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cal value education in Rappahannock. The high school program focuses on instilling fourteen universally accepted character virtues by incorporating character education into regular lesson plans. Mrs. Fincham concurred: the K-l team deals with character virtue development by incorporating it into “everything”, as does Ms. Markee and the 4-5 team. Rappahannock has become a leader in character education.
Y2K
Holly Pendleton reported on the school systems’ Y2K compliance status. He defined a system as being Y2K compliant “if it correctly processes date data within and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,” and noted that the schools’ computers and imbedded technology (for example, equipment control systems) are in the process of being compliance-checked. The school system must be Y2K ready before the start of the 2000 school year (which begins July 1, 1999), and expressed confidence that critical systems would be compliant by June 15 of this year. Mr. Pendleton did express some concern about the compliance of school system suppliers-food service vendors for example-beoause if they are not ready they will have difficulty in processing Rappahannock school orders.
Other Activities
Other activities before the board included:
• Textbook Adoption - Jon Heddleston presented new literature text options and recommendation for boqrd review and approval. Dr. Gangel proposed tabling any decision until parents had an opportunity to look at the texts, and will arrange for the textbook candidates to be displayed the RCHS library for that purpose.
• RCHS student represenBaldwin
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Bennie Randolph Hurt of Madison; Travis Meadows of Madison; James C. Graves Jr. of Syria; Earl R. Banks of Syria; James T. Presgraves Jr. of Stanley and Kenneth Louderback of Stanley.
All those indicted illegally bought, sold, or were otherwise conspirators of some aspect oi the illegal wildlife trade.
The statutory maximum penalty for a felony violation of the Lacey Act is five years incarceration and a fine ol $250,000.
Numerous charges
During the course of the investigation, federal anc state law enforcement officers executed 13 federal and state search warrants on a varietj of residences and businesses belonging to the defendants.
Among the operation’s seizures were five vehicles am four freezers alleged to have facilitated the illegal bear gal trade. Assistant U.S. attorney
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