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depletion, isolation, poverty, and attrition, as young adults, seeing few opportunities, leave town, fostering a downward spiral of economic instability.”
• Lack of public transportation has “exacerbated” the condition of the elderly. There is no hospital, no pharmacy and no supermarket. The only food outlets are small convenience stores or several “upscale gourmet stores” and people without transportation have to rely on friends to even get fresh vegetables. The paper said an attempt at setting up a van to help elderly people was abandoned.
• The fire and rescue services have a chronic shortage of personnel.
• “The two public schools have struggled to gain full accreditation under Virginia’s standards of learning.” Buildings are in disrepair. The county “offers among the lowest teacher salaries in the region” and only 35 percent of the some 1,100 students are college bound. “Even before the economic woes of the present day, education in the county was chronically underfunded.”
• There is no recreation program in the county.
In another section, the proposal said that the nonprofit county groups needed the assistance of a central office and a director.
The “concept” asked for a total budget of $145,000 over two years to set up such a center, including estimates of costs from telephone and computers to a $40,000 a year annual salary for a director.
Linda Dietel said that Silver is an experienced grant writer who has gotten several valuable grants for Rappahannock activities. “You can’t paint with a purple brush,” she said. “These conditions are not untrue and many of us
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