Rappahannock News, February 19, 2004

126th Year... No. 8 Phone (540) 675-3338 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 www.timescommunity.com 50 cents ■r om ± _0<fi £ am N COM ft HO 12 2 ®0* ?b K D -j «< n*J* 2z* ' # '& <0 O O I ‘H 0* ron ro VIRGINIA School Superintendent Bob Chappell OJ ro Goal: ‘Schools that are second to none’ By Nicholas M. Horrock Rappahannock News Staff Writer School Superintendent Bob Chappell proposed a $10.3 million budget for 2004-2005 that held the cost increase $200,000 under the 2003 budget, but relies on Gov. Mark Warner's embattled state budget for an 8.31 percent increase in state support. “The Rappahannock County Public Schools’ vision," Chappell wrote in a preliminary presentation, “is to provide schools that are second to none in service to our children, the most important people in our county." Chappell is seeking a 7.47 percent increase in the school funding, some $718,949. His predecessor, Helen Williams, asked county taxpayers for an increase in 2003 of $919,694.37 in a total budget of $9,627,272. Chappell is calling for a 3.5 percent increase in the base salary for the school system’s 167 employees and a 1.5 percent longevity step raise. The additional cost would be $312,000. The rising cost of health care has prompted Chappell to ask for a 1.5 percent increase in the budget simply to maintain current employer contribution levels. He estimated the cost at $140,000. Among the $92,000 of additional “instructional enhancements,” Chappell is seeking money to provide a high school choir, jazz band, and Spanish or Latin language training. He wants a summer reading pilot program at both the elementary and high school level. Chappell also wants a high school course on satellite ground positioning that allows people to locate their whereabouts by receiving signals from satellites. It has become one of the most valuable military and civilian developments of the last decade. Chappell is also seeking expanded sections of an emergency medical training program that has a $5,000 grant from Rappahannock fire departments and is designed to help in recruiting for the fire and rescue services and to provide youngsters with a valuable skill for future employment. He also has. called for a five percent increase in purchasing school materials and another increase to adopt new science textbooks Lind on-line course textbooks. Chappell wants money to increa-*■ staff development aimed at sharpenii a the rigor of the instructional programs Like many school systems around Virginia. Chappell has written a budget relying on an 8.31 percent increase in state aid. or some $222,190 based on Warner's budget plan. But powerful Republicans that control the Virginia House of Delegates and .some others in the Senate are vowing that Virginia can meet its needs without a tax increase as envisioned bv Warner and by veteran Republican Sen. .John Chichester of Stafford. Chappell met with Rappahana ... k'v See SCHOOLS. Page A6 You be the judge of Gov. Warner’s tax plan By Bob Twtgg and Nicholas M. Horrock Rappahannock News Staff Writers Gov. Mark Warner (D) is stepping up the pitch for his embattled tax overhaul by releasing a “how it affects you” analysis of his plan currently being put through the wringer in the Republican-dominated General Assembly. Warner, a Democrat, proposes raising sales tax by a penny, reducing the tax on food by a penny-and-a-half, resuming the GOP-led repeal of the “car tax” and reforming the age deduction for seniors. Here’s a glimpse at Warner’s plan for Rappahannock County residents based on 3,179 tax returns filed in 2001: • Sales tax (non-food) to 5.5 percent means annually Income of $40,000 equals $150 increase Income of $60,000 equals $192 increase Income of $80,000 equals $234 increase • Sales tax (food) down to 3 percent means annually Income of $40,000 equals $73 savings Income of $60,000 equals $84 savings Income of $80,000 equals $94 savings • Car tax reduction to 100 percent over four years Number of qualified vehicles (TY 2003) 7,231 Current average per vehicle: $128 Additional per vehicle in 4 years: $55 • Cigarette tax increase to 22.5 cents per pack One-pack daily equals $82 annually See TAX, Page A6 Meetings & Notices • On Monday, Feb. 23 the Town of Washington’s Planning Commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall on Gay Street. Arborist Lyt Wood will present his views on tree preservation. • On Wednesday, Feb. 25 the Rappahannock County Board of Zoning Appeals will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the courthouse on Gay Street. 03700 23050 2 Rappahannock News P.O. Box 59 Washington, Va. 22747 (540) 675-3338 (540) 675-3088 (fax) PROPOSED BILL: Richard and Sandra Antony, owners of Long Mountain Nursery in Washington which specializes in azaleas and perennials, are pondering the impact of a proposed bill that would expand the definition of a farm and allow plant nurseries, greenhouses, and Christmas tree farms to take advantage of its benefits. Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Nicholas M. Horrock Owners of nurseries, tree farms, greenhouses study proposed bill By Nicholas M. Horrock Rappahannock News Staff Writer A proposed bill in the General Assembly to clarify the status of vehicles entitled to low cost farm registration has nursery owners in Rappahannock County scratching their heads. Sen. John Watkins, R-Midlothian, who owns and operates plant nurseries himself said in an interview that he introduced Senate Bill 127 last month to “clarify” which farms and agricultural operations could legiti mately register their vehicles under a reduced cost. “Some folks thought you had have a license for a farm in order qualify,” he said. Watkins said one example is tree farms. He said farms that raised trees for lumber were always regarded as farms, but that people who raised trees for sale, “like Christmas trees,” were also entitled to farm registration prices but didn’t realize it. See NURSERIES, Page A6 66 The owner has to be doing a farm function. He can’t be driving his personal car to Florida. Sen. John Watkins Glitch in gym plans By Nicholas M. Horrock Rappahannock News Staff Writer Rappahannock County Administrator John McCarthy told a joint meeting of the Board of Supervisors and the School Board Tuesday that the auspicious $3.8 million plan to build a gym, classrooms and upgrade the e!e mentary school cannot be processed in time for the Virginia bonding agency’s spring bond purchase. The agency sells bonds on Wall Street for small jurisdictions that do not have their own bonding mechanism at two sales, one in the spring and the other in the fall McCarthy said the spring deadline was this week and far too soon for the Board of Supervisors to study the project and approve the purchase. This means the construction o{ a new roof on the elementary’ school, a new gym. new classrooms and nSrin<| and air conditioning might not get underway until 2005 and perhaps not completed even before the fall or 2t»>r>. A separate project in the -arm bond issue to build a running track at the high school will keep the track ' out of service for two full seasons.’’ once it got started. School Superintendent Bob Chappell said. The track project is around the football field and would interrupt football and soccer games, Chappell .-aid in an interview. The School Board last moinh -aid it hoped to move swiftly to take advantage of the historically low interest rates now available and avoid the rising cost of construction. The unusual joint meeting of the See GYM, Page A6 Hackley estate brings lawsuit against state police By Mary Ann Kuhn Rappahannock News Staff Writer A half a million dollar lawsuit has been filed against the Virginia State Police and one of its troopers stemming from an automobile collision on Route 211 in front of Hackley’s Store that claimed the life of well-known Rappahannock citizen and long-time storekeeper Emmett Graham Hackley, 85. Attorneys for Hackley’s widow, Dorothy Zinn Hackley, who is the executor of the estate, filed the lawsuit in the Rappahannock County Circuit Court. The suit alleges that Trooper Todd M. Taylor of Castleton drove his unmarked 2000 Ford 4-door police cruiser “in a grossly negligent and reckless manner” causing the collision between his car and Hackley’s 1994 GMC pickup truck at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 22, 2001 in Amissville. Taylor was responding to an airplane crash that had happened minutes before near the WarrentonFauquier Airport and was driving east on Route 211 towards Warrenton, state police said at the time. Meanwhile, Hackley was crossing the eastbound lanes of Route 211 after stopping at a stop sign at the intersection of Route 211 and 642. He was try ing to reach the median between the eastbound and westbound lanes of Route 211 when his pickup truck was struck in the left front fender by Taylor’s vehicle, the suit said. Hackley’s pickup truck “rotated approximately 180 degrees, thereby ejecting (Hackley i into the grassy median. . . ."according to the suit. Mrs. Hackley has a photograph taken of Taylor’s speedometer, “frozen at a speed in excess of 115 miles per hour after the accident," the suit said Virginia State Police said at the time of the accident that Taylor was See HACKLEY, Page A6 Mrs. Hackley has a photograph taken of Taylor’s speedometer, 'frozen at a speed in excess of 115 miles per hour.’ •jF'halangeSf I* in the #! jf - Family. ■ Science Fair Thirty projects of Rappahannock County’s Science Fair have been selected for regional competition. See Page A3. * Sounds of music Rappahannock’s Berkeley Hobson and Vanessa Rynn perform as an acoustic guitar/vocal duo at The Theatre. See Page B1. f Swing era The Brooks Tegler Quartet plays a tribute to the Benny Goodman Trio at The Theatre Saturday, Feb. 21. See Page B1. A' ■ L Friday night movie ‘in America’ is a warm-hearted film about an Irish family starting a new life in the U. S. See Page B1. i.

Cotillion members observe Virginia’s General Assembly By Debbie Massie Special to the Rappahannock News The Virginia General Assembly on Jan. 22 passed resolution 120, proposed by the National League of Junior Cotillions designating Feb. 9-15 as National Courtesy Week in Virginia. ' Several members of the Culpeper chapter, Maia and Tiana Lucking and Lily Day attended an educational field trip to the State Capitol in Richmond on Feb. 11. Several other NLJC members from Culpeper also attended. As most of the seventh grade eagerly awaits its trip to Williamsburg this spring to see where the first laws were created for our country in the House of Burgesses, these Cotillion members were invited to see Virginia’s lawmaking body, the General Assembly, in session. Arriving at the State Capitol, they were greeted by House and Senate aides, John Messenger and Sara Capelli. The Cotillion youth were invited by the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate to the House and Senate Galleries where they were able to observe the General Assembly in action. The Culpeper chapter of the National League of Junior Cotillions was recognized by Sen. R. Edward Houck for its contributions in character education, including patriotism and courteous behavior development. Delegate Ed Scott then recognized NLJC members in the Virginia House of Delegates Gallery. A tour of the Senate Capitol building followed. In addition to the Richmond tnp, a “Courtesy Thought of the Day" was read bv Cotillion members during morning announcements. Other current Rappahannock NLJC members of the Culpeper chapter include Sarah Smoot, Noel and Louise Johns. Caroline Massie, Stevie Rae Ross, Osha Kondori, Gavin Forest, Steven and Katie Nelson, Hannah Rosenbaum, Megan Wheatley, Emma Hathaway, Hannah Gall, Katie Payne, Addie Swindler and Brooke Hatcher. Local Advisory Board members Debbie Massie, Carol Lucking and Elizabeth Johns invite members of the community who have an interest in having their rising sixth, seventh and eighth graders attend next year’s Junior Cotillion instruction to call Mrs. Lucking at 9879590 for information. RAPPAHANNOCK HUNT POINT-TO-POINT RACES Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 1:00 pm Bleu Rock Inn, Washington, VA For Reserve Parking Ticket info, contact: Janet O’Keefe, MFH 540-547-2993 For Information, contact: Oliver L. Brown, MFH 540-547-2810 Sara Maley, 540-937-3066 At the gate—$10, Advance~$7, or Book of 10—$50 May be purchased at: Bleu Rock Inn. Washington, Waterloo Mini Mart, Warrenton, Payne Pools. Culpeper, E-Cow, Ben Venue. HORSE FEED - WE HAVE IT! Booth Feeds® offers Purina a large selection > of Purina® horse feeds to meet each horse’s individual needs. m Full Supply of Horse Care Products BOOTH FEEDS® w'jrtWvfr. 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Box 59, Washington, Virginia 22747 I A Wakefield students try their hand at diplomacy By Kathie Russo Special to the Rappahannock News Nine students from Wakefield Country Day School, accompanied by their history teacher Doug Weaver and Wakefield headmaster Michael Vargo, recently spent three days in Washington, D.C. participating in the annual meeting of the Model Organization of American States. The model is a simulation of the workings of the Organization of American States (OAS), an international organization that dates back to 1948, when 21 countries of the hemisphere met in Bogota, Columbia and adopted a charter which declared respect for each nation's sovereignty and a commitment to common goals. Over time, the OAS has expanded to 35 members, including the nations of the Caribbean and Canada. The purpose of the Model OAS is to create an understanding and awareness among U.S. students about the role, structure, and goals of the OAS. Wakefield has attended these conferences for the past eight years, and this year the students were assigned to represent the Photo courtesy'Douglas Weaver YOUNG DIPLOMATS: Wakefield Country Day School students recently visited the Embassy of Ecuador, the country they represented in the Model Organization of American States program. Back row from left: Ben Clark, Alec Toth, Dorian Matthews; foreground: Allison Russo, Caroline Marschner, Catrina Toth, Mary Davis, Kelly O’Connor, Robin Oyster and headmaster Michael Vargo. country of Ecuador. Model OAS has drawn stu dents from more than 20 high schools and universities This was its twenty-second year. Hosted by the General ) Secretariat of the OAS and held in the actual OAS build ings, each general assembly focuses attention on the key economic, social, educational, political, and security issues currently facing the Americas. Wakefield’s “delegation” consisted of Ben Clark, Dorian Matthews, Robin Oyster and Allison Russo of Rappahannock County, and Mary Davis, Kelly O’Connor, Caroline Marschner, Alec Toth, and Catrina Toth of Front Royal. Before the session began, the Embassy of Ecuador hosted a small reception and gave Wakefield students a tour of the ertibassy. Each member of Wakefield’s “Ecuador Delegation” was assigned to one of several committees: law and human rights, economics, rules, science and culture, thus giving the students an opportunity to participate at the committee level in the same manner as their OAS counterparts. Over the four days, committees met, resolutions were drafted, caucuses were held among nations to obtain support for draft resolutions, and then during the “Third Plenary Session,” the General Assembly adopted or rejected those resolutions. Lindsey Burger to wed Ross Wheatley Lindsey Burger and Ross Wheatley, both currently residing in Flint Hill, are pleased to announce their engagement. The bride to be is the daughter of Karen Burger of Woodville and David Burger of Front Royal. She is a 1999 graduate of Rappahannock County High -School and a 2003 graduate of Virginia Tech with a BS in Clothing and Textiles. Lindsey is currently working in Fair Oaks Mall for After Hours Formal wear. The future groom is the son of Christine Williams of Yorkshire, England and Steve Wheatley of Cambridge, England. He is the manager at Griffin Tavern in Flint Hill. He is a 1997 graduate of Lindsey Burger and Ross Wheatley Nottingham-Trent University in Nottingham, England with a BA Honors in Hotel and Catering Management. A Nov. 6 wedding is planned in Fairfax, Va. John Kenney, 11th grader at F.H.S. "/ like corning to AbBey Achievement Center because it is beneficial to my grades. 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Taking Learning Steps Above and Beyond * L 220, Culpeper St., WarrentonVA 540-351-0826.' j Above and Beyond The Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County: An Ordinance Amending Section 162-4 of the Rappahannock County Code (“Parking Violations”) Allowing Parking Tickets to be issued in the Town of Washington Notice is hereby given in accordance with § 15.2-1427 of the Code of Virginia, 1950 (as amended) that the Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County shall hold a public hearing at 7:00 pm on Monday, March 1. 2004, at the Courthouse in Washington, VA to consider for passage an Ordinance amending Section 162-4, “Parking Violations," of the Rappahannock County Code. The effect of the proposed amendment will be to make the existing County parking ordinance applicable in the Town of Washington so to allow the issuance of parking tickets for specified offenses, with a uniform schedule of fines, as follow: Paid before If days Paid after If days Offense No Inspection. Registration or County Sticker Parking on Sidewalk Bkxking 1 tnveway Double Parking Overtime Parking Parking cn Hndge Parking where pruhibucd Handxapjxsl Parking Violalmi Impeding Traffic The ordinance provides a procedure for payment or contest of a ticket. Vehicles with three or more unpaid parking tickets stopped on a public road may be towed or immobilized. All interested persons are invited to attend and to make comment. A copy of the Ordinance is available for public inspection both at the County Administration Office and at the Office of the Clerk ot the Circuit Court, in Washington. 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The offense, led by Samantha Brown’s seven points and Brittany Thornhill’s four points, picked up in the second half but was not nearly enough to catch the Mustangs. Brown’s seven points and Thornhill’s six paced the team. The Lady Panthers turned up the defense against the Mountaineers of Madison County. The offense got off to a much better start but Madison took a 9-7 first quarter lead. Sherri Woodward chipped in four first quarter points for the Panthers. The defenses of both teams dominated the second quarter as the Mountaineers outscored Rappahannock 6-4 to take a 15-11 half time lead. Beginning the fourth quarter, Madison held a 28-16 lead but saw the Lady Panthers, on two baskets by Samatha Brown, cut the lead to 28-20. Madison went on a 23 to 5 run from that point to end the game. The Panthers’ defense held Madison star Jessica Timberlake to four points entering the fourth quarter. She finished with 12. Brittany Thornhill and and Sam Brown had seven points each to lead the offensive attack for the Lady Panthers. Molly Burke had 11 rebounds for Rappahannock from the guard position. See BASKETBALL, Page A6 Don’t Want to Cook??? Having a Tail Gate Party??? Going on a Picnic??? Griffin Corner Shop Wraps • Hoagies • Hot Soup • Salads Desserts • Baked Breads Beer • Wine • Sodas British Imported Goods Griffin Apparel Griffin Bloody Mary Mix Special Orders Available. Contact a Manager. Xx\)er\A 659 Zachary Taylor Hwy. 540-675-3227 • (fax) 540-675-3622 or check out our website www.griffintavern.com_ WE FINANCE COUNTRY- , „ propertH mm, .a,'/'** .£,. 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Science Fair projects selected for regional competition By David Naser Special to the Rappahannock News Some 30 projects from the Rappahannock County Science Fair have been chosen to go on to the regional competition on Monday, March 15 at Piedmont Community College in Charlottesville. Of that number, 16 of the projects were from the junior division (grades six through eight) and 14 projects were from the senior division (grades nine through 12). They were selected by judges at last week’s Science Fair. The overall winner in the junior division was sixth grader Chris Lee, 12, for the project, “I breathe in, I breathe out.” The overall winner in the senior division was 10th grader Ashleigh Lamma, 16, for her project, “Phalanges in the Family.” Lee and Lamma each received a $100 savings bond from the Rappahannock National Bank. Rosa Crocker, speaking on behalf of the volunteer judges, commented on the high quality of both the junior and senior division projects, which made the selection of winners challenging. The students in the junior' division whose projects were selected for the regional competition are: Austin Burnett, “Chemical Change;” Joe Vickers, “Concrete Compression;” Stephen Dodson, “Heat Conductivity;” Cameron Massey, “Wing Weight;” Huck Pace, “Trusses;” Chase Tupper, “Weights of Baseball Bats;” Jonathan Butler, “Building Materials;” Madison Herbert, “Plant Maze;” Heidi Rechin, “Preservatives;” Natalie Tupper, “Brine Shrimp;” David Barney, “Crystals;” Zack Wayland, “Trajectory;” Megan Wheatley, “Stream Quality;” Nate Sparks, “Packaging Materials;” and Addie Cupp, “UV Sensitive Yeast.” The senior division students and their projects are: Allison Antony, “Jack’s Beanstalk;” Charles Carroll, “Stimuli on Planarians;” Julia Disbrow, “Is This Food Healthy?;” Bethany Dodson, “Worms, Worms. Worms;” Forrest Marquisee, ‘Trees . . Types and Soil Content;” Kevin Martin, “Let it grow. . . Fertilizers;" Thomas Pendleton, ‘The Effect of Magnets;” Isaac Raney, "Exaggerated Fatigue of the Retina;” Tristan Sonnett. "Electricity and Plant Growth;” Luke Wilson, “Effects of Chemicals on Invertebrate Life;” Bruce Flinchum, “Step Aside;” Sara Hathaway, “Solar vs. Conventional Ovens” and Brittany Thornhill, “Multiple Surface Resistances.” At the assembly at the high school all Science Fair participants received certificates of participation, while those whose projects were selected received medals. RCHS students become RCES teachers By Beth Gall Special to the Rappahannock News Rappahannock County High School Environmental Science students have been busy this semester. The latest project involved 18 juniors and seniors who visited all of the kindergarten, first, second, third and fourth grade classes at Rappahannock County Elementary School to teach science lessons. The forestry team, consisting of Bobbie Jo Brown, Tfed Jenkins, Glen Swain and Hope Jacobs, taught a lesson on trees. Kindergartners made edible trees out of pretzel rods and sticks with green guacamole chips for leaves. Then each child was given a slice of a black locust tree to count the rings and see how cld the tree was. Mrs. Cannon’s class then figured out when the tree was started from seed. The wildlife team was divided into two groups, one to work with first grade and the other with third grade. First graders were taught by Erica Hilscher, Christina Howard and Rudy Levick. Third graders were taught by Stuart Hensley, Adam Freitag and Laura Maloney. Both groups taught lessons about wild vs. domestic animals and land vs. water habitats. The older students played charades with the younger ones, acting out different wild and domestic animals living on land or in water and talked about ways to protect wild animals. Animal crackers were given as treats. The soils team, Amanda Smith, Megan Smith and Torsten Hermansen, worked with second graders. They learned about soil profiles, organic matter and water percolation. They made soil profiles in a cup using Oreos, crushed graham crackers, vanilla pudding and gummy worms to simulate the layers of soil complete with worms. They loved eating AmissviUe fire department holds Longaberger basket bingo There will be a Longaberger Basket Bingo at the Amissville Fire Hall on Saturday, Feb. 21. Doors open at 5 p.m. and bingo starts at 6 p.m. Admission is $20 in advance and $25 at the door. There will be 20 regular games and Five Jackpot games at $5 each. The prize at each bingo game is a famous Longaberger basket. Two raffles will be held during the evening. Raffle tickets are $1 each or six for $5. Raffle prizes are sets of Longaberger baskets. Only registered bingo players are eligible for raffles. All proceeds benefit the Amissville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company. For advance tickets contact, Sarah Latham at 9374410, John Pearre at 9372109 or Sheila Smith at 9373170. Advance tickets are also available Monday night at the Fire Hall between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Basket bingo is a smokefree occasion. Flint Hill Public House Mardi Gras Specials Throughout February Friday Night Fish Fry All Winter All you can Eat! Route 522, Flint Hill, VA 540-675-1700 Photo courtesy/' Lili Duvall FAMOUS BASKETS: Longaberger baskets are bingo prizes at a Longaberger Basket bingo on Saturday, Feb. 21 at 6 p.m. at the Amissville Fire Hall. They are also raffle prizes. Blue Ridge Diner 20 Main Street Sperryville, VA • 540-987-3373 Open: Tuesday - Wednesday 8am-4pm Thursday - Sunday 8am-8pm Check out our Daily Special Dine in or carry out CARATS FOR PEANUTS 1 CARAT DIAMOND SOLITAIRES $1999 Princess, Round or Marquise Petersen Jewelers 625 Meadowbrook Shopping Center Culpeper, Virginia 540-825-6033 dirt. Dustin White, John Letsen, David Letsen, Ashleigh Burke and Lindsay Neill-Dore made up the aquatics team. They taught fourth graders about watersheds. Students made individual watersheds out of paper showing the mountains i Megan Kelley shows tree rings and learns how old a tree is during a lesson on trees • taught by Rappahannock County High School Environmental Science students who visited RCES recently. Pho'o courtesy'Beth Gall and the stream valleys. Then, with the help of some cocoa powder and a spray bottle, they demonstrated what happens to loose or exposed soil in a rainstorm. It was easy to see the brown, sediment-filled streams. A discussion followed concerning ways to reduce erosion. Power OniP Not Here! Y*ur Hindi Generator Neaftwrttn 170 lee Highway. Warrentan 548-34J-4591 • 801-725-4591 y Tljankyoul ' The family of the late “Lily Mae Fincham ” would like to express thanks and appreciation for the cards, phone calls, prayers, and other acts of kindness during tins time of loss. .4 special thanks to Rev. Joint Burke for his visits to the hospital, our pastor Rev. Kirby Shenk for always being there, atid Founds Sons for a handling the arrangements. 4 ~ Bobby, Doris, Helen, Sandra families WITH RED DOTS S SELECTION NOW 11 BA> \Mt >m%<. i (NTir • ' v ' • . , i • '!-'i M.)\ IK f N V •< N. \ VVAftKfNTON (. IMHt • A vioaV; \ \ \ » U~ » »W >1, K> \w >N S V; 10 v \ SENIOR DIVISION: Tenth grader Ashleigh Lamma. 16, daughter of Phil and Candance Lamma at Flint Hill, was judged overall winner in the senior division of the Rappahannock County Science Fair last week. Her project is called. "Phalanges in the Family." 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-EappaJjannocfe jSetosfEstablished 1877 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Thursday ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL, PUBLISHER Mary Ann Kuhn, Editor 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: 249 Main Street, Washington, Va. Mailing address: P.O. Box 59 Washington, Va. 22747-0059 Telephone (540) 675-3338 Fax: (540) 675-3088 e-mail: makuhn@timespapers.com Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday Member, Audit Bureau of Circulations www.TimesCommunity.com THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 Our View Selling gyms School Superintendent Bob Chappell and the School Board’s goals are right on. They wants schools that are “second to none in service to our children, the most important people in the county.” But these are still tight times in America and selling school projects as the population ages and young parents move away is harder than it looks. Everywhere the graying population of Rappahannock turns there are rising costs and hard-to-meet demands. Medical treatment costs and prescription drug costs are up, gasoline prices are rising, pay raises are scant and jobs in Virginia can disappear to Mexico as fast or faster than the proverbial Mexican jumping bean. Now comes the School Board with a $3.8 million capital improvement program. It wants the Board of Supervisors to approve asking the state bonding agency to sell the bonds on Wall Street. All of this sounds quite reasonable. About half of the expenditures are must do items like a new roof for the elementary school and upgrades to its electrical system to make a 1965 building able to handle the powerful computers and teaching tools of 2004. But $1.72 million are three key expansion projects including a classroom addition and auxiliary gymnasium at the elementary school off Lee Highway and an upgrade of the Rappahannock High School’s track and athletic field. When you listen to Chappell and the teachers, coaches and students, those requests seem urgent and necessary. The classroom addition will permit band and choral practice for more students seeking this popular program and the gym will allow teams to practice while others are playing contests at the high school. The fact remains that the student body has not increased in size significantly for five years. It was just over a 1,000 students then and it is now. What has increased is the educational thirst of the youngsters and the greater opportunities before them. Title 9, for instance, means that young women can play every sport in equal numbers which gives them better health and confidence than their mothers. But it also means there are two teams when there was once one. The nearly 7,000 residents of Rappahannock will pay higher taxes to float this bond issue and many of them no longer have school age children. The School Board must not simply sell the supervisors, but persuade the people of Rappahannock to back these projects. Can the gym and the track be used for adult recreation and health programs? Can there be night meetings in the new classrooms? Can the facilities help keep students active and off the highways at night? Before hurrying the Board of Supervisors to bite into new costs, sell the project to the public and they’ll sell the supervisors. RCES students seek help Rappahannock citizens, we need your help. Mrs. Makelas classes are collecting tab tops. We are trying to collect one million of them. That many would fill up ten 32-gallon trash cans. We are going to send the tab tops to the Ronald McDonald House in Charlottesville which provides a place to stay when you have a family member that is in the hospital. If you collect at least one tab top, you would be helping a family in Virginia. If you waste a tab top, you can’t help a sick child in the hospital. If you save tab tops you are doing a good deed. Ask family members, friends, and neighbors to help us collect. If they are in another state they can mail them to you or to us. You can send them to room 13 at Rappahannock County Elementary School. You can find tab top collection boxes at the Rappahannock Bank, Country Cafe and in our cafeteria. Please help us and the Ronald McDonald House. What the Ronald McDonald House is doing is cheap and it really helps. Caitlin Humbles Washington RCES, 4th grade Letters to the editor The Rappahannock News welcomes Letters to the Editor from its readers as a forum for discussion of local public affairs subjects. WRITE: Letters to the Editor, P.O. Box 59, Washington, Va. 22747 EMAIL: makuhn@timespapers.com Rappahannock Jonathan Partin of Sunnyside Farms Market on Gay Street in Washington shows a tray of the farm's grass-fed beef to photojournalist Jamie Rose who was taking photos for a story in the March issue of Washingtonian Magazine on grass-fed beef. She was interested in grass-fed beef raised and sold in Rappahannock County. Rappahannock News Photo Richard Lykes Letters ‘I want to thank everyone’ I am writing to express my heartfelt gratitude and appreciation for all that everyone has done in support of our family since Dec. 30. I apologize for taking so long to get this letter out, the emptiness and heartbreak of losing a child is paralyzing. Making simple decisions and completing basic tasks is very difficult. Putting the remaining pieces of our lives back together has been agonizing, at times. I want to thank everyone who came and visited at the hospital, sent flowers, gifts of every kind, food and firewood and all who provided transportation to Kara and Nathan. Most of all I want to thank each and every one for opening your hearts and homes to my family during this very trying time. The day of Dylan’s remembrance ceremony, so many people helped with setting-up, food, serving, and cleaning-up afterwards, I can’t begin to name each and every person. Please know that it would not have been possible, had it not been for your efforts. We want to offer a special thanks to Country Cafe, Rappahannock National Bank and Sunnyside Farms. Our gratitude goes out to Roger Mello, Mike Tupper, Kelly Settle and Janet Jenkins for all they did. We thank Rappahannock County for the use of the high school facilities for Friday night and Saturday and are delighted with the generous contributions to the Dylan Corbin Memorial Fund to benefit the Rappahannock County High School football program. Thanks also to the Rappahannock Sheriff’s Department and the Virginia State Police for their assistance with the traffic situation that no one had anticipated as well as Ray Pullen, Shaw Services and the Sperryville Volunteer Rescue Squad. Most of all, we want to thank everyone for their prayers. Nathan is healing slowly and we know his recovery, thus far, is due to the prayers and loving thoughts of this community. We have been overwhelmed by the support we have received from family, friends, neighbors, acquaintances and even strangers. We ask that you continue to keep us in your prayers. We felt that Dylan was a special son, brother, boyfriend and friend and feel blessed that God chose us to be his parents. We never imagined how many other lives he touched in his short time with us. Dylan always said he would be rich and live in a mansion one day. He w’as right. The last thing Dylan used to say to me was, “I love you, Mom.” I love you, Boo. Thank you. Diana Corbin and family Slate Mills A ‘loving friendship’ During the recent past, many who had been touched by Diana’s presence have written to express their condolences to me after she passed away on Jan. 30. Others have called by phone to the same effect. By this letter, I thank the writers and callers for their sympathetic concern and for the loving friendship appar- c ent in all their communica- i tions. In turn, I am deeply touched. To all of them, and to the ommunity at large, blesses. Lee Bird Washington ‘We all are saddened by the passing of Mrs. Diana Bird’ Oft times, it seems the tenure of God’s selection for duty here on earth is too short; also too filled with chores of helping others. And upon their departure we are left in a chasm of utter disbelief, sadness and lastly, an agonizing acceptance. To me, personally, James D. Russell, words are inade quate to express my feelings of gratitude and thanks for Mrs. Diana Bird’s helping me in my writing efforts. Permit me to say this on behalf of the group of contributors to the minority school report, “The Way We Were.” We all are saddened by the passing of Mrs. Diana Bird. Her help was a measure of love and impartial Christianity. What she did for us was not an obligation, nor a debt owed, but sincere, dedicated citizenry. To the family, we want you to know that we share in your loss, but we know that her contributions and memories are treasures that time cannot destroy. They will always be our happy pathway to yesterday’s great joy. She will live with us always even until the end of time. Thank you Mrs. Diana Bird, for sharing your time with us. James D. Russell Lillian Aylor Dorothy Butler Gloria Myers Col. Samuel Glasker, (Ret.) ‘They have usurped authority over us in Rappahannock’ I am addressing issues raised in recent editions of the Rappahannock News concerning the grant request for the Rappahannock Center for Service Learning and Nonprofit Support. To begin, Mr. Horrock reported on the 5th of February that I received a copy of the grant request proposal “after” the Jan. 24 community brainstorming meeting at the library for Rappahannock’s nonprofits. It is possible I misunderstood his questioning; nevertheless, it is an erroneous statement. I received the package in the mail several days before the meeting. However, it is irrelevant when I received the grant submittal information. The language in it did not change. Mr. Tieckelmann’s excitement over the timing of my receipt of the package is only a red herring. Because it was the grant request that 'was to be the creation of this new group, the focus of the meeting was indeed the grant request. As Mr. Tieckelmann states, it was mentioned in the introductory remarks, but it was also alluded to several times during the discussions. Many attendees stated they would not be able to consciously support the creation of a new nonprofit group or center, if the grant was not received. They stated it would compete against their current group’s fund-raising efforts that were already “maxed out.” All the items discussed at this meeting, i.e., training exercises, central office space, full-time staff, shared resources, etc., was indeed focusing on this center as described in the grant package. It was as if the moderators were reading from a script (the grant package). This cannot be construed as misleading “my fellow board members or my constituents” as I’m accused. However, they carefully left out the offensive “need” language of the grant document of which the Rappahannock News reported in the headline story, “Grant Request Sparks Battle.” Had this been open for discussion, the library would have been a battle zone way before it reached the Board of Supervisors. As I stated before, the very ones (Mr. Dietel and members of his organizing group) denigrating the good people of Rappahannock for their zoning policies are, in fact, partaking of the tax breaks afforded them by these policies. While lamenting revenue short falls for school funding, some of these same people fight developing our small commercial district. When confronted with the hypocrisy of this grant writing group’s actions, Mr. Dietel tried to change the subject and throw in some psychological politics of hate—"the come heres and born heres.” Ms. Moulton’s Feb. 12 letter to the editor in the Rappahannock News summed it up concisely. Where did this group get the right to speak for all of us like that without review? Remember, Mr. Dietel stated “he approved of it” referring to the grant request submittal. They have usurped authority over us in Rappahannock County and will continue to do so as long as we stand for it. As an individual and as an elected representative I won’t. As the great Roman statesmen, Cicero, said, “Within the character of the citizens lies the welfare of the Republic.” Ron Frazier Amissville ‘We should be celebrating and thanking’ volunteers I thought Tina Moulton’s letter to the editor in the Feb. 12 edition of the Rappahannock News was unfortunate. Her letter makes it sound like volunteer groups are running loose in the county making decisions that are properly left to elected officials. The truth is that the number of unmet needs in the county call out for more volunteers and groups them are available. If elected officials like Ron Frazier were more willing to step up and lead we wouldn’t need to depend on volunteers to fill so many gaps. I believe Mr. Frazier shares that radical right wing view that government is bad, spending should be minimal, and churches and volunteers should fill in where there is need. It’s always hard to argue with this viewpoint since it’s usually presented as a matter of religious faith. That makes it all the more galling as the evidence is in that volunteers and churches can’t make up for the lack of responsible government. Whether it be schools, health care, fire and rescue services, recreation programs, affordable housing, social services, environmental protections, government has to be involved. It’s not enough to say “No” all the time. There has to be a willingness to invest in the future whether that be playing fields for the kids or additions to the schools or gym space adequate for the number of teams and sports. We’ve forgotten our history coming out of the Great Depression and World War II where government stepped in, put people to work, and invested in America’s infrastructure. The GI bill sent people to college and got them housing. My own father benei_ fited from that after his service in the Pacific. We need people in government who see the good that government can do. Here in Rappahannock there are many needs that go unseen. One small area is the lack of playing fields and recreational sports programs. I’ve been involved in the soccer league for eight years now. We share fields with the school where space is already tight. We try to maintenance the fields each year but our efforts can’t begin to cover the costs of maintaining fields with proper drainage, topsoil, sod as well as mowing. The pool of volunteers shrinks every year as most couples are now working two and three jobs to make ends meet. The work is endless with fundraising, registration, insurance coverage, uniform orders, equipment upkeep, referees \ and coaches as well as the aforementioned field maintenance. The Board of Supervisors has supported us financially the past several years but it’s a stopgap measure. It doesn’t replace having a Park and Recreation Department that would develop and maintain fields as well as deal with registration, etc. Meanwhile, we’ve got volunteer groups and nonprofits around the county tripping over one another trying to raise funds from the same limited number of people and businesses. So, instead of discouraging the volunteers who extend themselves to try and meet some of the unmet needs in the county, we should be celebrating and thanking them. Mark Wallace Flint Hill h . >

Bridge on Laurel Mills Road (618) to be replaced Due to rising high water and damage, the small bridge on Route 618, Laurel Mills Road, west of Route 729 was closed from Friday, Feb. 6 to Monday, Feb. 9 for minor repairs. Signs were not posted ahead of time, because it was an emergency situation. With a “safety first” priority, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) did not have time to post signs, explained Lindsay Walker, assistant resident engineer for maintenance at VDOT’s Warrenton office. The risk was too great. December 2003 floods caused extensive damage to the abutment (foundation) of the Castleton By ROSE REED 987-8005 bridge over Battle Run, causing the right comer to drop about one foot. The abutment has rotated and dropped beyond reasonable repair, he said. The bridge is now temporarily open to one-lane traffic with a 12-ton restriction, until an emergency contract is awarded to replace the bridge in its entirety. A contractor should start work on the bridge no later than March 1. The old bridge is coming out and a new bridge will be constructed in the same location. Anticipated construction time is 60 days. If all goes well, the new bridge should be open for traffic around the first week in May. Citizens will be notified through postings in the local papers and signs at the bridge area of the upcoming closure. Detours will be posted prior to permanent closure, according toVDOT. Linda Hitt takes over writing Viewtown column I am new at writing this column and I need to hear from folks in Viewtown who have news to report. This is your space, so please call or e-mail your information. Also, my husband, Danny Hitt, will add each week some histoiy about Viewtown in this column. Our condolences go out to the George Kidwell family. Mr. Kidwell passed away on Feb. 4. Prayers and best wishes go out to Ellen Gore, Patricia Ashley, and William Printz, who are recovering at home. Visiting John and Betty Jenkins last weekend was their son Patrick, their daughter-inlaw Betty Lou and their daughter, Joy. Joy’s two children Alex and Ava also came to visit. Belated birthday wishes go to Abigail Love Jenkins, who was one year old, Feb. 7. Now for some history on Viewtown. These history items will not be in chronological order, but will try to highlight the entire span of history for the Viewtown area. This week, the Viewtown By LINDA HITT 937*4221 ........ first World War is on the agenAccording to the November 3, 1917 edition of the Culpeper Star Exponent, nine men left Rappahannock County for Camp Lee on October 31, 1917. Included in this group were two Viewtown men, Stockton Brown Smith and Frank Smith, (no relation). These Viewtown men were inducted into the 80th Division-318th RegimentCompany B. According to the book “Over The Tbp With The 80th” by Rush Young, the 318th among many others were shipped by da train to Jersey City, N.J., arriving on May 21, 1918. They went from there by ferry up the Hudson, passing New York City. At that point they were loaded on a massive ocean liner, the S. S. Leviathan. On May 30, 1918 they arrived in France. By July 23, 1918 they had their first exposure to the “front.” According to the record, Brown Stocton Smith was wounded in the first Meuse-Argonne assault, sometime between September 26 and October 10, 1918. Frank Smith was killed at Sommauthe, France on the night of November 6, 1918. He was killed while advancing against the retreating German forces. A few hours later the 318th was relieved and held in reserve, not to fight any more in this war. Stockton Smith is “GeiTy” Woodard’s (of the Amissville Post Office) great uncle. Frank Smith is Danny Hitt’s great uncle. By the way, Sommauthe, France in 1918 was about the same size as Viewtown today. Girl Scouts to meet at Washington Baptist Church Washington By RUTH CLARK 675-3608 The Girl Scouts will have a “Thinking Meeting” in the Fellowship Hall at the Washington Baptist Church on Friday, Feb. 20 at 6 p.m. Don’t forget to enjoy an evening of fun with family and friends on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Theatre in town. This is the eighth annual Washington Baptist Church Variety Show. Admission is free but a free will offering will be accepted. A chili supper is provided at the .fellowship Hall at the church at 6 p.m. Everyone is invited. We are glad to hear that Billy Smoot is improving from his illness. He is a patient at the VA Hospital in Martinsburg, W.Va. Our prayers are with him for a full recovery. He is visited daily by his wife Helen and family of Fodderstack Road. Happy birthday to Mrs. Merle Scoggin of Harris Hollow who has her day on Tuesday, Feb. 23. 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As always food and beverages are available by the Fire Department. So for an enjoyable evening, make plans now to attend. We extend birthday wishes to Woody Tharp of Aaron Mountain Road today, Thursday, nephew James Holtzman Frazier of Spotsylvania who adds another year tomorrow, Bethany Tharp who has her day on Saturday, and Dana Smith who celebrates Sunday. Last Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mills entertained" at a party to honor their daughter, Rebecca, on her 19th birthday, and Bill Peregory, the father of Mrs. Mills on his 62nd birthday. Guests arriving with wishes and gifts and enjoying the food and a time of fellowship in addition to daughter, Mary, were Mrs. Bill Peregory of Front Royal, Mr. and Mrs. James Gheen of Mauertown, Mr. and Mrs. Ryder and son, Byram of Warrenton, Joel Peregory and children, Heidi and Kenny of Catlett and friend Doris of Winchester, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Bragg, Kellie, Karla, Matthew and Mark of Culpeper, Mr. and Mrs. Doug Settle and family of Flint Hill and Joe Peregory and children Joseph and Jennifer, all local and Mr. and Mrs. Loren Hoover of Carlyle, Pa. Mrs. Ray Frazier of Turkey Ridge, accompanied by Brenda Frazier of Culpeper, Mrs. Henry Wharton and Mrs. Alvin Atkins of Sperryville were BEACH BREAK NORTH MYRTLE BEACH SOUTH CAROUNA Over 600 Condos & Beach Homes VISIT OUR WEBSITE Call for a Free 95 Pg Brochure www. Elliott Realty .co m I 1-800-525-0225 1 Boston By MARIE F. ATKINS 987-8802 shoppers in Charlottesville on Saturday and dined at Golden Corral before returning home. A reminder that the play “We Have Come A Long Way” will be presented at the Nazareth Baptist Church on Route 707, this Saturday, Feb. 21 beginning at 5 p.m. Pastor Howard Frye and his congregation invite the public. Please continue to remember in prayer all our sick and shut-ins. We’re glad to report that Nathan Corbin of Route 707 has resumed his classes at Rappahannock High School where he iS a senior. Mrs. W. R. Pritt and Mrs. D. J. Dodson were shoppers in Fredericksburg on Wednesday. Kendra Hitt was involved in an auto accident in Old Hollow last week, and we are happy she escaped serious injuries. Last Sunday, Joe Peregory, entertained his parents Mr. and Mrs. Bill Peregory at County Cookin in Warrenton on Sunday in observance of Bill's birthday, and were joined by Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Bragg, Kellie, Karla, Matthew, and Mark, Joel Peregory, and children. Heidi and Kenny of Catlett, and Joseph and Jennifer Peregory. Rev. L. D. 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The plan includes a metal pre-fabncated gym building with a lower section of bricks and mortar, a four classroom addition, upgrades to the elementary' school’s air conditioning with small individual units, electrical upgrades to the 1965 building, a new sloping roof and canopies over entrances and an upgraded track and athletic lar season game. The team held the lead for most of the first quarter before the Eagles hit a basket at the buzzer to take an 11-10 lead. Shem Woodward had seven first quarter points to lead the Panthers. Clarke was able to put a little bit of distance between themselves and the Republican Delegate Allen Lauderback. Both men oppose Warner’s plan, but pledged to back school needs. Chappell said Friday that he heard “things were going better for Warner in HISTORIC LAUREL MILLS On seven acres with frontage on the Thornton River. Adjacent shop with loft could be used as studio. Offered at $239,000. Rappahannock Real Estate Resources, Inc. (540) 675-1190 www.RappahannockRealEstateResources.com Butch Zindel Trish Bartholomew butch @ rapprealestate.com tbartl @ earthlink.net field at the high school. The School Board members said it was their proposal to recommend OWPR to manage the bidding of the job and to supervise the construction work. Tbdd D. Poff. a civil engineer with OWPR, said his firm has nearly 20 years of experience in school and public building construction in Virginia including recent projects in Warren County. The most expensive part of the plan is a $787,000 “auxiliary gymnasium” to be built next to the elementary school but to be used by high school teams for practice.Chappell said that there is no room near the high school for the gym. Stephanie Shaw, a parent of two children in the elementary school and a coach of high school sports said a place to practice is urgently needed. Under the federal government's Title 9 program. schools must offer equal sports opportunities for men and women and this has doubled the number of high school teams in several sports. Athletic Director Allen Comer said if just two hours of practice for teams were scheduled now in the limited gym space, they would be at school until 11:30 p.m. Panthers in the second quarter and took a 25-16 lead into halftime. Brittany Thornhill had five second quarter points for the Panthers. The third quarter was a defensive struggle as Clarke scored six points and the Lady Panthers scored four, three coming on foul shots from Richmond.” Gov. Warner has posted a county-by-county analysis of his budget and tax proposal on his Internet web site. He estimates that under his plan the state will make some $10.2 million “direct payments” to Rappahannock County including the $2,861,197 that Chappell is relying on from the state. Warner’s estimate includes everything from Medicaid payHackley From Page A1 operating his emergency equipment. As executor of the estate, Mrs. Hackley is seeking $250,000 in damages for Courtney Hutcheson. The Eagles pushed their lead out to 38-21 before the Panthers made a final run cutting the Eagle lead to 10 but the could get no closer. Sherri Woodward got the first double-double of her career scoring ten points and having ten rebounds. Brittany ments to providers, $2,553,792, to Rappahannock County’s share of the wine tax, $4,611. Chappell said that the state’s share of the school budget could also be affected by the amount designated from the Virginia Retirement System, which handles school employee retirement. The required premium increase under Warner’s proposal is $138,000 and the Virginia “funeral expenses, emergency response expenses, loss of income and services and sorrow and mental anguish” and another $250,000 in punitive damages. The lawsuit, which was filed last October, has not seen any court action and none is scheduled at the courthouse. Thornhill had nine points and Courtney Hutcheson had seven ta aid the Panthers' cause. The team traveled to George Mason on Monday Feb. 16 to play in the quarterfinal round of the Girls’ Bull Run District Tournament. Details next week. Retirement System’s proposal is $200,000. Chappell sought a $5,800 increase in his safety budget to provide defibrillators for both the high school and elementary school, and new bus monitoring equipment and additional bus cameras. Chappell is seeking $40,600 additional money for capital/maintenance improvements, which include storage sheds and security gates. Attorneys for the Virginia State Police and Taylor have not responded to the lawsuit in court filings. Both sides may be in negotiation, working on a settlement out of court. Attempts to reach the Virginia State Police and the attorney for Mrs. Hackley for comment were unsuccessful. Nurseries From Page A1 The bill passed the Senate 39 to 0 and will be taken up by the House of Delegates Transportation Committee later this month. It applies to horticultural activities such as orchards, plant nurseries and Christmas tree farms. Richard and Sandra Antony have an azalea nursery on Long Mountain Road in Washington that raises and sells some 13,000 azalea plants a year. Richard said in an interview that he’s not sure Watkins’ law will help him, but he plans to check into it. The Antonys just bought a new truck to deliver some 10,000 azaleas and other perennials for the spring marFrom Page A1 • Estate tax exemption for all under $10 million Eliminate tax for 96 percent of estates • Personal exemption jump from $800 to $1,000 Tax savings per return: $29 • Standard deduction increase Average savings per return: $96 (Note: Married filers would have greater savings) ket in the next few weeks. Francie Eastwood who raises Japanese Maples with her husband Henry nearby on Long Mountain road said she has seen material from the Virginia agriculture extension agent at Blacksburg on the proposed law but wasn’t sure “it has any bearing for us.” County Administrator John McCarthy said nursery owners like the Eastwoods and the Antonys are clearly horticultural business under the county’s zoning and would be entitled to the benefits of the law. “They primarily ship their produce outside of the county,” he said. 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• Obituaries/B2 • Classifieds/B4-B7 February 19, 2004 www timAcrnmmunitu mm Brooks Tegler Quartet brings swing era to Theatre Photo courtesy/Lili Duvall JAZZ: The Brooks Tegler Quartet performs ‘Music of the Great Swing Era' on Saturday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. at The Theatre at Little Washington on Gay Street. By Jed Duvall Special to the Rappahannock News From the time he was very young, Brooks Tegler was interested in music. He pointed toward the drums even at elementary school age. In his teens Tegler turned to rock ‘n roll, as did many of his friends. As the years went by, the rock music grew heavier and harder, louder and louder. Suddenly, as Tegler approached his midtwenties, his mother noticed that the family’s Glenn Miller album seemed to be in use a lot. Then one day that swing music collection and other 1930s and 40s era vinyl seemed to up and walk out of the house. Tegler had stepped up from leaden rock to the older, easier sounds of swing. Some liked to call it “jump jazz.” That musical era had its giants, people , who set the tone and the beat for much of the music world. Chief among them were Benny Goodman and those around him. Benjamin David Goodman was born of Russian parents in Chicago in 1909. Thus he was in his mid-twenties when the Benny Goodman trio was formed in 1935: Goodman on clarinet, Gene Krupa on drums, and Teddy Wilson at the piano. The group became the Quartet a year later when Lionel Hampton joined and brought his vibraphone. The Theatre in Washington will present a tribute to the master of the swing clarinet Saturday, Feb. 21. Downbeat is at 8 p.m. That’s when the sounds of “Avalon,” “Body and Soul,” “Runnin’Wild” and other melodies Goodman made famous will ring out. The Brooks Tegler Quartet gives new life to the swing jazz of the Benny Goodman Quartet as well as the Trio. As they assemble on stage, the four musicians represent well over a hundred years experience at swing. Brooks Tegler is the drummer. Larry Eanet is on the piano. And identical twins Joe and Paul Midiri finish out the quartet— Joe playing the clarinet, Paul on vibes. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for students 18 and under. Phone (540) 675-1253 or email TheatreVA@aol.com. Berkeley Hobson, Vanessa Rynn to perform at Theatre Photo courtesy Louise van Don EVENING OF MUSIC: Rappahannock’s Berkeley Hobson and Vanessa Rynn, an acoustic guitar and vocal duo, will perform at The Theatre on Saturday, March 6 in Little Washington. By Charlie Tompkins Special to the Rappahannock News The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC) presents Berkeley Hobson and Vanessa Rynn as an acoustic guitar and vocal duo on Saturday, March 6 at The Theatre in Little Washington on Gay Street. The duo’s performance, “Music from Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” will begin at 8 p.m. Berkeley Hobson, a Rappahannock native, began her music career with guitar lessons as a sophomore in high school. As a senior attending Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, she has worked her way up to student manager at Deet’s Place, the coffee shop on campus. This is where the duo met and also participated in several performances, including the privilege of being selected for broadcast on WUVT 90.7. Vanessa Rynn grew up in Alexandria. She started at Tech majoring in jazz vocals but due to budget cuts, switched to music technology. In addition to being a part of the female a cappella group, Soulstice, she played at open mic nights around the Blacksburg area whenever the chance presented itself. Vanessa and Berkeley have collaborated in the creation of their own music to be presented as part of the evening’s musical offering, as well as interpretations of works by inspiring and influential artists such as Norah Jones. Gillian Welch and the great Ira Gershwin This evening of acoustical delight is made possible through the courtesy and support of Wendy Weinberg, owner of the Theatre, as well as RAAC. Tickets are $8 at the door; $7 with advance reservation. For reservations, please call 987-9787 after 6 p.m. For more information, contact Berkeley Hobson at Bhobson@vt.edu or phone 540-9982375. Fredericksburg artists featured at Packing Shed Gallery Photos courtesy/June Jordan Painting by Jane T. Woodworth By June Jordan Special to the Rappahannock News Fredericksburg artists Jane T. Woodworth and Elsie Cooper Hagenlocker are packing up their canvases and taking their art to Little Washington. The title of the show “In Transit” is based on the travels that inspired many of the works, which will be on display at the Packing Shed Gallery, March 4 through March 29. An artist’s reception is on Sunday, March 7 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Both of these established Fredericksburg artists paint with a contemporary vision, influenced by past travels as far as Italy and as near as King George, and find inspiration in these varied landscapes. But to call either of them a landscape painter in the conventional sense would be inaccurate. Theirs is a contented landscape, an aesthetic reconciliation of the joy and refuge found in nature. Where Woodworth’s work is abstract and nonrepresentational with more of an aesthetic or intellectual response to elements of nature, Hagenlocker’s paintings are abstracted from recognizable images of urban landscapes and their city walls, recalling a moment of quiet reflection and solitude. Woodworth and Hagenlocker are sharing the spotlight in this two person show, where one can see their outstanding color-driven work. Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday, 12:30 - 7 p.m. For additional information, contact the gallery at 540-675-3410. For any inquiries about the artwork or artists, please call 540-4556899. Painting by Elsie Cooper Hagenlocker Whistle Stop restaurant opens in Warrenton By George Rowand Rappahannock News Staff Writer If someone can run one successful restaurant, he can run two. At least that’s the theory. Chef Tom Kee, owner of the recently opened Whistle Stop Cafe in Warrenton, is putting that idea into practice. He also owns and runs The Rail Stop in The Plains. “It’s tough enough to run one restaurant, but to run two, and not just to run them, but to run them well — well, that’s very hard,” Kee said. Still, the challenge was too appealing, and when space became available in Old Town Warrenton, Kee went into action. “I was thinking that it would be nice to do another restaurant, and I found this place,” he related. The Whistle Stop Cafe is located where the Old Town Cafe used to be before it closed. “Warrenton is a nice little town. It has a nice hometown feel, and the people seem to be excited about the place. “Every day someone comes in and asks when we’ll be open for dinner.” Then, contemplating the additional workload, Kee estimated, “I think that we should be open around the first of March.” Local flavor Now the walls sport a yellow hue — “I think it’s sort of a TViscan yel-« low,” Kee said — and the furniture has been reshuffled and rearranged. “We redid the seats at the counter in buffalo hide and the tablecloths are made from fabric from France. And we put up new wall sconces and moved the booth up from the back.” Kee said. The works of local artists hang on the walls. “These paintings are bv Aeron See WHISTLE, Page ‘In America;’ a film to be admired By Joanne Hilty Special to the Rappahannock News “In America” is a warmhearted film from Irish director Jim Sheridan. The story was written by him and his two daughters and follows the lives of an Irish family who illegally enter the United States to start a life in New York City in the 1980s. The film has several Academy Award nominations including Samantha Morton for Best Actress and Djimon Hounsou for Best Supporting Actor. The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community is showing the film at The Theatre on Gay Street in Washington on Friday. Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. The parents, Johnny (Paddy See MOViE, Page B2 'In America' will be shown Friday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. at The Theatre in Washington. >

Church Activities Shi ton Baptist Pastor: Rev. Michael Tinsley Sr. Sunday: Sunday School 9:30 a m. Worship service 11 a m. F T. Baptist Pastor: Dan Yowell Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. Tri n i ty Episcopal Rector: Rev. Jennings W. Hobson III Sunday: Women's Corporate Communion & breakfast 8 a.m. Holy Eucharist 9:15 a.m. Sunday School, children and adults 10 a.m. Morning Prayer 11 a.m. Wednesday: Bible Study & Holy Eucharist 9:30 a.m. Ash Wednesday Service 7:30 p.m. Thursday: Meditation 7 a.m. Promise Land Baptist Pastor: Herbert Johnson Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. New Hope Baptist Bible Pastor: Carl R. Menefee Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Evening Service 6 p.m. Wednesday: Evening Prayer, Bible Study 7 p.m. First Baptist Pastor: Dr. Wendell Grant Sunday: Sunday School 9:30 a.m. St. Peter's Catholic Mission Administrator: Rev. Robert J. DeMartino Masses: Saturday Vigil, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, 8:30 and 10 a.m. Holy Days of Obligation call 675-3432 Weekdays Tuesday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m. Confessions: 4:30-5 p.m., Saturday, after masses Forest Grove Baptist Pastor: Dan Hough Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Macedonia Baptist Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. County Methodist services Rappahannock County Methodist churches will have worship :ervices as follows: Flint Hill at 8:45 a.m., Sunday School at 10 a.m.; Willis Chapel at 10 a.m.; and Sperryville at 11:15 a.m. The Rev. Merlin Shorb is pastor and invites the public. Washington Baptist Pastor: Rev. Phillip Bailey Sunday: Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship Services 11 a.m. Tuesday: Adult Choir 7:30 p.m. Chester Gap Baptist Pastor: Rev. Malcolm Cadd Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday Worship 11 a.m. Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. Tuesday: Bible Study 7 p.m. Massanova Pentecostal Pastor: Rev. L. D. Savage Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Youth 5:45 p.m. Evening Worship 7 p.m. Tuesday: Worship 7 p.m. Hopewell Baptist Church Pastor: Rev. Henry A. Townes Associate pastor: Rev. Anna L. Allsberry Sunday: Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday: Bible study 7 p.m. New Harvest Christian Fellowship Pastors: Kent and Duane Willoughby, Dana Crane Sunday: Praise/Worship service 10:30 a.m. Wednesday: Praise/Worship, Prayer, Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Services at Viewtown General Store Flint Hill Baptist Church Pastor: Rev. John S. Farrar Sunday: Worship service 11 a.m. Gid Brown Hollow Pentecostal Sunday: Sunday School 11 a.m. Second and Fourth Sundays only Battle Run Primitive Baptist Church Pastor, Elder Forest Atwood Meets second Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Praise Fellowship, Amissville Pastor: Gene Nicholson Meeting at 14876 Lee Highway Sunday morning 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Prayer Service 7 p.m. Church News Black History celebration Come join in our annual Black History Celebration at Macedonia Baptist Church in Flint Hill on Feb. 21 at 6 p.m. The guest singers will be Men of Christ from Culpeper. Refreshments will be served in the dining hall following the program which is sponsored by Macedonia Gospel Chorus. Popular book studied A study of the popular book, “The Purpose-Driven Life,” by Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calf., is going on at Washington Baptist Church and the public is invited to attend Sundays at 9:30 a m. This is a book of hope and challenge that has already changed many lives for the better. As quoted from the book, “Self-help books often suggest that you try to discover the meaning and purpose of your life by looking within yourself, but Rick Warren says that is the wrong place to start. You must begin with God, your Creator, and his reason for creating you. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.” To secure a copy of the book at a fee of $10 and to obtain more information, call the church office at 675-3336. Saturday nights for youth Youth Alive of Amissville meets every Saturday from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Viewtown Store, 105 Viewtown Road. It is an alternative for Saturday nights for youth of all ages. Come for a great opportunity to participate in contemporary praise and worship. Pizza, nachos and cheese, subs, shakes, candy and snacks available for purchase. For more information call (540) 9372668. Fauquier Hospital to hold fund-raiser event “Viva Las Vegas Casino Night,” a black tie optional fund-raising and fun-raising event, will be held on Saturday, March 27 at the Fauquier Springs Country Club on Springs Road. Plans include multiple gaming tables, a light buffet, and dancing to live music by “The Rock Doctors” accompanied by popular singer, Elizabeth Lawrence. The evening will also feature an Elvis impersonator, and opportunities to win exciting raffles for everything from weekend get-aways, to rounds of golf, cases of wine, restaurant meals, and Botox treatments. Donations will be $100 per person, and will cover the cost of refreshments, dancing, and an ample supply of “play money”. The Fauquier Hospital Auxiliary has pledged to raise $750,000 for the renovation and expansion of Fauquier Hospital’s Cardiopulmonary Department. “Viva Las Vegas Casino Night” is the kick-off for many creative fund-raising activities which will be organized by the Auxiliary as it works to meet its goal. Further information is available by calling the Auxiliary office (540) 347-2550 or from Kathi Lindquist at (540) 3490974. Obituaries Rufus R. Frye Former resident Rufus Rudolf Frye, 59, of Rochester, N. Y. died Feb. 9 at Rochester General Hospital. He was bom May 5, 1944 in Madison, Va. to the late Forrest Hamilton Fiye and Bertha Matthews Frye. Mr. Frye attended Scrabble School in Castleton. He worked at the Rappahannock County Co-op and drove a taxi cab until his health began to fail. He was preceded in death by siblings, Carlee Frye, Carroll Frye, Bruce Frye, Hamilton Frye, Hilda Banks and Muriel Roy. Mr. Frye is survived by his siblings, Rebecca Kilby of Culpeper, Acy Frye of Spenyville, Jane Banks of Clarksville, Tenn., Lois Starks of Washington and Stoney Frye of Culpeper. Additional survivors include a host of nieces, nephews and cousins. A memorial service was held Feb. 16 at Nazareth Baptist Church in Boston with the Rev. Howard R. Frye officiating. Contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association. William L. Griffith Boston resident William Lems Griffith, 92, of Boston died Feb. 14 at Culpeper Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was born Dec. 16, 1911 in Pleasant Valley, Va., to the late Richard Bland Griffith and the late Lizzie Frances Griffith. Mr. Griffith retired in 1973 from the Potomac Electric Company as a cable splicer after 40 years of service. He was a member of New Salem Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Rebecca Griffith, two sons, Richard Lewis Griffith of Vienna and William Andrew Griffith of Georgetown, Ky., and one daughter, Dorothy Mae Bradley of Boston, Va. Additional survivors include a brother, Claude Griffith of Aldington, Va., 14 grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren. A funeral service was held Feb. 17 at Moser Funeral Home in Warrenton with the Rev. Sandy Martin officiating. Interment was in National Memorial Park in Falls Church, Va. Times Community Newspapers. Call 540-675-3349 with news tips. Movie From Page B1 Considine) and Sarah (Samantha Morton), and the two children, Christy (Sarah Bolger) and Ariel (Emma Bolger) are mourning the death of Frankie, their son and brother, from cancer. The undercurrent of grief, and how the individual members of the family handle it, is the theme of the movie. The film is narrated by the eldest daughter, Christy, who uses a camcorder to record, and review, her experiences. The family comes to America to begin anew in the early 80s. Arriving in New York with “Do You Believe in Magic” playing on the radio, Christy and Aerial are in awe. They embrace Manhattan, strange and exotic as it is. Even the apartment, in what is called The Drug House in Hell’s Kitchen, is seen as an adven ture. Johnny wants to become an actor but is turned down for role after role on Broadway. Sarah gets work as a waitress and the children explore the neighborhood and are enrolled in a Catholic school. The film is superbly acted. Paddy Considipe is outstanding in his performance of a man struggling to keep his dreams alive, while keeping his family together and being unable to express his strangling grief. Samantha Morton portrays a mother who puts her children’s need for security above her own need to mourn, and who puts her life in danger to have another child. The Bolger girls (sisters in real life) are incredible in what are demanding roles of children who are trying to make sense of a world that is full of insecurity, death and decay. Djimon Hounsou, as Mateo, is the downstairs neighbor who is an artist dying of AIDS and whose own desire for life reminds the Irish family of the rich gifts they possess that have nothing to do with material possessions. It’s a pleasure to see an Irish film about Irish immigrants in New York that doesn’t involve alcoholism or violence. It depicts the Irish as being one of many immigrant races who have to start at the bottom in order to begin a life in America. The film is multi-racial in its vision of a country full of immigrants who are trying to escape their pasts, sometimes unsuccessfully, or are trvin? to build a new life upon big dreams and hope. It doesn’t romanticize the experience, and the film shows that some people don’t make it, and others don’t want to, but that love and determination can help. With fine acting, a strong theme and a celebration of life, “In America” is a film you shouldn’t miss. Rated PG-13 for drug references, the threat of violence, some coarse language and an “artfully shot” sex scene, “In America” runs 100 minutes. Brookside Restaurant & Gift Shop U S . 211E . Luray ‘Foothills of Blue Ridge Mountains Sun. to Thurs. 7 a.m. -10:00 p m. Friday ft Saturday 7 to 8:30 p.m. (540) 743-5698 ROBERT J. CLATTERBUCK Plumbing and Heating Flint Hill, VA 675-3378 W.C. THOMPSON FUNERAL HOME 503-7NORTH MAIN ST. CULPEPER. VIRGINIA (540) 825-6700 "See Us For All Your Building Supply Needs" 1418 Orange Road Culpeper (540)8254)937 Sperryville Emporium “The Shop that has EVERYTHING” U. S. 211, West Sperryville, VA (540) 987-8235 MONEY!! When we have it, how shall we spend it? When we lack for it, how shall we accumulate it? We spend most of our waking hours earning it. ..then lie awake fretting about it. At times, our very lives appear to be centered around money. 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VA TV & APPLIANCE GREYSTONE TV & APPLIANCE Sates & Service RCA Video Products Antennas & Satellite Systems Radio Shack Dealer, Kitchen Aid, Whirlpool & Roper Appliances U.S. Route 29, Madison (540) 948-2200 WELDING RICK’S CUSTOM WELDING (540) 675-1888 Commercial - Residential Construction - Farm - General Wrought Iron gales & railings ALSO SANDBLASTING WINDOWS & DOORS - Are You FREEZING TO DEATH In Your Own Home? If so, our custom made European tilt-turn windows & doors offer energy efficiency, security, and wind resistance. We install and service. Henselstone Window & Door Systems 540-937-5796 Upcoming Events Ho noring Diana Bi rd To celebrate Diana Bird s life, there will be a meeting in the auditorium of the Wakefield Country Day School in Flint Hill on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. Weaving & spinning classes Misty Mountain Farm in Amissville will hold a class in Degtnnmg weaving on baturaay. i-eo. 21 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Workshop looms, weaving yarns and lunch are provided. A beginning spinning class will be held Saturday. Feb. 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with spinning wheels, fibers and lunch provided. Each class is $50 per person. Call 540-937-4707 to register. Services board to meet The Rappahannock-Rapidan Disability Services Board will meet on Tuesday. Feb. 24 at 10 a.m. at the Madison County Social Service Building. 101 S. Main Street in Madison. The board serves physically and sensory disabled persons from Madison. Orange and Rappahannock counties. The public is welcome. For more information or to place an item on the agenda, call Alexis Halley. (540) 829-7450. Region al com mission The Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission wm meet on weanesaay. i-eb 2b at 1 p.m. at the commission’s offices. 420 Southridge Parkway. Suite 106 in, Culpeper. Republicans to meet The Rappahannock County Republican Committee wi meet on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 7 D.m. at the countv librarv. All Republicans and others who want to re-elect President Bush are welcome to attend. Contact Chairman Kirk Milam at 540-631-0949. Lions Club music contest The annual music contest sponsored by the Rappahannock Lions Club on Feb. 29—the Bland Music Contest— is accepting applications from students attending any elementary or high school in Rappahannock or who is home-schooled here. Students do not have to live in Rappahannock to participate. Applications are available at the elementary and high schools, Wakefield School and the Rappahannock County Library. For more information, contact Dave Hilty, 675-2205, or e-mail at dahilty@aol.com. Hymn singing Thornton Gap Old School Baptist Church, located at the intersection of Old Hollow and Thornton Gap Church Roads near Soerrvville. will have Tuesdav ivening hymn singing beginning March 2 from 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., and every Tuesday thereafter until further notice. The group wiil ®sing congregational a cappella songs. Light refreshments *"1 will be served. Everyone is <Sfc invited. For further informaWBK&Sr tion contact Wayne Baldwin at 540-543-2590. Middle Street Gallery show During the month of March the Middle Street Gallery will feature an exhibition of recent oil paintings by I nomas bpande. ihis snow combines themes of landscape with a variety of oil paintings from Maine, ( Maryland and Virginia. Spande’s work, which ranges in size from miniatures to large canvases, is evocative of time, place, light and atmosphere. The gallery in Little Washington is open Fridays through Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call 6753440 for more information or visit www.middlestreetgallery.org. Casino Night March 13 The Rappahannock County School Sports Association will sponsor the fourth Annual Casino Night at the Washington School on March 13 at 7 p.m. Admission is $30 per person and includes $10,000 of _ gaming money to use to pla; black jack, craps, etc. At the the evening, chips will exchanged for raffle tickets for drawings for grand prizes donated by local supporters. Admission also includes hors d'oeuvres and soft drinks, with a cash bar available. Call Cathy Kreyling at 987-8131 to purchase tickets or get them at the RCHS concession stand at home games. 4-H Livestock Club sale The Rappahannock 4-H Livestock Club is seeking items from the community for its first annual JUMBLE Sale on Saturday, March 27 at the Flint Hill Fire Station. Some of the county's antique furniture, collectibles, and other household items will be for sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Shoppers will have the opportunity to buy refreshments, raffle tickets, and meet members of the club. Donations of small furniture (chairs, lamps, tables, rugs,) paintings, drawings, tools or books are welcome (no clothing, please). Items that are related to Rappahannock County are especially appreciated. Donations are tax deductible. Contact Bob Clements (540-6228484) to arrange to have items picked up on March 20. Proceeds of the sale go to support activities of the club, including the annual CMR Farm Show. Let this JUMBLE Sale be an opportunity to support the county’s * future farmers.

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Fax resume to: (703) 550-7799 DRIVERS Class “A" CDL, exp, FT/PT, days & nights available. In state hauling only. Random drug testing. Must be reliable, dependable and responsible. 540-423-1030 DRIVERS/ DELIVERY Full-time and parttime positions. AM & PM shifts. Full benefits, year-round work, not seasonal. Locations in Loudoun, Prince William & Fairfax Counties. Call: Fairfax Auto Parts 703-323-5300 DRIVERS ROUTE Courier experience. Owner operator with own white cargo van or drive company vehicle. Apply In person at 14350 Sullyfield Cr. Chantilly, VA 20151 with copy of current driving record or call 301-419-3565, ext 8034 With 18 Newspapers In Our Times Community Newspapers Group, We’ve Got ^Northern Virginia Wrapped up! Call 347-4222 or FAX 349-8676 FAMILY STABLE OFFICE To manage small family stable and executive's home office on large farm near Middleburg, Virginia. Stable and hunters experience preferred. Top salary and benefits to include free home overlooking the countryside. Couple considered. Proficient in Windows, Microsoft Office and Internet applications. Fax: 703-478-6691 or e-mail: lowens@timespapers.com Electrician/ Plumber/ Handyman Kreyling Construction, a respected Rappahannock homebuiider, is looking for a selfmotivated individual to join our team. We re looking for journeyman level skills in the plumbing and electrical trades, with some versatility in other skills. All of our work is in or close to Rappahannock County. Kreyling Construction offers competitive wages and a full benefits package, including a retirement plan. Tools, transportation, and telephone required. Please call Camille at: 540-987-3145 MECHANIC Interested in stepping away from the norm? Seeking a well rounded mechanic for a performance and after market shop. ASE cert, a must. Great opportunity uHth Mad Doe Motor Sports! Ask tor James at 540-347-0116 PHYSICIAN MANAGER Busy 3 physician office has an immediate requirement for a FT physician manager. Duties include heavy phone work, record management and data entry. Must have excellent communication skills and be detail orientated. Knowledge of Medical Manager and Manage Care Plan a plus. Benefits include health ins. & paid vacation. Interested applicants should mall their resume to: Attn. Lori 428 Hospital Drive Warrenton, VA 20186 or fax to: 540-349-4401 No Phone Calls. Please I ELECTRICIANSAN ECO Electrical Construction is hosting an onsite job fair this Tuesday from 3pm to 6pm at our office location at 44901 Falcon Place, Suite 1.16 in Sterling, VA. We are recruiting Mechanics, Foremen, and Superintendents with a min. of 7 yrs. stable experience , in commercial electrical construction. We offer, Top Pay, medical and dental coverage, 7 paid holidays (starts immediately), vacation pay, and 401K w/ company match. Call 703-435-6775 for more information or fax resume to 703-435-7633. EOE M/F/ DV/ Drug Free Workplace. Electricians Helpers/ Trainees New Construction Residential $9.00 start per hour Plus All Benefits. Certified Training Program. Must have transportation. Call Today 703-968-5545 E.L. Kellogg Corporation Since 1961 Classified ADS WORK! Call Your Rep TODAY! 540-347-4222 or FAX 540-349-8676 HVAC SHEETMETAL WORKER Sheetmetal Co., Manassas seeking experienced commercial sheet metal tech. Person should have field & shop experience & valid driver’s license. Top paying company & paid vacation, holidays, health insur, profit sharing, retirement benefits & annual bonus. Pay according to experience LANDCARE SUPERVISORS We’re looking for friendly individuals who want to make a difference as Landcare Maintenance or Enhancement Supervisors in our Gainesville Branch. Great advantages of joining the TruGreen Landcare team include excel, benefits. Full timeYear round employment. Exper. preferred but will train. If you’re looking for a career with long term potential - this is it! For consideration, cal Sandy Eddinger in Gainesville at: 703-968-0668 or fax resume to: 703-968-9549 EOE/M/M/F/D/V With 18 Newspapers In Our Times Community Newspapers Group, We’ve Got Northern Virginia Wrapped up! Call 347-4222 Growth-oriented and expanding John Deere dealer with locations in Warrenton and Manassas looking for: Manassas •Rollback and Delivery Driver • Lawn & Garden Service Technician Warrenton • Lawn & Garden Service Technician Company offers bright future with full benefit package and very competitive compensation. Contact Trible Equipment, Inc. at 8326 Meetze Road, Warrenton or call Dennis Wright at 540-347-2880 Front Desk, FT ★ ★ _ Housekeeping, PT Night Auditor, PT Now hiring full & part-time positions. Benefits available. Excellent opportunity for the right people! COMFORT INN 540-349-8900 EXPERIENCED PHOTOJOURNALIST Talented newspaper photographer wanted for unique, full time one-year position with awardwinning weekly newspaper, beginning in March or April. Applicants must have photojournalism experience and PhotoShop expertise. grots northern Virginia Resumes and portfolios will be accepted by: Robin Earl, Managing Editor, Fauquier Times-Democrat, P.O. Box 631, Warrenton, Va. 20188. E-mail: konrl(Sltinii-«niin^ra mm CNA/PERSONAL CARE AIDES Come join the In-Home Services staff at the RRCSB. We welcome dedicated staff who wish to work with professionals to provide excellent home care in the community. Accepting applications for positions available in Rappahannock, Orange. Madison, Culpeper & Fauquier Counties. CNA certification preferred. Certification in Personal Care training required. Must provide own transportation; mileage reimbursed. $7.76 p/hr COOK #4-35-03 On-call for meals preparation in commercial kitchen in Culpeper. :luded. $7.56 p/hr Weekend hours incli PART-TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE!! Providing physical, occupational, speech & language services to developmentally delayed and/or physically disabled infants age birth to 3 years and their families. $ 21.05 p/hr. PHYSICAL THERAPIST #423-06 / SPEECH/LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST 34-21-06 / OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST #4-22-04 PHYCHOSOCIAL REHAB PROVIDER ll-MH #4-33-05 FT in Culpeper to coordinate training and educational opportunities for consumers, including job-readiness, mental, and/or independent living skills. Combination of education and experience to meet Virtinia’s requirements of Qualified Mental Health Professionals. 25,199.00 p/yr. May be under-filled as a Provider I with paraprofessional credentials. $21,768.00 p/yr SUBSTANCE ABUSE TECHNICIAN #4-46-02 On-call and hourly positions available to monitor client activities, conduct drug screens and perform related tasks. Exp. in human services. $9.64 p/hr TRANSIT OPERATOR #4-62-01 On-call positions available to transport consumers and deliver meals. Good driving record required. $7.56 p/hr RAPPAHANNOCK - RAPIDAN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD dWVJ VIII VII IV US APPLY WITH RRCSB APPLICATION, BY 8:30AM, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2004, TO: HUMAN RESOURCES, P.O. BOX 1568, CULPEPER, VA 22701 540-825-3100 TDD: 540-825-7391 AA/EEO HELP!1 We have a full-time and a part-time position available in our Advertising Art Department! Macintosh-based Newspaper Display Ad Design system. Skills we are seeking include design talent, graphic art basics, good typing ability, knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXPress, and a keen eye for detail. Must be willing to work weekends and evenings. Contact Kathy Davis Loudoun Times-Mirror 703-777-1111 E0E, We operate in a smoke-free environment. >. WAREHOUSE Full-time position with benefits including health insurance and vacation time. Must have valid driver's license and knowledge of building materials. Retail environment. Heavy lifting required. Send resumes to: JEC-555341 Fauquier Times Democrat P.O. Box 631 Warrenton, VA 20188 SALES PERSON Full-time position with benefits including health insurance and vacation time. Candidate must possess good customer service skills, basic computer skills, and knowledge of lumber and hardware. Position requires working directly with the public in a retail environment. Some weekerid work required. Opportunity for advancement within the company. Please send resume to: Box JEC-555339 Fauquier Times Democrat P.O. Box 631 Warrenton, VA 20188 X>D PAY &3ENEFT 401K&125K 'EAR-ROUND WOR* aff 1-800-845-414 or 703-361-6859 TOWN EMPLOYEE Maintenance Repair Person The Town of Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia, is seeking qualified applicants for the permanent, part-time position of a Maintenance Repair Person. Salary is negotiable depending on experience. The position is for approximately 30 hours week but may also require some on-call activity during off hours in response to emergencies related to the water distribution system. Employee should have a vehicle capable of carrying supplies, good driving record, and experience in general maintenance, plumbing and mechanical repair. Documented mileage will be reimbursed. Employee is responsible for maintaining town facilities to include the town water system, landscaping, town cleanliness and other work as required. Employee must be capable of supervising support personnel and volunteer workers. Tools required will be provided by the Town. Employee should have a Waterworks Operators License Class 4 or be willing to undergo training and complete requirements for such license. Last day to apply is March 15, 2004. The Town of Washington s an Equal Opportunity Employer Please contact: Laura Dodd Washington Town Hall 540-675-3128 Tired of the late night restaurant grind? Harris Teeter, a leader in the national trend of Home Meal Replacement Programs, may have just the opportunity for you. 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Scream yourself ‘horse’ Virginia’s spring steeplechase season something to cheer about By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer It appears to be a complex dance. A fleet of shining horses, muscles rippling and eyes flashing, appear from trailers and vans of all sizes. Exactly at the appointed minute, prideful groom on the end of each polished leather lead shank. They circle and circle in a small enclosure, knots of handlers tightening sundry straps and elastic gee- _ Tb the untutored spectator, steeplechase racing can mystify with its elaborate theater. But really, it does boil down to a simple premise: recall rookie baseball player Nuke Lalouche explaining in “Bull Durham” the basics of his game to a newspaper reporter: “You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball.” Simple. Like horse racing. Oh, steeplechasing throws a curve once in a while — running _ and jumping is gaws, adjusting blinkers and a dizzying array of bridle buckles while mysterious strips of cloth surface from deep pockets to encircle many a pink horse-sized tongue. A dozen sleek horses — Steeplechasing may seem a complex sport, but it's easy, really: The fastest horse wins. Well, usually, anyway. a bit more involved than running hellfor-leather over six flat furlongs. But the elements correspond: You run. You jump. You try to get to the finish line first. There is a horse, carefully i-» —i_*_i how is it that they’re all here on time? How that so many variables commingle at this minute of this day? Intricate threads lead to this place, this moment. Tb the second, a cluster of gaily dressed jockeys emerges as one from a striped tent staked into place nearby. They approach their horses with apparent calm, collective coolness communicating confidence. After brief consultation with their teams, the riders are simultaneously boosted 5 feet high into the postage stamp saddles and the horses prance down a ribbon of green. They separate at a canter to warm the muscles, collecting again minutes later. “Form a line,” says the blue-blazered man with the red flag. “Turn, walk, walk, walk, easy, whoa, whoa, whoa. OK and .... go!” The red flag drops. The horses leap forward as one. The riders ease out their reins. Away they plunge. Running. Jumping. Racing with what seems like reckless abandon but, upon inspection, appears more unbridled passion about a sport with its feet in the 18th century but its hands in the 21st - trained and prepared for the distance and the task. There is a jockey, carefully tutored and practiced, fit for the assignment. There is a racecourse, carefully manicured, watered, groomed and decorated for the day. Elementary. This annual guide to Virginias spring steeplechasing circuit provides the tutelage to take you through the season, start to finish, with plenty of insider information to help demystify the often-arcane world of horse racing, taking it down to its very base. Here, you’ll find a map and calendar to follow the action, feature stories on some of Thoroughbred racing’s greatest players, and interesting facts and figures about steeplechase racing — hiyit country’s healthiest spectator sport. Start with this quick primer: Steeplechasing takes place in three main “categories.” Virginia’s point-to-point circuit, made up of benefit events organized by area foxhunting clubs, features local talent in amateur divisions along with national stars in professional races carded along with the Times Newspapers Stafl Photo Betsy Parker TAKE A GOOD, LONG LOOK: Just making sure they know what they’re here for, riders line up to ‘show’ their horses the first fence before a timber race at Middleburg’s Glenwood Park. Jump racing sometimes mystifies, but the bottom line is facile: run, jump, hurry and win. series events. Point-to-points begin in February and run through April, dates that coincide with the end of the foxhunting season (because many competitors are also active hunters.) A second type of race is called “hunt meet” in slang but otherwise known as a “sanctioned race,” so-called as these meets are sanctioned by the National Steeplechase Association. They begin a bit later in the spring, at the end of March, and run through early June, picking back up in September and running through late November. Those dates coincide with good training and racing — and spectating — weather in the mid-Atlantic states, hub of steeplechasing both amateur and professional. The third type of steeplechasing carries competitors to the See SCREAM, Page 4 Big Performance.. .Compact Size SMITH & SOHS EQUIPMENT 540-347-1991 • BL 29. One Mile SoutO of Warrettee 540-364-4200 • 0343 West Male Street < •Low Rate Financing Available Based upon credit approvaL Required minimum down payment of 10% plus satestax (where applicable). Monthly payments required "Qualifying modefemdudr AIMf 1200 Senes, MF1400 Series and MF 1665 compart Tractors, Front cut Mowers; A» implements and attachments purchased with a qualifying Compact Tractor

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Reward? From Page 5 — by some — to be as bad as forgetting to touch the good luck hoofpick on race morning. Case in point? At the 2002 International Gold Cup races, copious program notes reveal a trend. Whether a good trend or a bad trend is up for debate. Best Turned Out in the first race, Punchino, was unplaced — last, actually — in his two-mile race. Out the back. Tailed off. Nowhere. But look closer. The gelding had raced without apparent success twice before that year and seems to have given up on steeplechasing shortly thereafter. In the very next race, Kinross Farm’s Sur La Tfete was judged Best Turned Out (his shimmering bay hindquarters replete with a carefully traced checkerboard pattern. > Minutes later, he went out and trounced a field of maiden hurdlers. That jockey Chris Read “forgot” to weigh in after ward, thusly being disqualified and giving up the victory — this should be considered immaterial. Many will argue the “luck” angle, saying Read forgot to weigh only because of the odd alignment, of stars caused by the BTO award. But, hey, the gelding finished first in his race, an important distinction when considering young horses and their developing mindset: Sur La Tfete doesn’t “know” he lost the race (in the end), and he’s gone on to become the nation’s leading novice hurdler in 2003. Justification is easy: the BTO prize acted as good luck in Sur La Tfete’s case, giving him a win, yet the disqualification allowed him to “regain” his maiden status for “03, meaning easier company and a milder learning curve for the young horse. A circular argument, certainly, but easy to rationalize. In the next race, Honor Me Always won the BTO award for the 'Ibm Voss stable, then was fairly tailed off for third place in the competitive event. Bad luck strikes again? No. Just consider the top-rated company (winner Hendler went on to win several races on the *03 circuit) See REWARD?, Page 7 Best Turned Out* award rewards horsemanship lodging for the ‘Best Tamed Out* prize*- at Virginia steeplechase races is often handled by local 4-H judging teams, area pony club members or licensed U.S. A. Equestrian judges. According to Middleburg's Gary Baker, who often acts as judge, they look for turnout and polish, but a shiny coat comes nnfair»lly foam the inside of a fit, healthy horse. No amount of spray-on polish can make up! for a dull coat or overgrown whiskers. If you want to try your own luck railside, pick- : ing paddock winners, here are some things to look, for: a short, shiny coat, clean polished leather brfcfij die and halter, dapples showing good general I Tunes Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker PRETTY BOY: Pelagos’ braids and polished bit added up for winning performance at Casanova, both in the paddock and on the racetrack. Brookhill Farm - Stunning panoramic views of the Blue Ridge and spectacular frontage on the Hazel River make this 48 acre Boston farm an unforgettable equestrian property. The four bedroom, three bath main residence has a private master suite with spa bath and exercise room. Hxtensive indoor and outdoor entertaining spaces. Heated pool, six stall stable, run-in shed, outdoor riding ring, board fencing in all paddocks, woodland riding trails. Two bedroom gucst/tenant house. Rappahannock Hunt Territory. $1,900,000 Alan Zuschlag Specializing in Rappahannock County Farms A Estates (540) 937-6124 or alan^farms-estates.com www.farms-estates.com Sotheby’s International Realty Inclusive Sotheby's affiliate for Clarke, loudon. fauquter. Kappahamtoek. M.kIimki and Culpeper ( omities Hur Priiirvi Hunt Territory Pt*ci Your Property in Conservation Easement Today □ ci LAJ. IllNHmrftaiKf Hlf I ' ‘ !■ 1 1 EiBkhU&ti"I 12 a 24 - *3J4t 12 a 3* • *4.291 nk** (Urtiitl at: • a 14 - *1341 10 a 14 - *1.040 12 a 16 - *2.452 Mew darting at: 10 a 12 - *1375 Hal#- *2.041 12 a 34 - *3.030 m. J ■LaBaMtomB ftfORSE BARNS j L AM t <540) 825-5838 Arif*** 70*» !«r\ Ccmpcit

Reward? From Page 6 and third is no disgrace. The international jockeys’ hurdle was next on the card, with handsome Little Caveat winning the turnout prize. Making his first start in more than a year, the gelding was tailed off, finishing last (he was pulled up and seemingly retired after one more unsuccessful start a month later.) Turnout hoax? No — more likely a useful, aged runner hitting the end of his career. OK, OK, the next race makes it hard to argue against the perceived BTO jinx: Multiple stakes winner Ironfist had never before fallen in a race. But just moments after his gleaming chestnut coat and bright eye caught the turnout judges’ attention before the International Gold Cup, the gelding made an rare mistake and fell hard at the fourth fence. Surely bad omens don’t carry this far, but the champion did retire after the Gold Cup. Fine, fine. The self-fulfilling BTO prophecy looks like it gained steam into the next event, when paddock winner Safari Racer was left far behind in fifth place in the maiden hurdle race. But, then again, Australian-bred Sir Howard just missed, finishing third in the day’s final event after winning the turnout award. Tbtal tally? Three unplaced, two third-place finishes, one winner (disqualified,) and one mysterious faller (who soon retired altogether from racing). You be the judge. Best Turned Out is a coveted prize, no doubt, but does it presage bad luck? Good luck charms Curious, isn’t it, the human trait to blame bad luck when things go wrong and credit themselves when things go right. Could Safari Racer have won with a headstart? Maybe Little Caveat left his best running in his pre-teen years? But for the most convincing argument yet against the bad luck symbol of winning the turnout prize — look down. What better good luck symbol than a horseshoe? Or four. Tb find a horseshoe is an omen of good luck. Many believe that nailing a horseshoe over the door assures good luck. Some say the open end should point up so that the luck doesn't fall out Others say if the open end is down, luck pours onto those who pass. Pick one. Lady Luck doesn’t seem to mind where it points. Irish legend has it that the Devil called on St. Dunstan, a skilled blacksmith. St. Dunstan recognized Satan and fastened him to a wall. He then set to work with such roughness that the Devil roared for mercy. St. Dunstan turned the Devil loose after making him promise never to enter a home on which a horseshoe was fixed. So as far as Best Turned Out inviting bad luck to follow, I say nay. Each and every entrant wears four of the finest good luck omens on their flinty feet And though the author of Ecclesiastes wrote that “The race is not always to the swift or the battle to the strong,” I still think that’s the way to bet Writer Betsy Parker is the Horse and Field Sports editor for the Times Community Newspapers. A licensed trainer and former jump jockey, she still has the “lucky barette” that she wore in many of her steeplechase victories. 2003 YUkon Denali Getting you there in Style, a Comfort ■ and Safety 2003 Sierra ^ Dually :.l J' ■■ ; ■2/* '..'I?'.'-1',' ' OLDS • BUICK • PONTIAC • OMC 250 W. Shirley Are. Warrenton • 540-347-3341 Shoppers Hotline 800-255-6377 #1412 Loudoun’s Cockburn will be honored at therapeutic benefit The Loudoun Therapeutic Riding Foundation will host a benefit fundraiser Saturday, March 13, at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg. Celebrating 30 years of providing equine activities for disabled children and adults in the area, the gala will also honor former Loudoun Hunt huntsman and current joint-master Bay Cockburn — a Virginia champion steeplechase jockey until a paralyz ing training injury in 1998. Other honorees include NBA Hall of Fame player, Bill Russell, for his contribution to the sports world, and the Westmoreland Davis Foundation for support of the program. The evening includes a reception, dinner, awards, two auctions and dancing. Details are available by email to gailrmax@aol.com or contact the LTRF office at (703) 771-2689. CELEBRATING 50 YEARS BIG DEAL? YEP! THAT’S WHAT YOU’LL GET! Come to our Open House and learn The 3 Most Common Myths Told In the Building Industry and how Wick buildings can SAVE YOU MONEY! 800-356-9682 Call Today for details or go to www.WickBuildings.com 2 YEAR WARRANTY kk*69SS. WE GIVE YOB MOBE S§ YH GM Ml MBH in rail WMiimiinfn SWAN’S J.A. SWAN, JR. & CO. 16033 Ira Hartman lane Culpeper, VA 22701 540-825-8371 www.jaswan com ARCTIC CAT MORI TO 00 OR *• ———wr mmmfmwmmmm iinwi wnwi hi pum-s’ OH*' «■><■<> *WBBS»OMiOg>c»>—nHwanni - ——|---r-1 - -“ f-[| -— r—T^-^-n-l-Ttfl-t—W ~l 111 wm-mm+*•"»"* te<——» ——nilim*m + mmatwm» te MCa«« a* «*«■■ %■'■■■* **C4 nn»wiin.wim««w»iliw tnKiii *** Willi I ... atatf*£*«M»i«C). m-S mk*«% "MKUiiV. »»-«• Hn til k*» ikMJW ten « —I—I) Mil mteikiteOiii ittCitek

A blast from of ’chasing Eclipse Award-winning photographer Douglas Lees of Warrenton dug deep in his files for some historic pictures from years past on the Virginia circuit. He selected local luminaries still active in the horse business, either on the steeplechase circuit or in other facets of equestrian sport. At top, former Old Dominion Hounds joint-master David Semmes, left, and Orange County Hunt’s Mike duPont race to the finish at a 1975 point-topoint Above left, a youthful Paddy Neilson, left, and Paul Mellon share the 1975 Middleburg Hunt Cup score of Chapel Street. Neilson is still active as a ’chase trainer and avid foxhunter; Mellon died in 1998. Above right horses take flight at the 1972 Virginia Gold Cup races at the old Broadview course in downtown Warrenton. At right Diane Deeds, left and threeday event rider Beth Perkins jump a solid fence at the Blue Ridge Hunt Point-to-Point in 1977. • * Photos by Douglas Lees • 1 k m m mm m m m mm * £

the past history Ihrough the lens of local photographer In the 1984 Rokeby Bowl at the Piedmont Point-to-Point, Virginia champions Cinzano and Constantine take a stone wall as one. At the Piedmont races in the early 1970s, the late Theo Randolph, left, visits with friend Dr. Joe Rogers, still joint-master of the Loudoun Hunt and an active steeplechase owner. Fairfax Hunt joint-master Randy Rouse takes a leap at the Warrenton Hunt races in the 70s. Rouse is still involved with racing as" art owner, Itelner and race chairman.. ‘Take the Champion Challenge. It’s Worth the Drive!” Number one in trucks. No One Sella More Pickups No One Sella More SUV’s hat Straight Industry Sales Records 2004 CHEVY SILVERADO 2004 CHEVY TAHOE 2004 CHEVY AVALANCHE <=0 AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION NOW SET *2,500 CASH BACK9 On Every New 2004 Chevrolet Truck Or CP Financing WE'LL BE THERE 2004 CHEVY SUBURBAN 2004 CHEVY TRAIL BLAZER 540-547-3700 Rout* 29 South Culpopor A-EXCLUOES DURAMAX DESIEL FINANCING IS LIMITED TERM CONTRACT ON SELECT MOOELS TO QUALIFIED BUYERS WITH APPROVED CREDIT THRU DEALER LENDER AU PRICES PLUS TAXES TAGS & FREIGHT & INCLUDE ALL REBATES* INCENTIVES PLUS A $139 PROCESSING FEE ON SELECT VEHICLES IN STOCK ALL VEHICLES SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE DEALER NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS VEHICLE PHOTOS ARE FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY

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Scarlette, o/Lani Newcomb; 2. Granite, o/Kathy Broaddus. Heavy division. 1 Crystal, o/Kathy Broaddus; 2. Ben, o/Todd Atkins. Merry Oak leading ponies. Small. 1. Summer, o/Sam Cockburn; 2. (tie) Cara Mia. o/Katherine Hamngton and Lassie, o/Scartett Lovett. Large. 1. Lieutenant Bodgit, o/Natasha Aylor; 2. (tie)Ruffle The Road, o/Remy Winants and Razor, o/Scarlett Lovett. Warrenton Hunt fast time pairs. 1 Arctic Fox, r/Joe Kincheloe and Wakefield, r/Sarah Foote; 2. Pseuaminator, r/Joe Kincheloe and Vicar, r/Sarah Foote; 3. Gilded Fox, r/Mason Lampton and Big Bang, r/Eben Sutton. Rappahannock Hunt optimum time pairs. Junior division. 1. Brer Rabbit, r/Lindsay Rice and Mountaineerman, r/Pann Drunagel; 2. Cherokee, r/Rory McClendon and Geronimo, r/Frark McClendon; 3. Zinnia, r/Drew Stuart and Penny, r/Morgan Stuart. Adult division. 1. Geronimo, r/Frank McClendon and Virginia Wings, r/Betsy Checchia. 2003 Virginia Steeplechase Association standings Leading owner. 1. Kinross Farm; 2. 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TELLING IT LIKE IT IS: Before his death in December, Joe Taylor spoke at a Virginia Thoroughbred Association seminar at Morgan’s Ford Farm. He addressed a full house, with area breeders, owners, trainers and riders taking part in the open question and answer session with the Kentucky horseman. Times Newspapers Staff Photo/ Betsy Parker Master horseman Author revealed tricks of the trade By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer The day you enter the horse industry, you are really getting into two businesses: You are in the horse business by design and the real estate business by default. Fortunes can be made or lost, collectively or separately. Master horseman, author and patriarch of the most successful racing agency in the history of the breed, the late Joe Taylor divulged many of his secrets at an October seminar hosted by the Virginia Thoroughbred Association. Taylor died in an automobile crash in December near his home in Lexington, Ky. With an ongoing lifetime of success in both sides of the famously mercurial Thoroughbred business — his family’s Taylor Made sales agency exceeds $800 million in sales with more than 1,700 acres in horse production — Taylor’s words of wisdom ring clear, even after his death. Author of the popular 1993 horsemen’s manual, “Complete Guide to Breeding and Raising Racehorses,” he discussed subjects as far-ranging as stallion selection and creep feeding, to asphalt flooring and gate design. “Horse people are a different breed,” Taylor said with a chuckle, tempering the dig with, “But that doesn’t mean you aren’t in this game as a business.” See MASTER, Page 12 ■pppy aylor s roots were in By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Joseph Lannon Taylor once said he couldn’t recall a time was not “in love with horses." From the time that his great-great grandfather emigrated west from Virginia to central Kentucky’s bluegrass region, Thylor’s family had horses, both for work and pleasure. Bom in Lexington, Ky. in 1924, Taylor died in a car crash earlier this winter. Recently, he was the keynote speaker at a | Virginia Thoroughbred Association seminar held at Morgan’s Ford Farm in Front Royal. M sSP V .. iSee TAYLOR, Page 13 D. H. LEES REAL ESTATE, INC. 3 Hotel Street, Comer of Culpeper P.O. Box 1036 Warrenton, Virginia 20188 (540) 347-3100 • Fax (540) 347-9713 Brokers of Distinctive Properties dhlees@citizen.mfi.net If, indeed, "A man's home is his castle. . we would like to help you find yours. From the manicured manse with a flawless emerald lawn to the perfect and picturesque cabin nestled in the Virginia hills, we can show you a full range of beautiful homes. Our emphasis is always on quality and service. Please call Anne Kessler tor an appointment at (540) 3473100 or Anne Kessler 347-6641 D. H. LEES REAL ESTATE, INC. ESTABLISHED WiO We’re Becoming Part o£ the Landscaj>e Yep, that’s a Kubota you see working on the golf course, construction site, and everywhere there's a landscape. Kubota's technologically-advanced Grand L 30 Senes tractors are engineered for superior versatility and packed with powerful features to deliver exceptional performance... everywhere there’s a demanding job to be done. Powered by a Kubota low-emission E-TVCS diesel engine, the Grand Ls offer a choice of transmissions - fully synchronized main and synchro shuttle transmission (FST), “Feather Step HST” for increased productivity and reduced operator fatigue or, the exclusive Glide Shift Transmission (from 24-44 pro HP). For long hours of operation on the golf course or municipal park, comfort features include a deluxe seat with reclining back arid adjustable suspension, hydrostatic power steering, cruise control (HST), an ISO-mounted flat deck and suspended pedals. You’ve seen us everywhere. Now, take a closer look at your Kubota dealer. Serving Northern Virginia for over 50 Years 9 Miles West of Leesburg on Bus. Rt. 7 Purcellville, VA 540-338-7123 Metro Area: 703-478-1977 www.browningequipment.com K'JboY'X fUROWNIMG) ■ »K7QUIPMEfiT [B^C/inc._J The OneShop For Service . ovetings (Sttpett Vinyl* I tie Aiea Rug* Remnant* Mental* jShade* - 'Vertical S almcnlA i Hvur* The Largest In-stock Inventory On Carpets, Vinyl, Hardwood & Remnants Residential & Commercial One Location Only! Amissville! 540-937-5500 • 1-800-870-9098 Serving Fauquier, Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties Highway Route 211 West, Amissville

Master From Page 11 On mares “We’ve made a business of starting young mares,” Taylor said of the commercial breeding preference for Taylor Made. “Plenty of people, Mr. (John) Gaines for one, like to get older mares, with established produce records, as commercial prospects. But I’ve always preferred to see my dollar stretch farther. “I like to invest in young mares with sound pedigrees, and maybe a good race record. Young mares. And young people. That’s what keeps you looking ahead.” Hie goal of every commercial breeder, of course, is to produce horses that go on to fame and fortune. Tb that end, Taylor recommended making broodmares “the backbone of your operation. Most people are more concerned with the pedigree of the stallion than the pedigree of the broodmare.” The mare contributes 50 percent of the genetic material to a cf&tu/eyfdie, MIDDLEBURG GLENWOOD PARK, MIDDLEBURG APRIL 17, 2004 Post Time 1:30 p.m. • Six Races with Total Purses of $140,000+ Featuring the $50,000 Temple Gwathmey Steeplechase •no the $20,000 Alfred M. Hunt Steeplechase Reserved Parking and Tickets: 540-687-6545 Fax: 540-687-3643 www.middleburgspringraces.com • Tickets on Race Day $20/person The Middleburg Hunt cordially invites you to r April 25, 2004 POST time 1:00 EM.X III Glenwood Park gjpfj Middlebukg, Virginia General admission tickets are $5 per person % in advance or $10 the day of the race, * For information call Mrs. Liam Tuohy (540) 687-3100 foal, but, since broodmare prospects are culled less stringently than stallion prospects, more average or below-average mares stay in the gene pool, according to Taylor. ‘This is a mistake,” he said. “In many ways, trying to breed a fast racehorse is like rolling a dice. There is no guarantee. (While) it’s not impossible to breed a winning racehorse using below-average mares, it’s a lot harder.” Once a mare is selected, Thylor said, every effort needs to be made to get her in foal on an early cover, lb achieve this, he placed broodmares under lights starting Dec. 1. Simply put, the Mare’s Lights Programs Taylor and John Gaines developed means of housing mares under artificial light to mimic the long days of late spring and early summer which push ner Doay into estrous. A 150-watt bulb can fool her reproductive system into thinking it’s May, her most fertile time, when actually, the calendar reads Valentine’s Day. Lights should be hooked to a timer, either in the stall or an enclosed, small paddock, that turn on at 6 a.m. and turn off at 10 p.m. The objective, Taylor explained, is to keep mares Feed your racehorses carrots and kiss them on the nose. The late Joe Taylor on one of his secrets of success in the Thoroughbred racing business under artificial or real light for a minimum of 16 hours a day. Even mares that are bred, he added, are kept under lights until the days lengthen at the beginning of May. Another Taylor Made trick to bolster the chances of successful early conception is the farm’s feeding program. With barren mares, Taylor said, he liked them “a little on the thin side, but gaining weight, really putting on the pounds, when you start the breeding season,” Feb. 15. “Shell probably get right in foal ” The early breeding date, of course, ensures an early foaling date, something almost required “if you’re looking for that halfmillion dollar foal,” Taylor said. “If they’re an early foal, they’ll be a better 2-year-old, too, and that’s where your good commercial investments start rolling in.” On foals Once the foal is bom, Taylor said, the best place for both See MASTER, Page 13 \ iow Brochures: w u w rickand.inita.com Armfield, Miller, and Ripley, Inc. Real Estate Exclusive Member of the Estates Club Exclusive Affiliate of Sotheby’s International Realty 204 East Washington Street Middleburg, VA 22117 540-687-6395 CHESWICK LOT 13 OVERLOOKING THE LAKE McCarthy Custom Homes will build and design your dream home on this special lot Unique community of Estate sized homes on 10+ acre parcels. Conveniently located about 10 minutes South of PurcellviUe and 15 minutes North of MIddleburg, this lovely area is far from the roar of commuter traffic. Strict Architectural Controls insure that all homes in the neighborhood will be of similar quality, although distinct in appearance. Very few lots remain in this unique community. Directions: From middleburg go East on Rt. 50 to Left on Sam Fred Road (748) to end. Go Left on Smckersville TUmpike (734) to Right on Watermill Road (731), just after Hibbs Bridge, to Right onto Gileswood Farm Lane to end -V \ MLSM.0488119S

Taylor From Page 11 In an interview, Taylor recalled that his first direct experience with racehorses was around age 8. “All my life my father worked with trotting horses,” he said. His father sent him to breed his favorite mare to a $100 stallion, “a lot to us, that’s for sure. He sent me ‘cause he didn’t want my mother to know about it. He told me, don't you say a word to your mother.” Taylor recalled that the resulting $600 sales weanling “probably saved the farm.” Though Taylor dropped out of high school, he share-cropped and worked with horses. Saddlebreds were his first love; fleet, racing Standardbreds soon captured his fancy. Married to the former Mary Emily Marshall in 1946, the growing family — six boys and two girls — lived near Frankfort, but Thylor soon found himself mired in debt following a few bad years of farming. Horses again rescued, and renewed, Taylor. Trainer Gene Sears offered Taylor a job at Roosevelt Raceway in New York. With Mary Emily’s encouragement, Taylor made his way north, working up to assistant trainer and learning the racing industry, as he put it, from the inside out. Upon return to Kentucky a year later, Taylor answered an ad in the Lexington HeraldLeader for an assistant farm manager’s job. That was November 1951. Taylor’s relationship with Clarence, and, later, John, Gaines of Gainesway Farm flourished, becoming one of Thoroughbred racing’s leading stud farms. Tbgether, John Gaines and Thylor worked to perfect the “Mare’s Lights Program,” an innovative industry practice now in common use to bring mares into estrous early in the spring, and improve stallion management to decrease covers. When Taylor “retired” in 1990, he joined sons Duncan, Frank, Ben and Mark at their Taylor Made Farm, then strictly a sales agency. With the Eatriarch’s input, Taylor Made as expanded to include a roster of more than a dozen stallions in addition to sales, foaling and layup divisions. “It is a fascinating, absorbing life,” Taylor wrote in his “Complete Guide to Breeding and Raising Racehorses.” “It’s what drove me the whole way.” Master From Page 12 mare and foal is outside. “Some people imagine that’s ‘cruel’ to put a foal out, but I say, once it’s up and dry, put ‘em out. That’s what nature intends. Helps that mare out, and it gets the foal moving.” Taylor explained that the early foals, barring any illness, are turned out in small, then larger, groups with their dams all day. They are brought in at night until the weather allows them to be outside around the clock. Still, Thylor prescribed bringing mares and foals into the bam for several hours each day. “The way we do it at Taylor Made is to bring ‘em up for their morning feed,” he said. “We leave them in for a few hours. That way, we can monitor the mare, handle the foal, ‘mud’ their legs, get a good head start on their manners.” The “mud” Taylor referred to is a farm-mixed poultice — he called it “Bowie mud” — applied every day to every foal’s legs from above the knee or hock to below the ankle, from early May through October. “The flies we have (around Kentucky) really make a foal want to stomp the ground” and the mud helps keep them at bay, Taylor said, adding that a young horse can damage either hooves or bone structure by trying to keep biting insects off. “It takes a little time to get it (the mud) on at first,” he said. “Arm yourself with patience, because these are valuable lessons for the impressionable young foal. Gradually, they become accustomed to having their legs handled, and learn to stand up and stand still while you’re working with them. This is an incredi bly important tool we use.” Another common Taylor Made practice is periosteal stripping, a minor surgery that can help correct crooked legs. “I know some people don’t like it,” Taylor acknowledged. “But we’ve had good results. Sometimes a horse will straighten up with a few months in the pasture, but what’re you gonna do if he doesn’t?” Straight legs are imperative for the sales yearling, and Taylor said the non-invasive, relatively See MASTER, Page 14 “The Gold Standard in Equestrian Construction” Toll-free: 1-888-GOLD-CUP (1-88846&-3287) rt#MCUHHP VI/ laorponM ] SvgTsi^ Marshall, Virginia~ Fencing, Barns, Sheds ~Va. Class A Lie. #2705 047043A ~ www.goldcupfencing.com Sunrooms-Decks-Screen Porches-Hot Tubs Call For Your FREE In-Home Consultation! V* $500 OFF ANY HOT TUB! Va)kl2n&04-&22A)4 VISIT OUR HOT TUB SHOWROOM I FINANCING AVAILABLE 800-333-9646 - 703-550-3444 -540-428-3099 WOODCRAFT SPA & PA TIO 4 4208 LEE HWY, WARRENTON Turn right at Grass Roots Complex www.woodcraftbuilders.corn (Large Yellow Building) Old Dominion Hounds Point-to-Point Saturday, April 3rd • Noon post time Ben Venue Farm, Ben Venue 16 miles west of Warrenton on U.S. 211 Seven races featuring Leeds Don Open Timber honoring that Old Dominion specialist and three-time Virginia Gold Cup winner, pictured above. 540-364-4573 or 540-636-1507

Master From Page 13 inexpensive procedure gives excellent results. On yearlings Once a foal is weaned — on the Taylor Made plan, taking one mare at a time from a larger turn-out group — Taylor said that there is a period of freedom for young horses. “Between weaning and the start of (sales) yearling preparation, their only task is to grow into strong, healthy horses.” For the most part, nature and good pastures are a horseman’s best tool to help achieve this. Other than extreme wet or windy weather, young horses should stay outside around the clock. As in their younger days, though, Taylor Made weanlings and yearlings are brought into the stable every morning, for ♦morning feed, grooming and occasional bathing. Already, Thylor said, young horses are learning to stand, pose and move off sharply at a brisk walk when led. “Once we’re starting to prep for the yearling sales,” a minimum of 80 to 100 days before the sale, “they need to be fit mentally, physically and cosmetically. “We use a variety of methods at Taylor Made,” Taylor noted. “Hand-walking, of course, and teaching hand signals like ‘whoa’ are very important. But we also use round pen training and the Equisizer free-walker, to build condition and fitness.” Summer sales yearlings are brought up early in the morning and turned out at sunset, to avoid sun-bleaching of the coat, but also “because they eat all their meals in the stall, you can adjust the amount fed to maintain precise weights,” Taylor said, “Sleep is also very important to the young horses’ growth. Quiet time inside is a better place for quality sleep.” On farm setup Taylor said that part of Thylor Made’s incredible success was due to good farm management and sensible setup. “It makes a world of difference,” he explained. “You have your bams just so, and your pastures laid out right, with the right kind of grass, the right kind of footing — it makes or breaks a consignor, having a good system.” When building a new farm, Taylor said, “Site your bam at a high point, for good drainage.” Paddocks should be planned nearby, to minimize walking and lessen chances of loose horses and resulting disasters. “Make sure your gate area footing is “hardened off to avoid becoming a mud pit,” Taylor said. “Stone dust can work, but you may have to go to asphalt if it’s a bad draining area.” For fencing, Thylor preferred board-topped diamond-mesh wire, making sure the wire was about 14 inches off the ground for ease of weed removal and mowing underneath. As for the stables, while Taylor considered 12-foot-by- 12foot stalls adequate, he preferred the slightly larger 12-by14. He suggested two doors, with outward-swinging full-length screens on both, preferably. That allows air circulation, something he considered paramount to horse health. “If your foal is lying on the stall, floor, without air movement down low, he’s laying in there with all that ammonia smell (from urine.) Not good for ‘em.” In the stall, he liked to have the feed tub hung on a bolted board. Make it removable, he said, for cleaning. Though 11 years ago, in his book, Ihylor endorsed the use of automatic waterers, since its publication in 1993 he had reconsidered that advice. Td prefer to monitor thenwater intake,” he said. “Now, I advise the use of water buckets.” He suggested feeding hay on the floor, as most designs of hay racks have been implicated in breathing problems. 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Pace From Page 15 time is the winner. The trick is to guess the pace that a particu lar hunt uses when setting the time, but the operative word here is guess — many a pair has hustled over a course for a hunt with a reputation for speed, only to find their time is too fast. The reverse is also true — HAY STRAW OATS >j;,, s5! Race Horse Quality $8.7750# BAG Hulless OATS •ll.’VSO# BAG SHAVINGS '4.-73.” cu. ft. PLASTIC BAG PELLETED BEDDING II *'•£*« -v. v:,>: * 'xv?^ *4«/35# Bag f5 M.'VBAG PaBet Price-«ll : VjT :>* #/ Complete line of Equine, * « Agricultural and Pet Feeds —— '*,fi PI »* * .. ... ,• r *jr%r vt < VjV ■ 4292 Belvoir Road, Marshall, VA S' v-r-.£ 540-253-9987 ,v /*'# 'ftffr V although refusals and falls are not penalized, they tend to slow the pair down. Occasionally a pair unknowingly travelling too fast is slowed down by a fall or refusal — and wins. Most contestants walk the course beforehand — walking being the best (and only) way to learn the course. Fast time hunter pacing is just that — the fastest time wins. For most of the divisions in the hunter paces, riders must belong to a hunt and horses must be fairly hunted. But open divisions are also offered, and these have gotten popular with show and trail riders who do not belong to a hunt, or hunt members with horses that have not been hunted. Hill topper entries also don’t have to be hunt members to participate. Details on the hunter pace series are available online at www.vasteeplechase.com or by calling the Central Entry office at (703) 777-2575. RACING FANTASY: The new field masters’ divisions give every level rider a chance to compete in steeplechase races. Photo by Julie Reardon Racing for everyone (and every horse) By Julie Reardon Times Newspapers Writer Get three horsemen of any discipline together and you’ll have at least four different opinions. But all racing horsemen agree — the future of steepl^chasing is in attracting and keeping new blood, whether owners, trainers, riders and fans. Recognizing the need to attract new participants, the North American Point-to-Point Association was formed last year to promote the sport of racing over fences and attract new participants. There is no doubt that becoming a steeplechase jockey isn’t within the realm of possibilities of most riders. The media has even taken to calling racing over fences an “extreme” sport — a term the average foxhunter could relate to. As in, extremely dangerous, requiring extremely high levels of courage, extremely low See RACING, Page 17 The Lawn Service Professionals services •New Seeding •Overseeding , , •Fertilizing •Weed Rest Control •Lime •Supplies & Recommendations to do-it-yourself SERVICE, INC. 325 Wausau Place •; |' Culpeper, VA 22701 Phone • 825-2381 www.oountytarmservice.oom FREE Yard Visit FREE Estimates FREE Soif Testing FREE Analysis & Recommendations APPLETON CAMPBELL INC. PLUMBING • HEATING • AIR CONDITIONING Prompt, Professional Service & Repair Same Day Well Pump Replacement! Same Day Water Heater Replacement! Some Restrictions May Apply 347-0765 Serving Fauquier for over 25 years. *•*##** jTi »••»!#*#*«# * HMiiMn

Old-fashioned races: Back to the basics By Julie Reardon Times Newspapers Writer For the daring foxhunter with a good jumping horse — one that perhaps lacks the speed to compete in the regular point-to-point divisions — three hunts offer oldfashioned races which form the Ruhsam Challenge Series. An old-fashioned is similar to the earliest steeplechase races, where foxhunters selected their own routes racing across country using a landmark such as a church steeple as the finish line. Tbday's old-fashioned races use three or four beacons planted at varying points at the host farm to form a course of about three or four miles. Riders start and finish at the same point, but they can go in any direction and take any route so long as they pass all the beacons, manned by outriders. Thus, a rider with a handy horse that lacks raw speed, can pick a route with more or stouter fences and race up and down mountains and still end up the winner. Riders with speedy mounts might opt for the more straightforward route to make up time in between fences, which cannot be altered during the race. Culpeper’s Joe Kincheloe, who knows how to walk a course and plan a route, has dominated this event for the past decade as well. His longtime old fashioned champion, Garth of Birmingham, who died two years ago, wasn’t even a Thoroughbred — he was an appendix Quarter Horse. But he had the qualities that win these types of races — he was a bold jumper over any obstacle, and he was handy and sure-footed at speed up and down mountains. Details on the March 6, March 21 and April 6 old-fashioned races are available from Kincheloe at (540) 547-2263. Racing From Page 16 weights and levels of fitness. The “extreme” sport of racing over fences returns this month and continues through May with one or two meets each weekend. And although the races take center stage in the hunt country, there’s actually an entire other “circuit” — one in which the average rider, with an average horse, can compete. Pony racing has long been part of tiie spring circuit. But in recent years, entries have fallen off, so the regular pony races are being replaced by pony field master chases this spring. “We’re trying to create horsemen for tiie future,” explained Graham Alcock, a former race rider who now acts as race starter. He expects the field master chases to attract more entries than pony races did. “The problem we had, is that for a lot of the ponies, [racing on the flat] fried their brains,” said Alcodi. “You can’t use the pony to do anything other than race.” In the new division, entrants follow a mounted field master at a hunting pace over a course of jumps and then check before being released to race to the finish. “It’s a requirement that the kid must have hunted on that pony” Alcock explained. “They don’t have to own it, but they do have to have hunted it. Safety is our number one issue. And we want the kid to be able to ride the pony they hunt in these races, the pony that can go in the field master chase one weekend and in a horse show the next.” The first junior field master chase will at Rappahannock on Feb. 28. Other meets that will hold junior chases include Piedmont March 20, Old Dominion April 3, Loudoun April 11 and at the Gold Cup May 1. The chases are part of the NAPPA series held around the countryside, which will hold its championships at Morven Park in Leesburg May 29. For information on the junior chases, Alcock can be reached at (540) 338-6682. Adult foxhunters also have a NAPPA series, the senior field master chase. Like the juniors, riders 16 and over on a fairly hunted horse, follow a field master, but on the flat, not over jumps. They will also halt and wait to be released for a brief sprint of approximately a quarter mile to the finish. Meets include Rappahannock Feb. 28, Farmington-Keswick March 21 and Bull Rim May 2. NAPPA events are held at hunts all around North America as a way to introduce foxhunters to racing. It also sponsors a national championship event, in which hunt members from around the country participate, at Morven Park on May 29. Besides the championship junior and adult field master chases, there will be foxhunter races on the flat and over fences and the “Beat Up Cup,” a timber race for older amateur riders. Information on NAPPA series races is available from Regina Welsh at (410) < 329-3749 or reginawelsh® msn.com or on their Web site www.NAPointtoPoint.com (540) 825*3633 load *cuipeper, Virginia www.mortomuildings.com Ask to see one of Morton’s local barns or arenas. MORTON BUILDINGS

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Sheppard named NSA president In a Thoroughbred racing career spanning nearly 40 years, Jonathan Sheppard has won nuyor races on the flat and over jumps, trained champions, been an active owner and breeder, and was inducted into racing’s Hall of Fame in 1990. Now he gets a new job. He’s been elected president of the National Steeplechase Association, succeeding George Strawbridge, who ends a five-year stint in the unpaid position. Sheppard, a Pennsylvania resident, heads a 15-member board of directors and is the 13th president in the NSA’s 109-year history. 1116 63-year-old English native, whose stable has included leading sire Storm Cat, Grade I winner With Anticipation and Hall of Fame steeplechasers Flatterer and Cafe Prince, never counted on accepting the post. Sheppard steps in at a time of growth in American steeplechasing. Last year, participation numbers like horses (570), owners (358), and races (228) all showed strong increases. Tbtal purses at 34 NSA meets and eight host racetracks reached $4,947,230, the second-highest total in history. RHINO 660 AUTOMATIC 4X4 l tUM'W'l'KML'I i Klilli'. z-wp THE CYCLE CENTER 13388 LOVERS LN, CULPEPER, VA 22701-4151 «•.«'* • . - « - * • . « . . - . . * irC^RPtT VDUSr 806 North Main Street • Culpeper, VA 540-825-5585 Wall to Wall Carpet • Sheet Vinyl Flooring • Residential & Commercial Wood Flooring • Laminate Flooring • Ceramic Tile Expert Installation CARPET REMNANTS! We Specialize in Custom Design Ceramic Tile • FREE ESTIMATES 100’s to Choose From! Florida • Dal-Tile • Marazzi • FREE SHOP AT /P~*\ HOME SERVICE ^MjpV • EXPERT INTEROR DESIGN ASSISTANCE In House Financing or Syndicate members share profits, risks Hampshire partners bound by love of horse racing By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Malcolm Barr remembers the rush of adrenaline, the chaise of excitement he felt as a boy in England, standing railside at local point-to-point races and watching the horses leap past as they cleared high hedges and stiff hurdles. He heard as much as felt the thundering hooves; he smelled the horse sweat and leather, he tasted the rolls of dust raised by the racing pack. And he saw a game custom-made for him. Alas, “... it was an impossible dream, to own one of those horses,” Barr recalls. But, 60 years and three careers later, Barr has found a way to invest in the excitement of horse racing without spending a king’s ransom for it. With partner and fellow lifelong horse racing enthusiast Bill Joyce, Barr established the Hampshire Alliance syndicate in 1988. Tbgether, they created a way to share costs, risks and winnings among partnerships formed for horse ownership. Tve always love horses and horse racing,” said English native Barr, now 70 and living in Front Royal. “But there was just no way I could afford to get into it as a private owner. “We cribbed from the pioneer of horse racing syndicates, Cot Campbell of Dogwood Stables, to learn how to put See SYNDICATE, Page 20 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker WINNING FORMULA: With syndicates of 10 to 15 owners, Malcolm Barr’s Hampshire partners share training cost and race profits*^ Brick Rambler, Fool, ;\.m, 10+ Acres Large all brick rambler with mountain views... lovely in-ground pool... inlaw apartment on main floor... sun notch/ Florida room... skvliehts.. : doors... oversized 2-car garage... wood loors...4-bedrooiBS... 4-baths... private... : to 1-66... c&Q lose for private showing... $599,000 63 R I) RUNNING OF Till: Warrenton Hunt Point-To-Point Races Saturday, March 13,2(X)4 Ajrlie Race Course Warrenton, Virginia Post Time: 12:30 pm ■ 8 races GENERAL ADMISSION One car and two people.$20.00 Each additional person .$5 00 PATRON I (Upper Hill) .$100.00 PATRON II (Middle Hill).$80.00 (540) 347-1888 (day) • (540) 219-1400 (evening)

Syndicate From Page 19 together partnerships for owning horses.” It was a successful and winning formula: Hampshire partners continue to win on the track, on paper and in particular in the entertainment department. Barr recently conducted seminars in Front Royal, aimed at attracting new owners to the sport. At two Wednesday night events, more than 15 prospective partners joined Barr and several current Hampshire members to watch syndicate horses in race videos, to learn more about syndicate horses and to question Barr about how the group is structured. “We’ve had more than 600 owners taking part in over 30 different syndicates,” Barr said as he ran down the Hampshire numbers. “We’ve had 105 wins from 440 starts, for about a 23-percent RAPPAHANNOCK HUNT POINT-TO-POINT RACES Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 1:00 pm Bleu Rock Inn, Washington, VA For Reserve Parking &. Ticket Info, contact: Janet O’Keefe. MFH 540-547-2993 For Information, contact: Oliver L. Brown, MFH 540-547-2810 Sara Maley, 540-937-3066 At the gate—$10, Advance-$7, or Book of I0-$S0 May be purchased at: Bleu Rock Inn, Washington, Waterloo Mini Mart, Warrenton, Payne Pools, Culpeper, E-Cow, Ben Venue. POINT-TO-POINT -RACESSunday, March 21,2004 First Race -12:30 p.m. Montpelier Race Course Montpelier Station, Virginia -♦$7.00 General Admission $10.00 Per Car Reserved Parking Available FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 434-980-9926 No Dogs Please win average. More than 60 percent of our horses have been ‘on the board’ (placing first, second or third). It’s a consistent product* Barr warned that while he doesn’t advise that a prospective owner join the partnership with “the rent money, if you’ve got disposable income, owning racehorses as part of a syndicate is no more expensive than joining a golf dub. And what a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon — cheering for “your’ horse at the races. It’s a great way to entertain your family and friends, too.” He added that many partners are “repeat customers” who join the two-year term syndicates over and over, and that most of the people became involved when they saw how much fun friends and family have being an active part of Thoroughbred racing. “I was forever a fan, but never thought I could afford to be a horse owner,” said Front Royal resident Gary Buckley. “My wife had seen an article about Hampshire and secretly bought me a share for Christmas last year.” Buckley’s wife knocked it out of the ballpark with her gift — the syndicate share she bought into includes 2003 claiming crown champion Landler. We Specialize in... Custom Built Bams & Riding Arenas. Also: Run-In Sheds Driveways & Roads w Additibris • Decks (703)327-4545 Fax: (703) 327-2300 AH^/ j»*l«re.rooe^ggSKw^, ussIsf^H ^1®?**' ^gafeoss. FRIENDS, FUN, ACTION: When Hampshire’s Landler became Claiming Horse of the Year, the 15-member syndicate, and associated friends, reaped fiscal and entertainment benefits. “They were comparing us to the Sackatoga syndicate" that owns *03 Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide, Buckley said with a chuckle. “Imagine, we never thought we could afford to have ‘our own’ racehorse, and here we are with a champion!” The lowdown Barr explained that Hampshire partnerships include from 10 to 15 “shares;” partners may own more than one share, but many partnerships include up to 15 partners. Each member pays a set fee: between $2,500 and $3,500 on average, for the two-year membership. “That is the only fee you’ll ever have to pay” Barr explained, adding that the seed money pays for horse purchases (mostly through claiming races), training fees, vet bills, farrier, vanning entry fees, jockey fees and other sundry items required to takg a horse from training to the races. Using carefully selected top trainers in Maryland and West Virginia, Hampshire partners start with a claim. For instance, when Maryland trainer Gary Capuano recommended the $7,500 purchase of Landler from a claiming race, Barr readily agreed for the Hampshire group. Barr said that Capuano has “a keen eye" for a horse that can be improved when taken from one stable and moved into his Laurel Park bam in Maryland. After a few weeks in Capuano’s bam, the new Hampshire horse should return to the races, perhaps at a different class or in a different level of race.

Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Sign of the times With encroaching growth a backdrop of last year’s Fairfax Hunt Point-to-Point near Leesburg, hunt master Randy Rouse has decided not to card the hunt's fall meet. Instead, the historic Bowman Bowl and Guest Cup will be run, both for $5,000, at this spring’s point-to-point meet. Syndicate From Page 20 Prize money goes into the partnership’s bankroll; if the horse runs well, he will race at a higher claiming level and thus potentially win more money if placed. If the horse runs poorly, he will be “dropped down” in class to an easier level of claiming. At the lower level, the horse should be able to win; that way, if the horse is claimed again ior me lesser price, the syndicate should, at least, have some good purse money in the bankroll in addition to the money hum the claim. And so it goes through the two-year period. At the end of the partnership, horses are sold or dispersed and partners divide the bank. Barr said that while some syndicates return just a few hundred dollars of the investment, most partnerships return more than their cost of membership. If a horse is running well at the end of the two years, the partnership can extend an extra year. Another lucky member of the Landler group, Nicole Mayer, 33, of Alexandria said a friend introduced her to Hampshire. Mayer grew up going to the TEAM LOUDOUN Remember... Experience Counts... Long & Foster Loudoun Agent & Team Leesburg, VA Integrity Matters... Professional Service Distmguishe9M H Award Winning Team Loudoun Knows the Market & Goes fl^^xtra Mile For Tout 800-618-0118 or 703-777-6777 • www.teamloudoun.com Buy Land And Build A Dream! LOVETTSVILLE - CROSSWIND FARM Fabulous 10 acres, great location, pond, underground electric. Mountain Views. $264,500 PHILOMONT - 2 GORGEOUS LOTS! Wooded & open, great views. 6.42 acres each, wells, approved septic. $275,000 and $289,000. BEACON HILL - 4.29 acres, fantastic views, rolling countryside. Well, septic field, electric service. Seller could build a custom estate home. $595,000 BEACON HILL - 10.14 acres in the rolling countryside with FANTASTIC VIEWS. Well installed, approved septic. $385,000 LEESBURG - LEE’S CROSSING. 10.29 acres, custom home site. Scenic views, board fencing, 4 bedroom approved septic. , $275,900 WESTERN LOUDOUN - WOODED 8c OPEN! 13 acres, rolling countryside, gorgeous views. $259,000 BLUEMONT - BERKELEY CHASE! - Beautiful subdivision, a sensational 11.93 acre lot, gorgeous views, board fencing. $295,000 Let our team find the perfect lot for you in Loudoun County A help you find just the right custom builder for the home of your dreams! _ Yonkers Raceway, a Standardbred track in her native New York City. She said, “I’d always loved racing, but since I'm not ‘rich,’ I had no idea I could own racehorses. “It’s so fun to go to the races and say, ‘oh, there’s my horse’,” she added. “I knew nothing at all about the language of racing, and horses, a year ago, but I’m learning. Sometimes, though, when Malcolm or the trainer is talking, I have to stop them and say, ‘Could you please speak English?’ But it’s really fun to' be part of this. So exciting.” * Barr said he has three new Hampshire partnerships forming now, two with claiming horses and a new fare with three West Virginia-bred, unraced youngsters with promise to compete in allowance company. More details can be found by calling Barr at (540) 636-1543 or e-mailing him at barrl27@ yahoo.com. Bull Run Hunt Point-to-Point Birmingham Farm • Feb. 15th • 12 Noon Birmingham Rd. Culpeper, VA 8 Races Plus Draft Sprint Terrier Racing Tailgate Contest For Tickets or Info, Call Travis White 703-830-0649(H) • 703-866-0507(W Horse Mortality Major Medical Farm/Estates Equine Liability Commercial Operations I nstructors/Tra iners Workers Compensation ah&t INSURANCE Serving the equestrian community since 1921 Tara Trout Armfield, Harrison & Thomas 20 South King Street, Leesburg, Virginia 20175 Phone (703) 737-2244 Fax (703) 771-1852 Toll Free (800) 648-4807 ttrout@ahtins.com www.ahtins.com

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The last laugh You can't beat a dead horse (nor can you tell the government how to plan) The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says, “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.” However, in government (and in corporate America) more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1. Buying a stronger whip. 2. Changing riders. 3. Appointing a committee to study the horse. 4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride horses. 5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. 6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired. 7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. 8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed. 9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse’s performance. 10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead Crown From Page 22 leading ‘chase owner), had several talks with top Churchill Downs executives in an attempt to keep the first leg at Churchill,’’ Gallo said. “Unfortunately, for this year, a solution coma not be reached.” This year’s Triple Crown (restricted to horses that did not break their hurdle maidens before March 1,2003) looks competitive, thanks to a number of new additions to the steeplechase ranks last year. Major flat winner Gritty Sandie (2-for-2 over jumps) is a player for . Middleburg’s Kinross Farm (leader, along with farm trainer Neil Morris, on the Virginia circuit). So is Martin Cherry’s flat convert Serazzo (also unbeaten in two starts). horse’s performance. 11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses. 12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses. 13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position. 1840 2004 63nd Annual Piecfenont Fox Hounds Foint-lb~Point Races Match 20,2004 Salem Course, Uppervile Post Time 1pm • Hunter Pairs 9:30am Hurdle & Timber Races • Prestigious Rokeby Bowl Reserved Parking and Tickets: 540-341-4777 Advertising: 540-364-3833 General Parking $20/per car NT COUNTRY POOL BUILDERS. IN1 Construction • Renovation • Design ^RdoTT^SPA's • WATERFAinSfcj lE^FOyNTAINS • PATIOS J*® Residential • Commercial 540-364-3609 Erl KB* Owner Jeff Gable License * Class A 039879 540)338-333 M GARAGE DOORSJ SALE • SERVICE * INSTALLATION RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURAL Specializing in: SECTIONAL DOORS, ROLLING STEEL DOOR, FIRE DOORS A LOADING DOCK EQUIPMENT PIEDMONT DOOR SERVICE LLC 15532 Montanus Dr. Suite G Culpeper w540-829-03293= Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker FORGET SOMETHING? A unique new event at Glenwood Park last fall was the inaugural jockey’s foot race. Toe grabs (shoes, even) were prohibited, as were whips and spurs.

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