SSentinel.com Serving Middlesex County and adjacent areas of the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck since 1896 Vol. 120, No. 1 Urbanna, Virginia 23175 • April 3, 2014 Two Sections • 75¢ Board proposes 5-cent tax hike by Larry Chowning a 10% tax increase on real estate. The county’s total FY15 budget is up The Middlesex County Board of $1,524,039—an 8% jump over FY14. Supervisors voted 3-2 Tuesday to The largest increase in the FY15 hold a public hearing on the county’s proposed budget is in education. proposed 2014-15 (FY15) budget on During FY14, $7.5 million in county Thursday, April 10, at 7 p.m. at the his- funds were budgeted for education. In toric courthouse in Saluda. the FY15 budget, the proposed county A 5-cent increase in the county’s funding for education is $8.2 million, real estate tax is included in the pro- an increase of $741,000 in county posal. The current tax rate per $100 of funds. Funding this increase alone will value is 48 cents; the proposed rate is necessitate a 3-cent real estate tax hike. 53 cents. The second largest increase is for The proposed FY15 budget totals Middlesex’s share of funding the $21,294,176, of which $14,414,565 is Middle Peninsula Regional Security for county schools. This includes local, Center in Saluda. In FY14, $744,000 state and federal funds. was budgeted. In FY15, $929,000 is Supervisors Pete Mansfi eld and Bob budgeted—a jump of $185,000. LeBoeuf were in favor of advertising Middlesex now has the highest the budget with a 4-cent tax increase number of inmates in the jail, which on real estate. Board chair Jack Miller means the county must pay a larger voted for the 5-cent increase along share of the overall cost of operating with supervisors Wayne Jessie and the facility. Beth Hurd. The third largest increase in the Miller noted the board can vote to budget proposal is for law enforce- lower the 5-cent tax hike, but cannot ment, up $134,000 over the current raise it. A penny on the assessed $1.4 million. value of real estate generates about At an earlier meeting, county Twigg Bridge project on schedule $215,000 in revenue. If approved, the administrator Matt Walker stated that 5-cent increase would generate about The last section of decking concrete was poured on Tuesday on the Twigg Bridge over the Piankatank $1,075,000, and would represent about (See Budget, page A10) River. Precon Marine vice president Brian Magee said the two-year project is on schedule to be substan- tially completed by the deadline of May 30, when traffi c will be moving in both directions at the same time. This is the fi rst major overhaul of the bridge that was built in 1953. (Photo by Tom Chillemi) Proposed 5-cent tax hike Sunken barge remains in Urbanna Creek; catches some by surprise by Larry Chowning Linda Muller of Urbanna said she was “livid” when she heard owner faces up to $10,000 per day fi ne Several people voiced opinions on that supervisors were considering the proposed FY15 county budget a 5-cent tax hike. “We don’t have by Larry Chowning Offi ce received the VMRC letter on on a solution to the problem. during the public comment period at enough time to write a Letter to the Friday and is now in the process of The barge has been sunk on the Tuesday’s meeting of the Middlesex Editor opposing this because the Virginia Marine Resources Com- drafting legal papers. Bull said he does bottom of Urbanna Creek since April Board of Supervisors. Sentinel deadline was noon today mission (VMRC) offi cials have fi led not know how long this will take and 2012. The ownership of the barge was The proposed budget totals about (Tuesday).” papers with the Virginia Attorney in what jurisdiction the papers will be determined in an October 21, 2013 $21 million and includes a 5-cent The public comment period and General’s Offi ce to have the sunken fi led. He said this will be determined trial in Middlesex General District real estate tax increase. A public the vote by supervisors to advertise barge in Urbanna Creek removed, by the judge who will handle the case. Court. At that trial, a judge ruled that hearing on the proposed budget will a 5-cent real estate tax increase was and to possibly establish a fi ne of up On February 25, VMRC ordered Watson owned the barge and imposed be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 10, held and voted on at the board’s 3 to $10,000 a day on the barge owner Watson to have the barge profession- the maximum fi ne of $500, plus at the historic courthouse in Saluda. p.m. meeting on Tuesday. until the barge is off the creek bottom. ally marked as an obstruction and $81 in court costs, but did not order Carolyn Wake of Deltaville and The 5-cent proposal was brought VMRC commissioner John Bull hazard within seven days and remove Watson to remove the barge. one other speaker spoke in favor of up at the budget work session on said the deadline for barge owner the barge within 30 days. Watson Watson has contended throughout the 5-cent tax hike. “I’m very proud Tuesday morning around 10:30 a.m. Raymond (Ray) E. Watson Jr. of marked the barge within the seven- the process the now defunct Potomac of this county,” said Wake. “I feel we Prior to that, most of the public was Mechanicsville to remove the barge day requirement. Timber Investment #227 LLC owned must raise taxes to meet the needs of was March 28. “I promptly sent a On March 18, a 100-ton capac- the barge and he purchased it as an our county.” (See Tax hike, page A3) letter to the Attorney General’s Offi ce ity crane attempted to lift the 50-ton agent of the LLC. However, he had asking for legal proceedings to be barge off the creek bottom but was agreed at an earlier VMRC meeting initiated in an enforcement action to unable to budge it. Watson, who to remove the barge by February 24, compel the removal of the barge for was at the site on Urbanna Yachting 2014. non-compliance. It will be up to the Center property on that day, said the It appears that the “mud and water” Deltaville residents judge, but the fi ne could be up to barge was stuck in the mud and the of Urbanna Creek that is inside the $10,000 a day.” company he had hired to remove it barge has made its removal more dif- Bull said the Attorney General’s would have to have its engineers work fi cult and more expensive, said Bull. want better water

by Larry Chowning good for fi re-fi ghting purposes. Topping woman with rare ‘bubble boy’ Ernest Asaff of Norview Marina The Middlesex County Board of said that poor water quality does not Supervisors voted Tuesday to direct encourage the growth of businesses. disease continues to lead productive life county staff to study ways to establish “Deltaville is a great cruising destina- a Public Service Authority to provide tion but I’m concerned that we have by Larry Chowning drinking water to different parts of the become the town on the bay known county. for our lousy drinking water.” When Ann Jones of Topping was The issue surfaced at the April 1 Paul Howle of the Stove Point Home- 5 years old and had been diagnosed meeting of the board when members owners Association said, “It’s getting to with Common Variable Immune Defi - of the Deltaville Chamber of Com- be a crisis. The property on Stove Point ciency (CVID), her doctors told her merce encouraged supervisors to fi nd is worth between $57 and $80 million mother, Joan Curtis, she would not ways to improve water quality in the and is some of the most valuable real live beyond age 11. Stove Point and Fishing Bay areas. estate in the county. The people who Her disease is better known as “We have a demonstrated need for come down on weekends to their homes “bubble boy disease” made famous better water in the lower (eastern) end have to take their laundry home to wash in a 1976 fi lm “A Boy in the Plastic of the county,” said chamber president because the water is so cruddy.” Bubble” starring John Travolta, and Keith Ruse. “We are willing to part- Middlesex County Attorney Mike in 1986 when Paul Simon wrote the ner with the county to see how we can Soberick said the county will need to song “The Boy in the Bubble.” make it work. We are asking that the have a Public Service Authority cre- CVID is a very rare immune system county assign some resources to get ated and approved by a local judge disorder in which the patient has a this project under way.” before things can move forward. A low level of antibodies that help fi ght Dr. Edwin Ruark said that many Public Service Authority in some off infections. The disease leaves one wells on Stingray Point and Stove counties is created to better the qual- open to recurrent infections in the Point have salt intrusion and are unfi t ity of life by providing water, sewer, ears, sinuses and respiratory system, for drinking or washing clothes. “The refuse and streetlight service. Right and increases the risk of digestive dis- water is not good,” he said. “When now, Middlesex offi cials are mostly orders, blood disorders and cancer. someone is looking for a piece of real concerned about water with long- David Vetter, a young boy from estate there and they ask me about term concerns about sewer. Texas, lived inside a plastic bubble the water, I have to say, ‘You better County administrator Matt Walker and got the nickname “Bubble Boy.” be prepared to bring bottled water to was instructed by the board to Vetter was born in 1971 with a severe drink and take your laundry to your look into the matter for the entire case of CVID and was forced to live other home to wash.’ “ county, not just for the eastern tip of in a sterile plastic bubble from birth Lower Middlesex Volunteer Fire Middlesex. There are other areas of until he died at age 12. Department chief Jimmy Walden said the county that need better water too, Fortunately for Jones, her disease the largest number of homes and busi- and those that already have a central is not as severe, but it has resulted nesses in Middlesex are in the lower water system might be interested in end of the county, but availability of partnering their system with others, (See Topping, page A10) Ann Jones (left) lives with her mother Joan Curtis (right) at Topping. water and water pressure there are not he said. 6 Arts & Leisure ...... A8 Classifieds ...... B6 61

05 RELAY Carnival is MYBL Tryouts Business Directory . B6 School ...... B3 FOR LIFE 51 ® 52 Calendar ...... A6 Social...... A7 Saturday Champs Saturday 56 Church ...... B4 Sports ...... B1 A3 B1 B1 6 PAGE PAGE In side PAGE A2 • Southside Sentinel • Urbanna, Va. • April 3, 2014 opinion one woman’s opinion Seafood cage letters to editor production Why Can’t We Learn? 405,399 casualties. One would think that the The reason for Urbanna, Va.— It’s almost ironic that as Rus- West would remember lessons learned from Letters to the Editor may sian troops have taken over the Crimea, I’ve such sacrifice: weakness and appeasement did forum to be not exceed 400 words. There misinformation been reading Winston Churchill’s history of not work then against aggression and will not is a limit of two letters per World War II. What superb timing for reading work now. held in Saluda person, per month. Email let- on climate change material and good reminders of the lessons his- Churchill’s famous comparison of Nazi ters to [email protected]. tory teaches. aggression was to a giant snake hungry for a The Virginia State Univer- To the Editor: Born just months before the bombing of goat. He warned when the snake devours the sity (VSU) College of Agricul- A recent survey of the 10,855 Pearl Harbor in 1941, I can remember WWII. goat he will be happy for a few weeks. But the ture and Virginia Cooperative Support your local climate research studies pub- I vividly recall Father’s buying three little pigs snake will soon be hungry again. He will be Extension will conduct an lished in 2013 in peer-reviewed to raise because of meat shortage. One day back to devour yet another goat. intensive cage production farmers’ markets journals indicated that only the pigs were gone and that night there were Some may argue that goats deserve to be forum on Wednesday, April two of the studies reject man- pork chops for dinner. I couldn’t eat dinner that devoured, but I am not of that school. Even 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. To the Editor: made (anthropogenic) climate night as I had dearly loved the three little pigs. goats, weak and defenseless as they are against at the “Tide Right” farm of As chair of the Urbanna change and global warming. In I remember food ration- the writhing muscles of the Donnie Perry on Northwoods Farmers’ Market Commit- startling contrast to this, 55% ing, too. Once Mother pur- snake, deserve a chance to Lane off Route 33 in Saluda. tee, I would like to thank the of House Republicans and 65% chased sausage on the black live. For new and prospective fish group of dedicated women of Senate Republicans reject market and I can well recall So we begin once again. farmers interested in growing and men who have worked the concept of mankind’s influ- how strong the taste was and Will the West agree to cede fish in cages, the workshop hard over the last eight years ence on these serious climate how sick I was after eating it. Crimea to Russia? Will this will include discussions and to bring a successful farm- issues. Mother never bought black satisfy Putin? Or does Putin demonstrations covering cage ers’ market to Urbanna. The What, may we ask, is at market meat again. dream of returning Mother production, construction and market has grown over these the heart of this huge dispar- A few years ago I visited Russia to post WWII bound- design, processing, marketing, years, moving from its original ity? Few men and women in Normandy and climbed the aries where the Iron Curtain and community-supported spot in the Southside Sentinel Congress can claim in-depth eroding cliff, now a gentle once divided the East and agriculture. and Urbanna Auto & Marine understanding of science and slope at Omaha Beach where the West, taking in Poland, For many years Virginia (now NAPA) parking lots to the complexities of climate the Allies once landed to free Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, State University has encour- the much more spacious Taber science. It follows that within Europe from the Nazis. I saw Ukraine, Czechoslovakia and aged and supported producers Park. Our group meets all year, this group a great majority has the ruined German fortresses even half of Germany, along to look at small-scale aqua- and the market has grown from maintained this position based at the top of the cliff and with many other territories culture production using farm a small group of vendors to on factors other than hard sci- walked through the American that had broken free? ponds and small cages to pro- around 50 vendors each month. ence. cemeteries. I passed by all Will the West be treated duce rainbow trout and catfish. The vending places have to be The inadequacy of the main- those headstones with names once again to watching inde- A $10 per person registra- marked prior to the market stream media must accept a of young men from Virginia, by Mary pendent nations gobbled tion fee includes lunch. Regis- to prevent chaos and there is large amount of responsibility Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, and up, one by one, rather like ter online by April 9 at http:// good communication with our for not clarifying all facets of all the rest. I never realized Wakefield Buxton how Aesop suggested that tinyurl.com/vsufishcage2014. vendors to make sure they con- major climate change contro- such an experience would his crafty fox take the entire For more information on tinue to take part in our market. versies. However, the most reduce me to a sobbing grandmother having to clump of grapes . . . not all at one time, but one the workshop or to register by Please support us by visiting important factor that has influ- hold onto my husband’s arm for support. grape at a time? phone, call Mark Klingman at the market, making purchases enced society is, I believe, eco- So, the wars come and go, ever taking the Can we do anything about it even if we 804-524-5493, or email him at and, if possible, volunteering nomic. Fossil fuel companies cream of the country and leaving the rest of us wanted to? The reality is bitter. There’s not [email protected] your time. Our first market this have a vested interest in main- to ruminate over the lessons learned, if any. As much we can do beyond implementing trade If you are a person with a year will take place on May taining the dependence we all I have read Churchill’s detailed account of that barriers. disability and require assistive 10 and, once again, Urbanna’s share on their carbon-bearing war, two lessons stand out: Weak nations are In 1963, I stood on shore in Naples, Italy, services in order to attend and own Morgan Stewart will be products. To this end they have taken over by strong nations and aggression and saw the American 7th Fleet off shore and participate, call David Moore entertaining us with the many spent tens of millions on cam- can never be appeased. anchored in the Mediterranean Sea. The ships at 758-4120 prior to the event lovely songs she has written, paigns of misinformation and Great Britain’s Prime Minister at the time, rested, a mooring that stretched as far as my to discuss your accommoda- along with popular favorites. obfuscation regarding global Lord Chamberlain, tried to appease Hitler by eye could see. Each ship was lit from stem to tions. Hazel Laughton warming, supporting in the agreeing to give him Czechoslovakia, but with stern with strings of white lights. Every nation Urbanna Farmers’ Market process the war chests of the the Nazi attack of Poland, it was the end of that bordered the Mediterranean Sea was safe Urbanna pliable elected officials who appeasement. Chamberlain had desperately from attack that night because the U.S. Navy are willing to do their bidding wanted to avert another war in Europe but, in was there. Urbanna will by voting against every bill the end, Great Britain and her Commonwealth In those days the U.S. Navy was spread out Will you be part in Congress that may have a finally had to go it alone to stop Hitler. across every ocean and sea on the globe, but be racin’ and negative impact on (corporate) Yet Hitler kept taking land. When German today America is no longer the power it once of the solution? fossil fuel profits. forces overran France (the sight of old films of was or able to patrol all the oceans of the world. rockin’ May 17 Sam Sawkins Nazis in their shiny boots goose-step march- We spent several generations determined to To the Editor: Urbanna ing under the Arc de Triumph still upsets me), win the Cold War. Will we lose it all over again Plans have been firmed up I write to encourage every- most Americans knew we would soon be at war in just a few years? for the 2nd Annual Urbanna one in Middlesex County Fill up those but it was not until Pearl Harbor in 1941 that Oh, why can’t we learn? Strength is the only Cup Cocktail Class Wooden to commit to help with the the U.S. finally joined the effort. guarantee of peace. If we don’t learn from his- Boat Races to be held Saturday, county-wide Clean-Up Day orange bags What a terrible war it was. America suffered tory, we are destined to repeat it. ©2014 May 17, on Urbanna Creek. on April 12. Several civic A modified race coursegroups have agreed to take on April 12 will bring the action closer to on the challenge of pick- spectators on the docks of the ing up litter along major To the Editor: middlesex museum news Urbanna Town Marina. roads, but there is more to be It is getting that time again— Racers are making finaldone. Imagine the difference flowers blooming, leaves on changes to their 10-foot-long we would make if everyone trees and trash on our beautiful Managing collections at the museum race boats that are powered spent just one hour on Satur- Middlesex roads. I should not by six or eight horsepower day morning picking up litter say this, but this time around by Celane McWhorter engines. near his or her home. on Middlesex Clean-up Day on Racers will begin to descend Imagine the difference we April 12 more and more roads The Middlesex County on the Town of Urbanna on would make if every business in our county are going to Museum has thousands of items Friday, May 16, where they asked its employees to spend become cleaner. Many neigh- in its collection. It is chock full will settle in their boats and test an hour picking up litter near borhoods have said that they of “interesting stuff.” Old stuff them out on the creek in prepa- the business. Imagine the dif- will be cleaning their roads that is well organized, preserved ration for Saturday’s races. ference if we all covered our or have picked other spots and displayed so you, the public, The engines will be revving loads when driving trash to to clean. Another church has can enjoy a wee slide back into before 9 a.m. on Saturday, May the convenience center. come forward and will help, another time. 17. Crown Doughnuts will be We can do this if we and a motorcycle club from the The museum has a part time on site with sweet treats and work together. We can keep Virginia Beach area has prom- curator, and she does an amaz- hot coffee. Middlesex beautiful. ised to join in. I hope that on ing job. But, just one glance This year there also will be Kathy Swinehart April 12 all of these people around and you know she has live video feeds to a large TV Saluda will be able to look proudly on good help. And sure enough, if at the Urbanna Town Marina so the many orange bags that will you visit the museum on Friday spectators won’t miss a single be filled with trash. you will meet a major source minute of the action. Perhaps we can start the of that help, most likely with a As last year, spectator boat- Special ed game “how many bags will tape measure draped around her ers are welcome to anchor out- we fill up?” This could be like neck and calipers in hand. Meet side of the race area for a great the “how many jelly beans are Helen Chandler, the museum’s view. advisors to in the jar?” On our first Town collections manager. Her pro Races will run from 9 a.m.- Bridge Road cleanup we had bono work has been an incred- 6:30 p.m. After the boats meet April 23 90 bags, and I just hope we can ible gift to the museum. are docked for the night, the far surpass that number. Let’s When asked to describe Urbanna Cups will be awarded. The Middlesex County all be safe and make Middlesex the nature of her work, Helen Then the music begins with Special Education Advisory beautiful for another several replied, “Well, it is very Helen Chandler (above) oversees the collections of the “Jumbo Lump Daddy and the Committee will meet Wednes- months. Take many pictures detailed.” An understatement Middlesex County Museum. Backfin Boys” kicking off day, April 23, at 3:30 p.m. in of the trash, your neighbors, for sure! Helen is the first stop Urbanna’s Music Under the the conference room of the and all of those orange for items loaned or donated to likely be in delicate condition. needed to ensure that the new Stars summer concert series. Cook’s Corner Office Com- bags. Thanks for helping. the museum. Museum standards Small items such as coins or acquisition will remain in as There will be food vendors plex. The public is invited to Bill Shuman are high, the protocols intricate. small pins are put on acid close to “museum quality” as is onsite as well as a beer and attend. Urbanna Whether working with glass, free card stock and placed in possible. wine tent. Please note no out- pottery or other archeological envelopes. Plastic sleeves are Helen’s work is delicate, side food or coolers will be finds, aged furniture, clothing used to preserve post cards multi-faceted and very time allowed during the evening from another century (antique and other small paper items. consuming. She described the event. military uniforms, bonnets, Identifying tags are carefully challenge—”It can take a long “Area businesses are all set old shoes, etc.), photographs, sewn onto fabric. Like items time, especially when a lot of for the excitement and prepared Published in the Interest of the Territory documents, rare books or other are placed in acid-free boxes. research is needed. For exam- for the crowds! This year is Lying South of the Rappahannock River museum worthy items, Helen Everything that is not going ple, bottles are a devil to do, but shaping up to be more exciting processes each new acquisition on display will be carefully there are resources available to than last year’s race debut. The in strict adherence with the pro- wrapped or boxed for storage help identify them.” She finds course is shorter and moved RAPPAHANNOCK PRESS, INC., Publisher fessional requirements. in “Helen’s Closet,” a climate she usually can complete 5 or 6 slightly so the action will be She identifies each item by controlled darkened room items a day, which means there closer to spectating areas,” Frederick A. Gaskins, President and Publisher donor; age; history and prov- designed for preservation. is always a backlog. said Christen Ingram, the Elizabeth Lee C. Gaskins, Secretary/Treasurer enance; condition at acquisi- “Never number an item Helen honed her skills as Middlesex Economic Devel- John Thomas Hardin, Editor tion; dimensions; materials; in pigment ink,” said Helen. a volunteer at the Cape Fear opment & Tourism Director. value; manufacturer; and vari- “Do nothing that cannot be Museum in Wilmington, N.C., “Make plans now to see this Staff: Larry S. Chowning and Tom Chillemi, General Assignment Reporters; Julie H. Burwood, ous other descriptors. With this undone—a better way may where she began as a volunteer new and fast growing type of Art Director; Joe Gaskins, Graphic Designer; Wendy Payne, Advertising Manager; Libby Allen, information, she pieces together come along. Keep like items in the museum gift shop and boat racing that promises to be the story the museum will tell. together. Encapsulate papers ended as a seasoned accession faster and even more intense Advertising Representative; Peggy Baughan, Circulation and Classified Manager; Connie G. Walton, For cataloguing or accessioning torn or in bad shape in Mylar and exhibit expert. She moved this year.” Compositor; and Geanie Longest, Customer Accounts Manager. purposes, each piece is num- and self-stick tape, but never to Urbanna 6.5 years ago to Find more on Facebook The Southside Sentinel (USPS 504-080) is published each Thursday except Christmas week. bered with the date of acquisi- sealed without airspace. Do be closer to family. And the at Urbanna Creek Cocktail Periodicals postage paid at Urbanna, Va. 23175. Subscriptions: $25 per year in Middle Peninsula tion, the nature of the item, and not laminate. Use bubble wrap museum and all who visit it are Class Racing Association, Counties and $32 per year elsewhere. the location in the museum. for breakable items and tissue the benefactors of that move. visit www.ccwbra.com, or call Once the description phase paper for fabric. Fill shoes, hats The Middlesex County Emily Davies at (804) 415- Phone, Fax and Email: Phone: (804) 758-2328; Fax: (804) 758-5896; Editorial: is done, Helen moves on to and puffy sleeves with tissue.” Museum is in Saluda and is 7253. [email protected]; Advertising: [email protected]; Classifieds: [email protected]; preparation for storage. Many These are just a few tricks of open Wednesday through Sat- Subscriptions: [email protected] and website: www.ssentinel.com. items will first need careful the trade Helen brings to her urday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Stop Postmaster: Send address changes to Southside Sentinel, P.O. Box 549, Urbanna, Va. 23175 cleaning, sewing or other res- work. She becomes a painter, by and see the results of Helen’s Visit toration work. This is done a seamstress, a cleaner, a pol- work. Call 758-3663 for more Pluck, Perseverance and Progress with great care as they will isher, a sorter, whatever is information. SSentinel.com April 3, 2014 • Southside Sentinel • Urbanna, Va.• A3 court news Relay for Life

Middlesex Commonwealth’s cient to convict Gino Anthony carnival set Attorney Michael T. Hurd Deserio Jr., 21, of Water View, reported the following cases of felony destruction of prop- for Saturday were heard recently in the erty, but did not make a fi nd- Middlesex Circuit Court before ing of guilt and took the charge substitute Judge Ray Grubbs. under advisement. On March in Urbanna On March 24, 2014, Stanley 24, 2014 the court found that Eugene Dixon Jr., 43, of Halli- Deserio had complied with the Relay for Life of Middlesex eford was tried for felony con- conditions imposed and dis- will hold its 2nd Annual Car- struction fraud and found not missed the charge. On March nival and Bike/Car Ride For guilty. 21, 2012, the court found the Cancer this Saturday, April 5, In other cases heard on evidence suffi cient to con- at the Urbanna Firehouse from March 24, 2014, the court vict Isaac Rhoads Lee, 21, of 9 a.m.-2 p.m. found that two men, Anthony Urbanna, of felony destruction The carnival will feature Deserio Jr. and Isaac Rhoads of property, but did not make over 15 vendors, including Lee, had complied with the a fi nding of guilt and took Avon, Tupperware, Paparazzi conditions imposed during the charge under advisement. Jewelry, Joe’s Crab Pots, Pam- earlier trials and dismissed the On March 24, 2014 the court pered Chef, Scentsy, Thirty charges against them. found that Lee had complied One Gifts, Tastefully Simple, On March 21, 2012, the court with the conditions imposed Express Yourself Favors, and had found the evidence suffi - and dismissed the charge. more. Contact Cindy Kellar at (804) 654-4423 for more infor- mation on vendor sites. Team “Jamaica Angels” will host the Tax hike . . . (Continued from page A1) On the deck of the schooner “Virginia” vendors. There will be games, pony only aware that a 4-cent hike ping said she thought the new rides, bake sale, food, moon was being considered by the county meals tax, which goes bounce, cotton candy, slushies, board. into effect July 1, was sup- Schooner ‘Virginia’ to visit Deltaville face painting and a lot more for Trudy Feigum of Hartfi eld, posed to help defray some of the entire family. who ran unsuccessfully for the costs. “Gas just went up 18 during Working Waterman’s Weekend Nina and Kloe from Team the Hartfi eld District seat on cents this week, Obamacare Horizon Trust will provide the Board of Supervisors last has pushed the cost of medical haircuts and nail services for a year, said that when she was insurance up, and everything by Bill Powell until 2:30 p.m. To fi nd out all the details donation. campaigning she talked with else is going up for us too,” Events Director Also as part of Working about the visit of the “Virginia” This year, music has been people who are “barely hang- she said. “We can’t afford Maritime Museum Waterman’s Weekend, activi- to Deltaville, her cruise sched- added to the carnival. “The ing on” fi nancially. “We have a 5-cent tax hike on our real ties on Saturday will include ule/booking, and more infor- Habit” will provide music from a lot of people in this county estate.” Deltaville Maritime Museum the fi rst Deltaville Farmers’ mation on the schooner herself, 9 a.m.-noon. Local churches who are hurting and a 10.4% She said part of the problem & Holly Point Nature Park will Market, Billz Bistro, “F.D. check out the websites www. will provide gospel music from increase in real estate taxes is is that there are very few busi- welcome the majestic 126-foot Crockett” tours, “Explorer” deltavillemuseum.com and noon-2 p.m. Team “Faith Walk- too much for some taxpayers.” nesses here to help increase schooner “Virginia” as a par- and workboat cruises, the fi rst www.schoonervirginia.org. ers” from Faith Builders Bap- Hal Muller of Urbanna tax revenues. ticipant in and partner with “Groovin’ in the Park” concert, For more information on the tist Church will host the gospel suggested that supervisors Dan Downs of Hartfi eld the maritime park for its open- and much more will also be on Working Waterman’s Weekend music. Contact Janel Pleasant consider dropping land-use said higher real estate taxes ing weekend festivities, April the day’s list of attractions. schedule of events, tickets for at (804) 815-3697 if you would taxation as a way to generate are going to hurt those senior 24-27. Schooner “Virginia” is the the Reeve Lindbergh program, like to share your music at the more tax dollars. citizens on fi xed incomes. He “Virginia” and her crew fi rst tall ship built on the Nor- the dinner/dance, Saturday’s carnival. Under the county’s land use noted that the county needs will arrive at Fishing Bay in folk waterfront in nearly 80 attractions, and tickets for Once again there will be a ordinance, farm, open space to fi nd ways to offset the Deltaville late Friday, April 25, years. After nearly 2.5 years the “Julius Ray Pittman Proj- Bike/Car Ride for Cancer. The and forestry land are assessed “tremendous” tax burden on to be the special guests for the under construction, the vessel ect” Groovin’ concert, call the ride will begin in Tappahannock at lower values for taxation county homeowners. Shrimp & Barbecue Dinner/ was launched and christened on Museum offi ce. at Essex Square. Registration is purposes. Editor’s Note: Letters to the Dance that evening at 5 p.m. December 10, 2004. “Virginia” Deltaville Maritime Museum at 9 a.m. and kickstands go up “Your needs as a county are Editor on the proposed budget She will hold free deck tours is a re-creation of its namesake and Holly Point Nature Park at 10 a.m. All individual riders fi nite and you let most of the and the 5-cent tax increase are on Saturday, April 26, from vessel “Virginia,” which was is a non-profi t organization at and clubs are invited to join the county taxpayers subsidize welcomed by the Southside 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and on Sunday, the last all-sail vessel used by 287 Jackson Creek Road and ride. Team “Peace, Love and 533 residents [in the land-use Sentinel. The letters would April 27, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. the Virginia Pilot Association. on Mill Creek. Turn right off Happiness” will host the ride. program]. He contended the appear in the April 10 Senti- Two cruises aboard “Virginia” That vessel was in service from Route 33 across from the Shell Contact Sharon Darnell at largest farm in the county is nel, which will be available on also will be available. Visit 1917 to 1926 on the Chesa- Station to get there. (804) 824-1424 for more infor- under land use and “the tax- newsstands and to subscrib- www.schoonervirginia.org/ peake Bay. To fi nd out everythingmation on the ride or the car- payers are subsidizing that ers several hours prior to the schooner-virginia-day-sails for Her programs include you need to know about the nival. farm to the tune of $33,612.” public hearing at 7 p.m. that more information. courses in maritime history, museum and park, purchase Teams “Jamaican Me Monica Saunders of Top- same day. “Virginia” will be docked marine science, maritime lit- event tickets, donate, volun- Crazy,” “Treasures, Hopes at Fishing Bay Harbor in erature, and team-building for teer, or become a member, and Dreams,” “MHS Students Deltaville. The maritime park both students and adults. The visit www.deltavillemuseum. Stomping Out Cancer” and will offer a free continuous ship has sailed as far south com, email museumpark@ “Kids For A Cause” also will loop shuttle on Saturday, April as Trinidad, east to Bermuda, verizon.net or call 776-7200. participate in the carnival. 26, from the museum to the north to Prince Edward Island, The museum mailing address “Our Relay For Life Teams Bentley’s Bar schooner beginning at 9:45 and all along the Atlantic Coast is P.O. Box 466, Deltaville, VA have once again come together a.m. The shuttle will continue of the United States. 23043. to help fi nish the fi ght,” said Darnell. & Grille The Middlesex Relay for Life’s main event will be Middlesex County celebrates 30th held Friday, May 16, at the Middlesex Sports Com- Now serving lunch plex behind St. Clare Walker anniversary of Victims of Crime Act Middle School on Route 33 at Monday through Saturday Locust Hill. April 6, 2014, marks the service for victims of crimes, “The commitment is to reach 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. beginning of National Crime said Atterholt. Each state has every victim of crime with Victim’s Rights Week and the enacted victims’ rights laws the message that you are not Visit Closed Wednesday 30th anniversary of the Victims and compensation programs alone,” said Atterholt. “Please 572 Rappahannock Drive, White Stone, VA 22578 of Crime Act. This year’s theme for victims. In 1984, Congress remember the victim of crimes SSentinel.com 804 435-2000 • www.bentleysgrille.com is “Restoring the Balance of passed a bipartisan Victims of every week by lending your Justice.” Crime Act, which created a support letting them know they for more news Before 1984, crime vic- national fund to ease victims’ are not alone in their battle for and photos tims had virtually no rights suffering. These funds are not justice.” Visit SSentinel.com for more news or assistance, explained fi nanced by the taxpayer but Mary W. Atterholt, director by fi nes and penalties paid by of Victim Witness Assistance offenders, Atterholt explained. in Middlesex County. At The Crime Victims’ Fund that time the criminal justice supports victim services such The Rivah Wear Fashion Show & Tea system often seemed indiffer- as rape crisis and domestic Urbanna United Methodist Church ent to the needs of victims. violence programs, and victim Saturday, April 5 • 2 - 4 p.m. Commonly excluded from compensation programs that courtrooms and denied the pay many of the victims’ out- Tickets: $10 in advance $12 at the door chance to speak at sentencing, of-pocket expenses related victims had no access to com- to crimes such as counsel- pensation or services to help ing, funeral expenses and lost Tea, Dainty Foods, and Fashions from rebuild their lives, said Atter- wages. Bristow’s, Lowe Tide & holt. “There were few avenues With such strides made in Cyndy’s Bynn. to deal with the emotional and the last 30 years there is still so The Steamboat Restaurant physical wounds suffered by much more to do, said Atter- the victim,” she said. “Vic- holt. Goals of the future include Easter Brunch Menu tims were left on their own to reaching the previously under- recover their health, security served victim populations, Sunday, April 20 • 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and dignity.” including victims who are non- That began to change in caucasian, American Indians, Blue Crab Bisque 1984, and today there has been and Alaska natives; adults who Cream of Spring Chicken with Leeks and Orzo dramatic progress in secur- were molested as children; vic- Herb Roasted Leg of Spring Lamb with Mint and Dried Sour Cherries ing rights, protections, and tims of elder abuse; and victims Asian Red Miso Glazed Atlantic Salmon with Ginger Wasabi Butter who are LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, Carved Slow Roasted Prime Rib with Horsey Sauce and Au Jus bisexual, transgender or ques- Shrimp and Andouille Sausage with Stone Ground Virginia Grits Trivia: tioning their sexual identity). Oven Roasted Fresh Vegetable Medley Efforts have been made for Steamed Fresh Asparagus On March 21, 1963, Alcatraz over 30 years to support victims Fried Apples Prison in San Francisco Bay of once-hidden crimes, such as Rosemary/Dijon Roasted Baby Red Skin Potatoes closed after 29 years of oper- domestic and sexual violence, Herb Multi Grain Pilaf ating as a federal penitentiary. said Atterholt. Today the spot- Seafood Pasta Salad The harsh maximum security light is on other abuses that Fresh Fruit Ambrosia Salad prison once housed gangster Al have long been unreported and Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad Capone,”Machine Gun” Kelly often not prosecuted such as Deluxe Omelet Station and Robert Stroud, the “Bird- hate and bias crimes, bullying, French Toast Casserole man of Alcatraz”. and sex and labor traffi cking. Apple Bacon, House Made Sausage and Cherry Smoked Ham Rock-n-Roll Easter Event Freshly Baked Muffi ns, Biscuits and Pastries Saturday, April 19, 10 – 11:30 a.m. Gourmet Dessert Selection Romp at the Rivah Lower United Methodist Church $26.95 per person - April 26 - 120 Lower Church Rd., Hartfield $12.95 for Children 10 and Under Puppet show • Crafts • Games •Karaoke Reservations required Egg Hunt • Laughter, creativity & so much more Call (804) 776-6589 Ext. 2 Experience God’s amazing love!

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Parts Manager/Service Writer: Laura Martin 804-776-6855 NEW FOR 2014: Inspect & lubricate seacocks Broad Creek & www.dycboat.com (804) 776-9898 Garmin 840xs Inspect hoses & clamps Green’s Cove Rd. 18355 General Puller Hwy, Deltaville, VA 23043 Chartplotter/Fishfi nder $1499 Replace deteriorated zincs Located on Broad Creek Inspect the prop New High Speed Gas & Diesel Pump 8” Keyed Chartplotter/Sonar Combo for Inspect the rudder Unethonal 93º Gas • 40C Diesel Cruising, Sailing or Fishing Inspect the hull Certifi ed Mechanics • Keyed chartplotter/sonar combo with 8” Inspect mast & sails color SVGA display • Preloaded U.S. LakeVü™ HD and Inspect engine intake Engine Repowering • 30-Ton Lift • Fiberglass Repair BlueChart® g2 coastal maps Inspect rubber outdrive bellows Blister Repair • Woodwork • Ships Store • Built-in Garmin HD-ID™ and supports Inspect power steering & power trim oil levels Spray & Brush Painting • Transmissions Rebuilt CHIRP and DownVü™ scanning sonar with CHIRP technology Inspect outer jacket of control cables Gas & Diesel • Covered Slips • High-sensitivity internal 10 Hz GPS/GLONASS receiver Inspect fuel lines • Supports all Garmin marine radars Inspect fuel tanks, pumps & fi lters AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR: • Installation Available Inspect cooling hoses & fi ttings Clean & tighten electrical connections Mobile Installation & Service Available 804-776-9802 • [email protected] Inspect bilge blower hose 11007 General Puller Highway, Hartfi eld Inspect scuppers Garmin Certifi ed Installation, Service, and Repair Center Inspect fi ttings for cracks & rust Inspect wire halyards & running backstays “We are the world’s Top Hunter Dealer” Recaulk deck-mounted chainplates “The top dealer in the world for Marlow Hunter Check engine shaft & rudder stuffi ng boxes Sailboats in sales and service!” Check for deck leaks at ports & hatches Renew caulks or gaskets …to Norton Yachts • VA’s Full line Dealers for new Marlow-Hunter & Jeanneau Sailboats De-Winterize water systems & toilets • Region’s New Dealer for Marlow-Mainship Trawlers Join us for Deltaville Dealer Days & Open House Inspect trailer tires, including spare & lights Welcome • Area’s largest sailboat brokerage and powerboats ALES ERVICE May 3 & 4, 2014 S & S Inspect trailer for rust • Award winning ASA Sailing School Check expiration dates on fl ares & fi re extinguishers • Sailing Bareboat and Captained Charters • Yanmar Diesel Service Factory Trained Techs Check stove & remote tanks • Large inventory of Yanmar parts in stock Inspect bilge pump & fl oat switch • ABYC Certifi ed Techs Inspect swim platform & ladder • Full Service Boatyard & 35 ton Travel lift Inspect dock & anchor lines • Raymarine Dealer & Certifi ed Techs Inspect upholstery • Panda Generator Dealer & Certifi ed Techs Dealers for: Parker Boats • Key West Boats Check sound signaling device Yamaha Outboards • Load Rite Trailers Inspect life jackets Louis Muse: [email protected] John Pender: [email protected] Check compass & navigation lights Inspect charts & waterway guides Located on the Rivah halfway between Urbanna and Tappahannock Look for our boat on Rt. 17 • Center Cross Renew boating license and/or registration Best of the Bay Awards Renew trailer tags Best Brokerage • Best Charter Service www.nortonyachts.com www.garrettsmarina.com 804-443-2573 Review boat insurance policy Best Marine Carpentry • Best Boatyard • Best Engine Work Deltaville, VA • 804-776-9211 • fax 804-776-9044 339 Catchpenny Lane • Bowlers Wharf, VA A6 • Southside Sentinel • Urbanna, Va. • April 3, 2014 RWC to sponsor Parkinson’s Scouts’ fi sh fry Biologist to lead discussion is Saturday at on Patuxent Research Refuge awareness program on April 9 The Northern Neck Legion Post 82 Audubon Society speaker On April 9, Rappahannock Dr. Bennett, author of more tal Rehabilitation Center, Car- Girl Scout Troop 3217 and on Monday, April 7, will be Westminster-Canterbury than a hundred papers and ousel Physical Therapy Center, Boy Scout Troop 370 will have Sandy Spencer. Her talk will (RWC) will host its annual director of numerous research RWC’s Parkinson’s Support a fi sh fry from 5-7 p.m. this be about the important role Parkinson’s Awareness Event. initiatives that are leading to Group, and Move For Mobility. Saturday, April 5, at Ameri- the Patuxent Research Refuge Again this year the featured a better understanding of Par- RWC sponsors several ini- can Legion Post 82 in Saluda. played in the history of the speaker will be Dr. James Ben- kinson’s, points out in the last tiatives for those with Parkin- Patrons may eat in or carry out. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser- nett, a popular presenter whose decade researchers have dis- son’s, their families and their Dinner includes fried or baked vice from the 1930s through talks have drawn capacity covered much about how Par- care partners. The Fit to Move fi sh, hush puppies, cole slaw, the 1960s—its contributions crowds in the past. kinson’s affects both the brain program provides RWC resi- green beans, fried apples, des- to today’s understanding of Dr. Bennett is chair of the and body. “Because Parkin- dents and community members sert (cake/pie) and drink for farming practices benefi cial Department of Neurobiology son’s starts developing long with neuromuscular disorders $12. Tickets are being sold by to wildlife, waterfowl man- and founding director of the before symptoms become a chance to participate in group troop members. Contact Millie agement, and impacts of pes- VCU Parkinson’s Disease and apparent, much of our cur- exercises three times a week. Hampton at 804-347-7323 or ticides on wildlife. Movement Disorders Multidis- rent investigative efforts are RWC also sponsors a support Paulette Burrell at 758-2141 Patuxent is also the home of ciplinary Research & Clinical focused on identifying bio- group for individuals with Par- for more information. the largest captive whooping Center. His presentation will markers that can provide early kinson’s and their care part- crane breeding program in the begin at 1 p.m. in the audito- evidence of Parkinson’s,” he ners, and another exclusively world, where the species was rium on the RWC campus, 132 said. for care partners. ‘Shop Local brought back from the brink of Whooping Crane Lancaster Drive, Irvington. DePew encourages those “Because these programs extinction from only 16 wild Rita De Pew, volunteer attending the presentation to are underwritten by grants and Day’ planned birds. Learn how an incredible the U.S. Secret Service bird coordinator of the Parkinson’s arrive at 12:30 p.m. to visit individual contributions to the partnership has increased the surveys); understanding forest Support Group supported by with local organizations that RWC Foundation, there is no for May 3 population to over 400 birds bat community at the refuge; RWC, says “Anyone with Par- will be on hand to provide charge for participation in any and re-established their forgot- working with partners to pro- kinson’s or any family member information to those with Par- of them,” said RWC vice presi- The fourth annual Shop ten migratory route through mote native vegetation; and or care partner interested in kinson’s, their families and dent for development Whiz Local Day, sponsored by ultra-light training. much more. recent research into Parkin- care partners. Participating Harris. Chesapeake Bank, is slated Spencer works for the U.S. From 2001-2011, she served son’s will benefi t much from organizations include VCU’s The public is invited to May 3. Working closely with Fish and Wildlife Service as a as the biologist for the Eastern Dr. Bennett’s presentations. Parkinson’s Disease and Move- attend the Parkinson’s Aware- area Chambers of Commerce, supervisory biologist for the Virginia Rivers National Wild- He is a dynamic speaker with ment Disorders Center, the ness Event. Beverages and Chesapeake Bank is reaching Patuxent Research Refuge, a life Refuge complex, which a wealth of information and is Parkinson’s Disease Research dessert will be served. Reser- out to merchants, encouraging nearly 13,000-acre national includes the Rappahannock eager to spread the word about Education and Clinical Center vations are required; call 435- them to participate by display- wildlife refuge in central River Valley National Wildlife what is being done to reduce (PDRECC) from McGuire VA 9553 by April 2. RWC will ing “The Buck Stays Here” Maryland between Baltimore Refuge. the effects of Parkinson’s or Medical Center in Richmond, honor reservations in the order decal in shop windows and and Washington. Some of her Outside of work, she is eradicate it.” Rappahannock General Hospi- received. offering special incentives to interests and projects at Patux- devoted to making her parrots shoppers. ent include oak-pine savan- and her adopted retired race- To sign up for Shop Local nah restoration; developing horse mare “Toni” happy.RIVERSIDE PARTNERS IN WOMEN’S HEALTH several interesting new exhibits are on display, will be on Day, businesses may go to breeding shrub bird surveys The meeting will be held Saturday, April 5, at 1 p.m. blog.chesbank.com, contact in power line right-of ways; at 7 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Chesapeake Bank at 800-434- working with local partners to Church, 303 South Main St., 1181, or email banklocal@ promote/protect forest cover; Kilmarnock. The program is Community Saturday, April 5 chesbank.com. helping others with their natu- free and open to the public. Calendar • Bake sale to benefi t the American Heart Association ral resource management (i.e., Refreshments will be served. at 9 a.m. at the Deltaville Market. 832-1794 Signup begins • Middlesex Relay For Life Carnival 9 a.m.-2 p.m. for Kekoka behind the Urbanna Firehouse. 654-4423 Urbanna Farmers’ Yoga Retreat • Relay For Life Bike/Car Ride A biker event in support of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Members of the public are Market seeks vendors Life Cancer Charity Ride. Ride from Tappahannock to invited to immerse themselves Urbanna Farmers’ Market Urbanna Business Association ■ Tomato Growing Contest hosted by the Urbanna to raise funds for Relay for Life of Middlesex. in yoga and nature at the 5th will begin its 2014 season on sponsor the market. This year Middlesex Extension Offi ce. Entry forms are due by April Registration is at 9 a.m. at the Essex Square Shopping Annual Kekoka Yoga Retreat Saturday, May 10. The market there will be music, raffl es, baked 15. Judging will be held on July 26. 758-4120 Center. May 16-18 on the waterfront is held at Taber Park in “down- goods, hand-crafted items, plants shores of YMCA/APYC Camp town” Urbanna from 9 a.m.-1 and fl owers, fresh produce, jew- ■ Virginia Burning Ban February 15 through April • Spring Fashion Show and Tea 2-4 p.m. in the fel- Kekoka in Kilmarnock. p.m. on the second Saturday of elry and so much more. Those 30 no burning until after 4 p.m. if the fi re is in or within lowship hall of Urbanna United Methodist Church. Tick- The cost of the weekend is each month through Septem- interested in participating as a 300 feet of woodland, brushland or fi eld containing dry ets are available in advance at Cyndy’s Bynn, R.S. Bristow $125 and includes lodging and ber. There is free parking and a vendor in the market should visit grass or other fl ammable material. Store and Lowe Tide. meals. For reservations, visit playground for children. www.urbanna.com for rules, reg- www.ymcacampkekoka.org. The Town of Urbanna and the ulations and an application. ■ Deltaville Maritime Museum and Holly Point • 16th Pride of Middlesex dinner 5 – 9 p.m. at the Nature Park Monday–Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sat- Deltaville Maritime Museum and Holly Point Nature Park. urday, 10 a.m. –1 p.m. 776-7200 The honoree is Rev. Dr. Chauncey E. Mann Jr. 758-1502 New Name. Same Compassionate and Highly Skilled Care. ■ 10 a.m.–3 p.m., Middlesex County Museum Listening to Your Concerns More highly skilled providers, more specialized care for women of all ages and more Wednesday – Saturday, in Saluda. 758-3663 Monday, April 7 locations throughout the region. It’s Riverside Partners in Women’s Health with • hosted by Rappahannock Viewpoints 2014 locations in Newport News, Williamsburg, Gloucester, and on the Eastern Shore. ■ Hands Across Middlesex at The Cryer Center at Westminster-Canterbury in Irvington. Retired Army Col- Locust Hill is open 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Tuesday – Friday. The onel Katherine “Katie” Hundley, president of ProCare In addition to the already extensive obstetrical, gynecological and surgical services Clothing Closet is open Tuesdays 10 a.m.–3 p.m. The Inc. of Richmond, will speak about the “Families of the yard sale is the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month. Wounded Fund.” 438-4000 we currently provide, women now have access to the only fellowship trained minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon and one of the most well respected gynecologic oncologist ■ GED Classes sponsored by Middle Peninsula RACE in the area. are being held at Middlesex High School. 769-1151 Saturday, April 12 • County-wide Clean-up Day sponsored by Keep For more information visit riversideonline.com/womenshealth. To schedule Middlesex Beautiful (KMB). The committee has set a PartnersHayes MedicalIn Women’s Center Health an appointment, please call one of the locations listed below. April 4–6 goal of 100 bags of litter to be removed from roads and • Gwynn’s Island Museum Opening The offi cial highways in Middlesex County. keepmiddlesexbeauti- opening of the new 900-square-foot expansion, where [email protected] Newport News Newport News Gloucester Eastern Shore Lisa A. Casanova, M.D. William Irvin, M.D. Lisa A. Casanova, M.D. Jennifer P. Reason, D.O. Email your event to [email protected] by Friday for consideration. For an expanded version of our Monilla M. Dent, M.D. (GYN Oncology) Monilla M. Dent, M.D. H. John Reason, M.D. community calendar, please visit www.SSentinel.com. Barry Gross, M.D. (757) 594-4198 Jeffrey L. Henke, M.D. Elizabeth M. Reinoehl, D.O. Jeffrey L. Henke, M.D. Leslie Hurt, M.D. David R. Scott, M.D. Leslie Hurt, M.D. Jawwad Khan, M.D. Theresa G. Long, N.P. p.m. every Monday at Kilmarnock United Methodist Diane A. Maddela, D.O. Williamsburg Joseph K. King, M.D. (757) 442-6719 Weekly Events Church. 480-4292 Maya Tyler, N.P. Diane A. Maddela, D.O. Krystal Ainsley, M.D. Darine Moukalled, M.D. (757) 249-3000 (Internal Medicine) Thursdays Karanvir Virk, M.D. Jill Jertson, M.D. • Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver Support Tuesdays Jawwad Khan, M.D. Janet Dehoux, N.P. Beth Scharlop, M.D. Group 1:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at • Rotary Club 7:30 a.m. every Tuesday for breakfast Joseph K. King, M.D. Karanvir Virk, M.D. (804) 693-2670 Port Town Village Apartments, 111 Port Town Lane, at the Pilot House Restaurant, Topping. 694-6416 Darine Moukalled, M.D. Allison Butler, N.P. Urbanna. 758-2386 • Quilting Class 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Tuesday James M. Mullins III, M.D. • Cancer Center Support Group 3–4 p.m. the second at the Lewis Puller Center at Cooks Corner. 241- Stanley D. Yeatts II, M.D. (757) 253-5600 and fourth Thursday of the month at Rappahannock 4860 Darlene Ewton, N.P. General Hospital. 435-8593 • Aphasia Group 11 a.m. – noon every Tuesday at (757) 534-5700 • Diabetic Support Group meets the fourth Thursday RGH Outpatient Rehab, Kilmarnock. 435-8501 of the month from 3–4 p.m. at the YMCA in Hartfi eld. • Alzheimer’s Support 3–4 p.m. the fi rst Tuesday of • Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver Support the month at Bridges Outpatient Services, 113 DMV Group 6 p.m. the third Thursday of the month at Drive, Kilmarnock. 435-9237 Alzheimer’s Association offi ce, 7335 Lewis Avenue, • Chess 4 p.m. every Tuesday at the Middlesex riversideonline.com/womenshealth Gloucester. 695-9382 County Public Library, Deltaville. 776-7362 • Good Deeds for Special Needs Group 6 p.m. • RGH Diabetes Support Group 5 p.m. the fi rst the third Thursday of the month at the Pilot House Tuesday of the month at the RGH Rehabilitation and Restaurant. Advocating, helping special needs. 694- Sports Medicine Center, Kilmarnock. 435-8305 6016 • Cub Scout Pack 307 6 p.m. every Tuesday at • Deltaville Community Association 7 p.m. the third Harmony Grove Baptist Church, Harmony Village. Thursday of the month at the Deltaville Community 347-7323 Marianne Dait, M.D. Association building. • Lions Club 7 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the Beacon, Topping. 776-7508 • Overeaters Anonymous 7 p.m. every Tuesday at I chose primary care because as a doctor Saturdays St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 435 Church Street, • Alcoholics Anonymous Open 12-and-12 meeting, Kilmarnock. you’re not limited to who you see. I treat 5:30 p.m. every Saturday at Zoar Baptist Church. 776- • Middlesex County NAACP 7 p.m. the fourth Tues- 7629 day of the month at the Cooks Corner Offi ce Com- all types of patients, children to geriatrics. Watch Dr. Dait explain plex, 2911 General Puller Highway. her passion for Family My special interests include preventative Medicine. • Al-Anon 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday at Harmony Sundays Grove Baptist Church, Topping. medicine, health and fitness. The Riverside • Cub Scout Pack 314 2 p.m. every Sunday at Hermitage Baptist Church in Church View. 347-7323 Care Difference means treating others as Scan the QR code Wednesdays • Story Hour 9:30 a.m. every Wednesday beginning you would treat family. I found Riverside’s Mondays September 18 at the Middlesex YMCA. 776-8846 mission inspiring because that’s how I like to • Veterans Café 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. every Monday all • Knitters Group 10 a.m. every Wednesday at Riverside Hayes Medical Center veterans are welcome at 84 Main Street, Warsaw. 769- Urbanna United Methodist Church. practice. My goal is to educate and guide my 2751 • Story Hour 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday at the 2246 George Washington • Dementia Support Group 10:30 a.m. the fi rst Middlesex County Public Library, Urbanna Branch. patients while addressing their concerns. I Memorial Highway Monday of the month at the Alzheimer’s Association 756-5717 find that amazing. Hayes, VA 23072 offi ce, 7335 Lewis Ave., Gloucester. 695-9382 • Story Hour 3 p.m. every Wednesday at Urbanna • Boy Scout Troop 370 6 p.m. every Monday at the Methodist Church. 756-5717 American Legion Hall, Saluda. 347-7323 • Bingo 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the Booster • Kiwanis Club of Middlesex 6 p.m. every Monday Club, Hartfi eld. 758-2910 To select Dr. Dait as your physician, call (804) 642-6171 at the United Methodist Church, Urbanna. 758-2020. or visit us at www.riversideonline.com/dait • Bingo 7 p.m. every Monday at Middlesex County Email your event to [email protected] by Volunteer Rescue Squad, Deltaville. Friday for consideration. Please keep your event • Al-Anon/Adult Children of Alcoholics meets at 8 information current. Appointments Available Now. Medicare Patients Welcome. April 3, 2014 • Southside Sentinel • Urbanna, Va.• A7 at the library Woman’s Club ard party set by Ralph Oppenheim starting April 1. The shop’s spring hours are: Executive Director Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The The Middlesex County shop is closed Sunday and Monday. Woman’s Club will have its By now you should have received the During this sale clothing that is unpriced April card party on Monday, library’s annual appeal letter. We (unmarked) is free! Marked clothing April 7, at 12:30 p.m. at its hope you’ll think kindly of your is 75% off. Unmarked shoes are clubhouse at 210 Virginia library and give generously. 50 cents a pair. Street in Urbanna. The cost There’s another way to con- Unmarked books are $1 a bag. will be $5 per person. tribute to the library and that is Come in and fi ll up a bag with Snacks and beverages will by shopping at Nearly New, the hardbound and paperback books be provided by members of library’s unique thrift shop. for only one measly dollar! the Woman’s Club. For reser- Mildred Shackleford and her According to staff members of vations and information, or if band of volunteers have a message Nearly New, the store has lots of interested in becoming a sub- they want to share: Nearly New Thrift surprises awaiting you. They thank you stitute, contact Ginny Senft at Shop welcomes you to its Spring Bounty Sale for your donations and for your purchases. 776-0403 or email Fsenft@aol. com. Walk to see redbuds in Audubon plans April 14 bloom set for April 12 bird walk at Beaverdam Park The Northern Neck Chapter On Monday, April 14, the should meet in the parking lot Big boat, big lift of the Virginia Native Plant Northern Neck Audubon Soci- at Beaverdam at 8 a.m. Society invites the public to ety (NNAS) will conduct a Directions to Beaverdam Park Deltaville Boatyard’s 75-ton lift moves the Deltaville Mari- join Nick Ferriter along an bird walk at Beaverdam Park are as follows: Take Route 17 time Museum’s massive fl agship, the restored “F.D. Crock- easily-walked trail in Chilton near Gloucester Court House. south from Saluda Court House ett,” toward splashdown for a season full of tours and Woods State Forest from 10 This walk will be led by Frank approximately 13.5 miles. You outreach. The national historic-registered Crockett just a.m.-noon on Saturday, April Schaff. will see the hospital on the left. completed her annual maintenance at the boatyard, and has 12. A large stand of redbuds This beautiful park has a At the next light after the hos- moved back to her space on the museum’s Pierwalk where near the path should be in 63.5-acre lake and many trails pital, turn left onto Business Rt. she begins her season open for tours during the opening- bloom. for bird and wildlife watch- 17 (Main Street). Go .4 mile and weekend festivities on Saturday, April 26. Keith Ruse and “Redbud trees are putting ing. Among the many possible turn left onto Rt. 616 (Roaring Deltaville Boatyard not only provided the lift service and out buds now, and this mass sightings are osprey, herons, Springs Rd.). Go 2.4 miles and bottom cleaning, but also donated the bottom paint to of trees is spectacular when swallows, belted kingfi shers, turn right into the main park bring the Crockett into “Deltaville fashion.” they are in fl ower,” said outings woodpeckers, bald eagles and entrance. Follow the road to the chair Paula Boundy. early migrating birds. main parking lot by the lake. “We’re expecting some of Carpools will leave Several pairs of loaner the early spring fl owers and Nick Ferriter and emerging Grace Episcopal Church in binoculars will be available. deciduous ferns will also have buds on a redbud tree. Kilmarnock at 7:15 a.m. Those Please call Frank Schaff at RAL announces art emerged by then,” Ferriter said. (Photo by Jackie Ferriter) coming from the Middle Pen- 804-462-0084 to let him know “Although the path is not diffi - insula can meet the carpool that you are coming in case cult, walkers should defi nitely Route 3 and Route 600 (Lara group at 7:30 a.m. at M&M the walk is cancelled. For workshops for April wear shoes that can take wet Rd.). Meet about ½ mile east of Supply on Route 33 in Hartfi eld additional information and The Rappahannock Art Participants are reminded areas.” the power lines that cross Field (10859 General Puller High- activities, visit www.northern- League (RAL) recently an- to bring their own non-copy- Chilton Woods is in Trial Road about 1 mile east of way). People driving directly neckaudubon.org. nounced its workshops for righted photos with simple Lancaster County on Route Route 3. Bring a camera or bin- April. shapes and strong light and 602 (Field Trial Rd.) between oculars if desired. Unless otherwise noted, dark values and a lunch. All Friends of the Deltaville Library all classes meet from 10 a.m. students will receive a spe- to 3 p.m. at the Studio Gal- cial materials list at registra- bake sale is April 19 at Philippi lery, 19 North Main Street, tion. Free blood pressure Kilmarnock, reported Bar- • Interesting Techniques The Friends of the Deltaville Friday, April 18, at the church. bara Pulling. Gallery hours Using Yupo with Jacquie Col- Library will hold its annual The Friends of the Library is are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays ligan, April 22-24. checks offered by RGH bake sale on the day before going to be undertaking some through Saturdays. Students can explore cre- Rappahannock General Hos- ing your numbers,” said RGH Easter, Saturday, April 19, major improvements for the To register for any of the ative methods with Yupo pital and the Northern Neck staff development coordina- from 8:30 a.m.-noon at Philippi library in the coming year, includ- classes, visit the gallery, or call Watermedia, said Pulling. Family YMCA will provide tor Cathy Myers, RN. “Being Christian Church in Deltaville, ing some structural changes to 436-9309. Yupo paper is a synthetic free blood pressure screenings aware of your health risks and rain or shine. make book sales and storage On April 19, a smaART! water-resistant paper where, on Monday, April 7, from 9-11 conditions can motivate you to “This is the opportunity to more accessible and attractive. workshop for ages 7-16 will be when used with watercolor, a.m. at the YMCA. make the necessary changes to fi nd hot cross buns for an Easter The proceeds from the bake sale held from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 paint will dry only by evapo- “RGH and the YMCA strive work toward a healthier heart.” breakfast, or the perfect dessert will help to make these upgrades p.m. The medium will be oil ration with no absorption by to promote a heart healthy Screenings are free and open for Easter dinner, or other great possible. Everyone is encouraged pastel, said Pulling. the paper allowing nice tex- lifestyle which includes know- to the public. goodies to put in the freezer for to support the library by both “If you love color and don’t tures to form while drying, the unexpected guest,” said an baking and buying. like to make a big mess, oil explained Pulling. event spokesperson. As Brenda Coffman, presi- pastels may be your medium,” Applications include texture Not only is it the time to dent of the Friends of the she said. “Oil pastels are like and building layers of paint. Sydney H. Speight buy great treats, but this is Library, said, the library is part crayons, but are oil based, Participants are introduced to Attorney at Law an opportunity to support the of the glue that holds our com- making blending and layered new techniques that include library by baking something munity together so tightly. The effects easy. Come explore this Robert Doak Concentrated Phone: (804) 758-0400 for the sale. Contributions in bake sale offers an opportunity colorful medium.” Watercolor product line, she the form of pies, cakes, cook- to both bake and buy in support Other workshops will said. These popular methods Fax: (804) 758-0401 ies, buns, breads and other for all that the library offers. include: and materials are most suitable wonderful foodstuffs will be If anyone has questions, call • Extreme Painting Work- for both representational and 837 Gloucester Road accepted on the afternoon of Brenda at 776-8032. shop-Session 2 with Kathleen abstract imagery. P.O. Box 1301 Noffsinger, April 15-16. • Wirework and Beading Saluda, Virginia 23149 “Learn how to paint beau- with Sue Broadway, April email: [email protected] To advertise, call the tiful, colorful and luminous 28-29, at her home studio in background washes, fi lled with Merry Point. Southside Sentinel at 758-2328 lights that fl ow into your paint- Students will learn to make ings,” said Pulling. “Working a wire pendant, wired connec- with strong design shapes, tors and wire fi ndings needed Kathleen will give you lots of to construct a necklace, ear- Are Your Affairs In Order? instruction for taking a ‘pour- rings and bracelet, said Pull- ing’ technique to the next ing. Broadway will provide all New State and Federal Laws can help you to Preserve and Transfer Wealth level.” wire, stones and beads. K&Q Historical Society to discuss ‘Chesapeake House’ Special Invitation Tuesday, April 15, 2014 The April meeting of the Dr. Lounsbury has taught at King and Queen Histori- University of Mary Washing- Please join us for a FREE 6:30 p.m. cal Society is scheduled for ton, Virginia Commonwealth TrustBuilders Law Group Sunday, April 27, at 3 p.m. University, and the University Estate Planning Seminar & Discover… Urbanna Office - Conference Room at the new courthouse build- of Virginia. 110 Grace Avenue • The four essential tools for an effective estate plan ing at King and Queen Court The subject of Dr. Loun- Urbanna, VA 23175 House. sbury’s presentation is “The • The differences between wills and trusts The speaker will be Dr. Chesapeake House.” This illus- • How using our “Legacy Trust” can insulate businesses, farms & other family assets from Carl Lounsbury, a member trated talk explores some of the Wednesday, April 16, 2014 of the Architectural Research themes that are at the heart of death taxes, debts, disability and divorce for future generations Department at the Colonial the study of early American • How to avoid the expense and delay associated with court supervised probate 11:00 a.m. Williamsburg Foundation architecture. • The risks associated with long-term care and Medicaid “Spend Down” rules Lunch provided since 1982. Dr. Lounsbury “Join us as he shares these The Inn at Montross is responsible for long-term experiences and answers ques- • The benefits of Virginia’s new Powers of Attorney Act 21 Polk Street research projects including tions that are of interest to you, Montross, VA 2520 public buildings, 17th and and bring a friend!” said a soci- 18th century theaters, building ety spokesperson. craftsmen, 17th-century row Refreshments will follow houses, churches and meeting this program in the Tavern Join Certified Elder Law Attorney*, Chip houses. In addition to research, Museum. Buxton, for this timely discussion of current estate planning opportunities. Mr. Buxton is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Exhibit to honor art teacher Attorneys and has been drafting wills, trusts The Visual Arts Commit- on May 17 at 6:30 p.m. Par- and family estate plans for over 35 years. tee of Arts Alive Inc. will ticipants should deliver their host an art exhibit honoring work to the school during Sue Kurfees, who has been regular school hours the week a teacher of art at West Point prior to April 29, or by 9 a.m. High School for 40 years. April 29. Please include name, “We are inviting all students years you were her student, Speaker of Ms. Kurfees (prior and cur- title of piece, and media. Also Joseph T. “Chip” Buxton III rent) to bring their artwork to include email or telephone Attorney at Law hang in the exhibit area of the number with the piece.The art Robinson/Olsson Auditorium work will be returned at the This educational class is free, however, reservations are required. To make your reservation or for more information, adjacent to West Point High end of the show. School on Thompson Ave. Pre- For additional information call Andrea Wohlever at 804-758-8290, 800-966-2889, or register online at www.trustbuilders.com. vious students’ works could be or to display your art, contact either current or what they did Gail Nichols at 804-843-4418 “The only thing you take with you when you are gone is what you leave behind.” ~ John Allston in her class,” said an exhibit or [email protected]; or

*Certified by the National Elder Law Foundation (Arizona); *Accredited by the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils (Ohio). spokesperson. Jeanette Wagner at 804-994- This exhibit will be on dis- 9668 or puddin5515wags@ SPONSORED BY TRUSTBUILDERS LAW GROUP play from April 29-June 4. aol.com. More information BUXTON & BUXTON, PC, A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION The opening of the exhibit about Arts Alive and a sched- YORKTOWN • WILLIAMSBURG • URBANNA, VA will be displayed at the perfor- ule of events are also available mance of “Bach to the Future” at www.artsaliveinc.org. A8 • Southside Sentinel • Urbanna, Va. • April 3, 2014 arts & leisure

Spring fashion show set Middlesex’s Brad Parks wins for Saturday in Urbanna second straight Lefty Award For the second consecutive A spring fashion show and teas, fi nger foods, breads, fruits year, Brad Parks has won the tea will be held in the fellow- and desserts. There will be door Lefty Award, given annually ship hall of Urbanna United prizes and discounts at Cyndy’s to the best humorous mystery. Methodist Church (UUMC) on Bynn, R.S. Bristow Store and Parks won for his 2013 Saturday, April 5, from 2-4 p.m. Lowe Tide for ticket holders. novel, “The Good Cop,” his Tickets are $10 in advance and Proceeds from the fashion fourth book featuring wise- $12 at the door and are available show will go toward missions cracking investigative reporter in advance at Cyndy’s Bynn, of the Susanna Wesley Circle of Carter Ross. Parks had previ- R.S. Bristow Store and Lowe UUMC. “ ously won for his 2012 work, Tide. A limited number of tick- Come and join us and bring a “The Girl Next Door.” ets will be sold. friend for a fun afternoon,” said In doing so, he joined No. There will be a variety of an event spokesperson. 1 New York Times bestsell- ing author Janet Evanovich as the only author to win Leftys in consecutive years. Just as Local artist Ron Courtney Parks won for his third and fourth books, Evanovich did has one-man painting show for “Three to Get Deadly” and “Four to Score.” The Richmond Public “I feel so fortunate to have Library will host a one-man been given this award once,” show of paintings by Urbanna Parks said. “To win it twice, artist Ron Courtney in the Gell- and to join a list with some- Brad Parks of Middlesex Cheryl Davis and Mike Lyman dressed in 18th-century cos- man Room at the main library one like Janet Evanovich, is a County holds the Lefty tumes at last year’s Lancaster Court Day. location at 1st and Franklin high honor.” Award presented to him for streets. The show is called Other nominees included “The Good Cop.” “Male Pattern Boldness” and Timothy Hallinan, Lisa Lutz, (Photo by Darrell Hoemann) Court Day to combine historic will feature Courtney’s abstract Cindy Sample and Donna oils and acrylics with two dis- Andrews, the only three-time for his fi fth novel, “The traditions and modern artisans tinct themes: song paintings Lefty Award winner and the Player,” which released in and nonscapes. only other multiple Lefty March. It received starred The 4th Annual Lancaster visit a Civil War soldier’s camp, His “Song Paintings” are winner besides Parks and reviews from Library Journal Court Day Arts, Crafts and and take part in old-fashioned romantic, richly-colored works Barbed Wire Evanovich. and Kirkus Reviews and was History Festival takes place games like sack races and hoop inspired by specifi c lyrics from Parks has also won the an RT Book Reviews “Top from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Satur- rolling. We encourage parents songwriters such as Johnny ious juried shows in Richmond Shamus Award from the Pri- Pick.” It was recently fea- day, April 12, rain or shine, and grandparents to join in, Cash, Eric Clapton and others. and at a number of galleries in vate Eye Writers of America tured in The Washington Post, outdoors at the Mary Ball too.” His “nonscapes” are more the Chesapeake Bay area. and the Nero Award from the which called it, “A highly Washington (MBW) Museum Visitors of all ages can tour formal paintings that are simi- The show runs through April Wolfe Pack Literary Society. entertaining tale and one of and Library, 8346 Mary Ball the Old Clerk’s Offi ce, Old Jail, lar to landscapes but are not and May during normal library He remains the only author the best portraits of a work- Road, Lancaster. and Lancaster House exhibit actual landscapes. Courtney’s hours. The opening is Friday, to have claimed all three ing reporter since Michael This free, family-friendly galleries, and view displays work has been exhibited in var- April 4, from 6:30-9 p.m. honors. Connelly’s ‘The Poet.’ ” event offers a variety of history from other Northern Neck A resident of Middlesex The tour includes visits and heritage activities along museums and community County, Parks was presented to the Upper King William with a marketplace of arts and organizations. People can also the Lefty Award in Monterey, Branch of the Pamunkey crafts, ranging from traditional get help with family history ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Calif., at Left Coast Crime, a Regional Library on Thurs- to contemporary. research in the MBW Library conference for fans of mys- day, April 17, at 6:30 p.m., “A main goal of our Court and shop the used book sale in tery novels held each year in and the Lancaster Community Day festival is to provide fun, the genealogy tent. The Attic to open Friday night the Western United States. Library on Monday, May 19, exciting, and interactive ways Treasures booth, new this year, Parks also served as Left at 2:30 p.m. Both events are to share information about local features a second-hand sale of “Alice in Wonderland,” pre- effects, said Nunn. Beth Conley Coast Crime’s toastmaster. free and open to the public. history,” said executive director quality antiques, collectibles, sented by the Northern Neck is the pianist. Among his duties was inter- Karen Hart. “The event is also and decorative items donated Home Schoolers, will open at The production is made pos- viewing the guest of honor, about bringing the community by friends of the museum. 7 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the sible through the generosity of Sue Grafton, author of the together, just like the true court Shoppers at Court Day also Lancaster Playhouse, 361 Chesa- the Rappahannock Foundation popular series that began with donk’s days of the past, for all kinds of will fi nd dozens of artisan peake Drive, White Stone. for the Arts who donated a grant, “A is for Alibi,” and giving a Second 2014 commerce and entertainment.” booths with paintings, photog- Performances will continue at the Lancaster Players, who pro- keynote speech to the 850 Talent Showcase Court Day opens with the raphy, sewing, embroidery, doll 7 p.m. Saturday, April 5, and 2 vide the venue, and by Nunn who conference attendees. Sat., April 12th - 8 p.m. Star-Spangled Banner, in a trib- clothes, woodwork, stained p.m. Sunday, April 6. Tickets are donates her time to direct. Parks is currently on tour ute to the 200th anniversary of glass, jewelry, hair accesso- $5 for adults and $3 for children. our national anthem. Lancaster ries, scarves, blankets, pon- For reservations, call 435-0803 or High School band director chos, ornaments, soaps, home email [email protected]. 17’ O’Day Day Sailer III 1989 Robbie Spiers will then give a fragrances, and more. Some Some 30 children, ages fi ve to Trailer has new lights. 4HP outboard, roller jib, short talk about the song’s ori- vendors continue traditional 16 will perform in the show, said gins in the War of 1812. Later, art forms, like Billie Letts who director Rebecca Nunn. Olivia standing rigging in excellent shape, from 11 a.m. to noon and 1 to 2 draws and cuts personalized Fearing, 10, will play the role of centerboard. Stored inside in the winter. p.m., the group Ampersand will silhouettes. Others, like jewelry Alice. perform lively tunes from the designer Lily Swann, create Kristi Duryea is the stage man- Titles for boat and trailer. 18th and early 19th centuries. their own modern craft styles. ager, said Nunn. Mei-Li Beane is $3,000. “The festival offers some- Gourmet foods such as the musical director and costumer thing for everyone and it con- wines from Good Luck Cellars with help from the other mothers. tinues to grow every year,” said and goat cheeses from Lovers Eleanor Beane, Emmet Lousbury Burgess (Northern Neck), VA Hart. “This year we have more Retreat Dairy will be for sale and Matthew Spencer along with activities, especially for chil- and Cora Tiggle of Cora’s several mothers decorated the set. 804-453-7033 dren and families. For exam- Kitchen will offer hot conces- Bob Walker and Luke Rawls ple, kids can play with colonial sions. Her menu includes bis- will be at the light board with toys, write with a quill and ink, cuits and sausage for breakfast lots of special lighting and Bruce take photos in period hats and and burgers and crab cakes for Hamilton will provide the sound The Court House Players Present April 3-5 at 8:00 p.m. bonnets, make a family tree, go lunch. The Lancaster Tavern on a museum scavenger hunt, restaurant will be open all day. April 6 at 3:00 p.m. ‘That’s Dancing!’ Thomas Hunter Middle School to be shown 387 Church Street, Mathews The Mathews Film Society Tickets: $17 in advance; $18 at the door; will show the movie “That’s $5 for students and children ages 18 and under Dancing!” at 7 p.m. on Thurs- Tickets available at: day, April 3, on the third fl oor Gloucester: Office Supply, Edgehill Town Center (804-693-4155) of The Halcyon Building at 40 Golden Creations, York River Crossing Shopping Court Street in Mathews Court Center (804-642-1458) House. Admission is free and Mathews: Mathews Pharmacy, 10858 Buckley Hall Rd. open to the public. (804-725-2556) Ray Bolger, Liza Minnelli, Flowers From the Heart, 9290 Buckley Hall Rd. Sammy Davis Jr. and Mikhail (804-725-3020) Middlesex: Coffman’s On The Coast, 10675 Gen. Puller Hwy, Baryshnikov host this MGM- A comedy Hartfield (804-776-7766) produced retrospective of dance Tickets also available online at www.courthouseplayers.org/OnStage.html. in fi lm. Drawing from the MGM by Ken Ludwig For more information, call 804-725-0474 or visit courthouseplayers.org. archives as well as those of other Produced by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. studios, the fi lm debuts the uncut version of Bolger’s “If I Only Had a Brain” number from The Wizard of Oz and includes a slew of other famous dance rou- tines from fi lms such as 42nd Street, Oklahoma, Flashdance, Real . Local . Radio Saturday Night Fever and more.

The Weather Phone 443-4400 Sponsored by King’s Cleaning Service April 3, 2014 • Southside Sentinel • Urbanna, Va.• A9 Beauty and calm of an awakening RAL posts Daffodil experts to be honored spring featured in RAL windows April events Friday by Gloucester Arts on Main Boundlessly energetic and greatly talented describe the The Rappahannock Art On Friday, April 4, starting two artists who share the April League recently announced at 6 p.m. Gloucester Arts on windows at Rappahannock its special events for April. Main (GAMi) will present art- Art League (RAL), said RAL Unless otherwise noted, ists exhibiting the theme for the spokesperson Elaine Tait. all events take place at the month of April, “Garden Art,” For Lancaster resident Lella Studio Gallery, 19 North as well as a presentation by Lee Edwards the many sub- Main Street, Kilmarnock, Brent and Becky Heath of Brent jects painted in acrylics and reported Barbara Pulling. and Becky’s Bulbs. pastels during her long career Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to Brent and Becky Heath rep- as artist and art teacher have 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sat- resent the culmination of over ranged from fl owers and land- urdays. a century of the dedication of scapes to abstracts. Her style? A new exhibit, birds and Brent Heath’s family to the Edwards calls it “strong, real- their habitat, opened April daffodil, starting at the turn of istic and constantly evolving.” 1 and will continue through the 19th century when Brent’s For June Higgins of Weems, “Rose” by Lella Lee Edwards April 26, said Pulling. The grandfather came to Gloucester who paints in oil, acrylic, pastel exhibit will feature original from Brooklyn, Massachu- and watercolor, the variety of her works of art in a variety of setts, and saw the potential of works is no less impressive with mediums by RAL members. a cottage industry in bulbs. He subjects that range from fl ow- The exhibit will be the high- brought wide knowledge of cul- ers to landscapes, portraits and light of a First Friday Recep- tivating the modern hybrid daf- abstracts. tion from 5 to 7 p.m. April fodils that he shared with the Higgins, daughter of a clas- 4. Members and guests are local farmers who helped supply sically-trained painter, said she invited to visit the gallery, dis- him with fl owers and bulbs began to paint seriously as an cuss the works with exhibiting needed for his business to grow. adult as a means of keeping up artists and enjoy the refresh- During the Depression of the with her artist husband Dick, ments. 1920s and 1930s, daffodils were who painted as the couple trav- “Beach Scene” by J. Higgins A monthly Art Forum is popular because you could buy a eled. slated at 1 p.m. April 28. bouquet of daffodils for the same Travel also played an impor- The topic will be RAL’s Got price as a single rose. As Brent’s tant role in Edwards’ artistic life calm of the awakening season. Talent: Rose Nygaard. She grandfather’s business continued Brent and Becky Heath with their favorite street sign. in that it provided the oppor- RAL is a proud affi liate of will demonstrate her experi- to grow, hundreds and hundreds tunity to take art classes in the the Virginia Museum of Fine mental painting process of of farmers in Gloucester and would like to know and, as a its April theme—Garden Art. many duty stations where her Arts and is partially supported applying different shapes Mathews counties were involved teacher, took on the challenge “They are the greenest thumbs husband’s U.S. Marines career by grants from the Virginia and sizes of fabrics, papers, in his business of selling fl owers of overcoming Brent’s opinion in town and have done so much took her and her family. Commission for the Arts, the and acrylic paint to canvas or in the spring and bulbs during that if “People don’t know it, to enrich Gloucester and many For the April windows, one of National Endowment of the paper. the year. they aren’t interested.” Over other communities in the coun- Edwards’ choices is a glorious Arts, the Rappahannock Foun- Nygaard has a bachelor’s in Brent Heath bought the busi- time, she has succeeded in try,” said a GAMi spokesperson. depiction of a rose with soft pink dation for the Arts and the studio art and a master’s of fi ne ness, which was called the “Daf- getting this information from “They have many awards for petals at the center deepening in River Counties Community arts from the American Uni- fodil Mart” in 1972, and in 1979 Brent, writing several books their generosity and contribu- color at the fl ower’s perimeter. Foundation. versity in Washington, D.C. he convinced Becky, who was and made Power Point presen- tions as well as their pioneer Among Higgins selections for The RAL Studio Gallery “What an opportunity to teaching one of his children, to tations that have enabled Brent work in research and develop- the windows is a serene water is at 19 North Main Street in learn about the beauty of join him in the business as well to travel extensively in the U.S., ment of newer and better hybrid scene that suggests the quiet Kilmarnock. abstract,” said Pulling. as marry him. From that point sharing his knowledge about daffodil bulbs. on, Brent and Becky’s Bulbs the daffodil as well as promot- Gloucester Arts on Main grew at an exponential rate under ing Becky’s philosophy that invites the public to attend Easter egg hunt planned at Taber Park in Urbanna the administrative guidance of people should “play” in their this First Friday event as “we Becky, whose title in the busi- gardens—not “work”—bene- honor these two outstanding Urbanna Baptist Church, ferent ages. Egg hunters from from Urbanna Baptist Church ness is “Director of Harmony” fi ting from the contact with the Gloucester citizens as well Immanuel Baptist Church, toddlers through fi fth grade will and Pastor Hyung Moon from in recognition of her degree in good bacteria in the soil. Brent as the art which man has cre- and Urbanna United Meth- be welcomed. The fi nders of the Urbanna United Method- music. She often quotes Confu- and Becky’s Bulbs are grown in ated to complement the beauty odist Church will host an few “golden eggs” will receive ist Church. Members from cius, who said, “I buy rice for my the Netherlands today as well of nature’s creation,” said the Easter egg hunt at Taber Park special recognition. There will Immanuel Baptist Church will stomach and I buy a fl ower for as creating networks and teams spokesperson. on Rappahannock Avenue in be prizes donated by local busi- add to the performances. something to live for.” in the U.S. and the Netherlands The evening will be com- Urbanna on Saturday, April 12, nesses. Bags for the collection Should the weather not coop- Brent, being the third genera- which have proven essential to pleted with Scott Varney’s from 10 a.m.-noon. of eggs will be supplied, or egg erate, the hunt will move into tion of Heaths to be associated their success. acoustic guitar music, Shari’s A large number of brightly- hunters may bring their own the fellowship hall at Urbanna with daffodils, had acquired When you go to Brent and paninis and a cash bar. colored plastic eggs fi lled with baskets. United Methodist Church on a vast amount of knowledge Becky’s Bulbs today, you are Gloucester Arts on Main treats will be hidden in the In addition, there will be Marston Avenue. about the fl ower—much of going to a “campus” dedicated also invites the public to see park by event volunteers. The entertainment provided by the “Come join your friends which was in his genes. Becky to educating people about the the artists on display in the gal- eggs will be hidden with vary- puppeteers from Urbanna Bap- and neighbors to celebrate the realized that this was valu- cycles of water and natural fer- lery from noon-6 p.m., Tuesday ing degrees of concealment to tist Church, and music and sing- joys of spring!” said an event able information which people tilizer in nature as well as the through Saturday. Activities accommodate children of dif- ing with Pastor Jonathan Davis spokesperson. benefi ts of contact with nature’s at Gloucester Arts on Main are energy. Becky has developed partially supported by the Vir- a “teaching garden” with 13 ginia Commission for the Arts themes that show the benefi ts of and the National Endowment gardening using natural fertil- for the Arts. August 2013 • FREE Fall/Holiday 2013 • FREE izers that don’t destroy the eco- Gloucester Arts on Main Places to go and things Places to go and things to do in the Northern Neck to do in the Northern Neck system. is at 6580-B Main Street in and Middle Peninsula September 2013 • FREE and Middle Peninsula Places to go and things That is why Brent and Becky Gloucester. Call 804-824-9464 to do in the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula Heath are Gloucester Arts on or visit www.gloucesterarts.org Main’s Guests of Honor for for more information. ‘Stuck on a Name’ band nominated for awards The local band “Stuck On To vote, visit http://virgini- A Name” has been nominated areggaeawards.com. 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Stormont Road; Urbanna Harbor balance the FY15 budget. know where the last dollars will HOA will clean Urbanna Road; in Mathews Walker indicated Tuesday go that they will spend, and we If you have not yet marked is litter free.” Deltaville Community Associa- that the revenue generated need to know that. Saturday, April 12, on your cal- Orange bags from VDOT will tion will clean areas in Deltaville; The Court House Play- ($215,00) by an extra penny on “Raising taxes is to fund the endar, there is plenty of time be delivered to groups contacting Kilmer’s Point/Cedar Point HOA ers will present “Leading the increase could be used for least valuable dollars in the to do so. All in Middlesex (and the committee ahead of time by will clean Remlik Drive and Ladies,” a comedy by Ken much-needed county capital budget,” he said. “The impor- beyond) are invited and encour- emailing (keepmiddlesexbeauti- sections of Old Virginia Street; Ludwig, at 8 p.m. on Thurs- improvements tant things are going to be aged to participate in the county- [email protected]) or Facebook neighbors on Zion Branch Road day through Saturday, April Budget discussion funded. We can no longer say wide clean-up day. Participants (Keep Middlesex Beautiful). The will clean that area; Water View 3-5, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Most of the increase in edu- that everything in the school will create their own group of committee asks that you send residents will meet at the Water April 6, at Thomas Hunter cation costs has been caused by and county budget is a priority cleaners, or join one of many contact information for the group View Firehouse to team up; and Middle School at 387 Church the county’s high wealth index, and we can’t cut anything. The that have already volunteered to organizer and the road that will the Friends of Wilton Cove will Street in Mathews. known as the State Composite departments should be setting take on roads badly in need of be cleaned. Bags also will be clean in their area. Tickets are $17 in advance Index (SCI), a formula used to priorities and we need to know cleaning. Most work will be in available on the morning of April Members of the KMB Com- and $18 at the door. Students determine a county’s ability to what we can cut.” the morning but organizers on 12 in the vacant lot at Lord Mott mittee—Phil Mullins, Bill and children age 18 and pay for their own school system. LeBoeuf noted the school the Keep Middlesex Beautiful Road and Old Virginia Street, Shuman, Vivian Dwyer, Kathy under are admitted for $5. The SCI chart has Middlesex system has a $10,000 line item (KMB) Committee plan for each across from Town Bridge Road. Swinehart, Carol King and Advance tickets are avail- ranked 13th in wealth in Vir- to purchase paper for copying group to set their own time to Each group will be asked to Celane Roden—will be avail- able at Coffman’s On The ginia. Middlesex’s highly-val- machines. “We are not going meet and clean. deliver their fi lled bags to one of able to answer questions or Coast in Hartfield; Office ued waterfront property is one to cut a teacher or a sheriff’s According to a committee the county convenience stations, provide additional logistical Supply, and Golden Creations of the main factors in determin- deputy that we need to keep spokesperson, “This event is not which are located in Saluda, information about the day’s in Gloucester; Mathews ing this wealth. paper,” he said. a large gathering in one loca- Hartfi eld and Deltaville. activities. The KMB Face- Pharmacy and Flowers From In other school systems across Walker said the school board tion to celebrate roadside clean- The list of groups adopting a book will be updated with any the Heart in Mathews; and at the state, the average amount of is in charge of determining ing. It will be a fl urry of activity road for the day is growing. Thus new information. In addition, www.courthouseplayers.org/ state aid is $5,900 per student; what should or should not be throughout the county. Celebra- far, the Kiwanis Club will clean requests for more information OnStage.html. however, because of its high cut from its budget. “What we tion time comes every time we Town Bridge Road; the Rotary can be emailed to keepmiddle- Call 804-725-0474 for SCI, Middlesex receives only consider a priority, the school drive on a road in our county that Club will clean Dirt Bridge Road; [email protected]. more information. $3,000 per student. board may not,” he said. “They The county has histori- can say they need the paper cally had lower real estate tax more than the teacher.” rates than other jurisdictions In support of raising the (Continued from page A1) because the value of property rate to 5 cents, Walker said Topping woman copes with rare disease . . . in Middlesex is higher, which the school system held public generates more money from hearings and meetings on their in some life-long challenges. said. each penny on the tax rate when budget and the need for a 3-cent Modern medicine, family sup- “I do have a few limitations but there “I just don’t want people to compared to counties with tax hike, and hardly anyone port, a strong belief in God and be afraid of me because of my lower real estate values. attended. This, he said, dem- “a never give up attitude” have are multiple things I can do, and I’m brace and mask,” she said. “I Walker said state offi cials onstrated little opposition for a helped keep her alive and func- do have a few limitations but have little sympathy for Mid- higher tax rate. tioning. not contagious. No one can catch there are multiple things I can dlesex’s plight in having to pay Mansfi eld said that he When she was young, Jones what I have.” —Ann Jones, Topping do, and I’m not contagious. No so much more in local funds “assumed” the school system was six feet tall, played basket- one can catch what I have.” per student, because the county cut low priority items when it ball and caught a lot of colds, Jones said she is so fortunate has had the ability to generate suggested a need for a 3-cent but was totally aware of the a job at Ukrops in Richmond “They don’t judge me. They to have had an understanding more money by raising rates tax hike. “They could have extreme seriousness of her where she worked at the cor- love me just the way I am.” parent and sister. “Because to levels comparable to other asked for 4 cents,” he said. condition. When she graduated porate headquarters in Short Jones usually wears a sur- of my illness, I was not able counties. However, Mansfi eld agreed from VCU in 1985, her mother Pump. geon’s mask when in public to have children, which was During a presentation on the that a 10% jump in the real told her that the doctor had pre- When she was 40 she went to protect herself from germs very sad to me because I love budget, Hartfi eld District super- estate tax rate in one year is dicted she’d have a short life. into the hospital for three and this has caused concern in children. But my sister and visor Bob LeBoeuf said the “tax a “bit much” for county tax- “The blessed God chose months and when she came out some area establishments. brother-in-law have twins and rate does not mean anything”; payers, and he and LeBoeuf my Mom as my mother,” said she had lost her home, her pets, “One of the people in a local they have shared them with me it is the value of the land that appeared to be in favor of Jones. “She never held me her job and her independence. store thought I was going to in every way possible. There is counts. Even with the county’s lowering the proposed 5-cent back and let me live my life. The disease had progressed rob them,” she said. “At a thrift no gift in the world any better low real estate tax rates, the increase. She did not cripple me. She let to where her doctor gave her store in Kilmarnock they told than my niece and nephew, revenues generated by the rates Last year, the county raised me grow in every aspect. When an ultimatum—either move me that wearing a mask in Savannah and Jacob,” she said. have risen 67% from 2004 to real estate taxes by 2 cents. I was sick, I had a protocol that in with your mother or into a public was against the law and As for a life full of pain and 2013, said LeBoeuf. Hurd, Jessie and Mansfi eld we had to follow, but when I nursing home. “That’s when asked me to leave.” illness, she said, “We’ve made He said most jurisdictions voted for that tax hike, and was well the sky was the limit. I moved to Middlesex,” said A woman in the doctor’s the best of it.” fi nd a way to split the tax former county supervisor Carl- She never held me back from Jones. offi ce thought Jones’ condition Jones is now 52 years old. burden with businesses and ton Revere and Miller voted things.” Her life has been enriched was contagious and “threw a “I’ve had a lot of good years other aspects of the community, against. From the age of 3, Jones here as she works with youth fi t. A nurse and a doctor had to that the doctors said I would but Middlesex historically has Walker has contended that began to have multiple infec- in the Harmony Grove Baptist come into the waiting room to not have, and I thank God for placed the bulk of the burden on the county tax rate has been too tions and every time she caught Church after-school program. calm the woman down,” Jones that!” she said. the owners of homes and land. low from time to time, and this a cold it quickly developed into “I’ve found that adults are not LeBoeuf said school enroll- is another reason taxpayers may pneumonia. She was diagnosed as open-minded about my dis- ment is down 7% from 2010 see rising rates in the future. with the disease at Duke Medi- ease as the children,” she said. to 2014, yet local spending on Several years ago, the county cal Center, but it took her 2.5 “The kids asked me the fi rst day Dobe Run schools has risen 18% since had to raise the rate by 9 cents, years to get into a medical about my back brace, the sur- CANINE BOARDING, 2010. School spending is the highest in history, to cover program there. When she was geon’s mask I wear when I’m DAYCARE & GROOMING increasing and “we are being revenue miscalculations by its 15 years old, Jones spent 63 out in public, and the Peripher- asked to spend 10% more. I’m administrative staff. “We are days in St. Mary’s Hospital in ally Inserted Central Catheter Open Monday – Sunday very reluctant to do that.” still trying to catch up from all Richmond. “When I was sick (PICC) lines in my arm that Saluda District supervisor that,” he said. for long periods in the hospi- run to veins near my heart, 8am to 5pm Pete Mansfi eld reminded LeB- Walker was not the county tal I spent several Christmases which they could see when I oeuf that the increase in school administrator when this miscal- there and my family decorated wear a short-sleeve shirt. 804-758-4360 spending was “forced on us by culation took place. my entire room. We even had “After that fi rst day, they the state cutting local funds to A copy of the proposed Christmas dinner in the hospi- were satisfi ed that I was all 11935 Tidewater Trail • Saluda the county and the increase in budget is on page B7 inside this tal.” right to be around,” she said. the SCI.” issue of the Southside Sentinel. When she was 35, Jones LeBoeuf explained his posi- It is also open for public review said she went from being 6 tion by saying the schools and at the county administrator’s feet tall to 5 feet, 3 inches “in county agencies report on the offi ce in Saluda and online at a moment.” While getting into most important things that www.co.middlesexva.us. the shower, she felt something “weird and then a sharp pain.” She had eight compressed ver- tebrae. “I went to put my pants ‘Golden Memories’ featured on and they were nine inches too long,” she said. The 2014 April exhibit at the open Saturday and Sunday, She is stooped over today Gloucester Museum of History April 5-6, and each Saturday in and has to wear a back brace. will feature “Golden Memo- April from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. “I have a severe case of osteo- ries,” which will trace the his- The museum is in the his- porosis, which makes by bones tory of the daffodil industry in toric Botetourt Building at weak, brittle and easily break- Gloucester through displays on 6539 Main Street and is open able,” she said. the fi rst fl oor of the museum Monday through Saturday Jones graduated from VCU and will feature a complete from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Admission with a degree in education. She collection of the county daf- is free. For information and taught for a year but was sick fodil posters in the basement. tours, call 693-1234 or email most of the time as the class- The basement exhibit will be [email protected]. room was not conducive to her disease. After teaching, she got

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