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Unlike “true” big cats, the cheetah can purr as it inhales, but Science cannot roar. By contrast, the big cats can roar but cannot purr, except while exhaling.

Cheetah Science Facility Groundbreaking in Front Royal structure of the cheetah’s claws is the same as those of other cats; it simply lacks the sheath of skin and fur present in other varieties, and therefore the claws are always visible. With the exception of the dewclaw, the claw itself is also much shorter and straighter than other cats. Adaptations that enable the cheetah to run as fast as it does include large nostrils that allow for optimal oxygen intake, and an enlarged heart and lungs that work together to circulate oxygen efficiently. During a typical chase its respiratory rate increases from 60 to 150 breaths per minute[5]. While running, in addition to hav- ing good traction due to its semi- retractable claws, the cheetah uses its tail as a rudder-like means of steering to allow it to make sharp turns, necessary to outflank prey who often make such turns to

Schuyler Shepherd(Unununium272) escape. A cheetah in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania Unlike “true” big cats, the chee- tah can purr as it inhales, but From a release: living in zoos often have signifi- provides wonderful opportuni- the end. The tail usually ends in cannot roar. By contrast, the big cant challenges in breeding. ties to educate the public and to a bushy white tuft. The cheetah cats can roar but cannot purr, The Smithsonian’s National Zoo The new Cheetah Science Facili- raise awareness about the need to has a small head with high-set except while exhaling. However, recently broke ground in Front ty will create an ideal environment protect all of Africa ’s wildlife. eyes. Black “tear marks” run from the cheetah is still considered by Royal, Va. for their new Cheetah for breeding, as well as improved The 3,200-acre Conservation the corner of its eyes down the some to be the smallest of the big Science Facility at the Zoo’s Con- social opportunities for mothers and Research Center is an unique sides of the nose to its mouth to cats. While it is often mistaken servation and Research Center. to raise their young. This new asset of the Smithsonian’s Na- keep sunlight out of its eyes and for the leopard, the cheetah does It is the first construction to facility will be the Zoo’s cheetah tional Zoological Park, located to aid in hunting and seeing long have distinguishing features, take place on the property in 25 home base for research in animal in the foothills of the Blue Ridge distances. such as the aforementioned long years and is made possible by Bill care, reproduction, endocrinol- Mountains in Front Royal, Va. The adult animal weighs from “tear-streak” lines on each side of McClure, a long-time friend of ogy, behavior, nutrition and genet- The CRC houses between 30 and 40 to 65 kilograms (90 to 140 lb). its nose that run from the corner the National Zoo. The nine-acre ics. It also will provide a training 40 species (half of which are con- Its total body length is from 115 of its eyes to its mouth. The body Cheetah Science Facility, which program for selected post doctoral sidered officially endangered) and to 135 centimetres (45 in to 55 frame of the cheetah is also very will be completed by summer’s fellows, graduate students and is regarded as one of the world’s in), while the tail can measure up different from that of the leopard, end, will house 14 to 20 cheetahs interns, as well as animal keepers leading conservation biology to 84 centimetres (33 in) in length. most notably so in its thinner and in spacious, outdoor enclosures, and caregivers. The facility will be research facilities. National Zoo Males tend to be slightly larger extra long tail. with indoor spaces for inclem- completed this fall. scientists work in the exhibits and than females and have slightly The cheetah is a vulnerable ent weather. The facility also will “This is a wonderful way to behind the scenes at the Zoo, the bigger heads, but there is great species. Out of all the big cats, it include an 800-square-foot ani- celebrate our contributions and CRC in Virginia and in field sites variation in cheetah sizes and it is is the least able to adapt to new en- mal-care building to house animal successes in the 25 years that around the world. difficult to tell males and females vironments. It has always proved keepers and researchers and allow we have dedicated to conserving apart by appearance alone. difficult to breed in captivity, them to observe, manage and care this amazing animal.” said David From Wikipedia: Some cheetahs also have a rare although recently a few zoos have for the animals. Wildt, head of the Zoo’s Center fur pattern mutation: cheetahs been successful. Once widely shot The National Zoo has been a for Species Survival program, The cheetah has a slender, with larger, blotchy, merged spots for its fur, the cheetah now suffers leader in cheetah conservation “I know that the new Cheetah long-legged body with blunt non- are known as ‘king cheetahs’. It was more from the loss of both habitat efforts both in Africa and in North Science Facility will advance our retractable claws. Its chest is deep once thought to be a separate sub- and prey. American zoos. In November research findings and offer yet and its waist is narrow. Its coat is species, but it is merely a mutation The cheetah is considered the 2004, for the first time in the more opportunities to share with tan with small, round, black spots, of the African cheetah. The ‘king most primitive of all cats, and National Zoo’s history, a litter of the public the need to conserve and the fur is coarse and short. cheetah’ has only been seen in the until recently was thought to have cubs was born. Another litter was African wildlife.” The fur of the cheetah is tan with wild a handful of times, but it has evolved approximately 18 million born the following April. These The cheetah, the world’s fastest round black spots measuring from been bred in captivity. years ago, although new research nine cubs are the result of the land mammal, faces a question- 2-3 centimetres (¾ to 1¼ inches) The cheetah’s paws have semi- puts the last common ancestor Zoo’s participation in the Cheetah able future in nature. Cheetahs in across, affording it some camou- retractable claws[5] (known only of all 40 existing species of feline Species Survival Plan. However, zoos are a research resource and flage while hunting. There are no in two other cat species - the more recently, at 11 million years. research has shown that cheetahs provide a safeguard against extinc- spots on its white underside, but Fishing Cat and the Iriomote Cat) The cheetah’s natural enemies are Cover photo of cheetah tion of their wild counterparts. the tail has spots, which merge offering the cat extra grip in its the lion, hyenas, and the leopard. by Mark Probst Additionally, this species in zoos to form four to six dark rings at high-speed pursuits. The ligament Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 

Questioned at the time the ordinance was brought before council under “emergency circumstances” bypassing the requirement of a public hearing or a second reading, Town Manager J. Michael Graham called the ordinance a “rou- Business tine housekeeping” matter involving residential customers.

Commercial laundry battles town over utilities Industrial corridor commercial laundry seeks right to provide own water neighbors, we’d like to operate a company here that’s a big benefit to the community,” Peragine said following the May hearing. “But we find ourselves caught in a situ- ation where the town has basically become a municipal bully when it comes to water and services. And we’re caught, not just in a conflict between FDR and the town, but we’re caught in a global conflict that the town seems to be having with the county over many, many issues. And this case, unfortu- nately, is going to be a case that has a ripple effect to the four corners of the state of Virginia. So, we’re caught in that and there’s nothing we can do but try and survive.” Asked for comment following The FDR commercial laundry facility off Rockland Road in Warren County. The business primarily services the May hearing, Town Manager the health care industry, including hospitals and nursing homes, according to company officials. Graham, contract attorney Robert Mitchell and current Town At- By Roger Bianchini on FDR’s argument the town has continued. “We tried our best to At the May motions hearing torney Tom Robinett would say Warren County Report exceeded the rights granted it by negotiate with them. We explained former interim Front Royal Town only, “We’re waiting for the judge’s state law in mandating hookups that what they were doing would Attorney Robert Mitchell argued decision.” Is the Town of Front Royal busi- outside its boundaries. Attorneys simply put us out of business, that that as a town utility customer, ness friendly? for both sides argued cross mo- there’s no way a company of our FDR is subject to expired terms State code Not according to representa- tions for dismissal and summary size could ever afford that type and rate changes just like any tives of a Plainview, New York- judgments on that legal point in of an increase. And it fell on deaf other town resident or utility The Virginia Code section fo- based industrial laundry operation front of Warren County Circuit ears. So, we decided we would customer. cused on by FDR attorneys before in Warren County’s northside U.S. Court Judge Dennis L. Hupp. help ourselves and rather than While town officials see the case the court on May 21 is 15.2-2143 522 Industrial Corridor. However, After questioning both counsels argue with the town, we would put as one customer seeking special (2007) regarding water supplies town officials argue the company on the nature of their arguments, wells in.” treatment not granted every town and facilities. It states: in question is simply seeking to Hupp said he would need time FDR then received permission utility customer, FDR attorneys “Every locality may provide extend a competitive commer- before reaching a decision. to build wells to service its busi- argued the company is neither a and operate within or outside its cial advantage by maintaining FDR’s challenge of the rates ness from the Warren County town resident nor a typical water boundaries water supplies and highly favorable rates tied to a now themselves is scheduled for trial Health Department. Peragine user – going through four mil- water production, preparation, lapsed contract inherited when in November, when whether said his company got the neces- lion gallons of water a month as distribution and transmission sys- the business was purchased two the town is being arbitrary and sary permits from the county it primarily services health care tems, facilities and appurtenances years ago. capricious in establishing the government and had incurred businesses such as hospitals and for the purpose of furnishing wa- FDR Services Limited is seeking company’s rates versus the costs about $134,000 in expenses tied nursing homes. ter for the use of its inhabitants; or to reduce a huge increase in its of providing the services will be to construction of the wells prior “The problem is that we are may contract with others for such water and sewer service bills from argued. to the town passing an ordinance singled out, we are the only entity purposes and services. Fees and the Town of Front Royal – from an mandating both water and sewer that is subject to this out of town charges for the services of such average of $160,000 to $1.2 million Welcome to Front Royal, err hookups by town utility custom- multiplier of a rate that is already systems shall be fair and reason- annually – by pumping water from Warren County ers. higher than everyone else would able and payable as directed by the wells on its property through its On Feb. 26, the Front Royal pay in town,” Peragine said. The locality. Except in counties, which water system, then dumping the FDR Director of Governmental Town Council rushed through an company is contending the town are not otherwise authorized, a water into existing town sewer Affairs Michael Peragine contends emergency ordinance mandat- has been arbitrary and capricious locality may require the connec- hookups. the town has been unreasonable ing that town water and sewer in the application of water and tion of premises with facilities Front Royal says “no” and at- since the outset of the situation. utility customers hooked up to sewer rates to it. provided for furnishing water; tempts to negotiate a compromise “We purchased the facility in April one service must be connected charge and collect compensation solution on reduced water and or May of 2005 and three months to the other. Questioned at the Collateral damage? for water thus furnished; and may sewer rates for the business have later the town walked in one day time the ordinance was brought provide penalties for the unau- failed. and said your water rates are now before council under “emergency Peragine says his company is in a thorized use thereof.” As a consequence FDR is chal- one million dollars higher – and circumstances” bypassing the fight for survival and believes FDR Among the arguments made by lenging Front Royal on several pay them within the next several requirement of a public hearing is caught in the midst of a larger FDR attorney Phillip C. Strother, legal fronts, including the town’s days or we’re simply going to shut or a second reading, Town Man- power struggle between the town of Richmond, was that Warren right to mandate service hook you down and put you out of busi- ager J. Michael Graham called the and county and a possible town is not among the counties des- ups outside its boundaries, as ness. ordinance a “routine housekeep- attempt to balance its budget at ignated by state law where such well as the rates themselves. A “That is one of the acts we are ing” matter involving residential the expense of others. hookups can be required. May 21 motions hearing focused challenging in court,” Peragine customers. “We really would like to be good Page  • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007

“The point is we are Virginians [now] and we believe strongly in the potential of Business this Commonwealth even if we are part of a California-based organization (Stan- ford Research Institute),” Mathieson said.

ConsultantSRI says hopes results we’re will bring hereFront Royal to to the help table questioning SRI’s motive and wasteland of development and the perspective toward growth issues towns have disappeared. And part due to their office’s location in and parcel of the roadmap is to Northern Virginia, Mathieson do it a different way and to avoid said, “I’m from rural Pennsylvania what happened in Manassas and to be honest . . . and our office is in Fairfax and so on. That’s why in Arlington, not Fairfax.” we’re excited about this [project] “And I’m from Wisconsin,” Vick- because it’s not [already] built land added. up yet with lots of housing and “The point is we are Virginians sprawl.” [now] and we believe strongly in Responding to a question, Vick- the potential of this Common- land commented on her recount- wealth even if we are part of a ing to the EDA of a family dinner California-based organization outing in Northern Virginia, (Stanford Research Institute),” which she observed left her and Mathieson said. her family emotionally empty “More important than who we and devoid of any positive social are, is who you are,” Vickland said. experience. “And the whole process is built “That was in Fairfax at a place on interaction. The [roadmap’s] called – well, I won’t single one vision was built on interviews out, there all the same, which is with Warren County and Front the problem,” she said. “But I will Royal residents, businesses and go there sometimes because it fills Roger Bianchini the municipal leaders.” a need. But I also have a need for “One of things we heard and we community and for special unique At the May 25 WC-FR EDA meeting, SRI International Science, Technology and fully agree with, and we said it a places. And your downtown has Economic Development Director John Mathieson and Senior Economist Kathleen hundred times during the devel- so many assets and we are so ex- Vickland discuss the community roadmap to the future developed by the consul- opment of the roadmap – is you cited about working with all the tants last year after extensive interviewing with local officials, businessmen and have a unique opportunity here stakeholders to make this hap- citizens. because you do have a communi- pen,” Vickland said of SRI’s vision ty,” Mathieson said of Front Royal for the future of Front Royal and By ROGER BIANCHINI congestion creates?” didn’t have controversy at the and Warren County. “Northern Warren County. Warren County Report Notably absent to hear the SRI beginning,” Mathieson observed. Virginia has none, it’s just one vast message was any representative “The Marshall Plan that rebuilt At the May 25 meeting of the from the Town of Front Royal, Europe [following World War Front Royal-Warren County Eco- which recently declined to fund II] was highly controversial; our nomic Development Authority, a $14,700 share of SRI’s $120,000 moon program – highly contro- representatives of consultant SRI contract for the coming year. In versial . . . The trick is to make real International told EDA, Warren that year, SRI is poised to guide progress so everybody sees some County and Chamber of Com- the Warren County-Front Royal benefits from what’s going on. And merce representatives they want community into the first year of that’s frankly what we are trying to to help the community preserve implementation of its “Future achieve.” the character that makes it special Community Roadmap.” “In a way it would be worse if in the face of growth pressures While its plan stresses close there was silence because it would from the east. interactions between all major in- mean people didn’t care, they John Mathieson, Director of volved parties, SRI has found itself didn’t see it as relevant to their SRI’s Arlington-based Center for in the midst of an escalating “turf lives,” Vickland said of questions Science, Technology and Eco- war” between the Front Royal and about the roadmap. “People here nomic Development told county Warren County governments over recognize that this is important to officials, “The economic future growth, utility service, tax and fee their lives, it matters, they want to of this community is assured issues. be a part of it and they want us to – it’s going to happen. But the But despite the apparent role of move forward . . . We’ve had great question is what kind of develop- the very sort of personality and conversations with the town and ment? Do you want just sort of the political differences the EDA is we look forward to a continued

sweep this suburbanization of the seeking to avoid by keeping SRI relationship and their involvement Roger Bianchini Washington area to take over here involved as an overseer of the in the roadmap to the extent that as it has taken over a lot of other coming project, Mathieson and its possible.” Arlington-based SRI International officials John Ma- communities or do you want to SRI Senior Economist Kathleen thieson and Kathleen Vickland say their company’s build up those activities which Vickland see hope for future co- Who are these people? goal is to help this community retain its small-town, essentially act as a firewall against operation. rural character in the face of Northern Virginia a lot of the bad things that, that “There are rarely initiatives that Of Councilman Tom Sayre’s growth pressures. Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 

Kelble said that Cargill and Pilgrim’s Pride have gained competitive edges within their industries by paying less for inferior treatment of the wastes they have contracted for Dead river disposal of in violation of environmental laws.

Riverkeepers add SIL customers to pollution litigation Pilgrim’s Pride, Cargill linked to earlier filing against SIL waste treatment plant

By Roger Bianchini says Shenandoah Riverkeeper Warren County Report Jeff Kelble. “PPC and Cargill have broken federal and state laws by On May 23, three environmen- sending poultry processing and tal groups announced their intent chemical wastes that overwhelm to sue Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation the treatment system at SIL. From (PPC) and Cargill Meat Solutions there the improperly treated waste Corporation for violating federal ends up in the North Fork.” and state environmental laws. In the announcement of the new The groups, Shenandoah River- actions the Riverkeeper groups keeper, Potomac Riverkeeper and said the poultry processing waste Waterkeeper Alliance, charge the contains large amounts of pollut- poultry processors with unlawful ants such as phosphorus, nitrogen, dumping of poultry waste and ammonia and a fecal coliform construction debris into the North pollutant now being linked to four Fork of the Shenandoah River in seasons of fish kills in various sec- Timberville, Virginia. tions of the Shenandoah River. Pilgrim’s Pride and Cargill an- “These pollutants destroy fish nually send 360 million gallons of and wildlife habitat in the Shenan- poultry processing waste to the doah, and contribute to the ongo- failing SIL wastewater treatment ing impairment of the Chesapeake facility in Timberville, a joint Bay,” the May 23 press release statement from the environmen- stated. Roger Bianchini talists said. The legal notice accused Pil- Shenandoah Riverkeeper Jeff Kelble talks with Steve Reeser and Matt Hen- “These slaughterhouses share grim’s Pride of routinely exceeding derson, not pictured, as DEQ biologist Ted Turner works on fish sample. responsibility for the failure of the contractual limitations on the the SIL treatment plant and re- amount of waste it shipped to the period between August 2001 and facility from the outset but that Water Act prohibits the discharge sulting2 column pollution x 6 inches of the river,” SIL treatment facility, citing the August 12005, column with x 6additional inches the new suits simply took longer of pollutants into U.S. waters.” violations in the summer of 2006. to prepare. The SIL plant is currently under Cargill is accused of failing to In the joint May 23 press release a court order to upgrade their pre-treat the waste it shipped to filed by the river watchdog groups equipment and meet the discharge SIL since 200CONGRATULATIONS1. it was noted that the federal limits in their Clean Water Act CONGRATULATIONS1 GRADUATESBLACK CENTERED: 5 1BLBLACKACK BOX, CENTERED: WHITE LOGO (right-side crops): 10 C Kelble explained that the new Resource Conservation and Re- permit. 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Regional jail committee members have verified unofficially that a Shenandoah County site is now on the table, though it has only been discussed during closed sessions at meetings. Regional Jail

Page drops out of regional jail project Study continues despite loss of second largest contributing county ago that changing economic and Belton also acknowledged that debt service in a tiered structure design factors were increasing the the lost opportunity to place the may allow us to participate more project’s cost estimate by another regional jail in Page was pivotal. affordably at a later time.” $17.76 million to a total of $81.4 “A majority of the BOS felt the million for a projected 486-bed regional jail would have been as Site search facility. The new cost estimate asset to our locality were it to have means that in just a year and a half been located in Page County and, While a potential site in War- project costs have jumped over 50 as you know, we were unable to ren County’s northside Industrial percent due to changing national gain approval from the Town of Corridor was submitted to the and world economic conditions Luray for the site in the Industrial state to meet a March 1 deadline, impacting the construction indus- Park; nor was public sentiment that site is problematic due to pre- try – (hey, it’s all just tax money, in favor of locating the facility vious contractual commitments how high can we go?!!?). The elsewhere in the county. Further, to the still alive, if floundering remaining jurisdictions are left to preliminary conversations with CPV-Warren gas-fired electrical ponder 50-percent increases in Department of Corrections’ staff generating facility. CPV has ap- the above-cited numbers, as well indicate unwillingness on their plied for the extension of its emis- as the impact of Page’s withdrawal part to recommend the continued sions permits with both the state Roger Bianchini on costs. operation of Page County ’s local and federal authorities despite Page County Adminstrator Mark Belton, far left, dis- It is not yet clear whether Page’s jail as a satellite of the regional the absence of a wholesale power cusses regional jail issues with, from left, Shenando- withdrawal will lower the design facility.” purchaser for the immensely ah County Adminstrator Vince Poling, Warren County capacity and possibly reduce costs “The BOS want very much to cleaner, yet more expensive power Adminstrator Doug Stanley and Shenandoah County on the project. continue to try and resolve com- plant. The committee is facing a District 5 Supervisor Dennis Morris following the April Belton stated following the May mon problems regionally where November deadline for a final jail Regional Jail Committee meeting. Belton notified the 8 regional jail committee meeting it makes sense to do so. They site determination. committee Page was pulling out of the project short- that with the loss of his county’s recognize our Page County jail Regional jail committee mem- ly after the May meeting. only viable jail site, the Page su- over-crowding is a problem that bers have verified unofficially pervisors were considering that cannot be long ignored and are that a Shenandoah County site the numbers just don’t add up for starting to look at potential local is now on the table, though it By Roger Bianchini jail concept, Page’s withdrawal them at this time. The reason, he solutions to the issue. If, at some has only been discussed during Warren County Report will significantly increase each said, is due to the amount of debt point in the future, the regional jail closed sessions at meetings. Page remaining locality’s financial Page County is preparing to as- contemplates expansion, please and Warren were considered first In mid-May we reported that obligation to the now $81.4- sume for a number of other capital consider Page County as a pos- choices for potential locations due the Regional Jail Committee com- million project. Ultimately, the improvement projects, including sible partner at that time and as to more central locations to all the prised of Shenandoah, Warren, comparison of construction and schools and county administrative a potential client for any excess participating counties. Shenan- Page and Rappahannock Counties annual operational costs associ- offices. capacity the regional group may doah began the regional jail study was pressing on at full strength ated with the regional versus local have available in the meantime. process over two years ago. despite the ongoing absence of jail path for each jurisdiction will Page’s situation Our county’s efforts to establish an established location and the determine the fate of the project. potential that one member – Page Advantages cited for a regional Belton’s May 16 letter to Shenan- Special Event Announcement doah, Warren and Rappahannock – was pondering an exit from the are the state’s contribution of 50 group. percent of costs to regional jails officials following the Page Board On May 16, Page County Ad- versus a 25 percent maximum of Supervisors’ May 15 meeting Saturday, June 9th, 2007 • 10:00am - 4:00pm ministrator Mark Belton informed contribution for the construction noted the county government had (Rain Date: Sunday, June 10th) the membership of the Regional of new single locality jails. concluded that, “While a regional Jail Committee that Page was, in In December 2005, when the solution to local jail overcrowding fact, withdrawing from the region- project was estimated at a cost of may still be the most economical al jail process. The primary rea- $53.4 million for a 442-bed facil- long-term solution, Page County sons Belton cited were increasing ity by Richmond-based consul- is already committed to building costs, his county’s other financial tant Moseley Architects, Warren two new high schools and a new commitments and debt services County’s share was put at $12.1 county office building and has set and the loss of the county’s only million, Page’s at $7.6 million, the real estate and personal prop- viable site for the jail in the Town Shenandoah’s at $4.9 million erty tax rates to reflect significant Come celebrate America’s 400th Anniversary at Shenandoah of Luray. and Rappahannock’s at $2 mil- increases for those projects. Fur- Page’s withdrawal leaves the re- lion. Savings of from $2 million ther increases would be necessary River State Park! Joining in the celebration will be Civil War re- gional jail study group at three ju- for Rappahannock to $8 million to fund Page County ’s share of the enactors, Warren County Sheriff’s Department Mounted Patrol, risdictions, the minimum number for Warren were estimated by regional jail and, considering the South Warren Volunteer Fire Department, Weasel Creek Outfitters, required for a regional jail process staying with a regional concept new higher estimate for local share Shenandoah Valley Racket-Ter’s, US Customs canines, Luray Zoo, to proceed. at that point. However, since of construction for the regional Twin Creek LLamas and many more. Bring the whole family and How high can costs go? that time the project costs had facility, the board of supervisors While officials of the three already increased by $10 million feels it would collectively be too a picnic lunch and enjoy the day with us! much of a burden for county tax- remaining localities initially re- before the regional jail commit- Shenandoah River State Park • Bentonville, VA • (540) 622-6840 main committed to the regional tee was informed two months payers.” Page  • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007

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Smedley said regardless of his opponent’s intentions for November, his plans remained unchanged. “My plan all along is to be the Commissioner of Revenue that I am and con- Politics tinue to be for at least four more years.”

Smedley thrashes Mabry in Republican canvass Vanquished opponent decides on November rematch as Independent challenger

turnout. I had received a lot of The following day during an rematch of the five-time Warren verbal support and verbal assur- appearance with this reporter County Commissioner of the ance that people would come out and WZRV 95.3 FM/WFTR 1650 Revenue and his recently bowed to vote – and it was far in excess AM News Director Mario Retrosi but unbroken challenger. of the actual votes I received,” on “The News at Noon,” Smedley Smedley said regardless of his Mabry said. “So, needless to say, became overcome with emotion opponent’s intentions for No- I’m disappointed in the turnout as he recounted a family member vember, his plans remained un- and the support for me.” Mabry also cited some voter confusion as to where and when people could vote – the canvass was held from noon to 8 p.m. at the WCGC. “Whether that had an effect on the turnout for me I don’t know but I think all those factors combined certainly did not have any benefit for me. “As far as what I am going to do – to be quite honest with you, I’m very tired and exhausted. I need a little time to decide which direc- tion I’m going to go in. As I said, Sally Stogdale hugs her brother John Smedley for people were very strongly in sup- luck before casting her vote - I wonder for who - for port of me verbally and I have to Former Town of Front Royal Electrical Department Republican nomination for Commissioner of the Rev- decide what I’m going to do – and head and long-time Republican Party stalwart Joe enue. right at this point I honestly don’t Swiger shows his support for challenger Ron Mabry know.” in the Commissioner of Revenue Party nomination canvass. By Roger Bianchini days after his sound defeat to say Three days later the challenger WZRV/Warren County Report he would take another shot at did know – REMATCH!!! Smedley in the November general Immediately after his Republi- telling him following his victory, changed. “My plan all along is to Five-term incumbent Warren election. can canvass victory, Smedley said “John, the people of this com- be the Commissioner of Revenue County Commissioner of the Within an hour of the May 22 he was gratified and humbled by munity just like you,” and was that I am and continue to be for at Revenue John H. Smedley brushed result going out, Mabry, while ex- Tuesday’s result. “I feel honored unable to continue with the live least four more years.” aside the challenge of Ron L. pressing disappointment, seemed that the voters of Warren County interview. As for the pivotal campaign Mabry for the 2007 Republican unreconciled to his defeat and and the Town of Front Royal had While some in the community issue of accountability and how Party nomination for that Consti- refused to commit to an endorse- the confidence in me, it’s just un- may, indeed, like Smedley, it ap- he operates tax relief programs, tutional Office on May 22. ment of his Republican Party op- believable the way they came out pears that deep-seated political Smedley said, “I think the vot- Smedley’s 1,011 to 395 win – a ponent. for me today. I’m so humbled I re- opposition both within and with- ers told them what they thought 616-vote margin – was even more “I’m very disappointed in the ally don’t know how to talk about out of the Republican Party he about what they were saying about decisive proportionally than his it.” embraced in 2003 do not. me.” first internal Party challenge after Leading us to this November’s becoming a Republican in 2003. Smedley’s first four campaigns for the Revenue Office were as an Independent. In the 2003 Republican Party canvass, Smed- ley defeated incumbent Happy Creek Supervisor Tony Carter by a nearly 2 to 1 margin – 1,669 to 838 votes. However, Smedley’s general election race that year was much tighter, as he turned away the challenge of Independent Steve Brady by just 135 of 7,227 votes cast – Smedley’s tightest margin From near and far, local luminaries past and present of victory ever. found themselves wandering toward the WCGC dur- Perhaps it was that tight re- ing the May 22 Republican Party canvass for Commis- sult in the 2003 general election Shielding herself from the sun in the middle of the sioner of the Revenue nomination. From left, former following a Republican canvass WCGC parking lot, Sandi Mabry greets Vicky McDan- FRPD Capt. Steve Shiro, 18th District state Represen- landslide victory for Smedley that iel in support of her husband’s challenge of Warren tative Clay Athey and former FRPD Chief Larry Dan- gave Mabry the impetus just three County Commissioner of the Revenue John Smedley. iels and wife. Page 10 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007 Briefs

Madden rips political opportunism among Republicans Party chairman critical of defeated candidate’s rebound challenge EDA assets questioned By Roger Bianchini participated under. A lot of volun- Political Science Brooks – is this normal? Warren County Report teers were involved; they spent a By Roger Bianchini ed to a WZRV, 95.3 FM “News whole day of their life doing it . . . Smedley joined the county Warren County Report at Noon” report earlier that day. Warren County Republican so that no taxpayer money would Republican Committee following Hrbek acknowledged the station’s Committee Chairman Bridgett be involved.” his 1998 general election defeat Has the Front-Royal-Warren report the town had not sent Madden was less than enthralled Asked if the Party would pun- of then Republican Committee County Economic Development a representative to the May 25 with Ron Mabry’s decision to chal- ish Mabry for his move, Madden Chairman Matt Tederick. Smedley Authority become a quasi-gov- town-county EDA meeting where lenge Republican nominee John acknowledged that Mabry had won that race by 656 of 6,720 votes ernmental cash cow run amok? representatives of consultant Smedley in the November general resigned from the Warren County cast. Smedley has said he was in- That seemed to be the question SRI International reviewed their election. Republican Committee in the vited to join the Party during his asked by Councilman Stan Brooks perspective of implementation of Madden’s chagrin is deepened wake of his defeat. fourth term in office and accepted at the May 29 Front Royal Town their plan for a concerted commu- by the fact Mabry joined the Party In announcing his decision in a that invitation. Council meeting. Brooks cited nity effort to meet future growth last year to challenge Smedley for May 25 press release, Mabry said In 2003, his first campaign as EDA assets of $1.5 million in hard and economic pressures. the Republican nomination for he felt the voter turnout for the a Republican, Smedley decisively cash in bank accounts and another Hrbek said the town should Smedley’s Constitutional Office Party canvass – 1,406 of approxi- turned away the Party challenge $8 million in property before re- not be painted as a bad guy in as Warren County Commissioner mately 7,000 registered county of incumbent Happy Creek Su- questing town staff to explore the recent municipal and community of the Revenue The five-time com- voters – did not give an accurate pervisor Tony Carter by 831 of nature and continuation of such disputes. He stated the EDA had missioner of the revenue thrashed appraisal of public opinion about 2,507 votes cast in Smedley’s first holdings. signed a contract with SRI for his challenge of Smedley, who was Republican canvass. Mabry by 616 votes (1,011-395) in Brooks said he was not aware of the coming year’s implementa- the May 22 Republican canvass first elected as an Independent in As the incumbent, Smedley has any other surrounding municipal tion stage of its plan without the (see related story). Three days later 1987. the choice of what kind of primary EDA with control of such assets approval of both the county and Mabry said he would run again “There are times that one must race the Party will hold. He has and wondered whether such an the town, as should have been in an Independent challenge of step aside from local Party politics thus far fared well in the electoral arrangement in this community required. Hrbek also portrayed Smedley. and this is one of those times,” format that allows any of the coun- should continue. the county government as react- Mabry said in his May 25 an- ty’s registered voters to participate “I was disappointed in that Brooks’ query came on the heels ing poorly to a response from decision because the rules of the nouncement. in the Party preliminary race. of deteriorating relations between the town on what its water policy [Republican] Committee require “I think a lot of people use the In the 2003 general election Smed- the town and the EDA, county was – “because they didn’t get the that you support the Republican Republican Party as a jumping ley defeated Independent chal- government and chamber of com- answer they wanted.” candidate that was duly nominat- off point to, hopefully [in their lenger Steve Brady by just 135 merce on a variety of fronts. Hrbek concluded that he hoped ed. The canvass rules require the minds], increase their chances of votes, his closest margin of victory Prior to Brooks’ comments, the two municipalities would be same. I’m sorry Mr. Mabry didn’t winning,” Madden said. since defeating Staige Miller Jr. by Councilman Bret Hrbek respond- able to “work things out.” decide to honor the rules that he 152 votes in 1987.

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Does“See this fallen Your angel ask tooFace” much? By Roger Bianchini New York musical highway. And WAY!!! Warren County Report with a little urging, begging and Sometimes I wonder if JJ’s uni- pleading, Joanne is seeking to add versal feminine consciousness isn’t (Managing Editor’s note: Balti- the Northern Shenandoah Valley leading my poor, battered male more musical femme fatale Joanne to her musical fan base. Following ego astray. Sure lyrical musings Juskus – noted in some quarters for is yours truly’s review of her most over the pitfalls of love lost and fronting the post-industrial-tribal- recent CD, “See Your Face.”) found, pained relationships and dance-trance band Telesma – is the fall to earth after a leap at the bringing her not-quite solo act to I have to laugh when I see stars are universal themes, issues The Strasburg Theater on June 23. Joanne Juskus solo music referred that have never attained resolu- Juskus’ mesmerizing vocals and to as “Lite Rock” in online thumb- tion for the vast majority of us. Its piano accompaniment to her own nails. If it is, indeed, as thus adver- just most guys don’t want to hear compositions will be augmented on tised why do I sometimes feel so about it. We know we’re screwed this occasion by guitarist Adrian exhausted and exhilarated after emotionally, we accept it – let’s Bond. The duo is already popular listening to her CD’s, the newly just move on. along the D.C. to Baltimore to released “See Your Face” and her But JJ’s haunting voice and

2002 offering “Joanne Juskus?” melodic intrusions planted into Courtesy photos/Joanne Juskus Yes, much of her music is me- my subconscious always draw me lodically pleasing, even dare I say back under cover of night and I left me with nothing and it feels so mass media toilet bowl of modern Family it – commercially catchy – and end up wondering where exactly good.” “Nothing” ends what I think Western death-culture? Too late certainly not to slamdance to. that fallen angel’s voice is pointing of as the “first side” of “See Your to turn back now, you’re stuck here Convenience However, “lite” by my understand- me. Face” – I know I’m dating myself with the rest of us, looking for an ing of the term applied to rock/pop I once thought JJ sang about here, yes I do remember two-sided oar to row out of that porcelain music implies a certain vapidity or “chick things” and there is a cer- vinyl LPs and I still revert to call- lake of fire with. And the only way mindlessness. Britney Spears is tain amount of that on “See Your ing CDs albums. But if JJ sings of to move in that direction is to do LITE, maybe robo-dance-bimbo Face,” as in the seething, spiteful such female perspectives, she also as JJ asks, see the true reflection lite, but light nonetheless, Jani emotional victory in abandonment and often at the same time, seems behind the mirrored masks. is lite, Kenny G is “lite” – JJ, NO of “Nothing” and its tag line, “You to be singing about everything else Okay, she’s tricky and she still – the universality of experience drives me nuts. The lyrics to the • Gas & Groceries within and all around the human title cut “See Your Face” seem one endeavor. of those lost in love, inside the Alright, so how hard have we reflection of the object of desire, all fallen, from where and can we female musings best left to the ever find a way home may not be other side of the male listening suitable breakfast table conver- consciousness. But as with so sation for the kids, at least not much of JJ’s music there seem the youngest ones. But these are levels of interpretation (and there certainly questions pondered for is the hint offered by “See Your millennia in secluded alleyways, Face’s” cover art). dark jazz lofts and barrooms by Kurt Vonnegut once posed the restless, older gypsy spirits on the question in his novel “Mother prowl. And admit it, you are one of Night” – when do we cease to be • Car Wash them – why else would you have who we really are and become read this far? – other than perhaps what we are pretending to be?” It seeking something to listen to is a question fraught with danger, other than what corporate Amer- for how many of us will find out ica plops into the mainstream, it really is too late, we’ve already

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passed so far over into the nether- “Dally Not” and “Nothing.” The BOMBSHELL. I don’t know how our nature and our world. course there are the myriad false prophets of evangelical huckster- ing of every religious stripe that would sell us heaven for a dollar and a roadside drive by – maybe she’s singing about them or maybe both or maybe neither. If there are true holy men still walking the earth, JJ is one of their prophets, a priestess perhaps. And as I find myself experiencing new levels of discovery upon each lis- tening of “See Your Face,” I realize I can’t wait for this “chick” to come out of the temple again with a new set of musical musings.

(Managing editor’s postscript – I’m not the only one who likes her: “File under heavenly voices,” says Albert Garzon, former producer for 10,000 Maniacs, of Joanne Juskus, an accomplished pianist, vocalist and songwriter. The Bal- timore, MD songstress’ voice has been compared to the purity of Annie Haslam (Renaissance), the innocence of early Joni Mitchell, with the tonalities of Kate Bush. Chosen as a Top 10 Favorite of Courtesy photos/Joanne Juskus the Year by The Washington Post, world of self-serving ego creation contrast between the last two, many times is the most I have “Even the president of the United Joanne has received 8 WAMMIE we wouldn’t be able to see the the very personal ego bashing of played it in a row. A song of life States must sometime have to nominations from the Washington difference between what we have “Nothing” preceded by one of two and love lost in escapist despair. stand naked,” Bob Dylan once Area Music Association. Joanne become and what we once thought songs on the album the lyrics of If you have ever danced with that sang. Now, as Dylan did, Juskus has performed at such venues as we would be. which are credited to Swami B.V. devil this song is cathartic. asks that we all bite the bullet of Merriweather Post Pavilion, New JJ lays it all on the line, double Tripurari. “Dally Not” doesn’t hint There is one more song, a re- thorough self-examination. Like York City’s Bitter End and Knitting entendre lyrics, entrapping melo- at the mystical – it nails the sub- make of her first album’s “Breathe Dylan 40 years earlier, Joanne Factory, and Musikfest. Her live dy and the fallen angel’s voice, in ject unambiguously: “Live for the Underwater.” This cut is a neces- Juskus uses her voice and her art performances have been called “See Your Face’s” opening track moment in service’s call; answer to sary rhythmic coda to the emo- to ask us all to take that hard look “a mesmerizing sound not to be “Holy Man.” Out of a spiraling no one, yet answer to all; go to the tionally draining previous song toward the reflection of inner matched” (Dawson Concerts) and intro and meditative chant, JJ root of the world’s dilemma; and and it hints at a little of the percus- truth. What would we find there “incredibly compelling” (Frederick begins shredding the norm of ev- time will embrace you – you’ll live sive, techno influence of her gig – perhaps our uniting humanity? Festival of the Arts). Says Sally eryday existence with a vocal both forever.” with Baltimore’s post-industrial- Is that what JJ’s “Holy Man” would Thorner, WJZ-TV Eyewitness News descriptive and questioning: So as I pondered this message tribal-dance-trance band Telesma move us toward by robbing us anchorwoman, “To hear Joanne’s “Beautiful shining holy man and the following “Hit the Road, (that was a mouthful but they are deaf, dumb and blind? Is he only voice, you notice an amazing tal- with eyes on fire like a child . . . Jack” sentiments wondering what hard to pin down & GREAT by any out to steal our illusions? I guess ent. She is just hypnotic.” When you find him will you mind could possibly be next, the second description). that’s what real holy men do, that’s Strasburg Theater, June 23, a him as he robs you deaf, dumb and Swami-credited lyrical offering, Is the upbeat version an im- why we crucify, stone and vilify day after the Summer Solstice – be blind – Have you ever known love “Rite and Ritual” did something provement over the first album them, only worshipping them in there!) of that kind?” And at the track’s unexpected – it began what I version, does it make it better? No, retrospect and at a distance. Of conclusion she asks if we’re “ready would consider a nearly perfect but it is interesting in its difference to be led astray?” album side. Song after song, more and that is another thing that at- Yea, sure we are. But tell us thematically connected musically, tracts me to JJ’s musical musings again, Joanne, about this robbing though venturing lyrically per- – she doesn’t ever seem satisfied. I deaf, dumb and blind and exactly haps even more than the album’s see that restless movement toward where are we going with this “put- first half, the songs that followed, an unrealizable horizon that is ting out fire with fire” thing? “Missing You,” Rebel,” “Together part of what spurs the human soul But the album’s second cut Apart” and “Happy Medium” led to endure, whether through war, “Gravity” brings us straight back to an emotional crescendo with failed relationships, or any other to earth, even if in a somewhat one of the CD’s most sparsely sort of very personal experiences dizzying instrumental way. The produced cuts, “Nothing I Can of loss. album’s first half, or six of its 13 Do.” From song to song, theme to songs, left me somewhat con- This song – with JJ’s voice theme, catchy to elusive melody fused from a stylistic perspective, backed only by her piano, a plain- and lyric on “See Your Face,” Holy Man, to Gravity to detached tive violin provided by Willard Joanne Juskus performs the true maleness in “Untouched,” to the Morris and sympathetic bass artistic task of asking us to come Courtesy photos/Joanne Juskus aforementioned “See Your Face,” by Telesma’s Bryan Jones – is a to terms with our selves, our lives, Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 13 Crime

Briefs from Front Royal Police Chief Ronald A. Williamson FRPD targets suspect May 25, 2007 traffic, lane closures, and detours while ing in a northeasterly direction. The driving through this area. You should Front Royal Police Department was Traffic Enforcement Officer Donald also attempt to find an alternate route in assisted by agents from the Federal Recoveredin Marathon money among evidence linking BankC.D. Hackley to crimejob Orye of the Front Royal Police Depart- an effort to avoid any delays. Any ques- Bureau of Investigation, the Warren By Roger Bianchini charged the day following the ment wishes to announce a change tions or concerns should be directed to County Sheriff’s Office, the Frederick Warren County Report robbery at the Warren County Jail, in the posted speed limit on Routes VDOT at (540)743-6585. County Sheriff’s Office, and Virginia where he was being held without 340/522 North at Riverton. The posted State Police Troopers including a State On May 25 Front Royal Police bond on a felony Distribution of speed has been reduced from 35 MPH May 24, 2007 Police Canine unit. No weapon was Chief Ronald A. Williamson an- Drugs warrant. That warrant was to 25 MPH due to the ongoing construc- displayed during the incident, and no nounced that an arrest warrant obtained shortly after the bank tion. Speed limits on Strasburg Road Chief Ronald A. Williamson advised injuries were reported. was being sought for a 26-year-old robbery. have also been reduced to 25 MPH that a bank robbery occurred this date The suspect is described as a black Front Royal man in connection Police said numerous pieces of beginning at A.S. Rhodes Elementary at the Marathon Bank located at 1729 male, in his twenties, standing approxi- with the May 24 robbery of the evidence, including money, as- School. Signs and speed trailers have North Shenandoah Avenue in Front mately 5’9 to 6’0 tall, with a medium Marathon Bank at 1729 North sociated with the robbery were been placed in this area by the con- Royal. It was reported that a black male build. Any information concerning this Shenandoah Avenue. recovered in Hackley’s possession. tractor at the request of VDOT to warn subject wearing a camouflage hat, dark incident should be directed to the Front According to Chief Williamson, A FRPD press release stated that drivers of the reduced speed. Violations clothing and a mask entered the bank at Royal Police Department at 540-635- Investigator Kevin Nicewarner after being caught with evidence of the speed limit in a designated work approximately 10:23 A.M. and passed 2111. Callers may also contact Crime was seeking a robbery charge linking him directly to the bank zone are punishable by higher fines. a demand note to the teller An undis- Solvers at 540-635-9900. Investigator against Charles Daniel Hackley, Jr. robbery, Hackley was cooperative This change will be in effect until the closed amount of money was handed Kevin Nicewarner is the lead agent in of McLendon Drive, Front Royal. with authorities in the robbery completion of the scheduled projects. over to the male subject who then ran the case. Hackley was expected to be investigation. Motorists should be alert for heavy from the bank on foot, last seen head- Page 14 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007

Report from Warren County Sheriff Daniel T. McEathron. Prepared by Becky Sheriff’s report Whited, Administrative Assistant to Patrol.

Warren County Sheriff’s Department JAN FEB MAR APR Warren County Sheriff’s Department JAN FEB MAR APR FELONY CASES INITIATED 25 11 17 12 VEHICLE HIT AND RUN 0 0 0 0 MISDEMEANOR CASES INITIATED 0 0 0 1 VEHICLE RECOVERY 0 0 0 0 OTHER CASES INITIATED 4 3 2 2 SHOOT INOT OCCUPIED VEHICLE 0 0 0 0 NUMBER OF PROPERTY CRIMES 22 4 9 11 SHOOT INOT OCCUPIED DWELLING 0 0 0 0 TOTAL CASES INITIATED THIS MONTH 29 14 19 15 Drugs/Narcotics 0 0 0 0 FELONY WARRANTS ISSUED 0 0 17 4 ESCAPE 0 0 0 0 MISD. WARRANTS ISSUED 0 0 0 2 Search Warrants 0 0 0 0 INDICTMENTS ISSUED 0 0 0 0 Consent Search 0 0 0 0 FELONY PETITIONS ISSUED 0 0 3 0 Misc. Assist (PD,FD,VSP,SO, DTF) 0 0 0 0 MISD. PETITIONS ISSUED 0 0 0 0 TOTAL WARRANT/INDT/PETI ISSUED 0 0 20 6 Animal Control JAN FEB MAR APR CLOSED BY ARREST/PROSECUTION 2 9 2 11 Complaints - Town Residents 76 69 69 80 CLOSED UNSOLVED(inactive) 0 44 19 29 Complaints - County Residents 144 157 159 184 CLOSED/PROSECUTION DECLINED 3 1 2 2 County After Hours Calls 2 1 1 5 CLOSED BY EXCEPTION 2 9 3 8 Town After Hours Calls 0 5 3 2 TOTAL CASES CLOSED THIS MONTH 7 63 26 50 County Animal Warnings 0 10 9 6 INTERVIEWS-VICTIMS/WITNESSES 150 112 137 103 Town Animal Warnings 0 7 3 7 INTERVIEWS-SUSPECTS 11 11 11 10 County Animal Summons 5 1 18 16 INTERROGATIONS 2 0 0 0 Town Animal Summons 4 3 2 4 LABORATORY/FAIRFAX 2 1 2 1 County Animals to Shelter 19 35 31 24 AUTOPSY/FAIRFAX 2 1 1 0 Town Animals to Shelter 13 13 12 23 SEARCH WARRANTS 3 2 8 0 County Door to Door Checks 0 0 45 2 CONSENT SEARCH 4 0 0 2 Town Door to Door Checks 0 0 0 2 MISC. ASSIST(PD,VSP,S.O.,DTF) 2 0 5 2 Animals Taken to Veterinarian 3 5 1 4 Phase I Background 11 0 0 0 County Animal Attack Reports 0 5 4 11 Phase II Background 0 0 0 0 Town Animal Attack Reports 0 2 5 3 HOMICIDE 0 0 0 0 Traffic Stops (T38) 10 4 39 21 SUICIDE 2 1 0 0 VA Uniform Summons 0 1 23 8 ACCIDENTAL DEATH 0 0 0 0 (Speeding, Reckless, Poss Marj. DROWNING 1 0 0 0 Self Initiated Arrests: M 0 5 8 1 DOA 0 1 2 0 (DIP, A&B, Etc.) F 0 2 2 0 IN CUSTODY DEATH 0 0 0 0 Arrests From Traffic Stop 10-29 0 0 0 3 MALICIOUS WOUNDING 0 0 0 0 Notice of Suspension Issued 0 1 1 3 FELONIOUS ASSAULT 0 0 0 1 Accidents Investigated 3 1 0 0 ASSAULT AND BATTERY 0 0 0 0 Property Checks 152 218 265 254 GRAND LARCENY 14 3 4 4 Warrants Served 6 2 4 1 PETIT LARCENY 0 0 0 0 Warrants Attempted to Serve 2 3 0 0 VEHICLE GRAND LARCENY 0 0 0 0 Self Initiated Arrests: M 6 0 0 0 3 &4 WHEELER LARCENY 0 0 0 0 (DUI, Driving Susp., Etc .) F 0 0 0 0 Motorcycle Larceny 0 0 0 0 Other Papers Served 0 0 3 9 Moped Larceny 0 0 0 0 Narcotic K-9 Requests 0 0 - - Boat Larceny 0 0 0 0 Patrol K-9 Requests 0 0 - - Attempted B&E 0 0 0 0 Follow - Up (T82) 32 16 53 44 Unlawful Entry 0 0 0 0 Court Hours: Gen. District 6 14 5.25 12 B&E/GRAND LARCENY 3 4 1 0 Circuit 0 8 0 0 B&E/PETIT LARCENY 0 0 0 0 J & D 0 6 0 3 B&E/Destruction of Property 1 1 0 0 Public Assists 4 8 13 23 B&E/with intent to commit another crime 0 0 0 0 Other Agency Assists 2 23 19 34 Property Damage/Vandalism-Felony 1 1 1 0 Property Damage/Vandalism-Misdemeanor 0 0 0 0 RAPE 0 0 0 0 Summary JAN FEB MAR APR SEXUAL ASSAULT ADULT 0 0 1 0 # Complaints Answered 621 502 496 520 SEXUAL ASSAULT CHILD 2 0 3 1 # Complaints Assisted 292 219 252 245 ABDUCTION 0 0 0 0 # Complaints Followed Up On 149 95 154 108 CHILD ABUSE 0 0 0 0 # Public Assists 512 305 358 424 Eldery Abuse 0 0 0 0 # Other Agency Assists 416 188 79 76 False Pretense 0 0 0 0 # Traffic Stops 332 180 276 273 Forgery 0 0 1 0 # VA Uniform Summons 83 39 119 83 Fraud/Checks or Credit Card 2 0 4 1 (Speeding, Reckless, Poss Marj) Fraud/Construction 0 1 1 1 # Arrests from Traffic Stop: M 14 18 14 19 Uttering 0 0 0 0 (DUI, Driving Susp., Etc.) F 2 5 2 0 Embezzlement 1 0 0 1 # Arrest from Traffic Stop 10-29 0 1 2 9 Identity Theft 0 0 0 0 # Notice of Suspension Issued 15 18 15 15 Telephone Scams 0 0 0 0 # Accidents Investigated 23 15 7 7 Paving Scams 0 0 0 0 # Property Checks 9059 5695 5465 5789 Sealing Scams 0 0 0 0 # Warrants Served 73 47 53 54 Mail Scams 0 0 1 0 # Warrants Attempted to Serve 151 74 82 112 Robbery 1 0 0 0 # Self Initiated Arrests: M 9 15 58 12 Strong Arm Robbery 0 0 0 0 (DIP, A&B, Etc.) F 1 2 4 2 ARSON 0 0 0 1 # Other Papers Served 111 77 122 104 SUSPICIOUS FIRE 1 0 0 4 Court Hours: Gen. District 40.5 34 32 72 ACCIDENTAL FIRE 0 1 0 1 Circuit 15 3 10 8.5 BOMB THREAT 0 0 0 0 J & D 18.5 30.5 14 18.5 Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 15 Win a trip to the Warren County Fair Karaoke Contest

Qualifying rounds each Sun - Wed night! The Union Hall Lounge

Beside Victoria’s Restaurant 231 Chester Street Front Royal, VA

* * Tuesday night KIDS EAT FREE at ** Victoria’s Restaurant * 10 & under from Kids Menu w/ purchase of an adult meal after 4 PM

Full Menu & Service for the Entire Family

Open 7 days a week • 11 am - 10 pm 231 Chester St. • Front Royal, VA 540-636-0008 • Most Major Credit Cards Accepted Page 16 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007 Sports

Warren County Babe Ruth League

Results and Standings As of: June1, 2007

Team Wins Losses Ties

Warren County Pirates 7 5 2 Warren County Braves 5 7 0 Warren County Nationals 4 8 3

Game by Game Results Day Date Location Results Wednesday 5/23/2007 Little Bing WC Pirates 12, WC Braves 2 Saturday 5/19/2007 Benner (Fauquier) Fauquier A’s 10, WC Nationals 0 Saturday 5/19/2007 Benner (Fauquier) Fauquier A’s 11, WC Nationals 4 Saturday 5/19/2007 Little Bing WC Braves Rained Out (2 games) Saturday 5/19/2007 Little Bing WC Pirates Rained Out (2 games) Wednesday 5/16/2007 Bing Crosby Stadium WC Nationals 7 WC Pirates 3 Saturday 5/12/2007 Benner (Fauquier) WC Nationals 7, Fauquier A’s 7 Saturday 5/12/2007 Benner (Fauquier) WC Nationals 3, Fauquier A’s 3 (4 innings)

Saturday 5/12/2007 Coleman Stadium (Fauquier) WC Pirates 9, Fauquier Nationals 9 Saturday 5/12/2007 Coleman Stadium (Fauquier) Fauquier Nationals 10, WC Pirates 7 Saturday 5/12/2007 Bing Crosby Stadium FBR Red Sox 2, WC Braves 1 (4 innings) Saturday 5/12/2007 Bing Crosby Stadium WC Braves Rained Out Wednesday 5/9/2007 Bing Crosby Stadium WC Nationals 9, WC Braves 6 Saturday 5/5/2007 Tillet #3 WC Pirates 15, E. Loudoun Cards 2 Saturday 5/5/2007 Tillet #3 WC Pirates 11, E. Loudoun Indians 10 Saturday 5/5/2007 Little Bing WC Braves 11, Fauquier Nationals  Saturday 5/5/2007 Little Bing WC Braves 13, Fauquier Nationals 7 Saturday 5/5/2007 Little Bing E. Loudoun Red Storm 9, WC Nats 7 Saturday 5/5/2007 Little Bing E. Loudoun Red Storm 9, WC Nats 5 Monday 4/30/2007 Bing Crosby Stadium WC Pirates 7, WC Braves 4 Saturday 4/28/2007 Bing Crosby Stadium Fauquier Red Sox 5, WC Pirates 0 Saturday 4/28/2007 Bing Crosby Stadium Fauquier Red Sox 6, WC Pirates 2 Saturday 4/28/2007 Coleman Stadium (Fauquier) WC Nationals 2, Fauquier Nationals 2 Saturday 4/28/2007 Coleman Stadium (Fauquier) WC Nationals 6, Fauquier Nationals  Saturday 4/28/2007 Rappahannock Rappahannock 8, WC Braves 5 Saturday 4/28/2007 Rappahannock Rappahannock 3, WC Braves 2 Wednesday 4/25/2007 Bing Crosby Stadium WC Pirates 5, WC Nationals 3 Saturday 4/21/2007 Little Bing WC Braves 6, Fauquier Nationals 5 Saturday 4/21/2007 Little Bing WC Braves 13, Fauquier Nationals 5 Saturday 4/21/2007 Little Bing WC Nationals 13, Rappahannock 3 Saturday 4/21/2007 Little Bing Rappahannock 9, WC Nationals 5 Saturday 4/21/2007 Coleman Stadium (Fauquier) Fauquier Red Sox 9, WC Pirates 6 Saturday 4/21/2007 Coleman Stadium (Fauquier) WC Pirates 1, Fauquier Red Sox  Wednesday 4/18/2007 Little Bing WC Braves 6, WC Nationals  Saturday 4/14/2007 Bing Crosby Stadium WC Pirates 2, WC Braves  Saturday 4/14/2007 Bing Crosby Stadium WC Pirates 10, WC Nationals 9

Prepared by Dave Gushee, WCBRL, 635-3679 Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 17 Obituaries

Hildegard Anna Stein Carson the Turner-Robertshaw Chapel. him in death. was a member of the Montague VA. Funeral services were held at Interment followed at Panorama Pallbearers were William Athey Avenue United Methodist Church the Turner-Robertshaw Chapel. Hildegard Anna Stein Carson, Memorial Gardens in Waterlick, Jr., Brian Dolly, Mitch Rosen, in Winchester, the Loyal Order of Born on February 13, 1979 in 92, of Front Royal died Friday at VA. Tyson Romer, Jason Kibler, and Moose Lodge 829, and MENSA. Missouri he was the son of Melody Warren Memorial Hospital. Mr. Dolly was born on May 29, Geoffrey VanAnden. Mike was a loving and devoted and Paul Augsburger of Linden, The funeral was held at Turner- 1929, in Clarksville, PA. He was Honorary Pallbearers were husband, father, and grandfather VA. Mr. Pearson is survived by Robertshaw Funeral Home in the son of the late Blake Thompson Keith Shiflett, Mark Milihram, who had an unselfish, generous, his wife Amy Pearson and three Front Royal. Burial followed in and Delphia Dolly-Thompson. He Philip M. Baggarly, JR., and Willie and courageous spirit. He had a children Faith, Travis and Tyler Panorama Memorial Gardens in was a member of the Rivermont Strother. great intelligence and enjoyed a Pearson all of Bentonville, VA Waterlick. Baptist Church and Front Royal The family received friends at wonderful sense of humor. During Memorial contributions may Mrs. Carson was born Dec. 17, Elks Lodge. He was the husband the Turner-Robertshaw Funeral his teaching career, he influenced be made to the Children’s Trust 1914, in Florida, daughter of the of the late Pearl Strother Dolly. Home in Front Royal, VA. many of his students’ lives through Fund at Wachovia Bank, c/o Amy late Frank Joseph and Hildegard He is survived by their four his caring and concern. He was Pearson, 232 N. Royal Ave., Front Beckman Stein. She worked at St. children, Linda Athey, Donald Lillian M. Garnett an avid Redskin fan and music Royal, VA 22630. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Peters- M. Dolly, Jr. and David Dolly, Jr., lover, especially karaoke. Many Turner-Robertshaw Funeral burg, Fla. She was a member of all of Front Royal, VA, and Kathy Lillian M. Garnett, 96, of Front will remember him as a musician Home handed the arrangements. Warren County Extension Club, Shiflett of Haymarket, VA; nine Royal, VA, died on Saturday, May with The Royal Tones with whom Heritage Society and past member grandchildren, Billy Athey, Angela 19, 2007, at her residence. he played keyboard and guitar Elizabeth Castile Rutherford of the National Association of Athey, Jennifer Rosen, Keith Shi- Graveside Services were held at for many years. He will also be Retired Federal Employees. She flett, Tammy Romer, Brian Dolly, the Panorama Memorial Gardens remembered for his storytelling, Elizabeth Castile Rutherford, was the wife of the late John C. Amy Kibler, Jessica VanAnden in Waterlick, VA. poetry, and his being so much fun 85, of Winchester died Thursday, Carson. and Ashleigh Dolly. He was also Born on March 16, 1911, she to be around. May 24, 2007, in the Winchester Surviving are two sons, Charles the proud great-grandfather to was the daughter of the late Ber- Surviving are his wife of 36 years Medical Center. F. Carson of Chevy Chase, Md., William Athey III, Faith Athey, nard Lee Bryant and Lillie Mae Brenda J. Goodwin; two daughters A memorial service will be held and John C. Carson of Union City, Amanda Sciora, Ethan and Will Wellingham Bryant and the wife Amy C. Whitacre of Winchester June 16th at noon at the South N.J.; a brother, Frank J. Stein of Rosen, Justin and Kayla Darr, of the late Garth T. Garnett Sr. and Lisa Goodwin Smoke of Side Church of Christ in Win- Tampa, Fla.; two grandchildren Georgia, Kane and Kayla Romer, Surviving are one son, Garth Stephenson; three grandchil- chester conducted by Rev. Doug and four great-grandchildren. Blake Dolly, Winter and Autumn Garnett Jr. of Browntown, VA, and dren Sarah Wert of Winchester, Haught. Kibler, David and Jamie VanAn- one granddaughter, Valerie Fox of Lexie Plasters of Stephenson, and Mrs. Rutherford was born April Donald Malcolm Dolly, Sr den. Winchester, VA. Landon Burgr of Stephenson; four 19, 1922, in Florence, Alabama, He is also survived by one Turner-Robertshaw Funer- step-grandchildren Taylor Whita- daughter of Robert and Mary Bill- Donald Malcolm Dolly, Sr. 77, half-sister Janice Whitmore, one al Home handled the arrange- cre of Winchester, Allen Whitacre ingsly Castile. She was a member of Front Royal, VA passed away brother, Robert Dolly Jr. and four ments. of Winchester, Nathan Smoke of of the South Side Church of Christ on Thursday, May 17, 2007 at half brothers, Roy, George, David Clearbrook, and Brooke Smoke and the Winchester Country Club. the Warren Memorial Hospital. and Tommy Thompson. Three Michael A. “Mike” Goodwin of Clearbrook; a brother-in-law She was married to the late Mac The funeral service was held at sisters and one brother preceded Kenny Hamilton of Strasburg Stanford Rutherford, Sr. Michael A. “Mike” Goodwin, 61, and his wife Dottie; two nephews Surviving are a son Mac S. Ruth- of Winchester died Sunday, May Donny Hamilton of Front Royal erford, II of Winchester; a sister 20, 2007, at his home. and Chuck Armel of Woodstock; Marie Jacobs of Nashville, TN; A graveside service was held and a niece Missy Cooper of Front three grandchildren Tara Ruth- at Shenandoah Memorial Park in Royal. He was pre-ceded in death erford, Trista Rutherford, and Ian Winchester conducted by The Rev. by a nephew David Hamilton. Rutherford; a nephew Cliff Castile; Lawyers serving Anthony “Pete” Wadsworth. Honorary pallbearers were Rus- and her two loving dogs Sweetie injured persons Mr. Goodwin was born July 18, sell Reid, Kenny Hamilton, Donald and Buzz. involved in: 1945, in Winchester, son of Allen Hamilton, Meredith “Mac” Mc- Memorial contributions may be L. “Coopy” Goodwin and Phyllis Cauley, Sammy Campbell, and made to the American Heart As- • Automobile accidents Hockman Goodwin. He was a Arthur Maddox. sociation, Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, retired Spanish teacher with the Memorials and Tributes Process- • Tractor-trailer accidents Warren County Public School Terry James Pearson ing Center, P.O. Box 5216, Glen System with 39 years of employ- Allen, VA 23058-5216. • Wrongful death cases ment. He was a 1967 graduate Terry James Pearson, 28, of Arrangements are being han- of Bridgewater College with a Bentonville, VA died on Wednes- dled by the Maddox Funeral Home • Workers’ compensation Bachelor of Arts degree in Span- day, May 16, 2007 at Warren in Front Royal. losses ish and a minor in history. He Memorial Hospital in Front Royal,

Reach thousands Carl N. Lauer of Warren County Managing Attorney residents of all ages 1-800-698-4907 by advertising 636-3030 in Warren County’s New Beginnings Community Greetings most-read newspaper. “Introducing Your Business to New Homeowners in our Community” Call Holly Spindle *** (540) 636-8272 office P.O. Box 1025 (540) 683-1078 cell Front Royal, VA 22630 [email protected] 540 635-8660 Page 18 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007 Activities and events calendar

Car Show you. In fact, more than 35 million sored by The American Cancer MOMs Club June Social Concert Americans nationwide, including Society. For more information call 6/2/2007 - 3:00pm many of our neighbors in the Front (540)636-9579 or (540)635-7886 6/11/2007 - 10:15am - 11:30am 6/24/2007 - 7:00pm Royal area, are living on the brink or visit www.acevents.org/relay/ Sponsored by the Valley Cruis- of hunger. frontroyal to register your team. Stay-at-home moms and their Lynard Skynyrd will play to- ers of Winchester and held at the Hunger Awareness Day is a children are invited to join the night at the Warren County Fair- North Warren Volunteer Fire & grassroots movement created to Bluegrass Party MOMs Club of Front Royal for grounds. Reserve Seating: $55.00 Rescue Department on Rockland raise awareness of the hidden yet their monthly social at Samuel’s & $65.00 and General Admission: Road. There will be awards for the solvable problem of hunger in 6/8/2007 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm Public Library. The public is in- $45.00. Reserved Seating must be top 25 entries. The first1 00 entries America. This year marks the sixth vited. sold in person at the Fairgrounds. receive a North Warren stuffed annual observance with hunger You are invited to the Brown- General Admission tickets may be Dalmation & Dash Plaque. Also awareness events taking place in town Bluegrass Pickin’ Party Ghost Armies presentation purchased through the website. enjoy raffles, a chines auction, ice communities across the country. tonight at the Browntown Com- www.warrencountyfair.com or cold drinks, t-shirts, funnel cakes, In recognition of Hunger munity Center. Listen to gospel 6/13/2007 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm (540)635-5827. homemade cakes/pies, BBQ, ham- Awareness Day, Riverton Church and old time music. Admission is burgers & hot dogs. will host an all day food drive on FREE. All levels of musicians are Ghost Armies: Spying, Trickery, Bark in the Park Thursday, June 7, 2007 by collect- welcome. Acoustic instruments and Deception with Linda Mc- Town Meeting ing donations of non-perishable only. Food/drink are available for Carthy 6/26/2007 - 7:30pm food items. These items will be purchase. All proceeds benefit the Wednesday, June 13, 6:30 – 8:00 6/5/2007 - 7:00pm directly distributed to needy Browntown Community Center. p.m. at Samuels Public Library A first for Front Royal residents families in our area. A box will For more information please con- The Women’s Resource Center is coming on June 26th. Two All- You are invitied to attend a be available all day in front of the tact (540)778-4777 or (540)636- presents Front Royal’s favorite American favorites, baseball and public meeting to discuss the church for donations. Please help 3588. “spy gal,” Linda McCarthy, creator dogs, will be enjoyed by fans of proposed improvements to con- us provide for the faces of hunger of the CIA Espionage Museum both that evening when the Front struct a five-lane typical section in our area by participating in our America’s 400th Anniversary speaking about “Ghost Armies: Royal Cardinals host “Bark in the on North Royal Avenue from food drive. Spread the word to Spying, Trickery, and Decep- Park”. Commerce Avenue to West 14th your friends and neighbors. To- 6/9/2007 - 10:00am - 4:00pm tion.” The Front Royal Cardinals are Street. The reconfiguration will gether we can make a difference! (Rain Date: Sunday, June 10th) Beginning with General Wash- inviting fans to bring their “best include a center left-turn lane to June 7th, 2007, Thursday River- ington’s operational trickery that friends” to the ballgame on Tues- improve traffic flow and safety ton Church 55 E Strasburg Road, Come celebrate Ameri- repeatedly blindsided the British, day, June 26, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. on these road segments. The lane Front Royal, Va 22630. Food dona- ca’s 400th Anniversary at Shenan- America has engaged in deception Dogs must be leashed and have configuration will be similar to tion drop off 9am – 7pm doah River State Park! Joining in to help win wars. During World proof of their shots. (A current that presently in place on North For more information on Hun- the celebration will be Civil War War I, esteemed artists brought county dog tag will work!) Shenandoah Avenue from West ger Awareness Day, please visit re-enactors, Warren County their considerable talents to the The Cardinals are partnering 14th Street to the South Fork www.secondharvest.org Sheriff’s Department Mounted effort, designing strange painted with the Warren County Dog Park Bridge. On-street parking will Patrol, South Warren Volunteer patterns that, when applied to Association, a non-profit group be removed from this section of Fire Department, Weasel Creek merchant and navy ships, in par- formed to bring together dog road to allow this improvement Relay for Life Outfitters, Shenandoah Valley ticular, helped thwart the devasta- lovers to promote the establish- to occur. Any questions regarding Racket-Ter’s, US Customs ca- tion caused by German U-boats. ment of off-leash recreation in our this meeting please call the Public 6/8/2007 - 6:00pm - 6:00am nines, Luray Zoo, Twin Creek Two decades later, during the community. They look forward Works Department at (540)635- LLamas and many more. Bring next global conflict, deception to hosting the fan’s four-legged 7819. Celebrating 10 Years of Hope, the whole family and a picnic techniques evolved into highly friends at the Bing Cosby Stadium Love and Relay! Relay for Life of lunch and enjoy the day with us! sophisticated undertakings that when the Cardinals take on the Hunger Awareness Day Front Royal/Warren County be- For more information call the included fake towns and inflatable Woodstock River Bandits. gins with an Opening Ceremony Shenandoah River State Park • tanks, airplanes, landing craft and, Representatives from the Dog 6/7/2007 - 9:00am - 7:00pm at 6:00pm at Warren County Bentonville, VA • (540) 622-6840 yes, soldiers. Park Association will be on hand Middle School. Survivors Walk Free and suitable for the whole to promote the building of the off- The face of hunger may surprise will immediately follow. Spon- family. leash dog park in Front Royal. Kids Fun & Fitness DJ & Karaoke Rockwall climb, Playstation 2 game Bikes and Dance Center with DJ Donnie Exercise circuit • Earn tokens for great prizes!

Plus: Birthday Parties • Kids Night Out • Summer Camps Saturday June 9th Open to all children ages 5-13 • Kids can be dropped off, while you run errands, go to the gym, or do your shopping! Kids Night Out: June 1: Pirates Night • June 22: Going Buggy 8:00 p.m. - close $20.00 Non-members • $18.00 for members www.kidsfunandfitness.com 2 1/2 hours of fun, games, and a snack Knotty Pine

840-B John Marshall Highway (next to Tropical Tanning) • 636-4883 801 N. Royal Ave • 540-635-3064 Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 19

“FORE!” Participants prepare to tee off at the Jackson Chase course. Bob Traister

Duffers out in force for Bob Traister Invitational Fundraiser aims at new Samuels Public Library technology room Traister in the new Samuels Public Library, but also to show support for an old friend and a family now dealing with some adversity. Traister, who is battling Lou Gehrig’s disease, listened with a smile as former political protégé, 18th District State Delegate Clay Athey praised the former WFTR radio personality and Mayor of Front Royal for his lifetime of involvement in the political and business communities of Front Royal and Warren County. Fol- lowing a kickoff luncheon hosted by The Apple House, Athey read a Proclamation approved by the General Assembly acknowledging Bob Traister is surrounded by fans, from left, Joe Traister’s positive contributions Swiger, Clay Athey and Matt Tederick, prior to Athey’s to his community. But moreover, presentation of a Proclamation authorized by the Traister was lauded as a good state General Assembly acknowledging Traister’s friend and advisor to a generation Bob Traister and wife Shirley. contributions to his community. of up and coming Republican of- fice seekers. First flight, first place – Tinker By Roger Bianchini summer-like conditions at the Traister’s son, Robbie, spoke for “And much of what we see in terms of improvements in Warren Grove, Robert Kellam, Kenny Warren County Report Jackson Chase at Pine Hills Golf the family and his dad, whose County is because of and directly Oakes, Grayson Ashby – 60; Sec- Club on May 30. ability to speak has been severely tied to Bob’s ability to identify ond place – Joe Ott, Jerry Powell, What may become the first of Golfers and old friends ral- impacted by his ALS. important issues in campaigns, Chris Neff and Tim Frye – 61; many Bob Traister Invitational lied not just to raise money for a “We’ve been very moved by the his ability to recruit good candi- Second flight, first – Jerry Golf Tournaments was held under technology room to be named for support we’ve gotten from the dates and his ability to influence Kreamer, Jim Crawford, Junior community since we announced people to move our community Griffith, Lester Potter – 63; this event back in February . . . forward.” Third flight, first – Calvin Front Royal’s Best-Kept Secret When we learned the diagnosis “A true neighborhood experience” Results of The 2007 Bob Trais- Whittington, David Bicking, Tim back in February that dad was suf- ter Invitational, Captain’s Choice Heishman, Gar Sydnor – 69. fering from Lou Gehrig’s disease • Newly Remodeled rules: • Mom’s Daily Lunch Specials we wanted to channel some of the • Patio With Outdoor Dining energies that were going around • Horseshoe Pits at that point. We wanted to build • Newly covered pool tables something good out of some- Tues: Open Mic Night thing bad, so we decided to host Wed - Sun: DJ & Karaoke this event in order to benefit the Thurs: Karaoke & Trivia library and to have the computer room named after him as a lasting Wed starting at 9:00pm, we’re looking memorial to the contributions he’s for the Royal Village Tavern Idol. Winner given to this community.” receives all exp. paid trip for 2 days and nights to American Idol auditions in NY! Athey later talked about Tra- ister’s impact upon the com- munity. “Through Bob’s work he has helped elect an awful lot of Royal people in Warren County and in our region, who’ve made sig- nificant positive contributions to our community. Bob’s hand is in Village about everything that occurs here in Warren County. But Bob is sort of like the fog in terms of his influ- ence – you see him there but you Tavern can never quite touch him or feel him. But you can be assured that his influence is felt in probably Bob Traister with son Robbie and Lisa Parker of the 654 West 11th Street the vast majority of Republican staff at WFTR/WZRV radio, where Bob began and de- veloped the smooth verbal delivery that served him 540-636-8225 candidates who have stood for office over the last 30 years. well over the years. Page 20 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007

Coach Mason and long-time assistant - those roles were reversed on the Sports middle school football field - Mike Whitehouse share a moment with 1990’s- era third baseman Angie Williams following on-field ceremonies.

LadyThe ’Cats acknowledgepresent example ofhonors past champions theon Senior Nightpast and we did achieve a high level. time to Turner Ashby in the 7th realize that in girl’s high school These girls were highly motivated, inning. But this time Warren softball that the good teams played worked hard and executed very County rallied to win 5-4 in their on that level. well. And I think we all realize the final at bat. “And it brought awareness and I most important thing is that we That game brought Culpeper think it helped with the growth of became a team.” to Front Royal to play in front softball in our area and we think it Mason said that it was only as of the first of what were massive helped girls athletics in general at a team with all the parts working and building crowds. Tied at 2 Warren County High School – we together that those players were the teams battled to the 9th when saw a big difference after that. So, able to accomplish the sometimes Culpeper pushed two across in the these girls have their place in his- improbable under extreme pres- top of the inning, only to see the tory, which is really nice.” sure, including a number of late- hosts rally for three to win another Hit hard by graduation but inning come from behind wins 5-4 game. with a few key players back War- Long-time Warren County High softball coach Bob against great opposition. Warren then found itself at ren produced a respectable 12-5 Mason is greated by current players as his 1984-85 “And it’s really fun to be with Meadowbrook, outside Rich- regular season in 1985, finish- state championship teams were honored along with them all, or some of them at differ- mond, to face what many thought ing second in the district to a Mason’s predecessor Sweeney Shifflet’s 1976-77 re- ent times because the feeling’s still was the best team in the state that potent offensive juggernaught gional championship teams from an era when there there. They love one another and year. Trailing 1-0 in the seventh from Loudoun County. Taking was no state softball tournament. The event held they are very proud and humble of the state semifinal, Warren put advantage of a rule change allow- prior to the May 8 ‘Lady Cat Senior Night home game about their accomplishments,” the rare runners on base and managed ing a district’s top two teams into against James Wood acknowledged both the contri- coach said. another amazing rally, winning the regionals, again character and butions of the past and the hopes for the future as Mason, who inherited the Wild- 2-1. Mason recalled a distraught the magic emerged as the Lady members of the Front Royal FIre 14 and under and 10 cat softball program with a little Meadowbrook coach telling him ‘Cats eliminated Loudoun County and under teams were acknowledged as part of the prompting from predecessor Shif- after the game, “You never bunted, in a high-scoring regional final ceremonies. flett in 1978, observed that after we scouted you – you bunted 15 “barnburner” on their way to their several seasons of struggle the times against Culpeper.” Mason second state title. By Roger Bianchini to realize that girls too “got game.” Lady ‘Cats put together a remark- told his counterpart, “We never Warren County Report It was an appropriate send-off, as able decade highlighted – but not had anyone on base and always The rosters the county’s two new high school isolated to – the two state cham- seemed to have two strike counts Well, it wasn’t exactly “20 years softball teams will move to their pionship runs. – we couldn’t bunt.” 984 – Marie Gadd, Lisa Hill, ago today” that coaches Sweeney own home fields next season. Following the two state cham- Following that win the Warren Stephanie Keeler, Jan Lowry, Susie Shiflett and Bob Mason taught the pionship seasons the 1986 team girls returned home to play Jef- Allison, Susanne Longerbeam, girls to play, actually it was a tad Growing crowds & changing perceptions rallied from a 9-1 deficit in the ferson Forest in front of a crowd Cheryl Fox, Tracy Burleson; longer – 31, 30, 23 and 22 years to regional championship against estimated as high as 4,000. Warren 1985 –Tracy Green, Lisa Ha- be precise. For Mason, the Senior Night Spottswood in the top of the 7th pulled away late to win their first zelette, Tiffany Sandy, Julie Ye- Those were the specific years, ceremony was a chance to share to tie the game only to see Spott- state title 9-3 in front of a delirious abower, Missy Jackson, Angie 1976, ’77, ’84 and ’85 that former great memories of former players swood push one across in the crowd. Shuster, Wilma Brooks, Kelly Hill, Warren County High softball “being the best they could be.” bottom of the inning to win 10-9. “We became very aware of Lisa Ramos; teams took their seasons as far Because as Mason and former as- Mason notes that team would community support, which was On both the 1984 and ‘85 teams as they could go without a post- sistant coach Mike Whitehouse, have had a pass to the state title great. In the first state champion- were – Kelly Tharpe, Robin Rich- season loss. who reversed those roles on the game with a win. ship game certainly more than ardson, Patti Boyd, Tina Cornwell, Those first two seasons Shif- middle school football field for And the 1983 team was a domi- 3,000 people were there based on Carolyn Hembry, Marcie Fox, flett’s teams took Region II Titles years, always stressed – champi- nant 21-0, averaging about 16 the records that were kept. An Diane O’Bannon, Page Browning, at a time there was no softball state onships were never the measure runs a game before succumbing executive from the Virginia High Melissa Rudacille; playoff. The latter two seasons, of success, but rather players and to Orange County 4-3 in Culpeper School League was there and she 976 Region II champs – Sherry Mason’s teams ran the table to the teams developing and taking the in the first round of the regionals. commented that there wasn’t any Waddell, Teresa Oakes, Sharon state championships their prede- talent they had as far as they could But from that heartbreaking loss doubt that was the largest crowd Nicholson, Mary Jo Slayden, Jackie cessors hadn’t had the opportunity together. came lessons and an emotional for any high school softball game Matthews, Lisa Rudacille, Nona to pursue. But in 1976, ’77, ‘84 and ‘85 the toughness that showed up the played in the state of Virginia MacInturff, Tracy Snodgrass, Those four remarkable seasons talent supporting the effort those following years. – and I don’t know, maybe it still Janice Sargent, Robin Lake; and the players who made them coaches stressed, with a touch of The 1984 team carried a 20-1 stands, it was amazing. They 1977 – Jennifer Coe, Debbie happen, along with their coaches magic, reached the pinnacle of record into the regionals after brought in bleachers from the Haun, Brenda Heishman, Faith were honored by the current Lady championship seasons. defeating arch-Northwestern Dis- football field, all kinds of things. Ridgeway, Sharon Sharp, Kaylee ’Cats during pre-game Senior “After all these years it was great trict rival Park View, with whom That’s a lot of people down at that Thomson, Beverly Turner, Karen Night ceremonies on May 8. getting so many of the girls back they had split regular season softball field. Rudacille, Mary Cameron; The site was the softball field together because we shared so games, 9-8 for the district title and “And with the regional cham- On both 1976 and ‘77 teams were now bearing one of those coaches many very special times for us and the district pass to regionals. pionship game and the state – Sonja Osbourn, Dorinda Robin- names, Robert F. Mason Field or our school,” Mason said of the May In the first round of the region- championship game both being at son, Debbie Grigsby, Kim Heflin, “The Bob” just down from “The 8 Senior Night acknowledgment. als the Warren County girls found home, the community got an op- Janice Strother, Martha Tillman, Bing” as this old sportswriter likes “One of the things we do share themselves in a familiar position, portunity to see that these young Terry Waddell, Patsy Sowers, to say, where mid-1980’s crowds that stays with us through time down 4-3 – the same score they ladies played a very high level of Brenda Cameron, Carol Cameron estimated as high as 4,000 came is to know that we did work hard lost by the previous year – this softball. And lots of people didn’t and trainer Skip Oliver Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 21

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D.C. prevails in Skins-Cowboys Golf Challenge Old rivals kick around Blue Ridge Shadows course for a good cause Ridge Shadows Golf Club on May Newhouse also remembered Dallas in ’78-’79, when I was really 17. his Redskin host from those days. young and in my prime, he started Proceeds from the inaugural “You know, Mark Moseley, a lot sending Thomas Henderson after event will go primarily to the of his great kicks in those last me on the kickoffs. Thomas would construction of the new 4-H seconds came our way. You’d see line up right in the middle and I horse barn at the Warren County that ball fly over you and go, ‘Oh would kick the ball and be in the Fairgrounds. Other 4-H ventures no, it just couldn’t be!’ But then air and Thomas would catch me in this and surrounding counties again you knew you’d have another right in the chest and knock me will eventual benefit from the day to come back and try to beat down. Well, in the first kickoff of event in future years. Old barns the Redskins. So now we’re trying the game in 1979 Thomas Hender- at the site constructed over 40 to take it away from the field and son knocked me down five times years ago must be demolished and it will always last in our memory on the same kickoff. The last time removed this year in order to be in books etched in stone. Those he knocked me down he knocked compliance with VDOT required Cowboys and Redskins days will me all the way off the field on to changes to the lanes and fair en- live forever and we’re just here the sideline, underneath Tom trance on Fairgrounds Road. today to be supportive of each Landry, the head coach’s, legs. Addressing the crowd at a other for a good cause.” And he’s looking at me down be- From left, Redskin and NFL great receiver Charlie Kickoff Gala, including dinner But Moseley recalled that all his low him shaking his head with his Taylor, Sandy Moseley, David and Debbie Seekford hosted by Outback Restaurant moments against the Cowboys arms crossed, remember how he and Mark Moseley take a break at dinner party and and a silent auction of some great weren’t rosy ones. He said that used to do that? And he was say- silent auction of autographed NFL memorabilia the NFL memorabilia, former Redskin throughout his NFL career he had ing, ‘Son, you need to learn how to night before the first annual Mark Moseley Redskin- kicker and NFL MVP Mark Mose- only two placekicks ever blocked stay on the ground when you get Cowboy challenge golf tournament. The event raised ley said the once bitter gridiron and that both of those players were hit – you’re a kicker.’ ” funds for new 4-H horse facilities at the Warren Coun- rivals now appear to be joined at Cowboys. “One was blocked by Ed Moseley joked that if the rains ty Fairgrounds and officially kicked off the spring the hip in a friendly competitive “Too Tall” Jones, who is here and returned the following day can- and summer season at the Blue Ridge Shadows Golf spirit that has transcended time the other was by Everson Walls, celing the golf tournament, the Course recently called “Front Royal’s Natural Trea- and venues. One of those old who will be here later,” he said. players were likely to get a poker sure” in May 4 edition of The Washington Post. rivals, former Cowboy fullback Moseley also recounted a com- game together at the clubhouse to Robert Newhouse agreed. petitive encounter with Cowboy determine an event winner. By Roger Bianchini that’s not necessarily a bad thing, “Not from the old guys it linebacker Thomas Henderson However, the rains stayed away Warren County Report as in the case of the First Annual doesn’t,” Moseley said later when that has stuck with him through and the players hit the links with Mark Moseley Redskins-Cowboys asked if the old competitive fires the years. the Redskins prevailing – same as Old rivalries die hard – but Golf Challenge held at the Blue between Washington and Dallas “One of the funny things that it ever was, same as it ever was. players ever really died. “It may happened to me – it wasn’t too Scheduled to appear on the die off physically but we’re always funny at the time but I look back Redskin side, in addition to event at one another because we do a lot on it now and Thomas and I and organizer Moseley, were Charley Simply Cedar Log Homes of banquets together, golf tourna- Ed have always laughed about it Taylor, Mike Bragg, Ron McDole, ments and it’s always fun. We’ve – was when I first started kicking Pat Fischer, Dexter Manley, Brig (local dealer for Katahdin Cedar Log Homes) gotten to be friends but we’re still for the Redskins my kickoffs were Owens, Brian Mitchell, Sam Huff, always competing.” almost unreturnable because I Larry Brown, Teddy Vactor, Ron “The Cowboy and Redskins kicked them so high and long. Saul, Bubba Tyer, and Darryl games were always a great tradi- And Dallas was always sure I had Grant. Cowboys alumni included, tion and always a great game from something illegal in my shoe and in addition to Newhouse, Ed “Too the time when Jurgensen started they were always having my shoe Tall” Jones, Billy Joe Dupree, Ever- then Kilmer and Joe Theisman, checked throughout the games. son Walls, Doug Donley, Mike you always had great quarterbacks “So, one year when Mike Ditka Downs, Mel Renfro, and Glen in there,” Newhouse remem- was the special teams coach for Titensor. bered. “Of course we had Roger Staubauch and all his great come- backs and final minute plays – so, they were exciting times.” Newhouse said the excitement from the stands was always a fac- tor for the players then. “And the fans would really make it worth- while because they would really As simple as ABC. Affordable – Beautiful - Comfortable give it all they had and sometimes you just thought you had to do it If you’d like more information, contact us @ for your fans. And of course the Redskins felt the same way as (540) 636-8400 or [email protected] we did about that. It was a great tradition and it was all about the Moseley with Blue Ridge Shadows owner John Hop- fans.” kins and friend. Page 22 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007 Beverley Thompson Warrick

Meet Front Royal sculptress Cheryl Langlais Urbanski real purpose is to face whatever situations may arise in your life, until you are ready to ‘face’ them yourself. Each is a beautiful unique face, varying size and expression. Where else can you find art that covers you in your daily life? If other priorities slowed Cher- yl’s creative flow during that period it may have been what ignited her eagle’s eye for the discarded item. One man’s junk is another man’s treasure and a visit to Cheryl’s home reveals wonderful treasures she recued and resuscitated. Ev- erything from a clawfoot bathtub to pieces of art she reframes and displays on her walls. in awesome displays of intricate, If weaving and stonework abstract art. “And she never takes weren’t her final destination, all a measurement.” these phases helped to nourish Like any good artist, Cheryl her evolution to metal sculptress. Langlais Urbanski reserves the last As Cheryl’s story goes, a few years word when describing her work. “I ago she was joking with a friend love using discarded items that I about wanting to weld something find, and making them into metal Millicent Urbanski (left) and her mother Cheryl Langlais Urbanski clown arounf together. What is an artist who sculptures. I love the longevity during a visit to the former Avtex rayon fiber plant in Front Royal. wants to weld to do—sign up for of metal, the strength of it, and the first available welding class. its ability to survive abuse and By Beverley Thompson Warrick growing through it. Her first cre- a big way, as it has become the Suddenly Cheryl has her own adverse situations. I would like to Warren County Report ative outlet was as a basket maker, foundation for Cheryl’s “Face It” welder and is looking for a plasma be like that, beautiful and resilient, weaving unique and intricately series. The concrete stony faces cutter. Her daughter Millicent’s interesting and unique.” Sculpture is more divine, and shaped vines, branches, and other that began to emerge are a familiar favorite antidote is her mother Pieces of Ms. Urbanski’s art can more like Nature, That fashions all natural materials around rattan sight around her home, and the asking for a concrete mixer for her be seen at Linden Vineyard and her works in high relief, And that to create baskets that seemed like movement has spread among her birthday. Her son John describes the Blue Ridge Artesian in Rap- is Sculpture. Men, women, and all nature come to life. During the friends and fans. The mythology his mother’s beginnings; working pahannock County. A slide show animals that breathe Are statues, 80’s, her basket weavings were a of her faces revolves around her under their porch, welding to- of her last series can be seen at, and not paintings. prominent fixture in the area art belief that each face will protect gether a rickety table that sits next myspace.com/cheryllanglaisur- scene. you and be a Zen like guardian to the woodpile. Now John talks banski . Anyone interested in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Virginia Wolfe wrote in the late for its owner. She assures people of how his mother’s love of finding viewing her new work in person 1920’s that the creative process that not only do the faces natu- interesting, discarded items and can contact her by email, cal311@ Local Front Royal Sculptress, for women was frequently stifled rally attract good luck, but their piecing them together resulting comcast.net for an appointment. Cheryl Langlais Urbanski is still by having to pursue employment, basking in the glow of her success- as the time and focus needed to ful showing at the Blandy Farm express themselves was consumed Festival. The annual event was by their daily drudgery. Indeed, held over Mother’s Day weekend Cheryl’s basket making tapered in Boyce, Virginia. As with any off during the years she was rear- artist, an image springs from your ing her two children, and waiting imagination. You work and sweat tables in area restaurants. to breathe life into your creation, Perhaps the case could be made but perhaps it is not until you that she was just up for the next subject yourself and your work phase of her artist’s journey. As to the public’s judgement, that her children have grown and fulfillment of that work is actu- matured both have inspired her alized. Friends and family have and become her biggest fans. been praising the imagination and The apple must not have fallen talent of Cheryl Urbanski from far from the tree, as her daughter the beginning. Now, if the few Millicent created her first post pieces remaining from the end of basket weaving project, what she the festival are any indication, the and her mother named “Contain public agrees. This”, primarily concrete plant Cheryl first came to the prover- boxes perfect for anyone who bial fork in the road with her art, lacked the space or the interest she obviously choose the path that in a conventional flower garden. contained the most vines and trees The work in concrete paid off in Stony faces Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 23 History of Warren County’s Mountain Home

County home under historic designation consideration

Aerial photograph from ca. 1930 showing Mountain Home. Note that some of the outbuildings shown are no longer standing (Warren Heritage Society Archives)

The two advisory boards of the house was constructed in 1847 by garages. Although the property well as the Conservation and Re- stairs, with a wrought iron gate Department of Historic Resources Samuel Beck Gardner. The 2-story, is much smaller than its original search Center of the Smithsonian lined up with the front entrance, will consider 28 new historic re- 3-bay house features woodwork acreage, the buildings and setting National Zoological Park, further leads down to the highway. What sources for listing on the Virginia based on the designs of popular retain much of their 19th-century enhance its setting.1 The house, may be part of the old road bed of Landmarks Register and 12 new pattern books of the period and appearance and integrity. which is sited above the grade Route 522, before it was paved and historical highway markers dur- was enlarged by Gardner with of U.S. Route 522 and is shielded realigned in the early 1910s, is still ing a public meeting on June 6, a 2-story frame ell in 1869. A 1- DETAILED DESCRIPTION from it by a line of mature trees, apparent near these stairs, as well 10 a.m., in Halsey Lecture Hall, at story rear lean-to was added in faces south. The former slave as an early-20th-century, formed the Virginia Historical Society, 428 the early 20th Century, at which Situated a few miles south of the quarters, which has been brick concrete banked garage. North Boulevard, in Richmond. time the rear ell was stuccoed. Town of Front Royal, Mountain veneered, sits in the west side Mountain Home is a 2-story, Among those is the Mountain The current owner has recently Home sits off the northeast side of yard; a frame meat house, shed, 3-bay brick building that follows Home in Warren County. removed the stucco on the rear Remount Road (State Route 522) and chicken coop are sited directly the typical Virginia I-house plan Mountain Home, located at ell, exposing the original wide in southeastern Warren County. behind the house to the north; and but features sophisticated Greek 3471 Remount Road in Warren German-lap siding. In addition No longer the center of a large an early-20th-century garage is Revival-style detailing. The house County, Virginia, is sited along to the main house, the 3.7-acre farming operation after having located east of the house. A gravel rests on a raised brick foundation the northeast side of U.S. Route property still maintains several been reduced to its current 3.7 driveway leads from Remount with 6-light wooden basement 522 just south of the town of historic outbuildings, including a acres in the mid-20th century, the Road to the front of the house windows. The exterior brick walls Front Royal. A remarkably well- mid-19th-century slave quarters, property yet retains its agricultural and continues past the property are painted and laid in a 5-course preserved example of a brick a meat house, a chicken coop, a and rural setting. Its close proxim- exiting further south on Remount American-bond pattern, featur- Greek Revival-style dwelling, the shed, and two early-20th-century ity to the Appalachian Trail, as Road. A set of concrete and stone ing flat jack arches over the six- Page 24 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007 HistoryHistory of Warren County’s Mountain Home

over-six-sash double-hung wood over-four sash, and the ell contains original. very similar. The window and door just southwest of the main house, windows and a stepped brick a plain friezeboard with brackets, The east parlor contains a win- trim is made up of wide plain trim this is possibly the same building cornice. The gabled roof is cov- boxed cornice, and gable-end re- dow along the front and the with capped shoulders. The rear that Annie Gardner calls the “cab- ered in standing-seam metal and turns. The 2-story side porches off rear walls that is surrounded by ell of the house is accessible from bin” [sic] in her 1862 diary entry contains two interior-end brick the ell have been partially enclosed wide molded trim with bull’s-eye doorways in both the first- and about Mountain Home. chimneys with corbelled caps. The with banks of four-over-four-sash corner blocks. The unpainted second-floor west rooms as well Behind the building is a small façade is dominated by a 2-story, windows, and partially screened. Greek Revival-style mantel is as from the first-floor stairhall, modern shed that is the only 2-level, 3-bay pedimented portico The 1-story lean-to kitchen wing comprised of Doric pilasters sup- which leads out onto the enclosed non-contributing building on the with round brick columns, a plain that extends off the rear of the ell porting a wide entablature with a side porches. The rear ell con- property. A row of frame outbuild- entablature and plain balustrade was constructed in the early 20th plain mantelshelf. The chimney tains a large dining room on the ings is located north of the house. on the first floor, and hexagonal century and is also stuccoed. breast projects into the room and first floor and bedrooms on the They include a long 3-bay frame wooden columns with a plain second. Although some modern shed with a projecting central bay. balustrade, a wide entablature, and alterations have been made, the The three sections are all under a denticulated cornice on the sec- decorative treatments from 1869 one gable roof clad in standing- ond floor. The concrete steps with are still fairly intact. These include seam metal with overhanging parapeted side walls appear to plain unpainted trim with ramped eaves and exposed rafter ends and date to the first quarter of the 20th pediments, random-width floor- appear to have been constructed century. The central front door has ing, narrow baseboard, and 4- during the late 19th or early 20th transom and sidelights contained panel unpainted doors. The large centuries. Sitting on a pier foun- within a Greek Revival-style door dining room features a flue and dation, the shed’s walls are clad in surround with fluted trim and a built-in closets. The ceiling and board-and-batten on the front and Greek key. This doorway appears walls have been partially recov- weatherboard on the sides, and to be based on the designs from ered in modern materials, but the two end bays contain 6-light Asher Benjamin’s 1833 pattern the original plaster appears to be fixed windows. The front of the book entitled, The Practice of intact beneath. The rear of the projecting bay, which contains the Architecture. ell contains a narrow single-run doorway, is covered with diagonal While the use of popular pat- stair leading to the second-floor slats, and the front eave of the bay tern books was becoming more bedrooms. The early-20th-century to the west features decorative common in rural parts of Virginia extension off the ell contains the sawn pendants. Two early 20th during the mid-19th century, it is kitchen and other service areas. Century buildings, a meat house still somewhat rare to be able to Several outbuildings sit in the yard and a chicken coop, are located di- relate them directly to a specific at Mountain Home. The oldest rectly behind the main house. The publication.3 What is so notable The interior of Mountain Home the fireplace surround has been appears to be the 1½-story, log, 1-bay, gable-roofed frame meat here is the use of sophisticated is extremely well preserved and plastered. The room contains its former slave quarters that was house is clad in weatherboard sid- trim on an otherwise plain house. generally contains its original original random-width flooring as brick veneered in the mid-20th ing and rests on a concrete piers The east end walls are blind with flooring, woodwork, and plas- well as a wide chair rail. The west century. The small building, now foundation. The gable-end roof is the exception of two small 4-light tered walls and ceilings. The brick parlor features different trim and used as a tenant house, features covered in corrugated metal and attic windows flanking the inte- section reflects the popular mid- looks to the Gothic Revival style a standing-seam metal roof, a features overhanging eaves with rior-end chimney. The stepped 19th-century Greek Revival style, in its use of ramped pediment central brick flue, a boxed cornice, exposed rafter ends. The build- brick cornice is returned in this as well as elements of other popu- window and door surrounds and and a shed-roofed porch. Located ing includes a single batten door, gable end. The west end wall con- lar styles including the Gothic the Gothic-arched panels of the tains no openings and the gable Revival, in its mantels and trim. closet doors. The room also con- end is pedimented in order to tie The center-passage, single-pile tains chair rail and picture mold the front section of the house with floorplan of the house, often used as well as a simple Greek Revival- the rear ell. in Greek Revival-style dwellings, style mantel with Doric pilasters According to historical data, is repeated on the second floor as and a plain frieze and mantel shelf. OPEN HOUSE June 2 • July 7 Samuel B. Gardner enlarged his well as in the unfinished basement. What was originally a window 10 A.M. - 4 P.M. house in 1869 with the addition The front entrance leads into the along the north wall of this room of a fairly large 2-story, 3-bay rear stairhall with the dog-leg stair has been converted into a doorway frame ell with two interior brick running along the west wall with leading into the rear ell. The trim flues. The architectural evidence a single-run stair to the basement on this doorway, which includes supports this construction date, as beneath it. The fairly simple stair paneled reveals and a transom the wing contains decorative ele- has a turned newel, plain rectan- over the door, matches the other ments that are more Victorian in gular balusters, a plain stringer trim in the room, suggesting all of nature than in the original part of with paneled spandrel, and un- it dates to the late 1860s when the the house. The addition rests on a painted handrail, treads and risers. rear well was constructed. raised stone foundation with base- This contrasts with the other trim The second floor of the front ment windows on the west side. in the hall that draws heavily from block follows the same plan as the Part of this foundation appears to Asher Benjamin’s 1833 pattern first floor with a door leading out incorporate what was once a sepa- book and is much more ornate, onto the second-story porch. Both rate stone dependency located just featuring symmetrically molded rooms contain plastered walls, north of the original main block. fluted trim with a wide entabla- random-width wood flooring, The rear ell was stuccoed in the ture with a central raised panel plain baseboard, and closets with early to mid-20th century, and was and Greek key end panels on all unpainted 2-panel doors flanking in poor shape when the current the door openings. The hall also the fireplaces. The trim on this lev- owner decided to remove it and includes a wide baseboard, picture el is a plainer Greek Revival style expose the original wide Ger- rail, and double-vertical panel than on the first floor although the man-lap siding. The double-hung Greek Revival-style unpainted mantels, which have been finished wooden windows are paired four- wood doors, all of which appear with modern decorative paint, are Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 25 History of Warren County’s Mountain HomeHistory

window openings on the west of this style in the region to have running through the side, and a small rabbit hutch on borrowed directly from popular estimated construc- the front. The frame chicken coop pattern books of the period. Its tion of the early- next to the meat house is also of significance is enhanced by several 20thcentury garages, frame construction and features surviving dependencies including circa 1920. a shed roof, vertical wood siding, a log slave quarters, several farm and a side lean-to wing. sheds and chicken coops, and a H I S T O R I C A L The Mountain Home property meat house, all recalling its hey- BACKGROUND also includes two garages, both of day as a working farm. Moreover, which are contributing elements written records about the house Residency of the from the early 20th century. The and its residents provide unusually Gardner family in largest is of brick construction and detailed and revealing documen- this area dates to the is located east of the main house, tation of the lifestyle of a wealthy years when it was still while the other is a small, banked, landowner and his family, whose a part of Frederick formed concrete structure located holdings were little diminished County. Frederick near the road and accessible by by the Civil War that raged in the census records for the stairs that lead down to the area. Strategically sited on the 1830 show that Sam- highway. Mountain Home is primary road from the county seat uel Gardner (Senior) architecturally significant not in Front Royal to Chester Gap, was living in the area only as one of Warren County’s the property was well placed to with his family, along best preserved examples of the observe the movement of both with 25 slaves. The Greek Revival style expressed in Confederate and Federal forces, 1840 land records brick, but also as one of a very activity that is vividly described indicate that he held whom were males of more than there between 1864 and 1867. few known buildings in the area in the diary of one of Samuel B. at least ten tracts of land “at Ches- 17 years. Interestingly, six of his In her diary, Annie Gardner to have borrowed directly from Gardner’s daughters. The young ter Gap” about 4 miles southeast minor slaves were categorized referred to her residence as “our popular pattern books of the Anne Gardner provided a rare of the new Warren County seat.2 as “mulatto.” Of greater inter- beautiful and much beloved period. Its sophistication reflects glimpse of Civil War activity in Warren County was carved from est, Gardner is charged with 12 Mountain Home.” Her glowing the desire of its original owner, one of the most fought-over re- Frederick County in 1836 and horses, a fairly large number when descriptions addressed the beau- Samuel B. Gardner, to have a styl- gions. Mountain Home, although records indicate that Samuel compared to other farmers in the tiful mountains as well as Moun- ish and prominent home. Time well placed amidst troop move- Gardner, Sr. was a justice of the county. By 1860, Gardner’s eco- tain Home’s fine portico. She frame: 1847 Main House Late 20th ments, miraculously escaped sig- newly formed county, a measure nomic position had grown even described the “Yankees” seeking century shed; Mid-19th century nificant damage as it was not close of his prominence in the jurisdic- more, with 12 horses valued at food and the Gardner family feed- former slave quarter; Late 19th/ to any military encounters. Unlike tion. The senior Gardner died $800; 150 head of cattle valued at ing them; sometimes they were early 20th century frame shed; many farmsteads in the north- in 1840 and willed certain tracts $3,450; a coach valued at $75; 30 paid, sometimes not. She men- Early 20th century meat house; western portion of Virginia, and in to his son Samuel Buck Gardner sheep and 30 hogs rounded out his tioned a number of buildings on Early 20th century chicken coop; its agriculturally rich Shenandoah (1813-1882). taxable property. the property, including a granary, Two early 20th century garages. Valley, Mountain Home, and its His widow, Mrs. Rebecca Gard- The following year the number a kitchen, a smokehouse, a spring contributing outbuildings, appar- ner, continues to appear in the of his horses had increased to 18, house, a school house, and an ice STATEMENT OF SIGNIFI- ently survived relatively intact. personal property tax records with valued at $1,400. Examination of house. The whole Gardner family CANCE This is evidenced by tax records one slave, one horse, and a vehicle. the personal property taxes paid struggled to protect their food from the post-war years that Samuel B. Gardner married Sarah in the county that year reveal that stores from being stolen, generally Mountain Home, the ancestral reflect little or no diminution Catherine Allen (1817-1858) in Gardner was among the wealthiest with little success. Annie vividly home of a prominent Warren of buildings. The farmstead was 1838 and presumably lived either farmers in the county.7 Probably describes the family all picket- County, Virginia family, built in home to Samuel B. Gardner and with his family or in a house on more significant, and underscor- ing since they had been at their 1847 and strategically located his descendants from the 1840s the property that does not sur- ing the premise that Gardner’s various posts, “watching for the on the road from Front Royal to the 1960s, a remarkable tenure vive until constructing Mountain estate did not suffer substantially enemy as we expected they would to Chester Gap, is significant as for a single family.1 Mountain Home for his own growing family during the war, the 1867 tax re- make attacks on the Smoke House, a remarkably sophisticated and Home is eligible for listing on in 1847, valued by the tax assessor cords show that Gardner was School house, garden, barn, corn well-preserved mid-19th-cen- the National Register of Historic at $1,000. still taxed for 14 horses valued at houses etc.” tury dwelling. Built by Samuel Places under Criterion C as a lo- It appears S. B. Gardner added $1,140, 45 head of cattle valued Other buildings mentioned B. Gardner in 1847, Mountain cally significant example of a well other buildings to his property at $1,290, 45 sheep, and 13 hogs. include a granary and what Annie Home is one of the county’s best preserved Greek Revival-style between 1847 and 1851 when The total value of personal hold- called a “cabbin” [sic], perhaps re- preserved examples of the Greek brick dwelling. The period of the total value of improvements ings was $3,282, a notable sum in ferring to the present 1 ½-story log Revival expressed in brick, and significance begins with the con- increased, possibly adding a barn, the war’s aftermath. However, the building in the front yard that has one of a very few extant buildings struction of the main house, 1847, to $1,500. Sadly, his sons died value of his buildings declined to been brick veneered. Annie Gard- young, Robert Allen in infancy $1,000, representing possible loss ner also talks about the cherry (1844) and Samuel D. Gardner or deterioration of some build- and apple trees, presumably the Skyline Restaurant and Lounge (1849-1859) tragically at age 9, as ings. o chard shown on the plat from Breakfast Buffet Saturdays and Sundays movingly described by his mother Gardner’s daughter Annie kept a the early 20th century11 as well in a letter dated August, 1859; but remarkable diary during the sum- as a fenced “garden,” probably a three daughters, Ann, (b. 1847); mer of 1862, offering a glimpse vegetable one, a flower garden and Par-T-Dox • June 2 • 8p-Mid Mary R. (b. 1852) and Rebecca into the Mountain Home prop- a strawberry patch.12 The period (b.1854) enjoyed their childhood erty during the early years of the covered by the diary would have Karaoke-Tuesdays at Mountain Home in the years Civil War. Sadly, she was sent off been when federal troops were Open Mic-Thursdays prior to the Civil War. to school at Hollins in present-day trying to regain control of the Gardner’s wealth and personal DJ or Live Band-Fridays Roanoke and died sometime after Shenandoah Valley after Jackson property holdings increased sub- 1864. Records from the college had left for Richmond and the 915 North Royal Avenue • 540-635-6615 stantially by 1850. In that year, he indicate that she was a student Seven Days Battle. This would is charged with 32 slaves, nine of Page 26 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007 HistoryHistory of Warren County’s Mountain Home

account for the large number of new wife being Mary Catherine property, although one map does picture of not only the wealth of included very fine china, crystal, troops Annie observed travers- Allen who was born ca. 1825. The indicate that a Gardner relative’s Samuel B. Gardner, but also the glassware, and furniture, plus a ing the strategic road from Front 1870 census showed that both of name was associated with a mill extent of his cultural sophistica- “Brussels carpet” and “a “large oil Royal to Chester Gap. his surviving daughters, Mary R. nearby but north of Mountain tion, both of which substantiate painting over the mantel.” Floors According to her tombstone and Rebecca, were still living at Home. the fine quality of the Greek throughout the house were cov- in Prospect Hill Cemetery in home. Also revealed in the census Gardner’s wealth and cultural Revival house he built in 1847 ered with carpet and oil cloth, and Front Royal, Gardner’s wife, Sarah is that Gardner’s real property sophistication were revealed in and the culture of music and even the staircase was carpeted. Catherine Gardner, died in 1858; was valued at the almost unheard the extensive inventory taken of literature he must have imparted Window curtains and shades are however, since the lovely letter she of sum for that time of $50,000, his estate following his death in to his children. Among the more mentioned. From a contempo- wrote about the death of her son indicating that he had acquired 1882. Not only did he own the notable things in the accounting rary book entitled “A Civil War is dated 1859, it is likely that the substantially more land holdings Mountain Home property, but he of his estate were a Knabe piano, Marriage in Virginia,” the writer, reading of the tombstone is in er- by that year. At approximately the was also owner of another farm one of the finest pianos of the pe- Kathleen Boone Samuels, com- ror and that she died in 1868. This same time that he married Mary, called the “River Farm”, presum- riod and likely purchased directly ments on the couch in the “dining is confirmed by the inscription in Gardner added the rear ell onto ably a parcel used for agricultural from the Knabe Piano Company room” at Mountain Home. Annie Gardner’s diary that says his dwelling, reflected in the land purposes rather than as any kind in Baltimore, which had launched The sofa and other walnut “Presented to Annie by her Ma tax books showing that the value of primary residence. an aggressive marketing effort in furniture are all enumerated in July (or possibly June) 27, 1862.” of buildings he held had increased The inventory and sale of Gard- the southeast prior to the Civil Gardner’s inventory. The Gardner Annie also refers to her mother from $1,000 to $3,000 by 1870. ner’s estate were handled by his War.20 Some documents indicate family clearly was well educated several times in the Diary, clearly Gardner’s holdings at “Chester two sons-in-law, S. E. Macatee and that Gardner’s daughters studied and well read. A book rack in the indicating that she was very much Gap” had expanded to more than N. S. Waller who were married to piano, so it is likely that the piano living room and 40 volumes of an alive after 1858. Samuel B. Gard- 1,400 acres. Civil War maps do his two surviving daughters. The was at least 30-40 years old at his encyclopedia as well as a “set of ner was married again by 1870, his not show the Mountain Home detailed inventory presents a clear death. Other interesting objects old Britannica” were located in Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 27 History of Warren County’s Mountain Home

another room, possibly a library. Gardner was buried in Prospect obelisk was erected as a memorial S. Waller and his wife Rebecca ginia’s storied Shenandoah Valley Gardner had a carriage, several Hill Cemetery in Front Royal to the Gardner, Macatee, Waller, were living there with their son remains intact and recalls the pe- buggies, and a sulky, all of which with his sons, his first wife, Sarah and Allen (family of Samuel B. Samuel B. and daughter Rebecca, riod when a young girl described were greatly prized by farmers of Catherine Allen Gardner (d. 1868) Gardner’s first wife) families in born respectively in 1881 and “Yankee” troops marching past. that time. Gardner’s horses are and later joined by his second 1982. 1886. Nelson Waller had been a Samuel B. Gardner stands out as lovingly listed by name. Fine lin- wife Mary H. Eastham Gardner The stately Mountain Home school teacher prior to becoming a particularly successful farmer ens, including some from Turkey, (d.1902), daughters Mary Roberta mansion continued as the resi- a successful farmer and owner of who was committed to providing mirrors and clocks abound in the Macatee (d.1908) and Rebecca B. dence of Mary Gardner until her Mountain Home. his family with both material and massive inventory, the value of Waller, (d. after 1937) and grand- death in 1908. In the division of The Macatees had left the coun- cultural wealth and whose family which total nearly $7,200, a large daughter Mary Roberta Waller Gardner’s estate between his two ty by 1910. Mountain Home, still occupied this property for well sum in those years. This amount (died 1967). Rebecca B. Waller daughters, his daughter Mary a private residence, continues to over a century. Although most did not include the value of much was still living at Mountain Home Roberta Macatee and her hus- stand on the main road, U.S. Route of the agricultural acreage was of his livestock, cattle, sheep, and when the WPA Survey of Warren band Samuel received the portion 522 that runs from Front Royal sold off during the course of the pigs, which had been sold prior to County was conducted in the with the dwelling house, but they through Chester Gap and finally to 20th century, the house and its the preparation of the inventory. 1930s.23 Gardner’s sons-in-law deeded it to her sister Rebecca Culpeper in Virginia’s Piedmont. dependencies remained in the The survival of such a detailed Samuel Macatee, a Civil War B. Waller and her husband N. According to records of the Vir- ownership of Samuel B. Gardner’s inventory presents a rare glimpse veteran who died in 1923, and S. Waller in an agreement of ca. ginia Department of Transporta- descendants until the 1960s, a into the lifestyle of a highly suc- grandson, Major General Samuel 1884, with Mary Macatee to re- tion, the road was likely paved and remarkable 140-year tenure. The cessful farmer who appears to G. Waller, Adjutant General of ceive one-half of the property’s realigned slightly ca. 1912-1914. stately Greek Revival-style man- have escaped the worst depriva- Virginia from 1931-1955 (b. 1881, value when Samuel Gardner’s The setting along a primary road sion is a tangible testament to the tions of war and raised his family d.1955) are also buried in the fam- widow, Mary Gardner, died. The in the shadow of the Blue Ridge cultural sensitivity of this Warren in substantial luxury. ily plot. A ten-foot white marble 1900 census recorded that Nelson Mountains and nestled in Vir- County family. Page 28 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007 Kevin S. Engle & Mary Ellen South

It is Brain Surgery! by Kevin S. Engle to make it work. And thank god Warren County Report it does. Of course, installing them correctly is another story. MayBy Mary Ellen South I #10.Help She is a 43 year old single commitmentYou? to volunteering on a My wife and I both know the You’ve heard the jokes “How Warren County Report mom raising two daughters, one weekly, monthly, or even quarterly outcome before it ever happens, many people does it take to install in basis is just not what most people- yet I do it anyway. Sending me to a light bulb?” Well, the new ver- Volunteering has been desig- College, the other 11 years old. young or old, feel that they need Lowes or Home Depot to buy stuff sion is “How many Kevin Engles nated as a chore for the elderly Lisa is the team leader for the to do. I suspect that we need to is like asking me to perform brain does it take to buy the correct here in our valley. breakfasts held every third Satur- get people on board with the surgery. And in case you’re won- light bulb?” Yes, even accomplish- Where are the young people day at the fire hall’s Celebration idea that serving without pay has dering, I’m not a brain surgeon. ing this seemingly easy task is far of today when help is needed? Hall. She even brings her girls special rewards that only one can These stores are exercises in from easy. All you need to know When asking a young married along to help. feel when they have participated frustration. First of all, they’re are watts and volts right? Wrong. couple about volunteering for When asked why she feels Greed has overtaken most people too damn big. When you’re as What was I thinking? Obviously I any organization the response is compelled to serve, her answer this day. They’d rather buy what clueless as I am, it takes forever wasn’t. There are different shaped always the same “we’re too busy is simple, “I love this community, they need, pay for what they want, to find what you’re looking for. light bulbs. Do you want one with with our jobs, kids, parents and and want to give something back. and attend to Number 1 before all And when you finally do, that’s a bent tip or a blunt tip? There homes.” Well, seniors have the My girls need to learn that living else. when the real confusion sets are differ ent bases for light bulbs, same responsibilities and yet they within a community means serv- I believe that our children need in. For instance, buying screws including a medium base and a are the ones who step up to the ing it and helping others.” to become “part of the village” and should be simple enough right? candelabra base. Would you like plate to serve. Volunteerism is on the down learn to serve others by volunteer- WRONG!!! Who knew there were a medium base with an F15 shape? One startling exception is Lisa slide all around the country. Oh, ing. 5,000 different kinds? You have I thought an F15 was a fighter jet? Bilinski of the North Warren Vol- sure, people get involved when a drywall screws, wood screws, lag And then you have the so-called unteer Fire and Rescue Company crisis occurs- like Katrina. But a screws, cam screws, connecting “long lasting double life” light screws, machine screws, sheet bulbs. Do you spend the extra metal screws. Come on. Are they money on those? And do they really all necessary? I don’t think really last twice as long? so. And what does it mean? What And this is the simple stuff. it means is that I’m guaranteed to What about the more complicated come home with the wrong ones. things like closet shelving? I’m Sales Help Wanted And that assures me of another already dreading that job. I know trip back to my favorite store to when I finally muster the courage try again. An added bonus is that to tackle that project, one of two I get to stand in long return lines things will happen, if not both. when I go, which only adds to my Either we won’t have the right stuff Warren County Report, the enjoyment. to do the job, or we won’t have Shortly after moving in to our enough of the right stuff to get it highest-circulated newspaper in house, we needed towel bars and done. Either way, I’m headed back toilet paper holders. My wife was to my favorite store. I’ve already Front Royal and Warren County, with me so she couldn’t blame named my wife foreman for the this one all on me. When we got project. God knows what it would home, we discover they came with look like if I did it. is searching for two advertising drywall screws. We don’t have A friend tells me she loves go- drywall. We have wood. Back I ing to these stores. What? How salespersons. go. What size screws? How the can that be? Is she insane? She hell do I know? After similar ex- does have four kids, so maybe. I’d periences like this, I start to learn rather get a tooth pulled. Without that it might be helpful to bring Novocain. My pulse races and If you have what it takes and the original screws with me so I get all sweaty. And that’s just that at least I’m in the right ball- when I pull into the parking lot. park. Of course when I get there, My wife once called the police be- want to be part of a successful I can’t figure it out on my own. I cause she thought I was missing. play dumb, which is really not an Turns out I was lost in the lumber and exciting team of profession- act, and ask a store associate for aisle. No one could figure out why help. Ok, so now I have the right I was crying. Including myself. als, call Holly Spindle today. screws, but they still won’t work I gotta go. The hospital just because the head (and that would paged me. They need me to be the technical term for the top perform a brain transplant. On of the screw) is too small. Now myself. It couldn’t be any tougher what? Go to the local hardware than buying screws and light Office: (540) 636-8272 store and ask them. My wife is in bulbs. the car but she doesn’t want to go Cell: (540) 683-1078 in. Oh yeah, I’ve already demon- If you’re in the market for a brain strated how incompetent I can be surgeon or need a few things at by myself. I’m not about to make Lowes, send an e-mail to Kevin@ E-mail: [email protected] another return trip. You’re comin’ warrencountyreport.com. He’d be in too. Turns out I need washers happy to help. Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 29 Education

Engineering curriculum geared to many, not the few WCEE, engineering grant lead public schools to new educational horizons

By Roger Bianchini excited about the program’s pros- Warren County Report pects. “Our goal has always been to try At a May 29 luncheon spon- and prepare students for the next sored by the Warren County step, to try to take care of their Educational Endowment, local needs right now . . . This definitely business leaders were urged to is giving them a direction, it’s continue to integrate their efforts preparing them for a particular with the county’s public school direction, but also the skills they system. will learn in this program can help The focal point of the May 29 in going to many different direc- meeting was to acknowledge tions. the school system’s receipt of a “So, we’re not only looking for $50,000 grant to begin implemen- future engineers, we’re just look- tation of a national non-profit ef- ing for students who are ready to fort to increase secondary school problem solve, who are able to curriculums related to the pursuit take care of the types of challenges of engineering careers. that this kind of program is going In just over six years, Project to offer them. So, I’m extremely Lead the Way has helped create excited about this and the aspect curriculums in over 1700 schools of moving in this direction.” at both middle and high school Endowment member and for- levels. mer DuPont Plant Manager John Warren County Schools Su- LaBarca challenged those present perintendent Pamela McInnis from the business community to Following Warren County Educational Endowment luncheon, John LaBarca dis- stressed that the program, which take the message of “We” back to cusses the relationship of business and education with Toray Plastics’ Jeff Lip- has also received a $30,000 contri- their workplaces. py, far left. bution from the Warren County “It has to involve “we.” There’s scientists really do day to day – so business and industry leaders have to improve our school system and Educational Endowment, will be no way to accomplish the bench- that you connect the academics been saying we haven’t been pro- to make it a more comprehensive available to all interested students marks that we have to accomplish with the notion of what does this ducing enough mathematicians system and open up opportuni- and has proven valuable to more if we don’t do it with members of allow me to do as a career.” and scientists, engineers – people ties for all students, not just your than just advanced mathematics the community, specifically mem- During his remarks, LaBarca with highly developed technical gifted and talented. students. bers of industry . . . So, there’s got asked various business representa- skills. This program helps create “And the concept behind this is Ernestine Jordan, who will be- to be an aspect of it where there’s tives present what they took from a solution. It’s very easy to state you don’t have to be the best math come principal of the new Warren hands on understanding about the information they heard that a problem, it’s another matter to and science student to enter this County High School next year is what engineers really do, or what day. develop a viable solution and this program. It gives students options. “I think Dale Zilke from DuPont is a viable solution.” I think we’re ahead of the game said it really well when he said ‘It’s Cherefko also praised the idea from the technological standpoint good to open up a curriculum and of public educational partnerships already . . . and it’s getting even see all kinds of things to study and with private industry. better with the advent of the two it exposes you to a lot of thing; but “No longer can you develop a new high schools and then with too many kids grow up and go to good comprehensive school sys- programs like this, the software Italian Restaurant college still wondering what do I tem without the help of partners. we’re going to acquire – it’s just “Authentic Italian Meals” want to be when I grow up?’ You can’t do it just with taxpayers going to provide our students “So, part of a curriculum, money. And the Educational En- with a marvelous opportunity, as · Pasta · Pizza whether its engineering or nurs- dowment is a wonderful partner well as some focus and direction · Steaks · Chicken ing or help care or whatever it and business and industry are our for their study in higher education might be, has got to have some partners and as John (LaBarca) and a possible career.” · Veal · Stromboli aspects to it that gives students said, this program will not fly McInnis agreed that the engi- · Full Course Dinners a vision of why am I here? And without the cooperation of the neering curriculum would help · Beer, Wine & Cocktails what does it mean to me later on community, those mentor-ships, the county’s public schools “raise · Banquets up to 100 by taking this particular course of those internships, for those speak- the standard for all students, not action? And I think this is where ers to come into the classroom to just a select few.” A Great Taste from Italy to the Valley the school system is starting to give these students real life appli- The superintendent also noted come by building a foundation cation of what they are learning. that the coming school year would Mon thru Thurs 11am - 10pm · Fri & Sat 11-11 · Sun Noon-10pm · Closed Tues that allows them to see – now I “But this program, in addition be one of putting all the steps in can see the next step.” to teaching engineering, will place to implement the program. South River School Board Rep- provide these students with skills The total cost to see the program resentative Joanne Cherefko was that business and industry de- up and running for the 2008- also enthusiastic about the direc- mand – problem solving, critical 09 school year would be about 865 John Marshall Hwy · Rt 55E near 522 Intersection tion presented by the Project Lead thinking, collaborative skills. It is a $184,000, McInnis estimated. the Way program. process, we’ve been working very “For years legislators, politicians, diligently, even before I got here, Page 30 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007 Environment

Front Royal Company innovates in energy

From a release: are then emulsified in a reactor running better this year than in resources and the environment. year. Cotefco has since formed chamber. Next, the emulsified the past five years” said Steve “We’re delighted to bring to market Cotefco Industrial Boiler Systems, It has been said that oil and wa- water/oil mixture is atomized into Hollingsworth, Director of Main- this new technology that has been Inc. (CIBS) to focus on bringing ter do not mix, but the technical the boiler for combustion. tenance at MMA. “Our whole independently tested and shown the E2C technology to the indus- team at Cotefco Corporation is “Tests show the new emulsion utilities staff is very pleased with not only to reduce pollution, but trial, commercial and institutional making it happen – and lowering fuel reduces dangerous emissions the unit’s performance.” Holling- also, in many cases, to save fuel,” marketplace including schools, dangerous emissions and increas- dramatically while burning with sworth said Cotefco’s E2C unit he stated. “The improvement in hospitals, large office buildings ing fuel efficiency in the process. no apparent reduction in boiler “has gotten a real workout,” due boiler performance and emissions and processing plants. Using a proprietary new tech- efficiency or performance,” said especially to the surprising cold reduction should have an impor- Cotefco is the exclusive licensee nology for super-mixing, Cotefco Charles Markert, Cotefco’s senior surge this spring. tant and positive impact on both for this patent pending technology has been quietly fabricating a rev- vice president for engineering. In honor of the success of the America’s oil supply situation and in the United States and Canada. olutionary water-in-oil emulsion “And,” he added, “the best news is Emulsion to Combustion™ tech- the environmental challenges of The Cotefco Lab is located at the apparatus at its laboratory since that our emulsion burns beauti- nology and installation at MMA, climate change. Early results have renovated, EPA remediated Av- the Fall of 2006. Cotefco’s Emul- fully in standard boilers.” a gala announcement luncheon been very good,” Lickson added. tex site in Front Royal, Virginia. sion to Combustion™, or “E2C”™ The first industrial installation of will be hosted by MMA on May “The time has come to share this Additional information on the unit is installed near the point of Cotefco’s E2C technology in the 18, 2007. important energy technology with Emulsion to Combustion™ unit is combustion on boilers. Fuel oil U.S. was completed in January, Cotefco President and CEO others,” he said. available from Cotefco at 800-967- and water flow into the unit in 2007 at Massanutten Military Charles P. Lickson expressed op- E2C inventor Eric W. Cottell of 4555 or by email: info@cotefco. predetermined ratios, (without Academy (MMA) in Woodstock, timism for both the new company Nassau, Bahamas, completed the com. Cotefco’s website is: www. chemical additives) where they Virginia. “Our boilers have been and its positive impact on fuel U.S. patent application earlier this Cotefco.com. Paula Conrow Roger Bianchini

FRPD’s own “Chips” - Motorcycle Patrol Officer Donald Orye - stopped by to check on the going on at DARE Day. Participants are gathered behind Orye on the Rob- ert F. Mason Softball FIeld to hear team results of the day’s competitive and fun recreational events. Kip and Denise Walton at Dancin’ Downtown Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 31 DARE Day Page 32 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007 Photos Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 33 Opinion

Survivor: “Passive Citizenship is Not Enough” the Chinese Communist Party Reflecting on a soldier’s death in Iraq and a father’s despair, historian Nancy C. Unger invokes the words of Robert La Follette to hearten those discouraged Chinese Communism seemed deeply threatened in by apparent failure. 1989, but China now stands as the last great-nation Communist state. Historian Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom most thought- elections of senators and cam- ful early critics paign and lobbying restrictions. analyzes the party’s strategies of self-preservation. of the war that The continuation of the war in ultimately took Iraq today demonstrates vividly in effect: “You may be his only son. His that corruption of the govern- sick of Communism, current despair ment’s responsibility to represent but there seems to be over American the will of the people is hardly per- something worse out politics can hard- manently banished. The progres- there -- post-Com- ly be dismissed sive leader Robert La Follette fore- munism.” as baseless cyni- saw this eventuality in a speech he Closer to home, the cism or bitterness gave hundreds of times in the early crisis sparked by North spawned by per- 1920s: “America is not made, but Korea’s nuclear ambi- sonal grief. is in the making. There is an un- tions has helped the Bacevich con- ending struggle to make and keep party too. North Korea tends that free government representative. Mere is a Communist state speech is ren- passive citizenship is not enough. led by the notoriously dered little more Men must be aggressive for what is erratic Kim Jong-Il. It than a means of right if government is to be saved is isolated from most recording dis- from those who are aggressive for other nations but has sent. Suppose what is wrong.” long had close ties to he’s right. This According to the English phi- China. Whenever Kim certainly isn’t the losopher Edmund Burke, “All that behaves outrageously, first time that the is necessary for the triumph of evil the United States, Rus- will of the people is for good men to do nothing.” sia, Japan and South By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom has been defied. La Follette agreed: “There is work Korea appeal to the Chinese History News Service By Nancy C. Unger Although a plu- for everyone. The field is large. It Communists for help, treating History News Service rality of Americans opposed U.S. is a glorious service, this service Beijing as the world’s best hope In the spring of 1989, giant involvement in Vietnam by late for the country. Every American for keeping Pyongyang in check. crowds marched through the Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston 1967, the last American troops should count it a patriotic duty to This allows the party to say to the streets of China’s cities, demand- University professor and frequent weren’t withdrawn until 1973. build at least a part of his life into Chinese people that it has been ing an end to official corruption critic of the war in Iraq, has star- And yet few would dispute that the life of his country, to do his successful in raising China’s status and more political freedom. In- tled his many readers by saying opposition at home ultimately share in the making of America in the realm of global diplomacy. spired by the spectacle of these that “the will of the people” has contributed to the conflict’s final according to the plan of the fa- The general instability of 21st- dramatic demonstrations, foreign no meaningful role in American resolution. thers.” century geopolitics has also bol- observers predicted that the days politics. History is rife with patriots like Professor Bacevich and his son, stered the party. One argument of the Chinese Communist Party Following the death of An- Bacevich whose efforts to put each in his own way, carried out the party uses to convince the were numbered. And yet, as we drew Bacevich, Jr., in that war on their country on a better path their patriotic duty in the cur- Chinese people that it should mark the 18th anniversary of the Mother’s Day, Professor Bacevich were repeatedly spurned. Before rent war. Neither served in vain. remain in control is that, in times brutal June 4 Massacre, which put claims that while his son did his he paid the ultimate price for his Pentagon planners are searching of global unrest, nations without an end to 1989’s student-led pro- best to serve the country, his own beliefs, Martin Luther King Jr., not for ways to reduce the number of strong, stable governments be- tests, the party remains in power. books, articles, and op-ed pieces only spent time in jail for repeat- U.S. troops in Iraq as they shift the come vulnerable to being bullied The party’s own actions have accomplished nothing. Yet his ed arrests but was stabbed and mission from combat to support. or even invaded. helped it stay in control. By mak- declaration denies the real value of stoned. And it could be argued Even the Senate Republican leader, How much longer can the party ing the surprising move of accept- the insightful protest that he has that it was all for nothing, as the Mitch McConnell, recognizes that defy the predictions of its immi- ing entrepreneurs into its ranks, it worked so hard to foster. United States is even now hardly a “the handwriting is on the wall,” nent demise that were so common has co-opted a potentially threat- Bacevich’s claim that the will of nation of racial equality. Yet what and expects President Bush to in 1989? This question is impos- ening group, and it has pulled the people has been ignored at all would our country be like today move in a different direction in sible to answer with certainty, but back from micromanaging many levels of government and on both without King and all the others the fall. recent history tells us one thing. aspects of private life, a cause of sides of the congressional aisle who persisted in their fight against All American citizens owe both The party’s fate will continue to much discontent in the 1980s. itself ignores the fact that many a recalcitrant government? Baceviches a debt of gratitude depend not just on what happens But the party has also gotten people, and their representatives The progressives at the turn of -- and all have a responsibility to inside of China but also what hap- lucky breaks in the international in Congress, continue the struggle the last century fought against a be aggressive for what is right if pens in the unpredictable world arena and been helped by unex- to end the war. Protest HAS had government that was so openly our government is be to saved, yet that lies beyond its borders. pected post-1989 developments an impact. Imagine the current corrupt that congressional seats again, from those who are aggres- Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a pro- in the wider world. In the early state of affairs in the Middle East were sold to the highest bidder, sive for what is wrong. fessor of history at the University of 1990s, Russia’s decline and Yugo- without it. and urban bosses bragged pub- Nancy C. Unger is an associate California, Irvine, a writer for the slavia’s free-fall into chaos ben- Bacevich himself served in licly of the profits they made off professor of history at Santa Clara History News Service and the au- efited the Chinese Communists. Vietnam, ultimately rising to the graft. Undaunted despite repeated University, the author of “Fighting thor of “China’s Brave New World These phenomena allowed the rank of colonel before becoming defeats, progressives battled for Bob La Follette: The Righteous Re- -- And Other Tales for Global party to say to the Chinese people, an academic. A conservative, he election and lobbying reform, ul- former,” and a writer for the History Times” (2007). nevertheless became one of the timately culminating in the direct News Service. Page 34 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007 Briefs

Wayside Theatre OPENS the 2007-08 Season R-MA Shows Support to Troops NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC with The musical comedy “FOREVER PLAID” From a release: states Norm Brander, CMSgt, NORTH ROYAL AVE & From a release: and Music Director is Steve Przy- USAF (Ret). To be thanked by WEST 14TH STREET bylski. The production is designed In conjunction with the Air high school students, who are the LANE RECONFIGURATION Wayside Theatre Artistic Di- by Til Turner, Set Designer and Force Association (AFA), R-MA’s future of our country, is a great rector Warner Crocker today an- Technical Director, Christopher community service students have morale booster.” nounced the cast for the 2007-08 M. Ham, Lighting and Sound been sending letters to service The majority of the letters The Department of Public Season opening musical comedy Designer, and Tamara Carruthers, men and women thanking them have been sent using the website Works will be reconfiguring the production of “Forever Plaid.” The Costume Designer. for their efforts and sacrifices. anysoldier.com. The letters are travel lanes on North Royal Av- musical book is by Stuart Ross, The cast is Wayside Theatre The students have been writing addressed to “Any Soldier,” then enue from Commerce Avenue musical arrangement and vocals audience favorites and veterans: hand written letters to members of commanders disperse them to to 14th Street and on West 14th by James Riatt. The play begins Larry Dahlke (Buddy: The Buddy the Armed Forces serving in Iraq troops who have not been get- Street from North Royal Avenue performances Saturday, June 23 Holly Story, Black Coffee, Smoke or Afghanistan, as well as letters ting much mail from home. “The to North Shenandoah Avenue be- and opens Sunday, June 24 con- on the Mountain, Sanders Family directed to local members of the AFA has also generously provided ginning in late May. The recon- tinuing a run through September Christmas), Michael Hadary (A Armed Forces that are stationed funding so that each letter has had figuration will include a center 30. Christmas Schooner) and Vaughn in the U.S., either at home or in a local postcard that the soldier left-turn lane to improve traffic “Forever Plaid” is one of the Irving (Buddy: The Buddy Holly a hospital recovering from a war can then send home, to another flow and safety on these road most popular and successful Story, Black Coffee, A Christmas injury. To date, the students have soldier, or keep,” states Stephanie segments. The lane configuration musicals in recent memory, this Story) and newcomer, Jim Bray. sent over 160 letters and have re- Davis, R-MA’s Community Ser- will be similar to that presently deliciously goofy revue centers “Forever Plaid” begins perfor- ceived close to 10 responses back, vice Coordinator. “Also, through in place on North Shenandoah on four young, eager male sing- mances with low priced one-day including correspondence with the generosity of the Front Royal’s Avenue from West 14th Street to ers killed in a car crash in the only performance at 2:30pm local war hero Bunky Woods. Visitor Center, each letter has the South Fork Bridge. 1950s on the way to their first big and 8:00 pm on Saturday, June “The military members know included a ‘Virginia is For Lovers’ On-street parking will be re- concert, and now miraculously 23rd. The official opening night is the sacrifices they make today are bumper sticker.” moved from these sections of are revived for the posthumous Sunday, June 24 at 6:30pm. Per- for the future of our great country,” road to allow this improvement chance to fulfill their dreams and formances will continue through to occur. perform the show that never was. September 30. Ticket prices are If you have any questions about Old favorites and well-loved tunes $23 to $28 dollars for adults. Front Royal Police Foundation formed this project, please contact the are revived “Love is a Many Splen- Prices for children 17 and under Group to raise money for equipment and programs Department of Public Works at dored Thing”, “Rags to Riches”, are $10 for any show. Ask about (540) 635-7819. “Shangri-la”, “Chain Gang”, “Crazy discounts available for students Chief Ronald A. Williamson has fred Woods, Lynn Armentrout, ‘Bout Ya Baby”, “Heart & Soul” and and seniors. Group discounts are announced the formation of the Tim Frees, Joe McDaniel and Patti “Three Coins in the Fountain.” also available. Wayside Theatre NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Front Royal Police Foundation. Baggarly. Performances will be held at also sells discounted subscriptions The foundation was established The Front Royal Police Foun- the Royal Phoenix Theatre, 400 for the entire season with options NORTH ROYAL AVENUE to assist the Police Department in dation is modeled after the City Kendrick Lane, Front Royal, VA that fit any budget and any sched- PUBLIC MEETING their Community Policing initia- of Lynchburg Police Foundation, 22630, while Wayside Theatre’s ule. FIVE-LANE TYPICAL SEC- tive of better serving the citizen’s which has provided their depart- main stage, lobby, concession area, Performances each week for TION in our community. The Founda- ment with equipment and funding and facility in Middletown enters “Forever Plaid” will be Thursday, tion, which is pending 501 ( C ) (3) for special programs without the Phase 1 of the Renovation and Friday and Saturday evening at 7:00 pm on June 5, 2007 status, will solicit tax deductible need for additional budgetary in- Construction plans for Wayside 8:00pm., Wednesday, Saturday Town Hall – Third Floor Con- contributions needed to develop creases. The Foundation members Theatre. matinees at 2:30 pm, and Sunday ference Room police activities, equipment , and would like to thank Chief Charles “Forever Plaid” is directed by matinees at 2:30 PM beginning The Town of Front Royal will community programs. Bennett and Major Michael B. Warner Crocker, Artistic Director July 1st. The Foundation Board is made Spencer of the Lynchburg Police conduct a public meeting to dis- up of business and community Department for their assistance cuss the proposed improvements leaders with a vision to improve in the development of the Front to construct a five-lane typical Shhhh! Don’t tell the British! the quality of life for the residents Royal Police Foundation. section on North Royal Avenue CIA Spy Museum creator to present talk on spying, trickery, and deception of our town. The current Board Any further questions or in- from Commerce Avenue to West From a release: America has engaged in deception members are Chairman Jim Ken- quires may be directed to Police 14th Street and solicit comments to help win wars. During World from citizens. ney, Vice Chairman Robin Gaile, Liaison Captain Mark Werner at Ghost Armies: Spying, Trickery, War I, esteemed artists brought The reconfiguration will in- Treasurer Bryan Williams, and 540-631-2745 or e-mail mwer- and Deception with Linda Mc- their considerable talents to the clude a center left-turn lane to Board of Directors Reverend Al- [email protected] Carthy effort, designing strange painted improve traffic flow and safety patterns that, when applied to on these road segments. The lane Wednesday, June 13, 6:30 – 8:00 merchant and navy ships, in par- configuration will be similar to Relay For Life of Front Royal/Warren County p.m. ticular, helped thwart the devasta- that presently in place on North Samuels Public Library tion caused by German U-boats. Shenandoah Avenue from West The Women’s Resource Center Two decades later, during the Warren County Middle School 14th Street to the South Fork June 8-9, 2007 presents Front Royal’s favorite next global conflict, deception Bridge. “spy gal,” Linda McCarthy, creator techniques evolved into highly Opening Ceremony 6:00 PM On-street parking will be re- Survivors Walk immediately following: of the CIA Espionage Museum sophisticated undertakings that moved from this section of road speaking about “Ghost Armies: included fake towns and inflatable to allow this improvement to For More Information Call: Spying, Trickery, and Deception tanks, airplanes, landing craft and, occur. .” yes, soldiers. Connie at 636-9579 or Tara at 635-7886 Any questions regarding this meeting should be directed to Beginning with General Wash- Free and suitable for the whole Register your team on our website: the Department of Public Works www.acsevents.org/relay/frontroyal ington’s operational trickery that family. at (540) 635-7819. repeatedly blindsided the British, Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 35 Diversions

Trivia Time by Wal- Hendrix open in his first North Sports Challenge by Walter Branch American appearance? ter Branch 9. What is the traditional . What was a baseball that landed fair and bounced over the outfield fence called before 1931? anniversary gift for 35 years of 2. What tennis star became the first female athlete to make more than $1 million in a year in 1971? . What was the first product marriage? put out by Hewlett-Packard? 3. What baseball pitch was Burleigh Grimes the last player to throw legally in 1934? 0. What are the top killers of 4. What golfer drew the largest galleries at PGA Tour events in 1993? 2. What is the only flavor of people in Africa? Jell-O that contains real fruit 5. Which political party’s presidents have thrown out the most opening day baseballs? 6. What World Championship rodeo event was Lynn Joncowski the first woman to compete in? flavoring? Trivia Time Answers 3. What is the only animal born 7. Who did the play-by-play on the first show of ABC’s “NFL Monday Night Football?” . An automatic urinal flusher; 8. How many weeks does the Tour de France bicycle race take? with horns? 2. Cranberry; 3. The giraffe; 4. 4. What was the largest build- 9. Whose football innovations included the spiral punt, headgear and the reverse? The Sears Merchandise Center 0. Who became the first jockey since Willie Shoemaker to win over 8,000 races? ing ever to be explosively demol- in Philadelphia, Pa.; 5. Harriet ished? Sports Challenge Answers Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s . A home run; 2. Billie Jean King; 3. The spitball; 4. John Daly; 5. The Republican Party; 6. Bull riding; 5. What was the first American Cabin;” 6. 12 miles per hour; novel to sell a million copies? 7. Keith Jackson; 8. Three; 9. Glen “Pop” Warner’s; 10. Laffit Pincay, Jr. 7. 120 or the equivalent of five (c) 2007 DBR Media, Inc. 6. How fast does a bee fly? days; 8. The Monkees; 9. Jade; 7. How many hours a month, 10. AIDS, malaria and war on average, do Americans spend (c) 2007 DBR Media, Inc watching television? 8. For what group did Jimi Quotes

“What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires, desires of which he You Don’t Say! himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is In English, the days of the week are named after the Saxon gods. offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even Sunday is named after the sun, Monday after the moon, Tuesday on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.” - Bertrand Russell after Tiw, Wednesday after Woden, Thursday after Thor, Friday after * * * Freya, and Saturday after Saturn. “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject * * * any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over Laid head to claw, KFC chickens consumed worldwide would stretch you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl Sagan some 275,094 miles. They would circle the Earth at the equator 11 * * * times or stretch from the Earth approximately 50,094 miles past the “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the ILLUSION of knowledge.” - Daniel moon. Boorstin * * * * * * The Ameraucana and Araucana chickens can lay eggs colored in “Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. shades of green or blue, depending on the breed and its ancestry. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of * * * comfort.” - Jean Cocteau A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emis- * * * sion, or about 17 oz. in a day. “Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.” - E.R. Beadle * * * * * * The average human body contains enough iron to make a three-inch “The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries, surely stands in a lonely nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 place.” - Gary Zukov pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads and water to fill a 10-gal- lon tank. * * * The1 958 cartoon, “Knighty Knight, Bugs” won the Academy Award A Look Back This Week for animation. On May 28, 1539, Hernando de Soto landed in Florida ... May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska act became * * * law, leaving the issue of slavery up to a vote of the settlers ... June 3, 1899, the International Ladies’ Gar- Bugs Bunny appeared in both newspaper strips and comic books ment Workers Union was founded in New York City ... May 29, 1932, World War I veterans launched a between the 1940s and the ‘70s, but none of them captured his char- Bonus March on Washington, D.C., demanding that Congress pay their bonuses in full ... June 3, 1940, acter; nor were any notable writers or the U.S. okayed the sale of surplus war materiel to Great Britain ... May 31, 1955, the Supreme Court artists associated with him. ordered “all deliberate speed” in the integration of public schools ... June 2, 1995, a U.S. F-16 fighter jet piloted by Air Force Capt. Scott O’Grady was shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina; he was rescued by U.S. Marines six days later ... June 2, 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of conspiracy and murder Skyline Restaurant and Lounge in the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City ... May 28, 2002, Washington D.C.’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Jonathan Arden, ruled Chandra Levy’s death a homicide but could Breakfast Buffet Saturdays and Sundays not say how she had been killed ... May 28, 2002, in Rome, NATO leaders signed an agreement to admit Russia as a sort of junior partner ... May 30, 2002, a ceremonial last girder was removed from the site of the World Trade Center towers in New York, signaling the end of a massive clean-up and recovery Par-T-Dox • June 2 • 8p-Mid operation ... June 3, 2003, two defendants in a U.S. district court in Detroit were found guilty of conspir- Karaoke-Tuesdays ing to provide support to terrorists ... May 29, 2004, the National World War II Memorial, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated ... June 3, 2004, President Bush announced that Open Mic-Thursdays he had accepted the resignation of CIA Director George Tenet, effective July11 ... May 31, 2005, in a na- DJ or Live Band-Fridays tionwide referendum, French voters refused to ratify the European Union constitution, which required unanimous approval by member nations in order to go into force. 915 North Royal Avenue • 540-635-6615 (c) 2007 DBR Media, Inc. Page 36 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007 Food & Funnies

The Creative Cook by Julia Merla

The National Pasta Association of- fers these tips and meal solutions to make healthy and quick cooking a reality. When creating an impromptu pasta dish, remember that “less is more” and limit the number of ingredients that you use. Oil, garlic, crushed tomatoes, fresh basil and hot pepper flakes is one delicious combination. Be creative! Toss pasta with a little vegetable oil, tomato or broth for a simple sauce. Try a no-cook sauce by marinating tomatoes, chopped fresh mozzarella and fresh basil leaves in a little oil. Toss with hot pasta for a quick, deli- cious meal. For a change of taste, try pureed roasted red peppers as a sauce. Keep fresh herbs on hand as a quick and easy way to add a lot of flavor. Basil, which has a very fresh, delicate flavor, is best added to sauces at the last minute to maximize its flavor. Rosemary is woodsy, so it’s especially suited to cream sauces and earthy ingredients, like mushrooms. Because sage is so pungent, it stands up well in heartier pasta dishes with veal and pork. For a nutrient-packed meal, top pasta with chopped or mixed vegetables and a favorite bottled sauce. When creating a sauce, start with broths or vegetables, and vegetable purees as a bases instead of cream and butter. Experiment with spices and fresh herbs to add interest and flavor. Experiment with ingredients that stimulate the tex- ture of fat - without the fat. One way to slim down your favorite lasagne recipe, for instance, is to cut the quantity of ricotta cheese in half and puree it with two large eggplants that have been roasted and peeled. Instead of meat, try adding vegetables to a light tomato sauce for a plenty of flavor and crunch. Double your favorite recipes, and freeze the extra servings for later use. This works especially well with sauces and baked pasta dishes like lasagne. Keep leftover cooked pasta in the refrigerator for up to three days. When it’s time to reheat, simply put it in a colander an then place it directly into boiling water for one minute. Use only small amounts of vegetable oils, margarine and vegetable cooking spray when preparing pasta dishes. LAYERED PICNIC PASTA SALAD 12 oz. Bow Ties or other medium pasta shape 1/2 cup vinaigrette salad dressing 1 cup frozen green peas, thawed 3 plum tomatoes, sliced 1 cup fresh mushrooms, sliced 2 oz. proscuitto, thinly sliced 2 tbsp. fresh basil, chopped 3 tbsp. parmesan cheese, freshly grated Cook pasta according to package directions; drain. Return to cooking pan and toss with 2 tablespoons vinaigrette dress- ing. Transfer half of pasta to a clear glass bowl. Layer peas, tomatoes, mushrooms, and proscuitto on pasta. Top with remaining pasta. Sprinkle with basil and pour remaining dressing evenly over salad. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Serve at once or cover and chill until ready to serve. Toss right before serving to evenly coat dressing. Serves 6. (c) 2007 DBR Media, Inc. Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 37

This issue’s crossword puzzle theme is “Mind your own business.” The solutions to the crossword and the Sudoku puzzle are on page 39. NO PEEKING!!! Puzzles

ACROSS 54 Bottle resident 2 Baby gift 1 Opening trio 55 Of a blood channel 3 Messenger 4 In the distance 57 Mil. rank 4 __ Seton; author of “My Theo- 8 Sitter’s item 60 Exist dosia” 11 Took to court 61 Tenant 5 Material 15 Singing group 62 Intrudes 6 From __ Z 16 Intl. alliance 63 Choice 7 Curtain holder 17 Pasta choice 65 __ T; exactly 8 Pierced 19 Intrude 67 Connector 9 Small mounds 22 Intrude 68 __ the pie; intrude 10 Bakery purchase 23 Large tree 72 __-pitch softball 11 Piece of furniture 24 End 75 Deface 12 American Indians 25 Actor Robert 76 Able to speak easily 13 To be in Cherbourg 27 Places of relief 77 Of a hardwood 14 Passes away 28 Girl’s name 79 In a tricky way 15 __ lie; prevaricate 30 “__, I saw, ...” 84 Glacial 17 Twice DI 33 German article 86 Permit 18 __-Magnon 35 Athletic Arthur 87 Weasel 19 Arthur of TV 36 Intrudes 88 Upper stage of a rocket 20 Sailor’s milieu 42 War deity 89 __ king 21 Delicious 44 In a timid way 90 Dine 26 Dance 45 Pioneers 92 Ruler of old 29 Immaculate 47 School orgs. 93 Pie ingredients 31 Dracula and others: abbr. 50 Mai __ 95 Two cents’ worth 32 __ Wednesday 52 O’Neill and Sullivan 100 Scorch 34 Mamie Eisenhower __ Doud 102 __ in; intrudes 36 Red __ beet 66 Scrap 99 Additionally 105 Moniker 37 Color changer 69 Grant or Carter 101 Psychotherapist 108 Bulg.’s location 38 Intelligent one 70 “Gosh!” 103 Wild parties 109 Give __; care 39 Lyrical works 71 Conjunction 104 Kitchen staples 110 Roll makers 40 Word with room or depart- 72 Sporting equipment 106 Power of recall 112 Trump’s foe ment 73 Ms. Horne 107 Wipe out 117 Greek forum 41 One of the “Greats” 74 Singular thing 110 Piece of soap 119 Shape 43 And so forth: abbr. 78 Means of transportation 111 007, for one 121 Traveler’s aid 46 Notice 79 Truck driver’s spot 112 Baseball stats. 122 Intruding 47 Family member 80 Periods 113 Nice affirmatives 124 Intruded 48 Experiencing mixed feelings 81 Woman’s nickname 114 Rouse 128 133,320 inches 49 Like the Mojave 82 Crucifix inscription 115 Inflammation: suf. 129 Songbird 51 Put in jeopardy 83 Not priestly 116 “...__. And on that farm 130 Dried up 53 Lessening of hostility 85 Bad brother there was a pig...” 131 Uzbek & Latvia, once: abbr. 56 Ending for baby or bull 87 Afr. nation 118 Canadian prov. 132 Joseph Smith’s religion: abbr. 58 One day __ time 89 Soothed 120 Opening 133 Tilt to one side 59 In a __; quickly 91 Expert 123 49ers’ org. 134 Gift for a child 60 Cancel 94 __ out; get by 125 Pointed tool DOWN 61 Indo-Chinese language 96 Close 126 Start of an Asian nation 1 One of Dumas’ Three Muske- 63 Reproductive cells 97 “Bah!” 127 Modern: pref. teers 64 Engine’s need 98 Spanish one Page 38 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007

Locally, Front Royal’s recent Quality of Life survey ranked alternative energy as its Leslie Fiddler fourth priority in the citizen priority section of the report. Accordingly, the town’s electrical department is conducting a review of possible options. Knowledge is Power Global warming and the manipulation of information and public opinion By Leslie Fiddler to some highly influential people, rise between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees we’ve seen daffodils bloom in Jan- bills; more than 350,000 new jobs; Warren County Report some of whom are alleged to have F by the end of this century. An uary, drought, and coastal erosion. more than $16 billion in new farm directed the alteration of federal increase of 1.8 degrees F, below A massive spring storm spawned income; more than $72 billion in For months I’ve wondered why scientific reports to diffuse public the low end of the predicted range, dozens of tornadoes from the capital investments for renewable so many good-willed people either opinion on the issue. will result in a loss of water supply Rockies to the Plains...(including) energy facilities in rural communi- don’t believe global warming ex- Between 1998 and 2005, with a twister as wide as two football ties and a 15 % reduction in power ists or refuse to accept that human a relatively modest investment fields (Associated Press, March plant emissions of carbon dioxide. activity is its major cause if they do of $16 million, Exxon-Mobil lob- 28). Oceans have also been ab- (Earthwise, Spring 2007). accept the premise of an altering byists have helped create public sorbing massive amounts of car- global environment. confusion on what is know and bon dioxide; consequently their Americans takes action “The world is warming; it’s not not known from scientific explo- ph is changing. all natural, it’s us; and if nothing rations of our changing global The United States is interna- is done, it will get a whole lot climate. “In the Middle of Difficulty Lies tionally respected for the speed worse” (“Science”, Feb. 9, 2007). Essential elements of the cam- Opportunity” (Albert Einstein) with which it acts when united in This fact is accepted by all repu- paign included funding 43 front purpose. While to date the federal table scientific organizations groups who purported to rep- While global warming facts are government has not provided an including The (American) Na- resent responsible science, sup- clear the proposed solutions are adequate framework for action, tional Academy of Sciences, The pressing or rewriting federal highly political. Some players see there are countless examples of American Meteorological Soci- scientists’ work and using sym- the crisis as an opportunity, while positive global warming initiatives ety, the American Geophysical pathetic politicians to affect gov- others are highly obstructionist. in America at the corporate, state, Union, the American Association ernment policy. Details are avail- Energy futurist Amory Lovins county, town and personal levels. for the Advancement of Science able in “Smoke, Mirrors & Hot of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain For example, chief executive of- and the Intergovernmental Panel Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Institute sees incredible business ficers from 10 major U.S. compa- on Climate Change (IPCC); the Tobacco’s Tactics to ‘Manufacture Congressman Frank Wolf opportunities ahead. nies, including General Electric, latter representing more than Uncertainty’ on Climate Change,” (R-VA) The Union of Concerned Scien- Alcoa, DuPont and Duke Energy 1,250 authors and 2,500 scientific available free online or in hard tists agrees, stating that a renew- have formed the Climate Action expert reviewers from more than copy for $10 from the Union of able portfolio standard of 20% Partnership and are recommend- 130 countries and the benchmark Concerned Scientists. for 400 million to 1.7 billion peo- by 2020 would have significant ing targeted mandatory emission for international climate negotia- Is Exxon-Mobil – the company ple. A partial list of accompanying environmental and economic ben- reductions. More than two dozen tions. still fighting $2.5 to $5 billion in problems includes coastal erosion, efits for the US However, due to political pos- court-ordered costs and fines flooding, severe ecosystem stress, including $49 turing, corporate lobbying and stemming from the 1989 Exxon- spread of disease, disruption of billion in con- corporate-owned media coverage Valdez oil spill – still conducting a agriculture and sea level rise in sumer savings stilted toward equal representa- misinformation campaign? Its lob- low-lying areas threatening the on natural gas tion of a scientifically-unsup- bying expenditure doubled in one very existence of some island na- and electricity ported minority opinion, many year to $14.5 million in 2006. tions. Americans believe the verdict is The earth is still out on the nature and exis- What if the alarmists are right? just starting tence of global warming. to show the The facts of global warming and The Intergovernmental Panel on effects of the potential costs to major industries Climate Change (IPCC) predicts global warm- to deal with it are deeply upsetting that the earth’s temperature will ing. In Virginia Early June, 2007 • Warren County Report • Page 39

Virginia ranks last in energy conservation and Dominion has no programs in place. (Daily Press, 2/2/07) • (Image at left by Rosa Cabecinhas and Alcino Leslie Fiddler Cunha)

conserve and, wherever possible, replace, hydrocarbon fuels as en- ergy sources. America and all the world’s developed nations can ill afford to continue a head-in-the-sand stance as the world simultaneously faces environmental collapse, the challenges of globalization and the dangers of worldwide religious fundamentalism. Unsettlingly at home, the current Administration now proposes to give political ap- pointees, often with direct ties to the industries they are to regulate, expanded power over rule mak- ing. In the current political climate it would appear that it is up to “we the people” and forward-thinking allies in business and industry to create the sort of “muscular environmentalism” in the United States, which could give great hope to the world. The success of such a movement depends on objective and reliable exchanges of information and a vigilant public concerned with what kind of global legacy they are leaving to their children and grandchildren. Thomas Jefferson

Leslie Fiddler said, “An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper Daffodils in January functioning of a republic.” The Boy states have signed onto efforts to innovative regulations and climate motive carbon dioxide emissions. If the planned coal plants are built Scouts of America’s Eagle Scout use 25 percent renewable energy change advocates are hopeful that, Even its recent biofuels initiative they will offset all state and federal ceremony includes these words sources by 2025. Washington, Ari- with the new Congress, science could contribute to, rather than efforts to reduce greenhouse gases – “Democracy is a fresh conquest zona, Oregon, New Mexico and based bills that would help prevent diminish greenhouse gases, de- over the next decade. for each generation.” California are creating a regional the worst effects of climate change pendent on implementation fac- It is time for we the people to abandon false “American Idols” plan that will allow emissions trad- will be passed within two years, tors. Conclusion ing. A number of Northeastern possibly beginning as soon as next Concurrently there has been a and a tabloid mentality and revisit and Mid-Atlantic states plan to month. de facto decision to rely on coal The IPCC says that action is the principals upon which this impose caps on power plant emis- When I talked with District 10 as the U.S.’s primary fuel source. needed within 15 years to mitigate nation was founded. It is time sions and encourage trading of Representative Frank Wolf about Power companies propose to build global warming’s worst effects. for us all to become good Boy allowance among utilities. the subject he told me, “Renew- 150 new and more-polluting coal- There is no technological quick Scouts before the situation gets Here in the Northern Shenan- able energy is homeland security.” powered plants, which will emit fix. We each have to reduce our too hot to handle not only for us, doah Valley, Warrenton’s mayor Wolf is supporting the Fuel Econ- greenhouse gases equal to the carbon footprint while demanding but for those who will inherit this proposes to make Warrenton omy Reform Act; will be support- output of 90 million cars. Some appropriate political leadership to generation’s legacy. energy independent in three years ing a bill to improve commercial of the coal plants will be built by by building a $30 million plant at buildings’ energy efficiency; and rural electric cooperatives that are the county dump which would has supported other bills includ- receiving billions in cut-rate loans spin biomass into electricity and ing one repealing tax breaks for oil through an obscure New Deal-era ethanol. The Town of Washington companies, and another allowing program created in a totally differ- has partnered with the Piedmont all federal employees to telecom- ent social and economic environ- Environmental Council to give mute. ment. every home or business in town a Texas’ coal plant plans were compact fluorescent light bulb. The Dark Side unexpectedly derailed when the Locally, Front Royal’s recent company changed hands and new Quality of Life survey ranked The Bush administration has ownership proposed to conserve alternative energy as its fourth committed the U.S. to an energy power and reduce greenhouse priority in the citizen priority sec- policy based on increasing con- gases. In Virginia, Dominion tion of the report. Accordingly, sumption while ignoring con- Virginia Energy proposes to build the Town’s Electrical Department servation and protecting certain a new coal-fired power plant in is conducting a review of possible industries from meaningful fed- Wise County and utilitze exist- options. eral oversight. The EPA had to be ing coal plants in the Ohio Valley Governments can jump-start forced by a lawsuit heard by the to meet projected future power entrepreneurial initiatives with Supreme Court to regulate auto- needs in the Eastern Corridor. Page 40 • Warren County Report • Early June, 2007

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