Rappahannock News, February 15, 2007

■ v Jtiappahaknock County's Family Newspaper*$m(% 1877*, 129th Year ... No. 7 Phone (540)675-3338 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 20Q7 Worldwide at timescommunity.com 50 CENTS *•"' '• _ :'V; /:vy • .-./...:.; - - .- ' f . Photo by Christine Krapf 'i$ BOWLED OVER: For the first time in school history, the Rappahannock County High School Scholastic Bowl qualified for the Group A state * tournament with its second-place finish at the Region B tournament : Saturday in Gretna. The team includes, standing from left, Rachel Zeh, co-captain A.J. Collins (holding the team mascot Ownle), Nancy Herbert, co-captain Clay Vickers, Jesse Palmer, Matt Bywaters and Josh Makela, and seated, Amber Long, Chris Anderson and coach Dave Naser. ' f-sra; Ssv,3u-lA : * ** • 5j> *’ ’; ? . 4- % ji “> I is f ■■„'« ')-* ; * ‘ “S',. **, g,’*1-*1' * % , -.Vf .-- * .r RCHS academic team heads to State tournament ■:V.>v } v r«v • v-,: ■ M By Christine Krapf Special to the Rappahannock News After the fourth question in the third round against 'Randolph Henry High School, junior Nancy Herbert mouthed these words: “We’re going to states.” She, along with several mem* of the Rappahannock. County High School Scholastic Bowl team, -had been keeping unofficial tallies of the match. But unofficial quickly, became official, as the correct answer to that question s$> early in the con- : eolation . championship round Wmi W Dominion power line to slice through Rappahannock Existing right-of-way to be expanded by up to 150 feet By Don Del Rosso Rappahannock News Staff Writer The idea of building a 500,000volt transmission line through Rappahannock County to serve Northern Virginia mystifies him. “I can’t understand them running it tfiat way,” County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bob Anderson (Stonewall-Hawthome District) said last week. “It doesn’t make a lotf of sense to me.” Still, Dominion Virginia Power announced Tuesday it wants to do just that. It proposes to build a new transmission line along an existing rightof-way through parts of Culpeper, Fauquier, Rappahannock, Prince William and Loudoun counties. In doing so, Dominion would avoid the northern Piedmont, where Realtors, landowners, conservation groups and wineries have relentlessly opposed putting a power line through some of the most pristine countryside in Virginia. Dominion identified the route as its “preferred” alternative last week. “We believe it has the least overall impact to the region and it had similar electrical benefits* to any route in the original study corridor, Dominion vice president for electric transmission John Smatlak said Tuesday. That original corridor encompasses portions of Frederick, Warren, northern Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William counties. See POWER, Page A2 Existing Dominion power lines Sources: Piedmont Environmental Council, Google Earth Fauquier Times-Democrat Graphic/Steve Wheat 7 1 Wildfire Season begins February 15; 4 p.m. law goes into effect February 15 marks the beginning of the wildfire season in Virginia. Weather and fuel conditions make late winter and early spring a time of extended fire danger according to Mike Santucci, Rappahannock County Forester for the Virginia ' Department of Forestry. The following offices will be dosed Monday, Feb. 19, in observance of George Washington Day: The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles offices and customer service centers All Rappahannock County government offices Rappahannock National Bank BB&T in Flint Hill The Rappahannock County Planning Commission will meet at 7:30 p.m on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at the County Courthouse on Gay Street. AGENDA NEW BUSINESS - RZ#07-01 -01 CIM Real Estate Rezoning* - SU#07-01-02 Updike Family Apartment* - SU#07-01-03 Liscomb Small Contracting Business* v 4 - SE#07-02-01 %¥4Lee efficiency Apartment* INFORMATIONAL - Notice of Variance Request. Butler Property, Sperryville* Rappahannock News P.O. Box 59 Washington, Va. 22747 (540) 675-3338 (540^675-3088 (fax) “We place extra focus on the spring because grasses, leaves, twigs, branches, and downed tree limbs are fully dry and available to bum with the change in seasons. With the dry, warm winds and low humidity that often accompany the arrival of spring; conditions are often conducive for wildfire activity.” Santucci says that the period of increased fire danger will remain until the vegetation begins growing again, and the daily humidity increases. r The- onset of wildfire season also means that the 4 p.m. law goes into effect. This law prohibits burning in or within 300 feet of woodland, brushland, or fields containing dry grass or other flammable materials capable of spreading fire to the woodland before 4 p.m. each day between February 15 and April 30. In addition, Santucci reminds people that it is illegal to leave any fire within 150 feet of dry fuel unattended, and people must take prop er precautions to prevent the escape of their fire. In 2006, there were 1,267 wildfires that burned 13,664 acres of forest land in the Commonwealth. Wild land fires in 2006 in Virginia caused $8.5 million in damage to timber and $2.8 million in damage to homes and other structures. “If not for the suppression efforts of VDOF employees and local firefighters, 882 homes and other structures would have been damaged by these wildfires. Band uniforms donated to Katrina victims By Krista Hale Special to the Rappahannock News Thanks to the generosity of the community and local businesses, the Rappahannock County Band Boosters were able to supply the high school band with new uniforms this school year. As a result, the boosters have See BAND, Page A3 Photo by Matt Yon key BANDING TOGETHER: Members of Rappahannock’s high school band boxed up their old uniforms to send to New Orleans. M if Nature Camp! Lyt Wood wants to get the word out about this summer’s Nature Camp. J^pply early for summertime fun. A see Page B1. * Chesapeake Clean-Up What does the farm bill have to do with cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay? Foundation officials sound offv See Page A7. Ben’s back! Ben Jones and a host of musical friends return with “Cooter's Excellent Adventure” playing at The Theatre., See Page B1. Jenkins resigns Rhonda Jenkins has decided to step down as Rappahannock’s varsity girls basketball coach. See Page A5.

ARB revisits # .BY KEVIN ALLEN Rappahannock News Staff Writer The Worley property on the north end of the Tbwn of Washington has come full circle. In 2003 and 2004, the land where Main Street becomes Fodderstack Road was embroiled in litigation sparked by an Architectural Review Board ruling that denied Sid and Mary Catherine Worley’s request to build a house using synthetic materials. The ARB considered another application for construction on the property at its monthly meeting on Feb. 8, but this time the proposal was much less contentious. Old House Builders, which is under contract to buy two lots from the Worleys, is applying to build two historic-looking homes in the Cape Cod style. Steve Dareing and Bill Christian represented the Sperryville-based company at the meeting and said they hope to break ground on the houses between mid-March and early-May. Mindful of any precedents they may be setting by approving the application, board members wanted to proceed with caution on the matter. “We don’t often have one new house, let alone two, proposed in this town,” ARB Chairman Patrick O’Connell said. Board members agreed that the planned designs of the two houses would complement the historic character of Washington, but the application did not specify the precise location of the proposed structures. That shortfall led ARB members to ask Dareing and Christian to return to the board’s March meeting with a more complete application. The problem with that request was that Darerng and Christian are under contract to buy the property and thencontract would expire before the ARB’s meeting next month. As a solution, the board decided to approve Old House’s application on the condition that Dareing and Christian return in March with a finalized survey of the plat. The Worleys’ plan to build their $500,000 “dream house” was thwarted in March 2003, when the ARB decided their proposed to build a historiclooking house with synthetic materials did not comply with the town’s historic district ordinance. The Flint Hill couple unsuccessfully appealed the ARB’s decision before the Washington Town Council, and then sued the town for nearly $1 million in deunages. After 13 months of litigation, the Worleys and town officials eventueilly settled out of court for $75,000 in September 2004. Historic consequences The Worleys sued the town based on the position that the historic district ordinance was vague euid allowed for arbitrary decisions by the ARB. That led Washington officieds < to steut crafting specific historic district guidelines, which are now being finalized. At a joint meeting between the ARB and the Town Planning Commission on Feb. 8, the two groups completed their review of the 100-plus pages in the guidelines. 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Contact us today 540.439.0441 www.wmsdumpster.com_ Join Us for a Wine Tasting Thursday, March 1st, 2007 In Ripley Hall 6:00 PM -10:00 PM Featuring Napa Valley Wines & A 5-Course Menu Prosciutto and Figs with Goat Cheese Chappellet-Chenin Blanc-2004 Iceberg flilienne with Apple & Radish Dijon Vinaigrette Honig-Sauvignon Blanc-2005 Blue Marlin with 01 tie Red Pepper Truffle Oil Hendry-Chardonnay-2004 Fikt Mignon with Caramelized Onion and Red lVine Reduction Lang & Reed-Cabernet Franc-2005 , Chocolate Trilogy Broum-Zinfandel-2004 $65.00 Per Guest thi - inim r ———rr iVaseCall tor RevTwik.m I05S9 Edwards Shop Road. Rroimgton. VA 227M S40-3W-I77S ww w JnnatteUysford i om Bowl From Page A1 Saturday afternoon clinched Rappahannock County’s Group A berth to the state tournament. “I’m proud of the accomplishment,” said head coach Dave Naser, whose Panthers eventually finished second in the Region B tournament to Bull Rim District rival George Mason. “This was a great team effort. We knew what we were up against, but we met the expectations.” Rappahannock County and George Mason will participate in the eight-team state tournament Feb. 24 at The College of William & Mary. This will be Rappahannock County’s first-ever appearance in the Scholastic Bowl state tournament, which is only 9 years old. It will open against Radford, the defending state champion. George Mason, however, has been the state runner-up two of the past three years. The Panthers are 0-7 against the Mustangs this year, but 15-0 against all other district and regional competitors. “Playing Mason has trained us quite well for the state tournament,” Naser said. But Rappahannock’s road to state qualification was not an easy one. It found itself in the same bracket as George Mason in this double-elimination tournament. And the Mustangs would be their likely opponents in the second round if the teams won their opening matches. The tournament consisted of three rounds. The first and third rounds are 15, toss-up questions. The second round includes 10 directed questions for each team. George Mason had no trouble in its opening round match, soundly defeating Luray, 27030. Wilson Memorial, a state tournament qualifier a year ago, gave the Panthers a much tougher first match before los ing 180-140. In the second match, Rappahannock gave the Mustangs perhaps their best match of the season, At one point midway through the third round, Rappahannock pulled within 180-170. But George Mason reeled off five consecutive correct answers en route to a 260-190 win. “A lot of' questions they (George Mason) take a guess at, and they end up getting it right,” Naser said. “I was pleased with the way we did in that match. A 70-point difference isn’t bad at all.” No team had come closer to George Mason this season. The loss to the Mustangs dropped Rappahannock County into the losers bracket. The difficult position did not seem to phase the Panthers, who rolled over William Campbell, 285100, Altavista, 290-70, and Randolph Henry, 225-70, to reach the regional final. Rappahannock’s starting four of seniors Clay Vickers, Jesse Palmer and Josh Makela and sophomore A.J. Collins played nearly every round. They seemed to surprise themselves with their guesses on some questions. “The Democratic Republic of the Congo,” said Naser, recalling one of the answers that Collins got right against Altavista. “So we came up with a large, African country, and we were right.” Rappahannock County briefly considered forfeiting the championship, but decided to play. George Mason, whose players waited more than two hours before learning their opponent in the final match, scored an easy 285-95 win. “I’m glad that our kids were able to bounce back from the loss (to George Mason),” Naser said. “There were a number of really smart kids at regionals and answering questions. I think we’ve had a lot of hard work. There’s been a lot of preparation. Tm hoping it’s going to be enough to take us over the top at states.” Power From Page A1 “Obviously, the big difference with’' the new route “is it’s all along existing right-ofway,” Dominion spokesman Jim Norvelle said Tuesday. “The other ones we would have to acquire right-of-way. This led us to preferring this route we’re announcing today” Right-of-way for the new alignment measures at least 150 wide, according to Smatlak. In places, Dominion would need to expand it to accommodate the new line. On Wednesday, County Administrator John McCarthy said in an e-mail that the plan calls for an additional 100 to 150 feet of right-of-way paralleling the existing line, which stretches from Chester Gap to Amissville in the eastern part of Rappahannock. In places where there are residences on both sides of the corridor, McCarthy said Dominion officials would attempt to build an alternate facility that would require less space or “perhaps even work in existing right-of-way for short stretches.” McCarthy said Dominion officials indicated that they intended “as far as possible” to respect existing properties in conservation easements, but not any new “blocking” easements. New towers averaging 125 feet to 140 feet tall would replace existing structures to accommodate the proposed line. The right-of-way includes 500,000-, 230,000- and 115,000volt lines, Smatlak said. Dominion seldom discloses a preferred transmission line route before making an application to the State Corporation Commission, which determines need and location issues. “I would say it’s unusual,” Norvelle said of Tuesday's announcement Dominion will seek SCC approval for a line in April. Nationally, the placement of transmission lines has become an increasingly “open and collaborative” process, said Norvelle, who joined Dominion 21 years ago. Asked about reaction to the project, he said: “It certainly has been the strongest opposition to any previous transmission line project.” Dominion wants the line operating by 2011. Without it, Northern Virginia could face “rolling blackouts,” according to the company. The Warrenton-based Piedmont Environmental Council will continue to fight Dominion’s plan for a line, even though the utility wants to move it farther south, the organization’s vice president Doug Larson said Tuesday. “We still fundamentally feel [Dominion officials] have never addressed the demand for the power line,” Larson said. "Ibis is merely moving it to a different location.” PEC will hold an information meeting at 7 p.m. on Feb. 27 in Liberty High School’s auditorium to provide southern Fauquier residents an overview of Dominion’s proposal. “So, by no means is [Dominion’s new route] the end of opposition to this line,” Larson said. Dominion claims the line primarily would serve Northern Virginia. PEC insists it would provide cheap electricity to the Northeast. Such a line would generate huge profits for Dominion, which would collect revenue based on the number of megawatts it carries. Dominion officials were scheduled to meet with McCarthy on Wednesday to discuss the new route, but the meeting was canceled following an ice storm Tuesday night. Dominion routing specialist John Bailey and two consultants planned to explain the project’s history and purpose to McCarthy at a closed meeting in his office on Gay Street. The county administrator said the meeting has been rescheduled for next week. McCarthy last Wednesday talked by phone with a Dominion representative who told him Bailey would be “in the area” this week. They wanted to know if the county administrator would be available to discuss using the existing right-of-way for the proposed line. “And my response was “Yeah, we definitely want to!’ “ McCarthy recalled. He learned of Dominion’s interest in the Rappahannock right-of-way on Jan. 23, when the utility released three new potential power line routes. Besides the Rappahannock option, the Jan. 23 maps show an alignment that would use the Interstate 66 right-of-way in Fauquier and an option to bury a line, which roughly would track 1-66. Dominion and its partner Allegheny Power want to link a substation near Winchester with one near Areola in Loudoun County. Dominion officials said they developed the Jan. 23 options partly in response to citizens who last fall attended public workshops on proposed power line alignments. But the map released by Dominion showing Dominion’s existing right-of-way has caused considerable confusion. It shows a large portion of the right-ofway in Fauquier. As depicted by Dominion, the right-of-way stretches from Fauquier’s northwest comer near Linden, along the Fauquier side of the Rappahannock River, to Opal. Apparently, though, Dominion doesn’t own nearly that much right-of-way in Fauquier along the river. “Is this alternative meant to be in Rappahannock or is there some right-of-way in Fauquier that I don’t know about?” r McCarthy said. “Is the map correct or not? I have no idea." Others also have questioned the map’s accuracy, Dominion has acknowledged. The company soon plans to produce more precise drawings of the right-ofway’s location. (The PEC has produced a map that puts most of the right-of-way in question in Fauquier. So has the Fauquier County Geographic Information Systems department.) Apparently only a relatively small portion of Dominion’s right-of-way cuts through Fauquier’s northwestern tip, then crosses the Rappahannock River into Rappahannock County for several miles before re-entering Fauquier near Opal. The rightrof-way and existing line then proceed to Remington, east to Morrisville and then northeast through Prince William County and Loudoun. Tb his knowledge, the rightof-way through Rappahannock measures 150 feet to perhaps 350 feet wide, McCarthy said. McCarthy will be armed with plenty of questions for Bailey and his consultants when they meet next week. Rappahannock’s Anderson said he believes Dominion views the existing right-of-way for the proposed line as the “path of lease resistance ... I just wish they would go away.” Police Briefs Single vehicle accident Larnell Bannister, 55, from Unionville, Va. was charged with reckless driving after he ran off the right side of Highway 522 near Road 621. According to the State Police Department, Bannister hit a tree with his 2001 Ford Ranger and over corrected hitting the embankment on the opposite side. He was transported the Culpeper hospital for treatment. Gas drive off Q-mart on U.S. 211 called to report that someone had left the station, failing to pay for $25 in gas. , The incident occurred on February 9, and the case is still tinder investigation. Naughty NASCAR fan? A resident of Earnhardt Road called the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office on February 10 to report that someone had stolen their road sign. We are pleased to welcome Khaled F. Said, MD, as an emergency medicine specialist at Culpeper Regional Hospital. Dr. Said is affiliated with Skyline Emergency Physicians of Virginia and is one of the specialists providing emergency care in Culpeper Regional Hospital's Emergency Department. Dr. Said is a medical graduate of Ain Shams University in Cairo. 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Bill seeks to allow Virginia wineries to self-distribute By Nadiya Abraham Capital News Service >Va' ~ 7116 ^ebate over the right of Virginias wineries to self-distribute their product rages on in the General Assembly. Delegate Christopher B. Saxman, Rbtaunton, proposed a bill that would give winerie3 the right to self-distribute up to d.OOU cases of wine a year directly to retailers. , .^8. important that farm wineries regain their rights,” Saxman said, referring to past years when Virginia wineries had the right to self-distnbute their product. _ A ^9?® U.S. district court ruling made use ot distributors mandatory for wine businesses, t decision resulted from a court case in which a federal court found Virginia’s self-regulatory practices unconstitutional. The court said wineries from other states were required to use distributing companies to place their products in the Virginia market. ^nn Heidig, president of the Virginia Wineries Association, said that as a result of the recent restriction, wine businesses in Virginia are losing significant amounts of profit. Consumers, she said, now face the problem of fewer wine choices and higher costs. Small wineries in Virginia, which cannot afford to pay distributors, also are facing the threat of going out of business, Heidig said. Delegates Teriy G. Kilgore, R- Gate City, and Clarence E. Phillips, D- Castlewood, support the idea of wineries having the right to self-regulate, but with limitations. “We can’t just have open distribution,” Kilgore said. Even without open distribution, Kilgore said there’s still a way to have wineries stay in control of their businesses. Kilgore’s legislative assistant, Mike Reynold, said the delegate wants to hear the debate on the committee floor before choosing sides on the bill. “There are amendments that greatly alter the nature of the bill, and the reasons why delegates support it could change,” Reynold said. “He (Kilgore) wants to consider the intended and unintended consequences.” Agreeing with Kilgore, Phillips said the decision needs to be constitutional. “I generally favor giving more rights to the wineries, but those rights have to stay within the constitution,” Phillips said. An amendment to Saxman’s bili this past week changed the nature of the bill. A stateestablished corporation would be utilized as mediator. “It (the bill) basically allows the wineries to distribute their own product, but the state is the wholesale license holder,” Saxman said. The compromise to Saxman’s HB2450 also states that in addition to providing wholesale wine services to wineries, the corporation would be responsible for annual reports of business activities at the wineries. The substitute to HB2450 passed the House and has been referred to the Senate. Bush comes to Shenandoah to announce drive for parks funding By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer President Bush came to the snowy Blue Ridge Mountains on Feb. 7 to pledge his support for Shenandoah National Park and the rest America’s nationad park system. Bush was in Rappahannock County’s backyard to drum up support for his National Parks Centennial Initiative, which is designed to generate up to $3 billion during a 10-year period leading up to the National Park Service’s 100th birthday in 2016. The president’s plan cadis for the government to spend $100 million per year during the next 10 years - $1 billion in all - for park improvements, an additional 3,000 seasonal employees and increased funding for park maintenance. “That’s going to matke the job of the folks who, for example, run the Shenamdoadi Park much easier,” Bush saiid. “And more importamtly, make the customer service - in other words, the citizen service - richer for somebody who comes and uses our parks.” The other $2 billion of the initiative will come from a matching funds program. Bush’s plan will attempt to stimulate private donations to the parks by calling for $100 million per year in federal money to be spent to match citizens’ contributions during the next 10 years. “it’s a bold program that cadis upon the government to do its part, as well as our citizens to become invested in a campaign to really enhance the parks,” Bush said. “I’m looking forward to working with both Republicans and Democrats to get this initiative passed.” The president is allotting $2.4 billion for the park service’s 2008 budget year that begins Oct. 1. That figure is Photo by Tami Heilemann/U.S. Department of the Interior President Bush and Secretary of the interior Dirk Kempthome visited Shenandoah National Park on Feb. 7 to highlight the National Park Centennial Initiative. $250 million higher than last year’s budget and is the largest funding increase the NPS has ever received. Shenandoah stands to receive an additional $1.8 million in fiscal 2008 - a 17 percent increase over its fiscal 2006 budget. The average budget increase for the nation’s 390 national parks was 14 percent. The funding is sorely needed for the national park system, which operates with a budget shortfall of more than $800 million annually, according to the National Parks Conservation Association. “This funding will go far to help national parks like Shenandoah,” said Catharine Gilliam, NPCA’s Virginia program manager. “We look forward to working with Congress to support this budget request as the beginning of an effort to prepare our national parks for their second century.” In Shenandoah, Gilliam said park officials will not only be able to compensate for past cutbacks on park maintenance but also increase the number of ranger programs offered in the park. “The quality of the ranger programs in Shenandoah National Park is very good, but the number of offerings had been reduced each season,” she said. Gilliam said it is important for localities, civic organizations and businesses that benefit from Shenandoah and other national parks to encourage representatives in Congress to approve the funding boost. “It’s just a start, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction to getting parks funded at the level they should bq,” she said. E-mail the reporter at kallen@timespapers. com Band From Page A1 now made the unanimous decision to send the old uniforms to the New Orleans School Outreach Program to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina. Recently, the RCHS band students have been selling Mardis Gras beads at school to raise money for shipping the old uniforms. Booster president Kathryn Treanor has made arrangements with Wilson Trucking to ship the uniforms. “Thanks to the Vice President, Owen Wilson, for dropping the price,” said a delighted Ms. Treanor. Additional funds will be raised at the Mardis Gras Dance to be held for students at RCHS on Friday, Feb. 16 from 8 to 11 p.m. Admission is $5 and will include refreshments, DJ Dos Allen, and live local band, Object to Nothing. Beads will also be for sale at the dance. ■•rotrrl Your Homo cY (Millers from IVinlor Siiou A; l<*«k!! f No more dangerous ladders. f Ends cleaning chore forever. f Keeps you safe from falling. GutfehHelmet^ PROTECTION SYSTEMS Division of Gregory’s Inc. WINTER SPECIAL m% ed(?i? 100 ft. minimum Expires 2/28/2007 Clo*» A lie - VA *270) 006389A WVA #000554 t „ Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen Taste of Rappahannock Amanda Montgomery, Nathan Vassar and Walker Rowe get a taste of Gadino Cellars chardonnay from owner Bill Gadino on Sunday at the winery’s tasting room. Vassar, a legislative aide to Sen. 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Editorial & Opinion ftappatannotb J^etos. Established 1877 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Thursday ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL, PUBLISHER Anita L. Sherman, Editor Peter W. Arundel, President John T. Toler, Executive Vice President _ Jan Clatterbuck, Office Manager 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: asherman@timespapers.com Hours: 8:30 a m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday , Member, Audit Bureau of Circulations www.TimesCommunity.com THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15,2007 Our View Cleaning up the Chesapeake High-stakes games of political poker — the pot is the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay watershed — are being played in Richmond and Washington. The watershed includes rivers such as the Shenandoah, Potomac, Rappahannock and Rapidan. In 2006 the Shenandoah was listed as one of the 10 most endangered rivers in the United States. Mystifying fish kills in the Potomac and Rappahannock are being studied by a special task force. All of the rivers carry levels of pollution that scientists consider significant threats. Each river is the source of drinking water for residents who live everywhere from tiny, mountain hamlets to the megalopolis of Northern Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, a group committed to seeing the Chesapeake Bay is returned to some semblance of historical health, is knee-deep in both games. The Richmond game involves a document named the Chesapeake Bay Agreement. The agreement — the latest version was signed at the dawning of this century — is the pledge of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, the Chesapeake Bay Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency to rehabilitate the bay. This is one of the pledges: By 2010, work with local governments, community groups and watershed organizations to develop and implement locally supported watershed management plans in two-thirds of the Bay watershed covered by this Agreement. These plans would address the protection, conservation and restoration of stream corridors, riparian forest buffers and wetlands for the purposes of improving habitat and water quality, with collateral benefits for optimizing stream flow and water supply. 1 he Washington game is pinned to the 2007 Federal Farm Bill. The bill is important for two reasons. First it provides for billions of dollars go to for tasks such as restoring and preserving wetlands, environmentally friendly land use, and improving water quality. Second, farm bills such as this are considered every five years. “We see this as a golden opportunity,” Chesapeake Bay Foundation Federal Affairs Director Doug Siglin told the Times Community Newspapers’ Editorial Board at its February meeting. So golden the CBF and other bay advocates have kicked off an intense effort to make sure both media and politicians understand how important both poker games are to state agriculture operations. “We have known for years that one of the biggest sources of bay pollution was agricultural runoff,” said Charles Epes, the CBF’s Virginia communications coordinator. “We used to stand downstream and talk about these problems that were coming from upriver. Now we’re going upriver, to the source.” As part of its campaign, CBF wants to make sure Virginia farmers get their share of the federal farm bill aid money. In so doing they hope to help farmers, who constantly battle higher costs and smaller profit margins, with practices that can be cheaper and better for the environment. The CBF also wants to make sure counties and municipalities consider the runoff damage created bv helter-skelter pavement projects that won’t allow water runoff to seep into the ground that helps filter it before it dumps into streams and rivers. If successful on both fronts, the CBF will have moved Virginia that much closer to making the 2010 deadline of its Chesapeake Bay Agreement. We should support the CBF and similar environmental groups. Each of us depends on clean water and a healthy food chain. Each of U3 has chips in both high-stakes games. tfK-ME6ULXT£llS!!WEuk^0UM6A5 tT t$NT fl» fflmiPiTep we will inoicamitmh ..whw, 1 £ $AV, Wiu. KEAN KATE INCREASES,* fteft/N -, Letters Shining praise I would like to thank everyone for the wonderful response to the first annual Lights of Love. I have many people to thank: Sheri Mercier of Accent Travel for her donation of our sign, Ann Smith, Beverly Atkins, Jay Miller, Piedmont Properties, Sharon Dodson, William Smoot, Jodi and Mark Weaver, Sean Marsh, Dr. Robert Chappell and Tim at the bus shop, Denise Chandler and Anita Sherman and many more. Thank you for all the wonderful comments. We will make this an annual event because it is a wonderful way to let your love shine bright during the holidays. Diana Corbin Slate Mills Happy New Year! Some of us who are involved with the special education program at the public schools would like to organize a recreational club for current and former special ed students. We are thinking in terms of a monthly social get-together at the Flint Hill Fire House. For our first meeting, we’re planning to run bingo at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 9. There will be prizes for the winners and drinks and snacks will be available. Parents and siblings are welcome. There will be no charge for games or food. If you are interested and have comments or suggestions contact Sherry Hamill-Huff at 675-3848 or P.O. Box 116, Flint Hill, VA 22627. An RSVP by the week before the event would make it so much easier to plan, but anyone would be welcome even without responding. If you would like to be informed of future events, please get your address to Sherry. These are not a schoolsponsored functions, but the information is being sent out by the office of the Director of Special Ed because of the confidentiality of the students’ information. We would like to be able to create our own mailing list, but cannot without your - cooperation. Thank you for you interest and we look forward to seeing you on March 9. Sherry Hamill-Huff Flint Hill Monument To Honor All Veterans Put, Present & Future Sperryvitte' Cemetery Sponsored fay VFW Post 1150 30 in Honor them by remembering ... Freedom is their gift' The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1150 located in Sperryville plans to erect a lasting memorial to all veterans who honorably served their country. A copy of the proposed monument and a sketch of the area in the Sperryville Cemetery where the monument will be erected is available from the VFW upon request. Our goal for completion is May 2007 with plans for a memorial service to commemorate this monument. A program of events will be finalized by VFW Post 1150 before this date and the community will be welcome to attend. Membership in Post 1150 is very small and our funds extremely limited. This memorial belongs to all veterans — past, present and future - and touches the lives of each and every citizen. As such, we are relying on the generosity of the citizens of Rappahannock County to assist Post 1150 in funding this project. We are seeking your contribution to help support this cause. All contributions to the VFW are tax deductible. The mailing address for donations is VFW Post 1150, Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 161, Sperryville, VA 22740. We need your support for the success for this long overdue memorial. Please remember - this memorial belongs to all of us. James Swindler, Quartermaster VFW Post 1150 Get ready for a power line fight Dear Rappahannock community and neighbors, We are in for a huge fight if we intend to defeat Dominion’s plans to add another 500-kilovolt electrical transmission line along our northeastern border parallel to the existing fine built there in the 1970s. Many of you are aware I am sure that it was a similar fight that brought the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection into existence. In 1970-71, RLEP and this community won the fight to prevent the construction of an even more intrusive power line that would have bisected this county in a visually devastating way. Sadly, we were then unable to defeat the next power line proposal that was built shortly thereafter, and which today runs through the county from two miles east of Route 522 (coming out of Fauquier County in the North), crossing routes 637, 647, 637 again, 645, 643 and 699 before exiting the county 0.6 miles north of Route 211 (into Culpeper County in the east). At no point in Rappahannock County is the power line more than two miles from the Rappahannock River and the Fauquier County line. RLEP has been anticipating that Dominion might abandon its plans to build their proposed new line through -Fauquier County near Interstate 66 in favor of a route through Rappahannock and Culpeper counties. That switfch in Dominion plans is now a reality. RLEP supported the Piedmont Environmental Council in the fight against ANY new high-voltage power line in the Piedmont, as there are other alternatives to the strategy of moving power from dirty coal-fired power plants in the Ohio Valley to power-hungiy users across the Northeast. This battle can be waged with many arguments from a host of organizations, citizens and the governments of several affected counties. RLEFs Power line Task Force will meet today in the Town of Washington to work on strategies and to continue to organize our internal leadership on this issue. I suspect that one of our near-term strategies will be to call for a community meeting on this issue, probably to take place over the weekend. Watch Rappnet and RappVoice for announcements and details. We will also use our RLEP email Action Alert List. If any of you are prepared to take a significant role as part of RLE P's core group on this issue, please e-mail me off-list. I need to staff our RLEP effort with a few more lead volunteers who have the time and passion to devote to this serious, emerging issue. You need not be a member of RLEP. More to come. Regards to all, Paul Farmer, President Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection Point/Counterpoint response Thanks for this timely and interesting series. I hope well see more. I enjoyed reading both the articles and made numerous notes on the newspaper as I read. The quantity of my notes dictated that I could only address one of the themes (the Sane Economy) and that only in a macro sense. While I fully agree that we desperately need better stewardship of our planet, my opinion is that Ms. Theodore’s premise is built on a foundation of quicksand. We have seen too many failures of centralized command economies to believe that, no matter how smart or well intentioned, a government commission will get it right. The mandatory limit to gross national product is based on a false premise - a static population. The mandatory limit to growth and the theoretical nogrowth production system makes no sense without population control. How else can we prevent the need for “ever more paying jobs”? Are we ready for that? If you rec^jve a stipend with or without working, my bet is that a lot of people just will not work and do what “they love” without regard to overall needs. Who will then do the heavy lifting to produce the essential goods for these nonworking folks (and why)? Along those lines, if you choose to work, why is a contract necessary for those who do? Sort of a strange idea stuck in the middle of the paragraph. Schools appear to be government propaganda machines teaching us what’s good for us. Whoops, I’m slipping into details. How does the government decide (a frightening term) how much to hold back before paying am equal share to all the rest of us citizens for the work we choose to do or not to do? Government bureaucrats playing entrepreneur scare me. What about all the other countries on the planet? They will certainly influence decisions in the “sane economy” dreamland. Particularly those who want in on the deal of pay for no work or look for cheap goods in trade. I think our human nature is about 2 million years from reaching a point as 4 species where we are as altruistic as Ms. Theodore believes we need to be to make this work. I’d rather stick with the concept that I’ll be rewarded for my ingenuity and hard work. That’s an outcome I can trust; not the thinking of some faceless bureaucrats who so far haven’t gotten it right. We are not all truly equal as this system requires (or as Orwell put it, “Not all pigs are created equal.”) I also fervently hope we never will be. Our differences and the resultant variances in abilities, preferences and visions are the central reason we have progress in all areas of human endeavor, such as the arts, science and technology. Bill Freitag Flint Hill Letters to the Editor We welcome your opinions and comments. Letters must be exclusive to the Rappahannock News, must be signed and include the writer’s telephone number and home address which can be verified (not for publication). Due to space limitations, published letters are subject to abridgment for length, accuracy and clarity. For the best chance of publication, letters should be 250 words or less. Longer letters from those with special experience on a current issue may be published as a guest column (with your photo). While unable to acknowledge letters, we appreciate your views towards the newspaper’s editorial values. Letters should be addressed to Letters to the Editor, Rappahannock News, P.O. Box 59, Washington, Va. 22747 and submitted via U.S. Mail, Fax (675-3088) or by e-mail (asherman@timespapers.com).

Panther boys end season at Strasburg By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer The Rappahannock County varsity boys basketball team ended their season Saturday with a 62-59 setback at Strasburg in the quarterfinals of the Bull Run District Tbumament. Senior guards Irving Smith and Bobby Czekaj led the Panthers with 20 points and 19 points, respectively. Freshman point guard Patrick Hanberry added 10 points in the losing effort. The Panthers finished the season with a record of 5-18 - a positive step for a program that was winless in each of its last two seasons. The team made significant strides this year and that improvement was seen most clearly at the end of the season. Rappahannock won three of its last eight games, with four of its five losses coming by four points or less during that stretch. “Even the games that we lost, we played really well and the kids were confident,” coach Bob Czekaj said. “There wasn’t any time during the last 10 games of the year that the kids didn’t walk out on the court and Jenkins resigns By Christine Krapf Special to the Rappahannock News After 14 seasons of working with the Rappahannock County High School girls’ athletic programs, Rhonda Jenkins has decided to become a spectator. Jenkins handed in her resignation Monday morning as the head girls basketball coach, after her Lady Panthers completed a painful 2-20 season, including a 14game slide to end the 2006-07 campaign. The losing season was not the catalyst for the resignation, Jenkins pointed out. The stress of not having enough players and personal reasons led to her decision. “I made a deal with my boys,” she said. “If I went back to coaching, stress would be the biggest factor. I told them that if it gets to be too stressful and it effects my health, I needed to step away. It’s been a combination of things, and I’ve been thinking about it for awhile.” After taking off a year to battle cancer, Jenkins returned for the 2005-06 season and led the Lady Panthers to a 5-18 record, their finest season in many years. Inspiring; Iftaugfito by Randy Minter | ADVANCE PLANNING Funeral prearrangement enables you to plan your own funeral and burial needs in advance. Perhaps more importantly, it spares your surviving family members the stress that they might otherwise have tg endure if they had to make those decisions without you. From a financial standpoint, prearrangement makes sense because it helps dodge the effects of inflation. 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Please semi your questions or comments to my office or e-mail me at: moserfli @ Mackhawke.net "And. behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. -Joshua % expect to win.” The second-year coach added that the team received a boost from fans as the season progressed. “The last four or five games of the season, it was incredible to see the amount of people that came to the games,” coach Czekaj said. “That made a huge difference to the team. They felt like there were community members that were there to support them. “It makes big difference when your following believes in you,” he said. Next season, the Panthers will have to rely on underclassmen and rising seniors to continue the program’s momentum The team’s two leading scorers, Smith and Czekaj, as well as starting forward Adam Gessner will graduate this spring. “There are some pretty big shoes to fill,” coach Czekaj said. “We’ve got to replace about 35 points a game and 30 rebounds a game, but the kids that are coming back are capable - they’re just going to have different roles.” As an example of one of this season’s role players that could step up next year, the coach cited junior forward Wade Norman, who scored two key baskets in the first half of Rappahannock’s district tournament game. “When we were struggling offensively, they left him open and he knocked them down,” coach Czekaj said. Six members of this year’s team that earned varsity letters are expected to return next season, and coach Czekaj said Dean Hogan and Brooke Stokes will likely move up from the junior varsity squad. Hogan and Stokes gained a few games of varsity experience this season on nights when the JV did not have games prior to the varsity contests. The coach attributes the Panthers’ improvement this year to the players’ commitment to rigorous off season workouts last summer. And he plans to continue that routine with next year’s team. “The reason they improved this year was the work they put in last summer,” coach Czekaj said. “This group of kids worked really hard last summer. They’re a testament to what you can accomplish when you’re willing to do the work. Graduation took its toll on the program, but Jenkins remained optimistic that Rappahannock County could build on the momentum from the previous season’s success. The Lady Panthers started this season with 2-7, but the record was not a clear indication of how well they played in many games. Often Rappahannock County stayed with the Bull Run District’s best in the first half of its games. But low numbers and foul trouble in the second half hurt. Rappahannock County had just eight players on its roster. Saturday night’s district tournament quarterfinal game at Strasburg was a perfect example of the type of game that Rappahannock County played this season. The Lady Panthers hung tight with the Rams in the first half and led, 23-22, at intermission. They could not sustain the pace and lost, 66-30. “The girls played really well in that first half, and we had a lead,” Jenkins said. “They came out and looked like they wanted it. We changed things up, because we had played Strasburg twice, and they knew what we would do. We went man-to-man (on defense). We just couldn’t hang with them.” The most serious blow to the Rappahannock season became Jan. 2 at Clarke County. With just two minutes left in the game, junior guard Noel Johns, a second-team, all-district selection last season, suffered a season-ending knee injury. Johns had been Rappahannock’s leading scorer, averaging 10.3 points per game. Jenkins said her decision to resign was particularly difficult, because she has worked with many of her players since they were her physical education students at Rappahannock County Elementary School. Besides working with them in the basketball program, she also coached softball. The lack of numbers in the athletic program at the high school is a major concern, Jenkins said. A graduate of Rappahannock County, she played three years of varsity basketball and was a member of the track and field team that was the Group A state See JENKINS, Page A6 “And I don’t think they’re gonna stop here, I don’t think they’re satisfied,” he said. “They were bound and determined that they were going to turn this thing around, and I think they did,” coach Czekaj said. “If they can continue to have that attitude and it spreads to the kids that are in seventh, eighth and ninth grade, then they can have something that they haven’t had for a really long time.” E-mail the reporter at kallen@timespapers.com SM HUGE AUCTION Friday, February 16, at the auction fpliery, Rt.211, Amissville A splendid auction featuring GREAT contractor and estate farm machinery or 4:30 pm to be followed by spectacuL.tr estate’ antiques w.'lm*- at 5:30. SELLING AT 4:30 PM Tractors (JD, Inr‘1) Riding Mowers (]P, White), lots of Tractor Implements. 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Wakefield Country Day victorious against Wakefield By Charlie Spiering Rappahannock News Staff Writer The Wakefield County Day School boy’s varsity basketball team scored two. close wins against Wakefield School in The Plains, Va. The WCDS Owls led the chase on January 30, with an opening score of 8-0. The Fighting Owls struggled even with the Owls leading in the second quarter with a score of 23-20. As the two teams fought head to head in the last quarter the Fighting Owls were ahead with a score of43-45. With only a sixth of a second left, WCDS star player Patrick Dale made a three point clutch shot winning the game for the for the Owls with a score of 46-45. “It was one of the most exciting games that I have ever been a part of” said Varsity Assistant coach Hurley Smith about the team’s closest game of the season. The second game against Wakefield on February 8, was also a close struggle. Dale was able to return to the team after an elbow injury and scored 21 points for the Owls. Andrew Smith scored 15, while Ben Luke scored 12. The Owls won the game with a score of 64-51. The boy’s varsity basketball team lost a game against the Front Royal Flames the following day with a score of 62-50. Dale scored 20 points during that game. On February 12, WCDS won 72-32 against Fredrick with a score of 72-32. Dale scored 37 points and executed 17 rebounds. Alex Shafran scored 15 points, a personal record. Lady Owls Although The WCDS Lady Owls varsity team was able to win a game against Rappahannock County with a score of 4332, they lost both Wakefield games and a game against the Front Royal Flames. On January 30, the girls lost 28-22 with top scorer Chantel Paul making 14- points. In the February 8 game, the girls lost 35-20 while Paul scored another 14 points. The girls played a close game on February 9, scoring 29 points against the Flames 30. Paul was once again the top scorer, scoring a total of 23 points. Re-scheduled This Thursday (Tonight) WCDS will play Word of Life School during a home game starting at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday’s canceled game against Quantico has been rescheduled for this Saturday,. February 17. During the game the WCDS Athletic Department will honor the Senior athletes. The girl’s game will begin at 4:00 p.m. while the boy’s match starts at 5:30. Photo courtesy of Joan Hall, Twins Joan and Joe Hall recently welcomed twin calves to their their farm in Flint Hill. Bom on February 3, the pair are doing fine. The owners have named the black male calf, “Sir” while his sister, a brown female, was named “Suri.” The incidence of twins being bom is roughly 1 out of 200250 births depending on the breed. “It’s unusual,” said Mt. Vernon Farm owner, Cliff Miller, “I've never had twins bom." Photo by Hunt Harris Winter wonderland Rappahannock County has had its share of wintry weather the last few days. Falling ice was no fun on Tuesday and Wednesday. Icy temperatures also made for some beautiful frozen moments like this one captured at White Oak Canyon. School News From Around the County Chappell’s Comer Make-up Days Next Monday, Feb. 19, will be a make-up day. If we need to make-up additional days for inclement weather that occurs after Feb. 12, the following make-up days are listed on the approved 2006-2007 RCPS calendar: “Make-Up Days will be used in this order: March 1, April 5, June 14, June 15, April 13, April 12, April 11, April 10.” RCHS Scholastic Bowl Team advances to State Competition Congratulations to the Panther Academic Team that won enough matches at the Region B tournament Saturday to take the second place trophy. Rapp defeated Wilson Memorial, William Campbell, Altavista, and Randolph Henry high schools before falling to eventual champion George Mason HS. The State 1 2006 Hummer H2 3,216 mi. Blue, Auto, Stock# 64158A Sale Priced at *54,960. 2006 Pontiac Montana SV6 Ext WB 16,051 mi. Tan, Suv, Auto,. 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(See related article on Al) Culinary winners Congratulations to the following students who placed in the top 3 during Skills USA (formerly VICA) district competitions: Commercial Baking: 2nd Place - Katie Long; 3rd Place - Elena Kritter Culinary Arts: 2nd Place - Mandy Smoot RCPS Events Feb. 15-21 Feb 15 - 10:00 CCLC Pre-K Mother Goose Buddies @ RCES; 3:40 - 5:00, CASE Classes @ RCES Feb. 16 - Mardi Gras Dance 8 p.m. -11p.m. RCHS gym Feb. 20 - End RCES Magazine Drive ; 3:40 - 5:00 CASE Classes @ RCES; 3:40 Battle of the Books Club Meeting Gr. 6-8 @ RCES Library; 4:00 School Health Advisory Board Meeting @ POPQ Feb. 21- 3:45 - 6:45 PTO Meeting @ RCES; 7:00 RCHS Parent Advisory Mtg. “The NCAA Clearinghouse” RCHS library RCPS Competitive Events Feb. 15-21 Feb. 17—Bull Run Wrestling District Ibum. 9:00 a.m. at Manassas Park HS r Jenkins From Page A5 runner-up in 1978. She recalled that the girls’ junior varsity team always averaged 15 players, while the varsity roster included 12. "We always had the numbers when I played,” she added. "Ibday, as soon as they get a license when they’re 16, get a new car n Two summers ago, Jenkins wanted to take her girls to two, summer basketball camps, knowing that the experience would make them better players. Only one girl agreed to go, so she called off her plan. "When the coach wants it more than the kids, well,” Jenkins said. "1 love the game. I love being around the kids. I think that the program needs a big face lift. The kids, if they want to play, need to dedicate themselves to the program.” Jenkins will remain as a physical education , teacher at the elementary school. Last fall, she ran a six-week, after school basketball clinic for her students. She might do it again. She also plans to watch her youngest son, Travis, play for the boys’ basketball and baseball teams. Her husband, JefT, is the head baseball coach-at Rappahannock County. Another son, Jason, plays baseball for Division III power Christopher Newport University. ‘ Maybe you’ll see me helping in the concession stand,” she joked.

Farm bill may hold key to Chesapeake clean-up By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Tb get at the heart of what ails the Chesapeake Bay, one has to travel upstream, past the tidal flats and coastal areas to the hundreds of farms in the bay’s 64,000-square-mile watershed. That is where Chesapeake Bay Foundation officials are working to clean up tributaries that are feeding an overloaded dose of nutrients into the nation’s largest estuary. On Friday in Warrenton, representatives from the foundation’s Richmond office told the Times Community Newspapers editorial board about their plan to get more funding from the 2007 farm bill directed toward conservation measures in the bay watershed. As many in the region already know, the Chesapeake is languishing. Last year, the foundation gave the bay a grade of 29 on a 100-point scale in its annual “State of the Bay” report. The biggest reason for that failing mark is nutrient pollution from agricultural runoff. That is, too much nitrogen and phosphorus from commercial fertilizers and manure are washing fronf croplands and pastures into the tributaries that end up in the Chesapeake. “What that does is overfertilize the algae in the rivers and creeks and the bay itself,” said Chuck Epes, the foundation’s Virginia communications coor- . dinator. Such algae “blooms” block sunlight from shining onto underwater grasses, preventing them from photosynthesizing and producing much-needed oxygen for oysters, crabs, fish and other animals in the bay. The problem is exacerbated when the algae die off, sink to the bottom and consume even more oxygen while they decay. The dearth of oxygen leads mobile animals like crabs and fish to swim away to healthier waters, while sedentaiy animals like oysters and worms are stuck there to suffocate in the oxygen-depleted • waters called “dead zones.” ine solution Foundation officials say they know what they need to fix the bay’s nutrient-pollution problem. The only question is whether members of Congress have the political will to help them enact the solution by appropriating more funding for conservation measures in the farm bill. A new farm bill is written every five years. The hearings for this year’s bill are complete, and now the agriculture committees in Congress will put the final product together in the next few months. “There are a lot of folks like us who are saying, ‘Wait a minute, let’s redo the bill this year so that it has a fundamentally different nature,’ “ said Doug Siglin, the foundation’s federal affairs director. “We would get more of a public benefit if the bill were tilted more toward clean water, clean air and environmental services,” he said. Foundation officials from the three main states in the bay’s watershed - Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia - are working to fund existing programs that provide financial help for farmers to install prac Photos by Shamus Fatzinger TIME FOR A CHANGE: “There are a lot of folks like us who are saying, ‘Wait a minute, let’s redo the bill this year so that it has a fundamentally different nature,’ “ said Doug Siglin, the foundation’s federal affairs director. MORE HELP NEEDED: Chuck Epes, the foundation’s Virginia communications coordinator, stressed that agricultural runoff is a major contributor. tices that improve Witter quality. Steps as simple as fencing cattle (and their feces) out of streams and planting vegetative buffers that filter rainwater along waterways can lead to vast improve*, ments in the bey’s health. Siglin says state and local governments have put a lot of, money on the table to clean up the Chesapeake, but the federal itq&iir share. .In recent years, Si^in said, the federal government has, spent $15 billion to $20 billion a year to support agriculture in the United States, with most of that money going toward subsidies for five main crops: com, cotton, rice, soybeans and wheat. The subsidy programs date back to the Great Depression years and have not charged much since then, he said. “It’s surprising how little the farm bill conceptually has evolved in the last 70 or 75 years,” Siglin said. “We’re still doing roughly the same thing we were doing in the 1930s - we’re just doing it to a much, much larger magnitude.” Across the bay watershed, Siglin said conservation programs need an extra $200 million - about 1 percent of the total cost of the farm bill. Historically, the agriculture committees that write farm bills have been chock full of congressmen and senators from the Midwest and most of the funding has gone to the heartland. The average state receives 9 cents for every dollar of food produced. The average for the six states in the bay watershed is 4 cents per dollar of farm producnot contributed equina faad technologies • Premium feeds, like Kennneia Nuirmon, • Bedding: pine shavings, Streufex straw pellets. Eagle Valley pine pellets, and straw, • Quality choices in alfalfa, timothy, and grass hay, • An inclusive selection of supplements, • A special order department, • and much more, all located at... Tri-County Feeds PWnnftefd All Stock 12% only $6.35 / 501b. bagI 4238 FROST ST. MARSHALL, VA 20115 540 364-1891 www.tricountyfeeds.coin turn. North Dakota receives 23 cents per dollar of production. Rep. Bob Goodlatte is the only Virginia congressmen that serves on an agriculture committee. Pennsylvania has one house member and one senator on the committees. “They’re not reformers on the House and Senate , ag committees,” Siglin said. “And that’s why we’ve got the same policies we’ve had for 70 years.” Siglin says that means members of the House . and Senate that represent the 16 million people that live in the bay’s watershed need to raise their voices. “The farm bill needs to be reformed and pragmatically the only way the farm bill is going to get reformed is if congressmen who don't serve on the ag committees get involved,” he said. “In the end, policy is made by committees. ... If they don’t get involved we’re gonna get the same dam thing that we’ve got now.” Libby Norris, a watershed restoration scientist for the foundation’s Virginia chapter, says the commonwealth has plenty of farmers that are willing to take steps with their properties to help the health of the bay. But they need financial assistance to do that, she said, and sufficient funding, is not • available. :v ■ “We are having to turn away as a state... about half the farmers that want to participate,” Norris said. “That’s not enough funds coming into the bay watershed through the farm bill programs.” The problems facing the bay as well as the measures needed to improve its environmental health have been well known for several years, but the foundation’s representatives said politicians have always lacked the will to effect a change. Siglin said he thinks this year might be different. This is the first year in my experience where bay advocates have made a commitment to go out to talk directly and indirectly to members of Congress,” he said. 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2002: Kate Moyers delighted with r of a newly Photo ^•MBtagd makes Wends with an IO Moth. E *r By Lyt Wood - Special to the Rappahannock News ft, With the continued support of the Piedmont Environmental Council ind the Rappahannock. League for Environmental Protection, we are once again looking forward to the annual Rappahannock Natum-Camp, held at Singing Creek on the Hazel River in southern Rappahannock County. Tins will be our 21st season! The Rappahannock Nature Camp is one of several similar camps initiated by the Piedmont Environmental Council as part of a regional educational program. This a one-of-a-kind educational experience for children 8 to 12 years OldIn the past, we have based our studies and explorations on the themes of Habitats, Mysteries, Patterns, Baby Animals, Water Life, /and Metamorphosis. This year we *Witt study “Cycles of Nature.” The Rappahannock Nature Camp is metat to open the eyes of load children to the marvels of nature all around us, aa another Nature Camp (at " Vesuvius, Virginia) opened my eyes and sustained my interest many years ago. Withouteuch an appreciation and sense of awe and wonder of our natural surroundings, concepts of “conservation” and “environment” acquired later in life will inevitably become abstract and self-centered. I will be directing the camp, and Trista Scheuerlein will return as Assistant Director. TVista is a gardener, musician and a wonderful teacher who coordinates the “Fsrmto-Table” program at Rappahannock County High School. Singing Creek credos Every year the campen produi a 12-page newspaper, “News fro Singing Creek.” Last year’s pap< included reports written by ' gfgifc - ^ '<■ ‘ ■ Ptwtoby Lytwood 1998: Camper? Jeremy^Steck and Emma SffrtweS lake a closer look at what lives in the water. a „ rnpers on their experiences, a report from first-tune; Iplbr Mowatt-Larssen; " * ? “In the traps we set, we caught a rabbit and three possums, then let them go the next day. There is a huge water snake and lots of frogs in the mini pond. We got to swim in the Hazel River, There is a water snake in there too and me and my friend tried to catch it. I almost ; caught it. 1 caught many frogs. We made a bamboo igloo and bamboo pups that we got to take home. And f' igire made berry ice cream.” y Here is camper Lucy Van Ness’s - report on a beautiful place that we visit each year*' “We visit Azalea Rocks each year. It has many rocks, and azalea flowers. There are also many Mountain Laurel bushes. There• mm many animals, wildflowers, birds, trees, and snakes. The most import taut visit is when we camp out. At the camp otrt* we light a small fire, roast marshmallows, and read scary stories. I think it is a reqfiy pretty place.” History Over the years, the Rappahannock Nature Camp-has had six directors. It has been held at the Shaw House at Rock Mills, the Hazel Rivet- Camp, Mountain Green Farm and Horseshoe Hollow Farm prior to its present location at Singing Creek. . * Past directors and assistant directors have include!: Hunt Harris, Tutt Stapp-Harria, Robin SS& See NATURE, Page Bf FfcS w Hatcher had no problem befriending this docile milk snake Photo by Lyt Wi ‘Cooter’s Excellent Adventure’ at Theatre Back by popular demand, Rappahannock County’s own Ben Jones will return to the Theatre at Washington, Virginia on Saturday, February 24 at 8 p.m. with what he calls “another little show of songs, stories, and whimsy.” “I’m calling this one ‘Cooter’s Excellent Adventure’, mainly because that’s the first title that came to my mind. Well have some great bluegrass with the Hazzard County Chamber Quartet, and HI tell a few of those stories that everyone has heard at least twice.” Jones got his start on stage in 1962 at the University of North Carolina. He has since appeared in hundreds of films, television shows and stage productions. Although he has worked in film with directors such as Orson Welles and Mike Nichols, he is surely best known for his portrayal of “Cooter,” the faithful sidekick to the Duke cousins on the eternal television hit “The Dukes of Hazzard”. He also served two terms in the United States Congress as a representative from Georgia. Tm finally beginning to realize that was just another phase of my show business career,” he says now. “These days I just stick to putting in my two cents worth wheal can’t overcome the urge to keep my Inuth shut. I love poh tics, but being 'Cooler' is a lot more fan.* Currently Jones is recording and appearing nationally with “Cooler's Garage Band," and writing his memoirs, due out in the spring of 2008 from Random House. “It’s called “Redneck Boy in the Promised Land* and I think I might read a couple of pages from it at the Theatre,” he said. Tickets for “Cooter’s Excellent . Adventure” are $20 for adults and $5 far students 18 and under. Reservations are recommended at (540) 675-1253 or or by mail to The Theatre, 291 Gay Street, FO Box 322, Washington VA 22747. 9 ‘Little Miss Sunshine9 By P. Breckenridge Special to the Rappahannock News Olive (Abigail Breslin) is a little girl who dreams of being a beauty queen. She has a chance to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. Unfortunately, she must rely on her family of misfits to get her from her home in New Mexico to the pageant in California. * RAAC brings “Little Miss Sunshine” to the Theatre on Gay Street, Washington, Virginia, Friday February 16, at 8:00 p.m. It’s not the plot so much as the eccentric characters that drive and carry this movie. The cast ably brings those characters to life: Alan Arkin as the grandfather, irritable, crude and addicted to heroin; Olive’s brother, Dwayne (Paul Dano) disdainful and silent; Uncle Frank (Steve Carell) a dejected, suicidal Proust scholar; Ibni Collette as Olive’s mother who bravely tries to manage the chaos of her dysfunctional family members; and Greg Kinnear as Olive’s father, Richard, a stressed out motivational speaker who has pinned his hopes and fortunes on an unlikely book deal extolling the wisdom of his 9 steps to success. His greatest pearl of wisdom, which he has imprinted on the psyche of his daughter, Olive, is that there are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers and only See MOVIE, Page §9 Music to love by! Continuing with their month-long celebration of “Consider the Heart” at the Middle Street Gallery, this Saturday will feature music by Dave Shaffer and Steve * Eastham. Stop by between 2 and 5 p.m. to be lulled by sweet lyrics. The Middte Street Gallery is located next , to The Inn at Little Washington and can * be reached at 540-675-3440. At left is one of several Valentines created at the “Make your own Valentine” this past weekend. ! -4-1---l—L

The Power of Our Stories #Julie Portman has been writing and teaching from the inspiration of people’s stories for more than twenty years. She has written seven plays based on people’s lives with hundreds of productions which have been presented in twenty-six states and five countries. Her play. Three Roses, has been broadcast on Public Television. Her most recent work, The Man Who Eats, has been created under a 2006 Fellowship in {Playwriting from the Virginia Commission for •the Arts. It explores the power of stories to nourish people. < A Rappahannock County resident for the past 21 years, Julie finds the beauty of living in ~ environment conducive to both writing teadiing. In fact, this spring marks the 11th in which Ki Theatre will present a series Life Stories Workshops taught by Julie tman in Washington, Virginia, t -“Over the years, many people from Rappahannock, Fauquier, Madison, Culpeper and JVftrren counties have participated in the Life •Stories Writing Workshops - about 300 people our regions,” Portman estimates. “We also have an equal amount of people ting from DC and Maryland and parts much {farther away: California, British Columbia, New ^Mexico, Florida.” » The workshops are small and accommodate tthe many different goals that people have. Some 'participants are published writers and some are {people who have never written anything before. /There are farmers, lawyers, , psychologists, .moms, doctors, teachers, retirees, grandparents, {CEO’s. The unusual mix of people adds to the -.excitement of the workshops and provides inspiVration for everyone. Some people come to get {started writing their stories for children and grandchildren. Others are exploring a change in {the direction of their lives and work. People boome to learn how to capture memories of an {aging parent Some want to get rid of a writing {block. And there are participants who have spevdfic professional interests: how will telling or {writing good stories help my business? j Portman reflects, “Over the years we have <afl learned a great deal from one another in the . -{workshops. What’s consistently dear is that stohries are everyone’s language. It’s a common denominator that creates bridges of meaningful . communication regardless of our differences in education, political viewpoints or systems of thinking. “ Julie Portman regularly presents life stories workshops for federal agencies, businesses and not for profit organizations from the US Senate Staff to Meredith Corporation publishers of 52 magazines, to Mosaic, a not for profit serving people with Developmental Disabilities with agencies in 41 states. “What I love most, however, are small workshops here in Rappahannock County. This area is such a source of inspiration!’’ Upcoming workshops This spring five Life Stories Workshops are open for registration: March 10-11: An Introduction to Writing Life Stories; March 17: The Seven Critical Steps of Listening; March 18: Empower Your Organization with Stories. On April 14, Julie with be joined by Alaina Love Cugnon to co-lead a one-day called: Create Purpose in Your Life and Work; and finally from June 29-Julyl the third annual Train the Trainer Workshop is being held for people who want to teach life stories. Continuing Education Units are available for all workshops, lb register call Ki Theatre at 540:987-3164. For additional information email: Julie@kitheatre.com or visit the Ki Theatre web site: www.kitheatre.oig Religious Notes The Bluegrass Gospel Group - The Deane’s have postponed their performance at Amissville Baptist Church on February 17. A new day and time will be announced as soon as possible. Amissville Baptist Church is located at 776 Viewtown Rd., Amissville, Va 20106 and our phone number is (540) 937-6159. Live Music By “Homemade Jam”, Bake Sale and Community Food Drive at the Amissville United Methodist Church, 14760 (Lee Highway (U.S. 211) Amissville on February 17 from 6:30 - 8:30 p. m. Admission: 1 boxed or canned food item, NO GLASS PLEASE. Laurel and Billy Shaffer, local siblings, have been selected to represent their community and their country as Student Ambassadors with the People-to-People delegations traveling this summer. They are sponsoring a community food drive, bake sale and evening of music to benefit the Culpeper and Rappahannock Food Closets and to raise funds for their tuitions, Come support them and have a toe tappin’ good time! Music will be provided by “Homemade Jam.” Baked goods and beverages will be available for purchase. For more information, please call the Shaffers at 540-937-3196 or Margaret Davis 937-4672. Sponsored by The Gospel Chorus, a Black History Program will feature a community choir “Anointed Voices” ait the Macedonia Shiloh Baptist Pastor: Rev. Michael Tinsley Sr. Sunday: Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship service 11 a.m. J&& F.T. Baptist Pastor: Dan Yowell Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.n# Worship 11 a.m. 4 $ • W § S-S Trinity Episcopal , Rector Rev. Jennings W. Hobson 111 *, Thursday: Contemplative Prayer 7 ajii m Friday: Education for Ministry 9:30 a.m. Sunday: Women’s Holy Eucharist 8 a.m. Women’ Breakfast 9 a.m. t - Morning Prayer 9:15 a.m Sunday School 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist 11 a.m. Forum 1 p.m. Young Families Supper 5 pin. Tuesday: Education for Ministry 27 pin. Ash Wednesday: Holy Eucharist and Bible study, 9:30 a.m. Ash Wednesday Service 7:30 p.m. Thursday: Contemplative Player 7 a.m. Promise Land Baptist Pastor: Herbert Johnson Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. New Hope Baptist Bible y Pastor: Carl R. Menefee * Sunday . Sunday School 10a.nt Worship Service 11 a.m. Evening Service 6 p m. - Wednesday: Evening Prayer, Bible Study 7 p.m. i M i First Baptist 1 Pastor: Rev. Dr. Wendell R. Grant t Services: First and third Sundays 11 Sin. Church School: First and third Sundays 9:45 a.m. Bible Study: Wednesday 7-8 p.m. April through August ->> ' V 99", ■ ^ r . c fifrr < •vvgr'xsv . St. Peter’s Catholic Parish Pastor Fr. Robert J. DeMartino Masses: Saturday Vigil, 5:30 p.m. ^ Sunday, 8:30 and 10 a.m. . . ‘ Holy Days of Obligation call 675-3432 I Weekdays Tuesday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m. s / Confessions: 4:30-5 p.m., Saturday, after masses . .*n?s * , I?* ' -r threat Grove Baptist • lr m Pastor. Mark Deangelis • v«; Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. | Worship Service 11 a.m. ill Macedonia Baptist Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. -4f ■*«i Rappahannock United Methodist Charge Pastor Rev. Leah DeLong Flint Hlft UMC -Sunday Worship at 8:45 ^ / am.,Children’s Church during the worship J% service. Adult Sunday School at 10 a.m.f, ft s cal for Bible Study Schedule (675-3370) Willis Chapel UMC - Sunday Worship at 9:55 a.m., Sunday School at 8:45 a.m., Bible Study on Wednesday ait 6:30 p.m. Sperryville UMC - Sunday Worship at K' 11:30 a.m..Sunday School 10:15 a.m., Bible Study on Sunday at 2 p.m. £ Washington Baptist Pastor: Rev. Philip Bailey Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday: Men’s Disdpteship Qj Thursday: Adult Choir 7 p.m. m Chester Gap Baptist 1 Pastor Rev. David Johnson Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. - Sunday Worship 11 am. M Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. Tuesday: Bible Stady 7 pm. Massanova Pentecostal . Pastor: Rev. L. D. Savage Sunday: Sunday School 10 am. , _ vr-.: >;■ f * ' • -Tv 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. Alisberry Sunday: Sunday School 9:30 a.m. .Morning Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday: Bible study 7 p.m. ■ ■ V New Harvest Christian Fellowship Pastors: Kent and Duane Willoughby Sunday: Praise/Worship service 10:30 a.m. Wednesday: Praise/Worship, Prayer, Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Saturday: Youth Alive Group 7 p.m. Services at Viewtown General Store 0$g3t i f ' FM HUI Beptlst Church Pastor Rev. James L. Payne Sunday: Worship service 11 a.m. Gkt Brown Hol/ow Pentecostal Sunday: Sunday School 11 a.m. Second and Fourth Sundays only Battle Run Primitive Baptist Church Pastor, Eldar Forest Atwood Meets second Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Praise Fellowship, Amlssvllle Pastor: Gene Nicholson Mooting at 14876 Lee Highway Sunday morning 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Prayer Service 7 p.m. Bethlehem Ministries Pastor Malt Jarvis Teacher Mackie Jenkins* Meeting at 17094 Lee Highway Amissville Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. Evening worship 6 p.m. Wednesday Prayer 7 p.m. Now teaching the Book of Revelation at 6 p.m. service. '•inf •'’ft-W'--#*;'*'**^* Fmdyour new home | Rappahannock News • 540-675-3349 fiS^ahannock Jirms ^a=5gsgseas=B3gg Isn't it wonderful that love is limitless! It seems that the more we give, the more we are able to give. 1 John 4:8 tells us, “God is love.” This is the way God manifests Himself on earth. Because God's love for us is boundless, our love for others can be abundant. When we learn to love unconditionally, our heart becomes full of joy, for then God dwells within our soul. If we love those whose lives we touch each day, they will know love and they will pass it on. Love has a way of ever increasing Once the cycle begins, it will continue, spilling endlessly on our lives like sunlight from the sky. Give yourself a valentine this year. Worship God each week. You will leam to give love, and you will receive love that knows no bounds. ABERDEEN BARN X'LJ JL Steaks • Seafood • Prime Rib Banquets • Luncheons in the Holiday In* of Culpeper 1540) 825-1037 W.C. THOMPSON FUNERAL HOME 503-7 NORTH MAIN ST. CULPEPER; VIRGINIA (540) 82SS700 Church Activities are brought to you courtesy of these advertisers and the Rappahannock News Baptist Church in Flint Hill on Saturday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served immediately following the concert. Macedonia Baptist Church is located at 574 Zachaiy Taylor Highway and may be reached at 540-6753284. Sperryville United Methodist Church will host a gospel bluegrass picking party at tiie church on Saturday, February 24, from 7 to 9 p.m. All are invited to enjoy an evening of traditional acoustic music. For further information contact Duane Siler at 703395-2053 or at birdseyehill@mac.com. Hosted by Washington Baptist Church, Community Lenten Services begin on Wednesday, Feb. 28 and continue each Wednesday through March 28. This year’s theme is “JOHN 16”. Participating in each service are the Methodist Churches (of Flint Hill, Sperryville and Willis Chapel); Trinity Episcopal; St. Peter’s Catholic and Reynolds and Washington Baptist. Each service begins with a pot-luck dinner at 6:15, followed by worship at 7 p.m. On Feb. 28, Washington Baptist will host the dinner, Trinity Episcopal will lead the music and Rev. Leah DeLong of the Methodist Charge will deliver the message, “Keeping the Faith.” Child care, also sponsored cooperatively by the churches, is provided free of charge! For more information or a copy of the complete schedule, contact Rev. Phil Bailey, Washington Baptist Photo by Heather Puskar EN GARDE: Skyler Owens listens intently as Brad Waller, Master Stage Combat director begins class in sword fighting safety at the first in a series of free classes at Cliff Miller’s SchoolHouse, offered by the Rappahannock Repertory Company. Directing — A Solitary Job The Behind-The-ScenefrStory of The Rappahannock Repertory Company Spring Pageant: “Ageless Dreams: A Shakespearean Panorama” Oh, it’s such fun to watch the excitement of young actors warming up, getting rid of pent up energy and refreshing with new energy.' They are unstoppable and embody all the excitement needed for acting. If only I could hold classes everyday for hours on end. But 90 percent of the job and time spent in directing a play is spent in the quiet, or hopedfor quiet, of an office surrounded by reference books that range from “Prefaces to Shakespeare’s Plays," “Performance Art,” “Isaac Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare,” “Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary,” “Dictionary of Fairies and Forest Folk” to “W Magazine.” Knowledge in all these areas is critical: analyzing the text, learning the historical background and getting ideas that would mix the contemporary with the Elizabethan for fabulous costume ideas. And then there are the musical selections that will move the plot forward without drawing attention from the play. From a stack of CDs, I try to match the themes I’ve selected, Love, Power, Humor, Fantasy, with songs going back to the “Middle Ages” up to now with the wonderful, soul-delighting sounds of Pat Alger and the wild disco music that might set the Romeo and Juliet meeting at her father’s ball in a more interesting, contemporary light. Quickly, what began as a showcase for the young actors who excelled in the “Best Christmas Pageant Ever," and the new members of the Young Actors’ Wing, becomes an epicsaga, a fantastical extravaganza, an unbelievable pageant, perhaps far to ambitious. But why not? We planned, designed, rehearsed, and IT Backstage Charlene James-Duguid mounted the Christmas play in two months and now we have four months to prepare. If you don’t try, you’ll never know what’s possible. “Ageless Dreams: A Shakespearean Panorama” will be an extravaganza performed both in the SchoolHouse at Sperryville as well as on the adjoining fields with battles choreographed by Stage Combat and Safety Master Brad Waller and a parade of equestrians with banners that represent symbols of Rappahannock flora and fauna: deer, bears, sheep, goats, cattle, not to mention, squirrels and bats. But back to the task at hand, the bane of every writerdirector’s existence is the “writing.” So I prompt myself to get back to it by calling Joyce Abell, my Directorial Consultant, to see how she is getting on with her next project. I learn from her “No, I’m not writing, but I’m getting ready.” We both laugh at how convenient it is to do everything but get down to your script. I, who hates to vacuum or dust, have spent an hour preparing the solarium to write. Maybe I could even varnish and wash the windows inside and out, install plywood and paint the surfaces and See BACKSTAGE, Page B4 , Photo by Heather Pusfcar ALL TOGETHER: Brad Waller, Master Stage Combat director leads the final salute, “^jl for One, and One for All’^t the first in a series of free classes.

n m l submissions in Upcoming Events must be received by 3 P- . on Mondays in order to be included in the next edition of the paper, bend email to Jan Clatterbuck at Please be sure to me ude the name and telephone number of someone to call for information. Spring soccer is here! Recreational soccer registration has begun. Forms have been sent via email to previous players. Fill them out and send them in! mere are forms at the elementary school as well. On-site registration will take place at RCES Parent-Teacher night between 4 p.m. roDv .** y°ur P'ayer is new to the league, please bring a !j their. b'rth certificate. Any questions? Email camillethirdracer@earthlink.net or lynnie at Genhos@gmail.com Flu shots still available Rappahannock County Health Department still has flu shots available. Anyone over age 6 months is eligible to receive a flu shot. Call the health department at 675-3516 for an appointment. Sperryville Funder The Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department annual fund drive is underway. If you have received a fund drive letter and have not sent a check, the department would greatly appreciate a donation. If you have not received a letter and would like to send the department a donation the mailing address is P. O. box 233, Sperryville VA. 22740. For information call Greg Wayland at 540-987-9024. February Red Cross blood drives 2/17 — 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Culpeper Moose Lodge, Culpeper 2/28 — 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Cintas, Culpeper Your blood saves lives! Please mark your calendar and plan to donate. Remember to drink lots of fluids — water or juice are best — the day before and the day of the blood drive. Avoid caffeine, alcohol, and fatty foods. To give blood, you must be generally healthy, 17 years of age of more, and weigh at least 110 pounds. For further information call the Red Cross at 825-8611. Feb. 15: Riparian buffers You are invited to join a discussion of our 2007 initiative to assist landowners in improving and protecting the streams. The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. in the RappFLOW meeting room in Sperryville, next to the old SchoolHouse at the comer of Routes 211 and 522. For more information call Beverly at 937-4038 or email bev_hunter@earthlink.net Feb. 15: Kick-off Sheriff's election campaign James C. “J. C." Welch will kick-off his Sheriff’s election campaign on Thursday, February 15, at 7 p.m. at the Washington Fire Department Community Room. The public is welcome to attend to hear “J.C.’s” ideas on how he will make “our' community a better place to live, work, and raise a family. “J. C." says “it will be a great honor for me to serve the citizens of Rappahannock County as their Sheriff. Refreshments will be served. If you have any questions please contact Rusty Jenkins at 540-825-7768. Feb. 17: 4-H Presentation Workshop Joan Proctor will be offering a free 4-H Presentation workshop to all youth between 9-18 years of age from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Rappahannock County Extension office this Saturday. Joan will teach participants how to speak in front of others with confidence. Joan has offered this workshop many times and past participants rave about her teaching style and the many presentation techniques that they learned. Learning to speak with confidence in front of others is a skill that benefits anyone. This workshop is designed to be fun and informative.... and a pizza lunch will be provided! Please call the Extension office today to register at 675-3619. Feb. 17: Music to Love By Join us at Middle Street Gallery for an afternoon of wonderful music. David Shaffer and Steve Eastham will be providing art for the ears with guitars & dulcimer Saturday Feb. 17 from 2-5 p.m. Come in and enjoy the Art! Feb. 18: Piedmont Softball Association registration Piedmont Softball Association has added registration dates for its spring season: Sunday, February 18, 1 p.m.-3 p.m., and Saturday, March 3, 9 a.m. - noon, both dates at Bill Payne Auction Gallery, Rt. 211, Amissville (between Early’s Carpet and Mayhugh’s Store). Additionally, registrations will be accepted at PSA’s 5th Annual Chili Bowl tournament scheduled for Saturday, March 17. PSA offers softball to girls ages 5 years old and up, and any skill level, beginner through advanced. Registration fees are $40. per girl playing 12 yrs. old and under, and $45. for girls playing 13 yrs. and older; offered is a $5. discount for each additional registrant after the first from the same household. Unlimited scholarships are also available. Girls new to PSA in 2007 must bring their birth certificate at registration time. For additional information, call Mauri Payne (540) 937-4142 or (540) 675-3729 or Donna/David Sheffield (540) 937-5595. Feb. 18: Lion club music contest The Rappahannock Lions Club 23d Annual Bland music contest will be held at the Theatre in Washington, on February 18 at 2 p.m. Student vocalists and instrumentalists in Rappahannock County schools, grades K-12, are encouraged to register for the contest, which awards cash prizes to the winners. Registration forms may be obtained from school music directors or by calling Bob Lander. 540-987-8504 (email kplanderCaol.com). February 19: RLEP Board of Directors Meeting The Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection Board of Directors meets at the library, with social time at 6:30 p. m. and business meeting at 7 p. m. Members and the public are welcome to attend. Please note the new starting time. Visit www.rlep.org for RLEP program news and details. Fab. 21: Roe Clinic Rappahannock Free clinic will be open on February 21 at the County Health Department on Main Street in Washington. For more information call the Fauquier Free Clinic at 540-347-0394. Feb. 22: Old Schodhouse Buffer Oh Thursday Feb. 22 at 6:30 p.m., you are invited to join a workshop to plan the Old SchoolHouse Buffer Restoration Project We are considering the site plan, removal of invasives, selection and acquisition of trees and shrubs and grasses to plant, design of trails andedurational markers, site preparation, the recruiting d volunteers, and overall schedule. The meeting win be in the RappFLOW meeting room in Sperryvifle. next to the old Schodhouse at the corner of Routes 211 and 522. For more information call Jtl Duval at 937-9934 or email jltan4edduvali230yahoo.com. Feb. 23: Fearless Shakespeare: % Free Children’s Classes Classes for young actors, ten years and older, wHI be held every Friday, beginning on February 23, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in the Jamieson Room of the Rappahannock Library. They will continue through March. These are in preparation for the Rappahannock Repertory Company’s Shakespearean extravaganza in June. Young actors will learn the history, stories, and language of Elizabethan times in a comfortable atmosphere, some of which will be through games. But they will also learn the discipline necessary to perform professionally. Some of the characters they will portray in “Ageless Dreams: A Shakespearean Panorama” will include Portia, Hamlet, Titania and Oberon. The Company will also need an enchanted forest filled with fairies, elves, and forest folk. Classes for younger actors, four to nine will begin in April. Please call Charlene James-Duguid 540 937-4727 or email capitolhillchar@verizon.net for information or to reserve a space. Volunteers, with theatre experience or just enthusiasm and interest are also invited to call. February 24: "Growing Habitat with Native Plants” RLEP’s Biodiversity Task Force continues its year-long focus on wildlife habitat with a talk on using native plants in habitat, presented by Marion Blois Lobstein of the Flora of Virginia Project, to catalog The talk is at the Rappahannock Library from 10-11 a.m. The program is free, but please come early to ensure getting a seat. For more information, call Pam Owen at (540) 675-9989, send e-mail to Biodiversity® RLEP.org, or go to www.RLEP.org. Feb. 24: “Cooter's Excellent Adventure” Rappahannock County’s favorite star of screen, stage and television , Ben Jones and Musical friends returns to the Theatre on Feb. 24 at 8 p. m. Tickets, Adults $20, students 18 and under $5. Reservations recommended. For information call 540-675-1253. Feb. 24: Community Drum Circle All are invited to join in creating rhythm and music on Saturday, Feb. 24 from 5:30-6 p.m. at Sage in the Rappahannock Wellness Center. Group drumming has been proven to reduce stress and can help stimulate coordination, cooperation, and greater listening skills. All ages welcome. No experience necessary. There are plenty of drums and instruments to share, or bring your own. Suggested donation $5-10 (children free). For more information, call Sage (540)987-9699. Feb. 25: Share the Fun Talent Show The 4-H Share the Pun talent show is just around the comer. All youth between the ages of 9 and 19 are invited to perform in this program. Participants may sing, dance, tell jokes, recite poetry, play a musical instrument, or do any other on-stage performance. All acts must be “G rated,” with no more than four participants in each act, and each act can last no longer than four minutes. Participants are asked to come to five of the six rehearsals and the final performance. Everyone is invited to come to the final performance to see the youth in the county shine! Feb. 15, 21, 22, 23 - rehearsals from 7 - 8:30 p.m. at Rappahannock County High School. Feb. 25 - Final performance at 2 p.m. at RCHS. For more information about this event, or to register, please call the Extension office at 540-675-3619. Feb. 25: “Black Pearls” Join us in celebrating African American History in the making. The Women’s Auxiliary of the Wayland Blue Ridge Association, Inc. will celebrate its 30th Annual Black History program on February 25, 2007, 4 p.m. by honoring ‘Black Pearls’, our local history makers in the community. This event will be held at the Wayland Blue Ridge Baptist Center, 15044 Ryland Chapel Road, Rixeyville. Special musical guests will be Rev. Isaac Howard and the Community Choir. For advance tickets or more information, phone 540-399-1539 or 540-987-8064 or email waytand_blueridge@usa.com. Tickets are $3/adults and $1/children at the door. We look forward to seeing you there. Feb. 25: WIN A PRIZE at the Closing Party for “Consider the Heart” The Middle Street Gallery in Washington, VA. says Goodbye to a Heart-filled February with a Closing Party on Sunday, Feb. 25th, 3-6 p.m. This is your last chance to bring in your Heart! Come join us for refreshments and art as we announce the winners of the Color Your Heart contest. Gallery Hours are 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Friday - Sunday Visit our website at www.middlestreetgallery.org Feb. 25: Silent Auction for “The Half-Hearted Book of Love” Closes! The Middle Street Gallery in Washington, VA. closes the monthlong Silent Auction for a unique Art Book on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 6 p.m. This book represents an exciting collaboration by twelve local artists with regional and national reputations. Join us to place your final bid. And the Winner is...!! Gallery Hours are 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Friday - Sunday Visit our website at www.middlestreetgallery.org Mar. 1: Entries due The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Culpeper Chapter #73, cordially invite all Rappahannock County students, grades 112, to participate in an annual essay contest. We encourage any public, private or home schooled student to apply his or her knowledge of history. Cash prizes will be awarded and winners will be honored at a special ceremony. Essay instructions and rules may be obtained at the Rappahannock County Library, the Rappahannock County Elementary School, or Rappahannock County Jligh School. Ail entries are due by Starch 1, 2007. Questions? Contact Cheryl Taylor 987-8026. March 6: Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District meeting The-Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District holds its monthly Board of Directors’ meetings on the first Tuesday each month at 9:30 p. m. Meeting rotates through the five counties served by the district Culpeper, Greene, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock. February meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 6 in Rappahannock County at the Washington Voluntary Fire Department building on Warren Ave. March 7: Mark Jaster perform at WCDS Mark Jaster, a mime artist who has appeared at the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap, is scheduled to appear at Wakefield Country Day School on Wednesday, March 10, at 10 a.m. in the Leonard M. Cowherd Auditorium. Wakefield is extending an invitation to Rappahannock County families who would like to join them for the performance, subject to seating availability. The performance is appropriate for children in kindergarten through twelfth grade. The presentation, entitled “The Maestro,” should last about 30 - 40 minutes and includes comedy with sheet music and a music stand, a miniature concertina played atop a precarious pile of packages, a conducted clapping routine, and a hat trick finale. Jaster’s work has been described as “...using wordless wit, kinetic humor and playful interaction.” Mr. Jaster trained under Marcel Marceau and appeared last year at Chateauville to rave reviews. If you would like to attend the WCDS performance, please call 540-635-8555, ext. 231. Attend - Reservations Required Mar. 10: Life Stories workshops begin Theatre announces the eleventh season of Life Stories Workshops, taught by Julie Portman and presented in Washington, VA. This season five workshops are scheduled which focus on different ways in which story is used as a tool to enhance communication, writing, creating, listening and learning. Every workshop offers Continuing Education Units for educators and professionals in human services; and each workshop is designed for personal growth and professional development. Workshops are open to young adults and people of all backgrounds, professions and interests. No prior experience is necessary. To register call Ki Theatre 540-987-3164 or email Julie@kitheatre.com .www.kitheatre.org Fees for workshops vary from $135 to $390. A 10 percent discount is available for people who register before February 15. Life Stories Workshop Dates March 10-11: Introductory Life Stories: Leam how to transform life experiences into stories March 17: The Seven Critical Steps of Listening: Develop new skills that tragstorm your listening March 18: Empower Your Organization: Leam how to advocate and fund raise with stories April 14: Create Purpose in Your Life and Work (with Alaina Love) June 22-24: Train the Trainer: Teach Life Stories Volunteers prepare to respond The RRMRC volunteers are prepared to respond in the case of a natural disaster or public health emergency in the counties of Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock. RRMRC volunteers continue training throughout the year. All volunteers must complete an application and attend orientation prior to attending trainings. In January twelve RRMRC volunteers attended Epidemiology 101 and fourteen volunteers attended epidemiology 201. Upcoming classes for RRMRC volunteers, who have received orientation are: Wednesday, February 21 Fauquier Hospital RRMRC Volunteer Thursday, March 8 Smallpox Vaccination training. This training is only for those volunteers who are licensed to give injections. Wednesday, March 21 Epidemiology 301 In April, the RRMRC will be holding a drill where we will practice communication, epidemiology, logistics and mass dispensing. Does this sound like something that interests you? Would you like to be able to participate in the March trainings and April drills? Join us at an orientation for new volunteers on Thursday, March 8 from 6 -7:30 p.m. The orientation gives new volunteers an overview of the Medical Resen/e Corps, the Virginia Department of Health, the Incident Command System, the Strategic National Stockpile, and Dispensing Site Operations. This is followed by training in Biologic Agents: Category A. In addition you will receive a t-shirt, equipment bag and your ID badge. Registration is required. All trainings will be held in Culpeper. < Complete an application form either by contacting the office at 540-829-7350 ext 132, online at http://rTmrc.vdh.virginia.gov, or via emailatrrmrc@vdh.virginia.gov . ; 1 March 17: Piedmont Softball Chili fundraiser* Piedmont Softball Association is having our 5th annual ChK Fundraiser. This is PSA’s largest fundraiser of the year and all the proceeds go toward the girls. This is a lot of fun and real good eating. I hope you and everyone at the Rappahannock News can join us and see what we’re all about. Thank you! Hope you’ll come!| April 22: High School picnic Students and teachers from the classes of 1949 through 1955 are invited to the Rappahannock Park on Sunday, April 22 at 1 p.m. for a time of fun and reminiscing. Plan to eat around 2 p.m. bring a covered dish beverage and a chair. Each student or teacher may bring their spouse or friend only (due to limited parking). Call Daniel or Besqje Norman on 1-540-937-5147 for any. questions or suggestions or U you plan to attend.

Actors make good poets. Michael O’Heir, a rising young star of several recent Ki Theatre Christmas plays, was a surprise poet at the Poetry Coffeehouse which invited poetry lovers of all ages to come to the stage and read their own or other’s poetry. O’Heir read Walt Whitman’s “Oh Captain, My Captain.” Among other poets answering the invitation to read poetry was Rabbi Carla Theodore who told a charming tale about the uniqueness of her identical twin granddaughters. Another poet, Donna La Pre read several poems from a privately published book she wrote several years ago. Especially entertaining were the original poems of writer-poet Ray Holland of Chester Gap who read several of his favorite poems written since he retired as an air traffic controller and moved to Rappahannock County several years ago. Artist and “one-time poet” Steve Kenny also read his own poems as did Carol Quaintance whose family has lived in Rappahannock County for generations. Well-known “bard of the Blue Ridge” and of Rappnet, Joy Lorien, entertained the group with a number of her own poems, offering humorous and at times poignant insights into nature, life and the adventures of a single working grandmother in the Blue Ridge Mountains which she loves so passionately. Photo by Richard Lykes What role did Virginians play in the Mexican War? Virginians played a major role in the Mexican War. Winfield Scott of Dinwiddie County, who had performed heroically in the War of 1812, was given command of the American army that captured Mexico City after a remarkable campaign that overcame disease, formidable defenses, and larger forces. 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California and the Southwest Backstagf From Page B2 perhaps even find carpeting, in preparation to writing Hold it, all that will take well past the date for the plays opening Joyce calls back to set ine straight, “Get on with it.” feht pushes me back to my computer with a ream of paper, a clean, unvarnished surfacedetermination and the ardu ous job of typing Shakespearean text. These will be woven together with newly-written commentary or scene-setups delivered by an Ambassador-Narrator, yes! No. Yes. Perhaps. Maybe. Why not. Yes, no. Tidbit #3: at this stage don’t be afraid to rethink an idea even if it means tossing away several pages of text. Instead I’ll us.* the Muses; they worked like u charm and tied the storytogether in the Christmas performance, and so let them weave the magic again. But this time, not only dancing ,but speaking as well. Of course, I have to get the facts about “muses.” Oops, learning that there were actually nine classical Muses plus their Mother, the Muses of Memory, I wonder if this play can incorporate this many, or if I have a large enough talent pool. I hope that Kitty Keyser, Dance and Movement Director, will agree that fewer will work well. So I combine all the muses of poetry: Lyrical, Epic, Love, and Sacred, into one, bringing the number down to six, giving them speaking parts that I had been intended to “The Ambassador.” That makes sense to the text and won’t overpower the audience with too many muses. I abandon the “Paul Newman idea.”' He played the stage manager in “Our Town.” Oh well, kill my darlings; not Paul, but the idea. Well, that was an overused idea anyway. Continuously, I must not forget that I am beginning with two ideas: the four themes and casting young actors who are closer to the ages of the characters in Shakespeare’s plays. (Finding, adult actors to play the older roles will have to happen later.) As tor the four themes: Power, Love, Humor, and Fantasy; they are not quite parallel, but they will provide a wonderful structure for choosing the monologues and scenes. Alas, I must sacrifice concentrating on some of the plots that formed the characters, but I hope that the clarity of the speeches and scene will be so vivid that the audience will move effortlessly through this the play of excerpts. How have other playwrights accomplished this? My brain goes blank. It’s been too long a morning, so it’s time to stretch. Give up, have lunch—a salad with vinaigrette. I freeze when I see Newman looking out at me from off the dressing label. Sorry, Paul. I kiss the image lightly, apologize, and get back to writing. “Paul” has been abandoned as I had to discard the original title: “About Henry: The Young King and Tales from His Times.” In the new version Henry V is but one character in the panoply, and the tales are not only from his England and times, but travel to Italy, France, and the Enchanted Forest. The play now is about times, places and characters that are timeless and spread across the landscape. Of course! “Ageless Dreams: A Shakespearean Panorama,” is a perfect title for a play set in the natural beauty of Rappahannock County.

Wildlife Habitat Open House wildly successful Kicks off Biodiversity Task Force’s 2007 Program , By Pam Owen ■special to the Rappahannock News Trying to figure out how to attract bluebirds to your property or get rid of the mile-aminute that’s taking it over? More than 250 people got answers to these and more questions about wildlife habitat at last Saturday’s Wildlife Habitat Open House at the Sperryville SchoolHouse. The open house, sponsored by the Rappahannock League for , Environmental Protection’s Biodiversity Task Force, m partnership with the Piedmont Environmental Council, offered those interested in managing habitat on their properties the chance to talk with representatives of fifteen government agencies and nonprofit conservation organizations offering information and programs on habitat restoration and protection. Ricki Ashcraft, Education Specialist with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, led off with a presentation on the importance of biodiversity and how the Center supports biodiversity globally and locally. After Ashcraft’s presentation, attendees were free to talk with the organization representatives, snack on muffins, and enjoy habitat-supportive, shade-grown coffee donated by Central Roasters. Topics covered at the event ranged from soil and water quality, to the importance of native plants, to how to manage nonnative invasive plants that are taking threatening to replace our native species. While Rappahannockers proved their reputation for being conservation minded by showing up in force, the event also attracted people from many other counties in the region. Whether they have a small yard or a large acreage, Amissville Julie Emery 937-2315 Julie# JulieEmery.com Sending some smiles your way In any smaller, far-flung town like Amissville, the post office plays an important role. It’s a gathering place as we come to get our mail, send our packages and buy our stamps. In that sense our town is much like a lot of other small places throughout this country. In fact, there’s been a post office here , almost as long as there’s been an Amissville. The first post office was established here in 1810. Of course, it looked nothing like the modem, convenient place we head to these days. Our current building was built in 2000 and has everything you could want in a post office. Before they built the current building, the post office was housed at the comer of U.S. 211 and Viewtown Road in what is now American Motorcycles. Staff at the post office are also involved in the local community in ways many of us never think about. We’ve probably seen the “Wanted” posters up on the wall. But they do more than just notify us about who the bad guys are. The post office works with a number of groups to raise money for worthy causes, such as breast cancer research. They do that through selling special stamps that cost slightly more but where a few cents of the cost of each stamp goes to fund that cause. They also do an annual food collection drive in the spring. Nationally they collect over 70 million pounds of food each year! If you haven’t met our local postmaster yet, her name is Norma Furr. She’s been our postmaster fcere just over a See AMISSVILLE, Page B6 those attending found education, onsite expertise, native plants for planting, and even funding are available for restoring and protecting habitat. They walked out with answers to their habitat questions along with handfuls of literature and contact information from the participating organizations. Many of the organizations reported running out of publications they brought to hand out. The open house was the kickoff to a series of programs the Biodiversity Task Force is sponsoring this year that will focus on habitat issues. The first three are Saturday-morning presentations at the Rappahannock County Library. On March 24, from 10 to 11 a.m., Marion Blois Lobstein of the Flora of Virginia Project will present a talk about the effort to catalog all of Virginia’s plants, along with the importance of using native plants to provide habitat for our native wildlife, in her presentation, “Growing Habitat with Native Plants." Lobstein is an Associate Professor of Biology at Northern Virginia Community College, an. Adjunct Professor at Blandy Experimental Farm, and a Fellow of the Virginia Academy of Science. “Her contributions to the advancement of knowledge in botany have merited national and regional recognition," notes the Virginia Journal of Science. Other habitat-related presentations will follow on every other Saturday. Those who attend can get the real dirt on soil and microbes and their importance in our ecosystems, find out what to do about those alien green invaders that are taking over native habitat, how to turn a small woodlot .into a wildlife paradise, and more. The Task Force will also repeat its wellreceived spring migratory-bird identification walk and Butterfly Day. All of the presentations are free and do not require reservations, but with the large turnout for the open house, and the limited seating at the library, those interested are encouraged to come early to ensure getting a seat. Check for updates on this year’s Task Force programs in Rappahannock News and on RLE P’s website (www.RLEP. org). You can also contact the Task Force Coordinator, Pam Owen, at (540) 675-9989 or Biodiversity@RLEP.org. r - ^ Photo by Richard Lykes Terrific turnout This past Saturday’s Wildlife Habitat Open House brought out several hundred folks. Ricki Ashcraft, a representative of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo research center in Front Royal, conducted a seminar about the local relevance of wild life habitats on a global level. Held at the SchoolHouse in Sperryville, the seminar and exhibits were sponsored by the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection’s Biodiversity Task Force in partnership with the Piedmont Environmental Council. This presentation gave the Smithsonian’s National Zoo Conservation and Research Center an opportunity to tell the community more about its new direction and also about global biodiversity issues as they relate to Virginia’s ecosystems. 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Alan Zuschlag 540-937-6124 Major’s Hollow, Sperryville, VA 16+ wooded acres on a private right-of-way near the Shenandoah NationaJ Park. Springs, several bold streams, walking and riding trails, old stone walls and beautiful rolling terrain. Extremely private with several possible building sites to capture the gorgeous mountain views. $325,000. Alan Zuschlag 540-937-6124 Little Long Mountain, Huntly, VA 25 acres on little Ixmg Mountain Road. Magnificent wooded parcel of hardwoods and rolling hills. Old stone wall along the road. With slight clearing, outstanding views can be had from upper elevations. Perfect estate parcel in Old Dominion Hounds territory near Flint Hill. $475,000. Alan Zuschlag 540-937-6124 Highland Farm, Lakota, VA 3t) acre estate on three tax parcels in southern Fauquier Count)' on the Rappahannock River. Lovely views, manicured lawns, pool, koi pond, and historic same guest cottage. E-our bedroom main house with two master suites, jacuzzi and cathedral ceilings. 5 stall barn with foaling room, run-in sheds, board fenced paddocks. $1,899,000. Amy Sloane Timbers 540-987-8668 River Cottage, Ov erall, VA Well-built, 3 bedroom, 3bath cottage on 10 gorgeous acres on the Shenandoah River. Full basement and 2-car garage. Surrounded by G\X National Forest and conserv ation land. Private with excellent views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I-arge bam/workshop, and picnic pavilion bv the river. Great opportunity for fishing and canoeing. S619,000. Alan Zuschlag 540-937-6124 246 Grandview Rd, Washington, VA Charming 3 bd, 3 bath contemporary on 10 acres with greenhouse &. separate 2 car garage. Open floor plan with fireplace. Wrap-around deck. Mountain views. 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Intuition and freckles Do you trust your intuition? If you use a wood stove, and your intuition tells you to get in some wood today, but you don’t, and then the next day there is a big snow storm, you know exactly what I’m talking about. You should have trusted your intuition. Sometimes, we need a little nudge. For example, I am sure you have seen the public service announcements on TV about the different signs to watch for concerning certain ailments and diseases. I am told that more than one person has come to be diagnosed with diabetes after having seen one of those PSAs and putting two and two together. It may not have entered their conscious mind that they had been thirsty a lot lately, and drinking more water than normal. I had my own personal moment of cognition a few weeks ago. To put it in perspective, about twenty years ago, when the kids were little, we often vacationed at Chincoteague and Assateague Island, Virginia. During one Brady's Clark Hollow Rambunrs Richard Brady 675-3754 richardbradyl© juno.com of our vacations to the shore, I got badly sunburned. The bum was bad enough that the skin didn’t peel off; it developed craters, and fell off in pieces. It was painful and uglySome time after that, I visited a dermatologist and, after a lecture, was told that everything seemed OK at the time, but I should visit a dermatologist every year or two, and keep a close watch od it. Well, you know how things go, and that piece of excellent advice slipped by the wayside. About two years ago I AT PARK ENTRANCE SPERRYVILLE, VA HM -J' 1 »WWi PRICE REDUCED !! Just in time for spring! 21+ acres bordering the Shenandoah National Park. The land is improved by this spacious Cedarsided 2+ Bedroom cottage. Enjoy the warmth of the large stone fireplace. Each bedroom has its own full bath. The Master Suite features a Jacuzzi and its own screened porch. Artestian well. Fronts on the headwaters of the Hazel River. Now $665,000 or House on 4 acres offered at $429,900. For information on this and other fine properties in Rappahannock County and surrounding area Please call: Alex Sharp at 540-675-3887 AlexSharp57@aol.com THOMAS AND TALBOT REAL ESTATE A Staunch Advocate of Land Easements LAND AND ESTATE AGENTS SINCE 1967 MIDDLE BIRG VIRGINIA 2*111 TELEPHONE 540*87-6500 METRO: 70-478-8180 Member of the National Tru* for Historical Preservation. Historical Real Estate Program Thomas-Talbolxom Offe*» subject to errorv cfcn*! of price or wtifedtawd without notice Information ftMMcd heiwn « deemed retuMc. ha •» MM warranted mir in n o*ber+t*e giunutfeed. began to take notice of a ‘freckle’ on my right forearm. It didn’t look quite right, but it was pretty small. I didn’t trust my intuition. I let it go. As time went on, it seemed to be getting a little bigger. Then, last week there arose a small bump under the freckle, and my concern grew to action. If you are not already a patient of a doctor, you may know how difficult it is to get to see one. The earliest appointment I could get was in April, but, at least, it was this year. Then, while visiting with my regular doctor, I mentioned the freckle on my arm. He looked at it and wasn’t happy. Some phone calls were made, and before the day was over, two spots had been cut off my body and now I am waiting for the lab results and the word from the doctor on where we go from here. I need to learn to trust my intuition more. Maybe we all do. It’s bad enough to have to dig your firewood out of the snow. But, if it concerns your health and you think you should have a doctor look at it, you probably should have a doctor look at it. Perhaps, you can learn from my mistake. I hope I have. Normans plan picnic By Tuesday evening, the Ibwn of Washington was iced with a winter frosting of snow and sleet. Schools were closed and county government offices closed early. I hope everyone had a nice Valentine’s Day and that the ladies received their red roses for the rose has become the traditional Valentine flower. Birthday wishes go out to Bryant Lee of Washington who will celebrate his day on Saturday, Feb. 17 and to Mrs. Harold Scoggin of Harris Hollow, who will celebrate her day on on Friday, Feb. 23. High school picnic planned Want a way to see some friends and classmates that you have not seen for years? Daniel and Bessie Norman have been working on getting together a picnic. It will be held on Sunday, April 22, for the students and teachers from the classes of 1949 through 1955. You are invited to the Rappahannock County Park at 1 p.m. for a time of fun and fellowship. They are planning to eat around 2 p.m. so bring a chair, covered dish and a beverage. Each student or teacher may bring their spouse or friend. Give the Washington Jan Clattertxick 675-3338 jclatterbuck@ timespapefs.com Normans a call at 1-540-9375147 for any questions or suggestions or if you plan to attend. Community Lenten Services Community Lenten Services hosted by Washington Baptist Church begin on Wednesday, Feb. 28 and continue each Wednesday through March 28. This year’s theme is “John 16.” Participating in each service are the Methodist Churches (of Flint Hill, Sperryville and Willis Chapel); Trinity Episcopal; St. Peter’s Catholic Church and Reynolds and Washington Baptist. Each service begins with a pot-luck dinner at 6:15 p.m., followed by worship at 7 p.m. On Feb. 28, Washington Baptist will host the dinner, TVinity Episcopal will lead the music and Rev. Leah DeLong of the Methodist Charge will deliver the message, “Keeping the Faith.” Child care, also sponsored cooperatively by the churches, is provided free of charge. For more information or a copy of the complete schedule, contact Rev. Phil Bailey, Washington Baptist Church, at 675-3336. Birthdays Celebrated Tamara Estes of Washington celebrated her 12th birthday with family and friends on Sunday, February 11, at the Front Royal Family Amusement Arcade. People attending were Mrs. Ann Deavers, Mr. Ricky Deavers of Front Royal, Mr. James Haim, Mrs. Melinda Haun, James Michael Haun, Miss Rebecca Haun, Miss Victoria Haim and Mr. Thomas Haun, Sr., Pastor Jack Rutherford, Mrs. Wanda Rutherford and Miss Ashley Rutherford of Rixeyville, VA.; Miss Lacey Haun of Culpeper, VA; Ms. Marty Haun and Tbm Haun of Castleton, VA.; Mr. Doug Ricketts, Mrs. Tammy Ricketts and Ms. Sheila Estes of Washington. Everyone had a great time playing games, eating birthday cake and snacks. Tamara received numerous gifts which were greatly appreciated. Tamara was sincerely touched by everyone that attended her party. Have a great week and keep warm everyone! Greetings from Chester Gap I know it’s been a good while since the last time we spoke, so to speak, but well there’s a good explanation for that. You see after having indentured both of the children to pay off the debt from Christmas and then having sold one of my own kidneys to pay for my wife’s birthday trip, well it took a while to bounce back from that. Then again you know me I could just be exaggerating a bit, truthfully it was only one child and hell be back in just five years so it’s not so bad, my back sure hurts though. Seriously though, it’s been very, very hectic so I apologize to you all for the long dry spell but let’s see if we can’t pick things back up and get a little caught up. New officers The Chester Gap Vol. Fire and Rescue Company has elected its set of officers for the 2007 year and they are as follows. President, Chris Ubben; Vice-President, Brandon Craw NEW LISTING Battle Run Lane This 8.4 +/- acre parcel on Battle Run Lane has almost everything you could want in a smaller lot It has western and southern exposures, with great mountain views. Bordered on two skies by stately old stone walls, the land is mostly open, rolling and interspersed with mature Dogwoods, Oaks, Poplars and several nice Persimmon trees. There are at least two excellent building sites. One is on a broad knoll with the best mountain viewl The other features large a large rock outcropping. Oaks and a nice view over the small pond. $285,000 Cheri Woodard 540.987.9080 cfwoodard@earthlink.net Chester Gap Chris Ubben 635-6094 bigshowl995@ I yahoo.com ford; Secretary, Stephanie Crawford; Treasurer, Maybelle Gilkey; and Member at Large, Evan Jason. Fire Chief is Todd Brown; Asst. Chief, Jeff Crooke; Captain, Tabitha Swain, Fire Lt., Adam Moore, E.M.S. Captain, Brandon Phillips, E.M.S. Lt., Evan Jason. Please join me in congratulating these folks on volunteering their time and skills to help maintain our local fire department and for coming out at all hours of the night to save our homes and lives. Everyone is quick to point out faults these days but not so quick to jump in and help out. I hope you all will make it a point to support our department this year whether it be by your own time, a donation, or by coming out to one of the events and expressing your support. 2006 awards and thank you’s If you happened to miss the awards banquet then you missed a great time and missed out on who went home with last years awards too. Picking up Fire Fighter of the year was Tbdd Brown, E.M.S. Person of the year was Brandon Phillips, Most Supportive member of the year was Stephanie Crawford, Most Supportive from the Community was the Chester Gap Grocery, Jr. Fire Fighter of the year was Zachary Fogle, and Jr. E.M.S. Person of the year was Amanda Crawford. Please make sure that if you happen to bump into one of these folks that you congratulate them on their award. Trust me when I tell you that a whole lot of hard work and hours went into each one! Also a huge Thank You’ is due to the following folks for their hard work and/or effort throughout last year: Maybelle Gilkey for stepping in and doing an outstanding job as Treasurer, Dixie Swain for her time, donations, and for always showing up with or sending up food whenever we had a function or a full day of calls, Rodger Swain along with Charlie and Mattie Frazier who gave their time, hard work and used their own gas and equipment to cut the grass before the department was able to sign on Randy Norman who did a great job all year long too. There are many others as well like Nora Sealock, Mary (Shugie) Williams, Earl Williams (that was some great apple butter wasn’t), Caroline and Thomas Leake and still many more who helped the department in so many ways. On behalf of the Chester Gap Vol. Fire and Rescue Department, please accept our deepest thanks and appreciation for all that you’ve done and continue to do. Prayers and well wishes Well, I know it’s been awhile since the benefit dinner but please continue to keep Debbie Wines in your payers as she is doing much better and feeling better too but is still battling her way back. She’s a strong woman though with a strong faith and it’s obvious that the Lord still has a purpose for her life. It’s also obvious that Debbie has a strong and dedicated daughter in Janie Phillips who has been by her mother’s side through this all since the beginning. I know that Debbie is very proud of Janie as are we all but really you couldn’t expect anything less from Mrs. Virginia now could you? Another member of our community recently went through a rather tough time when our own Kevin Williams had to be rushed to the hospital. Oh don’t worry, he’s doing great now and will be able to return to work this week but he gave us all a real good scare. Kevin had a real close call and according to him the doctors said that it was only by the hand of the Lord that he’s still with us. Kevin’s a tough fellow though, anyone with a haircut like that better be, so he’s getting back on track rather quickly and his wife says she expects him back on the couch in no time! Seriously though, both of these folks need are prayers and support as they try to get themselves and their families back to normal and work on their health as well. Both are great people who have done a lot in or community over the years to help out others so now is our chance to help them in return. I have no doubt that you all will do just that! Amissville From Page B5 year now. Her last position was in administration at the Dulles plant. She seems to think coming out here to work with all of us was a good move! “It was a little overwhelming at first,” she told me. That would be because this is her first job as a postmaster. But Amissville is the kind of place where people are friendly and we’re willing to help someone learn the ropes! Norma fives in Warrenton so her commute is one that a lot of people would envy. And she has heard the stories about the commute of her predecessor. There are currently 10 people working at the post office, most of those as carriers. When you think about the square miles Amissville covers you can imagine how time consuming it is to drive to all those mailboxes. One of the things I like best about our post office is the friendly welcome I always get there. Even at the busiest times of the year there, Christmas or tax season, if they’re stressed they never seem to show it. Good customer service is not always something that’s been associated with the postal service. But I think they could take lessons from the people working here in Amissville! 1 received an anonymous voice mail message from some one new to the community this week who wanted to comment on how much she enjoys the music at the Amissville Methodist Church. She said she’d like to see more on the church in this column. I’m happy to oblige and as information comes in you’ll see it in this space. It’s not too late to register fin: girls softball either. You’ve got another chance this Sunday, Feb. 18 at Bill Payne Auctions. The registration fees are $40 for each girl playing who is 12 year’s old or younger and $15 for girls 13 and older. For more information you can call Piedmont Softball Association (PSA) Mauri Payne at 937-4142 (office) or 675-3729 (home). Or call David and Donna Sheffield at 937-5595. RIVERFRONT PROPERTY! $599,900 Absolutely the best! Gorgeous contemporary on over 12 acres w/frontage on the Thornton river. 60 miles from beltway! 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The litde bridge that could, and did Second hi a Mites By Don Audette Special to the Rappahannock News Probably the best map showing old roads in Rappahannock County is one dated March 1866. Prepared after the Civil War by Stonewall Jackson’s mapmaker, Major Jedediah Hotchkiss, it shows rivers, mountains, house locations and their owners, highways and byways. By way of explanation, after the Civil War ended in 1865, the Union took possession of Hotchkiss’s maps, but Hotchkiss complained, and an arrangement was made by General Grant whereby the Union would pay Hotchkiss to have copies made of his maps. The March 1866 map of Rappahannock County was one of them. The map is an enlargement of the area between Washington and Sperryville, and includes the Covington River. No bridge is shown where the main highway crosses the Covington River, as streams in those days were crossed by fords. But the point where the highway meets the Covington River is where the Covington River Bridge came into existence in 1917. And after almost 90 years of use since then, the old concrete bridge is in pretty bad shape. When the small community called Rediviva came into being near the Covington River is not readily known. It was a convenient gathering place, though, as it was midway between Sperryville and the Town of Washington along the old Sperry ville-Rappahannock [River] Tbmpike of the 1850s and later. A post office was established in a small general store there in 1889, but it was closed and moved to Washington in 1913. Rediviva means revival, and many revivals meetings were held on the hill just to the west of the Covington River. That may be how Hie hamlet received its name. The book, “Rappahannock County, Virginia: A History,* by Elisabeth B and C .E. Johnson, Jr., refers to a 1910 Business Directory of the county and tells a little about Rediviva. DP. Curtis was a merchant there, with his store upstream from the highway. Others settled Photo by Don Audette ALMOST 100: The Covington River Bridge showing its age after nearly 90 years of use. there were S.G. Bruce, a carpenter and builder who lived at Blue Rock Farm; Robert Russell, a teacher, and J.T. Gore, Bill Sisk, and William G. Wood. But one thing for sure in the early 1900s, the roads in Rappahannock County, and in Virginia generally, were atrocious. Virginia’s economy had been destroyed after the Civil War; the Commonwealth had an enormous transportation debt to pay off involving bonds for pre-war turnpikes, canals, and railroads; and new road construction as well as maintenance had been ignored for over 30years. Back then counties built and maintained their own road systems. Virginia had no highway department until 1906. In that year, a State Highway Commission was established, mainly for supervisory and coordinating purposes. Counties were laying out roads that did not link up with roads in neighboring counties. And depending on the weather, roads were seas of mud, or they harbored clouds of dust, or were angled with frozen ruts. Rough rides. Bad rides. They were so bad that exactly 100 years ago, in 1907, the Automobile Club of America, told its membership to avoid driving through Virginia whenever possible. The club was composed of rich men in New York City. They were among the very few who could afford automobiles in those days, and to them Virginia with its incredi Photo by Don Audette DATED: A date on the east end of the bridge, to the right, seems to indicate the bridge was finished on 10-12-17, October 12,1917. bly bad roads was automobilehell for motorists making their annual trek south for sea and sun in Florida or gambling in New Orleans. Road improvements in Rappahannock County began in earnest in 1910, driven by the need for better highways to get farm products to market. Over the next decade, a macadam road was completed starting at Chester Gap, descending to Flint Hill, thence to Washington via Fodderstack Road, onward to Sperryville, and then to the Culpeper County line by 1920. A macadam road consisted of thin layers of tightly packed crushed rock and stone, topped with sand or gravel fines (finely crushed stone), all rolled so as to keep out water, snow, and ice. Obviously streams, such as the Covington River, had to be crossed by something more upto-date than a ford. And so, the Covington River Bridge joined the road improvement effort on , Thursday, November 2, 1916. On that day, the County’s Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted unanimously to appropriate “$650 , toward the construction of a concrete highway bridge over the find of the Covington River at Rediviva.” Then the BOS at their April 5,1917 meeting (the United States entered World War I the next day) voted $650 more for the bridge, but stipulated it was to be 12-feet wide and not 15-feet wide as recommended by the Virginia State Highway Commission. No reason was given. It may have been cheaper to build a more narrow bridge, or maybe the county did not like being told what to do, or since the macadamized road was 12-feet wide, why have a wider bridge. A marking on the east end of the bridge seems to indicate it was finished on October 12,1917. A shifting of road funds at the BOS meeting of April 3, 1919, suggests a total cost of $1,300 fin* the bridge. In 1918, the First World War was over, times were booming, the Good Roads Movement was in full swing, and Virginia finally laid put a State Highway System. That is how the old Sperryville-Rappahannock [River] Turnpike entered Virginia’s primary road system and received a number, Y\21. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia NO BRIDGES, JUST FORDS: This is a detail from a March 1866 map of Rappahannock County by Jedediah Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson’s mapmaker. Shown is the old SperryvilleRappahannock [River] Turnpike, with what is now Gid Brown Hollow Road heading northward at the Covington River toward Brown’s Mill. This was also the period of named highways, as the United States itself had no nationwide system of highways until 1925, nor a national highway numbering system until 1926. The first named highway was The Lincoln Highway, started in 1913. It eventually stretched coast-to-coast across the northern part of the United State, from New York City to San Francisco. In May 1921, Rappahannock County’s old SperryvilleRappahannock Turnpike became part of Lee Highway, a coast-to-coast highway running across the southern part of the United States from New York City to San Francisco. The highway became an all-weather road much favored by a great many tourists. Lee Highway in Virginia followed U.S. Route 211, which received its U.S. Highway designation in 1927 (VA 21 was dropped in 1929). Originally, Roifte 211 ran from Fairfax to New Market, VA, but it was truncated in 1984 so that it started in Warrenton. It still ends in New Market and is said to be the fourth shortest highway in the U.S. Highway system, only 58 miles long. Thus, Rediviva Road in the early 1920s was an integral part of Lee Highway. A very tiny part for sure, but still a part of a historic national highway. And travelers going east or west on it all passed over Rediviva Road and the single-lane Covington River Bridge. Traffic became so heavy that a new Lee Highway had to be built here in the 1920s and early 1930s, bypassing Rediviva Road and the Covington River Bridge. At first, the new Lee Highway, the current U.S. Route 211, was only two lanes wide and it went up and down across the landscape like ribbon candy. When Updates from the General Assembly Bill would deny bail to illegal immigrants RICHMOND, VA. — In Virginia there are several bills before the General Assembly that deal with illegal immigration. One such bill is designed to deny bail to illegal immigrants who have been incarcerated for felonies. Chief patron of HB Del. C. Tbdd Gilbert (RWoodstock) said the bill is only a change in presumption. “My bill only deals with a presumption that illegals who commit felonies should be held in jail pending their trial because they represent an inherent flight risk,* Gilbert said. As a prosecutor, Gilbert encounters illegal immigration issues on a daily basis. “He sees things in the course of his work that need to be corrected and this is one of them,* said Gary Frink, Gilbert’s legislative assistant. Anti-immigration bills such as Gilbert’s have sparked controversy with immigrant advocacy groups. Mexicanos Sin Fronteras (Mexicans Without Borders) organized a senes of events to express an opposing side of the bills. Legal groups also have spoken out against the bdl. Cristina Rebeil, an attorney for the Virginia Poverty Law Center, said if rbiw bill becomes law, it could be used to treat immigrants Ayustly. "Hie first obvious problem is that it takes discretion away from judges," Rebeil said. “Judges currently can consider evidence of a person’s immigration status as part of the circumstances before granting bail” There are concerns the bill might cause racial issues. “We have already seen an explosion of racial profiling in the Latino community and I believe this will increase this even further," Rebeil said. Gilbert’s bill passed the House of Delegates Feb. 6 in a 92-5 vote. Currently the bill is waiting review in the Senate Committee for Courts of Justice. Another bill that touches on illegal immigration is one that would have made it a Class' 1 misdemeanor for an employer to hire an applicant without checking his or her eligibility for employment. The bill has been set aside by the Labor and Commerce Committee. The chief patron, Del. C. Tbdd Gilbert (R-Woodstock) says he will most likely resubmit the tall during next year’s session. “I am very concerned about the issue and I hope the federal government doesn't grant general amnesty to illegals in the meantime," Gilbert said. The bill would have made it the responsibility of the employer to check an applicant’s employment status with the assistance of the federal government * The bill states, “The Department of Labor and Industry shall provide employers with access to the federal Basic Pilot Program in order to assist employers in determining whether prospective employees are legally eligible for employment in the United States.” Gilbert said, “I am unimpressed with attempts by any group to undermine the sovereignly of the United States and the sanctity of its borders,” he said. Another bill affecting illegal immigrants says that govemmentally funded charitable organizations in Virginia will be prohibited from helping illegal immigrants, should a bill approved by the House pass the Senate. Introduced by Del. Jackson Miller (R-Manassas), the bill allows for a 90-day grace period See ASSEMBLY, Page B8 SNOWFALL SPEC it was four-laned in the latter part of the 20th century most ups and downs were somewhat leveled by massive cuts and fills. But you can still see the remaining undulations on the westbound lanes when compared to the extensive leveling done with the eastbound lanes. No one sits on a bridge anymore, skipping rocks into a stream, talking, and having a good time. Not with traffic whizzing by at 60-70 mph and faster. But at least the old Covington River Bridge has had its “15-minutes of fame” and is now ready for its future. % PPAHAftftOCS Al 1STATI SOMCES Washington 540-675-1190 I Four-bedroom, two-bath home, two-car garage, equipment shed and workshop. 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From Page B7 during which an individual can receive aid while their legal status is being investigated. Once that period has expired, illegal immigrants will be turned away from organizations that receive government funding. tr “The intent is to make sure that the tax dollars that our states and localities collect from the citizens go toward legal immigrants and citizens of the commonwealth and not to people who are here illegally;” Miller said in a recent interview with NBC 4 News. The Richmond-based organization Fan Free Clinic provides free health care and receives most of its funding from the government. “We don’t ask people to demonstrate citizenship. We are oriented towards people who are ill, have no insurance and have no place to go,” said John Bauman, the clinic’s executive director. Although Fan Free Clinic does not keep records of its patients’ citizenship, Bauman said the number of undocumented patients has increased steadily over the past 10 years. If the bill passes, Bauman said the clinic would be forced to shut its doors to hundreds of people in need. “We would comply with the law, but my hope would be that the law would leave some avenue to help folks in need of medical attention,” Bauman said. “We see the consequence of public policy on a very human level.” Del. Kristen Amundson (DFairfax) is one of the 29 delegates who voted against the bill. She said the bill is unethical, as well as impractical. “It’s a huge paperwork burden. These are organizations that are always operating on a shoe-string (budget) at best,” Amundson said. “If you run a hypothermia shelter where you say, “We will take anybody off the street tonight so they don’t freeze,’ you don’t stand there and check documentation.” — By Andrew Price and Andrew Perkinson Castration bill passes the Senate RICHMOND, VA. — The Senate passed a substitute bill this past week requiring state agencies to study the feasibility of castration as part of. treatment for violent sexual offenders on conditional release. The bill, proposed by Sen. Emmett W. Hanger (R-Mount Solon) passed 31-7 with two senators abstaining to vote. The bill requires the Attorney General’s Office and the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services to examine the possibility of physical and chemical castra- - tion for convicted, violent, sexual offenders. Hanger said he created the bill to save money on current institutionalized treatment for convicted sex offenders. “I was looking for a much more effective treatment program,” Hanger said. “If you put someone in a facility for 10 years at $150,000 per year, you’ve got $1.5 million in 10 years on just one individual and it can be higher sometimes and I think that’s an unproductive use of taxpayer dollars.” The original bill would permit violent sex offenders to undergo physical castration as terms for conditional release, in place of secure inpatient treatment. Original provisions also required offenders to be monitored through Global Position System, undertake psychological treatment, live in an approved residence, refrain from contacting victims or consuming alcohol, inhalants or controlled substances. ' Hanger said the substitute will delay the implementation of his original proposal. However, Hanger said that may be the proper course because of Virginia’s lack of facilities, such as the half-way houses needed to shelter castrated offenders on conditional release. A spokesman at the Attorney General’s office declined to comment on this issue. Though he said if his office is asked to study the subject they will undertake the issue in a serious and thorough manner. Hanger said in many cases therapy without castration has been found to be completely ineffective. “The history of the program, the characteristics of these types of offenders is that they just don’t do it once,” Hanger said. “They don’t get over it.” According to Dr. Fred Berlin, founder of the Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic, said the use of castration may be a valuable treatment if properly implemented. Berlin said offenders must be* properly evaluated and only certain sex offenders should be considered for castration. He said castration may not be effective in all cases and offenders should be examined on an individual basis. “I think it can be part of an overall picture that in some cases can be quite helpful, but it’s (castration) not a panacea or some kind of cure-all,” Berlin said. Rape-victim support groups and criminal-rights Country Living in Rappahannock County OLD KESWICK, c. 1736 This 5504- acre horse property is home to the renowned Keswick Stables. The historic home has 11 1/2 ft. ceilings, original woodwork and graciously proportioned rooms (including 7 bedrooms). Dependencies include a summer kitchen, pool complex and several cottages. Price upon request. Contact Justin H. Wiley CHANCELLOR’S ROCK - This 446 acre Hunt Country estate has a remarkable natural setting, every expected amenity and is a splendid retreat for country pursuits. Price upon request. Contact Justin H. 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It’s about power and control,” said Angela Exson, director of advocacy services for Rape Victims Advocates. “I’m an advocate of people receiving treatment and people receiving therapeutic services.” Exson said while she is not an expert on the subject of castration, she is waiy of the use of castration as a deterrent. “I feel like that would be a dangerous piece of legislation to put into society; to make it seem like this is a problem that is easily solved or easily fixable,” Exson said. “What’s really a bigger issue for me is making sure offenders are held accountable for their actions and that survivors receive more of what they consider to be justice.” Jean Auldridge, director of the Virginia chapter of Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants agrees that the focus should be on treatment and rehabilitation. “It (castration) is not a natural thing to do,” said Jean Auldridge, director of Virginia’s chapter of Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants. “It’s (the issue) become a political football for people who are running for election who find this an appealing way to get people’s ' ntt^ntinn ” On the other end of the spectrum, Lynn Parrish, spokesperson for the Rape Assault Incest National Network, opposes the bill because she said she supports incarceration. “I think there’s a sort of unknown in the area of these programs (rehabilitation and community treatment) and we know that extended jail time works,” Parrish said. Parrish also said studies often vary as to whether treatment and therapy lead to lower recidivism rates with sexual offenders. While treatment may work, Parrish said opting for more secure methods is better. “If theyYe (violent sexual offenders) in jail, then they can’t rape,” Parrish said. “We want to keep as many rapists off the streets because they’re repeat offenders. The faster we can get them off the streets, the longer we can keep them off the streets, the more we can reduce the incidents of rape.” — By Lisa Chun McDougle wants sex offenders to register online identities RICHMOND, VA. — Released sex offenders might have to register their online passwords along with their DNA. Ryan T. McDougle (RMechanicsville) has proposed legislation to tighten guidelines in the Virginia Sex Offender Registry. McDougle’s bill, SB 1071, would require a person convicted of a sexual offense to register e-mail or instant messaging accounts. Social network Web sites like MySpace and Facebook are included also. “Virginia will be the first state to pass this forwardthinking legislation,” McDougle said. me current law requires a person convicted of a sex crime to register on the statewide database within three days of release. A photograph find DNA and fingerprint samples are collected, along with vehicle registration and proof of residence information. “This will give law enforcement tools they need to keep track of predators,” McDougle said. McDougle was a member of the Youth Internet Safety Taskforce. This collective, organized by Attorney General Bob McDonnell, was made up of General Assembly members, teachers, school superintendents and representatives from Microsoft, AOL Time Warner and Yahoo. Their goal was to address the trend of sexual offenders using the Internet to target children and teenagers in tiie commonwealth. The bill passed the Senate last week, and has been assigned to the House Courts of Justice Criminal Law subcommittee. If the measure passes in the House, it will be sent to Gov. Tim Kaine and become effective July 1. This is not the only bill sponsored by McDougle that involves the Virginia Sex Offender Registry. His bill SB 1065, brings Virginia in line with the regulations of the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. “We were making sure Virginia is one of the most aggressive states in protecting our children from sex predators,” McDougle said. — By Stephen Hicks

America’s Cup 400th anniversary tickets on sale LEESBURG - You and your sweetie could have bought a nice dinner with $150 on Valentine’s Day. But the same $150 will buy you two tickets and general admission to an epic event - the America’s Cup of Polo - access to incredible haute cuisine and some of the best peoplewatching around on the sumptuous grounds of historic Morven Park in prime Virginia horse and wine country. General admission tickets for the event went on sale Wednesday. “It is a unique gift for loved ones. These days it’s a challenge to find something special that makes a lovely gift for a valentine,” said Tareq Salahi, chairman of America's Cup of Polo. “Whether you’re a food and wine lover, a horse enthusiast, a Journey fan or enjoy air shows and fireworks, you’re going to score a lot of points with your loved one with this spectacular gift.” In addition, the cup, which is scheduled to take place on May 12 - Mother’s Day weekend - presents an excellent opportunity to give mom a smile on her big day. “A loved one can present this gift on Valentine’s Day and allows one to celebrate also on Mother’s Day — a great win-win,” Salahi said. The “love theme” is intentionally tied to the dates of the general admission opening sales ' and Mother’s Day weekend. After all, Gov. Tim Kaine’s father-in-law was the governor of Virginia in 1969 when he created the now famous slogan, “Virginia is for Lovers.” “The slogan has been very strong and has been very good to Virginia, and we wanted to build on that by selecting these dates and connecting them with these holidays,” Salahi explained. Virginia’s culinary and viticultural offerings will be on full display at the event, which will feature impeccable food and wine offerings. Salahi is also the chairman of VirginiaWineTour.com, a tourism office, and* owns nearby Oasis Winery in Hume. Food will be catered by Market Salamander, an offshoot of Salamander Hospitality, owned by Virginia-based entrepreneur Sheila Johnson. Todd Gray, executive chef at Equinox restaurant will take the reins in the kitchen. James Beard, a five-time nominee for “Best Chef Mid-Atlantic,” has created a cornucopia of mouth-watering menus for both breakfast and lunch. The day’s activities will commence at 11 a.m., heralded by the patriotic sounds of a fife and drum corps and a live rendition of the National Anthem and “God Save the Queen” performed by Journey. The polo teams of England and the United States will take the field after an awe-inspiring air show demonstration and flyover. Midr match musical performances by a “surprise” guest will lead up to the conclusion of the match. The evening will culminate with a stunning fireworks celebration at the conclusion of Journey’s sunset performance. Dr. Betsee Parker, co-chair of the International Diplomatic Polo Committee for America’s Cup of Polo, is equally enthused about the cup’s appeal to horse lovers and lovers of art and beauty. “The bottom line is the that America’s Cup of Polo is an event for all lovers, especially of the horse as an exquisite creature, regardless of the discipline in which it’s put to use. It will be ideal for those that want to see the horse at its very finest, both as an athlete and as poetry in motion,” Parker said. “It promises to be an overwhelmingly beautiful event. It’s similar to the Olympic Games, but with a country - being awarded the right to play in the prestigious Americas Cup of Polo each year at Historic Morven Park.” “America’s Cup of Polo is going to be a thrilling day at Morven Park - a new tradition, a lasting alliance for a game and cup that will have an enduring Virginia legacy,” said Rita McClenny, vice president of Film at the Virginia Tourism Corporation. McClenny, a polo hobbyist, will join Salahi and the rest of the American team on game day in a dual quest for fund raising and victory. “For the love of horses, go out and buy your tickets today for a match that will showcase world class polo on a historic field in Morven Park,” she said. Morven Park is located in Leesburg in Loudoun County, and is just a 20-minute drive from Washington Dulles International Airport. Tickets to America’s Cup of Polo may be purchased at www.Americas CupofPolo.com or at the Loudoun Convention and Visitors Association’s Visitor Center, located at 222 Catoctin Circle, Suite 100 in Leesburg. Salahi anticipates that sales to the event will be brisk to the event, which will accommodate 5,000 attendees, and warns that it will “sell out quickly.” A variety of hospitality packages, including private tents for entertaining are currently available. Proceeds from America’s Cup of Polo will go to the Journey for the Cure Foundation, dedicated to finding cures by providing grants to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and The Multiple Sclerosis Society and assisting the preservation of Historic Morven Park. Counseling center offers spiritual support By Haley Huie Rappahannock News Staff Writer Katherine Robey came to the center when she was grieving the loss of her husband. Now, her cherry red cowboy hat and sweater mirror her personality - she’s cheerful and said she hopes to share her happiness with others. Robey sat at a table in a sunny room sharing snacks with four other participants during one of the weekly Care Cafe gatherings at the Spiritual Care Support Ministries center in Warrenton. The nonprofit organization sponsors the activities and offers programs that are free and open to the public. The building, located on Shirley Avenue in Warrenton, holds GriefShare classes, aimed at helping people to understand grief and work through it, and open-door sessions for those who are ill, dying or bereaved and their caregivers. Many of its participants tell stories similar to Robey’s. They said they came to the SCSM looking for relief and found a network of support through the volunteers and other people coming for counseling. Robey said she had lost two husbands and a 37-year-old son Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Mark Mulligan CARING: Susan Amato, volunteer director for the Spiritual Care Support Ministry welcomes Shirley Lester to the Care Cafe. before she sought help. After coming to a few of the classes, she said her life was changed. “We can share our experiences. The loss of a spouse is one of the hardest grieving processes we will ever experience in our lifetime,” she said, explaining the collective healing process found at the center. “I found that Fve made lots of friends here,” Robey said. The idea behind the center is to offer people a safe haven where they can come and feel comforted, according to Liz Movie From Page B1 losers give up. No matter how bleak a situation looks - and there are plenty of bleak situations this family finds themselves in - the characters refuse to give up their quest to get Olive to California because only losers give up. We watch, painfully, as one disaster after another threatens to keep the family from reaching California. One can’t shake the feeling of the heartbreaking desperation of the characters and their lives, despite the love they share for each other and especially for Olive. The movie is rated R for language, some sex and drug content. Rim time is 101 minutes. Danielsen, founder and director of SCSM. There are staff members on hand from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. “People who are ill and bereaved sometimes need a place away from their environment to have quiet time and reflect,” she said. Danielsen had a difficult childhood in Brooklyn and often wanted a quiet place to get away from home. Churches offered her sanctuary, a comfort she hopes to offer to people through the support ministries program. She offers programs in Culpeper, and runs a chronic illness group at Fauquier Hospital in addition to regular sessions at the SCSM’s Warrenton location. The Shirley Avenue location has been open for more than two years, but is always adding new programs and expanding its services, she said. Danielsen added that she is working to set up a program for teens, which will include a Teen Fun Night and provide them an open forum to discuss anything they want. The center is mostly funded SUPPORT: Spiritual Care Support Ministry founder Liz Danielson prays following a Care Cafe on a recent Thursday morning. Prayer is ‘the furnace’ that drives the ministry, said volunteer Bobby Reynolds. through private donations, but also receives money from grants and other faith communities or. churches, Danielsen said. Local preachers from a variety of denominations hold regular meetings at the facility - evidence of the eclectic spiritual influences at SCSM. Dotty McKenzie said she was skeptical when she first came to a GriefShare Christmas class. The Culpeper resident said she wanted to join the program after her mother passed away. There she found the sense of peace she’d been looking for. “I thought it was great that other people know what I’m going through - I’m not alone anymore,” McKenzie said. Her husband noticed such a difference in her that he offered to bring her to Warrenton for classes. McKenzie hopes to enroll as a volunteer for upcoming activities. She said her hus band described helping with the support ministry as her calling. “I look forward to it, and it really makes me happy,” McKenzie said. lb become a volunteer with SCSM, participants are required to complete a series of tiie GriefShare classes, and can specialize in a particular area of counseling. Volunteer director Susan Amato said there is a growing need for help at the facility. “We are always looking for people who have a heart to help other people,” she said. The volunteer process screens for people who are willing to listen - an important attribute for people who are hoping to serve in counseling roles, Amato said. The volunteers at SCSM come from a variety of backgrounds. One volunteer, Bobby Reynolds, is the visitation pas tor at First Assembly of God in Front Royal. Reynolds said he completed an internship with the program and remains involved with some of the center’s classes. His favorite part, he said, is seeing people who are making progress and coping with their grief. “It’s seeing people laugh for the first time — when you can hear them say God is starting to give them their joy back,” Reynolds said. He described the courses and messages at the center as being biblically based, and said he was able to learn a lot from the courses. “This is good if people are needing healing or spiritual help,” Reynolds said. “If they’re needing a place to turn, the Spiritual Care Support Ministries is a place they can turn to.” E-mail the reporter: hhuie@ timespapers. com Photo by Robin Purnell 1995* It was the perfect afternoon for some sassafras tea making. Pictured from left to right are future counselor Lara Kreyling, counselor Welby Lynn, future counselor Ali Polkowski, camper Anna Kreyling and counselor Julie Bankston. Nature From Page B1 Purnell, pish Bartholomew, Bobbette Swindler, Welby Lynn, Ladme Morgan, Maiy Wagoner, Beth Nealon and Lucile Miller. Our prize for longevity goes to Alex Purnell. Alex, now in his fourth year at the University of Virginia, has been our Ml-tiine favorite counselor every year since 1996. I would especially like to gratefully acknowledge the loyalty and hard work of Joy Sloane and Robin Purnell. Joy, working behind the scenes, nurtured and staunchly defended the camp through some very difficult formative years. Robin, more than anyone, helped to build the foundation on which the Rappahannock Nature Camp has gi#wn and evolved. This year, we are planning many surprises and new activities, plus a gathering of as many past campers and staff members as possible, in recognition of the camp’s 20-year history. We hope you can join us. See you at camp! Apply early The Rappahannock Nature Camp is open to boys and girls ages 8 to 12. Our campers will explore the forelts, meadows, rivers Photo by lyi Wood 2003: Campers were entertained by some banjo strummin’ by Joe Willette. and ponds of the Singing Creek property and surround* ing areas, including the Shenandoah National Park which is within walking distance. Camp will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday - Friday, June 18 to June 29, with one overnight camp out. a Tuition is $z25 for the two weeks. Thanks to generous support from the Rappahannock County Garden Club this year, we have scholarship funds available. Please do not hesitate to apply if you need financial assistance. Space is limited to the first 24 applicants, so it is a, good idea to apply early. • lb request an application form or for info on scholarships, call Don Loock at 9879441. Brochures and application forms may also be picked up at the Rappahannock Extension Office in Washington, the kiosk at the Washington Post Office, or the PEC Field Office on Main Street in Sperryville. 5

General Assembly Updates Dining *n dashing risks larceny, felony RICHMOND, Va. — A House committee recently approved a bill that would make failing to pay certain service charges a larceny. The Courts of Justice voted 18-0 in favor of this legislation sponsored by Del. Robert Bell (R-Charlottesville), which would define the defrauding of hotels, motels, campgrounds, restaurants and amusement parks as larceny. Under the current law, the maximum penalty for this offense is considered a misdemeanor; no matter how many times the violation occurred. The bill was presented to Bell by Charlottesville police officer Michael Flaherty, who had experiences with repeat offenders who would order food and never pay. — By Diana Han Minimum wage bill passes Senate RICHMOND. VA. — The minimum wage in Virginia could rise from $5.15 an hour to $6.50 an hour. SB 1327, sponsored by Sen. Charles Colgan (D-Manassas) would change the state’s conformation to the Federal minimum wage. The bill would take effect July 1 if approved by the House and Gov. Tim Kaine. “Even with the increase, minimum wage earners will still make about $3,500 less than the poverty level. It’s been 11 years since the minimum wage was increased,” Colgan said. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defined the poverty level on Jan. 24 as $10,210 for an individual, $13,690 for a couple and $20,650 for a family of four. Colgan said 83 percent of his constituents polled in Prince William County supported the legislation. Sen. Jay O’Brien (R-Clifton) said Virginia has always mirrored the Federal minimum wage. Sen. Emmett Hanger (R-Mount Solon) also thinks it is not appropriate to adjust the minimum wage. “The government should estimate a minimum wage of zero. Minimum wage legislation is antiquated. It came about in a different era," Hangar said. Hangar said there are many {daces ' across Virginia where wages are already much higher than the federal minimum. He said a govemmentally mandated raise might unintentionally attract illegal immigrants. According to Department of Planning and Budget estimates, it would cost more than $5 million a year to increase wages for the state’s own workers. The bill has a clause rendering the legislation void if the federal minimum wage is raised to $6.50 or more. All other wage-raising legislation has been tabled. The bill would retain the list of workers currently ineligible for minimum wage requirements. The list includes farm employees, domestics, ushers, taxi drivers and people under 16 or above 65. 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Never offered before with 20% predevelopment discounts, 90% financing. Call 800-709-5253. ■ ALDIE: 2BR, 1BA, cozy cottage, deck w/mtn views. AvI. 4/07 $1300/ month + utils. (703)327-6888. A Section 8 Gem - escape the close & noisy neighbors, rent this updated, 3BR, 1BA, home on a 1 ac country lot in Warrenton. $1,399/month. Call Owner/Agent at 540-428-8772, TODAY Ashbura 5BR, 3.5BA, 4500sf luxury living. Gourmet kit, 2 car gar. $2500. Realtyworld Homes (703)346-8064 Flint Hill: 3BR 1.5BA duplex w/mntn views, gas heat. AvI now. $900/ mo + SD. Call (540)635-5600 Flint Hill/ Amissville: Cabin: 1 Br/loft, Irg kit, W/D, stone FP, Cath. ceiling, porch, on farm. $1000 + utils. Mrs. Brown 540-837-2988. Flint H|ll, historical stone house, CAC, 4BR, 1.5BA, LR, FP, Kit, Breakfast & DR, porches, garage. No pets. Sec Dep & rets req'd. $1000/mo Avail Mar 1. 540-675-3663, 540-675-3574 Rentals — Office 12625 Lee Hwy, Rt 211 For Lease Commercial: 1000 - 3800 Sq. feet Starting at $13.00 per sq. foot Warehouse: 6800 Sq. feet Starting at $4.00 per sq. foot 100 For Sal* % Owmr ; ■;] GREAT PRICE!! Get into the prestigious community of Waverly View at an affordable price. This home has it all: over 2,700 sq ft w/ hardwood flooring throughout, ceramic tile in master BA, tray ceiling in master BR w/ rope light, three-piece crown molding & more. 4 BR, 2 full, 1/2 BA. Soaking tub in master. Just 6 mo old, this home sits on a beautiful 1.75 rolling acres (360 degree mountain views) conveniently located near I-66 & 1-81. Priced to sell at $399,900. Owner Agent. (540)287-7679 or (540)364-2929 L_ Real Estate for Sale MADISON COUNTY, VA EXCELLENT COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES •Out-parcels available adjoining Food Lion Center. long frontage on US29S, $250K per acre. •Last commercial parcels in county with water & sewer available. 7 68z ac. approved for 61 unit active adult community. Adjoins Food Lion Center. north of Charlottesville along US 29S. $1.1 M. Additional 9.5 ac. commercial available. •Aroda Country Store. Excellent business opportunity, strong catering and retail business/deli. Potential for internet and mail order sales. $489K •Town of Madison. 3,500 sf, two level brick/ masonary building, sewer/water. $325K Call Bill Gantry, Broker Jefferson Land ft Realty 540-948-5050 www.Jatfarson-land.com r vl Real Estate for Sale MADISON COUNTY, VA •Haywood Area. Hunly s Paradise on 78Z wooded acs, abundant wildlife, streams, caves to explore. & a rustic hunting cabin, perfect weekend get-away. S425K Gene Smith •North Madison - Secluded 63.8 acs surrounding a pond, perfect for canoeing & fishing. Main resid 3BR.2BA, cath ceil, kil/greal rm, patio, Ig front porch; Guest cottage: 2BR. 2BA. Perfect for those weekend gel-a-ways or permanent resid. $724,500 Bill Gentry Broker •West Albemarle Co - Excel oppor for a conservation easement. Located on Pasture Fence Mountain: 215-1- acs of pristine, private upland forest, east of the Shenandoah Natl Park, abundant wildlife, game trails streams. 10 division rights. S897K Bill Gentry Jefferson Land ft Realty 540-94S-5050 wwwJefferson-lantLcom >409,000 AmmissvtiJf, \A FOR SALE BY OWNER All Brick 3 hcdrmmC hath Rambler »uh Aujl bed (ionise. 2 Car Couched Garage A vintage \hevL I 43 Aero beautiful Undvedping back* lo vwwdv Pv«od »/waterfall. fountain A bodge. Paved Dmewav Revcn< Applunccv. Formal living A dining room* Ga> fireplace. Hardwood fW*tr* thriMjgb»*ui. Sun nH*m ?t> e 12 Man* cxiras can convey ’ Pull basement A Officc'Den Thi* home iv a musi see' ^ new c*ti for an appumtmcnl to vlrm tkm beautiful prapertv 540-349-3132 022 Rental* Houses J GAINESVILLE, Piedmont, SFH, 4br, 3.5ba. 2 car gar, 1 yr old, $ 1 9 9 5 / m o . 703-945-5939 Marshall, 3BR, bsmt, Ige yd, hdwd fls, book cases. No smkg/pets. Credit ck, refs.$l200/ mo (540)364-3348 Marshall area, 1 mile from 1-66, 3 story bank house. 3BR, 1BA, sun porch, family kitchen, spacious living room. 540-364-0364. Marshall/Linden 3BR home $1000/ mo. Off Rt. 66. Warrenton 3BR $1500. Credit Ck/ Sec Dep. Olafsen Realty 540-347-1505 www.olafsen.com Rappahonnock Co Renovated farmhouse, 4BR, 3BA, on- large farm. $1900/mo 2BR, 2BA, home on large farm $950/mo Piedmont Property Inc. 540-675-1675 Rapp'k Co., Newly renovated 1BR, 1BA apt w/ high ceilings & wind o w s . Full equipped. $825 Piedmont Property Inc. 540-675-1675 Springfield $484,900 NO BANK QUALIFYING! Beautifully Remodeled 5BR. 2BA SFH in Ravensworth. 91% Owner Financing, $0 Closing. Easy-Qualifying com 571-228-0239 r.— 022 N,__ Rentals ■ Houses The Plains $1,450 2 story home with 4 BR. 2 BA, LR, DR, KIT. laundry room. New carpet on main floor, upper floor is hardwood. Available now. Call Gene Butler at (540) 364-7678. The Plains $1,450 Rambler style home w/large vard. 4BR. 2BA. Ig' LR. sep. DR. hardwood Boors, enclosed rear porch. W/D hookups. Avail, now. Call Gene Butler at (540) 364-7678. The Plains Behind Great Meadow Race Course. Totally remodeled 3BR. 1.5BA home with country kitchen, all appliances, heat pump / AC, 1 year lease minimum, $1750/mo. Barn & fields also avail.(3 horse maximum) Call Cathy Bernache Thomas & Talbot Real Estate. 540-687-4144 or 540-424-7066 Town of Culpeper 3BR, 2BA nice, $1000/mo. Ask about our rent special. Olafsen Realty 540-347-1505 Fauquier Times-Democrat: Where the Readers Are! Call Today 540-347-4222 Real Estate for Sale Rappahannock County Castleton - 54+ acres' $652,000 Washington - 27 acres $369,000 Washington - 131.5 acres $1,650,000 Washington - 50 acres $685 000 Emily Henry Long&Foster 540-341-3528 Real Estate for Sale Fauquier County Warrenton - 17 5 acres, can be divided $447,000 Warrenton/Marshall - 2 acres lightly wooded $200,000 Emily Henry Long&Foater 540-341-3528 /%•/ • . " ” “ > Real Estate for Sale V . _ > Fauquier County 199 +/- Ac Just listed. Near Hume. Frontage on Crest Hill Rd (647) & Putnam's Mill Rd (770). Can be divided. $3,200,000. Call Exclusive Agent Joe Ramsey (540)772-9282 Long & Foster REALTORS Real Estate for Sale s Midland, VA, Fauquier Co. An «>urdoor enthusiast's | Jream h* hoc ! Beautiful 14 Br. 2.5 Ba center hall on private 10 3<* l'* B*xiicrs Crockett Hr.trk toe easy access to trails and lake Trad it I floor plan kit. with Breakfast N»s>k open to Family Rurnn with stone FP F\*rmai Living aiwl lining Room. Master Br with dual closets, M.Ra with double vanity and >ep >hwr and rub. W/out Bsmt with finished Rev R**>m and storage. 2-car garage Board fencing No HO A $540,000. Call Carolyn at Wright Realty, Inc 70 J-*07-5019

WARRENTON Huge 3020sqft, almost new 4BR, 3.5BA, FP, garage, finish bsmt, rec rm, laundry rm, $1950/ mo+ dep. Pets considered. Anne Spalth Owner/Agent RE/ MAX Distinctive. 703-946-1338 Warranton, rambler on 1 priv ac 3 BR, 1 BA, deck. $950/mo. avail. 4-1-07. please call 571-261-3932 Washington, VA, Stone & cedar, 3BR, & loft, 2FP, 20 acre wooded, river,w/ stables. $1400/ mo. (301)986-5475 Bealeton/Warrenton: Lg SFH. Master Suite $585 Large BR $485/ mo. Both w/pvt BA & office. (703)598-7911 Avail Immed, 2BR TH in The Plains. 2.5 BA, tile floors & carpet, CAC, W/D, $1000 rent* includes sewer/ water & Town trash removal. NO PETS. Security deposit & credit check. Call 540-341-2806 for application & leave daytime phone number. ‘some restrictions apply. Avail Immed, new 2BR, 1BA, handicap accessible TH in The Plains. Tile floors & carpet. CAC, W/D, microwave, $1000 rent * includes sewer/water & Town Trash removal. NO PETS. Security dep & credit check. 540341-2806 for application & leave 'daytime phone number, 'some restrictions apply. (osO ***”**** I Office Fauquier Why commute? Set your office up in quaint, downtown Remington. New businesses and remodeling ongoing. Plenty of parking. Starting at $600 . Call George. Olafsen Realty 540-347-1505 Rappahannock, office space avail in Flint Hill, ,1000sf, cable ready, heat, elect & water Incld, 4 rms w/ 1/2 ba. $900/mo. or $250 per rm. 540-675-3815 ORLANDO DISNEY: 3mi from Disney 5BR.4FBA, turn beaut home- daily,wkly rental. Sips 12, Pool, Brochure 703-241-1537 ww. 360house.com/76559. Bethany Beach - Bear Trap Community. Open and bright 3BR. 2BA condo. Immaculately maintained Screened in porch overlooks peaceful view of pond. 1500 sq ft. All Bear Trap ammenities include 3 pools, tennis, gym, beach shuttle. $364,900. Call 301-774-4025. DUCK, NC, Outer Banks, Lovely Oceanside home on large corner lot. Close to Duck Village shops, restaurants, community amenities, located in gated Four Seasons subdivision 7 master bedrootns. 7 5 ba, rec room with pool table, beautifully furnished, in-ground pool Excellent condition, built in 2000. established rental history. $1,175,000. email: m e I v i n @ melvinsweeney com or call 540-294-8390 Nags Head, NC; beach house $569K, 3BR. 2.5BA, pvt htd pool & hot tub gas FP, cath ceilings, scmd porch, sundeck. ocean view All turn convey Great rental history 540-3494520 Chantilly: 2br/2ba, new home eat-in kitch. glamour tub. walk in closet $115,900 Call Frances 703-378-5677 Chantilly: 3br/2ba, new home appliances, oversized kitchen FF CO schools. $164,900. 1 Avail Call Frances 703-378-8992 It took 6 YEARS to graduate. Find a job in about 6 MINUTES Times Classified 347-4222 Affordable and charming condos located in Historic Staunton, VA. 20 all brick units completely remodeled, new kitchens, new heating and air, spacious rooms and lovely setting. Approximately 1050 sq ft Under 142,000. Email m e I v i n @ melvinsweeney.com or call: 540-294-8390 Chantilly: 1br/Den/1ba, new single family home, granite, appliances. $85,900. Call Don 703-378-8992 Chantilly: 2br/1ba, new home, granite, new appliances, crown moldings, $89,900. Call Don 703-378-8992 Leesburg 2BR/1BA Condo - $219,900. Penthouse level, vaulted ceiling, Skylight. BRAND NEW GRANITE COUNTERTOPS (will be installed next week). Walking distance to Shopping and convenient to everything else. Second bedroom is suitable for child or office. Take Rt7 toward Leesburg, 15N toward Frederick, LEFT at Edwards Ferry Rd, RIGHT onto Heritage Way; Follow to the end; Veer RIGHT into Fox Chase; make 2nd LEFT on to Huntmaster Terrace. Bldg 1122. Avail, to move in 4/1. 703-798-9530 Purcellville: 4BR SFH, 2 car gar, over 1/2 acre, great location,, too much to list.' $369,900 w/ 10k towards closing. 703-307-5774. Rate Protected! Sumerduck 10 acres, 3BR/2ba ranch, 2 car attchd, wrkshp, bam, fncd pastures, see to appreciate. Edie Parish, Keller Williams Realty (540)220-0907 Springfield . $484,900 NO BANK QUALIFYING! Beautifully Remodeled 5BR, 2BA SFH in Ravensworth. 97% Owner Financing, $0 Closing. Easy-Qualifying.com 571-228-0239 Highland Co., VA. 100 ac. Farm. Farmhouse, post & beam bam, outbuildings, springs, stream, nice building sites. Can be divided with or without home. $ 1 ,2 5 0,0 0 0. 540-468-2515. Sportsman's Retreat Augusta Co. VA. 123 acres, surrounded by National Forest Deerfield Valley area. Road frontage. Internal rds. 4 wheeler trails. Wildlife abounds. Standing timber. 2 perks. Some open land. 2000 ft fronteage on Calfpasture River. Priced to sell for less than $5000/ac. Will divide. We trade. Dial direct: Scott Weller 540-294-0555. Melvin Sweeney 540-294-8390. Remax Advantage FAUQUIER SPCA STRAY ANIMALS 540-788-9000 Visit our homepage at www.fauquierspca.com e-mail fspca@netzero.com • tor a complete up to date listing * Announcements I] Book your next week vocation with Elliott Beach Rentab and save **>$100 on select beach houses l condos! ■MMkrMilUN). Sam rodhcfewi Crft»0*fc. |EUJ«iTTjgt tna tear tamo wArE^rr*.' GETmiMi amp stay off vmumM) smm! i INOVIOUAUZED TREATMENT •Cstois soaring • fanis »o ywjns • Aktau fear«n i ivagswu •fanNri«ve^ai THE COLEMAN INSTllTTR The Advanced Center | h* Adihtion Treatment j Looted in Virginia and Kentucky Call toll-free 1-877-77-DETOX \xn-vvm or visit H ww.thecolemaoinstitute.com WALK-IN BATH TUB SiTETY • DIGNITY • INDEPENDENCE Call Now! 1-800-908-1827 POST OFFICE NOW MIRING AVG. PAY S20/HR OR S57K ANNUALLY 0CMNG FEDefUL S EWTS m O/P'V! Paid Training, Vacations. PT/FT. 1-800-709-9754 EXT. 9601 USWAEawfttfH Ihitk Bacfc Area Vaatioi Inuk. Om 9V Halts ad (o«i» ■ „• -n-rx: nm Cikcri: \~v> %--r Dak 'Weir- k Ascr. 5r> .. dunfS-fon' 888.860.9259 ¥‘%;P\ <.*» V.4#> *•* • 'i DimM) Culpeper County Boston - 4.2 wooded acres $114,900 Emily Henry Long&Foeter 540-341-3528 Classified ADS WORK! Call Your Rep TODAY! 540-347-4222 or FAX 540-351-0121 REAL ESTATE WANTED Experienced investor looking to acquire properties regardless of condition. I have an experienced team behind me. I can pay cash and do quick closings. I buy residential, commercial or land properties. Call Today 703-496-6765 email: nap012004@ yahoo.com High-quality pocket watch collection. Serious inquiries only. (540)675‘1115 BUSH HOG John Deere MX6, 6ft, like new. $2050. 540-847-4313 John Deere 4510 Diesel, 4WD W/JD460 loader, bucket & forks. JD 48 backhoe w/ 18in bucket. 295 hrs. $22,500 540-847-4313 ALL OAK SEASONED hardwood. Delivered. $150/ full cord, Call 703-868-2524 Brand new portable prof, massage table. Orig. $350; selling $99. 703-777-1714. Seasoned mixed firewood. $155/ cord. (540)987-8796 Wood for sale. Lots of hardwood. $75 per pickup load. Please call (540)987-8215 m m '•/Ait:: legal Notices mW.ill&tfiiiMii i BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, VIRGINIA Pursuant to Section 170-136 of Rappahannock County Code and Section 15.1-431 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, notice is hereby given that the Board of Zoning Appeals of Rappahannock County, Virginia, will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at seven-thirty (7:30) in the evening at the Rappahannock County Courthouse on Gay Street in Washington, Virginia. Consideration shall be given to all applications presented in accordance with submission requirements. VARIANCE #07-02-02 Dorothy C. Butler, owner of 1.00 acre off Pearl Lane In Sperryvllle, VA (Tax Map 37, Parcel 15, zoned A-Agricultural, Piedmont District), desires a Variance of the front yard setback from 100-feet to 70-feet and a Variance of the rear yard setback from 50-feet to 38-feet In order to construct a single-family dwelling. Variance allowed pursuant to Section 170-136 of the Rappahannock County Corn. No applicant or other party, in interest, and no attorney for an applicant or party in interest, shall initiate a contact with a member of the BZA for the purpose of conducting a private discussion, in person or by telephone, concerning the merits of any application, appeal, or other matter pending before the BZA. No member of the BZA shall participate in any such private discussion. Site visits or similar contacts initiated by BZA members shall not constitute such ex parte contacts. •A copy of the foregoing application is on file at the Zoning Office in Washington, Virginia, and is available for public inspection, Monday through Friday, 8:30AM to 4:30PM. The above named applicant, adjacent property owners, and any other parties desiring to be heard should be present at said meeting or should address their written comments to the Board of Zoning Appeals, do P.O. Box 519, Washington, Virginia 2747, in advance thereof. By: John W. McCarthy Zoning Administrator BOARD OF SUPERVISORS RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, VIRGINIA Pursuant to Section 170-129 of the Rappahannock County Code and Section 15.2-2204 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors for Rappahannock County, Virginia, wiM hold a public hearing on Monday, March 5, 2007 at 7:00PM in the Courthouse in Washington, Virginia, in order to consider the following applications: RZ 07-01-01 CIM Real Estate, Inc., by John F. McCue and Susan Hotelling, desire to rezone their property situated at 12715 Lee Highway, Washington, VA (Tax Map 28, Parcel 56D, zoned AAgricultural, Hampton District) to Commercial-General. Jhe property is currently used and will continue to be used as Mountainside Medicine. The applicant plans to remove the existing parking areas and locate the parking to the rear of the property. Rezoning Is allowed pursuant to Code Section 170-134 of the Rappahannock County Code. SE 07-02-01 Elizabeth Lee, owner of the property located at 31 Main Street, Sperryville, VA (Tax Map 38A-1, Parcel 18, zoned CVCommercial Village, Piedmont District), desires • a Special Exception permit to create an Efficiency Apartment for herself in the existing shed. Use allowed pursuant to Code Section 170-36A of the Rappahannock County Code; additional standards under Code Section 170-62F. A copy of the foregoing applications are on file at the Zoning Office in Washington, Virginia, and are available for public inspection, Monday through Friday, 8:30AM to 4:30PM. Said applications will be presented to the Rappahannock County Planning Commission, at their regular meeting on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 7:30PM at the Rappahannock County Courthouse for such recommendation as the Commission may yvish to make pursuant to Section 170-55, if any. The above-named applicants, adjacent property owners, and any other parties desiring to be heard should be present at said meeting or should address their written comments to the Board of Supervisors, c/o P.O. Box 519, Washington, Virginia 22747, in advance thereof. BY:John W. McCarthy Zoning Administrator BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, VIRGINIA Pursuant to Section 170-129 of the Rappahannock County Code and Section 15.2-2204 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, notice is hereby given that the Board of Zoning Appeals for Rappahannock County, Virginia, will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at seven-thirty in the evening in the Courthouse in Washington, Virginia, in order to consider the following applications: SU 07-01-02 Ruby D. Updike, owner of 2.0 acres in Stonewall-Hawthorne District, located at 3528 Slate Mills Road, Sperryville (Tax Map 69, Parcel 2E, zoned A-Agricuttural), desires a Special Use permit to construct a family apartment for her son and his family. Use allowed pursuant to Code Section 170-36A of the Rappahannock County Code; additional standards under Code Section 170-62G. SU 07-01-03 Amy N. Liscomb, owner of 15.1966 acres in Hampton District, located at 12617 Lee Highway, Washington (Tax Map.28, Parcel 48C, zoned A-Agricultural), desires a Special Use permit for a small contracting business in order to build and sell wooden horse jumps, fences, poles, and gates. The applicant plans to build a pole barn to house her business. Use allowed pursuant to Code Section 170-36A of the Rappahannock County Code; additional standards under Code Section 170-62D. No applicant or other party in interest, and no attorney for an applicant or party in interest, shall initiate a contact with a member of the BZA for the purpose of conducting a private discussion, in person or by telephone, concerning the merits of any application, appeal, or other matter pending before the BZA. No member of the BZA shall participate in any such private discussion. Site visits or similar contacts initiated by BZA members shall not constitute such ex parte contacts. A copy of the foregoing applications are on file at the Zoning Office in Washington. Virginia, and are available for public inspection, Monday through Friday, 8:30AM to 4:30PM. Said applications will be presented to the Rappahannock County Planning Commission at their regular meeting on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at seven-thirty in the evening at the Rappahannock County Courthouse for such recommendation as the Commission may wish to make pursuant to Section 170-55, if any. The above-named applicants, adjacent property owners, and any other parties desiring to be heard should be present at said meeting or should address their written comments to the Board of Zoning Appeals, c/o PO. Box 519, Washington, Virginia 22747, in advance thereof. 4 By John W. McCarthy Zoning Administrator Hay for sale big rolls, $15 each. 10 rolls or more $10 each. (540)987-8203 Call between 4 & 6 pm. Blue Heart Kitchen Collection. Dishes & lots of accessories, http ://contact. beckah. com 540-270-7110 Hardwood Flooring: Brazilian Cherry, 3/4 in thick. $2.50sf, 2,145sf. Will seperate. (703)875-2215. Your Ad Could be HERE Call Today 347-4222 r _ _ For Sal* _J HOT TUB: Never used, seats 6, fully loaded, 31 jets, waterfall. MSFIP $7298, sell $3500. 571-221-6112. POOL TABLE- 8 ft. solid wood, cherry, still in box. 1 in. slate, MSRP $6495 Must sell, $1495. 703-349-1965. Golden Retriever pups, AKC-OFA, SAS, Cerf, excel breeding. $700. Day <540)878-0004 Eve (540)351-6040 ADS WORK Call 540-347-4222 Barn Cats: All vet checked, will deliver. Tame kittens and cats, pups and dogs, need temporary/ permanent homes. Call 202-244-2866 or Tollfree 1-877-225-7935. Barn Cata: All vet checked, will deliver. Tame kittens and cats, pups and dogs, need temporary/ permanent homes. Call 202-244-2866 or Tollfree 1-677-225-7935. FOR FREE Excavating Service & Free Fill Dirt. Call 571-233-4980. FREE FILL DIRT If you can take 100 loads or more. Call 703-771-3975 r 294 Free to good home fuzzy male guinea pig. 540-349-0012. Free to good home only! (Refs) 1 kitten. No calls after 9pm. Serious inquiries only! 540-554-8763. Loving family hoping to adopt infant, willing to pay legal, medical, exp. Mike/Kate collect anytime (703)378-4811 Fauquier Times-Democrat ADS WORK Call 347-4222 Public Notice - Environmental Regulation Notice of Intended action: The StateJWater Control Board intends to consider drafting a proposal for the amendment of a regulation on water quality. A regulation is a general rule governing people's rights or conduct that is upheld by a state agency. Purpose of notice: The board is seeking comments through the Department of Environmental Qualify on the intended regulatory action, including but not limited to 1) ideas to assist the board in the development of a proposal 2) the costs and benefits of the alternatives stated in this notice or other alternatives and 3) effects of the regulation on farm forest land preservation and 4) whether the board should use an advisory committee. The board is also seeking information on impacts on small businesses. Public comment period: February 19, 2007 to April 2, 2007 Public meeting: 302 North Main Street, Culpeper County Board of Supervisors Meeting Room in Culpeper, Virginia, on March 27, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. Unlike a public hearing, which is intended only to received testimony, this meeting is being held to discuss and exchange ideas and information relative to the development of a proposal. Public comment stage: Notice of Intended Regulatory Action Subject matter and intent of proposal: The State Water Board (Board) proposes to amend the state's Antidegradation Policy (9 VAC 25-260-30), part of the Water Qualify Standards, by designating for special protection the headwaters Segment of the main stem Hazel River within Shenandoah National Park and the segment of the main stem Hazel River within Culpeper County as Exceptional State Waters (9 VAC 25-260-30.A.3.C). Advisory committee: The board will use an advisory committee to develop a proposal if it receives at least five written requests to use an advisory committee prior to the end of the public comment period. Persons requesting that DEQ use an advisory committee and are interested in assisting in the development of a proposal should notify the DEQ contact person by the end of the comment period and provide their name, address, phone number, e-mail address and affiliated organization (if any). Notification of the composition of the advisory committee will be sent to all applicants. How to comment: DEQ accepts written comments by e-mail, fax and postal mail. All written comments must include the full name, address and telephone number of the person commenting and be received by DEQ by 5 p.m. on the last day of the comment period. Both oral and written comments are accepted at the public meeting. DEQ prefers the submittal of written comments, including a copy of supporting documents or exhibits. All testimony, exhibits and documents received are part of the public record. How a decision is made: After comments have been considered, the board will decide whether to take action on a proposal. If the board decides to consider the regulation, there will be another public comment opportunity, including a public hearing. After these comments have been considered, the board will make the final decision. To review regulation documents: The agency background document (including purpose, statutory authority, need, substance of planned regulatory changes, alternatives and the family impact statement) is available on the Town Hall web site at www.townhall.virginia.gov and by contacting the DEQ representative named below. The public may review the documents at the following location: DEQ Central Office, 629 E. Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, room 1145 and/or room 1120. Contact for public comments, document requests and additional information: David C. Whitehurst; Department of Environmental Qualify, P.O. Box 1105, Richmond, VA 23218. Phone: (804)698-4121 E-mail: dcwhitehurst@deq.virginia.gov Fax: (804)698-4116 NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE 140 HINSONS FORD ROAD, AMISSVILLE, VA 20106 By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed of Trust dated October 05, 2005, and recorded in Instrument No. 050001902 in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court for Rappahannock County, Virginia, with an original principal balance of $350,000.00, the holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust having appointed as Substitute Trustee EQUITY TRUSTEES, LLC, a Virginia Limited Liability Company, by instrument duly executed, acknowledged and delivered, default having occurred under the terms thereof, and at the written request of the party secured thereby, the Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at the front steps of the Circuit Court for Rappahannock County, 238 Gay Street, Washington, Virginia, on Monday, March 05, 2007 at 10:00 AM Improved real property known as 140 Hinsons Ford Road, Amissville, VA 20106-4136, and more fully described in the aforesaid deed of trust. The property will be sold in AS IS CONDITION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND SUBJECT TO conditions, restrictions, reservations, easements, rights of way, of record affecting same, if any. TERMS OF SALE: Cash. A ten percent (10%) bidder's deposit in cash or certified check payable to the Trustee shall be required of the successful bidder at the time of sale before the bidding will be closed. The balance of the purchase price will be due within fifteen (15) days of sale. TIME IS OF THE E&ENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. In the event of default by the successful bidder, the deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the costs and expenses of sale and Trustee's fee, and the property resold at the successful bidder's risk and expense. The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property. In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase price, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorneys' fees and all other charges incurred by the Substitute Trustee. In the event settlement is delayed for any reason and the property is purchased by someone other than the noteholder, there shall be no abatement of interest caused by the delay. The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation that the borrower did not file for protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to the sale, as well as to post-sale confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall the return of his deposit without interest. All costs of conveyance, including examination of title, recording charges, etc. shall be borne by the purchaser with the exception of Grantor's tax. Purchaser assumes liability for payment of all taxes, ground rent, water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, from the date of sale. All risk of loss shall be on the successful bidder at the time such bid is accepted and the contract of sale executed. Neither the Substitute Trustee, nor any other party, guarantees or covenants to deliver or obtain possession of the premises for any purchaser. The Substitute Trustee reserves the right to reject all bids, extend the time to receive bids, withdraw the property from sale, waive or modify the deposit requirement, and/or extend the period of time for settlement. Should the Substitute Trustee be unable, for any reason, in its sole discretion, to convey marketable title, the successful bidder's sole remedy in law or equity shall be the return of his deposit. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect. Written notice of this Substitute Trustee's sale, as required by Section 55-59.1 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, has been sent to the property owners as their addresses appear in the records of the noteholder, and to all parties prescribed therein. Additional terms of sale will be announced at the sale. EQUITY TRUSTEES, LLC 3977 Chain Bridge Rd., Suite 1 Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 548-4600 FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Bierman, Geesing & Ward, LLC, attorneys for Equity Trustees, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555 2/'15/07, 2/22/07 ’ 1535090

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Supports the Community Center Managers with the supervision of staff and volunteers and develops a plan to recruit and employ qualified staff and to create a preschool program marketing plan to maximize enrollment. Directs the Staff Development Day Committee to develop, coordinate,schedule and execute a Series of comprehensive staff training workshops to ensure compliance with the State of Virginia. Supports the Division Manager to prepare an annual budget and revenue of approximately $750,000 to operate 100% revenue neutral County-wide preschool program. Requires Bachelor's degree in child-care, early childhood education, recreation or related field and 2 years experience managing or directing an early childhood education program. Prefer program management experience in a fee supported educational/recreation organization. Professional Early Childhood Educator and/or Certified Trainer for Early Childhood Educators preferred. 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Creates and updates tax relief" accounts. Interprets and applies local, state and case law, rulings and opinions. Processes applications and certifications through document imaging system. Requires High School diploma or equivalent and six years of experience or a Bachelors Degree, preferably in Business, Management, Finance, or related field and two years of experience, preferably in taxation or finance. Proficient in MS Office applications. Must be eligible for Virginia Notary Public certification. Credit check, criminal background check, driving record check and a valid driver's license. If you have previously applied to this position under Rec #06-440, you need not reapply unless you wish to update your information. (Hiring Range: $35,451 - $47,858/yr) 07-295 Closes:02/16/2007 Additional information and required application contact website: www. loudoun.gov DRIVERS/ DEUVERY Full-time and parttime positions. AM & PM shifts. Full benefits, year-round work, not seasonal. 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Virginia: Steeplechase Central No stretch to call this the sport’s epicenter By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer There are three contenders for the title as America’s steeplechase hub: Maryland’s Hunt Valley area west of Baltimore, southeastern Pennsylvania’s farm and hitting country, and, of course^ Virginia’s Piedmont region. Though horsemen in the other two areas may simper; in our judgment, Virginia’s the runaway winner. With 13 solid weeks of steeplechase action this spring, including 13 point-to-point races, four National Steeplechase Association meets and nine hunter paces (many of which overlap), Virginia is miles ahead of Pennsylvania (with four) and Maryland (six) pointto-points each (and two, and four, NSA meets, respectively.) Add in Virginia jump racing every Sunday of the six-week summer pari-mutuel meet at Colonial Downs east of Richmond, and a healthy fall circuit, and the Commonwealth gets the crown. As paper of record, then, in what well call Steeplechase Central, the Times Community Newspapers produces three special steeplechase supplements each year. Spring Steeplechase and Fall Steeplechase, plus a Virginia Gold Cup section in May. In 2007 Spring Steeplechase, follow along as we take a look deep inside Virginia’s jump racing world. Trainers are entrusted with the health and welfare of valuable Thorou fibred racehorses, charged T ith creating a fitness regimen and fine-timing natural jumping ability. Ever wonder how a trainer takes raw talent, a young horse with no race experience and turns him out, shiny, fit and ready to win on the racecourse? Find out how inside. Initially, the sport of steeplechasing was precisely that - a 1752 ‘chase from point to visible point (two Irish church steeples, naturally) for a pair.of arguing faxhunters grew to the international business that is jump racing of today. Writer Jackie Burke takes a sideways look at the sport’s nascence, supposing on it an American twist back during Colonial days. - A quick ‘chase primer you’ll hear and read about “point-topoints” and “steeplechases”: trust that it is the same sport under separate cover. The main difference is that point^to-points don't offer purse money (except when they do: two point-to-point meets offer small prizes, but most do not). National Steeplechase Association-sanctioned steeplechases (referred to as “hunt meets” in deference to their start as foxhunt dub benefits, or, more simSee Mo, Page 4 Sfted-^ozv ‘Bams %un-ln Sheds 866-391-7808 eberlybarns.net The spring steeplechase season quickly approaches: the first meet is Feb. 24 at Casanova. Take a look inside to demystify race training, including a primer on new ‘synthetic’ track surfaces. Here, a horse takes a test spin around the Middleburg Training Track. Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Ride Like the Champions — At Maintree Farm — • Boarding • Training • Trail Rides • Instruction • Indoor/Outdoor Ring Near Leesburg! CM (703) 777-3279 or (703) 777-Sm V 3f. ••' s TWo are better i t than one... \ n -«»' aaaM* The Taupiiei Times ()«nK7ai and f« ; Ihe Hauqtarr lln» IXiiucrai VVt-ekmd Arborieuliu 'ents v •*v SitlS Horticulture Botany • Forestry By the time It grows up it will benefit from everything we know. Root lnvij>oratr Soil Science Micron utrients » «* \ ’$ % S Bartlett Tree Experts protect one of the most important natural resources on earth, your trees. Our knowledge and techniques in arboriculture are respected worldwide. Bartlett Science has been dedicated to improving the landscape of tree care since we first broke ground in 19Q7. -fNk "f" BARTLETT TREE EXPERTS 540-364-2401 \ 877-BARTLETT 1.877.227.8538 www.barttett.com

Intro from page 3 tempts ‘chase trainers with one of tike richest hurdle stakes an the spring schedule, the Temple Gwathmev April 21 at the Middleburg Spring Races, and the season’s richest timber race, the May 5 Virginia Gold Clip. Though not yet settled, negotiations are reportedly underway to boost the Gold Cup purse to $100,000, making it the ncbestever timber race in the U.S. Other than the purse money difference, the rules of the game are the same, as are the players. Most steeplechase horsemen use the point-to-point circuit for training young horses and finetuning older veterans for the rich NSA season. Opportunities abound, too, for young and inexperienced race riders: the novice rider series offers race experience under point-to-point conditions, and the pony racing series (now known as the junior field masters’ races) allows the youngest of future jockeys time PRESEASOHSAVINGS ON A FULL UN| Z3QSC0MMCT UTILITY TRACT 0* T*» 2305 Trada hat« iC*w.oer Tamar imam i Gmib InHa E«NpaMtfar yaws i*tt7 cc. hqutfI --uaf*.^Cfdt I Umw input iMmSth «W>«M i I HUGE PEALS! ttvnP» MMT Met 7hb 1AVE OH HEW MOOCH, TOO! TRIBLE EQUIPMENT. INC. BIUnkMtMMKWm WW7H MMahMItaawiWSnO m»M *« ■ »■..»■«■ Man! cm the course in front of raceday I crowds. I Crowds at point-to-points 1 are usually smaller, though railside tailgate parking is usually sold out at every venue. Don’t expect a crush of humanity like the Foxfield infield or busy Member’s Hill at Great Meadow at a point-to-point. Smaller crowds, cheaper tickets ami less stringent admission limitations (most point-to-points allow leashed dogs, for instance) make the point-to-point circuit enjoy* able for fans who want to watch the ‘chase action dose up and even mingle with the participants. This spring guide leads you through the season. Included are a number of helpful items: a pull-out map and calendar; feature articles an area trainers -and training tips; last year’s winners so you can keep an eye on the competition; and a photo essay on Virginia racing through the years. Firsttime racegoers can use this tabloid medal as a guide to the faces and places involved in the circuit; sport veterans can catch up on the latest news and notes. Follow the action all season long in the Fauquier HmesDemocrat every Wednesday, and the Fauquier Weekend section on Fridays. Online, log onto www.fouquier.com. nside Steeplechase Chock into the ch3S6........... 3 Meet new NSA president Abbott__JL. 'K.........5 2006 * ■_ .... 6 Carousel offers choices to the horse, horseman_8 Q and A with trainer Doug Fout.jL._10 -^rwpr” # IK Pony racing fofaws the masters’ lead..11 Training tips...r.i__12 Jenny Pitman pens steeplechase series...13 Hunter pace sport demystified.. 15 ’Steeplechase Times’ follows industry trends.17 Map, calendar. 18 Racing through the ages -1957-1997..24 Very funny. Custer Cassidy cartoon pokes fun at local ‘chase coverage.26 Synthetic track surfaces modernize racing.30 The last word. 34 On the cover Ever wonder how those horses arrive on time to the races each week, fit and trim and ready to run? It takes years and miles of training to prepare for steeplechasing. This special issue of the Times Newspapers Spring Steeplechase 2007 delves deep into the world of steeplechase training. Here, a horse works out on the Mkfdteburg Training Track, one of several commercial centers in the area available to horsemen for condffloning. Other trainers use turf gallops' around fields, quiet local dirt roads, and some use more high-tech training in the equine swimming pool or on a high-speed treadmill. More on ’chasing • Wings: The panels on either side of a steeplechase fence which are designed to guide a horse to a fence. Wings are made of a special break-away plastic material for safety. With the Current Real Estate Market... Vbur Mortgage Options have Changed! • 100% Purchaae/Refinance •Adjustable or Fixed Rates • 40 & 50 Year Amortization • Law than Perfect Credit • Seif Employed/No Verification Loans Residential • Farm • Commercial www.cedarcreelnntg.com (Times Community Newspapers Fauquier 2007 Spring Steeplechase Betsy Parker Horse & Field Editor Jennifer Chanthapanya Page Design & Layout AHcta Young Cover Design Pam Symington Advertising Manager Nuqutf Hm— Oamociat 3® Culpeper Street Warrenton, VA 20186 Fauqnier.com

Meet NS A’s new leadership Abbott takes reins from outgoing prez Sheppard he National Steeple* chase Association annouX need today that Francis H. “Franny” Abbott Jr. has been named the 14th president of the association, taking over from Jonathan Sheppard, who served from 2004 to 2006. Abbott, 53, hopes to make an immediate impact by broadening steeplechasing’s position within Thoroughbred racing. “If I can do anything it will be to bridge the gap between steeplechase racing and flat racing,” he said. “It is critical that everyone understands we are all part of the same exciting game. Steeplechasing brings a very important and different product to the Thoroughbred experience. I’m looking forward to working with people in the racing industry in hopes that we can increase our exposure and position both nationally and internationally.” Abbott brings experience in a variety of areas to the position. He directed the successful Radnor Hunt Races in Malvern, Pa. for 25 years, overseeing growth in attendance, sponsorship and a more than tenfold increase in purses when he retired in 2003. In addition, he has been a steward on the circuit and also served on the association’s hearing, review and appeals committee. An NSA board member since 2003, he was the association’s secretary from 2004 to 2006. Outside of steeplechasing, he runs a bloodstock consulting firm, Abbott Bloodstock, which specializes in buying, selling and pedigree analysis and is active at Thoroughbred sales at Keeneland, Fasig-Tipton and others. Once a partner with his MORE EVENTS A ONUNE... / 7 TlmesCommunity.com National Steeplechase Association president Fran Abbott brother Rick in Charlton Bloodstock, Abbott is a graduate of the University of Miami and the Racing Commissioners International stewards school. In addition, Abbott is a partner in Spencer-Abbott Builders. He lives in West Chester, Pa. with his wife and their four sons. Abbott’s mother-in-law, Betty Moran, owns Brushwood Stable. The new president’s experience with race meet management will help direct the association and the relationship it has with the 32 race meets on the circuit. NSA racing consists of one-day meets in the east and midwest during the spring and fall, along with periodic visits to racetracks. Specifically, Abbott hopes to help steeplechasing pursue pari-mutuel wagering via simulcasting, create a better connection with the Breeders’ Cup and National Thoroughbred Racing Association and ■ 1 — 1 ■■ — - aim for a major international steeplechase racing day in the United States. “I am looking forward to working with a talented and enthusiastic board of directors on a number of things,” said Abbott. “Steeplechasing does not depend on pari-mutuel wagering, however we are now in a position with modem technology to pursue this new source of revenue and exposure.” Abbott follows Hall of Fame trainer Sheppard in the president’s post, and aims to position steeplechasing through long-range planning and detailed goal-setting for the future. “I accepted the position because there are so many things I’ve wanted to do and so many different possibilities,” he said. “The organization may be small, but we can accomplish a great deal if we capitalize on some of our strengths. We really need to step back and see where we want the association to go and how we’re going to get there by developing a solid business plan.” The NSA’s executive committee was also announced today and includes Abbott as president, Guy Torsilieri as vice president, Sam Slater as treasurer and Virginian Doug Fout as secretary. Outgoing president Sheppard stays on the board as the chairman. The other 10 members of the board are Austin Brown, Edgar Cato, Peter Fenwick, Jack Fisher, Dwight Hall, Gillian Johnston, Ken Luke, Ernie Oare of Warrenton, Frank Petramalo of Middleburg and Peggy Steinman. 36TH RUNNING OF THE 4,r\ Orange County Hunt 0CH> Point-to-Point Sunday, April 01, 2007 1st Race - 1:00 pm Hunter Pace Event, Saturday Mach 31,2007 - 930 am Faridng & Subsections: Bundes Murdock (540) 687-6528 Race Chcirngp: Nelson Gtmel (540) 687-6164 Kjnter Pace: Catherine Rochester (703) 327-4939 More on ’chasing • Steeplechase: A race for Thoroughbred horses over jumps. 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Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Diana McClure and Michael Cooney step onto the synthetic Ameri-track at Carousel, the centerpiece of their newly created training farm in Clarke County. Carousel from page 8 Hickory Tree and Llangollen. But they wanted to build their own training facility so they could offer more to area horsemen and take advantage of modern techniques and surfaces unavailable at established training farms. “We’d gotten spoiled all those years at Interhorse," McClure explained. “We had the Middleburg training track next door, all the Piedmont hunt territory to ride out in, an indoor arena, paddocks, pastures, schooling fields. We were able to diversify our business and offer breaking and rehab and layups and boarders, as well as training.” When they began to look into buying, and building, their own property, Cooney said they sat down with a Realtor and a map and drew a circle around Middleburg. “We knew we needed to stay in the area,” he said. Another imperative was to stay near good roads and near a population center such as Washington, D.C. or Winchester to continue building a lesson and boarding operation as well as expanding the training business. Their reasoning was sound: Northern Virginia is within three hours of seven mid-Atlantic racetracks, making training on the farm - and shipping to the races the day of an event - possible. Given that most* horses appreciate the slower pace of training on a farm, with turnout options and quiet days and nights, the opportunity to train horses on the farm and still be within a very short van ride to virtually limitless area racing is a big plus for a public trainer such as McClure. Their Realtor contacted them a few days later to offer the old Windy Oak Farm, the old dairy and hay operation of the Fishpaw family west of Berryville. Nearly 100 acres, the mostly open property lies directly between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny chain, good during the summer for See Carwna^ Page 30 More on ’chasing • National Fence: A man-made fence used at 4 i most stops in the U.S. I " and in ail major track .:•! £ " steeplechasing. Consists '■$ 4 of a steel frame stuffed with plastic “brush’and !5 standing 52 inches high. A foam-rubber roll, . ^ covered with green canvas, is placed on the j takeoff side. Horses jump the fence in stride, much I like human hurdlers in track and field events. »,f» The jumps are brought to f racetracks by true* and % set up a day in advance. 4fl * They can be taken down | quickly to allow for turf racing. ■ ■ ■ A f w Novice: A horse in the «early stages of its itd steeplechase career. Novice races, restricted r'. f by the date a horse > i breaks his maiden over jumps (usually Jan. 1), 4 give horses experience m ; over hurdles before r competing with moreseasoned jumpers. > . v ■» VS St >’**Jjlt *x<Jb Wood Pellets Sulk Leaf ~ Bulk Top Soil jjgL. Landscape Stones 5#fc 'Grave* Fence Boards & Post Cinder Blocks Stall Mats Cambridge Paving Stones!! IHHpennfidd Ilf I€quin« f««d tochriotoafcs €quin« f««d technologies (Oilion 9 ■t 1 Bypass @ tit laralltSB Exit “lama at lailaii Snprerae Balnal Feeds” § ONLINE... rimesCommunity.com MLS l istings On RonResnickCiroup .com 10 Private Acre*, 4 BRS12 BAS 13 FPSI Fin. Lower IM Deck | Gazebo | Workshop $649,900 L06296877 CuMom Country Colonial 1&9 Acres 4BR | 2.5BA 13 Stall Barn Hone Property | Gorgeous Views $745,000 L06032074 Lovely Home* Hone Property 4 Stall Bam 13BRI2BA12.6AC Oversized Garage $525,000 L060S2461 1.1 I Mitll'1.. V\ 10 Spouacular Atm kiLert Crosstab 4 BR Approved Drain Held Site Black Board Fencing $395,000 L06212348 New Home to be Buflt In Potomac Mm •ACRES I Gorgeous Hotting Land Hoor Ham .Wal* $599,900 L06016290 "rsssiffl" New Luxury on 4+ Acres 3000 Fta. Sq. K14BR14 FBA.| 2 HBA $2,400,000 L06I63341 Home To Be Built byCuctomBuikkr 11-tAC 13 Hn. Lvts | Ltmnous Uppades $1,895,000 L06099860 Custom Contemporary on 10 Private Aot* 4BR14»HA | Slone FP | Bam ftoniage on Beaver Dam Creek $875,000 1X15474477

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Junior masters 'chases a grassroots movement Replacement for pony races, safer events popular ockeys have to come from somewhere: Virginia’s healthy pony racing circuit nas long been a proving ground for young riders hoping to make race riding a career. In recent years, race meet insurance regulations have tightened the noose on open pony races, but the innovative junior field masters chase series fills the gap in junior rider development. Races are open to young riders on ponies or horses, with divisions for each. Horses and riders must have hunted or been active in pony club. Unlike the free-for-all miniature cavalry charges of pony racing past, in the masters series riders follow a designated senior field master at a “hunting pace" over a flagged course of jumps (often the point-to-point meet’s timber course) between a halfmile and 2 miles. At some point following the last fence, the master releases the field (with the blow of a horn or a call) to race for the finish. Trophies are awarded in three divisions: small ponies (under 13.0 hands), large ponies (13.0 to 14.2 hands) and horses. Events are scheduled at five meets in Virginia: Rappahannock, Blue Ridge, Old Dominion, Loudoun and the Virginia Gold Cup. Many other junior racing opportunities exist at Maryland and Pennsylvania point-to-point races, including leadline races and the Junior Maryland Hunt Cup. The series is sponsored by the Chronicle of the Horse, published in Middleburg. Many area horsemen are available to assist young riders to prepare for the series. Contact Central Entry' for guidance: (703) 777-2575 or online at www.morven park.org/ceo. Fout from page 10 The Virginia circuit is good enough to gauge your horse’s ability- It used to be easier to win a point-to-point, but not anymore! You have to have your horse fit and ready to roll. The point-to-point races can be very tough, but they’re nearby and much more relaxed, a great place to start a young horse. And I like to use the flat preps for the older horses, too, coming off an injury. It’s a good workout for them. QtWhat about other exercise? Do you foxhunt any of your horses? The MOC Beagles live at Coosa iv, and the Orange County Hunt crosses your land. Do you ever hunt with them? A.Yes, I love to hunt the •timber horses. It is a great way to get (the equivalent) of a good, strong gallop into 'em, and they seem to eryoy it You can work on their jumping, too. Let 'em gallop eight or 10 fences in a row. Don’t pull up and jog your coops, really let them gallop, and learn to get up underneath themselves (and leam to place their feet to stay out of trouble when jumping in a race). I hunt my horses up to within a week or so of when they’re going to run. Then I stay on the track around home, so we don't get a stone bruise or something. — Interviewed by Betsy Parker More on ’chasing • Baltimore's JPimllco Race Courea hosted its first steeplechase in 1873. £$4* ■ r^V ■:v* .* - : i. %* i * f Twice as nice. J Fauquier Times - Democrat and % Fauquier Times- Democrat Weekend THE POWER TO TAKE THE CALL NOT THE CHARGE. Starting at S49”7ma “Otlw monthly dW|B iff* SOBMawfardKUfe.** All incoming calls FREE from anyone, from anywhere. Rob-Rit Communications, Inc. I 2 Locations to Bettor Serve You I ,41W. I— Hwy 540-141 -8199 540-439-6060 ptotftea rap to US par I ryurfieve teat features It services wrt vary by phone, l Subject to credit approval. $36 actuation It 5300 ea See too* or Sprtotoom far detdfe. Offer ends 2/W/07 or while supplies tast I totals: >qrs pudtose by 2/17AI7 It actmtekm By 7/3/07 Mute amount cart days. <fcw»« to aureate tor rebate ntontop Item imili i total itydin the US, Orange (Sats/ntoi}. Sprint mj^tennaate serene Vnaiori^cfiidrMtes/nionlh Sprat PCS Network teaches oner 250 nation people. Often tarty termination fee per line. Depot may 6t itqtt Addl terms fc restncteire apply ActMton at tine of purchase requried MM > of Sprint I purchase pnee Une must be active 301 9pm Tan It Stettemh Fn Spm -Mon Tank. €3006 Sprint I -

More on ’chasing Area trainers can also use the early spring hunter pacing circuit for conditioning and final ’public workouts* for young timber horses. 66th Annual PieAnoiit Fox Hounds Poinft-lb-Pont Races March 24, 2007 Salem Cotase, UppervOe Post Time 1:00pm • Hunter Pairs 9:30am Featurjrg The Prestigious Rokeby Bowl Reserved Parking and Tickets: 540-347-0373 Advertising: 540-364-3833 General Parking $20/per car Sales Service Installation Residential & Commercial “Serving the Area For 12 Years” Specializing in: Sectional Doors • Rolling Steel Doors • Fire Doors & Loading Dock Equipment • Child Safety • Infra-Red Close Systems • • Garage Door & Operator Tune Ups • Gate Openers css CORNELL Thoughts on training • Keep the horse happy. This is probably the most important part of training that is most overlooked. • No more than three days in a row of gallops. A rest day and a day in the ring doing basic dressage should be a part of the routine, as should long trail rides at a walk and trot only. • After the horse is “fit,” one or two speed gallops at the twominute lick speed are in order. (A “two-minute lick” is a mile completed in exactly two minutes.) • A sample routine is 60 days of hacking, beginning in late November, for a targeted first race in March. Late January begins more strenuous training, to include two-minute lick workouts. • Quality hay and quality feed are imperative. I feed Purina Ultium and Purina Race Ready. • “Pay the preacher” is the best advice a racetracker once gave me. Pray to the Almighty and find all of the four-leaf clovers that you can. — Charles Burke, ownertrainer-rider of1987 National Steeplechase Association Timber Horse of the Year, Jaughs. • Fear a first-time starter, I like to jog a horse a full 30 days to put a good bottom on their base of fitness. I get them up to a half-hour of trot work. At the end of 30 days, I alternate galloping 1 1/2 miles with Photo by Douglas Laos Kinross trainer Neil Morris, left, on Mavi Moto, and stable jockey Chris Read, on the late Lord Kenneth, take in a day’s foxhunting, a style of training Morris uses for physical, and mental, fitness. trotting them 2 miles for about a month. Give a day off each week, sometimes two. Two-minute lick works are next, every five or six days, galloping two miles each day in between. Continue the two-minute licks, starting at a quarter-mile and upping a furlong each week until working a mile. Give light exercise the day before the horse is scheduled to run. • Horse training is an art, not science. • As the Northern Dancer’s trainer Horatio Luro said “Never squeeze the lemon dry.” — Flat trainer Lenny Rera Downtown Culpeper 325 Wausau Place Culpeper, VA 22701 540-825-2381 i M m grinding & mixing torage & grain banking na & Kansas alfalfa hay Local hay (Orchardgrass & .Qhauinn* Hours: 7:30-5:00 Mon.-Fri. 7:30-12:00 Sat Ways to play In addition to traditional racehorse exercise on a dirt or turf track, along with interspersed speed work, steeplechase horsemen - especially those in Virginia's hunt country - have a wide variety of choices for their equine fitness regime. • Workouts on a polytrack or other modem track surface. • Use of high-speed treadmill (such as at Morven Park’s Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center, Maryland trainer Jack Fisher's stable, etc.). • Use of an equine swimming pool (such as the Middieburg Swim Center and others). • Foxhunting. • Use of a high-speed horse walker (such as an Equicizer like at many flat track training farms). • Use of ‘road-work’ on the spiderweb system of dirt and quiet macadam roads in Virginia's rural Piedmont region (such as most trainers use throughout England, calling road work' a good way to tighten young horses' ligaments and tendons without the added danger of speed work). • Ponying (or leading one horse, without a rider, while riding another — often used by polo trainers as a way to exercise more than one horse at a time, with only one rider).

Trainer, writer Pitman sets records on, off track By Lauren R. Giannini Special to the Times Newspapers i” enny Pitman writes novels set in the exciting back\Jr drop of National Hunt Racing in Britain. While she has been compared to Dick Francis, her novels aren’t mysteries, per se. They are more like literary sporting tapestries with thrills and drama that reflect similar events in her personal and professional life. Pitman is the only woman to train two Grand National winners: Corbiere in 1983 and Royal Athlete in 1995. Her Aintree tally would have been three - Esha Ness crossed the finish line first in 1993, but officials ruled the Grand National “void” because of a false start. Pitman’s training accomplishments include winning the Irish, Welsh and Scottish Grand Nationals as well as two Gold Cups. In 1984 she became the first woman to train a Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, Burrough Hill Lad, who also won the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup. In 1998 Pitman appeared on the New Year’s Honours List when she was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE). The following year, the “first lady of racing” retired, having trained her last winner, Scarlet Emperor at Huntington. Pitman grew up the middle child in a family of seven on her parents’ farm in Leicestershire and was a teen bride when she married jockey Richard Pitman, who sired her two sons, Mark and Paul. For details of the years leading up to their divorce, you can read “Jenny Book Review English 'chase trainer Jenny Pitman follows the number one rule of fiction—write what you know. Pitman: The Autobiography* published in 1999. After the OBE and marriage to David Strait, Pitman threw herself into writing the way she tackled training horses. In 2002 Macmillan published her first two novels in the Jan Hardy series. Now a series of five, the novels offer everything - horses, family, romance, intrigue, betrayal, rivalries, sabotage along with all the thrills, spills and uncertainties of racing over fences. “On The Edge” launches you into the world of a recently widowed young mother of two, Jan Hardy, who must sell her farm in Wales to survive. She moves to Gloucestershire and sets her sights on making her way in the world of National Hunt racing. Family problems and her involvement with Eddie Sullivan conspire to get in the way. Of course, there are the gQQ r, Page 14 2075 Leehigh Drive Amissville, VA 20106 A 540-937-2980 ^ www.delaneyrestorations.com . Nancy Delaney Owner/Bookbinder CONTINUING THE TRADITION OF QUALITY HAND BOOKBINDING & BOOK RESTORATION SA;E.MW» lOTIlMye STIVE SAVE SAVE SAVE iv^Il m % »/ H Subdivisions • Driveways .. 3> i jg? Tennis Courts • Fast Service gfc Latest Modem Equipment 'free Estimates* Cal For Delays • j, si 1-800-DRIVEWAY • 540-399-1372 State Licensed * Insured* Est.1971 Lignum, VA Serving Fauquier & Culpeper Counties Since 1971 *TA7^*TVi 91\ I A J * !\i*1 VIM J *T \ i ■ • Western Dressam Polo Saddlery Liquidators MUdletw*, VA 2QM. J Katshafi Saddlery Liquidators *jSW James Madhtm lUfy * Haymorket, VA 20169 • 701753.9583 Hours: 10 to ipm Mon thru Sat • Sunday Ham to 4 pm mF»! m just Arrived Our New gPJP #&*** HS|8Lp^ Everything for the English Rider PIus^Sl™ HB5hyffte&q9roOo-o()o-oO>-on Talk To Toni WORKING HORSE FARM on I 7 ac. I 2 Mall barn. Fenced and cross fenced fields with run-in sheds and auto waters. Round pen. ring. 64x70 Cover-All. Could he an indoor nng. Charming 3 HI). 2.5 BA home is in excellent condition, net* appliances, new windows, large deck with hoi tub. lull basement with family room. Property consists of 3 approved lots. OR6232W2 ' SsW.tMK) GREAT EARM property. :: acres of rolling open land »uh stream surrounded by large farms close to Warrcnton and Casanova Hu« fixtures, several elevatevl building sites. Easy access to 29. FVrtential for subdivision. $515MD. fcjk.h >4tu.c indrfvivk-n<l\ >>»tK*d uk!

Review from page 13 way. Of course, there are the horses, assistant trainer, stable staff, neigh-sayers and all the other variables of running a' training facility and saddling contenders. Once you devour the first in the series, jump into “Double Deal” which opens with Jan Hardy licensed as a trainer and on her way to Ireland to buy racehorses. She attracts the attention of the very wealthy A. D. O'Hagan, racing enthusiast. Jan also finds herself up to her hocks in family and money mat* ters, but lands a plum job training the string that belongs to the parents of a good lady friend. Jan starts to win races, attracts the attention of the local GP doctor, hits the wall when her jockey loses inexplicably, and life takes on the shape of a horse bolting out of control. “The Dilemma” combines romance, wit, the vicissitudes of training racehorses, and treachery — all written at a rollicking pace that carries you from start to finish. Jan’s just starting to see light at the end of the tunnel when she’s betrayed by a family and loses seven horses in training. Then, she’s asked by an American Truck Over 30 years Experience m . Snowplows & Spreaders - Meyers • Diamond • Fisher • Trynex Utility & Equipment Trailers • *V Tarts • Rhino-Lining Spray-in BedUners •Pickup Truck, SUVA RV Accessories Galore! • Brake Control A Wiring •Fifth Wheel A Gooseneck Hitches • Towing Equipment _ 18471 Industrial Road - Culpeper, VA 22701 (540) 827-1710 12000 Balls Ford Road Manassas, VA 20109 (703) 257-1710 wiviv. -4atts. com Luxury Spa & Body Treatments Laser Hair Removal Leg Vein Therapy Enhanced Skin Rejuvenation Mecficai Facials & Peels Pharmaceutical Grade Products Massage Gift Certificates Available ^ ^ :m*r ■« 541 Street lane • Sle XI • deeper, Uxx^ cfccve (he Cl*wper Sjo^ C» Qjfceper «90iana( Ho**ta( Karl M. Beier, M.D. Peter E. Godfrey, M.D. 540.825.8550 I www.medspava.com Australian to acquire eight horses and put them into training for him, but his business goes belly up and he disappears. Tb add to her problems, she can't foul Eddie Sullivan anywhere and he’s the one person who might have been able to help. She keeps running afoul of a very jealous rival, trainer Virginia Gilbert, whose father likes Jan and sends horses to her for training This one ends on a fait of a diffhanger, which segues neatly into the opening of “The Vendetta* wherein Jan sand Eddie are on the way home after Jan saddles the winner of an important race and they’re involved in a serious car crash. Eddie’s in a coma, but could face criminal charges for being behind the wheel. Jan gets out of hospital and gets hnA into stride. Jan has to deal with her stable help and figure out a nervous horse bought by A. D. O’Hagan. She gives safe haven to a stable lad who flees Virginia Gilbert’s training staHaa, which puts Jan into yet another hot spot She’s busy dealing with Eddie and the pleasant doctor, raising two young children and coping with her own emotions as a widow. She also learns that someone has it in for her—could it be Virginia Gilbert? When Col Gilbert dies unexpectedly during a burglary, there isn’t anything Jan can do when Virginia takes his horses back to See JKnrinr, Page 15 Pyranha Pyranha Spray Master Systems Call for a FREE estimate - We provide Service & Installation Do it yourself kits available Gafl PfafT* Commonwealth Farrier Sapply, he. 540.439.0086

Hunter pace: Quite the different breed of race Timing is everything in this sport By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer For spectator participation, the spring steeplechase season may win out for sheer attendance numbers. But the point-to-point ‘chase circuit races neck and neck with the spring hunter pace season for active competitors. Hunter paces, a sport bom, like steeplechasing, from the foxhunting field, are designed for pairs of riders competing over a' designated course through the sponsoring hunt’s territory. Teams of two negotiate the flagged course at what they deem an appropriate ‘hunter pace,” literally walking, trotting, cantering, galloping and jumping at a speed they believe to be correct given the course conditions, weather, footing and the host hunt’s general reputation for speed or savvy. A hunt member rides the course ahead of time, pre-setting the optimum time that competitors then try to replicate. Not until every rider has completed the course is the secret time revealed and winners announced. Most Virginia spring hunter pace courses are about three miles in length, making the average “optimum tune” elapsed around 20 minutes. Some courses are more conducive to speed, making the time somewhat slower, but rainy, muddy or parched conditions alter the expected time as the pace-setting rider takes all conditions into account. The optimum time division at most spring paces usually swells with 20, 30 or more See Am, Page 16 Review from page 14 her training stables. Pitman weaves great tangled webs in her fiction. So, its no wonder that Jan’s trials and tribulations hit all-time highs and lows in ‘The Inheritance.1* Eddie Walsh’s injuries from that car crash keep him from doing what he loves most - being a jump jockey. At least he wasn’t the cause of the crash — there was sabotage and foul play - but their relationship goes down the tube. When Jan’s mother passes away; a secret shakes up everyone’s lives, especially Jan’s brother Ben. Assistant trainer Annabel who figures in most of the novels hasn’t found the right man, and all that’s about to change, ton The hostile rivalry between Virginia Gilbert and Jan esca lates after Col. Gilbert’s win is probated. You’ll love to loathe a new owner of Native American descent who dumps two bad horses on Jan and runs up huge bills. There’s a major stink after Jan’s runner at Cheltenham tests positive for dope. Her relationship with uber-weahhy AJX Hagan gets more strained when he sends over his Irish manager Michael Finnegan, who might be another candidate to win the widow Hardy’s heart Pitman’s prose swings along at a great gallop. Chanted, the length of this book makes it more of a sprint than her usual fkssif distance, but the action is pure Pitman from training yard to racecourse. She leaves you hankering for more, and her trademark “boh from the blue* leaves no doubt that Pitman will saddle yet another winner with the mrth entry in her series. Bet you cant readjust one. HSnam. jzzmtmtBsmm m » i PIEDMONT PROPERTY, TNC Viol our website at www.[m*imoatprupactyiacxtm (or a preview of alt iisangs. 12693 Lee Highway. BCX Bus 332 • ^Bhmgmo. V»gmi» 22747*540-675-1675 Hunter Pace Calendar Feb. 18: Bull Run Hunt hunter pace. Peacock Farm, Culpeper. Divisions include optimum time, open optimum time, junior, fast time and hilitoppers. Feb. 25: Casanova Hunt hunter pace. Acorn Farm, Warrenton. Divisions include optimum time, open optimum, junior, fast time and hilitoppers. March 4: Rappahannock Hunt hunter pace. Birmingham Farm, Culpeper. Divisions include optimum time, open optimum, junior, fast time and hilltoppers. March 11: Blue Ridge Hunt hunter pace. Woodley Farm, Berryville. Divisions include optimum time, junior, fast time and hilltoppers. March 18: Warrenton Hunt hunter pace. Oakwood Farm, Warrenton. Divisions include optimum time, junior, fast time and hilltoppers. March 24: Piedmont Foxhounds hunter pace. Salem course, Upperville. Divisions include See Calendar, Page 22 m FINANCING FOR 36 MONTHS on the Cape IH tractors you** need next season, including j* D, DX» OKE. -tx, sue, JXN and JXU Series ubiity tractors. Models range from 18 to 85 PTO !■**■« {13.4 to 63.4 kW) so you're sure to find a tractor perfectly powered for the jobs you do. With low rate financing, reliable parts and expert sendee, you awe » to your bottom fine to tafit toyour. / Case IH dealer today. ■"* .V- . ___ . , v ' t' ■ XX \ , * L. # * * * '* •: ;V STOP IN TOOAY FOR MORE INFORMATION

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Meet the brains behind the Steeplechase Times Since being established in 1994 on a whim in publisher Joe Clancy’s Newark, Del. basement office, the Steeplechase Times has become the U.S. industry standard. Published bi-weekly during the spring and fall ‘chase seasons, the tabloid-sized fullcolor newspaper averages 30 pages each issue. "It was almost on dare that we even started,” Clancy said of the creation of the paper. Clancy and younger brother' Sean, a 1998 champion jockey, had been “kvetching about the lack of U.S. steeplechase news,” as Joe puts it “We’d seen England’s Racing Post and Sporting Life (both daily sports journals dedicated entirely to horse racing) and wished there was something like it here. “Well, there wasni. So we had to create it ourselves.” The Clancy brothers, sons of ‘chase trainer Joe Clancy Sr., knew the American sport inside and out. And Joe Jr., a University of Delaware journalism school grad, knew the world of journalism: he served as sports writer for the Cecil Whig for nearly a decade before launching the Steeplechase Times. Joe Jr. said the business side of the equation — advertisers, circulation, printing,' distribution — they sort of “figured out on the fly.” Now in its 13th year, the Steeplechase Times has added a three-day eventing department to its repertoire, with Joanie Morris at the helm. Steeplechasing news is interspersed with opinion, bits and pieces, short news, international items and award-winning photographs. The Times was awarded the General Excellence prize for newspapers and tabloids from American Horse Public Photo by Douglas Lees Steeplechase Times editor and publisher Joe Clancy handles the reins of the bi-monthly U.S. ’chase industry tabloid. ations in 1996 and 1999, beating out the likes of the fullcolor glossy weekly tabloid magazine the Thoroughbred limes and others. “It’s amazing to think we’ve come so far,” said Clancy. In addition to the Times, the Clancys’ ST Publishing also produces the Saratoga Special daily paper during the August meet in Saratoga, N.Y., a Thoroughbred racing calendar, specialty logo products, books and more. The Steeplechase Times has a circulation of about 10,000. It is distributed free at many steeplechase meets throughout die season, and at select tack shops around the mid-Atlantic region. Firstclass mail subscriptions are available for $35 per year, with discounts for multi-year subscriptions. Reach the Steeplechase Times by phone at (410) 392JUMP, online at www.st-publishing.com or e-mail orders _st-publishing.com. More on ’chasing • Timber fences are made of wood and are constructed of boards or posts and rails. The height and stiffness varies depending on the race course, with the famed Maryland Hunt Cup (which features some fences nearly five feet tall) heading the list The Virginia Gold Cup. like the Hunt Cup a 4-mile marathon, features fences about 4- | feet high. . <Dress Smart for the Sjrring 'Race Circuit On&t6*/bkHt«t«fey fani'^mbeuiiiu/ an/ turn/ : ifoci-frtnttd decor an/ specia(ry cCxfotu in cotton, iman/caskmm. Mruri ®W Ventry, cnuntS itvnt, hand-paint*/ - * ctnruhts at/crap, Unique Hand-made Jcmfry sn/mtr IP* pn» nvw Arwml mj/bb titfTjactits on sate! ftffmturaCfifax fianJmfcmfat truJiticmf fvm* decor andspecialty , cMinft IWsntntpn Viflage Center S40-341-1&66 Mon.'Sat. io-6 www. s fioppcmegrana tes.com r' 1 * ^ V. W | J r f K;'jn:>jrl/[n;;L!rrjf{ Serving Culpeper, Fauquier & No. Virginia far over SOyrs. ‘Guaranteed Lowest Prices/ Quality Work ‘Save On Heating & Cooling Bills I [‘Make your Home Maintenance f Free and Energy Efficient 10 year warranty Lifetime Manufacturers Warranty 'Thousands Of Satisfied Clients ,_ ‘Family Owned And Operated ‘Quality Professional installations , Windows Alcoa Sidii • Certainteed Bryn-Mar • Windjammer • Clipper • Structure-Foam Back • Liberty Elite • Grand Sierra 540-937*6003 or 703-368-0107 ■MM ..jjrWrl PLEASE RECYCLE .. l- Vrf

Saturday, February 241230 p.m. CASANOVA HUNT POMT-TO-POMT Buckland Farm, Gainesville Information (540) 788-4806 Saturday, March 31:00 p.m. RAPPAHANNOCK HUNT POINT-TO-POINT Bleu Rock Inn, Washington Information (540) 547-2810 (eve.) (540) 937-3066 (d) Saturday, March 1012:00 noon BLUE RIDGE HUNT PCMNT-TO-POINT Woodley Farm, Berryville Information (540) 837-0036 (h) Saturday, March 1712.30 p.m. WARRENTON HUNT POMT-TOPOBtfT Airlie Race Course, Warrenton Information (540) 219-1400 Saturday, March 241230 p.m. PIEDMONT FOX HOUNDS POINT-TO-POWT Salem Course, Upperville Information (540) 687-3455 Sunday, March 25130 p.m. FARMINGTON HUNT KESWICK HUNT POINT-TO-POINT Montpelier Race Course, Montpelier Statio Information (434) 980-9926 Sunday, April 1130 p.m. ORANGE COUNTY HUNT POINT-TO-POINT Locust Hill Farm, Middleburg Information (540) 687-6528 Saturday, April 712:00 noon OLD DOMINION HOUNDS POINT-TO-POINT Ben Venue Farm, Ben Venue Information (540) 364-4573, (540) 636-1507 Saturday, April 14130 p.m. STRAWBERRY MLL RACE MEET Colonial Downs, New Kent County Information (804) 569-3238 Sunday, April 15130 pm. LOUDOUN HUNT POMT-TO-POMT Oatiands, Leesburg Information (703) 777-8480. (540) 338-4031 Saturday, April 21130 p.m. MDDLEBURG SPRMG RACE MEET Glenwood Park, Middleburg Information (540) 687-6545, (540) 687-6595 Sunday, April 22 1 30 p.m. FAIRFAX HUNT POMT-TOPOMT Morven Park, Leesburg Information (703) 787-6673 Saturday, April 28130 p.m. FOXF1ELD SPRMG RACE MEET Foxfield Race Course, Charlottesville Information (434) 293-9501 Sunday, April 29130 p.m. MDDLEBURG HUNT POMMO-POMT Glenwood Park, Middleburg Information (540) 454-2991 or (540) 687-6069 1 Saturday, May 5 *00 p.m. VIRGINIA GOLD CUP RACE MEET Great Meadow Course, The Plains Information (540) 347-2612 Sunday, May 61230 p.m. BULL RUN HUNT POINT-TO-POINT Brandywine Park, Culpeper Information (540) 727-8201 Saturday, May 12130 p.m. BEDFORD COUNTY POINT TO POWT Wolf Branch Farm, Forest Information (540) 297-3419 Want more? • Virginia Point-to-Point Association: (703) 777-2575 www.morvenpark.org/ceo “ % • Virginia Steeplechase Association: www.vasteepiechase.com • Weekly local, national race coverage: www.teuquter.com • Masters of Foxhounds Association: www.mfha.com f £ — Special Pull-out Section / irgima bteeplec_ Association map of races a - Blue Ridge Hunt b - Piedmont Hunt c - Middleburg Hunt/Glenwood Park e - Loudoun Hunt/Oatlands f - Fairfax Hunt'Morven Park g - Orange County Hunt h - Virginia Gold Cup/Great Meadow i - Old Dominion Hounds j - Warrenton Hunt k - Casanova Hunt 1 - Rappahannock Hunt m - Foxfield Hunt n - Farmington-Keswick Hunt o - Strawberry Hill p - Thornton Hill Hounds q - Bull Run Hunt r - Beford County Hunt National 2007 ’Chase Calendar SPRING LITTLE EVERGLADES, Dade City, FL AIKEN SPRING, Aiken, SC CAROLINA CUP, Camden, SC STONEYBROOK, Raeford, NC ATLANTA, Kingston, GA MY LADY'S MANOR, Monkton, MD STRAWBERRY HILL, New Kent, VA KEENELAND, Lexington, KY BLOCK HOUSE, Tryon, NC GRAND NATIONAL, Butler, MD MIDDLEBURG, Middleburg, VA FOXFIELD SPRING, Charlottesville, VA MARYLAND HUNT CUP, Glyndon, MD QUEEN'S CUP, Mineral Springs, NC VIRGINIA GOLD CUP, The Plains, VA WINTERTHUR, Winterthur, DE IROQUOIS, Nashville, TN WILLOWDALE, Kennett Square, PA RADNOR, Malvern, PA HIGH HOPE, Lexington, KY FAIR HILL, Fair Hill, MD SUMMER (Tentative) COLONIAL DOWNS, New Kent, VA SARATOGA OPEN HOUSE, Saratoga Springs, NY PHILADELPHIA PARK, Bensalem, PA SARATOGA, Saratoga Springs, NY Sunday, March 11 Saturday, March 24 Saturday, March 31 Saturday, April 7 Saturday, April 14 Saturday, April 14 Saturday, April 14 Friday, April 20 Saturday, April 21 Saturday, April 21 Saturday, April 21 Saturday, April 28 Saturday, April 28 Saturday, April 28 Saturday, May 5 Sunday, May 6 Saturday, May 12 Sunday, May 13 Saturday, May 19 Sunday, May 20 Saturday, May 26 June thru Aug Sunday, July 22 Saturday, July 28 July 25 - September 3 * I ■V'-',.’ I r Want more? « National Steeplechase Association: (410) 392-0700 www.nationalsteepiechase.com * Equibase, results from major tracksfwww.6quibase.com • National 'chase news: Steeplechase Times - (410) 392-JUMP •»* -i r www.steeolechasetimes.com mm-iOm lvV( ••*... .**• .*» ■■■AlHMiHaaMMi " '■ ’ * - - . ■;'V •’ *.■ *\- ’e’ v\^’ .?3^: 'v^I, r.: * ’ ■»■. ■ **£&" ■ r-: > r, —» ■■

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Middleburg Spring Races a local April tradition Glenwood Park express-built for the 'chase he Middleburg Spring Races has a lively and JL fascinating history. Daniel Cox Sands, a Middleburg sportsman who for four decades was Master of Fox Hounds of the Middleburg Hunt, organized the first Middleburg race meet in 1911. Sands described the first meet to author Kitty Slater, which she relates in her 1967 book “Hunt Country of America.’* “It was planned primarily for the entertainment of the farmers, over whose land we hunted and who sometimes were not easy to pacify when galloping hooves crushed crops in the ground or when foxes raided their chicken yards,” Sands said to Slater. “Whole families came from miles around — on horseback, in buckboards, spring wagons, and buggies, some driving tandems. Everybody brought picnic baskets, and you never saw so much fried chicken in your life.” By the following year the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association (now called the National Steeplechase Association) had sanctioned the Middleburg Race Meet, a full 11 years before the first running of the Warrenton Gold Cup (now called the Virginia Gold Cup). Steeplechasing continued annually until being interrupted by World War I. It resumed in 1921 with the Middleburg Hunt Cup and the Farmers race held on the estates of Sands and his neighbor, William F. Hitt. Slater wrote that by the 1930s, the Middleburg Races listed 11 races in 1933, its first two-day card. The year before, in 1932, Glenwood Park was built with provisions for timber brush, hurdle and flat races. A report in the April 9, 1932 Fauquier Democrat (now the Fauquier 7Imes-Democrat) trumpeted: “The thousands of race goers coming to Middleburg April 16 for the 12th running of the Middleburg Hunt Race Meet will find a racing park declared by horsemen who have viewed it to be the most elaborate and unique of its kind in America. Since the running of the 1931 event, in which Sea Soldier flashed past the judges stand a winner, money has been spent lavishly in improvements to the course." See Spring, Page 23 r More on 'chasing & S2& 0^. • steeplechase start: Steeplechase races don't start If from a metal starting gate. Instead, horses are lined up In ; | post position order and start from a standstill or a walk to a flag-bearing starter. • Hurdle races were held on the main dirt tracks of ^ racetracks in New York. California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Louisiana in the late 1800s. §4 588 HORSE CLIPPING • MANE PULLING WATERPROOFING HORSE BLANKET CLEANING & REPAIR CARRIE BLAIR 540-364-1232 P.O. BOX 1484, MIDDLEBURG, VA 20118 wtr i Ttm 1-800-788-6216 McCREA ■.. SINCE 1936 EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC. HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING www.McCreaWay.com _Warrenton, VA McCrea could be protecting the health of your Heating and Air Conditioning System with a Service Contract now. BP'tisw System Savings f *300 00 Off Any complete replacement system i Olter MUSS at al McCrea locations Including McCrea's I Total Contort Dsnsion Not \fefcl on prwnous purchases | Cannot combine with anotfwr otfar. Umitad ona coupon ■^Coupon Expires^April 1. 2007 £ir i s“*rt,,nfl *225°° I I A programmable thermostat can save you money I on your utility Ml - up to 33%. it used as directed ■ Coupon Expires Apnl 1, 2007 | *495°°' I A humidifier w* help you control the amount of I I moisture m your air Helping alleviate dry skin ■ and helping improve your indoor air quality f Coupon Expires April 1, 2007 fcrzTLL-****— 1 $795°° Installed I The purifier* not oniy destroy biological cootarro- ■ nates, but are also able to destroy germs. I I chemtcai contaminates, such as diesel fumes, | cigarette smoke, and cooking odors. I ^ Coupon Expires April 1, 2007 J r i $800°° Installed ■ Electronic air deaners use etoctncal field to trap | charged particles Lice mechanical Wlers they I I may be instated in central heating and/or air ■ conditioning system ducts I ■ Coupon Expires April 1, 2007 ■ Now two Great Shows! Equin Ex **r*BP*5« TWO ALL Breed. ALL Discipline Horse Expos _ Continuing to bring you the horse Jtumpittg/Eventing • Hewing • Dressage • Barrels • Driving . Games • Gaited Horses • Trail Classes • Western Pleasure f' ‘ Hunter Jtunper • Working Ranch Hone • Trainer Challenge . ; Kids Ceeret • Great Shopping! And quick mere! Over 100 Clinics & Demos • 100s of Vendors * Stallion Showcase Returning for the 4th great year! Virginia October 26-28, 2007 Richmond, VA Richmond Raceway Complex ^3* North Carolina August 3-5, 2007 Raleigh, NC NC State Fair Grounds industry s very best! Charles Wilhelm Julie Goodnight

Times Community Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker More on ’chasing • The sport traces its roots to a two-horse “race” between Irish foxhunters Mr. Blake and Mr. O’Callaghan in 1752 from Buttevant Church to St. Mary’s (hence the sport’s name) in Doneraile, County Cork. •The NSA headquarters is located in Fair Hill, Md., home to a world-class steeplechase course, a Thoroughbred training center, an international three-day event course, the Thoroughbred Racing Associations and Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau. Fair Hill, which also includes a 5,600-acre state-owned natural resources area, is about a one-hour drive from Baltimore in the Northeast comer erf Maryland. they’re headed to Tri-County Feeds... m. up n. - Featuring Pennfield Feeds, a variety of beddings: pine shavings, Streufex, Eagle Valley pine pellets, quality choices in alfalfa, timothy, and orchard grass, an inclusive selection of supplements, a special order department, and much more, all located at... Tri-County Feeds The favorite of animals and their human friends. 4230 FROST ST. MARSHALL. VA 201 IS J&40 304-1091 www.tricouirfyfoacU.com Take the good with the bad, and add a little ugly The trainer is responsible for many facets of race day, not the least of which is to arrive on course with a fit, well-schooled horse that is prepared for the job at hand. But, in the photos shown here, note how easy it is for things to go wrong. fir the photo at left, jockey Robbie Walsh clears the fearsome Aintree Bank at Great Meadow with remarkable ease. See how relaxed Northern Thinking is over the 5-foot high hedge, ears pricked, knees tucked like a show hunter. The horse rewards trainer Jack Fisher for a job well done earlier in the year, with practice sessions - clearly — over natural obstacles and fitness training to prepare for the 3 1/4-mile 'chase. In the photo at right, however, see how even natural talent can unravel with a single misstep. Above, a runner twists hard upon takeoff with rider Chip Miller, nearly spinning in two in the air as the gelding struggles to right himself before landing. Miller stays cool, help ing his horse help himself by staying centered and quiet in the tack. Miller knew just how easy it is to undo years of patient training by falling off, or, worse, causing the horse to fall with a miscue heading to the fence. For the record, the pair stayed upright In the photo at left, jockey Matt McCarron, left, shows championship form hailing a cab' to stay balanced as his mount makes a minor mistake, leaping deep into the sturdy hedgerow. But at right, a stablemate ridden by Chris Grade is not so lucky, as the scales tip too far with a severe twist on takeoff as the horse tries, unsuccessfully, to clear the hedge rather than brush tidily through like Walsh's mount above. Grade injured his arm in the resulting fall but the horse was uninjured. Calendar from page 15 optimum time, junior, fast time. March 31: Orangfc County Hunt hunter pace. Locust Hill Farm, Middleburg. Divisions include optimum time, junior, fast time and hilltoppers. April 8: Old Dominion Hounds hunter pace. Ben Venue Farm, Ben Venue. Divisions include optimum time, junior, fast time and hilltoppers. April 28: Fairfax Hunt hunter pace. Rolling Meadow Farm, Philomont. Divisions include optimum time, junior, fast time and hilltoppers. May 12: Bedford County Hunt hunter pace. Wolf Branch Farm, Forest. Optimum time and hilltoppers. * Note: The Middleburg Hunt will not hold a hunter pace in 2007. ! “Ofrenvgp untA & fatqp*..” ' | Geoqse Rowand Fauuuicr Times Democrat [.* Our menu changes seasonally, Jl utilizing the finest ingredients in our | “all from scratch” kitchen and is skillfully | prepared by our Owner and Executive Chef. [I .Teaturvty .7re/tA . i'aiads dLtJa/tduniAe* at-{uncA J u/td1 JieaAe and GAafaJor (dinner M-F 11:30—9, Sat 5—9, Son Closed 32 Main Street, Warrenton, VA 20186 /w 540-347-0550 540-347-4536 www,thecrescendobistro.com

wi.nrnMauha—M — JJi Photo by Judy Leonard The modem irrigation system and mature turf make Middieburg’s Glenwood Park a special favorite for many steeplechase horsemen, and race fans. The spring meet is April 21. SILCOTT SPRINGS FARM PURCELLVILLE, VA Circa 1790 restored stone house, bam and guest house on 60 acres. The farm is beautifully sited overlooking a pond and rolling lawn. The buildings have been fully renovated and offer a wonderful finished product with modem day conveniences in a setting that is serene and very special. The farm offers ample pasture for horses. $2,500,000 Gloria Armfield 540.687.6395 Heathfield The Plains Virginia Estate of 50 acres in Orange County Hunt. Surrounded by lovely gardens with a pool and tennis court. The stable complex has been recently renovated and has 17 stalls, tack rooms, feed rooms, wash areas plus a two bedroom apartment. Other dependencies include a charming two bedroom guest cottage, a studio/office, and garaging for 6 cars. $4,250,000 Carole Miller 703.705.9110 Ruth Ripley 540.253.5133 rfy i Rf M Spring from page 21 Improvements included a flat turf track, a new paddock and saddling stalls constructed near the tiers of boxes and grandstands. “The new course will be a real test to a jumper and hunter as one of the jumps is so constructed that the horses must clear a flowing stream of water, dammed up to give it the proper width. A Liverpool and open ditch jumps have also been provided,” it was reported in the Nov. 4, 1936 Fauquier Democrat. “Approximately 2,000 turf folk representing high society of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Virginia.” The racing conditions, however, were dismal; 10 scratched due to hard, bumpy conditions. Jim Ryan, Paul Mellon’s trainer, rode Drinmore Land to victory over William Ewing’s Kilmalogyue by 20 lengths, with t the only other starter, Grown -Up, 50 lengths behind. Another race in 1940 was just plain odd. “The feature event of the Middleburg Race Meet Saturday, the Glenwood National Steeplechase, ended in confusion as one horse in the three-horse race ran off course, one was pulled up and a third was claimed to have finished the wrong course,” reported the Nov. 13, 1940 Democrat. • Racing continued throughout the decades under the tutelage of Daniel Sands. Such notables as President John F. Kennedy even took the meet; the president breezed in and out of the paddock so fast that few even noticed him. Wife Jacqueline See Spring, Page 28 ^ Party! Party! The Virginia PoInt-to-Point Association will award season winners at a party June 3 at 5 p.m. at Great Meadow in The Plains. Call (540) 253-5001 for details. Nikon. 1200' Camera Body Only $ 1699.95 instant -$100.00 rebate $1599.95 Final Price | Rebate ends March 31. 2007. Mikon Authorized Deafer ■ FASTER, SMARTER, STRONGER • High-performance 10J Megapixel CCD Samar, coupled with Nikon's exclusive image processing engine. • Shoo* at up to S frames per second, plus fast startup and minimal shutter lag. • Rugged Magnesium Alloy Body end Chassis extends camera life and protects performance integrity. • Mt’IMuMlm. into tort •/&«/*•#«* www.nikorKjigital.coin SONY 4 camcorders 1 HDD-MINI DV-MINI DVD lil" .... Ji McCLANAHAN CAMERA 306 Lee Highway, WarTenton, VA. ~ 540.347.2533 — www.mccarnera.com Store Hours Monday-Friday 9:00am-6 00pm, Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm

1957 a— Robert Palmer, left, and Mrs. Charles Knox present Casanova winner Jack Eicher the winner’s trophy after , his victory aboard Dixie in this classic 1957 Marshall Hawkins’ photograph. 'Chasing through Recognize some are still kicking Funny Cide’s trainer Barclay Tagg, falling at Montpelier in 1967, started his racing career in the steeplechase world. 1967 isa^ae ~ ijj - ga; -jjaagsgs; - s gs - »-■>-—e *'* 1 a A jockey’s nightmare at the 1967 Warrenton races as Perry’s Imp runs back into the field after losing rider Gene Leach. At right, Don Patterson’s Irish Dash and Cedar Man •ovoid the melee. 1977 ■ The late George Ohrstrom Jr. congratulates Blue Ridge ladies’ timber winner Diane Deeds on her victory aboard Ohrstrom’s Manco Capac. He won the j 1977 and 78 ‘ Middleburg j Hunt Cups \ with champion rider Tom Skiffington up.

the decades anybody? around the circuit Take Ten Steeptechasing may not have started in Virginia, but it took a strong foothold when the sport shipped over to the colonies with English settlers in the 1600s. Since then, horse racing has flourished - in Virginia and is spreading throughout the ; nation, steeplechasing spread as for south as Florida, west to Tennessee and north to New York, but remains centralized in the Old Dominion. The Fauquier Times- ' T Democrat (aid, before that the Fauquier Democrat) has provided insightful, in depth coverage of racing since NS creation more than 100 years ago. Flipping through the pages of papers from the ’30s and '40s, it is easy to trace * horse sports and their importance to the county's . economy. However, few *; photographs remain in the Tknes-oemocrat fifes from those days, as the printing process did not always leave a lasting product But starting in the 19S0S, photo paper and the printing materials began to ensure that « the newspapers' files would be stuffed with memories from at least 50 years ago on forward. . Looking into those creased file folders is-fike taking a stroll through history - exchange the horse names, and many of the owners and riders remain virtually the same. Many of sfeeplechasing’s first famties' are still in the sport - Smithwick, Eicher, Fenwick, Strawbridge. The grab bag of shots on these pages illustrate the point Many of the horsemen and women shown here are still integral to the game. And, more than that, n • another generation is on its **r:way: four of the five horsemph ' Jumping in the 1987 shot from Gatlands have kids that might be destined to carry the torch into the future • Photo cradto: 1967.1987: Times Newspapers Fite Photos, 1967,1977: Photos fay ♦> Douglas Lass, 1997: runes Newspapers Sta* Photo/Betsy Parker In the 1987 Eustis Cup at Oatlands, Don Yovanovich leads the field on Ichasethedouds. From left, the others are: George Lee on Tougher Still, Speedy Smithwick on Apudy, Charlie Fleischman on Mighty Delight and Gerry Newman on Devil’s Valentine. 1987 At the 1987 Casanova races, Nelson Gunnell jumps at left aboard Racing Hearts, behind the late John Branscome on Height of Passion and Will Russell on News Special. 1997 Trainer Alicia Murphy leads standout ’chaser Circuit Bar onto the Glenwood course for a 1997 race with owner Gregg Ryan.

b More on ’chasing . -# - “Jump" jockeys are bigger (roughly 140 pounds compared to 110 pounds) than their flat counterparts, but do the same job. Two name flat jockeys, Jacinto Vasquez and Jean Cruguet, have tried steeplechasing with single rides at Saratoga. — CULPEPER NORMAN RD. 3/4 BR, 3 full BA, rear deck, wooded rear yard, 3 board fenced pasture with stable. $375,000 (-.ORDER RD. Large 5 bedroom colonial on 5 acres, over 3800 sq. ft. Living Room has raised hearth fireplace. Inground pool & hot tub, 1/2 from Kelley’s Ford Inn & mue Equestian Center $530,000 • LONG& FOSTER <££8 JENS THOLAND ACCREDITED LAND CONSULTANT. VIRGINIA LAND SPECIALIST GRADUATE REALTTORS INSTITUTE (540) 825-5534 (800) 374-7253 < ext. 2244) Tholand@earthlink.net Jumping to conclusions ’Chase history in Virginia may have followed English model Historians love recorded dates and thus every race program ever written includes mention of the dash from one church steeple to another in 1752 by a ample of Irishmen. Stifle the yawn elicit Piedmont Perspective Jackie Burke Jt ~r -■«* ’i Sy®| ^5>co^ -C^K _ _... .^gg-^gg^a '«'<■ •^‘-■,'i.. 2 *«••<'> %-Jti i, ' ti"' i;*/P^S -■ :-A WHADyA SAYi sport?; ’ i Think THE GROUND iS G6TTlNGj| HARDER!M ■-----I Cartoon by Custer Cassidy This cartoon in a 1970s issue of the Fauquier Democrat shows the long association of the local paper to steeplechasing. 1 ———^1 Choose a Morton gM and Secure ian Facility... i;; gsm t|478 Industrial Road -tfclpaper, Virginia 22701 ^ ■mz::' Ask to see one of Morton’s local barns or arenas. MORTON BUILDINGS ed by the much-told tale and let’s consider the facts of the matter regarding racing over fences here in the Colonies. Searches by Delaplanebased sporting author Peter Winants, an expert in source material, turned up a race over jumps at the Washington, D.C. Jockey Club in 1834, and another on Long Island, N.Y. in 1842. Winants’ definitive book, “Steeplechasing,” includes among other rare illustrations, a racing program listing a twomile hurdle race at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. in 1865. Winants also includes in his book reports on. a steeplechase staged at the height of the Civil War near Fredericksburg at Falmouth, in 1863. The fact that the instigators were members of the Irish Brigade and the date was St. Patrick’s Day probably explainn why war-weary soldiers laid down their arms for a day and a reported 10,000 spectators attended. wmants reported though that the first nreaT* American steeplechase, which he defines as being over obstacles other than soft brush hurdles, was held in Paterson, NJ. in 1866. But now here’s the good part Winants also writes of a hurdle race held at Fauquier Springs Spa right here in Fauquier County in 1838. His source for this was an esteemed Clarke County historian, the late Alexander Mackay-Smith, but other references can be found elsewhere. The Fauquier Springs resort, now the site of a country club and golf course, was built between 1834 and 1837; it was a hub of social activity until it the spa burned in 1862. The race course, which lay along the Rappahannock River, was named for the gallant mare Victoria, who died after the first race held there. Probably this same location was the site of Wanrenton’s annual jousting tournament described in a letter of July 1854, as being held in "a smooth meadow on the Kanta of the Rappahannock. The spectators and judges occupy < upon the hill which rises immediately above the meadow.” Facts are indisputable, but now let’s dream a dream about the sport and see if we can take Elaborations about the development of steeplechasing in the newly formed American the Virginia steeplechasing , story back even further. Caa OOU t Page 27

Piedmont from page 26 colony by British and expatriates discuss the tradition of “fisc and goose” chases and pounding matches in whi ch young blood on a slow day of foxhunting challenge one another to see whose horse is fastest, or who is most foolhardy over fearsome obstacles. Never mounted for the “my horse is faster than your horse contest, I blush to admit jumping a big brush pile or two just because one of the Sloan brothers, Paul and George, champion amateur steeplechase jockeys in their day and hunting said that I should if they could. Thinking hack on those these challenges, doesn't it seem altogether likely that Virginia had her own equivalent of the muchtold County Kildare tale? A love of foxhunting in the formal English manner traveled to Virginia with the Fairfax clan and other Cavalier families in the early 1700’s. Hunting parties were reported over their Alexandria estates. In 1736, Thomas, the sixth Lord Fairfax, started taking out grants in his own name of the 110,000-acre grant given to an ancestor by King Charles II in 1649. By 1748, Thomas had estab, lished a county seat at Green way Court in Clarke County where he spent the balance of his days hosting hunting parties for all comers. Now Fairfax’s surveyor and devoted young protege George Washington was universally her Who's to say American settlers didn't have their own 'chasing in the colonies? aided as the best horseman of his day. Washington would come to keep his own kennel of hounds and hunt his own Potomac River estates. But doesn't it seem likely, that our first president, who like the rest of us was young once, might have iss ’ lied a challenge or two to a fellow hunter? The earliest recorded pointto-point here in Fauquier County was organized by the Warrenton Hunt in 1898. The race began and ended .at cannonoau uaie, locatea just around View Tree Mountain from Oakwood (the site of the first Virginia Gold Cup in 1922). The two races, winch shared committee members and common goals, cantered along companionably in that fashion, one in the old-fashioned point-topoint tradition (formerly a sport in which contestants literally chose the route they deemed most direct and safest for their skill set from two pre-set points), the other up-to-the minute with important prizes, for a long time. Eventually, the old-fashioned point-to-point format was abandoned for the more popular standard race course format used by Virginia point-to-points today. But if a friend new to the sport asks you exactly what a point-to-point is, why not explain the roots of the sport in local terms and leave out the overquoted tale of the early Irish race for once. Jackie Burke is an Orieanbased rider and author. An avid research writer, Burke formerly held a National Steeplechase Association trainer’s license. EQUESTRIAN CENTER FOR SALE $2.9M - Private setting on 34 Acres - 6 Bedroom Historic Manor House fully renovated - 2 Bedroom Guest House recently remodeled - 22 Matted stalls in 2 Stables - Large newly fenced paddocks - Indoor Riding Arena (200') ■ > ' X - s - (3) Outdoor Riding Arenas - Round pen - Milk House with utilities makes a great office/tac - Large restored cow bam (50X100') set-up for 10 > stalls - Large stocked pond and stream _ Owner/Broker • 703-507-0070 m,, '»**»« i-Sr'3 % ROOMS start at *99 1 ' .Retire to an antique bed. To sleep petdiance to ’ * dream of the Earijr American, Victorian, ; Empire or other favored era. SUNDAY FAMILY BUFFET 11:30 AM-2:30 PM Dine in the Colonial Days. Historic good taste is die specialty of the Inn. Vtv ■ - .. 540-869-1797 877-869-1797 y\|$- wwwjJongthewayside.com A! ly-' •<-> J»T > Reservations Recommended 7783 Main St • Middletown, VA At the crossroads of Rt. 11 & 1-81 Exit 302 Isa. - S ; a a&s i,. : i~::V ■ ' - J :«Si From canopy to roots, caring for your trees isn’t just something we do, it’s our specialization, our area of expertise, our passion. Our quality of service is unmatched and our breadth of services exhaustive — everything from pruning and * mulching to tree value appraisal and disease management. Your trees are beautiful, complex and valuable living organisms. Choose the tree care company that really cares for them. i thecareoftrees. 703-661-1700 www.thecareoftrees.com Our business is people and their love for trees'* ■■ 1 * 1 » PLEASE RECYCLE -■

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Spring from page 28 The Middleburg Spring Races feature the Temple Gwathmey hurdle stakes, a race that originally ran in Rolling Rock, Pa., then at Belmont Park in New York. The graded race moved to Glenwood in 1990. More details on the Middleburg Spring Races, this year April 21, are available by calling (540) 687-6545 or dog onto www.morvenpark.org/ceo. . More on c ’chasing Formed by the Jockey Ckjb in 1895, the National sanctions all official . - . Thoroughbred racing over jumps in the United States with purses of $5 - million annually at 32 race meets and several host racetracks. In 2006,543 , horses participated in < NSA races with total. - > attendance at race meets f and racetracks of more than one million. ;y 3 The 2007 season begins -March 11 at Little Everglades in Dade City, $ Ra. The NSA circuit visits Virginia in the spring for the Strawberry Hi# Races at Colonial Downs, the FoxfiekJ Races in * Chariotteswlie, the MiddSeburg Sprang I ... let Gienwood Park, and ?f§ f*lhe Virginia Gold Cup .»|g| meet at Great Meadow. ^ •Vihacinn avtonrlc ile cfau ■ ;■? ' 'Chasing extends its stay J, In Virginia with hucdte j.: races carded each Sunday of the sixjweojtk^ .Colonial Downs ^ mutuel meet near *. 33$ tWchmorsd. meets, and amateur ^^opportunity - at the point-J fie-points) and spectators^ (wth continuing 'entertainment rj opportunities throughout 3 the spring, summer and ; fall i sdSI — Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Gone but not forgotten, 2003 Virginia and International Gold Cup winner Lord Kenneth left big shoes to fill at Kinross Farm. The three-mile open timber race at the Middleburg Spring Races often serves as a fined prep for the four-mile Virginia Gold Cup. two weeks later. Lord Kenneth, shown, won both. The MidiHeburg Hunt <TointJToJToint Sunday, April 29,2007 Post Time 1:Q0 P.M. Glenwood Park,.* Middleburg, Virginia General admission $5 per person in advance or $10 at the gate. Parking $5 per car. For information Mrs. Liam Tuohy (540) 454-2991 Whatever you are into...find i t here! /93?** &*Jfat** y*»me44 Culpeper 540.825.2200 Rappahannock 540.987.8555 Morrisville 540.439.3254 Warrenton 540.347.7100 Marshall 540.364.1533 Caroline 804.448.0266 •« www.cfcfarmhome.com JjL. - t* -

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Carousel_ from page 30 for the farm’s newest arrivals. She had to use her imagination: there were no windows and just one door. “But it was the obvious place," she noted, pointing out the proximity, but separateness, of the small stable. The track set-up was immediately obvious. “We looked out into that hay field, and I could see how it would sit," McClure said, gesturing to the rolling, oblong field, with a short dogleg closest to the stable yard with room for a starting gate. “It worked out just right.” The infield, and just outside the 12-foot wide synthetic surface, make up two turf gallops. Schooling hurdles line one side of the track; timber schooling fences dot a pasture on the other side of the farm. An outside wash rack, a tack room, an office, a shed-barn for her small herd of miniature horses and a couple ponies that McClure uses in her burgeoning lesson program took up several of the old buildings. The other structures Cooney ordered pushed over and burned as the pair looked to the newly open areas for an 100-by-200-foot outdoor riding arena, and a 180-by-80-foot indoor. (“With the same polyfooting as the track,” McClure noted. “You can’t hear a horse working in there. It just absorbs concussion so well.”) Though traditional sand tracks are still the norm at most training centers and racetracks around the nation, limitations include a tendency to hold water when it rains, reducing the surface to a cuppy goo or slick, uneven footing, Training on the farm gives flexibility of multiple conditioning options such as swimming, sand gallops, turf gallops, trail rides and more, says Carousel owner Michael Cooney. requiring a lot of maintenance. Sand is considered a “dead” surface, one that does not return the energy a horse sends down through his legs and feet into the footing when running. 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Carousel from page 32 "The first time my brother came to see the farm he asked Mike if he was calling me ‘Kevin Costner' yet,” McClure said. “Like Costner’s character said in “Field of Dreams’ — “Build it and they will come.’ We had to hold hard to tha1 through the struggles oi struction. “Every time we take a out to gallop on the track or nr | school in the indoor, we are reminded of how worthwhile all of this has been.” Carousel Stable is located at 487 Fish paw Road west of Berryville. For details, call (540) 955-5201 or log onto www.thecarouselstabIe.com. Standings from page 6 Lasting hums boras. 1. Reflector, a/Tom Riley; 2. Extra Check, o/Kinross Farm; 3. Good Night Shirt, o/Haroid Via Jr. Ahead, a/Kinross Farm; Z TeAkau Five, o/Hountfs Cry Farm; 3. Northern Thinking, d/Acom Hii Farm. Turf aeriaoL 1. Gold Mitten. o/Kinross Farm; Z One and Only You, o/Magaien Bryant; 3. Fantorini, o/Harold Via Jr. Dlatalf aeries. 1. One and Only Ybu; Z Gold Mitten. o/Kinroes Farm; 3. Leioa, a/Gregg Ryan. 2006 Virgiiiia Point-toPoint Association final standings 1. Marino Feiz, r/Tim Maddrix; Z Oobitwa, r/Liam Me Vicar, 3. Yokazona, r/Russel Haynes. . 1. Up and Over, r/Ken Shreve; Z Gilded Son, r/Jkn Whitner, 3. Mr. Gretzky, r/Rusty Ckne. Orange County Hunt fexhuntors’ Umber series. 1. Assembly. r/Teddy ' Mulligan; 2. Mr. Gretzky; 3. Bavario. r/Richard Roberts. Virginia Gold Cup novice timber series. 1. Manly Jack. a/Teddy Mulligan; 2. Flying Contraption, o/Augustm Stables; 3. Turkish Comers, a/Bruce Miter. tsncee. 1. CarilRaABr;2.Gregg Ryan; 3. Teddy MuKgaa Blue Ridge Traiers Seles open rider over tsncee. 1. Carl Rafter 2. Jeff Murphy; 3. Chris Read rider peer tsncee!7*<Jawws Slater. 2- Teddy Mulligan; a Tan Maddrix. Hume Stabiee laadbig novice rider on the tell. Liam McVtcar, 2. Robert Benpott; a Jennifer Paterson. 1. Donald Yovanovich; 2. Jimmy Day; a Jute Gomena. VbglntetMedtet saris* 1. Ghost Fever, o/Raymond Moffett Jr.; 2. Thegreatshapiro. a/C HP Stables; a Notice the Magic, (VThomas Beach Jr. i tearing race mare. 1. (be) Analyze, o/Flying Horse Farm; Foxy Old Changer. oDaen lo Dusk Racing; Gold kitten, a/Kinross Farm. ponlee. 1. Stuart Little, r/Sarah Green; 2. Bittersweet, r/Sabte Pom. Large ponlee. 1. Minuet, r/MadoBno Lohn 2. Black Pearl, r/Augie Morris. Horae. 1. Haro, r/Sam Cocktoum; 2. Razor, r/Scartott Lovett; 3. Bomb Site, r/Jane Tenyberry. WOnenlon Hunt feet Umber huntor pace. 1. Not The Norm, r/Kathy Broaddus and Granite, r/Lani Newcomb; 2. Scar, r/Lani Newcomb and Conan, r/Kathy Broaddus; 3. Stonewal Bob, r/Rosie Forte and Atomic Time, r/Lacey Herder. pan. 1. Moxie, r/Douglas Hytta and Wedgie, r/Hattye Hytta; 2. Will’s Gold, r/Erica Fleming and Graphic Gold, r/Nataiie Armel; 3. Basket Of Yam. r/Sam Cockbum and Hero, r/Erica Fleming. 1. Boomer, r/Gene Gartner and Ghost. r/Mary Potter 2. Goi Lae, r/Kalhleen O’Keefe and Peaches, r/Janet O’Keefe; 3. Dante, r/Cedlia JoArme RadsBff and Uy. nConnie Handey. I Mo ppai a. 1. Gabby, r/Stacey Dorme*y and Dust Bunny, r/Nei Donnelly Jr.; 2. Blue, i/Dale Mncks and Smoke, r/Sheme Mncks; 3. Dothebucket i/Renee Bourke and The Quiet Man, r/David Bourke. 336.9368 0.736.6733 o aifyk/ (oarbet, ftfnc. So Much Under One Roof Your Hometown Store 0ht ^ar^est S^stocA Ifcocntary ChGatfiet^^lrea^/titps Orientally ^HarcAoooclsy -£anunate&> Geranucs &£7temnanfe Residential & Commercial One Location Only! Amlssvllle! 540-937-5500 • 1-800-870-9098 Jenoufp&auyuier} Guty>ef>er and(RafipaJuumocA(joanties <Jince (<}615' Hwy. Rte. 211 West • Amissville, VA

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