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MossNewP11– Renowned artist P. Buckley Moss will release a new painting titled, “The Peaks Visitors”at the Apple Barn Gallery’s show on Nov 2nd - 4th.

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P6– Virginia Tech faculty, students, and alumni who are “inventing the future” will represent the university at the first TEDxVirginiaTech event on Nov. 10.

VT Associate Professor Dennis Hong presents, “Making a Car for Blind Driv-ers,” at TED 2011 in Long Beach, Calif.

Teachers unions say Vir-ginia has a rigorous perfor-mance-evaluation regimen, but statistics indicate that contracts for instructors are virtually automatic, even in low-achieving school dis-tricts.

A Watchdog.org survey found that only a minuscule percentage of instructors last year failed to earn “continu-ing contracts” — Virginia’s version of tenure — after a three-year probationary pe-riod.

Earlier data from the Na-tional Center for Education Statistics and the National Council for Teacher Quality showed just 1.32 percent of the Old Dominion’s teachers were let go due to poor per-formance in 2007-2008 — one of the lowest percentages in the 50 states.

Gov. Bob McDonnell pushed hard last session for legislation to toughen teacher assessments by linking them to student achievement. His plan was narrowly defeated

in the Senate, and the gover-nor is poised to try again in January when lawmakers re-convene in Richmond.

“We have had a number of forums and conferences to hear from legislators and stakeholders about their ideas for K-12 education. The governor is very focused on teacher professionalism and ensuring all students have the opportunity for a qual-ity education regardless of ZIP code,” said McDonnell spokesman Jeff Caldwell.

Steve Greenburg, president of the Fairfax County Federa-tion of Teachers, said politi-cians should be careful what they ask for.

“If you expect too much with not enough time, people don’t do their jobs as well.

O v e r w h e l m i n g principals (with more involved

teacher evaluations) will mean they aren’t done prop-erly,” Greenburg predicted.

On a brilliant, sun-splashed weekend thousands came out for the second annual Go Out-side Festival at River’s Edge last weekend, the GoFest for short. The event was staged by Roanoke City Parks and Recreation, which introduced it last year as the “Roanoke Outdoor Circus.” Besides a name change this time, Parks and Rec. officials were hoping for a 50 percent increase in the number of visitors compared to last year’s 5000 (estimated) for the free festival.

Attendees could talk to several dozen vendors and organizations that deal with outdoor amenities, equip-ment and programs. They could also watch dogs chase balls into a pool of water, try their hand (or feet) at balanc-ing on a static slack line, see trick bike demonstrations or take a borrowed bike out on the adjacent Roanoke River Greenway.

Several of Roanoke’s bike shops had their own tents, like the Six Eleven shop on Camp-bell Avenue. Six Eleven builds high-end bicycles starting at several thousand dollars for clients around the world. In fact, most do not reside here in Roanoke, said Michelle Dykstra, who owns the business with her husband Aaron.

Business is apparently good: Dykstra said there is

a yearlong waiting list for those ordering a Six Eleven street or mountain bike. “We take a person’s measurements and we build a bike specific to their body,” said Dykstra. How a person will use their bicycle also determines how it will be built. She said the busi-ness has grown steadily over the past four years.

“Our business is heavily reliant on the internet,” said

Dykstra, who trains for triath-lons. Dykstra liked the exposure that

GoFest provided: “So many people don’t know that we’re here [in Roanoke]. This gives us a chance to tell people . . . We’re building bikes in your back yard.” Dykstra said the greenway system has been

“huge” for her training and for Roanoke. “It makes cycling more visible,” said Dykstra, who moved to the valley from Chicago.

Kevin Jordan was showing off his own business, which uses GPS technology for peo-ple that like to traipse through the woods, looking for hidden caches. “Take a Hike GPS,” based in Farmville, rents GPS units to hikers and those in-volved with Geocaching. Af-ter completing their “outdoor treasure hunts,” users can ship back the units to Take a Hike.

There are websites online containing GPS coordinates for buried and hidden geo-

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Autumn’s Glory

The peak week for leaf / tree viewing has arrived in The Roanoke Valley while the surrounding higher elevations are just a few days ahead. This year’s peak is falling right in line with forecasts that typically have Southwest Virginia’s autumn splendor at the height of it’s glory during the second two weeks of October. Roanoke Star contributing photographer Terry Aldhizer took this sublime shot of earth, trees and sky at Evergreen Burial Park in Roanoke. The brilliant “sugar maple orange” sets up remarkably clear against the evergreens, deep blue sky and wispy white clouds. Even the little red Subaru wagon below does a nice job of rounding out the contrasting colors and textures.

For more of Terry’s wonderful work go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryaldhizer/

Photo by Terry Aldhizer

For a second straight year, de-veloper Ed Walker and his City-Works philanthropical organization brought together several dozen mov-ers and shakers – people with big ideas on how to make smaller cities thrive – for the CityWorks(X)Po.

Headquartered in downtown Roanoke at the Market Building’s Charter Hall, the (X)Po also featured hardhat tours of the Center in the Square r e n o v a t i o n project across the street, a big party after-hours on Kirk Avenue featur-ing a blind unicyclist stunt, and a closing beer bash at the Go Outside Festival, which took place at River’s Edge.

Eddie Amos, from the Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council, estimated that about 40 percent of the attendees for this year’s three-day program came from outside the region – interested perhaps in what the speakers could tell them about revitalizing their own smaller city or town.

Keynote speaker Kennedy Smith, also a participant last year, is an ex-pert on downtown economics and the impact of sprawl. Toni Black-man, a major presence in the hip-

[CityWorks]

Senator Rick Santorum Takes Aim at President’s Policies

Former Pennsylvania U.S. Sena-tor Rick Santorum came to Roa-noke and stopped by the Roanoke Republican Headquarters on Og-den Road Monday. He told a group of supporters that regulations are stifling the economy. “Regulations are not suggestions,” he said but rather, “the law.” The interpretation of regulations, especially environ-mental regulations, has been re-written at will, according to Santorum.

It was the same on wel-fare policy. He said “Welfare is now the largest single item in the federal budget … [Obama] has gone out and changed the law.”

He accused Obama of changing the work requirement for welfare, but that has been disputed.

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GoFest was also interactive for those that wanted to do, not just watch.

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“Work requirements are not simply being ‘dropped.’ States may now change the requirements — revising, adding or eliminat-ing them as part of a federally approved state-specific plan to increase job placement.”

Santorum called it, “an arrogance of power” to write a memo giving control to the states. “It changes the law.” He charged that Obama used the same tactic with immigration.

Santorum also claimed that Obama had no plan for the econ-omy. “[Obama] doesn’t want to do anything different in the next four years than he did in the last four years,” said Santorum. There has been no growth and Obama will dramatically raise taxes starting next year, he said.

If Obamacare goes into effect, he said it will be devastating and “in four years we will be Greece … This country will be bankrupt.” Santorum also accused the president of being anti-energy; “energy is everything to this country.”

Santorum said that ever since winning freedom from the King of England that, “Our rights come to us from God.” The government’s role is to protect those rights, he said and “not to redistribute them.” He compared U.S. rights with France, whose revolution resulted in the killing of clergy and “no more religion in the public square.”

“What good is freedom of the press, freedom of speech, free-dom of assembly if you can’t say what you believe?” said Santo-

rum. The president wants to transform America into some new ideal and he is “attacking religion at every turn.”

Santorum said that the country’s enemies and allies respect and trust America less because Obama has let tyrants gain con-trol of other countries. As an example he pointed to Russia; they are “asserting themselves in ways that threaten our allies in East-ern Europe and are creating relationships with forces in Iran and Syria. America is less safe – the world is less stable – and one of the impacts of that is a world economy that is struggling as a result.

“This president has not focused his time and energy on na-tional security – reports say that he doesn’t take his national se-curity brief almost half the time – this is unconscionable … this president has been asleep at the switch,” said Santorum.

He also accused Obama of recklessly leaking information and he minimized Obama’s role in killing Osama bin Laden, saying it was a continuation of the Bush administration’s efforts.

On a question about Romney’s move to the middle, Santorum said, “When the left criticizes him for moving to the middle and the right doesn’t, that tells you something.”

Santorum challenged supporters to “win this state … just a handful of states is going to decide this election.”

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hop world, was the 2012 host and artist-in-residence. The over-all theme of this year’s program was The (X)ponential Impact of Radical Trust.

Many of the speakers had a tech-heavy angle and spoke of the need for interconnectivity. There were sessions on “Tactical Ur-banism,” the impact that the Virginia Tech Carilion Research In-stitute has had on Roanoke, one session entitled “The Importance of Impossible Dreams,” and others that also asked attendees to look beyond “the landscape of everyday.”

Neil Takemoto, co-founder of something called a “crowd-sourced placemaking” firm, talked about the need to build con-sensus and community support for major downtown renovation projects. Takemoto’s CPSM Group is involved with four such ef-forts now across the country.

He brought up an image of the proposed “New Market Square” that would close off the parking lots across the street from the City Market Building to vehicular traffic, creating outdoor public gath-ering places. AECOM has put together a drawing for Downtown Roanoke Inc., which is pushing for the outdoor pedestrian plaza as a final piece in transforming Roanoke.

Some people in other localities have worried that turning de-velopable real estate into pedestrian plazas takes good property off the market, but Takemoto pointed out that those public spaces often increase the value of the properties surrounding them.

People from the suburbs are often looking for “something downtown to come to,” said Takemoto. He noted that there was “a lot of support” for such a plaza in Roanoke, although some ad-jacent business owners worry about the loss of vehicular traffic driving by their store or restaurant.

Takemoto noted the importance of seeking ideas from the public, whether online or via good old-fashioned paper ballots, pointing to CityWorks, which has asked for proposals on what to do with a former coffee shop space it owns in Grandin Village. “People …are sharing ideas,” said Takemoto. Making sure local residents know what the vision is for a place like downtown Roa-noke can lead to “a whole new level of engagement . . . suddenly everyone is working together.”

Takemoto took part in the first CityWorks (X)Po last year, when he solicited opinions for “Vision Roanoke.” Over 300 people sent him messages on what they would like to see here, with a pedes-trian-only plaza emerging as “one of the most popular ideas.”

Eddie Amos, billed as a technologist, talked about how the Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council has been working to promote “all of the great activities [regionally].” Still, according to Amos, the Roanoke and New River Valleys could be doing a better job of letting people know what a great place this is to live, work and play. “Our region is really poised for growth,” said Amos.

One key to future growth will be the “need for involvement from people across the board,” added Amos, noting competition from cities like Chattanooga, TN, which has made easy access to

broadband a key to attracting businesses. Roanoke also lacks an “innovation center,” like the Corporate Research Center in Blacks-burg, which has spun off of the adjacent Virginia Tech campus to become a haven for high-tech startups. “We have the pieces here [to create something similar],” insisted Amos.

While the next two speakers after Amos – both professors at Virginia Tech – talked about using social media to connect communities,“forming a new mindset,” Tom Sanchez called it, and how digital games can attract the younger crowd, the ques-tion might be this: How do you turn new-age thinking, social me-dia and high-tech games into jobs, a population infusion from young professionals and consensus on a vision for Roanoke?

Start with building “a sense of place,” said Peter Skorza, who heads up the Center for Interspatial Technologies at Virginia Tech. Skorza – who also let attendees know they can actually send a Tweet to the digicam at the base of the Mill Mountain Star, in-structing it to take a picture and send it back – also said it was important for the local political and civic leaders to “become digi-tally literate,” if Roanoke is to grow.

About that blind unicycle ride? That was by artist Mark Cline, who makes those large foam sculptures, like the two oversized hands that graced Kirk Avenue during the (X)Po’s first night. “Forever this will change the way I think about Kirk Avenue,” joked Skorza about Cline’s short but successful jaunt.

The question that remained after the second CityWorks (X)Po remains – how does all of this translate into a new vision and eco-nomic growth for the valley?


AECOM’s rendering of the proposed pedestrian plaza for downtown Roanoke was on display.

By Gene [email protected]

> (X)Po From page 1

Surrogates for Obama Praise Accomplishments

The airplane pulled in at Landmark Aviation Monday morning, shortly after Senator Rick Santorum spoke to sup-porters at the Roanoke County Republican Headquarters. On board were Michele Flournoy – former Under Secretary of Defense, Richard Danzig- former Secretary of Navy, Rob-ert Gibbs – former White House Press Secretary and senior advisor to Obama for America, former U.S. Ambassador to In-dia Tim Roemer former Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) and Co-lin Kahl – former Deputy Assis-tant Secretary of Defense.

Roanoke was the first stop on their way to Monday night’s presidential debate on foreign policy in Boca Raton, Florida.

Gibbs said that President Obama has, “kept his promises and has strengthened America’s national security while Mitt Romney, throughout his cam-paign, has shown nothing but dangerous bluster and endless foreign policy blunders.”

Flournoy praised the presi-dent’s record as Commander-in-Chief. “This president has been very clear in his opposition to sequestration and the devastating cuts it would impose on our military,” she said.

She took the opportunity to point to the Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s vote in favor of sequestration. The mil-itary budget was prepared and approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and combat commanders. “It has their full support,” she said.

Mitt Romney has no strategy and has picked “an arbitrary four percent of GDP for defense … and there is no way to pay for the $2 trillion of additional spending to our deficit” said Flournoy.

Wexler said President Obama has been clear that Iran will not obtain a nuclear weapon on his watch even if it takes “military power.” Wexler pointed to the “toughest ever crip-pling sanctions on Iran” that have devalued Iran’s currency by 80 percent and cut oil revenues in half.

Wexler said that 1500 American military officials are cur-rently participating with Israeli counterparts in the largest ever joint military operation. “It sends a remarkably strong message to those that would do Israel harm – the unbreak-

able bond between the United States and Israel.” Obama blocked the unilateral effort for statehood for Palestine at the United Nations. Wexler accused Mitt Romney of play-ing politics with Israel and failed to say what he would do differently.

Kahl said Obama kept his word and ended the war in Iraq turning his focus on Af-ghanistan. “Not only is Osama bin Laden dead but more senior leaders of Al Qaeda have been taken off the battle field than any other time since 9/11.” All troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Kahl said Romney now supports a timeline that has “left all sorts of wiggle room to stay there indefinitely … Romney just doesn’t pass the Command-er-in-Chief test.”

On Libya, Romney has been “all over the place” said Kahl. “He was against the intervention and when the intervention went well he was for it.” Romney also politicized the attack on Libya’s

U.S. Consulate when the president clearly called it an “act of terror,” said Kahl.

Danzig said that Obama cares “passionately about veter-ans” while Romney,, on the other hand has been “remark-ably quiet” on the treatment of veterans. Danzig claimed that Romney attempted to raise the rates on veterans in old age homes and slashed veterans’ benefits as Governor of Mas-sachusetts.

Gibbs said, as Afghanistan winds down, the president will use those funds to do “some nation building at home.” Gibbs said that this is especially true for Virginia. “It is an area that understands the need for a strong American defense along with a need for a plan that invests in education and infra-structure.”

When asked about former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum’s earlier remark that, “as bad as the president’s record is on the economy it is much worse on national security.” Gibbs re-sponded with a litany of accomplishments. “I wonder where Rick Santorum’s been for four years,” said Gibbs.

Photos by Valerie Garner

Robert Gibbs, former White House Press Secretary and senior advisor to Obama for America.

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caches. “It’s become really popular,” said Jordan, who appreciated the exposure GoFest afforded him. “I think it’s an excellent idea.” Summer camps and youth groups have taken to GPS in a big way, said Jordan; local parks and recreation departments offer geocaching events. The Roanoke Star has sponsored the Roa-noke County Parks and Rec event the last three years.

Fleet Feet’s Blaine Lewis also called it a great event. “It showcases all of the out-door opportunities that we have [in Roanoke]. Its good to be a part of this” said Lewis, who co-owns the running store with his wife Robin. He added that the growing greenway system has had a “huge impact” on their Franklin Road retail store. “It’s been a great thing for our business and Roanoke in general.”

Roanoke City utdoor events specialist Joe Hanning was pleased with the turn-out for GoFest, which also featured live music and beer for adults. “We’ve got a lot bigger crowd this year…and more vendors. A lot of happy faces both on the vendor side and the participant side.”

Hanning noted that many people had never seen anything like slacklining be-fore (think of a wider tightrope, ideal for honing one’s balance): “that’s a perfect example of something we’re exposing people to – an outdoor activity they’re re-ally latching on to. Its pretty neat.”


The “Ultimate Air Dogs” waterjump was a big hit at GoFest.


GoFest was full of fun and challenging things to try that would be difficult to find anywhere else.By Gene Marrano

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The union leader said teachers are “watched very carefully” in their first three years.

Without giving statistics, he said “a lot of teachers” are “non-reappointed.”

But a Watchdog.org sampling of local districts shows other-wise.

At Portsmouth City Schools, all 68 instructors eligible for continuing contracts received them last year.

In Mecklenburg County, 308 of 325 teachers were granted contracts. Only one instructor seeking a continuing contract did not earn one — and that was due to “licensure deficiencies.” The other 15 retired, resigned or were laid off, officials said.

In Fairfax, the state’s largest school system, 58 teachers re-ceived “conditional appointments,” but two of those were “dis-missed for cause,” said spokesman J.J. Torre. He did not report how many total teachers were eligible for continuing contracts.

Rural Pulaski County awarded three teachers continuing con-tracts while denying three others. Those denials, however, were not based on classroom performance, but failure to complete required course requirements, district officials said.

Norfolk City School District — home to three campuses on the state’s “warning” or “conditional” list due to academic de-ficiencies — said it would charge $32 an hour to research the contract data, and that the process would take five working days.

Educators say the overwhelming percentage of teachers re-ceiving continuing contracts is a reflection of good human-re-sources work when hiring new instructors.

But skeptics argue that the nearly automatic bestowal of con-tracts after three years on the job ties the hands of administra-tors by effectively granting lifetime employment to teachers.

States with high tenure rates similar to Virginia’s have begun to tighten their evaluations. Florida, for example, abolished K-12 tenure last year. Except for veteran teachers who were grandfathered in, all Sunshine State instructors now work on year-to-year contracts with no guarantee of reappointment.

Virginia’s strong tradition of local control of schools has made such changes difficult to enact legislatively. It also had led to varying standards, with little overall accountability or transpar-ency. The state Department of Education, for example, does not track what percentage of teachers earn continuing contracts.

Greenburg said Fairfax ties 40 percent of its teacher evalu-ation program to the “assessment of students.” Yet that assess-ment does not have to involve actual student testing. Other dis-tricts are free to use a lower percentage — and many do.

“There’s a huge and long tradition of devolving decision-mak-ing to the local level. That leads to a lack of transparency,” said Chris Braunlich, a member of the state Board of Education.

Traditionally, Braunlich said teacher evaluations were not based on whether students were successful.

“It was strictly a licensure issue,” he said.But Braunlich said times have changed, and he suggested that

Virginia needs to change with them.“We have the capacity to track student performance,” he

said, and education reformers say that tool should be used with teachers as well.

Meantime, critics of Virginia’s current contractual program see a troubling disconnect. They point to this year’s math scores, which fell as much as 40 points in some districts, while districts routinely award tenure status.

Though 100 underperforming schools around the Old Do-

minion have been placed on a state “warning” list and are in jeopardy of losing their accreditation, teachers across the state are granted continuing contracts at a better than 95 percent rate.

The National Council on Teacher Quality takes a dim view of such liberal licensing practices in the face of obvious academic deficiencies. NCTQ’s latest report gave Virginia an F in “identi-fying effective teachers.”

With districts divulging few, if any, academic reasons for the rare cases in which they do not grant a continuing contract, re-formers are pushing for measurable instructional benchmarks.

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The President of the United States must be a skilled ‘juggler’ – not of balls but of serious is-sues of both national and international signifi-cance. It is a 24/7 commitment to 314 million people to take the best of our rich past and create an even more fulfilling and enduring future for all. Here are some of the issues that, starting on January 20, 2013 our President must ‘juggle’:

The national debt. At more than $16 trillion must be reduced starting immediately. For starters, a congres-sionally approved annual budget has to be developed that spends less than the government receives from all sources, mainly taxes.

Can we become energy independent? En-ergy allocations must be prioritized. If coal is to be eliminated, we must have a plan for the vast number of displaced workers, abandoned mining sites and unused equipment. Will there be enough renewable sources? Will drilling permits on federal land and coastal waters be increased? Should EPA regulations be intensi-fied or diminished in scope? Will ‘Cap & Trade’ be instituted on a national and world scale?

Since WWII, the USA has been the most powerful nation on Earth. Will we, the third most populous country in the world retain that status? Should we disarm and relinquish our position as arbiter between nations? Can we find financial resources to maintain our power-ful military?

Jobs and training are linked. We have at least 47 separate federal training programs. None of them have oversight to determine the effective-ness of these courses. Duplication in programs cost taxpayers more than $100 billion annu-ally. As needs change, employers seek men and women with skills to seize job opportunities. Positions often go unfilled due to the lack of candidates with matching skills.

People have become more dependent on entitlements; unemployment benefits, food stamps, housing subsidies, childcare assistance, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, disability,

complimentary cell phones and a host of other freebies. Most of these benefits are earned but some are the result of joblessness, chronic ill-ness or careless conduct. Fraud and waste,

where they exist, must be uncovered and eliminated.

International trade has become a hot topic. A weak dollar promotes ex-ports, while a strong dollar encourag-es imports. The US had a trade imbal-ance (deficit) of nearly $560 billion in 2011. The EU with almost 500 million residents and 27 member countries is

the world’s biggest market but is in disarray. The value of national cur-rencies is an important issue – as are

tariffs, trade agreements and intellectual prop-erty. China has been singled out as a manipula-tor of their currency to gain trade advantages.

President Ahmadinejad of Iran is covertly moving closer to developing nuclear weapons disguised as energy development and is threat-ening to cut off sea-lanes in the Persian Gulf. Korea is a constant threat to peace in Asia. Rus-sia and China have vetoed efforts to help rein in rogue nations and their rulers.

A critical driver of healthcare costs is obe-sity. Both obesity (body mass index of 30+) and morbid obesity (BMI of 40+) continue to rise (BMI = weight X 703/height” 2). Obesity and associated problems cost from $150 billion to more than $300 billion annually. What will a new or revised healthcare plan look like?

More than one million legal immigrants be-came US citizens in 2011, a number greater than immigration to all other countries in the world combined. Estimates of illegal aliens (aka undocumented immigrants) are between 11 and 30 million strong. While 641,633 were apprehended in 2011, some find their way into high-security retreats called prisons. Incarcera-tion costs more than a $1 billion per year.

These and other pressing problems are for-midable. The question that remains is this: Do we need a better ‘juggler’?

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Sometimes the size and scope of the federal budget can be so overwhelming it’s hard to comprehend. And with so much pre-election chatter, it can get downright dizzy-ing. So as a public service, the follow-ing is a simplified recap of spending, as reported on the federal website, to help you wrap your head around it. (It’s a rough average of recent and projected years.) You’re welcome.

Let’s say the government has about 100 dollars to spend each year…

We spend about 24 bucks taking care of old folks. That’s the amount that goes in some shape or form to Medicare.

About 24 dollars goes to Social Security. The Defense Department gets about 23

bucks. Welfare is about 11 dollars. The fifth largest line item is debt service. We

make a 7-dollar interest payment. It costs about 3 dollars to transport federal

stuff all around each year.

Education also gets about 3 bucks. Paying federal salaries is about 1 buck; mak-

ing sure courts and prisons are safe is another 1 dollar.

That leaves 3 bucks. Which is what we spend on R&D, Agriculture and Forestry, Fuel and Energy, Mining and Manufacturing, Communica-tions, Economic Affairs, Waste and Pollution, EPA, Housing and Urban Development, Recreation and Cul-tural Services, Religious and Com-munity Services, and Broadcasting and Publications.

So there goes the 100 dollars. In the meantime, the government has

collected only about 65 dollars in taxes. So that results in an annual deficit of about 35 bucks. And that gets added to the national debt.

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I just watched The History Channel, “Women in War”, focusing on the Civil War. For an hour I watched the exploits of black women, of female spies, of women who went into battle disguised as men. The word `cour-age’ buckles under the responsibil-ity of capturing some sense of these women’s spirits. I admired them all, but one stood out: the `man’ discovered dead at the stone wall which was the focus of Pickett’s Charge. Her name? To this day no one knows.

My brother Denny, a Civil War buff, responds:

“It was a practice then to rip open the shirts and check the chests of dead soldiers because Confed-erates and Yankees alike would customarily place Bibles over their hearts; or hang wallets – or their name and hometown on a piece of paper – around their neck. Be-cause of this practice, we know something of the number of anonymous women who went to war disguised as men.

This woman was found at the foot of the stone wall at Pickett’s charge. This means that she was a Southern woman who had volun-teered under a man’s name. She had to have volunteered far away from the regiment mus-tered from her hometown, so she would not be recognized. She died in Pennsylvania and her body was in the hands of the enemy. (Lee pulled the Army of Northern Virginia out of Gettysburg the day after Pickett’s charge.) Even in death, her secrecy is honored.

To understand the courage of a woman ( of anyone!) to charge one of the most tactically impregnable defenses of the Civil War re-quires of us today more than we can provide the task. As a woman, she had no testoster-one, which is known to arouse men to fool-hardy levels of bravery. Without getting too romantic about it, this woman stepped for-

ward purely from conviction. That is guts!”Clearly, Denny admires her as I did.Civil War combatants knew a smattering

of medicine. When shot, they would pull up their shirt to learn their fate. A hole centered

in the abdomen or peripheral in the chest meant slow death. Lateral in the abdomen, you might live. Cen-tered in the chest, you didn’t live long enough to gather diagnostic impressions. She must have known she had ended her days.

Did you know that blood has a smell? The warmer it gets, the more it smells. I wonder if this woman died quickly or slowly? Did she

watch her own blood-pool spread – a heavy symbol of mortality – and realize that death was nigh?

Was the odor of her slowly extinguishing life full in her nostrils? Did she die in pain? Did she long for home, weakly calling the names of those she had left?

Why did she quit her home and her kind; what summoned her to this audacity? Spurned love? The heroic fulfillment of an undeniable secessionist passion? To be in the ranks with her husband, insistent on shar-ing his fate, whatever that fate might be? Or maybe just a person determined not to live life a woman in those days, subdued and sub-ordinate, refusing to live her whole life with the sound turned off.

Then, as now, life was full of heroes, some lives writ bold – others, lower-case, out of sight and tucked away. It’s easier for us to re-late to individuals than a mass, and I cannot free myself of that sensitivity. This woman became an individual for me. Heroine or runaway, I’m sorry she came to the end she did; and I regret she died alone.

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“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”

– Matthew 5:6I am a pastor, which means I have a close

to obscene passion for food. I love going out to eat and trying new foods. When I glance down the menu, an internal struggle ensues. I know I should get something healthy, like sal-ad or seafood. However, that bleu-cheese and bacon burger looks unbelievable and it usually is… because that is invariably what I get!

If only we were so ravenous for God… In a recent book I was reading, the author says, “Hunger is a basic human condition, and hungering for God is our most basic hunger. Our appetites define us.” Indeed, the choices we make about what we feed our souls show us where our allegiance lies. If the author is right (and I am convinced he is) that God is our most basic hunger, then we need to be making different choices about what we pick off life’s menu to put inside us. Ideas, images, and feelings are all spiritual foods, some more fat-tening than others. Like me in the restaurant, deep down we look at what’s available and we have inclinations about what’s good for us or not. It is time we start paying attention for what our souls growl to have: God Himself.

If you have ever fasted for any length of time, you go through a period of serious ache at mealtime. However, an hour or two later, your body stops aching. In a sense, it forgets it needs food. As a spiritual practice, our bodies become an alarm clock, waking our souls up to the fact that our truest food is not burgers but Christ. However, if we ignore the wake-up call, we find ourselves in a dangerous situation indeed. Just as the ache passes, our souls begin

to forget what it truly needs. It no longer rumbles for nourishment but falls silent and lifeless. We become weak and irritable without the fuel our souls need.

The good news is that this also works in reverse. In fact, our hunger for God is infinite. As the author states, “the measure of God’s presence in our life is gauged to the size of our appetite for God. Those who seek God with passionate, reckless abandon will find that their appetite for God increases as God’s presence increases.” In other words, the more you hunger after God, the more of God you will meet.

Our culture is filled with people who are “spiritually searching” but who are not find-ing anything. There is tremendous longing for that which is substantial and real and yet people continue to indulge on insubstantial ideas and images that do not meet their most fundamental need. It is because they have yet to recognize their deepest longing that can only be met in Christ. As Jesus said in the Beatitudes (as stated in “The Message”):

“You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink in the best meal you’ll ever eat.”

If you do not feel the hunger for God, pray for it! Ask God to make your soul grumble until it finds its fulfillment on the substance of Christ!

(If you are interested in the book mentioned, check out “The Culturally Savvy Christian” by Dick Staub.)

David Taylor is a superhero in real life, but maintains his alter-ego as pastor of the

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One fall day as I was eating lunch at the kitchen table and looking out the sliding glass doors, two birds came zooming in like missiles towards me. Amazingly, they did not hit the glass as hard as I had expected them to do, and they turned right around and flew off as quickly as they had arrived.

The two birds were the first Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers of the season, visiting birds from the North that would remain in our area until next spring. They are usually noticed on tree trunks and large branches where they make shallow “wells” to ob-tain sap.

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Hermit Thrushes can often be found eating the orange ber-ries of European Mountain Ash trees that are widely planted in suburbs and towns. They also eat red holly berries.

If you have overgrown areas or a brush pile on your property, you might also be lucky enough to spot a Winter Wren poking through the debris for insects.

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Naturalist Marlene A. Condon is the author/photographer of The Nature-friendly Garden: Creating a Backyard Haven for Plants, Wildlife, and People (Stackpole Books; www.marlenecon-don.com). If you have a question about plants or animals, or gardening in a nature-friendly manner, send it to [email protected] and please watch for an answer in this paper.

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Virginia Tech Faculty, students, and alumni who are “inventing the future” with ideas worth spreading will represent the university at the first TEDxVirginiaTechevent on Nov. 10.

Twenty-one speakers, each a thought-leader in his own right, will share ideas, insights and inspiration centered around the theme “Knowing.” More than 200 people were nominated to present.

“Virginia Tech’s hands-on, minds-on approach to education, spirit of invention, and leadership in research make our university a perfect match to host this prestigious program,” said Melissa Rich-ards, TEDxVirginiaTech Steering Committee co-chair and director of marketing and publications for University Relations.

Tickets are limited and requests for tickets are closed. However, there are many opportunities on the Virginia Tech campus, in the local community, and around the country with alumni chapters to attend a live streaming event. All the events will combine TEDTalks videos with live speakers to spark deep discussion and connection in small groups. If your organization is interested in hosting a live streaming event, visit the TEDxVirginiaTechwebsite to submit an application.

Former Vice President of Student Affairs Edward F.D. Spencer, who retired earlier this year, will emcee the event.

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Thinking Soda? Think Again!

Liquid calories are the ones most of us never consider but the ones that may contribute to major health problems. Ac-cording to their own calorie counts a Bojangles sweet tea is 150 calories for a 32 ounce large size with ice while the same size Mountain dew is 340 calories. McDonald’s sweet tea is 280 calories for a 32 ounce large and the same size Coca-Cola is 310 calories. So get something smaller, right? A chocolate McCafe shake 16 ounces might do the trick. How about 720 calories? Maybe coffee is a better choice. Perhaps not since a 16 ounce Starbucks Café latte is 190 calories and a skinny ver-sion is only 10 calories less at 180. Okay then a smoothie. That has to be healthy, right? A little 12 ounce strawberry-banana smoothie at McDonald’s is 210 calories.

One teaspoon of sugar is 15 calories making that Bojangles sweet tea like eating 10 teaspoons of sugar and that Coca-Cola is more than 20 teaspoons of sugar! Studies have shown that most of us can’t taste more than a 3 teaspoon level of sweet-ness anyway so more than 45 calories of sugar is just overkill.

At this point you are thinking about switching to diet soda drinks. The phosphates in colas and other soft drinks that give them their tang and “bite” leach calcium from your bones. This puts you at risk for osteoporosis. Researchers at Walter Reed Medical Center found that diet sodas are as much at fault as those sweetened with sugar. The phosphorus can also damage your tooth enamel by changing the pH of your saliva causing your teeth to erode. If that wasn’t enough the increase in phosphorus in your body can also cause premature aging according to researchers at Harvard University. They found that this imbalance caused muscle and skin to shrivel.

Many people find they can improve their overall health and weight simply by switching to water or unsweetened iced tea. If you are drinking 3 sodas a day you can lose nearly one pound per week just by making that one simple change. Your bones and teeth will thank you. No more bloating or burping. Your skin will look better and feel better with the additional hydration. You may find you are less hungry as time goes by. Without the carbonation continually expanding your stom-ach you may need less food to feel full.

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S & W Market to Hold GrandOpening Downtown

S & W Market at 16 West Marketplace, in downtown Roanoke, will hold its grand opening on Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The European-style downtown grocery store will focus on offering fresh, local, organic products and gourmet foods, including a fresh soup and organic-focused salad bar. In addition, craft brews and specialty wines will be available.

Boar’s Head deli meats and cheeses, as well as cheeses from around the world, will be available at the deli, along with made to order gourmet wraps and sand-wiches.

Co-owners of Café 16, Mark Linson and Amelia Glaser, who will also own and manage S & W Market, say the ro-bust deli service will allow them to cater business functions and private parties as well.

“We both share the love of entertain-ing and designing catered events for each client’s specific desires,” said Lin-son. “Amelia will head up the cheese & deli shop, helping to guide our guests in the right direction and personalize cater-ing orders. In addition to produce and kitchen management, I will ensure our offerings are creative, in-spired, and as fresh as possible.”

Produce at S & W Market will be provided by Roanoke Fruit & Produce Company, Good Food Good People (local produce), and Cavalier Produce (Richmond, Va. – local produce supplier). Ad-ditionally, customers will be able to choose from unique offerings from Stonewall Kitchen (including wild Maine blueberry Jam, blue

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Cave Spring running back James Jackson dove into the end zone from one-yard out with 19.7 seconds left in the game, as Cave Spring defeated Blacksburg 21-14 on homecoming last Friday night at Dwight Bogle Stadium. The Knights dodged several bullets down the stretch to stay in the River Ridge District mix with two games remaining.

Cave Spring started their game-winning drive with under 3 1/2 minutes left from their own 20-yard line and the score knotted at 14. Knight quarterback Connor Baker promptly moved Cave Spring to the Blacksburg 35 in un-der a minute, and when faced with fourth-and-four, the key play of the game unfolded.

Knight’s Head Coach Tim Fulton called a time out to ponder his team’s options of punt-ing or going for the first down, with the risk of better field position for Blacksburg and their ever-dangerous field goal kicker, Carson Wise, clearly being considered.

Cave Spring lined up to run a play, but Blacksburg handed out the perfect homecom-ing gift when they jumped offsides after a series of Baker checks at the line.

Given new life with the first down, Cave Spring moved inside the Bruin five, where they milked the clock until Jackson’s third stab at the goal line hit paydirt.

The Knights game-winning drive came after several untimely penalties had ambushed Cave Spring in the second half and a potential scor-ing strike to wide-open Bruin receiver Aiden Ball had slipped through the senior’s hands, forcing a fourth-down Blacksburg punt.

Cave Spring had taken a 14-7 lead to the locker room at halftime after Baker hit wide receiver Jack Woody for a 44-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter and a 13-yard strike to senior Jordan Bryant in the final minute of the second quarter.

Blacksburg had tallied on a 2-yard Daniel Hanks run early in the second frame.

Things turned physical in the scoreless third quarter before Blacksburg would tie the game at 14 on quarterback Kaleb Bohrnstedt’s 8-yard keeper in the fourth. That set the stage for the final heroics that sent the boisterous home-coming crowd onto the field to celebrate Cave Spring’s second River Ridge win in as many weeks.

Baker fueled the Cave Spring attack with 213 passing yards on 15-of-23 efficiency. Woody brought in seven tosses for 118 yards and Jack-son picked up 65-yards on the ground on 19 hard-fought carries.

Knights Grab Homecoming Win With Late Score On Blacksburg

Cave Spring senior wide receiver Jack Woody brings in a pass as three Bruin defenders con-vene during the Knights comeback win Friday night.

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Roanoke Catholic used a dominating ground game, and the Celtic defense pitched a shutout as Cath-olic rolled in the 41-0 win over Fuqua last Friday night at Vineyard Park.

The Celtics (2-5) scored six touchdowns via the running game and converted on five PATs to win their second game in as many weeks. Chris Zoller, who rushed for 187 yards in the game, scored the first three Catholic touchdowns from 4, 21 and 25 yards out that paved the way to a 28-0 halftime lead.

Celtic Defense Rules As Roanoke Catholic Grounds Falcons 41-0


Major League baseball gets its due this week as the World Series got underway Wednesday night between Detroit and San Francisco.

It’s been a baseball playoff ringed with collapses. First, Atlan-ta thinking a wild-card spot would be their path to the Fall Classic. Big miscalculation in a one-game format.

Next, the Reds blew a 2-game lead in a best-of-five series to the Giants, the Nationals found out the hard way that ninth inning walks are the recipes for disaster, and the New York Yankees displayed that you have to do more than just show up to win.

St. Louis finished things off by taking a 3-1 lead over the Giants, only to lose the final three.

Speaking of collapses, how about those Hokies. A huge letdown at 4-4, with the die-hard fans call-ing for everyone’s scalp. On the Monday night Tech radio show fans blamed the refs and, as usual, wanted half the coaches fired. To his credit, head coach Frank Beamer wasn’t willing to talk any of that nonsense; not even a passing response, despite being pressed on both matters.

High school football and volleyball hit the home stretch with several teams in both sports destined for the playoffs. Cave Spring and Hidden Valley, only 2 miles apart, may have the two best Group AA volleyball teams in the state. They play for the second time Thursday night (Oct. 25th). There’s a possibil-ity the two could end up meeting six times before it’s over with in mid-November.

Last week’s high school football predictions were very strong, going 7-1 in a tough district-heavy slate. Week-ten has every team on the field, with ten games in the Wild Bill ‘Big-

11’. Without further ado, here’s who’s hot and who’s not head-ing into the final two weeks of the regular season.

Patrick Henry at Franklin County: PH got back on track with their win at Halifax, while Franklin County was eliminat-

ed in the Western Valley title race by GW Danville. The Eagles can only play for pride and Rocky Mount is always a tough venue. But, tough enough? Patrick Henry- 28 Franklin County- 20.

Halifax County at William Fleming: Early on, this looked like a possible Colonel win. Last year’s 9-7 squeaker has been Flemings only win in the last three seasons.. Halifax remains in the district race if they win Friday. Halifax County- 21 William Flem-ing- 13.

Lord Botetourt at Alleghany: Alleghany put up 40 points last Friday and still fell short. Botetourt ground out another win to go 5-3. The Cavs will try

to keep the score down. Get a plenty while it’s a gettin’; Northside looms next week for Botetourt. Lord Botetourt- 20 Alleghany- 19.

Rockbridge County at Northside:The Wildcats stayed in the Blue Ridge race with the 42-40 shootout win over Alleghany. The Cats will find the end zone more elusive this Friday night at Jim Hickam Field. Northside- 31 Rockbridge County- 21.

William Byrd at Staunton River: Byrd was oh-so-close in their overtime loss to Northside. Staunton River is still looking for their first Blue Ridge win. Terriers bark loud down Route 24.

William Byrd- 23 Staunton River- 9.Cave Spring at Christiansburg: The Knights are 2-1 in

the River Ridge, with Christiansburg winless in three district games. May be a push trying to lay the fourth straight loss on

the Blue Demons, especially at hostile Christiansburg. Chris-tiansburg- 27 Cave Spring- 24.

Salem at Hidden Valley: No better time for an upset special. Salem is undefeated at 8-0, but a bunch of games have been close. The Titans are 3-0 in the River Ridge. Hidden Valley has the defense to stop the Spartans. The Titans have an additional incentive in this matchup. Hidden Valley- 27 Salem- 21.

Glenvar at Auburn: Glenvar scored 48 points last Friday in their win over Radford. Auburn is winless at 0-8. Glenvar probably won’t get 48 again, but they may get close in Riner. Glenvar- 43 Auburn- 15.

Roanoke Catholic at Blessed Sacrament: The Celtics are on a two-game win streak after opening with five losses. The way to keep that run going may not be a trip to Richmond, where BS-Huguenot is always tough. Blessed Sacrament- 35 Roanoke Catholic-13.

Covenant at North Cross: The 4-4 Raiders come off a big road win two weeks ago over Atlantic Shores. North Cross al-ways gets its traction at the end of the season. Covenant con-tinues to assist the Raider comeback. North Cross- 34 Cov-enant- 20.

Now, to the mailbag, where ACC football maladies are ex-posed.

Dear Wild Bill: Any prediction on the ACC football cham-pion? (John/Moneta)

No clue, John. But, you could have a 5-loss ACC team go-ing to the Orange Bowl, for which I’ll give a prediction. $10 Orange Bowl tickets in abundance at game time.

Until next week, Miami is calling, so send your inquiries to: [email protected]

Bill Turner


Cave Spring Defeats Blacksburg 21-14

Cave Spring senior linebacker #9 Jordan Bryant sacks Blacksburg QB Kaleb Bohrnstedt as Jack Woody helps close the deal.


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Hidden Valley improved to 8-0 in River Ridge Dis-trit volleyball with a 3-game sweep of Pulaski County last Thursday night in the Titan gym. The Titans rolled in the 25-12; 25-4; 25-14 win over the Cougars as the dis-trict rematch with defend-ing state champions Cave Spring loomed for Thurs-day night (Oct. 25th) on the Knights court.

Hidden Valley won the first regular season match against the Knights in a 5-game, 15-point tiebreaker thriller.

Thursday night’s win on senior night on the Titan court saw Hidden Valley pound Pulaski with 30 ser-vice aces as Emma Sweet lead the way with eleven. On the Titan front line, Caro-line Boone drilled 9 kills, with Lauren Thomas adding 7 slams past the Cougar defense. Junior set-ter Hannah Podeschi offered 20 assists in the Hid-den Valley attack.

Five Titan seniors were honored prior to Thurs-day’s match, including Sweet, Boone, Thomas, Jen-ny Clark and Sarah Gray.

Hidden Valley Sweeps Pulaski County to Stay Perfect in River Ridge



Talented Hidden Val-ley senior Jenny Clark brings up a dig against Pulaski as Titan libero Skylar Kendrick offers backup.


Hidden Valley’s Madison Morris serves in the Titan’s 3-0 sweep against Pulaski.

Raider Fortune Sibanda maneuvers past a Holy Cross defender.


North Cross’ Chris Pollock sidesteps Holy Cross defender #8 Brady Updyke.


North Cross’ Jonty Chimbara fired home the game winner in the first half, and North Cross found the net twice more in the second, as the Raiders defeated Holy Cross 3-0 in a VIC tournament quarter-final soccer match Tuesday at Thomas Field. Ezra Zigarwi and Christian Entleitner added the insurance goals in the final half as North Cross improved to 19-0 on the season.

North Cross Advances In VIC Soccer With 3-0 Win Over Holy Cross


Cave Spring made quick work of Christiansburg Tuesday night in River Ridge volleyball, as the Knights swept the Blue Demons 25-14; 25-9; 25-8 in the Cave Spring gym.

Erin Holsinger led the Cave Spring attack on senior night with 19 kills, with fellow-senior Alyssa McKinley pounding out 8 kills and serving 5 aces. Junior Olivia Sass tossed up 33 as-sists for the Knights.

The win set up Cave Spring’s rematch with Hidden Valley Thursday night at Cave Spring to determine River Ridge superiority.

Knights Sweep Christiansburg in River Ridge Volleyball



Freshman Piper Roe powers a hit to record a kill against the Blue Demons.


Cave Spring junior Olivia Sass serves for the Knights in their 3-0 sweep over Christiansburg Tuesday night.

This past weekend the Scrap-pers introduced their 2012-2013 ladies 14U softball team. They participated in the 6th Annual “Scare Mare” tourna-ment held in Greensboro, NC. With a field of nineteen teams, the Roanoke based travel team finished on top with a record of 5 wins and 1 loss in the gold division. The VA “Class Action” Scrappers Softball association was established in the Roanoke area in 1995. They currently sponsor seven teams for girls 10 and under to age 18. Con-gratulations Ladies!

14U Scrappers Win 6th Annual “Scaremare” Softball Tournament

The North Cross Raiders rolled over Holy Cross on Tuesday night in the Blue Ridge Conference Semi Final game. The Raiders celebrated Senior Night with 9 graduating players, all playing in the tournament game win. After the lengthy roll call of seniors, the Raiders came out strong, defeat-ing the Gaels in 3 games 25-7, 25-17, 25-18. Gussie Revercomb and Crystal Edwards combined for 12 kills while Lynsey Barker added 21 assists.

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Established in 1990, the Southwest Vir-ginia Business Hall of Fame honors leaders of the free enterprise system who serve as business role models for our region’s youth. Laureates inducted into the Southwest Virginia Business Hall of Fame are based on their outstanding leadership in the free enterprise system and business success as well as contributions and involvement in the community.

Both of these esteemed laureates created av-enues for people to sustain a successfullifestyle in the New River and Roanoke Valleys by promot-ing education, workforce readiness and entrepre-neurship.

A committee of distinguished regional busi-ness leaders gather annually to select the laure-ates. This year’s committee chaired by Charles Robbins, included Lucy Ellett, Leon Harris, Ken Lanford and Wayne Strickland.

Heywood Fralin is a Roanoke-born leader who modestly says his accomplishments are because of his stellar family. Mr. Fralin graduated high school at the age of 17, earned his bachelor’s de-gree in three years at the University of Virginia and completed his education with a law degree from American University.

Mr. Fralin spent a few years perfecting his legal skills under the mentorship of Tracy Lloyd and with several area law firms – at the same time re-viewing housing and construction contracts for his brother’s firm, Fralin and Waldron.

Upon the sudden death of his brother Horace, Heywood was convinced by Mr. Waldron that he would be the best partner to carry on the work of Horace. Since 1995 Heywood has been in part-nership with a Waldron family member and has seen the company flourish to an operation that has become three distinct businesses including 40 skilled nursing facilities with 7,000 employees throughout Virginia and North Carolina

Mr. Fralin’s success has afforded him time and capital to support the arts, education and mul-tiple non-profits through the Horace C. Fralin

Charitable Trust. Recently Heywood and his wife Cynthia Fralin bequeathed their American artists collection to the University of Virginia, which re-sulted in the board of visitors naming the campus

museum the Fralin Art Museum. He also serves as vice chair of Roanoke’s Taubman Museum of Art.

Raymond Smoot is a “lifetime Hokie” who had an illustri-ous start in Lynch-burg. Mr. Smoot was a sports editor for the school pa-per, his high school’s representative to Boy’s State, and managed the boys’ basketball team. He is an accomplished

pianist who will sit in for an absentee organ player when necessary.

Smoot’s college success was no different. He en-joyed his academic career at Virginia Tech, earn-ing a bachelor’s degree in English. Elected class president his senior year, Raymond enjoyed ac-cess to then Tech President T. Marshal Hahn. The time spent with President Hahn was the avenue to success and vision. Raymond went on to pursue his master’s and Ph.D. in educational administra-tion.

In 1975 Raymond returned to the Tech campus as the VP of Administration, reporting to Stuart Cassell. After a year in the job Mr. Cassell passed away suddenly, thrusting young Smoot into the reins of business manager and a series of leader-ship roles in the Virginia Tech administration.

By 2003 Dr. Smoot became CEO of the Virginia Tech Foundation. This made him responsible for managing investments, acquiring and managing real estate and large gifts. Dr. Smoot has over-seen the growth in funded research, broadened the campus offerings from the Hotel Roanoke, WVTF radio, Via College of Osteopathic Medi-cine, VT Seafood Research Center and the VT/Carilion Research Institute. Dr. Smoot has been a driver for economic development throughout Western Virginia.

This year’s laureates will be recognized Nov. 12 at the Business Hall of Fame dinner at Hotel Roa-noke & Conference Center. Reception begins at 6 p.m., with dinner at 6:30pm. For ticket informa-tion please contact [email protected] or call Junior Achievement at 989-6392.

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Mr. Jim Flowers of VT Knowledge-Works was recognized at the 64th An-nual Virginia Conference on World Trade. Mr. Flowers was the recipient of the Virginia TradePort Innovator of the Year Award for 2012 presented at the conference in Roanoke.

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The Global Partnership is an ongoing cooperative association of regions building permanent social, academic, and commercial relationships with each other, for mutual long-term advantage. Members of the partnership gather annually during a week-long Global Partnership event hosted by VT KnowledgeWorks, Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, Virginia Tech, and citizens and businesses of the Roanoke-Blacksburg region.

Flowers Receives Innovator of Year Award

Mr. Jim Flowers (w/plaque) with 2010 and 2011 award winners – Mr. Jim Loux, Ms. Cornelia Stein-ert, Mr. David Denny.

Mimi Rainero Coles of Roanoke has been elected chairman of the National Precast Con-crete Association’s (NPCA) Board of Directors. Rainero Coles is a Sales and Business Develop-ment manager of Permatile Concrete Products Co. in Bristol. She began her one-year term on Saturday, October 6, at NPCA’s 47 Annual Con-vention in New Orleans.

Now in its 48th year, NPCA provides techni-cal, educational and safety resources to nearly 1,000 member companies in all 50 states and seven Canadian provinces.

For Rainero Coles, participation in NPCA is a family tradition. Her parents have played an important role in NPCA over the past 35 years, and they have encouraged their family to do the same.

Rainero Coles first attended an NPCA meet-ing in Seattle with her parents during a sum-mer vacation in college. In her first speech as chairman, she fondly recalled that memory and spoke about the many friendships she and her parents have developed as members, and how much it means to her to take on the leadership role.

“I thank you for the confidence you have placed in me to lead NPCA for the next year,” said Rainero Coles. “It is an honor and privi-lege to serve as Chairman of the Board and I look forward to working with our experienced Board of Directors and dedicated staff.”

Laying out her plan for the coming year, she

cited the long standing culture of NPCA to wel-come any and all in the industry as members and to share information freely with each other. She also touched on the challenges ahead, and the need for the industry and the association to become lean, diversified and to rise to meet in-creasingly complex challenges.

“Mimi’s work ethic and deep appreciation for the industry and this association are qualities NPCA is honored to have,” said NPCA Presi-dent Ty Gable. “We’re fortunate to have her as our chair and I look forward to everything we will accomplish together.”

Local Businesswoman Elected Chair of National Association

Mimi Rainero Coles accepts the chairman’s gavel from past chairman, Tom Engelman.

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Renowned artist P. Buckley Moss has created a new paint-ing titled “The Peaks Visi-tors”, which will be released as a limited edition giclée on paper during Apple Barn Gal-lery’s show November 2-4. Ms. Moss will be available from 12 to 4 P.M. on Sunday, Novem-ber 4, to meet collectors and sign her work. “The Peaks Visi-tors” features the famous Peaks of Otter and a few of its many visitors; also included in the image is Abbott Lake and Polly Woods Ordinary.

Apple Barn Gallery is one of about 300 galleries that carries P. Buckley Moss’ art. Each year Moss travels the country to vis-it up to 20 of these galleries for special shows.

Moss is well-known throughout the coun-try for her portrayals of the Amish and for her tranquil landscapes. “I love traveling and meet-ing so many interesting people who truly care about others,” says Moss. “I feel like I have a vast network of extended family. I try to fo-cus my art on the positive elements of life, and I find so much inspiration in the wonderful people I meet.”

Moss will meet collectors of her art and sign prints and all purchases made during the show. Collectors are invited to bring two previously purchased prints, paintings, or products for personalization as well.

Moss has achieved phenomenal success in the art world and has spent the last 25 years giv-ing back a measure of that success to the com-munity. Donations of her artwork have raised more than $4 million for worthy charitable or-ganizations across the country.

In this endeavor, she is helped by the P. Buck-ley Moss Society, a group of more than 12,000

collector-members. She has also established the P. Buckley Moss Foundation for Children’s Education, which promotes the use of art in the school curriculum as an aid to reaching out to children with learning differences. Ms. Moss is dyslexic and grew up at a time when little was understood of this learning difficulty. Having achieved success in spite of (or, as she says, be-cause of) this impediment, she is eager to help reach children in similar circumstances today.

Members of the local chapter of the P. Buck-ley Moss Society, Moss in the Country, will be present during the show to promote their cur-rent fundraiser to benefit the Botetourt Free Clinic.

For more information contact Rachel Nichols at the Apple Barn Gallery, 19781 Main St., P. O. Box 1042, Buchanan, VA 24066; phone: 540-254-6677; or e-mail: [email protected].

P. Buckley Moss to ReleaseNew Peaks of Otter Print

“The Peaks Visitors” by P. Buckley Moss

While Ben Affleck has had a hit-or-miss career as an actor, he has in the past five years made a successful turn-around as a director.

While some might have scoffed at the idea of Affleck becoming a director at first, “Gone Baby Gone,” was an excel-lent film with great drama and tension, and whatever doubts were left of Ben Af-fleck becoming a director were washed away by the equally-excellent crime-thriller “The Town.”

Now marking his third film as a director, Affleck is now trying something different with “Argo,” a film based on the Canadi-an Caper mission that took place during the Iranian Revolution.

When Islamic militants took over the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and took fifty-two Americans as hostages, six Americans managed to escape secretly and hide out in the Canadian ambassador’s house.

When the CIA sends in Tony Mendez to come up with a plan to secretly smuggle the six Americans out of Iran, he eventually comes up with an idea that seems like some-thing out of a Hollywood movie: he and the six Americans will pose as a Canadian film-crew scouting for locations for a fake science-fiction movie titled “Argo.” Under their fake identities, they will then fly out of Tehran without being spotted.

It’s an amazing story that is superbly re-created by Affleck, who manages to perfectly capture the sense of conflict during the Ira-nian Revolution on both sides.

The conflict is never black-and-white, and the process of getting the six Americans out of Iran is covered in every step to where even the simplest mistake could mean life-and-death.

The slow pacing allows Affleck the ability to hold the suspense through ev-ery turn. Additionally the performances are superb and the characters are memorable and likeable.

Even the humor in the movie has a surprising witty edge to it to help re-lieve the tense moments, particularly from scene-stealers turned in by John Goodman and Alan Ar-kin.

While the movie does exaggerate some parts of the story here-and-there, (imagine that!) this is a superbly crafted thriller that fires on all cylinders and never lets up until the end credits.

Who knew the story about a man who in-vented a fake movie to rescue six Americans would lead to Ben Affleck making one of the best movies of 2012. It’s just like something out of Hollywood!

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Mini-grants from the City of Roanoke and the Foundation for Roanoke Valley will sup-port five local projects that engage youth, con-nect cultures and tell neighborhood stories.

The City of Roanoke and the Foundation for Roanoke Valley have announced the award of $12,000 in mini-grants to five collaborative partnerships.

Selected by a com-munity panel through a competitive process, the projects were cho-sen because of their clear community ben-efit, their collaborative nature, and their align-ment with the goals of the city’s arts and cultural element of its Comprehensive Plan.

“The grants are small but strategic,” said Arts and Culture Coordina-tor Susan Jennings. “In our planning process, the community told us that by working togeth-er across organizations we could connect more people to cultural opportunities. The plan focuses on neighbor-hoods, on ways to engage residents of all ages, and on sharing the story of our region-where we’ve been and where we’re going. Each of these projects moves us forward in those ar-eas. Best of all, the projects were shaped by the community.”

The following partnerships received the grants:

Gainsboro SW Community Organization and the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foun-dation for the Gainsboro History Walk Plaza Panels to be placed in the plaza area on Wells Avenue. The funds will allow a fifth panel to the project which now has a Roanoke Neigh-borhood Services Grant to fund four panels.

Jefferson Center Foundation, Roanoke Pub-lic Libraries, and Roanoke City Public Schools to fund an artist residency and community performances. A Downtown Music Lab stu-dent will collaborate with Snarky Puppy, a NYC-based jazz group, to record and perform in schools and at the Main Library.

Roanoke Area Mural Project, Youth Ha-ven, and the Junior Achievement of SW VA to work with teens to paint a mural on the front of the Garden City Recreation Center.

Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation,

Roanoke Valley Greenway Commission and Roanoke Parks and Recreation to develop a master plan to locate interpretive signs iden-tifying key historic sites along the city’s green-ways. The funds will also allow for the produc-tion and installation of one inaugural sign.

Roanoke Saint Lo Sister City Committee and the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge to bring an artist from Saint Lo, France to Ro-anoke for a two-week residency to work with students and set up a public demonstration in a downtown store-front.

According to Tom McKeon, Roanoke Arts Commission member and chair of the grant selection panel, the process demonstrated the best of community planning: “We said, ‘Here are the goals we’ve established as a community,’ and the

community, through its neighborhood and cultural organizations, quickly responded by saying, ‘Here’s how we can play a part; here’s what we can do.’”

The city’s first Arts and Cultural Plan was adopted by City Council in August 2011. De-veloped by the Roanoke Arts Commission and the city’s Planning, Building, and Devel-opment department, with wide participation from partner organizations and citizens, the plan lays out a strategy to foster a more livable community with engaged neighborhoods; to provide an environment for lifelong learning, participation, and education; and to strength-en the regional economy.

The City of Roanoke Arts and Cultural Plan was named “Best Comprehensive Plan Ele-ment” by the Virginia Chapter of the Ameri-can Planning Association in 2011.

To read the complete plan, visit www.roa-nokeva.gov/artsplan. For further information on Roanoke’s arts and cultural strategies, con-tact Susan Jennings, Arts and Cultural Coordi-nator, at [email protected].

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