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Pink Ribbon Formation

Photo by Cheryl Hodges

For the second year, Hidden Valley High School students dressed in pink or black to join together to form a giant “pink ribbon” in the school’s parking lot. The event was organized to honor two of the school’s teachers who are breast cancer survivors, Pat Ammen and Beth Davis. Principal Rhonda Stegall joined history teacher Chuck Parker, who used a megaphone to guide the process while looking down from the roof above. Students documented the formation with both camera and video. Stegall estimated about half the student body took part in the event.

Greenway Volunteers Honored

The Roanoke Valley Greenway Commission honored volunteers and donors in the Pathfinders for Greenways program with a picnic and several awards last Sunday. The event took place at Salem Rotary Park, the starting point for a one-mile segment of the Roanoke R i v e r Greenway that was dedicated within the past year. Many took advantage to walk the new trail before the picnic got underway.

Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte, later honored for his help in securing federal funds that helped get the Roanoke River Greenway started (the $64 million flood reduction project), noted that Salem “has been very aggressive about building their greenways…without flood re-duction project [funds].”

Salem is building their portion

[Community]

Bob and Maryellen Goodlatte with the framed greenway photo given to the congress-man.

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[Breast Cancer Awareness]

Pink Ribbon VW Bug is a Rolling ReminderKim Griggs loves her job

and these days her profes-sion follows her everywhere she goes in her newly deco-rated “pink ribbon” bug car. Griggs is a Women’s Imag-ing Specialist with Lewis-Gale Imaging at Bramble-ton. Her eye-catching little car is often found parked on a slant in front of the building where she hopes it serves as a reminder for women to get their yearly mammogram.

Griggs spent a sizeable amount of her own money to get the custom “paint job” which is actually a kind of “cling wrap that you can take off, but it’s going to stay on as long as I am working in this profession,” according to Griggs. Providing she doesn’t run it through a car wash, she is told the cling wrap will stay intact. She came up with the idea late in the summer, thinking it would be great to have it done by Octo-ber, breast cancer awareness month.

Her friend J.P. Arrington, Owner/Designer of Longwood Signworks in Rocky Mount, did the job at her request. Griggs had a general concept for the design, saying “I came up with phrases I wanted, and he came up with the de-

sign of pink camouflage and the pink ribbon. We included the front hood and the back glass.” The car speaks for itself, but Griggs says it is “my personal private protest against the government or any doctor who thinks a yearly mammo-gram is not necessary.”

The suggestion in recent months that women might not need mammo-grams before age 50, and perhaps not even annually, did not sit well with her. Her resolve in combating that position is unmistakable. Like many, she has been touched by the disease; a close friend in her 30’s and two aunts died of breast cancer.

Griggs is constantly getting positive feedback on her car’s new look: people

beside her in traffic give her a thumbs-up; people often take pictures; almost every little girl who sees it says “I love that pink car!” Griggs says that while the young girls are attracted to all the pink and the whim-sical look, she is getting her message to “the moms who know what I’m represent-ing.”

While she did this entire-ly on her own, Griggs says that the “medical commu-nity has been supportive of

me doing it.” Some doctors let her know of their approval; one called to tell her that “I absolutely love it; you did a great job.”

The pink bug car has really livened things up for Griggs, but she is adamant that the only reason she did this was “to encourage women to still get their mam-mograms done yearly.”

Lewis-Gale Imaging is located at 4330 Brambleton Ave., 540-283-3700 and Longwood Signworks in Rocky Mount can be reached at 540-489-3851.

Kim Griggs’ pink Volkswagon is all about the message.

Legislative Package Sets Priorities for Roanoke City

At last Monday’s council meeting Mayor David Bowers suggested that a separate resolu-tion be included in the legislative package that would address the dangerous drug “K2.” The drug, sold as i n c e n s e , is said to contain a synthetic marijuana substitute. Bowers suggested either uniting with other localities or preparing a separate resolution. Roanoke County Board of Supervisor member Mike Altizer has al-ready asked to add language in the county’s legislative package that would label the drug a “con-trolled substance.”

The drug has been linked to dangerous reactions ranging from vomiting to seizures and is known to increase cardiovas-cular issues and poses potential life-threatening problems to other areas of the body.

The legislative package in-cludes:

TransDominion Express Commission to be responsible,

[City Govt.]

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Last Saturday proved to be an idyllic fall day, complete with blue sky, gentle breezes and lots of sunshine. This is the season many organizations and churches are holding craft fairs, bazaars, and in the case of Poage’s Mill Church of the Brethren, Fall Festivals. Route 221 had small hand-painted signs every half mile from the Kroger on Brambleton direct-ing motorists to their church 3 ½ miles down the road.

The congregation of 150 has accumulated quite a following for their homemade apple but-ter, according to E.B. Shoemaker, their Pastor for the past five years.

With a giant kettle containing a fresh batch of apple butter sim-mering out back, the day got off to a great start with homemade breakfast served from 8 to 9:30. Many of the church’s congrega-tion was on hand to help pre-pare breakfast, sell baked goods and some yard sale items, as well as prepare freshly pressed apple cider (served at no cost) with a 100-year-old press.

Others manned the funnel cake and caramel apple sta-tion, while the age-old tradi-tion of preparing apple butter

Apple Butter is in The Air at Poage’s Mill


L-R Bobby Harris and Pastor E.B. Shoemaker look on as Harold Stump adds spices to the kettle.

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By Cheryl Hodges - [email protected]

Servicevolleyball

P3– The William Byrd vol-leyball team serves it up in a big way both on and off the court.

GoodbyeA Glorious

P5– Fred First gives us three ways of rejoicing in the ex-traordinary autumn beauty of the virginia mountains.

Musical!Monster

P11– Gene Marrano reports that kevin Jones and his young company are putting on a “Howling Good” show on Saturday Oct 30th.

Score!Perfect

P7– ”Wild Bill” Turner goes an amazing 10-0 in last week’s Fearless High School Forecast and an-swers your questions from the mail bag.

See more Breast Cancer Awareness informa-tion on The Pink Page - Pg. 6

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fell to several of the men who seemed quite at home with the process. Shoemaker referred to church member Harold Stump as the “chief of apple butter; [he] knows what to do and how to put it together.” Stump studied his measuring spoons and care-fully added spices according to an old family recipe, which no one seemed to know the exact origins of. Stump has made it “since 1992, 75 kettles since [I] started.” Everyone agreed that the church’s apple butter is some of the best around, drawing in many from the community who don’t want to miss getting a couple more jars each year.

This event “involves most of the church” according to Shoe-

maker, who added “the com-munity really comes out for it.” The main draw for those stop-ping in seems to be the apple butter, but many enjoyed the fellowship, and looking over a display of Edward Light’s (son of the church’s oldest mem-ber Ezra Light, 95) homemade miniature wood cabins, as well as the goodies for sale both in-side and outside the building.

The picturesque church building is a perfect setting for those out on that short fall ex-cursion – with enough history in the old structure to be a sat-isfying stop on a fall weekend drive. Couples have planned to be married there because of its beauty and nostalgic appeal.

The large wooden beams and beautiful stained glass windows are worth the visit; the apple butter is the icing on the cake.

The old kettle was turning out another perfect batch around 3:00; both quart and pint jars are still for sale, with proceeds being divided between the church’s benevolent fund and the establishment / update of the church’s website.

For more information, or to buy apple butter at $8 quart/ $5 pint, or Light’s miniature cab-ins, contact the church at 774-2379. Poage’s Mill Church of the Brethren is located at 6550 Bent Mountain Road.

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Macie Emerson (daughter of Zack and Jennifer Emerson) happily starts on her 3rd bag of popcorn at the Fall Festival.

By Cheryl [email protected]

within the TransDominion Corridor, for identifying needed con-struction, reconstruction, improvements of or repairs to railroads and their facilities and equipment necessary to provide enhanced passenger rail service, coordinated with freight rail opportunities, within the Corridor.

Passenger Rail Service Funding to extend passenger rail service from Bristol through Roanoke and on to Lynchburg and then to Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia (the “TransDominion Express”). Passenger rail service between Roanoke and Lynchburg should be given priority. Until funding is available for rail service, Roanoke asks that funding be made available to institute bus ser-vice between Roanoke and Lynchburg that will be coordinated with train schedules.

School Start Date authorization to set its school calendar so that students are required to attend school no earlier than two weeks prior to Labor Day.

Evictions as defined in the Code of Virginia require sheriffs to remove the personal property and place it in the “public way.” Neighborhoods have complained that it creates an unsightly pile of belongings that draws scavengers and subjects personal belongings to the weather. The nuisance is an expense to the City’s taxpayers. The Code of Virginia should eliminate the provisions permitting

the personal property being placed in the “public way.”Education Funding by the state is a constitutional duty and the

City opposes shifting funding responsibility from the state to lo-calities. The state should consider alternatives to generate additional funds to fulfill the constitutional commitment to education includ-ing raising the sales tax or decreasing the amount of funding for the personal property tax exemption program. The state should not continue to maintain and increase educational requirements while at the same time decreasing state funding.

Virginia High School League should be examined to ensure its mission, activities and decision-making processes are consistent with those of the state Department of Education and supportive of all Virginia school districts and the unique characteristics therein.

Other wish list items included reduced requirements for legal notices, a plastic bag tax, the sale of spray paint to minors, outdoor smoking limitations, weapons in government buildings and oppo-sition to eliminating the business license tax or the machinery and tools tax. City Council will meet with legislators in November.

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Market Building Partners LP, general partner of Market Build-ing GP, LLC submitted the suc-cessful bid at the 2:00 p.m. city council meeting on Monday.

It was the only bid received.The public hearing was held

at 7:00 p.m. and with an un-eventful and unanimous vote the city ended five years of con-trol over the Market Building. The 40-year agreement sets out the terms to perform the reno-vation, repair and operation of the Market building for a con-sideration of one-dollar a year.

The project is now eligible for state and federal tax credits

through the Market Building Foundation that consists of sev-en members:

Phil Davis, Hotel Roanoke Conference Center Commis-sion, Beth Deel, Roanoke Re-gional Chamber of Commerce, Gordon Hancock, Economic Development Authority, Ste-phen Lemon, DRI representa-tive, Sherman Stovall, City's Director of Management & Budget, Larry Davidson - at large and Doug Waters - at large.

Market Building Founda-tion, Inc. will take the next step and search for management of the building. The management agreement will be fee based and

contain expectations for fulfill-ment of defined services.

Responsibilities for manage-ment will include staffing, ac-counting, cleaning, custodial, security and routine mainte-nance. The agreement even de-tails light bulb changing, snow and graffiti removal, and tou-chup painting.

The selected management group will also be a part of es-tablishing the lease rate struc-ture and other vendor charges. Tenants are being offered an in-centive to return to the building at its expected completion date in April 2011. Prior retail sales vendors will receive $15,000 for equipping their space. Prior

food vendors will get a hefty $35,000 – an increase from the original $20,000 incentive.

Locally and regionally-owned retail sales, restaurants, and food court vendors will be recruited to lease space. There is no exclusivity clause to pre-vent more than one sub shop or hamburger vendor from locat-ing in the building.

The management group selected will also operate the multi-purpose event venue on the second floor.

Market Building Transfers Out of City’s Hands

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of the greenway towards Roanoke, as the city works its way west. “Let’s get this greenway [built] all the way across from the Bedford County line to the Montgomery County line,” said Goodlatte, who also noted the progress that had been made so far: “we’ve come a long way baby.”

Salem City Council member Jane John-son noted that the section of the Roanoke River adjacent to what is now called Salem Rotary Park (near 419 and Apperson Drive), “wasn’t quite so beautiful,” before it was cleaned of debris. “A lot of time and effort was put in to this park.”

Greenways coordinator Liz Belcher, who works with all local jurisdictions to get the

urban trails built, said the annual picnic was started 10-11 years ago “as a way to say thank you,” to all of the volunteers that build trails or contribute private funding.

In announcing the award for Goodlatte – a large, framed photograph of the Roa-noke River Greenway taken from the 9th St. Bridge in Roanoke – Belcher said, “this per-son has done so much for our community. I cannot think of a person more deserving of this award.” Goodlatte and his wife Maryel-len, a prominent local attorney, posed with the photograph. “This is going in my office,” remarked Goodlatte.

Also honored as the Outstanding Con-tributors of the Year was the “midweek crew,”

a cadre of mostly people with the flexibility to build and maintain trails at times other than on the weekend. “These guys work 50 weeks a year,” said Belcher.

Besides having a catered picnic, some walked away with safety devices they could wear while running, walking or biking on the greenways. Belcher made another pitch for greenway etiquette, which was the sub-ject of a program recently offered by Roa-noke City Parks & Recreation. “Give a warn-ing while passing in the morning,” Belcher quoted reading from a list of rhymes con-cerning greenway biking etiquette.

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The Roanoke Col-lege Jazz Ensemble and Roanoke College Choirs presented a joint program on Sun-day, October 10th at St Andrews Catholic Church to a near ca-pacity audience. The choirs are directed by Jeffrey Sandborg and the Jazz group by Jo-seph Blaha.

Selections present-ed by the Jazz Ensem-ble included "Cooke's Delight" by Les Sa-bina, "I Got Rhythm" by George and Ira Gershwin, and "God Bless the Child" by Billie Holiday and Arthur Her-zog.

Choral numbers were a Newfoundland folk-song "The Blooming Bright Star of Belle Isle" by Eleanor Daley, "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" by Jimmy McHugh, and "The Storm is Passing Over" by Charles Albert Tindley.

Selections on the newly installed "Jennie Laurie Memorial Organ" were "Air on the G String" and "Amazing Grace."

There was no charge for admission and all contributions went to help pay for the newly installed organ.

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William Byrd volleyballers help out at the Rescue Mission.

Terriers Score Points Off The Court With Community Service

William Byrd is not enjoying its best year ever on the vol-leyball court - the former state champions have a young squad this year - but off the court the Terriers are making their mark in the community. Members of the team and coaches recently spent a morning at the Roanoke Rescue Mission, preparing and serving meals, and making up beds in the sleeping quarters.

Former Byrd standout Blair Bullock, now an assistant coach at her alma mater (she played club level volleyball at Virginia Tech) supervised on the early shift. “We think it’s a good thing for the girls to give back to the community.”

The Terriers had spent time at the Rescue Mission earlier, reading stories and doing craft projects with children who stay at the mission with their moth-ers. “[They] will be good role models for the rest of the kids at the school who want to help,” said Bullock.

Byrd player Macie Hoback, a junior, was upbeat as she chopped potatoes, despite the early hours – showing up at 5:30 a.m. on a Saturday. “It helps us bond [and] we think it’s good to give back to the community. I think its good for us.” Hoback said the Terriers have participat-ed in Angel Tree and Relay for Life events in the past, raising money for various causes.

“Getting up early, coming out here to help other people, I think it really brings them together,” said Bullock, who didn’t get in-volved with community projects like this when she was at Wil-

liam Byrd. “It’s good – I think all the sports should have to do it.” Bullock is in her first year of coaching and also attends Jeffer-son College of Health Sciences, pursuing a degree in the nursing field.

The junior varsity team showed up with head coach Amanda Stump later on, mak-ing up beds. “I’m very much for community service,” said the coach, a former volleyball player on a Byrd state title team herself.

“I firmly believe that commu-nity service is something that they need to be doing. When they get to college, especially as athletes, they’re going to have to do it. You have to get them out there.” Like Bullock, Stump values the team bonding aspect. She’s a busy woman these days; Stump teaches at the school and coaches tennis at Byrd.

Stump also organizes the an-nual Miss Smith Mountain Lake scholarship pageant, which will be held this year on Novem-ber 13 at the Dumas Center in downtown Roanoke (7 p.m.). The winner goes on to the Miss Virginia competition in June. There are also teen and preteen events on the 13th.

As for competition on the gym floor, the third year coach remains upbeat about the future of the Byrd volleyball program. “we lost some of our primary people,” said Stump, “[but] we have a lot of talent coming up.”


The Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth has granted the Multi-Disciplinary (MD) Team of Floyd County $59,841 to fund the hiring of a childhood obe-sity prevention specialist. New River Valley Community Ser-vices (NRVCS) will oversee the contract. NRVCS, SustainFloyd, garden development agency "Plenty!," and the Floyd County Student Health Advisory Board (SHAB) served as the primary partners in writing the grant application. The new specialist is expected to develop a strate-gic plan for sustaining obesity prevention programs for Floyd County children.

The Multi-Disciplinary Team is a non-profit organization of human service professionals and civic organizations whose mission is to enhance the qual-ity of life for children, families, and vulnerable adults in Floyd County by improving access to health, wellness, and education-al opportunities.

Michael Burton, SustainFloyd Director, was instrumental in the MD Team’s applying for the grant.

“The opportunity came to my attention as something that might assist SustainFloyd’s Farm to School Program, but then we started envisioning more possi-bilities,” said Burton. “We met with Kathy Kenley at Commu-nity Services, looked at kindred community programs and de-cided on a more community-wide approach.”

Kathy Kenley, CPP, Preven-tion Services Supervisor of NRVCS will supervise the new obesity prevention specialist.

“The obesity epidemic in our nation, including Floyd, is a tre-mendous liability to community wellness,” said Ms. Kenley. “Obe-

sity prevention is a new frontier for us, and we're very excited to be a part of this project."

The Floyd Farmers Market, where County residents can buy locally grown produce, "Plenty!,” a group that delivers produce to families and organizes school and community gardens, Sus-tainFloyd’s Farm-to-School Pro-gram and other efforts were cited in the grant application as con-tributing to the County’s work to prevent childhood obesity. The prevention specialist will assess and coordinate the various pro-grams to provide an organized, county-wide approach to the prevention of childhood obesity.

The Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranked Virginia 23rd in obesity preva-lence among the nation’s youth. Statewide, nearly a third (31%) of Virginia’s youth are consid-ered overweight or obese. In Southwest Virginia, 28% of chil-dren are obese. Specifically, in Floyd County, 45% of 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th graders in Floyd and Willis schools were found to be overweight or at risk of being overweight.

The new childhood obesity prevention specialist is expect-ed to analyze trends in County childhood obesity, and formulate a list of action items to encourage better nutrition and physical ac-tivity for Floyd County children. For instance, the specialist could help implement procedures al-lowing vendors at local farmers markets to accept government food vouchers for families; for-mulate ways to improve the funding of outreach, education and transportation to encourage the use of local farmers markets by lower-income residents; and suggest ideas to develop com-munity and school gardens.

Formerly known as the Vir-ginia Tobacco Settlement Foun-dation, the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth was estab-lished by the Virginia General Assembly to lead statewide ef-forts to reduce and prevent youth tobacco use and child-hood obesity.

SustainFloyd www.sustain-floyd.org is a grassroots commu-nity organization dedicated to preserving, enhancing and sup-porting a resilient local economy.

Floyd County Groups Win Grant for Childhood Obesity Specialist

Floyd County elementary school children harvest potatoes as part of SustainFloyd’s Farm to School program.

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Early in my career as an ecologist, I learned how to make

a cow.I had found the recipe

in an old college text, long since discarded; but recently I rediscovered my notes from those undergraduate days at Virginia Tech with its details of preparation and unusual ingredients. It was a recipe to feed a thousand people.Ingredients:1 80-pound calf8 acres of grazing land1.5 acres of farmland12,000 pounds of forage2500 pounds of grain350 pounds of soybeans125 gallons of gasoline170 pounds of nitrogen45 pounds of phosphorus90 pounds of potassiumVarious herbicides, insec-ticides, hormones, and antibiotics1.2 million gallons of water

As it turns out, making a cow is incredibly expensive and resource-intensive. The recipe detailed the needs of the cow in its first four months, including the application of drugs to kill its sex drive while corralled with other cattle and the issue of waste (produced by each cow at a rate equiva-lent to that of 20 people per day). “After four months in the feedlot, your cow weighs about 1000 pounds and is ready for slaughter,” contin-ued the cookbook formula. After removing the inedible parts, only about 440 pounds of meat remain – a thousand 7-ounce servings in a mix of steaks, pot roast, chuck, stew meat, and less cherished cuts. Therefore, to produce one pound of meat protein, one must feed a cow roughly 6 pounds or more of grain. Of course, one could always take those same 2500 pounds of grain plus 350 pounds of soybean for a single cow and instead bake them into breads and casseroles, adding a few vegetables, to serve 18,000 people – not just 1000!

The students in my biol-ogy and environmental stud-ies courses have analyzed the inefficiency of this process by

way of ecological pyramids. Typically, the bottom layer of the pyramid is occupied by producers: grasses and other plants that capture sunlight, converting about 1% of the available radiant energy into the stored energy of carbo-hydrates. The next layer of the pyramid is taken up by primary consumers: herbi-vores such as groundhogs and rabbits that convert about 10% of that amount of energy into their own bio-mass; the remainder is lost (but not de-stroyed) as heat and waste. The third level of the pyramid is populated by sec-ondary consumers: predators such as snakes and hawks that convert 10% of that ener-gy into their biomass; again, the remainder is lost as heat and waste. If there’s a fourth or fifth level, then a similar process of conversion and waste is followed. Though inefficient, this living system exhibits an otherwise effective energy pyramid applicable to our recipe for making a cow. It’s a simple expression of the 1st and 2nd laws of thermody-namics in the natural world.

The moral to the story is to eat low on the ecological pyr-amid to gain the most energy and biomass from the system: a very important lesson about sustainability for our ever-burgeoning human popula-tion. Scientists have conclud-ed that such a simple change of diet – consuming the grains ourselves rather than feeding them to livestock – could pro-vide food for the entire popu-lation of the United States for a year and still have some left for export. On the other hand, if the entire world ate as high on the ecological pyra-mid as the average American, then we would require more than twice the world’s exist-ing arable land and 80% of the world’s available energy! Thus, eating low on the pyra-mid is perhaps nonsense (no cents?) for steakhouses, but pretty good sense from the

viewpoint of energetics and nutritional health.

The Rainforest Action Net-work and other conservation groups have calculated that, globally, we lose about 100 acres per minute of tropical forests, some of these ago-nizing losses due to grazing livestock or growing crops for animal feed. That amounts to an annual deficit of acreage

equivalent to the size of the state of West Virginia! So reducing our con-sumption of beef makes sense en-ergetically, nutri-tionally, and eco-logically.

In addition to the environment and economics, a third aspect of

sustainability is social equity. I’m reminded of the Biblical story of Jesus feeding the mul-titude, overlooking the Sea of Galilee, with a few fishes and loaves of bread. Perhaps the story is not about a miracle per se, but about the just dis-tribution of the world’s finite resources. Could it be that this great teacher convinced his followers that fateful day to share their meager meals with the less fortunate or less prepared around them, learn-ing poignantly that such shar-ing – rather than hoarding – could fill everyone’s stomach and create an overabundance for their community? It’s also telling that Jesus distrib-uted fish and bread, not beef, lamb, or mutton, to the mul-titude. As our nation recov-ers from the dark excesses of the market, including the de-bilitating self-interests of the banking, insurance, health, and real-estate industries, we need to remind ourselves that no program for development is sustainable without social justice.

So my essay, “How to Make a Cow,” is really a lesson about “How NOT to Make a Cow.” In these early decades of the 21st century, it’s time to “sim-plify, simplify, simplify,” as Thoreau instructed us 200 years ago. Let’s make an effort to give up some of our “sacred cows” here in America and link ourselves sustainably to the cultural and biological di-versity of the planet.

How to Make a Cow

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The Hour of DeathExperienced rehab-

bers know sometimes the young die quickly and often unexpectedly.

We received a baby Gold-finch. He was a wee one, no heft to him at all. If you set him in your hand, you’d have to look to be sure he was there at all.

Because of some unexplained injury to his leg, he could not perch. In the wild, a bird that cannot perch cannot live.

Sabrina and I tried to train him. We found some tiny branches and set them in his cage floor. We’d set him on the branch, he’d hold a wobbling stance, and then fall off.

But there was one other thing: he was the singingest little bird you ever saw. I doubt I’ve ever en-countered a happier creature set in God’s whole creation. His bum leg did nothing to di-minish his spirits. Chirp, chirp, chirp.

One day, I passed by his room about 4 o’clock, he was singing as usual, chirp, chirp, chirp. I checked on him an hour later and he was lifeless on the floor of his cage. He sang right up to the hour of his death!

Is there a mystery here, something far off from my un-derstanding? Or is it a marvel, something to be wondered at but never explained? Whatever it is, I can still hear the little guy singing.

…I stood at her bedside and read the little old lady's nursing notes.

"Presents with feeling weak and dizzy for a `long time'. No worse. States she had some free time, so she thought she'd drop by for a comprehensive work-up and miracle cure. Local physician knows nothing about this complaint."

Reading further, I found that this lady had been basking in various forms of deteriorating health for many years. Dates the onset of her `weak and diz-zy' to the defeat at the Alamo.

Then, I did something I knew I shouldn't have done. I asked her about today's at-tack.

Apparently it came on this morn-ing when her new Airdale [which she obtained four

weeks ago last Monday at the SPCA, for $39--

the original price was $52, but with expert haggling she was able to get the discount implied above...and they threw in all of his shots for free including the one for dystemper because his records got lost in a hurricane and no one was sure if he had ever had them or not and so they'd give him another just to be sure because it certainly couldn't hurt and it being bet-ter to be safe than sorry and all especially since he was the pick of the litter, well at least second pick, him with the cutest little black ring around his eye, you know...] urinated unexpectedly on the teal throw rug in the foyer, the one which had been in her family for just ever so long.

That's when today's spell came on.

And people criticize physi-cians for interrupting!

People like this would worry the hair off a were-wolf! I could not help but be less charitably inclined towards this person after being kicked deaf, dumb and blind by her mountain of meandering and, whenever inappropriate, data. So far I had about twenty minutes of reportage that was as useful as a one-legged short-stop.

This is not uncommon in the ER though. Many of our pa-tients' histories are possessed of every fine quality except that of being relevant. To have some-one come in and give a tight, concise recitation of ailment would bear an unmistakable kinship to Al Gore coming out in favor of fossil fuels.

So I stood there watching her flap large lazy wings, cir-cling the issue and hoping all the while that she would some-day land.

Other essential data gathered during that inspired exercise of the immaterial: she had no dif-ficulty breathing but does have frequent difficulty with short-ness of breath.

She takes a blue pill when she needs it...maybe for her thyroid; seven lavender-like or deepish purple colored, really, pills per day, for circulation; and a small white pill that she was told by her personal physician to take, although he never said why; she asked him why but he nev-er would say. And no, she did not bring the bottles with her; that was not her responsibility. I could simply call her doctor and find out that information for myself except he's on vaca-tion for a month and his office is locked up tighter than a mi-ser's purse at a fund-raiser.

That her physician had taken an extended vacation I could readily understand.

I felt like I'd been through a cardiac stress test....and had no idea whether I'd passed it or not.

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It seems fitting to celebrate the transition from sum-mer to fall, missing the

freedoms of the former, looking with a mix of dread and antici-pation at what lies ahead. Here are three journal-records of the season, selected from Slow Road Home: a blue ridge book of days.

Changing of the Guard Just when we humans are

starting to wind down our day-light busy-ness and go inside for the night, thinking how good it’s going to feel on these cooler nights to pull the covers up to our chins, there are other creatures that make good use of the nocturnal side of the hu-man day—lives lived while we dream.

First as shadows lengthen late in the day come the birds that feed overhead. Chimney swifts and nighthawks sweep the air with wide open mouths, scoop-ing up invisible insects that rise like a cloud in the billow-ing thermals. Later will come the mammals that harvest the same in-flight feeding niche—the bats that we see mostly as shadows against the sky, black against deep indigo, erratically finding beetles and midges and moths by sonar. And last night, just before we reached the barn coming home from our walk at quarter ‘til dark, a screech owl trilled from the edge of the woods. Deer snorted and huffed indignantly as if to tell us we were infringing on their shifts, that we should go indoors, and

give them their due share of solitude and sky.

With the shorter days, the nights are beginning to chill and there will soon be no insects at dusk, and those that feed on them will move on to find other work to the south. The deer will hide from hunters back in the steepest woods; and the owls will own the crepuscular hours until spring comes.

Falling There is a certain

exciting melancholy in the coming of the first fall-like days—a letting go and a wel-come all together. I sit here in the cool shade with my feet stretched out into the slant-ing sun’s warmth and comfort and watch yellow leaves of wal-nut and locust flutter and sift to-ward the spent soil of summer. The last of the tiger swallowtails lift and spiral as if to put those yellows back in place for just a few more days.

The forest is still green from a distance, but a closer inspection will show you that no leaf is un-touched by changes that shorter days have brought. Their surfac-es are lightly filigreed by insects that could not have made a meal of them in the healthy prime of summer. Striped maples show patches of discolored spots, red and yellow circles like ring-worm, where fungal threads wind their way through the spongy spaces between upper

and lower surface of the leaf. Soon the fungi and bacteria

will consume blade and peti-ole. Like a thrift store shirt, a leaf 's matter will pass on and on, handed down until there is nothing left but buttons and a few bare threads.

Aural Vignette “Come” I said, motioning for

Ann in the kitchen to follow. The two of us stood on the front porch in the darkness, listen-ing.

Morning on Goose Creek in the October of our lives sounds like this: drops falling from dew-wet branches; bush crickets whir-ring, one from a goldenrod along the pasture whose song

blends with the next, higher up in the meadow, and a dozen more in monotone requiem to summer past; and beneath all other sounds, and around them, the rift of water over rock, fall-ing into the hollow of itself, a spattering, tinkling liquid phil-harmonic of peace.

If there were no humans on earth, this is what the world would sound like. And there are two, standing utterly still, and thankful.

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Fred First

This column is reflection on a passage you may want to read first: Acts 9:36-43.

Read through the Hebrew Scriptures and certain de-mands almost become irritating in their redundancy: take care of widows and orphans, widows and orphans, widows and orphans…, sometimes along with the elderly, sick and sojourners. Caring for the weakest among us is the best social justice activism of the bibli-cal faith.

So it is with the Christian faith tradition which is built on the Jewish prophetic tradition. Over the centuries, the Christian tradi-tion practically has screamed at the top of its lungs that a baseline for simple justice is that the most vulnerable be cared for and have a voice. No Christian theologian worth listening to has ever said anything different. The massive biblical and traditional witness for justice for the dispossessed is like a large turkey in a small fridge. You can’t open the fridge to look for a soda without seeing it.

Yet, to track whose interests have been served over the course of centuries, even in countries dominated by Christians, you can’t miss the frequent leaning away from those who need more than they can give.

Here’s the system in Peter’s day… no different than Isaiah’s day, no different than David’s day, no different than Abraham and Sar-ah’s day: men work jobs, women birth and watch after children, and children grow up to support their parents. For those who fit the script, the system works. Widows and orphans are like people with pre-existing conditions. They don’t fit the system. Though the prophets saw widows and orphans as being at the top of the list of those needing to be cared for, the cultures that honored the proph-ets in principle often simply didn’t honor them in practice. The “unattached” were drains on the economy.

Tabitha is a member of a community of widows who rely on each other, having no one else to rely upon. When, after she dies, Peter is asked to come quickly to where she lived, he does just that… even though it is like rushing to visit the run down Welfare Home for the Dispossessed sitting on the outskirts of town.

Don’t think, though, that he goes because he’s a nice guy and is rushing to rescue women. He goes, because he is privileged to go.

We learn that from a beautiful detail in the story. When he arrives, the other widows surround Peter showing him treasures; a tunic, a scarf, a linen shirt, a cloak. Tabitha made these garments for them. She had been their minister.

Actually, she had been their disciple. This is another beautiful detail. Here, and only here in the New Testament, a woman is re-ferred to as “a disciple.” This widow, who one might assume to be dependent on others, is actually a church leader. In Acts, a disciple is someone who had a significant relationship with Jesus. Tabitha and Jesus were close. Having once received Jesus’ attention, she has served as a church leader in a ministry of compassion.

Here’s yet another beautiful detail in this story: her name is “Tabitha,” an Aramaic name meaning “gazelle.” The Greek name for gazelle is “Dorcus” and so Tabitha also was known as Dorcas. In the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, we read in the second chapter of the Song of Solomon “My beloved is like a gazelle.” “My beloved is like Dorcus,” Luke is saying. “My beloved is like this widow who, knowing she is beloved of God, has given her life to loving others.”

And the widows make sure that Peter knows it. “Look how she cared for us. Look at what she meant to us. See the tunic, the head-dress, the linen shirt, the scarf.”

And so it is an honor for Peter to be there. Tabitha is a fellow disciple whose loss is costing the church.

So, who cares about widows? Well, Tabitha cares, and showed it through her ministry to other widows. Peter cares, and shows it through coming quickly when summoned and the miracle then performed through him (“Oh yeah, Tabitha is brought back to life!). And God cares, because this widow is his Dorcus, his beloved.

This story seems to be Luke’s way of reminding Israel and the church that the conversion of powers is ultimately to result in life for those who are deemed the least among us; that those the world judges to be least are “the gazelles,” the beautiful beloved in God’s eyes. Despite what servants of special interests would have us be-lieve, followers of Jesus must not ignore those who the greater cul-ture sees as drains on their resources: the old, the children, the sick, the aliens, the disposed…, the

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The oldest college foot-ball rivalry west of the Mississippi is the "Bor-

der War" between Kansas and Missouri. The name is a refer-ence to vicious guerrilla fight-ing during the Civil War, and the first game in the series was played in 1891, just one gen-eration removed from actual conflict. In that first game, the Jayhawks prevailed 22-10. For the first 20 years of the rivalry, the game was played at neutral site Kansas City, to make it con-venient for the most spectators to attend. But in 1911, a new conference regula-tion required all reg-ular-season games to be played on campus, and Mizzou was cho-sen to host the first one.

Missouri Athletic Director Chester Brewer was worried that moving the game from Kansas City to little-ole Co-lumbia MO would put a damper on attendance. So he created a weekend-long event, including a parade, a pep rally and a bon-fire, and encouraged all Mizzou alumni to "come home" to cheer their team against the hated Jayhawks. And what a turnout! Over 10,000 Missouri alumni poured into Columbia, to watch their boys fight to a 3-3 tie.

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done, Kansas produced a simi-lar event in Lawrence, KS - and generated similar alumni turn-out - as the Jayhawks beat Miz-zou 12-3. Since that time, the Border War has proven not only one of the most attended college football rivalries, it has been so closely-fought as to defy statisti-cal belief. In 1960, a Kansas win over then-number-one Missouri cost Mizzou the national cham-pionship, but the game was later

forfeited to Missouri due to an ineligible Jayhawk player par-ticipating. As a re-sult, as of 2009, the series stands at 55-54-9. But in favor of whom? If you agree with the 1960 ruling, it's Mizzou; if not, it's the Jayhawks. Imag-

ine that, a rivalry so bitter the com-petitors can't even

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parison to the larger impact the rivalry has had on collegiate culture nationwide. After the attendance success of the 1911 game, other schools followed Missouri's lead in encouraging their alumni to "come home." Down at Baylor University, a game and concert called "home coming" had been held as early as 1909, and by 1915 the event had become an annual offer-ing. And up at Illinois Urbana,

a weekend-long event that in-cluded a football game, con-certs and class reunions was held in 1910, without the name "homecoming." But it's Mizzou that's credited with creating and spreading the idea of "home-coming" across the nation. By 1920, most colleges and uni-versities had made it a staple of their annual calendar. Today, there are also winter home-comings, spring homecomings and homecomings for specific sports. A recent popular twist is "courtwarming" for the bas-ketball team, an innovation that has proven especially popular in, of all places, the state of Mis-souri.

As for the original, the Bor-der War is no longer the home-coming game for either Kansas or Mizzou, and it is has been moved back to Kansas City. And the arguments continue. In 2004, M&I Bank began spon-soring the event, and renamed it "The Border Showdown." But that was met with indigna-tion, as fans, players, alumni and even national press outlets refused to bow to political cor-rectness. Former Kansas coach Dom Fambrough, when asked in 2007 what he thought of the new name, told CNN,

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In early October, breast cancer survivors and their families joined volunteers and Komen Board Members in front of the Mill Mountain Star to show Roanoke and surrounding commu-nities the strength in living the message and mis-sion of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

The 3rd annual "Shout It From The Moun-taintops" event was an opportunity for everyone

from survivors to supporters to shout out a mes-sage/sentence concerning breast cancer, breast screening, the latest facts about the disease, and a suggestion on how others can help - or simply a chance to shout about how happy they are to

be alive.To help kick off the event, local cheerleaders

from William Byrd High School led the crowd in cheers and messages aimed at breast health and screening. Several community leaders lined up to the microphone to shout their support for the cause. “A Circle Of Promise” gospel choir, made up of local women, was on hand to inspire with their uplifting music.

The Roa-noke Valley's second annual RACE FOR THE CURE, 5K Race and 1 Mile Walk, will be held Green Hill Park on April 11, 2011. Race information is available online at www.komenroanoke.org.

Third Annual Shout It From The Mountaintop

As the nation marks the annual National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the American Cancer Society is encouraging women to choose to put their personal breast health first to stay well and reduce their risk of breast cancer. The Society is reminding women 40 and older about the im-portance of getting a mammogram and clinical breast exam every year to find breast cancer in its earliest, most treatable stage. In addition, the Society recommends that women ages 20 to 39 re-ceive a clinical breast exam once every three years. The American Cancer Society also recommends magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for certain women at high risk. Women at moderate risk should talk with their doctors about the benefits and limitations of adding MRI screening to their yearly mammogram.

An estimated 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur among wom-en in the U.S. in 2010, and about 40,230 deaths are expected. While mammography is not perfect, getting a high-quality mammogram is currently the most effective way to detect cancer early be-cause it can identify breast cancer before physi-cal symptoms develop, when the disease is most treatable. Early-stage breast cancer typically pro-duces no symptoms when the tumor is small and most treatable, so it is important that women fol-low recommended guidelines for finding breast cancer before symptoms develop. On average, mammography will detect about 80 to 90 percent of breast cancers in women without symptoms. Breast cancer survival rates are significantly high-er when the cancer has not spread.

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Women can reduce their risk of breast cancer by taking additional steps to stay well by main-taining a healthy weight, eating a well-balanced diet, and engaging in physical activity 45 to 60 minutes on five or more days of the week. Also, limiting alcohol consumption can reduce breast cancer risk; one or more alcoholic beverages a day may increase risk.

Another way the American Cancer Society is helping create more birthdays is to help women manage their breast cancer experience when and if they are diagnosed. The Society offers newly diagnosed women and those living with breast cancer a number of programs and services to help them get well. Among these is Reach to Recovery, which helps newly diagnosed patients cope with their breast cancer experience. Other programs and resources, like the Look Good…Feel Better program help breast cancer patients manage the physical side effects of treatment and the Hope Lodge offers patients free lodging for those re-ceiving treatment far from home. The Society of-fers information to help make treatment decisions and access to its programs everyday around the clock through 1-800-227-2345 or cancer.org.

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“Guinivere” came in full pink regalia. She is owned by Jenna Wigglesworth, who has several friends who had breast cancer.

Marsha Underwood, Susan Jordan, and Michelle Tozier, Gaye Blevins (not pictured) - all breast cancer survivors - have supported one another throughout their fight against the disease.

The group formed a “pink ribbon” before heading over to Panera Bread for free bagels. Panera is donating 25 cents for every pink ribbon bagel sold in October, as well as selling pink silicon rings for $1 and donat-ing the entire proceeds to EWL.

William Byrd cheerleaders rally the crowd in cheers of support for the cure.

Attendees “shout it from the mountain top.”

Signs were held to convey the importance of mammogram screenings.

Carilion Clinic’s Breast Care Center, Pan-era Bread, Star Country, CW5 network and Valley View Mall hosted the fifth annual Positively Pink Parade on Saturday, Oct. 16 to benefit the Every Woman’s Life (EWL) program.

EWL provides breast and cervical cancer screenings to uninsured or underinsured women in the Roanoke Valley who are 50 - 64 years of age with low incomes. Uninsured women with low income under the age of 50 may also be eligible for screenings.

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Hidden Valley quar-terback #10 Chad Frazier executes a perfect option pitchout as a Blue Demon defender (in white) closes.

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Franklin County used a te-nacious ground attack as the Eagles rushed the ball 55 times to capture the Western Valley matchup last Friday night at Gainer Field. Patrick Henry was held to 42 yards rushing and 62 yards in the air as the Eagles im-proved to 6-1 , 2-0 . The Patriots fell to 4-4 , 1-1 . Patrick Henry entertains crosstown rival Wil-liam Fleming this Friday Oct. 22.

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Patrick Henry seniors #9 Kerron Tisdale and #22 Brandon Terry lead the Patriots onto the field for the 2010 PH homecoming.

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Well, after seeing the mail-bag this week there’s no reason to plug in the applause meter. My RSS predictions were an ASTOUNDING 10-0 last week and several readers are asking for one-on-one hookups with my esteemed consort, Count Isvondalecky. Sorry everyone, the Count will be in Blacks-burg to oversee the Hokies take on Duke this Saturday. He did mention that he sees VT doing better this week than the last time they took on some other Dukes.

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Dear Wild One: Over the years you’ve obviously seen a lot of games, unbelievable plays and fantastic comebacks. What’s the most stupendous thing you’ve ever seen during a high school football game? ( Gretta / Roa-noke)

Answer: CheerleadersDear Mr. Bill: My husband

and I were in Las Vegas years ago for the Super Bowl. They were making predictions for ev-erything, such as when the first touchdown would be scored or how many field goals kicked. Do you ever get odd requests for a prediction? ( Mary and Tiny / Galax)

Answer: Yea, Mary. Every Friday night at Bogle Stadium a heavyset couple tracks me down to predict when in the second half hot dogs and funnel cakes will be reduced to half price.

Dear Wild: Will you pick an all-star team at the end of the year? (Roy / Salem)

Answer: No need to, Roy. Just get a roster of every team. Any kid that will put on the uniform and practice for four months in weather ranging from 100 de-grees in August to freezing rain in November is an all-star in my book.

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Here are the matchups for this week as district play gets serious.

In the Western Valley District the big crosstown rivalry hits Gainer Field as Patrick Henry (4-4) entertains William Flem-ing (0-7). This one may be a lot closer than many think. Fleming has fallen to a string of tough teams, but the Patri-ots have been giving up points lately. The PH defense may hold serve in this one.

PH - 23 Fleming - 19Lord Botetourt (3-5) travels

to Vinton to take on Byrd (3-4). Both teams are looking for their first district win. Byrd may have more weapons and repeat last year’s close win. Byrd - 20 Lord Botetourt - 16

In the River Ridge matchup everyone has been waiting for, the #1 team in Group AA, Chris-tiansburg (7-0), comes to Salem Stadium to take on the Spartans (6-1). Salem has looked slug-gish the last four weeks and the season-ending loss of Seth Fish-er in the loss to Cave Spring made things worse. The Blue De-mons knocked Salem out of the playoffs last year after losing to the Spartans in triple-OT during the regular season. Playing at Sa-lem is always tough, but the Christians-burg defense should be up to the task.

Christiansburg - 24 Salem - 20

Blacksburg (3-4) comes to Bogle Stadium to try to corral the high-powered Cave Spring (5-2) attack. This is the textbook example of a trap game for the Knights. Cave Spring is com-ing off a blowout of Salem two weeks ago, a win at Pulaski last week and a potentential River Ridge title showdown next week at Christiansburg. Never take a Dave Crist team lightly. Josh Woodrum and his pac-man re-ceiving corps should make itself home at Bogle. Cave Spring - 27 Blacksburg - 13

Winless Hidden Valley (0-7)

travels to Pulaski County (3-4) to invade the Cougar den. Pulaski got stomped by Cave Spring last week so this is a bad week for the Titans to be visit-ing. Pulaski County - 30 Hid-den Valley - 17

Glenvar travels to Radford for a key Three Rivers contest. Rad-ford has lost two straight which makes the road tougher for the Highlanders. Radford won 9-6 last year, but Glenvar knows how to put points on the board.

Home field rules. Radford - 21 Glenvar - 20

Roanoke Catho-lic (5-1) plays host to Fuqua School (6-1). The Falcons’ only real test was a blowout loss to Blessed Sacrament. Catholic looks to re-bound from last year’s

loss at Fuqua 43-35. Roanoke Catholic - 28 Fuqua - 20

North Cross (5-2) travels to North Carolina for the second time this year. The first trip ended with a 54-0 loss to Ben L. Smith in Greensboro. This time the Raiders go farther south to play the independent power-house Charlotte Latin (6-1). The Hawks have scored over 50 in three of their wins and won by 24 at North Cross last year.

Charlotte Latin - 34 North Cross - 16

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It was “Pack The Gym Night” and more than 200 people, in-cluding the likes of William Fleming High School Princi-pal Gene Jones, Roanoke City School Deputy Superinten-dent Curt Baker and Fleming Athletic Director Matt Kesler, were in attendance cheering last Thursday night. Their sup-port and that of many other loyal fans didn’t go unnoticed – and the Lady Colonels claimed their first volleyball match win since 2008 with a 25-22, 17-25, 25-19 and 25-13 Western Val-ley District win over visiting George Washington-Danville.

“Oh wow, could this really be happening?” first-year coach Teri Craig was thinking. That was at the point where the Colonels had won two sets and only needed one more for a game win.

The player’s nerves from both schools could be felt in the stands as the crowd yelled louder, hoping to boost their WFHS team forward. Between plays the bench continued to cheer for their teammates. Coach Craig wanted to motivate the girls with one last challenge: “I’ve already met my goal (working on the player’s techniques), now you meet yours.”

During the deciding game the serve went back and forth until senior Sheena Petty scored four more points, resulting in a GW Danville time out. When play started again Petty scored three more and Fleming then took the last set, winning 25-13. Seniors Briana

Cabbler, Lara Turner, Petty and TíNisha Taylor celebrated their first career win as other team-mates screamed and hugged each other, finally savoring a win.

“I know these talented girls have it in them,” said Craig,.

Practice after practice and game after game, Craig said she watched the skills improve. In

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Turner led the Colonels (1-15, 1-4 WVD after the match) with 12 kills, 12 digs and three

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Following the match, coach “T”, as she is referred to by her players, contacted four very important people in her volleyball life, includ-ing David Turk, the former Salem High School volley-ball coach, former North-side High School coach Donna Culicerto, Cave Spring High School Head Volleyball Coach Tamalyn Tanis and Kendall Scott, a JV volleyball player at Cave Spring.

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This coming November our elected representatives in Richmond are being asked to support a plan to privatize all of Virginia’s state run liquor stores. Like that used truck, this plan for some looks pretty good on the surface as it would remove our state government from the business of directly selling hard liquor while raising much needed capital for new bridges, roads and jobs. However, when one takes a look underneath all of the plan’s enthusiastic promotions, one sees unavoidable consequences and costs which would most certainly accompany the Governor’s proposal. Expanding the avail-ability for hard liquor purchases will put a greater number of Virgin-ians at risk while placing additional demands upon on our social services and law enforcement agencies across the commonwealth. In such matters of social concern it should be incumbent for every citizen to speak out on behalf of those who are most vulnerable and to warn others of the detrimental consequences for our society and culture which are posed by the Governor’s privatization plan(s).

Let’s consider those things which must happen in order for all of the promises of prosperity associated with this plan to come to fruition. First, promoters of the plan are counting on increasing the number of locations for the sale of hard liquor across Virginia with the additional licenses available for purchase by private businesses. The liquor licenses would be distributed depending on business size: 600 would be sold to big box retailers such as grocery stores; 250 to convenience stores; and 150 to specialty beer and wine stores like In-ari. If such a plan is passed, then stores like Walmart and other ma-jor retailers and grocery store chains could add liquor aisles where minors could view their slick promotions and attractive displays. That is quite a change from the current system that bans under-age persons from even entering the premises of an ABC store. I sincerely doubt that the existing proposals will maintain the ABC’s

current 98 percent effective enforcement rate prohibiting underage purchase of alcohol.

Presently Virginians consume approximately 21 percent less hard liquor than the national consumption rate according to figures from the National Institute of Health. The governor’s plan will more than triple the number of licenses available for selling hard liquor with the stated goal of increasing sales by 10.7 percent. The proposal clearly has the distinct potential for helping Virginia to catch up to the national level of alcohol consumption by increasing the number of hard liquor stores from 332 to 1000 in their quest for more state revenue. Rest assured that an increase in state revenue will be neces-sary given the increased expenses which others believe will result in health and social problems that Virginia will be forced to pay for in the future as a result of this plan!

Secondly, by expanding the number of licenses (i.e.- stores) for selling hard liquor the commonwealth can expect to recapture sales from customers who now purchase alcohol in D.C. and Maryland. However the governor’s plan doesn’t predict any price or tax decreas-es in liquor stores while others believe costs will actually increase, leaving Virginia with one of the highest state taxes on liquor in the United States. Now in these difficult financial times is it realistic to presume that people in northern Virginia will suddenly abandon their familiar places for purchasing hard liquor, such as in D.C. and military bases where they can get liquor tax-free, and pay more for it elsewhere? In the words of State Senator Linda Puller, “That’s a very poor assumption!” Furthermore, the plan for privatizing Virginia’s ABC stores is being touted as a job’s program for small businesses. This seems somewhat unrealistic with the anticipated expense of the liquor licenses- going at auction and starting at $102,844. At this price, only big businesses would be able to afford them, bringing no economic help to mom-and-pop-type stores. And if that wasn’t enough, the proposed privatization plan or versions thereof, does not prohibit expanding the number of retail liquor licenses beyond the 1000 number in the future.

The third part of the governor’s plan which must happen exactly as has been promised is that every economic prediction must come true. For the numbers to work out as supporters of the plan have said, Virginia would have to increase the sale of hard liquor (i.e. - consume more hard liquor) while not experiencing any increase in related consequences for the use and abuse of alcohol. Is it unrea-sonable to think that the tripling of locations for selling hard liquor

across our commonwealth will require the hiring of more ABC en-forcement officials to oversee the expanded number of retail stores? What about more Social Service workers to investigate spousal and child abuse, additional police and sheriff officers not to mention the increased financial loss in the private sector such as delinquent rent and mortgage payments, unpaid utility bills, lost wages and employ-ment problems associated with increased alcohol consumption. Granted the one time $500 million license fee would be a help to Virginia’s economy; however, it would only be a drop in the buck-et compared to the $8 billion dollars needed to bring our existing bridges and roads up to acceptable standards according to our De-partment of Transportation.

The proposed plan as currently being presented in Richmond does have the potential for putting more families at risk for the sake of a few dollars more. I applaud the governor’s commitment of promot-ing free economic enterprise and business development in Virginia and I personally agree with his goal of limiting the states involve-ment in the sale of hard liquor. However, the plan(s) as have been proposed thus far which are aimed at accomplishing these things are not in Virginia’s best interest. I understand that the privatization of the ABC stores was a key campaign pledge while Governor Mc-Donnell was running for office. Surely a plan for privatization can be devised which would fulfill the Governor’s pledge while not en-couraging increased use of hard liquor, multiply the many problems associated with alcohol consumption or place many more families at greater risk. The truth of the matter is not that Virginia doesn’t have enough liquor stores but that we have too many already. This is the issue. In light of the personal pain associated with alcohol, the harm it brings to marriages and families, the accidents and deaths due to drunk driving and the many wrecked lives of young people who drink, I would argue that there is already too much beverage alcohol in beer, wine and liquor sales being sold in Virginia. Increasing the number of whiskey stores in our state will certainly not make our loved ones safer on the roads, decrease everyone’s auto insurance, lessen the strain on our state’s healthcare industry or improve family life for our citizens. Let’s urge those who represent us in Richmond not to increase the number of liquor licenses as proposed by the Governor. Virginia can do better!

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In our last presidential elec-tion, Democratic President Obama made change to an-other big request by the Amer-ican people, but this change was not what many expected. In November, we will again get an opportunity to change. The Republican Party is now offer-ing a sequel and calling it A Pledge To America. This is a pledge dedicated to the task of reconnecting the aspirations

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The latest was Edward Lee from 610 Magnolia restau-rant in Louisville, KY, another proponent of the farm to table movement, where restaurateurs deal directly with local pro-ducers of meat, vegetables and other products. Lee, the chef and co-owner of 610 Magnolia, was invited by Local Roots head chef Josh Smith.

A restaurant full of diners in-vited to the private six-course gourmet meal had dishes creat-ed alternatively by Lee (Rappa-hannock Oysters, quail egg and duck bak-kua; sweetbreads and butternut puree; lamb ka-lbi, green tomato kim-chi and speckled grits) and by Smith (Maine scallop, Golden trout, Dawson plum consommé and burnt orange pudding.)

There were wine pairings for each course served as well. “We’re really getting culinary talent that is unprecedented [for Roanoke],” said Melany Mul-lens, a public relations specialist from the firm that represents Local Roots. She called it “the best kitchen in town.”

Craig Rogers was one of the guests; the former college dean and electronics company owner now supplies lamb from his Pat-rick County farm to Local Roots and other businesses in Roa-noke – and his Border Springs Farm lamb can be found in restaurants from New Orleans to New York. “It's fabulous for Roanoke,” said Rogers about Local Roots and its emphasis on

farm to table. “It’s really cutting a new trail.”

Rogers noted that the visit-ing chefs coming in monthly have all been nominated for the James Beard award given to top chefs, or have won some region-al designation associated with the honor. Lee was a finalist for best chef in the South. As for Smith, who cooked for a time at 202 Market before making his way to Local Roots, Rogers said “Josh’s artistry sets him apart from most.”

Having a private audience come in to sample the goods, then perhaps go out and spread the word about Local Roots will help develop new patrons said Rogers. “It also helps Roanoke as a community – to develop a bit of a reputation. It can only raise the bar.”

Also on hand was author Elizabeth Weigand, who signed copies of The New Blue Ridge Cookbook (Globe Pequot Press), featuring recipes from the region. Rogers has a recipe for Border Springs Farm lamb meatloaf in the book. “I looked for local restaurants that served truly, truly local foods,” said Weigand in describing one source for many of the recipes, “[and] a lot of farmer’s mar-kets.”

A beer soup recipe from Josh Smith is also in the book. The

head chef said he wants to “push the food scene in Roanoke.” As the restaurant’s reputation grows he finds it “so easy” to get visiting chefs here now. “Ev-erybody’s moving in a direction where local foods are helping to make the [product better],” noted Smith. “The hardest part is finding the right ingredients.”

Lee, who said he is “very con-nected to my farmers,” added that he would consider making a return visit if invited back: “what they try to do is incred-ible…to bring renowned chefs to a place like Roanoke. This is something special.” Lee and Smith met at a camping event Craig Rogers holds on his Pat-rick County farm for chefs ev-ery summer – he calls it “Lamb-stock.”

Diane and Bill Elliott own Local Roots; after a night spent greeting diners, Diane Elliott said their goal was also “to raise the bar for Roanoke,” regarding the farm to table movement. “It just has a better flavor,” Elliott insisted. “It’s about being real [and] about what community is.” As for the new space? “We grew up. [Its] a big leap for-ward.”

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If you have young children, or even if you just have some in your neighborhood, you know they will soon acquire large amounts of free candy, obtained by impersonating witches, vampires and other scary creatures. As an adult, of course, you’re unlikely to encounter too many monsters after Halloween ends. Yet as you go through life, you will find some things that are truly alarming — such as scary investment moves.

Here are a few of these frightful actions:• Investing too conservatively — You could try

to avoid investment risk by putting all your mon-ey into very conservative investments. However, as you’re probably aware, those investments typi-cally pay very little in the way of interest, so your money could actually lose purchasing power, even with a mild rate of inflation.

• Investing too aggressively — Just as invest-ing too conservatively can be counterproductive, so can investing too aggressively. Obviously, you would like your money to grow, but the invest-ments with the highest growth potential are usu-ally also those that carry the greatest risk to your principal.

• Putting too much money in too few invest-ments — If you put too many of your investment dollars into just one or two types of assets, and a downturn hits those assets, your portfolio will probably take a big hit.

• Waiting too long to invest — As an investor, your biggest asset may be time. The more years in which you have to invest, the greater the like-lihood that you can make progress toward your important financial goals.

• Taking a “timeout” from investing — During periods of significant market volatility, such as we’ve seen the past few years, you might be tempt-ed to take a “timeout” from investing and stick all your money into very conservative vehicles until

everything “blows over.” But the financial markets will never be totally calm, nor will they be pre-dictable. Market rallies can start unexpectedly; if you’re not invested when that happens, you may miss out on growth opportunities.

• Ignoring tax-advantaged investment oppor-tunities — When you invest in a tax-deferred investment account, such as your 401(k) and a traditional IRA, your money has the opportunity to grow faster than it would if it were placed in an investment on which you paid taxes every year. If you aren’t contributing to your 401(k) and you haven’t opened an IRA, you’re missing out on a great chance to build resources for retirement.

To make sure you don’t fall victim to these scary investment moves, you need only follow a few simple principles. First, take the long view — you will see ups and downs in the short term, but historically the market has performed well over the long term. (Keep in mind, though, that past performance is not guarantee of what will happen in the future.) Second, diversify your holdings among a variety of investments. Diversification, by itself, cannot guarantee a profit or protect against loss, but it can help reduce the effects of volatility. Try to build a diversified portfolio based on your risk tolerance, time horizon and long-term goals. And finally, consider boosting your 401(k) contri-butions whenever your salary increases and fully funding your IRA each year.

Halloween comes but once a year, but scary in-vestment moves can haunt you for a lifetime — so take the right steps to help avoid them.

Carl Grove is a Financial Advisor at Edward Jones located in Roanoke, VA. He may be reached at 540-344-9211 or [email protected]. Edward Jones, its associates and financial advisors do not provide tax or legal advice.

It’s No Treat to Be Tricked by Scary Investment Moves

United Way of Roanoke Valley invited key do-nors and corporate supporters to its Presidents Circle reception on Tuesday at the Shenandoah Club in downtown Roanoke. President’s Circle donors are those who have pledged $1000 or more for United Way, targeted for a specific orga-nization or for its “Impact Fund.”

The annual fall/winter United Way fund drive is off and running at many local places of busi-ness as well. “We’re off to a good start on the cam-paign,” said Jeff Marks, chairman of the campaign. Co-chair Gretchen Weinnig hailed those in the President’s Circle: “we can make such an impact on our community.”

According to Weinnig, thirty percent of all the funds collected annually by United Way during its major campaign were represented by those invit-ed to the reception. Marks, profiled in last week’s Star-Sentinel, was bullish about this latest annual

campaign: “we’re going to pull out all the stops,” said the WDBJ-7 general manager.

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United Way Recognizes Generous Donors

United Way of Roanoke Valley executive director Frank Rogan (center, background) welcomes reception attendees.

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A Howling Good Show By Some Very Talented Kids

Fifteen very talented high schoolers that attend classes at the Kevin Jones Performing Arts Studio in Southwest Roa-noke County will take to the stage with Monster Musicals! at Jefferson Center’s Shaftman Performance Hall this Saturday, October 30, for two shows at 2 and 7 p.m.

The troupe will perform mu-sical numbers from Broadway and off-Broadway theatrical productions, from shows like Beauty and the Beast, Shrek, The Addams Family, Jekyll and Hyde, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Young Frankenstein. Even an off-Broadway show “that nobody has ever seen or heard of,” said Jones - “Evil Dead” – will supply two songs. The show is scheduled to run approximately 75 minutes.

Jones, an actor and enter-tainer in his own right, has been presenting Broadway-themed productions with high school students for the past nine years. It's always a free but tough tick-et: you can pick up whatever passes are left at the Jefferson Center box office or take your chances in the standby line dur-ing the Saturday matinee or the evening performance.

The event was moved from February to October this time around. “I got sick of the snow,” said Jones, who studied in New York as he learned his craft. “Now there are no weather is-sues.” The move also worked “perfectly,” said Jones, in using a Monster Musicals theme the day before Halloween.

“They [the kids] come in with innate talent and they have a dream,” said Jones. “I just try and share my passion for per-forming and live theater with them.” Monster Musicals has

been in rehearsals for six weeks; Jones runs his practices like a Broadway show might.

“I want them to have the real experience here in Roanoke - the best we can. We’re over-organized in order to pull ev-erything off.” There are plenty of costume changes this year and a five-piece band that includes Jones on piano who will accom-pany the actors on stage.

Students come from high schools in Roanoke City, Roa-noke County and Blacksburg. “Destined for stardom,” Jones chuckles about some of the kids he works with. Several of his former students have gone on to study musical theater in college; at least one has graduated (Jor-dan McArthur) and has signed with an agent.

Seniors from the past two years earned scholarships to the prestigious Shenandoah Con-servatory (Nigel Huckel and Corinne Davis from Hidden Valley High School.) “They’re doing great,” said Jones, pleased that his school has been around long enough where he can see ex-students excel at the college level.

Six of Jones’ students were in last year's show. Jones audi-tions kids that are serious about musical theater for workshops in middle school, then invites those who make the cut to join his performing arts program when they reach high school.

Those who attend the an-nual Broadway-themed shows often “walk out with their jaws dropping,” said Jones who re-mains amazed at the level of professionalism demonstrated by high school students. One e-mail Jones received after last winter’s performance he recalls quite vividly: “it was halfway through the show when they realized that teenagers were on stage and not adults. I thought that was the greatest compli-ment they could get.”

For tickets visit the Jefferson Center box office beforehand or try the standby line on the atri-um level 30 minutes before each show on Saturday. For more on the Monster Musicals! show or the Kevin Jones Performing Arts School see kjpas.com.


Opera Roanoke opened the 2010-11 season to a packed house at the Jefferson Center with the French opera "Faust and Furious, A Ride with the Devil!" written mainly by Charles Gounod. One of the most popular operas of all times it is a passion filled production that tells the story of an old man, Faust, who strikes a deal with the devil to regain his youth. In the process he ends up destroy-ing the life of the woman he loved, but in the end he repents and finds redemption.

According to Steven White, Artistic Advisor and Princi-pal Guest Conductor of Opera Roanoke, a fully staged pro-duction of Faust would cost approximately $140,000.00. By eliminating the costumes and sets the cost drops to just alittle over $40,000.00, still a tidy sum for one performance.

The three main characters, beautifully sung, were Margue-rite, (Barbara Shirvis, soprano),

Faust (Dinyar Vania, tenor), and Mefistofele (the Devil) Jef-frey Tucker, bass. Scott Wil-liamson, General and Artistic Director of Opera Roanoke, was the narrator.

In addition to the principle singers and the Roanoke Sym-phony Orchestra, Maestro White was joined on stage (and in the aisles), by over 175 mem-bers of the choirs of Liberty University, Roanoke College Childrens Choir, the Virginia Chorale, and the Roanoke Sym-phony Orchestra Chorus.

In addition to doing a seem-ingly impossible job of conduct-ing the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, all of the choirs, and the principle singers at the same time, White sings each part while conducting. It is a truly amazing feat -- display-ing his tremendous talent and command of the entire produc-tion. He uses his baton, much as a matador uses his sword and cape, to take command of the entire cast. White later told me "this is the first time I've conducted most of this music, with the exception of one of the Gounod numbers, but it's all music I've known and wanted to do for at least two decades!"

White left the next day to con-duct at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he is one of the cover conductors.

The entire group, especially the lead opera singers, did an outstanding job and earned a well deserved standing ovation.

The next performances by Opera Roanoke will be recitals

November 7th and January 23, followed by a full production of Madame Butterfly on March 18 and 20th, and a Mothers Day Serenade on May 8, 2011.

All performances will be at the Jefferson Center.

Opera Roanoke Opens "Faust and Furious!"

By Jim Bullington

With country cooks and crafters, wheat threshers and moonshiners, sheepherders and banjo frailers, the Ferrum Col-lege campus becomes a one-day showcase of western Virginia’s “real-roots” traditions. The 2010 Blue Ridge Folklife Festival will be held on Saturday, Oct. 23, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

According to Roddy Moore, director of the Blue Ridge In-stitute, two new musical events will be added to this year’s line-up. Norman Kennedy, a Na-tional Endowment of the Arts, National Heritage Fellowship Honoree and National Treasure Honoree of Scotland, will be featured in the Old World-New World Ballad Workshop, along with ballad singers Gin Bur-ris and Rick Ward. In addition, Burris and Ward will join dulci-mer masters Ken Bloom, Phyl-lis Gaskins, and Marsha Harris to explore the musical magic of one of Virginia’s oldest instru-ments during the festival’s Vir-ginia Dulcimer Workshop.

The festival, a Crooked Road Music Trail “major venue,” fea-tures three stages of the region’s best fiddle-and-banjo, blue-grass, gospel and blues music. More than 20 top roots-music artists—including crisp-picking Wayne Henderson, the joyful Spiritual Seven, bluesman Jef-frey Scott, and piano wizard Jeff Little—are on the 2010 lineup.

“The Blue Ridge Folklife Fes-tival has more traditional music and crafts than any other festi-val in this part of the country.

For nearly four decades, the festival has showcased the best of traditional rural Blue Ridge crafts that have been passed down through the community,” says Roddy Moore, Institute Di-rector. “The festival celebrates a contemporary lifestyle with a heritage twist.”

More than 50 quality artisans will demonstrate rural Blue Ridge crafts rarely seen at area craft shows, from chair mak-ing and guitar building to knife making and rug braiding. Many of the crafts will be offered for sale.

To highlight the working farm animals, the festival will include horse pulling, mule jumping, and coon dog treeing and swimming contests that test the talents of both animals and handlers. Border collies, too, will show off their skills herding sheep.

The festival has its own “heavy metal” crowd drawn to the rumble of steam-and-gas-en-

gines and custom and restored cars. Dozens of vintage pieces of farm equipment include a working threshing machine, rock crusher, and hay baler.

Hungry? From black pot chicken to pumpkin butter, more than 20 country foods are prepared onsite at the fes-tival. In addition, there are plenty of take-home fried apple pies, cakes, hard tack candies and vegetables. Children’s folk games conducted throughout the day help to make the festi-val a family event enjoyed by all ages.

The festival will be held rain or shine on the Ferrum College campus, located 10 miles west of Rocky Mount, Va., on Rt. 40. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children (ages 6 to 15) and senior citizens (ages 55 and old-er), and parking is free. For more information, call 540-365-4416, email [email protected], or visit www.blueridgeinstitute.org.

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The 469-mile-long Blue Ridge Parkway is often depicted as being “more than a road.” Su-perintendent Phil Francis interprets this in part by explaining that “many people see local com-munities as a gateway to the Parkway. We often think of the Parkway as a gateway to unique lo-cal communities and authentic experiences.”

This communities-centered rethinking was a common theme during a three-day-long 75th anniversary event where you might have expect-ed only nostalgic retrospectives of days gone by. But the conference, October 14-16 at Hotel Roa-noke, cast its vision boldly toward the future.

"Imagining The Blue Ridge Parkway for the 21st Century: Sustaining Communities, Envi-ronments, and Economics," was hosted by the Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment in partnership with Blue Ridge Parkway 75, an entity that will endure beyond the celebratory anniversary event to help guide, advise and assist National Park staff in managing assets and programs.

More than thirty speakers addressed some 120 community leaders and participants from a wide variety of disciplines and organizations, and from across the reach of the twenty-nine counties of North Carolina and Virginia through which the roadway passes.

While the maintenance and oversight of the nation’s most visited National Park is a matter of

fiscal concern in an era of continually declining budgets, the emphasis here was on the promise of cooperative programs that are increasingly likely in the Parkway’s next 75 years, with an emphasis on partnerships, stewardship and sus-tainability.

One of those partnerships has been and will increasingly be with local educators, parents and grandparents to ensure that resident or visiting children take full advantage of the parks unique learning resources. Discussions at the sympo-sium often turned to the importance of nurtur-ing a connection with the next generation—those young citizens who will inherit decision making and stewardship for this national and natural treasure.

Indicative of the importance of that focus was the Friday night keynote address of Richard Louv, best-selling author of "Last Child in the Woods." His presentation began with a quick disclaimer for all those in the audience—includ-ing Louv himself—who had secretly checked their phones since the dinner event began.

“The problem is not what we’re doing. It’s what we’re not doing. The problem is not that we’re using technology. It’s that we’re not using nature” Louv stated.

While describing studies that show such con-ditions as childhood obesity, attention deficit dis-order and childhood depression are made worse by our modern indifference to and distance from natural surroundings for play and recreation, his message was overwhelmingly positive.

“Nature deficit disorder” is not permanent, and it is possible to remedy in our society, now that we’ve been given the words to describe it. The phrase describes a kind of invisible ailment that so many teachers, parents and grandparents have acknowledged. We now know what to call the enemy, and that is half the battle.

Louv cautioned that “we have to be careful how we talk about the future with our children.” He challenged the audience to understand that, if we are to succeed in the face of urgent natural resource and economic challenges, the coming decades will need to be some of the most creative in human history. He suggested a positive, “bio-philic” perspective of working with rather than against nature, with a renewed sense of wonder, understanding and hope that can be rekindled by closer contact with the natural world.

The author encouraged his audience to em-brace sustainability, but mind the language. “Sus-tainability sounds too much like stasis. Kids are not interested in stasis. We’re not here to merely survive. This can be a better world. They can be

better people.” Batteries and electrical outlets are not required for this.

Asked what he considered the most encourag-ing change to come out of the work he’d started some five years ago to re-nature our lives, Louv responded that “it is the fact that, across the country and the world, so many individuals, or-ganizations and towns have taken up the task.”

Likewise, perhaps the most hopeful sign of positive change for the Blue Ridge Parkway in coming decades is the fact that so many indi-viduals, partner organizations, towns and vil-lages along its path—many in attendance at this symposium—will have taken up the task of the park’s care and best use. We will more fully com-prehend that this “ribbon-roadway through a borrowed landscape” is a gateway by which we might reconnect our lives for good with the nat-ural world and each other.

One could only come away from this con-ference with the sense that citizens of Virginia, Carolina and the country are coming to embrace this one fact: this is OUR park. Imagine that!

The Blue Ridge Parkway: Gateway To The Future

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Photo by Fred First

The Blue Ridge Parkway at Tuggles Gap.

Fred First with author Richard Louv.

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