Rappahannock News, December 8, 1999

■t-TT **fr -gfc&z:' mA , ~n...rr.. .r—v.t.>i z ■;**** .n—#r* P vRappahannock County’sFamily Newspapff^jng^^^^ 122nd Year ... No. 49 Phone (540)675-3338 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8,1999 www.timespapers.com 50 cents Town to host annual gathering The Washinaton Town Christmas , Party will be •M. held on k. Sunday, Dec. 12 at the town hall frcm 5 to 7 p.m. It will be a potluck dinner followed by the lighting of the town Christmas tree at approximately 7 p.m. in front of the courthouse. Everyone who lives in town is welcome to come. Please call Kaye at the Town Office to discuss how many people from your family will be attending and what you will be bringing. The office number is 675-3128. Board meeting set The December board of directors meeting for Headwaters, the Rappahannock County Public Education Foundation, will take place Monday, Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Rappahannock County Extension Office. The meeting is open to the public. Public Welfare Foundation gives easement The Public Welfare Foundation has granted to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation an open space easement covering its 51-acre property on Long Mountain east of Washington. Recorded on Nov. 29, this easement is the first in that area of the county. Total easement protection in Rappahannock now stands at 8885 acres. Community Association to meet The next meeting of the Amissville area Community Association will be held on Thursday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. at the Amissville United Methodist Church. A committee is working to complete by-laws for the association which will be presented for adoption in the near future. If you would like to offer input, please call Interim Chairperson Steve Miller at 9374298. A committee chaired by Donald Brown is working on plans for “Welcome to Amissville” signs which will be erected on either end of the village on Lee Highway. If you have ideas or suggestions about design or location of these signs, call Mr. Brown at 937-5999. Bob Lindquist is also working on this project. A discussion of pros and cons of development in the Amissville area will be discussed. If you have ideas or concerns about this subject, please plan to attend to voice your opinion. Happenings in Rappahannock • Wednesday, Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. the Washington Town Council will meet at the town hall. Agenda items include: Old Business: Helicopter Landing; Town Christmas party and Holiday gratuities. New business: Review of July 4th Celebration. • Tuesday, Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m. the Rappahannock School Board will meet. Rappahannock News P.O. Box 59 Washington, Va. 22747 (540) 675-3338 (540) 675-3088 (fax) A Rappahannock moment! Photo courtesy of T.C. Pellegatta Jr. A Sunset Story as it happened on Forest Grove Road in Viewtown and told by T.C. Pellegatta Jr.: Most of the day it rained. It was late afternoon before it stopped. The sky was angry and moving at great speed. It was an unusually warm day for November. The smell of the earth was carried in the wind as it raced across the fields. The sun began to set, and it seemed as though all the clouds stopped - stopped to see the sunset. new leaders More than one hundred enthusiastic Rappahannock Democrats met at the Court House in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 4 to elect a new committee and to choose new officers who will serve for the next two years. The overwhelming choice for Chair was Meredith Gorfein, popular county democrat. Lillian Aylor was chosen as new Vice-Chair, Floyd Stilley will serve as Secretary, and Andy Platt is the new Treasurer. As her first order of business Mrs. Gorfein established a By-laws Committee which will meet immediately to recommend changes to the current by-laws. She said, “Our by-laws have prevented our Democratic Committee from growing. Not only is that contrary to the Democratic State Party Plan, it’s contrary to common sense.” Over 75 Democrats filed applications to serve on the Rappahannock County Democratic Committee; the By-laws only allowed 50. All county Democrats are invited to the first meeting of the new Rappahannock County Democratic Committee. It will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Rappahannock County Library. At that time the newly elected committee will vote to adopt new By-laws, Magisterial District Captains will be chosen, and a reinvigorated, focussed group of Democrats will begin planning for the new year. For information about the Rappahannock County Democratic Committee, please- contact Meredith Gorfein at 675-3515 or gorfein@citizen.infi.net. At A Glance WHAT: Rappahannock County Democratic Committee WHEN: Tuesday, Jan. 4 at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Rappahannock County Library MORE INFORMATION: 675-3515 3 Meredith Gorfein ' ' , V'.V V The court date) for Danny and Bonnie Sue Baldwin! of Spenyville has been postponed yet again. The orig- <■. inal date of the trial was Dec. 2. Then the hearing was postponed to Dec. 7. And now the court date has been set for April 3, 2000. The trial will be held inf Charlottesville. The Baldwins were indicted on March 11,1999 for bear poaching and the sale of illegally taken wildlife. ■ ai ■ ■ ■ ■ Mrs. Baldwin haaalso been charged with the posses-„y aion of firearms after having Men convicted of a felony. :*v Bear poaching is considered, a felony, carrying * < maximum penalty of five years incarceration and hr fine of $250,000. The. maximum penalty for -the •. firearms charge is 10 years incarceration and a fine of $260,000. r* ■ n 1 BOS tables Wildwood Forest iVwater issue indefinitely BY LEE COGHLAN Rappahannock News Staff Writer The dominant issue of this month’s meeting of the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors was the offer, by Tom Moore, to donate to Rappahannock County the water system that he developed, and that serves the Wildwood Forest development in Culpeper. Residents from Amissville, other areas of Rappahannock, and from the Wildwood Forest development attended the meeting to express their sentiments on the matter. Moore described his water system as being very good, though iron and manganese are evident in the water. He noted that he had offered the system to Culpeper County and to a number of commercial concerns, but that none had expressed interest, and so would offer it to Rappahannock at no charge. Moore said that most wells in the area have iron and manganese in them, and that his systems meet all Health Department requirements. He said that he thought the system might be useful in the Amissville area and suggested that a government agency should manage its operation. Amissville resident Donald Brown said that Moore’s offer was the “gift of a lifetime.” He thought that the water system would provide needed capacity and would help develop the village. Steve Miller of Amissville spoke before the board saying he had thirty-one signatures, collected over a two day period, on a petition opposing the project. He said that the assumption of the system by Rappahannock would be expensive, and that he was concerned about the reason for such a water system. He noted that there should be no need for it given existing development, and that the only purpose “could be to support higher density development. Mary Hoffherr of the Wildwood Forest development expressed concerns that her development could lose control over their water system if it were transferred to Rappahannock and added that the water had problems-with odor, iron and manganese. In all, two people spoke in favor of accepting the system, and six spoke in opposition. Jackson District Supervisor Ron Frazier said that there was no reason to continue the Board’s discussion on the issue, and the Board moved to table the issue indefinitely. Lee-Harris gets approval After little debate and minor opposition, the Board decided to approve the application by Elizabeth Lee-Harris to change her 36.4 acre parcel from agricultural to rural residential zoning, permitting her to subdivide the property into five lots. Certain covenants must be observed: no boundary fencing will be permitted between the lots; no timbering for firewood will be permitted; and a community hiking trail will be maintained by the residents. County Administrator John McCarthy noted that this type of residential development represents the transition that is happening in the county and that the location of the Lee-Harris property lends itself to modest development. The application was approved unanimously. Concerns over Korean church Rappahannock resident Hans Gerhardt spoke of his concerns about the Korean Central Presbyterian Church (KCPC) development that will go before the Culpeper Board of Supervisors on Dec. 7, 1999. He noted that the proposed development is located just across the southern Rappahannock County boundary on the Hughes River in Culpeper, and that he was “coming to you for help." He asked if the Board members, as individuals, might express their concerns about the potential impact of the development to their counterparts in Culpeper. See BOARD, Page AS

__ i ■ ause: news in brief ,BYJ r Volun f VoluntqJI^'oordinatoiW'V , * Public School Systejrt^ • RCHS Students ar\cl'Graduates...mark your calendar now—for the RCHS Homecoming Weekend, Dec. 17-18. Leading up to the Homecoming Celebration will be Spirit Week, Dec. 13-17. The homecoming game will be against Clarke County at 6 p.m. on 1 Friday, Dec. 17. The homecoming dance will be held on Saturday, Dec. 18. You might wish to contact graduates who are away at college or who are working out of the area to invite them. What a great way to celebrate school spirit as well as our Rappahannock heritage! Questions? Call Mr. Michael Tupper, Athletic Director and Vice-Principal at RCHS, or Mrs. Karen Ellis, RCHS Business teacher, at 987-8575. • Mrs. Candace ^ Lamma, RCES Guidance Counselor, is coordinating a Holiday Collection Effort to provide supplies to deserving families in our school community during the holiday season. There is a collection box in the lobby of RCES for any of the following items: school supplies, canned or boxed foods, toiletry items, paper towels, new mittens, gloves, scarves or hats, new books, puzzles or games. Questions? Call Ms. Lamma at 987-8259. • Many thanks to the Rappahannock County Park Authority for allowing Mrs. Janet Jenkins and Mrs. Jan Makela to visit their last meeting to discuss the RCHS Youth Initiatives Program sponsored by Headwaters, and the Community After School Enrichment program which is housed at RCES and is open to any Rappahannock County child in grades K-seventh. • Don’t forget the next RCES PTO meeting on Friday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. in the RCES Library! There will be a cookie exchange for anyone who is interested. If you would like to participate and have questions about what to bring, please call Jan Makela at 987-8259. • Danny Finney, Musician and Instrument Artist, will also be visiting RCES on Dec. 10 as part of the Artist in Residency Program. If you have a chance, please stop by and see the display of his sculptural papier-mache shakers. They will be on display in the RCES lobby from 9 a.m. to noon. • Just a reminder that the RCHS Home Athletic events scheduled to occur before Winter Holiday are: Boys’ Basketball, Tuesday, Dec. 14 versus Page, Wednesday, Dec. 15 versus Luray, Friday, Dec. 17 versus Clarke; Girls’ Volleyball: Friday, Dec. 10 versus Brentsville. Please mark your calendars, so that you can attend and support these talented athletes. • Be sure to compliment the Pep Band, too, when you hear them play. They bring a lot of spirit to these events and are to be St, commended! • National Engineers Week is scheduled for Feb. 20-26. This is a field that is often misunderstood, L but perhaps should be considered > by more students as a viable career option. kngmeers are mas'P ter problem solvers and work in a variety of areas ranging from technology and architecture to flight and l nuclear power. Engineers play a vital role in this society. If you would like to know more about this exciting field, please call Mrs. Robin Campbell, RCHS Guidance Counselor, at 987-8575, or Mrs. Jan Makela at 987-8259. • We are still looking for volunteers to help offer | individualized tutoring in L basic algebra skills in the r Math Department at \ RCHS. If you enjoy math and can offer just one hour per week or more, please call, Mr. Anthony Conti, RCHS Math teacher, at 987-8575 or Jan Makela, Volunteer Coordinator, at 987-8259. • RCES is in the process of inviting artists from the community to participate in our Visiting Artist program. We encourage performance and visual artists to volunteer just one day (or 1/2 day) per year to share their art form with our young students. If you are passionate about your craft and would like to share that excitement with others, please call Mrs. Harriette Rosenblatt, RCES Art teacher, or Jan Makela, at 9878259. • Many thanks to all of you who supported the recent jewelry and poinsettia fund raisers sponsored by the RCES PTO and Seventh Grade. If you have not yet collected yours, please call PTO president, Mr. Jimmy Swindler, at 987-8597, to make the necessary arrangements. • It is with mixed emotions that we say farewell to RCES Second Grade teacher, Mr. John Glass, who will be serving with the National Guard in Bosnia from December of this year until November 2000. Though we are very proud of him for making this incredible sacrifice, our school community will surely miss him. Mr. Glass will be leaving behind his wife and five young children as he goes abroad to serve our country. Please take a moment to stop in and see him when you are in the building. How to deal with injured birds A few days ago, I heard the unmistakable and sickening “thunk” of a bird hitting the kitchen window, only a few yards from the bird feeder. I was close enough to see that it was a Downy Woodpecker that fell to the leafcovered ground below. The bird m was only stunned and became airborne quickly. Yet, it was with uncertain and wobbly flight that the bird disappeared among the trees over the garage. Many — I should say most — birds are not so lucky and lie on the ground until they either die or are pounced on by a cat. Rarely do they survive. Almost weekly, I encounter a reader who has had the experience of a bird colliding with a window. If the bird is not killed by the collision, there are steps that may save the bird’s life: pick up a brown paper bag, rush out, and pick up the bird and place it in the bag. Fold over the top of the bag, secure it with a bulldog clip or clothes pin, punch a few small holes in the bag for air, and place bird-in-bag in a quiet, warm place. If the bird is not too seriously injured, it will recover in the warm darkness of the bag after a short time. The rescuer will eventually hear a scrabbling in the bag, signaling recovery. If this does not happen after an hour or so, take the bag outside and carefully open the top and peer in. The bird may well be peering up at you. He or she is ready for release. If the bird is not dead and lying on its side, but still seems alive, fasten the bag closed again and wait for another hour. Recovery time depends on the species of bird and the force with which it has encountered glass. In all this, handle the bird as little as possible. What has often happened — if the bird has not been killed — is the bird is conscious but unable to move. This is something like a nightmare, when one wants to move and can’t. If the bird — conscious but unable to fly — is handled too much, the heart beats so rapidly from fear that the vessels in the brain rupture, killing the bird. All of this works, for I have had this experi All Things Wild And Wonderful John Trott ence many times. On occasion, a bird is so conscious that he or she can respond enough to give a painful bite. After all, the rescuer is just another predator to the bird. Cardinals do this, so be careful; the heavy, strong bill of a cardinal can inflict a painful pinch, though I have never had one break the skin. A dead bird can benefit science. Write species, place, date and time on a small card, tie this to the bird’s leg, and put the dead bird in a plastic bag in the freezer. If persistence is a part of your personality, you can then get on the telephone and wade through the switchboard at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., until you reach someone in the bird division. Tell the person at the other end you have a dead (fill in the blank) in your freezer and ask if they want it. Museums often need new specimens in their collections, for they contribute to plumage studies and, in some cases, education. Roger Tory Peterson, conservationist, artist and author of the first truly useful field guide to birds, died in 1996. Peterson had great influence; he made thousands of Americans aware of birds, and his death was a great loss. His spirit lives on in the hundreds who were influenced to become bird watchers and conservationists. A short time before Peterson’s death, I found myself in company with him on Roosevelt Island in Washington. It was one of those endeavors planned to raise consciousness of bird conservation. We had a pleasant talk. I was always surprised that he remembered me among the hundreds of admirers he encounter. “Birds colliding with glass is taking a toll on bird populations,” he remarked. Peterson went on to tell me that he daily heard stories of birds being killed by flying into windows. It is happening everywhere, all too frequently. I have the same concerns. At the same time, I know that one individual helping a bird survive makes a difference. Virginia naturalist John Trott welcomes reader mail sent care of this newspaper: PO. Box 59, Washington, Va., 22747. Wakefield Country Day School news BY LORI FERREIRA Rappahannock News Contributing Writer • Mrs. Pamela LynnTucker, along with Mrs. Regina Knights, recently accompanied her seventh and eighth grade history classes and her Studio art class on a field trip to view the Ancient Egyptian Exhibit at the Richmond Art Museum. The group also visited OPEN APPLICATION FOR AGRICULTURAL & FORESTAL DISTRICTS Any persons wishing to make application for the creation of new Agricultural and Forestal Districts, or who wish to add on to existing Agricultural & Forestal Districts are encouraged to notify the County Administration Office of your intent by Monday, December 27, 1999 at 4:30. While applications for new districts or tag-ons may be made at any time, the Board of Supervisors' policy is to encourage applications during a single enrollment period, thus limiting public hearing, advertising and related costs. The County Administration Office may be reached at (540) 6753342, with correspondence directed to P.O. Box 519, Washington, VA 22747. Forms for new district creation or for tag-ons are available from 8:30-4:30 M-F. By Order Of: John W. McCarthy County Administrator les: □ Please enter my new subscription to: Sappahatmocb Subscription Rates By Rappahannock.$21 .°°/yeaI"*****, Elsewhere in the U.S.$27.°°/year Name Address City. State_Zip. Mail subscriptions are payable in advance. Make check or money order payable to: Sappahatmocfc Nexus, P.O. Box 59, Washington, VA 22747 This form may also be used for f VV? _ (V CHANGE OF ADDRESS OUAddeeae New Address: I---I The Rappahannock News (ISSN #’s 1050-7655 8^88280^ published every Wednesday at 39 Culpeper Street, Warrenton, Virginia 20186 by Rappahannock News, a division of Arundel Communications, Inc. Periodicals postage paid at Warrenton, Virginia and at additional mailing offices. Subscriptions $21.00 a year in Rappahannock; $27.00 elsewhere in U.S. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Rappahannock Newt, P.O. Box 59, Washington, Virginia 22747. Program Forest Grove Baptist Church Established 1886 Rt. 640 • 258 Forest Grove Rd. v Amissville, VA 20106 • (540) 937-3159 Tuesday, December 14, 1999-/ on the church grounds. » Picnic R.S.V.P or information: 937-4134 ^ Covered dish holiday dinner 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Special music and candlelight service "*« 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ^ Special music provided by Warren Dennis. . Fellowship "Meet Your Neighbor" to follow. tt Please come join us! V jp "Let us not give up meeting together, as some /S a~ts... are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage 1 " ’ one another - and all the more as you see the iDay approaching." ^ Hebrews 10:25 ^ PUBLIC HEARING: AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING CHAPTER and to the SUBDIVISION CHAPTER OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY CODE The Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County shall hold a public hearing on the following proposed amendments to the Rappahannock County Code on Wednesday, January 5, 2000, at 7:00 p.m. at the Courthouse in Washington, VA. The following proposed amendments are to Chapter 147: 1. ) Amend §147-5 by adding after "agent" in the final sentence, "and the Commission". 2. ) Amend §147-21 D (1) (b) by replacing "five lots" with "three lots" and replacing seven years" with "ten years". 3. ) Amend §147-37 by replacing Minimum lot size "25" and "25" in the "C" and "A" columns with "5" and "2", respectively. 4. ) Amend §147-37 bv deleting in Minimum lot size line "Special exception condition or", leaving "family transfer**" and by deleting all information in columns to the right of this language and by deleting entirely from note "**" all except second sentence. 5. ) Amend § 147-58 B., by adding a new sentence at the end of the section, to read "Any subdivision of more than three lots shall be reviewed by the Commission, subdivisions of three lots or fewer may be reviewed by the agent". 6. ) Amend §147-64, by adding, at the end of the first sentence," which authority the governing body may delegate to its agent". The following proposed amendments are to Chapter 170: 1) Amend §170-36 A. by deleting "SE" from line "Residential lot development greater than 3 lots cumulative since 9-7-1973" and replace with "P”. In addition, delete all language after "Residential lot development. 2. ) Amend §170-37 by replacing Minimum lot size "25" and "25" in the “C” and "A" columns with "5" and ”2", respectively. 3. ) Amend §170-37 by deleting in the Minimum lot size line "Special exception condition or family transfer**" and by deleting all information in columns to the right of this language and by deleting entirely note "**". 4. ) Amend §170-53 by deleting entirely section "B". 5. ) Amend §170-62 by deleting entirely "A" and ”B". These amendments will be considered by the Rappahannock County Planning Commission at their regular meeting of December 15, 1999, at 7:00 p.m. at the Courthouse in Washington, VA. All interested persons are invited to attend and to make comment on any or all of these amendments, or to mail their comments to John W. McCarthy, County Administrator P.O. Box 519, Washington, VA 22747. _12/1/99-2T Agecroft Hali, an Elizabethan manor house which was originally constructed in Lancashire England in the late 15th century. After falling into disrepair, the manor was bought at auction in 1925, dismantled, and its parts shipped across the Atlantic to Richmond, where it was painstakingly reassembled at Windsor Farms. • Students, families, and friends celebrated the commencement of the Christmas season on Friday, Dec. 3, with the Book Fair, Sarah’s Supper, and the Christmas Program, “A Classical Christmas”, performed by WCDS students in grades one through seven and orchestrated by Mrs. Bobbie Andes. It was a festive start to the holidays at Wakefield Country Day School. Breeden's Plant House Now open for the Fall/Winter Season Tuesday - Saturday Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday Greenhouse Plants, Silk Arrangements Poinsettlas Christmas Cactus Make sure to check out our Christian Comer of gifts and figurines & our many Christmas & gift giving ideas! (540) 923-4381 Directions: From Sperryville, take Rt. 231 S for 12 miles, turn left on 642, go 1.5 miles. ' f .? Local Cmfterst P*,' Gift shop seeks to M purchase local crafts an handmade quilts, Also offering spaces for reM <» displam "" your own items, jRwJt nr information ] 987-8763. If no answer, plea leave a message. M ■. \ s, v'x.-_a2» w’ Si&t r We hope lots of good old-fashioned | cheer will be coming your way durI ing the holidays. And may we say f "thank you" for your patronage. I —The Staff and Management l BROOKSIDE RESTAURANT LURAY, VIRGINIA Brookside Gift Shop will be open until December 24th. HUGE SALE IN PROGRESS. The Restaurant will close at 2:00 p.m. December 12th for our “Winter’s Nap” and will reopen for fulltime operation January 14th, 2000. |_ oper

In time for Christmas Nationally-renowned children’s author Richard Stack will be visiting RCES on Tuesday, Dec. 21. The public is cordially invited to attend. Mr. Stack is the author of four books chronicling life with his dog, Josh ‘The Wonder Dog”. Josh is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most petted dog in the world! Mr. Stack’s books (and other related items) will be on sale in time for Christmas. He will autograph all books and will personalize all hardcover books. For more information orp re-orders call Mrs. Aney Massie, RCES Librarian at 9878259. Fires at old Huntly Post Office On Dec. 5 at 6:55 p.m. a male subject was seen leaving the old Huntly post office after a complainant informed the sheriff’s office that fires had been started. Two fires were discovered: one in the driveway and the other beside the structure. Both fires measured approximately 10 feet by 10 feet. Damage was not ascertained and the subject was not apprehended. On Dec. 5 at 12:11 a.m. in Amissville, two vehicles in Hackley’s Country Store parking lot were vandalized. One of the vehicles, a Mazda, had a busted windshield and a damaged bumper. The other vehicle, a Ford truck, had a busted windshield as well. Sheriff Larry Sherertz reported, “This was not a hit an run. There will be an investigation.” On Dec. 4 at 10:21 p.m. a complainant called to inform she heard glass breaking and witnessed three individuals running from the parking lot of the Sperryville Emporium. Sherertz replied, “We’ve got some juveniles under investigation in this case. They did some damage to lawn ornaments and a sign was damaged.... We have suspects.” On Dec. 4 at 12:37 p.m. in Flint Hill a reckless motorcycle was reported on Cresthill Drive. The complainant said a motorcycle passed at an extreme speed. On Dec. 4 at 11:20 p.m. at the intersection of Route 678 and U.S. 211, Erin Myers of Washington struck a black cow that was standing in the roadway. A spokesperson for the state police said, “She might not have seen it until she hit it.” The woman was injured and had to be transported from the scene to a hospital. The cow was killed. Myers was driving a ‘97 Geo and the car was totaled with estimated repairs at $7000. On Nov. 26 at 11 a.m. on U.S. 211 in Sperryville an accident occurred between two vehicles. Lara Ball of Richmond was driving a ‘91 Nissan. She came around a curve on a upgrade and went across the solid line. She struck Ruth Smith of Luray who was driving an ‘86 Jeep. Ball went into the guard rail on the other side of the road. And Smith slid across the road and hit an embankment. Ball was charged with reckless driving. Minor injuries were sustained by the passenger in the Jeep. Chaz's Special Now Year's Dinner Reservations Recommended APPETIZER Spinach Salad or Yellow Lentil Soap w/ham & garlic ENTREE Prime Rib flu Jus, Grilled Salmon. Vegetarian Special DESSERT Chocolate Mousse Cake or Peach Melba COMPLIMENTARY HEW YEAR'S TOAST Prtx Fixe First Seating 9:30 to 7 p.m. $39.99 plus tax. grot Second Seating 730 to 9-JO p.m. $49.99 plus tax. graL (Includes cover) Dancbig only K> pm to 2 am $X> Covar 540-987-3162 www.bluemooncafQ.com J 11763 Lev Hwy., Sperryville Than. 12/9 OPEN MK Frl. 12/10 LEAN AND MEAN Sat. 12/11 CHTF1SH HODGE BAND NEW YEAR'S EVE Y-OK THE OK'S & PSYCHO-BILLY Family Stylo Dining Open Thursday - Sunday Open for lunch on Sunday Tour Of Historic Homes & Inns Marvel at the tradition, architecture and spectacular holiday decorations of TEN UNIQUE Homes and Inns in Page County, Luray and Stanley, including homes dating from the 17* and 18* centuries. *f. Holiday refreshments will be served at the richly appointed VICTORIAN INN OF LURAY. Saturday, December 11* 1-5 p.nu Sunday, December 12* 2*5 pan. p l I'M Tickets available at the Luray Chamber of Commerce: $12.00 * -*46 E. Main St, Luray : 540-743-3944 11 f Proceeds to Benefit: , United Way & l Habitat for Humanity n ■ f 1 V.ctorKin Im Everything at the 9:30 Club BY GERALD OCHS Rappahannock News Special Writer Don’t believe everything that you read (except for this article). Patrick Foster of the Washington Post said, in his review of Everything’s Nov. 27th 9:30 Club show, that “Everything’s strength is also its biggest drawback: good grooving rock, but mindless good grooving rock.” Pardon me Foster, but we must have been at a different show and we must be listening to a different Everything. Everything had them rocking—the club was filled to capacity and they weren’t there to hear “mindless” rock. I even saw people mouthing the words to “Hooch” and then discussing the real and perhaps supernatural meaning of the lines: “The tribal fire’s here and the circle speaks so near and the simple truth so very much clearer.” Listen to the “Supernatural” CD and you’ll hear nothing that’s mindless. Show up at a live performance and you’ll know too that the brand new Everything tunes are anything but mindless. For Foster’s benefit, it may be appropriate to review some of the lyrics from the “Supernatural” CD. Take “Transition Man” for example. This song opens with the question, “Who do you think you are?” and then attempts, through the narrator (Craig Honeycutt), to answer that question. The second verse puts it all into perspective. The second half of that verse says: Review Rappsnannock News Photos/Gerald Ochs SPLENDID EVENING: Top: Craig Honeycutt and The Boys wow 'em at the 9:30 Club. Below: It’s a full house! “Every day the game is played The information is chewed and spewed out Upon your soul—the big black hole That turns a man into a slave. ” Think about it Foster. I did, and I haven’t any idea what it means. But I do know that it’s not mindless. And I do know that the show was killer. Everything is currently recording a new CD, and that should be available late spring. If you want to hear some new stun before then, Everything ^ will be in concert Jan. 29 at Scope Exhibition Hall in k Norfolk. L Call 987■ 9417 for ■ a d d i - ■ t i o n a 1 B informam tion. I molcefiouse 2 <Wofiday Ojxn Jfouse 5 December It tfi & I 2tfi A 1 2-5 pm Comc toast tHe Holidays & tfie season witfi our JVCeads and Wassail - tfie traditional Holiday drinfe. Enjoy Holiday goodies & efieer'!' Xead Xow Avaifa6fe in Bottle Caff us at 987-3194 /or in/o & directions Rappahannock Healing Arts Center WISHING YOU ALL A BLESSED AND HEALTHY HOLIDAY SEASON AND NEW YEAR! Treat your loved ones and friends to the benefits of relaxing massage or an appointment with any one of our healing arts practitioners. Gift certificates are available by leaving a message at 540-987-7204, ext. 4. 11945 Lee Highway, Sperryville, VA 22740 // S O H O % LAUNDROMAT Now Open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. LOCATED AT MOUNTAINSIDE MARKET MILE WEST OF SPERRYVILLE 987-9100 Don’t take your wash anywhere else! shji Old Sperryville Bookshop s Holiday Sale Event: Civil War Art 6 Books lust released in time for Christmas-a new orint of Stuart and Mosbv! Civil War artist David Wrights exciting new print brings together two of the Confederacy s greatest lcgendsGcn. J.E.B. Stuart and John Singleton Mosby the Cray Ghost. in a striking scene from 1862 in Northern Virginia. Limited editions, only 1.200 printed. Unframcd. $150. or $300 framed. Special sale prices on David Wrights Confederate Leaders prints featuring Generals Robert E. Lee. James Longstreet. Nathan Bedford Forrest and Patrick Cleburne. Dale Gallon s framed mini-prints, regularly $55, on sale at $49 each while they last. These make wonderful gifts for any Civil War buff. Special CW Book Bonus! If you buy any print, get a 10 percent discount on any Civil War books in stock! Sale Dates: Friday. December 10 through Sunday, December 19 only. Bring this ad with you for a FREE BOOK bonus with your purchase of David Wright s Stuart 6 Mosby . Old Spcrryvillc Bookshop 6 Coffee House ^ 44 Main Street, Spcrryvillc. VA Telephone (540) 987-8444 Open every day. now till Christmas. ATM Machine^ now available for your convenience at Burgers N Things j. in , Sperryville ^ The Butler and Shaw families would like to wish everyone a happy holiday season and thank you for your business during the past year and your continual support. Winter Hours: Sunday - Thursday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday & Saturday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. U.S. 211 in Sperryville 540-987-8311

Christmas Dining Dining out in Flint Hill BY LEE COGHLAN Rappahannock News Staff Writer Long days shopping for Christmas presents can be exhausting and time consuming. Flint Hill offers two fine dining establishments that may be the answer to growling stomachs at this busy time of year. Flint Hill Public House John and Denise Pearson took over the Flint Hill Public House nearly five years ago. On the week after Thanksgiving, they are busy trying to decorate for Christmas. Highly visible from the street, a huge wreath adorned with lights has just been hung on the portico in front of the building. Mr. and Mrs. Pearson both work as chefs in the kitchen. From the back of the house, they manage the restaurant with the help of a competent staff. Mr. Pearson says, “We have two waiters that have worked here longer than we have.” The restaurant offers B&B Gift Certificates The following is a list of Bed and Breakfasts who sell gift certificates, which make perfect Christmas gifts: • Apple Hill Farm in Sperryville, 987-9454. • Belle Meade in Sperryville, 987-9748. • Bleu Rock Inn in Washington, 987-3190. • Eagle’s Nest Lodge in Washington, 987-3337. • Fairlea Farm in Washington, 675-3679. • Foster-Harris House in Washington, 675-3757. •The Gay Street Inn in Washington, 675-3288. • Heritage House in Washington, 675-3207. • The Inn at Little Washington, 675-3800. • Lantern Lane Farm in Viewtown, 937-3758. • Laurel Mills Farm in Castleton, 937-3600. • Middleton Inn in Washington, 675-2020. • Sharp Rock Farm in Sperryville, 987-8020. • Sycamore Hill House in Washington, 675-3046. • Thistle Hill Inn in Boston, 987-9142. fresh, seasonal and uncomplicated fare. Mr. Pearson says, “Every time we change something, we change it seasonally. The menu is working for the place: simple, straightforward food. Nothing complicated. Some people like it. Some people think it’s a little simple. It’s very fresh, I think. Four and Twenty (Blackbirds) is much more eclectic than we are.” There is a conference room upstairs that can accommodate private dining for up to 25 people. And the Pearsons have developed a steady following from local residents and the Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia areas. Mr. Pearson is originally from the Midwest. Before coming to Flint Hill, he was working for Sutton Place Gourmet. He answered an advertisement in the Washington Post for a chef’s position at the Public House. Mr. Pearson recalls, “I came out for an interview. It was Labor Day of‘94. I became the chef here and we took over in June of ‘95. We had a lot of work to do. We had to find out what the area needed, what niche needed to be filled. We tried to figure out that niche.” And they have been successful. The Public House is open for lunch: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dinner: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday 5:30 to 9:30 p.m., and Sunday 5 to 8 p.m. The restaurant will be closed on Christmas Day. Starting Jan. 1, they will no longer serve Sunday brunch. Instead they will offer an extended dinner from 3 to 8:30 p.m. To call for reservations: 675-1700. Four and Twenty Blackbirds Just down the street from the Public House is Four and Twenty Blackbirds, a restaurant that has made the top lists in Washingtonian magazine and Zagat’s survey for Washington, D.C. area restaurants. Mr. Pearson stresses that “Four and Twenty are great neighbors. They’re not our competition.” Four and Twenty is owned by Vinnie DeLouise and Heidi Morf. The two have been married for nine years and the restaurant has been around for an equal length of time. DeLouise runs a smooth floor operation and Morf whips up fabulous concoctions in the kitchen. Four and Twenty has less space to decorate for Christmas than the Public House and the intention is to keep it simple. Walking into the foyer a decorated Christmas tree greets the guests. And the food and the ambiance make dining at the restaurant always festive. DeLouise says, “We’re busy all the time. It’s not as seasonal as it used to be. The summers used to get slower.” DeLouise thinks that the shift from seasonally busy to consistently busy began close to four years ago, when Zagat’s Misses' Fall Collections Clearance Sale A great time to buy Misses' Better Sportswear at greatly reduced prices. Choose from sweaters, skirts, jumpers, trousers and more in a variety of fall fabrics. Misses' sizes S-M-L-XL and 6-16. Reg. 24.00-98.00, Sale 17.99*72.99 Select from favorite quality names such as: . WOOLRICH • AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS DESIGNER • TOMMY HILFIGER • JEANNE PIERRE • AND MORE Peebles Great Fashions. Great Prices. Every Day! WARRENTON CENTER • WARRENTON, VA • (540) 347-1820 • HOURS: MON. 'T. 10-9; SUN. 12-6 ROYAL PLAZA • FRONT ROYAL, VA • (540) 635-3101 • HOURS: MON.-SAT. K 9; SUN. 12-5 " . 11 — —.■■ ----1 Rappahannock News Photos/Lee Coghlar> FESTIVE: A magnificent wreath adorns the portico at the Flint Hill Public House. IN THE SPIRIT: A Christmas tree adorns the foyer at Four and Twenty Blackbirds in Flint Hill. and Washingtonian began to rank them so highly. The staff has remained consistent. DeLouise says, “We don’t have a big turnover. It’s hard to find new people. I like to keep the old ones.” What keeps the restaurant so interesting is that the menu changes every three weeks. DeLouise says, “We change things pretty regularly. So it’s easy to keep up with seasonal adjustments.” DeLouise says the menu changes are mostly Morf’s, “Mostly Heidi, then Heidi and I, then Heidi and the staff. We’ve had great staff. We couldn’t do it without them. Our chef, Greg Lockridge, has been here with us since we opened. Mark Metcalf first came as an intern from the C.I.A. (the Culinary Institute of America) and then came back. Kate Gagnon came to us from the Inn at Little Washington. They all rotate positions in the kitchen from grill to saute and dessert.” The restaurant will be closed for two weeks after New Year’s. DeLouise says, “Heidi’s thinking about repainting this dining room. We may have a new look in here with brighter colors. She’s a color person. She likes to paint.” Four and Twenty is open for dinner Wednesday through Saturday from 5:30 to 9 p.m. and for brunch on Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For reservations, call 675-1111. Food drive underway at RCES In an attempt to help children realize that giving can be as rewarding as receiving, a Christmas food drive has been organized at the Rappahannock County Elementary School. Participation is voluntary. Families that receive the supplies will be anonymous. Food supplies will be collected now through Dec. 20 in (MlU W *, , . w . o..,..,.,.. Virginia Locations Alexandria.703/212-9192 Arlm*>ton (lllc/v Kill .703/524-5300 Arlini:i< >n( WUwn B/id/703/536-1060 Fairfax . . ..703/691-0046 Fairfax-lnma ... .703/293-2411 F.illsOiurch. .703/534-2700 C inn-iron.703/550-2400 latvKiri;. 703/777-1971 Osikton !Blake Line) 703/255-2050 Oakton (Hunter Mill) 703/255-1006 Reston-lnoVii.703/834-5994 Richmond .804/967-0303 Sterling .703/430-0681 Springfield.703/922-6800 Warrcnum.540/349-9001 ASK ABOUT INDEPENDENT LIVING the lobby of the elementary school before and after school in drop off boxes. These supplies are for families in the community. Suggestions are: school supplies, canned goods, coloring books, sewing kit, toothbrushes, notebooks, pencils, crayons, mittens, hat and scarves. Also welcomed would be first aid supplies, paper towels, drinks, cereal, soup, puzzles, books and soap. Please do not contribute fresh fruit or vegetables because of spoilage. Also please donate only new items. For more information or anyone with questions should call Mrs. Candace Lamma at 987-8259. Up to $10,000 reward, for tips on auto theft. 1-800-947-HEAT

Rappahannock News Photo/Lee Coghlah UNIQUE GIFTS: Toy horses sell extremely well as Christmas gifts at Horse n Hound in Flint Hill. Horse n Hound: gifts for everyone, including the pets ; BY LEE COGHLAN . Rappahannock News Staff Writer ■ Ann and Ken Pankow, owners of Horse n Hound in Flint Hill, have beefed up their inventory for Christmas. They have everything a horse and its rider may need. In addition, an array of toys, Woolrich clothing, jackets, shoes, Beanie Babies, Breyer model horses, watches and jewelry are for sale. Mrs. Pankow originally got the Beanie Babies because, she says, “They were horsy and cute. And all of a sudden, everyone had to have them.” , Christmas kicked off this ijast weekend with a holiday sale and children confiding their wishes to Santa Claus. Walking into the store, a host greets the customers—a yellow Labrador named Prince. The dog loves people, but if assistance is needed, one may want to seek out Mrs. Pankow. And if your children are restless, Mrs. Pankow will happily play a kid’s video to entertain them, allowing the adults to shop in peace. Six years ago, Horse n Hound began in the Flint Hill warehouse, m xt to the post office. The store started with horse supplies that would have fit in a ten foot square space. Two years ago, the Pankow’s bought the current store and they fill the space to capacity. Mrs. Pankow caters to her clients’ demands and will order whatever they need if she does not have the item in stock. This past summer, the More treats at The Castleton Theater BY GERALD OCHS Rappahannock News Special Writer Children (regardless of age) must take advantage of the budding Hearthstone school talent that will be evident at The Castleton Theater this month. On Saturday, Dec. 11 at 4 p.m. and on Sunday, Dec. 12 at 2 p.m. the Hearthstone players will perform an adaptation of the Erich Kastner novel “Emil and the Detectives.” The original and often filmed story (by Disney in 1964, for one) concerns young Emil who, en route to visit relatives, loses his money to a penny-ante thief. Emil enlists the aid of a group of kids who imagine themselves ace detectives, but the junior gumshoes get in real deep when it turns out that the thief is part of a criminal gang planning a big heist. “Emil and the Detectives” was adapted by Dietlinde Maazel from the original Kastner novel (both the German and translated editions) as a “sketch” piece for the school’s drama class. The drama class is taught by Mrs. Maazel, an award-winning actress, and by Sharon Wyrrick, a similarly-honored choreographer, director, performer and educator. Hearthstone’s “Emil” will be performed by a mostly lower school troupe (7 to 11 yearolds), and will be the result of a few short weeks of intensive rehearsal. On Friday, Dec. 17 at 1 p.m, The Castleton Theater will be the scene of yet another Hearthstone event, The Hearthstone Christmas Concert. The Christmas Concert will feature the school’s choir performing a medley of Christmas, Chanukah and popular (traditional) songs from Europe, a selection of solos and duos performed on the piano, cello and yiolin, and a classical ballet solo. Both “Emil” and the Christmas Concert are “must sees,” and the Maazels have graciously invited all of their Rappahannock neighbors to attend. These December events are open to the community, but voluntary donations to The Chateauville Foundation will be accepted. For additional information, call 937-3615. PankowS went on the Internet j and have received 187 orders already. In the future, they plan on promoting the web site to maximize its potential. i Mr. Pankow is a horse dentist who bought property in Rappahannock County nearly 16 years ago. He is from Maine. And Mrs. Pankow is from Baltimore, Md. After they married, the couple came j to the county and built a log cabin for their home. The cabin is featured in a book, The Log Home Book, which can be bought at the store. They have two girls, Christine, 6, and Kimberley, 3. Both girls ride the Pankow’s pony which is stabled at Ashtree Stables. And Christine is in the pony club, which meets every Sunday during riding weather. Horse n Hound is located on Route 522 in Flint Hill across from the post office. Hours of operation are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The store may be open on Sunday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. but call first to make sure at 675-2400. The web site is www. horsenhound. 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One especially noteworthy aspect are the ceramic plates made by students at the Rappahannock County High School where Jeanne Drevas has been teaching. Imagine having the good fortune to work at that stage of one’s life with a master potter and artist! Happily, I visited the gallery on a warm, sunny afternoon when Photo courtesy of Packing Shed Gallery JESSICA: On display at the Packing Shed Gallery is this outstanding painting. is on view at the Packing Shed Gallery and Cinema Paradiso, on Gay and Porter Streets in Washington, where June Jordan’s paintings and pastels are augmented with a new collection of her pottery. For many years June’s distinctive ceramics astonished the community, and each annual Fodderstack Classic race winner was awarded a bird she designed and made for the occasions. To see her bowls, vases and mugs again is like encountering long lost friends. The refinement, lightness and elegance of each piece indicates that June has retained and even honed her skills. It is always a help the colorfulness of the paintings, ceramics, paper works and fabric creations made a cheerful spectacle, but the warmth of the colors and feelings expressed will cheer all who come, even on what must follow-cold, dreary days. Gazing into Noriko Hoge’s bowl called “Migration” is a heart-stimulating experience - the brilliant blue and green glaze recreates the ocean. Bruce Bundell’s black and white silver print, “Snow Gulls” is an intriguing abstract arrangement of birds one can study with pleasure indefinitely. Nina Moore’s hand made paper pictures are more lyrical than ever. All nature lovers will be thankful for Tracy Brown’s August Haze”, a pastel of four round hay bales in a field before a wood, and Tucker Hill’s monotype of “Route 652 Madison Co., 4:30 p.m.”. Surely, it isn’t the familiarity of these scenes that makes them lovable. Hill’s picture especially reveals the special technique that monotypes involve. Chris Stephens has outdone himself with an electric oil painting of the hills and fields of Warren County, and a pastel and water color painting divided into six squares showing a variety of light effects, focusing on one wide landscape. No description can explain this unusual composition. Two other small paintings of Stephen’s, pastel over acrylic, show softer light on hazier scenes of great imagination in their color combinations. The riches of this show can only be discovered by seeing it on several occasions. Another outstanding Christmas exhibition to see a number of an artists works displayed together to take a measure of the depth and breadth of the individual’s inspiration and character. June paints landscapes at several locations and her paintings of people involve a variety of backgrounds. “Floating Conversation” situates two highly colored nude figures on a dark settee against a cool gray, blue and white blank background. This combination of images and abstract space conyeys a sense of both life and stillness that keeps one’s eyes searching. In two other pictures of women, “Jessica" and “Beauty and the Egg”, June combines an interior scene with a view of the out of doors. “Jessica” places a gracefully clad woman in a delicate pink gown before a door looking into a green field with scattered trees. The grays of the interior and the black Windsor chair make interesting shadows that contrast with the bright green grass. “Beauty and the Egg” places a person in a well lighted room before glass doors, where a winter snow scene takes up almost half of the picture. Interest in this picture is created by many designs and shapes as well as a wide range of beautiful colors-purple, blue, red and tan. An atmosphere of calm is pervasive that emanates from both the woman portrayed and the setting she inhabits. June Jordan has grown as a painter to match her stature as a potter. 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-Eappaftannocfe Jftctos— Established 1877 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Wednesday ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL, PUBLISHER Barbara C. Wayland, Executive Editor and General Manager Lee Coghlan, Staff Writer Carl Eborn, Staff Photographer Peter W. Arundel, President John T. Toler Executive Vice President To Subscribe Phone (540) 675-3338 BY MAIL: $21 a year in Rappahannock County $27 a year elsewhere in the United States Back Copies: Recent 2 months, 50 cents Older copies to 1960, $5 (as available) Office: Rappahannock News Building, Washington, Va. 22747-0059 Telephone (540) 675-3338 Fax: (540) 675-3088 e-mail: RappNews@timespapers.com Hours: 8:30 a m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday Member, Audit Bureau of Circulations WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8,1999 Our View Water Supervisors commended for tabling issue indefinitely. It’s not the initial investment, it’s the upkeep. ” This sage advice, which can be applied to anything from drafty old mansions to surplus battleships, also applies to private utility systems. While the “gift” of a central water system serving the Wildwood Forest development across the line in Culpeper County and possibly some homes in Amissville might seem attractive, the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors was wise to table the issue indefinitely at their meeting on Dec. 6. The fact that Tim Moore, owner of the system has been unable to sell it to anyone wishing to take it on as a commercial venture indicates that for whatever reason, the possibilities of making money on the operation probably isn’t there. And the fact that Culpeper County has rejected the idea of assuming ownership and operating the system for its own tax-paying citizens tells us something else: that acquiring such a system and all that comes with it offers fewer advantages than walking away from it. , Questions about the operation and the quality of the water delivered represent huge risks for anyone, whether they are private businesses or public bodies. And once you are responsible, you can’t allow the system to fail, regardless of the cost. * Unfortunately, even those directly affected — the $5 property owners hooked up to the system — have limited options. No homeowners association exists in Wildwood Forest, and even if one did, getting into the utility business would be financially out of the question. .1 With a public water system in Washington but no aewer, and a sewer system in Sperryville but no public water, it seems clear that if Rappahannock County ;is thinking about toward getting into the public utilities business, it has work to do a lot closer to home. Rappahannock Today Rappahannock News Photo/Barbara C. Wayland Todd Middleton from Attorneys Health Care in Manassas donated five computers to the Child Care and Learning Center on Saturday morning. Mr. Middleton and Rose Ann Sharp, director of CCLC are making sure that all is in working order. Letter Setting the record straight I find it very difficult to discern why anyone would want to point out to the Rappahannock News that I was not in attendance at a particular meeting, (Report on meeting by the Board of Supervisors Nov. 10, re athletic field, Rappahannock News Nov. 17). I have attended many meetings of the Board of Supervisors and I cannot believe anyone would little note, nor long remember that fact alone. Now, to take note of the fact that I was not in attendance, would seem to me to be extraordinarily strange, unless someone was implying that I was somehow shirking a duty, (Really??!!). Let me set the record straight. I am not a member of the School Board, and therefore did not believe any useful purpose would be served by my attendance. By way of further clarification, let me point out to anyone who is interested, the following: Since I qualified as a candidate for the School Board on June 3 last, I purposely have not . attended any meeting of the School Board or the Board of Supervisors. I made that decision because I wanted to absolutely be sure ■ that any comment I might make at any of these meetings could not be interpreted as political rhetoric instead of helpful input. I have been true to this personal pledge thus far, and shall continue to do so until Jan. 1, 2000. Therefore, until I take a seat on the School Board I will not have any public (or otherwise) comment about School Board affairs. ** E. Franklin Warner Scrabble Letters to the editor The Rappahannock News welcomes Letters to the Editor from its readers as a forum for discussion of local public affairs subjects. WRITE: Letters to the Editor, P.O. Box 59, Washington, Va. 22747 FAX: the Editor (540) 675-3088 To be considered for publication: Letters must be signed by the writer. Include address and phone for verification (not to be published). Letters are subject to editing for clarity and length. Personal attacks will not be published. Long letters from those with special authority on a current issue may be treated as a »■ guest column (with your photo/requested). Due to volume, letters cannot be acknowledged. All are ^ appreciated and will be read with interest toward the news-* paper’s editorial values. If possible, type your letter double spaced using upper and lower case. Letters must be m received by noon Monday to be considered for that week’s’ publication. {* From Back Issues of the Rappahannock News Down Memory Lane 30 Years Ago Thursday, Dec. 11, 1969 .The Amissville Homemakers Club, ‘originally established in 1932, has been reorganized twice since that time. Except for brief periods, this club has been one of the most active an the county. Mrs. A.C. Latham -Sr., Mrs. J.L. Walter and Mrs. S.W. Riley have been charter members of this group with each inception. “The Rappahannock Lions Club will .sell fruit cakes and brooms in a door ^to door canvas on Dec. 13 in the ■ afternoon. Anyone who wishes to buy either or both may contact any .Lion member and your purchases ;~will be delivered to you. At an election meeting held Dec. 1 of the Castleton Community Volunteer Fire Department, the following ‘.members were elected and will serve as next years’s officers: President, Richard Settle; Vice president, Charles Gasch; Secretary, Ray • Scott; Treasurer, Johfi W. Settle; Chief, Earl Jenkin^f Assistant ;Chief, Vincent Edwards; Captain, Charles Hitt and Lieutenant, Gordon Scudder. ~PFC Michael E. Welch, 20, son of ;JMr. and Mrs. E.J. (Chicken) Welch of Flint Hill entered the Army on April 2, 1969, received his ’ basic training at Fort Benning, Ga., ‘ has been stationed at Fort Bliss, ’ Texas with the motor pool since ' June. This will be his first • Christmas away from home. ; In an advertisement Quail Call Farm was advertising hundreds of t Christmas trees for $2, $3 and $5 ■ and ranging in height from five to nine feet. 25 Years Ago Thursday, Dec. 5, 1974 Attorneys for the Rappahannock Ski Area say a petition for bankruptcy will be submitted today to U.S. District Court in Charlottesville. Although the ski area will be closed for this season, Winchester attorney Jim Largent of the firm, Largent, Anderson and Larrick, said Ski Area’s directors hope to reopen next year. In a “Butchering Time” photograph Charles Brooks and Ernest Fincham were butchering near Flint Hill for Mrs. Voigt of Huntly. With Thanksgiving past and temperatures falling the butchering season is upon us and thoughts turn to delicious pork chops, scrapple and sausage. The spring fund crusade of the Rappahannock Unit, American Cancer Society was the main item on the agenda of Tuesday’s meeting held at the courthouse in Washington. The crusade goal for 1975 is $2300 according to Mrs. Robert Anderson, president of the local chapter. 10 Years Ago Thursday, Dec. 7, 1989 Adam Clatterbuck is among the 27 donors who participated in the Red Cross Bloodmobile at the Washington fire hall on Nov. 27. Thirty-one donors volunteered, but four were deferred due to medical reasons, according to the county’s Extension Homemakers, who sponsored the Bloodmobile visit. Another four of the donors had never given blood before. David Huff has taken on a new venture and he admits at first he was a little scared. A Rappahannock native, Mr. Huff traded in his apron at Country Manor’s Hazel Mountain Pub for the proprietor’s cap of the new Country Cafe. “It was really hard to leave the Manor,” Huff said, sitting in his restaurant in Washington, located on Main Street next to the Post Office. Celebrating First Washington’s 7! Heritage, Jim Thomasson lead^a guided tour of the town during the Colonial Christmas celebration last weekend. Sponsors reported goodcrowds, which braved stiff winds and frigid temperatures on Sunday.. —COMPILED BY: BARBARA V WAYLAND Photo from On the Morning Side of the Blue Ridge OUT-OF-THE-ATTIC: Out for a sleigh ride in 1943, Jennings and Ashton Burke are pulled by Kate, who also pulled a plow in the summer on their farm in Old Hollow. .

SPORTS New high school junior varsity basketball team Mike Tupper, athletic director at Rappahannock County High School, was available to comment on the new junior varsity basketball team. He says, “They’re mostly ninth graders, very good athletic boys on the team. Not too much basketball experience. But I’m looking forward to see how they play. It takes a while to see how the team is going to play. Every year is different.” “Twenty five people tried out which is really good. There was enough turnout to consider who’s qualified. Basketball happens to be the most popular sport that kids want to play, that and baseball. A lot of these boys do play baseball also.” “They’re all pretty good. They’ll be fighting for spots all year round which is good. That’s what you want.” SLAM DUNKI: The new junior varsity basketball team at Rappahannock County High School Front row, left to right, Darryl Cropp, Ryan Brown, David Letsen, Noah Starks, Andrew Gordon, John Letsen, Tony S. Back rpw, left to right, Luther Stanley, coach, Philip Thomas, Keary Grigsby, Chris Brown, Jamie Keys, B.T. Powell, Greg Jackson, Matthew Dennis, Chris Starks, manager. Rappahannock News Photo/Lee Coghlan New members: The new junior varsity volleyball team at the Rappahannock County High School, front row, Jeft to right, Danielle Hiserman, Kelly Atkins, Kori Alexander, Amy Clinedinst, Ashleigh Burke; back row, left to right, Susan Payne, coach, Ashley Clinedinst, Elaine Smith, Nicole McNeely, Amanda Weakley, Lindsay Neill-Dore, Lara Kreyling, Dawn Andreoni, Laura Maloney, manager. Sgt. Brown deployed to Kuwait Air Force Staff Sgt. Strother T. Brown has deployed to Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base, Kuwait, as a member of the 332 Air [Expeditionary Group (Provisional) in support of [Operation Southern Watch. United States service members participating in Operation Southern Watch are part of a coalition force which conducts numerous flying missions to ensure Iraq complies with the United Nations (UN) Security Council resolutions which call for UN inspections. The forces assist in monitoring the no-fly and no-drive zones to prohibit Iraqi military flights and ground troop movements in the southern half of the Iraq. Brown is an aircraft armament systems craftsman with the 421 Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah. ■i He is the son of Strother and Karin Brown of Sperryville. ,The sergeant is a 1991 graduate of Rappahannock High School. All Living Rooms! $100.00 to r OFF!* All Bedrooms $100.00 to f: l$5Qo.oo onr „ Every Item in the Store is SALE PRICED!: All Recliners $50.00 to [$100.00 OFF! YDfl' anA-u%^'* Heilig-Meyers Furniture low® Cent Its • 61 U ► roat Avon. (rn*Mt tv ttto Fov*J l ion) 341-4346 Saturday 9 6 , ^0*2 State Grant funds Phase II Reform State funds totaling approximately $560,000 have been earmarked to help the counties of Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock initiate the second phase of the Commonwealth’s welfare reform program. The initial phase of welfare reform began in the area in 1995 and shifted the emphasis of the state’s Department of Social Services (DSS) from providing financial benefits to helping clients become self-sufficient through finding and maintaining jobs. During the past four years the state DSS has been very successful in refocusing its efforts and services to this end, but has found that some long-term problems still need to be addressed. Issues including the need for enhanced employment training, adequate transportation and substance abuse counseling continue to provide obstacles for some DSS clients in their efforts to become financially self-sufficient. During the past year the DSS offices from the five-county area including Rappahannock have prepared and secured funding for a proposal to help address these needs in the region. As with the first phase of welfare reform, the central Virginia area is serving as the pilot program for the state’s reform efforts. While regional planning allows the counties to pool financial and personnel resources, each of the five counties is also working individually to address the specific needs of their communities. Some efforts during the coming two-tothree years will be focused on enhancing employment opportunities for harder to serve clients, including those with limited access to transportation, lower education levels or substance abuse problems. Hiring career and substance abuse counselors who can spend a portion of their time in each of the five counties is one way DSS hope to help address these needs. Counselors, some of whom have already been hired and are now in training, will be working to establish new support groups within the region to help those with specific concerns, such as those faced by working single parents. Developing a “one-stop shop’’ for career resources is the primary goal of the Rappahannock County Social Services, which is working with its county library and literacy program to develop its own center. “The center will most likely be located in the basement of the library, but we are still in the process of working out the details,” said Bev Leathers, Director of the Rappahannock DSS. “We’ll probably start out with some basic services like providing the computer base and access to the Internet. Our literacy volunteers are located in the basement there, so we can work with them to coordinate continuing education programs.” In Fauquier County, grant funds also are being used to establish a Career Resource Center which will offer a wide variety of services to the community. Visitors to the center will be able to obtain information on career and employment opportunities, computer access to Virginia Employment Commission' job listings, assistance with resume design, employment counseling, job skills and other' training, and referral to other community career enhancement opportunities. The center also will include a room which will be available to employers and other groups for training purposes. A collaboration of local agencies and community groups have been actively involved in the development of the Career Resource Center. Fauquier County Social Services is also working with Community Action to establish a low-income rental assistance and education program directed at working individuals. Additional grants fund skill training in specific areas including job readiness, safe driving, and renter protocol. Sharing the new support services being developed throughout the region will be helpful to all the communities, especially the more rural and less populated areas such as Madison and Rappahannock, where lower population numbers can make providing services cost prohibitive. “There’s not just one problem; we are trying to solve lots of different things. Some people need to improve reading and writing skills, others don’t have a car, some have a job but the wages aren’t enough to support themselves and their families,” said Nan Coppedge, Madison DSS’ Executive Director. “The regional approach is very helpful to us because we can share resources and still tailor programs to meet the needs of Madison County. 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Board From Page A1 Zoning approved David and Gracie Gillis were represented by Doug Baumgardner in their zoning request that conservation land in Scrabble be used for a residential care facility. The board expressed concern that the facility would expand beyond the proposed eight beds, though ordinances permit a facility of up to 25 people. After much debate, the Board approved the special ziming exception. : E-911 problems ^ John McCarthy discussed at problem existing with Bell Atlantic services in the county. It was discovered that the company was failing to update their databases with new names, addresses and phone numbers, thus preventing correct information from being made available when an emergency 911 call was placed. Through test calls conducted by building official Richie Burke, it was discovered that, in 80 percent of the situations, Bell Atlantic did not have the correct information 30 to 90 days after phone service had been established. Such a delay could result in life threatening situations. McCarthy added that there had been no problems with similar Sprint service. , Expansion update School Superintendent Dr. David Gangel provided a status report on the high school expansions. He said that although the project had been two weeks behind schedule, it is now back on schedule. Below grade electrical conduits and plumbing have been placed and the gravel is set in preparation for the pouring of the slab. “The weather is cooperating,” Gangel said, “and at this rate the project should soon be ahead of schedule.” Massie’s last meeting Phil Irwin, owner of Caledonia Farms, stood to speak regarding the retirement of Michael Massie from the Board. He expressed appreciation for Massie’s “dedication, service, interest and knowledge” over the years. Massie received a present from the board: a chronometer. Massie said it had been a pleasure working with everyone. New appointees • Richard Smith has resigned from the Rappahannock County Water and Sewer Authority. His term would have expired on July 31, 2001, and Alexander Sharp was appointed to take over the position. • Ellen Manson’s term on the Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Board will expire on Dec. 31. Kaye Kohler was appointed to the position and will serve on the board effective Jan. 1, 2000. Peak fire season is upon us LEE COGHLAN Rappahannock News Staff Writer J.B. Carter, fire chief for the Amissville Volunteer Fire Department, spoke with the Rappahannock News regarding the increased chance of structural fires now that the heating season has begun. Last year, the department responded to 14 structural fires. Twelve of these fires occurred in homes and two in mobile homes. The total dollar loss from these fires was i $190,000. A couple of the fires were electrical fires, but most came from cigarettes or heating appliances. Wood burning stoves, fireplaces, and gas appliances that have not been cleaned or properly maintained can all be hazardous. Carter says, “We’ve seen kerosene heaters with gasoline put in them causing the heater to melt. T1 'i gasoline will spill out on the floor and catch the house on fire. A lot of people will use gas tanks for kerosene. The residual gas in the tank will melt the heater and cause a fire.” Another reason a lot of unnecessary fires occur is that the heater needs to be three feet away from any object that could catch fire. Recently, in Castleton, a woman had a stove fire involving food. The fire spread to her kitchen cabinets. She man At Fauquier Hospital, we JL ^.participate with numerous health care plans so you can feel confident that if the need for hospitalization does arise, you’ll know we’ve got you covered. Some of the health plans that we participate in are: Aetna PPO CareFirst (BC/BS) • CapitalCare HMO Trigon (BC/BS of Virginia) • Flealthkeepers HMO • PPO 1 • Trigon Administrators Cigna HMO and PPO Community Care Network PPO (CCN) Community Health by Optima PPO (CHIR) First Health PPO (formerly Affordable PPO) George Washington University Health Plan HMO MAMSI •Alliance PPO •MAMSI Life and Health PPO •MD IPA HMO •Optimum Choice HMO National Capital Health Plan PPO (NCHP) National Capital PPO (NCPPO) NYL Care HMO (Through 6-30-00) One Health Plan PPO and HMO Private Health Care Systems PPO (PHCS) Qual Choice pf ( Virginia HMO United Healthcare HMO and PPO Virginia Health Network PPO (Walmart only) If you don’t see your plan listed, or for additional information, call the Fauquier Hospital Physician Referral at (540) 349-0588 or (800) 322-7500 r'^Eauquier Hospital 500 Hospital Drive Hospital Warrenton, Virginia 20186 www.fauquierhospital.org A Make Sure /Your Home is YaK Compliant! 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There was a lot of smoke in the house.” Smoke detectors save lives “Carbon monoxide can put you in a coma. It’s odorless, colorless and can build up in your system. Most people die in house fires from carbon monoxide poisoning. A lot of them never wake up. We’ve had three fire fatalities over the last ten years. Most died while sleeping.” “Smoke detectors were not installed in those homes. We give away free smoke detectors to anyone who can’t afford them. We’ll come to their home and install them as well. Usually smoke detectors should be replaced when they are ten years old. It’s an electronic device and when they get old, they don’t work as well.” Carter says, “We take fire very lightly as opposed to European or Asian cultures where fires are punishable by imprisonment. There is a lax attitude in this county. A fire really doesn’t affect anybody but you. In more crowded areas, such as Washington, Va., the fire could affect surrounding people. You should be checking your smoke detector monthly and keep debris away from your furnace. Make sure you have an extinguisher handy for small fires in a kitchen.” No fire hydrants Because of the lack of fire hydrants in the county, dry hydrants are oftentimes installed where a pond or water supply exist. If anyone has a water supply that can be tapped into and they would like to offer this resource, the fire department will come out and put a hydrant in free of charge. This effort is part of the Dry Hydrant Grant Program. To be a donator, please call your local fire department. The goal of the fire departments is to have a dry hydrant every two miles in the county, to help cut down on tanker turn around time. Fires are labor intensive Most people are not aware how labor intensive fighting a fire can be. Carter says it takes at least 16 people to put out a fire. That is why fire departments have to rely on each other. Carter says, “I don’t think there’s one department that can turn out 16 people.” During the day is the most difficult time to get staff. But most fires occur at night and in the early morning. The fire departments are also looking to recruit members for administrative tasks, fundraising, bookkeeping and people with computer skills who can help develop web sites! The average volunteer only has to work a couple hours a week. Currently, sixteen people from all over the county are taking classes to get a Virginia State Certification for firefighters. The class finishes in January. Once finished, the participants will have completed 250 hours of training and will become volunteer firefighters. Carter says, “This is training that they have to have before they can go into a structure fire.” The students will learn about fire behavior, rescue, use of portable extinguishers, hoses, nozzles and fire 'streams, ventilation, salvage and overhaul, hazardous material, awareness and response, self-contained breathing apparatus, public education and arson detection. Currently, the students range in age from 16 to 44. On Dec. 11, the Amissville Fire Department will conduct what they call a Firefighter One and Two. This is a live, structural fire used as practice for firefighters in training. The students will be required to resuscitate a victim and put the fire out. Participants will leave the Amissville Fire Department at 7 a.m. The event should conclude at 4 p.m. If anyone is interested in attending or would like more information, call Carter at 937-5125 or at home 937-4218. Fire Prevention Tips Kitchen • All electrical appliances and tools should have a testing agency label. Have appliances repaired if they are not working right. • Do not overload the outlets. • Water and electricity combined cause shock. Have dry hands, do not stand in water. If an appliance gets wet, have it serviced. • Do not store things over the stove. People get burned reaching. • Turn pot handles so children cannot pull them down. • Wear tight sleeves when you cook. Loose-fitting garments can catch fire. Living or family room • Use large ashtrays. 4 • Before you go to bed, look under cushions for burning cigarettes. • Use a metal fireplace screen. Have the chimney checked and cleaned regularly. • Put lighters and matches where small children will not find them. Use special outlet covers to keep children’s fingers out. • Allow air space around the television and stereo to prevent overheating. If the appliance does not work correctly, it could be a fire danger. Have the appliance serviced. • Keep portable heaters away from people and combustibles. Basement, garage and storage • Store gasoline and other flammables in tight metal containers. Do not use flammable liquids near heat, a pilot light or while smoking. • Have heating equipment checked yearly. • Clean up your workbench. Keep flammables away from -*• sparks. • • If a fuse blows, find the cause. Replace the fuse with one the correct size. • Sort and remove rubbish. Do not store things near the furnace or heater. Outdoors • Is your roof fire retardant? If it is not made of tile or slate, the roofing should be labeled Class C. • Do not use gasoline on a grill fire ever. Once the fire has been started, never use lighter fluid either. Use dry kindling to revive the fire. • Move lawn mower away from gasoline fumes before starting. Cool motor before refueling. • Use flashlights, never fire, inside a tent. Buy a flame-retardant tent. • Install a lightning protection system. Rappahannock News gift subscriptions are enjoyed 52 weeks a year. Call 675-3338 to give one.

• Neighbors/B3 • Obituaries/B5 • Classifieds/B6, B7 • Real Estate/B8 Citizen of the Week Theresa Light Home: Woodville Family: Married 13 years to Jeff Light. The Lights have two daughters: Taylor 7 and Lauren 4 1/2. Occupation: Self-employed as a sign language interpreter and instructor since September 1997. Before that, Mrs. Light was a regional vocational rehabilitation counselor for the deaf. She served 90 clients across seven counties. Volunteer efforts: Board of Directors, Headwaters (The Rappahannock County Public Education Foundation); Chairman, Program Committee for Headwaters; Woodville Community Organization; RCES ParentTeacher Organization Treasurer and Sign Language Interpreter, Woodville Baptist Church Education and Accomplish. ments: Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Mary Washington College Master of Science, Administration & Supervision, Gallaudet University. Mrs. Light is a Nationally Certified Interpreter for the Deaf The Light family has lived in the county for eight years. Mrs. Light says, “I love living here and love the people here. My favorite past times are caring for my family and serving the Lord wherever He needs me, everything else is just icing on the cake.” Weekend Picks Open House at Glassworks Gallery A Holiday Open House will be held Dec. 11 and 12 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Glassworks Gallery located on Lee Highway, just one mile west of the town of Sperryville. Featured items will include blown glass, ceramics, sculpture, stained glass, jewelry, furniture, paintings, prints and more. There will be door prize drawings and glassblowing demonstrations. Also featured will be seconds and imperfects sale, as well as special prices on blown glass items. Refreshments will be served and handmade art may be purchased starting as low as $4. For more information call the gallery at 987-8474. Holiday food Drive underway The Amissville Community Christmas Food Drive is now in progress. Sponsored by the Amissville Baptist, Amissville United Methodist and Bethel Baptist Churches and the Amissville Ruritan Club, this is a tradition that has continued in Amissville for nearly two decades! Last year fruit baskets, poinsettias or food baskets were delivered to over 75 friends and neighbors in our area who are elderly, ill or in need of assistance. This has been a great example of the Christmas Spirit in action! If you would like to be a part of this wonderful project, please deliver your donation of food or money to one of the collection points at C&W Auto, Hackley’s Store, Lom-Bar-Dy, Mayhugh’s Store or any of the participating churches before Friday, Dec. 17. If you have questions please call Dorothy Hackley (AUMC) at 9374822 or Charlie Priest (Ruritan) at 937-4072. Taking pictures of it BY DON AUDETTE and PAM OWEN Rappahannock News Contributing Writers Let us record what it is like to live in Rappahannock County in the Year 2000 - what people and organizations are doing; their observations on things. It’s all voluntary. Results would be kept in a special archive in the Rappahannock County Library for public use in the future. This is the third in the series of articles and it covers taking pictures of the county. When looking through a book of photographs, you are immediately lost to this world and transported to another. Time seems to stand still. You way. The most ordinary things are of interest to the future. How about special shots of Rappahannock men and their dogs, or remnants of old roads revealed after a light snow, or great Rappahannock home cooks and their famous dishes, or unpublicized Rappahannock gardens and their gardeners. Try photos of vast open fields with cattle grazing, or the backs of stores, where some are straight out' of the 1920s. Take pictures of pristine county crossroads (no gas stations, fast foods, or rental storage units), or the morning gatherings of people in the vil1 a g e wonder what the person m a photograph was like, how things were going in his or her life. You try to understand what it was like to live in a particular place at an earlier time. This is the magic we want to capture about Rappahannock County in the Year 2000, between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2000. Most everyone has some experience in taking pictures. This time, you need to create a story, then figure out how you’re going to tell it. You’ve got a year, so think things through on the way to work, waiting in lines, or before dropping off to sleep. Create many stories and pick the best. Details make up a story. A farmer’s hands or a weather-beaten hat may tell more about his or her work than the face. The courthouse cat defines the nature of the Town of Washington. Pick out details on buildings, like the few staggered top bricks on a chimney of the “Comer Store” in Sperryville. What are some stories? How about you or your family and where you live. Or people heading off to work or school. Use context and detail. Take a photo of the workplace, the office, the people you work with, their faces. Take a picture of the school, the classrooms, your class, the faces of friends, your teachers, others. Use the camera to tell your stoiy. Make it a slice-of-life. Interested in recording how the nearest village or hamlet appears in the Year 2000? Take views up and down the streets as a baseline, or photos of individual buildings. Don’t forget to notice details - people, plants, animals, traffic, and architectural features - and their interaction. They add to your story. Take photos of the village or hamlet in a snowfall. Or spring, when low sunshine lights up the thin green leaves. If you own a store or some other establishment, get some photos inside, of things on shelves or on walls, and candid pictures of the staff and others. Unless photos are taken, there will be no pictorial record of how things looked in the Year 2000. You know how those old photos of the early cars and trucks look? Everything - headlights, fenders, bumpers, running boards, radiators caps - is sticking out on its own, not tucked away into the car body. Seventy years from the Year 2000, your present vehicle may have a similarly odd appearance. Best to capture now the 2000 look of giant tractortrailers, huge sports utility vehicles, beat-up pickup trucks, or farm equipment moving along a road stores for their cups of coffee. There are endless stories to be told in pictures. They are all around you and all you have to do is notice them. Plan to have some perspective, some context, and wait for the right light, weather, season, and moment. Show people interacting with one another as well as alone. Take a variety of photos, including long shots, action shots, close-ups, portraits, maybe five to ten photos for a particular story. Hold the camera vertically occasionally, for variety. Plan a lot of stories. Use early morning or late afternoon light - it has warmth and texture. For scenic photos, pick out something in the foreground, an old tree, a cow, fence, or brook, to balance the back-: ground of a series of hills or a sunset. Use fog, rain, snow, and mists. Perfect weather scenery photos are usually dull. If you have a zoom lens or a good telephoto lens, take candid shots of people of maybe even portraits. Older people show the lines of a lifetime. Portraits of youth show innocence, or an “I-know-all-theanswef s-tolife” expression, or any gradation in between. The eyes are the most evocative. Look at good newspaper or magazine press photos for ideas. When you use your camera, try looking through it with total innocence, with no preconceived image of what you are trying to capture. You’ll be surprised at what you will see. That’s why they call it a “viewfinder.” Find Rappahannock County in the Year 2000. !/ General guidance? Use regular print film or slide film. Prints up to 8” by 12” are best so as to fit in manila envelopes for archiving. Most photos will be small, 5” by 7” or so. Be sure to date and identify what’s in each photo, e.g., the names of people and places, or what was going on. Next time: other recording ideas, such as videotaping, digital photography, oral history on tape, possible aerial photography sponsored by a patron or group of county organizations, etc. Rappahannock author Jim Paulson unveils two new novels Rappahannock County, home to many writers, has a new author in its literary fraternity. Retired Air Force Col. James R. Paulson will unveil his two newly published adventure novels this Sunday, Dec, 12, at the Old Sperryville Bookshop. After a 30-year career in the military, Jim Paulson moved to Rappahannock with his wife Bonny, who flies the globe as an international airline flight attendant. The two live near Flint Hill in a home built on the foundations of an old mill, where they raise Scottish deerhounds. Jim writes in a cozy, rustic outbuilding equipped with old and new technology—a wood-burning stove and a computer. A native of Washington State, Jim and his wife left their home in Fairfax County to “get |y back to a rural frame of mind and lifestyle simi- S* lar to that in which I grew up in the mountains of Washington State,” he said. “In fact, if I was younger I’d probably want to go to work building trails and fighting fires for the Forest Service again.” H| Instead, he’s been busy finishing two new B novels that draw on his background, experiences K and the places he’s been in his career with the Air ® Force. His new books are also examples of the latest trend in publishing, they are available by direct download to your home computer from the Internet (www.lstbooks.com) as well as in traditional printed-and bound form. The first novel, “Pasayten” - named for a rugged wilderness in Washington’s Cascade Mountains - pits a Seattle-based airline captain and single father against kidnappers of his 10-year-old daughter. Frustrated by lack of urgency by the police, the father mounts his own rescjje^effert, and the trail leads him high into the rugged wilderness. There he is startled to find that his opponents indude a group of drug-runners, a mad killer, the raw extremes of nature and himself. The second novel, titled “Falcon Down,” sends a Jim Paulson colonel from the Pentagon to Colorado to investigate an Air Force plane crash on Pike’s Peak. The story, set against a vivid backdrop of the Rocky Mountains in winter, involves the colonel’s teaming up with a female lawyer. The adventure takes the two of them headlong into a murderous scheme wherein they have almost no chance of surviving a killer blizzard. The author will be available to sign and discuss his novels this Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the book shop on Main Street in the historic village of Sperryville. The books sell for $13.95 each. Those whd would like a signed copy but are not able to stop by Sunday may call the book shop at 987-8444 to reserve a copy for signing. “The Winslow Boy” at The Theatre Dec. 10 BY ROSIE DAY Rappahannock News Contributing Writer Lorraine and Ted Resting highly recommend this movie based on an actual 1910 British court case about an upper middle-class family defending the honor of its young son. David Mamet directs this adaptation of a 1946 Terrence Rattigan play and the British cast includes Mamet’s wife, Rebecca Pidgeon along with Nigel Hawthorne and Gemma Jones. The film works as a precisely calibrated war of nerves in which truth and deceit are all-important. The court case deals with a 13-year-old cadet at a naval academy who is accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and is expelled from school. Mamet ignores the question of the boy’s guilt or innocence and instead concentrates on the intense self-control of the boy’s family. Janet Maslin of The New York Times says that this film “is photographed by Benoit Delhomme with a deliberate debt to John Singer Sargent’s composition and lighting.” Maslin goes on to praise Ms. Pidgeon’s “arch acting style that is central to the overall tone, also defining the film’s eccentricity. Hawthorne, in a wonderful performance, inhabits the role of Arthur Winslow with wry urbanity and stirring conviction, fully capturing the weight of what the Winslows endure.” RAAC is sponsoring this movie that will be shown at The Theatre on Gay Street, Washington at 8 p.m. on Dec. 10. (G, 110 minutes)

Church Activities ► > < County Methodist services County Methodist Churches will have worship services for Sunday, Dec. 12 as follows: Flint Hill at 8:45 a.m.; Sperryville at 11:15 a.m. and Willis Chapel at 10 a.m. The Rev. Merlin Shorb is pastor and invites the public. Flint Hill Pentecostal Pastor: Rev. Jack Campbell Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 6:30 a.m. Wednesday: Worship Service 7:30 p.m. Woodville Baptist Pastor: Rev. Alpheus Atkins Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Night Service 7 p.m. Wednesday: Bible Study & Prayer Meeting 7 p.m. Choir Practice 7:45 p.m. Gid Brown Bible Pastor: John K. Burke Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Sen/ice 11 a.m. Youth and Evening Service 6 p.m. Wednesday: Prayer Service 7:30 p.m. Massanova Pentecostal Pastor: Rev. L.D. Savage Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Youth 5:45 p.m. Evening Worship 7 p.m. Tuesday: Worship 7 p.m. Five Forks Regular Baptist Pastor: Rev. Wilfred Deppen Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. New Hope Baptist Bible Pastor: Carl R. Menefee Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Evening Service 6 p.m. Wednesday: Evening Prayer, Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Amissville Baptist Pastor: Rev. V. DeLong Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Evening Service 6 p.m. Wednesday: Bible Study 7 p.m. Mission Groups 7 p.m. Slate Mills Baptist Pastor: Rev. J. Harold Eaton Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday: Children’s Choir 6:45 pim. Youth & Adult Choirs 7:30 p.m. Thursday: W.M.U. Meeting Reynolds Memorial Baptist Sunday: Wednesday: Thursday: Sunday: Wednesday: Pastor: Jon Heddleston Sunday School 10 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Community Youth 6-8 p.m. Choir Practice 7 p.m. Alt. Lebanon Baptist Pastor: Dallas Smith Adult Bible School/Sunday School 10 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Bible Study 8 p.m. Prayer Meeting 7:30 p.m. St. Peter's Catholic Mission Father Jerry Pokorsky Masses: Saturday Vigil, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, 8:30 and10 a.m. Holy Days of Obligation call 675-3432 Weekdays Tuesday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m. Confessions: 4:30-5 p.m., Saturday, after masses Forest Grove Baptist Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Bethel Baptist Church Pastor: Rev. Forrest Freeman Sunday: Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Service 11 a.m. Wednesday: Midweek Prayer and Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Sunday: Monday: Sunday: Amissville United Methodist Pastor: Rev. Richard S. Gordon Sunday School 9:45 p.m. Worship Sen/ice 11 a.m. Adult Choir 7:30 p.m. Washington Baptist Pastor: Rev. Phillip Bailey Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Services 11 a.m. Tuesday: Adult Choir 7 p.m. Wednesday: Children’s Choir 7:30 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Rector: Rev. Jennings W. Hobson III Sunday: Holy Eucharist 8 and 9:15 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. Morning Prayer 11 a.m. Wednesday: Bible Study, Holy Eucharist 9:30 a.m. Flint Hill Baptist Church Pastor: Robert Goff Second & Fourth Sunday: Worship Service 11 a.m. Christinas programs around the county Gid Brown Bible Baptist Church A special Christmas service will be held at Gid Brown Bible Baptist Church on Saturday, Dec. 11 beginning at 6 p.m. Evangelist D.M. Hardison of Chesapeake will be preaching. Special singing will be provided. Gid Brown Pastor John Burke invites everyone to attend. Carol service at Flint Hill Baptist The Flint Hill Baptist Church will have a Christmas Carol Service on Sunday, Dec. 19 from 4 to 5 p.m. The community is invited to attend. Jeff Light of Woodville Baptist will be one of the soloists offering music of the season. There will also be participation by the congregation in singing the Christmas Carols. Refreshments will be served immediately after the service. Forest Grove Baptist 1 Church Forest Grove Baptist Church will host a Christmas program and a fellowship covered dish dinner on Dec. 14. The dinner will be held from 6:30 to 7:30. The Christmas program will be held from 7:30 to 8:30. The community is invited to attend. For December this service will replace the normal first Tuesday fellowship dinner. Program at Bethel Baptist A Christmas program will be held on Sunday, Dec. 19 at Bethel Baptist Church following the 11 a.m. worship service. All are welcome to attend. Washington Baptist Church The third annual Christmas Carol Celebration is being offered to the public by Washington Baptist Church Sunday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Come and catch the Christmas spirit by singing your favorite sacred and traditional Christmas songs. You are also invited to share in a time of fellowship and refreshments following the program. The children’s Christmas play at Washington Baptist Church will take place on Sunday, Dec. 19 at 10 a.m. The title of this year’s play is “A Creature’s Christmas” and it will tell in a delightful way how the animals experienced the birth of Christ in Bethlehem some 2,000 years ago. The public is also invited to the annual Christmas Cantata at Washington Baptist Church on Sunday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. The annual Christmas Eve candlelight service will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 24. For more information about any of these programs, contact the church office at 675-3336. Trinity Episcopal Church A Christmas pageant with morning prayer will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church on Sunday, Dec. 19 at 9:15. A Christmas Eve service will be held with Holy Eucharist at 5 p.m. and again at 11 p.m. on Dec. 24. A Christmas Day service will be held on Dec. 25 at 10 a.m. All are welcome. Cantata planned at Gourdvine All are invited to attend Gourdvine Baptist Church’s Christmas Cantata entitled, “The Unexpected Guest” on Sunday, Dec. 12 at 11 a.m. The Christmas Cantata is a special event to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas with Christian fellowship and music. You are also invited to attend Sunday School, which is at 9:45 a.m. Gourdvine Baptist is located on Route 729 North of Culpeper. For information call Pastor John Miller at 9376001. Sperryville Methodist to present play The Sunday School of Sperryville United Methodist Church will present their Christmas program entitled, “The Little Drummer Boy” on Dec. 12 at \ 7:30 p.m. at the church. The commu\ nity is cordially invited to attend. Living Nativity A Living Nativity will be presented by the United Methodist Churches of Rappahannock on Saturday, Dec. 18 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the red shed on Lee Highway at Sycamore Hill beside the Rappahannock, Library. Willis Chapel United Methodist I / \| \ “The Gifts of Christmas” akSgf t) will be presented by Willis Chapel United Methodist Church in Huntly on Sunday, Dec. 19 at 6 p.m. Admission is a can of food for the needy. Fellowship Assembly of God Church A Christmas play entitled, “A Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas - The Gift” will be presented at Fellowship Assembly of God Church on Sunday, Dec. 12 at 6" p.m. Pastor Joel Cress and congregatiori extends a cordial invitation to all to attend. Amissville United Methodist Church The Amissville United Methodist Church’s Christmas pageant will be held on Sunday, Dec. 12 at 6 p.m. The play entitled the “Littlest Angel” is based on the book by the same name and is a treat for the spirit that you won’t want to miss. Several “real life” angels from the Amissville community have “flown in” to participate in this special production. Refreshments will be available for everyone who is young at heart in the social hall after the play. Santa is expected to make an appearance. Christmas Carol concert at The Theatre The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC) and The Theatre at Washington invite the community to a special concert of carols by the Montpelier Singers on Saturday, Dec. 18 at 4 p.m. at The Theatre on Gay Street in Washington. As a gift to the community, RAAC and The Theatre are offering the concert at no charge (though donations would be welcomed), and reservations are not required. The Montpelier Singers, who are returning to The Theatre for the fourth straight year, include three Rappahannock residents, Mary O’Meara, Sallie Morgan and April Martin, as well as a dozen other musicians from surrounding counties. 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SperryviUe news notes A Holiday Open House will be held again this weekend at Glassworks Gallery located on Lee Highway, just one mile west of the town of Sperryville. Sperryville By CATHY PULLEN 987-8740 Featured items will include blown glass, ceramics, sculpture, stained glass, jewelry, furniture, paintings, prints and more. Refreshments will be served. There will be door prize drawings and glassblowing demonstrations. For more information call the gallery at 987-8474. Many other stores already have Christmas items on sale. We encourage you to stop at the local stores and check out the merchandise. Congratulations to Amy Payne of Waynesboro and Charles Berkeley Per Dieu III of Lynchburg who were united pi marriage on Saturday, Dec. 4 at Highland Baptist Church in Monterey. Amy is the daughter of Carl and Brenda Payne. Mrs. Patty Jenkins and Dale were Saturday evening guests of Mrs. Cathy Pullen and Ashleigh in Washington. Dale and Ashleigh enjoyed the evening playing together. The Sperryville United Methodist Church will have worship service at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 12. Rev Merlin Shorb invites the community. Our heartfelt sympathy is extended to Mrs. Kimberly S. Atkins and family on the passing of her father David Soutter of Culpeper who passed away on Nov. 30. Tiffany Wayland attended a birthday party for her cousin, Nathan Almarode on Saturday at the home of his parents, Randy and Rhonda Almarode. Nathan celebrated his sixth birthday. The Sperryville United Methodist Church will present their Christmas program entitled “The Little Drummer Boy” on Dec. 12 at 7:30 at the church. The community is cordially invited to attend. Residents are reminded that Cooter’s Garage Band will perform every Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. at Cooter’s, just west of Sperryville. The Page County Ramblers are there on Sunday from 1-4 p.m. until Dec. 19. Stop by for a great time! Have a great week and give me a call to have your holiday guests and activities included in this column. Residents entertain v Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Hawkins of Fredericksburg fwere Wednesday visitors of 'the latter’s mother, Mrs. Edna •Lillard. fi Flint Hill By POLLY AYLOR 987*8136 ,■ ■ ■ • - ■■■•'_-_-. i ; The Flint Hill United •Methodist Church has worship service each Sunday at 8:45 a.m. The pastor, the Rev. [Merlin Shorb invites the public to attend. The United Methodist Women will meet with Thelma Crane on Dec. 20. • The Flint Hill Baptist Church will have worship service on Sunday, Dec. 12 at 11 a.m. with Robert O. Goff delivering the message. The public ■is welcome. ! A benefit auction was held ;at the Flint Hill Volunteer ■ Fire Department on Saturday, [JDec. 4. * Have a nice week and call 'me with your news. Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Barbara C. Wayland Weekend of the bazaars Top: The annual holiday bazaar for Hearthstone School was held on Saturday, Dec. 4 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Washington with many vendors displaying their wares. April Martin displayed her prayer-inspired jewelry. She may be reached at 937-7970 in case you missed the event. Bottom: The 14th annual Child Care and Learning Center Christmas bazaar was also held on Saturday. As usual, the $1 room for children was a big hit, as well as the many other displays. Santa also made an appearance around 11 that morning. Washington residents celebrate Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Clark shopped and had lunch in Front Royal on Saturday and later attended the benefit auction at the Flint Hill Fire Hall. Happy birthday to Mrs. Lynn Smoot of Harris Hollow Road on Monday, Dec. 13. Miss Donna Sue (Susie) Smoot is recovering at home following major surgery at Fauquier ! Hospital last week. We wish her a thorough I and speedy recovery. Just a reminder the annual Washington Baptist Church Variety Show is on Saturday Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. at The Theater in Washington. Donations will be accepted at the door for the Church Building Fund. Anyone interested in participating in this i event can call the church at 675-3336. Sunday visitors of Mrs. Addie Keyser were Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Keyser of Sperryville, Mrs. Marie Rutherford of Front Royal, Mrs. j Jeanetta Pullen of Flint Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne Fincham and son Alex. The Christmas sing and lighting of the Christmas tree in front of the courthouse will take place on Sunday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. Afterwards, everyone is invited to the Washington Baptist Church for the third annual Christmas Carol Celebration at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be offered following the .program. Invite a friend and come join us. Happy birthday to Mrs. Sallie Atkins on Fodderstack Road who will have her day on Sunday, Dec. 12. On Saturday, Dec. 11 there will be a children’s Christmas party at the Washington Baptist Church for preschoolers through grade six at 2 p.m. There will be games and refreshments and each child will receive a gift bag. Mr. and Mrs. John Schultz attended their grandson Eric Sengstacks’s band concert at Chantilly High School on Tuesday evening. Please feel free to call me at 675-3608 when you have news for this column. Have a good week.! Financial Problems? Bankruptcy May Help! • Too Many Bills • Harassing Phone Calls • Collection Suits • Auto Repossession • Wage Garnishments • Home Foreclosures Announcing our newiocation in Culpeper.. * V 400 South Main Street, 3rd Floor „ ; W:- .: (UpMirs from the Sodal Security Office) i mmmmm > m,,**..*.*,*... ■ ....in.,., i.in. Mi. in ... f.l...-.m'.nliWi.. . ■ ■ ■ ■■■-•. •••••• Earl J. Oberbauer, Jr. Attorney At Law 540-829-6900 • 1-800-434-3059 FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION Upcoming Events Band to perform Winter Concert The award winning Rappahannock High School and Middle School Bands will perform their Winter Concert oh Thursday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. at the Rappahannock County High School. This is a free concert, open to all. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. For more information call John Wiese at 937-9909. Celebration at Belle Meade The annual Winter’s Solstice Celebration will occur at Belle Meade Bed and Breakfast on Wednesday, Dec. 22 starting at 5 p.m. Please bring food or drink to share. The celebration will occur indoors and outdoors with a bonfire. Belle Meade is located at 353 F.T. Valley Road south of Sperryville, 987-9748. Christmas Carol concert set The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC) and the Theatre at Washington invite the community to a special concert of carols by the Montpelier Singers on Saturday, Dec. 18 at 4 p.m. at The Theatre on Gay Street in Washington. As a gift to the community, RAAC and The Theatre are offering the concert at no charge (though donations would be welcomed), and reservations are not required. Services Board to meet The Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Board will hold its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 14 at.1 p.m. at Airlie Conference Center in Warrenton. Individuals with disabilities who require special assistance to attend and participate in this meeting should contact Paula Benenson at 825-3100, extension 3146, or 825-7391 (TDD). Blood drive scheduled The Fauquier Chapter/American Red Cross will sponsor a blood drive from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Washington fire hall on Monday, Dec. 20. For more information call 347-2550. Band Boosters to meet The Rappahannock Band Boosters will meet Thursday, Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Rappahannock High School. Everyone is invited. For more information call 937-9909. Ragged Mountain activities Ragged Mountain Resource Center in Sperryville is sponsoring the following activities and more information may be obtained by calling the center at 987-3366. Saturday, Dec. 11: Second Saturday Hike Series, final hike of the year. Destination: White Oak Canyon/Hawksbill/Cedar Run trail loop. Meet at Mountainside Market on U.S. 211 west of Sperryville between 8-8:30 a.m., return late afternoon. This hike will be quite long, so it is recommended that participants be in fairly good shape. Hike leader: Hunt Harris, 987-3366. Wednesday, Dec. 22: Winter Solstice Moonlight Hike of Old Rag Mountain, meet at Mountainside Market on U.S. 211 west of Sperryville between 4-4:30 p.m., return ?. Bring food for self, layered clothing and a small flashlight in case of cloud cover. This is a strenuous hike under somewhat tricky conditions, so inexperienced hikers are not encouraged to participate. Hike leader: Hunt Harris, 987-3366. Elementary Band to perform The Rappahannock County Elementary School Fifth Grade Band will perform their debut concert for the general public at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 21 at RCES. Everyone is invited. For more information call John Wiese at 937-9909. Society to present musical Christmas Through the Centuries will be presented by the Front Royal Oratorio Society on Saturday, Dec. 11. The 7:30 performance will be held at Front Royal Presbyterian Church. The program will be directed by George Amos and accompanied by Mrs. Judy Connelly and a Brass Ensemble. For more information call Ann Andersen at 622-6974. Winter series 5-K runs to begins On Saturday, Dec. 11 the Shenandoah Valley Runners Club will kick off their eight-race Winter Series with the Poker Run 5K at Sherando High School in Stephens City. The race will start at 9:30 a.m.; registration begins one hour earlier. Entry fees are $3 for SVR members, $4 for non-members, and $1 for students. Runners of all abilities are welcome. Call 869-5498 or 662-3381 for more information. Playgroup moving indoors The Mother’s Playgroup is moving indoors. The group meets at Trinity Episcopal Church on Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon. A donation will be collected. For more information call Kathy at 987-9099. Handling Holiday Grief Hospice of the Rapidan presents a free workshop for anyone who has lost a loved one through death or divorce, to learn coping techniques for managing the emotional stress associated with the holidays. Everyone is welcome. The workshop will be held Wednesday, Dec. 8 from 5 to 6 p.m. at the hospice office in Mulberry Commons, 1200 Sunset Lane, Suite 2320 in Culpeper. Pre-registration requested, 825-4840. Shooting match at Castleton The Castleton Volunteer Fire Department is sponsoring a shooting match every Friday night at 7 p.m. on the grounds of the department. Local residents are encouraged to support this endeavor. Fundraiser underway The Rappahannock County High School Athletic Boosters are beginning their main fundraiser of the year. For a donation of only $20 you could be eligible to win a grand prize of $1,000; a second place prize of $750 or a third place prize of $250. Prizes will be given away at the last boy’s basketball game in December. You do not need to be present to win. There will be only 200 tickets printed. Proceeds benefit the athletes at the high school and the athletic department. Tickets are available from any RCHS coach, at any home game or from any of the following Booster Club members: Nancy and Calvin Atkins, Monte and Lisa Clinedinst or Cheryl Taylor. Fund drive underway at Chester Gap The Chester Gap Volunteer Fire Department is having a special fund drive for the next several weeks in cooperation with Community Support Services. Families will be contacted by phone and asked to make a pledge. Each family that pledges receives a beautiful 10x13 canvas mount portrait, compliments of the fire department. For any additional information call 1-800253-2638.

“Never to be forgotten” BY WAYNE F. BALDWIN Rappahannock News Contributing Writer The fall or Autumn, whichever term one prefers, is without doubt my most favorite time of the year...as far as the beauty of the earth goes. It is also one of the sadder times of the year for me, for I’m always reminded of a time and place forty years ago. The place was in Gid Brown Hollow in my native Rappahannock, and the time was late November. It was Nov. 30, 1959, exactly eight days after my seventh birthday. On this date, my grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth Baldwin died. Always known as “Lizzie” to family and friends. Lizzie was bom July 14, 1906 in Compton Hollow, Page County. She was a daughter of James Edward and Bertie Deavers Moulden. Her home was just down the mountain from my grandfather’s home, and at age sixteen (granddaddy was twenty-one) they got married. You’ll have to keep in mind I’m writing after forty years have passed, and from the memory of a seven-year-old lad, but those memories are as clear and fresh in my mind today as if it had only been yesterday. Grandma, used to call me “monkey”, so my mother told me, until I started calling her monkey first upon seeing her. Then, I guess, she sort of stopped it. I remember grandma took no small pains to show and teach me little things. I recall her as the most gentle, loving person during that period of my life. Some family difficulties had arisen a few months previous and it happened that my brother Jack and I stayed with our grandfather and grandmother Baldwin awhile. During this time grandma showed me how to chum butter, and that was with the old fashioned up and down wooden butter churn. She let us help shell peas, and made us little wagon-type vehicles out of card board boxes with bailer twine for the handles to pile wopd onto and pull to the wood-box behind the kitchen cook stove. She had no refrigerator at this time, that is such as we know it today, but used a “spring-box” about 1/3 mile from the house. Here, at what was called the Charlie House (after Charlie Pullen who used to live there), was a fine spring and a box had been built with a top or lid in which grandma would put left overs, milk, butter and other foods. When needed she’d go get it and I’d tag along. I assume that at times she’d get water in buckets from the spring but do remember quite well going out the back kitchen door to the wellhouse where we’d watch her let down the bucket by a chain on a crank or handle and then hoist it back up again. Granddaddy kept honey bees and about that time probably had a hundred hives or so. My grandparents had many ways of making the family income, and the melted bees wax was one of them, I remember grandma melting down the “comb” after the honey had been extracted, and seeing the large wheels of it in burlap bags. I think she melted it in a large tub on top of Photo courtesy of Wayne F. Baldwin REMEMBERING: Wayne Baldwin with his grandparents, Oscar and Lizzie Baldwin. Photo was taken approximately 1957. the wood cook stove in the kitchen. Oh, and that kitchen! I will always remember the old Home Comfort cook stove, the water table against the wall, which was actually a wide board shelf, where the water buckets, wash pan, soap and towel were kept. That orange colored bar soap, I think it was Dial. Social Security A Disability Claims • Disabled? Turned Down? • Over 31 Years Experience • No Recovery - NO FEE Announcing our new location in Culpeper... 400 South Main Street, 3rd Floor ^ ■V ", ,:'V; (Upstairs from the Social Security Office) Earl J. Oberbauer, Jr. Attorney At Law 540-829-6900 • 1-800-434-3059 FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION Providing Affordable, Quality Legal Sendees Since 1975 I ate many meals at the kitchen table, that green painted table. The most memorable thing about the whole kitchen was the floor. I’d say there was as much as a sixinch slope from the upper side to the lower side, so much so that the table to be made level had little blocks nailed to the ends of the legs. To get into the kitchen from the front of the house, one would enter via the hallway or dinning room (one and the same). I can see that string of red peppers hanging to the right of the kitchen door Breakfast, lunch school menus RCES Breakfast: Monday, Dec. 13: Cinnamon tasteries or cereal/milk, toast, juice and milk. Tuesday, Dec. 14: Hash browns/toast or cereal/milk, toast, juice and milk. Wednesday, Dec. 15: Bagel french toast or cereal/milk, toast, juice and milk. Thursday, Dec. 16: Hot cakes/syrup or cereal/milk, toast, juice and milk. Friday, Dec. 17: Breakfast pizza or cereal/milk, toast, juice and milk. Lunch: Monday, Dec. 13: Barbecue pork rib/roll, macaroni and cheese, choose two: green beans, chilled fruit, fruit juice. enceyouenvisio] | 'Jr a E jiy p mm Now at Payne Pools Hawkeye Spas & Gas Fireplaces We Keep You Cool in the Summer and Warm in the Winter! • Vented • Vent Free •Gas Inserts • Gas Logs Jayne ___ ools, Spas and Etc. 62C Waterloo St., Warrenton 347 2815 571A James Madison Hwy., Culpeper 825-5645 2326 Plank Rd., Fredericksburg 371-2021 that granddaddy always kept there. The door itself was painted or white-washed white. It had no knob or handle but a wooden latch or slide bar. I could go on and on with the details of the house and its contents, but my story would take up too much space. I chose some of these memories to give some insight into the clearness of a child’s mind. The family difficulties mentioned earlier were resolved and my brother and I went back to our parent’s home. We weren’t with grandma everyday then, but visited mostly on weekends. I then remember grandma being sick. I didn’t know what it was, but I remember she’d be in bed at times. Sometimes she couldn’t eat or drink. Now, I know it was cancer. She’d had surgery a year or two before, and had she not gone back to working so soon it might not have re-occurred. She was lifting five gallon buckets of water up from the damned up stream to help granddaddy fill the 400 gallon tank on the sprayer, when she felt something “pull loose”. Granddaddy wasn’t well either as he’d had a stroke a while back and was diabetic too. He still did what he could. I know that he’d hired Carl Partlow to assist on the farm. I often think how much granddaddy grieved after grandma’s death. For he died only five months later, in April 1960. He was just fifty-seven years old. Daddy was getting back on his feet too from having his hip broken. I remember him driving with his good leg, the old blue and white ‘54 twodoor Ford car when we went up to our grandparents. One day Mama had baked a twolayer coconut cake to give to grandma. Mama also used to walk from our house up to grandma’s to wash clothes and things like that. A distance of about a mile and a half each way. I have a letter she wrote to grandma with details of what was going on in our house, how well I was doing in school, and that she was “cracking” walnuts. I remember the preacher, being there to see her when she was really bad. The preacher was Elder Harvey Daily from Sperryville. He was pastor of Thornton Gap Old School Baptist Church in Old Hollow, where my grandma and granddaddy had joined in 1957. I remember the funeral home and all the creepy quietness. I remember seeing grandma in that grey casket" with the stark white lining. I remember my dad asking me if I wanted to touch her, which I didn’t, and regretted ever . since. I remember feeling so lonely, and what an absence that was! So, I swore that I would always touch the dead should I feel that same lonely feeling again. Grandma was only fifty-three years old when she died. After about thirty-five years I had a dream of my grandma. I had dreamed we were at the old place again,, lots of people were there. I saw her sitting in a split-bottorp chair in the kitchen near the back door, telling everyone she had to go away. She told me to Come there and sit down in front of her. Then I remember her gently stroking the top of my head and saying everything would be alright. I ask then, dear reader, how could one such as she be forgotten? Lord, help me keep my memories of her, that I might try to pass on to each generation of her descendants the noble, gentle soul she was. Tuesday, Dec. 14: Chicken noodle soup, grilled cheese sandwich, choose two: fresh carrots/dip, apple pixie pie, chilled fruit. Wednesday, Dec. 15: Chicken pattie on bun, choose two: french fries, steamed peas or rice, chilled fruit. Thursday, Dec. 16: Sausage and cheese pizza, choose two: corn or spiral pasta, chilled fruit, fresh fruit. Friday, Dec. 17: Holiday baked ham, hot biscuit/butter, choose two: mashed potatoes, holly jolly succotash, Christmas salad and cookie. RCHS Lunch: Monday, Dec. 13: Steak nuggets, baked potato/cheese, steamed broccoli, nacho’s/salsa, hot biscuit with butter or chicken salad on bun, grilled ham and cheese, french fries and fruit. Tuesday, Dec. 14: Naughty or nice chili, seasoned curly fries, chilled fruit, garlic bread sticks, peanut butter cookie or fish filet on bun, sausage pizza, fruit. Wednesday, Dec. 15: Elf cheeseburger, potato rounds, hot apple cobbler with cool whip or tuna salad on bun* bologna and cheese sub, chilled fruit. Thursday, Dec. 16: Baked holiday ham, mashed potatoes or sweet potato souffle, California blend, Christmas jello salad, hot roll/butter of pepperoni pizza, chili cheese nacho’s, chilled fruit. Friday, Dec. 17: Vegetable beef soup, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, onion rings, chilled fruit or pork nibblers, hot dog on bun, chilled fruit. - Park sponsors bird count Volunteers will be scanning the skies, trees, stream banks and farm fields on Sunday, Dec. 19 in search of birds as Shenandoah National Park sponsors its 31st annual bird count. The day-long event will take place within a 15mile diameter circle centered on Hershberger Hill between Luray and Stanley in Page County. New volunteers are always welcome. Contact count compiler Mara Meisel at 540-9993282 by Dec. 12. There is a $5 per person fee. The count marks the 100th anniversary of the annual bird count sponsored by the National Audubon Society. • It originated in December 1900, when ing birds, volunteers counted them. This year, 50,000 volunteers throughout the United States, Canada, Central and South America, Bermuda, the West Indies, apd the Pacific Islands will take part in the counts. The data collected provides insight into population trends-, movement, habitat changes, and health of wild birds. Count data from 1900 to present is available through the interactive BirdSource web s i t e , http://www.birdsource.org, ti cooperative project of the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. conservationists offered as alternative to the annual “side hunt,” in which people were encouraged to shoot as many birds as possib 1 e [ Instead of shoot

Amissville residents attend concert at MCI Eighteen more days until Santa comes! You better be getting your list ready! Speaking of Christmas, Amber and I went to the Amy Grant Christmas Concert on Friday, along with Lu and Lisa Morrison and children, Carrington and Cathy Lou Smith and their daughter and son-in-law and children, Lisa and Emma Clough and Caroline Green. It was a real great time. Food prices at the MCI Center were outrageous. The Metro ride was an experience and. our seats at the concert were close to God. I thought we were going to fall every time I stood up. Next year if we go, we will get tickets in section 200 not 400. In keeping with the true nieaning of Christmas, let’s reach out to our friends and neighbors that are less fortunate than us. The Amissville annual drive is now in full swing. Anyone wishing to participate can do so by leaving can food or money in the containers located at most places of business in our area. When we give from our hearts, no matter how small the gift, we have found the true meaning of Christmas. Tax deductible donations can also be mailed to the Amissville Christmas Baskets, P.O. Box 75, Amissville, Va. 20106. If you know of someone in need, mail their name and address to the same address. The communi By AMY HITT 937-3401 ty’s participation in this worth while project is one in which we can be truly proud. Don’t forget the Amissville United Methodist Christmas Pageant this weekend on Sunday Dec. 12 at 6 p.m. The “Littlest Angel” is the name of the production. The children have put a lot of time and effort into the play, so come on out and see. I see a lot of people have the icicle lights up. They really make your house light up. We went this weekend and picked out our tree. We got a Blue Spruce with a root ball on it, so we could plant it after Christmas. Most people don’t realize that you can get a live tree for almost the same price as a cut one. Our tree is six foot with a 18 inch ball. When you put it in the house, and stand it up in a tire, cover the tire with plastic and put your tree skirt on, it looks great and you are saving a tree. Our tree was only $46, you can’t go to a nursery in the spring and get a Blue Spruce for that, let alone a six foot one. If you want to ; e mine, come on over. Woodville highlights Charles and Pat Whorton spent from Tuesday until Thursday in Richmond. Rodney Vest, Pat. Whorton and Logan Vest went shopping in Winchester on Saturday. On Sunday Rodney Vest, Jo Vest, Ashley and Logan Vest shopped in Charlottesville. Mrs. Audra Crawford is staying with her daughter, Lil Sykes in Culpeper. She would like to return to the Woodville area. Mrs. Crawford lost her home and all belongings to a fire in late November. Her recent visitors have been Mr. and Mrs. Opie Crawford, Elizabeth and Charles Ray of Sperryville, Mr.'and Mrs. Curtis Crawford and Katherine of Flint Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Don Cobb, Tina and Tom Sowell, Kristin Sowell, Tim and Kendra Sowell, all of Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Mrs. Lou Good of Stanley, Viewtown social notes ,Rev. and Mrs. Milton Switzer of Hope Hill Church entertained with Thanksgiving dinner at their home for family. r Viewtown By GLADYS DODSON / §g§«W v 937-4904 . ■ in ..mu i ■ ■■■■- m*mmm■■■■■■ Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pullen of North Carolina, Lois Alther of Rixeyville, Shirley Hitt of Castleton, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bower and Becky of Buffalo, N.Y., Allen Hawkins, Randy Hitt, Billy Hawkins, J. R. Hawkins, Theresa Hawkins, Andy Grimsley and Trdcy Alther of Castleton. A Christmas program will be «held at Forest Grove Baptist Church on Tuesday, Dec. 14 beginning at 6:30 p.m. A covered dish holiday dinner will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Special music and candlelight service will be held from 7:30 to 8:30. Special music will be provided by Warren Dennis. The church is located on Route 640 and all Viewtown residents and the community at large are welcome to attend. Happy birthday to Donnie Settle who celebrates his birthday on Dec. 11. Mrs. Michael Cooke is a patient at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton. Woodvilte By JUNE CLARK / 987-8827 J:„-v Robert and Sam Falls were Friday visitors of Mrs. June Clark and Misty Hitt. Other visitors during the week were Myrtle Falls, Richard and Peggy Wayland, Richard and Die Burke and Tim and Edie Falls. Monday afternoon guests in the Clark-Hitt home were Billy and Nina Fox of Luray. Take a drive in the evening around the community of Woodville and notice all the holiday decorations and lighting. And remember to shop locally if at all possible. ^Jtioucjllts by Randy Minter DEMONSTRATING COMPASSION When a relative has died in a far off city, many airlines offer compassion or bereavement fares. While these fares may not be lower than a special sale fare, they are typically half of what one would pay for a last-minute, unrestricted ticket - with an open ended return. Aside from price, the biggest benefit of a bereavement ticket is that it provides a round trip rate, even though the bereaved traveler can return whenever he or she wants. This precludes the expensive necessity of having to purchase one-way tickets to and from a destination. Those seeking compassion fares can expect the airlines to ask them what their relation was to the deceased, as well as verification from the funeral home. We are happy to provide you with the proper documentation so you can receive a bereavement fare from the airlines. At the MOSER FUNERAL HOME, 233 Broadview Ave., we know how hard an impact loss has upon a family. You’ll find us to be sensitive to your experience as you deal with your grief. Our two chapels can accommodate both small and large funerals. Call 347-3431. NOTE: Compassion fares are typically allowed for spouses, children, parents, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, as well as in-laws, stepchildren, stepsiblings and foster families. Obituaries David Soutter Culpeper resident David Lee Soutter, 60, of Culpeper died Tuesday, Nov. 30 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was born June 14, 1939, in Culpeper to the late John Franklin Soutter Sr. and Mae Perryman Soutter. Mr. Soutter was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He was employed with RUS for 13 years and was an avid fan of horse racing. He is survived by his wife of 32 years, Ruby Elizabeth McIntosh Soutter of Culpeper and two daughters, Karen Lee Soutter of Culpeper and Kimberly Soutter Atkins and her husband^ Bill of Sperryville. Additional survivors include two granddaughters; three brothers, Jim Soutter Sr. of Richmond, Fred Soutter Sr. and John F. Soutter Jr., both of Culpeper; three sisters, Lizzie Partlow of Culpeper, Mildred Morris of Aroda and Mabel Kennedy of Culpeper; a special nephew; father-in-law, Raymond McIntosh of Broad Run; a special friend, George Hoffman Sr. of Culpeper and a number of other nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a brother, Arthur Soutter Sr. and a sister, Margaret Hall. Funeral services were held Saturday, Dec. 4 at Found & Sons Chapel with the Rev. Jon Heddleston officiating. Interment followed at Fairview Cemetery. Pallbearers were Fred Soutter, George Hoffman, Mike Bache, Bucky Murray, Raymond Kirtley and Vincent Hawkins. Memorial donations may be made in his name to the Leukemia Society of America, 2101 Executive Drive, P.O. Box 21, Hampton, Va. 23666. Grace Woodward Born in Sperryville Grace Evelyn Woodward, 77, of Luray died on Nov. 23 at Page Memorial Hospital in Luray. She was born on June 22, 1922, at Sperryville, a daughter of the late James Bryant Cornell and Ida Mae Dwyer Cornell. On Oct. 14, 1945, she married Leo William Woodward, who died on July 3, 1983. Survivors include two daughters, Evelyn Laverne Harlow and Sandra Kaye Breeden, both of Luray; three sons, Eddie Wayne Woodward and Jerry Allen Woodward, both of Luray and Kenneth James Woodward of Shenandoah; 12 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Also surviving are seven sisters, Virginia Mae Frazier, Elna C. Beahm, Mary Jane Waters and Katherine I. Waters, all of Luray, Frances M. Morris of Harrisonburg, Lorene Dwyer of Sperryville and Jean “Pat” Atkins of Culpeper. Funeral services were conducted on Saturday, Nov. 27 with burial following in Beahm’s Chapel Cemetery. James Jenkins Farmer James Haywood Jenkins, 88, of Fredericksburg died Thursday, Dec. 2 of complications from pneumonia at Fredericksburg Nursing Home. Mr. Jenkins worked at Hansford-Abel Farms in Stafford as a farmer. He was predeceased by his wife of 52 years, Lucy Margaret Jenkins and a daughter, Lucy Mae Stiles. Survivors include three sons, Elmer H. Jenkins of Fredericksburg, James C. Jenkins of Stafford and Roger L. Jenkins of Spotsylvania; five daughters, Hazel V. Jeffries of Stafford, Mary H. Kenny of Conway, S.C., Maggie Skinner and Margie J. Merryman, both of Spotsylvania and Peggy Curtis of Fredericksburg; 26 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren and 15 great-greatgrandchildren. Also surviving are three sisters, Holly Dodson of Culpeper, Margaret Jenkins of Front Royal and Lucille Rutherford of Castleton and two brothers, George Jenkins and Ennis Jenkins, both of Sperryville. Funeral services were conducted at Found & Sons in Fredericksburg on Sunday, Dec. 5 with Rev. Mark Jones officiating. Interment followed at Stonewall Memory Gardens. Edith Wigington Sperryuille resident Mrs. Edith Mabel Wigington, 72, of Sperryville died on Tuesday, Nov. 30 at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton. She was a homemaker. She was predeceased by her two youngest sons, Kenneth A. Wigington and William Wayne Wigington. She is survived by her husband, Thomas Wigington Sr.; Five children, Thomas S. Wigington Jr., James R. Wigington Sr., Samuel H. Wigington, Carolyn A. Roberts and Edith A. Haney; 13 grandchildren and several greatgrandchildren. Also surviving are one sister and four brothers. Funeral services were conducted ait Shiloh Baptist Church in Woodville on Saturday, Dec. 4 with the Rev. M. Tinsley of Aroda officiating. The Rev. Henry Townes of Culpeper delivered the eulogy. Interment was in the church cemetery. W.C. Thompson Funeral Home in Culpeper was in charge of the arrangements. Clot t-{:tH;l?sh • F UN C R A I HOMF • H ff "The Home of Thoughtful Service" 11190 James Monroe Highway (Rt. 29 South) Culpeper, VA 540-825-2361 • 540-825-0395 Wayne English, General Manager Only $4.60per week for a 1 inch space (540) 675-3338 Next Deadline December 23 AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR RIVERSIDE AUTO SERVICE Quality Auto Body Repairs Mechanical Repairs Towing Service . State Inspection SperryviDe (540) 987-8264 BUILDING SUPPLIES CHERRY STREET BUILDING SUPPLY CORP. See Us for All Your Building Supply Needs 540/825-0397 1418 Orange Rd., Culpeper Brandy Station Rt. 762 825-9690 . 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The Times will not accept liability for its failure, tor any cause, to insert an advertisement and reserves the right to reject any advertisement deemed objectionable in subject matter, phraseology or setup. The Times Newspapers are not liable for the quality of advertised products or services. We Accept Rentals Apartments ) SPERRYVILLE area: 1 BR, Ig. rooms, no pets. Refs. & sec. req. $345/ mo + util. Call 540-9878789. Rentals ^ Houses V_ ^ RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, lovely, restored, two story frame manor house surrounded by open fields and mountain views. Two car garage & 3 stall barn, $1,500/mo. Available after 12/15/99. Cal Eileen M. Day Realtors, evenings 540-675-3843. SPERRYVILLE ?BR brick, full bsmt, CAC/Heat, all appl. 5 acres. No inside pets. $875/mo 540-987-8975 Furniture/ Appliances V ___/ TRADITIONAL CHERRY DINING room table, one leaf, 6 chairs, beveled glass lighted china cabinet $1,800 OBO, 540-675-1433 /-N 240 Horses V _ J WILL BOARD A horse for stable mate, new bam, will feed hay & grain every day. Amissville. 540-347-4528. -. 252 Livestock V_) ANGUS BULLS, big, stout yearlings ready for service. $1200 - $1500. Newbill Miller. 540-6753691. LLAMAS! Great family fun/business. Gentle, clean, easy & economical to raise on sm. acreage. Compet. prices. Great X-mas gift! 540-439-4665. 256 Mlsc. For Sale FOX HUNTING ITEMS: Flask Ig., mouth blown crystal silver top in leather holster $450 (new $550). Pink coat, heavy weight v.g. cond. med size, $550 (new $695). 540-364-1841. LOSE WEIGHT NATURALLY. 30 lbs/30 day, $ back guar. Dr. formulated Herbal. Free samples 800-826-9247. Misc. Wanted 261 v./ WANTED BOXWOOD CUTTINGS. We trim and pay you for the cuttings. Write or call Highlander & Sons, P.O. Box 272, Gordonsville, VA 22942 Phone, 540-832-2175 Fax, 540-832-2245. -\ 273 s_GERMAN SHEPHERD pups, AKC, blk/tan, Females, 2 shots/wrmd, $300 up. Parents on Site. 540-423-1412. JACK RUSSELL TERRIER puppies for sale. Ready for Christmas!! 1 Female, 2 males born 10/15. Tri-colors, sable & white, rough, smooth, broken-coated. Shortlegged 12", oldfashioned variety. Father-rough coat, tri, champion working stock. Mother-smooth coat from English conformation line. Puppies bred specifically for good disposition, conformation. Ready 12/10 or will hold for X-mas. $350. 540-364-2929. (-> V_> FREE FIREWOOD. You cut & haul. Call 540347-5318 FREE SLAB WOOD long length 540-453-2079 FREE SLAB WOOD long length 540-543-2079. njCM Business oou Serv[ces J EARLY’S CARPET, INC. The onc-sjnp shtrp hr amplcic Home Dccoraiinc Service Pit kit Coverings • Window Treatments Wallpaper Slip Covas A Upholstery Residential A Commerical Kt. 211 Amfcwvillt. VA 937-5500 356 s. Childcare Wanted WANTED: before & after school & summer care for our 8yr old in our Broad Run home. Ref req. 540-349-8865. r-> 400 Adoption S___) ADOPTION A loving couple unable to have children longing to adopt an infant. Willing to pay legal/medical costs. Call Chris & Jim. 1-877-389-4427 (toll-free) 650 Parts A Accessories 2 CRUNCH 12" SPEAKERS in custom made box Like new. $200/FIRM. Call Thomas 540-347-1970. C7C Trucks / ^ 675 Pickups J pORD F-150 1981, v8 new insp., battery & tires; $1000. 540-3641894. Legal Notices BOARD OF ZONING APPEAL RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, VIRGINIA PURSUANT to Section 170-129 of the Rappahannock County Code and Section 15.2-2204 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, notice is hereby given that the Board of Zoning Appeals for Rappahannock County, Virginia, will hold a public hearing on Thursday, Dec. 16, 1999 at seven-thirty in the evening in the Courthouse in Washington, Virginia, in order to consider the following application: SU #99-11-01 Mr and Mrs. Richard A. Newcomer, contract purchasers of 25.0 acres near Amissville, Virginia (Tax Map 31), Parcel 22F, zoned “A"-Agricultural and “C-Conservation, in Jackson District) desire a Special use permit to construct a new home which would include a bed and breakfast use of up to six (6) rooms for rental occupancy. The property is currently owned by Michael and Lynne Stovall, and is served by a private right-ofway Use allowed under Section 170-36(E) of the Rappahannock County Code; with additional standards in Section 170-66(K). A COPY of the foregoing application is on file at the Zoning Office in Washington, Virginia, and is available for public inspection, Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Said application will be presented to the Rappahannock County Planning Commission at their regular meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1999 at seven-thirty in the evening at the Rappahannock County Courthouse for such recommendation as the Commission may wish to make pursuant to Section 170-55, if any. The above-named applicant, adjacent property owners, and any other parties desiring to be heard should be present at said meeting or should address their written comments to be Board of Zoning Appeal, c/o P.O. Box 519, Washington, Virginia 22747, in advance thereof. BY: John w. McCarthy Zoning Administrator 12-1,12-8-99 #289204 Auctions j 1 Friday, Dec. 10th at the gallery, Rt. 211 in Amissville Our last auctions of 1999.' Not only will we have our usual door prizes (and a few new surprises), hut we'll have the gallery ready for Christmas shopping. 300+ BEANIE BABIES - All sizes and descriptions plus related paraphernalia. Beanies are pristine, most in protective containers. Plus FURNITURE: Santa's big red wingback chair; Cheny bedroom suite; China hutch; Modem pine dry sink; Rockers; Bookcase; Stands; Chairs, etc, etc. PORCELAIN; GLASSWARE & other PIQUING PRIZES still packed' There will be GRAND GALLIMAUFRY GALORE for all! Saturday, Dec. 11th at 11 a.m. Outside at our auction yard, Rt. 211, Amissville (12 miles west of Warrenton) TRACTORS & OTHER FARM EQUIPMENT Ford Pickup SHOP TOOLS, HANDTOOLS, ETC. Due to the recent sale of a large local farm, the following equipment will be moved and offered at our auction facility. Here's a huge opportunity to acquire very well maintained machinery: JD 2630 tractor w/145 loader, JD 1050 tractor (1320 hours); ALLIS CHALMERS 5020 4WD, diesel tractor (1000 hours); ‘89 FORD F150 4x4 pickup truck, 126k; JD 709 7’ rotary mower; JD 7' scraper; OLIVER pto manure spreader, 5' BUSH HOG; KUBOTA FL 1270 rear mount cultivator. FMC 300 gal. orchard sprayer, pto-dnven; Rear-mount chipper/shredder; WOODS RM59 finishing mower; 3-pt WEED BADGER; DANUSER posthole digger; Elec, cement mixer. 3 pt. seed/fert. spreader; 3-bottom plow; Rear hay spear; Rear mount post driver; Likenew gas powered 5.5 hp water pump; 300 gal. boom sprayer. 150 gal. sprayer. Pto-drive yard vac; Wire unroller; 3-275 gal tanks w/pumps; Sickle-bar lawn mower. Chain saws; STIHL 036 & 028, HUSQVARNA 262; Air compressors. Tractor chains; Troughs. Elec, fencing supplies; 70 - 6' plastic fence posts; 32' alum, extension ladder & others, Craftsman wood lathe. Craftsman commercial hand grinder; Bench grinder; String trimmers; Wet/dry vac; Metal shelving units; Workbench; Handtools; and MORE. Watch our web site for photos and updates; www.bpauctions.com Bill Payne Auctions, Inc. V P.O. Box 178 • Amissville, VA 20106 (540) 937-4142 va a.f»330 mMbpmjctons.com E-mail: bpa OtKtatwOM.net Employment 545 Full Time Employment 3 AUTO PARTS COUNTER SALES Part-time Positions. 16 Northern VA locations, (Prince William, Loudoun & Fairfax Counties), Exp required. Call: Fairfax Auto Parts 703-323-5300 BOOKKEEPER For Warrenton Office. Quickbooks. 2-4 days per week. Insurance familiarity helpful. Fax Resume to 540-347-5027 COUNTER SALES/ LIGHT DELIVERIES Manassas construction supply co. FT/ PT position. Clean driving record. Call: 703-257-5910 DATA ENTRY OPERATOR e Flex hours e Good salary e Benefits e Strong office skills a must 540-341-0431 ext. 336 800-934-3741 SOUTHERN STATES Opportunity With Leading Farm Supply Dealer! DRIVER Full-time Good driving record andCDL required WAREHOUSE Part-time SALES CLERK Part/Full Time Competive salary & flexible hours. No phone rails please. Please apply in person at: 50 Water St. Front Royal, VA 22630 EOE/M/F/D/V LOOKING FOR HOLIDAY HELP!!!! Advertise in Our Seasonal Employment Banner Page Oct. 6th through Dec. 21st RUN A MINIMUM OF 4 WEEKS & RECEIVE A SPECIAL DISCOUNT!!!! PHONE: (540) 347-4222 FAX* (540) 349-8676 Email: www.timespaper9.com EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Organized, friendly, multi-tasking person wanted. Warrenton professional office. Frequent telephone contact. Excellent computer skills Word/Excel essential for daily correspondence with clients. Fax Resume to 540-347-5027 SKYLINE CAP. HEAD START HAS THE FOLLOWING VACANCY in Rappahannock Family Worker: Responsible for recruitment and enrollment of children and facilitating comprehensive family services. Minimum qualifications: high school diploma/GED, ability to work well with people, knowledge of the community and resources, good record keeping skills and a valid drivers license; $8.37/hour, (25 hours/week) nine month position. Benefits included. No prior No prior convictions related to child/adult abuse Male/Female Equal Opportunity Employer Send resume by Dec. 22 to Deborah Powell, Skyline CAP Head Start, P.O. Box 588, Madison, Virginia 22727 More of what you’re looking for. PLUMBER HELPER Experience would be helpful but not required. Call Frank Foley Cooley Service, Co. Marshall, VA 540-364-2055 r PLUMBER Experienced mechanic needed, new work, service and repair. - Call Frank Foley ! Cooley Service; Co. Marshall, VA 540-364-2055 n HUNTING STABLE AND OFFICE MANAGER Manaae family hunting stable and farm office of prominent business executive near The Plains, VA. Excellent pay, benefits and top condition family home provided. Must live on the farm. Computer word, processing skills required. Excellent references required. EOE. _ Fax resume to Gina at 703-478-6691 or e-mail GErickson@timespapers.com. DIETARY MANAGER Virginia's premier long term care chain is seeking a Dietary Manager for its 180 bed facility in _Culpeper, Virginia._ Responsibilities include management of all aspects of Dietary services, including knowledge of MDS care planning and strong documentation skills, if you are hare working, energetic and motivated, we are looking for you. Candidate must also meeting the qualifications as outlined by the Virginia health department. Salary is based on experience with benefits including medical, dental, 401K and paid annual leave. All interested candidates please send resume and salary requirements to: Contact; Delores Darnell, RN, C Culpeper Health Care Center 602 Madison Road Culpeper, VA 22701 (540) 825-2884 EOE Drug Free Workplace TIMES COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Corporate Office-13873 Park Center Rd. #301. Herndon. VA 20171 FAX: 703-435-9754 EMAIL: lschillinq@timespapers.com • Advertising Representative: Seeking energetic, outgoing sales person with can-do attitude to join growing Northern Virginia Newspaper company. Minimum of 2 yrs experience preferred. Opportunity includes great earning potential and competitive benefits package. Fax resume and salary requirements in confidence to L. Schilling at 703-478-6691. Principals only. EOE. APPLICANT INFORMATIONApplications and resumes must be submitted separately for each position at the location specified. Fax or email resume or you can apply in person. We offer a competitive benefit package, which includes 401K. northern Virginia EOE

EMPLOYMENT HOME HEALTH AIDES Reliable, experienced (home care experience preferred but not required), flexible, well-organized PRN needed. Excellent working environment. Call Hospice of Ihe Rapidan, 540-825-4840, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM “ weekdays. General Service Technicians • • Tire work • • Oil changes • • Etc. • Good starting pay • Benefits • Overtime Apply in person Rosson & Troilo 19 Broadview Ave. Warrenton No phone calls DRIVERS/ DELIVERY Full-time and parttime positions. AM & PM shifts. Full benefits, year-round work, not seasonal. Locations in Loudoun, Prince William & Fairfax Counties. Call: Fairfax Auto Parts 703-323-5300 TIRE PERSON (Experience Needed) Minor mechanical ability req. Willing to leam auto repair business. Good pay & benefits. 540-347-9687 QUALITY CONTROL TECHNICIAN Smith-Midland Corporation is seeking a Quality Control Technician. Duties include concrete aggregate testing, product inspection before and after casting, some report preparation and other duties as assigned. Background in precast concrete and blueprint reading helpful. We offer a comprehensive benefit package, competitive wages and opportunities for advancement. Interested persons may send resumes to: Smith-Midland, Corp P.O. Box 300 Midland, VA 22728 Fax resumes to: 540-439-1232 or contact Personnel at: 540-439-3266 HUNTING STABLE AND OFFICE MANAGER Manage family hunting stable and farm office of prominent business executive near The Plains, VA. Excellent pay, benefits and top condition family home provided. Must live on the farm. Computer word processing skills required. Excellent references required. EOE. « Fax resume to Gina at 703-478-6691 dr e-mail GErickson@timespapers.com. Join the Harris Team & Let the New Year be Better than Last Year. • Earn up to ,35c/mile • Layover and Stop Off Pay • Safety Bonus and Awards • Paid Health / Life Insurance • 2 Wks Vac / 6 Paid Holidays • 401K / Profit Sharing • Satellite Communications COME GROW WITH US 1-800-929-5003 www.harristrk.com PHIBBS. BURKHOLDER GEISERT & HUFFMAN. LLP Formerly Drunagel, Johnson, Rutherford & Wilkins, PLC ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Accounting firm desires experienced Administrative Assistant. Excellent client relations, telephone etiauette and familiarity with Word required. Superior work ethic and professionalism are a •must. ; ... Please send resume to: 29 Culpeper Street f Warrenton, VA 20186 FARM MAINTENANCE Full-time Full-time farm maintenance person needed for farm in Flint Hill area. Position requires love for animals, and some experience with dogs and horses. Basic grounds keeping duties include lawn and fence repair and working with farm machinery. Position includes competitive salary, health insurance, vacation and housing is available on premises. Applicant should be drug, and alcohol free and be able to provide at least three references. Please call: 703-330-5755 ACCOUNTANTS HILL, BARTH & KING, LLC, a regional CPA firm is currently seeking a full-time entry-level Staff Accountant for its Warrenton, Virignia office. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, a competent working knowledge of computers and accounting software, strong oral & written communications skills, excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with other staff and clients. We offer a competitive salary & benefit package including: • Paid Vacation • 401 (k) & Profit Sharing • Health Benefits • Flexible Schedules • Referral Bonus • Client Incentive Bonus Interested individuals should reply in confidence with resume to: D. Marshall 5 Rock Pointe Lane Suite 150 Warrenton, Virginia 20186 WEDDING STATIONERY Beautiful Wedding Stationery INVITATIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS NAPKINS • BRIDAL BOOKS ACCESSORIES &appaf)attnock 675-3338 Paul Reisler is awarded fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Paul Reisler of Washington, has been awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). The VCCA is located near Sweet Briar College in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in rural Virginia. Paul Reisler will be among the approximately 20 Fellows focusing on their own creative projects at this working retreat for visual artists, writers and composers. A typical residency ranges from two weeks to two months. An artist is provided with a comfortable private bedroom, a private studio, and three prepared meals a day. Beyond the breakfast hour and the dinner hour, there are no schedules or obligations. This distraction-free atmo Paul Reisler spnere, as well as tne energy that results from having some 20 visual artists, writers, and composers gathered in one place, enables artists to be highly productive. Serving over 300 artists a year (over 2,500 since its inception), the VCCA is one of the nation’s largest year-round artists’ communities. VCCA Fellows have received worldwide attention through publications, exhibitions, compositions, performances, and major awards and accolades, including MacArthur grants, Pulitzer Prizes, Guggenheim fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts awards, Rome Prizes, Pollock-Krasner grants, a National Book Award, Broadway and OffBroadway productions, and Academy Award nominations. The VGCA has been a wellspring of music, literature and the visual arts in the United States, providing residencies for artists from all disciplines during the most important and the least supported phase of their work: the creative phase. This is done by giving visual artists, writers, composers, performance artists, filmmakers, collaborating artists, and those whose work crosses disciplines the crucial elements every artist needs, the time'^hd space to do their work. ; Mental Health services/emergencies! In order to prepare for possible adverse weather conditions, Rappahannock Family Guidance Services is asking clients to prepare in advance by ensuring that they maintaift a supply of medications that will last at least one week. In addition, if weather conditions are unfavorable, clients are encouraged to contact the clinic prior to appointments to make sure the clinic is operating as usual. If, during the holiday season, you are.unable to reach the clinic, you can contact emergency services via the Sheriff’s Office either in person or by telephone. The Perfect Gift ...Anytime UMEJHSTft/ “On The Morning Side Of The Blue Ridge” tells the story of Rappahannock County and its people The soft-bound book includes old photographs and special articles which appeared each month of the 1983 sesquincentennial year in the Rappahannock News plus stories of historical interest from past years. Featuring chapters on education, soldiers, doctors, slavery, ^ freemen and integration, mountain people and the park, The Depression, old mills and settlements, travel, entertainment, natural disasters, mountain justice and farming. The collection of arti- ' cles was written by the Rappahannock News staff with the help and * cooperation on hundreds of Rappahannock people. | Stop by the Rappahannock News office or call‘675-3338 for your copy 1 | “On The Morning Side Of The Blue Ridge” $11.95 plus tax and $1.90 for postage "?f ‘ • - ' ■ ' V'

Holiday activities abound in Boston v The Salem Christmas Singing and Pickin party will be held Friday, Dec. 10 at the Salem Fire Hall, Route 522 beginning at 7 p.m. and continuing until 10 p.m. J. The fire department will be selling food and beverages. You are invited to dress up in your “Christmas Best”, come and sing the great Christmas carols together. In celebration of Christmas the Novum Baptist Church will be having a special praise service this Sunday, Dec. 12 beginning at 11 a.m. Special music will be provided and the public is invited. Mrs. Ray Frazier was a Friday afternoon caller of her mother, Mrs. Eunice Meade on Hash Lane. The Castleton Fire Department sponsors shooting matches each Friday evening at 7 p.m. and residents are asked to support this endeavor of the department. Best wishes are extended to the recipients of upcoming birthdays namely; Darren Tharp and Jeff Peyton, Thursday, Dec. 9; Miss Mary Tharp and Mrs. Lillian Norman on Saturday, Dec. 11 and another family member, Dylan Norman on Tuesday. May each of you be blessed with many more. Sympathy is extended to Mrs. Lucille Releford, upon the loss of her brother, Mr. James Haywood Jenkins of Fredericksburg, who passed away at a Fredericksburg Nursing Home. Burial was at Stonewall Memory Garden on Sunday. John Lillis of Fredericksburg was a Monday guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Frazier and family on Turkey Ridge Road. Mrs. Alvin Atkins of Sperryville was a Saturday caller of the Fraziers and Sunday afternoon visited her niece, Miss Brenda Frazier and mother in Culpeper. Brenda’s mother had returned home from a weeks stay in Culpeper Memorial Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Bragg, Kellie, Karla, Matthew and Mark and Mrs. Joe Peregory joined by Mr. and Mrs. James Gheen of Maurertown and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Peregory of Front Royal motored to Manassas on Saturday to attend a birthday party honoring Tom Hugill. We continue to covet your prayers for Miss Joy Best, who remains in University of Virginia Hospital as the results of an automobile accident on Nov. 22. Mr. Ray Frazier and sons, Michael, Wayne and BOSTON Boston By MARIE F. ATKINS 987-8802 Christopher were Saturday callers of his brother, Shelvy Frazier on Castleton Ford Road. Jennifer Peregory and her father, Joe attended a birthday party for her coach, Mr. Robert Walker in Rixeyville on Saturday. Belated birthday wishes go out to Miss Margie Williams whose day was Monday; Presley Cubbage who celebrated on Sunday and Mrs. De Williams who added another year on Pearl Harbor Day, Tuesday. To purchase a famous Benson fruit cake you may call V.F.W. Auxiliary members, Helen Brookman at 825-0361 or Frances Deal at 937-4228 or Dolly Jones at 825-9687, to place your order. Ali you alumni of Culpeper High School, if you haven’t heard by now, its time to congratulate those Blue Devil football players, as they won the State Championship on Saturday by defeating the Henrico Warriors, 21-12. We welcome to our community Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Peyton and daughter Kamry, who have moved into their new home, the former Day residence. According to our local growers, turnips did well during our dry season, as Scrabble resident Franklin Warner pulled a 6 1/2 pound one from his garden. We extend wishes for success to Castleton residents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mills who are the new owners of Amissville Consignment Shop. Hours of operation are 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; on Tuesdays and Saturdays the hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Congratulations to Thomas Dowell, an eleventh grader and Stephen Dowell a ninth grader, both of whom received honors for the first grading period at Wakefield Country Day School where they are students. They are Castleton residents. Give me a call with your news. Be smart this holiday season. *f * * * * frag ‘‘ft'1*' ■ r * ' - - - 1 “i n I <| i \'t |) 11 > INSURANCE Value The Farm Bureau Insurance Companies are among the most respected sources for Home Insurance in the nation, and the reason is simple... for years, we have covered American homes with dependable protection, combined with fast and fair claims service. Your home is a big investment, so make sure you are getting the coverage you deserve. Call today for a no obligation review of your Home Insurance needs, as well as Auto and Life Insurance Coverage. HELPING YOU is what m do best. Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. Virginia Farm Bureau Town and Country Insurance Co. Virginia Farm Bureau Fire and Casualty Insurance Co. Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co. FARM BUREAU VIRGINIA Pat Vest Whorton 11929 Lee Highway P.O. Box 470 Sperryville.VA 22740 540-987-8225 T Real Estate Directory Real estate transactions The following real estate transactions were recorded recently at the Rappahannock Clerk’s Office in Washington. Edwin M. Martin to T. Allan Comp and wife, 28.2199 acres, Hawthorne District. $112,595. Thomas Athey Walker and wife to Maureen J. Kaiser, 1/2 interest in 20.8880 acres, Hampton District. $10,000. Thomas E. Lee and others to Nancy David Dillon Trustee, 56.4674 acres, Hampton District. $677,608.80. James E. Swindler to Russell A. Jenkins, 50 acres, Piedmont District. $200,000. AUCTION WASHINGTON ARTS BUILDING 12 NOON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18 311 GAY ST„ WASHINGTON, VA OWNER WILL OFFER THIS ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY AT AUCTION. THIS PROPERTY IS LOCATED 1 BLOCK FROM THE INN AT LITTLE WASHINGTON AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING: 11 Rental Spaces, Most with Separate Utilities. 14,500 Square Feet Rental Space Approx. $100,000.00 in Rental Income Complete Renovation in 1990 Leases To July 2001 on Most Units Adjacent to Rappahannock County Courthouse and other Government Buildings TERMS - 10% DEPOSIT AT AUCTION WITH BALANCE DUE IN CASH AT CLOSING WITHIN 30 DAYS. 5% BUYER’S PREMIUM IN EFFECT. PETER KRAMER, OWNER FOR DETAILED BROCHURE & INFORMATION CALL AUCTIONEERS G.R. “Dick” HEATWOLE, CAI AUCTIONEER VAAR #113 G.R. “Rick” HEATWOLE AUCTIONEER VAAR #1184 540-433-2929 APPLEHANNOCK COWNTEE SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK BORDERS 5.6 acre tract at end of road (Rt. 681) in FT Valiev at Pine Hill Gap. Views, stream, wildlife ~ $49,000. WATERFALL BRANCH cascades through 15 nicely wooded, level, secluded acres near SNP Majestic trees and rock walls, uiews ~ $75,000. RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER and Rt. 645 border 4.1 acres wooded acres (2 lots) at Tapps Ford, Vuz ~ $49,000. TWO ACRE building lot on Rt. 211 and 640, stream ~ $19,000. LEVEL wooded tract of 9.5 acres, Rt. 645, Amissville area ~ $58,000. LITTLE WASHINGTON area: two lots totaling 3 acres on Rush River near SNP High building sites, Vuz ~ $49,000. All of the above are Y2K ready. BUY NOW. ROGER RATCHELDER, owner/agent 360 Gav St.. Washincrtnn [/A_ 540 675-1776 540-937-1776 Residence 3 Rappahannock News advertising deadlines are Monday at 3 p.m. Call 675-3338 to reserve your space today. ¥ Easy maintenance, great for the holidays! 3 BR/2 BA home just west of the village of Sperryville. Immaculate condition on hard to find one acre lot. $129,000 Custom built home with open floor plan for holiday parties. 3 BRs/2.5 BAs, decks, craft room, 2+ acres, lake access, and more. $155,000 Private 3 BR/2 BA home has great room with stone chimney and cathedral ceilings that is perfect tor holiday entertaining on half open 14 acres and more. ' $219,950 Well built brick Rambler with 4 BRs/2 BAs for holiday guests. Family room, den, garage and views. Available two ways, w/4.39 acres and shop for $259,500 or 1.4 acres without shop for $169,500 187 acres, wooded, in 4 lots sold as one, great views, own your own mountain. $549,000 38.5 acres in Amissville. Wooded, strong stream and private easy access. $120,000 11 acres near Shenandoah National Park, mature forest, fronts on vear-round creek. Subscribe to the Rappahannock News... Call 675-3338. Sperryville Realty James W. Leake, Broker 540-987-8088/office OFF AARON MOUNTAIN ROAD - 25.5 acre wooded parcel. •$90^000Now $80,000 PARK BOUNDARY and Broad Hollow Stream are features of these 10.1 wooded acres. $75,000 James W. Leake 987-8236 Bud Corder • John Eubank 675-3291 g( 987-8146 VOTE i ROY WHEELER REALTY COMPANY Offering Piedmont Virginia’s Finest Real Estate For Over Half a Century. South Wales - Owner will pay $3,500 toward purchaser’s closing cost w/full price contract on this 5 BR/4 1/2 BA brick-front Colonial - 4,900 sq. ft. of living space - skylights, 2-story entrance hall and library w/oak floors, deck off family room, 2-zoned heating/cooling systems, stone FP, & paved driveway. $309,500 Flint Hill - Build your home overlooking the Jordan River & enjoy the peaceful surroundings of this 42.7 mostly wooded tract w/hiking trails to the river. $149,450 Castleton - 14.2 acres of rolling meadows, hardwoods, meandering stream, views of Old Rag Mt., well & a 3-stall barn. $99,500 Castleton - Fantastic home site, pastoral & Bessie Bell Mt. views, 9.5 acres of rolling pasture, stream, and new survey. $70,575 Flint Hill Office 540-675-7171 m Jean Lillard 540-675-3670 Hsl FOR SALE BY OWNER Custom-built, cedar sided, four bedroom Colonial on five wooded acres in Amissville. Wraparound depk and cedar front porch provide outdoor living to enjoy the quietness and the wildlife. Hardwood floors, ceramic tile baths, stone fireplace and cherry cabinets are the up-scale appointments that make' this house a good buy at $239,000. (Buyer Brokers Protected) The Buyer’s Agency, Inc. Butch Zindel, Broker (540) 675-1190 540-937-5703 m. REALTOR Owner is licensed Real Estate Broker butchz@summit.net EQUAL HQUtJNC OPPORTUNITY New Home, Flint Hill, VA Realtors "Open House" What: Come take a look at this brand new Ranch home, just completed with three bedrooms, two baths, two car garage, covered front porch and deck off kitchen, completely finished walk-out basement, 1.2 acre lot fronting Route 522, Zachary Taylor Highway, super location, super price: $153,900. When: Thursday, December 9th • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Where: Flint Hill, across from Settle Garage (last house on left if going north on Rt. 522 or first house on right if coming South on Rt. 522). Light lunch and refreshments served! Do you have a customer just right for this home? See ya there! iG>G 437-A South Royal Avenue, Front Royal, VA 540-635-9808 • 1-800-292-3548 “YOUR COUNTRY CONNECTION” Full Time Professional • 540-987-9336 Home E-mailsanunead@nna.edu SAM SNEAD B roller,URI. CRS, CRB I! Please visit web page on the internet at http://www.railtor.com/washiiiictuiMk/saimnead JJ