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Karen Kwiatkowski an-nounced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for Virginia’s 6th congressio-nal district Thursday at Gypsy Hill Park in Staunton. Dur-ing her speech she challenged incumbent Republican Bob Goodlatte to a series of public debates.

The Roanoke Tea Party has offered to host the first debate after the fall elections. “We ex-pect at least three debates. I am ready to meet the incumbent anywhere in the 6th district and talk publicly about the is-sues,” she said.

Kwiatkowski’s campaign theme and election promise “is simple and rock-solid,” she says and “Reduce, Redirect and Rein-In” the federal govern-ment, she said. She describes herself as a conservative consti-tutionalist.

If you count the “applause-o-meter” interruptions dur-ing Karen Kwiat-kowski speech to the Roanoke Tea Party in June, it signals a future endorsement. She hit all the right notes.

When asked why she thinks Goodlatte needs to go, Kwiat-kowski said he is “a go-along, get-along guy … he is an es-tablishment Republican.”

“His constituents are not happy with him,” she claimed.

Chip Tarbutton, president of the Roanoke Tea Party, said they’d look at endorsements for 2012 after Virginia’s 2011 elections. If a primary were the method selected, it would take place June 12, 2012.

Thursday she said the “[Re-publican] party talks the talk, but does not walk the walk … I am a Re-

publican who honors the Con-stitution, believes in liberty and is a hard-core fiscal conserva-tive.”

Kwiatkowski believes that the Patriot Act is unconstitutional

Five years ago a volunteer group of parents came together to form Katie’s Place, a residen-tial farm community in Blue Ridge for individuals with spe-cial needs.

The mission of Katie’s Place is to improve the quality of life for people by providing them with opportunities to pursue the rewards of self-satisfaction, growth, and community in a rural, farm-like setting. To date, Katie’s Place has been serving individuals of all ages by pro-viding respite weekends twice a month.

Now, with a $25,000 grant re-ceived from the Foundation for Roanoke Valley’s Youth Leader-ship Committee (YLC), Katie’s Place can begin its day support program which is designed to enrich the lives of special needs adults and create an inclusive environment.

“Day support in this rural area is very much needed,” said Amy Baker, Director of Katie’s Place. “Our focus is to provide services to those who have finished high school but are unable to continue to higher education or transition into the mainstream work place.”

This grant will provide schol-arship assistance for 5-8 individ-uals transportation costs, and staffing needs. The day support program will include options to attend five days, three days or

two days per week, giving par-ents and caregivers the oppor-tunity to work outside the home or tend to other responsibilities. Joy Parrish, Co-President of Katie’s Place added, “Because of this grant, Katie’s Place will be able to begin providing services much sooner than otherwise would have been possible.”

The YLC received twenty-four grant requests total-ing over $617,000 and were charged with the tough task

of gaining consensus among the group on a single project to fund. “I am so impressed with the YLC’s ability to understand the plight of their disabled peers. They showed great compassion and maturity in arriving at this decision,” said Parrish.

The Philanthropy Project was established in 2006 by Founda-tion for Roanoke Valley to in-troduce high school students to the world of philanthropy, both in terms of philanthropy’s role in being a productive citizen of the community and philanthropy as a possible career option. The program also develops leader-ship and consensus-building skills.

This large impact grant has taken the YLC over the $100,000 level in cumulative grants.

For more information about the Youth Leadership Commit-tee and how to get involved, visit www.foundationforroanokeval-ley.org.

Alan Ronk, Foundation for Roanoke Valley Executive Director; Louise Dillon, Katies Place Co-President and Joy Parrish, Katies Place Co-President.

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Just A Backyard Bear

A black bear in Southwest Roanoke County enjoys an impromptu meal of

birdseed at the property owner’s expense last week. The resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, lives within a mile of the new Wal-Mart on Route 220 just south of Roa-noke. Bears are not uncommon visitors in

parts of the county and are foraging far and wide this time of year as they seek to bulk up for the long winter snooze that begins in just a few months. This particular bear did not wish to leave the property and had to be “motivated” by several warning shots before he finally moved on.

The “battle lines” have been drawn: local environmentalists and others looking for Roanoke County to make a statement about supporting alternative en-ergy sources, versus homeown-ers in Bent Mountain worried about aesthetics, property values and any harmful health effects associated with wind turbines that generate electricity.

The next potential “battlefield skirmish,” as it is may be, will take place at Tuesday’s public hearing during the Ro-a n o k e County Board of Supervisors meeting (Aug. 23, 7 p.m.) at the county administration building off Elec-tric Rd./Rt. 419. The hearing is for a proposed countywide ordi-nance that would set guidelines for all wind turbine projects; Board-approved special use per-mits would still be needed for each particular application.

“Enter another player,” said Diana Christopulos, executive director of the Roanoke Val-ley Cool Cities Coalition, which conditionally supports a pro-posed wind turbine project on Poor Mountain, on leased land

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Fee Increases Give Council Heartburn

Roanoke City Council put Curt Baker, Deputy Superin-tendent for Roanoke City Pub-lic Schools on the spot Monday morning. What was thought to be a routine request to approve renewal of the $10 million line of credit with Wells Fargo turned into financial sausage making.

Causing the heartburn was an increase in the banking fee from $2000 last year to $35,000 for fiscal year 2012. Even if the LOC is not used during the year, RCPS will incur the fee. Wells Fargo indicated that they could not continue to subsidize the LOC anymore.

The LOC has been used for overdraft protection and liquidi-ty issues since 2008. Under ques-tioning from Councilman Ray Ferris, Baker assured him that “it

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was not a facility for cash management.”Baker said that Wells Fargo representa-

tives told him the increase was necessary. The banking industry is adapting to finan-cial regulations imposed by the Dodd-Frank Act and is preparing for other impending financial regulations. These regulations are anticipated to impose higher capitalization requirements for loans and debt facilities.

“The Dodd-Frank Act requires higher re-serves to be set aside, resulting in a per an-num increase to .35% basis point,” explained Baker. He said they had accessed the LOC ten times over the last three years.

Baker told council that they “will insist on an early termination clause with [Wells Far-go] if a lower cost alternative can be found.”

Councilman Bill Bestpitch lingered on the subject of alternatives to RCPS “cash flow is-sues,” asking Baker whether they have had any “overdraft issues.” Baker recounted that on one occasion, when the bank did not re-cord their deposit in a timely manner, it was accessed overnight. In that case no interest was charged.

Bestpitch grilled Baker, making a point that prior to 2008 before the city and school system severed their financial ties. neither RCPS nor the city had a LOC. Baker was asked if there had been overdrafts or cash flow problems prior to July 2008. Baker was not on board most of that time, saying that as far as he knew it had not been a prob-lem.

Bestpitch hinted that the city and school systems should reestablish their joint finan-cial management arrangement. “The cost to the taxpayers of the city of Roanoke is whose money we are talking about [pre-2008] would be zero,” said Bestpitch.

“I think this council has demonstrated over and over again our strong support for public education,” said Bestpitch. He la-mented over the amount of school supplies the $35,000 would buy. “I happen to know for a fact … that we have teachers … reach-ing into their own pockets to buy school supplies,” he said.

“As someone who feels a strong obliga-tion to represent the interest of the taxpayer, I just can’t see spending $35,000 just to have a line of credit,” said Bestpitch

Councilman Court Rosen said he didn’t have a problem and understood from a business point of view the need for a line of credit. “I think it’s smart … it’s the school board’s prerogative,” he said.

Director of finance, Ann Shawver con-firmed that low cash flow situations occur both for the city and the school system about the same time every year. It would be difficult for the city to “backstop” the school system she explained.

Shawver’s request for Proposal for a new bank would take six months. In her dis-cussion with a Wells Fargo representative, Shawver said that she got the impression that the city and school system would be

hard-pressed to find another financial insti-tution that would be less costly.

Councilman Sherman Lea said, “to me what is being done by Wells Fargo [equates] to some issues we’ve had with loan sharks.” Lea said he understood the need for the line of credit but that he was “tired of sitting up here and being held hostage” in situations they had no control over.

In the end City Council tabled the LOC approval until the next council meeting though Shawver explained it would take 30 days or more. Council asked that Baker and Shawver work on “alternatives” for their next meeting.

Mayor Bowers was absent and council members Lea, Ferris, Bestpitch and Price voted to table while Trinkle and Rosen vot-ed “no.”

School Board Chairman, David Carson said in an email:

“I regret the position that the bank has put us all in. I understand and share Council’s concern. I also appreciate that the school finance folks are trying to be extra careful with respect to RCPS finances - a job they have done extraordinarily well for my entire time on the Board.

As we have with many difficult issues that have confronted us over the past several years, we will work through our concerns together.”

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and the 16th and 17th amend-ments should be repealed. Though she would abolish the federal income tax, she doesn’t support the Fair Tax. By abol-ishing the 17th amendment, she would return the power to governors and state legisla-tors to appoint Senators to the U.S. Senate. “It has produced U.S. Senators who cannot be accountable to the people they represent,” she said.

Kwiatkowski or Goodlatte will face Democrat Andy Schmook-

ler, who so far is the only Demo-crat seeking the Democratic nomination. Both Schmookler, 65 and Kwiatkowski, 50 live in Shenandoah County close to the West Virginia border.

She plans to take Goodlatte to task on his votes for Obamacare, raising the debt ceiling, and af-firming the USA Patriot Act of 2001. “The Patriot Act is uncon-stitutional,” said Kwiatkowski.

She admonished Goodlatte for not proposing the elimina-tion of ethanol subsidies, then reversing his stance when “es-tablishment leaders of the GOP told him to.”

“Fortunately, my opponent has in many ways been working hard to get me or someone like me elected,” said Kwiatkowski.

She opposes all subsidies and reduction of the budgets of fed-eral agencies and audit of the Federal Reserve. “I oppose the

politically-demanded printing of money and tax increases of any kind,” she said.

Kwiatkowski supports bring-ing the troops home to “conduct real border defense” and placing them under governors’ control.

By the government’s actions she believes that “Social Security and Medicare have been made into dangerous Ponzi schemes … “we must transition away from being a nanny state,” she said.

She would support reducing congressional pay and benefits and support legislation to re-quire all members of congress to read bills before they vote.

“No earmarks,” she said and “do away with the No Child Left Behind legislation.”

“A truly free market is the only way to keep America strong and productive,” said Kwiatkowski.

Kwiatkowski is a retired

USAF Lieutenant Colonel. She lives on a farm near Mt. Jack-son with her husband. She has four grown children and two grandchildren. She has a Ph.D. in World Politics from Catho-lic University of America. She admits to having no significant political experience, saying that her articles, opinion pieces and public speaking engagements have been her participation in politics to this point.

From May 2002 to February 2003, she served in the Penta-gon’s Near East and South Asia directorate (NESA). While at NESA, she wrote a series of anonymous articles, “Insider Notes from the Pentagon.” Kwi-atkowski was in her office inside the Pentagon when it was at-tacked on September 11, 2001.

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Roanoke is in the running for a statewide tourism promotion as part of the “Bring LOVE to Your Town” event. The Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) opened a Facebook vote on Wednesday, August 17 that ran through Thursday, August 18 to determine which town in Vir-ginia will receive the giant sized L-O-V-E letters to display. The VTC will install the artwork at the winning destination on Au-gust 31 to be on display through September.

The promotion ties into the Virginia is for Lovers marketing campaign which promotes Vir-ginia as an ideal destination for families. "Our iconic Virginia is for Lovers brand is about love - pure and simple, and has been for more than 40 years," said Alisa Bailey, president and CEO of the Virginia Tourism Cor-poration. "The LOVE artwork has great social media buzz and promotes the message that love is at the heart of every Virginia vacation.”

More than a dozen Virginia localities have nominated their location to display the LOVE artwork and were part of the Facebook voting. If successful, the Roanoke Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau has chosen to display the LOVE artwork at the corner of Williamson Road and Shenandoah Avenue. This loca-tion is next to the Visitor Center and O. Winston Link Museum. The backdrop is of Mill Moun-tain as well as the Roanoke Star and the Taubman Museum of

Art. As the gateway to Down-town Roanoke, the letters will be highly visible from Williamson Road as well as Interstate 581. The LOVE artwork is 16 feet wide and eight feet tall.

If successful, visitors will be encouraged to take a family pic-ture in front of the artwork and share it on Facebook at www.Fa-cebook.com/VirginiaisforLovers and on Twitter, using the special hashtag #LOVEVA.

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carpetroanoke.com Licensed & Insured near the current location of ra-dio/TV towers and AEP trans-mission lines: the Tea Party, which has opposed wind tur-bine projects across the country, according to Christopulos, as a government infringement on the rights of adjacent property owners that don’t want them in their backyard.

“There’s still a lot of hurdles they have to meet,” cautions Christopulos about the pro-posed wind turbine farm. “No formal application from Chi-cago-based Invenergy is on the table yet,” she adds. Christopu-los expects a number of local Tea Party supporters to speak on Tuesday as well. The local Sierra Club chapter also supports the wind turbine ordinance and the Poor Mountain project.

The Board of Supervisors could vote on the ordinance af-

ter the public hearing or could delay a vote until another meet-ing after digesting all of the com-ments received. The Roanoke County Planning Commission put off a vote several times after hearing detractors talk about reduced property values, dimin-ished natural viewsheds and the harmful effects of whirring tur-bine blades before voting 3-2 to recommend passage of the ordi-nance by the Board of Supervi-sors.

Several months ago the BOS did enact an ordinance cover-ing smaller wind turbine proj-ects; however they are nothing like the 443’ towers, 18 in all, proposed by Invenergy for Poor Mountain.

Christopulos is perplexed by one recommendation made by the Planning Commission, which called for a half mile set-

back from a wind turbine tower to an adjacent residence, saying national standards for health and safety are more like 110% of the height of the tower; she’s hopeful supervisors will change any ordinance to something along those lines. She claims that concerns about health hazards is based on outdated information and old technology.

A Federal Aviation Adminis-tration study signed off on the location of all but three towers, saying they would not be an im-pediment to flights in and out of Roanoke Regional Airport. The agency did say three turbine towers might have to be moved, shortened or taken out of Inve-nergy’s plans.

Christopulos also believes a wind farm, which would feed electricity created into the AEP grid, could send a message about

the Roanoke Valley, helping to land high-tech companies with a similar green attitude. It could also be an educational tool and a tourist attraction, with a pro-posed community center at the former Bent Mountain Elemen-tary School serving as the infor-mation center.

Speaking of “green,” with a property tax rate tied to the amount invested, and Inve-nergy proposing to spend a $100 million on Poor Moun-tain, Roanoke County could see $800,000 in tax revenues in the first year of operation, according to Christopulos, who will likely hear plenty of opposition at next Tuesday’s meeting. “It just de-pends on how people respond to it. You can’t really tell until we’re there [at the hearing].”

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Preparing for the 2nd Annual Cueballs for a Cure on August 20, members of the Red Devil Warriors, a nonprofit cancer support organization, showed off their fiery roasted chicken chili at the Chili Cook-Off and Bike Show at Biker Church Ro-anoke. The event benefited the Salvation Army’s Turning Point & Starting Point programs. “The Red Devil Warriors got their name from a chemo treat-ment that patients nicknamed the “red devil,” said the organi-zation’s Vice President Yvette Michaud. “We started out help-ing our friends and family who were battling cancer and it grew and grew. We support with ran-dom acts of kindness, includ-ing supplying chemo treatment rooms with drinks and snacks, hand knit afghans, help with

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“TomatOlympics” Highlight Eastmont Tomato Festival

That’s the first two lines of the official Eastmont Tomato Festi-val song and it summed up the outlook of hundreds of people who gathered at last Saturdays Shawsville’s Meadowbrook Cen-ter for the fourth annual event that offered everything a tomato lover ever dreamed of - and then some.

Every kind of tomato imag-inable was on display as well as tomato art, the TomatOlympic games and the requisite crown-ing of the 2011 Tomato Queen which highlighted an afternoon that took away everyone’s wor-ries and more than once had the crowd roaring with approval and laughter.

The Tomato Queen pageant opened the day’s festivities with, unlike prior years, a sizeable group of tomato queen hopefuls vying for the crown. Last year’s queen, Terry Ellen Carter, was on hand to pass the crown which had come with much to shoul-der. So much, in fact, Carter had adopted the stage name Juliet Roma to get her through her one year of fame and glory.

After all the tomato seeds had settled, Barbara Dillard was named the 2011 Queen, much to the audience’s approval. “It’s a great moment,” Dillard pro-

claimed afterward. “I prepared all year... just to get my nerve up.” Dillard was undecided if she was going to adopt an alias.

But, a late entry and their sub-sequent appearance on stage had the onlookers rolling in the aisles. The final contestant, entered un-der the name T. Audrey Tomatoe, drew some suspicions from the throng that were well-deserved, despite T. Audrey being adorned in a tasteful tomato-red gown. After an impromptu gathering of the judges, order was restored and Dave Angle (ah, T. Audrey) was unanimously crowned To-mato King of Queens.

The TomatOlympics clearly put a new twist into the sporting aspect of the tomato. Races, ob-stacle courses involving tomatoes and a tomato-eating contest that tested everyone’s gastronomical fortitude drew a large number of contestants. The games ended with Tomato-Target-Man, aka Robert Pilkington, being pelted with a sizeable assortment of the juicy fruits as he wore a shirt fea-turing a large bull’s eye.

The festival plays on the fact that there were numerous to-mato farms and canneries in the Eastmont area during the first half of the 20th century. Proceeds of the festival benefit the Karen Cronin Legacy Fund which awards a grant towards an arts or gardening program. Cronin, a prior Tomato Queen herself, was a well-known vol-unteer in Montgomery County. Cronin died in February from complications from a scuba div-ing accident in Hawaii. Her hus-

band, Mike Cronin, kept busy Saturday with the festival while Karen’s picture was displayed in the festival gazebo.

The 2011 Eastmont Tomato Queen, Barbara Dillard.

Tomato Pageant MC Robert Pilkington (left) questions pag-eant queen-hopeful Dave Angle, aka T. Audrey Tomato.

A first time event planned for next month in Roanoke is making a last minute plea for 5k and 10K runners, before that portion of the program is canceled. “Fired Up for a Cure,” sponsored by Roanoke City Fire-EMS, will raise money to fight breast cancer, with proceeds from the scheduled footraces, a silent auction and other activi-ties going to an organization that provides mammograms and pap smears to low-income women who otherwise can’t afford those services.

Tiffany Bradbury, the Fire Pre-vention Specialist for Roanoke Fire-EMS, says that unless they can convince more area runners to sign up by August 24 (for the September 24 event) they will have to cancel the footrace por-tion of the program. Runners can register online at roanokeva.gov/playonline. There’s also a link on the starcitystriders.com web-site, which includes a calendar of all local footraces in the area and links to registration pages.

A nurse from Carilion and a Roanoke firefighter came up with the original idea for a breast cancer fundraiser, and “it’s kind of turned into a big thing,” said Bradbury, who left WSLS-10 to coordinate public relations for Roanoke Fire-EMS. In October many fire departments will wear pink on certain days to promote breast cancer awareness – some-thing they will do in Roanoke City.

A 5K walk has now been in-cluded, to attract those not in-clined to run. The 9 a.m. races start from the Roanoke Civic Center and end there, and in-clude a portion of the Lick Run Greenway. Afterwards from

10:30 a.m. -3 p.m. there will be free child seat safety checks, a kids carnival and free ice skating from noon-3 p.m. at the Civic Center coliseum. Gold’s Gym will conduct a zumba class, with the $5 participation fee going to “Every Women’s Life” - a non-profit that provides free mam-mograms to underinsured and uninsured women. Sign ups for mammograms will be held on September 24.

A portion of the day’s proceeds will go to the American Can-cer Society as well. Free health screenings will be available on September 24th as well and pink t-shirts with the “Fired Up” logo will be available for sale.

“We’ve got a lot of stuff going on there,” said Bradbury. Car-ilion’s Lifeguard 10 helicopter will be on hand for the curious to take a look. The day is also designed as an early kickoff for fire prevention month in Octo-ber, which has a theme this year of “protect your family from fire.” Look for a number of pink trucks in the Civic Center park-ing lot that day, symbolizing breast cancer awareness.

Roanoke’s fire safety trail-er will be on hand, with bat-teries for smoke detectors available as well. Overall said Bradbury, Fired Up for a Cure is a “show of support for women and families that have battled breast cancer.” The department has seen members lose their lives to cancer in recent years, one

reason part of the proceeds will go to the American Cancer So-ciety.

Bradbury said only a handful of runners had signed up as of last week; the 5K and 10K races need a combined minimum of 100 in order to proceed, since there are timers to pay and the like. “I guess it just wouldn’t make sense [financially other-wise].” If the race is canceled, those that have signed up will get their money back, Bradbury as-sures. The 5K and 10K runs are $30 per person; the 5K walk is $20.

If the race has enough people sign up by August 24, registra-tion online and on race day will continue until September 24. Bradbury would like to see a flurry of registration activity this week however, to ensure that the race will go on. “[We’ve] been posting stuff up all over town,” said a hopeful Bradbury.

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Commander Oliver Perry’s mes-sage to General William Henry Harrison after the battle of Lake Champlain in 1813. In the com-ic strip, Pogo was disconsolately looking at a polluted stream when he made his pronounce-ment. The environment has improved greatly in the past 40 years, although much remains to be done.

As it turns out the battlefield has been broadened to much more than pollution, but it is still the same enemy: us. We are headed for a con-tinuing financial crisis and given the recent performance of our elected officials, there is little room for opti-mism.

Every thinking person has seen this coming and most have been sickened by the lack of political will of our leaders. There is more than enough blame to go around, but it is time to lay the battle plan on the table and stop pointing accusing fingers. I took Congressman Goodlatte at his word when he said he wanted to hear from me. I told him that Congress had two choices. They could protect their jobs with pointless political posturing or they could face the unpopular choices that will have to be made and risk loss of their congressio-nal seats.

Needless to say, I did not hear back but he supported the bill (Morgan Griffith did not). Bob’s favorite point seemed to be an

amendment to the Constitution for a balanced budget. That’s a safe idea because it would never get the two-thirds vote to get out of Congress; they can’t get that many votes to agree on what time it is. Three-fourths of the state legislatures then have to rat-ify it; that would take years. Most important, such an amendment does nothing to address the cur-rent fiscal mess.

We have seen what the Tea Party members of Congress have offered us: Standing at the precipice on two banana peels. If there were easy solutions (as they insist) they would have been

found. We are now faced with choices that no one wants but, as all our mothers told us, sometimes we have to do things we don’t like.

Congress has ap-pointed a committee. How innovative! Re-

member the Simp-son/Bowles Com-mission report last

year? It contained many propos-als to address the federal deficit among which were Social Secu-rity cuts, tax reform, Medicare and Medicaid changes, along with decreases in discretion-ary and defense spending. All are sensible; all are the third rail of political life. The report was ignored. No politician wants to touch them because it seems tantamount to defeat at the polls. It is totally disingenuous that a Super Committee will produce an “Aha!” moment for Congress.

Our government, at every level, needs to choose on which side they will fight this battle.

Will it be to protect their jobs which consist of casting votes for a living? Or will it be one of accountability and making the hugely unpopular choices that must be made, even it means go-ing back to employment in the real world?

One would hope that the general disgust we, the people, feel for the performance of our elected officials will keep us from succumbing to the pap they con-stantly offer us. We are the ones who will suffer if nothing serious is done. We are the ones who must sacrifice to save the coun-try. The politicians will plod along pretty much unaffected.

During World War II every-one buckled down to gas, food, and shoe rationing. We saved bacon grease, we walked instead of driving, and we saved scrap metal and paper. Compared to what the Brits suffered, it was lit-tle more than an inconvenience. It was for a cause in which we all believed and few complained. If we are to survive this economic crisis we must have the same willingness to make sacrifices, albeit of a different type and with less certainty of the outcome.

Congress can get this done and we can hope the electorate will not punish them for making hard choices. If they choose to protect their jobs at our expense, then shame on them. They are on vacation and now is the time to give them an earful. At least they’re not in Washington argu-ing endlessly with those who hold opposing views.

It is truly the time for us to stop being our own enemy and work for what the Founding Fa-thers called the commonweal. I hope we have the courage to make the sacrifices needed even if Congress doesn’t.

As Tom Paine said in 1776, “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer sol-dier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

Listen up, citizens and leaders alike; it was true then and it’s true now. If we’re not going to be part of the solution, then get out of the way. We are certainly a major part of the problem.

Two Pets - Two Perspectives . . .He has no sense of

being less than any other. He is toler-

ant and urbane; and though we have many animals in our home, I swear the most solitary and unsung of them is our ger-bil [Actually, my `step-gerbil’; he actually belongs to Sabrina.] But issues of legal ownership aside, this inoffensive little quad-ruped impresses me.

Now, it’s true I could fertilize the White House lawn twice a week with what he leaves on the bottom of his cage [I’m some-what surprised a veg-etable garden hasn’t sprung up spontaneously in the corner of his cage, given his diet of seeds and the amount of ‘mulch’ available]; and yes, he beats noisily on his water bottle when he wants me to put him in his little exercise ball and let him roll around the floor. He pounds with an imperial dis-pleasure, feeling he has been most patient but said patience has been completely and jus-tifiably exhausted. “Thank you very much, and it’s about time you showed up!” But I would fuss too.

He refuses to allow his sleep patterns to be dictated by his species. To wit, he snoozes whenever he bloody well wish-es, and stays awake for periods of his own choosing. But for the most part, his little life is rounded by sleep.

This precious little creature is growing slowly older like the curling of a leaf stem [not unlike someone else I know.] Blithely ignoring the fact that he and his kind seem to have been set on earth for the spe-cific purpose of rounding out the bottom of the food chain, he cheerfully lives his little life,

relishes his fresh food and wa-ter, demands little, runs on his wheel for miles, burrows under his bedding and is content with his lot. He is one of God’s more self-sufficient little creatures.

THE LAW OF THE PACKSeveral years ago, a friend of

ours wisely judged he could no longer be a fit owner to his little black and white bird dog, ‘Bran-di.’ He asked if we would take her on. Yes, but not without some misgivings. The rest of our dogs are Dobie’s; eighty pounds and up. From her per-spective, little Brandi must have felt like a

prairie dog among buffalo. But Brandi knew a trick: she

fully understood and abided by the law of the pack. That law gives order to a group which might otherwise tear itself apart, destroying the hopes and the life of any individual involved therein, and thus, the group itself. Perhaps this is why, over generations, the law evolved; it forges the group to a common purpose and order. Only rarely can an individual creature in the wild survive on its own.

In terms of ranking, there are leaders, or alphas [not necessarily male], then betas, gammas, deltas, etc., down to, and very much including the lowest-ranking member of the pack. For a human two-some who might own a single dog and feel themselves excluded from this law, they should think again. In any dog’s mind, there must be a pack; no excep-tions. There must be an alpha; no exceptions. One or both of the humans must be the leader, or the dog will assume that role; this is the dog who will not fol-low commands. Why should

the boss obey subordinates? Although Brandi has more

energy than a potful of cof-fee, she knows her place; she was the littlest, the weakest; so that’s how she acted; and since then, has gotten along just fine. Watching her, I am moved to wonder if any human being has been so happy with so little. Her long tail, a metronome of her overall happiness, beats so rapidly her hindquarters are drawn to this extravagance of pure joy as to make you fear for her vertebrae. When she gets excited she dances, her front legs beating a staccato on the floor any drummer would be proud to call his own. She vocalizes, “Row! Row! Row! Almost like the old children’s’ rhyme about the boat. But for the want of a few consonants, I’m convinced she could speak fluent French.

She is the last dog in or out of the door; the last one up the hill on the morning run [although I would surmise she’s holding back those after-burners of hers.] This is all part of know-ing her place. The rules, while unwritten, are nevertheless in-violable. This is neither conde-scension nor a stark violation of political correctness. This is a law which governs dog packs, and, in the animal world, may well spell the difference be-tween survival and expulsion, or worse . . .

The world has its ways, doesn't it.

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Grilled Chipotle Orange Chicken Legs

There is still plenty of summer weather left for grilling but the

signs of the season’s end are all around us. One of the most obvious signs in my life (with 2 young children) is the impend-ing start of the school year. Ev-erything seems to start up at the same time – school, sports, homework, clubs, the new church season and I am sure there is more that hasn’t even hit my radar yet.

It really is exciting, I don’t mean to complain about the prospect of it all - new begin-nings are quite amazing. The promise a new season brings and the privilege of being in-volved in work that may make some good things happen is certainly a wonderful blessing.

But my heart is a sentimental one, nostalgic and forever hold-ing onto the freedom found in the summer days it cherishes.

We will relish in these last days of summer break - We will swim, play in the dirt, eat toma-toes, read in the hammock and grill chicken legs . . . And then we will march forward into the new fall season with great hope of what is to come. Happy Late Summer All!1 cup fresh orange juice, divided 5 tablespoons soy sauce, divided 3 tablespoons brown sugar 2 tablespoons olive oil 6 garlic cloves, pressed 1 tablespoon orange zest 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt 1 teaspoon ground chipotle chile pepper 2 pounds chicken drumsticks (about 8 drumsticks) 2 teaspoons brown sugar 2 teaspoons cornstarch

- Preheat grill to 350° to 400° (medium-high) heat. Combine 1/4 cup orange juice, 3 Tbsp.

soy sauce, 3 Tbsp. brown sugar, and next 5 ingredients in a shal-low dish or large zip-top plastic freezer bag; add chicken. Cover or seal, and chill 10 minutes. Re-move chicken from marinade, discarding marinade.

- Grill chicken, covered with grill lid, 10 to 12 minutes on each side or until done. Remove from grill; cover with aluminum foil, and let stand 10 minutes.

- Meanwhile, whisk together 2 tsp. brown sugar, remaining 3/4 cup orange juice, and 2 Tbsp. soy sauce in a small saucepan. Whisk together cornstarch and 2 tsp. water, and whisk into or-ange juice mixture. Bring mix-ture to a boil over medium heat, and cook, whisking constantly, 1 minute or until thickened. Brush sauce over chicken.

I Have Questions . . . I Hope You Have Answers

I have questions. These are not topical queries such as, “If the United States

credit rating has really been lowered, does the Department of Defense require a co-signer if they needed to purchase a few extra Stealth Bombers? No sir, my questions are those which have baffled far more developed minds than my own. Today, I seek the assistance of you, the loyal readers of the Roanoke Star Sentinel to help me decode the mysteries which plague your humble servant.

QUESTION ONEHow does a man

who has been unem-ployed for four plus months be-come magically selected for jury duty on the very day he begins his new job?

The same wonderful system which granted Casey Anthony a get-out-of-jail-free card man-aged to obstruct employment as-similation by presenting me with yet another opportunity to wait in a large room with a gathering of equally perturbed citizens.

I fully understand the impor-tance of performing one’s civic duty, however, where were the document toting deputies when I was wasting away my life watch-ing ten straight hours of “Crimi-nal Minds” on cable? Fully and freshly educated on the moti-vations and characteristics of a serial killer, I would have gladly jaunted down to the courthouse and lent my expertise, but no, I was served a juror appearance notice before the ink was dry on my offer letter. In my world, ev-ery day is April 1st.

QUESTION TWOWhat is with the ever rising

skunk population in the Raleigh Court area?

Growing up in Long Island my only skunk encounters were visiting the stuffed, motionless, pre-historic replicas in the Mu-seum of Natural History and

Peppy LaPew. Last year’s infestation in-troduced us all to the insidious Stink Bug, an armored annoyance which swarmed into every home in large numbers. Oh yes, and they are indestructible to boot. Vacuum them, beat them flightless with a rolled up news-paper, or mash them

with your shoe, this breed is the Chuck Norris of insects.

But now this season, South-west Roanoke is hosting a skunk invasion. Though not nearly as ambitious as their winged prede-cessors, these two-tone rodents do put the bugs to shame in the “stink” department. I am begin-ning to think that the manifesta-tion of these odor carrying raid-ers could be a sign of more dire times ahead, sort of modern day plagues forewarning us of the Mayan prediction of the upcom-ing cataclysm in 2012. Moses saw frogs falling from the sky, why not skunks strolling past the Grandin Theatre in packs?

QUESTION THREEWhy is local television news so

limited in their sports reporting?Each night, prior to retiring for

the night, I watch the local news. The hard news and features pre-sented are excellent productions as is the weather on all three local affiliates. Sports coverage, how-

ever, is a different matter. My ob-servation refers not to the on-air talent, but to the selected subject matter. A typical sports report goes something like this; NA-SCAR-Virginia Tech-Selected Scores-Local Sports-NASCAR-Virginia Tech.

I understand that NASCAR is wildly popular in this area of the country, but must we be alerted every time Jimmie Johnson changes his spark plugs? Cer-tainly, our close proximately to Tech demands a strong amount of coverage, yet featuring a regu-lar season basketball practice de-fines the term “Slow News Day.” To paraphrase Virginia native Allen Iverson “Practice? We’re talking about practice?”

Other than football there is little high school coverage at all. Maybe it’s me, but I would rather see PH and Fleming bas-ketball highlights or Glenvar and James River fighting it out on the baseball diamond. To be fair, lo-cal high school sports were very rarely mentioned on the news where I was raised unless a play-er was a victim or the perpetra-tor of a crime, and car racing was being able to drive forty miles per hour on the traffic infested Long Island Expressway.

QUESTION FOURIf I went to the courthouse

dressed as a giant skunk, do you think I would be dismissed from jury duty?

Please response before noon on September 1st, they can only hold my costume reservation until 3pm.

Change Comes Fast To Religion Reporting

A few weeks ago col-umnist Hayden Hol-lingsworth reflected

on how medical education has changed since he was trained as a cardiologist years ago.

Coming across a 22-year-old report taken from a survey in-volving the Religion News Ser-vice, I was fascinated to see how not only churches but how they are written about has changed in the public press.

The changes come about be-cause what were for centuries two institutional bastions of so-ciety have changed so much in the past 25 years. Middle class Americans used to go to their church and read their newspa-per. Today both communica-tion of news and supporting a church have broadened to the point where neither seems as ef-fective as it used to be.

I like the metaphor of a searchlight versus a directed beam. We can bring in more people, but does quantity neces-sarily equal quality?

When I began my career writing about churches for the daily Roanoke evening paper more than a half century ago, the newspaper valued churches as supports of society. The ex-ecutives went to church. To that end, much of the Saturday evening paper was devoted to information about what would be happening in the city's con-gregations the following day.

One of my major tasks was to type a long list of sermon topics which had been sent in on cards by clergy. It was taken quite se-riously. It seems incredible now that a newspaper would devote so much space, but then more Roanokers seem to have gone to church.

Until a few years ago it was routine for me to cover major denominational meetings; little about them is regarded as news-worthy now.

Today in the Roanoke news-papers religion gets its due chiefly in the acts of people; one must read between the lines. Of course, that's what one's religion is meant to do: lead a believer to treat others as he would want to be treated and to give credit to a supreme being through various forms of worship.

But I notice in news stories about people, even when their faith is acknowledged, that their particular congregation is rarely mentioned. I wonder why.

At one time, as a 1989 survey indicated, most daily papers carried news about the institu-tional church and they accepted paid advertising from faith com-munities. Ads for churches are fewer now; they never brought in a lot of revenue.

Seeing the well-regarded At-lanta Journal and Constitution recently on a Saturday, I notice its nod to churches in a personal column by a woman editor and a half page of small ads, some placed by a denominational office. The whole paper, like our local publications, is much smaller. The RNS professional organization, to which I once proudly belonged, may no lon-ger even exist.

The survey of 22 years ago showed that readers then want-ed to read church news, It exam-ined the issue of whether news-papers should give readers only what they want --sex, sports, scandals-- or what they need --information about their gov-ernment, schools and churches.

The trend, even then, was to broaden religion coverage, a trend now intensified by the common words, "inclusion" and "diversity."

There are now at least four ways of getting the day's news--newspapers, radio, television and the Internet. The advertising dollar has been split many ways. As for churches, the denomina-tion of one's family matters less than it once did. Being friendly and offering conveniences are what bring in younger people who are sought everywhere.

Those with a conservative outlook continue to hold to in-errant Scripture and fear water-ing down the faith. Others will always see adaptation to the cul-ture as also biblically based.

To which we can only say, change is constant.

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households participating in WIC may also be eli-gible for free or reduced-price meals based on the household’s income.

Application forms are being distributed to all households with a letter informing households of the availability of free or reduced price meals for their children. Applications are also available at the principal's office in each school and at the central office. To apply for free or reduced price meals, households must only fill out one appli-cation per household and return it to the school division.

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Goodlatte Presents War Medal to Area VeteranCongress Bob Goodlatte awarded the

Bronze Star to Charles D. Easter last week at his Roanoke office.

In April of 1945 Easter and his 34th "Red Bull" Infantry Division were in the Italian War Zone and as the #1 Scout, Easter's job was to report German enemy positions back to the platoon leader. Easter reported that while he had some help from Italian Partisans in the vi-cinity that they were ultimately "mostly in the way" of American efforts to drive the Germans out.

He also reported that fire fights were gen-erally brief as the Germans were retreating towards Switzerland and that they wound up capturing many of them. He also mentioned that one of the highlights of the campaign was liberating the city of Bologna from German occupation.

As a soldier who had received the Combat Infantry Badge, Easter was eligible for the Bronze Star as well.

Mission Models Roam MarketWhere were all the glamorous

women in formal attire going on a Wednesday afternoon in downtown Roanoke?

This year, National Thrift Shop Day, celebrated on Wednesday August 17, was hard to overlook. From 12 noon to 1 p.m. fourteen "Mission Models" were posi-tioned in the City Market area wearing thrift store formal wear to showcase the large selection of formal apparel that the Rescue Mission Thrift Store offers.

"People don't often associate thrift stores with formal wear, but after this they surely will!" said Gail Strickler, one of the or-ganizers of the event for the Res-cue Mission. "We want women to know there are not only beau-tiful but also affordable prom dresses and evening gowns for all occasions at a third or less of the price normally charged right here at our store. What better day to let people know this than on National Thrift Shop Day. "

Models included Rescue Mis-sion staff as well as volunteer college students and business women, all wearing formal wear and accessories they found at the Rescue Missions Thrift Store, located at 402 4th street SE. Ro-tating around the building every three to five minutes, the models will also wore oversized price

tags to show what the entire out-fit would cost if purchased at the Rescue Mission Thrift Store.

"I'm very shy and this is one of the few activities I feel comfort-able doing," said April Saul, a Ro-anoke College math major who was also a model for the event. Mary Ellen Apgar, a Rescue Mis-sion Recovery Program graduate said, "It's fun to get all dressed up and be a part of this performance art on the market to support the Rescue Mission. I’m excited to help promote an event for a place that did so much for me."

"Shopping thrift is great for our personal budgets, but I am even more excited about its other advantages," said Joy Sylvester-Johnson, the Mission’s CEO. "Although this particular event featured the Rescue Mission Thrift Store, we hope it helps to create a thrift consciousness which is great for our sister thrift stores and the ecological health of our entire community. Shop-ping thrift provides a helping hand to such causes as shelters for the homeless, abused women and children, veterans services and sheltered workshops for those with mental and physical challenges. Thrift store shop-ping is a win, win, win, win, win situation!"

The Rescue Mission Thrift Store is an earned income prac-tice of the Rescue Mission, the largest homeless shelter in the state of Virginia, where as many as 400 men, women and children find safe shelter each night. One hundred percent of the profit earned from the Thrift Store and its sister store at Second Helpings goes to provide safe shelter, nu-tritious food, and quality medical attention for homeless families.

For more information about the Rescue Mission, call 540-343-7227.

Rescue Mission staff members & participants in Models on the Market, Kyle Edgell (black dress) & Gail Strickler (red dress), pose in the Thrift Store formal.

Scale Model "Shootout" Comes to Roanoke Civic Center

J. R. Pope of Richmond has been building mod-els for 50 years. As he recalls, the first kit he ever built was an airplane that his father bought him. “We sat in the kitchen and he showed me how to cut things off the tree and how to use the glue.”

From there, Pope evolved his skills to where now, “I’m probably better than I was twenty years ago.” Not only is modeling fun for Pope, it’s a re-lease. “Some people think it’s tedious,” he says. “To me, it’s a pressure release to just sit in the shop and work on these.”

Pope and his fellow lobbyists gathered last Satur-day at the Roanoke Civic Center’s Exhibit Hall for this year’s "Virginia Shootout Scale Model Show and Contest." Presented by the Roanoke chapter of the International Plastic Modelers Society, the contest covers a wide range of categories: aircraft, military vehicles, ships, automotive, space and sci-ence fiction, figures, dioramas, and miscellaneous subjects.

The purpose of the Shootout, explains Roanoke IPMS chapter President Dennis Smith, is “to pro-mote model building through historical render-ings” and “accurate depictions of actual vehicles, whether they be in World War I, World War II, civilian [or] commercial. We have figures [from] science fiction to factual figures.” While most of the entrants are adults, there are kids competing in the contest. “We have a ‘Make and Take’ pro-gram where kids can come in and build models for free,” says Smith. “We’re trying to promote it and get more kids interested [to] give them something other than electronics.”

This year’s Shootout far surpassed last year’s contest. Smith says, “We’ve actually sold more tables this year than we have the last several years, and the models on the tables are excellent quality

and (there are) more entries.”Mike Carroll, a hobbyist from Lynchburg, was

one of several vendors at the Shootout selling mod-el kits. The kits he and fellow hobbyists sell come from the collections that they’re “thinning out” as he puts it. Other vendors offer a range of news kits. “Some of us probably make some money, and oth-ers are probably breaking even,” says Carroll.

A model builder himself, Carroll had two mod-els entered in the Shootout and focuses his model building primarily on military subjects such as ar-mor and tanks. Another vendor, Chuck Connors, who makes his living primarily as a high school science teacher, was selling his “stash” of model kits from his basement. “I take the money I make from here and kind of spend it on other hobby items - it’s kind of like recycling.”

Joe Marranca, a judge at the Shootout, explained that models are evaluated according to IPMS rules. “Essentially, we’re looking at finish and then the overall presentation of the model, how well the model is put together, the alignment of the model, whether or not there are glue marks left on it, how well the paint is put down, whether or not there are any blemishes in the paint - any sort of mistakes.”

Asked what advice he’d give to anyone interested in taking up model building, J. R. Pope “whole-heartedly” suggests they just do it—whatever their age. “It’s a good hobby to get into, it makes you creative. It [can be] frustrating but it’s also some-thing that you can do in the winter time when the snow’s blowing down the street. You can just go off into a corner and build.”

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High school football begins one week from tonight with the August 26th openers for most teams. Key matchups to keep an eye on in week one are Patrick Henry at Hidden Valley, Cave Spring visiting William Byrd and Northside hosting state-power Amherst County. The following afternoon, North Cross opens at 2:00 p.m. when North Carolina private school stalwart Charlotte Latin invades Thomas Field on the North Cross campus.

Kickoff Countdown Begins

Fleming gets its kicking game in order Tuesday morning in preparation for their opener at Franklin County.

The Colonels look to superb condition-ing as a key to 2011.

Wild Bill’s Weekly Sports Roundup

Salem used balanced scoring to take the first of six River Ridge golf matches Tuesday afternoon at Hunting Hills Country Club. Led by Will Chisom's 73, the Spartans (302) pulled away for a 14-shot win over second place Cave Spring (316). Hidden Valley took third at 321.

Salem's four-player total included a 75 by Austin Smith and a pair of 77s by Andrew Butts and Alex Hart. Cave Spring's Nick Brediger tied Chisom at 73 for co-medalist honors, while the Knight's Drew Board joined Smith at 75 to tie for third.

Spartans Take Opener In River Ridge Golf Matchup

Cave Spring's Drew Board putts for a birdie on the par-5 14th hole Tuesday on his way to a round of 75.

Salem's Andrew Butts looks to save par on the tough 10th hole at Hunting Hills.

Salem's Garrett Sweeney blasts from the trap to save par at Hunting Hills par-5, 14th hole.

Red Sox Fight For Final Playoff Spot The Salem Red Sox return

home Monday night (Aug. 22nd) for the final homestand of the 2011 season. Winston-Salem invades Salem Memo-rial Stadium for a four-game set Monday through Thurs-day, followed by a visit by the Wilmington Blue Rocks, Friday-Sunday.

Red Sox slugger #24 Josue Peley digs in for his pitch ear-lier this week against Myrtle Beach.

The shadows falling over Salem Memorial Stadium fore-tell the end of the current 2011 campaign.

The big night that the Roa-noke Valley has been waiting for readies itself next Friday as high school Friday-nights (and Saturday afternoons for the North Cross faithful) resume in ernest.

We'll again keep you up to speed with our eleven Roanoke-area teams; the highlights, dis-trict races and of course, the ever-reliable analysis and pre-dictions. Last year's .824 record may be hard to top as the talent and coaching keeps getting better.

In addition to an as-sortment of new oppo-nents for most of our teams, there's a new face on the sideline and a new name coming to an otherwise SW County site of demolition, and a case of no more night games for one pri-vate school program.

Alan Fiddler takes over as head coach at Patrick Henry with hopes of bringing a cham-pionship atmosphere to Gainer Field like he fashioned in West Virginia. PH gets a good test in their opener, as the Patriots travel to Hidden Valley.

At Bogle Field, the Southwest County home of both Cave Spring and Hidden Valley, the sun will seemingly set later this

year as the backdrop of the old Cave Spring Middle School is gone in order to make way for a new structure. On September 9th, the field will be given a new name to honor two longtime Cave Spring coaches, Bill Ed-munds and Charlie Hammes, during a pregame ceremony.

Fans of night games will have a letdown at North Cross, as the Raiders have moved all home

games to Saturday after-noon for 2011. As dusk fell earlier and earlier each week last fall, North Cross played a couple of games in near darkness in the fourth quarter, prompting the much-needed change. Tough

to crank up the passing game when the only

light is from the moon. While football is on every-

one's mind, it's important to note high school volleyball likewise opens later this month. All indications point to several local teams being set for a state championship run.

The Salem Red Sox are still in the hunt for a second-half title, a requisite for making the Carolina League playoffs. Un-fortunately, the numbers are not favorable. After Monday night's win, Salem trailed first-place Winston-Salem by 5 games. If

the Dash simply play .500 base-ball the rest of the way, the Red Sox would have to finish 15-5 in its last 20 games- highly unlikely at any level.

I want to thank the Eastmont Tomato Festival for my invita-tion to participate in last week-end's TomatOlympics (see re-lated article in today's edition). I'm ready to affirm the validity of tomato-throwing at a human target as a bona-fide Olympic sport. Definitely more crowd-pleasing action than curling.

Finally, we close this week with Wild Bill's road report, and a heads up to all local entrepre-neurs. The Route 221 realign-ment is now in high gear with blasting, excavating and delays the order of the day. In what is to become Roanoke County's version of the infamous Golden Gate Bridge, surely it is time for someone to propose an exciting "bridge day' where traffic will be reduced to pedestrians and hang-gliders will sail into Back Creek. This has festival-like big dollars written all over it. Re-member, you heard it here first.

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mercy of political juveniles masquerading as statesman. The recent squabble in e Washing-ton reminded me of children caught fighting and blaming each other. “It’s all her fault” says one. “No,” she says, “it’s his.” Ones innocence must be defended to the end, placing all the blame on the other. Both would rather suffer the loss of a meal at McDonald’s followed with a movie than admit that they both share in the blame.

It is like this in Washington. Democrats point fingers at Republicans and place all the blame on them. Outraged, Republicans shoot back claim-ing innocence while blaming Democrats for the mess. Not to be outdone, independent voters wish pocks on both parties as if they are innocent outsiders. And we, the gullible voters can’t laugh at their childishness or blush at their self-righteous blindness. Basically it is not a problem of politics but of the human spirit.

Some children grow up, but some never out-grow this childish and demonic need to be right. In forty years as a Presbyterian minister I met with countless couples on the verge of divorce. By the

time they came to me both husband and wife had argued and fought for so long they were seething with anger and stone-walled behind inflexible po-sitions. He had nursed his anger, and rehearsed his list of her failings for so long that the venom flowed like molten lava. And she’d done the same. Each wanted me to side with them.

“If the good Revered sides with me, I am clearly right and my spouse is the evil one.” Sometimes their self-righteous condemnation of the other was so volatile they chose to destroy their mar-riage and break the hearts of their children rather than accept whatever responsibility was theirs, and compromise a little. They would rather de-stroy their family in than sacrifice their demonic need to be in the right.

Will our juvenile politicians masquerading as statesmen chose to bring down our nation rather than have a little humility, affirm whatever good-ness and truth their political opponents may have and work together?

-The Rev. Dr. William R. Klein, Roanoke

Letter - In Response to Marrano Tea Party Commentary

Dear Editor: In response to 8/12/11 Commentary regarding

Tea Party objections to our community being tied to ICLEI, consider these facts: Local government, residents, & businesses are capable of coming up with common sense ideas for energy efficiency and life style improvements that support our environ-ment, without being tied to unknown, unelected "councils" from outside.

Also, taking grant money means tight strings and outside control over what should be local decisions over our local lives. I have used compact bulbs for over ten years because they save energy costs. I do not want energy audits in my home unless I call and ask for one. I also object to using children to control behavior of adults, as you mention is planned in the schools. We pay taxes for a real education, and that is not going as well as it could be, if there were more local control of education.

"Community planning" with ICLEI, goes a bit deeper, and as I understand, gradually, phases out the Right to Private Property by dictating where development can take place in smaller and smaller "clusters"as quoted in UN Agenda 21 documents.

Some may think this is fine, but most people I'm sure, do not.

The 14th Principle in "Principles of Freedom 101" is Life & Liberty Is Secure So Long As The Right To Private Property Is Secure." It is our duty and responsibility as citizens to be informed. I be-lieve most people are intelligent, well meaning, & reasonable. They may just be busy and a bit lazy about investigating controversial public policy on their own. It's easier to follow along with seemingly harmless community plans with nice sounding names that no one can disagree with, with no in-dication of where they might lead or what the end goals are.

But imagine my surprise and disappointment to see "Tea Party and their ilk". Ilk? Local citizens with concerns about our freedom and well being, who have done their homework?

"Kooky talk", "Fringe movement" coming from an editor of this paper, of all papers, who has not done his homework and misses the point of the concerns of many people, about ICLEI.

-Kathleen Hall

Letter - An Angel In Your MidstRecently my wife and I spent

some time at Peaks of Otter cel-ebrating our 54th. Anniversary. On a side trip to see the D-Day Memorial we encountered a de-tour and for the next one and one half hours we were hope-lessly lost. To make a long story short, on a return encounter with a flagman we were told to turn around and follow the car in front of us because the lady driver was going to the same place we were. This sounded like a winner. However, although this lady lived in the area west of Bedford she apparently was not familiar with all of the side streets/roads.

When she discovered (as we had earlier) that the flagman’s directions were not very helpful

she pulled to the side of the road and shared her frustration with the confusion we were experi-encing. She outlined a plan of attack which we were more than happy to cooperate with for we had bounced around Bedford for well over half an hour trying to follow the directions received from four local citizens who had made an honest effort to be help-ful. Only later did we learn that their efforts were rendered use-less due to a broken water main that not everyone was aware of and which added to the confu-sion of the original detour.

So we were off again only to discover that again we were driv-ing in circles. This necessitated another conference at which time our lady friend flagged

down a passing car seeking in-formation that might get us on the right “track”. It was about this time that we began to realize that our friend wasn’t lost. She knew where she was and how to get to her home but her problem was how to get us to where we needed to be.

Finally she decided that the best course of action was to liter-ally take us home with her since we were both going in the same direction. We followed her to within a mile of her home where she dropped us off at a church parking lot where we waited while she went home and used her computer to make a list of directions to get us the rest of the way home. She refused to accept any money to cover her gas ex-penses and sent us on our way with a “God Bless You.”

Although we failed to get her name or address we believe she lives about 5 miles SE of the Peaks of Otter on Rt. 43. She may be just an ordinary Christian (if there is such a person) but to us she is an angel!

-Don and Nancy Link, Mt. Sidney, VA

Letter - Countryside Property Owners Smell a Fox in the Hen House

We can't believe that the city is pre-paring to house 400 CHICKENS in our Northwest neighbor-hood. In addition there will be rows of greenhouses that look like old military barracks or airplane hangers just down the street from our homes. Is that the community garden proposed by the city in the Neighborhood Master Plan? Or did we not un-derstand the community garden concept. At least the City will get $100 a year for leasing the property that was actually given to them by the airport in a land swap deal. Sounds like a lot of chicken droppings to us!

Then we find that on another part of the Countryside property the city is considering a Soccer Sports Complex proposed by Northwest Recreation Club that takes more acreage than allotted in the Master Plan. Their plan is to enlarge and remodel the ten-nis building into bathrooms and locker rooms, etc. - all of this for soccer tournaments.

Excuse us, but the Roanoke

Valley has had soccer tourna-ments for years. Every time an-other organization needs hotel rooms during the soccer tourna-ments we are unable to find any. Soccer tournaments are nothing new to Roanoke.

The City will get zero (0) dol-lars for this complex. They pres-ently get tax dollars from hotels and restaurants during soccer tournament time anyway. So why did they close the golf course? They need tax base dollars the city claimed. Just a thought -- do you suppose they are planning to close the soccer fields at Riv-ers Edge and someone has plans to build on that property? Now there would be tax base dollars unless of course the building is for non-profit use.

What happened to the proposal for “ten-nis” in the tennis build-ing? The City wants to use it for bathrooms instead?

We are in agreement that this is NOT a "Neighborhood Plan" and our homes will certainly devalue more if this plan goes for-ward. The city coun-cil, city manager and

planning staff should consider and respect

the needs and desires of our neighborhood rather than the personal ambitions and desires of a council member’s spouse or even those of respectable busi-ness people such as the Food Co-Op. Why does it ALWAYS seem like we the citizens who pay the taxes don’t matter?

We are definitely missing something with this whole deci-sion. The city said it was not in a hurry to do anything with the Countryside property except for sprucing up the hayfields of the 10th, 11th and 12th fairways with trails and landscaping. Maybe we are just in shock that these plans would even be considered and we have not gotten to the meat of what is going on. Hopefully it is not what it appears to be.

We are still waiting to see where the $1.5 million dollars for the property will be spent that was approved by city council on Monday. That was the same amount of money it would have taken to keep the golf course op-erating. We have high hopes that it will now be used to restore the damage done to our home values that once were adjacent to lush green fairways.

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“You can monetize your ‘soul’ purpose, but it’s not all about the money – it’s about your gift and what you offer to others,” she said. “Those who understand what skills and traits make them special, who then develop a pur-poseful business plan and know how to remove the barriers that stand in their way – even a bar-rier as big as a recession – will and do succeed.”

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Château Morrisette Named As Finalist For UVA Resilience Award

Château Morrisette, a win-ery, vineyard and restaurant in Floyd County has been selected as a finalist in a University of Virginia competition that high-lights and promotes the most resilient businesses in econom-ically-challenged parts of the Commonwealth.

Established over 30 years ago near the Blue Ridge Parkway in southwest Virginia, Château Morrisette has become one of Commonwealth’s largest winer-ies and is a major employer in the Floyd community. Compa-ny President David Morrisette commented, “We were honored to be nominated. To be select-ed as a finalist for this award is humbling. The Tayloe Murphy Center is part of one of the best business schools in the country, the Darden School of Business.”

Château Morrisette is one of 14 finalists from among 21 semi-finalists and 88 total busi-nesses statewide to enter this year’s Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards competition which honors healthy entrepreneurial-based businesses in areas facing high unemployment, high pov-erty and low entrepreneurial activity.

The company will now com-pete to be one of five winners. Winners will be announced

Wednesday, September 7, at a dinner, reception and awards presentation in the Dome Room of the University of Vir-ginia’s historic Rotunda where Château Morrisette executives will meet with state and local officials, economic develop-ment professionals, and busi-ness leaders.

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Dr. Jeffrey Sandborg’s many years at the helm of Roanoke College’s choral program have commanded an audience and won many fans.

Earlier this year, the music professor and director of the Roanoke College Choir and Oriana Singers received the Naomi Brandon and George Emery Wade Professorship in Music. A professorship cre-ates an endowed position for a college professor, allowing the college to recruit and retain in-demand faculty.

Wade, a 1936 graduate of Roanoke, and his wife, Naomi Brandon, bequeathed money to create this award. The late Wade was a scholar of music, literature, math, and history, as well as an amateur pianist and composer. His passion for music and strong belief in lib-eral arts education led him to give back to Roanoke.

Sandborg was chosen for the professorship because of his contributions to Roanoke’s music program, especially choral music. He has directed the Roanoke College Choir since 1985. He also was di-rector of the Roanoke Valley Choral Society for 14 years, and he founded the Canticum Novum Chamber Singers. For

24 years, he has been choir di-rector at Second Presbyterian Church in Roanoke.

Sandborg received a bach-elor’s degree from Knox Col-lege, and he holds a master’s degree in music and a doctor-ate in choral conducting and literature from the University of Illinois. He has written the book “English Ways: Conver-sations with English Choral Conductors” and has pro-duced a widely used instruc-tional video on the fundamen-tals for singing, “Make a Joyful and Beautiful Noise!”

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Railway Historical Society Plans Trips to Abingdon and "Eastern Continental Divide"The Roanoke Chapter of the National Railway

Historical Society has announced two unique round trip train excursions that will take place the first weekend in November.

For the first time in over 15 years the trip sched-uled for Saturday, November, 5 will run from Roanoke to Abingdon, where passengers will have over three hours to see a variety of pre civil war his-torical attractions such as the “Barter Theatre” and the “Martha Washington Inn.” The newly opened Southwest Virginia Artisan Gateway “Heartwood” will complement the traditional attractions in this historic town. Passengers will also have the oppor-tunity to stay on the train to nearby Bristol where seats will be turned for the return trip.

Always among the most popular routes, the Bluefield trip is Scheduled to run out of Roanoke on Sunday, November 6. The train will head up to the “Eastern Continental Divide” before following the scenic New River for 38 isolated miles into the Nar-

rows before reaching the West Virginia State Line. Another steep grade will take the train to “nature's air- conditioned city,” Bluefield, where passengers will be within a short walking dis-tance of several restaurants and outdoor vendors. The Mercer County Convention and Visi-tors Bureau has many special activities planned for the train's passengers.

The Abingdon (Bristol) trip will depart Roanoke at 8:00 AM EDT, arrive Abingdon at 11:45 AM, leave Abingdon at 3:15PM, and return to Roa-noke by 7:00PM EDT. Special activities have been planned by the Abingdon Convention and

Visitors Bureau. In addition to many dining options in Abing-don, a box lunch is available for purchase in advance by passen-gers and is highly recommend-ed for those choosing to remain on the train to Bristol.

The Bluefield trip will depart Roanoke at 8:00AM EST arrive Bluefield at 11:30AM, leave. Bluefield at 2:00PM, and return to Roanoke by 6:00 PM EST. Both trains will have comfort-able, carpeted Amfleet coaches with convenient rest room fa-cilities, hosted by informative car hosts. In addition to Coach Class, the Roanoke Chapter is offering two types of First Class service on board. There

are magnificent, glass enclosed dome cars as well as luxurious lounge cars. The Chapter will have complementary musical entertainment aboard and lite snacks, beverages, and souvenirs will also be for sale.

The Roanoke Chapter NRHS is a non-porfit or-ganization, and proceeds from these trips are used to restore and preserve historic railroad equipment and facilities in the Roanoke area.

Cost of either trip is $150 for adults and $95 for children in coach. Dome Class is $275 and Lounge Class is $215. Tickets for any class are available from Roanoke Chapter by calling (540) 774-0611 or go to www.RoanokeNRHS.org. Coach Class tickets are available from: O. Winston Link Museum – 540-982-5465. Virginia Museum of Transportation – 540-342-5670 and the Norfolk and Western Histori-cal Society – Internet only www.nwhs.org

Blue Ridge PBS Wins EMPixx Award For “Virginia State Parks”

The Blue Ridge PBS produc-tion “Virginia State Parks: 75 Years and Still Growing,” first broadcast in June 2011, has been honored with a Platinum EM-Pixx Award from the American Pixel Academy. The award, an-nounced August 2, put the sta-tion’s new documentary among the top U.S. and Canadian con-tenders in the regional televi-sion documentary category. Blue Ridge PBS also won a Gold EMPixx Award in the television education category for “Shaping the World: Conversations on Democracy – Thomas Jefferson & Patrick Henry.”

“The documentary category was particularly strong, with a number of Emmy-winning piec-es that were selected among the EMPixx winners this year,” said David E. Carter, Executive Di-rector of American Pixel Acad-emy. The Academy is a coalition of professionals and educators in the pixel media. The distinctive

EMPixx statuette signifies the industry’s transition from film to pixels.

“We’ve had great viewer re-sponse to the ‘Virginia State Parks’ documentary,” said James Baum, Blue Ridge PBS presi-dent and CEO. “We are proud to share this award with our part-ners at the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. An EMPixx Award affirms view-er comments that this is a local production worth watching.”

“Virginia State Parks,” created as part of Virginia State Parks’ 75th anniversary celebration, invites viewers to share in the natural beauty and compelling stories behind many of the com-monwealth’s most spectacular public treasures. The Emmy Award-winning Blue Ridge PBS production team visited all 35 state parks for the production, crisscrossing Virginia from the mountains to the coastal beaches. American Pixel Academy judges

described “Virginia State Parks” as “Well done,” and commended it for a “powerful opening with excellent music, excellent visu-als, well edited.” The documen-tary also received high marks for “good use of vintage photos, and black and white film.”

“The Gold award for ‘Con-versations on Democracy’ is also well-deserved recognition,” Baum added. “This wonderful series is made possible thanks to a long-standing partnership with Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, a stellar example of our commit-ment to producing engaging ed-ucational programs for students and teachers in our region.”

“Shaping the World: Conver-sations on Democracy – Thom-as Jefferson & Patrick Henry” is the 10th episode from a popular interactive history project. Fifth graders from Brookneal Elemen-tary School gathered in the Blue Ridge PBS studio where they met and interviewed Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, por-trayed by living history interpret-

ers from Colonial Williamsburg. These “conversations” have been broadcast on Blue Ridge PBS and other Virginia public broadcast-ing stations, and is also available to educators online. The project includes extensive curriculum materials to help teachers meet Virginia Standards of Learning.

“It is our hope that these programs are inspiring today’s public, school students as well as adults, to discuss democracy and other pressing issues facing America, just as Jefferson and his contemporaries did as they set about creating a new nation,” said Octavia N. Starbuck, Direc-tor of Interpretation and Educa-tion at Thomas Jefferson Poplar Forest.

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St. John’s Sunday Service ScheduleOur Fall Service Schedule begins on Sunday, September 11:

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The Council of the City of Roanoke invites nominations for the 2011 Citizen of the Year. Information describing the criteria and a nomination form is available and may be submitted on the City Clerk's web page at www.roanokeva.gov, or in the City Clerk's Office, Room 456, Noel C. Taylor Municipal Build-ing, 215 Church Avenue, S. W., between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Nominees must be City residents.

Deadline for nominations is Wednesday, September 28, 2011.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (V/A) Re-gional Office in Roanoke, and Veterans Service Organizations that are co-located within the cur-rent regional office facility, must temporarily relo-cate due to modernization and reconstruction of the Richard H. Poff Federal Building.

“V/A is committed to serving Veterans and their families and has taken steps to minimize any impact of this move on Veterans, employees, and other stakeholders,” said Acting Regional Office Director Leigh Ann Skeens.

Funded by the American Recovery and Re-investment Act (ARRA), the renovation of this

General Services Administration building is ex-pected to take two to three years.

Relocation of regional office employees began in May 2011 and is now complete. Effective im-mediately, Veterans and their families should visit the VARO at its central location — 116 N. Jeffer-son Street, Roanoke, VA 24016.

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