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Volume 4, Issue 2 · Early February, 2009 Warren Guns, FREE County Report carcasses & ‘buzzards’ in 20,000 Readers • #1 Newspaper in Front Royal & Warren County! rural WC Big-box Expansion, Marching into history 33 lawsuits & taxes in the North Corridor Kohl’s? 21-26 ? 2 Cheering Ravens as NFL playoffs begin Grand Jury Puzzles, Comics & the Kid’s Page! Indictments 17-20 Striker cases concluded 32 Texas hold ‘em in $5 CAR WASH Page 3 the River City 33 - Special Coupons Page 9 - Page • Warren County Report • Early February, 009 “It’s a true blessing for me to be in this organization and to see the President and to be able to Inaugural Parade march in the parade. To be in the band selected out of all the different bands in Mississippi is a true blessing and an honor.” – 17-year-old Petal High band member T.J. Taylor Mississippi’s Petal High Band marches into history With a stopover at Warren County’s Skyline High for a final practice By Roger Bianchini Martin Luther King Day, school ors, state championships and younger Americans. For while to march in the parade. To be in Warren County Report administrators opened two-year- appearances around the nation, President John F. Kennedy may the band selected out of all the old Skyline High’s doors and several band members we spoke be ancient history to the teens of different bands in Mississippi Prepare yourselves for “a mem- grounds to allow the Petal High to seemed to realize the import the early 1st Century, his well is a true blessing and an honor,” ory of a lifetime” was the general School Marching Band a final of the approaching moment to reported appeal to the nation’s 17-year-old T.J. Taylor said as he message of Warren County and outdoor rehearsal prior to their themselves, their band, school youth of the early 1960’s rings stood with fellow baritone player Town of Front Royal officials appearance in the Presidential and nation. familiar to their own generation’s Joy Grimsley preparing to brave greeting a high school band from Inaugural Parade the following “This is the biggest thing since emotional connections to Presi- temperatures 30-some degrees Petal, Mississippi, to Front Royal day. Kennedy’s Inauguration,” Prin- dent Obama. colder than characteristic of their and Skyline High School on Jan. And while the Petal March- cipal Trombonist E.J. Miller “It’s a true blessing for me to home town. 19. While school was closed for ing Band is no stranger to hon- observed of the mood of many be in this organization and to We asked Trombonist Miller if see the President and to be able the cold and snow might damp- could eat at once, but it was elimi- ¥ Who among us isn’t familiar with nated. Interestingly, the reason for the line, “Quoth the Raven, nev- the elimination had nothing to do with ermore”? As virtually anyone who cruelty to animals, but rather had to made it through middle-school Eng- do with the difficulty of preventing lish class can tell you, it’s from Ed- cheating. It seems that some would- gar Allan Poe’s classic poem “The By Samantha Weaver be competitors were breeding smaller Raven.” Considering the ubiquitous and smaller fish for consumption. nature of the work, though, you might ¥ Herpetologists can tell you that of be surprised to learn that Poe earned all the victims of rattlesnake bites, ¥ The word “alimony” is derived from a grand total of $9 from the first publi- only about half of them actually hear the Latin word “alimonia,” which cation of the poem. the telltale rattle before being bitten. means “nourishment.” ¥ The brain of an ostrich is actually ¥ It was famed Elizabethan playwright ¥ Those who study such things say smaller than one of its eyes. William Shakespeare who made the that the month in which you are most *** following sage observation: “Beauty likely to be shot, strangled or poi- Thought for the Day: “Bureaucrats is all very well at first sight; but who- soned is December. They don’t seem write memoranda both because they ever looks at it when it has been in to venture an opinion regarding why, appear to be busy when they are writ- the house three days?” however. ing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof ¥ The “Guinness Book of World Re- ¥ On average, British women are that they were busy.” -- Charles Pe- 17 year-old T. J. Taylor stands in 30 degree weather cords” used to have a category for shorter than women in the United ters with 16 year-old Joy Grimsley as the two baritone how many live goldfish a person States. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc. players await practice outside Skyline High School in Front Royal, VA Jan. 19. Early February, 009 • Warren County Report • Page 3 “They are better than my high school band already and they’re only warming up.” – Dan McDermott Inaugural Parade en the Mississippi band’s spirits parent why Petal High was one ing Band. The band performs at come inauguration day. of 70 marching bands chosen to football games and makes appear- “It doesn’t matter. My mind’s participate in the 56th US Presi- ances at parades and community not going to be focused on that, dential inauguration from a pool events as well as competitions my mind is going to be focused of 1,300 applicants. throughout the South. During on how awesome it is to be there,” “They are better than my high the winter and spring, the band Miller enthused, along with Flute school band already and they’re is divided into two performing Section Leader Ericka Morris, only warming up,” Dan McDer- ensembles that include the PHS who agreed wholeheartedly that mott whispered to me in case Symphonic and Concert Bands. the weather would be irrelevant any ghosts of his high school past The Petal Band program now also to the events of the following day were listening. offers winter performing oppor- for the Petal contingent. “Yea, this droning horn and reed tunities with the Indoor Visual And while the temperatures warm up with the drums rattling Ensemble and the Indoor Percus- on the 19th hovered slightly be- away down there is pretty avant sion Theatre. All of these groups low freezing throughout the day, garde – I wonder what their stage have received continuous supe- as if on cue as the band left the band is like?” I wondered aloud. rior ratings in state and regional comfortable confines of Skyline Ninth-grade Principal Mike competitions.” – And some fed- High’s auditorium around 1:45 Lott, one of Petal High’s four eral, state and local bureaucrats p.m., the clouds lifted, snow flur- principals, pointed out that 40 and politicians would have you ries evaporated and the sun even percent of his school’s 1,00, 9- believe the arts don’t enrich the peeked out to cast a soft glow as 1 grade students are involved in US student experience enough to the 158-strong Petal Marching music in one way or another. fund directly. Band and Color Guard warmed The Petal High School Band Lott said that while the Town of to their task in the Skyline foot- website – www.petalbands.org Petal’s population is about 10,000, ball stadium parking lot. – notes it “is the largest organiza- the school district’s population As the brass and reeds warmed tion in the Petal School District, reaches beyond the town limits Town of Front Royal Mayor Eugene Tewalt presents both their lips and instruments at comprised of approximately 160 into Forrest County to serve a to- the key ring of the town to Petal High School 9th- one end of the lot and the drum- students in grades 9-1. During tal of about 5,000 people. grade Principal Mike Lott as the Petal High March- line beat a steady rhythm at the the fall, these students are a part And while the band is no ing Band gets down to business in the Skyline High other end, it quickly became ap- of the All-Superior PHS March- stranger to travel and awards, School parking lot. Page 4 • Warren County Report • Early February, 009 Ninth-grade Principal Mike Lott … pointed out that 40 percent of his school’s 1,00, 9-1 grade Inaugural Parade students are involved in music in one way or another. The Petal High School Band website – www. petalbands.org – notes it “is the largest organization in the Petal School District … Warren County Report Readership: 20,000 and growing. Warren County’s leading newspaper. 122 W 14th Street, Box 20 Front Royal, VA 22630 (540) 636-1014 (540) 636-1042 fax Preparing for the cold - what’s that tuba doing on your Published in a secret location in the greater metropolitan area of Limeton. From left, Principal Trombonist E.J. Miller, Flute Sec- head? tion Leader Ericka Morris, Drum Major Greg Barr and Doug Stanley, his wife and family opera singer Pavorotti said about Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Color Guard Captain Josie Taylor. joined McInnis in welcoming the practice, kids – “If I don’t prac- Daniel P. McDermott [email protected] Trombonist Miller said the band’s watchful eyes of Assistant Direc- Petal contingent to Front Royal tice for one day, I notice; if I don’t director didn’t initially alert the tors Ryan Saul and Chris Word on as a staging area for its jump to practice for two days, the band Managing Editor and Reporter: band about the application for Jan.