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Mills called for the candidates to speak, Piedmont District School Board member Aline Johnson said that it would be difficult for the board to render a decision, “especially since it’s due to losing Frank (Warner).”
She added that the board would attempt to make its selection based upon the will of the people of the Stonewall-Hawthorne district.
Sharon Kilpatrick was the first to speak. She said she made her decision to run for the seat (in the November election) when Warner declared he would not announce whether or not he would run until the June 10 deadline.
She reviewed her qualifications and noted that she had moved to Rappahannock County in 1974.
Kilpatrick said that she has probably attended more Rappahannock County School Board meetings than anyone else—as Rapplinks editor, as a reporter and then editor for the Rappahannock News, and as a citizen interested in school affairs. , She said that she knows “what the School Board has to deal with in terms of budgets ...” and declared that her “interest is primarily what happens to the kids.”
Ken Marlor told the board that he has lived here since 1977 and has had ”a single parent exposure to school.” He said that he has been active with the Lions Club and the Ruritan Club and serves as the Boston postmaster.
He recalled that Frank Warner asked him to consider running for the School Board two months ago— Warner was thinking about not running due to health issues—and he asked Warner what was the thrust of the School Board.
Marlor said Warner told him that the thrust was people—dealing with them and listening to what they are tsaying.
Marlor told of his qualifi
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