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"I'm so glad this building is being used," said Fanning Baumgardner, one of Mrs. McNear's retired senior volunteers who had spent the morning uprooting honeysuckle from the big boxwoods at the front of the school. He praised William Carrigan, the school's owner, for his willingness to make the building available for community use at a reasonable cost, no only for the seniors but for Spring Mountain School first and now the Child Car and Learning Center which leases the auditorium for the After School Club. "Without Mr. Carrigan's leadership and support, there'd have been no July 4th celebration in Washington. He's done so much over the years, and now he's being very kind in allocating space for the seniors and for educational programs.”
Hunt Harris also plans to move bis Ragged Mountain Resource Center from Washington's Main Street to the old school. With seniors, kids and the environmental education center in the same location, plus with the bakery in an adjacent outbuilding, the Washington School will become a defacto community center, Mr. Harris predicted.
Mrs. McNear is delighted by this harmonic convergence. "The elderly shouldn't be isolated from children, and children shouldn't be isolated from the elderly," she added, expressing hope that seniors and young people might work together on joint projects.
An informal Rappahannock Senior Committee — Mrs. McNear, Mr. Baumgardner, Mr. Harris, Mr. Soule, Ruth Keyser, Nancy Reeve, James Russell and Bemie Price — came up with the plan for the new
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