Rappahannock News, March 14, 2001

X x x :* * :t. ■* * '* •* •* * •* * * * *• * * i DIG IT 2 2 AM 2001 274994 LI BP /IF: Y OF ■ VIK' 31NIA SERIAL'.: SECTION 800 E BROAD ST RICHMOND VA 23219-190^ ftC&VtO OBfWRV Qf VIRGMIA TfiCWWUt SOWCEJ MR 2001 Lm < o ■ 123rd Year... No. 11 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2001 www.timescommunity.com 50 cents Phone (540)675-3338 Rapp Briefs Community information session set A Community Information Session will be held at the Rappahannock County High school auditorium on Friday, March 16 at 7 p.m. to explain the International Baccalaureate program. International Baccalaureate is a rigorous curriculum which is available to high school. The Session will be presented by a principal and two teachers from a small school division which has an active International Baccalaureate program. Old-time music session planned at bookshop The Old Sperryville Bookshop will sponsor a live music jam session featuring local musicians on Sunday, March 18 starting at 3 p.m. Fiddle, guitar, dulcimer and other traditional instruments will be played by the group, aka ‘The Main Street Bookworms." Oldtime traditional music and a few Irish tunes (in honor of St. Patrick’s Day) will be played. Admission is free. For information, call 987-8444. Republican Mass meeting planned Rappahannock County Republicans will meet on Tuesday, March 20 at the Rappahannock courthouse at 7:30 p.m. to elect delegates to the State Convention on June 1 - 2. At that time, Republicans from across the Commonwealth will nominate candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. Call Chairman Walter Longyear at 675-3679 for more details. County Lions to distribute chestnut trees On Saturday, March 24 from 7 a.m. to noon, the Rappahannock Lions Club will again be distributing American Chestnut Trees to the public. The Lions Club will receive donations for these trees. This years tree distribution will again be located at the Rappahannock Coop. Circle your calendar now for Saturday morning, 7-12 at the Coop, the trees were gone by 10 ;a.m. last year. For further ihformation or details on the Rappahannock Lions Chestnut tree project, call Sheriff Larry Sherertz at 987-3331. Personal property : forms mailed > Personal property forms have been mailed to residents of Fappahannock County. If you ihave not received yours and ^should you have a question call the Rappahannock Commissioner pf Revenue, 675-3513. Happenings * • Wednesday, March 14 Washington Town Council to meet at 7:30 at the town hall. • Rappahannock Lions Eye/Ear van at RCES, March 21, ! 22 and 23. •« 037«M 23080 Ik Rappahannock News P.O. Box 59 Washington, Va. 22747 (540) 675-3338 (540) 675-3088 (fax) Photo courtesy of Linda Tarry MINI-GRANT AT WORK: RCHS student Aaron Price helps with the Native Plant Sanctuary behind the elementary school. The Sanctuary project was developed by RCHS parent Lorinda Bosch, and funded last February by a Headwaters mini-grant. Headwaters awards education grants By Linda Tarry Rappahannock News Writer Fourteen Rappahannock County Public School teachers received good news recently when they learned they had been awarded grant funding from Headwaters, the Rappahannock County Public Education Foundation. A total of $3,765 in grant money will be used by the teachers for new, innovative projects at both the elementary and high school. These latest grants make a grand total of $9,086 in Headwaters funding for this school year to our county public schools. Projects funded at RCES Fifth grade teacher Lois Markee’s math manipulatives project; second grade teacher Sheila Smith’s project to purchase nonfiction books for a classroom library; art and music teachers Harriet Rosenblatt and Joy Rollins' “Tapestry of Time” project; special education teachers Patty Hottinger and Mary Anne Frazier’s project to take their students to D.C. and on a Potomac River cruise; kindergarten teacher Jennifer Deal’s project for a Lego table to be used with Lego building blocks; special education teacher Linda Welk’s “Teaming Up With Books” project for a trip to a book fair for all RCPS special education teachers and book purchases; and teachers Terry Genther, Geraldine Payne, Patty Hottinger, Jennifer Deal and Linda Welk’s “From Egg to Chick” incubator project. Receiving grants for projects at RCHS Art teacher Laurie Marshall, who will use her grant for a school See GRANTS, Page A8 Civil War diary tells of Mosby^s stay in Woodville By James P. Gannon Rappahannock News Writer Col. John S. Mosby, leader of a legendary band of Confederate cavalry raiders, set up his headquarters at Woodville in November 1863, according to the wartime diary of a Union soldier who was captured by Mosby and brought to that nearly deserted village in Rappahannock County. The disclosure that Mosby operated out of Woodville at that time comes in a newly published book that details the amazing Civil War experiences of Pvt. Robert Knox Sneden, a soldier in a New York regiment who served as a mapmaker in the Federal army. An accomplished draftsman and artist, Private Sneden kept an incredibly detailed record of his war service, both in the form of a memoir of some 5,000 handwritten pages and 500 vivid watercolor maps and drawings of battlefields, camps, war scenes and prisons. After being stored away unseen for most of a century, this rich trove of Civil War history has been brought together in what some historians call one of the most important memoirs of the war ever produced. Illustrated by Private Sneden’s marvelous watercolors, the book, titled “Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey,” was edited by two Virginia Historical Society scholars and published late last year. The story of the Union soldier’* journey to Woodville begins with his capture by Mosby’s Rangers near Brandy Station, in Culpeper County, where the Union army had been camped. Left behind when the army marched south to meet Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Sn BOOK, Pag* A8 Schools budget doesn’t budge (much) By Gerald Ochs Rappahannock News Writer After several School Board budget work sessions following the original release of the Superintendent’s draft budget, it appears as though no significant downward changes were effected, though possible reductions in the projected County contribution increase may yet be possible. As it stands, the budget released at Tuesday’s School Board meeting and budget public hearing shows total expenditures approaching $9.7 M, an increase of 15.16 percent over last year. The County’s contribution was shown as $6,481,979.04, which is more than $1.3 M or 25.52 percent greater than last year. This number may be reduced by an increase in State funds over that projected, and by possible reductions in expenditures in the areas of teacher salary increases (from 9.11 to 6 percent) and in capital expenditures (by moving $433,500 from the school budget to County surplus funding). The County contribution increase wall, at a minimum, still be on the order of three-quarters of a million dollars and could be in excess of $1.2 M. This will equate to an increase in the property tax rate somewhere between 10 and 20 cents per hundred dollars of assessed valuation, should the penny rate remain close to what is was last year. The 2001-2002 schools budget was introduced by School Board chairman John Wesley Mills. Mr. Mills discussed School Board budget priorities that include: high priority funding for the International Baccalaureate Program, a curriculum coordinator, and a reading specialist for RCES; addition of a technology teacher; reduction of the teacher salary increase to 6 percent and the non-teacher staff salary increase to 3.2 percent; increasing lunch prices to make the cafeteria selfsupporting; and making the athletic director position full-time. Superintendent Dr. David Gangel reviewed the major budget increases that include: $365,000 for increases in teacher salaries and benefits (based upon the 9.11 percent increase-but would fall by approximately $86,000 if the increase is reduced to 6 percent); $214,000 for increases in salaries and benefits for non-teacher staff; $56,000 for the curriculum coordinator position; $43,000 each for a technology teacher and a reading specialist; $26,000 for athletic program improvements; and $25,000 for the International Baccalaureate Program. Budget public comments Ten Rappahannock residents spoke and one letter was read during the public comments portion of the budget hearing. Seven of the eleven comments specifically supported additional funding for athletics and making the athletic director a full-time position; six of the eleven comments specifically endorsed support for the International Baccalaureate <IB) Program; three supported the 9.11 percent teacher salary increase; and two expressed strong opposition to school budget increases. . Brooke Miller characterized himself as a fiscal conservation, but said that “money spent wisely and in a way that rewards excellence can be beneficial to our community.” He noted the benefits of exercise and physical fitness to children’s health, and suggested that funding for athletics in Rappahannock needs to be improved to offer them better physical fitness opportunities. He supported funding for a full-time athletic director and for improved facilities. Athletic Director Jon Smythe told the Board that he was “not here to ask for anything,” and he praised their past support for athletics. He also highlight-” ed successes this year in athletic programs, and thanked the School Board for their contributions. Peter Kreyling also thanked the School Board for their efforts, and said that he echoed Brooke Miller’s comments and expressed his hopes that the Board would fund the full-time athletic director position. Katherine Treanor spoke in support of funding for the IB Program and for athletics, reporting that she was “totally thrilled with the excitement that’s erupted” with it this year. She also expressed her hopes that those taxpayers without children would be as pleased as she to help support the schools. Former School Board member Ron Makela said that “teacher salaries have to increase but, at the same time, it’s vitally important to go with the IB Program.” Former School Board Chairman John Tole told the Board that he felt the school system was ready for the IB Program and of his support for teacher salary increases “beyond six percent.” Mary Wiley said that a 9.11 percent teacher salary increase was “out of proportion” and she cited increases proposed in Culpeper of four to five percent, teacher salaries in Alexandria at $2,000 per month, and in Fairfax starting under $35,000. She also compared Rappahannock County’s per pupil cost of $9,000 with Culpeper’s cost of $5,600 and said that “sometimes I don’t believe that the dollar is all.” Tbm Junk complained about the rapidly escalating school costs in Rappahannock County. Referring to the proposed 15 percent increase this year, he said that at that rate, the budget will double in 5 years, and at the rate of growth of the County contribution this year (25 percent), that will double in three years. “If you don’t get a handle on this budget,” he said, “it will force the average person out of Rappahannock.” Board reports Rosa Crocker of the Facilities Committee reported that the See BORAD, Page A8

By Jan Makela Volunteer Coordinator Public School System \ • “Chalk Talk!” What a great name for a class! Chalk Talk is a class designed to help .volunteers who might like to ljelp non-English speaking children learn English as a second ' language. More and more we are welcoming children who do ^hot speak English into our ' Schools, and it is important that we meet their needs. * If you are willing to attend just one meeting to learn about materials and strategies for ' working with children who do not speak English, please grab a friend (or not) and call to sign up for the meeting at Vo-Tech * Educational Center. The Center * is located on the left just seven miles south of Culpeper on piloute 15. The meeting is sched| uled for Monday, March 19 from 2 5 to 7 p.m. ' One small commitment on your part could make a huge difference in a child’s life! Questions? Please call Jan Makela, RCPS Volunteer Coordinator, at 987-8259. • Do you know someone who has started, but not completed w<jrk on their GED requirements? All work must be completed before Dec. 31, 2001, or all work done prior to that date will be discarded! The GED structure is being { changed as of Jan. 1, 2002, and | all those who have only partial■j ly completed their require2 ments will have to begin again 2 after that date. Please help us j to get the word out to anyone in J the community that might like ] to re-enroll in the program. If 1 classes were taken at Vo-Tech, 2 call Mrs. Phyllis Metzger at | 825-0476 to find out what still J needs to be completed. To enroll 2 or to get answers to other ques2 tions, call Ms. Metzger or Mrs. ; Susan Fox at RCHS at 987* 8575. GED classes are held in the £ basement of the Rappahannock County Public Library on ►Mondays and Wednesdays from S 7 to 9 p.m. ; • Mr. John Norman, VoI Tech teacher at RCHS, is happy | to report that the District 10 * VICA Welding Competition was fheld at C.S. Monroe Vocational Technical Cehter in Leesburg * on Feb. 17. Three RCHS students [ placed in the competition. Jeremy Proper came in second, Jeff Scroggins placed third, and Mark Wharton was a close fourth. Each student was awarded the equivalent of $75 in prizes. Congratulations to all of these talented students. • Our RCHS Wrestling Team with the expert coaching of Mr. Jim Wells and Mr. Randy Propst had an incredible season and we should all be proud. All of the wrestlers put their hearts and souls into the sea- 4 son and two of them, Jeff ^ Scroggins and Chris Graves, % are advancing to the State < Tournament. • The Primary Science Fair will begin on March 28. This is a wonderful introduction to the world of Science and the Scientific Process. If you are able to help set up tables and decorate for this special event for our young students, or help us return tables afterward, please call Jan Makela, as soon as possible, at 9878259. We will set up on Tuesday, March 27 at 3:30 p.m. • The RCES Spring Book Fair will begin on March zb as well. What a great coincidence! You can stop by the Book Fair on your way to the Science Fair. It will be a busy, but very exciting, week for our children and their families. Did you know that our librarian Mrs. Aney Massie collects Wish Lists from RCES and RCMS teachers for books they would like to have for their classrooms? If you would like to honor, or say thank you, to a special teacher, you might consider purchasing one of the books on their list. Volunteers are needed to assist with the Book Fair as well. As you can imagine, many young students need help when trying to select the “perfect” books while staying within their budgets. If you are able to volunteer a few hours to hplp during the Fair, please call Mrs. Massie or Jan Makela at 9878259. Please remember that the Science Fair and Book Fair are both open to the public. In fact we invite (and encourage!) the public to be our guests at each event. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT: Citizen Representative Rappahannock County Fire Levy Board The Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County is seeking a qualified person to serve as a citizen representative to the Rappahannock County Fire Levy Board. The applicant should be a land owning resident and registered voter of Rappahannock County, interested in the provision of emergency response services (fire & rescue). Fire Levy Board members serve at the pleasure of the Board of Supervisors. The Fire Levy Board has two scheduled meetings per year to approve bills, and meets on such other occasions as may from time to time be necessary. The members serve as volunteers. Other members include an additional three citizen members, a representative from the Board of Supervisors, and one from the Fire & Rescue Association. Interested persons are invited to contact their representative on the Board of Supervisors, or the County Administrator, John W. McCarthy, at 675-3342. Yes! □ Please enter my new subscription to: Rappahannock Subscription Rates By Rappahannock.$21.°° Elsewhere in the U.S.$27. Nanae Address ‘City, State_ Zip. Mail subscriptions are payable in advance. Make check or money order payable to: Rappahannock New*, P.O. Box 59, Washington, VA 22747 This form may also be used for CHANGE OF ADDRESS Old Address: New Address: The Rappahannock Afei*>y(ISSN #’s 1050-7655 & 188280) is 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 News, P.O. Box 59, Washington, Virginia 22747. RCPS News • Reminder: There is a new Virginia health requirement for students currently in fifth grade. Students must have the series of Hepatitis B immunizations before entering sixth grade this fall. For more infor mation, please call the Health Department at 6753516. • If you are interested in helping the RCES PTO in a very painless way, please check out the following web sites and register our school number. RCES has set up links with sev eral legitimate internet shopping sites with links to mainstream merchants like (Land’s End, Eddie Bauer, Dell, Amazon, Office Max and more). When you shop through one of these sites a portion of your purchase is donated to our school, at no other cost in money or time to you. Encourage your friends and relatives to use these “school friendly” sites as well. The internet shopping sites are: Fundraising.com - RCES acct.# 5000-302-590; SchoolooD.com - select RCES as the beneficiary; Helpaschool.com - select RCES as the beneficiary; Schoolcash.com , RCES acct. # 01080558 ^ (This funding source is exclusively for the f|M Seventh Grade Trip to Williamsburg.) ■ • Please rememher that Kindergarten Registration for the r 2001-2002 school year will be held April 3-5, while the Seventh Grade is in Williamsburg. If you have a child who will be entering Kindergarten in the Fall please call now to make an appointment for you and your child. Thank you for helping us spread the word to others as well. Completing this process early really does make for a much smoother transition from home to school in September for The Starfish Mentoring Program: Where did it come from, and where is it going? By Mary O’Meara Rappahannock News Writer On April 28, the Starfish Mentoring Program will host its first Mentor Retreat, which will provide ongoing support and training to adults now mentoring young people in Rappahannock County. Still in its planning stages, this retreat will gather together a group of consultants to encourage and enrich the mentoring experiences of these energetic and committed people, who have been meeting with their young person on a regular basis over the past few years. This opportunity is the latest in a series of programs provided by the Starfish program, begun as a seed in the dreams of separate individuals and brought to fruition with much collaborating and planning. Five years ago, at the Headwaters Educational Forum at the Rappahannock Elementary School, Judy Tole stood up in front of a group of citizens and parents and proposed a mentoring program. She described a vision in which volunteerism could be focused one on one, meeting the needs and fostering the interests of individual students on a more personal level, using the diverse talents of Rappahannock County residents. Mrs. Tole had been gathering information for several years about programs all over the United States, in which more experienced individuals assisted and coached young people in their paths toward Notice 2001 Rappahannock County Vehicle Stickers are on sale at the Treasurer's Office. Registration card or copy required before decal can be purchased. Personal property taxes must be paid prior to purchasing a sticker. Stickers must be displayed by April 17, 2001. Transportation Service Routes to St. Luke's Lutheran School are being considered for the 2001-2002 school year. • Rt. 3 to Lake of the Woods, - Intersection of Rt. 20 & Rt. 3, Stevensburg • Rt. 229 to Clevenger's Corner, South Wales, Rixeyville • Rt. 15 to Orange, Woodberry, Midway • Rt. 29 to Madison, Brightwood, Reva Market & Merrimac Please call 825-8890 for more information! Offering Preschool through Grade 9 Culpeper's Oldest Accredited Independent School these young children and their parents. If you have questions or wish to schedule a time, please call RCES at 987-8259. • Have you ever thought about hosting a Foreign Exchange Student? Have you ever considered opening your home and your hearts to a student from another country? Every year, thanks to the efforts locally of Mrs. Jeanie McNear and the Youth for Understanding program, Rappahannock plays host to students from around the globe. There is always a need for families to welcome these wonderful students into their homes. Is it easy? Not necessarily. You provide for them as you would your own child. You may offer transportation to athletic events. You may assist with homework. You must be willing to listen and offer support. Do you grow attached to these children? Yes, without a doubt. They become a part of you family. There will be connection long after they return to their own countries. What a wonderful program to be a part of! Students will be arriving this summer and homes will be needed, so this is the time to open your hearts and help to foster a spirit of global understanding. •More important dates to remember: • Friday, March 16, Early Release at 1:40 p.m. Please remember to make the necessary child care arrangements. • Friday, March 16, RCES PTO Dinner Meeting at RCHS (not RCES), in the Commons area. Pot Luck Dinner at 5:30; Meeting from 6 to 7 p.m. ( Please plan to stay for the IB meeting) • Friday, March 16, International Baccalaureate (IB) Community Meeting, RCHS Auditorium, 7 to 8 p.m. Guests from Clarke County High School will talk about their successful program. Please come and get the facts about this new prograin being considered for RCHS that will be open to all interested students. Anyone who would like to bring a dish and join the PTO for dinner at 5:30 is cordially invited to come. • Wednesday, March 21, RCHS PAC (Principal’s and Parents’ Advisory Council) Meeting, “Brown Bag Luncheon” with Mr. Joe Perine, at RCHS from 12 to 1 p.m. Bring your lunch and sit down for a casual chat with our new principal as we work together to make RCHS the best that it can be. Bring your ideas, suggestions and concerns. • Have a great week, and think about planting something this spring! Planting seeds and watching them grow can be very rewarding as well as educational. Enjoy! competence and mastery. “Let’s do it!” said Lois Manookian, who was sitting in the crowd that night. Thus were the seeds sown of the Starfish Mentoring Program, now in its fourth year in the county. A small committee formed, consisting of Tole and Manookian, Margaret and Sid Gottlieb, Linda Dietel, Jan Makela, Ellen Neill-Dore, Bob and Virginia Scott, and Mary O’Meara, which laid the groundwork for the program we have today. Out of that committee emerged the executive committee, Tole, Manookian, Neill-Dore, Margaret Gottlieb, O’Meara and later, Susan Jones, who have been designing and implementing a program which they hope will continue for many years. In the process a key ingredient has been the logistical and financial support of Headwaters, who recently committed to ongoing support for Starfish which enabled the hiring of Ellen Neill-Dore as Program Coordinator. The first training session for 13 newly recruited adult volunteers was held in the fall of 1997. The training included information about communi cations skills, starting and maintaining a relationship, and child and adolescent development, as well as strategies for handling problems which might develop. It emphasized the value of listening and maintaining confidentiality in the development of trust. This training was enhanced by a series of programs known as The Starfish Roundtable, which brought the mentors together with experienced mentors and other professionals to encourage sharing of information and group support. Another aspect of the Starfish program is the program at Rappahannock High School. This program was initiated in the fall of 1998 with Seniors mentoring Eighth graders. In 1999 and 2000 the program involved 11th graders mentoring ninth graders, a change suggested by our first group of high school mentors. These mentors are trained at the school separately from our adult mentors, and the program is completely self-contained. Information about becoming a mentor and being a friend to a young person can be obtained by calling Ellen NeillDore at 675-1461. Rappahannock Commissioner of Revenue Office will be closed on March 19 and 20 due to renovations. We will reopen on Wednesday, March 21 at the rear of the building. Breeden's Plant House Opmf Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Daily House Plants, Gifts, Planting Supplies, Hanging Baskets, Pansies and Primroses Spring flowers now available Make sure to visit our shop featuring silk arrangements and gifts. 540-923-4381 Directions: From Sperryville, take Rt 231 S. for 12 miles, turn left on 642, go 1.5 miles NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT: Wakefield District Rappahannock County Planning Commission The Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County is seeking a qualified person to serve as the representative from Wakefield District to the Rappahannock County Planning Commission. The applicant should be a land owning resident and registered voter of Wakefield District, interested in planning and land use issues. Applicants may include the incumbent representative, whose term of office expires on May 1,2001. Planning Commission members serve a four-year term of office. The Planning Commission has a regularly scheduled meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Courthouse in Washington, VA on the third Wednesday of each month, and meets on such other occasions as may from time to time be necessary. The members are compensated at $20.00 per monthly meeting. Interested persons from Wakefield District are invited to contact your representative on the Board of Supervisors, Mr. Roger Welch, at (540) 675-3686 by Monday, April 30, 2001.

Relay kickoff meeting held Would IB Program work? By Bette Mahoney * Rappahannock News Writer ; The first meeting of the Rappahannock County Chapter of the American , Cancer Society’s Relay for Life Team Captains was held on Tuesday, March 6 at 7:30 at the ' Washington Fire Hall. About 25 people were in attendance. , The Relay for Life is the annual fund raising event of , the Rappahannock County Chapter of the American , Cancer Society. The Relay will , take place at the t Rappahannock County »Elementary School on May 1819. , Teams of 10 to 15 people < will set up campsites and take , turns moving around a track during this overnight event, which is both a celebration of , life and a community party. The event is more than a t fundraiser. Cancer education takes f)lace. Survivors walk the first ap, symbolizing the progress , we have made. Evening luminary ceremonies memorialize , those special people who have lost their battle with cancer and to honor cancer survivors. , Actual fund raising takes place before the event as Relay S teams’ members solicit sponsors for themselves and their teams and through other activities such as bake sales and yard sales. Ben Atkins, the Chair of this year’s event, introduced Michelle Kaye, captain of the Faith Mountaineers team, to describe her participation in the event. Michelle has participated in the event for six years and as a captain for the last three years - ever since the Relay has taken place in Rappahannock County. • She described the teamwork required to raise funds J and suggested bake sales and raffles as possible events. She went on to describe the walk of the survivors and the teams, as well as the “big party” atmosphere and “great food” at this community event. She also talked about the emotions and spirituality of the ' event - the joy for the survivors and the progress; the sadness for the loss of friends and relatives; and, the hope for the future of less cancer and more survivors. Ben Atkins described * this year’s event to be held May 18-19. Because the rain complicated last year’s event, this year there will be two agendas - one for good weather, and one for rain. Set up will begin at 'lunchtime at the ’ Rappahannock County Elementary School. The formal event will begin at 7 p.m. with a few speakers 1 and the survivor ceremony. Last year there were about 40 outdoor care your sprinj Imported cars aren’t foreign to us. /A REASONS TO \ I 1 BRING YOUR \J CAR TO US 1. Our business is Import Car Service 2. All work approved by you in advance 3. Locally owned and operated 4 Service by appointment, emergency when necessary 5. Same day service on most repairs 6. Loaner cars available 7. 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Around 9 p.m., there will be the Luminaria Ceremony followed by the DJ and plenty of music. At midnight, there will be a Midnight Madness Pizza Party. A wake up call will occur at 6 a.m. on Saturday morning and breakfast will follow. The last lap will occur between 7:30 and 8 a.m. Closing ceremonies will begin at 8 a.m. The closing ceremonies will recognize those teams that made their $1,000 goals as well as all the teams that participated. Last year more than 20 teams met their goals. About 40 teams participated and all team contributions were gratefully accepted. The Atkins children passed out the team captain’s handbook and forms prepared by the Atkins family. TTie books contained a description of the event, a calendar, instructions and suggestions for preparing for the event. Additional copies of these materials are available for anyone unable to attend the meeting but interested in participating in the Relay. Refreshments were served. The next meeting of the Team Captains will take place at 7:30 p.m. on March 20 at the Washington Baptist Church. Team Captains were encouraged to turn in their member ship enrollment forms on this date. The last date for early registration for Team Captain’s incentive prize is April 3 and will be held at the Washington Baptist Church from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The deadline for teams to be registered to have their names printed on back of the Tshirts is April 26, 2001. Teams can register up to the night of the event, however, they will not be able to get their names on back of the T-shirts if after April 26. For further information about being a team captain, serving on a team, or about the event, please contact Bette Mahoney at 675-3446 or Ben Atkins at 635-2377. Survivors are encouraged to attend. This is a community event celebrating cancer survivors and fighting for more of them in the future. SINK OR SWIM? It's never too late to learn how to swim. 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Call Fauquier Hospital Physician Referral and Community Link at 540 349 05Sm By Gerald Ochs Rappahannock News Writer Some members of the School Board, school administration and teaching staff have for some time promoted the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program as being one answer for the improvement of Rappahannock County schools. According to the mission statement of the International Baccalaureate Organization, the program “aims to assist schools in their endeavors to develop the individual talents of young people and teach them to relate the individual experiences of the classroom to the realities of the world out side . . . though comprehensive and balanced curricula coupled with challenging assessments.” The IB Diploma Program is a comprehensive and challenging two-year interdisciplinary course for students in their junior and senior years, and its curriculum consists of courses in English, modern foreign language, history, experimental science, mathematics, and electives. To be awarded the internationally recognized IB diploma, a student must complete course work and IB exam requirements in three higher level and three standard level disciplines, write a 4,000 word essay in one of the IB subject areas, complete the Theory of Knowledge course, and complete 150 hours of creativity, action, and service activities. On Friday, March 16 at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium, the Principal and two teachers from Clarke County High School will discuss their application of and success with the IB Program. They will also respond to prepared questions posed by Rappahannock County school administrators, and to questions from the audience at the Friday night meeting. For additional information on the March 16 event, contact the School Board office at 987-8773. Fodderstack Race set for April 21 Local couple arrested Captain Steven W. Shiro of the Front« Royal Police Department announced at a press conference on March 9 that the Northwest Virginia Regional Drug Task Force had raided the home of Kenneth and Melissa Kratz and seized more than $500,000 worth of marijuana and heroin. The Kratz home at 23 Red Haven Lane, Chester Gap in Rappahannock County was the site of an underground marijuana growing and processing operation, and 95 . plants were seized along with quantities of processed marijuana and packets of heroin. Kenneth Kratz was charged with man- < ufacturing marijuana with intent to dis- , tribute and is being held at the Warren County jail in Front Royal, with bond set at $200,000. His wife, Melissa Kratz, was charged with possession of heroin in both t Rappahannock and Warren Counties. The Task Force’s thirteen member entry team was manned by officers of the Virginia State Police, the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office. The 23rd annual Fodderstack 10KM Classic race will be held on Saturday, April 21 beginning at 10 a.m. The event is organized by the Rappahannock Recreational Facilities Authority and sponsored by The Inn. The race begins in Flint Hill on Route 522 at The Warehouse and ends at the courthouse in Washington, via the Fodderstack Road. Pre-registration is $18 by mail postmarked no later than April 14. There is also a family rate available, $15 per family member if pre-registered together and by deadline. Post registration is $20, no later than 9:30 on the morning of the race. For additional information call 6757171 or pickup a race pre-registration form at the Rappahannock County Administrator’s Office on Gay Street in Washington. Many local businesses are once again donating prizes. World’s First Disposable Hearing Aid Yes, disposable, just like the contact lenses. Call. Find out more. 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Trash Free Rappahannock cmo Needs ’feu.. .Now! Here’s what you can do to help. i) Volunteer The semiannual TFR “Road Gang” cleanup campaign using court ordered offenders assigned community service work will soon begin. Volunteers are needed who will transport the recruits to road sites and supervise their work. Needed for Saturday mornings 7:30 -12:30 from March 17 to April 14. Pick a weekend with your favorite Trash Boss. Woodville 3/17 - Mary Walsh 540987-9154 Sperryville 3/24 - John Kiser 540987-8445 Washington 3/31- Chris Bird 540675-3409 Flint Hill 4/7 - Bob Anderson/Roger Welch 540987-8206 (RA) Amissville 4/14 - Buck Payne 540987-8303 2) GlV0 Money Send check (tax deductible) to TFR c/o Doug Baumgardner Law Offices, PO. Box 270, Washington, VA 22747. TFR costs money-transportation, equipment (gloves, tape, pens, etc.) for road gang, publicity, matching fund for Lions. 3) Work Cash for trash. The Rappahannock lion’s Club is paying $3.00 per bag “Work Fare” to youth organizations seeking support for projects. Contact Buck Payne 540-9878303. 4) POlitlC Talk with your supervisor about the incredible shrinking trash disposal possibilities in the county. Let’s think about > alternative approaches to the problem. Sincere thanks in advance to: Lion’s Club, Jon Heddleston, Larry Sherertz, Peter Luke, Penny Jenkins (VDOT), the Trash Bosses and sundry volunteers. j < John Kiser for TFR

This week in sports -c By Jon Smythe Athletic Director {H It was a week for recognition of the Panthers from the Winter teams and the continuation of spring training for those members of the spring sports. It was a chilly and windy week as outdoor practices crowded the immediate fegh school area and spilled over into Amissville with the School’s ball teams. tj * Winter athletic ; awards presented • All 112 winter i student/athletes were recognized Thursday, March 8 at the first annual winter -Sports awards ceremony. Despite the attempt by the -Athletic Director to reduce -tpe length of time of the School’s awards ceremonies, -$y spreading them out with a 'fell, winter and spring banquet, the occasion lasted {-Over two hours. JTr-J It’s difficult to reduce the length of these activities {with all the young people {{that deserve congratulations Sand recognition. Mr. Paul 1-Gall, Chairman of the •{Rappahannock County ** {School Sports Association {-(RCSSA), started the cere{{mony off with a great story of -gports in his day, reflecting £on the impact that these {events can have on a small {-Community. p- He broke out his old high School letter jacket to make {-the point on how this stuff {{really stays with you all your • Jife. Then the program took I off with the coaches of each J-winter team introducing {their players and presenting their awards. Coaches Gary Settle and jMike Leake told the story of their Junior Panther Boys’ {Basketball team and the {road they traveled this year. . The following boys received recognition as members of {the 2000-2001 Junior r anthers: Ben Hahn, Timmy •Clanagan, Will Miller, Ethan {Berry, Jacob Dodson, Monte Christian, Jason Jenkins Manager, Dustin White, Will Norman, Megan {Payne, David Miller, Alex Sharp, Marc Deal and Eric {Phillips. Two players received ’individual recognition at the ' ceremony. Monte Christian j{ was awarded the Most Valuable Player Award and f Ethan Berry earned the t Coaches Award for their efforts this season, ft. The basketball coaching J jstaff, led by Head Coach ; Mike Dayton, followed the • {Junior Panthers with the ■ .‘recognition of the High {School's Boys’ Basketball pteams. Members of the ijJunior Varsity team were | {introduced and given certifij ‘cates of participation by the * {Junior Varsity Head Coach, j {Mike Atkins. { Assistant Head Varsity f{Coach, Ricky Shaw assisted ! ;in the presentation of {.♦awards to the varsity athletes. Receiving certificates Pas members of the Junior ; ^Varsity were: John Letsen, • {Tony Starks, David Letsen, Ppregg Jackson, Chris Starks, ♦Noah Starks, Nathan Welch, {Andrew Gordon, Zach ridgeman, Brendon Powell, an Brown and Darryl ropp. Individual Junior Varsity onors went to Gregg {♦{Jackson as the teams Most REFRESHING: Varsity soccer team takes a water break during practice. Valuable Player and Andrew Gordon, who earned the Coaches Award for the JV squad. Head Coach Mike Dayton awarded Varsity letters to: Daniel Dart, Jeff Ritenour, Kerry Grigsby, Mark Wharton, Phillip Thomas, Chris Fletcher, Jamie Keys, B.J. Christian, Matt Ralston, Zach Ashbey, Marc Russell, Statistician/Scorer, Chris Brown, Dana Caldwell, Amanda Weakley, Betsy Welk, Gwen Johnson and Ashley Dunn. Individual honors at the Varsity level were earned by Senior Chris Fletcher as the teams’ Mo^t Valuable Player. Junior Jeff Ritenour was presented the Coaches Award. Next on the program were the girls that represented , Rappahannock County High School in volleyball. Coaches Stan Brooks and Suzie Zylonis introduced the Lady Panthers with the Junior Varsity players recognized as: Kori Alexander, Danielle Hiserman, Rachel Gall, Dawn Andreoni, Ryisha Cook, Mattie Nawrocki, Krystal Murray, Anna Kreyling, Lindsay NeillDore, Danielle North, Ashlyn Paul and Karie Von Fange. Sophomore Dawn Andreoni was pulled up to the Varsity after only a few games and earned a Varsity letter. Sophomore Kori Alexander and Freshman Ryisha Cook were also pulled up to the Varsity later in the season and did not play in enough games to earn their varsity letters. Individual awards to JV volleyball plaers saw Danielle Hiserman earn the Most Valuable Player Award and Karie Von Fange the Coaches Award. Varsity letter winners in volleyball were: Jenny Waters, Kelly Atkins, Alyssa Berry, Lara Kreyling, Jessica Nawrocki, Rachel Sharp, Ashleigh Burke, Elaine Smith, Managers, Dawn Andreoni, Carrie Yingling and Lauren Kaye. Lady Panthers receiving special recognition were Rachel Sharp, who was awarded the teams’ Most Valuable Player Award. She had previously been selected to the First-Team, All Bull Run District. Junior Jessica SPRING IS ON THE WAY: Junior Kelly Atkins at softball practice. Nawrocki earned the Coaches Award. The Varsity and Junior Varsity Cheerleaders followed the volleyball players, as they recognition for their efforts which ran through two sport seasons. Head Coach Julie Atkins presented the awards to both teams. Members of the Junior Varsity squad recognized were: Brittany Davis, Nikki Calisto, Mazzie Drake, Jessica Ehrhart, Christina Howard, Caroline Levans, Leslie Williams. Jessica Ehrhart was given special recognition from her coach when she was presented with the Most Spirited Cheerleader award for the Junior Varsity team. Varsity Cheerleaders earning letters were: Tiffany Early, Samantha Smoot, Anna Miller, Molly Burke, Renee Godwin, Ashley Clindinst, Jamie Deal, Brandy Early, Jennifer Foreback, Sara Hathaway, Krystal Smoot, Melanie Torrance. Senior and Captain Tiffany Early earned the Most Spirited Cheerleader award from her coach. Freshman Brandy Early was presented the Coaches Award. The evening finished up with the recognition of the schools’ wrestlers. It was ^uite a year and first season for Head Coach Jim Wells and he was extremely proud SPEAKER: Mr. Paul Gall, Chairman of the RCSSA, at the winter awards ceremony. to recognize his grapplers. The following boys earned Varsity letters in wrestling: Chris Graves, Houston Haynes, Jeff Scroggins, Johnathan Bankston, Garner Smythe, Jeremy Graves, Billy Tucker, Jacob Crane, John Ferdetta, Eric Norman, Stuart Hensley, Andy Propst, Cody Rodriguez, Daan Riemeijer, Bren Miller and Jonathan Robinson. The following boys earned letters of participation: Jesse Smith, Stephen Von Fange, Mike Wiese, Henry Robertgpn, Josh Sager, Kyle Robinson, Alex Sitorius, Brian Brown, Jason Simeon, Max Haynes and Ace Gainer. Steepchasing This week What: 60th annual Warrenton Hunt Point-to-Point. When: Saturday, March 17. Post time 12:30 p.m. for the first of 7 races. Where: Airlie, Warrenton. Course is located north of town on Airlie Road. Details: (540) 347-5095. Got bored kids? Visit our web site at www.timespapers.com for local events. Student/Athlete Spotlight Name: Ralph Pace Sports: Soccer Class in school: Sophomore Favorite subject in school: Geometry Most memorable high school sports moment: Last year we were playing soccer against Brentsville and we were losing 2-0 late in the second half. Rappahannock had never beaten Brentsville in soccer before. I scored two goals in the last 15 minutes of the game to tie the score and Daniel Ramey kicked in the winner with just minutes left. That game seemed to set the tone for our team and made all the difference in the second half of the season. Favorite food: Ziti Favorite book: To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemmingway Favorite TV show: Fox Sports News Favorite movie: Animal House Favorite music: Rage Against the Machine Graduation ambition: When I graduate I am going to college. I'm not sure yet where I want to go. What I like most about RCHS: It does feel small and you do feel like you know everyone. Son of: Mark and Sherry Pace of Boston Brothers: Ryland, 19 years old; Huck, 8 years old Class offered Kevin Reeve, director of Tom Brown’s Tracking, Nature, and Wilderness Survival School will be offering a series of classes for hunters and outdoor oriented people. Reeve is an expert in the field, having studied with America’s most respected outdoors man and tracker, Tom Brown Jr. for many years. He has assisted Mr. Brown on several tracking cases, teaches tracking and nature observation at the school, and works with Search and Rescue groups and elite military groups such as the Special Forces and SEAL teams. Mr. Reeve is living in Woodville for a short time, and has agreed to offer this class during his stay. Tracking for Hunters A special class is being offered for all hunters who want to be assured of success. This class, titled Tracking for Hunters, will cover a host of topics that will almost guarantee success to the hunter who practices them.The class is being offered one time only, on Saturday, April 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Bleu Rock Inn near Washington. Cost for the each class if $60 for the day. Contact 9878328 to reserve a spot or for more information. The Sallie Mae Cup is a unique competition brought to you by Sallie Mae to honor the outstanding athletic and scholastic achievements of high school student athletes. ___ cv As of 2-22-01 HIGH SCHOOL Courtland High School King George High School Frederick Douglass High School Orange County High School Gar-Field High School Thomas A. Edison High School Bell High School Centreville High School Woodberry Forest School Centennial High School Chopticon High School Loudoun Valley High School Fauquier High School Potomac Falls High School Broadneck High School Magruder High School Oakton High School Luray High School Gwynn Park High School Eleanor Roosevelt School Fredericksburg Christian School Stafford High School Mount Hebron High School Gleneig High School Culpeper County High School George Mason Senior High School Damascus High School Grace Brethren School River Hill High School St. Mary’s Annapolis High School SCORE 90.00 90.00 89.35 87.50 86.15 84.17 83.18 82.95 82.89 82.14 80.00 80.00 78.21 78.06 77.92 76.50 75.69 75.00 73.44 73.03 72.40 71.90 71.02 70.84 70.83 69.71 69.58 69.48 69.15 68.74 The sum of the interior angles of a polygon = 180 (n-2) Great athletes can also be great students. Check out the latest Sallie Mae Cup standings in today's paper. For information call 1-877-731-0034 or visit salliemae.com

-ftappafjantiocfe Jletos— Established 1877 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Wednesday ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL, PUBLISHER Barbara C. Wayland, Executive Editor and General Manager 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 www.timescommunity.com WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2001 Our View Agriculture Thank Rappahannock farmers during Agriculture week, March 18-24 Governor Jim Gilmore has declared March 18-24 as Agriculture Week in Virginia and has called its observance to the attention of all citizens. It is an ideal time to give some thought - and some thanks - to farmers for all they do, all year round, for all of us. Agriculture has been the backbone of Virginia’s economy since the settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607. For almost 400 years, farmers have continued to provide Virginians with food, fiber and other essentials despite soaring temperatures, plummeting prices, daunting regulations and fluctuating market conditions. Kudos to Virginia and Rappahannock farmers for using flexibility and innovation to expand and develop new marketing opportunities. To accommodate the demand for better nutrition, farmers produced meat that is lower in fat and cholesterol. To satisfy consumers looking for unique foods, farmers have introduced specialties such as shiitake mushrooms, Asian pears, bison, etc. Let us applaud farmers for putting their money where their crops and livestock are: for committing the enormous resources necessary for land, equipment, seed, feed and other essentials; and for standing firm in the face of encroaching development. Accolades to farmers for valuing our land and water resources, and for making environmental preservation and enhancement among their top priorities. Rappahannock farmers and landowners should be applauded for conservation easements of 11,971 protected acres. So what have farmers done for us lately? They have planted, grown, tended and harvested the food and fiber that goes into almost everything we eat, wear and use. Let’s thank our farmers for that! .Va Rappahannock Today Photo courtesy of Lori Ferreira Wakefield Country Day School participated in “Jump Rope for Heart” recently, raising over $1100 for the American Heart Association. Pictured are left to right, Alex Shafran, Brian Shafran, and Matthew Wingfield, all of whom earned a place in the “30 Minute Jump Club”. Letters Hats off to Mrs. Pond Hats off to Mrs. Edith Pond! She has called it like it is. The assorted whining and carping about Florida would be amusing if it did not ignore vote count subversions perpetrated and attempted by Mr. Gore and his henchmen. (The fact that Florida in the same election, Florida elected/reelected 15 Republican representatives to only eight Democrats suggests that some Gore ploys were successful or at least undiscovered). While the discovered manipulations have been mentioned previously, the major ones obviously need repeating: 1. The Gore legal team prepared a five page instruction manual on how to disqualify absentee ballots from U.S. service men and women who were logi cally expected to vote for the candidate that respects and supports the military. This was despicable. 2. Gore surrogates also attempted to disqualify 25,000 domestic absentee ballots from two counties where a count of these particular absentee ballots had shown a preponderance of votes for Mr. Bush. The subterfuge used was a minor irregularity in the applications for these ballots, not the ballots themselves. 3. Gore legal staff and surrogates claiming discrimination at polling places in Democrat areas staffed entirely by Democrat personnel - without bothering to mention the latter two points. (The infamous “butterfly” ballot, also condemned by the Gore henchmen, was designed by a Democrat election supervisor and approved by Democrat election officials.) 4. Also appalling was the rubbery and ever more subjective manual re-count procedure, conducted in Democrat counties primarily by Democrats in which the standards for divining a vote for Gore became ever more lenient and inclusive. (It was this issue of nonuniform and/or non existent standards that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled seven to two was unconstitutional, after the Florida Supreme Court - all Democrats, the one was appointed by a Republican governor- said a lack of standards was just fine. 5. A subtle point, outside of Florida, which a couple of your correspondents seem to have overlooked, is that Mr. Gore’s home state, Tennessee, which might be expected to know him best, chose Mr. Bush. Even Vice President Mondale, rejected if I recall correctly, by 49 other states, did carry his home state. If it were not for this, and the general consensus that a sitting Vice President in times of prosperity should have no trouble winning an election, we would be more sympathetic to the claim that President Bush didn’t win the popular vote. However, with the various reports of voting irregularities in several other states, we question the “popular vote” non-issue, but suggest that President Bush won ! the moral equivalent of a landslide. Erma and Tom Pendergast Washington From Back Issues of the Rappahannock News Down Memory Lane 40 YEARS AGO March 16, 1961 1 The Rappahannock Home Demonstration ' Clubs are sponsoring a trip to New York on May 9. Everyone is welcome and you do not have to be a club member to take advantage of this opportunity. Cost of the trip will be $35 plus the cost of your meals and entertainment. Included in the $35 fee is transportation, hotel room and all scheduled tours. At the meeting of the Rappahannock County School Board held Tuesday night, March 14, Q.D. Casque, Superintendent of Rappahannock and Warren County Schools submitted a letter of resignation to the Board. The Flint Hill Ladies Auxiliary to the Fire Company served a delightful dinner to the firemen and visitors on Tuesday evening, March 14. Rev. Warren Wilbur acted as toast master and Mrs. Barbara Gentry on behalf of the ladies and H.S. Barksdale speaking for the firemen welcomed the guests and co-workers. On Monday, Mr. Wingate Burden of Central Intelligence Agency spoke to the seniors at Rappahannock County High School about employment with CIA after graduation. Mr. H.G. Wilbur, President of Monroe Business College in Winchester talked to i juniors and seniors about their plans for the future and what the college has to offer them. ! Seven juniors took the Merit Scholarship ; Qualifying test given at the high school on ; Saturday. They were Barney Pauze, J.G. Russell, Judy Latham, Nancy Latham, Nancy Wood, Bonnie Brown and Dorothy Moore. 20 YEARS AGO March 12, 1981 The art of Ukranian Easter Egg Design will be demonstrated again this year at the Country Store of Washington on April 4 beginning at 10 a.m. Marie Cooley of Washington, D.C. will demonstrate the craft. For the past'five years, she has given demonstrations at the White House. Her latest was at the H.E.W. building as part of the inauguration ceremonies. Somerbeth, the home of Mrs. Helen Dawson near Huntly, will be leased to Wakefield School for its new girls’ boarding home. Somerbeth is about one and a half miles from the boy’s lodge at Wakefield Manor. In 1981-82, about an eighth of the school’s students will be boarders. Panther Stars Jimmy Tomko, Mike Leake and Greg Martin were named to the 198081 Skyline District All Stars. Chosen for second team All District, Sophomore Leake averaged 17.4 points and 11 rebounds during the basketball season. Awarded honorable mention, Tomko, a senior averaged 13.5 points while Martin, the team’s junior guard, was selected for honorable mention on the basis of his outstanding defensive play, according to Coach Jim Logan. 10 YEARS AGO March 7, 1991 In a lead photograph, Science students Michele Raynor, Holly Moffett and Becky Smith examine one of the displays at " ' - ..1 »■■■ . . » Photo courtesy of Sally Keyser OUT-OF-THE-ATTIC: This service station was owned by Mr. Homer Atkins at Turn Bridge. He sold Essoline gas as well as apples. It was said that beautiful flowers surrounded the place. More photos from US 211 and a story can be found on B-2. the Science Fair last week for Rappahannock Elementary School. Following the county event, 24 students will go on to compete at the Regional Science Fair at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville March 25-27. Two Rappahannock County homes were recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. Caledonia Farm, off the Fodderstack Road between Washington and Flint Hill and the late John W, Miller House in Slate Mills, were recognized by the Virginia Board of Historic Resources last spring. Their listing in the National Register is the final step in certification as historic landmarks, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior spokesman. Tenth-grader Todd Smoot recently received a White House reply. He wrote to the White House as part of a class project involving wishes. President Bush couldn’t set up a meeting with the war going on, but he did send Todd and classmates information about the White House and Bush family history. COMPILED BY BARBARA C. WAYLAND

More Letters Accident should teach us a lesson No one feels more sorrow than I for the families of the Japanese who lost their lives when our submarine surfaced and accidentally sunk a Japanese fishing boat. Nine people lost their lives. People have been killed in accidents that never were expected to happen. And I’m sorry to say that there will be accidents in the future, regardless of what we think or how careful we are. However, this reasoning does not excuse what happened. I am very sorry that this acddent happened and for the families who no longer have their loved ones with them. I am sure that we Americans will pay dearly for this in more ways than one. The families want the fishing boat raised from over a 2,000 foot depth, monetary pay from the U.S., Captain to apologize and also punished, plus much more they will be asking from us I am sure. I do hope that we have learned from this tragic experience. Looking back, I remember Dec. 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and hundreds lost their lives in and on the USS Arizona as well as on other ships anchored there. Hundreds of men inside the Arizona died there. Tapping on the hull of the ship was heard for a couple days and after that all was silent. Some were rescued, but others perished unable to be rescued in time. Did we ever get an apology from Japan? Democrats celebrate Rappahannock County Democrats celebrated the first “birthday” of its Adopted Highway this past Saturday, March 6. Their gift to the County and to those who enjoy its beauty was a cleaner, more cared for section of highway. A glorious morning greeted the fierce foes of litter as seven of Rappahannock’s citizens cleaned up the one mile of highway 211 which the Rappahannock Democrats have “adopted.” The highway stretches west from Massie’s Corner. Anyone interested in joining the fun for the next clean-up (and the donuts and coffee which follow) should contact Kate Gagnon at 675-2056 or check out the web site: www.RappDems.org. For more information on the activities of the Rappahannock County Democratic Committee, contact Meredith Gorfein, Chair, 675-3515. “CITY LIVING” HANDBAGS BY LIZ CLAIBORNE® Stylish designer handbags for spring. Choose from three styles, each with the look and feel of leather, and accented with modern silver hardware. Small top zip, $54. Hobo, $60. Satchel, $60 small top zip hobo satchel WARRENTON CENTER • WARRENTON, VA • (540) 347-1820 ♦ H6URS: MON.-SAT. 10-9; SUN. 12-6 ROYAL PLAZA • FRONT ROYAL, VA • (540) 635-3101 • HOURS: MON.-SAT. 10-9; SUN. 12-5 For 55 years plus we have had military in Japan protecting them (as well as in surrounding areas). Who pays? We do, the American people! I do not hold any of the Japanese families or their loved ones responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor. They had nothing to do with what happened then, they were not even around. I was on a ship in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Transferred to a submarine later and then to a troop transport for the invasion of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. The injured was brought aboard our ship for treatment. Many of them died. I saw a great number of Marines, soldiers and sailors wrapped in canvas, laid on a slant board, with an American flag draped above, and were gently released into their watery grave. I was also on one of the Troop Transports that carried occupation troops into Tokyo Bay for the signing of the Peace Treaty on Sept. 2, 1945. I cannot forget! I hope our country has leaned something from WWII! However, I wonder after the Korean War? Vietnam, Desert Storm, and all the other conflicts that we have gotten involved in. We still do not know how to get out! We do not always give our military the equipment that they need when they go into places where they are at great risk themselves. I suggest that when we are sending our men intd areas all over the world where their safety is greatly jeopardized that in the first landing craft or planes that the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, Majority and Minority Leaders of Congress be on that boat. There are others already in place who can fill those vacancies while those leaders are gone Democrat or Republican doesn’t matter. Our military then will know why we are there, how to get in, how to get out and above all there would be the best of everything to get the job done! The way to peace is for our country to be strong, well trained, and well equipped. If we have to fight, we can get in, do the job, and get out! I do not know what happened when our submarine came up under the fishing boat. I am sure that when there are civilians aboard any of our military ships, planes, tanks or any military equipment there will be distractions! I do not approve of civilians being in or on any of the above as it can easily jeopardize the safety and security of our country. I also do not approve of military women serving on or in the above places. There are many places in which women have demonstrated their skills and capabilities in service to and protection of our country. I have not served on ships with women. I am sure they would distract me from my assigned duties! In reference to the civilians on the submarine which sank the fishing boat, I do not believe that the decision was made by the captain to have civilians aboard the submarine. Someone higher up in the government or the Navy made that decision, not the captain! I say “be safe not sorry!” If you have not been in the military you might not understand what I am saying, even if you have been I am not sure you understand! One last thing: Believe it or not we have military families that have to use food stamps to pay for food! We should be ashamed! Some are too proud to accept food stamps but others have no choice! Roy F. Jenkins Amissville Casual attitude of Florida voters Although I agree with my critics that the system needs changing, my idea of what part needs it soonest is probably not theirs. The first monkey wrench that got flung into the electoral process came flying by courtesy of the television “experts” who gave Florida to A1 Gore before all the polls were closed. The system that allowed that kind of interference should be changed and the sooner the better. That “all three” major networks agreed on that call doesn’t mean a thing. They were all three feeding from the same source. Whoopie doo! The butterfly ballot has been used in other states than Florida, and has never, until this election, been considered a problem. But if it was, and especially if it was, there is no excuse for a serious voter to have handed it to a child for voting. Discuss, yes. Explain, yes. Hand it over? No. That this casual attitude is alive and well in Florida is demonstrated by the remark of a 90 year old woman in Duval County who is described in a Wall Street Journal editorial as having voted twice and being proud of it. “If I had voted a half-dozen times, I would have voted every time for A1 Gore,” she said If being offended by that kind of behavior marks me as obsessed, so be it. I’ll call it whenever I see it. It beats trying to sell the idea that not every legitimate vote was counted. It was, and recounted and recounted and recounted again. As far as feeling good about the election results is concerned - fellas, my side won. When was the last time the Democrats went into mourning after winning an election? Edith Pond Sperryville A “closet liberal”? I refer to last week’s letter of Edith Pond, in which she advances the fact that someone named “George W. Bush is now President of the United States.” And she made the point four times in a rather short letter. Such open-minded and clear-headed observation is indeed commendable. So gifted a person surely knows the difference between right and wrong. Thus, in the case of the faith-based national missile defense, on which $90 billion has already been spent in the guise of Star Wars, and on which the purported President of the United States proposes to spend $240 million more, Edith Pond must be aware that the system so far has shown no signs of working, and that it is not really necessary in any case. And as an open-minded, clear-headed problem solver, she is undoubtedly aware of the proposition that the Government is, as Lincoln, the last great Republican President, said, “of the people, by the people, for the people.” It follows that the Government may have a role in seeing penniless elderly folks don’t have to choose between buying dog food for their meals or prescription drugs. And that single mothers may need an increase in minimum wage. And the big across-the-board tax cut - she knows that 43 percent of tax cut dollars will go to the wealthiest one percent of all taxpayers, who have bought and paid for that result. Other matters too must engage her, such as the appointment of an Attorney General who has outspokenly opposed the laws he now has to enforce, and a Secretary of the Interior who is a disciple of the discredited James Watt. Putting all these facts together leads me to the inescapable conclusion that Edith Pond, an open-minded, clear-headed, problem solver, is really a closet liberal. Come on, Edith Pond. Put your hat back on your head, get out of the closet, and join me in the Democrat majority. You’ll really like it, you liberal you! Lee Bird Washington RESPECT THE EARTH RECYCLE! Warren Memorial Hospital Wiley Health System Welcomes Patricia A. 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Book From Page A1 Confederate force, Private Sneden and a handful of others were captured on Nov. 26, 1863, while sleeping in a house near Brandy Station. Before going to sleep, he wrote, he had spied a band of horsemen in a nearby woods. “I noticed that they did not look like our cavalry, although they all wore blue overcoats like ours,” his diary relates. “Some wore slouch hats. More than half of them walked their horses slowly, as if to reconnoitre our position. I concluded they were either Meshy’s gang or Rebel cavalry of some sort, but on telling the boys, who saw them as well as myself, they laughed at my fears. Still, I had a premeditation that something would happen before morning.” After dozing off in the house, the Union man was “awakened by a rough tap on the head with a pistol barrel,” he wrote. “I was instantly awake, and was amazed to find a soldier kneeling beside me who wore blue clothes, and who cocked his pistol at once and pressing the muzzle to my head ordered me to ‘be silent or he would blow a hole through me" The man with the gun told Private Sneden that Colonel Mosby wanted to see him. “Mosby himself interrogated me at once,” he wrote. “Mosby was an undersized, thin visaged looking fellow, with a sickly looking yellow mustache. He wore a United States officer’s blue overcoat over a uniform of gray, had on fine silk stitched top boots.” After failing to learn much in questioning the Union private, Mosby remarked that “it would be an easy thing for him to hang me up to one of the trees in front of the house.” When Private Sneden boldly replied that such an act would be cowardly, one of Mosby’s men whacked him over the eye with a pistol, opening a nasty wound. At daybreak, the Union private and ten other captives were ordered to help Mosby’s men round up a large herd of Union mules, which the captives rode bareback in wester Social Security Disability Claims • Disabled? Turned Down? • Over 31 Years Experience • No Recovery - NO FEE Earl J. Oberbauer, Jr. Attorney At Law 540-829-6900 • 1-800-434-3059 FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION f’mz'idinii Affordable. (htality l.e^al Sereins Shut /0J5 Reduce Your Tax Bile.* Get A Home Equity Line From F&lft. You worked hard to buy a home. 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Property insurance is required on all loans secured by real estate ly direction, crossing the Hazel River and entering Rappahannock County. “The sun was just above the hill tops when we reached Woodville, a collection of a dozen houses, weather-beaten and depopulated except at one or two houses where several women and Negroes were gathered to see us come up,” Private Sneden wrote. “Mosby had been here for a week or more only a short distance in our rear where he had made the place his headquarters.” The captured Yankee mules were all fine and fat, some 117 in all, and “the Rebels were in high glee at the capture of so fine a lot.” It was about 5 a.m., a rousing morning in Woodville. “The Rebel cavalrymen yelled and threw up their slouch hats, while the mules kicked, brayed and plunged in all sorts of ways,” the diary continues. “Mosby went into the best looking house and brought out a lot of women and Negro servants or slaves to look at us. We were a hard looking crowd, some without shoes or hats, jaded and hungry” One of the Union captives had no hat and tied a blanket over his head, which made him look like “a mounted Arab,” Private Sneden wrote. “He scared the Negroes, who got away in the rear, especially when one of the Rebels yelled out, ‘Say, Yank, where’s your horns?’ I must have made a sorry appearance, with eye all swollen up and the dried blood all over my face and neck.” In vivid detail, Private Sneden records his passage through Rappahannock County with the captives and Mosby’s men, telling of an arduous climb to the summit of the Blue Ridge and a descent into a deep valley (apparently the F.T. Valley) en route to Madison Court House. “We had passed only three or four tumble down half-ruined houses since leaving Woodville, and had not met a single human being or animal thus far, he writes. Later, moving south toward Madison, the caravan “passed several large plantation houses which were a long distance from the road.” After a while, the party “approached near to Madison Court House, whose white houses and steeple came into view.” The Union private was taken to Gordonsville where he and the other captives were put on a train to Richmond, where he was imprisoned. Later, he was transferred to the notorious Confederate Board From Page A1 Committee selected the firm of Rickmond Engineering to provide. support to develop a** “master plan for sports facilities.” The master plan will address issues including the best location for a track, design of a field house with concessions and restrooms, an auxiliary gym, and the overall layout of facilities. Rose Ann Sharp of the Programs and Planning Committee reminded attendees of the IB Program meeting this coming Friday at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorum. Aileen Johnson of the Personnel Committee noted that the Committee is working on a questionnaire that will attempt to find the cause of low morale in the teaching staff. Franklin Warner clarified that there were “some reports that morale is low.” Headwaters Representative Rosa Crocker listed Headwater’s action items that were developed as a result of ( their recent retreat. They include coordinating local school funding resources; 1 providing grant-writing : support to the school system; and increasing parental involvement in school affairs. She also reported results of the prison camp at Andersonville, Ga., where he somehow survived several brutal months of imprisonment and produced perhaps the best visual 1 images of that huge prison ' camp ever seen. Private Sneden’s memoir ' and his detailed drawings and } maps, reproduced in full color, ■ constitute one of the richest personal accounts of the Civil 1 War, from the ordinary sol- ' dier’s perspective, that has ever been recorded. This ordi- 1 nary soldier, who spent much of his post-war life writing and 1 drawing his stopr, has left an ' extraordinary historical docu- ‘ ment, which has now come to light after decades of being lost. The book, which retails for $37.50, is available at the Old Sperryville Bookshop and may be ordered by calling 987-8444 ' or by writing to P.O. Box 249, ' Sperryville, Va., 22740, or by ’ e-mail to bookchurch@earth- ' link.net. * Headwaters Board meeting that include:'announcement of the “Buttercup Ball” PTO fundraiser on May 12 Jhat will honor school faculty and administration; sponsorship of the Second Annual Academic Awards on June 6; and the hiring of the first Starship mentoring program coordinator. Other activities • Dr. Gangel reported that he accepted staff recommendations for June 14 and 15 as snow make up days. • Superintendent Gangel noted that $102,000 in State technology funds would be used to purchase 72 additional computers “within the next week or so.” * < • Jack Raines reported that last year’s yearbook is< being printed and should be available next month, and that work on the 1999 yearbook is progressing. < Grants From Page A1 ind county-wide combined! nural project, “The Singbjg; free”; biology teacher PatfJiVaddell for training students ini Z!PR; and teachers Susan Fox' md Janet Long for team* juilding day tee-shirts during! he SCA May Fest. Headwaters was also aleased to recently approve! unding of $1,500 for Paul' ileisler’s Tidal Wave of Song CD! project. Tidal Wave of Song is a! :ontinuation of the artist-in-res-■ dence “Making Waves” school! project that Headwaters helped; support in 1999-2000. Mr. Reisler plans to take! songs written by local school; :hildren during that project and' jroduce a CD using the talents,' )f not only the children, but; ocal professional musicians. ■ Funds from sale of the CD will! >e returned to our schools for; uture music programs. If any-! >ne would like to help support! he Tidal Wave of Song project, j hey should contact Mr. Reisler. I These Headwaters grants! ire a direct reflection of the; snormous support within the! lappahannock community for! »ur county public schools and* hildren. The grants could not •ccur without the generous lonations of our many friends md neighbors. If anyone would ike further information kbout ieadwaters and how to make a lonation, please call 675-1819, vrite Headwaters at P.O. Box 148, Washington, Va. 22747, or !-mail at headwtrs@shentcl.net. WARRENTON CENTER • WARRENTON, VA • (540) 347-1820 • HOURS: MON.-SAT 10-9- SUN 12-6 ROYAL PLAZA • FRONT ROYAL, VA • (540) 635-3101 • HOURS: MON.-SAT. 10-9; SUN. 12-5

• Neighbors/B2 • Obituaries/B5 • Classifieds/B6, B7 • Real Estate/B8 March 14, 2001 Countryside Sector B www.timescommunity.coni Citizen of the Week Attracting Purple Martins: final tips Howard William (Bill) Tieckelmann Family: Married for 18 years to Donna Rose, an IT specialist at McKinsey and Company, Washington, D.C. Occupation: “Designer, builder, consultant, building a home of my own design in Harris Hollow from timbers salvaged from the old ski lodge.” Hometown: Tonawanda (Buffalo), New York Points in between: ‘Thirty years in Providence, R.I., with a few years here and there on the West Coast. Most recently we lived in Annapolis, Md. for seven years. We became “comeheres” four years ago on Valentine’s Day.” Education: “Graduated in 1973 from Brown University with a BA in fine art, studying medieval and renaissance art. In 1995 received an AA from Anne Arundel Community College in general studies, where on a work study program, I was an intern at the White House in 1995.1 was studying government, politics, and economics at UMd College Park when the old ski lodge came up for auction. Our successful bid temporarily ended my formal education with two courses left to go to finish a BA. Also attended the Rhode Island School of Design, the San Francisco Art Institute and U.C. Berkeley Extension for engineering.” Community: Member of the Rappahannock County Democratic Committee, Hampton district captain, and delegate to the state and local Democratic conventions in 2000. Interests: “Writing, drawing, and painting, cosmology, clinical ecology and nutrition; running and swimming" Most interesting travel experience: “In 1989, right after the Berlin Wall came down, was invited to be an observer at the 40th anniversary meeting of NATO in Brussels, Belgium. My most interesting experience was a briefing by the Supreme Allied Commander Allied Forces Europe on nuclear, land and naval Strategy.” Most humbling Jobs: “Teaching deaf and retarded children and adults to swim, and teaching advanced writing techniques to prisoners trying to get a newsletter published at the maximum security prison at Jessup, Md. Working on nuclear submarines.” Hardest/most important Job: “Being a good husband, a responsible citizen, and trying to keep up with and understand what’s going on in America’s political system.” Accomplishments: “Former member of the board of directors of (he Maryland Justice Policy . Institute, a criminal law and . corrections policy organization. Editor of Pulse Check: National Trends in Drug Abuse, Executive Office of the President, Office of ' National Drug Control Policy, dpring 1995. All-American Swimmer." By Jim Bywaters Rappahannock News Writer Most people trying to attract martins for the first time rush to get their martin housing opened so as not to miss the arrival of martin “scouts” in their particular area. This is too early for new breeding sites and provides other bird species a chance to take over your housing. Contrary to popular folklore, “scouts” are not looking for new breeding sites to lead their flocks back too. “Scouts” are nothing more than the very first martins to arrive or pass through a given area on their way back to their previous nesting sites. New arrivals come daily with the oldest martins arriving first and the youngest ones last. Older martins rarely, if ever, can be attracted to breed at new locations. This is because martins develop a tremendous reliability to the exact site where they bred the previous year. There are exceptions to this rule, one being that for some reason the returning adult birds previous nesting site has been destroyed or abandoned by the landlord, causing the martins to seek new housing. It is usually only yearling martins that can be attracted to breed at new sites because they have never bred anywhere before and have developed no site preferences. Yearling martins are martins that fledged last year and are the age group that typically colonize new breeding sites. They begin arriving four to six weeks after the adult martins that nested last season return to our area, which was March 20th at my colony. The yearling martins continue arriving for an additional four to six weeks after this date. This means martins can be attracted to new housing through mid-May. New hobbyists should not open housing until May 1st. A very effective way to attract martins to new sites is by using a tape that is available called Dawnsong. The martin’s dawnsong is the unique set of vocalizations that adult male martins emit during the predawn hours of spring while flying high above their breeding sites. It is a loud, continuous series of chirps that attracts other martins to the colony site, which advertises the location of the colony to younger martins that are looking for a place to nest. Singing at dawn is the older martins’ way of saying “Here’s a good place to breed, check it out”. These vocalizations are a very strong sig nal to otner martins and will stimulate yearling martins that hear the dawnsong to investigate. The tape can be purchased from a number of different places. It can be played for one-half hour per side. I suggest copying the tape on a six-hour cassette so you do not have to go and flip the tape over all the time. You can let it run for hours. Genuine dawnsong is performed by adult male martins between 4 and 6 a.m. in the darkness preceding dawn because early morning acoustics allow the vocalizations to travel farthest. Other birds are not yet singing at this time and there is very little background noise. Therefore, the dawnsong tape works best when played during these same early morning hours. However, even the most enthusiastic landlord hopeful will find it difficult to wake up every morning at 4 a.m. for four to six weeks to turn on a tape or CD player. Your best chance of attracting martins occurs when the dawnsong tape is played consistently every morning. In order to avoid interrupting your sleep every morning, use a tape or CD player that is capable of starting the dawnsong automatically.- If you have a built-in timer feature on your tape or CD player that allows the player to begin playing the tape or CD automatically at a preset, preprogrammed time you are in luck. If not, a programmable appliance timer is a small, inexpensive device comL monly sold at m department and home supply stores like Wal-Mart or Home Depot for about $10. The taDe or CD player’s power trd plugs into the r, which itself plugs into a standard electrical power outlet. The timer then activates your tape or CD player by turning the power on automatically. Birds need nutrients to help harden their eggshells. You can help by presenting them with crushed eggshells. These can be acquired in a number of different ways. You can save the shells from the eggs you have for breakfast each morning. Now this can take some time, so here is another idea to acquire the eggshells faster. Go to Hardees, McDonalds, etc, and ask them to save you the shells from their eggs for one morning. Just bring them a clean five gallon bucket and ask them to throw the eggshells in it for you. Pick it up at a pre-determined time. Do not leave them with a bucket full of eggshells on their hands. Nowteall ou have to do is get them home, put them in an old pillow case, tie the top securely, throw it in the washer on the rinse cycle, fdo not use soap), then throw it into the dryer until dry. When done, you have a bag full of crushed eggshells for your birds. A reader in the Harris Hollow area who is a host to a martin colony recommended theiuse of finely crushed oyster shells tai harden martin eggs and as a martin attractant, the oyster shells can be an alternative to eggshells. You can stick a post in the ground with a flat surface attached to the top of it and put some of the eggshells on it. Just beware, once found, they will bfe mobbed, and that includes every bird in the neighborhood. If you spend some time standing near the post, some df the other wild birds will not come around. Give _it a shot. You will be amazed at what happens once the martins find this offering. Keep in mind that over one million North Americans put up housing for Purple Martins. Unfortunately, many of these folks are unable to attract breeding martins. The advice given here will increase your chances of attracting martins. Once martins nest at your location, they will come back every year, if you manage the site properly. Happy Birding! '.r’« ■ Flint Hill bird watcher dim Bywaters welcomes reader mail, responses, suggestions, P.O. Box 8, Flint Hill, Va. 22627 or e-mail him at jbbjr@rmaonline. net. Oscar nominees coming to Theatre By Joanne Hilty Rappahannock News Writer The Oscars will be awarded Sunday, March 25, for best films and performances in 2000. Nominations are selected by the Motion Picture Academy. RAAC has presented three of the films up for several awards— "Gladiator,” 12 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor (Russell Crowe); “Erin Brockovich,” five nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress (Julia Roberts); and “Almost Famous,” with four nominations. The following films, all nominees for Academy Awards, are scheduled to be shown at The Theatre in Washington: • April 6: “Billy Elliot” (Unrated, 125 minutes) Delightful tale of a boy, played by newcomer Jamie Bell, who needs to dance. Set in an English mining town, Julie Walters plays his ballet teacher who sees his talent and fights with his dad and brother and striking miners to let him. Three academy award nominations, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay. • April 20: “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (PG-13, 106 minutes) In this satiric comedy, three escaped convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson) try to evade the law in 1930s Mississippi while searching for hidden loot and a way home to their families. Two Academy Award Nominations, Best r Coon couple applaud “Best in Show” movie By Rosie Day Rappahannock News Writer We think “Best in Show” is just about the funniest movie produced since the Marx Brothers. It is nonstop deadpan humor about various entrants into the nation’s number one dog show. The dogs are funny enough, but their handlers are hilarious. There are a half dozen dogs that star and perhaps a dozen humans. The film gives a series of snapshots of each group, dog and its people, as they get ready for the climactic event. The plot, if you can call it that, is a bit casual but works well. The English producer, we learned from a discussion on public radio, didn’t write out a script but told the actors generally what to do and let them write their own lines. It worked, magnificently. The film was so good we had to see it twice.” Because of the recommendation from the Coons, RAAC will present “Best in Show” Friday, March 16 at The Theatre on Gay Street at 8 p.m. Christopher Guest wrote and directed this mockumentary that is written in the tradition of “Waiting for Guffman”, his spoof on the society surrounding the stage. “Best in Show” received a Golden Globe nomination that honored his unique brand of lunacy and features many of the actors who starred in “Guffinan.” (PG-13, running time - 1 hour, 30 minutes) Screenplay, Best Cinematography. Golden Globe Winner for Best Actor George Clooney. • May 4: “Traffic” (R, 147 minutes) A complex, compelling drama about the morass that is the drug problem in this country today, starring Michael Douglas, Dennis Quaid and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Five Academy Award Nominations, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Film Editing. • May 18: “Chocolat” (PG-13, 121 minutes) Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche star in a whimsical romantic comedy about a French village where folks go nuts over confectioner Binoche’s chocolates which are laced with an old Mayan powder acting as an all-purpose elixir. Judi Dench plays a lonely grandmother. Five Academy Award Nominations, Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score. • June 2: “You Can Count On Me” (R, 109 minutes) Unforgettable performance from Laura Linney, a single working mother and her freespirited, pothead brother, Mark Ruffalo who looks after her son, sort of. Two Academy Award Nominations, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay. • More to come: The following movies are being considered for the summer months: Cast Away, Thirteen Days, A Time For Drunken Horses, Before Night Falls, In The Mood For Love, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The House of Mirth and Pollock. Please note that beginning June 2 all summer movies will be shown on Saturday night. All movies are shown at The Theatre on Gay Street, Washington at 8 p.m. Adults $5 (and six movies $25), students $4, children $3. For synopsis of movies, please check Rappahanjiock News on the Wednesday before the movie. Also check out www.raac.org for all RAAC activities. If you have any questions or comments, call 6752205 or e-mail dahilty@aol.com. I Photo courtesy of The Theatre To Perform “Gems of the Viennese Classics” is the title of the third concert in this season’s “Smithsonian at Little Washington” series presented by the Theatre at Washington, Va. The Ooolidge Quartet, with guest pianist Kenneth Slowik, will give a recital of works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 25 at the Theatre. Tickets for the concert are $15 for adults and $5 for students 18 and under. Phone (540) 675-1253 or e-mail TheatreVAQaol.com. ______ _ Got bored kids? For local news events visit our web site-** www.timespapers.com w

Church £ Activities Chorus to perform at Shiloh The C.E. Dearing Chorus will be at Shiloh Baptist Church in Woodville on March 18 at 3 p.m. to benefit the cemetery fund. Church service will be held at 11 a.m. and dinner will be served following the morning service. All are invited. Washington Baptist Pastor: Rev. Phillip Bailey Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Services 11 a.m. Tuesday: Children’s Choir 6 p.m. Adult Choir 7 p.m. Chester Gap Baptist Pastor: Rev. James W. Burke Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Morning Service 11 a.m. Evening Service 6:30 p.m. Bible School 7 p.m. Shiloh Baptist Pastor: Rev. Michael E. Tinsley Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. FT Baptist Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. Trinity Episcopal Rev. Rosalie Hoddinott Lent III Holy Eucharist 8 a.m. Morning prayer 9:15 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist 11 a.m. Bible Study, Holy Eucharist 9:30 a.m. Sunday: Sunday: Sunday: Wednesday: Thornton Gap Primitive Baptist Sunday: Every first and third Sunday 10:30 a.m. Flint Hill Baptist Church Pastor: Douglas Farmer Second, Fourth & Fifth Sunday: Worship Service 11 a.m. Flint Hill Pentecostal Pastor: Rev. Jack Campbell Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Sen/ice 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. Choir practice 6:30 p.m. Bible Study 7 p.m. Wednesday: Bible Study & Prayer Meeting 7 p.m. County Methodist services Rappahannock County Methodist Churches will have worship services for Sunday, March 18 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. Amissville Full Gospel Pastor: Rev. Jim Pittman II Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Evening Worship 6 p.m. Wednesday: Evening Worship 7:30 p.m. Felloxuship Assembly of God Pastor: Joel Cress Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 p.m. Worship/Children’s Church 11 a.m. Evening Service 6 p.m. Wednesday: Adult Bible Study 7 p.m. Youth Prayer and Praise 7 p.m. Grid Brown Pentecostal Friday: Services 7:30 p.m. Five Forks Regular Baptist Pastor: Rev. Roger L. Smith Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. New Harvest Christian Fellowship The New Harvest Christian Fellowship meets at the Viewtown Store with Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship at 10:30. A mid-week service is held in various homes in the community. For more information call 937-9993 or 937-5210 or 937-4929. New Hope Baptist Bible Pastor: Carl R. Menefee Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Evening Service 6 p.m. Evening Prayer, Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Wednesday: Traveling US 211 toward Park Cs/d Smhinitown Sperryville By SALLY KEYSER 987-8471 As you travel west from Sperryville on US 211 going to Luray before the park was established, there were homes and businesses on each side of the road from Beech Spring Church to Turn Bridge. This is the first sharp turn to the left as you start up the mountain. This was known as Atkinstown. You would never realize this had been an active community when you travel the road today, but if you look closely with the leaves off, you can see some remnants of homes and stone fences. There were two churches, Beech Spring which is the Baptist Church outside the park and is still active today. Rev. Warren Corbin was the preacher there for many years. The Dunkard Church was close to the road and was a small church that met the needs for those who lived close by. The one room school went from grades one through six and was well attended with Ms. Margaret Atkins and Mr. Edward Atkins as teachers. This was like other one room schools. It was heated with wood and had a spring close by for their water supply. The children would bring in fresh water at recess in a bucket. After the school was closed, Mr. James Atkins and Clyde Atkins built a wooden school bus body on a truck chassis, and transported the children to Sperryville School. The bus had benches down each side with one down the middle. Curtains were at the windows to help keep the cold air out. There are three cemeteries in that vicinity. We have visited these from time to time and always find it interesting to see the Scouts to sell cookies at Quicke Mart Junior Girl Scout Troop 2329 will be selling Girl Scout cookies at the 211 Quicke Mart on Saturday, March 17 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Frank Moffett was the guest from Saturday until Tuesday of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Thomas and daughter, Zo in Elizabeth, N.J. Mrs. Jean B. Moffett was the guest of her daughter and grandson, Mrs. D.C. Welling and David at Fairfax Station from Monday until Thursday. Frank Moffett accompanied her home on Thursday. The second night of the Lenten services are Wednesday, March 14 at the Washington Baptist Church. The pot luck supper begins at 6:15 p.m. and church services start at 7 p.m., hosted by St. Peters Church. Pastor Phillip Bailey will be the speaker on the topic of Joseph of Animathea and Trinity Episcopal Church will furnish the music. Happy birthday to Mary Bailey who has her day on Sunday, March 18. Saturday, March 17 is church workday at the Washington Baptist Church. All help will be greatly appreciated to give the church a good spring cleaning. Charles Clark of Manassas was a Wednesday visitor of his brother and sister-in-law, Edward and Ruth Clark. Thursday luncheon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Clark were Mr. and Mrs. Ennis Clark of Lebannon Church. Happy birthday to Jack Preston who will have his day on Wednesday, March 21. Don’t forget to save your items that you no longer need for the Washington Baptist Church’s Annual Spring Event on Saturday, April 21. Proceeds from this event go toward the building fund. For more information contact Ruth Clark at 675-3608. On Sunday Donald Keyser of Alexandria visited with his mother, Mrs. Addie Keyser. * Mrs. Ruby Dwyer of Sperryville was a Saturday visitor of Mrs. Addie Keyser. .' Mr. and Mrs. Waverly D. Frazier of Castleton and Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Clark attended family night at Maddox Funeral Home in Front Royal on Friday evening for their cousin, Luther Settle who passed away on Wednesday at Heritage Hall Center in Front Royal. Have a nice St. Patrick’s Day. Who Pushes Your Buttons? Sunday 2 Chronicles 1:1-13 Monday 2 Chronicles 6:12-27 Tuesday 2 Chronicles 6:28-42 Wednesday Ezra 9:5-15 Thursday Nehemiah 1:1-11 Friday Nehemiah 9:1-15 Saturday Nehemiah 9:16-37 Brookside Restaurant & Gift Shop U S. 211 E. Luray ‘Foothills of Blue Ridge Mountains Sun. to Thurs. 7 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. (540) 743-5698 ROBERT J. CLATTERBUCK Plumbing and Heating Flint Hill, VA 675-3378 W.C. THOMPSON FUNERAL HOME 503-7 NORTH MAIN ST. CULPEPER, VIRGINIA (540) 825-6700 “See Us For All Your Building Supply Needs" 1418 Orange Road Culpeper (540)825-0937 SperryviUe Emporium “The Shop that has EVERYTHING” U. S. 211, West SperryviUe, VA (540) 987-8235 u ook at the huge robot in this picture. Remember when robots were, “more fiction than truth”, as many of our grandparents would say. Even so, the robot is nothing without the builder and the programmer...basically a pile of metal, circuits and bolts. But because it's creators give it a “brain", the robot becomes useful, obeying each command. Unlike the creator of the robot, our Creator gives us the ability to make choices and a soul that can guide us in those choices. When we ask God to live in our “control center", our choices are wiser ones and we feel peace and joy in our lives. In Hebrews 11:10, we read that the “builder and maker is God". Visit God's house this week. He is waiting to help you build your future. Won't you let the Creator have the power in your We? Scnpkuee Selected by The Amencsn B&§ Society CopyngW 2001 Ktsfr-Wdfcams Newspaper Srvicei P 0 Boa 8005, ChitottBsvUit. VA 22906, WWW.Jwm.CQm ABERDEEN BARN Steaks • Seafood • Prime Rib Banquets • Luncheons in the Holiday Inn of Culpeper (540j 825-1037 Jimmie’s Auto Parts Complete line of foreign & domestic parts 161 Saunders St. • Culpeper (540) 825-8030 The Color Shoppe Paint • Carpet • Wallcovering Blinds ^2cM<te,ifeES3Spep" 547-9743 GOLDEN CORRAL Family Steak Houm (540) 825*5888 • Church Activities are brought to you courtesy of these advertisers and the Rappahannock News names carved into field stone. You have to really look close to find them, otherwise you would only see the field stones standing. Mr. Poke Atkins was one of the last buried there. He was the grandfather of Mr. Clyde Atkins. There were two service stations. Mr. Homer Atkins had one at Turn Bridge and sold Essohne gas as well as apples. His wife, Mrs. Lavana Cornell Atkins, always had such beautiful flowers and some remember how pretty it was with plants all around. The other station belonged to Mr. John R. Atkins along with a store. Mr. Jake Dodson and Mr. Penn Curtis also owned stores. They would have a keg of salty fish for sale, and to get the salt out of them, the ones that bought them would put them in a sack and place them in a running stream of water. They were just right for breakfast the next morning. An up and down sawmill was located close to the Penn Curtis store. All the places of business and homes were still in existence when the park took over the land. Each one had to find another place to live and it became a different way of life. “Dido” Atkins was living on Hazel Road and the park allowed him a lifetime residence there, but he left before he died. I often wondered how ‘Dido” Edward Atkins got such a nick name. I’ve learned he said, “I’ve got the Di-Doe, meaning money. There were several unusual names such as John Saturday Atkins who lived on Pullen Hill and Lemon Atkins. He lived behind the old Parkway Gift Shop or the Emporium now. Their lives were changed forever because of the establishment of the park. The Sperryville United Methodist Church has worship services each Sunday at 11:15 a.m. Everyone is invited. We wish Mr. Ray Pullen a happy birthday on March 14, and also all those with birthdays in March. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Keyser spent Sunday in Winchester with their family and friends, Ms. Debbie Keyser, .Josh Smallwood, Mr. Spencer Sullivan, Mr. and Photos courtesy of Sally Dwyer US 211: Top photo: Baptist Church at Atkinstown, now Beech Spring. Bottom photo: Atkinstown School. Mrs. Danny Keyser, Katie, David, and Ms. Libby Robinson. This was in celebration of Sally’s birthday. Several Sperryville residents called the Rappahannock News office this week to ask that a special birthday wish be extended to Sperryville correspondent, Sally Keyser, who celebrated her special day on Sunday. She is admired and respected by the entire community. Best wishes for a great year ahead! We wish all those who are sick a speedy recovery. Make it a good week!

Birthday party at Peregory’s enjoyed The home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peregory and children, Joseph and Jennifer on Castleton Ford Road was the setting for a birthday party on Saturday in honor of the Peregory’s daughter, Jennifer, Mrs. Peregory’s father Shelvy Frazier and her aunt, Marie Atkins of Sperryville. In addition to those mentioned others attending bringing good wishes and gifts included Mr. and Mrs. James -» Gheen of Mauertown, Mack McNabb of Centreville, Donald ~ Gheen of Bealeton, Miss Brenda Frazier, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Bragg, Kellie, Karla, Matthew and Mark of Culpeper, Marsha, Devonna and Whitney Savage of ! Rixeyville, Christine and Amanda Frazier of Amissville, j Mr. and Mrs. Jack Robinson, Keith and Timmy, Mrs. Shelvy Frazier, Ray Wharton, Rev. and Mrs. Jim Pittman and ! sons, Bo and Seth, Kendra | Hitt, Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Grigsby, Chrissy, Kevin and i Jason, Rev. L. Savage and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mills, Shirley, Rebecca and Mary. ( Tables were spread with an abundance of food and everyone enjoyed the day. Others having birthdays in March and were recognized were James Gheen, Whitney Savage, Mac McNabb, Kevin Grigsby, Matthew Bragg, Donald Gheen and Rev. J Savage. ' Miss Kendra Hitt of Rixeyville was a Saturday 1 overnight guest of Jennifer * Peregory and her family. Boston By MARBitfUm 987-8802 Our prayers go out to Kindal Peyton who was involved in an automobile accident Sunday morning. Mrs. Ray Frazier was a Saturday caller of Mrs. Barbara Tharp on Jenkins Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Dodson of Salem entertained with a luncheon on Sunday in honor of her father, Elder Wayne Richards for his birthday. Miss Brenda Frazier of Culpeper and Mrs. Alvin Atkins of Sperryville were Saturday morning callers of Mr. and Mrs. Shelvy Frazier. This writer was blessed by our Lord as she added another year to her life on Monday and was very appreciative of all the many cards received. Castleton Fire Department will hold their shooting match at the fire hall this Friday, March 16 beginning at 7 p.m. Sympathy is extended to Mrs. Hugh Berry and family upon the loss of Mr. Berry who passed away at his residence on Sunday. Any low income or over age 60 folk in our area are remind ed that they may get income tax forms done at the Culpeper County Library free, by trained volunteers. For an appointment please call 825-8691. If you are looking for a place to go for a great dinner, plan now to attend the pork loin and chicken dinner at the Salem Fire Hall, on Saturday March 31 from 5 until 7 p.m. This is for the benefit of Culpeper Crime Solvers and is sponsored by the Salem Ruritan Club. So get your tickets early and don’t be left out by calling 547-2374, 825-0108 or 547-3985. Last week many children across our nation took part in the “Read Across America” and it’s good to know our local school to participate. A large crowd turned out for the retirement party of Mrs. Virginia Jessup, which was held at Salem Fire Hall last Friday night, in honor of her 25 years of service with the Child Development Center of Culpeper Baptist Church. March 18 will be the final presentation of the Windmore Community Theaters production of “The Sound of Music”, taking place at 3 p.m. at Culpeper Middle School. For information and tickets, please call the Windmore office here in Griffinsburg at 547-2555. Army Private Jason Lambert, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Lambert of Quiet Woods Court, here in Boston, has graduated from combat training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. We extend condolences to the family of Kathleen Brown Edwards, who passed away on Wednesday. She was the daughter of the late Philip and Susie Brown, life long residents of O’Bannon Mill Road here in Boston. Wedding anniversary wishes go out to Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Heflin who will celebrate another year together on Saturday, St. Patrick’s Day. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Dodson, Ericia Lynn of Reva will be two months old on Monday, congratulations to the family. Speaking of birthdays we extend wishes to those on our list for the week, including Rev. Savage on Friday, Nick Norman, Jackie Cubbage and Matthew Bragg, all on St. Patrick’s Day and to my cousin Pauline Kelchner, whose day is Sunday. While on the subject of St. Patrick’s Day, many older people made sure they planted their potatoes on that day, but according to Hagerstown Almanac, and by the way in those days every home had one, the sign is not too good for “taters” this time Saturday. In those days my home had an almanac and next to the Bible, it was the second book to read, for my late father relied on it, for most all the signs, as he was really good at understanding them. Our prayers of sympathy go out to Ricky Shaw and family upon the passing of his grandfather, Mr. Russell (Pat) Shaw who passed away on Thursday at the age of 91. Have a good week! Ladies Auxiliary discusses banquet The Flint Hill Ladies Auxiliary met at the fire hall last Monday for their first meeting of the year. Those present were Harriet Davis, Mary Frances Bywaters, Mary Curtis, Arland Welch, Lucy Foster, Jean Lillard, 'Gaynelle Russell, Mary Blaisdale, Jeanetta Pullen, ' Lois Markee and Margaret Lee. ■» The group, discussed plans for the annual fireman’s banquet to be held in April. 1■ The Flint Hill United Methodist . Church . Administrative Board will meet • this Thursday, March 15 at the < home of Mary Frances , Bywaters at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Christine Vest with , Allen and Kim Vest and Kirkland had lunch at the Western Steak House in Stephens City on Sunday. Mrs. ' Vest was celebrating her birthday. Later in the afternoon Mrs. Vest was treated with ice cream and cake at her home. Those jpresent to help her celebrate i were Renee and David Calisto •^and Nikki, Crystal and Mark u Werner, Josh and Jared and Brandon Cooper and Allen and • Kim Vest and Kirkland. Happy belated birthday wishes to Mrs. Vest and many, |j many more. Rodney Vest of Woodville 111 visited his mother on Friday. Sunday dinner guests of ! Mrs. Edna Lillard were Mark ;■ and Diane Graves, Edith • Graves and Amy Lillard. ! Mr. and Mrs. James Tbdd of ;J Georgetown, S.C. were Sunday ;» overnight guests of Mrs. Tbdd’s ’t brother-in-law and sister, Mr. ;(and Mrs. Jack Curtis. R.H. Ballard Fine Art & Rugs ORIGINAL LOCAL & INTERNATIONAL ART ORIENTAL RUGS TAKE ART & RUGS HOME ON APPROVAL We buy, sell, trade, clean, appraise and repair handmade rugs. 307 Main St., P.O. Box 412 Washington, VA 22747 540-675-1411 Open: Thurs. - Mon., 10-6 Visit our Website: www.RHBarts.com Plan to attend Lenten Services at the Washington Baptist Church on Wednesday evening with a covered dish dinner beginning at 6:15 and worship services following the dinner. The public is invited to attend. Mabel Lillard and Louis McCulloch visited Clyde Lillard at Lynn Care Center in Front Royal on Sunday. The Flint Hill Baptist Church has worship services on the second, fourth, and fifth Sundays at 11 a.m. The Rev. Douglas Farmer will deliver the message and invites the public to attend. The 23 annual Fodderstack 10KM Classic Race is sched uled for Saturday, April 21 beginning at 10 a.m. at the Warehouse on Route 522 in Flint Hill across the Fodderstack Road and ending at the courthouse in Washington. 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 come worship. The Flint Hill fireman’s annual carnival has set new dates for their event to be held June 13-16. More details will follow. Our sympathy to Wayne Walker and family on the death of his father, Cecil Walker. Funeral services were held on Saturday morning at Dellinger Funeral Home in Woodstock. Wayne Walker was the manager at the Flint Hill Aileen plant. Our thoughts and concerns are with him at his time of loss. Have a wonderful week and give me a call with your news. SOFT SPRING SUITING BY EMILY Add this elegant two-piece suit 1 The square neck jacket features delicate i It - )4' T" detail on the sleeves and bordering the spilt hem. Over a fully-lined skirt with self-embroidered waistband. In cream, misses’ sizes 6-16,139.99 SKI sJBsti WARRENTON CENTER • WARRENTON, VA • (540) 347-1820 • HOURS: MON.-SAT. 10-9; SUN. 12-6 ROYAL PLAZA • FRONT ROYAL, VA • (540) 635-3101 • HOURS: MON.-SAT. 10-9; SUN. 12-5 Upcoming Events Girl Scouts to sell cookies Junior Girl Scout Troop 2329 will be selling Girl Scout cookies at the 211 Quicke Mart on Saturday, March 17 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Sherie O’Neill and Amo Merritt are leaders of Troop 2329. Fruit has arrived The Rappahannock County Band Boosters’ fruit has arrived. Fruit will be available for pickup at the Rappahannock Farmers Coop on Thursday and Friday, March 15 and 16 from 2 to 4:45 p.m. and on Saturday, March 17 from 8 to 11:45 a.m. Anyone with questions should call Sally Havstad at 987-9342. RLEP board to meet The March board of directors meeting for RLEP, the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection, will take place Monday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Rappahannock County Library. The meeting is open to the public. Seminar: Alexander Technique The Alexander Technique presented by Karen Loving, certified member of the American Society of Alexander Technique, will be held Friday, March 16 from 7-9 p.m. at The Rappahannock County Library. There is no charge for the seminar. Join the group to learn how you can move with less tension and discomfort; reeducating your body by creating choices in how you move into sitting, standing, walking, driving a car, golfing, computer work, etc. Karen Loving works at Rappahannock Healing Arts Center in Sperryville; teaches yoga in the community and is a certified massage therapist. Representative to visit town Mrs. Donna Crowley, a representative of Congressman Frank Wolf will visit the town of Washington on Thursday, March 15. Mrs. Crowley will be at the Rappahannock County Extension Office from 2 to 3 p.m. Mrs. Crowley will be available to talk with constituents who need assistance or have problems of a Federal nature, such as with the Social Security Administration, Depariment of Labor, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, etc. Constituents who want to make direct contact with the Winchester office may call Mrs. Crowley at 667-0990 or visit the office at 110 North Cameron Street. Share the Fun Talent Show set The 4-H Share The Fun Talent Show will be held Friday, March 24 at the Rappahannock County High School. Anyone interested in performing can pick up information at the Rappahannock County Elementary or High Schools or the Extension Office. For further information, call the Extension Office at 675-3619. This weekend at Blue Moon Singer/songwriter Amy Silver will appear at the Blue Moon Cafe in Sperryville on Friday, March 16 at 9 p.m. There is a $5 cover charge and reservations are suggested. Call 987-3162 for more information. “Wisher” will perform at Blue Moon on Saturday, March 17. A style reminiscent of the early 70’s with a twist of the new millennium, Wisher delivers a swirling power pop test to every place they visit. Their new CD “View of the Valley” will be officially released in 2001. The Saturday evening performance is free. PTO activities planned On Friday, March 16, the monthly PTO dinner/meeting will be held at RCHS with pot luck dinner at 5:30 and the meeting from 6 to 7 p.m. Also on March 16 the International Baccalaureate (IB) Community meeting will be held at RCHS Auditorium, from 7 to 8 p.m. Guests from Clarke County High School will talk about their program. Queen contestants sought The Flint Hill Volunteer Fire Department is currently seeking queen contestants for their annual carnival to be held June 1316. Interested girls should call Charlotte Tummeyer at 635-8278. Cancer forum planned The Rappahannock Chapter of the American Cancer Society will sponsor a cancer forum on March 29 at 7 p.m. at the Washington Baptist Church. Dr. Werner Krebser will speak on the cause, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. All are invited. Emergency Committee to meet The Rappahannock County Local Emergency Planning Committee will meet Friday, March 23 at 10 a.m. at the Rappahannock Courthouse. This meeting takes the place of that announced for Feb. 23 which was canceled. All are reminded that information on emergency planning, material safety data sheets and the County Emergency Operations Plan are available at the Office of Emergency Management in the Magistrate’s Office, telephone 675-2315 or 675-3483. All interested citizens are invited to attend. Flint Hill sets carnival dates The Flint Hill Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company’s annual fireman’s carnival has a new date and also new rides for this year. The dates are June 13-16 and Virginia Premier Events will provide the rides. The grand parade will be held Friday, June 15 with grand prize drawings on Saturday, June 16. This year’s prizes are a 2001 Chevy S-10 pickup and a registered Black Angus heifer.' Anyone interested in helping with the carnival may call the firehouse at 675-3286. Beauty pageant planned < Miss Shenandoah Valley Beauty Pageant will be held March 24 in Luray. The pageant is to benefit the Stariite Majorette and Drum Corps sponsored by the Luray Moose Lodge. For information or an entry form, call Sandy Bridges at 743-3854. Ragged Mountain activities oo i . March activities at Ragged Mountain Resource Center indude: t Tuesday, March 20: Vernal Equinox Sunrise Hike-Run of Mary’s Rock, meet at Panorama parking lot off US 211 at Thornton Gap at 5:30 a.m. and hike up Mary’s Rock Trail for sunrise, then run or jog down via same trail or Appalachian TralMeadow Springs Trail-Skyline Drive loop back to Panorama. Saturday, March 24: Roadside and Riverside Clean-up of Hughes River and Route 707, from Route 231 and Route 603 j and Popham’s Run and Ford to Route 604 and Hazel River oorv, < ftuence. Bonfire and pot-luck to follow. Cal or e-mail Ragged Mountain Headquarters for information. For more information on these or other activities cal Hunt Harris at 987-3366. !

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Congratulations are extended to Brian Taylor who placed third in the Annual Bland Contest, hosted by the Lion’s Club. Brian played a solo on the Drum Set for the contest. His family and friends congratulate him. Way to go Brian! March 17 is the deadline for the RAA fund raiser. If you haven’t ordered from a player please do so before then. Donna Sheffield will be at Stuart Field on Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon, if you would like to place an order. Thank you also to Modell’s in Manassas for giving the RAA a 15 percent discount from March 24 to April 2. They call this League Week, and they give a percent back to the League. So if you or your child needs some new equipment, make sure you have a discount RAA card. Which is great for the kids, they will get some new equipment. RAA also is looking for team sponsors, if you would like to sponsor a team please call Donna at 937-5595. It is a great tax write-off and it helps the children in the community. Easter is coming and soon Amissville By AMY HITT 937-3401 the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Amissville United Methodist Church. Watch this column for the date and time. It is always a blast! Here is another poem I wrote. Let me know if you like it: Your Heart It isn’t the size of your house as such That matters so much at all. It’s the gentle hand and its loving touch, That make it great or small. The friends who come and the hour they go, Who out of your house depart, Will judge it not by the' style you show, But rather by the size oif your heart. It isn’t the size of your head so much, It isn’t the wealth you, found, That will make you happy' - it’s how you touch, The lives that are all around. , For making money is not hard- , To live life well is an art: How people love you, how* they regard, Is all in the size of your, heart! Have a great week! Email amyrappnews@aol.coht or call me with your news. y Pi Day, the mathematician’s holiday Emile Zola suggested that I use “J’accuse” to get Archimedes attention; the Frenchman got the attention of his government on behalf of poor Dreyfus and it worked. Zola got a one-year Crime Does Pay Up to $10,000 reward for tips on auto theft. 1-800-947-HEAT sentence and had to flee to England. I accuse Archimedes of improperly drawing attention to himself in the March 7 issue of the Rappahannock News. He implies that he invented pi and pi day (March 14). For those who missed his article, the value of pi being approximately 3.14159, it follows that the date 3/14 and the hour of 1:59 p.m. deserves special recognition by all mathematicians. But I invented pi. I also wrote the first geometry text 2000 years ago and it is still in use. He probably plans to announce that he discovered the volume of an object may be determined by immersing it in a tub full of water and then measuring the volume of the spilled water. By comparing it’s weight with the weight of an equal volume of a known material, one can get the idea of it’s content. I have decided to describe my efforts to prove this theory before he preempts me. The first step was to find a bathtub in the Rappahannock principality in which to conduct my experiment. But I discovered most people use their tubs to water livestock and stand under spraying water to bathe. However, I did finally discover a basin in a home I thought to be unoccupied at the time. Unfortunately the tub I found had someone in it and she was most ungracious. She hurled invectives and several objects at me and became even more hostile when I suggested I join her so we could measure our total volume. I do not comprehend her attitude. At the Olympic Games we Greeks originally....oh well. I did find a livestock tub and arranged for the spilled water to be drained into a 55 gallon drum. I immersed myself and then went about measuring the volume of water in the drum. Having invented the formula: volume equals pi times radius squared (of the drum bottom) times depth of the water, I went home for a measuring tape. Returning, I found that Syracuse Greek Archimides enticing a large pig into the tub, thus adding it’s volume to mine and invalidating my ! work. Then he pulled the plug from the bottom of the| drum and peered into it, saying he was looking for the Coriolus Effect in the. swirling water. However, it he wants to take credit for; discovering the displacement theory, I am going to let him and concentrate on mathematics. But know that I originally had the idea. We can agree on one thought; Pi Day is a great idea. Everyone from groundhog watchers to broccoli; growers have a special holiday. Why not mathematicians, a much maligned group? We plan to pop the cork at 1:59, contemplate pi,' e, logarithms and infinity and integrate and differentiate into the night. \ ' •Euclid prefers to remain anonymous. Marriage licenses 7WW1 ifl;.; The following marriage licenses were issued recently at the Rappahannock Clerk’s Office on Gay Street in Washington. Loren R. Tennyson, Sperryville and Carol Leona Foster, Sperryville Stephen William Reedy, Washington and Sherry Ann Reedy, Washington. Timothy Spencer Markee, Greensboro, N.C. and Jennifer Dawn Paul, Jamestown, N.C. William James Bedortha II, Sperryville and Jennifer Lynn Howard, Sperryville. ' Perm a Treat ( rEST AND TERMITE CONTROL FREE INSPECTION! 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Obituaries Hugh Berry Army Veteran Hugh Lewis Berry, 77, of Boston died March 4 at his residence. Bom Jan. 22, 1924 in Syria, he was the son of the late Walker J. Berry and Neda Weakley Berry. He was an Army Veteran of World War II, a member of VFW Post 2524 of Culpeper and a member of the Woodland United Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Claudia Elizabeth Seale Berry of Boston; one daughter, Mary Jane Finks and husband Jim of Syria; two sons, Lewis Wayne Berry and wife Suzanne of Fredericksburg and Glen Allen Berry and wife Patricia of Boston; one sister, Sylvia Smith of Orange; nine grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by a sister, Emma Haymaker and two brothers, Harry Berry and Leroy Berry. Funeral services were conducted on Thursday, March 8 at Preddy Funeral Home Chapel in Madison by the Rev. Garland Hines and Rev. Bryan McClain. Interment was in Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper with full military honors conducted by the Culpeper American Legion Post 330 and the Culpeper VFW Post 2524. Lillian Brown Former resident Lillian Josephine Brown, 65, of Fort Washington, Md., died Saturday, March 3 at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. She was predeceased by her parents, Frank and Lillian Foster of Front Royal and one sister, Frankie Foster. Survivors include her husband, Carroll Stevenson Brown of Fort Washington, Md., formerly of Flint Hill; three daughters, Caroline Victoria Simpson of Clinton, Md., Layfronia Annette Brown and Frances Joanne Austin of Fort Washington, Md.; three grandchildren; one sister, Rosetta flailey of Front Royal and many Other relatives and friends. I Funeral services were conducted on Saturday, March 10 at Macedonia Baptist Church in flint Hill with Rev. Dr. Donald Simpkins. Eulogy was by Rev. iJohn Pendleton. Interment was at Macedonia Odd Fellows Cemetery in Flint Hill. Arrangements were handled by Ames Funeral Home Inc. in Manassas. Walter Nickols “Flag Man” Walter Wayne Nickols, 41, of Culpeper died Tuesday, March 6 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was bom July 27, 1959 in Arlington to the late Walter Lee Nickols and Rebecca Evelyn Sisk Nickols. ! Park provides money for local fire departments ; Tenth District Congressman Frank Wolf announced last week that the National Park Service has set aside $141,000 to help train and assist volunteer fire departments near the Shenandoah National Park to fight forest fires similar to the one last fall that damaged more than 20,000 acres of park land. I * Wolf sought the funding after visiting the park during the fires last November. 1 • “This money will be used to' provide local fire departments with the training and equipment necessary to contain the early stages of a forest fire,” Wolf said. “No one expects local volunteer firefighters, most of whom are trained to fight structural fires, to battle blazes in the park. But, to their credit,they want to be and this money, and training, should allow them to be of greater assistance in the early stages of fighting a forest fire.” Wolf said Shenandoah National Park will be responsible for allocating how the money is spent. Wolf praised the local firefighters and the professional firefighters who worked around the clock to contain the fire in the park last November. “We were lucky that more damage wasn’t done,” Wolf said. “Should a similar situation arise in the future, I am hopeful that these funds will enable local volunteer firefighters to take a more active role in helping contain the early stages of a fire.” FOUNDAND SONS FUNERAL CHAPELS • CREMATION SERVICE FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED CULPEPER 540-825-3530 Mr. Nickols carried the American Flag for parades in Rappahannock County and surrounding counties. Survivors include three sisters, Marty Dugger and Patricia Jenkins, both of Culpeper and Anna Nickols of Rappahannock County. Additional survivors include a niece, Tracy Bruce; three nephews, Arthur Wagner, Tommy Bruce and Jessie Jenkins; numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. In addition to his parents, he was also predeceased by a brother, Robert Lee Nickols. Funeral services were conducted on Friday, March 9 at Nethers Mill Lighthouse Tabernacle with the Rev. Charles Clinedinst and Pastor Charles Shifflett officiating. Interment followed at the Nickols family cemetery. Found & Sons Funeral Chapel was in charge of the arrangements. Samuel Caldow Washington resident Samuel C. Caldow, 73, of Washington, Va. and also of Vienna died March 6 at INOVA Fairfax Hospital in Fairfax. He was bom Jan. 10,1928 in Iowa. Mr. Caldow retired from real estate, most recently he served at Tbwn and Country Real Estate. He was the son of the late Samuel C. Caldow Sr. and Margaret Colburn Caldow. Survivors include his children, Laurie Heff of Virginia Beach, Christy Bull of Herndon, Samuel C. Caldow II of Virginia Beach, Samantha Caldow and Luke Caldow, both of Oakton; a sister, Nancy Keough and her husband George of Corolla, N.C.; five grandchildren; one great-grandchild and a number of nieces and nephews. Graveside services were conducted on Friday, March 9 at Culpeper National Cemetery with military honors provided by VFW Post 2524 and American Legion Post 330 Honor Guard. Father Loe Zonneveld officiated. Clore-English Funeral Home in Culpeper was in charge of the arrangements. Dorothy Jeffryes Former resident Dorothy “Tuttie” Jeffryes, 48, of Columbus, Neb. died Monday, March 5 at University Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb. She was bom Aug. 7,1951 in Front Royal, a daughter of the late Hugh Robert “Sugar” Deal and Mabel Deal. Survivors include her husband, Danny R. Jeffryes of Columbus, Neb.; a son, Mike Jeffryes and his wife Trina of Columbus, Neb.; two daughters, Cassandra Jeffryes and Amanda Jeffryes, both of Columbus; four brothers, Hugh Robert “Dickie” Deal and his wife Becky of Manassas, James D. Deal and his wife Gail of Sperryville; Jeffrey Deal of Rochelle and Ivan Deal and his wife Cindy of Culpeper. In addition to her parents, she was also predeceased by a brother, Clarence Henry “C.H.” Deal and an infant sister, Joyce Faye Deal. Mrs. Jeffryes received her education at Ann Arundel High School in Maryland. Following her marriage, she moved to the Columbus, Neb. area. The couple also lived a short time in Oklahoma and Colorado before returning to Columbus where they have lived since she owned and operated Jeffryes Day Care for over 20 years. She enjoyed ceramics, crafts and cross stitching. She enjoyed spending time with her family at the cabin and watching their bowling events. Funeral services were conducted on Thursday, March 8 at First Baptist Church in Columbus by the Rev. Denison Conner. Burial was at Rural Genoa, Neb. Louise Miller Born in county Louise May Miller, 74, of Stanley died Saturday, March 3 at Potomac Center in Arlington. She was bom on Oct. 1, 1926 in Rappahannock County and was a daughter of the late Homer Newton and Virgie Alma Dwyer Frazier. Mrs. Miller worked at the Luray Textile and the Luray Blue Bell. She was a member of the Luray Christian Disciples of Christ. On Dec. 3,1947 she married Harold Elwood Miller, who died on June 17, 1966. She is survived by a daughter, Kathleen Stoneberger of Luray; a daughter-in-law, Katinna Sue Miller of Luray; one grandson; four granddaughters and four great-grandchil Business & Service Directory Only $4.60per week for a 1 inch space (540) 675-3338 Next Deadline March 23 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 M-F 7:30-6:00 Sat. 7:30-4:00 Closed Sunday CARPET EARLY’S CARPET, INC. The One-Stop Shop tor oomptata Home Deeming Service Floor CovemgB • Window Treatments Wallpaper * Shp Coers & Upholstery ^—i-i—*j-i a ** .. . i rmstoonomi m tornmerr— Rt 211 AmtesvtM*. VA _937-5500_ CONSTRUCTION Joseph F. Keyser Construction, Inc. Quality Renovations & Custom Homes VA Class A Contractor 540-675-2395 Custom Homebuilder Class A license 540-987-8043 KREYLIXG CONSTRUCTION Top Quality Custom Homes Since 1975 540-987-3145 Winfield Construction New Construction Major Renovations Class A License (540) 937-5079 CARPENTRY Expert craftsmanship in ail phases of woodworking and construction. Cabinetry, trim, doors, decks, home repairs 23 vears experience 540-937-2051 CLEANING SoLKoltfS tfous&cceojiiy Weekly. Biweekly & Monthly Cleaning Free estimates 540-937 3253 MacRae Associates, p.c. Full Semce CPA Finn Washington, Virginia (540) 675-2043 EXCAVATING We otter quality work with years of experience. 540-987-9259 Excavating Specialized Backhoe Dump Truck Hoing, Ditch Digging, Cuherts, Mowing, Bushhoggpng & Driveway Gradng?henoe Parting 675-1117 FENCING Virginia Fence Company Top Quality Free Estimates All types of farm fencing, corral, pens, feed lots. Light clearing. 940-219-9695 FENCING High Tensile, Barb Wire, American Wire, Chain Link, Board and Electric, Split Rail Privacy Fencing Available Also Curtis Crawford Home: 540-675-3943 Pager: 399-2688 Furniture Restoration Rappahannock I Firm-tube Restoration! 540-937-6211 Fax: 540-937-7230 PAINTING Shenandoah Painting Top of the line quality Wi»rk tor homeowners tor over $ years. Satisfaction guaranteed. Call today tor a free estimate. Lie ./In». 540-675-2218 ' D-J > Painting Interior & Exterior Reliable Service 540-778-1209 PUMP INSTALLATION EXPERT PUMP INSTALLATION & REPAIR SERVICE Available at RAPPAHANNOCK FARMERS CO-OP Sperryville. VA 987-8555 RESTAURANT THE COUNTRY CAFE Mon - Thun. 8 am. to 8 pin. Fit-S& 8 am. to 9 pm. Sunday Closed Dey at Ftael 675-1066 Take out Available STORAGE SPEHRYV1LLE STORAGE CO. Sale HjumK Kvsukr.iluil (ti—.Trial KcusttuahU Kates <>40/9ft7-ft*07 Kl. IMM. off I .S. til SPEKKYYILLt:. VA Tree Service Jenkins Tree Service Seasoned Firewood Tnmmmg Topping • Tans Downs • Slump Removal Mulch & Landscaping Ferttang Root Feeding • Spraying Mowing & Weedeating 20 Years Experience 540-967-9440 TV & APPLIANCE GREYSTONE TV & APPLIANCE Sales & Service GE 4 RCA Video Products Antennas & SateMe Systems Radio Shack Dealer. Kitchen Aid. Whirlpool i Roper Appliances U.S. Roues 28. Medleon (540)949-2200 WELDING ■ICE’S CUSTOM WELOIN8 (540) 675-1888 Commercial - Residential Construction - Farm General Wrought liun gales & railings ALSO SANDBLASTING EQUIPMENT RENTAL MGE CMP UNTIL OMTII 139 Virginia Avenue • Luray, VA22835 (888) 843-2670 Seeders • Trencher • Chain Saws Jack Hammer • Pressure Washers Log Splitter • Generators Carpet Cleaners WHY BUY, WHEN YOU CAN RENT? ROOFING ROOFING Q*ahty • Slate • Standing Seam Metal Pre-Form Panels Upon Request On Job Site 540-869-2484 The leak stops here! STEVE A. SMITH & SON General Contractors Roofing • Carpentry • Painting Licensed Insured 12065 Dutch Hollow Rd. Culpeper, VA 22701 540-547-9719 • 540-829-0116 Specializing in metal roofs. STORAGE South Wales Business & Mini Located 5 miles west intersection of Route 211 and Route 229 Monthly and yearly rates, all ground-level units, tractor & trailer access, individual wide roll-up doors, restroom, business and vendors welcome. (540) 341-7000 WATER TREATMENT WATER RIGHT Water Problems? Have your water tested in your home for PH (green stains), Hardness, Iron, Rust, Stains, etc. Correct any of these problems with WATER RIGHT Treatment System Call for more information Pulton's Etoctric A Ptoiwbtoi Also. Pumps & Waterhatm, m stock installation Class ACertifkd 540-675-3249 dren. Also surviving are two sisters, Dorothy Nichols and Mary Anne Courtney, both of Luray. She was predeceased by a sons, Eddie W. Miller; a sister, Reva Curtis; and a grandson. Funeral services were conducted on Wednesday, March 7 at Bradley Funeral Home by the Rev. Glenn Clements. Burial was in the Beahm’s Chapel Cemetery in Luray. Luther Settle Born in county Luther L. Settle, 77, of Front Royal died Wednesday, March 7 at Heritage Hall Health Care Center in Front Royal. Funeral services were conducted Saturday, March 10 at Maddox Funeral Home in Front Royal by Pastor Danny Clegg. Burial was in Panorama Memorial Gardens. Mr. Settle was born Dec. 28, 1923 in Rappahannock County, son of the late Walter H. and Carrie Frazier Settle. He was a retired employee of Avtex. Surviving are two sisters, Edna Vaught of Front Royal and Camilla Ogint of Southington, Conn, and four brothers, Allen Settle of Cloverdale, Cecil Settle of Fairfax, Arthur Settle and Wilton Settle, both of Front Royal. Juliana Music Registered Nurse Juliana H. Music, 94, died at her home in Charlottesville on March 9. Bom in Nashua, N.H. in 1906, she graduated from the Lowell General Hospital School of Nursing in Massachusetts, and brought comfort and heal ing to many through her work as a registered nurse for 49 years. Mrs. Music is survived by two daughters, Mary Pyle of New Windsor, N Y. and Julie Music of Sperryville; three granddaughters and five greatgrandchildren. She was blessed with the support of the staff of Our Lady of Peace, the Hospice of the Piedmont team and her physician, Russell Sawyer. A private mass with burial was held in Hudson. N.H. Russell Shaw Retired mechanic Russell Everett Shaw, 91, of Culpeper died Thursday, March 8 at his residence. He was bom Nov. 6, 1909 in Culpeper to the late David Preston Shaw and Minnie Butler Shaw. Mr. Shaw was a veteran of World War II, serving in the United States Army from 1942 to 1945. He retired from the Virginia Department of Transportation as a mechanic. Mr. Shaw is survived by his wife of 54 years, Lucy Virginia Bawkey Shaw. They were married May 13, 1946. He is also survived by four sons, Cluster Jenkins and Marion J. Franzell Jenkins, both of Culpeper, James Russell Shaw of Washington and Roger Shaw of Orange and five daughters, Clara Settle and Margaret Ramey, both of Rixeyville, Irma Fincham of Culpeper, Brenda Wilson of Spotsylvania and Pamela Cook of Mitchells. Additional survivors include a brother, Harold Shaw of Culpeper, 33 grandchildren, 66 great-grandehildren and 28 great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted on Sunday, March 11 at Found & Sons Chapel with Pastor Josh Shifflett and Rev. John Miller officiating. Interment followed at Hillcrest Memory Gardens near Jefferson ton. Russell Jones Farmer Russell Wayne Jones, 84, ol Pratts died Friday, March 2 at Countryside I in Pratts. Bom Nov. 26, 1916 in Madison County, he was the son of the late Russell Thomas Jones and Mary Esther Lohr Jones. Mr. Jones was a member and past deacon of Mt. Zion Baptist Church at Oak Park, past director of Farm Bureau and a retired self-employed farmer. Survivors include his wife, Leona Elizabeth Seale Jones; a daughter, Carol Ann Jones Layman of Mathias, W.Va.; twc sons, Harold Wayne (Jake Jones of Sperryville and Russell Scott Jones of Wallingford, Kty.: seven grandchildren and ter great-grandchildren. Additional & survivors include three brothers, Carlton Stuart Jones of Aroda, Maxwell Luther Jones of Twyman’s Mill and Harry Glenn Jones ol Madison and three sisters Florence Mildred Jones Fishei of Alexandria, Rosaetta Jones Humphrey of Cheboygan Mich, and Iris Virginia Jones ol Madison. Funeral services were conducted on Sunday, March 4 al Mt. Zion Baptist Church with interment in the church cemetery. Preddy Funeral Home ir Madison was in charge of the arrangements.

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SPERRYVILLE- RT 651 2 BR, 1BA. $600/mo + sec. dpst. 540-9878954 aft 5pm BEAUTIFUL VIEWSPurcellville(10 min. from Leesburg). Share 4 BR, 2 BA modern farmhouse w/CAC. Prof. F NS, prefer pet lover. $600/mo + 1/3 util. 703729-4545, 703-9667419. 1670 SQ. ft suite sublease available in Reston for 6-24 months. DSL/ISDN access lines in place. Call 703-648-9522 ext. 105 for information. FEM. LOOKING to rent room in Fauquier, Rappahannock or Madison Co. Country-setting preferred. Need May 1st. Pis. call 703-7161229. LOUDOUN CO. or NORTHERN FAIRFAX CO. $1,000/mo. or $1,200/mo. Incl. utilties Must accept large dog. Min 2 Bd. 703-4712230 V__ NEW HOME- N Topsail Beach, NC. ocean/ sound front, sleeps 8, 3 BA, AC, DW, W/D, cable TVs, VCR, pool, $1300/wk Avail August 703-538-5685 LEESBURG TH: Sycamore Hill. $182,500. 3 Ivl. 22' wide. 3 BR. 2.5 BA, jacuzzi in MB. 9' ceilings main M. LR w/gas FP. 10x20 deck, w/o bsemnt w/den, stub out plumbing. 703-4436767 1997. 14’ X 71', immediate occupancy, 3 BR. 2 fun BA. cac, may be moved or left on lot, $25,900 703-830-5755 V J HAYMARKET- close to 166, very nice, $115K 2BF), 1.5BA. Call 703754-7201. ARE YOU READY TO OWN YOUR OWN BUSINESS? Call for FREE information on the world’s largest franchise show. Hundreds of exciting franchise opportunities on display. Toll Free 800-649-4433 x875 BASEBALL CARD SHOW Chantilly V a Capital Expo Center Exit 53 166 March 16-18 over 20 Autographed guests Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose Ray Lewis Art Monk & more ! Admission $5 225 sports table Check our website for a complete lineup, appearance time and fees. www.csa.shows.com or call 540-456-6877 STAINED GLASS WINDOW from old church. Perfect cond Orig. frame 45\" x 62\". 540788-3930 betw 9-5 pm. 6’ CHERRY DR table. 4ch, china cab. LR matching couch, loveseat, chair & ottoman. Roll top desk w/ chair. More misc turn items 540-788-4660 GLASS TOP COFFEE table with two matching end tables. Black and gold frame. Good condition $75 Please call 703-443-9059, Iv, msg. 5 PC. This End Up turn., new cushions, perfect for family, ex. cond. All for $900/ OBO 703-818-2675 evening. HAVE THINGS LEFT over from your yarc sale? Don't want tc have a yard sale anc just want to donate youi good stuff? The Warrenton Lions Club wil try to help, by taking some of your items foi their yard sale or 3/31/01 or auctlor 4/7/01. Please cal Craig 540-349-0663 Howard 540-347-31 or Andrea 540-347 9018 WARRENTON MOVING SALE- 3/17 & 3/18 Stereo, tools, bedroon sets. 4 cd players, piano, lawn mower, weec eater. Too much to list Meetze Rd to L or Duhollow Rd. R or Frytown Rd, 4th hous« on right 8132 V/ HAY - horse quality hay Square & round bales Also round bales foi cattle 540-937-5160 -- 240 HONM V_■ .....J TWO VERY SPECIAL horses wanted for two different experienced older adult ladies who like to hilltop and trail ride. Requirements: age 5-15, size 15 hh or more, geldings. Quarter horse type preferred. No TB's. Trail or pony club experience required. Must be kind & “kick-along quiet”. Wonderful placement for a special, outgrown (?) friend. ® $2,500. 540-364-2929. 36” SCAG Hydro mower, walk-behind, exc. cond. $1800. 540-347-7396 7 PURE BRED easy calving Black Angus Bulls. Ray T. Cannon 540-937-4900 NEW 275 GALLON home oil tank. $150. OBO Call after 6 PM540-3494542 • Red Cana Bulbs For Sale This Tropical Flower is known to attract hummingbirds! 6 large bulbs are only $3.00! • Strawberry Plants For Sale in a nice pot for only ,75c each! Most Reasonable Prices In Town! Give Your Lawn A New Look With These Beautiful Tropical Flowers. Call 540-347-4222 during the day and 540-364-1686 eves. V._ 3 ADORABLE KITTENS: Free to good home only. Litter trained. Call 703-327-6288. PITBULL, 6 months old, free to good home only! Call after 5 PM 540347-5473 -- V _> LOST: FEMALE black lab. white chest & 1 white paw Last seen on Bear Wallow Rd. on 3/5/01. Reward for safe return. 540-341-3287. EARLY’S CARPET, INC. The one-stop shop for complete Home Decorating Sen ice Floor Coverings • Window Treatments Wallpaper* Slip Covers & Upholstery Residential A Commerical Kt. 211 AmtavUe, VA 937-5500 NANNY- LIVE out FTSterling, must drive, infant experience required. N/S swimmer pref,703-585-1640 RUSSIAN BABYSITTER for 9 mo. baby girl M-F 8-6 in Leesburg area. Ref pref. 703-443-2767 or 703-737-8866 HOUSEKEEPER/ COOK Live-in, FT, petm. Near Manassas Must speakA/vrite English fluently. Current driver’s license. O/n transportation. Good salary & Priv. quarters. Exc. references a must Couple considered. Quiet, Cheerful Surroundings 540-341-1980 Steven M. M anion General Contracting, Inc. specializing in all forms of home improvement. * Decks * Additions * Screen Porches * Kitchens FREE ESTIMATES Licensed. Bcrded&hsued Refs 540-937-3588 THAI COOKING CLASSMake exciting Thai dishes using authentic recipes. Learn about exotic spices, cuts, & cooking techniques. Ask about free lessons! 571-203-9283 Auctions AUCTION Farm Equipment & Estate Sat - MARCH 17, 2001 -10:30 A.M. Fauquier Livestock Exchange Marshall, Virginia 7 Tractors, 5 Trucks, 7 Trailers, NH & JD Hay Equipment, Tillage & Silage Equipment, Bush Hogs, Scraper Blades, Posthole Diggers, Shop Tools, Guns & Much, Much More. Other Consignment will be excepted thru March 16, 2001. www.puckettandassociates.com Call Today for A Brochure Puckett Aj Associates (•04) 174-SOLO IWInOl •• Ml • Red Cana Bulbs For Sale This Tropical Flower is known to attract hummingbirds! 6 large bulbs are only $3.00! • Strawberry Plants For Sale in a nice pot for only ,75c each! Most Reasonable Prices In Town! Give Your Lawn A New Look With These Beautiful Tropical Flowers. Call 540-347-4222 during the day and 540-364-1686 eves. -' 400 A If notion Loving Illinois couple seeks newborn to adopt. Beautiful family oriented neighborhood, lots to offer. If you, or anyone you know are considering placing a child for adoption, please call Liz and Jay toll free at: 1-866-503-3761 We are a loving, secure and devoted couple unable to have children and longing to adopt an infant. Willing to pay medical/legal expenses. Help us help each other. Please call Karen & Bruce. 1-866-650-2001 (toll free) '87 MAZDA RX7 TURBO Loaded, exc. cond., Blk, 152k mi.. Extras! $3500 or OBO 703-771-0280 May trade for motorcycle of equal value. MERCEDES 300SD, 83, gold. exc. cond., 145,000 miles. $5500. 540-439-1425 '97 SUBARU OUTBACK Legacy 5 spd, moonrf, Clean! All pwr Wht/Grey 67k mi. $ 13.5k OBO 703-818-2956 V_^ GMC 1996 YUKON 4 WD, Power, CD, Leather 113K miles. Runs & looks great. $12,900. 540-341-1028 670 Trailers 1111 2001 HAULMARK, 6x10. enclosed, color: dove/ dk. bl top, vent, side door, D-rings, 31K mis $1950, 540-347-0659 j| / Of 5 Pickupy Chevy Pickup '64 3/4 ton Fleetside good cond. good driver, all orginicnla $3990 obo Call Mike 703-858-5008 TOYOTA TACOMA TRUCK, 2000, 4WD, 8000 mi„ $16,800. Call 540-675-3371. WORK FROM HOME $1000-$5000 per month. FT/PT. Call: 1-877-390-8882 AUTO PARTS MANAGER FORD Experienced, computer knowledge a must. Excellent opportunity with an organization that is expanding. Call David Baird Marshall Ford Marshall VA 540-364-1548 Bicycle Repair Good with your hands? Huffy has positions in bicycle, Grill Assembly and repair at local retailers. $8.00-$ 14.00/hr + piece-rate. Training provided. Call Toll Free 1-877-832-6473 Option 0, ext. 2340 Business Development Manager- ITPlease see display ads for this position. Legal Notices TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 41 MOUNTAIN VIEW ROAD Flint Hill Virginia Pursuant to the terms ol a deed of trust dated November 9th, 1978 in the original principal amount of $47,500.00, recorded in the Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court of Rappahannock County, Virginia in Deed Book 129 at Page 778, the property briefly described below will be offered for sale at public auction: Lots 29, 30, 31 and the “Well Lor, Mountain View Subdivision, as the same is duly dedicated platted and recorded in Deed Book 49 at page 490; among the land records of Rappahannock County, Virginia, as more particularly described in the referenced Deed of Trust, (the ■Property’) The sale will take place on April 5, 2001 at 10:30 a.m. at the main entrance to the building housing the Circuit Court of Rappahannock County, Virginia. Terms: A deposit in the form of certified funds in the amount of $3,000.00 is required of any bidder at the time of sale. Closing within fifteen (15) days of sale Time is of the essence. Additional terms may be announced at sale. Purchaser to pay all closing costs. Stephen B. Wood and Tonya Henderson-Stith, Substitute Trustees FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen B. Wood, Friedman & MacFadyen. P.A., 1601 Rolling Hills Drive, Ste. 125, Richmond, Virginia 23229, Telephone: (804)-288-0088 Ref# 18827 3-7,3-14,3-21,3-28-01 #362064 CARPENTERS J.D. Eicher Builder, Inc. Is a well-established building contractor specializing in highend custom residential construction. We are seeking quality oriented lead carpenters and carpenters with ten or more years experience in all phases of carpentry. We offer an enjoyable work environment, top of the line tools and equipment, paid vacation, holidays, insurance and more. Please call 540-347-7591 to arrange an interview Chairside Dental Assistant needed. Tues. - Fri. in dynamic, friendly Culpeper office. Experience preferred, but will train the right person. Must be very team-oriented, energetic and a “people person". Please send resume to: 1051 Oakland Dr. Culpeper, VA 22701 CONSTRUCTION CARPENTERS/ NEED REMODELERS “Share our vlalon. ” e Were a dynamic, fast growing remodeling co. with capable leadership, poised for unparalleled success, e We're looking to add personnel to be part of a winning team that will be highly recognized in it's industry. eTOP WAGES & EXCELLENT BENEFIT PACKAGE! 540-364-6224 if CONSTRUCTIOI LAYOUT- J Engineers helper w/valid driver’s license. Assist it) project layout. Entry level position. Blpe print reading and prior construction experience a plus. Apply to 703-3782010 Drug Test. , Required. £ HAN© COOKS NEEDI for country resqrt. F/T & P/T position? available to prepare “down-home" 11)6801. Weekends, overtime pay. Health & retirement benelits Included for F/T. . Call for • an interview ! 540-923-4231| Dairy Farm seeks FARM j I i for • Feeding ^ • • Milking .! • otherdairy .mi ■ • related duties ! 703-754-013$ for more info i DRIVERS NEEDED ! Local Boom truck 8j Tractor Trailers, j Local & Long distance hauling. 1 Class A licens'd &, drug testing req. i Cali Donnie @ j 800-368-2178 day; or 800-368-2173-1 evening. ELECTRICIAN and/or PLUMBER ! & HELPERS Full-timet 1 Benefits available' ESTES REPAIR SERVICE 540-675-3489 Upl Notices V—_ _is BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, VIRGINIA PURSUANT to Section 170-129 ot the Rappahannock County Code and Section 15.2-2204 Of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, notice |s hereby given that the Board of Zoning Appeals fdr Rappahannock County, Virginia, will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, March 28, 2001 at seventhirty in the evening in the Courthouse in Washington, Virginia, in order to consider the following application: I SU *01-02-01 Ernest David Gheen, owner of 3.1193 acres in! Jackson District, known as 20 Gheen Acres i Lane in Amissville (Tax Map 32B-1, Parcel A,' ( zoned Agricultural), by his agent Ralph Gheen,1 desires a Special Use permit for a family apart-! ment (26 x44 single-story dwelling) for his son^ Ralph, and his family. Use allowed under Section 170-36A of the Rappahannock County Code;. I additional standards in Section 170-62G of the! Code i •> •! No applicant or other party in interest, and no attorney for an applicant or party in interest, shall initiate a contact with a member of the BZA for the purpose of conducting a private discussion, in person or by telephone, concerning the merits of arty application, appeal, or other matter pending befoie the BZA No member of the BZA shall participate In any such private discussion Site visits or similar contacts initiated by BZA members shall not cda stitute such ex parte contracts. Tt A copy of the foregoing application is on file.' fat the Zoning Office in Washington, Virginia, and- is available for public inspection, Monday through FrL day. 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Said applicationunll be presented to the Rappahannock County Planning Commission at their regular meeting on Wednesday, March 21. 2001 at seven-thirty in the evemrig at the Rappahannock County Courthouse for sudh recommendation as the Commission may wishlo make pursuant to Section 170-55, if any The above-named applicant, adjacent properly owners, and any other parties desiring to be heard should be present at said meeting or should address thdir written comments to the Board of Zoning Appeal i c/o P.O.Box 519, Washington, Virginia 22747 n advance thereof. 3-07, 3-14-01 BY John W McCarthy Zoning Administratof _* J6267Q

DUMP TRUCKS WANTED Tri-axle & quadaxle dump trucks to haul asphalt and stone. Manassas & Leesburg areas. ~ Skippy's Trucking 703-368-9995 703-631-9821 ENGINEERS HELPER- Entry level construction helper. Must have valid driver’s license and basic construction knowledge. Print reading & prior layout experience a plus. Must pass drug test. Reply to 703-378-2010 EDUCATION 53 Drivers Needed No Exp. Necessary Become a Class A or B Truck Driver $700-$800/Wk Earning Potential Home Daily or Travel the Country e FT or PT Classes e 100% Financing e Tuition e Reimbursement e Job Placement e 18 Yrs. Old & Older # Training in Just 3 Weeks e Big $$ are Waiting Call Now (800)792-9325 FARM HELPER Male or female who can handle weedeater & lawnmower. Jamieson High Thicket 540-987-8585 BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER - IT Small 14 year old IT firm in Dulles Corridor looking for business Development Manager to grow our company in government & commercial sales. Self-starter w/demonstrated sales success in IT marketplace gained in the past 10+ years. Articulate communication skills, verbally & written, with experience in creative proposal preparation. Let this be your opportunity to grow a well-established successful company. Attractive benefits include paid health, dental, STD/LTD, vacation, sick, holidays, SIMPLE IRA PLAN w/company match, Bonus plan. Fax resume with SALARY/COMMISSION REQUIREMENTS TO: ft 703/834-0457 fin RAPPAHANNOCK KAPIOAN * AMjL community services board Rappahannock-Rapidan CSB is opening a new group home in Warrenton!! #86-01 Full-time position in Warrenton to provide direct care work for adult MR consumers. Associates degree or equiv. exp. $22,856p/yr. Convenient to major transportation routes. Please apply with RRCSB application by Friday, March 23, 2001 to: Human Resources P.O. Box 1568 Culpeper, VA 22701 540-825-3100 TDD: 540-825-7391 EEO/AA EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT/ EXECUTIVE Smith-Midland Corporation is seeking an Administrative Assistant to the CEO. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years experience working directly with a CEO. Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office is required. Duties include transcribing correspondence, taking meeting minutes, proofing, supervising other office personnel and other duties such as planning meetings, corporate functions and company events, making travel arrangements and directing inquiries from stockholders. We offer competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit package, including medical/dental insurance, 401 (k) plan and educational reimbursement. Qualified applicants may send resumes including salary history to: Human Resources Dept. w Smith Midland Corp. P.O. Box 300, ;;C Midland, VA 22728 or Fax (540) 439-1232 E-mail: asmith@crosslink.net ENGINEERING JOB FAIR GENERAL DYNAMICS - Amphibious Systems Would you like to end your commute in Prince William County? Then interview with us on Saturday, March 17,2001 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Our organization has a new location at 140-H Worth Avenue in Woodbndge. Virginia. Just lake interstate 95 to Exit I5S. we ate located next to Potomac Mills. We are part of one of the most visionary companies in the world, working to create a new and exciting Amphibious Assault Vehicle. As pan of our ongoing commitment to provide unparalleled customer satisfaction and innovative technology, we are currently accepting resumes for the following positions: • Software Engineers • Mechanical Aerospace Engineers • Electrical Engineers • Logistics Engineers • Systems gagform • Finaace Representatives ; We offer competitive salaries and a fall benefits package as follows: Compressed Work Week 401 (k) Savings Plan Business Casa* Drew Code Pennon Plan Flexible Work Moms MedicaWwon/Denui Tuition AssisMce Life Insurance/ADiD Pad Hobdays PI* Vacation ShortVLong-toia Dtsahdily Employee Rafanl Program On-$ue Exercise Facility If you are ready for career growth, new directions and - a fresh penpecdve. come join a leader ta the Defense industry. i r RSVP by Monday. March 12 to reserve your inters iew time: General Dynamics Amphibious Systems w . Human Resources 991 Aanapobs Way Vtodbridge. VA 22191 Atsentioa: Job Fair Fax: 70.V492 .UI0 ore-mail: aaavjohs9gdls.com Equal Opportunity Employer EVENING KITCHEN MANAGER needed for country resort 2-10 pm, Mon.-Fri., some weekends. Hourly pay + overtime after 40 hours & weekends. Health & retirement benefits included. Call 540-923-4231 for interview Full/ Part time Housekeeper for farm in Middleburg area. Good benefits provided. 540-364-2777 GRADEALL OPERATOR Experienced, for No. Virginia area. Steady work. 703-878-3032 LIVE-IN CARE GIVER/ AIDE for elderly lady. Room & board plus salary. Good references required. Amissville area. 540-937-3837 after 6PM • Laborers • Equipment Operators • Dump Truck Drivers • Flush Truck Drivers • Grade Foremen • Punch Crew Foreman • Pipe Foreman Dental & Health Insurance & 401K Avail. F*CKY L BROWN & SONS, NC 540-347-6628 LUMBER STACKERS for Augusta Lumber in Amissville. Call 540-347-4199 between 8am and 4:30 pm. M-Thurs. OFFICE ASSISTANT Multi-talented Jack/ Jane of all trades with passionate concern for the environment. 1 afternoon per week. Tell me about yourself: CT ROB 455 Sperryville, VA. TRACK BACKHOE OPERATOR for sight utility contractor in Northern VA. 703-631-9733 OPENING SOON Ryjgmgtore Sales'" Our top sales producers earn... • Over $100,000 yr. • Full Benefits Plan • Employee Discount • Recognition • $300 Signing Bonus Interested in joining the area’s largest and most progressive furniture retailer? Send us your resume or contact us today! The RoomStore Furniture 619 Frost Ave. Warrenton, VA 540-341-4346 Fax to: 540-341-4349 ENJOY CAR TALK? If you are a car/truck enthusiast, enjoy dealing with others and ready for a career move: AutofTruck Sales Consultant • Salary while in training • Progressive pay plan • Commissions and bonuses • 100% Employment paid medical benefit plan • On going recognition for high achievers • Demonstrator program • Company contributed 401K retirement plan • Company paid profit sharing retirement plan • Paid vacation holidays • 5 day work week • No Sundays or major holidays Call Tim Frees or Marti Bicksier 540-635-2153 • 800-532-4389 or www.jechevy.com or fax employment history to: 540-635-5668 JACK EVANS CHEVROLET & CADILLAC, FRONT ROYAL, VA. WAREHOUSE SUPERVISOR International tableware distributor seeking Supen/isor for warehouse operations- day shift hours between 7:30am- 4:30pm Mon.- Fri Must be able to motivate and direct staff to meet weekly/monthly goals. Previous warehouse supervisory experience required, to include: experience in picking & packing; shipping UPS and L-T-L truck shipments; receiving & putaway; inventory control & full physical inventories. Must be willing to work overtime as required. Must be able to lift 70 pounds. Full-time w/ benefits. Apply in person at: Pimpernel, USA #3 Industrial Road, Warrenton, VA (Across from Wal-Mart) or fax resume 540-347-5731 GOVERNMENT REPORTER Experienced, savvy reporter needed to cover busy county government beat for award-winning large weekly paper in rural Fauquier County. The ideal candidate will have excellent writing skills and ability to dig beneath the surface of a story to its core. In our newsroom, creativity is appreciated as much as a strong work ethic. Our r eporters have the opportunity to extend themselves beyond their beat to develop other writing styles and techniques. Although we cover a relatively small county compared to our Neighbors in Northern Virginia, we have caring involved readers who look to us to keep them informed. Pay and benefits are competitive. Send resume, and clips to: Robin Earl, Managing Editor Fauquier Times Democrat P.O. Box 631, Warrenton, VA 20188 E-mail: rearl@timespapers.com 540-347-4222 with questions RETAIL SALES Brown’s Woodstuff is a growing company seeking qualified individuals to add to our staff part-time & fulltime. We are a retail sales business specializing in handcrafted furniture reproductions. and county crafts. We are in need of versatile. responsible and motivated individuals. Call 540-347-2189 5 Broadview Ave Warren ton, VA Part-time Evening Teller Tellers provide excellent customer service, handle paying and receiving services and provide banking information. Actively participate in sales program. Cash handling, customer service, proven communication skills, sales and banking experience preferred. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 2:15 pm - 7:15 pm; Sat. 8:30 am -12:30 pm. 30 hours per week Submit your r£sum6 in confidence to: SunTrust Bank, Ad Code: EANFTD/MN 13663 at 804-2307108 or toll tree at 877-266-0777. Email to: careers® SunTrustcom. Please include Ad Code with all responses SunTrust is an equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V. Drug screening is utilized as a condition of employment SunTrust TIRE MECHANIC/ SERVICE MAN to work on tires for modem fleet of Mack trucks in Manassas area. Hospitalization, 2 wks. vacation, holidays, profit sharing, 401K Skippy’s Trucking 703-368-9995 703-631-9821 Classified ADS WORK! Call Your Rep TODAY! Call TODAY. 540-347-4222 For Employment And Classified Ads Or Fax 540-349-8676 • ASSISTED LIVING TECH • ACTIVITY DIRECTOR •COOK America House Assisted Living is seeking caring, dedicated individuals to care for our family of residents. Our staff enjoys the family atmosphere of a smell facility that is new and growing. CNA or nursing assistant background preferred for assisted living techs. Seeking creative, enthusiastic, outgoing person for part-time activities director. Will train right person for part-time cook position. Please call Sharon at 703-393-6300 or stop at 10140 Hastings Dr, Manassas for an application. EOE /America house ★ W\SHIN(i l()\ Si HI KHAN Pm SS Nl I WORK Accounting /Full Chaise Bookkeeper Highly-motivated self-starter required for growing, multi-million dollar community newspaper network located in Reston. Quickbooks & MS Office knowledge required for varied position including bank recs, billing, spreadsheet analysis, & account reconciliations. Salary commensurate with experience, great benefit package & working environment! E-mail cover letter & resume to carolynz@wspnet.com PLATEMAKER Full-Time Duties include burning plates, making color proofs and some stripping. Pre-Press experience preferred, but will train. We offer a competitive wage and benefit package including 4C1K. 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March gardening tips By Kenner P. Love Extension Agent, ANR v Crop & Soil Sciences The following are gardening tips for the month of March from the Rappahannock Extension Office. • The optimum time to prune all fruit trees is just before bloom. Pruning allows the tree to direct nutrients to branches that will bear high quality fruit. The objective is to remove dead, diseased, or damaged wood. Also, remove shoots that are growing straight up or straight down, as neither provides good fruit development. Growth crisscrossing the center of the tree should be removed as well. A more open tree allows greater light penetration and air circulation, thereby increasing fruit quality and reducing disease and insect pressure. • According to Dr. Richard Marini, Extension Horticulturist for tree fruits at Virginia Tfech, low temperatures in January can kill peach flower buds in some parts of the state. Tb assess bud iiyury, cut flower buds longitudinally with a razor blade. If the ovary at the base of the bud is brown, the bud is dead. > If more than 70 percent of the buds appear dead, then pruning and fertilizer application should be modified. Apply half the normal (0.15 pounds N/year of tree age/tree up to year six) nitrogen about one month before bloom. Delay pruning until new shoot growth is four inches long. Do less pruning than normal: remove watersprouts, but avoid making large cuts. • Before planting a back Breakfast, lunch school menus RCES Breakfast: Monday, March 19: Waffles/syrup or cereal/milk, toast, juice and milk. Tuesday, March 20: Hot cinnamon bun or cereal/milk, toast, juice and milk. Wednesday, March 21: Rapp McMuffin or cereal/milk, toast, juice and milk. Thursday, March 22: Grilled cheese or cereal/milk, toast, juice and milk. Friday, March 23: Breakfast pizza or cereal/milk, toast, juice and milk. Lunch: Monday, March 19: Sausage pizza, buttered com, chilled fruit, homemade cookie. Tuesday, March 20: Chicken nuggets, macaroni and cheese, peas, chilled fruit, hot biscuit/butter. Wednesday, March 21: sandwich/gravy, mashed potatoes, buttered peas, cranberry sauce. A La Carte’ Steak nuggets/roll, burrito, mashed potatoes. Thursday, March 22: French bread pizza, onion rings, cole slaw, strawberry shortcake. A La Carte’ Hot dog on bun, tuna salad on bun, onion rings and fruit. Friday, March 23: Barbecue chicken, scalloped potatoes, buttered succotash, hot biscuit/butter. A La Carte’ sausage pizza, french fries, chilled fruit. Sperryville Realty James W. Leake, Broker 540-987-8088/office Off Rt. 231 in Broad Hollow, 10.1 wooded acres on state road. Stream, park boundary. $75,000 Flint Hill - Affordable two bedroom home, eat-in kitchen, living room with wood stove, recently remodeled bath, 1 car garage, 1.12 acre lot. $89,000 F.T. Valley - 30 wooded acres, over 500 ft. park boundary, road frontage, strong stream, septic approved. $5,000 per acre James W. Leake, Broker 540-987-8236 sperryvillerlty@aol. com Bud Corder 540-675-3291 John Eubank yv 540-987-8146 M “The Granary” very unique and historic log & frame home. Interior exposed logs in one half and exposed ceiling beams throughout. Three stone fireplaces, old pine floors, a nooks & crannies type of home with lots of charm. Front porch, patios. $169,500 F.T. Valley: Stone house on 3 acres with beautiful mountain views! Surrounded by huge farming estate. This charming old house is a great country getaway, or add an addition for a large luxurious, full time home in a unique setting. $195,000 187 wooded acres, western mountain views, stream, in 4 parcels for excellent investment. $549,000 4+ open rolling acres with views of Blue Ridge wooded area with stream, some fencing, quiet area. $52,000 P. O. Box 298 • 291 Gay St., Washington, VA 22747 EH Rick Kohler 540 937 6146 E-mail: re3@crosslmk.net 540-675-1373 Mitzic Young 540 675 3555 & Amv Sloanc-Timbcrs 540-987 8668 Viewtown social notes Sympathy is extended to the Shaw and Bawkey families on the death of Russell Shaw last Thursday. Miss Bobby Jo Frazier celebrated her birthday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tbrnmy Frazier on Sunday. Happy birthday wishes are extended to Charles Dodson Sr. on March 11 and James Dodson on March 16. Performance scheduled On Friday, March 30, RAAC and the Curriculum Enrichment Comihittee will be hosting the performance of “One Man Moby Dick” by New York Dancer and Performance Artist Carlo Adinolfi at 8 p.m. in the Rappahannock County High School Auditorium. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets may be purchased at the door. There will be a discussion following the show. This compelling one-man show was written, choreographed, designed, and constructed by Adinolfi. It is a work of elemental lyricism where time and space are altered to create a floating, suspended world. Miniature ships, boats and schools of whales glide across the floor, a man’s body becomes a huge sailing canvas, giving the stage the breadth and volume of an ocean. The stage is inhabited by an affable guide who gently shares his passionate love for Melville’s story as part host, part villain, part boy and part hero. Adinolfi’s piece will be featured in a story in the New Yorker this summer to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Melville’s monumental contribution to American literature. Also celebrating birthdays in March are James Sealock and Betty Jane Hitt. Get well wishes are extended to Mrs. Ann Conger, who is at home ill. Have a great weekend and get ready for spring. it yard orchard, map out the site, giving particular attention to air and water drainage. Avoid frost pockets, areas where cold air gathers, or you may be disappointed year after year when flower buds freeze and drop. Good water drainage is also important for good tree growth. If drainage is questionable, drainage tiles or land reformation may be required for productive fruit trees. Shallow soils may require irrigation. • Don’t dig too far down when planting asparagus crowns. Yields improve dramatically when crowns are set at a depth of five to six inches, not the commonly advised 12 inches. Contrary to the standard practices of deep planting and not harvesting for up to three seasons, recent studies show that harvesting shallow-planted asparagus after the first year boosts yields 40 percent over three years. • Tb extend the asparagus harvest, reippve the mulch firom only half the bed at first. The sunlight will encourage these plants to sprout more quickly. In two or three weeks, when shoots appear in the mulched half, carefully remove the remaining Barbecue on bun, french fries, cole slaw, snickerdoodle. Thursday, March 22: Hot dog on bun, mashed potatoes, sauerkraut or baked beans, nacho’s/cheese sauce. Friday, March 23: Chicken pattie on bun, seasoned curly fries, green beans, yellow cake/chocolate. RCHS Lunch: Monday, March 19: Chicken tenders, parsley potatoes, baked apples, hot biscuit/butter. A La Carte’ Pizza, hash browns, chilled fruit. Tuesday, March 20: Bacon cheeseburger, stuffed spud, fruit cocktail, garlic bread stick. A La Carte’ Deli ham and cheese, chicken salad, hash browns. Wednesday, March 21: Hot roast turkey mulch. • Don't plow your garden when the soil is wet. It will form clods that are difficult to break up and interfere with cultivation during the summer. • Don’t leave stubs when pruning; stubs usually die and are entry points for decay fungus. Cut just outside the branch collar, the slightly thickened area at the base of the branch. Pruning should never be done in damp or wet weather when the fungal spores and bacteria that infect plants through fresh wounds spread easily. • Complete the pruning of shrubs and ornamental trees before new growth starts, except for spring-flowering shrubs. Prune those in the spring after they finish flowering. • Don’t buy more chemicals than you can use in a season, the smaller the bottle, the better. If you overbought in the past and have aged, garden chemicals you no longer use, dispose of them according to local regulations. Do not pour them down the drain or onto the ground as this can pollute the water systems, damage the soil, and possibly injure or kill plants, people, and animals that come in contact with the chemicals. • Mulches can change the soil temperature. Black plastic warms the soil and should be applied before planting. Organic materials delay the sun’s penetration thereby keeping the soil cooler. Apply organic mulches after plants are three to four inches tall and the soil is warm. For additional information call the Rappahannock Extension Office at 675-3619. Real Estate Directory Real estate transactions The following real estate transactions was recorded during the past week at the Rappahannock Clerk’s Office on Gay Street in Washington. Annie Updike Kilby to Thomas Franklin Kilby and wife, 4.04 percent undivided interest in Rappahannock and Culpeper. Deed of gift. Annie Updike Kilby to James Edward Kilby, 6.16 percent undivided interest in Rappahannock and Culpeper. Deed of gift. Annie Updike Kilby to John Walter Minnisk Jr., 4.04 percent undivided interest in Rappahannock and Culpeper. Deed of gift. Charles Gilbert Lawrence and wife to William M. Petty and wife, 2.0030 acres, Jackson District. $60,000. RECYCLEI Small Country Company, Ltd. 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Offered below appraisal at $126,500 BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. RAPPAHANNOCK REAL ESTATE RESOURCES 540-675-1190 Butch Zindel Greg Clark butch@rapprealestate.com ^ www.rappahannockrealestateresources.com ROY WHEELER REALTY COMPANY Washington - This spacious all stone home lends itself to gracious country living & ease of entertaining and is situated in a park-like setting with maturing landscape. The 193 rolling acres offers 20 acres of fenced pasture, a lovely stocked pond & streams. The property is enhanced by an iron & stone main entrance and beautiful stone walls! Creekwood - Enjoy winter mountain views from the deck & porch of this well-built cedar home offering a great floor plan, FPs, oak flooring, expansive MBR suite, finished walk-out basement and a 2 car garage. Plus a charming 2 BR/2 BA cedar guest/in-law house or B&B! $779,000 Ben Venue Rd. - Turn of the century Farmhouse on 29 scenic acres located in ODH area. 9 well-proportioned rooms, some wood floors, full-length front porch, numerous farm buildings and lovely, old stone walls. $339,000 Amissville - A great home w/2 MBRs, oak flooring, upgraded kitchen. 2,500 sq. ft. plus an unfinished walk-out basement, and a wonderful deck and screened porch to enjoy pastoral and mountain views. $249,900 Flint Hill - Business possibilities! Charming 1840s stucco Colonial on .8 acres. New metal roof, 6 FPs, wood floors, porches, stonework Washington - Owners will consider a lease purchase on the nicely maintained 3 BR/2 BA one-level home on 5 quiet acres! One-year Offering Piedmont Virginia’s Finest Real Estate For Over Half a Century. $1,250,000 and a stucco outbuilding. home warranty! $164,500 Flint Hill Office 540-675-7171 Jean Lillard 540-675-3670