.”

The issue of the Hampton Inn’s food boiled over at last month’s board meeting when Sheriff John Henry Woodward relayed grumblings from the prisoners in the Rappahannock jail. According to the sheriff, the prisoners have complained about the high grease content and foreign objects in the meals, which are served by the Hampton Inn for four years under a contract with the county. While insisting that he has no problem in continuing the contract, the sheriff nonetheless asked the supervisors to consider adding a kitchen to the jail. Aside from the question of complaints over the quality of the catered meals, he pointed out that the county pays the restaurant $9 per day for each prisoner’s food, three