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Roanoke Relay for Life co-chair Dana Reagan says the local American Cancer Soci-ety chapter has already netted more than the $360,000 it had set as a goal. “I think we’re go-ing to hit $400,000,” Reagan said last week, when the total was at $372,000. Her husband Barry is the co-chair.

She puts her heart and soul into the Relay for Life every year. “It’s like a second full time job,” said Reagan, also a member of the Relay steering committee and an employee at Elizabeth Arden. Reagan is a member of the Parrott Heads of the Blue Ridge (she’s “seen Jimmy Buffett close to 30 times”) and a team the group put together for a Relay event in 2005 piqued her interest.

“We just got involved be-cause we thought it was a wor-thy cause,” said Reagan; her immediate family, nor her husband’s has been touched by cancer. “[But] it can strike at any time,” she adds, “You never know when it’s going to hit home.”

After a three year hiatus from Roanoke City (at Green Hill Park in West Roanoke County) and two years in the Roanoke Civic Center parking lot, Re-lay for Life returned to the Re-

serve Avenue field where Vic-tory Stadium once stood for the first time since 2004. “I did not hear one single complaint,” said Reagan, “everyone seemed very excited about being back in the city.” This was the 19th Relay in Roanoke, the first place it was staged in Virginia.

Even without Victory Stadium, those who had walked there previ-

ously told Reagan “it felt like home. People could not have been more responsive in a pos-itive way about coming back to [Roanoke].” Reagan praised Roanoke City Parks & Recre-

Virginia Tech and Carilion showed off the impressive new VT Research Institute last week during a media tour, ahead of the building’s planned opening on September 1.

Dr. Michael Friedlander, founding Executive Director of the VT Carilion Research Institute, has a $50 million startup budget and expects to employ 50-100 people by year’s end. That number will jump to 400+ in the next five to seven years, as Friedlander recruits additional scientists, technical staff, and administrative per-sonnel to the region.

That number doesn’t in-clude 168 new medical school students expected at the new campus in several weeks - all of whom will work on a re-search project while pursuing their medical degrees. As the founding director, Friedlander, who laid out his vision to the NewVa Cor-ridor Technology Council at a breakfast earlier this week, will be a catalyst for developing Roanoke’s biomedical research and business economy.

Meanwhile, the School of Medicine and Research Insti-tute, built on South Jefferson in what once was an indus-trial brown field, was aided by

a $59 million capital projects bond package, with construc-tion beginning in 2008. More than 500 workers helped erect

the 207,000 square foot structure, over 50,000 sq. ft of which is a parking

garage.There was also a green com-

ponent to its construction: 78% of all trash that left the site was recycled – more than two million pounds worth of materials. Architect Daniel DiMarco of AECOM in Roa-noke is a Virginia Tech gradu-ate. The “green” roof features

2-3 feet of soil, allowing for a wider variety of plants that can help keep energy costs down.

Motion activated lighting will keep rooms dark except when necessary, saving on en-ergy costs as well. Hokie stone from a quarry near Blacksburg, concrete from the Boxley plant in Roanoke and bricks from Martinsville were shots in the arm for the regional economy.

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Big Pitch for Roanoke Valley

The 2010 Coventry Commonwealth Games came to Roanoke beginning with an opening ceremony last Friday night hosted by Olympic Medalist Speed Skater J.R. Celski. The majority of the games fol-lowed at venues throughout the Roanoke Valley over the course of the weekend. With 60 sports and an estimated 10,000 athletes, the games bring an economic impact of several million dollars to the area.

Cat Hosfield, a starter for the University of Tennessee (above), pitches a strike as a member of the 23-Under, Virginia-based Renegades competitive fast-pitch softball team. The squad, coached by Botetourt’s Rick Anderson, also includes players from Va. Tech, Radford, Georgia Tech and Florida State. Eighty nine fast pitch teams com-peted in this year’s games throughout the Valley in numerous age classifications.

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Members of the community occupied almost every seat at the quarterly meeting of the Back Creek Civic League held on Monday at Back Creek Fire Sta-tion #11. The agenda included recognition of two long-time law enforcement officials, who were recently promoted, the long awaited road-widening project on Bent Mountain and the con-troversial plan to install wind turbines on Poor Mountain.

Widening a one-mile stretch of Route 221 (also known as Bent Mountain Road) from Crystal Creek Drive to Cotton Hill Road is no longer sitting on the shelf. “We are getting ready to build a road,” confirmed VDOT Con-struction Engineer Robbie Wil-liams. The project has been on and off the transportation’s six-

City Explains Trinkle Meals Tax Issue

When Roanoke City’s Code of Ordinances says the meals tax citizens pay when dining out is to be “held in trust by the seller until remitted to the treasurer it means just that,” according to Tim Spencer in the city attor-ney’s office.

“It’s not a slush fund,” said Spencer. “It is not to be used for paying the light bill or making payroll. The meals tax citizens pay should be placed in an in-visible cookie jar to be held by the seller until remittance to the treasurer by the 20th of every month.”

The comments were made in response to the revelation that Vice Mayor David Trinkle has been late on paying the meals tax owed to city coffers over the last several months - a story first reported in “investigative news” fashion by WDBJ Anchorman Keith Humphrey.

Trinkle’s two restaurants were treated no differently than any other delinquent restaurateur according to Ann Shawver, Di-rector of Finance. “Everybody needs to tow the line and pay their share and hopefully that keeps the burden down for [ev-eryone],” said Shawver.

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Virginia Tech and Carilion Show Off New Research Institute

Luminaries light the way at a past Relay for Life event.

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tor of finance “powers and authorities of police officers” including issuing a summons and involvement of the commonwealth attor-ney’s office if necessary.

Trinkle was sent letters, phoned and notified personally in the months he was delinquent in paying the meals tax to the city. Trin-kle “was working with us … we don’t use collection techniques un-less we need to,” said Shawver.

Shawver was confident that the information reported by WDBJ that Trinkle owed $50,000 did not come from any city department. She stressed that the delinquent dollar amount of a businesses’ meals tax, admission tax and/or lodging tax is confidential information.

Trinkle advised the Star-Sentinel that he never confirmed the $50K amount. “It is wrong and I have no idea where it came from,” said Trinkle. “The paper (Roanoke Times) has been asked where they got their information - I think from Keith Humphrey. The real numbers are much lower and perhaps even lower than that depend-ing on how you define it . . . Suffice it to say several weeks before Keith’s story, I began putting money in to pay several bills. I had seen the writing on the wall that this time they (the restaurants) weren’t going to pull themselves out as they had before - that the spring just didn’t have the numbers from even a year ago.”

Trinkle added that, “I have found operating small businesses to be an incredible life experience and one where I have learned a great deal about customer satisfaction, marketing, budgeting, labor man-agement and so on. I am never at a loss to share these experiences

with others.”Out of 480 accounts that pay food and beverage tax, twenty-eight

were delinquent as of July 14. Some of the accounts could be inac-tive and total delinquencies change from month to month.

For specific meals tax delinquencies there have been three general district court cases, and six ABC hearings, fifteen tax leans and two summons during Shawver’s tenure as finance director. The meals tax is handled by the finance department.

A growing balance and refusal to work with the finance depart-ment would trigger further action. For all the tax delinquencies in fiscal year 2010 sixteen summons have been issued. Shawver clari-fied that a summons is more of a letter “summoning the individual to the city attorney’s office to get their attention.”

If people respond explaining their situation and follow through with a plan of payment then more severe action is avoided. For all tax delinquencies in FY10 there were 335 tax leans that included wage garnishments. About 50 certified letters were sent out with some resulting in court cases. No one has ever been charged with a class one misdemeanor as city code permits.

The five-percent sales tax that is in addition to the meals tax goes directly to the state. Any discrepancies on the one-percent returned to localities is handled with the state and not with the retailer.

Regarding tax collection options, Shawver said, “we’ve got a lot of tools in our toolbox and we’re not afraid to use them.”

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ation for their help in making the field and makeshift track ready for the walkers.

Even a heavy rain in the middle of the night that turned the track to mud didn’t seem to dampen spirits too much. “I was very concerned that the people that were there would just pack up and leave... but that didn’t happen,” said Reagan. Others sched-uled to show up on the morning of June 5th, “kept rolling in.” At night luminaries – special bags that held candles – were placed around the track and were lit to honor those that had battled cancer.

The new Carilion parking garage on Re-

serve Avenue was also put to good use by walkers, many of whom stayed all night. “Everything went so much better than we thought it would,” noted Reagan. Vinton and Salem hold their own Relay for Life events every year.

On June 4-5 at Reserve Ave. over 2500 people – and almost 200 teams - walked laps around a track all through the night, backed by sponsors and pledges that helped raise funds for cancer research. “That was up a lot from last year,” said Reagan of the numbers. As always, a “survivors lap” kicked things off on June 4th.

The Roanoke chapter of the American Cancer Society will collect Relay for Life pledges through the end of August, follow-ing the second “Bark for Life” event on Aug. 21, where dog owners can walk with their pooches at the old Six Wags park in Salem to raise additional funds. (See Barkforlife.org). There are also games for the dogs at Bark for Life (6-8pm, August 21), which was held for the first time locally in 2009.

See roanokerelay.org for more on the local Relay for Life chap-ter. By Gene Marrano

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> Relay From page 1

year plan. Funding has been the major issue.

A contract for more than $20 million has been awarded by VDOT to WC English, a con-struction company in Lynch-burg. Funding came by the way of stimulus money.

VDOT hopes to have the No-tice to Proceed with Construc-tion by September 1. The road will be expanded from a two-lane to a four-lane highway, up to Cotton Hill.

There is a landscaping plan in place and the footprint of the roadway has been kept narrow with a small median. Accord-ing to VDOT, there will be an additional 14 feet on each side, which will not leave the scar that some wider roadways have left. It is anticipated that the project will be completed in its entirety by August 2013.

Poor Mountain Wind Tur-bines

Several members of the com-munity also voiced concerns about Invenergy Wind Devel-opment’s proposal to construct 18 wind turbines on 2000 acres it has leased on Poor Mountain from local property owners.

Invenergy plans to sell the electricity generated from the turbines to American Electric Power and tap into its transmis-sion line to upload the power created. It has been estimated

that the 37.5 megawatts gener-ated could power 8,000 homes in Roanoke County.

Ed Kinzer, a resident of Bent Mountain since the 1980’s and a retired science teacher from Glenvar High School, presented a slideshow on the potential ad-verse effects of wind turbines. Kinzer stated that there could be far reaching damage in the community to the environment, health, public safety as well as an adverse economic impact. “Ul-timately, we need to look at an ordinance to protect ridge tops in this area,” said Kinzer.

“I’m here as a pilot and as a citizen of Roanoke Valley. I have knowledge as to how our air space works,” said Matthew Broughton, an aviation attorney and President of the IFR Pilots’ Club. He voiced a concern that has been raised by pilots in re-cent weeks.

“We have high minimums in Roanoke and can only go so low. If we can’t see the airport, we have to land elsewhere. We don’t want minimums to go higher to make it harder to get into Roanoke,” said Broughton of flying higher to avoid tow-ers that could be 400’ tall. “If we want jobs to come into Roa-noke, don’t make it harder to get into Roanoke. Every time we go higher, ice is more of an issue. No one wants to sit up there in the air in more ice.”

Bent Mountain Civic League President Eldon Karr, an archi-tect, said he had installed four wind turbines in the past. He questioned the return on invest-ment. “Every time on a residen-tial installation, we go through the cost benefit analysis. With wind turbines, cost [to install] couldn’t be recouped any sooner than 10 years and then, the sav-ings is minimal because wind comes and goes.”

Another community member said that the History Channel did a story on the issue, which indicated that people with wind turbines are very disappointed. It will be necessary for The Roanoke County Board of Su-pervisors to review all relevant data and give permits before the wind turbines can be built.

Like their Back Creek neigh-bors down the hill, the Bent Mountain Civic League also has a meeting coming up “and will be doing fundraising to help with expenses we’ll incur in this fight [against turbines],” said Karr.

Holt / Winston RecognizedIn May the United States Sen-

ate confirmed retired Roanoke County Sheriff Gerald Holt to serve as U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Virginia. Having worked in law enforce-ment for four decades, Marshal Holt brings a wealth of knowl-edge and experience with him to his new position.

“I drove over 4,000 miles in the first month just getting to my offices,” said Holt. The seven court divisions within the West-ern District include Abingdon, Big Stone Gap, Charlottesville, Danville, Harrisonburg, Lynch-burg and Roanoke. The head-quarters office is located in Roa-noke and there are four manned sub-offices in Abingdon, Char-lottesville, Harrisonburg and Lynchburg.

The functions of the U.S. Marshal’s Service include ap-prehending fugitives, protecting the federal judiciary, operating the witness security program, transporting federal prisoners and seizing property acquired through illegal activities.

Mike Winston has been serv-ing as Sheriff since the departure of Holt and is the Democratic Party candidate for Sheriff for the upcoming November elec-tion. Winston previously served as Chief Deputy for the Roa-noke County Sheriff ’s Office for 18 years and has worked in law enforcement for 40 years.

Winston and Holt worked together for several years. “I’ve had some “big shoes” to fill. It’s a good organization. We built it together and had some exciting times,” recalled Winston.

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At the first Roanoke City Council meeting on July 6 new council member Bill Bestpitch came onboard ready to take on the transparency challenge. To the surprise of his colleagues Bestpitch asked for the removal of a closed session on the con-sent agenda.

He then explained to his puz-zled colleagues that he wanted to add transparency to the stan-dard language.

Under the Freedom of Infor-mation Act (FOIA), not only does a closed session require specific language – it also re-quires a subject. FOIA states that an approved motion for a closed session must “identify the subject matter” and that:

A general reference to the subject matter of the closed meeting shall not be sufficient to satisfy the requirements for holding a closed meeting.

Bestpitch says that he will not belabor every council meet-ing by asking that each closed session be removed from the consent agenda and considered separately. He will instead sim-ply vote “no” on every consent agenda containing a closed ses-sion until his colleagues get the point.

In other business: Congressman Bob Good-

latte is pushing to have the $51 million renovation to the Poff building rescinded in an argu-ment he is making to the Gen-

eral Services Administration and the General Accounting Office. He contends that the pricey renovation is a waste of money. The $51 million is part of federal stimulus funding.

Mayor David Bowers re-minded everyone that there are 450 jobs at stake at the Veter-ans Administration located in the Poff building. “The policy of Roanoke City council is that

we do everything to make sure that government offices remain in the center of the city where they are most accessible,” said Bowers.

City Manager Chris Morrill added that during the three-year renovation it would be nec-essary to temporarily relocate the VA in the central downtown district. “People should be able to access their government,” said Morrill. He said as far back as President Jimmy Carter and now President Barrack Obama executive orders mandate that government services remain centrally located in downtown areas.

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ilion Research Institute was among 50 top research univer-sities nationwide to receive a Pre-college and Undergradu-ate Science Education Pro-gram award from the How-ard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) that will be used to encourage university faculty to develop new ways to teach and inspire undergraduate students about science and research.

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Virginia Tech’s first step toward developing an interdisciplin-ary undergraduate biomedical engineering program, building on the biomedical engineering graduate program already on campus.

The new Virginia Tech Car-ilion Research Institute in Roanoke will also conduct an extensive study of brains - the so-called “Roanoke 15,000” will track brain functions long term. The project is backed by a multimillion-dollar private foundation grant. Participants in the study will have their brains analyzed as they per-form certain functions.

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Bestpitch Says a Thousand Times “No” On Consent Agenda

There is a dark cloud of debt hanging over Roanoke City. In a communication from Roanoke City’s financial adviser, Public Financial Management, Inc. warned that another year ex-ceeding Roanoke’s self-imposed debt limit is risky.

For fiscal year 2010 the 10% debt ceiling has been breached coming in at 10.2%. Another year over 10% risks another bond rating downgrade. The city has already lost its solid AA rating when Moody’s bond rat-ing agency downgraded it ear-lier this year.

Each downgrade results in an increase in the interest rate for new debt. This can be compared to a private individual’s credit score. The better your credit score the less risk you are to a lender. The end reward for the individual can be a more favor-able interest rate on a mortgage or other loan. The same goes for a municipality’s general obliga-tion bonds.

At Monday’s council meet-ing Director of Finance, Ann Shawver was granted the au-thority to restructure $40 mil-lion of recallable bonds issued in fiscal year 2002 and forward. By having this authority in FY11 Shawver would be able to “take advantage of any refunding that was in the money.” Market con-ditions can turn favorable in an instant and coupled with the cost of issuing the debt could al-leviate the risk of a second year exceeding the 10% debt limit.

“The refunding could gener-ate savings of at least 3% on the amount of debt to be refunded,” said Shawver. That was the good news – the not so good news was that we are not currently “in the money.”

The city’s debt sits precarious-ly at 9.9% for FY11 and any fur-ther economic downturn could push the city’s ratio of debt ser-vice to total expenditures over the 10% threshold for another year.

In addition the restructuring of the city’s debt would put $2.3 million of principle due in 2011 out to 2015. The effect accord-ing to Shawver would result in a FY11 debt ratio reduction to 9.3%. “It will give us a little bit more room in the event that we have another downturn,” said Shawver. This pushes up the ra-tio in 2015 from 7.6% to 8.2%.

Shawver estimated that in FY12 the ratio would be 9.6% and in FY13 it would be 9.7%. Even with restructuring the

city’s debt there will be little breathing room until 2015.

Councilman Court Rosen thought the city could bite the bullet and not move prin-ciple payments out to effect a faster ratio reduction for 2015. Shawver repeated that it would be a risky bet to be looking at 9.9% in the current local econ-omy. “It would only take a $3.2 million change in our total gen-eral fund expenditures to edge over the 10% debt limit.” ex-plained Shawver.

City Manager Chris Morrill added that moving the 2011 principle payment out to 2015 was the only option available for FY11. Morrill said, “after that we need to take a hard look at our capital projects.” Capital improvement project prioritiza-tion will begin in September.

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The aroma of fresh bread baking and the thrill of watching

seeds morph into radishes, let-tuce or spinach are experiences every child should have. As a preschool/kindergarten teacher I made sure to add bread baking and gardening to the curricu-lum for my little charges.

If you’ve ever baked yeast bread you may wonder how a group of ten three, four and five-year-olds could accomplish such a task. The kneading is re-served for the teacher, for obvi-ous reasons. Even though hands are scrubbed clean in anticipa-tion of the project, one cannot be assured they will stay that way for an extended period of time.

But little hands can hold a measuring cup and carefully spoon flour until the cup is filled. This is real work-- much more fun than playing in sand! The Honey Whole Wheat Bread recipe calls for five cups of whole wheat flour and three cups of white flour, so eight children have the opportunity to mea-sure flour, observing the differ-ences in texture and smell. Salt and yeast require a measuring spoon and fine motor control,

so these tasks are more suit-able for the hands of the older children. Oil, honey and milk provide a new word for their vocabulary – liquids.

The liquids are poured from a measuring cup into a large bowl and the dry ingredients are added gradually while the chil-dren take turns stirring with the big wooden spoon. They watch as the mixture changes from thin to thick. When the dough is very thick, and the spoon no longer does the job, the teacher takes her turn and kneads the dough until it is smooth and round and ready to rise. As you have probably guessed by now, it takes more time – and much more patience – to bake bread when you have so many help-ers!

While the dough rises the children return to their usual activities. The next step is short but exciting. They express sur-prise to see how big the dough has become. It fills the bowl! The teacher punches it and the air escapes. Then she divides it in half and shapes a loaf for each of the pans the children have “painted” with vegetable oil, and the loaves are covered with a tea towel and left to rise again.

Soon they are ready for the hot oven, and before long the whole school is filled with a mouth-watering, never-to-be-forgotten aroma of fresh bread bak-ing – an experience every child should have. And who can resist tasting what smells so delicious? Especially when it’s spread with butter you helped make yester-day by shaking whipping cream in a Mason jar until the yellow lumps announce that butter has “come.”

Gardening is an outdoor ac-tivity and is easily combined with outdoor play. In early spring, a cooperative father plowed our garden plot. Using kid-sized rakes and hoes, the children enjoy preparing the soil for the seeds. We plant only those vegetables that will ma-ture early – peas, radishes, on-ions, lettuce and spinach – since summer vacation will prevent harvesting later vegetables. Our one exception is a pumpkin patch. Hopefully the pumpkins will be ripening in the fall when the next school year begins. Per-

haps we can raise our own jack-o’lanterns!

Strips of old carpet are placed between the rows so the chil-dren can walk with-out tracking dirt and mud into the school when they pull weeds or har-vest their vegetables.

Plastic dishpans filled with cold wa-ter allow them to

wash the lettuce and spinach leaves outdoors. The magic of watching plants grow fascinates every child Parents are surprised to learn their children were eat-ing radishes and onions which they refuse to touch at home. It makes a difference when you grow it yourself!

Sensory experiences are fun-damental for teaching young children. When children bake bread and grow vegetables, all five senses are used. Language skills develop as they encounter new words; math skill grow as they measure and count; social skills increase as they take turns and learn to use equipment safely; and most of all it’s a lot of fun!

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Sometimes, we all find ourselves wondering: What kind of impact

has my life had? Have I really made a difference in the lives of others?

Those are not always easy questions to answers—and to be honest, sometimes we are the ones least capable of answering those questions well.

Let me give you an example.* * * * *He was a good friend. For

the moment, let’s call him Rob. He had a warm, welcoming

smile and everyone seemed to like him. He read two or three newspapers a day and was al-ways on top of the news. He was a master of trivia and had an almost encyclopedic knowl-edge of history. He possessed an energy and enthusiasm that lifted your spirits—and he was funny, with a warm and win-some sense of humor.

Rob was a teacher and for many years he taught in one of the high schools here in Vir-ginia. He was a terrific teacher and his students were charmed

by his quick wit and wonderful stories. When he agreed years ago to be one of the sponsors for the Class of 1980, all of the other classes were jealous. He was so much fun that one student con-fessed that even her parents use to fight over which one would get to go on the class field trips with Rob because they so en-joyed his company.

Later, when Rob left his job at the high school and begin teaching in the middle high, I wondered whether he would be able to make the transition. I was sure that he would regret exchanging lively discussions with gifted high school students for the more prosaic conversa-tions with middle highs. But Rob seemed to blossom in both settings. Students of all ages loved him.

Maybe it was because he had so much fun teaching—or may-be because it all came so natu-rally and easy—that he never

really realized what a difference he was making in the lives of his students.

Time and time again I would hear him comparing his ac-complishments to those of his brother. It always seemed to Rob that, in comparison with his brother, his own accom-plishments seemed tame and modest. The circles that Rob traveled were different than the circles traveled by his broth-er—and Rob never felt that his own accomplishments had the seismic impact of those of his brother.

Tragically, far too young, Rob died last week following a heart-breaking accident.

I only wish that he could have been there to hear the moving things that were said about him at his funeral. Something of the impact of his live can be seen in touching things that were writ-ten about him on Facebook and in the funeral home’s guest

book.“I will miss him so much. He

was the world’s greatest teacher and friend.”

“I am crying while writing this because [he] was there for me when I had a really hard time in my life.”

“I have so many fond mem-ories…I still remember things he taught me and stories he told over 30 years ago.”

“…the lessons he taught will never be forgotten because they came from his heart.”

“He inspired us all with his palpable excitement for learn-ing and his ever ready and con-sistent kindness. I feel so grate-ful to have known him…”

“Anyone can walk into a class-room and cover material…BUT it takes a very special person to positively impact students and their lives forever!”

These are only some of the more than 600 postings re-ceived by Rob’s family following

Rob’s death.These are pretty power-

ful statements—and they are all about a gifted person who sometimes found himself won-dering whether his life had made any real difference.

I know. All of us sometimes wonder if our lives are having an impact. But if we live our lives with warmth, with caring, with courage, and with compas-sion, we may well discover that our life, like Rob’s¸ has an im-pact far beyond anything that we imagined.

One of Rob’s former students said it well: “Someone who has touched the lives of so many never really dies. They live on. They live on in the hearts, minds, and actions of all those they inspired.”

Gary Robbins is the Senior Pastor at Greene Memorial Unit-ed Methodist Church. Visit them on the web at: www.gmumc.org

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It’s a stifling hot summer day and the ’63 Volk-swagon Microbus rum-

bles and clatters through the hills of central Pennsylvania, the breeze blowing through its open windows. The 9-passenger bus is full, and since this is 1966 and few cars have seatbelts installed, there are some kids sitting on the floor or on someone’s lap. A “child car seat” in those days was a wooden crate on which the kid would perch to better see out the roll-down windows of the typical big American sedan. I remember kids stretching out in the back window –the rear deck- of such sedans while the car careened down the highway. Ahh, those carefree, dangerous days.

But back to the story at hand. The family, including assorted cousins and my Aunt Jay, is headed to some family engage-ment, the exact nature of which I’ve forgotten –and I hesitate to remind my mother of this story but I do recall that rolling along, we were a fun bunch. There is animated conversation, and var-ious old-timey road trip games are being played, like “license plates” and "sign alphabet.” A few of the passengers even at-tempt to nap.

It’s lunch time and instead of the on-the-run sandwiches eaten in the car or at a dusty roadside picnic area, we actually stop at one of those classic ‘60’s highway diners –you know, the kind with the neon “Air Condi-tioned” sign. It must be because my sweet aunt is with us. We pile out of the bus, all 10 of us, or is it12, and swarm like bees into two booths that run down the side of the diner. The vinyl is cool to my skinny legs protrud-ing from my khaki shorts. We order my favorite: grilled cheese sandwiches, with pickles and French fries. We may be lucky enough to have chocolate milk shakes too, and since Aunt Jay is with us, I think we have a good chance. This is big stuff.

Pleasantly victualled, we’re back on the road and rumbling on, with a few more of the pas-sengers napping this go-round. Others, like me, are looking out the window, contemplating Pennsylvania at 49 miles per

hour.“Where is Lynn?”

It’s Aunt Jay inter-rupting my contem-plation. “Is Lynn up there?” she repeats, with more than a hint of concern in her voice. Now ev-eryone is involved in searching for my 8-year-old sis-ter. She’s not under the seats, she’s not on anyone’s lap, and she’s not back in the cargo area. The fact is, she’s not on the bus.

My dad, the captain of this vessel, has pulled off the road. Now we’re doing a U-turn and headed back from whence we came. We determine that yes, she was there at the restaurant eating grilled cheeses with us. Everybody is concerned now. I remember thinking, wow, Lynn must be crying . . . To think we just left her there and drove off. I start crying a little myself.

Since leaving the diner we had been under way for a half hour before recognizing our fel-low trooper's absence. Now my dad is coaxing the bus along at its highest speed. "Come on… Faster," he must be imploring. I think everybody is crying a little now.

A black and white Pennsyl-vania State Police car suddenly comes into view, coming our way. As it approaches we see the unmistakable little face of Lynn in the front seat between two big police officers. She’s point-ing at us, in earnest as they pass us. My dad pulls off the road

into the gravel amid a cloud of dust, as does the police car, and we are soon reunited with my sister, who starts crying like crazy now.

The good-natured police officers deter-mine that their job is done and they are

soon on their way. It’s an innocent time, you’ll remember.

There were no reports to file and sign, no suspicion of any-thing foul. When Lynn calms down she tells the tale.

She had been in the rest room at the diner and when she came out we were gone. She thought, “They couldn't have just left me could they?" After searching the general area, she sat outside for a while waiting for our return. When she realized that she may have to take matters in her own hands, she approached the two coffee-drinking police officers and told them of her plight. She reports not crying at this point, in fact she was surprised at her own calm until the final reunion with her wayward family. ”We’ll find them sweetheart. Let’s go” the more talkative officer said reassuringly.

So they did find us, and it was a happy ending to our spooky little episode. We all settle back into our seats in the bus with gratitude for grace and for the lesson in things so often taken for granted.

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On August 2, forty-two young women and men will set about of

the next leg of that journey. It’s the inaugural day of The Vir-ginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.

Years ago, the late and be-loved Roanoke dermatologist, Dr. James Lampros, comment-ed to me that one day Roanoke would have a medical school. I made no reply, but thought to myself, not in my lifetime. Jim turned out, not surprisingly, to be prescient. If you have not driven on Riverside Circle late-ly, you will be close to speechless when you see the scope of what has taken place there in the last three years. The medical school is the latest addition.

The new students have already accomplished much. They have completed the undergraduate requirements for medical school at a college or university of good standing and with a GPA that puts them in the group of the highly talented. They have taken the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and achieved good scores. The test, given online, consists of four areas: Physical science, biologi-cal science, verbal reasoning, and writing. In 2009 more than 362,000 students applied for the test. There is no pass/fail and the 133 medical colleges in this country use their own criteria to winnow down the number ap-plicants for the approximately 14,000 positions available na-tionwide. If you think those numbers daunting, figure out the odds of getting into Veteri-nary School—much harder!

Things have changed in med-ical education. When I entered medical school a long time ago the curriculum was uniform throughout the country. In the

first year the stu-dent had more than 900 hours of gross anatomy, 600 hours of biochemistry, 500 hours of physiology, 350 hours of histol-ogy and embryology and several hundred additional hours of lesser subjects. There were 72 of us in the class (two women) and 72 of us graduated four years later, although it was not the same group that entered. It was the beginning of the third year when we finally emerged from the labs and began to see patients.

What the VTC students will encounter that first day will be vastly different and I think a huge improvement. Only a handful of medical schools are conducting this new type of cur-riculum but preliminary data indicate that it is a much better system than what we endured.

The 42 students will be divid-ed into groups of six and will be overseen by a variety of tutors and mentors. From the outset, they will have clinical exposure. For example, a patient with con-gestive heart failure might be the focus. Each of the students in the group will be assigned a particular aspect of that dis-ease to research and prepare a presentation for his colleagues, under the watchful eye of a car-diologist and others. The group depends on the expertise of the presenter. The topics might be the causes of the heart failure, the altered physiology of the symptom complex, the pathol-ogy, the treatment, research into better therapy, and the progno-sis. Many other aspects could be considered.

Throughout their four years,

oversight will be ad-ministered to make sure that all perti-nent material is cov-ered by each group. As they mature, more responsibility will be given them, still with careful monitoring. This is

called problem-based learning and it has special

requirements.The students must be highly

motivated, self starters, share the responsibility to cooperate in learning as well as teaching, take charge of their own skill set, be willing to admit weak-ness and accept help from their peers, use their own strengths to aid group members who need help, and foster a sense of com-monality of purpose in their learning. Excellent patient care will be the goal for each day.

Research in how medical students learn has shown the problem-based approach is effective and certainly less stressful than the type of train-ing through which my peers and I traveled. In one study the incidence of depression in the students was less in this new technique. You don’t have to be a medical student to understand how the older system could fos-ter exhaustion, both mental and physical.

This is an exciting time, not only for these new students, but for our community and our medical system. We should all be enthusiastic about the real-ization of this vision that has been a long time in coming to life.

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Have you ever noticed how much you miss something once you have lost it? Re-

cently, my eleven year old laptop bit the dust. Yes, I know, an eleven year old laptop is a dinosaur, but it was my dinosaur. The past two weeks have been interesting to say the least. Whether I am trying to figure out a way to save all of my documents or seeing if there is yet another way to re-vive this thing so I can use it for a few more years, I realized just how much I rely on my laptop. I missed the simple process of checking emails, sending information online, managing my bank accounts, and even check-ing the weather. It really has been frustrating on the one hand and yet has helped me to appreci-ate just how much I utilize it on the other. This mental process of appreciating something when our access to it is denied is a very important tool in parenting.

It is a simple connection between depriva-tion and appreciation. Think of the thirsty man and just how wonderful a single sip of water is. Imagine the hungry woman who longs for the taste of something as simple as bread or fruit. In these circumstances, they don’t care if they have a soda or fancy meal, they are just thank-ful for what they have. So how does this relate to parenting? It is our job to help to build our children’s appreciation of the important things in life which means it is our job to deprive them, at times, from the very things they seek. We have to say “No”.

The simple step of saying “no” to a child and not always giving in to what they want helps to set the stage for three key elements of their char-acter development. The first is learning to ap-preciate what they have. Have you ever noticed that when a child continues to get the things they want whenever they want, they are never satis-fied? Has your child ever said, “Oh no Daddy, I don’t need that new remote controlled car or video game, I have way too much as it is.” When a child does not have these desires continually filled, what they do possess matters all that much more to them. When they are not regularly

looking for the next best thing, they pay more attention to what they have. Then when they do get a “yes”, it is a big deal…it means something.

The second element is that when someone appreciates what they have, they take better care of it. Two chil-dren that I have worked with come to mind clearly. The one has every video game know to man and has no idea where they all are. He is used to losing them or even break-ing them through carelessness and

having them replaced with regularity. The other young boy has two video games. Not only does he know where they are, he still has the boxes they came in and whenever he is done playing with them, they go right back in their boxes and on his bookshelf. They are so important to him he wants to take care of them. Because he only has the two and no expectation of getting others whenever he wants, He is more careful with what happens to them.

The third element is contentment. When we constantly fill our children’s desires, they don’t have the opportunity to learn being content with that they have and where they are in life. Our children need to know that it is OK to not always have the best and brightest, to not always have every video game, to not always have the newest “stuff.” Without this ability to be content, it is difficult to ever be at peace in life.

This does not mean that we are always to say “No.” But we should be able to say it when need-ed. Sixteen year olds don’t need new BMW’s, ten year olds don’t need cell phones, my kids don’t need slurpees everyday, Johnny does not need to play video games for hours, and I guess an eleven year old laptop is just fine if I can get it to run.

This week, ask yourself if you give in to every whim of your kids. Are you trying to keep them happy? Remember, if they hear “No”, they will not always be happy, but they will learn to ap-preciate and be content - and ultimately much "happier" over the long haul.

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Jamie Taliaferro, Bicycle Hero: The Bike Hero Award is awarded to an individual who has shown dedication to the use and advocacy of the

bicycle as a transportation al-ternative in their day-to-day activities, their work in the community to improve bi-cycle accommodations, and their encouragement through advocacy or by example for others to replace vehicle trips with bicycle trips.

Sixth-grader Jamie Talia-ferro has been recognized for his daily dedication to rid-ing his bike to school, a habit he brought with him from his previous home in Colo-rado. Given that his suburban neighborhood is not entirely bicycle friendly, the undertak-ing required some planning and cooperation by his school, which created safe parking for his bicycle and installed signage making drivers aware of bicyclists on the campus. The Valley's notoriously hilly topography contributes to an up-hill ride home, but the presence of a nearby green-way makes it easier for Jamie to make his trip with minimal conflict with motor vehicles.

Among the benefits cited by both Jamie and his mother, Patty, are improved health, in-creased concentration both at school and doing homework in the evenings, and the sense of independence Jamie gets from being in charge of his own transportation. A video interview with Jamie can be seen on the RIDE Solutions YouTube channel at tinyurl.com/jamiehero.

Mark Jamison, Extraordi-nary Bike Professional: The Extraordinary Bicycle Profes-sional Award is given to an em-ployee in the public or private sector who has shown remark-able leadership in encouraging the use of bicycling as a trans-portation alternative.

Through Mark's guidance

and leadership, and more importantly, his direct par-ticipation in the planning and provision of bicycle accom-modations, the City of Roa-noke has made great strides in its efforts to facilitate and promote bicycling, locally and regionally.

Beyond his general duties as the City of Roanoke Trans-portation Division's Manager of Transportation, Mark's dedication and commitment is exemplified through his ser-vice on the City of Roanoke Bicycle Advisory Committee, the Regional Bicycle Advisory Committee, the Ciclovía plan-ning committee, as well as his participation in various bicy-cle, pedestrian, and greenway-related meetings and activities too numerous to mention.

Additionally, Mark has been integral in developing the city's Complete Streets Policy, Street Design Guide-lines, Safe Routes to School Programs, and the Regional Bikeway Plan. Mark has also made consideration of bicycle accommodations an integral component of the Transporta-tion Division's annual paving program. Mark's leadership and ongoing commitment to promoting and facilitating cy-cling were instrumental in the City of Roanoke's recent des-ignation as a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Cyclists in May 2010.

2010 Bike Hero and Extraordinary Bike Professional Award Winners Announced

The Roanoke Re-gional Home Builders Association (RRHBA) has awarded the fol-lowing scholarships: Martin Veldsman – Hidden Valley High School (Roanoke County) ($500). Eric Hotek – Virginia Tech ($500)

Martin Veldsman is a recent graduate of Hidden Valley High School. He plans to study Architecture at Virginia Tech.

Eric Hotek is cur-rently attending Vir-ginia Tech majoring in Building Con-

struction.RRHBA’s annual

scholarship program was established in 1990 in order to provide assistance to quali-fied area high school seniors and Virginia Tech students who are furthering their edu-cation in a building related curriculum.

The RRHBA is a non-profit trade or-ganization with over 370 member firms dedicated to being the respected voice of the residential and com-mercial building in-dustry. Martin Veldsman

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Eric HotekBetween fifty and sixty vehicles manufactured in the earliest days of the automobile industry arrived at the Virginia Museum of Transportation last week. Owners of the antique cars took part in a Horseless Carriage Club of America (HCCA) Tour, driv-ing their vehicles around Roanoke to enjoy the Valley’s scenery, history, and many attractions. “Because of the age and rarity of these vehicles, the tour is a unique opportunity to see so many of these cars on the open road,” said Tom Cox, past president of the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The unique period of automotive history represented by these cars covers the turn of the century to the end of carriage coachwork, gas lights, hand cranking and the profuse use of brass. For the most part, only the wealthy owned automobiles during this pre-1916 era, and ownership required a pioneering spirit, inventiveness and superior mechanical ability to keep these early automobiles functioning. Participating in the tour were a Stanley Steamer (an early steam-powered car), a Cadillac from the 1910s, Auburns, Model Ts, and many others. Cars built in the 1920s were also eligible to participate in the tour. "The majority of the owners are from out of state, who have traveled here to enjoy Roanoke’s scenic byways,” said Cox. “This is the public’s only chance to get to see them.”For more information about the Horseless Carriage Club of America, visit http://www.hcca.org/hcca.html

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Mill Mountain Time TrialMountain bikers head up Mill Mountain to-wards the trails that begin at the top.

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Miller Baber put on a virtual clinic Saturday afternoon to capture the Roanoke Valley Match Play Champion-ship held at the prestigious Ballyhack Golf Club.

Baber,who will be inducted into the Roanoke Valley Golf Hall of Fame later this year, dispatched 2010 Cave Spring graduate and University of Richmond golf signee, Jack Wilkes, 6-and-5 in the final.

Miller Baber putts during the Roanoke Valley Match Play at the challenging Ballyhack Golf Club.

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In a small but skilled field, the first annual Coventry Common-wealth Games Minigolf Tourna-ment proved to be all that it was hyped to be. Jumping out to a one stroke lead Roanoke Put-ting Club (RPC) member Geoff Boyer skillfully negotiated the damp morning carpets to a sev-en under par 29. Following his first round success Boyer again bested the greens with an eight under par 28 to post a thirty six hole lead of 57.

The medal round however proved to be quite different with medal positions changing faster than horses on derby day. Thir-ty six hole leader Boyer went cold early leaving the door open for several contenders. Capital-izing upon the opening, RPC member and reigning US Open Amateur Champion Clayton Craft fired a ten under par 26 to take gold. Battling hard to the end Boyer held off the charging field to force a playoff for the sil-

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There’s a unique rivalry brewing between Salem and Winston-Salem. Not only do the two teams own the top two re-cords in the league, but it seems like something unique happens whenever they match up.

Last week at Lewis-Gale Field, the Red Sox managed to take three out of four from their Southern Division rivals, with each game being stranger than the one before. After splitting the first two (a 4-0 Salem vic-tory on Wednesday and a 9-6 Dash win on Thursday), Friday and Saturday proved to be two of the wackiest games of the season.

Friday’s action was a lesson of perseverance, as the Sox over-came a pair of three-run deficits before winning 7-6 in ten in-nings. The ballgame was knot-ted at three after eight innings before a marathon ninth saw both teams score three times with two outs. In addition, both teams missed opportunities to score even more as the bases were left loaded in both halves of the frame. In the tenth, Red Sox reliever Kyle Fernandes tossed a 1-2-3 top of the inning, then Salem scored the winning run in a Will Middlebrooks RBI single in the home half, propel-ling the Sox to victory in front of a packed house of 4,509, all of whom stuck around to enjoy a super fireworks display post-

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The survey, administered by e.Republic’s Center for Digital Government and the National Asso-ciation of Counties (NACo), identifies best prac-tices and recognizes those counties that provide exemplary electronic service to their public. “Roa-noke County places an emphasis on Information Technology, and we are pleased to be recognized for our efforts,” said County Administrator Clay Goodman.

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Funds for the renovation were designated from appropriations made in the American Recov-ery and Reinvestment Act, “the stimulus bill,” which was enact-ed in February 2009.

Congressman Goodlatte sent letters to GSA and GAO requesting the investigations into the renovation of the Poff Federal Building after being in-formed by GSA that they “have awarded a $39.9 million con-tract for Construction Phase Services.” The contract, which was not awarded to a local busi-ness, comes without full disclo-sure of the supposed benefits of the planned renovation or the projected costs according to Goodlatte.

Three weeks ago Goodlatte wrote to GSA strongly urging that the Poff Federal Building renovation be halted in order to, "avoid taxpayer funds from being wasted and suggesting that more cost-effective alter-

natives be pursued." The only response from GSA has been to local media inquiries regarding Congressman Goodlatte’s letter. GSA’s response to these media reports was called "wholly in-sufficient" by Goodlatte's office and brought a strong rebuff from Goodlatte:

“Recently I called for the Poff Federal Building project to be halted due to what I believe to be a tremendous waste of taxpayer funds. My reasons for calling for the project to be suspended are multifaceted – lack of thorough proof of a cost-benefit analysis, the significant disruption to the processing of veterans’ claims and benefits which will result from haphazardly moving the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Roanoke Regional Office out of the Poff Building to four different locations during the renovations, plans by the De-partment of Veterans Affairs (the building’s largest tenant) to relocate offices after the renova-tion is complete, and failure to include security improvements to the building in the proj-ect’s plans. While Poff Federal Building tenants move out and construction nears, it is repre-hensible for GSA to essentially dismiss these issues.”

Goodlatte points out that not only will it be difficult for the employees of the VA Roa-

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Since the announcement, over a year ago, that the Poff Building would undergo $50.9 million worth of renovations, Goodlatte says that he has received numer-ous inquiries from constituents concerned about the excessive price tag for the project, the cost effectiveness of this project rela-tive to alternative construction, and the inability of local busi-nesses to bid on the initial stages of the project.

Since that time Goodlatte has been aggressively seeking answers from the GSA regard-ing the cost and scope of the project.

Goodlatte concluded his re-sponse by saying, “The GSA’s handling of this project is ir-responsible. The seeming lack of transparency surrounding the planned renovation of the Poff Federal Building does not lead me to have any confidence whatsoever that it is proceeding in a manner that will be benefi-cial to the taxpayers, the federal government, or the Poff Build-ing tenants.”

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"As a result of our review, we believe the proposed windmills present a poten-tially deadly hazard for pilots and passengers trying to land in the Roanoke Valley," says Matthew Broughton, airline transport rated pilot and IFR president. Broughton also is a Roanoke aviation law-yer who holds a commercial transport pilot s license.

Broughton says that the primary approach cor-ridor to the Roanoke Re-gional Airport extends a few miles north and west of Poor Mountaina and that the placement of 15 or more windmills on the mountain would likely force the FAA to raise the minimum vectoring altitude of all aircraft, com-mercial or private, trying to land in Roanoke through this approach corridor.

"We believe that the wind-mills would create additional delays of aircraft trying to get into the Roanoke Valley during adverse weather," says Broughton. "This is both a safety issue and travel incon-venience for those flying in and out of the Roanoke air-port."

According to Broughton, the Poor Mountain approach corridor leads to runway 6. It is the longest runway in Roanoke and it also has the lowest minimums, making it

the runway controllers and pilots use most often in poor weather conditions.

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The purpose of the project is to improve safety by eliminating curves in this section of Route 221. The project will also increase capac-ity by widening the current two-lane section of Route 221 to a four-lane divided highway with a six-foot grass median and turn lanes.

Route 745 (Ran Lynn Road) and Route 688 (Cotton Hill Road) will be realigned with Route 221. Two new bridges will be built to carry the new relocated Route 221 (Bent Mountain Road) over Back Creek. The Route 688 (Cot-ton Hill Road) bridge over Back Creek will be replaced.

Work on the project should be underway this fall and is expected to be completed in summer of 2013. The majority of the con-struction work, including the construction of two new bridges, will take place outside of the existing roadway.

The board also awarded a contract to add a truck climbing lane to five miles of south-

bound Interstate 81 between mile marker 120 and 125. The contract worth approximately $75.4 million was awarded to CH2M HILL Constructors, Inc. of Chantilly.

The design-build contract will include com-pleting design, acquisition of right of way and easements, utility relocations and construc-tion.

The purpose of the project is to improve safety and operation on the interstate. The project will add a 12-foot continuous truck climbing lane to southbound I-81. Work will also be done to upgrade the median and out-side shoulder of I-81 to meet current interstate standards.

Most widening will occur on the outside shoulder, but some widening may be required in the median. The I-81 southbound bridge over Route 641 (Den Hill Road) and the Nor-folk Southern railroad will be upgraded to in-corporate one additional lane. The bridge is located south of mile marker 121.

In addition, Route 636 (Seneca Hollow Road) and (Friendship Road) are two-lane roadways that cross over I-81 twice, once at mile marker 123 and once at mile marker 124.9. These two bridges will be reconstructed to allow for the widening of the interstate.

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N2Care, a local startup in Salem, aims to provide a "homespun" al-ternative to long-term care provided in nursing homes and hospitals by producing modu-lar medical homes called "MedCot-tages" to families. They debuted their prototype to a crowd of over 150 people at the Roanoke Civic Center Coliseum earlier this week.

Founder and CEO Rev. Kenneth Dupin started off the ceremony by relating his desire for home-care during his own childhood and early adult-hood medical issues. Whether it was tubes in his ears, tonsil removal or open-heart surgery, he stated that his thoughts were "I want someone to take me home and take care of me." This constant refrain, along with his Ph. D studies in manage-ment that took him to Japan and Central Ameri-ca, where he saw more hands-on home care from families, was the genesis of the MedCottage idea.

"[The aged] were almost always revered," he said on Monday in regard to elderly and ill fam-ily members he observed. Dupin noted a disparity between this attitude and the long-term care prev-alent in the U.S. - and how he thinks that needs to change: "We have 78,000,000 Baby Boomers. This is going to force us to deal with this as a culture."

The 12-by-24-foot MEDCottage, which could be leased for $2,000 a month, is equipped with vi-tal signs monitors, video links and air filters/pres-surizers to keep out contaminants. Remote con-trol of doors and cameras would be available to caregivers, while a computer could notify the oc-cupant to take their medicine. Sensors and a "foot sweep" camera would indicate if an occupant falls, while allowing them privacy.

When the concept of the MEDCottage began to take shape 5 to 6 years ago Virginia law did not allow for a second structure of this nature on a family's property. Del. Morgan Griffith (R-Salem), after being approached by Dupin, sponsored Bill HB 1307, which "provides that zoning ordinances for all purposes shall consider temporary family healthcare structures...permitted accessory use in any single-family residential zoning district" only if occupied by a relative that is physically or men-tally impaired.

The bill was signed into law by Gov. Bob Mc-Donnell on April 14. Cutting the ribbon on a prototype at the Civic Center, Griffith said that he supported the MedCottage product because it

"does two things: gives us better health care and creates jobs."

The jobs, when planned produc-tion begins in early 2011, would mainly go to Vir-ginia companies. M a n u f a c t u r -ing of the homes will take place in Charlotte County; Richmond-based

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MEDCottage Director of Development Mi-chelle Elegy estimates that 100 new jobs would be created directly in manafacturing during the first year of production. COO Susan Conn pointed out that related jobs in shipping and materials could follow. Before this can be done, though, 3 to 5 million dollars in investment is needed to bring the MEDCottage to full production.

Hospitals and assisted-living facilities may need extra room and the modular nature of the Med-Cottage, Conn says, could serve as a "solution to an overstressed system" while generating health care jobs. Representatives from Richfield Retire-ment Community and Good Samaritan Hospice were in attendance at the unveiling ceremony, in-dicating an interest from local care providers.

Development has also been a regional effort, with backing coming from the Virginia Tech Cor-porate Research Center and input from Professor Janis Terpenny, from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, who consulted on the plans for the prototype using experience on previous proj-ects in assistive technology.

Noting that part of her position at Tech is to "make the human connection for engineering students," Terpenny's drive to assist N2Care in the MedCottage project partially stems from her own experience as she cared for her son Jason, who succumbed to leukemia at age 11. They spent many hours separated from the rest of the family as he recovered from chemotherapy in the hospi-tal and Terpenny believes that a home-care struc-ture such as the MedCottage would have, "made life much easier." The more sterile environment could have prevented more infections as well, she believes.

Above all, Dupin says the MedCottage venture is based on easing the burden that families have to bear to take care of their loved ones: "It's our job . . . sacrifice isn't afraid of a billion dollar deficit or co-pay. This isn't about legislators or manafactur-ers . . . it's about sacrifice."

Modular Health Care Makes National Debut in Roanoke

Aubrey Knight, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., is the new Medical Director for the Roanoke United Methodist Home. As Medical Director, Dr. Knight will bring his geriatric expertise to the health and wellness of the residents of RUMH. According to Elaine Lavin-der, Executive Director, “The Roanoke United Methodist Home is very fortunate to have Dr. Knight join the staff.”

Dr. Knight is Section Chief, Geriatrics for the Carilion Clinic Center for Healthy Aging, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Professor, Geriatric Medicine at the Edward Via Virginia College of Os-teopathic Medicine.

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Several Roanoke bands are on the undercard at this weekend’s FloydFest 9; the four day music happening at milepost 170.5 off the Blue Ridge Parkway. The headliners include legendary drummer/singer Levon Helm, formerly of The Band, the group that backed Bob Dylan for a time.

The Levon Helm Band is the main feature this Satur-day night (July 24), when fes-tival co-founder Kris Hodges expects as many as 14,000 to show up to listen to music that will be offered this year on ten stages. Helm was the lead singer for The Band on tunes like The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.

“We went for a lot of new folks [this year],” said Hodges earlier this week as he put the finishing touches on the festival he created with partner Erika Johnson. In all 110 musical acts will take part this weekend. A performance arts stage will in-clude aerial dancers, fire danc-ing and workshops. One troupe will perform while suspended 100 feet in the air by helium bal-loons.

Hodges mixed old and new this year, bringing back favorites like Grace Potter and the Noc-turnals, Railroad Earth and Kat Mills. Old Crow Medicine Show, Soulive, Tift Merritt, Mountain Heart and the Pimps of Joytime are among the newcomers.

The Roanoke bands are My-Radio, which saw their single “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” used on the soundtrack for the recent movie The Joneses, and Nancy & Two Meteors, featuring multi-tal-ented, multi-genre artist Dickie Eickid.

There’s plenty of Americana-style music at FloydFest 9, but Hodges also infused “a lot of

jazz and funk” into the event this year, with groups like Tiny Universe and Eric Krasno, scheduled to play for three days (Thursday-Saturday.) “That’s the classier side of the whole jam scene,” said Hodges, looking to appeal to “a more cultured audi-ence.”

In fact FloydFest has always appealed to a wide audience of all ages and tastes; many stay all weekend and camp out. There are plenty of young children and a play area with a music venue of its own has proven very pop-ular in the past. There are also a large number of crafts vendors and a variety of culinary treats for those that haven’t brought their own food.

After nine festivals Hodges finds he is compelled to “cre-atively outdo myself from the previous year, to keep the audi-ences coming back. As we grow … it becomes more demanding. You can’t escape that.”

Helm and Old Crow Medi-cine Show “have been requested for years,” said Hodges, who booked and scheduled both groups for Saturday night. Helm is bringing a 14-piece band with him. “It should be quite the set,”

said Hodges, a musician him-self who has traveled the world looking for interesting acts. Hodges has an ear for discover-ing talented musicians that may not be well known to the general public – at least not yet.

A series called Under the Ra-dar that Hodges introduced last year returns with lesser-known acts having the chance to per-form in front of thousands. In fact Music Today magazine in Charlottesville has called Floy-dFest “the best under the radar music festival,” a handle that Hodges doesn’t mind at all. Ticket sales were up 31% from last year as of Monday.

For those that haven’t been to FloydFest, even with ticket prices that range from $45-$65, Hodges says “you basically get nine festivals for the price of one, with the amount of enter-tainment we have, the arts and crafts, the food and the work-shops. You can’t beat it.” (Tick-ets can still be purchased on site at Floydfest this weekend; see floydfest.com for more infor-mation and pricing)


A large crowd enjoys FloydFest last year.

FloydFest Returns Bigger and Better

Take six teams of playwrights, directors and actors – some with scant experience in the lime-light – with story lines, genres, mandatory props, etc. drawn from a hat. Give playwrights one night to create a 10-minute play and actors/directors about six hours to learn their lines and refine stage moves. Then call it Overnight Sensations, and produce it at Mill Mountain Theatre.

That’s what happened last Friday/Saturday, when for the third time live theatre was celebrated at a venue that has been largely dark for the past year plus due to funding issues. Hollins Univer-sity creative writing program director Todd Ris-tau (who originated Overnight Sensations) called it more “friend raising” then fundraising for Mill Mountain, a chance to show live theatre patrons that supporting the art form in Roanoke has its benefits.

On Friday night playwrights were matched with directors after drawing names from a hat, as were play themes, genres (comedy, drama, farce, melodrama, soap opera, crime/noir) and other conditions. Then teams of actors were assigned and before the playwrights headed off to Hollins to write until midnight they met the acting troupe for the first time, “so they can get a good look at you,” as Ristau put it.

Brandon DuMonde, a student in Ristau’s sum-mer Masters of Fine Arts program for creative writing, is actually a teacher from Maryland. She worked on her play, set at a pawnshop, until 7:30am Saturday – the last few hours on a laptop at the campground where she is staying for six weeks. DuMonde eschewed Hollins dormitories or an apartment for the great outdoors she loves.

Beginning at noon on Saturday, DuMonde, di-rector Kate Bredeson (a Portland, OR-based pro-fessor teaching at Hollins this summer) and six actors met at the Mill Mountain atelier (a dorm for visiting actors/directors) to learn their lines and rehearse “Pawn Quixote,” which combined elements of tragedy, drama and even some light comedy to tell the story of a business on its last legs.

“Fast, fierce, totally great,” said Bredeson in an e-mail to cast members afterwards. “Thanks for your great work and for going on such a delightful whirlwind journey with me.”

Other mini-plays presented Saturday night to an almost-packed house at Mill Mountain had ti-tles like “Dick Piston, Hotel Detective in Prosthe-sis: Murder; The Old and Restful: A Soap Opera; and Little Debbie & Coke. Ristau told playwrights on Friday that there wasn’t to be any “nudity [or] gratuitous profanity. Don’t push the boundaries.”

DuMonde, a second year MFA student at Hol-lins, had never done “a 24-hour kind of play thing before.” It took DuMonde about an hour and a half before she turned on her computer to begin

writing. “[At first] I thought no way, especially when we got the list of all of the props we had to [use].” Those props included a fake severed leg. “Somehow in the wee hours of the morning I found a way.”

DuMonde took several naps on Saturday to catch up on the sleep she missed Friday night. As for Overnight Sensations: “I thought it was very exciting. It was great to see the community get ex-cited about it.”

Before the six plays were presented on Saturday, Mill Mountain Theatre’s lone paid employee, Gin-ger Poole, came on stage to talk about the acting classes and other events going on there, even as the board of directors looks for funding and a vi-sion for the future.

Actor Sarah Elizabeth Timmons, a Smith Mountain Lake resident, is more focused these days on the film “Lake Effects” that she is in the process of producing, but she found time to be the gum-chewing, very sassy character "Sally" in Pawn Quixote. Veteran Roanoke actor Ross Laguzza was her wise-guy boyfriend Rusty.

“It was an amazing experience for me, an op-portunity to get back to what I love to do,” said Timmons at the cast party afterwards, “my first love [acting] without making a major time com-mitment.” Timmons heads to Los Angeles next month to do principal casting for her movie; she hopes to shoot some scenes in Roanoke.

Ristau came on stage at the end of the exhaust-ing and exhilarating 24 hour period, urging people to support live theater at venues like Studio Roa-noke, Hollins, Mill Mountain, etc. He also asked for financial support when possible. “Adrenaline always helps,” said Timmons of the process and fast pace behind Overnight Sensations.

(Note: Roanoke Star-Sentinel news editor Gene Marrano portrayed “Papa” in Pawn Quixote, his first acting gig since about the 8th grade.)


Fast And Fun: Overnight Sensations Extols The Joys Of Live Theater

Director Kate Bredeson (lower right) at a rehearsal with the cast and director of “Pawn Quixote.”

The Taubman Museum of Art will celebrate the exhibi-tion Posing Beauty in African American Culture with a free Family Day on Saturday, July 31 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Posing Beauty in African American Culture explores the contested ways in which Afri-can American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through photography. The 84 images in the exhibition challenge ideal-ized forms of beauty in art by examining their portrayal and exploring a variety of attitudes about race, class, gender, popu-lar culture, and politics as seen through the aesthetics of repre-sentation.

The first of three thematic sec-tions, Constructing a Pose, con-siders the interplay between the historical and the contemporary and between self-representation and imposed representation, as well as the relationship between subject and photographer. The

second thematic section, Body and Image, questions the ways in which our contemporary understanding of beauty has been constructed and framed through the body. The last section, Modeling Beauty and Beauty Contests, invites us to reflect upon the ambiguities of beauty, its impact on mass cul-ture and individuals, and how the display of beauty affects the ways in which we see and inter-pret the world and ourselves.

With images dating from the 1890s to the present, Posing Beauty in African American

Culture promises to transform the way we think about the his-tory of African American visual culture. From posed studio por-traits to dandies on parade to el-egant debutantes, the exhibition constructs a bold narrative of the ever-changing idea of beau-ty, both female and male. Each photograph opens a window into an entire world of African American life. While celebrat-ing ordinary people, the exhi-bition also is filled with pho-tographs of the famous, from Josephine Baker to Lil’ Kim to James Brown and Serena Wil-liams.

Artists in the exhibition in-clude, among others, Carrie Mae Weems, Eve Arnold, Sheila Pree Bright, Renee Cox, Antho-ny Barboza, Bruce Davidson, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Builder Levy, and Garry Win-ogrand.

For more information, visit www.taubmanmuseum.org or call 540.342.5760.

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The Cayenne SUV model line, which was originally launched in the U.S. in 2003, has en-joyed phenomenal popular success, becoming the German sports car maker’s number-one selling vehicle. Since its initial debut, Porsche has sold more than 280,000 Cayennes world-wide, with more than 88,000 being delivered in the United States through May 2010.

The 2011 Cayenne is truly a completely re-designed model sporting a new exterior design that appears sleeker and smaller when in fact the car is larger than the previous model. Most importantly, the new Cayenne is instantly rec-ognizable as a Porsche.

Inside the Cayenne, the new spacious interior raises the luxury bar and puts it on par with the award-winning interior found in the highly-ac-claimed Panamera Gran Turismo. For example in the back there is considerably more interior space for the rear passengers thanks to a lon-ger wheelbase; the seats themselves even adjust fore and aft with seat-back incline positions

“The new Cayenne is truly remarkable. Not only is it bigger and faster it also more fuel ef-ficient, primarily due to the car’s significant

weight savings of some 400 pounds,” said Tim May. “The fact that Porsche was able to accom-plish this feat is a testament to Porsche’s engi-neering excellence.”

Other significant upgrades include: A new active all-wheel drive system that can

be paired with Porsche’s new Porsche Torque

Vectoring (PTV) Plus option to provide agile on-road driving dynamics, yet it’s still extreme-ly capable when the pavement ends;

New high-end audio systems from Bose® and Burmester® and new safety systems like the Porsche Dynamic Light System (PDLS), Lane Change Assistant (LCA), and Adaptive Cruise

Control.The North American Cayenne model range

will ultimately include four models: the 2011 Cayenne, Cayenne S, Cayenne S Hybrid and Cayenne Turbo. The S and Turbo models are available beginning now, with the Cayenne and Cayenne S Hybrid in dealer showrooms later this fall. The Cayenne model lineup MSRPs (excluding destination charges) are as follows: Cayenne, $46,700; Cayenne S, $63,700; Cay-enne S Hybrid, $67,700; and Cayenne Turbo, $104,800.

Engines include a 3.6-liter, 300-horsepower V6 with Direct Fuel Injection, a 4.8 liter 400-horsepower with Direct Fuel Injection, and a 500-horsepower twin-turbocharged 4.8-liter V8 in the Cayenne Turbo. Significantly, for the first time ever, the Cayenne will also offer a hy-brid. As you would expect from a Porsche, with the Cayenne’s combined power output of 380 horsepower from a supercharged V6 combus-tion engine and an electric motor, Porsche’s first production hybrid combines the sporty perfor-mance of a V8 with the economy of a V6.

The official Cayenne S and Cayenne Turbo EPA fuel economy figures are 16 mpg city/22 highway and 15 city/22 highway, respectively. Cayenne and Cayenne S Hybrid fuel economy ratings will be announced shortly before they come to market in the fall. None are subject to a gas-guzzler tax.

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