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The Richmond Youth Peace Project will present its sixth annual youth Edu-concert, Generation Dream 2011, honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Two performances are scheduled again this year. The fi rst show will be held at the VCU Singleton Performing Arts Center, 922 Park Avenue, on Sunday, Jan. 30,at 4 p.m. A second per-formance will be held at the Richmond Public Library’s main branch, 101 E. Frank-lin Street, on Friday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. A $5 donation is requested to help defray expenses of the Sunday afternoon show. Admission to the Friday evening show, which is part of February’s First Friday event, is free.

Generation Dream 2011 features youth perform-ers from throughout the Richmond metropolitan area, along with several adult professional artists. This uplifting 90-minute, multi-cultural variety show is built around the themes of peace, non-violence and social jus-tice. The show is part of Liv-ing the Dream, Richmond’s annual commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Generation Dream will include percussion by Drums No Guns; dance from Ezibu Muntu and Ngoma Dance Comanies, Taaluma, and Appomattox Regional Governor’s School; classical Indian music and dance from Apsaras Arts Dance Group and Gandharva North America; vocal performances by Off the Cuff, Kristin Ol-son, Sarafi na Woerdings and

Generation Dream 2011 to honor Dr. King’s legacy

BY ELIZABETH [email protected]

County staff presented an overview of the countywide draft Comprehensive Plan to nearly 100 residents attending the Midlothian District meeting on

Thursday, Jan. 13. The 200-plus page document outlining the county’s vision and policies, such as land use, housing and economic development, was developed over a 20-month process through a voluntary 33-member steering committee working with consultants and county staff. The draft was forwarded this week to the county’s Planning Commission for review.

Midlothian District Supervisor Dan Gecker noted that the proposed plan is more of a vi-sion-based document that would serve how the county would grow in the future as well as

identifi es the county’s resources that already ex-ist. Gecker added that the initial draft is ready for public review. He added that the community’s feedback about the proposed plan, either doing too little or not enough, is a normal reaction as well as imperative to the process. “It’s like writing a novel by committee,” Gecker said.

The county’s current Comprehensive Plan was adopted by the Board of Supervisors over two decades ago. Since then, the plan has grown into fi ve countywide and 22 area plans. Gecker cautioned that the current area plans should not be dismissed. “I know a lot of people in this room that have spent a lot of time working on these area plans,” he said. “What makes those plans unique, as far as I’m concerned, needs to be incorporated into whatever it is we end up doing.”

The county’s Comprehensive Plan Manager Barbara Fassett explained during the presen-tation that the draft document offers a new implementation process, identifi ed as an “Action Matrix,” which is missing from the current plans. The current draft contains 147 actions divided among fi ve categories related to ordi-nances, studies, internal operations, community outreach, and maintaining the general fl exibility of the document. Each recommended action is linked with the plan’s goals, a timeframe, and identifi es the departmental responsibilities.

The audience voiced concerns about public facilities, transportation, and economic devel-opment. Staff emphasized that that proposed plan frames time tables as well as guidelines to promote the plan’s vision and policies, which are

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PHOTO BY ELIZABETH FARINAMidlothian Planning Commissioner Reuben Waller encouraged residents in attendence to remain involved in the Comprehensive Plan process.

Draft plan sparks concerns

Precision performance

Eighty-fi ve twirlers competed in the Snow Festival, a baton twirling competition, pre-sented by The Royalettes Baton Corps, held at Cosby High School on Satur-day, Jan. 15.

Competitors from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Florida and Japan showed National Baton Twirling Associa-tion judges his or her routines, which were scored on skill and technique. Read the full story online at www.midlothianexchange.com.

RIGHT: Jackie Dorsch goes for a behind-the-back catch of the baton during her routine performance at the Snow Festival. The annual twirling competition is a sanctioned competition with age-based categories ranging from kindergarten to college level. University of Virginia Feature Twirler Audrey Johnston, a graduate of Cosby High School ('08), won the Snow Queen College Division. Complete results online.

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BY ERICA TERRINICapital News Service

Hundreds of pro-gun advocates rallied at the Capitol on Monday, Jan. 17 to ease fi rearm regula-tions in Virginia. At the same time, they bemoaned the recent shooting rampage in Arizona.

The rally was organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League, which supports 23 pro-gun pro-posals pending before the General Assembly.

Delegate Brenda Pogge, R-Yorktown, spoke at the rally. She is carrying a bill to grant civil im-munity to employers who let workers store their fi rearms in their private vehicles while parked on company property.

Speakers at the rally commented on the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson, Ariz., where U.S. Rep. Gabri-elle Giffords was meeting with constituents. A gun-man killed six people, including a federal judge, and wounded 12 others, including Giffords.

“What happened in Arizona was despicable,” said Delegate Scott Lingamfelter, R-Woodbridge.

“Whether you agree with politicians with one party or another, when someone is standing there working hard to enjoy and reinforce the First PHOTO BY BOB BROWN/MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE

A pink handle on her Glock was one of the weapons carried by one of the people at a Virginia Citizens Defense League rally at the State Capitol in Richmond on Monday, Jan. 17. Many different groups were lobbying legislators during the observed holiday.

Bon Air resident Chris Semtner is one of three art-ists with new solo exhibi-tions to open at artspace Gallery, located at Zero East 4th Street in Richmond on Jan. 28 from 7-10 p.m. and continue through Feb. 20.

Semtner will be showing "Exquisite Deformities" in the Frable Gallery. Semtner, who is also the curator at the Edgar Allen Poe Museum in Richmond, is a Virginia artist with an international exhibi-tion record. His paintings are included in public and private collections including the University of Maryland Department of Entomology and the City of Baltimore's Poe House and Museum.

"These paintings encour-age the viewer to see the hu-man face in new ways by rip-ping faces from their original contexts and reassembling into dramatic composi-tions evoking basic human impulses ranging from desire to terror," he said.

With infl uences as eclectic as Art Nouveau, 17th Centu-ry Dutch painting, and 1930s horror fi lms, Semtner im-bues his works with a sense of mystery and foreboding. He has also taught a class on Poe at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Midlothian.

Also, Claire Feng will exhibit "Kids don't Know" in the Main Gallery. Richmond resident John MacLellan will be showing "Photographs, Remixed" in the Helena Davis Gallery.

courtesy of artspace Gallery

Local artist's works on exhibit

Pro-Gun rally takes aim at fi rearm rules

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interrelated throughout the document. Another concern addressed is how the draft Comprehensive Plan, if and when adopted, would provide specifi c guidelines as is outlined in current area plans. Fassett stated that the specifi c de-tails would be undertaken in a focus strategy that is outlined in the Action Matrix (Action Code A-S 8), which is not adopted as part of the Comprehensive Plan.

“The focus strategy would be undertaken after the draft plan would be adopted,” she said. “What would happen is, in 27 centers, we will handle putting together focus strategies; we will go out, we will get citizen input, we will work on the details. It will not be cookie-cutter all over the county.”

The focus strategy team would be comprised of a long-range planner, a zon-ing planner, a landscape architect, a traffi c engi-neer, and a member from the economic development department. “The kind of suggestions that come through will be based on already adopted policies. We will monitor it and come back in three years for review,” she said.

Gecker cautioned that he did not agree with the county staff, and that the area plans should be addressed before adoption of the Comprehensive Plan. “I’m not sure that I would be in a posi-tion to support even adopting broad guidelines before we have the appropri-ate language that protects those things that we worked so hard for over all these years,” he said.

The Planning Commission will now begin a six-month review of the draft before forwarding its recommendations

to the Board of Supervisors. Midlothian District Planning Commissioner Reuben Waller added that the arduous process will not be a light task for the commis-sion. He said that reviewing the policies with recommended changes rather than tearing the document apart would be the prudent direction for the commis-sion. Waller also noted that the timeline is essential in having the draft move forward to the Board of Supervisors during this election year. “I believe we will make our best effort to send it up to the board,” Waller said. “We don’t want to transfer this … to another commis-sion because it may not be fair and they may not know where we came from [with recommendations].”

To view the draft Comprehensive Plan, visit www.chesterfi eld.gov/cp

Meetings set for review of draft

Comprehensive Plan

All district meetings begin at 7 p.m.

Jan. 20: Bermuda District meeting at C. E. Curtis Elementary School, 3600 West Hun-

dred Road (23831)

Jan. 24:Clover Hill District meeting w at Mo-nacan High School, 11501 Smoketree Drive

(23236)

Two meetings will be held for the Matoaca District based on its geographical size.

Jan. 27: First Matoaca District meeting at Ma-toaca High School, 17700 Longhouse Lane

(23803)Jan. 31: Second Matoaca District meeting at Cosby High School,14300 Fox Club Parkway

(23112)

An additional meeting will be held on Jan. 29: from 1 - 3 p.m. at the Central Library, located

at 9501 Lori Road (23832)

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COURTESY PHOTOStudents prepare for Miss Providence Pageant. From left back row: Morgan Talbert, Megan Overfi eld, Savannah Zetts, She'lah Coleman, Tyana Lambert, T'onna Kizzie, Stacy Bowles, Synclaire Garnett. Front row: Erica White, Kendall Cole, Cassandra Morris, Kiarra Wall, Ricssy Ventura

On Friday, Jan. 21, the Providence Middle School auditorium will be dressed as a winter wonderland as 14 young ladies take the stage in the Miss Providence Pageant. The annual event, in its fourth year now, is sponsored by the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FC-CLA), with proceeds benefi tting the Providence Middle School FCCLA chapter. Sixth-graders Megan Overfi eld, Morgan Talbert, Ricssy Ventura, and Kiarra Wall along with seventh-graders Stacy Bowles, Kendall Cole, Brittany Conti, Synclaire Garnett, and eighth-graders She’lah Coleman, T’onna Kizzie, Tyana Lambert, Savannah Zetts, and Erica White will compete for the title of Miss Providence Middle School 2011. For two months the ladies have been coached in communications, appropriate dress, and professional presence by Providence teachers Venida Adams and Sandra Judge-Harden as well as former Miss Providence 2009, Sarah Presgraves, and Miss Chesterfi eld County 2010, Renee McDowell.

All contestants will compete in the business, formal, and interview categories. Eleven contes-tants will compete in the talent portion, and nine

will participate in the casual wear category. The top four fi nalists will move to the onstage inter-view, where Miss Providence 2011 will be chosen. Four guest judges will be joining the Providence Middle School community to determine the winner. Reigning Miss Providence 2010 Anessa Nesmith will take one last walk on the snowfl ake covered stage before passing on the cherished title.

“The best part about the pageant is seeing the young girls transform from being shy, lacking self-esteem and being afraid to talk to becoming a new self-confi dent person. I get goose-bumps each year the night of the pageant as they walk on stage smiling and woo the judges and audience with all of the practiced routines they learned from the pageant process,” said Pageant Director and FCCLA adviser Venida Adams.

The evening promises to be full of delight as these young ladies debut their poise, eloquence, and confi dence. Tickets can be purchased from Providence Middle School during student lunches. The cost of admission is $5 for adults and $3 children ages 6-17.

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Fourteen to participate in pageant

CRIME REPORTAll data are based on the publicly available Chesterfi eld County Police Department daily arrest and crime releases and are reported according to Federal Incident Based Report-ing rules.

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Jan. 913900 block of Hull Street RoadPassenger side window broken out of victim’s disabled Ford Mustang while parked at the location; items removed from the trunk.

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Jan. 92000 block of Huguenot RoadDriver’s side window broken out, trunk partially pried open and the lock drilled out of victim’s Chevrolet Malibu while at the location. Property was taken from inside the vehicle.

23235

Jan. 81500 block of N. Bon View DriveProperty removed from victim’s unlocked vehicle, while parked in driveway.

Jan. 91400 block of N. Bon View DriveItems taken from several un-locked vehicles in the area of the address.

23236

Jan. 1110400 block of Natick CourtWhen one of the victims answered a knock at the door, the suspect forced his way inside. The suspect tied the victims up, covered their heads with clothing, and then removed items from the home.

23832

Jan. 107600 block of Iron Bridge RoadFront license plate missing from victim’s 1994 Dodge Ram truck.

10300 block of Iron Bridge RoadItems stolen from victim’s 1997 Ford Taurus.

Jan. 99900 block of Sumemrford CourtProperty stolen from victim’s unlocked Land Rover.

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Houda El Joundi; instrumen-tal music by pianist Daniel Liebovic; a rap performance by Minista-V; a dramatic monologue from Haseena Abdur-Rahman; the Albert Hill Middle School step team; and original spoken word poetry by Slam Dominion and members of the Rich-mond Youth Peace Project (RYPP).

Generation Dream is a production of the Richmond Youth Peace Project, a pro-gram of the Richmond Peace Education Center and Drums No Guns. This year’s show is funded by the individual and faith community support-

ers of the Richmond Peace Education Center, Virginia Commonwealth University sponsorship by the Depart-ment of Educational Leader-ship and Project All and the VCU Department of African American Studies. Special thanks to Metro Sound and Music for providing musical instruments for the perfor-mance. To make a fi nancial contribution to this program, visit www.rpec.org and fol-low the “donate” link. The Richmond Peace Education Center is located at 400 W. 32nd St., Richmond (23225).

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Which teams will be a match-up in the Super Bowl and who wins it all?

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

BY ELIZABETH [email protected]

Virginia Senator Steve Martin (R-11th District) intro-duced Senate Bill No. 812 that, if passed, would remove the names from salary records requested through the Freedom of Information Act. The proposed legislation may appear to have the intent to protect the privacy of individuals employed in public-sector positions. Instead, the proposed legislation fails to recognize who truly is the employer.

Public records are just that – public. The function of public records is to keep a spotlight

on the inner workings of our government. It serves the people – taxpayers or not – within our laws, ordinances, and even regulations. Federal, local and state govern-ments are not privately-funded corporations, which the latter are rightfully focused on profi tability for its inves-tors and owners.

One of the big items, if not the biggest, found in any government’s departmental budgets are the costs associ-ated to personnel – training, retirement, benefi ts, and the paycheck. These positions, if not vacant, are real people. They are not just a number on a human resources’ list. They are public servants that have “at-will” accepted employment with the public entity. And just like any private-sector position, his or her manager or supervisor should know the individual’s salary.

Once upon a time, in January 2008, Chesterfi eld County posted its organizational chart listing “Ches-terfi eld Citizens” at the top. Grant it, you can only be a citizen of a country, but the implied importance is that the elected boards, department staff, and public schools

are the “employees” of its residents. Isn’t it important that the residents be informed?

If you quickly answered “names should be redacted into nonsensical numbers”, then maybe a quick trip to Bell, Calif. may change your mind. Bell, a suburban town with a population under 40,000, had three employees that were being paid over $1.5 million a year, according to CNN. The L.A. Times story broke last summer and the trio ultimately resigned. Two of the three were indicted with six other town offi cials. The employees’ identities as well as their position were immediately known and left no room for speculation about who was receiving the ridiculous amount of pay in the small town.

Transparency is necessary. What if such a scenario ever happened in a locality

that equaled the population size of Chesterfi eld? Not only does transparency add one more measure against fi scal abuse, it eliminates any confusion or speculation on who is receiving the salary. Sure Senator Martin’s bill provides listing the employee’s position and salary, but would you be able to identify whether it was a teacher or an administrator in the county’s 64 public schools if a FOIA inquiry returned values such as “FTE#34 -- $56,000?” Now expand a FOIA salary inquiry for a comparison to the rest of the Commonwealth with a value that just states “FTE II -- $278,000.” The confusion and specula-tion would grow like a fungus.

It would be interesting to know on whose behalf Sena-tor Martin has proposed such legislation. It is detrimen-tal to the at-large constituents he serves to limit access to information that allows an honest assessment of where governmental priorities are directed.

Public records are just that- public

Amendment, nobody has the right to ruin lives like that despicable person.”

Lingamfelter then led a moment of silence for the victims in Arizona, where a 22-year-old Tucson man has been charged with murder and attempted murder.

Phillip Van Cleave, presi-dent of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, said the Tuc-son shootings were regret-table. He said the incident might have been avoided if a gun-carrying citizen had been on the scene.

“The truth of the mat-ter is the American citizen is more often than not the fi rst responder in America,” Van Cleave said. “Standing in this crowd, we probably have 200 fi rearms present … This is one of the safest places in Richmond right now.”

Van Cleave and his organi-zation support several bills that would make it easier to own and carry guns. For instance, Senate Bill 1250, sponsored by Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel, R-Win-chester, would prohibit any state agency from enacting gun control without legisla-

tive permission.The General Assembly

also is considering several bills that would regulate guns more closely. For instance, HB 1669, sponsored by Delegate Jennifer McClel-lan, D-Richmond, would require criminal background checks before people can buy fi rearms at gun shows. (Such checks already are required for gun purchases made at stores.)

Additionally, HB 1600, proposed by Delegate Mamye BaCote, D-Newport News, would allow libraries to ban guns.

Delegate Patrick Hope, D-Arlington, is the chief patron for HB 1813, which would ban fi rearms from the Capitol and the General As-sembly Building. Guns would have to be stored at the door; legislators would be exempt from the law.

Later Monday, advocates for gun control – led by the Virginia Center for Public Safety – also gathered at the Capitol. They held a vigil for the victims of gun violence and commemorated the legacy of the assassinated civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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With the Virginia General Assembly starting this past week, it seems ap-propriate that I commence my reports to you on the actions of your state legislature. Being the so-called “short session” this year, the legislative pace will be rapid. Adjournment will be here before we know it.

Originally, sessions in these odd-numbered years were intended simply to “tweak” the two-year budget. Over the years it has evolved into a full-blown session with consider-ation of legislation on a host of topics. And the “tweaks” to the budget have become even more important. In this extremely volatile economy, the careful apportionment of scarce resources requires the greatest diligence.

In late November our Sen-ate Committee on Finance received an analysis by the respected Virginia econo-mist, Dr. Chris Chmura. She reported to us that while the economy seems to have bottomed out, the re-covery will be slow and fragile. Events beyond our control could impede economic growth – the behavior of

international investors, reductions in federal spending in Northern Virginia and Tidewater, and the impact of the

federal health care program, to name a few.

That very cau-tious optimism was repeated by Secre-tary of Finance Ric Brown in his De-cember presentation to the Assembly. He calls it “a weak eco-nomic expansion.” I agree. There are still 138,000 fewer Virginians with a job today than at the peak of employment in 2008.

Many of Gover-nor McDonnell’s proposed changes in the budget make sense. He is striving to make the most of limited resources,

and I will be helping him in many instances. However, I have never seen a budget proposed by any governor of either political party that could not be improved upon.

Last year I was one of six senators who voted against the fi nal version of the budget because of the excessive reliance on underfunding the Virginia Retirement System. I will cast just as critical an eye on each item in the budget this year.

Of course there will many be other issues facing us – the proposed privati-zation of ABC operations, how to fund transportation, dealing with illegal immigration, expanding opportunities for college for our young people – you name it. Recently I mailed thousands of constituent questionnaires. If you are a resident of the 10th District and did not receive one, please go to www.senatorjohnwatkins.com and fi ll one out online.

The challenges facing us never seem to diminish; but neither do the oppor-tunities for progress and improvement. With your guidance and suggestions, 2011 will be no different. Together we can meet the challenges and seize the opportunities. I look forward to hear-ing from you in the weeks ahead.

John C. WatkinsSenate of Virginia

10th District

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... the econ-omy seems to have bottomed out, the recovery will be slow and fragile.

General Assembly faces new challenges in 2011

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PHOTO BY PATRICK DOBBSManchester's Morgan Harris shoots over the outstretched arm of Clover Hill center Summer Curtis.

Cavaliers' size no match for Lancers' speedBY JIM [email protected]

The contrast couldn’t have been more striking: Clover Hill’s 6-2 center, Summer Curtis, standing in the paint with one arm raised, hoping to receive a pass while being surround-ed by Manchester players whose heads barely reached her shoulders.

More often than not, though, that pass never came Curtis’ way.

Knowing they had little chance of stopping Curtis once she caught the ball near the basket, Manchester’s ultra-quick guards made life miserable for Clover Hill’s perim-eter players. The Lancers pressured every dribble, harassed every pass and capitalized on 21 Cava-lier turnovers in a 57-41 Dominion District victory Friday night.

“We have to rely on our speed,” Manchester coach Jerry Gibbs said after his team improved to 4-5 over-all and 4-4 in district play. “We try to put pressure on the perimeter and make it diffi cult for them to make the entry pass.”

Curtis still fi nished with a game-high 18 points and seven blocked shots for Clover Hill (3-7, 1-6), but as Gibbs noted, “her points came mostly from her effort on the boards, not through their offense.”

Jessica Clanton led a balanced Manchester at-tack with 16 points. Sydnie Glenn added 14 and guards Morgan Harris and Chanel Wilkins chipped in 11 apiece. Surprisingly, for a team that doesn’t start any-one taller than 5-8, three Lancers (Harris, Glenn and Clanton) fi nished with double-doubles after pulling down 10 rebounds apiece.

But it was Manchester’s aggressive full-court press and swarming half-court man-to-man defense that made the biggest difference in overcoming an early 7-0 Clover Hill lead.

“If we can make the defense move once or twice and get the ball inside, we will score,” Clover Hill coach Jim Wahrman said. “The pressure they put on the ball and the trapping

Brown seals Titans' fate

BY JIM [email protected]

Monacan's boys basketball team opened the door for a Cosby comeback by missing four consecutive free throws in the last two minutes of Wednesday night's Dominion District game.

Anthony Brown slammed it shut.

With the visiting Chiefs clinging to a one-point lead with 19 seconds left, Brown made fi ve of six free throws as Monacan posted a 59-54 victory.

"He's a three-year varsity player and he has a lot of experience," said Monacan coach Ralph Brown. "We look to him in those situations because we have confi dence he can make the free throws."

It didn't look like Mona-can would need any last-minute heroics when Shawn Graves hit one of two free throws on back-to-back pos-sessions, giving the Chiefs a 54-47 lead.

At that point, Cosby had missed its last eight fi eld-goal attempts and gone scoreless

PHOTO BY KENNY MOOREMonacan's Maleek Myers splits two Cosby defenders to score two of his 18 points.

for more than two minutes since Nick Gorski's two free throws with 3:44 left.

But after Monacan missed the front end of a one-and-one, Gorski hit a free throw and missed the second, then

grabbed the rebound and scored.

The Chiefs missed two more from the line, then Titans point guard Nick Coppola raced up the court and threw in a circus shot

while drawing a blocking foul from Ian Riester. Coppola's free throw sliced Monacan's lead to 54-53 with 19 seconds remaining.

FILE PHOTOCosby junior Luke Lowery (right) continues to play other sports after accepting a baseball scholarship from East Carolina.

Lowery thrives on variety

BY JIM [email protected]

Nobody at Cosby High School would’ve uttered a word of protest had Luke Lowery opted to stick his baseball scholarship from East Carolina Uni-versity in his back pocket and sit on it until graduation.

After all, it’s not every day that a lo-cal high school baseball player gets his ticket punched to play for a Division I program, much less a perennial Top-25 squad like ECU.

Why do anything to risk injury and jeopardize such a golden opportunity?

Why? Because the Lowerys aren’t the type of people who tiptoe through life hoping to avoid a mishap lurking around the next corner.

That’s not how Luke was raised, and it’s not how he lives his life.

“I get really bored if I don’t have something to do after school,” Low-ery said recently, as he explained the reasons behind his decision to play both football and basketball (and of course, baseball) during his junior year at Cosby.

“I know the injury risk is higher, but I don’t think too much about that … I love football and basketball, and it would be really hard to not be able to play anymore.”

Lowery, who was an all-Dominion District and all-Central Region selec-tion at catcher during his sophomore season, comes from a multi-sport family.

His father, Cosby baseball coach Tim Lowery, played and coached football before focusing exclusively on baseball a few years ago. His older brother, Jake, competed in football,

track-and-fi eld and baseball at Cosby before accepting a baseball scholarship to James Madison University.

So Luke didn’t need to use a hard sell to convince his parents -- both of whom teach at Cosby -- of the wisdom behind remaining a three-sport athlete even after the college coaches came calling.

“I never wanted to be one of those dads where 10 or 15 years down the road, your kids feel like you held them back,” Tim Lowery said. “Luke’s a baseball player playing football and a baseball player playing basketball, but he still enjoys it. I think there’s a time and place for kids to be kids.”

Those opportunities seem to be fewer and fewer these days -- especially for children who display elite-level skill and athleticism at an early age. The number of local travel teams in basket-ball, baseball, softball and soccer has exploded in response to demand from parents, and the result has been an increased emphasis on specialization.

Whereas even 10 or 15 years ago, many elite-level male high school athletes played football in the fall, basketball in the winter and baseball in the spring, the lure of scholarships and enormous pro contracts have made the multi-sport athlete an endangered species.

“It’s a shame there aren’t more kids like Luke,” Cosby football coach Pete Mutascio said. “He really is a unique kid. He’s a great athlete, but he’s also very team-oriented. He wants his teams to succeed as much as anybody I’ve ever seen.”

After a highly successful summer of travel baseball prompted N.C. State’s

coaching staff to offer Lowery a schol-arship to the Atlantic Coast Conference school, he could’ve opted to walk away from football for good.

But Cosby had opened its preseason football camp a week earlier, and Lowery’s loyalty to his teammates and coaches made that possibility a non-starter.

By the time he verbally committed to East Carolina in October, Lowery had become a signifi cant contributor at tight end and one of the best long snappers Mutascio has ever coached.

“It would’ve hurt us if he hadn’t played. At the same time, you know where his bread is buttered,” Mutascio said. “Your worst fear is that he gets hurt playing for you.”

Tim Lowery acknowledged he’d be less than truthful if he said that thought hadn’t crossed his mind a few times during football season.

“You just kind of have to hope for the best,” he added.

The risk of injury isn’t as high on the basketball court, where Luke is a reserve forward and spends most of his time doing the dirty work of rebound-ing and playing defense.

That wasn’t the case during football season. As expected, he took some hard shots -- including one after catching a pass near the sideline that forced him to limp off the fi eld -- but he missed only one play before returning to ac-tion.

“He’s mentally tough and he’s got a lot of guts,” Mutascio said.

That’s no surprise. He is a catcher.“Obviously I don’t want to get hurt,

but you can’t be passive,” Luke added. “I just go out and play as hard as I can.”

One sport not nearly enough for Cosby junior

Clutch free throws lead Monacan to district win

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got us out of sync, which made it tough to get the ball inside.”

The Cavaliers led 17-12 after a stick-back by Curtis early in the second quarter, but the Lancers responded by making fi ve of their next eight fi eld-goal attempts (including three of their season-high seven three-pointers) while forcing four Clover Hill turnovers.

Wilkins and Clanton capped the 14-0 run with back-to-back three-point-ers, the latter of which gave Manchester a 26-17 lead.

“We don’t normally shoot threes. We don’t even shoot 12-footers,” Gibbs said with a laugh. “Everything we try to do is patience, spread the fl oor and make them come out, then drive and try to fi nish with layups.”

Clanton said the Lanc-ers’ approach to halfcourt offense had to be a little different because Curtis consistently sagged off her defensive assignment to protect the basket.

“They left us open,” she added, “and we made the shots.”

Manchester broke the game open early in the second half, building its fi rst double-digit lead on consecutive three-point-ers by Clanton and Glenn. When Clanton drove for an acrobatic layup, scooping the ball just over Curtis’ outstretched hand, the Lancers led 40-25 and Wah-rman called the fi rst of two third-quarter timeouts to interrupt the home team’s momentum.

It didn’t work. Manches-ter’s consistent double-teams forced Clover Hill’s top perimeter threat (Lind-sey Tucker) to give up the ball, and the Cavaliers had nearly as many turnovers (fi ve) as points (seven) in the period as Manchester rolled into the fi nal quarter with an 18-point lead.

“They’re proving you can overcome a lack of size by pressing, trapping and controlling offensive tempo,” Wahrman said. “They do a really good job with that.”

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The victory was enough to earn a big smile from Clanton.

“We know we’re under-dogs, but we have heart,” she said. “We know we can beat teams in our district.”

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After a Cosby timeout, the Chiefs fi nally got the ball in Brown's hands and the smooth 6-2 senior respond-ed. He made three of four free throws, tracked down the rebound after Coppola missed a potential game-ty-ing 3-point attempt and hit two more free throws to ice the victory with just one second left on the clock.

"I've never seen him rattled. He's a very poised basketball player," Ralph Brown said.

Maleek Myers paced Monacan (7-3, 4-2 Domin-ion) with 18 points. Anthony Brown added 13 and center Daniel Eacho chipped in 10.

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"I thought the kids did a decent job," Carr said. "We got outrebounded badly in the second half and I thought that was the difference in the game."

Nick Gorski scored seven points in the fourth quarter, but Cosby's offense for most of the period consisted of the shifty Coppola driving to the basket and attempting a variety of acrobatic layups.

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