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SVB Nutcracker returns

Eric Canfield and SVB dancers during the “Russian” scene of the performance.

McCadden is Roanoke’s 2008 Citizen of the Year

At a Roanoke City reception on November 19, honoring vol-unteers who serve on the City’s authorities, boards, commis-sions and committees, Mayor David Bowers announced that Estelle McCadden would re-ceive the Citizen Of The Year award for 2008. Mc-C a d d e n received a Key to the City and a standing ovation.

Fourteen year old Estelle McCadden and two brothers arrived in Roanoke from Ash-land, Virginia in 1940. Estelle McCadden is the daughter of Reverend W. N. Hunter, who served as pastor of Jerusalem Baptist church for 35 years. She has four children, includ-ing two that live in Roanoke - Delvis “Mac” McCadden, Vice-Principal at Forest Park

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Estelle McCadden (seated) is honored with the Key to the City by Mayor David Bowers.

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[Holiday Ballet]

Becky Munson stars as Sugar Plum FairySouthwest Virginia

Ballet (SVB) will perform The Nutcracker at the Ro-anoke Civic Center Satur-day, December 13 at 7:00 pm, and Sunday, Decem-ber 14 at 3:00 pm.

“With more than 150 performers, this is likely the largest Nutcracker cast ever for SVB,” said Mike Lawson, SVB Ex-ecutive Director. “The performance will include some new choreography and a surprise addition this year. The Nutcrack-er is truly a wonderful experience and we are so excited to give the youth and community of south-west Virginia this great tradition.”

SVB alumni Becky Munson will dance the role of Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. Munson, 21, is a graduate of Faith Christian School and trained at the Southwest Vir-ginia Ballet from 2000-2005. She has attended summer programs of the American Ballet Theatre, Atlanta Bal-let and Ballet Magnificat.

Munson remembers beginning her ballet career when she was 4 years old.

“I remember taking classes at the Y and wearing my bathing suit because I didn’t have a leotard yet,” she said.

While she has performed in The Nutcracker previously, this will be her first time dancing the coveted role of Sugar Plum Fairy.

“I am so excited,” she said. “One of my first videos was a performance of The Nutcracker and I watched it over and over. I remember watching the Sugar Plum Fairy and thinking how wonderful it would be to be good enough to dance that part.”

Munson is the only one in her im-mediate family to dance profession-ally, but she credits her mother for introducing her to the love of music. The two performed in several local musical productions together as she

was growing up.She says that this

performance of The Nutcracker will be par-ticularly special as her younger sister Katie, 11, will also be part of the cast.

When she’s not per-forming or studying, Munson teaches chil-dren’s dance classes.

“I was not extremely talented when I was younger, so I had to work very hard,” she said. “I love working with chil-dren…I’m just as pas-sionate about teaching

as I am about dancing.”She is currently a se-

nior at Texas Christian University and is dancing and performing with Push Comes to Shove, a contemporary ballet company in Fort Worth, Texas.

Larry Van Deventer, founder and director of the theatre arts department at William Fleming High School will portray Herr Dresselmeyer, a role he has performed annually with the SVB since 1996.

SVB Artistic Director, Pedro Szalay, is in his second year with the compa-

SVB dancers perform during the “Party Scene.”

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Its not your parent’s Roanoke any more

What’s going on in Roanoke? What with world-class art mu-seums going up, retro-looking trolley buses running up and down Jefferson St. to the Carilion Clinic from the market area, big renovation plans in the works for Center in the Square and a City Mar-ket building makeover on the horizon, downtown Roanoke is not the same place it was a decade or so ago.

That’s good. There are now more signs of life at night and on the weekends in Roanoke and not just from those out for an evening of carousing at Corned Beef. And downtown now stretches past the city mar-ket area, past the courthouse and municipal buildings, to the Jefferson Center, the Kirk Fam-ily YMCA, Ed Walker’s new music bistro on Kirk Avenue and the funky Water Heater venue on 5th Street Southwest.

[Our Take]

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Roanoke City officials hope that the “Clean and Green Busi-ness Coalition” leads by exam-ple when it comes to reducing carbon footprints. Thirteen ma-jor employers in the Roanoke Valley have announced plans to implement environmentally sound business practices.

Outdoor equipment dis-tributor Orvis is a member of the Clean and Green coalition. Vice-President of Operations Mike Rigney says the change to fluorescent lighting at the com-pany’s 300,000 sq. ft. Roanoke distribution center saved 39 per-cent on electricity costs. “That’s pretty significant,” said Rigney

at a recent news conference to announce the group’s collective goals.

Now Orvis is “looking for grass roots efforts from the [employees],” on green issues like recycling added Rigney. An employee volunteer group called Social Concerns will help lead the way for Orvis, which has been actively involved with stream and river restoration projects.

“We believe it’s important for us to lead by example,” said Ri-gney, speaking at the downtown

Leading the charge by going “Clean and Green”

Photo by Gene Marrano

City Council member Gwen Mason with members of the Clean and Green Business Coalition.

> CONTINUEDP2: Clean & Green

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ny. His dance career began in La Guaira, Venezuela. Szalay taught ballet at Washington and Lee University and cho-reographed for the Flournoy Playwright Festival in “The Long Christmas Ride Home.”

Founded in 1990 in Salem as a regional youth ballet, SVB has been recognized nation-ally for excellence in dance instruction and professional level productions. Alumna are teaching and dancing pro-fessionally across the United

States and Europe. Company member-ship currently in-cludes 37 dancers, ages 10 to 18.

Dancers receive their primary in-struction from stu-dios across the region and come together on weekends with SVB to learn advanced dance techniques and to rehearse for productions.

“Southwest Virginia Ballet

is unique from any other dance com-pany in Virginia and perhaps the country,” said Lawson, “op-erations are managed entirely by volunteers and 100% of proceeds from performances, fundraisers, and sponsorships directly support the dancers’ education and the

communities they serve.” Tickets are $17 and $37 and

can be purchased at the Roa-noke Civic Center Box Office or call 540-853-5483.

For more information, visit www.svballet.org, or contact Mike Lawson at 540-521-0808.

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Estelle McCadden attended Addison High School, Bennett College in North Carolina, and Morgan State University, where she graduated in 1947 with at Bachelor of Science degree. She retired in 1987 af-ter 29 years with Roanoke City Public Schools, after teaching home economics, science, and culinary arts.

McCadden did not retire however from advocacy and activism roles within the community. She continues to remain involved with four Parent Teacher Associations, serving as the PTA’s Central Council Area Representative and Educational Partnership

volunteer. McCadden was chosen Roanoke’s Mother of the Year for Community Af-fairs in 1994 and in 2007 she was selected by the YWCA to receive the Women of Achieve-ment Award for volunteerism.

At 82, McCadden still serves as president of the neighbor-hood organization, the Mel-rose-Rugby Neighborhood Forum, Inc. in northwest Roa-noke City that she co-founded in the early 1990’s. She also organized the Roanoke Presi-dents’ Council, concluding that neighborhood groups could “do more as an [com-bined] entity unto itself.”

McCadden firmly believes that “neighborhoods are the building blocks of our com-

munity.” Bob Clement, Neigh-borhood Services Coordinator for the City of Roanoke said, “Estelle has been instrumental in improving the quality of life in Roanoke’s neighborhoods.”

In 2000 McCadden orga-nized the annual Virginia Statewide Neighborhood Conference and she contin-ues to serve as chair of the Virginia State Neighborhood Conference’s Planning Com-mittee. The Virginia confer-ence allows citizens to share what is working in other cities and neighborhoods. Only two states offer such events.

McCadden serves on the Board of Directors of Neigh-borhoods USA (NUSA), a na-tional organization dedicated

to developing partnerships between neighborhoods, local government, and public/pri-vate agencies across the Unit-ed States. She also lobbies in Richmond for neighborhood structuring bills.

Asked how neighborhoods had progressed over the past 15 years, McCadden says there have been ups and downs - and she wants more, believ-ing that with stronger com-munication between the city and neighborhoods “citizen antagonism” would dimin-ish. The end result she noted would be a more harmonious, cohesive and better function-ing city. While McCadden la-ments over the loss of recre-ation centers that languished

due to lack of maintenance, she is ever optimistic, believ-ing that with residents and the City pulling in the same direc-tion anything is possible.

To that end McCadden would like to see Mayor Bow-ers restart the “Summit Meet-ings” that he previously held in the early 1990’s, so residents could again voice their con-cerns in a more relaxed envi-ronment. “It gives citizens a chance to vent,” she said at the volunteer reception. Estelle McCadden will be honored again with a proclamation de-claring her the 2008 Citizen Of The Year, at the December 15th City Council meeting.

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Roanoke Orvis retail store on Campbell Avenue.

“We can make a difference. Sustainability is as much about doing the right thing in the community and for the environ-ment as it is about the potential to save money,” said Rigney.

Roanoke City Councilwoman Gwen Mason and Stan Breakell, CEO of general contracting firm Breakell Inc., organized the Clean and Green Business Co-alition, which aims to show oth-er companies in the valley - big and small - how they can reduce their own carbon footprints.

The 13-member coalition has pledged to reduce its collective footprint, reducing greenhouse emissions by 20 percent over the next five years. “I’ve not heard of other cities in Virginia ex-hibiting this kind of progressive leadership from the business side,” said Mason of the Clean and Green Business Coalition initiative, which has met three times since forming in March to come up with an action plan.

“They have … extraordinary economic and corporate [influ-

ence],” said Mason, “they can provide leadership.”

Mason also touted stickers that the City of Roanoke’s solid waste department is now affix-ing to residents’ trash contain-ers, reminding them to recycle plastic bottles, aluminum cans and newspapers.

“Most citizens also have, somewhere in their garage, a re-cycling bin,” said Mason. “Every time someone recycles it saves the city money in tipping fees. Last year we saved $121,000.”

About 40 percent of all Roa-nokers recycle through the city now; Mason would like to increase that percentage to 60 percent or more.

Virginia Tech professor Sean McGinnis analyzed energy au-dits and helped devise action plans for coalition members. They have now pledged to re-duce their own firm’s green-house gas emissions four per-cent annually for the next five years, utilizing alternative fu-els for fleet vehicles, increased recycling and green building practices.

The coalition includes a cross section of major local employers like Carilion Clinic, Berglund Chevrolet, SunTrust Bank, Virginia Western Com-munity College and Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore. Caril-ion Vice-President Nathaniel Bishop said the health care giant was already implement-ing “proactive measures,” after consulting with a Roanoke firm about its energy con-sumption.

Among the four tiers of commitments agreed to are: changing traditional light bulbs to CFL’s (fluorescent), keeping all computers in the power saving mode when not in use (both Tier 1), reducing water usage and planting trees on company property (Tier 2), encouraging carpools (Tier 3) and developing a “Corporate Sustainability Plan” (Tier 4). The entire program and list of commitments can be found at roanokeva.gov/green.

> Clean & Green From page 1

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A new amphitheater capable of welcoming larger acts to the valley could be coming down the road if people figure out where they want it - and if taxpayer money is available to help fund it.

There’s temporary public art all over the city, a new permanent sculpture outside the Roa-noke Civic Center complex that classes up the joint and something dubbed the “West Camp-bell Arts District,” a nod to the handful of gal-leries that have opened there in recent years, in part to feed off the anticipated excitement of the new Taubman Museum of Art.

Speaking of the Taubman, have you been yet? Even if you’re not a big fan of the exterior archi-tecture, once you’re inside the dramatic second floor galleries and sweeping staircase will win you over. Note to the Taubman folks: think about later hours on weekends, maybe 9 or 10pm on Fridays? Would make for a great “date night”, especially when live music is offered downstairs and the café is open. Then patrons

could spill out into downtown Roanoke to con-tinue their night out and everybody wins.

On its first day the Taubman Museum was open until 11pm and the place – and down-town Roanoke – was hopping. Now if they can just convince some of the food court vendors at the market building to stay open at night. “It’ll be an economic stimulus [for the city], at least the equivalent of renewing Hotel Roanoke, if not greater than that,” predicted former Roa-noke City Councilman Rupert Cutler on the day they cut the Taubman’s ribbon.

Okay, its never going to be confused with New York, LA or Chicago, a different mix of jobs are needed to attract more young folks here and it will take a whole lot of money in some circumstances to keep moving Roanoke forward…but one has to admit the Star City is a bit cooler these days.

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Increasingly, American baby boomers are getting struck with a “yen” to travel, exchange declining U.S. dol-lars for other currency and trade cultural experiences in a relatively young country for life in an ancient, albeit rap-idly developing modern cul-ture. So there it is, fresh as a newly plucked daisy on many a glossy tourist destination guide: Magnificent China.

Even prior to all the hoopla about the 2008 Olympics, Botetourt resident Sandra Carter, 56, was sitting down, making meticulous plans for her trip to Asia.

“I did a lot of research on the internet,” said Carter. “I had always wanted to travel and work in Asia.”

A local school teacher for 22 years, Carter had used her masters in Special Education to teach primarily on the high school level, but she wanted to try putting her skills to the test as a college professor. So when Linyi Normal Universi-ty in Linyi, China popped up on the computer screen, she began packing her bags.

But shortly before she was scheduled to leave for the town of 10 million people in southeastern Shandong Prov-ince, her 20 year old son Ste-ven lost his life in a senseless act of violence at a party he was attending.

“Steven was killed the day before Thanksgiving by a friend over a dispute about a bicycle,” Carter said with tears welling up in her large, hazel eyes almost exactly a year after the murder. “That’s the way our country is: full of violence that makes no sense.”

After the funeral some of Carter’s friends and family members asked her how she could ‘run off ’ to China, but others, including her hus-band John and adult daugh-ter Whitney, knew that she wasn’t running away – she was running toward a dream that she had nurtured since her girlhood in Buena Vista, Virginia.

“I knew that Steven would

have wanted me to go and ful-fill my dreams,” Carter said. “Also, after his death I be-came more acutely cognizant of how brief life really is, so I felt that I had to define it for myself and live it completely while I could.”

Thus, the determined Ms. Carter spent three and a half memorable months from Feb-ruary to July of 2008 teaching ESL English to classes full of eager, adoring students. She experienced first-hand, both the tangible poverty of the people in Shandong Province (an area noted for its histori-cal connections with the Han Dynasty) and the glorious richness of a culture still in-debted to ancient Confucian ideology for the peoples’ deep reverence for one another, and especially for the elderly.

“I saw complete love among family members as well as to-tal respect and admiration for older people there,” said Carter. “Families were really almost unbelievably close and loyal to one another.”

One of Carter’s primary re-sponsibilities was to get her students speaking in conver-sational English.

“The question I always asked my students was: If you had lots of money and could shop at the mall, what would

you buy?” said Carter. “And the students always answered: ‘We would buy our parents a present!’”

Having been heavily en-sconced in the current Amer-ican consumer-culture, Carter was so shocked by that answer that she almost dropped her notebook. She said that the drastic contrast between life in the West and life in Linyi became appar-ent early on. She was touched by the fact that most families were separated. College stu-dents usually could not afford to go home very often to oth-er provinces many miles away to visit parents and grand-parents who were working on farms aided only by one skinny work cow.

But when students did save up their money to make the journey home, they were will-ing to stand for hours on the crowded night trains cross-ing the country. And when they arrived, the first thing on their minds was what they could do to help out and ease the burden for loved ones, said Carter.

“Life is so simple and real there compared to life in the states,” she said, adding - “Things that we consider necessities, they consider un-necessary luxuries. My fear is

that eventually the Chinese people will be influenced in a very negative way by Ameri-ca.”

But China itself is already a place of contrasts and ex-tremes as was evidenced when sparkling Beijing cap-tured the global stage during the 2008 Olympics, proudly displaying its vanguard archi-tectural monuments such as Lord Norman Foster’s stun-ning terminal at the Beijing airport and the new Chinese Central Television building designed by Rem Koolhaa. High technology is clicking in the new China, especially in the larger cities. People are being introduced to ever more expensive and fashion-able consumer products, en-couraged by the growing ad-vertising industry.

Students from all economic backgrounds are wildly com-petitive, studying long hours for a place in the best schools so they can pass the arduous, comprehensive tests required to get into college. Private greed seems to be increasing among the small percentage of wealthy citizens and gov-ernment greed is already be-coming apparent within the current capitalist milieu.

Carter said that her faint

memories of open sewers mixed with industrial pollu-tion from Chinese factories are far surpassed by her viv-id memories of friendships forged with colleagues from all around the world, and with her Chinese students.

“I loved the friends I met there and my students,” she said. “They treated me like ex-tended family; we still keep in touch by email and phone.”

One Chinese student with the English name of “Erin” became like a second daugh-ter to Carter. “Erin told me I was wonderful, intelligent and beautiful,” said Carter, smiling broadly.

“I needed to hear that. That kind of affection has helped me through my grief process since Steven’s death.”

Carter hopes to go back to China for another short visit this spring. She admits that many Chinese people have an idealized, unrealistic image of Americans, but she wants to continue to educate them about both the strengths and the weaknesses in American culture (drugs and violence being major weaknesses).

Today the country remains in the firm grip of communist control and even though a

sizable number of the popu-lation is now Buddhist with Christianity on the rise, Carter said that most people she met were not particularly religious.

Still, Carter says: “There’s a kind of innocence among the people there that expresses it-self in unconditional love and respect. There’s a shinning happiness even among the poor, and I hope that’s never destroyed.”

In Chinese literature, in-dividuals who have lost their spiritual strength are referred to as “ghosts.”

“My bond with the Chinese people has definitely mended my spirit,” says Carter, sipping her coffee from her favor-ite restaurant, MacDonalds. “And they even have a Mac-Donalds there!” she laughs.

Roanoker’s trip to China provides new perspective

By Mary Ellen [email protected]

Sandra Carter with new friends she met while touring the Shandong Province of China.

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Apparently we have survived Thanksgiv-ing. That means we

are all full, and a little glad we got that one behind us. It also means we are all late, late, late with the shopping. The presi-dential election has been a ma-jor distraction. We have given little thought to Christmas. A few weeks ago as gas prices hap-pily, plummeted, we thought we were going to go the gener-ous route with our gift-giving, but, in the last few weeks the economy has looked more dour than ever, and we are back to the original cheapskate plan.

Shopping lists are coming out of purse and pocket, going back on the desk, crumpled somewhere behind the com-puter screen. But meanwhile, our kids, of the “all about me” generation, are still filling their gas tanks, zipping around town with their buddies, eating out when possible, and handing us their Christmas Wish Lists as if nothing has changed.

Guys . . . Please! The money is almost gone. And what-ever is left will soon be “spread around,” according to what the Democrats are saying.

The kids seem to be all for it - as in take the parents’ “wealth” and spread it all around to

them. Things like Xboxes, car stereos and GPS systems have replaced the old trip to Toys R Us to grab a cart full of toys and call it a day. The kids don’t seem to see a difference—we’re still just filling one shopping cart, right? How we long for the “Tickle-me-Elmo” days.

They have apparently forgot-ten they are going to COLLEGE, which costs real money. In fact, they seem to feel more entitled to special treatment when they get home because after all, they are now poor college students toughing it out in the dorm room. They’ve been dropping hints to mom about sending along a “care package” to ease the struggles they are facing. At first, I felt terrible. I’ve only sent one care package this year and it cost me a night’s sleep. After I mailed it, I realized I had packed a liquid, a bottle of “self-heating coffee,” that I forgot was in there when I dutifully pledged there was no liquid or other hazard-ous material in that box. Fortu-nately, the box arrived without incident.

Then I hear them talking about dining hall food and it

sounds like a buffet at the Hotel Roanoke compared to what we got in the old days. They have refrig-erators, microwaves, pizza joints, even a Starbucks in the book store. These kids eat

Ramen noodles just for nostalgia; they have no idea what a

hot pot is. Just picturing the ole hot pot makes me pine for an all-nighter, for old time’s sake.

Their dorm rooms are little havens— most of the comforts of home packed into a tiny space. It doesn’t look so bad to me. Their arrival back at the family compound for the holi-days is much anticipated, and once this has been experienced a few times, also dreaded. The chair I usually sit in—occupied; the secret stash of cookies and chocolate—gone; the family dog by my side—over sleeping by someone else. Locking the doors at night becomes an event. We never know who has a key any more and when they will get home. I really miss my kids when they are gone but when they are here I miss the simpler life I have when they are away.

The joke these days seems to be, hey, if we won’t have our savings much longer, maybe we should spend it now. So hand over your lists, kids. No prob-lem. Here is my list too: Mini Cooper (used is fine)

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I’m going to take my hot pot with me.

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I was talking to my history class the other day. I asked if they ful-ly understood how the election

of Barack Obama as President of the United States was going to affect them. Some in my class said they did not care. Most in my class said it was nice to have a Black President. They were proud of what Obama accomplished. Again, I asked if they fully understood how the Obama Presidency was going to affect them. After getting blank stares, I told my class the following.

“You have to understand that the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America is a game changer. And it is your game that is about to change. You will no longer be able to say, “I can’t make it because I am Black.” Obama is Black. You will no longer be able to say, “I can’t make it because I am poor.” Obama was not well off growing up. You will no longer be able to say, “I can’t make it because I don’t have a good relation-ship with my father.” Obama didn’t have a good relationship with his father. You will no longer be able to say, “I can’t make it because of racism.” Obama made it in spite of racism and went on to become the most powerful man in the world, President of the United States.”

“Because Obama overcame adversity to be-come President of the United States, American society will now expect you to be able to do the same thing; overcome adversity to become a suc-cessful and productive American citizen. Now that Obama is President, there is no longer any excuse for any of you to fail. Now that Obama is

President, there is no justification you can use to fail. It no longer matters if you are Black, White, Latino, man, woman, poor, come from a single-par-ent household, raised by your Grand-mother or anything else. The days of you using excuses to be unproductive are over. American society will no lon-ger feel sorry for you because of your circumstances.”

My comments were met with si-lence. Then, my students, as teenagers do, started asking, “What if,” ques-

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As the light bulb came on in some of my stu-dent’s head, I explained. “American society will now expect you to stop your whining, stop your complaining and stop your excuse making. American society will now tell you that if Obama can become President of the United States in spite of what he had to deal with, the least you can do is stay in school, graduate, get a job, take care of your family, be a good father, be a good mother and be a productive citizen. Some of you are standing in the middle of the interstate and you are about to get run over by a tractor-trailer truck named ‘Change.’ It is my job to tell you that truck is get-ting ready to run over you so get out of the way.” Yes, it is truly a new day in America.

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I work near the windi-est corner in Roanoke. Say what you will about

whatever confluence of av-enues toss an occasional chilly gust in your neighborhood, the gale-force tempest in my neck of the woods could launch a Sumo air-born on a still sum-mer day.

What is the deal with the wind around here lately? When I moved to Roanoke some twenty-five years ago the weather was delightful. Now, all of a sudden, I routinely wit-ness giant blue garbage bins bouncing down the boulevard like stampeding cattle escap-ing a spring branding.

Earlier this year my son's backyard batting cage sprout-ed wings in a high wind and was threatening to topple our neighbor's new patio set. Janet, Will and I braved the weather and managed to corral the would-be aircraft, which, at one point, had lifted me three feet off of the ground! You might not be able to tell by glancing at my grinning head-shot that accompanies this column, but I am not a small man. In fact, the last shirt I purchased came with a set of tent stakes and a free Cole-man lantern. Therefore, when unseen forces lift me skyward, you are looking at a bona-fide Typhoon.

This is not my first battle with the elements of nature. Years ago, I worked in a dress factory (with my Dad and sis-ter Emily), located on West Fifteenth Street and Tenth Av-enue in Manhattan. The south-west corner of that location was known to be the windi-est corner in all of New York. Those who dared to turn that evil corner would be treated

to an Arctic blast of biblical propor-tions. Legend has it that one powerful blow cleared every street in Manhat-tan of it's garbage, carrying the refuse Southeast and thus creating the great state of New Jersey.

Connie Sorren-tonio, a life-long co-worker of my father, and a woman to be reckoned with, once traveled to work from her apartment in Brooklyn, spied a patch of ice on Fif-teenth Street, watched quietly as a group of unsuspecting commuters were knocked flat by an unfriendly current, spun around and returned home to Brooklyn unscathed. Connie was no more than forty feet from the factory door when she surrendered to the ele-ments.

Though it might not be as formidable has the Fifteenth Street Terror, my Roanoke lo-cation still packs quite a wallop. If you are ever bored enough to test the draft of which I speak, drive down to the little strip mall in the outer ring of Valley View Mall, where sits, Sprint, Catherine's, and the Casual Male Men's Shop. Be-gin your journey at the Sprint Store and point yourself due east towards Shaker's. When you reach the end of the men's store, turn left and grab your hat, you have just entered the Valley View Mall's "Squall Zone."

During optimum conditions there is a constant gust waft-ing over a large unobstructed field sitting behind the build-ing that serves as a gathering vortex. Add a roof skimming

in-bound flight landing at nearby Roanoke Regional Airport and the at-mosphere reveals the burial ground of where umbrellas go to die.

Thankfully, the incoming airplane traffic is minimal in Roanoke, un-like in my previ-

ous homeland. (I once dated a young lady who lived smack in the middle of the Interna-tional flights landing path at JFK airport in New York. Ev-ery seven minutes her house would shake and rattle like a freight train was passing through their living room, earning their dwelling the nickname "Little House on the Runway.") Any more land-ings in Roanoke and our little store might be thrust over the rainbow, claiming a new retail home on a vacant street corner in East Munchkin land.

Since my impromptu flight with the batting cage I have remained earth-bound despite the ill winds that blow outside of my office door. My son commented that I should con-tact the nice folks at Macy's and offer my flight services for the upcoming annual Thanks-givings Day parade, perhaps replacing the M&M's balloon that crashed into a lamp post last year. While I appreciate Will's sincere recommenda-tion, I believe I will remain grounded, just like my fresh-mouthed spawn, who's car keys now reside in my roomy pocket.

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The Liberian-flagged container ship is on a heading of 160 degrees or so, compared to our 120 degree course.

The rust-streaked vessel has come over the ho-rizon quickly, into our disc of curved ocean. She will cross our bow a mile or so off. I hope to get a position check before the behemoth disap-pears over the horizon and thus out of range of our VHF radio. I’m anxious to find out how far off I am in my celestial navigation. I grab the mike as it swings in the companionway. “This is the United States sailing vessel Swellbound calling southeast-bound container ship”. I re-peat the call and wait. Thankfully, the reply is in clear and proper English, unmistakably In-dian. “Good Morning Captain! Where are you bound?” His civilized tone is in contrast to the blue water wilderness which surrounds us. A minute of mid-ocean small talk precedes my request for a position check. “Please wait,” and the radio falls silent. Just before the ship’s su-perstructure slides under the horizon, the radio crackles back to life and the courteous Indian gives us our position in latitude and longitude. “Thanks!” Happily we’re about where I calcu-lated us to be, a good trick in these days before GPS navigation.

We’re six days out of the Chesapeake, en route to Bermuda, and haven’t spoken to any-one since Cape Henry fell off the horizon to our stern. There are three of us on board Swell-bound, our old 29-ft sloop. Marybeth and I are joined by our sailing buddy Michael. We bought Swellbound during my dental school days in Richmond. By necessity, we got it cheap, thanks to its being in dire need of general repair. At the family homeplace on the Chesapeake we worked feverishly on Swellbound whenever we could, getting it in shape for this voyage, and only two days after taking my state board ex-ams we were underway, replacing one set of cares for another.

“Hey Johnny! It’s your watch in three minutes!” It’s 02:00 AM. I un-clip the lee cloth which keeps me in the narrow berth and step onto the heaving cabin sole. As I stand in the companionway donning my foul weather gear and safety harness, Mike updates me on course head-ing, wind and weather conditions. He tells me that Marybeth helped him with a headsail change earlier. I notice she’s returned to hibernation position in the starboard berth. I take my place at the helm and settle in. Its cold for June, and I tighten my hood. And it’s very dark, low clouds scudding overhead. We’re beating hard into the 16-knot breeze. The portable Walkman tape player died a few days ago, so I’m stuck with my thoughts and the sounds of the creaking boat. I check our heading with the flashlight every few minutes –no stars to steer by tonight- and I watch the set of the sails. But mostly I think about philosophical stuff like where I’ve been and where I’m going. I think about my ances-tors who sailed these waters to the new land from Europe. On those difficult voyages it must have often occurred to them as it has to me on occasion, “my oh my, what were we thinking”

As my 4-hour watch comes to an end, the sky to the east is starting to glow grey-white, with the coldness of a fluorescent tube. Ma-rybeth comes yawning into view, her hair in a spectacular muss. She joins me and the sun rises to greet us, the pale gray turning to golden warmth as it tries to break through the clouds.

Later, strong winds fill in as the sky clears, and before long it has increased to a steady 20 knots. We bound along on the huge swells on the inky blue sea under what is now a bright sky. We have long ago placed a triple reef in the mainsail, and now it is time to drop the sail completely. Mike and I wrestle it down and un-

der control as Marybeth tends the tiller. It is exhausting work. Besides the main, we have 7 headsails on board, and to keep the boat prop-erly trimmed and headed, we must constantly change them. It is diffi-cult work on the cramped foredeck, which rises and falls dramatically with the swells. Now we are gallop-

ing along under one tiny headsail, our storm jib. I worry that it may blow a seam, as did the main a few

days ago, necessitating several hours of hand sewing with awl and waxed thread. Hopefully it will calm down before long. But things get a bit more exciting before that is to happen.

It is the middle of the night, a few days later. Mike is on watch and the wind is blowing hard, 25 knots or so, with much greater gusts. I’m cradled in the berth but I can’t sleep because one, the labors of the boat are too noisy, and two, I keep thinking of things that might come apart, go wrong or otherwise get us into a heap of trouble.

Suddenly my worst fears are realized as the rig-ging begins to whine outlandishly overhead and the hull suddenly rolls hard onto her side. It’s a dreaded “knockdown”. Mike yells for assistance, but Marybeth and I are already halfway out of the companionway pulling on foul weather gear and clipping in harnesses. Waves are sweeping over the boat and the screaming wind keeps us pinned down, the force overwhelming the lead keel’s abil-ity to right Swellbound.

Marybeth takes the helm as Mike and I struggle to the base of the mast where we fight to release the pressure on the sail. Cold, solid water washes over us. We manage to get the sail halfway down, clenching the Dacron cloth with adrenaline-fu-eled hands. The next thing we know the boat is upright and the wind has eased. We’re shivering with cold and fright, but everything is OK, other

than the gaping rent in the mainsail. It looks like I will be doing some more sewing.

A few less eventful yet very interesting days later we are anchored idyllically in St. Georges Harbor, Bermuda. The boat is amazingly still in the water. We can move about the deck and cabin without staggering. We’ve untangled Marybeth’s hair. Mike’s cooking up something good in the galley. The warm sun shines and life is good. We never want to leave the security of this beautiful port. “You know what Mark Twain said about this place don’t you,” I ask my crew. “Bermuda is a bit of heaven, but you have to go through a bit of hell to get there”.

I don’t know about that, but I do know that on our voyage so far we’ve experienced a lot of liv-ing, a lot of learning, and a lot of appreciating one another. Not to mention feeling the whisper of the grace of God that is ever with us – whis-pers sometimes gentle and quiet and sometimes strong enough to blow over a boat with two tons of lead in her keel.

My guess is that ultimately we need them both.

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Recently a 15 year old girl in our church told her mom, “I think I might want to be a preacher

when I grow up.” Her mom pressed her a bit regarding her thought process, and she shared that she liked to talk a lot and would enjoy a two-hour work week!!

Paris, you’re killing me, girl!But it is a fair question: what is a

preacher’s job, and what do we do all week? First, as I told my twin sister 20 years ago, I am not just a “preacher.” I am a pastor! I preach at most two hours a week so that actually constitutes a very small percentage of my work week. I pastor and shepherd the congregation and others another 45+ hours a week.

The bible makes it clear that a pas-tor’s job is to equip the saints (that is equip the lay people) to do the work of ministry. We are to preach the word of God, teach, shepherd, keep watch over souls, exhort, counsel, correct, encour-age, rebuke, etc. We are to let our life and doctrine serve as an example to the flock. Sometimes we do that well; sometimes we do it less well.

While it may vary from church to church and based on one’s gifts, most pastors read the scripture, pray, write and study at least 12-20 hours a week. We participate and lead weekly worship services another 4-7 hours. We teach classes and/or lead ministry team meet-ings another 5-8 hours a week. We visit

the hospitals and sick about 3 hours a week and meet with parishioners and other folks who need biblical counsel about 10 hours a week. We also pre-side at weddings and funerals, which are special types of worship services often attended widely by those outside the parish. Then there are 10 hours a week spent on the phone and commu-nicating through email.

And did I mention that we eat a lot?? I often joke with my kids that I get paid to eat. One of the ways that we meet new people or catch up with parishio-ners is over a meal or a good cup of coffee (think Mojo’s, MMC or Daily Grind!). Show me a skinny pastor, and I will show you one who is either an in-trovert or has been blessed with a fast metabolism!

Ministry, at its heart, is about loving God, loving His people and equipping them to become Christ followers.

We would probably do well to spend MORE time with the Lord and less on the computer. That is why I am signing off right now!!

Quigg Lawrence is Senior Pastor at Church of the Holy Spirit at 6011 Mer-riman Rd in Roanoke. Visit them online at: www.coths.org

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Thanksgiving is the last “pure family” holiday. While I had never thought about it – it’s true. Not much advertising hype. Not much to sell – other than groceries. It is however, the holiday where the most treasured of family stories are born. Stories about “crazy” family members; football games; drunk uncles; and the dog eating the turkey. Stories of traditions and shared expe-riences.

My brother died 9 years ago this January. He was 32. We got the dreaded “there is noth-ing more we can do” news from his doctors just days before Thanksgiving. I thought the hol-iday would be ruined forever. Christmas too. It had the op-posite affect. Instead, the holi-days became the backdrop for all the warmth of family and gratitude for life.

The very last days of my brothers’ life were accompa-nied by the smell of Thanks-giving turkey and the glow of Christmas tree lights. The entire family paid attention to each other as if it was the last chance we might all have to be together….because it was. We never talked about avoiding the mashed potatoes because we might gain weight; we didn’t argue about people drinking too much or complain because the turkey was dry.

That same spirit of family – that value of togetherness – continued right into Christ-mas. We weren’t scouring the malls for the best gadget to give as a gift – after all – you can’t take an iPod with you to heaven. Instead, we looked for things we could do together. We went to every “holiday happening” we could find. We lived in Arizona at the time, so there were not many snow angels to make….but we drove through neighborhoods to ap-preciate the houses decorated with lights and attended every holiday concert we could find. I can still hear the voices of the Christmas carols as they were

carried through the cold desert air. But most of all – I remem-ber the shared experience. I remember being together.

So, over the coming weeks, as we grumble about our crazy families and groan about the money we spend on gifts. Take a moment to stop and think about what life might be like

if there was one less gift to give. What would you give that special

person in your life – if it was the very last month of their life. I am guessing it would not be plastic or “on sale.”

Perhaps this is the year to give the gift of memories. No, I don’t mean a picture frame --but rather a shared experi-ence. Go to the holiday sing along at the Art Museum (Dec. 6). How about the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra’s Holi-day Pops Spectacular (Dec. 12). Set a tradition. Laugh. Sing. Take your kids. Watch them as they crane their neck and sit up tall to see Santa (aka Maestro Wiley) playing Jingle Bell Rock on his piano. Imag-ine the day when they carry that same tradition on with their family.

These are the things we all remember forever. These are the things you’ll treasure long after you outgrow the shirt; long after the toy is broken; and long after you forgot who gave you that ugly tie. The music will stay in your head and the feeling it inspired will stay in your heart forever. But most of all, you’ll never forget the love you felt for the person sitting next to you and how lucky you were to have that moment together.

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The Annual Grandin Village Holiday Children’s Parade last Saturday took place on a sunny but brisk morning, proceeding from the corner of Grandin Road and Brandon Avenue through Grandin Village. Held the Saturday before Thanksgiving each year, the neighborhood favorite ends with an appearance by Santa, delivered by the Roanoke City Fire & EMS department. Scout troops, school bands and drill teams, local businesses, Mayor David Bowers, City Council members David Trinkle and Court Rosen, and other local organizations all took part as several thousand people watched and waved.A highlight of the annual parade are the children that march with their parents – decked out in holiday garb and Santa hats, throwing candy to the crowd, some of the smaller fry being pulled in wagons. At the end of the parade Santa Claus met with many of the children in front of the Roanoke Natural Foods Co-op, dispensing hugs and taking orders for Christmas gifts.


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Blacksburg's George Probst, 35, won the 23rd annual Star City Half Marathon Saturday with a time of 1:12:41. Shauna Mugavero, also from Blacksburg was the first over-all female to cross the finish line in a time of 1:29:48. More than 300 runners braved the freezing temperatures to complete the 13.1 mile course. The youngest runner was Jordan Bazak, 14, from Roanoke, finishing with the impressive time of 1:30:32, and Ray Gilbarte, a 70 year old from Wirtz was the eldest, finishing in 3:01:56. Former Pulaski County Football Coach, Joel Hicks, 67, (pictured above right) won the Men's 65 - 69 division with a time of 1:43:55.

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Reason to celebrate: with a not-so-pretty 14-3 win over Duke last Saturday the Virginia Tech Hokies stayed in contention for the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Coastal Division football crown. If Tech beats UVA at home in Blacksburg this weekend (Sat., noon) they will advance to the ACC championship game in Tampa. The Virginia Cavaliers are fighting for bowl eligibility, so the clash of rivals this Saturday is important to the Hoos as well.

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Hello Coach Houser. I am a player on a seri-

ously good club team and I have a quick question. My team has been together for several years and our sea-son is around the corner and we still haven’t clicked as a team. We are still struggling mentally. Our coach is awe-some, and has tried to help us but we are under-achiev-ing. Some people give their best effort every day, while others don’t. I want to try to get a scholarship for volley-ball, but for some reason we struggle mentally. I believe we have the potential to be a powerhouse. We have height but it’s a lack of motivation. Please tell me how we can fix this. I can tell that our coach is frustrated.

Hello sir:What you’ve said is full of

contradictions. But many ath-letes see their team just this way. I've heard dozens of play-ers say, "We have it all, we just can't gel."

The truth is, if you did have it all, then you would jell. Something is missing. The coach can't be so awesome, be-cause he can’t solve the team’s laziness. All the players can't be so awesome, because the team is struggling. You tell me that your coach has tried to help, but players aren't "giv-

ing back". You say your team could be a powerhouse, but you're not playing well. You tell me that your team is tall, but you're unmotivated and lazy.

In my opinion, what your team needs is some change. You may need a few new play-ers. Get rid of the lazy ones. You may need a lot of new players. Maybe your good players aren't really as good as you perceive. You may need a new coach. If he cannot moti-vate the players and he allows them to be lazy, then he could be the problem.

I am just a few weeks away from starting a new club season with a new bunch of players. Together we will try to have a remarkable sea-son. Sure, some of our spe-cial memories will be because of the matches we win. But most of our memories will be the friendships, the trips, the laughter and the incredible ef-fort that went into our season.

Many players don’t give their best efforts (mental-ly and physically) because they’re not expected to. Often coaches will allow players to give 80% because it’s easier to just allow it than to try to fix it. Yes, fixing an 80% player takes a lot of time. There may be conferences, consequences, disagreements, hurt feelings, etc. Sometimes players would

rather quit a team than give the effort and commitment that the coach requires. All this takes time and effort by all parties.

For many coaches, it’s easier to tolerate the 80% player; in other words, accept the 80% player with 80% coaching ef-fort. In this way, there are no arguments, no ultimatums, no deadlines to improve, etc. The peace is maintained.

However, the consequences of this lack of effort by both parties becomes apparent when the team meets a compa-rable opponent. Then the 80% team loses winnable matches, because both the players and the coaches haven’t been ex-pecting enough of themselves.

That is your situation. No your team doesn’t have it all. There are parts missing.

Finally. I see my job as a coach as helping the team reach their goals. If it takes longer practice, then we’ll do it. It may take a day off. If a player needs a compliment, I can do that. If a player needs a time-out, or some time off, or time on the bench with me, then that will happen. Every-one wants to succeed, but some people aren’t willing to put the time and effort into it. That’s what’s happening with your team. The coach must take the lead in fixing the problem, or he is part of the problem.

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The National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NCSAA) has awarded the Team Aca-demic Award to the 2007-2008 William Byrd High School girls’ soccer team. More than 250 girls’ soccer teams across the nation earned this distinction. To qualify for the award, the team must have a minimum grade point average of 3.25 for the entire academic year. The team GPA is deter-mined by adding every player's GPA, then dividing by the number of players.

“I’m so proud of our team,” said Terrier’s soccer head coach Russell Dishman. “We want our team to work hard in the classroom as well as on the field. I’m very pleased our players have been recognized as winners in the classroom,” Dishman added. By Gene Marrano

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On Friday night, November 21, Roanoke Valley Christian School hosted their Midnight Mad-ness basketball tournament which has been an annual tradition at the school for several years. The night started off with the varsity women playing a team of alumni and faculty at RVCS. The Lady Eagles fought a hard battle and senior Amanda Hundly scored 10 points. Sophomore Reba Pickeral finished her first game of the season with 7 points. The Lady Eagles went on to pull out a close one- 30 to 28.

The varsity men were out to win Friday night against a solid team consisting of faculty and staff not only from RVCS but also Shenandoah Baptist Church. Last year the Eagles barely pulled out a win against the same team. This year their goal was a little different. From the tip-off, the Eagles were on fire. Senior Josh Webb dropped 18 points against the faculty team. Freshmen point guard Jared Hundly scored 5. The Eagles went on to demolish the faculty and staff 60 to 27.

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Roanoke Valley Christian Schools’ men’s basketball team began their season with a tournament on Friday, Nov. 14 and Saturday, Nov. 15 at Pathway Christian Academy.

The tournament rules included two twenty minute halves with a five-minute half time between, with the clock running continuous-ly until the last two minutes of the game. One point was awarded to a team when fouled, until the last two minutes of each game, when regulation rules went into effect. The champi-

onship game was played entirely by r e g u l a t i o n rules

The teams that partici-pated in this exciting tour-nament were the Roanoke Valley Chris-tian Eagles, The Cov-ington Boy’s Home Hill-toppers, The

Pathway Christian Academy Panthers, and The Southwest Virginia Home School Con-querers.

The first game RVCS played was a tough match against the Home School Conquerers. It was a close game, well fought all the way through, and ended in a 50-44 RVCS victory. RVCS senior Josh Webb was the leading scor-er with 14 points, despite receiving a minor concussion in the second half. Senior Steven Scoggins followed closely behind him, scor-ing 12 points.

The second game was played against the Covington Boy’s Home, a first time opponent for the Eagles. RVCS won this game as well, 51-41. Junior Nathan Perkinson scored 14 points and Josh Webb scored 10.

In the third game, RVCS took on Pathway, competing for the first seed in the tourna-ment. The Eagles won a very close game with a final score of 52-48. Josh Webb scored an impressive 18 points and Steven Scoggins had 14 points.

The semifinals were next and RVCS played the Covington Boy’s Home yet again. They emerged with a second victory against the Hilltoppers, winning by a comfortable mar-gin of 10 points (54-44). Nathan Perkinson scored 14 points and senior Ben Bailey, scored 11.

The win against the Covington Boy’s Home sent RVCS to the Championship game, which was to be played against Path-way Christian Academy. This was the third game of the day for the Eagles, but the team caught their second wind as they stepped onto the court. RVCS was winning by 3 points at the end of the regulation game, but a Pathway opponent scored a 3-pointer just as the buzzer went off. This sent the game into a nail-biting overtime. At the end of the first overtime, RVCS was up, but Path-way scored again, making for a second and even more nerve-racking overtime. The Ea-gle’s starting center fouled out and Pathway pulled ahead, winning the game 74-67. Josh Webb scored a game high of 26 points and Ben Bailey scored 19.

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Chad Earhart, wide receiver and defensive linebacker for the Hidden Valley High School Titans, has been named the Army Iron Man of the year for Virginia by the U.S. Army Beckley Recruiting Battalion. The Army Iron Man award recognizes the best two-way high school football player in the battalion’s Virginia recruiting territory. As the Army Iron Man of the Year for Virginia, Earhart will receive a customized, championship-quality ring from presenting sponsor Jostens. In week nine, Earhart (who also plays bas-ketball for the Titans) scored on a 52-yard touchdown reception, returned a kick-off for a 94-yard touchdown, and returned an interception for a 35-yard touchdown as Hidden Valley beat Christians-burg, 38-21.

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Don’t look now, but the Virginia Tech club-level hockey squad that calls the Roanoke Civic Center home has compiled a gaudy 12-2 record after win-ning two games against Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League foes last weekend. A day before they beat Duke on the football field in Blacksburg, the Hokies took care of the Blue Devils on the ice, winning 6-1. Tech came back on Sunday after-noon to beat Georgetown 6-2.

Between the first and second periods at the Duke game, Miss Virginia, Tara Wheeler, skated out in a goalie’s mask and pads, while fans shot pucks at her for charity. It wasn’t just a stunt – Wheeler played goalkeeper for the Penn State women’s team while attending school there.

Those hockey fans left in the lurch when the Express and then the Vipers pulled up stakes (and the Rebels, Rampage, etc. before that) may want to check out Virginia Tech’s club team, which does not play in an NCAA-sanctioned league. Col-lege hockey on this level is all about passing and checking; fighting is discouraged and comes with an automatic one-game suspension. The skill level appears to be on par with that displayed by the Vipers, the last pro tenants at the Civic Center.

Former Roanoke City Councilwoman and re-tired Roanoke City teacher Linda Wyatt attends Virginia Tech hockey games, just as she did while a season ticket holder for the Express and Vipers. She’d like to see professional hockey return, but feels a drop to a lower-rung league with reduced operating expenses would be needed, “in order to have tickets people can afford. A family of four for 50 dollars … you can’t do it [in Roanoke].”

A rabid fan of the sport, Wyatt’s goal – what’s on her “bucket list,” she says - is to attend a home

game in every National Hockey League city. Wy-att, who failed in an attempt to regain a Council seat last spring, has been to about eight NHL ven-ues, with Nashville’s arena (home of the Predators) high on her list. As for the level of play displayed by Virginia Tech’s team, led by senior captain Jimmy Pope: “its pretty good…they’ve steadily improved. Its not bad hockey.”

Art Weeks is also a regular at Hokie home games, where they play Metallica’s “Enter Sand-man” like they do at Tech football games and fans wear plenty of maroon and orange VT gear. He used to help out with the Express and Vipers, working behind the scenes with the equipment manager. “These guys are just as good as they were,” says Weeks about the level of play. “I see a couple of kids here that could probably play [pro hockey].” Weeks gives head coach Mike Spradlin the thumbs up as well: “the guy knows what he’s doing.”

About 1500 or so showed up to see the Hok-ies play Duke. After the Ice Station folded several years ago the Civic Center became home for Vir-ginia Tech’s team. More hockey fans may show up on January 23 when the University of Virginia Cavaliers come to town. “I haven’t missed one yet,” says Weeks, who found out about the team just last season, since it gets little or no publicity. “This is great…its good hockey.”

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> Nov. 29Family Gaming DayAll ages are invited to Family Gaming Day, Saturday, Novem-ber 29.Try your hand at the Wii, Play-station 3, Guitar Hero, and any of the other hit games that the library offers. And if you don’t like computer games, don’t feel confined, we also have board games and other timeless fam-ily games.When - 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.Where - Roanoke Main Li-brary.For more - call 853-2955 for more information.

> Nov. 30Santa visits the pets at Tanglewood MallSanta Claus will stay late at Tanglewood Mall on Sunday, November 30 just to visit with “four-legged children” and get pictures taken with them. Please note that this event is for domestic pets only (no ex-otic animals), and that all pets must be on a leash or other-wise restrained.When - 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.Where - Tanglewood MallFor information on Tangle-wood Mall’s holiday events, ex-tended shopping hours, Santa’s hours, and more, please visit www.shoptanglewood.com or call Customer Service at 540.989.4388..

> Dec. 4Special FairTax Education-al MeetingRoanoke Area FairTax will have a 30-minute presentation, “The FairTax Story,” followed by 30 minutes of questions, answers, and discussion. This is a good

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Dickens of a Christmas 2008WACHOVIA PLAZA5:30 p.m. – Southwest Virginia Ballet6:15 p.m. – City of Roanoke Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony6:30 p.m. – Miss Mona’s School of Dance

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> Dec. 13SpeedlightThe Bedford & Botetourt County Parks & Recreation is sponsoring a bus trip to the matinee of Miracle on 34th Street at the Barter Theatre, Abingdon, VA, and to Speedway in Lights at the Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, TN, on Satur-day, December 13, 2008.Prior to the matinee at the Barter, the group will enjoy an all inclusive lunch at Abingdon’s Harbor Inn Seafood Restau-rant.The price of $89 per person in-cludes: Roundtrip motorcoach transportation, an all inclusive lunch at Harbor Inn Seafood Restaurant, matinee ticket for Miracle on 34th Street at Barter Theatre, admission to Speedway in Lights and a tour host.Passengers can board the bus at the Westgate Shopping Cen-ter, Bedford; Bonsack Walmart, Route 460, Troutville; and at Food Lion, Exit 137, Salem, VA.For more information, call (540) 586-7682 or (540) 473-8326.

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My favorite thing to do with Thanksgiving leftovers is to put some turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy in a bowl, heat it up in the microwave, mix it up and chow down! I also like a sandwich with white bread, Dukes mayo on both sides, turkey and American cheese, toasted in the oven. Pretty simple! But when I recently saw this sandwich recipe with the Cranberry-Onion relish I knew I had to try it. So this year I am stepping up my leftover’s game. No more laying on the couch with my giant bowl of Thanksgiving past, I am back in the kitchen making relish this year. Who knows I may be packing up my relish and putting it in jars and giving it out as Christ-mas gifts! Thanksgiving Turkey Sandwich4 kaiser rolls or whole wheat braided rolls¼ cup mayonnaise2 tbs. Dijon mustard4 large slices roasted turkey breast¼ cup Cranberry-Onion Relish¼ cup leftover stuffing4 large red leaf lettuce leaves

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remaining half of the roll-Cut each in half and serve immediately

Cranberry-Onion Relish½ cup dry white wine¼ cup white wine vinegar½ cup sugar1/8 tsp. ground cinnamon1/8 tsp. ground ginger2 whole clovesGrated zest of 1 orange¼ tsp dried thyme, crumbled3 medium onions, quartered and thinly slices (about 4 cups)2 cups cranberries 1 tart green apple, peeled, cored, and diced

-In a heavy saucepan stir together wine, vinegar, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, zest, and thyme-Bring to boil, reduce heat, simmer uncovered until slightly syrupy, about 5 min-utes-Stir in onions, simmer cov-ered until crisp-tender, about 12 minutes-Stir in cranberries and apple cook uncovered until cran-berries burst, about 6 minutes-Ladle relish into a glass bowl or jars, cool, cover securely and chill-Will keep up to 1 week in refrigerator

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Recently the eyes of the country have been focused on the hotly contested Presiden-tial election and our economic downturn, but it is important to remember that as a na-tion, we have many reasons to give thanks. Each year, across Virginia and throughout the country, Americans set aside a special day to express gratitude for the many blessings we have received.

In 1789 President George Washington proclaimed Thurs-day, November 26th of that year, a day of national Thanksgiving. At the request of the President, Americans assembled in houses of worship to thank God for his many blessings. But there was discord among the colonies and many were opposed to the holi-day citing that the hardships the Pilgrims had faced did not war-rant a national holiday. De-spite President Wa s h i n g t o n proclaiming another Thanks-giving Day in 1795, the national celebration of this holiday was soon forgotten.

It is thanks to the steadfast efforts of magazine editor Sar-ah Josepha Hale that we now celebrate the holiday we know as Thanksgiving. Ms. Hale wrote, “Would it not be a great advantage, socially, nationally,

religiously, to have the day of our American Thanksgiving positively settled? ... it would be more noble, more truly Ameri-can, to become national in unity when we offer to God our trib-ute of joy and gratitude for the blessings of the year.”

After a 40 year campaign of writing editorials and letters to governors and presidents, Hale’s efforts came to fruition when President Lincoln proclaimed the last Tuesday in November to be a national day of Thanksgiv-ing in 1863. He did so as a ges-ture of unity in the midst of the turmoil of the Civil War. Lin-coln believed that it seemed fit and proper that prosperity and freedom were God’s gift and should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged with one heart and one voice by all the American people.

On Decem-ber 26, 1941, Congress fi-nally affirmed

that decree and declared that Thanksgiving Day should be celebrated on the fourth Thurs-day of November each year.

Thanksgiving has become one of the most widely celebrat-ed holidays in the United States. For my family, Thanksgiving has always been a time to give thanks to God and to help those who may be less fortunate.

This Thanksgiving Day, I hope that you will have the op-portunity to spend time with your family and reach out to those in need around you. I hope that you will give thanks for this wonderful democracy in which we live - the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

God bless you all, and from my family to yours - happy Thanksgiving.

Ed. note: Congressman Bob Goodlatte, State Senator John Edwards and Delegate Morgan Griffith were scheduled to help deliver over 200 hot Thanksgiv-ing meals to the area’s home-bound elderly this year. This has become a holiday tradition for the LOA, its Meals on Wheels volunteers, and local politicians.

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State Sen. John Edwards (D-Roa-noke) and Doris Hansel, LOA Nutri-tion Coordinator, at a past Meals on Wheels Thanksgiving Day event.

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On Thursday, November 13th Penny Burch, General Manager of Magic City Ford Lincoln Mercury, presented a check of $556 to Annie Cooper, Community Manager of the Roanoke Chapter of the American Cancer Society. The presentation took place at the Magic City Ford Lincoln Mercury new car showroom on Williamson Road.

From left in picture: Annie Cooper, Community Manager, Roanoke Chapter American Cancer Society; Shirley Niday, Body Shop Manager, Magic City Ford Lincoln Mercury, Cancer Survivor; Penny Burch, General Manager, Magic City Ford Lincoln Mercury

Magic City raises money during Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Wick Moorman, chairman, president and CEO of Norfolk South-ern Corp., will deliver the keynote address at the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 119th Annual Meeting of the Member-ship. The Chamber’s premier networking event of the year will be held on Tuesday, December 2, at 6 p.m. at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center.

The cost of the annual meeting is $70 for members and $560 for a table of eight. Early registration is advised for the well-attended networking event. For information or to register, call 983.0700 ext. 221 or e-mail [email protected]. Registration is also available online at www.roanokechamber.org.

Norfolk Southern CEO to address chamber members

Access Advertising & Public Relations received five Summit Awards at last night's Blue Ridge Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America's Summit Awards Gala.

The Summit Awards recognize the best in public relations and communications efforts by professional public relations practitio-ners in Southwest Virginia. The entries were judged by the Central Pennsylvania PRSA Chapter, and each entry was evaluated in four areas: Research, Planning, Execution and Evaluation.Access received awards in the following categories on behalf of its clients: • Gold - Media Relations, Woltz & Associates, Fox Island Auction• Silver - Special Events, Average Budget The Willard Companies, The Water's Edge Grand Reopening• Silver - Community Partnerships, Child Advocacy Center, Kids in Cars Campaign• Silver - PR Campaigns, Average Budget JavaFit Virginia Tech Product Launch • Silver - Special Events, Modest Budget Historical Society, A Night for Notable Women

"We're thrilled to be recognized at Summit Awards because they are judged not only on the elements of the campaign but also on successful outcomes," said Terri Jones, APR, Principal at AccessPR. "It's an honor to be recognized by your peers, but more importantly, the awards acknowledge the results we've achieved for our clients."

Access Advertising & Public Relations Wins Five Summit Awards for Public Relations Excellence

On Tuesday Nov25th, the President of Romania, Traian Bases-cu, awarded Ambassador Nicholas F. Taubman with the Order of the Star of Romania in a ceremony held at the Cotroceni Palace.

Ambassador Taubman said, “I am honored to receive the Star of Romania. Many American and Romanian colleagues have helped make this award possible. My three years as Ambassador here have been some of the most rewarding in my life. My wife, Jenny, and I will return to the United States with many warm memories of our time here and of the many friends we have made. We thank you for this honor and wish Romania and Romanians all the best." Ambassador Taubman presented his credentials to President Bas-escu on December 5, 2005. He will depart Romania next week

Nicholas Taubman awarded with “Order of the Star of Romania”

Jeff Gibson, Vice President of Gibson Radiator Shop, Inc., in Roa-noke, Va., has been elected to the Board of Directors of NARSA – The International Heat Transfer Association. The formal announce-ment was made at the NARSA 56th Annual Convention and Trade Show, held recently in Las Vegas, Nev., which attracts the world’s leading heat transfer industry professionals. Gibson will serve as Southeast Region Chairman of NARSA. As a member of the NARSA Board of Directors, Gibson will help shape the future agenda and direction of the association. NARSA is a non-profit trade association providing educational, technical, safety and marketing programs for individuals in the engine cooling and heat transfer industry. The association is com-prised of heat transfer specialists, manufacturers and suppliers lo-cated in 42 countries. NARSA is committed to educating consum-ers, promoting educational practices and improving procedures, fostering and promoting business friendships, conducting research and providing solutions for the industry’s issues. “On behalf of the association, I would like to thank Jeff for his service and commitment to NARSA,” commented Chuck Braswell, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the association. “NARSA is fortunate to have such a dedicated individual working to further the goals of the organization and the interests of the industry.” Gibson Radiator Shop is located at 637 West Salem Ave. in Roa-noke.

Local Radiator Expert Jeff Gibson Elected to the Board of Directors of Leading Industry Association

Winning entries for Roanoke Urban Effect 2008, an inter-national design competition focused on Roanoke City, were announced recently. Forty-six entries were submitted from around the world, with seven winners announced. A four-person jury judged the entries and the competition was divid-ed into three categories - Build-ings, Urban Design, and Urban Planning – focused on three areas within the Jefferson Street Corridor, an area that has been identified by Roanoke City for proposed redevelopment.

The two top prizes, the Award of Excellence, were given in a tie to Roanokers Nathan Harp-er (Individual, Buildings) from Spectrum Design, and Clark Nexsen (Team, Urban Design), based in Roanoke and Norfolk.

Other prizes handed out by the jury: Student Award of Ex-cellence, Mengni Zhang (Indi-vidual) – Urban Design, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Merit Award, Craig Huffman (Indi-vidual) – Urban Design, Tal-lahassee, Fl.; Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas & Company (Team) – Buildings, Wytheville, Va.; BAM Architects (Team) – Buildings, Richmond; The CAF (Team) – Urban Design, San Diego, Ca., New Orleans, La., London, UK.

The competition received broad international interest from South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Or-ganized by local young profes-sionals affiliated with the Blue

Ridge American Institute of Architects’ Young Architects Forum (YAF), Roanoke Urban Effect 2008 is the first of its kind for the region.

Josephine Villacreces is a local YAF member and helped orga-nize the Roanoke event: “there were really good ideas, really innovative. They addressed all of our goals. The result is that people are starting to have some type of dialogue and conversa-tion about … the future of the city.”

Although no plans exist at this point to build or profit from the designs, Nicole Hall, co-chair for Roanoke Urban Effect, believes the success of this year’s contest will open new discussions about the city’s future. “We really have an op-portunity to start a dialog in our community about how such ideas can benefit the region and propel us forward.”

Harper’s building proposal provides a permanent landmark home for the Roanoke Weiner Stand, adjacent to the new Taubman Art Museum. Cap-

turing the City’s use of iconic signs such as H&C Coffee and Dr. Pepper, the proposed build-ing features a new skyline icon – a 68-foot LED display sign visible from Williamson Road and I-581. (The Weiner Stand is currently slated to remain at Center in the Square, although it may be relocated after renova-tions are completed).

Patraap Patrose, a juror and the Director of Urban Design for the Boston Redevelopment Authority said Harper’s propos-al “takes a unique and quirky aspect of Roanoke and catapults it into the 21st century.”

Juror Sean Tuck, a Roanoke native and founding partner of Tuck-Hinton Associates in Nashville, said Harper’s pro-posal was very site specific. “Progressive ideas like this help us appreciate the historic char-acter of the city. A good balance of new and old makes the city a richer experience.”

Clark Nexsen’s team effort sought to improve connectivity along the entire Jefferson Street Corridor, making the area a

walkable community through a series of pedestrian trails, green-ways, and community gathering spaces. “While not the typical wild and bold winning entry, the planning ideas behind it are sound. Pieces of this proposal can start to be implemented to-morrow,” said Patrose.

Other submissions suggested a way to bridge Roanoke’s east and west neighborhoods with a connecting pedestrian and bike path over I-581 or development of a community gathering point at The Crossing with waterfalls, ice skating rinks, swimming pools, relaxation gardens, and playgrounds.

“It was impressive how the ideas presented captured the essence of the city of Roanoke,” said Villacreces, contest co-chair and an architect intern. “Par-ticipants not only performed a thorough study of the urban fabric of the city but also pro-posed concepts that celebrated some of its most important, but sometimes unnoticed, features.”

The winning entries will be on public display at Center in the Square through Friday, De-cember 5. “We are trying to get some of the [City officials] to come look at our presentation,” said Villacreces, “trying to take advantage of this momentum.” (includes submitted informa-tion)

Roanoke Urban Effect 2008 announces winning entries

Roanoke architect Nathan Harper’s take on where the Roa-noke Weiner stand should go (courtesy Roanoke Urban Effect 2008)


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Going to see “Scrooge” at the Roanoke Civic Center has become an annual holi-day tradition for many residents of the Roanoke Valley, and this year is no dif-ferent. Members and friends of New Century Community Church in Roa-noke have joined with several corporate underwriting partners in celebrating their tenth year of performing the play as a ministry to the community. Admission is free but donations are encouraged and will go to a local nonprofit organization.

Mean, old miser Scrooge is played by the church’s pastor, Dr. Jay Owens. The play is a family affair. His daughter, Kari, is director this year. Owens’ wife, Nancy, is a costumer.

The play is actually based on the 1970’s era film starring Albert Finney. Ow-ens says Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” has a lot of the same thematic messages, tied to what the church is all about. “If you’re talking about the so-cial ministries of helping people who are in need ... but also, in all fictional history, there’s no conversion story like that of Ebenezer Scrooge. Embedded into Scrooge’s conversion is actually the essence of the Gospel.” That message is shared with the audience by members of the cast at the conclusion of each show.

Scrooge’s conversion is Owens’ favor-ite part of the play. “I love the part where he is finally chained in hell and getting his ‘just rewards’ so to speak, and then wakes up from the dream and realizes that his life needs a new direction to it.”

Kari Owens has grown up with the play; she’s been a member of the chorus and one year played “Mrs. Fezziwig”. She also has some experience directing plays at Virginia Western Community College. After college Owens lived in India, where she directed the children’s production of “The Jungle Book”.

The cast of “Scrooge” is comprised mainly of adults. “The main difference is when you’re directing children, you have to give them very specific instructions,” says Kari Owens. “You have to tell them very specifically where to stand, when to do this, and that kind of thing. But when you’re directing adults, it is a bit easier. You can communicate to the adult just the idea of what you want and they un-derstand.”

She says the play has remained basi-cally the same over the past decade, so most cast members remember their parts from year to year, which makes her work easier as a director.

Dr. Owens enjoys playing Scrooge and says it’s very easy to be mean and nasty. “I guess there’s something therapeutic about playing a villain for awhile. And it’s always easier to play the bad guy, es-pecially the beginning parts of Scrooge are very easy for anyone to play - just

mean and nasty.” The production is tailored for families

but may not be suitable for very young children, says Kari Owens. “There are several moments of the play, such as when the ghost of Marley comes out or when Scrooge is in hell, that in the past have been a little scary to some of our younger viewers.”

Performances are set for Thursday and Friday, December 4th and 5th at 7:30pm, and Saturday the 6th at noon and 4pm at the Roanoke Civic Center’s Perform-ing Arts Theater. The doors open one hour before the show, and proceeds will benefit the Blue Ridge Women’s Center in Roanoke, which deals with women’s health-related issues.

Scrooge set to delight again at Civic Center

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A joyful scene from a past performance of Scrooge.Gamut Theatre Company presents the madcap, dark comedy,

Reckless, by Craig Lucas at Jefferson Center on December 10, 13,17,18,19 and 20. Directed by Miriam Frazier and produced by Kathy Guy, cast members are Kris Laguzza, Ross Laguzza, Pat-rick Kelly, Jennifer Carter, Danielle Thorsen, Owen Merritt, Russ Merritt, Mary Jean Redon Levin, Jason Palmer and Phil Boyd.

Collaborating with the production team on set design, incor-porating original artwork, is Philip Bernard. Philip is an installa-tion artist and landscape designer from Boones Mill and a mem-ber of Gamut’s Board of Directors. Currently residing in Raleigh, NC, Philip creates gallery installations inspired by organic forms found in the landscape.

Miriam Frazier, Artistic Director, states, “People should come expecting to laugh and be touched in unexpected ways. Reckless can be summed up in the words of Carl Jung, ‘In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.’” Gamut is an amateur troupe consisting of members with a passion for live theater.

Tickets are $12.00 and may be purchased at Jefferson Center box-office (540-344-2550, or toll free 866-345-2550.) Times and dates for Gamut’s Reckless: Wednesday, December 10, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, December 13, 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 17, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, December 18, 7:30p.m., Friday, December 19, 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 20, 8:00 p.m.


Gamut celebrates the Holiday season with performances of “Reckless”

The Gamut Theatre Company’s cast of “Reckless.”


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