Rappahannock News, September 13, 2007

129th Year ... No. 37 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,2007 www.rappnews.com 50 cents Phone (540)675-3338 Masters pleads guilty to school break-in By Matt Pelkey Rappahannock News Staff Writer Castleton resident Grahm Masters pleaded guilty Thursday, Sept. 6, in Rappahannock County Circuit Court to breaking and entering and grand larceny charges stemming from a July 2006 burglary at Rappahannock County High School. An estimated $19,500 worth of music and shop equipment were stolen from the school in the incident, according to testimony from two teachers at the school. Masters, 25, arrived to the morning trial wearing a sport jacket and a tie. He pleaded not guilty and sat calmly next to his attorney during testimony in which Rappahannock County High School teachers detailed the aftermath of the break-in and a pawn shop employee indicated that Masters sold items stolen from the school at a pawn shop in Prince William County. After a break for lunch, Masters pleaded guilty to both of the charges he faced. “We believe it is in his best interest, that if the jury found him guilty they might punish him very severely,” See MASTERS, Page A3 TROUBLED YOUTH; Grahm Masters, 25, pleaded guilty to the 2006 break-in at Rappahannock County High School. Masters faces separate breaking and entering and theft charges in an upcoming trial, and was convicted in 2001 of felony breaking and entering, grand larceny and destruction of property. Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Matt Pelkey IN BUSINESS: Ted Pellegatta outside of the old Apple Hill Bakery location. Pellegatta’s Eatery will open on Friday. Bakery to reopen this weekend By Matt Pelkey Rappahannock News Staff Writer Apple Hill Bakery in Sperryville will reopen Friday under new management and a new name — Ffellegatta’s Eatery. ' Ted Pellegatta, a reluctant businessman but enthusiastic friend and chef cooked and baked at Apple Hill Bakery before it closed on Labor Day. Unwilling to lose a favorite hang-out, nine bakery regulars put up $5,000 to cover a six-month lease, and i^llegatta volunteered to take over as chef, baker and manager, Bellegatta said. “I look at it more as a community service than a business,” he said. “I’ve got to be out of my bird starting a new career this late in life.” On the menu • Breads — Raspberry-banana, green tomato, cracked wheat, country, cheese and sourdough. • Muffins — Cranberry-orange, blueberry and morning glory. • Pies — Apple, blueberry, pecan and old rag. •Croissants — feta and spinach, and ham and cheese. • Sweets — pecan bars, brownies and sour cream coffee cake. • Sweet potato soup. • Sandwiches. • Central Roasters coflee — Pellegatta blend. Rappahannock News P.O. Box 59 Washington, Va. 22747 (540) 675-3338 (540) 675-3088 (fax) But Peilegatta is quite familiar with the restaurant business. His grandfather opened a steakhouse in 1894 in Bethlehem, Pa., where he worked growing up. And he’s quite familiar with life at a bakery, having been employed at Apple Hill Bakery for about a year before it closed. “It was a good learning process,” he Said. Now that he’s running the bakery, he can do things his way. This week he moved some of the display cases to alleviate traffic jams on busy mornings and put in a new floor. A photographer, he will hang on the walls what he calls his “fine art,” different than his poster-sized landscape photographs, which were at Apple Hill Bakery. This week Peilegatta was also busy hiring new bakers. He said that he will encourage them to focus on their individual specialties. “They’re making for me the best of what they make,” he said. See BAKERY, Page A2 New season Wendy Weinberg’s Theatre in Little Washington begins a new season with “The Winter’s Tale." See Page B1. Toasting the “Taste” Photo by Richard Lytjes 1 Co-chairs of the Taste of Rappahannock, Cheri Woodard and Terri Lehman celebrate the success of Saturday’s $£ evening which honored the 10th anniversary of Headwaters. The gala event was held at Belle Meade and more §5 than 300 guests attended. See more on B1. . %3 Patriot Day — Remembering another Tuesday six years ago - Dozens of people came out to Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church on Tuesday in Sperryville to recognize the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. The event was meant to remember the people who died that day as well as show appreciation for the men and women in law enforcement and emergency response who serve Rappahannock County. “We are here tonight to honor our first responders, to acknowledge them and let them know they are prayed for,” said the Rev. Jon Heddleston. Mark Rhein of Cornucopia Farms released a flock of white doves to mark the occasion. After the birds flew out of sight, Heddleston said they symbolized the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks - although they cannot be seen, they are still present in the hearts and memories of people who knew them. - Kevin Allen Photo Oy Ray Boc IN HONOR: Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church in Sperryville has hosted a Sept. 11 memorial service every year since the terrorist attacks in 2001. Newsmakers New start The Belle Meade Schoolhouse is home to a unique brand of learning which suits these students just fine. See Page A9. A fresh face Makeup artist Linda Wright has set up shop in The Hair Gallery in Washington. Ready for younger looking skin? See Page B8. Light the way Sharon Komar will be selling 9-1-1 Emergency Reflective signs this Saturday at the Laurel Mills store. See Page A2.

Police Briefs Situation at Settle’s William E. Dealing was arrested Sept. 4 outside Settle’s Grocery and Garage and charged with being drunk in public. A clerk at the Flint Hill store called the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office around 2 p.m. to report the situation. According to the RCSO report, the clerk said the 59-year-old Dealing seemed intoxicated and was shouting outside the stare. Deputy Robert Fincham and Maj. Chris Williams reported to the scene and arrested Dealing. Arrested in court Nathaniel D. Corbin, 21, of 3677 Slate Mills Road, was | arrested by Deputy Robert Fincham on Sept. 4 for being drunk in public. According to the sheriff’s ; office report, Corbin was at the Rappahannock County Courthouse for a hearing on a misde: meanor assault charge he is facing. Breaking story The front door at the Rappahannock News was destroyed Sunday afternoon, , likely by someone who threw a \ piece of cinderblock at it. The j office is located at 249 Main St. | in the Town of Washington. Around 1 pjn., a passerby i noticed the glass door had been shattered and a piece of dnI derblock was on the ground in f front of the door. A { Rappahannock News employee i had been at the office until noon j that same day, and the door was ! still intact when that person left \ the building. Ij Bakery i From Page A1 Pellegatta plans on bringj ing in guest chefs every j Monday to spice up the menu. ; His first two chefs will be | cooking Thai and Korean dishi es. Pellegatta will also regular! ly add his own Italian crei ations, which he cooked for j “Italian Day” at Apple Hill | Bakery. Recipes include chicken ragu, vegetable lasagna, | meatball subs and pasta with j fresh spinach and goat cheese. ; Many locals couldn’t be i happier that Pellegatta took • the helm after Apple Hill Nothing else was disturbed at the office and nothing appeared to have been stolen. SUV overturns on 211 Two people were transported to Fauquier Hospital on Sunday after the 2001 Chevy Suburban they were riding in overturned on U.S. 211. Diana Becker, 47, of Rixeyville, was driving in the westbound lane around 7:15 p.m. when the vehicle overturned on an embankment about a half-mile east of Ben Venue Road (Route 729). The Amissville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company transported Becker and a juvenile passenger to the emergency room. State Trooper Brandon Johnson reported to the scene of the accident and charged Becker with driving under the influence of alcohol. She was released from the hospital on a summons, Johnson said. Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Anita L Sherman SHATTERED: A large sheet of plywood covered the front door of The Rappahannock News office located at 249 Main Street in Washington Monday morning. - Compiled by Kevin Allen County and Town Meetings and Notices • On Thursday, Sept. 13, the Washington Architectural Review Board (ARB) will meet at 7:30 p. m. in the town Hall on Gay Street. Applications: 1) Douglas K. Baumgardner; new windows, and new air conditioning unit at 211A Main street 2) Rev. Phillip Bailey, Washington Baptist Church; new sign for Fellowship Hall on Mt. Salem Avenue. • Oh Wednesday, September 19, the Rappahannock County Planning Commission will meet at 7:30 p. m. at the county courthouse on Gay Street. Agenda: -SE#07-06-03* Scruton Conference Center • The September 26 meeting for fee Rappahannock County Board of Zoning Appeals has been canceled. Bakery closed. “Saturday mornings there was a group of us that we always would try to get together and talk about what we had done this week and what not,” Castleton resident Sandy Fletcher said. Fletcher provided money to help pay the first six months rent for the bakery. “I hated to see it close,” she said. Pellegatta’s Eatery will be open Wednesdays through Sundays, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Phone: (540) 987-9870 E-mail the reporter at mpelkey@timespapers.com The Partnership for Warrenton and our Honorary Chaii; Gurvir Dhindsa of FOX 5 News, cordially invite you to the 18th Annual “An Evening Under The Stars’* A Csiabratkm t» Bemefit tkt Rmtairrwtnm wad Pmmmtim for Old Ttmm Hfeiwfci Saturday, September 15, 2007 Eight O’clock in the Evening Main Street Historic Old Town Warrenton Join us for a "Taste efWarmtom* courtesy of these fine establishments: Cafe Torino • Chick-fil-A • Claire’s at the Depot • Cold Stone Creamery • Crescendo Bistro Foster’s Grill • Hog Wild BBQ Catering • Iron Bridge Wine Company • JP’s Bar and Grille Kidwell Caterers • Legend’s Catering • Main Street Grill • Manor House Restaurant McMahon’s Irish Pub & Restaurant • Molly’s Irish Pub • Mom’s Apple Pie • Napoleon’s Panera Bread • Renee’s Gourmet To Go • The Inn at Kelly’s Ford • The Inn at Vint Hill The Locker Room Sports Bar & Restaurant • The Town Duck • Tippy’s Taco House Under the Canopy of Stan to the Kaleidoscope One of the DC/Baltimore area's most sought after hoods! 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Many houses in the county are difficult for emergency services to find if addresses are not clearly marked near a home’s driveway. When it’s dark and the emergency services need to get to a house, it’s tough to find a place when no numbers are displayed visibly on the property. Emergency personnel face the same problem when it’s raining or snowing. “A lot of people don’t have their addresses marked very dearly,” said Richie Burke, the county’s emergency services manager and chief of the Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department. “Some of these places are fairly remote and they’re very difficult to find.” Backroads have a lot of driveways in between the driveways that lead to houses. Other roads are for farms or other non-residential areas. “There’s no way to know quickly which house is at the end of which driveway” said Sharon Komar, an emergency medical technician with the Castleton Community Volunteer Fire Company. “We’re wasting precious time if we go down the wrong driveway” Other homes have a mailbox by a main road, but do not have anything to indicate where the house is located. Emergency services are still getting to their destinations, Burke said, but not as quickly as they would if everyone’s addresses were marked more visibly. If an emergency vehicle has to backtrack or slow down to search for street numbers, first responders are wasting time that may be the difference between life and death. “A lot of people don’t think about it until it’s time for an emergency,” Burke said. “Anytime you’re slowing your emergency care to a patient could be critical. ... Time is of the essence when it’s time to find these places.” Several homeowners have put brass numbers on a wooden board or black numbers on a gray mailbox. Neither combination provides enough of a contrast to make them visible at night or during inclement weather Burke said house numbers should be easy to see from both directions on the road. The digits should be 3 inches tall and contrast with the sign or mail-, box’s background. New homes built in the county are required to have an addreSvS marked in that way. Some older homes built before the requirement was adopted as a national standard about five years ago do not have addresses marked clearly. “The building code’s taking care of all the new stuff but it’s the older ones that present a problem,” Burke said. He added that staff persons at the County Building Office often mention the issue to landowners when out for building inspections. The Castleton Community Volunteer Fire Company is selling reflective signs to help more people in Rappahannock mark Signs for sale Die Castieton Community Volunteer Fire Company will be selling 911 address signs Saturday at the Laurel Mills Store, located at 461 Laurel Mills Road (Route 618) in Castieton. The reflective metal plates are 6 inches wide by 18 inches tall and have numbers that are 3 inches tall. The cost for a sign is $15. The plates have numbers displayed on both sides and are faderesistant so they will last for years. The signs are made of aluminum and have pre-drilled holes for easy installment on mailboxes and posts. For more information, call the fire company at 937-4115 or Sharon and Raul Komar after 6 p.m. at 937-5225. their addresses in a way that is visible to emergency responders. “We’re having such a problem finding houses, especially at night,’’ Komar said. “It’s something that is desperately needed in the county to have the houses marked, not only on the main roads but also an the lanes.” The signs are a fundraiser for the Castieton fire company, but that’s not the squad’s main goaL The most important part of this project, Komar said, is that it benefits the people who will need help from emergency responders. Komar said the Castieton department has had one situation where they had difficulty finding a house and the person died. She is not sure if the delay led to the person’s death, but it strengthened her resolve to educate county residents about the importance of dearly marking their addresses. 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Planners to consider Montpelier proposal By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer The Rappahannock County Running Commission will consider a new use for one of the county’s best-known historic properties on Wednesday, Sept. 19. Roger and Sophie Scruton are applying for permission to use Montpelier as a venue for weddings, receptions, conferences and meetings. The 18thcentury mansion is located on 173 acres at the intersection of , F.T Valley Road and Hawlin Road (Route 618), about fivp miles south of Sperryville. £ In an e-mail to County' Administrator John McCarthy, Sophie Scruton wrote that opening Montpelier as a venue will make it accessible to more people and also raise money to help pay for the mansion’s ongoing restoration and maintenance costs. Planners talked informally about the Scrutons’ idea at their July meeting. Commissioners spoke favorably of the proposed use as something that would be good for Rappahannock. County Administrator John McCarthy is also supporting the application, but with several conditions. In his recommendation to the commission, McCarthy suggests that the permit be approved only if the Virginia Department of Transportation approves of the property’s entrance and an adequate plan for waste disposal at the site is developed. McCarthy, also suggests placing limits on the frequency and size of events and outdoor amplified music. Music should be in a frilly enclosed tent and not extend after 9 p.m., he said, and musical events should not happen more than 12 times annually. McCarthy recommends allowing events for up to 300 people a maximum of four times annually, for 100 to 300 people aight times a year and events for up to 100 people as often as 12 ames annually. Smaller events xjuld be unlimited, he says. He also suggests that the permit be subject to review within two years. The Planning Commission meets at 7:30 p.m. at the County Courthouse on Gay Street in the Ibwn of Washington. The Montpelier proposal is scheduled to go before the Board rf Supervisors on Oct. 1. School Board looks at funding; SAT scores, student enrollment down By Matt Pelkey Rappahannock News Staff Writer Funding team hopes to reduce taxpayer burden It’s not budget season, but the School Board nonetheless delved into funding issues at its meeting Tuesday, Sept. 4. Rappahannock County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Bob Chappell and School Board member Wes Mills eagerly relayed details from the new Rappahannock County and School Funding Team’s first meeting the night before. The team is tasked with increasing state funding for Rappahannock County government and schools, and consists of Dr. Chappell, County Administrator John McCarthy, and members of the School Board and the Board of Supervisors. In a press release, county and school officials indicated that the funding team agreed to seek additional state funding for Rappahannock public schools. Officials noted in the press release that property values, which are used to determine the amount of state funding a school district will receive, are relatively high in Rappahannock County. This means that Rappahannock schools receive less state funding. According to the press release, the team is considering joining neighboring counties that receive the “Cost of Competing Adjustment” (COCA), which would provide additional money for Rappahannock schools. The team is also looking into the possibility of sharing services with a school district with lower property values, which would allow Rappahannock to qualify for increased funds based on the other district’s lower property values, according to the press release. “It’s so nice to sit and talk about this another time than budget time,” said School Board member Rc»a Crocker, who is part of the funding team. The press release also indicated that at the Monday meeting the team considered working with a university to establish a satellite campus in Rappahannock County, which might carry economic benefits. Letter to Rep. Cantor approved The School Board approved a letter to U.S. Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA). Dr. Chappell will deliver the letter to Rep. Cantor, who represents Rappahannock County, at an education forum on Sept. 21. A draft of the letter asks for assistance in increasing federal funding for Rappahannock County public schools. It notes that state funds cover less than 25 percent of educational costs, and highlights the near complete lack of corporate tax revenue in Rappahannock County. “The Rappahannock County School Board, Board of Supervisors, and our taxpayers already feel overwhelmed by having to try to make up the difference for inadequate state funding,” the letter states. “We urgently need your assistance and that of the Congress of the United States...” Public school enrollment drops Rappahannock County public schools lost 43 students this year, according to figures present at the School Board meeting. Rappahannock County Elementary School enrollment dropped from 553 students to 550, and Rappahannock County High School enrollment dropped from 981 students to 941. “I knew there was potential for us to lose,” Dr. Chappell said at the meeting. Tm optimistic that the number will increase.” He attributed the decrease partly to lower kindergarten enrollment, and said that the schools will be looking into cases in which students have not yet reported for school. SAT scores down Dr. Chappell presented last year's SAT scores for Rappahannock County High School at the School Board meeting. He noted that the scores were down from last year, though he said that school’s small student body causes more drastic year—toyear fluctuation than other counties experience. Rappahannock students generally scored better than students in neighboring school districts. NCLB resolution approved The School Board approved a resolution urging Rep. Cantor to support changes to the No Child Left Behind Act. Dr. Chappell called the changes to the strict federal guidelines “reasonable” E-mail the reporter at mpelkey@timespapers.com. Masters From Page A1 Masters’ attorney, Mark Willi ams, told the judge when askec why Masters changed his plea. County Attorney Petei Luke noted that the plea was also part of an agreement ir which Masters will not face a charge carrying a mandatory minimum sentence in ar upcoming trial for separatt breaking and entering anc theft charges. Masters was convicted in 2001 of felony breaking and entering, grand larceny and destruction of property charges for his involvement ir trashing Montpelier, a historic mansion in Sperryville. He was sentenced to five months in jai] and placed on three years supervised probation. At the trial Thursday, Masters was accused of breaking into Rappahannock County High School and stealing school property at some point between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning on the weekend 01 July 7,2006. Scott Schlosser, who teaches shop at the high school, testified that he arrived at school around 9:30 a.m. on Monday July 10. “I thought first thing ‘Where’s my large blue tool box?”’ he said. The toolbox, full of tools, he said, weighed about 350 to 40C pounds. He estimated aboul $3,000 worth of tools were stolen from the shop room. Rappahannock County High School Band Director Matthew Yonkey testified that he discovered approximately $16,500 of band equipment missing that morning. And the DARE, program director at the high school, Jeffrey Brown of the sherifFs office, said he found his office in shambles. “Stuff had been pulled out of drawers,” he testified. “A lot of things had been thrown on the floor.” Brown conducted the preliminary investigation of the burglary. Under questioning he testified that he did not find any DNA evidence, footprints or fingerprints linking Masters to the crime scene. He testified that none of the doors to the school were forced open, but he said that sometimes they would not lock properly and could be easily opened. James Guzdowski, an investigator with the Prince William Police Department, testified that several of the tools stolen from the school turned up at Dixie Pawn, a pawn shop outside of Manassas. An employee at the pawn shop testified that Masters sold the tools to the shop on two occasions in midJuly. He said that when Masters came in to the shop a third time to sell more tools, another employee was by coincidence on the phone with Guzdowski, who was calling to investigate the case. Masters became uncomfortable and fled the store, the employee testified. Guzdowski testified that he received a call a couple hours after Masters left Dixie Pawn Shop. The caller identified himself as Grahm Masters and said he was calling because he did not know why the police were interested in the tools he had sold at the pawn shop, Guzdowski testified. The caller said that he had purchased the tools at a yard sale in Chester Gap, though he did not know the exact address of the yard sale. Guzdowski testified that he asked the caller to determine the address of the yard sale and “OPEN HOUSE” EASTWOODS NURSERIES Specializing in Japanese Maples invites vou to visit Look for signs on Rt 211. 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Editorial & Opinion ftappafjannocb dittos Established 1877 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Thursday ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL, PUBLISHER Anita L. Sherman, Editor Pater W. Arundel, President John T. Toler, Executive Vice President Jan Clatterbuck, Office Manager To Subscribe Phone (540) 675-3338 BY MAM.: $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. MaMng address: P.O. Box 59 Washington, Va. 22747-0059 Telephone (540) 675-3338 Fax: (540)675-3068 e-mail: aehennenOtimespapers.com Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday . THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2007 Member, Audit Bureau of Circulations www.rappnews.com Our View New starts We’re early into September and these cooler days are a welcome relief to the heat of summer. Each new season gives us a chance to start fresh and be inspired by new ideas and people. Stop by Fellegatta’s Eatery in Sperryville as longtime resident and photographer, and now chef Ted Fellegatta begins a new venture in fine food, friendship and good feelings. Susan Hoffinan has opened the doors at the Belle Meade Schoolhouse to a new set of students and teachers. Applications are still being accepted. National Merit Semi-Finalist A.J. Collins, a junior at Rappahannock County High School, has the inside scoop with the teen scene and is now authoring our Teen Talk column If you haven’t read one, you should. A.J. Is doing a fine job. Speaking of new writing ventures, Ester Settle and Leah DeLong have teamed up to bring you the news from Flint Hill. The newspaper relies on neighborhood columnists and their unique voices. Their first joint effort is fabulous. If you haven’t noticed the improvement in our sports section, you should take note. On loan from our sister paper; The Culpeper Times, sports editor Steve Franklin is bringing his own brand of reporting and up close look at the sport scene in Rappahannock. His column, “Call Me CoadT is insightful and often humorous. Wakefield Country Day School Headmistress Kathleen Grove will be authoring a series of book reviews in the coming weeks. Grove has discovered a plethora of good reads that she hopes will be of interest to Rappahannock readers. And then there’s Walt Nkklin and his new magazine, "The Piedmont Virginia. ” You’ll recognize many local feces and names in his first issue. This is one of those coffee table items that you won’t want to have missing. It’s also a celebration of the Piedmont region and all that we eqjoy here. So, lots of new starts to September. Lots of new ways lobe inspired. Mountain Laurel opens with appreciation g in luesday, September 4, V^Mountain Laurel Montessori Farm School opened its doors at its new home in Flint Hill. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Rappahannock community, friends, and neighbors for all the hard work, support, and encouragement that made this day possible. Every step of the way; Rappahannock’s administrative professionals cheerfully guided us through the cum bersome yet necessary regulations that ensured a safe and trouble-free first day. We would especially like to thank our next-door neighbors, Jon and Cynthia Loretti, for their wise advice, generosity, and labor as we began the process of, farming our new land and living in our lovely old house. Sincerely, Elaine Glier and Mona Nixon Mountain Laurel Montessori Toasting the Taste of Rappahannock The Headwaters 10th Anniversary Taste of Rappahannock, held on Saturday, September 8 at the Belle Meade Schoolhouse in Sperryville was a tremendous success. It’s hard to believe that it was only ten years ago that Headwaters began, with the mission to work with Rappahannock County Schools for educational excellence. The “Taste” helps to fund many of the Headwaters programs such as: Next Step, our College Access program; Farm to Table, our sustainable agriculture program; Starfish, our mentoring program; and many other smaller but no less important projects that support our children. The success of the event was due to the hard work of many, many people and organizations. We would like to thank everybody for their time, effort and contributions. If it takes a village to raise a child then it takes an army of volunteers to make a night like this a reality. Please see the Ad running in the Rappahannock News this week for a complete list of all of the people who worked to make this night so wonderful. Our apologies if anybody who helped on the event is inadvertently left off of the list. The event was generously underwritten by: Battelle, Griffin Tavern and Restaurant, Linda and Bill Dietel of Over Jordan Farm, Good Harbor Consulting LLC, Tri-State Title & Escrow LLC, and Rappahannock National Bank. Headwaters thanks the sponsors of the event: Margaret & Douglas Baumgardner, Susan Hoffinan & Mike Biniek of Belle Meade Schoolhouse, and Cheri & Martin Woodard of Roy Wheeler Realty. Another big thank you to the patrons of the event: Charles & Deanna Akre, John Anderson, Armfield, Miller & Ripley, Inc., R.H. Ballard, Art, Rug & Home, Eldon H. Crowell, France & Rolf Graage, Robert Holleyman & Bill Keller, Beverly & John Sullivan, Wakefield Country Day School and Norman Smith Architecture & Well Dunn Catering. An anonymous donor presented us with a Match Challenge of $15,000 which was a great gift to the cause. All Challenge monies raised on Saturday will be matched 100 percent. A special thank you to Mary Arthur, Instructor, and all of the students of the Rappahannock1 Culinary Arts classes at the RCHS who helped with much of the food preparation and set up. Matt Yonkey, Band Director, was terrific in his support and help with organizing many of the Band students to help the night of the event. These students were truly amazing in their display of joyful enthusiasm, hard work, and professionalism they exhibited in everything they id. Along with the students, we had a wonderful group of teachers who volunteered to help with the event and their laughter and willingness to help do any thing that is needed is greatly appreciated! Thanks to the following committee members: Mary Arthur, Steve Carroll, Denise Chandler, Sandra CartwrightBrown, Linda Dietel, Laura Overstreet, Virginia Liberatore, Donna Marquisee, Susie MacNelly, Barney O’Meara, Gail Montplaisir, Barbara Cioffi, Donna Kevis, Richard Lykes, Beverly Sullivan, Signe Thornhill, Helen Williams, Sudha Patil, Suzanne Schiffinan, Jennifer Manly and Philip Strange. Cole Johnson, Executive Director of Headwaters, and all of the Headwaters Board deserve a big thank you for all of their help in working, planning and carrying out this event. It is an honor and a privilege to work with such a great group of people. Sincerely, Cheri Woodard and Terri Lehman, Co-Chairs Headwaters 10th Anniversary Taste of Rappahannock Historical Sampler a success A pproximately 170 people attended x\the Historical Sampler on September 9 at Montpelier, one of the most historically noted and architecturally imposing structures in Rappahannock County owned by Roger and Sophie Scruton. The day was enjoyable, the food was delectable, and the history was plentiful. The Board of Directors of the Rappahannock Historical Society wishes to express our sincerest thank you to all those individuals who made this event a success. They include the following; Event chair Wayne Baldwin did an outstanding job of organizing this special day for everyone. Food Committee: Lillian Aylor and Kim OUeron; servers Alana Cloud, Victoria and Donna Brooks. Food donations; Flint Hill Public House, Blue Rock Inn, The Country Cafe, The Inn at Little Washington, Thornton River Grille, Apple Hill Bakery, and Rae’s Place. House Tour and docents chair -Jean Morris and docents Renate Chapman, Red Clater, Barbara Dennis, Laura Dodd, Nancy Freeman, Kathy Heslep, Marti Henze, Bob Massie, Peggy Ralph, Judy Segaar, Joy Sloane, Joanne Tepper, Carolyn Thornton, Amy Timbers, Arland Welch, and Helen Williams with Susan Williams and David Reeve portraying William and Martha Thornton at the front entrance. Tom Utz and Pat Saltonstall handled the drinks with Gene Fisher and Stan Bems directing the parking and offering valet service. Maureen Harris and Bob Howard who were dedicated to the Montpelier History area that contained several family artifacts once in Montpelier generously loaned by descendent’s of Martha Thornton and Frederick G. Skinner. Volunteer Artisans: Woodworking by Gary Wilson, Anne Howard and John Tole of Evergreen Shade performing Revolutionary era music; The Rappahannock Colonial Heritage Society performing colonial dancing and 18th century games; Thornton Hill Hunt and Hounds led by Billy Dodson strutted their stuff; Culpeper Minutemen Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Flower Drying and Arranging by Lois Snead and Louise Ellis; Candlemaking by Bob Wellemeyer of Windsong Apiary; Quilting by the Rappahannock Quilt Club; Handmade Soaps by Kathleen Hutcheson; Culpeper Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. At the ticket and sales tables were Louise van Dort and Sue Kindred. Signs, Tables, Chairs : Wayne Baldwin borrowed tables from Thornton Gap Baptist Church and chairs from Rappahannock Co. High School and made all the signs and distributed them throughout the county. Raffles: One of the special features of the day was the raffling off of four wonderful donated works of art. First was a P. Buckley Moss print, “Out To Play,” donated by David Roberts of Stargazer Rottweilers won by Emerson Williams. Second was a gift basket from Mt. Vernon Farms won by Scott McBride. Third was a framed 1920-30s poster sometimes given to children by mountain store owners in exchange for berries won by Tom Utz. Fourth was a hand hewn black walnut dough bowl donated by Jack Dickerson and won by Roberta Anderson. Mr. Scruton was presented with a copy of the property research done by Maureen Harris as our gift to the Scrutons for generously allowing us to use their property. If you were not able to attend our event, please stop by the Historical Society, say Hi, and tour the building. Not from this area originally? Ask one of our volunteers about having a property search done on your land. Not only will this give you a history of the land, but it will include the families that lived on that land, at least from 1833 when Rappahannock Co. was formed out of Culpeper Co. . “ The Rappahannock Historical Society is open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. People from all over the country visit to research their family roots. Thank you again to everyone who participated. We couldn’t have done it without you. Board of Directors Rappahannock Historical Society Washington Never too late to give thanks While I was employed by the Rappahannock Schools, I now would like to extend thanks to the Rappahannock County School board members, office personnel and staff for all the kindness and encouragement given me, to the special food service directors, Judy Burke and Brenda Payne, my job was made more easier by all your assistances and with the Lord’s help in giving me the health and strength I made it for 20 years as cafeteria manager. Also to those who showered me with gifts and luncheons, truly for all these acts of kindness, two words say it all, “Thank You.” Thanks also to Jan Clatterbuck and the staff of the Rappahannock News for the article published recently. Copies of which have been sent by my family and friends to others, some even to other states, with the most recent return call coming from a former Culpeper High School teacher, Mrs. Virginia Lewis Dalton, now living in Richmond. She had received the article from a friend in Luray. One can never imagine the overwhelming joy I experienced during the conversation with “Miss Jenny” as she expressed thoughts of the article and used the phrase “proud of you” and concluding her talk with one regret,” that sister Gertrude wasn’t alive to read the article. Joy continues when I think that a teacher of 64 years ago, still remembered one of her students. v. So after attending Salem and Culpeper schools in younger days, I finally “graduated from Rappahannock.” Again a big thanks to one and all. Mrs. Alvin (Marie) Atkins Sperryville An open letter to the Headwaters Foundation I know that I speak for the whole Rappahannock County School Board as well as past and future Boards as I express our grateful congratulations on Headwaters’ 10th anniversary celebration and successes. Imagining our county and our schools without the Headwaters Foundation is an exercise in shades of beige. Suffice it to say, we would not be where we are today: Rappahannock would still be beautiful, but I think that doing right by the children, giving them the best possible education, providing the “reaching your potential” tools would be lacking, lacking in money and vision. I don’t know how it hap pened, but some thoughtful, imaginative, practical, rocksolid dreams were floated and those dreams are producing tangible results. To name just two: All schools have guidance departments and counselors, but in Rappahannock, because of Headwaters, Rappahannock’s children have a first rate mentoring program in Starfish and an invaluable passage into “after high school” m Next Step. This Foundation, its changing Board, its mission and its practical vision is to be applauded for its sustainability and for its sustenance. We thank you. Many times over. Meredith Gorfein School Board member Hampton District Ranked Number One: Your college choice When everybody thinks of At Ivy League, what stereotype do they envision? On they envision a bunch of fkh preppy kids wearing polos, ar do they instead see many hutwuiliiinj; students attempting to find the cure for some Artnrfful disease? Well, according to the recent rankings by U.S. News and World Report, the Ivy League schools, along with MIX Cal Tkch, Chicago, Duke, and Stanford, are among the best in Now that many seniors who an looking for the right college A spend their next two or four years, these rankings come to a iwfaut nationally and internationally According to the college rankings, which came out last month, Princeton is the “best” achaal in th* nation, with Harvard at a dose second. Teen Talk AJ. Collins Additionally, there was a list printed with the best liberal arts schools in the nation, schools with arts and sciences the primary majors, and generally smaller, less known colleges. Of these, Williams College in Massachusetts leads the list. > On a side note, many of the top colleges m the nation have odd mascots. Whatever happened to cute, fuzzy animals without some bizarre genetic mutation? Williams, for example, is the Purple Cow. Instead elite schools opt for colors; Harvard is the Cnmson, Cornell the Big Red, and Dartmouth the Big Green. And, no, there are no panthers at least within the top 20.) However, Miranda Hope, NextStep director at Rappahannock County High School, noted that, while “t The measurements used for the rankings) are all valid ways of measuring...1 don't think that a college has to be in a magazine.’' Her co-worker Lauren Ross added that the rankings ‘‘have a reputation for being the Bible for choosing a college, but they are also the worst thing to happen to college admissions.” Hope and Ross work together within the school’s Next Step program, guiding students through the testing, admissions, and selection process in order to choose and venture to a college. They plan to take students on tours of six colleges on two days nwt month Jason Gochenour, the RCHS guidance director; also frowned upon the rankings’ view as the Bible of college selection. While he concedes that “it , is a useful tool, measuring exactly what it needs to measure,” he counters that “the criteria are not useful for evaluating” In selecting a college, he reasons, the criteria are not necessarily effective. And what do RCHS seniors think about the rankings? Many asked did not know of or use, the rankings. Senior Nancy Herbert inquired, “Why do I need to look at them when I have focused on the school I want to attend?” Her view seems to be the common opinion among the seniors, who have already zeroed in on colleges that interest them, and of those, hope to apply and receive admission. “Do some more research," Gochenour states. “Colleges are about finding the fit for the individual student. Use the rankings as a part in deciding, a piece in the puzzle." Hope noted that the rankings are useful as a measure of accountability, and Ross agreed by noting that “a lot of this info is public.” Public universities, including the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary; release the information, including tuition costs and SAX faculty salary, and other criteria released to US. News and World Report. “In a perfect world, there would be no rankings. Colleges would just teach,” Hope asserted. “1 guarantee that you could receive a quality education at any of the top 50 schools, and more." Hope pointed out that, as a resource for college selection outside of the rankings. Colleges That Change Lives, or 'Hie Princeton Review’s Best 357 Colleges describe the school beyond the bare bones numbers, The Colleges That Change lives guide includes 40 schools nationwide that give a different type of education than typical universities. Many are liberal arts colleges, and some are in bordering states, including Kentucky and Maryland. Lynchburg College and Emory and Henry are among Virginia's selections. Seniors selecting colleges should to find a college that works for them, where they could see themselves for the next four years. Make sure that you turn your forms in on time. AJi Collins is a junior at RCHS. He can be reached at mppteerUalk^yahoacom.

Call me Coach Steve Franklin Get me a shirt, I’m a Panthers fan One of the first classes I took in college was a Sports Media class. The very first day, professor Matt Segfried strutted into the class room and passed out a sheet with the rules of journalism. On the very top of that sheet it stated — Never root for a team. You must remain unbias. Well professor, I’m sorry. You obviously haven’t seen a team like the Rappahannock Panthers before. Any human being with heart can’t help but adore the Panthers. They are the ultimate David versus Goliath tale. They’ve been so awful over the first two years (2-18), that their head coach abruptly quit on them. All winter they listened as folks cried for the abolishment of the program. And this summer, the open coaching position was like the plague - no one wanted to get anywhere near it. No one gave them a chance. Well, no one except Coach Mike Williams - who took the job less than four weeks before practice began. Williams, along with Athletic Director Bob Czekaj and members of the Rappahannock County School Sports Association, all believed that Rappahannock County could someday build a respectable football program. But first they had to oppress the negative attitudes that had been fermented into the players’ heads. All the doubters - which I must say included me - felt that Rappahannock County was again headed for a season of doom. One filled with lopsided losses, disputes, and disgruntled athletes. Then somewhere along the way, a funny thing happened. Coach Williams got his kids to believe that they could be competitive. That they could win games. And the 2007 Panthers developed a “we’ll show you” attitude. The Panthers traveled to Luray for the season-opener as the underdog. Last season the Bulldogs pummeled the Panthers 27-0. And this time, they were out-sized and under-manned. But the boys of Rappahannock remained undeterred and played like they had a chip on their shoulder. For 48 minutes they gave the Bulldogs all they could handle. But in the end they came up a mere touchdown short, falling to Luray 21-14. The same scenario occurred last Saturday. The Panthers were overpowered by the Hancock Panthers from Maryland. But you couldn’t really tell by the score. Despite temperatures in the upper-90s, Rappahannock County’s defense came up with big play after big play to keep Hancock off the board. But the offense siruggieu, diiu xur tut? sauuu week in a row, Rappahannock County was just one touchdown from tying the game. Coach Williams wants to right the ship. And the boys are on board. “The greatest thing about this group is that they don’t give up. Even when Hancock was taking a knee to kill the dock, our kids kept on fighting. They’re fighters until the end,” Williams said. “They want to build a successful program and they’re on the right track. One break one way or the other and we could easily be 2-0.” Even though the Rappahannock Panthers are 0-2, they are undoubtedly a program on the rise. The respect will soon come. So too will the wins. And when they do, Fll be there with my foam finger and tee-shirt, pulling for them the whole way. They’ve captivated my heart, and I’m proud to say I’m a Panthers fan. Freshman Connor Settle breaks into the open on an eight-yard run Offense sputters as RCHS falls to Hancock By Steve Franklin Rappahannock News Staff Writer WASHINGTON— For the second consecutive week, the Panthers defense came up with crucial play after crucial play. But unfortunately, the offense never could get on track and the Panthers came up a touchdown short for the second time in as many weeks, losing to the Hancock Panthers, 14-7 in the home-opener. “Our defense kept us in it and gave us chance to win, but we really couldn’t capitalize on offense,” Coach Mike Williams said. “We’d obviously like to see a better outcome, but it’s great to see the hustle. Our kids never gave up and I'm proud of that.” RCHS fell behind in the first quarter as Joey True scored on a three-yard touchdown run with 3:11 remaining in the opening quarter. Following a missed point-aftertouchdown, Hancock led 6-0. After the two teams traded punts on their ensuing possessions, Rappahannock marched 77 yards on eight plays. Quarterback Johnathan Butler hooked up with wide receiver on four occasions during the drive, and the two finally connected on a 16-yard touchdown reception midway through the quarter to get the Panthers on the scoreboard. Hogan’s pointafter-touchdown gave the Panthers a 7-6 lead. “Dean is my go-to guy. I look for him when we need a big play” Butler said. “I though Dean’s touchdown really gave us the momentum, but we lost it just before the half and we couldn’t recover.” First Downs Rushes*yards Passing yards Comp-Att-Int Total offense Punts-Avg. Penalties-yards Fumbles-lost Hancock 17 42-311 26 3-5-0 337 2-33 11-90 2-2 Rappahannock 7 24-21 89 11-14-1 110 4- 45 5- 25 4-2 score oy uuarier HAN 6 8 00-14 RCHS 7 0 0 0-7 scoring nummary H - Joey True 3 run (kick blocked) R - Dean Hogan 16 pass from Jonathan Butler (Dean Hogan kick) H - Josh Unger 1 run (3 pass Matt McCoy from John Clark) Following Hogan’s touchdown reception, things went downhill for Rappahannock County. Josh Unger took control for the visiting Hancock squad from there. With 42 seconds remaining in the first half, Unger darted off the left side and in for the go-ahead score. Hancock went for the two-point conversion and Matt McCoy caught a deflected pass from John Clark to make it 14-7. Behind Unger’s powerrushing and a stingy defense, Hancock controlled the second half clock and escaped Rappahannock County with a victory. The win ended Hancock’s 14-game losing streak. Afterwards Hancock’s coaches and players celebrated the victory with hugs and Gatorade showers. “It feels good to get the monkey off our back,” Hancock Coach said. “Rappahannock has got a good little program going, so this is a big win for us.” Hancock finished with 311 rushing yards on 42 carries. Unger led the way with .192 yards rushing on 16 carries. Butler completed ll-of-14 passes for 89 yards and a score, while Hogan caught eight passes for 64 yards. Tim Fitzmorris led the RCHS ground game with 19 yards on eight carries. 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Power Up for Cancer Control When: Thursday, September 27 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Hospital Tower - Sycamore Rooms Cost: FREE • Registration required. Free Health Screenings PSA Blood Tests and Breast Exams Time: 6:00 - 7:00 PM Registration required. FAUQUIER HEALTH SYSTEM Call (540) 349-0588 to register www.fauqnIerhospital.org Sanjeev AggarwaUMD Medical Director of the Cancer Center at Lake Manassas n.iii .i.« i.mIi un Rooert Marat md Board Certified: Hemotology & Oncology Steven Sutton MD Board Certified: Urology . i iriiliiindiii: General Surgery Panthers remain perfect By CHRISTINE KRAFF Special to the Rappahannock News Early in Tuesday night’s match against Luray, Rappahannock County High School head volleyball coach Scott Wilde called timeout. Sure, the Lady Panthers won the first two games of the non-district match, and even an early 6-1 deficit in the third game should not have bothered them. But Wilde did not take any chances. “Sometimes,” Wilde said, “you just call a timeout to change the momentum. We were trying a new rotation. We made an adjustment. We had people out of place, but the girls knew what they needed to do.” That one-minute was exactly what Rappahannock needed to regroup to post a 25-9,25-19,2520 win over the Lady Bulldogs and run their record to 7-0 tins season. “We couldn’t get a pass up (before the timeout),” senior hitter Elena Kritter said. “We were going with a new lineup that we were going to practice Monday, but...” But {dans (hanged Monday afternoon when junior Megan Wheatley injured her ankle. The coaching staff needed to attend to Wheatley, and the new rotation never saw much court time. tiaina rvriner anempis 10 save a ball from hitting the floor “We were learning as we were going along,” Kritter said. “We were using two setters, and we didn’t realize that, We didn’t know where we were going.” Once righted, the Lady P&nthers rolled. TTiey tied the third game seme at seven on Elena Kritter’s dink over Luray’s front line. Danika Kritter’s perfect back set keyed Kritter’s kill for an 11-9 Rappahannock lead. Luray continued to battle Rappahannock tough and retook the lead at 18-17. But the Lady Panthers outscored the Bulldogs, 7-2, to close out the match. Emily Carter started the rally with a service ace. Kim Hutcheson contributed a block and a dink that fell between Luray’s lines. Elena Kritter added another dink and closed the match with a kill off a set from Elvira Yanez. “It was a great team effort,” Wilde said. “Elena was her usual self and Danika did a nice job setting and scoring for us.” Elena Kritter pointed out that earlier in the season, Luray took the third game from the Lady Panthers before Rappahannock closed out the match. “The first time we played Luray, we stomped them in the first two games,” she said. “(Tonight), I got very uneasy when they started to come back on us. We should have been beating them.” But that is why Elena Kritter and her teammates are grateful for a 10-game schedule of non-Bull Rim District opponents the first four weeks of the season. “We play to our competition, • but only , one step up,” she said. “It’s a very long season. That’s why I like it. We play good enough to get to states.” This time, however, getting to states is the first step. Winning is another. Sports Briefs KUHSgOH tournament The Rappahannock County School Sports Association will host the $1,000,000 Panther Classic Golf Tournament on Oct. 20, 2007 at Bowling Green Country Club in Front Royal. The tournament is Captain’s Choice format and will start at 9 am using a shotgun start. Hole in (me prizes include: $1,000,000* (paid as 40-year annuity), a Ford Focus courtesy of Rappahannock National Bank and Shenandoah Ford, trips and more. Door prizes will also be awarded. You may enter individually as a twosome, threesome, or foursome (team). Incomplete teams will De rounded-up to four-person teams by event organizers. Registration Fee is $75 per player. Make checks payable to: RCSSA and return check along with this registration form today to: RCSSA Panther Classic, P.O. Bax 192 Washington, VA 22747. Proceeds benefit the Rappahannock County School Sports Association. For more information, including sponsoring a hole, contact Tournament Director Jim Humbles at or call 540- 9871218. Pepper Open Golf tournament The 5th Annual Business/ Industry Golf Invitational, better. known as the “PEPPER OPEN”, will take place at the Country Club of Culpeper on Monday, Sept. 24. Registration begins at 10:30 AM and play begins at noon. This event, brought to you by the Culpeper.County Chamber of Commerce, is a day of golf relaxation and fun with your fellow business associates. Entry in the tournament entitles you to golf a gift bag, a pro demonstra non, a dox luncn, beverages and dinner as well as a chance to be in the $750 cash prize ShootOut! The “PEPPER OPEN” has a unique format. All members of your foursome will hit a tee ball. Then each player will continue to play the hole until completion from the best tee shot. Each player's tee ball will have to be chosen once each nine holes. The two best scores on each hole from, the foursome will determine your score and your foursome will be handicapped. Space is limited. Individual entry fee is $75. Call (540) 8258628 for more information: Pitcher needed The Fauquier Freeze Girls 14U Fastpitch Softball team has a roster spot available for an additional pitcher to complete their fall/spring roster. If your daughter is an experienced or developing pitcher and has an interest to advance her game to another level of skill development and competition in preparation for high school softball, please contact Ron Kacsmar at 540-349-5847. •Name: Dean Hogan • Sport: Football • Class: Junior •Age: 16 • Family: Parents, Rich and Nanette; sister, Haley, 13, and brother, Billy, 11 • This week’s accomplishment: Hogan hauled in eight receptions for 64 yards, including a 16-yard touchdown catch, in Rappahannock County’s 14-7 loss to Hancock (Md.) on Saturday. • individual goals: To get better and maybe be a kicker at a small college.” • Team goals: To work hard and get to the highest level we can, maybe a state championship.” • Plans for the future: Tm not sure what I’H major in. But I want to go to a tour-year colege and succeed there, and maybe play a sport there.”

School News from Around the County Chappell’s Comer Upcoming RCPS events September 13 - 4:15 pjn; JP volleyball vs. Fresta Valley Christian School; 6 pm., J.V/varsity volleyball at Stonewall Jackson. 14-5 pjn., cross country at Pbge County. 17 - 4:15, JP volleyball at Wakefield Country Day School 18-4 pm., golf atStrasburg; 6 pm., JV/varsity volleyball at Millbrook. 19 - 6:45 pm, RCES PTO meeting; 5 pm, cross country at Strasburg. Belle Meade Sept 4, 2007, marked the opening day of Belle Meade School. The school year Indeed off with a study of the geology ecology and history of Old Rag Mountain. The kids spent a day hiking up and down the mountain for a first-hand experience of the ancient rocks, abandoned farmlands. There were many surprises, including a baby bobcat anda full-grown black bear. Belle Meade is still accepting new students in grades 6-10. If interested, please call 987-8970. Hearthstone Starting today, Hearthstone’s Nursery/Kindergarten dass will hold its Parent/Child Group on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8:45 am to 10:45 am. or noon. The program is offered to children aged 18 months to 6 years. Activities will indude storytelling, watercolor painting HEADWATERS Fostering educational excellence in Rappahannock County By Amy Silver O'Leary Special to the Rappahannock News Farm-to-Table Headwaters’ Farm-to-Table program has soma distinguished new collaborators in thefrnrm of the Lapham family, new owners of Sunnyside Farm in Washington. Program Coordinator Trista Scheuerlein will meet periodically with the Laphams as they craft a new vision for the form and its partnership with F2T. “We are very excited to be involved with F2T” says Gardiner Lapham. “We see the program as a critical component to supporting sustainable agriculture in the county." The Laphams, through their family foundation, will join the Rappahannock County Farm Bureau and the Young Farmland Fund in providing major financial support for F2T. The program works through the public schools to preserve forming techniques ami traditions, reinforce the ethic of conservation, and introduce landfriendly career options to local youth. Dorothy Armistead, a Starfish mentor and member of the Executive Committee that oversees Starfish program operations, has been selected as the new Starfish Chairperson for the craning year; replacing Joyce Abell, who steps down after a very productive year “It’s a very thoughtful group of people who serve on the Executive Committee, and it’s a privilege to work with them,” commented Armistead. “It’s interesting for me, as a relative newcomer to the county to see the number of people who are more than wilting to give time and good thought to the young people of the county” added Armistead, who moved to the Flying “A” Farm on Highway 211 in SpraryviDe three years agu Next Step Miranda Hope and Lauren Roes are busy planning Next Step’s fail College Tour; to take place on October 11 and 12. The program will take students to visit six schools: JMU, Bridgewater, and UVA on the first day, Old Dominion University, Christopher Newport University and the University of Mazy Washington on the second day Other upcoming field trips include: Virginia Cosmetology Programs, NOVAs welding program, Germanna Automotive, and a visit to Columbia University Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. Call Cole Johnson at 6751819 or visit www.headwatersfdn.org for information on Headwaters programs. beeswax sculpture, sewing, rhythmic movement and d»nr»> snath time and more. Wednesdays will feature handwork and Thursdays will be Soup Day. Children may attend either on Wednesdays, Thursdays or both days. Enrollment is ongoing. The cost is $10 for two hours, or $15 for three hours. For more information, please call the school office at 540-987-9212. Wakefield Country Day School Upcoming events September 13 - Varsity cross country, 4:30 p.m., at SVGA. 14 - Varsity soccer and volleyball at Tandem Fr., 4:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. 17 - Back to School Night, 7 p.m., grades 7-12. 24 - Faculty meeting, 2 p.m. dismissal. Speech and language testing Lucy Connors will once again provide private speech and language evaluations and therapy services at WCDS. She will also be offering complimentary speech and language screenings for WCDS families. l A/icfreio Htilliam “(j&i/fy 39 (jotIh/i Andrew William Bill)"' Corbin. 53 of Reva. died Tuesday. September 4. 200* Billy was bom January 11. 1954 in Fauquier County to Thetaia Bennett , d* 41c Robert Lee Corbin Billy had been a salesman for Gilbert Implements'for the past fifteen years and was presently with VA Tractor in ’ Orange Billy was well known for his hard work on the farms and hunting with his brothers In addition io his mother, he is sunned by his wife. Janet Here Jones Cotbm of Reva. daughters. Leslie Clary aid her busbwd. Ale* of Athens. TN and Cheryl Butler and her husband. Jay of Madison, his sort Jason Woodward and his wife. Mem of Madison, grandchildren, Kimberly and Hunter Gary, ^.Autumn Dormer. Emilee Woodward. Skylar Woodward. Jana Piszker. and Cole Butler. Addinonai survivors include his brothers. Robert Lee Cotbm. Jr and his wife. Sue of Fayetteville. SC. Russell Corbui and his wife. Brenda of Culpeper. Wayne Corbin and hiv wife. Regina of Lignum. Terey "Bo" Cotbin and his wife. Tena of Rues\ille. aid Dennis Corbin of Reva. his sister. Patty Barfield and her husband. Charles of Culpeper, a very special friend. Stanley Hawkins, special nieces. Jodi Nicholson Weaver and Ciena Cotbttc, and special nephews. Jason Nicholson and Trey Settk. and numerous other nieces and nephews In addition to his father. Billy is now resting peacefullv with his brother. Jerry Randell Cotbin. and nephew. Daniel Wayne Cotbm. fThe family will receive friends on Saturday. 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lever ( loan lour Gutters Again Power line: Why didn’t we know earlier? I lhe First, The Best, The #Jf Gutter Protection System in the World. */ No more dangerous ladders f/ Ends cleaning chore forever •/ Lets rain water in, keeps leaves and debris out Join the Millions i Division of Gregory’s Inc SEPTEMBER SPECIAL Gutter Helmet •200°° Off (minimum 75 ft.) Expires 9/30/07 *Not Valid witti ary ottier otters “Good at first presentation only Class A L.c - VA #270! 006389A VWA*#00055A By Skip Miller Rappahannock News Staff Writer The most frequently asked question about Dominion Virginia Bower’s proposed power line route that slices through northern Culpeper County and eastern Rappahannock is why didn’t we know about this earlier? Why indeed. Dominion representatives say the power line is needed to prevent potential service interruptions in the Washington area. It will connect with lines that will carry power to critical need areas such as New York City, as well. It also fills in a couple of blanks on federal reports and studies that umbrella everything from terrorist attacks ti upgrading the existing infra structure. Why didn’t we know? Then is no simple answer. Especially when power needs are couchec by the industry’s expansioi plans. One of the key players i PJM — Pennsylvania-New Jer sey-Maryland Interconnection Founded in 1927, PJM is sort o a transit company that connect individual utilities. It now cover a 12-state area that keeps elec tricity on the move fron Michigan to New Jersey. President Bush signed the National Energy Policy Act ii 2005. The sweeping legislator of - \ „e S^o^'^it*'*’ eft'.^*0 c, . .^\ w* *“ 34tarda-idta^CT corri Sale ends Monday. September t~th. except tor clearance items or as noted, No admstments to pncr sale cuchases. Selected, collections; not every style in every store. »art®nt* cnees areoffemg prices only ara may a may net have resulted n sales. Advertised merchandise may be available at sate prices m upcoming sale events. ***'•■ Per toe tocaocn nearest you. visit our wettete or can 1-8C0-223-7440. opened the door to transmission lines that would move electricity from areas with too much to areas without enough. That same year Dominion Resources became a member of PJM. In June 2006, PJM released its Regional Transmission Expansion Plan, a five-year project that would expand the existing transmission line grid and “identify transmission constraints and other reliability concerns.” Part of the expansion plan was the construction of a 240mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line from southwestern Pennsylvania to Virginia. The National Electric Transmission Congestion Study was released on Aug. 8,2006, by the Department of Energy. This study, which is to be updated every three years, pledges any corridor designation would be done in consultation with the affected states, regional entities, and other affected agencies and entities. We pause here for this public service announcement: The core mission of this jockeying and studying has been to provide the country the cheapest, most reliable electrical power possible. None of the documents, from Vice President Cheney’s task force study to the National Energy Policy to the congestion study, claim more power lines are the ultimate answer. Each document encourages or instructs the search for alternatives. All of the attention and applications thus far have focused on building and rebuilding power lines. And that brings us back to our question: Why didn’t we know about this earlier? We didn’t know because the federal government used closeddoor meetings to set public policy. Vice President Dick Cheney, who chaired a special energy task force in 2001, wouldn’t even respond to questions from Congress’ General Accounting Office. Despite the fact the GAO is empowered to collect such information. From that cradle came procedures and policies that ffy in the face of environmental and conservation laws. The whole thing has earned the ire of governors from Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. We didn’t know because the Department of Energy and big business have been bulldozing other federal agencies, state governments, regional and local entities, and the public Utility companies have announced plans to build or expand before a study or report was released that identified the need. PJM announced the 240mile line two months before the congestion study was released showing the Washington area as a major area of concern. Dominion Virginia Rower's application that is now before the Virginia State Corporation Commission was filed on April 19. DOE’S draft of its designated Mid-Atlantic Area National Corridor was not released until April 26. Tb say the two actions don’t address the same need is to say rain and clouds have nothing in common. We didn’t know because Congress rubber-stamped legislation that should have been the subject of widely publicized hearings. That legislation essentially made the> Department of Energy the most powerful civilian agency in the country. So powerful that on April 26, 2007 it stated it could place a national corridor wherever it chose, regardless of public outcry and state and local rights. even toe congressmen are at a loss to explain why they did not put the brakes on this huge and confusing project until constitutional issues were addressed. Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell was not at a loss. In a letter to Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman dated the same day as DOE’S Mid-Atlantic Corridor announcement, McDonnell wrote “I continue to have serious concerns about the actions of the Department of Energy. There must be a greater role for both the states and their citizens in decisions involving electric transmission siting.” We didn’t know because nobody told private landowners there was a 500-pound gorilla headed their way Utility companies seek approval to build power hnes all the time. This massive transmission line project was far from ordinary It deserved more public notice than the routine blurb in the Federal Register. Still, the 60-day window of public comment cm the national corridor draft designations did

A different school of thought By Matt Pelkey Rappahannock News Staff Writer Students at Belle Meade will soon be able to tell you all about second-class levers. This year they will get to know them very, very well. A key tenet of the new Sperryville school’s philosophy is the idea that there are just as many educational opportunities outside a classroom as in one, and for Belle Meade’s teachers, the school’s working farm doubles as a physics lab, where students can learn by hauling dirt with a wheelbarrow — a second class lever. "They'D know and understand levers more than looking at a picture in a classroom,” Belle Meade teacher Greg Garrison said. Students spend about 45 minutes twice a day on the farm. Garrison said the work draws no complaints, and the kids are sent home with fresh vegetables and meat — the fruits of their labor — each week. Susan Hoffman and Mike Biniek, who run Belle Meade Bed and Breakfast, opened Belle Meade school this year after the Mountain Laurel Montessori farm school moved to Flint Hill leaving empty the 1914 school house neighboring their bed and breakfast off Route 231. Teaching is a lifelong passion for Hoffman, who has taught for more than three decades. Last year she and Biniek joined on ratings the 20 seventh-, eighthand ninth-graders at Mountain Laurel Montessori farm school. Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Matt Pel key GUIDANCE: Teachers Teresa Boardwine and Greg Garrison oversee a science project at the Belie Meade schoolhouse. which had leased their schoolhouse since 2004. Rather than see the schoolhouse doors dose when Mountain Laurel moved, Hoffman and Biniek opened Belle Meade for grades 6-10. “All of this integrates the things I love best in my life,” Hoffman said. Eleven students enrolled in in the school this year. On their first day they hiked up Old Rag Mountain. With gentle prodding by the teachers, the setting begged questions like “Why are there mountains here?” and Why does com grow here but not in other environments?’ Head teacher Greg Garrison said these questions helped orient the focus for the school year — Belle Meade’s past, present and future, divided along the INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION: Belle Meade head teacher Greg Sarrison answers a question from ninth-grader Lilly Tolley. lines of the school’s trimester system. Hie students take core math, English, science and foreign language classes, though Garrison said that the classes tackle concrete questions that students encounter in their environment. (For instance, “Why is it easier to haul dirt with a wheelbarrow?') And with five teachers — one full time and four part time — for 11 kids, students receive attentive instruction. “We have an opportunity to do so much more with the students,” Garrison said. He said that instruction extends beyond academic education, and that a critical part of Belle Meade’s program is to teach responsibility. Part of this is that the students dean up after themselves. The school has no janitors. “They start learning and developing this sense of responsibility that flows over into other areas of life,” Garrison said. “They bring... what they’ve learned to their world, the world we live in ” For more information about Belle Meade school, contact Executive Director Susan Hoffman at 540-987-9748, or school@bellemeadeschool.org. Belle Meade school is also on the Web at wwwJbeUemeadesdxnLorg. E-mail the reporter at mpelkey@timespapers.com. wmmmm 1 " in»n» rMflO*) ? Nova PRIVATE SCHOOL FAIR n SEPTEMftEft ML 3007 » }IM - S IM ‘-if.. i . 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In a letter dated July 6, 2007, and signed by Cale Jaffe, staff attorney for the Southern Environment Law Center, and six other conservation groups, DEO’s draft designations were termed unlawful. “Regardless of whether the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ever receives an application to construct a transmission line ....the mere designations themselves are already responsible for significant adverse impacts to the quality of human environment, state and federally protected species, historic and culturally significant properties, among other resources.” Virginia is the forefront of what Concerned Culpeper Citizens’ Perry Cabot considers a legal showdown of historic proportions. Can the federal government order a state and its private landowners to do something that ultimately benefits utility companies? Who has an answer for the man in South Wales or the family in Jeffersonton or landowners in Flint Hill who look up at the gargantuan transmission towers in their backyards and wonder why research and development wasn’t used to find a way for Washington to generate its own power needs? Email the writer at smiller@timespapers. com Power line points of view While the SCC public hearings are over, this proposed power line and its potential damage to the Piedmont area are of great concern. In the coming weeks, the Rappahannock News will be printing pieces - many of them from residents who spoke at the public hearings - to keep this issue in the forefront of your attention. In the meantime, written comments on the application may be submitted by January 29, 2008. All correspondence should be sent to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118, and refer to case number PUE-2007-00020. Interested persons desiring to submit comments electronically may do so at the SCC’s website: http:/ / www.scc.virginia.gov/caseinfo.htm. Click on the PUBLIC COMMENTS/NOTICES link and then the SUBMITCOMMENTS button for case number PUE-2007-00020. ' Financial Problems? Bankruptcy May Help! • Too Many Bills • Harassing Phone Calk • Collection Suits • Auto Repossession • Wage Garnkhments • Home Foreclosures We are a debt relief agency. We help people file tor bankruptcy relief under the _bankruptcy code._ Earl J. Oberbauer, Jr. Attorney At Law 540-829-6900 • 1-800-434-3059 FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION 4 Brs, 3!4 baths, EPA Energy Star rated to save you 30% or more on your utility bills. All exterior yard maintenance included (i.e. mowing and care of landscaping). Interior units available for $1295 per mo. and end unit at $1,350 per mo. Pets accepted on a case by case basis with deposit. DODSON 'Mb’HOMES, U INC.

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• Classifieds/B9-B12 Countryside b September 13, 2007 www.rappnewrs.com IN SYNC: Phil and Traude county could be enjoying - come hear for yourself. ' '}£■ - * " •* h ^ ■ ;■:•••■ .-•■r'i./.'-y-- •/ ? :.V,; ~ v * ^'i’ ''-V:-‘i . ’ Smiths on a musical mission »■ ‘ "’/V; ■ ( . /• - - ■ ,_v r'!' r Stage 4Bve Community Concerts begins new season . a ** ^ Bt Antta L. Sherman - f 't;-' ll^pdhMmock New* StaffWritar <•* % Huntly residents Phil and Traude Smith are radiant these days. Serving Rappahannock County as directors of the Stage Alive Community Concert Association, they want to spread the word about a series of musical offerings well known in other counties but not getting enough publicity in this one. Manned by an ever expanding group of volunteers, Stage Alive sponsors several concerts a year in the auditorium at Culpeper Comity High School. beamed Phil Smith, “and a great hue up of quality entertainment." • Stage Alive is not new but since its formation 30 years ago, it has grown steadily drawing over 5,000 residents from the sevencounty region that it serves since its inception in 1970. From classical to country and ballet to clogging, this series of concerts offers its audience a unique combination of performance variety and professionalism at a cost that’s difficult to beat. One adult could attend all six of this season’s concerts for $45.00. A ample and their If You Go • Who: The Celtic Tenors • Whet: Sta Community What: Stage AJive nity Concert • When: ThuradflftSept20, at 7:30 p.m. • Where: Culpeper High School Individual tickets avaiabto for any event $20 aduits/$5 children Photo courtesy of Stage Alive The Celtic Tenors The Theatre announces season schedule By Wendy Weinberg Special to the Rappahannock News The Theatre at Wash- ■ ington, Virginia has released its schedule for the upcoming season which runs from September through December 2007. The wide variety of performances includes a play by William Shakespeare and several concerts by fine professional musicians playing chamber music, acoustic jazz guitar, Celtic music, and a piano recital. The season opens on September 29 with “The Winter’s Tale”. Each year, some of Cambridge University’s best theatrical talent crosses the Atlantic to perform a Shakespeare play at selected venues on the east coast. This will be their fourth annual performance at the Theatre. The following week, on October 6, the Theatre presents an all-Chopin piano recital, at which two pianists, Michael Tsalka from Israel and Katarzyna Marzec from Poland, will each play solo works written by arguably the Romantic era’s greatest composer for the piano. October 13 will see the return of the popular acoustic guitarist Laurence Juber. The following day, in the first of two Sunday afternoon cham ber music concerts this season, an ensemble of string players, led by Kenneth Slowik, Artistic Director of the Smithsonian Chamber Players, will present three of Bach’s great harpsichord concertos. For their annual Celtic music concert at the Theatre on October 20, the well known duo Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton will be joined by Robert Hill and Kathryn Johnson. On Sunday afternoon, November- 11, from the Kennedy Center Chamber Players, Grammy Award winning pianist Lambert Orkis and cellist David Hardy will give the second and final concert in the mini-series in which they play the Complete Sonatas and Variations for Piano and Cello by Ludwig van Beethoven. Tickets for all of the above concerts are $20 for adults and $5 for students 18 and under. Reservations are recommended. In addition to the above program So presented by the Theatre itself, the Theatre will be the venue, on December 7, for a “Feast of Carols” presented by the Blue Ridge Chorale. (Further information available from the Chorale 540 675-3502.) “The Winters Tale” Students from England’s Cambridge University are touring the United States this September with their eighth annual production of a Shakespeare play. This year, “CAST” (Cambridge American Stage Tour) will perform “The Winter’s Tale” in some fourteen U.S.> Venues. On Saturday, September 29, the venue will be the Theatre at Washington, Virginia, where the performance will take place at 8 p.m. This will be CAST’s fourth annual production in “Little” Washington. CAST’s roots are in Cambridge University’s ADC Theatre -- the oldest student theatre in the U.K. The ADC (Amateur Dramatic Club) Theatre has helped launch the careers of several of Britain’s most renowned actors, for example Emma Thompson, Sir Ian McKlellan, and John Cleese. “The Winter’s Tale” is a difficult and challenging play, and one that is staged less frequently than the plays which CAST has produced in previous years. It is one of Shakespeare’s late, fantastical plays, and to the Director See THEATER, Page B9 A lost Perdita on the seacoast of a magical Bohemia from William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale" All photos by Richard Lyke; DIVINE DINNER: John Anderson is smiling for a reason. He was the highest bidder for a gourmet dinner for six in the Kitchen” at the Inn at Little Washington. Headwaters Executive Director Cole Johnson bestowed the honors. sui-r STEPS: Among many donors to the silent auction who also were guests of the event was Eve Willis who donated a 4x6 Tabriz Oriental carpet. t Some like it hot By Anita L. Sherman Rappahannock News Staff Writer . Temperatures hadn’t gone down on Saturday evening. Nonetheless, several of the gentlemen sported their ties and jackets. 1 The tents were raised. The tables were set and the lemonade, apple dder and wine from five local vineyards flowed freely as guests arrived at Headwaters 10th Anniversary Taste of Rappahannock held at Belle Meade. As the sun settled over the brilliant gardens and the rows of glitter lights were set to shine, guests mingled in merriment, spied visiting katydids, sampled appetizers, brushed shoulders with Rappahannock literati and were treated to tables of culinary fall treats like Tomato Basil and Mozzarella Salad prepared by Headwaters Farm-To-Tabte Program, Sesame Crusted Salmon from the Flint Hill Public House and a luscious Butternut Squash Puree from Hopkins Ordinary in Sperryville to name a few. The annual Taste of Rappahannock is a social event to be sure but one that makes its mark on the educational community in a big way. This year it was “record breaking” as a delighted Executive Director Cole Johnson reported on Tuesday. While not totally tallied, proceeds came in at well over $100,000,30 percent more than last year. Auction Chairperson Denise Chandler was overjoyed with the monies received from the evenings silent and live auctions which accounted for nearly $32,000 - up from $11,000 last year. The Rappahannock community cares about its students and teachers. They show up in force to have a good time but to also pay tribute to the efforts of many involved in the Starfish Mentoring Program, Farm-To-Table, the Summer Workshops, Miranda Hope’s Next Step Program and countless mini-grants not to mention the scholarships that are bestowed each year to students heading off to college. It was hot under the big tent but nobody seemed to mind. There was too much to see and so many friends, colleagues and supportive residents to greet, share a smile and showcase Headwaters and the good that it does in this county. Another success - yes, most definitely. But perhaps more importantly, a statement - that the residents of Rappahannock care about their students and their futures. That is certainly worth celebrating. Email the reporter at asherman@timespapers.com WELCOME: The registration table manned by Rick and Kaye Kohler and Jan and Ron Makeia was a bustling first stop as some 315 guests were given name tags. Above, Culinary Arts students Huck Pace and Katie Long served appetizers to arriving guests. Here Bill Landis stops for a treat before heading under the tent. At left, Daniela Edery, an exchange student from Colombia, dishes out apple crisp. OUT OF AFRICA: Sandra CartwrightBrown admires a popular “silent auction” item—a signed color photograph by noted photographer and National Geographic Editor, Chris Johns.

Thornton Hill races kick off fall ’chase season Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Leading Virginia jockey Carl Rafter, jumping at left at last year’s races, and leading natiqnal jockey Matt McCarron, are both slated to race at Thornton Saturday' r By Betsy Parker Staff Writer Talk about waiting ‘til th< last minute: The rains largeh held off all summer, creating ai area-wide drought and making horse training difficult. But a press time widespread shower were pelting the Virginia Pied mont hunt country. Steeplechase horsemei responded to the early weel forecast for precipitation ii spades, creating strong entries for Saturday’s fall season lpckof at Thornton Hill Farm. The Thornton Hill Hound Foint-to-Rrint has earned a rep utation as the place to prep foi the rich National Steeplechase Association circuit ever since 2005 THH winner Fields o Omagh went on to win the $50,000 International Gold Cuj four weeks later. Last year’s maiden timber winner Straigh Gin placed third in the 20CX Cup. This year’s open timber fea ture promises to be competitive Recent timber convert Erin G< Shiloh Baptist Pastor: Rev. Michael Tinsley Sr. Services 1st & 3rd Sunday Sunday: Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship service 11 a.m. F.T. Baptist Pastor: Dan Yowell Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. Trinity Episcopal Rector: Rev. Jennings W. Hobson III Thursday: Contemplative Prayer 7 a.m. Sunday: Holy Eucharist I 8 a.m. Morning Prayer 9:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist II 10:00 a.m. Wednesday: Holy Eucharist and Bible study, 9:30 a.m. Promise Land Baptist Pastor: Herbert Johnson Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. First Baptist Pastor: Rev. Dr. Wendell R. Grant Services: First and third Sundays 11 a.m. Church School: First and third Sundays 9:45 a.m. Bible Study: Wednesday 7-8 p.m. April through August 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 Weekdays Tuesday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m. Confessions: 4:30-5 p.m., Saturday, after masses r Area Churches Forest Grove Baptist Pastor: Mark DeAngelis Sunday: Sunday School tO a m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Macedonia Baptist Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Rappahannock United Methodist Charge Pastor: Rev. Leah DeLong Flint HiH UMC -Sunday Worship at 8:45 a.m.,Children’s Church during the worship service. Adult Sunday School at 10 a.m., call for Bible Study Scheduie(675-3370) Willis Chapel UMC - Sunday Worship at 9:55 a.m., Sunday School at 8:45 a.ra, Bible Study on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Sperryville UMC - Sunday Worship at 11:30 a.m.,Sunday School 10:15 am., * t Pible Study on Sunday at 2 p.m. .* Washington Baptist Pastor: Rev. Philip Bailey Sunday: Sunday School 9:45 am. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday: Men’s Disdpleship Class 7 pun. Thursday: Adult Char 7 p.m. Chester Gap Baptist Pastor Rev. David Johnson Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday Worship 11 a.m. Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. Tuesday: Bible Study 7 p.m. Massanova Pentecostal Pastor: Rev. L. Dl Savage Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. \buth 5:45 p.m. Evening Worship 7 p.m. Tuesday: Worship 7 p.m. ■ Hopewell Baptist Church Pastor: Rev. Henry A. Townes Associate pastor: Rev. Anna L Allsberry Sunday: Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday: Bible study 7 p.m. New Harvest Christian Fellowship Pastors Kent and Duane Willoughby Sunday: Praise/Worship service 10:30 a.m. Wednesday: Praise/Worship, Prayer, Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Saturday: Ybuth Alive Group 7 p.m. Services at Viewtown General Store Flint Hitt Baptist Church Pastor: Rev. James L Payne Sunday: Worship service 11 a.m. Gid Brown Hollow Pentecostal Sunday Sunday School 11.ajrt.. ; ._ ....... . Second and Fourth Sundays only Battle Run Primitive Baptist Church Pastor, Elder Forest Atwood Meets second Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Praise Fellowship, AnUssvMa Pastor: Gene Nicholson Meeting at 14876 Lee Highway Sunday morning 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Prayer Service 7 p.m. Bethlehem Ministries Pastor Mark Jarvis Teacher: Mackie Jenkins Meeting at 17094 Lee Highway Amissvile 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. oeooo Only FIVE <TU On.lni SALES, SERVICE & PARTS 7308 Cedar Run Drive. HamBloa i 13481 347-6622 i808i 374-8366 Broadview Auto Sales, Inc. 74 Broadview Ave. • Warrenton (540) 347-9600 broadviewautos.com r 9 X'WJie Biukcr CiKI \BK |9 HW James \LuiiN4 in Ha\ IS 'fcarrenuin. V X ^(ijxh B 540-347-2121 or Cell: 540-229-81 is! Cull the Home Specialist! Sharon M. Burke. W.C. Thompson Funeral Home 503-7 North Mum St Culpeper. N ir^tma 540-825-6700 The Marshall Agency, Inc. General Insurance ! Main St.. Marshall. V\ 540-364-1614 >800-86841791 The Real Thing I M WWfflFTTO rnrpj||i~nfiiHM ... \ At your grocery store, you cun find several versions of “Grandma's apple pie.” They are tasty no doubt, but there's nothing like the real thing, homemade with care and feeling. Of course, times change and so do Grandmas. Some have traded in their aprons. Whether or not she still bakes homemade pies, one thing about Grandma doesn't change., .that is her capacity for love. She is wise, patient, and a great listener. Those attributes are still the real thing. God is.a great listener, too. He is waiting patiently for you to share your life with Him. Whether God is found in an old chapel or a contemporary church. His capacity for love is unchanging and limitless...the real thing. Mon2*y Tun4«y Mn*W«y Ttwday FH2«y Lukt Lukf lufcr Lukt Lufct ICaHntMgni I 1J.1-2I 11.22-J5 IVI-H IVI5-55 15.1-12 1.IS-1I ’ .-****•.'*« '/. * 2't. * X* Hit •J ‘ .i* — A in ir 5 ,r»f *.*»*?; .’h V a •/> «. 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Color, Permanent Waves, Reiaxers, Facial Waxing, Updo's, Monthly Specials, Manicures & Pedicures 540-675-3076 261 1 Wasnmgton, vA HIM fiftrB&L BUILDERS, INC. 1*^1 Til Spaaatumg >n Restoration, Ramodadng and Nam Roma Construction 540-428-7062 • 540-364-2556 38 'fears In and Around Fauquier To be included as a sponsor 1-800-2934709 Bragh finished second in his first out over the sticks this ; spring at Piedmont, winning r seven days later at Orange l County. : At SperryviHe on Saturday, the New Zealand-bred will have ( the services of 2004 national ■ champion jockey Matt McCarron. i Rival Antonio Star is something of a point-to-point spedali ist: die Dot Smithwick trainee i raced at the first Thornton Hill f meet in 2003, placing second before winning the open timber i in 1)4 and *05. The gray gelding was un’ placed on the flat here last year s before a modest fall campaign > (he was sixth in an allowance f timber at Pennsylvania Hunt f Cup in November) but returned i to form this spring with a win in t the slop in the four-mile Eustis Cup at Loudoun in April, i Diana Gillam gets the call. Yokazona, competitive over hurdles through spring 2006 but away since due to injury, and maiden Major Frank, from the strong Richard Valentine stable in The Plains, round out the field. Filling out the undercard are maiden and foxhunters timber, open and maiden hurdles, and open and maiden turf races. A hound race closes the program. Post time for the first is 12:30 p.m. The steeply rolling Thornton Hill course is located in the shadow of the Blue Ridge just south of Sperryville on Route 522. Admission options range from $20 general admission for a carload to $100 tailgate homestretch parking spaces. Details are online at www. thorntonhillraces.com or call (540) 987-9366. Complete entries are online at www.central entiyofi5ce.com. Chasing this weekend •What Thornton H» Hounds Point-to-Point •When: Saturday, Sept 15. Rost time: 12:30 pern. •Where: Thornton Hill Farm, Sperryville • Details: www.thomtonhillraces.com, (540) 987-9366 Sporting Calendar SEPTEMBER 15 60th annual HMdate Riding School show, New Baltimore, 9 am., classes for students but open to afl spectators, free to attend, (540) 347-2914 T5 Thornton Hffl Hounds ' Point-to-Poirrt,Sperryvtlle, 12:30 p.m., www. tnmtonhiihtoes.com 15 Field polo, Great Meadow, The Plains, 1 pm, (540) 253-5001, www.great meadowpotodub.com 15 OMi Hill hunter schooling show, White Post (540) 837-3000 15 Woodbridge, (703) 590-2500 15 EfysienHMs horse trials series, Marshal, first timers-preliminary, www.elysianhils.com 15 NokBsvMe Horae Society gymkhana, Nokesvtlle Park, HaymarkBt (540)364-4845 15 Golden Dreams Therapeutic Rkfng Center volunteer training and picnic, Baileywyck Farm, Middleburg, 10 am.-12 pm, (540)687-5800 15 Ttailbiazsrs trail rfcfe, Blandy Station, Boyce, 10 am, (540) 341-7943 15*16 Great Fails and Topaz vaulting show, Herndon, (301) 983-9795 16 Old Dominion Hounds Pony Club combined last and dressage show, Windsor Lodge, Flint Hi*, 9 am., intro-second level, (540)636-2344 16 Few Chose Farm $12,000 schooling show series, Middeburg, (540) 687-5255 16 Lake of the Woods hunter show series, near Fredericksburg, VHSA, BHSA, 8:30 a.m„ (540) 972-2238 16 Touch Point Farm dressage and CT, Culpeper, www.touchpointtaim.com 16 EKG show, Hi Valey Farm, Spotsylvania (540) 582-6272 16 Buff Run Hunt hunter pace, Peacock Farm, CuF peper, wvwv.txJrunhuntcom 16 PWHA western show, Manassas, www.pwha.net 18-23 Mkkfleburg Classic Horse Show, The Plans, www.middeburgdassic.com Horses & People A-rated show upcoming The A-rated Middleburg Classic Horse Show is set for Sept. 18-24 at Great Meadow. Proceeds benefit Food & Friends. Details are online at wwwjniddlebuigidassic.com. Combined test, dressage Sunday The third in a series of combined test-dressage schooling shows run by the Old Dominion Hounds Pony Club is scheduled Sunday, Sept. £6. Divisions range from first timers through training level, with all levels of dressage available. Details are at (540) 636-2344. October seminar A seminar on how to manage growth of young horses will be held Oct. 19 at the Middleburg Agricultural Research and Extension Center. The all-day event runs 8:30 a m. to 4 pjn. The cost of $25 includes lunch. Call (540) 687-3521 to sign up. Hunter pace The Bull Run Hunt will host a hunter pace Sept. 16 at Peacock Farm near Culpeper. Tfeams of two or three will compete in a variety of divisions over a 10-mile course, .lumping is . optional. Details are online at www.bullnmhunt.com or call (540) 829-8353. Hunt dink The Loudoun Hunt West will host a foxhunting dink at Valley View farm in Hamilton Sept. 22. The dink is designed to introduce newcomers to the sport of riding to hounds, but much of the day-long session will also interest even experienced hunters. Subjects for discussion indude history, traditions, etiquette and attire, of the hunt field. The riding portion of the event will recreate a typical day hunting; what happens and why, the horn calls and what they mean and the roles of the staff members. There will be a kennel visit to meet and interact with the hounds, with plenty of question and-answer times. The event runs 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Soft drinks will be provided; participants are invited to taring a brown- bag lunch if desired. The cost is $100. Call (540) 338-2095 or e-mail staMed@hughes.net for details or reservations. Want more? More complete Horse and Field Sports coverage can be found weekly in the Fauquier TimesDemocrat. Also see Friday's Fauquier Weekend for breaking horse news. Stories are also onfine at www.fauciuier.com.

in Upcoming Events must be S'1 Mondays in order to be a££2s* -w-sssss. papers com Please be sure to include a name and telephone number for information nm..£C°min9 Events lists individual and/or oTSSSlZ* 'temS sponsored by non-profits ua%£d%?t£Ue pUrpOSes- lfyou are an individbusiness and /our event is for profitmatong purposes, there is a fee charged. ^"nSte£hania Heflin*sheMnetimespapers.com or phone her at (540) 347-4222. Head Start Program taking applications Skyline CAP Head Start is a preschool dtor2^'year*old childre"- Applications SCho°l year are now being accept^. Children must be at least 3 yearsef age by September 30,2007. Children with speCApTte£a<i?artIS0 e?coura9ed t0 aPPly- Skyline rihia ® a Iree Pro9ram for income eligible families. The only cost to you is a little of your time each month. For more information please call Jennie Sherrill at 540-675-1317.’ New self employed group forming . J5® 9r°iJPis for People working from home who have little contact with others during the day. Goals are to share our work, network and l^bavea darn good time with others. Call Lisa at 675-3967 so we can set up some times. Old Time Music Jam Take down your fiddle and pick up your bow. Fnends of Old Time Music have started an infer mal jam session on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Washington Fire Hall. Old time music is sometimes called Traditional or Appalachian Folk music that was played by mountain families. Players with an interest are welcome. For more information contact the Washington Fire Hall at Sept. 13: Far Less Expensive Spay and Neuter Th© Rappahannock Animal Welfare I eague (RAWL) is working with the Shenandoah Valley Spay and Neuter Clinic and has arranged for sharp reductions in the costs of fixing pets. The most you can spend is $65. To arrange this extraordinary deal, drive to the shelter in Amissville and make a reservation for the next spay/neuter trip, October 2nd. Please act now, as van space is limited. Registration deadline is September 25th. For information, phone the shelter at 540-937-3283 any morning after 8 (until 1 p.m.) any day of the week, including Sunday. * Sept. 14: Bag Sale On Friday, Sept. 14 from 9 a. m. to 3 p.m. the Ladies Auxiliary will have their $5 bag sale at the Washington Thrift shop in Washington. Call Jean Alther at 675-3844 for more information. Sept. 14: “Building for Board Members” “Building Blocks for Board Members’ being presented Friday, Sept. 14, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Schoolhouse in Sperryville. The program is designed to help both experienced board members and those who might consider joining a board. Sample forms and resource materials will be provided to participants. A networking session, including an opportunity to discuss specific questions with the presenter, will follow the formal program, along with refreshments. The event is hosted by the Rappahannock Nonprofit Center and presented by VANNO (Virginia Network of Nonprofit Organizations), with Alcoa Foundation grant support. Advance registration is required, and there is a modest fee for participation. Ybu can download a registration form at www.vanno.org. Sept. 15: Reflective Emergency Response signs for sale Sharon Komar from the Castleton Community Volunteer Fire Company will be selling 911 Reflective Emergency signs throughout the day at the Laurel Mills Country Store. The cost is $15 and signs can be made while you wait. “If we can’t find you, we can’t help you,’ stressed Komar. The reflective, numbers help emergency vehicles cut down their response time. Phone Sharon for information at (540) 9375225. Sept. 15: Final trip to the Bolen Cemetery The second and final trip to the Bolen Cemetery will be on Saturday, Sept. 15. Meet at 10:30 a.m. at the end of Rt. 614 at parking area. Bring drink and dish to share for picnic. Plan on doing some cleanup. Contact Wayne Baldwin at 540-543-2590 with questions. Sept. 15: Third Annual Hume Day Festival For the third year in a row Leeds Ruritan Park will be the home for Hume Day. Join the Village of Hume on Saturday September 15 for a day of crafters, artisans, food, and entertainment. Bring the family and enjoy a free event under the shadow of Big Cobbler and Rattlesnake Mountains. Many unique opportunities await you at the park. Alpaca and lamb farmers, sheep farmers, a dairying school, and free range turkey orders are being taken. A Viking Historian will be on hand to impress you with his costume and VDOT is there to answer questions about the area roads. Bring a picnic lunch or feast on barbecue donated by Marriott Ranch and kick back to the sounds of Shenandoah Travelers at 11:30 or Joan and Dave at 1:30. The Annual Jousting Competition win begin at 4:00. If you are interested in taking part in the joust please contact Jim Stribiing at jfjfanmQerols.com or phone him at 364-2135. Sept. 16: The third in the series of Combined Test/Dressage Schooling Shows run by the Old Dominion Hounds Pony Club are scheduled for Sunday, September 16. These shows are great confi- ’ dence-boosters for young horses and riders juj starting their showing careers, and are a lot ol fun for children. For entry forms and informatio contact Lesley Arnold at 540 636-2344, or lesli yamold © hughes.net. Sept. 16: Dodson/Nicholson Family Reunion The family of the late Ernest Dodson and Neva Nicholson will have their annual family reunion on Sunday, Sept. 16 at the Rappahannock Park in Washington. Please brii a covered dish and join them. Lunch will be served at 1 p. m. For more information call Joai Reid at 540-937-7322. Sept. 17: RUEP Board of Directors Meeting The Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection Board of Directors meets at the library, with social time at 6:30 p n and business meeting at 7:00 p.m. Power line opposition progress, Educational Outreach, anc plans for the Annual Meeting will be discussed among other topics. Members and the public ar welcome to attend. Visit www.rtep.org for RLEP program news and details. Sept. 18: RCCA Board Meeting Community members are invited to attend the September Board Meeting of the Rappahannock County Conservation Alliance (RCCA). RCCA holds its monthly Board of Directors meeting on the third Tuesday of each month from 5:30 -7:00 at the RCCA office at the Schoolhouse in Sperryville (at the corner of Routes 522 & 211.) For more information, call the RCCA office at 987-9118. Sept. 18: Workshop for small farmers If you are a smaller scale former who operates a farm market stand, sells at a formers mai ket or directly to stores, participates in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), operates a pick-your-own farm, takes part in agritourism, or is considering any of the above, plan to attend a free, informative workshop designed to help you maximize your bottom line. “Propagating Profits for the Small Fruit and Vegetable Grower will take place Tuesday, -September 18, at 6:30 p.m. at the University . Holiday Inn, 900 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, Virginia. The workshop is presented by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency. Experts will let you in on what has made their own operations successful. • Tom Baker of Brookdale Farm in Virginia Beach will reveal how producers can cash in on their locations. • Kitty Barker, Tourism Development Specialist with the Virginia Tourism Corporation, will describe how Tourism can help farmers tap into free resources that will help promote their operations. • Libbey Oliver, Market Manager of the Williamsburg Farmers Market, will recount the Market’s beginnings and discuss strategies for increasing its current success. • Clif Slade of Sycamore Springs Farm and Market in Surry, Virginia will explain how his unique approach to vegetable production has added value to his produce and translated into profits at his farm market and a nearby farmers market. Although the workshop is free, please register by calling 276/228-5501 or e-mailing Danny.Neei9vdacs.virginia.gov to ensure ample seating and handouts. Sept. 18: Warrenton Commuter Bus Proposal The Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission (RRRC) is exploring the feasibility of luxury commuter bus service from Warrenton Park and Ride Lot to Metro with possible other stops in Washington, D.C. Interested? Stop by the Commuter Fair to be held Tuesday. Sept. 18 from 3:30 - 6:30 p.m. at the Warrenton Park and Ride Lot located at the intersection of Routes 29 and 605 in Fauquier County. Have some refreshments and check out the luxury bus. For more information, phone (540) 829-7451. Sept. 19: Rappahannock Ftee clinic Rappahannock Free clinic will be open on Wednesday, Sept. 19 from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. at the County Health Department on Main Street in Washington. For more information call the Fauquier Free Clinic at 540-347-0394. Sept. 20: The Celtic Tenors Stage Alive Community Concert Association presents the first of this season’s performances. The Celtic Tenors, on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium at Culpeper High School. Serving a seven county area. Stage Alive is a non-profit organization focused on bringing high quality entertainment to the public at low cost. “Music and rhythm are very important to the human souT (anon). Tickets are $20 per person. For more information and a complete list of their performances, go to http://ccaconcerts.org or con- „ tact Rappahannock representatives, Phil or Traude Smith at (540) 636-9855. Sept 20: Rain Gardens The regular monthly meeting of Rappahannock Friends and Lovers of Our Watershed (RappFLOW) will take place on Thursday, Sept 20 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at our office, located in the building just to the right of the Old Sperryville Schoolhouse. In the spirit of watershed conservation and protection, we will explore the concept of rain gardens - what a rain garden is, how to build one, and how your own rain garden can help protect YOUR watershed. We extend a special invitation to those who have already installed a rain garden, so bring your neighbor and join the fun! RappFLOW it will also be celebrating the official certification of six RappFLOW volunteers who this month i, became certified in macro invertebrate water >- quality sampling. For more information, contact Louise Bondelid at Louisebohdelid@earthlink net or call the RappFLOW office at 987-8737, open from 12:00 to 4:00 on Wednesdays and Fridays. Leave a message any time. See you there! Sept. 21: "Paris Je T’Aime” RAAC Movies presents “Paris Je TAime” on ,n Sept. 21 at 8 p. m., at The Theatre in Washington. , Twenty directors head to the City of Love with five minutes of screen time each to bring' their personal touch to Paris. This lovingly crafted picture postcard shows the various atmospheres, lifestyles and neighborhoods of the world’s most romantic city. In English and French with English subtitles Admission is $6. i. Sept. 22: Back by Popular Demand - Rain Barrels! a The Culpeper Soil & Water Conservation District will be hosting its 2nd “Build Your Own Rain Barrel" workshop on Saturday September 22 from 9a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Young Farmers’ Pavilion in Madison, VA. Lunch will be provided Barrels will cost $35 for 1 or $60 for 2, including hardware. Barrels without hardware will cost $15. Barrels can also be purchased without attending the workshop. For more information, please contact Stephanie DeNicola at 540-8258591 or by email at Stephanie.DeNicola© va.nacdnet.net. Sept. 23: Charity Ride American Road Motorcycles, located at 14828 Lee Hwy, Amissville will have a charity ride on Sunday, Sept. 23 for the family of Ryan Oyster, seven year marine corps vet. Tours of duty included Iraq, where Ryan became ill and was medically discharged, sadly Ryan lost his battle and passed away on July 2 leaving his wife and four children. Let’s come together and support this Marine’s family . Food by Jammin Joes/50/50/music by “Envy Insane”. Ride registration starts at 11 a. m., ride starts and finishes at American Road Motorcycles. Phone (5401 937-9896. Sept. 23: Horseshoe Tournament Jr. Edwards Memorial Horseshoe Tournament on Sunday, Sept. 23 at The Culpeper American Legion, 14222 Rixeyville Rd„ Culpeper. Registration begins at 11 a. m. First pitch at 12:30. Partners are luck of the draw, double elimination singles and pick your own partner competition after. Lots of great prizes, 50/50, trophies. Food and beverages will be available for purchase courtesy of The Sons of the American Legion. Proceeds to benefit the American Legion Child Welfare Foundation, Culpeper Home Health & Hospice in memory of our friend Dave Groves & Culpeper Abate Downed Rider Fund. For more information call Sharon at 540-9373924. Sept. 25: Volunteer drivers training Need a ride to the doctor? Due to the need of many in Rappahannock County for transportation to medical appointments, a group of local churches and community organizations have developed a program known as RappMedRides. On Tuesday, Sept. 25, the American Cancer Society will hold a training from 1 to 3 at the library for volunteer drivers. This is so Rappahannock drivers can transport people to cancer treatment under the ACS Road to Recovery program. This can also be a refresher course for those already driving. New volunteers are encouraged to come. To RSVP please call either Lola Walker at 825-3100, ext. 3358, Judy Reidinger-987-9600 or Sharon Pyne at Social Services at 675-3313. Sept. 27: Rappahannock Elder Care Meeting The Rappahannock Elder Care Coalition, a group of local professionals and citizens devoted to better care of the elderly, will start meeting again on Sept. 27, at the library at 1 pm. The Elder Care Coalition will be, among other topics, discussing the Senior Navigator website, with a representative present to answer questions. The meetings will, unless otherwise noted, be held on the fourth Thursday, every month afterwards. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. If you have any questions beforehand, please call Sharon Pyne at 675-3313. Sept. 29: Community Dram Circle All are invited to join in creating rhythm and music on Saturday, September 29th from 6-8pm at Sage in the Rappahannock Wellness Center. All ages welcome. No experience necessary. Group drumming is fun, easy and has been proven to reduce stress. It can help stimulate coordination, cooperation, and greater listening skills. 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. Sept. 29:15th Annual Woodville Festival All friends and residents of the town of Woodville are invited to come to the 15th Annual Woodville picnic to be held Saturday, September 29. There will be fun and games tor everyone. The event starts at 2:30 with food being served at 3:30. Barbecue, hot dogs, and lemonade will be provided. Folks are invited to bring a side dish to share along with their favorite lawn chair. Live gospel bluegrass will be presented by The Blue Valley Boys” through sunset. From downtown Woodville, follow signs up Red Oak Mountain Road (Route 618 East, from route 522). This event is free and sponsored annually by the Woodville Community Organization. For more information, please call the Lights 9879523, or the Manwarings 987-8433 or the Woods 987-3301.” Sept. 29: Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale" A dramatic group from Cambridge University will present The Winter’s Tale” by William Shakespeare’s at The Theatre at 8 p. m.. Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for students 18 and under. Phone (540) 675-1253 or email TheatreVA@aol.com Sept. 29: Fauquier Live Energy Festival Join us on Saturday, September 29 for the first annual Fauquier Live Energy Festival! This exciting three hour festival will be jam-packed with fabulous music, great food, festive kids’ activities, environmentally-inclined vendors and inspiring speakers to help us GO GREEN, and STAY GREEN! Sponsored by CCAN (Chesapeake Climate Action Network) and supported by The Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection, Citizens for Fauquier County, Commonwealth Sustainability Works, Virginia Sustainable Building Network, Helios Energy Solutions, Virginia Geothermal Supply, Standard Solar, Inc., and Light Speed Power, Inc. At the south end of Fourth Street on the Greenway in historic downtown Warrenton. Saturday, September 29 from 11 a.m. till 2 p.m. Rain date: October 6th. Please contact Fauquier CCAN coordinators Archer Gilliam (540) 9377590 or Troy Holland (540) 349-7214 for further information or to participate. CCAN is a 501 c3 organization. Oct. 2: Sheriff’s forum The Rappahannock News will sponsor a sheriff’s forum on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at Rappahannock County High School. The three candidates running for sheriff are Connie Compton Smith, J.C. Welch and Chris Williams. As the November election nears, this will be a wonderful opportunity to hear from and learn more about your next sheriff. Washington resident John Fox Sullivan will serve as moderator. If you have a question that you’d like asked that evening, send it to Anita Sherman at P.O. Box 59, Washington, VA. or email to asherman@timespapers.com Oct. 6: Picking Party Hackley’s store will be having their Picking Party on Saturday, Oct. 6 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., weather permitting. All bluegrass and country bands are welcome. There will be a 50/50 raffle. Bring your lawn chairs, voices and instruments and enjoy a great night of fun For more information call 937-5373. There will be a book signing by Robert Gibson Corder, Ph.D., on his recent book about actor and broadcaster Edward J. Pawley who spent many years living in the Amissville area. Oct. 12: Registration due for Family Caregiver Workshops A series of classes providing hands-on training, information and support to family caregivers will be held on Thursdays, Oct. 18 and 25 and Nov. 8 and 15, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Washington Fire Hall. Take one or all four of these workshops which will give you helpful tips on caring for ill and disabled family members. Tbpics will include hands-on care, safety, preventing and dealing with problems, managing medications, working with doctors and hospitals, finding resources, financial and legal issues, coping with confusion and dementia and caring for the caregiver. There is no charge but space is limited. Please register by Oct. 12 with Sharon Pyne at (540) 675-3313. Oct. 23, 24, 25: Basic Hunter Safety Course There will be a basic hunter safety education course for Rappahannock County on Oct. 24, 25 and 25 at Amissville Fire Hall from 5-9 p. m. For more information call Tom Guthrie at 540-9374143.

SperryviUe dental hygienist receives prestigious industry award Diana Corbin, RDH from the Virginia Department of Health Wins the GUM® Healthy Gums Healthy Life®/RDH Award of Distinction Local resident Diana Corbin of the Virginia Department of Health was one of eight dental hygienists from across the United States who has been honored with the 2007 GUM® Healthy Gums Healthy Life®^ RDH Award of Distinction. The awards are co-sponsored by RDH Magazine, the leading professional publication for registered dental hygienists, and Sunstar, manufacturer of the GUM® brand of dental products and a leader in advanced oral care products for professionals and consumers worldwide. Since 2002, the Award of Distinction has been awarded to 40 dental hygienists in the United States. Ms. Corbin and the seven other recipients were honored for the role they play in helping patients lead healthier lives, their achievements within the dental profession, and thendedication to public service within the communities in which they live. They also met the following specific award requirements: Diana Corbin Inspiring, Tfmngfits by Randy Minter MAKING ARRANGEMENTS If you were to die without arrangements for your funeral and burial, your grieving family would be left with the task of sorting through the many decisions surrounds a funeral and interment For this reason, increasing numbers of thoughtful individuals are planning their own funerals, designating their funeral preferences, and even |nying for them in advance. They see funeral planning as an extension of will and estate planning. One important consideration with undertaking such planning involves where the remains will be buried, entombed, or scattered During the short interval between death and the banal of a loved one, family members may find themselves hurriedly making decisions about cemetery plots or graves. Planning ahead relieves them of this burden. We preplan for many of the significant events of our lives including weddings and retirement. Why not make arrangements for the commemoration of our passing ’ You can alleviate your loved ones from the necessity of making difficult decisions at the time of loss. Additionally, you can chose most specifically how you wish to be remembered. To leam more about preneed options, contact MOSER FUNERAL HOME, at (540) 347-3431. You are invited to tour our facility at 233 Broadview Ave^ Warrenton. No detail is too large or too small for us to handle. Please send your questions or comments to my office or e-mail me at: moserih@blacfchawkejKt "The cry of the human for a life beyond the grave comes from that which is noblest in the soul of man." - Henry van Dyke • Made special efforts to help their patients live healthier lives through better oral care. • Provided outstanding patient counseling to improve oral hygiene home care compliance. • Contributed to their community and the dental hygiene profession. Nomination ballots were reviewed by a panel of independent judges, who made the final selection. “I am very honored to have been selected as one of the winners of the Award of Distinction,” said Corbin. “Although only eight winners are chosen, I believe all hygienists are dedicated to helping their patients five healthier lives through better oral care. That’s one of the greatest rewards of working in this profession.” Corbin has dedicated her career to those people who do i not receive the dental care they need. From her experiences volunteering for dental screenings and working with the Virginia Department of Health, she sees the problems associated with patients who need care but lack insurance. “For a long time, I have felt dental care is a luxury for most budgets,” explained Corbin. “When people don’t have dental insurance, treatment is something they do without, but the consequences are tremendous.” Corbin strives daily to develop personal relationships with her patients, so they listen to her recommendations and take proper care of their oral health. About Sunstar S unstar is a company founded in Japan with worldwide sales of over $1 billion. The company has offices across the globe and four major geographic divisions, including Sunstar Americas, Inc., which serves North and South America. Sunstar’s mission is to enhance the health and wellbeing of people everywhere. Obituaries Ruth C. Orange Woodville resident Ruth Clark Orange, 85, of Woodville, passed away at the Culpeper Health and Rehabilitation Center, Friday, September 7. She was bom to Albert J. Clark and Nina Dodson Clark in Sperryville, Virginia, July 30, 1922. Mrs. Orange graduated from Sperryville High School and worked as Postmistress of the Woodville Post Office and she was married to the late Lacy Henry Orange. Surviving Mrs. Orange are her nieces Audrey Pullen, Charlotte P. Trout, Dorothy Eastham, Shirley Settle and a number of great nieces and nephews. Ruth is preceded in death by her parents, husband, and siblings, Clifton Clark, Goldie Clark, Alice C. Pullen, Mary Helen Atkins and Cedle Clarke. A memorial service was held Tuesday, September 11 in the chapel of Clore-English Funeral Home, 11190 James Monroe Highway, Culpeper, with Rev. Jeff Light conducting the service. Interment was private in the St. Paul's Episcopal Cemetery, Woodville. 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VA Rappahannock Aging Together offers Family Caregiver Workshops A series of classes providing hands-on training, information and support to family caregivers on Thursdays, October 18 and 25 and November 8 and 15, from 6:30-8:30 p. m. at the Washington Fire Hall, Route 211. No charge for classes but space is limited. Please register by October 12 Contact Sharon Pyne at 540-6753313. Are you caring for a loved one at home - or might you need to in the future? What would you do if your father had a stroke and needed lots of help? What if your mother became confused, and couldn’t manage medications safely? How do you safely care for someone in bed or a wheelchair? How can you get help for your family and yourself? How can you work effectively with doctors and hospitals? Millions of Americans care for a family member at home - an often overwhelming task. In our aging society, we all need to know how to cope with some of these challenges, for ourselves or our loved ones. Thursday evenings, October 18 and 25 and November 8 and 15, will be a chance to look at some answers, to include tips, resources, and hands-on training to help support caregivers for ill and disabled family members. Topics include hands-on care, safety, preventing and dealing with problems, managing medications, working with doctors and hospitals, finding resources, financial and legal issues, coping with confusion and dementia, and caring for the caregiver. All classes are free, and will be taught by health professionals. Classes will be at the Fire Hall on Route 211 in Washington, Virginia. You can attend all four, or choose the ones you need. To reserve a space register by October 12 by contacting Sharon Pyne at 540675-3313. These information-packed workshops are sponsored by Aging Together, a partnership of over 100 organizations and individuals in our 5-county area dedicated to improving quality of life and supports to older adults and their families. An important focus for the partnership is on family caregivers, who provide the majority of care for older adults. Census projections indicate that 40 percent of workers will be caring for a parent by 2010. It will be increasingly important to find ways to support this often unseen but vital human resource. If you are interested in joining the Rappahannock County Team or the Caregiver Support Workgroup contact Aging Together by calling 540-829-6405 or emailing info@agingtogether.org. For more information visit our website at www.agingtogether.org. Religious Notes Amissville Baptist Church kicks off its Revival with Maurice T. McCarthy, Jr. Senior Pastor of Beulah Baptist Church in Lynchburg. Revival Worship service begins 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 23 and continues Sept. 24 - 26 at 7 p.m. There will be special music/singing each night. Please join us for this exceptional time of revival and fellowship. For further information please contact (540) 937-6159 or Amissvillebc@ comcast.net or www.amissvillebaptist church, com. Amissville Baptist Church is located at 776 Viewtown Road, Amissville. Amissville Baptist Church has started a new Non-Traditional Study Series on Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. Are you unable to attend Sunday School? Is attending Sunday School uncomfortable for you? Do you want to learn more about the Bible? Please join us for this relaxed atmosphere study series where we try and answer all of your questions. The following classes are available for study: Foundations of Our Faith, Bible Survey/Old Testament Part One - Genesis-Ester and Understanding Teaching. For additional information please call the Church office (540) 937-6159 Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. or e-mail us at AmissvilleBC@comcast.net. Amissville Baptist Church is located at 776 Viewtown Road in Amissville. A Kid’s Community Bible Club sponsored by Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church, Trinity Episcopal Church and Washington Baptist Church begins its fourth year on Wednesday, Sept. 12 from 4 p. m. to 5 p. m. This year’s program is open to all children in grades one through six. It will be held at the Washington Baptist Church. The program consists of Bible memorization, crafts, games, music and refreshments. Prizes are given for scripture verses memorized. Many children take the bus from school and come straight to the church. For more information you may contact the Washington Baptist Church office at 540-675-3336. Amissville United Methodist Church will be celebrating its annual Homecoming Sunday on September 16. The morning service will be enhanced by plenty of music and followed by a covered-dish luncheon. All are invited to come and share this time of worship and fellowship. For additional information, please call the parsonage at 540-937-2399. Macedonia Baptist Church will celebrate the 7th anniversary of their pastor, Rev. Dr. Donald Simpkins. This special occasion is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 16. Dr. Carolyn Gilmore, Associate Minister of the Christian Way Baptist Church in Falls Church will preach the 11 a.m. Morning Worship Service. Reverend William Swann, Pastor of the First Ashville Baptist Church in Marshall will preach the 3 p.m. Afternoon Celebration Sermon. Dinner will be provided between the morning and afternoon services. We cordially invite you to attend this great event! Phone (540) 6753284. The Promise Baptist Church will have their revival beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 19 thru Friday, Sept. 21 with different preachers each night. Services will begin nightly at 7:30 p. m. The guest preachers are as follows: Wednesday, Sept. 19, Rev. James Harrell, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Lignum; Thursday, Sept. 20, Rev. Arthur Greene, Swiftford Baptist Church, Criglersville; Friday, Sept. 21, Rev. 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Meridian Markers: Close enough for government work n_By Don Audette Special to the Rappahannock News The English settling in America in Colonial times surveyed land by compass for direction and a 66-foot long chain for distance. The compass, of course, pointed to magnetic north, not true north. This became a problem for later surveyors. Magnetic north physically moves over time and land could not be resurveyed accurately. For example, if today you walked north from Washington, VA, using a compass to guide you, after five miles you would be about a mile (.86 mile) west of where you would be if you followed true north. This is because in Rappahannock County in 2007, magnetic north is estimated to be 9 degrees 53 minutes west of true north. Third in a twins If you did that bade in 1896, you would be only a third of a mile (0.33) west of true north because magnetic north was only 3 degrees 52 minutes west of true north then. Assume you had gold on the edge of your property back in 1896. It could be on your neighbor’s property today if a resurvey was maHn using magnetic north. The General Assembly leaps into action in 1772 and 1875 Virginians were serious about magnetic north. The General Assembly passed an Act in 1772 stating that a true north meridian must be used in surveys and maps, and that the degree of magnetic variation be noted. Failure to comply? The surveyor paid damages from any lawsuits. The issue was addressed again with an Act approved on March 26, 1875. The General Assembly stipulated that the Board of Supervisors of each county east of the Allegheny Mountains was to have a competent surveyor establish a true meridian line for a cost of $30 or less. It was to be at some central and accessible spot; and where iron ore or other minerals did not affect compass needles. The line was to be at least 300 yards long, with each end marked by a substantial stone monument planted in the earth. On July first of each year, surveyors were to set their compasses by this meridian line, and mark on any subsequent surveys or maps the magnetic variation. Noncompliance? Again, the surveyor paid damages from any lawsuits. The Board of Supervisors saunters into action in 1895 The Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors finally got around to implementing the 1875 Act on September 21,1895, when it appointed surveyor John Edward Sutphin to establish a meridian line. Sutphin, bom in Rappahannock County on June 3,1873, attended school here and at the Luray Military Academy in Page County. When he undertook the meridian line project he was only 23 years old, but was aided by another surveyor, G. W. Utterback. Sutphin became County Surveyor in 1895, a position he held for almost 30 years. Why a meridian line in 1895? Probably because the Town of Washington had just been incorporated the year before and updated boundary lines may have been needed. Hie Meridian Line and its markers Sutphin ran a true northsouth meridian line sometime between September 1895 and April 6, 1896. His bill for the work stall exists in a box of records in the basement of the County Clerk’s Office. He tells of planting a southern marker on the hill in front of Mrs. Hackley house (Mount Prospect), and the northern marker at the edge of the property owned by the Menefee sisters (behind the current Rappahannock News office). Probably when Sutphin received the job in September 1895, he and Utterback rode about the Town of Washington on horseback, looking for an appropriate site to establish the meridian line. Back then, there was no four-laned Route 211, just a dirt road coming in from Amissville, following the current Old Mill Road and Warren Avenue up to Mam Street, and then turning left toward Sperryville. Mount Prospect was selected because it was on high ground, had a dear view north and south, was centrally located and easily accessible off the Turnpike to Sperryville, and there were no mineral deposits to adversely affect a compass. TerraServer Image courtesy of the USGS, customized by the Piedmont Research Institute Figure 1. The above image shows, at mid-point, the light-colored gravel driveway of Mount Prospect. The driveway leads off of Main Street going west out of the Town of Washington toward Sperryville. Best guess for the 1896 Meridian Line is shown vertically. The Menefee land was a suitable northern property. It was a clear night when Sutphin and Utterback established true north by observing the North Star (Pblaris). Books on surveying from the late 1880s and early 1890s, detail the complex procedures used to create a true meridian line. Suffice to say you really had to know your stuff: surveying, astronomy, mathematics, rules and regulations, etc. In setting the southern and northern markers, one surveying source recommended using granite monuments about four feet long and seven by seven inches square, embedded vertically in the ground and set in several courses of concrete. The tops were to stick out about fiveinches. By going below the frost line the monuments would be immobile. The tops were to be leaded in the center with a brass dowel one inch in diameter and three inches long. North-south, east-west lines were cut in each brass dowel, as well as some identification, such as South Monument, 1896. Whether the markers were like these is unknown, but they were similar. Magnetic North We do know from Sutphin and Utterback’s bill that they determined the declination of magnetic north on April 6,1896, probably about 10:30 a.m. . It turned out to be 3 degrees 52 minutes and 00 seconds west of true north. Surveying manuals of that era noted a daily variation for magnetic north of about eight minutes in angular distance, with the compass needle swinging most easterly about 8:00 a.m., and most westerly about 1:30 p.m. The best time to take multiple readings was either 10:30 a.m. or 8:00 p.m. April 6, 1896, a Monday, was not a nice day. It was cold and raining at least in Washington D.C., then it cleared. Even the Easter Egg Rolling at the White House was called off that morning. Where are the markers and the paperwork now? Currently, no meridian markers have been found, but their general location and the meridian line itself are shown in Figure 1. As to having a copy of the survey of the meridian line on file in the Rappahannock County Clerk’s Office, one stray is that Sutphin in his old age believed that he owned all the surveys he had done for the county. One day, he walked into the Clerk’s Office, reached into a wooden barrel where surveys were kept, flung them in the air, picked his surveys up off the floor, and left. Is it possible to locate the old 1896 Meridian Line for Washington, VA, and its meridian markers? Well, let’s just say that what we know now is close enough for government work. APPAHANNOCK EAL ESTATE ESOURCES ( WE KNOW RAPPAHANNOCK REAL ESTATE | Butch Zindel. Broker, GR1ABR butch@rapprealestate.com i Brokerage since 1990 Buyer Representation since 1988 L Trish Bartholomew, Super Agent, * tbart 1 @earthlink.net ^ ww.RappahannockRealEstateResources. com RIVER & MOUNTAIN VIEWS A beautiful 46.937 acre lot on the Hughes River and views of Old Rag.. $795,000.00 EQUESTRIAN ESTATE 25 acres, 5 in pasture, and 20 in woods. Close to town, on private road. $395,000.00 BUILDING LOTS Three parcels in Chester Gap from $30,000.00 Washington, VA 540-675-1190 m enthusiasts will appreciat i:

Horsin’ around in AmissviUe Photos by Julie Emery ADORING ANDALUSIANS: Mike and Leslie Bremigan raise these friendly horses at Mystic Dream Farm in Amissville. Mike and Leslie Bremigan are more enthusiastic about their horses than most people are about their children. It’s impossible to spend an hour in their company and not catch some of that excitement. Mystic Dream Farm here in Amissville is where they live with their beloved horses and dogs and I had the opportunity to talk to them about the work they’re so passionate about. Mike and Leslie raise Andalusians and Gypsy Vanners at Mystic Dream Farm. They moved to the farm 25 years ago, but had no idea what lay in store for them. Mike says that even 10 years ago if you’d told them they’d be raising and training horses they’d have called you crazy. It all started simply enough with a desire to get horses for themselves and their kids. Since they have over 13 acres, there was plen . NEW USTING rter of Virginia through the sound stewardship ofprof! CHARMED I AM SURE: With European roots, this Gypsy Vanner may be smaller than some breeds but he’s very strong. ty of room. They’d always wanted horses and this was their chance. They got three horses. Leslie soon decided she wanted to learn how to train her horse and found people to teach her how to do that. As is so often the case in the horse world, word of mouth did the rest. Friends were impressed with her work with her horses and asked for her help with theirs. They were pleased with the results and passed her name on to other people. It wasn’t long before they added the “Charm School for Horses” to what they do at Mystic Dream. Leslie has trained under John Lyons, a worldrenowned trainer who was himself a student of Kenny Harlow. In 2002 Leslie finished her certification. That was the culmination of a year’s worth of work. But it’s paid off in the results she’s seen from her own animals as well as her success in helping other horses and their owners. When someone hugs you and cries with joy because “they’ve got their horse back” you know you’re doing something important. As with most trainers of just about any kind of animal, Leslie will tell you that really most of file training work needs to be done with the humans. Training the horses is the easy part! The Andalusians are here because Mike and Leslie fell in love with the breed. Leslie says it’s their temperament that drew her to them. And it’s clear that these are very affectionate, cooperative horses. As soon as Tm approaching there’s a line up of Andalusians waiting to greet me. Andalusians are an ancient breed originating in Spain when Philip II decided to create the perfect breed of horse. The Gypsy Vanners are a newer addition to the farm and they’ve got Mike and AMISSVtUE Julie Emery 937-2315 Julie@ JulieEmery.com Leslie both bubbling with enthusiasm. They are smaller horses at 13-15 hands. But they are deceptively strong, originally bred in Europe to pull gypsy wagons. They were happy to show me their beautiful Vanner stallion, Charmed I Am Sure. He’s beautiful and as wellbehaved as all their other horses. As if their lives weren’t full enough with the horses, the training and the riding lessons they offer, they also breed Yorkshire Terriers. Between the six Yorkies and their three large dogs, Sparks, Ricochet and Red, the dog entertainment is as exciting as the horses! Unfortunately, Amissville is going to lose Mike and Leslie and their animals in the near future. The farm is currently for sale. Mike said, “We need to expand and it’s just too expensive to do that here.” So Tennessee is their next stop. But Leslie wants to reassure all their students that they’ll come back frequently and will always be happy to help when they’re in town. But they’re not gone yet! If you’d like to talk with them about training, riding lessons or buying one of their beautiful horses you can give them a call at 540-347-0495. You can also check out their web site at http^/www.mysticdreamllc.com for more photos of Mike and Leslie and their horses and dogs. I guarantee you’ll catch some of their enthusiasm for these amazing animals. Cooler days are on die way The tall season is around the corner. This fills me with great anticipation for cooler days and cooler nights. You can tell it’s the beginning of fall when the leaves begin to change color, the air feels a bit crisper and Halloween costumes and candy have already arrived in the stores. But when does fall officially kick off? The Autumn Equinox falls on September 23. It is also one of the best times of the year for photography. The color changes that accompany the oncoming of fall provide great opportunities for photographers. Autumn Equinox The Fall Equinox is the first day of fell and signifies the start of shorter days and longer nights for us. At the autumnal equinox, the sun appears to cross the celestial equator, from north to south, this marks the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. You can almost feel the planet cursing through the equinox.. We have finally reached the season of spectacular change! The hottest days have past and each is shorter than the last. When Fall Equinox occurs, the life-force or energy on our planet also changes. We are surely blessed to live in Rappahannock County with an abundance of fell colors to enjoy. Grab that bag For all of you out there who’d like to catch a bargain, don’t forget that on Friday, Washington Jan Clatterbuck 675-3338 jclatterbuck@ timespapers.com Sept. 14 from 9 a. m. to 3 pan. the Ladies Auxiliary will have their $5 bag sale at the Washington Thrift shop in Washington. Call Jean Alther at 675-3844 for more information. Local churches host after-school program Trinity Episcopal Church, Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church and Washington Baptist Church are sponsoring a Kids’ Community afterschool program which will be held at Washington Baptist church from 4-5 p. m. This is open to all the children in the community from first to sixth grades. For more information call Rev. Phil Bailey at 6753336. Birthday wishes Belated birthday wishes go out to Judge Raynor Snead and Katherine Leggett, they celebrated their special days on Tuesday, September 11. Also birthday wishes go out to Pat Giles who will celebrate her day on Thursday Sept. 13. Rev. Phillip Bailey and wife took a trip to Colorado where he officiated at his nephew’s wedding. They arrived back in town on Monday night, Sept. 10. Be sure to send me your Washington news!

Two heads are better than one We are counting on this assumption being a certain truth as we begin this local column of the Flint Hill news. One of us will focus on collecting the news and the other will put it all together to make this column. We will leave it to our readers to figure out who is doing which task! As a brief introduction, Ester Settle is a longtime resident and local business woman. T^ah DeLong is the pastor of the Rappahannock United Methodist Charge which includes Flint Hill United Methodist Church. We are mothers and grandmothers and we share a passion for getting and keeping people connected. Relationships and community are important to us. With your help, we hope to use this column to support relationships within our community, Local church news Since our relationship began through the church, let’s start with some local church news. Flint Hill Baptist Church is hosting a Homecoming service October Flint Hill Leah DeLong and Ester Settle (540) 675-3252 flinthillnews@comcast.net at 11 a.m. Mr. Ed Clark, former lay leader and lay speaker, will bring the Good News using Luke 11:1-13 at his text. After the last “Amen,” friends will gather at the Fire Hall for a pot luck lunch, plenty of good conversation and general catching up with old friends. There is an ongoing Bible Study at Willis Chapel UMC, Huntly, and on September 26 at 6 p.m., a new study on the book of Romans begins. This study is open to the community. Call Pastor Leah at 6753370 to request a copy of the student book. Remember old friends Long time residents will remember our former Postmaster, Mary Curtis. Mary is currently living in Tulsa, OK near her son. Another former Postmaster, Mabel Lillard is living in Front Royal. If you would likp to have their mailing addresses, please contact one of the writers of this column. These ladies would love to hear from old friends! Our college students The folks at FHUMC sure enjoyed having Dorian Matthews home from college for the summer. Dorian heads back to Ohio State University this week. Jacob Dodson resumes his studies at Bridgewater College; AnneAshleigh Lamma is back at Christopher Newport; Matthew Bywaters began undergraduate work at George Mason. Alyson Dodson graduated from Virginia Tech in May and works in a research It’s all voice A new business quietly opened at 36 Main Street in Sperryville last January Worth Associates, Inc, is yet »nntW company that fulfills the predictions of the speakers at the living Tbwns meeting in May in Sperryville. This 20-year-old public relations agency headed by Monica Worth, has a staff of six who live all around the country. Staff size expands and contracts, depending on project size and complexity. A fundamental concept an which the agency is built is that human be^ip behind every government agency and issue and Worth Associates gives voice to their ideas. The company’s tag line is: “Right Strategy Right Message, Right Now!” Monica specializes in national transportation issues and technology Contracts with the USDOT Federal Highway Administration have dealt with accelerated road construction... building roads better (far the environment, far safety, for mobility), fester (less construction congestion) and cheaper (better return an the tax dollar). Other clients include AASHTO, an wymrimtimi rf statp highway officials, . the National Partnership far Highway Quality the Commission an the Future far America’s Veterans, and the American Traffic Safety Services Foundation which promotes work zone safety far our highway construction crews and has a foundation to support those families in which workers were killed on the job. Her company walks toward a legacy of influencing international recognition of die necessity of voice. Some of her international contracts have included a touring exhibition on the war in Vietnam and work with parties to the conflict in Northern Ireland. i-axi wets, you reaa aooai Monica’s performance at the closing concert at Apple Hill Bakery. Who is this talented woman and how are we so lucky that she chose Sperryville to live and work? Monica listened to her father’s old records throughout her childhood. Her Photos by Ray Boc Monica Worth Sperryviue Barbara AdoW adolfibarbara@ verizDn.net (540) 9873682 kwe fir jazz and big band sound is embedded in her soul through this early exposure. By the age of 14 she was performing professionally and continued for the next 16 years. A regular on the circuit of jazz restaurants, lounges and hotels in the region, Monica continued singing until die realized die needed other ways to make a living and could give voice to ideas in forms other than songs. Over the years, she had worked in advertising and PR agencies “on the side” and found it gratifying enough to open her own agency Raised in Northern Virginia and a graduate of Robinson High School, Monica lived in Washington, D.C. and operated her office out of Middleburg. About eight years ago die purchased a home on Fodderstack Road, years after travels to New Zealand gave birth to the intuitive thought that die wanted to live in a rural setting. This past January Monica purchased a home in Sperryville and opened her office oh Main Street. Contact Monica Worth at (540) 987-9678. T .ike the businesses of Mary Ann Dancisin and Ray Stamp Sperryville is the perfect village setting for this business which needs little infrastructure other than the DSL, which is available. Monica continues to perform vocally at private parties and social events, ftrhaps we ran convince Monica, Dontez Dontez Harris and Bill Harris to give a jazz concert at the SchoolHouse? While we can dream of more music in the future, we are delighted “Right Now!” that she, Mary Ann and Ray have all relocated their businesses to Rappahannock County. I wan’15$ Talented wranen’s birthdays Urn myth of retiring to sit an die parch and rock is dispelled by two women who are celebrating September birthdays. The founder and director of the Rappahannock Repertory Theater, Charlene James-Duguid continues with vocal lessons and is. active with the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. There is much more, but those who have seen her productions in Rappahannock know her energy and wish her a happy birthd^r. Dr. Iht Hamilton, the former executive director of Ki Theatre, now splits her time between Rappahannock County Arizona and New Mexico. Daughters and grandchildren draw her West, where she also continues to do consulting. You might see her naming and walking near her home in Southern Rappahannock County. Happy Birthday Pat! Peilegattas Eatery Ted PeUegatta is working assiduously to re-open the bakery under his management ora Main Street. He will have a soft opening this week, starting with a limited menu and baked goods that will expand as time goes on. Count on meatball subs as a regular item on his menu. Tourism news flash Rappahannock County is the cover story for Virginia Living magazine. More next week, but be sure to get your copy! Peregory home setting for cookout The Feregory home an Castletan Ford Road was the setting for a cookout an Labor Day; with Joseph Dsregory in charge as chief cook on the grilL It was a day made to eiyoy the food, fun and fellowship of all present. Those in attendance were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson and Robert, Jr of Unionville, Jerry Jeffries of Madison, Mr and Johnny Bragg; Karla, Matthew and Mark of Culpeper; Mrs, Marie Atkins of SperryviDe, Mr and Mrs. Allen Fletcher and Lon and Darnel Gregory all of Sperryville, Shelvv Frazier; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Komar, Mrs, Margaret Komar Mr. and Mrs. Chad Frazier; Mrs, Shree Mills, Mike Kerns, Mr and Mrs, Joe Tate, and J.W., Janet and Jennifer Feregory all of the Castletan area. Boston Marie F. Atkins 987-8802 Quite a number of our area folks attended the Street Festival in Madison last Saturday. Massanova Pentecostal Church will be celebrating their seventy ninth anniversary on Sunday Sept 16, with homecoming services and lunch to be served. Rev. Russell Me Donald will be guest speaker fin1 the 10 a m. service with Rev. Eddie Godby as speaker for the 2 pjn. worship services. Revival services will be held each evening. Sunday through Friday at 7 pun. with Rev. Russell McDonald as guest speaker. Rev. Savage and his congregation extend an invitation to the public to attend any or all services. Our community extends a belated and continuing welcome to Mr and Mrs. Daniel Deal and their three sons who purchased land and have recently moved into their new house an RL 707, here in Boston, they formerly lived in Sperryville. Condolences to the family of Mr James Dillon, former Reva Way resident who passed away last Tuesday Also sympathy is extended to the family of William Cleveland Corbin, 83, who passed away at his home in Blacksburg lab in Blacksburg. Condolences and thanks G. W. and Della Mae Bailey recently returhed to their home in Wasilla, Alaska after being in town following the death of Della Mae’s father, John Corbin. We extend condolences to John’s family and friends. Rose Foster, formerly of Flint Hill, is home recovering from back surgery. On Sunday, September 16, give Edna Lilian! a call and wish her a Happy Birthday! Cindy Sanders, Secretary of the Flint Hill Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, sends a note of gratitude to everyone who contributed to the success of the bake stand at the Carnival this year. Many people gave their time, either preparing baked goods or working at the stand. Others made financial contributions. Together, everyone came through to support of the Flint Hill Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company. Cindy says, “We look forward to seeing you all again next year.” And we look forward to hearing from you and sharing your community news! There are several ways to get community news to us: email, phone, or when you stop by Settle’s store, and if Ester is there, you may give her your news in person. Share your good news with us and we will share it with others! Special Country Properties Rappahannock • Fauquier • Madison • Culpeper South FoEtHKoAi) Perfect for hunters, fishers and lovers of the outdoors! These parcels range from approx. 21 acres to 28 acres and each has a special home site ready for building with an approved 4 bedroom j pen: and underground utilities. A great location and a great value? $295,066 - $479,066 SCHOOLHOUSE R()AD - CoMMERLIAL/ReSIDENTIAL - This immaculate property has excellent commercial potential for prof essional offices. It has an outstanding location on 2 acres in the designated commercial area across from the elementary school. Currently a residence with 4 bedrooms and 4 baths, it is perfect for a professional who wants a residence/office or for a conversion to an office building. $769,666 Battle Mountain Road Tins five acre lot has a great location, convenient to Warrenton and Culpeper. It is partially open and has several buikfing ales with good views.. Ideal new home site fora builder, family or retiree. $139466 y■ -■* Rattle Run Lane Tins 8.4 acres has everything! - western and southern exposures, great mountain views, old stone walls, mature Dogwoods and Oaks, small pond and at least two excellent building sites. $255466 Brown Mountain Farm Rappahannock's finest! 215 acres with over 1/2 mile frontage on the Hughes River, spectacular | views, high broad 40 acre pasture, large pond, hidden meadows, farmhouse and much more. This property has a wonderful variety of topography, from river bottom to the lop of Brow n Mountain and it is laced with many hiking and riding trails. This is a very special property. $2,400,066 North Foes Road The perfect country property in Rappahannock's premier equestrian area! 55 acres with mountain view s, pasture, forest and river frontage. Includes a three bedroom cottage. 25 acres on the river - $495,006,36 acres pins cottage - $769,066. Beth parrels • $1230.000 Welsh Hollow Lane High in the hills above Sperryville. this 2-acre pared combines complete privacy and convenience. It has a sin mg stream, a fine building site under mature harduoods and a4 bedroom pen;. It is dose to the Park as well as the shops and restaurants of the village. $139,060 Deer Lane This charming, almost new colonial in Seven Springs. Culpeper is a gem. Numerous upgrades and amenities induing hardw« rod floors on the main levd. uow n molding, gas f ireplace, and an enormous deck. 3 acre wooded lot $3S9jM6 Etlan Farm Spectacular one-of-a-kind offering w ith breath taking v iew s of Old Kag and the Shenandoah National Park. 187 acres, pnrtected by a scenic easement with an cm iaMe combination of rolling pasture, hardwood forest and strong mountain streams. The farm is heing offered three ways: 80 acres - $1395,666,107 acres - $1.595,0001,187 acres - $22*501006. Hkkerson Mi. Lane Thb intriguing duple* near Hint Hill has a total of 3 bethoums. 2 baths and 2 kitchens. The units share a carport that could be enclosed toran impressive great nwm. On 10 wooded acres. S33SJ66 Etlan Road If you are looking for stunning mountain v iews. you must see this 14 acre parcel on the scenic buck mad fmm Etlan to Syria. The property is wooded and vcry private w ith several outstanding and easily accessible building sites at higher elevations. It includes a 30 year okl Black Walnut Grove, mature pines, and towering hardwoods. $295,066 Rollins Ford Road Remarkable 33.5 acre parcel with a com enienl location. 15 minutes to Warrenton. Magnificent elevated building site, large woodland pond and ready tor building. $435,666

Looking younger never gets old By Jan Clatterbuck Spatial to the Rappahannock News Ladies, wtufe.it may not be possible to turn back the bands of time, it's certainly part of our culture to look our best That's gotten a little bit easier now thanks to a new business located within The Hair Gallery at 261Main Street in Washington. Regardless of your age, taking care of your skin is the first line of defense in managing the aging process and Warrenton makeup artist Linda Wright is here to help. She’ll be available Thursday afternoons by appointment only for your special skin pampering. With such a huge range of cosmetics and creams to choose from, a visit with Linda Wright will expose your skin to this innovative skin care line that combines essences of nature, botanicals, vitamins and exclusive Ayurvevic herbal blends. Wright got hooked on the Jafra Dynamics product line bade in 1977 and has been with the company for 27 years. Starting as a consultant, Wright worked her way up to District Manager and is sold on the benefits of the Jafra line. The Jafra Dynamics line includes day time moisturizers that feature Intellishields, a technological breakthrough that behaves as a second skin, helping to minimize the damage caused by environmental aggressors before they reach the skin. Wright can customize your particular skin care needs Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Jan Clatterbuck THE WRIGHT STUFF: Makeup artist Linda Wright is available by appointment at the Hair Gallery on Main Street in Washington. and take a dull complexion to luminous, give you smoother skin and minimize blemishes. Wright stands behind Jafra's commitment to empowering women to look beautiful, to feel confident and to be their best. For over 50 years, Jafra has been offering skin care products tailored to your specific needs, colored to match your mood, body care to invigorate your spirit and fragrances to express your personality. But Jafra is more than cosmetics, it's is an opportunity to achieve real success for yourself and to help others achieve their goals. For Wright, taking on a career with Jafra, has given her the freedom and flexibility to pursue her dreams, set her own hours, and spend time with her family. “It was like going to col lege, learning new skills and helping people to change thenlives by making them more beautiful through Jafra products,” noted Wright. Go Red Jafra is working by joining in the fight against heart disease and offering its official support to the American Heart Association’s “Go Red” For Women Movement to spread awareness and encourage a heart-healthy lifestyle. As part of its commitment, Jafra will help spread the word among its independent consultants, and them among their clients, about how women can take better care of their hearts. Wright has been using and promoting the Jafra product line for 28 years. She doesn't see herself so much as a makeup artist and salesperson as a nurturer to other women, helping them make decisions that can change their lives and help them be more beautiful in their every day life. Wright lives in Warrenton with her husband, Cooper. She has two sons, Darin and Brian and four grandchildren but you'd never guess her age. Give her a call today and set up an appointment to have your facial/makeover and skin pampering. You'll leave feeling like a new person. Appointments only, no walk ins. Her phone number is 540341-3583 or email her at www.lwrightjafra@aol.com Energy Festival planned for Warrenton Greenway The First Annual Fauquier Live Energy Festival will be held on Saturday, September 29 from 11:00 am until 2.00 pm at the Warrenton Brandi Greenway between Third and Fifth Streets south of Lee Street in Warrenton. The purpose of the festival is to raise awareness on the issue of safe, dean energy. Sponsoring organization Chesapeake Climate. Action Network (CCAN) will encourage people to insist on better energy solutions and will provide information on the latest technologies. “Corporate interests should not trump the will of the people who have increasingly shown that they desire alternatives to outdated, century-old systems,” said Paul Burman, Northern Virginia Coordinator, Chesapeake Climate Action Network. “Virginia’s current mix of energy technologies is anything but diverse, relying mostly on fossil fuels and nuclear power, said Dr. Pat Delaquil, lead expert in developing CCAN^ renewable energy study. “Virginia’s energy portfolio is extremely vulnerable to fuel prices increases, which can end up costing Virginians a lot of money in home energy costs in the near future.” According to CCAN, homegrown renewable energy is good for Virginia. Switching to renewable resources will lower Virginia’s dependence on finite resources such as oil and natural gas. Investing in renewable energy will also stimulate jobs and economic growth locally, especially in the manufacturing sector where over 60,000 jobs have been lost in Virginia in the past 10 years. The festival will be jampacked with fabulous music, great food, festive kids’ activities, environmental vendors and inspiring speakers to help us GO GREEN, and STAY GREEN. In addition to CCAN (Chesapeake Climate Action Netwoik), the event is supported by the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection, Citizens for Fauquier County, Concerned Culpeper Citizens, Rjwerline Landowners Alliance, Commonwealth Sustainability Works, Virginia Sustainable Building Netwoik, the Association of Energy Conservation Professionals, Eating Locally, Helios Enerev Solutions. Vir ginia Geothermal Supply, Standard Solar, Inc., Light Speed Power, Inc., Harmany DJs, and the Galloping Chape. Speakers include Dr. Susie Crate (GMU professor), Andrew Grigsby (sustainable building expert), Hannah Morgan (representative from the Appalachian coal fields), Harvey Ussery (organic homestead farmer), Vinnie Lainson (Episcopal priest) and Mike Tidwell (climate change activist and CCAN founder). Rain date: October 6. Please contact Fauquier CCAN coordinators Archer Gilliam (540) 937-7590, agilliam2@ earthlink.net, or Troy Holland (540) 349-7214, jtJiolland@hotmail.com, for further information or to participate. Tucker’s Retreat, Sperhyville, VA ■~5 acre lot close to Shenandoah Nat. Park with 2 BR 1.5 BA bungalow with dining rm, living rm ,md office. Completely painted, new heat system and central air plus a new bath. Near a stream and hiking trails. F.asv to maintain. Quiet location on a state gravel mad. S259,(XX). Rent S900 per month. Amy Sloane Timbers 540-987-8668 Leeds Manor Road, Markham, Va Lnjo\ mountain views and roaring fires in a beautiful 'rone fireplace. 2+- bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and sunnaim. Separate artist studio, 3 bav garage, and various other buildings in excellent condition. 3 ponds, fruit trees and bern plantings. SI,250,0*Hi Lynn Wiley 540-253-7441 Hylton Head, Rixeyville, VA 6 bedroom, 5.5 baths, energy efficient, virtually maintenance tree, (KM)+ M^uare ft [reach Country manor home. Many distinctly e features and upgrades, f'ulh fin ished basement with media room. Over 89 rolling acres with a new barn and long frontage on Indian Run. SI ,995,000. Jud Glascock 540-592-3238 Aileen Cottage, Flint Hill, VA Charming cape cod built in 2006 on 2 quiet acres. Main floor has rwo bedrooms and one toll bath, a large living room with fireplace, separate office, eat-in kitchen complete with hard wood floors and all new appliances. A full unfinished basement with rough-in and additional bedroom allowed. $429,000. Camden M. Littleton 703-568-1097 Ridge view, Washington, VA Ran; treasure of 64 wooded acres, 25 of which is a certified tree farm, some pines, balance in hardwoods. Several streams and walking paths. Wildlife abounds - tox, deer, bear, turkevs and other buds. Private location on dead end road \et close to Town of Washington. Several building sites and views of Old Rag Mountain. 5W5,(X«>. Amv Sloane Timbers 540-987-866* 78 Piedmont St., Washington* VA Great opporutnm tor village living. Walking durance to town. 1 ns charming cottage on .44 ot an acre has hard* wmhI floors, 3 bedrooms. 3 baths, living room, dining mom and great porches. Old barn on property. Town water and sepne. $299,0t.H). Lynn Wiley 540-253-7441 West 16th St, Front Royal, VA Convenient location off a dead end street and close to a civil war trail. 4 BR, 2.5 BA with hardwood floors, main floor Master bedroom and laundry, full finished basement’and quaint porches. This house would be a good first, retirement or investment home. 5260,000. Amy Slrane Timbers 548-987-8668 Oasis Vineyard, Hume, VA 108 acres with mountain v iews, 60+ acres in grapes. 17,000 s4.it production/entertainment facility. French country home w/ 4 fireplaces, formal living and dining room, family room, rec room, office, sauna, 4 bedroom and 4.5 baths. Lower level storage and 2 car garage. Large terrace, swimming pool. Separate 1 bedroom guest house. 56.500,000. Lynn Wiley 540-253-7441 Double Log Cabix, Castletox, VA Charming log home, pertret tor a weekend retread This cotrage has 2 bedrooms, one with fireplace, 1.5 baths, kitchen and sitting room mat could be 3rd bedroom. ITie dining and living rooms each have fireplaces. 50 wooded acres to wander, plus a front porch to enjoy the mountain views. In VOF Easement. 51,100,000. Rent 51,300. Amy Sloane Timbers 540-987-366$ Boston From Phge B7 on Aug. 23 and was laid to rest in Fairview Cemetery an Tuesday, die 28. He was the oldest son of the late Robert H. (Bob) and Nellie Hawkins Corbin Of the Rock Mills area in Rappahannock County. Rev. Calvin Lawrence and Rev. Wayne Robinson were guest speakers for revival services held last week at the Nazareth Baptist Church in Boston. Graduating students of th» * class of 1997 from Culpeper High School, living here in our area, please call the committee chair person as the reunion is being planned for November Miss Kellie Bragg, a 2007 graduate of Culpeper High School, is now in her freshman year at Free Gospel Bible Institute in Export, Ph. Belated wedding anniversary wishes go to Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Wnght who celebrated 41 years together on August 26. To Mr and Mrs. Stephen I Jnp and Mr and Mrs. Alan Lane and their families, all of Boston, we extend heartfelt sympathy upon the loss of their beloved mother, Mrs. Russell Lane, who passed away last Saturday at Inova Fairfax Hospital. She was the owner of Lane’s Appliances in Culpeper ' and was 83 years old. Condolences are extended to Mrs. Thelma Bennett Corbin and family upon the loss of her son, Andrew Wesley Corbin of Reva Way, who passed away an Tuesday, Sept. 4 Mrs. bneivy Frazier and her son, Ray returned home Tuesday evening from a 5-day trip, visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Robinson and son Timmy in Orange City Fla. We ask for your prayers for Mrs. Mildred Timbers who fell and broke her hip and had surgery at Culpeper Regional Hospital. Everyone is invited to Novum Baptist Church of Reva Way for their homecoming services on Sunday, Sept 23 to be followed by revival services throughout the week. For speakers and times, contact Pastor Jeff Light at 987-9623. Nazareth Baptist Church an • Bt 707 held their homecoming services on Sunday with Rev Homer Jones as guest speaker from Bethel Baptist Church, mid was accompanied by the rhorr In our birthday list we send happy wishes to relatives and friends, including Douglas Daty Helen Williams, Montrue Frazier, Elder Nelson Pettit, Mary Nicholson, Jerry Cubhage, Dt Wayne Thompson, Angie Norman, Pastor Jeff Tight, Esther Frazier, and Susan Ramos, with the prayers that each of you will enjoy many more on this earth. We continue to covet die prayers of our readers for those shut ins or on the sick list and adding others, mdndmg Carol Speck, Margarette Owens, Beatrice Sheppard, and Ptul Richards,

The Rappahannock News and the Rappahannock Animal Welfare League (RAWL) present Your Next Best Friend: Taz Photo by Lili Duvall With a name like “Taz” people are wondering what that is short for. Just think of all the opportunities you will have, when I live with you, of making up various stories about where such a nickname originates, or what it is short for.Ybu certainly have noticed my nice black shiny coat and the dashing splash of white on my chest. Those are not my only distinctions: you see, I am so eager to be loved by you that I will push myself between and around your legs and wind the leash so thoroughly that you’ll think you’ve been snared by a giant arachnid. This past week 2 dogs were joined with new owners. The Rappahannock Animal Welfare League is located in Amissville at 164 Weaver Road. They can be readied 7 days a week between 8 a m and 1 p.m. at (540) 937-3283 Check our their website at www.rawldogs.org Theater From Page B1 of the current production, it seems “a curious halfsister to "The Tempest’.” Part of the action in “The Winter’s Tale” is set in the realist world of Sicilia; and part of the action is set in the magical world of Bohemia. The Director has sought to contrast the realistic with the magical, by dressing the characters in Sicilia principally in contemporary attire, whereas scenes set in Bohemia have drawn their inspiration from Alice in Wonderland’s dream world. (The audience may come to feel, as Alice herself famously put it, that things become “curiouser and curiouser!”)Tickets for the play at the Theatre on Saturday, September 29 at 8 p.m. are $20 for adults and $5 for students 18 and under. For reservations or to obtain a copy of the Theatre’s schedule for the new season, which starts this month, contact the Theatre by phone at (540) 675-1253 or by email to TheatreVA@aol.com,or by mail to The Theatre, 291 Gay Street, PO Box 322, Washington VA 22747. Friday Night at the Flicks The Rappahannock Association for Arts and the Community (RAAC) will present films at the Theatre twice each month during September, October and November on the first and third Fridays. The first three films to be scheduled by RAAC are “The Queen” which played on September 7, “Paris, Je t’aime” on September 21, and “La Vie en Rose” on October 5. (Further information available on RAAC’s website: www.raac.org.) The Theatre’s schedule is subject to change — and additional performances may be scheduled at a later time. For further information contact the Theatre at (540) 675-1253 or TheatreVA@aol.com, or check the Theatre’s website: www.TheatreWashington-VA.com. The Theatre can also be contacted via the U.S. Postal Service at 291 Gay Street, PO Box 322, Washington VA 22747. Stage Alive From Page B1 children can attend all six for $95.00. President Marc Langholz wants the costs to be kept low to insure that these concerts are available to anyone in the community who would like to come. “Becoming a member is the best way for us to keep doing this,” stressed Smith who hopes that as more Rappahannock County residents become aware of these concerts that the word.will continue to spread. “They’re usually sold out every year,” said Smith who added that he and his wife Traude, who serves as assistant treasurer, have been members for years and most recently have signed on to be directors. “It’s just a great venue of entertainment brought to the public through a large group of volunteers,” said Smith who noted that the concerts have a “good repeat audience.” First up this season is a performance by The Celtic Tenors next Thursday evening. International performers they appeal to a wide variety of music lovers with their debut album rising to No. 2 in the United Kingdom and No. 1 in Ireland and Germany. The Barbary Coast Dixieland Show Band is a top-notch band that plays venues from churches and fairgrounds to Mississippi Paddle-wheelers and concert halls. With possibly, “the sweetest clarinet this side of the great divide” this toe-tapping ensemble plays on October 27. For classical piano fans, Angela Jia Kim will woo audiences with her lyrical eloquence and colorfiil palette at the keyboard. Kim has performed worldwide and captured the Best Interpretation of French music Award from the French Piano Institute in Paris. See her on November 17. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, theatrical singer Franc D’Abrosio, who performed as Phantom in Broadway’s legendary “Phantom of the Opera,” will mix story-telling with his singing as he performs a variety of Broadway tunes. Mark your calendar for February 12. Check out the Stage Alive website at for a full description of all of their upcoming performances and the price breakdowns. But for a personal, one-on-one pitch of this unique cultural offering and the cadre of volunteers that supports it, phone Phil or Traude Smith at (540) 636-9855. “We’re just very excited and want people to know about these concerts and enjoy them as much as we do,” said Smith. Stage Alive Community Concert Association serves a seven-county area including Culpeper, Fauquier, Louisa, Madison, Orange, Rappahannock and Spotsylvania. Organized as a 501(c) nonprofit entity, it receives partial funding from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Performances are held at Culpeper High School. 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Times Community Newspapers will not accept liabili ty for its failure, for any cause, to insert an advertisement and reserves the right to reject any advertisement deemed objectionable in subject matter, phraseology or setup. Times Community Newspapers are not liable for the quality of advertised products or services. 2 BR apt on estate dose to Warrantor!. Ind. utils W/D No smkg/pets. Sec. dep. & ref. req'd. <800/mo 540 788 3968 Bo els ton, 2br, 2 car heated garg, utils indud + cable, $1200/ mo. 540-222-1928 FLETCHER RENTAL PROPERTIES 292 Broadview Ave 546-347-7055 ★1 bedroom efficiency apt in Warrantor! @ $600/mo utilities included. No Pets Owner/Agent AU homes owned A _managed by us Marshall • apt. with large living room with fireplace, 1 Ig. bdrm, 1 small bdrm, screened porch, 1 bath, large yard, easy access to I-66. $1,200/month includes utilities. 540-364-0364 . New Bettimora 2BR, W/D, CAC. $950/mo, electric induded. Avail immed. 540-219-8984 SperryvMe, Pvt 1BR detach grge apt w/grt views. Beaut, kit, hdwd firs. $70Q/mo + sec dep. 540-219-0997 Warreeton Gardens, 3br, 1 5ba, W/D, walkin closet, no pets/smkg, $1200/mo. Sec dep & ref's 703-868-8712. 2500aqft rambler, Jeffereonton, 3BR, 2BA, W/D, LR, eat-in Kitch, 3ac. $1 875/mo. (540)937-6128 4/5BR, 3.58A, 2900 sq. ft 2 acs. 2 car garg, beaut neighborhood, DC side Warrtn, near Gainesville $2400/mo (540) 349-1117, (540) 270-8326 _ an, 3 full BA. 2-M SFH on 1-acre in Warrantor $1750/mo. Avail 9/15. 571-221-6889. BeaMon, Cbr, 4.5ba. LR. DR. Kit. Rec rm. loft, wrap around porch. Irg deck, 2 car garg. util s mdd * cable. $2400/mo. 540-222-1928 lidilon just off Rt. 29. 2BR. 1 BA. 1 ac. pvt. $l00G/mo. Avail 10/1 (540)439-3086 BarryviUo/Clariw Co.. Beaut., quiet country setting. Single family Ranch built 2002 3BRs. 2BAs. Bsmnt. CAC, 2 Gas Log FPs all appi s. $i 800/mo Credit Check. Sec Deo 540-955-1384. Muemont: Rte. 601 Charming, immaculate 2BR. 1BA House w/ eat-m kitchen, wd. A/C & deck. Refs. & Sec dep req d; 1 yr. min lease. $100Q/mo * utils. AvI. Sept 15. 540-554-2528. CWfnUng 2 BR cottage, deck, near Casanova. W/D.CAC. No smkg/ pets. Sec dep. & ref. req d $9Q0/mo 540 78a 3908 Undao-OBR, 2BA, 4yr old Rancn home, no indoor pets. $1200/mo. (540)635-2352 LOVETTSVILLE Area Top floor onck ranch 3BR. 2BA. tpi. all appts. $1200/mo. Call 540-882-3686 LUXURY HOME BaaJotan 4 br SF $1850 Rant/own NVFH, 703-217-2468 Cod. 3 BR. 1.5 BA. Hardwood floors. Fireplace. large backyard. Full basement. Near 1-66. $1.400/mo.54G364-0364 Mlddleburg: 2BR, t.5BA. house m town Eat-tn kit. fncd yd. nonsmkg. AvI. 11-1 $1500/ mo. Call Page 9-5 M-F. 540-687-6590 ■IDDLEBURG/ THE FLAMS. Small house on tarn 3BR. 2 BA. w»d. porch, no smkg. $i500/mo. » utils540687-6763 or brevnov# starpower net Midland, 3br, 2ba. Garden tub in Master BR LR. Formal DR. Eat in kitchen. W/D. Deck, Carport, located on 5 acs overlooking 20 acs. $ 1350/mo + sec dep A ref's. No pets/ smkg. 540-439-1343. Near Warrant on, house on pnv estate. 2BR. LR. DR deck. CAC. W/D Non smkg/pets. Sec. A ref. req d$1000/ mo 540-788-3988 Near Warrenton, lovely brick house on Ig farm, priv, views. CAC. 4BR. 2B.LR.DR eat in kit fam rm/ FP & 2 car garg New paint/carpet. No smkg/pets. Sec. dep. & ref. req d. $1650/mo 540 788 3988 Near Waterford hist log farmhouse, totally restored. 2BR, 3FBA, Fieldstone pub room w/wet bar, mtn & lake views. $l750/mo. 540-882-3686. New Balitmore, 3BR. 1 BA, Vint Hill Rd. $1200. Also Ig mountian top apt with views. $1500. 540-229-9328 Orfeen: 3BR, 3BA rambler, 1-i-ac, Ig kit w/all appl's. FP, surround deck & front porch, full walkout bsmt. rec rm. W/D $1 600/mo. (540)364-3647 Paris, VA, 4BR. 2BA House. Eat-m Kit. office, Laundry Rm. deck, lots of closets, garg, Ht pump. CAC, 2 yr lease req d. Freshly painted (in A out) Sec. dep. Credit Ck. A venfiable Refs req d. No pets. $1500 mo. max occupancy family of 6 Non-smokers only. Owners Repr. Mrs. Sherwoo-d 540-687-6500 Rappahannock Cottage. Located on small estate 20 minutes from Warrenton. this unique cottage has beautiful views, beamed ceilings. pine floors, handmade cabinets, stone hearth w/woodstove. gardens and patio One very large bedroom, great room, sun room and 2 full baths. Available 10/1 $1200/ month. Owner/broker. 540-551-4106 Rappahannock County: Washington Va: 2BR/1BA home.wd firs, fresh paint, renov kit, nr Inn $1000 Piedmont Sothebys International Realty 540-675-1675 Rapp k County 3BR rambier w/fuil basement and s u n r o o m . $1200.00Large country home in village w/4 bdrms. 2 bths. $1350. 0 0 R R E R 540-675-3843 . Rent with option to buy Farm house Colonial in Warrenton. 4-5 br. 2.5ba + 1/2. full fin bsmt, featuring rec & game room. $1995/mo Call Joe Doyle Remax. 703-975-4622 C. 703-754-4341 O (o22 Rwnt*‘*~ I Houses V J Sate or rent. Sperryville. 4BR, 3BA, brick ranch, w/ in-law apt. $374,900 or $ 1500/mo OIREB (540)937-3300 - Sperryville-Rapp Cnty, 3BR. 1 BA, W/D, historic district, older home. $800 /mo. (540)675-9921 Sumerduck. Ig 2BR. 2ABA rambler, 3 acs. fam rm. DR. LR, scm porch, garg. $1400/mo. (540)270-5642 THE PLAINS: 5 acs fenced, wrap porch, 3BR. 3BA. W D. CAC Barn/office w BA Quiet $ 1 900/ mo. (703)927-2392 Warren Co., Waterlick area, spacious 3BR. 2.5BA nouse, Ig fam rm. lower Ivl finished, on 7.5 acs. $1600/'mo, Bobby Rutherford, ERA Brown & Rutherford Realty. 540-671-6121 Warrenton, 3BR, 2BA. bsmt. 1-acre, no smok., avail, now. $ 1 5 0 0 / m o . 540-439-9899. Warrenton, 3BR, 2BA. Lrg Laundry w/ W/D, Den;office, great room. FP. 1.5 acs. Close to Route 17. 28 & 29. $1550/mo +■ Sec dep & Ref s. No pets/ smoking 540-439-1343. Washington, VA, $1450/ mo. updated stone & cedar 3br & loft. 2 FP, 20 acs. wooded, over, stables 301-986-5475 Washington, VA, restored log cabin. 2/3BR, 1 5BA. cable. Net. W/D. CAC. $1200/ mo. (540)675-3321 Free room & board in exchange tor HH chores. In Warrenton VA. 703-790-5323 CENTREVILLE: FURR rm & board & a little cash.m exch. tor care ot disabled fern adult age 43. Must be strong (able to transt 105lbs), Kind, trustworthy, ret req d. 703-266-2223 Leesburg Private entrance. kit and bath. 2BR. 2BA. LR. DR, W/D $1650 ♦ 1/3 utils. Call 703-362-0333. f077 V_ Leesburg: Rent to own 3BR 2BA. renovated, exc loc. $l450/mo. All credit considered. 703-967 4961 O/A. Martinsburg, WV: 3BR. 2 5BA w.gar. deck, all appis Hammonds Mill Nr 181. exit 20. AvI 10/1 $1175. 703-430-1636. NEW GARAGE TH for RENT in Inwood. WV only Slim 3 fin Ms. Coll 703-779-2440 With 18 Newspapers In Our Times Community Newspapers Group. We've Got Northern Virginia Wrapped up! Call 347-4222 New Look, Great Specials!! JUST $99 sec. dep’ •Spacious 1 4 3 BR apts, 2BR Townhomes* Leasing from $720 - $925 • W/D avail, in Apts' • Pet Friendly' • Storage Units • Bus Service On-Site • Ceiling Fans • Beautiful Park-Like Setting FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS APTS 540-425-5050 CALL NOW, SPECIAL WON T LAST! 500 Concord Place, Culpeper, VA 22701 email: friendshipneigfitsapts@yanoo.com ’some ^stnctKins jpp>y, DP Wood Bldg. 54 East Lee St. Large comer office $575/mo Office includes utilities. Call Oonna 540-727-2250 for appt. or email donna ryan@ culpeperwood. com Office Space for Rent - Main Street. MarshallTwo level - all open space. 1 1/2 baths, galley style kitchen,great location with ample parking. Call 540-364-0364 for more information. Purcellville: office condo. Exc. loc- just off bypass. 1100 sq. ft. remodel to your specs. $20/sq ft/yr $1833/ mo. Chris Freeman 703-362-2470 Remington: Large office $1600/mo. More space avail. Avail now. Olafsen Realty. 540-347-1505. Prim* retail spaca, IK sq ft +, Prince Wm. Culpeper, Stafford. Spotsylvania, Atbermarfe Cntys. The retail experts. Hanscome Team,Remax. 703-909-7184 WAREHOUSE SPACE Remington. RV, semts & contractors welcome. Gated, secure. 540-439-6087 On tha beach. Kill Devil Hills. NC. @ MP 5.5. WWW. outerbanksrentals. com, click KD17A or B CLASSIFIED ADS WORK! Call Your Rep TODAY! 540-347-4222 or FAX 351-0121 Super Get-A-Away, Destination Deltaviile. 3BR 2BA Contemporary/Ranch, In-town dose to marinas. 1.8 acres in a private setting, ideal for retirees & water lovers.$249,500. Call Peg O'Neill 804-436-5185. Isabell Horsley R.E. Waterfront Luxury Condo w/Deep Water 40' Yacht Slip. Piankatank River off Ches. Bay. 2BR's 2BA s. $475,000. Destination Deltaviile, Va. Call Peg O'Neill. 804-436-5185. Isabell Horsley, RE . Culpeper Co, (2) perked 10 ac lots, Rappahannock River, right of way, $150K ea or best offer. 540-778-9992 Oappahannock Co, rare find, 10 acre parcel, ready to build. Old Rag view. Fenced, pond Site. (540)547-4433 $194,900 wtiafr a great price for an older home with lots of room for you and your family to roam. Family room on main level along with a formal living room. 3 bedrooms. 2 full baths and a basement. Hardw o o d floors throughout. Fenced in back yard for the children or your pets to play. I car garage along with off street parking. WI6473955 Give Brenda Steele § Stonewall Realty LLC a call today for an appointment 540-622-3284 Front porch colonial DC side of Warrenton $438K, wooded 1 ac, 4BR, 2.5BA, 3 Ivl, walkout bsmt. $5K closing allowance. Well maintained. Linda Martin, Remax Advantage Group, 540-349-4301, cell 540-270-6062 APPROX. 18 ACRES with 988 FT. on SENSENY RD Urban development area. Water & sewer distnct. $2 5 Million 50 ENGINEERED TOWNHOUSE LOTS East side of Winchester / Eddy s Lane. 700 ft. frontage on VA State Road. Exchange or will consider financing. $2.5 Million FV6460567 ERA Oakcrest Realty, Hazel Marie: 540-664-6405 Linda: 540-662-9160 ; Single Family Home erf a Townhome Wee avjuin Niuirwv - Lrwniu.T »BnF immaculate «/ N&* Pfont Porcfi format Living %l Dining Rooms w/HardwoocJs Bfignr Kit w/isiana A Cozy areaktgst l?oom y»wZ»» .J&aSk.'*)__ 703-486-4564 bectuded mountainside chalet. 55 acres, private road 1/2 mile from Inn at Washington. Spectacular views east, norm, south Scene easements on property & neighOcrs property. Timbered cathedral ceding, immense fireplace. 300. 2ba. 2-car garage Kitcnen orich floor copper hood Artists loft with north SKyngnt $1.2m 3v jppr 540 5”5 Sumerduck DRASTICALLY REDUCEDfront porch colonial, built 01. 4BR, 2.5BA, 3 M. 10 ac, partially fenced, new 36X40 bam. $529,900. 10K to close. Linda Martin, Remax Advantage Group, 540-349-4301, ceil 540-270-6062 RETIRING? RELOCATING? Sunbelt Newbern, NC. Free retirement pkg. Ask for Whit Morgan-Newbern Real Estate 1-009436-2992 All OAK SEASONED Hardwood Delivered $150/ lull cord. Call 703-868-2524 Wood Pellets Rappahannock CFC Farm & Home Center has . wood pellets in stock now at a great pre• season price. Come in * and have us load them on your truck or arrange for delivery. 540-981-8555 $236 King Non-Dip Pillowtop 3PC Mattress Set. New in ohg plastic. Can Dlvrl Great Deal!! 703-378-8866. 7 PC Cherry S!e*ghbedroom Set (New in boxes) Worth $1200 - Need $575 & its yours! Carey - 703-961-8383. PMosdop Queen Mattress & Boxsprg (Brand-new in plastic). Can deliver. $150 w/ warn 703-263-7888. IWm/FuH Mattress Sets - $100/$120 - can sell separately - Both still in plastic/brand new! 703-378-8866. Hour Ad Could be HERE Call Today 347-4222 "OCTOBER 2 - 7 j Featuring 325 Properties «hru-outVA, MO & DC with Many in THIS AREA! •NO BACK TAXES •NO LIENS OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY ft SUNOAY . SEPT. 29 & W (”?®D 9/15, 10-4, 2285 Edward King Lane, Amissville. Grge/moving sale. SEEKING CHAPTERS tor the 1st Annual Fall Cratt Festival for Breast Cancer on 10/ 20/07,9a • 2 p. 540-439-6502 YARD SALE 9/15 8am-12pm furniture, TV, 9x12 rug, clothes and more. Norfolk Dr, Warrenton GOATS 3 Beautiful Oberhasli/Nubian does, bom 5/13. great milkers. $100 ea. (540)675-3171 HOT TUB: Never used, seats 6, fully loaded, 31 jets, waterfall. MSRP $7298, sell $3500. 571-237-5015. POOL TABLE- 8 ft. solid wood, cherry, still in box. 1 in. slate, MSRP $6495 Must 571-237-5015. 3yr old male Bullmastiff. Neut, prefers adults, loving home only. $100, includes Ig wire crate. 703-743-9667. German Shephard pups, AKC, M & F, sable & blk/red. Czech & German lines. Guar. (540)219-9550 German Wirehaired Pointers, Purebreeo, AKC, 10 wks. Damn on prim, $500, ref 's req'd. 540-253-5983 Min Pinchers pups. Reg d, tails docked, health guar, dewormed & shots up to date. $500. 540-778-3314, 540-631-7652 Pomeranians A Chihuahua pups. M/F. asst d colors. 1st shot, wormed, vet checked. 540-825-5496, Ive msg Press Canrio/Cane Carso mix, I4wks, reg beaut, litter. M & F, vet cert grabbles. Serious Only. 540-729-9920 ADS WORK Call 540-347-4222 DYNAMIC RIVER VIEWS FROM EVERY ROOM! Near the Town of Tittle' Washington Rappahannock County New home in pnvate setting by Award Winning Architect. Beaut 3br/ 2bth w/ large deck overlooking Covington / Rush River. Nestled in the trees. Floor to ceiling glass. Open plan for easy living. MBR & library on main level. Natural wood cabinets, doors, firs & trim throughout. Great room w/FP Whirlpool, huge closets. OLREA $735,000- Country Places Realty Denise Chandler, 540-575-1200 Qreat Location! Gorgeous 3 level Town Home with 3BR. 2 full BA. 2 half BA. 1 car garage, in McNair Farms West Community. »New Granite Counter Tops ■ Designer Paint on all 3 levels * MSTR BR with Vaulted Ceilings * HKWD floor in Foyer and Kitchen ■ MSTR BA with separate Shower and Soaking Tub * Minutes to Fairfax County Pfcwy, Dalles Toll Ruad. and Rie 28. i Caff 571.265.6593 -- 273 pm» V___J Pugs pups, registered. Health Guar, dewormed & shots up to date. $500 + Cash only. 540-778-3314, 540-631-7652 f-\ 294 —ys V_ Barn Cats: All vet checked, will deliver. Tame kittens and cats, pups and dogs, need temporary/ permanent homes. C a i I 202-244-2866 or Tollfree 1-877-225-7935. FREE FILL DIRT It you can take 100 loads or more. Call 703-771-3975 Frss kittens, 1 gray male. 2 black females, approx. 4 mo old. 540-987-3373 Ftss kittens, white w/ gray or black spots. 7 wks old. Females. 540-364-2663. Rappahannock. y II RESPONSIBLE mid 40s Electricians seek . to lease hunting land. Will pay and/or trade for electrical work. Abide by all rules. (703)421-7852 Double-Shredded hardwood & cedar mulch. Chips & top soil. Free delivery. 703.868-2524 ADOPTION: Lowing childLess couple wishing to adopt an infant. Willing to pay legal & medical expenses. Call Ann 703-795-5912 or toll free'866-376-6953. Classified Ads Work Call 347-4222 CAMPli ROL W LANK—Culpeper Co.— Superbly btuk (mm constructed by a coupk who build a new one every tew yean, enjoy it tor a while, then sell it so they can do it again. These people get it right. Ten acres teeming with hmililc. Equally close to Little Washington. Warren ton and Culpeper. MLS # CL643*»*1 $449.0M C ontact rhume Auditor 5441-987-9450 jj*_ touchier <<*> gnuuLcomV GREAT NEW PRICE Don't Miss This! Bealeton $315,900 Renovated in 2002, this split foyer single family home, is located in culAfe-sac & convenient commuter location. Features include new laminate flooring in main level, vaulted ceilings, 3 bedrms.. 2 baths, great country kitchen with dining room, open & bright living room. Walk-out lower level is finished w/spacious family room, separate storage & laundry rooms. Call Linda Today for showing @703-980-7155. or see virtual tour on www.SellnHomes.com. FAUQUIER SPCA LOST & FOUND PETS ADOPTIONS TOO! 540-788-9000 Visit our homepage at www.fauquierspca.com e-mail fspca@netzero.com for a complete up to date listing LOUDOUN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 198? 20 YEAR REUNION OCTOBER 12-13. 200? LEESBURC.UA Please register at the website For more details: www.lchsraiders.com or call Jet) Niccolls C703J 395-9966 FOOD VENDORS NEEDED Huge Outdoor Benefit Concert Saturday Sept 22 Culpeper VA www.rockfestvabb.com or call 540-727-1199 for details

NOTICE OF TAKING PROOF OF DEBTS AND DEMANDS At the request of Charles Brady, Administrator of the Estate of Louise Catherine Brady McCulloch, Deceased, (Rduciarv #CWF070000021) I hereby noWy all interested persons that I have fixed September 24, 2007, at 10 a.m„ as the time and my office at 31 Winchester Street Warrenton, Virginia, as the place for takina proof of such debts and demands against said decedent or said decedent's estate pursuant to Virginia Code Section 64.1-171. Robert deT. Lawrence, IV Assistant Commissioner of Accounts for the Circuit Court of Rappahannock County, Virginia Fauquier Times-Democrat: Where the Readers Are! CallToday 540-347-4222 Traffic Engineering Consulting Services The Virginia Department of Transportation is seeking Expressions of Interest from consulting engineering firms who wish to be considered to provide professional engineermg services and support to VDOT traffic engineering staff to optimize and re-time traffic signals and to operate traffic signal and freeway systems operations in the VDOT Northern Operations Region. The Northern Operations Region has approximately 22 networks comprised of 1 400 signalized intersections in Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Fauquier, Stafford, King George, Spotsylvania, Orange! Culpeper, Rappahannock, and Madison Counties. The freeway systems consist of I-95, I-395, I-495, I-66, and the Dulles Toll Road. The proposed one-year limited services contract with optional two (2) one-year renewable terms will have a maximum value of $2,000,000 per term. Responses must be received by 4:00 p.m. on October 5, 2007. A copy of the RFP may be obtained at httpj'/www. virgmiadot.org/business/rfps.asp. For additional information contact Michael Clements, P.E., at (804) 786-9609 (TDD VDOT assures compliance with the Title VI requirements of nondiscrimination in all activities pursuant to this advertisement. 9/13/07 1861210 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, will hold a public hearing on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 7:00PM in the Courthouse in Washington, Virginia, in order to consider the following application: SE 07-06-03 Roger V. end Sophie L. Scruton, owners of 173-59 acres hietoricatty known as Montpelier, on RL 231, Sperryville, (Tax Map 48, Parcel 46, StonewaH-Hawthome District, zoned AAgricultural), desire a Special Exception permit to uss their property as a venue tar weddings, receptions, conferences, and meetings. Use allowed pursuant to Code Section 170-36D of the Rappahannock County Code with additional wwa. under Code Section 170-6611 A copy of the foregoing application is on file at the Zoning Office in Washington, Virginia, and is available for public inspection, Monday through Fnday, 8:30AM to 4:30PM. Said application will be presented to the Rappahannock County Planning Commission at their regular meeting on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 7:30PM at the Rappahannock County Courthouse for such recommendation as the Commission may wish to make pursuant to Section 170-55, if any. The &x>ve-named ^piicant, adjacent property owners, and any other parties desiring to be heard should be present at sad 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 TRUSTEE’S SALE OF VALUABLE COMMERCIAL REAL PROPERTY RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, VIRGINIA “HILLSDALE COUNTRY STORE” ADDRESS: 13560 Lee Highway, Washington, Virginia 22747 In execution of a Deed at Trust dated 28 June 2007 and of record as Instrument #07-0001122 among the land records in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Rappteiarmock County, Virginia, securing a promissory note in the amount of $900,000.00, default hawing been made, the undersigned, David L Komck, Trustee, will on Friday the 28th day of September, 2007 at 3:00 PM. (EDT) offer tor sale at public auction at the front steps of the Courthouse of the Circuit Court of Rappahannock County, Virginia, 250 Gay Street. Washington, Virginia the following improved parcel of commercial land and improvements located at 13560 Lee Highway, Washington, Virginia 22747 and more particularly described as follows: ALL that certain lot or parcel of lanit situate, lying and being in Hampton Magisterial District Rappahannock County, Virginia, on the south side of U.S. Route 211, containing 33,971 square feet as the same is shown on a plat of survey by VH&D, Inc., dated August 15,1985 (revised August 30,1985) and recorded amongst the land records in the Clerk s Office of the Circuit Court of Rappahannock County, Virginia, in Deed Book 155, at page 381 (See also Instrument No. 02-338). AND BEING the same and identical real property acquired by Kulwant S. Ghuman by deed from Jeff Green dated June 26,2007 aid recorded JUne 28. 2007 among the aforesaid land records as Instrument No. 07-0001121. (hereinafter “the Property”). Reference is hereby made to aH of the foregoing deeds and to the references therein contained for a more complete and accurate descnptian of the Property. Tkx Mm Reference No. 21-2SA JEBHU3EMUL Noteholder reserves the right to bid an the Property A bidders deposit of $75,000.00 in certified funds payable to David L KomcH, Trustee wiH be required from the highest bidder before the bid is accepted, lo qualify to bid, each bidder must exhibit certified funds for bidders deposit prior to the auction. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid in certified funds at settlement within fifteen (15) days from the date at sale, provided that the Trustee may extend the date for settlement for goad cause. Purchaser’s failure to proceed to settlement within 15 days or on such date as agreed by the Trustee shall be deemed a default by the Purchaser and shall result in the forfeiture of the deposit to the Trustee in payment at fees and costs. Conveyance of title wM be by Trustee's Special Warranty Deed. The property will be sold AS IS with no representation or warranty as to the physical condition at the property or its improvements or the use thereof. The fee and costs of the Trustee, Grantor’s Tax, delinquent and pro rata real estate taxes shall be part from the sale proceeds. All other costs and recording fees shall be paid by the Purchaser. QVEN under my hand this tOtti day of September 2D07. DAVID L KONKXlhJStM FOR MFORMAIION CONTACT. David L Komch, Esquire VS8 No. 17486 RO. Bax 57 Washington, YA 22747 (540)937-5067 t THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ALL MFORMAnONtMLL K USBk FOR THAT PURPOSE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT PfT, M-F, 10-2. MUST have good office skills: Word, QuickBooks, Excel, spreadsheet creation. Dependability a MUST. Email resume to: ddobson@ddobsonxom Exclusive Golf Club In GakmsvHe, VA Is now hiring: Wait Staff Valet Goff Staff Ptaaso Call Jennifer Breon ah 703-754-8107 AUTOMOTIVE CERTIFIED FORD TECHNICIAN Top pay, good benefits, plenty of work. Apply in Person: Ask for Johnny Nicholson Rick Hunt Ford (540)347-1234 (800)868-4660 W. Lae Hwy, Warrenton ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT HVAC company is seeking reliable, energetic person to join our team. Excellent communication; computer and organizational skills a must. Responsibilities include: A/R, scheduling service calls, prepanng subipittals, genera office man- => agement. Prior office experience retired. Competitive earning potential & benefits. Please send resumes to: mwd@ mymabb.com or tax to 540-341-4791. PROJECT MANAGER General Excavation, Inc.is currently seeking an experienced individual for a rapidly growing heavy highway and utility company. Candidate should have a background in highway and utility construction, familiarity with VDOT standards and specifications and have the ability to read aid interpret plans and drawings. This is a full-time, permanent position ottered with excellent benefits package including health insurances, paid vacation, paid holidays, sick leave and 401K. Highly competitive salary. Ptaaee fax resumes to: 54tM3»-379S or email to: Jhall@gsl-va.com GEI is an EOE and supports a drug free workplace. Experienced ESTIMATOR General Excavation. Inc. is currently seeking an experienced individual for a rapidly growing heavy highway aid utility company. Candidate should be familiar with UCSS ing software,'' VDOT standards and specifications and have the ability to read and interpret plans and drawings. This is a fulltune. permanent position offered with excellent benefits package including health insurance, paid vacation, paid holidays, sick leave, and 40IK. Highly competitive salary. Ptosss In rsaumss to: 540-439-3795 or smsHto: JhaH@gsi-vs.com EOE and supports a drug Tree worfcptaca. COMMUNITY wanes acA*o CLINICIAN/EMERGENCY SERVICES On-call positions to provide after hours emergency MH & SA sves. Exp in emergency/crisis intervention counseling. On call rale $100 to $175 per shift + $65 face to face and mileage reimbursement MS in licensed eligible field. Apply with RRCSI/AAA appSradan by MONDAY. OCTOBER 1.2M7. HR. RO. Baa I5U, Culpeper. VA 227*1. (54*182S-JIM TDD:(54*> *25-73*1 EEOiAA Servers Mornings Bartenders Visit or website at bttp://www. asriu.org/acttinttes/Jbedprofect. Him and ctitk on our seasonal recipes to learn mom about our mtsston. fr-ss.) fr-ss-1 ELECTRICIAN Service electrician needed for residential And light commercial. Work dose to home, Company truck, uniforms, cell, 401k, Ins. Hourly plus commission. 5 yrs exper. Necc. 540-347-3024 tom@tlcservicesllc.cofn Maintenance Supervisor needed for an apartment community in Warrenton Virginia. Responsibilities include plumbing, HVAC, general apartment repair, and other misc. duties. Must have reliable transportation and basic tools. We offer competitive salary and benefits. Ideal candidate wilj be professional, dependable, detail oriented, and organized. EOE. Please fax resume to: 434-979-0001. Fauquier County: Growing wine importer has opening for Full Time Compliance, Light Graphic Design, Web Page Maintenance Position. Compliance exp a plus. Exc. comp, skills reg'd. Duties incl federal label approvals, state licensing & compliance, web page maintenance and input and some data entry. Fluency in French a plus & will be compensated. Flexible hours. Forward resume to: Jobs@hpswine.com FRONT DESK CLERK 7am-3pm ft 3pm-11pm shifts Must be reliable & dependable ft able to work nights & weekends. Excellent opportunity for the right people! Retirees welcome! COMFORT INN 7379 Comfort Inn Dr Warrenton, VA no phone calls please BODY SHOP HELPER Full-time, Monday-Friday. Paid Training. Great work environment Great Benefits. Apply in person with driving record: Country Chevrolet 6m Ask for J.D. Lance in body shop MECHANIC Forklift / Diesel mechanic needed to do forklift repair and other general maintenance work; welding and electrical experience preferred. Apply in person or call: Culpeper Wood Preservers 10229 Tidewater Trail Fredericksburg, VA Bill Thompson (540) 371-5338 Benefits include profit sharing, medical and life insurance, voluntary dental insurance, paid holiday and vacation. DELIVERY TRUCK DRIVER Full-time position with benefits. Must have valid driver s license and present current CFC FARM ft HOME CENTER 143 Washington SheetWarrenton, VA PROBLEM SOLVERS WANTED Fauquier County is recruiting for several positions within the Information Technology Department ranging from Business/ Programmer Analysts to Information Systems Architects to perform various functions from testing programs through serving as solutions architects, lead developers and project managers. Knowledge at NET computing environment, proven project management skills and experience with application development including web sen/ices and database technology is preferred. For complete job descriptions and to apply on-line, visit www.fauquiercounty.gov EEO/AAM/FD f PEPSICOLA OF WARRENTON **INVTTES POTENTIAL APPLICANTS TO ATTEND A FALL JOB FAIR ON SEPTEMBER 22ND** PLACE: 5393 LEE HIGHWAY: VUSQdOK VA TIME: 8:00 AM TO 12:00 PM . SERIOUS CANDIDATES SHOULD BRING AfclUPI OB’IMEIR DMV DRIVING RECORD OPENINGS INCLUDE 400091* MANAGERS. MERCHANDISERS AND DRTVERS/DRTVER TRAINEES JOB FAIR WILL INCLUDE ON AND DOOR PRIZES FREE SAMPLES. PLANT TOUR FT/FT SALES ASSOC Waited immed, at The Old Habit, Marshall. Good working knowledge of horses & fox , hunting exp. nee. Computer skiffs & retail exp. a pits. Fauquier Times-Democrat ADS WORK Call 347-4222 It took 6 YEARS to graduate. Find a job in about 6 MINUTES. Times Classified 347-4222 or Fax 351-0121 WAREHOUSE PERSONNEL Full-time positions with benefits, including health and life insurance, pension, 401 (k), vacation and sick leave. Heavy lifting required. Apply in oerson: CFC FARM & HOME CENTER 143 Washington Street Warrenton, VA Assistant Project Manager Metropolitan Washington Area Heavy Highway Contractor seeks self-motivated Assist Project Manager. APM will serve as co. 's rep in negot contracts; monitoring safety, making safety, QC & productivity commitments. Will work closely w/ PM & Job Superintendent. Min. 2 yrs civil construction exp. managing projects over 1 million in value. BS Civil Engineering pref'd. Exc. salary & benes. Pis email resume to JRBMPosition#aol. com or fax to 703-998-6512. Your AD Could BE HERE Call 347-4222 Group Meeting Sales Manager For 45 years, Airlie Center’s singular commitment to conference planning has provided the ideal atmosphere for productive meetings Airlie offers the latest m conference support technology, comfortable guest accommodations, distinctive dining and attentive personal service. At Airlie, we only hire the verv best and promote the values of customer relations. Each group that books a conference at the Center is guaranteed a high level of personal service. Every department is involved and most importantly, our employees genuinely care about our guests. Our reputation speaks for itself. We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic candidate for Group Mtctrng Sales Manager, to our dedicated Sales team. Reporting to the Director of Sales, the Sales Manager is responsible for working with group clients to maximize meeting package revenue; achieving and exceeding established solicitation goals; and practicing a vanctv of proven sales techniques, including cold calls, sales blitzes, telephone solicitation, etc. Candidates must possess outstanding verbal and written commumcanon skills, highly organized and dctail-onented. Previous sales expenencc in hotels and/or conference center a plus. Compensation is based on experience and is very competitive. Please send your resume with salary requirements to HWilairlif <-ni America s Propane Company Would You Like to Earn Extra Money? Keep Reading! The largest distributor of propane in the USA is currently seeking a Seasonal Delivery Representatives to help us service out customers at our Warrenton location during our peak business months. CDL with airbrake and HAZMAT endorsements are required. me ui id. * Competitive Wages * Flexible Hours ;t *401 (fc) Savings naviT • Propane Discounts • Paid Training • Paid Holidays * Bonus Programs for I it you a like to be part of our growth, please call 11* ptnMk 8356 Meetze Rd, Warrenton. EOE Officers provide securttx and protection tor air travelers, airports and aircraft. Part-Time: Starting at $13.54 per hour Plus Benefits iIncludes IH.59% Locality Pay) TSA Fhurviuv. September 13fh South County SluilSounx Center 83S) Richmond Highway Suite >27 Atexaodn*. VA ‘HJOmn 11 tfiJam . ob Fairs Tuesday. Sqfitntba I Ml l-tin: Anne F-mpfemmi Rcumkc 114H4 Wfehnpun Pfsa Mint Stale 110 HMoilVA I '00pm VUBpm Minimum Requirement* I S Citi/emhip »>r U S. National • High school Jipkma. GED or equivalent, or one year ol yeeumy or aviation screening experience • English proficiency • Pre-employ mem medical evaluation • Pass a huckgmuiki/cmiit check TVampunami Ptcast jpplv online al: www.tstsjob&dMm i-moar-um-. rrv: i mm **7-551* rsA t. m> Oppumiy Eiaptoym. RAPPAHANNOCK ■API DAN m COMMUNIIV SWVIO-S 9QAHO EEO/AA. APARTMENT LIVING RESIDENTIAL COCNSELORSAUI FT positions to provide support, assessment and living skills to adults with MH and MR in a new residential group home and/or apartment type settings. Knowledge of community, housing A financial resources for chronically mentally impaired preferred. Exp. working with MH and MR population. Bachelor's degree in Human Services or 5 years exp. 528,411.50 p/vr. DAY HEALTH A REHAB SPECIALISTS FTposi&ons in Fauquier and Orange providing training tor adults w/mental retardation at day support programs. Exp. w/MR population preferred. $24,531.00 p/vr RESIDENTIAL COCNSELOR #233 FT positions providing services in support of daily activities in a group home program for developmental^ disabled adults. Evaluate consumer skills <4 needs, teach living skills. & emphasize community integration. .Associates or 2 vrs equiv. e.\p. S2'T.04ft.5t) p/vr SUBSTANCE .ABCSE TECHNICIAN #241 FT On-call and hourly positions at SA treatment facility in Culpeper to monitor activities of consumers. Implement & monitor education <4 tec activities & maintain clinical records. HS Diploma w/exp in human services tield.$l 1.98 p/hr. Apply with RRCSB/AAA application by 8:3Uam. MONDAY. September 24 2M7. HR. K.O. Box 15*8. Culpeper. VA 227BL 15481 825-3IM# TDD: (54#t K5-739I EEO/.AA hjemungM? rrcsb.org R

HVAC SERVICE TECHNICIAN CAREER t/Tired of working in a company environment where you rg not acknowledged for what you do! if Perhaps you're not being compensated for going that extra mile or you have no opportunity to get ahead? if Are you a, one or two man shop, tired of working long hours, chasing money, and have no time with your family? ✓✓Let's talk!! We offer excellent wages, commission opportunities, health insurance, disability insurance, laundered uniforms, company vehicle, paid vacation, paid sick days, educational training, bonuses, paid holidays.. We are a fast-growing, progressive, customer service oriented company with many opportunities for a person who is caring and motivated and seeks a challenge. Call: Appleton Campbell, Inc. 540-347-0765 Auto Parts COUNTER SALES FT/PT Positions 15 Northern VA locations. (Prince William. Loudoun & Fairfax Counties). Full benefits. Call: Fairfax Auto Parts 703-323-5300 CDL DRIVER for local septic pump-out co. 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Responsibilities to include locating charts for messages and appointments, filing, verifying insurance eligibility and running fee tickets for office visits. Provide back up for patient check in and check out, schedule appointments as necessary. Applicant must be a quick learner, detail oriented, adaptable, dependable and friendly. To apply, forward resume to: Attn: J.Smith Fax: (540) 347-0492 Mail: 52 West Shirley Ave., Warrenton, VA 20186 E-Mail: jsmith@broava.com r Culpeper Health & Rehabilitation Center LPNs/CNAs All Shifts Apply in person or Fax Resume to: 602 Madison Road, Culpeper Va 22701 Phone: 540-625-2884 Fax: 540-829-0238 www.mfa.net EOE, Drug Free Workplace . MID-ATLANTIC HOME HEALTH Has immediate openings for the following positions: Field Staff - RNs, LPNs, CNAs & Therapist, Admin RN Clinical Supervisor FT/PT Flexiabie hours or per diem visits available. 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Full time, part time, part time as needed (PRN). and weekend positions available immediately. >ign on Bonus PRN Contingency Rate Continuing Education Tuition Reimbursement Scholarships available Clinical Ladder Relocation Assistance Professional Dues r*ew uraas encouraged 10 appi Mail resume to: Fauquier Hospital Attn Human Resources 500 Hospital Drive Warrenton, VA 20186 540-341-0823 (fax) teller!^ tauquierhospital.org EOE CONCRETE LAYOUT PERSON Must be able to read and interpret plans, drawings, cut sheets. Ability to perform daily layout for forming & placing crews. 5+ yrs exp. Proficiency MS Office & ability to speak Spanish a plus. Exc. salary & benes. Pis email resume to Layout Position® aol.com or fax to 703-998-6512. DOG GROOMER Warrenton. (540)341-7699 DRIVER OWNER/ OPERATOR for local moving co. Atleast 5 yrs exp. Must speak English (540)439-6007 DRIVERS/ DELIVERY Full-time and parttime positions. AM & PM shifts. Full benefits, year-round work, not seasonal. Locations m Loudoun, Pnnce William & Fairfax Counties. Fairfax Auto Parts 703-323-5300 ESTIMATOR / MANAGER Retail garden center nursery. Experienced required. (540)229-4969 For all of your Employment Needs call the Fauquier TimesDemocrat 540-347-4222 ESTIMATOR Metropolitan Washington Area Heavy Highway Contractor seeks seasoned Estimator for its growing co. Candidate must have exp. in earthwork, utilities, structural concrete. Knowledge of Heavy Bid req'd. BSCE pref. Exc. salary & benes. Send resumes to EstPosition@aol. com. MARKETING Use your skills! Looking for a home based bus? hudson. ownanewbusiness. com 24 hr info 703-291-1118 PROJECT MGR Metropolitan Washington Area Heavy Highway Contractor seeks s e 1 f - m o t i v a t e d Project Mgr. PM must be able to review/understand project drawings & specs; manage contract documents, billings, RFIs, scheduling; interface w/ clients & trades; monitor safety & productivity. 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Part-Time: Starting at $13.54 per hour Plus Benefits (Includes 18.59% Locality Payl Ftill-Time Split Shift: Starting at $3<U74 per year Phis BwBt* (Includes 8% Recruitment Incentive and 18.59% Locality Pay) Tht Ke,:nutrmnt Imtanvv u feu*>/ on ,1% of basic pay, amt indtjimu r-nftimfhn of ihr frnyimm u commgtiu upon approved fumling. TSA Job Fairs rhui*J*y. September 13th South County Ski II Source Center H3!H) Richmond Highway Suae *27 \ic\undria. VA d <*>ain I I **fcun luoduy, September i l-jfce Anne Kntpkiy merit Rcmmuvc C 'cma II4H4 Wathtn^fun Ra/a Wot Suite 110 Roto.*!. VA i'OOpm HJUpm Minimum Requirement-.: L s Citizenship ur L S. National • High school diploma. 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Sporting Calendar' Fal 2007Virginia Stoepiechasing Saturday, September 15 12:30 (xm. Thornton rt» Hounds Point to Point Thornton H* Farm, Sperryvle (540) 987-8346 Saturday, StptmtNr 22 ip-"*Blue ffidge Fal Races Woodtey Farm, BerryvOe (540)955-0036 1:30 p.m. Fotdield Fa# Races ChariottesvMe (434)293-9601 1:30 p.m. Virginia Fall Rac86 Glenwood Park, Mddteburg (540)687-5662 Sunday; Oftniar 7 2 p.m. Virginia Fa# Races Glenwood Park, Mddteburg (540)687-5662 Saturday, October 13 v / 1:30 pun, Motven Park Steeplechase Leesburg (703)777-2414 i - - »- - i-4'd • ' t ... 7;.36Hi See CALENDAR, Page 4 New Holland tractors do more with smarter designs, innovative features and more comfort. Now. we have special finance deeds that can help you do more too! During the Do More Spring Sales Event, take advantage of 0% financing or 1 TRACTORS • TC30 &T1520 COMPACT TRACTORS • 4S-77 PTO HP TM-A UTILITY TRACTORS • SS-SS PTO HP TL-A TRACTORS • •a to SO PTO HP TK-A CRAWUSt TRACTORS • 40-75 HP TT-A TRACTORS • 72 AND 0O HP TOO TRACTORS Don’t wait! Get the tractor you want now. The Do More Spring Sales lasts only through Oct. 15, 2007. Start doing more today. THEROS EQUIPMENT Ron Perlik Warrenton Va 703-661 -0700 • SpringfMd, VA 703-550-4327 < TaagnaAtafiot 0*» w^fcCKHCjp^AreouLLC NraiHu^d(^lwde«*»d«*grt*l*ii (W«ortf«W>*M:Kan/.*Frtai>^NmHatad<Mtai*t»U«MSUB.Ufer»t'«tt><iiMgt tas.kntfl< |BpK*C»a7CaHtaMcillC MnpfcNsmd intrfCMU 540-272-7968 S40-347-329I VA 540-373-9353 i Dom pqmal ny W nwind Ut Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker The fell steeplechase season in Virginia spans eight weeks, Sept. 15-Nov. 3. This guide steers readers through the action start to finish, with news and insider insight into the vibrant sport Riding the fence _ Story of American chasing points to Virginia innovators By Betsy Parker Tunes Newspapers Staff Writer Though steeplechasing sprang from the Irish foxhunting field and gained early popularity in 19th-century England, it followed settlers to the American colony and was warmly embraced in the States. Author Hay Woolfe Jr. quotes turf historian Walter Vosburgh about the origins of organized American ‘chasing in his book "Steeplechasing": The 'chase was a successes,* Vosburgh wrote of an early steeplechase offered at a New York flat track. It was the allabsorbing topic for weeks. The Jockey Club, though a highly conservative body responded by hanging up another thousand to be run for at the spring meeting of 187©." Steeplechasing had passed its test and was V on the rich New York circuit. Just a century later, though, steeplechasing was "out." With the advent of rich turf racing at mqjor tracks, race officials no longer wanted to plant living hedges as a permanent steeplechase course. As flat racing continued to grow, track workers found that constructing dozens of cedar-stuffed hurdles was time-consuming and expensive. Steeplechase jumps just didn't last long enough — not even a full season — to make hosting jump races at the likes of Belmont Park, Aqueduct and See RIDING, Page 3 shredded harcfr#?o©d Community College nk of RL 29S and

Meet the meets: Circuits courses for all types of horses By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Fhncy a day in the country? How about a stroll around the grounds of one of Virginia’s most historic estates? Or a picnic with a cast of thousands near downtown Charlottesville. Perhaps a jaunt to the mountains? Don’t forget to pack your binoculars. Whatever your desire, Virginia’s steeplechase circuit can deliver. Starting this weekend, the Old Dominion hosts eight straight weekends of jump racing action this foil. There’s something for everybody at each of the region’s races, but read along as we dissect what’s special about each steeplechase cm the circuit. The Thornton Hill Hounds R>int-to-Pbint kicks off the fall season on Saturday Sept. 15. Rwt time is 12:30 pan. Thornton Hill Earm in Sperryville, home to the young hunt dub’s kennels, is nestled into a rolling hillside abutting Turkey Mountain. The course is nearly on top of the Blue Ridge, with the Rsak, Mount Marshall, Thornton Gap and other peaks visible from all points of the course. In addition to flat, hurdle and timber races, Thornton At the Fairfax Races at Belmont Plantation in Ashburn, a horse gets ‘in’ to a jump, showing the danger of the oldfashioned packed cedar fences - sometimes soft construction invited horses to cheat. Times Fde Photo RIDING FROM PAGE 2 Saratoga worth the effort The rich New York schedule was an important driving farce to the health of the American 'chase industry. But by 1970, steeplechase horsemen wondered if the end was in sight: New York racing wanted the jumpers out. Virginian Randy Rouse stepped in to save steeplechasing, say industry officials. Taking an Irish model, he designed a standardized 'chase fence from man-made materials. The jump persists today at flat tracks like Saratoga and Virginia's Colonial Downs, at dubsponsored "hunt meets'* and at poant-to-points around the region. The Fall 2007 Steeplechase special takes the subject and runs with it, breaking down the driving forces behind the creation of the "national fence." We interviewed Rouse, now 90 years old and still active on Virginia's circuit NSA officials Bill Gallo and safety inspector Barry Watson weighed in on the portability, and economics, of the jumps. Hall of Fame jockey Joe Aitcheson, and two of Virginia's leading riders spoke about the design. Freelance writer Jackie Burke chased the story to its source, tracking down horsemen who were active on the 1970s and remember the controversy caused by the "new-fangled” obstacles. Stringer Sarah Greenhalgh provides commentary from major track 'chasing, still alive and thriving. On the flip side, timber racing is an American creation that reaches across the pond to entrance sporting British horsemen: freelancer Archer Gilliam spoke to English trainer Gary Brown, whos bringing seven 'chasers to swap to timber from a new Virginia base. Also included are Steeplechase special regulars: a sporting calendar, stats, a fun photo essay. Check out our "fast facts" for details on the sport. And don't forget to follow racing weekly in the Fauquier TimesDemocrat, or online at wwwfouquier.com. Saddhry UqaU w mm* mmjstf ' _ w ,, ■ Saddler?" liquidators1 ', * m *&& tt- Smd&f iiim$q,4§m f&U Jsjtiei Eventing Dressage^ Rose Hill 'Veterinary Practice, PC Large Animal Service Thomas B. Masssie, Jr., DVM JDMk&«nk](DVM MonaLOKn^imC Office Hours: Mon-Fri: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm 540-987-1200 IMhrrlyS. Cole, DVM Betty L. Myers, DVM ? Office Hours: Mon-Fri- 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Saturday by appointment 8:00 sun - 1:00 pm 540-987-9300 Located at 21 Christmas Tree Lane, Washington VA Web site: rosehillvet.com E-mail: rosehiIlvet@comcast.net fialedfaahf dike faces! ■ Fiji-featured, compact 8.0 Megapixel digital camera with a 12x Optical Zoom ■ Canon Optical Image Stabrfeer Technology and IS01600 tor steady shooing, m DiGlC M Image Processor with improved Face Detection Technology and Red-eye Correction for sharper images and improved functionality, m High-resolution 2.5-inch vari-angle LCD for easy shooting at any angle. ■ Hot shoe adapter tor the Speedtite EX Series external flashes. m Shoot easy movies with movies capable of 30 fps VGA or 60 fps QVGA Also a convenient to use Movie Button, never having to switch to a shooting mode. ■ Includes Canon U SA, Inc. 1-year Limited Warranty/Registration Card. Canon DIGITAL CAMERA 539999 Mct'l A'VVHAN C ANH R A wwnn.mccamera.com 306 Lee Highway, Warreatoa, VA • 540-347-2533 ARCHIVAL DIGITAL PRINTING • DRIVE THRU WINDOW Located at the intersection of Rl 17 N A Rl 29 Bus Open MaaJay - Friday I ut - * pj.« Saturday 9 mj*. - S pja

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Photo by Douglas Lees In September, 1973, the national fence was unveiled at the Fairfax Races. Here, Joe Aitcheson steers Still In All to win the allowance hurdle over the innovative, artificial brush obstacles. Remembering the day that (hanged US. steeplechasing Fairfax’s Rouse integral to inr By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer The date: Sept. 22, 1973. The place: Sunset Hills, the old Bowman farm near the rural village of Reston in Fairfax County. The event: the annual Fairfax Races. The day was clear, the track ovative ‘national fence design like it was yesterday. "It looked like they might boycott the races." The riders were understandably upset: Rouse had installed a new style of hurdle fence, without many of their knowledge. The new hurdles were artificial replicas of natu iasi. ijocai entries faced tough competition from shippers from top stables in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The entry of May’s Virginia Gold Cup winner Portobelo III and the Rokeby Stable coupling of Chapel Street and Mongogo (who rai, ceaar-siunea hedges used in American 'chasing for decades. As National Steeplechase and Hunt Association president, Rouse had undertaken the task of helping keep jump racing at the major tracks. It was later won the iy/4 and 75 Gold Cups) ensured a capacity crowd surrounded the sun-drenched course. It was a festive kickoff to Virginia's vibrant fall steeplechase season. Business — and sport — as usual. But race chairman Randy Rouse was nervous. He paced back and 66 f had a dozen trainers and riders up in arms. Randy Rouse sometning increasingly difficult in the face of New York Racing Association president A.G. Vanderbilt’s threat to kick, the sport out of Belmont, Aqueduct and Saratoga. (See story, page 6.) Vanderbilt told 'chase officials that the labor and materials to build a new set of stee forth, from the saddling enclosure to the finish line; even riding the first race of the day, his own Bongo Mongo on the turf (they were fourth) didn't settle his mind. 1 had a dozen trainers and riders up in arms." Rouse recalled the long-ago turmoil plechase jumps every six months or so was just too much. "He told me if we had some sort of jump that we could reuse year after year, then we could stay" Rouse recalled. "If not, we had to leave New York." Sm RANDY, Pag* 25 Plastic, metal combine to make eminently jumpable fence By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer A man-made fence used at all (of nearly 50) steeplechase meets in the U.S. and in all major track steeplechasing, the standardized “national fence” was introduced in 1973. The jump consists of a steel frame stuffed with plastic “brush.” Fully constructed, the obstacle is about 52 inches high (“bigger” when they’re new; more squashed down when the jumps have been used — and brushed through — for a few seasons.) The jump is freed with a foam-rubber roll, covered with green canvas, on the takeoff side. Horses jump the National fence in stride, much like human hurdlers in track and field events. “Truth be known, many See FENCE, Page 24 Modern Equipment IBOOIPR IMEWAyJ*fS4Ql399M3;7/2 JP 111WWP^M|W*WllillJl'lll>IB I ~t11 Wlwilli State Licensed • Insured • Est.1971 Lignum, VA Serving Fauquier & Culpeper.Counties Since .197ij AMAZING C6NTfcMK)feAftV| Over 6(XX) sq. It. Serene panoramic vistas on the lUo+ acres, truly a custom build with attention to detail. Upper level is dedicated to master suite with library. Kitchen updated with granite and new sinks. Indoor pool with retractable rooi - just uinc. oi me many nne features. Many more upgrades* / ny more amenities. Perfect, * 1 Horse Property! 7 • v- ■ -n .s - ’* t n TTwHoMwiGwcp REALTY Ire* Always There Rx*ju® ERA # ■< - Gwen C. Hill GRI Tto HaMen Groop REALTY, Inc. (W) 540-825-1613 ext 249 (Cell) 540-718-4967 E-Mail:gnbhill @ aol.com Web:www erd.com

Make a major mistake, possibly pay the price it_r> '*■»11 i»: r* k* 111T* kii • *j « hasersa'badbet’ : .. >■'1 "■M b be early 1970b, horse racing eras enjoying a tremendous upswing of business — the economy was humming, awl though television was a major part of American entertainment., attendance at I oirtdoor sporting venues (baseball, football, horse racing) was high. Steeplechasing had long been part of the program at many rf % the east coast's major tracks: several courses previously had; installed permanent, living hedges as obstacles, but all had gone ta the cedar-stuffed boxes for jumps as turf racing gained a foothold. But pari-mutuel numbers did not he: track officials found ; as they do today that gamblers were more reluctant to bet on steeple-1 chaae races. ’Chasers are notorious for their proclivity for falling down, . they said, and form did net hold as true as it does an the flat It waa*^ harder game to bet, and track owners had to hold with the bottom Bnet if jumpers could not draw in the j - *■ i Steeplechasers have to rely on athleticism and jumping ability as well as speed to see them home first. Though the soft, inviting national fence hurdles used in the U.S. are fairly forgiving of a jumping error, solid timber rails are less so. Here, a timber horse makes a bobble at Middleburg’s Glenwood Park. As he approaches the jump, ter left, the final stride finds him too dose to take off at a natural arc. At left, the jockey struggles to stay with the awkward effort. Times Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker As the horse lands, above, the jockey shoves his feet ‘home* in the stirrups to help stay stuck to the sadde. Note the unbroken contact through the reins to the horse’s mouth. Contact keeps horse and rider communicating. Below, the pair speeds neatly away from the jump, no worse from the mistake.

’Chase yearbook from 1973 touted new fence Photo by Douglas Laos Now an official on Virginia’s ‘chase circuit Jennifer Ybungman was a jockey in the 1970s. Here, she flies a stuffed cedar fence, with living brush “wings’ at the Fair HiH, Maryland course in 1973. Serving Virginia* Hunt Country tor Over 35 Ytars. tower 35 yews Montgomery ShadetAwning a ful service famiy business has been serving the needs of the Vlr^niaHedmont We feature thellghart OreUy pwiriirtn Mile leiUriirae.ewltirniiriTininlMinaidiftfrffcnrTeiniiIfftriMiiyitrar apples toil our awning products! See us for custonHnade awnings onopnpeio and window coverings. atoi>dtfa retractable awnings, toeh shades. Hundreds of Sunbiela and other fabrics. Al major aedftards accepted. www.montgomeryawning.com UCUQCv 703-737-0491 540-347-1941 800-300-1941 . -- . I Tcj- Free [From the 1973 National Steeplechase annual] “(The upswing of steeplechasing in 1973] to a ■ large degree hinged an the development of a new fence. The conventional brush and hurdle fences in use for years were packed with freshly cut cedar. This material in many places became difficult to secure in sufficient quantity, and always at an increasingly higher cost. Even months after the cedar was ordered, and then delivered to a racecourse, expensive labor went into constructing See 1973, Page 8 Horae Sweet Home Improvements, LLC Ptione 540-439-8890 ♦ Fax 540-43^4106 www.HoweSweetHoiBdwprownients.coM it‘fit's! i and Get the Skin You’ve Always Wanted at Med Spa of Virginia Exclusively offering the THREAD LIFT, a minimally-invasive facelift option & IlPODISSOLVE, non-surgical body contouring Leg Vein Therapy Medical Skin Carr & Peek Mineral Makeup Mwuge & Body Treatments Gift Certificates Available MJD. [ Peter E. Godfrey, M.D. VA • 540.825.8550 • www.nwdspava.com pal Cti., 9 Culpeper Regional Hospital) • LASER • ESTHETICS • MASSAGE

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Hie British are coming™ Virginia timber attracts English chase invasion By Archer Gilliam Special to the Times Newspapers English trainer Gary Brown will bring seven horses to Virginia to race over timber in the U.S. this fall season. Arriving today, Sept. 12, two of the horses are expected to begin their campaign at Shawan Downs in Maryland, one each in the maiden timber and featured open timber stakes; Brown then expects to race every consecutive weekend until Nov. 18. Brown’s home base is in the tiny village of Kintbury just south of Lambourn in Berkshire County’s steeplechase training center an hour west of London, Brown’s owners, Emma Whetton and Lucy Homer, are both horsewomen themselves. Homer will ride her own horses, five-time winner Your A Gass man, Music To My Ears and Navaya. Area horsemen may remember the petite blond winning at Morven Park in 2006 on Make It Easy, with then-trainer Dai Williams. Welshman Williams, based in Lambourn, laid the groundwork for Brown’s foray into American timber racing. Williams brought over two timber horses at a time three times in the past decade; his successes have included a winner at the International Gold Cup meet, and one at Morven Park last fall. All of Williams’ horses were for sale, as are Brown’s. In addition to Homer’s three, Brown is bringing Profowens, Olival, Four Schools and Fair Dual. All are between 5 and 9 years old. Ex-jockey Brown began training seven years ago folr lowing a year's recuperation after suffering a ruptured spleen and pancreas during a fall at Utozeter. He met Horner when she began galloping horses for him about a year ago. “All of these horses were bought intentionally to race over timber in America,” Brown said. “They will obviously start as maidens and progress from there, and then it’s just a matter of how well they take to timber. “My owners Lucy Horner and Emma Whetton are both keen to give it a go, and hopefully well have some winners in Virginia. English races usually are faster-paced, so if these horses can win over the bigger English courses, such as Aintree, Haydock and Wetherby, Fm confident they can negotiate American timber fences. They have all schooled well over my own timber fences in Kintbury.” James Davies and Seamus Durack are schooling the team over the timber fences at home, and Davies will travel out on a couple of weekends to race-ride. Brown made a reconnaissance trip to the area this past spring, on Horner’s strong recommendation. Said Horner, “I knew that Gary would be interested in taking up the challenge of American timber racing.” Brown said that he found the Virginia courses all straightforward and fair, and he is looking forward to testing his horses over them. The Brown racing team will be based in Middleburg at Beth Glenn’s Melrose Farm near the Middleburg Training Track. 1 “The Gold Standard in Equestrian Construction” Toll-free: 1-888-GOLD-CUP (1-888-465-3287) Marshal, Virginia - Excellent quality at an affordable price. Fencing, Barns, Sheds -Via. Class A Lie. *2705 047043A - www.goldcuplenclng.coin rnoio uy «rcner umia Gary Brown and ’chaser Oiiv; Fast Facts Land of the Mtte guy Unlike flat track midgets, steeplechase jockeys are relatively “normai-sized” athletes. The minimum weight in a steeplechase race is typically in the 140-pound range as compared to the featherweight 110-pound level for flat jockeys. Steeplechase races are longer: two to four miles, as opposed to five furlongs to 1 1/4 miles. Steeplechase horses are older (usually 4 and up, as opposed to barely 2) and bigger (since their training regimen often includes cross-country work that builds bigger muscles, and their stable routine usually includes extended periods of turnout in grass pastures that builds more bulk.) il KAWASAKI I KAWASAKI I KAW Proud to stand behind our Quality Service. ■■The term horsepower was frequency used in the early days oMhe automobile because** "horse-toss carriage* wee constantly being compared to tie horse-drawn carriage. Today ttris unite si* used routinely to express the power of ^ motors and engjnaa- ■■ Kawasaki Let the good times roD." Warrenton 540347.1991 I II I..I ■ .—.ssecorpva.com Marshall 5 540.384.4200 Set It Up. Start It Up. Check It Over. Service It. Upgrade It Deliver It. Ready To Go...

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Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Jumping ability and manners are top traits of a taxhunter; the finals of the North American championships are Oct. 7 in Middteburg. Annual field hunter finals contested at GLenwood Park By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Marrying neatly to the field tradition of steeplechasing — a sport bom from the foxhunting field in 18th century Ireland — the annual North American Field Hunter Championships will be held Oct. 1-7, culminating in the championship finals held before the Virginia Fall Races Oct. 7. Mounted fbxhunters from around the nation will converge on Middleburg’s Glenwood Park for the finals, scheduled before a full racecard later that day. Finalists are selected from each of five hunting days with northern Virginia packs; judges hunt alongside competitors to choose the best, most athletic, most mannerly field hunters. Finalists (typically numbering 20 to 40) take part in a mock hunt around the Glenwood Park course before judges choose a final group (usually of eight to 10) to compete over a handy huntei course designed by judges tc test the horses’ training and suitability. Trophies are awarded foi overall champion and reserve best turned out, “most suit able,” and, if appropriate “Champion of (past Champions.” The event was founded ii 1989. Foxhunters are value< above all else for manners an< jumping ability. Foxhunts oftei attract upwards of 100 mount ed participants, so horses mus remain calm in a large group, handle activity and noise (of as p many as 50 hounds speak to a j| scent) as well as keeping a safe distance from other horses I without argument. Though fox- 1 hunters are notable for galloping madly around the countryside, all hunt professionals recognize the walk, and the halt, as two of the most important gaits. The Sunday finals give racing spectators a unique opportunity to watch a foxhunt up dose. Usually; a real, live hunt disappears into the woodlands, but the championship finals are set up around Glenwood's racing oval, with much of the action in clear view of the grandstand and tailgate areas. For the handy-hunter course, finalists might be asked to dismount and remount from a log; unlatch a gate and dose it from horseback, or trot over a fallen tree — all very reasonable questions to ask of a foxhunting ■ hone. Hunt dubs participating in the hunt week meets are Fairfax, Snkkersville, Orange County; Loudoun West and Warrenton. A $2,500 cash prize will be i awarded to the overall champion's home hunt dub by the l Bonnie family of the Piedmont Foxhounds. 1 The championships are | l contested in memory of former i Piedmont master Theodora A. Randolph. Randolph was mast ter for 40 years. ■ JJLSnider Ltd. , Professional Plumbing, Electncal and Air Duct Qeaning Services Factory Trained Lighting Control Specialists 540-687-5232 AuroRa l ighting turns on your house lights from the car. Never come home to a dark house again. Free Onsite Consultation! PLUMBING REPAIRS / WATER CONDITIONING DRAIN CLEANING EMERGENCY SERVICE / WELL PUMP SERVICE Window Installation, . . :&EGEN€¥ * BF RiCH • AlNDERSEW I NOmNDBX • HEARTLAND * ALCOA. FREE la-Home Estimates Visit our Showroom at; 1. ■-if ' ,102 |3hake Street;* Suite MSI ■f'fk. >iM * Culpeper, VA 2271*1 www.PaulHenrvsVVindows.com

The innovative design of the American national fence, shown above at Morven Park, standardized hurdle racing in the U S. Trainers and riders, and horses, could expect an identical test week to week, and course to course, rather than having to‘guess’whether a particular course had recently refreshed their living hedges, or packed their cedar boxes extra tight Note how the horses take tie fence in stride. National fence Wide variety of obstacles keeps The American national fence was introduced on the Fall, 1973 steeplechase circuit. The innovative design persists today, with jumps virtually identical to the early prototypes still in use at all National Steeplechase Association venues. Some courses kept their natural, living hedges until recently — the Iroquois in Tennessee did; the Montpelier estate in Orange County still does. Though Montpelier's fall meet runs its feature stakes over the “brush' course, other hurdle races on the day are contested over regulation national fences, set alongside the hedges. Other courses such as the brief-lived St. James Races in Chicago, built custom-designed hedges with rails, beautiful to look at. horsemen agreed, hot too “different’* a jumping effort for hurdle horses accustomed and schooled to brush through the top few inches of the fences. St. James is no longer in existence because of that. Some point-to-point meets continued stuffing boxes with cut cedar a few years after the national fence was introduced — arguably to save the cost of renting a set of national fences, but today, all meets have come on board. Fence rental is underwritten by a memorial fund left by a steeplechase supporter. A new division of jump racing was introduced in the mid-1990s — termed the “steeplethon,” a few courses (namely Glenwood Park in Middleburg and Great Meadow in The Plains) built specialty courses that test jumping ability and bravery. Timas Nawspapars Staff Pnota Betsy Patter The historic Montpelier estate in Orange County south of Warrenton remains the only holdout course with living hedges as hurdles. Only the featured Noel Lamg stakes is run over the natural course; other hurdle races on the day are run over national fences. Horsemen fed that by the time a horse has enough experience to reach the top stakes division, their jumping abifety is confirmed and racing over the slightly different obstacles is no big deaL Photo of the author courtesy of Cheltenham Racecourse British jump racing was the original steeplechasing. Though early events were contested across sometimes rough hunting territory, standardized hurdles and steeplechase fences came into wide use by the 20th century. Mid-1900s, a fairly standard hurdte jump became popular for its relatively light weight and portability. Known as a sheep hurdte, the narrow, birch-stuffed frames are set on a slight angle is shown above at the Cheltenham racecourse in central England. Like the American version, the hurdtes are meant to be skipped over as a natural extension of the horse’s galloping stride.

not the only game in town sport interesting The courses have differing jumping tests — all three courses include regulation timber and hurdle obstacles as well as natural hedges, open ditches and a water jump. Glenwood has several high bullfinch style jumps, meant to be brushed through rather deeply, and Great Meadow has a pair of fearsome Ain tree hedges, quite enormous bushes planted on a tall earthen bank. Great Meadow also includes a water splash and a stone wall. Horsemen received the new steeplethon division well, as it gave yet another option for horses that are a bit too careful for speedy hurdle racing, yet not quite scopey enough for top-tier timber a place to race. - By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, above, and his daughter take a look at one of the tall Aintree hedges at Great Meadow. Many horses try to dear the entire obstacle; other horses quickly learn they can brush through the top bit of the jump. Another hallmark at Great Meadow is the water splash, right. During the warm-up before the Steeplethon, riders trot and canter through the water to prepare them for the challenge. Times Newspapers Staff Pfiotosr Betsy Parker A literal Aintree fence, left, stands more than seven feet high from the inside of the landing side. Infamous as Bechet's Brook at the Liverpool, England course, the fence takes down more horses than any other in the tour-mile Grand National. The tightly-packed brush makes for a true jumping test, and several of the fences, including Bechet's, have a surprise drop landing. The drop is more steep on the inside of the course, leaving riders to select from the shortest, steepest route (inside) or a safer, but longer way (outside.) Above, Jack Russeti Terrier races have then- own “hurdle.’

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square on top and something like eight of 12 starters fe&r Brown added. Drops, the Canal Turn, Liverpools, loose horses and big water jumps not withstanding, it is tine same upright stiffness of England’s Grand National coarse at Aintree that brings down the majority of starters there. Even with a slightly softened top edge, horses back then had to be able to bloody well jump, and riders had to do more than just sit in balance and allow the horse to find his way something to a certain extent possible over the modem national fence. Brown said that horses can all but step in the tarp-covered rubber roll and still manage to launch themselves over Brown also said that he was on the National Steeplechase board (in 1973) when executive director Jack Cooper broached the subject of national fences. “At that point, my eyes glazed and 1 started thinking of my golf game,” Brown recalled of those long-ago days in the board room. “The real advantage to national fences, once they were adopted, was that we could offer steeplechasing any»knp’,TnfhiHing| and importantly on turf courses, between fiat races, at mayor tracks. Kip Elser, now a trainer based in Camden, S.C., was among the last to ride over the old-style fences, and was actually the winner of the first race over w«*inn«l fences — at tho Fairfax Races at Reston in the fell of 1973. Daring his riding days, Elser, now married to Helen Richards of Marshall, also had the somewhat dubious honor; as son of the company’s founder; of wearing the Jcee Bear costume between his race rides Aa o KHoni* uri'nnrl urifk Brown in naming Rolling Rock closest to the English model of "chase obstacle. While the EngKah hurdle is no taller that tile American —*«"«> fence, it asks a different question of hocses as it sits at a sharper angle to tile ground, mid has no take-off mil to provide depth, perception to horse or rider Though I the 'old es out on Long Island at Meadow Brook, I still can honestly say that the now-defunct Kotting Rock course in every way set the benchmark fer American fenlHng Bock experience fer me was seeing former Old Dominion Hounds master Joan Hopewell's Banning Comment win the feather* an the i 70s i SugarB At that time Sugar Bee v by Tomette PhiHips, « dfl €§ The real advantage was that we could offer steeplechasing anywhere. Race (fredor Austin Drawn tile lead, Phillip’s heart-emblazoned underwear glowed through ho* transparent jockey pants and distracted fellow riders. It was a great ploy: Sugar Bee, who won the final feature at Rolling Rock, the international Gold Cup, before going an to win the Virginia Gold Cup and Maryland Hunt Cup for new owner Nick Arundel Arundel showed enterprise by damning the priceless King d Spain gold cup for Great Meadow and moved the Internationa] Gold Cup race there when Raffing Rock went under in 1965. Another meet known for its steeplechase obstacles — prenational fence days, again — was the Iroquois in Nashville ■qr old stamping grounds. As a member of the race committee and former wife of the meet’s longtime race ffcainaan, I still mousty temperamental finq hedges that made up the course there. Sophisticated east-coast trainers were not fans of the jumps which, like some point-topoint fences, invited “cheating1' py crafty horses. At least the hedges appeared handsome and lush, barring drought or insect infestation, both the bane of race chairmen everywhere, prenational fences, of course. Like the natural hedges at Montpelier just south of Orange, the hedges at the Iroquois were planted into a two-mot high mound of dirt. Woe be to the horse that tried to cheat more than that; the earthen mount was immovable and could prove a costly mistake to a horse trying to skim low over the jumps. Every type of hedge variety of was tried, attempting to flesh out the jumps more, with a noted lack of success. Nurserymen were consulted; eventually an irrigation system was installed, though more for the now-velvety turf then the cursed fences. Still, a living course has a certain classy look. It tweaks the heart, just a little, to see the glorious hillside at die Iroquois covered with spectators, jammed right up to the still-living hedge outer rad, with the nations brat steeplechasers brushing through fake plastic. It’s not quite like the old days. Nothing ever is. Jackie Burke is a rider and writer based in Orlean. She was a ticenaed steeplechase trainer for a r short time in the 1970b and aOn. Sales Service Installation Residential ft 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 Ooeners W\ look torn ^rd to u ckomur; you to our non "tore!

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moio oy oaran ureennatgn Colonial Downs in New Kent County plays host to trotters and pacers at their Standardbred meet starting this weekend. Colonial Dowds’harness meet starts up this week North America’s only oneturn mile harness track returns to action Saturday; Sept 15 at 5 p.m. as Colonial Downs kicks off its 10th annual Standardbred meet. The eight-week stand will continue through Tuesday Nov. 6 on a Saturday through Tuesday schedule. Post time is 5 p.m. Saturdays, Mondays and Tuesdays and 1 pan. Sundays. Highlights of the season include the $100,000 Patriot Invitational Trot on Oct. 13, the $350,000Virginia Harness Day erf Champions on Oct 27 and 15 late-dosing trotter and pacer r series throughout the meet. The $350,000 Virginia Harness Day of Champions is the tidiest harness racing event in Virginia. It features eight championship races pitting Virginia-breds in every division. The Virginia Harness Day of Champions card wfll have a special 1 p.m. post. Colonial Downs also runs a boutique, summer Thoroughbred meet in June and July They host jump racing each weekend on the much-lauded Secretariat Turf Course, the nation’s widest grass track. Visit cokmialdowns.com. COLONIAL FROM PAGE 10 not had a whole kit of luck with those operations. It is one of die few that has worked. I think now he’s ‘trusting' his wind more* Fbut says he likes to give the gelding time between races and steadier workouts to keep him focused and happy “I make him run with two hearses head-to-head, just letting him being a nose in front,* Fout said. “He definitely likes the serious competition, because if you drop him out the back door he will pill himself up.* McCarron also had a win the first weekend of racing on June 17, with Brigadoon Stable’s Diego Cao in the $15,000 maiden hurdle. Also not the easiest of mounts, McCarron says Diego Cao does not always like to run from point A to paint B. “At his fences, he is perfectly straight, however; in between he’s not so good. Rut of his problem is settling,’ McCarron said. “We put a different fait on him and it seemed to work well. When I called on him he was definitely thane far me. But I got a little too cute around the turn and nearly pulled myself off course I was that dose to the beacon, but he was sensible enough and easily corrected.’ Pennsylvania native Jody Petty partnered with trainer Eddie Graham to ride Great Gusto for the Ckrevia Farm of Flint Hill. And despite his less than quiet paddock manners, the 4-year-old son of Gulch shut the door on the favorite Slip Away (a 4-year-old son of Skip Away) to win by over three lengths. 1 ROGERS WtSmjgA Repair; Cars SUVs Light Thick} Heavy-Duty Tracks Hone Trailers VA State Inspections Since 1997 Hie Trusted Name in Commercial A Personal Vehicle Repairs Culpeper, VA 227*1 Monday-Friday: 7amtoSpnPsatunlay: 8amto 12p 540-829-7908 Items we stock: Motor Oil Hydraulic Oil Lights Chrome Accessories Air Valves Exhaust Parts Brake Parts Tools Filters , Petty says Colonial Downs is a very different course than many of the other meets, mostly because speed is such a factor. Not a course that favors the front runner, more often than not the leading horse gets swallowed up before the last fence or takes, a bad fence, like Slip Away did, leaving the door wide open to the fresher mounts. “He usually switches off but at Colonial you don’t want them to just turn off” Petty said. “He nearly pulled my arms out all around there. He was just cruising to the last fence. He never misses a beat.’' But it will be ftnnsylvania trainer Jonathan Sheppard who will walk away with the most wins and money won at Colonial this summer. His first victory came with Dr. Bloomer (James Slater) — the 6-yearokl son of Fantastic FfeUow had the largest winning margin, 11 lengths, of any jump winner. Sheppard has had the Florida-bred since he was a . youngster The horse made more than $86,000 on the flat for owner-breeder Marablue Farm. Sheppard sold the horse to Ifennessean Calvin Houghland to run in his familiar royal Mue silks with the golden horseshoes. See COLONIAL, Page 22 aitil

COLONIAL FROM PAGE 21 “He was second (in his first start far Houghland, May 12 at the Iroquois) in the nuridew race,” Sheppard said. “He was still real green, and it was very soft ground. He was an inexperienced horse with his first jump race of his life; I could do have asked for more." On July 15, Sheppan entered Hudson River Rurm’i Moneytrain (red-hot Daniell* Hodsdon up) in the feature* No Interest No Payments For 12 Months'-* Mi— • Independent rear suspension • On-demand True 4WD • Fast acceleration to speeds up to 30 mph • Handles any terrain I ( JOHN DEERE 459 CAB TRACTOR |«53-h|>.t<flio*r Jofcn Dear* I PaufTth"* bvtodurgad Aral tngw* » PowrBwf— Touch"* (Hydro BMMUUl-i TMCTOR * 25-hp V-T«*n. mr coot**, JoftaD**r* iTorqu*naPanwr Syttsn * <•- or 54-inch Edg*"* Xtr* Cutting SysM* * H*wy-4u% CarfD Manat'" Machine pout* [0.0% Rnaireing for 36 Months"* $350 OFF?’ ■—■* ■ I I I! I :','7."-V7 VBHTOUI GOtD STM CERTIFIED JONH DEERE DEALER 10MT! TRIBLE EQUIPMENT, INC. ramta ten wi !!■<■,« aw? p«»MMao tore omtm nwn tap—(hrxmm Ulfnww»8 wmW*K*m*rm t ‘chase of the season, the $60,000 Zeke ftfgugm memol rial stakes. i Hodsdon did not let front» ' runner Long Lane Farm’s [ Swimming River (IhddyYoung) out of her sight and as they turned for home Maneytrain came on like a fresh hone. He passed Swimming Surer in the stretch and held off Mede Cahaba Stable’s Class Vantage (Richard Boucher) at the wire. This is the second year in a row Class Vantage has placed second in the Zeke. The 8-year-old gelding has had a series of setbacks in his short career Until last fall, the German-bred had been sidelined with injuries. In 2004, he had set a track record at Colonial. This spring, Sheppard ran him at Iroquois and was a nice third in soft going. “He jumped amazingly,*. Hodsdon said of the Colonial race. “He jumped better thaw . he has ever jumped for me. I think he went in short at one fence, the rest he stood off from. He had so much more confidence than when he won here three years ago. That year he was a little timid getting to the front, tins year he was all bumness. “It has been touch and go with him over the years, since he has a few leg issues. This is the first time we have had two races in row with him, so we are really pleased.’ Unfortunately luck was not with Maneytrain and he did not come out of the race well and will have to wait until nest year while an old bowed tendon heals. Sheppard’s third win at Colonial (Hodsdan’s second) came with Kathryn Fitzpatrick's Valley's Pride in the $15,000 maiden July 29. Probably the most sentimental win of the entire summer meet was when jockey Robbie Walsh won a $15,000 allowance hurdle with Jack Fisher's Duke of Earl July 29. Walsh is recovering from a horrific racing accident April 22 that left him with several serious fractures and three metal plates in his face. The pony-sized Duke of Earl teamed up with rival Great Gusto at the last, but he sped away on landing to win by two lengths. “I broke him so pretty much know him inside and out,” Walsh said of the horse. “.lark said to ‘take your time and make one run, that's all he's got.’ He’s a game little horse who likes to travel in behind. We had a couple of miscosnmunications early on so I just let him be. I figured I was still a bit rusty.” He’d only been back in the saddle a few weeks. Walsh said his training regimen was light as he amight to regain fitness. “I'm not a good swimmer and don’t run much because my legs get too big with muscle,” the Irish native w»irf “I have been basically galloping as many horses as I can sit on every day. Once I got well enough to do that, I was on my way* Barns, Arenas & Storage Buildings ■vUJmA a;w Tire *1 tt’e have comkattl yan of aastnctm and dtxgn aptrwict to givr your equestrian building doss, quality and durability.

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.. —mt i Times Newspapers File Photo t many-time amateur champ, landy Rouse, shown here in1976, nows racing inside and out RANDY FROM PAGE 5 Rouse knew it was important to keep steeplechasing at the flat tracks because of the trickle-down effect. More racing meant more prize money; more money meant more horses; more horses meant more horsemen; more horsemen meant more racing. And so on. It was going to affect mqjor track racing first, then the hunt meets, then the point-to-points," explained racing historian Pbter Winants. "The cost of labor and time made it just too hard to make up the good, old-time fences.They had to be realistic." Rouse had taken the bit in his teeth the winter before: while out foxhunting with Pennsylvania horsewoman Betty Bird in Ireland, he was introduced to a Lard Harrington. Harrington was reputed to have designed a new, artificial hurdle, something he'd created to help cut labor costs fin* building the point-to-point course for his home hunt. Rouse visited his Limerick stable, where the plastic-steel contraption was housed. "I could see the possibilities immediately," Rouse said. He bought a couple of sections of the jump, shipped them home to Virginia and got to work finessing the design and finding a domestic manufacturer. He found a shop in Brandywine, Md. to build the jumps. At his farm near Fairfax, Rouse practiced over them. A few design tweaks later, the new . jump was ready for its public debut. What better place, Rouse figured, than on his home turf at his own meet. As master of the hosting Fairfax Hunt, NSHA president and designer, he felt comfortable taking the plunge. It was a day that marked the history of the turf a day that Virginia steeplechasing changed the face of American sport forever. Fighting tradition The debut of "The Fence," what jump racing horsemen snidely dubbed the new-fangled jump, met with vociferous criticism. The foam roll, covered with bright green tarp, was most unlike tiie natural soft green boughs of freshly-cut cedar. The upright black plastic "twigs” were similar to, but not quite like, the stuffed brush riders recognized. The steel frame that held the twigs, especially, had jockeys worried. "The riders were upset," Rouse said. "They wanted to boycott the races. I made a deal with them. I said, okay, well do one race, and if after that, the See RANDY, Page 26 riMBER ROM PAGE 20 hough, they must learn to basule over the fences, carefully limping without a touch or else iskrng a nasty fell. Trainer and amateur jockey in hel930s and ‘40s Noel Laing after whom the $35,000 hurdle takes at Montpelier's Nov. 3 oeeting is named), compared the inghsh Grand National, over four ailes of tall hedges and Maryland's Hunt Cup, over four oiles of 5-foot post and rail fences; “I think the Maryland Hunt ’up is much the more difficult ourse to jump, due to the type of ence and irregularity of the takeffs, but that the English (hand National is the more difficult to win because the class of the horse is so good, the fields are so large and the pace is so fast that many good horses come to grief through no fault of their own. “I will say that I would look fcrward with the greatest of pleasure another ride at Aintree, but I shudder at the thought of riding in the Maryland Hunt Cup again.” Laing actually won the 1933 Maryland Hunt Cup, on Marion duFont Scott’s Troublemaker. In 1934 Laing rode Troublemaker again over the fearsome, 5-foot course The horse made a bobble at the big 13th fence, impaling himself on a jagged rail He finished third that day but died from bis injury; Scott never sent her colors over timber again. Her former course at Montpelier has no timber course because of that incident — By Betsy Parker 1 Come See us at the Remodeling& Home Decor Show at the Dulles Expo Center September 21-23rd EMTER TO WIN a brand new Trane heating & cooling system including Instalation tor Its Hard Tb Stop A Thane'. For details on how to enter, come visit our booth #634 to too North Hal at toe Dufles Expo Cantor’s Hemodetfng and Horn* Decor Show September 21st - 23rd. Lowest Price & Satisfaction Guarantees

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