Eddie Adcock Wins $50,000

FluvannaReview.com January 29- February 4, 2015 | One Copy Free Carysbrook Honor Roll Fluvanna Page 8 Middle School REVIEW Honor Roll Page 23 BBluegrassluegrass TTrailblazerrailblazer EEddieddie AAdcockdcock WWinsins $$50,00050,000 Eddie and Martha Adcock Page 12 Supervisors Take On: Market Fluvanna Better Lake Ambulance Fees • Rescue Crisis • Cutting Projects Pages 4-6 Winners Page 10 Fishing? Page 14 January 29 - February 4, 2015 • Volume 35, Issue 5 Send your best Fluvanna photo to Quote of the week: Photo of the week carlos@fl uvannareview.com “We were thrilled this year we had such a wonderful FOUNDED IN 1979 BY LEN GARDNER www.fl uvannareview.com outpouring from all these Publisher/Editor: Carlos Santos 434-207-0224 / carlos@fl uvannareview.com organizations and churches, Advertising/Copy Editor: Jacki Harris It’s neighbors helping 434-207-0222 / sales@fl uvannareview.com Accounts/Classifi ed Ads Manager: Edee Povol neighbors – it’s not charity.” 434-207- 0221 / edee@fl uvannareview.com Advertising Designer: Lisa Hurdle – Jackie Geer, page 21 434-207-0229 / lisa@fl uvannareview.com Editorial Designer: Lynn Stayton-Eurell lynn@fl uvannareview.com Designer: Marilyn Ellinger Staff Writers: Page Gifford, Duncan Nixon, IInsidenside Christina Dimeo Guseman and Tricia Johnson Letters ....................................4 Intern: Stephanie Pellicane The Fluvanna Flyers Gymnastic Team traveled to Loudoun Co. on Jan. 17 to win at both level Photographers: O.T. 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COVER Display and web ads: For information including Submissions, tips, ideas, etc.: The Fluvanna Review CIRCULATION AUDIT BY rates and deadlines, call Lisa Hurdle at encourages submissions and tips on items of interest to Flu- Local musician Eddie Adcock was the winner of 434-591-1000 ext. 29. vanna residents. We reserve the right to edit submissions and the 2014 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Classifi ed ads: $10 for two weeks for 30 words or less. cannot guarantee they will be published. Keep calendar sub- Banjo and Bluegrass. Mail to the Fluvanna Review, P.O. Box 59, Palmyra, VA 22963 missions to 50 words or less and letters to the editor to 300 or stop by the offi ce at 2987 Lake Monticello Road. Deadline words or less. E-mail: carlos@fl uvannareview.com or mail to: Photo courtesy of Eddie Adcock for print is Monday by noon. Fluvanna Review, P.O. Box 59, Palmyra, VA 22963. Cover design by Lynn Stayton-Eurell and Lisa Hurdle. 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Donations may be made at the BY CHRISTINA DIMEO GUSEMAN, CORRESPONDENT With the recent passing of my husband, shelter at 5239 Union Mills Road in Troy, Fluvanna County could be billing for I thought I would catch a break on my or online at www.fspca.org. ambulance transport as soon as July. utilities and although the bill for my water – Jennie Shuklis, executive director, FSPCA The Board of Supervisors directed staff is a little less, the cost per gallon has sky- Special Fluvanna event Wednesday evening (Jan. 21) to develop a rocketed. Since it now seems I don’t use few different versions of a cost recovery Saturday the 24th of January, an overflow enough water to count, I’m charged the program to recoup some of the expenses crowd filled the county library meeting minimum for water and sewer which involved in providing ambulance trans- room to view entries to the Market Fluvanna comes to $68.73 - with a usage of 1100 port to people within the county. competition and to cheer the prize winners. gallons that comes to eight cents a gallon. Fire and rescue operations come at a While the applause was enthusiastic and Seems we really are being penalized for tremendous cost to the county – $1.83 the generous community-sponsored prizes conserving. million in fiscal year 2015 (FY15) and pos- were certainly a tribute to the competitors – Carol Parsons, Palmyra sibly $2 million in FY16, said Emergency something else of great importance filled Services Coordinator Cheryl Wilkins. A FSPCA needs help the room – the people who were there on cost recovery program could bring in The Fluvanna SPCA is in need of assis- that rainy, chilly afternoon. between $600,000 and $700,000 per tance from the community. Supervisors (past and present) includ- year, Wilkins said, though she stressed In addition to the usual influx of hunting ing the Board chairman; representatives the uncertainty of the estimate. A loaded dogs at the end of hunting season and the of the teaching community including the mile cost, or a charge per mile driven with continued presence of the seized pit bulls superintendent of schools; representa- a patient in the ambulance, could recoup from the Mathis case, FSPCA is running tives of community organizations who another $350,000 to $400,000 yearly. out of room. We are putting out the call had provided firm support; staff from Many counties have implemented Emergency Services Coordinator for people who are willing to foster some the county who had done the heavy cost recovery programs, said Wilkins, in- lovely dog-friendly dogs for an extend- lifting on the organization of this rather cluding Albemarle, Louisa, Nelson, and Cheryl Wilkins ed period of time. FSPCA provides food, complex project including the county Goochland. Since cost recovery programs File Photo bedding, and medical attention. administrator; a reporter from the Flu- can be structured waiver. “Having to Our dogs needing foster are all healthy, vanna Review insuring press coverage in many different prove you have a spayed/neutered, and up-to-date on their of the awards; and parents, families ways, a Fluvanna “Having to prove you hardship is a hard- shots. and friends of those who had stepped work group studied ship in itself,” he Interested fosters may contact the forward to compete – all joined together the issue prior to have a hardship is a said. “What do you shelter at 434-591-0123 or via email at di- to celebrate this special Fluvanna event. developing a rec- have to come up [email protected].

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