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Ennis offered a fertilizer- and limespreading service for area farms. The business grew to several trucks and spreaders servicing 30,000 acres of farmland by 1989.
Ennis parlayed proceeds from the sale of this business into a prosperous home-building company focused on first-time home buyers. “Meadfield,” a 95-lot subdivision in Bealeton, won him an award from the Northern Virginia Independent Builders Assoc-iation for cluster development.
It is as local boy made good that Ennis enjoys a distinct advantage in the race for the Republican Party’s nomination to the 31st District seat that Delegate Jay Katzen will be vacating in two years. Fauquier voters constitute 70 percent of the district’s electorate and Ennis has lived all his life in the most heavily populated area of the county. However, it remains to be seen whether the political machinery can overlook Ennis’ occasional meandering across party lines over the years.
His first exposure to politics was as a teen-aged volunteer in Republican candidate George Beard’s bid for the delegate’s seat. But, “looking for leadership,” he was brought into the Democratic camp and to the attention of Gerald Belaus, then making his run for .the governorship, by Gerry Wood and Earl Frazier.
Ennis worked tirelessly for the Democrats on through Doug
See ENNIS, Page A6
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