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Since its inception more than a decade ago, starting out in the basement at Vir-ginia Heights Baptist Church, Faith Chris-tian School has worked to foster the spirit of giving back. Every year students grades K-12, teachers, administra-tors and parents volun-teer during the annual “Project Faith” day of service, helping local non-profits with a little elbow grease.

This year’s Project Faith day of service took place last Friday, when crews fanned out to the Roanoke Rescue Mission, the Charity Cottage and Manna Ministries in Vinton and Feeding Amer-ica in Salem. The school spent months prepping students for this day – and working with them to send out letters to friends, family and businesses seeking financial sponsorships.

This year the target was to raise $160,000 – a goal succeeded and then some. In fact it looks like when all the envelopes are in that Project Faith 2012 may net about $200,000, which will be

used for tuition assis-tance programs at the southwest Roanoke County school and for budget items like teacher salaries.

At the Roanoke Res-cue Mission on 4th Street SE, crews (stu-dents there were from grades 2-5) helped clean the living quar-ters, wiping down beds and making them up; they prepped vegeta-bles for the lunch shift, washed the picket fence outside the building and mulched flower beds at the women’s shelter across the way. Other students put to-

gether gift bags that will be given out on Mother’s Day.

Ann Grubb, a Faith Christian parent and volunteer, was the crew chief for the Rescue Mission service day. “We’ve been here several [times] doing differ-

ent projects,” said Grubb. There were so many children involved (the school has about 300 students) that it was nec-essary to split them up into several groups

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Democrats Hold City

In the end Republican challenger Mark Lucas made it interesting, but he couldn’t overcome the Democratic strong-hold that is Roanoke City. Incumbent Mayor David Bowers was returned to City Hall on Tuesday night, besting his GOP opponent 52%-48% (4847 votes to 4478). Going back with Bowers for another term, starting in July, is the entire Democratic City Council ticket that ran with the mayor.

Second term Councilman Court Rosen garnered the most votes overall (7223, good for 32% of the votes cast) and will succeed David Trinkle as Vice Mayor in July. Fellow second-termer Anita Price notched 28% of the vote (6567 votes) and Sherman Lea scored 6359 votes, good for 27%. The lone City Council chal-lenger, Independent Brandon Bushnell, was far back with 3105 votes (13%).

County Names Golden and Red Apple Award Winners

Students in Chip Donahue’s third grade science and social studies classes don’t just study about the environment, they go out into the environment to experience nature first hand. This is just one of the many efforts Donahue makes each year to provide outstanding instruction to his students.

For these reasons and more, the Roanoke County Public Schools Education Foun-dation awarded the 2012 Golden Apple Award to Donahue. The Golden Apple Award is the highest education honor presented by the Education Foundation.

Each year, teachers from across Roanoke County Public Schools are nominated by students, parents, co-workers and administrators to receive the highest award present-ed to a teacher by the Education Foundation. This year, 135 teachers were nominated to receive the award – 26 teachers were named as semi-finalists.

In addition to the Golden Apple Award, the Education Foundation also named three Red Apple winners, one for the elementary school level, one for the middle school level and one for the high school level.

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Lucas Falls Just Short in Mayoral Challenge

Everyone felt it was going to be a close race as supporters of Mark Lucas gathered at The Quarter on Salem Avenue on Tuesday after the polls closed..

The mood was jubilant and supporters were feeling good about the turnout in South Roanoke and the Lee-High precincts. As the numbers came dribbling in that had Bow-ers leading, Campaign Manager Chris Walters and volunteer Adam Boitnott scoured the returns on their iPad and iPhones confident that the South Roanoke precincts would over-take Bowers.

They were optimistic that these precincts would heavily support Lucas and make up the deficit. But it wasn’t to be … by 8:00 p.m. the writing was on the wall. Lucas missed the mark by just 349 votes.

For Lucas - a Republican - it was an uphill battle. What kept him from reaching the mark was anyone’s guess. Perhaps if he hadn’t taken off a week to go to Costa Rica or had worked harder in precincts outside his home turf. Roa-noke voters are notoriously fickle.

Their reasons for voting for one person or another ran the gambit. There was the “any-body but Bowers” voter – the staunch Repub-lican vote and the “let’s take a chance on some-

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Former governor and U.S. senator George Allen had the most to lose with a gaff at Saturday’s primary debate. His challengers for the nomination are Bish-op E. W. Jackson, Delegate Bob Marshall and former President of the Richmond Tea Party Jamie Radtke.

Jay Warren, WSLS channel 10 anchor, moderated the debate at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center. The room was not at capacity but enthusiasm was high. Chip Tarbutton and Greg Aldridge, who are spearheading the Jackson cam-

paign, had their nose in a laptop check-ing the conservative blog “Bearing Drift“ for reaction. Aldridge gave a quiet ani-mated cheer when Jackson hit the right talking points.

Jackson, as a minister demonstrated the oratory skills that set him apart from the other candidates. Though he’d “take an ax” to the nation’s budget, he left his red, white and blue ax prop out of sight. Jackson would eliminate the Depart-ment of Education, the Environmental

Protection Agency and the Department of Energy.

America’s comeback is based on “more fair, simple and competitive taxes – rea-

sonable regulations, produc-tive energy development and empowering educational op-portunity,” said George Allen.

He used the word “free” or “freedom” 14 times in his closing statement alone.

Bob Marshall, a 21-year Virginia del-egate, said he has never voted for either a tax increase or for deficit spending.

He is known for introducing bills in the general assembly that would make abor-tions difficult if not impossible. Most re-cently his “personhood” bill, that defines an embryo as a person, brought Virginia into the national spotlight. It was post-poned until 2013 under intense media scrutiny and capital protests.

Marshall is responsible for the bill that formed the legal basis for Virginia’s chal-lenge to Obamacare. The governor has

George Allen Plays it Safe in Republican Primary Debate

Chip Donahue in front of the new 2013 Hyundai Sonata that he will enjoy for year.

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First graders make gleaning bags for The Society of St. An-drews Gleaning Americas Fields.

Project Faith Serves Again

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Roanoke City Budget Hearing Draws A CrowdLast Thursday evening cuts

to the Virginia Cooperative Ex-tension’s Agriculture and Natu-ral Resource component of the budget hit a nerve with 50 of about 70 people who showed up for the budget hearing.

Seventeen out of 21 speakers asked that the $19,000 unfund-ed VCE agricultural component be restored. Mike Martin VCE District Director said, “Resi-dents do benefit directly in hor-ticultural needs such as lawn care, fertilization, tree manage-ment, home landscaping, and home vegetable and flower gar-den production.” The services are also available to pubic enti-ties said Martin.

Mark Powell director of the Roanoke Community Gardens said, “a fully functional Virginia Cooperative Extension is vital

to the continued success and expansion to community gar-dens. Our organization relies upon the VCE for assistance with design and development of community gardens and the creation of youth gardens.” VCE master gardener volunteers were invaluable, he said.

Rushdat Hale from Niger says she has an 1000 square foot urban farm plot she shares with other immigrants. Hale also supported the benefits of VCE assistance in community gar-dening.

Another area of concern was Arts funding. Executive Direc-tor of the Roanoke Symphony, Beth Pline, asked council to reconsider the 25 percent cut in funding to the Roanoke Arts Commission, asset develop-ment for economy and educa-

tion. She told council that, “we are a revenue generator for the city. We collect admissions tax on your behalf. The Roanoke Symphony alone serves over 14,000 discrete individuals per year who attend at least one of our concerts … Cuts to us really do make an impact.” she said.

Pline also emphasized their role in tourism. They need

matching city funds for the half million dollars in grant requests that have been sent out. “We may not be able to accept these grants should we get them.”

Dallas Powell wanted to save the city money by reducing code enforcement and solid waste inspectors. The solution he said, would be to bill the ten-ant rather than the landlord for things like trash can violations. Tenants then would be more ac-countable which would reduce the need for enforcement per-sonnel.

City Council and the ad-ministration will consider the requests as they hold a briefing on Monday May 7 at 9:00 a.m. in council chambers.

“How about that?” exclaimed Bill Best-pitch, another incumbent not up for elec-tion this year, when the final vote tallies were announced at Fork in the City, the eatery owned by Trinkle.

Price, who appeared nervous before the results started coming in, said she was happy that voters “have demonstrated their sup-port and belief in what we are doing. This is a stamp of approval. We have all proven be-yond a shadow of doubt that we are moving things in the right direction.”

Price said there wasn’t time for bicker-ing and pettiness now, calling it a “working council.” She felt compelled to run again. “There are things that I definitely want to see through [to the end].” Development at Countryside and renovations at Elmwood Park are at the top of her to-do list.

Rosen also noted that money for Coun-tryside redevelopment is in the capital bud-get, with $1.5 million dedicated towards the city-owned property for improvements like greenways. “We’re getting a lot of good things done,” said Rosen, who believes keep-ing an eye on the cash-strapped budget is priority number one. “Not getting ahead of ourselves – I think that’s first and foremost.”

Rosen said he would not attempt to float another meals tax hike, which he champi-oned two years ago as a way to support the city school system. It sunsets this July after

raising more than four million dollars: “I’m a firm believer that you don’t tax people just because you can.” The school system has become more efficient in recent years, ac-cording to Rosen. “There’s really no need to extend the meals tax… right now.”

Bushnell had made doing just that a major plank of his campaign. Rosen called Bush-nell and Lucas, “very nice folks. I enjoyed getting to know them.”

“Folks voted for stability,” added Rosen, the Vice Mayor-elect, before he introduced Bowers.

Bowers swamped Lucas in precincts that were considered strongholds for the Demo-crats based on demographics and traditional voting patterns – capturing 158 of 172 votes cast at the Melrose polling place for example – while Lucas held his own elsewhere, com-ing close or winning in places like Raleigh Court, where he came out on top at four of five precincts.

“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, I guess that’s the message,” said Bowers when asked what the election results meant.

Bowers took a good natured jab at Lucas when he arrived at Fork in the City to give his victory speech, cutting a piece of yellow tape held in front of the door for him. “To-night we’re going to cut the ribbon on four more years,” said Bowers, tweaking the Lu-cas campaign, which claimed the Mayor was

too focused on ribbon cuttings and other ceremonial activities, and not enough on growing businesses in the city.

Celtic musician Jim Baldwin played the bagpipes as Bowers shook hands and ac-cepted hugs. The mayor, who gave flowers to campaign manager Joan Washburn, his mother Mary and his girlfriend before it was time for the victory speech, started out by chanting “four more years.” He praised Lu-cas for “running a spirited campaign. He was very competitive. I commend Mark Lucas.”

Bowers talked about “dramatic” changes in the coming years, perhaps a new skyline downtown and the imminent announce-ment of a new business in the city. “I’m going to do a good job for them… I’m very grate-ful,” said Bowers, ever the spokesman for his hometown. “This is a great place to live.”

“I’m excited about the next four years,” added Bowers about the newly reelected team of Democrats, “we’ve got a lot to do.”

Editors Note: The third council member reelected, Sherman Lea, also made an ap-pearance at the Fork in the City election night party but arrived after Gene Marrano had completed his interviews.

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one else” voter.Bowers had strong financial support

from Republican Peter Via that may have put him over the top. Or it could have been the ground game that was full of volunteers including “Organizing For America” head-ed by activist Freeda Cathcart.

Voter turnout seemed to give Bowers just enough support. The heavily Democratic

Peters Creek precinct in Northwest pulled in 200 voters in the last hour and a half.

Optimistic faces soon turned somber as Chris Walter announced a loss and Lucas spoke to his supporters. Congressman Bob Goodlatte was there to lend his support.

Lucas was disappointed and said that it was a very tough race. When asked where he would go from here he said, “back to

work.” He still wants to be involved in job creation and said he had met a lot of great people during his campaign.

He said he didn’t know if he would seek office again in the future.

By valerie [email protected]

> Allen From page 1

recently signed Marshall’s Anti-Detention Act that prevents any Virginia agency from aiding the military in detaining U.S. citi-zens without trial.

In a humorous moment War-ren asked if the Department of Homeland Security was a good idea. To that Jackson responded, “I do have a problem with TSA and the groping that goes on at the airports.” Marshall added that he thought the TSA “was a job’s program for out of work urologists,” which brought a big round of laughter.

Allen dismissed Ronald Rea-gan’s 18 debt ceiling increases saying, “those were those days and now it’s different.” He ad-vocated for a balanced budget amendment and line item veto ignoring the question regard-ing his four votes to raise the debt ceiling during his previous reign as a U.S. Senator.

Radtke called Allen out on his votes for earmarks and rais-ing the debt ceiling. She said she would balance the budget in five years by freezing federal spend-ing at current levels.

Tim Kaine held a roundtable

on social security in Roanoke on the same day. His solution to keeping social security solvent past 2033 is to raise the social security payroll tax cap.

Jackson said that he “would never want to destroy social se-curity, but if Chile can come up with a system of allowing people to invest their own money and build wealth over the course of their lives ... the United States of America can handle it, too.”

All the candidates at the de-bate favored raising the retire-ment age for those born after the 1960s. Radtke said the gov-ernment “has stolen it from all of us.” Retirees live in fear she said. “We can incentivize people to work beyond their retirement age … They can keep their pay-roll taxes.”

George Allen blamed the so-cial security crisis on the econ-omy. Besides raising the retire-ment age he suggested income adjustment. “There are a vari-ety of things that can be done … one thing I will not be for is raising taxes.” He blamed Tim Kaine for the increase in spend-ing and said he “expected Tim

Kaine to demagogue this issue.”All candidates support the

Defense of Marriage Act. All candidates were noncommit-tal on endorsing Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee for president but said they would support the eventual nominee. Jackson admitted that Romney was not his first choice.

Allen said later that he’d like to see “states have flexibility in managing Medicaid.” There are many aspects of Paul Ryan’s budget proposal “that are iden-tical or close to the one I’m ad-vocating,” he said.

Both Virginia Senator Ralph Smith and Delegate Greg Ha-beeb have endorsed George Allen. Senator Smith said he envied Jackson’s speaking abil-ity. He also thought Marshall would contribute positively to the debate.

There are two more Repub-lican primary debates – one is scheduled for May 11 in Vir-ginia Beach and another on May 25 in Falls Church.

By Gene [email protected]

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The Red Apple winners are: Scott Price – special education teacher at Mountain View Elementary, Erica Rosser – 8th grade teacher at William Byrd Middle and Amy Bolen – Spanish teacher at Northside High and Middle

The Education Foundation also recogniz-es a new teacher who has taught in Roanoke County for three years or less. This is called the Green Apple Award. The winner of the 2012 Green Apple Award is Vickie Frost, a kindergarten teacher at Burlington Elemen-tary School.

“We are very proud of all the teachers at Roanoke County Public Schools,” said Edu-

cation Foundation Chairman Lenora Down-ing. “The Golden Apple Award recognizes the best educator in Roanoke County Public Schools. We were extremely impressed with all our finalists. It was again very difficult to select a winner,” Downing said.

In addition to receiving a check for $3,000, Donahue received an additional award – the use of a brand-new 2012 Hyundai Sonata for one year, courtesy of First Team Auto Mall, with custom license plates that read GR8- TCR (Great Teacher).

“The education of our young people is so important, and nothing can be accom-plished without our teachers. We want to

show educators in the Roanoke Valley that their efforts are truly appreciated,” said Da-vid Dillon, President and General Manager of First Team Auto Mall.

Since its inception in 1991, The Roanoke County Education Foundation has provided more than $780,000 in scholarships to 1143 graduating seniors; more than $190,000 in classroom scholarships to more than 1100 teachers; and more than $278,000 to sup-port travel and educational programs. In all, that’s nearly $1.2 million in support to the teachers and students at Roanoke County Public Schools.

Mark Powell and Rushdat Hale


Warren, Allen, Jackson, Marshall, Radtke.


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Roanoke Republican Women Earn Gold Award

The Virginia Federation of Republican Women (VFRW) held their 59th annual conven-tion in Williamsburg last week-end. Members of the Roanoke Valley Republican Women (RVRW) attended the three day convention and earned the VFRW’s highest award, the GOLD Achievement Award.

To earn the GOLD award, the local RVRW club had to meet a series of goals throughout the year as well as excel in commu-nity service and volunteerism. The women donated money to local candidates, held fundrais-ers, donated books to the Barba-ra Bush Literary Fund, support-ed our troops overseas, donated supplies to local Roanoke area foster children as well as many other charitable endeavors.

The event was held at the Colonial Williamsburg Lodge and Convention Center, which featured many hospitality suites hosted by local and statewide dignitaries. Speakers included all four Republican candidates vying for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Senator Jim Webb. Former Gov.

George Allen, Jamie Radtke, Bishop E. W. Jackson and Del-egate Bob Marshall all had their turn to state why they would be the best Republican candidate to defeat Webb. The Republican primary will be held June 12th.

Saturday evening’s cham-pagne reception was hosted by George & Susan Allen. The ban-quet featured RPV Chairman Pat Mullins and Lt. Governor Bill Bolling as keynote speakers, with special guests Jean Ann Bolling and new National Fed-eration of Republican Women

President Rae Chornenky. The RVRW were presented with their achievement award by Bolling and his wife. Elections for new VFRW officer’s was held, with Miki Miller being elected as the new President for a two year term.

The VFRW consists of about 70 local clubs throughout Vir-ginia. They have a total mem-bership of over 2,300 women and approximately 300 attended the convention.

By Carla M. [email protected]

Marines Hike the Appalachian Trail in Support of Veterans

Warrior Hike is a non-profit fundraising effort whose mis-sion is to help wounded vet-erans. Marine Captains Mark Silvers 26, of Danville and Sean Goblin, 36 of Rhode Island have recently returned from Afghan-istan.

Dan Karnes, President of the Roanoke Valley Veterans Coun-cil, brought Silvers and Goblin by the DAV in Salem Friday. Sa-lem is about the halfway point of their 2180-mile Appalachian Trail journey.

Goblin said while in Afghani-stan they saw a lot of debilitating injuries at the hospital and they asked themselves “what can we do to help the situation?”

Goblin and Silvers decided that they wanted to make a dif-ference in the lives of wounded veterans. They began their hike in Georgia on March 15 and have raised $9000 so far. They continued their hike on Satur-day morning.

They will host 38 separate fundraisers at VFW Posts along the trail in order to purchase adaptive vehicles for veterans who have suffered multiple am-putations during combat opera-tions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One hundred percent of the donations will go towards the adaptive vehicles.

Silvers enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2006 and received his commission following gradu-ation from the University of Virginia. He was deployed in

Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010. After completing the Warrior Hike he plans to pursue a Mas-ters Degree in Business Admin-istration.

Gobin enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1994 as an infantryman and received his commission af-ter graduating from the Univer-sity of Mississippi in 2001. He served as a platoon commander in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and again in 2005. He also plans to pursue a Masters Degree in Business Ad-ministration at UVA.

They realized that the service men who lost legs and are in the recovery process can apply to the V-A for a $19,000 grant that goes toward the cost of an adap-tive vehicle. It then needs to be fitted to the service veteran’s

needs. “That doesn’t come close to the actual cost of the vehicle - up to $10,000 more is usually needed,” said Gobin.

Their mission is to raise the extra money for those veterans that can’t afford the extra cost. “They run into a lot of other vet-erans on the trail,” said Gobin. “There are a lot of veterans that are hiking the trail and transi-tioning from military to civilian life.” They hope to recruit other veterans to keep the fundraiser going and make Salem one of their regular stops.

For more information go to their website at www.war-riorhike.com and “LIKE” their facebook page.

Left to right: Mark Silvers, Dan Karnes and Sean Gobin.


RVRW club with Lt. Governor Bill Bolling and his wife Jean Ann.

for Project Faith, sending them in different directions. Teachers explained to their young pupils ahead of time what the Rescue Mission is all about. “Not every-body is as fortunate as we are to have a roof over our heads,” said Grubb, “so that’s what we’re doing today, serving those who don’t.”

Grubb has two children at Faith Christian, both of whom were also involved with Project Faith – as are all students, re-gardless of age. “We love to do it as a family,” said Grubb, who re-cruited her mother-in-law when her husband couldn’t make it.

Parent volunteer Maria McK-eown, also a Physical Education teacher at Faith Christian, was roaming the halls at the Res-cue Mission, snapping pictures for posterity. She has a fifth grader at the school (Jenna). “It’s wonderful for them to get out into the community and see lifestyles that are different than their own,” said McKeown, “and as Christians we are called to give back. It’s a wonderful way for them to get out and serve. It makes a big impression on a lot of these kids.”

Rescue Mission Kitchen Man-ager David Hankins was grate-ful for the help: “It’s very much

a blessing to have them here, to help us with a lot of things we normally don’t have time to do.” Hankins said the deep cleaning being done in the cafeteria and elsewhere was much appreci-ated – as he got ready to serve 300 lunches. Later in the typi-cal day 450-500 dinners will be prepared.

Rescue Mission Volunteer Coordinator Leslie Littlefield said there were about 160 in the Faith Christian group at the shelter last Friday. “We’ve got them all over the place. We are always grateful to have Project Faith here, joining us in the ef-fort to serve others.” Previously the Faith Christian crew helped clean up the Rescue Mission’s Jubilee Acres day camp site in

Catawba.Headmaster Sam Cox said the

11th year for Project Faith – the third time at the Rescue Mis-sion – was a big success, finan-cially and otherwise. Last year Project Faith raised $174,000 and with more than $190,000 raised so far this year, “We’d like to hit the $200,000 mark,” said Cox. More than $1.5 million has been raised by the annual ser-vice effort over the past 11 years. But Project Faith is about much more than just raising money for the school: “First and fore-most we want to serve the com-munity, and [those] who need us to rally around them and help.”


Over 550 volunteers thank their sponsors who donated over $195,000 through Project Faith..

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Saving “Sam” At least once in my life-

time, I have definitely felt the power of God

working within me. I have no doubt of this, for with only my own human ability, this story could never be told. It happened about 20 years ago when our pastor and his wife became foster par-ents for a bi-racial first grader whom I’ll call “Sam” to protect his identity.

Sam was the old-est of five children removed from their mother’s custody due to neglect that result-ed in severe burns of the two younger children. The burn victims were sent to the burn center at the Uni-versity of Virginia Hospital; the other children were assigned to a foster parent in a distant part of Roanoke.

This arrangement distressed Sam, who could not bear to leave his school and the only close friend he had – our pastor’s son. Consequently, Tupper and his wife, Virginia, volunteered to become Sam’s foster parents. They took him in to be a fourth child in their family and every-one adjusted well to the change.

There was, however one ma-jor problem – how to help Sam with his homework, for Sam was in the “non-reading group” in his first grade class. One day, a week or so into the new situ-ation, Tupper asked me (know-ing I was a retired teacher) how he could possibly help Sam with spelling when he didn’t even know the alphabet. Immediately my mouth opened and my reply truly shocked me. “Let me work with him every day after school and I’ll help him learn.”

My offer was accepted, and

I went home in a daze. Why did I make such a commit-ment? With my busy schedule, how many times would I fail to keep it? What if Sam balked at the thought of more study after school and refused to cooper-ate? What if he was incapable of

learning? I planned to use

the method and ma-terials of the Shedd program, which I had used success-fully for many years. I knew this was the best method but I realized that some children with se-

vere perceptual problem require intensive work for many months to

achieve their potential. Would Sam be one of these? Would I fail to keep my promise to help him learn? Furthermore, I had not discussed this with Harry, which I usually do before agree-ing to such a change in our rou-tine. Oh, why had I made such a hasty decision?

The following day I met the school bus and Sam came will-ingly with me to my home. I had set up a study station in my home office, and after a snack and some “get-to-know-you” conversation we settled down to work. Two worries erased – Sam was most cooperative, and Harry understood and support-ed my decision. The time flew by and at 5:00 I drove my little learner back to his new home in time for supper.

Amazingly, this routine was repeated daily without conflict throughout the fall. I was con-vinced by his rapid progress that Sam’s difficulties were due to cultural deprivation rather than perceptual problems or intellectual deficiency. He was

eager to learn and rejoiced in each accomplishment. Soon he knew not only the alphabet but the sound each letter produced. Spelling made sense and he de-lighted to write his own name in cursive.

When the Christmas break approached, Sam’s teacher spoke to his foster mom about his progress. She felt he was ready to leave the non-reading group and join a reading group. Would it be possible for his tutor to work with him over the holidays and help him complete the material her beginning readers had cov-ered so far?

Both Sam and I agreed. I would change the schedule and we would work early in the morning so that he could have the rest of the day free. I gave him my telephone number. “Just call me after you are up and have had your breakfast,” I said, “and I’ll come to get you.”

The following morning my telephone rang at 7:00 am. “I’m ready!” Sam said enthusiasti-cally. “But I’m afraid I’m not,” I replied. “I’ll come for you at 8:00 o’clock.”

And so we worked every day except for Christmas and New Year’s Day. We finished the read-er and the workbook and Sam entered the reading group when school reconvened.

But we didn’t stop the les-sons. We continued through-out the year until spring break. Again the teacher said he was ready to move up to a more ad-vanced group. Could I continue tutoring through spring break and catch him up with the next group? We accepted the chal-lenge, again without complaint from Sam. We accomplished our goal and Sam moved up again. I was amazed. This entire project seemed miraculous.

When summer came, not only had Sam’s reading and writ-ing changed, but his personality had changed also. No longer did he seem submissive but was more confident and competi-tive. He also said he missed his brothers and their foster mother suggested he join them for the summer. This arrangement met his emotional needs and he asked if he might stay with them permanently. Eventually this lovely lady adopted all the boys. That fall Sam enrolled in a new school with a new name. Now he could make a new beginning with many new friends and the security of a happy home life.

I can’t help wondering – was the Lord preparing Sam for some special work? Maybe his purpose was just for him to be an inspiration to others. What Sam needed at each stage of his young life was provided.

It is an awesome and hum-bling experience to be aware of the living God at work within you.

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Horsing AroundEveryone has a method for picking the

winner of the Kentucky Derby. Mine completely ignores form or pedigree, so I

wouldn’t go betting the farm on my predictions. Take this year’s 138th Derby. Since it falls on

Cinco de Mayo, this was clearly a sign for me that the colt “El Padrino” (Spanish for godfather) should win the 1.25 mile sprint around Churchill Downs.

For last year’s event, a very moving experience was involved in my selection. Just prior to the race, I had a colonoscopy and the preceding night had suffered through the indignant “prep” that clears out the bowels.

So naturally I selected “Watch Me Go” as the 2011 winner.

Bummer. He trotted in eighteenth ¬ which, coincidently, just happened to be the number of bathroom trips I made during that night.

I had better success in 2008 pick-ing “Big Brown” as the winner. This revelation came from my vision of a large horse with a very active diges-tive system and a stable boy follow-ing discreetly behind with a hefty shovel.

Let me stress that gastrointestinal problems don’t always factor into my Derby selections; they are based solely on the horse’s name.

So in 2005, I chose “Giacomo.” The 50-1 shot, who fought his way into the lead from the back of the field to win, was named after the son of rock star Sting. I didn’t have any special fondness for Sting’s music, but did have a rather unpleasant en-counter with a wasp that spring.

I imagine other punters use equally poor logic to pick a winner. One method might be to look for a connection to your profession.

For instance, if you were a historian in 1875 when the first Kentucky Derby was run, you couldn’t overlook “Aristides,” who was named af-ter a statesman from the days of ancient Greece.

Along these lines, what English teacher wouldn’t have been rooting for “Macbeth II” in 1988?

And bankers would surely have expressed in-terest in choosing “High Yield” (2000), “Dollar Bill” (2001), or “Coin Silver” (2005).

There have even been years where a horse’s name could provide presidential scholars with a clue to picking a Derby champ:

“Omaha” (1935) is the birthplace of Gerald Ford; George W. Bush was a “Jet Pilot” (1947);

“Go For Gin” (1994) is what Nixon probably did every morning he picked up the Washington Post during Watergate; “Charismatic” (1999) could describe Barack Obama, but so could “Spend a Buck” (1985), although “Spend a Trillion Bucks” might be more appropriate given the escalating national debt.

Take a guess which president could be associ-ated with these Derby winners: “Behave Yourself,” “Foolish Pleasure,” and “Genuine Risk” (1921, 1975, and 1980, respectively). Let’s just say they would all fit the Bill.

Horse racing was a sport long before shaming disgraced U.S. presidents be-came popular. Around 4500 BC, when Ron Paul first ran for president, no-madic tribesmen of Central Asia first domesticated the horse.

In the 12th century, English knights returned from the Crusades with swift Arab horses that were bred with Eng-lish horses producing offspring with greater speed and endurance. Racing

the fastest horses for wagers soon became a popular recreation for the aristocracy.

The Spanish brought the first domesticated horses to America in the early 1500s, and British settlers later introduced horse racing to the conti-nent. The first racetrack appearing on Long Island in 1665, but it wasn’t until after the Civil War that organized racing emerged as a widespread sport in the U.S.

Today, horses are referenced throughout hu-man culture. Even our language reflects their prominence in society. “Horse of a different col-or,” “hold your horses,” and “horsing around” are all familiar expressions. And yes, you might even cynically apply those terms to the aforementioned Clinton scandal. Certainly, at least for a brief time during his administration, the president “changed horses in mid-stream.”

I’m not sure if President Clinton made a pre-diction for this year’s Derby. But if he applied my method, he’d probably drop a few dollars on “Liai-son” or “I’ll Have Another.”

As for the former First Lady, who surely lec-tured her wayward hubby about his extracurricu-lar activities, she might just be partial to “Rousing Sermon.”

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Nurse, Musician, Educator Knows Her Food

If you've wondered how God's creation connects with good nutrition, you

haven't met Laura Pole. The oncology nurse and

nutritionist turned folk singer and recording artist can even make music about reading the labels on processed food. She can also do a good imitation of Elvis Presley on guitar.

Pole, who lives near Smith Mountain Lake but has been known to Roanoke Valley residents for her several spe-cialties for more than 25 years, was one of four presenters at a recent Saturday confer-ence , "Faith, Hope, Love and Deeds:Interfaith Proaction for Care of Creation." The second annual event of its kind, it at-tracted about 50 persons from the religion and ecology com-munities to St. Mark's Luther-an Church in Roanoke.

The meeting, which in-cluded several members of the Islamic and East Indian com-munities as well as representa-tives of a variety of Christian groups, was supported by sev-eral denominational regional bodies, Plowshare Peace Cen-ter, a group concerned about spirituality and ecology and individual Baptist, Presbyte-rian, United Methodist and Disciples of Christ congrega-tions.

Under the broad theme of respecting God's creation, the four speakers focused on corporate responsibility for combatting inhuman prac-tices, understanding today's

complex medical issues, the new speciality of health main-tenance within a congregation and Pole's integration of care of the body through sound nutrition.

Participants ate lunch during the session; it provided an example of Pole's teach-ing as she explained in the closing lecture after the meal. Prepared by Mary Bommar-ito of Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church, the food sent many diners back for second helpings of the simple meal of a meatless southern style chili, fresh salad, with "scratch-made" dressing, a fiber-rich muffin and desert of fresh strawberries topped with home-made whipped cream.

Pole, who works as a nu-trition educator for an agency based in the Washington area, also spends considerable time using her professional skill as a cancer nurse and her natu-ral gift of singing and playing folk music. Many have met her through Good Samaritan Hospice or have enjoyed her music in a group known as Trifokal .

Food, she told the con-ference participants, is more than nourishment of the body. "If you don't take the time to eat right, you'll have to take the time to be sick," she noted. The enjoyment of food can be enhanced by its smell, taste and appearance, she said, pointing out "there's no good or bad food...It's not a panacea or a demon."

The best food, Pole told her audience, is whole, fresh and natural. That means it's not refined to get rid of the husk on grain, as has been done for years to make it seem more appealing. Eating an apple with its skin does "keep the doctor away," an old say-ing had it. A clean baked po-tato skin provides fiber, and a whole orange is far more nu-tritious than jello with artifi-cial coloring, she noted.

Is organic food naturally better? Yes, said Pole, if it has been grown without pesticides or chemical additives which are listed on the label but which it takes commitment to read. Even the common and healthful food peanut butter may contain much more than nuts.She views the corn-based fructose, once thought supe-rior to cane sugar, as a major cause of the obesity epidemic, for it's a major ingredient of such products as soft drinks and comercial baked goods.

But a shopper needs to use balance and common sense in buying organic, Pole pointed out. Often organic is more expensive and for that reason rejected by those who most need to better their diets. If purchased, it needs to be care-fully rinsed, and, if possible, acquired locally where there's more control over its origin. Food grown without pesti-cides tends to have more fla-vor because the plant can put all its effort into developing without having to fight off a certain weakening that chemi-cals produce, she said.

Finally, to enjoy food fully, it needs to be eaten at home in Pole's view. A lot of the value of a family being together comes from mealtimes, a fac-tor often missing in fast-paced America today.

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Well, Finally . . . a Nominee!Or maybe not . . . things could happen.

But let’s assume Gov. Romney will make the run. This is a good time to

consider the thrash we have just completed with the primaries/caucus shenanigans. We can disre-gard the fact that the candidates, particularly Gov. Romney, have been on the campaign trail for al-most a decade. It’s just since the Iowa caucus on January 3 that we have had to endure (can there be another word for it?) 21 primaries, caucuses, and endless media events masquerading as de-bates.

What have we learned? Here’s one thing: If you want to run for President, all you need is tens of millions of dollars and an ego to match. Given those two ingredients, we move on to the next stage. It is a foregone conclusion that the present incumbent (in any election year, not just our cur-rent occupant) is the Devil Incarnate. Nothing the current administration has done could possibly be anything but destructive to “The American Way of Life,” whatever that platitude might mean.

In order to prove (or refute) this point it be-comes necessary to spend mammoth amounts of money. According to the Center for Respon-sive Politics, the 1996 presidential campaign cost

239.9 million dollars, the 2008 campaign 883.3 million, and the 2012 is certain to exceed the one billion dollar mark I haven’t heard anyone say it, but what a boost elections are for the economy, particularly the media! Maybe we should have a presidential election every year.

Once the money gets raised the fairy tales begin. Each speech might well begin, “Once upon a time . . . .” The message of the candidates is that we can have it all and it will not cost us anything. Smaller, less intrusive government, lower taxes, a bal-anced budget, increased entitlements and programs, jobs for everyone. “A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage,” as Herbert Hoover famously said in 1928. We know how that well worked! Not to worry about the debt. As Alexander Hamilton (who must be spinning in his grave) proposed, we must have debt in order to be strong; we must be credit worthy to be respected. The part he never envisioned was that government would have no plan to meet its obligations.

Slogans: Don’t you just love them? “Guns and butter” we were promised in the 1960s. Too much of one and not enough of the other was the truth.

Then we had Ronald Reagan with his ‘trickle-down” theory and supply side economics. George H.W. Bush was never more right when he called it “voodoo economics.” Jim Hightower, a populist pundit, hit the nail smartly when he said the idea

was to help the rich and we would all be eating seven course dinners. That hap-pened . . . the rich got much richer and everyone else had their seven course dinner: possum and a six pack.

I suppose we will survive the next several months and on November 6 we will vote. Many will believe the fairy tales we have been told, and they will be

the first to become angry when it is obvious that they aren’t true. But it is true when bad things happen, no

one stands up to take the blame. The Democrats blame the Republicans (and vice versa), the Presi-dent blames Congress, the radicals blame the lib-eral, and the atheists blame the Christian right, the ice cap blames global warming, and so on. But there is one group that has no right to com-plain about anything: Those that don’t vote.

We will be inundated with manufactured hype about the election but we must see through all

the problems associated with the system. Former Congressman Tom Davis had it right: “Cam-paigns are fiction; governing is fact.” Of one thing I am sure: name calling is not going to make things better. Listening critically, not accepting hyper-bole as fact, holding the candidates to answering the questions they are asked rather than allowing them to meander off to their favorite sound bite, and voting, not for the slickest, the most urbane, or the most powerful, but the one who will truly put the interest of the country before everything else regardless of the political price. Will either be willing to tell the truth knowing it might cost the election?

Unless the electorate will stand up and be counted, unless we are willing to hear the truth, swallow hard, and get on with it, then we will con-tinue down the same path of promises not pos-sible, a result with which we have become much too familiar.

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The Preacher’s Corner - God and Money by Stuart Revercomb

I don't often play the lot-tery. My dad fondly re-ferred to it as the "fool's

tax" and while I know the pro-ceeds are generally marked for "good causes" such as educa-tion etc., the whole thing just seems like such a "let's take advantage of gullible people" process.

But I did play recently. It was one of those weeks when no one had won in forever and the jackpot was something like 8 quadrillion zillion and the allure of receiving a check after taxes for about $300 a month was just so tempting. My numbers came up 6-14-38-52-54 with a 38 as the "Powerball" - whatever that is.

I didn't match a single one - which, statistically, seemed to be well in my favor. After Googling the odds of winning I came across this list of things that are MORE likely to hap-pen to you than winning the lottery: (The odds of winning when I played were 1 in 176 Million!)

Death by Vending Machine - Odds: 1 in 112 million.

Dying in an Airline-Related Terrorist Attack - Odds: 1 in 25 million.

Having Identical Quadru-plets - Odds: 1 in 15 million.

Becoming President - Odds: 1 in 10 million.

Dying From Bee, Hornet, or

Wasp Stings - Odds: 1 in 6.1 million.

Dying From Being Left-Handed - Odds: 1 in 4.4 mil-lion. (Apparently, a fair num-ber of left-handed people die each year from using right-handed products incorrectly. Who knew?)

Becoming a Movie Star - Odds: 1 in 1,505,000.

Getting Struck by Light-ning - Odds: 1 in 1 million. (In fact, that bolt from the sky may strike you more than 500 times before you hit the jack-pot.)

Dying in a Bathtub - Odds: 1 in 840,000. (These odds are not an excuse to stop bath-ing.)

Dying in an On-the-Job Ac-cident - Odds: 1 in 48,000.

Interestingly, this list of odds were all focused on dying ex-cept the categories of "having identical quadruplets," "be-coming president," or "becom-ing a movie star" - all of which are apparently just as bad as death in the author's eyes.

Of course winning the lot-tery itself can turn out to be a pretty unfortunate occur-rence. There are so many sto-ries of how once happy lives have gone totally down the tubes under the pressure and temptation to become more focused on "things" rather than the more simple and

genuine moments that bring lasting joy.

So the question seems to ask itself: Has "progress" in the name of having more and more and more put us in a truly "happier" place?

It seems obvious that Amer-ica's overwhelming focus on materialism and success as defined by how much one can make or accumulate, has led us to a place of extreme moral / ethical / societal decay.

The bible has lots to say about that. Here's another list I found on Google:

"He that trust in riches shall fall but the righteous shall flourish as a branch." Proverbs 11:28

"Riches profit not in the day of wrath but righteousness delivers from this," Proverbs 11:4

"There are those who make themselves rich yet hath noth-ing. There are those who make themselves poor yet have great riches." Proverbs 13:7

"He that hastens to be rich hath an evil eye and considers not that poverty shall come upon him." Proverbs 28:22

"Better is little with a fear of the Lord than great treasure and the trouble therewith."Proverbs 15:16

"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have

wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many grief 's." (1Timothy 6:10)

A regular student of the Old Testament readings above, Je-sus added some perspective to this wisdom and gave us God's expectation so simply:

“Do not lay up for your-selves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for your-selves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

“No one can serve two mas-ters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and

despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."

It's OK to want to be fi-nancially better off I suppose - everyone dreams of having things at least a little easier. But our focus should not be on the material things of this world but on the eternal things of God - love, hope, faith - and the abiding joy that is only

found in loving one another as He has loved us.

For it is indeed a short and uncertain life and sooner or later "the odds" catch up with us all. But God's great gift of himself in Jesus has overcome even the worst of them.

In the end, maybe that’s the only thing we can really take to the bank.

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Research Shows Lack Of Sleep May Produce Unethical Behavior

Can lack of sleep make you behave unethically? Research-ers think so.

Many studies have looked at the impact of sleep depri-vation on workers’ health, safety, and morale, says VT Pamplin College of Business management assistant profes-sor Christopher Barnes, but few have considered its impli-cations for unethical behavior. “Sleep deprivation may also contribute to unethical con-duct in the workplace, which is costly to organizations,” says Barnes, who co-authored a recent study on the subject.

Barnes and three other scholars conducted four stud-ies in different settings and situations to examine the in-fluence of low levels of sleep in decision-making situa-tions involving ethical con-siderations. “We consistently

found that people were more likely to behave unethically when they were short on sleep,” he says.

An important practical im-plication of their research, he says, is that managers and or-ganizations may play a larger role than previously thought in promoting unethical be-havior — through excessive

work demands, extended work hours, and shifts that result in night work, each of which, other studies show, has diminished employee sleep.

“We are not arguing that managers can or should com-pletely control the sleep and unethical behavior of their subordinates,” Barnes says, “but that managers should recognize that many of their actions may have second-or-der effects on sleep and thus unethical behavior. Manag-ers who push their employ-ees to work long hours, work late into the night, or work sporadic and unpredictable schedules may be creating situations that foster unethi-cal behavior.”

Barnes is the lead author of “Lack of sleep and unethi-cal conduct,” co-authored with John Schaubroeck and Megan Huth of Michigan State University and Sonia Ghumman of the University of Hawaii and published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 115 (2011), 169–180.

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Tech Announces Football Helmet Ratings; Two More Added To Five-Star Mark

Virginia Tech has released the results of its 2012 rating for adult football helmets that are designed to assess a helmet's ability to reduce the risk of concussion.

A total of three helmets achieved a "5 star" mark, which is the highest rating awarded by the Virgin-ia Tech Helmet Ratings. In addition to the Riddell Revolution Speed, which was the only helmet to receive five stars last year, the Rawlings Quantum Plus and Riddell 360 also earned five stars as the best available helmets.

The process used for evaluating the head pro-tector involves performing 120 impacts on each helmet model at multiple locations and impact energies. To date, the Virginia Tech Helmet Rat-ings for adult football include 15 helmet models that were evaluated using more than 2,000 labo-ratory tests. The ratings, first introduced in 2011, utilize the STAR Evaluation System to assess helmet performance. The STAR, an acronym for the Summation of Tests for the Analysis of Risk, evaluation system was developed using data col-lected from over 1.8-million head impacts expe-rienced by football players throughout an eight-year span.

"This is a perfect example of a National Insti-tutes of Health (NIH)-funded project resulting in translational research. The NIH supported the de-velopment of the sensors and data collection that provided the foundation for our rating system. Specifically, you can see Riddell and Rawlings us-ing this research to develop the very best helmets," said project director Stefan Duma the Harry C. Wyatt Professor of Engineering and department head of the Virginia Tech -- Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences.

A total of five new adult football helmet mod-els by Rawlings, Riddell, and Xenith have been released since the Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings were first made available in 2011. The Riddell 360 (5 stars), Rawlings Quantum Plus (5 stars), Rawl-ings Impulse (4 stars), and Rawlings Quantum (4 stars) were new models that are recommended by the researchers. "We recommend any of the four or five star helmets for players. The specific hel-met a player chooses will be dependent on other factors such as a fit and comfort," said Duma. The remaining new helmet model included in the 2012 ratings was the Xenith X2, which earned a three-star rating.

Seven helmets are now rated with four stars in the 2012 Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings™: Schutt ION 4D, Schutt DNA Pro+, Rawlings Impulse, Xe-nith X1, Riddell Revolution, Rawlings Quantum, and Riddell Revolution IQ. The remaining five football helmet models were rated with three stars or less. The complete ratings are publicly available online so that consumers can make educated de-cisions when purchasing football helmets.

"The three lowest-rated helmets from last year are now all off the market. It is encouraging to

see this positive shift towards better head protec-tion," said Steven Rowson, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech. Rowson was responsible for the development of the STAR Evaluation System and testing of the helmets. "Four of the five new helmet models introduced in the last year earned a four- or five-star rating. This helps demonstrate that a data-driven ap-proach can be utilized to optimize helmet design to reduce concussion risk," he said.

In the future, the researchers will expand the Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings to include other sports as well as youth football helmets. To this end, Duma and his team collected the first data set on head impacts experienced by youth football players last year. In the fall of 2012, researchers at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest will expand this data set by instrumenting over 300 youth foot-ball players from ages 6 to 18 in what is called the KIDS study (Kinematics of Impact Data Set). "As we learn more about youth head impact expo-sure, we can begin to develop methods to evaluate youth-specific helmet designs," Duma added.

The Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings are inde-pendent of any helmet manufacturer and utilized funding from private donations, the School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, and the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Sci-ence. Detailed downloadable reports that outline the methodology and resulting data are available. As noted on the data sheets, any player may sus-tain a concussion with even the best equipment, Duma said.

For more information on the ratings, go to www.SBES.vt.edu/nid or contact Stefan Duma by email [email protected] or phone at 540-231-8191.

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Testing the various football helmets for their ability to reduce the risk of concussions, left to right: Ray Daniel, Steven Rowson, an assis-tant professor in the school and Stefan Duma.

The Reel Deal: “The Titanic 3D”Few movies have ever reached

or come close to the success that James Cameron’s "Titanic" achieved when it first released in 1997. A highly ambitious project that was at the time the most expen-sive movie ever made, Titanic exceeded everybody’s expec-tations and won 11 Academy Awards, in-cluding Best Picture, and was the highest grossing movie of all time for 12 years.

Now at the 100th year anni-versary of the Titanic sinking, we have the movie Titanic released in 3D for the first time. While the movie has its flaws, it’s still a great movie that still dazzles today, and now more than ever with the ex-tra dimension.

The story of the movie Ti-tanic should be familiar to many

moviegoers. Many other movies have tried to copy off the suc-cess of the tragic romance that

is the centerpiece of this movie. While Titanic is certainly flawed in some re-gards, it features several exceptional qualities in both its storytelling and in its production de-signs that co-exist seamlessly without

one overwhelming the other. Though the romance is a

bit clichéd today, the chemistry of the two leading actors make up for it, and the focus on the separation of the rich and poor feels just right for the story.

Though the romance is well-developed, the production de-signs are the major highlight of Titanic. The visual effects, cos-tume design, and art direction

are truly impeccable in their de-tails, which perfectly re-create the Titanic in all her original glory. The sinking of the Titanic is also filled with suspense and features a grand cinematic scale unlike anything accomplished in film back in 1997. While the movie has a running time of three hours and the major highlight for most people is the Titanic sinking, the romance still holds up fairly well and never drags on too long or features unnecessary padding.

The grand scale of the produc-tion designs is unquestionably good, but the story does have its flaws that do hold the movie back. The villain of the movie in particular is unnecessary, over-the-top, and incredibly out-of-place in a movie that is otherwise very realistic in its recreation of the Titanic. Another issue is that while James Cameron is a skilled director, he is not a skilled writer, and there are a fair amount of corny lines that range from either being somewhat forced or just silly. Finally, the movie’s some-what slow pacing and three-hour running time might lose the attention of people wanting a faster-paced and more exciting movie.

While Titanic is not quite a masterpiece when compared to the likes of a film like Casablanca, it is a great movie that manages to re-create the event perfectly and also tell a good – if albeit flawed – story. The acting and direction is great, the production designs are superb, and it’s an amazing expe-rience that especially manages to shine on the big screen. The updated 3D is also great, though not as exceptional as Avatar. The added depth makes the Titanic seem closer than ever, and also helps to enhance certain sus-penseful moments in the movie. Seeing Titanic on the big screen is a journey that anybody should take, even for those who have al-ready taken it before.

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Ferguson's Walk-Off Winner Leads Hidden Valley In 6-5 Win Over Byrd

Chris Ferguson's slow roller with the bases loaded plated Hayes Nelson with the winning run in the bottom of the seventh as Hidden Valley came from be-hind to defeat William Byrd in non-district baseball Saturday afternoon at Titan Field.

Byrd had led from the outset, scoring twice in the first on a two-run homer by third base-man Timmy Meador, followed by three in the second on a

bases loaded double by catcher Jo Stickney.

Hidden Valley put up fence posts in the first, second, third and sixth to narrow the Terrier advantage to 5-4.

In the Terrier seventh, Byrd looked poised to put the game away when the leadoff batter reached on an infield single. Sam Harron followed with a sharp single to center, but the lead Byrd runner was thrown out at second on the rare 8-5 putout. Titan third baseman

Stephen Bernys averted further damage with a diving snag, and throw across the diamond that kept the Byrd lead at one head-ing to the bottom of the inning.

In their half of the seventh, Hidden Valley tied the game at 5 when Jack Moore's double plated Joseph Bolinger, who had reached on a pinch-hit single.

Byrd would load the bases on an intentional walk, before Ferguson's slow roller sent the sliding Nelson across the plate without a throw.

Titan relief pitcher Matt Scribner kept Byrd off the board in the last four innings with an assortment of off-speed pitches to pick up the win.

Hidden Valley improved to 9-3-1 (4-0, River Ridge Dis-trict). Byrd fell to 8-7 (1-4, Blue Ridge District)

Byrd starter #24 Scott Sprad-lin catches a Hidden Valley baserunner leaning as he goes to first on a pickoff attempt.

Hidden Valley baserunner #9 Jack Moore slides under the tag of Terrier third baseman Timmy Meador to reach third safely.

Terrier catcher Jo Stickney waits to apply the tag as Hidden Valley baserunner #10 Chad Frazier tries to score.

Salem Sinks Hidden Valley 5-0 in River Ridge softball

Salem scored twice in the first inning and Spartan pitcher Emily Taylor made the advan-tage stand with a two-hitter, as Salem downed Hidden Valley 5-0 in River Ridge softball at Titan Field.

Amanda Dalton was a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate to lead Salem, with Taylor adding 2 hits. Hidden Valley's hits came from Savannah Kramer and Margaret Larson.

Salem remained undefeated in River Ridge play at 4-0; Hidden Valley dropped to 2-1-1.

Hidden Valley baserunner #15 Margaret Larson slides safely into second as Salem's Alex Ger-vais waits for the throw.

Salem pitcher Emily Taylor fires from the circle on her way to the 2-hit shutout win.

Christiansburg Overtakes Knights For 7-4 River Ridge Baseball WinChristiansburg broke open

a 4-4 tie with a run in the fifth and two more in the sixth, as the Blue Demons stayed in second place in the River Ridge stand-ings with the 7-4 win over Cave Spring at Knights Field Friday afternoon.

Reece Kingery, recently back in the Knights lineup after a football-related surgery, led Cave Spring with two hits.

Cave Spring fell to 7-6 (2-2 River Ridge) heading into this week's home matchup with River Ridge frontrunner Hidden Valley. Cave Spring third baseman

Andrew Peterson throws across the diamond to get the out after bringing in a hot shot down the baseline by a Blue Demon hitter.

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North Cross Trio Sign To Play Football At The Next Level

Three North Cross All-State football standouts signed to play at the college level in a ceremony last Thursday afternoon in the school library.

Josh Murray is joining the University of Richmond as a walk-on for the Spiders' Divi-sion-1 program. Likewise, Chris Shelton, a two-way lineman for the Raiders, plans to walk-on at Shepherd University, a Divi-sion-2 school in Shepherdstown, WV.

Also, Thursday, Paul Ross signed to continue his career at Division-3 Hampden-Sydney College.

The three were key members of the 2011 North Cross VIS state championship team.

Front row seated (L-R)----Josh Murray, Paul Ross, Chris SheltonBack row (L-R) North Cross Headmaster Christian Proctor, Raider Head Football Coach Stephen Alexander.


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Cave Spring found the net twice in the final 7 minutes of the first half, and the Knights powered home 5 more in the second, as Cave Spring over-whelmed winless Christiansburg 7-0 in a River Ridge boys soccer matchup last Friday afternoon at the Knights upper field.

Hunter Hickam got the Cave Spring scoring parade going at the 33-minute mark of the first half, and Will Bradley, Kyle Gunville (2), Saim Mustafa, Matt Ketterer and Trevor Durham followed the lead as the Knights easily pulled away.

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The NRV 15's National team out of Roanoke competed in the Old Dominion Region Bid tour-nament held at the Richmond Convention Center April 14 and 15. The team competed in the tournament finals and earned a bid for the Junior Nationals to be held in Columbus, Ohio July 2 -5. Members of the NRV 15's National team are from left, Michelle Kimbel, Emily Steffan, Leah Clayton, Carden Clark, Sarah Downs, Piper Roe, Han-nah Shields, Lauren Bunnell Amelia Dalton, Kayla Goumas and Alexandra Arnold. The coaches for the team are head coach Tom Houser and assis-tant coaches Audrey Easter and Caroline Brown.

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Wild Bill’s Weekly Sports RoundupAs Alfred Hitchcock would

say---- “Gooood evening.” Sor-ry, I don’t have a shadowy side-profile with my tongue sticking out to grace today’s column, but jump on board for this week’s, as ole Alfred would say, “bizarre story from the Cassell of Blacks-burg.”

Virginia Tech bas-ketball offered a week of twists, turns and strange comments from the pundits iin Hokie Hoopland, many of whom need to have their crystal ball confis-cated for non-perfor-mance.

It’s been a whirl-wind, so what better way to of-fer the week in review than with a Wild Bill Bottom-Line Quick Ticker.

Hokies end the season with a losing record, thus no post-sea-son bid; Tech pundits say Tech Head Coach Seth Greenberg needs to be given another year to develop freshman recruits; grumblings indicate some play-ers may bolt due to Greenberg, as had happened previously; assistant coaches, including James Johnson, leave Hokie-land for other programs; Tech panics, tells Johnson they will match his new salary at Clem-son; Johnson says “no”, saying leaving had nothing to do with money (Wild Bill Tip #1-read between the lines on that one); Jim Weaver fires Greenberg; reported morning incident at Blacksburg restaurant in which more than eggs were fried; Tech goes on coaching search; Tech pundits have everyone from VCU’s Shaka Smart (Wild Bill Tip #2- you’ve got to be kid-ding) to Dean Smith (probably makes more sense than Shaka

Smart) as the new coach; SMU, which was supposedly rumored to be looking at Greenberg, hires Larry Brown; Tech hires James Johnson as head coach (Wild Bill Tip#3- if they hadn’t done this, there wouldn’t have been enough players left to have a good game of HORSE); bas-

ketball upheaval takes away uproar of cancel-ling the spring football game.

For the record, I’m in the James Johnson corner. He saved the day for what could have

been, taking from a Hitchcock classic, a ‘Psycho’ episode that

would have made Cassell Coli-seum look like The Bates Motel.

Johnson has energy and en-thusiasm. If anyone watched the hilarious Weaver/Gabbard performance, Johnson surely brings a ray of hope to the Tech program. Give him a chance - everyone deserves one.

Now, to the local scene where there was a big shakeup in the Wild Bill ‘Big-11’ baseball Top-3. With its convincing 5-0 win over previously unbeaten Northside, Lord Botetourt (14-1) takes over the top spot, here-tofore occupied by the Vikings (14-1) since week-one. The Vikings host the Cavaliers in a Blue Ridge rematch May 15th.

HIdden Valley (9-4-1), de-spite a 10-9 loss to Cave Spring Tuesday afternoon, holds on to third place after their walkoff win over potential pollbuster William Byrd on Saturday.

In the Wild Bill ‘Big-11’ soft-ball Top-3, Northside (15-1) firmly stays in the #1 spot, fol-lowed by William Byrd (13-3) and Glenvar (11-3). Northside visits Byrd this Friday, May 4th,

for a key Blue Ridge showdown and ‘Big-11’ supremacy.

Track and Field enthusiasts should flock to the new Wil-liam Fleming track Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the an-nual COSMO Track Meet. The 47th event will showcase the ar-ea’s top track and field athletes, while returning to its orginal site in 1966.

It’s only two months until the PGA TOUR’s Greenbrier Clas-sic returns to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. To sup-port First Tee Roanoke Valley, weekly badges can be purchased by calling Jennifer Blackwood at First Tee (540-312-5111). Badg-es, now priced at $189, include daily admission to the tourna-ment, parking, and admission to all of the Greenbrier Concert Series, which in 2012, includes Lionel Ritchie, Rod Stewart, Bon Jovi and Toby Keith. Best deal in sports for the July 2nd-8th week.

One quick look at the mail-bag, where cancelling the Tech spring game made no matter to one reader.

Dear Wild Bill: Our spring game being called off was no-count. Wait ‘til we break-er-out in the fall. It’ll be a fifty-five gal-lon drum of ass-whup thrown on somebody. (Junior/ Marion)

You got it, Junior. I’m putting my helmet on already.

As, Hitch would say, “see you next week for another intrigu-ing story.”

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There are a lot of very talent-ed artists in the Roanoke Valley, that’s certainly not a shocking revelation. Just one look inside some of the galleries downtown, perhaps during the monthly Art By Night open house, or at the annual sidewalk art sale in June will provide all the evidence one needs. Patrons of the visual arts and the plain curious had an-other opportunity to meet local artists this past weekend during the 12th annual Open Studios tour.

More than two dozen artists met the public at 13 locations in Roanoke, at their home studios or at public venues like Ann Trinkle’s Kirk Avenue work-ing gallery/studio. There were painters, sculptors, photogra-phers and mixed media artists showing off their work in front yards, garages, indoor studios or bucolic back yards.

On Somerset Street in South Roanoke, sculptor J. Gail Geer was showing her work and explaining the pro-cess she uses to visitors. Geer, who learned to sculpt after taking classes at Virginia Western, fa-vors the marble-like Kiisi stone from Africa, which she said has a sensual feel to it once it is shaped and polished. “The most fab-ulous finish …it’s a very difficult stone to get away from.”

Kiisi stone can be very brittle to sculpt, but it’s worth the effort said Geer, who will head to Italy this summer to work in mar-ble. “I’m going to make angels and bears,” noted Geer, who has also taught sculpture classes at Center in the Square. She’s tried other mediums like clay, “but my obsession is stone.”

It became a passion for Geer when she reached her forties. She has also appeared at every Open Studios since its incep-tion. “I love that people come

from the community to see what we do. Just knowing that we are here is the important part. They need to be aware of us.”

Thomas Lawson’s work was in the back yard at the same home on Somerset, where the green-ery provided an elegant back-drop to his paintings, abstract female nudes inspired by the masters like Picasso, Dekoon-ing and Matisse. “Picasso is my main motivator,” said Lawson, who called himself, “a mod-ern artist, just slightly behind the times.” He enjoys the Open Studios concept. “It’s a great op-

portunity for the community and keeps a little of the focus on art. It gets my pictures out – and I have a sale every now and then.”

Lawson is also a member of the Markey Gallery co-op in downtown Roanoke. As for us-ing nude female models (the model for all his works at Open Studios, Tiffany Robinette, an artist herself, was on hand as a

tour guide), Lawson said the fe-male form fascinated him. “You can’t just stare, so you have to paint. It’s an interesting chal-lenge to put it in different per-spectives.”

On Avenham Avenue, pho-tographer Barry Wolfe was showing off framed photo-graphs from a recent trip he and

his wife Libba took to Havana, Cuba. Wolfe said the country is full of gracious people in a place stuck in a time warp – crammed

with pre-Revolution American vehicles from the 1950’s that Wolfe said were an art form in their own way… lots of chrome, tail fins and bright colors that became subjects for his cam-era. “It’s a place I always wanted to see,” said Wolfe, who found a government-licensed travel agency that helps get around the ban on travel to Cuba – a ban lifted to some extent by the

Obama administration.There is no cell phone

service, ATM’s, credit cards or WiFi in Cuba – all cash and carry, ac-cording to Wolfe. “We went with eyes wide open and I was amazed by the whole place.” Many of the images he displayed at Open Stu-dios featured weathered buildings, some of them adorned in faded pas-tels. “The infrastructure is in disrepair,” he said, “but we were very well received.”

Wolfe, in fact, was in-terviewed by a BBC crew as he strolled the streets in Havana, which he called “the most pho-tographically-friendly place that I’ve ever been.” There’s plenty of neighborhood art and scores of classes for those that want to learn the visual or lively arts in Cuba, according to Wolfe. “They just need some commerce.”

On Grandin Road, local art-ist and art instructor Katherine Devine welcomed visitors to her second floor working stu-dio, which overlooks Grandin. “It’s beautifully designed for artists,” said Devine, who is less distracted there than she was at her ground floor studio in downtown Roanoke previously. “It’s a lovely place for people to find and talk to me.”

This was the first year that Devine was part of the annual tour, and she hopes to be asked back: “It brings in people who are not already in my circle of friends, [as well as] students and supporters.” That in fact is the whole point of Open Studios.

Mill Mountain Ringers To Present Spring Concert

Mill Mountain Ringers, a community handbell ensemble playing five octaves of hand-bells and three octaves of choir chimes, will present a concert at Windsor Hills Methodist church on Friday, May 18 at 7:30 pm.

Directed by Joseph Kennedy, who has served as a Minister of Music and Organist at sev-eral Roanoke churches for the past 33 years, Mill Mountain Ringers is composed entirely of volunteers - all are experienced handbell ringers and some are also directors of music. Ken-nedy’s two daughters, Sarah and Kathleen, have been part of the MMR, but both will be leaving for college this fall.

Although handbells are typi-cally considered church related instruments which play reli-gious music, the repertoire of Mill Mountain Ringers includes a variety of secular music as well, ranging from classical to hoe downs, waltzes, and music by contemporary composers. The upcoming concert will be based around dance music and will also include Ashokan Fare-well, theme song for the Ken Burns Civil War movie. A free will offering is received at the concerts, which are presented twice each year, but no admis-sion is charged.

Mill Mountain Ringers, Inc. was founded in 2007 by Joe Kennedy and Katherine Shaver, former member of The Raleigh Ringers, a well-known handbell ensemble. The Raleigh Ringers performed at the Jefferson Cen-ter in 2006, and their concert created so much interest locally that Kennedy and Shaver orga-nized Mill Mountain Ringers, Inc., a 501 (c)(3) organization.

Their ensemble has a fourfold mission: to attract and rehearse qualified handbell ringers in all aspects of handbell music, to educate others in the com-munity through performances, to promote the art of handbell ringing and to encourage public appreciation of and interest in handbell music.

In addition to their two an-nual concerts in November and

May, the Ringers also perform for private functions. In 2009, they had the distinct honor of being the only handbell en-semble ever invited to perform with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. They participated in the 2009 and 2011 Holiday Pops Concerts under the direction of Maestro David Stewart Wiley. They also had the privilege of performing at the Historic Ho-tel Roanoke for the convention of the Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution, and have per-formed at several local nursing homes.

Currently, Windsor Hills Methodist Church graciously provides a place for concerts, weekly rehearsals, and the use of their handbells. Open re-hearsals are held each Monday evening at 7:30 and other ring-ers and directors are encour-

aged to attend. The Ringers hope eventually

to have corporate sponsorship to enable them to keep afloat and in due course to purchase their own equipment -- bells, tables and a trailer to transport the equipment. Kennedy also dreams of creating a youth choir, which would serve as a feeder group, and hopefully someday train children in handbell ring-ing. Another direction the choir may take will be combining bells with other instruments, such as flutes, strings, or brass quartets. He says a number of pieces for such combinations are already in publication.

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Barry Wolfe’s images of Cuba.

Nervo’s wildly colorful animal creations on Avenham Avenue.

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SWVB Director Takes His Talents to New HampshireSouthwest Virginia Ballet Artistic Director Pedro Szalay is in the

midst of a guest teaching session at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, an opportunity he calls “great exposure” for the Roanoke-based troupe. Of course, Szalay said earlier this week, many still ask, “Where is Roanoke?” He’s teaching high school aged students at St. Paul’s 2-3 hours a day for a three-week period, work-ing on a new piece he choreographed called “Domino.”

The dance centers around romance and the game of dominos, which is played heavily in Cuba, “to relieve the stress [of every-day life],” as Szalay puts it. Domino also features the music of salsa songstress Celia Cruz. Szalay, who is of Hungarian and Venezuelan background, said it could become a piece that Southwest Virginia Ballet (designed for students 18 and under) takes on at some point in the future.

Szalay had previously danced with Lesley Tunstall, now head of the dance department at St. Paul’s School, who invited him to come up as a guest teacher. Tunstall had a school in South Carolina be-fore and has also been with the National Ballet of Canada. “Every department [at St. Paul’s] is amazing,” said Szalay of the New Hamp-shire boarding school, which has an impressive arts program, with theater, music and dance. Students attend school six days a week.

Tunstall said Szalay has been a friend for 16 years. “He’s been my partner and friend and we both have this love of dance together. He

was the perfect choice for St. Paul’s. He’s been an excellent inspi-ration to work with.” St. Paul’s has invited dance instructors from heavyweight ballet companies in Chicago and Boston recently, and brings in about two guest choreographers a year, according to Tun-stall.

Domino will be presented during St. Paul’s annual spring show. Being introduced as artistic director of the Southwest Virginia Bal-let should only help increase awareness and the reputation for the Roanoke company. SWVB is involved elsewhere as well – costume designer Elizabeth Long is also creating the outfits for Domino.

“It’s very involved,” said Szalay of the plotline for Domino, which features a dozen dancers, including one male. Much of the chore-ography revolves around the game of dominos and how it is played. One version of the game called “matador” is featured, as is the rela-tionship between a couple as it goes through different phases. “It’s great to work with it,” said Szalay.

Tunstall said the new work by Szalay “is very fun. They [students] always have a smile on their faces. He’s pushing them to the limit and challenging the dancers. They’re like sponges …just loving it.” It’s a sentiment that Szalay has probably heard from some of his Southwest Virginia Ballet students in the past.

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2012 TOYOTA YARIS #P4895A ..............................$15,9952003 MERCEDES BENZ E320 #P4853 ..................$15,9952004 FORD F150 SUPERCAB #220556A ..............$16,9952006 PONTIAC SOLSTICE #P4906 .......................$16,9952009 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY LX #PA4888 ..$16,5952010 JEEP LIBERTY #220448B ...........................$17,9952008 HONDA CIVIC HYBRID #P4879 ....................$17,9952010 HONDA CIVIC LX #220715A ........................$18,9952008 SAAB 9-3-4 CONVERTIBLE #P4825A ..........$18,9952009 HONDA ACCORD EX #220585A ...................$19,9952005 MINI COOPER CONVERTIBLE #PA4814A ......$19,9952011 VW JETTA SE #220704A .............................$19,9952009 NISSAN ALTIMA SL #PA4893 ......................$19,9952011 HONDA CR-Z EX #P4872 ............................$20,995

2008 MINI COOPER #P4903 ................................$20,9952008 INFINITI G35 #220331A .............................$21,9952010 SUBARU FORESTER LIMITED #P4858 .........$23,9952006 LAND ROVER LR3 SE #P4791 .....................$24,5952007 ACURA MDX AWD #220139A ......................$24,9952007 BMW X3 #P4857A .....................................$24,9952007 CHEVY AVALANCHE 1500 LTZ #PB4763B ....$24,9952008 HONDA CR-V EX-L #220712A .....................$25,9952011 SUBARU LEGACY #220361A .......................$25,9952009 HONDA PILOT EX-L #PA4805 ...................$26,9952008 LEXUS RX350 #PA4886 .............................$28,9952005 MERCEDES BENZ SL500 #210768B ............$28,9952010 HONDA ODYSSEY EX-L #220337A ...............$31,9952009 BMW X5 #P4841 .......................................$43,995

$12,995 $12,995 $12,995 $12,995 $12,995All prices plus tAxes, title, tAgs, And $299 Processing Fee. All vehicles preowned unless stAted As new. photos for illustrAtion purposes only. offer ends 5/10/12.

3311 Peters Creek Rd • 540-366-0888800-633-1210

$7,995

2006 CHRYSLER SEBRING CONV.Stock #:P4810A

$12,995

2002 GMC SIERRA 1500

$14,995

2006 NISSAN PATHFINDERStock #:220305A

$15,995

2006 HONDA CR-V EXStock #:220321A

$15,995

2011 NISSAN VERSAStock #:PA4882

$14,995

2005 CADILLAC SRXStock #:PB4874

$13,995

2007 SCION tCStock #:220238B2

$10,995

2003 JEEP WRANGLER SEStock #:P4809

$14,995

2007 VW PASSATStock #:220475A

Stock #:220369B

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