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peals an application by John Ferdetta for a special use permit for an exception to the side lot requirements for a house he had built in the Amissville area.
• approved a site plan presented by A1 Henry for a three-unit apartment building to be built on a onethird acre lot. In the new proposal Mr. Henry wants to put three handicapped-accessible units on one floor, rather than the three units above a ground floor of commercial space, as Rob Brown proposed. However, the units are larger, and according to the new site plan the side lots will only be four feet on one side and 11 feet on the other.
• received' copies of the state’s guide for capital improvements programming. They will start work on this next month.
• heard Mr. McCarthy suggest that Rolf Graage, who bought Piedmont Farm last fall, and who is raising deer on the farm, may apply for permission to process meat on the property. No application has yet been received, he added.
liams said. “Rappahannock is a tightly knit community, and the farmers here wouldn’t do anything to cause anxiety in any of their customers. And you’ve got to remember that farmers are also going to eat the fruit and give it to their families, so they aren't going to grow anything that they don't think is safe."
Alai- is used exclusively on red delicious apples, Mr. Williams explained. It works as a growth-inhibitor, keeping the apples on the trees longer so they become a deeper, shinier red, and are therefore more attractive to consumers.
Mr. Sharp believes that the solution to the Alar problem, and to many other concerns about chemicals, lies in the education of the consumer. “People want perfect looking apples with no visible imperfections. They want the fruit to be crisp when they bite into it. The only way to satisfy them is to use insecticides. If the customers were willing to accept apples that are not beautiful — but still very good — we could do away with more than half the pesticides used."
Supermarket chains and fruit merchants have followed suit by posting signs which list producers who guarantee the absence of Alar in their products.
That’s why, according to school superintendent David Gangel, Rappahannock’s schools have not taken the radical step of removing all apple products from the menus, as has been done in several other systems in Virginia.
So if you eat an apple a day to keep the doctor away, don’t let the latest fruit scare persuade you to give up this healthful practice.
But for cautious consumers, \ DAGS suggests that they limit fheir shopping list to apples grown in the Commonwealth. Virginia produces about 12 million bushels of apples a year, which translates into almost $150 million for the state’s economy. And according to state officials, there was little Alar ever used in Virginia, and basically none of the stop-drop chemical sprayed on fruit trees here during the past two years.
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