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Volume 2, Issue 6 · Late March, 2007 Warren FREE County Report WWho’s your daddy! CONTENTS Hey, we’re free! Pg 2 How about those Vultures Pg 3 Indictments Pg 4 Wayside in Warren? Pg 5 Council on evolution Developers Pg 7 Pg 13 Regional jail Pg 8 Frank Wolf Pg 9 Interbake Foods Pg 11 Library Funding Pg 12 Town Council Pg 13 Local briefs Pg 14 Chamber of Commerce Pg 15 Guard headed back? Local music Pg 16 Pg 28 Local news Pg 17 Tech & gadgetry Pg 18 Agency on Aging Pg 19 Front Royal map Pg 20 Inside the CIA Pg 22 Customs puppies Pg 25 Obituaries Pg 26 Muhammad Ali Pg 27 Local troops Pg 28 Police report Police report Pg 29 Pg 29 Local sports Pg 30 Music & horoscopes Pg 31 Model T Pg 32 Food Pg 35 The Diversions Pg 36 Dan McDermott Crossword Pg 37 vultures of Books, movies & travel Pg 39 Criser Road My other car: Model T Comics Pg 39 Pg 32 Cars & trucks Pg 40 Page 3 Page • Warren County Report • Late March, 007 The paper and website have a new look, Leslie has joined us, we’re look- From the publisher ing for a few good local writers, and we’re a hit in Asia and Amsterdam! The new look the program cost twelve hundred we should cover. gets to call the funeral homes for bucks, but it does make me feel a The best way to reach me is by obituaries until the last minute one As you may have noticed, a lot little better, anyway. emailing editor@warrencountyre- more time I’m going to lose it!) of things have changed here at the Please let me know what you port.com or by calling Leslie or me So now you can blame Leslie for Warren paper. think of the design. at 636-1014. all the typos and other mistakes in First of all, it’s free. the paper! County Report No, I haven’t lost my mind. Writers needed Leslie Bennett The best thing about Leslie We’re just trying to get more peo- helping us out is that she has freed 122 W 14th Street ple to read it so we can sell more We have a couple of local writ- A few issues ago I added Leslie me up a bit so I can write more. It’s Box 20 ads. Hey, I’m a businessman, not a ers, Cassidy and Leslie, and a super Bennett to the staff as assistant to frustrating to start a paper because Front Royal, VA 22630 philanthropist. cartoonist named Tony Elar, who the publisher. That’s a fancy title you like to write and you spend so (540) 636-1014 Plus Roger wants more people have started contributing to the but basically I hired her to keep me much time running the paper that warrencountyreport.com to read his wonderful writing. paper. We’re always looking for organized. you almost never get the chance to Another big change is the new more. If you would like to write Unfortunately, she turned out write anything. I’m going to make Published in a secret location in the logo. It’s fancier to get the tourists anything that would appeal to a lo- to be about as disorganized as Rog- it a point to try and do better about greater metropolitan area of Limeton. to pick the paper up just in case the cal audience, let me, Roger, or Les- er and me. that. free map doesn’t grab them. lie know. Try to stay away from na- Then I tried her at sales. She Publisher and We have also switched to a font tional politics as we have to much couldn’t stand that. The website Editor-in-Chief: from Adobe that I think is easier to competition on that. But we’d love Luckily I discovered that her Daniel P. McDermott read. It’s called Warnock Pro and more restaurant reviews, features, son Justin is a computer nerd. Our warrencountyreport.com [email protected] it’s set at 9 points. To be honest, I’m business stories, local sports, etc. (We’re talking computer games, site has proven to be a hit with not sure what the heck a point is, Basically the test is: TV games, Star Wars--the whole spammers. Managing Editor and Reporter: but there are nine of them in each deal!) We have received a ton of com- Roger Bianchini of these letters. a) is it local? Since a penchant for computer ments promoting all sorts of crazy (540) 636-7386 I chose that font because it was b) is it well written? skills is usually inherited from things. They mainly come from [email protected] the nicest of the free fonts that c) is it interesting? somewhere I decided Leslie might Asia or Amsterdam. I am banning came with InDesign, the program d) can you include pictures? have what it takes to lay out the pa- IP numbers and doing what I can Advertising Sales Manager: that we use to layout the paper. You per. to try and stop it. It’s a constant Paula Conrow wouldn’t believe what fonts cost! If you can write along those She’s been doing it except for battle. If I can find a way to prevent (540) 635-4835 And studies have shown that free is lines, send it in or let us know. this issue, which I did since it is a all international access I’ll do it. [email protected] the best way to receive something. Also, please let us know if you new design. I think she is doing Enjoy the new paper and thanks I suppose it isn’t really free, since have any story ideas that you think a super job. (Although if she for- for sticking with us! - Dan Advertising Sales Representative: JoLea Hindley 671-3293 cell 636-2875 home [email protected] Assistant to the Publisher: Leslie Bennett (540) 636-1014 [email protected] Contributors: Tony Elar, Local Cartoonist Cassidy Custis, Writer Leslie Fiddler, Writer Transcriptionist: Roya Milotte [email protected] Circulation: Leslie Bennett and Donnie Lawson Warren County Report is a seriously local newspaper serving Front Royal, Warren County, and the little one-sign villages that make us the best place in these United States to live. If you are interested in contributing to our paper, please call Dan or mention something to Roger. Roger can often be found at the Melting Pot solving the world’s problems with Dewey Vaughan. Late March, 007 • Warren County Report • Page At first glance, they appear to be crows. But zooming in with a telephoto lens or being patient enough to wait until one flies close overhead yields a Local wildlife real prize. The vultures of Criser Road By Dan McDermott lated to the Old World vultures thermals to keep them soaring. The Turkey Vulture is found 40 days. The adults regurgitate Warren County Report of the family Accipitridae, which The distinctive flight style, small- in open and semi-open areas food for them and care for them also includes eagles, hawks, kites headed and narrow-winged sil- throughout the Americas from for 10 to 11 weeks. If the A trip on 340 southbound and harriers. The American spe- houette, and underwing pattern southern Canada to Cape young are approached towards Bentonville yields beau- cies are New World vultures in make this bird easy to identify at Horn. It is a permanent in the nest, they de- tiful mountainous scenery and the family Cathartidae. great distances. resident in the south- fend themselves all sorts of four-legged livestock- Recently, DNA evidence has These birds soar over open ern United States but by hissing and -not to mention loads of deer, shown that Turkey Vultures and areas, watching for dead animals northern birds may regurgitating. fox, raccoon, and the occasional other New World vultures are or for other scavengers at work. migrate as far south as The age of black bear. even more distantly related to Old Unlike most birds, the Turkey South America. the young at But just as you cross Criser World vultures than previously Vulture often uses its sense of The nesting site is first flight is Road on your way toward the thought, and are now placed in smell to locate food. It will often in a protected location: about 9-10 entrance to Skyline Drive, you’ll the order Ciconiiformes, and fly low to the ground to pick up on a cliff, directly on weeks. notice scores of large black and thus are more closely related to the scent of ethyl mercaptan, a ground in caves, crev- Of- silver birds sloppily flying over storks than to the vultures of the gas produced by the beginnings ices, mammal burrows, ten, small the intersection of Criser and Eastern Hemisphere. The simi- of decay in dead animals. The inside a hollow tree, to large South Royal Avenue and in and larities are due to convergent olfactory lobe of its brain re- in a thicket, or in groups of out of the large trees that rise evolution. sponsible for processing smells abandoned build- these birds high along either side of the This bird got its common is particularly large compared to ings. There is spend the road--much to the dismay of the name by the resemblance of the other animals. This heightened little or no con- night at nearby 7-Eleven. adult’s bald red head (and possi- ability to detect odors allows it struction of a c o m m u - At first glance, they appear bly its dark plumage) to that of to search for carrion below the nest.