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Editorials
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Busy Weekend
Once again county organizations have' tried to schedule everything for the same weekend.
With the Fodderstack 1 OK Classic scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, prize winners should be announced about the same time as activities are supposed to start at the Ben Venue Earth Day Kite Fly. Early afternoon also brings many activities at the Washington Baptist Church. In the meantime Saturday is also supposed to kick off the RAA baseball season.
The evening offers a choice of the Miss Rappahannock Pageant at the Rappahannock County Elementary School, the major fundraiser for the Sperryville Rescue Squad, or a concert at The Theatre in Washington.
For reasons that are not clear almost every organization in the county seems to favor the weekend after a major holiday for its events. Perhaps some day they will come to realize that not everyone wants to leave the county on holidays, and schedule some more activities for those weekends.
In the meantime the Rappahannock News urges its readers to take in as much of this Saturday’s events as possible but save some energy for the Habitat for Humanity “Wrap-up Weekend” April 29 and 30.
Lottery Funds
The debate about which political party would do the most to provide lottery funds for education has become annoying.
Gov. George Allen and Del. Jay Katzen are correct in saying that the Van Landingham bill did not provide any new funds for education, but merely stated it was the assembly’s intent that all lottery proceeds should go to education. Since the state sends more than the total of lottery profits to the localities as “basic state aid” for education, the bill merely relabeled part of those funds as coming from the lottery.
The governor’s proposal introduced for the veto session would have provided an added $15 for localities to be spent for education, law enforcement or to reduce local taxes. Gov. Allen also submitted a list of items that would have to be cut from state spending plans to achieve that goal.
The assembly kept a few of the cuts but did not adopt the proposal for additional funds to the localities. In Rappahannock’s case it was so little additional money, it hardly matters. For several localities the net result would have been a decrease in state funding.
It is quite true that these lottery funds could have been used to reduce taxes rather than increase funding for education. The constantly increasing burden of local taxes on residents for education and other state required mandates is precisely why localities have^_ been asking for a portion of lottery funds.
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